Filtering content from response body HTML (mod_security or other WAFs)

We have Apache on Linux with mod_security as the Web App Firewall (WAF) layer. To prevent content injections, we have some rules that basically disable a page containing some text patterns from showing up at all. For example, if an HTML page on webserver has slur words (because some webmaster may have copied/pasted text without proofreading) the Apache server throws a 406 error. Our requirement now is a little different: we would like to _show_ the page as regular 200, but if such a pattern is matched, we want to strip out the offending content. Not block the entire page. If we had a server side technology we could easily code for this, but sadly this is for a website with 1000s of static html pages. Another solution might have been to do a cronjob of find/replace strings and run them on folders en-masse, maybe, but we don't have access to the file system in this case (different department). We do have control over WAF or Apache rules if any. Any pointers or creative ideas?


Can you use googleon and googleoff comments to prevent Googlebot from indexing part of a page?

I've seen code like for preventing Google from indexing part of a page:
This is a paragraph that will be indexed by Google.

This is a paragraph that will NOT be indexed by Google.


Determining which sitemap entries not indexed by google

We submit a sitemap to google and can see this being indexed in webmaster tools. We have 5140 entries, and have broken this up to 10 child site maps of 500 each. This all seems to be working well. Google, however is not indexing all entries of three of the child site maps (all others seem to be nicely indexed). The number of entries indexed has remained static for the last 6 weeks. We would now like to determine which url's are not being indexed by google, to try and see if there is a content issue or otherwise. Is there any way to determine which url's are not being added to the index other than manually go through all 500 entries using 'site' on google?


Pointing .co.uk, .org & .info to main .com domain

I have a client who has multiple domains .co.uk, .org and .info and would like to point them to the main .com domain name. They have changed the nameservers of the .co.uk, .org and .info domains. Can anyone point me in the right direction?


Google Analytics Custom Report - How to restric to a specfic URL?

Is there a way to create a custom report that will show traffic to a specific URL of your site?


Redirect www to non-www using Apache htaccess does not work

I have this in my _.htaccess_ (modified from the default Drupal _.htaccess_ ):               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.website.com\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://website.com/$1 [L,R=301]      In theory this will redirect something like `http://www.website.com/asdf` to `http://website.com/asdf`. However, it doesn't redirect, it allows requests to go through like there was no redirect intended. (I'm on OS X if it matters, but I've also tried it on a Network Solutions Linux server with the same result.)


How to take back our domain name?

Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this question but I couldn't find the right stack-exch site to ask this. We have registered a domain name a year ago and unfortunately we missed renewing the registration and domain expired. Seems there was an bot that registers such expired domains so Now that we want to take the domain name back it is very hard. I even could not find the registerer's info on sites like whois. So please if you had similar experience let me know what did you do to take back your domain name. Thanks in advance for your time.


Does any SSL certificate authority handle third-level .name domains?

I am the owner of a third-level `.name` domain of form `subdomain.example.name`. The `.name` domain hierarchy is somewhat unusual in that generally one registers a third-level domain such as mine, rather than a second-level domain (Wikipedia explains this in more detail). Thus no one actually owns `example.name` nor is it available for registration, and I have full control over `subdomain.example.name`. I recently got a free StartSSL certificate, but was disappointed to find out that the domain name validation process does not handle third-level domains. I'm willing to pay for a certificate from another authority if I must, but I'd hate to do so only to find after the fact that I can't use it with my domain. Will any certificate authority validate third-level `.name` domains like mine? (I'm not interested in discussing the overall relative merits of one authority over another, only whether any of them satisfy this specific criterion.)


Sitemap submission : Do sitemaps need to be resubmitted when they are updated?

**In short** : Should I resubmit my sitemap through Google Webmasters Tools every time I replace a _sitemap.xml_ with an existing _sitemap.xml_ (i.e., `www.domain.com/sitemap.xml`)? Or does it check it automatically? **Detail explanation:** Once a week, I add new articles to my website, and each time after uploading new content, I am replacing my existing _sitemap.xml_ with a newly generated _sitemap.xml_ in my website folder. So, do you think I need to do the same changes (i.e., again submitting the _sitemap.xml_ ) to search engines (e.g., Google, Bing, etc...) and in Google Webmaster Tools also? Yandex Webmaster Tools says this regarding sitemaps: > Please note: there is no need to delete or add another Sitemap file if it > has been modified as the Yandex indexing robot regularly checks for changes.


rel="nofollow" being removed with javascript, why?

I was looking through the blog comments of an Alexa top 20,000 site, and I noticed something odd: when a comment is viewed in the source (or in Firebug with JS turned OFF) the author's name is written like this:               Example      What they are doing here is they have a static list of comments cached, using the HTML above, but when the page is loaded with JS, it AJAX calls a database of comments (the same as the static cached comments) but when it loads (it takes about 10 seconds) the same comments are written as below (this time viewed in Firebug with JS turned ON)
 Example
       To be clear this is the **EXACT** same part of the page with the exact same comment below (not shown in these examples), the only part I've changed in the above code is changing the link and anchor tag to example. Any idea why they would want to do this? Which version of the code would a search bot see, as I believe they now process JS when the scrape a page? * * * _I don't really want to disclose the name of the site as I fear it will be spammed if it is indeed allowing to follow blog comments on such a high profile site._


htaccess only works for one

I currently use the following htaccess code to remove php extensions and also allow the /index.php page to load without the word "index":               RewriteRule ^$ index.php [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f     RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ $1.php [L]      I used to create a new page for every single user but as one could probably see, this is not such a good idea. So i deleted all the user pages and i would include them a different way but i would need to pass the requested page as a get parameter to another file. So I decided to route every main level (/) requested page through a file in a different directory, like so:               RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ some/page.php?requested_page=$1 [L,QSA,NC]      But it does not work with the /index.php page if someone just requested it like this: / i changed the code to:               RewriteRule ^(<?!)([^/]+)$ some/page.php?requested_page=$1 [L,QSA,NC]      and now the "/" request works and any page that really exist works, but the "fake user pages" now dont work. is there way i can do both?


Which is the appropriate content-type meta tag value?

I have a question about the meta tag content-type. When starting to build my site (HTML+PHP+JS), I copied a lot of the meta tags over from elsewhere, and I have, amongst others, the following:               <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-1" />      Now, I've seen that tag is being used a lot with the value "text/html". I've been searching the web but could not find a comprehensive explanation regarding what the difference between both is. The "text/html" intuitively sounds more straightforward to me. Should I change my tag to that, or might the "application/xhtml+xml" be an equivalent solution ? Alternatively, can anyone point me to a resource where the different values for these tags are listed and explained in a clear manner? Thanks in advance


Apache2: Deny access for mail.mydomain.com but allow www.mydomain.com, both points same ip

i have a linux mail+http server located throguh Internet at `www.mydomain.com`. Domain was bought at `GoDaddy` so after configuring the server and getting the public ip address i went at GoDaddy's profile to modify the `A` and `MX`entries for my dns zone in order to point them to my server's public ip address. In the `MX` entry i did not placed the ip address but an alias called mail.mydomain.com. Everything works fine but, as `www.mydomain.com` and `mail.mydomain.com` both are pointing to `x.y.w.z` where i have apache running, when you write `www.mydomain.com` or either `mail.mydomain.com` in the `Internet Browser` my default web page is shown. I would like to tell apache to only show the page if `www.mydomain.com` is written in the url and deny the access if `mail.mydomain.com` is written. Does anyone knows how sould i do it? Thanks :)               NameVirtualHost *:80          <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerAdmin admin@mydomain.com       DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mydomain.com/       ServerName www.mydomain.com       ErrorLog logs/mydomain_com-error_log       CustomLog logs/mydomain_com-access_log common     </VirtualHost>


Image as a background for a website - good or bad?

Blogger has some quite awful templates to offer, but one way to make it look less terrible to the eye of a layman (me) is with this background picture: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/2Q61v.png) Yet, I haven't seen many popular blogs that do this. Is setting a large, colorful (but relatively undistracting - you be the judge here though) image as the background considered a bad practice?


what to do with temporarily unused domains?

I registered a couple of domains, and consider buying a few more, simply because I'm afraid they would be taken by someone else and I plan to create websites for them in the distant future. Right now they point to the information page of my registrar. Could I put them to better use for the time being without much hassle? Is it worth creating very minimal domain-related content and hosting it? Would that help SEO in the future or the contrary? Is there a chance of getting some adverts for a website stub, so that I could generate some income towards hosting costs?


Will Search engines hate refreshing a webpage with random content after a specific time period?

I have hundreds of my own articles in my website. At the moment I am displaying random article topics on my home page. Since the content is random, if a visitor refreshes the page then the page loads with new random content. So I decided to automatically refresh the page after a specific time period. I got to know that search engines like Google hate automatically refreshing pages. As my intention is to display random content for visitors, and most of the time page loads with different content, will that cause me to be banned from Google or any other search engine?


How to deal with browser compatibility with HTML5 and CSS3?

Well, I've been reading about the new features of HTML5 and CSS3 since 2011, however, I still find myself a little preoccupied in using those features because of people using old browsers (or worse, old versions of I.E). The point is: there are lots of things that HTML5 and CSS3 make much easier than without it, however, I don't know how to deal with this issue, so I have been postponing the use of those technologies until today. I know there are tools like Modernizr that allows us to detect whether some resource is available or not, but it seems that the work is them doubled and so I would be losing productivity. Since I would use the new features to simplify the development and gain time and quality, it would seem a little bit strange to do the work twice: once in a pleasant way, and another time in trying to fit browsers and so on. One example is the border-radius feature: while with some few lines of CSS we can make rounded corners, if we accept to do the alternative version it would require all that work with images and so on. I mainly feel preoccupied because there are people out there using I.E 7 or I.E 8, or old versions of Firefox and all, and then when this people access some of my websites it's possible that he/she thinks "oh my god, this developer is terrible!", and so, if the person was likely to contact me to buy a website for the his company, or if the person was likely to buy a personal website, this will not happen, and it's just because of the version of the browser. Also, I get preoccupied with the websites of my customers, in the sense that since I'm selling them a marketing tool, it can bring bad results if the website doesn't look nice or functional just because of browser issues (if someone uses an old browser, it's likely that this person has no knowledge how it influences the websites). So, how we should deal with this kind of situation today? Use new features from HTML5 and CSS3, verify the browser and alert the user to update it? Make two versions of each feature, one with HTML5 and CSS3 and an alternative one to support old browsers?


How to make users arrive at site through the home page

A client has requested that all site visitors arrive to internal pages via the home page. At present a lot of visitors are hitting internal pages directly from google search results. Are there any techniques for channeling users ? Apologies if this is a stupid question.


Google Analytics Social Tracking implementation. Is Google's example correct?

The current Google Analytics help page on Social tracking (developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingSocial?hl=es-419) links to this page with an example of the implementation: http://analytics- api- samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/tracking/javascript/v5/social/facebook_js_async.html I've followed the example carefully yet social interactions are not registered. This is the webpage with the non-working setup: http://bit.ly/1dA00dY (obscured domain as per Google's Webmaster Central recommendations for their product forums) This is the structure of the page:   1. In the :      1. ga async code copied from the analytics' page     2. a script tag linking to stored in the same domain.     3. the twitter js loading tag   2. In the      1. the fb-root div     2. the facebook async loading js including the _ga.trackFacebook(); call     3. the social buttons afterwards, like so:        1. (with the proper URL)       2. Tweet (with the proper handle) That's it. As far as I can tell, I have implemented it exactly like in the example, but likes and twitts aren't registered. I have also altered the ga_social_tracking.js to register the social interactions as events, adding the code below. It doesn't work either. What could be wrong? _Thanks!_ * * * Code added to `ga_social_tracking.js`               var url = document.URL;     var category = 'Social Media';          /* Facebook */     FB.Event.subscribe('edge.create', function(href, widget) {       _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', category, 'Facebook', url]);     });          /* Twitter */     twttr.events.bind('tweet', function(event) {       _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', category, 'Twitter', url]);     });


Why my website subpage displays "www.domainname.com/#!home/" why "/#!"

i am taking over a webpage from a previous webpage designer, and i am wondering why does the website display "#!"? eg. www.domainname.com/* _#!_ *home/mainPage. How do I change this so that it doesn't display?


Directory URLs for SEO: can the base directory name change when used by itself?

Does it make a difference for SEO if I make my URLs like this:               mydomain.com/companies (main category exploration section)     mydomain.com/company/nike      As opposed to               mydomain.com/company (main category exploration section)     mydomain.com/company/nike      Does this matter for SEO?


Plural vs singular word in URL and title tag

Please advise which is better for a page with multiple property listings:               website.com/apartments-to-let/area      vs               website.com/apartment-to-let-area      Isn't the plural better since it is an accurate description of what is on the page? Singular versions of my search terms have higher traffic.


FTP many images from one server to another server in fastest way

I have many images in my server and I want transfer my data to another server. I want combine those files to one file and then FTP. I am using 7-zip with "store" option to make one file, but it is very slow. Is there any fast solution?


Starting an online e-commerce business

I was asked by a friend from Singapore to setup an online e-commerce website. I am new to e-commerce. Based on what I've read, in order to process credit card payment, I will need a merchant account with a bank. The initial setup fees is rather high and have to commit a large amount to transaction every month. This is no good for a newly start up business. The other option is to use third Party Payment Service such as PayPal or WorldPay. This Sounds like an ideal solution but the problem is it would take a long time to process the payment and actually get the money. Further more Paypal has a really bad reputation nowadays and not to mention about the high transaction cost rate. I am wondering if there's any other cost effective/free solution for such newly startup business?


How many SSL certificates are required for multiple domains on a single server?

My company's development team is in process of developing two sites that will have two separate domain names (let's say `foo.com` and `bar.com`), but will be hosted on a single cloud Linux/Apache server. Do we need to purchase SSL certificates for each domain (one for `foo.com` and one for `bar.com`), or do we just need one for the server? And are there any specific security concerns that need to be taken in to account when using SSL in this environment?


Forwarded/custom domain names and SSL

Assume I have a website that offers a web-based service to companies:               myservice.com      Each company has a subdomain wildcarded via mod_rewrite:               client1.myservice.com      (This is typical of many companies e.g. Wufoo) My site has a wildcard SSL certificate for *.myservice.com, allowing clients to connect to their account securely. As an option, clients can re-point their domain name to my website by changing the A record:               www.client1.com > client1.myservice.com      (as is possible at Tumblr) Is it possible to still offer SSL security on the forwarding domain, so that www.client1.com (pointing to client1.myservice.com) is secured over HTTPS? Either by:   1. Extending my certificate to cover the clients' domain   2. Somehow allowing the client to upload a certificate to be hosted on my server   3. Any other method? I've done some work with SSL certificates in the past and don't think this is possible. Can anyone prove me wrong? Thanks, Adam


I've added the code for google translate to my site. How can I make it stay selected to the right language between pages?

Every time I navigate to a different page I have to reselect the language. Is there a way to get around this?


Using Excerpts as Meta Descriptions?

I have been blogging from the past three years. And one thing that I didn't care about was to add Meta Description for every page. I was, unfortunately, fallen for the "Google doesn't care about Meta Descriptions" trap, and recently did I realize that adding a short, concise description wouldn't hurt. Plus this would bring in greater visibility/CTR from the Search Engine Result Pages. Now, I have around 1000 pages of content spread across my site. I was looking for a plugin -- as my site is hosted on WordPress -- that could help me bulk edit/add Meta Descriptions. I couldn't find any; however there is plugin which promised to mass edit MD, but the thing is, because I use Yoast SEO Plugin, I can use this plugin to mass edit excerpts -- not MD. I asked the author of the plugin if it's alright to replace MD with excerpts, and he said no: http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/foliopress- descriptions So, is replacing the Meta Description string with Excerpts a bad idea? Any help is highly appreciated.


SEO - reducing URL length

Take a recent question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6479771/properties-of-inner-exception-are- disposed Instead of having an integer, if we base 36 encode the question ID we get `3uvtn`, cutting the length of the integer by 2: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3UVTN/properties-of-inner-exception-are- disposed The benefits seem a lot more worthwhile on smaller numbers: http://www.example.com/forum/25352/my-friendly-url to: http://www.example.com/forum/JK8/my-friendly-url This is more of a theoretical/curiosity question than one I'm seriously considering implementing. Thoughts?


If all content is on a single page and hidden/shown with JS would it make sense to use hashbangs?

I have a page where the general structure is               section 1     section 2     section 3     section 4

section 1

some content

section 2

some content

section 3

some content

section 4

some content

      (there are about 10 sections all with quite a bit more content and have missed out alot of the surrounding html but this is the basic structure). All the content is on one page and clearly seperated semantically and the page relies on javascript to choose which sections to hide / show. I am wondering whether from an SEO perspective it would be good to use #! links and implement http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/ returning only the content for each section? Would this mean that the site no longer functioned without javascript? If the '!' was added in using javascript would google pick this up or would they use the raw html? Or will google index the content on the page correctly (ie ignore the javascript completely)?


How can I use my domain name to map into my Amazon EC2's public IP?

How to put my registered domain name into DNS server? Is there any DNS server available in this world?


Upgraded one page of a site to the async Google Analytics - Data is now messed up

I've upgraded one primary page of a site to use the async version of the GA tracking code. Since the upgrade, number of visits has increased by 60%, avg. time on site has decreased by 40% and the bounce rate of the said page is now always zero. Pageviews are intact. I suspect this has to do with using both the traditional and async snippets on the same profile. Other than that, it's a pretty standard setup. Right before `</body>`*, I have this:               var _gaq = [['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXX-XX'], ['_trackPageview'], ['_setDomainName', 'domain.com'], ['_setAllowLinker', true], ['_setAllowHash', false], ['_setAllowAnchor', true]];         (function (d, t) {             var g = d.createElement(t), s = d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0]; g.async = 1;             g.src = ('https:' == location.protocol ? '//ssl' : '//www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';             s.parentNode.insertBefore(g, s)         } (document, 'script'));      Any other ideas, confirmations and suggestions? *I know, it should go before `</head>`, will fix that in a new version.


Does masking a subfolder with .htaccess have a negative effect on SEO?

My website is physically located at `example.com/websitedirectory`. I am masking the folder so that the document root folder is redirected to `/websitedirectory` and the folder is masked, so that it displays as `example.com` from the outside. Does this have any impact on SEO?


Simple content managment

I need to setup a content management system for a school to manage news items and bulletins. These bulletins would have to be placed into a number of different categories (Sport, Academic, etc.). The backend of it would have to be used by some not very technically capable teachers. A front end is not required, only an RSS feed to be fed into existing applications. I was thinking about using Wordpress, is there anything else?


Social Interaction Tracking in Google Analytics

Since a few days now the Google + button is being tracked and shown in our Google Analytics account, which you can find here. There is also a solution to track Twitter, Facebook, ... but can't seem to get it to work, which you can find here. Except putting the JavaScript Source Code in the header, do we need to do something else as well?


styling one list item

I have four li's and I want to style the 4th li not to have the background image. How do I accomplish this without having to insert a spam tag?               #get-help ul.help-menu li {     color: #656565;     background:url("/ContentTemplates/assets/images/backgrounds/nav-brdr.png")           no-repeat scroll 50% 100% transparent;     width: 226px;     text-indent: 10px;      }


How to make Google index my website logo?

In my website I have embedded my logo like this:                                        My problem is that Google is not indexing this image - when I search for my website name in Google Images my logo doesn't show as a result. What can I do to overcome this?


How can I make my website compliant with various data protection and spamming laws?

On our website we collect an awful lot of personal information. People upload their CVs, and when they use their social networks to log in, we collect information from there too. We use this information for marketing, and may sell access to this data to 3rd parties. These are covered in the T&C's of our website. We say that if you sign up, you accept the T&C's (no checkbox, it just says that). That's it. What's the best way on making sure everything is done legitimately?


Do search engines treat index pages with excerpts as duplicate content of the pages they link to?

I am using WordPress and in my post sidebar I have related posts which may be of interest to the user, however, I also have an excerpt of each article which is normally the first paragraph of the post it is linking to. For example: http://musicdune.com/reviews/album-review-ellie-goulding-lights If you do a Google Search for the first excerpt in the realted posts section from that page you get 4-5 results from my domain, http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Strip+back+the+synths,+fast+beats+and+the+other+pop+elements,+and+you%E2%80%99re+left+with+something+elegant+and+soulful Is it recommended that I remove the excerpt from the related posts?


Adding an ASP website in IIS7.5 on Windows 7

I'm trying to add an ASP website under IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 and am having no luck so far. This site is just for me to hit locally. I need to make some changes to some of the HTML in some of the ASP files and I just need to be able to test my changes as I make them. I installed IIS and checked the box for ASP. Next, I added an Application Pool which I called ASP and which has "No Managed Code" and "ASP" set. Next, I added the website by right-clicking "Sites" then clicking "Add Web Site...". I gave it a name, set it to use the ASP app pool, pointed it to the path where the ASP code is (I left it at pass-through authentication), and typed in 5555 as the port, so as to not interfere with the default website. The code is sitting on my server and the path simply uses the mapped drive that I always use to access files on that drive array. When I type in `http://mysite:5555`, I get "could not find mysite:5555". I don't really know if all these settings are correct or what else I should try. What am I missing? Thanks, Jay


Using external web space from domain (DNS)

I got a client that uses provider A for webhosting purposes with domain A. I registered a second domain B on a different provider B for my client. How can I link to the web folder on provider A with my domain B? I don't want to use a simple redirect - it should be the same as using the web space with domain A. (so the URL structure &c. will remain) Edit: I already got the nameservers from provider A, but I don't know how to set and use them.


What media should I store on server and what media should I store on 3rd party hosts?

Right now, amazon s3 holds all my images, but I must wonder, is that necessary or for the best? It seems to me like for images, such as a favicon, I should just host it on my own server since s3 charges per http request. What do you guys think? What is your general rule of thumb?


How does Google determine when a website has been radically improved?

Say I have a website which is really terrible, and Google is aware of this. If I change everything about it and turn it into something really worthwhile, how will Google find out? And will its negative history affect it?


Marketing for Scheduled Online Events

Last year I started working with a team on our first major web project (We, the Pixels). I believe the idea is very solid, but it has a hard requirement for a group of people being on the site for the randomly scheduled events. We are having problems getting people to come and stay for these events. What is the proper marketing approach needed to bring people to the site for these events? We have recently done the following in an attempt to fix the problem:   * Added email notification of new events being created   * Added privileges based on rank   * Added text throughout the site encouraging setting up the events in the future so other users can have time see that it exists.   * Gotten involved in with other communities that would find the site interesting in order to promote (market) the site   * Advertised using Google Adwords Is there an standard marketing approach for such a case as this?


What are the best blogs for submitting new startups?

There are some blogs where user can submit their start-ups for a review. Among them **TechCrunch** , **ReadWriteWeb** , **StartupTunes** , **The Next Web** etc are common. But what are others we can try submitting our start-ups for a review. More blogs mean more reviews and more quality SEO backlinks. So, share more quality start-up review blogs here and help us all.


HTML5 Audio: Which formats? Ditch Ogg Vorbis in favor of Ogg Opus? Is MP3 still needed?

I'm currently working on a website which has to stream audio files. Since bandwidth is always an issue, the file size should be as small as possible. I wonder what audio formats I should provide.   * **MP3** - Most common format but low quality, I don't know if it's even required, since AAC is well supported by the browsers incapable of playing free codecs   * **MP4 AAC** - Nice quality / small filesize, supported by Safari / Mobile Devices / IE9 / Flash / Chrome   * **A free codec** - well, until recently, there only was Ogg Vorbis, but Ogg Opus is standardized now and it's really good! **Questions:**   * Is it time yet to use Opus instead if Vorbis? Firefox supports Opus since version 15, and Opera has support on its roadmap - I guess Chrome will follow in the future too.   * Do I still have to provide an MP3 file?


Benefit to linking to content directly or via a tracking redirect

I run a site where the majority of links on my page link to content on other sites. Lets say we are looking at movies for example. If my sites are:                www.siteA.com       www.siteB.com       What I currently do is have all my links point at my API domain:                www.siteC.com/tracking.php      This does a redirect to the original content on say IMDB.com or disney.com, whilst tracking the visit for analytics purposes. ## Question Is there any advantage or disadvantage to linking directly to the content on IMDB from SiteA and SiteB rather than going via my redirect?


How to show Google Website is Beta Version

I am developing a new version of my old website. The new version is slightly to be released in the coming month. I would like to show Google , **that my new version of my website is in beta mode** for few days/months. Is there any possible way. Since the website in beta mode , there might be some flaws or 404's may occurs. Because of these i don't like to drop my traffic in Google search. So if i say beta version to google is there any consideration in traffic drops.


What steps do I take to transfer a WordPress site from one host to another?

I have a self-hosted WordPress site at a hosting provider but I need to move it to a new hosting company. How do I transfer my WordPress installation from one host to the other, and then how do I re-point my domain name to the new host? In what order do I do these things to minimize the downtime?


Why Wikipedia article doesn't show up on first page of Google search?

I've created an article on polish Wikipedia for the person "Urszula Jędrzejczyk" and when I search for term _Urszula Jędrzejczyk_ in `google.pl` the article show up on second page. Why is that, and is it possilbe to show up on first place somehow? Does links to that article from other sites matter?


302 Redirect causes garbage at end of Wordpress link in Facebook

When I try to link my Wordpress blog to Facebook, the url doesn't resolve properly. There's garbage appended at the end and Facebook is not able to retrieve information from the site. Happens in every page, post or main entry. Here's what happens: `http://clarissarezende.com.br/` shows up in Facebook as `http://clarissarezende.com.br/UPLcS/` (when copy/paste the link) and no information about the site shows up in FB. I'm using Wordpress 3.3.1 with ProPhoto 4. Recently I moved the DNS entry on my ISP. The blog is hosted at `clarissarezende.com.br/public_html/blog2` and before the DNS would point to `public_html` and then I changed it to `public_html/blog2`. Note that I did _not_ move any Wordpress files. Made the (I think) necessary changes all over Facebook, but still no dice... Any ideas on what can be happening?


Can I expect some income from "utility" websites?

There are quite a few one-page-only websites that are made to perform a simple/single task. Examples of such websites include:   * http://dummyimage.com/ -- generates a dummy image   * http://www.lipsum.com/ -- generates lipsum text   * http://ajaxload.info/ -- generates animated ajax loading images   * http://www.generatedata.com/ -- generates dummy data for sql   * http://jsbeautifier.org/ -- formats your javascript   * http://jsonlint.com/ -- validates JSON   * http://yui.2clics.net/ -- online YUI compressor   * http://www.colorpicker.com/ -- online color picker Very few of these websites show an advertisements. Now I have a few ideas of my own and I was wondering if these websites have some way of earning income to keep them up and running. Should I expect to earn some income if I set up a few websites such as these? Should I setup AdSense on my (planned) website? My ideas are not absolutely unique but rare.


Show index page of domain1 when user enters the URL of domain2

I have two domains: www.domain1.com and www.domain2.com. I want to implement the following scenario: Whenever a user enters www.domain2.com, the browser should display contents of www.domain1.com but the URL should remain www.domain2.com. How can I implement this?


transfer domain from godaddy

I bought a domain name on godaddy a couple of weeks (before SOPA) back. Now I want to transfer the hosting to bluehost where I have my other domains. When I try to transfer, bluehost tells me > The domain xxxss.com was recently registered [Registrar GoDaddy.com, Inc.] > xx days ago. You must wait another xx days before you will be able to > transfer the domain. Do you know why that is? How can I transfer the hosting for this out?


Element Css color changing that allows robust cycling through colors for comparison

I frequently find myself testing out new colors for elements (finding that one doesn't work with the rest of the color scheme). Unfortunately, the process when using even firebug or google chrome is hit and miss (try lots of different colors by manually typing in the codes, find out that the color doesn't look good, look up another hex code, try the next color, etc etc). Is there a better app or approach for this? I'm thinking something like the color pickers in photoshop and elsewhere where you can change the color using sliders to find a better one. A trivial example of a color picker like what I'm looking for, just for clarity: http://www.colorpicker.com/ But it would be changing the element in the page, of course.


AJAX file 403's

Google webmaster tools shows a couple of 403 crawl errors (URL errors, access denied) for folders holding AJAX files on the ColdFusion server: CFIDE/scripts/ajax/FCKeditor/ CFIDE/scripts/ajax Will this affect our site's ranking on Google?


I'm trying to think of a new domain name, what are words/prefixes/suffixes that convey the same essense as "wiki"? I want to convey that it's a site where everyone collaborates together to make the pages.


What width should the center column be in a 3 column layout?

Monitors have gotten wider over time and as a result webpages have had an ever-widening center column. What is the current recommendation for middle column width? Is there an organisation that publishes design guidelines, or do webdesigners just follow the trend? If so who is the trend leader? What other information do you use when determining width? (IIS Logs, end user 'type', industry, etc).


De-share third level .name domain

Sometime ago I registered a third level `.name` domain of the type **john.doe.name** (this is just an example-my domain is not actually john.doe.name). I just realised that I could have registered the entire second level domain **doe.name** , which would grant me control of the third level one anyway. Since I already registered the third level, **doe.name** is now "shared". I have 2 questions:   1. How do I check if I am the only one using the shared second level domain? (normal whois lookup doesn't give any result)   2. Can I "de-share" the domain and buy the entire second level domain?


What should I look out for when buying a domain name?

(For the purposes of this message, let's assume that my company is named Squirrel Consulting LLC.) I received an email today from someone offering to sell me the squirrelconsulting.com domain name today, for $980. Right now I'm using the domain "squirrelnow.com" for my business. When I formed the company, the proper squirrelconsulting.com domain name was already taken, so I couldn't use it. When I check the squirrelconsulting.com web page, this message appears in the top right:               squirrelconsulting.com expired on 07/26/2010 and is pending renewal or deletion      I haven't really used the squirrelnow domain for much; if I did buy squirrelconsulting.com it would be quite easy to transfer everything over to it. So that's not an issue. There are many other companies named Squirrel Consulting LLC, so I can't go after him for "cybersquatting" or whatever. My question is: Is there anything I should be aware of when buying the domain? What questions should I ask to make sure this person is legit and not trying to sell me something he has hijacked somehow? Is there anything I should be wary of? Thanks.


TXT vs SPF record for Google servers SPF record, either or both?

According to Google’s documentation, https://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178723 It clearly says Create a TXT record containing this text: `v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all` Why is this not a SPF record? RFC4408 defines SPF records, but it seems it’s not really used https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4408#section-3.1.1 Is that right? Should I create both TXT and SPF ? Thanks


Develop website locally and push updates on Remote Server using Git

Together with a friend we are looking to develop a website (using Symfony2). We are on a Shared Hosting with SSH access. Below is the environment we'd like to setup:               * Use git as Version Control (we are new to Git)     * Share the tasks and develop on our local machines     * Push the updates onto the remote server      Here's our initial thoughts on how to do it (assuming Git is already running both locally and remotely):               * Install Symfony on the Remote Server (basic setup)     * Get a clone (using Git) of the project locally     * Develop project locally and push updates (using Git) on the remote server      Does this approach make sense, if not, any recommendations? Thanks


Are you aware of any client-side malware that sends lots of junk requests for .gifs?

I am getting dozens of 404 errors on my site that are requests for gif's with apparently random names, like 4273uaqa.gif and 5pwowlag.gif. I see that most of them are coming from one user. I assume something is happening in the background on her machine without her knowledge -- a malware thing on the client. Have you seen this behavior before, and do you know what sort of malware might cause it? Would love to advise my customer that s/he has an issue. I'd also like to stop getting these 404 reports. _(reposted from main Stack Overflow)_


Are there any admin control panel html design which can be used freely for commercial websites? Or is there any tutorials on how to create nice looking admin control panel designs using static html / css maybe bit of jquery etc?


Creative Common Public licence for Digg like site

What will be creative common public domain license for a digg like site.(social bookmarking site). Actually at the moment their old tool for public domain license has expired.There are more options in public domain license.Is that a right method for placing CC license for user content, or just place a Term of use document. If a user shares links and videos on a site(just like a digg web site), What will be CC license that describes copyright or no copyright at all. Where should I put this question in stackexchange, if this is a not a right place. This website explains about digg website footer has link to CC0 license(creative common) but it is 2 years old and digg has removed the link.


Should I set NOINDEX header for my JS, CSS and image files?

Are there any harms if my site send NOINDEX headers for all my static assets? For image files, I refer to those valueless, e.g. background images, button images, etc. **Update: more background information** I have this concern is since recent Google said they also execute JS and they might fetch content via Ajax. So, for example, if I send noindex for my jQuery script, so Google would not be able to use them to load Ajax, I suppose it is not good for my site's SEO, right?


If I cache an RSS feeds' html, but not the images, will this appear to be image hot-linking?

I have a simple RSS news application built using JavaScript, that pulls in feeds through Google's feed API. I'm doing a proof of concept and caching the feed using localStorage though due to storage limitations, I only store the HTML and not the images. When I load a feed from cached html, and the images are merely `img` tags pointing to the source content - is this distinguishable from hot-linking an image? If so, is there another way I should go about this? Or - does this even matter? Edit: To avoid any possible confusion, I am not attempting to hotlink content. I am trying to use syndicated content according to the terms of use (according to Google's feed API). I am caching the content to speed up the application, and only cache it for as long as is allowed according to each feed's policy (if set in the HTTP header). I am merely wondering if this is the appropriate way to handle this content, and if not, what would be an appropriate alternative.


What are some CSS3 frameworks available?

I never knew about the idea of a CSS framework until I found Twitter's Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/) on StumbleUpon. What are some of the other good CSS frameworks out there?


What is easy to integrate statistics script?

I develop a website on that people can create their own subpages with some tools i provide. And i would like to add the ability for users to see statistics without setting them on their own (like with Google Analytics. So i need some SAAS or PHP scripts for statistics that meets this criteria:   * it's easy to create new account in statistics programmatically when person creates account on my website   * it's easy to integrate my login mechanism with the login mechanism of the statistics   * person sees only his statistics and not other people statistics   * statistics are enabled on a website by adding some JS script to user subpage. Do you any software of this kind that is easy to deploy?


301 redirects, site files

Is it possible to have a 301 redirect without moving files? I have a site currently at a .ca domain. Now I want the primary domain to be .org. I would like to do this in a way that is search engine friendly. I have been told I can do this with 301 redirects. Is it necessary for me to move my files over to another server / folder or can I just write the 301 redirects so that the URL changes to the preferred .org domain?


301 Redirect from www to non-www without using VHOST

I have my web application running on EC2 with Apache. I want to redirect www to non-www. On searching Google, I used this but it leads to redirect loop:               <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerName www.domain.com         Redirect 301 / http://domain.com/     </VirtualHost>      I am not using virtual hosts as the server only handles one domain. What can be wrong in above example and How can I do 301 redirect? P.S. I am trying to avoid using .htaccess.


How do I backup my customer's data?

If you run a SaaS app, or work on one, I would love to hear from you. Where the safety and security of your customer's data is paramount, how do you secure it and back it up? I would love to know your main host (e.g. Heroku, Engine Yard, Rackspace, MediaTemple, etc.) and who you use for your backup. Be as detailed as possible - e.g. a quick overview of your service and the data you store (images for instance), what happens with the images when the user uploads them (e.g. they go to your Linode VPS, and posted to the site for them to see - then they are automatically sent to AWS or wherever, then once a week they are backed up to tape by the managed hosting provider, and you also back them up to your house/office). If you could also give some idea as to what the unit cost (per GB/per user/per month) of storage is - on average, I would really appreciate that. Getting ready to launch my app, and I would love to get some more perspective on the nitty gritty details involved. Thanks!


Should I optimize for Adsense eCPM or Adsense Revenue?

I'm split testing, and one skin has a higher revenue, while the other skin has a higher eCPM. Which one should I choose? If I select the higher eCPM, I assume that any future enhancements will bring a higher revenue, but then revenue now is real money.


will search engine bots penalize/index download links which is a link to just a file and not a page with certain other criterias?

**The scenario is**   1. My page is a music description page with proper title, description, keywords, h1 and a description as a paragraph   2. Url of this page is a meaningful long slug(not very long) separated by hyphen   3. This page has a download link(to download a small music file) which will force download that file using content disposition   4. Download link will have title text like a sentence   5. Download links hyperlink will have a meaningful slug separated by hyphen   6. Hypertext like 'Click here to download'   7. Sample of the url is sitename.com/module/categoryname/title-of-the-music-sample/   8. Sample of the hyperlink slug is href='/module/get/title-of-the-music-sample/' and assume that the title attribute text is similar to the slug. I dont want the download link to be indexed. that is i dont want bots to index anything starts with /module/get/ because **I am afraid that:**   1. that the slug for the link and the slug of that pages url are the same so it may be considered duplicate ... the only difference in the url is /categoryname/title-of-the-music-sample/ and /get/title-of-the-music-sample/   2. that google may penalize thinking i am trying to populate duplicate keywords in the link tags which is similar to the current pages url.   3. that directly accessing the /get/(. _)/ will redirect to the actual music page of /categoryname/($1)/ if the user is not coming from /category/_ ... i am restricting users to directly load the download page... so i redirect to the main page and only then they can download the music file...   4. since i am redirecting /get/ to /categoryname/actualcontent i think there is a trouble i this which is not a good practice... So thought of adding disallow for /module/get/ to prevent bots from indexing or using that /get/* links **can i use nofollow to my own website. like in the download link can in add rel='nofollow' if i do not want bots to crawl or index that link?** If i dont want those links to be indexed then why do i use a hyeprlink ... because thinking that those keywords would add more keywords to the document or some kind of gimmick i see in other sites which would boost ranking. i think this approach is not good... may be or may not. If what i did is not a problem then i will leave it as it were... and add the condition in robots hinting not to crawl or index /get/* links Else i will change it to a span tag with an onclick event yet writing in a way so that bots will not crawl or index window.location ... . Will those links be penalized or indexed? if it is going to be penalized to some extent or whole then what are all the points that i have missed to think to make the link proper? if it is going to be indexed then still is there any flaws which people would say that doesn't matter? Suggestions please.


Advertising - what are my options when just starting out?

I'm in the midst of creating a couple of personally owned sites. Neither are aimed to be the next Facebook/Twitter/whatever, but I'd like to be able to make some money off of them, at the very least to cover a portion of my hosting costs. The problem is, I'm not sure where to look. I know of things like AdSense and other PPC 3rd party advertisers, but am worried about their relevancy. I don't want ads for things that aren't at least tangentially related to my content. I'm also concerned that these generated ads will be ugly, and detract from my site. And, to clarify, I'm looking for ads to display on my sites, not for a service to advertise my sites on other sites. So, what would you (the collective you) suggest as the best bang for my buck? Ideally, I'd grow to a point where I could get direct advertising, but that's definitely a long term goal.


Can placement of Google AdSense ads on a minority of pages with NSFW content get me banned?

Google AdSense's policy states that you shouldn't put ads on pages that contain NSFW content. I've noticed that if you do, they mostly identify this as NSFW and do not display the ad. As there is no full-proof technical solution, and many UGC platforms, I assume many sites have an inappropriate page here-and-there and have encountered a similar situation. If I have a small amount of pages that are NSFW (less than 10%), and the majority of the site isn't, can I be banned for placing the ad code there, or will Google just automatically not display ads there?


Attaining credit card data

I've read the many posts on this site that say we are not allowed to store cc numbers if we are not pci-compliant. But, I'm wondering if it is possible to send a CC number through a form to an email address? Would that be still infringing on the standards? The reason I ask is that a local business owner wants to retrieve a number through a form on his website, so he can manually enter the cc info on his end. I'm assuming the only way to properly get a credit card number is to setup a merchant account? What's the best way to get a cc number without calling the actual customer? I'm thinking email is a bad idea as well.


How to handle CNAME host redirect to virtual directory?

I have an internal website and virtual directory `http://server2012/logs`. I created a CNAME on my DNS server as LOGS -> server2012. I would like to set it up so that `http://LOGS` redirects to `http://server2012/logs`. Ideally, I would still want it so that all pages appear in the browser as being off from the LOGS URL. So `http://LOGS/network.html?site=32` is what is displayed in the browser, but it is really being served from `http://server2012/logs/network.html?site=32`. I've looked at URL rewrite, but can't seem to get to work.


web page performance testing in Internet Explorer

How can I get the web page load speed and data amount in Internet Explorer? I know about PageSpeed and Firebug for Firefox, is there an equivalent of those tools for IE?


Google is fetching body as title

I'm encountering a strange behaviour of Google. Pages in my site has the form :               ..     <title>Title of Article - mysite</title>     </head>     <body>      <img alt='mysite logo'>     ..      So I expect this page to show as "Title of Article - mysite" in the clickable link of google SERP. However, it is displayed as "Title of Article - mysite - mysite logo". Why the heck is it fetching part of body as the title? How can I prevent this from happening ? Thanks !


Robots meta tag with "noimageindex"

I have some doubt regarding `noimageindex` value in meta robots tag. If I add this tag on my page say `http://www.example.com/somepage/someaction.php` and on that page the images are served from another page say `http://www.exampleimg.com`. Then will the tag has meaning. I mean to say will the images will be ignored by bots? Or `exampleimg` is not affected by that tag. And all images will be indexed? Note: We want to stop indexing of the images on that particular page.


management of all my digital assets

Good evening folks, In this current age of freebies I find my digital assets have increased to insane proportions (what do you mean I don't need another free textured background set?) =) I am curious as to how everyone has been able to manage all their digital assets. Do you simply use a particular organization and naming system for your files and folders? Or do you use a software based solution? While I have looked into some of the digital asset management systems, they all tend to be web based and I would prefer to keep my stuff on my hard drive. Any and all input is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mark


Prevent hotlinking or leeching bandwidth on PHPBB

My site uses PHPBB as a forum, and we would like to use it as a place to store and share large files up to 1gb. I'm afraid that if one of our hotlinks is overly shared, it will cause problems with overly high usage of bandwidth and resources. For example the page: http://forums.pcgamingwiki.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=60 contains the hotlink: http://forums.pcgamingwiki.com/download/file.php?id=4 What is a good way to prevent hotlinking in PHPBB? Can I get the hotlink to redirect to the forum post so that viewers will see our advertising, which will help pay for bandwidth? Is it possible to restrict files to be downloaded by logged in users only?


Cron force unzip file

I have the following cron               echo "*** Get the new ZIP  file ***"     /usr/bin/wget -t inf -nH  -N -c --progress=dot --reject=zip --mirror --timestamping --timeout=60 --waitretry=60  --no-passive-ftp  --directory-prefix=/var/www/vhosts/mydir --ftp-user=xxx --ftp-password=xxx ftp://xxx.xxx.be/xxx.zip           echo "*** Cool now unzip the file please.  ***"     unzip -o /var/www/vhosts/mydir/xxx.zip       everything works perfect from terminal However if i make a cron job out of it the zip file gets downloaded but i can't seem to unzip the file and i get the following error's               *** Start *** Cool now unzip the file please.  ***     Archive:  /var/www/vhosts/mydir/xxx.zip     checkdir error:  cannot create 012                     unable to process 012/.     checkdir error:  cannot create 025                     unable to process 025/.     checkdir error:  cannot create 027                     unable to process 027/.     checkdir error:  cannot create 031                     unable to process 031/.      checkdir error:  cannot create 031                     unable to process 031/xxx/xx.jpg.     checkdir error:  cannot create 031                     unable to process 031/xxx/xx.jpg.     checkdir error:  cannot create 053                     unable to process 053/xxx/xx.jpg.     checkdir error:  cannot create 053                     unable to process 053/xxx/xx.jpg.      Is there a way i can force to create directory or overwrite existing files?


File upload on shared hosting

Is it possible to upload a file of size 300+ MB on _shared hosting_ such as host gator ?


Landing pages explained more, and Ad landing pages need inlink from the webiste they promote?

After reading here what's a landing page is and some other articles i understood there are 2 types of landing pages, the Ad ones for commercial and the SEO ones. * * * **AD (COMMERCIAL) LANDING PAGES** In my understanding the Commercial/Ad landing page is **created mainly to have a commercial Ad (like AdWords on Google) to link directly to such landing page**. This landing pages are supposed to be in some way tailored to the text of the Google Ad and designed in order to trigger user action. An example could be a website that sells gold, silver and copper medals. A Google Ad that says: "Buy silver medal" and links to landing page that shows more specifically the silver medals (rather than all medals) and maybe some promotional offer with a big "Buy Now" button. The advantages of creating this type of landing page is that a user who was interested in the "Buy silver medal" advertisement and clicked on it, was probably more willing to buy something if he LANDS on a page talking specifically about silver medals, rather than landing on the website HOME PAGE that shows up all sort of medals and NOT specifically the silver ones. * * * **SEO LANDING PAGES** Still in my understanding, on the other side, the SEO landing pages are supposed to be in very simple terms **pages with some sort of interesting contents (that maybe also insists on some key phrases)** in order to bring attention and reputation from the WWW to that page and indirectly to your website. Reputation and interest to the SEO landing page is mainly generated because many people are gonna link to that page or talk about it in forums, blogs,twitter, etc * * * My questions are:   1. **Did I understood the differences between the two type of landing pages?**   2. **Are Ad (Commercial) landing pages supposed to have an inbound link from the website they promote? I would say no** cause there is no reason to give any sort of reputation to these type of pages, and we would also lose the ability to see how many visitors arrived on my website from the landing page (in other words how many visitors arrived on my website from the Ad campaigns). I would not even make Ad landing pages being indexed by search engines, in this way by counting the visits to the landing page I have a better approximation of the results of my Ad campaign.


Should I have to use canonical if I rewrite my URL?

For example if I have only one HTML page in my directory and if the link is `http://www.mydomain.com/my-landing-page.html` and, using _.htaccess_ if I rewrite the URL to `http://www.mydomain.com/my-landing-page`, should I use canonical tag anywhere? Or should I apply `noindex, nofollow` rule in _robots.txt_ file for `http://www.mydomain.com/my-landing-page.html`? I want my page look like `http://www.mydomain.com/my-landing-page` in search engines so, what should I do to `http://www.mydomain.com/my-landing- page.html`?


If we sign up to Alexa Pro, will others know it?

I just signed up for Alexa Pro. If people go to `mydomainname.com`, will they know that whether or not the domain is registered in Alexa Pro?


Should plus be encoded in mailto: hyperlinks?

When placing an email address with an address tag (aka sub-addressing) in a mailto hyperlink … `<a href="mailto:username+foo@example.com">mail us now!</a>` **… should the plus in the email be URL encoded?** `<a href="mailto:username%2Bfoo@example.com">mail us now!</a>` I can't figure this out, and the documentation is conflicting. Our real world tests have produced mixed results as well, making it even more confusing.


Permissions for serving up temporary files

I have a system (web based application) which pulls file attachments from a 3rd party system via SOAP. These are in turn on our system created as files in a directory. When a user of the system (authenticated through ldap) makes a request to my application to retrieve one of these attachments:               1. I request it via soap     2. Process the response to build the file on our system     3. Redirect user to the location so they can download the file.        First off, is this a good approach? Is there a better way to serve up files which will not reside on the server much after the attachment download (cron job will clean up the directory every so often)? Secondly, is there a way I can serve files through apache without storing them in the web root? Thirdly, how do I enforce permissions on these files so not just any user can download just any attachment? Our Setup:               linux     apache     php - soap libraries for communication      seperate LDAP for authentication     3rd party soap server (where attachments come from)       EDIT: The code to serve the attachment in case anyone is curious.                   <?php           ini_set('display_errors',1);     error_reporting(E_ALL|E_STRICT);          //require global definitions      require_once("includes/globals.php");      //validate the user before continuing      isValidUser();      $subTitle = "Attachment";        $attachmentPath = "/var/www/html/DEVELOPMENT/serviceNow/selfService/uploads/";     if(isset($_GET['id']) and !empty($_GET['id'])){         //first lookup attachment meta information          $a = new Attachment();          $attachment = $a->get($_GET['id']);          //filename will be original file name with user name.n prepended          $fileName = $attachmentPath.$_SESSION['nameN'].'-'.$attachment->file_name;          //instantiate new attachmentDownload and query for attachment chunks          $a = new AttachmentDownload();          $chunks= $a->getRecords(array('sys_attachment'=>$_GET['id'], '__order_by'=>'position'));                    $fh = fopen($fileName.'.gz','w');                                                               // read and base64 encode file contents          foreach($chunks as $chunk){                 fwrite($fh, base64_decode($chunk->data));            }         fclose($fh);              //open up filename for writing          $fh = fopen($fileName,'w');              //open up filename.gz for extraction                                         $zd = gzopen($fileName.'.gz', "r");         //iterate over file and write contents          while (!feof($zd)) {                 fwrite($fh, gzread($zd, 60*57));             }         fclose($fh);          gzclose($zd);         unlink($fileName.'.gz');          $info = pathinfo($fileName);               header('Content-Description: File Transfer');         header('Content-Type: '.Mimetypes::get($info['extension']));         header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename($fileName));         header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');         header('Expires: 0');         header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');         header('Pragma: public');         header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($fileName));         ob_clean();         flush();         readfile($fileName);         exit();     }else{         header("location: ".$links['status']."?".urlencode("item=incident&action=view&status=-1&place=".$links['home']));        }               ?>


Sitename alternate suggestion SEO

I had a question about SEO. Say, I've made a restaurant website, which is running for a while now. I added some titles, meta tags, keywords,description,etc,etc on it's pages. Now, let's say for example the name is fudeg.com. When I google for fudeg, it gives me results for fudge instead. Now, when I click on "search for fuedge instead" my site does appear. So how do i get my site entry in google for fudge? Do i add fudge in the description,keywords and other related SEO tags as well?


How can I make Google crawl content behind an AJAX load more button

I have a feed that has 10 questions and answers loaded when you first open the page. And then I have a "Load More" button that gets you 10 new questions and answers everytime you click on it. How can I make Googlebot crawl those new questions and answers as if they were paginated, i.e.:   * page 1 ==> 0-9 questions and answers    * page 2 ==> 10-11 questions and answers    * and so on. Or can you provide a better alternative?


Can I force Bing to reindex our site?

Our website is ranking quite well (first page) on Google for quite a lot of keywords. However, our website is not on the first 10 pages of Bing for most of these keywords. I notice our Google rankings have increased since I upgraded our website to Wordpress, and submitted the new sitemap to Google. Google re-indexed our site within 24 hours of submitting a new sitemap. I've submitted our sitemap to Bing, but I notice Bing's index of our site still contains our old site's pages, 5 days after submitting our new sitemap, even though Bing has crawled URLs in our sitemap. Is there a way I can force Bing to re-index our site, or do I just have to be patient? What is the normal frequency of the Bing bot revisiting a site? What is the normal frequency of the Bing bot revisiting a site after deleting the old sitemap and submitting a new sitemap? Thanks.


What is the key to getting your site accepted by the Open Directory Project?

I have tried several times over the past year to submit my site to the open directory project http://www.dmoz.org/. Every time I check back a few months later and the site hasn't been added. Is there a trick to getting a site accepted. What has worked for other people?


Shall I use Photoshop to design my websites?

I'm in the process of learning how to design my website. I've been reading a lot of design theory but now that I'm about to start learning how to use the tools, I'm stuck! What tool shall I use? There are so many! Photoshop? InDesign? Illustrator? Can anyone explain me what should I use and what's the best way to learn? Thanks


If a website is accessed on HTTPS instead of HTTP, should the URLs on the sitemap be HTTPS or HTTP?

I have changed my website from HTTP to HTTPS. At this moment, I have the next rewrite rule working to redirect calls for HTTP to HTTPS:               RewriteEngine On      RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.net/$1 [R,L]       Should I write the URLs on the sitemap with HTTP or with HTTPS? (including the homepage)


Allow parent site of iFrame to be a referral in Google Analytics

My website is advertised through various magazine websites. One in particular "links" to us by showing their website, a very brief header, and then our website displayed within an iFrame on their website. In Google Analytics, we don't see this traffic at all as a "referral", so I don't see anything indicating that this traffic is from a 3rd party website. Is there anything we can do to track page views, etc. that originate not from our website, but actually from the magazine's iFrame? Edit 1: Just an FYI, Im not looking to necessarily make the parent's site traffic list as a referral in GA. Merely, if there was any way for me to track this information and tell that the site traffic was coming from the parent site would be helpful to know. Thanks!


How to I get my server to autoload my index.html?

I've recently been tasked to code a new site. The following is the URL for the site: http://www.iss.guild.uwa.edu.au/2011/ As you can see going to the above URL will only lists the available files and folders in it. I want to get the server to autoload the index.html file like in www.iss.guild.uwa.edu.au/2010/


One subdomain is not working

My main domain works just fine - www.example.com and a subdomain set up by another developer works as well - sub1.example.com. But when I try to set another subdomain up I go through the process everything seems to work. The software creates the default files where the subdomain files should go. But when I try to browse there it doesn't work. My host uses Plesk to do all of the hosting stuff. What do you think the problem is? I doubt it is some sort of cache issue because I had problems on my phone which I tried after problems on the pc. Maybe for some reason Plesk needs time to set this up? I have used Cpanel before and that works instantly. EDITED Additional Information provided by the OP When I ping the domain I receive this reply:               ping: cannot resolve drnick.burnhamrichards.com: Unknown host      Viewing the url in my broswer gives this error:               Oops! Google Chrome could not find sub1.example.com      I visited the IP and I got a generic landing page that says something like "welcome, you see this page because there is no website at this address" and since I am using virtual hosts I imagine that is what I am supposed to see. When I log into plesk I see that the a-records for both sub1.example.com and sub2.example.com are pointing to the same IP.


How does bing-bot( is that the right spider-name? ) and googlebot interpret 301 redirect?

I've been looking for documentation on how the Microsoft and Google bots interpret 301 redirects. It seems that google-bot stores documents on a url based index system. But I haven't been able to figure out how bing works. Should I assume that they are still working towards coping everyone else and assume they use an algorithm close to google? Is it best to just forward a page to a new location via Javascript? I think this might be a blackhat trick, but how would I tell the bots that it's not? Is 301 redirect my best option and I just have to bit the bullet because said pages are no longer in existence? What other options do I have that I might not be aware of?


How to hold payment in paygate for a while?

I have a query regarding holding the payment in **PAYGATE PAYMENT GATEWAY.** Here is the problem in brief. I am doing a website where the payment should be made only a certain members buy the product. For Example if there is an iPhone in my site, then that particular phone must be buy by certain quantities which given by admin. It may be done one by one user or a single user can buy all the quantities at a single time. In this case i need to hold the payment here. **Because i don't want to receive the payments until the certain quantities bought. Because if certain quantities were not buy i need to refund the money to their account. We don't like to do this process.** That's why we are looking for holding the payment. Is it possible or what is the best way to solve this problem? Please let me know what is you professional opinion? thanks in advance...


Joomla Hide Menu Item, or: Using Rich Content as part of the navigation

In my Joomla based web site, I have a two layer main menu. The page layout contains two sections whereas the left one displays the content and the right one displays some other kind of content which at the same time serves as a menu. For example, if the user clicks on the "Products" -> "SomeCategory" 2nd level menu item, the left section displays an image. The right section lists all products of that category. Each product is represented by an image and text. The content is scrollable. This section is implemented by means of a custom module (mod_custom) assigned to the menu. The content is rich text (HTML). Each product is entered manually by adding a picture and a text in the WYSIWYG editor, and by inserting a link for the picture and text. **Now the issue:** When the user clicks on a product, I want to display the corresponding product description article ("SomeProduct") to the left, accounting for the following requirements:   * The bread crumb now displays "Products -> SomeCategory -> SomeProduct"   * The main menu still displays the 2nd level for "Products", and "SomeCategory" is still marked as selected.   * _(I would love if the right section which lists the product would remain in the exact same scroll state, but that's a completely different story.)_ If I link the product entry from the right hand side directly to the article "SomeProduct", then the article appears to the left, but the **breadcrumb and menu are reset.** So I wanted to **create a hidden menu item** "SomeProduct" beneath "SomeCategory", and to link the product entry to that menu item. This way, if I click on the product entry, the article appears to the left, the breadcrumb behaves correctly, and the menu state is preserved. However, **it is not possible to configure the SomeProduct menu item as "hidden"** , therefore it appears in the main menu. I found some resources that suggest to **create another menu, called "hidden"** , which does not use any modules, and to create the "SomeProduct" menu item in that menu. **Unfortunately this did not work for me:** If I link that menu item from the product entry, and click on that entry, then the article appears to the left, but the menu is reset, and the breadcrumb displays "SomeProduct" instead of "Products > SomeCategory > SomeProduct". Lucky me! I found an appropriate stackexchange site where I can pour out my heart to you guys. Sure you can help me :-) * * * Update: To make my point clearer, see the wireframes below, they show how I'd like the page to behave. Please note that the "SomeProduct" etc. do _not_ appear in the main menu, but they behave like submenus of "SomeCategory". **User clicks "Products":** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/qSUjW.png) **User clicks "SomeCategory":** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Nj3XA.png) **User clicks "SomeProduct":** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QnrNv.png)


Please explain some of the features of URL Rewrite module for a newbie

I am learning to use the IIS Rewrite module and some of the "features" listed in the page is confusing me. It would be great if somebody could explain them to me and give a first hand account of when you would use the feature. Thanks a lot! > Rewriting within the content of specific HTML tags               Access to server variables and HTTP headers     Rewriting of server variables and HTTP request headers      What are the "server variables" and when would you redefine or define them?               Rewriting of HTTP response headers      > HtmlEncode function Why would you use an HTMLEncode in the server? > Reverse proxy rule template > > Support for IIS kernel-mode and user-mode output caching > > Failed Request Tracing support


How should I track multi-valued page attributes (e.g. tags) using custom variables?

Our pages can each have many tags, e.g 'football', 'sms', 'nsfw', etc.. which we would like to track in google analytics. We're already tracking things like category using google analytics custom variables. We've used three of the five available slots so far. How can we track tags the same way? If we just mush them all together - e.g. 'football, sms, nsfw' then can we track the ones that are tagged 'football'? What's the right way to track multi-valued page attributes using custom variables?


Logging what was in the content of a page

I'm one of the people working on a Java based website that has the apache httpd in front of it. The content on the pages is migrating towards personalizing the content and as such just about every user will get a unique page containing a different combination of blocks with possibly even different content in the blocks. What we want is to have logging that contains everything you see in an average apache httpd access log (all the technical details like the performance, cookies, header fields, etc.) and the functional information of what was in the html of that page (i.e. which block was shown where with which content and why was it put there). We have per content block a string that describes it (lets call this content- string). We came up with the following ideas to measure:   1. Log inside the application the request id along with the content-string during the generating of this block. At a later moment we could then combine the technical measurements (from the apache access log) with the content logs. This idea was discarded when we found it meant 'no caching' of the content blocks.   2. Log the content-string as an extra http response header and log using a standard apache feature. This means that we must wait with sending the content until we have everything because once we start sending html to the user there is no way to add an extra response header.   3. Use a sniffer (i.e. something like what is deep inside tealeaf or oracle ruei) and have that extract the content-string from inside the html (hidden inside html comments). I haven't find anything opensourced yet.   4. Use an apache module to extract the content and place this into the logfile. So 1. and 2. don't work. In addition we see that having two measurement points would make joining the various datasets pretty hard to do right. For ideas 3. and 4. I've not been able to find a viable solution yet. So I'm asking here: What is a solution that will work for a high traffic website? What other ideas are out there and what practical tools are available?


XMPP Protocol on XAMPP

Hey I was wondering if I could use the XMPP messaging protocol in the Mac application XAMPP.


Sudden increase in spam report from Yahoo

Recently we experienced a sudden increase in spam reports, and all of them come from Yahoo email addresses. We see lots of registration confirmation email got marked as spam. We also saw people marking mails as spam and then opened it and clicked on the confirmation link. We send around 150 registration emails a day, and currently sees 2 spam reports from these per day. Previously spam reports once come once a month. We use Sendgrid to send emails. What are the possible reason for this, and what can be done to remedy it?


Is it possible to oust a keyword domain?

Is it possible to outrank a keyword domain for example perthwinefactory.com.au (for the keyword perth wine factory) with my domain winecorp.com.au ? I have been trying for about an year now but looks like it is impossible, no matter what I try. (domains and keywords mentioned above are not from a real world scenario)


Google Traffic Decline

Below is a chart which shows traffic from Google for a new website. What could be the reason for those dynamics: fast growth and slow decline? https://www.dropbox.com/s/xmv3kd3q0l2iyaa/traffic.png


Sending form input to a public database?

I am looking for a code that will send input from a form to a database or table. For example, there would be a form:               <input type='text' name='name'>      And then a table:               <td>(what they entered for 'name')<td>      So basically the submitted form could be seen by anyone viewing the table or database. Please try to dumb down your answer for me, I'm still learning.


Does the registration of a country name like spain.com is exclusive to the government?

Can an individual to buy a domain name containing only the name of his country or those domains are available for registration only to the government? For example spain.com, france.net, etc.


Google Experiment with multi step shopping cart

I am attempting to run an experiment that tests an alternate checkout UI. For the experiment, I use the URL of the original checkout and the URL of the alternate checkout as a variation. Google validates the experiment; however, when the experiment is running, a user can never get past the first step of the checkout when the user click the "Next" button (either the original or the alternate). Instead, the user is redirected to the first step again. When I stop the experiment, this does not occur. Why would this be happening?


How to make a program that display something and after 10 seconds automatically redirect to another site?

<?php         echo "Hello World";         sleep(10);         header("Location: " . "http://google.com");     ?>      The problem with this is that header is already sent               Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/provenda/public_html/silverslady.com/index.php:46) in /home2/provenda/public_html/silverslady.com/index.php on line 75


Software to run a large university website

I'm trying to find a replacement solution for a large university's current web presence. There are a number of strategies we are considering, including perhaps using an open-source or commercial off-the-shelf software solution. The list of requirements we have is very lengthy, but main points include:   * Robust content management system, which would allow for creation of multiple independent sections on the site,   * Flexible permissions system, allowing for a large number of section-specific administrators and editors,   * Ease of use,   * Extensibility, allowing us to integrate the software with existing IT resources (e.g. LDAP-controlled login system, numerous databases with HTTP interfaces, etc.) If anyone here worked or studied at a university and has used or implemented software solutions to this problem, I would be very keen to hear your opinions of what works well or what doesn't.


Prevent XML sitemaps from showing up in Google search results

How do I prevent my XML sitemap files from showing up in Google search results like this result of a `site:` search query: ![sitemap in search results](http://i.stack.imgur.com/mvq6y.png) I don't understand why Google would choose to show sitemap files in search results to begin with. These files are not meant for human consumption. Google needs to be able to crawl it to be able to process it, so I can't disallow it in _robots.txt_. I just don't want them to put it into the search results after processing it.


Criteria for hosting your own video or embed third party player (youtube)?

I have a client which I've been working with on a site built on Asp.Net MVC 2 (although I don't think that plays too much into this question) that helps with their workflow from outside vendors. One of the features is adding a video tutorial for their users (who are not technical, and will likely use the site once). Originally they wanted to embed a player (YouTube or another similar site) from which the video would play. One of their programmers though convienced them to host the video on their own servers. I can only really think of bandwidth as a concern. The video in mp4 format is 400mb, and while the site is low volume now, they are adding more of their customers to use it which is why we're continuing to expand its functionality. So, what other criteria would should be considered when making this decision and what would push a decision one way or the other?


Microdata for Q&A page

Which microdata is the best for a Q&A page or for a list of links to Q&A pages. When searching "yahoo answers cat" via Google it displays the result from Yahoo in a very nice way. It displays a list of related question with the number of answers. ![Yahoo Answers](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xCHuz.png) What microdata/microformat should be used on Q&A pages like Yahoo Answers or StackExchange to have similar results in Google?


Website showing increase visit rate in Google Analytics for those keywords which are not even listed in Google

I have a strange scenario. My website's Google Analytics results are showing the increase rate in visits for those keywords (using Google Organic) which are not listed in Google. I can see in Google Analytics that 500 users visit my site using XYZ Keyword by Google Organic search. But if I search XYZ in the Google search engine I can't even see my website in the first 20 pages. How could it be possible?


Tumblr alternative without pr0n

I have to give a presentation to a group of middle school students, and the activity I have planned is to have them start their own blog. Ideally, I'd like to have them set up a Tumblr account because it is easy and straightforward. However, the pr0n. I'd rather not be the one to introduce anyone to that ecosphere if I can help it. Is there an alternative to Tumblr that has more stringent content requirements, but is as simple to use? Or a self-hosted platform that would be easy to install?


Is Product type from Schema.org the correct vocabulary choice for used items on a classifieds site?

I have a classified ads website at http://www.gastonia.com. We are redoing the architecture to be HTML5 compliant as well as heavily use Microdata from Schema.org. Given that most things there are used, is Product vocabulary still the correct choice? http://schema.org/Product EDIT: Given the responses so far, Farrukh gave a link with more details. This was on the page:               The following guidelines apply to product snippets:          When using product markup, the main topic of the page should be about a specific product. Product markup on listing pages is not supported.          The product should be available for purchase directly on the page. We do not support product markup for pages that require a user to visit separate seller's site or contact a seller offline to complete a purchase.          Adult-related products are not supported.          If the product has been reviewed by a single reviewer, the reviewer’s name needs to be a valid name for a Person (e.g. "James Smith") or Team/Organization (e.g. "CNET Reviewers"). For example, "50% off on Black Friday" is not a valid name.      Note the guideline that the object should be available for purchase directly from the page. Do you think that disqualifies using the Product vocabulary?


Should I use rel="nofollow" for social media links?

The question here is whether I'm passing juice to my Facebook, Yelp pages etc. I do want those pages to rank higher than those of competitors, but am I hurting my site by having these sitewide links without the `rel="nofollow"` attribute?


pros/cons of keeping expired job content

At the moment in my job site expired jobs redirect 301 to a deleted-page. This prunes expired content and also causes less web clutter. But I've seen many job sites keeping even old jobs which are in fact no use to visitor. It is well known that it takes 2-3 years to rank well for a web page in Google. A job ad expiring in a month will have no page rank importance for Google and it does not know in advance that that page is going to be deleted very soon. So which way should I go? Keeping expired content or deleting it promptly when it deems not useful anymore.


Right way to allow all access to website in robots.txt?

user-agent: *     disallow:      Is this the right way to allow all access to all content of a website to crawlers in a `robots.txt`?


Setting Cache-Control and Expires headers for the end client only

I am trying to add explicit caching to 301 redirects. However, I am worried that a permanent redirect for one user might not be permanent for another user. So I'd like to use `Cache-Control: no-cache` so that upstream servers like my ISP don't cache that request (I believe that's how this works). This leaves the Expires header which I've set to one month in the future. But the combination of Cache-Control no-cache and Expires headers makes me think I'm doing it wrong. I'd like for an individual user to have a cached request, but avoid ISP/upstream caching. How should I set up my caching headers on redirects?


SEO Impact of using Responsive Design and the serving of different content on the same URL

We are currently working on redesigning our site and making it responsive. It is a search intensive site with complex functionality, a lot of search filters and a lot of content. Our mobile versions of certain pages need to hide some functionality (i.e. search filters) that exists in the desktop version and/or content (mainly blocks of text that are not necessary or are increasing page load in mobile devices). My questions is this: **does the situation of having the same URL (responsive site) serving slightly different content (text and/or search filters) for certain pages in different devices affect our SEO (SERPs or otherwise)?**


How to use Google Analytics to track visitors who come from a particular entry page

Is it possible to track, e.g pageviews, time on site etc., only those visitors who come from a particular entry page, eg.`http://www.abc.com/123?qwe=456` to my site using Google Analytics. If yes, then how. Thanks


How important are the question tags on the home page for SEO on the StackExchange network?

I'm referring to the keyword tags, not the html tags. For example: I added the SEO tag to this question. I'm sure tags are very important for SEO on the question page, but are they also important on the home page? If StackExchange was to remove the tags from the home page would this have an impact on SEO?


Should I prevent search engines indexing tag/category pages?

On my site, I currently have no special rules for search engines. It is a blog, statically generated using a Python program. When I search for some of my articles on Google, there is usually a tag or category page included in the results. Sometimes it even ranks ahead of the article itself. Obviously, as these links aren't always going to have the article on them, this aren't the results I want people to click on. So, I'm thinking of setting noindex on these pages. Is there any possible downside to doing so? Is this possible to do via robots.txt, or do I have to add it to all the relevant templates? All I can find for robots.txt are ways to stop the search engine crawling those pages, which isn't what I want - while I don't want them indexed, it's still the only surefire way to find all my blog posts.


Google shows wrong results for site domain search

I entered site:example.com on google search it gave me list of unique pages exists on my website, and then I selected 'Past Week' filter under 'Show search tools' it gives me just 4 results when I have more then 50 posts from past one week. Sitemap.xml is submitted as well.


Why does the meta tag use name-content pairs and not regular attributes?

More of a theoretical question, but wouldn't it make more sense to have only one `meta` tag with a bunch of attribute-value pairs? Instead of:               <head>         <meta charset="UTF-8" />         <meta name="author" content="Joe Schmoe, jks@example.com" />         <meta name="description" content="An article that summarizes the risks              and benefits of playing video games for high school students." />         <meta name="keywords" content="video games, high school students,              development, cognition, learning, problem solving, strategy,              parenting, time management, procrastination" />         <title>I'm About to Graduate but I'm Obsessed with Skyrim</title>         ...     </head>      Wouldn't it save some bytes to just write:               <head>         <meta charset="UTF-8" author="Joe Schmoe, jks@example.com"              description="The risks and benefits of playing video games                  for high school students."             keywords="video games, high school students, development,                  cognition, learning, problem solving, strategy,                  parenting, time management, procrastination" />         <title>I'm About to Graduate but I'm Obsessed with Skyrim</title>         ...     </head>      If the values of the `name` attribute are preset, why not just make them attributes? My method would be easier and smoother for Webpage authors, and I'm sure it would be easy to re-program Website crawlers/robots to understand it. Relevantly, **is there a reason why it can't be done?**


Rewrite and virtual hosts for moving subdomains to folder-like requests

I am administering a website that previously had mini-sites set up for various physical locations using sub-domains (`city1.site.com`, `town2.site.com`, etc.) and I now need to disable these mini-sites. They are no longer being used and reside on a server that is obsolete. However I want the users that may have or find old links to be directed to the Magento store running on a new server with a request that looks like `www.site.com/store-locations-city1` so that the user gets that store's information page. If I simply change the DNS entries for those subdomains to point to the web store server, and there is no virtual host configuration, they will be redirected (I believe, haven't tested) to the default virtual host. (i.e. `city1.site.com` directed to `www.site.com`'s IP with no virtual host for `city1` will be redirected to `www.site.com`) If that is correct, can I simply set up a rewrite rule for each subdomain that reqrites the URL to `www.site.com/store-location-[city/town]` ? Where would I configure those rewrites? If this doesn't work the way I think it does, what alternative do I have? Upon further reading, I tested with one site and these are my results: without a virtual host, I can verify that the url is automatically redirected to the default virtual host. If the url originall contained anything it doesn't change this behavior. I added a virtual host for that subdomain with:               <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost         ServerName city.site.com         ServerAlias www.site.com city.site.com              Redirect / http://www.site.com/store-locations-city     </VirtualHost>      which works unless the original URL had something else in it, say `city1.site.com/contact` which results in a 404 because `www.site.com/store- locations-city1contact` doesn't exist. I still need to know how and where to rewrite anything other than `/` in this case


Google Analytics Report Filter not working

I want to filter myself out of the Google Analytics report, so I go to Admin->Filter, then exclude my IP addresses. But when I check the report, the visits from my country are still the same. I am sure the IP address is correct. It seems the filter doesn't take effect. Why is that?


Will search engines rank my site lower if not having any img tags on it?

I'm moving into using divs with backgrounds set by css, instead of using img tags But I'm wondering.. will this be given different or lower rank/importance/quality by search engines? I don't know, but I could imagine that if the site has no images (in the html alone), search engines would rate the content quality lower?


Can apache logs tell between encryped and un-encrypted traffic?

Is there a way by just looking at the apache logs you can tell if the user- credentials is encrypted or not? Meaning some kind of encryption e.g ssl or plain-text. Thanks.


Domain name at different host to website

I have someone I'm making a website for with a domain name and current website hosted at fasthosts. I've built them a website hosted at a different host, unlimited web hosting. The website I've made them is in a directory like this `www.mysite.com/dev/0002`. So fasthosts: Is the registrar for the domain name, it also has all of the email addresses and their current site. unlimited web hosting: Has the new site in a sub directory, like `.com/dev/0002` Is it possible to keep the domain name and email addresses all hosted at fasthosts and to have the new website hosted in my unlimited web hosting account and to somehow have the domain point to the new website?


What to do About Wrong Information That Has Propagated Throughout the Internet

Many years ago, someone made an entry into Yahoo! Maps for our small research library that contained the phone number of our librarian. Hundreds of sites accepted this information as authoritative and have spread it throughout the internet, including: Bing, Google, Yelp, YellowPages, WhitePages, and CitySearch. The problem is that this research library is not our primary business. In fact, it is a very small group within a very large organization. Somehow, her phone number is as popular (possibly moreso!) than our main line. The librarian spends a fair chunk of her day routing calls intended for the rest of the institute. **What would you do in this situation?** I have recommended that we redirect the librarian's phone to the front desk and have her change her number, but she has had the same number since 1997 and is reluctant to change. In late 2009, I tried updating the info with Yahoo, Google and Bing. All three removed the reference library from their listings, but have since put it back. Are there services that fight internet disinformation?


What are some potential issues in blocking all incoming requests from the Amazon cloud?

Recently I, along with the rest of the world, have seen a significant increase in what appears to be scraping from Amazon AWS-related sources. So simply put, I blocked all incoming requests from the Amazon cloud for our hosted application. I know that some good services/bots are now hosted on the cloud, and I'm wondering if certain IP addresses should be allowed, as they may gather data that would in the end benefit our site's SEO rankings? **-- UPDATE --** I added a feature to block requests from the following hosts:   * Amazon   * Softlayer   * ServerDeals   * GigAvenue Since then, I have seen my network traffic decrease (monitored by network out bytes). Average operation is around 10,000,000 bytes. You can see where last week I was not blocking, then started blocking. I've since removed the blocks and will see what the outcome is. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/kdhwv.png)


Change from static HTML file to meta tag for Google Webmaster verification

I started verifying the server by putting a couple of static HTMLs in place. Then I noticed that Google wants you to keep these files in place. I didn't want to keep the static HTMLs in, so I want to switch to an _alternative_ verification mechanism, and include the meta tags on the home page. Unfortunately, once your site is verified, you never seem to be able to change to an alternative way of verification. I tried removing the HTML pages. No luck whatsoever. Google still considers the site to be 'verified'. Does anybody know how to undo this? All I want to do is switch to the meta tag based method of site ownership verification.