When is it time to make a "micro"-site for long-tail search content?

Patrick Mackenzie, of Bingo Card Creator fame, uses what I'll call micro-sites to dominate certain keywords. For example, search for "halloween bingo cards" and you'll see the first hit is http://www.halloweenbingocards.net which is a micro-site of a few pages of halloween specific content about bingo cards. If you search for "bone bingo cards", you get a link to his main site with one page of content about bingo cards and the human skull. He owns the long tail on basically X + bingo cards, but went all out to build a custom site for the halloween bingo card search (note, the domain name almost guarantees this as a first hit in search results). If you had a bunch of long tail content sites, how would you figure out when it makes sense to pull one out and make it into it's own standalone site at a different url?


Using addthis on a high traffic website

Would custom social sharing buttons work better than the bulky addthis widget on a highly trafficked website (100mil pageviews/day)?


Switching website DNS with minimal downtime

I need to change my domain's DNS, but here in Thailand the ISPs don't follow any standards for renewing their cache of records, so it can take the full two days. I have a new website with about 1,000 members currently who are sending messages and uploading photos. I don't want both sites on the old and new server running at the same time because then I'd have to manually merge the database and transfer uploaded photos. It would be a huge pain. Both servers also a unique URL from my host, e.g. website12345.hostingcompany.com (old host) and website67890.hostingcompany.com (new host). I don't have much experience with this, but I think what I can do is on www.mysite.com, use .htaccess to do a masked redirect to the new server's URL (website67890.hostingcompany.com). Is it possible to do this and keep all URLs being masked? For example, www.mysite.com/profile/username will actually be loading website12345.hostingcompany.com/profile/username. From Google searches it sounds like this is possible, but I don't understand why this is possible due to security issues, since what's keeping people from masking their site to URLs like facebook.com? I could really use some advice here! Thanks!


MX records for individual email addresses on GoDaddy?

I have an `info@mycompany.com address` in Godaddy. I also created a couple email addresses in Zoho mail e.g. `user1@mycompany.com` and `user2@mycompany.com`. If I set up an MX record to point my user1 and user2 address in Godaddy will the `info@mycompany.com` address still work? Can I have some email accounts configured in Godaddy and others in Zoho?


What options are out there for an embeddable WYSIWIG text editor?

I'm thinking something along the lines of TinyMCE Please include a list of features. Examples include:   * supports text formatting   * supports links   * supports images   * syntax types (markdown/wiki/etc)   * licensing and/or pricing   * customizibility   * plugin support   * browser compatibility _Note: Please limit the answers to one editor per answer to preserve cleanliness_ **Update: Forgot to add browser compatibility to the list**


mitigating lost emails when switching provider

We're about to change to Gmail from a web mail provided by our hosting provider, I understand changing the MX records and all. But my main worry was if there would be any emails that would fall through the gaps of the two systems during change over. I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of how the MX record works. Is it like a DNS record change, ie. it needs to propagate? If that's the case would there be a period were its left my current email provider but not switched to the new Gmail account? Thus allowing emails not be delivered or worse, lost?


Strategy for hosting 700+ domains names, each with a static HTML site

I have a portfolio of more than 700 domain names, and ideally I'd like to put up a single-page HTML/CSS/JavaScript webpage for each domain. Is there a system/strategy/workflow that will allow me to:   1. Automate the deployment of new websites, quickly and easily without having to manually initiate each new website in an admin panel. For instance, I've seen dropbox-based solutions that claim to make it simple to setup new websites on your dropbox account, but you still have to set each one up in an admin interface first. It would be so much easier to have a folder naming convention that allowed the user to easily clone/copy/duplicate sites inside their Dropbox App folder (`https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/23`) to create new ones. Sounds interesting, however...   2. It's easy to manage CNAMEs on the registrar-side, but is there a way to quickly associate CNAMEs with new websites (on the hosting side), maybe using the method offered by gh-pages-style (https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-with-pages)? With GitHub's gh-pages, all you have to do is drop a file called CNAME into your repo, with the domain name you want associated with the repo inside the file. gh-pages isn't a good solution for what I'm doing though unfortunately. I'm also a front-end developer, specializing in rapid web development and "front-end build systems", so I building and maintaining static assets for hundreds of sites is no problem. It's the hosting-side that I really struggle with. Any suggestions? Edit: I should also mention that managing my own servers is not an option. As a last resort I might look to build a 3rd party service on top of AWS, Azure etc. but managing servers directly is exactly what I'm trying to get away from.


Can I register / track convertions from my UTM campaigns

I currently got a couple of UTM campaigns setup with all the correct parameters to determine each campaign from another. The converting goal on my homepage is when a visitors creates a user profile. Can I add some analytics code on my converting page / globally, that will enable me to see if the user that clicked through my UTM campaign ended up creating the user profile?


Have SQL reports on separate database than same database that is serving web app?

We use SQL reports in a .NET web application, but some of our reports are heavy and involve more table join and columns. As you know we cannot index all the involved columns (performance problem). These reports impact web application performance. Now we are running reports against the same database that is serving web application. What are some solutions to have reports on a separate database?


google chrome : http authentication issue on iframe

I have an HTML file with 2 links both links are in an iframe to load the contents inside the iframe. I have two protected directories one on the same server and other on another server. If you click on either link it will popup the login box, same for both links in all browsers except google chorme. google chrome doesn't show login box for the protected folder on another server, how can I fix this ?


Does Alexa Widget increase Alexa Rank?

I'm not sure about this problem and I found nothing on Alexa.com talking about this problem. Anyone knows exactly that is this true?


When are accessibility features required?

I've mostly done intranet development and never worried about accessibility features. For a public website, is there certain types of sites or data where specific accessibility features are legally required? Or is it always just my decision based upon my targeted demographic?


Wlll links into pages that are restricted by Disallow rules in robots.txt help SEO?

I have a search-engine based website, and the search functionality itself is not crawlable because of a `Disallow:` rule in `robots.txt`. Other content is on the site is crawlable. If I get incoming links to the search portions of the site, will they be as good for SEO? (Like links to the front page of the site would be.)


Tagging content for search with Google

I am working on a website that will contain a lot of content and I would like to add ability to tag content, just like Stackexchange does, where each question can be tagged by maximum 5 tags. Now, I would like to use Google to search for all pages tagged by certain tag. I thought of enclosing each tag inside special characters like this: _tags: {mytag},{google},{tags}_ and then seach for **{mytag}** in Google. However, it seems Google ignores special characters. What would be the best way to accomplish this?


Move old website with bad SEO to other domain: redirect or start from scratch?

I have an old website with very bad SEO and PR, but still with some visitors per-day. Lately I've rebuilt the app and the concept of it and I'm going to deploy everything in a new domain. I would like to not lose those old visitors but I'm wondering if redirecting that old website to my new one is going to damage the SEO in the new website. Don't know also if it deserves to make the move in the Google Webmaster Tools and Bing or better start from scratch.


For SEO, should I direct an existing website with a lower page rank to a new, better-ranked site?

I have a client that has an existing site, let's call it `bobthebuilder.com`. My client has been posting blog posts to it for the past couple of years and a modest amount of sites are naturally linking in to it. As a result, this site has a PR of 1. My client also has another site, again, with a bunch of blog posts, on a subdomain. Let's call it bob.builders.com. This site is rich in information (again, unique to my client) and has a PR of 3. My client has hired me on to take care of the SEO of his business, not indicating specific sites. I face several options, and would like to get some recommendations, please.   1. Continue writing and optimizing content for bob.builders.com and leave the other site as is   2. Do a permanent redirect from `bobthebuilder.com` to `bob.builders.com`, lose existing content from `bobthebuilder.com`   3. Do a permanent redirect from `bobthebuilder.com` to `bob.builders.com`, transfer all blog posts and content to `bob.builders.com` What would be the best course of action? Thank you!


The keyword "price" for adwords?

I have a keyword that I use in adwords. In my local language which is translated as "caliper prices", has "landing page quality: under average" Landing page of this URL is a list of calipers and prices, which is completely related with the keyword, however "caliper price" is not much existing on the page, It is hard to use that word more than once in the page. So any ideas to increase my adwords quality point for a keyword like that ?


Google Custom Search layout problems

When I install the custom search script on my page, the layout is broken. See the attached screenshot. ![screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/dkFS4.png) I cut and pasted the following code:               <script>       (function() {         var cx = '000119385509173658979:1gb8nobc8-a';         var gcse = document.createElement('script'); gcse.type = 'text/javascript'; gcse.async = true;         gcse.src = (document.location.protocol == 'https:' ? 'https:' : 'http:') +             '//www.google.com/cse/cse.js?cx=' + cx;         var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(gcse, s);       })();     </script>      It works but it looks screwed up. How can fix this?


Trying to host server for external access - Apache, VirtualBox & Portforwarding

Banging my head on the wall at this stage... Trying to host my Apache site on Ubuntu 12.10 with VirtualBox. Running Windows 8 host. Things I've done:   * Ensured Apache is listening on ports 80, 443 and 8080 (for thoroughness)              tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:443             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3355/httpd           tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8080            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3355/httpd           tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3355/httpd           tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      681/sshd         * VM is using bridged network connection    * Assigned a static IP to my Ubuntu VM, which can be accessed fine from within network.   * Forwarded TCP ports 80, 8080, 443 on the static IP of VM on my router   * Given my VM a static NAT Address   * Turned off Ubuntu firewall and router firewall   * Read on forums that my ISP (Eircom) allow port 80 to be used And I still can't access my site using the WAN/External IP (checked internally and using `CanYouSeeMe.org`). It says all the ports I mentioned are closed. I'm really at a loss of what to try next... Am I missing something silly here? Note: I haven't assigned a static IP address within the router, on within the VM. And DHCP server is enabled. Is that bad?


Could link decoration be considered deceptive?

A discussion in the warrior-forum made me wonder if google might perceive link decoration as an attempt to deceive the visitors.. The issue being if you style your links to show like normal text. for example               body{color:black;}     a{text-decoration:none;color:black;}      In my eyes it would seem illogical for google to penalize sites based on _design_ choices. ( _Ignoring the argument of which algorithm can decide if a link is differentiated from the rest of the text_ ) Also it would negate all techniques like replace text with images (* and setting the text to be positioned off-screen or invisible*) etc.. The WA members all argued that it is similar to hiding links ( _for SEO purposes_ ) and google hates that. I would like opinions/experience on this..


How do I build a custom report of referral traffic for a set of domains in google analytics?

I am building links for my client's website and need to make a custom report in google analytics to show traffic only of the links i build. I have tried the following:   1. Set up custom report   2. Define metric groups   3. dimension drilldown: defined "referrer path"   4. filter here I used INCLUDE / regex with following synthax:               ^(     (\/domain1.com) |     (\/domain2.com)     )$      I dont get any traffic data at all (which is wrong, when looking at referral data in channels i see visits from these domains.) How do I do this? Is there a better way? Is my regex wrong?


Use Google Analytics to record newsletter clicks to an external website

Note: by external website I mean a website that we do not have access to the code. For example www.facebook.com I want to record how many social share clicks we have from our customer newsletters. For example, when a customer receives a newsletter they can click "Share this on Facebook" which shares the hosted version of the newsletter. If I wanted to record these newsletter clicks to our website I understand we'd use Google URL Builder (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en) to create a UTM URL but because we're linking to an external site, how do we record this?


Is there a way to limit the horizational flex of a fluid CSS layout?

**Example:** Currently it does this: <--> Want it to do this: <--|-|--> **Meaning the core never gets smaller than say 900px, but the core stretches on forever if it's bigger than 900px. Note, currently it's a 3-column, and the sides are fixed, it's the center that grows.** It's also be cool if I could control the max flex: |<--|-|-->| **Meaning the page would not get smaller than 900x, but not larger than 1200px** ...so, maybe none of this is possible, or it's crazy easy -- but I've searched high and low for an example, or CSS specs on how to do this, and no luck so far. Thanks! * * * ## UPDATE: * * * Thanks to Dave, I was able to find a solution... :-) ...thanks Dave!! **Example of code**               #wrapper {        width: 960px;        width: expression(           (document.documentElement.clientWidth > 962)? "960px" :              (document.documentElement.clientWidth < 762)? "760px" :                 "auto"        );        height: 1%;     }      **-- OR here's the full HTML with inline JavaScript and CSS --**               <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">                     <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">         <title>Example of max- and min-width</title>

Example Content...

                       **SOURCE:** Friendly Bit, Min-width and Max-width template NOTE: Stack Exchange... Rocks!


Replacing well ranked e-commerce site with a CMS site and new e-commerce site & maintaining as much SE ranking as possible

I am looking for advice on the steps to take to re-structure my website. We currently have an osCommerce based site in the root of the site (i.e. mysite.com/index.php). Our plan is to have a CMS based site as the main site (at mysite.com), and have a _new_ e-commerce site as a sub-domain (store.mysite.com). The existing osCommerce site is well ranked in Google, Bing & Yahoo, and we'd dearly love to retain as much SE ranking goodness during and after the changes. I had thought the steps would be to 1) move the current site to a sub-domain, 2) place the new CMS based site in the root, and 3) when that lot has "settled in", replace the e-commerce site with a new version. Does this sound about right? If so, what's the best strategy on implementing wholesale redirects from mysite.com to store.mysite.com in the first step? (We have about 70-80 pages on the site including product pages). I would very much appreciate any help or advice before I embark on this onerous task. TIA Edit: We're replacing the old osCommerce site because it is out of date, heavily modified and the design is old and needs replacing. The company has more services that it offers now, so a CMS would suit our website better, but still with a more modern e-commerce site.


Google AdSense reloading?

Please tell me something about Google AdSense: 1) Can i reload ads by myself without full-page-reloading? For example refresh AdSense frame or call some script? 2) About "interest-based advertising" that works around cookies. Can i influence on it for setting my own interest-keywords? How works this mode?


Tracking Search Filter Parameters Using Google Analytics

I'm just wondering if there is a way to do this using Google Analytics. Let's say I have a search filter like the one used in Trulia.com ![Imgur](http://i.imgur.com/Hz57P.png) There is a text search for the location with other drop-downs for filtering by bedroom, land size, property type (apartments, house) etc. Is there a way to track the filter and obtain a report for some questions like below using Google Analytics   1. What is the most popular property types (house, apartments) for search in New York area?   2. What is the most common maximum price of users who are looking for apartments in San Francisco? (or actually Google Analytics is not suitable for this kind of thing?)


PHP as a first web development experience

Your experience is valuable. What would be your advice for an aspiring web developer who decided to give PHP a try? Thanks


What are options for hosting a personal site that let me me tinker with things?

I'd like to serve my personal site reliably. I prefer to write my own html, css, php, etc. and would like to tinker with things - to install my own software and run arbitrary linux commands. I won't be running a business, needing to handle money or dealing with multiple content editors, or serve live streaming of the next Superbowl. Just a personal site with images and stuff of interest to artists and scientists. Maybe a blog, mailing list and RSS feed. For the past few years, I've paid a big commercial web hosting company to serve my site. They offer a lot of fancy features I don't need. They don't allow website owners to run arbitrary shell commands, such as git, svn, gzip, or scripts to manage files. Some hosting companies cut off sites for various reasons. Finally I want to cut costs so money is freed for other adventures. OTOH, I do like having someone with the expertise to handle http server configuration and security, deal with bad disks and cables and all that. It'd be especially good to have direct access to all the html files, database etc, using my favorite text editors or tools (e.g unix commands with pipes) instead of being limited to trying to do things through the commercial company's clumsy web apps. What are all the options I should consider for serving my personal site? A home machine dedicated to the task might be a fine option for some, but I have DSL with no fixed IP address. I'll be serving plenty of images and some large scientific data files.


Encoding settings for HTML5 video

What is the best, free way to encode video for the new HTML5 video in browsers. I want to encode video in WebM, H264 and Ogg. I have looked at FFMPeg and it seems to be able to do it all but the commands to do it with good quality can be fairly cryptic. Does anyone know of any good free tools that can do 2 pass encoding of video in each of these formats, or how to get FFMPeg to do task?


Does google always downrank pages with hidden texts

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Are temporarily hidden elements bad for search-engine rankings? I'm creating a FAQ for my page. To help the user to get a better overview I want to hide all answers and only display the questions. If the user clicks on a question the answer is set to display:block. I know that google also reads and indexes hidden content, but I also know that hiding text is a common technique for spammers and thus probably discredited by google, resulting in getting wiped from search results. But I'm wondering; Does google always downrank pages that have large amounts of hidden text? Does Google have some kind of intelligence? I mean an FAQ like this is not that uncommon. Should I not use this kind of FAQ?


Issue with redirecting an HTTP homepage to an HTTPS homepage

In July, we changed our homepage to HTTPS via a 301 redirect from HTTP (the only page on our site with HTTPS). Even though we have significantly increased backlinks to our homepage, we have had no change in search ranking. Do we need to submit a new sitemap or update our _robots.txt_ file in order for Google to correctly associate our HTTPS homepage with our site? We noticed that our Google Webmasters Tools account is not showing us any stats for our homepage so we added an HTTPS Google Webmasters Tools account in order to track info to the homepage. The HTTPS account ONLY shows us stats for the homepage which gives the impression it is reading our homepage as a separate site than the rest of our site.


Example of live site with trusted, signed but revoked certificate?

I'm drawing up some documentation for users with the intent on educating them on certificate revocation. I would like to include screen shots of browsers to demonstrate the user experience when encountering a revoked cert. The revocation can occur via either OCSP or CRL. I've tried digging around CRLs, but they list the serial number of a certificate and don't provide a URL for me to try connecting. Could someone provide a URL to a live site with a non-self-signed but revoked cert? Or perhaps there's a way to look up certs in a CRL and cross reference them to a URL?


Search engine impact of irrelevant inbound links?

On several of my websites, I noticed a significant number of inbound links coming from irrelevant websites. For example, one of my site is about travel and one of site that links to it is about _male-enhancing pills_. The only reason I know of this site is that it appears in my server logs as referrer a certain small percentage of the time. Invariably this site and others that do the same seem to have a bunch (roughly 10-30) of irrelevant links scattered on their pages and some of them happen to point to my site. Now since the links go from their site to mine, it is certainly not about luring traffic towards them, so why would they do that? More importantly, does this have a negative impact on my site's search-engine and and Google ranking? If so, what can I do about it since I have no affiliation or contact with the offending websites?


Free Places to List a New Site?

I recently launched http://www.comehike.com and promotion has not been easy. I currently have $0 promotion budget and am wondering where are good places to get free links, and some traffic? Any tips or tricks would be appreciated? An example of what I am looking for is something like diystartups.com


Website deployment from SVN

Does anyone use SVN to deploy their websites? If you do, could you explain your setup process and workflow or provide a link to more information? Ideally, I'd like to be able to commit to SVN and then have it also update my website. I'm currently using Assembla as a hosted SVN repository, so any answers that take that into account would be doubly appreciated.


Is Joomla or Drupal easier to manage?

Is Joomla or Drupal easier to manage?   Better community than the other to receive help?   One made for corporations vs for private? Seems like WordPress is very popular, too, but can it do the same things as the others? Also, how long (in approximate hours) does it take to set one of these up? Thanks!


Creating a Sub Domain on Dreamhost

I am trying to create a sub domain play.mink7.com i went to Domains and Add Domain and added the Subdomain. It created the DNS records. Now when i go to the website http://play.mink7.com am getting the following error > Site Temporarily Unavailable We apologize for the inconvenience. Please > contact the webmaster/ tech support immediately to have them rectify this. > > error id: "bad_httpd_conf" Any idea how to change this ?


What is the best way to get a huge amount of content to your website?

I have been working on 2 websites for a long time and the most challenging work is to create good content to them. I use to write the articles mysellf or sometimes hire an external service to do it for me (around 7-10 uds each and poor quality). At this moment my site has around 400 pages indexed all of them created by me and taking me a lot of time. Although, I note that some of my competence has 6.000, 12.000 pages (not forums, etc, but proper articles and samples) at their site and they are individual webmaster like me and my question is HOW IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE THIS HUGE AMOUNT OF PAGES/CONTENT working alone and with a small budget? Basically, I need to improve my site with templates, samples, like job deescription templates, resume templates, etc. My competence has tons of them duly written and formated. CAN YOU PLEASE HELP ME SUGGESTING SOME GOOD/ALTERNATIVES SOURCE TO CREATE WEB CONTENT, preferible for free or maximum for 1usd-3usd price each?


Disable default error pages/error messages in IIS

I have this web application (ASP.Net MVC 3) that on certain conditions returns a custom JSON string with a HTTP status code for an error (403, 415, 500). It is deployed on a Win 2008 R2 server with IIS 7.5 Initially I was gettting the standard HTML pages for the error instead of the JSON data. I removed the error pages for these errors in the app settings. But now my queries which should return some JSON data return a single error line. When the server gives me 403, I have the message "You do not have permission to view this directory or page." (simple line, no HTML around it). What can I do to deactivate this and finally get what the app is returning and not what the server wants to return?


Google Analytics indicates tracking code is not installed

I have 4 websites using Google Analytics. Two of them are being tracked perfectly without any problem. The other two however are appearing as "Tracking Not Installed". It's there, but it's not working for these sites:               www.evusa.org     www.usagreencard.co.uk      It really makes me feel not very confident about using Google Analytics now. If the tracking code appears as "not installed" when it is actually installed, why I should feel sure that the numbers they provide are actually real. Here's the tracking code for the first site:               <!-- GA -->     <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', 'UA-49488235-8', 'usagreencard.co.uk');       ga('send', 'pageview');          </script>      And here's the tracking code for the second site:               <!-- GA -->     <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', 'UA-49488235-7', 'evusa.org');       ga('send', 'pageview');          </script>


What is the minimum recommended page title from an SEO perspective? Would there be any problems if I use a two words title? I know that there is a maximum recommended, but I did not find anything about the minimum length.


SEO and other impacts of using rel="dns-prefetch"

I recently came across a site that had the following code:               <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//ajax.googleapis.com">      In looking it up it says it is used to `Reduce DNS lookup time by pre- resolving at the browser.` So my question is, other than (hopefully) making the site feel a touch more faster, does it have any other impacts on SEO or the site in general?


Rel canonical link tag pointing to the same page

I'm implementing the canonical tag in my page to avoid be penalized with duplicate content flag by search engines. My doubt are the following:   * If I have a page COPY with the canonical tag pointing to ORIGINAL, and in this ORIGINAL page I have the canonical tag pointing to ORIGINAL again, what are the consequences? The thing is, that for me is more easy to generate the tag in all pages, and not only in the copies.   * Can i put the `<link rel="canonical" href="ORIGINAL" />` in anyplace, or should be in the `<head>` tag.


google search differences

i'm preety new to SEO, so please bare with me if the question seems dumb.. I have a webshop, for which I made a sitemap and sent it to google to index.. now, when I am logged in to my google account and type the domain name into google (without the "www." and ".hr"), google puts that site first.. OK... when I log out, and do the SAME search, the site is 5th or 6th... how is this possible?? also, site appears on google (i sent it like 3 days ago), but in my webmaster google account it says that 0 pages are indexed... so, just putting site ON google and indexing it is not the same thing?   I can provide site domain name so you can see for yourself if it's needed...   I have one more site with the same (strange) issues...   thanks for the anwsers!!!   Andrej


Filezilla claims there is not enough disk space on our microsoft azure webserver

We run a website on a microsoft azure webserver, but today we face a problem when trying to upload files to that webserver using Filezilla FTP client. Whenever I try to upload anything, filezilla responds with "550 There is not enough space on the disk". I then log on the administrator account on for microsoft azure, and see that we have only spend 2% of our 50 GB available disk space. I tried restarting the webserver, but that did not do the trick. Any ideas or suggestions? I can't seem to find any similar thread of this issue. I don't have much experience when it comes to websites and servere, so any help would be appreciated.


Robots.txt error "Crawl postponed because robots.txt was inaccessible" from Google Webmaster Tools

On the _robots.txt_ fetch tab there is a yellow triangle when hovered over. I am getting the following message. "Crawl postponed because _robots.txt_ was inaccessible" However I am showing 0/151 Errors/attempts. I use the same _robots.txt_ on other sites and there is no problem.               www.dtnmgt.com/robots.txt


AdWords traffic not (properly) reflected in Analytics

I have an AdWords account, which was set to use Auto-tagging of URLs. When looking at the Analytics account for that site, I couldn't find any reference to AdWords traffic either in the Advertising section or the Traffic Sources section. So I manually constructed the URL tags, and updated the Campaign Ad. Once the ad was approved and the clicks started coming through again, I could see the results in the Traffic Sources section of Analytics. In the Sources > Campaigns section, my campaign was listed, and under Sources > All Traffic, it was registering the same level of traffic from `google/adwords`. However, the Advertising > AdWords section is still drawing a blank. Any ideas? Are there explicit steps needed to enable full tracking of AdWords campaigns? If it is relevant, the Adwords campaign was set up with one account, and the Analytics tracking with another, but both accounts have full access to both AdWords and Analytics.


What does one look for to increase conversion rate of landing pages?

I'm about to create several landing pages. I'm trying to find methods or means to produce the highest conversion rate possible. What could someone do to increase ones conversion rate for a landing page? I'm looking for an answer that has experience, references, or metrics to back up their claim. I know a lot of this is an art.


Mark keywords/words as not important to Webmasters

I have a word repeating many times in every page which has no content or keyword significance - the word 'clear' on 'clear filters' button - and I noticed that this word is third in the `keywords` panel. This word has no relevance to the actual content and I supposed it shouldn't be in the `keywords` list. Is there a way to mark words like this one as not important or not relevant? On the other hand, is the `keywords` panel that important or I shouldn't bother at all? I also want to add that this word is in a link which I have marked as `nofollow` once I noticed how high it was on the `keywords` list. But I don't know if it makes any difference. I'm willing to explain further if I was not clear enough. Thank you.


How long does Google Webmaster Tools take to index a website?

How much time does Google Webmaster Tools take to index a page? Analytics took around 24 hours to get info from the site, but since this is indexing, I guess it might take a little bit more than that. I would like to know though, an estimate so that I can start working on redirecting traffic with search engines to my sites so that it gets indexed much better. **EDIT** I just tried indexing with bingbot and the following messaged appeared when I hit on fetch as bingbot: > REDIRECTION LIMIT REACHED What does that mean? According to the code it brings back, only a a few parts of the site are returned, then it goes away to God knows where. Inside my `.htaccess` file I wrote the following rules:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]     </IfModule>      Could it be possible that something of my `.htaccess` file could be redirecting the bot or something like that?


Redirect from domain to other one

I deal with the following problem. I am customer of one domain reseller, which has fair prices, fine administration, and I have all my domains registered by it. Recently I've created a new webpage using a free web service (those sites where you can create a simple webpages with some template after few clicks). This new web page has default address in the following form: "pagename.provider.cz", but I want to use my own domain "pagename.cz". And that is the problem, because the provider would assign domain name to my presentation only if I registered mentioned domain by him. That wouldn't be a problem, but he is three times more expensive then my favorite one. So I am thinking about registering domain "pagename.cz" under my favorite registrator and then making 301 PHP redirect from it to "pagename.provider.cz". Shall this affect (negatively) my domain ranking? Are there any catches which I shoud care about?


Rel=canonical from product to category

A website selling a medical book called "anatomy cihak" has 4 html pages - a category called "anatomy cihak" and three product categories for each book in the series - "anatomy cihak 1", "2" and "3". Should I do a `rel=canonical` from the individual product pages to the category that lists all three books? The search term used by customers is "anatomy cihak" and I believe the product category is the relevant page that Google should show in search results. An interesting note - when I search for "anatomy cihak 1" the first search result from my site is actually "anatomy cihak 2" even though it is less relevant (a different edition of the book). This is the reason why I am thinking of doing a `rel=canonical` - the results are not relevant.


What is an acceptable level of FPS in browser workslow editor?

I'm developing a diagraming tool and need some metrics to test it against. Unfortunately I couldn't find information regarding an average acceptable FPS level for this kind of web apps. We all know such levels for action games (which is 60fps minimum), 25fps for videostreaming. Can anyone give me some information reagarding minimal FPS level for drawing web apps? What tools would you recomend to test my app?


should I learn html/css before php even for using database?

I saw lots of question about this topic and all of them were talking if someone want to use php for "building web pages", should learn html first or not. and most of them said yes, because most of the time you make web page with both php and html (and maybe css). But If I just want to use php for contacting to My Database (for example MySQL) and nothing more, shuold I learn any html or CSS first or not?


Require domain alias to show in browser address bar

Similar to question posted here (but not related to sub directories): .htaccess redirect of domain name alias to main domain but must show up as the alias domain I am trying to direct traffic from an alias domain I have to my site that is on the same server, while also keeping the alias domain in the browser address bar. This is my original htaccess content which correctly redirects the user, but xyz.com appears in the browser which I do not want.               rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?abc\.com$ [NC]     rewriterule ^ http://xyz.com/?foo [R=301,QSA,L]      This is my attempt to not only bring abc.com visitors to xyz.com but also have abc.com appear in the browser. This doesn't even load the site. Any ideas on a fix?               rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?abc\.com$     RewriteRule ^$ /index.html [L]


Allow (and correct the URL) when there is a special character such as %26 using IIS and the rewrite module

I'm struggling with a legacy app that uses special characters like `%26` in the URL. The characters don't affect the app but can't be changed, so I'm trying to get IIS to deal with them. I've tried to ignore them using multiple methods, but nothing seems to work. So now I installed the IIS rewrite module and added a rewrite rule to _web.config_ to replace the characters `%26` with `_`, for example:               <rewrite>         <rules>             <rule name="ampersand" patternSyntax="Wildcard" stopProcessing="true">                 <match url="*%26*" />                 <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}_{R:2}" />             </rule>         </rules>     </rewrite>      The problem is that IIS responds with "Bad Request" before the rewrite rule ever gets called. So my question is this: how can I change the order of precedence so that the mod rewrite filter will be called before IIS puts the ban hammer down on that URL?


Can I bid on AdWords Keyword Tool with no competition?

I am very new to PPC, and I want to advertise a product. The problem is, the relevant keywords I find are very low traffic (~100/mo) and have no competition at all, and not even CPC estimate, or maybe 5c. Will I be able to bid on those keywords and have my ad display in the search result or will Google only allow ads if there is sufficient competition? If Google estimates 5c/click is this real or will it be more like 5$/click?


Is it a bad idea to refresh sitemap once a day?

It takes a while for Google Webmaster Tools to update the amount of links sent by sitemap. I was wondering if updating it on a daily basis could delay it even longer or actually help. The slow indexing may be caused by the low pagerank, which is 1.


Canonical URLs with multiple domains

Within my CMS I can add multiple domains. IE: `domain-1.com` and `domain-2.com`. The way my CMS is setup I can access the same content across both domains. For instance: `domain-1.com/contact` and `domain-2.com/contact` would be the same pages. Because of this I am concerned about duplicate content. What I plan to do is use canonical URLs for each domain and use absolute URLs in the navigation of the site, however, I have read that canonical do not work, or is less effective, cross domain. If I use:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.domain-1.org/page-1" />      and:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.domain-2.org/page-2" />      on each respective page for each domain will I be able to avoid duplicate content? Also should I use _sitemap.xml_ and _robots.txt_ in the efforts to prevent duplicate content?


Move a well-indexed website from one framework to another

My company decided to get a new website, while retaining the same domain (e.g., `mycompany.com`). We are currently using Joomla (still active), and the new website will be a self-hosted WordPress. Since `mycompany.com` is already well-indexed in Google Webmaster Tools & Analytics, I'm sure there will be a lot of problems if I just point the `mycompany.com` domain to a new site. I guess a 301 redirect is certainly not an option since the whole site structure will be different. I can expect some problems, but at least I want to minimize the impact to site ranking & index, also to real visitors. Can anyone suggest the safest way to do this?


Wordpress CSS formating issue

A don't understand why the sidebar of my Wordpress blog does not have consistent formatting for H3 tags. There are two PHP-generated un-styled H3 tags in the sidebar, followed by my own manual H3 tag. The first two appear larger than the third, yet they are identical tags. The site in question is here. The contents of sidebar.php are:
          <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar') ) :         $widget_args = array(             'after_widget' => '

',             'before_title' => '
',             'after_title' => '

'         );     ?>          <?php the_widget( 'GetConnected', 'title=Get Connected', $widget_args); ?>          <?php the_widget( 'Recentposts_thumbnail', 'title=Recent posts', $widget_args); ?>          <?php endif; ?>

Choice links

Annimac Consultants - Futurist & Life Coach

Melville Tennis Centre - Great social tennis


Paying for advertising on a cost per click basis - How to validate?

We use various pay per click advertising agencies and are able to tune the traffic to our mobile sites according to various things. The problem is, the number of clicks reported by the publisher never matches the clicks we see in our logs. I'm told that it's natural to expect some drop off. Does anyone have any idea of what a reasonable drop off would be? 10%? 20%? I do expect some drop off because being a mobile platform I guess people are more likely to experience timeouts, connection drops etc.?


Can't Connect to my Own Site But Other Users Can

Edit: I just as of the time of this edit have tried to go onto the site and it works now. I know that means my issue is resolved but it would still be nice to know what might have gone wrong that caused this issue. I did not change anything it just all of a sudden worked again, it just isn't making much sense to me. I for some reason can't connect to my own website. I was on it 20 minutes ago and it was working fine, then I go to load up another page and boom I get the Chrome Error Message: > Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to sitexyz@xyz.com I have confirmed that other users can connect to it and I have been able to connect to it via proxy. I have checked the .htaacess and my ip is not blocked. I have checked my cpanel and, my ip is not blocked. I have tried to flush my dns to see if that would help. I also tried clearing my cache just in case. Does anyone have any ideas as to what might the issue be? Regards, Fogest


Are shorter URLS better for SEO?

Many people shorten their URLs. But as per my understanding it creates overhead of extra redirection, other can not guess about the target article with their url, and it should be less friendly for "inurl:..." type search. Should I shorten the URLs of my sites? Is there any advantage with short URLs besides the fact that they take fewer characters in anchor tags on the page (good for site loading)?


How does a CDN work on the tech side?

I never used a CDN before so this is a noob question, but how does it work on the tech side. For example right now when a user uploads an image on my site it is uploaded to the "/uploads" folder at the root of my "www" folder via PHP. If I use Amazon S3, how will I make the images my users upload, go directly to Amazon's servers instead of mine? Or does it work a different way like the images are still uploaded to my server but then I have to move them to the amazon server either manually or through a CRON job? Basically can someone explain to me how it works?


What guidelines should be followed when implementing third-party tracking pixels?

**Background**   I work on a website that gets a fair amount of traffic, and as such, we have implemented different tracking pixels and techniques across the site for various specific reasons. Because there are many agencies who are sending traffic our way through email campaigns, print ads and SEM, we have agreements with a variety of different outside agencies for tracking these page hits. Consequently, we have tracking pixels which span the entire site, as well as some that are on specific pages only. We have worked to reduce the total number of pixels available on any one page, but occasionally the site is rendered close to unusable when one of these third-party tracking pixels fails to load. This is a huge difficulty on parts of the site where Javascript is needed for functionality built into the page, but is unable to initialize until a 404 is returned on the external tracking pixel. (Sometimes up to 30 seconds later) I have spent some time attempting to research how other firms deal with this sort of instability with third-party components, but have come up a bit short. The plan currently is to implement our own stop-gap method to deal with these external outages, but rather than reinventing the wheel, we wanted to find out how this is dealt with on other sites. **Question**   Is there a good set of guidelines that should be followed when implementing third-party tracking pixels? I would love to see some white papers or other written documents about how other people have dealt with this issue.


GoDadddy Disk Space Usage figure doesn't make sense

I'm trying to figure out how much disk space my website takes up. I'mm looking on cPanel (Linux version) and the Disk Space Usage figure doesn't make sense: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/twKrf.png) Maybe i'm just being stupid but they haven't specified the unit type. Am I really using up 70.99GB of disk space? Isn't the green bar supposed to fill up? Probably a stupid question, but it's not very clear!


DNS and non-root site

I've set up a Zope/Plone web server on 10.10.10.10:8080. I will have several sites hosted on this server. Each site will be located below the root e.g. `10.10.10.10:8080/Mysite1`, `10.10.10.10:8080/Yoursite2`, `10.10.10.10:8080/Theirsite3`, etc. With DNS on a Win Server 2008 R2, I've tried creating an A record for 10.10.10.10 to point to mysites.domain.org and then use a CNAME record to point to one of the non-root sites. i.e.               A record -          mysites.domain.org. IN A 10.10.10.10     CNAME record -      Theirsite3.domain.org IN CNAME mysites.domain.org:8080/theirsite3      My goal is to have one IP for the server and to redirect its '10.10.10.10/sites' to a subdomain name. I'm not quite sure how to frame the question, I will clarify and update my question as needed. Is DNS capable of handling this? or is there a better way to achieve this?


Safely backup and migrate a hacked and infected WordPress site

I have an old WordPress site that was on really bad shared hosting and has been hacked into smithereens. It's been compromised by multiple (different) people, as far as I can tell. It's pretty bad! The site is functioning well enough right now for me to get in and do things, so I'd like to move it to a different server if possible. However, since I know it has backdoors and all sorts of trouble in it, I'm not sure how to move it over. Obviously I'm going to do a fresh WP install, but is there a way to move the data (blog posts, comments, etc) over without a risk of also transferring a backdoor or some other trouble? For example, do I need to worry about the MySQL databases themselves being compromised? Or if I manually move them would they be ok? I am thinking the safest thing to do would be to do a WordPress "export" and then import the XML file to the new freshly-built site along with `.png`, `.jpg` and `.gif` files. I'm assuming images are relatively safe. XML also seems pretty safe, but even so, it's a lot of code to scroll through, and I'm not sure if I would recognize a backdoor embedded inside it if there was one. Could it somehow have PHP embedded in a post's text that would then be activated on the clean site?


How can I make FTP connections secure in WHM?

For security reasons (since FTP transmits passwords and files in plain text), I want to force users of my shared hosting to use FTPS or SFTP instead of regular FTP. I am using WHM but have limited account (no root access). What options do I have to enforce all FTP connections are secure?


Migrating content (posts) from a sister site. Would it be beneficial adding them as pages or post?

I have to migrate the content (about 150 posts) from a sister website (that client had raised in order to increase SEO on advice from an SEO company) to the main website. My client has got a conception that migrating these posts as pages would benefit the health of their website more than having them as posts. In my opinion having them as posts would make more sense plus would make it easier for me to manage the structure/hierarchy of the website but I would like someone else's opinion that sounds much better.


Embed content, iFrame or load via JavaScript?

I have to load remote content in several sites and I'd like to know which is the best technique. I know I can go trough an `<iframe>` but it isn't SEO friendly. I want the content to be found and indexed by Google and the other search engines. Which is the best way?   1. `<iframe>`   2. load the content into a `<div>` using jquery or other JavaScript


How to add version control and seperate development server to php/web development environment?

I'm the team lead of a small group of developers. My background is primarily in application development and I've worked in larger groups where version control (SVN, Git, etc.) have been used and proven very useful. I'm starting to oversee our web development, which is currently one lonely php developer, however, we will be adding a second php/web developer soon. Currently our lonely php developer programs things live (ie: he makes changes to a php file, uploads the new code, and sees what happens). I'd like to change this since this is just asking for a disaster to happen. I'm also thinking of adding some sort of version control to his process. We already have a SVN server being used for application development so I'd like to leverage that somehow. I'm looking for advice on how best to approach this and what kind of changes to make. Should we use our existing web server for development? We could make a complete copy of the existing websites and have these copies sit on subdomains. We then make changes to these copies and if everything went OK, we synchronize the subdomains with the main sites. If this is a good approach, what set of tools (ie: software) would be best to use for the synchronization? Is there any software that could also commit these changes to the SVN server while synchronize things on the web server? The less steps are involved in these changes the better. Or would it be better to have a completely separate server for development? The downside of this is maintenance ... we're short staffed as it is. Any and all advice is highly appreciated. Web/PHP development is a bit different than your standard application (Java, C++, etc.) development that I'm used to so I'm definitely open to idea on how best to run this department. Thanks, Harry


Can a sitemap index file list sitemaps in a different directory?

If I have a sitemap index, can the sitemaps listed in the index be located in a subdirectory, but have links that isn't specific to the subdirectory? I'm trying to avoid having multiple sitemaps in the root directory of my server, if I can help it. /Sitemap.xml               <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">        <sitemap>         <loc>http://www.example.com/assets/cnt/sitemap/main.xml</loc>        </sitemap>     </sitemapindex>      /assets/cnt/sitemap/main.xml               <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">         <url>             <loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>             <changefreq>daily</changefreq>         </url>              <url>             <loc>http://www.example.com/Customer-Service</loc>         </url>     </urlset>      I posted a similar question earlier, but I did not explain myself clearly.


Create a thumbnail screenshot of a website that is submitted to website directory

I would like to know how to set the thumbnail of a screenshot of a website when someone submits that site to my directory. It would need to be automatically generated. See an example


Removing the result from Google search

When I search google with my name. Site by person A comes up in the search result. But the page does not contain my name. How can I remove this site from the Google search result?


How do I do a catch-all .htaccess redirect?

A site has moved from `example.net` to `example.com/ie/en/`. (In other words, it’s moved from being its own domain to being a subfolder in a larger site.) However, the page structure has also changed. I have a few pages with specific redirects. For example, `example.net/packaging` should redirect to `example.com/ie/en/packaging-solutions/`. Everything else (the homepage and all pages not specifically mentioned) should redirect to `example.com/ie/en/` directly. Here’s what I tried:               Redirect permanent /geotextiles http://www.example.com/ie/en/technical-fabrics/geosynthetics/     Redirect permanent /fibcs http://www.example.com/ie/en/packaging-solutions/fibc-filling-solutions/     Redirect permanent /packaging http://www.example.com/ie/en/packaging-solutions/     Redirect permanent /bags-fibcs http://www.example.com/ie/en/packaging-solutions/fibc-filling-solutions/     Redirect permanent /horticultural http://www.example.com/ie/en/technical-fabrics/agri-horti-aquaculture/     Redirect permanent /construction http://www.example.com/ie/en/technical-fabrics/construction/     Redirect permanent / http://www.example.com/ie/en/          RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/ie/en/ [R=301]      This very nearly works. The pages mentioned specifically redirect as they should; so does the homepage. However, other pages do not work. `example.net/blah` should redirect to `example.com/ie/en/`, but instead redirects to `example.net/ie/en/blah`. Is there any simple way to lose the page name? The new website is completely restructured, and quite simply doesn’t have equivalent pages to some of those on the old site, so redirecting to the homepage makes sense. Taking a tip from an answer, I tried this approach:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule /geotextiles http://www.example.com/ie/en/technical-fabrics/geosynthetics/ [R=301,L]     RewriteRule /fibcs http://www.example.com/ie/en/packaging-solutions/fibc-filling-solutions/ [R=301,L]     RewriteRule /packaging http://www.example.com/ie/en/packaging-solutions/ [R=301,L]     RewriteRule /bags-fibcs http://www.example.com/ie/en/packaging-solutions/fibc-filling-solutions/ [R=301,L]     RewriteRule /horticultural http://www.example.com/ie/en/technical-fabrics/agri-horti-aquaculture/ [R=301,L]     RewriteRule /construction http://www.example.com/ie/en/technical-fabrics/construction/ [R=301,L]     RewriteRule / http://www.example.com/ie/en/ [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/ie/en/ [R=301,L]      And now _everything_ redirects to `www.example.com/ie/en/`. All my special cases are being ignored, despite the `L` flag.


How does hreflang interact with geo targeting?

If I have multiple subfolders that I wish to target at different countries, I'm thinking the ideal set up would be to specify rel="alternative" hreflang with a language AND country code (e.g. en-AU) and ALSO to geotarget that subfolder to the particular country. That way, the pages would be showing up both in the country-specific results (accessed via Search Tools) because of hreflang, AND the more generic country results from regular searches, because of geotargeting. Is this correct? p.s. What would happen if you geotargeted a subfolder which had e.g. pt-BR hreflang value (i.e. Portuguese-Brazil) to just Portugal?


Google analytics is tracking my admin panel usage. I removed the code, can I delete the data?

I accidentally put Google Analytics code in such a way that it included it throughout the entire website, including the admin panel. As a result, when I go to the site content page to view all the pages seen by Google Analytics, it now shows all the pages in my website, including all kinds of admin panel pages.   1. After having removed the Google Analytics code from the admin panel now, will it eventually remove all the admin pages where it's no longer there, and if so, how long might it take?    2. Is there a way to remove these pages from the site content page manually, other than using advanced filtering them?   3. If I create an advanced filter, filtering all of these pages, will this filter somehow be available to other users with access to this account, or is the filter local and/or temporary?


What is the name of this kind of layout?

Please visit this site: http://www.visitheritage.com/ Can someone tell me in which category does that kind of website layout belong? Or in other words, how you simply call it? I notice that this kind of layout usually have:   1. Drop down menu navigation   2. Image slider (very big) & contains hyperlink   3. 3-4 additional navigation links which usually contains images and little text   4. Very minimalist footer that only contains copyright notice, links to social media, & faq or disclaimer hyperlink. I usually see this kind of layout in professional organization's website.. Btw I hope I am not in the wrong forum. Let me know if otherwise. Any help is appreciated.


URLs created by Googlebot show up as 404 errors

I have a situation where Google is crawling our site. That is fine, no problem, but the issue is that the crawler is creating URL paths that do not exist. `/events` is a root folder on our site. Googlebot is then creating URLs like this: `/events/site/`. I'm not sure what is going on here, the site is return 404 status for these, and then they are showing up in the Webmaster Tools error report.


Rewrite up to three folders into three query string parameters to a PHP script

I'd like to use mod_rewrite within the `.htaccess` file to rewrite folders to a `var string`. Below is examples of current and what I would prefer.   * _Current URL_ : `example.com/main/folder1/folder2/folder3`   * _Preferred URL_ : `example.com/parser.php?var1=folder1&var2=folder2&var3=folder3` How can I rewrite the current URL's to preferred URLs?


what should i be doing for seo as a programmer?

I'm working on a niche classifieds/listings type site. What should i be doing to make each page on the site to be uniquely indexable by search engines. As per my understanding, basically i need to generate the title, meta-tags etc. dynamically or programatically. Perhaps do some url rewriting? What type of url rewriting works best? The site has categories and cities , so perhaps they should be included in url's, titles. meta-tags etc.? What else is missing, what are the other stuff i should be working on?


SSL Certificate Works in Monit - But Not in Keystore

I have a situation where there's a keystore file with the various root/intermediate certificates stored in it in a way that it seems to work for most browsers. Problem is that when mobile browsers hit it, there's a break in the chain and they complain. I used an SSL checker at http://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html and it states that "The certificate is not trusted in all web browsers. You may need to install an Intermediate/chain certificate to link it to a trusted root certificate." So...the desktop browsers must have the intermediate certs already and can make the chain connections, I'm assuming, while the mobile browsers can't. The thing is that I had used Portecle to export certificates from the keystore and cobble them together to create a .PEM certificate to run the Monit utility. When I check that application with the SSL checker, it works fine! The person that originally created the keystore said he couldn't follow the SSL provider's directions for creating the keystore because he created the CSR request using openssl, so the cert and private key had to be converted to DER format and use importkey to get it to work; following the directions he found online had importkey seem to use only a set keystore file as a result, and it would erase anything already in the file if it existed. So is there a way to take the certificate I created for Monit and create a working keystore for the Tomcat website? What would be causing the chain to be broken in the current keystore, but work for Monit? I have the SSL cert provider's intermediate and cross certificates, and the website's certificate, but is what else would I need to create a working chain of certs for a keystore?


What should the home page on a personal site be?

I just finished school for web development and now I'm looking for a programming job. I've built a personal website to show off my work. I've got my resume on there, with a link to my portfolio and a few other things. But one thing I'm struggling with is the home page. Everything I think of either could go on a page I already have or just seems weird and out of place.


Do I need a brand new template for mobile web-app?

I've a web-application currently serving only desktop clients. I will be creating a mobile-friendly version of the application. I am wondering:   * Do I need to create the design from scratch and use something like **mobile-boilerplate** to design the mobile version from scratch? Or:   * Can I just insert the additional ****tag and modify current html5 block level elements using **@media screen and (max-device-width: 480px) {}**? I am rather experienced when it comes to HTML5 & CSS3 (+JS) desktop UI-UX design but so far, I've never done anything for mobile browsers and I feel very confused. Which option is the correct way to go? Also, if you have any articles and suggestions regarding the subject, I'd be very happy to read them. Thank you very much!


301 redirects, query strings and SEO

We have recently consolidated one site into another one. We set up all of our 301s and those all work famously. The bulk of the 301s (including the old site's homepage) land on an interior page of the new site. We want to display an image to users that hit the interior page from the 301 and not show the image to other users. Obviously, though, there's no reliable way to know that someone came over from a 301. We do know, given our architecture, if a page is the redirect point for a 301, so on the request, we check three things - page is a 301 target, referrer is null and, because it's an interior page, if the session is new. While this sounded great in theory, it's not awesome. Two primary sources of traffic are now configured to hit that interior page directly and, of course, the image is showing when we don't want it to. How bad would it be for SEO purposes, to change my existing 301s like this: **orig:** `http://example.com` 301 to `http://foo.com/interiorpage`   **new:** `http://example.com` 301 to `http://foo.com/interiorpage?showimage` Given that the original 301s have already been crawled, am I damaging my juice by adding that querystring now? The parameterless url is canonical. The only difference in content is the visibility of an image that exists on both versions of the page.


xslTransform.Transform to XslCompiledTransform.Transform

Hi I am clearing all warnings in my application, I used below code in my application                     DataSet dsBillItem = new DataSet();           System.Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator xNav = xmlResponse.CreateNavigator();           XslTransform xslTransform = new XslTransform();           xslTransform.Load("test.xslt");           XmlReader xmlReader = xslTransform.Transform(xNav, null);           dsBillItem.ReadXml(xmlReader);      "XslTransform" showing warning as "This class has been deprecated. Please use System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform instead. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=14202". If I change my code to "XslCompiledTransform", its throwing error on this line "XmlReader xmlReader = xslTransform.Transform(xNav, null);". Reason is this Transform method available only with void return type. Please help me anyone on this, any code for xslt file to dataset conversion or any other way is available?


How can I force Google to show my domain, not my IP?

I submitted a site to Google using their tool. At the time I didn't actually have a domain for the site, so I just used the IP address. Later I bought a domain, but Google still seem to be showing the version with the IP address before the domain one. How do I get it to stop showing the IP address version?


Can regularly added content improve SEO and achieve better ranking?

Let's say I add a blog to a mostly static website, or simply publish new content every week. Does that help the site rank better in search engines in any way?


Fraudulent Click Bombing Sites

I am getting a fraudulent site 'visit4money.com' as the 2nd top referral in Google Analytics. This website seems to have tens of thousands of members who keep coming to my site and fade away after moments. I know it may be click fraud. But I wonder why are they coming to my site while I have no Google Adwords/Adsense running. I am not running any online ad campaign any where. How this website is benefiting from my site by sending fake visitors? I though have invested on FB Ads for past two months. Since then, I've noticed increase in such suspicious site referrals. It is strange that FB ads only appear on sidebar; and I don't think clicking on them would be any beneficial for any FB user or such sites? Can anybody explain what's going on?


Domain still points to old web werver after deleting domain account

Yesterday, I set up an account with `Example-Host.com` along side with a free domain name from `Example-Domains.com`. I found out that my WordPress site's Admin is only compatible with >= PHP 5.3 and the server doesn't allow you to change the default PHP version (5.2.14) to 5.3. So I switched to `Example2-Host.com` because they allow you to use up to PHP 5.4. Now the domain still points to a 404 page on the `Example-Host.com` server. I changed the DNS servers on my `Example-Domains.com` domain to point to my `Example2-Host.com` account. How long will it take for the changes to happen?


Can I check where my page shows for a certain sentence in a search box?

I was wondering if there is a way to check how my website's pages rank vs certain sentences typed into Google or even if they get displayed. I am pretty new to SEO so a slightly detailed answer is appreciated. So if i type "some words" into the search box i'd like to know when my page shows up. Other then just clicking through all the pages with hits until i find my page. Perhaps this can be done with google analytics or webmaster ~~tools~~. If this is not possible with these ~~tools~~ but with other ~~tools~~ then please do not tell me because that is not allowed and i want to keep my question open in case this is possible with the ~~tools~~ i tagged.


How to allow Google to index protected content?

I'm working on my site and as it require users to log in it will be hard to Google to index the sites, because to see 90% of the content you have to be online. So I've made a script which looks for the ip that enters the site if it is between 66.249.66.1 to 66.249.71.206. So if the ip is between this range, i set "the google bot" as online and it will be able to see all pages a normal user would see. Is this a good idea? Are there more ip ranges? Can I trust these ip ranges?


Redirecting URLs when launching a new website - how to avoid dropping page rank

i have over 100 urls in my website which i need to redirect: E.g.   * `/page/how-to-bake-chocolate-cookies/` will redirect to `/cookies/how-to-bake-chocolate-cookies/`   * `/page/contact/` will redirect to `/contact-us/` and so on... I want to make sure search engines will catch the new url without affecting my site's quality, ranking, etc... How can I best accomplish this and avoid users experiencing 404 errors and make sure Google will correctly index my new pages?


Using ini_set() to change memory lmit for individual PHP scripts

I have had trouble in the past with memory issues caused by individual scripts on a website using more memory than they should. I have tackled this problem by lowering my PHP memory limit from 512MB (the requirement of one script on the site) to 64MB, and using ini_set("memory_limit", "512M") on the individual script that needed it. The question is whether this is a good method, or if there are better ways of tackling this issue. The other method I have seen is adding a second php.ini file in the directory of the script, but this will not work because almost all of the scripts for the website are in the same folder. Please note, I am aware that even a 64MB memory limit is high for most sites, but it is required by the platform I am using.


$_GET generates a white flicker

I've got a menu, links within it are sending user to e.g. `?menu=home` but there are many other links. I wanted to use `$_GET[""];` to manage content of website by switch i.e.   `if ($_GET["menu"] == "home")`, everything looks fine, I have background, a website, pictures and stuff, but each time you change `?menu` by clicking on other links than itself, it flickers, for about 0.5 second it is white and then website loads. Now that wouldn't be a problem if website would be bright like StackExchange, unfortunately my website orbits around dark colors, such flikker throws off the feeling of smoothness on website. Is there a way to get rid of that white short flicker?


Multiple Google Analytics code for url under same domain

I have one domain: `www.example.com`, and `www.example.com/sales`. The analytic code on both urls are different. So when I login to my Google account it displays two separate analytic accounts. on `www.example.com/sales` I have a banner linked back to `www.example.com`. I clicked that banners and I am sure there are other people have clicked the banner as well. but when I check the analytic of `www.example.com`, I don't see any thing come from my `example.com/sales`. I assume analytic on both urls are working, but why it doesn't track the visit from `/sales`. any idea??


Google pushes my site to the top when I'm logged into Google

When I do a search for the product we sell, my site comes number 2 in Google. However, this only happens when I am searching while also logged into my Google account. If I start a private browsing session and run **exactly** the same query (even by copying the URL), my site appears down near number 20. In fact, the order of much of the top 20 sites differs quite significantly? Could it be that my account is linked to the Google Analytics account for our site? I'm unsure why Google would exhibit this behaviour.


Uploading a non-finished website

I have a pretty basic question. I developed a neat little website which I'm ready to upload, but still needs a bit of work. The designer needs the html to do his work so the website needs to be uploaded. Besides that, I have to correct a couple details, do the friendly-urls, etc. What's the best way to set up the webpage in the definitive hosting with the definitive domain, blocking it to any unknown users and without affecting affecting SEO and those kind of things. If I were to just upload it, the non- definitive website might be crawled by a SE-bot.


Monitor offline adwords conversions

I'm trying to evaluate the usefulness of Google Adwords for a friend's site. I'm trying to count the number of sales per month, and see how many have found her page because of the Adwords campaign. Her site has an online order system, but she also gets customers that buy just via the email contact and never use the online order system. There aren't many conversions per month (usually only one to three), so I don't want to miss any conversions when I want to gauge the effectiveness of a campaign. Is there a good way to also include those conversions?


New domain keep pointing back to old server

I am migrating my domain to a new host, 000webhost.com. but it keeps pointing back to my old hosting, biz.nf every time I tried to access it. I know there is a DNS propagate of 24-48 hours, but my website is showing fine under the proxy http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://www.maryshao.com/ but not when I just type in maryshao.com Why is my website only showing under the proxy website? Is it really just DNS propagate time?


Reset / Remove - Google Keywords

**Summary** :   My site is ranking for filthy keywords and i would like to remove them from google ranking/keywords. **Background** : My server was hacked using the timthumb exploit/security vulnerability, apparently i was the last person on earth to read the news about the exploit, several months after it appeared. Anyway, the "hacker" was so friendly to modify the index.php file in such a fashion, that it generated random sexual oriented keywords if the website is fetched as Google-bot. So if you would fetch it as Google bot/it gets indexed, you would get randomly generated keywords like: > sex videos teenager   >  teen sex adult   >  sex preteen A LINK TO A RANDOM CONTENT OF MY WEBPAGE   >  anime sex videos a rough list something similar to that, about 180-200 per page. I've discovered it far too late, so that Google had me indexed for the words "sex" and certain adult oriented keywords, about roughly 2000. I've removed all the content, toke the site down, replaced the index.php with a static HTML and added a "ERROR 410" title to the website so that the content is no longer here and removed permanently.   I've also applied for a manual review of my website, about 1.5 months ago but still, the keywords are there, and very strange, some of the keyword rankings actually "improve" over time. Here are some screenshots from webmasters tools: ![Keywords](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ksjkU.png) ![Search results](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tP0GZ.png) ![Search stats](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UzzSA.png) **Question** :   * How can i remove this filthy keywords and re-rank my website as a "normal" website on the fastest way?   * I want to "REMOVE" the keywords if possible.  Please help me or point me into a direction. Thank you **UPDATE & SOLUTION**: After removing and blocking the content for a time, i let ALL content return a 404 and after about 2-3 Months (maybe longer) of no movement at all, one day google magically removed ALL offensive keywords from the keywords page so these f$#!ing keywords are now gone for good!   I hope this can be of any help to you web masters, thank you!


Which browsers send "Expect: 100-Continue" request header?

I just want to make sure which browsers send the `Expect: 100-Continue` header? So that until the server responds with a `100 Continue` HTTP status, no data should be sent.


Is it possible for an artist's offical website to feed data to Google's "Musical Artist" or "Band" info box?

I work with a lot of musicians building websites for them. Within the last year or so, I've noticed that Google has started adding an informational overview of some bands and musicians when you search for their name directly. Clearly the descriptions generally come from Wikipedia and the photos from google images, and the other information is gathered from a variety of sources. Are there any meta tags or special HTML content or attributes that can be placed on an artist's website that will get populated into this area? Does something like the code below this exist? (quasi-code) If yes, does it have the potential to effect this google "Musical Artist" info box, or does all of that data get pulled exclusively from Wikipedia?                               <meta name='type-of-site' content='this-site-is-a-band'>         <meta name='band-image' content='/images/my-cool-band-photo.jpg'>         <meta name='active-from' content='2013'>
John Doe and the Unknowns

John Doe, guitar

Jane Doe, drums

              songs...         albums...         other music related data...         etc...                  ![screen capture of google search resulting in a "band" overview box](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ou1jH.jpg)


SEO - which URL's are the best?

I'm using .htaccess with RewriteRule to create SEO-friendly URL's. However, I have a few questions about this:   1. First of all, I noticed many websites end their URL's with .html (or another extension). For example: `http://www.example.com/news/564/seo-improvements.html`   Does ending an URL with an extension have an impact on SEO?   2. Which URL is the best (again, for SEO):  `http://www.example.com/news/564/seo-improvements.html`   `http://www.example.com/news/564-seo-improvements.html` I've noticed both notations are often being used.   3. On many websites, I notice you can alter the text part of the URL, which is followed by a redirect. For example: `http://www.example.com/news/564/seo-improvements.html` <-- original URL `http://www.example.com/news/564/sefkdjfjdfkdjfk.html` <-- altered URL, will redirect to the first one How can such a redirect be done? Thanks EDIT: When creating this thread, I got a warning this question may be subjective - is it? Isn't there a "correct" answer on these questions?


Sharing unique links on social media vs SEO

We're currently implementing a voucher system on our site which will allow our users to obtain a 25+% discount on certain products, provided they donate 10% of the purchase price to charity. We will offer the ability to share the discounts via social media in return for larger discounts to the sharer for each person who clicks through the link and buys an item. I understand that social links have SEO benifits, but this appears to be based on lots of people sharing the same link. If our voucher users share a unique link i.e. `http://ourdomain.com/sipsfesdf` rather than a fixed link `http://ourdomain.com/product-name` will we still receive the same benifts? Should we instead share something like `http://ourdomain.com/product- name/sipsfesdf` Thanks in advance.


What should be done when one page has multiple parents?

I have a website which deals with mobile phones related information. Now I have a webpage which has all articles related to a mobile phone. Now this page can potentially have two parents one being the "All articles page" and other being the "XYZ Mobile Phone Page". So which of the following breadcrumbs would suit more?               1. Mysite > All Articles > Articles Related to XYZ Mobile Phone     2. Mysite > XYZ Mobile Phone > Article Related to XYZ Mobile Phone      I am in a similar kind of dilemma when trying to decide the URL for this page.


Is there a difference between Zoë and Zoe in SEO?

I'm finishing of a website for a Blues band called Zoë Schwarz Blue Commotion, her name is Zoë. In terms of SEO do the search engines see any difference between Zoë and Zoe. I think the vast majority of people when searching will type Zoe as most people won't know where the ë is. It would be nice to use her name Zoë but would this affect our SEO efforts?


What are the advantages of a corporate blog?

I'm going to make a presentation to a few decision makers in the following week and I'm trying to gather good reasons to start a corporate blog. Since we're handling a low budget, it's not in the plans to hire anyone especifically to manage or create content but use the employees to do some research and write an article. **So what are the most relevant advantages of having a corporate blog?** The most up-voted answer will be accepted as I'll probably benefit of every contribution. Additional details:   * Wholesale business only.   * The only marketing investment so far was an institutional site.


Common web app code base

There are a bunch of very similar RE search sites out there. I would not be surprised if a lot of them started out from the same code base. Does anyone know if these are all custom built, or if some of them spawn from a common code base? www.estately.com www.sawbuck.com www.movoto.com www.windermere.com www.homes.com Thanks


How to know all the installed Extensions in a Magento Site?

When I see page source of a website, I can know that a website is running Magento, but how do I know the extensions installed on that store? Is it possible to know from the page source? EDIT: more information The site I'm Interested is: http://www.jiayumobileshop.com/ I wanted to know what extensions and themes they are using in that site, **esp** See the Right hand side-Bar Slider, Contacts and Login.


What is best practice for link exchange for website with multiple domains and censorship problem?

I have a website named something like `example.com`, but it has been filtered (blocked) in my country. So I created a new domain named something like `example2.com` and a redirect on my original `example.com` site to this new domain. This makes my new domain appear in search engine results. I'm setting up Link Exchange for my website. What is best practice? Should I link exchange with first domain name (`example.com` that redirect to the new domain name), use the new domain, or should I link exchange with new domain (`example2.com`)? Note: My website is filtered in my country but Google can see it.


SEO - Where to go from here (how to build links etc)?

I've been asked to find out about SEO and getting links. We are apparently in a contract with a firm who have made changes to our site code, changes to the text on the site, and registered us with a list of directories. I've had no involvement with this until now. They've told us to get links, and to add articles to our site. I believe my boss expected all this to be included and it wasn't so now it's on me to know enough to do this and not wreck our ranking. I've googled and think I know what to do with articles, which is simplistically just adding diverse content with each article focussing on a keyword, and create lots of them, right? Some sites talk about percentage of keywords, does this really matter? How do I get links though? If I start mailing sites asking for a link isn't that just going to be considered spam? Do we buy them? If so, where? As you can tell I'm completely new at this. So many sites contradict each other, or promise impossible magic if you buy a product. Is there a reasonable unbiased guide out there? I have some tech IT background but am only a user as far as the web goes. Sorry for the very basic questions. Thanks. **Update** I was concentrating on the wrong question - I'd have been better knowing how best to proceed from here, hence the daft questions on how to build links etc. Is there anything I need to watch out for when starting out with link building or writing articles? ie damage our ranking?


FatCow and iPage real deal?

I need a cheap host that I can upgrade if needed for a startup. From searching, FatCow and iPage seem reliable and inexpensive web hosting services with a Unix OS and good bandwidth + disk space. I suspect they were bought from the same company. They propose to offer unlimited bandwidth/disc space and perks like AdSense/Facebook credit however, they're packages range from 1-3 years @ 3.15 USD/mo, there isn't a monthly package but they do allow you to cancel at anytime and there servers run on wind-mill generated energy which is a plus. I was suspicious because I couldnt seem to find one negative review about them, just affiliate pages until I read a review explaining they're strict policies on copywritten data. Has anyone experience with one of these two hosts?


Google Site Search -- How to use as API?

I am trying to get an API that I can use to do searches on my own site. Google has something called site search and something called custom search. What is the difference? I make a new _site search_ , then it is listed on a page with " _custom search_ " in the heading. This is really confusing. I just want an API that I can use to search my site. I would prefer json to xml as the results. And if this service is offered by someone other than Google, that is fine too. The ones that I create at Google want me to embed a premade search box into my site. I do not want that, I want an API that I can call from PHP or JS. How can I get this?


Track visitor use of "Ctrl + F" on a website?

Would it theoretically be possible to detect (e.g. via JavaScript) if a user queries a webpage with the Windows shortcut `Ctrl` + `F`, or the Mac- equivalent `Command` + `F` in their browser? The first step would be to detect whether that function was called, but it'd be a different ball game to track their keystrokes...    I'm asking because a lot of the time, web apps seem to re-wire keyboard shortcuts to do other things (or they get disabled completely, for example, in some cases of HTML5 `canvas`, the shortcut `Command` + `W` to close the tab doesn't work). This is likely a different mechanism, and I don't have high hopes. Furthermore, only about 10% of users know how to use the `Ctrl` + `F` function anyway.


Page blocked by antivirus

My client reports that [this page][1] I designed is blocked by his antivirus (Norton) : . The rest of the website is not blocked. Do you have any idea why Norton would block this page ? The report says "web attack: mass injection website 5".


domain with only one or two characters

I came across some sites that have only 2 or even 1 charachter for the domain name like hp.com, u.bb and 9.bb How come? as we know that when registering a domain name we must provide at least 3 characters.


Google isn't indexing URLs after a redirect that differs only in percent-encoding/decoding?

Will Google's crawler refuse to follow redirects when the difference between the redirected-from and redirected-to URLs is solely whether specific characters are percent-encoded or not? For example:   * www.splunkbase.com/apps/All/4.x/Add-On/app:PDF+Report+Server+%28install+on+Linux+only%29   * www.splunkbase.com/apps/All/4.x/Add-On/app:PDF+Report+Server+(install+on+Linux+only) Both of these are, per the HTTP specs, valid and equivalent URIs, but our site's code always redirects to a "canonical" URL for each content page-- which in this case is the first URL listed. Google clearly isn't indexing this page (in either URL variant). Neither of the URLs above show up when I search for "PDF Report Server (install on Linux only)". Google webmaster tools reports a "redirect error" for the "decoded" variant of the URL: www.splunkbase.com/apps/All/4.x/Add- On/app:PDF+Report+Server+(install+on+Linux+only) Another problem is that we're currently using a 302 instead of a 301 redirect to handle canonicalization-- we're switching to 301s soon for canonicalizing redirects. But I'm wondering if the 302 vs. 301 issue may be a red herring-- that the actual underlying issue may be that, in Google's eyes, we're redirecting a URL to itself since, per the HTTP specs, a perecent-encoded and non-percent- encoded URL should be treated the same by clients and servers. I found a related thread here. It's not the same issue-- in their case the only difference between redirected URLs was the upper/lower case of the percent-encoded hex values. But it's suspiciously similar to our issue. Finally, my question: **Has anyone run into this percent-encoding-plus- redirect issue, and if so can you discuss how you worked around it? Did switching to a 301 fix it, or was more needed?** For workarounds beyond 301-ing, we're looking at a variety of options from using REL=CANONICAL and turning off redirection in this case, to modifying our escaping to turn off escaping of apostrophes, parentheses, and other not- usually-percent-escaped characters. For long-term fixes, we're looking at:   * like this site does, using a numeric ID as a key, adding REL=CANONICAL to handle changes in SEO text after the title, and not doing any redirection   * like many blogs do, continuing to use the title as the canonical URL, continue redirecting, but switching all problematic characters with dashes so we don't have to worry about encoding/decoding


How do I make a sprite full of different images (hover, non-hover, etc)?

I understand there are tools on the net to make a sprite, but I'd like to learn how to create icons for the different states of the icon. Is there an easy way to make all these different variations of this icon: ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/RGYUS.png) (Also, can you tell me how I can better word my question so it doesn't sound like I'm asking for sprite advice?)


What to consider if working for ad space?

I've been approached to do web development work in exchange for ad space: All revenue from a yet-to-be-agreed-upon number of pages would go straight to me. To keep things simple, we have agreed on Google AdSense. Obviously everyone thinks their new site will be the new cat's meow. So this would be up to me to determine cost/benefit of my time. Assuming you would do it..... ...tell me your **"BIG IF"**. Here are some things I've considered:   1. I must be awarded **X** amount of pixels in the top **Y** pixels of web page.   2. I must be awarded **X** number of pages.   3. I must be awarded **X** number of page views...    4. Work performed will be limited to craft (no data entry, writing content, etc. purely web related work).


ie7 killing list-style on floated ul's

I have two ul's (.listone and .listtwo respectfully) floated left and the other right. The list-style:circle; works in every browser except for ie7 =< . In ie7 the list-style is just ignored. How can I fix this?


How to verify real people?

For a music community, I want bands to be able to verify themselves. What is the best way to do this? For example I could let the record label mail me, but some bands are indepedent. I could also ask them to put a 'code' on their website or Facebook page and then check manually. I'm not per se looking for a waterproof solution, so no scanning of real life documents and I'm okay with doing the checks manually. In other words, how can you verify real people with their virtual presence?


Lower Google traffic after adding more pages?

I recently added a new feature to a website, which resulted in a few hundred extra pages being added to the site. I added these new pages to google sitemaps, with the hope that they would attract some 'longtail' queries. However, it seems that traffic from google has dropped off significantly since this addition. One problem might be that these new pages are rather light on content (although, they are very useful), and that they outnumber the 'normal' pages on the site.   * Is this the most likely reason for the problem? If not, then what? I would like to get back to the google traffic I had before this change, but am not sure about the best way to go. As I see it, my options are:   * Remove the new pages from the site map (I don't think this will make a difference now)   * Change internal links to the new pages to no-follow   * Just wait?


How to add sitemap of a blogger blog to Google webmaster tools?

I have two blogs. Let's say http://name.blogspot.com/ and the other one is http://name2.blogspot.com/ For blog 1: While submitting sitemap to Google webmaster tool I selected the option and then added rss.xml at last. (http://name.blogspot.com/rss.xml) Sitemap added successfully. For blog 2: I followed the same procedure but it didn't work. Then I tried to open the url (http://name.blogspot.com/rss.xml). The url was showing the atom feeds. I tried same with the other blog but that url is redirecting to the feedburner feeds. I think this is the reason why the other blog's sitemap is not getting submitted. Help me with it.


Unsupported file format of sitemap - Google

I'm having an issue where I'm submitting my sitemap, too bad I keep this omitted error: > Unsupported file format > > Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it > meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit. I followed the sitemap guidelines and error reporting types:   * Creating Sitemaps.   * Sitemap errors. This is what my sitemap looks like:               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>     <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">       <url>         <loc>http://mywebsite.com/home</loc>         <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>         <priority>0.2</priority>       </url>       <url>         <loc>http://mywebsite.com/feedback</loc>         <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>         <priority>0.2</priority>       </url>       <url>         <loc>http://mywebsite.com/search</loc>         <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>         <priority>0.2</priority>       </url>     </urlset>      It seems fine enough, so I re-submitted it and then it returned the same error, that my sitemap is unsupported. The sitemap has a application header of `text/xml` if changed to `application/xml`, it still won't work. What is causing this error?


Does the Adblock Plus extension prevent malicious code from downloading/executing?

Firefox and Chrome are my favourite browsers. The main reason is an extension called Adblock Plus. Basically, it blocks all the ad networks if you subscribe to one of the lists, like EasyList. Does it also protect against malicious ads on completely legitimate websites? For instance, several news websites use ad services that may allow a malicious user to insert "evil code". This makes the web very unsafe, especially for those who lack a serious antivirus product.


Mobile phone app or optimised mobile site?

I run a motor sport news website and currently deciding if I should go down the route of paying someone to develop an app for a phone, in which case I would need something compatible for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android or if I should just spend time optimising my mobile website? Would love to hear some thoughts of others on this!


How to remove a file from url using mod_rewrite

I want `http://www.foo.com/` to internally point to `/var/www/home.php` and `http://www.foo.com/home.php` to be redirected to `http://www.foo.com/`. Thus, I would like to fix the old `http://www.foo.com/home.php` to the new one `http://www.foo.com/`. But I always get infinite loop or other strange error no matter what.


Mod Rewrite - directing HTTP/HTTPS traffic to the appropriate virtual hosts

I have an Apache2 web server (v. 2.2.16) running on Debian hosting three virtual hosts. The first two hosts are HTTP only (server1 and server2). The last host is HTTPS only (server3). My virtual host configuration files can be found at pastebin. I would like to use mod rewrite to get the following behavior:   * Any request for `http://server3` is re-directed to `https://server3`   * Any request for either `https://server1` or `https://server2` is re-directed to `http://server1` or `http://server2` as appropriate. Currently, requesting `http://server3` gives you a 403 because indexing is disabled for that host and a request for `https://server1` or `https://server2` will resolve as `https://server3` (as its the only virtual host running SSL). This behavior is not desirable. So far I have added a rewrite rule to the central configuration file ( _myServerWideConfs.conf_ ), with unfortunately no effect. I was under the impression that this rule (or something similar) should rewrite all https:// requests for server1 and server2 to the proper http:// request.               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^server3 [NC]     RewriteRule (.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}      My question is two-fold:   * What mod rewrite rules should I use to accomplish this? And where should they go? Debian's packaging of Apache has a pretty granular (i.e., fractured) configuration file layout; should my rewrite rules go in _/etc/apache2/apache2.conf_ , _/etc/apache2/conf.d/myServerWideConfs.conf_ , or the individual virtual host files?   * Is mod rewrite the right tool to accomplish this or am I missing something in my greater apache configuration?