How to seamlessly transfer a domain (avoid downtime because the previous registrar's nameservers stopped serving DNS records)

I just transferred a domain from GoDaddy to NameCheap.com. There was a period of downtime until I configured the proper settings at NameCheap. During this downtime browsers returned a 408 Request Timeout error. Next time, **how do I avoid the downtime during domain transfers because the previous registrar's name servers stopped serving records?** Specifically transfers to NameCheap (from GoDaddy). Note this question differs slightly from Domain transfers - handling the downtime because NameCheap copied the GoDaddy name server information for the domain, but GoDaddy name servers stopped serving DNS records. When I switched to NameCheap's name servers, I had to manually re-enter all the records. I could swear on a previous transfer (also from GoDaddy to Namecheap) the DNS records were all transferred automatically, with no downtime. What did I do differently last time? Was it just a matter of switching the name server ASAP? I think the issue is configuring the domain to use NameCheap's name servers before GoDaddy's name servers stop serving records. I've thought of two possible solutions, but I'm not sure if either is feasible:   * set the TTL for the records at GoDaddy to a very long value (might not be possible if I don't already own the domain)   * use an intermediate, third-party name server Any better ideas?


Site navigation and SEO best practices

I've been reading several SEO books in preparation for a full site re-write. One of the suggestions that I've seen several times is that content should come before navigation in the site's markup. **Question:** If a site is using top-level navigation, how can content come before navigation (in the markup, not the presentation), and is this really necessary?


Find old web content via Google cache or similar

I have a bit of a problem. My client is running a Joomla 1.0 site and some content (text) was lost. There was no backup configured of the MySQL database. The content was lost approx. around the 16:th of December 2012. I tried finding the old site by using the Web Archive, but no cigar. The site is not even indexed. I tried to retrieve it via Google cache instead. The cached page itself didn't have the content, but the preview screenshot of the website had the old content. I wrote everything I could read off the screenshot. However, there was content below the screenshot that could not be retrieved. Here is what I typed into Google Search to find the old page:               site:gerami.se previous ass      Ass = assignments for those wondering ;) I would really like to get the rest of the text that was below the screenshot when it was taken. P.S: Whether this thread gets a solution or not, the moral of the story is still the same: Backup is your friend!


Preventing automated (fake) request?

I developed a PHP application that its main use case is fetching some data from a database. I want prevent fetching all record of database data by using fake requests. The UI is simple (similar to Google home page) but I want to provide a link to previous and next records, no sign up is required to use the application. What is your suggested solution?


How to optimise the url for search engines?

I have a php template which has one `index.php` and all the different pages (`content1.html`, `content2.html`, etc) are shown on the `index.php`page. So for example I can open `www.example.com/index.php?content1` and it will show the `content1.html`. Now what I would like is this: often you see websites where the URL is like: `www.example.com/this-is-the-content`. I know how to do this with an exclamation mark like `www.example.com/?content1` where you just don't write the `index.php`. But how can I make a URL name, which is completely different from the filename? For example, `www.example.com/this-is-some-page` would show me the content of index.php?content1


Apache HTTP Server Configuration on Port Other Than :80

I am running an apache server for development on windows 7 (via XAMPP). By default, it is set up to listen on port `:80` for http:// requests. I can configure it for, say, port `:1234`, and can access web documents via: `http://localhost:1234/` just fine. My question is this - Is is possible to have apache serve on port `:1234` but NOT have to include `:1234` in the URI for the request? EDIT/CLARIFICATION: What I am really trying to do is run IIS (on port 80) and apache (xampp) at the same time, without having to add a port number to the browser request for one of them.


Correct DB details produce “Database server was not found” (Prestashop Installation)

At stage 3 of the Prestashop Installation, I enter the DB details which I know to be correct, and I receive the error: > Database server was not found. Please verify the login, password, and > database server name fields. The server is localhost, and I have verified the database name and username. Why can Prestashop not find the server? This occurs when choosing InnoDB and MyIsam. If I change the server from localhost to the public hostname I receive the same error.


mod_rewrite doesn't work at all

I have my small website (made for study purposes) on localhost and I am trying to get _.htaccess_ working (note that I am a complete beginner to _.htaccess_ ). So far, I have discovered that _.htaccess_ is not even read by the server (I tried creating a custom 404 page - no change). I've got my server setup on a Raspberry Pi and I am accessing it over a local network. But even after allowing mod_rewrite using `sudo a2enmod rewrite` (and rebooting apache2) it still doesn't work. Any suggestions? Ask for any additional info. I will do my best to answer it.


Bridge between phpbb and wordpress

I want to create an authentication bridge between phpbb and wordpress. I know they cant share the same database but is there a way to make a single sign-on for them?


Can I make Google Analytics set its cookies on just a subdomain? (I.e. www.domain.com, not domain.com)

I’m using Google Analytics on a site — let’s call it `www.domain.com`. My Google Analytics website profile is for www.domain.com, and my only report is set up for `www.domain.com`. Requests to `domain.com` redirect permanently to `www.domain.com`. I’ve got the regular Analytics JavaScript on my index page for the domain. For some reason, it seems to be setting its cookies for `domain.com` instead of `www.domain.com`. This is unfortunate, as I’ve got `cdn.domain.com` set up as a CDN using Amazon Cloudfront, so I’d rather not have useless cookies (Analytics seems to set four cookies) cluttering up those requests. How can I make Analytics set cookies for `www.domain.com` instead of `domain.com`?


Hiding content from search spiders

I have a requirement to challenge a visitor to accept the terms and conditions of the page they are viewing. If a user has not accepted the terms, it will be displayed on every page they visit, it will take the form of a JavaScript modal dialog but when js is not available it needs to be at the top of the page. When they accept, they will be cookied and the HTML for the challenge will not be output to the page. Search engine spiders will never accept the terms and conditions and will therefore see the T&C copy on every page, vary near the top of the HTML source, and presumably index that for every page. **Is there a way to mark up an element to tell the spiders there is no useful information contained in this element, or "Please don't index this element"?** I guess this is kind of like reverse-cloaking. I want the SEs to ignore this legal jargon so that they can actually index the interesting content of the pages. Alternatively, **would it be considered cloaking, and as such incur a penalty if I hid this from the SEs based on user-agent?**


YouTube Embed SSL Errors

Anyone else have problem using a YouTube Embed Code on a https site? The security warning pops up in Internet Explorer telling your users they are loading unsecured data on a secure site. YouTube doesn't have a SSL installed on their domain. Anyone know of a workaround for this?


.htaccess redirect url without trailing slashes

In my htaccess I have some rewrited urls like these:               RewriteRule ^first-page$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=1 [QSA,L]     RewriteRule ^second-page$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=2 [QSA,L]     RewriteRule ^third-page$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=161 [QSA,L]      So the final result is: `www.mywebsite.com/subdir/first-page` Now I would like to turn this into `www.mywebsite.com/subdir/first-page/` Without the `www.mywebsite.com/subdir/first-page` giving a 404 error. I tried this code after the url rewrites, but did not work:               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [L,R=301]      Any suggestions? Thank you so much.


Quickly deleting lots of files using FTP?

At the moment I'm using FileZilla to FTP to my website. Sometimes, I want to delete a large directory, full of lots of other sub-directories and files. Filezilla seems to go through them all individually, which means it takes an absolute age to delete! Is there any way of doing it quickly/er?? Thanks


SEO issue - External links rel="nofollow" or NOT!

Previously I created a website for promo codes and coupons. That have hundreds of external links to the Retailer's websites and I used `rel="nofollow"` tag. But my site SEO rank was very very... bad especially on Google. So then I removed the `rel="nofollow"` tag, but no improvement. The only difference between this site and my other sites is "External links". My other sites have good ranking on Google. Now I'm creating a site for reviews. So this is also similar situation for me. I just want to know about how does SEO react with external links? and then what possibly happened in my case?


Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one?

If I add multiple A-records for my domain, they are returned in a round robin order by DNS servers. **Example:**               1.1.1.1 A example.com     1.1.1.2 A example.com     1.1.1.3 A example.com      But how does web browsers react if the first host (`1.1.1.1`) is down (unreachable)? do they try the second host (`1.1.1.2`) or do they return a error message to the user? Are there any difference between the most popular browsers? If I implement my own application, I can implement so that the second is used in case the first is down, so it's possible. And this would be very helpful to create a fault tolerant website.


How to protect SHTML pages from crawlers/spiders/scrapers?

I have **A LOT** of SHTML pages I want to protect from crawlers, spiders & scrapers. I understand the limitations of SSIs. An implementation of the following can be suggested in conjunction with any technology/technologies you wish: > The idea is that if you request too many pages too fast you're added to a > blacklist for 24 hrs and shown a captcha instead of content, upon every page > you request. If you enter the captcha correctly you've removed from the > blacklist.   >  There is a whitelist so GoogleBot, etc. will never get blocked. Which is the **best/easiest way to implement this** idea? Server = IIS _Cleaning out the old tuples from a DB every 24 hrs is easily done so no need to explain that._


Optimising website IP for location

From my understanding of SEO, websites are optimised for the current location of their IP address. For example if xxx.xxx.xxx.xx resolves to the UK then you are more likely to get higher rankings in the UK then you are in the USA. However, my query is when you use a CDN you are storing a cached version of your website across multiple servers at strategic locations across the globe to reduce load time in locations that your trying to target. Now if you use a CDN and geo-locate the website URL then it only resolves back to the USA (where our IP address resolves too) but it doesn't say it resolves to any other countries. As far as I know you can have multiple IP address resolving to one domain (from different countries). Do CDN's really help to optimise the location of your website or are they soley meant to optimise load time? Is there a better way to optimise for multiple countries with regards to the resolution of the IP address? Are VPN's as per this post here relevant to this?


Is there a microformat standard for interviews

Does anyone know of a good microformat standard for marking up interviews. At the moment I think I am going to fall back to schema.org's `event` but would love to know if there is currently a better standard for one somewhere else.


Redirection with PHP or .htaccess - which is better for SEO?

I need one practical advice - is better to redirect with .htaccess Redirect 301 rules, or to use PHP header function (after parsing URL)? Which one is better to Google and SEO? Tnx in adv!


Will a forum work without moderators?

I'm starting a forum site. Right now, its only me, so I won't have moderators. Will this be a chaos or it will work anyway? (My site is a discussion forum focused on a country). **EDIT (will this spam button and rating thumbs be enough for now?):** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bfFSK.png)


Why am I seeing unexpected requests for "crossdomain.xml" in my logs?

I've getting lots of 404 errors from crossdomain.xml. Here are the request details, as provided by Google App Engine:               404 22ms 19cpu_ms 0kb Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.122 Safari/534.30     69.130.*.* - - [24/Jul/2011:07:43:42 -0700] "GET /crossdomain.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 124 "http://s.nsdsvc.com/App/DddWrapper.swf?c=3" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.122 Safari/534.30" "app.*.*.*" ms=22 cpu_ms=19 api_cpu_ms=0 cpm_usd=0.000633 instance=00c61b117c557326bef77d341a345431e66b      I'm not sure what is going on. Can anyone help me solve this issue?


Schema.org's WebApplication: for web applications or references to web application?

Assuming one offers an online service on a page using HTML5 + Javavascript. Technically speaking, it can be considered as a web application. Is the `WebApplication` `itemtype` appropriate for this page or should it only be used for references to web applications (i.e., reviews etc...)?


Optimal way to implement very big redirect list in Apache2

I have about 6000 URLs that need to be redirected after changing the CMS. All those URLs are stored in a DB table together with an ID that allows me to tell what is being referenced. Using this table I could generate one huge .htaccess with a lot of Rewrite rules but I suspect that is very inefficient. What's the best way to go? As far as I can tell there are two options:   * Using a RewriteMap where the key is the old URL (it contains no ID, just text, so it has to be the whole thing). I wonder if having 100-150 char long keys is gonna work well.   * Generating a DB table that exactly matches every old/new URL pair and calling some small script to make the redirect. (Could be summed up as: Is a hash map stored in the filesystem more efficient than a indexed DB table?) **Second part of the question.** The new URLs contain the ID of the page being invoked. Something like > www.example.com/abc/21-defghi.html If instead I call > www.example.com/21-xxx.html I get a 301 Redirect to the correct URL. Should I bother to generate the exact new URL or is it ok to concatenate two redirects? This means either storing just an ID or the whole new URL.


what css styles are analyzed by search engines?

I know that Google used to do things like look at `font-size` and `font- weight` (or the equivalents from when Google first started) from their initial paper. But that was in the 90's. Does anybody know which styles are important to search engines now? * * * (Explanation: I know that technically we should serve up the same page to everyone—however, for many websites this simply isn't possible. A website I'm currently working on has a "content-only" version for search engines and users without JavaScript—they _cannot_ integrate this version with the "main" JavaScript-friendly version of their site—and I'm not sure which styles I should carry over from the main site's content.)


Moving big database from one server to another

I have created a website that I know that its database size will increase rapidly. It will become terabytes and by the way I don't want to get a expensive server at first. What is I'm concerned about:   1. If my cheep server is not enough, how do I move gigabytes of database to another server (considering that meanwhile the website will be in maintenance mode)   2. Is there any ways (any services) that I can have unlimited database size without worrying about database size and moving it?  PS: I'm using SQL server.


Should I put a landing page on my secondary websites or redirect to my main page

_(Object Name changed below to keep things simple)_ Let's say my company sells badges and buttons. Our main website is `badges- and-buttons.co.uk`. We also have a lot of other sites that we have registered that have variations on the name:   * `badges-uk.co.uk`   * `badge-button.co.uk`   * `namebadge.co.uk`   * `ukbuttons.co.uk`   * etc. I have been told that just redirecting these sites to our main page could have a detrimental affect on our Google Search ranking as Google will see duplicate content. So should I redirect them, or have a single landing page with a link to the main site, or just keep a blank page.


wrong SEO result for staging website

We have a domain with URL, lets say: http://www.xxxxstaging.com/abc.php?id=10 which is having a pretty good ranking for some keywords in google. However, this is our staging website and due to some historical reason, it was exposed to public. Now we have a production domain (the one we want to be publicly available), say: http://www.xxxxproduction.com/abc.php?id=10 which have exactly the same html output as xxxxstaging.com our question is, for the exactly same keyword search, it never appear in any page of google. Is it possible for us to "switch" the ranking in google, either tell the robot that they are indeed the same website, or tell google to change it for us? Thank you.


What is the standard width for a website in pixels?

What is the standard width for a website in pixels or where are statistics?


Can Campaign URL tags cause a soft 404 error?

I was checking out one of my company's website's Webmaster Tools to analyze the cause behind some soft 404 errors and discovered that a few of the older errors had affiliate mp referral tags listed as the relative URLs. Since these are older problems and I don't seem too many of them coming up in the last few months I don't think it's still a problem. I'm just curious if it's possible to cause a soft 404 by improperly copying the campaign or referral tag into the URL.


Is it bad to change slugs for SEO?

I have a blog site. Assume that I have added a page `example.com/apple`and that blog page has been crawled by Google. The slug "apple" is based on the blog title "Apple". Later, I changed the title "Banana" which made the URL `example.com/banana` Is it bad to change slugs for SEO and will the Google crawled page `example.com/apple` be broken?


Image Archives for <hr> and border image replacement

Do you know any quality image archives for **< \hr>** and **border** For example an image archives for <\hr> : http://siahdesign.com/archives/210


Can you create a private website without password protection that would not be indexed?

I'd like to create a "private" website that clients can visit by typing in the provided direct URL (on a business card, for example), but is not password protected and would not be indexed by search engines. Is that possible?


Updated to Wordpress 3.0.5 and all my work is gone?

I updated my website from Wordpress 3.0.4 to 3.0.5 and all my work is gone! Can go back somehow? How can it overwrite everything? The theme I used for the site is a copy of Twenty Ten and then I modified it. Please help me....


Create a macro for links' href attribute in Google Tag Manager

In Google Tag Manager, I'd like to track with an event label in Google Analytics the clicked links `href` attribute. On our front page there is a main Call-To-Action section that actually has 3 links. I'd like to track each one. 1) The base Google Universal Analytics (GAUA) tag already exists on all pages. 2) I created a new GAUA tag with the same tracking ID as the base tag. 3) I have specified the following:   * Track type: event    * Category: Some Category    * Action: Some Action    * Label: Href attribute Within the event setup, when I select "New Macro" there is an option for DOM, which I thought sounded right but it requires the elements ID. On this site those links do not have an ID attribute. I tried simply using the CSS selector for the element: `a.button.blue-button` and then, under Attribute Name I wrote "href". But it's not working. This was for the label of the event. How would I create a macro to record the clicked links `href` attribute?


How do I interpret direct traffic that lands on random pages?

Looking at yesterday, according to Google Analytics, I got six direct visitors to my site (their source/medium is `direct/(none)`). Only one ended up at the actual domain. The other five ended up at miscellaneous foo.com/xyz.html. I did not send out links to people by email, and I'm not sure how likely it is the people would have copy/pasted the URLs. How do the visitors end up there? Is there a way to better capture where they might be coming from?


Where can I find icons for all browsers

I need to create a "works on all major browsers" graphics for a web application, where can I find free or cheap images of browser icons from all the major browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)? Alternatively, is there a (again, free or cheap) ready made "works on all browsers" image I can use? The images must be free or cheap for commercial use and preferably don't require attribution.


Are .ninja domains available?

I am looking at `http://domains.ninja/fr/timeline/`, and I see that the top- level `.ninja` domain is in its last "stage". But I can seem to find a ninja domain (other than `domains.ninja`). Is the domain actually available now? If not, when will it be. Pardon me for any ignorance; it seems that a lot of the domain registration stuff is designed to take advantage of ignorance and is unclear.


How does google understand the legitimacy of a website by user activity? Apart from:   * total time spend on a particular webpage by users   * total clicks on the website by users   * total unique visitors


Apache 403 error despite group permission

I have a NAS running Linux with a Apache 2.2. I want the apache process (running as user nobody) to run as different group "users" to read some files. I tried the following without success:   * in its httpd.conf change to "Group users"   * run "addgroup nobody users" But the apache still shows a 403 permission error for a file like this -rw-rw-rw- 1 foo users 2654256 Jul 21 12:57 test3.png Do you have any solution for that?


2 SSL certificates?

I just spend ages moving all static content to a cookiless domain to help performance, it seems to work great! It got me thinking though, when I install SSL on my main site, am I also going to have to buy SSL on my cookieless domain to stop warning messages?


How long does it take Google, Yahoo or Bing to reindex my website?

I made some changes recently to my website that were substantial. My page rank for my business's name is now #1. However, Google shows wrong information in the search results, as do Bing and Yahoo. So how long?


Relation between number of google search results from a phrase for a domain

The question is when I searched (in google) my researched keyword phrase (3 words) in google with quotes, it bring out about 145,000,000 results. The competition is 0.01 Monthly global searches is 3,68,000 Monthly local searches is 4400 I have used match type as **"phrase"** in google keyword tool. I just want to know whether the keyword phrase is **good for domain name** with respect to search results and Monthly global and local searches as given above. Thanks :)


Google web font

Please suggest me Google web font similar to following image, ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/cEsfc.png)


Good podcasting solution?

_**I simply ask for the best, most common and simple way to set up a podcast? Please, I need an answer so I can close this question?_** * * * I run a joomla-based website for a small church and now need a simple, cheap and effective solution for an audio podcast. I am looking for a solution that will do the following:   * User uploads audio files to service (preferably not to our own site) that is cheap, fast and simple to use. Dropbox for example?   * Files are easily embeddable into Joomla website articles to be played on the spot (through simple-to-use and media player). Preferably through RSS feeds (to make it easy to update every week).   * Files are downloadable.   * Files are viewable on iPhones and other smartphones.   * Solution can be broadcasted via iTunes.   * Solution doesn't need a lot of extra, new third party software. I'd rather keep it simple and familiar than have it be a complete new system but with a steep learning curve. At the moment we use vimeo to host the podcast, through video files. But we'd like to move to something simpler that doesn't involve a series of difficult steps to upload the files to the web.


SEO for multimedia site with little text

How would one optimize a flash website that consists primarily of images and video and has minimal text (i.e. only navigation), without changing the visual design of the site? If one were to use the object tag to provide a non-flash version of the site which used text to describe the images / videos seen in the flash version, that may be considered cloaking by Google. Is there a good way to add search engine friendly keywords to such a flash based multimedia website without risking cloaking related penalties?


How to write robots.txt for one hosting which has several websites in different directories?

I have several websites on one hosting account. The main website is in the root. Other websites are in sub-folders off the root directory. In the robots.txt file for the main website, do I need to `Disallow` other website directories?


How to redirect / to home.php? (PHPBB/BLOG)

I want my site address to redirect:   * `www.example.com` to `www.example.com/home.php` I want to use this method to avoid it going to the index.php of that of my blog or phpb


Does hosting images on a CDN impact SEO?

I manage two sites (foo.com and bar.com) which share image assets. Currently the images are all on the foo.com domain which is a bit confusing if you open the image on bar.com and see a foo.com URL. I'd like to have a generic domain for these shared resources and I'm planning on using Rackspace Cloud Files (which can plug into the Akamai CDN) so that we can also benefit from increased performance. My question is, if we use the Rackspace Cloud Files URLs (e.g. http://c0344252.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/cute_kids.jpg) what (if any) impact will it have on the SEO performance of foo.com. Position within Google Image search is of minimal importance to us so I'm particularly interested in any knock-on impact for Web search performance.


Could a CDN serving static images result in decreased search engine rankings?

I have set up Cloudfront on my site to serve static files only. This results in the image file's URL to change from: `mysite.com/image.jpg` to `uniqueid.cloudfront.net/image.jpg` Will this affect how images are indexed by Google? We are currently ranking quite well prior to this - would hate to see these go! Any problems with duplicate content? Also, would using a CName (to make the URL appear nicer) impact my rankings / SEO?


Top hits bias in Google Site Search

I am considering implementing Google Site Search on a website. Unfortunately documentation on the features seems somewhat limited and `google.com/sitesearch` returns 404. In my search I want to implement biasing on the top results, but cannot understand what is actually possible. So my question is whether the following is possible: When a user searches for a given phrase, I want to ensure that a given page is returned as the top result. Please note that it is a page and there is only one site included in the search. For example, imagine I search for "Yoga". I want to make sure that the page `/mypage` is the number one hit, even though it isn't optimized for "Yoga". As an alternative, how can I implement it so that `/mypage` gets boosted a lot when searching for "Yoga"?


Are there any examples of #! indexed websites on the internet?

It seems that although google say they can index Ajax websites I cannot find any websites where this currently works. Does anyone know of any sites that are indexed?


Looking for a support portal where users have a dedicated rep

I'm looking for a (hopefully) hosted app that would let me have my customers interact with customer support; but unlike Assistly or any of the million help desk apps out there, each user will have a dedicated rep. When they log in, I want them to see their rep's picture, email, phone number right on the side of the page, and all the interaction will be directly between the customer and their rep. FAQ, general CMS, etc are all fine as bonuses, but not the most important thing. Anything like this exist?


Google Analytics custom variables not working as expected?

I'm having some trouble to make GA Custom variables work on my website. After following all the tutorials, seeking documentation, debugging with Firebug, I cannont understand what is wrong with my code... Here is the test page I wrote, to have a very targeted test case:                             <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />         <title>Custom variable test</title>
Hello on my custom variable test!
                    My problem is that the custom variables never reach Google Analytics. I've installed the Google Analytics debugger found here (http://www.keithclark.co.uk/labs/google-analytics-debugger/) for Firefox; and when submitting my page, it shows me that two custom variables are set but the name and value are empty; despite the fact that the generated GIF has utme parameter inline (`utme 8(pageName*secondCustomVar)9(testCustomVar*testValue)`).               http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmwv=5.4.6&utms=4&utmn=1361447983&utmhn=www.tadefig.com&utme=8%28pageName*secondCustomVar%299%28testCustomVar*testValue%29&utmcs=UTF-8&utmsr=1536x864&utmvp=1536x402&utmsc=24-bit&utmul=en-us&utmje=0&utmfl=11.9%20r900&utmdt=Custom%20variable%20test&utmhid=1348157758&utmr=-&utmp=%2Fcustom%2F&utmht=1386931051245&utmac=UA-13048570-1&utmcc=__utma%3D223162654.24701012.1386929812.1386929812.1386929812.1%3B%2B__utmz%3D223162654.1386929812.1.1.utmcsr%3D%28direct%29|utmccn%3D%28direct%29|utmcmd%3D%28none%29%3B&utmu=qQ~      I really have no more ideas why this is not working.


Refusal of a .dj (Djibouti) domain because of inappropriate content

I am planning a website containing nudity and pornographic material on a .dj domain. In the terms and conditions (http://www.dj/eterms.htm) for the registration of a .dj domain it says under Article 5, Section 2: > Pornographic, damaging, insulting, defamatory, blasphemous, sacrilegious > **names** , etc. will be refused. The actual domain name I want to register is completely neutral. A fictional but very short name. Just the **content** will be pornographic. I have talked to the domain company I usually register domains with and they said, pornographic content on a fictional .dj domain is possible but they strongly advice against that because the registrar can cancel the contract at every time in the future. For example if a visitor reports the website to the .dj officials. Are they correct? Is it safe to have pornographic content on a .dj domain? Do you know any case of a closing of a domain name in the past (except with FBI/CIA involvement because of illegal content)?


Does Google consider a site's markup when filtering duplicate content?

I know that Google has a duplicate content penalty for text, such as articles, etc. However, does Google apply this penalty to two identical designs, such as templates? I'm guessing that Google only cares about the content and not the internal markup/structure that makes up a web page, right?


How to hide powered by google in google sites

![How to disable/remove Report Abuse|Powered By Google Sites](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hUlbl.png) How to disable/remove Report Abuse|Powered By Google Sites in google sites at the bottom of the page. I have used some css attributes. but the sites says those attributes are not permitted.


Change web folders names with uppercase to lowercase or not?

I have web directories with upper case letters and site is on Apache server. Example: `www.example.com/ServiceTools/page.htm` I have read that using upper case letters in folder name is bad practice and could cause problem with accessing page and produce 404 pages? Should I change folder to lowercase and will this have influence on SEO? `www.example.com/servicetools/page.htm`


Reset Connection causing multiple errors after hack

We use webmaster tools to monitor our websites, and in the past couple of months some of our sites have been compromised and had various pages inserted. These pages created URLs that Google would index and recognise. As part of the process to remedy these issues, we setup IIS to reset the connection of any visitors to our server that contained keywords of these pages (mulberry, michael kors handbags etc.). This also applied to any POST/GET requests, as we thought this could be how the pages were getting inserted. However as a result, this has meant that webmaster tools sent out a large volume of notifications related to connection errors ("your site is not responding"), but when we investigate, it is only applying to the old sites pages that were maliciously inserted, because when those pages are crawled/requested, we reset the connection. We have requested Google to re-index the site but it appears that these pages are still being crawled and causing the same problems. Is there a reason that google is retaining the page URLs and not removing them from its index? Any help/advice is much appreciated. Our webserver runs windows 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5, CF10 and PHP (both CF and PHP sites have been compromised with this issue, and the reports are from both)


SiteMap / webmaster / google adsense

Can we apply for Adsense without sending Sitemap to webmaster tools ?


CloudFlare acts as a reverse proxy and caches site content. Is it possible to see my site's real IP address if I'm using a CDN like CloudFlare? When I check my site's IP address using a lookup service, I get CloudFlare's IP address.


What does "Average Position" mean in Google Webmaster Tools under Top pages? I can only find the definition for "Average Position" under Search Queries.


Codeigniter Permalinks

I want to develop a website in the CodeIgniter framework and add permalinks just like WordPress and Magento: `www.sitename.com/category_type/category_detailpage` How do I have to design the schema of slug table in database? Thanks in Advance!


Apache2 and domain name

I have a server running several sites (sites-available/...) which all have a domain name, and are differentiated using their port number(www.xxx.com:8090, www.xxx.com:8091,etc..) I have a domain name (i.e: blabla.com) which I want to set for only one of the sitesm so when I type: www.blabla.com it will go to that site. Thanks,


Multiple meta tags for mobile optimisation?

For mobile optimization I've read that you should include all the following meta tags:               <meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="true" />     <meta name="MobileOptimized" content="320" />     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">      Are they all doing slightly different things or is there a hierarchy (e.g. the later tags overwriting the previous ones)? As `MobileOptimized` includes a pixel width, is it possible to use `width=device-width` instead and is it advisable to do so? Will something like the iPhone scale to 320px or ignore this?


How to purge old links in google from an old domain

Recently, I uploaded a new site to an existing domain and I'd like to figure out how I can forward all links to said domain to a new domain. I'm looking for a wordpress solution if possible, but in the end I I seem myself writing a small header script that I will paste into ever directory's index file saying header('Location:http://xxx.yyy.zzz') Is there a cleaner way to do this without having to resort to managing the whole file structure? No, I do not have access to the apache runtime. Unfortunately it is a shared- host server. Thanks in advance.


Is it possible to transfer Google Authorship?

Is it possible to transfer Google Authorship from one account to another? **Scenario:** * * * I have user **A** who is a legitimate Google Author in my WordPress site. When I search the 'keyword' in Google, his name and photo will show up in the search result. One day **A** left the company, so we don't want to use his name again as an author, and transfer it to another person which is **B**. * * * Technically speaking, I can just alter the _display name_ and _Google+ Profile URL_ of **A** to **B**. And then I probably can notify Google of the changes happening. But what will happen then? Will Google get confused and think that I'm doing scam? Is doing this action even correct in the first place?


Lost all pagerank after redirecting my domain

It's been 6 months since we redirected our old domain, which had a PageRank of 4, to a new domain with 301. However, the PageRank of the new domain is still 0 so far. Anybody knows what probably happened, and how we can fix it? Thanks.


cloudflare's mx record should set cname or A records

The cloudflare offical support said https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168876-My-email-or-mail- stopped-working-What-should-I-do- But traditionally mx record should not set as cname http://www.exchangepedia.com/blog/2006/12/should-mx-record-point-to-cname- records.html But cloudflare has a service called "cname Flattening" is it related for a reason to set cname as mx records? So should i set cloudflare's mx record as cname ?


404 - Page not found error while using Google's Instant Preview in Webmaster Tools

While I was comparing my website's live page with Google's Instant Preview of a page in Google Webmaster Tools, I got a `404 - Page not found` error. What are the possible reasons for this?


How can I upload large files by chunk, pieces?

I have got a little file sharing webpage. It's free to use it. I would like to upload files between 0mb and 1GB. I'm searching in Google since two days, but I can't find anything what I needed... My webpage: http://boxy.tigyisolutions.hu However I can upload only 20-30mb now. I would like upload only 1 file at once. But it may be bigger than 500-600mb ... Can anyone help me?


Why are the converted clicks totals different between Locations and Keywords in Google Analytics?

Here is my case:   * Select a Campaign -> click Keywords -> the total converted clicks (search + display netowrk) equals 3.   * Click Settings -> click Locations -> the total converted clicks equals 2. Why are the two values different? Does Google Analytics sometimes fail to recognize countries?


Competing against the same business name in search results

A client of mine had an acrimonious split with their business partner. My client owns the legal business entities but unfortunately the other partner has the server/domain details. The other partner has since started a new company but has kept the old site up with the old company name and is taking business enquiries through that site but ultimately funnelling it through to their new company. My client is still trading under their original name and bought a .net domain to compete against the .co.uk. I've since created a new website for them with a CMS that they update regularly and I've got them set up using all the social media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, G+, Pinterest, YouTube) and they are also running Google AdWords for their company name. They're getting around 2k visits a month, the site is coded well, they've got good in/outbound links, meta data is all up to date, the social media is doing well and Google Analytics is showing positive results. Google Webmaster Tools seems to show everything running as best it could. The old site has been up around 3 years, it never gets updated and is coded really badly (tables and images etc) but it has obviously been indexed by Google, sits at the top spot and has it's sub-pages listed within it's result (not sure of the correct term). The new site, in comparison has been up around 4 months, sits at number 2 on Google with a few of it's internal pages at 3 and 4 and then their Facebook and Twitter accounts below that. The Google Ad for the business name sits right at the top of the page. My client is frustrated that the old site is still taking business enquirers from their legitimate customers who don't know the difference between the two domains. Every advertising drive they do for their site will still, unfortunately, also drive some business to their competitors. I've suggested to my client that it might be easier to take legal action rather then fight an SEO battle but they don't want to take this route. 1) What other routes are open to overtake the old domain in search ranking? 2) How much emphasis does the age of a site have in the results even if it's not updated regularly? Is it just a waiting game? 3) Can two sites on Google have their internal pages listed within the one result? Or does Google only reserve that feature for one site per search term? 4) Can Google take any action on a domain that is trading in this way? If we submitted a claim could they drop the old site from the results?


Is my .htaccess rule creating an infinite loop?

Whenever I type a made up address that includes a directory index it removes it. The problem is when the the address includes a forbidden subdirectory. It reduces itself until it hits forbidden. How do I get it to redirect to the homepage instead of reducing itself?               Options -Indexes +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews     RewriteEngine on          DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.php          # REDIRECT www to non-wwww     # Set Canonical URL     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]          # REMOVE Directory Index From URL     RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+/)?index\.(htm?|html?)$ /$1 [R=301,L]          # Custom Error Documents     ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404_notfound.htm


Subscription service or software to handle a Magazine's PDF

I'm looking for an installable or hosted software (service) to handle the process of public users subscribing to the Magazine and receiving the PDF automatically upon an admin upload the new one. The system will have to:   * handle the money part (PayPal&Co. are OK)   * let user buy old issues of the Magazine   * warn user on subscription expiring, etc. PDF stamping and WordPress integration (user credential sharing, page access of subriscrebed goods, etc) will be a big plus.


Can't I pause my server On Rackspace as Like AWS?

I am using AWS and I can create instance and keep it stopped if I don't need it. It beocmes handy as I can test/switch back/forth to several differently configured instances and don't loos any of them. I just need to pay the monthly storage price I am consuming, not the server price. Now, on rackspace faq, I saw they doesn't support any 'suspension' status:http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/faq/ (question titile: "If I am not using my server or do not have traffic to it, do I still have to pay for it?") So, is it so, I can't keep my server in stop mode? Or did I understand something wrong? It seems to me, if I purchase a server, I will have to continue to use it and if I want to stop for some days, I will have to delete the server completely with complete configuration and when I will be back to use it, I will have to reconfigure the whole server again? Is it so?


Permanent redirect to different domain followed by temporary redirect to folder

I have `old-domain.com` which I want to migrate to `new-domain.com`. However, the content on the old domain is, well, old. And I'm currently in the process of redesigning my whole site. My idea is to do a permanent (301) redirect from `old-domain.com` to `new- domain.com` so that search engines know about the new domain and forget about the old one. But since the content is old I was thinking to do a temporary (302) redirect from `new-domain.com` to `new-domain.com/old/` until the new content/site is ready to be published. Is this, for some reason, a bad idea? Or there's nothing wrong with it? One last thing... If I go with this, what should I do when the new content is ready? Should I just remove the 302 redirect and that's it, or should I do something else to notify search engines that the temporary redirect is over?


Wrong canonicalization by Google

I had 2 pages with mostly same text and the difference being in Flash and cities names. So, Google started to think that those were copies of the same page and to index only the most popular of them. So I changed texts. No result. I used this http://www.google.com/addurl/ and Google still crawled only the most popular page. What do I have to do to convince Google that those are different pages? So far only changing urls comes to my mind.


How can I obtain click data to sort a list of URLs?

If you had a list of URLs and you wanted to show which of them was more important than the others (by click-through), how would you gain the number of clicks for a given link so that you could sort them, possibly showing that some links are a thousand times more visited than the others? The output could be: > 1 : link1 : 10500 > > 2 : link2 : 9200 > > 3 : link3 : 8100 > > 4 : link4 : 7000 > > 5 : link5 : 250 > > 6 : link6 : 100 > > 7 : link7 : 20


Trouble setting up DNS for VPS

I had registered a domain at namecheap and forwarded the DNS to my host at `vps.net`. The strange thing is, when I did that the site was showing up. I even uploaded files and everything was displaying correctly on my new domain. Now, it is just the namecheap holding page again. I have no idea why this is happening as I haven't touched the configuration since it was working. Could anyone point me in the right direction? When I enter `http://example.com` it redirects to `http://www.example.com` and the namecheap holding page is shown. Prior to this `domain.com` was showing what the host was serving. I am completely lost and have no idea where to start so I'd appreciate any help I can get.


re-direct URL with google +

I have a WP plugin that is throwing up an error after I go to authorise my account to link up with the Client ID and Client Secret details set up in Google +.. This is the error Error:redirect_uri_mismatch The redirect URI in the request: http://nutribalance.net/wp- content/plugins/paged_social_lockdown/lib/google/plus/ did not match a registered redirect URI Any help with this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, David


Can I sell a php website on a condition that the code is not resold by the client?

What if I write my client a website using LAMP. Suppose that clients starts selling my code to other people, can I perhaps do something about it because I have already asked them not to sell it more than once. This is because I am giving them the space to sell their website. But I don't want my code to be sold to too many people. As a web developer, I usually use OOP really well and so when my clients want websites, I usually use what I have. But what worries me is that a customer can go and sell my code for a cheaper price which in turn could run me out of business. This is a little complicating because I did sell them the website. But on the other hand, I have a copy of windows but I may not resell it. The problem is that unlike windows, php isn't compiled and thus they could make changes and sell it. My question is, can I take them to court over it?


Plain Text email support: Is it still needed in 2011?

For many years I have been building emails that get sent out by my webapps that are Multi-part with a text part & an email part to allow users of plain text only email clients to default to the text version. However I have recently been developing a rather complex email that doesn't translate so well to text, so in 2011 is there really any need to provide a textual alternative. How many people out there are actually still only able to see plain text emails?


Blog comments duplicate content paradox

I have a blog on this page:               domain.com/Blog/5/some-title      Below the blog entry it says, "click for comments". You click the link, and it goes to:               domain.com/Blog/5/some-title/Comments      For user experience, the blog content is displayed, with the comments displayed below it. It goes on multiple pages, such as:               domain.com/Blog/5/some-title/Comments/Page1     domain.com/Blog/5/some-title/Comments/Page2      I want all the comments to be indexed by engines, but, each page displays the blog content on it! I don't want to canonical it to the blog URL, because the comments wont be indexed. I don't want to not display the blog, because it takes peoples comments out of context and isn't so user friendly. Any way around this? Assume there are thousands of comments.


Changed url from non www to www...Google Indexing

I have recently changed (about 1 week ago) my url from non www version to www version. I told my hosting company to do this and they did it successfully all my urls are directed to www version. But google is indexing my non www version on the search results. I have updated new content on my website and google indexes that content with the changed url i.e with prefix www but the mainpage i.e the site name is still shown without www and its not updated. I have checked that my `www.sitename.com` is listed on google but not shown when I type `www.sitename.com`. So how much time does it take to remove the old urls from indexing and updating into new urls ??????


Direct link to cPanel File Manager

What is the direct link to the cPanel File Manager? The documentation says when inside cPanel, to access files, you have to click on the File Manager icon. I can log in to cPanel but the page does not seem to go to cPanel. I need to upload some files on the server but somehow I cannot. What I need is the link that gets you to the File Manager interface. For example: To go directly to phpMyAdmin, you can type something like: > example.com:XXXX/cpsess7168629484/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/index.php and this will send you directly to phpMyAdmin. What if you want to go directly to File Manager?


Why did my Feedburner feedcount reset to zero and how can I restore it?

I am using Google Feedburner for feed management of my Wordpress site. I have around 6000 subscribers and have used its widget to display the count. Couple of days back suddenly, the feed count display is showing as zero. Internally when I login and verify the feed subscriber information is intact. Only this count is shown as zero. What's going on?


Facebook Like button for Retina Display

I am using Facebook's Like button (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/) but when displayed on Retina Display iPhone, the button looks blurry as the Facebook logo is an image and it is scaled up for high DPI. Is there any way to render the like button for Retina Display?


Verify / setup LAMP via SSH

I am a PHP coder and have next to none experience in system administration. One of my clients has obtained a VPS from HostGator. The logins I was sent, take me to Parallels Infrastructure Manager, where I presumably, can start and stop _containers_. I guess a container in this context is a virtual server. Anyway, I looked for and couldn't find a cPanel, Plesk or anything familiar. I contacted support and asked how could I get a LAMP envo working on this account. They said as the account is not Level 3, I need to do everything through SSH. I verified that Apache is running. But don't know where I should look for the document root. With that I would be able to check if I have PHP and MySQL running or not. If they're not, I don't know what should I do next. Your advice is appreciated. P.S. The OS is CentOS. **Update**   Ok, I found the document root which is `/var/www/html` as noted here. If you someone can provide guidance on how to setup PHP and MySQL via SSH, it would be great.


Shared SSL hosting receives all SSL requests but why is Google getting it wrong?

The website is hosted on a shared server that supports SSL. The web hosting provider secures our website using SSL:               https://domain.com instead of http://domain.com      Ever since then all the client HTTP requests sent to the server are redirected to my website. Leading `https://otherdomain.com` and I'm presented with a warning message. I now know its my fault and I should of known that most SSL certifications only support one IP address but... Google Search results for my website's target keywords is now displaying these websites above my own, even though they have nothing even remotely related to the target keywords! **Already Done** :   * provide canonical URL in the HTML page.   * told the problem to the server manager, who tells me it's normal but he'll look for a solution. This was one week ago, no answer since. I have no idea why Google is providing these HTTPS URLS: i thought someone would have to submit them, or have them inside an HTML page in order for Google to actually index dummy HTTPS domains, but i see no reason why someone would do that. Any suggestion on how to solve this situation? Go-live is in one week and SEO looks really bad because of that.


I'm having some trouble moving MX records to the registrars DNS

I run Google Apps email and have traditionally hosted my own DNS records through my Plesk setup. It has been recommended to us that we'd more reliably serve emails during downtime if we kept the MX and CNAME listings required by Google Apps hosted at Enom instead of handling it internally. I have essentially copied the settings from Plesk over to Enom. The domain itself forwards with no problem, but the MX records, while they seem to be input into Enom without error, never seem to reroute my mail. If I try to send to the email address I'm trying to route, I get the following error bounced back: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 553 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) (state 14). This sort of error gets referenced a lot with regard to propogation, but It's been two days and Enom updates everything else almost instantly. Ideas?


Search and Tags for robots.txt

After setting up a blog at blogspot.com I added the site to my webmasters tools of google. I noticed an error: "Restricted by robots.txt" and looked a little into the matter. I found in the robots.txt of blogspot that Google prevents the /search directory by default in order to avoid duplicate entries in their search engine. As tags can be found under /search/label/SOME_TAG, these are not indexed too. I run different sites, especially one is an important e-commerce site for me. For each product, we use tags. Each tags leads to a separate site like /tags/tag1/ and lists all products that are linked to this tag. And this leads me to my question: **Should I also block search and/or tag pages on my sites by using robots.txt?** I feel google might punish my pagerank/results for using this "low-quality" content. However I think they are quite useful. We provide a short description of each tag and how the listed products can be used for the problem the tag describes. Moreover users landing on tags-pages have very high bounce rates (>90%), which is far above the average bounce rate. So, what is the best practice?


How do I use htaccess to make a short URL to a MediaWiki page?

I'd like to rewrite `/liam` to `/index.php/Liam_Edwards-Playne`. I've currently written this below in the appropriate .htaccess file but it is still returning a 404:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^/liam$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/index.php/Liam_Edwards-Playne [NC,L]


Should I encourage clients to update content for SEO reasons?

Assume a website has quality content, let's say it's about a topic that does not change: a company whose services and staff stay the same, and they have no news to speak of. The content is accurate, it's just static. Will this site _always_ lose in search engine results to the sites of similar companies with similar websites with, say, a simple piece of content (e.g.: home page with a "what we're up to lately" subsection) that changes monthly? `<ramble>`   I get frustrated with clients who are given tools to update their sites, but don't. My intuition is that by not adding "fresh" content to their site, even minimal content, they are hurting their search position in a way that's significant. Is that a valid intuition? Are there studies showing this is so or not so? I don't want to push clients to put more on the web if there's not going to be a return for that effort. I was considering building an automated tool to allow clients to set a weekly, monthly, etc reminder to add or update content. Any opinions on how much is enough for the SEO boost? Not every site needs a blog or has regular press releases.   `</ramble>`


Open source login solution

Authentication is such a general problem, which most websites have to implement. There are a few commercial solutions, but all lack sufficient functionality to customize the registration process. Therefore, I am looking for an open-source alternative. I am using PHP and with PostgreSQL as database, but as far as I understand one could utilize authentication solutions using other technologies and integrate them into our site in various ways. Therefore, I am looking for such solutions in any technology apart from those requiring Microsoft infrastructure... I would prefer Open Source solution, which have already implemented the following features:   * Has password recovery procedure   * Username is the email address of the user   * Has "Remember me" functionailty (meaning that the user is logged in automatically without seeing the login page)   * email address verification Google has gotten me nowhere on this and neither a search on this site...


Building an intranet

I'm researching for a project I'm going to be doing at work on the side... I work for a small hospital and we recently upgraded all the browsers inside our intranet to IE8 (Goodbye 6 :). We have a small, obsolete intranet built by someone who isn't a web designer... functional enough, but annoying to maintain and really sparse. What I'm wanting to do... is use a good framework. I'm looking for suggestions... I'm looking for something Windows IIS based. I'd love windows authentication - with the ability to delegate sub-sections of the website to managers. Right now it's my job to add/update/delete anything from the site... I'd like something not complicated that can be delegated to non-technical people. Like... the Cafeteria Manager should be able to update the menu without putting a ticket into me. She'd log into her computer, open the intranet (which would use her windows log-on to identify her) and have elevated privileges to edit her section of the intranet. If I have to "extend" a good framework to get Windows Authentication, I'll do it... but I'd prefer it to be baked in. What are some good frameworks, tools and places to start? While this isn't a "Huge" project... it's going to be bigger than the basic stuff I've done before and I'd like a good place to start.


Publishing series of photos on non-dynamic website

I have a series of photos I was asked to publish on a website. Website is on the free hosting (plain HTML and ftp access). Is there any way (javascript framework or anything) to quickly build a gallery, without creating pages manually for each photo category? Or, probably, an offline tool to generate html-structure for this.


SEO consequences from transfering tld's to sub domains

We have a client that has multiple top level domains for the products they offer. These products are different full fledged softwares. They also have a domain for their actual company that makes these products. We are consolidating their sites so that all of them can be managed by one backend. One of our developers suggested to consolidate even more by moving their product tld's into sub domains of the company site. So instead of this:   http://company.com   http://product1.com   http://product2.com   http://product3.com   http://product4.com   It would be this:   http://company.com   http://product1.company.com   http://product2.company.com   http://product3.company.com   http://product4.company.com   They like their current spots they have on search engines for each of these tlds. What consequences would happen they were to move them to sub domains. How (if any) can we prevent these consequences from happening? Or is it better to keep them separate tlds?


Same page template but ackground image doesn't show

I have installed new theme for Wolf CMS here. This is a demo of the template. Why does the content background image show on the demo but not on my site? The HTML and CSS is the same, and the image exists on my server. The background image _does_ show on my home page.


How to get your Google profile in the search results when searching your website

Check out this link: http://www.google.com/#q=codinghorror.com How come his profile is chowing up in the search results? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/kbwzs.png)


What is the difference between PageRank and Page Authority?

My question is what is the difference between PageRank and Page Authority? Can anybody define me please.


File access forbidden in htpasswd

I have been using the htpasswd generated in this question and it seemed to have been working well until recently. Since yesterday, I am not able to access the newest file created in the folder **`ChatLogs`** (named `10_07_2012.txt`). The server returns a **403 Forbidden** error saying: > ## Forbidden > >> You don't have permission to access /ChatLogs/2012/07/10_07_2012.txt on this server. I am still able to access older files(until `09 July, 2012`). At first I thought it might be because of file permissions, but they are the same as on other 9 files in the folder. What could be the problem? Please Help. ## EDIT As per w3d's suggestion, I completely removed my **htpasswd** and **htaccess** files. Restarted the apache2 server(using `service apache2 restart`) and I'm still getting the same **403 Forbidden** error for all chatlogs created after `2012-07-10 00:00:00`. The chatlog files are created/modified using **Lua** and **PtokaX**. The chatlogging script is similar to this one


How do keywords in Google Webmaster Tools affect search results?

I've checked the keywords list on the Google Webmaster Tools account for my website (which is a message board), and I noticed that the top keywords are things such as "topic" and "forum". I'm guessing that is because those are the words which appear the most within the homepage. The question is, will this impact search results? I'm guessing yes. If so, can this be solved, and how? I already searched on Google and on SEO forums without any luck. (When it comes to SEO, most info looks like bogus to me. I hope I'm wrong, but meanwhile I'll ask here since it seems a reliable place.)


How to keep track of websites updates?

I visit a good number of websites - around 100-200 - that don't offer RSS resources. I'm going to check through that list from time to time anyway but I could avoid wasting time in sites that weren't updated since last visit. Is there any tool that can provide me quick details any/major changes?


Setting up WordPress protocol using Softaculous & Namecheap

I am setting up WordPress on my new Namecheap domain/hosting account and the site I am building will eventually be offering items for sale (a small personal business site selling vintage items). I'm learning about SSL certificates now - I've seen some advice to choose `https://` and some to choose the `http://` option because the SSL certificate will take care of the rest. There are 4 protocol options when setting up WordPress via Softaculous, and I'm not sure which one to choose:               - `http://`     - `http://www`     - `https://`     - `https://www`


pulp pedia article deletion

I hope this is the correct stackexchange subsite if not I apologise. I would like to delete an article from PULP PEDIA, a horrifically rude and not funny website to mimic original wikipedia posts and enhance them with curse words. Could somebody tell me how I can delete a PULP PEDIA entry without deleting the actual Wikipedia entry ? Thank you very much. All the best.


font: Lucida Grande Unicode - does it exist?

I used Lucida Grande Unicode in photoshop to design my graphics. Now I'm trying to xhtml it. The problem is that, when I use css -> font:1em Lucida Grande Unicode nothing happens... I don't see right font, but when I use only Lucida Grande it works fine. What is the problem? Am I calling this font incorrectly? Btw, I'm on MAC. And I use firefox/firebug. p.s. In photoshop Luida Grande and Lucida Grande Unicode look different, small letters have different height. So I absolutely need Unicode version.


How does Google know about geo-location of a website for AdSense payments?

According "AdSense" terms, Indian websites or blogs need to be 6 months old to participate in AdSense. Now I have two questions in my mind:   1. Firstly, how does Google know that a website is being run by an Indian?    2. Does six months old mean that the domain should be registered for 6 months?


Preventing Spiders on One Subdomain?

We currently host multiple sites on the same domain that all live in the same physical directory on the server. Each is database driven and lives at a unique subdomain. For example, site1.example.com, site2.example.com, etc. However, because all of these sites live in the same directory, they share a robots.txt file. I would like to set up a test/demo site on this same codebase(i.e. demo.example.com), but I do not want it to be indexed by search engines. Is there any way that I can configure robots.txt to disallow an entire subdomain while not affecting other subdomains that live in the same physical location?


Should the English website use href="x-default" when it doesn't auto-redirect to the user's language or country?

For each URL on my site, I'm auto-redirecting according to header accept language. The site arch is               English version: http://mydomain.com/page     Spanish version http://es.mydomaina.com/page     etc..      The english version is displayed unless I'm seeing a specific language other than en and that I support in the header, and then a redirect occurs. Google says this: > For language/country selectors or auto-redirecting homepages, you should add > an annotation for the hreflang value "x-default" as well: My pages aren't language selectors, nor are they the homepage. But I am auto- redirecting. My question is, should my english version be `hreflang="x-default"` or/and `hrefland="en"`?


IE9 renders my web site as IE7. How to make it render as IE9?

IE9 renders my web site as IE7. How to make not to make assumptions?


AngularJS SEO for static webpages (S3 CDN)

I've been looking into ways to improve SEO for angularJS apps that are hosted on a CDN like Amazon S3 (i.e. simple storage with no backend). Most of the solutions out there, PhantomJS, prerender.io, seo.js etc., rely on a backend to recognise the `?_escaped_fragment_` url that the crawler generates and then fetch the relevant page from elsewhere. Even grunt-html-snapshot ultimately needs you to do this, even though you generate the snapshot pages ahead of time. This solution is basically relying on using cloudflare as a reverse proxy, which seems a bit of a waste given that most of the security apparatus etc. that their service provides is totally redundant for a static site. Setting up a reverse proxy myself as suggested here also seems problematic given that it would require either i) routing all AngularJS apps I need static html for through one proxy server which would potentially hamper performance or ii) setting up a separate proxy server for each app, at which point I may as well set up a backend, which isn't affordable at the scale I am working. Is there anyway of doing this, or are statically hosted AngularJS apps with great SEO basically impossible until google updates their crawlers? (Reposted from StackOverflow).


Keyword ending ccTLD domain names and SEO

There is huge number of ccTLD top domain names that is available for registration. This is country specific domains could be used for `keyword ending domain`. e.g `assemb.ly`, `architectu.re`, `stud.io`.... etc I am just wondering how is SEO goes for that kind of domains? The reason I am asking because the `.com` and `.net` domain names I want to register are not available so that is why currently I am researching the option of `keyword ending domain` but not sure if it is a good idea to use such kind of domain for global not country specific website. **In my case I am looking to`.re` domain name.** Or it is better to come up with different `.com` or `.net` domain name that is available instead of using `keyword ending domain` in case when `.com` or `.net` are not available? What do you think? UPDATE: here is article I came across but cant see `.re` domain in the list... Would this Google Webmaster Tools trick really help to set ccTLD to target global: > Set a geographic target: > > On the Webmaster Tools Home page, click the site you want. Click the gear > icon , and then click Site Settings. In the Geographic target section, > select the option you want. ? UPDATE: Found a good discussion here on that topic and this article


Best way for beginner to learn JavaScript and PHP coding

I have a job interview coming up and in job description it states I need to be able to write JavaScript and PHP coding. Now its been a while since I did JavaScript and PHP coding. I am planning to use w3schools to be able to start of with the basics. But my question is what is the best way on learning these web programming languages? Is it through books or through the web? If anyone know any sites which gan be helpful to learn or to be able to take tutorials in then please can you give me some links to check out?


Can't get an image to scale to browser size!

If anyone has any insight on why this background image is not scaling properly on this page to browser size, that would be really helpful. I am stumped! I'm fairly new to CSS and HTML and could use some assistance. Whoever can help me figure this out, I'm willing to paypal a few bucks. If any more information is necessary please let me know! It's the image of the computer right below the nav bar. http://codesilver.us


Where can I find comscore rank?

Recently one ad network rejected my registration stating that my site doesn't match their minimum monthly impressions, even though the site serves thrice the required page views. When I contacted them for details, their representative hinted that they are using comscore data for screening submissions. Where can I view my site's comscore ranking and details? **Update** I was able to find the traffic by tagging my site with comScore Direct.


Do first impressions really count?

So, i am currently writing something up for a college class. Problem is everything is hypothetical. I need some proof. I believe a first impression on a website is imperative so that people actually use it and in my case, buy your product or services as well. Basically I'm wondering has there been any studies that shows how a better web design will increase revenue for any kind of services? I don't just mean selling products like a T-shirt, but labor services as well. If someone wanted their computer fixed and searched for companies that can do so, will a first impression on the website help them make their decision to use your company? Are there any studies like this? White papers maybe? Thanks!


Should I move to Linode?

I am looking for insight, because I have the tendency to run full throttle into things with (at times) too much confidence. To summarize my somewhat lengthy explanation below, I am looking to see if I can handle my own Linode LEMP stack without getting hacked. I am starting up a couple of websites for fun, and if all goes well make it a career. I would love to run a few niche sites of my own and then freelance web dev with web hosting as a package for customers. Currently I have a site on a Knownhost WHM VPS. However, I would prefer to work on the console as opposed to running WHM/cPanel. Also I do not really want my clients to have a cPanel, since I am targeting people who "just want it to work", there are plenty of good hosts with cPanel anyhow. Scaling is another issue, I am planning to have a somewhat busy site with 250k+ visits/mo., and I am afraid making the move later will be more painful. So I will admit, my linux bash skills are lacking, but are increasing every day. I am currently practicing/studying for the LPIC-1 exams. I have built LAMP and LEMP stacks on my basement server, and they work fine here. Another issue is the lack of documentation of WHM compared to apache, it seems it would be easier to learn apache/nginx. I am also planning on using www.vpsbible.com to help me secure the Linode and help me build a LEMP stack with PHP-FPM and X-Cache. Anyhow, with all this being said, would I be foolish to start up my own Linode?


Configuring IIS7 404 page when using IIS7 urlrewrite module

I've got custom errors to work for .aspx page like: `www.domain.com/whateverdfdgdfg.aspx` But, when no .aspx url is requested, (like `http://www.domain.com/hfdkfdh4545`) it results in an error: > HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found The resource you are looking for has been > removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. I have this in my web.config:               <customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="/error/1" redirectMode="ResponseRedirect">       <error statusCode="404" redirect="/404.aspx" />     </customErrors>      404.aspx exists, since the above DOES work when requesting non-existent .aspx pages... I also configured the errorpages in IIS7: Status code: 404 Path: /404.aspx Type: Execute URL Entry type: Local My websites application pool setting is "ASP.NET v4.0" Now why is this still not working?


Keeping files private on the internet (.htaccess password or software/php/wordpress password)

I was asked a while ago to setup a server such that only authenticated users can access files. It was like a test server for clients to view WIP sites. More recently, I want to do something similar for some of my files. Tho they are not very confidential, I wish that I am the only one viewing it. I thought of doing the same,   1. Create a robots.txt               User-agent: *     Disallow: /        2. Setup some password protection, .htpasswd seems like a very ugly way to do it. It will prompt me even when I log into FTP. I wonder if software method like password protected posts in Wordpress will do the trick of locking out the public and hiding content from Search Engines? Or some self made PHP script will do the trick?


Dedicated server: managed hosting or manage it myself?

We're currently hosting a number of sites on a self-managed dedicated server. Some companies, however, offer a managed dedicated server hosting service. They offer:   * Roughly the same server spec   * Ticketing system support   * Managed daily backups   * Virtual firewall (but with a limit of 10 IP addresses allowed through at any one time) Now, this managed hosting is at extra expense - somewhere in the region of $500 per month, and the limit on the number of IP addresses they'll manage on the firewall is also a real pain. My thinking is it would be better and cheaper to   * Stay with the same host since the dedicated box is fine   * Get an Amazon AWS account and use their server to manage backups; there are a number of good tools that can be used to automate the process   * Configure `iptables` so that I have complete control of the firewall I want to know   * **Is a managed virtual firewall likely to be more secure than me configuring`iptables`?**   * **Whether, in your opinion, it's best to let someone else take care of backups?**   * **If, from your experience, there's anything else i'm missing that warrants using managed hosting over a DIY service?** I think there is some reluctance to not having managed hosting since a managed host in effect takes responsibility for your server, whereas any hardware or security issues with a server that **we** manage would mean we are forced to hold our hands up when a client site goes down. **That said, I personally don't think a managed host does _that_ much** in the day to day running of your server (backups are automatic, OS updates are carried out with ease, etc.).


Javascript in HTML vs in a .js file

I heard that putting the javascript in the html code isn't good for SEO and that it's better to put it in a .js file. It's clear that it makes the code more understandable but is it the only reason?


Does updating site too frequently hurt SEO rankings?

I recently updated my site, like 3-4 times in 2 months. At first everything was good, (i.e., Google was updating my pages' SERP content in 2-3 days). But now I did kind of a major change, I switched to CodeIgniter. My URLs are nearly the same as before, but my page titles and meta descriptions changed in terms of order. They were starting with brand name, and now they are starting with keywords. Now for one week Google has not updated my site. Do you think my site is Sandboxed? Is it bad to update too frequently? Also, my site is hosted on a free host called 000Webhost, so it is sometimes down. Could that affect ranking very much? My site also has no backlinks whatsoever, so I don't think Google visits my site very often, and Google Webmaster Tools says so too.


DNS: Getting www.example.com set up

I set up a recent (Wordpress) project on Microsoft Azure with a domain from 123-reg. When I set up the DNS servers I am getting `example.com` is working to the site, but `www.example.com` isn't and is showing a `404` error. If possible I would love to set up the DNS to allow either `www.example.com` or `example.com` to work. Even better if both can work! I have worked with domains before mainly through cPanel which has great options that normally work for me, while doing it straight from the Domain service isn't showing any possible results.


Is it possible to have a link inside a textbox like Outlook (names of the recipients)

Would this work?               <input type="text" value="JROQ"></input>      How could I make it happen?


Assume that I have created a Cloudfront distribution for a S3 bucket. Does it matter if you use the aws uri such as bucket-name.s3.amazonaws.com verses using d2a3tewy8xuw6.cloudfront.net? Are there any issues using amazonaws.com uri for Cloudfront? I'm currently using a cname in-front of my bucket-name.s3.amazonaws.com uri so the change it pretty easy.


How to redirect any URL to lowercase URL?

I have this .htaccess files:               ErrorDocument 404 /index.html     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteEngine On          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com [NC]     RewriteRule (.*) http://mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index.php$     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^search=([A-Za-z0-9\+]+)$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /mystring-%1.html? [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^myfolder-([^+]+)\+([^.]+)\.html$ /mp3-$1-$2.html [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^myfolder-(.*).html$ index.php?search=$1&a=1 [L]     RewriteRule ^myfolder-([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-([^-]*)\.htm$ /index.php?search=$1&page=$2 [L]     </IfModule>      **I want to redirect all of the Upercase and all case to lowercase URL like this:** `/myfolder-sample-URL.html` to `/myfolder-sample-url.html`


Is it (still) advisable to use the PHP extension html tidy?

Currently i'm using latest stable version of PHP, webmastering a online shop with Doctype XHTML. Most of our customers use "old" browsers, 25% use IE8, 10% use IE7, 3% IE6 (however, IE6 never purchase, the shop looks weird in IE6 because of PNG usage - we are not willing to strongly support IE6 anymore). Rest: FF, Chrome, div. Currently, I pretty much like the way, tidy cleans up the page. It provides better UTF8-Support, adds ommitted tags and - most important to me - always provides a w3-valid website (so I can put the badge on it). What I don't like is the missing development of the extension. I feel, it is quite impossible to make the page **HTML5-ready**. Why would I want to use HTML5? Mainly because auf schema.org. Our page added some product Info in microformats, however they are not supported very well. Microdata would be better.   * So, is it still adviseable to use html tidy just to get a "cleaner" source code, or should I provide HTML5-Support. (I would still have to use tidy for user-input like the description of our products).   * Moreover, will "older" browsers have problems with HTML5 or will they just ignore it?   * And last but not least: Will avoiding tidy speed up my page? Thank you.


Is MochaHost as good as it sounds?

It's time for me to find a new web host, and I'm a bit overwhelmed by the selection. I need a Windows host. One provider that seems to stand out is MochaHost. Here are a few of the things that look amazing to me:   * **2** free domains for life. **_2!!_**   * MS SQL Support - Unlimited Databases   * 5,000 sites   * $3.33/month   * Unlimited everything (traffic, storage, domains, etc.) Is MochaHost too good to be true? Maybe it is notoriously unreliable (despite their 100% uptime guarantee)? Are there other considerations I may be forgetting?


How long does it take for Google Webmaster Tools to notice links that have been removed?

In order to comply better with Google's guidelines, we've gone to a lot of effort to remove links to our website. However, sites that no longer link to us still show up in our Google Webmaster Tools. These links were removed over a month ago.


Licensing javascript code

I am developing a javascript library with various functions and am providing it in repositories, but I do not know how to provide the license. Should I just put the file `LICENSE` in the same folder as the javascript JS file and comment on the type of license used? **example** :               * lib.js     * license      **lib.js** :               / *     * License "license name used"     * /          code...


Disallow all user agents except one using .htaccess?

I've been struggling to get this .htaccess working. The aim is to disallow all user agents besides my app. The app sends a GET request with a user agent of lets say 'AcmeUpdater'. Whenever I try to navigate to any file in the folder, I get a 500 - Internal Server Error. Here are the rules I'm using:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^KMUpdaterClient*     RewriteRule .* - [F,L]     </IfModule>      I have updated the .htaccess file as suggested in the answer by Nick, and restarted Apache. After trying a couple of different things, it seems that just the presence of a .htaccess is causing the 500 error. I'm getting nothing in the error logs. The .htaccess file at the document root looks like the following:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     Options +FollowSymLinks     ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     </IfModule>      So I realised that the error logs were in chronological order rather than the reverse chronological I expected (Oops!). The error I'm getting is: `</IfModule> without matching <IfModule> section`. I removed the `</IfModule>` and still I get that error. Ideas?


design website using header and footer template approach

I am trying to re-do my portfolio website since its a pain to maintain it. Everytime I have to add a new item to it, it just takes forever and kills me. I'd like to redesign in a way that makes the workflow of adding new items smooth. I am not looking for fancy effects, just a simple website which makes it easy to people browse through my stuff. All of the pages are standalone html files. Each page has a common header and footer for navigation between pages. Right now, whenever I have to modify the content, I try to dig in which table row it is and then add content to it. (yes, I use notepad). Can someone please recommend me what would be the best way to go about it ? (PS: Please let me know if I missed out anything).


How to Merge Multiple Website Account - Google Analytics

When my clients adds me as an admin on there Google Analytics account for the website I am going to manage. Each time a separate Account shows up on my Google analytics with a single property in it (that is the clients site). Is it possible to merge all those accounts and keep them as properties under a Account I create, call it "Clients" I currently have 20+ clients accounts and its getting overwhelming. Its would be great if I can move them to a single account and add each site as property.


SEO - Index images (lazyload)

`Note:`My question is not about Javascript. I'm developing a plugin for `jQuery/Mootols/Prototype`, that work with DOM. This plugin will be to improve page performance (better user experience). The plugin will be distributed to other developers so that they can use in their projects. How does the `lazyload`: The images are only loaded when you scroll down the page (will look like this: http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload/enabled_timeout.html LazyLoad). But he does not need `HTML5`, I refer to this attribute: `data- src="image.jpg"` Two good examples of website use LazyLoad are: youtube.com (suggested videos) and facebook.com (photo gallery). I believe that the best alternative would be to use:               Content for ALT=""      and convert using javascript, for this:                     Then you question me: Why do you want to do that anyway? I'll tell you: Because HTML5 is not supported by any browser (especially mobile) And the attribute `data-src="image.jpg"` not work at all Indexers. I need a piece of HTML code to be fully accessible to search engines. Otherwise the plugin will not be something good for other developers. I thought about doing so to help in indexing:                     But `noscript` has negative effect on the index (I refer to the contents of noscript) I want a plugin that will not obstruct the image indexing in search engines. This plugin will be used by other developers (and me too). `This is my question:` How to make a HTML images accessible to search engines, which can minimize the requests?


Digital Asset Management System

I am looking for an opensource web-based digital asset management system. My requirements are to create a web based system where users can upload and download .zip, .jpg, .png, .pdf, .doc, .xls etc. media files. Also user management should be there, so that we can create multiple users and accordingly give them permissions. I have found one http://www.resourcespace.org/ but it looks a bit big and complicated. It is fitting to my need but I am looking and researching a bit more to get some good and more easy to use system. If anyone knows such web based system or tool, please share.


Compare Frequency & Recency of users with Goal Conversion using Google Analytics?

With google analytics is it possible to look at goal conversion rates for visitors with their frequency of visits? So Id like to know the % of visitors that converted who only came to the site once, the % that came twice, etc.


Creating country specific twitter/facebook accounts

I see many companies that have an international presence trying to localize their social media presence by creating country or language specific accounts. However some seemed to have done so without following a consistent pattern, one example being the `World Wildlife Fund` when you look at their `Twitter` accounts:               World_Wildlife : verified account with 200K followers     WWF            : main account with 800K followers     www_uk         : lower case with underscore between WWF and country indicator     WWFCanada      : upper case with country indicator attached to WWF     ...      I am planning to build a website which hopefully will grow global and would like to avoid this sort of inconsistencies. Also, I was comparing what `Twitter` and `Facebook` allow in their username and found out that they don't allow the same characters to be used (e.g. for instance that the former doesn't allow `.` whereas the latter does) making difficult to ensure consistency across social networks. Hence my questions: **Are there known naming schemes for creating localized`Twitter` and `Facebook` accounts while maintaining a certain consistency between them (best effort)?** **Are there any researches out there that have proven whether some schemes were better than others in terms of readability and/or SEO?**


How do I get Google to crawl my content when it's only displayed when you fill in a form?

I have a webpage. **It has a form and the "results" section is blank**. When **the user searches for items** , and a list that pops up, he/she chooses one option from list and then the **corresponding results are displayed in results section.** I once decided to log every ip,url of person with time that visits my page. One ip was 66.249.73.26, and on doing google search I came to know it is ip of google bot. link for whatmyipaddress google bot Now when I searched for the links that this ip visited, it was like this:               search?id=100     search?id=110     ...     search?id=200     ...      then afterwards it incremented in steps of 1, like 400,401.. But **people search for strings and not numbers**. And because googlebot searches for numbers like this, I think the corresponding content is never displayed and so **my page content is never indexed, even though it has rich content.** So I want to ask you is that **in order to show google bot all the content that the webpage has, should I list all the results in index page and ask users to enter string to filter results?**


Can I obtain trusted SSL certificates without giving out personal information?

I am launching a site that will require secure (ssl) account login, no payments or credit cards involved. Self signed certificates gives annoying warnings in browsers, so I want to get a trusted SSL certificate from an authority. But I want to keep my personal information anonymous. Is there a major authority out there who doesn't ask for personal information, only requires some sort of proof of domain control?


Integrative Google Analytics for dynamic search

My website is advertised with TripAdvisor and in the following way the URL is called:               https://ther8.com/api/hotel/271203?start_date=2014-01-16&end_date=2014-01-18&num_adults=2&utm_source=AUB1&utm_medium=Meta_CheckRates_CPC&utm_campaign=TripAdvisor      In the above URL: **Search Parameters**               hotel_id = 271203     start_date = 2014-01-16     end_date = 2014-01-18     name_adults = 2      **Tracking Parameters**               utm_source=AUB1     utm_medium=Meta_CheckRates_CPC     utm_campaign=TripAdvisor      And the URL is called how can Google Analytics make a note of the search parameter that has these tracking parameters?


How to verify new accounts against a known persons database?

I need to (try to) solve the problem of new account creation for a patient portal for a medical records system (electronic health record). That is, a way to activate a patient online and match her against her medical chart. Let's assume that most patients will not have an email address listed among the data that I already have. If I want to allow a prospective patient to submit a bunch of demographics information, and then if it matches, receive an activation code, is there an alternative to sending that code to whatever email address the prospective patient provides? Because I might know all of the info for another person (i.e. an estranged spouse or a neighbor who doesn't shred their garbage) and then give my own email address (which can't be verified). Short of having the prospective patient come into the doctor, or receive snail mail, to verify her identity (the problem I'm trying to solve) is there any way these types of verifications can be done?


How to move a website and domain name without experiencing downtime for emails or site?

Okay, I have a pretty complex problem, so I'll get right to it. I'm a designer who built a new website for my client. Their old site is hosted at GoDaddy, as well as their email. Problem is, the guy who built the original site decided to put the original domain name and hosting under HIS personal GoDaddy account. Well, that turned out to be a bad move for several reasons. Here's how it's all tied together. The original domain name, www.domainoriginal.com, was actually purchased at Network Solutions. The original web designer pointed the nameservers from Network Solutions to his GoDaddy account, where the email and hosting is setup. The new domain name, www.domainnew.com, was purchased under a new and separate GoDaddy account belonging to the company, and the new website was built under a 3rd party platform (Big Commerce). So, the www.domainnew.com is already pointed to the new website using A records at new GoDaddy account. All is fine there. However, they still need www.domainoriginal.com to point to the NEW website as well. (The old one can simply be deleted, it is NOT important). AND, they want to keep their old email addresses intact and working as well, but under the NEW GoDaddy account. Obviously, I have no DNS control at Network Solutions, and I have no idea what kind of control I have at GoDaddy under the old account because the web designer will not let me see inside his account. But, he and GoDaddy both tell me nothing can be done other than to repoint the nameservers to Network Solutions, and then repoint the A record to my new website, www.domainnew.com, and point the MX Records to GoDaddy. I'm told the downtime would be 24-48 hours if I do this. Ideally, we'd like to do a domain name transfer and get www.domainoriginal.com in the new GoDaddy account created by the company. But, I'm told this could take up to 7 days. Does this mean the site and email will be down for 7 days? And any emails sent during this time, would they be lost forever? If I do this, how long could I expect the site and email to go down? And, will the emails be permanently lost? I've gotten different answers from everybody at GoDaddy so I kind of don't trust them anymore... Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks, Tyson


What does the Quantcast __qca cookie do?

I'm reviewing the cookies served up from my website and one of them is a first-party cookie `__qca` which seems to be set by Quantcast. I'm sure this is just used for tracking, but I can't find this cookie discussed anywhere on Quantcast's website or generally on the web at all? Can anyone provide a reference or further information on what this cookie actually does? Thanks.


Add domain to VPS

I have a VPS server running _Ubuntu 11.04_ with webmin installed on it. How can I add my `example.com` domain to my VPS like the way we do on shared server via web panels such as cPanel and etc?


Anyway to validate schema.org JSON before publishing?

I have a site with a lot of data, and I'm dynamically building JSON-LD data that I think is `schema.org` correct. I can't find a dead-on example on `schema.org`, and it will take forever if I have to publish the content live, then wait for Google to say there's a problem, then re-attempt it, then wait again, etc. This is an example of what I'd like to validate:               <script type="application/ld+json">     {         "@context": "http://schema.org",         "@type": "TravelAction",         "agent": {             "type": "Person",             "name": "John Schmuckatelly"         }         "fromLocation": {             "@type": "Country",             "name": Curacao",             "@type": "GeoCoordinates",             "latitude": 12.05",             "longitude": -68.81667"         }         "toLocation": {             "@type": "Country",             "name":Aruba         }     }     </script>


What is the optimal way to apply categories to a new site?

To whit: I run a men's lifestyle Q&A site. I have a total of 25 categories in which questions are submitted. Currently, however, these "categories" are in fact sub-categories, such that Bodybuilding, Cardio, Nutrition, Health and Sports for example, all belong to the "Health & Body" meta category, of which there are 5 in total. Is this the best structure for the site, or would it be better for SEO to upgrade the sub-categories (since there are - and probably always will be - only 25...) into full-blown categories? Thanks very much in advance for any light you're able to shed on this.


Is there a tool that converts css to less.css?

I have a pretty big CSS file, that I want to convert to less. When I wrote the CSS I did not know less.css, but now I still want to use my old CSS. Is there a tool that can help me to convert it automatically?