Site experiencing low traffic volume between 8AM and 4PM BST

There may be no definitive answer to this question but I thought peer review of the problem might stimulate some ideas on the topic. We have a boutique sales site that is experiencing low volumes of traffic (both UK and international) between 8AM and 4PM BST. This seems sort of strange since our target audience for the site is UK based, and this would seem to be when people are awake and online. We are in contact with another boutique site in the same sector who don't experience this issue, so it seems kinda strange. Later on in the day we are getting traffic from the UK, as well as a fair amount of international traffic, so I'm at a loss to figure this one out. The site is fairly well optimised including:-   * sitemap.xml   * Proper caching policies across the board   * google merchant   * dublin core   * microdata   * html5   * pretty urls   * meta and content are reviewed as an ongoing concern   * we have decent sitelinks for direct queries thru google on the site name   * a decent amount of inbound links   * FB, Twitter, Google +1   * Google maps listing [verified]   * site has been selling for ~4 months and is getting ~250 users per day. So I'm not entirely sure how to explain the mid day dip in our figures.... Any ideas at all would be useful. Cheers all!


How to diagnose slow loading web pages?

Pages at my domain sometimes load very slow. The domain is registered at 101domain, server is in Europe.               Reply from 91.185.209.164: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=60     Reply from 91.185.209.164: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=60     Reply from 91.185.209.164: bytes=32 time=64ms TTL=60     Reply from 91.185.209.164: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=60      Is this because the domain is registered on the other side of the world?


How to format facebook status retrieved using status.get

When I retrieve my facebook status through facebook API, using status.get, the informations comes in the form of               [       {         "message": "Does anyone here knows how to disappear and reappear again after a few months??",         "time": 1282146230,         "status_id": 00000000000000,         "source": 2915120374,         "uid": 000000000       },       {         "message": "Blah blah and blah",         "time": 1282073572,         "status_id": 00000000000000,         "source": 2915120374,         "uid": 000000000       }     ]      I want to format the information using css and display the updates on my blog. How do I extract the info from the above retrieved format so that I can use it on my php page and use css to style the updates??


Files synced via dropbox cannot be served with IIS because of file permissions

I'm running into the problem of using Dropbox and IIS. I am using the Dropbox Folder Sync plugin to sync a folder outside the Dropbox folder. They are synced into my `inetpub\root\downloads\` directory. The problem is not that it doesn't sync. The problem is that the files that get synced have no permissions attached to them. I can't open any of them on IIS. Initially the downloads were to be only PDFs but they don't open so I tried an .ASPX file and it fails to load as well. Is there any way around this or another program I can use to sync files but allow them to be opened on an IIS server.


My site looks fine but Google is reporting "harmful code" - what should I do?

(Note: I have not linked to my site, but you can see the address below) Visiting my site gives that typical > zeno.biyg.org contains malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you > visit this site. I have the webpage listed under my Google Webmaster account, and it says: > Unfortunately, Google has discovered harmful code on your site. Google users > will see a warning page when they attempt to visit pages within this site. > > Some of the URLs on this site redirect browsers to web pages that install > malware. This indicates that the server(s) that host pages for this site may > contain altered configuration files (such as Apache's .htaccess file).               Problematic URLs on http://zeno.biyg.org/   Last checked     / - Details                                 1/2/12     /viewtopic.php?f=3&t=45 - Details           1/4/12      > When Google last tested this page, no content was returned from your server. > Instead, the browser was redirected to a malicious web page. It is likely > that your server configuration has been modified. I have checked both those pages and they come up just fine for me. Google is saying something is redirecting (thus my site doesn't actual contain the malware) visitors to another website (which contains the malware) and I can't reproduce that or find that redirect. I've triple checked everything and cannot find what Google is saying. I've even requested a review, and Google came back saying something is still there. Basically Google seems to say that visiting my site will redirect the user to another site that is not mine. I cannot find that happening anywhere on my site. There's nothing wrong in the .htaccess file, the HTML source has nothing suspicious; I cannot reproduce this what Google is saying. I have full access to this site/server. Any thoughts as to why Google is saying something is detected? [EDIT] I ran the site under http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/ and something was detected (or it's just listing malware detected based on the Google blacklist). I personally spoke to someone from Sucuri and we could not find it either. I even listed every single .htaccess content and sent it to the Security Analyst there and everything was fine.


A bounce-rate attack to manipulate SEO?

This is a question to experienced people that might help us shed some light on the issue. We noticed a very strange behavior on our site, in Google Analytics. Some dude from Finland, namely, from Kouvola city is hitting one of our pages - only one page on our site, 'bout a hundred times per day, all with an average bounce rate of 90%+... This is causing our overall bounce rate to go up by 1 to 3% per day... which is very disturbing.. since we're trying to do our best in order to keep it as low as possible. And obviously having it jumped from ~24% to 27%, just because of that crazy dude is not making us happy at all... We tried implementing a geo-targeted script in order to catch this particular visitor and deliver him a juicy message, and it seemed like it helped in the beginning, it has stopped for a day or two, but now he's back... The geo-targeted script was also logging all IP addresses for page requests originating from Finland in order to find out more details and _(in order to block them on the server level, later)_.. but thing is, it was all mainly cable or DSL connections with various, but not constantly repeating IPs... we are all wondering what is he up to really ? I think that this page should be kept updated with ideas on how to combat this and perhaps someone could also shed light on what it might be ? What is the reason for doing this "bounce-rate attack", as I call it? There was a similar question asked on stackoverflow earlier, with no meaningful answer - here - How to stop bounce rate manipulation.


Vertical page flip effect

I found turn.js as a very simple and nice effect to create page flip effect. The problem is that I'm looking for that effect but vertical not horizontal. Does anybody knows any Javascript or what should I modify in that one to get the result I'm looking for?


Apache Per User Directory Not Found

For some reason the user directory I have for my server has stopped working whenever I go to server/~user/public_html/ I get a 404 error. The files are there on the ftp, but they're not showing up from the web. It's strange because it was working just a while ago. Any help?


Tweaking site based on bounce rate

I am trying to understand numbers I see on my site and need some help.               Entry pages | Entries Bounced | % Bounced      index.php | 23737.0 | 16512.0 | 70.0     404.php | 22726.0 | 15477.0 | 68.0     downloadform.php | 9718.0 | 6538.0 | 67.0     product1.php | 7534.0 | 3213.0 | 43.0      Does this mean visitors to my third entry (Where I ask visitors to fill out a form before downloading free s/w) are leaving in droves? That page is a form, which when submitted still displays the same URL. Does that affect the bounce rate calculation? I understand the `index.php`. 70% of the visitors are leaving quickly. I need an exit survey for that page (any effective methods?). That `404.php` is a bother too (something from the old site, people must have bookmarked). And another of my stats reports says: Exit page | # of visits               404.php | 31282.0     index.php | 29846.0     downloadform.php | 10640.0     product1.php | 7227.0      I am trying to make sense of this data for further tweaking.


Getting the keyword as a parameter from Adwords using ValueTrack

I set up an AdWords campaign for website following the instructions for Google AdWords ValueTrack. One of the things that it is supposed to be able to do is pass the keyword as a URL parameter using the code `{keyword}` in the URL. I created a landing URL using the Google Analytics URL builder. I put `{keyword}` into the "Campaign Term" field and it came out like this:               http://example.com/landing.html?utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=%7Bkeyword%7D&utm_content=my_content&utm_campaign=my_page      When I actually run the campaign, the keyword substitution isn't happening. I'm getting the literal string `{keyword}` passed to my website. I see it in my log files. Why isn't the substitution working the way I would expect it to?


How to tackle archived who-is personal data with opt-out?

As far as I understand it, it is possible to opt-out (in the UK at least) of having your address details displayed on who-is information of a domain for non-trading individuals. What I want to know is, after opt-out, how do individuals combat archived data? Is there any enforcement of this? How many who-is websites are there which archive data and what rights do we have to force them to remove that data without paying absurd fees? In the case of capitulating to these scoundrels, what point is it in paying for the removal of archived data if that data can presumably resurface on another who-is repository? In other words, what strategy is one supposed to take, besides being wiser after the fact?


analytics.js: how enable local remote server mode?

I'm trying migrate website tracking from old Google Analytics script `ga.js` to new `analytics.js`. Currently I have enabled "local remote server mode" to send tracing requests to my server as well. Following code was used to enable this mode on `ga.js`: `_gaq.push(['_setLocalRemoteServerMode']);` (more info). But I can not find how to enable this feature on new analytics.js. Has anybody solved this already?


SEO for URL where widget resides - not where content is hosted - iFrame vs DIV

I do not care about SEO for the source URL of content, but would like my customers' websites to benefit from the content being served. Does it make a difference whether the content is served in iFrame of DIV? How do I optimize things?


VPS Performance

Sometimes I can see that the performance drops for my websites that are located on a VPS. Is it possible the VPS provider allocated less memory/cpu power to my VPS? So, How I can check I get the maximum performance power from service provider?


Reading 'Index Status' graph in Google Webmaster tools

I recently found a bunch of old files that had been ftp'ed to a live production server by mistake on a static (html / css / js) site. I manually deleted these files, but today when checking in Google Webmaster tools i found this graph below. The 'update' marker is from 3/9/14, what i can work out is what Google is trying to tell me, are they saying that : There was a ranking update like Penguin or Panda and they penalized my site and un-indexed a load of pages which they thought were junk.. **OR** Is this showing that I updated the site by deleting the files on the server on 3/9/14 **OR** Is this something else ? ![graph](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ez1DC.png)


RewriteRule not working at server level?

I wanted to forbid some robots from doing certain things to my websites and decided to add a RewriteRule for that purpose. The rule works when put in one of my <VirtualHost *:80> _tag_ and looks like this:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} libwww-perl     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST     RewriteRule . - [F,L]      However, I wanted to apply that to all my websites instead of just one of them. So with the newest version of Apache2 settings, I decided to put that code in the security.conf file. This file is defined under /etc/apache2/conf- available/... (and yes, I have a softlink from the /etc/apache2/conf- enabled/... directory.) However, if the definition is only in the conf-available/security.conf files, it somehow gets ignored. From the documentation, it says that these Rewrite* commands all work at server level! Any idea of what I would be missing?


sitemap.xml for two domains - This URL is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location

I have two domains running on the same server with the same IP (different content). I have read that it is ok to provide only one sitemap containing information for both domains, so this is what the sitemap looks like (extract):               <url>         <loc>http://www.domain1.tld/page1/</loc>         <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>         <priority>0.7</priority>     </url>     <url>         <loc>http://www.domain2.tld/page1/</loc>         <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>         <priority>0.7</priority>     </url>      Now when I submit the sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools I get the following error message:               This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location.      which is caused by the second domain being in the sitemap. I have read that it is possible to also provide Google, etc. with different sitemaps for each domain.   **Would that be solution or can I ignore the error? What would be the best solution**


Gtmetrix shows high loading time for first domain waiting time. How to reduce it

I am wondering, why is my Domain taking long time to load?   As per Gtmetrix timeline, first domain name propagation takes up to 953ms:               Blocking - 53 ms     Waiting - 843 ms     Receiving - 57 ms      Sometimes its takes up to even 2 seconds. Below is response from Header:               Server              Apache/2.2     Vary                Accept-Encoding     Cache-Control       no-cache     Content-Type        text/html; charset=utf-8     Content-Encoding    gzip     P3P                 CP="NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM"     Date                Wed, 22 Jan 2014 02:45:14 GMT     Pragma              no-cache     Connection          Keep-Alive     Set-Cookie          X-Mapping-alncmkhk=EDDD5D603AF7261BACF2EBF3FC8185A8; path=/     ed2f1641e2a81373908380a3799b0d29=59n2seqdchc1j6lvl48lepevg0; path=/     Content-Length      7806          Request Headers         Host                www.mycarhelpline.com     User-Agent          Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0     Accept              text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8     Accept-Language     en-US,en;q=0.5     Accept-Encoding     gzip, deflate     Connection          keep-alive      Any advice - what to do correctly to decrease this substantially by over 90%?


SEO- IP-based Language Change

I have a site,The site have lot of visitors from international.The site content currently in English.I want to change language dynamically by using PHP code,this done based on the requesting IP address. If the IP address is in US Countries, in server side automatically detect loading language as English. Is this method good for SEO? Is there any alternative solution for this?,Please suggest me. Thanks in Advance.


Redirect search traffic to mobile page

For my arcade website I made a tablet website (t.example.com) The flash games on my normal website (example.com) don't work on tablets. On the tablet website I publish HTML5 games that do work. I build a mobile redirect so all tablet users are redirected to t.example.com Now when sombody find my website trough Google on pacman games. The url redirects from example.com/pacman/ to t.example.com My question is: - Is this the right way to do it since the users can't play on the normal site? - Do I risk a Google penaly or drop in results because I redirect to another url?


Problems with SSL certificate in IIS 8

I bought certificate only for `name_domain.com` under the configuration for IIS 8 (on Windows Server 2012). I have 301 redirects from `www.name_domain.com` to `https://name_domain.com`. If I open the following link in a browser: `www.name_domain.com` , there's a certificate error. Should I buy a new certificate or maybe there is another solution to the problem?


What is the best way to automate “domain parking”?

Assume I have a domain `http://go.example.com/abcdefg` when `example.com` is server running on NGINX. The main task of that server is to proxy pass all visitors to other server and then, this other server redirects person to specific, predefined link (fetched from database). I am planning on creating interface that will allow them to add their own domain. These domains will be stored in database (mysql in my case), and the NGINX config file will be created based on the domain name user specified earlier using predefined template in sites-enabled folder. Same goes for deletion. Once user adds either A or CNAME records to his domain (whichever works best, perhaps you can explain me what works best in this case?) that will point to specific IP address or domain, his domain should become accessible and behave the same way, `go.example.com` does. For example, assume user added domain `http://foo.com`, then all user accessing `http://foo.com/abcdefg` will redirect to the same link, `go.example.com/abcdefg` does. What I am trying to achieve is allow users to override our domain name, and use their own instead that will behave exactly as our original domain. This process needs to be controlled so the domain name could be disabled if needed. I am asking if this is the proper way to go or perhaps there is a better way to automate "domain parking"?


Recommendations for redirecting a large website to a new website?

I have a clients website terminating shortly in 2 weeks and being replaced by a new website (new domain) that has already been live for a couple of months. The plan for the 301 redirects was intended to be gradual over a few months due to the size of the site, however due to technical difficulties around the URL structure they could not take place. It is a mammoth, multi-lingual website with up 300,000 indexed pages. The plan is to implement bulk redirects to the relevant folders on the new site, however this has to take place with a week. I have heard Matt Cutts once say that anything over 500 redirects gets flagged with his team as potentially spammy. I'd be grateful if anybody had any advice regarding this task and if what I'm doing could be dangerous with consequences?


Prevent possible spammer from linking to my site

We own a website which, through google search results, we determined is either being linked to improperly or for spam purposes by another completely random source. They recently registered a domain and are pointing that domain to our site (though looks to be a 303 redirect given their URL stays in tact). As a result, their domain is now showing in google search results as OUR site. How can we prevent this from occurring?


Easiest way to include content from another site without using frames?

I want to setup a page for an upcoming project on my site. The problem is, this site doesn't have a lot of bandwidth. So I'm thinking to put the real data on the Amazon cloud, and use my site as just a placeholder. Before, it was customary to do this with frames - I could create a very small page on my site, and pull the data from Amazon via a frame. However, this is ugly, antiquated, and probably doesn't look good on some mobile devices and so on. What is the modern equivalent to this? I am looking for simple methods. It is imperative that the browsers pull the data page directly from Amazon, not through my site.


Should 404 pages feature in your sitemap.xml

I tend to generate the sitemaps for my static sites (no CMS) by using a service such as xml-sitemaps.com. They way this works if you input your homepage and it crawls all the internal links of a site and then generates you a `.xml` file. The problem with this is because its crawling from the homepage if a page if not linked to i.e. a 404 page it won't be included in the sitemap. Is it good practice to have the 404 page in there?


How to show all albums in Wordpress NextGen Gallery

I have a Wordpress install setup as a simple CMS. I am starting to use the NextGen Gallery plugin to support photo pages. I expect to have a number of people uploading pictures, and not all of them are going to be technical enough to edit a page and insert the right tags to show new albums. I have spent some time looking in the obvious places (other than the php source code), but I haven't found a way to make a page that shows **all** the albums that have been uploaded to the system. I am sure this has to be an easy thing to do, so maybe I'm just not thinking the right way. Any help is much appreciated. Clarification: I know that I can use the gallery tag and put in all the IDs for gallerys in the system now, but I want the page to automatically update to show any new gallerys added to the system at a later date.


What features to look for in a SharePoint host

I have a friend who is looking for SharePoint hosting (free is nice) for a not-for-profit orgranization. She is considering http://myhosting.com and http://sharepointhosting.com. I know very little about SharePoint, so I'm looking for advice on what features to look for in a host. Also, comments on the two being considered are welcome, as well as recommendations for any others. Thank you.


Guest Post Opportunities - To Post or Not to Post

I have a modest blog with a PageRank of 2 which I have been writing myself for the past couple of years. Recently I received a request that someone wanted to write a guest post on my blog ... with a link to their site for a target keyword. At this point I am inclined to say no and simply refuse to publish this post. But I recognize the work that has been put in writing this piece and wouldn't mind publishing the piece. However the link provided is definitely a plug, will it harm my domain in any- way? Or do I put the no-follow tag (does that help?). Should I pass the juice or should I not?


HTML5 tags: how to use them correctly?

I want the best possible **SEO** for my WordPress site. To do this, I made enhancements and used HTML5. The problem is that I don't know how to use particular tags. For instance, I have an article tag in a `<section>` tag. Is this good or not? Let me show you my snippet, than you can see it better...

      Explained: `<aside class="containing-links-to-posts>` = **left widget** `<div id="widgets">` = **right widget** `<nav id="menu">` = **navigation menu** `<section id="content-section">` = **the main section with the posts and comments in it** **In`<aside>`, I got this:**

Today's posts

     Post name

      Question: is this good? I am asking you this because I already had a nav and and a section (see above). I am afraid that using these tags too much will cause problems. And last but not least, I have this in `<section id="content-section">`:

     testttt

     #32474     <time class="timestamp" datetime="19-04-2013">19.04.2013 13:18</time>          testauthor
                         test

      I think this is too much to put in an `<article>` tag, or not? The `<article>` tag is intended to get the POST CONTENT of a post... So that Google knows that that part is the content of an article. I would appreciate all your help.


Port numbers for SSL

We have an existing web site with HTTP on port 80 and HTTPS on port 443. I'm adding a second site to that now, and from what I understand, I cannot host two sites on the same SSL port. So my question is: which port number range is appropriate for me to use as my SSL port on the second site?


GA Goals not funnelling properly

My GA funnels aren't funnelling properly, and display 100% for each step in the goal. Below is a screenshot of the goal visualization, and my edit goal page in case I've set it up incorrectly (don't think I have though). To view actual signup flow process, here's a link, http://bgcd.co/1kYeL09. Any feedback and advice is much appreciated. ![goal visualization](http://i.stack.imgur.com/FC693.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/AP1Iw.png)


Email containing links of a website is landing in SPAM

I am using sendgrid SMTP Server to send the e-mails from my java web application. The issue is the any e-mail containing external links to a one website and images are going to spam. If i remove the images and links of the website, Emails will land in INBOX. This happens only when email contains links to a website (`http://www.mysite.com`), Links to this website are causing spam. What is the work around for this. When i test for spam score using http://spamcheck.postmarkapp.com/ I got the below result :                0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE     RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no                                 trust                                 [74.63.236.162 listed in list.dnswl.org]      0.0 HTML_MESSAGE           BODY: HTML included in message      0.1 DKIM_SIGNED            Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid      0.0 T_DKIM_INVALID         DKIM-Signature header exists but is not valid


How to use NOINDEX,FOLLOW with paginated results except index page

I am running a classified website. **At the moment I am using lazy loading with jquery to load content while scrolling**. > I got to know that using jquery loading is not good for search-engine bots > and java-script disabled web browsers. So I added pagination links to appear if the javascript are disabled.I use same page(index.php) to generate paginated results as follows,               1st page --->http://www.example/classified/index.php     2nd page --->http://www.example/classified/index.php?page_id=2     3rd page --->http://www.example/classified/index.php?page_id=3 ....etc      _**I don't want to add paginated results to search engines.But I need my index.php to be in search engines_**. So as for some articles I decided to use **"noindex,follow"** in the meta robots tag in index.php.But as for my knowledge this will also skip indexing the index.php also. What my problem is will it work? or what should I do for index my index.php without paginated results in search engines? Thank you


Moneris e-commerce checklist before setting up a site?

Apparently, according to their customer service, I can't sign up with Moneris for payment processing unless my website's up and running. To that effect, they've provided a checklist of items I need before I can sign up. Some of these items are:   * Privacy Policy   * SSL 128 bit   * Full description of products The issue is that this client's website is highly confidential as it's in the process of getting trademarks and other intellectual property rights secured. So I can't put up a half finished site without risk of prematurely putting up the client's data publicly. How do I work around this with Moneris?


Putting Ads on HighOnCoding Placements

I run highoncoding.com and I place adsense ads on the website. i have tons of content on the website but I am not making any progress in making money off the adsense. What advice can u give me?


How do you backup your websites?

I was just wondering how the community backs up their websites? I take a nightly dump the database and shift it across onto another server which then gets backed up onto removable media. It is fairly automated and seems to work but I would be interested to hear what others have to say.


New site not showing in Google for unique name

I have launched a site for myself and now I'm doing some simple SEO for it. The site uses my name and it's unique and has no competition on search engines, but I don't know why Google crawlers haven't done anything on my site. I have added my site's URL to Google (via addurl) and I have also signed in to Google Webmaster Tools. The title and the url of my site is also related to my name, but even when I Google my name Google returns nothing about my site, and Google Webmaster Tools also shows no keywords for my site. Do you have any idea why this happens? [update] OK, I won't link my site here, I launched it about 5 days ago, and it's on my name (completely unique). I just want it to be shown everytime some one Googles my name - just that simple, but it seems Google hasn't done anything with my site yet, is this normal?


How to block user agent from accessing my WordPress site with htaccess?

I have noticed large amount of traffic coming to my site from different IP's with user agent.               Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SiteExplorer/1.0b; +http://siteexplorer.info/)      I don't have much experience with Apache servers and hope someone can explain to me how to actually block this from accessing my site with _.htaccess_ file. I tried with               SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^siteexplorer?$" bad_user     Deny from env=bad_user      but it's not working.


What is needed to add DNSSEC to my site? Is it like HTTPS/SSL that I have to buy a certificate, or can I generate one myself to use? Is there any free way I can use DNSSEC or do I have to pay for this service? E.g if I set up my own DNS servers, or if there is any free nameservers with DNSSEC. If I use my web hosts nameservers, I can buy DNSSEC from them for $9 per year.


SEO: do we need to redirect also pages with final slash?

i read on Google SEO REPORT CARD that for search engines this page: `http://www.domain.com/somepath` is a different page than this one: `http://www.domain.com/somepath/` (note the final slash '`/`') Well if this is true i have few questions: * * * A) **Is this true also for home page path** i.e. `http://www.domain.com`. I mean I already redirect 301 `http://domain.com` to `http://www.domain.com`, but how do I redirect also `http://www.domain.com` to `http://www.domain.com/` (with final slash) ??? Actually Apache server or my browser client (don't know who is doing this) seem to already do this sort of redirect becasue if I insert `http://www.domain.com` in browser bar it always auto adds the final slash making it `http://www.domain.com/` So I'm confused, do I need to do anything? * * * B) Since I still use file extensions, I was not so concerned about redirecting `domain.com/somepath` to `domain.com/somepath/` because all pages in my sites are in the form of `somepath/page.htm`. But I noticed anyway a strange thing that is confusing me. If I enter as URL `somepath/page.htm` the server returns the same page of `somepath/page.htm/` (with final slash) instead of an error. I think it's normal because if you look for http://www.php.net/docs.php it returns the same page of http://www.php.net/docs.php/ (final slash), **but are these then considered TWO different pages for search engines???** **Do I have then to adjust again .htacess in order to redirect 301 each URL with final slash to the same url without the final slash???** * * * Thanks!


How to prevent duplicate content penalty in this special case

I am building a micro-blogging page where everyone can post about everything and it's shown on some kind of a post-it-wall. Older posts disappear fast (depending how much is posted, of course). Users can't access a single post with links on the page itself, but I've implemented an algorithm to have a single post on top of all the other posts with a direct link which I will include in a dynamically generated xml-sitemap. The links look like this:               www.site.com/text-of-post-a-123     www.site.com/text-of-post-b-124      etc. Now I fear that my pages will get a duplicate content warning, as the only difference between those 2 pages will be the first post, the following posts would be the same (given the exact same time of a request). I know about the canonical tag, but that's dealing with the whole page. Is there any way I can show SEs, that only a part of my page is relevant? Thank you for your ideas!


Can Adwords Advertisers see which Adsense Publishers send them traffic?

I have a blog with adsense on it. An advertisement I see a lot from my adsense is a Telus phone banner. If people click this Telus banner ad and go to Telus website, will Telus be able to see where these people came from? For example, can they see my blog url on their google-analytic Referrals section (assuming they have one) ??


Will Google and other search engines follow IP address only sites (i.e., no URL)

Will Google and other search engines follow links to and index sites that don't have a URL, but instead just use their IP address's (obviously they would need a unique IP) ?


Previews for audio e-commerce site

Is there a way to do previews for audio files in the base, Magento Community Edition? I see the place to put the "sample" files under "Downloadable information" section on my product. I attached an .MP3 as the sample, in this case, and it won't play. If alternatively, I try to download the file locally and then play it, instead of the 400K+ file, I just get a 4K file of garbled nothing, and it doesn't seem to work.


Why is Project Wonderful mostly only used for web comics?

I've looked a few times at placing ads on my site, but the only ad system I've liked is Project Wonderful. The problem with it is that almost every existing publisher(and thus, probably advertiser) is web comics. My website isn't related to web comics. So, is there a reason that it's used almost exclusively by web comics, or was that just what's happened so far? Or what?


tabs and seo issue

my customers are eager in showing news categorized in tabs and i recently developed it for them. as my experience in web designing display:none is used widely in implementing tabs. and as i know it is not good for SEO of site. is there any way to have tabs but without hurting SEO factors?


map a sub page of a domain to google sites

I control a subpage of a site: `economics.university.edu/summerschool` I have access to CNAME, etc. However I want to use Google sites to create the site and then map the URL above to my Google site. In other words, someone on the university site that navigated to the summer school page would be redirected to the Google site transparently. However I keep getting this error from Google: "The format of the web address is unsupported." Is this possible?


mod_rewrite rule for wildcard subdomains?

Sorry if this has been covered, I can't find anything on this specifically. I have wildcard subdomains on (*.mysite.com) I need a mod_rewrite expression for this rewrite: bob.mysite.com => mysite.com/users/index.php?user=bob bob.mysite.com/profile/ => mysite.com/users/index.php?user=bob/profile/ Obviously "bob" and "profile" are just examples, I need the general case. Thanks for your help!


Which minimum browser or screen resolution should I target my web apps?

When making the decision on the minimum requirements for a web application on client machines:   1. **Browsers** - Which browsers should one target at very minimum   2. **Screen Resolution** - Which screen resolution should one target at very minimum To ensure the usability of the application is not compromised


displaying first few pages of a pdf on a page = duplicate content?

I am embedding scribd PDFs on my website. These are exam papers PDF which are available on other websites. As it is scribd is an embed/iframe, I think Google considers my page as being empty with no content; Google does see iframe content right? So I decided to display the first pages of the PDF as text on the page for Google. Then, for user experience, i hide the text and replace it with the scribd embed code using JavaScript. I have 2 worries about this method. Firstly, i am displaying the first pages of the PDF and the latter may be hosted on other websites, will this be considered as duplicate content. Secondly, I am hiding the content and replacing it with the scribd embed with javascript; is it considered bad by google?


What are the consequences of leaving a domain name's TTL value low

My host recommends lowering the TTL value of my domain prior to making DNS changes and then suggests that I should raise them after changes are finsihed. What are the negative consequences of leaving the values low?


Need advice on best strategy for removing these bad links

We recently took on a new client whose previous SEO company had partaken in some dodgy link building tactics. They appear to have done some blog comment spam, very poorly. The situation we are now in is this: We have a site with an internal page deemed more important than the homepage (the homepage has 60 linking root domains and the internal page 879). It looks as though the previous SEO company submitted a disavow request, there's a message in Webmaster Tools from a few weeks back saying it had been received, but no further correspondence. I have doubts as to whether this disavow request was done correctly... Plus I'm not sure that Google has issued the site a warning yet as they are ranking position one for the keywords on the internal page. Our clients want us to handle this in the correct manner, whether it be to simply ignore it and wait for Google to send a warning about the links, remove the offending internal page and leave a 404, or try to disavow the links that Google doesn't know about yet from 800+ websites. Suggestions for the best practice for dealing with this situation?


Most linked content is registration. How do i remove it?

In webmaster tools > links to your site, I have two links showing: my homepage with 12 links and /index.php/component/users/?view=registration with 3077 links. Not only is this the wrong registration page, its also highly weird that I have apparently so many links to the registration page. I had some dodgy user registrations in the past and wonder if this is connected. How can I remove these links?


Pretty URLs for dynamic links generated based on a 3rd party soap web service

We have a 3rd party web service which we interact with via Soap. In this regard we query the 3rd party for resources, construct a home page and all links generated on this index page are referencing ID's of a 3rd party web service. For example:               site.com/get.php?id=34bv43b34b3b34be //corresponds to "Service 1"     site.com/get.php?id=3443g43gg43g5h56 //corresponds to "Service 2"     and so on...       Being that these are referencing a resource on a 3rd party, how can I use mod_rewrite or something similar to construct nice URLs. Something such as:               site.com/get/Service_1 //corresponds to site.com/get.php?id=34bv43b34b3b34be      Would we have to index these services and system ID's on our own site potentially in a database or something to achieve this? Basically, what I want to know is can I do this without storing any additional data on our site? If not, I understand that I could have a cron job setup to periodically poll the 3rd party web service for changes and have a local database with services and system IDs but we would really like a solution that doesn't involve this. Configuration:   * php    * apache    * mysql  Can provide more details of our system configuration if needed.


In SEO, how do you estimate the age of a link?

The age of a domain has a value, and figure the age of a link does too. How would you estimate the age of a link, and would you limit the age to the age of the domain?


Where can I find a list of search engine crawler user agents and their domain names?

I'm trying to follow stackoverflow's approach of using a white list for the sitemap. I have tried to find an extensive list of search engine crawlers (and other crawlers) to use in my white list but what I have found so far is outdated information (hasn't been updated in years). Is there any place on the net where I can find a regularly updated list that contains the user agent of every search engine crawler along with its domain name (for reverse DNS)? Thanks


Does specifying explicit image dimensions help site performance?

I ran some audits on a new web application we are about to launch. Chromium is suggesting in network utilization that a few images on our site do not have height/width dimensions explicitly declared. Will this really help performance? Aside from the browser not having to decide how to display the image and basically being told to use X height and Y width for an image, how can this help "network utilization"? Any other comments regarding this would be appreciated!


How many views/day are required for a site to break even?

What is a rough estimate of how many views/day a site needs to break even on hosting and bandwidth using advertising? You can assume:   * Two Google ads per page. Low value content (no ambulance chasers here).   * HTML content with fairly low bandwidth usage per page.   * Standard hosting rates.


Combine www and non-www sites status in Google Webmaster Tools

I added a URL to my Webmaster account which was the "www" URL version of my website. Recently I understood that pages doesn't index in "Index status", so I added another website which was the "non-www" URL of my site. Now I can see that the pages are indexed. But how can I combine both of them together to see the result of both of them as one website?


No mod_expires or mod_headers in apache, how can I cache images/js/css files?

Title says it all, we do not have control over our server environment and although we can request for them to recompile apache for us it will not happen overnight. Is there anything we can do is these modules (mod_expires, mod_headers) are not available to help with specifying certain content (images, js, css) should be cached or are we out of luck ?


Why do Google search results include pages disallowed in robots.txt?

I have some pages on my site that I want to keep search engines away from, so I disallowed them in my `robots.txt` file like this:               User-Agent: *     Disallow: /email      Yet I recently noticed that Google still sometimes returns links to those pages in their search results. Why does this happen, and how can I stop it? ### Background: Several years ago, I made a simple web site for a club a relative of mine was involved in. They wanted to have e-mail links on their pages, so, to try and keep those e-mail addresses from ending up on too many spam lists, instead of using direct `mailto:` links I made those links point to a simple redirector / address harvester trap script running on my own site. This script would return either a 301 redirect to the actual `mailto:` URL, or, if it detected a suspicious access pattern, a page containing lots of random fake e-mail addresses and links to more such pages. To keep legitimate search bots away from the trap, I set up the `robots.txt` rule shown above, disallowing the entire space of both legit redirector links and trap pages. Just recently, however, one of the people in the club searched Google for their own name and was quite surprised when one of the results on the first page was a link to the redirector script, with a title consisting of their e-mail address followed by _my_ name. Of course, they immediately e-mailed me and wanted to know how to get their address out of Google's index. I was quite surprised too, since I had no idea that Google would index such URLs at all, seemingly in violation of my `robots.txt` rule. I did manage to submit a removal request to Google, and it seems to have worked, but I'd like to know why and how Google is circumventing my `robots.txt` like that and how to make sure that none of the disallowed pages will show up in their search results. **Ps.** I actually found out a possible explanation and solution, which I'll post below, while preparing this question, but I thought I'd ask it anyway in case someone else might have the same problem. Please do feel free to post your own answers. I'd also be interested in knowing if other search engines do this too, and whether the same solutions work for them also.


Can I have multiple Adsense accounts?

Is it possible for me to have more than one adsence account, or would that violate Google's terms of service in some way?


How do I normalise a URL from a folder to a subdomain?

I have a mybb forum hosted at a folder inside my site, which can also be accessed via a subdomain. I would like to configure it so that if someone would enter the folder it would automatically be redirected to the subdomain: http://www.antinovaordemmundial.com/mybb/ to http://forum.antinovaordemmundial.com Once you enter in the forum using the folder URL, any other link will automaticaly redirect to the subdomain, with the exception of the main page ( http://forum.antinovaordemmundial.com ) My htaccess is as follows:                # Make this rule the first rewrite rule in your .htaccess!       #RewriteRule ^([^&]*)&(.*)$ http://forum.antinovaordemmundial.com/$1?$2 [L,QSA,R=301      RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?fid=$1 [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]+)-page-([0-9]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?fid=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?tid=$1 [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)-page-([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?tid=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)-lastpost\.html$ showthread.php?tid=$1&action=lastpost [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)-nextnewest\.html$ showthread.php?tid=$1&action=nextnewest [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)-nextoldest\.html$ showthread.php?tid=$1&action=nextoldest [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)-newpost\.html$ showthread.php?tid=$1&action=newpost [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)-post-([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?tid=$1&pid=$2 [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^post-([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?pid=$1 [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^announcement-([0-9]+)\.html$ announcements.php?aid=$1 [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^user-([0-9]+)\.html$ member.php?action=profile&uid=$1 [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^calendar-([0-9]+)\.html$ calendar.php?calendar=$1 [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^calendar-([0-9]+)-year-([0-9]+)\.html$ calendar.php?action=yearview&calendar=$1&year=$2 [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^calendar-([0-9]+)-year-([0-9]+)-month-([0-9]+)\.html$ calendar.php?calendar=$1&year=$2&month=$3 [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^calendar-([0-9]+)-year-([0-9]+)-month-([0-9]+)-day-([0-9]+)\.html$ calendar.php?action=dayview&calendar=$1&year=$2&month=$3&day=$4 [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^calendar-([0-9]+)-week-(n?[0-9]+)\.html$ calendar.php?action=weekview&calendar=$1&week=$2 [L,QSA]      RewriteRule ^event-([0-9]+)\.html$ calendar.php?action=event&eid=$1 [L,QSA]          RewriteRule ^([^&]*)&(.*)$ http://forum.antinovaordemmundial.com/$1?$2 [L,QSA,R=301]          RewriteRule ^sitemap-([^./]+)\.xml$ misc.php?google_seo_sitemap=$1 [L,QSA,NC]          RewriteRule ^Forum-([^./]+)$ forumdisplay.php?google_seo_forum=$1 [L,QSA,NC]          RewriteRule ^Topico-([^./]+)$ showthread.php?google_seo_thread=$1 [L,QSA,NC]          RewriteRule ^Anuncio-([^./]+)$ announcements.php?google_seo_announcement=$1 [L,QSA,NC]          RewriteRule ^Usuario-([^./]+)$ member.php?action=profile&google_seo_user=$1 [L,QSA,NC]          RewriteRule ^Calendario-([^./]+)$ calendar.php?google_seo_calendar=$1 [L,QSA,NC]          RewriteRule ^Evento-([^./]+)$ calendar.php?action=event&google_seo_event=$1 [L,QSA,NC]          ErrorDocument 404 /misc.php?google_seo_error=404      <IfModule mod_env.c>       SetEnv SEO_SUPPORT 1      </IfModule>     </IfModule>


Does tagging content affect SEO?

Tagging content (i.e. categorizing content using "tags") is a sensible way to group content on a web site, but does tagging actually affect SEO? From an SEO standpoint, how does tagging content affect search ranking? Is there any way to optimize the set of tags for SEO? Should I limit the number of tags in any way?


Why doesn't Google capitalize a page title in the search results?

In the search results my client's website first sub-listing is not correctly displayed like the titles of other pages, despite using the same structure method in making the pages. Why does this occur and how could I solve it? ![screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/lDWvn.png)


Gmail signature with an image is randomly displayed automatically

When I setup an Email signature for a client on a Gmail account, the image is not being displayed when I look at it on my own Gmail account, but with other Gmail accounts it works. I tried different image services, I tried setting it on a unique domain, but it seems completely random. Any ideas why it happens? On my Gmail I setup "Always display external images".. Images: Always display external images - Learn more Ask before displaying external images * * * From the Gmail help files: Choose whether to show images Gmail automatically shows you the images in your messages. If you have a slow Internet connection or limited mobile data, you may want to change your setting so that Gmail asks you before showing images. Choosing not to show images automatically On a computer On an Android phone or tablet On an iPhone or iPad How Gmail makes images safe Some senders try to use externally linked images in harmful ways, but Gmail takes action to ensure that images are loaded safely. Gmail serves all images through Google’s image proxy servers and transcodes them before delivery to protect you in the following ways: Senders can’t use image loading to get information like your IP address or location. Senders can’t set or read cookies in your browser. Gmail checks your images for known viruses or malware. In some cases, senders may be able to know whether an individual has opened a message with unique image links. As always, Gmail scans every message for suspicious content and if Gmail considers a sender or message potentially suspicious, images won’t be displayed and you’ll be asked whether you want to see the images.


Option for Integrating Google Webmaster into Analytics is Missing

I have been asked to integrate Google Webmaster with Google Analytics. I have been looking up tutorials but to no avail. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1120006?hl=en The above says to "On the Webmaster Tools home page, click Manage site next to the site you want, and then click Google Analytics property." I, however, do not see this option. The only option is delete. Other turorials such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0KDVenYgCA Use an older version of Analytics. So how can I achieve what is desired?


Hosting in the UK, Trace Route goes to US

OK so I am a bit confused as to why when I do a trace route for a domain hosted in the UK has some cities in the US in the hops?               **Hop**        **Host name**       1              -     2              xe-4-2-0.er2.dfw2.us.above.net       3              ae2.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net     4              ae4.cr1.dfw2.us.above.net     5              xe-4-2-0.cr1.iah1.us.above.net     6              ae2.cr1.dca2.us.above.net     7              ae4.mpr2.lhr2.uk.above.net     8              ae5.mpr1.lhr1.uk.above.net     9              94.31.41.142.ipyx-068416-002-zyo.above.net     10             -     11             2e1c32b5.lon.100tb.com     Trace Complete      If im not mistaken it is going to the states too, whilst i am in the UK and the server also in the UK, why is it going there? Does it defeat the purpose of hosting in the UK?


Web developer has become uncooperative, what should we do to rescue our site?

What can an individual or a company do if the web designer who has designed their website becomes completely uncooperative? In our case   1. He refuses to meet with us for discussions.   2. He refuses to give us training on the effective use and management of the website he has designed for us (and has been paid in full for) despite this training being part of the original contract.   3. Last year he disappeared for a number of months ,refused to answer emails or phobe calls and was totally unavailable to help us   4. He refuses to give us the details of the hosting of our website. We have totally lost faith in this arrogant and unreasonable guy and would like to break off all relationships with him but ,it appears, he's got us over a barell


Preventing Google from indexing ".com" instead of ".com/fr" or ".com/en"

I followed the recommendation of Google concerning multilingual website, I have:   * `www.example.com/fr` in french   * `www.example.com/en` in english   * `www.example.com` automatically redirects (header) either to `www.example.com/fr` or `www.example.com/en`. In my _sitemap.xml_ , I have not mentionned `www.example.com` but instead the two subdirectories, still following Google on sitemap policy:               <url>       <loc>http://www.example.com/fr/</loc>       <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://www.example.com/en/"/>       <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="http://www.example.com/fr/"/>       <changefreq>daily</changefreq>      <priority>1.00</priority>     </url>     <url>       <loc>http://www.example.com/en/</loc>       <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="http://www.example.com/fr/"/>       <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://www.example.com/en/"/>       <changefreq>daily</changefreq>       <priority>1.00</priority>     </url>      Problem is that in Google, the main results is `www.example.com`. For many websites, Google displays for the first results `.com/fr` or `.com/en` depending our location but not juste `.com`. I was thinking of using Webmaster Tools and try remove `www.example.com` but I'm not sure since `www.example.com` is not really a sitelink and I'm afraid it will juste remove my site from Google. Do I miss something? Or maybe I should just wait?


How does tinypic.com referrer/redirect work?

For example, if I embed this random image in a forum, it will show up normally: [IMG]http://i48.tinypic.com/350m3ut.jpg[/IMG] If I try to view the image in a new tab, it will redirect me to the main page: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=350m3ut&s=6 If I copy the image location there, it is: http://oi48.tinypic.com/350m3ut.jpg The difference is in the sub-domain, the "direct" embed link is " **i48** ", the actual direct link is " **oi48** " - this is true for all tinypic uploads (though, the server numbers might be different: i38 vs. oi37 for example). If I embed the " **oi48** " image, trying to view it in a new tab will work without redirecting to the main page. So how do they do that? And if I try to access the direct " **oi48** " link by typing/pasting it in the address bar, without first loading it in a forum post (for example), thus not having it in my cache, it will still redirect to the main tinypic.com page just like the " **i48** " link. How? Why? I also think funnyjunk.com used to add hotlink protection to the mix: a hotlink image ("Please go to funnyjunk to view this image") would show, and when you opened the image in a new tab, it'd redirect you to the image's page (for example, funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/589823/Place/), but I'm not so sure if that's really what it did (they allow hotlinking now). Though, I guess if that _would_ be possible, everyone would be using that method... Would it be possible to implement a hotlink protection and a redirect to the image's main page? If so, how?


Cross domain tracking with new analytics.js syntax?

I am using Google Analytics and I am trying to set cross domain tracking for my website. I've read Google's cross domain tracking guide, but I am confused as to how to implement it properly. The issue I am having is that the example code they give looks nothing like the tracking code I was given through my Google Analytics admin console. My tracking code looks like this:               <script>     (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){     (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),     m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)     })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');          ga('create', 'MyTrackingID', 'MyDomain');     ga('send', 'pageview');     </script>      (My actual tracking ID and my domain have been censored out with `MyTrackingID` and `MyDomain`, respectively.) However, the example tracking code given in the guide looks like this:               <script type="text/javascript">     var _gaq = _gaq || [];     _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1']);     _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]);     _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);          (function() {     var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript';       ga.async = true;     ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' :       'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];       s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);     })();     </script>      How do I add the `_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'A.com']);` "option" to my tracking code as instructed?


What do i do about this, psd to html conversion?

I hired a designer and he created a very nice website. Now when i went to the developer he says the image is not layered and he can not convert it to html? What do i do, does the designer need to do this again?


template for terms of condition for social media based website?

I'm looking for a template for a terms of usage text based on social media websites. I'm actually a coder and not into the legal blabla in general. Of course you could spend a thousand or 2 on a lawyer but just a 3/4 paper text shouldn't be to hard to compile yourself with some help. I'm not sure if this is the right spot to ask this question but I love stack overflow and none of the sites in stack exchange I could find matched better then this one.   * My first idea lets look at some social media websites and grab some of there text, rewrite it for own specific usage   * Are there templates on writing such document Same goes with a privacy policy actually.


Registering a web-domain with different TLD

I am planning to buy a web-domain for myself. I am looking for a particular word combination and in the process I notice many combinations are already taken up in `.com` TLD. If someone owns **example.com** (example is their company name), can I buy **example.net** if its available or is it illegal to use one?


Mass deletion of spam revisions in Mediawiki

Basically my 'private' mediawiki instance was about as secure as a toddlers piggybank. I've tightened it up now, but am left with about a hundred or so new pages and revisions generated by hundreds of randomly generated users. 2 part question; Is there a way to delete all orphaned pages? Can I say to roll back all revisions NOT made by a particular user (me)?


Glue Records creation

I need some information on the following issue, as I would like to have it clear on my mind. I have a VPS server. All my sites hosted on this VPS are using as NameServer .gr domain, like ns1.greekdomain.gr & ns2.greekdomain.gr . The .gr domain name is a domain I own with a greek registar. Now, I want to move 2 websites with .co.uk domain names to my VPS. The co.uk domain names are registered with a UK based registar. When I went in the domain management panel, I did changed the nameservers of my domains to my ns.greekdomain.gr ns. However the panel returns an error about invalid nameservers. After digging, I found that my nameservers are not valid because they do not exist as records in the .co.uk registry. And here it starts my big trouble. The .co.uk registart tells me that I have to ask my hosting provider / .gr registar to create a new record to the .uk registry for my nameservers. The .gr registar tells me that my uk registar needs to create a new record for my ns. From Nominet (.co.uk) registry, the one employee tells me that I need to ask my uk registar, the other employee (seemed to not understand what I was asking) told me that they cannot change my nameservers for me, and she told me to contact anyone else (old hosting provider, uk registar, .gr registar) to help me with that. I can't find help from nobody. I try since the last week to transfer my websites to my VPS and I can't. So, the question is who is responsible and who is able to create glue records for my nameservers ?


Website with sign up and sign in system

I'm going to start a website where I need a Signup and Sign in system. And when the user is signed in the user will get access to stuff that only members can see an access. Would HTML be the best way to go then?


Trouble with .htacess redirection

I use this redirect rule to redirect users from `www.domain.com/admin` to `www.domain.com/wp-admin` on a WordPress site.               RedirectMatch 301 \@admin http://www.domain.com/wp-admin      The problem is that instead redirecting to `wp-admin/`, it redirects to an article called _Administrators are awesome people_ (slug : `administrators- are-awesome-people`) I can guess what is going on, WP sees that there is an article slug starting with "admin", and redirects to it, overruling my own rule. Is there a way to be more specific, like saying "redirect urls that end with exactly `admin` ?


SSL Certificate and IP Binding

I try to setup SSL on my server for **only** one web site (I have few there using **IIS7** ). I bought an SSL certificate, installed it but when I come to bind I don't have to option to specify the host name. From reading some posts here I understood I need a distinct IP address. I didn't purchase a wildcard certificate, I got `staging.mydomain.com`. My question is:   1. My server has a distinct IP, can I use it although I have other sites there but they don't need ssl?   2. If I do need to buy dedicated IP. What does it involve?


Visitors download files in the same order every time - am I being hacked?

I'm running a website for a while and I'm still learning how to manage it. One thing I've noticed is that some visitors download all zip files in the same order ( there is a pattern of downloads). I've also noticed that the referrers of those visitors are always blank. I think these downloads are done automatically with the help of certain software. My question is: Are those visitors hackers? If they are, why are they doing this when they can download my files legally?


Disallow robots.txt from being accessed in a browser but still accessible by spiders?

We make use of the `robots.txt` file to prevent Google (and other search spiders) from crawling certain pages/directories in our domain. Some of these directories/files are secret, meaning they aren't linked (except perhaps on other pages encompassed by the `robots.txt` file). Some of these directories/files aren't secret, we just don't want them indexed. If somebody browses directly to `www.mydomain.com/robots.txt`, they can see the contents of the `robots.txt` file. From a security standpoint, this is not something we want publicly available to anybody. Any directories that contain secure information are set behind authentication, but we still don't want them to be discoverable unless the user specifically knows about them. Is there a way to provide a `robots.txt` file but to have it's presence masked by John Doe accessing it from his browser? Perhaps by using PHP to generate the document based on certain criteria? Perhaps something I'm not thinking of? We'd prefer a way to centrally do it (meaning a `<meta>` tag solution is less than ideal).


Required steps for Domain Name Setup

What are the required steps (i.e. purchase of a domain, etc.) to get a DNS domain (i.e. foobar.com) to point to any static and public IP (i.e. 100.101.102.103)? If I hosted a DNS server myself (at the IP 100.101.102.103), would anyone else actually be able to connect to my server, given that no other DNS server would know about me.


Does Google sometime prevent new white hat sites from ranking at all in some verticals?

Assuming someone wants to implement a new viagra or akai berry e-commerce website. There is a lot of competition and this site does not really bring something new, other than a new online counter to buy products at a nice price. Assuming this site does not use any black hat techniques and that it stays with Google quality guidelines, and assuming it has no (or few) backlinks (from non-authoritative websites). Assuming this website's pages are indexed properly in Webmaster Tool, and that no penalties are reported. No site improvements are suggested. Google crawls the site daily as reported in GWT. No robots.txt configuration issues. Does Google sometime decide to no rank this site for any user query (for weeks), because of lack of original content? The reason I am asking this is that I am trying to understand the possible cause of a similar situation I am observing with two sites. If so, what is the way out to start ranking for these site? If not, does it mean the cause is elsewhere for sure? Any confirmed info to get out of the maze is welcome.


Updating a News pages written in html

I was wondering how to update a page with new stuff like a new news article or something. (The Website is html based). The only thing I could think of is by uploading and replacing the whole .html page with the new article etc. But isn't there an easier way? Like in wordpress where you just sign in and write the article and post it.


Has Microsoft stopped offering the free Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image for IE 6 testing?

For some time now, Microsoft has made available free, stripped-down, time- limited Virtual PC images for testing web apps in older versions of IE. The most recent version is here:   * http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575 But the XP VPC image has now expired (as of 27th July 2012), meaning one can no longer test IE 6 using this method.   1. Have Microsoft made updated XP VPC images available?   2. If not, have they commented on the situation?   3. Do they provide any alternative method to test web apps in IE 6?   4. Is there any way to hack the images to get them working again for browser testing? **Update:** Microsoft has now launched modern.ie, a website dedicated to testing web pages in Internet Explorer, which includes free virtual PC images. See my answer below


Non-intentional hosting of material that is protected by copyright law

I am interested how copyright law works in the case of Rapidshare, Youtube and etc. Just hypothetically speaking, what if I create a website for uploading and sharing MP3 files, and some users start uploading songs in MP3 format that are protected by copyright laws. Can I get sued for this? Knowing that it wasn't me who uploaded that content? Thanks! PS. also maybe there is some good source where I could read about law cavities related to copyright material?


If I use a joomla hosting provider, am I able to customize the PHP *completely*?

not sure if this is the right place to ask. Joomla is offered by many hosting providers. I have set up joomla 1.7 on my local machine, and I've found a nice template to start with. But I customized it for my needs -resizing divs, modifying the css extensively, and even modifying index.php in some cases. will I be able to do the same if I host a joomla installation at a hosting provider? How do I get the modified PHP up to the hoster? Is it FTP only or is there some other remote access offered?


Webmaster Tools - URL Parameters Settings Do Not Work

Google Webmaster Tools shows problems with duplicate title tags under _Optimization -> HTML Improvements_ , for example:               ราคาแอร์ Mitsubishi Electric Mr. Slim PC Series PC-3KAKLT (220V) 30000 BTU     >  /แอร์-ราคา/mitsubishi-mr-slim-pc3kaklt-30000-btu.html     >  /แอร์-ราคา/mitsubishi-mr-slim-pc3kaklt-30000-btu.html?category_id=96      These two pages have exactly the same content, a rel-canonical tag is set, and they are (no longer) linked to internally. Additionally, we used the _Configuration -> URL Parameters_ setting, to set this parameter to _No: Doesn't affect page content_ about one month ago. However, Google is still showing these HTML improvements (and rankings dropped dramatically). What else can we do here?


How to get rid of crawling errors due to the URL Encoded Slashes (%2F) problem in Apache

The Google web crawler has indexed a whole set of URLs with encoded slashes (%2F) for our site. I assume it has picked up the pages from our XML sitemap file. The problem is that the live pages will actually result in a failure because of the Url Encoded Slashes Problem in Apache. Some solutions are mentioned here We are implementing a 301 redirect scheme for all the error pages. This should make the Google bot delete the pages from the crawling errors (no more crashing pages). Does implementing the 301s require the pages to be "live"? In that case we may be forced to implement solution 1 in the article. The problem is that solution 1 will pose a security vulnerability..


Multiple SSL certificates under one organization?

Now that I have my LLC formed, I intend to purchase several EV SSL certificates for a few of my popular online stores. My question is if it is possible to purchase and set up several EV SSL certificates for different domains / sites that all proclaim to be JohnDoe LLC? Or is JohnDoe LLC allowed to have only ONE EV SSL cert?


What are the most frequent viewport sizes to use in responsive design?

I see differnt suggestions from very detailed (like here) to more brief, like google (here). so I am wondering what are the most suitable sizes to be used @media screen.


can't find my site on google search

I write "XXX" on google search with location and language filter and look for 50+ pages and can't see my site, then same filters and search like this "site:www.foo.com XXX" google finds 10+ pages. so how can I understand why my page doesn't come up in even first 50 pages? I have all SEO stuff + more then 5 year domain registered. thanks for your guideness


What to learn to make a photo gallery site like this?

I started a Wordpress site for my blog but now I want to start another domain for sharing my photos. I used to use Flickr but it requires you to sign up for Flickr Pro if you want to upload over a certain amount of photos. Since I don't want to pay for that, I'm looking to create a photo gallery site like this: http://10mmgalore.com/ or http://www.shuttermaki.com/ But how do you go about with that? Would I be able to install Wordpress and find a theme like that? And/Or are there any Wordpress plugins that I can install to make it like look like that? Or do I need different tools and platforms asides from Wordpress? So can someone list the features, tools and information that I need to make a photo gallery site? The main functions that I want for my site is to have a picture in the middle and when the user clicks on the photo, it goes to the next photo; or there are left and right arrows that users can click to the next photo. I just want to create an album website for my 365 days project (a photo a day). It doesn't have to be as fancy as the sites mentioned above. Thank you!


Recovering a lost website with no backup?

Unfortunately, our hosting provider experienced 100% data loss, so I've lost all content for two hosted blog websites:   * http://blog.stackoverflow.com   * http://www.codinghorror.com (Yes, yes, I absolutely _should_ have done complete offsite backups. Unfortunately, all my backups were on the server itself. So save the lecture; you're 100% absolutely right, but that doesn't help me at the moment. Let's stay focused on the question here!) I am beginning the slow, painful process of recovering the website from web crawler caches. There are a few automated tools for recovering a website from internet web spider (Yahoo, Bing, Google, etc.) caches, like Warrick, but I had some bad results using this:   * My IP address was quickly banned from Google for using it   * I get lots of 500 and 503 errors and "waiting 5 minutes…"   * Ultimately, I can recover the text content faster by hand I've had much better luck by using a list of all blog posts, clicking through to the Google cache and saving each individual file as HTML. While there are a lot of blog posts, there aren't _that_ many, and I figure I deserve some self- flagellation for not having a better backup strategy. Anyway, the important thing is that I've had good luck getting the blog post text this way, and I am definitely able to get the text of the web pages out of the Internet caches. Based on what I've done so far, **I am confident I can recover _all_ the lost blog post text and comments**. However, the _images_ that go with each blog post are proving…more difficult. Any general tips for recovering website pages from Internet caches, and in particular, places to **recover archived images from website pages**? (And, again, please, no backup lectures. You're totally, completely, utterly right! But being right isn't solving my immediate problem… Unless you have a time machine…)


Prevent interactions between Apache virtual hosts on the same server

I have a VPS running Apache 2.0, with multiple domains and multiple IPs set. In document root `/var/www/html/` I have `http://serverA.com` and I created a virtual host on folder `/var/www/html/serverB` serving `http://serverB.com`. They work great for both, but the problem is I can access serverB files with URL 'http://serverA.com/serverB/' (which I don't want to happen.) How can I prevent that?


When redirecting to a beta sub domain should I use 301 or 302?

I have a website with a domain of www.mysite.com for example and I wish to redirect some of it's content to a new version that is under development under a sub domain i.e everything under www.mysite.com/specific-section now goes to beta.mysite.com/specific-section. In the long term the code in the beta site will replace the code main www site at which point the beta site will be closed and the redirects from the www site will be removed.   Using a 302 redirect seems like the right idea in this situation but as I am no SEO expert I wanted to get some feedback. Can I avoid the beta site from being indexed by various search engines? I am aware they all handle 301s and 302s in slightly different ways.   When the beta domain is removed should it disappear from search engine results?   An alternative that has been suggested is to make it a 301 redirect and when the beta site in no longer require to perform a 301 redirect back to the www site. Is this an option is will this cause SEO pain? Edit: I have amended the question a little as I don't think I explained myself too clearly. The beta site it temporary and will eventually be removed. the www site is and always will be the main site.


How to deploy a Wikipedia-like Mediawiki (with all extensions configured in the same way)

Is there a fast way to make my own Mediawiki looks the same as Wikipedia.org? I mean, adds all extensions wikipedia.org is using. and configure it with the same way wikipedia has. Is there a list?


Which way should I look at visits by region in Google Analytics?

I need to generate a report for only the Americas in Google Analytics. When I create an advanced segment that includes Continent >Exactly Matching> Americas I get one number, If I create the segment that includes sub-Continent region> Includes >America I get a slightly different number, And if I look at all visits but choose Demographics>location>and segment by sub-continent region I get yet a 3rd number! (Note: this is because it also includes Caribbean) All are only different by around 1% of traffic. What is the most accurate way to do this, or should I just pick a way and be consistent? EDIT: What other regions/countries should I add the the advanced segment to more accurately match the demographics report?


How do I track a hosted URL on Namecheap.com with Google Analytics

I'm hosting a URL with NameCheap, and it is a URL frame for a blogspot.com account. I'm using Google Analytics to track the blogspot.com account, but I'd like to be able to track the NameCheap frame URL as well. How do I do this?


How to I remove auto generated frameset in IIS?

I have a website where a redirect has been setup to use a frameset. For example. My main site is x-site.com There is a redirect setup somewhere so that xsite.com redirects to x-site.com, but it does so by creating a frameset and placing x-site.com within there. This causes problems for users to login, and we don't need it to function in this fashion. I tried writing some simple .Net code to redirect the user to x-site.com, but it doesn't seem to work. This leads me to believe that there is something in IIS doing the redirect before the code can execute. How do I remove the "frameset redirect"?


How to get keyword ranked and traffic from a specific region?

I am working on a site that has good traffic and ranking form many countries. Our website is basically about Japanese used cars exporters and now we want to become more famous in Africa regions such as:   * Congo   * Zambia   * Uganda  But our keyword ranking and traffic is very low in these countries than those in other countries. What can we do to improve our rankings that will improve our traffic from these regions in Africa?


More than 5 custom variables across multiple websites using Google Analytics

We have multiple websites using the same Google Analytics account number so we can track visitors across multiple websites. One of these websites has set 5 custom variables. We want to introduce a new custom variable to track logged in users for our single sign-on (SSO) system to find out what parts of which website they are accessing. Is this possible or is it a case that all the custom variables have been used up by 1 of the sites?


Google does not auto complete my website's name

When I type in my website's name into Google it gives all other competing websites names but never autocompletes mine. Did the other sites buy the autocomplete option from Google? My website is pienkvoete.co.za Google autocompletes it for pienkvoet- pret.co.za (another site that dealts with other stuff than my site); for pienkvoet.co.za (thats a blank website that has nothing in it) and other searches related to pienkvoet but NEVER for pienkvoete.co.za What can I do, because I am definitely losing traffic? Am I paranoid? Because it feels like someone is deliberately doing this. My website gives out information about pregnancy and childbirth and there are some magazines in my country that I believe are very threatened by my website giving free information in a local language.


SEO tool is telling me title, description and keywords don't exist, but they do. Where is the problem?

I'm using the following tool to analyse how 'optimal' a site that I'm working on is for search engines: http://tools.seobook.com/general/spider-test/ I enter the URL for the site - http://ftmsuat.moneymate.com - into the search bar, and it returns a breakdown of the contents of the page. I'm a little confused by what I see though. According to the results, the page doesn't have a title, description or keywords. But if you check the source of the page, those elements are definitely there. So I'm wondering now, which is wrong? seobook.com or my page?


Is wildcard in Robots.txt in middle of string recognized?

I need some string for robots.txt like:               disallow:           /article/*/      but I don't know if this is a proper way to do this or not?! I need, for example, the following URLs to be followed:   * `/article/hello`   * `/article/123` But the following should be blocked:   * `/article/hello/add`   * `/article/123/768&goshopping`


header.php wordpress install injection on godaddy.com

Every few months I notice a warning in Google results that my site maybe compromised. Sure enough when I check the header.php file is full of all sorts of nasty stuff about viagra etc. I clear it out, change the password etc and a month or so passes and it's back again. I contacted the host, godaddy, who basically told me i need get a website scanner available of course from their products section... scam. Any ideas?


schema.org structure for single page site

I am building a single page portfolio site with WordPress for a client which is divided into sections that would traditionally be separate pages like - about, portfolio, contact. Can I nest multiple schema.org WebPages within one global Webpage like the following markup:               <body>         <main itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/WebPage">                  <article itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/AboutPage">             </article>                  <article itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/CollectionPage">             </article>                  <article itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ContactPage">             </article>              </main>     </body>


Tracking goals in Google Analytics content experiments

I seem to have a hard time getting goals to track properly in GA's content experiments. I have my landing page which has the GA tracking code. On the conversion page (this is on a _different domain_ than my landing page), I have the following code below. This is my GA tracking code + calling gaq.push to track the goal. Under conversions -> goals -> overview, I see "myconversion" being tracked correctly. However, when I go to content -> experiments, I see no conversions being tracked. (I made sure that the conversion being tracked for my experiments are also for "myconversion" Am I missing anything here ?                   <script type="text/javascript">           var _gaq = _gaq || [];           _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxx']);           _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);                (function() {             var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;             ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';             var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);           })();              _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'myconversion', 'product1', 'purchased']);         </script>      To isolate the issue, I created another experiment with the goal that fires on an onclick event on the landing page, and that is being tracked correctly.


SSL / https login from a non-secure (http) page

I am setting up a login page, and I have some security questions / concerns. I have a login form (username, password) on a NON-secure page, let's say:               http://www.example.com/login.php       When the user fills in the form and clicks the "Submit" button, the form POST's a "clear-text" query-string to a secure page:   `https://somethingelse.example.com/post.php` or `https://entirelydifferent.otherdomain.com/post.php` The login form is a standard html form like:                <form method="post" action="https://somethingelse.example.com/post.php>        ...      </form>      So, the "query-string" is clear-text (not obfuscated or encrypted in any way), but I'm sure (I hope) the process of doing a "post" to an "https:" url will encrypt the query-string. The code in "post.php" validates the username and password in the form data, and redirects to a NON-secure page based on success or fail:   `http://www.example.com/success.php` or `http://www.example.com/fail.php` (or perhaps back to `http://www.example.com/login.php`) Is this a proper (secure) setup for "https:" login process, or does this cause security or other issues ? Should one or more of the "http:" pages (`login.php`, `success.php`, `fail.php`) be changed to "https:" (secure) pages ? Is it an issue (security or otherwise) if the sub-domain or domain changes between the various steps in the example ? Is it required by the process for certain of these pages to be on the same domain and the same sub-domain ? Also, it should be noted that I am not handling any critical data like credit card numbers on any pages.


URL hex characters in .htaccess

There is an old page with a space in the filename, and this is no longer found on the website. So I need to redirect this page to another page using a 301 redirect in .htaccess. If I place the filename directly into .htaccess (Bouquets%20%26%20Loose.html), the redirect does not work. If I escape the % sign like this (Bouquets\%20\%26\%20Loose.html), the redirect still does not work. How do I get this redirect to work in .htaccess? Thanks.


Opening PDF files in Internet Explorer

I have a webpage which has a link to a PDF file. Every time I update the PDF file, Internet Explorer will not load the updated file; it keeps showing the old file, even if I refresh the page. At this time, the only way it will show the updated file is for me to change the file name (of the PDF file), but that is troublesome since I update this PDF file often. Does anyone know what to do?


Domain name issues [1&1]

I'm trying to make my domain name point to my web-server. I own a domain through 1&1, and I have a linux computer I have set up to run as my web-server. I'm a student at college, and my college actually is its own ISP. While my IP is not technically static, it only changes maybe once a month, and I also have a sub-domain off the college's website that points to that computer which **is** static. First, I tried to forward my domain to the subdomain that points to my computer, but 1&1 won't let me do that (I don't know why, but it tells me invalid url). So then, using 1&1 name-servers, I tried to make the A-record point to my server. That still doesn't work. So how can I get my domain to point to my web-server?


How to create a site with these features without programming?

My girlfriend & I are creating a site as a side business. I'm a programmer but for this site I don't want to do any programming because a) I want to make the site quickly, b) it's a fun side project and I just want a point-and-click interface with no frustration, c) I want her to be able to update any part. I also don't want to hire programmers for budget and time reasons. Editing HTML/CSS/JavaScript/templates is fine though and expected. The site will have these features:   * User registration. Two distinct types of users with different landing pages, functionality, etc. (not just different subscription levels).   * User profiles with many custom fields. The profiles would be different for each user type.   * Create/Edit/Browse/RSVP for Events - an Event would have many custom fields, so many that using an existing calendar system might not be possible.   * Create/Edit/Browse Activities - an Activity would be a custom object with many fields (title, description, address, etc.)   * Be able to Rate and Review each Event, Activity, or user.   * Easily retrieve and display Events/Activities/Reviews that a user has attended or created in the system.   * One-time purchases and recurring monthly subscriptions. This should be automated and apply the appropriate "credits" to their account each month after their card is charged. This would require supporting an offsite credit card info storage system since we don't want to store that info ourselves.   * Fully and easily translatable. Many of the users will not understand English well so we need to be able to provide translations for each string on the backend (no need for enduser-supplied translations). We should also be able to present entirely different content depending on their preferred language - e.g. users preferring Japanese will see content about Japan. What ways are there of creating such a site without programming? Using CMS software is one way, but are there others? And if using a CMS, which would be flexible enough to support creating a site like this without custom programming? I'm quite sure existing modules or addons wouldn't completely fill my needs, so being able to create and manipulate custom objects is crucial. Thanks in advance for any advice. FYI: Related questions I found. These deal with simpler types of sites though:   * creating a tag-based website and not using programming?   * Is there a way to create a website without learning to web-program?   * Which CMS can I use to build a website without programming knowledge?


How does Google interpret negative statements, like "this site is *not* for X"?

Suppose I setup a games website, and put a disclaimer on it, such as "This site is **not** for gold-sales or RMT (real-money-transfers)". How will Google (or other engines) interpret that? Will searches for RMT find it regardless of how I phrase it? Or is there a _better_ way to phrase a negative statement?


Why my site automatically scroll down?

Every time when I open the site it to scroll down. About 1500 pixels down. The most interesting - I have not changed anything and before this problem was not. MODx Evo 1.0.5 http://virtual-fortune-teller.com/


Byline for Google Authorship in a foreign language

I setup Google Authorship for my blog today. When testing it on the structured data testing tool, Everything is great, except the "Automatically detected author name on webpage", which was expected, because I don't have a "by Άγγελος Κυρίτσης" line. The reason is that the blog and the posts are in Greek, as is my name, and it would be stupid to have a "Written by" in English just for Google. Is there a way for Google to recognize the established authorship in Greek (or any other language, for that matter)?


What are CNAME and A DNS Records?

What are CNAME and A DNS records? What are they used for? What is the difference between the two? **Edit:** Where does the CNAME record exist? On the server or with the domain registrar?


Are there sources of email marketing data available?

Are sources of email marketing data available to the public? I would like to see email marketing data to see what kind of content a business sends out, the frequency of sending, the number of people emailed, especially the resulting open rates and click through rates. Are businesses willing to share data on their previous email marketing campaigns without divulging their contact list? I would like to use this data to create an application to help businesses create better newsletters by using this data as a benchmark, basically sharing what works and what doesn't for each industry.


Stopping duplicate H1 and title from dynamic content

I have a web site where there are lots of dynamically (database driven) created pages. These pages are basically used to show uploaded images The pages look a bit like this URL: http://www.mywebsite.com/page-id/page-title/ H1: View from the sea This is a big issue because I might have 10 other pages with the title: 'View from the sea'. I know the simple solution would be to make sure the pages are named differently but I have lots of users on the web site so it's not that simple. What do you guys think to putting the page-id with the page-title in the H1 tag? So it might read 437 - View from the sea. I need to differentiate the h1 titles. I think using the page-id would help but if anyone has a better solution that would be great! Thanks in advance


How to redirect if directory does not exist or should not be seen?

I am using Apache and want to modify my _.conf_ file for a website such that:   * If the request comes from my IP `1.2.3.4`, just display the URL/page as requested   * If the request is not from my IP and the directory does not exist, redirect to root   * If the request is not from my IP and the directory is one I don't want to display to anyone (`example.com/secret/`, `example.com/secret2/hidden.html`, etc.), redirect to root What is the best way to do this?


Changing AdWords campaign structure

I've been running a campaign for about a year and a half now and the campaign has been setup by location. I'd have one campaign targeted for a specific region. And then I would duplicate the ad groups for each campaign. I have 5 ad groups targeting different areas of my business). This has worked reasonably well. It just occurred to me that it might easier if the campaign structure were reversed: 5 campaigns: each campaign focused on a different area of business and divided into 20+ adgroups (based on location). Will this screw up my campaign if I switch the structure? I have 10's for QS and I don't want to lose that!


Indexing classified content scheduled to expire

Our website site has a "classifieds" section, where user can post a message. I would love those pages to be indexed. However those classifieds are scheduled to expire after 30 days. What is the recommended way to handle this? Avoiding dead links, penalties, etc... I also generate XML sitemaps, not sure how to deal with those.


How to tell Google my content will expire after a certain period?

Right now I'm facing issues with 404 (Not Found) errors, because my content will deleted automatically after two months. I cannot change this behavior, because it is a real estate web site and once it is rented or sold it needs to be deleted and also so many factors behind this. So I want to tell search engines about the availability of my contents and don't return a 404 error.


How to get a list of all page names (with namespaces) of a MediaWiki installation?

I want to export _all_ pages (in _all_ namespaces, and with _all_ revisions!) of a public MediaWiki installation. I’m just a visitor, so I have no admin access. The export is possible with the `Special:Export` page. It takes a list of page names and exports all given pages in a single XML file. Great! However, **how could I get a list of all pages?** There is `Special:AllPages`. Problems:   * The results are paginated.    * It doesn’t include the namespace in the page name (anchor text). Is there a better way? (I know that there may be various special extensions that allow visitors to export pages or download a backup, however, assume that the MediaWiki installation in question doesn’t use any extensions, it’s just a default installation.)


Where to store large amounts of images for my site?

If i would want to deploy a site, like ebay, where people will be able to sell something, i would need to store large amounts of images, like many thausends of them and i would need to display about 30 images on some pages. **Normaly i would make a separate server and store them in there, but what else can i do ?** I was trying to store my images on some image hosts like ImageShack, but i have noticed that if i try to request 30 images at same time, some of the images are not showing, looks like imageshack dosnt like to be used this way. Still there must be some other ways to do it, maybe cloud servers, or other services like imageshack. Does anyone have experience with this ? what would be the best practice beside having a second server ? **Update** Thanks everyone for your input. I have considered your suggestions and have decided to look deeper info CDN, while i am looking for an independ starter solution, i dont want to start by using an non-free service, therefore i am going to look for free CND systems or for means to create one on my server. For the time being i have decided to store images on my main server and do a backup on free image sharing sites for each file, so that i can switch image sources for better performance.


What should I concern when I want to ask Third party to build my website?

From last year, I sell my products using facebook. I found that my business is finding its maximum profit, because the average profit every month is around one static point. Right now, I'm trying to expand my business by selling my products using our own website. For this idea, I would like to ask a third party to build my own business website. What I want to ask is what should I concern when I want to ask third party to build my business website? For this question, I would prefer the your answers are related to technical issues, such as security, response latency, and etc..


Does amount of URL parameters affect SEO?

I've recently just finished building a small website and created friendly URLS using IIS7.5' rewrite module. The site has now been passed to the client's SEO guy and he says the friendly URL format i've used is extremely "catastrophically" bad for Google. Currently the URLS look like this :               www.mysite.com/products/123/1234/category_name/page_name       SEO guy says that Google sees this as being a page deep inside the folder structure and thus gives it a low ranking. Now, I should be able to remove the category details from the URL and get it down to               www.mysite.com/products/123/page_name or www.mysite.com/products/page_name/123      and I can re-arrange the order of the URL parameters if that helps, but SEO guy says this is still very bad and he wants it reduced to only 2 elements. So, my question is, how much does the length or number of parameters in a URL affect a page's ranking? should I restructure the site in an effort to reduce the number of parameters? Or is SEO guy overstating the problem?


Will moving some ecommerce products from one domain to another with redirects cause SEO penalties?

I'm the developer for a small online webstore. We've just moved a subsection of products (the bodyboarding products), off surfhq.co.uk on to bodyboardhq.co.uk to sell them there instead. We didn't want to sell on both stores as search engines don't like duplicate pages - and domain2.co.uk has much better seo for bodyboarding - the site has been run as an active blog for sometime - we've only just added the cart. My question is, should I be using a 301 redirect on the old product pages (sending users to the new pages on domain2.co.uk), or should I just serve up a 404 not found? Google search currently lists a lot of broken links (I've gone down the 404 route for fear that permanent redirects will result in one of our sites being penalised). EDIT My question is not answered here where the 301 is to the home page and the products have been deleted. My products have been moved to another domain (the 301 would be to the product on the new domain). Also I'm concerned with the SEO effect on both domains.