Will using the production domain for testing/developing affect SERP rankings?

I have been working on a blog via wordpress that was setup through my hosting account for a while now. I currently have a plugin called, "Restricted Site Access 4.0 for WordPress" that displays a restriction message to visitors that prevents them from seeing the actual site.   I plan to deactive the plugin upon finishing but was wondering if this affects the SEO or SERP?


Why do I see my website's URL links on Google Analyitcs keywords list?

Is it normal ? Why do I see my sites URL on Google Analytics keywords list, as in > np - /software-application/ > > np - /contact-us/ `np` I understand is **not provided** is it. But why is my URL listed?


Is there a disqus-like comment system that does not load google analytics?

I am not using google analytics on my blog out of respect for user privacy (I don't care to make my blog a data-collection tool for Google). I included Disqus (yes I know they track as well). Politics & my reasons notwithstanding, **Is there a Disqus-like comment system that doesn't load google analytics?**


PayPal Basic vs PayPal Pro and credit card security

This link provides a comparison between PayPal Basic and PayPal Pro plans. To me basic PayPal is ideal but I need to be able to transfer funds between two PayPal accounts and for that I have to upgrade to PayPal Pro according to customer service. That is not a problem for me as it costs only 30$/month vs free. But what I really like about the Basic plan, is that I do not have to worry about credit card security and keeping that data, notice last option in the pic > "We manage" vs "You manage". ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/nIoid.png) **My question is** , can I get the PayPal Pro account with the Pro plan but I want them to take care of credit card transactions. I have no problem taking them to PayPal page. **Secondly** is there anything missing? Do I really need the Pro account for transferring money from one user to another? I do have mass pay enable with the basic plan. Any advice about the security, should I integrate the payment on my site? How much of a risk/security issue this is. I don't want to have a full fledged customer service unless I test the website proper (have enough transactions and have achieved certain goals)?


How to reclaim ownership of a domain name from a shared web host?

When I was signing up for a (shared) web hosting for my web site the company, BlueHost, provided a domain name with it. Now I want to switch to another web hosting company, because of the excessive throttling Bluehost does on my site. (Even though they advertise it as "unlimited", what they don't tell you is that they impose a draconian CPU quota and a quota on a number of the simultaneous database/MySQL connections that makes my site issue errors in the most critical moments.) My question is, since I got the domain name for my site through them, how can I reclaim it when I switch to a new hosting company?


How do I add a widget to the header area of the 'Twenty Fourteen' WP theme?

I would like to add a widget to the header area (above the main menu) of the WordPress Twenty Fourteen theme. Ideally this would cut down the size of the header image from the full width to half, with the other half of the area holding the new widget. I am not well versed in php, css, java, or any other useful stuff like that, so the more simple the solution, the better. I've not been able to locate a plug-in which achieves this outcome, but a plugin would certainly be my preferred way of doing this, as I can then easily do it across multiple sites if required.


CIA.gov "World FactBook" MySQL?

Is the CIA's 'World FactBook" of statistics and national data available in a MySQL format or some format conducive to parsing and incorporating into a website?


Nginx Reverse Proxy for Tumblr

I'm currently trying to set up a reverse proxy redirecting a domain to a tumblr blog. I've set up NGinx using this Gist. My nginx configuration looks like so:               upstream tumblr {             server 66.6.44.4;     }          server {             listen          80;             server_name     mydomain.com;                  access_log      /var/log/nginx/mydomain.access.log;                  proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP       $remote_addr;             proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;             proxy_set_header  Host            $http_host;             proxy_set_header  REMOTE-HOST     $remote_addr;             proxy_redirect    off;             proxy_max_temp_file_size          0;                  location / {                     proxy_pass http://tumblr;                     break;             }     }          server {             listen          80;             server_name    www.mydomain.com;             rewrite ^/(.*)  http://mydomain.com/$1 permanent;     }      Unfortunately, this doesn't work. When I attempt to connect to my blog via _mydomain.com_ , I get the "there's nothing here" page on Tumblr. How can I properly make my reverse proxy work with Tumblr? **Things I've tried** :   * I cannot add _mydomain.com_ as a custom domain because the A record points to the IP I have Nginx on and not the required Tumblr domain ( _66.6.44.4_ ).   * Changing the upstream server to myblog.tumblr.com does absolutely nothing.


How to set the Content-Type for SVG files parsed by PHP

I currently use the following Apache httpd conf:               <FilesMatch "\.svg$">       SetHandler application/x-httpd-php     </FilesMatch>     AddType image/svg+xml .svg      What I'm trying to achieve:   * Parsing the PHP scripts in my SVG files   * Serving my SVG files with the `image/svg+xml` MIME type However, the AddType seems to be ignored now that I've set it to use the alternative handler for my SVG files. They're now served as `text/html`. How can I make the httpd parse the PHP in my SVG files while preserving its `image/svg+xml` type? I currently include a `header("Content-type: image/svg+xml");` call in my SVG file to solve this, although I'd rather have a global way of doing this instead of having to insert this into all of my SVG files.   * CentOS 6.5   * Apache 2.2.15   * PHP 5.3.3


In Analytics, can I see page view stats broken down by AdWord ad-network websites?

In AdWords, under 'Campaigns->Networks' tab I can see which sites on the Ad- Network generated clicks. I've got auto-tagging enabled. I want to find a report in Analytics that breaks down each of those websites I see in the AdWords report, and provide me page view, time on site, and bounce rate statistics.


How can I prevent my site from being branded a "content farm?"

I'm building a small social Q&A site. Another Q&A site that I use was recently branded by Google as a content farm and removed from Google results. I know what Wikipedia says is the definition of a content farm (low quality paid articles and spammy text across the page to catch search engines). That other site I use doesn't do those things, so there must be more to it than that. I want to make sure I don't do anything that causes Google to think my Q&A site is a content farm. What should I do, or avoid doing in designing my site layout?


Joomla: Cross site link boxes

I am currently evaluating Joomla for use on the the rebuild of our corporate website. One of the features our designs have is spaces for what we've been calling widgets. These widgets include common ones for each page, contact us boxes, section navigation, that all seem pretty easy to implement. The other widgets we would us to highlight specific pages within the site relevant to the one you are on, and are therefore different for each article. We've called these link widgets and these are a pretty common site on many websites. I'm honestly at a bit of a loss as to how to do this with Joomla. From a CMS perspective I'd like to allow users to just select which three link widgets they want when editing the article and have some way of creating the widgets within the CMS as well. Editing the link widget would allow setting a title, a bit of text and selecting the page that it links to. Am I going to be able to do this with Joomla, and if I can roughly how to I go about it ?


GoogleBot can't reach my site

For some reason, the other day, out of nowhere, Google Webmaster Tools started showing all these errors while crawling my site, saying that it couldn't reach my pages. I checked my _robots.txt_ and talked to my hosting provider and everything checks out, so I'm not sure what's wrong.


Can't access website from same network

I've setup IIS locally to host a website. I've created a free NOIP account so I can access it with a domain name. It's temporary, so I plan to assign a real domain to it later. I setup port forwarding on the router. Everything is in place. I spent hours yesterday trying to figure out why I can't access the website via my external IP / hostname. I can access it locally from the same machine using localhost. I can access it locally using another machine by using the IP address. But I can't use the hostname or external IP address. I believe it must be a router setting. Today I attempted to access the site from another network, and it works just fine using both the public IP address as well as the hostname. However, from my home network, where I'm running this, I can't use the external IP to access the site; only the internal IP. ## My question / concern Based on all of the above I'm concerned that my provider (Comcast) might be blocking access in some way, though I wouldn't have a clue as to where to start to check. Is there any reason I shouldn't be able to use an external URL to access my site? It seems I should be able to use both the internal and external IP and get the same results. Thoughts? Suggestions? ## Update To attempt to rule out a server config / Windows issue, I wiped the box, installed Ubuntu on it, and just completed a LAMP installation. Unfortunately, it has the same issue. From within my home network I can access the web page with my internal IP address, but not the external IP or hostname. On another machine, outside my home network, I can access the webpage using the external IP and hostname. I'm curious if others can access it also. If you don't mind trying and posting in the comments below, the temporary URL is http://cfsamet.noip.me. I'd be curious if anyone other than myself is having trouble accessing the site. It's the default Apache for Ubuntu page right now. ## Update #2 No luck yet. Have tried to connect internally using my MacBook, Windows, Linux, even my iPhone. All fail when using the external IP or URL, but can connect fine if I use the internal IP address. I can only assume it's a router issue, or a Comcast issue... not sure I'll get much further here. I'm mostly just stumped at this point. I've tested using http://www.gomeznetworks.com, all of their servers can access the site just fine. I've also tested using http://tools.pingdom.com. It can access the site as well. It seems that I'm the only one (from home) that can't access my site. How does that even make sense?? LOL. ## Solution Unfortunately, this was put on hold... but I did essentially find the answer to the problem. This is a hardware issue with the Comcast modem used. This link - http://forums.comcast.com/t5/Home-Networking-Router-WiFi/SMCD3G-Can-t- access-web-server-from-LAN-from-Internet-OK/m-p/1754823#M55009 - has detailed information that explains the router is re-routing requests back internally without doing a DNS lookup. This is why things fail.


How can I hide my domain name or ip from users

I'm developing a windows application in C# along with an accompanying asp.net website. Both are hosted on a web server. I wish to disguise my server ip address and/or domain name so they are not exposed to the user at any point. I designed a custom browser in C# (win app) then I just navigated user to my asp.net site. I haven't kept address bar and I disabled right click option in that browser. So the user just can view the page, cant find the server info. But the issue that I'm facing now is, when the user tries to download anything from the site, Internet Explorer's download window opens up and asks where to save. But there in the screen it shows my server ip or domain address to the user. So how can I hide that information from the user i.e. I don't want to show my server's information to my users but I want them to download or save from my site.


Low "time on site" and high bounce-rate in Japan

I'm seeing a substantially low "time on site" and high bounce rate from visitors coming from Japan. Comparing to other states, even in languages I don't speak, the stats are still dramatically worse. So I assume there's something specific to that nation, that I should understand in order to make their experience better. The content they are seeing is in Japanese, and I've also translated the head- lines, which to my surprise didn't make stats look better. The site doesn't have a mobile version, so I assume that might be part of the problem. Wanted to hear from your experience what other reasons might there be that are specific for Japan. UPDATE: The content itself was in Japanese all the time, that's the reason it attracts users from Japan. The head-lines were in English, so I only changed them.


Website Disaster Recovery Strategy using DNS

I am attempting to formulate a Disaster Recovery strategy for our company website and would like to know if the following is even possible theoretically or practically? If I ask our Domain registrar to set our Domain DNS TTL to 3600 permanently, then host our website on a second server that mirrors the primary server will I theoretically be able to switch from primary to secondary in 1 hour limiting our website downtime. Any advice would be greatly received.


SSL not working on home page

Recently set up a server for a client and installed a Comodo Positive SSL certificate. In firefox everywhere on the website I can see the padlock icon which shows the Comodo verification, except the home page. Click on any internal link and the padlock shows up. Just not on the home page which continues to say "Website does not provide identity information". The website link is here: https://justcoolgear.com Is there a configuration problem with my SSL installation or Apache config? How can I fix this so the home page validates as secure?


Cannot access Adsense funds after switching to third-party partnership program

I had a Google Adsense partnership with $80 in it, but then switched to a different partnership and now can't get my money. When I first started YouTube, I joined the Adsense partnership program. After gaining $80 in my Adsense account, I got an offer to join a third party partnership program called Zoomin.tv. I accepted, and it is paying me monthly now. The problem is that my Adsense account still has the $80 in it, and is not gaining more cash. The Zoomin.tv money is going directly to my PayPal. The payment threshold in Adsense is $100, and you can't make it lower. Therefore, my money is stuck in Adsense and I'd love a solution that allows me to access my money.


Should I block agent Wget/1.12 (linux-gnu)?

Is that a scraper? It tried accessing my site which is currently password protected for testing purposes. shall I block it?


How to build a list from Postfix maillog

I want to build a list from maillog, `maillog.x` containing something like Date, Sender's email, Recipient's Email and subject of the message filtering output emails and output domain. I've read about importing from spreadsheet program a csv file. The issue is I have to add field separators in log file. I couldn't figure out how to customize that. How can I do that, the list and the separator? This is an example of sending mail log               Jun 11 15:24:58 host postfix/cleanup[19060]: F41C660D98A0: warning: header Subject: TESTING SUBJECT from unknown[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]; from=sender@sender.com> to=recipient@recipient.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<[192.168.1.91]>     Jun 11 15:25:01 host postfix/smtp[19062]: F41C660D98A0: to=<me@me.com>, relay=mx-rl.com[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:25, delay=3.4, delays=0.66/0.01/0.86/1.9, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 <538E30D9000A1DD8> Mail accepted)      The list would contain the subject, from, and to, filtering by `to = ...@recipient.com`


Is it a good idea to use Normalize.CSS in every website?

For tablet and other mobile devices, new browsers are popping out like mushrooms, and it's practically becoming very difficult to test the rendering of every website we design on all such browsers. Is it a good idea to use Normalize.CSS on every website?


Should I decline a credit card based on IP Address

We are having a problem with a user who comes to our site to attempt to validate hundreds of credit card numbers. He will run around 400+ $1.00 transactions at a time, find some valid card numbers and then quit. This is happening with more frequency. He uses the same name and address each time and his IP address is the same. We are taking several steps to address the issue. One of the steps I would like to take is to prevent him from submitting the transaction if I see his IP address. Is it safe to do this? Could I potentially be losing legitimate sales by doing this? BTW, we use PayPal's Payflow pro service to process credit cards.


Does the source of a visitor affect the revenue for Google AdSense ads?

I'm wondering if two ad clicks are equally valued, if one of them found the site from Google, and the other came from a referral link, would that affect the revenue paid? How about with a direct visit?


Files I should have on every website

I would like to have a list of files that should exist on every website. The idea is to please most browsers and bots and get down with the number of 404 messages in the logs. So far I have the following files:   * `/favicon.ico`   * `/robots.txt`   * `/sitemap.xml`   * `/apple-touch-icon-72x72-precomposed.png`   * `/apple-touch-icon-72x72.png`   * `/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png`   * `/apple-touch-icon.png` Are there other files that get requested often and should be on every website?


Moving Feedburner to a new domain

I have a Wordpress blog (running Feedsmith plugin) that uses Feedburner for email and RSS subscribers. Currently this blog is located at `http://www.myblog.com`. I will be moving this Wordpress blog to a new domain as follows `http://newdomain.com/blog` I wonder if anyone could give me a suggestion on how to edit my Feedburner settings to avoid losing subscirbers. I've read that in the **"Edit Feed Details..."** panel of Feedburner one should change: **Feed Title** : New Blog Title **Original Feed** : `http://newdomain.com/blog/feed` **Feed Address** : **_what should this be changed to?_** Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.


Forst steps to make a project visible

Recently I launched some web project for musicians. Considering that:   * It is really optimized for search engines. Dynamic pages, sitemap, etc. - are up and running.   * It is indexed by Google. Google Webmaster account is adjusted. Google Analytics also   * It had some advertising already, but with minor result. What it the best way to promote it for free? I have read several "step-by-step" tutorials, but almost all of them say "Make SEO and wait". **Considering a kind of this project, what activities may you suggest?** **What did work with your own projects?** Please shed some light on this problem for a youngster like me. Thanks


Webhost ads say they will "Promote your site to search engines". What do they really do?

In several webhost commercials, ads, and benefits charts theres sometimes a feature where they will promote or advertise your site to search engines. Usually its part of the package but sometimes they charge money. But what do they actually do? Only thing I can think of is these sites have link farm sites, which IIRC might _hurt_ your ranking. What do they usually do? For future reference, are these features worth it?


How to approach redirecting thirty domains?

I have a client with thirty some domain names. All bought for the reason of being close to a competitors domain. They want them all to redirect to their main portal. Right now I have them pointing to the main portal but that obviously only does this: www.competitors-site.com -> goes to www.main-portal.com but still retains www.competitors-site.com in the address bar. So, is the best option then to htaccess all of these domains? -If we do that we have to put all thirty of these domains on a hosting account correct? -Can I then use one htaccess file to make sure they all get redirected properly? I am not real good with the htaccess server setting stuff that is why I ask. The idea of setting up thirty different htaccess files seems quite tedious and I would like to make sure I have explored all options before I get started on this. I suppose I could set up some sort of php header redirection too, but again that seems like a hefty amount of work.


What was this hack-bot trying to achieve via directory traversal?

I was walking through my server logs and the following kinda stunned me:               ACCESS ERROR 404 from IP 62.112.152.161:         Path: /index.php?page=weblog&env=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00          ACCESS ERROR 404 from IP 62.112.152.161:         Path: /download.php?dlfilename=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00          ACCESS ERROR 404 from IP 62.112.152.161:         Path: /download.php?filename=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00          ACCESS ERROR 404 from IP 62.112.152.161:         Path: /agb.php?lang=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00          ACCESS ERROR 404 from IP 62.112.152.161:         Path: /angemeldet.php?lang=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00      There were lot's more variations, always triyng to get the same file. They wouldn't succeed even if there was some "download.php"*, but I'm curious what would it do if they did.   Also, I wonder if there's something I can do against this BOT in more global scope, to help other webmasters who might have their site vulnerable against such attack. Unfortunatelly, HTTP headers were not registered. *I'm running on virtual server where PHP's top dir is the website's root.


Remove user avatars for search engine crawler?

I recently found out that especially my forum pages are loading slowly (it doesn't feel like it for me, but google's webmaster tools mentions 5s and more). I was wondering if this could be because user's avatars? The avatars are not hosted on my website, and some users have animated gifs or needlessly large images (>250KB). Would it be a good idea to not load avatars when a search engine visits my website? I know they will then be missing from google's cached pages, but will it speed up my website, and perhaps improve my page's ranking?


How to block certain URL from robots.txt file?

This is simple question but also I have a confusion. Below is the code which I wrote in my _robots.txt_ :               User-Agent: *     Disallow: /phpmyadmin/       Disallow: /login/     Disallow: /newsletter/     Disallow: /articlesubmission/       Allow: /          Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml      I want all bots to follow my site but they should not follow these URLs:               http://www.example.com/phpmyadmin/.....     http://www.example.com/login/.....     http://www.example.com/newsletter/.....      http://www.example.com/articlesubmission/.....       My doubt: **Is my above _robots.txt_ code is correct?**   I followed this code from StackOverflow robots.txt.


Which ISPs has the cheapest transfer?

There are a lot websites where you upload file and many people download it. I guess these servers are located in ISP where the transfer is very cheap, I guess Europe, because US has expensive transfer data. I mean sites like 4shared, yousendit, filestube, fileserve, ... and other "movie repository" sites :P Where are they usually hosted to get cheaper transfer data ? Thank you


My website is reported to belong to "Japan" on Alexa's ranking

I'm the owner of Thought Results, which is a newbie I just started. I'm an Iranian guy. But when I see Alexa's ranking, it says that my website belongs to Japan. Also Visualize Traffic reports the same thing. You can check at: http://www.alexa.com/search?q=thoughtresults.com   http://visualizetraffic.com/update.php?q=thoughtresults.com In spite of this, I'm still able to login to almost every place, including database, control panel, domain tools, etc. What does this mean? Am I hacked by somebody? Has somebody stolen my domain name?


Book / resource suggestions for learning web development? Where to start?

OK, so there's so much to know that I don't even know where to start. I'm hoping you can help me come up with a list of books to get started with. I'm interested in web applications (for example, building a custom wordpress theme or plugin), but I also want to be well-rounded and have a decent technical grasp of the web (databases, servers, networking). I'm guessing javascript and php are languages to learn first? I don't mind dry technical reading.


Symfony project on multiple servers

How can I use Symfony across multiple servers? I have a high-load project and I want to move parts of it(for example: image handlers, video handlers, registration) to other servers.


How to filter event flow by category?

I have two categories for an event. one for the website and the other for a javascript app. I want to know what's happening in the app and don't want to see the website events like page views etc. Is this possible? Also, I found that my own javascript app sends traffic to a intermediary page and it shows up. How do I prevent this from happening? I want to make sure that a particular page on my website does not get counted towards pageview.


what type of Microdata should be used for latest news?

My website publish news and articles. But in homepage I have just 2 sidebar. In one of them I publish 10 lastest news. Now I want to know what type of Microdata (schema.org) should be used this IMPORTANT sidebar? I should use 'sidebar'? Also in one of my page...I publish link of all articles...I should use for these page 'blog' Microdata?


Lining things up while using columns

I have a request that may not be possible. I'd like to line up the elements of a form so that the inputs all start at the same place:               Name:                            [                           ]     Company:                         [                           ]     Some question with a long name: [                           ]      But my list is (somewhat) long and I would like to show them in multiple columns on screens that are wide enough. Ideally, I'd find a POSH method (table-free is semantically appropriate, I think) that works on a reasonable number of browsers. My current page uses a table. I tried CSS with               columns: auto;      -moz-column-count: auto;      -moz-column-width: auto;      -webkit-column-count: auto;      -webkit-column-width: auto;      but Firefox (at least) won't break a table across columns.


Is it a legal requirement to display company registration details?

Is it a legal requirement to display company registration details (Office, country and reg no etc) on a UK Based corporate website? I know that E-Commerce websites do, under the distance selling regulations, however the site I'm working on is not e-commerce, just a corporate website.


Flat vs. Hierarchical Tree Structure

I'm a developer in the middle of the development of a medium-sized website. A requirement that we just received from the resident SEO person on the project is for all the URLs on the site be just off the root (e.g. /product-name, /small-keywords-separated-by-hyphens). Here is an example (one of a few, both I think this is the one that would potentially favor his viewpoint the most):   1. Solutions http://site.com/solutions/     * 1.1 Showcase http://site.com/showcase/     * 1.2 Healthcare http://site.com/healthcare/     * 1.3 Education http://site.com/education/     * 1.4 Residential http://site.com/residential/     * 1.5 Industrial http://site.com/industrial/ To be clear, I'm advocating a structure like: /solutions/showcase, /solutions/healthcare/, etc. To me, there are clearly defined sections of the site- there are various parts of content which seem to deserve their own place in the structure of the site. Here were his points: > Decreased keyword density for the words being targeted in the URL, the > longer the URL the less emphasis is being placed on the keywords being > targeted in the URL > > Decreased emphasis on the importance of the page from a search engine > standpoint, the further the page rests off of the root the less importance > is attributed to that page > > Decreased adaptability over time, for example when time comes to redesign > the site again in the future, suppose the navigation changes, by > incorporating the folder you have reduced your ability to re-use the URLs on > the new site and minimize any slippage in the search results > > Decreased usability for advertising the URL, suppose [company] wants to run > a print campaign on a particular [product], the shorter URL would be more > user friendly and more likely to lead to a conversion The points I made in response were around user experience and based off this document from Google. Personally I've never seen the structure he's proposing. Is this type of thing best practice for SEO? Thanks for your time.


Is there a modern (eg NoSQL) web analytics solution based on log files?

I have been using **Awstats** for many years to process my log files. But I am missing many possibilities (like cross-domain reports) and I hate being stuck with extra fields I created years ago. Anyway, I am not going to continue to use this script. Is there a modern apache logs analytics solution based on modern storage technologies like NoSQL or at least somehow ready to cope with large datasets efficiently? I am primarily looking for something that generates nice sortable and searchable outputs with the focus on web analytics, before having to write my own frontends. (so **graylog2** is not an option) This question is purely about log file based solutions.


Does registering a domain for 10+ years help search rank?

I've heard that registering a domain name for a very long time, say 5 to 10+ years, can help with your search rank. This seems at least _plausible_ to me, since a fly-by-night, massive domain name farm isn't going to bother registering their names for more than a year. Someone who registers a name for 10 years is incurring many times the expense per domain name, and that's a de-facto money tax disincentive for massively registering many domainnames. Are there any citations or other sources indicating this is in fact true?


How to using ajax for voting script

I'm trying to set up some voting logic on my site, and have the vote result update without refreshing the site. I did some research and AJAX seems to be the way to go, but I can't find a good tutorial on it. I'm doing the update to Mysql               $query = "update RR_upload set vote = vote".$vote." where id = '".$var1."'";     mysql_query($query, $connection) or die (mysql_error());      How do I make it so AJAX updates the content of the site after running the vote update?


Combining CSS files with regards to @media

We have a website where the usual speed ups from High Performance Websites and Even Faster Web Sites paid dividends. However we have neglected stylesheets (due to the difficulties laid out below) and it has finally come round to bite us, with CSS accounting for 500ms of our 1600ms page-load (the ratio of both results is pretty consistent across benchmarks - the actual numbers portrayed here are from the most convenient benchmark we have to hand). In parallel to making the selectors more efficient, the total number of HTTP requests has to be reduced. Here is an example (without `text="text/css" charset="utf-8"` for brevity):               <link rel="stylesheet" href="global.css" media="all" />     <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css" media="all" />     <link rel="stylesheet" href="print.css" media="print" />     <link rel="alternative stylesheet" href="print.css" media="all" title="Print" />      This would appear to be a common setup (global stylesheet, per page/category stylesheet and print layout) yet we are having real troubles figuring out a workable solution due to every option having a double edged sword:   * global.css and page.css can be combined, however global.css would be downloaded again and again alongside page.css (as page.css is per category/special page) if the user kept jumping to special pages/categories and should be served on its own   * print.css file can be combined and use CSS2 @media rules, but that wouldn't work with CSS1 browsers (this site has to work with IE6)   * the version of print.css linked using `rel="alternative stylesheet" media="all" title="Print"` does not appear to be necessary, yet the developers have Cargo Culted it on every project without knowing what it does and we are fearful of removing it As this seems such a common setup what have others done when faced with a similar setup?, can anyone shed some light on alternative stylesheets for print?, is there a novel approach to the above?


From text navigation links to rollover images - SEO/Google Sitelinks concerns

I operate a web site that is very well indexed by Google. We hit all our keyword targets pretty much and rank really well. We have Google sitelinks etc. For the last couple of years I've been using sifr/cufon text replacement for our navigation bar links (so text is beautified to some font). This hasn't impacted our sitelinks, in fact they "appeared" shortly after I started using Cufon, but this is more down to the age of the site, frequency of content updates etc. I'm sure. My concern is, we have a new design going live soon that does away with text navigation links (home, about us, news etc.) and replaces them with rollover images. This isn't really optional due to the way to design has been put together - I simply have to use these image rollovers. My primary concern is, if I do this, I risk losing my sitelinks because Google might have issues crawling the navigation links/buttons as they are images. I've spent a lot of time reading up on SEO impact on switching to using images instead of text links for site navigation and there are a lot of conflicting articles/views on it.   1. ALT tags: Some of the articles I have read state that simply using an Alt tag on my rollover navigation images (e.g. the Home Page text link which is listed as a sitelink on our Google listing, would become and image with an alt tag of "Home Page" thus hopefully preserving the Google sitelink as "Home Page"?)   2. TITLE tags: Some articles state using a combination of Alt and Title tags (set up as point 1).   3. Text-indent: Some articles suggest using both of the above and "hide" a text link of the button underneath it... In addition to this, some sites have thrown doubt on the best method to use to implement the rollovers.   1. IMG tag with CSS styling.   2. CSS Sprites: Some say to use them with Alt/title some say to use IMG tag only. So my question is, what is the safest combination of the above to go for in order for me to preserve our sitelinks on Google and indeed allow other search engines to crawl the rollover images without issue? I appreciate it is best to use text but as I say, I really need to use these graphics instead. If someone could help me with this (preferably someone with direct experience with this, rather than assumptions and guesses) I'd really appreciate it.


is RapidSSL wildcard cert supported by major browsers?

I'm thinking of buying a wildcard SSL cert from clickSSL : http://www.clickssl.com/rapidssl/rapidsslwildcard.aspx That would be a rapidssl certificate, and I was looking into my firefox options to see if RapidSSL is in the list of recognized Authorities. My certificate manager doesn't mention RapidSSL anywhere. Am I looking for the wrong name, e.g. is rapidssl recognized by browsers under a different name? I want to be sure that this certificate is working in all major browsers (including IE6)


How to organize /var/www/ for multiple users and vhosts in apache

I've been creating new directories for each site in the var folder like this:   * /var/www -- localhost -- owned by localuser:www-data (+setuid/setguid)   * /var/www-somesite -- somesite.com, somesiteuser:somesitegroup (+setuid/setguid)   * /var/www-anothersite -- anothersite.org, anothersiteuser:anothersitegroup (+setuid/setguid) A virtual host points is associated to each of these directories. The apache user www-data is a member of somesitegroup and anothersitegroup Is there a better practice I should be following for this?


What are the pros of installing multiple user behavior tracking frameworks on the same website?

What are the pros of installing G   * Google Analytics   * Webtrends   * Quantcast .. and several other user behavior tracking frameworks _all in same website?_ Don't they give same set of results? I just know installing all of them will slow down the sites, but why people keep doing this?


Videos from Youtube/Vimeo not displaying in iframes

I was giving a webinar about HTML today in Brackets. When showing how to use iframes, all my students managed to insert Google Maps using iframes but no one was able to make the YouTube and Vimeo iframes work (we used the code provided by the services themselves in the embed sections). It worked for me, no hassle (in Brackets, just like them). From what I was told (we had to do without screen sharing this time unfortunately), Live Preview (Brackets browser) displayed the area but with a sad face icon instead of video. I thought it might be due to the Brackets browser but I had a participant working in NotePad++ who was saving to desktop and opening in a regular browser, it didn't work for them either. My students were mostly teachers, probably assisting the webinar while in their institutions. I raised the hypothesis that possibly videos were filtered in their workplace but someone said they can normally use YouTube (directly that is). I checked the code for one of the iframes and everything seemed fine. One of my participants eventually got a workaround, by adding **https** to the URL like so:               <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/80476161" ...      This is the trick my students use to bypass the school filters to access Facebook. Could that confirm my doubts about iframes getting blocked by something in the environment of my participants? What do you think is going wrong here?


How to add domain to hosting?

I created a hosting (free) and register a free domain at another site. How to configure it to work site. Hosting says: > Please change the DNS of your domain to the following and allow 24-48 hours > for the DNS update: dns1.freehostia.com dns2.freehostia.com But at domain site I have three fields:   1. HOST    2. Type(A, CNAME)    3. IPv4


Prevent an associate from changing the Joomla administrator password that they know?

How is it possible to prevent my freelancer from changing behind my back the Joomla! administrator's password used for getting to the backend of the Site and that I was compelled to let him know for carrying out his duty? Is there the possibility of forbidding such a fraud? Is there any warning to me, should that freelancer try to change the password?


Problem with calling the reporting service from web app in IIS 7.5 - HTTP Error 401.1 – Unauthorized

I have the web application that runs under the account that has delegation rights. The app calls the reporting service on the another server and passes the user credentials by               ReportingService rs = new ReportingService();     rs.UseDefaultCredentials = true;     rs.PreAuthenticate = true;     rs.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;      Everything is working fine in IIS 6. However, exactly the same code throws the HTTP Error 401.1 – Unauthorized when it runs in IIS 7.5. I believe this is double-hop issue (it works if I hard-coded the credentials). I checked all the IIS settings and do not see what may cause that. There is no restriction on any IP addresses and the web server and the reporting servers are in the same forest. The site has the Full .Net Trust Level and no secure binding (HTTPS). For site authentication I have ASP.Net Impersonation and Windows Authentication enabled. And for Windows Authentication, I have Enable Kernel- mode authentication and NTLM and Negotiate providers. The most puzzled thing is that it is working in IIS 6, but not in IIS 7.5. So there is definitely something specific in IIS 7.5 that I am missing. Could anyone help me with this problem? Any suggestions and help are greatly appreciated.


How should "AdSense and DoubleClick" phrase in Google Webmaster Guidelines be interpreted?

I was reading Google Webmaster Guidelines and came across a phrase I do not understand. > Make reasonable efforts to ensure that advertisements do not affect search > engine rankings. For example, Google's AdSense ads and DoubleClick links are > blocked from being crawled by a robots.txt file. I tried searching Google and here for more explanation, but no luck. Are they saying that we _should_ be blocking something or _should not_ be blocking something? And blocking what exactly? I know they want sites to use rel="nofollow" on paid links. But those would be external links that are not controlled by my robots.txt file. Can someone explain this to me, with examples if possible?


Help regarding ugrading iis on windows xp

i am right now on windows xp and iis v5.1, Can i upgrade this to IISv6.0 on windows xp, is it supported. IF so where should i download the installation file for it.


Why does this .htaccess loop?

if I try to redirect any page on a certain domain to one specific page (SEO does not matter, here), this ends in a loop - but I don't get why:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/page\.html$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/page.html [R=302,L]      I am able to use the same page in a positive second condition:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/page\.html$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http_://_domain.com/other-page.html [R=302,L]      Please, enlighten me. TIA Complete _.htaccess_ file added ("myedit"s and "Custom redirects" are mine):               AddDefaultCharset utf-8     # myedit: added default charset          ##     # @package      Joomla     # @copyright    Copyright (C) 2005 - 2012 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.     # @license      GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt     ##          ##     # READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE!     #     # The line just below this section: 'Options +FollowSymLinks' may cause problems     # with some server configurations.  It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already     # be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in     # your .htaccess file.  If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to     # beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url's.  If they work,     # it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here.     ##          # myedit: added (though probably not necessary, here)     Options -Indexes          ## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.     Options +FollowSymLinks          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     ## Mod_rewrite in use.     RewriteEngine On          ##     # Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL     # is not directly related to physical file paths.     # Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root).     ##     # myedit: moved up from below "Custom redirects"; may not be needed     #RewriteBase /          ## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.     # If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below     # This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla!     #     # Block out any script trying to base64_encode data within the URL.     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*\([^)]*\) [OR]     # Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL.     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]     # Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL.     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]     # Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL.     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})     # Return 403 Forbidden header and show the content of the root homepage     RewriteRule .* index.php [F]     #     ## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.          ## Begin - Custom redirects     #     # If you need to redirect some pages, or set a canonical non-www to     # www redirect (or vice versa), place that code here. Ensure those     # redirects use the correct RewriteRule syntax and the [R=301,L] flags.          # Kill www     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain1\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule (.*) http://domain1.com/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain2\.de$ [NC]     RewriteRule (.*) http://domain2.com/$1 [R=301,L]     # Should be faster, but nogo - strange, IfModule does work     #<If "req('Host') == 'www.domain2.com'">     # Redirect / http://domain2.com/     #</If>     # More general rule, If we _wanted_ www - does "http_host - www" exist?     #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.     #RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]          # Get the right page for domain2.com     #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain2\.com$ [NC]     #RewriteRule ^(.*)/page\.html$ /other-page.html [L]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain2\.com$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/page\.html$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.de/page.html [R=302,L]          # Redirect /+ to google+     #Redirect 301 /+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/id-here/about          # Shortlink for google maps     #RewriteRule ^$ http://goo.gl/maps/short-url-here [R,L]          # ErrorDocument - nogo, needs joomla extension?     #ErrorDocument 404 /404.html          #     ## End - Custom redirects          ## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section.     #     RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]     #     # If the requested path and file is not /index.php and the request     # has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php     # and the request is for something within the component folder,     # or for the site root, or for an extensionless URL, or the     # requested URL ends with one of the listed extensions     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/|(/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC]     # and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     # and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     # internally rewrite the request to the index.php script     RewriteRule .* index.php [L]     #     ## End - Joomla! core SEF Section.     </IfModule>


Testing the application

We are nearing finish of the web application done in RoR (it is Social website). I am not RoR person, I am just JS/Jquery side. All of us do not have much experience with big applications, and this is the first one we have ever done (not counting small apps). It look and feels ok, but except normal testing done by humans we have not used another testing available. What can you recommend me to do? What programs are out there that I can use to stress the application and create scenarios? Some application that will crawl all around the place and find problems/vulnerabilities that we have not yet detected? I am walking blind here, so any help is kindly appreciated. :)


Has Google stopped offering it's "Weighted" Analytics sorting filter?

I am trying to better evaluate my user's engagement and came across a feature of Google Analytics that I didn't know about, Weighted Sort. This is supposed to sort by bounce rate and also time on page, however it appears unselectable in my GA account ![see screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/818lw.jpg). Can anyone verify that it is no longer offered? Or do I need to configure it somewhere else? I couldn't find any reference online to this feature being disabled in the new version of Analytics


Cannot alter file permission on server (550). Is this because I have no domain name?

I am building a site on a CMS (modx) for a client who has not decided on their domain name. I have access to WHM so just set up an account with out pointing any domain name to it and began developing just using the URL `http://example.com/~newsite` Everything seemed to be going well until I installed TinyMCE (the WYSIWYG text editor) which allows you to browse and upload images on the server and add them to page content. The editor worked fine but I just couldn't access any files on the web server. Looking into the issue I saw that many files that were part of TinyMCE were non executalbe (644). I tried changing them but got a 550 error, eg: `550 Could not change perms on jquery-1.4.2.js: Operation not permitted` Could this be something to do with the way I am accessing the files on FTP? I am using the hosting servers IP address as the host, rather than a hostname. Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks


Google search results show my title incorrectly twice

Does anyone know why Google shows my title twice in search results? And it's the wrong title too. Here's a screenshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QOAVf.png)


Only Google showing meta title twice in google

My Site meta title appearing twice in google but it is showing good in Structured Data Testing Tool and showing good too in other search engines


Should mobile webpages have hreflang links to non-mobile pages?

My site has multilingual links, which are specified like this on non-mobile pages:                <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://mydomain.com/page" />      <link rel="alternate" hreflang="jp" href="http://ja.mydomain.com/page" />      <link rel="alternate" hreflang="ko" href="http://ko.mydomain.com/page" />      In addition, these non-mobile pages link to a mobile version:                   <link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="/mobile/page" />      Now the question is about what links should be in the mobile page, which isn't translated to different languages now. Is this enough:                 <link rel="canonical" href="/page"/>      Or should I also have the same group of hreflangs that point to non-mobile pages?


Using a canonical link with non-duplicate pages

I want to use canonical tag for `index.php` and all versions of `index.php` below:                 index.php           index.php?something         index.php?somethingsomething        I also have URLs like: `someproduct.html` However, I am using packaged software and cannot add a canonical link to just `index.php` and its variations, the software will also add it to `someproduct.html`. Do you know how Google will respond to `someproduct.html` page if I do this?


From a SEO point of view, is it wise to use exactly the same page `title` value and `keyword`/`description` meta tag values not only as _meta information_ , but also as _page content_? An example illustrates what I mean. Thanks for any answer, best regards.               <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"             "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">               <title>Meta tags again. Good or bad to use them as page content?</title>     <meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="Why it is wise to use (or not) page title, meta tags description and keyword values as page content.">     <meta name="KEYWORDS" content="seo,meta,tags,cms,content">
Meta tags again. Good or bad to use them as page content?

Why it is wise to use (or not) page title, meta tags description and keyword values as page content.

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I created my homepage html file, but

I have my homepage html file, lets call it home.html Technically, to get to that file, my user would need to go to www.example.com/home.html no? How do I do it so www.example.com automatically runs home.html without any redirections?


How to 301 redirct all incoming requests to a domain to another domain?

I have a WordPress blog running on an Apache2 server currently that I need to completely move to a new domain name. `http://www.somesite.com/` to `http://www.someothersite.com` I need all requests to that domain to be redirected to a new domain name. Can this be done with .htaccess? If so what's the rule to be used?


Is there any benefit to put rel='nofollow' on mailto links?

Since bots have a fixed budget to spend to crawl websites on a regular basis, does it makes sense to mark `mailto` links with `rel='nofollow'` to make sure them don't spend time on these (especially if these are present on every page)? Example:               Contact


Should I 'mark as fixed' deleted pages in Google Webmaster Tools?

I have deleted a couple of thousand pages from a website. They do not appear in my _sitemap.xml_ and no other pages on the web are pointing to these anymore. Google Webmaster Tools (GWT)'s _crawl error_ pages starts to report them as not found. There is an option to mark them as fixed. Should I mark them as fixed? They are not really fixed and won't ever be fixed. There is also a _remove URLs_ page, but there is no way I will manually remove those pages one by one (REM: those pages are not in a single directory, they were all over the place, so there is no _robots.txt_ directive I could use). If Google does not find a page, does it automatically remove it from its index, or if we mark it as fixed, does it try to reach it over and over again?


Control Content Hosting, DNS Hosting and Registration with command line?

I am fed up with Blogger's odd error msgs and Go Daddy's automatic replies to questions. They have never mentioned the word " **DNS Hosting** " to me, apparently the thing I am missing. I would really love to learn things, instead of learn to "click" things. I want to see what happens at the background. So is it possible that I do everything (3 things below)?   1. DNS hosting <---- ?? by whom is this thing controlled?   2. content hosting <--- needs some laptop   3. Registration <-- needs ICANN approval ok, I am totally lost with this mess but I am looking for a simpler way to control things. I would really love a powerful commandline access and edit things in files (instead of Go Daddy's click this that blaaH). Anyone solved this problem for powerusers more simply?


How to promote a site that sells specific software if all places where potential buyers hang prohibit advertisement?

Let's consider an abstract situation: We develop a commercial plugin for Joomla that does something. For example it turns all normal links into SEO links (I know it's trivial but it's just an example). Now we want to reach people. We add our software webpage to the most obvious places like Google Ads, software directory websites, etc.. However the first thing that comes to mind is to actually let Joomla users and SEO folks know about this software. And then comes the problem: all such places (Joomla forum, various big SEO forums) prohibit advertisement. What is the way to deal with that? It's quite natural that I want to let Joomla users know about software that might help them but at the same I can't break rules. I can think of tricks like creating topics that would pretend to not have ads (e.g. "did anyone use this plugin, is it good?") but I don't want to go that path very much.


Conveying website hierarchy using page title. Any conventions?

I was thinking of using a format like: `[SpecificPageName - ]SiteName - SectionName`   * StackOverflow - Download   * StackOverflow - Contact   * StackOverflow - Forum      * hey guys my 1st post - StackOverflow - Forum     * this site has nice titles - StackOverflow - Forum However, I don't really see the last two examples used anywhere. Apple sometimes uses a `:` to signify a specific page in section:   * hey guys my 1st post: StackOverflow - Forum But the use of a `:` eeks me out a bit. Anyone know a good convention for this?


Tracking form abandonment

I'm looking for a decent way to track form abandonment. Ideally, I would like to see how many people start filling out a form but do not complete it, as well as the last field that was filled out. The website is a fairly large Wordpress site with quite a few forms. Some of these forms are to register for events, some are for donations, some are for information requests. My first attempt at this was adding a generic jquery that bound functions to all forms on the site. When a form element was blurred, I would trigger a Google Analytics event with the name of the form, the name of the field, and whether or not it was filled. I expected to be able to go to the Event Flow section in Google Analytics and see the flow of these form events, however since there are so many forms and other events occurring on the website, Google wouldn't let me break them out very well. The other issue was the Quform doesn't name their fields anything relevant, and it doesn't look like we can name them ourselves. This results in a lot of ugly form names that don't mean anything without cross-referencing the actual form. Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can achieve more usable form abandonment metrics in a scenario like this?


Godaddy multiple domain problem

I have godaddy deluxe plan and here is my problem: I have two domains for example: `e1.com` and `e2.com`. Both are hosted in same hosting plan. First I created a folder for each domain in the root folder and uploaded two web site but when I'm trying to run my sites, the URL for e1 always shows `http://e1.com/e1/` and for e2 it shows `http://e2.com/e2`. Can I avoid showing e1 and e2 folder and only show `http://e1.com` and `http://e2.com`? Thank you.


The SEO benefit of breaking up content onto different websites

I have a client who's been told that breaking up his content onto multiple websites will give him an SEO boost. I'm wondering if this is true. Let me break it down thus...   * the client has bought multiple domain names   * he does training in VMware, ITIL, Novel, Citrix, etc.   * he wants to make **_1_** website which just talks about vmware training, **_1_** website which talks about novel training, **_1_** website on Citrix, etc.   * each website would use a related domain name (e.g. the VMware specific website would use `www.vmwaretrainingmelbourne.com.au`)   * all the websites use the same design/layout (you can tell its the same company) Will breaking up the site in this way really provide better Google rankings?


How to filter out Yottaa bots traffic in Google Analytics?

I'm using both Google Analytics and Yottaa for my website. Yottaa bots send quite a lot a traffic (relatively to the normal traffic of my website), and thus my Google Analytics is kind of flooded by that. I don't know how to tell Yottaa bots traffic and normal human traffic apart on Google Analytics. How to do that?


Cropping images & SEO

So I have a page with a bunch of images with largely varying sizes. Also the layout of the page is such that the images are all in the shape of square tiles, so just resizing will cause distorted images. What I've been doing previously is when users upload images, I resize and crop them appropriately and display the new image as the thumbnail and load full image when user clicks on it. However, I just realized this is an issue with SEO as google will crawl the thumbnails and stick the thumbnails on Google Images instead of the full images. Is there any way to show a cropped/resized image but have Google Image show the full image? I can do something with css using an enclosing div and overflow:hidden, but I'd imagine the performance on that would be pretty bad. Any suggestions? Thanks! PS. I saw this (Make google index the actual image not the thumbnail), but in my case I have users continuously uploading images, and the database of images is always changing and pretty big (thousands), so sitemap will be pretty unwieldy..


Is there any good hosting for asp.net and MySQL

I have an account with a hosting company and I have made a project in asp.net and I have used MySQL for the database but... the hosting company has not given my account enough privileges to create a new user or to create new stored procedure. When I contacted them I was informed the following: > Due to the shared nature of our environment we had to make some > modifications to your procedure (namely the definer). We also had to review > your procedure to determine if it would be compatible with our environment. > > While your procedures will work (via phpMyAdmin or some other interface), it > is unlikely they will be accessible via the Connector/.NET (ADO.NET) that > your application is likely using. This is due to a security restriction with > how that connector works in shared environments. > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/connector-net-programming-stored.html > > "Note > > When you call a stored procedure, the command object makes an additional > SELECT call to determine the parameters of the stored procedure. You must > ensure that the user calling the procedure has the SELECT privilege on the > mysql.proc table to enable them to verify the parameters. Failure to do this > will result in an error when calling the procedure." > > Unfortunately, giving read privileges on the mysql.proc table will give you > access to the data of our other customers and that is not an acceptable > risk. If your application can only work using stored procedures, then MSSQL > will probably be the better option for your site. > > I apologize for the inconvenience and the wait to have this ticket > completed. This is one of the procedures that my application will need to perform on the database, I believe this is simple and it should not harm others in 'Shared Environments':               -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------     -- Routine DDL     -- Note: comments before and after the routine body will not be stored by the server     -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------     DELIMITER $$          CREATE DEFINER=`root`@`localhost` PROCEDURE `SpcategoriesRead`(         IN PaRactioncode VARCHAR(5),         IN PaRCatID BIGINT,         IN PaRSearchText TEXT     )     BEGIN          -- CREATING TEMPORARY TABLE TO SAVE DATA FROM THE ACTIONCODE SELECTS --          DROP TEMPORARY TABLE IF EXISTS TEMP;          CREATE temporary table tmp     (         CatID BIGINT primary key not null,         CatTitle TEXT,         CatDescription TEXT,         CatTitleAr TEXT,         CatDescriptionAr TEXT,         PictureID BIGINT,         Published BOOLEAN,         DisplayOrder BIGINT,         CreatedOn DATE     );          IF PaRactioncode = 1 THEN -- Retrive all DATA from the database --         INSERT INTO tmp         SELECT CatID,CatTitle,CatDescription,CatTitleAr,CatDescriptionAr,PictureID,Published,DisplayOrder,CreatedOn         FROM tbcategories;     ELSEIF PaRactioncode = 2 THEN -- Retrive all from the database By ID --         INSERT INTO tmp         SELECT CatID,CatTitle,CatDescription,CatTitleAr,CatDescriptionAr,PictureID,Published,DisplayOrder,CreatedOn           FROM tbcategories         WHERE CatID=PaRCatID;     ELSEIF PaRactioncode = 3 THEN -- NOSET YET --         INSERT INTO tmp         SELECT CatID,CatTitle,CatDescription,CatTitleAr,CatDescriptionAr,PictureID,Published,DisplayOrder,CreatedOn          FROM tbcategories         WHERE Published=1          ORDER BY DisplayOrder;       END IF;           IF PaRSearchText IS NOT NULL THEN         set PaRSearchText=concat('%', PaRSearchText ,'%');         SELECT CatID,CatTitle,CatDescription,CatTitleAr,CatDescriptionAr,PictureID,Published,DisplayOrder,CreatedOn         FROM tmp         WHERE Concat(CatTitle, CatDescription, CatTitleAr, CatDescriptionAr)         LIKE  PaRSearchText;      ELSE          SELECT CatID,CatTitle,CatDescription,CatTitleAr,CatDescriptionAr,PictureID,Published,DisplayOrder,CreatedOn         FROM tmp;         END IF;           DROP TEMPORARY TABLE IF EXISTS tmp;            END      So my question is: Does anyone know any good hosting companies that they have personally used that will enable me to publish my Asp.net and MySQL project without these limitations?


Using both Google Analytics and Chartbeart

I'm thinking of trying out Chartbeat. I want to keep the Analytics code in there. Is there a noticable impact on performance for the visitor if both are used?


What's the point of placing self links on a webpage?

I often see links on webpages that link to the page itself. For example on forums, blogs and even here the topic title is a link and points to the page itself. What's the point of doing this?


I'm on Charter's email blacklist, how do I get removed?

I am a programmer in a local government agency. I found out today when I got to work that Charter Internet has blacklisted us for our mailing list that we run. This list is used for communicating news and alerts for our residents. Does anyone have a phone # I can use to contact Charter about this? Normally the email approach is fine, but we have yet another snow storm coming and 75 of our customers won't be alerted to a snow emergency if we have one and may possibly be towed as a result.


Is there a way that is more efficient than sitemap to add/force recrawl/remove your website's index entries in google?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  StackOverflow and Google search I'll make it more simple: Right now I am posting this question, after a minute or two... may be it will appear on google search query: "stackexchange more efficient way sitemap" as a google indexed page. My question is: is this done ONLY BY changes performed in sitemap.xml of STACKEXCHANGE.COM, or there is something else, and other more efficient ways to reindex pages of big dynamic sites so fast and accurate?


How does Stack Overflow have questions appear in Google so quickly?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  StackOverflow and Google search I have noticed while asking questions on Stack Overflow that they appear in Google almost instantly. How does SO do this? Is it a feed or an auto-updated site map?


How to get google reference newest pages

Like stackoverflow, you see some very recent pages , even 1 hour old pages, how do you get google to come to my website and reference pages as soon as they are present ?   thanks!


Stack overflow like SEO - How is it done?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  StackOverflow and Google search this is a question purely for learning purpose. I have noticed that this site has an incredible power of appearing in search engines.   Questions as new as 2 days old appear on search results. Can someone please advise me or point me towards resources on how to make a website this versatile towards SEO? I did a brief search and came up with these: 1) **Submit xml site map to search engines** - this is really going to be a log, as there are tonnes of questions generated every day. If this is infact the way to go, how often should I submit the sitemap and where? 2) **have each page contain it's own unique title and meta tags (desc, keywords)** - How will I know what goes into each page to make key words out of it? The main thing that escapes my brain is, how would each question (the title is different, so as far as the search engine is concerned, it's a new page) - how would I tell the engines that I have a new page? Thanks.


What effects that new content shows on Google right away?

When I post a question or content on some websites (for example StackOverFlow is a great example) and then when I search on Google for same content, I can see my question/content on search results in less than 5 minutes! What are the key points to achieve that for our websites, so we would not need to wait for days or weeks to googlebot to hit our websites and show them on the search results? My first thoughts are,   * pagerank should be high,    * website should be in top 10,000 of most visited websites (should be very popular)   * google should trust this website (I do not know if they have a kind of trusted label),    * dynamically ping google (maybe via api?) there let google know there is a new content or reindex website content.   * do nothing special, just apply basic SEO techniques (like page titles, meta tags, h1 tags etc) and google will eventually show your content right away? Is there any thoughts on this?


How to inform Google that a site is back up

A site I developed a year ago was ranking very well in Google for certain keywords. The domain name expired and no one noticed for about a week. It is fixed now, but the site is no longer in any Google searches. How can I tell Google the site is back?


How important is Readability i.e Flesch/Flesch–Kincaid Readability Tests

It has been my understanding for some time that Google uses readability tests similar to Flesch. **While I understand readability is important for user experience** I'd like to know the importance for SEO/User experience. For the community of Pro Webmasters who know me, I'm always the first to scream out write for your audience not the search engines. However, you may consider your writing good while your audience doesn't, the search engines doesn't, etc. I'm a true believer that you a should always get someone else to proof read your stuff before you hit the good old submit button, however this is not always possible, especially for those who operate a one man army. Is Flesch or anything similar to be taken seriously for both user experience and SEO. I appreciate this question may appear opinionated on the surface, however I'm not looking for 'I think this or that', preferably I'd like well constructed answers citing Google or anyone else highly respected in terms of readability importance and how to directly affects SEO.


"(not set)" in Google Analytics

Since 1 mounth, I see many pages tagged "(not set)" in the navigation summary section. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/cJKdU.png) If I look for global traffic evolution for this tag, it is alwas 0. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/8rf5Y.png) Where do this kind of tag can comme from ?


Browsers with pop-up blocker enabled by default

I'm trying to convince a client that adding pop-up or pop-unders isn't worthwhile. The argument "pop-ups are annoying and your users won't return" doesn't work because it's not the kind of site that people will visit regularly -- just buy and leave. I'd like to be able to look at the site's traffic data and point to the very high percentage of users who are using browsers which not only have pop-up blockers but have them turned on by default. Can anybody provide a list of browser versions which have the pop-up blocker enabled in the standard installation? Alternately, are there other good data points which demonstrate the ineffectiveness of pop-ups?


any open-souce system for online ticket sale?

Hi All: Is there any open source project that can be used to build a on-line ticket sales system, like: ticketmaster or eventbrite etc..? Thanks!


How can I check memory usage for each cPanel account?

Currently I have 4 cPanel accounts running on my VPS. I need to check the memory (RAM) usage for each account on the VPS to identify which of them is using high resources in order to ban. I opened the "Daily Process Log" in WHM but it is not showing the username or which accounts exactly uses resources. WHM displayes the following under the "User" column: root, nobody, mysql, dovenull, dovecot, mailnull, mailman, sshd, named, DELAYED, leechprotect, eximstats


What are the ways to get included in Google Alerts mails

There is a news website / blog - I'll call it the Site from now on. The site mention a keyword in one of its articles. I add a Google Alerts for the keyword, but I do not get any alert for the word from The Site. Furthermore, searching the keyword in the news section don't getting any results from The Site. The Site has a sitemap, that indexed by Google every x minutes. And in the main search, searching for a news title bring the item on the top. What are the best ways to get included in Google Alerts mails?


is there a good registrar for .com.br and .it?

I am searching a good registrar (not godaddy) for               .com.br      .it     .fr     .de     .ch     .es      Is there someone who can take it all?   I would go with Enom but it hasn't `.fr .com.br .ch .es` Thanks guys


Changing www.sitename.com/administrator

How to change `www.sitename.com/administrator` to `www.sitename.com/administratorSr5£d?€-^@L` (or anything similar) in order to make it very very hard for any spiteful person or hacker to reach the backend even if, somehow, he was able to identify the username and password?


Keyword density importance for keyphrase vs keyword

If i need to optimize page for the keyphrase which consists of 4 words e.g. _"keyword density best practice"_. What if the the keyword density of the phrase _"keyword density"_ is over optimized(e.g.40%). Would keyword stuffing for _"keyword density"_ phrase be considered while ranking page for the query _"keyword density best practice"_?


Google+1 button strategy - Combined +1s or separate +1s?

I have included the Google+1 button on my blog. Each post outputs a +1 button on the bottom. Depending if you are viewing the actual post or just the main page the +1 button will "+1" either the post address or blog website address. This made me think for a bit if the +1 button should be configured to +1 the blog section (www.example.org/blog), +1 the main website address (www.example.org), or +1 individual posts?


Online dead link alert service

I'm looking for an online service that will periodically (daily) check for broken links on my site (~100 pages). I see lots of tools that you can download and run, and indeed have used such tools in the past. But this seems like an obvious task for an online service: sign up, tell it my URL, then it would only email me if there are more broken links today than there were yesterday. My organisation's web site is not our major focus, and it's only a small part of my job. Hence the need to completely automate tasks where possible.


Setting up a subdomain for an already existing subfolder

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Subfolder won't permenantly redirect to subdomain I have a forum installed in a subdirectory (http://www.example.com/forums/), but I want to have it accessed through forums.example.com and all traffic from the subdirectory passed to the subdomain. From what I can read online this is a little bit harder since the subdirectory and subdomain would be the same name. I'm on a shared server so I can't setup the subdomain outside the root folder and ideally I want to still have it setup so other scripts I use outside of the forums can access the /forums/ subfolder (i.e. DOCUMENT_ROOT using PHP). I'm not well versed at all in this so any help would be appreciated.


What is this chargeback scam from eBooks bought on my website?

We have a scammer that is buying our e-Books and then performing chargebacks. Our e-Books don't have DRM, so if they wanted to resell them, they would only need to buy each book once. But instead, they keep buying the same books over and over again and then performing hundreds of chargebacks. We have created some additional rules in our fraud protection tools to block certain aspects, even though all the info looks legit, and are hopeful this will slow them down. But my question is: What is the scam? If they aren't getting any product and they only get chargebacks for something they already purchased, then they can't get additional money from the credit card company, so then what's their motivation?


Web designer's link back to own website (rel="designer" / rel="nofollow")

I read somewhere that web designers' habit of placing a default "follow" link in the footer of their client websites is bad for SEO. Is this true? If so, should we use `rel="nofollow"` instead. I have seen `rel="designer"` in some free WordPress themes.


Recommended Site Redundancy Options

I am developing a site for a client who is emphasizing "no downtime allowed". Now even cloud hosting doesn't provide a 100% up-time promise, so I've been thinking about mirrored hosting, where if one host goes down, the other takes over. I am unsure how I'd go about setting the DNS to switch on an outage and this is running low budget, as it's a non-profit organization. If anyone has experience doing this, I'd like to know the best way to go about it. The site is LAMP. I did think about adding disallow in the robots.txt for the duplicate site to avoid SEO penalties, but other than that am running blind, so any advice would be gladly received.


Applying a CSS style to drop-down list

I have a PHP function to display all my custom taxonomies in a drop-down list, but I don't like the drop down menu style. I want to change the look of it. How can I customize its look?


How to style a div on the home page like a blog post

I have a theme. Because I don't have a static home page, a list of my latest posts is my home page. I want to add a drop-down box which I have coded on my starting home page which should remain static (just for home section). For this, I tried to code it in `index.php`, but the problem is the box is outside that. It is not coming up. I mean that the post is wrapped in a box content, the same as I want for my drop-down menu. See this image, with HELLO text: ![](http://i55.tinypic.com/bgvkgx.jpg) Normally it is coming in simple line, but I want it to be wrapped in a box, like the posts. I know that I just need to put a small `div` and `p` tag. I tried, but maybe my position is wrong, can anyone help me here


PHP framework to use on GoDaddy host with no shell access

I'm a Ruby-on-Rails developer but am trying to develop a site to run on a GoDaddy Economy hosting account. This means I don't have Ruby and Rails available so I've decided to go with PHP 5 since the economy hosting _does_ provide that. So to ease development I want a PHP framework (ideally Rails- like like, say, Akelos) that I can install and configure on my GoDaddy site _without having shell access to the hosting server_. Does anybody have any recommendations or experience with similar?


Meta Keywords Optimization Best Way to Proceed?

I am on a wallpapers blog project... When i generate leech pages I put in the tags about that image in meta information... But i also need to tell that these are wallpapers... So what is the best way to do it... like for an iron man wallpaper i would do this               <meta name="keywords" content="iron , man , tony , stark" />      _**Should I be adding wallpapers to the keywords?..._**


Should a domain be accessible via IP as well?

I have a domain which is accessible through the domain name of course. However, it seats on a unique IP, as it is hosted on a VPS. But I can't access it through that unique IP (I'm getting into a default page of my webhost). I noticed that some other websites, are accessible through their IP as well (which I find out by whois). So, is it a good thing that I'm missing? maybe it can be good for SEO? my host says that If they somehow configure the IP to the content of the domain, it could mess some configurations up... not very savvy in that field.


How to show different pages based on keyword search in Google?

Whenever I search with any keyword of my website it showing only the homepage result, why not it showing the related page for that keyword. For example: if I search with keyword _Properties For Rent_ it's displaying only my homepage (`www.example.com`) instead of related page (`www.example.com/rent`), but some of the website showing the related page for that keyword. Please suggest me how do I achieve this in Google SERPs?


Using copyrighted images on website that generates CPA based revenue?

What I want to do is use copyrighted blizzard images throughout my site. Their copyright policy is as follows: http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/legal-faq.html The website generates revenue by guiding a user to fill out CPA offers with a content locker. My concern is that because I will be using Blizzard images I will be violating their "non-commercial" use clause. I'm not selling their images for direct profit _BUT_ their images are on a website that generates revenue through other means. This concern extends to other situations where I want to use copyrighted images on a website that generates revenue. Thoughts?


How do I have Google not index any of my site, except my domain?

Disallow: /      I want Google to index the index page, but nothing else. Will this achieve it?


Web Server Directory / URL question

Ok..So I know this is an easy question, but I just don't know. Given the URL:               http://mail.google.com/      What is mail? Is that a directory or what? I have a domain, and I want to put a webpage on an address like this..how would I go about doing that? I would like to have:               http://mypage.mydomain.com/


Embedding my website's videos in Facebook?

Is there a way I can make the videos on my website embedabble in Facebook the same way Youtube's videos are?


Incorrect Meta information in Google

Google shows up incorrect meta info (title & description) in search engine results for an add domain and the information is of the domain which is the primary domain of the hosting account. I mentioned this fact because add-on domains are in a sub-directory of the primary domain. Any ideas what could be the reason?


Leveraging a facebook app for SEO

I am contemplating writing a facebook app for my website. I want to know how I can use the app to aid with Google ranking. More specifically, are there things I can do (an obvious one being placing links back to my website etc) to increase visibility of my site? Also, will the links from my fb app to my website be "nofollow"? (I suspect the amnswer is yes), in that case (if links back to my site are "nofollow"), will I benefit much (from an SEO POV) by implemnting the app?


Restrict Google's Custom Search autocomplete list

Is it possible to use an XML file to force Google's Custom Search to suggest only the terms in the XML?


Is there a way to forward emails associated with a domain without a mail server?

A client owns `example1.com` but wants to also purchase `example2.com` and have it point to their original site at `example1.com`. No problem there. But they also want any emails going to `example2.com` to be forwarded to their counter parts at `example1.com` Eg: if someone emails `info@example2.com` it will be forwarded to `info@example1.com` They only way I can think of doing this at the moment is to set up host for `example2.com` and then set up mail forwarders in cpanel. But this seems a bit excessive and costly. Does anyone know another, cheaper way of doing this?


any upside for shopping cart to require password creation and email confirmation?

I recently entered into a referral deal with a certain online store, whereby my site links to the store and my organization receives a portion of the referred profits. After receiving several complaints from my site's users who were having a hard time using the referred store's shopping cart, I discovered that their shopping cart requires each new user to (a) register with the site, including creating a password and reminder question, (b) check their inbox for a verification email from the site and click on the verification link, then (c) login to the site using their email and password. This is all required before they are allowed to start shopping. To me this seems like if you would go to your local grocery store and be required to complete a military training obstacle course and solve a series of trivia questions before you would be allowed in the store! I am concerned that (a) this is causing lost sales which makes my referral deal less valuable, (b) is reflecting badly on **my** site since I am linking to it and (c) is taking up my time dealing with the complaints of my users. Since I like to always consider both sides of an issue and don't have much experience with the ins and outs shopping cart apps, I would like to find out if perhaps there is something I am missing, and there is some good reason why a shopping cart would be set up in this manner. Are there any commonly used shopping carts that do this and why?


Hide query parameters in RewriteRule

I have the following rule:               RewriteRule ^farm-products/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([0-9]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ products.php?$1&page=$2&what=$3&t=$4&cat=$5      The user sees:               http://www.example.com/farm-products/agencies/56/b/88/32458      Is it possible to hide from the URL the query parameters? I want to show only:               http://www.example.com/farm-products/agencies/


No date/time shown before my page in Google search results

I know that by changing the meta description of my webpage, I can control the texts shown by Google in the search results. However I do not know how I can control the text shown just before the search results, for example the date when the page was last updated. Which meta tag to use to accomplish this? ![How to control content of red squares](http://www.allepeilingen.com/images/screenshot.png) **UPDATE:** My webpage is automatically updated on a weekly basis on irregular intervals by a cronjob which makes changes to the MySQL database which holds the content of my webpages. So the question is what (meta) info to add to my page.


Why does my URL appear with #sthash.RXOAdGce.dpbs after it?

I have set up a subdomain which for some reason attaches #sthash.RXOAdGce.dpbs to the end of the URL making it look like this: `<http://info.example.com/#sthash.gmiCS9nc.dpbs>`. I am wondering why this happens and how I can get rid of it. As a bit of background info on things, the subdomain was set in cPanel on 1 server and an 'A' record set on a different server to redirect to the subdomain when the original site is eventually disabled.


SEO, content, backlinks, and the chicken and egg problem

I do not think this is a duplicate question. I already read [1 , 2 and 3] and I still can't find a satisfying answer. I know it's a difficult one, so I am OK with just a rough description of a good strategy. Here's the problem. People say the best way to get backlinks to your website is to have useful content that gives answers to common problems (see accepted answer in 3). However, some websites are there only to sell stuff. E-commerce websites should have good ranking if prices are decent, they deliver what they promise, and they have decent customer service. Content here shouldn't matter. If you are buying an airline ticket, for example, you really don't care about the content, but about prices, schedules, etc. However, content does matter. Take a look at the Los Angeles Dodgers page at stubhub dot com (I refuse to create a backlink to it), and you'll see at the _bottom_ of the page some content that is uninteresting and basically total BS. _It's clearly only there for SEO purposes_. So the accepted answer to 3, just doesn't do it for me. Now, StubHub _does solve a common problem_ : the problem of getting tickets to a game or concert when ticketmaster ran out of them. This is in fact the reason why StubHub has backlinks from blogs, yahoo answers, etc. But for any startup trying to compete with StubHub, getting backlinks like those is very hard. In other words, StubHub has some organic backlinks because people know about it. But before that, StubHub ranked high only due to backlinks to BS content that they probably planted themselves or bought from _spamblogs_. In fact, most of their SEO-juice probably still comes from those backlinks, not the _organic_ ones that actually regard StubHub as a good solution to a problem. Recently, Google became a bit more intelligent and now buying o planting backlinks can actually hurt your SEO (see this). A bit too late IMHO. So the problem is still how to get better rankings than StubHub without spending huge amounts of money. Apparently, by Google standards, having better prices and an excellent customer service will get you nowhere.


Should notification messages be embedded in html or separate using jQuery?

I was originally thinking I could make a notification bar using jQuery. The downside is if someone has javascript disabled, they would never see the message. The upside is that the messages wouldn't be crawled, which could potentially lead to misleading or outdated information when the messages are removed. Are there other benefits or disadvantages of embedding the notification messages in html vs using a pure jQuery approach? I realize that only ~1% of users actually have javascript disabled, but I'd like to consider as many users as possible. Just curious what others might have done.


Is the debate about em VS px VS % in typography still valid

I have been reading a few articles about why em's are better than px in typography. And the base has to be in %, best is even to have `body{ font- size:62.5%; }`. One of the better articles I could find is located here: http://kyleschaeffer.com/best-practices/css-font-size-em-vs-px-vs-pt-vs/ Basically it is says that px does not scale well on websites and devices. I have always done typography in px, and have never found any issues. I have also been working with some CSS framework and some wordpress themes, and I always see that just the normal px is used. Now I see that most of the articles are written em's are mostly from some years ago, around, I wanted to know if it is still true that px doesn't scale well, or is this not a point anymore for the modern browsers and devices. * * * On a side-note. I have even read and seen on some sites that people even go so far to do all of their styling in em's. For example the padding and the margins are done in em's. Is this necessary if you want to have a good scaling website.


.htaccess non-www to www rule seems to work but the URL isn't changing in the address bar

On a joomla site, apache, shared hosting, I'm using next .htaccess rule:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]      The problem is that the browser's address bar text does not change from example.com to www.example.com. It seems the redirect actually works because all the links on the pages are changed to www. And after clicking on any link from there it always continues to have www added. The problem is the first page (no matter which one) that is loaded using browser's address bar - like example.com or example.com/random-page. Solved. The redirect actually works.


Visitors are coming on the site but are not submitting questions for my Q&A site

Here is my site http://starsQA.com, it's purpose is that it is has stars(actors, actresses, singers, authors) and that the fans(people who like the stars) send in questions for their fav star and they get make into interviews. Currently it has 86 stars involved in the project but it is lacking questions from fans, it is getting hits(visitors) they just aren't submitting questions. Any ideas on how to get people submitting questions??? Note: I live in New Zealand and most of the stars are in the USA (so my only contact with them is via emails) and the fans(visitors) come from all around the world, I connect with them mainly through twitter. So it would need to be a free way.


Google Analytics Day/Week reports not matching - SUM(DAYS) != WEEK

I'm having a hard time understanding non matching data in Google Analytics. When I view unique visitors, and press the PER DAY resolution, I get a pretty steady picture: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/KJvLJ.png)   Although, if I click the PER WEEK resolution, I get this sudden drop: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tnqYp.png)   I've even checked the export option, and the SUM(DAYS) just doesn't add up to the WEEK stats. Does it calculate what is considered a 'unique' visitor differently according to time span(day/week)? Has anyone else seen such non- compatible patterns, or has any explanation that might shed light?


Can I get google to ban a spamming site from Adsense ?

I've noticed a "site" that stole some of my content and they are displaying google ads. Not responding to my email. I'm quite certain that most of their content is stolen, either from other sites or from newsgroups. Whom should I contact at google so that they would hopefully deprive that site of their only source of income?


Economical DNS hosting separate from local registrar for country specific TLDs - email or web hosting not required

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