How do I use my own domain for my own openID login without having to make a myopenid domain account?

I have my own domain signed-up under myOpenID as follows:               openid.mysite.com      Everything is verified and seems to be working properly on the myOpenID site. However, now I want to setup my website so I only have to enter the domain name as my openID login. I have read http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/using-your-own-url-as-your- openid/ and understand the basic concept using header link tags. However, instead of...               <link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server">     <link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://username.myopenid.com/">      I want to use my own site for the openid.delegate as follows...               <link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server" />     <link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://openid.example.com/username" />      And this works on my site with no problems! However, I only plan to have one user authenticated through my site, me. I do not plan on having any other users, so I would simply like to have...               <link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server" />     <link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://openid.example.com" />      ...note the lack of username in the openid.delegate href. I want to do this not only for a shorter link href, but also so I don't have to make a domain account on myopenid.com, adding yet another login, etc. Does that make sense? Is this possible? Thanks in advance!


.htaccess rewrite www to non-www and remove .html

I need rewrite rules to redirect the following: `http://www.` to `http://` `/file.html` to `/file` I've tried using a combination of these but each time it results in a redirect loop on one of the situations               RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1 [NC]          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.co.uk [NC, L]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.co.uk/$1 [R=301]      I figure it's probably something to do with the flags but I don't know how to fix it. Just to be clear it needs to do all these situations:               http://www.domain.co.uk to http://domain.co.uk     http://www.domain.co.uk/file.html to http://domain.co.uk/file     http://domain.co.uk to http://domain.co.uk     http://domain.co.uk/file.html to http://domain.co.uk/file      Thanks!


Duplicate content error results instead of a 404 page

My current URL is: `www.example.com/category/we-developer/` However, if any user mistakenly adds extra characters after the `/`, for example, `www.example.com/category/we-developer/fgggfgg`, it should take him to a `404` page. But instead, the user is again viewing the previous page (`www.example.com/category/we-developer/`) This is why Google is showing it as a duplicate page. What I wish is that instead of opening the same page, the user would be taken to a '404` page. Can you advise on how to do this? Note that my site is using CodeIgniter.


SEO and multiple product webpages

So here is a crazy example that represents a problem I have: I have a company that makes different applications for a specific type of business. I currently have awesomesoftware.com/coolwidget for each of the apps (actually, there is only 1 for now, but there will soon be more). Awesomesoftware.com and coolwidget is made for the wheeliechair industry, so people searching for wheeliechairs will not search for "awesomesoftware" or "coolwidget". They will search for "wheeliechairs" though, so I also own wheeliechairs.net in hopes that it gives me an edge with google. I also host my client's instances of coolwidget at clientname.wheeliechairs.net. Finally, I have a blog that is not about awesomesoftware, or coolwidget, or even wheeliechairs... but its a blog that is relevant to people who own wheeliechairs businesses that need coolwidget, so the blog is intended to bring leads and links to awesomesoftware so they can sell them coolwidget. So how should I organize this to get the most SEO? Currently wheeliechair.net has a 301 redirect to awesomesoftware.com/coolwidget, and the blog is hosted at blog.wheeliechair.net with links to awesomesoftware.com/coolwidget. How would you do it?


Google Analytics - how to track clicks on a screen?

Can I track the click of every link, button, dropdown select, etc. on a screen and have it be tracked in Google Analytics? I want to create a page and collect data on which widget the users use most. What about AJAX stuff? What if you're using jQuery or Mootools...can you get the functions to register a fake URL with GA based on user interaction? I use to do this with Flash. Everytime you click a button, it can initiate a fake URL request. I would make urls such as ".../customize/eyes/" or ".../customize/nose", etc. Just wondering if I can do that with Javascript on the page. I've also posted at StackOverflow.


Keyword research: 'docx converter' in Google

Why did not **docxconverter.com** show up when I type **docx converter** in **google**? The closest match is **www.docx-converter.com**. My question 1: What are the reasons for **www.docxconverter.com** not showing up? My question 2: Which among the domain **www.docxconverter.com** and **www.docx-converter.com** is friendly with keyword phrase docx converter, and why?


Todo with user input

I'm searching for a todo-list application like this one http://diggan.se/todo/ but with a function so the users could add todo's that would look like requests. Me (the webmaster) can later choose which request I should start working on or trash another request. The application should be for small projects. Thanks ahead, Victor!


What are the reasons not to use a .us domain name?

I have a client considering using a .us domain name. Are there any particular reasons, other than familiarity, not to use a .us name? In this case, the site visitors will likely be mostly non-us based - is it possible that this could mitigate any familiarity issues (with more international users being used to seeing non-.com domains)? Are there any SEO reasons not to use a .us name?


wp e-commerce plugin payment gateway module

I've installed the klarna payment gateway plugin > Unpacking the package… > > Installing the plugin… > > Plugin installed successfully. and when I click "Activate plugin" appears this message "The plugin does not have a valid header." Thanks!


What Captcha Services are available for free?

I'm looking for a free captcha service for a html/css/php site. reCAPTCHA seems to be very famous. Is it effective? Are there maybe other good captcha services which are available for free?


Would this be considered duplicate content for a multi-language site, and is it necessary to redirect by language?

Our company now has 2 domains linked to one FTP: `site.lt` and `site.eu`   * In the `.lt` site, we show the content in the local language   * In the `.eu` site, we show foreign languages like `site.eu/lv`. 1). My first question is if pages like: `http://site.lt/oliver-weber-auskarai-symbol-9919` `http://site.eu/lv/oliver-weber-auskarai-symbol-9919` will be considered duplicates by Google if they have:   * Same title   * Same description   * Different language body   * Same body description Currently in the `<head>` section we use alternate tags:               <link rel="alternate" hreflang="lt-LT" href="http://site.lt/oliver-weber-auskarai-symbol-9919" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="lv-LV" href="http://site.eu/lv/oliver-weber-auskarai-symbol-9919" />      and canonical links to default local language pages to avoid duplicate penalties:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://site.lt/oliver-weber-auskarai-symbol-9919"/>      But I think that canonical links will not let us get indexed with other languages with `site.eu`. Should we not use canonical links? 2). The second question is: Is it necessary to redirect users/bots to languages by IP or HTTP language header? Can Google add a penalty for this? Or maybe this will be better? I had read a lot of information and suggestions about these questions, but all them seem to be different.


Will I receive a payment data transfer from PayPal each time a payment is processed for a subscription?

I have searched PayPal, Google, and Bing for details regarding Payment Data Transfer (PDT) and subscriptions, without result. My question is, For each recurrence of a subscription payment will I receive a PDT request? I understand that the first PDT is requested/initiated by the payer's browser. For subsequent payments though, will PayPal initiate a PDT request, or will I have to create an Instant Payment Notification (IPN) endpoint?


Upgrading Apache 2.2 to Apache 2.4

I'm planning to upgrade **Apache 2.2** running on my centOS 6.5 server to **Apache 2.4** , Does the new Apache version worth the update?


<title>word/word | etc..</title> or <title>word-word | etc.</title> re: SEO

With regards to SEO and the title tag would there be a difference between using a / for related words or using a - ? For example:                   Air/Gas Filter | Another Filter | Last Filter      or                   Air-Gas Filter | Another Filter | Last Filter      I've never been sure if it makes a difference. Thanks in advance for the input.


2 x domains for same site in Google make canonical or not?

A client has a site since 1999 with a domain consisting of two, very descriptive of the business, words (let's say dog-toys.ie). In about 2001 he decided to change to dogtoys.ie (was running radio ads and figured the dash may add confusion to the site name). So without thinking too much about it, I just parked dogtoys.ie onto dog-toys.ie. Also, for both domains, we have not made www canonical so www.dogtoys.ie/example.html or dog-toys.ie/example.html are the same page. We have read many times that Google etc do not like this, however the site has performed fairly well SEO wise for the last 10 year and the client and I are torn between leaving things as is, and fixing it to make www.dogtoys.ie canonical via mod rewrite (or would the dashed version offer better performance?) Thanks in advance!


pick closest IP or DNS send send fastest route

**Background** I have a router (Linux node) connected with multiple ISPs. For e.g. ISP1 90.90.90.90 ISP2 80.80.80.80 ISP3 70.70.70.70 At present DNS A records reports all 3 IPs. DNS is used to balance network load and for fail-over. References - Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one? and http://blog.engelke.com/tag/browser-retry/ These 3 ISPs are the 3 major ISP located in my country. **Question** Users should pick their own ISP network to reach to my server OR users should pick fastest path OR my DNS should send 3 IP's sorted (by fastest route) to user. There could be more ways but I guess you now understand what is required. Even if sensing best route by DNS takes some time and it makes DNS reply slow it is OK. I can compensate this by setting high TTL. NOTE: I cannot use GEO data, this is because all these 3 ISPs are in almost every state of my country. **Update 1** : Need to put question clearly. What application/software services can be used to calculate route with least response time so that DNS response can be sorted by response time with respect to every user?


How to make CloudFlare Cache all pages

CloudFlare seems to only cache my homepage, and I am wondering if there is a way to force it to cache all pages. Notice it when BlueHost went down today and only my homepage is cached by CloudFlare. Any thoughts? This is the free account on a Wordpress site. However, pages have not been updated since launch.


Removing file extensions off the url

I am looking for a way to remove the extensions off the end of the Url. So say for example www.example.com/about.html. This would change to www.example.com/about I've looked around and searched for other question similar to the one i'm asking, and i have tried them and they don't work for me :C. This one in particular, looked as though it would work, and seemed quite successful among other people: How to Remove Extensions From, and Force the Trailing Slash at the End of URLs? This is my current .htaccess file:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.reallygoodpie.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://reallygoodpie.com/$1 [R=301,L]


Hosting inhouse or in a Data center

I have test application, which popularity would drive the business - its a portal to be used by 100's of people. I am at a very start up of it and confused whether to host it on my inhouse server or pay a certain amount and host it online. My application is SEO sensitive. My question is whether it will affect SEO in anyway if   1. I host the application initially on my servers inhouse with lesser bandwidth and a bit dis-connectivity?    2. migrate to professional servers as the business grows?


Are there cases where max width of the design can be 960px for 960.gs grid?

I know the standard width of content should be 940px if you want to use all its columns properly. But are there cases where I should use 960px for content? I am just having a dispute with my colleague about what's preferred size - 940px or 960px. As I understand it should be 940px, as it is being used on most sites that use this grid system. So, what's the right width?


Music on a web page?

When is it suitable to use background music on a web site? Do users like this?


Elements of web design

What are some core elements of great web design? Things like speed, layout, etc... Can we determine a something from the community for what we have all tried and works?


A JavaScript Rich Editor That Doesn't Convert Non-ASCII Text to Character Entities?

I am working on a site for Spanish speakers, and I am looking for a UTF-8 enabled JavaScript Rich Text Editor that preserves non-ascii characters as text, instead of entity encoding. That is, when I type the words "cañón" and "pingüino", I want the RTE to preserve the non-ascii characters as they are, not to encode them into "cañón" and "pingüino". So far I have checked out CKEdit, MCEdit and Nicedit, and the three of them convert my text to entities.


Do you still get a bounce in Google Analytics if all the linked pages/content is loaded dynamically?

Google Analytics describes a bounce as a user that visits and leaves before after their first page. But if your site is a one page site, with content loaded dynamically using JavaScript, you could have a user on your site go through loads of info, text images; would that still count as a bounce? Or once they click on an **a-tag** even if it is `<a href="#">` can Google Analytics see that? I'm aware of click tracking in Analytics, but I was wondering does Google pick up these clicks by default?


Google Adsense Account Disapproved: Insufficient content, but want to ad adsense to another website

I had earlier applied for an adsense account for a domain, but it was disapproved because there was not sufficient content on it. However, now I don't want to adsense on that domain. Instead I have another domain on which I want to use adsense. But when I login into the adsense, it asks me to just resubmit the old request, and not allow to change the site url. Is there any way I request the old request and request for a new site account?


How can I use Google Analytics to track clicks on images and text?

Before setting my website up, I want to be able to setup Google Analytics correctly to track my requirements. I am looking to be able to track clicks on images and text links that contain the same destination URL, and if there is also a way to integrate or categorize them as free and paid. The reason I want to to do this is to be able to see which does better: the image vs text. I know there are options with Google Tag Manger and enhanced link attribution, but I'm not certain which to use, or does one do both...or if there's another way.


Posting small parts of books as content on my new site, legal/illegal?

I want to set up a new website where I'm planing to post content from different mystics/spiritual authors(most of them dead). The content is from various sources but most of them from books that I bought from amazon. The important thing is that I'll be posting only particular parts of books (grabbing parts ranging 1-5 pages) per topic. _I wouldn't like to post a reference to the book_. Is this legal? I'm wandering because most of these authors which I plan to post died before the age of the internet. Thanks


Software which will fetch all relevant included files for a web app?

Hopefully this is the correct Stack Exchange site to be asking this question. I've inherited a fairly large web app from the previous IT guy at my organisation. It's written in PHP and there's no documentation. My PHP is very rusty at best but I've been given the task of looking at the code for the web app, working out what it does, and preparing it so it can definitely be moved to another host with no problems. The directories in which the relevant PHP, js and css files sit have a whole load of other PHP, js and css files in them - things like early revisions of files, backups, slight changes etc. All very messy. I'd like to be able to just download locally all the files that are relevant to the app and not all the extra ones so that when I come to look at the code it'll be much easier to untangle. Is there such a piece of software which, when given relevant permissions on the server, goes off and fetches an initial PHP file, looks for any code from includes and downloads them, does the same for css and js files. Is there an IDE which does something similar for when people need to debug and untangle others' web apps?


Resources for step-by-step SEO case studies?

I'm currently reading _The Art of SEO_ and I'm finding that it is mostly theory (600 pages of it). Theory is nice, but I would also like to complement the theory with some concrete, step-by-step case studies done by experts in the SEO field. So for example, similar to what Eric Ries accomplished in _The Lean Startup_. I am not looking for short portfolio piece descriptions by SEO practitioners; ideal candidate resources ought to be substantial and genuine SEO learning aids. Has anyone come across such a resource that fits this description?


Rel no follow on EVERY link?

Forgive me for asking such a simple question, I understand why you would want to rel nofollow untrusted links (forum posts, blog comments etc), but why would you not want to do it on EVERY link on your website? I know it's greedy and perhaps unethical, but if I write a blog post and link to an interesting website within that post, am I losing out in any way by not rel nofollowing it? Is my juice leaking?


How to create an RSS feed for my blog on my own hosting?

I just installed a Blubrry plugin in my WordPress to create an RSS feed for my podcasts that I want to upload. But what is the next step after installing and activating that plugin? Does installing the plugin automatically create the RSS feed? Or how do I create the RSS feed?


SugarCRM and CodeIgniter integration

I am trying to integrate CodeIgniter inside SugarCRM by placing my CodeIgniter directory contents to my custom made SugarCRM module folder, but it doesn't work.


How can I show a Google profile image next to my search engine results?

I just performed a Google search for the words "Google Analytics" and noticed half way down the page that there was an image next to one of the results: ![Google search](http://i.stack.imgur.com/oKPtn.png) How can I achieve this? Having used Yoast's plugin I know how much of a genius he is!


Why should/shouldn't I put social media icons on my website?


my main key word is struggling to perform as there is already domain in that word?

( To respect the Privacy of our Competitors Brand and their Website Domain name and to follow Our Company Policy I changed Name of the actual Domain and Keywords for this question ) We are running a marketing website which sells Braodband Related Products in our State of India . our Prime Product "Reliance Broadband" and keyword for this Product " Reliance braodband" (Of course ,this is our Important Keyword for Serach Engine ) is strugling to appear in the top pages bcoz ther is alrady a Website in the same as **reliancebroadband.com** our domain is **getbraodband.com** In Google Search Engine if keyword **reliance broadband** then our domain always displayed below next to the our Competitor (reliancebroadband.com) as per as my knowledge , i think our website is more SEO frindly , large , Unique Contents than that of Our Competitor's website .and i also feel because their having domain name same as the keyword may they are placing above as us. Even i changed my page url as **getbraodband.com/reliancebraodband.html** still no Improvement now i want to know if i create subdomain as ( **reliancebraodband.getbraodband.com** ) to compite with the domain **reliancebraodband.com** .. and as i already mentioned we have SEO friendly Design and of about 30+ backlinks ,and Unique Content, **can We place above our Competitor in google SERP** ??


is there any way to change host for a website without suffering from downtime?

I have a website with DNS pointing to my hosting account at ns1.a.com and ns2.a.com I want to switch a hosting account (to ns1.b.com and ns2.b.com). However if I simply change the DNS the site will be inaccessible until the change is complete, is there anyway to change host for a website without suffering from downtime?


DNS domain redemption policy

I want to know if my registrar could have done what I expected, and if they could still fix the mistake. See QUESTIONS below. I intentionally deleted a domain name with my host/registar, because I wanted to re-start the site someplace with better services. (They claimed to offer a "Change of provider" option when cancelling, but it actually didn't exist as advertised.) The cancellation form told me it would be immediately available for registration by other parties when deleted. Now, a few days after the listed date of cancellation, I got a reply from support explaining the reason the domain is not available is because it has entered a redemption period. **QUESTIONS**   1. Could the host/registrar have immediately deleted the domain as I expected?   2. Can the host/registrar 'finalize' the deletion now to release it?   3. Can they authorize a transfer at this point? * * * Side note: I think 1and1.com is a registrar, right? So they failed to meet registrar requirements I found when researching redemption. "3.7.5.5 If Registrar operates a website for domain name registration or renewal, details of Registrar's deletion and auto-renewal policies must be clearly displayed on the website." I think the errors in the page I linked show this was not done. I suppose this might give me some leverage with support.


Does using structure data semantic LocalBusiness schema markup work for local EMD URL's?

Based on what I have read about Google's recent Panda and Penguin updates, I'm getting the impression that using semantic markup may help improve SEO results. On a EMD (exact match domain) site, that may have been hit, we list location- based products. We are now going to be adding a `itemtype="http://schema.org/Product"` to each product, with relevant details. However, that product may be available in Los Angeles and also in appear in a Seattle results page. We could add a `LocalBusiness` item type on each geo page to define the geo location for that page. While the definition states: > A particular physical business or branch of an organization. Examples of > LocalBusiness include a restaurant, a particular branch of a restaurant > chain, a branch of a bank, a medical practice, a club, a bowling alley, etc. We could add use the location property which would simply include the city/state details. I realize that this looks like it is meant for a _physical location_ , however could this be done without seeming black-hat?


Lots of suspicious but normal-looking web traffic at a single URL - should I be concerned?

We recently moved some pages around on our site without bothering to put any redirects in place, and we started to notice something interesting. One of the pages we moved was receiving a surprising amount of strange traffic, which are now showing up in the broken link reports. The traffic doesn't appear worrying (just normal page requests with no odd query strings now showing up as 404's), but:   * It all originates from sketchy domains in Russia and China like you normally see doing port scans and other malicious activities.   * It's all directed at this one particular page out of hundreds on the site.   * 99% of the User-Agent strings indicate IE 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 Should we be worried? It doesn't seem like (especially now that we've moved the pages) any harm can come from this, as the amount of traffic certainly doesn't rise to the level of a DoS attack. However, the traffic does look like it's coming from infected computers. Why would this be happening at all? Thanks in advance.


Can i export a wordpress site to html?

I want to export a wordpress site with themes and images to html format like we can do in blogspot. Is there a plugin or a tool for the same.


Cannot add DataTables.net javascript into Joomla 1.5

I've been having this problem where i couldn't add Datatables.net javascript into my Joomla article. I have been trying to include it through Jumi. To say that my editor strips of the tag is somewhat not right as I have been able to execute Google Chart API in Joomla which also uses javascript. Any clue why? The code is as below :               <link href="//datatables.net/download/build/nightly/jquery.dataTables.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />             <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>             <script src="//datatables.net/download/build/nightly/jquery.dataTables.js"></script>             <script type="text/javascript">         $(document).ready( function () {         var table = $('#example').DataTable();     } );     </script>


Which is faster, adding rounded corners to images, or adding rounded corners in CSS

Which of the following will load faster,   1. Creating a square image and adding rounded corners via CSS   2. Adding rounded corners to the image by default and not using the extra css. Also, if 2 is faster, then does that mean that the rounded corners functionality was only added to help programmers who were not capable of creating their own rounded corners in images? Thanks for any help!   Metropolis


Will my traffic come back after my site redesign?

I screwed up. I launched my site after rebuilding it without setting up the proper 301's and traffic immediately dropped about 60%(it's not really something I thought about). After about a week and a half, I set the 301's back up yesterday and resubmitted my sitemap to google. Google has yet to index the whole thing, but traffic isn't getting any better. Is it likely to come back? If so, I. How long? Has this happened to you?


Migrating subscribers from Mr Site to WordPress

I'm hoping somebody can provide some thoughts on an issue I'm facing. I've built a new website on wordpress.com for someone whose previous website was built and hosted with Mr. Site. We weren't happy with the Mr. Site interface and wanted easier access to mobile-friendly themes, so I've helped them make the switch. It's nothing fancy, as they're not needing anything complicated from it, but one important feature of the old site was the existing mailing list. This mailing list received news of blog posts and updates to the summer programme. We've got access to the Mr. Site control panel for 7 days and can still (I think) send emails from there in that time. Our audience demographic is a bit older and they're less likely to visit the site of their own volition. It seems to us that our options are to either send an email from the Mr. Site control panel informing them that it's a new site and that they should subscribe again if they wish to keep getting email notifications, or to undertake the effort ourselves and manually subscribe the email address from our old list. My concern is that the second option would lead to users being confused or even put off by any verification email that might follow. What do you think would be the better option? Is there an alternative? Any advice appreciated!


Does meta name=robots content=nofollow prevent indexing iframes?

Let's say I have a publicly accessible page that contains an iframe back to a different page on my own domain. By default, google (and other crawlers) will index that page and the iframe's content. It may also associate that iframe content with the parent page, but that's not relevant to this question. What I want to do is prevent links on the parent page from being crawled, but I still want to allow bots to crawl the iframe. If I add `<meta name="robots" content="nofollow"/>` to my parent page, does that also tell bots not to crawl the iframe?


Google not indexing the blogger-hosted blog after adding custom domain

I had a blogger-hosted blog (.blogspot) , it was in the first search results at Google when looking up about a specific keyword. 9 months ago, I transfered the blog to a .com domain from GoDaddy. When I did that, the blog posts were completely removed from Google. My website is not showing up at all when looking for the same keyword. The new domain has a page rank 4/10 added my new domain to Google Webmaster tools. I tried to change some meta tags, but nothing worked, my new domain is not showing up for anybody in Google except when searching the website name. What could the problem be?


Google Search to link to a Query String

How to get Google Search to link to a Query String for your page when no physical page Exist. I notice when I do a google search for some keywords I get back some website hits that do **not** link to a physical page but instead redirect me to their search page with my google search terms pre-populated. For instance if I search "visualforce component blog" One of the google results is http://blog.jeffdouglas.com/?s=visualforce+component+blog How do I do this? Make the google search result link to a query string (dymanic search on my page) Is it via a siteMap entry ? Or something else?


Is it OK to use jQuery for responsive web design?

I have been tasked to update a site to make it responsive and appear correctly on smart phones. Unfortunately, the site in its current form isn't very easy to work with - I can't just change the CSS. Is it considered bad to detect the browser size and make the CSS changes with jQuery? E.g.:               if ($(window).width() < 960) {         //make heaps of CSS changes      }


How do I turn 'off' a (hosted) domain's web server while leaving email intact?

I have a web hosting account at HostGator (for a domain registered with Namecheap), where I would like to only use email, and completely turn off the website/webserver (for that domain), such that it actually gives the following error like any other domain which isn't pointing to anything, so in Firefox it would be: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/LSFnv.png) Or in Chrome it would be: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/9MlaJ.png) So I am not looking for just a blank page or server 403 error, but literally for it to act like it doesn't exist and the only way someone would know that the domain is in use, is if they WHOIS search it or know any of the email addresses on the main server. N.B. the domain is the parent domain in the HostGator account and other websites (which need to still be operational) are under it, but I'm thinking with DNS settings it can still be configured while keeping the one hosting account. How would I configure this?


How to renew 10 years registeration

**Do I have to loose my domain registered 9 years and 11 months ago?** ICANN says maximum length of time for registration is 10 years. As far as I learnt through registrars,I can renew my domain only up to 10 years. What if my site is successful? Shall all of my domain ends at the 10 years period? What google and other corporations do to keep their domain more than ten years. I'll be grateful to receive any insights from you


I need a free or cheap and easy to install SQL administration website. Recommendations?

Since I don't have TCP/IP access to my database--I just have a connection string that works from my ASP.NET pages--I need some sort of administrative web page or pages, or a whole website that lets me do as many actions as possible inside my database, such as executing arbitrary SQL, generating scripts, creating tables, etc. Any advice? If it works with SQL 2005, that would be best, but I'm willing to try solutions targeting SQL 2000 or SQL 2008.


Does authorship markup interfere with Google rich snippets?

We are currently supporting a website where we have successfully added rich snippets on the product pages and they show up properly on Google search results. What happens when Authorship has been added to the website? Will they interfere with each other?


Need help writing .htaccess / Apache rule

I have some URLs which are now 404 due to site upgrade. I want all URLs starting with `www.example.com/archives/*` to point to `www.example.com/news` (notice that after archives there is a wildcard char). Can someone here please help me with the code for _.htaccess_ rules?


Redirect based on country

Let's say I have a site that has multiple versions for different countries, e.g.:               www.example.com/us     www.example.com/uk     www.example.com/ca      and I want to use IP geolocation to redirect users who go to `www.example.com` to the appropriate country version of the site. What is the best way to do that without confusing crawlers such as Googlebot or running into other SEO type trouble?


How to disallow indexing but allow crawling?

In the front page of my website, I have some previews to articles (with a small introduction to them) that link to the full articles. I want to disallow the front page to prevent duplicate content. But if I do this (in `robots.txt`), would it still be crawled? I mean, the full articles would be still reached by the crawler even though I disallowed the only page that links to them? I don't want the webcrawler not to access the page and enter the links in them, but I just don't want it to _save_ the information (that will be repeated in the full articles).


How to redirect keeping the referral without server-side redirects?

I have an HTML page hosted in Dropbox that some external websites link to. I want to redirect to a different page using only HTML or Javascript, since I can't use any server-side redirects. My goal is to be able to keep the original referral information for analytics. I've tried different ways but they all end up showing up with no referral. So if a blog that I have no control over (B) links to my public static page on Dropbox (D), and I want a redirect to the new page hosted elsewhere (N), I would like for the analytics for N to be shown as B, not D. Is that even possible?


Web.config: invalid machineKey validationKey (non hex chars)?

In my old MVC 4 website, I've used all type of letters (also non hex) in the "machineKey validationKey" in web.config - it worked fine. But now I've upgraded the website to MVC 5 and it now fails with "invalid non hex values". Can I tell MVC 5 to use all type of chars? Why didn't my old site fail? If I generate a new machineKey validationKey with hex values, I guess that all passwords will be invalid. Any idea what to do?


index.html redirecting to cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi

This problem has been persisting over the last couple of days. I thought I fixed it Friday only to get in on Monday morning and see that cPanel is still giving me issues. On Friday, all incoming traffic to my `index.html` page were being redirected to `cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi`. Upon further investigation, I found that my entire `index.html` code had been overwritten and contained only a single meta tag, which was causing the aforementioned redirect. I re-uploaded the original index page and overwrote the one that was causing the redirects and it seemed to have fixed the problem. Fast forward to Monday. The problem began happening again and I took the same steps as before to fix it, but now I'm wondering how to permanently stop this from happening. From what I've found, it's related to cPanel. I personally did not make any changes to the server, but there are a few people with access who might have. I'm on a VPS with my own dedicated IP address. I've been hosting fine for a few months without this problem. The server is runs a traditional LAMP stack.


SEO Boost on launch?

Will Google give you a SEO launch on your start, so that you can rank upper or in the first 10-20 on the very same day you get indexed?


Does an SSL Certificate actually require a dedicated IP?

My web host which I have been with for at least going on 8 years now is requiring a dedicated IP address, which is $3.33/Month now for assigning a SSL Certificate with my web hosting package and website. Now, in the past, they never did this, till they changed their web hosting plans and options. In the past, I was able to assign an SSL Certificate by just entering the information required to do so, now I have to pay for a dedicated IP for the SSL Certificate. Even then, that isn't too bad, but it has to be an SSL Certificate through them. **Does an SSL Certificate actually require a dedicated IP address for it to work?** The hosting is Linux and done by BlueHost. I can not get a straight answer from the Customer Support, so I have to ask it outside of that. **Are they just trying to make more money or are is the dedicated IP a requirement?** Here is the information which I can provide about my web hosting package:   * cPanel for the Control Panel   * Linux Shared Hosting


Creating a CDN to boost page ranking?

I had a thought about CDNs and if they affect page rankings. Lets say hypothetically if I was to create a CDN as a subfolder in my site. This folder would contain a resource that is useful e.g. Javascript library. This resource I would then share with other sites who would include my CDN resource into their pages. Would this improve my rankings in Google etc. as their analytics will detect the resource link to my own website and then index it or record it somewhere?


Where is the Traffic Sources report in Universal Analytics?

Where is the `Traffic Sources Report` in Universal Analytics? I'm in Unit 2.2 of "Getting Started with Digital Analytics" and in the existing Universal Analytics account I can only find `Realtime Traffic Sources`, and there is nobody on my site at the moment. When I search for `Traffic Sources Report` in Analytics, the only thing that comes up is the `Real Time traffic sources`. Did they change this from the days of Google Analytics?


htaccess doesnt work in subfolder

I'm using xampp with apache on my windows machine. My directory structure is:               C:/xampp/htdocs     ---------------/Sync     --------------------/ProtectedFolderA     -------------------------------------/.htaccess     -------------------------------------/A.zip, B.zip ...     --------------------/ProtectedFolderB     --------------------/etc     ------------------------/.htpasswd, htgroup      I want to list the ProtectedFolderA and B if I open localhost/Sync/. They contain some files which are restricted by HTTP Auth. If i open them they should list the files in the way specified in the htaccess. The etc directory contains some images and css. I also change some preferences like header and icons. So this is my .htaccess in ProtectedFolderA:               RewriteEngine On     AuthType Basic     AuthName "Restricted Directory"     # Only allow request after authentication     AuthUserFile c:/xampp/htdocs/Sync/etc/.htpasswd     AuthGroupFile c:/xampp/htdocs/Sync/etc/.htgroup     require valid-user          Options +Indexes     IndexOptions HTMLTable     IndexOptions FancyIndexing     IndexOptions IconsAreLinks     IndexOrderDefault Descending Name     IndexStyleSheet C:/xampp/htdocs/Sync/etc/file_style.css     HeaderName C:/xampp/htdocs/Sync/etc/file_head.html     IndexOptions FoldersFirst     IndexOptions NameWidth=90     IndexIgnore *.php *.htaccess *.html *.xhtml *.xmi *.xml *.png *.jpg *.css *.txt     AddIconByType C:/xampp/htdocs/Sync/etc/file_stock_index_down.png application/zip      <Files *.zip>     deny from all     </Files>     <filesMatch A.zip>     AuthName "Download A.zip"     AuthType Basic     Require group A     Order allow,deny     Allow from all     </filesMatch>          <filesMatch B.zip>     AuthName "Download B.zip"     AuthType Basic     Require group B     Order allow,deny     Allow from all     </filesMatch>          <filesMatch C.zip>     AuthName "Download C.zip"     AuthType Basic     Require group C     Order allow,deny     Allow from all     </filesMatch>      But there are no changes on the icons. Are the path to the css and pictures are wrong? I can't open the css file in the code view.               <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">     <html>      <head>       <title>Index of /Sync/V6</title>       <link rel="stylesheet" href="C:/xampp/htdocs/Sync/etc/file_style.css" type="text/css">      </head>      <body>      Firefox says that it doesnt know the protocol "C". But I don't know a better path?! I don't know what I'm doing wrong. RewriteEngine is enabled. Some ideas?


What can I do to contact a domain owner?

A few months ago, I found a perfect `.com` domain name for a website I'm working on. Bad news: it was taken. Good news: It was set to expire on January 12, 2012. It's not a premium name or anything special that would make me think other people are waiting for it, so I decided to just wait and see if it expired and then buy it up. The site consisted of just one page with plenty of broken links and images. The information was irrelevant and dated. There is one ad, but it doesn't look like the site is being purposefulness squatted. I figured that the owner was done with it, and would let it expire. However, WHOIS information revealed that the domain was registered via 1&1. Some research reveled that 1&1 has an auto-renew option for domains that's on by default, and quite difficult to disable (I've never used 1&1, so I can't verify if this is true). I started to worry that the current owner (who probably doesn't work in the web development field based on the appearance of the site) had no idea that the domain would automatically renew itself. My fear was realized when the expiration date jumped forward a year right as the domain was set to enter the redemption period. I highly doubt the webmaster would wait that long to renew a domain, especially considering that 1&1 has a $40 fee to renew a domain in the redemption period. So sent an email to the address listed in the WHOIS database asking if the domain was for sale (Exactly a week ago). The address was `firstname@lastname.com`. If found this odd at first, and suspected that it was not really his address, but I can confirm that he does in fact own `lastname.com` (another outdated site with little information about anything, and no contact information). The email doesn't sound like some sort of spamtrap that he doesn't actually use, either. Now I'm stuck. I starting to doubt that the owner will respond, and I'm admittedly disappointed that I may have lost such a perfect domain. I'm working on finding other suitable names, but I don't want to give up on this one until I know it's out of reach. So, what else can I do to obtain this domain name?


Google Showing Item Count and sub Headlines in Result, how does it work?

I recently noticed a Result View on google, I haven't seen before (as seen in the first result in the picture below, query is here). The result shows the count of Items (headings, he identifies as Items) - there is no use of microformats on the Page, nether is there any reference to this in the google documentation. The only Thing "special" on this Page is the fact it uses html5 (the article Element for example) could that be it? Does anybody know about this behavior and how it comes in to being, or at least some other querys that result the same Result View (on other Pages) so one could compare the two? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XDn2S.png) If you have any Ideas, let me know :)


Using HTTPS on the entire sites 2011 and beyond

I know this has been asked before, but I am curious what all of you guys think, with the advent of programs like **firesheep** , released only 6 months ago. Is it a good idea to use _https_ on an entire site? I am aware that is has **speed issues, browser warning popups** and the like, but how likely and serious it could get if you don't have it for every page? A friend told me it is useless if even just **one** part of the site where a user is logged in is not https, because people can intercept the cookies, and therefore pretend to be you and use your account as they please, including accessing the https parts.   1. Do you think this is where the future of the internet is going towards, and is it wise to implement it now?    2. The site has log in, credit card/ecommerce type pages as well as other pages that only has normal blog entry type posts. Is it still fairly alright to just use https on the log in and payments part of the site, or will it really compromise security?   3. What is the reason why sites like ebay and amazon until now, only chose to do it on certain parts of the site? Does that mean they are now easily hackable?   4. How much slower will using https on everything be... are there any other cons apart from the ones mentioned above?   5. Are the browser pop-up issues solvable?


Setting up an incoming CNAME to accept for my domain name

I have the following scenario. Domain Name : **mydomain.com** I have registered a country level tdl with our ISP.   country tdl : **www.mydomain.com.qa** ISP has created a CNAME to my **www.mydomain.com.qa** to point to **mydomain.com**. The problem is, when I enter **www.mydomain.com.qa** on browser's address bar, it shows my default page of the webserver instead of showing **mydomain.com**. Can anybody suggest how to resolve this issue?


Is it legal for everyone to register .me domain?

Can anyone register a `.me` domain name? Can it used for commercial uses?


Responsive design websites: one or two sitemaps?

Assuming one develops a website where the layout of pages depends on the device (PC, smartphone, etc...) - in other words it follows the responsive web design principles - should one create one or two sitemaps for Google (I mean a traditional sitemap and a mobile sitemap)? Or is two redundant? **Update:** Found out that Google says it will detect media queries with smart-phone width values. Therefore, in this case, two sitemaps are not necessary. **Update II:** John Mueller of Google said they treat smartphone URLs the same as desktop URLs. This confirms that it is not necessary to create one sitemap for desktop and one for smartphone. However, if one delivers specific content for mobile phones (which are not SmartPhones), then a separate sitemap will help.


Does redirecting old site's URLs to new site's front page hurt a page's ranking?

An old site that is being rewritten needs to have it's URLs redirected to the new site. There are a few hundred pages that may or may not have corresponding pages on the new site, probably with different slugs, and adding mappings manually will require more hours than we can spare. It was suggested that all old URLs be redirected to the new front page, but I remember reading somewhere that this confers a penalty in page rank because it's what link farmers do. Is this true or can we take the easy way out?


how to create link back from contributor section of google plus for dynamic pages

I wanted to add author information for my programming articles. I have added Google plus profile link to my site and followed further instructions by Google. In that Google had mentioned that from the article there should be a link to Google plus profile and a link back in Google plus contributor section to that articles. I have a section in my website which generates content from database. So when ever an article has been added from the admin site it appears in the front end, like a blog. I was reading this blob http://www.buuteeq.com/blog/googles-authorship-markup- author-vs-publisher/ which insisted i create a link back. In this case how do I add link back in Google plus contributor section? is just linking from my website to Google plus enough?


Custom or Open Source CMS?

I am in the process of having our corporate site redeveloped. My problem is do I choose a bespoke CMS or open source solution? We have used a bespoke CMS in the past and it can be very limiting in terms of adding functionality and making (even very minor) changes. Ours is a relatively large company in an industry that comes with an exacting standard (private, passenger and cargo air charters) meaning an insecure site is absolutely out of the question. We have over 10 language variations on our site. Does anyone have any unbiased opinions on which would be a better solution?


CSS triangle shape with a curved corner

When I write this CSS to a create a triangle shape, it works as below with sharp edges:               .triangle {      border-left: 70px solid transparent;      border-bottom: 70px solid #f4a234;      float: left;      -webkit-transform: rotate(180deg);      margin-top: 12px;      margin-left: 12px;      }       When I add a radius for only a corner, as below, it converts from a triangle into a square shape. I am newbie in HTML/CSS and need help to keep it shown as a triangle but with 1 rounded corner.               .triangle {      border-left: 70px solid transparent;      border-bottom: 70px solid #f4a234;      float: left;      -webkit-transform: rotate(180deg);      margin-top: 12px;      margin-left: 12px;      border-bottom-right-radius: 12px;      }


possible link exchange and duplicate content on 2 domains

I have two different domains, a forum and a blog, both about books and reviews. Tha last one is quite new, just about 2-3 months old. In the last weeks I've published several equal book reviews on both websites. For example there are two identical articles about Pride and Prejudice and the one on the forum has a link pointing to the one on the blog, saying something like "hey, this review has been published also in our blog, you can read it here". Well, today I saw on Tools for Webmasters that both have been probably penalized since impressions on SERPS suddenly dropped down of about 50% on both sites and in the same day (6th February). Now I got rid immediately of reviews on the forum, keeping only the ones on the blog but I'm not sure that it will be enough to make Google reconsider both domains. What should I do and how much time will it take to recover?


What are the Pros and Cons for password recovery change links in email?

Although a lot of sites still send your password in plain text through email, there has been a push to send a web page url instead. But how can that be any more secure than the password in clear text? If someone is going to intercept your email, they get your password either way. So isn't sending the url through email just an illusion of security?


How does google know my twitter name?

Sometimes when i google i see this result > Are you MyTwitterName on Twitter? If so, you can see more results like this > by connecting your Twitter account to your Google Account. Learn more How does google know my twitter name? I checked and it doesnt seem to be an iframe. I know sites are not able to access other sites cookies/data for exploits (stealing cookies/hijacking account but also for privacy) reasons. So how does google know my twitter name? Is twitter making that info accessible to every site i browse (and if so how?) is google guessing by whats on my browser (referals maybe?) or using data in my gmail account?


SEO Tool for Amatuer SEO Professionals like me?

I have a management job now and I am handling 3 different websites' SEO. I mainly use http://4seohunt.com to track these :   * ALEXA RANK   * VISITORS PER DAY   * PAGE VIEWS PER DAY   * PAGE RANK   * FACEBOOK SHARES AND LIKES   * TWEET COUNT   * GOOGLE, YAHOO AND BING INDEXED PAGES   * GOOGLE, YAHOO AND BING BACKLINKS Now I am realizing that this free tool I am using to look into each of the websites' statistics is not enough. I mean, it is useful, but not that reliable. I'd rather go to Alexa.com to check Alexa ranks, manually monitor SOCIAL MEDIA SIGNALS, and go into Google Yahoo and Bing Webmaster tools for Indexed Pages and Backlinks. And it's an awful lot of work. I am considering buying PRO at SEOMoz. Is it worth it? The 100$ per month fee? If not, what tools can you suggest that would let me do these primary things :   * GENERATE REPORTS (Visitors/day, Social Media, etc)   * Monitor Keyword Ranking and Site Page Rank   * MONITOR BACLINKS   * INSIGHTFUL KEYWORD RESEARCH The websites are WORDPRESS based and has a YOAST SEO plugin and it's what I use for On-Page Optimization Monitoring.


Google indexed my site through a subdomain, how to fix?

So I recently switched to nginx but I didn't specify my site_name in nginx.conf, which I've learned is interpreted as a wildcard domain, meaning you can access the site through any subdomain. I had a subdomain DNS 'A' record set up pointing to my site's ip. Somehow google picked up on the subdomain and indexed my entire site's content through the subdomain and now my traffic plummeting. It's down from 4k uniques / day to 1.2k / day. Ouch! I've specified my site name, and any traffic not coming through www.mydomain gets 301 redirected to www.mydomain. What else can I do to reverse this catastrophe? I've considered conical links to my content, but I'm hesitant to introduce too many changes at once. I submitted my sitemap to google over a year ago but I haven't updated it since. I do not have a robots.txt file for the site. Is it possible to reverse the damage done? My site has quality, unique content, and I'm not aggressive with seo, I rarely make changes and have it dialed in to correctly reflect what the site offers.


How to get my name on the side of the Google search results?

For example http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=tom+brady&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#q=tom+hanks&rls=en I have seen this on famous and non famous people and I was wondering how to get this done so my name and picture will appear on the sidebar of the Google search results. Do I need to make an account or send Google a request?


Understanding the Google "show map of" feature

I noticed that the " _show map of_ " link has recently popped up in the Google listings of some of my projects. I searched on the net to understand the mechanics behind this feature, but I couldn't find any clear explanation. So far, just two explanations came to my mind, please correct me if I'm wrong:   1. Google uses the addresses I set up in the Google Maps modules and concatenates them with the rest of the data of the page content.   2. Google extracts the addresses (some project have addresses in the page content), from the content of the pages and associates them with the rest of the data. I would like to know how Google extract the address information from my pages to eventually "control" the use of my data. Also, I'd like to switch to an alternative of Google Map like OSM, and I want know if that will impact the "Show map of" feature.


Google Analytics - aggregating data for multiple property IDs?

Is there a tool that can aggregate data for several property IDs across all your properties/accounts? I currently have an analytics account under which I have several properties setup for different clients. Can I aggregate data across all these? For example, if I wish to track general trends such as Facebook visits over time s, is there any efficient way of doing it without going into each account and setting filters for traffic sources? I came across http://www.reportingsuite.com but I'm looking for something more flexible.


Bootstrap tutorial

I am a newbie :( Out of a mix of curiosity and a desire to live on the edge, I just downloaded Twitter's Bootstrap! I see many cool bells and whistles there! The problem is I don't know how to go about building the next Insane Web site! Can some good folks here hand-hold me on the way to finding some good Bootstrap tutorial? I hope I haven't really asked a real 'newbie' question.Thanks a lot!


Preventing search engines to crawl on specific folders

I have set the robot.txt of my website as follow after seeing lots of errors in google's webmaster tools. Mainly because of the Smarty template files. So I changed my robots file as follow:               User-agent: *     Allow: /     Disallow: /templates_c      My question is, in the second line I allow every folder, and in the third line I disallow `/templates_c` folder. So which case will be evaluated by the robots? I mean if I am allowing everything but next line disallow one folder, what will be the result? Or should I add any folders that I want to be searched to `Allow` and then call `Disallow`?


round corner in IE 8 - made by a mistake

Recently I wanted to make an overlay on an existing page. Of course on all browsers works fine.. except IE. Although it made an interesting effect - one round corner - this can be seen at http://wenecja.com.pl/index_plakatowanie.html (you need to have adblock disabled on firefox). So how this had happen? Sorry for the sloppy css, but this wasn't an objective               #wrapper_lokacja { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%;                         height: 100%; display: none; -moz-box-sizing: content-box; }     #wrapper_lokacja #overlay_lokacja { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0;          width: 100%; height: 100%;         z-index: 0; background: url( "/_img/lokalizacja/overlay.png" );         filter:alpha(opacity=50); -moz-box-sizing: content-box;          -khtml-opacity: 0.5; opacity: 0.5;     }          #wrapper_lokacja #text { width: 800px; height: 500px; position: absolute;          background-color: #fc0; text-align: center; font-family: "Arial Black";         border: 13px solid #333;         -moz-box-sizing: content-box;         -moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 10px #222;         left: 50%; top: 50%; margin: -250px 0 0 -400px;     }     #label, #map, #paczka, #exit { position: absolute;-moz-box-sizing: content-box;          overflow: visible }     #label { top: 20px; left: 242px; z-index: 0; }          #wrapper_lokacja p,#wrapper_lokacja h1,         #wrapper_lokacja h2 { position: relative; z-index: 20; padding: 0;              color: black; font-family: "Arial Black"; overflow: visible;              background: none; -moz-box-sizing: content-box; }     #wrapper_lokacja h1 { font-size: 48px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0;              margin-top: 15px; }     #wrapper_lokacja h2 { font-size: 18px; line-height: 1em; margin: 9px 0 0 0;}     #wrapper_lokacja h2 { margin-top /*\**/: -9px\9; } /* IE 8 hack */     #high_text { margin: 2em 0 0 0; font-size: 14px;}     #wrapper_lokacja #high_text em { font-style: normal;  font-size: 16px;}     #map { bottom: 0; left: 0; z-index: 2; }     #mapkaT { margin: 0; padding: 0; position: absolute; bottom: 203px; left: 0;          z-index: 10; }     #mapkaR { margin: 0; padding: 0; position: absolute; bottom: 0 ; left: 184px;         z-index: 10; }     #mapaFrame { position: absolute; bottom: -5px; z-index: 5;}     #paczka {  bottom:0; right: 27px;}     #exit { top: 0; right: 0;}     #wrapper_lokacja #lower_text { font-size: 13px; color: #004460;          margin-top: 40px;}


Why is my webpage in 300 something position in Google SERPs? Too little content?

I made a webpage: http://pundaquitboat.michaelspages.com .   Unfortunately after changing the title of my webpage from _Pundaquit boat_ to _Anawangin trip_ finally my page was places between **300 and 400 position in Google SERPs** for my new keyword phrase "anawangin trip". I'm just thinking is it the matter one of the following:   * **changing title meta tag**   * some **similarities of the page, I link to, on my page** :   https://www.facebook.com/pages/Anawangin-AMAZING-PUNDAKIT-BOAT- TOURS/225675187453765   (I took pics from that page, but changed pics' names)   * **too little content on my page**


Amazon EC2 vs Dedicated server at Hetzner, what's the use for EC2?

After searching the web I still can't find the reason to use EC2. What's the point to scale EC2? If you expect a huge burst in traffic, they say. OK, but what if you already have a couple of sites with good traffic, and for example medium reserved EC2 instance is not enough. You are paying $36.60(medium reserved for 1year) in EU(Ireland) + traffic + optional expenses for databases and S3 if you use them. Of course as some point when you are under $56.6-$66.1 you can optimize your hosting costs with Amazon EC2. But when you get at some point if purchase EX4 server from Hetzner, it will surpass your perfomance needs for a long time, before you get a massive traffic. (I am wrong?) **CPU:** i7-2600 Quadcore (3.4-3.8 Ghz) **RAM:** 16 GB **HDD:** 2x3 TB SATA (6 Gbit/s) - _I think that disc performance of a dedicated is better then of Amazon EBS_ **Traffic:** 10 TiB in month included. This is what you get from Hetzner for $56(- 19% VAT) or $66 for EU residents. Please, tell me what's the reason to use Amazon? Which load won't a server from Hetzner take, but Amazon Auto Scaling will? The maintenance of dedicated vs EC2 is still the same? Or hardware failure at Amazon, won't ruin your EBS storage? I'm still not at the level when I need expensive hosting, but want to know beforehand, just to be sure if Amazon infrastructure is better then pure performance of Hetzner's hardware.


Does a page blocked for search engines get indexed after link share (+1)

I do my website development always on a subdomain, and that subdomain is blocked for searchengines. I do not want my `lorem ipsum` content and development domain name indexed by search engines. Let's say http://dev.mydomain.com Now am I working with the social share button, google +1, facebook, twitter. Will the domain name be indexed when the link to the domain name is shared on multiple website and has some minor traffic.


Passing Arabic values in parameters results in % spaces

I have built an _.htaccess_ clean URL, this part works perfect in my _.htaccess_ :               RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /road.php\s [NC]     RewriteRule . نقفورالثانيفوكاس/ [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^نقفورالثانيفوكاس/$ road.php [L]      But this part in the parameters is producing spaces in my navigation:               <?php     $tit = urlencode("نقفورالثاني-فوكاس");     $cap = urlencode("الطريق-للقمة");     ?>     <a href = '<?php echo "road.php?title=$tit&caption=$cap" ; ?>'>      Only choosing _road.php_ is working:               http://www.nikephorosphokas.com/%D9%86%D9%82%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3/       (The title is displaying great in Arabic, so this is working) But with the two parameters, it's resulting in a lot of spaces:               http://www.nikephorosphokas.com/%D9%86%D9%82%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3/%25D9%2586%25D9%2582%25D9%2581%25D9%2588%25D8%25B1%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D8%25AB%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586%25D9%258A%25D9%2581%25D9%2588%25D9%2583%25D8%25A7%25D8%25B3/%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D8%25B7%25D8%25B1%25D9%258A%25D9%2582%25D9%2584%25D9%2584%25D9%2582%25D9%2585%25D8%25A9/       (This is not what I want, so it's NOT working) This is my complete _.htaccess_ :                 RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /road.php\s [NC]       RewriteRule . نقفورالثانيفوكاس/ [R=301,L]       RewriteRule ^نقفورالثانيفوكاس/$ road.php [L]            RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /road.php\?title=([^&\s]+)\s [NC]       RewriteRule . نقفورالثانيفوكاس/%1/? [R=301,L]            RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /road.php\?title=([^&\s]+)&caption=([^&\s]+)\s [NC]       RewriteRule . نقفورالثانيفوكاس/%1/%2/? [R=301,L]            RewriteRule ^نقفورالثانيفوكاس/([^/]+)/$ road.php?title=$1 [L]       RewriteRule ^نقفورالثانيفوكاس/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ road.php?title=$1&caption=$2 [L]                 RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.php [NC]       RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,L]       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f       RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ $1.php [L]      I tried adding _urlendice_ or _rawurlencode_ as well, but the result was the same.


OpenID, Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo login for Wordpress

Is there somethink like this for free for wordpress?


Histogram view of event value distribution

We're using Event Tracking to keep track of interactions with rich native advertising units. Events are fired any time a page containing the unit is loaded (to determine denominator for interaction %). An event is also fired whenever an element within the unit is hovered-over by the user. The event category captures the name of the product, the event label the URL and the action the index of the element hovered-over. The event value is the time in seconds the unit was open for. What I need is to get a more sophisticated view of the event value than sum and average. Ideally, I'd be able to look at a histogram to show the distribution of interaction times, or see the total interaction time for a given user in all elements in the unit. It seems there's no way to get at this info within GA or a customized view, but would this be possible with the GA reporting API?


Shared to Dedicated or Amazon CloudFront to improve performances and keep secured?

I have a Wordpress which currently takes about 1.8s to 2.5s for the home page to completely load in my country. The page weight is about 700Ko (static content included). In order to increase performances, I'm considering two solutions:   1. Switching to a dedicated host.    2. Using amazon s3 cloudfront to serve static contents. My current shared hosting have servers in a neighboring country but not exactly in mine, and both amazon and the dedicated hosting have some, so that's already an advantage. So considering all that, I still have three questions remaining:   * Currently having a low traffic (100 unique visitors/days, but growing) **will it make a huge difference between my shared hosting and a dedicated server ?**   * Knowing that I already use a cookie-less domain to deliver static contents (but using a redirection to the same server), **would using amazon s3 make a real difference ?**   * Talking about the cons of dedicated vs amazon s3, if I choose for the dedicated server something like Ubuntu server and do daily package updates and have only port 80 open, would it be sufficient in terms of security (in comparison with my current shared hosting which manage everything for me) ?


Change to .travel domain when "traveling" is part of business name?

I have a business called Easter Island Traveling. The current URL is www.easterislandtraveling.com. Would it be a good idea to buy the domain www.easterisland.travel? Personally I really like the idea of dramatically shortening the URL this way. I like how the .travel URL looks. I guess my real question is: are .travel domains taken seriously?


Poor CMS blog vs Tumblr embed

A client of ours has a basic blog that is built into their CMS - its simply a header / image / text field that is updated regularly - the purposes of this is that the manager wants to add weight to the site - improve SEO and improve the knowledge that they have won a tripadvisor award for romance. They have complained that their site doesn't allow them to tag articles at all and is too rigid for the purpose. As I am not a .net developer (the CMS is built in .net) I figure the best way to improve the blog situation is to use a tumblr embed - which basically uses JavaScript to embed HTML into the page - and then style this too look like the existing blog - this would give them a complete - easily updated blog system with tagging - but I'm not sure whether this would be less beneficial for SEO? Can anyone advise please?


How can I force a VirtualHost in Apache to not listen for undefined subdomains on 443?

In `/etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com`:               <VirtualHost *:443>             ServerName www.example.com             DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/htdocs             SSLEngine on             SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem             SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key     </VirtualHost>      I also have a virtual host configured for `foo.example.com`, but that only listens on port 80. I have the A record for foo.example.com pointing to this same server. If I visit `https://foo.example.com` in my browser, it loads the Virtual Host for `www.example.com`. How can I combat this?


SEO - numbers as numerals or words?

Fairly straightforward question. I am building a site for a cycle holiday company. Something they offer is 2 day breaks. I want to emphasise this for the purposes of SEO. Does anyone know if google equates '2' with 'two', '3' with 'three' etc? If numbers are an important part of the essence of what a page is about, then do I need to ensure I include both the numeral and word versions of numbers in my titles & META desc/keywords? Cheers.


www.foobar.com works but foobar.com results in a 'Server not found' error

I have just setup a minimal (hopefully secure? - comments welcome) apache website using the following configuration file:               <VirtualHost *:80>             ServerName foobar.com             ServerAlias www.foobar.com             ServerAdmin webmaster@foobar.com             DocumentRoot /path/to/websites/foobar/web             DirectoryIndex index.php                  # CustomLog with format nickname             LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common             CustomLog "|/usr/bin/cronolog /var/log/apache2/%Y%m.foobar.access.log" common                  LogLevel notice             ErrorLog "|/usr/bin/cronolog /var/log/apache2/%Y%m.foobar.errors.log"                  <Directory />                     AllowOverride None                     Order Deny,Allow                     Deny from all             </Directory>                  <Directory /path/to/websites/>                     Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews                     AllowOverride None                     Order allow,deny                     allow from all             </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      I am able to access the website by using www.foobar.com, however when I type foobar.com, I get the error 'Server not found' - why is this? My second question concerns the security implications of the directive:               <Directory /path/to/websites/>             Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews             AllowOverride None             Order allow,deny             allow from all     </Directory>      in the configuration above. What exactly is it doing, and is it necessary?. From my (admitedly limited) understanding of Apache configuration files, this means that anyone will be able to access (write to?) the **/path/to/websites/** folder. Is my understanding correct? - and if yes, how is this not a security risk?


Chrome has recently started chopping the bottom of some titles, anyone know why?

The title is the entirety really. Chrome has started to chop the bottom off my titles (not noticed in on any paragraph text). I've tried the usual, incognito mode to disable and extensions, delete my user in settings. This is happening on a few of my sites, on different hosts. Not repeatable in other browsers. Has anyone come across this before? ![Image showing the issue.](http://i.stack.imgur.com/pxSja.png) Edit: The offending web page.


Vendor reliability and Privacy reputation

When observing my website stats at StatShow, I can see my _internet reputation_ for: > Trustworthiness > > Vendor reliability > > Privacy > > Child Safety My site had excellent results for everything beside _Vendor reliability_ (50 points) and _Privacy_ (72 points). I am trying to decode what this means and what algorithm they use to determine these figures. My question is, in terms of SEO, how do I improve points for Privacy and Vendor reliability? What is Vendor reliability anyway?


How do I set up a "gateway" for a specific subdomain?

I'm looking at setting up a website that will run a few different apps. Most of them can be managed by an Apache server, but I've got one specific thing that will run on a custom HTTP server. Looking around on apache.org, it looks like you can use mod_proxy to configure Apache to act as a "reverse proxy" and forward requests from a specific subdirectory to a new server with the ProxyPass directive. So if I wanted send anything from `mysite.com/special` on to the custom server, that's how I would do it. But what if I want to set it up as a subdomain instead? The documentation doesn't seem to cover that. If, I wanted to make it forward anything from `special.mysite.com` to the new server, how would I set that up?


Should <a> tags with href="#" (or other internal links) use rel="noindex, nofollow"?

For SEO purposes, should `<a>` tags with `href="#"` make use of `rel="nofollow"`, `rel="noindex"`, `rel="noindex, nofollow"`, or does it not matter? I'm asking because I have some elements on my site where I use anchor tags to trigger mouseovers, etc, and I'm just wondering how the search engines handle those links.


Redirect to one of multiple sites on the server

I hope this is the right place to post this issue, serverfault seemed wrong to me... Say I have a machine running MAMP.   This machines IP is managed in a account from dyn.com to a specific domain, say `myadress.com`.   In htdocs there is currently only one folder, holding an owncloud system.   Now I thought I could simply add a little homepage by adding a second folder and registred a second domain `mysecondadress.com`, in dyn-account. But now, instead of setting the IP of `myadress.com` to `xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/owncloud`   and the IP of the homepage `mysecondadress.com` to `xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/homepage`,   I was only able to set the IP `xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx`. So my next idea was, that there has to be a way to redirect, depending on the requested domain.   So that `myadress.com` would be redirected to `xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/owncloud`   and `mysecondadress.com` would be redirected to `xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/homepage`. To achieve this I found some information about "WebHop", 301-redirects, using .htaccess or even virtual hosts. But the described usage everytime was a different one than my situation. Now I am totally confused what would fit my case or if thats just impossible, the way I thought of it. As I looked into WebHop it seemed, that I would need 3 domains, say `master.com`, `cloud.com` and `homepage.com`, where the two latter would redirect to `master.com/owncloud` or `master.com/homepage`, but I wasn't able to get this to work. Was that a wrong approach or did I do something else wrong?


is co.cc free for ever?

hello any one can tell me that is co.cc domain free for life? when i go to register a co.cc domain name it shows only 2 years for free, so is it free for ever or i have to pay after passing 2 year


PHP CodeSniffer: indentation of 2 is ignored, it just checks 4

# phpcs --version     PHP_CodeSniffer version 1.3.3 (stable) by Squiz Pty Ltd. (http://www.squiz.net)     #       Trying to do this:               phpcs --tab-width=2 includes/json/item/categorie.php      FOUND 29 ERROR(S) AND 3 WARNING(S) AFFECTING 24 LINE(S)      Doesn't work. This doesn't work too:               phpcs includes/json/item/categorie.php --tab-width=2     FOUND 29 ERROR(S) AND 3 WARNING(S) AFFECTING 24 LINE(S)      If I indent the file with 4 spaces (which I don't want):               phpcs --tab-width=2 includes/json/item/categorie.php      FOUND 4 ERROR(S) AND 3 WARNING(S) AFFECTING 17 LINE(S)     phpcs --tab-width=4 includes/json/item/categorie.php      FOUND 4 ERROR(S) AND 3 WARNING(S) AFFECTING 17 LINE(S)     phpcs --tab-width=50 includes/json/item/categorie.php      FOUND 4 ERROR(S) AND 3 WARNING(S) AFFECTING 17 LINE(S)     phpcs includes/json/item/categorie.php --tab-width=50      FOUND 4 ERROR(S) AND 3 WARNING(S) AFFECTING 17 LINE(S)      So it's totally ignored. It this a bug?


document.referrer from google searches only showing "https://www.google.com", no search terms

So I put this basic code on my website, and alert with document.referrer:               alert(document.referrer);      And when I do a search the link is:               https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1ASUM_enUS494US494&ion=1&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=1&gs_ri=serp&tok=1r7LlSJjT_AkzPDie7y_qw&pq=document.referrer%20test&cp=6&gs_id=n&xhr=t&q=websiteurlblahblahblah&pf=p&safe=off&tbo=d&rlz=1C1ASUM_enUS494US494&sclient=psy-ab&oq=jacked&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=b120f3e780b613e5&bpcl=40096503&biw=1680&bih=925&ion=1      But when I click on my website the alert that pops up is:               https://www.google.com      I am trying to make a script that reacts based on different search terms that people use to enter my website, but this is stopping me dead in my tracks.


CSS Display Table, any SEO implications?

I want to use CSS display table in place of JS for vertical-alignment and equal heights of HTML elements, however I'm not sure if there are any SEO implications of this, will crawlers try and interpret the contents of elements displayed in this way as tabular data or will they ignore it and interpret it as normal content?


What Should I Do?

What is a reasonable goal in terms of traffic for my Flex 3 site: www.brainpinata.com Since I began a couple of months ago, I've gotten roughly 5500 ad views and 280 ad clicks. And the ad revenue is a whopping $4.80. (I don't use Google Adsense). I advertise my site using Google Adwords to try to build traffic. My budget is $10/day. What should I do? a) Push the marketing. Add a blog. Try to get backlinks, contact blogs, start a Facebook page, tweet, etc. b) Google is only indexing the static content in the SWF. The questions/answers are pulled from a mySQL database. So, Google doesn't index 99% of the content. Should I re-do the site in HTML/Javascript and hard-code the questions for each puzzle? (This would be a challenge as I don't know javascript worth squat.) Or should I hard-code the questions in XML and put them in the Flex app? If I put the questions in an XML file it's roughly 500 KB. Other ideas? c) Should I switch ad networks? (I currently get about 100 visitors a day). My ad network pays so little that if I were to make even $500/month, I would need 550,000 ad views/month, which seems impossible. If I go ahead and switch ad networks, I need to find one that allows iFrames as I've got a Flex website. Which ad networks permit their ads to be shown in iFrames? d) Should I cut and run? I put a lot of work into this project and it would really stink to get nothing out of it. I'm looking for some good advice. Looking forward to your suggestions. Thank you. -Laxmidi


Menu Control submenu links appear but are not active when rolled over in IE 10

I have a menu control in my masterpage. The Menu Control submenu pops open and appears with text on it when I open it via IE10, but the links do not work when you try to click on them, and the submenu disappears after a few seconds even though the cursor is still over the submenu. I have no idea why the links are inactive here but in firefox, chrome, safari appear correctly. Some help would be much appreciated. Menu code :
                         <asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server" />                             <asp:Menu ID="Menu1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SiteMapDataSource1"                             DisappearAfter="600" StaticDisplayLevels="2"                             StaticSubMenuIndent="0px" Width="181px" SkipLinkText=""                             DynamicHorizontalOffset="1"                             DynamicPopOutImageUrl="~/images/arr_white.gif"                             StaticPopOutImageUrl="~/images/arr_white.gif"                             CssClass="SomeMenuClass" >                                 <DynamicHoverStyle ForeColor="#E9C379" />                                 <DynamicMenuStyle BorderStyle="None" />                                 <LevelMenuItemStyles>                                 <asp:MenuItemStyle CssClass="Level1Style" Width="195px" />                                 <asp:MenuItemStyle CssClass="Level2Style" Width="170px"  />                                 <asp:MenuItemStyle CssClass="Level3Style" Width="200px" />                                 </LevelMenuItemStyles>                                 <StaticHoverStyle Font-Strikeout="False" ForeColor="#E9C379" />                         </asp:Menu>

      Site Map:               <siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >         <siteMapNode url="default.aspx" title="Home"  description="">                   <siteMapNode url="registry/Default.aspx" title="Significant Tree Registry"  description="Significant Tree Registry" />                    <siteMapNode url="nominate/default2.aspx" title="Nominate a Significant Tree"  description="ominate a Significant Tree" />              <siteMapNode url="javascript:void(0)" title="Criteria for Scoring Trees"  description="Criteria for Scoring Trees">                    <siteMapNode url="scoring_criteria/how_a_tree_is_scored.aspx"  title="How a Tree is Scored"  description="How a Tree is Scored" />                    <siteMapNode url="scoring_criteria/measuring_a_trees_diameter.aspx"  title="Measuring a Trees Diameter"  description="Measuring a Trees Diameter" />                    <siteMapNode url="scoring_criteria/measuring_a_trees_height.aspx"  title="Measuring a Trees Height"  description="Measuring a Trees Height" />                    <siteMapNode url="scoring_criteria/measuring_the_crown_or_spread.aspx"  title="Measuring the Crown or Spread"  description="Measuring the Crown or Spread" />              </siteMapNode>              <siteMapNode url="resources/default.aspx" title="Resources"  description="Resources" />              <siteMapNode url="partners/default.aspx" title="Partners"  description="Partners" />              <siteMapNode url="history/default.aspx" title="History"  description="History" />                       <siteMapNode url="comments/default.aspx" title="Contact"  description="Contact" />         </siteMapNode>     </siteMap>      CSS:               #nav {            padding-left: 9px;       }                    #nav, #Menu1{           margin:-1px;           }               #nav a {       color: #fff;       text-decoration: none;       border-left: 1px solid #959595;       padding-left: 10px;       display: block;       width: 100%;       padding: 2px 0 6px 8px;        }          #nav a:hover {       text-decoration: underline;          }     #nav .important {       border: none;       background: 188px 10px url(../images/arr_orange.gif) no-repeat;       }          #nav .important a {       color: #E9C379;      }               #Menu1{ z-index:10;}               #nav, #Menu1, .Level2Style{z-index:10;}     #nav, #Menu1, .Level3Style{z-index:10;}


What's the best way to put invisible for user but indexable link?

I have several sites on the same topic but still competitive to each other. I would like to put cross links on these sites in text so they won't be visible/"clicakble" but still indexable by search engine. What's the best way to do it i.e. what kind of HTML/CSS magic to apply? As far as I understand this is a "White Hat SEO" technique and will help to increase relevance of the web sites.


Google Analytics: How to track on site search?

I just created a widget where I can see all the searches like in the screenshot. I use following filter regexp to get all urls I want see: `q=([^&]+)` But it's still too much information, because I do not want see the whole url. I just want see the things between `()` like `iphone` or `samsung`. Like in other languages you can slice out a part of a string with regexp and address those parts in example with $1, $2, etc. Is there any possibility to just get them into the widget table or will I've to do it with events or something similar? ![That is what I see.](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ym3F7.png) **Edit:** As you see on this screenshot, I get the whole URL. But I just want a result like that:                         What I get:                     What I want:     ------------------------------        ---------------------     | /product/search?q=eos+650D |        |      eos+650D     |     ------------------------------        ---------------------     |  /product/search?q=iphone  |        |      iphone       |     ------------------------------        ---------------------      But it looks like this regexp filter `q=([^&]+)` is really just for filtering the URLs and not for better result display. So I've to do it with events or dimensions.


Correct syntax for Canonical - link or meta tag?

I'm getting a little confused about adding canonical tags to pages. Some (most?) guides suggest using a link tag thusly:               <link rel="canonical" href="www.example.com/somepage" />      but some others suggest a meta tag like so:               <meta rel="canonical" href="www.example.com/somepage" />      Are both allowed? Which is right? If one is wrong, where does the confusion stem from? Thanks.


SSL certificate that does not verify identity

(I'm fairly sure I know the answer, but just in case...) We want SSL on an internal-use webserver, but the usual ones don't work for the usual reasons (not static IP, subdomain issues etc.). Server identity is not an issue, all we need is an encrypted connection for the slightly-sensitive data. Management's main worry is wifi-sniffing at a cafe. MITM attacks are not a concern (the data involved isn't worth the effort) but the Big Red Warning Page _is_ an issue - the users are just not capable of understanding the issue and adding an exception. This means no self-signed certificates.


Where to put hashtag in Ajax url

I used to put my url like this :               example.com/#!ajaxcall/parent/child       but then, google gave me warning says that my url "is not followed" : > When we tested a sample of URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs > redirect to other locations. We recommend that your Sitemap contain URLs > that point to the final destination (the redirect target) instead of > redirecting to another URL. so i changed my url into :               example.com/parent/child/#!ajaxcall/      after changing the url, i keep getting 404 error(because the hashchange event never fired), i don't know what am i doing wrong here ?


What should be done after renaming the urls of my website?

One month ago, I updated all the product URLs on my site which were separated by `_` sign to be separated by `-` sign. Example:               .com/Calipers/Insize_1108      now looks like               .com/Calipers/Insize-1108      There were nearly 1200 links updated, and it is showing in webmaster tools as crawl errors. I marked them as fixed, I resubmited my sitemap but it didn't work, they are still showing in google search results. What should I do ?


Updating a website often

I always wondered something, when I make a website, normally small websites, I make the website locally and then Upload it to the server, I also keep a copy locally, when I have to make a change, I change the copy I have locally and the I upload the whole website again to the server, that's obviously a waste of time, and I would like to know what's the best way to update a website, big or small, but without doing this, just uploading what has been changed, I've heard that the best way is using something like GIT or Mercurial, but I don't know what you can tell me.


How can I screen clients that try to register multiple times?

My company offers a bonus to every client that registers.   We would like to prevent people from abusing this by registering several times. We thought about filtering clients by   * IP (there is a problem with workplaces where all stations have the same ip)   * Cookies (if cookies are not allowed we might lose a client) I would like your opinions on these two methods and will be glad to hear about new ones.


First Project a big one, How much should we charge?

Two of my cousins and I started a freelance computer repair/web design business just to make some money on the side during college, and received our first major web design project about three weeks ago. Now we've created websites before, but it was mostly for family businesses and have never really charged money, and most of the websites have been static, and don't really require a CMS. This project, however, was a big one (for us anyways). We created a news site that had several categories, we created the banners, we created a classifieds page (not a web app just something static that they control). Several links, a few graphical assets, CSS drop down menu, RSS feed from a different news site, weather, all the normal stuff you would find on a regular news site. On top of that we put in all the usual Joomla stuff (search, Jcomments, Jslide pictures, JCE, etc.). Then we uploaded the first 10 articles they gave us, and we are going to train them how to use Joomla. Now, at first we decided for 700 dollars. I assumed they just wanted a simple blog like website where they can upload articles. But then we had a meeting, and they asked for a lot more. Note: we did not hard code the template from scratch, but customized the gantry framework to fit their needs. We did code quite a bit however. I estimate that we put in about 50-60 hours in total. I'm wondering if 700 dollars is a bit low, this price is definitely not set in stone. Please keep in mind that this is our first project, and we are newbies, please be kind. Thank You!


Gaining back page rank and seach engine ranking

I have my blog website with alot of do-follow links posted. If i remove all those links do my search engine ranking gets down or not?


If something can be achieved using CSS or JavaScript, which will render faster?

I have two working solutions for hover navigation that I've built. One solution uses JS, one use CSS. My question is, assuming a browser is JS- enabled, which solution will work faster? I'll most likely opt for CSS anyway to avoid given non-JS browsers trouble, but I was curious. I'm not sure of a way to programatically test my solutions with the necessary resolution, but I presume this has been documented somewhere.


Redirect "302 found" vs "302 object moved"

Examining several different websites that do redirects (from TLD to language subfolders), I discovered that beside sending a 302 HTTP header, some send differents strings: Some send `"302 found"`, others send `"302 object moved"`. **Regarding SEO, my question is:** Does the string description matter to Google and Bing, or are they simply evaluating the HTTP header numbers (301, 302, etc.)?


How do I optimize SEO for a domain with an "exotic" (.st) TLD?

What are the gotchas to optimizing SEO for a domain on an exotic TLD (in my case, .st)? For example, should I tell Google the actual geographic target of the website? One more thing: I want to rank well on my domain name concatenated with my TLD (like instagr.am ranking for "instagram", for example). Any way I can do that?


Feedburner - Multiple feeds in multiple languages

I run a website that available in Dutch and English. Each 'language version' has its own blog and related RSS feed. I want to publish these RSS feeds through Feedburner. Obviously I would like to have the Feedburner UI for the Dutch readers in Dutch and the English speaker readers in English. Does anybody know how to manage multiple feeds with multiple languages in Feedburner.


Oversizing images to produce better looking pages?

In the past, improper image resizing used to be a big no-no of web design (not mentioning improper compression format). Hence, for years I have been sticking to the policy where images (PNG or JPG) are resized on the server to match the resolution pixel-wise they will have with the rendered page. Now, recently, I hastily designed a HTML draft with oversized images, using inline CSS style such as `width:123px` and `height:123px` to resize the images. To my (slight) surprise, the page turned out to look _much better_ that way. Indeed, with better screen resolution, some people (like me), tend to browse with some level of zoom (aka 125% or even 150% zoom), otherwise fonts are just too small on-screen. Then, if the image is strictly sized, the enlarged image appears blurry (pixel interpolation effect), but if the image is oversized the results is much better. Obviously, oversizing images is not an acceptable pattern if your website is intended for mobile browsing, but is there case where it would be considered as acceptable? Especially if the extra page weight is small anyway.


Is using HTML5 Doctype harmful for Mobile SEO in google?

At this page Google mentioned http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34637&ctx=cb&src=cb&cbid=-1rb2an4c1lcom&cbrank=3 **Q. What mobile markup languages do you support?** **A.** We support XHTML basic, XHTML Mobile Profile, WML, and cHTML.


PayPal donation drop-down list

How could I have a drop-down list next to my PayPal donation button, where you can select an amount or an "other" option to enter your own amount?


SEO - Better empty title tag or skip title tag?

What is better, if somebody skip `<title>` tag or `<meta name="description" />` or leave empty value:               <title></title>     <meta name="description" content="" />       ? Or maybe all above has the same meaning for crawlers?


My first robots.txt

I'm creating my first _robots.txt_ and wanted to get a second opinion on it. Basically I have a FTP setup on my board for some special users to transfer files between each other and I do NOT want that included in the search by the bots. I also want to point to my sitemap which gets auto generated by a PHP page. So here is what I have, what else should I include, and if I need to fix anything with it? Also, it's linking to `xmlsitemap.php` because that generates the sitemap when called. My goal is to allow any search bot crawl the forums to grab meta data.               User-agent: *     Disallow: /admin/     Disallow: /ali/     Disallow: /benny/     Disallow: /cgi-bin/     Disallow: /ders/     Disallow: /empire/     Disallow: /komodo_117/     Disallow: /xanxan/     Disallow: /zeroordie/     Disallow: /tmp/          Sitemap: http://www.vivalanation.com/forums/xmlsitemap.php      Edit, I'm not sure how to handle all the user's folders under `/public_html/` since the _robots.txt_ will be going in `/public_html`.


How to best protect my web designs? Licenses?

I'm afraid one of my clients might ask his fellow software engineer to design a few page templates for a WordPress-based community I'm redesigning, according to my code and design. He just bounced me back an estimate cutting down expenses on page templates and leaving only the frontpage template, which is clearly the only one he can easily replicate into multiple page templates, for the core pages whose templates he just dismissed. Is there any way to protect my code and designs with strict licensing? Are there any ways to protect my work from being copied by my own client? Which licenses should I use?


What is "condition of link to developer's website" condition in license

I want to use following icons for my commercial website for free. http://www.gettyicons.com/free-icon/112/must-have-icon-set/free-remove-icon- png/ According to to above link: > Visual Pharm is the author of this icon. Visual Pharm will remain owner of > this icon and you cannot sell it, but you are allowed to apply this icon in > your commercial and non-commercial projects with condition of link to > developer's website. But I cant understand following: > with condition of link to developer's website Do I have to show link of owner of icon site on my commercial website? If yes, where will I show their link? Is there any other icons package that I can use commercially for free without showing their link on my site?


Google Webmaster Geographic target: Increases or Decreases Traffic?

My website is an english video streaming website that gets visitors from all over the world (about 70,000 per day). 35% of my traffic is from the US. Now, in google Webmaster, if I were to set my geographic target to USA, will I get more overall traffic or less than what I am getting right now? _most of my traffic is organic from google_


If I override <STRONG> in CSS, does it retain any style elements?

If I override the HTML tag `<STRONG>` in CSS by specifying a different font weight and size, does it retain any other style settings or properties?               strong {         font-weight:700;         font-size: 12px;     }      I ask because I'm getting odd font weight differences between browsers (chrome and IE)


Creating Links to and tracking commission (Affilliates)

Whats the best way to create links to dish out to partner websites so they get a commission from the clickthrough they generate? I would prefer a PHP solution if there is one available?


Correct configuration of multiple Analytics trackers per page, spanning domains and subdomains

My company publishes sites on a somewhat convoluted domain structure, and we're having trouble getting accurate numbers in Analytics when we have multiple trackers on the page. We publish under two brands (A, B). Each brand has a "national" site at A.com, B.com, as well as per-city "local" sites at eg. ny.A.com, la.A.com, sf.A.com, etc. Right now we're trying to track in these dimensions:   * Full network (A.com, ny.A.com, B.com, la.B.com, etc.)   * All sites in brand (A.com, ny.A.com, la.A.com, etc.)   * Inidividual site (ny.A.com) Here are the commands we're using on an individual site:               _gaq.push(         ['t0._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXX-1'],  // full network         ['t0._setDomainName', 'none'],         ['t0._setAllowLinker', true],         ['t0._trackPageview'],         ['t1._trackPageLoadTime'],         ['t1._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXX-2'],  // brand         ['t1._setDomainName', 'none'],         ['t1._setAllowLinker', true],         ['t1._trackPageview'],         ['t1._trackPageLoadTime'],         ['t2._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXX-3'],  // individual         ['t2._setDomainName', 'none'],         ['t2._setAllowLinker', true],         ['t2._trackPageview'],         ['t2._trackPageLoadTime']     );      We send the same commands to each account because we've had strange results when trackers were configured differently in the past. However, right now we're seeing inflated numbers for uniques on all three trackers. What is the correct way to configure this setup? Thanks for your time.


Why URL and linked pages submissions for Google?

Why Google Webmaster Tools have limitation on URL and linked pages submissions? Is there any solution to submit more than 10 URL?