how to hide domain hosting forward path

I have one hosting account with domain.com and we are hosting about 5 different websites. I have 5 folders in the hosting account each one with a unique "/name", and of course 5 www.12345.coms. I have each domain forwarded to hosting.com/name. When I do google search of my website, it shows the hosting.com/name in the path line, is there a way to hide it so it shows up as www.12345.com ? Here is a pic example: http://i.stack.imgur.com/VgmUb.jpg


How to find illegal or adult contents/links into a user-filled website?

I would like to use adsense on my website. This website is filled by users (they put comments and links). Of course, adsense (and others I guess) does not want to put ads on pages containing illegal/adult content or links that points to that. So, I want to track these bad contents the most easily possible : Is there a program or a web service to do that ?


What's the 'best' way to publish a written paper to your personal website?

I have a personal website, for things like posting my work from undergrad and grad school (I'm a recent grad student). The main reason is that I need to have an ePortfolio for my Master's degree, but the other reason is that I believe information should be free and accessible to everyone, so there's no harm in putting my academic research out there for the world to see. My website is nothing close to a professional or commercial site but I try my best to keep up with HTML5 specifications. If I have papers in `.docx` or `.pages` format, what is the 'best' way to publish them to my website? I have a few options, but I can't decide which is the most user-friendly or efficient:   1. Upload the file directly, prompting users to click a link to download it.      * Advantages: no work needed on my part.     * Disadvantages: users must download files to their hard drive to read; can edit/plagiarize.   2. Save the file as `.htm` format (provided by **Word**) and upload.      * Advantages: document opens directly in browser; cannot be edited easily.     * Disadvantages: papers written in `.pages` format (a.k.a. with **Pages**) cannot be easily converted to HTML, and if possible, do not retain styles and formatting correctly; **Word** 's HTML conversion is inefficient and _abysmal_.   3. Print the document to PDF (can be done with a **Mac**) and upload.      * Advantages: formatting, styles, layout, etc. are preserved exactly as seen; users cannot edit document; some browsers open PDF in new tab/window.     * Disadvantages: some browsers require users to download the document to hard drive; PDF is separate from my website creating a feeling of discontinuity and non-uniformity.   4. Upload the paper to a web app (such as **Google Docs**), publish, then link to it externally.      * Advantages: save space by uploading paper to another server.     * Disadvantages: discontinuity and non-uniformity; styles/formatting not exactly preserved; privacy trust in another company.   5. Re-type the paper from scratch and upload it as a webpage part of my site.      * Advantages: HTML elements and CSS styles exactly how I want them; document is streamlined and integrated with my site.     * Disadvantages: it's creates a ton of work.


How to figure out recent PageRank of websites or any particular page (Homepage)

I have this question because the most recent algorithm changes by Google have affected my website traffic. I've been wondering why my homepage PageRank has dropped from 6 to 4 (I am not sure exactly). I am not using any special SEO tools like SEOMOZ, Majestic SEO, etc. So it's quite difficult for me to ensure whether the page rank has been really affected or not. So can anyone please provide any good resource, tact or tricks to address this question?


Easy way to identify pages which are index, but not linked to on my site

I'm just wondering if there is an easy way to find out what pages Google has indexed, that are not directly linked on my site, for example: `www.mysite.com/skype.html` originally had a link in my site menu, but this link was removed. The page is still available when the url is typed directly, but there is no direct link to it. I don't want Google indexing this page any more and want to put a 'disallow' in my robots.txt.


"Publish date" custom variable in Google Analytics, how to search between two dates?

We have the two custom variables on our WordPress site:               _gaq.push(['_setCustomVar', 1, 'pubDate', 'June 6, 2014']);     _gaq.push(['_setCustomVar', 2, 'author', 'Sam']);      The first variable is the date that the post was published. How do we search for all posts between two dates using this value? Is this possible?


What sense can be made out of TIME_WAIT, CLOSE_WAIT, ESTABLISHED

Using netstat command, I got the number of couple of TCP states of connections. But for running websites, how to make meaningful connections between these numbers and the bottleneck/performance of the website?               TIME_WAIT 2363     CLOSE_WAIT 5     FIN_WAIT1 32     FIN_WAIT2 161     ESTABLISHED 643     SYN_RECV 28     CLOSING 1     LAST_ACK 26      Please save the manual-kind links and share some practical knowledge, thanks!


Own SMTP server vs SendGrid/PostmarkApp/CritSend/SMTP.com/etc

Wondering what the benefits are from switching from our own SMTP server to an SMTP service. They all seem to talk about handling the deliverability issues. However our server is set up with reverse DNS, SPF records, DomainKeys, DKIM and SenderID. We've not yet heard about deliverability issues with our own server. Additionally SenderScore is reporting 99/100. So why use an SMTP service? PS: we'll be wishing to send a larger than normal marketing email so this would increase the volume of email from our server in a relatively short period of time


Traffic difference between sub-domain.example.com AND example.com/sub-domain

It is possible to create sub-domains for a website in these two ways:               sub-domain.example.com     example.com/sub-domain      `example.com` is the main website. Between the above implementations is there any difference in visiting and traffic statistics for the main website?


How many days does it take for Google Webmaster Tools to refresh after a DNS error?

Yesterday I saw a problem in Google Webmaster Tools - it's saying that "Googlebot can not crawl your site because of DNS errors." Please view this image & error date: ![http://i.stack.imgur.com/4auP1.png](http://i.stack.imgur.com/d4VWz.png) Then I immediately fixed the problems. Now I can see in the graph from two days there is not a DNS problem, but it's still showing a DNS error. I am wondering how many days does it take Google to to refresh this DNS graph in order to remove the error? Important Links: http://ansoftsys.com/sitemap.xml and http://ansoftsys.com/robots.txt.


Is it possible to use two different ErrorDocuments for different paths of a website?

I currently run PmWiki at mydomain.com/pmwiki. I have a 404 page and `.htaccess` set up in my site's document root for 404 pages regarding anything that doesn't have to do with my wiki. By default, PmWiki handles URLs a little confusingly so I had to use this in order to get it to look like mydomain.com/pmwiki/Namespace/Page I had to create a `.htaccess` in /pmwiki to remove parts of the URL. PmWiki also has a custom 404 (Site/PageNotFound) page that has stopped working, now my site uses the /404.htm page. I noticed this when trying to install this "recipe" to enable case-insensitive URLs. Currently the only way to access Site/PageNotFound is by actually linking to it, and, if you read how that recipe seems to function, this is an issue. Currently mydomain.com/pmwiki/blahblah and mydomain.com/pmwiki/legitimate_namespace_but_lowercase/legitimate_lowercase_page_name both direct to mydomain.com/404.htm. I have to admit I'm very confused, and I apologize if I was unclear in any of this, but I could definitely use some help.


is it legal to use links from an established website to identify unique content?

Not sure if this is a good place to ask, but maybe someone here can point me in the right direction... If I wanted to make a commercial, directory type website (where users can enter content) and in order to ensure uniqueness and prevent duplicate entries I would use links and URLs of an established website and cross reference those in my database to see if the link was already used - would I be violating any Intellectual Property laws in the US? So for example I am making a directory of musicians, and users can create profiles for musicans. But I don't want 3 profile pages for Lady Gaga, so I am asking for the link to Lady Gaga's myspace site. Or the link to Lady Gaga's Wikipedia site. If the link that was entered is already used in my database, I would alert the user, and require certain actions to figure out which of the profiles was indeed created by Lady Gaga or her representatives - and not just by someone who is trying to give her a bad reputation or something... Other examples would be possible with using facebook pages, google+ pages, linkedIn profiles, imdb, etc. etc. My website would take advantage of the fact, that another website is very established and reliable. Of course I will not include any content from the website, other than the LINK/URL STRING OF CHARACTERS (which would be a deep link however). And if I display the link on the profile page, I would make sure to say for example "visit lady gaga's profile page on myspace.com" or something similar to ensure fair usage. Here is an article, that talks about linking and deep linking to other sites, but not about "using the URL of a site in your code as part of the content verification process". http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter6/6-c.html Does anybody have an idea what's allowed and what isn't, what violates IP law and what doesn't? Or where else could I research to find out?


Using Google Analytics to view product hits

I am using Google Analytics but fairly new to it. I have a list of products on my site, they have the following URL:   * `example.com/product/1`   * `example.com/product/2` In Google Analytics, how can I view which product has the most hits?


How to Give proper Credit to Original Content keeping in mind the Google SEO

I have a website about Delhi and its tourism spots. Now for giving information about these spots, I am using Wikipedia and any other website for the information content, but I want to give Credit to these sites and don't want Google to spam my site for duplicate content. Can anyone suggest some legitimate way to tell Google that I am giving the due credit to the original source pages but I also want to rank for these pages. (I will not be posting the exact content from these pages, but only used for reference). Since my site is NOT a news site, is it okay to use the original-source metatag? Or there is some other way around? Please help!


Website promotion by country

I have two domains, one for UK and another for Australia. I want keep same design and content on both websites the same and I want to promote them country wise. My question is: can I keep same content on both? Is there a technique or tag for this?


Just overhauled our entire site. How do I keep Google, Bing and Yahoo from demoting us?

We just overhauled our entire site. The new site structure doesn't resemble the old one in the slightest. What do I need to do with Google, Bing and Yahoo to keep our ranking from sliding? We have created a number of redirect rules to send people following old links to the proper page on the new site. We have a site map and robots.txt.


Chrome Frame's notranslate does not work

I have `<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">` and `<meta name="google" value="notranslate">` but tries to translate the page.


Magento not responding to payment gateway notifications fast enough or at all?

Some of our customers are getting to the confirmation of payment step in purchasing from our Magento store, and then they are getting a timeout error, where the SagePay payment gateway is trying to contact our server to tell it that a payment was successful (or not…) but it cannot contact our server, or cannot get a response from our server in a timely manner, and then the payment/order is being cancelled. I've raised this question to my hosting company, but all they told me was: "This is down to the way the software is configured on your server" This is currently a Magento 1.4.0.1 standard installation as far as payment gateways are concerned. What on earth could this statement mean? Is there some configuration that I need to do to make Magento listen to these requests and respond properly?


How to use the private and public keys?

I am new to ssl certificates, i wanted to learn about ssl certificates, and I generated private and public keys myself while logged into cpanel, I wonder how to use those and generate a secured connection to my site, i have my public keys and private keys but how to use those? Can any one recommend a nice page or can any one teach me that? thanks in advance


SEO - Meta Description Tags Not Updating Search Result

I updated my meta description tag for my comics website about two months back now, but the search engine is still picking up my footer "Acceptable User Policy" text for some reason. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ni7RV.jpg) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/oMMVF.jpg) I'm not even sure why it would pick up this footer text to begin with: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BpGo8.jpg) I need this to be updated because I don't want my search result to be about my disclaimer... I want it to be about the content of my site- comics. How long should it take to update? Do I have the tag incorrect? **EDIT----- Meta Description Tag length:**               "Hitting Trees with Sticks is dedicated to sharing high quality original satirical comics with the world."          Words: 16     Characters (no spaces): 89     Characters (with spaces): 104      Thanks!


How to allow a file download only from a local desktop application?

I need to find a solution to allow a file download (It's an .exe file for an app update) only if the request comes from a desktop application and to block requests if they come from a web browser. How to manage that? Thank you. Nina


Will deleting all current post tags cause SEO or Webmaster issues?

I have several thousand tags currently and want to completely re-do all my post tags. As a result, a lot of the current ones won't be used again. Before I insert the new tags, I want to delete all the current ones from the tag admin panel. Will doing so cause any SEO or Google Webmaster issues? I don't want Google coming along and saying "I can't find 500 of your index tags...PageRank-2."


Buying a domain name, does it matter where the server is located?

When it comes to domain names, does it matter where the server is located? Let's say the server is in Canada and I have a `.com` domain, will this effect download speed? or is the `.com` just a word?


Using HTTP (insecure) ad providers on HTTPS (secure) site

As more and more browsers adopt stringent checks around preventing insecure content served up on secure sites, there is impact on the use of ad networks which in many cases don't support the secure content. What are some options that exist to continue to leverage the HTTP based ads in a secure site? Note that I am aware of HTTPS ad network providers, but would still like to explore workarounds allowing the use of HTTP (insecure) ad providers. I see through this question that proxying the requests through an SSL landing page could be an option. Does anyone have experience doing that or more information on this technique? What other things have people been doing in this context? Regards.


3 language website using subdomains and mapped domains. Add subdomains or mapped domains to WMT?

I have a new wordpress multisite setup. The main language is Italian and there are two subdomains using en and de for english and german. There is no auto translation plugins being used. The wordpress theme being used is by Studiopress.com and have SEO built in. ## I am a little confused as which domains to use in Webmasters Tools. If I use the subdomains (en and de) which have the seo setup, then google will index and show the en.example.it It won't know about the mapped domains or display them. If I use the mapped domains then won't google not see the seo for the subdomains. I am muddled about this. What should I do?


Is Google Image making use of comments / descriptions found in images?

I'm wondering whether Google (and other search engine) pay any attention to the text appearing in images such as Comments, Description, Exif, etc. I'm wondering as I would imagine that it would be nice if a user creating a website with a CMS would be warned if the image text fields are not defined, or if defined, be shown the existing data to make sure it is proper. However, that's a lot of work if the data is never used anyway! What I'm after is a link to an authoritative video (with Matt for instance) or document that talks about this.


In Google Analytics, given I have a specific page, how do I track where the user went to next?

Note: I'm an analytics "n00b". I have a specific page on my website, say [ **/users/register** ]. **Where in Google Analytics do I go to see where visitors to that page went to next?** I saw that, for that page, the was a column called " _Landing_ ", but the number there was lower than the number of visitors? When I looked at that page under the _Landing Page report_ , I saw that it looked to have the info I needed as it had an _Exit_ value... however, I don't know what that means, and I don't understand why the Landing number is so much lower. **Regardless I just want to see where visitors to that page went to next?**


Canonical URL's for interchangeable parameters

I'm wondering how should I use canonical tags in such a case: I compare two items, lets say shoe brands. So one of my pages look like this:               http://shoes.com/compare/adidas/vs/nike/      and another page :               http://shoes.com/compare/nike/vs/adidas/      Of course, 100% same content. I guess the alphabetical order makes sense, so probably I will use the first one. But how about canonical tags? Will stating the first one as canonical work? I'm asking this because all of the time, I have thought canonical url's in this form:               site.com/root/a/b/c      and the canonical is `site.com/root/a/b` or `site.com/root/a` i.e., I thought that canonical URL's are only valid for themselves, and their "children" paths. So in this, "sibling-like-path" case, will the canonical work? Thanks for any help :)


How to prevent "SSL Certificate Chain Not Sorted"

I just got an message SSL Certificate Chain Not Sorted when I scanned my server configuration...I am not sure how to order or sort the certificates. I have a SSL certificate and intermediate certificates as well. And, I have configured them in apache. But not sure what is the right order or how to sort these certificates.


What is good side of PageRank?

I am doing research about backlinks/PR/SEO/Search Result position and all I read about is that PageRank is not important, that it worth before but now it's not important at all. Only thing I found useful about it that is "change Search Result position", but ONLY if there are two sites with same keywords and same text content value, then Search Engine will check which site has higher PR and place that site above lowest one. Google counts PR importance as 20% for displaying search rankings, and Yahoo! is like 3%... Correct me if I am wrong... Is there any other good thing from it?


How does domain pre-registration work for the end-user?

I just pre-registered a `.guru` domain name through GoDaddy, and it just disappeared from the account panel. There are messages and receipts for my payments, but other than that, I have no clue whatsoever about the status of my domain name.


UTF-8 charset doesn't work for PHP mail form

I'm trying to solve the problem of **reading special characters** , (plus I cant get it on one of the Gmail) I get something like this " _×œ×“×•×_ " and this " _Ч“Ч•Чђ\"ЧњЧ“Ч•_ " sent from my WP blog I've tried all ways which were explained on Stack Overflow, but the questions might be specific, which hadn't work for me. I wont use any plugin for that, so my preferred code is here:               <?php         .....................             if(!isset($hasError)) {                       $emailTo = 'asdasdasd@mail.ru,  asdasdasd@gmail.com, info@travel-asdasdasd.co.il ' ;                 $subject = $_POST['subject'];                     $comments= $_POST['comments'];                     $dge= $_POST['dge'];                     $tve= $_POST['tve'];                     $weli= $_POST['weli'];             $sendCopy = trim($_POST['sendCopy']);             $body = "Name: $ContactName \n\nEmail: $email \n\nComments: $comments \n\n Subject :$subject \n\n Number: $phone \n\n $dge / $tve /$weli";                  mail($emailTo, ": הודעה" , $body, "Travel-Georgia" );             /////////////////              // set our boolean completion value to TRUE             $emailSent = true;         }     }         ?>            .......                              <form id="contact-us"  method="post" accept-charset="utf-8"> .......</form>


Where i can get free Bootstrap templates more than on off site but with good design? Please provide some links. Thank you!


Will transferring a domain name to a new registrar cause downtime?

Will transferring a domain name to a new host cause downtime at all on the domain? It's the highest traffic time of the year for us but we really want to keep things moving and need to migrate hosts because our current host charges per subdomain. It's imortant we get this subdomain up and running in the next few weeks, so I'm wondering what kind of down time (if any) we should expect migrating the registrar. It doesn't seem like it would...


How to allow www.domain.com and domain.com on EC2 Ubuntu Instance on AWS

I have an EC2 Ubuntu Instance that I have apache2 installed on (along with php, mysql, mycrypt for a Laravel project). I have set up the correct nameservers, and www.domain.com is coming up online. However, domain.com (without www.) is not working. I know I have to change something with the vhost, but I am not sure how to do it with the Debian version of Apache2 on the Ubuntu instance. What file do I edit to do this, and what edit do I have to make? Thank you for your help.


Can AdSense crawler view pages that require cookies?

**Details** I require users to agree to terms and conditions before they can view several pages on my site. Once they have agreed a cookie is set and they can proceed to the webpage. If a user somehow manages to end up on the webpage without a cookie they will not be able to access the page's content. **My question(s)** Is the AdSense crawler able to set the cookie and visit these pages? If yes, how will it know to agree to the TOS? Is there some way to allow it access to the pages even if it couldn't use cookies?


Analytics - Total events divided by number of unique pages?

I am using Google Analytics events to track keywords on my articles - not necessarily the best system I know but there are too many for variables I can't easily change it right now - and I would like to be able to see how popular each keyword is by dividing the number of page views with a keyword by the number of unique pages. Is there a/what is the best way of doing this? **EDIT FOR CLARITY** I currently have a system set up where every time somebody loads an article an event is fired for each of the tags/keywords used, with the keyword being the label. I can currently view my view count for each of the keywords by looking at the total events for each label, however I would like to be able to see which keywords are the most popular by dividing the number of times the event has been fired by the the number of different pages it has been fired from.


CName for static images - will Google crawl?

I am planning to serve images on a CDN using a CNAME: images.mysite.com. I am doing this because CDNname.mysite.com makes ugly URL's and MAY be bad for SEO (debatable). Will Google crawl the subdomain (only storing images and nothing on the main domain will link to it). If so, would a simple robots.txt be suitable? Is this even possible seeing that the subdomain is ONLY serving images, JS, CSS i.e. not HTML? Thanks


What's the proper structure of an HTML5 page that briefly lists other articles?

The target is to provide the proper semantic for a page that briefly lists existent articles. At the moment my idea is the following:

Latest Articles

First Article's Heading

First article's brief description.

Second Article's Heading

Second article's brief description.

Third Article's Heading

Third article's brief description.

           The page (let's call it an _archive_ page) has the main article element containing children articles. Each child has only header because the article does not represent the full version but just a brief. Please, tell me if my version is semantically right (and why it is). Otherwise, propose your version. **UPDATED (AFTER THE ANSWER WAS ACCEPTED)** Example above is not full what may confuse and cause misunderstanding. I'll try to clear this providing a fuller example with comments.
Website Title

Website description.

Latest Articles

Last three articles in chronological order.

First Article's Heading

Supplement to the first article's heading.

Read more

Second Article's Heading

Supplement to the second article's heading.

Read more

Third Article's Heading

Supplement to the third article's heading.

Read more

Navigate Through Pages

Newer

Older

Copyright (c) ...
                  I just wanted to ensure if the semantic is corrent. It is. The question is clear.


Public Bug Tracking and Version Control System

We're in the process of moving out of a private beta into our live version of the site. We're trying to find a good Bug Tracking System + Version Control system. Our CEO has requested that the new system be able to do the following things and I can't figure out where I can do this:   * Public facing Bug Tracker - Guests **don't** need to register to post OR ability to sync with current user tables to allow SSO.   * Ability to assign developers to posted bugs   * Integration with Version Control to allow Developers to attach bug to build version to confirm when the bug is fixed.   * Miscellaneous Project Management - Ability to create projects/tasks and assign them to developers or other administrative teams. We are moving away from TeamBox.com as our Project Management suite as it just wasn't development oriented as we needed and we currently have no Version Control system. Much thanks in advance.


Google Webmaster not indexing my site

I've moved my site from ak.net84.net to aramk.com, and I've redirected the pages from the old to the new using these methods in my htaccess for the old site:   * all pages redirect to the new site using a rewrite rule, with 301 http code   * manually specified redirects with 301 http code   * removing all redirects, so all links to the old site will result in a 404 (redirects to my host's error page) At the moment, it appears Google may be treating the sites as duplicates, so I've removed the indexed pages for the old site by using the "Blocked URLs" page in Google Webmaster. The problem I'm having is that for my new site, Google is crawling but not indexing: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/dJBdY.png) There are not health warnings for the new site, but there are health warnings for the old site (saying I have removed URLs). Meanwhile the old site is still being indexed: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/dW3eg.png) The old site doesn't have a sitemap, and the robots.txt is blank. The new site does have a sitemap, but it's not being indexed: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ydVVk.png) At this point I've been waiting about a month without any changes while I try different settings, and I'm prepared to just delete the old site from my host completely in the hope Google will stop indexing it. Any other suggestions?


Problem upgrading Mediawiki 1.5.8 to Mediawiki 1.19 (libxml2 inadequate on server)

I have a wiki set up on my local development environment. The wiki runs on Mediawiki 1.5.8, but I'm trying to upgrade it to run on Mediawiki 1.19. When I run the update.php script I get the following error message:               Your system has a combination of PHP and libxml2 versions which is buggy     and can cause hidden data corruption in MediaWiki and other web apps.     Upgrade to PHP 5.2.9 or later and libxml2 2.7.3 or later!      ABORTING (see http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996).      Running php -v gives a PHP version number of 5.2.9, and since this is the PHP install that is running the update.php script I'm guessing this isn't the problem. I've got libxml2 insalled via MacPorts, and according to MacPorts version 2.7.8 is installed, which should be sufficiently up-to-date to get Mediawiki updating properly. Any ideas as to how I can go about resolving this?


Link Domains/Subdomains to folders in a PC Server?

My PC has a configuration to work as a server. It has quad core processor with 8GB RAM. So I made it a server. Now i want to know, how can I link the domain names to various folders in my WAMP. At present, when I am calling my IP address e.g. 123.234.345.456, I get index file from **C:/wamp/www/**. But I want to forward e.g. **www.example.com** to folder **C:/wamp/www/example** and **test.example.com** to folder **C:/wamp/www/test** Does anyone have idea how to do this? And what should I do in my domain provider's controls, so that they can fetch data from my server, without changing URL.


Can I use a 302 redirect to serve up static content from an URL with escaped_fragment?

We would like to serve up SEO-friendly Ajax-driven content. We are following this documentation. Has anyone ever tried to write a 302 redirect into the _.htaccess_ file, that takes the `?_escaped_fragment=` string and send that to a static `page?`, for example `/snapshot/yourfilename/`. How will Google react to this? I've gone through the documentation and it's not very clear. The below quote is from Google's documentation this is what I find. I'm not sure if they are saying that you **can** redirect the `_escaped_fragment_` URL to a different static page, or if this is to redirect the hashtag URL to static content? Thoughts? ## From Google's site: Question: Can I use redirects to point the crawler at my static content? > Redirects are okay to use, as long as they eventually get you to a page > that's equivalent to what the user would see on the #! version of the page. > This may be more convenient for some webmasters than serving up the content > directly. If you choose this approach, please keep the following in mind: > >   1. Compared to serving the content directly, using redirects will result > in extra traffic because the crawler has to follow redirects to get the > content. This will result in a somewhat higher number of fetches/second in > crawl activity. >   2. Note that if you use a permanent (301) redirect, the url shown in our > search results will typically be the target of the redirect, whereas if a > temporary (302) redirect is used, we'll typically show the #! url in search > results. >   3. Depending on how your site is set up, showing #! may produce a better > user experience, because the user will be taken straight into the AJAX > experience from the Google search results page. Clicking on a static page > will take them to the static content, and they may experience avoidable > extra page load time if the site later wants to switch them to the AJAX > experience. >


Error in Google Webmaster tools

Google Webmaster tools says I have many faults. I wonder how I might supposed to improve them in a way such as to make a `robot.txt` to the server? Where I decide where you should go, etc? .. You can see the picture here what I mean: ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fABsn.png) However, it must be said that I have made that about 2 times before so there have been many mistakes. But I have used woorank to help me a lot further to see what I was missing on the page. So, my question is simply: does `robot.txt` have anything to do with it, all the old mistakes? .. This is what my page NOT out more! ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/DPX8g.png) Could it not also help a little of everything if I had a sitemap for my site? _Just tell if you do not understand what I mean. However, I am **dyslexic** so is bad for English .._


Public search engine which index HTML tags

Do you know a public search engine which allows search on HTML tags? The usage will be to search websites with HTML5 tags such as `<canvas>` being able to search over the class names could also be useful.


Cookie manager PHP

I own a Joomla commerce store and although I use Google Analytics in order to track visitors, I need to install a cookie manager in order to be able to track cookies that were installed on customer when he punctuate an order. To be more specific , I am planning to join an affiliate network and I need somehow to track no only the last visit of a customer but if he has a cookie and from which affiliate network as well.


Domain registrar that doesn't encourage domain 'speculation'

Dealing with domain 'speculators' has been getting me down recently. Then I noticed my current registrar, name.com, have some deal with a domain auction company to list "premium" domains on their website; it may seem petty, but I don't want to support this kind of venture in any way. Are there any good registrars out there who don't list 'aftermarket' domains? I don't need much in the way of features, but a nice clean interface is always nice. Cheers.


Google Analytics profile filters does not work

I have a website and I need to separate traffic to it into two profiles. I need to exclude data from curtain IP address from Profile A and include data from this IP to Profile B. I have created 2 profiles. Setup exclude filter by IP for profile A, setup Include filter for profile B. For some reason all data still goes to profile A. I use my own public IP address in filter definitions so I know for sure that I have visits for profile B. In order to test that data come to Profile A I track event via _trackEvent with unique name, like test123 and I see this event in Profile A. What I am doing wrong? **UPDATE** : If I change filter to Country - everething work. I could easely separate traffic from me Country to another profile. So my guess something is wrong with IP.


Multiple domain names

I have a client that want a website with a single domain name with many different extensions like :               somedomain.com     somedomain.org     somedomain.net     somedomain.mobi     somedomain.tv     ...      Just to be sure the saturate the name and that nobody "hijack" the name. The client is a Searcher in "Numeric content" and has a PHD in that field of expertise. Personnally I think it would be overkill to go that road since the website will only attract a limited amount of people which will be refered mostly through official press documents and business cards with the web URL on it. Since he is a scholar I was looking for some published articles about that matters. P.S. In the end if he is still convinced that his way is the right way I will do it, but since it comes from a public funded Grant I was looking to save him money (and the general population) so he can use the rest on more useful areas P.P.S. I am from Québec, the most taxed state in North America, that is why I have those concerns :P


Character set not specified in HTTP headers error

When testing this page with Page Speed, I get the a `Specify a character set` error: `The following resources have no character set specified in their HTTP headers. Specifying a character set in HTTP headers can speed up browser rendering.` The `Content-Type` tag is present and the page was saved with UTF-8 encoding as well, so where is the error coming from?


How would I setup Joomla to require or bypass authentication based on visitors IP address? I would like to setup a Joomla website that requires visitors to login, unless they are visiting from a specific IP address or subnet. Also, I would like the login to be LDAP based. I would be hosting the Joomla site on my local network and exposing it via my router with port-forwarding.


Editor for blog writing

I have created a blog site in ASP.NET and I am using dynamic syntax highlighter. I need a editor in which I can write my blog and necessary code should wrap inside the               <pre>      syntax. Which editor should I use for this in which I can easily convert my text to HTML format to save in database


Storing image order without a database

The classic question is whether to store images in a database or on the file system. In my case I feel it is probably best to store it on the file system. However the specific order of the albums and images is very important. Originally I thought that I could do this by displaying images in the order of their last modified date and then artificially change that value to modify the order. However that method is flawed as adding new images to an album will reorder all the images as the modified time is changed unwillingly. Can anyone give me advice on how I can keep track of the order without using a database? (Not 100% sure if this question belongs here or maybe on stackoverflow, but I'm taking my chances and if I'm wrong feel free to correct it.)


Can I choose two geographic target country for my website?

I have a website, the main target audience from two countries. In the Google Webmaster Tools you just can choose one location. Do I need to do something or just leave it along?


Mapping an amazon server to a domain name registered with name.com

I have an amazon S3 web server and a domain name registered in name.com (the name is sam-experiments.com). I am trying to have a static page hosted on the amazon web server to be displayed on http://www.sam-experiments.com On the web server side, my bucket name is 'www.sam-experiments.com', and it links to here: http://www.sam-experiments.com.s3-website-eu- west-1.amazonaws.com/ On name.com, I added a new record with the followin characteristics:   * Record Type: CNAME   * Record Host: www.sam-experiments.com   * Record Answer: www.sam-experiments.com.s3.amazonaws.com. (as specified in the documentation here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/VirtualHosting.html#VirtualHostingCustomURLs)    * TTL: 300 However, nothing gets displayed on www.sam-experiments.com, and I am not able to find what I am doing wrong. I really would appreciate some tip. Thanks! Note: I already posted this question in stackoverflow, but didnt get any answer, so I thought posting here may be more appropriate.


Paging in table in PHP

Hey guys i have to make php program in which i have to take data from database (table is student(stu_id , s_name , s_emailid)) from which i have to display only 10 records on first page and 4 buttons First , Last , Previous and next . if user click on next in table i have to display next ten records on same page(replace older data of table) and if user click then previous then previous 10 records. and wiseversa for first and last. i have no idea how i can do this so plz guys help me..


How can I exclude a specific computer from web stats?

I'm using AWStats to track visits to my site. I know how to exclude specific ip addresses from the stats (using AWStat's .conf file). But how would I just exclude one specific visitor (me)? I want to exclude every visit regardless of my location. Just based on my specific computer, or cookies, or possibly a login password? Thanks


Does a Registrar forwarding your Domain to your hosting site url, violate Google AdSense TOS?

NameCheap offers to forward traffic to a url of your choosing, which is really handy if you are using a free web hosting service, and/or ever want to move to try another free host someday. However, I don't want to save $50 on hosting fees only to get BANNED from Google's adsense for violating it's URL Forwarding TOS. So aside from the technical aspects of whether or not Google's crawlers will actually forward to the forwarded domain or not, the big question is, can this be done or will you be banned?


When email newsletters include Base64 encoded images, do email clients see them immediately?

When I send a newsletter with remote URLs most email clients will ask the user if he wants to load remote resources inside the message. If I send an email using images with Base64 encoded strings as the source, will the receiver see the image immediately?


How can i check how many users can visit my website at the same time?

i have my website on a shared webhosting account. I would like to check how many people can visit my site at the same time without the server slowing down or crashing. I don't have SSH, if that makes any difference...


Was Instagram, the first one who started using "insta" word

I want to know, was Instagram the first one who started using "insta" word in domain name. There are so many other sites who started some word, and others followed their way for names. for eg Apple started i-something, myspace started mysomething, youtube started yousomething etc etc, I am not sure whether they were the first one, and invented the style of using them.


How much time to update the Structured data in Search Results?

We have updated the structured data for the ratings in the website and it is detected also by the crawler but I am not able to view the ratings in the search results page. I can see the breadcrumb results in the search results and can not see the other structured data in search results. Do let us know if there is any issue which needs to be resolved from our end. Thanks


Updating adwords account after change of address / url

We've recently changed our url for our site, we've set up 301 redirects from the old pages to the new ones and updated google webmaster tools. Adwords does not allow you to run ads to one site and then have you redirected to another, is there a way that i cant change the url in adwords to our new url, so that i dont have to setup a new campaign, build up new quality scores ect ect ?


Can I submit a private domain registration to bing

I have a private domain registration. Is there any way to submit to Bing without disclosing personal details?


Succesful hits on favicon are 49.9% as shown by Awstats, But 404s don't display favicon error. What's wrong?

On Awstats, one of the sections displays as it follows: > Successful hits on favicon.ico -> 49.9% Then, under 404s, i have the following: > Document Not Found (hits on favicon excluded) Therefore, if the 50.1% of errors on favicon are due to 404s, I wouldn't be able to see them. **I'm pretty sure, the errors on favicon are not 404s, as i have extensivly checked (I might be wrong though). If that assumption is correct, how come 50.1% are not successful hits? Is it because some browsers/tablets/phones don't support it?** Additionally, I store the favicon icon in a folder, but a favicon.ico empty file always appears on my root folder if deleted. That file was replaced with mine, so the error should also not be there.


Google Analytics visitor flow shows drop-offs for homepage

I checked the visitors flow on my Google Analytics account. It shows drop-offs from the homepage and the group details don't really give much info. The group details for other pages do show that the reason for the drop-offs (at that particular node) are broken links. Its only the homepage where I don't see any details. Could it be that other external sites are linking to the wrong page?


Godaddy redirect doesn't show file names in URL

Bought a Godaddy doman and redirected & masked it (301) to a temporal free hosting site(freehostingeu), the redirection and masking works perfectly but the URL of the various pages in my server's folder doesn't show in the nav bar when I click a link that sends me to that page.


SEO and new site - visibility best practices

Since i launched a new web site, i was wondering which are the best practices to let the visibility of the site grow up faster then just leaving the site online? I mean which internet channels are good to speed up visibility of a new site? Can anyone show some tricks he do when launching new site? I'm not talking about spam, advertising and SEO tech tips (the site is well done with all the main SEO tech tricks).


Why some video posts from the same blog appear in google with thumbs, while others do not?

We own media blog - which is basically a big collection of various videos streamed through our branded player. Interesting thing is that some of our posts show up in google search results with a thumb denoting that the post in question is in fact a video. But more often they are not. We basically wonder why? What does affect it and can we control it somehow? All posts (their single pages) have facebook og meta tags in place.


How to deal with malicious domain redirections?

It is possible for anybody to buy a domain name containing negative terms and point it to someone's website in order to damage their reputation. For instance someone could buy the domain `child-pornography.com` and point it to the address `64.34.119.12` which is the address behind `stackoverflow.com` and people navigating to the domain in question would end up visualizing content from `StackExchange` which would be detrimental to `StackExchange`'s image. To illustrate this, I added the entry `64.34.119.12 child-pornography.com` to my `/etc/hosts` file and tested. Here is what I obtained: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Tn1nf.png) I personally found this user experience terrible as someone could think that Stack Exchange are in favor of child pornography and awaiting support from the community to create a Q&A site about it. I tested with other websites and experienced other behaviors that I would categorize as follows: **1 - Useful 404 page (happens with`stackoverflow.com`)**:   For me the worst way of handling this as the image of the targeted website is directly associated with the offending domain. The more useful the 404 page, the bigger the impression that the targeted website would be willing to help with child pornography. **2 - Redirection (happens with`microsoft.com`):**   For instance when accessing `child-pornography.com` you get redirected to `www.microsoft.com`. It isn't as bad as above as the offending domain name never appears alongside the targeted website's content, but still bad in my opinion as it gives the impression the targeted website bought the offending domain and redirected it to their website to get more traffic. **3 - Server error (happens with`lemonde.fr`):**   You get an error from the webserver which page doesn't contain any content that can be associated with the targeted website (e.g. default Apache 404 page, completely blank page). I believe that is good as the identify of the targeted website isn't revealed. Above are the various behaviors I experienced, but I also thought about a fourth way of dealing with this which is described below. **4 - Disclaimer page (haven't found any website implementing that technique):**   Display a message such as : > "You ended here because someone bought and linked the `child- > pornography.com` domain to our website. We do not own this domain and do not > associate ourselves with it. This request has been logged by our servers and > we will raise this issue with the competent authorities to have this domain > taken down. If you want to access our website, please click here." The good thing about this method is that it can be implemented at application layer (good if you don't have control over web server which happens with some hosting solutions), allows you to protect yourself from any liability, and offer the visitor to be redirected to your own website. **Which of the above options would you implement to deal with malicious domain linking (IMO only options 3 and 4 are worth considering) ?**


Tool to identify Internet Explorer rendering differences with css

I develop website using chrome and mac os as development environment. Since my audience is pretty specific I don't feel the necessity for too much backward compatibility with IE8 and less. However to my great dismay, even IE9 looks totally broken... I would like to know if there's on the web a tool that could tell me what probably went wrong with IE, that is a webapp that parse the rendered css and check which rules are probably totally broken in IE9.


There must be a science to single-page product sales sites. What is it?

The sites I speak of are not landing pages, not really microsites in the sense that I've always had to deal with them. They are sites like the following:   * Credit Contraction eBook   * Homemade Strength eBook   * Earn1k ... plan   * The Truth About Abs I have seen them for all manner of things, these are just the ones I could remember off the top of my head. They all seem to follow an identical method of construction, marketing, call-to-action, content organization...There must be a science to building these sites. What are they called? What is this science? Tim Ferris wrote an article a while ago about The Truth About Abs's creator Mike Geary, mostly covering how he came to the idea and the things he does to execute upon it as a business. The article didn't really cover the science of the page though, the key to his success, except at the very end where there are a couple paragraphs that just graze the topic.


ads for a gaming network

I am very new to web development and in some weeks I start my own small gaming network. Now I am doing everything alone and I struggle to find good resources about advertising networks. And I don't want to have ugly ads on my website. I searched for gaming advertisements and I found ad4games and gaming online advertising. At the moment I don't even know if I can pay the server costs. This is really bugging me. I contacted several ad networks, but all of them don't want to do a contract with me before my site launches. -> I have to wait and gather information about my visitors. Now I was curious which ad network other sites are using, and I saw that stackoverflow is using adzerk as an adserver. If I am correct I can get ads from different adnetworks and put them on my adserver. But overall the whole topic is like a huge blackbox for me. Could you recommend me some resources or give me some insights? Edit: I am currently listening to http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/podcast-64/ and its really interesting.


Mysterious 403 errors on images with proper permissions

Recently I have been trying to install a forum on my website. At first I was having an issue with the forums alone but then I noticed it was occurring elsewhere on my website as well. When I have added images, they return in a 403 error. The images are there but they refuse to show up. I have tried it with multiple permissions numbers but every time I get the same result. After further inquiry, I discovered that some images were working. Here are a couple of examples: Working, 0644 Permissions Not Working, 0644 Permissions If you go to the directory that contains both of those images you will also see that no images show up in the directory. I do not know what's going on. In other parts of the website, images with full 777 permissions are resulting in 403 errors. I have talked with the hosting service but they have just directed me to change permissions, which I have done.


Deploying websites with a 'Maintenance Mode' switch

I'm working on a site where I need to add a 'maintenance mode' and became curious to see what methods people use to deploy their sites to live, when there is a required downtime. Some ideas that come to my mind are symlinked folder switching, .htaccess redirects or even some sort of switch in the application but what do you use and why?


Serving ads in adsense while having a adwords account

I have created a adwords account. I deposited Rs 4000 and serving ads successfully. Now when i apply for adsense account for my same website the account is rejected saying "Site does not comply with Google policies". Where as my website is a simple web programming blog and does not contain any illegal content. Can anyone tell me why is this happening? URL for reference: 2lessons.info


Best tools to build a ecommerce website

First I would like to apologize if this is not the forum to be asking this question. If you can point me to the right forum, I will post my question there. I am relatively new to web development. I want to build an e commerce website for a small business. I want to know what tools or technology should I use to build the site? I googled it and it seems that there are just too many of them out there. I have some knowledge of Java, javascript, servlet, jquery, and jsp. I would like to use the existing skill set I have to build the website but if there are other better alternatives, then I would consider that approach as well. I would like to have some animation(slide show) in my index page, shopping cart, and lots of pictures. Please help. Thank you.


HTML5 `html` `xmlns` attribute

Is `xmlns` appropriate in HTML5?               <!DOCTYPE html>     <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">     ...     </html>      Also, which is preferred, `<!DOCTYPE html>` or `<!doctype html>`?


CSS spaces, top element or bottom element?

Whenever I format a website according to a PSD file,   I always wonder if the space should be from the top element or the bottom one.   So if I have 2 elements that are seperated by some space, I normally choose   the top one, but I can't find a real reason not to choose the one on the bottom. Any ideas?


Not so popular web : Change Domain and Web Name, SEO implications. Duplicate?

I have owned a site for two years, but never become popular. Today Google income from "clicks" is almost nothing. So I started to redesign the site: more features, a cooler design, and more data. I also bought a better domain name for this site. What you you would suggest   1. Redirect from old domain? (like 30 unique visitors per day from Google search :/ )   2. Start from scratch and forget about the "old" one.  I don't want to be "detected" as duplicate content. But it's possible that my actual site is penalized. I will post my site is allowed in a future edit :)


cannot horizontally center fixed width div in IE

I am creating a template for a website. The example is at Framework Login Page   The main CSS sheet is at: master.css I am trying to center the main parent div. I am using               #body {       width: 100%;       background: url('pathtoimage.png');     }          #inner_body{       width: 800px;       margin: auto;     }

           What could the issue be?


Use rel="nofollow" on internal ads?

I know you're supposed to use rel="nofollow" on outgoing ads, to keep from passing link juice, but what about internal ads? We have a number of links with pictures that I consider as ads to other parts of our site (usually to a sub-domain). Should I rel="nofollow" them? With google's most recent algorithm change this month, I feel like some things have changed.


Are 22 words too many for an h2 tag?

I'm laying out the structure of my page like this:               <hgroup>
Heading One

Tagline
     </hgroup>      And while I don't have a tagline per se, I have a short description about the company that totals up to 22 words. Should I put this in the h2, or should I drop the hgroup altogether and use put the description in a paragraphy? this is all going on in a  by the way.


How to avoid duplicate META and TITLE tag warnings in Google Webmaster Tools for the same URL in lowercase and CamelCase?

looking through Google's Webmaster Tools today I saw a long list of supposedly duplicate `<meta name=description>` / `<title>` tag content with all of them showing a duplicate count of 2. A lot of them show as the conflicting URLs something like the following:               /deutschland/Bayern/Camping-Allweglehen-19062     /deutschland/bayern/camping-allweglehen-19062      The only difference is the case of the first letters of some of the words. I have to admit I was surprised to see that Google treats these as separate URLs. But now that I know it does - what I can I do to clarify that this is the same website? I don't want to use `301` redirects as it would mean overhead for the user and a tiny bit for the server. I feel like I'll have to make sure all URLs that we put on our pages are lowercase so there won't be any reason for any crawler to crawl the same website twice. Is there any other trick / thing I can do to get rid of these duplicate warnings?


Keyword meta tags to work with Google

I'm trying to optimize my website for better search results, I currently have a meta tag created for keywords like so:               <meta name="keywords" content="key1, key2, key3" />      I have waited 30 days and still when I search my keywords, my site does not come up. How should I be writing my keywords for better results? My website is based on WordPress.


Google anonymous sitemap submission

By searching for "How to submit a sitemap to Google" you can find dozens of links, and all of'em truly explain the _how to_ very well. But all of'em start with this first step:   1. **Login to your Google Webmaster Tools**   2. ... My problem is that, we are creating a hosted-CMS solution (something similar to wordpress.com), and we let people assign their domains to their sites. However, we don't want to ask them to create Google Webmaster Tools account, and follow a mid-technical path, to get their sites indexed. Rather, we want to anonymously submit their Sitemaps (like http://domain/sitemap, where domain is a variable) to Google. We found this link, at the end of which, it's explained that you can submit your sitemap to this URL: www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=sitemap_url However, I'm not sure if it's really anonymous or not. Is it a good idea at all or not? Do we have other options to notify Google to index our sites?


How to download /var/log via ftp cpanel

I have a cpanel based server and I want to download /var/log so I can analyze why the server crash yesterday. However, if I login as regular user I can't download the file because it doesn't give me access to root. If I login as root, I can't do that. Is there an easy way in cpanel to download server log?


How to enable use of .htaccess in Apache on Ubuntu?

I'm trying to enable use of _htaccess_ file in Ubuntu 14.04 (Apache 2.4.7). I know that this question has many possible duplicates, but none of them helped me yet. .htaccess: `ErrorDocument 404 /404.html` 000-default.conf               <VirtualHost *:80>     AccessFileName .htaccess          ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost     DocumentRoot /var/www          ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log     CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined          <Directory /var/www/>       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes       AllowOverride All       Order allow,deny       Allow from all     </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      What else is needed?


How to get google and bing to index original image, not thumbnail?

I've read this post Make google index the actual image not the thumbnail but my case is a little different. I have over a thousand images, in many different directories, with many different names, and in most cases the ones with full resolution are the ones indexed by google (bing is even better), but in some cases the thumbnails are the ones indexed, unfortunately. **I need to have 2 separate images** because we add a watermark to all our full-sized images since in the past i caught competitors stealing and using our images of our custom products, therefore, scaling down an image with a watermark would not look good. The images, when clicked on, lead to a page that displays the full image, with product description and not only the image itself. 90% of these pages are indexed by google and bing, and about 60% of the images (but still going up every day). Thumbnails are named asd-asd-asd_small.jpg (example) while full resolution pictures are named asd-asd-asd.jpg. **I useA1 Sitemap Generator for all my sitemaps, including images, but since i'm talking about over a thousand images, is there a practical way, easy to implement that would give priority to the full size images on indexing?**


Delivering a web application to the client?

A company I am working with built a web application that can be useful for many businesses. My question is what is the best way to deliver such an application? **Option 1:** 'Install' it on their website's server by getting their FTP information and giving them the application's files for them to use freely. OR **Option 2:** hosting it on our own websites server and have all businesses that need this service login in order to use it. I have been torn between the two for a long time and would appreciate any advice from someone how has some experience with this kind of problem.


Why does AVG complain with Exploit Blackhat SEO type 1703

I installed "AVG internet security", opened a page in internet explorer, and AVG complains about "Exploit Blackhat SEO (type 1703)" for object name Action sports stock footage with no further details. (Note that I have not written this page. It seems to have been written in the distant past by several different persons.) When I look at the html source code, I do not notice anything unusual. But then again, I do not know what I should look for or change to satisfy AVG. I tried Sucuri SiteCheck with the results               Security report (No threats found):     check       Blacklisted:    No     check   Malware:    No     check   Malicious javascript:       No     check   Malicious iFrames:  No     check   Drive-By Downloads:     No     check       Anomaly detection:      No     check       IE-only attacks:        No     check   Suspicious redirections:        No     check   Spam:   No      The links toward the bottom of the HTML page such as `http://clips.actionsportsstockfootage.com/sdf_clip.php` link to a different server but at the same domain. -- How do I solve the issue? In the meantime, I have sent a report to AVG at their AVG Incorrect page rating report page.


OpenGraph tags and HTML5 validity

I have a HTML5 based page, and I inculded the OpenGraph tags according to it's documentation. Also I checked with Facebook Debug, and it can parse the metadata. But when I use W3C Validator, it reports the OG tags as error: `Attribute content not allowed on element meta at this point.` `<meta property="fb:admins" content="...." />` `Attribute content not allowed on element meta at this point.` `<meta property="og:url" content="http://www....">` They are all in the `<head>`. I would need my page be "valid" HTML5 and OG tags, as well. Could you help me giving a hint how can it be achieved? **UPDATE:** The `name` version _also invalid:_ `<meta name='fb:admins' content=''>`


Function in class PHP

I am new to classes in PHP. I have a function in a class and I am wondering how I can call the function in the class. This is the class: `<?php class dms { public function makedms() { echo 'test'; } } ?>` The `index.php` looks like this: `<?php require_once('_classes/_dms.php'); new dms(); dms(); ?>` I get the error: `Fatal error: Call to undefined function dms() in /home/wdele/domains/hypah.org/public_html/index.php on line 4` What's causing this error?


Website translation check

I hope that it is not so stupid question but is there some service or forum where another users (native speakers) can check and review my translated web site? I don't want to check dozens of pages but only few sentences.


IP, and page-specific redirect?

I'm trying to send a particular IP, that is trying to get one page on my site, to another page, and do this through my .htaccess file. I've seen many general descriptions of how to do it (in many syntactically different ways) but frankly none of them work. I put these command s, of the sort               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^99\.888\.777\.66$     RewriteRule ^/askedforpage\.html /redirecttopage.html [R,NE,NC]       in my _.htaccess_ file ... but these commands simply leave my site non- functional. I'm using Apache 2.2, on a Mac with OS 10.6.8. How do I do this?? * * * Here is my .htaccess file, without the "deny" commands for malicious IPs.               Header set Accept-Ranges none        order allow,deny          allow from all        Redirect permanent xyz.html http://xxyyzz.com/header.htm


Will these type of 403 errors affect my ranking?

Let's say I have a directory that has a 403 forbidden error for all of the content in it, however a few of the images in its subdirectories return a normal 200 status. Will this fact affect my ranking? For example:   * `test.com/system/` returns 403 for all files   * `test.com/system/pie/` returns 403 for all files   * `test.com/system/pie/image.png` does not return 403, and this image is embedded on publicly accessible page This sort of pattern repeats for about 10 different images. This directory is like a secret "system", however all of the content on the main site is still accessible to everyone from the public.


Page size (HTML) is 200KB. Any problems?

I have created a contact form page that is unfortunately kinda big. The HTML size is 200KB. Although I know with everything else considered (images, scripts etc.) most pages are much heavier than this, can I face any issues here?


Page title in Google Analytics "Behavior flow"

Is it possible to display a page title instead of page URL in _Behavior flow_?


Locally hosted site timing out for everyone except me

I’m hosting my own site locally on WAMP and using a DNS from `Noip.com`. I can easily see my site, but if anyone tries to access my site via the link: `http://vrlsr.ddns.net/index.html` They time out - it's the only error they get. I used Charles to diagnose failures but none come through Is Apache the problem? Please note that I'm not an expert! I'm only doing this so I can start getting some feedback from a client.


Does Google penalize you for using an outdated version of Wordpress?

If you are using an outdated version of Wordpress , do you get penalized for this ? In other words, does it matter for seo ? I know that from a security point of view it is always recommend to keep wordpress updated but on a specific site some of the custom plugins i use are not compatible with newer versions and it would break my site.


Anyone still using JavaScript disabled?

Is there anyone left that's not using JavaScript? When designing websites, is it worth to care about that fraction of visitors? At least in Firefox you can't even disable it anymore.


Are there any capacity planning resources for phpBB?

I know that busy phpBB forums can be resource intensive, but haven't run one myself, and can't find any sort of quantification of that. How do I plan hosting needs given an expected load of users/logins/posts/etc? My current setup won't be adequate, but I have no idea how much more I'll need. It seems like this must have been addressed before but any query with the terms 'phpBB hosting' has been SEO'd to death and turns up nothing but ads for hosting services.


Is there any way to redirect one domain to another via DNS settings keeping the path information?

For example, my domain is `example.com` and when someone navigates to `example.com/sample/page.htm`, I want it to redirect to `test.com/sample/page.htm`. I know that this can probably easily be done using a `.htaccess` file or a 404 page. However, I am looking for a solution that doesn't require me to have my DNS provider host any files for me. I want to do this with DNS settings only, e.g.:   * CNAME records   * A records   * 301 forwarding   * (any other DNS settings I'm missing) Is there any way to do this?


Is it still recommended to only use relative font-size for accessibility?

I have read in the past that it is recommended to use only relative sized fonts in web pages of accessibility. Is this still the case? Using Bootsrap from IE7, for example, which uses `body{ font-size: 14px; }` makes changing the text size do nothing. Is this how a user with functional needs would use the page, or would the user use the `Ctrl`+`+` / `Ctrl`+`MouseWheelUp` method which actually increases the web page size, not just the text. After doing some searches online, I cannot find any definitive up to date information. This issues has been raised in the Bootstrap issue tracker, though, but Mark Otto thinks it is not a concern, stating "browsers scale up entire pages these days, so it's not an issue with type scaling or anything." ![IE7 Text Size Switching](http://i.stack.imgur.com/RWRj4.png)


How widely used is VPS hosting for personal sites?

I'm considering a move from my shared hosting setup to a Virtual Private Server. I'm aware of the major benefits and downsides of this idea. I have a few personal sites I would be running. Given the work involved in setting up and running a VPS, is it worthwhile for a few personal sites?


Deciding on a revenue model for a web application

When building a commercial web application, what are the factors that go into the decision of a revenue model? How many users are necessary for an advertising-supported application? What demographic factors of the user base makes them more attractive to advertisers? Conversely, when deciding on a subscription price, what factors go into setting a price. This seems like a decision we would want to get correct!


Things to consider while picking domain name?

We want to buy a domain name for our company. But all of the domain name we've discussed has already taken by some one else. Is it good to use trailing character to existing domain name so we have available domain name to register. E.g for:   * example.com   * example1.com   * myexample.com or using long domain name like:   * companyandproductname.com   * bestproductname.com   * my-product-name.com And also, is there any other thing to consider while picking domain name other than using company name and / or product on domain name? What is the advantage and disadvantage?


Is sqlite3 faster than MySQL on shared hosting?

Can sqlite3 be faster than MySQL on shared hosting and small to average websites (less than 500 visitors a day). I have an account in a popular shared hosting provider and I've noticed that it has become quite slow redering pages. My doubt is that this may happen because the MySQL server is overloaded. Some CMS'es work fine with SQLlite too, so I was wandering if I should use SQLite for the new sites instead of MySQL.


How do I map a customer's domain to a page in my website?

I'm considering starting a website that allows customers to map a domain they own and control, to their page or subdomain in my site. Do I need to have an IP address for each customer domain? Is this something that webhosts will commonly allow me to do?


Wordpress/CMS for small business SEO?

It's oft-heard that Wordpress has top-notch SEO and there are even rumors that Google's algorithms (and other search engines) are designed to specifically favor Wordpress-based sites. If I'm in charge of boosting SEO for a small service business website whose only relevant customer base is in its municipality, should I remake the whole site (presently hand-coded) in Wordpress or some CMS? Do Google and others really favor CMS-based sites when evaluating local business search queries?


List of international top-level domains that allow foreign registrations

Wikipedia has a list of top-level domains but few of their entries specify availability or restrictions, such as having to be a citizen or have a business presence, etc. So, what are some top-level domains with no to little restrictions with regards to who may register? These are domains particularly useful in domain hacks.


How to change URL without affecting SEO

Please note that I have created a forum by installing the phpbb software in bluehost server in a folder named (lets give an example) "examplefolder" and thus the URL of a post is: `www.example.com/examplefolder/viewtopic.php` taking into consideration that this post appeared at first positions of google, bing, etc search enginees (after searching for the topic of this post), could you please let me know if the search engines' position of this post will be changed in case that I will change the name of "examplefolder" to something else.


Use web hosting as a external email server

I have this question is it stupid to use a shared hosting to host my domain for only my email address not for a website.


http-equiv=content-language alternative - the way of specifying document language

Lots of web sites uses following meta tag to specify the default language of the document:               <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="es-ES">      When I go to W3C site and read about HTML language mark up I get this: > Using the meta element to specify the document-wide default language is > obsolete. Consider specifying the language on the root element instead. What is the way of specifying document language now?


How to serve a DNS record for a hosted domain and Minecraft server?

I'm using DreamHost to host the domain craftnetwork.co. The Minecraft Server needs to be hosted on subdomain.craftnetwork.co. Can I setup DNS records to direct users to a website when in a browser and the server IP when in Minecraft?


How can I speed up the download time of a Bootstrap theme'd website?

I realize some of the ways are:   * Use the minified versions of all the `.css` and `.js`   * Load the common library elements (jQuery, etc.) from some common source. Not sure what the source that's most likely to already be in the browser cache is. **Update:** Here's an example. It's a bit slow to download (per Pingdom.com/tools)


Meta descriptions for manual

We have a text heavy, high quality and original content online manual for our software: http://www.scirra.com/manual/1/construct-2 I was about to embark on entering meta descriptions for these pages. However the thought crossed my mind, is it necessary for these pages? Google seems to be quite good at picking relevant snippets out, and I wouldn't want to convolute the process of searching and discovering these pages with meta tags that will be sub par to the snippet Google would have otherwise served. Is purposefully not entering a meta description on these pages a good idea? Or am I being an idiot? They just don't seem necessary for these pages, and also they would be difficult to write for.


Questions about infinite scrolling & SEO

I have a page with a lot of moderate sized images (100's for now), and I am thinking of implementing infinite scroll for users, and have pagination combined with link prev/next so SEO still picks up the later images (this will be hidden by js on document load) I know there are other questions about this, but I have certain questions which are not yet answered:   * For the hiding of the pagination using onload, if I use display:none instead for the pagination, will SEO still pick it up, or should I change display to none through js when onload event?   * If I implement the pagination as www.domain.com/content?page=1, ...page=2, etc, will SEO pick up the GET params and treat them as non-duplicates and crawl them appropriately?   * since this content is continuously being modified, the max # of pages can and will change, therefore do I need to add all the possible page numbers to sitemap.xml or will linking them from the first page be sufficient to be picked up by the crawlers?  Thanks!


Why is there are tilde (~) sign in most university URLs

My university provides a web URL and some hosting space and the URL is like http://homepages.iitb.ac.in/~pritampebam. Almost all universities I've come across seem to use this structure where there is the '~' sign right in front of the username. Other examples. http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/ http://users.design.ucla.edu/~reas/ Why is it so?


Restrict access to IP address range

I’m trying to restrict access to a web resource to the intranet of a company via `.htaccess`. Unfortunately, the approach via `Allow from …` isn’t working for me and and I don’t understand subnets well enough to troubleshoot the issue. My IP address is (replaced the first two blocks for privacy) 1.2.70.59, the netmask is given by `ifconfig` as 0xffff0000, i.e. 255.255.0.0. I’ve used an IP address calculator go get the subnet from this. An answer on Stack Overflow led me to believe that the following should work:               Order deny,allow     Deny from all     Allow from 1.2.0.0/255.255.0.0      Or, using CIDR (only showing the last line):               Allow from 1.2.0.0/16      Neither works. Nor does the following work, as implied by answer on this very site:               Allow from 1.2      In fact, not even the following works:               Allow from 127.0.0.1      But this _does_ work:               Allow from localhost      Although I thought these two to be equivalent. Clearly, I have a gap in my understanding. For completeness, this is the output of `ifconfig | grep inet[^6]`:               inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000      inet 1.2.70.59 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 1.2.255.255      What am I doing wrong?


SSL is not enabled in Heroku

Since Heroku has integrated the `piggybank_ssl` addon by default, trying:               heroku addons:add piggyback_ssl      or               heroku addons:add ssl:piggyback      results in: > ! This add-on is now a standard Heroku platform feature. ! Your apps can > already use piggyback SSL. But, accessing: `mywebsite.herokuapp.com` results in: > SSL is not enabled mywebsite.herokuapp.com does not have SSL enabled. My `production.rb` has:               config.force_ssl = true      What am I missing? **Update** I have read the page SSL on Heroku, but it's obsolete, they suggest to run:               heroku addons:add piggyback_ssl      Which is no longer necessary. SOLVED ! I don't change anything, and now it's working. It seems that it was a heroku problem.


cPanel - Moving mails to another host

I need to transfer about 20 addon domains and their email accounts to a new host, where I already have some sites, mail accounts, databases etc.. For some reason, I think that my best bet is to transfer the mail accounts manually, like copying **etc** and **mail** folders from old to new host via FTP. Now, while this works very well, I have one problem: all transferred mails again have unread flag (like there were never opened). Now my question is: Is there a way to move mail accounts while in same way preserve **_read/unread_** flags? Thanks!


Java based portal framework

We have an application that needs to be built and are looking for some Java based portal framework. In last few days we have gone through over 10 different open source option Liferay, JetSpeed2, GateIn etc. But they are all too complex to be judged so quickly. Can anyone suggest some framework which is ease to use but has the functionality to handle complex situations. Most importantly, the portlets will run Flash/HTML5 content.


1and1: Unable to host an external domain

I'm sorry if this isn't the right place for this question, but I'm presently having difficulties with my hosting provider (1and1). Two weeks ago, two of my clients bought hosting from them on my recommendation, but as it turned out, 1and1 are having severe technical difficulties. Right now non of their hosting packages are able to accept ANY external domains. So either you pay the costs of transferring the registrar of your domain, or you use the ugly 1and1 domain name. Not any good for a hosting company of 1and1's reputation! They have been promising me for two weeks that they're going to fix the problem, but as you have probably guessed by now, that hasn't been the case. I would like to know if a) Anyone else is in the same boat as me, and b) If there are other comparably reputable hosting providers that I should consider moving to instead? Very disappointing! :( Note: This is for 1and1 **in the UK**. I imagine it isn't affecting users in other countries(?) * * * **Clarification** : 1and1 are unable to accept ANY external domains. That means that even if you update your DNS details on your domain, their system cannot be updated to add your external domain to your account.


How to create and submit multiple sitemaps into categories?

I have a questions. I need to know how to create and submit multiple sitemaps into categories? This is for a big online auction site with a lot of products that needs to be indexed.


How to target geographic category keywords when pages are for business names

I am creating a website similar to Yelp where people come and add their businesses. I noticed that many people use search engines this way: _restaurant in new york_ , _auto repair in los angeles_. But the business page in my website should have a `<title>` that is the name of the business, example: _Mitchell's Ice Cream_ or _Luscious Garage_. What should I make to reach all these search engine users?


Getting google to reindex faster

We run a high-traffic site for a large organization and it was compromised through an editor account. The attacker was able to poison the google cache, and the visible result to us is that if you search for us on using Google, the result (and the pages visible through google cache) show us as a drug warehouse. Our site has been completely audited and is 100% clean now, and we have requested that google reindex our site through their webmaster tools. Even though google bots hit our site almost constantly, we have yet to see the google cache page get recycled. Does anyone know anyone know a quicker way to make this happen? The drug-warehouse page is embarassing to us and our organization.


Firefox remembering telephone number as username

I have a registration page which includes all the standard fields e.g. phone no, email etc. The telephone and password are tab adjacent i.e. not physically adjacent but if you are tabbing it goes first name -> surname -> email -> telephone -> password. For some reason is giving users a prompt to remember their user name and password when they register (which is nice) but it is saving the telephone number as the username. Are there rules for helping it decide/stopping it from suggesting people remember the ever so useful telephone number/password combination? Thanks in advance **EDIT:**   * The names on the form elements are "Phone" and "txtpassword".    * I would like it to remember email and password. Is this achievable given the current situation?   * Unfortunately I cannot reorder the form fields. The order is given in the tabbing above.


Enabling SPDY in Firefox 11

I wanted to post this Question and answer it because I didn't know where to post this thread on a Mozilla website. You can now install SPDY on your Apache server with mod_spdy by following these directions. I've done this, and in Chrome I can see the green lightning bolt on my site, just like on Twitter and Google. Yeah! Firefox has an add-on that detects SPDY, but I installed it and still can't see that green lightning bolt. Is there any other way to detect SPDY on Firefox? I'm using FF 11 so that shouldn't be the issue.


Show events AND pageviews in Google Analytics

Each page on my site contains a file, and I have Google Analytics set up to track file download events. I would like to see what fraction of users who visit Page X download Page X's file. I can view number of events by page by clicking on `Content » Events » Pages`. **But I can't figure out how to see both events and pageviews (or visits) at the same time.** Visits and pageviews are not available in the `Secondary dimension` dropdown from the Events list, and Events are not available as a `Secondary dimension` in the regular traffic listing (`Content » Site Content » All Pages`). I want something like this:                  Page                         Pageviews     Events     1. /section/mypage                  1,000        123     2. /category/anotherpage              867         41     3. /about/download                     88          7      Is there a way to get this in Google Analytics?—to view events and pageviews, by page, at the same time?


Hide website data for Chrome and FF addons: IP Whois & Flags Chrome & Norton

I've got this addon and want to hide the information they publish for our website. They show Popularity, IP address info, nameservers, etc. Plus the traffic levels they report, 'popularity' reflects badly on anyone who uses them when traffic levels don't seem high and are not accurate.* It's like a shop displaying a counter of how many customers they get. Bad form to provide such information to the public. How does one hide this invasion of privacy?   * By not accurate, I mean they're subjective


HTTPS iframe inside an HTTPS page

I'm developing a Wifi Homepage, which comes by default for all the users of the hotspot. In order to redirect them properly to my homepage, I'm using an SSL certificate, and the page is hosted locally. Now I need to embed in that page an external page, which is also HTTPS. Would that create any issue for the users (25k a day)?


Add comments to 'static' pages without Javascript so they're Google-able?

Are there any often mentioned products or services for adding end user comments to pages that aren't served up by a CMS or blog engine? Assuming the host can execute PHP, Python, ASP.NET classic, or other very common programming languages. The solution must:   * Allow end users to **leave a comment on a web page** , with an easy login process for the user.   * Store and emit the comments in such a way that they can **be crawled by search engines, and are indexed as part of the parent page**. (The only way I know of would be to in-line the comments as plain HTML in the parent page, using PHP / SSI / etc. AFAIK this rules out all Javascript-based solutions such as Facebook's Comments Box?)   * Have very robust anti-spam capabilities, preferably with some sort of heuristics and crowd-sourced blacklists (like Akismet).   * Have an administration backend with spam management and batch approve capabilities. This is related to but still different from "Adding comments to static pages?". There is also the more recent "Facebook comment and other commenting system for SEO". It would be ideal if the solution could easily be integrated in the HTML using just a Javascript, an IFRAME, or something similar. But a light-weight server module written in PHP or another common web development language is also good.


SEO in the United Kingdom from a US Point of View

For a website with an international target audience, how do I indicate to search engines and others that my website is also geared towards the European market?   * What's the difference between US SEO and worldwide SEO?


What do I do for small site that is getting linked to by spammy sites?

From this thread I learned that starting with Panda, Google may actually be penalizing weak sites that are being linked to by spammy sites. Does this still hold true? I have a small site that has less than 20 links to it, and at least a quarter of them (according to Alexa) are coming from places like list- of-domains.org and stuffgate....sites designed to help people buy up websites that are named closely to yours (for later blackmail tactics, I suppose). I am working on a link-building campaign but these things take time obviously and I fear that links like these may be hurting me. Follow-up question: 'Worthless' links (what I'd call links coming from sites that are not spammy but certainly not relevant to your site)...from my limited understanding, they don't hurt your ranking, tho they don't help. Is this still true as of the Panda update?


Robots denied by domain is still listed in search results

So, on all of our sites that are not search facing we've applied a robots.txt file (per How to exclude a website from real-time Google search results ?, or any other similar question). However, if search terms are specific enough, the domain itself can be found via results. An example of this can be found here. As you can see from the link, the domain itself can be found (content is not cached, but domain is listed). Additionally, performing a search with `site:hyundaidigitalmarketing.com` should 3 results. Checking backlinks provides a few as well, but I obviously cannot prevent them (linking is allowed in context) or control how these are handled (can't tell the host to add nofollow, noindex). Now, I know this is a severe edge case, however my companies clients are doing just this. In fact, our domains are pretty good, so even seemingly arbitrary searches are turning up relevant results. Now, I have to write up a report on how/why this is happening. So, I turn to the wonderful Stack Exchange network to help me either understand what I am missing or understand what is happening. Links to industry articles are extremely helpful but, anything you can give is obviously greatful. I do intend to offer bounties the best I can to make this an answer to turn to in the future. **Edit:** I've opened a bounty on this question in hopes of getting some more responses on it. I've also provided the results of my own research below.


How to force search engines not to crawl my site, is there any special mark on them?

I want to block search engines from crawling my websites. Atleast for Msn, Yahoo, Google, and Yandex. i dont really trust robot.txt. Because they can simply ignore it and continue crawling. I would use rails as my web framework. How can i do it, atleast to decrease the posibility destructive action they do by simply crawling a specific page. Is there any special mark or identifier on them while they are crawling a site ? This question marked as duplicate with Robots denied by domain is still listed in search results Wich is i guess a mistake. Above questions is asking specifically why. I dont really care why google crawling my site. I just want to block it. Show 404 status.


Drupal node access for anonymous users

I've never used Drupal before so this may be something that can easily be remedied, and that would be awesome. My problem is that a block, containing node information can't be viewed by anonymous users (unregisterd/not logged in), gives a "You are not authorized to access this content." message, but shows up for logged in users. The nodes that the block contains are events, so the block shows events for the next week. I've checked the users access settings but can't find anything that could possibly remedy this. I'm using drupal core 6.26, Event 6.x-2.x-dev, Event views 6.x-2.4 If anyone has any information, or solutions, I'd greatly appreciate it.


Impact of using lazy loading on SEO

If I used lazy loading with Ajax, then am I right in saying that Google will not see the content in the lazy load? An example is if I have a part of my site featuring products towards the bottom of my homepage, but this section doesn't load until the user scrolls to it. Therefore in the source code of the page this would not be displayed nor would it be displayed in Google's cache. So is there a trade off with lazy loading? The site will download faster, but loses some optimization? Do you just need to be careful what to choose in the loading?


How can I prevent my mail from being classified as spam?

My company sometimes send mail, but it usually goes to "spam" folder in gmail. The email includes only a few sentences, without any links or images. Just plain text. How can I fix this? (Notice that I send mail with fake sender address, could that be main reason?).


Random behavior sending mails to Gmail

I am sick to warn website users (new and existing) who have Gmail accounts "Check your spam folder". I suffer this as a webmaster and as a user. For one website: The Port25 Solutions, Inc. team > ## Summary of Results > > SPF check: pass   >  DomainKeys check: neutral   >  DKIM check: pass   >  Sender-ID check: pass   >  SpamAssassin check: ham SpamAssassin check details: > SpamAssassin v3.3.1 (2010-03-16) > > Result: ham (-2.0 points, 5.0 required) > > pts - rule - name - description > >   * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] >   * 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message >   * -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from > author's domain >   * 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily > valid >   * -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature > Example 1) I have a website with fail2ban intalled. It sends a report to `smth@gmail.com` each time a firewall rule is broken. Plain text the messages only differs on offender's IP and some related data. Most of these mails go to Inbox but I found some gmail spam folder. Example 2) A Gmail user had registered in my system. He got the confirmation mail and following ones (purchases, whatever) but one day he recives a notice in his spam folder. I know that if the user answers just one of any of the emails he recives then Gmail "understands" my server is dependable and Gmail does not deliver my messages to spam folder. Maybe I should ask "Please answer this email to confirm registration" to accomplish that. But the problem is if this first mail is considered as spam. I've read a lot of advices about this issue and implemented lot of things. For some sites I had implemented MX in Google mail servers but it is not free anymore and people don't want to pay hundreds dollars on it. What do you suggest? # This is the body of Example 2 banned email (subject: _[Fail2Ban] SSH: banned 42.96.162.225) headers are always the same_ Hi, The IP 42.96.162.225 has just been banned by Fail2Ban after 5 attempts against SSH. Here are more information about 42.96.162.225: [Querying whois.arin.net] [Redirected to whois.apnic.net] [Querying whois.apnic.net] [whois.apnic.net] % [whois.apnic.net node-3] % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html inetnum: 42.96.128.0 - 42.96.255.255 netname: ALIBABA-BJ-NET descr: Alibaba (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. descr: 9F,Tower A Winterless center,NO.1 West Da Wang Lu, descr: Chaoyang District,Beijing country: CN admin-c: PW270-AP tech-c: PW270-AP status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE mnt-by: MAINT-CNNIC-AP mnt-lower: MAINT-CNNIC-AP mnt-irt: IRT-CNNIC-CN changed: hm-changed@apnic.net 20110311 source: APNIC person: Peter Wang nic-hdl: PW270-AP e-mail: huijun.wanghj@alibaba-inc.com address: No.99 HuaXing Rd. Hangzhou,310099 phone: +86-571-85022088 phone: +86-010-65985220 fax-no: +86-010-65985401 country: CN changed: ipas@cnnic.net.cn 20080115 mnt-by: MAINT-CNNIC-AP source: APNIC Regards, Fail2Ban Of course the message varies according to whois IP


Prevent mail flagged as spam when switching mail servers (new SPF records)?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? For our business, we send out a significant amount of newsletter alerts to customers that sign up for it on our website. We used to send this mail directly from our web server via PHP. But because the web server limited us to the number of emails we could send per day, we purchased a VM server at a different host (that doesn't throttle email) and we are going to use that account solely for sending out the emails. Anyways, now that the SPF records are going to be different from what they used to be and the source mail server is different, what steps need to be taken to prevent these emails being flagged as spam? I know in Gmail, it's pretty smart about determining if the person actually sending the email is sending it from the server it expects (for flagging Phishing emails, etc). We don't want that to happen to our emails. Just sending a couple test emails out, Gmail's shows the SPF record saying:               Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com:     XXX.XXX.23.176 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record     for domain of root@mail.newserver.com) smtp.mail=root@mail.newserver.com      So is there anything we need to do with regards to SPF records as we move forward?


Visitors are getting phishing warnings and my emails are being delivered to spam/junk boxes

I run a forum and I have had reports of some members receiving phishing warnings when they attempt to register, and emails being sent out (e.g. to confirm accounts) are being delivered to junkboxes. This is obviously quite a serious issue as it means many would-be members are not able to validate their accounts and properly join. Is there any way I can address this? My site is obviously not a phishing scam or anything untoward like that.


Hotmail — avoid sign up confirmation / lost password being marked as spam

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? When sending legit large volume Emails from our IP (e.g. for sign up confirmation or Lost password) it gets marked as Junk in Hotmail. In the past, there was the Sender ID SPF Record Submission Form, where you could put yourself on the radar of Microsoft. See this old discussion. However, as of April 2012 this has been abandoned. Any hints what to do now? What is a good way to contact the Hotmail team?