Migrate a ASP.NET web service from http to https. How to create a SSL certificate that works in test environment on IIS 7.5?

I have a question regarding a web service, `http` and `https`. First of all, there is a quite similar question with an accepted answer on StackOverflow. Like the questioner on SO, I have a simple working `http://` web service. Now, my company wants to go to `https://` for security reasons. The accepted answer on SO states that > "You will need to change the config file in any client applications that > consume your service to the new URL. > > Your web service application should not require any changes. IIS will handle > the transport encryption with the SSL certificate." I am very new to SSL (and `https`) an want to verify this in my isolated test environment (Windows Server 2008 R2 + IIS 7.5 + WLAN) before I deploy anything to production. My server application is a **ASP.NET web service** , my consumers are both **Android** and **iOS** clients.I need to create a "valid" test certificate that works with both server and clients. I have tried to "Create Self-Signed Certificate" in IIS and bind it to the current site but I have not got it to work. How can I create a "valid" test certificate for my isolated experimental environment?


How to make "crawl-delay" works for all "user-agent" in robots.txt or in .htaccess?

I have this line: > Crawl-delay: 50 in the _robots.txt_ file at the root of my website. But it seems that it is not working at all. I get 400 visits from the Yandex user agent in a few minutes. I don't want to disable the user agent but to make it to respect the delay value (50 in my situation). How to make "crawl-delay" works for all "user-agent" in _robots.txt_? I also read somewhere that this can be done in _.htaccess_ , is this correct?


Where can I share my Online Project to get some feedback?

Currently I'am developing a free online seo check tool script. But I need some feedback, I have seen sourceforge, but sourceforge is more for software and the site looks a little bit old to me. I would like to have my own project page, where I can post the project url and all the information. (like a forum maybe?) I know SitePoint.


Benchmark for website speed optimization

I working on website speed optimization. I mostly used 3 tools for analyzing speed of optimization. Speed analyzing Tools:   * Google pagespeed tool   * Yslow Firefox extenstion   * Web Page Performance Test I am measuring performance using above tool and benchmark result as below like before and after. **Before optimization :**   * Google PageSpeed Insights score : 53/100   * Web Page Performance Test : 55/100 (First View : 10.710s, Repeat view : 6.387s )   * Yahoo Overall performance score : 68 **Stage 1 After optimization :**   * Google PageSpeed Insights score : 88/100   * Web Page Performance Test : 88/100 (First View : 6.733s, Repeat view : 1.908s )   * Yahoo Overall performance score : 80 **My question is ?**   * Am i doing correct way ?   * What is the best way of benchmark for speed optimization ?   * Is there any standard ?   * Is there any much better tool for analyzing speed ?


Analytics and AdSense Integration

I tried to link my Analytics and AdSense accounts. But there exist a problem. Analytics redirects me to AdSense account and AdSense is redirects me to Analytics. And this is unlimited loop. On this AdSense screen I couldn't find link account button. What is the problem? Do you have any idea? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UE4cl.png)


How can I recover my site's search engine ranking after another site copied my content?

A few days ago I noticed that I lost half the traffic for my website overnight. Investigation showed that someone had made a perfect clone of my website (more info here), and that Google in its infinite wisdom had decided that my site is no longer relevant and replaced my site with the clone site on the first page of its search results! I filed a DCMA complaint, and the offending site was delisted from search results a few days later. However, I'm no longer on the front page of Google. In fact, for my main keywords, my main site is no longer in the search results at all. One of my "long tail" pages shows up on the 2nd or 3rd page, but the main homepage no longer shows up. Will this be resolved in time, or is there something else I need to do about it? EDIT: In response to the query of "maybe you just lost ranking for some other reason": I figured out that the clone is implemented as a a proxy so I can see its traffic as well. My site's traffic dropped the exact same day the clone started getting traffic, i.e. when it started showing up in Google's search results. The question of "Why was this site even listed by Google" is a very valid question, and it would seem that Google is not so clever as they say they are, but that seems off-topic. At the moment I'm just trying to get my old position back.


Using AdSense to show ads to logged-in users

I know that you can grant authorization permissions to Google AdSense so that it can 'log in' and see what other logged in users can see (e.g. in a private forum), so that the ads it displays are better targetted. Extending this principle further: I am making a site which will show completely different content for each individual user (i.e. _not_ 'common' content like a forum in which everybody sees essentially the same thing). You could think of this content as similar to the way each Facebook user has a different news feed, but it is the 'same' page. Complicating things further, the URLs for this site will be simple, e.g. '/home' and '/somepage', and will _not_ usually include unique identifiers to differentiate between users (e.g. '/home?user=32i42'). **My questions are:**   * Is creating an account purely for AdSense to log in to the site with worth it in this case, seeing as it will be seeing it's own 'personalized' version and not any other user's?   * More importantly: is that against the Google AdSense Terms of Service? (I can't seem to figure that one out)   * How would you go about this problem?


Azure Publishing

I have recently begun using Azure for hosting our site. I have the publish from Visual Studio 2010 setup and working. However, it seems to take down the instances and reinitialize. The problem is that it takes up to 20 minutes to publish even the smallest of changes and the server settings are reverted. Maybe I am misunderstanding how to do this efficiently. What I want is a way to publish just application updates via VS2010. Thanks


What emails should I create for a web services company?

I am building a software and web services company and want to create different email account to use them in contacting my team, customers "which i do for them websites for example", users of the company website, jobs, .... I want to know what are emails you recommend to create and the use of each. _note: I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, so if not, please help me where to ask such questions._


Facebook Like button warning, but prevents sharing

I added a FB Like button to my Wordpress template, and when I click Like, I receive an error, which pops up and says: There was an error liking the page. If you are the page owner, please try running your page through the linter on the Facebook devsite (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/) and fixing any errors. The Lint Checker (now) gives no Error or Warnings, after I removed a duplicate og:description tag. Why is it not working?


Is adsense banning websites that have chat?

Based on this discussion it seems that Chat sites are no longer allowed to host adsense adverts. I have a website that is predominantly content, but chat is still a very important part of my site. I'd love to be able to keep it and still earn money. **QUESTIONS**   * Can anyone confirm that adsense is not allowed on sites that have chat?    * If it is partly true, what is compliant with the adsense TOS and what is not? For instance, is having a chat page with no advertising on that chat page ok?   * What adsense alternatives are there that **allow a website to advertise and to have chat scripts**?


Back link not showing

For this website http://www.it.uu.se/workshop/infinity2010/, there is a link from here http://atva10.comp.nus.edu.sg/assocEvents.html but when searching in Google.               link:http://www.it.uu.se/workshop/infinity2010/      It does not show up that page, what's the problem? (The link has been there at least 2 years)


Why do porn websites link to my site?

I have a webiste about Bolivia and theirs destinations. This project is hosted on GoDaddy and have been modified by many differents teams... I do not understand why sometimes the most relevant querries are 'perfectgirls.net' and other words relative to porn ? Why some porn website have some links to my site ? I just present beautifull places, nothing about porn.. I think that this is automatic bot crawlink the web, isn t it ?


What options are there for integrating with payment gateways?

It seems that there are only two types of payment gateway service out there at the moment; Either that the entire cart logic is handled offsite (with something like Paypal's Standard option) or the other option being that you need to go through the certification for handling credit card numbers and doing pretty much everything yourself. Ideally, for the project I'm working on, I'm after a bit of middle ground such that I can handle the cart on-site, and only pass over to a payment gateway (with an order amount, billing & delivery details, and order ref) for them to handle the card details, before passing back. I'm sure that I've used e-commerce sites using this pattern before, but I cannot find any payment providers out there that offer this sort of option, so are there any? The only over requirement we have at present is that it must accept orders in Sterling.


Suggestions on Website Development

I am a novice programmer in Website development. Just to get some experience, I am interested to try the following things:   * Have my own personal website   * Build some Ruby on Rails project for Web Development   * Run some PHP scripts as well   * Would want to have Subversion installed on the Server   * Would like to install either a Continuous Integration Server (CruiseControl.Net or CruiseControl.rb)   * Create a blog in my website (I want to get some hands on experience on this, and thus would not want to go for WordPress, or any CMSLite ready made Blog installers)   * In order to create a blog, I would probably need database instances running (SQL Server or any other)   * In future, I may even want to create a forum type of thing for my website, where users can read and post stuff in it.   * If the above thing works good, I might want to try building a small Social-Networking site   * Would also want to have a email service (Heard that Gmail can be integrated to our Website, not sure how it works) I have never done any web development before, except for creating some trivial HTML/CSS pages. In order to achieve the above tasks, please advise me on the following:   * Does a .com domain name makes more sense? (I was trying for a name, but the .com version of it was already taken. I only have `myname.me` version of it). Is it okay to go for domain.me? Does it make any difference?   * Which Web Hosting do you want me to go for? I was amazed to see several types of services:     * Regular Web hosting     * Reseller Hosting     * VPS Hosting     * Hosting on the cloud (Such as Amazon EC2) Now, I am tempted to go for either VPS hosting or Amazon EC2. Who would not want to have a dedicated processor and memory? (But, I am not sure, if I really need it for my usage) But, this comes for some price! I am ready to pay 15-20$ per month for this. If there is any web hosting provider who can provide me with all the above mentioned support for less than 10$, I am ready to sacrifice having a VPS.   * I would be glad if I get SSH feature. I do not need more than 1-2 GB RAM and 5-10 GB Secondary Storage. Dual core processor is okay too. Please help me with this. Also, please let me know if there are any services that are cheap and reliable for me to do the above things. Thanks in advance.


How do I add a favicon to my website?

What markup is the modern standard for adding a favicon to my site? What is the standard image format and size?


Multi language switch links translated or in current language?

Should I do:   A: translate the language links in the current language: (if I am on the English version)               English |      Italian |      French      B: the links in the native languages:               English |      Italiano |      Français      From a user perspective option B is obvious, but what about SEO?


Can you host Magento on Heroku?

I have Magento running on Heroku but the DB is on Dreamhost (because Heroku doesn't host mySQL). I get a Database connection error from Magento whenever I try to connect. Anyone ever done this?


How to start using webserver for business

As a software developer I want to start my own business and I have a question for web services. Through years I was using a lot of shared hosting services, but now I need some detailed info as I haven't thought about the web server configuration so far because everything was set for me already. As a fresh starter what do I exactly need to host my custumers web sites? More then one website...   Do I need dedicated server? Can you give me some links?   How many domains can I have on my server?   Can I create emails from cpanels normally for each customer?   Can I install e-commerce services on my server? What do I need for that?   How can I buy domains as a company for my customers? Do you recommend my own server or the rented one for the start? Any information is appreciated Thank you


Server responding to request differnetly

![Local Host](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WBLa6.png) I believe as above hosted locally , the long green delay is actually the home page of the website. May i know what causes those delay? Magento is a very CPU intense monster, is it due to the fact that its waiting for the server to respond due to lack of cpu power? I did load test on different website before to study how server works, as i'm new to server hosting and optimizing. I personally use amazon and i understand amazon has their limit, i tested my server stress test and it would react in 0.5 seconds with 30 concurrent users, Micro instance, apache, varnish , compressed js and img, images from S3(CDN) and the load time only shoots up from 0.5 seconds to 1min ! at 31st concurrent user. Why does the shoot happens? It feels like it cannot take users when its stressed. Where as the other site that i tested , the image above is one example , no matter how stress it is , from 20-50+ users, its load time is 1min(from overseas connection) locally i tested its 30 seconds. I did check on other website too, some are hosted on share hosting, and they are able to take stress and function when its overloaded. It just react in 1min, for my case, amazon, it can even hit 3-4 mins when its stressed. May i know how do i have this "Maxinum load time no matter how stress it is, not NO Matter but to a larger extend" What should i be looking at. *PS if i increase my Micro instance to Small instance, it can take only an additional 10 concurrent users, which isnt a big difference but when it come to cost, its a hell lots of a difference. Any other knowledge would be totally appreciative, i'm here to learn and to help in future. Thank you for this platform. Regards, Jonathan


Are MX records independent of A records?

I recently switched a domain's email service to Google. The only records I changed in the name server was the MX records, pointing to Google. To my surprise, emails sent to and from Google Apps work just fine. So is there a point in changing the A, CNAME, and other records in the name server for a domain if the only use of the domain is email?


What's the difference between Second Page and Next Page Path?

What's the difference between Second Page and Next Page Path for a Landing Page? **Edit1** I'm not able to upload attachments yet so I uploaded two screenshots here:   ![pic](http://i.stack.imgur.com/8Qhlg.png) ![pic](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rwtQB.png) I go to "Site Content->Landing Page" and select "Second Page" and "Next Page Path" as secondary dimension respectively.   I'm a little confused about the results... You can see that we get a lot of results with "Second Page" as secondary dimension, but only one result using "Next Page Path" as secondary dimension.   So what's the difference between the two? What I actually want to get is: I give a customized visit flow/path to GA (PageA->PageB->PageC), and GA tells me how many visitors follow this route.


Set of icons available to download freely

I need to use icons in my website. It has facility to add, edit, search, review etc. So I need to use Icons for the same. I tried googling but not getting it as expected. Can someone help me to get a set of Icon (free, not paid) for all basic functionality for dynamic website.


Is it ok to include sitemap URL in sitemap.xml

Does it have sense to include sitemap URL into sitemap? It is pointing to itself and in SEO perspective it's no use because if crawler is on our sitemap he already knows it, no need to inform it, right?               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>     <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">              <url>             <loc>http://example.com/sitemap.xml</loc>             <lastmod>2014-03-22</lastmod>         </url>     </urlset>


What are the chances a domain doesn't get renewed?

All registrars have the "backorder" thing, so they will register the domain for you if the owner doesn't renew. I was wondering how many of the total registered domains get renewed? Are there some statistics about this?


Is it a bad idea to register domains

...with the same registrar? Should I register each domain with a different registrar? Like `domain.com` on godaddy, `domain.org` on name.com etc. So in case one registrar steals your domain, you still have the other domains


Can SSL Wildcards have multiple/nested levels of wildcard?

I know that an SSL wildcard certificate (`*.example.org`) can be used to support many names under the domain (`a.example.org`, `b.example.org`, `c.example.org`). I also know that the * is only good for matching a single level of name. That is, `*.example.org` will not work on `a.b.example.org`. What if I used a certificate with the name _._.example.org? I'd like to build a certificate with the following name configuration:               CN=example.org     subjectAltName=DNS:example.org, DNS:*.example.org, DNS:*.*.example.org, DNS:*.*.*.example.org      I've tried building a few like this as self-signed certificates, but I've not had good results. For example, chrome tells me "Server's certificate does not match the URL." Is it possible to have nested wildcards in a certificate, or do the popular browsers not support this? **edit** I believe it's possible to build a cert like this: I've done so with OpenSSL. It just looks like browsers understand it. I was hoping for confirmation of that, or if I'm lucky, a "here's how you do it."


How to display an image in google search result

I managed to do it with my blog like this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/cSXoi.png) by using google+ (found it somewhere on the web):               <link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/115170983146246266025/"/>      **UPDATE:** This is the way to display the "author" image, but what I want to do is display something like "product image", for example, for a food-blog, I'd like each recipe (post) to display the dish-image next to the search result. I've got the feeling that there's a more generic way of doing it which doesn't rely on having a Google+ account. Any ideas ? **UPDATE 2:** I added an example to what I meant in the answers section.


Google does not find/ignore alternate hreflang content

I have a problem with Google indexing our site in different languages using the alternate hreflang. It's a forum and every thread is translated in the background and based on the language, the user choose in his options, the original text is replaced by the one in the right language. So every User can write in his own language and the other users can still read it (somehow - I know it's not the best solution, but it was not my idea :D ) So - now we have the forum in many languages and of course we want the users form every language to find us via google. So i created some php-files, which get the right language by php and not by javascript. So the head in the original file looks like this:               <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="myurl/printthread.php?t=2967&lang=de"/>     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="myurl/printthread.php?t=2967&lang=en"/>     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="myurl/printthread.php?t=2967&lang=fr"/>     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="myurl/printthread.php?t=2967&lang=es"/>      On this pages the language is shown in the right language based on the url not on the users choice so that google can index it. But you guess it - For some reason it does not work. Google only saves the content from the original file - not the alternate files for the different languages :( You have any idea?


use subdomain on different host

I want to accomplish something that I thought was simple. My wish is as follows: I have a domainname with hosting, a WordPress multisite (with subfolder setup) installed and running: gangleri.nl. I have another domain _at another host and without hosting_ : monas.nl I created a subdomain on gangleri.nl: monas.gangleri.nl and the domain redirects to that subdomain. Now what I want is to have monas.nl act like a website, not a website in a subdomain. I would like to have post urls as in monas.nl/posttitle. I first thought to do this with the DNS settings of Monas.nl. I now have an URL forward, CURL is not what I want and I did not manage to get A-records or CNAMEs to work. I tried using the htaccess file of the WP installation in monas.gangleri.nl. I tried 301, rewrite and whatnot, but also without success. Meanwhile, I have been reading so much that I no longer have a clue what to do. A-record doesn't sound probable, since I have no IP for the subdomain, so an A-record would point to gangleri.nl rather than using the subdomain. Also I have no idea if I should do something in the DNS settings of gangleri.nl or monas.nl, both, one of them and something somewhere else. I have the idea that I've tried everything, but the more I try and read about it, the less I can get my head around. People talking about A-records to subdomains while I can only use IPs, CNAME settings that my host doesn't support or something. Could somebody tell me if what I want is possible and if so, take me by the hand and guide me through it?


View traffic source on Google Analytics?

I noticed there was a sudden spike in traffic in my Google Analytics. Is there a way to possibly identify where the traffic was from? It only happened on a specific date though.


Maximum file size for iFrame in IE7

I've got a "super secure" javascript downloader* that I wrote, and it usually works alright. But I noticed, while trying to download a 90 meg file with it on a client's machine that on IE7, it's getting hung up about 1/3rd of the way through. I've never tried to send a file that large through the iFrame and it works fine in other browsers. Is there a size restriction on files that IE7 can read in an iFrame? * It's really just a PHP line that sets header("location: http://someplace/downloadbigthing.exe"); after it does some logging and verification.


CSS sprite, what html tag to use

I am thinking to switch to CSS Sprite for my images. The main problem is I need something compatible with alt attribute. (Seo-purpouse) What Can I use? The first think I thought was to use a standard `<img src="1x1.gif" class="mysprite">` The problem is I can't use that because that would like suspicous by google because of this: `<img src="1x1.gif" class="mysprite" alt="my keyword1">` `<img src="1x1.gif" class="mysprite" alt="my keyword2">` `<img src="1x1.gif" class="mysprite" alt="my keyword3">` (the same image "1x1.gif" with different alt text) How we can solve this?


301 redirect and page ranking

Say I have a site 123example.com, with roughly 100 backlinks, which has increased from a google page 27 to page 12 for my keywords over the last month and continues toward the top 10... I have another domain 123.com, which has roughly 30 backlinks, that just points to the 1st domain. I would like to use 123.com as the primary domain and use a 301 redirect on 123example.com. Would I have to start my link building back over again for 123.com or will the backlinks and PR with the 301 redirect of 123example.com transfer over to the new domain?


SEO impact of links without href

I have some links on my site that are used only with JavaScript, hence they don't need a `href` attribute. I'm doing so because there's no need to have the URL displayed in the browser. Is there any SEO impact of doing this? I can also use `href="#"`, but I'm not sure it's better. Or should I use another tag entirely? What are the best practices?


Hot to get website/product reviews reflected in Google's search results using review-aggregate format

I am managing a website called Rent A Boat Amsterdam. We have a system that gathers reviews from people that have used our services and that publishes these customer reviews making them available for all website visitors. When these customer reviews are published we have placed them within the appropriate tags according to the guidelines set by Google, which you can find here. An example looks like this:

Boatname

10
9-Jun-2010

Great canal Cruise!

First name Last name

       We have implemented these tags a couple of months ago, but there are no visible results in the Google SERP's. This whilst I had expected to find the reviews / ratings displayed similar to: ![Google example of enhanced snippet](http://i.stack.imgur.com/aUQuC.png) Is anyone familiar with this topic and able to help me find the answer to the question why the review-aggregate format doesn't seem to have the desired effect?


CSS Intelligent Merger

I am looking for a tool very similar to http://www.tothepc.com/archives/combine-merge-multiple-css-files/ However, given this example: test1.css:               #admin {         background: #c9d2dc;         border-color: #ccc     }      test2.css:               #admin {         background: #222;         border-bottom: 1px solid #444;         border-left: 1px solid #444;         padding: 2px;         position: fixed;         right: 0px;         top: 0px;         width: 120px;         z-index: 2     }      It will only allow you to select one or the other. I want to merge them, making it:               #admin {         background: #c9d2dc;         border-color: #ccc         border-bottom: 1px solid #444;         border-left: 1px solid #444;         padding: 2px;         position: fixed;         right: 0px;         top: 0px;         width: 120px;         z-index: 2     }


how long after a 301 redirect can i cancel my old site

I have .com website which I don't want to use anymore (for a variety of reasons). I want to redirect the entire site to a .net domain with a 301 redirect. After how long can I cancel my .com domain entirely? What will happen to the linkjuice added by 3rd party websites which point to the .com domain? Will this be transferred to the .net domain?


Hidden but useful features of Google Analytics

What are the most useful features of Google Analytics that are not known to common users? I know this is a typical question for many categories in stackexchange. I think Google Analytics deserves that question. There are so many things to learn about it. It would be very useful for many people if you can share your favorite hidden gems of Google Analytics.


Serving images from different domain

Google audit: > Serve static content from a cookieless domain (15) 2.65KB of cookies were > sent with the following static resources. Serve these static resources from > a domain that does not set cookies: If my domain is widgets.com, should I set up a img.widgets.com that servers these resources? How beneficial is this? **Edit** I setup img.widgets.com to serve images from, and changed all images to this URL. But I still get that message?


Online E-Commerce Solutions - What To Look For?

In Today's market many shopping carts and ecommerce solutions are available on the web. What are the essential features someone looking to start an online store should look for before choosing software?


Small, fast shopping cart setup

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Online E-Commerce Solutions - What To Look For? I'm looking for an open source shopping cart solution that's simple and easy to setup. The requirements are:   * Quick setup for someone familiar with *nix webservers.   * Checkout via PayPal (other payment methods not needed).   * Customers should not have to create an account to make a purchase.   * At least a minimal level of inventory control.   * Ability to print/export a list of orders in compact form. Any recommendations for something I should try? Ability to get it up and working quickly is really my priority right now; if it's not ideal, it can be replaced (or, as I'm looking for open source, I can adapt it to fit the requirements better) at a later time. **Edit:** Really what I'm looking for is simplicity. This will be for a small local business, and the orders will consist of 1-10 items that are being delivered by a driver who needs a simple list of what each customer received when making delivery. Looking like a giant online computer/electronics/etc. store is definitely not a desirable quality. The simpler the interface presented to customers (who are used to purchasing through dumb web forms and paying COD), the better.


Firefox doesn't render one character with imported font (Chrome does it well)

I've run into an issue with Firefox. Check out the example: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/BuLhF. Basically, with the font _Poiret One_ , embedded with Google fonts, the letter `ō` doesn't render properly in Firefox but in Chrome it is ok. Edit: Screenshot: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B58rXlxeBUsIMXo1MnJrRFczbFk/edit?usp=sharing. Moreover, on Virtual Machine Ubuntu, Firefox is displaying it ok. The host Windows 7 has this problem.


Google adwords API - credit card safety question

Google is asking me to fax credit card xerox in order to activate adwords API in MCC. 1) Are there alternatives to this - is there a 3rd party provider who will give me this service without me sending them the credit card info? 2) How secure is it to send my credit card fax via some online fax service? 3) Do you think they will reject the application if I hide my CVV number in the fax? Any other thoughts appreciated.


New Wordpress posts generate 404 error

I had a working installation of WordPress, and I recently encountered an issue where when I tried to login to the back-end, the browser would redirect to the login URL of the previous domain WordPress was installed on. I fixed this by reinstalling WordPress, and I can now login to the backend, but any new posts I make, or old posts I have generate 404 errors. Additionally, if I try to navigate to any category page, I again receive a 404 error. I have looked at the wp_posts table of my database, and the GUID field each contains the correct domain name and URL structure. What should I be checking here? Site in question.


Image appears differently in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome

![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/X72nb.png) This is a screenshot of the same image file on my website (viewing the image itself), in Firefox on the left, Safari in the middle and Chrome on the right. It appears as if Chrome has a more blue color in the image. Why is this?   * (Chrome Mac 28.0.1500.95)   * (Firefox 23.0 Mac)   * (Safari Version 5.1.10 (6534.59.10) Mac)


How do I get a production website to load assets from local web server?

I usually set up a local environment with the website running on my machine when I'm going to develop new functionality with JavaScript. The same goes for updating stylesheets. When there's no easy way getting the production site to run locally, I would still prefer editing files locally and "preview" them against the live site. Something like this:   * A local web server that serves the assets (css and js)   * Some way to make the live website load assets from _my local_ web server. (Greasemonkey, proxy)   * Livereload that watches my local files and refreshes the live site on change. I need feedback on the seconds step. Greasemonkey is only for Firefox, that makes it hard to test cross browser functionality. A proxy is a lot of work... :) Have anyone tried something similar, maybe theres a smart tool for this?


Is there a penalty in link building?

If I have a satellite site with content constantly renewed, and within each new content, there is a link to a target URL, for passing link juice. Will I get a penalty from Google for that?


Wordpress easiest install?

What is the easiest way to download/install wordpress? I'm having problems getting it. Also does wordpress cost anything to use?


No description for any page on the website is available in Google despite robots.txt allowing crawling

I seem to have the weirdest issue with Search Engine Optimization, and I asked the IT folks at my university, I asked people on Joomla forums and I am trying to sort this issue out using Google Webmaster Tools for more than 2 months to little avail. I want to know if I have some blatantly wrong configuration somewhere that is causing search engines to be unable to index this site. I noticed a similar issue with another website I searched for online (ECEGSA - The University of British Columbia at gsa.ece.ubc.ca), making me believe this might be a concern that people might be looking an answer for. Here are the details: The website in question is: http://gsa.ece.umd.edu/. It runs using Joomla 2.5.x (latest). The site was up since around mid December of 2013, and I noticed right from the get go that the site was not being indexed correctly on Google. Specifically I see the following message when I search for the website on Google:               A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more.      The thing is in December till around March I used the default Joomla robots.txt file which is:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /administrator/     Disallow: /cache/     Disallow: /cli/     Disallow: /components/     Disallow: /images/     Disallow: /includes/     Disallow: /installation/     Disallow: /language/     Disallow: /libraries/     Disallow: /logs/     Disallow: /media/     Disallow: /modules/     Disallow: /plugins/     Disallow: /templates/     Disallow: /tmp/      Nothing there should stop Google from searching my website. And even more confusingly, when I go to Google Webmaster tools, under "Blocked URLs" tab, when I try many of the links on the site, they are all shown up as "Allowed". I then tried adding a sitemap, putting it in the robots.txt file. That did not help. Same exact search result, same behavior in the "Blocked URLs" tab on the webmaster tools. Now additionally, the "sitemaps" tab says for several links an error saying "URL is robotted out". I tried those exact links in the "Blocked URLs" and they are allowed! I then tried deleting the robots.txt file. No use. Same exact problem. Here is an example screenshot from Google's Webmaster Tools: ![Index Status for my website showing no crawl errors and no blocked URLs, in direct contradiction to what the sitemap tab says and what the search result says! FRUSTRATION!](http://i.stack.imgur.com/c9tn9.png) At this point I cannot give a rational explanation to why this is happening and neither can anyone in the IT department here. No one on Joomla forums can seem to understand what is going on. Based on what I explained, does it seem that I have somehow set a setting in the robots.txt or in .htaccess or somewhere else, incorrectly?


How to fix Google Apps for Business reverification failures?

We have one member of the company using Google Apps for Business so he can use the Google SMTP server with domain email. We verified him as an owner of the domain by uploading an HTML file to the root of the website. We clicked the provided link and were told that he was successfully verified. But now, on the verification page inside Webmaster tools. I see a long list of failed verification attempts. The method column says either "Google Analytics" or "Meta tag". When we log into Google Apps for Business, it says "Domain is verified. Mail set up is pending." We aren't going to set up the email because we aren't going to move all users to Google Apps. Is there somewhere in Google Apps to specify what verification method to use? Or is Google going to keep trying every single day to re-verify by the other methods?


Button to +1 both website and Google Plus page?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Connecting +1s on a Google+ Business Page and a webpage People can +1 both our website (ie. +1ing the URL of its home page) and our Google Plus business page. It would be desirable to link these +1s, so that +1ing our website added to the number of +1s for our Google Plus page, and vice versa. Is this possible? Is there any way to add a button to our website (possibly using some hand-written javascript) which +1s both? # Related questions A similar question's been asked at Connecting +1s on a Google+ Business Page and a webpage and I see others - like Google Plus button versus page's pluses - are being closed as 'exact duplicates' of this. However please note that the accepted answer to the former question appears to be incorrect, as I point out in my comments on it. Hence why I'm creating this new question to give this issue a chance of achieving an appropriate answer.


Older post not indexed, new post indexed right away?

I have a post I created yesterday that was indexed rather quickly by Google. However, I have two other post that I created within the past 4 days that are not indexed and I cannot find a trace of them within the SERPs. Any idea what my cause this to happen?


mod_rewrite: rewriting http://$SOMETHING.app.example.com/ to http://www.example.com/app/$SOMETHING

I'm trying to make `http://$SOMETHING.app.example.com/` transparently rewrite to `http://www.example.com/app/$SOMETHING`. The config below is giving me a 404 and I'm not sure why.               ServerName www.example.com     ServerAlias *.app.example.com          RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.*).app.example.com     RewriteRule ^/(.*) /app/%1/$1      I'm missing something obvious, what is it? Edit: let me make this a little clearer. If I browse to `http://www.example.com/app/abc`, I get a page. If I browse to `http://abc.app.example.com/` I expect to see the same page, but I'm getting a 404 instead. Edit2: The DNS record for `*.app.example.com` is already in place and I can see my request in the access log, with the 404 status. Edit3: After enabling the mod_rewrite log file, it appears that the post- rewrite path is "$DOCROOT/app/abc" which fails because it doesn't exist. This is a Python/WSGI application, I think that has something to do with my problem. For the moment it looks like we'll just use a regular redirect instead.


Canonical'd pages on subdomain showing up in Google search results

You might have heard that we launched Facebook Stack Overflow yesterday. As part of this, we modified our code to put `<meta rel="canonical" ...` tags on every question and user on the facebook.stackoverflow.com domain that points to "vanilla" Stack Overflow. For example: iAd error "Ad inventory unavailable" on facebook.stackoverflow.com   &   iAd error "Ad inventory unavailable" on stackoverflow.com On facebook.stackoverflow the html contains the meta tag               <link rel="canonical" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3720459/iad-error-ad-inventory-unavailable">      The intent there is to tell Google "these are exactly the same page, impart all page rank to Stack Overflow's copy and prefer it in search results". This seems like the point of rel="canonical". > A canonical page is the preferred version of a set of pages with highly > similar content. > > It's common for a site to have several pages listing the same set of > products. For example, one page might display products sorted in > alphabetical order, while other pages display the same products listed by > price or by rating. For example: > > If Google knows that these pages have the same content, we may index only > one version for our search results. Our algorithms select the page we think > best answers the user's query. Now, however, users can specify a canonical > page to search engines by adding a element with the attribute > rel="canonical" to the section of the non-canonical version of the page. > Adding this link and attribute lets site owners identify sets of identical > content and suggest to Google: **"Of all these pages with identical content, > this page is the most useful. Please prioritize it in search results."** However, we're seeing Facebook Stack Overflow results and sometimes they even outrank vanilla Stack Overflow (an example). Maybe this is something to do with having an independent sitemap.xml for facebook.stackoverflow.com (sort of a shot in the dark)? ![example Google search result](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Alm3H.png) So, what are we doing wrong here? We're kind of hoping to keep searches of the form `site:facebook.stackoverflow.com` working, but giving those up is totally acceptable if a total `rel="noindex"` is required.


Google Webmaster Tools - crawl errors

I know that I can "clear" the crawl errors for Not Found pages, but I did completely remove the pages that I'm getting the errors for (no 301s, those pages do not exist anywhere anymore). Should I do anything about it, or will they be "fixed" automatically after some period of time?


SiteAdvisor advice?

At the time I submitted my site for testing with McAfee's Site Advisor as I noticed my site received a bad review as a spam/scam site. See here .   1. From a development perspective, how important are things like this? I know from a user perspective, I stay away from the sites that have a bad rap in Site Advisor.   2. The bad review was not even related to my site content, but was given due to my registrar(think it's Enom). Now I have to question if anyone knows if it's normal for sites to be rated according to the registrar and not content?   3. This question is not so important but it interests me that after a year, my reply to my review has been ignored. I have to ask if it's even worth worrying anymore about this?


Will loading meta tags dynamically from a database hurt the site?

I have a website (ASP.NET MVC) which has its contents mainly in Sinhala language. So the search engines will list my site only when someone searches for Sinhala words. But,I need to list my site's pages in search results when searched with appropriate English words too. So I'm planning to save HTML meta tags (in English) in database and load them dynamically with appropriate page contents. Will loading the meta tags dynamically affect the site adversely?


Domain name record with a /somethinghere.aspx

I'm not very savvy with domain names. Basically I have a dedicated Windows hosting server for a web application that is located at a location like this: 123.234.345.456/script.aspx I need to map a domain name to this location. Don't ask why I can't just map it straight to the ip address - I didn't create the application and the index page isn't in use. I just have to map it to the specific script. How would I do this using A records? (or MX records, or CNAME or SPF - those are the options I have). I don't have any nameservers. Thanks Tom


SEO Question - allintitle with or without quotes

I'm trying to learn more about implementing basic SEO strategies and have been spending a lot of time refining my keywords using Google Analytics combined with manually checking them using Google's allintitle operator. However, I'm unclear on whether I should be using quotes with my allintitles. Example: allintitle: seo tips and tricks for beginners 191 results allintitle: "seo tips and tricks for beginners" 70 results My thought is that it would be more accurate to use it without quotes because that way you get a more well rounded idea of all those you are competing with. So, my question is does Google give more weight to exact matches in the title tag or does that not really matter? If someone searched for: seo tips and tricks for beginners, would they be more likely to see the ones that have that exact phrase in their title tag or does that not have any impact?


webmaster tools - Network Unreachable

webmaster tools for my site displays that robots.txt unreachable and for all links in sitemap it says network unreachable. sitemap.xml unreachable. These appear in crawl stats page. I discussed with the support team of my hosting and they said... > Hi, > > I have verified apache logs, i cannot see any issues on your > website/webserver/ > > Possible issues. > >   1. There may the routing issue from the googles server to our server. > >   2. When a google bots hits goes high the IP will be automatically > blacklisted by our firewall to avoid server loads & downtimes. > > > > As we donot have access to their services, We cannot able to give details of > their details/logs etc. The sitemaps link shows an exclamation mark which means the file was not reachable. What could be the problem and how to solve it?


What should happen when content is deleted?

I am wondering about the standard handling of deleted data links from an application and an SEO perspective. I have an application where users can create content but they can also delete content. What is the best way to handle incoming traffic to links that have since been deleted? Should I redirect them somewhere with a 301 or should I throw a different error and just leave the page in tact with an error message?


What are good options for hosting video that give you privacy and control (not youtube or vimeo)?

I have used http://www.longtailvideo.com/bits-on-the- run,http://www.influxis.com/, wistia for video hosting. Wistia didn't allow the finer control that we wanted to have. Influxis doesn't have the features that Bits on the Run has but platform usage for BOTR gets expensive. I was thinking of moving the videos to Amazon CDN. What are your thoughts and experiences with video hosting and are there any recommendations? Videos will be privately streamed to 100's of doctors offices.


is it true that CloudFlare really doesn't affect dynamic content?

I've been reading the CloudFlare FAQ, I understand that is acts as a reverse proxy and **all** requests to your domain will go through CloudFlare. They say in the FAQ that it won't slow down dynamic content, is this even possible?   because all dynamic content requested will be requested from their server, than their server needs to request it from your server and than send it to the client.   That's at least they I understand it. It seems to me like this would slow down dynamic content. So is it true? CloudFlare doesn't affect dynamic content?


Implications of SEO for single page websites

I built a server application that handles bot requests for my website, which was built using AngularJS. It works great, but I'm not entirely sure if it's valid in terms of Google's policy for SEO. In short, the server hits the API that powers the site and generates a static html, which it then serves to any bots that access the site. The static html file or 'snapshot' displays the same information as it's sibling page which is rendered on the browser, but I'd like to just display a slightly modified version for the bots to read. Is this considered a violation of Google's SEO policy? EDIT: I've already seen this : "Single-page" JS websites and SEO but the top answerer indicates that he is not sure of the implications that may occur if you adopt this model.


Do we still need to avoid using frame/iframe for good SEO?

I thought frame and iframe are something bad for SEO. Today I was doing some search and **searching for "numismatica" in Google.it** and the 3rd site is **www.lemonete.com** (ranks high also in Google.com). **It's all made with frames.** A competitor site (www.nummus.com) that is all done with no frames ranks much lower when searching for the same word: "numismatica" So can we use frame, don't they hit SEO ranking anymore? Any explanation (possibly simple) would be appreciated also about the fact the 2nd site ranks much lower. :) * * * UPDATE: thanks for all the replies , I noticed now I wrote down the wrong url, it was not lemonete.it (which is just a spam site) but lemonete.com.


SEO for Backlinks Using JavaScript on a Third-Party site

We are currently implementing a widget that companies can put on their website. We give the publisher a script tag with the source pointing to a javascript file hosted on a CDN with the code they need to load our widget. However, we are not currently getting any backlinks from websites that have our widget on it. We understand that Google is having a hard time indexing the links because it is injected on the client side with JavaScript. We're looking for SEO friendly ways to get credit for our backlinks without injecting them server side. We've come across a few options, but there is little information on a clear answer:   * Including an html anchor link in the snippet of code we ask publishers to put on their website. However, we wouldn't want the link to be visible to the users, so we'd need to hide it in a SEO friendly way.   * Using a no script tag that includes identical information as the script tag (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66353?hl=en) will not work because the information inside the script tag is just pulling a file. Can we use a no script tag with different information (e.g. a link back to our site)? Are there any other possibilities? Will either of these options work?


What's the best way to create a widget for blogs?

I'd like to let bloggers to embed my widget, but there is a problem: If I create a JS widget, or an iframe, I will not get any benefits from SEO. So, there is a smart way to let easly embed a widget and leverage SEO? My widget should just retrieve my RSS FEED and shows thumbnail, title, and link to my website


I have many backlink from other sites too one page of my site with hidden iframe. Has a positive or negative impact?

am sorry for my bad english. i have a site for download free website templates. i create a simple html file in my site and put my histats & google analitic code on that. then put a hidden iframe to this page in the free templates like this :(To increase the number of visitors to my site)               <IFRAME style="display:none;" SRC="http://www.domain.com/df/sdff.html" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1></IFRAME>      now after two years i have about 60000 daily visitors just to this one page from many of sites who using my free templates. please answer me step by step 1- is this backling The negative or positive effect for my site ranking & seo ? 2- who to i can delet this page from my site No further negative impact to my site ? 3- who to i can reject this backlink from my server ? because if this page will be delet all of the back link redirect to 404 page & this page in my site is large & The server puts a lot of pressure. please help me. thanks


Do iFrames hurt SEO - looking for clarification...

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do we still need to avoid using frame/iframe for good SEO? I know this question if floating around the internet all over the place, and generally the answer is "yes" - but most of these posts are so outdated, and it is hard to get a realistic answer. So here's my question: It is generally considered that you should not use iFrames because google cannot read the content in the frame. But by the very nature of an iFrame you must link to the content being displayed, so wouldn't google just simply follow this link in your code to that page? Also if you are using navigation to change the page in an iframe, these nav buttons link to that page, why can't google follow that? And on top of that including a Sitemap, and footer links, should also provide adequate links to follow. I understand that using php includes is considered a better way to go, but I am not sure you could limit a large page to a small area (on a parent page) with a scroll bar like you can using a frame. Am I right? wrong? totally crazy? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.


web widget and SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How good is it for SEO if you have a widget that lives on other sites? I'm designing a voting widget that other people can put on their websites, and the widget will have links to my site (partly for functionality and partly for SEO). I'd like to design the widget such that my main website, gets the SEO benefits, and I'm not sure which techniques for designing a widget would accomplish that. Here is what I am thinking:   * Creating a widget defined by `<div>` tags that people would embed in their web page -- This seems certain to give my site the SEO benefits, but it seems like it might be more work for the person using the widget to get it to work right and look nice.   * Using an iframe -- I think that the iframe link would get the SEO benefit and not my website, which would be linked to from the contents of the iframe.   * Google Gadget -- I don't know how this works yet. What would be the best way to design a web widget to maximize the SEO benefits for my website?


How good is it for SEO if you have a widget that lives on other sites?

I made a widget that would ideally live on other sites. Here is an example: http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/widget.php?type=hike&hike_id=108&width=500&height=500 I guess since the widget would link back to me, it would be an SEO boost for my site. Is that correct? Or would it be just an SEO boost for that particular URL? If it is just an SEO boost for the particular URL, it does me little good since that page does not link to any of my other pages. Am I thinking about this correctly? How are these things typically handled so that there is a benefit to my site's SEO?


SEO guidelines to allow users to embed the page in their websites like youtube..etc

In my web app, I want to allow user to embed the content in their websites (as in youtube, twitter, facebook...etc). I see two approaches for generating code:   1. using IFrame   2. load the content into a using jquery or other JavaScript  But both are not SEO friendly. Is there any guidelines/resources which should be followed for good SEO and performance in this case?


Can your embeded code on other sites increase seo rank?

I'm working on a video hosting website and I'm wondering how my embeded code would affect my seo rank youtube and almost all, major video hosting websites are useing iframe as their embedded code, some of them are using "player" sub domain so, I thought it will be a good practice using player subdomain as things may change in the future.               <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//player.mywebsite.com/embed/Bp222aodrVg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>      In my case player.mywebsite.com is actually an CNAME(alias) for mywebsite.com. will player.mywebsite.com effect the rank of mywebsite.com?


SEO linkbacks from iframe widget

We're building a story player for kids. Here a user can embed any of our stories in his website/ blog using our embeded widget tool. Essentially this is just an iframe that can be embedded anywhere. Now, some of our friends have posted about his and included this story in their blogs, bur I don't see any linkbacks. Does google crawl content inside iframes? Does the parent page get any SEO value from these widgets? I'm totally new to SEO. Can someone please help me with this?


backlinks from hidden iframe to one page of my site.Has a positive or negative effect on my site seo?

i have more than 60000 backlink too one page of my site because i put a hidden iframe in my free products. like this:               <IFRAME style="display:none;" SRC="http://www.domain.com/df/sdff.html" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1></IFRAME>      this backlinks Has positive or negative impact on my site ranking & seo ?


Registering domain during Christmas holidays

One of the domain names I tried to register previously has been blocked by a domain grabber two days prior to my own attempt. That was about 1 year ago. The attempt to buy the domain from that person failed due to a totally exaggerated price. So I dropped the issue and watched the domain (offered at sedo.com). As expected there were no more offers, the domain was not sold. Now I learn from the whois database that the registration of that domain name ends on 25 Dec 2012 (Christmas holiday). This raises two questions for me, I fail to find reliable answers on the internet. So maybe someone experienced here can drop a statement or a hint:   1. Is it reasonable that the domain name in question really will be free again when that date mentioned in the whois database up to when the domain is registered has passed? I certainly know that the registration can be prolonged, that is not what I mean. I expect (hope) that that domain grabber does _not_ extend the registration, since it costs money and effort and he failed to sell the domain. Provided this is the case and the domain registration is not prolonged, is that date mentioned reliable? Or might it just be some 'default' date?   2. I would like to _try_ to register that domain name as soon as it is unregistered. Since that domain grabber registered that domain only two days before my own registration attempt I would like to prevent such annoying interference next time. So I ask myself: is it possible to register a domain name on a holiday? I mean not to send an email to my provider to do so on that day or before, but to actually have to process taking place as not to wait for 1-2 days after the unregistration? My own provider which I am very happy with does not offer such service on a holiday (which is perfectly understandable). They are 'still checking' if they can offer something automatic. I researched and did not find an answer to the question if that is possible _at all_. Is an automatic registration attempt on a holiday possible? Where can I do that? Is that reliable?


Wamp local host defaults to IIS 7

I have disabled IIS7 in my machine. installed WAMP server. Stopped skype, antivirus which used port 80. When i ran Wamp server, phpmyadmin is working great and when i click on localhost it is showing Default IIS7 page. Can anyone please help me out , how can i avoid this and get wamp localhost.


Best process for upgrading a live server

I just recently started at a new company, and their live server has PHP v5.2.6 (yes, circa 2008). A site I recently designed for them actually wouldn't work on it because PHP is so old, so I've now been tasked with upgrading the server. I'm thinking the best process is:   1. Copying over all of our live sites to my personal server   2. Testing our sites on my personal server with the newest versions of all of our software   3. Making the versions on my server live (so that there are no interruptions in web access)   4. Upgrading to the newest versions of all of our software on our live server   5. Moving all of our sites back to our live server   6. Making the sites on our live server live again Does anybody see any holes in this plan?


HTTPS connections for Revive (formely Openx)

I have installed Revive Adserver 3.0.2 (formely Openx Adserver) and everything works fine. But, only if my website its accessed using standard conexion (http). If my website its accessed usin https connection no banner are served by Revive. No error, no logs for Apache or Revive for any sort of error. I've tried everyting I know to find the problem, but with no luck.


Services to monitor and report if a web site goes down?

Are there any services that will monitor a web site and report if it goes down, or experiences unreasonable response time? Which are reputable and recommended? How does the service notify you when your site is having problems?


Desktop Software to monitor online status of web site and web-based application

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Services to monitor and report if a web site goes down? I'm basically looking for a desktop-based software which can monitor my company's website and the web application's online availability. I know there are few online applications like Uptime Robot which does the same work but I have been asked to find a desktop based software which can monitor running in system tray and notify any down-time. A free software would be great. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!


Acquiring domain name but from Japanese registrar

How do I acquire a domain belongs to a Japanese registrar? Registrant detail is under privacy protection service.


How to test the speed of a page that is guarded behind login page?

For public page, I can use pingdom.com to calculate the response time/uptime of a page over a certain period of time. However, pingdom cannot time the response time of a webpage guarded behind a login page. For example, pingdom cannot check the response time for my Gmail inbox, as I would need to supply my gmail username and password to pingdom if I want that. Is there anyway I can get the webpage loading time for the webpage that requires a username/password pair?


Does Google Microdata have to be visible to the visitor to be displayed in Google search results?

Does Google Microdata for rich snippets have to be visible to the visitor to be displayed in search results? I want to add the rich snippet to my page, but I don't want it in the format that is required. So I thought I could add it as a hidden div, but I'm not sure if that will work.

<asp:Literal ID="ltTitle" runat="server" />

<asp:Literal ID="ltMetadescription" runat="server" />

         <asp:Literal ID="ltAddress" runat="server" />         <asp:Literal ID="ltZipcode" runat="server" />          <asp:Literal ID="ltCity" runat="server" />         <asp:Literal ID="ltProvince" runat="server" />          <asp:Literal ID="ltCountry" runat="server" />

      Thanks!


Adding custom fonts to Tumblr

I'd like my tumblr blog to display a custom font, and to do so, I have to add the font directory to my blog by adding the URI (e.g url('../font/fontawesome- webfont.svg#FontAwesomeRegular'). If Tumblr hosts my blog, and I don't own any other web properties to host the font directory, where can I place the font directory so that I can link to it from my Tumblr blog? Or, is this not possible?


Ajax mixed with Server Side results for SEO purposes

Here is the issue. We are using a third party service to index our products and return results based on query parameters that we pass to the third party services server. I'm using Magento's framework. Here is how it works: I place a curl request to the third parties server with the various query parameters taken from both the request and pre-defined variables(filter,sort,etc) passed through a particular pages layout update. The response is turned into an array and a collection is queried from our database based on the SKU's that the third party supplied through the curl request and they are displayed in their own div. Secondly we get results from their service through their javascript api. At the callback of the results being returned I hide the divs that display the results that are generated server side. As a result , if javascript is disabled .. and more importantly , if you are a search spider coming to the site, you will still see results. My question is: Are there any problems with this model? Could we have any seo penalties as a result? Any other suggestions?


Should meta descriptions be unique for each page?

Specifically, I'm wondering about pages that have a purpose that is sort of removed from the main site. For example, a privacy policy page - would you duplicate the description of the main page or is it best left alone?


Security considerations for my first eStore

I have a website through which I am going to sell few products. It is hosted on a simple shared-hosting and does not have SSL. On the products page, each product has a **Buy Now** button created from my _PayPal_ Merchant account. _PayPal_ recommends to use it's **Button Factory** to create secure buttons and save it inside _PayPal_ itself. I have followed the same advice and the code of any button is secure and does not disclose any information on either a product or it's price. When the user clicks on a **Buy Now** button, he/she is taken to _PayPal_ site where a page is opened in SSL for the user to fill in the credit card and shipping details. After a successful transaction, the control is passed back to my site. I want to know whether there is still any chance when security could be compromised.


Which is the best web usability book for a non experienced webmaster?

I need an easy to read web usability book for my web programming students. Which one do you consider is the best? I have heard good things about "Don't make me think" from Steve Krug, but I need some others to propose to them. Thanks a lot in advance.


Google Analytics and direct access

Does Google analytics regards remote access resources as direct access? For example: Suppose: mysite.com and anothersite.com mysite.com has an image found at http://mysite.com/img/vip.jpg anothersite.com at some page of it like http://anothersite.com/photos.html included vip.jpg in its source in image tag:               <img src="http://mysite.com/img/vip.jpg" />      So does Analytics regard loading this image when a visitor vists http://anothersite.com/photos.html to be a direct access for mysite.com?


Traffic vs. click-through rate?

In theory, shouldn't CTR and organic traffic be closely (if not almost exactly) correlated?


I want to be a freelance web designer. What other up to date technologies/skills would you add to this list?

Technologies I need to know: HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, jQuery, CSSLESS, ASP.NET, SQL, WordPress, PHP Skills needed: media querys/responsive design, browser compatability, graphic design, user interface design, typography, accessability


Advertising Query on Website

There is a site: www.freewebsitereport.org which reports services focused on estimating website approximate advertising revenue. But sometimes when I enter any website for its info, it shows ESTIMATED AD REVENUE: some value, even though when I open that site, I find no ads on it. Are there some other ways for advertisement? Eg. check out: www.thefancy.com


Amazon RDS And EC2 On Two Different Region. How Much performance Loss?

if for an application, amazon ec2 instance and amazon RDS instance be on two different Avalability Zone/Region, how much performance degradation are expected?


What does GA returning visitors calculation mean?

I'm a bit confused as to what 'returning visitors' mean in Google Analytics. If a user visited my site a year ago, and now returning, will he be considered a returning visitor? Is there any way to specify a time-frame, and calculate stuff like 'visitors that come at least twice a month'?


CreativeCommons licence

I want to use some pictures that are published unter the CC Attribution 2.0 Generic licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The licence says that I have to provide a link to this licence and that I must give appropriate credit. But where and how should I provide this things on my website? Do you have experience with this kind of "problem"?


Why shouldn't I use Amazon S3 for hosting a static webpage

I remember reading somewhere that there was a serious pitfall to using Amazon S3 for hosting a static website. I forgot what it was though. To me, S3 seems like a perfect option. Super fast, super scalable, and pay as you go. What are the negatives of using S3 to host a static website?


Blocking all search engines except the big ones

I would like to somehow be able to block all search engines except Google, Yahoo & Bing (and their related sites like Google Images) from crawling my site as they consume a lot of server and bandwidth but don't bring any traffic. Is this easily done or difficult? It would be good if someone maintained a list of small search engines that could be pasted into a robots.txt file to block them. Also, I realize I cannot block crawlers that ignore the robots.txt or sites from surreptitiously scraping and crawling, but that is not what I want. I just want to block all the Altavistas, Hotbots, Lycos (do these even still exist) and the university experiment crawlers from wasting my time.


Handling pagination, sorting and results per page with SEO-friendly URLs

We have an e-shop which has pagination, sorting, and a 'results per page' limit option. What is the most SEO-friendly approach to structure my URL's? My first thought was: `http://www.example.com/category/filter/page:1/sort:price-asc/limit:20` which is pretty ugly. And although I could force the robots to index the pages without sorting and limit options, my analytics won't be very clear. The other issue is that I used colons, which I read is not good to do. Is there a standard/better structure? Is it true that colons are bad to use? Should I try a more traditional structure like: `http://www.example.com/category/filter?page=1&sort=price-asc&limit=20`


Should I use 'robots.txt' or 'sitemap.xml' to get dynamically created files indexed in search engines?

I've structure my video site like this:               / (root)      index.html     -/videos        -/video-id1  (dynamically generated subdirectory when user uploads a video)             /index.html  (dynamically generated file when user uploads a video)      The subdirectories and files in them are created dynamically each time a user uploads a video. I thought using a `sitemap.xml` would be a good choice to get those files indexed in search engines because using PHP I can edit the sitemap dynamically after each page is created. But this is quite hard to do (since it's an XML document). So I thought of using a `robots.txt` instead of a sitemap to get them indexed, but would that be helpful at all for this? In other words, I'm trying figure out how I can submit dynamically created subdirectories and files to search engines? Using Stack Exchange as another example, how do questions like this one get listed in search engines every time a user asks a questions? I think they use `sitemap.xml` for every question, as can be seen here.


How to detect search engine bots reliably within asp.net website?

What is the best way to detect bot generated activity (clicks/page visits) etc on a asp.net website? We have a website where we track leads generated to external websites, we track the IP of the user that generates the lead however we are seeing a lot of leads generated by Google and other search bots. What is the best way to filter this activity. I have heard of testing user agent strings and filtering based on know IP addresses, both available as data dumps from various sources, I am not sure which is the best one to use. Thank you.


Any recommendation for hosting provider for hosting Wordpress CMS website (not just a blog)?

I want to host a Wordpress CMS based website. Any recommendations for a easy and reliable hosting provider. I have heard about lots of issues when hosting wordpress with my current host. This is based on Wordpress version 3.0. Thank you.


Custom short URLs

I'm creating a WordPress site for a client and he mentioned that he would like his own custom URL shortening when sharing to Twitter. How do I go about setting up one of these? If I had to guess, I would guess that it's a separate domain that redirects to the actual site. If that's the case, then how do I get the URL to redirect to the specific post and not just to the homepage of the site?


If a page takes too long to load, after how long will a user give up and re-load or go elsewhere?

If a page takes too long to load, after how long - generally - will a user give up and re-load or go elsewhere? What studies have been done that measured page load time and user satisfaction or abandonment?


Google, Amazon, PayPal, roll your own, Shopping Cart/Checkout option that doesn't put off potential customers?

Google, Amazon, PayPal, roll your own. We have a custom coded online store with custom shopping carts that is using Amazon for the checkout process. When the customer 'checks out' of our site, they are sent to Amazon where the items are added to an Amazon cart. We have seen abandoned shopping carts full of items and are concerned that it is partially caused by people seeing the Amazon name and going there directly. We are in the process of standing up another site with a custom shopping cart that will take payments directly. Has anyone already gone through this type of iterative testing that can share experiences?


Are Meta tags useful for SEO?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which meta tags are not worth the effort? Reading a Search Results with this or a similar phrased question can lead to reading a lot of conflicting answers. Are there any meta tags that matter in SEO? From what I have read I do know that meta keywords are no longer used (or so little it is not worth using them) and don't worry with using them. Meta Description tags are not used for page ranking but can effect click through rates so should be used but be less than 160 characters. I know the following meta tags exist:   * author - the author's name and possibly email address   * robots - to allow or disallow indexing by robots   * copyright - the copyright date of the page How much do these meta tags matter and are there others that are new (including ones that may not be used by all but might be used in the future or are used by only one of the big players like Google or Bing) meta tags that should be included? Note: Even if a meta tag doesn't matter in SEO _but_ helps with click through rates similar to the descript tag does then feel free to include it with your answer.


Social connection requests sent to company mails, how to accept/handle them?

We keep getting requests from customers who want to link to us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+. Even if we have fan/follow pages (they could just become fans/followers of them), most customers sends the connection requests using their accounts directly to our company mails, let's say for instance to _info@mycompany.com_ , _support@mycompany.com_ (which are NOT the same mails we have used to create our accounts/pages on social networks), some are even sending connection requests to our fax mail ( _fax800@mycompany.com_ ) Basically we go on receiving the typical messages from Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ saying:   * _customer1@yahoo.com_ is still waiting that you subscribe to Twitter _info@mycompany.com_   * _customer2@gmail.com_ wants to remain in contact with you _support@mycompany.com_ on LinkedIn   * and so on... I would like not to waste all these connection requests coming from customers, **moreover not replying (or not accepting the connection) might even seem sort of rude to our customers**. How could we accept (or handle) these request? **Should i create a FB/LinkedIn/Twitter profile for each company mail _info@mycompany.com_ , _support@mycompany.com_ , _sales@mycomapny.com_? But it seems odd to me!**


Wordpress layout and font changes between www.example.com/blog and example.com/blog

A WordPress installation using `http://www.example.com/blog` shows a wrong font (and due to that a wrong layout) whereas using `http://example.com/blog` shows the correct font and layout. This happens on Firefox and IE9. Chrome and IE8 do not behave like this. I'm at a total loss about the possible causes for this, could you enlighten me?


How to align images left or right using semantically named classes?

I want to align images in a text. Some pictures should be on the right side and some other on the left side. I can achieve this by adding `class="right"` or `class="left"` to the `img` element. But these classnames are presentational, not semantic. Any ideas how to align images using semantically named classes?


Putting a website in a directory above the public_html,Can search engines find it?,Is this website crawled by search engines?,What is the solution?

I have a Linux web host and I have added some other domains beside the main domains,as add-ons domains. I have created a directory beyond the main public_html directory, for each of them,and all of thier contents are in those directories,you can open the websites,by typing their URL in browser,but nearly more than two month after the creation of the websites; after searching their URL in Google,nothing is showed up in the search results,for example if you search the "yahoo.com" phrase in google,the number one result would be the http://yahoo.com result,but I assume the search engines could not crawl a website in a directory beyond the public_html,is this true? what is the solution? Please note that I am not talking about Google specifically,I am asking about all of the Bots on the web. and about the directory,I meant for example in the website1,website2,website3 directories.                  /website1        /website2        /website3        /mail        /logs        /includes        /public_html            /images            /admin            /users


Any success with asp.net and Less/Sass

I wanted to dive into learning some asp.net with C# and I wanted to know if anyone has had **success** with using Less or Sass? All I can find search wise is little bits of info and some suggestions with a ton of issues. I'd really like to find something **solid** on a successful site that has implemented Sass or Less, documentation, or a site that has a list of full issues and suggestions. I have:   * Google searched "asp.net and Less   * Google searched "asp.net and Sass"   * "asp.net successful sites with Sass"   * "asp.net successful sites with Less"


301 Redirects in a WordPress site: What will Google Analytics report?

Scenario: user goes to Google and performs a search - one of my old pages shows in the results (a page I have just created a 301 quick redirect for using an app within WordPress) - they click on my result and are redirected to the new page. Question: will this user show-up in Google Analytics as a direct visitor? If not, how would they show as far as their traffic source?


How do I prevent subdomain finders finding subdomains on my server?

How do I prevent the following website and similar tools finding subdomains of domains in my server? https://pentest-tools.com/reconnaissance/find-subdomains-of-domain


CNAME | A-Record | MX Record | Problems

I have a domain (e.g. domain1.com) and I only want to CNAME re-point the A-Record to domain2.com CNAME re-pointing will affect both A-Record and MX-Record. I do not want to affect the MX record, but I need CNAME re-pointing because I want all the viewed website pages to be domain1.com sub-pages, (not domain2.com sub-pages). How can I do this?


Requesting advice for accepting large file uploads

I asked this question over at StackExchange but was advised to try here... I'm looking at building a web app that includes a file upload element. I'd like users to be able to upload files of any type and of fairly large size (say, up to 100MB). This will be a publicly accessible site, so security is obviously very important. I've done a decent amount of googling in search of answers, but it's difficult when I don't really know exactly what I'm searching for. My experience is mainly with PHP, but I realise that PHP is not considered to be the best when it comes to file uploading, so I'm happy to look at other languages if necessary. Although, if a decent solution using PHP can be acheived, that would be preferable. As I have no experience with this kind of project, I'm also fairly in the dark on what kind of server setup is required for such an app. I have braistormed a few ideas, but am willing to budge on them if unreasonable:   * I'd like to use Amazon S3 to store the files if possible (to reduce the load on the server)   * I'd like to be able to rename the files after upload   * I'm considering Uploadify (uploadify.com) for the client side Basically, imagine I was looking to build a file-sending app like wetransfer.com or yousendit.com and you'll get the general idea. I'm familiar with all the usual PHP file upload issues (checking mime-types, upload_max_filesize, memory_limit, etc, etc) covered by 99% of posts on the internet on this topic, but obviously this project goes a fair bit beyond your average, run-of-the-mill avatar upload script. I know this is a massive topic and I'm obviously not expecting anyone to present me with a magic solution, but basically I'm looking for some pointers on where to start. Can anyone recommend any good books, articles or websites where I can gain a better understanding of the requirements of the task? Covering everything from the programming to the server requirements? Even if it's just a list of keywords or phrases that I should be googling.


What's a free web hosting service to show temporary beta versions of my Drupal websites online?

What's a free web hosting service to show temporary beta versions of my Drupal websites online ?


Is it possible to track an outsourced adwords campaign?

We have a site that is paying a 3rd party to run adwords campaigns on our behalf. They do this using their own Adwords account and so we are unable to link it to our Google Analytics account. We do have our own Adwords account for the site which is linked but the majority of campaigns are being run by this 3rd party. At the moment, in our Adwords reports (ie the Adwords section within Google Analytics) we are seeing that for the majority of visits the campaign and keyword data is not set. I am assuming that this is because even though the visit is being recognised as coming from an Adwords account, because it is not the Adwords account linked to our Analytics account, we don't get sent the campaign and keyword information. Is this correct and if so is there a way that we can start tracking this information so that we can see for ourselves how the campaigns are performing?


Wordpress SEO - should the Logo Banner also be a text link? I noticed that when all CSS is removed, my site doesn't display the Banner (obviously), so I put a text link back to the home with my keywords (which is also the site name) to display for search engines and for non-graphic readers. Now that this link is there, the first link on every page of my site is my keyword and return link to the home page. It's not an H1, but it's bold. Is this good for SEO or overdoing it? I'm not sure what the best practice is here, but I heard it was good to have your keyword first. I just don't want it to reduce the weight of other pages h1 tag or the more specific topic pages.


How can I show multiple ad networks on my site?

I am not sure Google Adsense is the right ad network for me. I'd like to experiment with a few other options. I would like to setup another ad network, say Project Wonderful, and have my site display 50% of its ads through Adsense, and 50% through PW. What's the simplest way to achieve this?


is godaddy SSL standard certificate compatible with *all* browsers?

Could you answer to at least one of these questions: 1) is godaddy SSL standard certificate compatible with _all_ browsers (chrome and safari on iphone, or android browsers included) ? http://www.godaddy.com/ssl/ssl-certificates.aspx?ci=8979 2) is it running on Apache servers ? thanks


How can i use the HTTP_REFERER to come from a specified domain name

I know the HTTP_REFERER method has a security loop, but it most cases it works fine. How can i use it, to limit how a user see other pages on my website, instead of just directly clicking on the link or pasting it on the browser. Specifically, i want the referer to only work if the referred url came from the same domain name? And not from another source.


Is it possible to get safe SSL certificates for free?

I was looking at reseller hosting at host xxxxxx. They provide unlimited free SSL certificates which I can resell to my clients. This looks too good to be true. I sent them a mail if they're self-signed, but I haven't got a response yet (I sent the mail 15 minutes ago). So I am wondering: is it possible to get safe SSL certificates for free? I don't think so but it's worth checking. I have looked at Are there any usable free options for SSL certificates? by the way, but my situation is different I think... Thanks! **Edit** : maybe it's handy to know which SSL certificates I may resell...


Analytics not showing Adsense data

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Problem integrating Adsense with Google Analytics I already posted on the analytics help forum but nobody replied, so I thought I would ask here. Basically, I have an Adsense account that and use it to show adds on 2 websites, and an Analytics account for these two websites. Now I linked the account ages ago (when I only had one website in the analytics account), but now that I have added the second website no data shows for it. For the first website, I get the data normally, for the second website, I get the weird error saying I need to connect to my Adsense account first. Anyone know why this happens?


htaccess and htpasswd trouble

This is the first time that I have ever tried working with .htpasswd and .htaccess files, so please point out my childish works. I have my apache document root set to `/www/` on my debian server. Inside it, there's a folder named `Logs/` which I want to restrict access using a htpasswd. I created my htpasswd file using the shell's htpasswd command. And this is the result:               user:<encoded password here>     hjp:<encoded password here>     hjpotter92:<encoded password here>      I put this file named `.htaccess` inside `/www/`. The `Logs/` has following htaccess file in it:               AuthName "Restricted Area"     AuthType Basic     AuthUserFile /www/.htpasswd     AuthGroupFile /dev/null     require valid-user      This was again created using an online tool(I forgot its name/link, and can't search the browser-history now). The problem, as it might've already struck you is that I am experiencing no change on my Logs folder access. The folder is still accessible to everyone. I am running apache as root user(if that matters/helps). Please help/guide me. I've tried reading some htaccess guides and have followed some of older SO questions, but still haven't figured out a way to restrict access to Logs folder with a password.


.htaccess - lose the file .html extension

I'm having a bad .htaccess day! I want a user to be able to type the URL > mysite.com/about instead of > mysite.com/about.html On .htaccess file I have:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /$1.html [NC,L]      But this simply does not work? I will add though that if i try this further inside the site e.g.               mysite.com/pages/contact      Works perfectly whether I have the above code in the .htaccess or not What am I doing wrong?


Looking for a PHP Webmail that can be installed on a standard hosting plan?

I'm trying to find a Webmail that I can install on my Web Host (the host had PHP and MySQL, no access to apache config or php.ini except by .htaccess and some configs in local php.ini file). I'm currently redirecting my emails to gmail but I want to stay more in control of my things. So I'm looking for something like gmail, OpenSource with a good community behind it for security fixes and update, that can be installed on my Web Host. I found something interesting (http://www.zimbra.com/downloads/os-downloads.html) but I need to install the app on the Linux server and it seems to be more than just a simple PHP application. I don't even know if what I'm looking for is technically possible and if it exists. Any suggestion is welcome!


Links shortener with advanced reporting?

I am searching for a script (preferably in PHP) or an external solution which lets me create an "URL shortener" with advanced reports. We have been using Google Short Links for a while: it works really well, but it lacks reporting (it only displays a counter with the total number of redirects). Our setup is as follows: "go.mydomain.com" points to the web service, and we can create links such as "go.mydomain.com/product1". What I'm looking for is a similar service (or self-hosted solution) but with advanced reports, so we can track redirects by day, month, etc, distinguish between mobile and desktop users (very important!) and so on.


Is it possible to track different countries in google analytics with the same domain?

Currently my site "site.com" is tracking sales from the UK Can i create another instance in analytics in order to track all the users from Europe without creating a subdomain (site.com/eu) Is this possible??


If I have a breaking news and assume that i am the first person to know. How can I get top place in google search? Please assume that I do not have a domain yet. Please give me some tips. Thanks. Hope you'all will appreciate my question.


Registered a .PRO domain, can't change DNS for 120 days?

I noticed the following in Gandi's terms and conditions for .PRO domains: > Once the domain has been registered, you cannot modify the contacts or DNS > for 120 days. What the heck? How am I supposed to point a .PRO domain at my host then?


Page caching Is not working

This is my htaccess file.I also embedded webcaching code inside it.               DirectoryIndex index.php     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     #RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.decodinghinduism.in     RewriteRule (.*) http://decodinghinduism.in/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php?qa-rewrite=$0&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]     </IfModule>      **`Webcaching code`**               ## EXPIRES CACHING ##     <IfModule mod_expires.c>     ExpiresActive On     ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/html "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"     ExpiresDefault "access 1 month"     </IfModule>     ## EXPIRES CACHING ##          <Files 403.shtml>     order allow,deny     allow from all     </Files>          deny from **.**.      But Webcaching is not working ,Analytical result is here.Please help me.


Is there something wrong with my .htaccess or is there something wrong server-side?

I'm using the following `.htaccess` file in one of my subdirectories on my server:               Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule (.*)\.png generate.php?userid=$1      My non-production environment handled the above just fine without a hitch. However, when implemented on my live production environment and accessed, the server load goes through the roof and no webpages are loaded until the process is killed (I don't actually know the process, the other administrator just does it for me.) So, is it my production environment that is set up incorrectly or is it that my code is sloppy/incorrect?


Max height to avoid vertical scrollbar on notebook resolutions

So, the most popular notebook resolution is 1366x768. The viewport height (the height that is available for the web-site in the browser) depends on the operating system and the browser. For instance, the task-bar of Windows 7 is larger then the one on Windows XP. Also, the "header" of IE6 is larger then the one of Chrome. What would be the available viewport height in the worst case scenario? (Maximized browser window on 1366x768)? (For Chrome @ Win7 it's 667px.) **Update:** I know I should have mentioned those toolbars `:)`. Let me clarify: In real life users have either no additional toolbars at all, or they have one or possibly two additional toolbars at max. I will calculate those toolbars in later. For this question I'd like to know the worst case scenario **with no additional toolbars** present inside the browser.


For hosting resellers, what's a good F/OSS ticketing system?

Been thinking about starting a hosting company through a reseller plan. What's a good F/OSS ticketing system that:   * securely separates my potential customers (can't have them seeing each other's tickets, even if they guess ticket numbers)   * provides interacting with POP/SMTP so that people can email in a request   * is fairly intuitive   * is PHP-based Anyone know from personal experience what they think is the best?


Does Google consider my blog page as duplicate page if that page URL and that page URL with ‘showcomment’ cached separately?

While I’m searching all the index page of my blog I found that Google cached one of my blog page http://example.com/page.html as well as http://example.com/page.html?showComment=1372054729698 These two pages are showing while I searched site:http://example.com. I’m so afraid about it because these two pages are same with same content. Does google consider these two pages as duplicate? If so what can I do now? Is it really a big problem to my blog?


Temporarily disable magento extensions from the back end

Is it possible to disable a Magento extension from the backend without uninstalling it or disabling it via the code?


Apache URL Rewrite

I'm trying and failing to get a URL rewrite working, firstly I'm doing it in the vhost declaration, is that right? What I'm trying to do is take any URL which has;               view.php?id=[a 1 or multidigit number]      and rewrite it to               view.php?id=[number]&section=1      Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks for looking. Okay, so I tried the suggestion below (thanks for that) and now have this in my vhost file but still no effect;               NameVirtualHost *:80          <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerAdmin ########         DocumentRoot "########"         ServerName ########         ErrorLog "logs\########.log             <Directory "########">                 DirectoryIndex index.php index.html                 AcceptPathInfo on                 Order allow,deny                 Allow from All             </Directory>             <Location />                 RewriteEngine on                 RewriteRule ^/view.php?id=([0-9]*)$ /view.php?id=$1&section=1 [R]             </Location>     </VirtualHost>


Role of a domain registrar

Few months back I bought a domain name and started using it through custom domain feature of Google Blogger. Since then my site was unavailable several times with different error forms:   1. A 'Not Found' text on the home page   2. No browser could not connect to the site Now since a week the site is totally inaccessible. It never loads. I tried using services like justping and Whydown. The former one reports 100% packet loss from all server locations while the latter reports a 503 error. I am unable to understand whether the problem is from the domain registrar's side or Blogger's side. Last time when I contacted domain registrar over 'Site not found' issue they affirmed that it would be Blogger's problem. I find it hard to believe that problem occurs from Google end. So this time before contacting Domain registrar's customer support I want to arm myself with technical details on what is causing the problem. If someone could guide me in debugging my issue it would greatly benefit me. For your information the website with the above problem - http://www.staygeo.com


SSL not valid for domain

I am in the process of setting up a webmail server and one of the requirements is to have a signed SSL which I obtained through StartCom. During the setup it asked me to define a sub-domain name (which I did). After the review was complete I received the key and created a new file to hold it. I configured apache2 correctly and all that is working, but I am getting the following error on connection. > The certificate is only valid for the following names: > host.siriusdesigner.com, siriusdesigner.com now the server hostname is host.siriusdesigner.com and the FQDN is siriusdesigner.com (registered). Am I missing something here? Or do I need to have some sort of wildcard in place (which means I would need to call them about upgrading my account to class 2)?


Adwords ad group quality score

I've heard some Pay Per Click consultants claim that having poor performing keywords in an ad group effects the quality score of other keywords and Google uses a form of quality score for the entire ad group. Are quality scores for keywords independent of other keywords?


Google SMTP relay sending limits

I'm considering using Google Apps for email with my company domain and for sending emails to customers from my website using SMTP. On Google's website it says the following: > **Limits for registered Google Apps users** > > A registered Google Apps user cannot relay messages to more than 2,000 > recipients per day. > > **Limits per domain** > > Per-domain sending limits are determined by the number of users in your > Google Apps account. There are two per-domain limits: > >   * **The maximum number of recipients allowed per domain per day is > approximately 130 times the number of users in your Google Apps account.** >   * The maximum number of recipients allowed per domain in a 10 minute > window is approximately 9 times the number of users in your Google Apps > account. > > > Additionally, the maximum number of recipients allowed per domain per day > for accounts not yet paid for during the first month of service is 100. If I'm a single user, with a single domain, then does that mean I can only email 130 people a day using SMTP? That limit seems low.