Indexing issues when the SAME page has meta noindex when accsessed from the sites front page and meta index when accessed from sites archives

People post different questions on my site. I have a php code which searches for duplicate questions before putting them inside my ARCHIVES. Due to the sites architecture and coding there is a time delay of about 5 minutes where the same question has meta noindex when accessed from the site's front page, and meta index when accessed from my archives. Could that cause indexing problems? confuse google? Ty


Can I use Google Analytics with commercials from other networks?

Does Google Analytics allow me to configure and evaluate statistics like CTR etc. for commercials from networks other than Google Adsense?


Bust some SEO myths for me?

While I'm not an expert at SEO, I know a little, and I have had someone tell me two things that I believe to be false, but just cannot convince him. Here are the statements he makes: 1) If more people visit your site, you'll get better SEO rankings. The context here is sending out an email campaign and people clicking from the email campaign through to the site. I don't think this has any factor in SEO rankings. I _do_ think that if people search for keywords where your site comes up, and click your site more often than those above you in the rankings, that you may progress, but I'm not even 100% sure on that. Am I right though that people clicking through an email to your site won't affect your SEO rankings? 2) Alexa rank is a measure of SEO importance / rankings. From what I know, Alexa rank is based purely off of people visiting your site who have the Alexa toolbar (or other software?) installed. This means that not only is it not counting all your visitors, but it's probably counting a specific segment, most likely more web savvy folks who have the Alexa toolbar installed. I consider myself OK at computers/web development, etc., and I've never had the Alexa toolbar installed. Anyway, is #2 a myth as well? Is there any evidence to support these two?


How can i style a link and a submit button the same way

I'm currently in css form hell on my website. I'd like to skin the **submit button** and the **cancel link** so they look the same. I tried to use two buttons to make it easier but since their behavior is very different, it makes sense to use two different tags, and i get some nice "no surprises" side-effects. So far, though, it has been a process fraught with disappointment and bitter failure; i tried to get both tags to play nicely one next to the other but all my css attempts are a waste of time. Either the link jumps up by a few pixels, or the submit button has its content slightly but noticeably lower, etc, etc... Is there a way to skin both tags with the same appearance?


Slow site because of WordPress Evolve theme

I've installed WordPress lastest version in my site. It is using Evolve theme. Demo of this theme is here. The original demo is also slow. Slowing is like that, site is waiting for 9-10 seconds for opening, server is not responding. Then it is opening. I tried at localhost, it is slow at my localhost. I changed to the default theme, my site gets fast. How can I find to problem of this theme? Here the results of `pingdom.com` speed test. ![Site speed](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Dse81.png)


How much weight does Google give to keyword placement?

I am wondering weather or not to put a a "Call Now" button with our number in the top left corner of our page. This would move keyword-rich text to the left, giving it less weight. How much weight does Google give to the top right corner compared to the top left corner?


Is it better for SEO if the URL has the same path as the breadcrumb?

My product URL is `example.com/categorykeyword2/product`. The actual path (breadcrumb) is `example.com/categorykeyword1/categorykeyword2/product`. Would it be better in terms of SEO if the URL was the same as the breadcrumb?


Products and shopping Rich snippets (microdata, microformats, RDFa) for Travel Services

Think a bout a travel site who provide their customers to book hotels, airport transfers, flights and excursions. As you know, we can use Rich snippets (microdata, microformats, and RDFa) to get special search results on Google for our products. For example like below Products and Shopping category : ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/3IIV7.png) Do you think Products and Shopping Rich snippets (microdata, microformats, and RDFa) would be appropriate for those kind of travel products?


Is it possible to use both align and size parameters for images in MoinMoin?

I'm getting a `500 Internal Server Error` if I try something like `{{attachment:image.png|alt text|width=100 align="left"}}`, both in the wiki I am actually trying to edit (https://live.gnome.org/) and in the MoinMoin wiki sandbox (http://moinmo.in/action/edit/WikiSandBox). The examples at moinmo.in/HelpOnLinking show how to use both parameters, but never combining them in the same image. It definitely seems to be possible to use more than one parameter (e.g. width and height), but the combination of width and align apparently brings the wiki engine down. Is there something I'm overlooking? How can I add a thumbnail of an image to a page in a MoinMoin wiki without using the default alignment (inline with text)?


Failing with Adsense / How to get $ PC

So, I am literally just starting out with google adsense. I have implemented google adsense ads from (1) account and from (2) different channels, per website they're on. (2 Wordpress Websites, activated with 'GoogleAdsense Plugin' for WordPress). They are implemented at the bottom of every post on my 2 Wordpress websites within the 'Blog' sections. My adsense dashboard is stating I've received a few clicks; but across it still states my account earnings and balance at $0.00. When / How will I start seeing money earned to my account?


Track Email with Google user contents img resource and redirecting to my website

I'm using Email tracking services of some Email sender company. It is achieved through requesting img resource when opening email. Here is the code inserted into HTML message: `<img src="https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/TObr7aARe70s=s0-d-e1-ft#http://www.mywebsite.com/TrackEmail?j=eyJ1IjoiMQ4In0%3D&r=0.614693022798747.gif" width="2" height="1">` I'm interested in how eventually the request will come to my website. Can anyone please explain me? I think the magic is somewhere in this part `...d-e1-ft#htt...`.


Will i18next affect SEO? What about screen readers?

I'm considering using i18next for translating text. But then it suddenly struck me; If labels / text is retrieved through javascript, won't that affect SEO? And what about screen readers for visual impaired users?


Sitemaps for growing content and googlesitemapgenerator

The number of URLs on my website is constantly growing (by 10-50 per week or so). Should I:   1. Regularly submit an updated sitemap including all URLs.   2. Have a sitemap of only the static content of my website.   3. Have some tool which automatically creates sitemaps on any changes. As for 3. is googlesitemapgenerator useful in this respect? I am a bit anxious allowing a beta product mess with my Apache. Is anybody using it or has another recommendation of similar tools?


What does it mean when a User-Agent has another User-Agent inside it?

Basically, sometimes the user-agent will have its normal user-agent displayed, then at the end it will have the "User-Agent: " tag displayed, and right after it another user-agent is shown. Sometimes, the second user-agent is just appended to the first one without the "User-Agent: " tag. Here are some samples I've seen: The first few contain the "User-Agent: " tag in the middle somewhere, and I've changed its font to make it easier to to see. > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6; `User- > agent:` Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); SLCC1; .NET > CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506) > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6; MRA > 5.10 (build 5339); `User-agent:` Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows > NT 5.1; SV1); .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; `User- > agent:` Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); .NET CLR > 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729) > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; `User- > agent:` Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); .NET CLR > 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152) Here are some _without_ the "User-Agent: " tag in the middle, but just two user agents that seem stiched together. > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; Mozilla/4.0 > (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); .NET CLR 3.5.30729) > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6; > IPMS/6568080A-04A5AD839A9; TCO_20090713170733; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE > 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); InfoPath.2) Now, just to add a few notes to this. I understand that the "User-Agent: " tag is normally a header, and what follows a typical "User-Agent: " string sequence is the actual user agent that is sent to servers etc, but normally the "User-Agent: " string should not be part of the actual user agent, that is more like the pre-fix or a tag indicating that what follows will be the actual user agent. Additionally, I may have thought, hey, these are just two user agents pasted together, but on closer inspection, you realize that they are not. On all of these dual user agent listings, if you look at the opening bracket "(" just before the "compatible" keyword, you realize the pair to that bracket ")" is actually at the very end, the end of the second user agent. So, the first user agents closing bracket ")" never occurs before the second user agent begins, it's always right at the end, and therefore, the second user agent is more like one of the features of the first user agent, like: "Trident/4.0" or "GTB6" etc etc... The other thing to note that the second user agent is always MSIE 6.0 (Internet Explorer 6.0), interesting. What I had initially thought was it's some sort of Virtual Machine displaying the browser in use & the browser that is installed, but then I thought, what'd be the point in that? Finally, right now, I am thinking, it's probably soem sort of "Compatibility View" type thing, where even if MSIE 7.0 or 8.0 is installed, when my hypothetical the "Display In Internet Explorer 6.0" mode is turned on, the user agent changes to something like this. That being, IE 8.0 is installed, but is rendering everything as IE 6.0 would. Is there or was there such a feature in Internet Explorer? Am I on to something here? What are your thoughts on this? If you have any other ideas, please feel free to let us know. At the moment, I'm just trying to understand if these are valid User Agents, or if they are invalid. In a list of about 44,000 User Agents, I've seen this type of Dual User Agent about 400 times. I've closely inspected 40 of them, and every single one had MSIE 6.0 as the "second" user agent (and the first user agent a higher version of MSIE, such as 7 or 8). This was true for all except one, where both user agents were MSIE 8.0, here it is: > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; Mozilla/4.0 > (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Win32; GMX); GTB0.0) This occured once in my 40 "close" inspections. I've estimated the 400 in 44,000 by taking a sample of the first 4,400 user agents, and finding 40 of these in the MSIE/Windows user agents, and extrapolated that to estimate 40. There were also similar things occuring for non MSIE user agents where there were two Mozilla's in one user agent, the non MSIE ones would probably add another 30% on top of the ones I've noted. I can show you samples of them if anyone would like. There we have it, this is where I'm at, what do you guys think?


Social media measurement with Google Analytics

I work for a non profit and we are currently trying to develop a system to measure and evaluate our social media channels (Facebook and Twitter). We would like to track a variety of social metrics, including, but not limited to:   * Twitter      * # of followers     * # of mentions     * # of retweets   * Facebook      * # of likes     * # people talking about     * # of page views We are currently using a paid platform for this. I wondered if there is a way to configure Google Analytics to do this?


Google AdSense's terms of service - Age below range

I'm would like to use on my website AdSense's ads features. The TOS require age above 18. I'm currently 17 and will reach this age after 9 months. Which of the following is the best option? ## Use a fake date of birth I could take risk of registering account with fake date of birth (to reach age >= 18). AdSense might find about this and penalize me. I'm not sure what I would lose if that happened. Maybe a time ban or some kind money charge. ## Use my parents I could use the account of an adult for example my parent, but I don't know if I could transfer the site to my own account when I turn 18. See: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/adsense/0zaDdnmE0KM ## Summary In both solutions I take some risk. I can't afford to start this service without AdSense, and the service would not very useful to start in 9 months. What is my better option?


Correctly indexing multiple domains with same content in Google and others

I have a client with a dozen territorial domains, like mydomain.co.uk, mydomain.fr, mydomain.de, etc Most of these domains hold a different language of the same dynamic content (shop), but some, like co.uk and .com, have the same language and content, except for some content customized to each country/domain in the front page, contact and other pages. I am aware that we should use the canonical meta tag to mark those duplicated contents, but, we want the co.uk to be present in UK ( indexed in google.co.uk ) and the .com to be present in US and other countries, for example, or least that is the goal. Is there anything we can do to "help" google determine the geographical meaning of each domain? If we mark with canonical tag the .com and co.uk sites, do you know how google will decide which one to show on a given search?


Is it possible to export comments from TypePad Connect?

Note that I'm not talking about TypePad, but TypePad Connect, their hosted commenting product. I see comments in their company blog from 2008 (!!!) saying they were working on an export feature, but I don't think it ever launched. So... is there any way to get old comments out of a TypePad Connect system? Or are they trapped in there forever?


How do I make a website totally untrackable back to me, Anonymous?

I need to create a website that is totally untraceable back to me, even from the police. The reason is that there is some shady behavior by the police and I am afraid of any reactions from them toward me or my family. How easy is it to do this? Is it even possible??


Should a Computer Scientist do the HML + CSS job when building a website?

I'm studying **Computer Science** , and I've always been more interested in programming than in designing and creating the layout of some websites. **Is this something I should know? Or should I focus on programming languages ( _C_ , _Python_ , _C#_ , _JavaScript_ , _PHP_ , _..._ )?**


What are some internet trends that you've noticed over the past ~10 years?

I'll give an example of one that I've noticed: the number of web sites that ask for your email address (GOOG ID, YAHOO! ID, etc.) has skyrocketed. I can come up with no legitimate reason for this other than (1) password reset [other ways to do this], or (2) to remind you that you have an account there, based upon the time of your last visit. Why does a web site need to know your email address (Google ID, etc.) if all you want to do is...   * download a file ( **no legit reason whatsoever** )   * play a game ( **no legit reason whatsoever** )   * take an IQ test or search a database ( **no legit reason whatsoever** )   * watch a video or view a picture ( **no legit reason whatsoever** )   * read a forum ( **no legit reason whatsoever** )   * post on a forum (mildly legit reason: password reset)   * newsletter (only difference between a newsletter and a blog is that you're more likely to forget about the web site than you are to forget about your email address -- the majority of web sites do not send out newsletters, however, so this can't be the justification)   * post twitter messages or other instant messaging (mildly legit reason: password reset)   * buy something (mildly legit reasons: password reset + giving you a copy of a receipt that they can't delete, as receipts stored on their server can be deleted) On the other hand, I can think of plenty of very shady reasons for asking for this information:   1. so the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc. can very easily track what you do by reading your email or asking GOOG, etc. what sites you used your GOOG ID at   2. to use the password that you provide for your account in order to get into your email account (most people use the same password for all of their accounts), find all of your other accounts in your inbox, and then get into all of those accounts   3. sell your email address to spammers These reasons, I believe, are why you are constantly asked to provide your email address. I can come up with no other explanations whatsoever. Question 1: Can anyone think of any legitimate or illegitimate reasons for asking for someone's email address? Question 2: What are some other interesting internet trends of the past ~10 years?


Domain Name protection

I have purchased a domain name and I don't have plan to launch my website in the next few months. But one thing I am worrying about is that if in the mean time someone else uses my domain name for his/her website? Is it possible to do so? And if yes, how to protect my domain name?


Can I post other ads than Google with adnsense

Along with my google ads can I apply for other ad media and post their ads too with Google ads. I wanna post more ads. Is it allowed to use more than one adsense program and post both media's ads on same page?


What makes a SSL certificate "signed"?

When you buy a SSL certificate from Comodo, it is signed by Comodo and therefore trusted. How is it signed though? Why can't anyone sign the certificate pretending to be Comodo?


Abandoment to blame for the last JavaScript file not always being loaded?

I have a code snippet for an app that users are loading as a 3rd party script on their site. The general sequence is as follows:   1. Site loads `http://www.example.com/foo.js`   2. `foo.js` does stuff   3. 1 to 2 seconds later, `foo.js` loads `bar.js` Now in a perfect world, I'd want to see matching counts for the calls to `foo.js` and `bar.js`. However, `bar.js` loads only about 94% of the time. I'm wondering how much of this discrepancy might be attributable to site abandonment given the fact that `bar.js` is delayed by 1 or 2 seconds. I posted here instead of StackOverflow since I _think_ it's more a question about what would be typical time on page when users abandon the page.


What is the syntax for using 410 status for deleted pages?

I want to permanently delete some pages in my site using 410 status. I'm not sure of correct syntax of removing pages using 410. I've found one syntax and I've a page( duplicate product page content) to remove : http://www.creditcardpaymentgateways.in/indiapay-payment-gateway- frequently-asked-questionsfaq.html so will this syntax do?               RewriteRule ^indiapay-payment-gateway-frequently-asked-questionsfaq.html$ - [G,L]       In my site I have a couple of duplicate product pages which I want to remove as my site is getting penalized.


How can I obtain a domain that is abandoned?

There is a particular domain name that I'm interested in, but when you enter the domain in a browser the browser says "Domain has no index file", which doesn't appear to be a browser message, but a server page on the hosting software. So point is the site appears that it isn't being used, but it exists. The contact info (both email and phone number) in the WhoIs record are bad. The email I sent to the email address bounced back to me, and when I called the phone number a person answered (apparently residential line) who said there was nobody there by that name. It says it's been registered since 2003 and is registered until 2014. UPDATE: I did try filling a report with GoDaddy, which WhoIs says is the registrar of the domain, about two weeks ago. I just checked the WhoIs info again and it looks like they've removed the name, email address, phone number, and address of the domain registrant.


Is there an upper limit on the number of Adsense adverts placed on one page?

I would like to add 20 Google banner ads below my web page's content so I can increase my `Pay Per Impression earnings`, is there any upper limit on the number of adverts I can display?


Mod Rewrite change extention of a page

i want to mod rewrite change extension of any page to what i want. for ex. i want change `index.php` to `index.abc` is it possible with mod rewrite?


What is the diffrence between paypal Paypal Payments Standard and Paypal Express Checkout?

I need to implement PayPal on my web page, and I don't know which one to use, Paypal Payments Standard or Paypal Express Checkout or both. To me they seems pretty much the same.


Registering a domain name with a trademark in it

One of our competitors is lets say called **WidgetMaker**. They target Macs. We target Windows computers. **WidgetMaker** is a trademarked term. I'm assuming the answer to this question is no, but could we register " **www.WidgetMakerAlternative.com** "?


Google Analytics on Static Site Hosted by GAE

I finagled hosting a static site on Google App Engine at http://corbyhaas.com The HTML when visiting the URL shows some meta information and a frame to the site's actual address: http://cody-static-sites.appspot.com/corbyhaas which has the content. This is done automagically by Google App Engine. I've set up Google Analytics by including their script in my index.html, but the report shows 100% of visits coming from referring site "corbyhaas.com", which is useless information. **Has anyone set up Google Analytics for a static GAE site?** Is there a setting in my Analytics dashboard I can tweak, or is this a hazard of using Google App Engine for static content? Also, while it's not relevant here (but could be for future sites), **does GAE's method of showing only meta information with frames for static data affect SEO?**


h1 including breadcrumb links

Is there any precedent or testing of using a breadcrumb list of separate links (and current page text) within an h1 and search engine algorithms? I'm using nested navigation on a travel site. So imagine a breadcrumb might be:               Great BritainLondonLeicester SquarePhoto Gallery      In this instance this would be a descriptive, though perhaps dubious in density, header. In the end I went a different path but I would be interested to hear if this would be acceptable. Disregarding the content of my example, would such a header be acceptable to web crawlers. I guess it's safe to assume it's not valid xhtml.


How to make money with video site?

What I really mean is i don't get how these smaller but still popular video/tube sites make money. They host their own videos not embedded ones. How do they afford the bandwidth? if bandwidth is 0.18 cents per GB(don't know if that is expensive), 18$ per 100GB, each video an avarage size of 50mb, 2000 video views = 18$? how do you make more than 18 on 2000 views? How do you make money with a smaller video site?


AWStats: Visits from IP address vs Crawlers

I use AWStats in cPanel to see stats of my website. Under Hosts section I see one IP address that has visited 150 pages. I am not sure if one person would have visited 150 pages using a browser. But if these 150 pages have been visited using a software application, then should not it be listed under Robots/Spider section. So how do I determine if I should block a certain IP address that has visited several hundred pages of my website? Thanks


Tumblr custom domain not redirecting properly

I decided to host my blog at Tumblr, using their custom domain setup (`http://blog.smokingfishgames.com/` instead of `http://smokingfishgames.tumblr.com`). However, it's been 72 hours and I'm still getting spotty redirection. It works some of the time--I go and see the page and blog, and it's all fine. However, it occasionally just stops working and redirects back to my web host, which is a directory with nothing but a single file called `BUGGER.html` (which I stuck in to make sure that it was my web host and not some Tumblr empty directory). Clearing the Chrome DNS cache makes the problem go away--for a while. After a few minutes, or an hour, or however long, I'll start seeing `BUGGER.html` again. I clear the cache, and poof, the blog shows up. The thing that's curious to me is that when I clear the cache and get `BUGGER.html` again (which happens occasionally), I can look at my Chrome DNS cache and see               assets.tumblr.com   UNSPECIFIED      blog.smokingfishgames.com   UNSPECIFIED      www.tumblr.com  UNSPECIFIED       **IP addresses and expiration times omitted for brevity's sake** --if they're important I'm sure I can replicate the issue. This implies, to me anyway, that my browser is reaching Tumblr but getting bounced back to my web host. Any reason why this would be happening, or is this a normal symptom of DNS propagation? If it is a problem, should I be bothering Tumblr or my host with it, or is this something I can fix myself?


Need a suggestion for sharing revenue on a news paper website

Here's the scenario. A local news paper company approached me in creating a news portal for him. But instead of paying me for the development we would just be sharing on the website's earning. Now, we really don't have an idea on how much we can earn on the website because it would be our first time. So he just told me to create a proposal for him, so he could approve the idea. 1st Question: My question is what do you think is the proper percentage in splitting up the revenue? (60% for me - 40% for the company is I have in mind...) 2nd Question: Since we're planning to get the revenue from ads (Adsense and Clickbank), How can we make sure we do proper splitting? Are we gonna be creating a company's account for every Ad company? or we just need to trust each other? 3rd Question: Is there any suggestions? I hope my question is in the right section. I would also make this as a wiki, since i'm not looking for a definitive answer. Thanks! [added info] ---------------------------------------------------------- A small city in the philippines. Total Population is 150,000. We're not planning to get traffic locally since we will only be getting 20% of it (Most of them don't use computer). We are planning to get more traffic outside the country. Adsense and Clickbank are just what we have in mind. Another is paid post. Other than that we don't know other option to maximize our revenue. Suggestions would be great.


Google fetched a title from the body instead of keyword stuffed title tags - could that be a problem for SEO?

I have a website that contains keywords repeated in the `<title>` tag, so Google fetched the most relevant keywords from the body of the page. There is no problem so far and my website is ranking 4th or 5th in SERP for my main keywords. My question is: Will Google penalize my site or will it create a negative impact on Google since Google neglected my Meta title and fetched a title from the body instead? **Note:** I can modify my `<title>` tag, but my keyword ranking is good, and also my website has 10 years of domain age and I'm afraid that if I change its titles, the SERP position may get very impacted.


SEO - how to tell search engines what the preferred URL is for content of part of a page

Given a page which displays a list of posts in chronological order on one URL, let's say: www.mysite.com/listofposts Each of these posts also has it's own URL, which displays the list of posts but with the selected post at the top and highlighted: www.mysite.com/post/1234 The problem is that when search engines are indexing the content, because the URL for an individual post actually has content from other posts on it, I am finding that quite often content is indexed against the wrong URL. Is there a way of telling search engines that different parts of a page should be indexed against different URL's? I've seen Canonical URLs allow you to indicate the preferred URL for content on a page by page basis, but is there a way to do it for a situation like mine, where I have a page made up of several different bits of content each of which have their own canonical preferred URL?


Meta description not displaying in custom site search results page

We have Google Custom Site Search implemented on our company website. When I'm looking at the results page, I noticed that the meta description is not being displayed. It just seems to be reading the links titles from our drop down menu and using this as a description. When I search for the same page via `google.com`, the meta description is pulled in correctly. Any thoughts why this might be happening. I can't see anything in the Custom Site Search settings.


Will Google index a paragraph of text that is hidden by default?

I have a paragraph of text that I would like to count toward the content of a page, but users have to click to make the text appear. Can I and if so what is the best way to implement this without getting penalized by Google?


How can I tell which of my pages got adsense clicks?


Why has Google removed authorship images from its SERPs?

Recently I noted that authorship images from SERPs were removed by Google. You might think that it only happened to you, but type `rel="author"` in Google's search box and you will find that no one's image is displayed in search engine results anymore. It was displayed by Google just a few days ago when I checked. Does anyone know why that is, or did Google state a reason for it?


Fake Links Showing up in Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster tools is reporting a large increase in 'not found errors' on my site, and I see approximately 1700 'Not Found Errors over the past 2 months. All of them are for a url that is formatted like:               http://mydomain.com/click.php?c%3EdHm7fnGkc3Smdz6kc31%3E'dmjdlgsbve%3E2'lfzxpset%3EQfbs'sbol%3E2'f%3Evt%3Cvt%3C79%3C2%3C2%3C54528243%3Cgmbnjohpspbe%3C2%3C6224'vsm%3Eiuuq%264B%263G%263Gxxx%2Fopdmjdlz%2Fdpn%263G'gffe%3Eopqbz'qsjdf%3E'tbq%3E%3A84%3A9g54e662db639%3A28eeb2cc8bb8e9'zbsht%3Exxx%2Fopdmjdlz%2Fdpn      Google says these are linked from:               http://mydomain.com/index.php?Keywords=Pear&search_type=related2&cat2=Lemon+Cake&r=c%3EdHm7fnGkc3Smdz6kc31%3E'f%3Evt%3Cvt%3C79%3C2%3C2%3C27748763%3Ctuzmf2%60dvtupn/dtt%3C3%3Cjoufsdptnpt%60bggjmjbuf%603%60e3s%60efsq%3Cgmbnjohpspbe%3Cgmbnjohpspbe%3C656178%3C6224%3Cdmfbo%3Cmjtujoht%3Czbipp%3C'jqvb%60je%3E:84:9g54e662db639:28eeb2cc8bb8e9'enybsht%3Eg4dc139e6673d:812b:b::d8e34:9fe9&rd=1      When I browse to the url Google says these are linked from (both using my browser, and the fetch by Google tool), I don't see any links on the page to click.php. These links are supposedly coming from MY domain / server, but click.php does not even exist on my server. When I look through my server logs, I do not see any of the index.php? urls this says they are accessed from. What am I missing here? Is the link getting encoded in the url or something? How can I fix this? I would REALLY appreciate some help in figuring this out. **Update:** I had purchased a domain (that was previously parked), and moved my site to it a few months ago. Apparently these links existed on the parked domain, and Google has gone through and crawled all ~1700 of the links twice now. Once a few months ago, and once 2 days ago. Is this something that will affect my ranking in Google? Is there any way to notify Google that all of these links are gone / incorrect? Should I use the 'remove urls' tool in webmaster tools?


How to point Google Apps subdomain to external websites?

I have registered for a domain in Google Apps. It is automatically registered with GoDaddy. I was wondering how can I make a subdomain point to my blog: `blog.mydomain.com` => `myname.blogspot.com` `photo.mydomain.com` => `flickr.com/photos/mystream/` How can this be done? I can access the zone file editor (DNS Manager) in `godaddy.com` but I am not sure if I need to change the _Cname/A_ records for this.


Does Google search for keywords in meta descriptions?

We know that Google does not use meta keywords for ranking, but does it search for potential keywords in meta descriptions?


How to track in Google Analytics registrations coming from Google AdWords ads?

I created a campaign in `Google AdWords` and some ads in it and gave them URLs like               mydomain.tld/registration/?utm_campaign=mycampaing&ad=x     mydomain.tld/registration/?utm_campaign=mycampaing&ad=y     mydomain.tld/registration/?utm_campaign=mycampaing&ad=z      All ads lead to the registration page. A registration is a visit of the page               mydomain.tld/registration-completed/?user={ID}      So I can track the registrations in Google Analytics. I just go to `Behavior -> Site Content -> All Pages` and filter the pages to `registration- completed`. But how can I see, **how many** and **which users** have registered, after they came from an ad of a campaign, e.g. `utm_campaign`? And how can I also track this for a single ad of the campaign, e.g. `x`?


Google Tag Manager Uses iframe, is this problematic for IE?

Internet Explorer has a non-standard P3P privacy policy implementation (what a surprise). This prevents cookies from being loaded in `iframes`. Google Tag Manager uses an iframe. Does this cause problems with obtaining analytics from users of IE?


Direct-Linking file hosting?

Hello I'm developing a project, and I need to know is there a file hosting which support direct links to txt, zip? I have tried some free hosting sites, but all I do is get 403 forbidden when trying to access the direct link. Thank you


Swapping key phrases in URL, Title and H1 tag

I was wondering if swapping key phrases would still work in URL, Titlte and H1 tags For example:               Car Sales Melbourne     Sales Car Melbourne          carsalesmelbourne.com.au     salescarmelbourne.com.au      So the second key phrase would you be able to get similar effect with correct key phrase or if location is different, would this not work at all?


Friendly URLs: is there a max length for search engines?

People from stackoverflow have been working closely with google team to help them make the panda algorithm more efficient, so I guess they've learned a lot from the google team. Thus they may have done very clever friendly URLs to maximize the page rank. I've seen from time to time very long URLs (can't find where) in stackoverflow, but after a certain "amount" of character there were only numbers, kind of "ok passed this length, SEOs will ignore this so let's put only numbers". I've done a huge work on my framework to make _very_ friendly URLs, and my website can come up with URLs like:               http://www.mysite.fr/recherche/region/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/departement/bouches-du-rhone/categorie-de-metiers/paramedical/      It's very long and I'm wondering if the previous URL won't be mixed with, say, this one:               http://www.mysite.fr/recherche/region/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/departement/bouches-du-rhone/categorie-de-metiers/art/


Fix PHP Timezone warning

After installing a php application my site loads the app with a warning overlayed on the page > Warning: strftime() [function.strftime]: It is not safe to rely on the > system's timezone settings. You are _required_ to use the date.timezone > setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of > those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely > misspelled the timezone identifier. I believe the problem is that there is no timezone set in php.ini on this server. My server company doesn't think that this is something they should have configured when they set up the server, so how do I edit the php.ini file and what do I insert to get rid of this error.


Where does UBB store its settings?

We're moving a UBB forum from one host to another. (This is temporary; we're going to replace the forum eventually, but moving hosts has a higher priority.) We don't have a lot of experience with UBB, so we're feeling our way along in the dark. We got the UBB code installed on the new host, and we've done a dry-run database export from the original site to the new site. However, almost everything set in UBB's Control Panel section didn't come with the database export. If UBB doesn't store this data in the database, where is it stored? And if it is in the database, why would it not show up in a new forum when the database is imported? Did we somehow miss a table?


302 Moved Temporarily or 301?

HTTP status code checker tool shows `HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily` for the home page URL `http://someurl.com` (just a _namesake_ URL). Also, this URL opens up `http://www.someurl.com/general/index`. As you can see, a `no-www` URL to a `www` URL redirect is happening. My questions are:   1. **Is a 302 redirect acceptable** for the home page?   2. Will this affect the site showing up in **search results** in anyway?   3. Isn't redirection to `/general/index` a bad practice?


Website on S3: Multiple subdomains to one Bucket?

I'd like to host a website on **Amazon S3**. What's the best practice to make a site accessible from both `example.com` and `www.example.com`?


Does using LiteSpeed instead of Apache speed up WordPress?

I've read that Litespeed is a lot faster than Apache. I use mostly WordPress and Joomla sites and am looking for a new server. Will I see a significant increase in speed of WordPress being on a LiteSpeed server?


I want to improve my development environment and now I'm thinking about using a versioning system in the future. The problem is that I haven't much experience with versioning systems (a bit with Perforce). What Versioning Systems for Website Development are available for free?


Am I using the correct data type in schema.org for a job site?

I'm having a hard time chosing the best data type in `schema.org` for my local job site. We're offering premium job postings for employers. Currently, I'm using the data type `local business` with Google Structured Data Markup Helper. Am I doing this correctly?


joomla 2.5.6 menu related

On my website : www.openlx.com, in the submenu (below the main menu - "Home"), the URL currently looks like: http://openlx.com/home/aboutus.html Same way, in all the sub-menus to the main-manu "Home", the word "home" is part of the URL. I want to remove this word "home" from the URL, and same for all the sub-menus to all the menus.


Want to use the HTTP-REFERER of in an HTML page through Javascript

I Want to use the HTTP-REFERER of in an HTML page. Is it possible to do it with a JavaScript included in the page itself?


Website Name shown at the end of HTML Titles

A google search for > site:cnn.com cnn returns results like > Kenyans one dance away from semifinals - Sports **- CNN.com** > > Health News - Medical, Mental and Dental Treatment ... **- CNN.com**   1. Is it possible to **not show** the website name **in the search result titles**?   2. Where does google read the name of the site from?


Google Analytics Views - Why Use Them?

I've been reading about Google Analytics views but still not sure why I would use them. I'm the only person in the company who understands and uses Google Analytics. We have no subdomains. Is there any reason why I would want to use views? Google Analytics has been going for some years now and I just created a copy of the original view but this has zero data, so I can't see how it would benefit me.


Can the webpage title be changed after site has been loaded.

Can the web page title be set to be dynamic? I want to let some part to be updated in title, if any changes occur, an automatic update resulting in a bit of word addition to the title. Example : the original one : "what is the title name" Now after setting to automatic update when a event as an answer is posted - "what is the title name (1 answer)"


Google only indexing alias?

I run our research group website, but don't have direct access to the university DNS server. However, we have two addresses pointing at the same IP - one is the old website and the canonical name is the current one.               IP: 128.252.19.134     Old name: lima.wustl.edu     Name name: pappulab.wustl.edu      The issue is that any google search returns ONLY the old name (lima.wustl.edu) despite the fact that lima.wust.edu is an alias and pappulab.wustl.edu is the canonical name. Is there anything I can do to make the webcrawlers use the pappulab.wustl.edu address instead of the lima address? We could just kill lima, but this would break lots of links in various placed. **Some relevant lookups**               nslookup 128.252.19.134     Server:     127.0.0.1     Address:    127.0.0.1#53          134.19.252.128.in-addr.arpa name = pappulab.wustl.edu.      * * *               nslookup lima.wustl.edu     Server:     127.0.0.1     Address:    127.0.0.1#53          lima.wustl.edu  canonical name = pappulab.wustl.edu.     Name:   pappulab.wustl.edu     Address: 128.252.19.134


Is there an app or service that allows a customer to log in and submit design requests?

I have several clients with several requests coming into my email. Is there a website that would give me the ability to receive client design requests and then schedule them for me?


Using rel=canonical with syndication

I work at a site which allows syndication of content (via API's and data dumps). We are finding that a number of sites which republish our content are appearing higher in Google search results, even though we're the original publisher. This is frustrating. We are considering making rel=canonical part of our attribution requirements. Google says it's legitimate to use it across domains, and in syndication scenarios. Have you done this, and does Google consider the canonical URL in search rankings? Will it help us in reducing such SERP "spam"?


Is there an alternate resource similar to Mozscape by SEOmoz?

I was wondering if there is an alternate (free or paid) resource similar to SEOmoz's Linkscape (now Mozscape) where the entire web is indexed and a website's entire link profile is scraped and documented.


Should I leave old events in my sitemap?

Should I leave old events in my sitemap that have passed, or remove them? The sitemap is quite huge and I didn't know if that was OK.


Google insight question

I am checking the word mobile on google insight. http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=mobile&cmpt=q I see a bar with mobile ]]]]]]]]]]]]] 62 Then on google help page - I get this. However, I am unable to understand. **The numbers on the graph reflect how many searches have been done for a particular term, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. They don't represent absolute search volume numbers, because the data is normalized and presented on a scale from 0-100.** **My question is what does the number 62 determine? Any ideas?**


View the campaign terms for only a specific medium In Google Analytics

I'm using the `utm_term` parameter for links in my email campaigns. I'd like to filter out the parameter from my master profiles. That is, removing `utm_term=keyword` for visits with `utm_medium=email`, so the organic keyword results are not skewed, while having a view which includes the term for further analysis. What are the correct order and filters to accomplish this?


When to use and not to use ETags

I was just looking at our site on WebPageTest.org and one of their recommendations for speeding up a website is: > ETag headers should generally not be used unless you have an explicit reason > to need them I was wondering what this means. Does it mean that static content you know will not be changing should not have them, or does it mean content you know will be changing regularly shouldn't have them, or does it mean that you shouldn't use them _generally_ unless you have a specific need. If it's the latter, when is the right time to use them? Thanks for any help.


site hacked but positions not back

My site was hacked about 6 months ago. I managed to finally get around to removing the malicious code, and Google removed the warning from my site. However, my traffic has not yet returned to where it was pre-hack. How long does it usually take for traffic to return after malware is removed?


Does the .biz internet top-level domain deserve to be taken seriously?

.com is the most preferable TLD most of the time, so many people choosing domain names have to pick between `desiredname.something_else` or `totallydifferent.com`. From wikipedia: > The biz TLD was created to relieve some of the demand for domain names in > the com top-level domain, and to provide an alternative for businesses whose > preferred domain name in com had already been registered by another party. .org at least implies an organization, whereas .com is the most generic 'commercial'. But .biz seems like a total duplicate that doesn't seem in widespread use `<pun>`and deserves to be closed. `</pun>`. Does .biz have any advantages over .com? Are .biz domains worth registering if .com is already taken?


What are the most common rendering problems with Internet Explorer?

IE is commonly known as the most problematic browser in terms of consistent look and feel. What are the most important IE rendering 'bugs'? Version specific things are fine, just mention that its version specific. EDIT: partial duplicate


Automatically appearing contact form like Kiss Insight?

I have been using Kiss Insight which is great to collect customers' feedbacks. However, this is only an one-way communication because we can't answer some of customers concerns. Is there any hosted solution that works like Kiss Insight but allows customers to enter their email and you can reply back?


Web hosting services

What are the best hosting services?


Does setting default pages for sub directories improve seo?

I noticed 403 errors on sub directories of my site while looking over google webmaster tools. for example .com/reviews/ has a 403 error. I set the default pages for the sub directories (pointed to the primary page in the directory). I believe this will solve the 403 issue (if I am wrong please let me know). However I am wondering if this has any effect for SEO purposes ? Does google penalize for these 403 errors?


Simplest way to lock down a beta web site but allow paypal payments

Perhaps a strange question, but I have a website that's not ready for production use online in order to test paypal payments. I had locked down the site using a .htaccess file however this also prevented ipn notifications from hitting my ipnlistener which meant i was unable to keep track of payments successfully being made. so I temporarily remove the htaccess file to allow this. Is there a way to lock a site down with password protection but allow certain scripts to run? Bit of a noob at this thing


Poll component not showing Home link in breadcrumb

With the joomla's default Poll component, when I go to vote, and it takes me to the results page, the Home link disappears from the Breadcrumb navigation. Is there a way to make the breadcrumb navigation always show Home when in the poll results page? NOTE: We're still running an older version: Joomla! 1.0.15 UPDATE: Checked the CHANGELOG.php, and on June 23, 2006, this issue was supposedly fixed. However, it doesn't seem so.


Favicon Compatible Resolutions and File Size for various Devices

With the many uses for favicons nowadays (new tab page, bookmarks, url bar, IE pin to taskbar etc,) what sizes should I be including in my favicon.ico file? I'm using Converticon and thought the easy solution would be to include all the resolutions that it supports, however, as this creates a larger file size, does the browser only download the resolutions it needs (if that's even possible), or the whole file, using up my bandwidth, and meaning the browser takes a longer time to load it? As you might be able to tell, I'm not exactly a "pro" webmaster :)


Should ecommerce checkout pages be included in sitemap.xml?

My ecommerce site has a variety of pages specific to the checkout-out process. These include "Cart", "Billing", "Shipping", "Discount", "Finish", and "Complete Order". In general, should I be including these in my sitemap.xml?


Turning openbase_dir off using .htaccess

I'm trying to run a script on my shared hosting account, I keep getting an error relating to `open_basedir`, which I understand would normally be turned off in the _php.ini_ file, which I don't have access to. Speaking with the host they recommended that I put this line `php_flag open_basedir off` in my _.htaccess_ file, so it now looks like this:               <Files ~ "^\.(htaccess|htpasswd)$">     deny from all     </Files>     AuthUserFile /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.co.uk/httpdocs/pri/.htpasswd     AuthGroupFile /dev/null     AuthName "Please enter your ID and password"     AuthType Basic     require valid-user      order deny,allow          php_flag open_basedir off      But I still cant get the script to run, have I implemented it correctly? Is there a line in the `phpinfo()` output that I can view to tell if its worked?


Track the modification time of files with a regeneratable website

I have a website that is automatically regenerated every day based on a fresh copy of an externally-supplied database, which has no concept of the modification time of the individual records (e.g., OpenBSD ports), and I'm thinking that perhaps there is some way to automatically keep track of the last modification time of all files based on a SHA-1 signature, or something similar? The primary need of this modification time is to ensure that an XML sitemap could include such data, and thus alert Google et al. of which pages may have changed, and which have not, in order to optimize crawling.


Registration vs Anonymous

As of late, I've been in quite a bind. I have this website which is a simple Q/A. Just for fun -- being built with all that good stuff (PHP/MySQL/jQuery/etc) Anyways, I found out I cannot do MANY THINGS without getting a positive ID. Without registration (them becoming anonymous), I can't keep track of who's who. Sure I can use IPs or cookies but those are not fool-proof. I can't do things like "favorite questions", "upvote questions", "email notices", spamming cut-down, etc ... among other things. If you DO register, you WOULD be able to do experience those feature thus making the website more fun to visit. However, at the expensive of not registering and giving up those features, I am at a bind. Should I give up those features and have no-registration anonymous posting Q/A or make them sign up with three forms... email, password, password check, SUBMIT! Then login-logoff... What do you think? (Sorry if I put this in the wrong place...)


What is the replacement for Google's "Search Within Results" feature?

On one of the sites that I maintain, I used a link to allow Google Search with the "Search Within Results" (`/swr`) feature as follows: `http://www.google.fr/swr?q=site:http://bio.m2osw.com&hl=fr&lr=&swrnum=404` That returns a 404 page now however. I tried it with HTTPS, but the same thing occurs. I also noticed that Google started to use `#q=...` instead of `?q=...`. In any event, is there a simple replacement for the `/swr` feature?


Penalized website using noindex,follow

This is an interesting question I was wondering if anyone had any experience with. If a website is penalized for a keyword because of excessive spam links pointing to the homepage with said keyword as the anchor text, could you solve this problem by using a [noindex,follow] tag on the homepage and optimizing a different page for the same keyword?


Does ranking depend on the number of pages in a website?

Assuming a website offers a great service on one unique page, will it be negatively impacted regarding ranking because this website URL only has one page? In other words, is there a ranking benefit in having many pages in a given website? Or does it not matter, ranking is always per page, not per website?


What are the pros/cons of using a CMS for my website tutorials vs. static files inside folders?

I'm building a website that will have tutorials on products from one manufacturer. The tutorial will be a step-by-step guide with screenshots. The content won't be updated once the tutorial is posted. If a new revision of a product comes out, a new set of tutorials will be written, sometimes duplicated. Is a CMS needed? Or can each "lesson" be a static file? What's the pros/cons of CMS vs having a folder structure with files for each subject/lesson? I'm planning on using PHP for the header and footer includes. So if the navigation changes, it's reflected across the site.


Subdomain 000Webhost

I'm currently learning to create a blog using wordpress.org. My site is hosted free on 000webhost. I have trouble creating a Subdomain for my website. This is what I have done so far. Somebody please guide me **Main Domain work correctly with these settings** **DNS Setting**               Point A(Address) "IP Address" to @     Point A(Address) "IP Address" to www      **Wordpress Setting**               WordPress Address (URL) = http://www.mydomain.com     Site Address (URL) = http://www.mydomain.com      **000Webhost Setting**               Parked Domains = http://mydomain.com     Created a database for maindomain      Copied Wordpress into /public_html/ * * * **Subdomain doesnt work with these settings** **DNS Setting**               Point A(Address) "IP Address" to subdomain      **Wordpress Setting**               WordPress Address (URL) = http://subdomain.mydomain.com     Site Address (URL) = http://subdomain.mydomain.com      **000Webhost Setting**               Added a Subdomain = http://subdomain.sample.site.net     Created a database for subdomain      Created a folder including copied wordpress in /public_html/subdomain


Google Analytics multiple domains under one account while excluding one domain?

**Cross-post fromStackoverflow** Here's the problem I am having: Currently, we need to track across www.chess.com and secure.chess.com. However, I cannot set the domain to .chess.com because the cookie causes some problems on another domain, live.chess.com. So, to work around this, in code - I do something like this:               <? if (HTTPS) { ?>         <script>         var _gaq = _gaq || [];         _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-01']);         _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'secure.chess.com']);         _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);         </script>     <? } else { ?>         <script>         var _gaq = _gaq || [];         _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-02']);         _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'www.chess.com']);         _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);         </script>     <? } ?>      However, this forces us to maintain 2 analytics accounts (UA-XXXXX-01 and UA- XXXXX-02) and creates a separation between HTTPS and HTTP traffic. How can I set this up so that ONE analytics account will track both secure.chess.com and www.chess.com without setting a top level cookie (.chess.com)?


Footer not stretching 100% when horizontally scrolled

I have a footer which is set to 100% width, but if i size the window smaller so a horizontal scrollbar appears, using the scrollbar shows whitespace to the right of the footer ... its not spanned 100% of the page, just the viewport.               <!doctype html>                        <title>test</title>       <meta charset="utf-8">

Main content area

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                       Size the browser so horizontal scrollbar appears, and then scroll and you will see the footer background just stops. Any ideas? Or is this site the wrong place for web site design/development .. I did have to read the site description but it still wasnt clear, nor was the meta-discussion? Apologies if its in the wrong place.


Building a New Website

Let me begin by stating that I'm not a professional web designer. I need to create a website for a small company, owned by a friend. I want to make sure that whatever I do can be extended in the future & built upon when required. I'm confused whether I should start from scratch or use a framework, such as Drupal or Joomla. Any pointers? By the way, the website has the usual suspects: products, contacts, about us, etc. **Edit:** In response to Joshak's & Dave's answers, there are no plans to sell directly from the website. Content changes will take place every 3 months or so.


How to redirect / to /#!

I'm using `_escaped_fragment_` to redirect Google to non-ajax pages. I have the following rewrite rule:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=(.*)$     RewriteRule ^$ /seo.php [QSA,L]      Which works fine except for `/`, because my rules needs `#!` to redirect to `/seo.php` How do I redirect `/` to `/#!` so that Google bot will replace it with `_escaped_fragment_` and then be redirected to my `/seo.php` page ?


Apache HeaderName does not work in .htaccess

So I have a .htaccess file in a subdirectory that contains a list of folders. In the main directory I have a .htaccess file that contains:               Options +Indexes     IndexOptions FancyIndexing     AddType text/html .php     Addhandler application/x-httpd-php .php     HeaderName /header.php      As a test inside header.php I have:               <?php     TEST APACHE HEADER     ?>      I still see "Index of [Directory]" instead of my static title, What Am I doing wrong? EDIT: I've even tried `echo "TEST THIS DIRECTORY";` and still does not work.


Does setting document.domain via script interfere with Google Analytics?

I have a site, `www.example.com`, that displays some secure content from `forms.example.com` in iframes. To enable cross-frame navigation, pages on both sites use JavaScript to set the `document.domain` to just "example.com". I am using Google Analytics on www.example.com, but the GA site is not showing any data. It indicates that the tracking code is found (the status icon is a green checkmark), but no data is reported. The GA profile lists the website as "www.example.com". Is this a supported scenario? Is my script interfering with the GA code in some way?


Only domain showing up in Google search results

I have a website that is 6 months old and where all the pages are indexed by Google. The website has about 20 pages and each page targets other keywords. I'm teaching myself SEO so I can live with the fact that my website doesn't show high in Google search as long as it is showing up. Now the funny thing is that my domain is showing up for multiple keywords in the first 40-50 results on Google search but my other pages aren't showing up anywhere in the results. `www.example.com` shows up but `www.example.com/test` doesn't show up anywhere. I tried swapping the content from my homepage to the content from `www.example.com/test` . When I do this, my homepage `www.example.com` is showing up in the search results for the keywords that `www.example.com/test` is targeting. I tried entering in Google search: `site:www.example.com` . When I do this, all my pages are displayed including `www.example.com/test`. When I search in Google for the title of `my www.example.com/test` page, my page isn't showing up. But when I search for the title between quotes like this: **"title of`www.example.com/test`"** it does show up as the only search result. Any idea what the problem can be? **EDIT** Maybe useful to know. I have multiple AdWords Campaigns running. So `www.example.com/test` does receives views in this way. I have no external links pointing to my homepage nor to any other page on my website. I'm living in a small country where English isn't the native language. This makes it a little harder to find blogs and other websites to link to my website. Taking this into account, I think my webpages should at least show up somewhere in the search results.


Using iframes is still considered bad?

Back in the early 2000's using (i)frames was a big no no for developers. Although they made development easier, it was shunned in every circle and various reasons. My question is, is it still advised not to use (i)frames? Although there are plenty good reasons to use them? ( e.g. separating navigation from content etc.)


Pros and cons of creating a print friendly page to remove the use of pdfs?

the company I work for has a one page invoice that uses the library `tcpdf`. they wanted to do some design changes that I found are just incredibly difficult for setting up in `.pdf` format. Using html/css I could easily create the page and have it print very nicely, but I have a feeling that I am over looking something. What are the pros and cons of setting up a page just for printing? What are the pros and cons of putting out a `.pdf`? I could also use the `CSS` inline so that if they wanted to download it and open it they could.


Enabling SSL on Apache2 causes address already in use error

My server works just fine on a normal Apache2 install. Now, I'm trying to install subversion on this server using a guide I found on the net called: Installation of Subversion on Ubuntu, with Apache, SSL, and BasicAuth. However I get the following error:               (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:443      When I do `grep -rH 443 /etc/apache2/` I get results in two files: `ports.conf` and `sites-enabled/default-ssl` I tried it both with and without that last `Listen 443` commented out, here's `ports.conf`:               NameVirtualHost *:80     Listen 80          <IfModule mod_ssl.c>         NameVirtualHost *:443         Listen 443     </IfModule>          <IfModule mod_gnutls.c>         Listen 443     </IfModule>          #Listen 443      And the first few lines of `default-ssl`               <IfModule mod_ssl.c>     <VirtualHost *:443>             ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost             SSLEngine on             SSLCertificateFile /this/isnt/relevant/probably.pem             SSLProtocol all             SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM      And `netstat -an --inet | grep 443` returns nothing. Any ideas?


Should the urls in the sitemap contain the slug?

I'm coding the sitemap logic of my side-project blogging platform and I would like to know if omitting the slug in the `<loc>` nodes of the `sitemap` could be a problem for the crawlers. Having two urls that point to the same page: http://www.foo.com/post/213212/ http://www.foo.com/post/213212/this-talks-about-foo could I use just links without the slug to create the sitemap?   Does it hide any drawbacks?


Mod Rewrite not working

I am trying to get the URL www.mysitedomain.com/blogs/ _displaynamehere_ to show what is in the directory at www.mysitedomain.com/blogs/blog.php$display= _displaynamehere_ So thanks to the people who helped me here I know I need to use a Mod Rewrite How to make parameters look more attractive The contents of my HT access is at follows. The first is a re direct generated by my hosting, the second is my attempt at the mod re write which is not working.               # DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE AND THE LINES BELOW REDIRECTID:Hjz5g3     RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^joelhoskin.net76.net$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.joelhoskin.net76.net$     RewriteRule ^$ http://www.joelhoskin.net76.net/flexdevs [R=301,L]     # DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE AND THE LINES ABOVE Hjz5g3:REDIRECTID          RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^joelhoskin.net76.net/blogs/(.*)$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.joelhoskin.net76.net/blogs/(.*)$     RewriteRule ^$ http://www.joelhoskin.net76.net/blogs/blog.php?display=$1 [L]      Thanks everyone


Who is trying to categorize my website?

Caught this in the logs the other day:               Started GET "/verify-UncategorisedWebsite?aHR0cHM6Ly93d3=" for 198.240.130.75 at 2012-12-03 14:51:50 +0000      I bumped around a bit and couldn't find anything that should be searching for that. Is this a webcrawler? If so, anyone know who?


Google+ share button

My client is asking for a Google+ share button alongside the Facebook, Twitter, etc. ones. I don't have a Google+ invitation yet, but it seems from screenshots that Google+ has the concept of sharing a page; however, I'm not getting very far with searches, which instead turn up information on the Google +1 button. > What's the situation? Is there a Google+ share button? Does it reuse the +1 > button? Or the Google Buzz share button? (As a subsidiary question, is there a sharer url? I'm not a fan of including dozens of external JavaScript files in nearly every page on the site).


Authoritative database for storing whois data for .com gTLD

Since VeriSign is the Registry operator for the .com, .net (and other gTLDs) shouldn't they be keeping a database of all the .com domains that are registered? If they are not responsible for this, then which authority is? I would like to do a whois lookup but I would like to query the most authoritative database.


Does Stack Overflow use a microformat for questions/answers?

Recently when I have seen Stack Overflow results in Google, I have seen something like this: ![Google SERP](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QlvQn.jpg) Note the text, "9 answers". Does Stack Overflow do anything special to get this shown? I have noticed a similar Rich Snippet on Yahoo Answers, which also said "Solved". I skimmed the source of both pages and couldn't see anything specific that looked like a microformat. There is nothing on schema.org specifically about Q&A. Is Google treating these sites specially?


Should I create zone for each domain that I want to host on my server

I'm setting up a web hosting on my VPS, I want to host several websites on my vps, I have two domains, domain1.com and domain2.com and a website for each hosted on iis, I know that I should add these host names to my dns. I have a zone named domain1.com, when I want to add domain2.com as new host it will automatically set FQDN to domain2.com.domain1.com How should I config my DNS? Thanks for your help.


What are these cookies for: __switchTo5x, __unam, __qca?

I tested on my local Mac's (OS X 10.6.8) Apache. Just now, I did a `print_r($_SERVER)` from a PHP script, and it shows these three cookies. What is that all about? I didn't set them. Is this something Safari sets up? They are: `__unam=blah; __qca=POblah; __switchTo5x=25`


Are there huge differences between Safari versions on Windows and Mac OS?

I have recently engaged in a conversation where were people defending that you should test your websites on Safari for Windows and on Safari for Mac, because they're very different. As a webmaster, there is this constant concern on having my web applications or websites running on every browser, but I don't have a Mac available for me to try the performance and/or rendering engine. Long story short: are there huge differences between Safari for Windows and Mac? Does anyone use Safari for Windows as their main browser and can tell me if it's important for me to test on it too?


Run server side script on schedule for hosted asp.net application

I'm in the process of deploying my first website which is written is ASP.NET. I need to run a server side script at set intervals during the day which updates a database even if there is nobody using the site. I was led to believe that using Windows task scheduler would be the best option but now I've joined a hosting company the layout is not really how I was expecting. It's a shared hosting with basic FTP and no apparent built in task scheduler. The hosting company support is not very good and haven't been able to advise how I could do this so hoped to get help here on options before I consider changing company. [The hosting company starts with 1 and ends with 1 :)]


Is there anything wrong with targeting the alt attribute in css?

I tried targeting the the alt attribute in css. My solution worked in Firefox/Mozilla, but fails in Safari-Chrome/Webkit. Is there anything wrong with styling an alt tag? If not, how do you suppose I troubleshoot for Webkit. _Here's an example:_ **CSS**               img#logo[alt="Site Title"] { color: #999; font-size: 2em; }      **HTML**               <img id="logo" src="" alt="Site Title" width="" height="" />


80% of Website Traffic coming from Just one Town in USA - Strange?

For the last month, 80% of my total traffic was coming from just one Town in the USA. Here are the attributes:   1. It is one of the richest towns in California in USA which defies logic since I run a website for coupons.   2. The bounce rate is not 100%. It is around 80%. I read on this forum and it talked about how the bounce rate should be very close to 100% if it is a bot.   3. Almost 98% of visitors from this town show up as new visitors.   4. Around 20% of this traffic shows up as coming from Stumble Upon with a Bounce Rate of 57%. The other 80% shows up as coming DIRECT to website. (Hardly unlikely since we just started the website).   5. 50% of Visitors are using Chrome, 30% Firefox and 20% Safari. Can anyone tell me how to check if all this traffic from one town is real or fake? I am concerned that DIRECT Traffic is highly unlikely since this is a very competitive market and we just got started.


Google is not indexing my Tumblr blog sufficiently

I have a 35-day-old blog on tumblr. I submitted it to Google using "Add your URL to Google" page about a month ago. However, when I search Google for the content of my blog using the following query, only 5 posts are fetched: > site:mehper.tumblr.com I have more than 200 posts on my blog. I'm also using Google Analytics. What else can I do to make Google fully index my blog?


How does Google Analytics calculate the number of visitors

If I visit a site 100 times a day (from one IP) does Google Analytics track that as 100 unique visitors?


What tools to use for automated link and spellchecking

I'm looking at two automated tools to scan our site and alert us of spellcheck and link error problems. Check Dog - http://checkdog.com/ Site Check - http://siteimprove.com/Solutions/SiteCheck/SiteCheck2.aspx Are there other tools we should consider for this? Or do you have any experiences you can share about these tools? Our goals are basically to have something consistently checking the entire site for spelling errors and link problems. We've been just using Xenu - http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html which works pretty well for spot link checking, but it doesn't do any spellchecking and it isn't automated.


Why is the number of pages on my website indexed by Googlebot decreasing?

I am monitoring the number of pages indexed by Googlebot for one of my websites . I noticed that since last week, the number of pages has dropped by about 60 or so. Now to be fair, I have not added that much over the last week. (Actually I don't think I added any new content.) But at the very least, I would have thought that the number of indexed pages would be static (if I was not adding anything new.) I don't understand why the numbers have dropped. Does anyone have an official explanation for this?. I have checked the Google Webmaster Tools, and have not come across anything that addresses this issue directly.


What does "Impression Change" in Google webmaster->search mean?

I have been using Google Webmaster Tools. I checked out the search queries section. There I found a lot keywords and its report, but I could not understand what the data in those reports mean. Can anyone help me with a reference or meaning of "impression", "change", and "other"?


h1 title attribute

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why don't TITLE tags get indexed in google? Hello there, I have a h1 element on my page which is working great. I have also been using the title attribute on this element which I don't think has been causing much harm at all. My h1 title is "The Great Ocean Road" and the title attribute on that is "Great Ocean Road" - so it's a variation of the h1 text. These are both keywords for the site so i'm hoping it's a good thing for seo. Is that a bad idea do you think? I'm not sure what Search Engines think about using a title attribute or even if they would 'mark me down' for doing it in such a way. Do you think if the h1 text is "The Great Ocean Road", the title attribute should be "The Great Ocean Road" aswell? Thank you in advance


Do anchors in urls affect ranking in seo?               link 1      As oposed to:               link 2


Problem in Addon Domain name binding with existing directory in my webspace

I recently purchased a domain thinkzarahatke.com. At the time of purchasing i selected an option, say url redirect, to my existing site. Further I had entered Naming server detail. But I dint find any other option to change URL rewrite parameters under Domain Name Manager. From the cPanel of my hosting space, I had added new domain as addon and set a subdirectory for it. Now If I am trying to access my new domain directly, it is automatically redirecting to my old website. While if i access some inside directory, like thinkzarahatke.com/blog, then i am able to access to my new site. What wrong i done? Please tell me if i need to do some more settings with addon domain.


Keyword diversification/ site structure issues

I am wondering if you could help me out with some keyword/ site structure issues that I have. Firstly I will mention our background (to give context), and then I will mention the question at hand. **Background of our site structure:** We have our main site under greatlearning.com. Under this we have our main products greatlearning.com/ipc, greatlearning.com/imyc, greatlearning.com/lfl. These are separate products, however all to do with education. We outsource our web providers, and so far the current CMS system only allows us to have two levels below the products e.g. greatlearning.com/ipc/the- ipc/units-of-work. So the /the-ipc/ is fixed (main nav item), and the /units- of-work is editable. Sadly however we cannot create a level below this e.g. greatlearning.com/ipc/the-ipc/units-of-work/page-or-section-goes-here. Enabling another level would require a great deal of work so this is off the cards. We have spoken to our developers and they have agreed to give us ftp access to one section on the website. This will allow us to create folders/ pages under the url of greatlearning.com/info/. This will allow us to create custom landing pages and any additional custom pages e.g. for events, questionnaires, freebees etc. An example of this would be greatlearning.com/info/questionair-2014/page.html. This is all great, however we really need to diversify our keywords on our websites e.g. on this page greatlearning.com/ipc/the-ipc/what-is-ipc we ideally need to have links going off from this page onto other separate pages to talk about 'national curriculum updates', or 'ways it helps teachers', or 'ways it helps children learn' etc. So our problem at the moment is how to structure the site so that it makes sense for our keyword diversification. **Question:** Given that we have a new malleable section of our website (greatlearning.com/info/) could we then use this for our keyword diversification? For example on this page greatlearning.com/ipc/the-ipc/what-is-ipc, could this then link off to urls such as greatlearning.com/info/ipc/national-curriculum- updates/, or greatleanring.com/info/ipc/ways-the-ipc-helps-teachers/. As for user experience, we will make sure the pages have clear links forwards and backwards to the main pages. Our main concern is what Google will think of this structure. Also, will it be strong enough to drive traffic to this new /info/ section.


My site is getting popular, bandwidth expensive

I'm running a (small) image hosting site which has been getting a little bit of traction lately (2,000 to 5,000 visitors a day, spikes up to 10,000). It's hosted on Linode and I've already run out of the bandwidth for this month (300 GB). I've experimented with Amazon S3 but that was costing me $5 a day, Linode currently costs me $30 a month. I get a tiny bit of revenue from ads (Adsense and Black Label Ads) but it's not enough to break even. What should I do? Obviously I'd like to keep running the site but not if it starts costing me a lot of money.


Using wildcard certificates for multi-server deployment

Currently we are deploying a beta API for our services and we want that all request/responses from the API works over https. I'm confused about using wildcard certificates for both `api` and `www` urls. Is it a good idea to use a wildcard certificate for both `api.example.com` and `www.example.com`? Are there any inconveniences? What about those 1-server-only certificates? Because I'm deploying my API in **n** servers with a load balancer on front.


Does XAMPP Lite still exist? Are there any alternatives?

As in the title: Where can I find XAMPP Lite distributions for Windows? The Apache Friends website doesn't host it anymore. If not, are there any comparable alternatives? I would like to keep my development environment sync'ed from my NAS in order to work on it on every machine - Synchronization takes too much time when there are 5000+ files which require an update.


How to roughly translate site pageviews to its potential revenue from ads?

I know it depends greatly on each individual case, but lets say some site is doing 100k unique pageviews a day, how to estimate approximate potential monthly revenues from banners on such site (in average case scenario)? Thanks.


Link building campaign for externally hosted subdomain

I am launching a link building campaign for a subdomain. I plan to ensure that the subdomain receive enough links from the parent domain and external domains in order to speed up indexing and increase authority, trust, PageRank, etc. Here is my question: this subdomain is hosted by a different web host than the parent domain. Does this affect SEO for the subdomain?


Rails hosting providers

What are some of the best hosting providers for a Ruby on Rails application? I have looked into Heroku and it looks like a good option, but would it be better to go with a VPS or Grid hosting provider.


Will my new HTML5 website decrease my Google ranking?

I have a traditional HTML website that loads pages/sections of the site when people click on menu items. Pretty standard. Currently, I'm working on relaunching my website with a brand new HTML5 code & jquery that loads the whole thing, and just slides from one section to the next, sort of like this website: http://www.mino.pl/ My concern is that this will affect my ranking with google and websiteoutlook.com because it may seem like the website only has one page now instead of 8, making it look like I have less pageviews and making my site less relevant for search engine rankings. Are my concerns legit? If so, do you have suggestions on how to avoid it? I really like the idea of working with a page that 'slides' to different sections better than having pages load all the time. Any suggestions/thoughts would be very much appreciated. Thanks.


Ensure we're found in Facebook search for both full & abbreviated company names?

We have a client with a facebook page, let's say his company is called **Bob Roberts Super Widgets**. And if you search in Facebook for Bob Roberts Super Widgets then up he pops. But the shorthand he's commonly known by is **BR Super Widgets** and indeed the website we've created for him is br-super-widgets.com. In Facebook, searching for BR Super Widgets doesn't show up our Mr Bob. We don't have a lot of Facebook expertise, so asking for help here. Does anyone know how to ensure you're found in Facebook search for both short and long company names? Have found this this similar question in the Facebook forum but the poor old questioner never got a response.


How can I point wildcard domains to a folder in Apache?

I am developing an app using PHP and deploying it on Apache on the Amazon AWS environment. This app requires to be made available to customers from their own chosen domain name? How can I achieve this? For example:               www.customer1.com => /var/www/myapp.mydomain.com      www.customer2.com => /var/www/myapp.mydomain.com      I would like to do this similar to how bitly enables shortened URL's for custom domains. `www.myshorturl.com` is DNS configured to a CNAME - `cname.bitly.com`. Appreciate if someone could help me achieve this functionality. If there are any other details required, please let me know, I shall update the same.


Private registration of “.co” domains, is it possible?

I've registered a lot of domains in the past and have always usually purchased the additional service to make them have private whois info (e.g. domains by proxy) Today I registered two new ".co" domains from GoDaddy. I'm now trying to make these private registrations but it doesn't look like its possible. Its it possible to make ".co" domains have private whois info?


Simple locking daemon with API for PHP (or just simple API)?

I am looking for a simple locking daemon which listens for clients over TCP and processes locking requests. I need to synchronize parallel PHP processes at MULTIPLE machines. E.g. one machine may say "I lock the 'abcd' identifier from now and until my death", and if the second machine says the same "lock 'abcd'", its request will be delayed until 'abcd' is released by the first machine. An identifier is also freed if obtaining process is accidently dies (when it dies, the disconnect happens, so locking daemon may process this disconnect as lock release). Note that memcached add() is not so good in this case, because it cannot handle unexpected disconnects (it is important: process may die in many cases unexpectedly and without a chance to free the lock; also the lock cannot be freed by timeout, because some of processes works for a long time). I need a daemon which keeps opened connections and cares about them.


Are twitter backlinks counted

We've recently had our website tweeted by a couple of bigish media outlets 0.5m+ followers, some of the links are our direct url, and some are t.co urls. From an seo point of view a link on their site would have been preferable, but i was wandering if even though the links are nofollowed, does google give weight to links from twitter accounts with high social clout, as i know they have fire hose access to the twitter api ?


What is bookmark blasting?

I've heard this term from a commentary about SEO but I don't believe they went into an explanation of what exactly it was. It sounds like an interesting concept - would anyone here be familiar with what it is?


What alternatives to Animated GIFs are natively supported on all popular modern browsers on tablets, etc. without pluggins?

I was looking for an alternative animated images to Animated GIFS. But per CanIUseit support for APNGs seems to being phased _out_. And MNG support isn't even listed there and pages about it don't even mention Chrome (suggesting those pages are very very old) _Clarification_ : This is for a **web app** , so it'll need to support: - Safari on iPad (so can't depend on extensions) - Chrome on Windows and Mac - Safari 6.0+ on Mac - Chrome on Android


.htaccess language detection, redirect and friendly URLs

I'm having problems with my _.htaccess_ file.               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} (fr) [NC]     RewriteRule .* http://www.example.com/frans [R,L]     RewriteRule .* http://www.example.com/nederlands [R,L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f     RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.html [L,QSA]     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*\.html\ HTTP/     RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]      Can anyone please help? I want it to detect the browser language of the client, then redirect French to `/frans`, and all other languages to `/nederlands`. Also I want to show the URLs without `.html` or `.php` at the end, so clean URLs.


How to map URL to IP?

I'm completely ignorant when it comes to hosting. Suppose I have a web application up and running on IIS 6.0 locally, and then I publish it (somehow?) I assume the site will be accessible from `http://XXX.XXX.XXX.X/`, but what if I want a domain name to point at it? Can I do it on my own, dedicated server, or have I absolutely must go to a third party? I believe I need a DNS, but can I set one up for free somehow?


Configuring `mod_vhost_alias` to server subdomain-based websites

I am currently in the process of setting up an Apache server that will be hosting projects built from SVN using a continuous integration server. The problem is, however, that while I've managed to configure the build server to output the revisions of a project to a directory, I'm stumped as to how to actually configure Apache using `mod_vhost_alias` to serve the different projects. The directory structure is generated using the following pattern: > /usr/share/Projects/r[revision] Inside, there are two directories which I'd like to configure access via a subdomain: > api.r[revision].testserver.local -> ./server > > r[revision].testserver.local -> ./web There is already a local DNS server that serves the wildcards on `*.testserver.local` and already resolves them to the correct IP, but Apache needs to resolve the correct `DocumentRoot` for the different subdomains. The end result I'm hoping for is that as long as the build server outputs and configures the projects inside `/usr/share/Projects/r*`, Apache will know how to resolve these subdomains without the need to write conf files and reloading configurations each time a new revision is fetched and built from SVN.


Number of visitor widget

I am developing my own blog site in ASP.NET and I would have several blogs in future. I want to have a widget on page which will show the number of user visited to my page based on the URL {Because for every every blog I will a unique URL}, so that the new user could know that the blog has been visited how many times! I can make the same via coding, very easily, but I have database size restriction from my hosting provider and I can't go beyond that !! Please assist !


How do I redirect a FQDN to an internal URL?

We have internal DNS servers where we've registered a FQDN that resolves internally to identityreg.domain.com. We also have an existing web page at https://iamserver.domain.com/product/default.asp?Workflow=process1. We need our users to be redirected to the existing web page URL whenever they type identityreg.domain.com. We're using IIS for the web server. I'm a newbie here so forgive any misuse of terms. How do I get the FQDN to redirect to the URL?


SEO Joomla URL to WordPress URL's

I am trying to migrate from Joomla 1.5 SEF URL's to WordPress SEF URL's.   1. The old links use this formatting: `/site/sectionname/categoryname/id-titlename.html`   2. I want to migrate it to `/wp/index.php?p=id` I have modified my .htaccess file but it doesn't seem to work.               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^/(.*)/(.*)/[0-9]+-(.*)$ /index.php?p=$3 [L]      Does anyone have an idea how I can resolve this issue.


Shopping site catering to 2 countries where *most* content is same, except pricing. Duplicate content?

I'm working on redeveloping a small site for a boutique food producer. They are New Zealand based but are wanting to start selling in Australia. They have both domain names (.co.nz and .com.au). Essentially, most content on the site will be the same for both countries. There will be some minor differences (i.e. contact page, locations) but really it's just the product pricing that will differ. My first thought is to set it up so that .com.au and .co.nz point to the same site (codebase) and dynamically switch the content parts that change depending on the domain. This makes sense from a development point of view. However, will I be penalised for 'duplicate content'? and how could I avoid that. I could set canonical urls for all pages - perhaps to point to the NZ version but that would harm the AU SEO?


Two URL CDNs are better than one for SEO and Speed?

For example, my URL is: > www.site.com For SEO, PageSpeed and Server Tweaking for ultimate performance, and speed, my code places static files like JavaScript, CSS and Images on my CDN: > www.site-cdn.com (seperate server) Will it help if I have a script which randomly loads one of the these:               www.site-cdn1.com      www.site-cdn2.com (on the same origin as cd1 but different dedicated IP)      www.site-cdn3.com (on the same origin as cd1 but different dedicated IP)


Strange results of google's indexing of my site

I have a site named comehike.com which got hit by the panda update and I am trying to de-index some bad pages. If I do this search in google: site:comehike.com/outdoors then I see about a 1000 results. If I do this search in google: site:comehike.com/outdoors/ then I see about 6,000 results. How can that be? The only difference is the slash at the end. If anything there should be less results or the same number. No?


How to preventing massive hotlinking of images before Apache?

A very popular website has begun using my Flickrshow javascript slideshow, but failed to notify me beforehand, and so is using a version that downloads the images used from my server. This is resulting in my server being inundated with 100+ requests per second for these images, and crashing or slowing the server to the point that it times out. Its also eating a load of bandwidth. I am running a VPS using Ubuntu from Rackspace cloud, and have access to IPTables and/or Ubuntu Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW), but need to block by referrer since I can't tell what the IPs requesting the image will be. I don't want to let the request get as far as Apache as that is already affecting performance. Is it possible to block with a firewall or is there a better way? Something like ...               -A INPUT -m string --string "Referrer: http://www.rockinrio.com.br" --algo bm --to 65535 -j DROP      ... was recommended but I can't get it to work, but then normally I use UFW.


Create nameserver for a specific domain

My domain name and dedicated hosting are with different providers. I wanted to create a own nameserver for my domain name. I created 2 host object from domain registrar control panel.   1. ns.mydomain.com (IP of dedicated server)    2. ns2.mydomain.com (IP of dedicated server) The same domain name in which I have created host object need to be hosted in my hosting. So I have assigned ns.mydomain.com, ns2.mydomain.com for the domain mydomain.com's name servers. I hope this is correct... If not please correct me. Then in my dedicated server (with PLESK control panel), I have enable the DNS service and created 2 A and other entries as follow records.                   *.webmail.mydomain.com. CNAME   mydomain.com.     192.168.100.219 / 24    PTR mydomain.com.     ftp.mydomain.com.   CNAME   mydomain.com.     mail.mydomain.com.  A   192.168.100.219     ns.mydomain.com.    A   83.138.xxx.xxx (PUBLIC IP OF THE SERVER)     ns2.mydomain.com.   A   83.138.xxx.xxx (PUBLIC IP OF THE SERVER)     mydomain.com.           NS  mydomain.com.     mydomain.com.           A   83.138.xxx.xxx (PUBLIC IP OF THE SERVER)     mydomain.com.           MX (10) mail.mydomain.com.     mydomain.com.           TXT v=spf1 +a +mx -all     webmail.mydomain.com.   A   192.168.100.219     www.mydomain.com.   NS  ns.mydomain.com.     www.mydomain.com.   NS  ns2.mydomain.com.      I followed these guide : http://help.godaddy.com/article/198 Is the above setting correct? Would I be able to use these name servers?


Why is email HTML stuck in the 90's?

_(disclaimer - I've already tried asking this onStackOverflow, but apparently it was off topic. If the same is true here please let me know and I'll close/delete this question.)_ I've spent about a day putting together a frustrating email newsletter, using tables, inline styles etc. It feels a lot harder than it should be. I was just wondering, is there any reason why email clients have such poor support of HTML and CSS (CSS in particular)? I would have imagined they'd be scrambling to outdo each other in this department ... Is is a security thing (I can't really imagine why)? Or are they just lazy?


How to find Google PageRank of a SSL/HTTPS Page

If a page is using HTTPS it will display its page rank as the page rank of its homepage, for instance this page is displaying a PR8 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/publiser45/ But that's actually the PR of the root of the subdomain, any idea how i can get the PR of an actual page, on a site that uses HTTPS ?


What ecommerce is this?

Hi just out of curiosity, does anyone what cart does this store http://goo.gl/WqnyC uses? It's nothing like Magento, Opencart or Wordpress + cart? And it looks really nice. Thanks.


Adding Google Sitelinks to our website

When we search Google for _word1 word2_ , it lists our site at #1 with 4 or 5 sitelinks underneath which is what we wanted. Question - is there anything we can do to help achieve the same result/layout for the search _word1word2_ which also appears at #1 but without the sitelinks? Our brand name is word1word2(all one word) and we never split the words.


Google Webmasters showing 404's but header check showing 200 All Good

I have just been marking them as fixed, but they just keep coming back and I don't want to have to keep coming back to mark as fixed. Google is showing about 150 of my pages as 404's but they all register as 200 all good when I do a header check. Is there another reason these may show up as 404's?


I want to report as a spam (unpublish) this blog in search engines

I want to report a site as spam (unpublish) this blog in search engines. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do it?


Prevent file table from showing navigation links

I am trying to display the files in my folder, "Amir", but my table keeps displaying all of the files, "." and "..". How can I prevent my table from displaying ".." or "."? I have placed the code and a picture below.               <?php          echo '

         Name
';          if ($handle = opendir("amir")) {         //echo "Directory handle: $handle\n";         //echo "Entries:\n";                   /* This is the correct way to loop over the directory. */         while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))) {         //    echo "$entry\n";                  echo'
         '. $entry. '
     ';         }              /* This is the WRONG way to loop over the directory. */         while ($entry = readdir($handle)) {             //echo "$entry\n";         }              closedir($handle);     }          echo'
     ';     ?>      ![Image of my table](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Sulv4.png)


PHP rounding issue

We have a problem on our Google Shopping feed which seems to be a rounding issue. THis has caused Google to suspend our feed and the combined might of myself and 2 development agencies we use can not seem to fix it. The script does the following; Get the price (or special price if on special) of the product;                 if ($product->getSpecialPrice() &&          ($product->getSpecialPrice() < $product->getPrice()))       {            $tempPrice = $product->getSpecialPrice();       }        else        {            $tempPrice = $product->getPrice();       }      Add the VAT by multiplying by 1.2                 $_priceIncludingTax = $tempPrice * 1.2;      Using the PHP round() function to round the price to the nearest 2 decimal places (this should do half up and less down by default, i.e 1.5 = 2 and 1.4 = 1 (according to the PHP documentation))                 $_priceIncludingTax = round($_priceIncludingTax, 2);      This should work for all our products for example the 3 examples below; SKU | Price in website backend | X 1.2 | rounded | Whats actually in feed _DL229 | 589.86 | 707.832 | 707.83 | 707.84_ SKU | Price in website backend | X 1.2 | rounded | Whats actually in feed _CB020 | 9.06 | 10.872 | 10.87 | 10.88_ SKU | Price in website backend | X 1.2 | rounded | Whats actually in feed _DM056 | 16.93 | 20.316 | 20.32 | 20.31_


Website forwarding, keeping original URL

We have `example.org` (our main site) registered and hosted on an american server. We bought `example.gr` domain name in Greece, a local registrar. We made `.gr` point at `.org` DNS all right. A visitor types URL `.gr` and sees `.org` in his browser all right, but URL immediately changed to `.org`. Is there a way to keep URL `.gr` and still see `.org`? If a `.org` visitor then clicks on a link to `example.org/abcd.php`, could a `.gr` visitor clicking on the same link see the address bar show `example.gr/abcd.php`? Our American registrar told us to contact Greek registrar and ask for mapping. The Greek registrar basically set an iframe displaying `example.org` and called it `example.gr`. But that was wrong because obviously, each time a visitor would click on something, the address bar would always display one thing only, the same URL all the time, `example.gr`. So we cancelled that cheap mapping trick down, and I don't know what to do.