Would it be possible to build a client portal on Squarespace6?

I'm helping a family member set up a site which will need to include a secure client portal, providing access to documents and a simple database. I have been encouraging them to go with a more established, open source CSM like drupal or joomla, whose capability in this area is evident. However, they have a strong preference for Squarespace. Does any one know if it would be possible to accomplish this with the new developer platform for squarespace 6? I've spent well over an hour searching google, the squarespace site and stackexchange, but can't seem to find any clear answer to this question. I'm grateful for any insight you all can provide.


Ideal web application framework for newcomers and whether it is better to use Java or PHP based framework?

My primary question is whether a Java based web application framework is better or a PHP based one and why? Moreover, if I were just starting web development then what would be some ideal frameworks to start with, considering I may want to make a full CMS out of it later? I am not looking for a 'best', rather some good recommendations as I understand that CodeIgnitor has not got a long way to go from here : http://heybigname.com/2012/05/06/why-codeigniter-is-dead/


Tracking click conversions with Google Analytics

Is there anyway I can use Google Analytics to track click conversions on a link? For example, if I have a link to `www.a.com` , is it possible for google to track the number of times that particular link was shown on my page and then track how many times it was really clicked? **The problem is** that I do not show the link to www.a.com every time the page loads. I am using a random function (server side) to generate a different link everytime. I would like Google Analytics to provide me with the click conversion for each of the links I choose to show the user. Thanks, Joel


How do I track multiple domain in Google Analytics?

I have 2 unrelated websites with different content.   * `mydomain1.com`   * `mydomain2.com` I already have a Google Analytics account for `http://mydomain1.com`. Now I want to add my second domain `http://mydomain2.com` to my analytics account. I want to view separate report for different domains. Now how should I add my second domain as **New Account** or **New Property**?


Go up one directory in mod_rewrite

I've got a standard Zend Framework 1 project that looks a bit like this:               Project     |- public      |- .htaccess      |- index.php      The .htaccess looks like this:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^image/.*$ img.php?file=$1 [NC,L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d     RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]      Now I want to start transitioning the site to Zend Framework 2, which I put in a separate directory in the root, so the whole thing looks like this:               Project     |- public      |- .htaccess      |- index.php     |- zf2      |- public       |- .htaccess       |- index.php      What would I have to change in my original (ZF1) .htaccess to route all requests to (for example) `/zf2/whatever` to ZF2's index.php? I've tried `RewriteRule ^zf2(/.*)$ ../zf2/public/index.php [NC,L]` in the line after `RewriteBase /`, but that just gives me a _400 Bad Request_.


will .tk domain get indexed on google what are its disadvantages

I configured dns of .tk with blogger and made it work as website as it can have many webpages, but now I have some doubts: will .tk (free domains) get indexed on search engines like google, yahoo, etc? Are there any example .tk domains being indexed on google?


What constitutes a "substantial, good-faith effort to remove the links"

We engaged the services of a 3rd party SEO consultant to assist us in managing our Meta data and to write regular blogs on our site http://cyberdesignworks.com.au Without our authorisation, the SEO also ran a link building campaign which has seen us Penguin slapped and we no longer appear in Google for a number of our core keywords. Since notification by Google that we have "unnatural links" back in March we have undertaken a significant campaign to rid ourselves of these dodgy backlinks by a number of methods. I have just received feedback on my 4th or 5th resubmission which is still advising that we need to make a "substantial, good-faith effort to remove the links" before Google will reconsider us for inclusion. After the effort that I have gone through to get links removed, I am now at a loss as to what else I can do to demonstrate "substantial, good-faith effort to remove the links". Below is a summary of the actions that we have taken to date.   * According to http://removeem.com we had about 5584 back-linking domains.   * Of those we have successfully contacted and had removed links from 344 domains   * We ignored links from 625 domains as they were either legitimate press releases, natural backlinks or client websites containing an attribution link in the footer that points back to us.   * Due to our efforts, or the sites simply becoming defunct, removem.com reports that links from 3262 domains have been removed.   * We have contacted but are yet to receive feedback from 1666 domains so we can assume that the backlinks remain.   * We have configured an automatic 301 redirect for each of the links from these 1666 domains to point to http://redirects.sanscode.com/ which we are calling our Bad Link Catcher (a stroke of genius I thought). i.e http://www.mysimplewebdesign.com/create-a-perfect-webpage-with-four-important-tips-from-sydney-web-development-service-companies.php   * As we are a web design agency, we have a large number of client websites which contain an attribution link in their footer which points back to us. We have gone through the vast majority of these and updated these links to replace anchor text with an image and rel="nofollow" link.  i.e                     See http://www.milkatwork.com.au/   * An export from http://removeem.com detailing the number of times we have contacted each link and whether it is still found or not was also supplied with each resubmission.   * The total back links reported in Google Web Master Tools has dropped from over 100K to 87K and I expect it to drop significantly lower once Google re-crawls each back-linking page. Based on all of the above, I am not sure what else I can do to to demonstrate a "substantial, good-faith effort to remove the links". I would sincerely appreciate any feedback or suggestions that you may have as I am out of ideas.


Sharing password-protected videos on social media

We are developing a site where users will be able to watch and download videos that they've recorded of themselves in a public event. The videos will be password protected, and will be available only to users who have paid for them at the event... ...But on the other hand, we also want users to share those videos on social media, since they will be an attractive publicity for our events. Having people log into our site with their password, download the video and then re- upload it to Youtube/Facebook will be too cumbersome, and I suspect that few users will be willing to do that. So the obvious alternative is to have one of those convenient "share" buttons, but the problem with that approach will be that:   * The video will be physically hosted (and linked to) in our site. What happens if those videos go viral and our bandwidth cost explodes?   * The video is password protected. The solution I've thought of for this is:   1. Upload the user's video to our (password-protected site) and to Youtube at the same time, as an unlisted video.   2. The user can access our site with his password and download his video (to watch on his TV or whatever).   3. If the users hits the "share" button, we show him the Youtube link... and we turn the video into a listed one. This seems in line with the ideas in Using YouTube as a CDN, and there didn't seem to be any objections in that question. I'm posting this just to confirm that my idea doesn't violate any Youtube TOS, and also to see if it is a good one or there might be better alternatives.


CDN for site with target market in Australia

I was told that http://www.edgecast.com/ is very good CDN provider for Australian market. I have a cloud server based in Sydney Australia but was wondering whether it's even worth getting cdn as my target market is only Australia based also. Would I see any performance gain if I use above CDN services or would this be more for sites that target international visitors? I have Apache installed in our server but I would like to install Nginx. Would I see much more gain in performance on this change than CDN or should I go for both as they are all beneficial?


Are the different types of SSL certificates a bit of a scam?

I'm looking into getting a few SSL certificates for domains to cover the following:   * autodiscover.example.com   * remote.example.com   * www.example.com Wildcard certificates are too expensive, so I'm going to purchase a single certificate for each subdomain (I have enough IP addresses to go around). My question is, what makes a $10 certificate better than a $100 certificate? Take for example the product range on this page. I know what an EV is (don't need it), and I know what a Secure Seal is (our users trust us already, so don't need that). But why would I go for a QuickSSL for $69 when I can get a RapidSSL for $10? The only difference is "Brand Recognition" (Moderate to Medium) and insurance. Can anyone spread any light on what they mean by "Brand Recognition"? Our public website is already well trusted by our users, and the other two subdomains are just for Outlook Anywhere (and thus won't be displayed in a browser). Re-posted relevant question from http://serverfault.com/questions/82039/difference-between-ssl-products


How much of the world's website traffic is attacks?

Does anyone have any statistics on how much of the total of the world's website traffic is malicious? Every day I am amazed by the number of requests for .dll and similar things which don't appear anywhere on my (static) website. What proportion of the world's web traffic is like this? (It says that this "appears subjective and is likely to be closed" so I'm marking it community wiki.)


Wayfinder, paginator, or breadcrumb?

I can't seem to find what I need because I am not coming up with the right term. I've heard one or two people call it a "wayfinder" and I personally call it "breadcrumb", then again "paginator" can also fit the bill. What I want is the following: I have a site with a multiple-pages form. I want my users to see the steps through the form. I searched for all three terms and nothing I can use has shown. I could build one from scratch but I am interested in what is out there. Someone may have done a better job than I will be doing. Any idea on what to call this and if you have a link I can check out, that will be bonus.


Slow website response? How can I fix this issue?

I have pingdom monitor on my website: http://stats.pingdom.com/t68xhgex256f/375513 For North America (big target market) the response time is 1-2 seconds. This is far too slow. Is there anything I can do? The server is located in the UK, so distance plays a big part I imagine.


SSL redirection

I want to redirect one of my domain hosted in a domain provider to a different server where I have a Tomcat based application installed. I have purchased SSL for the server with Tomcat installed. The redirect works fine, however in the browser I see the message "server's certificate does not match the url".


Ideas for newsletter content for a graphic/web company?

We've just launched our new website and we're looking to include a newsletter that will be sent out once a quarter. We're struggling a bit for ideas on what to include in the newsletter. There's the usual "recent projects" and any news regarding the company but we're trying to avoid it being "me, me, me"! Has anyone got some nice examples or any ideas of some things to include.


is there a program that performs CRUD functions with phpMyAdmin?

I need to enable a client to be able to be able to create, update and delete items from a mysql database, but it'll be too confusing for him to do it via phpmyadmin. Is there a program for users to use that is a lot simpler that will do exactly the same as if he were editing via phpMyAdmin?


How do I fix deleteme.xxxxxxxx.php

I have this issue, which is related to a wrong installation that keep the file deleteme-xxxxxxxx(x's are a username or something) better described here: What is deleteme.xxxxxxxx.php Do you maybe know how I could get rid of it and fix the issue? At the moment, the installation fails saying: > Technical Error: [1] Written file `/deleteme...php' not accessible > at`deleteme...php'. [3; /opt/curlssl/bin/curl] /deleteme...php [http > code=403] @xx.xxx.xxx.xxx(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)


Is page authority or domain authority more important for backlinks?

When you are searching for potential sources of backlinks. Is page authority or domain authority more important for search engines?


Does Google crawl page when G+ logo is embedded?

I have a `robots.txt` file in the root to prevent search engines indexing any of my sites. I have a social media management application embedded on my site that includes all major social media channels including G+. I heard that once the G+ symbol is on a site Google will index sites despite having a `robots.txt` in the root. Is this true? My thought behind locking out robots for a while is so I increase visitors per day first before allowing robots to crawl. Once I e.g. reach 100 visitors a day I will remove `robots.txt` file and will then receive a better initial page rank (in mind that PR is only updated every couple of months). Is this reasonable? How much emphasize is placed on the factor %visitor increase/day?


How to consider geographical location when selecting hosting provider?

I am going to buy a hosting service (re seller) where mostly people from Ethiopia will be using it. I am going to host my applications in this server and also partition and sell for other developers to host their apps. So I am not sure, if I have to host my application in the US, UK, AU or somewhere else. Does selecting a hosting service that is located in either one of the above places would affect the reliability of the service for the users from that specific country? (The data is not sensitive ) My main aim is, to make sure that the server is reliable all the time (99.9%) for the users from that country.


Why does abandoment rate not equal the inverse of funnel conversion rate?

I have a Google Analytics account. For a given time period, the abandonment rate on a single goal is `73.15%` on the "Goal Overview" page. If I switch pages to the "Funnel Visualization" for the exact same goal and time period, I have a `25.98%` funnel conversion rate. Surely, if `25.98%` of funnel attempts resulted in a goal completion, then the remainder (`74.02%`) must have been abandonments? `100 - 25.98 = 74.02` `74.02 != 73.15` Why are the two numbers different?


Is it fine to share your blog everywhere?

I am trying to perform some SEO on my blog. I want to to keep sharing the blog on FaceBook and other social networks, sharing the link on different groups (i.e., groups related to my blog). Is it fine or does this constitute spamming?


How to identify the client is a search robot?

I have built my entire site using AJAX (indeed it's GWT). I have also implemented AJAX crawling proposed by Google. However, after the implementation, I found that neither Yahoo , Bing, nor Baidu implemented that scheme! I'm wondering if there is a way to identify the web client is a search robot. If they are, they will be shown the HTML snapshot I created. It will be best if I can identify them in APACHE level, then I can just do a mod_rewrite. But it's still ok if I can do that in PHP or GWT.


Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED

i am having a domain registered with godaddy when i am looking through my domain details i found this in the who is lookup , what is this means and if i would like to transfer my domain to another registrar will it be hassle free ?


Dealing with "duplicate content" warning

I have a website and, when testing with a SEO tool called woorank, I have the following result: > Be careful. Your website without www doesn't redirect to www (or the > opposite). It is duplicate content! I have launched the website about 7 days ago, and it hasn't yet been indexed. **p.s:**   1. Google Webmaster Tools shows no errors.   2. Google Analytics also works without any issues.


web farm application issue with compilation

I have an application in a web farm which it consists of 4 web servers. Every time I made a change on the application and I upload it on the server I am getting an error which said that the *.DLL isn't available. It gets compiled on the 1st server and I have to await until it gets compiled on the other servers as well. Let's say that I have 50 web servers, how could I avoid the compilation an all the servers. Is there any workaround for this? Thanks


How to prevent Google showing documents directly in the SERPs?

I've many useful docs in my website and we know that Google has got smart enough already - that if the document serves visitor's purpose then it directly lists it in the SERP without listing the page from which it was linked. That'd cause loss of revenue to us in case visitor does not visit our web pages. Is there any way to prevent Google listing the documents directly in the SERP? I see that there is X-Robots-Tag:noindex to prevent Google from indexing documents. But I do want Google to index the documents just to know their importance and also increase relevancy due to them. Similar question: How to protect PDF file from indexing?


Adwords traffic shows as 'not set' in Google Analytics

In Google Analytics if I go to **Traffic sources > Search > Paid** all I get is "not set". Instead of the usual list of keywords that people have used to find the ad, this makes it really difficult to understand whats going on in the campaign.. I've gone into Adwords and turned on auto tagging but still have the same problem Any idea how I can fix this so under the Paid tab I get the phrases people have used to find my ad in PPC?


Hide a site entirely from search engines (Google, Bing etc.)

My company is running a few internal websites that we do not want indexed by search engines such as Google, Bing etc. However, the websites still need to be accessible for our customers, and therefore, I do not wish to use HTTP password protection. Obviously, I already have a robots.txt containing:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      When I search for the domain name, it still shows up, and Google says: " _A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt_ ", while Bing says " _We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us._ ". How can I ensure that the websites are totally hidden in the search results?


ASP.net based Website DB access issues?

We have a dynamic website based on MSSQL and ASP.net. There is a hosted DB, which we have an IP and access credentials for. We do not apparently know where it is hosted. We need to make changes which are not covered by the CMS, and the company which built the site (last December) is no longer functioning. I'm at best an amateur when it comes to web design and programming, but this has become my responsibility to sort out. Anything that can be done to point me in the right direction will be appreciated. I can provide more info, if you can tell me what you need to know. By the way, we're based in Dubai, so responses may be oddly timed, or appear slow. Also, there are limited options to go get another local company to look at this, without simply rebuilding the site again. Thanks again for whatever help you can provide. The site was built, according to the developer, with the following tools: TECHNOLOGY • Framework : Microsoft Dot Net Frame Work 3.0 (2.0) • Programming : Asp.Net • Scripting : C#, JAVA Script • Extended Tool : ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit (Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX framework) • Database : Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SOFTWARE USED • Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 • Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express • Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 • Adobe Photoshop CS3 • Adobe Flash CS3 • Flash Slide Show Maker • Cute FTP + Mozilla Fire FTP I have a document from the developer which my employer was originally told would provide all the data needed to make changes to the site. If it does, however, I can't see how. I've also tried to do whois searches on the DB IP, to find the host, but our ISP here blocks direct IP input as "hacking". Please let me know if I can provide any more information. As I said I have very minimal experience with these things. I'd like to learn to handle our required changes myself, and so I guess my question has 3 forks. Where can I find a freelancer whom I can trust, and frankly, who is not too aggressively priced? Where can I begin to learn the skills I need so that this doesn't come up again? And how do I find the database host? For all I know this may be a local machine. Josh


Getting keywords in XML from Google?

need to know how to get all keywords from Google Keywords service. By default, i can download only 700 keywords. How to get all keywords from one query? Thanks.


Paypal alternatives for personal site donations "adult friendly"

Paypal has a policy against having using them if your site has _any_ adult content. I'm wondering if there are any services that work similar to paypal, but that don't mind some adult content, or being somehow connected to it little history is that a blogger I read got kicked off of paypal. tried to open a new site on a non sex related topic for donations due to a child custody battle, and paypal shut that off because the account is "related" to the previous account. I personally don't agree with this. So I'm curious what options might exist for something that's not so profitable and doesn't need a "full payment gateway"


Strategy for managing lots of pictures for a website

I'm starting a new website that will (hopefully) have a lot of user generated pictures. I'm trying to figure out the best way to store and serve these pictures. The CMS I'm using (umbraco) has a media library that puts a folder on the server for each image. Inside of there you can have different sizes of that same image. That folder has an ID on it and the database has additional information for that image along with the ID of the folder. This works great for small sites, but what if the pictures get up to 10,000, 100,000 or 1,000,000? It seems like the lookup on the directory would take a long time to find the correct folder. I'm on windows 2008 if that makes a difference. I'm not so worried about load. I can load balance my server pretty easily and replicate the images across the servers. The nature of the site won't have a lot of users on it either, but it could have a lot of pics. Thanks. -Nate **EDIT**   After some thought I think I'm going to create a directory for each user under a root image folder then have user's pictures under that. I would be pretty stoked if I had even 5,000 users, so that shouldn't be too bad of a linear lookup. If it does get slow I will break it down into folders like /media/a/adam/image123.png. If it ever gets really big I will expand the above method to build a bigger tree. That would take a LOT of content though.


What's the importance of the "title" tag?

Talking with some other people recently, it came up an interesting topic. The core question at hand is: > What's the real importance and weight of the `<title>` tag in a web site? For instance, what are the consequences if a site has the same `<title>` tag on all the pages, reporting only the site name? Or better (or worse) no title tag at all? Will that be a little/medium/huge SEO problem? How will the pages appear on search engines? Will fixing it in a later stage be problematic since pages have already been indexed? How does it compromise the overall usability/accessibility/experience? Is that a "feature" that can be omitted, or it can't even be considered a "feature" but a core element? I have quite my opinion on this topic, but I'd really love to hear what other experts (you) think about it.


Curious about a cached old domain

I am a bit curious about my new domain. I had a domain before, let's say `http://example.com/`. Before expiration of that domain, I bought a new one with the name `http://another-domain.com/`. I uploaded all of my content on the second domain, but now when I search in Google about some query related to my `http://another-domain.com/` site then I also find my old domain in the results. Will this give a duplicate content error for my new domain or any other kind of penalty from Google?


Parallax Websites & SEO

I am getting a parallax website made for my e-commerce website. I have the option of giving each section an individual link or anchor tagging each page. Which of the two options are better for SEO? I would prefer to anchor tag each page so people can return to their previous page without hitting the back button several times.


URL rewriting on multiple domains hosted on one GoDaddy account

_Note: I think this question has been asked before but no clear solutions have been discovered._ I had developed a site in PHP that uses clean URLs: For example:               www.example.com/about     www.example.com/about-us     www.example.com/careers      I had `.htaccess` file redirect every request to `index.php`, which decides which content to send to browser by looking up the query string:               # Turn on URL rewriting     RewriteEngine On          # Protect application and system files from being viewed     RewriteRule ^(includes|model) - [F,L]          # Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d          # Rewrite all other URLs to index.php/     RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]      This worked well until the hosting package got expired and I was asked to move the site to an existing GoDaddy account that hosts multiple domains under one hosting by creating subdirectories under root site and adding unlimited number of addon domains. This setup broke my site. Now I am getting this in browser: **Not Found** **The requested URL /directoryname/home was not found on this server.** **Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.** The original .htaccess is already there. After reading around, I also added following to root site .htaccess:               addhandler x-httpd-php5-cgi .php     addhandler x-httpd-php5-cgi .php5      But still no avail. Is there a solution that can **allow using URL rewriting on a GoDaddy hosting setup with multiple domains** under one account?


Multilingual site and Google search

I have a multilingual site with only one domain `www.mydomain.com`, this domain serves content in English and Norwegian. And language is handled using a server side session parameter, which is triggered by a click on a button on my website. My problem is that Google only find and index my English version of the website, and not the Norwegian part of it. After looking for a solution I came over this post on Google: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182192 From what I read there, it looks like I can't use sessions to control language, and that I should use one of these solutions:   * `en.domain.com` - `no.domain.com`   * `www.domain.com/en` - `www.domain.com/no`   * `www.domain.com` - `www.domain.no` Is this true, or is it possible to get Google to index my Norwegian and English content by using my session parameter?


Number of pages with structured data

I'm using Webmaster Tools to track (beside other things) structured data, part of website is WordPress based, and part of it is custom developed website. Until one month ago, Google reported that I have only few pages with structured data. After that, it started to report that I have about 200 pages with structured data (I don't know if WordPress was updated at that time). After that, number of pages with structured data started to decrease, and now there is about 120 pages with it. Can you help me and tell me why do I have decreased number of pages with structured data, and is good or bad?


How to configure virtual host to consider domain path in Apache

the following virtual host definition is working for an arbitrary url starting with "http://1.2.3.4:80/*"               <VirtualHost *:80>          ServerName www.domain.com          DocumentRoot /home/user/www/application/current/public          <Directory /home/user/www/application/current/public>              Order allow,deny              Allow from all          </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      How to rewrite this configuration so that it is applied only for url's starting with "http://1.2.3.4:80/user/*" I tried "ServerPath /user", but it doesn't work... Any ideas?


Prevent indexing of pagination on my site

On my site I have a pagination of variable length and random result order. Every page is defined by `index`, that is order of the page and `seed`, that is the random seed (it's necessary to generate consistent random results for one user). Search engines keep indexing these pages and they also randomly try to access pages that don't exist. Should I prevent them to index all pages except the main page? If so, where exactly should I put the directives (NOINDEX, FOLLOW)? Can the be put in HTML link tags?


Baidu spider does not obey DNS TTL

I moved my website from one VPS to another on 16th April. The `A` record of the domain name has a TTL of `86400`. I made the IP address change at **19:00 GMT 16th April**. I do not want the site to face downtime so I am keeping the old VPS alive. Today is the third day and the access log on the old server shows hits from Baidu spider. It has been more than 60 hours but why is this crawler still hitting the old IP address? I am using AWS Router53 for DNS.


How to check with Firebug if a JS function is applied

How can I check with **Firebug** if on a certain page a specific JavaScript function - **jQuery based** - is applied?


"Index of ..." directory's files listing

On my courses we've got homework on site in folders such as:               http://example.com/files/tasks1-edc34rtgfds     http://example.com/files/tasks2-0bg454fgerg     http://example.com/files/tasks3-h1dlkjiojo8     ...      Each `tasksi-xxxxxxxxxxx` is a folder with 11 random characters at the end. And when you view the above URLs in browser you can see `Index of /tasksi- xxxxxxxxx` with all the files in that folder. When you view `http://example.com/files/` you can see only empty html with words "Hello, world". The problem is that you can't look into the next task without knowledge of its URL. So for example we've got the URLs for tasks1 and tasks2, and we can't guess what tasks3 URL will be (as we need to know the 11 random characters at the end) How can I get the list of all directories? (Is there a way to type something like `http://example.com/files/task1-aflafjal343/..`? or another way?) I want to see all upcoming homework tasks.


Privacy concern to track every user actions in your website?

We are building a system that track every user (logged in) actions, e.g. click, pageview, duration etc and store into a database. So all the user activities will be known and we are using them to create information our CRM so that we know more about our user, e.g. which products they have visited and how often they view that page. My questions:   * Are there any privacy concern since we identify the user, not just analytics.   * Is it legal in countries such as EU?   * What thing we need to pay attention to the data we gathered?


How to build a website that targets all the keywords for which we want to rank?

So here I am a developer in an advertising agency, and I am responsible for our good reference site for search engines. We want to put our site in connection with lots of keywords as:   * The name of the company   * Activities (we have lots of activities)   * Address (we have 4 locations in Paris, Pyon, and Italy)   * The names of our clients How to give these keywords to Google so that it can better reference us? For example if a customer types:   * communication agency in **italy**   * **9999-99** agency communication (such as zip code)   * website creation **Paris**   * logo*design **France**   * creating greeting card for **XXXXX** Company


Can I advertise in Google AdWords with multiple places to click in an ad with different actions?

I want to create a graphical Ad for my website that has more than one button or a multiple choice question. It possible to run such an ad in the Google AdWords content network? If so, how do I set it up, and how can I tell which button or action the user selected in the ad? I thought that Google's "rich media" ads might be able to do it. I have searched the Rich Media Gallery that they provide and haven't found examples of ads with multilple click points.


How does CNAME work for Google Apps for My Domain?

I recently got a domain and set it up with Google Apps including setting up sub-domains for the different services. After set up the CNAME, all my subdomains point to `ghs.google.com`. I was wondering how this works with all subdomains pointing to the same site.


Phone number in meta description bad or good for local rankings NAP

Once again I'm at it with increasing people's local rankings and I've learnt so much about local rankings in the past 2 weeks it feels like my brain is gonna pop anyway, question is fairly simple for someone who engages in local rankings and I appreciate the question may be a little guess work but isn't SEO mostly guessing anyway? From what I've read and learned that Google works of a system called nap for local rankings (With many other factors but this question is purely based on NAP). For people who care about local rankings NAP stands for Name of Business / Address of Business / Phone Number for Business. Now what what I've read you don't need the whole NAP to be on one website, a P or just a N can help towards your local rankings. It's believed that NAP rewards more than just P and N for example but knowing Google they might have a diversity checker which is my concern what your get to in a moment. Now of course sites weight differently where your business is posted, it's certainly going to be more credible if your NAP details are on your national phone book than say a blog site, so taking in this consideration too. _**Pure Guess (Not apart of the question but none the less makes a good read on my belief)._** Now my guess work would make me believe that the formula would look something like (N)+(A)+(P)x(T) So (N)name would be 1 or 0 to indicate present or not So (A)dress would be 1 or 0 to indicate present or not So (P)hone would be 1 or 0 to indicate present or not So (T)rust would be 1-100 to indicate level of trust So a phone number appearing on youtube might look something like 0+0+1x95= 95 and a NAP appearing on your national phone book might look something like 1+1+1x100= 300 Please note that I'm not saying this is the sole factor and I'm sure its way more complex that this with things like other factors on the page, off the page (Reviews, Links, Clicks) and so on but its still a contributor). _**The Question_** My question is fairly simple and I'd imagine hard to impossible to have an actual definite answer to this but maybe someone has seen official wording else where on this, is it bad to include address or phone number in the Meta Description? The reason I ask is that one of my competitors has these elements in the meta descriptions and their local rankings are absolutely superb, the problem I have with this is scrap bot sites like 'Similar Too' 'Seo Rankings' and 1,000's of the other scrap box networks that scrap site and then make urls with your site information are mostly limited to your meta description what this means that your phone number, address and sometimes even your company name if the domain is exact will appear as AP, and even NAP on thousands of websites. So, is it a bad strategy to include phone number and address in meta description, everything I read into would suggest its good of course with the downside of maybe lowering quality of description for click thoughts but top rankings would increase this 10 folds anyhow..


Majority of mobile devices support media queries for screen width?

Where I can find statistics on what % of mobile devices browsing the web support media queries for screen widths? I want to know whether for mobile optimization I can assume the majority of users' devices will support these, and so if I can base my optimization on using them. Thanks


How to modify the CSS in vBulletin

One of the Occupy sites needs to make a change to the CSS of the site but doesn't know how. Since they don't know me from adams housecat they are (thankfully reluctant to give me the keys to figure it out). Since I've never even looked at vBulletin, so I'm hoping one of you might give some directions. And I'll point them back to this article. http://occupyalabama.org/forum/showthread.php?232-Improvements-to-the-CSS **Improvements to the CSS** Right now, we have:               body a {       color: #417394;       text-decoration: none;     }       I'd like to see an addition of               div.postbody a {       color: #2253ff;       text-decoration: underline;     }      So that links in the posts (and only in the posts) show up more clearly.


how to select categories for user generated content site?

On the site I'm building, users can create tutorials. I want the users to be able to create tutorials on as many subjects as possible, but still have some preset categories. What's the best way to select these categories? The reason I don't just let users add keywords, and use these for categorization, is because users gain experience points in a certain subject when their tutorial is liked by someone, and in a similar way the Stack Exchange network does, create communities around these subjects. I will give visiters the possibility to suggest new categories. here are the categories that I'm thinking of at the moment:   * health   * gardening   * cooking   * technology   * science & math   * music   * visual art


Why does cPanel not have the icon I'm looking for?

I want to forward all emails to a central address. For this I need to setup the default email address. **My cpanel does not have the "Default Address" icon in the email section.** ![Default Address icon in cPanel](http://i.stack.imgur.com/l1At8.png) Why it is not there? How can I enable it?


Force SSL on IIS site with NT authentication

We recently implemented SSL on our reseller portal and have been receiving complaints about needing to log in twice. This is of course because they bookmarked the site before we had SSL so their bookmark is HTTP. The only way I could figure out how to implement SSL was via VB.NET code, so they have to authenticate first against HTTP, then they are redirected to HTTPS, which requires them to authenticate again. I have previously tried forcing SSL using settings in IIS, with a custom 403:4 error page, but this causes multiple logins followed by an access denied message. Based on my limited knowledge of server configuration, I've come up with the following theory: allow the user to access HTTP without authenticating. Is it possible to have two sites with the same host header, one listening on port 80 and the other listening on 443? Or is there some simple solution that I'm not aware of? We are running IIS6 on Windows 2003 Server. The entire site is protected with NT authentication.


Working environment for web designer - editing files, version control, auto backups (Mac)

I've tried several times to get my head around this but failed everytime!! I want to setup a working environment for creating websites that is efficient and straight forward to use. It needs to include version control and automatic backups as well as the ability to create and edit files. The software list I have is:   1. Coda/Dreamweaver - for file editing.   2. Transmit - FTP client The software I'm missing is:   1. Something for version control.   2. Something for automatic backups of both the files and database of the websites.   3. The ability to edit live files rather than FTP them down, edit, then FTP back up again. Is there anything else that may be useful to include? Ideally I'd like this as integrated as possible. I may also need some hand holding through the whole process! **The most important aspect is that I'm on a Mac.** Update: One thing I forgot to mention is that I'm running several different sites with a mixture of static html and Wordpress. UPDATE: After taking Nick's advice I jumped straight in and tried his setup out, haven't looked back since! Amazing.


how to best enable gzip compression on shared hosting

I must assume that this is a duplicate question, but I could not find the answer myself. I want to enable gzip compression to everything my website sends (mostly php, css, a slight bit of js). this question makes a point of adding a line into the .htaccess file (that i do have access to) but i'm not sure if that would include the dynamic content. this question (has a typo in the question, it should be ob_start I think) tells me how to enable gzip to php files. and after fixing the typo it seems to work. do i need to use both ? is there anything else i need as well ?


Domain Aliases and SEO

We have created a movie site & to optimize in search engines for other countries, we have created a alias of various domains, for example movie.co.uk, movie.de etc. How to get this optimized and avoid Google duplicate content?


Why are Google Analytics goal conversion failures showing the same page as one of the funnel steps

I have a simple goal. It's a destination goal, so basically tracking people who come to a page, and sign up for a Eval, then reach the "thank you" page. This seems pretty standard. The question to me is with the users that fail to convert, why is the `/evaluations` page showing in the red? Of 41 people who came to the `/evaluations` page (the only funnel step in this goal,) 35 show as on that page, 1 exited, and 5 completed. Why and how are 35 showing on the `/evaluations` page? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/6QNCj.png)


Adding your website to free web directories as a link building strategy

It's been two months since I've launched a website. I recently ran into some websites which list directories of other websites. Some examples of the web directories can be found at `web-directories.ws`. I was talking with my colleague and he says adding the URL of my website to these kind of websites will negate the effect of other organic real links.   * Does Google consider positive/negative points for these links from web directory websites?   * Do you have any source for your answer to refer to? I found this question asked before on webmasters.SE, but I am asking about many links from a website.


What is a generalized form creator that runs on .NET / Windows?

At the institution that I'm at, we've been looking for web applications that enable users to create and deploy their own forms. Similar applications are Wufoo, and google forms. Unfortunately, those solutions will not work for us, because we are required to host all data and information on our own servers. I've found a few solutions that are written in PHP, but at this point, it doesn't appear that this is acceptable. I've tried searching for ".net form creator" but unfortunately, when you search for ".net forms" you get a lot of results relating to created asp.net webforms, which is not what we're looking for at all. I've been told that finding a solution that runs on .NET and windows servers with either Oracle or MSSQL databases would be much more acceptable. I've found a few, but they are open source, and the IS Security people are not kind to those solutions, despite my attempts to show otherwise. If anyone knows of some solution out there, I would greatly appreciate you passing on the names of those applications!


How to serve 2 different websites according to device-width without affecting SEO?

I have one website for desktop that is designed for 1024 width and above. This means that some mobile devices in landscape mode will also fit this criteria. I have another website that is designed for below 1024 width, that means the same devices in portrait mode will show this instead. Although this sounds like conventional responsive design, the 2 versions have very little similarities to tweak. It will be much easier to just do both version from scratch. What is the way to go for this situation? Must be SEO and robots friendly for at least the PC version.


Is it generally a good idea to allow the reuse of old usernames from deleted accounts?

On a Social Networking site, is it generally a good idea to allow the reuse of old usernames from deleted accounts, or is it better to prohibit their reuse forever? **How do the big boys do it (Facebook, Google, etc.)?** Generally, as far as the DB is concerned, it's not a big deal either way because most tables are associated by some kind of user id, and not the username. I can certainly see why you wouldn't want to allow the reuse of BANNED usernames, but what about usernames from accounts that were simply deleted by the original owner? Do you free up those usernames or do you prohibit their reuse? Pros of allowing reuse:   * Frees up available username space.   * Current account owners can "reset" their accounts by simply deleting it and quickly re-registering it with the exact same username. Cons of allowing reuse:   * Can create confusion. Imagine an old user with thousands of posts on a forum. They delete their account, their posts remain under the old username, and someone comes along and registers with that same username. It will seem like that new user created all those old posts. Sure, you can change the username of the old user prior to deleting their account to avoid this confusion, but wherever they've been quoted, you will still have their original username, which can still create confusion.   * Can be "gamed". Imagine a very popular user deletes their account and someone quickly re-registers that username in order to benefit from the "trust" associated with that username, and possibly uses it maliciously against unsuspecting users. Any other pros/cons I'm not thinking about it? I'm really curious to learn how the big boys do it and why.


Mobile Browsers! Do they ignore `<noscript><img>` (Responsive Design with Framework Zurb Foundation (Interchange/Noscript))

_Experimenting with Interchange Responsive Images_ I'm experimenting with Interchange by Zurb Foundation to serve various images versions to different devices. For example 200x100 for mobiles, 300x100 for tablets and 600x100 for Desktops! This solution works with JS which is great but I'm a true believer that all websites should work to some degree with JS disabled. _The Code_ I'm using the below code which triggers via the foundation-min.js that makes everything work as expected:               <img data-interchange="[/default.jpg, (default)], [/bigger-image.jpg, (large)]">      _Fallback Method Suggested By Zurb Foundation_ > If you want to support browsers with JavaScript disabled, we recommend > setting your default image in a tag so that these browsers will have a > fallback: > > `<noscript><img src="/path/to/default.jpg"></noscript>` This sounds like a suitable solution but then looking at Firebug and looking at the net response I can see that when pages are rendered in Firefox it downloads the responsive image and that image in the noscript even through it's not being rendered i.e JS enabled. _The Rant_ So the problem is that I want to serve images in the resolutions that looks great but also downloads fast too, afterall that is the main objective of using such methods but since it downloads the images in noscript this competely makes it a useless solution. _The Question_ Does all mobiles browsers download images in noscript even when JS is enabled? What else fallback mobile/desktop methods can you suggest (without driving into the code too much, I'm not that lazy!)


Emails from joomla 2.5 being marked as "Phishing" mails for vendor and client

The Mails from Joomla to customer as well as vendor are being marked as "phishing" mails. As per solutions provided in the other posts, I checked the header and it is being marked as "Spf-Fail". What is the solution to this issue? Many Thanks.


What are the recommended minimum payment options on an e-commerce site?

I've recently released a site that presently integrates with PayPal for taking payments, this doesn't require you to hold a PayPal account as you can submit credit cards through the PayPal checkout without having to sign-up etc. But what other options would you say were recommended or perhaps even required to ensure you capture as many potential customers as possible? EDIT: We accept payments worldwide by the way.


Why does Google Analytics show more users than sessions?

My Google Analytics page shows almost twice as many Users than Sessions. It really doesn't make sense to me, does anybody know what's the reason for this? Here is a snapshot from my GA dashboard: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/p2bjT.png)


What to do with repeated content (anchor text) in internal search results when it comes to SEO?

On a website that delivers internal search results for products, within the results listing we have a repeating link to "add to favourites" (not browser- bookmarks, but user profile related) in every single search result. Now I've been told from a SEO perspective it would be better to hide this anchor text, since it's repeating the same text for every result item (this could be done for example with "content"-css). Yet I don't appreciate hiding content just from search engines. Especially with HTML5, wouldn't there be a much better solution to this, like somehow semantically telling the search engine that it's ok to repeat this content since it's part of a list of search results? I'm (not yet) a SEO pro, but as a frontend developer I'd like to be prepared for a discussion on this matter.


Can a webpage dial a traditional phone land-line?

I am working a website for a sales team and I would like to know if there is a way to dial a traditional telephone land-line from a webpage using JavaScript or a plugin in conjunction with a piece of hardware. Currently, our sales staff log into the website every day and access to their contacts and call logs through their accounts. Usually they work on-site, but several work remotely. Our goal is to use the webpage to dial-out via land line. This will allow us to track the time and number of calls that the sales staff make. It will also make it easier for the sales staff to work. I'm looking for a method that connects our existing phone system to our computers (via modem or possibly a USB device) and then use our web page to dial the land-line (Via JavaScript on a button or a browser plugin.) We do not wish to use an online subscription service and/or VOIP. We already have a phone infrastructure in place which we want to use. I know that Skype and other web services can easily dial from a web page, but we will not be using any of those.


Favicon not being displayed in Firefox?

I have a document like this:                             <meta charset="utf-8"/>         <title>mac</title>         <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60" />         <link rel="shortcut icon"  href="http://194.88.245.110/favicon.ico"              type="image/x-icon" />                   18.12.2013 01:01:43
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           Here's my favicon, base64-encoded (I put the binary version on the server, of course):               AAABAAEAEBAAAAEAIADxAgAAFgAAAIlQTkcNChoKAAAADUlIRFIAAAAQAAAAEAgGAAAAH/P/YQAA     ArhJREFUOI1dkk1olFcUhp9zZ76JRtsELWo1ZkbFjNIudGdxJoq2CiKV7KSlStpMEpuIoBDEhWiF     oihWxQwymYhkoRtFLRRRimiagUJ3ujCpMZnUn1ZD6x8xieP3vS6cxDR3dd973vfw3HOvMWl1LVgy     F7TGsI2SngFhzEoNXQrEzWS+5/FEvwPoilUBkIvFfzS4Y1i74FRh+oxtQSTcCJxHnHFmd3Kx+HaA     3xbEAbCxTrlY/ARmtUAp4CQdxXiCeApcHy61fOkrZTCrFexP9HfvG2+Qq6xqkbMVmDULljq4DEyb     QDoqqSaR77nSFYtXYmRcoLOfrf2zwxaeTM3sm1cWoebI3wA3KhZ5nufdBaL/n452ruzv+WlMRVZt     Wzbfs9vOd9REHz3fAHCzej2rH9wrBJBE+hUoIP0nadfo9LJjAFfXrQOg3H9d/+LVyKawYV8KLgKs     6rwKQLK/+z7wxeQXAlh/7drY1sxZY1goDiaAaLo+C1TI1+a/trc9ex+bwuzkVxVBYB1AL8iAWuC5     xVpT3cIOAr+bcRsIS3ppaHG+KfsYYHbi2/JA3DWzjyYB/esE3YBh8oHCOzb7QNjhMVcgshPDknYb     pIE/HHAZZJ7oE/S+v6B9UtmaigAIVk8Idw7mTh8SWCClHeI6MNLb1OYjfhg3ooehN0UiuFU8Hg38     YGuxfs+Z/eIGmtsGgMXRdP0FgyVFo+8NDdf072jTOzn0ucSGJ13tU5xzH85KfHdFvp6G5AfjXzna     mjpkZi1FOZL/PjMVYE51Hf90ZpmzMuX5+Fkz2yJp72Du9IEiHURb6xhoyhJNp3YYtkcwy1BdiUrO     vDg3EnmjoMHMDgBDEi2DufaOqcu/5ptN1YQBBpqyAISM4y4gXYDNMhqHQ8PTXo+qLBQhIWlLxAv/     /PBGxgdIfvoxmX0NvAU7FCKWmfr5TwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==      Firefox doesn't seem to recognize this favicon - it's Windows 16x16 .ico format, PNG-compressed. It doesn't display it on a tab nor in bookmarks and in "page details" it says that its size is 0x0. What could be the reason?


Download CSS with all referenced files

Is there a tool that allows me to point to a CSS URL, and recursively download the CSS, as well as all the image and @import urls referenced within it? For example, if the CSS is at `http://example.com/example.css` And it has things like `background-image: url('images/bg.gif')`, it should download bg.gif too, and dump it under an images/ subfolder locally. If it has a reference to another stylesheet ex2.css, it should recursively do this on ex2.css as well.


Is possible create a Microblogging Service in HTML and CSS?

Is possible create a simple Microblogging Service in HTML and CSS with Login similar to Hatena Haiku? PS: is possible to host in Google Drive?


Export Foxbase database tables to csv

I have no experience with Foxbase whatsoever and I'm used to working with MySQL via phpmyadmin or interfaces like that. My company has a third party database we're trying to move away from, but we have no support from the company. The database is on our servers, but in a foxbase format. What kind tools do I need to convert these into other formats, or is there any type of admin UI I can tell them to use to export to csv or anything like that? Basically I'm asking how to export the foxbase tables to csv. Sorry if this question isn't clear or you need more information. I will edit with anything else you need.


Why is Google.co.in showing and highlighting antonyms of a keyword in search results?

When I was searching for the sentence "SEO interview questions and answers for experienced" in `Google.co.in` I found so many results with the title "SEO interview questions and answers for fresher", and it is also highlighting the word "Fresher" in the results page. I know that Google would show results by using the meaning of the keyword, but in this case "Experienced" and "Fresher" are entirely opposite in meaning, as well as in the difficulty of questions (i.e., Question difficulty would be different for freshers and experienced people) in those websites. Google can show these pages if it was not able to find results related to the term "Experienced", but there are so many sites displayed in the returned pages having the term "Experience" in the `<title>` tag. **My Question is:** Why is `Google.co.in` providing results with antonyms of a main keyword? Why is it considering those opposite keywords? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/KgXuP.jpg)


Need to encourage google to refresh robots.txt

My old robots.txt is               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      Is blocking me for uploading a new sitemap and also blocking me for fetching robots.txt manually. I don't know what to do.


YouTube custom thumbnails feature availability

I've been trying to figure out this on my own for weeks, but now I give up. 'Custom thumbnails' feature on YouTube is such a controversial one, it was changed so much... so much that even FAQ on YouTube doesn't fully describe it's features (as I see). I have a YouTube channel for one of my websites. This YouTube channel is main marketing force for my website - it brings all the boys to my yard (I mean, website). So I have to use all the hacky-tricky stuff to increase my visibility on youtube. And damn, those custom thumbnails are giving me hard times... As far as I understand, this is current state of 'custom thumbnail' feature: "If your account is in good standing, you may have the ability to upload custom thumbnails for your video uploads." (c) https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/138008 My channel has good standing, has more than 50000 views. So why the hell my account is still not eligible for this feature? anyone have any idea?


How can I encourage the browser to download images from CSS file faster?

I use CSS to place a lot of my images (as backgrounds for `<div>`) and I often find that they load very slowly this way. They seem to be the last thing to load. Even small little icon images take a while to show up this way. Is there a way to tell the browser a priority for images? Or get it to download the images in the CSS file earlier and render them earlier?


Which Versions of Internet Explorer Should I Support?

I have recently built a template for a website that I see looks _very_ different in different versions of Internet Explorer. I was wondering, as a rule of thumb, which versions of Internet Explorer are worth supporting? IE6 and up? IE7 and up?


Is the information provided by UglyStat.com realistic?

A new website to estimate website traffic and revenues is available. Is the data realistic? I mean, for those who have up and running websites, do you confirm the information is more or less correct? Or not?


Google Analytics conversion tracking - referrals from payment provider

I have a question regarding conversion tracking using Google Analytics. My client uses an external payment service provider - SecureTrading. **Problem:** All website visitors who would like to make a purchase are taken to a payment form on https://securetrading.net and are redirected back after a successful payment. Google Analytics counts that as a referral and messes up conversion tracking stats. **Question:** What needs to be changed / added in the payment forms or Google Analytics settings so that the conversions would be assigned to the right traffic sources. **Screenshot:** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/AV15f.png)


What's the deal with all these popular website having poor usability

I'm wondering this for quite some time, and it's a question about human- computer interaction and usability. A lot of popular websites have (in my opinion) poor usability, and I wonder what you guys think of that, and I also wonder why users still prefer these websites. I'll start off with a few examples. **Wikipedia** I'm not talking here about the actual wiki's. But If you want to get into editing these pages it starts with a big mess. There are tons of discussions in the pages behind the wiki's. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#30_kb This is bulletin board with thousands of lines of comments, no proper way to identify who's posting what. And all that indentation. It's really annoying me and it's one of the reasons I'm not editing wiki's. **Twitter** Okay, I get the deal with the 140 characters in a message. It forces people to make small messages, and it's ideal for mobile devices. However, a lot of people nowadays are having conversations over twitter. And that's where it gets messy, if someone replies at a tweet of someone else, it's almost impossible to find the corresponding tweet. Also, you're forced to cramp #hastags and @people in your message, so for me it's very messy. **Craigslist** Euhm, yeah craigslist... I'm not even starting on this one. This post is not a complaint about these websites. I'm just surprised they are lacking even the most basic usability features. And that makes me wonder the following thing. Everyone on this website is talking about usability, and human computer interaction. A lot of people study the effects of them on websites. People have gained PhD's in them. Then why is it, that the most popular websites on the internet, do not follow the basic rules of usability, and have a lot of things that can improved for better user experience. Then, another question, is it even proven that adding usability features actually IMPROVE the quality of the user experience of the website


What kind of spam is this on our form?

We're receiving a lot of spam that looks like this: > Form field 1 (textfields): duYYAJPNaMVsC > > Form field 2: icDiQOVRy > > Form field 3: uSDzPEObWIrTsCidma > > Form field 4: ODscxPiiqj > > Form field 2: (textarea) 6YWx4t yykqtykkniwr, > [url=http://nvuozttudquw.com/]nvuozttudquw[/url], > [link=http://xnwfrkyueend.com/]xnwfrkyueend[/link], http://efuwqygexlaj.com/ What kind of spam is this and what purpose does it have? The links doesn't work and it's not advertisement.


Piwik Server Overhead

I am developing an intranet site on a Raspberry Pi and am interested in incorporating Piwik into my code. My question, however, is how much overhead impact there will be with the pi's CPU/RAM? Does Piwik run as a constant and _all the time_ analyzer in the background, or is data fed to it fairly passively until someone accesses Piwik from a browser, at which point would system resources be consumed in depth? Thanks.


How to prevent invalid clicks from proxies

What would be the best and cost effective solution to prevent invalid clicks from PPC.


Moving site from its own domain to sub directory or subdomain - updating Webmaster Tools

Is it possible to tell Google's Webmaster Tools that our site hosted on `www.` has moved to a sub folder or perhaps even a subdomain? I know this is possible by using 301's but would appreciate if anyone can tell me if this can be done on Google's Webmasters Tools.


Why Author Information isn't showing for all pages in google search result?

![Google Search Result for my blog](http://i.stack.imgur.com/K0rs4.png) As you can see on the image, the author information is being shown only for one page, not others, why not all pages are showing the author information? Do I need to do anything additionally to get it done? Following is the result of structured data tool preview: ![rich snippet tool format](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tDZ9A.png) Now see what really happening on actual google search result(search with the title "How To Work With Codeigniter Caching In PHP" and mine is the 9th result on first page): ![real search result format](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Jc1Rr.png) So, what about this? Why are they different?


Voting stars - Embed script online service?

**Disqus is a free service for comments** There are alot of free services on the web, for example Disqus for comments. **Free service for voting stars?** Is there a free service that provide voting stars? Like on wordpress.org to the right. I searched the web and found nothing.


Get google to index JavaScript pages as separate pages

I have a product page with say 10 products, that loads up all the content when the page loads. Then JavaScript hides content till a product is selected. Then JavaScript hides and unhides information. It is this way rather than separate html pages for each item for design and updating purposes. Google indexes the content fine, but instead of indexing 10 product pages it indexes the page as 1 page. Can I get Google to index each JavaScript section as a separate page? I have made the links with `#!`, as I read that this would help, but it has not. Like this:               http://site.com/products.html#!PRODUCTA      Is this possible or I have to go back to separate html for each product?


What is that Google web site management tool called?

A year (or maybe 2) ago, Google announced they were working on releasing a management tool for static HTML sites. The idea is that you run this script and it asks you some basic stuff about the site, and it sets up the folder structure and boilerplate. You then could install dependencies (like jQuery), run your tests, and minify your code all through this tool. The name sounds something like merlin, geany, or hoodini. It wasn't really Google branded, and was an open source project. I haven't heard anything about it since it was in its pre-release stages (hey check out this cool demo video), and I want to know what happened to it. Did it ever get released? Can I use this magical tool? Does anyone remember what it's called?


Ideas for reducing storage needs and/or costs (lots of images)

I'm the webmaster for a small social network and have noticed that images uploaded by users are taking a big portion of the capacity available. These are mostly JPEGs. What solutions could I apply to reduce storage needs? Is there a way to reduce the size of images without affecting quality too much? Is there a service out there that could be used to store static files at a cheaper price (< 1GB/0.04 eurocents)? Edit: Updated the question.


Google +1 button: data-href

I'm confused about Google+ +1 button. I have a web application and I've added a +1 button, but I'm not sure what URL I have to put on `data-href`. It seems like you have to create a web page on your Google+ account and put this URL like `data-href`, and I've done so (`data- href="https://plus.google.com/+mywebsitename"`), but when you search the web page with Google, the number of +1 doesn't appear. So I'm guessing that I should replace with: `data-href="http://example.com"`, but I'll lose the few +1 that I already have. Any idea of how to handle this? I'm not interested on having better SEO on Google+ page, but the web application page.


Apache log naming conventions

I run 30+ sites out of my dedicated server (running CentOS). Some of these are subdomains. I currently use this pattern as a log file naming convention, in /etc/httpd/logs:                   site_com-error_log         site_com-access_log              sub_site_com-error_log         sub_site_com-access_log      Is this best practice? Is there anything I could do to improve naming my log files?


Looking for a plugin that lets a website host a contained social stream

I know such things exist, but I'm looking for a plugin that has the following features:   * Posts on the stream can be #tagged and the stream can be filtered using these #tags   * Posts can promoted up or demoted down the stream   * No character limit on a post   * Posts can be edited and commented on when expanded If you're thinking this sounds like StackExchange, you would be correct, but I want the stream to be focused on posts and annotations on the posts, not on questions and answers to the questions.


Is this considered to be "Internal Near-Duplicates"?

Some people generate the same pages with a slight variation in keywords, title, country name, region name, etc... This is typically considered to be "Internal Near-Duplicates." I have seen a website generating pages that most would call near duplicated content using ID's as parameters:                  http://www.mysite.com/mypage.html?param=1        http://www.mysite.com/mypage.html?param=2        http://www.mysite.com/mypage.html?param=3        http://www.mysite.com/mypage.html?param=4        ...      Although only one HTML page is involved, is this still considered to be "Internal Near-Duplicates"?


Subdomain in Drupal to an already existing site

I would like to add to an existing site, which wasn't written in Drupal, a sub site, which is in Drupal. The existing site already has a domain, and this would be a sub domain. I'm using Apache2 and Ubuntu 12.04. How should I do this?


How do I view all the people who have +1ed my site?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Can I find out who is +1ing my website? I have a +1 button on my blog and I'd like to be able to see who has +1ed my blog posts. How do I view all the people who have +1ed a page?


What is the feasibility of developing a phpBB-based barter bulletin board?

I've got a concept for a barter deal bulletin board and would like to know how feasible is it to implement the concept with phpBB. The main differences from a typical forum are the following:   * Users create threads by filling in forms. Images can be uploaded during this stage as well.   * When threads are viewed, the data and images are displayed.   * One thread can be submitted as a response to another.   * Users can view summaries of response thread data in the original thread view, as well as navigate to the views of the response threads.   * Thread creator can accept or deny one or multiple response threads from inside the original thread view. The acceptance status can be viewed from the original thread view as well.   * Response threads can have their own response threads.   * If a user has received a thread reply to his thread and accepted it, he, as well as the response thread creator can also send a request bound to the thread pair to moderator.   * A moderator can be assigned to a pair of an original thread and a response thread I would like to learn the feasibility of implementing these features by extending the basic phpBB functionality:   * Is it possible?   * How difficult is it?   * Will the implementation be non-user-friendly?   * Are any of the mentioned features already built into phpBB?   * Are there any good phpBB extensions that would help implementing these features?   * Is using phpBB or other module over standard PHP for this at all a good idea? Please inform if more clarification is required.


Any good alternatives to MediaWiki for creating an 'intranet' type system?

I would like to install some form of intranet system to allow multiple users to add documentation to - MediaWiki would suffice, I just wondered if anyone knew of any better alternatives (must be PHP).


Is it possible to register .mv domains?

Some time ago I tried to register a tld from malvides and found out that it is only possible to register .com.mv or .net.mv but not .mv Now I found this website that offers registration of .mv. I tried to search for some more information on registering this tld, but without success. Does anyone know if this is really possible now? Thanks in advance.


Registering the Cheapest Domain, what is the Con?

I provide educational material with some sites but I am running them at loss if I need to use the .com TLD with a cos of 10USD per year (not counting the work to do them). I am planning to change the domains to the .info TLD with a cost of 2USD per year with GoDaddy so I could self-sufficiently (hopefully) to provide the material, I have some advertisements there that generate just about 2USD per year to meet the required capital. Can I be sure the INFO domain registration (using GoDaddy) will always be 2USD, and not increase in cost? Are there some cheaper domain registrars? Is it possible to register a domain for 50 years? Any idea whether there are some services that allow cheap educational domain registartion? The sites are running on Google products (with 0 cost to me except time and coding).


Uploading screenshots to Flickr

I have finally decided to create my own portfolio to show off my works for clients. I've seen on countless web design agency websites where they show screenshots of the websites they made for their clients. And a lot of them upload the shots to Flickr, and use the Flickr api to display the screenshots on their own website. Is this OK to do?


Need I submit sitemap in Webmaster Tools?

I have uploaded my sitemap on server root folder. Do I need it submit it in Google Webmaster Tools?


How does one get a 728x15 google adsense ad (not link unit)?

I see certain sites like mashable.com etc have a 728x15 ad format below the title. And they look like normal adsense ads (and not link units). However I don't see any such option in the ad formats presented in my google adsense account. Do they have special access to those google ad formats or does it work by just changing the leaderboard code and reducing the height from 90 to 15? Example: http://mashable.com/2008/12/08/how-to-quiet-the-twitter-noise/ I'm referring to the ad, just above the author description .. "Jun Loayza is the Co-Founder and CMO...."


Personal e-mail address on Heroku

Right now, my Rails website is being hosted on a regular virtual host, running CentOS and cPanel, the classical way. I also have an e-mail address on my domain, and my host also, obviously, provides an e-mail server. I would like to move my portfolio website to a PaaS provider, such as Heroku. However, I am unsure whether I will still be able to receive e-mails on e-mail addresses associated with my domain name, when my site is hosted on Heroku. If not, what could be an alternative?


Why is IPv6 not backward compatible with IPv4?

Also, how does it affect our websites? Do we need to shift all IPv4 websites to IPv6 or both?


Any solutions for managing all properties from one system?

I'm looking for a solution to manage/keep track of the different domains and sites I maintain. I manage multiple domains with numerous sites, subdomains, many instances of CMS and other web apps, and keeping track of many of the details involved with running a well managed network is difficult. Ideally it would be something that has an interface with which I could keep track of status of things like various robots.txt files, htaccess content, tracking, online status, etc. Essentially an at-a-glance way to keep track of the status of things, without having to manually FTP or log into several places and open a thousand separate files. It might also include something like a maintenance calendar/scheduler. I haven't had much luck finding something mostly because I'm not sure what exactly I should be looking for in terms of search terms or genre of software, and what's available. What should I be looking for? Web asset management? Site audit? Server audit? Nothing I've tried searching for seems to be in the right direction. Any pointers or suggestions would be appreciated. What types of solutions are available?


How to fix "Leverage browser caching" error from Page Speed plugin

I'm using the Page Speed Firebug plug-in to check my sites. But I don't know how to fix the "Leverage browser caching" error, since I don't know you specify a cache lifetime to the browser in images and css files. ![alt text](http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/8022/capturego.png)


Is A/B testing worth the added expense and time?

A client is inquiring about blind A/B split testing for an online application focused mostly on usability of the design and application workflow. Someone in the client's office read an article about how all the large agencies do A/B testing of concepts prior to going live....so it must be important for them to do too! --edit-- About the application: It's a public-facing application, but users will be paid members, so it's not for free, open consumption. Users will be direct clients, who in turn will resell the product to their clients. Traffic at peak would likely be +-1000 users; some of whom would be daily users while a smaller portion might just be 1X/week. --edit-- Did the results justify the added expense and efforts?


iFrames from Skydrive: yes, no, how

I have a two-pronged question. First: SEO Concerns aside, should I be concerned about using iFrames on my site as far as viruses etc go? I am using skydrive to host my images and it provides an iFrame embed code that's almost exactly what I am looking for. Since it's just hosting images, I am not worried about SEO, but I am worried about any vulnerabilities this might open me or my users to. Have iFrames been completely abandoned by the web community due to safety concerns, or are they okay to use again? (*Using img src is simple enough, I just don't want to have to tap out all of the dimensions since skydrive provides me the code.) Second: If I do use the iFrame code, how do I add a modifier to have the text wrap next to the image? I have two lines with two pics, then one line with one pic but the text begins at the base of the image instead of the top, thus leaving only one line of text instead 238px. To my knowledge, `align = left | right | center` wouldn't work. Here's what I have from skydrive: > `<iframe title ="Preview" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" > frameborder="0" style="width:320px;height:238px;padding:0;background- > color:#fcfcfc;" src="http://[blah-blah.com/img].jpg"></iframe>` (*Unfortunately I am unable to use the direct URL http://[blah-blah/img].jpg as it is popping broken images, likely a permissions for linking thing)


Any CSS resources for printing?

Is there any resource like http://www.csszengarden.com/ for Print stylesheets? I'd like to write some CSS formatted text on a printed media (internal business documentation) with an elegant style, but it looks like there is no help out there. I don't need LaTeX/TeX typesetting - I'd like to have something more portable and lightweight almost as plain text, with little or no compiling environment.


Google Chrome and Theora

I have problem with Google Chrome and Theora video. I have video that plays nice in Opera and Firefox. However, it doesn't play in Google browser and I don't know why. I've made this video in ogg2theora. Test sample: http://wwsi.edu.pl/video/enigma.html **Does anyone know how should I encode to Theora that Google Chrome works?** P.S.   * I am not interested in encoding in WebM or h.264, this time.   * I am not asking what is the best way to publish video on a website.   * I only do experiments with Ogg Theora.   * The test site has fallback for h.264 in video tag and WMV in WMP plugin.


Google Analytics regular expression to indicate TODAY?

in Google Analytics version 5 (latest beta) there's an option to add a custom filter I want to show only data of today. Only Show -> Date -> Exactly matching -> and then I have the option to fill in in regular expression on the location of But what is the regular expression to indicate TODAY?


PayPal Payments Pro [Website Payments Pro Regional Differences]

I was reading https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render- content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_api_WPWebsitePaymentsPro the [Website Payments Pro Regional Differences] part. I can't understand whether they are saying:   * I can accept credit/debit card payments only from Canada, United Kingdom, United State or   * that if I my business is in UK I can accept only payments from: Visa, including Visa Electron [..] doesn't matter where the client is from.


Web hosting that allows background processes?

I am thinking of starting a website, but for it to work, I need a ruby script constantly running in the background. Can you recommend any web hosts that allow this? Thanks!


An open sourced copy of Firefox input?

Is there anything like firefox input http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/ that is open sourced? Thanks


Redirecting to a specific page if the visitor used a certain name to resolve the server address

How can I get visitors redirected to a specific html page if the name used to resolve the server address was a specific one? I tried               if ($http_host ~ /forbiddenname/)     {         rewrite ^(.*)$ /updateyourlinks.html break;     }      inside the Server section, but doesn't work...


What Drupal WYSIWYG editors work well with Safari?

My site contributors are primarily Safari on Mac users. We're running into issues with CKEditor and Safari dumping a bunch of nested spans into the html created by changing content. The html eventually gets so big and ugly that Safari can take up to 10 minutes to display it. The drupal pages that are affected are ones that the authors are modifying, new content is fine. The pages also seem to have a lot of tables in them. Can anyone recommend an editor that doesn't have this behavior in Safari?


Drupal: Published settings by role

I have a content type on my drupal site that anonymous users can create. However, I don't want anonymous submissions to start out marked as "Published" -- they need to be approved before being posted live. What is the best way to accomplish this?


Who has experienced using Textile to generate their HTML pages?

Do you need to have a generator or an app of some sort that would convert the Textile markup you did to its equivalent HTML?


Setup Payment Gateway from Europe

I'm from Europe and i want buy some payment gateway for internet credit/debit card processing. I have a problem because PayPal and Authorize.net solutions is best but only from US and Canada users. What Europe Payment Gateway you recommend me? I can use US PayPal when i not in US? Is some workaround? I'm from Poland. Greetings


Royalty free templates for website

Which is the best source to get the free website template, royalty free?


How to enable customers to use their own domain for sites hosted by me

I am thinking of running a self-site builder. But was wondering how would I allow customers to use their own domains that they already own. Is that even possible? Let's say my site is www.bestsitebuildingwebsite.com and each customer has urls like this www.bestsitebuildingwebsite.com/frances www.bestsitebuildingwebsite.com/eden www.bestsitebuildingwebsite.com/john And a customer has a domain called widgets.com Is it actually possible domain widgets.com to go to my site somehow and have HASHES on the URL still work (my site makes use of hashes for AJAX queries). And their site still have good SEO with Google? Thanks Scott


What is the motive of sending spam text

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Strange spam posts not making sense I've many sites online and regularly I get the following type of spam text through "contact us" form even when containing Captchas. What could be the motive of sending such garbage? : > Submitted on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 10:43 Submitted by anonymous user: > [188.143.232.33] Submitted values are: > > Your Name: vlgktopsy Email-id: xoqvxh@hdqsrh.com Subject: QQLBMucIxgHjkAZxE > Comments/Questions/Feedback: BqjVXf ujfyjtshjwos, > [url=http://hwnjbrwibfme.com/]hwnjbrwibfme[/url], > [link=http://rsxwknbdppsi.com/]rsxwknbdppsi[/link], http://tpbftnbgarqv.com/


What kind of spam is this?

I realize this is a pretty vague question, but I occasionally get spam messages through my contact form on a Drupal 6 site. The contact form does not have any anti-spam protection (i.e. math question). The messages I get are all very similar and just jumbled junk, like below, so I think they're all from the same source. Example: > ylsaf0V bpsdfuxnhjjd, [url=http://wwgfsggzgyjyjm.com/]wwgrfgzrgsjyjm[/url], > [link=http://xmgvyghcuufvb.com/]xmjyhvyjyfjirovb[/link], > http://frgxmdghrgruhfc.com/ Anyway, I'm just wondering what the point of such a message is. All the links are dead, it's illegible, and it's not trying to sell me a product or get me to do anything, so I'm a bit perplexed. Is there any way to tell where they're coming from? And how concerned should I be? To be clear, I'm not asking how to avoid them, I realize just adding a simple math challenge or captcha would likely do the job.


Virtual Pageview Goal Funnel Not Tracking Correctly

I have an AJAX form that has three stages: 1. The landing page where a user fills out a form and selects between three question sets and clicks begin assessment 2. The assessment page, where users fill out questions relating to the question set that they selected on the landing page. 3.The results page, which shows whether they are at High Risk or Low Risk. Since this is an AJAX form that does not open a new page for each step of the process, I implemented a virtual pageview that would fire on the pageload of each step of the form process. The following is my virtual pageview setup for each stage:   1. /form/begin-assessment   2. /form/assessment/* (* = Three different virtual pageviews depending on the users selection of the three sets of questions: /one, /two, /three) 3./form/finished-assessment I have set up three separate goals to track user progress through each step of the form assessment. Here is my Goal setup: Goal Description: -Goal Type: Destination Goal Details: -Destination: /form/finished-assessment -Funnel: On Step 1: /form/begin-assessment (Required: Yes) Step 2: /form/assessment/one (Step 2: replace /one with /two or /three and you have my two other goals setup) Now my goals are recording the correct data in the first step and show the completions in the destination, but the second step does not show any drop offs. They show the same data as the destination. Any ideas of how I set up the goals wrong?


How to inform search engines that my site support multilanguages?

The website i am working on is translated to 8 languages (English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese). Each time the user select a language, the URL stays the same as i am using a combination of defined variables to change the languages. For example, the URL for the English version (mysite.com) looks like the Chinese version. **My Question:** Do i need to specify a certain HTML tag to inform search engines that my website is in 8 languages? if yes, what are the necessary tags and how to define them? As an extra question, does this technique in translating the website bad for SEO?


Dealing with thousands of malicious broken links

I have a problem similiar to this one - thousands of incoming links that go to nonexisting pages. The difference is that all of them include adult content of some sort in the URL. I am worried about search engines filtering our website based on this if I just redirect all of them with a 301. Is it possible? All of the links are coming from a domain that belongs to a competitor of mine and I think he wants to discredit our company/service since we are very well placed in searches about our industry. Any suggestions what I should do? Can we take legal actions against this?


How to make browsers offer to remember passwords

What properties login form needs to have to trigger "remember password" for all (or most) browsers? _Background_ : For years I have been using Opera, and the rule has been that almost anything that looks like login form triggers this feature. Now I'm exploring other browsers, and surprisingly find that one of login forms I visit most often, Roundcube login page, does not trigger this feature neither in Chromium nor Firefox (tried various versions and page setups of RC). Since it's on my VPS, I could patch it up and eventually even send that to RC development team, but I have the unnerving feeling that this must have been solved over and over, and it's just me being blind or something. _Update_ : My original problem has been solved. The reason why it did not work was `autocomplete=off` property on relevant input fields, which is governed by RC settings and ignored by cranky Opera. (It does not provide answer to my, somehow more generic question, though.) * * * So again: is there any consensus between browser developer as to _when_ this feature should be triggered? Is there a best practice for webmasters to tell the browser "this is the login page"? Or are all browsers using their own heuristics?


Preventing Adsense Crawling Specific Regions of the Site

In my website, I wan't adsense crawler to not consider certain parts of the HTML. Is there any snippet I can use. The reason is I am using a plugin from an external provider and as soon as I installed that plugin, adsense stopped showing relevant ads and started showing ads related to that plugin.               <!--Adsense Should Crawl -->         My Content     <!--Adsense Should Crawl -->          <!--Adsense Should NOT Crawl -->         Private Content     <!--Adsense Should NOT Crawl -->


SEO Advice Needed! Can you use a snippet from a big article as a new small article?

I'm quite new to SEO, I have a website that focuses on things to do in a city. We have lots of articles like Top 10 / 20 restaurants etc. We just opened a new section which uses Google Maps and has map points for all the individual things to do in the city. I would like to use snippets of text from the larger articles and create new articles with them. For example: I would like to take the text for each of the restaurants on the Top 10 article and create 10 new articles with those pieces of text and link each one to a point on the map. The titles and URLs will all be unique and the focused keywords will be different too. I'm also going to be linking to the big Top 10 article from each of these small article pages too. I'm worried about it being seen as duplicate content by Google and would like some advice on best practices.


Is negative SEO fact or fiction

I have read a couple of articles about negative/black SEO. They were explaining that important part of it is creating web sites with "bad" content that "stink" to Google. Back links from these sites are consequently penalized by Google and target sites receive negative bonus to their ranking. However, I had a little argument with my friend today, who is from my point of view an experienced web developer and SEO optimizer. He told me that this negative SEO and penalized sites is complete nonsense. He gave me an example that there is no problem for a company to create link farm of "bad links" that would be imposible for any tool to block. So if negative SEO was possible, there would be many big internet companies with sites ruined by this SEO. So I am asking you, because you always gave me good advice, is it fiction or fact?


Templating system for a website?

You know how Wordpress, Posterous, Blogger and the like all allow you to upload your own custom-designed templates? And if you look at the Source code of those templates from within their Template Designer's 'source code' option, you can see heaps of variables everywhere, like:               <html>     <head>     <title>{PageTitle}</title>     </head>     </html> // for example      How, or where would you create such a templating system, or are there open source ones, or where can you learn more about them?


Is it ok to use 301's this way?

I installed a forum, which has a page for member info. I want this to link to my main sites member info page which is a lot more detailed and interactive. The forum membership page has the url: member_profile.asp?PF=15434 If I put a 301 redirect on that page to go my nice member page: Users/Tom   * Would search engines not index member_profile.asp?PF=15434 (as in I don't want that ugly URL appearing anywhere in results)   * Is it OK to use 301's this way?


Deploy Static web Content : Apache Server

What are some of the ways to deploy static web content in Apache server directly from an IDE say Netbeans?


Too many web design aid framework - Is it wise to use frameworks? advantage or disavantage?

Too many web design aid framework - IS it wise to use frameworks? advantage or disavantage? I have seen many framework like... impress.js 960grid framework


SSL Configuration Problem

I've generated an SSL certificate with keytool:               keytool -keystore keystore -alias mySite -genkey -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048      I got this configured and working fine, but obviously it wasn't signed by a trusted CA, so I generated a CSR:               keytool -certreq -alias mySite -keystore keystore -file mySite.csr      GoDaddy gave me two certificates back, which I imported into my keystore:               keytool -keystore keystore -import -alias mySite.com -file mySite.com.crt     keytool -keystore keystore -import -alias gd_bundle -file gd_bundle.crt      I thought this would be sufficient, but I am still getting an untrusted certificate warning when I hit my app through the browser. Am I missing a step? My app is running on Jetty, and the only configuration I've provided is the keystore and the key-password. I am getting the following exception:               javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: bad_certificate


Website migration from WordPress to a static site and doing 301 redirects without access to existing site?

Currently working on a project that is a hosted on WordPress that is being migrated to a static site. However I presently do not have access to the existing site as it's managed by another developer. The concern is not the lack of having access to content as the site owner has generated very little content (reason for migration) and we were able to do this manually. Rather the concern is to do 301 redirects. The site will not change domains but URLs such as from `example.com/?page_id=3` to `example.com/services`. To add, the site is migrating to new server using same domain name. I thought maybe this could be done via editing permalinks prior to migration and WordPress would update automatically if configured to write on server. But if not configured (as this is not always the case) I do not have htaccess to fix it in case there are suddenly a bunch of 404 errors for every page. Really could use some help on the best procedure to follow in this case. This is the first migration project I've worked on.


What is the Google link equivalent in Yahoo and Bing?

The link: directive in Google will find all pages which link to a given site. E.g. putting this in Google:   link:stackexchange.com   returns a bunch of sites linking to Stack Exchange. Is there an equivalent directive in Bing and/or Yahoo?


Robots.txt syntax -> Can this be done?

When creating a robots.txt, are the following the same?               # Slurp     User-agent: Slurp     Disallow: /      and `# Slurp User-agent: Slurp Disallow: /` It seems like for someone disallowing a large number of crawlers at / then a single line notation would be easier to read and realize what is being blocked and what not. Can one do a single line notation?


Google Goal Tracking Code

<img src="http://domain.com/wp-content/themes/domain/images/form-sent.png"><script type="text/javascript">ga('send', 'pageview', '/booking-success.html'       I wonder whats wrong with my code? anyone can tell me why google cant track my goal?


Choosing URLs for website offering products and services

Assuming that I offer very few services and/or products. Is, from SEO benefit point of view, it better to construct URL (http probably doesn't matter) such as: www.mysite.com/services/nameofservice or www.mysite.com/nameofservice Another example: www.mysite.com/products/nameofproduct or www.mysite.com/nameofproduct A bit different question (second one, first is above): if I offered (on the same website) very few services (up to 3) and a bit more of products (up to 20, all from clickbank or commission junction), would be your answer the same? I think (but need someone to confirm) in that case I would have to go in services area for www.mysite.com/nameofservice and in products area www.mysite.com/products/nameofproduct


How does my DNS provider know that I own the domain that I am managing?

Let's say I purchase a domain at RegistrarA, and then I set my domain to use the name servers over at ProviderB since I will be using ProviderB to operate my DNS records. In the system of ProviderB, I can now manage my domain's DNS records. My question is, how did ProviderB and RegistrarA communicate the fact that I am the rightful owner of that domain? What is preventing another customer of ProviderB from trying to manage my domain name, now that it's using ProviderB's name servers? Is there some automatic checking of 'company name' or 'owner name' that needs to match on both ends? Is human verification involved? As far as I know, RegistrarA and ProviderB do not know anything about my account on the 'other' system. I never gave RegistrarA any of my info regarding ProviderB, or vice versa. I'll sleep better once I understand this.


What are the most common "normal" HTML errors?

I'm trying to find real-world HTML pages that are actually valid (in the sense that they are displayed by modern browsers), but are not compliant with HTML specification and are considered invalid. Any thoughts, links etc. are very welcome. P. S. I've tried using http://validator.w3.org/, and according to it many pages I've tried (randomly) contain tens to hundreds of errors. Are there really so many broken pages on the Web, or is this validator unrealistically strict? P. P. S. The reason for this question is I'm writing a simple HTML parser, and I want to test it on extreme real-world pages to ensure it withstands most common errors.


Basic Google Analytics Click Tracking and/or Overview

This is a **really basic** Google Analytics question. Apologies in advance if it's not appropriate here, but I've had a lot of luck on Stack Overflow and this seems like the best Stack Exchange site for a question like this. I'm trying to understand how Google Analytics goals work, or if they're the right feature to be using for my situation. Most of the documentation I find online refers to the old version of the UI, not the new one. I have a website, let's call is blog.example.com. This website drives traffic to an ecommerce store, let's call that store.example2.com. I want to get reports on which links from blog.example.com are being clicked through leading to store.example2.com. How do you do this in Google analytics? Are goals the right area to be looking? Do I setup the goals on store.example2.com or blog.example.com? Or both? Is there any canonical user guide (free or paid) that covers how this works? I'm a competent programmer, but it's years since I dealt with conversion tracking on any serious level, and we've progressed well beyond my frozen caveman pixel tracking knowledge. Thanks in advance


How does Fedex and UPC code functionality in Google search work? Can my site get similar treatment from Google?

When I search for a `UPC` code in Google, on top of the screen there are two special links to FedEX and UPCDatabase.com. Obviously the way it works is that Google recognizes the strings as valid `UPC` codes and then loads these "smart links". What are these "smart links" called and how have Fedex and UPCDatabase.com implemented them to have them linked to their website? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/p7gkY.png)