Nginx writing separately to two different logs

I've recently taken over as Sysadmin of a site, and the first thing I noticed was that there were two Nginx `access_log`s defined: `access.log` and `access_new.log`, and they were both being written to. Looking around the configuration I could see that in the `http` section of `nginx.conf` it defined `access.log` as the `access_log`, and in the `sites- enabled/mysite` configuration it defined `access_new.log` as the log. I am curious as to why both of these logs would b written to: surely the configuration for the site would override the default config?


Do you need permission to show an RSS feed?

Does anyone know if you need permission to show an RSS feed on your website? I want to show the BBC business RSS feed and I heard that I may need to get permission to show it. I did some Googling but couldn't find anything so does anyone know if this is true and if it is, how do I get permission?


Can anyone recommend a Google SERP tracker?

I want to track my website's position in Google's search results for around 50 keywords/phrases and I am looking to a nice web service or Windows application to automate this process. Ideally, I want to see pretty Javascript or Flash line graphs for my keywords and their positions. I'm currently free-trialing Raven Tools and Sheer SEO but I am not particularly impressed with either. My budget is up to £25-30/$30-40 per month for a decent rank checker.


Is Google Analytics' User ID Web Tracking avaible?

I read here that you can set user id for new universal analytics. **But** `The User-ID feature is currently in closed beta and not available to all users.` Do you know how to get in this closed beta or is this document maybe out of date and it's already avaible for us that use universal analytics?


Blocking specific ads in the Google Custom Search

I don't seem to find way to block competitor sites in the Google Custom Search product though I'm able to in normal AdSense ad units. I've tried to search in Google here and there but could not find answer to this. Is there any alternative to Google Custom Search?


Considerations & Vendors for hosting healthcare related data & sites in Europe

I am currently researching hosting vendors & services in Europe that I can use to build up websites & related web based applications for healthcare. Eventually we would like the users to be able to enter some personal medical information into these sites, so there is a need to ensure data privacy & confidentiality. Our company is US based, so we also need to adhere to US legislation eg SAS 70 Type II. Does anyone have any experience of reviewing hosting companies with regard to their data privacy certification? For example I know Rackspace & Verizon have centres in europe with SAS 70 Type II but I would like to find others. thanks, matt.


Creating sitemap for Googlebot - how to mark dynamic content / dynamic subpages?

I have a website that is an Internet forum. This forum has many categories, and a single category page that contains a lot of subpages with listed threads. This Internet forum is brand new, and about a week ago I filled it with a few hundred thousand threads. I then looked at my Google Webmasters Tools page to see any changes in indexing, but the index went up from 300 to about 1200, so that means it did not index my added threads (although it added something). The following is what my _sitemap.xml_ contains, which I uploaded to their website. Of course there is a lot more code, this is just a snippet for a single category. In my real sitemap file I have all the categories listed as below:               <url>       <loc>http://mysite.com/Forums/Physics</loc>       <changefreq>hourly</changefreq>     </url>      Now, I would expect Googlebot to go into `mysite.com/Forums/Physics`, and crawl through all the subpages with thread links, and then crawl inside of each thread and index its content. How can I achieve this? Also if this is unclear, I will add a real link to my website.


Downloading pdf files

I have very basic programming skills or other computer skills. I wanted to download whole web content including pdf text files from a website, by going through each pdf and downloading them individually is taking my time. what is this webcrawler and can i use it to download all of this files? again very limited or no knowledge about these. Can you let me know how to proceed? Will very much appreciate


What could cause analytics bounce rate to go from ~30% to ~100% in a day?

A month ago, my site had about a 30% bounce rate. One day I pushed some changes to the site, and all the sudden my bounce rate shot straight up to around 98% and my average time on site plumetted to 00:00. Clearly this is a technical issue causing an analytics bug. From what I can tell, all my js is working well. What kind of technical problems can cause a complete skewing of bounce rate? I run Google Analytics, and also Reinvigorate (to please some managers). Could that be causing a problem? I have also implemented the async snippets. UPDATE Another idea - are there reserved js variables that I cannot use on the page? I am using "geo" as a variable on my page...could that cause a problem?


Do extra words in url affect SEO?

Often for technical reasons we end up with some extra words in a url that we would not want to optimize for as they would have no bearing on the content. Examples would be: > sportssite.com/ **content** /sports-article > > movieportal.com/ **node** /movie-review > > electronicsforum.com/ **blog** /top-10-cameras > > webmasters.stackexchange.com/ **questions/34046** /do-extra-words-in-url- > affect-seo Do these have any affect on ranking in any of the major search engines? Would it behoove us to strip the extra words?


How to be alerted by email when new vbulletin version is available

I currently have a vbulletin install and I don't log into the admin control panel very often - but I need to be alerted when a security patch or new version is available. I cannot find this option anywhere - does anyone know where you can find it? Or if it exists?


is there any well-known shared web hosting company which supports mysql version 5.6?

I need mysql version 5.6 for my website because full text search functionality with innodb have come with mysql that release. That's why I want to know that is there any well-known shared web hoisting which support mysql 5.6


Website constructed using a JS application no longer indexed as per google's AJAX Crawling spec. Whats the issue?

I have two sites that should be compliant to googles AJAX Crawling spec (https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started) . One domain (http://auroraliveaboard.com) was previously indexed, and now lost all search results. Another domain (http://acs-germany.de) never got indexed, and after complying with the spec for a month and a half nothing has changed, and no results show up. My application contains links in using the #! format, which are made in the following format:               http://tld.com/#!locale/page      a rewrite rule is in place to serve the correct HTML snapshot targeting requests for:               http://tld.com/?_escaped_fragment_=locale/page      This snapshot is generated by simply dumping the DOM to a nodeJS instance, and wrapping the outputted HTML within new tags. It becomes obvious at this point that there is no cloaking going on, as i'm simply dumping the DOM for each page, verbatim as a browser with JS enabled sees it. The reasoning for using an JS app instead of static pages is not part of this discussion. I'm concerned with the reason, and a possible solution, to why google is no longer indexing the pages. I am pretty sure that i am in full compliance with the spec. I've submitted a sitemap containing all the links as well. Nothing changed. The sitemap is present as "sitemap.txt" for both domains. If somebody could help shed some light on the issue i'd be very grateful! Thanks!


What ways can I modify my large website navigation menu to allow me to Silo properly?

I currently have a large site navigation in the header of my site which links 3 levels deep in a large catalog of pages. I am going to be updating my website to silo the content and wish Google to not pass PageRank to most of these links but only to the second tier as these are content hubs and each represents a unique content silo (the top level is more for UI and are too generic to be content hubs). When I am on one of these pages I wish to only pass PageRank to the sub pages of that tier and not to any of the other top tiers. The site is written on a custom code base so modifying HTML depending on the current page is easily done. My first thought is to use the "nofollow" attribute on the links I wish Google to ignore (not pass PR) but on several (reputable?) SEO blogs it was suggested this would not work but no reason was given. The only other suggestions given were to use flash or JavaScript to load the menu so Google would not see it at all but this obviously doesn't suit my requirements. If anyone can tell me if and why "nofollow" wouldn't work that would be appreciated, if it does not work I certainly would like other suggestions.


How can I increase my web site visitor?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to start driving traffic to a new website? I have a web site that www.viewbd.com But i have not enough visitor how can i increase my visitor or traffic


How to bring visitors to a new website?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to start driving traffic to a new website? I am more of a programmer than an SEO expert. Whenever I develop a new website, no matter how good or bad it is, after the most of the development work is over, the ultimate question remains, how to bring visitors to a new website, how to let the world know of its existence. Search Engines are of no use, because they only help after visitors start coming to website.


Which jQuery slider do you suggest?

I need a slider like this one . As you can see when it's on the last part, and is needed to show the first again, it scrolls fastly to the left. I want a slider that doesn't have this behavoir. What do you suggest? All I found do the same thing. If you can find a solution for the above slider I have an open question at stackoverflow.com. Thanks in advance


How to create a portfolio website for minimal cost?

I am planning on creating an online portfolio for myself, to use in my resume and to use for other personal use, with my own domain name. I am pretty sure there is nothing free out there to create a domain name and have a website for ourselves (correct me if I am wrong.) So I looked up Godaddy.com and found some domains really cheap, like for $4.99 a year which looked so unbelievable. I need your suggestions on how to get started on this. I plan to design my website on my own and post photos and make modifications to the code since i am a web developer. Which website would be good to have things the way I want them to be and what would be the price.


Finding results from _trackPageview in Google Analytics

I have a number of PDFs on my website that I want to track when people click on them. To do that I added this code to each `<a>` tag referencing the PDFs,               onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/download/nameOfPDF.pdf');      I then made sure the page with these links had my Google Analytics code and that the code was above all of my links (I placed it at the bottom of the `<head>` section. This exactly what I have (I replaced my URL and Account # though)               <script type="text/javascript">                 var _gaq = _gaq || [];                 _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-X']);                 _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '.YYYYYYYYYY.com']);                 _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);                      (function() {                     var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;                     ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';                     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);                 })();     </script>      My issue is that 3 days later, I have 0 page views for the pdf documents in Top Content and the pages are not showing up at all. Is this because I made a mistake with my code placement or is it an issue with where I am looking in Google Analytics? I do know that I have had over 1000 page views on my site and the PDFs are rather popular so I am sure something isn't working properly.


Diary view- user interface

I need to design a user inteface which shows the user his/her list of appointments. Ideally it needs to show today, tomorrow, this week, this month as view options for filtering, user can choose open/closed/all appointments. I am looking for a diary view interface in existing websites for this. any reference urls for the same ?


Reduce likelihood of Mailchimp email campaign going to Spam

The company I work for sends a marketing email at least one time per week using Mailchimp's email service. All of our subscribers are opt-in active customers and our emails are not spammy. There is an above average text to image ratio, and copy does not contain 'spammy' words. However, we've recently started noticing that our emails are being filters to spam significantly more often. According to Mailchimp, by using their internal authentication our campaigns will pass SenderID, SPF, DomainKeys, and DKIM checks. What else can I do to reduce the likelihood of our emails going to peoples spam folder, and Gmails promotions tab? 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Since when is layering possible in Websites?

I'm asking because I remember a time when it wasn't possible   to create a div box on another one, and I was wondering when was it introduced.   It's probably a matter of CSS version, isn't it?


Category to page and blocking category URL via robots.txt - good for SEO?

I am using a template which in the pages it allows me to add sidebars / more content under and above the content I want to pull from a category which is very helpful. If I create pages to display my categories content wont the page URLs go in conflict with the category URLs? By conflict I mean causing a duplicate content error? What I thought might help was to block from _robots.txt_ the category URLs of the blog ex. `/category/books` `/category/music` Would that be a good practice in order to avoid the duplicate content penalty?


Search engine optimization for text with different colors

We're trying to do SEO on our company website. Our company logo is just text (in image form), but has two colors in it. Our company name appears a lot in our website's text/copy. For example, the sentence,               This is our company name: COMPANY.      is coded as,               This is our company name:          COMP     A     N     Y      Is it search engine friendly? If not, any suggestions?


What's the "^" in RewriteRule Statements?

I keep seeing the `^` character in `RewriteRule` statements in a context that doesn't fit with the usage specified here. For example: `RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,QSA]` What does it signify?


SVG in CSS backgrounds

Edit: How can I detect in php if the client browser is capable of displaying SVG as CSS background ? I renamed my stylesheet from .css to .css.php. So I can include at the beginning:               <?php     header("content-type: text/css");     ?>      and somewhere in the middle               <?php      if (stristr($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT"], "image/xml+svg"))      {      }      else      {      }     ?>      Unfortunately, my firefox client does not send out any `image/xml+svg` string to the server. So, how can I detect if a browser is capable of displaying SVG as CSS background in php ? Ref: http://www.gabis-bloghaeuschen.de/2006/03/27/php-code-in-der-css-datei/ End Edit. * * * I experienced (except the few most recent webbrowser) not much of any other webbrowser is capable of displaying an .svg image from withing a .css with the aid of url(). Using the embed tag and its pluginspage attribute, there is the possibility to refer a client to a missing plugin:               <embed src="/svg/simple-example-1.jsp"            width="300" height="220"            type="image/svg+xml"            pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/" />      Since the adobe plugin is outdated, one can also refer to the corel svg viewer. What is the best strategy to deal with old browsers ? Is there a mechanism to refer them to a plugin if the .svg image is included from within a .css ? edit:               #header {      width: 760px;      height: 288px;      margin: 0 auto;      background: url(images/background.svg) no-repeat right top;     }      How to refer browsers, not able to handle the code above, at least to third party aid, e.g. a plugin ? (Or maybe a .png - but actually, that is not what I want.) What other possibilities are there to deal with browsers that can't handle svg in stylesheet ? Iceweasel is able to display `background.svg` **directly** but can't display the image if included by style - so apprently it is able to handle svg, but not from within a stylesheet ? With browsershots I realized, most browsers were not displaying the image in the stylesheet because of it being in Scalable Vector Graphics AND in the stylesheet. So the question is, what is the best strategy here to reach as much viewers as possible with the svg and only use the raster images in emergency ? Ref: http://tutorials.jenkov.com/svg/displaying-svg-in-web-browsers.html


Is is good or bad to have the email address of a domain's registrant on the same domain?

Say I own domain abc.com. I think it's a bad idea to use eric@abc.com as the registrant's (myself) email address. This will cause problems when I need to transfer the domain to another registrar e.g. GoDaddy. The new registrar will then try to send email to eric@abc.com which is unlikely to function normally since the DNS settings are undergoing changes. So I believe it's best to use email address independent from the domains I own as the registrant's email address. (Isn't it the practice Google Apps is using?) Have I missed something here or am I right?


Are there downsides to serving UTF-8 with a BOM?

Working with a client, I've just noticed that all of their files are being saved as Windows-1252, but they're serving them with `charset=utf-8` on the `Content-Type` header (e.g., `Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8` and similar for their JS and CSS). I've recommended to them that they actually _use_ UTF-8, which they're happy to do. But their primary authoring tool is VS.Net 2012, which defaults to Windows-1252 (in English locale Windows installs) unless the file has a signature telling it otherwise. (I was very surprised not to find a setting for this, but I've found multiple answers on Stack Overflow that seem to confirm it doesn't: 1, 2, 3.) So we can fix this by saving their files as UTF-8 with a BOM (and possibly updating the templates similarly so new files get created that way), because if VS.Net sees the BOM it remembers to save them that way later. The Unicode standard (PDF) says that using a BOM with UTF-8 is allowed but (oddly, to my mind) "not recommended": > Use of a BOM is neither required nor recommended for UTF-8, but may be > encountered...where the BOM is used as a UTF-8 signature. Are there any significant downsides to serving UTF-8 with a BOM to general web users? Issues with user agents somehow getting it wrong, or...? I mean, anything that understands Unicode is required to understand the BOM, so it _should_ be okay, but we all know that reality sometimes diverges from theory...


Selfoss says "no entries found"

I installed selfoss as instructed in the readme, set up the rss feeds, but I get "no entries found" when I open it. Anyone got this problem?


Demographics and interests reports in Google universal analytics

I have an issue with Google Analytics, can't seem to find a guide how to activate Demographics and Interests reports. I am using the new version of analytics (Universal Analytics) and the script code looks something like this:               (function (i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {         i['GoogleAnalyticsObject'] = r; i[r] = i[r] || function () {             (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)         }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date(); a = s.createElement(o),         m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0]; a.async = 1; a.src = g; m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)     })(window, document, 'script', '//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js', 'ga');      But the guide I found on google's page is for the old version (Classis Analytics). Does anyone know how I can activate this on Universal Analytics? Is this even possible?


How to check pagerank of all pages of a website?

How can I check Google Page Rank of all pages of a website without installing any tool on my machine?


What dangers await if I block non-standard, non-major-usa search engine bots from my USA only website?

I noticed tons of bandwidth being used by non-USA search engine bots, so I began blocking them in an effort to save bandwidth and cpu cycles for actual users and the search engines they come from (Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, etc.). Other than potentially losing some international traffic (which isn't really important to us since all of our content is very USA-centric), what additional dangers should I be concerned about? I'm using a modified version of Jeff Starr's User Agent Blocklist


Blogger post permalink lost when exporting/importing blog

Google's Blogger now allows the original publisher to specify a customized permalink for a post on a blog. Yet, when one exports and imports this blog, the posts must be republished, and the permalinks are lost. This is annoying, since posts can refer to other posts using their permalink.   1. Is there any work-around to keep permalinks?   2. Is there any way to predict a link from the post title?


Using two salts for user authentication?

When storing user credentials in a database, we all know that hashing the password is the bare minimum you should do, but salting it before hashing is better. The salt should be randomly generated, long enough, and unique for each user. I remember reading somewhere (but I don't remember where) an article about using **two** salts (both long enough and randomly generated) :   1. One global salt   2. One unique-per-entry salt The resulting hash would be : `hash(globalSalt + password + uniqueSalt)` (the order of concatenation is not really important). Is there any reason why this would be more secure than simply having one unique salt per entry ? We suppose that the attacker has access to the code files where the global salt is stored.


HTTP: How to be deleted from search engines at a certain point in time in the future?

Is there a way to tell search engines, that a page they crawl should be included in the search results now, but have to be deleted at a certain time in the future? I have a website where hundreds of publications happen each day and I want them to be crawled and be searchable, but I am legally required to remove the information after a while (individual date for each page). After that given date, the page will not be visible at my website anymore (HTTP response 410 gone), but the page will linger in e.g. the google cache for a while, which could cause legal issues for me. Obviously, it's not viable to issue hundreds of content removal requests to google by hand. On the other hand, the individual pages do not get modified for some months until they have to be discarded, so google bot won't check in often. For what I understand, the HTTP Expires header is a label for minimum freshnes and not for maximum lifetime, correct? I am sending last-modified-at and etag headers, but they don't help here. Is there any way to say "cache, but only until 2011-08-15"?


Is hosting a webapp in Europe faster for Europeans than if hosted in USA?

I'm considering hosting a webapp to be used in northern Europe, but my current hosting provider is USA-based. I'm looking at about 17 hops from my machine to the hosting provider, and I'm concerned this will slow the webapp down. I've noticed that my hosted wiki is running a lot slower than a clone on my LAN. It's reasonable enough that LAN != Internet, but how I'm wondering whether the hosting location makes any significant difference? For a webapp (not a static site), **should I pick a local hosting provider to ensure a short response time,** or won't it matter at all? This is a very small webapp with few users, so it's not a performance problem in terms of user load. I just want to ensure shortest possible response time.


What software/theme is running on this website?

See http://www.anscamobile.com I like the design of this website, and would like to know if you guys can identify a similar design/theme/CMS setup that is readily available.


Adding a calculated metric to a custom report in Google Analytics

Is there a way to display a calculated field in a `custom report`, for example I want to display the value of (event X / event Y) over time? (including `average event value`, `total events`, etc.)


What is the best way to position div for mobile purpose viewing?

I have a issue whereby images that are I div because of the style percentage width property will get resize weirdly and will not display correcty in pc or mobile iPhone What is the best way to position div for mobile purpose viewing Percentage or there are other alternative? Taking into consideration tat the image may be resize


joomla ACL :: two groups permissions conflict

I have several user groups on my website, like:   * Site Staff   * Departments   * -- History department   * -- Physics department   * -- Foreign languages department   * -- IT department etc I also have several categories, like:   * News   * About   * ...   * Departments      * -- History department     * -- Physics department     * -- Foreign languages department     * -- IT department etc Users in **Site Staff** group can edit entire site, except for **Departments** categories (I've set **Deny** permission for it). Each Department user group can edit only its corresponding category. I have successfully implemented all this. The question is: If a user belongs to two groups ( **Site Staff** and **Physics department** - for instance) - he should be able to edit the whole site, except for Departments category. **And also he should be able to edit _Physics department_ category** - this is what I cannot implement. Can you suggest any ideas?


Getting a domain sub-directory url for a new server

I have an web application server running tomcat and i need to publish my APIs to internet users. However I don't have a domain name for this server and I can only put the ip address of this server (e.g. _145.XXX.XXX.XXX_ ) to point out where my API xml files are located. I have another web server running with a domain name " _http://www.webserver.com_ " registered on the internet and I want to make use of its domain name to server my web application server API xml files location. How can I do that? using "www.webserver.com/api" or using "api.webserver.com"? which is better? Also I wonder if I want to publish a _"rstp://145.XXX.XXX.XXX"_ web link for video streaming purpose, can I use _"rstp://www.webserver.com/api"_ to replace it and how to do it? I always thought the url contain domain sub-directory name cannot point to another IP address, it only can point to another folder location on the webserver itself.


File Download URL - Does is it matter for Search Engine Ranking?

Does is matter if I use this URL for a PDF attached to a posting:               www.example.com/slug1/posting/xyz.pdf      or               www.example.com/downloads/xyz.pdf


How to replace the path with a custom variable in the visitor flow?

I would like to use Google Analytic's visitor flow to understand the behaviour of my visitors. My current visitor flow looks like this: ![Visitor flow](http://i.stack.imgur.com/nXzjL.png) As you can see, my URL structure is not really friendly to this tool, and thus I'm having a hard time extracting any useful information from there. I've seen that analytics.js allows us to send custom variables, including overriding the path. I guess that I could override the path to give all pages of the same type a common (fake) path, something like:               /restaurant/123/index => /restaurant     /restaurant/456/index => /restaurant          /restaurant/123/order => /order     /restaurant/456/order => /order      but I would be losing the potentially precious information that the original path represents. Is it possible to send a _custom variable_ to Google Analytics instead, and **have the visitor flow use the custom variable instead of the path** when displaying the above flow?


How to remove spam links from google?

My wordpress website got the pharma attack. Now there are lots of spam links on my website indexed by the Google. Is there possiblilty to remove these links from the Google using robots.txt file or some other method? PS. Since I have removed the malicious code, now these spam links give 404 error. Will Google automatically remove the non-existing links ? If yes, how long it takes? Thanks.


Where to find my website's source code?

My company ordered a website and we were given all usernames and passwords but I can't find the PHP source files and this is my first website assignment. I have no prior exposure to web technologies although I've been programming for a decade and know computer usage inside out. I tried to use the cPanel to find .php files but there aren't any. There are no MySQL databases either. I'm lost.


Problem with Google Webmaster Tools Sitemap

I have a WPMU 3.6.1 with Domain Mapping (0.5.4.3) with W3TC (0.9.3) and Google XML Sitemaps (4.0 BETA). I have 4 different sitemaps.   * _sub-1.com/sitemap.xml_   * _sub-2.com/sitemap.xml_   * _sub-3.com/sitemap.xml_   * _sub-4.com/sitemap.xml_ on Google Webmaster Tools, I got 59 errors and 14 warnings. ### Sitemap errors > Errors: > We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure > your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you > provided and then resubmit. > > General HTTP error: 404 not found > > Sitemap: _sub-2.com/sitemap-pt-post-2011-02.xml_ etc. But when I click on my sitemap links they work fine. ### Sitemap errors > Warnings: > URLs not accessible When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, > we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot due to an HTTP > status error. All accessible URLs will still be submitted. > > Sitemap: _sub-2.com/sitemap-misc.xml_ > > HTTP Error: 404 > > URL: `/sitemap.html` But when I click on my sitemap links they work fine. ### Sitemap errors > Index errors: > URLs not accessible When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, > we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot due to an HTTP > status error. All accessible URLs will still be submitted. > > HTTP Error: 404 > > URL: _/sitemap-pt-post-2010-09.xml_ But when I click on my sitemap links they work fine. ### Web pages   * 3,276 Submitted   * 3,247 Indexed What do I have to put on **_network admin > performance(w3tc) > page cache > cache preload > Sitemap URL_** ? I have added **" _/sitemap.xml_ "** My _robots.txt_ : http://pastebin.com/3K2U0mQa My _.htaccess_ : http://pastebin.com/efJJ6zwy How can I make it work?


Apache URL rewriting not working

All `.php` files are rewritted before doing the below rewriting:               test.php => test     foo.php => foo      I want to rewrite this URL `http://www.testdomain.com/test?name=john&id=2&nick=doe` to `http://www.testdomain.com/test/john/2/doe`. `test` is the index file. I tried these methods to rewrite:   1. Method 1:              RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/(.*)$ test?name=$1&id=$2&nick=$3 [L,QSA]        2. Method 2:              RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/(.*)$ test.php?name=$1&id=$2&nick=$3 [L,QSA]        3. Method 3:              RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /test?name=$1&id=$2&nick=$3 [L]      **updated .htaccess file** content:               RewriteEngine On          RewriteRule ^([^.?]+)$ %{REQUEST_URI}.php [L]     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} "^[^ ]* .*?\.php[? ].*$"     RewriteRule .* - [L,R=404]          # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=([\w]+)\&id=([\d]{1,3})\&nick=([\w]+)$     RewriteRule .* /test/%1/%2/%3? [R=301,L]      All of them are not working (URL remains the same they don't take effect)! What am I doing wrong?


Domain problem: viewing one site OFF another site?

I have this scenario:   * I have a domain, let's call it "mydomain.com".   * Mydomain.com runs various "sub-sites", e.g.: mydomain.com/shop/view/shop1, mydomain.com/shop/view/shop2, mydomain.com/shop/view/funkyShop etc I want to be able to link other URLs to these subsites. For example, if you one of the subsites has the URL "shop1.com", I want to link that to my site. So, basically, if someone goes to shop1.com, it must open mydomain.com/shop/view/shop1. I know this can be done with parked domains and some coding or even a .htaccess file, but my scenario is furhter complicated. There are cases where the user has a website on, e.g, shop1.com. They just want a subpath, e.g.: shop1.com/shop to point to mydomain.com/shop/view/shop1. So my questions are:   1. Is this possible without parking the domain on my account?   2. Is the solution in the .htaccess file?   3. How can I make sure that if they open shop1.com/shop that it doesnt just redirect, but actually SHOWS THE CONTENT from my site on their site?


New Facebook page not indexed, old one still is

We migrated our client's old Facebook page to a new Facebook page several months ago. When I search for "(Client's Name) Facebook" in Google, the old Facebook page appears, but not the new one. When I visit the old Facebook page indexed in Google I get redirected to the new page, with a message that says "duplicate page detected, "You were automatically redirected because (Client's Name) was merged to this page.". The problem is that we would like the new Facebook page to appear in Google and not the old one. Why won't it index in Google? Is there something that we need to do in Facebook or is this Google's wrong doing?


Sharing Google Analytics between a Drupal and a Wordpress installation

Given the needs of a client, he uses wordpress as a publishing platform; The news section of the website and drupal as the community/classifieds section of his website. Each cms is on its own folder/directory. domain.com/wp and domain.com/drup I'm wondering if there was an effective way of sharing the same Google Analytics account/ID. Any best practices ? Suggestions ? Thanks


How should I layout my page if I only have a toolbar, but Menu? (as it typically is)

I'm building a web application that revolves mostly around a grid, a treeview, and a toolbar. There is also an autocomplete section at the top of the site. Since I have never been trained in website design, and am mostly self taught, what would you recommend I do to make this look nicer? Do you know of any similar sites that I could imitate? The primary issue for me is what do I do with the toolbar & the content below it?   How should I style/treat the search box at the top?   Should I add a menu above the toolbar containing pretty much the same stuff the bar has?   What else do you recommend? http://www.tlsadmin.com/tlsadmin/portalhome.aspx ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/URU9t.png) ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/5pj35.png)


Removing an old Frontpage website from a domain and uploading a new (static) one

I've been asked to refresh a really old website (made I think around 2000 with Frontpage) with a new version. So, after developing it locally, I jumped on the client's FTP and saw an unfamiliar folder structure: it's the damned Frontpage! Here's a screenshot of the folder structure: ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wIgI7.png) And there's a bunch of html files, omitted to save space. I have no experience on Frontpage (luckily I guess), but my question is simple:   * Is it safe to delete everything in the root of the host and upload my new website?   * If anything goes wrong, will I be able to simple re-upload the old website and restore everything as it was before? I've read that uploading Frontpage websites via ftp is discouraged. The website is hosted on a Linux server and has no database, it's a plain simple web hosting


What solutions to prevent spam of web forms are less intrusive for users?

I know about captcha. However, often it is stated that captcha stops legitimate users due to the inconvenience. Are there other solution, that in particular look for pattern in the input similar to e-mail spamfilters, or for random sequences of letters? (In particular, a solution that works with drupal would be good).


Are there any studies regarding the psychology of viewing web pages?

This may seem a little... out there, but have any studies been conducted about the psychological or even physical aspects of viewing a web page? For example, psychologically, what makes a good or bad first impression? What the user is most likely to respond to and most likely to ignore? Physically, where do the user's eyes naturally gravitate to when first viewing a web page? Things like that which involve how a user thinks and behaves regarding the look & feel of a website. There exists another question, which answers some of these, but it focuses on loading times. My biggest concern is the look & feel -- how do the users view the page? What kinds of things are attractive and keep their attention? Do people really like glossy social media icons everywhere? What kinds of features will make a user likely to leave?


Should I have link rel=next & prev on URLs which have query variables?

For example, I have link `rel prev & next` set up on these pages of products:               site.com?page=2     site.com?page=3      (this is my preferred structure by the way and I'm trying to get all the ugly URLs which are littered with query variables deindexed as they are causing duplicate content). So the above URLs are fine but once a filter to narrow product results is selected, like "price", the URL shows like this:               site.com?price[1000-1499]=on     site.com?page=2&price[1000-1499]=on      As of right now, I am having the link `rel prev & next` dynamically added to the header of these pages but since I am working on getting these query variable URLs pages deindexed, I am wondering if I should get rid of it on these pages? Any thoughts?


Adding 'jump to' link to specific section in the page inside search result description

I've noticed Wikipedia has many direct links to specific sections in their pages in search results descriptions. For example when searching for 'stackoverflow history wikipedia' the first result that comes up is the stackoverflow page along with a direct link to that specific section in the page ('history') with a 'jump to' link. this search on google How can I do that?


Pointing a parked subdomain to a real subdomain

I have two registered domains. Say the domains are `originaldomain.com` and `parkeddomain.com`. `parkeddomain.com` points to `originaldomain.com`. I also have a few subdomains in `originaldomain.com`, and I want to be able to do this:   * `subdomain1.originaldomain.com` -> `subdomain1.originaldomain.com`   * `subdomain2.originaldomain.com` -> `subdomain2.originaldomain.com` And so on. Problem is, I can't figure out through cPanel, or WHM how to do this, if it is possible. I also went through **httpd.conf** , and changed _ServerAlias_ under the _VirtualHost_ of `subdomain1.originaldomain.com`. So what I have is:               <VirtualHost .....:80>     ServerName subdomain1.originaldomain.com     ServerAlias www.subdomain1.originaldomain.com subdomain1.parkeddomain.com subdomain1.parkeddomain.com     DocumentRoot /home/originaldomain/public_html/subdomain1     ...     </VirtualHost>      I then restarted `httpd`, using `service httpd restart`, but nothing seems to work. P.S.: I'm using CentOS 5.3.


Dictionary API for a website?

I would like to have a dictionary for my website where the user can easily fill in a word or better yet right click a word and get the definition right there on the page or something along those lines. Are there any Dictionary API's out there that I can incorporate to my site? I have looked and cannot find anything.


Can I access domain registration (whois) history?

I know how to find out who currently owns a domain ("whois domainname"). I'd very much like to get in touch with the previous (recent) owner of a single particular domain. Is that possible? Thanks.


What is a good method for creating a guide for standardized markup?

I need to create a guide or wiki that outlines different standardized techniques for marking up reusable elements in our software. When adding new features our developers are often able to reuse or mimic existing markup, and I'd like to make this as easy as possible for them. In order to do this now they have to dig through the interface to find something that's close enough. Are there any good examples online that show code samples for standardized markup? Is there a tool (wiki, etc.) that would make this somewhat easy to create?


Is there any browser add-on or extension or anything, by which we can see their current page views?

Is there any browser add-on or extension or anything, by which we can see their current page views of websites displayed in google search results? or give us the page views of websites opened in the browser.


Please recommend a good web designer/web developer web dictionary?

Please recommend a good web designer/web developer dictionary?


Cloudflare cache image downloads

Is there a way to have cloudflare cache image downloads, ( content type application/octet-stream, Content-Disposition attachment )? Images are hosted on AWS S3.


Enable gzip compression on Bluehost?

My website is loading large (~3mb) SVG file with jQuery. It takes quite a while therefore I decided to enable gzip compression. I have a hosting account with Bluehost which supports custom .htaccess files. Here is what I have tried to add to .htaccess file to enable compression without any success (I used Google's Page Speed for testing):               <IfModule mod_php5.c>         php_value output_buffering "1"         php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler     </IfModule>          <IfModule mod_deflate.c>         AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/xml text/plain text/css text/javascript application/x-javascript     </IfModule>          <IfModule mod_gzip.c>         mod_gzip_on Yes         mod_gzip_dechunk Yes         mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|xml|css|js|php|pl|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|swf)$         mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$         mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*         mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*         mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*         mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*     </IfModule>


if i change the cname of my site to point to tumblr will any .htaccess file i upload to the root be over ridden?

If i upload a .htaccess file to the root of my domain but then point the domains cname at tumblr will the contents of the .htaccess file be over ridden by tumblrs htacess file ?


Purchasing traffic effects on SEO

I've recently found some websites which provide a specific number of visits by paying. I'm curious if this is a (very) bad practice for search engines (like Google).


Website traffic - with no money (backlinks, spam, likes, tweets)

I read a lot of things around the web. I saw people selling 4K backlinks and social real users tweets, likes, sharing links on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.. Now,   * assuming you have opened a site which is on beta stage and users needs invitations to signup   * assuming you are not an administrator of any huge Facebook or social community (Facebook groups, meetup groups, forums, chats etc..),   * assuming you don't have much money to spend for a huge campaign on paying ads,   * assuming you want to stay out from venture capitalists, angels and so on (at least to check if you can do it without external/third parties help) so... Is "trusted" SPAM, or paying backlinks, the only way you can go for getting some traffic to your website? If not can you describe how can you promote your website on the web excluding all the points above?


Invalid categories

I created a sub-category using an ampersand in its name. I somehow managed to successfully place this category into another category and now I'm unable to remove it. To further complicate this matter, I created another sub-category that has the same prefix:               Category: Product       Category: Features & Design       Category: Features      Clicking on `Features & Design` simply takes me to `Features`. How do I remove the `Features & Design` from the `Product` category?


Adsense for content not working

I have adsense for content set up for my site running on my blog. It shows up below the post content on each single post (like this one): http://engineercreativity.com/blog/learning-xhtml-and-css-day-12-of-30/ However, instead of this showing up: Ads by Google Ad1 Ad2 Ad3 ... THIS SHOWS UP: Ads by Google View ads about: [textbox] [button] Does anyone please have any idea on how to fix this? Thanks! Amit


Why do some webmasters avoid putting direct links on their pages?

I've seen this more than often in many websites, that the webmaster avoids putting direct links on the page, instead they use a redirect such as following:               http://www.example.com/?url=http://sample.com        1. I just wonder what is the reason for doing so?    2. Is it for statistical purposes?   3. Or is it harmful for the page's SEO ranking?


Apache mod rewrite rules for swapping directories

I am trying to correct for an issue where some dynamic urls were generated where the downstream directory paths were swapped with what is normal and then the links were published. For example: `example.com/en/2014_01/en-directory-01/...` was created as `example.com/es/2014_01/es-directory-01/...` I have a whole slew of these where the `en/` directory is accidentally paired with a `es-directory-#/` directory. I have created a set of rewrite rules that I think cover them but don't seem to work. The format is:               RewriteRule ^en/(201[0-4]_[0-9]{2})/es-directory-01/(.*)?$ es/201$1/es-directory-01/$2 [R=301,NC]     RewriteRule ^en/(201[0-4]_[0-9]{2})/es-directory-02/(.*)?$ es/201$1/es-directory-02/$2 [R=301,NC]     ...     RewriteRule ^es/201([0-4]_[0-9]{2})/en-directory-01/(.*)?$ en/201$1/en-directory-01/$2 [R=301,NC]     RewriteRule ^es/201([0-4]_[0-9]{2})/en-directory-01/(.*)?$ en/201$1/en-directory-01/$2 [R=301,NC]     ... I don't need a rewrite condition for this, correct? Is there anything obviously wrong here?


Understanding Google Crawl Stats

I launched my website in Jan '11 and it is indexed in Google which is great - around 300 pages of content so far. I'm trying to understand what happened the Crawl Stats around the end of June and start of July. What has caused the massive climb? What does it mean going forward? Is there anything else I should be doing?    ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SP3XG.png)


Preventing Twitterbot to access website

I have a Twitter application so users of my application shares links of my webpage inside their tweets. It seems like bots follow these links and some of these bots create high bandwidth usage. And most of them doesn't provide me any hit. So I want to disallow them with robots.txt, or .htaccess file. When I check access.log I see following bots below.   My conecern is will it be a problem to ban `Twitterbot` ? Who owns this bot ? Twitter.com or other website? What would be the drawbacks to disallow it ?               No  Bot name    Daily hits     1   Twitterbot              1,499     2   MJ12bot                 1,490     3   Google AdSense Robot    774     4   ShowyouBot (http://showyou.com/crawler) 655     5   Googlebot               595     6   Bing Robot              204     7   Yandex Robot            186     8   Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; proximic; +http://www.proximic.com/info/spider.php)    148     9   Apple RSS Robot         126     10  Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GrapeshotCrawler/2.0; +http://www.grapeshot.co.uk/crawler.php) 76     11  FaceBook Crawler        62     12  Alexa Robot            48     13  QuerySeekerSpider ( http://queryseeker.com/bot.html )   37     14  Google Feedfetcher      28     15  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; MDDR; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Tablet PC 2.0); 360Spider  17     16  Ezooms Robot            14     17  AhrefsBot   10     18  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; ) Firefox/1.5.0.11; 360Spider   9     19  Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; EasouSpider; +http://www.easou.com/search/spider.html) 8     20  Baidu Spider    7     21  Yetibot 3     22  Exabot  2     23  FeedBot 2     24  Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SISTRIX Crawler; http://crawler.sistrix.net/)  2     25  SeznamBot   2     26  Yahoo! Slurp


Is it possible to get Google to treat a .it domain as a generic top-level domain?

We have the option of using a `.it` domain which is a ccTLD (country code top- level domain). We don't want it to be specific to Italy though, we want Google to treat it as a gTLD (generic top-level domain). It seems like in Google Webmaster Tools I can't change the geo targeting to switch it off from targeting Italy, but I was wondering if there is some other way we can get Google to realize that our `.it` domain is really a gTLD? Here's some details I found from Google regarding geo targeting domains. There's also this question where user w3d says (in reference to a `.nl` domain): > You can only specify the region yourself if you have a generic (non-country > specific) TLD such as .com or .org. > > However, this does not mean that your site won't appear on google.com or > even google.co.uk, providing your content is deemed relevant to those users. > Having a country specific TLD (or specifying a particular geographic target > for a generic TLD) makes your site more relevant in a localised search but > not necessarily any less relevant in a global search. The interesting part there for me is that a `.it` domain might not be any less relevant in a global search. Yet to make matters slightly more confusing (given w3d's empirically proven answer above), Matt Cutts says it's a bad idea generally in this video. Does this mean that our `.it` domain would appear in `Google.it` search results first over time, but then would appear on `Google.com` and `Google.co.uk` once we have enough relevance, and that this would be the same amount of relevance we'd need if we used a standard `.com` domain? Given that we're targeting worldwide traffic should we avoid using a `.it` domain, or will it not make any difference? What's the real story? I need evidence and sources too please.


How to create a paid membership site?

I'm looking for a free solution to create a paid membership website. I would like to base it on Joomla or Wordpress if possible, because I already found nice video player and gallery modules for them. I would be grateful for a little help to get started. What plugins, extentions should I use? What payment processing services would you recommend? Thanks.


SSL Integration issue

We have a godaddy VPS account and purchased an ssl certificate.We downloaded a .zip file that contains a .cert file. When we are trying to setup ssl, they are asking .key file with the .cert file, we dont have .key file . anybody know from where we got the .key file? Help is highly appreciated. Thanks, VKS


CDN help, who should I go with and any alternatives?

I have a image hosting site which has grown rapidly over the last 3months and I feel I need to look at a CDN. The dedicated server the site runs on is located in Holland (Europe) whilst image load times seen fine here I have reports that in the Americas and Asia loads times have become noticeable slower than usual. So what I want is a CDN network worldwide at least in Europe, Americas and Asia. Pricing must be inline with rackspace solution I have found below. Must have a PHP API. Must not only server files but also offer storage. The site currently needs 160GB of storage (this is growing by roughly 700mb per day) and at least 2600GB of bandwidth (prices below are based on American traffic) Options I'm looking at: http://www.rackspace.co.uk/cloud-hosting/cloud- products/cloud-files/ - Storage 11p and Bandwidth 12p per GB - PHP API - Worldwide storage included Can anyone recommend another company or another set-up?


Create a way for Googlebot to find the deep pages in my site when users would find these pages via site search

I have a website like Foursquare, where users search for business in a specific location. The users can click on markers inside the map to view details about the companies/stores, and these details are opened in a dedicated page to each business. I don't want users to go to these detail pages from an index page with a bunch of links for each business names, but I need to make this pages visible to Googlebot. How can I do this? Can I create an index page visible to Google only?


How do you format SEM URLS to properly track results using analytics engines like Google analytics?

If I were to purchase some advertising space on a website- what should I add to the end of the URL to track the results of that campaign in a tool like Google Analytics?   * Is capitalization important?   * What does each part of those URL additions mean?   * Once entered, how do I make use of them in Google analytics?   * Is the utm_* method a standard, or specific to Google analytics?


IE disables back-button

We have an ASP.Net (Web Forms) site hosted on IIS7. The site contains a table with information retrieved from a database. Paging is enabled for this table, meaning that only 10 rows are displayed at a time. (This is done with server-side code; as far as the browser is concerned, the table contains no more than 10 rows.) Once the DB reached over 1000 rows, the browser began disabling the back- button after the page loaded. Sometimes the back-button remained enabled until users navigated to _another_ website, and only then became disabled (instantly). After deleting some info in the DB, the problem stopped. But once the amount of records passed 1000, it started again. This only happens with Internet Explorer (no matter what version). This does not happen with Firefox or other browsers. Note: The back-button becomes disabled, but the history is all saved. **Why does this happen, and how can it be fixed?** The amount of records retrieved should only affect the server; the browser has no idea how many rows were retrieved. And yet, the "choice" to disable the back-button is client-side! Here's a link to the question on StackOverflow.


When should I use a CSS framework?

What are the best practice scenarios for using a CSS framework? When is it better to "roll your own" CSS from scratch rather than using frameworks?


Is there any way to use AdWords with CodeIgnitor (or similar)?

I am working with a website that uses CodeIgnitor, a content management system I hadn't heard of before. The problem: Incoming links from AdWords contain a long query string, and if you add a query string to the requested URL, CodeIgnitor thinks that that's part of the page it has to fetch, so it returns a "Page not found" for anyone who comes in from AdWords. Another problem: Google AdWords doesn't allow you to link to a page that redirects (locally or remotely), although someone can enlighten me if this isn't always true. So, if anyone has any idea for how to solve this, either by changing AdWords settings, CodeIgnitor settings, or other hacks, it would be appreciated...


Adsense - is it worth setting up?

How much traffic is necessary for adsense to make sense?


Donations - do they actually work?

I see lots of "Donate" buttons on websites which are not donations to charity as such, but of the form "Donate to this website in order to help keep the website running" or "If you like this website, please donate some money". For example, Tineye has > Has TinEye been useful to you? If so, please donate! I confess that I have never donated to any. I also don't feel like my website is a worthy enough cause to display a begging bowl. Does anybody actually make money off their "Donate" buttons? Specifically I mean those sites where it says "Please donate some money to the author if you like this website" rather than "Please donate to a worthy cause" (e.g. Red Cross, Unicef etc.) Hard data please!


What service or software should I use to serve advertising on a site with about 120k monthly page views?

I have a site that is generating about 120k monthly page views and is being hosted on a shared FreeBSD server where I have access to PHP and MySQL. I am using some custom PHP server-side scripts that give each of my ad networks (AdSense, Tribal Fusion, etc) an adjustable percentage of impressions in each of the ad positions on my pages. I am looking for a better way of managing and measuring the delivery of these ads, and would also like to be able to take direct placements and provide statistics to the clients. I am looking at options including OpenX self-hosted, OpenX community, and Google DoubleClick for Publishers Small Business (DFP), but am having difficulty determining which one will best meet my needs. They all seem to have pretty steep learning curves compared to my simple scripts. What I have taken away so far as the benefit of self-hosting is that I don't have to pay for the service if I exceed a maximum number of ad impressions, while both OpenX Community and DFP have free impression limits. Of course, if I was doing those kind of numbers I'd need to upgrade my hosting account, but I'm not sure even at that point whether it would be cheaper to serve the ads myself than pay for a premium service. Apart from this, I really need insights into what features differentiate these services, why I might want to choose one over another, and if there are any other competing products or service of the same quality that I should look into. Answers from webmasters who have used both (or all three) services and can talk to usability and ease of ad management would be highly appreciated.


Configuring A Subdomain (cPanel) - www works, subdomain on it's own doesn't

I've created a sub domain on my website using cPanel at test.mydomain.com, and this created a folder in my main 'www' directory called test. In this folder is a folder called cgi-bin, and it seems to redirect the page to say "It works!", but when I upload my own index.html file to the test directory it keeps showing http://test.mydomain.com/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi instead of the index file. If I go to www.test.mydomain.com then it works OK. How do I host my content at the sub domain? It's my first time setting one up so I'm a bit lost.


Google+ Local and Google+ Page

Ok, I'm a bit confused by all of this, I have 2 main questions.   1. The company I work for has a Google Places account, now Google+ Local as I understand. Where I'm getting confused is, what is the difference between a Google+ Local page and a Google+ page?   2. In search results, there are a few competitors showing in the rankings with map markers to the right (not in the right hand side of the page) and under the web site name - Google+ page. The company I work for does better than these in the search results, but doesn't have a map marker or a link below to a Google+ page. Can anyone give me an idea how to get ranked like these other web sites? I have only today created a Google+ account, and would like some advice before I go creating a page when there already exists a Google+ Local page. I read here that these 2 pages should be merged?


How to create a good sitemap for dynamic website

I have a website with dynamic content and different kind of pages. I have some pages that rarely change, and I have pages like blogs that change often. The blog pages also have links for sorting, for example sorting on date, asc, desc. On some of the pages I also have links to different tabbed content, and links that are just anchor links. Now when I use a xml sitemap generator then all the links are thrown into the site, and so I don't think all the links are really relevant. The blogposts up until now are also taken into the sitemap. Is this really necessary? I think the links to the blogposts can be indexed just fine. Is the best way to make a sitemap just to manually assign the main menu links to the sitemap, or is indexing everything really recommended?


Is the php method md5() secure? Can it be used for passwords?

So executing a php script causes the form values to be sent to the server, and then they are processed. If you want to store a password in your db than you want it to be a cryptographic hash(so your client side is secure, can you generate an md5 using php securely( without submitting the user:password pair in the clear), or is there an alternative standard method of doing this, without having the unecrypted pasword leaving the clients machine? Sorry if this is a stupid question I'm kind of new at this. I think this can be done somehow using https, and on that note if a site's login page does not use https, does that mean that while the databse storage is secure, the transportation is not?


Are github gists SEO friendly?

I am kind of fan of Github and it's Gists. Since the gists can be included via a small Javascript snippet and `document.write` commands, I was asking myself if they were SEO friendly.


Are press releases worthwhile?

I've heard a lot about using Press Releases for SEO? Is doing this worthwhile? What exactly do you do? Where do you go? Sorry, the idea of using press releases for SEO is new to me.


phpBB: Is there any mod for voting up Threads?

I'm looking for a mod that enables users to **vote up threads**. I.e. not replies within threads, but threads _themselves_. Ideally, I'd prefer to have **only up-voting** ; no 1–5 stars, up/down-votes, multiple-choices, etc. just up-voting (something that's akin to Google's +1 button). Is there anything like this out there? I've tried searching for this but couldn't find what I was looking for.


Website from JPG templates from OCR of the images

Somebody has given me some jpg's, and expect me to create a website from them. With an online tool, I am able to OCR them. Is it some tool that will let me create a proper site from the jpg's? Would it be OK to put the jpg's and the OCRed text in tags?


OpenType font embedding permissions: what exactly do these mean?

In our web site, we are using `@font-face` to embed fonts (we're using Font Squirrel). Currently, we are using only free fonts, but I'd like for us to purchase some high-quality OpenType fonts. One option is an Adobe "Value Pack". According to Adobe, they allow embedding in all electronic documents. What we have some confusion about is which permission settings are required to allow the use of `@font-face`. Here are the permissions mentioned by Adobe's site: > No Embedding: This permission signals that the font or any portion of the > font may not be embedded in any electronic document. While there are no > Adobe Type Showroom fonts with this permission, some third-party font > foundries may set their fonts to “no embedding” or prohibit embedding > through their end user license agreement. Obviously, couldn't use these fonts at all. > Preview & Print: A font with an embedding permission of Preview & Print > allows the font, either fully or as a subset, to be embedded in an > electronic document solely for the purpose of viewing that document on > screen and/or printing that document. While a font with a Preview & Print > embedding permission (either through data in the font file or the font’s > license agreement) may be embedded in an electronic document, the embedded > font may not be used to further edit the document it is contained in or to > edit or create other documents. Most fonts in the Adobe Type Showroom are > set for Preview & Print embedding. Would a static web page fall under this category? > Editable: Fonts with an editable embedding permission can be embedded in > electronic documents, and the embedded font can then be used by the > recipient of the electronic document to view, print and further edit or > modify the text and structure of the document in which it is embedded. These > changes or edits can then be saved in the original document. Several fonts > in the Adobe Type Showroom, including all Adobe Originals typefaces, other > Adobe-owned typefaces and certain third-party font foundry typefaces, allow > for editable embedding. Would a web page that can include user-generated content fall under this category? > Installable: Fonts with an installable embedding permission may be embedded > in electronic documents for viewing, printing and editing, with the added > capability that they may be also be permanently installed on the computer > that receives the electronic document containing the embedded font. This > allows the font to be used to create and author new documents. It is > intended that the recipient of a font set to installable embedding obtains > all of the same rights as the person who originally licensed the font. Would the fact that a browser uses a cache make it so that all `@font-face` fonts require the "Installable" permission? Can anybody here clear up our confusion about license terms and embedding fonts on web pages?


Is it possible to get the zip codes of visitors with Google Analytics?

I'm currently using Google Analytics. I'm trying to find out if it's possible to get the zip codes of those visiting my website. The Cities seem to be too broad. For example, Los Angeles is huge and has several zip codes. Is it possible to narrow the users location to a zip code? Many thanks. Erik


How could this site have been infected?

I run a small website on some Joomla 1.5 version. It appears that today it was hacked: The `index.php` and `index2.php` files were overwritten, the administrator account had its password changed, and the `images` folder contained a probably malicious executable file. I was able to restore the `index` pages with a backup and reset the admin user with another privileged user account. As I'm not that much of an expert in these things, my question is: _How could this site have been infected?_ Like in: How was it possible to actually delete and replace certain files and store an executable in a folder. How could someone change the admin password, but leave the rest untouched? (I am very aware of the importance of installing core version updates - I am more interested in how such an attack could have been executed.) Thank you for any insightful answer.


Add a content widget inside a blogger post!

I am wondering if it is possible to add a blogger widget (say recent posts widget) within a blog post in blogger. Any pointers on doing this?


Foreign logos on my site - disclaimer

on my app website are the logos of Twitter, Blogger, Facebook, Windows and others to describe the functionality of the application. Do I need a disclaimer that the logos are not mine or something like that? Thanks Frank


Does google do additional crawling pretending not to be a bot?

I have a pair of websites, a "personal" and "professional" which I recently put online. As I'm not generating content, traffic or doing any promoting yet I've got a really good idea of who's visiting (less than 10 hits a day :| ) In reviewing my logs I found a visit to each site from a google IP (74.125.0.0) apparently using chrome on osx. The two IPs were very close together, but not the same and the requests were 12 minutes apart. Both hits were without a referrer and only viewed the index. I have added the sites to google webmaster tools, which I assume is the source of this. Is their bot pretending not to be a bot to see if there's alternate content? I suppose this could just be a curious employee, but I would have expected less time between visits and the same IP. Any idea what this might have been if not a bot? I still don't want traffic so I'm posting A/C


How do you exclude yourself from Google Analytics on your website using cookies?

I'm trying to set up an exclusion filter with a browser cookie, so that my own visits to my don't show up in my Google Analytics. I tried 3 different methods and none of them have worked so far. I would like help understanding what I am doing wrong and how I can fix this. **Method 1**   First, I tried following Google's instructions, http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55481, for excluding traffic by Cookie Content: > Create a new page on your domain, containing the following code: >   >   >     <body onLoad="javascript:pageTracker._setVar('test_value');"> >   **Method 2**   Next, when that didn't work, I googled around and found this Google thread, http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Analytics/thread?tid=4741f1499823fcd5&hl=en, where the most popular answer says to use a slightly different code: > SHS Analytics wrote: >   >   >      <body onLoad="javascript:_gaq.push(['_setVar','test_value']);"> >   > > Thank you! This has now set a __utmv cookie containing "test_value", whereas > the original: >   >   >      pageTracker._setVar('test_value') >   > > (which Google is still recommending) did not manage to do that for me (in > Mac Safari 5 and Firefox 3.6.8). So I tried this code, but it didn't work for me. **Method 3**   Finally, I searched StackOverflow and came across this thread, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3495270/exclude-my-traffic-from-google- analytics-using-cookie-with-subdomain, which suggests that the following code might work:                <script type="text/javascript">         var _gaq = _gaq || [];         _gaq.push(['_setVar', 'exclude_me']);         _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxxx-x']);         _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);      // etc...      </script>      This script appeared in the head element in the example, instead of in the onload event of the body like in the previous 2 examples. So I tried this too, but still had no luck with trying to exclude myself from Google Analytics. **Re-iterate question**   So, I tried all 3 methods above with no success. Am I doing something wrong? How can I exclude myself from my Google Analytics using an exclusion cookie for my browser? **Update** I've been testing this for several days now, and I've confirmed that the 2nd method of excluding yourself from tracking does indeed work. The problem was that the filter settings weren't properly applied to my profile, which has been corrected. See the accepted answer below.


Google Analytics - need to let users know they're being anonymously tracked?

I'm using google analytics in an android application via their sdk. Do I need to show end users any terms of service since analytics are being used, ie. notify them that their usage is being anonymously collected? Or, since it's all anonymous, I don't really have to show them anything? I'm just collected stuff like what screens are being viewed, nothing personal, Thanks


Strange entry in access log containing /RS=

I have recently launched a client’s site and for the last few days and with increasing frequency I am seeing strange entries into the access log.               [28/Feb/2014:06:26:53 +0800] "GET //RS=^ADAA6U_G38x_VuWqDIVQJpBbDUsUW0- HTTP/1.1" 302 630 "http://www.domain.com.au/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 Safari/537.36"]      and               [28/Feb/2014:06:26:54 +0800] "GET /RS=%5eADAA6U_G38x_VuWqDIVQJpBbDUsUW0- HTTP/1.1" 404 8291 "http://www.domain.com.au/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 Safari/537.36"      The `domain.com.au` part is the actual address of the website. I have changed it for this post. I cannot figure out what this is trying to archieve as it’s simply setting another get variable, which would not archieve anything, unless I am wrong.   1. Do you think we should be concerned with these requests?   2. What are these requests trying to archieve?   3. Anything we can do to stop them?


Which font is this? (image attached inside)

Someone please help me in finding the name of the following font: Note: Only letters, ABHM are displayed. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ibslu.png)


WHOIS domain name expiry date long over due

I just looked up this domain I was interested in obtaining but when I got the WHOIS info it showed this: > Created On:31-Dec-2004 18:18:31 UTC   >  Last Updated On:31-Dec-2004 18:18:36 UTC   >  Expiration Date:31-Dec-2009 18:18:31 UTC   >  Sponsoring Registrar:National Informatics Centre (R12-AFIN)   >  Status:INACTIVE   >  Status:DELETE PROHIBITED   >  Status:RENEW PROHIBITED   >  Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED   >  Status:UPDATE PROHIBITED Now I don't have much of an understanding of how this works, but I am a bit confused. To me it looks like it expired a while ago, unless I am completely missing something here.


"only secured content is displayed"

I have a question, I just had a SSL certificate installed on my drupal site using shared hosting... and on the front page now it says "only secured content is displayed" in IE. How do I find which content is NOT secure on this page?


.htaccess mod_rewrite domain to subdomain

I need to redirect any domain to a sub-domain. I know this has got to be possible but for the life of me i can not figure it out. Any help is appreciated. For example: `domain1.com`   `domain2.com` `subdomain1.domain1.com` `subdomain2.domain2.com` all go to `subdomain3.domain.com` but i need code that does not require me to enter each domain i want redirected. So for any feature domains that i link or create will go to subdomain3.domain.com btw this will only happen when viewing `anydomain.com/path` <-- the path is a sym link


How do you evaluate SEO/SEM companies? What are common services/prices?

Looking for a checklist, or comparison site.


Removing a Website Name in Another Website From Google Index

I have a website named `indonesiasumateratravel.com`, and when I search on Google something like 'indonesiasumateratravel' or something else, my website's name appears telling me it has been hacked. It looks like this: ![Google search results showing highlighted issue](http://i.stack.imgur.com/svMau.png) How can I remove that result, it's really annoying me and customer of course. * * * @All: Thank you for the quick responses..! It turns out that the only solution is to report it directly to google, because I realized that the keyword "indonesiasuamteratravel" is under full control of the rogue website. And now that I've reported it to google, and everything is okay. hehehehe... :-)


Restrict SSL access for some paths on a apache2 server

I wanted to allow access to www.mydomain.com/ **login** through ssl only. E.g.: Whenever someone accessed **http** ://www.mydomain.com/ **login** , I wanted him to be redirect to **https** ://www.mydomain.com/ **login** so it's impossible for him/her to access that site without SSL. **I accomplished this** by adding the following lines to the virtual host for www.mydomain.com on port 80 in `/etc/apache2/sites-available/default`:               RewriteEngine   on     RewriteCond     %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$     RewriteRule     ^/login(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/login$1 [L,R]     RewriteLog      "/var/log/apache2/rewrite.log"      Now, I want to **restrict using SSL** for www.mydomain.com. That means, whenever someone accessed **https** ://www.mydomain.com, I want him to be redirected to **http** ://www.mydomain.com (for performance reasons). I tried this by adding the following lines to the virtual host of www.mydomain.com on port 443 in `/etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl`:               RewriteEngine   on     RewriteCond     %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$     RewriteRule     ^/(.*)$ http://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [L,R]     RewriteLog      "/var/log/apache2/rewrite.log"      But when I now try to access www.mydomain.com/ **login** , I get an error message that the server has caused **to many redirects**. That does make sense. Obviously, the two RewriteRules are playing ping-pong against each other. How could I work around this?


What would be the most efficient use of e-mail addresses for ecommerce

I am not sure if this is exactly the right section. What do you find the most efficient, clear and reachable use of e-mail addresses to use for the customer? I thought a standard 'sales, 'support' might work but it might look a little samey. Do users respond well when e-mails are replied by staff with named e-mail addresses such as susan@domain.com or a generic one? I am currently developing a small scale ecommerce website to gain some hands on insight into web retail. Any additional advice would be brilliant.


Duplicate domains - How to rank for all of them?

So I have a PDM and 2 EDM that redirect to the first. Neither of these EDMs rank at all, but the primary one does just fine. Right now, I'm re-directing in the `.htaccess` of both EDMs to the primary, but I'd like to rank for all 3 (just with different searches). Essentially, my company offers 3 main services that work together to form a whole. I do quite well in all 3 areas, but I really want to rank for _keywordsA_ and _keywordsB_ , as I only currently rank for _keywordsC_. I really don't want to put a _lot_ of work into the 2 other domains, but enough that it will work. # What approach should I use? 1- Create 3 entirely unique websites and try to maintain them all (ugh). 2- Create 2 awesome "landing sites", keyword rich and straight to the point. 3- Just try to promote the _heck_ out of the primary and leave the other 2 in the dust (but of of competitors reach, of course).


What will be the impact on SEO if we remove our SSL certificate (url become http instead of https)?

For some weird reason the content accessed though our domains is returned via SSL HTTPS on all domains pointing to the server. `https://domain.com` leads to our website, with a proper SSL certificate (so, no warning). `https://domain2.com`, is also hosted on our server but without a SSL certificate This leads to a warning message and if accepted continues to the content of this domain. The problem is that any search for our keywords in Google shows "fake websites" on top of ours and with the warning et al. It seems unsolvable so we are thinking about turning SSL off. I'm just afraid of losing whatever indexing we have. How can I avoid that?


User/Passwords - Changing it when original not known

One of my clients found a very old facebook page for their organization (6/2009), and the person who maintained it is no longer around. How would she get it deleted or find out user/password to get it updated? Any suggestion greatly appreciated.


Including specific characters with Google Web Fonts

I'm using the Open Sans web font from Google Web Fonts on my website. I only need the basic latin subset, but I do use the Psi (Ψ) character quite often as well and I would like to use the Open Sans version of that character, without having to include the entire greek subset. I looked at this help page which shows how to embed specific characters only using the `text` parameter, but there's no mention of _including_ specific characters. I tried doing the following to try to combine both font requests into one, but it didn't end up working.               <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,400italic,700&subset=latin' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>     <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,400italic,700&text=%CE%A8' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>      Is there anyway to accomplish this?


When I get a cloud instance I am getting the same thing as a dedicated server?

When I get a cloud instance I am getting the same thing as a dedicated server right? Just with a cool name? Can it run custom Linux kernels? If it can, I see no difference between cloud hosting and a dedicated server! Is it like a VPS where the kernel cannot be modified / customized? Is it like dedicated servers where I can modify anything? **Why doesn't everyone choose the cloud since the cost is less**. What's the gimick? Specifically when I say cloud I am talking about this: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/


Tracking website hits from 3rd party mobile app

Our business has ads on the local news channels website and mobile app. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to track if a visitor came to your website from a 3rd party app?


Which feed does Magento's attribute "In Feed" refer to?

I have been researching Magento's RSS feeds and there is an attribute for new products called 'In Feed'. My understanding was that this determined whether or not the product was added to the RSS Feeds, however having enabled magento's RSS, the "In Feed" attribute seems to have no bearing over whether a product is included or not. Also the only information I can find on the "In Feed" attribute says > "Options available are Yes/No. Specifies whether you would like to include > this product in your website store RSS feed." ... which I also find confusing because it mentions Feed singular however Magento provides several feeds. Can anyone shed any light on the "In Feed" attribute for me, specifically what feed it adds products to.


What is the difference between Privacy Protection and Privacy and Business Protection in goDaddy

I am planning to buy a domain from goDaddy. I do not need any hosting/builder/email (I am planning to host on amazon ec2), all I need is just to own a domain. But when I selected the domain of my choice, I see the following options: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UgLPP.png) which actually looks the same to me. So what are the differences between these two options? I have also seen not so nice reviews about godaddy, but based on my understanding, they are more about hosting, than domain registration. Am I correct?


Do I need multiple accounts in Facebook for each of my product site?

I've a dozen sites which include for-profit ones as well as for charity. For each site I've created a Facebook company/charity account. After creating those accounts it dawned on me that I could as well have created a new page for each of my site from my personal account only even if a site has multiple product pages. What'll be the right strategy? Also as per Facebook terms we can have only single personal account. I do have single personal account only but for each site I've created only company pages. I hope I'm not violating the facebook terms.


Is using Progressive enhancement, overriding links with .js considered cloaking and can it be see by search engines?

I'm using `.load` to load content from a page /about.html, so that search engines can see what is going on. I've made the links that trigger the `.load` `<a>` tags to the page /about.html but for usability I have overridden these using `e.preventDefault;` as part of the `.load` script. Is this considered bad / dangerous / black hat, and seeing as Google bot can't see JS will it see this? _bit of a side question but can Google bot see the JS code and analyse what it does? Or does it completely disregard it, its function and its results?_


Remove subdomains from Google index and stop indexing them

I am running static content through a CDN, cdn1-cdn5 I am using such subdomains for that. I am loading just images, CSS and JS files this way, but apparently Google has indexed some pages on subdomains and they now appear in the Google index and they are duplicates of my "normal" pages. **The thing is that CDN is set the way to have files appear on subdomains without any extra uploading of stuff, meaning subdomains are mirror copies of content that is on main site, I can't upload files to subdomains, I can upload to main site and change www to cdn1 in address bar to show the same content through the CDN as is on my site.** I have 2 questions:   1. how do I remove the subdomains from Google index in GWT if it only allows to write anything that goes after `http://domain.com/ ?   2. **how do I prevent from bots indexing the pages on subdomains when I can't upload special robots.txt files or upload a google's verification files to them to prove my ownership in GWT?** Maybe there is something else that I need to know related to this matter? UPDATE: text in bold is updated


Automated outgoing money transfer for payouts?

At the end of a month I'll need to automatically transfer money from an account to a huge number of other accounts. This has to happen automatically through an API because the amounts for the transactions are all different and come from a database. I need to find a solution or provider for this. Any suggestions? I'm from Germany so a German or at least European provider would be great.


How to let Google know about dynamic content?

I'm looking for the best practice to let Google know about a vast number of dynamically created content. Let's say (I mean - dream) that I'm Facebook, and I want to let Google to index all the users' posts.   1. **Sitemap.xml** may be the answer for this but they are limited to 50,000 URLs in each site map. I know that I can create 500 sitemaps and create a sitemap for sitemaps, but they are also limited, 25,000,000 URLS sounds quite enough at the moment, but could cause problems in the future. I.E - Stack Overflow already has 3 Million posts, probably sitemap is not the solution for them.   2. **Creating a page** with paging, and links to all the dynamic data. i guess this is what Stack Overflow did by creating this page here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions So I think that Option 2 is the answer, but it seems to me that sitemaps might have some added value. So what should I do?


Any advantage to the script version of Google Adwords' conversion tracking code?

Google Adword has an HTML snippet to track conversions:

           It is composed of two parts:   1. For clients supporting javascript, an inline script that sets variables, plus loading a reporting script.   2. For other clients, an image tag. As far as I can see, the image tag has some advantages:   1. It works on all browsers.   2. It is asynchronous.   3. It's shorter to have only this version, compared to both this and the js version. Any reason not to drop the `<noscript>` tag and just use the image conversion snippet directly?


Rewrite one URL to another, and then block the first one using Apache mod_rewrite

### Description: I've changed with RewriteRules (no redirect) a typical PHP-like URL:               domain.com/script.php?parameter=value      to more friendly one:               domain.com/script/value      But I still can reach the same output using both the first and second URLs. ### Problem to solve: For security purposes and just because "I don't need one of them", I tried to block the first URL with a `403` response code using an `[F] flag` matching rule. The problem is that it also blocks the second URL. ### Question: Is there any possible way to accomplish this without blocking the second URL? Is my thinking correct - should I ban the first URL?


domain name legal takeover

I was wondering; if I buy a domain name, say www.bananapeel.com. Then after a couple of years my site becomes big with plenty of revenue. Because of this someone decides to trademark the name "bananpeel". Does that then give them the right to legally take over my domain?


Buying a domain name after its expire date

I want to register a new domain name but it is already taken. When I visit that domain name it shows some ads by a hosting company. They're not using that domain name for any purpose. whois domain info shows it is owned by a hosting company and it is expiring a few months from now. Can I buy that domain if I hurried soon after or on its expiration date? Will it be available on domain checkers at web hosting pages?


User Accounts on a website

A website that I'm making on my mac has been giving me issues. I'm trying to create user accounts for the site using php but chrome/firefox keeps downloading it instead. So I use my iPad and it keeps trying to also download the php script. So I'm starting over. How can I: Prevent Chrome/firefox from downloading my php scripts Is there a basic tutorial for making user accounts on a website? My Setup: Macbook Pro running 10.6.8 Mamp Google Chrome


Does a click through from a google search get counted in analytics if the page dosnt load due to the server being down?

I was wandering does google count a click though and credit it to your analytics account if a user finds you in search, clicks through but the server is busy / slow for what ever reason, So the user leaves before the page is loaded, dose google still credit your analytics count witha click through ? I know that the tracking code dosnt load beacuse when you go the view source there is nothing there.. but dose google still credit your analytics account ?


Should I pass link juice to my pages on other websites that are already high PR domains?

I am starting a new website for a local business and have entries listed for it on places like urbanspoon, yelp, google+ local, etc. I am thinking of listing these citation sites on my business website to encourage visitors of my site to go and review the business on those sites. If I dofollow I will pass link juice to my page on that site, but doesn't that mean that the very very little PR juice I have will be leached away from me? Is it better to nofollow them?


Why are most of the RSS feed icon orange?

In websites, most of the RSS feed icons are **orange/red**. For instance in Pro Webmasters also the RSS feed menu is orange i.e., in tag subscription. What's the reason for using like that? **Is there any procedure following along by the web developers to _choose the color of the RSS feed menu_?**