Smush.It or similar lossless image shrinking with API

Is there a free service, with an API, that performs lossless image file size reduction? Currently we use Smush.it which isn't perfect (have to resort to command line tools), although its FAQ does suggest that an API is coming (no progress on this in over 2 years). **EDIT** : Turns out the Smush.it API is alive and well, just advertised as dead. Sending requests to: `http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/ws.php?img=VALID_IMAGE_URL` (where VALID_IMAGE_URL is, you guessed it, a valid URL of an image) returns a JSON object with a Smush.it address where you can download the newly created image. The JSON object also gives you statistics on the compression available.


Google webmaster tools: changing address from domain name to subdomain

So we originally have our blog on our main domain (for example, it would be on `www.example.com`). Now we have moved it to `http://blog.example.com`. My question is how do we change the address from `www.example.com` to `blog.example.com`. I read this >>> http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83106 and it said make sure your site is main not a subdomain but I'm trying to move the site to a subdomain. Help.


Why does Bing webmaster tool's SEO analyzer complain about multiple <h1> tags?

I used the Bing webmaster tool's SEO analyzer on my website, and it reported: > There are multiple tags on the page. It recommends that there should only be one `<h1>` tag on the page. The page is a listing of blog posts for a category. So each blog entry is structured like this.

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      How is this invalid? I thought this was the correct way to describe a post in HTML5.


SEO: show all content to Google for infinite scrolling

I have a search results page that paginates content loading through `infinite scrolling`.   Now Google recommends not putting `rel=next` in this scenario. Does it make sense to show Google everything when indexed? Is it right?


Blocking adsense ad units for a particular country

So I have got one hater in India who bombarded on my adsense ad units. Luckily I didn't get banned from Google. I have blocked Indian visitors from my site using iq-blockcountry plugin (wordpress). Now I want to know if there's any procedure so that I can allow the Indian visitors but hide the adsense units from them? I don't want to block all visitors just because of one foolish person.


How do I resolve "No administrators were specified" error with the Facebook Like button?

I've placed the Facebook Like button iframe code on my website. When I test it, I receive an error: "name" likes this. · Error. Clicking on Error gives: > You failed to provide a valid list of administrators. You need to supply the > administrators using either a "fb:app_id" meta tag or a "fb:admins" meta tag > to specify a comma-delimited list of Facebook users. If I view the source of the page, I can see:               <meta property="fb:admins" content="529447119" />      What do I need to do to prevent the error? Do you receive the error


Free search tool for static website

I am looking for a free search tool for a website hosting html documentation files. the tool should display the results as listings of page title and few lines of text from that page. It should also work on the site being hosted locally on LAN so it should do the search by itself.


Where can I find a good perl script for a cronjob that backs up all files in a specific folder on my webspace?

I want to automate backups on my webspace. My provider allows for cronjobs to be executed once a day. I have already implemented a cronjob that backs up my database with mySQLdumper, using a perl script. Now I want to use a script that backs up all my files in a specific folder (e.g. /folder/), zips them and moves them to /backups/ Is there a way to do so? If yes, could you recommend a good perl script template that lets me easily modify it so I can use it the way I want? Ideally, it would also have the feature to exclude certain file types, like jpg, gif and png.


IS SO URL static or Dynamic?

I understand that dynamic URL would be of the form page=123, while static would be with the post name in it. SO has http://stackoverflow.com/questions/[ID]/[title] format. Since the [title] is actually optional and has no affect on the page actually loaded, would you say this is a dynamic URL? And if so, what is the implication or benefit of the "static" [title] part? does it help SEO?


using google analytics to create custom reports for a web app

I'm curently writing a web app that's supposed to take care of analytics and traffic on the application for our users. The users should be able to log in to the application and see a special area where they can see traffic stats for say, their Profile. Now, there might be a number of ways to get this done and i'm looking at Google Analytics as an ideal solution. 1) So, what we are planning to do is that have the users sign up for Google Analytics and just key in their Analytics UA-XXXXXXXXX code when they are registering.. and then the application could spit out required Google Analytics tracking code on that particular page (User Profile) to log traffic and analytics. But the downside to this is that while registering for Google Analytics you have to link up a domain - and you need to verify domain ownership - which would belong to us and this might become a hassle for the users. 2) We can use Google Analytics API to pull data from our personal account and throw the information out to the user when he/she logs in - Not sure how this would go since i havent yet had a look at Google Analytics API. May be this would be an ideal solution? Is there a more elegant solution where i could create sort of buckets or containers etc inside Google Analytics for our every user and then pulling data would become easy for us. Please advice.


Which is better to use <b> or <strong> for SEO?

I've been coding for a while and it's just struck me, what's better to use in terms of SEO:               Hello      or               Hello


System depends heavily on emails - use gmail?

I am creating a system where it depends heavily on alerting users through email. I was wondering if it's a better choice to sign up to googles businesss gmail account. Would this give me a better result from preventing my emails from being bounced ? or should I not bother and go down the traditional path and setup a mail server on my box? Thanks!


How to scan/clean my ftp for malware?

Just recieved this email from my hosting: > Your web hosting account for your domain xxxx has been deactivated, as of > 06/06/2012. (reason: terms of service violation - malware/virus) > > This deactivation was due to a Terms of Service violation associated with > your account. Any ideas how to fix this? I have a couple of wordpress sites and the hosting company is bluehost.


dynamic url for member

It may be a very basic question. I am trying to user url of the form:   "membername.example.com" but I have no idea what would be the steps to be performed.   We are using apache web server.   Thanks,   Ankur


Google crawl on uncompleted site

I am preparing to have my web application in a private beta. The application when fully live will have a lot more content than in beta. Currently our plan is to release it to limited users with limited content to ensure that all the business functions are working fine. We plan to use Google to power the search within the application. My question is will there be any negative impact in future (in terms of page rank or reputation) if we let Google crawl it in its present state? Or should we wait till it is fully functional to let Google crawl it.


Does AdBrite Pay per CPM Only or Do You Get Money For Clicks as Well?

Does adBrite give you any money for clicks? I'm only getting a few visitors per day, but they are clicking on ads apparently. My earnings are very low.


Centring an HTML element relative to its parent when its width is greater than its parent

I mocked up my intended outcome. So the blue element is the main content of the website and the yellow element represents something like a diagram or an image that has a greater width than the blue element. Ideally, I would like a purely CSS solution that is able to deal with various sizes of images. I have tried various things but have failed so far. I hope you can help! Here’s some example markup to set you on your way.               <!DOCTYPE HTML>                      <title>Example</title>

Some content above.

Some content below.


There's a site that puts designers and developers together, what is it?

I remember a site (the design is a dark color scheme, Helvetica Neue type and purple accents if I recall correctly) that would put designers and developers together for specific projects. Anyone have any idea what site I'm talking about?


How often do users of social websites use viral inviters, like gmail/twitter/facebook integrations to invite friends?

I'm thinking about developing a viral invite type function to allow users to invite some of their contacts from popular OAuth services like gmail, facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc. Before I go there, though, is there any research on how often users use these functions if they are around?


Your Most Popular Sites Screen in IE 10 - Icons not appearing

We use the following code to add icons for favicon, tablets, smartphones, windows 8 tiles and the like:-               <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="apple-touch-icon.png">          <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico"/>          <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="144x144" href="apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed.png">          <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="114x114" href="apple-touch-icon-114x114-precomposed.png">          <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="72x72" href="apple-touch-icon-72x72-precomposed.png">          <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png">          <meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed.png"/>          <meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#17151a"/>      Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work for IE9 and IE10's 'your most popular sites screen', google searches have been un-enlightening. Stack uses `<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="apple-touch-icon.png">` which seems to work for it, but not for us. Any clues to a solution appreciated. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/zLwP9.png)


How to pass a url with appended # section to Twitter?

Is possible to send URLs with "#" selector to Twitter ? In other terms, can I generate a short url pointing to a specific section in my webpage ? I've tried to pass the url but Twitter interpret what is after "#" selector as a twitter user. I've also tried to use tinyurl.com APIs to generate a short URL for each section of y webpage, but it ignores "#" appended to urls... thanks


Sample size and statistical significance in Google Analytics

I have been asked to compile a report into dropout rates during checkout for a global webstore I have used a sample size over one month as my sample because:   1. google analytics slows to a crawl over larger sample sizes and makes much of the analysis agonisingly slow   2. I believe it to be statistically significant and a representative sample  My client has asked me why I didn't use yearly figures and wants proof that one month of data is 'statistically significant'. Am I right in thinking that I need to compare the standard deviation of my monthly sample to the yearly sample and ensure that the deviation is under a certain %age? **Question:** how do I prove one month of Google Analytics data is representative to one year worth of data? Stats:   * 90k unique views/month   * ~1.1m per year.


Safety of purchasing country-specific domains from registrars?

None of the previous questions tackle some of the one-off (or further) countries' registries, beyond .co.uk, .it, et al. or else I'd have found an answer myself. Is it safe to buy a domain from a foreign country TLD from a registrar? http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/ I'm just looking for information for a vanity domain, so obviously I'm alright without an answer, but it's an unasked question (or at least, unanswered), and I'm not exactly in a hurry to give my credit card information over country lines, sight unseen.


How to lower SEO effectiveness for a keyword

I am working on a second personal website listing my job experience and skills. The first website included the name of my last employer in a few places and started competing for the ranking of the company I worked for and I removed the website from existence after I started beating the companies website. I made no efforts to increase it's visibility (using it as a keyword in meta or something similar) and have tried several variations of using a highly styled `<p>` tag instead of a heading to avoid the search bot from assuming that higher `<hX>` tags were more relevant. I no longer work for this company and wish to build a similar site, but want low to no ranking when somebody searches for "My old company". This isn't a problem for other items in my resume since the other places I have worked for have done minimal SEO. I have thought about using an image to replace the text, but that would prevent the search bots from indexing the page and possibly showing bad information in the small text that sometimes comes up with the web search.


What does DmR and DmT means in Terms of SEO?

Just read it on SEOMoz website. What is DmR and Dmt Abbreviated for?


301 redirecting a blog's RSS feed URL?

I moved my personal blog from Wordpress to Ghost this weekend, which changes the RSS feed URL from `/feed/` to `/rss/`. By default Ghost returns a 301 redirect for `/feed/`, which I've verified by checking the response header and looking at the logs: ![server logs](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WDI7e.png) In Feedly though, new posts aren't being picked up (at least after 24 hours. I'm not sure if they might have a waiting period before updating the URL). What's the correct thing to do in this situation? Do I need to keep `/feed/` alive instead of returning a 301? If so, is there a rewrite rule that would let me do this in nginx instead of having to modify the Ghost source code?


When should I go for extended-validation SSL?

At what point do I need an extended-validation SSL certificates (EV) rather than the less expensive domain-validated SSL certificate?


What can be done through XFrames, as compared to IFrame in html?

What can be done through XFrames, as compared to iframe in html? Is there any new feature other than making it easier to bookmark in XFrame as compared to IFrame?


How I can post my Facebook comments to my Drupal Site?


How can I migrate articles from one Joomla 2.5 installation to another Joomla 2.5 installation?

I want to move some articles from an existing J! 2.5.x installation to another J! 2.5.x installation. I have had a look in the extensions but there is not a non commercial component that does this. Can anyone provide any suggestions?


How does a website with user provided content get started?

I was wondering, How does a website that is based around content uploaded by users get started? When the website launches there is no content for the users to view or use/interact with so there really is not much of a drive for the user to make a account and use the website. How do I get started? Dummy content? Or just good SEO and patience? In case it's not clear what I mean; think of it as day 1 of Youtube(Example site) what motivated people to still upload content and continue to visit/use the site? I hope I'm posting in the right Stackexchange. Thanks in advance.


Redirect/Rewrite Subdomain to Subfolder

I'm trying to redirect a subdomain to a subfolder e.g. forums.domain.com to www.domain.com/forums Note that I started the forums in the subfolder format but worried that members might mistakenly try to access the forums using the subdomain format.               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?forums\.domain\.com     RewriteRule .* /forums [L]      From what I read the codes above should work through .htaccess, but do I still need to create a DNS A record to point to the IP address of the server?


Adsense click bot is click bombing my site

I have a site that get's roughly 7,000 - 10,000 page views per day right now. Starting around 1 AM on 7/1/12 I noticed the CTR was rising dramatically. These clicks would be credited then de-credited soon after. So, they were obviously fraudulent clicks. The next day I had about 200 clicks with about 100 of them being fraudulent. It's about 3 - 8 clicks per hour evenly dispersed for each of the three ads 24 hours a day. This leads me to believe that it's some sort of Adsense click bot. Also, I removed the ads last evening then put them back up around 3AM and the invalid clicks started within 10 minutes. I signed up for statcounter.com to analyze the exit links on the Adsense. Then I conditionally blocked ads for the IP address of the person / bot I suspected doing this. But, I think that the bot has several proxies to choose from and can refresh IP addresses. I've notified Google through the invalid click form / email 4 times over the past two days in order to let them know I'm aware of the situation and am working on a solution. I've also temporally removed all ads on that site. How can I block a bot like this? Thank you.


Canonicals with differing content

Interesting conundrum here with canonicals. Lets say I have a site with a "verified" system where other websites can become so and so "verified". Their url to send people to confirm verification is something like "blah.com/verify/company1" and "blah.com/verify/company2". But logically "blah.com/verify" itself is not verifying anyone in particular, so it redirects to the signup form to get verified, at "blah.com/verify/register". As far as the actual companies registered, I figure it doesn't make sense to index every individual url with only the tiny difference of which company name it's saying yay or nay to being verified, so canonicals could come in handy on those pages to condense the indexing. Yet making "blah.com/verify" the canonical "hub" doesn't work well because it's a signup form, not a verification page, so technically has quite different content from the various verification pages themselves. But at the same time it's a bit unfair to choose 1 company to point all the canonical benefits to and use that as the "hub", yet a bit wasteful to have google index every individual verification page and spread out all that linkjuice. Basically, I'm just looking for advice, what's best for this from a search engine standpoint?


Redirect cPanel url to something different

I have masterdomain.com which is the domain that hosts other domains. On cPanel normally you can get to the actual cPanel by visiting `cpanel.hosteddomainA.com`, `hosteddomainA.com/cpanel` or `hosteddomainA.com:2082` What I would like to accomplish is to have the hosteddomains cPanel auto redirect to something like `my.masterdomain.com:2082` . Doing this would allow me to adequately throw an SSL cert in `my.` and really offer a secure experience to my users. I know it's possible because bluehost does the same. They redirect to my.bluehost.com. Can anyone think of how to do it?


Is it correct to just keep gender as male/female?

When designing a form that asks for a person's gender, should I take any special consideration for hermaphrodites or trans-gendered persons, or is M/F good enough? Is defaulting the gender offensive to some persons?


Is it possible to link a Google+ page to multiple web properties with rel="publisher" ?

I want to have the Google+ page of my startup linked to 2 domains: `blog.eatfab.com` and `www.eatfab.com` for the obvious reasons that they're both eatfab's properties. I wonder if that is possible. I'm able to link only one. The problem is that when I try to see on google rich snippets tool who the publisher of `www.eatfab.com` is (when `blog.eatfab.com` appears as a linked url on the Google+ page), I get the error:               This is not a verified publisher markup.


Searches for "more information about text formats"

I have a site using Drupal as CMS, and got "infected" badly with spammer bots. Moreover, recently I signed up for Google's Webmaster Tools, and I see that one of the top search queries that result in my site is "`more information about text formats`" And I know that this block of text appears in drupal sites. So I'm guessing that this is the bots' way to find spammable drupal sites. So is there a precaution for this? I already made robots.txt to `Disallow: /drupal-subfolder/` but apparently this does not affect malicious bots.


Will Google penalize subdomains if content is nearly identical

I have created a subdomain for a town in San Diego that's ranking very well for it's keywords: http://carmelvalleymortgage.loanrebateinc.com/ I want to replicate this subdomain's content for another town in San Diego: http://sandiego.mortgage.loanrebateinc.com/ I will edit the text, tags, image files specific to each town, otherwise the verbiage will be identical. Question:   1. Will Google penalize the main site?   2. Will Google penalize the subdomains and list the content as spam?   3. If yes to either 1 or 2, what strategies can I implement to prevent this? I'm using WordPress.


SSL certificate for 3rd party domain pointed at windows azure role

I have a website hosted on Windows Azure. All pages on the website are on HTTPS. The website can be customized with the customization profile being associated with a uri authority. There is a 3rd party that would like to point a url they own to the website. I already have an SSL certificate associated with the default url for the website, and the url in turn points to the Windows Azure appname.cloudapp.net. To make the default certificate work I needed to associated it with the service in the Windows Azure management portal. For the 3rd party url SSL to work, do I need to add their SSL certificate to the management portal as well?


Robots.txt: do I need to disallow a page which is not linked anywhere?

There are some pages on my websites that I want the user to be able to visit only if I give him/her the url. If I disallow the single pages in robots.txt, they will be visible by anybody looking into it. My question is: if I don't link them from anywhere, or at least from any indexed page, would they still be reached by crawlers in some way?


htaccess Rewrite Syntax?

I have a bunch of files with a "NEW-" prefix (e.g. "NEW-index.php"). I need to do a 301 redirect to the corresponding file without the prefix. I've tried a few things but I'm not getting the regex syntax correct. Can anyone show me the right way to do this?


To track or not to track user created images for display in a dynamic website?

I have a website that allows user to upload and display images. Currently, I am _not_ using a database to track these user images. A folder having the user id as the folder name is created for each user and under each folder, the image files are labelled numerically with filenames ranging from `01.jpg` to `20.jpg`. Up to 20 such images can be displayed on each user page. I am using javascript to hide these images in case of any of them is absent. I have seen many websites having user images with unique random filenames and possibly tracking these files with a database Since obscurity is not something that I need for these web accessible images, is there any reason why I should track them with a DB? I am not sure if a reduction of 404 errors is a good enough reason to justify the added complexity of maintaining a database or can anyone enlighten me?


How to handle duplicate product pages for SEO?

I am using the following URL format to display products: `mysite.com/category1/product`. Now I am finding certain products fall into more than 1 category and I would like the product to be listed in all related categories so I end up with:               mysite.com/category1/product     mysite.com/category2/product      The product page is exactly the same the only difference would be the URL and a slightly different breadcrumb menu on the page. I understand this is bad practice for SEO, what can I do while still maintaining the URLs with both categories?


Transferring users and search engines to a new domain

I've been asked to take over the maintenance of an existing site that's being reworked. At present it's serving localised content for several languages, but via a fairly unhelpful mechanism that means essentially search engines only have it indexed in English and any deep links will _de facto_ appear in English as well. So, new localised sites are being built under separate domains - not just for this, there's other benefits. What we're then looking to do is to redirect users correctly to the new site, where appropriate, or the localised old content where the new site isn't yet available. Once this process is complete the old site content will then be entirely retired. For humans this isn't a problem. We can send them through a gateway page on their first site visit, grab their language preference and put it in a cookie, then redirect them to the new localised content as soon as it's available. For search engines, this isn't so good... In principle I'm happy to simply bypass the gateway page and redirect known spiders to the new site, but this means we're serving radically different content (different URL even!) to human and robot users. Won't this therefore be regarded as cloaking and cause us grief? Anyone know a better way to handle this?


Why does google does not ignore the word "languages", although I have set to ignore it in advanced search settings. here is the term I am using in google search: -languages site:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ and here is the first result where the word "languages" is still present, (you can do a quick crtl+F to find out) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bedell_Smith I am just curious to know why google have not ignored the word "languages"?


Google Webmasters tools search queries position

In my website account on Google Webmasters tools, some search queries show average position 1.0. This make me understand that it should be displayed as the first result. When I search for this query I could not able to find my website's page listed as a result?! In some cases I navigate to the third or the fourth result page and I could not find it! What are factors that make my website loss its average position for a search query? and when Google webmasters tools updates their values?


deletable 'Tags' in a field

I want to realize the same Tags-field like here on StackExchange while editing/adding a post. I want the option to choose different tags from a list, delete and sort them (last one is not included here). I don't need the ajax- autocomplete functionality – the tags should be picked from a list I generate. Also there is no option to create new tags. an ID and sorting-weight should be saved in a hidden field, so I can pass this values by submitting a form is there somehow a UI which provides all this? doesn't matter which library thx in advanced


subdomain not working and added /mysubdomains/devsitename

I am having a site www.example.com which working fine and I have a number of sub-domains which are working fine except one. When I gave the url **subdomain.example.com** the address bar showing as below               subdomain.example.com --> www.subdomain.example.com/mysubdomains/devsitename      It added the www and the /mysubdomain/devsitename which is my hosted directory in my server. Then it came up with **the website you were looking for is unavailable**. Has anyone experienced this issue? Do you know how to resolve this?


Sendmail encrypted

I manage a website running on Apache. It has public and private areas. When people apply for an account to access the protected portions of the site, they do a TLS/SSL protected POST containing their information which is saved to a (hopefully) nonpublic directory on the server. Then I have a python script which takes URL Encoded POSTS with this user information, sends back a plaintext confirmation to the applicant, encrypts their information with a freeware java command-line utility to protect it (specifically this one: http://spi.dod.mil/ewizard.htm), base64 encodes them, puts them in a file as a mime attachment and uses sendmail to forward the file information to my (and several coworkers' scattered around the country) email account(s) on an Exchange server with Outlook clients. This has worked well for years, but is awkward because it involves manually decrypting the information on a windows box once it is received, using the above mentioned encryption utility. This significantly limits how many can be processed. I would like to be able to encrypt my information in a format that Outlook/Exchange can inherently understand and display so that these emails can be viewed simply by clicking on them. I do have company provided PKI public certs for all the people I need to send to, and am able to send/receive encrypted emails on Outlook manually, but would like to know how I can send to Outlook from apache/linux/python from the command line using the same PKI certs. Dont need to receive them, just send. Is there a utility that can do this? I had thought pgp might but I havent been able to figure it out.


Html integration for user end only for moodle

How can I integrate my customized theme to only the user end and not to the admin end for moodle. The admin end should remain the same,but when user logins the theme should change.


How can I get an email update for a Google PageRank update?

I'd like to be informed when there's a PageRank update for the websites I manage. Is there a way to receive an email (or a tweet...) after a PageRank update? Also, ideally I won't be paying to receive this email.


What is redirecting mobile visitors to our website?

Our site may have been hacked. It loads okay on desktop browsers, but on mobile devices it redirects to a porn site. I can't see anything in the source code or .htaccess which would be causing this. The site is Wordpress based, and it used to use Wordpress Mobile Edition, but that is now deleted, yet the symptom persists. Can you see what is redirecting mobile visitors?


Joomla 1.5 admin section blank

I've just installed Joomla 1.5.22, and after I log into Joomla admin, the Joomla logo appears, and the content area with rounded corners appears, but there is no content, and no admin menus. I've uploaded the /administrator folder once more, but the problem remains. I've searched the Joomla forums without much luck. Any ideas?


Free Web hosting for web applications

Are there web sites that offers hosting of a web application that uses c++? I know that there are a lot of free web hosting solutions that offers hosting for regular web applications made with php, mysql, etc. I would like to upload a routing engine for my website. My application is a travel planner, and I have a custom routing engine that is made of c++. If there are free online Linux OS hosting that can act as a ordinary OS installation (which will be my best option), I would greatly appreciate if you can list them below. Thanks in advance.


"Not Provided" keywords from Google search: If your site uses https, does Google always send the keywords in the referrer?

Over the last two years the number of "keyword not provided" referrals from Google Search has grown to close to 30% for my websites. Google does not send the keyword in the referer URL when the user is logged into Google or searching Google via https. I've heard rumors that if your entire site is https, Google does not withhold this referrer information from your website. When sending traffic to a https website Google will send the keyword, even when the user is logged in or using https on Google. Is this true?


How do URLs work in a country with non-latin chars?

How do URLs work in other countries? Let's say India or China that use non A-Z characters. Do they use English terms in the URL? Or can they write characters in urls like: > सच्चाई.html


Disqus-like comment server

I'm looking at setting up a blog, and I think I want to go the static website compiler route, rather than the perhaps more conventional Wordpress route. I'm looking at using blogofile, but could use jekyll as well. These tools recommend using disqus to embed a javascript comment widget on blog posts. I'd go that route, but I'd rather host the comments myself, rather than use a third party. I could certainly write my own dirt-simple comment server, but I was wondering if anyone knew of one that already exists (of the open source variety). Thanks!


Author rel tag works on one author but not another

Here's one page I've managed to get authors set up on properly, no errors: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scirra.com%2Fblog%2F42%2Fwelcome- to-the-new-website&view= And here is one on another that throws an error with a different author: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scirra.com%2Fblog%2F46%2Fmore- on-html5-audio-codecs-and-politics&view= > Error: Google Profile does not link to article site As far as I can tell, they are both identical in the way they are set up! I am really struggling to see the differences here. Can anyone tell me what's going on? Ashley's Google profile has a link set up to his profile page and we did check the box saying "This is about me".


Forwarding -- ok for SEO, or should I reinstall WordPress at the forwarded domain?

If my main market is UK, and I have both: mydomain.co.uk and: mydomain.com and I want to market the site using the .co.uk domain and I only have one set of content -- one website, that I want to be seen by visitors to either domain.. and I have a WordPress site at mydomain.com, with url forwarding (with masking I think it is) so people can go to the .co.uk domain and see the content of the dotcom domain, is that ok from an SEO point of view (or from any other point of view)? Or is it better to reinstall WordPress so it's at the .co.uk domain, with forwarding of the .com domain?


Has anybody split tested one password field versus password & confirm on registrations?

I'm just curious to see if this is something really worth testing, as it will require some coding to achieve.


Problem with DNS setup on vps

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web analytics with path click analysis

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How does stackexchange websites manage to have google see multiple questions as multiple webpages?

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Website security

I have a website which uses membership/roles for security. However, I really want this site to be secure. My concern is one day something happens to server and the membership/roles is turned off. Is there anyway that I could add an additional layer of security to website that would not be too intrusive? This would be "on-top" of the ASP.NET security. My thought would be maybe a session cookie that is sent when a password is answered correctly. Looking for ideas. I primarily want keep the site secure even if the security on the website is turned off. In worst case scenario, I imagine that someone might could even browse the files. This would require me to put the check in every page which sounds very cumbersome and a hack.


Error using In-Page Analytics report in Google Analytics

We are unable to use the In-Page Analytics report in Google Analytics because our site now redirects to a URL which is different from what is in our Account setting. Are there any workarounds which will give us the In-Page Analytics and not impact our history data?


Building a restaurant site... How should I implement online ordering?

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Dropping adverts during responsive design changes

I was looking at the new Smashing Magazine design and first of I have to say, it looks great. One thing that grabbed my attention though was that the Right Hand Side adverts get dropped during the 'first stage' of the site shrinking down to a more mobile friendly version. Obviously when the ads are referral based the only people that are getting hurt are the webmasters that made the change, but what about when advertisers are paying for a certain slot. If webmasters decide to make their sites act responsively (and I think we should) should we be selling ad space per window size? I also wonder if there has been any examples of people maybe going from banner / image based adverts to text based on smaller window sizes?


I am looking for a good free domain

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I'm building a social media website and need terms and conditions template. What is the best way to get it?

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I am in the process of translating a set of websites to multiple languages. Would there be any negative implications if I were to serve each different language from identical URLs? I fully intend to fully implement translated URLs, hreflang meta tags, etc. But before I do that (and start risking making a mistake where Google might start seeing duplicate content) I'd like to be able to implement the translations to make sure everything "works" OK. But will Google see that as "cloaking" or something else "black hat" because I'm serving different content from the same URL? Just to be clear, the language would be selected by a POST form, set a session variable for the user, and then use that session variable for the rest of the session. **Edit** I'm aware of the best practices for multilingual sites. I just don't want to implement them all at this time. It's a large project, so I'll be doing it in phases. I mostly want to know if I could be penalized by Google in any way. Also, the websites sniff the users Browser language, and if we have that translation will serve it to them seamlessly. If we don't have that language, they'll get the English default.


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We have support for various languages in our website, including Spanish, French and Swedish. For now, the links in the site are NOT encoded before sent to the browser, sending the real accented chars (if such exists, i.e. href="www.(dot)example(dot)com/héllo.html") and not their HEX representation. This works & looks good on all browsers, including Chrome, FF and IE. However, we care great deal about SEO. We got this tip that encoding the links before sending them to the browser (so instead of linking to http://www.example.com/héllo, we will link to http://www.example.com/h%E9llo) will improve the way search engines will 'understand' the links and the keywords in the URL. This involves some work at our side, so we wanted to know if there's truth in that tip, but couldn't find anything addressing this issue.


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How can I automate the IDs of my HTML headings?

My Heading

My Awesome Heading
      Whatever your heading text is, is what the id of the header is Is this something that can be automated? I saw this on a websites code with firebug. If it is automatic, what is it called?


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I am trying to fill up title and meta description for my Tumblr blog. The way I will do that is via the themes. For the title, it isn't too much of an issue, I can just get the title for the post although some post types do not have titles. The **main question is about the description**. I am thinking of **using the start of the body content**. For now, there is no way to limit the length of body content. I wonder **if its OK to have the whole body in the description**? I have contacted Tumblr support to suggest that they have a way of creating limiting text length in their template tags.


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How would I go about tracking this issue down? One of my websites has been up for years without issue. We're using Godaddy's nameservers for our domain. Lately in the past two weeks, I've noticed that once from home on my Cox cable connection, I could not connect to the site... it said the domain could not be resolved. I checked downforeveryoneorjustme.com, and it said it was fine. The "outage" lasted maybe five minutes (through a reboot too, and I'm on a mac FWIW) and then it started working again. Then it happened again this week, but from our office on a different Cox connection. Then it happened again from the office, but for a different domain. I called Cox during one outage, and the tech there could resolve the domain without a problem. When these outages are occurring, I can issue "host mydomain.com" and get "domain not found", but using "host mydomain.com 8.8.8.8" will resolve normally. Where do I start? We're getting reports now that our customers are experiencing it too.


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SEO and domains

Is it important for SEO, with which company a domain name is registered? And more particular - is it okay to have my domain registered here: MinmaxGroup? Or would be I better off transferring it to GoDaddy, for example?


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I am having an issue with sending HTML emails to Gmail. I can send them to Yahoo, Hotmail, RR, AOL, etc. with no problem at all, but when I send them to Gmail I get kicked to spam. I have checked my IP with a lot of different list to make sure it is not listed anywhere, which it is not.               spamhaus =  is not listed in the DBL     abuse.net = is not listed in the SBL     abuse.net = is not listed in the PBL     abuse.net = is not listed in the XBL     spamcop = not listed in bl.spamcop.net          host 24.172.204.xxx     xxx.204.172.24.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer xxxevents.com.               host xxxevents.com     xxxevents.com has address 24.172.204.xxx     xxxevents.com mail is handled by 10 mail.xxxevents.com.      I am just trying to send a very VERY basic HTML message (listed below). I use an Ubuntu server, swiftmailer, multipart/alternative (HTML & plain), SPF = pass, and I am going to setup DKIM today to see if that fixes it (but I doubt it will)... For now I will only post the message I sent that gets kicked to spam and can provide any details needed.               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">          <title>Triathlon</title>

Thank you for attending our 4th annual Triathlon/Duathlon/5k at Hueston Woods State Park on August 12th.     This event is held annually to raise research funding for Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, and Muscular Dystrophy diseases.

As you know the results and pictures have been posted on our home page at  since Sunday 8/13/2012. Now we also have updated our Facebook page with those photos and you can start tagging yourself or downloading the pictures now!
                             our page and tag yourself at

                             test test

Race day events is professionally managed by Speedy-Feet

                Just plain text works great, I thought maybe wording was messing me up but not the case... I am almost done install opendkim so I will be able to rule that out very soon. **Edit:** Okay installed opendkim and I am getting passing results so I sent the html I posted above it went through just fine. So now when I start to add a few more lines I am getting kicked back to spam again. Here is updated html code:                `   <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">          <title>Triathlon</title>

Thank you for attending our 4th annual Triathlon/Duathlon/5k at Hueston Woods State Park on August 12th.     This event is held annually to raise research funding for Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, and Muscular Dystrophy diseases.

As you know the results and pictures have been posted on our home page at  since Sunday 8/13/2012. Now we also have updated our Facebook page with those photos and you can start tagging yourself or downloading the pictures now!
                             our page and tag yourself at

                             test test

Race day events is professionally managed by Speedy-Feet

PO Box xxx     Maineville, OH 45039
     customerservice@xxxevents.com | xxxevents.com

               `      EDIT: Thank you for your response Andrew, unfortunately that did not fix my issue.... I tried sending the exact message above (not containing any spam) and its still being caught. I am at wits end with gmail. Although I seriously doubt it is a system setting that is throwing me off, I am more than happy to email any information you may need to help me though this... As stated before my ip is clear, html validates with W3, removed all usage of spammy verbiage, and stripped out anything that I can think of that would cause it go to spam, send it and wham spam.... EDIT: Thank you for your response Nick, Yes xxx was simply to mask it, although I am starting to think I will not get resolution this way. If you think it will help let me know and I will just post the real html and we can see if we can get this thing going. EDIT: Thank you for your response Gabriel, I double checked my ip and got the follow results;                   Test    Result     SMTP Reverse Dns    OK - 24.172.204.xxx resolves to xxxevents.com     SMTP Reverse DNS Mismatch   OK - Reverse DNS matches SMTP Banner     SMTP TLS    OK - Supports TLS.     SMTP Connection Time    0 seconds - Good on Connection time     SMTP Open Relay     OK - Not an open relay.     SMTP Transaction Time   0.593 seconds - Good on Transaction Time      Okay lets try it like this, this is the original message (quoted-printable) sent. xxx is just add for posting purposes. So if I send ` Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted- printable Thank you for attending our 4th annual Triathlon/= Duathlon/5k at Hueston Woods State Park on August 12th. This event is= held annually to raise research funding for Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative= Colitis, and Muscular Dystrophy diseases. As you know the r= esults and pictures have been posted on our home page at since Sunday 8= /13/2012. Now we also have updated our Facebook page with those photos a= nd you can start tagging yourself or downloading the pictures now! o= ur page and tag yourself at test test Race day events is profess= ionally managed by Speedy-Feet PO Box xxx Maineville, OH xxx39<= table cellspacing=3D'0' cellpadding=3D'0'>This email was sent to xxx@gmail.com if you would like to = be removed click here http://xxxevents.com/removeme.php?rem= ove=3Dxxx@gmail.com' > http://xxxevents.com/removeme.php?re= move=3Dxxx@gmail.com` It goes through just fine, no issues at all. However if I send this; ` Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted- printable Thank you= for attending our 4th annual Triathlon/Duathlon/5k at Hueston Woods Sta= te Park on August 12th. This event is held annually to raise research fu= nding for Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, and Muscular Dystrophy di= seases. * * * As you know the results and pictures have been po= sted on our home page at since Sunday 8/13/2012. Now we also have updat= ed our Facebook page with those photos and you can start tagging yoursel= f or downloading the pictures now! our page and tag yourself at <= hr /> Race day events is professionally managed by Speedy-Feet P= O Box xxx Maineville, OH xxx39 This email was sent to xxx@gmail.com if you would like to be re= moved click here http://xxxevents.com/removeme.php?remo= ve=3Dxxx@gmail.com' > http://xxxevents.com/removeme.php?rem= ove=3Dxxx@gmail.com > ` Then it goes straight to spam.... Its the exact same message the only difference are the tables, the links everything is exactly the same.... I just dont understand.


How do I view ALL blog posts in an RSS feed?

I have a blog and its posts date back all the way to March of 2009. However, when I visit my feed url (it's feedburner), the oldest post that shows up on that page is one written in February of 2011. How do I view ALL posts on a blog with a feed url?


DNS add-on domain setup and redirect

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domain name suggestion tool (SEO friendly)

I'm looking to purchase a domain, and of couse the one that I really want is taken, what would be best way to find an alternative domain that would rate good for SEO?


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I am currently using Codeignitor as my PHP framework with XAMPP. I always keep all my files in c:/xampp/htdocs/. The settings are working fine in my own localhost machine. But when I load the same project in other machines connected via a router only the hypertext that is within the Codeignitor framework i.e inside application and system folder are getting displayed. But the external sources like stylesheets, images are not being displayed. On other machines I can access the project via the following URL.               http://my_ip/project_route      And on my own machine I can access it via `http://localhost/project_route` But the strange thing is that projects that do not use codeignitor are doing fine in both my machine and the others locally connected via router. I think the problem is arising bacause due to the file permissions of the external resources(css,images etc.). can this problem be solved with .htaccess or any other mechanism? OS:windows 7 I appreciate any help towords this.


Mod RewriteRule not working on all URL's

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Is text in SVG selectable/copyable in browsers?

More and more browsers support SVG. Is the text in SVG selectable / **copy** 'able?


SEO-bots content reading question

I got a preety noobish question.. I have a web site and most of the content that is shown to a user is drawn from a database.. And the pages that i sent to eg. google to index have a querystring in their url.. Meaning when the page is opened, most of the content shown is from a database using a query, and querys key info is from a querystring.. Does eg. googlebot index a page WITH the content from the database, or just the plain html content before the server side activity is done? Tnx for the anwsers, and sorry for the noobish question :)


SOPA PIPA CISPA and Similliar Laws

If we use non-US domain names, DNS and webhosting will we avoid these laws if any of them come to pass?


Which web directories can I reliably invest in to increase my traffic and search ranking?

I've been looking around for some web directories to list my company in that would 1) Feed more traffic to my website and 2) Increase my search rankings due to being a quality referral to my own website. There are many sites out there offering these services for all types of companies, but are there any which you would definitely use without worrying about wasting your cash? Thanks in advance.


Alt attributes for dynamically generated images

I have an image gallery for a commerce website which consists of several small thumbnail images and one large image. All of the images are photographs of the same product. What would be the most meaningful alt attribute to place into these images, given that they are generated dynamically?


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I'm building a Drupal site where much of the content is going to be in static on specific pages. In Drupal, each piece of content (whether you like it or not) gets created its own page (node). To ensure that users do not view these nodes, I'm thinking about setting up a 30x redirect or a flat out 30x not found. Will this method effect me negatively for google? Is there a different method that you could propose that may be better?


Google Incoming Links only display for my localhost?

I recently noticed that if I search google for:               link:mysite.com      There are zero results. This is false, because in Google Webmaster Tools, I have plenty of incoming links. If I change the query to:               link:mysite.dev (my alias set up in /etc/hosts for local development)      I get results for incoming links to mysite.com! How can this be happening?


SEO and external sites that serve responsive images (like Re-SRC)

Re-SRC is a tool that allows you to automatically serve responsive images for your website from their cloud servers. It delivers a new image file each time the browser window (viewport) is resized. To use it in your HTML when linking to an image, you would do the following:               <img src="http://app.resrc.it//www.your-domain.com/img/img001.jpg"/>      Some more background for SEO considerations: As an example, looking at their demo page's code, the `src` of the Arc de Triomphe photo — when the browser window is resized to be at a tablet-width — shows this particular file at it's widest. It is found under the following URL: http://app4-uk.resrc.it/s=w560,pd1/ro=h//www.resrc.it/img/demo/demo- image-1.jpg If the viewport is increased to desktop-width, then a smaller image is served in line with the design; see this URL: http://app4-uk.resrc.it/s=w320,pd1/ro=h//www.resrc.it/img/demo/demo- image-1.jpg If I change the viewport to be about half-way between those two, then the image's URL is: http://app4-uk.resrc.it/s=w240,pd1/ro=h//www.resrc.it/img/demo/demo- image-1.jpg In other words, I found that there is a separate file for every 10-pixel increment of the image width. Very cool for saving bandwidth on mobile devices and service responsive/retina images on others, but... **Here are two problems I see for SEO:**   1. The `img` on your site, part of your semantic markup, will not be hosted on your site at all, or even a server you control. Any links to these images will pass on "link juice" to Re-SRC's site instead.   2. You are serving a vast array of different image files to different people — some may link to one, others to another size. Then there's the question of what different search engine crawlers will see. Also:   * There seems to be no fallback option if their servers are down. Do you see any other concerns? Or, perhaps, do you not see those as concerns?    * * * I also found out that when JavaScript is disabled (though search engines do crawl with JS in their inventory as well) — Re-SRC returns really pixelated images on it's demo page: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/G3OXD.jpg)


Can i link to other websites in my newsletter?

I'm intrested in adding several intresting articles on my newsletter from other websites. Am i allowed to do that in general or every website has it's own rules?


Photography website: How much quality to sacrifice for file size?

I am designing a website for a Photographer. Obviously I compressed the images so that they would load faster and not use all the visitors cap. (There is quite a few gbs of pictures so that would just about take all of my bandwidth for a month if I were to browse all the albums.) The photographer was worried that having "pixelated" or bad resolution images on her website would create an unproffesional image for herself. How much quality can I sacrifice against professionality? Does it indeed reflect on the photographer if the pictures are in low resolution or will people simply understand the nature of the web?


Should URLs categorize pages?

Say an online marketplace has catalogs of products. If there's a catalog called "Transformers" which contains a product named "Megatron", which set of URLs are ideal? 1) No categorization:   * foo.com/transformers   * foo.com/transformers-megatron 2) Categorization:   * foo.com/catalogs/transformers   * foo.com/products/transformers-megatron 3) Nested categorization:   * foo.com/catalogs/transformers   * foo.com/catalogs/transformers/products/megatron


Create subdomains via C-Panel or via domain registrar?

I am a novice, so excuse me if it sounds dummy. I read a few similar questions on this topic here but they did not answer my question. I have a personal website, hosted with C-panel control panel. Via C-panel I can easily create new subdomains and I do not need to apply any DNS settings or so. And the subdomian is good to go immediately and are working fine. I have unlimited subdomains option. When I check my DNS management control panel in my domain registrar's site, there is no record associated with my subdomains. Now I want to buy a new domain name from 1and1, and have it as an add-on domain in my prevouse host. 1and1 say they only allow 5 subdomains. What does this mean? Can not I create unlimited subdomains under my new domain name, just as I do for my old domain? How does C-panel create and manage subdomains that there is nothing about it in my DNS control panel? Thanks for your help


Joomla! 1.5.9 changing page titles on menu

I am working in Joomla! 1.5.9 and trying to change the names to the page titles in the menu brouser (I think that's what it's called). I have only been able to find basic page info on those specific pages on the "sections manager/green folder" within the editor/admin site. However, all title changes I make to those pages within are not reflected on the actual web site itself. I have been able to "add" a section (just out of curiosity) but it is not visible on the actual site itself. Nor can I figure out how to delete any of the pages/sections. I don't know where to find access to the editing page title options. Please help!!!


How do I easily install Ion Cube on my server?

> The 'php.ini Install Assistant' link on the installation helper PHP script > is provided to assist with this. Access the script from a web server or a > PHP cli or cgi executable and it should tell you which Loader to install, > which file to edit and what you need to add (it's just a one line change). http://www.ioncube.com/loader_installation.php Okay, it seems to me that I have to access some script. Where the hell is that script is? Is it something I have to download or what?


Getting Destroyed on SEO

So I've launched a website and I'm working on SEO. Recently, many of my #1 result pages have completely evaporated from google. I am guessing Google is spam-flagging my site, and I have no idea what to do. Every page has at least a paragraph of unique content, my site has been backlinked from media articles (Google doesn't seem to think I have any backlinks) and I've been including tags in the URL (redirecting old links with a 301). My pages are very template-generic, yet that's just because of the design. Each page is indeed unique.


Google Analytics what is the differences between same visitor languages

Wondering about my google analytics visitor languages. It shows **de** and **de-de**. Is there any difference between them, if yes what do they mean? Is there a possability to get them all together in one language?


Implemented wrong 301 redirect and now traffic is decreasing

Last week we migrated our legacy site to a new site created via WordPress. I implemented all 301 redirects, but a lot of them were done improperly by my developer. As such, a lot of pages were pointing to a root category (`http://www.example.com/how-children-develop/`) instead of the proper page. Now this "how children develop" page is indexed and serving for search terms that I used to rank really well for, but much lower in the SERPs. That said, my organic traffic has gone from ~800 visits per day to ~100 and keeps falling. I've fixed all of the improper redirects (did this on Tuesday) and added the proper ones, but my rankings are not rebounding. Am I going to recover from the wrong 301 redirects?


Can I determine how much crossover traffic there is between sections on my site?

Let's say I have three sections on my shopping site: Men, Women, and Kids. I want to find out the proportion of visitors to /men/ who also go to /women/ or /kids/ etc. I don't care specifically about the top level pages, but rather about visitors to any page within the section. Is this possible using Google Analytics? Thanks!


Google Analytics track referrals with query strings

How does one track referrals with query strings? I found articles describing filters but they're all from 2011 and the current dashboard doesn't match what I see in the articles.


Name Server / DNS Lookup

What is the difference between a name server lookup and a DNS lookup?


Apache rewrite rule to add a directory in front of a file

I have an HTML page in my root directory, and when someone clicks it I'd like there to be a directory before the file name, that doesn't exist. For example, instead of just being able to access: > wwww.example.com/link.html This would also work: > wwww.example.com/ **folder** /link.html Can this be done with a rewrite rule?


How to deal with overly aggressive "Link Take Down Demands"?

I've been receiving a large number of emails recently requesting I clean from link spam from my forum. Initially the emails were very polite and professional, and I was happy to remove the links. Recently the email have gotten very abrasive, here is a particularly rude example: > From: dmcaviolations@company-one.com To: id@privacypost.com > > Hi, This is the second time we are reaching out to you regarding your link > to our site hxxp://www.company-two.com from hxxp://www.my-forum.com/some- > topic-id. We really do need to remove this link. We have to report to Google > any link we were unable to remove, and I wouldn't want to have to include > your site in the list. Could you please remove our link from this page and > any other page on your site? Thank You, Name Changed Behind the superficial pleasantries I feel there is some very real maliciousness.   * Note the email address, DMCA Violations, I don't see how the DMCA is involved here, except as a word which tends to strike fear in many people.   * Also relating to the email address, it doesn't match the company being linked to at all. How am I to trust they are truely operating on behalf of company-two when they don't even use one of it's email addresses.   * My email is hidden by privacypost. While a service with legitimate uses, I feel it's highly unprofessional for communications between to companies.   * The claim "This is the second time..." Every email I've received has started like this, but a check of my spam filters has never revealed a 1st mail. Initially I gave them the benefit of the doubt, by now though it's clear this is a cheap ploy to start me off on the defensive.   * And finally worst of all- the threats of reporting me to Google if I don't do everything they ask. I sent a polite reply asking for more information. I have no idea if the email address was even valid but I never received any response. Much later I got this followup mail > From: name-changed@company-one.com To: id@privacypost.com > > Hi, This is the final time we are reaching out to you regarding your link to > our site hxxp://www.company-two.com from hxxp://www.my-forum.com/some-topic- > id. We will soon be reporting to Google any link we were unable to remove, > and currently your site will have to be on the list. Could you please remove > our link from this page and any other page on your site? I appreciate your > urgent attention to this matter. Thank You, Name Changed This time the from address was more personal, though still not obviously connected to the spammed company. Lets be honest, I don't for one second believe that the companies were the victim of a 3rd party spammer as they claim. The links in questions were generated well over a year ago, and I firmly believe the companies were directly responsible for the spam links in question, a type of spam that has plagued my forum. Now they have the audacity to demand I spend my time cleaning up their mess, using threats to ensure they get their way. Have recent changes in Googles algorithms meant all the cash they spent spamming the web has now turned into a liability? If so I can see why these companies are all of a sudden running scared. Frankly, cleaning up my forum is a good things, but the threats they are using sickens me. So my question here is specifically about the threats:   1. Are they vaild, and would such reports to Google destroy my page rankings?    2. Is there a way I can report this abusive behaviour to Google?


Google says no Structured Data exists but it does

I have a website and I am working over its SEO. I have put all required structured data as per my knowledge in it and have also tested it with Google Webmaster's `Structured Data Testing Tool` and it detects everything fine and all requirements are met. But back in _Webmasters tools_ when I go to `Search Appearances` > `Structured Data` it says               We do not detect any structured data on your site.     Structured data helps Google understand the content on your site, which can be used to display rich snippets in search results.      Why it is happening any idea and how can I correct it?


Using a server to host mail servers and redirect website requests to another server

I have 2 servers. At my registrar, the DNS of my domain points to Server1. How can I set up my servers, so that Server1 redirects all Web requests for my domain to Server2. My goal is that I can change Server2 whenever I want without having to change the DNS at my registrar (and have to wait X hours for the changes to spread). I would simply change something in Server1 so that it redirects to Server3 instead of Server2 and as soon as I would do that, it would work for all visitors. Does it make sense? How would I set this up? I looked at DNS servers and slaves but I am confused.


Pagerank updated and traffic change, what's first?

As we all know, pagerank is not updated very often, this month it Did. Thing is in one of my sites google traffic increased about a 300% and then I realised that pagerank improved 1 point, My question here is a little bit difficult to express, Basically, Does traffic change is because of the PR change or the PR it's just a reflection of current status?


Renewing a SSL certificate with GoDaddy

GoDaddy sells SSL certificates for $12 per year (the most basic one). I have bought one of those last year, and now is the time to renew. However they are now asking for $50 for the renewal (the $12 is apparently a discount). Is there a way to get the $12 price for a renewal. Is it going to work if I buy a new certificate at $12, and use the same host as the one I had before, or are they going to prevent me from doing that?


Choose preview of a GIF in Facebook when pushed from Mailchimp

I'm creating email campaigns in Mailchimp and they will also be automatically posted in Facebook. Facebook allows to create the thumbnail of the campaign by picking the GIF (http://eepurl.com/QokP). But I'd like to choose a specific frame of the GIF as the thumbnail. Do you know if there is a way to set a frame as the default frame for a GIF preview?


Why might have my website dropped off SERPS?

I used to be first page for a keyword, but now it seems I have dropped off entirely and cannot even find myself on the first few pages. I checked Google webmaster tools and there wasn't anything peculiar. I'm guessing I need to build new backlinks, but any other ideas?


On what criteria should I evaluate domain registrars?

Though I've been a web developer for a fair amount of time, I am going for the first time to buy a few domain names. I have looked into the domains I'm going to buy and know that they're available, and I've been looking into which sellers to use. After doing a lot of research, the main ones I'm considering are 1&1, Namecheap, and Gandi. The problem is, when continuing to research, I'm not really sure what makes one domain seller distinct from another. I don't need much in the way of services--definitely not hosting, since I plan to use Heroku for that. I mainly only need the domain itself and DNS management, as well as possibly SSL certificates and WHOIS protection. **Question:** What makes one domain seller different from another? How can I go about evaluating which one is the best for me? **Note:** This question is _not_ which domain seller is the best, but rather, what _criteria_ can I use to evaluate them and rank one over another. I'm trying to find out what makes one domain seller different from another, since they all seem to be pretty similar to me right now.


Is there any web script to compress files on server?

Hey I was just looking for a script to compress all my files on my server through FTP or any other thing. I want to keep the compressed files as backup... And i know that many hosts support it, but i'm using godaddy and there's a limit of 20MB on compressing. is there any script without any limit which i can run and compress all the files and download and keep as backup? thanks.


why does Plesk set up only one nameserver by default?

When using Plesk 9.5 the default DNS template only includes one nameserver. An NS record of ns. and an a record ns. pointing to the default ip. Two nameserves are mandatory, so why would plesk have only one in the template. Am I missing something? I have found several hosting company guides that all explain the process of adding an extra name server to the template, that explain what I mean. https://help.fasthosts.co.uk/app/answers/detail/a_id/727/related/1/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xMzAxNjkxOTczL3NpZC9EemppX3Bxaw%3D%3D http://www.jodohost.com/plesk/Creating_Nameservers/creating_nameservers.html


Trouble creating new MySQL user/database with PHPMyAdmin

I did a brand new install of PHPMyAdmin and I managed to get it set up a while ago with a single non-admin user and a database. I now want to add a new user and new database. So, I went to the command line and created the database, created `sampleuser@localhost` identified by 'password', and granted all privileges to that user to the new database. When I go to PHPMyAdmin, however, I can't log in as sampleuser. I also tried to grant privilages to see the new database to my old user, and the database doesn't appear for my old user. Is there something I need to do to get PHPMyAdmin to reflect the changes?


Need to redirect to another server with no access to DNS A record

I've a website which is on two servers - the one it's on now malfunctioned. I have the site hosted on a second server, but have no access to the DNS Records to point the A Record to the new server IP. Can I redirect the URL to the new server without access to the DNS records?


How can I create multiple mini-sites with similar/duplicate content without hurting my search engine rank?

**Essential background** : I run a small company that lets members of the public post handwritten letters to their local politician (UK-based). Every week a number of early stage bills (called Early Day Motions) are submitted for debate in the House of Commons, and supporters of the motion will contact their local Members of Parliament, asking them to sign the motion. **The crux** : I want to target these EDMs with customised mini-sites, so when people search "EDM xxx", they find my customised mini-site, specifically targeting that EDM (i.e., "Send a handwritten letter to your MP asking them to sign EDM xxx"). At the moment, all these mini-sites (and my homepage) have **duplicate content** with only the relevant EDM name, number, and background image changed. (For example, http://mailmymp.com and http://mailmymp.com/edm/teaching-life- saving-skills-at-school-edm-550.php). **The question** : Firstly, will this hurt my potential search engine ranking? And, if so, what's the best way to target these political campaigns in an efficient manner without hurting my SEO prospects?


Why is the title of a RSS Feed coming as "unknown title" in RSS feeds reader?

The title of a feed is "unknown title" in Google reader. What could be the reason? Am I correct if I'm assuming that it should be appearing similar for all the subscribers of that feed and other feed-readers (other than Google reader) as well.


Are there any web log analyzers that produce something like Visitors Flow?

We currently run AWStats and Google Analytics. I've recently looked into several other options including Piwik, Open Web Analytics, and Webalizer. One thing that I'd like to track, and haven't found in anything (GA's Visitors Flow is closest) is statistics on referrers. That is:   1. For a page view, the page that linked to it   2. For static files (images, css, js) the page that called them Visitors Flow gives something of this, but:   * It doesn't handle service URLs   * It doesn't handle static files (we have a lot of these)   * It's very sparse (only gives the top few routes into or out of a page)   * It's not integrated with any other pieces (eg. I can't easily drill down into a path in Visitors Flow to see a breakdown of pages within that path) Are there any tools (preferably log-based) that can provide this information?


How do I connect a .tk domain with google sites?

Basically, I am trying to set up a google sites website with a cname from the .tk service. I need to know what I have to modify in the "Use Dot TK Free DNS Service" So far, this is the info I have: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2518318 http://www.blogritz.com/2011/03/change-blogspotcom-to-dot-tk-blogger.html Only issue is that I can't get it up and running! I have looked all over google for a tutorial on making this work, but I cannot find a solution. Okay, basically I solved my own problem by doing this: A Record www.site.tk 209.85.148.121 CNAME Record www.site.tk ghs.google.com Now my only problem is that when I look up site.tk on my address bar, nothing appears. Only www.site.tk works. Is there a way I can forward it to www.site.tk?


Is there any pros and cons of duplication content of meta description tag to keyword tag

On a Huge Website we have no time to add `keywords` manually so I'm same phrases for `Description` and `keyword` like this               <meta name='description' content="Hello how are you?">     <meta name='keywords' content="Hello how are you?">      Is there any pros and cons to do this for site's SEO


How to detect and track broken pages using Google Analytics or some other tool?

On my blog (WordPress), I am using a caching plugin, and somehow it happens that on my popular posts, the page broke, which means the generated HTML never reached the ending HTML tag and broke in between. The result was that the page display was wrong and Google Analytics code did not trigger. How can I quickly detect all such broken pages, either through Google Analytics or some other tool?


Different websites on "example.com" and "www.example.com"

I have an `A` record for my domain for `example.com` that points to my server's IP address. I would like to modify my DNS records so that `www.example.com` points to another server. Is this possible, and would I do that by simply creation a new `A` type record? Wouldn't `example.com` override my `www.example.com` record?


Feeds not working on Technorati

I submitted my site to Technorati but they prompt me that can not read from my feed url. I see it to be fine and it worked fine on other sites. Any ideas if there is a special requirement for technorati?


When buying traffic through Adwords, shouldn't I see an equivalent number of Adsense impressions?

Imagine if I purchase from Google 100 leads to my site through AdWords. I would expect my AdSense pageviews to be at least 100, so the ratio to be at least 1. Why is it that I get a 0.95, 0.97, 0.85? What do you think the issue might be? All cross browser testing has been done and apparently the website works fine with all browsers, mobile included. Any idea? Is this normal?


Server outputs the sourcecode of PHP page

I have a Shared Hosting package with HostGator. In it, I'm hosting around 4 websites. They are just some simple sites that doesn't likely to attract more visitors. But a few days ago, when I accessed one of my sites(via a browser), it outputted the PHP code of `index.php`, instead of outputting it as HTML. I think, at that time, the server was a bit busy or something. I heard that, Facebook also have got a similar condition where the home page's code was made available. So, how do I take preventive measures for this ? I always use phpBB forum's style of coding. That is, each sub pages, common functions, etc. are separated into subfolders. And in PHP, I would just `include_once()` or `require_once()` it. Also, these subfolders have a .htaccess file in which I have set the deny permission to the files inside it from outside. Also, in the main page(index), I would define a constant. And the first line of the subpages(which is situated in separate folders) is to check whether this constant is set. If not, calls `die()`. I am looking forward for solutions to this problem of outputting raw code when the page is accessed. Thanks in advance :)


Which token from a long User-Agent should I use in robots.txt?

The definition of User-Agent states that several tokens can be included, as deemed necessary by the client. I want to block certain bots via robots.txt and I am confused as to which part of the User-Agent string to use, especially for more obscure bots. For example:               Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; uMBot-LN/1.0; mailto: crawling@ubermetrics-technologies.com)"     JS-Kit URL Resolver, http://js-kit.com/     Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SEOkicks-Robot +http://www.seokicks.de/robot.html      Do I use the second token? Can tokens contain spaces, or did the SEOkicks folks forget a semicolon after _SEOkicks-Robot_? I don't actually intend on making my question specific to a couple bots - I want to know the guideline: which part of UA do I place in robots.txt for these exotic bots with UA as long as a haiku?               User-agent: uMBot-LN/1.0     Disallow: /      PS: Thank you but I do not need to hear that undesirable bots are better blocked with mod_security. I already have commercial mod_sec rules in place.


Use Google Analytics to target different sections of a blog

I have a blog that targets different regions. The Europe region blog has different sections in different local languages such as English, French and German. I wonder how to track and analyze the different sections. My initial thought is to search the domain URL, but I found it is not a good idea. For example, the URL for the Europe blog is like www.myblog.com/europe. If you click the French section, the URL is like www.myblog.com/europe/language/french. If you click an article in the French section, it is like www.myblog.com/article_name. Notice the article link is not www.myblog.com/language/french/article_name!


Tracking values in Adobe Marketing Cloud

My company is using Adobe Marketing Cloud. We wanted to try and use analytics to log values like Google analytics dose it (Google analytics log values) I have been reading thru the documentation and cant find anything similar. Does anyone of you know if it's possible to do this?


How to get Google to index dynamic pages generated from user IP address

I am creating a local community directory site which identifies the location of the user by IP address and dynamically renders the content related to the specific community identified by the IP address. My question is since everything is generated by the user IP, how can I get Google to index the dynamic pages created since the Googlebot itself will present an IP address and thus the only pages it will see will be related to its IP address... I can generate and submit an XML sitemap for all pages, but again the script would revert back to the Googlebot IP no matter which link it follows from the sitemap. **Update:** Will Google penalize me if I redirect their bot through IP identification to the national version of this of the above mentioned site?


Parallel downloading of JavaScript files on page load

Below is a quote from one of the Yahoo performance pages: > While a script is downloading, however, the browser won't start any other > downloads, even on different hostnames. When I look at page load of our website, I can see that many scripts are being downloaded at the same time: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wPrwc.png) **Am I mistaken, or should the quote should instead read like this?** > While scripts are downloading (there can be several scripts downloading at > the same time), the browser won't start any other downloads, even on > different hostnames.


My site is showing up in Google's search results with a Norwegian language parameter on the URL

When I make a search on Google and find my website; then I see the URL (the green line below the page title) is saying `www.domain.dk/?lang=nb`. I found out that `nb` is short for Norwegian. How do I remove the `?lang=nb` or at least change it to `?lang=da` since my website is in Danish? I have already written this inside the head-tag:               <meta name="language" content="da" />


Google Analytics Destination Goal

Is it possible to track how long does it take for a user to reach their goal via Destination Goal in Google Analytics? Something similar to checkout process, google starts tracking from when the item is added to the basket all the way (2-3 steps) to checkout.


How to make content display on their proper pages on search engines

So my site has a blog and gallery, both working the same way. There's an index, and each post has a permalink going to the individual entry. However, if I search for some of the content on Google, often it returns a link to the index, just because it happened to have been on the first page when it was crawled, instead of the individual post pages. This is especially true in cases of images. How can I make it so that Google returns the proper pages for the posts instead of just the main page of my site? My whole site is custom php code I made.


DNS CNAME domain.tld, email address problem

After having bought a **domain** (`example.tld`) without webspace, I want to let this point to my other domain called (`myhomepage.somefreehoster.com`). I know this will work using DNS CNAME record and when someone looks for `example.tld`, the resulting IP will be this of `myhomepage.somefreehoster.com`. However, how do I let this pass for emails sent via domain `@example.tld` (like `webmaster@example.tld`)? I do not want to send my mail through `myhomepage.somefreehoster.com`. If this is not possible the way I am trying to do, let me please know some clever alternatives. Still, preferably, I would like to use a DNS redirect.


How do I set up an `A record`?

I have Apache installed on an EC2 instance (with an Elastic IP). I successfully used NameCheap's DNS tool to configure routing of www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com traffic. If I have a web application living at www.mydomain.com/MyApp, what steps do I take to route MyApp.mydomain.com traffic to www.mydomain.com/MyApp? I don't want it to be a redirect.


How do I forward my domain's traffic to my WordPress.com hosted blog

I own a domain e.g. `myname.com` but host my blog with `wordpress.com` e.g. `myname.wordpress.com`. Can I forward the traffic visiting my domain name to my `wordpress.com` blog so that when my friends look for my site using Google they easily find the content of my blog? A step by step tutorial would be helpful.


images based website speed

I have a wordpress site which 90% is based on images. I've installed Wp-Super-Cache, now it seems to load a little bit faster. I've made a speed test on Pingdom Tools: Page size 4.7MB Load time 5.09s Requests 153 Perf. grade 74/100 The link is here And also the Time Spent per Content Type Image 88.23% So the problem is obviously the images. My plan is to try as much as I can to optimize the images in terms of size, and then to add CDN support. Is this enough on terms of improving the loading of images?


Google and random redirects

I have a site where homepage "example.com" redirects to random joke(example.com/random-joke). First I redirected with php, but then google indexed that joke page(rather to be empty). I used "302 Found" status code. Now i'll echo links to latest jokes and hide it with javascript and redirect with javascript. But this doesn't seem to help..   1. It seems that google still indexes joke page instead a list of jokes provided to homepage   2. It is slower for the visitor to redirect with javascript So does google detects javascript redirects and is there any good solution for "random redirects"?


Would it be wrong to register a local domain (.ro) which has the same name as a famous forum .com?

Let's say there is a niche forum called HowToChopOnionWithoutCrying.com (I'm making it up, of course) and it's in English. And I want to create a similar forum in Romanian, registering HowToChopOnionWithoutCrying.ro Would it be wrong? Are there legal issues in doing so? I understood that domain names cannot be copyrighted therefore HowToChopOnionWithoutCrying is probably not copyrighted. However the forum that I would build could infringe copyright laws?


Problem with the DNS settings for our new company mailserver

We are a small business with several branches around our country, trying to improve intra-office communications. In order to host a mail server at our head office we have upgraded our Business Broadband plan to a Static IP with Port 25 open, purchased two domain names (one for email and another for the public facing website) and set up a high end PC with a router. Port 80 and 25 have been forwarded successfully. But we have a problem with the DNS settings of the domain. We would like to set up the mail server using single static IP but the nameserver settings in our ISP's cpanel require two nameservers - how should we proceed? update : as one of my frined 'flaflamme' suggested for free dns service provider (http://zonomi.com) and now for my domain :getdatxxx.in( x marked for privacy ) and my staic ip 121.243.xxx.xx and dns settings goes like this is this sufficient ? IP Addresses (A) Domain IP Address getdatacards.in points to 121.243.xxx.xx getdatxxx.in points to 121.243.xxx.xx Mail Servers (MX) Mail Server Handles Email For Order getdatxxx.in getdatxxx.in 0 Name Servers (NS) Name Server Domain ns1.zonomi.com handles DNS for getdatxxx.in ns2.zonomi.com handles DNS for getdatxxx.in Zone Configuration (SOA) Primary Name Server ns1.zonomi.com DNS Host Master soacontact.zonomi.com Secondary Refresh 3 hours Secondary Retry 1 hour Secondary Expire 1 week Default Record Cache Time 1 hour please tell me whether this works for me and do i need to update this dns1 & 2 in my domain hosted control panel ??