Change Subdomain follow IP Country?

I have something don't know to do it. I want to config domain when the User go to my website, system is catching IP Country of user and auto change my subdomain from www.mysite.com/index.aspx to www.unitedstate.mysite.com (US Pepople), www.france.mysite.com (France Pepople), www.japan.mysite.com (Japan Pepople).... I want to develop my website on global, change language, currency by catching IP Country of user visit my website. Can i do it and how can i config in IIS? I using private Window Server ASP.Net. Your answer is helpful with me ! Thanks so much.


Site hosted in DREAMHOST, planning to add additional servers or 3rd party webhost to handle huge traffic

Our company site is hosted from a VPS server in Dreamhost. The site is created in Drupal and loaded with a number of Drupal modules. It has a huge page views and unique visitors , although it is already running from a VPS server it is so slow specially during peak times. Any recommendations what should I do? Is it possible to add additional servers or third party webhosting company to help handling the site traffic. If this is possible, what should I do, how should I start. Is Round Robin DNS applicable in Dreamhost, if yes, how, what should I modify?


Is 322 gigabytes traffic for Partial contents normal?

We have a small community for our university students. There we provide some tutorials and other stuff that may help students to accomplish their task better. The catch is I think our traffic is abnormally high! We only have 2000 visits per day at its best (for the last 3 month we have had something around 1500 visits per day - more info here). Having this said, our monthly traffic has been ranging from 30 Gigabytes for our first month to 70 Gigabytes for the last month and now 322 Gigabytes for the past 16 days of the new month! I checked the awstats figures and found that 98% of this traffic is for partial contents . Now my question are:   * Having said all this about our community and its size, is this abnormal?   * How can we get more information on the contents being downloaded on our community site?   * In case it is abnormal and abusive how can we avoid it?


Where could I find a list of IP address that belong to paid VPN networks?

I would like to know if there is a list of known IP addresses that belong to paid VPN services, such as HideMyAss or PureVPN. **EDIT** I am looking for this because I am tracking votes by IP address and am getting fraudulent votes through services like HideMyAss or PureVPN.


Who has IE6 users viewing their site?

I know the general advice is that its no longer necessary to support IE6, but I've also heard the best data is the analytics of actual users to your site. All of my sites are currently low traffic so I can't really use my data on this. Can anyone share their findings regarding IE6 and what types of sites (if any) are visited by IE6 and so should be supported?


Authorize.net payment gateway... few questions

I need a good payment gateway for my shop (Drupal Ubercart). I was considering to use Authorize.net... is it available in Europe ? My customer has revenues of 10.000 per week so I'm looking for a professional solution. Could you give me some tip ? thanks


Very low CTR in google organic results

My webpage is positioned for some phrases, but does not generate much visits. Eg. the most searched phrase had average 5.6 position in google, but the CTR is about 2%. What should I do to improve CTR? I myself, when I look for something, usually open all pages in first page of results automatically, and then read what's in these pages. Do other people do that? Would rich snippets improve situation? Any other means to improve situation? (I don't know if I should provide here my key phrases and webpage, it's in Polish...) EDIT: **This is for organic search results, the page is positioned to be in first 10 results of search, and I'm interested in getting revenue from organic search only. No Adwords.**


Shall I remove pages for deprecated products?

On our company site we have pages for multiple products. Some of the products become "deprecated". These products are of no interest for us because they give no income. Pages for "deprecated" products attract relatively high number of visitors (more than the half combined). Keywords for "deprecated" and "not-deprecated" products have very-very little in common. Is it wise (from SEO perspective) to move all the pages for "deprecated" products to other sites? For us it basically doesn't matter what will happen with "deprecated" products and pages related to them but we of course don't want to affect other products in any negative way. The whole point of all this is to "tell" search engines that our site is more focused on what will left.


two seperate websites but I want one to rank quicker

I want to get a site I've had a while rank quicker, it is http://socialmediamarketingthailand.com being a social media marketer in Thailand. It's been up a while but I've not had much content on a free template. I also own http://internetmediathailand.com and this is on page one Google for 'social media marketing bangkok' keyword search. I have since spent a lot of time making http://socialmediamarketingthailand.com a lot nicer and with new content, and http://internetmediathailand.com is looking old yet has the ranking. If I redirect Internet media to the newer fresher socialmedia site will I get anywhere quicker?


How often should one submit a site map to Google for a site similar to this?


Which current stock mobile browsers support linked phone numbers by default?

The better question is, are there any that currently DO NOT support auto linking of phone numbers by default? Main support for iPhone, Android, BB, Windows Phone, Palm. I'm trying to determine if I should be adding href tags to the phone numbers on multiple client sites (e.g. `<a href="tel:+1-800-555-1212">800-555-1212</a>`). The only reason I would be doing such a thing at this point is to allow for backwards mobile (or future) compatibility, however, I'm having a hard time determining if it's worth the time or effort, as these links currently don't do much in a normal browser (FF, IE, Chrome, Safari, etc).


When choosing a domain does including your brand affect SEO performance?

I've been asked to build a "landing page" for a local branch of an international corporation. While the corporation has a well-established domain name, the local office wants to use a unique, separate url that will be easy for them to relay to clients. However, the corporation is considered a category leader, so the local office is also concerned about the importance to carrying over the company's brand to the URL. Questions that have arisen:   1. From an SEO perspective, is there a benefit to including the brand name in the URL?    2. Would it be more beneficial to buy a domain that relates generically to the INDUSTRY as opposed to the specific brand name?   3. Would the benefits of an easy-to-remember, short domain outweigh any SEO benefits that might be gained by a longer, brand-specific domain?


How do search engines treat domains created out of country codes (e.g bit.ly)

I have a site that has a domain name that is a word created out of a country code (like bit.ly awe.sm favo.rs) My question is how do search engines handle these. For example, would a search on favors return a link to favors given their search criteria? For on site copy, should the domain be used or the underlying word without the dot in it? I'd like to know which would be most optimal to use in site copy for SEO purposes.


SEO for a list of products with filters

I am a wondering if there is a recommended "best practice" for a product search SEO. I know to create a dynamic sitemap file that lists links to all products in the site. However, I want to implement a bookmark-able "advanced search". Should I let search engines index any of the results? Take the following parameters for a search on a make believe used car website:   * **minprice** (minimum price in dollars)   * **maxprice** (maximum price in dollars)   * **make** (honda, audi, volvo)   * **model** (accord, A4, S40)   * **minyear** (minimum model year)   * **maxyear** (maximum model year)   * **minmileage** (minimum mileage)   * **maxmileage** (maximum mileage) Given these parameters, there could be an infinite number of search combinations:   * Price Between $10,000 and $20,000      * /search?minprice=10000&maxprice=20000   * Audis with less than 50k miles      * /search?model=audi&maxmileage=50000   * More than 100,000 miles and less than $5,000      * /search?minmileage=100000&maxprice=5000   * etc. Over time, there may be inbound links to a variety of these types of searches, yet they are all slices of the same data. Should I allow for all of these searches to be indexed?


Repeat use of Schema / Rich Snippets Markup i.e LocalBusiness Data

I am unable to find official wording and I'm hoping that some Rich Snippets/Schema Guru can give me some insight into proper usage of repeated content when it comes to using markup. I'm building a site that wants to use Schema as the markup type and the owner would like as much usage as possible. The business name, telephone and address will appear on every page now is it valid or even useful to use Rich Snippets on every page where this information is displayed. For example this information appears in the header, and footer of every page of the site and too give you an example of my current markup see below:                                                            01202 000 000
 This is where the content will go
            Company Name        A small little bit about this company
         Address Goes here         Area Here,         Region Here
            !-- Local Business Schema Now Closed -->      So as you can see above this information will be displayed on every single page.... Is this valid or bad to repeat usage of this information in schema format...


Similar URLs for same page

I'm working with a site that uses slightly different URLs for the same content. The sitemap lists the pages as:               www.website.com/webpage.html      If you surf through the site the same page is found at:               www.website.com/webpage      Without the .html ending. This could get fixed using canonical tags, but is it worth the effort when two URLs are that similar? Would a search engine consider them two different pages?


Is repeating titles on a forum considered keyword stuffing?

My forum shows 50 posts per page, and each post has a `<h3>`-tag with the topic title in it. The meta title and actual title also use this sentence. More often than not, the thread itself also contains some of the keywords in the title. The keywords in the titles are usually repeated 30+ times, sometimes up to 70 times on a single (full) page. Now, my question is if this could be considered keyword stuffing? I know Google can recognize forums, but I'm not sure if any special rules apply or not. On a normal site, I would immediately call this keyword stuffing, but most forum templates repeat the title on and on and a good amount of them are ranked very well.


Apache Virtual Host different depending on client ip?

What I'm trying to accomplish is:               1. A person, with IP 192.168.1.5 loads my webserver (192.168.1.2) and reaches htdocs/     2. Another person, with ip 192.168.1.6 does the same request, and reaches htdocs/folder/      If possible, I'd like to stick to port 80 requests only. I'm currently using the setup:               <LocationMatch "/">         Order deny,allow         Deny from all         Allow from ::1 127.0.0.0/8 localhost 192.168.1.5         ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var     </LocationMatch>            <VirtualHost 192.168.1.2:80>         ServerAdmin frederik@*.dk         DocumentRoot "/XAMPP/htdocs/"         ServerName 192.168.1.2         ErrorLog "logs/lan-error.log"         CustomLog "logs/lan-access.log" combined     </VirtualHost>      I'd like to allow everyone else to see the folder. And then, depending on the client IP, set another DocumentRoot.


How to get Magento to update order status when PayPal returns IPN message?

When someone checks out in Magento with PayPal, and PayPal flags their payment for review, Magento correctly sets the order status to "Payment Review". However, if after a day or two PayPal decides the order is OK, it sends an IPN message to Magento with the proper payment status of "Pending" and pending reason of "authorization". I can see this IPN message in Magento's paypal logs (and can simulate it with the sandbox), however, when Magento receives this message it does not update its order status. Why not and how can this be fixed? I am using Magento 1.5.1.0.


Pros and cons of horizontal menus versus vertical?

I've long wondered if there should be a preference for using horizontal navigation menus, or vertical ones. I've used both before, on various websites, and can see each having pros and cons. Is there any concrete data available on this subject? I'm interested in accessibility and usability concerns.


Gracefully handling a site update

I'm in the process of changing things on one of my sites. As I don't really have a staging environment I'm planning to take the site offline for about a couple of hours. How do I handle this gracefully so that if Google visits I don't get penalized?


Is it a bad idea for our company to temporarily use a pre-made website theme?

I work at a software development company as a full time web developer. In the last year our company has seen massive growth and as a result we've kicked off the re-branding process by getting a proper logo. As it stands our website is just plain embarrassing! I wrote it when i was just a lowly intern about 2 years ago and every time I see it my stomach turns! While I'd love to give it some proper TLC, I don't really have the time at the moment our company is focusing on client work and building our own product. Would it be wrong for us to use a ready-made website theme temporarily while we are unable to give it more time? (remember I'm a web developer, not a web designer, so it's not exactly like a policeman getting caught stealing! :P )


protocol relative URLs from other domains

If I am configuring https://foo.mysite.com where I have an SSL cert with CN=foo.mysite.com, but index.html has includes/images/etc loading from `http://othersite.com/cat.png` and `http://somethingelse.com/script.js`, will using protocol agnostic urls like `//somethingelse/script.js` require that a cert exist for othersite.com and somethingelse.com or will Apache use my site's cert without causing any warnings/errors in the browser? Apache 2.2.3, mod_ssl


The actual difference between styesheet in the header and a seperate file

I have always been taught to have all of the CSS in a separate file that is referenced from the head of the page. Reading this article, the author is talking about making the Guardian website responsive. One of the things he notes they did to make the site faster and more resilient is to add the CSS inline into the header, thus reducing HTTP requests. Now this got me thinking about the right/best/fastest way of using the CSS If you have one main CSS file, its going to be called and read by the site on every page, no mater how big it is. So with that in mind, I'm actually starting to think its better to just inline the whole style sheet and remove one HTTP roundtrip. I know for the purposes of neatness and being able to edit the file a separate file is better. But which would you recommend and which do you think is faster?


The number of sites on a shared host

I have been looking at a number of shared hosting providers, and I used domaintools.com services to see how many other domains are hosted at a single IP address. I think Hostgator had a high number of domains on one IP address (around 1,300) and DreamHost had a much smaller number - around 40 domains. Should I worry about a high number versus a low number, or is this inconsequential to the performance of the domain, all other things being equal?


Google Webmaster Tools no longer reports search queries now site has gone full HTTPS

After the recent announcement by Google that was speculated for a while in the SEO community, that sites that load over https (ssl) will be weighted slightly higher in the search algorithms, I quickly implemented an SSL cert and configured my dedicated server to serve the entire site/forum via https. Any old http links (in backlinks or Google's index) are 301 redirected to the https link. Traffic hasn't declined, but my graph of search queries faded to zero pretty quickly after this change. So any idea why this has happened? Thanks.


Creating a DNS Server

I want to create a DNS Server (like Google does - 8.8.8.8). I understand that a DNS Server is a Server that gives a IP on being given a hostname, ie. when I ask it what is the IP of google.com, it says "64.233.160.0". So, what I want to do is create a similar one that holds records of what translates to what. I thought of this since it looks to be similar to a webserver - ask for a page and it gives back the page. That is, when my machine has the IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and people chose xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx as their Primary DNS Server, then when they ask "www.google.com", I sould be able to tell "64.233.160.0". So, how do I create this DNS Server that is accessible to everyone in the world ? It would be easier if we have something like EasyPHP which is the analogue to a webserver here.


What is a good, free ad server?

Right now I am using OpenX. But over the years it got more and more bloated. I barely use 10% of its functionality. What are the alternatives and what is it that makes them good? I need:   * image banners   * html banners   * stats on impressions and clicks   * even distribution of booked impressions over the booked time (like max 10000 impressions per day for 10 days)   * weekly stats per email (for admin and for customer) Please list one ad server per answer for easier ranking...


How to track inbound HTTP traffic using Plesk 10.4.4?

I am running Plesk 10.4.4 on a Debian 6.0 server. The outbound traffic is being tracked but the inbound http traffic seems to be 0 at all times, i.e. looking at the `DomainsTraffic` and `ClientsTraffic` the `http_in` column is always 0. Is this a setting that I have missed? I've had a look and cannot find anything. How do I get Plesk to track the inbound HTTP traffic? I have already made sure that Home > Tools & Settings > Server settings had 'Include in the traffic calculation' set to 'inbound and outbound traffic', yet this does not solve the problem. Apache allows inbound traffic to be logged using `%I` in the log format, is there a way to get Plesk to add the `%I` to the log and then use that in bandwidth calculations?


Google Analytics HTTP vs HTTPS

I want to use Google Analytics on a website that uses both HTTP and HTTPS that works as explained below:   1. Secure pages accessed through `https://mydomain.com/secure/*` are always on HTTPS. Any access to these pages through HTTP will be redirected to HTTPS.   2. Any other pages will be accessible through both HTTP and HTTPS I have a Google Analytics profile with URL using HTTPS. Will I cover all traffic? Do I need to create another profile using HTTP and how should I apply the other profile?


Drop down menu for blogger with automatic link update

My mom has a recipe blog in blogger which has many categories "Cakes", "Celebration Day" etc which are filled with numerous recipe posts. Now I want to organize my blog in a better way and make a drop down menu for all the categories(I already have labels) but I dont want to keep updating the menu whenever I include a new post. I want to have it updated automatically. Is there any way it can be done with CSS or html codes?


How do I migrate web files from a Plesk 8 installation (on a slaved HDD) to a Plesk 10.4.4 installation?

Due to Plesk 8 being at end of support our host setup a new installation of RHEL and Plesk 10 on a new hard drive. They then slaved the old drive to the new so that we could migrate all our files using SSH. I am having challenges correctly migrating the sub domain files. The path to subdomain root folder in Plesk 10.4.4 is confusing as I don't know where to copy the files to. The path to the files on the slaved drive is `/mnt/old-drive/var/www/vhosts/domain_name.com/subdomains/SUBDOMAIN_NAME/`, meanwhile on the new installation I have `/var/www/vhosts/SUBDOMAIN_NAME.domain_name.com`. There is an httpdocs folder in the `/var/www/vhosts/domain_name` folder but none in the `/var/www/vhosts/SUBDOMAIN_NAME.domain_name.com` folder. Where do I copy my subdomain files to?


Website restyle, SEO migration plan?

I am currently in a project for one of my biggest clients. We have built a website that will -replace- the old website. When it comes to actual content its is largely the same. However, the presentation of the content has changed drastically. From our point of view much more user-friendly (main reason to update the site). Now, since the sites presentation has changed we have some major changes in:   1. HTML & CSS: To change the presentation of the content   2. URL's: To make them better understandable (301 redirects have been taken care of and are in place)   3. Breadcrumbs: To enhance the navigation (we have made the breadcrumbs match exactly with the url's)   4. Pagination: This was added to enable content browsing   5. Title tags: Added descriptive title tags to the major links and buttons. Basically all user content including meta tags have remained the same. Now since this company is rather successful and 90% of its clients come from Google's organic results I am obliged to take all necessary precautions. People tell me I need a migration plan to prevent the site being hurt in Google, but I have never worked using such a plan... ...So, based on the above. Would you consider a migration plan necessary and what precautions/actions would you recommend to prevent us being put down in our SERP positions? Many thanks in advance for your answers.


google image sitemap title and caption, which is more important?

here is the document about google image sitemap, But `<image:caption>` and `<image:title>`, which is more important? if i have only one description of this image, which part is better to be put in? I mean put the description in `<image:caption>`, leave `<image:title>` is blank, or put the description in `<image:title>`, leave `<image:caption>` is blank. Another question, if I store image in a third part image cloud server(the image domain is not my main site domain), is it matter to make a `google image sitemap`? such as:               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>      <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"       xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">      <url>        <loc>http://www.mydomain.com/somepage.html</loc>        <image:image>          <image:loc>http://couldserver.com/image.jpg</image:loc>        </image:image>        <image:title>           a pretty car        </image:title>      </url>      </urlset>


How can I track scrolling in a Google Analytics custom report?

I want to track scrolling on my website since it's a long page (rather than multiple pages). I saw several different methods, with and without an underscore for trackEvent, with and without spaces between commas                <script>  ...     ...   ...       ga('create', 'UA-45440410-1', 'example.com');   ga('send',      'pageview');           _gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ‘Consumption’, ‘Article Load’, ‘[URL]’, 100, true]);       _gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ‘Consumption’, ‘Article Load’, ‘[URL]’, 75, false]);      _gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ‘Consumption’, ‘Article Load’, ‘[URL]’, 50, false]);      _gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ‘Consumption’, ‘Article Load’, ‘[URL]’, 25, false]);           </script>      It takes a day for counts to load with Google Analytics, otherwise I would just tweak and test right now.


Tumblr blog under subdomain blog.mysite.com - do I still get the benefit?

I've got a Tumblr blog for my main site, I use it more as a proper blog with articles and images, rather than just a tumblog. The blog is mapped to `blog.mydomain.com`. Becuase of the ease of _social_ reposting in Tumblr people often repost my articles (which is great - backlinks!) But all these links go back to my blog and not my main site which is a `mydomain.com` does Google see `blog.mydomain` and `mydomain` as the same / linked item and is my main site getting the benefit of these links?


Technical website - Should I assume that my visitors will use a modern browser?

I am in the process of creating my own website, which will include a technical blog. I want to build my website using modern technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3. Since **my website will be targetted at programmers and mostly tech-savvy users** , should I take for granted that these people will be using a modern browser? Or should I make my site compatible with older browsers just in case? I don't want to go through the pain of adapting my website to be compatible with browsers I assume won't be used. UPDATE: I've read the answers so far and it seems like you missed an important detail about the question. So in case it was not clear, please focus your answers by taking into account the nature of the site : > my website will be targetted at programmers and mostly tech-savvy users Considering this, should I take for granted that these people will be using a modern browser?


SEO For Banner Images

I'm working on a site with large banners on the home page under the main menu that rotate. I'm being told that for SEO I need to overlay the text in the banner over the banner image and remove the text from the image itself. Isn't that what alt tags are for or am I ignorant? Is there anything to be gained by this approach? Seems like wasted effort to me. My apologies if this has already been answered elsewhere.


Browser testing - Ideas on how to tackle it efficiently

Browser testing, the bane of any web designers life! Are there any tools and/or ways in which I can efficiently test different browsers on both Mac and PC? I not only want to test different browsers but also different versions of each browser. My current setup is on a Mac running VirtualBox with Windows Vista installed. This allows me to test both Mac and PC but the complications arise when trying to test different versions of browsers. Any one have any ideas?


How can I assign id to subject input box in simple machines forum?

I have installed the simple machines forum. For my requirement I need to change the subject input box. Presently the subject input box has the following code               <input type="text" class="input_text" maxlength="80" size="80" tabindex="1" name="subject">      I want this to be changed like               <input type="text" id="subject" class="input_text" maxlength="80" size="80" tabindex="1" name="subject">      How can I do this? I browsed through many files in simple machines forum and couldn't find out. Anyone one simple machines forum please help me


Is it legal to host user-manual documents on my server?

Is it legal to host user-manual documents (e.g. a user manual for an lcd television in pdf format) on my server? Also, if I made an HTML page that contains a list of all those hosted documents (again on my server) along with advertisements, would that be described as "redistribution" and if so, would that be legal? Or maybe this question is too generic and should each document's legality would need to be considered in its own context?


Does meta refresh affeects website standing in anyway

I have a website which plays music using soundcloud API to keep the music playing what I did is everytime user goes to songs.php (page to play the song) a mysql query runs and fetch one random song details from database and depending upon its duration the page redirect to the next song after the time it got from database. So what my question is whether it will help me getting indexed fast on the search engine because all of these links are follow up link though the google bot will index my compelte website any time it visits it. Or will it be harmful for the site ranking ? My website keeps redirecting on another pages sometimes after 1 minute sometime after 5 minute depending upon the duration of the song playing. Will that effect my SEO ranking. I am using meta-refresh to redirect the page


Podcast Best Practices - Page Development & Monetization Considerations

Our current podcast page has show notes and a link to download an mp3 of our podcast. We were advised to add an audio player to stream the file live from our website. The thought being this would improve time spent on our site and allow for greater advertising dollars. Is it better to have a page with show notes, an mp3 for download AND also stream the podcast live OR   just stick to the show notes & mp3 download? Does anyone see any affect on advertising revenue, either way?


Does Google not count certain words in search queries? If so which words? I remember hearing somewhere that woulds such as "how to" and "in" get discounted so if you searched for a "painter in new york" Google would query their index with "painter new york". Is this correct?


Help Desk Software with user groups and temporary ban function?

Does anyone know any Help Desk Software which allow you to create user groups / to mark/categorize specific users in some way / and to to ban specific users/e-mails (not user groups) for a specific period of time? Kayako? OTRS? simpledesk?... Kayako looks to be very functional but not sure if it has this option. zendesk is also very functional but a SaaS service not a downloadable software. Since the functions that I am saying are very common in forum software, maybe simpledesk could do it since it is based in SMF. Any ideas?


Managing DNS records for server failover with cname records

I currently have 2 servers with identical files for a number of websites in 2 different locations. One has fast internet access but is regularly offline whereas the other is always on and has slower internet access. They are both on dynamic IPs so I use noip to get an address which then provides the static address for my domain names via a cname entry in the dns table. The domains are managed by 123-reg and getting static IPs isn't an option. Currently, I have to manually change the dns records whenever the faster server is online to offer a faster connection. Obviously this is a time consuming job and with a TTL of 4 hours, a slow process. Is there a way I can either set my dns records to point to both dynamic dns addresses and have it pick an active one (either randomly or with preference going to the faster connection) or have both servers update the same ddns entry again, giving preference to the faster one but allowing the slower one to take over when its not available. Thanks


What does it mean to infect people with silent java drive?

I've got a weird contact message through my website, claiming they have found a security vulnerability and wonder if I have a bug bounty program. The details they shared:               Only what I can say is that I found a way to infect people with silent java drive by on one of your websites .      What does this mean to infect people with silent java drive?


Discrepancy in Google Analytics reports for Audience vs. Page vs. Content Drilldown - Why?

I've been using Analytics for over a year now so I'm familiar with it though I'm haven't mastered it yet. Having said that, I need your help and guidance in regards with a discrepancy I keep running into when comparing results of a specific subfolder in a domain through the audience section vs. all pages (once it's filtered so that specific folder) and content drilldown. I have domain www.domain.edu/ and I'm trying to get a report for January for www.domain.edu/em/ which needs to include visits, visitors, page views, unique page views, et al. Normally I would go to Behavior > Site Content > All Pages and use the search box (under the line chart section) to filter only /em/ and so my results would like this ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WSJfQ.png) So according to this report for /em/ there were 391 page views. But if I go to Behavior > Site Content > Content Drilldown the results are different ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Vo9k8.png) Here now reports 387 page views, 4 less than from filtered All Pages. Okay so it's not that of a big deal and I agree... BUT if I go to Audience > Overview; results are drastic this time. First I made sure to create a new segment and I actually used the same one which was generated when filtering for /em/ in All Pages ("Matching RegExp = /em/") ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Bh88J.png) Here now reports over a thousand page views just for January, out of the 391 page views from Page, in contrast with the 387 page views from Content Drilldown. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/9f6Uu.png) I can finally see a much better complete report of what I was looking for in the first place; visits, unique visitors, etc. But the page views are way off above of what I initially was getting from the previous two reports. No wonder why my numbers were not matching when adding them up in a year (Page (from All Pages) vs. Overview) So my obvious question is why this is happening. Am I doing something wrong in here? As far as I know, the Behavior section only contains reports designed to help you improve the content on your site to meet the needs and expectations of visitors (source) but doesn't mention anything of excluding anything. Another question is, am I using the correct filter for the Overview section? Remember, I'm only interested on the analytics reports for /em/ Please advise. Thank you very much.


URLEncode of full URL

I am using the PHP urlencode() function to escape chars for anchor tags (). Why can't I use the function on a full URL such as               http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?startat=/getthumb.asp&txtSearch= ...      The function converts this string to               http%3A%2F%2Fwww.allposters.com%2Fgallery.asp%3Fstartat%3D%2Fgetthumb.asp%26txtSearch      which does not work when clicking on... Trying to escape the QUERY only               startat%3D%2Fgetthumb.asp%26txtSearch      breaks the link also. So my question is which characters should I esacape using the urlencode() function? Thanks, Joel


Multiple images on one page: best ranking practices

I have several images related to one object and they all should be placed on one web-page. I'd like to know how do I place those images among the page body and its text. I can not do it manually to distribute the images evenly among the page so I'd do the following: APPROACH ONE: I'd place only one image with its corresponding caption text below, alt and title somewhere in the top of the page with all the rest text following this image. All other images should replace the first one by JS- function as the user pressing the corresponding button "Next". QUESTION: Will Google (and the rest of search engines) index the images indicated only in JS section of the page? And even if 'yes' will SE's rank them in the same way? I'd bear with it if the first image will be considered as the main and the others as less important. APPROACH TWO: I'd place all images one after another with attribute 'hidden' for all of them except the first one. The caption will be placed in the end of those images bunch and the alt- ant title-tags will be the same for all of the images. QUESTIONS: I can suppose that the last image will be considered as the most important by the SE's as the caption will be most close to it and I don't really like it. Please advise me which approach is better or propose yours. The image search is supposed to be the most important source of traffic so it's very important for me.


What's the best way to plan and manage an SEM campaign?

We are launching a site for the local retail arena. Our deals will earn about ten dollars in income. How should we approach SEM marketing and what packages would you suggest to track our marketing spend.


html: Should <code> be placed within a paragraph?

Markdown creates output like this:
see this example:

code
      Is this correct or should it be:
see this example
code

      To me the second one seems correct, since the paragraph and the code example are one unit. What are your thoughts about this? edit: actually I could argue the same about a list (eg "order any of the following:") but a list can't be placed withing a paragraph. edit2: to clarify, technically both are correct, as a table based layout is technically possible. But what would you argue is the way that best expresses the intention of the tags given a paragraph like this? Or maybe it doesn't matter? Note that the pre element isn't very relevant here (but included because markdown outputs it too).


Does Google Preview obey Robots.txt?

Because it sure looks like it does. For my sites we disallow the images directory and the previews are all missing images which makes the site look wonky. Is this the case and is there a way to allow just the preview bot to access images using robots.txt? **EDIT:** It looks like the previews are generated both by the normal Google Bot and by an on the fly bot Google Web Preview as mentioned (briefly) on the Webmaster Central Blog. By using a site: search and my monitoring software I could see when the bot hit my site and when this happened the images showed up just fine in the preview. So my guess is that the normal crawler ignores the images per robots.txt, but the preview crawler gets the images anyway. This implementation seems kind of crumby because my options seem to be:   1. allow google bot to crawl my images (which I don't want to do)   2. use the nosnippet tag which blocks the preview, but ALSO snippets (which I don't want to do)   3. Let the wonky previews appear which may adversely affect click throughs


List of Article Submission Directories

I used to have a link to the top 50 article submission directories arranged by PR, Alexa, and maybe some other factors. Anyone have this link (and others), that show a ton of article submission directories?


SEO/Keywords Monitoring service

Is there a good monitoring service for international sites? I have sites in many countries and I would like to get some monitoring service to track the visibility in Google for all the domains and the most visited keywords and so on. I have found some, but most of them are handling only 3-4 markets, but I need to set a monitoring for each of my sites in many countries. Does anyone use such a service?


CSS rounded corners around image

I have tried several ways to get rounded corners around images without success. The best I got was using the image as background and applying the round corners style to the div as in this picture. Problem is that image is not linked through an img tag, so GoogleBot does not index it. Is there a better solution just using img tag and **css** to get **images with rounded corners**? Thanks in advance!


Is there a comparison of Frameworks, Grid Systems and Boilerplates?

There are so much of them, how can I know what to use for a project?


Question regarding duplicate contents

If I create blogs using different blog domains with the same content (own content) and link it with my original website using targeted anchor text, will it harm my SEO of my original website? The original website is genuine and doesn't have any copied contents. I'm using cross-domain canonicalization to some extend, but can't use it in all the articles and blogs. Will the duplicate contents from my own different blogs will hurt my original site just because it links to it?


View browser usage by location in Google Analytics

Is there a way to separate out browser usage by location in Google Analytics? Like for example, seeing that all traffic from Nevada came from what browsers? Or, selecting a single browser and seeing where all of the traffic came from that used that browser?


Where to find a template or script with frame on the left side(list of articleHeadlines) and on the right side the content

I am looking for something like the following: http://www.scala- lang.org/api/current/index.html#scala.Any http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcobjects- net/componenthelp/index.html#/Overview/004t00000009000000/ On the left side i want to have/create in some admintool categeries, subcategories and add names/links to the articles on the right side. So when i click on one of the articles/links, i would see the content on the right side. Is there any script or template or whatever that would allow me that? edit: to be specific:   * in admin area i would create categories and subcategories. In each of the subcategories i would be able to create an article.    * When i click at that article, i want to see that article on the right side of screen. It would be awesome if visitors would be able to post comments to that article.   * it does not matter what CMS that would be   * it looks like some kind of a treestructure


SEO: Make hashtag links look static

So I have a website which displays all my content vertically. (like modern websites often do these days). Thus I can't create static links to each section. I'm currently handling the scrolling with javascript. My navigation looks like this.

Services

References

Blog

Contact

      I also created 301 redirect links with htaccess. E.g. `/services` which leads to `/#services`. If I were to use them in my navigation, I'd have to trigger the scrolling with the onpopstate event. Thats not really a problem, but would searchengines accept that kind of setup ? I also created a sitemap and submitted it to google, but the indexing is still pending.


How should I handle search engines auto-correcting the spelling of a site's name?

A client's site and company is called 'Tranin Communications' (Tranin is her last name).   It ranks well in searches for her name but rather poorly in searches for the name of her site/company. I realized that this is largely due to* search engines (Google especially) assuming that the query was misspelled and automatically including results for both 'train communications' and 'communications training'. Both of those queries yield many high-ranking sites that completely drown out hers. Sometimes Google even shows results for 'communications training' _instead_ of 'tranin communications', hiding her site altogether. Is there a way to report an incorrect auto-correction to Google or something I can do to discourage this behavior (e.g. a meta tag)?   My searches have come up cold, any suggestions would be appreciated. *I've come to this conclusion because her site ranks very highly when the same queries are put in quotes.


302 or 301 redirect in case where redirect lasts 1-2 months

I have a case where I have a newly built "author site" (promotes the author in general as a speaker and author) which needs to temporarily redirect traffic from the author's "book site" (focuses on advertising the specific book). Because of some upcoming publicity we want to redirect traffic from the book site to the author site as a truly temporary measure, but that redirect would probably only last for 1-2 months (until we see the flurry of activity regarding the publicity die down or until the author site has an opportunity to rise in search rankings). At first glance this seems to be the situation designed for a 302 redirect, but I'm worried about losing link juice for the original book site. Would a 301 redirect be better (keeping in mind that this would be temporary) as long as the 301 redirect was lifted after 1-2 months?


Web Analytics for knowledge base articles

Like most companies, our support team has a help page/knowledge base available online. We've got Google Analytics setup on the site as a whole and I'd like to start better utilizing the tools available for optimizing the Help pages. However, most of the literature on web analytics focuses on sales and conversions where as in a Support page our goals are quite different. Specifically, we want to reduce incoming support requests. Can anyone advise in the types of things we should be monitoring or where to go for more information?


How do I get the time (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss) of my KissMetrics events?

Do I need to make my own tool to get that from s3 json dumps of the raw event data, or can I magick the Reports view to show it somehow instead of just filtering on it?


Is it possible to pay customers with PayPal?

Usually with PayPal we buy goods and services by sending money from customer to business. Now, I want my business to pay my customers; I want to allow them to withdraw money from a virtual wallet on my website. I did notice there is an 'Adaptive Payments API' which mentioned something vaguely similar to this, but I haven't been able to search up enough information to come to any conclusion. So is it possible to send money from business to customer (autonomously) with PayPal? If not, are there any alternatives?


Firefox 22+ large font workaround

I'm working on a website and Firefox is displaying it's font extremely large. Chrome and Safari are displaying normal font size. Chrome uses the WebKit rendering engine. Firefox uses the Gecko engine. I've found that you can change font display in Firefox by typing               about:config      in the firefox address bar and changing the                layout.css.devPixelsPerPx      value to 1. Although this might work on some systems, I don't want my user to need to do this. How can I make sure that the font is displayed correctly? I've tried adjusting CSS with               -moz-font-size      and variants but it doesn't work. I really can't change all my text to images, that's just wrong. Is there a specific syntax for this? Or any suggested workaround that would be optimal? Chrome![Chrome image](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NPq8i.png) Firefox![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Y3bxk.png)


Advertising for google+ followers

Is there a way to advertise with google to specifically increase the number of followers to my google+ page? I got it to work pretty well with facebook and now I'm trying to increase the visibility of my google+ page.


How do I ensure that my content is sent via gzip in Apache?

Is there some setting that I can search for in Apache configurations to make sure that all pages, CSS, and JavaScript are sent via gzip? Are they located in different places for different Operating Systems (if so, I am running Debian).


Apache Vs. lighthttpd?

I've recently bought a VDS server with 768MB RAM. All of my RAM is being eaten by Apache(286MB). As lighthttpd is lighter and needs less memory I want to switch to that. I just want to make sure I miss nothing in between. Is there any major differences between them that I'm unaware of?   ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/uVaW8.jpg) I appreciate in advance.


Search engines crawling non-existent subdomains

A few years ago, a previous developer added my company's website to a link farm he ran. My company has a wildcard subdomain, so any subdomains will return the user to the homepage. As such, the dev added multiple subdomains to the link farm (e.g., foo.example.com, bar.example.com, foobar.example.com) Before this developer left, he claims to have removed all our links from the link farm. However, to this day, we still get search engines crawling sub- domains that do not exists. I should add that the developer added many, many, subdomain links. What can I do to prevent these subdomains from getting crawled?


Does loading and executing external javascript have influence on SEO?

Say I have a script that executes after `DOM Ready`. It loads more resources (like a twitter feed and the like). So, it adds up to the total experience of 'waiting' for the page to load, though it isn't content critical. Does this have (a negative) influence on my Google ranking?


URL Forward all links from domain without slugs

I have an old site which I no longer use so I decided to redirect the domain to an article from another domain. The old site does not have web hosting anymore which means I had to url forward through my domain registrar (Namecheap) to redirect. I followed this tutorial and succesfully redirected all traffic from   `http://old-site.com` to `http://new-site.com/post/2`      But when I try to access `http://old-site.com/old-slug/dead-link` it redirects to   `http://new-site.com/post/2/old-slug/dead-link` Is there a way to redirect all urls from `http://old-site.com`, regardless of slugs, to `http://new-site.com/post/2`?


Schema.org, HTML5 and the datetime format: how do I get it to validate?

Schema.org says this, > The opening hours for a business. Opening hours can be specified as a weekly > time range, starting with days, then times per day. Multiple days can be > listed with commas ',' separating each day. Day or time ranges are specified > using a hyphen '-'. Days are specified using the following two-letter > combinations: Mo, Tu, We, Th, Fr, Sa, Su. Times are specified using 24:00 > time. For example, 3pm is specified as 15:00. **Here is an example:`<time > itemprop="openingHours" datetime="Tu,Th 16:00-20:00">`Tuesdays and Thursdays > 4-8pm.** If a business is open 7 days a week, then it can be specified as > `<time itemprop="openingHours" datetime="Mo-Su">`Monday through Sunday, all > day`</time>`. However, when I use that time format I get this on the W3C's validator, > Error Line 1, Column 2898: Bad value Mo-Fr 09:00-17:00 for attribute > datetime on element time: The literal did not satisfy the time-datetime > format. > > …ingHours" datetime="Mo-Fr 09:00-17:00">Mon - Fri; 9 AM - 5 PM (CST)   > … I've tried with and without padding a 0 on 9:00.


How do I upgrade the PHP MySQL Library?

My PHP MySQL Library version is out of date with my MySQL Vesion. How do I fix this? Server: CentOS 6.3 Steps Taken:   * FRESH machine originally installed with MySQL 5.1 and PHP 5.3   * I uninstalled php and then installed php54w (and most dependancies, including php54w-mysql from webtatic)   * I uninstalled mysql and installed mysql55 mysql55-server from webtatic At this point everything is fine but my mysql lib is out of sync (message form phpmyadmin): "Your PHP MySQL library version 5.1.69 differs from your MySQL server version 5.5.31. This may cause unpredictable behavior." Now, I know some people have suggested that this is fine for the most bit, but this will be a production machine and I don't want to assume it will be fine.   * I tried removing and re-installing php54w-mysql, didn't work So, how do I upgrade the PHP MySQL Library? Thanks!


What is a good network for full-page rich ads?

I'm currently developing a website where users will be able to upload content. I would like to be able to show a full-page ad whenever someone tries to view the content. The ad should take up most of the screen, and I should be able to have a "continue to the content -->" link at the top. Preferably, I want something like what is currently on Forbes (if you haven't seen it, here: http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome.shtml but with an ad in the black area). Of course, the most revenue is the best.


Just bought a domain, setting up a couple server applications for the first time

I recently bought a domain, mainly for website experimentation, game servers and a ventrillo server. I'm running all this from my home computer, and I am using freedns.afraid.org as my dns nameserver. I'm able to host my ventrillo and my game server, however you can access either of them from any of my subdomains. I would like specific programs to only work with specific ports, but I can't seem to find a way to make this happen. So in my Ventrillo subdomain, I try putting in the IP address in the destination as "MyIPAddress:PortNumber" , but it says its an invalid IP address. The ddns client I use doesn't have any options to change the ports on the connections either. Am I just missing something here, or is there no way to tie specific server applications to specific ports with a subdomain? I also am curious as to how hosting this domain will affect my pc security. I'm running this on a Windows 7 pc. I know its best to have a stand alone computer for this stuff, but like I said its only experimental and I don't plan on running these more than a couple hours a day, if that. Are there any steps I need to take to increase my security, beyond basic Windows security measures?


DPI scaling - fonts - Browser Compatibility Problems

Many times windows 7 users, go at Control Panel - Display Options and choose a custom DPI setting (ie 110%) to increase font size in cases that they have big monitors and cannot see clearly. In this case, some of the web designs break in the latest version of Opera 11 and Internet Explorer 9. (One web design breaks in one browser, and the other design in the other browser!). This does not happen in all computers with dpi scaling. In some computer it breaks on IE9, on some other it doesn't. What I mean is that fonts become huge, and textes go out of their boxes, breaking the correct flow of elements. I just use the standard fonts. I prefer to use HTML5/CSS3. I usually use reset.css or normalize.css lately from HTML5 boilerplate. How I should develop, or what css hacks I should include to avoid dpi scaling break the designs? I understand this is not a normal cross-browser compatibility question, but a very strange situation that happens only in specific cases, with specific browser-computer combination, but all those computers have dpi scaling. The matter is that with the same browser and same dpi scaling, the same problem may appear or not appear.


Need to use Helvetica in CSS

What's the most suitable font replacement technique - technically, legally and in terms of accessibility - to use a Helvetica font in my website? Up to now I've used sifr as a font replacement method, but for Helvetica, it would pose legal issues because you have to upload the font to your server and therefore it becomes available for download. Is there a method that would allow you to get around that problem?


How to prevent 206 HTTP status codes

I recently upgraded my website from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 3.0 and I have been getting a crazy amount of traffic through 206 codes than previously with Joomla 1.5. I don't know where to start to go looking for the problem if it even is a problem (if it's just part of the Joomla upgrade) so can someone give some insight to what steps should I take to prevent the amount of bandwidth being used by these HTTP status codes?


Pros and cons of language-specific URL's?

I've googled a bit if it's better to use language-specific URL's and most of the answers said yes. For example, for the about page it is better to use:               /en/about-us/     /de/uber-uns/      Than it is to use:               /en/about-us/     /de/about-us/      And the reason, they say, is keywords. So keywords for (in this case) German readers would be more relevant. My dilemma however, is about the page structure and the URL hierarchy. Specifically, is Google going to _expect_ me to have a `/de/about-us/` page, simply because he found a `/en/about-us/`? And vice-versa, is he going to expect a `/en/uber-uns/` page? Will it confuse him and am I going to be unable to get that little _extra_ hierarchic links on the search page results that show most common pages and all that "See more results" thing? Will it hurt the rank? If the answer is yes that will confuse Google, then what is the middle ground for this situation?


frontend instances VS backend instances

What is the difference between Frontend instances and Backend instances in Google App Engine? What purpose is each good for? I have tried reading some stuff from Developer's Guide and I searched google, but I got mainly pricing issues and no technical difference.


Google Displaying "Read More" Rather Than the Page Title for a "site:" Search

I am having some trouble with Search Engine Optimization. When I look up "site:example.com", the first result is the index page. The third result that pops up says the title is: "Read More". I want it to display like the 2nd result does. The 2nd result displays: "Suma Karandiar, M.A., LCPC - Counselors In Association" but I can't find any differences between the 2nd page and the first. What am I supposed to do to tell Google that I want a different title than what they are displaying? This is not the same as Title tag different from title appearing in Google? because that question is about Google rewriting titles based on searches. In this case "Read More" is the title used for all searches.


Non-public site for testing on shared-hosting site

Is it possible to as a developer using a shared hosting site such as bluehost, hostgator, and the like, to view your site without making it public. Or do the files you upload always go live immediately? Is the best way to test a site (if using shared hosting) to just set up some apache/mysql/php service on my machine? I am considering putting together a site with shared hosting, and trying to see what all my options are. Thanks.


Is it possable to see were a t.co link was originaly posted / refered from?

We get quite allot of referal traffic from t.co/ links showing up in Google Analytics, which is great, but with any decent source of traffic its really helpful to be able to see where it was originally refereed to so you can try and recreate / capitalise on it. I guess its a shorted twitter link but past that i have no idea were i came from / who posted it, i took the link and pasted it into both Google and Twitter search but those both came back with no results, any ideas.. i know with bt.ly you can have link Analytics which is great from a marketing perspective, is there anything similar with t.co ?


Why are Win7 IE browers running in IE7 mode?

On our site we currently have approx. 50% of our IE7 users running Windows 7. However, Win7 was released with IE8 meaning that something is not right. Based on this, we made the assumption that the modern IE browsers enter IE7 compatibility mode on our site. So we placed the "X-UA-Compatible=edge" meta tag on our site in hope to kill off IE7 support. However, after a week, the percentage of IE7 (and IE8) users have gone up for the first time since the start of this year. When looking at the X-UA-Compatible documentation, it is _meant_ to be used for putting your site into an _older_ mode.   * Is there any other way to make sure that IE doesn't enter compatibility mode?   * Is there something else we need to look for? And yes, we have so many users on our site that we can't kill off IE7 until it goes down under 2% of unique visitors. EDIT: We use `<!doctype html>` EDIT2: We haven't been able to reproduce the compatibility mode in our environments either


SEO Impact of ASCII Signature in a Webpage

I would like to add an ASCII Art signature (about 4000 characters) in a comment at the top of my webpage with my website link and a small strapline in it. This would give people looking at the source a little treat and let them know who built it. Would there be any impact for SEO in doing this (plus evidence)?


issue with Domain, DNS and Hosting

I bought domains from GoDaddy.   I bought hosting from NFS.   I changed my DNS from GD to NFS. Do I require to host DNS on NFS for website to work properly, or can I host DNS back on GD? I am paying for DNS to GoDaddy already. And now NFS is charging me too.


Would content with low views and low social interaction negatively effect my current SEO?

I currently have a site with a few articles which are all decently ranked in google. I was thinking of adding lots of new content with a paid writer but I'm concerned a lot of the content may not get much attention, retweets, plus 1s etc where i don't have time to promote them. Would this affect my sites SEO as a whole? And would it have any effect on the ranking of my current articles?


Links don't work on new server

I've recently moved from server with php4 to php5. Now I cant open content in my page. Links look like this "page.com/news-it-is-rainy-day-1.html". But when I try to open link I just get the archive (news.html) which should be only seen if there are no news in the database. I also use smarty template engine. My rewrite rule in .htacces looks like this:               Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteEngine on          RewriteRule ^news-(.*)\.html$ news.php?do=read&id=$1     RewriteRule ^news.html$ news.php          RewriteRule ^index.html$ index.php          AddType application/x-httpd-php .xml


Which word is searched for more in the world, and locally?

I have two words:   * fishing   * fish I want to know:   1. which word is searched for more in the world,    2. more in Africa   3. more in south africa   4. more in Namibia  How do you check this? The search engine I am interested in is Google, but if more search engines can easily be checked, that would be great too.


Can't center a ul with css

Guys I'm trying to center this simple ul here. Any idea on whats wrong ? Css:               ul {         margin-left: auto;         margin-right: auto;     }          li {         display: inline;         background-color: gray;         color: white;         list-style: none;         margin: 5px;         padding: 5px;     }      JSP/HTML: > >
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Login
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Option2
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Optino3
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How can I serve all resources under HTTPS instead of HTTP without changing their URLs in the HTML code

I know that by using an _.htaccess_ file I can redirect everyone to `https://`. However, my SSL certificate complains if all the content isn't served under HTTPS. Is there a way to convert all the resources to be served under HTTPS without changing all the `http://` URLs to `https://` in the HTML code? EXAMPLE: If I type in `http://domain.com` it will go to `https://domain.com`. However, the images are not using HTTPS which causes issues. Is there a way to make ALL the resources use HTTPS? I have this:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^ https://domain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]      However, my EV certificate will vanish because of unsecured content. So I need all the images to also be served under HTTPS.


JMeter: how to asign a single distinct value from CSV Data Set Config to each thread in thread group?

I have to make a load test for a relatively large number of users so I cant really use User Parameters pre-processor to parametrize each thread with custom user data. I've read that I should use CSV Data Set Config instead. However I run into a problem with how JMeter interprets the input of this Config. Example: I have a thread group of 3 threads and Loop Count:10 with one HTTP request sampler with server `www.example.com` and path: `\${user}`. The csv file (bullet is a single line in file) for CSV Data Set Config to extract the user parameter:   * 1   * 2   * 3   * 4   * 5 Expected output is that for thread 1-x the path of the request should be: \x. So the output file should consist of 10 samples per thread namely:   * for thread 1-1 : 10 requests to `www.example.com\1`   * for thread 1-2 : 10 requests to `www.example.com\2`   * for thread 1-3 : 10 requests to `www.example.com\3` but instead i get requests to each \1 - \5 and then to EOF. Does anyone know how to achieve the expected effect with CSV Data Set Config in jmeter 2.9?


Open source portal suited for enterprise websites

I'm doing some evaluation on Liferay vs JBoss GateIn Looking for community info on which is better suited from points of view of:   * Performance   * Features OOTB   * In-life maintenance I'm looking for **practical views (real-life sites)** or any gotchas you have come across in your own projects. I asked this on prog.se, but been asked to try here. Hope this is on-topic for this site


Comment system which can integrate with existing website

I need third party commenting system for ASP.Net website, preferably free or pay one time fee for the code. I need the commenting system to be integrate with website login, so that users no need to login again to post comments. I checked Disqus Single sign on(SSO), however it charges monthly fee for SSO. Could you suggest any other alternative?


Why does a CDN strip the file extension of an image to protect against leeching

So I was reading on Quora and came across this awesome picture: http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg- fa81af575c5e0ef69d78fc011a71e865?convert_to_webp=true Trying to isolate this resource I noticed the odd url. I want to understand what's going on there... and why I cannot a save a valid picture file of this using the "Save Image as..." option when I right-click it (I'm using Chrome). It saves a file but is "corrupted" (or so says Image Viewer) yet it was saved from a valid image rendered on my browser. Is the CDN messing with the file extension of the picture on purpose as a way to combat saving? How is it that my browser can render it despite it being served by such a URL (with no file extension)? Note: I am _not_ trying to infringe on the copyrights of whomever owns this picture. I also know it's easy enough to actually "save" a valid copy of it by just doing the old Ctrl-C + Ctrl-V into a image editor. My question is specifically about the way the CDN is serving the image thru that weird URL... and the purpose behind it. PS: trying to view the saved file (in various PCs) results in this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/91O6p.png)


Google Sites embedding external and off-YouTube video

I have video that I want to embed into a Google Site. I don't want it on YouTube or any of its ilk, however, and Google Video is a royal pain to submit to. Is there any way to embed video in Google Sites without first putting the video on YouTube?


How to begin trouble shooting an sql injection attack?

noob here... I paid someone to find out why my joomla site was slowing down and exceeding bandwidth etc. They told me that I was experiencing an sql injection attack through my RSS feed, they did some work on my site that I don't understand that was supposed to block or slow down the problem. I don't think its working. Can anyone point me a tutorial or tell me what tools a noob my start with to analyze my site/server?


Problem with choices.truste.com/ca

When I was reviewing my own website I keep getting a message Do you want to open or save ca.js from http://choices.truste.com/ca I have tried to ban adverts from this domain, but worrying message persists. Any advice on how to deal with this annyoyance greatfully received.


Capitalise first letter of each word good or bad practice?

Is it a good practice to capitalise first letter of each word in string ( page titles, headings, fields labels, button text etc.) ? Is there any articles about this subject excluding basic English grammar rules?


Google Search not displaying results from sub-pages

I published a new site with some delicate content on September 26, 2012 UTC and no results from sub-pages - only from the main page - appear in Google Search. Entering "neven lovrić" "cat out of the bag" into Google Search finds the main page. Is this type of behavior normal? I ask this because the first site was ceased - my account was locked - by the NameCheap, Inc. Risk Assessment Team, allegedly due to PayPal, Inc. reversing my payment for the extension of the registration of the domain before I was able to publish any content on it. In 2011 UTC, Google, Inc. blocked all results for certain keywords from being displayed to their users in the Arab Republic of Egypt during the demonstrations there. So, considering previous events, this is not an unlikely scenario in this case, also.


DNS name/host-header specific url-pattern/security-constraint, to not require SSL with Tomcat6

I am needing to enable SSL on an application hosted through Tomcat6 and I have added the following to the tomcat web.xml:               <security-constraint>     <web-resource-collection>     <web-resource-name>Entire Application</web-resource-name>     <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>     </web-resource-collection>     <user-data-constraint>     <transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee>     </user-data-constraint>     </security-constraint>      and setup the redirectPort as 443, in server.xml - this setup works fine. I am needing to allow access to the application, without requiring SSL, when the app is accessed using a specific dns name. For example: the SSL certificate for the application is associated with the DNS name **xyz.applicationdomain.com** when the application is accessed with this name, a redirect occurs, and the URL changes to **https://xyz.applicationdomain.com** but when the application is accessed with **abc.applicationdomain.com** , the application needs to be accessible without requiring SSL. is it possible to implement this using another **security-constraint** definition?


Am I correctly handling duplicate URLs for my homepage?

I own a Job Search site named www.conservationjobboard.com and have a concern about how the domain is viewed by search engines. The issue is that when the site was first designed, the default page was left as default.php, but the homepage was actually JobBoard.php. To handle this, the default.php page performed a redirect to the JobBoard.php file when www.conservationjobboard.com/ was requested. The main problem resulted because the redirect was a temporary redirect causing search engines to index conservationjobboard.com/ and conservationjobboard.com/JobBoard.php as 2 separate pages. This has since been corrected to use the .htaccess file so that JobBoard.php is now the default file for the root directory eliminating the need for the redirect. Problem is that search engines still show both URL's in search results (one including JobBoard.php and one that ends with /). Another potential problem is that some of my early backlinks are to conservationjobboard.com/JobBoard.php while the rest are to conservationjobboard.com The 2 outstanding questions are as follows: 1. Is my domain still being penalized by search engines like Google for having duplicate homepage URL's? 2. Are all of the back links to my homepage being considered as the same now or is the total number of back links being split between the 2 different URL's? If you think there are still issues with how we have this set-up, I was wondering if you could give me advice on what we should do differently. Thanks.


Domain registrar holding on to domain name

We have a customer based in Kenya who owns a co.ke domain name. The registrar refuses to re-assign the nameservers to ours for some reason unknown, and indirectly insists that our customer hosts her webapplication on their servers. Is there any action you can take to force them to either (a) release the domainname (b) assign the desired nameservers (c) transfer the domain to another registrar, who is more compliant with our request I'm greatful for any information you may have regarding this. Especially anything that holds legal meaning in case they really try to fight us in this. I'm not sure how things work in Kenya but it doesn't sound right that a registrar can hold claims on a domainname registered by request of another company.


Looking for a slideshow with delayed elements

I'm looking for a slideshow script that's using a delay for the individual slide elements. Made preferably with jquery and with responsive webdesign in mind. It's easier to understand what i mean if you look at Apples version here


Add to extra div to the side of the content

I've read some post for adding extra divs to the both sides of the main content and act like a sidebars. But I want to add 2 extra div for adding some graphics and the right will be to the right of the actual sidebar. I took a screenshot for explain my self better. I've added to extra div before the pagewrap and working with css I locate the divs to left and to the right but there is a problem, if some has a resolution smaller then me the divs start moving messing up the loyout. I want that they stay near the content and the sidebar for all the resolution. I've tryed working with css with position and % but with no results. Ok so, the cyan rectangle would be the extra divs, and the gray graphics the contents of these. I don't care if the users has smaller resolutions, the graphics can go out the screen, but the "roots" must be fixed to the side of the main content ;) Hope I explained well. This is the screenshot http://cl.ly/0D2H1s0t3Y0p2A412L35/Schermata-2011-01-11-a-22.22.17.png Thanks for help


Can you /should you learn SEO techniques

I know very little about Search engine optimization however from discussions with other I am now unsure where to start.   * Are there any books or do these date so quickly that they are obsolete?   * Do all website give you misinformation or are there any reliable sources?   * Is it just a case of trial and error and in turn experience?   * Is it event worth learning the techniques as search engines change their algorithms so regularly? I wonder if it just better to spend the time to ensure you have a regularly updated will written web site with quality content, site map, quality links etc..


Google analytics and multiple domains

I need some urgent advice please with regard to Google analytics and multiple domains, and how best to handle them. Got a very sensitive customer who has a number of domains: EG somethingvauxhall.co.uk, somthing-vauxhall.co.uk, something-group.co.uk, somethinggroup.co.uk, somethinggroup.com etc I was under the impression it was always best to "funnel" all domains down to a single "master" domain. For example all the domains hitting this site are forwarded to www.somethinggroup.com. Now I'd heard it was best to do this using a 301 Redirect. if memory serves. For a number of reasons I was unable to do this due to the setup on our server, so instead had to code forwarding manually in the codebehind (asp.NET). Like this:                   if(domain != "www.somethinggroup.com")         {             string forwardURL = "http://www.somethinggroup.com/";             if(path != "")             {                 forwardURL = forwardURL + path;             }             if(queryString != "")             {                 forwardURL = forwardURL + "?" + queryString;             }                  Response.Redirect(forwardURL);         }      This now looks like this was a really bad idea because although the traffic levels look fine across the site, it's screwed up things like referring sites etc. My question is this really: a) Was this a bad move? b) Would a 301 redirect me better from an analytics point of view? Or is it best just to let people hit the site using whatever domain name?


How to convert an HTML tree to PDF?

How to convert an HTML tree (actually this one) to PDF?


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Having used both methods in the past I just wandered which method is actually best practice when handling the www subdomain? Do I setup another A record in the DNS to point to the same IP ad the root domain or do I just stick to the root domain A record and then add a directive to the .htaccess file to redirect requests for www on to the root domain? What are the reasons for your recommendations and are there pros and cons to SEO and how sites are viewed/indexed etc?


Page Rank not showing correctly everywhere?

Okay, so I checked the page rank again, and http://www.namhost.com's page rank is now 4. But I get this warning:               Google Pagerank for: http://www.namhost.com  4/10     Pagerank is valid!     Attention! This domain has a very little quality backlinks and you run the risk of the domain losing it's page rank on the next Google pagerank update!      I used: http://www.checkpagerank.net I then used a few other checkers: http://www.whatsmypagerank.com/pagerank- checker.php This one found my page rank to be zero. So my questions are   1. which one is correct?   2. why are they different?   3. should I attempt get rid of the +- 40 000 BAD backlinks I have, or should I focus my efforts on getting 40 000 GOOD backlinks ? i.e. Will the good backlinks trump the badlinks (copyright pending)?


"Coming Soon" HTML page not displaying

Disclosure: I have very little knowledge of webmastering. I have a simple HTML page as a placeholder on my website (`index.html`). I've uploaded it to the website root and created the _.htaccess_ file to point to `index.html`. Currently, when I navigate to the root URL, I get an `about:blank` page. Here's my root _.htaccess_ file:               DirectoryIndex index.html      Any ideas on why I'm getting `about:blank`?


what is wwws.site.com

I know about https for securing important pages like login and such. But why would someone create a separate subdomain like wwws as well? for example `https://wwws.site.com/login`


Does displaying rss feeds in different blogs help get indexed and increase page rank?

I have a number of blogs that I run. One of them is old and gets good traffic so what I did is that I have placed the rss of all of the blogs onto the sidebar of each. I was wondering if this is good for SEO in terms of getting indexed faster and getting more page rank as my page rank of the old blog will flow through them into the new ones. Please help out. Thanks


Print friendly version best practice

I am currently recoding a website from tables to modern html/css and have several 100 pages to go over. The problem is, each page has its own print version in another file, also with tables. Would it be acceptable to apply a print stylesheet instead of a different file for print? Also, when I click on print button on this page the new version opens up and somehow the print promt starts. How is this done exactly? Is there any advantage of using a different version of a page (in this case different .html file) instead of css for the same file?


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I have no idea why this isn't working. I've tried creating map rules and then rewriting and redirecting the URL. I've tried just redirecting it with a simple rewrite rule and no matter what, the only time I can get it to work is if I set the match URL to match this regex `.*`. I'm trying to redirect `webmail.example.com` to `mail.example.com`. Seemed like it would have taken but a couple seconds; boy was I wrong. I'm thinking I must be doing something wrong with the regex, but I'm not sure what as when I test it it seems to work fine.                           <rule name="webmail" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url=".*webmail.*" />                     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">                     </conditions>                     <action type="Redirect" url="https://mail.example.com:8000" appendQueryString="false" logRewrittenUrl="true" />                 </rule>


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First off, My group and I don't have any experience with databases or anything of that sort, only programming (not web-programming), so this post is just me wondering what things I should start researching and possibly some referral to a hosting company. The abstract idea is to have a list of things, each categorized, and each item with user-submitted reviews (made by users who are signed up with the website). Would absolutely everything be stored on a SQL database? (the long text reviews for example) Does anyone have any suggestions on some 'web frameworks' we could use to jumpstart us? What should our absolute first step be? (I was thinking about first designing the basic database? so we have something to work around...?) Should we worry about which host we choose right now, any recommendations? (would it be a trivial task to switch hosts in the future?) Thanks again, any help is appreciated!


How to display a directory without looking like spam

I need to list every city in a state (for instance, California), along with a huge list of automotive dealers per city. How do I do this on one page without looking like a link farm/spam page to end users?


PDF conversion on website using ASP.NET platform

I want to give users an option to download the web page of my website they are currently viewing. I have searched and found 3rd party windows software which convert the pages, but I am looking for an app that I can have on my website. I am using C# on a ASP.NET platform.


Schema.org Microdata appears in testing tool, but does not appear in Google

I have created a simple test page to test Schema.org Microdata. See here When tested in Google's Structured Data Testing Tool it appears as it should, displaying the address and job title below the green url in the search result. See here Now when I test this in Google, the address and job title are not displayed and it's as if the Microdata is not there at all. Has anyone else experienced this issue?


Duplicating content from another site and adding value (summaries, statistics) - ranking and courtesy

I am working on a site that takes a governmental data base, provides a number of statistical and other summaries and also post the original data. However this data (mostly long pieces of text) is also published on the official governmental site (without the added value of summaries). Should I worry about google ranking due to this duplication? What is the preferred way to point to the official source of the information? There is no advertisement on my site. My site is ".com". The governmental site is ".bg". EDIT: There is additional markup for the text, generated after searching it for keywords, so just providing a link to it will not suffice.


Risk of Plaintext Email Addresses on Websites

What are the risks of putting a personal email address (Gmail, in case it matters) on a personal website? A glance around any forum will show many people using "address [at] domain.com" instead of simply writing the address out, but it would seem to me that nearly any scraper would be able to detect and counter that tactic. What are the risks of simply putting an email, in plaintext, on a webpage (spam, phishing, etc.) and how likely/realistic are they? Are there any methods to prevent those risks?


I'm seeing a lot of a new format for title elements for major sites: a few tags, and only then the title of the site itself, is this now optimal SEO?

I'm seeing a lot of sites go to a format similar to the one now in use by stackexchange sites (i.e. short topic - maybe a long topic - only finally the site's name). Is this optimal SEO? It seems kind weird both because I'm only begun to notice changes in this direction recently, and because it seems like it would make it harder to tell in search results which actual site you're visiting, even if the topic is one that matches. Still, sites like Facebook, StackOverflow, etc probably aren't wrong, so I'm wondering if I should try to make my sites use that format, going forwards... **Edit:** Found a more-fleshed-out duplicate: Does the order of keywords matter in a page title?


Google Analytics for subdomains

I have two WordPress multisites under one domain - city-x.domain.com and city-y.domain.com. domain.com is a landing page where you select your city, and a cookie will redirect the user to that city on subsequent visits. I'd like to be able to track the number of hits on all pages on domain.com, city-x.domain.com and city-y.domain.com separately and combined. How is this On a side note, I've heard that GA underestimates hits. As this is important for advertising purposes, is there a better free service?


Feedburner and Wordpress Multisite

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What kinds of issues can one expect when changing a domain names registar? (3 questions)

Assuming that there are no 'unusual' items that come up, what kind of disruptions can one expect when moving a domain between registrars? I understand some of the below may vary over registrars. But assuming both ends are large proficient registrars: a) Will the NS settings be mirrored? We use a dedicated dns service provider so we are not using the originating registrars name servers. All that we are concerned about is that the existing NS values are mirrored at the target registrar. b) Are incoming domain transfers automated on the target registrar end? Eg: If we begin the transfer process during business hours at the source registrar, will someone have to manually approve the inbound transfer (most likely during their business hours) at the target registrar? c) Is the domain ever 'in limbo'? At any time in the process is there ever a time when the NS values for the domain are not populated (as they were prior to initiating the transfer) **OR** one does not have access to populate them (at the target registrar)? Thank you kindly for the help.


Stopwords in URL for longtailed keywords

I have read some articles online that the correct SEO-practices suggest that you shouldn't use stop words in URLS. Does this also apply for URLs for pages that target long-tailed keywords that contain a stop word? I can't find a good source that talks about these specific URLs. The list of stop words that are suggested to remove form URLs by multiple articles: > A, is, what, who, how, was, this, that, but, at, be, for, he, she, iam, I, > in, its, your, with, all, any, did, do, had, has, here, his, and, etc... So suppose I want to write a webpage that targets the long-tailed keyword: > Why do I like puppies more than cats What would be the optimal URL in this case? > www.example.com/why-do-i-like-puppies-more-than-cats or > www.example.com/like-puppies-more-than-cats


UI library for website layout designing

Is there any UI library for website layout designing like form elements, banners place holders, scroll bars etc...


Challenge a .name registration?

The Wikipedia page on .name says the following: > **Registration restrictions:** No prior restriction on registration, but > registrations can be challenged if not by or on behalf of individual with > name similar to that of domain, or fictional character in which registrant > has rights But there's no further info on how this actually works. Can a .name domain registration be challenged, and if so, how?


Working with Google Webmaster API

I'm just start working with Google webmaster API. I have a need to mark a site for removal and found nothing of doing that. How do I do that?


How to appear on the new local search carousel?

Google have rolled out a new layout for local search — a carousel: ![Google local carousel](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bKwTh.png) This is similar in appearance to the "frequently mentioned on the web" results which are based on Google's knowledge graph database.    Does this new layout affect the guidelines on how to rank for local search?


How to use .htaccess to show smarter URLs

I'd like to ask how can I call the page `www.domain.com/index.php?page=somepage` and make the browser show the user in the URL bar the address `www.domain.com/somepage/`? How do I do that trick?


iPhone site optimization: Custom viewport size

I've got a site that should max out a 575px on the iphone and wanted to know what the best method is for defaulting the viewport to this size. Currently I am using this meta tag: `<meta name="viewport" content="width=575; user-scalable=no;">` This displays some odd behavior in that it loads fully zoomed out and then, once the page is loaded, zooms in to 575. What are the best methods to ensure that my site will surely display at 575px wide in mobile browsers?


Wordpress Multisite (Subfolders) - Google Analytics Tracking

I have a Wordpress multisite subfolder instance that I would like to track via Google Analytics. I guess optimally this would be a plugin which I could track each site in two places   1. The Main Tracking Code which totals all traffic from the Multisite instance   2. The Individual Site tracking code to see how each site specifically is doing. I think this plugin would have worked for me if I had a subdomain multisite instance: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-multisite- async/installation/ I know I can manually place the dual tracking code (http://www.markinns.com/articles/full/adding_two_google_analytics_accounts_to_one_page) but that would involve editing a theme and I have multiple sites using TwentyEleven template. I don't think I can edit the theme and not have it wreak havoc on the rest of the sites using TwentyEleven. So has anyone done this? Is there a a technique I'm missing? Is there a plugin available to do this in Multisite Subfolder installations? Is there a way to manually insert GA codes into themes which are used by multiple sites? Any insight is appreciated.


Is It Possible To Find Shortened URL Versions of a Long URL?

I'm wondering if I have a URL like: www.watermintstudios.com and I want to know if anyone else has made use of a bit.ly, goo.gl or other such URL shortening service to point to that URL is there a way to find out?


Significant number of non-HTTP requests hitting my site

I'm seeing a significant number of non-HTTP requests hitting a site I just launched. They show up in the server (nginx) logs as non-ASCII and get rejected (correctly) with a 400 status. Here are some lines from the log:               95.132.198.189 - - [09/Jan/2011:13:53:30 -0500] "œ$A\x10õœ²É9J" 400 173 "-" "-"     79.100.145.126 - - [09/Jan/2011:13:57:42 -0500] "#§i²¸oYi á¹„\x13VJ—x·—œ\x04N \x1DÔvbÛè½\x10§¬\x1E0œ_^¼+\x09ÜÅ\x08DÌÃiJeT€¿æ]œr\x1EëîyIÐ/ßýúê5Ç¸" 400 173 "-" "-"     79.100.145.126 - - [09/Jan/2011:13:58:33 -0500] "¯Ú%ø=Œ›D@\x12î½‰¼\x1C†ÄÀe\x015mˆàd˜Û%pÛÿ" 400 173 "-" "-" What should I make of this? Is this some sort of scripted attack? Or could these be correct requests that have somehow been garbled? They're not affecting the performance of the site and I'm not seeing any other signs of attacks (e.g., no strange POSTs) so at this point I'm more curious than afraid.


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In order to use the "og:" meta tag of Facebook Graph, I need to add the following to the tag:               xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"           xmlns:og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/"           xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml"      Since I am using HTML5 and not XHTML, do I still need to use the `xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"` part? Thanks, Danny


Webmaster Tools - Preferred Domain and Google entries

Our client has two websites with the same content:   * `example.com`   * `somethingelse.com` When a user searches in Google for "something else" the `example.com` site appears in the top 10 results on Google. What would happen if we switched the preferred domain in webmaster tools to `somethingelse.com`? Our client is hoping it will replace the "`example.com`" result with "`somethingelse.com`" but I assume this is not the case.


How can I detect links which point to domain squatters?

I know how to find dead links which go to 404 pages. However, these days not many links actually go dead, but instead they end up going to a domain squatter. I realise this is a tall order, but is there any way to find out whether a website is actually a domain squatter without actually going to each site with my browser and examining it to see if there is a picture of a girl with a rucksack etc.?


Remove multiple trailing slashes in a single 301 in .htaccess?

There is a similar question here, but the solution does not work in Apache for our site. I'm trying to remove multiple trailing slashes from URLs on our site. I found some `.htaccess` code that seems to work:               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)//(.*)$     RewriteRule . %1/%2 [R=301,L]      This rule removes multiple slashes from anywhere in the URL:               http://www.mysite.com/category/accessories////     becomes     http://www.mysite.com/category/accessories/      However, it redirects once for every extra slash. So:               http://www.mysite.com/category/accessories///////     301 Redirects to     http://www.mysite.com/category/accessories//////     301 Redirects to     http://www.mysite.com/category/accessories/////     301 Redirects to     http://www.mysite.com/category/accessories////     301 Redirects to     http://www.mysite.com/category/accessories///     301 Redirects to     http://www.mysite.com/category/accessories//     301 Redirects to     http://www.mysite.com/category/accessories/      Is it possible to rewrite this rule so that it does it all in a single 301 redirect? Also, this above directive does not work at the root level of our site:               http://www.mysite.com///// does not redirect but it should.


Rackspace cloud vs Softlayer cloud

has anyone ever hosted a high traffic website with these two companies? I would like to know who has the best service and servers. Thanks


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Does anyone know of an advertising programme which will allow a highly ajax- ified site to be monetized? Google seems to have ramped down its Ajax-Adsense experiment (no longer accepting applications). And the techniques required to hack vanilla-Adsense into an ajax site seem to be against Google's terms. I'm looking for a program that will allow me to dynamically insert ads into a page and control where they are displayed.


SEO link's anchor text - does it matter if is it plain or in other tag?

### Description I will give below some links examples in HTML code:
Add
     <button type="button" class="button" style="background-color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">Next</button>          Add      Two first links contains as anchor text div and button tags, which consecutive have also anchor text, but in plain form. Third of examples is just normal link with plain anchor text. ### Problem to solve Using example with nonplain anchor text would affect my SEO rankings? Should I use third option instead to eventually improve my rankings? Plus: If I ve this type of link:                     Is it more crawler friendly to give anchor text to link tag or only leave alt tag with description of image?


Where is the Google Apps Domain Verification link?

Where on earth is the Verification link in Google Apps? Every time it seems like they change where it is. When I initially log into my account, I can't verify it because I have to change the nameservers first and then verify. The link was there before, now I can't find it. Don't tell me its at the top on the Dashboard, b/c it's not.


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I want to be able to download digital goods to smartphone users (music in format .mp3 or .zip). But iPhone and iPad do not allow direct forced downloads. **How can I provide mobile users with digital downloads?** I use PHP. The only way I can think of to do this is to use the Dropbox Web API to transfer files to the user's Dropbox account, which then synchronizes with their mobile device. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.


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Where there is VPN to remote server and then access to the database via local network interface, **how can one establish a remote link between one's computer (with a programme such as Visual Studio 2010) and SQL Server (e.g. 2008 R2)** ? Any attempts to create a direct link to the SQL Server are blocked. Whilst the SQL Server _can_ be configured to allow external access, this provides its own host of problems. Any help would be much appreciated.


How can I diagnose an Internal Server Error?

I was trying to host a zend-framework project on new host provider. After uploading everything and configuring the database connection I have encountered `Internal Server Error` message. My service provider told they don't installed zend-framework but I have integrated the framework as a library into the project. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/AEAef.png) When i tested the server uploading `html` file it work fine. Since i don't have the Apache server accessing privilege, How can i fix that? **error log** :               #0 /home/myweb/public_html/library/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Mysql.php(96): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Abstract->_connect()     #1 /home/myweb/public_html/library/Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php(448): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql->_connect()     #2 /home/myweb/public_html/library/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php(238): Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->query('SET NAMES 'utf8...', Array)     #3 /home/myweb/public_html/application/Bootstrap.php(144): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Abstract->query('SET NAMES 'utf8...')     #4 /home/myweb/public_html/library/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/BootstrapAbstract.php(666): Bootstrap->_initDb()     #5 /home/myweb/public_html/library/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/BootstrapAbstract.php(619): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->_executeResource('db')     #6 /home/myweb/public_html/library/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/BootstrapAbstr in /home/myweb/public_html/library/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php on line 112     [11-Jul-2011 07:35:51] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/pdo_mysql.so' - /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/pdo_mysql.so: undefined symbol: php_pdo_unregister_driver in Unknown on line 0     [11-Jul-2011 07:35:51] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'Zend_Db_Adapter_Exception' with message 'The mysql driver is not currently installed' in /home/myweb/public_html/library/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php:112     Stack trace:


Modify and Intergrate a custom MP3 Player

This is a Flash MP3 Player I have found on internet, and I was looking for his .fla file so I can modify it and add some text on it. Do you know where I can get the source of this flash player. ![MP3 Player](http://i.stack.imgur.com/kFvrW.jpg)


Retry cron job until it successfully excecutes

I'm running a python script on my VPS every day with cron. It only has 768mb ram, and when I run the script manually I often get memory errors from python. However, I usually can just try a couple more times and it works. Obviously, cron only runs it once, and this means that most days the task doesn't happen. Is there a way to monitor python's output and tell cron to keep running until it runs without errors? Obviously i would put a limit of say 5 runs on, so it doesn't go forever and crash my server. Additionally, are there some command line Linux tools to free up memory before it runs, to increase chances of it working? I'm running Ubuntu Server 11.04