Rich snippet for Google Custom Search - Schema.org

I am trying to extract the book URL from a link using microdata. The format is specified in schema.org. Here is my html.

{{ book.name }} - {{ book.author }}

 {{ book.about }}

                                                                                <button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-md">                                             Read                                           </button>

      When I use google snippet testing tool the JSON API returns book as a html link. However when I make the call in javascript the value of url is text("Read"). What am i missing ?


Does Google counts backlinks from homepage to inside pages?

I have a site with good PR and my inside pages are getting increase of PR, but they don't have links pointing to them, only from my homepage. Does that means that Google counts ALL links on my homepage, including links to inside pages? Does it calculate inside pages PR with one coming from my domain, my homepage, too? Also, if inside pages that got high PR from homepage have link back to homepage, will that increase homepage PR additionally, since those links should count too? > By Google PR algorithm formula, by calculations on Wikipedia and Stanford PR > algorithm explanation ( which is originally developed by ) it counts those > links, and also it counts after-increase backlink again, making few times > circle ( it stops because of d ( 0.85 ) factor. ), but it counts them. Does anyone know is this correct?


Do noindex,follow pages pass pagerank / link juice?

Assuming one marks a page as 'noindex,follow', is PageRank / link juice passed to other pages nevertheless?


Implications on automatically "open" third party domain aliasing to one of my subdomains

I have a domain, let's call it `www.mydomain.com` where I have a portal with an active community of users. In this portal users cooperate in a wiki way to build some "kind of software". These software applications can then be run by accessing `"public.mydomain.com/softwarename"` I then want to let my users run these applications from their own subdomains. I know I can do that by automatically modifying the.htaccess file. This is not a problem. I want to let these users create dns aliases to let them access one specific subdomain. So if a user `"pippo"` that owns `"www.pippo.com"` wants to run software HelloWorld from his own subdomains he has to:   1. Register to my site   2. Create his own subdomain on his own site, run.pippo.com   3. From his DNS control panel, he creates a CNAME record `"run.pippo.com"` pointing to `"public.mydomain.com"`   4. He types in a browser `http://run.pippo.com/HelloWorld` When the software(that is physically run on my server) is called, first it checks that the originating domain is a trusted one. I don't do any other kind of check that restricts software execution. From a SEO perspective, I care about Google indexing of `www.mydomain.com` but I don't care about indexing of `public.mydomain.com` What are the possible security implications of doing this for my site? Do you know some existing website implementing a domain configuration like this one?


SEO effects of linking to subdomain

I have http://hollywoodnose.com as a main site. Then I have http://forum.hollywoodnose.com as the subdomain. I'm cautious to link to the subdomain from the main site. I did this before and droped 50% of traffic from the main site. Also, Google Webmaster Tools showed over 3000 incoming links from Hollywood Nose to the subdomain / forum. I'm assuming Google frowned on this and saw it as spam or something of that nature. All I would want is link to the subdomain in the top nav bar of the main site. Is this safe? Will I get an overabundance of incoming links resulting in an SEO drop? Does anyone have any experience in this matter? Thank you.


Make your site anti-bot?

I remember a site closed due to misuse and i wonder if bots have a part of it. If the bot is POSTing something to my site what are ways i can combat it? I was thinking of setting some cookies and having the cookies changed via javascript + timestamp and sign (so yesterdays cookies cant be used today and next week). I'm sure most people/bots would just use another site instead of enabling JS in their bot. What else can i do? I'm thinking daily POST limit and a honeypot for generic bots who just randomly post spam


Need help for stopping spam inquiries

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Make your site anti-bot? I am not a web developer, nor have I the required knowledge to grasp this situation. I have a small company with a modest web site where I market properties. Recently, my website is being bombarded with spam inquires. Here are some examples: "It was dark when I woke. This is a ray of sunhsnie." "This is exactly what I was looknig for. Thanks for writing!" "What a joy to find sooemne else who thinks this way." As you can see, all of them has typos, probably for tracking the work done. I would be glad if someone can offer a solution to stop this nonsense. Thank you for sharing your time.


Best way to block "comment spam" postings to web forms?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Make your site anti-bot? I have a custom web form on my PHP-based site. Recently it is getting a regular stream of **comment-spam** postings from a few specific IP addresses. **Question:** What is a good way to block a small set of blacklisted IP addresses from accessing my site? I was thinking it should be possible using **.htaccess** to respond with status code 403 (Forbidden) for all HTTP requests from the blacklisted IP addresses, ... but I am not sure exactly how to do that. If anyone knows the **.htaccess** syntax needed to accomplish this, ... please let me know. thanks in advance,


What's a good way to keep spam out of 'anonymous' submission websites?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Make your site anti-bot? I'm trying to do everything I can to prevent spammers from just pasting crap all over my forum websites. People get incentivized by video games and porn sites and who-all to just paste their ads all over the Internet. I feel like just locking it all up and requiring admin approval for every account. On the other hand, I don't even like registering for websites. A lot of times, I just go out on a 'do-gooder' mission, trying to hook somebody up with an answer to an extremely difficult question. I run into 3 or 4 forums I've never been to in my life..., just wanting to post on them cause they're at the top of google. I don't want to submit my information to them, though. I don't know or trust them, and I don't want to go through validation steps. So, the Internet just goes without the valuable information that I have, sometimes. I don't want people to just avoid my website because they aren't in the mood to hassle with sign-ups. Naturally, I've tried Captcha and validation e-mails, but spammers are generally smart enough to get by these. Are there some other good techniques?


Do you have to tell the user that they're viewing ads

I'm creating a feed that will show different subjects with Masonry. These "boxes" will be clickable and link to external websites. Now some of the "boxes" in Masonry will eventually be ads.      I read somewhere that if you're showing ads on your website, you MUST display something like                ----------         ----------         ----------        |        |         |        |         |        |      |  Box   |         |  Box   |         |  Box   |      |        |         |        |         |        |      ----------         ----------         ----------                           Advert      Is this true? Because I would prefer to keep the normal boxes and advert boxes the exact same so the user doesn't know that they're clicking on ads. Something like:                ----------         ----------         ----------        |        |         |        |         |        |      |  Box   |         |  Box   |         |  Box   |      |        |         |        |         |        |      ----------         ----------         ----------      I'm not trying to con anyone, the adverts will obviously have relevant information, but I'd prefer to keep the user oblivious to the fact they just clicked on an ad link.


Is Placing a form to video is a best practice or not

I have a product site, in which i have a page called Demo. To view this demo, i have placed a form to be filled so that i can contact them. The form contains basic questions such as Email ID, Name, Phone Number. So, customers can view the video only after filling the form. Is it a good practice to place a form or not.


SEO for multiple product pages

I have a domain with 16products and URL structure for that pages are like www.domain.com/product1 www.domain.com/product2 www.domain.com/product3........................ Now my question how to promote my sites using link building because if i do daily 40 submissions for each product(suppose i do for 3 products) then total submissions for the day will be 120. I think this may become over promotion because indirectly we are promoting home page only. Do you think this will penalize my site or shall i continue doing. One more question is which format is better for domain i.e., www.domain.com/product1 (or) www.product1.com Please let me know.... Thanking U in Advance......................


Publicly displayed e-mail address: Is it safe from spam-bots when dynamically generated?

I am currently in the process of making myself an employment website; the entire site uses a client-side rendering engine to dynamically load views. Because of this, the source of the page returns only the template elements. I have my e-mail address written in plain text in one of the views that is loaded after initial page-load. Is this safe from most spam bots? Or at the very least, is it anything I should worry about? Please do not suggest adding an e-mail form or other techniques; I am not asking for alternatives, I am asking specifically about the security behind this method.


How to add google doodle?

I want to know that for whom google adds doodles on its home page? Suppose if I want to add google doodle for my birthday on google homepage then is it possible to do so..? If it is possible then please let me know how to do so. I have gmail and google+ accounts.


What version of IE does Compatibility View use by default?

My _understanding_ of IE Compatibility Mode/View is that you can specify which version of IE you want to render a domain (or set of domains) in. But when I go to `Tools >> Compatibility View Settings` it only allows me to add a bunch of sites to be displayed in Compatibility View. My question is, what version of IE is this Compatibility View using? If I add `example.com` and `blah.net` to Compatibility View, what version of IE will they be displayed in?


I own 2 domain names "domain1.com" and "domain2.com", I want to redirect subdomain.domain1.com to domain2.com/directory using DNS (preferably). Can anyone assist (I am an amateur at domain management)?


Create partial php.ini files

I want to two split php.ini into two files so that I can move important entries to a new file. I think it is a .ini file so, any rule for creating partial .ini files will also apply to it. Is it possible to do so? If yes, how?


'Buy the app' landing page implementations: redirect or JavaScript popup?

My site (using Django) has an app that I'm trying to push - I currently have a piece of middleware that redirects the user to a page advertising the app if they're accessing the page on the iPhone, then setting a cookie so that the user isn't bugged by the message every time they visit the site. This works fine, however checking the page with the mobile Googlebot checker shows that the Googlebot gets stuck in the redirect (since it doesn't store cookies) and therefore won't index the proper content. So, I'm trying to think of an alternative implementation that won't hurt the site's Google ranking and won't have any other adverse effects. I've considered a couple of options:   * **Redirect (the current solution), but don't redirect if the user agent matches the Googlebot's UA string**. This would be ideal, however I'm not sure if Google like their bot being treated differently from other users, and I'm afraid the site's ranking may be somehow penalised if I go ahead with this.   * **Use a JavaScript popup instead of a redirect**. This would make sure the Googlebot finds the content it needs, however I envision this approach causing compatibility issues with the myriad mobile devices/browsers out there, and may affect the page load time. How valid are these options? And is there a better option for implementing this feature out there? I've tried researching this topic but surprisingly can't find any reputable-looking blog posts that explore this topic.


Cheap server stress testing

The IT department of the nonprofit organization I work for recently got a new virtual server running CentOS (with Apache and PHP 5), which is supposed to host our website. During the process of setting up the server I discovered that the slightest use of the new machine caused major performance problems (I couldn't extract tarballs without bringing it to a halt). After several weeks of casting about in the dark by tech support, it now appears to be working fine, but I'm still nervous about moving the main site there. I have no budget to work with (so no software or services that require money), although due to recent cut backs I have several older desktops that I could use if it helps. The site doesn't need to withstand massive amounts of traffic (it's a Drupal site just a few thousand visitors a day), but I would like to put it through a bit of it paces before moving the main site over. What are cheap tools that I can use to get a sense if the server can withstand even low levels of traffic? I'm not looking to test the site itself yet, just fundamental operation of the server.


Canonical and hreflang implementation for international desktop and mobile site versions

I have an interesting case and I am lost in it. There are two versions of the site: desktop and mobile. And there are also international versions: English and Spanish. I'm stuck at implementation of canonical tags. Currently my setup has the following: English (default) desktop page has these:               <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.site.com" hreflang="x-default">     <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.site.com" hreflang="en">     <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.site.com/es/" hreflang="es">     <link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="http://m.site.com/" >      English Mobile page has these:               <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/" hreflang="x-default">     <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/" hreflang="en">     <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/es/" hreflang="es">     <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.site.com/">      Spanish Desktop version:               <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/" hreflang="x-default">     <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/" hreflang="en">     <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/es/" hreflang="es">     <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.site.com/">      Spanish Mobile version:               <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/" hreflang="x-default">     <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/" hreflang="en">     <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/es/" hreflang="es">     <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.site.com/es/">      But I somewhat feel that I messed the things... Three questions: **1.** Could you guys point me to what I did wrong and explain how to set it right? **2.** Since I'm redirecting from desktop version of the pages to mobile pages when mobile users access desktop the pages, do I also need to redirect desktop visitors to desktop page versions if they visit mobile pages? **3.** Since my pages already have alternate and hreflang references to point to international and mobile versions of the pages, if I add 5 languages of desktop versions and 5 languages of mobile versions to sitemaps, my sitemaps will get bulky. What are the pros and cons for referencing all page versions in sitemap and for include just general (English/Desktop) version in sitemap?


How to test the hosting before you will buy it

There are several services giving a possibility to test ping time to a server. But if I don't have any server on tested hosting yet - how do I test the ping to it? Can I ping hosting web-site it self?


What is the maximum size of an HTML file that Google will crawl through?

I have a 10MB HTML file. Will Google crawl through the entire file, or does it only look at the first X MB?


404s on password protected content

I'm new to WordPress and SEO, generally, but we've been running into problems with our site that don't seem to make sense to me. The problem is that our editor likes to schedule posts and/or mark them private until she is ready to make them public, but somehow Google is crawling these posts and getting 404s (because they are password protected). How does Google know they exist in the first place? I checked the sitemap.xml file and don't see a record of the post. One of the offending posts was marked public, but is scheduled for a future date. Could that have something to do with it? I've tried to Google the answer, and I came up with a good amount of reassurance that this won't hurt the site, but I'm still wondering how it's happening in the first place. It's hard because I don't know exactly what the editor's workflow is. Is it possible she's posting publicly first and then revising it to be private only after it's too late? Does anyone know how Google finds WordPress URLs it shouldn't have access to?


Are there open solutions for fraud detection?

I've been dealing with an inordinate amount of bogus payments, mostly people using PayPal. I am aware of services that provide an API that returns a score, but I'd like to first explore the possibility of using something open source. Are there any solutions (language matters not) that use freely available geolocation databases (I'm interested only in country level accuracy, and it does not have to be perfect) combined with other freely available sources of information that may help determine a fraud sale? (I.e. checking IP blacklists, etc). I could probably write something, but its not a wheel that I'm particularly interested in studying, much less re-inventing, unless I must.


Does google take into account page load differences from caching?

Here's what I mean by that. If I use internal CSS, the page will load a bit quicker on the first time it is visited, but with external CSS a user can cache the document and load the rest of the site faster. Does Google take it on a page-by-page basis, ignoring caching, or will speeding up overall speeds throughout the site with one large CSS document be beneficial? My priority is SEO rather than user experience in this case, due to the fact that in this instance the user experience difference will be relatively minimal, and I want to crank the SEO as hard as possible. Thanks for the help!


Is Opera Version 12.15 using WebKit or Presto for its rendering engine?

I cannot tell from the Opera Desktop team blog or from the Presto Wikipedia page if Opera 12.15 is utilizing the WebKit or Presto rendering engine. The phrasing from Wikipedia can be interpreted either way: > It [Presto] remained in use until Opera 12.15, when the browser's developer > Opera Software ASA began phasing Presto out of its products in favor of the > WebKit layout engine and V8 JavaScript engine combined with a modified > Chromium browser. Is Opera Version 12.15 using WebKit or Presto?


Is reCaptcha now basically useless?

Is reCaptcha now basically useless? I have read around the internet that reCaptcha has been broken, and spam bots easily overcome it. Has Google addressed this at all. Do they have any plans to fix it? I cannot find this type of info on the web, and I was hopeing somebody may have some insight. Are there any similar, reliable, more secure webservices out there for this type of thing? I do not want to have to make my own captcha type class because on-the-fly image processing is fairly resource intensive, and I do not want to make a Q&A type captcha (I do not want this class to need DB access). Any suggestions or info about reCaptcha's problems are welcome.


Similar article by the same Google Author

I have two websites which are focusing on two different things (both are timbers, but different type of timber). Let's say if I post in both sites an article (the article is about bush fire) which has exactly same content with exception of the last sentence, will one of the websites get penalized by Google for having duplicate content? What if both sites use the same Google Author? Will this make any difference?


How can Google crawl content accessed via filter check-boxes?

I built a website that is divided into many categories. Each page displays the main category, and within that there is a check-box filter (like Amazon and eBay have when searching for items). I want this filter to be indexed by crawlers so that my sub-categories will also appear in the search engines results. How should I build this filter?


Traits of successful sites

I learned hard way creating websites. Once it dawned on me that we should have social networking on our sites, then another day that a mobile version is required. That we should register with Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools. Analysis with AWstats is also crucial for visitor stats. Successful sites are most likely on VPS or higher hosting. Choosing right CMS is also important. Implied is good original content. **Without making further discoveries .. I'd like to know from pro-webmasters the common traits of all successful sites.** * * * **UPDATE:** I'm not asking about the content or the quality of it. I want to know common features/functions of successful sites.


What exactly is a company like SoftLayer?

I found out hostgator has their servers hosted with softlayer. I wasn't aware there was another company involved. Can someone explain to me what's the role of a company like softlayer exactly and what they do vs. what hostgator does?


Potential issues with multiple home pages

I have a site where I want to have **two different home pages** : a general description page for anonymous users, and a dashboard page for logged-in users. I am debating between two implementations:   * Both pages live at `/`   * The page for anonymous users is located at `/` and the dashboard is at `/dashboard`, with automatic redirection between them based on whether a given user is logged in (e.g., if you're logged in and navigate to `/`, you are redirected to `/dashboard`. **Is it cleaner to have both pages use the same URL or separate URLs?** Also, I imagine that choices for that question will affect the following:   * Caching: the anonymous page would be completely cached, while the logged-in page would not be cached at all (except for static resources). This could lead to issues with server caching, request speed, and UX (such as if one version of the page is cached in a user's browser when the other version should be displayed, instead).   * SEO: how would search engines react to such canonical URLs?   * Load time (due to redirects or to the server having to always reevaluate which page to display)


Open-source, PHP, DB-free SCM for brochure site?

A friend of mine is an architect starting her own business, and needs to build a basic brochure site to promote herself. The site will simply include a few articles and pictures of projects she worked on. There are so many CMS that it's hard to choose on, but the following are basic requirements: - Open-source - Mature, and with good support - In PHP, since just about any hoster supports PHP - DB-free, to make deployment really basic. If the SCM really does need a database for indexing, SQLite is OK - Good UI so she can easily add articles and photos to her site without having to know any HTML/CSS - Nice templates to choose from Thank you.


How do I setup a permanent redirect from one domain to another?

I have a domain, say www.example.com which is redirected to a website built in Google Sites. I don't want different search engines treat example.com as a different site from www.example.com. How do I make a permanent link between the two? My domain is under GoDaddy. **EDIT** In Go Daddy, I have forwarding option set to Google site link. Under CNAME, I have Google provided alias and directions.


Do users resize text?

I'm redesigning a website. For certain content areas the layout is fine at my text size but screws up if I set the text any bigger. I often resize pages with Firefox, but the whole page resizes so the layout still works. So, should I worry about users having larger text but the same CSS otherwise? I don't know how to test for this sort of thing. The site works fine with every browser I've looked at it with. I know some usability devices change layouts but don't they ignore normal styles altogether?


Is redirecting a subdomain to point to a folder good practice?

I have a blog which can be accessed at               http://mysite.com/blog/      I would like to access it like this because I think it looks cleaner               http://blog.mysite.com      I did some reading on domains, subdomains, and redirects and have created a subdomain with the desired URL and re-directed it to the blog path. Is this a common set up? Is there a better way to accomplish what I want to do?


Cookie Audit help needed

Can anyone recommend any decent cookie audit plugins for firefox or chrome I can see the typical google cookies on the site but I am struggling to find out what a couple of the other cookies actually do What is the best way to find out what a cookie actually does?


Connecting blogger blog with subdomain.mysite.com, is it good for www.mysite.com SEO/pagerank?

I client of mine has a static website www.mysite.com and a blogger blog with the same subject mysiteblog.blogspot.com and wants to move the blog inside mysite.com to give her site a SEO boost. Will connecting blogspot with the subdomain blog.mysite.com affect page rank and search results for the main domain? How do the search engines crawl a domain witch is both static html (main site) and blogger structure (subdomain)?


How to manage multiple domains on same server

I have more than one (4 to be exact) domains and only one server host with same ip. How I can run all my domains from same server. All websites are wordpress sites.


Apache on Windows - splitting vHost logs

I have a Windows Server 2008 running Apache, and it will be hosting several virtual hosts. I'd rather not use the logrotate tool (`|bin/logrotate`), as it seems create significant extra overhead with all the processes. Is there a simple Windows alternative to get the log entries from a combined log file split into several per-site files? Preferably with custom output directories, but that is optional.


Huge difference between Facebook Ad Click figures and Apache log requests

We're running a facebook ad campaign for our business but there seems to be a huge discrepancy between the number of clicks registered and the number of requests made with "facebook.com" in the HTTP referrer. The difference can be anything between 40-80 clicks/requests. I understand why the Google Analytics would be off and I understand that the figures shouldnt be exactly the same but surely if 100 people click the ad then I should be seeing at least 90 requests for the homepage with facebook.com as the referrer? Can anybody provide any insight into why this may be happening?


Can I set Cache-Control in the .htaccess file for a specific part of a document (just a section of the <body>)

I noticed, by using Google Page Speed Insights, that if I structure my HTML to load the critical, above-the-fold content first, my page will improve performance - and it woks (with now current perf. of Mobile 71/100 - Pc 87/100). My question is, with Apaches's mod_header activated, and with no content inside my `<head>` tag, is it possible to set Data Expires for any part of my page (inside the body, eg)?


Payment from Paypal but no order in Magento 1.6.2

I just found a very strange problem and wondered if anyone has seen the same, or maybe knows a fix for this? We have paperwork for an order payment received through paypal, but the order doesn't exist when checking the Magento orders admin system? How is this possible? Cheers!


Tweet count just shot up

On our homepage we have a tweet button and counter: http://www.scirra.com This was around 600 until overnight it suddenly doubled to 1,200. It's been continuing to rise at a normal rate since. Has Twitter changed what counts as a Tweet for that counter? I've noticed competitors counts have dropped significantly. We don't buy tweets or followers, and I haven't found any spam tweets about us nor have we had any significant recent press.


Allowing users in embargoed/sanctioned countries to register on my site

I run a website that contains technical content and users gain access to it by purchasing a subscription. I am based in the United States, and I'm wondering what the laws are regarding sanctioned visitors. Do I need to prevent access to certain countries, such as Iran, North Korea, etc. to comply with laws? Actually, this is a two part question: first, do I need to prevent them from even being able to register, without a subscription? Secondly, if they are able to register, can I legally accept payments from them? Thanks!


Managing multiple reverse proxies for one virtual host in apache2

I have many reverse proxies defined for my `js-host` VirtualHost, like so: **/etc/apache2/sites-available/js-host**               <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName js-host.example.com     [...]     ProxyPreserveHost On     ProxyPass        /serviceA http://192.168.100.50/     ProxyPassReverse /serviceA http://192.168.100.50/     ProxyPass        /serviceB http://192.168.100.51/     ProxyPassReverse /serviceB http://192.168.100.51/     [...]     ProxyPass        /serviceZ http://192.168.100.75/     ProxyPassReverse /serviceZ http://192.168.100.75/     </VirtualHost>      The js-host site is acting as shared config for all of the reverse proxies. _This works_ , but managing the proxies involves edits to the shared config, and an apache2 restart. Is there a way to manage individual proxies with `a2ensite` and `a2dissite` (or a better alternative)? My _main objective_ is to isolate each proxy config as a separate file, and manage it via commands. **First Attempt** I tried making separate files with their own VirtualHost entries for each service: **/etc/apache2/sites-available/js-host-serviceA**               <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName js-host.example.com     [...]     ProxyPass        /serviceA http://192.168.100.50/     ProxyPassReverse /serviceA http://192.168.100.50/     </VirtualHost>      **/etc/apache2/sites-available/js-host-serviceB**               <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName js-host.example.com     [...]     ProxyPass        /serviceB http://192.168.100.51/     ProxyPassReverse /serviceB http://192.168.100.51/     </VirtualHost>      The problem with this is apache2 loads the first VirtualHost for a particular ServerName, and ignores the rest. They aren't "merged" somehow as I'd hoped.


Why does bot traffic have a high (e.g. 100%) bounce rate in GA?

Since bots may request many pages at a time, why do they so often have a 100% bounce rate? It seem unlikely that they would only request one page, then leave for over 30 minutes, then request another page, and so on Could use some help understanding their behavior


difference between accept and content-type http headers

So the accept header tells the server the mime-type of the resource the browser is looking for. For example, the server can send plain text, html, json, etc. Ok that makes sense. But then I look at the content-type header and it looks to be doing the same thing. For example, it tells the server that it wants text or json. So then what's the difference?


Magento Shopping Cart Rule Based on Grand Total?

I was wondering if anyone knew how to set up a shopping cart rule to apply only if the grand total of the cart is >= some certain value. I see that Magento allows you to set up rules based on the subtotal, but never on the grand total. Does anyone have an idea? Thanks. By the way, we are using Magento Enterprise edition version 1.10.1.


Google search results are invalid

I'm writing a program that lets a user perform a Google search. When the result comes back, all of the links in the search results are links not to other sites but to Google, and if the user clicks on one, the page is fetched not from the other site but from Google. Can anyone explain how to fix this problem? My Google URL consists of this: http://google.com/search?q=gargle But this is what I get back when the user clicks on the Wikipedia search result, which was http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargling&sa=U&ei=_4vkT5y555Wh6gGBeOzECg&ved=0CBMQejAe&usg=AFQjeNHd1eRV8Xef3LGeH6AvGxt- AF-Yjw               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">     <html lang="en" dir="ltr" class="client-nojs" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">     <head>     <title>Gargling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />     <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />     <meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.20wmf5" />     <meta http-equiv="last-modified" content="Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:34:19 +0000" />     <meta name="last-modified-timestamp" content="1331296459" />     <meta name="last-modified-range" content="0" />     <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-wiki" title="Edit this page"                                                     >     <link rel="edit" title="Edit this page"                                                     >     <link rel="apple-touch-icon"                                                 >     <link rel="shortcut icon"                      >     <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"                                                       >     <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml"                                                 >     <link rel="copyright"                                                   >     <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Wikipedia Atom feed"                                                                >     <link rel="stylesheet" href="//bits.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=ext.gadget.teahouse%7Cext.wikihiero%7Cmediawiki.legacy.commonPrint%2Cshared%7Cskins.vector&only=styles&skin=vector&*" type="text/css" media="all" />     <style type="text/css" media="all">#mwe-lastmodified { display: none; }</style><meta name="ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles" content="" />     <link rel="stylesheet" href="//bits.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=site&only=styles&skin=vector&*" type="text/css" media="all" />     <style type="text/css" media="all">a:lang(ar),a:lang(ckb),a:lang(fa),a:lang(kk-arab),a:lang(mzn),a:lang(ps),a:lang(ur){text-decoration:none}          /* cache key: enwiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-css:7:d5a1bf6cbd05fc6cc2705e47f52062dc */</style>      What's unclear to me is how a regular browser ever receives the wikipedia.org link to be able to put it in its address bar... The headers aren't too helpful either:                  "Cache-Control" = "private, max-age=0";         "Content-Type" = "text/html; charset=UTF-8";         Date = "Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:28:51 GMT";         Expires = "-1";         Server = gws;         "Transfer-Encoding" = Identity;         "X-Frame-Options" = SAMEORIGIN;         "X-XSS-Protection" = "1; mode=block";      Status code was 200, not redirect.


Do or can robots cause considerable performance issues?

At work we are in a discussion with team members who seem to think bots will cause us problems relating to performance when running on our services website. Our setup:   Lets say I have site www.mysite.co.uk this is a shop window to our online services which sit on www.mysiteonline.co.uk. When people search in Google for mysite they see mysiteonline.co.uk as well as mysite.co.uk. Cases against stopping bots crawling:   * We don't store gb's of data publicly available on the web   * Most friendly bots, if they were to cause issues would have done so already   * In our instance the bots can't crawl the site because it requires username & password   * Stopping bots with robot .txt causes an issue with seo (ref.1)   * If it was a malicious bot, it would ignore robot.txt or meta tags anyway  **Ref 1.** If we were to block mysiteonline.co.uk from having robots crawl this will affect seo rankings and make it inconvenient for users who actively search for mysite to find mysiteonline. Which we can prove is the case for a good portion of our users.


Adult website crawlability issue

I got a mission and asking for some help with this scenario for a new website. The site is an adult escorts advertising service. It is developed fine, works and looks good, but the issue is with crawlability. Google webmaster tools index the same content for everypage. Let me explain further. If any client try to access any page the website show a default agreement/warning page. If client clicks "proceed" a session variable is set and client is redirected (302) to original page back. If client says "no", then he is redirected for another website (google, wikipedia, news portals...). Well, this is a safe process, but causes the crawlability issue I told. So, any lights upon this? How make the after agreement content be correctly crawled and indexed?


How to fix every link under new added domain?

I installed smf forum in subfolder on hosted server under my domain. Later on, I occupied new domain, added it to my nameservers and pointed to that folder thru cpanel. Index works well, link to forum works well, but deeper level links, boards, topics, profiles, login, etc, do not. Not that they don't work per se, but link is not under new domain, and thus user gets loged out when entering site thru new domain address, and gets back to old address once logged in, and similar problems. What should I do to fix all of the links? I'm guessing that this is because forum is installed before new domain is added on, and links are fixed to old domain. Is there another solution beside backing up and installing everything from scratch? Thanks.


How can I buy a .by domain name

I can't find anywhere on the net to buy them.


Google not indexing new forum

We installed a new forum a few months ago now. The URL is: https://www.scirra.com/forum I've 301'd the old topics/threads, as well as included all the new URLs in the sitemap. Yet they still are not appearing. Webmaster tools is showing:               139,512 URLs submitted     50,544 URLs indexed      And has been stuck there for quite some time. A massive drop in indexed pages since we updated the forum as well: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Q1LuR.png) Any help much appreciated


Url returns error code for Adwords, but works fine in a browser

According to Adwords, my ad has a bad url that returns an error code, but I can load the url in a browser without any problems or error codes. I've fetched the url as Google from webmaster tools, no error code either. The actual adwords report states: > [Destination URL] Invalid HTTP Response Code: To ensure a good user > experience, your destination URL must work properly and not return an error > code beginning with a 4 or a 5 (such as a 404 error). Your destination URL > or some component on that page (like Javascript) is returning a status code > indicating an error. Here's the actual url that is problematic - as you can see it gets loaded fine without any errors. Can you recommend how should I troubleshoot this problem?


Best practice for Google Analytics on a mobile site

I have a new mobile site which sites on `m.`, `m.example.com` What is the best method for integrating it's Google Analytics data with the existing data I have. I want them together so I can easily see total visits for example. But then would like to segment them again to see how much traffic is going to each domain. Is this possible, if so how? Thanks


Use virtual pageviews for all goal tracking

I'm new to Google Analytics and I'm wondering if it would be cleaner to user virtual pageviews for all the goal tracking on my website instead of using a mix of regular page views and virtual pageviews. I know in most cases this is just semantics but there are multiple pages where the same goal can be achieved and I think it would be cleaner just to fire the same virtual pageview instead of having two different goal pages. Will this model also give developers more flexibility when they do development? I know we are moving to a CMS and urls can get hairy, so I think this might be a good way to make analytics portion of the site "future proof". Any thoughts are appreciated! Thanks.


How to setup mod_rewrite/htaccess to do url masking and forwarding to a subdirectory?

Its been about three years since I've played with apache and php(I've been using thin and nignx ;). So I've forgotten how to setup a mod_rewrite directive to forward all http requests from root to the application's installed folder. Current setup and restrictions:   * The site is on a shared cpanel hosting service that doesn't allow applications being installed as root (feature not a bug in my book for versioning and what not).   * CMS application was installed under joomla-1.5.60/   * I need to setup /(.*) to redirect to /joomla-1.5.60/$1 but still look to the browser as /(.*)   * RedirectMatch does not work   * I cannot establish docroot as the application's root because of account restrictions I've read over the docs by apache and I keep getting a redirection loop. So any help you guys can provide would be appreciated. Thanks, D.


Url blocked by robots.txt

I badly stuck on error in webmaster tools. I have created Sitemap and when I try to test it on webmaster tools it showing me this below error:               Issue : Url blocked by robots.txt         Description : Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt      However when I removed robots.txt file from server still it was showing me this above error. I have no idea how I can get rid from it. Thanks


Website blog, within website or separate?

I run a web development firm and a hosting company and we are launching new blogs for each company. Should we launch our blog within our sites (like `domain.com/blog`) or should it be a stand-alone site/blog (like `siteblog.com` with its own design design of the site, but as if it were a separate site? Why would you go with either over the other?


Do search engines use the id's and classes of HTML elements as clues?

This is more for interest sake than anything else, since I assume it will make very little difference, but I was wondering whether there is any evidence that search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing, for example) use the class names and id's of HTML elements as clues to the content? Would it make any difference, say, to change `id="left_column"` to `id="news_column"` ?


When linking pages, does google give higher value to href="http://www.mydomain.com" than href="/"?

When linking pages does Google give higher value to: `<a href="http://www.mydomain.com"> </a>` Vs. `<a href="/"> </a>`? I am wondering because I have heard that (for SEO) it is better to provide the full HTTP address when linking to the sites homepage. As I thought about it, I wondered why that would be. Would Google really assign higher value to `<a href="http://www.mydomain.com"> </a>` instead of `<a href="/"> </a>`? They both mean the same thing. Do you guys know or have any resources on this?


How do i check broken links and images in my website?

I have recently moved my website from one server to another server. for my confirmation i would like to check the dead links and the missing images on my website. like: if my website is http://outsourcingnepal.com I would like to crawl every pages on the website and find the missing images and non working dead links.


How to open the JavaScript console in different browsers?

# _Updated on October 7th 2012_ * * * # Chrome:   1. Press either `CTRL` + `SHIFT` + `J` to open the "Console" tab of the **Developer Tools**.  Alternative method:   1. Press either `CTRL` + `SHIFT` + `I` or `F12` to open the **Developer Tools**.    2. Press `ESC` (or click on "Show console" in the bottom right corner) to slide the console up. _Note: In Chrome's dev tools, there is a "Console" tab. However, a smaller "slide-up" console can be opened while any of the other tabs is active._ * * * # Safari:   1. Press `CTRL` + `ALT` + `I` to open the **Web Inspector**.    2. See Chrome's step 2. (Chrome and Safari have pretty much identical dev tools.) _Note: Step 1 only works if the "Show Develop menu in menu bar" check box in the Advanced tab of the Preferences menu is checked!_ * * * # IE9:   1. Press `F12` to open the developer tools.    2. Click the "Console" tab. * * * # Firefox:   1. Press `CTRL` + `SHIFT` + `K` to open the **Web console** (`COMMAND` + `SHIFT` + `K` on Macs). or, if Firebug is installed (recommended):   1. Press `F12` to open **Firebug**.   2. Click on the "Console" tab. * * * # Opera:   1. Press `CTRL` + `SHIFT` + `I` to open **Dragonfly**.   2. Click on the "Console" tab.


Should I bother with a Business.com Listing?

I keep getting promotion codes from business.com stating that I can get a listing at $100 discount. However, that's still $199 and I'm not clear about the benefit. I would understand if I was paying for somewhere I could put I detailed profile (similar to what I can do with LinkedIn, CrunchBase or even Facebook for free) but it's just a text link. I can't even find a single suitable category to use so I doubt potential customers would be able to find the link either. I would need to pay for multiple listings to get into all the categories that may be useful. However, I could do that with their PPC program and given the estimated clicks they tell me I will get it appears to be more economical. In reality I believe that most people wouldn't even bother browsing through a directory hierarchy to find a suitable business these days. They would just use Google... and that seems to be the crux of their marketing message... The emails they send me have quotes from Aron Wall saying that he is "a BIG buyer of [business.com] directory listings" and that "It is part of [his agencies] SEO process for the sites [they] care about most". It appears to me that I wouldn't really be buying a listing that was useful in itself, I would actually be purchasing a paid backlink from a reputable site in the theory that it would pass reputation on to my site in Google's eyes... Does anyone have any **recent** experience with business.com listings and know anything about their current value (SEO or otherwise)? I thought that relevancy was more important for linking these days and the PageRank of the source page wasn't as important anymore. Also, isn't 'paying for a backlink' just 'paying for a backlink', regardless about how it's sold? If the value of a business.com listing just relates to reputation that theoretically anyone can purchase then why should Google place much value that reputation?


Can I host my PHP app in such a way that users can verify the source code being used by the server?

I have worked with one other person created a mobile-optimized web proxy to the League of Legends Tribunal (a peer review system). Riot Games, the creators of LoL, made a really nice web interface that happens to work very poorly on mobile browsers, so I set out to fix it myself. Due to constraints of the "API" available to us, (basic reverse engineering of the REST traffic in the original) **our app unfortunately requires users to enter their username and password in order to use it**. Having users share their passwords with third-party apps is unquestionably bad practice, but that's not a solvable problem at the moment. As a first step to mitigate the problem, we have open-sourced our app on Github for those that have the know-how to host it for themselves after verifying the code is safe. However, there are plenty of people that could benefit from our app that can't be expected to host their own trusted version of the app. This brings me to my question: **Is there a way that I can host this app in a way that someone could verify that it uses the same trustworthy code found on our Github repo?** I'm not concerned with building a solution that would automatically compare it to the latest code on Github or anything. Simply allowing them to browse the code being used would be enough, but I can't think of a way that would be trustworthy and could be spoofed by a crafty mind. Any ideas?


Is 100-150 words content enough for a web page?

I have some 20 different combinations of canonical pages featuring images in different categories. Is 100-150 words content okay for a page considering I use rel=canonical on their copies? I mean how's Google gonna take this? Does this affect the rankings? What are the othEr options?


Rewrite catalog/index.php to www.domain.co.uk

We have an online shop with a welcome page. Our SEO company has asked us to get rid of the welcome page with a rewrite. I am struggling to get this to work. Can you help please? I want to rewrite `www.domain.co.uk/catalog/index.php` to become `www.domain.co.uk` using a 301 redirect.


Can I Use A Canonical Tag Instead of a Redirect for Updated Content?

I have some old articles on my blog that get quite a bit of traffic, but are very outdated. I want to remove them from Google's index using the `noindex` tag, but I'm not sure what the best approach will be to send the same traffic to my new article on the subject without using a redirect (as I want to keep them in my blog archives). I was intending to just put a link at the top of the article pointing to the new one, but was wondering if it was appropriate to use a `canonical` tag instead; the new article is on the same subject but doesn't contain the same content, so isn't really a copy.


How to prevent Alexa and Google from indexing our stuff?

My traffic is not from search engine and I want to prevent bots or others from displaying or accessing it. What would be a good _.htaccess_ code to do so? I've heard               User-agent: ia_archiver          Disallow: /      Don't really remove Alexa ranking because Alexa got the content from it's toolbar. Okay. What is then?


Should I expect Search Engines (particularly Google) to crawl epub and mobi files

Some of our content we are publishing as epub and mobi eBook format files. Will search engines crawl and index these in the same way as PDFs currently are. If the answer is yes, could you point me to some sample results page that shows how they appear.


Adding more than one Google Analytics tracking code to a site - is this ok?

We have several sites that would like to aggregate all the analytics details, along with the individual site details. AFAIK, there isn't a way to do this from the GA interface. Is it alright to add another GA code to each site to allow us to track all details from one GA property?


How to get search engines to properly index an ajax driven search page

I have an ajax-driven search page that will allow users to search through a large collection of records. Each search result points to index.php?id=xyz (where xyz is the id of the record). The initial view does not have any records listed, and there is no interface that allows you to browse through all records. You can only conduct a search. How do I build the page so that spiders can crawl each record? Or is there another way (outside of this specific search page) that will allow me to point spiders to a list of all records. FYI, the collection is rather large, so dumping links to every record in a single request is not a workable solution. Outputting the records must be done in multiple requests. Each record can be viewed via a single page (eg "record.php?id=xyz"). I would like all the records indexed without anything indexed from the sitemap that shows where the records exist, for example:               Record 1     Record 2     Record 3          next      Assuming this is the correct approach, I have these questions:   1. How would the search engines find the crawl page?   2. Is it possible to prevent the search engines from indexing the words "Record 1", etc. and "next"? Can I output only the links? Or maybe something like:


SEO: Monthly changing homepage, better to redirect or duplicate?

I have a website called What can I plant now which is a simple site with a page for each month of the year and a homepage which mirrors the content for the current month. **Example** `http://whatcaniplantnow.com` shows the content for the current month which is currently exactly the same as `http://whatcaniplantnow.com/february` This will change from month to month. Obviously most people will - as the site's title alludes - be looking to find out what they can plant at that time, hence wanting to answer that question on the homepage - it's almost a one page site. So, from an SEO perspective, would I be best off with my current approach, where the homepage content changes once a month and always duplicates another page, or effectively not having a homepage and instead having `http://whatcaniplantnow.com` redirect to `http://whatcaniplantnow.com/february` or whatever the current month is. Or is there a better option? **What is the best way of presenting the homepage content and achieving good search engine rankings?** Cheers, Pete


sku code as description in Google Analytics

In the Google Analytics ecommerce tracing script you must provide for every item and SKU code. I have this code for every product I'm selling and up until now I have always provided it in the `_addItem` method. But when reviewing that data in the ecommerce module of Google Analytics, I have no real, no readable data about my SKU sales. I know what product has been sold, due to the product name I provide. But when clicking through to the SKU-level, I know nothing more, since all I can see there are SKU codes. Is it possible and wise to replace the SKU code with the following template?               "product-name colour-name size-name"      This way, it should still be a unique field, but more readable afterwards.


Old and new sites running at the same time

I have a possible SEO issue at hand and I would really appreciate your advise. My client has an online store (`www.example.co.uk`), which has been around for 15 years - it's never seen any design changes, it's never been specifically optimized for performance or search engines. Frankly, it's a bad site, but it still attracts a good number of customers, due to the niche products it sells. Here comes the issue - I've created a new online store (based on the OpenCart platform), with contemporary look, and features, and SEO optimization (to the best of my belief). Unfortunately, the new site's content is really identical to the old site's one - it's got same domain name with a different suffix - `www.example.eu`, same items, only slightly different info pages and product descriptions. My client is really sentimental with the old web-site and specifically wants the two sites - the old and the new - running together until the new site starts getting some traffic, after which point we can completely re-direct the old to the new site. Three days ago, we put a banner (with a hyperlink to the new site built-in) at the bottom of the old website. On average, there would be 3-5 orders per day at this time of the year, but in the past 3 days, there've been none. It may really be a coincidence, but I'm really, really worried there could be something wrong with the SEO. Before Christmas, while the new site was simply "out there", it attracted its first order, coming from Google, without specific effort on our side. Now, the old site hasn't seen an order since we put a link to the new site. Again, the old site's main asset is its age, because from a SEO point of view, it's never been optimized, whereas, the new one should be now. I'm aware the optimal scenario is to re-direct pages from old to new site, but it's not what the client would accept. For what it's worth, looking at the Google Analytics for the old site, this week it appears to attract the same number of daily visitors as last week (around 50 / day). Are we in SEO trouble and how can it be avoided? Is it just a coincidence no new orders have come through? Would it be best to take off the banner linking to the new one immediately? * * * Situation has come to the point where client most definitely wants the old site running with a banner linking to the new site - as hard as I tried to convince them, this is their team's final decision. Having said that, would there be an appropriate way to minimize any SEO damage (or can it be avoided)? Would there be some combination of de-indexing the new site from Google Webmaster Tools, blocking engines with a robots.txt and adding certain on-page tags that would work? I'm okay with the new site NOT ranking well (if at all), as long as the old site maintains its current performance.


Why did the Googlebot add "sp=1" to my URL's?

Googlebot crawled my site for the first time today, and added something strange. It appended `&sp=1` to my URL's. It seems like it's trying to gain authorized access? Normally I have `http://domain.com/?lang=en` and `http://domain.com/en` What does this URL mean: `http://domain.com/?lang=en&sp=1`, why is `&sp=1` added to it? The results with `&sp=1` are the same as the root page.


Copyright infringement on an image from an article of mine

I just received a notification from my hosting provider which told me that a certain company sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") copyright infringement notice regarding an image found in an article from my site. The image is a print ad and it was meant to offer them exposure. The article itself is a collection of print ads. The hosting provider removed the image from the server and I removed the link from the article. Do I have to worry about other legal issues if the image has been removed?


SEO penalty for 301 redirecting googlebot only?

I have a website that is splitting into two. For the sake of easily describing the what and why, let's say I run a classifieds site and I want to move all the adult content to its own domain. (very far from the actual situation) What I think is best for my users is if I do the following: For the first 60 days:   * All of the adult sub-urls load and show a "Moved to `adultclassifieds.com`, this URL will be disabled in 60 days" message with a link to the new location and no other content. Throw in a `rel="canonical"` in case Googlebot finds the page anyways.   * When Googlebot loads an adult sub-URL, they get a 301 redirect to the new site. After 60 days:   * All traffic gets a 301 to the new site Has anyone tried this, or heard of this? I want to make the transition as smooth as possible for the users, but I also don't want mess up the SEO rankings.


How many pageviews can my server handle per day?

I'm sharing some space on a dedicated server, but I'm not sure of the exact specifications. It is very fast though, and the person who I'm sharing the server with say they spend about 1400 a month on it and they are the same servers used by the defense department. There site is a small business site that maybe has 150 pages views per day. My site has none at the moment but I was wondering how many it could take. My site is simple, and runs 1 to 10 queries per page depending on the page. It has almost no images, except for the logo. What's an estimation for the amount og page views could I expect to get per day at a full server load. Thank you. Sorry for being vague, but that's really all the information I know.


How do you get your site discovered by users in China?

I have a website in English and no translation available on the site. I would like to get the site indexed by Chinese search Engine. There are ways in which you can submit your site to Chinese search engines My question is that if my site is in English and even though its gets submitted, will the crawler of Chinese search engine translate into its native language ? If users in China search for some terms in Chinese, will my site ever show up ?


Changing the Preferred Domain in Google Webmaster Tools resulted in zero stats

I set my Preferred Domain for my website with `www` in Google Webmaster Tools, then I added the following code to my _.htaccess_ file:                 RewriteEngine On       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$       RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]      Then I added the `non-www` version of my website to Google Webmaster Tools, but all the charts went down to zero in that version. However, changing back to `www` version, I saw a small decrease in impressions, etc... My question is if that's normal for my website? If so, then what do I have to do with the `non-www` version in my Google Webmaster Tools account that doesn't have any indexed pages, sitemaps, etc...?


How DDNS can link to 3G simcard dynamic IP

I have CCTV that work via 3G (use simcard). I can access it directly using dynamic IP but as it keep changes, I won't be able to access it. My question if I set DDNS on CCTV, how can DDNS detect the current dynamic IP. Where do I port forward the DDNS host name as there is no router use. scenario like this CCTV(3G simcard) ------> 3G provider ------> user <------ <------


What do you call the dots that show the number of images on the home page of a site and let you switch between them?

I've seen this before on a lot of websites and I really like it. I would really like to put it on my website, what is this slideshow looking thing called and how do you do this? Circled in red. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/k0Yr6.jpg)


Do alternatives to Google AdSense bring better revenues all other things being equal?

Assuming the same number of ads on a page and the same traffic, do alternatives to Google AdSense bring more (less) revenues? Does anyone have experience to share?


Help! Google analytics removed and don't know why

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  My site disappeared from Google search, how long does it take to get back? I got this message: Google Analytics web property: link has been removed from http://aglassmenagerie.net etc. etc. I don't know why or what I should do to fix this. I have been trying to add stuff to my site on a regular basis. How do I find out what the problem is and how to fix it? I am a stained glass artist and have an online store. I am not that knowledgeable about this stuff. Someone please look at my site or code and tell me what I did wrong. Pam


Redirecting visitors to a rel=alternate page - permanent or temporary?

We are rebuilding our travel site to have both en-US and en versions, storing the language/region code in the url as a subfolder. Eg:               www.domain.com/africa/botswana (hreflang="x-default")     www.domain.com/en/africa/botswana (hreflang="en")     www.domain.com/en-US/africa/botswana (hreflang="en-US")      All pages will be available in all three versions. A visitor landing on the x-default url will have their origin detected via geoip and be redirected to one of the language/region-specific urls. We plan on offering a site selector (flag dropdown) on each page to let a visitor override the detected origin - this will drop a cookie to remember the preference. When a visitor does land on a non-specific url and is redirected, should this be a permanent (301) or temporary (302) redirect?


Physical memory usage issues with WordPress plugins

Occasionally, my website that's hosted with GoDaddy is crashing due to physical memory overload. My host told me that PHP processes are overloading the server, and to try to find out which WordPress plugin is responsible for this, but when I run `top`, I only get this:               PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND     9204  thisusr   38  18  287m  68m  40m S  0.0  0.2   0:43.58 php     11175 thisusr   38  18  286m  66m  40m S  0.0  0.2   0:37.86 php     13536 thisusr   38  18  279m  60m  40m S  0.0  0.2   0:21.61 php     14091 thisusr   38  18  284m  66m  40m S  0.0  0.2   0:18.29 php     14285 thisusr   20   0  136m 1456  668 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 pure-ftpd     15101 thisusr   20   0  135m 1500  704 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.04 pure-ftpd     17461 thisusr   20   0 98956  15m 2712 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cpsrvd-ssl     17466 thisusr   20   0 99092  15m 2712 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cpsrvd-ssl     17745 thisusr   20   0 14908 1132  944 R  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 top     18979 thisusr   20   0  104m 1984 1004 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.35 sshd     18983 thisusr   20   0 11508 1332 1100 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.04 bash      How do I find which WordPress plugin maps to each process with "php" as the command?


How can I secretly ban someone (hellban) in phpbb?

The trolls are driving me crazy; I'd like to experiment with a secret ban. > A **hellbanned** user is invisible to all other users, but crucially, not > himself. From their perspective, they are participating normally in the > community but _nobody ever responds to them_. They can no longer disrupt the > community because they are effectively a ghost. It's a clever way of > enforcing the "don't feed the troll" rule in the community. When nothing > they post ever gets a response, a hellbanned user is likely to get bored or > frustrated and leave. Source: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or- hellban.html It looks like there's no way to do this out-of-the-box with phpbb. Is there a way to hack it in?


How can you tell how much BANDWIDTH RSS Feeds are taking up, overall?

I am considering pulling out **RSS FEEDS** from the default Outlook Mailbox configuration pushed to our users by Exchange. My two biggest reasons for doing this is that (1) I firmly believe that the majority of my users have NO CLUE what it is or how to use it and (2) those that DO know what it is may be having a negative impact on **BANDWIDTH** by the use of the RSS Feeds. I would like to know if there is a _SIMPLE_ way to tell how much bandwidth the RSS Feeds (combined) are using? I know that it comes in over port 80, same as web traffic, which means that I could put a sniffer on the port then run the traffic through an analyzer...but note that I said SIMPLE. Thanks~~


Should I start with less competitive keywords as a strategy?

The keywords I have been using are very competitive and this is resulting in terrible rankings. Would it be an acceptable strategy to start with some less competitive keywords so that my website gets better ranking, more attention which will support more natural links to it? Would it then be acceptable to adjust the keywords gradually in the direction of the ultimate keywords and would this be a doable task?


Google Analytics Site Speed - iOS not being sampled

I'm looking at a breakdown of site speed by operating system in Google Analytics to get a sense of mobile vs desktop load times. The problem is that it looks like GA doesn't really collect speed sample data from iOS? Is this a known limitation with GA or something unique to this site? See image: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/LV4wz.jpg)


How to know in apache logs if the application has crashed?

I need some help in finding some log pattern in apache logs related to application cash? Is there a specific key word attached related to this event e.g 'crash'. Thanks.


Can I use imgur as a CDN?

I have an e-commerce site and I want to use imgur.com as a CDN for my product images by setting the image source of my image. I did not see anything in the ToS specifically about this. Can anyone offer any insight on this topic?


Are the websites hosted on Github restricted to programming?

I was searching about static hosting and I found blog posts talking about hosting their blog on Github, the hosting feature of Github seems pretty good, what I want to know is what type of websites can we host on Github pages ? should all the hosted websites be related somehow to programming (open source) or personal Github users pages (CV, Blog, Repositories). I'm aware that we can host only static websites and the repository will be public, I searched the terms of service and searched on the Github Pages page and I can't find an answer.


Hijacked meta description

On my site: `faithhopeandfiction` someone hacked into my website and now it's displaying wrong Meta description on Google search results. I've verified this using "view source" that meta description and keywords are correct but whenever I search for "faithhopeandfiction" on Google or Bing it shows wrong description. What gives? EDIT: I know it's been compromised because someone put JavaScript code in my index page which redirected a visitor to a shoe store whenever someone hit my site (I've already removed that script). However, the description in Google still shows up incorrect and it's been like this for the past month.


Postfix cannot send, getting errors

After installing postfix, there seems to be a problem when I try to send a mail through wordpress. After looking at the logs, this is what I found.               Aug 27 12:00:01 tehnika postfix/cleanup[2797]: warning: database /etc/postfix/virtual.db is older than source file /etc/postfix/virtual     Aug 27 12:00:01 tehnika postfix/pickup[2686]: 5E9BA81BF4: uid=109 from=<smmsp>     Aug 27 12:00:01 tehnika postfix/trivial-rewrite[2798]: warning: database /etc/postfix/virtual.db is older than source file /etc/postfix/virtual     Aug 27 12:00:01 tehnika postfix/cleanup[2797]: 5E9BA81BF4: message-id=<20140827160001.5E9BA81BF4@tehnika.mk>     Aug 27 12:00:01 tehnika postfix/qmgr[1994]: 5E9BA81BF4: from=<smmsp@mail.tehnika.mk>, size=682, nrcpt=1 (queue active)     Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix/smtp[2799]: 5E9BA81BF4: to=<root@mail.tehnika.mk>, orig_to=<root>, relay=none, delay=0.74, delays=0.01/0/0.72/0, dsn=5.4.4, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=mail.tehnika.mk type=AAAA: Host not found)     Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix/cleanup[2797]: 1E3D481BF5: message-id=<20140827160002.1E3D481BF5@tehnika.mk>     Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix/qmgr[1994]: 1E3D481BF5: from=<>, size=2582, nrcpt=1 (queue active)     Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix/bounce[2800]: 5E9BA81BF4: sender non-delivery notification: 1E3D481BF5     Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix/qmgr[1994]: 5E9BA81BF4: removed     Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix/smtp[2799]: 1E3D481BF5: to=<smmsp@mail.tehnika.mk>, relay=none, delay=0.33, delays=0/0/0.33/0, dsn=5.4.4, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=mail.tehnika.mk type=AAAA: Host not found)     Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix/qmgr[1994]: 1E3D481BF5: removed


Is unique IP address a must for SSL?

The shared hosting company told me that if I buy an IP address then it will be applicable for the addon domains too. What does it mean? Then the SSL certificate won't work since there will be more than 2 domains in one IP (if I add an addon domain)? If the SSL certificate works with one IP where is hosted two different domains then why it does not work on a shared host?


Domain bidding. The seller of the domain has failed to respond

I was trying to place a bid on domain trough sedo.com and got such response: > We regret to inform you that the seller of the domain has failed to respond > to your bid in spite of our repeated reminders. > > If the seller does not respond within 14 days, this bid thread will be > considered inactive and no additional reminder emails will be sent. > > To prevent this, you can extend the negotiation period by making a higher > counter-offer What would u do in such case? the domain status says:               Status: clientDeleteProhibited     Status: clientRenewProhibited     Status: clientTransferProhibited     Status: clientUpdateProhibited     Updated Date: 30-aug-2013     Creation Date: 15-aug-2002     Expiration Date: 15-aug-2014


Free Web Hosting

i want to launch(publish) my site on the internet? so some one can tell me about free hosting?


Multiple level subdomain's effect on SEO?

For example if I'm selling a blankets: `incredibly.soft.blankets.mydomain.com` How would that affect my SEO? Would Google penalize me for this?


Why Google does not fetch some $_GET parameters in URL?

I have StackOverflow style URL's in my site, like `mysite.com/article/42/the- article`. However, when I search for the article, I see that Google has fetched it like this `mysite.com/article/42/`. Am I doing something wrong here? Should I tell Google to fetch everything? ## Edit: I forgot to add that these URL's are converted to php $_GET URL's in the .htaccess file. So the URL's actually point to this:               index.php?what=content&id=42&title=the-article      And the reason I'm surprised is, the links are in the homepage and all of them uses the form with titles. So there is **no** links in this form:               mysite.com/article/42      All links are in this form :               mysite.com/article/42/the-article


What are examples of high-volume websites with fixed, proportional, fluid, and hybrid layouts?

For example, Amazon.com I believe would be an example of a hybrid-fluid-fixed. Really have no idea what an example of a purely proportional layout would be. * * * **Types of Webpage Layouts** are, per Wikipedia's Web Design page:   * **Fixed layout:** Pixel measure results in fixed or static content   * **Proportional layout:** Em measure results in proportional content that is relative to font-size   * **Fluid layout:** Percent measure results in fluid content that shrinks and grows to "fit" display windows   * **Hybrid layout:** Incorporates any combination of fixed, proportional or fluid elements within (or pointing to) a single page.


The previous owner of my domain hosted pirated content, what is the best course of action?

Judging by my error logs, the Google craler errors, and the massive amount of DCMA takedown notices I get it has become apparent that the previous owner of my domain name (`ianspence.com`) used to host pirated content, specifically software. A quick peek in my error logs shows hundreds of URLs like:   * `/graphic/downlaod/full-version-foxit-reader-3141125-free-download-keygen-crack.html`   * `/security/downlaod/full-version-fix-it-utilities-professional-10334-free-download-keygen-crack.html`   * `/mobile/downlaod/full-version-tunebite-7120101-free-download-keygen-crack.html`   * `/antivirus/downlaod/full-version-avg-anti-virus-plus-firewall-internet-security-90730-free-download-keygen-crack.html` Looking at Google Webmaster Tools shows me that Google is trying to crawl these links as well, always returning 404. Last year, right after I purchased the domain, I received a flurry of DCMA takedown notices for links like the ones above that were indexed on Google. I never did hear back from Google after contesting every single takedown, but they did stop. My question is, what is the best course of action? Are these old URLs hurting my sites reputation? How can I stop them?


Apache 2 virtual host configuration for subdomain redirection

I'm trying to set up a `mail` subdomain on my site that will simply redirect to my Google Apps mail account. I thought I could use the Apache 2 vhost configuration below, but it's not working:               <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName mail.foo.com       Redirect 301 / https://mail.google.com/a/foo.com/     </VirtualHost>      What else do I need to get this to work?


Former designer registered my domain in their name and refuses to transfer it

When I hired a local company to design my website they charged me a low one- time fee and a monthly maintenance. Sounded like a great deal at the time, but now I'm not happy with it and I want to go with another company. The problem is the 1st company registered my domain in their name and they refuse to transfer or sell it. My company is BUILT on this site. I feel it is mine. They have me over a barrel and say they don't have to release me from my contract? What can I do? I'm one of around 50 companies in town that are having this issue.


What process do you use to determine the "why" of web searchers goal for your "transactional keywords"?

SEO starts with the intentions of the person using the search engine. What ever the web searcher intended to gain from typing their search keyword/phrase into google will help you understand what needs to appear in their search results to entice them to click on your money generating link (a link that generates a sale, which was found using a transactional keyword). The web searcher's intent is "why" they performed the search in the first place. Ambiguities between why a web searcher searched and if a particular transactional keyword causes them to click the link when it is not related to their intent, results in wasted Pay-Per-Clicks; and this is why knowing the intention (the why) of the web searcher's search is important. (Am I confusing AdWords with SEO here?) Additionally, the text displayed in an individual search result (the page title, and the slug text) can match the web searcher's intention and cause them to click the link resulting in a sale, which is what we as webmasters want. So as webmasters, I ask you, what do you do to determine why people are searching for your transactional keywords?


Django or PHP? Which is my Future?

I started to learn Python. What do you prefer for my future. Should i learn Django or PHP to build sites. Is there a review about Django vs PHP?


Hiring security auditors...what should I know?

I want to hire someone to do a security audit of my website but I'm not sure how to go about it. Where are good places to look for an auditor? Besides a list of referrals, what should I be looking for in an auditor? What qualifications should he/they have, and how can I verify them?


Redirect to the correct URL without trailing slashes

My correct URL is `http://mydomine.com/cars/register.php` (without slash in the end). But I send emails to our customers with wrong URL `http://mydomine.com/cars/register.php/` (with slash in the end). Customers cannot access the page correctly. How to re direct them to the correct URL when they click on the wrong link?


Removing trailing slash for sub directory url indexing

I have a site with multiple different sites in sub-directories. I want to view the sub directory in two formats. For example:   1. `www.example.com/blog`   2. `www.example.com/blog/` Both should show the index page under blog folder. After turning DirectorySlash off, redirection is off from `www.example.com/blog` to `www.example.com/blog/` but in `www.example.com/blog`, all contents of that folder are showing instead of the index file.


How effective is guest-blogging for SEO?

I was wondering how much time to devote to guest-blogging. It is pretty consuming and one person can only do a few per day max. And often you just get a link in the bottom of the post. Is it really beneficial to SEO? And if so, are there any particular tricks or pitfalls to it?


How to remove old robots.txt from google as old file block the whole site

I have a website which still shows old robots.txt in the google webmaster tools.               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      Which is blocking Googlebot. I have removed old file updated new robots.txt file with almost full access & uploaded it yesterday but it is still showing me the old version of robots.txt Latest updated copy contents are below               User-agent: *     Disallow: /flipbook/     Disallow: /SliderImage/     Disallow: /UserControls/     Disallow: /Scripts/     Disallow: /PDF/     Disallow: /dropdown/      I submitted request to remove this file using Google webmaster tools but my request was denied I would appreciate if someone can tell me how i can clear it from the google cache and make google read the latest version of robots.txt file.


What are some software products and tools to use in order to increase user-conversion?

What are some ways other than in-person tests that webmasters can do to try to increase user conversion and participation?


Title placement for good SEO?

Where should the `<title>` tag be placed for best SEO in relevance to `<meta name=description content="" />` tag? Does placing it upper the `<meta name=description content="" />` or below it, or does it have not have any relevance at all.


Meta field for Domain Url? Or is it possible to change the index of google

So I did the misstake of using a temporary url a while ago when launching my web site and called it http://web.mysite.com Now when google indexes it, even that the web. is not the primary url anymore it still uses that over the http://www.mysite.com Is there any way I can change this? Unfortunately I cant remove the web.mysite.dom binding from IIS since all Google links refer to that and I cannot use wildcard binding on the actual server. I have google analytics enabled with the correct url (www.mysite.com). Is there a way to enter some kind of meta data that enforces the robots to see the address as www.mysite.com? Thanks


301 redirect to different directory on Yahoo Small Business Hosting without .htaccess

I have a website hosted with Yahoo Small Business Hosting, and I don't have access to use a _.htaccess_ file. I have around 220 pages in a folder `mysubfolder` (`http://example.com/myfolder/mysubfolder`) and the age of website is around 3 years. I am planning to move all 220 pages in `mysubfolder` to `myfolder` (one level up). All the pages in `mysubfolder` are indexed. What is the best way to do this, so that it wouldn't affect my SEO.


MODx CMS and SEO

Does anyone have any experience with MODx CMS? How good or bad is it for a MODx-based website in regards of its SEO?


Firebug Disabled on Some Sites?

I have noticed on some website that firebug is off while on other sites it is on. I have not made any changes to these settings but how does a site tell firebug to turn off or how does firebug know do not turn on for this site?


Exit link tracking with timestamped logs on 3rd party content

I want to track clicks on exit links, that are placed in 3rd party content, for example on Twitter. I also need the timestamps of the clicks. Google Analytics can't be embedded in 3rd party content. Another solution is to use a URL shortener like bit.ly. However, bit.ly or goo.gl don't log the time of the click with any better granularity than a full day. su.pr shows the time for the past day in its analytics graph. The analytics download only includes the day, not the time. cli.gs was touted as having the most detailed analytics, yet it doesn't show the time either, and forces the user through a preview page. Hootsuite/ow.ly doesn't let you drill into analytics intraday.


How my robots.txt should look like for a single page app

I can understand how to disallow bots to crawl some pages/folder in normal application. For example for google-bot it is nicely described here. But what should I do if I have a single page application (the one that uses only ajax to upload new content and has routing and page generation on the client). How to make it crawlable is described here and here, but what if I do not a bot to follow some links (that are on my starting page)? By this I mean the following: When SPA is loaded for the first time it loads some basic HTML. This html can have specific links like:   * home (#!home/)   * about (#!about/)   * news (#!news/) but I do now want a bot to crawl #!about link.


Website won't work without www on mobile phone

I have updated the _.htaccess_ file so that when someone types in `example.com`, they are redirected to `www.example.com`. This works great on my computer, but when I try it on my cell phone is does not redirect. Instead I get the "Webpage not available" message. Does anyone know why? I've designed many websites and have never run into this problem.


Google webmaster tools: parameters that only apply on one page

I'm trying to get my e-commerce website on google and still figuring out how it all works. Now, I have seen this feature named URL-parameters, allowing me to set different parameters that affect page content to be indexed (one can also set parameters that do not affect the page, but for me that does not apply..). The question I have about this is whether and how I should add parameters that I only have on some pages of my site. example: The homepage of my site is `www.mysite.nl`. no parameters at all. But when a user clicks the navigation bar, it links to `www.mysite.nl/itemList.php?category=&....subCategory=....` The parameters `category` and `subCategory` define whether there is content on my `itemList` page and what content that is. It gets matching products out of my database based on those 2 variables. The question: How do I make sure that I apply the google URL Parameters function decently for my website?


Google Ranking for long tail search phrases

When using long tail search phrases for products (items to purchase), google generally returns multiple URLS for various ecommerce sites, but it hides additional urls for each site behind ![show more results](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NuuYC.jpg). Each site tends to get one URL in the SERP and the rest are hidden (this isn't always the case as sometimes it shows 4 or 5 pages for a given domain but they are almost always grouped together). Since the related pages for each domain show up grouped together in the original SERP, is google using domain authority to determine ranking for the collection of pages, or is it ranking the entire set of pages for the domain based on the one page it chose to display in the SERP?


Will Google harm my ad's rating if my display URL in adwords does not exist?

I have a service in a very big city, and to make my ads stand out, I display the name of the neighborhood in the display URL, although the actual URL is always the same page with my services for any neighborhood. Will google decrease my rating for this? In a different note, you can also express your ideas about if it's sensible to do this or not, ie, the client might feel I'm deceiving them. Although this will be subjective, unless there is some scientific study. Thank you!


Where do I set my SPF record for domain managed by Yahoo?

Many years ago we purchased a domain from Yahoo. Now our website is hosted on Amazon EC2. The output of an SPF checking tool (http://www.kitterman.com/getspf2.py) says: > SPF records are primarily published in DNS as TXT records. > > The TXT records found for your domain are: i=182&m=bizmail-mx2-p9 > > SPF records should also be published in DNS as type SPF records. No type SPF > records found. > > Checking to see if there is a valid SPF record. > > No valid SPF record found of either type TXT or type SPF. Where do I get access to these values? Can somebody speculate, where can I find an interface, or a configuration file to fill in the missing fields? **Edit** To clarify, the domain name is managed by Yahoo and the actual server is an EC2 instances being routed via an elastic ip. The best I could on the Yahoo control panel only mentions CNAME, A and MX. Where is SPF? Here's a Yahoo help article covering this.


Caches and Website Screen Shots

If I am creating a website to filter retail websites, like shipping or eco- friendly, etc. Could I use the screenshot of the homepage as the icon to link to the direct website? Ie. if my filters result in the The Gap, www.gap.com, and there is a snapshot, cache of the homepage, am I infringing on their ip?


Online Bookmarks

I want to save my bookmarks online so that I could access them from anywhere, from any computer. So I want to know the site name or if there is any tool for it as I cant remember lots of site's name, which is useful for me.


Google Webmaster Tools incorrect rel-alternate-hreflang implementation warning message

I'm getting this warning message in Google Webmaster Tools: > Incorrect rel-alternate-hreflang implementation In particular, there seems > to be a problem with missing or incorrect bi-directional linking (when page > A links with hreflang to page B, there must be a link back from B to A as > well). This message seems pretty straight forward, but when checking their example pages, I'm not finding anything wrong. I'm using alternate for translation of main site menu, titles, etc. In each page I have this:               <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://mydomain.com/page" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="jp" href="http://ja.mydomain.com/page" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="ko" href="http://ko.mydomain.com/page" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="th" href="http://th.mydomain.com/page" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://es.mydomain.com/page" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="pt" href="http://pt.mydomain.com/page" />      I've double checked this exists in all the 6 pages. This is the first time I've seen this message although I've implemented this at least 6 months ago, and implementation hasn't changed. Is there any way to check a specific set of pages for these things? Am I missing something in my implementation? We're auto-redirecting people from a location to their specific language, and give them an option to manually change this. I've also just found out about the suggestion for `Vary HTTP header` - is that relevant and important here?


Using RegEx's in Multi-Channel Funnels in Google Analytics

For some reason, I can't get my multichannel funnel which utilizes RegEx's in the path steps to function -- it keeps coming back with no data. There are a few variables which may be holding things up, but I can't figure out the origin of the problem, nor a solution. Here's the situation:   * The funnel is tracking conversions, defined as when a user completes 4 steps to signup   * Steps are not "required"   * Default URL is set to `https://example.com`   * There is a 302 redirect set up on our site that leads from `http://example.com` to `https://example.com`   * Within the funnel, steps switch from non-secure pages (unless browser is set to secure browsing), to secure pages once the user moves from the landing page to the second page of the sign-up process (account placeholder has been created)   * URL at that point contains the variable of publisher number within (but not at the end) the URL   * My RegEx's are all properly written as tested on rubular.com


How to hide dns when someone whois me by use domainsbyproxy?

i register domain with godaddy and i use addon privacy protect by domainsbyproxy but still show dns server when whois? how to make its to private?


Drupal 7 shared cloud hosting problem

I'm hosting one drupal 7 website on site5.com cloud shared hosting and it seems to be that drupal cache queries go very slow on almost every table that starts with name cache_... This site is using 1-2 custom modules, i18 module only for front page text, about 13 custom types fields and has about 650 nodes. Now site has been used only me and my client. I contact hosting and they say that problem aren't their, but I have been thinking, I have one drupal 7 site, with webshop in croatia with 7000 nodes and active 30 users per seconds on poor host and everything is going well. My questions are, it can be something with a new drupal 7 update (7,19) or my website is really that slow (highly doubt) or cloud shared hosting is only a cheap trick from site5.com?


how to make backlinks for Malayalam sites either english or Malayalam

I am new to SEO.I need help ? The website is fully in Malayalam content so how to make backlinks?But keyword is English. any body pls help me


Google news not showing images from my site

I have a question for you. One of the sites I'm working on has been accepted in Google news. Now, my issue is that most of the time,no image is fetched, while some other times a related image from another website is shown instead. I have read somewhere that the image needs to be nearby or in the title tag - is it so? Any idea what I am doing wrong?


help me being the next zuckerberg

I really expect someone to help me with my problem as stated below. I started learning website making by having tutorials from w3schools.com but after doing taking the HTML tutorials I don't think I really can do anything with it. Maybe I don't know everything about HTML yet. I know the online tutorials are not enough but what I need you guys to tell me is that how can I learn making some nice websites. I have vacations for two months now and I think it would be the best time for me to learn making websites as I really love to be a website developer. Now I would like to start from the scratch. I know some C language _(though I know it will not help me)_. So tell me from where shall I learn HTML and what all things shall I learn after that and in what order. If you can also help me with the material _(let it be books or online tutorials)_. But I would like to know how can I gain confidence that I can make some websites as just learning online tutorials doesn't help me much. I also tried some video tutorials but in that too, they will just tell me some of the functions and not all. So what am I supposed to do.. just know a limited functions as they want me to know in video tutorials or do something else.


Track Promotional Code Sales

Is there a way I can track actual sales on purchases utilizing Promo or Discount Codes obtained through my site? My site will link to e-commerce sites where users can use those promo codes on their purchases to save money. My site will not actually be selling any items, it is all referrals to other sites. I want this to be done outside of any 3rd party commission platform such as Commission Junction or LinkShare. Thanks!


Is there a way to do a site-wide 301 redirect or rel="canonical"

I've got a blog running on a sub domain mirrored using this method on to a sub directory, so that the links come to my main domain not the sub domain.. Obviously this creates duplicate content. What I was planning on doing, was to block googlebot from seeing the sub domain using robots.txt and then get it to index the sub directory. What i would also like to do is insert 301 redirects from each of the pages as well as rel="canonical". But because this is a blog there is always new content being added so I would have to add new pages to the 301 each day and add in new rel="canonical" links into each page. Is there a way to write with the 301 redirect & rel="canonical" that anything after the slash stays the same but the domain name itself will change? ie. blog.mysite.com/post1 - would automaticly be redirected to - mysite.com/blog/post1


Does page impression get counted for unique visits?

in Google adsense, if a user from any territory revisits page impression is getting updated but that eCPM is not getting updated its showing zero only, does it work only for unique visitors? Thanks Sneha


What should I do if I have 2 UI tabs with content that allows the user to access the same page?

I created an employee review application that has top-level stateful tabs just like the ones on this site. There is a tab called "My Employees" and a tab called "Employee Management" (used by HR only). The issue that I have is that when you are on the "My Employees" tab or the "Employee Management" tab, the associated information that is displayed both give the user access to the "View Employee" page. So right now, since you can access the "View Employee" page from both of these tabs, I am deactivating all tabs when the user is viewing that page. I'm doing this because I don't know which tab to have active. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there a better UI navigation technique that I should be using if I have these types of scenarios, or does this indicate a flaw in the UI design in general? Is it ok for "View Employee" to be accessable from 2 tabs? Should I just use stateless tabs (buttons) or is that poor design as well? Thanks and I appreciate any help you can provide.


Using Google Webmaster & Analytics, what data to look at to improve website performance?

Using data from Google Analytics and Webmaster tools, what data should I be looking at to improve my websites performance? I want to improve the SEO, usability and just general performance of my website. EDIT: It's a portfolio website that we've done the initial SEO for, also optimised all images etc and made the site as fast as possible. What kind of things should I be looking out for in the analytics and webmaster data to improve performance for both the SEO and each individual page. EDIT: Is there kind of a weekly/monthly checklist of things to check to improve SEO and performance.


Using nofollow when crosslinking my own sites

I have 20 sites in the same domain, different niches and I want to interlink them for USER EXPERIENCE. I want to know from someone who tested this: Will using a nofollow attribute for the links keep the sites safe from google link scheme penalties?


Will search engines penalize spam links in Facebook comments for websites?

I have many static HTML web pages in which I had used Facebook comments. A user had posted a spam link in one of the page's comments. I logged in as a moderator and deleted it, banned the user, and marked it as spam. Yet Facebook displayed the message: `Comments from USERNAME will only be visible to his friends. Undo`. As the message says, it provided an undo link. The problem is in the future when search engine bots crawl Facebook comments, and if they use the links posted in the comment which lead to spam websites, then I may get a penalty for linking to spam sites. So how do I remove the comments entirely from Facebook, so that not even the user's friends would see it? May be if only their friends can see it then search engines cannot crawl it. But if his friends use those links then that might add a link to the target site, which leads to my site being the referral to the span site. So what should be done?


https & ajax crawling

We made on our webpage https://www.1point618.com a transition to ssl and now we using nearly entirely ajax to load the content. Therefore all urls of existing pages have changed. We used the 301 redirect as recommended, also we have implemented google's specification that the webpage is still crawl-able. We thought that maybe it would last a month that we have the same ranking in google's search results, but still google's search results are much worse than before these changes. Most of the content (artist profiles) isn't indexed anymore. For example of the submitted sitemap only 3 of around 450 urls are indexed. Before almost all urls were indexed. My question is now: Does google's ajax crawling work together with ssl? (It looks like it would work, cause of the access log file.)