Google Schema.org alternate to PriceSpecification

I'm back with another Schema.org / Google inconsistency. Our store sells many products that have different variants each with their own price. For example a heater may be sold in any of 8 BTU levels with a higher BTU heater costing more. We present all variants on the same product page and display a price range until the user selects their specific variant. The question is **how can I tell Google that the product has a price range?** Or if I can enumerate the variants as individual sub-products with their own prices that may suffice. What we've tried: We started by using Offer's priceSpecification property. We tried this with both an itemtype of PriceSpecification and of UnitPriceSpecification. These left us with the Error: _Incomplete microdata with schema.org._ in Google's Structured Data Testing Tool and even more importantly with error _Missing: price_ in our webmaster tool's Structured Data tab (Which nuked our rich snippet). This is supposedly because Google erroneously expects the Offer->price property to always be set even if priceSpecification is in use (see: This SO post on priceSpecification ). Example:

             $571.20 - $894.75             <meta content="571.2" itemprop="minPrice">             <meta content="894.75" itemprop="maxPrice">             <meta content="USD" itemprop="priceCurrency">

      We also tried just passing the human-readable string $571.20 - $897.75 as the Offer->price property. That obviously didn't work as Google didn't know how to parse it. According to point 8 of this SEOMoz article you can use AggregateOffer as a workaround to list a price range for a product/product-set. However Schema.org clearly states AggregateOffer is for > When a single product is associated with multiple offers (for example, the > same pair of shoes is offered by different merchants)" While it will likely work for now, using AggregateOffer in our case seems like a kludge that's liable to break. So again, how can I inform Google that a product price is in a range depending on user selections? Has anyone had any success using the PriceSpecification for a product, especially to list a product price range? Or is there another way to accomplish the same result?


How do I get a TB of data to a new web server?

I have a TB of compressed media files that I need to get to a remote web server with a bit of urgency. (from my office) Our upload rate is only 500KB/s, which would suggest ~23 days to upload. The new hosting company does not accept drives-by-mail. Is there a good place to go in major metro areas to borrow a fatter pipe?


htaccess setting resets upon uploading new updates

Hi I am trying to set up password protected web pages with htaccess on dreamhost.com. While the panel in dreamhost allows one to set up password protection rather quickly. Once I uploaded updates to the directory, the protection is gone. How should I deal with that?


multiple urls serving same content - how to handle better?

Urls go like               domain/approved/education/kids/female      but I also have filter page in place that lets you do this               domain/approved/education-entertainment-business/kids/female and so on      which means list all female kids articles no matter what Level1 category they fall in. But that also means that               domain/approved/      and               domain/approved/education-entertainment-business      list exactly the same content (assuming level2 only has 3 categories - kids, teenager and adult). How to handle duplicacy in this case for the sake of canonical url and so on. Also, my sitemaps should not worry about filtering URLs (the ones with dashes), right?


.htaccess mod_rewrite 500 internal server error

Whenever I place my .htaccess file in my web directory I receive a 500 internal server error and within the error.log file specifying:               [Sat Jan 21 13:46:07 2012] [error] [client xx.xx.xxx.xx] Request exceeded the limit     of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error.      Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary.      Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.      My .htaccess file:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI}  !(\.png|\.jpg|\.gif|\.jpeg|\.bmp|\.css|\.js)$     RewriteRule ^(.*)  index.php      I have tried enabling Options +FollowSymLinks but this has been fruitless. Everything works locally. Any pointers as to what I could be doing wrong?


Web server with or without Panel

I start a Web server for my company for hosting about 15 website and I didn't install a Control Panel, I do everything by command and i'm pretty comfortable with it but do you think i'm losing time by doing all the task by command ???


div collapsing over repositioned element

I want a list of rows that have the following look to them:               +------------------------#main-----------------------+     |                                                    |     |                                                    |     | +------+ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur   |     | | pic  | adipiscing elit. Phasellus commodo urna   |     | |      | vel est porttitor et laoreet enim         |     | +------+ pellentesque. Proin tristique tortor sit  |     |          amet magna ornare eleifend. Aliquam       |     |          placerat sapien vitae tellus mattis       |     |          euismod.                                  |     |                                                    |     | +------+ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur   |     | | pic  | adipiscing elit. Phasellus commodo urna   |     | |      | vel est porttitor et laoreet enim         |     | |      | pellentesque.                             |     | +------+                                           |     |                                                    |     | +------+ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur   |     | | pic  | adipiscing elit. Phasellus commodo urna   |     | +------+ vel est porttitor et laoreet enim         |     |          pellentesque.                             |     |                                                    |     |                                                    |     +----------------------------------------------------+      I have all of the above in a _div id="main"_. Each picture and text pair is in a _div class="ProdList"_. As you can see above, the pictures will vary in height but not width. The text may or may not be higher than the picture. This is what's causing my problem. I want a 20px margin below each _.ProdList_ regardless of whether the picture or the paragraph is higher. The css below is giving perfect results as long as the text is higher than the picture. But, since I'm positioning the picture, the _.ProdList_ no longer worries about surrounding it. This causes the _.ProdList_ below to display over the picture if the picture above is higher than the text. I've tried re-positioning the text instead of the picture but I just get the opposite problem. How can I have the _.ProdList_ fully contain both the picture and the text? Here's the css I've tried:               #main {width: 600px; margin: 10px auto; border: 1px solid gray; padding: 20px;}     /*just a centered, fixed width area*/          .ProdList {margin-bottom: 20px; position: relative;}     /*contains an image and a paragraph*/          .ProdList p {margin-left: 110px;}     /*makes room for the picture*/          .ProdList img {position: absolute;top: 0;}     /*moves the picture to the upper left of .ProdList*/      Adding "Clear: both" doesn't seem to do any good either. Since this is technicaly tabular data I suppose I could use a table without angering the css gods too much but I'm sure this is possible. I'm just missing something.


SEO - Website comparison - Why is this site so good?

I always get asked questions by friends why my site doesn't search very well in Google, even though mine is better quality. How can I improve the searchability of my friend's site (drakesterling.com)? http:// www.sterlingcurrency.com.au/ http:// www.bluesheet.com.au/ http:// www.drakesterling.com/ Any help is appreciated.


Does a plain vanilla site benefit from a "canonical" directive?

So I thought I knew what "canonical" was for. As I understood it (and to be fair, most of the examples on the web) it avoids search engines seeing `foo.htm` and `foo.htm?parameter=1` as duplicate content, by specifying that only one of them is the canonical version. Therefore it seemed to me to be an issue exclusive to more complex sites (sites with server side processing). But take a "vanilla" brochure site of say just five pages (Home, AboutUs, ContactUs, OurProducts, Testimonials). That's just five htm files, no server side processing, nothing at all that's going to risk looking like duplicate content. But a colleague has said we need a rel='canonical' on at least the home page to avoid               http://www.example.com     http://example.com     http://www.example.com/home.htm      looking like duplicate content. Is he right?


Domain name only works with www. but not without the www

I have searched for this problem numerous times but I can't quite apply the solution to my problem. The usual solution I find is that I need to add an A-record to my dns, currently I only have a C-name record for host 'www' to my DNS. The problem is, I'm having trouble understanding what goes in the 'host' section of the record when trying to create an A-record. Here is a screenshot to my domain registrar where I am trying to create the record. http://i.imgur.com/M18zm.png I have tried creating an A-record with the 'host' field set to *, but that is not a valid entry, nor is leaving it blank. Anyone have any suggestions?


Google not indexing/updating rel="canonical" pages

I had same content with different links and I wanted to prioritize the indexing of different webpages. For example `/A/1232` and `/A/1232/tum_bin_jiya_jay` represent same content but I wanted to give more priority to `/A/1232/tum_bin_jiya_jay` link over `/A/1232`. So I put this canonical links in all pages from where I wanted to tell Google please give more preference to the link given in this page I used this in non- priority links and don't use any canonical in priority links. In the head section of URL `/A/1232` I put below line so that Google can give more priority to below page but even after 4 days none of such pages are indexed by Google                 <link rel="canonical"  href="http://example.com/A/1232/tum_bin_jiya_jay" />      Can anyone suggest what should I do, I have submitted both links to Google webmaster and earlier links are already indexed so Google is not indexing `/A/1232/tum_bin_jiya_jay` link but Google Webmaster will give more priority to those links and will index but I don't know why its not indexing. If i remove earlier links from Google webmaster sitemap than what is the chances of including this type of links.which is advisable.


Clearing cache with CloudFlare?

Is it possible to clear or avoid CloudFlare cache while doing development? I'm developing a site that has caching on several levels - WordPress supercache, the caching done by the browser, and caching through the DNS provider, CloudFlare (free account version). I cannot seem to get my CSS to refresh, despite deleting the browser cache, deleting the WordPress supercache cache, & disabling caching (firefox web development toolbar), so I'm guessing the cached copy that remains is due to the DNS, but have no idea how to clear it. Any suggestions?


Is implementing rel="alternate" hreflang="x" mark up the right thing to do here?

We have a website for a restaurant that is in 5 different countries, all pages are in English at present:   * `http://www.example.com/bangkok/en/`   * `http://www.example.com/dubai/en/`   * `http://www.example.com/hong-kong/en/`   * `http://www.example.com/istanbul/en/`   * `http://www.example.com/london/en/`   * `http://www.example.com/miami/en/` I'm thinking of marking up the site with `hreflang=`, but then I had a thought. Could doing this actually impede the country specific page appearing in different country Google searches? As the multinational aims of this site are bit different, we still want the country specific page to appear in different countries results, not the alternative URL. e.g. Most pages rank rather well in what ever countries Google you are searching in. The Bangkok page appears on page 1 of most country Google searches for searches such as:   * '(keyword) restaurant in bangkok'   * 'best (keyword) restaurant in bangkok'    * etc But if I was to implement `hreflang=`, might this 'confuse' Google and try and rank the wrong page? For example, some one searching from the US types in 'restaurant in Bangkok' but due to the `rel="alternate"`, Google tries to return the Miami page, or it hampers the chance of the Bangkok page ranking. So I'm thinking that perhaps not bother with the markup, as the situation is a bit different. What are your thoughts.


Why is Yslow telling me Use cookie-free domains on only one of my sites?

I have Four websites all hosted under the same account (all under public_html of a main domain). All but one give me an A for "use cookie-free domains" but one of them gives me an F. What should I be doing to change this one domain? I don't even know what to look for... Wait a second...grr...I just ran the test again, and got an A-weird...


DNS query re website Status: inactive

There is a website that I am assisting with which, when you do a DNS look up on Who.is, returns a Website Status of "inactive". I also noticed the server type is incorrectly reported. This is not a website I generally use for DNS queries so am unsure if it is reliable. Using other DNS checking services reports what Iwould expect and the site is functioning correctly. Research I have done with regard to **Website Status: inactive** suggests an issue with the DNS configuration? I am looking for help understanding if this is something to be concerned with and if possible how to update this value or how it gets set in the first place.


Source highlight as CGI script

I would like to put syntax-highlighted source code (C) on a website using CGI. I have the GNU source-highlight package on the web-server. Can anyone tell me how to link the source-highlight-cgi script (shell script, not perl) into CGI. I guess I need a perl script in the cgi-bin to point somehow at the source- highlight-cgi shell script I but have no experience of doing this. Note: CGI is enabled and working on the server.


Is there a free PHP/AJAX file management script with directory synchronization?

I want a real easy file management script with a nice clean interface which I can run on my own hosting and password protect. I also want to be able to sync a folder in it to my computer.


How To Change Wordpress Pemalinks for Future Posts?

Had I known years ago, I would have chosen meaningful permalinks for my blog. There is an option in Wordpress to change them all but I would like to keep the old links as they are since they are referenced in thousands of pages. **How can I change the WordPress permalink structure only for future posts only?**


How can I safely analyze users' password quality?

Given a registration service website with rather lax password requirements for the users (6-12 characters with no special requirements), how can I safely analyze what _quality_ of passwords users pick without storing them in plain text? For background: This question came up when discussing whether or not users of the service pick sufficiently "good" passwords, and if they do not, if there is enough reason to enforce this by setting tighter password requirements. Assuming some sort of rating system for the password, what interests the team is the ratio of poor passwords (only letters, no special signs, no upper-/lower case variation, repeating signs, partial match with own name or email, etc) compared to good passwords. Supposedly, implementing a rating algorithm that stores the password quality rating at the time users set their passwords would be a good way, but is there any more considerations to take with this? What kind of assertions about password quality can I make and rate without actually storing the passwords? And do I just log password ratings without any other data, or how could I cross reference password quality with user demographics (age, gender, activity on the service) in a way that respects user privacy and data security?


One CDN with origin pull and two servers

I have two dedicated servers serving the same website. I am thinking of adding CDN to it... Since the CDN will pull the contents from server, my concern is won't it have any naming conflicts ??? To clarify more precisely:   * Server1 and Server2 has real time sync, every files syncs between them.   * If I add CDN with Origin Pull, CDN will pull all the defined files to it..    * The files that CDN is going to pull would be same from both Servers, same name, same extensions like a.css, b.js, c.png.    * Now, will it create conflict or it'll just remove the old content and keep the fresh pull ?  Even if it replaces the new content with old ones, my bandwidth seems to be going waste for puling from both servers.... ain't it ?


Monitor Godaddy Shared Hosting Server Downtime

Can I monitor how long my server remains down on Godaddy shared hosting service? I have noticed myself once that for several minutes it was down, then back again. It will be helpful if I could see actually how long its getting down per week/month. Any idea/suggestions/solution are appreciated.


FTP file access problem

I recently got a malware on my website. I have made the backup of the website on my computer and trying to wipe off my FTP. I am trying to delete the root folder but getting this error message on all of the malicious files,               Response:   550 Could not delete index.php: Permission denied      I am the sole administrator of the ftp so permission should not have been an issue. My host provider seems not to suffer from this problem as his websites are running well without any malware. I have also tried to change the root to 777 to see if the file permission change could help me delete the files but still I am getting the same error. Please help out. Thanks


STRONG and EM tags inside H1 and H2 and SEO on database-driven website

I am trying to tweak the SEO of my Website, I have read a 400 SEO Bible PDF document that I came across. An aspect of my website that was not included in my SEO optimisation. The STRONG and EM HTML tags. They do what B and I (bold/italic) tags do but they are very much needed by Google's bot, apparently, in order for it to understand what the page is about, and to index it in its particular way. Now, I have around 28K products, each has among other fields a Title(varchar) and Desc(text) fields. Title and description. I am now updating the titles and descriptions with `<strong></strong>` and `<em></em>` tags around the words I think are important and mostly, good keywords for me. But since my website was already done with SEO in mind, the title and descriptions were inside `<H1>` and `<H2>` tags. I thought and thought and managed to leave the text with `<strong>` and `<em>` clean in 2 places (the breadcrumbs /home/here/submenu/submenu2/ and the description), and the text stripped from STRONG and EM tags in the `<h1>` which is the title of every page. There are more pages to think of optimising in this way and my question is : Is it wise to leave the titles something like this?
Parker pen model 38Ak1
      or just remove (with PHP) the `<strong>` and `<em>` tags and just have:
Parker pen, model 38Ak1
      It is essential for me to understand if it's SEO wise to do this, so I'll do the same in other kinds of displaying pages and other arrangements on my website.


Why Wikipedia doesn't appear as a referral in Google Analytics' Traffic sources?

One of my clients has a website and got not spammy backlinks in a Wikipedia article. When I test it for SEO purposes with Google Analytics (from different IPs), apparently there is no referral information. On the Real-Time view my test visit is visible but with _There is no data for this view_ in the referrals subview. And this visits appear as _(direct) / (none)_ on the Traffic sources view. Wikipedia is not hiding in any way its links origin, since it is shown in the server visits log. Is Google ignoring Wikipedia as a referral? Am I missing anything else? **Update** : Now it works, several days after the link was active. Maybe something is detecting for how long the link was there so that it doesn't work just from the beginning, as a security measure? Many visits are actually not recorded.


How can I create a content widget generator?

Sites like Buzzfeed offer widgets (Javascript, PHP, WordPress, etc.) for syndicating their content on other sites. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could go about creating/implementing some kind of interactive widget generator that gives users options for customizing their widget? I assume this would require RSS. Check out the Buzzfeed generator to see what I mean http://www.buzzfeed.com/network/widget


Google webmastertools soft 404 - How to update google search after updating it to 200

My site has many modules which are indexed by google. Recently there has been a database problem so the site was not appearing well like many links returned 404 i think. Now i have make it working and all the content what previously google indexed are as it were. How do we update google that i have corrected and the pages which sent 404 are not 200? That is now i wanted to tell google that the urls which sent 404 are now working fine so that google will update it soon before it removes from its database.


Google eCommerce tracking from PHP

Is some way to send eCommerce tracking to Google without JavaScript? I want to do that just with PHP.


Confusion for specifying rel="canonical" for pages

I read this link & even this also, but I am still confused. That's why I plan to ask here, Please confirm me with your answer. My doubt is I have two pages: `GridViewPage.php` & `ListViewPage.php` having same content. So according to this in which page I have insert this code `<link rel="canonical" href="which url I should put here"/>`. And for opening `GridViewPage.php` page URL looks like: `http://example.com/article/show/abdominal-exercises/abdominal- crunch/79/87/list/`. & for opening `GridViewPage.php` page my URL looks like: `http://example.com/article/show/abdominal-exercises/abdominal- crunch/79/87/grid/`. Note: 79/87 are the dynamic database table id's.


Redirect public traffic to a different subfolder, while local traffic remains unchanged

I would like to have local (intranet) HTTP traffic go to the `/var/www/html` folder while any public traffic goes to the subfolder, `/var/www/html/public` I've tried this configuration, with some variation, in httpd.conf               <VirtualHost PRIVATE-IP>         DocumentRoot /var/www/html         ServerName ecn         ErrorLog /var/www/logs/error/private         CustomLog /var/www/logs/access/private common     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost PUBLIC-IP>         DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public         ServerName PUBLIC-DOMAIN-NAME         ErrorLog /var/www/logs/error/public         CustomLog /var/www/logs/access/public common     </VirtualHost>      PUBLIC-IP, PRIVATE-IP, and PUBLIC-DOMAIN name are all replaced with the correct values in the actual document. The problem is, local traffic can browse fine but remote traffic is directed to the root folder and getting 403d (because I have that folder blocked off through my .htaccess file). If I append `/public` to the URL it works fine.


Strange script font appearing in Google search results and Firebug

The weirdest thing has just occurred. I did a google search and once the page had rendered I could see double f's had been replaced with a strange script font. Even weirder, once I chose to have a look using Firebug, the strange script font appeared there also. Why is this? I've attached a picture of what I saw.![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/huM03.jpg) P.S. The Search was for "wget facebook" and I'm using Firefox 3.6 on Mac OS X 10.5


Currency Conversion

I have a website which sells Hotels in UK and USA to Clients in Germany. I am looking for a way to automatically convert US$ and UK£ automatically in EURO. I managed to do this through http://dynamicconverter.com/. However this only works when you have either UK hotels OR USA hotels on a single page. It does not work when both $ and £ are present on a single page. It simply takes all currency as either $ or £. Does anyone know of a system which can detect different currencies on the same webpage and convert them?


Portal for matching volunteer webmasters and non-profits?

So, 1-2 years ago I recall hearing about a site that matches non-profits with volunteer webmasters. Does anyone know such a site? Questions, feedback, requests -- just comment, thanks!!


Setting up a domain name

I am trying to point a domain of `support.example.com` to a public IP address and am not sure how I can achieve this. I have tried a CNAME record but I understand that it's not possible to direct a CNAME to an IP address. Can anyone help?


Why my site is not ranking for particular keyword

My site is only 3 days to be 6 months old. This website is unique, that is there is no competitor to this type site in India, providing comparison of payment gateways in India, besides the payment gateways companies itself. I've optimized it for key word : "payment gateway" I've changed the url's twice, latest being 3 months back, in which case Google Webmaster gave plently of 404's. I corrected the useful 404's and left meaningless ones as it is. What is the reason it's not ranking well for payment gateways? Even site with single page about "Payment gateways" seem to be ranking better than this. Is it does to: 1) Lot of outbound links to in-context companies and information 2) 404's as reported in Google Webmaster My another site is successfully getting 1500 unique visitors daily and is up in Google ranking. I don't know why it is not!


Critique of SEO of this HTML

I'm designing a new site which I want to be as SEO friendly as possible, fast and responsive, semantic and very accessible. A lot of these things, embarrassingly are quite new to me. Have I miss applied anything? I want the template to be perfect. Live demo: http://69.24.73.172/demos/newDemo/ HTML:               <!DOCTYPE html>                                         <meta charset="UTF-8" />             <title>Welcome to Scirra.com</title>             <meta name="description" content="Construct 2, the HTML5 games creator." />             <meta name="keywords" content="game maker, game builder, html5, create games, games creator" />             <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/default.css" type="text/css" />              <link rel="stylesheet" href="plugins/coin-slider/coin-slider-styles.css" type="text/css" />

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Can I copy the terms and conditions from a similar site?

I was wondering if it's legal to copy the terms and conditions page from a very similar site? I would replace the name, address, and other identifying information.


Google Analytics does not show AdSense if you have multiple sites

I have multiple sites in my Google Analytics, and under the content section, adsense revenue per page is only visible for one of the sites. The rest of the sites in my Google analytics do not display what page the AdSense revenue came from. Is this a known bug? Has anyone had this? Or do I need to configure something else? **Here is how I currently do this.** It is constructed as part of a php string, but the idea is the same. See the first 2 lines of this function. And the rest of the function displays traditional analytics snippet.                 $str = '';         if($production === true)         {             $str.= '<script type="text/javascript">'."\n";                  $str.= 'window.google_analytics_uacct = "UA-9425856-20";'."\n";                  $str.= 'var _gaq = _gaq || [];'."\n";             $str.= '_gaq.push(["_setAccount", "UA-9425856-20"]);'."\n";             $str.= '_gaq.push(["_trackPageview"]);'."\n";                  $str.= '(function() {'."\n";             $str.= ' var ga = document.createElement("script"); ga.type = "text/javascript"; ga.async = true;'."\n";             $str.= ' ga.src = ("https:" == document.location.protocol ? "https://ssl" : "http://www") + ".google-analytics.com/ga.js";'."\n";             $str.= ' var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);'."\n";             $str.= '})();'."\n";                  $str.= '</script>'."\n";         }         echo $str;


Will using tabs with JavaScript (jQuery) hurt my SEO because of crawlability?

I have a page with tabs like this: http://www.problemio.com/problems/problem.php?problem_id=180 See how there are 3 tabs? Only the content from one of them shows up when the user lands on the page, and the content from the other two shows up only when the user clicks on the tabs. And the change happens using jQuery and JavaScript. But all the text is loaded when the page loads. What I am wondering is whether this will hurt my SEO and make it harder for Google to index the complete pages?


What's the pro/cons of Adobe TypeKit API? Any best practices?

With all the Open Source fonts I have available, and I can download them via the CSS font directive, what's the benefit of the TypeKit API? Are there drawbacks of this? How does it work technically? Are there certain ways of constructing my website I should avoid?


Webmaster Tools show the "Total Indexed" number to be zero

I recently switched my domain from yannbane.blogspot.com to www.yannbane.com, and added my new domain to my Webmaster Tools account. After a few days, I went there and checked the data, and I was a bit worried when I saw this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rt1Gs.jpg) How can I interpret this? Is Google really not indexing my site at all? I'm afraid that's the case, because when I google for it, only my old blogspot domain shows up!


Link a domain to a Squarespace account

I have set up a Squarespace account and now need to link a domain I purchased elsewhere. What settings do I need to change on the domain hosted? This is what I've got so far, however the changes don't seem to have propagated and my website still has a default page: ![dns and nameserver settings](http://i.stack.imgur.com/4JQ63.png) Here are the settings that Squarespace say I need to use for GoDaddy, but I'm on A2Hosting and confused as to how to configure everything.


rewrite rule if iphone?

just need one url on my site to check if its a mobile device and then rerite the url accordingly. want to rewrite; /play-reel/miranda-bowen/playpeaches-and-cream to / **mobile** /play-reel/miranda-bowen/playpeaches-and-cream               RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*iPhone.*$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^play-reel(.*)\$ mobile/play-reel$1 [R=302,NC]            RewriteRule ^mobile/play-reel/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)$ play-reel-new-html5-02.php?director=$1&video=$2 [L]     # the 3rd line works but cant get the url to change for it to be picked up      can anyone see what's wrong? There's no erro best, Dan


Apache httpd Problem

I am getting intermittent issues with my site. Pages often hang with huge loading times and sometimes fail to load. The httpd error logs contain the following:               [Wed Feb 23 06:54:17 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1854): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 5871 for worker proxy:reverse     [Wed Feb 23 06:54:17 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1967): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 5871 for (*)     [Wed Feb 23 06:54:24 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1854): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 5872 for worker proxy:reverse     [Wed Feb 23 06:54:24 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1873): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized     [Wed Feb 23 06:54:24 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1967): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 5872 for (*)     [Wed Feb 23 06:59:15 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1854): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 5954 for worker proxy:reverse     [Wed Feb 23 06:59:15 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1873): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized      The server is currently running with 800mb free memory, so it is not caused by lack of RAM. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Chris. **EDIT** The current number of httpd procceses is 11. This does increase as the error persists and can rise up to 25+. I am running Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS).


Joomla menu item will not work

I'm trying to setup a new joomla site (first one for me, it's very confusing). I have added a menu item, but the link that it is trying to go to is the "alias", and that isn't resolving correctly (or at all really) to the "link" that I have for the menu item. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?


How do I renew an expired domain with Google Apps?

I let my domain expire on Google Apps. It now says that I have to contact customer service in order to renew. Does anyone know how to renew a domain (still under the grace period) for Google Apps.


Which Document Requires A Single Uri For Web Resources?

I know that giving short, clear URI that do not change with time is considered good manners, but I need to create a system that is designed not to have them. But to do this I need to go back and find the document in which first it was explained that there should be a single URI per resource. And that it should not change with time. It is probably a document from T.B.L. or from the w3c. Anyone knows which document would that be? Thanks


Consolidating multiple domain names

I have a client that has three separately hosted copies of their website, each on a separate domain name. The websites are all essentially the same, bar a few discrepancies caused by badly managed updates in the past. I will soon be launching a completely new website for them, at which point, all three domain names are to resolve to the same web server. One domain name will become the default domain name that they refer to in all their literature, and the other two will simply be used as catch-alls for old links, bookmarks, and so on. I would like to know what people consider the best route to achieve this. My plan so far is:   1. Get the new site up and running on the new webserver.   2. Change the relevant A record of the default domain name to point to the new webserver.   3. a) Keep the existing hosting accounts in operation. Create a list of 301 redirects from old page names on the old site to new page names on the new site. or b) Configure CNAME records for the non-default domain names, each pointing to the new webserver. Create a list of 301 redirects on the new site that redirect from old page names to new page names. If my understanding is correct, 3a will _help_ to maintain whatever search engine rankings the sites already have (I know it's not going to be perfect), while at the same time informing search engines that the old domain names are no longer in use. What's a good approach to take here?


when optimising for a "location" based term, are links from the countries tld worth more?

When optimizing for a term such as "bike shop london", do links from .co.uk and .com.uk domains carry more weight? ie. Would a link from a identical in every aspect apart from TLD be worth less in Google's eyes? I know Google is putting a big emphasis on reliant thematic sites linking to you, but I wasn't sure whether this would have an effect? I'm referring to Google Search rather than Google Places.


Website caching site

Google and archive.org both cache/archive sites, however neither of them are fast enough and they don't cache everything. Is there some site where you can input a url and it will go grab it and store it? I find myself in need for proving what was on a site at a time. You can just save as the page, but that isn't very authoritative.


How to properly use Rich Snippets for Structured Data using itemscope, itemtype, and itemprop?

I have a website which lists business information in coherence with member information. So I am needing to use the Nested Items method. **Each "Business" listing has this setup:**   1. Business Name   2. Business Address   3. Business Location (city, state)   4. Business Hours of Operation   5. Business Contact Person (member name)   6. Business Phone #   7. Business Cell Phone #   8. Business Website   9. Business Description   10. Other people (member names) who also work for this company (business name). **Each "Member" listing has this setup:**   1. Member Name   2. Business Name   3. Member Location (city, state)   4. Member Phone #   5. Member Cellphone #   6. Member E-mail Address   7. Member Website   8. Member Description   9. Other companies (business names) this person (member name) does business with. I have attempted to apply the itemscope, itemtype and itemprop attributes to my mark-up myself.

Member Name

Business:
	                         Business Name

Location:
	                         Minneapolis, MN

             <meta itemprop="name" content="Business Name" />

Phone:
	                         123-456-7890

Cell:
	                         012-345-6789

E-mail:
	                         business@email.com

Website:
	                         www.business-website.com

Description:

Description of the business would be placed in this area.

Members:

Member Name1, Member Name2

           I feel like it is incorrect, and I would like an explanation of what I'm doing wrong, and how to do it correctly. I have business information and member information mixed in with both types of listings. **Some of the warnings google is giving:**   * Note that there is no guarantee that a Rich Snippet will be shown for this page on actual search results. For more details, see the FAQ.   * Warning: If this markup is about a person, at least 2 of the following fields are needed: organization, location, or role. See the people help page for more information.


Can you disavow a whole domain apart from the index page?

Many years ago I may have bought a few sitewide links for some of my sites, these have now come back to haunt me and I need to sort them out. I've tried to contact the owners but they're too lazy to bother changing the sites so I figure it's time to disavow the links. But is there a way to disavow all of the sitewide links on the domain apart from on the index page and would this be a benefit to leave the index or would it still be seen as spammy? Something like ...               # Contacted owner of shadyseo.com on 7/1/2012 to     # ask for link removal but got no response     domain:shadyseo.com     !shadyseo.com/index.php


web url forwarding to different port and subdirectory

I would like to forward anyone going to subdomain.old-domain.com:8014 to this new address subdomain.new-domain.com:8000/subdirectory (note a different domain AND different port PLUS a subdirectory) Is it possible in a web host (such as Bluehost) using cPanel DNS Editor or some form of URL redirection with port redirect included?


Protect js code from being stolen

I have developed an web app with jquery,html-css markup which would be an premium web app. So I have to ensure the security of the code from being stolen.But as all these are client side,so there is no 100% secure way to protect them.But I want to make them harder to steal.For this I did :   1. I have disabled the right click button of mouse   2. I have minified and obfuscated the code.   3. I have used js code to add external js file and obfuscated the code so that none can understand the name of the external js file   4. I have created a index.html file in the js folder so that none can get access the js folder Do you think all these are enough to make stealing harder? Or any suggestion/advice for me?


Usage of meta tag "generator"

Is the meta tag "generator" still relevant in today's web? Has it every had any use?               <meta name="Generator" content="Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org)" />


Can't view the website on the LAN stored on XAMPP server

I'm trying to access website located on XAMPP server on my other computer located on the same LAN network. I am able to see welcome screen of XAMPP server, i.e., `192.168.0.22/xampp/` but when I am pointing to my website, i.e., `192.168.0.22/xampp/website/` it says: > OBJECT NOT FOUND! The requested URL was not found on this server. ERROR 404. However I am able to view the website on localhost. Any ideas what's wrong?


Web Host / Service to Fetch Batch of URLs

I have a list of about one million URLs that I would like fetched and would rather not run this process on my own web server. I am wondering if there are any commercial solutions to this - i.e. any services that will take my list of URLs and return the HTML for each (running it behind proxies, etc., if necessary).


For SEO, should the path portion of the URL be localized?

I have a site that have localized content. I would like to know if it's really important to also translate the URL paths to access the content. For example: Today, I'm handling the URLS like these:               www.example.com/de/airports     www.example.com/pt/airports      My question if is it really good and worthwhile to change my site to handle URLs like these:               www.example.com/de/airports     www.example.com/pt/aeroportos      This last way it's more work to do. I was looking for Google papers talking about this subject but I did not find, anyone knows if this is important or it's ignored by search engines?


Need HTTPS on web server with plesk. Without buying certificate?

I just want that communication with web server is encrypted. I don't want to by SSL certificate. The server has Plesk installed and as i see, there is some way to add SSL certificate but i don't know how to generate free one which will force domain.com/something to be connected via SSL?


Google Webmasters Tools: Denied by robots.txt

I have a website: http://46.105.30.3/ And I'm trying to get testing it using the Fetch as Googlebot option in the Google Webmasters Tools. When I try it it returns `Denied by robots.txt`. My robots.txt contains:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /js/     Disallow: /style/      Any ideas why the Googlebot is denied access?


Having embedded video from other sites in my video sitemap increases the ranking of the sites I am embedding from?

I have a website Mywebsite.com and I am embedding videos from site XYZ.com in my website and providing additional content like a review or anything else. By creating a video sitemap of my site for the videos I have in it (embedded from site XYZ.com). Will the videos get indexed in video.google.com as Mywebsite.com or the website I am embedding from (XYZ.com) ? Other than the potential thumbnail of the video displayed in the search results next to my posts in the search page will it give me any help in rankings? Or will it in fact favor and help the site I am taking the videos from making it look like an authority site/source?


About the semantically related words Google's algorithm uses in mixed language websites

Because I'm Latin, sometimes I use a word in English while talking in Spanish. In a website, for example, I could be interested in ranking for a word as “promoter” inside a page in Spanish, because that is how my public understands that concept. Does the latent semantic indexing (LSI) (or whatever Google uses for semantic relation) fail to relate “promoter” with the content (because there are not related words in English) and then could that prevent my site from ranking?


How would Spanish text at bottom of English content page change how our pages rank?

On our real estate site we are planning to put Spanish text (2-3 lines) at bottom of every page. Except for the bottom part, all the content is in English. I am new to Page Rank & Google search optimization. So i have few queries related to that:   * How this Spanish content will affect rankings?   * Will it help to search through Spanish words? I mean, if user searches using Spanish words will our pages come in search results?


Managed hosting for Java websites?

What is a good managed hosting service for server side Java code which uses Tomcat servers? I want something that is like Heroku (for Ruby), Gondor (for Python), no.de (for node.js). I know there is Google App Engine out there but I am not a fan of the GAE - I want my plain-old tomcat server side code hosted in a clean, cheap, managed way like the aforementioned websites.


SEO semi-mirrored sites that don't anger google

I'm working with a client who manages real-estate agents. All of these agents have their own individual sites, and they all want the same layout and functionality. So, I have a "master" site designed which is dynamically changed to fit the agent/area/whatever through a MySQL database. We have relatively static content in the DB about the agent and the area, then the rest is very dynamic content from a listing service, which is updated daily. My question is how to set this up so that we can keep on using all the different domains and identical programming (i.e. all the files are identical, except pictures) and have decent SEO as well. They had some trouble in the past with Google blacklisting their sites because they were considered "mirrored sites". Which...they pretty much are, but the difference between mirrored sites is that we're searching very different areas of the listings DB. Ideally, all the listings are relatively unique to each site, but sometimes there aren't any listings for the area, or the listings for two sites overlap...that's when they get busted for the mirrorring. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to both have decent SEO for the individual sites, and keep it easy to manage? There are currently over 100 sites (20 agents, about 5 sites each--one agent site, and a few "area" sites), so not mirroring things is just a ton of work.


How to increase the number of indexed images from submitted image sitemap?

I had added images in my sitemap a week ago, but the number of images indexed in the Google Webmaster Tools has not displayed any tendency to increase. The number of images submitted is about 200,000 but the number of images indexed keeps floating around 10,000. I hosted my images on AWS S3, and I used different URL `.s3.amazonaws.com` instead of my domain, but I provide a `robots.txt` file in the root directory of the bucket (per this instruction). In the sitemap XML the images are grouped in each content page `<loc>`, but the images filenames doesn't give any relevant information about the content of the page. They are just a bunch of random numbers. Is there any way I can do to increase the number of indexed images in the Google Webmaster Tools?


Duplicate content for geographic listings?

Our company provides listings (in the manner of a directory) for companies by geographic location (country, state, city, etc.). It's a great user experience to be able to click on each link below to see all companies registered in for example United States, Texas and Dallas:               www.example.com/United-States     www.example.com/United-States/Texas     www.example.com/United-States/Texas/Dallas      What do Google think about this? Will I get punished for duplicate content, since all companies in for example Dallas also will show for the state of Texas and for country United States? I know I could add canonical links, but I would prefer if all 3 examples above (and all my other countries, states, cities) were listed on Google. Maybe that's a risk? Maybe there is another solution? Maybe I also should mention that each list above shows company name and a short company description and when you click on the company you will find the full details.


Domain Transfer Protection - need advice

I am about to purchase a domain name for a bit of money. I do not personally know the person who I am purchasing the domain name from, we have only chatted via email. The proposed process for the transfer is:   1. The owner of the domain lowest the domain name security and emails me the domain password, I request the transfer   2. After the request, I transfer the money via PayPal   3. When the money has been cleared the current domain name owner confirms the transfer via the link that he receives in that email   4. I wait for it to be transferred. The domain is currently registered with DirectNIC - http://www.directnic.com/ Is this the best practice? Seeing I am paying a bit of money for this domain name, I am worried that after the money has been cleared that I won't see the domain name or hear from the current domain name owner again. Is there a 'domain governing body' which I can report to if this is the case? Is the proposed transfer process the best solution? Any advice would be awesome. Thanks! Jack


Using the HTML input "name" attribute and SEO

From an SEO point-of-view, which version is better: `<input type="text" name="q" value="search" />` or `<input type="text" name="query" value="search" />` Here's another example: `<input type="text" name="e" value="email" />` or `<input type="text" name="email" value="email" />` In other words: Does Google use the HTML input `name` attribute?


301 redirect latency

I want my website to work either way for both `www.mysite.com` and `mysite.com`, so I setup an `A record` for the root domain `mysite.com` and then created a `CNAME` record which points `www.mysite.com` to the host record `mysite.com`. Now if I type `www.mysite.com`, it's actually resulting in a 301 redirect to `mysite.com`. But every time the redirection is causing about 3 seconds latency (see screenshot). ![screenshot of 301 redirect latency](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZUkST.png) Have I made any mistake in configuring my domain?


GitHub Pages doesn't show Octopress

I have a public GitHub repository for my new Octopress Blog. I just wanted to test some things, so i created a GitHub Page, and linked my Domain to it. So the domain is now linked to my GitHub Page. It works fine, and i'm getting the 404 GitHub Error page. After that, i installed Octopress and pushed it to the Repository. But then... after more than 30 Minutes of waiting... nothing happens. Still the 404 error. I followed this Tutorial and finished it without any errors. Is it normal to wait so long for GitHub the first time? Or did i miss something?


Text contents as links

**This page** on my website ( _Arabic_ ) contain Verses of Quran. Every word of the verse is linked to the search page to perform a search for this word in the Quran. (the first four words are highlighted by red circles in the attached screenshot). Does making the contents of the page, as described above, negatively affects the pagerank or the indexing of the page's contents in Google? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7qiT0.png)


Google Webmaster Tools Index Status is 0 but sitemap URL shows indexed

I've added my site to Google Webmaster Tools. The site was submitted a few weeks ago. The index status shows 0 but it shows 6 URLs have been indexed in the sitemaps section. If I search in Google I can see that the site is indexed and several pages appear: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Awww.medexpress.co.uk&oq=site%3Awww.medexpress.co.uk&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 My question is why is the index status 0 when the sitemap section shows several indexed pages and also the pages appear in the search engine.


How do I stop Google indexing my main page as https

Due to historic reasons, we have things set up so that `"www.mydomain.com"` redirects to `"store.mydomain.com".` This has worked perfectly fine until recently, when Google appears to be sending visitors to `"https:// www.mydomain.com"` which doesn't have an SSL- certificate (and never has). Strangely, its only the first link that goes to `"https:// www.mydomain.com"`, all other links point correctly to `"http:// store.mydomain.com".` Because there is no certificate on the **"www"** version, users are getting an error message. How do I make Google revert to pointing the main link at `"http:// store.mydomain.com"` (or even `"http:// www.mydomain.com."`) If I remove `"https:// www.mydomain.com"` from Google webmaster tools, will this also remove the redirected page (`"http:// store.mydomain.com`)? Thanks.


How to build a site that I can make regular updates with a user-friendly GUI

I need to build a site for my church with the following functionalities:   * The main page listing all the updates from other pages if some content is added   * Different content types on different pages that get updated very regularly - like podcasts, event schedules and stuff like that Now the real catch is that I'd like a nice GUI front-end that allows the user to add new content like new event schedules, videos, podcasts, pics and announcements and other such stuff. Is CMS the only way to go? If so can I customize my content that I want the CMS to manage? Like can I write my own webpages or does it have to be the CMS' themes? Also if this is the only way, which CMS should I choose that'll be easy to use - Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal or something else that you think is good? I have zero experience with CMS except that I use a free Wordpress account and use the Web UI to make posts.


search with mobile : does Google just look in the mobile-optimized websites?

When someone searches a keyword by mobile, does Google search in desktop version of all websites and find the proper result and **_then_** prioritize them according to the responsiveness or mobile-optimizing stuff etc **_OR_** it just search in the mobile version of the mobile-optimized websites ? I want to create a website with a responsive design, I was wondering that if I should care about SEO in mobile version of the website, or just try to optimize the desktop version for search engines and just care about the design of the mobile version ?


site:domain.com search doesn't show index page as 1st, how to fix that?

If I enter **site:domain.com** in Google search I see the index page of a site but it doesn't go as #1 result in SERP, but rather 3 or 5th... What does that mean, why other pages outrank the index page and how to fix that to have my index page ranked as #1 in there?


Weird 301 redirection by google crawler

I have some pages on my website www.acethem.com which are having 301 redirection but they are not actually 301 redirects. e.g. www.acethem.com/pastpapers/by-year/2007/ is seen as a 301 redirection to www.acethem.com/pastpapers/by-year by google (I am using "Fetch as google" in webmaster tools. Now more weird: My paginated pages with page >= 10 are all redirected to homepage: http://www.acethem.com/pastpapers/o-level/chemistry/page/10/ while http://www.acethem.com/pastpapers/o-level/chemistry/page/9/ is working properly in google crawler. Note that all these pages work fine with no redirect in browsers. Sidenote: on www.acethem.com/pastpapers/by-year/2007/, the facebook share button also points to www.acethem.com/pastpapers/by-year/.


How to use Python as a server language from a PHP perspective

I only know server side programming with PHP. To me, I write something into `index.php` and call `http://localhost/index.php` and see the results of the PHP script. I have been using CakePHP and understand that there is something you can do with URL rewriting, but in my mind, there is this one to one relation between URLs and PHP files on the server. Now I do a lot with Python, but just command line utilites. I'd like to use Python instead of PHP for my next project. So far, I was told about `mod_python`, that I have to use a framework like Pylons or Twisted or even Django to get any output at all. Others have said that I just have to `print()` a HTTP header and then the script would output like I am used with PHP. I would like to write something that basically only takes a directory listing and makes it pretty, so that I can access a bunch of PDF files from a mobile browser. I know how to do this with PHP, I know how to create a Python script that would generate the HTML. I just do not know how to execute that script when I open `http://localhost/pdfcentral/`. How would I have to configure my server? It runs on Ubuntu 10.04.


How to build a small personal-like community?

The target is to create a community where mostly people will have their own "vault". Like an enhanced diary system. Public areas will exist for some common operations, but mostly a user will get into this system because he wants to operate on its data and add/modify them. The "data" may be posts (blog? forum?) or it may be events that need to be tracked privately ... I want to start on this thought and see where i can get it? I have thought of the "obvious", that is to combine a CMS wit a forum (like Joomla with phpBB). Is there a product out there (preferably free) that does my job? Is it better to start building one of my own? _Update: Thank you all for the answers, i went with phpBB as a forum for a start and Joomla for the wrapping around the forum. RokBridge will serve as a user bridge between them in the future when i will need it. for now joomla has no users._


Should I set the title attribute for content DIV's to explain what they contain?

I have a number of DIV's that break up a page into logical elements for styles and positioning, etc. As part of optimizing my site for search engine spiders, should I include a title attribute within these DIV's? (Yes I have a title as part of the whole page, I'm curious on individual structual elements) Ex               ...     <div id="SearchOptions" title="Search filters and options - Type in a name or pick a business and Click 'Search' to get started" >       ....     </div>     ...


How to filter traffic coming to particular page from other page?

I've got page A linking to page B. There are also other pages linking to B. How can I see traffic that is coming to page B _only_ from page A? I can somehow do it via Behavior flow: > Behavior > Behavior flow > [Right click on anything] Explore traffic through > here > [Click edit icon] Define a page group > [Right click] Group details > > [Dropdown] Incoming traffic But how do I do it in normal reports? Is there any way to filter out only the traffic coming from a particular page?


HTML 5 drag and drop file attachment?

Looking for a tutorial re implementation of this functionality. I can only find blog posts saying that gmail added this, but not how it was done.


How to host a simple website using a domain name I own

I'm familiar with hosting webapps when I'm doing "the whole shebang" of installing / configuring / setting up Apache/Tomcat/PostreSQL / "coding" the website myself using HTML / JSP / CSS etc. on dedicated servers I'm renting. But in the above case, I'm "owning" the entire stack: from the Debian GNU/Linux dedicated servers to every single file that is served. Now I'd like to do something **much** simpler and I must admit I don't know what's involved at all. I'd like to host a simple website made of only a few static pages (no database, no nothing) and I'd like it to be accessible from "example.com". What needs to be technically done to have such a thing? How is the DNS supposed to be set up? Note that I do _not_ want to host this on one of my dedicated servers.


How important is the domain name for SEO

Most people advice to buy a domain name that exactly matches your main business field. For example if you sell computers the best one will probably be computers.com but with millions(maybe billions) of website all over the web the chance the perfect domain for you to be free is (lets be hones) less than zero. So you have to satisfy yourself with something else like company-name- computers.com or just company-name.com.   So the question is how much does this counts when the search engines calculate your website position in SERPs cause I have always thought that having high quality and related content, pretty URLs and back-links from valuable sources is more important then the domain name itself.


how to deal with URLs containing lot of spammy keywords?

I'm writing a big index of documents and I'm dealing with URLs as example I will use the car industry: somesite.com/manifacturer-mazda_model-miata_engine-1600cc_gas_color-red_hard- top-spider_[[A LOT MORE]].htm this url points to a generated content that can't be identified as a single resource (in practice, every keyword is a filter and the page result is generated by a database search) at Google's eyes an URL like this looks spammy or I can use this solution with freedom? using querystring instead of URL rewriting can fix risks? and, in this case, keywords will be considered as keyword for SERPs? thank you in advance, feel free to correct my English!


an Open Source graphic software like fireworks

Hi All and happy new year i'm wondering if there's any open source and free software to create designs, the way fireworks does, by allowing creation of slices (decoupes, HTML and images) thank you very much


.htaccess 301 redirect with regex?

How to do this with regular expression?               Old -> New     http://www.example.com/1.html   -> http://www.example.com/dir/1.html     http://www.example.com/2.html   -> http://www.example.com/dir/2.html     http://www.example.com/3.asp    -> http://www.example.com/dir/3.html     http://www.example.com/4.asp    -> http://www.example.com/dir/4.html     http://www.example.com/4_a.html -> http://www.example.com/dir/sub/4-a.html     http://www.example.com/4_b.html -> http://www.example.com/dir/sub/4-b.html      I've tried this:               Redirect 301 /1.html http://www.example.com/dir/1.html      Redirect 301 /2.html http://www.example.com/dir/2.html      Redirect 301 /3.asp http://www.example.com/dir/3.html      Redirect 301 /4.asp http://www.example.com/dir/4.html      Redirect 301 /4_a.html http://www.example.com/dir/sub/4-a.html      Redirect 301 /4_b.html http://www.example.com/dir/sub/4-b.html


Is link building still a factor for getting rank in Google?

Is link building still a major factor for good ranking in SERP’s of Google?


Index page content identical to page 1 of a gallery-type website

I have a gallery type website, e.g. a site that lists blog posts or pictures in a paginated manner. However, I have 2 pages that have identical content:   1. example.com/index.html   2. example.com/page/1 Page 2, 3 and so on have different content naturally. However, for SEO purposes, what is the best way of telling Google that page 1 is identical to index.html? Should I 302 redirect `index.html` to `/page/1` so `index.html` is non- existent, so to say or should I put a `canonical` tag in `/page/1` (but not on `/page/2`) that points to `index.html`?


Problem with htaccess rewrite condition

I needed to redirect `site.com/var1/var2/var3/...` to               site.com/index.php?myvars=var1/var2/var3/...      This is the code I wrote myself:               RewriteEngine On         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/index.php         RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?myvars=$1 [L,QSA]      I really want to understand why this does not work, and what solution would work. I need help from you guys, not to make my work, but to help me understanding how can I do it. When I try my code, it keeps running forever and the page does not loads. I don't know why, because I did not copy this code, I studied regex and htaccess to learn, but it did not work. Thank you so much!


Point domain to Amazon EC2 Server

I just got a domain from a rather suspicious registrar and I want to point that domain to an EC2 instance from Amazon AWS. I already have an elastic IP ready and just need to point the domain to it. However my registrar asks me for my nameservers, (ns1.somedomain.com, etc), which I don't have, since Amazon is not your typical webhost. I've read on the amazon forums that you only need to create an A record, which I did, but my registrar forces me to put some values in the ns1 and ns2 fields, so am I doing something wrong? I'm not very familiar with DNS.


Microdata vs. Microformats

Just like the title says: it seems to me that microdata has a few advantages over microformats, with the only drawback being a bit more verbose. Is this all the story? It seems that Google supports both equally; is there anything else which I should consider?


Dynamic Content Editor

I've asked this question around the net and still haven't found exactly what I'm looking for. Basically I have several sites that I run through a custom PHP framework. I'd like to add a way for users to content management but all I really want is a simple interface that lets users click and edit (similar to Concrete5). All they really need is.. well, pretty much what I'm writing this with. A way to format text. All of the links/framework, that sort of thing are taken care of by me or automated through scripting. Is there a good foundation to build on? It seems a little unnecessary to re- build everything into a CMS like Wordpress or Concrete. I know exactly what's in my programming, I'd rather use it. I just want an easy way for clients to edit content.


What do webmasters need most in a CMS?

I would like to draw on your experiences with different web content management systems and hear what kind features you feel are the most important from a webmaster point of view. _As a webmaster what features do you find are the most important in a CMS?_ Please:   * **specify only one feature per answer**   * up-vote features you also find important   * feel free to give multiple answers (propose multiple features)   * describe features in depth, rather than reference a specific CMS   * feel free to write "in contrast to ...", i.e. what this feature does better


Performance : Auto Complete Search for a large amount of data?

I have a table(mysql) containing around 20,000 records and I am trying to build a auto complete search box for my website. Someone told me that auto- complete search for such a large number of records would be very slow and hence is of no worth. I just want to consult some more people that is it a good idea to have a auto complete search for such data?


Is the hybrid solution the best one for developing a web app?

I need to build a web app that has to be "universal". By universal I mean that I need it to be available online and offline, and usable on mobile platform and pc's and mac. I need to store and retrieve the info and I want the app to be updated when its online. Since I need to port the info to a SQL database I thought about building an CMS that would build the app for each client using the SQL database. That app would run with a Nosql Db in the background that would return the data to the master (couchdb) and then I would take that info and parse it to store it in the SQL Database ... I thought using the couchdb engine would be the best solution because I need the data to be available online and offline. The question now ...   * First is it a good idea?    * Any other suggestions I could build on?(can be anything)   * Is the hybrid solution a good idea?   * What offline storage easily replicable I could use for a web app ( easy to install at the client facilities?)


What is the benefit of using Google Analytics' asynchronous tracking code compared to the non-asynchronous code?

What, specifically, does the asynchronous code accomplish or allow that the older code does not?


Using <strong> for introductory paragraph to a post - a bad idea?

I have a news website and on most posts the first paragraph is in bold. Currently the authors are just using `<strong>` to bold the paragraph, would it be better from an SEO point of view to rather use a paragraph class that is styled with `p.bold {font-weight:bold;}` `<p class="bold">`. Does `<strong>` on the first paragraph send the wrong message to search engines? The text is important but the main reason it is in bold is because it is the opening paragraph. I realise `<strong>` is used to emphasise certain words on a page


Apache rewrite rules for development workstation and server

I've got developers editing pages for several sites on a WAMP stack and then uploading to the public servers running LAMP stacks. We're pretty happy with it, but we have this minor annoyance: we can't quite use the same .htaccess files in the development and production environments. On the public sites, the source folder maps to `http://foo.com`, `http://bar.com`, and so on. On the developer workstation, the source folders map to `http://localhost/foo`, `http://localhost/bar`, and so on. That means that I need `RewriteBase /` for the public servers, while each site on the developer workstation uses `RewriteBase /foo/`, `RewriteBase /bar/`, or whatever. Is there any way to specify the RewriteBase relative to the `.htaccess` file? Any other ideas for how to make my rewrite rules more portable? If you're curious, I'm using rewrite rules to redirect to CakePHP routing code, so the rule looks like this:               RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cake_main.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]      If I don't use a RewriteBase of `/foo/` on the developer workstation, then it will rewrite to `/cake_main.php` instead of `/foo/cake_main.php`.


Should my web app have its own domain name?

I'm going to get a domain name for my personal web page. It will contain my blog, photos and other personal stuff, plus different web apps and tools that I'm working on. I have put quite a lot of work in one of the web apps, and I think it has great potential. It covers a niche in a way that no other page has done before and I can see great possibilities to expand it. Via links to webstores and ads I think it could even make some money, and if I play it right this could be _the_ place to go when you're into the specific niche that it covers (sorry for being so vague). My question is, would it be better for a (potentially great) web app like this to have its own domain name (`nameofmyapp.com`) instead of being a subpage of my personal page (`mypersonaldomain.com/nameofmyapp`)? Is the web app more likely to be found by others, via Google etc, with its own domain name? Could a "subpage" give more attention (visitors) to my personal page? pros and cons?


Can you recommend ways to manage code deployment to a Linux based web server?

I've always used a very simple bash script to deploy code. I'm moving away from using subversion to Mercurial but I don't really think the revision control software matters for deployment. What are some betters ways to do this?               #!/bin/sh     date=`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S`     tar -zcvf app-dir-$date.tar.gz app/dir      tar -zcvf app-templates-$date.tar.gz app/templates     tar -zcvf app-media-$date.tar.gz app/media     svn export http://example.com/somepath/trunk hh/ --force


How to get number of views for a page using Google Analytics

I have a website and for each post that I write (that is a particular page) in my blog, I would like to show the number of views that Google Analytics tracks. How to do this using Analytics API? Or is it something related to Webmaster tools? Thankyou ### Please note... I have a Google Analytics account correctly working and processing data.


How to reduce the CPU load on a hosting with WordPress installed as a CMS?

I have been using hostgators hatchling plan for three months. I got an email from the hosting that my website is creating an over load on CPU. They said that I am eating up their processor and as a precaution, they have temporarily suspended my account. When I contacted their customer support, they said: > You have to optimize your database and use some sort of caching mechanism, > where the script does not need to generate a new page with every request, > helps to lower the over load that a script will cause. I am not a technical geek, I am wondering how I will do this thing. I don't have any resource to hire a web developer to do this job. My website is down for 48hours. I was using wp super cache along with cloudfare's free support. Now I have intalled optimize-db plugin and optimized my database. Please provide me with some more tips on how to optimize my database to reduce CPU usage. Any help would be appreciated.


Creating a backup - Rsync - Connection refused (111)

I am trying to create a backup of my website for free. I just want to have a backup of my website, including not only all files and the configuration but also the **databases**. I mean, a full backup. If it can be done automatically, it would be better. I use Ubuntu on my computer. I feel there are better ways than using the cpanel to achieve that (actually, I believe sometimes web hosters does not have any cpanel). I read the following on how to do it: > Automatically mirror the entire contents and configuration of your main > server to a secondary backup server on a completely separate network in a > different data centre. Use RSync, FXP, cPanel voodoo, or whatever method you > wish to automate syncing. That is why I installed Rsync Daemon which is an alternative to SSH for remote backups. I configured it but the test went wrong. The terminal is showing me this:               pablofiumara@pablofiumara-Lenovo-G470:~$ sudo rsync fiumara@pablofiumara.com::share     [sudo] password for pablofiumara:      rsync: failed to connect to pablofiumara.com (50.87.147.75): Connection refused (111)     rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(122) [Receiver=3.0.9]          pablofiumara@pablofiumara-Lenovo-G470:~$ sudo rsync fiumara@50.87.147.7::share  failed to connect to 50.87.147.7 (50.87.147.7): Connection refused (111)     rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(122) [Receiver=3.0.9]      What should I do? Is there a better or easier way to achieve what I wish (I mentioned this in the first paragraph)?


Getting really weird entries in Apache log from Baidu.com?

I was looking through my server logs today, and I noticed this: (it's all one row)               118.244.179.250 - - [16/Oct/2013:20:59:25 +0000] "GET http://www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttphttp/www.baidu.comhttphttp/www.baidu.comhttp/www.baidu.com/ HTTP/1.1" 301 4605 "http://www.baidu.com/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)"      `"GET http://www.baidu.comhttphttphttphttphttp...`? Am I doing something wrong? Am I hosting someone else's website without knowing it? Is a guy named baidu trying to drive me crazy?


Why Alexa has two rankings for my website?

I have a website that has two different Alexa rankings as follows: 1) The public ranking on Alexa siteinfo page of the website, that is the usual ranking page and it indicates a rank of **318,254** which they claim it is updated daily. 2) Another public and daily ranking of the same website but it is viewable using either the freely available list for **Top 1,000,000 Sites** in this page at the almost top right **or** using StatsCrop website and this ranking indicates a rank of **253,753**. Which one is more accurate? Why different daily rankings?


Are there some good Javascript templates out there?

I am trying to create a simple .js file that will let me have some submit buttons here and there, with the text paragraph in the middle changing based on which submit button is pressed. Does the Javascript community provide either generic or specific templates that does this? It does not need to be exactly like this, just having a few submit buttons and text that changes is what matters.


What is the correct way to write my "robots.txt" file?

I have written the following code inside my _robots.txt_ file:                  User-Agent: Googlebot        Disallow:             User-agent: Mediapartners-Google        Disallow:             Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml      Is my _robots.txt_ is correct? I only want two user agent to follow my site (i.e., Googlebot & Mediapartners-Google).


How should I reference precompressed versions of static files hosted with Amazon's S3?

I have a website that serves static assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) directly from Amazon's S3. As far as I know S3 does not support gzip even when browsers accept it. What problems might arise if the HTML page links to pre-compressed `style_v1.gz.css` and `script_v1.gz.js` (instead of without `gz`) when the application sees `gzip` in the `Accept-Encoding request headers?` And do I need to set any special headers on these files in S3? (other than the obvious Content-Encoding: gzip)


Is Smush it a reliabe service?

Smush it is an online compression tool for images provided by Yahoo. However, despite being maintained by a big company, it is often very slow and even offline. In their FAQ there is a question about API: > **Is there a Smush.it API I can access so that my images are automatically > smushed when they are published?** > > The API currently is not available for public use. We are working towards > making this publicly accessible. If I recall correctly, this is the same answer I read about 2 years ago and no API has been released since then. My question is: Is a good idea to rely on this service to compress images on fly? **Edit** - You guys must be trippin or something. Smush it is simple tool provided by Yahoo that can be used by **webmasters** to compress images on their sites. If a question about this does not fit on **Pro Webmasters** , where else would it fit? `</rant>`


Find all <forms> used on a site

Is there e.g. a crawler that can find (and list the form action etc.) all pages that have forms in my site?


Url is different

I have a website name somyatrans.com. when i searched in google with the site: operator it shows different url. For example:- I have searched in google like this site:somyatrans.com I found this url **www.somyatrans.com/? &mobondhandle=system** which is not in this website. After that i have search my website with this site search operator appending my home page keywords for example 1:- **site:somyatrans.com certified language translation** search result was this **www.somyatrans.com/?ref=driverlayer.com** I am surprised with this result, the result i was expecting   www.somyatrans.com Unfortunately it is showing **www.somyatrans.com/?ref=driverlayer.com** I can not understand is there any problem or not. There is another website has some different issue related to the domain name search using site operator and keywords ranking problem. for example:- **site:goforvisa.com** does not show my domain name in top as my website name is **goforvisa.com** Google search result shows different result in top instead of my domain name. **Result : #1- blog.goforvisa.com Result : #2- goforvisa.com** Is there any one who can help me why google shows like that my website result instead of my home page. Please some one help me out with this issue and let me know how can i solve this issue. Thanks in advance for your kind help or answer.


Multilingual sites and Google search results, using sub-folders for language

About three months ago we added an English version of our, previously Japanese only, site under the subfolder /en/ we've tried to follow the sometimes incomplete best practices laid out by Google by adding alternate tags to all pages that are currently translated. The top page for instance has the following meta tags for language.               <link rel="canonical" href="/">     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="ja" href="/">     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="/en/">      While the English main page under /en/ has               <link rel="canonical" href="/en/">     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="ja" href="/">     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="/en/">      Alternate languages are setup in the sitemap. (as per Google's recommendations) It seems however that Google absolutely refuses to show the English top page in results when the user is using English at google.com if you search you'll, as of this post, get the Japanese description and a title that Google has apparently invented instead of the title and description in the meta-tags for the /en/ index page. Does anyone have any experience with subfolders actually working to affect search results? What are the best practices for ensuring that the correct language version of my website is displayed through Google and other search engines? And how long will it take before the new language version becomes prominent in search engine results? NOTE: per GDav's suggestion I've removed the following tags for now as a test.               <link rel="canonical" href="/">     <link rel="canonical" href="/en/">


404 page needs meta description (just to make Google happier)?

I'm fixing some minor things on the 404 page for all my websites. My punctiliousness makes me unable to sleep well unless I get an answer to this question. :) **Does a 404 page need a meta description tag?** If yes filled with what, "page not found"? I would say no, if Google really cares more about contents and user frienly site rather than about what is on the page (moreover the 404 page snippet should never show up in Google cause server is sending real 404 code). But after reading all this stuff:   * http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93641   * http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/08/make-your-404-pages-more-useful.html   * http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136085 on how they suggest to fill up a 404 page (that I always thought should just be a simple 404 page) **I started to feel worried about meta description too**. I'm just looking for some clue/suggestion I might not have thought about, or maybe just reassurance. :) Thanks


What sort of phone numbers are allowed as the WHOIS contact?

Are there any restrictions on the type of phone number I can give as my WHOIS contact? Notwithstanding that it is a phone number which can be used to contact the domain holder. For example, what if I change it to a premium rate line? If the scammers want to talk to me so much, make them pay for the privilege! In the UK, cell phones are more expensive for the caller to call than land- lines, so I suspect a significant number of people are already listing a "premium rate" phone number. EDIT: Many thanks to Chloe and Eduardo for their links to WHOIS privacy services, but I'm really interested in an answer to my question. The idea of someone using a premium rate phone number was to set the scene for the most extreme example of a phone number that defeats the purpose of having a phone number published in the first place.


Does Anyone Know how to Export the Drop off Rate for all the pages in Google Analytics?

What i want is to be able to export the drop off rate information from user flow in GA. As you guys know, The only way to see this information is to actually click in each "group" within the user flow dashboard to see this information. Does anybody know if this information could be taken from Google Analytics API? Or if there is an alternative way to get/export this information?


Ranking hit after site migration

I migrated my site from its old domain over a month ago. I followed Google Webmaster Tools completely, including `301` redirects from every existing URL to the new domain, and then submitting a change of address. Traffic continued as normal, but then a few days after submitting the change of address traffic plummeted to about 20-30% of what it was previously. Most of my traffic comes from organic search, and I can see that for the keywords I had targeted before and performed well with and am now ranking much much lower for. In some cases for low competition keywords I've only lost a few places, for higher competition terms I have really suffered. This has started to pick up a bit (one of my keywords I have risen from 195 to 100 in the last week), but it seems to be a very slow process. How seamless is this process normally? I was under the impression that this would not affect my rankings too severely, but it has now been a month since the move and recovery seems to be very slow, if at all. Is it likely that I've missed something? The only change is that I have moved what was the home page to be more of a sub-page, and now in its place is a magazine-style home page. I understand that links to the old site will now be pointing to the latter which means that rankings for some keywords attributed to the old home page will take a hit, but even on other pages that seem to fit in exactly the same page structure as the previous site I have seen a drop in rankings.


CDN for authenticated sites

We have a site that requires users to sign into. Typical stuff. Today, all the content (dynamic and static) is behind the login process, and you cannot access any of the pages or files via a URL unless you are logged in. This even applies for images, css, js, etc. This is a requirment, the content cannot be open to the world. We have been thinking of moving the static content off to a separate server for performance and scalability reasons, but are unsure how to do this, and still have these files secure and not open to the world. Basically, the authentication would need to be passed to the separate server (or CDN) and verified before we could serve it up. Perhaps this is not possible, and it is not a good case for separating static and dynamic content. We are running a Microsoft Stack - ASP.NET, IIS 6, but could go IIS 7-7.5.


Is it possible to share SSL certificates across servers?

We have a web application we will be launching soonish and for right now we just have one SSL/HTTPS certificate. We have this one certificate shared across 3 servers(in a cluster for load balancing) which we've been told is "not the right way"... So do you always have to buy N certificates for N servers or is there a special "shared" certificate or such? Why is it not right to share the certificate when these 3 servers are exactly the same hardware and software?


SEO and Changeable-But-Optional URL's

Is there any sort of downside for a URL being changeable? Take any stack exchange question for example. The URL looks something like this: `webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/3079/should-i-use-a-file-extension-or- not` Simply `webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/3079` is the "true" link, as in you can always access that question by it's ID even if the title changes. But say the question gets renamed by the user after being indexed by Google, so the URL is now `webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/3079/file- extensions-are-yummy` Can anyone provide insight into the tradeoffs here? I like to have the document title (in this case, the question title) after the document's ID for SEO and readability purposes, but I'm wondering what the drawbacks are for when the last part of the URL changes. Is it worth disallowing users from being able to rename their document? Do I need to set up some tricky 301 redirects?


What is the EU Data Processing Amendment and should I accept it in Google Analytics?

The info provided by Google is sparse https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3379636?hl=en I'm an EU citizen but am unsure if I should accept it. Currently it shouldn't affect my GA but I am wary of it as I have no idea what the significance of the agreement is.


Changing the RSS and Dynamic Views layout when using Blogger as a Podcast index

I'm trying to set up a podcast service at present. This is just a 'spare time' task - so I wanted a quick, easy way to do it. To get this working:   * I've ripped (with owner permission) some YouTube content across to MP3 and hosted this content on Azure Blob Storage.   * I've posted blog posts - with linked mp3 content - inside a Blogger website.   * I've registered the RSS feed with iTunes This all seems to be working OK - http://dotnetmobilepodcast.blogspot.co.uk/ However, when it comes to a couple of final touches, then I'm hitting problems. ### RSS I would like to add iTunes metadata to the RSS feed. However, I can't find any way to do this inside the Blogger system. To workaround this I've tried using FeedBurner with its StreamCast plugin. However, the output from FeedBurner doesn't seem to be accepted by iTunes - e.g. http://feeds.feedburner.com/MobileAppCSharpPodcasts leads to this very unhelpful 11111 message: ![11111](http://i.stack.imgur.com/09yJ7.png) Is there any other way I can get this iTunes metadata content into the Blogger RSS feed - e.g. maybe an alternative service or a Yahoo! Pipe? ### Showing the MP3 files in the Blog I'm trying to work out how to automatically display the linked enclosures inside the blog posts - do the blogger Dynamic Views don't seem to have any way of doing this? I've found the HTML in those views very difficult to follow. If necessary I can workaround this using manual entries into each blog post... but I'd prefer to do this programatically if I can.


Using WordPress for large collaborative site

I work for a government agency, and we're thinking about creating a new, fairly large site using WordPress as the platform. It would involve allowing quite a few people around the state access to the site as editors, bringing together an even larger pool of content creators. This is the first site like this I've created/run, although I feel solid on the basics of WordPress. What should I watch out for in terms of setup, maintenance, hosting, security etc.? I'm hoping to talk with some WordPress veterans to figure out the questions I haven't already asked myself, you know? Thanks.


Untrusted user-agent?

My logs recently showed the following user-agent: samsung-gt-s5620 UNTRUSTED/1.0 Why would a user-agent have untrusted in caps in its name?


How do you change the url that Google Analytics' In-Page Analytics displays?

In Google Analytics, from the dashboard, clicking 'Content' in the left hand pane, and then clicking 'In-Page Analytics' brings up an awesome interface for seeing where users have actually clicked in the site. **However** , it seems to only bring up the root page. From there, I can navigate to other pages by clicking on the links myself, but I can't figure out how to display In-Page analytics for a page that I can't navigate to just by clicking, for example /products/red-shoes. So, how do I change the url for which in-page analytics are being displayed? Hopefully there's just something simple I am missing.


Which approach for big community (large number of members) but in small groups (2-4) persons?

Started asking this: Another Question Thought that the idea of implementing this in a forum would be a good idea but its not. I am desperately searching for ways to create (hopefully) a large community and have them create content(like posts with text attachements e.t.c), BUT i need them to work in groups of 2-4 people. Forums are not a good idea for the simple reason that you would need to create thousands of forums and manually administer them. For example lets assume that the community has 10.000 people in ~2.500 groups. If each group demands for 2-3 subforums i will end up having ~7000 subforums to administer in any board software. Its easy to say "write your own" but that's what i want to avoid, at least for the beginning. I would appreciate any ideas that you guys have.


HTTP meta refresh keeps looping in older browsers

I added an HTTP meta refresh to my site like this:               <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://mysite.com">       but it seems that the browser keeps looping (refreshing) in older Firefox browsers, while in the new version (30.0) it doesn't.


.uk registration of existing .co.uk domain with a different registratr

I currently have .co.uk with name.com who do not provide a .uk domain. Is there anyway I can register a .uk domain with a different provider for this domain?


Search Engine Crawler call ajax to crawl ajax returned content?

wondering if search engine crawlers see pages with links to ajax calls (using jQuery + Asp.Net MVC) if they follow these links to index the content. I found this question, but I am wondering currently does the 'follow' work with standard jQuery type links on say click events. Should the website put ajax content in a static and perhaps point to that page from a sitemap? This would be a non ajax page. Just trying to get the most content indexed that I get to improve my organic seo.


What are some methods to rewards users for participating on your site?

This is not strictly programming related, so I apologize. But I think this fits within the scope of this site. We have a community site (part forum, part wiki, part knowledge base) where our users can participate in discussions, Q&As, etc. One of the things I would like to do is have some type of reward system where users feel like they are gaining something by participating. And something that gives them the incentive to come back. Stack Overflow has reputation and badges. Digg, Propeller and Reddit have their own systems whether that be points, karma or whatever. I am thinking something that has some RPG style elements but I can't think of any good examples. Does SO have any ideas that could be useful in this scenario?