Two different domains as one user session in Google Analytics

I have two websites that are run as the same service. Each domain offers articles from a different market. At the top of each page the two domains are shown as menu options. If a user clicks one they can switch to the other domain. See here: http://www.cgtag.com Each domain has a different Google Analytics account, and when a user switches domains Google is counting this as a new session. It's listing the other domain as the "referral" for that new session. When the user switches back to the first domain Google is counting this as a returning visitor. This is messing up my reports. Showing returning visitors values that are higher than reality. It's also increasing hits on landing pages when the user switches, and listing the other domain as a referral site. I've found tips on how to list two domains as one website, but that results in merging the data. I want to keep the two domains separate so that I can track each ones performance, but I don't want to count domain changes as new sessions. Maybe something like treating the two domains as subdomains.


Is Google Analytics blocked in China?

Our site has recored significantly drop in visitors from China from Google Analytics recently. Do you have the same observation?


.htaccess rewrite urls problem need help

I am always struggling to fix _.htaccess_ files. Can't seem to get all variables parsed and rewritten. This is my URL structure:               www.domain.com    (index.php)     www.domain.com/basisscholen/   (basisscholen.php)     www.domain.com/basisscholen/plaats/c/  (basisscholen.php > all letters of alphabet)     www.domain.com/basisscholen/plaats/c/city/ (plaats.php)     www.domain.com/basisscholen/plaats/c/city/school/ (school.php > could be any schoolname)      URL and variables in `.php` files:               "/basisscholen/"     (hard menu link to basisscholen.php)     '.$siteurl.'/'.$type.'/plaats/'.$letter.'/'.$link.'/  (plaats.php)     '.$siteurl.'/'.$type.'/plaats/'.$letter.'/'.$plaatsnaam.'/'.$schoolnaam.' (school.php)      _.htaccess_ file:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^\.html$ /index.php     RewriteCond %1 !^www$     RewriteRule ^basisscholen/$ basisscholen.php?id=basisscholen     RewriteRule ^basisscholen/plaats/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ basisscholen.php?letter=$1     RewriteRule ^([^/].*)/plaats/([^/].*)/([^/].*)/?$ plaats.php?type=$1&letter=$2&link=$3      RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ school.php?schoolnaam=$1&plaatsnaam=$2      Can someone tell me what is wrong in _.htaccess_ based on given data? On last php page I can get only one of the variables with `$_GET` and that is variable `$schoolnaam`, so all the pages work up to the last page.


Alternative to GoDaddy's ConsoliDate feature (change domain expiration date)

I've been using GoDaddy to manage about 50 domain names for a few years, but recently decided to move (probably to namecheap) because of the elephant killing incident. One GoDaddy's feature I like a lot is Consolidate, which allows you to change the expiration date of domain names for a small fee. I've searched for a while but didn't find any other registrar that provides this feature. Does anyone know if there's a registrar that allows you to change the expiration date of domains? Thanks!


external website storage

One of my clients is a business consultant, and stores powerpoint presentations on her website for conference attendees to download after a conference. There are 91 files totalling 111MB. I want to host these outside of my own web hosting account, to save disk space and bandwidth. Any recommendations on (hopefully free) providers? I just signed up for a free web hosting account with host-ed, and they required a domain be attached to the account.


Does MediaWiki have a News extension?

Many CMS' have news on the front page, where e.g. the sysop/webmaster posts about down time and other important news. Often these can be scheduled, so that you e.g. write on Monday, and wants it to be visible from Tuesday to Friday. **Question** Does MediaWiki have something like that?


HTML compressor/minifier

Currently I am using a system where HTML gets cached server-side before it's sent to the browser. I'm looking to compress the HTML source of my website before it is cached. Basically I'm looking for an open-source (preferably PHP) HTML compressor able to handle HTML 5, any ideas?


Can a sitemap change result in a drop of visits?

I recently restructured and resubmitted the sitemap for a website of mine in GWT. The old one was built by a script I acquired, which had its flaws but dit the job. After having implemented URL rewriting, I decided to write my own sitemap generator, in order to have a solution which perfectly fits my requirements and provides much better and accurate info than the old one. The integration went well, GWT displayed the green tickmark and the correct number of URLs. Around the time I have submitted the new sitemap however, I noticed a big drop in visits to the site. Is that normal behavior when one makes an important change to a sitemap, or is it pure coincidence and I need to look for the reason for declining visits elsewhere ?


Is it okay for a web designer to advertise widgets?

I have 10 widgets (facebook, disqus, twitter, etc.) that I can add to a site when I am designing it. Is it okay to charge for adding these things to the package?


Issue with permanent redirect implementation

I have a tricky problem related to 301 redirections I badly need help with. I tried to implement these via .htaccess, but ran into trouble. The start of my .htaccess looks like this:               SetEnv PHP_VER 5     Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteEngine on          # Redirect non-www to www     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.|$) [NC]     RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]          #--- GENERAL ---     RewriteRule ^index\.html$ index.php [L]     ...      When I try to put a permanent redirect to index.php by adding R=301 in the square brackets, I get a 404, and I have no idea where the error comes from.


Nginx 404 not working with PHP?

I have a 404 file and it is working with nginx. However when I modify the 404 file to redirect the user it does not redirect. visiting `http://site.com/404.php` redirects the user. visiting `http://site.com/askllj299lakj` is just a blank page. The code in the 404 file is just a header redirect,               <?php     header('Location: http://site.com/');     exit;     ?>      Why doesn't this work in nginx?


Windows equivalent of localtunnel

Does anyone know of a Windows equivalent of localtunnel?


When the canonical page itself changes URL

This is a continuation of the question: How to handle canonical URL changes like Stack Overflow. Say I have the canon URL: `questions/11/car` <---canonically-linked-from--- `questions/11/` What will happen if I want to change the canon URL to: `questions/11/car-with-sgx` Obviously, `questions/11/` will point to the new canon URL. But how should the old `questions/11/car` change to the new one? There are two ways:   1. 301 redirect that to new canon URL   2. the old canon URL canonically link to the new canon URL According to this post: > [By using canonical link instead of redirect,] OldPage.html’s rankings will > drop over time due to fewer internal links, but the canonical tag won’t make > it disappear entirely. It could theoretically remain in their index until > one of the following occurs: > >   1. it is redirected permanently via 301 >   2. it returns a 404 for an extended period of time (they will keep > checking for a while before dropping a URL) >   3. a meta robots “noindex” tag is added > If this is true, I really need to use redirect from old canon URL to the new canon URL, which means I need to keep a log of previous old canon URLsof this content, so I know when I can redirect. This is a bit of a hassle to do.


Which web framework uses 'eservice_enu' as part of its default path?

I've seen `http://example.com/eservice_enu/` all over the place, especially on sites that handle payments. Which framework is this? I realize any site could choose this path component arbitrarily.


Can I register a domain name that contains a company name or trademark?

I wonder is it legal to register a domain name that contains a company name. For example `cococola.cc` (considering that this domain name is available). Can I buy and use any domain names that contain a name of a trademark?


Shifting from no-www to www and browsers' password storage

I created a website having user-registration system and invited my friend to join it. I gave him the link of `no-www` version: `http://mydomain.com` but now after reading this and this, I want to shift to `www.mydomain.com`. But there's a problem. I saw that my browser is storing separate passwords for `mydomain.com` and `www.mydomain.com`. So in my friend's browser his password must have been stored for `no-www`. That means after I shift to `www` and next time he opens the login page, his browser wouldn't auto-fill the username and password fields and there will also be an extra entry (of `no-www`) in his browser's database of stored passwords. Can this be avoided? Can I do something that will convey to browsers that `www.mydomain.com` and `mydomain.com` are the same website? I already have a CNAME record for `www` pointing to `mydomain.com` but it seems that search engines consider CNAME as alias but browsers consider them as different websites, I don't know why.


Too many "access denied" errors showing in Google Webmaster Tools

I get 18,000 "access denied" errors showing in Google Webmaster Tools every day! It's strange that it shows for URL's with `www` but not for those without it (i.e., just `domain.com` instead of `www.domain.com`). Fetch as Google works perfectly for pages got that error. Google starts to downgrade my website - impressions have dropped from 35,000 to 18,000. I am using CrowdFlare as a CDN and `.htaccess` mod_rewrite. Any help will be extremely appreciated as I am really losing control.


IP address and SEO

I currently host 5 websites within a dedicated server I own. I have several questions:   1. Does it matter if I host all my sites on 100.100.100.100 (the server's IP for example) or if I split them into 100.100.100.100, 100.100.100.101 ... 100.100.100.104 (that is, each site on its own IP).   2. Does it matter if I use a C-Class for each website? Do search engines really care if your site has its own c-class?   3. Do search engines penalize a website if it moves its IP? Thanks, Joel


How to remove unwanted URLs from Google Web Master Tools

I've two sites that one is live and one is test. ex: www.mydomain.com and test.mydomain.com (test site is password protected) However Google Webmaster Tools indexed some of my test site links(Sometimes it indexed it while I'm remove test site password for testing purpose) and It don't allow to remove it.(using removal tool) Is there any way to inform Web master tools to this URLs are not correct. Now I've put `robot.txt` file as `User-agent: * Disallow: /` Any advise please.


wordpress.com to self-hosted wordpress blog

I have been writing articles on the wordpress.com blog, now i am looking to move it to self-hosted wordpress blog but i wonder: **1)** Should i move all my articles on the new blog or just put an article on my last blog that more articles will be posted on my new blog? **2)** If i move all articles on my new blog, i am not sure about how google will react to it because there are articles with good number of visitors, won't this be seo-un-friendly because i am not sure but google will re-create page reputation stuff, etc or those articles will have same popularity even if i move elsewhere? **3)** What are the implications and side-effects in moving from wordpress.com blog to self-hosted wordpress blog? Thanks


Has anybody earned $0.25+ from each of a captcha (on your website) passing?

I am a real dummy in web monetizing schemes. [ 1 ] informs that a captcha vendor:   * "charges a fee of about 25 cents to 50 cents for each form that is filled out using a Type-In ad [captcha]... the company splits its fees 50-50 with the websites where the ads are placed"  There is a dozen of other similar captchas promoted as advertising platforms. Honestly, I cannot imagine that someone (in its proper senses) pasy that much money for just one captcha passed.   And how to understand these claims? Has any of webmasters (sysadmins) got those 0.25 USD per each captcha (deployed on his/her website) passing? Is it scam? What do I miss? **Update:**   Sorry, I cleaned and, as I hope, cleared my original question: Had anybody received those 50% from 50c per each captcha passing deployed on his website? This approach looks weird to me since those captchas aren't even minimally protected against automatic OCR passing by a bot. They are also completely transparent to laundry and redirection attacks, i.e. their re-transferring by bots to (again automatically, through offered APIs) human solver sweatshops cracking them at 1 USD per 1000 solutions. Cited: [ 1 ]   Jennifer Valentino-DeVries   "An Online Ad That’s Tough to Ignore"   WallStreet Journal Blog   SEPTEMBER 20, 2010   http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/09/20/an-online-ad-thats-tough-to-ignore/


Creating a Facebook web app - would I be legally responsible for the data?

I'm creating a discussion forum "web app" for a friend. He want's me to add Facebook login to his site by creating a Facebook app. Am I legally responsible for the data if I create the app under my Facebook account? Who should register the Facebook app - the developer or the owner? Can the right to the data be moved to a third-party after I finish configuring it? I wish to prevent any possible future problems with privacy issues, I'm just doing a job, and I really don't want to have anything to do with the data.


Use same hosting and same website for a new domain I purchased without redirecting to it

I have a **somedomainname.in** domain with hosting from some ABC provider. The site is up and running. I recently bought its .com i.e **somedomainname.com** from a seller on GoDaddy, I want to use the same hosting that is already present for my .in. I do not want to host a seperate site using this hosting, I want to point to the same site. i.e say I have a post on `somedomainname.in/hello-world` and if somebody hits `somedomainname.com/hello-world` it should show the same page without changing/redirecting to the .in url I read about pointing name-servers of my .com to the .in and then somehow using the folder where the file resides. I want my .com to be my primary site which I will be sharing with everyone, posting on facebook/twitter etc but behind the scenes it will actually be using the .in domain's hosting. Can someone please adivce me on this ?


Migration from Windows to Linux hosting

I'm looking forward installing a CMS for my sites - most likely Joomla - but apparently Windows hosting doesn't support it. **I was wondering what kind of changes I'd have to perform if I changed to Linux.** It took me a long time to finally have the PHP form working and I wouldn't want to go all through that again. Aside from that and a Wordpress widget, I don't think I use any other code that would need tweaking.


free blog hoster with markdown support?

I lastly thought about starting a personal blog. Since I'm not really sure on how active I'll be, I don't want to invest too much time or money in starting this. Thus, I would like to use some free blog hoster for the start, but allow later upgrading to an own domain, and maybe even host this on an own server. Also, since in the last months I really got used to Stackoverflow's (or Stack Exchange's) markdown syntax, thus I would like to use this for writing my posts (and maybe for comments, too). **Is there some blog hoster which allows these?**   1. having a non-cost blog   2. using markdown for posts (and comments)   3. redirecting all the URIs to corresponding URIs on another domain (not only to the main page), should I ever think about doing this myself   4. (optionally, may cost a bit) having an own domain for my blog   5. exporting all my blogged content easily * * * I have looked at:   * Posterous: It seems to support 1., 2., 4., but I found no information about migrating away from it.   * WordPress: It supports 1, it has a page about exporting the content (5.). It seems not to support Markdown, and redirecting to a new page (3.) comes only as a paid upgrade.   * Github pages with Jekyll: This supports 1., 2., 4. (if I register my domain elsewhere), 5. I'm not sure about redirecting to another domain if I should feel about migrating away.


Consolidating to one page when multiple pages appearing in SERPs

I've got a web site which for historical reasons has two or three pages that appear closely in serps for any given search term. The site is a spanish language site with two different but related domains, `capital-federal.enbuenosaires.com.ar` and `www.enbuenosaires.com`. An example would be the search term: "propiedades en venta en almagro" (properties for sale in almagro). PR1 - SERP 1 Position 3: http://www.enbuenosaires.com/almagro-ventas.html PR1 - SERP 1 Position 6: http://capital- federal.enbuenosaires.com.ar/m-almagro/departamentos-ventas-es_AR.html This is one isolated example but there are many (thousands) of pages some appearing high up, some further down in the SERPs. The pages in the `www.enbuenosaires.com` page are newer (since 2013) and updated in real time. The page in the `capital-federal.enbuenosaires.com.ar` domain heavily interlink to each other and are older (have been around since 2007) and are updated weekly. Many of the pages seem to have reasonable PR (0,1,2) and have been indexed without a problem. My question is what should I do? My feeling is that I should reduce the number of pages in order to "distill" and concentrate page rank within the site and thus appear higher in the SERPs. Things which occur to me are:   1. prune the site (remove one of the pages) and 301 from one of the pages to the other   2. prune the site (remove one of the pages) and 301 to a central "sitemap" page with links to the "canonical" landing pages   3. generally reduce the pages via 301 to the home page of `www.enbuenosaires.com`   4. leave it as it is Any suggestions or comments with reasoning very welcome.


Google say: robots.txt not valid for subdomains?

I'm very confused about Google's robots.txt documentation > Examples of valid robots.txt URLs: > > Not valid for   >  `http://other.example.com/`   >  `https://example.com/`   >  `http://example.com:8181/` It says the robots.txt is not valid for subdomains. Is that correct? If yes, what if we have different contents with main domain?


Tracking Facebook "Likes"

Beyond the count posted next to the button, is there anyway to see a list of users have completed a successful “like” action, but not as the owner of the "like" button/website; or for that matter any additional information.


How to remove language parameter from url in google webmaster tools

There is a section named "URL parameters" for dealing changes in URL structure, recently I remove language code from URL, how can I notify google about that? http://www.tarafdari.com/fa/node/26987 changed to http://www.tarafdari.com/node/26987


How to properly URL/domain forward

No clue on a title for this, someone feel free to suggest an edit. I have a client that has a website. He owns around 200 domains, and wants each domain to contain content from the main website. The header, footer, and navigation bars will remain the same for each domain, but the actual page content will vary (obviously duplicate content issues, open to suggestions) He wants each individual page to be its own separate domain, rather than a url within the main domain. (page1.com page2.com etc - NOT site.com/page1.html, however the file is actually hosted at site.com/page1.html - all links will direct to site.com/whatever accordingly) What would be the best place to start reading / learning on how to do this, and what concerns/considerations should be taken into mind?


SEO: does Google index search result pages?

I have a site with a search form. When someone searches, the url for the results page has PHP variables in it and looks like:               mysite.com/used-construction-equipment-search&searchterm=Sany&searchlocation=Brisbane&searchtype=Any      Would Google be able to index these sorts of pages? Can crawler bots somehow trigger 'searches'?


can a web design agency take credit for my work?

Recently, a client and I ended our work relationship and he will be taking his business to a web design agency. I've noticed that it is standard practice of this agency to put "Web site designed by " (which I found quite amateurish to be honest). but what happens if the agency place that text on a web site that I designed and they just happen to be maintaining it? I'm using CSS frameworks, JS plugins, and some stock images released under GPL and MIT licenses if that matters. If this agency is placing that text and taking credit for my work, can I ask them to remove it?


How to force browser to download all static files every time?

Is it possible to force browser to not using cache and download all files (html/js/css) every time? I am looking for a server side solution.


How do I get Images for my site to Return in Google Searches

I know when I search Google for specific things I get back images underneath some sites. How do I get that to work for my site? I have even seen some sites that will return 4 or 5 images for the the site that are all relevant to my search


Google sitemap HrefLang tag without the main site url

We have websites with multilingual content. e.g.   * `http://www.example.com/about-us/`   * `http://www.example.com/en-HK/about-us/`   * `http://www.example.com/en-GB/about-us/`   * `http://www.example.com/zn-CH/about-us/` We need to configure the hreflang tags in sitemap for Google to know that there are alternate links for the same pages in different languages. I know for the above example that my sitemap URL tag would look like this:                 <url>         <loc>http://www.example.com/about-us</loc>         <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-GB" href="http://www.example.com/en-GB/about-us"/>         <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-HK" href="http://www.example.com/en-HK/about-us"/>         <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="zn-CH" href="http://www.example.com/zn-CH/about-us"/>         <changefreq>daily</changefreq>         <priority>0.8</priority>       </url>      However, if I don't have the main URL but just the last three ones with en-HK, en-GB and zn-CH, then how should my URL tag look? Should I just skip the loc tag and keep the three xhtml:link tags? Or can I specify any URL in the loc tag and put the remaining two in xhtml:link tags? I am new to Google sitemaps. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Rashmi **Edit** : From the answer posted on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18423624/sitemap-for-domain-with- multilanguage-site/18423803#18423803, for my example with sites in en-HK, en- GB and zn-CH, should there be three URL tags, with each of them assigned to loc with the other two in xhtml:link?


Can we make Tomcat realm extract the username and password from HTTP request?

I am building an Android application which communicates with the web server. I have implemented authentication and authorization in the web application itself. It looks bit cumbersome. So when I was browsing I came across Tomcat realm - container managed security. So I was wondering is it possible to use this? I have some questions:   1. Can we configure Tomcat realm to extract the username and password from the HTTP request and authenticate it?   2. I am using 2 way SSL handshake using client and server certificate. So will it cause any issue to configure Tomcat realm for authentication ? I tried connecting from the browser, that will pop up the login window when tried to connect to secured URL. But the above case is not the web application, its a mobile application using the web server. Is this Tomcat realms authentication approach suitable for the above case?


Google Analytics, how to track number of banner shows as events?

Well, not exactly banners, I just used this word as it is easier to understand in a title. So, I have 16 different CTA "boxes" with a couple lines of persuasive copy and a CTA button. I want to test which one performs the best. I am showing the boxes randomly and counting button clicks as events in GA. However, without knowing how many times each CTA "ad" has shown, number of button clicks doesn't say much. So, with Google Analytics, how do I trigger an even every time such CTA box is shown? It's basically a DIV that I'm in need of placing some javascript to.


How to avoid google from indexing like example.com/post/post/post/1-foobar.html?

I have a weird anomaly with one project. Where Google is indexing sites like: > example.com/post/post/post/1-foobar.html While it should do it like: > example.com/post/1-foobar.html I just recently added canonical tags, so ultimately it should use those right? And I think the problem is also in my page display script. So it doesn't give 404, if the format isn't correct. However.. **How on earth does Google even get to those links?** Is it because of `<a href="/post/1-foobar.html">Example</a>`? And also I had baseurl set in the head. And it somehow, thinks its a directory and goes on and on. I have set all my links `<a href="http://example.com/post/1-foobar.html">Example</a>` now. But I really don't see the point, its just an extra bytes to load..


Redirect URL ending with dot

I submitted my site's URL to my workplace's printed newsletter and when I get the printed version, they added a dot to the end of it. Some people will realize that the period is not a part of the URL but others will not. Is there an easy way to redirect from `http://example.com/home.` to `http://example.com/home`? I have a IIS 7.0 shared hosting with GoDaddy. This means I have access to the box only through their interface so some options might be limited.


Rewrite URL with masking from HTTP to HTTPS site (on a different server) are certs needed on first server?

I have a *:80 virtual host in Apache 2.2.15 which is just a bunch of URL rewrites like:               ServerAlias foo.bar biz.baz tit.tat     RewriteRule / http://somesite.com (R=301,L)          ServerAlias differentsite.com example.it     RewriteRule ....      I want to do a masked URL rewrite so babysnakes.com goes to https://dancingfool.com/moms.php I tried using mod_rewrite with P flag and I tried mod_proxy and then realized it doesn't handle SSL proxying, that mod_ssl should handle. What I am not clear on is whether I can do SSLProxyEngine in a non SSL vhost config (no certs defined etc).


Google Analytics showing more unique visitors than there are pages on an intranet site

I take care of a company intranet and measure the traffic with GA. I am absolutely sure that there are no more than 5000 URLs in our company and it is impossible to check the intranet from outside the company network. Yet when I check the number of Unique Visitors (UV) in the last year GA says there were 36.500 of them. How is that possible? I thought UV should measure each URL only once in the given time period. Could anybody explain how this actually works? Can it be that the cookie trackers expire after some time and are counted more then once?


What's the difference between Amazon's EC2 and S3 services?

I heard Amazon is going to offer a free trail of their hosting services soon with their EC2 tier. I'm a new web developer and I'm still learning a lot about hosting and server configuration so I'm looking at a lot of hosts. What are some main differences between EC2 and S3 services offered by Amazon?


Installing a wildcard SSL Cert

I am in the process of putting the final touches to a rather complex multi- server setup where the server domain names are along the lines of srva.example.com, srvb.example.com etc. At present I have four servers but that number will grow. I have done a lot to keep my admin burden to a bare minimum and want to ensure that stays the case with providing SSL access to the servers. With that in mind what I want do do is this   * Complete the server configuration for srva.example.com by installing a wildcard SSL cert. They seem to be reasonably cheap these days. My servers do not do any e-commerce so I do not need much by way of certificte - the one I am looking at is from an outfit called Comodo.   * Get an image of srva.example.com   * Replicate it as many times as necessary - now and in the future. Question - am I liable to have any issues doing things this way? i.e. will I end up finding that I have to do individual cert installs on each server? I am something of a newbie when it comes to SSL certs so I would much appreciate any help.


My archives are beating my current content, how do I stop from competing against myself?

I've inherited a site with about 15,000 pages going back 16 years. Often current events are outranked by previous events. What are the best techniques to make sure that I'm not fighting against myself while still keeping old content (the long tail eh?) available to search engines? Currently 50% of the site or less is data driven.


Will google "forget" unlinked pages?

If i remove all links to a page, but do not delete the page from the site (nor block it from being requested), will google eventually "forget" about it when it reindexes the site? Assuming of course there are no other links to the page somewhere else externally. Or will google continue to request the page and verify it in the index and keep it around so long as it returns a valid page? Is this similar for Bing et al?


Sending low volumes of HTML email from my web app

Using AngularJS and Firebase I am developing a small scale social-type web app (max. hundreds of users) that features an invite system, where existing users invite people they know and the system sends out an email for the invite. Invite emails are triggered by a record being added to Firebase, and Zapier detects this and sends an email from a dedicated Gmail account. The system also has a simple user-to-user message system, and emails are also sent if a user receives a message from a fellow user. For the prototype stage Gmail seems fine. I've tested sending emails to Yahoo and Hotmail/Outlook accounts and they've got through. Even in a production version there'd be a low volume of email -not more than a few hundred a day, if that, so Gmail's limits wouldn't be a problem. However for a production version Gmail doesn't look like it would work. Firstly, Zapier is only able to send plain text emails from Gmail in a zap, and I need to send HTML links in the emails. TBH I've very limited understanding of email systems but I've read about the difficulty of programmatic email sending (spam filters stopping a lot of legitimate mail). My newbie assumption is that my Gmail emails are not being filtered as spam by Yahoo and Hotmail because Gmail doesn't get used by spammers given its per-day send limit. Zapier also offers Mailchimp, Mailup, Mailgun, Mandrill, Alphamail and Sendgrid for outbound email. As far as I can tell, whether or not an email gets through spam filters depends on things like building up a reputation for your IP/domain, but I'd need invites to work as soon as the production version gets its first user. Could one of these offer what I need? I need to ensure emails are not filtered as spam. I can ask users to add a personalised message to invites, but beyond that, what can a system such as mine do to ensure the messages are not filtered as spam? (The prototype also does not have a "proper" domain name, but the production system would need one, and emails would need to come from that domain.)


How to dump a MediaWiki for offline use?

I would like to be able to make an offline version of a MediaWiki site on a weekly basis. The DumpHTML extension actually does what I want, as it dumps all articles and media files, but I can't see any index of all the articles it have dumped, so I can't navigate in the dump. Reading about the XML dump feature MediaWiki have, I wonder if it would be possible to either use a program to view these files or perhaps convert them to html? Or are there other ways to make an offline version of a MediaWiki site?


web design quote wrong

What is the best way to make the customer happy after a wrongly calculated quote? I calculated some functions to about $280 when those functions are really simple. I thought they would have been harder but after the customer explained I realized he was right and those functions could have been easily done for like $50. He finally decided he doesn't want the functions. Now I am not sure what to do, I don't want him to think that I have really expensive prices since that would be bad for my business. But at the same time I don't think I can tell him now that I can do the functions for $50, since he will think I was trying to steal money from him with a really high price before. I really thought at the first the functions were much more complex. Thanks for any advice!


How to create an advertise like this?

I saw an ad on this website. I need a similar ad for my website but google adsense dashboard does not have any ads like this. Please guide me. Thanks![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/lXTLz.png)


Can I use both Digest and Basic Authentication on the same directory in Apache?

The reason I would want to do this is to support very old browsers (e.g. IE 6) that does not implement the more secure Digest method. If all new clients advertise the types of authentication they support in the HTTP protocol, this should be doable in principle. If a client does not advertise that, Apache should fall back to the Basic auth scheme. The advantage over using Basic auth is apparent: it would prevent passwords to travel in clear over the network most of the times, since the new browser are the majority, while still supporting some very old browsers that are still around. In other words, it would increase security.


web address begins with www1. not www

Go Here: http://www1.w3schools.com/css/css_reference_atoz.asp Why does the website URL begin with `http://www1` rather than `http://www`?


Custom advertising integration with Blogger.com

I want to know if I can use my own advertising solution with my blog hosted at Blogger.com I am worried that I will not be able to - Google suggests I use its Adsense service and Amazon. Can I use my own advertising solution? Does Blogger.com limit the use of alternative advertising solutions compared to paid blog hosting services?


MediaWiki Simple Syntax for Cross Reference of Figures

I would like to reference Figures in my wiki, much like you can in LaTeX. For example, say: "As you can see in Figure 3, mediawiki is awesome". I found the CrossReference extension which does what I want, however, the HTML markup for it is too verbose and does not seem to be part of the regular MediaWiki syntax. I would like to specify a Figure id inside the `[[File:bla.jpg]]` syntax for specifying images. Is this possible?


Website hosted at home pingable from outside, but not browseable from outside

I have a simple setup.   1. Server at home has local I.P. 192.168.1.3   2. IIS is running on the server and the website is up.   3. Windows firewall on the server has an exception rule for port 80 TCP   4. Router has static I.P. XX.XXX.XX.XXX   5. Router is forwarding TCP port 80 to 192.168.1.3   6. My domain registrar is my DNS host and is pointing to the static I.P. XX.XXX.XX.XXX of the router Here's what I can and can't do.   1. I can browse the website from within my home network either by I.P. or domain name.   2. I can ping the domain and the I.P. from outside the network (from a computer at work).   3. I can't browse the website either by domain name or by I.P. Weird. Why I can't browse my website? Incidentally, I wasn't sure this question was appropriate for SO, but after finding a few others similar to it on SO, and no comments on those questions saying anything about it being inappropriate, I decided I would post this question. Let me know if this is not appropriate for SO, or is more appropriate for another of the SE websites. Thanks!


When using Google Sites with a Godaddy domain, how do you alias example.com to www.example.com?

I know how to do this in an Apache2 config file and my own DNS configuration... But here I'm forced to host the site at Google Apps and the DNS at `Goddady.com`. What's the easiest way to alias `example.com` to `www.example.com` in this situation? I'm sure I need a forwarding mechanism. Without introducing an intermediary Apache server just for this purpose, if at all possible..


Using <audio> in Firefox with JavaScript

I am trying to implement background music on a website using the audio object, which is controlled by a JavaScript, I have posted a question about this before, @LazyOne explained that IIS will not serve unknown MIME types, and neither will the VS development server. I have now uploaded the site to an IIS 7 server, the MIME type for ogg is in place and when the site in accessed the server returns a 206 partial content (mozilla.org mentions that 206 responses are normal and expected for ogg files) and assessing the file directly works fine in Firefox (i.e. if you go to domain.com/music/file.ogg, it plays in the browser). and the file plays fine in the background if the autoplay attribute is set, but **it does not play via JavaScript**. Here is the JavaScript in question and relevant html:               audioMusic.volume = 0.15;          function playMusic(){            audioMusic.play();     }          function stopMusic(){         audioMusic.pause();     }      Relevant html:                             <title></title>                      on       off           <audio id="audioMusic" loop="loop" preload="auto">        <source src="/Music/music.ogg" type="audio/ogg" />        <source src="/Music/music.mp3" type="audio/mp3" />          </audio>                            More interesting facts:   * the playMusic() function is called in firefox, if you add an alert at the beginning it does off, but it is not able to execute: audioMusic.play()   * I have also tried document.getElementById("audioMusic").play();    * Both document.getElementById("audioMusic").play() and audioMusic.play() work in Chrome and IE, but not in firefox   * I am using Firefox 5.0.1 (the latest) **Question:** how to control the audio element via JavaScript in Firefox?


What is the best email address for a personal website with my name as the .com domain name?

I convinced one of my creative friends to finally purchase his own name as a domain name and start a portfolio. It has been years coming, but mission finally accomplished. Now I am helping him build his website. For my own personal website, I registered `pflanz.me` and my personal website is `travis.pflanz.me`. My email address is `travis AT pflanz.me`. I really like this idea for a personal website. I also have `travispflanz.com` which redirects to `travis.pflanz.me`, as does `pflanz.me` (`pflanz.com` was not available). While I really like this idea, he did not, and only wanted the .com, so his domain is `FirstnameLastname.com`. One of the main reasons I went the route I did is because I couldn't come up with a suitable `@travispflanz.com` email address, `travis AT travispflanz.com` just seems odd, as does me AT `travispflanz.com`. My question, what are the best personal email addresses to use for personal full-name .com domain names? Thanks!


Preventing Duplicates on Google

I am currently using a rewrite rule to enable access to .php pages, without using the php extension. However to prevent old links from breaking, the pages can still be accessed via links containing the .php extension too. For eg. `domain.com/page.php` can now be accessed at `domain.com/page` All the links on the website now use `domain.com/page` type links within the site. However older incoming links will still link to the .php pages, meaning Google will index both pages and mark them as duplicate. I have two plans to remedy the situation.   1. **Use a php 301 redirect:** When a page is accessed with the .php extension, I can redirect each page individually using a 301 redirect using php   2. **Using Canonical:** Place a canonical tag on each page, pointing to the ".php" less version **My Question:**   Are both methods equally efficacious in preventing Google from indexing my ".php" pages?   Which method should be preferred, by convention or otherwise?


Google search results now shows last updated for some results. How does it work?

I started noticing that for some search results by google, there is a "x hours ago" before the description under the link. How does google determine this? There is also this link "Get more results from the past 24 hours". How does this work? Is that based on last crawl timestamp? if so, how can one make google crawl a dynamic site more frequently? should we set that in HTTP headers like last- modified?


which product category to choose in magento

I am newbie in magento. I am creating a **product** that is basically a **video file**. I want that whenever the user clicks on that product he is asked to buy different file sizes for that video like HD version, Sd version. So I thought to create a simple prduct with custom options of file size. **But I want your suggestion that whether I should create it as a downloadable product, configurable or simple product with custom options.** Basically I am confused as it needs to be a **downloadable product** where the different sizes video files are located at server for download or it can be **simple** product also just click and buy the particular product of file size or it cabn be **configurable** also. Please suggest.Thanx in advance.


Google says my site contains malware

my clients site http://bit.ly/dTOfGF (i used url shortener). I have tried everything to find the malware but i couldnt. I tried the Google checklist http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/quick-security-checklist- for-webmasters.html i checked for all script files in multiple browsers and couldn't find any... Strange thing is that Google reports that png files and 1 css has malware... Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!


Where can i find some stylish sliders for my website?

Is there a site where I can download or generate some stylish sliders like the one below? I mean just as an image for the background of my slider. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/5LOCH.jpg)


Recommendations on how to validate an web server?

Does anyone know of any tools that can be run against web server to determine how compliant the server is with the various HTTP specs?


Homemade URL shortener redirect conflicting with 301 redirects

I have a website which was originally built using classic ASP. About a year ago it was rewritten in PHP. This caused file extensions to change and some pages were moved to new locations within the website. Naturally we made 301 redirects from the old URLs to the new URLs so their users and search engines could find their new locations. This works fine. We also built them a tool that allows the site owner to create their own tiny URLs that will redirect to a page with Google Analytics campaign tracking variables included in the URL so they can track the campaign and see how it performs. The issue I have is the campaign tracking rules conflicts with the 301 redirects and prevents the redirects from working at all. Here is the campaign tracking code:               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /tracking.php?$1 [R=301,L]      As you can see it checks to see if a file exists and if it doesn't it redirects to a tracking script (tracking.php) which then takes the tracking code and redirects to the proper URL with the Google Analytics campaign code in the query string. That code causes rules like this to fail:               redirect 301 /about.asp /about.php     redirect 301 /capabilities.asp /capabilities.php     redirect 301 /capacitors.asp /capacitors.php      It makes sense that this doesn't work together as the tracking rules say, "if a file isn't found redirect to tracking.php". What I need is for the 301 redirects to run first, and if none of them match, then redirect to the tracking script. Placing the tracking rules below the 301 redirects does not change the results. Can this be done via .htaccess? Or will I need to modify the tracking script so that if a campaign is not found it checks to see if the campaign ID is actually an old page that needs to be redirected and then do the 301 redirect from there?


Assuming unique user names / logins, do I also need a unique userID number in the DB?

My users will login into a website using a login of their choosing, but which I will check against the DB to ensure unicity. Given this, should I also have a unique userID in the DB? This could be an autoincrement number and would be completely invisible to the users. Thanks, JDelage


90% of 'links to your site' disappeared in Google Webmaster Tools

I was going through Webmaster Tools and I noticed that under 'links to your site' there's only 40 links showing. Down from 700+ yesterday. I don't think it was anything to do with the quality of the sites linking in because some of them were quite high ranking blogs so I don't think it's Penguin related. This has happened to me once before on a previous site and after about a month or so they came back, so it's not something I'm super worried about, but it's really odd. Has anyone else experienced this? Or know why it happens? * * * Update - All links seem to have returned 20/2/13


My Xmap generated sitemap is not being submitted

I m using Joomla Xmap component for creating sitemap. Here is the URL of my Xmap generated Sitemap:               http://www.acethehimalaya.com/index.php?option=com_xmap&sitemap=1&view=xml      I tried to submit my sitemap to Google but the problem I'm facing is that the URL doesn't get submitted and I'm having the issue that it says the sitemap is empty. Can Xmap generated sitemaps not be submitted, or am I doing anything wrong?


joomla subscription ecommerce solution

I am using Joomla and want to implement a subscription based ecommerce solution. I started using VirtueMart and noticed its shortcomings regarding subscription based recurring items. Turns out Virtuemart can take its own plugins and I found something called SimSu which I don't want to pay for. I feel like I have taken a nuke to a knife fight, as I only need one or two subscription based products on this site. They will be recurring payments. Is anyone familiar with a solution for this issue?


server downtime solution?

I am managing a few sensitive websites, that need to be up and running 24/7 how ever I worked with many VPS and dedicated server providers over the time. The problem is that downtime is inevitable, at least for a few hours a year and my client is pinging the websites round the clock. Is there any solution like automatic switching DNS or hosting on 2 servers from 2 different providers and is there a way for syncing the data between servers before actual sinking.


What is difference between URI and URL

I have read these pages   * http://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/   * http://www.damnhandy.com/2007/11/19/uri-vs-url-whats-the-difference/    I know basic about URL,URN,URI! and little on their difference! but the thing I cannot understand is in a page like: `http://www.bernzilla.com/item.php?id=100` which part is URL,URN and URI!   URI is whole part but URL and URN??   picture from wikipedia   ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/URI_Euler_Diagram_no_lone_URIs.svg/180px- URI_Euler_Diagram_no_lone_URIs.svg.png) Edit: from w3c.org:   a URL is a type of URI that identifies a resource via a representation of its primary access mechanism (e.g., its network "location"), rather than by some other attributes it may have. from www.damnhandy.com:                 it is now considered incorrect to use URL when describing applications.      Now is id an attribute?what about application part? is php an application?


network connection goes down when trying to generate a load of 10,000 concurrent user connections

Actually I am facing an issue that my internet connectivity goes down whenever I am trying to generate such load on the application server from my client machine using the load testing tool "OpenSTA". My application server is an Amazon instance. I've tried to create one more micro instance and installed OpenSTA there and tried to generate the load from that machine. That micro instance goes off from the network and I needed to restart it. Please help me out what should be my client machine configuration


Does using spaces in a URL affect SEO?

When creating URLs for my website I need to use a space, for example `http://mydomain.com/start home` I've seen some sites using `+` or `-`, what are the advantages of using `space`, `+` and `-` (dashes) in SEO? What is better to use for URL formatting? Should I use `http://mydomain.com/start-home` or `http://mydomain.com/start+home`?


How to show BBC in smf fourm show when new topic?

BBC in smf fourm not show when new topic. How to setting its? I tried for find setting thanks


Pictures are not displaying to anonymous users on Drupal, using ImageField!

I have set up a new drupal site, and I have added an Image field to the default content type _story_ using CCK and ImageField. This issue is that I can view the images when logged into my admin account, but when I try to view the images when logged out (like most, if not all viewers of this site would be), they don't appear. I have check permissions and I can't find anything that looks like the problem. Thanks!


Google Webmaster Tools is showing duplicate URLs based on page title differences

I have 700+ title tag duplicates showing in WMT. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/TPWug.png) Every first link in that picture is as duplicate link of second one. I don't know from where the first link got indexed by Google when that link doesn't exist in the site. It's showing the title of every page as link. Original link: `http://www.sitename.com/job/407/Swedish-plus-Any-other-Nordic- Language-Customer-Service-Representative-Dublin-Ireland`. Duplicate link: `http://www.sitename.com/job/407/Swedish-plus-Any-other- Nordic-Language-Customer-Service-Representative-Dublin-Ireland-Ireland`. How can this happen? I have checked entire site I didn't find where the second version is linked. I have no images linked to with duplicated version of URL.


Bounce rate nearly 100% in Safari AND Firefox?

Our website has a bounce rate of nearly 100% in both Firefox and Safari, and around ~40% in all other browsers. The bounces span all versions of each browser and both operating systems. I cannot recreate any error in either browser on any of my computers, and I'm not getting any php errors on my server. Firebug isn't throwing any javascript errors. The most prevalent google result for Safari is that top sites is skewing the bounce rate. But this seems extreme, and the addition of firefox pretty much rules it out. This one really has me confused. I've been googling for weeks to no avail. Our home page bounce rate is very low across all browsers. Any insight whatsoever, including what types of errors would cause safari and firefox to respond identically to would be greatly appreciated. (the offending landing page is http://www.livesportstickets.com/wrestling/wwe-tickets.php)


How to handle redirects & http status codes at urls where a product becomes unavailable?

I have this use case that happens frequently: Lots of products for sale, periodically a percentage goes out of stock. A user still browses in on the old url, to a location where a product used to be. I want to redirect them to a search page, and notify them that the product is no longer available, and try to provide them with alternatives. At the same time, I want to notify automated services (search engines, shopping engines) that that specific product is gone, in order to prevent continued hits to the urls in question. What ways are there for gracefully handling this? Edit: I'm refactoring/recoding the site in custom php code. I also do have a dedicated 404 page, with links to places on the site, etc, but don't really want to duplicate the search page's functionality on the 404 page when a system is already in place in a different php script, and for most 404's I already have a more generic suggestion for alternatives.


Seperate .com domain name purchasing for a VPS

I am looking at getting a VPS with RackSRV, and they don't sell domain names, but are happy to set it up after I get one elsewhere. Can anyone recommend somewhere I can purchase just the domain, and not have any hassles moving it afterwards? (Or can I just purchase the domain and make it point at the RackSRV ip address, while still using the domain sellers' control panel? I don't really understand that part of it enough! :)) I want the domain name registered in my name, ideally with myself as the technical and administrative contacts for simple transfers.


Domain in PENDINGDELETE, question about drop

A domain I want is in the pendingDelete stage according to WHOIS. I have been monitoring it since redemptionPeriod, and it entered into pendingDelete 5 days ago today. After checking a few services (SnapNames, etc), they report it is scheduled to drop on the 11th (7 days, by my calculations). I'm not quite sure what to believe. The domain isn't _highly_ valuable. It is to me and one other company. I can see no backorders placed on the big name sites, so I'm thinking of trying to get it without a backorder service. Any insight as to when it will **actually** drop? I've read 11AM-2PM PST, but I'm unsure. Thanks.


Is it possible to filter or segment an event on a user's eCommerce value?

Basically if you have an event set up, lets call it "Bought an Upsell", assume that it has all appropriate values set up, Action, category, label, value, noninteraction. is there a way to answer the question, who triggered this event, where their check was less than $15? Also API metrics, dimensions, filters, segments, would be highly preferred to anything in the online GUI. TIA For any help.


Redirect Google crawler to different robots.txt via .htaccess

I have googled for the answer all day and still couldn't find an answer. I have a virtual subdomain `www.static.example.com` which is a mirror site of `www.example.com`. It means I have just one root folder for subdomain and domain aswell. I want to redirect crawlers to different `robots.txt` file - `robots_static.txt` when they see `.static` in url in which I will forbid indexing via `/disallow` command. I want to do this because I have duplicated content in Google search results. Subdomain is showing the exact same content as the main domain. Does anyone know how could I achieve that crawlers sees `robots_static.txt` instead of `robots.txt`? What I have managed to find so far is this:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.static.*$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*robots\.txt.*\ HTTP/ [NC]     RewriteRule ^robots\.txt /robots_static.txt [NC,L]      but when I check in webmaster tools, it still sees `robots.txt` as my robots file instead of `robots_static.txt`, so it crawls and index everything twice. What did I do wrong? Thanks EDIT: This is my `.htaccess` file               ##     # @package      Joomla     # @copyright    Copyright (C) 2005 - 2013 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.     # @license      GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt     ##          ##     # READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE!     #     # The line just below this section: 'Options +FollowSymLinks' may cause problems     # with some server configurations.  It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already     # be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in     # your .htaccess file.  If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to     # beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url's.  If they work,     # it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here.     ##          ## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.     Options +FollowSymLinks          ## Mod_rewrite in use.          RewriteEngine On          RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]                         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.static.*$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*robots\.txt.*\ HTTP/ [NC]     RewriteRule ^robots\.txt /robots_static.txt [NC,L]               ## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.     # If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below     # This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla!     #     # Block out any script trying to base64_encode data within the URL.     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*\([^)]*\) [OR]     # Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL.     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]     # Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL.     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]     # Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL.     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})     # Return 403 Forbidden header and show the content of the root homepage     RewriteRule .* index.php [F]     #     ## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.          ## Begin - Custom redirects     #     # If you need to redirect some pages, or set a canonical non-www to     # www redirect (or vice versa), place that code here. Ensure those     # redirects use the correct RewriteRule syntax and the [R=301,L] flags.     #     ## End - Custom redirects          ##     # Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL     # is not directly related to physical file paths.     # Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root).     ##          # RewriteBase /          RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !/system/.*     RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,L]     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET          ## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section.     #     RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]     #     # If the requested path and file is not /index.php and the request     # has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php     # and the request is for something within the component folder,     # or for the site root, or for an extensionless URL, or the     # requested URL ends with one of the listed extensions     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/|(/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC]     # and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     # and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     # internally rewrite the request to the index.php script     RewriteRule .* index.php [L]     #     ## End - Joomla! core SEF Section.          <FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|ttf|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">     Header set Expires "Wed, 15 Apr 2020 20:00:00 GMT"     Header set Cache-Control "public"     </FilesMatch>          <ifModule mod_headers.c>         Header set Connection keep-alive     </ifModule>          ########## Begin - Remove Etags         #         FileETag none         #         ########## End - Remove Etags


Google update on 3/9/14 has caused loss of sitemap indexed pages. I have no Idea what's going on

I was up to at least 30 blog posts indexed out of maybe 40. That number was slowly climbing. Then the update came along and while we've been adding posts, the total indexed number has been going down. I've noticed this primarily from the update in April. As to what the update entails that would cause this to happen is baffling. We're down to 19 indexed posts at the moment. Google in its crawl stats claims it has 25, which is still less than what we should have. Has anyone else had this problem? Sure this is a small blog, but that's less reason for it not working perfectly. I see this spirally to the point where we have no indexed pages. I've seen other posts regarding indexes, for instance: Google indexes some of pages, but most are ignored from a website, even though a massive sitemap is submitted but I'm losing pages here Will provide more data per basis What's a good way to mitigate this problem? What can I do to make sure this problem doesn't happen again? and what are good indicators that I have a problem in the first place? External resources welcome. I've been searching the blogosphere but it's primarily general information.


Location of httpd.conf file

I have setup a home server on my PC and I can edit my `httpd.conf` file on it. When I move to my web server I can't see the location of my `httpd.conf` file. Is it in the `www` directory of the website? I have checked everywhere on the Internet and I didn't find a good answer for the location of the `httpd.conf` file. Hope you guys can help me solve this problem.


How to change cPanel URL? Example: mydomain.com/cpanel

I want to change my website's cPanel URL/path for security reasons. I have a VPS with shell root access, running centOS 6.5 64-bit. I want to change cPanel path for my website on the VPS to be something complicated like (mydomain.com/dj73db/dndpanel/) instead of (mydomain.com/cpanel). Does anyone knows how can this be done on a VPS environment? Appreciate your answers.


My Server is returning a 404 instead of 403 when access if forbidden - is it good or bad?

via .htaccess, I forbid access to folders that have no index page inside (`domain.com/images` for example), and also block my site completely for several user-agents (such as `wget`). When I test to see what these kind of users see when accessing my website on each of these occasions, The error message that is displayed is something like: > "Forbidden > > You don't have permission to access /images/ on this server. > > Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an > ErrorDocument to handle the request." The title is 403 error, but in my server logs I see that the server is returning a 404 error. So - Is this "good" or "bad"? What does the above message means?


How to handle new domain names?

I have a new product which I'll call a pen ink reloader. I have a website using my products name, for example, www.inkywink.com which I want to have accessed by searches for keywords such as "pen ink", "pen out of ink" "ink for pens" etc. , since nobody knows that a pen ink reloader exists. I see that its quite difficult to get on front page for these keywords since they have lots of competition. However I notice that the exact phrases I want to rank highly for are available as domains. I purchase "www.penink.com" and "penoutofink.com" which for arguments sake are highly searched and the perfect keywords to get eyes on my money site www.inkywink.com .   1. What is my best option to leverage those names so that they appear near top of searches so that I can get traffic to my money site? Do I just have them redirect 301 to inkywink.com or should I create small original content on each with links to my main site?   2. If I just have them redirected to inkywink.com, am I able to use keywords in metatag and headers for each site separately or do they all automatically obtain the same headers and tags as the site to which they're redirected ? Thanks to anyone who can help as I'm a real newbie to all this.


Changing mysql query_cache_limit without having root priviledges

Can query_cache_limit in mysql 5 be set locally for a specific database? I don't have root privileges to change the global variable. Can query_cache_limit be set locally for each database?


Google Sites; Editing

I used a pre-made site but I cannot figure out how to edit it the way I want. I can't seem to delete pages that were pre-made, or edit the HTML. Is that specific enough?


Beginner's Apache mod_rewrite - use custom file for website root

Plain and simple - I want user to get main.php file instead of index.php, when he enters website. Such a straightforward task has caused me a lot of pain, and couple of hours googling. Following does not work:               Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^/$ /subdomain/main.php      This doesn't work either:               Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^/$ http://localhost/subdomain/main.php      Where is the problem? P.S. The rules are placed in `.htaccess` in `/subdomain` directory. I'm using WAMP, if it matters. P.P.S. Logs show "File not found" message.


Can a web-server be reached in other ways than through `HTTP` or externally?

**A server hosting an application built in PHP:**   1. Can the server be reached in other ways than through `HTTP` or externally?   2. Is `GET` and `POST` only populated through the HTTP protocol?   3. Is `HTTP` headers, `GET` and `POST` the only source of input for a server/web application?   4. Is connecting to a website with `telnet` any different than with a browser?   5. What other access points exist? Do they pose a security threat? Common ways to counter them?


How to diagnose one user not able to reach my site?

My site is www.trainerroad.com and lives on Azure. I have a customer who get's > Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to www.trainerroad.com When trying to access our website. Yesterday they could hit our site. I had him do an nslookup and here's what he responded with:               Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.     C:\Documents and Settings\FW_Front>nslookup www.trainerroad.com       Server:  www        Address:  10.1.10.1         Non-authoritative answer:        Name:    trainerroad2.cloudapp.net        Address: 157.55.173.103        Aliases:  www.trainerroad.com        This all looks good to me. We have many other people currenly on the site from all over the world. I also had him do a ipconfig /flushdns before the nslookup but that didn't help. How do I continue to diagnose this issue?


How can I replicate Google Page Speed's lossless image compression as part of my workflow?

I love that Google's Page Speed is able to losslessly compress a lot of my images, but I'd love to make it part of my workflow, prior to uploading a site and making it live. Is there anything I can run locally to give me the same lossless compression? I currently export images from Export For Web from Photoshop, and use a little application called PNGCrusher to reduce file size of PNGs. I'd love to find a faster way though than saving out and replacing the individual images from Page Speed's results.


What is sourceindex

In quite a few content editors, I see code generated that includes attributes of the form               sourceindex=      What is this attribute?


Is feeding Googlebot and Bingbot crawlers with "special" data common thing in rich internet applications?

So I faced next problem: my server and my rich internet application (RIA) client are using/generating so much JSON data that is rendered on fly even on just page creation complete that standard dull no js crawler will see not much data on my site. I know about progressive enhancement and unobtrusive JavaScript but they (crawlers) tend sometimes not use JS at all. Even my mobile phone can do such thing!). I can always open chrome or some adobe air app like Scout and get parsed HTML and all links it really has. Demo (dull html):               <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">                                     <title>Cloud Server Services Selection Menu</title>             <meta charset="UTF-8" />             <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">              <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">              <meta name="description" content="Services List" />             <meta name="keywords" content="art, navigation, C++, services, web, web-services, exibition" />             <meta name="author" content="CF2011" />             <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">                                                         <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/cf.css">             <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/cf.index.application.css">

Cloud ServerExhibition of Public Services & Their Interaction

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      If I save that parsed data and open it up in a browser I would see all that real user will see and all I want crawlers to see. I already see me creating a chrome browser API based service that will work like normal file service for usual users and would be sending rendered HTML pages for crawlers. Do such services exist already? Does any one use them? What could be the crawlers' author's opinion on such services?


Google Analytics tracking the wrong site

I have multiple sites tracked in my profile - they each using different tracking ids of course. However, one of my sites reports being visited by searchers using keywords completely unrelated by that site, but related to another site in my profile. It also shows pages that are most accessed which are not on the website in question, but on the other website. I have had a look at the tracking code in the head, and it is the correct code displayed by GA. What is going on?


Can front end code cause an application error in a CMS user interface?

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place for this question, but here it goes. I'm using a Ruby based CMS (which shall remain nameless) which has been throwing an application error when I try to update a piece of my site. Tech support seems to think that my front end: jQuery, CSS, HTML may be the cause. Is this even possible?


Is it okay to use persian utf-8 characters in our urls?

It's best for SEO purposes that we use the main page keywords in our urls For example stackoverflow uses this technique too.               http://stackoverflow.com/questions/show-utf8-characters-in-console      I wonder if it's okay to use something like:               http://www.mobadele.com/categories/طلا-نفره


why host video on Amazon S3 instead of hostgator

i have some videos- flash that i want to host on my blog. should i use Amazon S3 or can i host it using my hostgator account. any ideas


jQuery: fading scrollbars plugin

I'm looking for a jQuery plugin which changes the standard scrollbars to those invisible ones only visible during scrolling and then fading away. This is probably best known from mobile devices, the new Mac OS X Lion browser, or the facebook notification area / chat bar. I need this because when the scrollbars are always shown they take too much space. Has anyone used this? I've found some examples for styling scrollbars but these are neither invisible upon loading nor they fade away after usage. Additionally they will not overlap with the content but instead reserve their space from the content area.


Optimal synchronization tool

Mostly I edit the files on my local server and then upload them to the remote server, but for small changes or for things that can only be tested on the remote computer, I'll edit the remote file directly (using Dreamweaver and a web-dav software called web-drive). Problem is, after a while I'll wanna edit the file again, and due to a very bad memory and organization, I have to manually check the date of both the remote and local file, in order to select the latest version. Otherwise, the change I have made will be undone as soon as I synchronize the file. Is there a synchronization tool that automatically compares dates of similar files on the local and remote servers, and then imports/exports the latest version?


Make website work in IE compatibility mode

My newly developed website works well in all browsers except IE's compatibility mode. I have researched and found a number of stack-overflow answers which refer to:-               <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=8">       or               <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="edge" />      This will force IE to skip the compatibility view but I need my site to be stable in IE compatibility mode.


Fixing Google Chrome text antialias for .ttf fonts

I have found a topic which presents a solution on how to get antialising working in Google Chrome - Windows, but they use `.svg` format. I have a `.ttf` format and I import all of my fonts like this at the moment:               @font-face {font-family: "t1"; src: url(../fonts/title/circle.ttf);}     @font-face {font-family: "t2"; src: url(../fonts/title/sanserifing.ttf);}     @font-face {font-family: "t3"; src: url(../fonts/title/serveroff.ttf);}     @font-face {font-family: "t4"; src: url(../fonts/title/pupcat.ttf);}      How can I achieve antialising done right in Google Chrome Windows?


meta robots for logged in vs. not logged in users

On a site I'm working on, The homepage has generic content for visitors who aren't logged in. When a user is logged in, the content shown is personalized to them and could even be considered private. So when a user is not logged in: url: `http://mydomain.com` `<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">` When a user is logged in: url: `http://mydomain.com` `<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">` Since both URLs are the same, are there any SEO concerns since the robots directives are different? Is it better to send the user to a different URL for their personalized homepage, and why?


If file name starts with ".ht" is it available from outside?

Someone told me that I can store MySQL passwords in a plain-text file in the web root, all I have to do is to give it a name starting with `.ht` (other than `.htaccess`). Is it so?


Why does baidu crawl my site like crazy

When i'm checking my apache log I can see that baidu has been crawling my website 10 times a day for the last 2 weeks. It's not that i care much about it but I'm really curious about why he's doing this. It's a really small single page website with not much incoming links. Is there any reason behind that?               220.181.108.169 [10/Mar/2012:10:41:29 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     180.76.5.197 [10/Mar/2012:11:02:02 +0100] "GET / ...robots.txt +(+http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.htm)"     123.125.71.100 [10/Mar/2012:11:33:15 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.167 [10/Mar/2012:11:33:52 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.116 [10/Mar/2012:12:24:48 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.172 [10/Mar/2012:12:25:05 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.111 [10/Mar/2012:13:33:22 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.167 [10/Mar/2012:13:34:03 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.168 [10/Mar/2012:14:12:05 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.107 [10/Mar/2012:14:23:41 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.176 [10/Mar/2012:14:23:58 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.94 [10/Mar/2012:15:25:59 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.183 [10/Mar/2012:15:26:21 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.92 [10/Mar/2012:17:45:55 +0100] "GET / ...robots.txt +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.71 [10/Mar/2012:17:45:57 +0100] "GET / ...robots.txt +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.79 [10/Mar/2012:17:46:04 +0100] "GET / ...robots.txt +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.103 [10/Mar/2012:17:47:32 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.179 [10/Mar/2012:17:48:37 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.108 [10/Mar/2012:18:37:21 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.185 [10/Mar/2012:18:38:13 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.96 [10/Mar/2012:19:25:50 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.169 [10/Mar/2012:19:25:59 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.101 [10/Mar/2012:20:25:51 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.176 [10/Mar/2012:20:26:09 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.105 [10/Mar/2012:21:33:38 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.178 [10/Mar/2012:21:34:15 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     180.76.5.170 [10/Mar/2012:21:57:39 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.98 [10/Mar/2012:22:26:13 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.175 [10/Mar/2012:22:26:33 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.104 [10/Mar/2012:23:34:09 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.169 [10/Mar/2012:23:34:48 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.171 [10/Mar/2012:23:52:22 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.168 [10/Mar/2012:23:52:22 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.110 [11/Mar/2012:00:33:52 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.184 [11/Mar/2012:00:34:27 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.103 [11/Mar/2012:02:37:21 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.177 [11/Mar/2012:02:37:58 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.97 [11/Mar/2012:03:34:30 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.172 [11/Mar/2012:03:35:07 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.107 [11/Mar/2012:04:35:33 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.178 [11/Mar/2012:04:36:16 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.115 [11/Mar/2012:05:34:31 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.187 [11/Mar/2012:05:35:12 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.97 [11/Mar/2012:06:24:17 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.181 [11/Mar/2012:06:24:32 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.112 [11/Mar/2012:07:40:27 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.187 [11/Mar/2012:07:41:17 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.95 [11/Mar/2012:08:29:42 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.175 [11/Mar/2012:08:30:07 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.105 [11/Mar/2012:09:35:23 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.184 [11/Mar/2012:09:36:05 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     123.125.71.106 [11/Mar/2012:10:39:32 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.165 [11/Mar/2012:10:40:11 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"     220.181.108.171 [11/Mar/2012:11:23:57 +0100] "GET / ... +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)"


Avg. Visit Duration 00:00:00 conclusion

What can I predict when I see in Google Analytics that total visits by search for some day are 93 visits while 70 visits of them have the value 00:00:00 for Avg. Visit Duration? Did those visits made by robots? or How could they regarded as visits while they don't spend any time on the website? Or this is dysfunction of the Google's Analytics script by which it does not able to count the visit time?


When 301 redirecting a page, what needs to be in the sitemap?

In sitemap there was page `a.html` which has some PageRank. Now `a.html` is redirecting to `b.html` using `301` and sitemap has `b.html` entry, `a.html` is removed. Queries are:   1. As `a.html` is not in sitemap then how search engines understand `301` redirection of `a.html` to `b.html` and add PageRank of `a.html` to`b.html`?   2. Will search engines still crawl `a.html`? How much longer?    3. Is it necessary for the sitemap to have both entries: `a.html` and `b.html` for some time so search engines resolve query 1 as mentioned above?


Images Maps SEO and Accessibility

My question of the day is about image maps and accessibility. Now it is my understanding that whenever you use an alt tag within an img tag you describe the image which increases the user experience for those who are blind or just people whom have just disabled images from rendering for one reason or many. Now this logic doesn't seem to work with Image Maps which I'll demonstrate an example.               <img alt="Image Map of Bits and Bobs" usemap="#imgmap" src="bits-and-bobs">       <map name="imgmap">         <area shape="poly" coords="" href="" alt="Spanner" title="Guitars Repairs"/>         <area shape="poly" coords="" href="" alt="Dollar" title="Guitars for Sale"/>         <area shape="poly" coords="" href="" alt="eLearning" title="Learning about Guitars"/>         <area shape="poly" coords="" href="" alt="String" title="How to tune a Guitar"/>       </map>      _**Valid Href's and Coords removed for easier viewing_**... So as you can see in the above image I'm describing the area of the image rather that the outcome if they click the image. So my question is simple.... Within a image map that contains links do you describe the link outcome rather describe the image... For example a image of strings using strings wouldn't indicate that its a link about how to tune a guitar, however the title tag does.


How to bulk delete email accounts from cPanel / my hosting account?

I'd like to delete a few hundred email accounts from my domain (it's not all of them). I've looked and looked. cPanel and Hostgator allow you to bulk-create email accounts and forwarders and there may be a way to bulk-delete forwarders but there doesn't seem to be a way to **_delete_** email accounts -- except one click at a time. So, if I have 197 email accounts to delete:               account_003@mydomain.com     account_004@mydomain.com     account_012@mydomain.com     account_027@mydomain.com     etc...      How can I do this in bulk?


AdSense: Beginner questions

I am completly new to adsense, although I read service disclaimer, their adsense academy information page etc. I still have questions I want to ask you. ### 1. Two adsense units on same page If I put two units to my page, both units should have same class "adsbygoogle" and I need only one usage of these scripts, am I right?               <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>     <script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});</script>         ### 2. Unit width/height Can I change width height of unit in its source code. Are there any problems if unit does not have a standard size, recommended by google? For example with image adverts?                 <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px" ...      ### 3. How can I let google know when my adsense is ready? My adsense account is approved, now I have to create my units, then google will check it. Until will be checked only empty space will display on my page. How can I let google now, that my units are ready to be checked? ### 4. Self clicks What if, for example, I misclick to adsense in my own page, it automatically means that my account will be blocked? Isn't it too hard? How can I protect myself against this? My colleagues at work or neighbour in summer cottage share same IP address with me. Does it mean that if they click to adsense, google will penalize me? ### 5. Addblocks Almost all people I know use addblocks. So I assume that majority of people will not notice any adsense on my webpages. Is there any way how to avoid this and bypass addblocks, or not? What are you experience with adsense income and addblock? Thank you for any advice.


HTML Character Entities/Special characters with crossbrowser/crossplatform support?

I used some good looking ones from http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref on my site but I just noticed that they don't show on mobile browsers of Android. For example:   * ⪦ `⪦`   * ⪢ `⪢` Which special characters and HTML Character Codes (entities) have crossbrowser/crossplatform support?


When I enter my site's domain, this message shows up: Index of /.ftpquota cgi-bin

When I enter my site's domain, **Index of /.ftpquota cgi-bin** message shows up. I am new to Dreamweaver. I don't know what the error could be.


Optimizing for multiple keywords using different internal anchor text for the same page

I have a website with breadcrumb navigation and an additional header navigation. The header navigation is not static and looks different depending on where on the site it is located. My idea is to mix the anchor texts in the header navigation and breadcrumb navigation. So for example I have 3 keywords for each page and would mix them just algorithmically. Example: From the navigation i link from 60 pages to one and the same subpage. The anchor texts distribution is 20x KW1, 20x KW2, 20x KW3. The idea behind is to describe the content wider that the user will find on the subpages. Does someone have any experience with such cases and know of advantages or disadvantages?


Site gone from Google due to dmca complain

My sites traffic gone null but after Google receive one DMCA complain for my site. My site is a MP3 search engine so I can index copyright MP3 out of my knowledge. I received a message in webmasters tools in and I have removed the copyright content from my site but traffic from Google is not increasing. Questions   * What is the problem?   * Do I need to tell Google that I have removed the copyright content from my site?   * If yes then why I have lost my site traffic from Google forever?


is w3schools a valid resource foir learning html/css/php etc... etc

I recently came across w3fools.com via html5 Google plus community, and read some things they were saying about w3schools.com. I have not the knowledge to say they are completely wrong, or completely right. They state, and give examples, taken from w3schools.com, that they are posting faulty information. **Question** : _Is w3schools a valid resource for learning html/css/php... still?_


how far do you go with creating subfolders for content?

When you create a site (small, static content) how far do you go with folder detail? Do you have a /images folder in the site root, or /content/images or /images/site, /images/public? I'm one of these people who likes things to be "just so" in regards to folders, but what's the best way to do it?


How to remove www from both http and https

I've got an ecommerce site where we're have some reports (random) of the cart not operating correctly. I think it might be due to removing www not working with https my current htaccess code looks like this:               # remove the www     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]      What do I need to do to also force this on https?


Creative Commons License question

> You are free:   >  **to Share** —to copy, distribute and transmit the work, and   >  **to Remix** —to adapt the work Under the following conditions:   >  **Attribution** —You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the > author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you > or your use of the work.)   >  **Share Alike** —If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may > distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a compatible > license. Hi. This is what the Creative Commons basically says. I have a question now. I don't really know how to interpret the law and the terms. Let's take the following situation. If you take a website that licensed its content under CC and use the content for a future project, let's say index the number of times some words appear in the text. So, I'm not adapting the work and not distributing it. Do I still have the legal right to use the content licensed under CC? Or if I take wikipedia and get the words that have a link to a page. Use those words to link the words that appear on my website to the same address. Do I have to disclose that I performed some indexing on Wiki?


Which payment provider, such as PayPal, should I use for marketplace style site?

Let's say I'm making a site similar to e-bay (connecting buyers and sellers). Which payment provider should I use as of today?


Does Google penalize for H1 & H2 that are not human readable?

I was curious how a competitor's Web site was ranking so high for many of my keywords, especially since the company is located in another city. Looking through their source code I noticed at the top of every page the following coding was being used:

keyword, keyword, keyword, so on

keyword CITY, keyword CITY, keyword CITY, so on
      The CSS class "SEOonly" reads "height:1px;" essentially making the text in both unreadable to Humans and the top of their content section clean, but Google is certainly indexing all of this. Are either of these acceptable SEO that I should be implementing on my Website? I am using a Wordpress framework with my own custom theme, a fair amount of images with good ALT tags and a robust SEO plugin. However it appears these guys know a heck of a lot more than me.


How to host a subdomain of a domain which is associated with blogger?

I have a domain `www.example.com` which is hosted on Blogger platform. Is any hosting site like Blogger, WordPress where I can host my sub-domain like `abc.example.com`? My original website `www.example.com` will be always hosted into the Blogger platform. If I want to host any of my sub-domains on another hosting site which supports HTML, is it possible?


Fail2Ban & Port-Scanning

Is there any filter built into Fail2Ban to temporarily ban any IP addresses which attempt port scanning activities (provided that `iptables` logs these activities)?


"https://" refers to random site, "http://" is broken, but "http://www" works

I'm running a website which is acting extremely strange.   * At the time of writing, this link works: `http://www.example.com`   * This link doesn't: `http://example.com`   * But it does work if you copy/paste it and run it in Incognito...   * This link (after ignoring a warning) serves a totally unrelated and unknown website: `https://example.com` I have no idea how to debug this issue. I have contacted the hosting and domain company to investigate the issue. How is the last issue even possible?


Changing Headline of an Article

Will it hurt my search engine rankings if I change the headline of an article 4 days after it's published or even a year after it's published? The content will stay the same, but I want to make some of the headlines on my blog sound more creative.


Help with cron syntax

I need to setup a cronjob on my webhost. The documentation for my webapp reads as follows: > you will need to create following cronjob: /public_html/cake/console/cake > -app /public_html/app master Also, I want any output written to a log file. My hosts documentation says this: > You can have cron send an email everytime it runs a command. If you do not > want an email to be sent for an individual cron job you can redirect the > command's output to /dev/null like this: mycommand >/dev/null 2>&1 I don't know the syntax to implement this from a cron job.


How to exclude from Google Analytics reporting all users who only browsed pages in a single subdirectory?

We run a website which has a "free tools" section. Lots of people use our free tools without becoming customers, or browsing to other sections of the site. We don't really mind this, but it would be useful if we could exclude from our analytics reporting all visitors who only visit pages from the /free-tools/ section of the site and no others. Is there any way to exclude these visitors, only including them in reporting if they visited at least one page outside of this set of pages? eg. visitor visits these pages they're not included in sitewide reports: mysite.com/free-tools/free1 mysite.com/free-tools/free2 However, if in the visit a visitor visits those pages and then also goes to the homepage, then their visit would be included. Is this even possible with Google Analytics? If not, which other analytics packages might be able to offer this level of segmentation?


How to mimic <pre> with <div>

I am publishing python code on some website that is CMS. I have a python script that reads any python script and makes a syntax-colored HTML out of it. Then I copy/paste this HTML into the CMS editing window. The problem is that my python syntax highlighting script uses `<pre>` tag to keep tabs/spaces which are quite important in python. The CMS however for some reasons that are unclear for me removes any `<pre>` tag. Admin told me that I should use `<div>` instead of `<pre>`. Could you help me styling a `<div>` to keep the wihte-space formatting?


Will an incorrect change frequency in my XML sitemap harm my website?

What happens if I set the change frequency of a page to daily and don't update it daily? Will this make search engine blacklist my site? What is the accepted changefreq to balance search indexing ?


How can I stop users stealing my video from my website?

I am making a website in PHP and I want to prevent anybody from copying or downloading my video or its URL, so that the user can only view the video on my website.


After changing web host, I get a 'file does not exist' error

I run a WordPress blog, and have recently changed web hosts. When changing web hosts, I copied all files and exported/imported the database etc as explained by lots of tutorials found easily on Google. The blog home page works fine. **What goes wrong:** When I click on any link from the home page, the browser gets stuck in a redirect loop. Looking at the error log, I see: > File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/index.php The directory /usr doesn't even exist for my website - so perhaps this is looking for a file that was present using my old Web Host and is no longer present with my new web host? * * * What is going on, and how might I resolve it?


What are some helpful and free UX tools for eye-tracking and mouse-tracking, etc

I am looking into ways to gain more insight for how people use the tools I build. Short of having a physical user group for a/b testing, are there some faster and cheaper solutions out there such as tools to gauge eye tracking or mouse tracking, or whatever else can give effective insight into the user's experience? Also, is using mechanical-turk-like solutions helpful for UX? Thanks!


rel=nofollow, JavaScript slider content, SEO

My website has all content on one page. I'm using JavaScript to slide (animate) between the various "subpages", so only the subpage content is shown. The menu buttons are as this: `<a href="#welcome">Welcome</a>` with a `return false`. In regards to Google, other bots and SEO, would it be best to use `rel="nofollow"` on those menu links? I mean, the menu links don't point to anything, only when viewing with a browser


Sales tracker that allows complex queries?

On a site, every click on a product should be registered by a sales tracker: _price, type, etc._ The sales tracker should provide an API so that complex queries can be performed, such as: _Which products of a type "teapot" had a price below 20 EUR?_ Requirements:   * Recorded data should be available for querying no later than two hours after it has been recorded. For example, there are reports that Google Analytics may take up to 24h to update data. That is not acceptable.   * Querying doesn't need to be fast, but recording does (of course). **Which sales tracker allows complex queries against collected data?**


Facebook Like Boxes returning 500 Internal Server Error

Since a few days I have seen several of my clients websites, our business website and even my own personal website starting to show blank space where the Facebook Like Box iframe used to be. Here's an example of the Facebook iframe code I'm using:               <iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?id=140736345955440&width=296&connections=15&stream=no&header=no&height=325" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="margin:-1px 0 0 -1px;border:none; overflow:hidden; width:296px; height:325px;" allowtransparency="true"></iframe>      This code worked before but suddenly the iframe URL returns a 500 Internal Server Error from Facebook. Why is the iframe breaking and reporting 500 error?