How to use Canonical and Original-Source Correctly, on multilingual website?

was wondering wether searchengines index this correctly in a multilingual website: Currently, the htaccess eats nice urls on pages like `/de/somepage` and rewrites them invisibly to `/somepage?ln=de` so the query with the language (de, fr, en, it, etcettera) is put as a folder and the current page is added after it. Resulting in a clean static url that is better cachable than the one with ?= string url (is this true by the way?) However, some months ago there were no nice urls. only ugly ones floating on my site. imagine! Now I found out these old urls still remain roaming on the searchengines and think that these ugly ones are stretching their lifespan further than I pleased them to. So. Would this suffice (each and every page would have its own canonical...               <link rel="canonical" href="http://website.com/fr/page444">      As well as an original-source meta:               <meta name="original-source" content="http://website.com/fr/page444""/>      Is this the right way to do it? Any and all info is +1 worth to me.


How do I place a static wallpaper in my Tumblr theme?

How do I place a static wallpaper in this HTML theme? http://static.tumblr.com/taepiis/5SFln832d/theme.txt


What are the essential HTML tags?

I want to know what HTML tags are "compulsory" a web-page should have, in order for it to be displayed by a web-browser. Also, what is the difference between different versions of HTML, in general?


What does the user "nobody" represent in server process logs

I am new to vps hosting. I checked daily process logs on my server and found a user with name nobody consuming more memory than others. So what is the user nobody related to and why is it consuming more memory? This is the log info I found:               user / cpu / mem / mysql       nobody / 0.00 / 27.31 / 0.0


Could reverting to my old site bring back old SEO rankings?

Suppose I have s website that shows on 2nd Google page and I want to redesign it. What elements should I keep unchanged so that the ranking is not effected? If the ranking does go down and I decide to re-upload the old files, will the rank just return to what it had been?


Wild card redirect in htaccess giving error this webpage has a redirect loop

In my website I changed the directory name "vehicles-cars" to "vehicles-cars- for-sale". When I tried to redirect using a wild card redirect from my old directory name to new directory name in my web hosting cPanel account, I get an error every time I open pages from that directory: > this webpage has a redirect loop The website is php. The problem is that that I have lots of pages with the old directory indexed in Google and they are getting duplicate content. I really need some advice on what to do with this problem. Here is .htaccess file code for redirect, thanks.               RewriteEngine on          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^adsbuz\.com$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.adsbuz\.com$          RewriteRule ^vehicles\-cars\/?(.*)$ "http\:\/\/adsbuz\.com\/vehicles\-cars\-for\-sale\/$1" [R=301,L]


Good practice for sending out test emails without being classified as a spammer

I am trying out some new ideas involving HTML emails that will be sent from my site. I am sending lots of test emails to my Gmail and Yahoo accounts, all of which go straight to the spam folder. Although this is OK for now, but I am afraid that Google or Yahoo will classify my domain as an email spammer. Is there a good way to send lots of test emails and not have Google or other recipient email system filter it? This might involve an account setting, sandbox accounts, special email header, or to/from setting (I'm really not sure.) I am using PHP to send out the email. Here is a link to another post that shows my code: http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/45215/good-html-email-template


Is Amazon Affiliate program rewarding also leads from partner vendors (vendors "hosted" by Amazon)?

I would like to join the Affiliate program of Amazon and I am wondering, if the comissions are paid only for the products sold and shipped by Amazon itself or if I can "link" also to the products of the "hosted" vendors (like: "Sold and shipped by xxx")?


ASP .NET Blog Engine Web Installer API

For one project i need a blog engine that support multiple blogs (registered user can create their own blogs). Blog engine has to be fully integrated with some existing system (users, roles, security etc.) so i need some good API, and if it is possible, blog engine must be developed in .NET. Thanks.


Including Open Graph meta tags and Twitter card tags for SEO

I have used these tags before to share some content for user to preview on Facebook or Twitter before they actually go into the shared link/video. But when I was asked to include these tags only for SEO I had this doubt which I can split into two parts **part 1:** Let us assume these tags are included in the head tag of HTML doc. But there are no like, tweet or share links in the page.   a) Will these tags then help Google to search this page (assuming the page already has title and description meta tag)?   b) Will these tags help search used within Facebook and Twitter? **part 2:** Let us assume these tags are included in the head tag of HTML doc and also there are like or share links in the page.   c) Will these tags then help Google, Facebook and Twitter to search this page since there will be lot of clicks happening through these like, tweet and share links.


One variant receives way more visitors than the other (Google Content Experiments)

I've been running a number of A/B tests using Google Content Experiments, and have had the same problem across all the tests I've run in the last couple weeks. One variant (the original page) receives about 2.5 times as many visitors as the other. The pages I'm testing receive about 40,000 visits a week, and I've run single tests for over a week, so it's astronomically unlikely that this imbalance is just a statistical anomaly. Any ideas on why this imbalance might be occurring? EDIT: Turns out this is a "feature" (per obscure Google documentation). My question, then, is how can I turn this feature off?


Redirect root path on root domain to subdomain

Say there's a web application that runs on `example.com`, would there be a penalty for 301 redirecting the root of the domain (`example.com/`) to `subdomain.example.com` for purposes of hosting the marketing website for an application? Obviously we would expect `subdomain.example.com` to be what is ranked in the search engine, not `example.com`. We would want other paths on `example.com` like `example.com/path/to/resource` to index normally, and be unaffected by the 301 on the root path.


Domain Name Squatters Targeting my Domain

About a week ago I did something dumb. I went to network solutions, typed in my current domain name, checked the boxes next to any tld that was available and hit "add to cart". I was curious to see what the cost would be for buying every variant. Network Solutions website actually crashed when I tried this. This morning, my boss received an email saying something like: > Dear CEO, This email is sent by XXXX Co., Ltd(ICP Record NO.XXXX),located in > XXXX,China,an institution registering domains in China professionally,also a > member of "Domains Security Union" of CNNIC. Here we have something to > confirm with your company,we received an application on May 3,2012, one > company called "YYYY Co, ,Ltd." intended to register the following Network > Brand and Domain names: Followed by a list of many of the domain names I had attempted to register.... I am sure this makes my boss uneasy, but my colleague says he gets this sort of email twice a year and that it is a scam. Is there any real danger here, or is this just an extortion attempt for me to buy those domains? EDIT: I should note that searching any unique part of that email brought up virtually no results in Google.


Google is not treating two Australian schools as separate sites when both are subdomains of qld.edu.au

My question relates to two websites, each of which is a "Calvary Christian College", however in two totally different locations and unrelated to each other entirely (except by name, and thus domain). All schools in the state are issued a `<school-name>.qld.edu.au` subdomain, in this case `calvary.qld.edu.au` and `calvarycc.qld.edu.au`. Now what's interesting is that these domains are crossing each other in sitelinks for searches such as `calvary christian college townsville`. The green data here is for one school (the Townsville school, as per search term), and the red data is for the other school. I've put a demotion in for this >6 months ago (we control `calvary.qld.edu.au`), however we're seeing no change on the results page. I have been able to get the owners of `calvarycc.qld.edu.au` to submit demotions for our domain, which should go in sometime in the next few days. What can we do to tell Google that these websites are not interchangeable, despite both appearing as "subdomains" of `qld.edu.au`? We can possibly open channels of communication with the administrators of `qld.edu.au` but will need to tell them what we need to change, and at this point I'm out of ideas.


Something like firebug for internet explorer?

Is there something like Firebug for Internet Explorer? I've got a site that is only supposed to be working in IE so I'm only targeting IE and the site is not supposed to work in Firefox.


Apache: redirect URL of internal WSGI server

The following Apache `conf` file serves a WSGI application via port 9002:               <VirtualHost *:9002>         SSLEngine on         SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt         SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key              WSGIDaemonProcess matching-server user=ubuntu group=ubuntu threads=1         WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/matching-server/server.wsgi              <Directory /var/www/matching-server>             WSGIProcessGroup matching-server             WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}             AllowOverride AuthConfig             Order deny,allow             Allow from all         </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      The WSGI server responds to `/metadata` call, and returns a JSON with uptime information. I would like to alias `/api` to `/metadata`, so that calls to `/api` will be re-written as calls to `/metadata` and sent to the internal WSGI server. I have enabled `mod_rewrite` on the Ubuntu server:               sudo a2enmod rewrite      And added the following rewrite rule to the `conf` file:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule    ^api/?$    /metadata    [NC,L]      I tried adding the rewrite rule after the `SSL` section and inside the `Directory` section, but I am still getting a `Not Found` error when accessing `/api`:               Not Found          The requested URL was not found on the server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.      Needless to mention, `/metadata` works without problems with or without the redirect rule. Any idea what's wrong with my rewrite rule?


How to make a split test that reduces scripts from Google Tag Manager in a tool like VisualWebOptimizer

We have a website, where we use Google Tag Manager, in order to insert a big amount of scripts. We want to run a split test, where we reduce these scripts by 70%, which should improve load time (even though the scripts from Tag Manager runs async), and hopefully improve the conversion rate. However, how do we make a split test, where we can change the amount of scripts fired in Tag Manager?


Low number of site map links and none of mobile site map links indexed in the google

There 2,521 sitemap URLs submit to the Google webmaster tools. But they indexed only 548 URLs and 1,256 mobile sitemap URLs were submitted but none of it indexed. This shown in whole last month. URLs has Status OK and no any errors. Can anybody enplane why this happen? Is my sitemap code error or It's normal thing in Google webmaster tools?


Can owning a domain name for each city improve search engine optimization?

My boss asked me and I wasn't sure exactly how to answer. I'd like to get some advice from others that have hit this issue before. Scenario: We are wanting to purchase a new chain of domain names for a new site expenditure. The #1 goal for my boss is when a customer searches for "This product miami", or "miami this product" that our URL will always show up first because the structure of the URL would be indicative of the search term. So if the user searched for "This product miami", the search result would return www.thisproductmiami.com of if they search for "This product new york", it would return www.thisproductnewyork.com So, getting thisproductnewyork.com, thisproductmiami.com and so on for every major city in the US. So we will end up purchasing a "thisproductthiscity.com" for every city. To me as a web developer the best way I'd see this working is: miami.thisproduct.com newyork.thisproduct.com That way, the city still searchable, but its all managed and aggregated by one domain. What would give us the best search results. Purely based on the URL. This would help me out so much, any advice with links to articles or anything covering the subject so I can back it up with docs, would be nice.


Developing payment gateway

I have an idea of developing internet payment gateway similar to PayPal or Webmoney. Since i'm only sophomore at Computer Science, and i've only taken intermediate programming classes, i've no idea where to search for general information about this topic. I do understand that this kind of project is CLEARLY too much to handle for sophomore. Since, it's forum for Pro Webmasters, and probably some of you can point direction of study.   1. What book/source/article would you suggest to read to understand fundamentals of internet payment?   2. What book/source/article would you suggest to read to understand fundamentals internet security?   3. What language is most commonly used for developing payment security of website? I appreciate any help. Thank you.


Why do differant domains have differant prices?

Why are `.com` domains cheaper than less common domains? I was recently looking at getting a `.mu` domain, and was surprised that the "cheapest" price I could find was $58 (less if gotten for more years), yet you can get `.com` domains for under $10. I understand some are country codes, so that might be a factor, but I'm mostly inquiring on why non-county code domains have varying costs (although why costs for country code domains are so much more would be helpful as well). **Edit:** I am not asking about the difference in prices between registrars, but rather between different domains (`.co`, `.com`, `.tv`, etc). Aka, what is the reason one domain is worth more than another?


Redirecting bad links to the correct links via htacess or 301 redirect plugin for WordPress

I'm getting a lot of 404 errors b/c I recently switched content management systems (Habari to WordPress). I would like to use the 301 redirect plugin for WordPress to capture and helpfully redirect the offending links to the correct urls. Here's an example of the type of errors I'm seeing and what they should be redirected to:               http://janetalkstech.com/admin/publish?id=146       should redirect to `http://janetalkstech.com/?p=146`               http://janetalkstech.com/admin/publish?slug=post-title      should redirect to `http://janetalkstech.com/post-title` I would greatly appreciate any specific pointers on how to perform the redirects with either the 301 redirect plugin for WordPress or via .htaccess file Edit: Redirection plugin being used is the one by Urban Giraffe: `http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/`


Node.js - Is there any front-end js? Or is it all backend?

With Node.JS as a backend solution; is there any frontend javascript or all events controlled on the backend?


Error message when opening Googlebase data feed

I'm trying to get my site's products uploaded to google's merchant center, but it's only uploading 2 of the ~20,000 I have. When I open the datafeed url (in Chrome) to look into it I get the error message "error on line 38 at column 761: Entity 'Acirc' not defined error on line 38 at column 761: Encoding error" Now I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, when I look at the product where it encountered the error everything looks ok but something is obviously not. What should I be looking into? Thanks


Moving from Subdirectory to Subdomain structure

I have a website (powered by Rails/Postgres and nginx) where I had setup a blog and a coupons section as:               http://myrailsapp.com/blog/ http://myrailsapp.com/coupons/      Blog is powered by wordpress and similarly the coupons section is powered by PHP/Mysql. The traffic of my website has increased a lot over the last 6 months. So, the thought was to move Blog and coupons on a different server and hence I dont need to run mysql/php etc where my rails app is running, reducing my memory footprint as much as I can. So I am planning to move to subdomain structure from the existing subdirectory structure. 1) Is the above thought process correct? 2) How much SEO impact would I have, if I move from subdirectory to subdomain and set up 301 redirects. My subdirectory structure for coupons is indexed quite well in Google. So any mistake here could be costly :( 3) I am not an expert on Nginx, so I ended up writing whatever I could:               location ^~ /coupons/ {         rewrite ^/coupons(.*) http://coupons.myrailsapp.com$1 permanent;     }      Would that set up 301 redirects correctly? Is there something else that I am missing here? Or is that all about it? Anything else in the above code that I must take care as far as SEO also goes.


Index Company Name but not other keywords

I'm working on a website that doesn't want it's content indexed by search engines because it only caters to a specific segment of the population. It purposefully wants to stay hidden from the general public. It **does** want it's company name indexed in search engines however, because when the company sends targeted snail mail advertising, users should be able to type the name and find the site. It's a requirement for the homepage to function as a gateway into the the rest of the site, so it's unavoidable that the homepage will be rich in relevant keywords that could lead to the site being found by the general public. **Summary:** What's a good approach to have a webpage indexed solely by the company's name without generating other keyword searches related to the company?


How to get China to upgrade off IE6?

According to IE6 Countdown, IE6 usage is down to 11.4%, and they are watching for it to "drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support". This sounds good in theory, but usage is highly concentrated in one geographic region:   * China, 34.6%   * South Korea, 23.5%   * Taiwan, 9.4%   * Vietnam, 8.9%   * Japan, 8.0%   * Hong Kong SAR, 7.0% Only a couple of countries in the top 10 are outside of east/southeast Asia. Half the world's IE6 users are in China. What this means is that even if _every other country in the world_ dropped to absolute 0 usage of IE6, we'd still be well above 5% IE6 usage worldwide. As a programmer, I know to profile for hotspots before spending any time optimizing, so if my goal is to get worldwide usage down, it's a waste of time to spend any effort on the 2.4% of Americans (or even the 3.9% of Argentines) using IE6. I need to go after China, and to a lesser extent South Korea and India. Are there specific reasons why these countries are using IE6 so much? What specific actions can a developer (or evangelist) do to help get these countries off IE6? Are they on a PC/OS that can't upgrade, or do they not know, or do they not want to, or are they not allowed to? Should we be pushing newer versions of IE, other browsers, other OSs, or mobile? Are these IE6 users home or corporate, and if the latter, is Chrome Frame or Firefox Portable an option? Are there a few specific websites they use, who we could ask to provide a better experience in more modern browsers? Are they using a small local version of a popular website, because the big popular one isn't translated into their language? I really know nothing about web browsers in China but that seems like I ought to if we want to get IE6 usage numbers down.


Is DiscountASP a good host choice for an app that will have mostly foreign traffic?

I've created an ASP.NET MVC application for a client in India. Most of the web traffic would come from India. I typically host my apps at DiscountASP, but would this be a good choice for an app whose traffic is primarily from India?


Spidering private member based websites

I'm building a member based social network that requires users to be logged in to view content, in addition to that the content feeds (blogs, forum posts, comments, etc) are being stored in a database. Will google be able to spider this site for key words? If not then what do I need to do for them to be able to spider it? If someone could link me to a descriptive article that'd be awesome because I'm not getting much info from google and google searches.


Google spidering: make content available but unsuable

I'm trying to figure out how to make it so that my member-based social network site can be spidered but is not possible for guests to post or interact with content in any way. What is the best way to do this? If anyone can suggest an article or tutorial specifically for this that would be awesome. The system I've had up in the past was a check user log script but that was for the whole page, is there a way to do this for (as an example) clicking inside a text box to type a comment or something?


Universal same-origin policy

Here is something I have been wondering about for the longest time. It seems very simple, but to this day I do not know any practically usable technology. Is there a way that I can browse the internet and enforce a universal "same origin" policy? By that I mean that my browser will simply not issue _any_ network requests for _anything_ that isn't in the same domain as the root website that I am visiting. Nothing. No images, no CSS, no JavaScript, no frames, no iframes, no AJAX requests, no plugin video content. Even though the WWW is now well into its adult life, it still seems like there is no way for me, the user, to visit a website which contains an image sourced from a third party server without that server knowing that I visited the website. I know that there are several individual, ad-hoc workarounds, but the very simple heart of the matter is that I should be able to instruct my browser in simple, broad terms to never start any requests to any off-site location. (Please don't tell me that this will break lots of sites. That's not a problem. This is a question of principle.) Does any such technology exist? Any special browsers, or plugins for popular browsers?


Is zz.zz.zz.zzz a local host or a domain Hostname?

I found in a video `zz.zz.zz.zzz.com` being as a URL and streaming the content from this. attached is the URL fro information. My question is: is there some URL like this `zz...`? Is this a localhost / a domain hostname ? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NyZww.png)


Get a list of pages within a domain without a title set

On our webshop, we have about 60k distinct URLs and some of them don't have a `<title>` set. I know the google parameter `intitle:` but I can't handle to find those pages using that. Do you have a hint for me, that does not require to install a crawler or something?


Is it better to publish poor content now than wait to add informative content later?

I'm working on a site and plan on creating dynamic information via PHP pages for each item in a list of approximately 10,000 titles. Right now all I have is the list itself, which IS kind of interesting for users coming from specific search queries. But this will mean a page which is basically just a list of item-titles (1 to 2 words long). SEO-wise, should I wait till I can link each item with an informative individual page, or should I go ahead and publish the list even though it's very poor in content?


PHPBB3 UCP Module only showing up for admins

I copied a bunch of examples online to create my own custom UCP page/module. And it worked. But it only shows up for administrators. I checked the ACP and there does not seem to be any settings there for permissions for any of the modules. I skimmed the code and found:                return array(         'filename' => 'ucp_nhl',         'title'    => 'UCP_NHL',         'version'  => '1.0.0',         'modes'    => array(         'nhl' => array('title' => 'NHL', 'auth' => 'acl_a_user', 'cat' => array('UCP_LEAGUE'))),         );      `'auth' => 'acl_a_user'` jumped out, but there does not seem to be a single resource online as to what that means. I checked the other UCP pages and they mostly use `'auth' => ''` so I switched to that. But it still only shows up for administrators. What am I doing wrong? Is there some refresh thing I have to do, I tried disabling and enabling the module, but that had no effect.


Which class should I use to register a trademark for my domain?

I want to protect my domain name, so I've been thinking of registering it as a trademark. Does anyone know what class a website would come under (for the registration process)? Also, do you think this is necessary? I've already found another website with the same name, but a weird country suffix added to it. **EDIT:** The website would be an educational website (not sure if that helps).


Grep directory name

Need a script to grep within a directory for folders named by emails (so looking for the @) to then search the apache logs to see if the email address grep'ed has accessed the website today. Then after this I need to look at the user-agents detail to see what browser they are using


Shopping Cart Abandonment Email Service?

I'm looking for a third-party service to integrate with my custom shopping cart to automatically send emails to people that leave the checkout before finishing; aka, abandoning their cart. Basically, anytime someone leaves the site and we have their email address, we'd like to send them an email enticing them to come back to the site. That's the basics of it, any additional functionality would be great. Suggesting other products, offering some kind of special offer, etc. I'm just looking for any services that offer this rough description. Thanks


What response headers encourage 304-Not Modified upon reloads?

When looking at the network waterfall in Firebug/Chrome/IE9, I keep seeing "200-OK" instead of "304-Not Modified" for many cache-able files (images, js, css) on this page, for example. I believe it is because the browser is not sending a If-Modified-Since during the Request, right? Do I need to change something in the initial Response headers to make 304s happen? FF13 screenshot


Requests in form: http://www.site.com/one/two/three/ in Apache 2

how can I configure Apache server, to mantain requests such as: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/ (i mean the /one/two/three)? What's the name of this technique and how it is done? Thanks.


Aggregating customer service emails from multiple ecommerce sites for easy handling

For one of my main customer help email addresses I use Mozilla Thunderbird with a combination of tags and saved searches. As the number of my e-commerce sites grows from 1 to more, customer service handling gets more tricky. Is there any simple and efficient way of handling emails from the different sites? Perhaps what I'm looking for is a way of aggregating customer service emails from different sites, into one place? Perhaps there's a way of already doing this within Thunderbird or Gmail?


Free Website Marketing & Backlinks?

What are some good places to advertise my websites for free? I've already submitted them to Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. Now, I am looking for some places I can create legitimate backlinks. Does anyone have any ideas?


Litmus test to determine if javascript content is crawlable

Already read this: How can I create links in javascript that are crawlable by search engines? I make the assumption that if you view source on a page and can find content / links hidden by javascript contained within appropriate html tags after the page is finished loading the first time, then crawlers can find the content / links as well. Is this true? Also is there any special markup available that will highlight the content to a search engine? Is finding the content in the html after initial page load an appropriate test whether the javascript on a page is Search engine friendly?


Disqus comment form missing from posts

I decided to transition from IntenseDebate to Disqus for the blog. So I uninstalled ID via their uninstall process (you upload the template to them, they remove code, you reupload your new template onto the site). Then I went to install Disqus into the site through their Blogger widget method. The problem is that there is no comment form present on any of the blog posts' pages. For example, when you click on the 'Comments' link it jumps to `#disqus-thread` but there is no thread there. So is there any fix that I can do in order to make the comment form appear? I checked Disqus' knowledgebase for Blogger installation but as far as I can tell my template should be compatible.


Which Opensource License i release my new Youtube video download Project so no one can ask me that this project is against youtube?

i have designed new opensource youtube video downloader but download videos from youtube is against youtube **How can i make this type of message :** This is opensource project that is used to download videos from youtube but downloading videos from youtube is against youtube and use of this project under study purpose only. Or Which Opensource License i release so that no one can ask me that this is against youtube?


Software for video subscription service

I'd like to sell instructional videos over the web. Primarily, I'd like uses to subscribe to the site and be allowed access to videos over the internet. Secondarily, I might sell DVDs for those who have poor internet connections or would like a physical copy, or possibly I'd sell eBooks and the like in the future. Regarding the subscriptions:   * I'd like a system that automatically sends out e-mails when it is time to renew   * I'd like to be able to offer free trials   * Users without a free trial or subscription should not be able to access the content     * Incidentally, I plan to host videos on my current web host and move them to a CDN when volume (and capital) make this a good idea. While I have no intention to go crazy with the DRM, it seems expedient not to directly link to the files -- how can I link to them indirectly?   * It would be nice to support multiple payment processors -- specifically, I'd like to avoid a PayPal only approach. Are there any web applications (or plugins) you'd recommend for something like this? While I've set up and administered several web technologies, I've never done anything with e-commerce. I see there are possibilities like osCommerce, one friend recommends using WordPress with plugins, and it really appears that for any given CMS, you can graft on components like this, although I imagine that not all are created equal. As I'm not tied to a particular web application (and, while open source software that can run on a LAMP [p=perl, python, php] stack is preferable), I'd like to make a good choice at the beginning.


Is a domain name transfer required or can I just link to old domain name without transferring?

I have two domain names (`www.abc.com` and `www.xyz.com`) which are hosted using say a company called Old-Host. Now, the hosting plan has expired and they have taken down all data residing in their servers without giving me enough time to get back to them. As a result only the domain names are active (`abc.com` and `xyz.com`), however data is lost and the site does not load. I researched and found this new hosting company, lets call NewHost to be appropriate and they allow multiple domains also. My question is, should I transfer those old two domains (`abc.com` and `xyz.com`) over to the new hosting company NewHost, or can I still let those old domain names reside with OldHost and have my data in NewHost refer to those domain names? Example, I just sign up only for hosting space at NewHost (no domain name purchased), and I configure such that when I enter `www.abc.com` (which was registered by OldHost) the data is collected from NewHost? Is such a configuration possible, or should I have domain name transfer effected for this to happen?


wordpress installation issues

I Installed Wordpress under (UBUNTU)`/var/www/wordpress`. `wp-config.php` is modified as recommended. When trying to access `http://x.y.z.a/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-install.php` it doesn't open the page but instead downloads the file...


why are my sites bien blocked by Smartfilter at my work

Why are my domains being blocked by Smartfilter (owned by Yahoo) at work. I buddy mentioned that he had the issue before. He "categorized" his domain with his registrar, changing it from "Uncategorized". Shortly after it worked. How can domains be categorized? I look through all the options at my registrar (Go Daddy) without finding one for domain categories. Any help would be appeciated


Digest Authentication - how is it used?

I understand a bit about digest authentication from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication, but I am pretty unclear on where, when or how it is used. I can't find anything on that side of it. Where, when and why would a webmaster use it? Does it require any extra code on a site if the server has it implemented? As you can see, I pretty much in the dark about how it is used, so any info would be helpful. Maybe this could become a FAQ


Universal Analytics and no Referral Exclusion List

With new _Universal Analytics_ , every new referral value triggers a new session: > ## How excluding referral traffic affects your data > > By default, a referral automatically triggers a new session. When you > exclude a referral source, traffic that arrives to your site from the > excluded domain doesn’t trigger a new session. If you want traffic arriving > from a specific site to trigger a new session, don't include that domain in > this table. > > _Source:https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2795830_ And then, there is this _Referral Exclusion List_ to make _some_ referrals not trigger it: >   1. Navigate to a property. If you're not in the settings screen, click > **Admin**. >   2. Click **Tracking Info** then **Referral Exclusion List**. >   3. Enter the _Domain_. >   4. Click **Apply** to save. > However, I'm not able to find **Referral Exclusion List** in my **Tracking Info**. :( Here's a screenshot: ![No Referral Exclusion List in Tracking Info od Google Analytics](http://i.stack.imgur.com/FIpTr.png) What can be done about it? This effectively prevents me from tracking source of my conversions (payment is handled at external site). (I even tried manually substituting `TrackingCode/` to `ReferralExclusionList/` in **Admin** dashboard URL, with no success.)


How do clicks from Google Places show up in Analytics?

We've just implemented Google Places for our business and are getting a few hits through the mini-analytics that places have. But those are just a hybrid impressions, CTR chart. Is there a way to track clicks from local results in the full blown Google Analytics?


Wordpress and local business SEO

Which Wordpress plugins and themes have been verified by the online community to be best at maintaining good SEO for a Wordpress site representing local business? Is there a site that is specfically dedicated to tracking local business SEO optimized Wordpress developments?


When having multiple firing rules in Tag Manager - "and" or "or"?

Let us say I have some tag in Tag Manager. This event has two firing rules:   1. "All pages"   2. "Domain equals domain.com" Is this seen as an: (1) AND (2) or: (1) OR (2) This is quite important for how to add the rules.


Versatile cloud storage/VCS?

I'm looking for online storage that can "corral" many other forms of online storage like FTP, SSH, WebDAV, and commercial services like Google Storage and Dropbox, and to keep these files "in sync". In other words, I'm looking for a cloud storage service that will connect all the various forms of storage I work with or that my clients hand to me (i.e. Dropbox) in one virtual filesystem. Second to that, I'm looking for something with strong versioning features. And second to that, I'm looking for something with good ability to show a "preview" of most file types within the browser, and to let me write notes and annotations on any file type. P.S. I'm willing to do some work to set up a software stack on a bare-metal machine that I control in order to achieve the desired functionality if there isn't a commercial service that provides all these features.


How to automatically generate HTML table from image in Linux?

In Photoshop, you can easily divide the image into zones using point and click and it automatically generates the corresponding HTML with image slices addressed in tables. Gimp also has a Slice (Filter > Web > Slice) but it is so rudimentary and, as far as I can see, does not allow point and click selection of slices. I am wondering if the functionality can be added into Gimp, or there are other Linux software to do this. I hate to return to Windows just to do this simple task which I happen to use frequently. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.


Competitor Web Keywords

I am working on my SEO and have looked over my own keyword traffic through Google Analytics, but is there a way to see the **traffic competitors get** from a particular keyword? For example, if I get 200 hits for "house cleaning," I don't actually know if that's good or bad until I see my competitors...if they get 1,000 hits from that term, we're doing horribly, but if they only get 10 hits, we're doing great. Thanks (and yes, i know how to `view source` to see their `meta tags`, but i want to actually see the numbers they are getting)


View competitors popular web pages

Just wanted to know if there is an online tool that shows a website most popular pages from highest to least.


Can a past Expires header value cause a site to not be indexed by Google?

I'm using this:               <filesMatch "\.(html|htm|js|css)$">       FileETag None       <ifModule mod_headers.c>          Header unset ETag          Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"          Header set Pragma "no-cache"          Header set Expires "Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT"       </ifModule>     </filesMatch>      Will this cause my site to not be indexed by Google?


Automated Google Analytics Reporting Monthly Emails Only Showing A Single Day

I have configured a dashboard for Google Analytics, selected (using the date drop down menu at the top right) to show one months worth of data and have compared it to the previous month. I then configured monthly emails to be sent to me and to test I did the same thing again, but instead configured the emails to email me daily. The email came in this morning and only shows a single days worth of Analytics information... Despite using the calendars to show a months worth of data, since I selected a frequency as 'daily' will Google only show me one days worth of Analytics? Can I expect my monthly email to show a months worth of data? **NOTE:** The question may sound obvious, but to time frame I can't wait until the end of the month to receive the monthly email to see if this will work, because if it emails me and only shows me one days worth of information I'll have to wait another month to see if attempts to fix it have worked. **NOTE #2:** I'm not sure if maybe I am being stupid but from my research what I have described above should work, but Google's documentation is a little vague, I have been going off what I have read on various blogs with regards to my specific requirements.


Why does Google fonts looks ugly in Firefox & Internet Explorer but not in Chrome?

I am using Google fonts. The fonts are looking too ugly on Firefox but displaying very smooth on Google chrome. Looking forward for any help to resolve this issue. Following are the sites which are having issue on Firefox & Internet Explorer http://promptgroup.org/ http://airagility.com/ Following are the sites which are also using Google fonts without any issues on Firefox http://www.parmapizza.ca/ http://unbeatable.com.pk/


Pagination and duplicate content

I have an archive page that displays the number of articles published. Because there were so many, I ran a pagination script: for `127.0.0.1/archive/2/?p=x&pp=y` where `p` is the page number and `pp` is number of articles to display per page. The pagination looks like this:               Prev  1  2  3  4 ... 12   NEXT      with each item linking to `p` like `<a href="?p=x">x</a>`. I also have the items per page setter: 25 | 50 | 100 `(<a href="?pp=y">y</a>)`. Now I have a PHP script that fixes `pp` into a session variable. But I am worried about duplicate content (since incrementing `pp` values will be inclusive) and also content not getting indexed because its not in the pagination link. so in the example above, pages 5-11 will not be indexed. Any ideas on how to fix this?


how to stop other sites linking non available urls to our site which leads to 404

I check webmastertools for 404's. I can see other sites linking to my site but with additional characters which makes the link a 404 in my site. for example if i have a url like sitename.com/category/product-name.html and other sites read this content from some other source and are listing in their site like sitename.com/category/product-name.htmlAs because of such improper link backs(which i did not create in that site) i get a lot of 404's in webmastertools. how do we prevent this?


What is the shortest valid and available numerical domain name?

**559.com is unavailable:** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UGThv.png) **10019976.com is available:** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/VAg2r.png) But how can I figure out the lowest number available as a ".com" domain name?


On shared hosting, all subdomains are hosted on the same server?

On shared web hosting, are all subdomains like `foo.example.com` and `bar.example.com` always hosted on the same server (same IP address)?


How to force Google to index images and webpages? Or I shouldn't bother and just wait a bit more?

I have a web site with a lot of web-pages and images. I created the sitemaps (grouped into single sitemaps index file). I submitted those sitemaps to Google but the indexing process is disappointingly slow: ![Web-pages and images submitting ad indexing](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jPw8l.png) Sitemaps was submitted on Feb. 4th. Submitting process started on Feb. 8th and so on:               02/09/2014 - Indexed 187 images     02/10/2014 - 956     02/11/2014 - 1180     02/12/2014 - 1196     02/13/2014 - 1198     02/14/2014 - 1192 (!!!)     02/15/2014 - 561 (!!!)     02/16/2014 - 1144     02/17/2014 - 1144      So the images indexing process is weird. However the crawling process look much more attractive and promising: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/MXwbR.png) Do I need to wait some extra time? Or do I need to take some actions to help Google to index my web-site correctly?


When to tell Google Webmaster Tools that domain has moved

I have moved a site to a different domain name and did a complete overhaul. Link structure has changed because the old one was very bad. That being said, I am doing 301's manually on about 1800 pages. I prioritize what to move first based on SEO Landing Pages report in Google Analytics. Stuff that has most impressions and clicks goes first and some content is clearly bad so I will just 301 to a suitable section of the new site. I am about half way done with my 301's. Should I wait until I finish all my 301s or can I indicate in Google Webmaster Tools that the domain has moved?


Registrar with good security, DNS hosting, and DNSSEC and IPv6 resolvers?

I'm looking to move my domains away from GoDaddy, but I'm having a tough time finding anyone with comparable features at a (even remotely) similar price. I've looked at the usual suggestions (NameCheap, Gandi.net, etc.), but they all seem to lack many of the GoDaddy feature base. I'm looking for:   * DNSSEC   * IPv6 Resolvers (dig pdns01.domaincontrol.com AAAA; etc. )   * SSL-Logins by default   * HTTP-only login cookies   * No stupid password restrictions   * Two-factor authentications   * No DNS record limits   * Rough DNS statistics (queries/day, etc.)   * Audit trails GoDaddy has all of these, except two-factor, for $3/month. See http://www.godaddy.com/domains/dns-hosting.aspx I can't seem to find _any_ other registrar that supports even a few of these. Is there a registrar that offers comparable features? Or, barring that, a DNS hosting service that offers similar features? (AWS Route53 doesn't offer DNSSEC or IPv6)


Tracking first visit date in Google Analytics

I want track a site's visitor retention using Google Analytics, to see if unregistered users are returning to it, within a time frame of 2+ months from now. This blog post seems to be on the right track, but I want to track unregistered users, so I don't have a "join date" or similar variable at my disposal. This other blog post suggests using all 5 GA custom variables, using the first variable slot on the first week, variable 2 on week 2, etc. This method will allow me to track 5 weeks of visitors. I want to track more than 5 weeks of visitors, so I was thinking on using two custom variables in GA: visitor's first visit date, and visitor's last visit date. How I can save the first visit date? Because if I save another value in the same slot the old value will be overwritten, and I don't know how reliable is to save that variable conditionally (reading the `__utmv` cookie to check whether the "first visit date" is set, if it isn't set I save the current date)


Clients requesting garbled URLs

I've noticed some odd 404s which appear to be broken URL rewriting code. Our image viewer requests tiles using URLs like this:               /media/204/service/dzi/1/1_files/7/0_0.jpg      I see some - well under <1% - requests for slightly altered URLs:               /media/204/s/rvice/d/i/1/1_files/7/0_0.jpg      These requests come from IP addresses all over the world (US, Canada, China, Russia, India, Israel, etc.), desktop and mobile users with multiple user- agents (Chrome, IE, Firefox, Mobile Safari, etc.), and there is often normal activity within the same session from the same IP address so I'm assuming this is either malware or a broken proxy / filter. I have not seen them from anything other than images, which suggests that this may be some sort of content filter. Has anyone else seen this? My CDN logs show the first request on June 8th ramping up from several dozen to several hundred per day.


Why isn't Google Analytics data being recorded?

I am really confused with this one, I added the google analytics code in my page below the `</head>` or before `</body>` but the code is not being marked as connected inside the analytics panel. I tested it with the google analytics debug plugin and it seems to connect approprietly. Any ideas please?


In case of a server error, should I change the URL in the address bar?

Let's say the user surfs to `http://mysite.com/some-path` and encounters error 500 which leads to a custom error page. What is the best practice regarding the URL shown in the address bar while in the error page - should I leave `http://mysite.com/some-path` or should I change it to `http://mysite.com/custom-error.aspx`? Is there a good reason **not** to leave the URL as is?


How do I allow visitors on my site to share my photos on their facebook news feed?

How do I allow visitors on my site to share my photos, on their Facebook wall/news feed? I see that there is a "share" or "like" option from Facebook but that seems to share the whole page. I would like to have it so that each picture has a small Facebook icon next to it and when they click it, that specific image only is added to their Facebook news feed/wall. My site is in ASP.NET 3.5 using C#. I can develop in C# so if that is a route to what I am trying to achieve that is fine. Thank You.


AJAX spreadsheet editor interfaced to own website

My website has records that are tables. I would like for my users to be able to edit these records in an easy way. Currently they download a .csv-file, edit it in their favourite spreadsheet, and upload it again. But this often fails (they upload in wrong format or edit fields that they are not supposed to touch). I would therefore like to present the users with an editor directly on the website. So just like you can have WYSIWYG editors in CMSes for text I would like to have it for spreadsheets. One solution would be to interface my website with GoogleDoc and have the users edit the files using GoogleDoc's spreadsheet, and some how get the sheet back when they are done, but I do not know if this is possible at all.


Reduce HTTP Requests method for js and css

Is these way can Reduce HTTP Requests? multiple javascript files with `&` symbol               <script type="text/javascript"     src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/combo?2.5.2/build/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js     &http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js">     </script>      multiple css files with `@` import               <style type="text/css">     @import url(css/style.css);     @import url(css/custom.css);     </style>


google analytics statistics

I am compiling a report for a client using google analytics. I have observed that the client has unusually good page view times (>5 mins) and excellent bounce rates (<25%). I need to reference research data that validates my assertion that these figures are excellent compared to an industry standard (the industry is ecommerce and gaming). **Can you direct me to any published research data that specifies normal bounce rates and page view times for this industry?**


How to combat negative SEO?

Someone has decided to create a hate blog on a hosted blogging service (`wordpress.com`) that bashes my company. The blog contains posts that completely flame myself, my service, and contains complete falsehoods about how I run my business. Without going into details, I'm pretty sure the author of this blog is an owner of a competing service (although it is authored completely anonymously). Frankly, I'm not sure if the content would qualify for defamation or not, but I really don't like the idea of spending money on a lawyer to even attempt to prove this. I also have no interest in retorting or even replying to the blog in any sort of way -- I feel this would justify the ludicrous claims that have been posted. Unfortunately, whoever wrote the blog was pretty smart about using key words that people commonly use to search for my service. Because my customer base is relatively small and local, our PageRank is not incredibly high. As a result, when someone Google's our business name, this blog is usually within the top five results (thankfully, it's never above the business' actual website, but it's usually within eyeshot). It's incredibly frustrating to hear from customers who have seen the link (luckily, most of the time they think the author is crazy). Is there anything I can do to combat this? Would it be worthwhile to setup my own hosted `wordpress.com` branded blog, in an effort to trump this `wordpress.com` with a blog that is more active of my own? **TL;DR: Someone made a hate blog using`wordpress.com` and is now on the first page of my business' search results. What are my options?**


Problems with Developer

I engaged a developer who is developing a website for me. I am not happy with him and would like that once the website is ready, I transfer the duties of further development, seo and web admin to another developer. What do I need to be aware of? and what information do i need in terms of passwords etc? The website has been developed in word press and I have access to the CMS but I am not technical so i am not sure if there are security levels for the more technical people. thanks


Packaging a web application for deploying at customer site

I want to develop a Django web application that would get deployed at the customer site. The web application would run in a private cloud environment (ESX server here) of the customer. My web application would use a MySQL database. The problem is, I would not have direct access or control of the web application. My question is, how to package such a web application with it's database and other entities so that it's easier to upgrade and update the application and it's database in future. Right now the idea I have is that I would provide a virtual machine with the Django application and database setup. The customer can just start the virtual machine and he would have the web application running. What are the other options I should consider?


Mixing keywords match types in Google Adwords

Using Google Adwords: **Q#1.** Can someone use a mix of match types in keywords? For example, can someone use the keyword `[large size] +leather "black shoes" from Atlantis`, thus using exact, modified broad match, phrase match and broad match in a single keyword? **Q#2.** If the above functionality is indeed supported, does anybody know what effects it has on an ad's performance to mix keyword match types?


SEO and search result changes when switching to SSL on Joomla site?

I am thinking about purchasing an SSL certificate for a website. The most noticeable difference for the user would be the `http` now becomes `https` and there is that lock icon in most browsers. Will there be any adverse affects on the website's current SEO or recognition by search engines when I make the switch? Also this is a Joomla site, which has an option in the settings to use SSL. It is supposed to make it easier but not sure if it takes care of everything. Thanks!


Server cost/requirements for a web site with thousands of concurrent users?

I'm working on a big project, and I do not have much experience with servers and how much they cost. The big project consist of a new table game for online playing and betting. Basically, a poker server that must be responsive with thousands of concurrent users. What type of server must i look for? What features, hardware or software, are required? Should I consider cloud computing? thank you in advance.


Asynchronous page loading and SEO

To speed up my website (or at least the time to first byte (TTFB)), I'd like to only send the layout of the page and then get the page content with an asynchronous request. This way, the TTFB will be really fast, because this will be short, lightweight and cached content. For the content to be indexed, I will analyze the User-Agent to know if I have to send the content the old- fashion way. Is this a safe way to do so, or will I be blacklisted by Google (because of the different content)? Thank in advance ! PS.: I know about the Google AJAX craw method (https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/), but this is not really what I want.


Why does Google Cache show our G+ page and not the correct page?

For some reason when we try and view the cached version of our website, we see our Google plus page. We recently removed this code : `<link rel="canonical" href="link to our g+ page">`. We removed this and Google started seeing our homepage correctly. But we are now having the same problem for each of our internal pages and cannot seem to find this same piece of code of any of the other pages. Are we looking for the wrong thing? Or in the wrong place? We're very new to WordPress so any advice would be great. Thank you.


For Google Rich Snippets: Is it 'harmful' to add the same `hreview-aggregate` microformat markup in several places?

We are right now incorporating microformats markup for reviews into a client's web application and were wondering, whether it can be harmful to provide the same information on more than one page, e.g. on a dynamic search page and on the concrete product page. Does anybody have any experience with this? **UPDATE:** Actually, I was wondering, if Google showed a link to the page the review comes from, then how would they decide which of the sources of the review they would link to? Or don't they?


How can my organization become a Root CA?

I'm the founder of a little non-profit French organization. Currently, we're providing free web and shell hosting. Is there a way to become a Trusted Certificate Authority, in order to give free SSL certificates to my customers, and also to avoid being an intermediate (and pay a lot for that), and/or avoid paying a lot for each certificate?


What are current ADA standards / requirements on images?

I am wondering what ADA (American disabilities act not dental association) currently requires when it comes to images and other things not easily read by webpage "readers". I am currently trying to make sure a website meets all required standards so nobody gets yelled at or in any legal trouble if someone with disabilities were to attempt to read the page. Note: I have looked these up but I have found odd legal terms. Is there a more simple explanation such as "Must have alt tags on all images and navigation bars must do something something something?


How can I have multiple sessions in FF without using profiles?

I'd like to test my website as different users simultaneously, ideally on Firefox. Currently the only ways I know of doing this are   1. Using different browsers   2. Using profiles with FF It's frustrating using FF profiles as you have to reinstall all your development plugins, which then each need to update individually. What I'm really looking for is a simple developer tool that lets me open a FF window that keeps its cookies completely separate from the main FF instance. Ideally it would also make that window stand out in some way to help me differentiate, but that I can live without ;) Any ideas?


updated posts in my RSS feed

Should I put in my RSS feed posts that I've updated or I'll just update it but don't put it my RSS feed? (considering RSS feed contains latest 10 posts).


User friendly import of events from web to Google Calendar?

I would like to create a web page promoting local events. I would like the users to be able to easily import the events to their calendars (Google Calendar particularly). Is there any option to import an event to Google Calendar from web directly? Case scenario: User just found a theatre event on my website, that he would like to go to. Instead of manually rewriting the event to its calendar, he would choose whether he wants to Import only selected day of the show or if he wants to import all days when the show is played. He would click the desired button to export this event into his Google calendar. Google login window would open and after logging in, the user will have a new event or series of events in his calendar. I know I can achieve this somehow by creating iCal files, that the user would have to manually import to Google Calendar, but isn't there any other way to do the import more user friendly?


Joomla: How to create a blog of articles from multiple categories?

I need to gather articles from multiple categories into the single blog feed (the front page and main RSS feed). For example, I need this structure ...               Section 1       Category 1.1         Article 1.1.1 (20 apr 2011)         Article 1.1.2 (10 apr 2011)       Category 1.2         Article 1.2.1 (15 apr 2011)       Category 1.3         Article 1.3.1 (25 apr 2011)      ... to be displayed in a single blog as               Article 1.3.1 (25 apr 2011)     Article 1.1.1 (20 apr 2011)     Article 1.2.1 (15 apr 2011)     Article 1.1.2 (10 apr 2011)      (sorted by the creation date of articles) I tried to use "Section Blog" type for my menu item, but I can't understand its methods of sorting articles. I tried to sort them by date, but my section blog displaying it category by category, not article by article:               Article 1.1.1 (20 apr 2011)     Article 1.1.2 (10 apr 2011)     Article 1.2.1 (15 apr 2011)     Article 1.3.1 (25 apr 2011)      Maybe I should install some extension to do that? Joomla 1.5.22


How do I install and run django on iPage (a shared webhost)?

I am using an iPage hosted server and I am willing to use django. As per the provider, they support python inside cgi-bin dir. I would like to know how do I install django on a cgi server if that's possible.


SEO - Moving site to subdomain without losing SEO Ranking

My company has operated a blog site on our primary URL (e.g. www.company.com) for about 4 months. Over this time, we have built up significant SEO ranking through daily posts and articles. Our primary e-commerce product is now developed, and we plan to have the e-commerce site sit at www.company.com. The e-commerce site is hosted on MediaTemple and our blog site is hosted on BlueHost. We want to ensure we do not lose any of our SEO ranking on www.company.com during the transfer. What would your ideas be for the best way to make the transfer? 1) Would it be alright to simply move the blog site to www.blog.company.com (still on bluehost)? 2) Should we transfer our blog site to be hosted on mediatemple? 3) Should we move our blog site to www.blog.company.com and get the blog index and compile it into redirection urls for the apache? 4) For readability reasons, we would rather have our blog site at www.company.com/blog. However, I was advised this is more difficult as we would have to configure the proxy. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.


How do I change where a domain points to?

I've just finished making a website for my dad and need to get it on line. He has a domain already (and I have access to the admin panel for that on 'fasthosts') and my mum already has some server space which she rents jointly with an old colleague of hers who handles most of the administration. My questions is: How do I change the DNS records of the domain to point to the server my mum already has? Once both domains are pointing there I have some information on how to use URL rewriting to "split them up" again. In fact I'll post that below and would appreciate any feedback on that too. Sorry for such a basic question, but my knowledge of how domain hosting and name servers and DNS works is poor. I have tried to Google my way around this, but nothing ties up very well with the options I have in the control panel (which is perhaps intentionally confusing). Many thanks! * * * That information about rewriting: > **Running multiple sites from a single virtual server** > > If you've registered two or more domains, each running as a separate > website, usually this would require each domain to run as a separate virtual > server. However, URL Rewriting will allow you to run multiple sites using > just a single virtual server. > > For example, if you have the domains www.site1.com and www.site2.com, simply > place each site in a folder under your htdocs folder with the same name as > the domain, i.e. /site1 and /site2. > > The code required would be set out in the following format: >   >   >     <rule name="Site1"> >     <match url="(.*)" /> >     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny"> >     <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="site1.com" /> >     </conditions> >     <action type="Rewrite" url="/site1/{R:0}" /> >     </rule> >   > > Just keep adding new rules for any new sites. If you would like 2 sites to > point to the same folder, you can just add in more conditions: >   >   >     <rule name="Site1"> >     <match url="(.*)" /> >     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny"> >     <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="site1a.com" /> >     <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="site1b.com" /> >     <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="site1c.com" /> >     </conditions> >     <action type="Rewrite" url="/site1/{R:0}" /> >     </rule> >


How can I tell how many iOS 3 users are accessing my website?

I would like to know how many iOS 3.2 (and presumably below) users are accessing my website. The reason is because iOS 3.2 had a maximum cache limit of around 25.6k, and files larger than this size would not be cached. This is according to http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/06/28/mobile-browser-cache- limits/ We use both awstats and Google Analytics. Unfortunately neither gives the iOS version. awstats simply reports Mac OS X and the Safari version. Google Analytics does not report the version of the operating system either, but gives the Safari versions in great refinement. A solution to this question would be a mapping of which Safari versions indicated iOS 3.2, or simply which Safari versions had the 25.6k cache limit.


Images not indexed by google since moving to cdn

Last week I moved all the images on coffeeandvanilla.com to a cdn( maxcdn.coffeeandvanilla.com ). The problem I'm having is that although the sitemap—generated by Yoast WordPress SEO plugin—points images to the correct location, Google only indexes[sic] images from the category and page site maps but 0 images from the posts sitemap( see screenshot https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4635252/sitemap.png ) This website has been doing quite well with Google image-search before the change, visits from Google image search have dropped from ~200/day to 11 yesterday Here is an example entry from the generated posts.xml sitemap http://pastebin.com/vcMRf9VW Can anyone suggest where the problem lies? Why have I lost all my google image juice? Should I just wait some more, how long before really worrying?


Is a Fancybox Considered as New Page in Google Adsense?

I have a webpage, there are some links that open fancybox. If a have maximum ads on the webpage, is the fancybox considered as new one?


Tracking email via analytics

I need to do email analytics, aim is to create an endpoint where when user sends an email to contact@mycompany.com, the email is processed and data in email is used for google analytics conversion. main challenge I am facing is to create the endpoint, I am comfortable with PHP and client side js, but don't have idea about email tracking. Help would be appreciated.


Phpmyadmin http password security

1. Is my password sent unencrypted when using Phpmyadmin through http?   2. If not, is there any downside using http compared to https?


Single V/s Multiple Databases

I've built this web app (php & mysql) which stores information for various organisations (about 20 clients currently). The current scenario stores client-related information in individual databases, so there's 20 client databases and 1 master database. One of the main advantages here is that as each client db is isolated, the numbering of client artifacts (reports, audits) etc. is sequenced; giving our clients a feeling of security. Each DB has roughly 15 tables, and the most rows in a table are about 2000. This is expected to be bumped upto 5000 records, at most. Managing a single db-level change means changing 20 databases, but in the rare event that I need to make such a change, I use a script that does this in a single function call. We're on a shared hosting arrangement, and our ISP supplies us with a limited no. of databases; and that's what led me to think in terms of centralising the database; so that ALL the client data can be stored in the master database. Of course, some important issues that crop up are: a. Maintaining the artifact sequence, (this could be addressed by creating an additional reference key) b. Speed and performance (in which case I can create indexes to speed things up) c. Security: This will be managed as each query that fetches client info. will also track their client_id In the future, we might need to consider comparing datasets of one organisation with another, but I believe that can be achieved on a centralised db too. I'm somewhat inclined (for performance and maintainability reasons) to move to a centralised database. Do you think moving to a centralised database makes more sense than staying as we are (on individual databases)? Thanks for your advice.


Get exact time of each click - AdWords

I have an AdWords campaign running and want to get a list with all clicks and the exact time the click occured. And I want to do this without having a tracking code on my homepage. So it needs to be via the API (AdWords/Analytics). You might think know that this is not possible. But big Bid Management tools (e.g. Kenshoo) know all details of every click and they don't have tracking code of my website (only on the success page of my contact form). How is that possible? The dimensions in AdWords only let me group the clicks at the hour level.


Page speed affecting ranking in practice

Articles like this one discuss Google possibly taking speed into account for ranking factors. Are there any other search engines which already take speed into account for search results? or perhaps a labs version of Google that takes it into account?


How confident are buyers about paying via PayPal as opposed to integrated solutions?

I have an e-commerce site which has PayPal integrated as our payment processor as the site is fairly new and doesn't yet receive many orders. I'm wondering how the general public see the PayPal brand, and whether they're more or less confident about buying with PayPal, as opposed to entering credit card details directly into the site or handling the transaction via another external provided (e.g. WorldPay), or any other potential ways of allowing users to pay. Aggregate data would be useful - has anyone seen significantly more orders or fewer abandoned shopping carts when switching away from PayPal? How about to other processors like Google Checkout or Amazon Payments? What are other people's experiences with this?


How to you prevent someone from getting a "new free trial period" by just creating a new login?

I am considering several options for the Trial version of our web app. The one I favor the most is the classic trial period. Of course, it's a LOT easier for someone to hack this system. They can defeat the various methods of _fingerprinting_ the user, thusly:   * Browser **cookie** : Clear their cookies completely (or just for our site) or use a different device. Although Evercookie may help with the former.   * **Email** address: Create a new login (with a new email address) I'm going to monitor things for a while and just see how it goes. If it's a problem I'll consider requiring a credit card number matched to a name and billing zip code. Each such "ID constellation" would be considered one user. Someone could still have multiple credit card numbers but we could flag the same name+zipcode coming up again. **Are there any better ways to do this?**


Meta Descriptions for pages not Indexed by Search Engine?

I have read about Meat Descriptions here on the webmasters forum. The question I have is is it necessary or important to have description on pages that are not being index by the search engine. Like for instances pages in "Members Area" section of my site or pages blocked by a robots.txt file.


Subdomains and Site

didn't know how to put this into to a title. Ok my idea is to have any subdomain working on my site, and for example if I type: what.example.com (my site has a unique folder for every subdomain, and within that folder, there is just a simple config file that sees the 'what' ( first part of subdomain) and loads database information based on the string and the whole site is populated. So if I put lol.example.com I have the same site, but with different information just based on database. Do you understand? And then if people type the main site example.com or www.example.com they have the main site which is completely different from the subdomains. So how can I do this? I have this idea for a site of mine, in which the main site example.com will be a information site with a payment system. And when users pay me, I add their info to to an unique file where all other user info is located ( database info ), and then their site is whatever subdomain they have chosen .example.com , and there they have their info and can login. edit: I just can't figure out how to allow any subdomain to be inserted in the url, loading the sub site, as grabbing the first part of the subdomain is easy and then everything would work.


Advert appearing twice - in some browsers not others

I have a small and simple pure HTML website here, which contains an advert in a `table` on the left hand side of every page in the site. I only ever checked that it worked on Firefox on a PC. But just now I have been alerted to the fact that on the front page, the advert appears in two locations in both Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox for Mac. Even more strangely, the double-advert looks fine (i.e. just appears once) on every _other_ page on the site, regardless of the browser - even though the code for the ad is identical. I'm completely baffled.


I have “CMS” made by myself with PHP and I cannot make my websites appear on google

I have developed an Admin Panel that you can use to change conents on the website. It works basically like this: You use functions to generate HTML like menus, footers, side modules, etc. I use classes to load the content from MySQL The back end is just some administrative pages that shows you an WYSIWYG editor and that's what you save as content and that's what is is going to appear in the website. I have functions like this in the HTML generator:               public static function renderHead(             $title = "",              $keywords = META_KEYWORDS,              $description = META_DESCRIPTION,              $css = array(),              $scripts = array()             ) {         ?>         <!doctype html>         <html>         <head>             <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/style.css"/>             <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/fancybox.css"/>             <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/nivo-themes/nivo-slider.css"/>             <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/nivo-themes/default/default.css"/>             <?php              foreach($css as $var) {                 ?>                 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $var; ?>"/>                 <?php             }             foreach($scripts as $var) {                 ?>                 <script src="<?php echo $var; ?>"></script>                 <?php             }             ?>             <title><?php echo $title; ?></title>             <meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo $keywords; ?>"/>             <meta name="description" content="<?php echo $description; ?>"/>         </head>         <body class="public">         <?php     }      In the administration panel you can decide which keywords are you gonna use and stuff like that... when I see a website online I see source code with all the Keywords, Description, Titles and so... but my websites has been online for months and they just do not appear on Google :( not even if I put "theaddress.com" in the google search bar! It's driving me crazy. IMPORTANT: You can see an example Here http://chicagos.co This website has all the keywords and stuff like that, but it does not appear on google even if you type the domain, check the source code. I know that it shows "thedomain.com/views/thepage.php" and I want to know how can I use HTAccess to remove the Views folder from the URL, because I made the admin panel using MVC practice. Any help from people that knows about SEO and stuff will be very very helpfull. Thanks, let me know if you need more information.


Can PHP Site be hosted on Windows Hosting?

This might be the stupidest question but I would like to know whether we can host PHP site on Windows hosting? Are there any special tools for publishing php site?


I am the Webmaster now. Where do I start?

I just changed jobs and will soon be in charge of a custom-built ASP.NET CMS and website for a fairly large corporation with global offices. I have IT and developer FTE resources available to me but I am trying to build a list of branding, project, and functionality points to review. What guides or lists can/should I use to evaluate this website before I begin adding features, creating new projects, or even redesigning and redeveloping the site? (I have been a webmaster/designer/developer for small, WordPress/Drupal sites for 10 years. I have been an unofficial webmaster (director/content manager) for a large site for 3 years (no direct development control over Sharepoint administration, IIS, or hosting ... but everything else, I did. Analytics, email, advertising, social, SEO, etc.).) Thank you!


Google indexing and ranking a custom domain served by Google App Engine

I have a website served on the following URL: `http://www.plugimmo.com` which is a custom domain served by Google App Engine on the following URL: plugimmo.appspot.com. **Optimizing Google Indexing and Rankings** For some time I have tried to optimize the Google indexing and ranking with no success. The problem is that searching on Google the keywords in the title of my home page does not retrieve my website at all even not in the 1,000 first results. When checking the cached version of Google (cache: www.plugimmo.com), it says that the cached version is the one of 20-Aug-12 of "plugimmo.appspot.com". It looks there are several issues :   1. List The cached version is really old. I have made a lot of changes since the 20-Aug-12 and I saw the [GoogleBOT] crawling my site several times.   2. The cached version is for plugimmo.appspot.com   3. When looking at the Google Webmaster tools, I see that the number of pages indexed for www.plugimmo.com is 0, but that can't be the case given the number of changes I made since then. **My Questions Would Therefore Be The Following**   * Why is the version of the cache so old although I saw the [GoogleBOT] crawling the site many times since 20-Aug-12?   * Is there a problem with indexing a custom domain served by Google App Engine?    * Why is the Google Webmaster tools showing 0 pages indexed although new pages have been crawled and that no errors have been reported in the indexing? The Website is developed with Google Web Toolkit. guidelines have been followed regarding crawling Ajax sites. Bots are redirected to `http://www.plugimmo.com/HomeSnapshot.html`


How to buy a website

I am in the market to buy a website. I would like to browse a list of websites that are for sale or up for auction. Are there any good services for this?


What's wrong with my mod rewrite for GEOIP based on location?

I'm a bit of a newb in modrewrite but used it successfully on my server before. I successful installed the module on my apache server and tested out with PHP test page(it correctly returned my area code) so I decided to test it out on a site and have it redirect to another page on it.               GeoIPEnable On     GeoIPDBFile /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat Standard     GeoIPDBFile /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat Standard              RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_AREA_CODE} ^847       RewriteRule ^$ http://www.teetimelawncare\.com/lawncare\.html$1 [NC,QSA]      I simply get 500 Internal Server Errors every single time. Any idea why? EDIT: I was having errors with my AddType x-mapp php5 line in my .htaccess file. Removing that allows it to work.


How does Google Analytics track referring URLs?

When a visitor clicks on a link or is redirected to my site from another site, Google typically includes information about the page the domain and the page the visitor was linked from. How does Google track this information?


How can I set a secure flag on cookies generated from a Python application?

I have an application written in Python running behind Apache and SSL. I am not seeing a secure flag on my cookie: `apache Server version: Apache/2.2.15 (Unix)` I have added a configuration line to my _ssl.conf_ as: `Header edit Set-Cookie ^(.*)$ $1;Secure;HttpOnly` I don't have enough points to post a screen shot of my session. Can anyone share their experience with this or provide any help?


Are there any image manipulation tools for a website that don't require installation?

Are there any tools for to manipulate images that don't require installation. Or better put, imagemagik and GD both require installing, whereas something like jwplayer or ckeditor (not image related I know) do not. I'm looking for something I can bundle in with a custom CMS for users to copy the files and then work straight off the bat. Nothing fancy, simple image resizing is enough.


Javascript autotab function not working on iPad or iPhone

I have this this piece of html code:                   <form name="postcode" method="post" onsubmit="return OnSubmitForm();">     <input class="postcode" maxlength="1" size="1" name="c" onKeyup="autotab(this, document.postcode.o)" />      <input class="postcode" maxlength="1" size="1" name="o" onKeyup="autotab(this, document.postcode.d)" />      <input class="postcode" maxlength="1" size="1" name="d" onKeyup="autotab(this, document.postcode.e)" />      <input class="postcode" maxlength="1" size="1" name="e" /> <br />         </form>      which uses this javascript:               <script>     /*     Auto tabbing script- By JavaScriptKit.com     http://www.javascriptkit.com     This credit MUST stay intact for use     */     function autotab(original,destination){     if (original.getAttribute&&original.value.length==original.getAttribute("maxlength"))     destination.focus()     }     </script><script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>     <script src="js/scripts.js" type="text/javascript"></script>          <script type="text/javascript">     function OnSubmitForm()     {       if(document.postcode.operation[0].checked == true)       {         document.postcode.action ="plans.php";       }       else       if(document.postcode.operation[1].checked == true)       {         document.postcode.action ="plans_gas.php";       }       else       if(document.postcode.operation[2].checked == true)       {         document.postcode.action ="plans_duel.php";       }            return true;     }     </script>      As soon a you enter in one character into one of the text boxes it automatically tabs across the the next text box. This works fine on a pc or mac and on safari and also in all other browsers. But when viewing the webpage on an iPad or iPhone (using safari) the auto tabbing function does not work. Any ideas on how to make the auto tab work on these mobile devices?


CSS templates for standard html elements?

I'm not looking for html page templates... but rather basic element templates. Is anyone aware of a site that carries this type of template? I want to create my own layouts and such, but I would love to have some simple copy/paste templates that style:   * Forms   * Buttons   * Tables   * Typography   * Some general classes (alerts, info, etc, images)


Does changing domain ownership affect SEO?

I have heard that when domain ownership changes, the domain loses its page rank. My theory on this is: Lots of sites selling high PR domains actually cheat. They invest in high PR links for the domain they want to sell (say buy a yahoo directory link, or maybe even use their own set of high PR pages to link to that domain temporarily). As soon as someone buys the "high PR" domain, they delete those links. And the new owner effectively gets a '0 page rank' site. _This_ might have led to the misconception that changing owners makes the domain lose its PR. But I may be wrong. Can someone share their insights on this? Do you think it is safe for me to change registrar without affecting my SEO and current page rank at all? (Note that changing registrars can be as good as changing owners if privacy protection is enabled - as complete whois info will change). Anyone with prior experience where changing registrars _has_ or _has not_ affected their SEO? regards, JP


Why my ads do not show up on Google?

My friend bid for "catalog carrefour". If I search for "catalog carrefour" on Google, I would expect some ads showing up on top. It didn't. My ads doesn't show up. Even though Google AdWords say my ads rank 1.


How do I keep track of multiple websites?

As an owner of multiple websites I sometimes find it difficult to remember when each site needs renewing. Another problem is that I have to log into every single site to check the site traffic statistics. Is there a centralized tool that I can use which will display all the websites in a table with their current stats, expiry dates etc? I noticed that people tend to use Excel, but this doesn't seem like a viable solution for my problem. I expect that the number of sites I own/maintain will continue to increase. I also design websites for others, most of which don't understand the concept of paying for hosting and domain names. If I was able to list other peoples sites which I have access to I would be able to notify them and arrange payment prior to it being required. ~Sam


What will happen if cPanel license expires?

Will everything still run on the server? I create and delete virtual servers a lot. Not a big deal, but it's kind of a waste to pay cPanel $10 every time I do that.


Google Trends for Website suddenly closed?

Has google closed it's Trends for Website service? http://trends.google.com/websites?q=wikipedia.org I can't find any news on it


Can´t verify my site on Google (error 403 Forbidden). I have other sites in the same host with no problems whatsoever

I can´t verify my site on Google. I´ve done this several times for several sites, all inside the same host. I´ve tried the HTML tag method, HTML upload, Domain Name provider (I canp´t find the options that Google tell me that I should activate...), and Google Analytics. I always get this response: > Verification failed for http://www.mysite.com/ using the Google Analytics > method (1 minute ago). Your verification file returns a status of **403 > (Forbidden)** instead of 200 (OK). I´ve checked the server headers, and I get this result: >   1. REQUESTING: http://www.mysite.com GET / HTTP/1.1 Connection: Keep-Alive > Keep-Alive: 300 Accept: _/_ Host: www.mysite.com Accept-Language: en-us > Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE > 7.0b; Windows NT 6.0) > > > SERVER RESPONSE: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:25:22 GMT > Server: Apache/2.2.19 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.19 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 > mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.2.17 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1 > > Final Destination Page (It shows my actual homepage). What can I do? The hosting is the very same as in my other sites, where I didn´t have any issue at all! Thanks for your help! Note: As I have a Drupal 7 site, I´ve tried a "Drupal solution" first, but haven´t found any that solved this issue... How can it be forbidden when I can access the link perfectly ok? Is there any solution to this? Thanks! Almost forgot to add: I´ve checked my error logs: > 173.194.98.19 - - [19/Sep/2012:00:35:33 -0300] "GET > /google03h063571yf562bk.html HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "Google-Site- > Verification/1.0" > > 181.25.218.223 - - [19/Sep/2012:00:35:45 -0300] "GET > /google03h063571yf562bk.html HTTP/1.1" 200 53 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT > 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.89 > Safari/537.1"


Trying to add a private zone to a website

I'm trying to add a "login page" as soon as someone clicks on the Galerie, in order to keep the pictures only between the members of the school. I tried several options, even designed a page named "login.htm" but I can't get it to work the way I want! I'd like a single username and password, so no need to setup a database. Otherwise, I was thinking about creating a new "sub-domain" and a new website attached to it, and just link it from the Galerie page. Does anyone have a good idea how I can do it? It also has to be easy.


Google Chrome audit: resources are explicitly non-cacheable?

If I run a Google Chrome audit on a site, it lists all CSS, PNG, JPG, JS files and even the main domain (i.e. www.example.com) under the heading: ## Leverage browser caching   * The following resources are explicitly non-cacheable. Consider making them cacheable if possible Will the features in the .htaccess of the HTML5 boilerplate help to resolve this? If not, how best to approach this?


Any mobile-friendly Credit Card billing solutions for mobile sites similar to Bango?

Are there any mobile-friendly Credit Card billing solutions for mobile sites similar to Bango? The advantages of Bango I have seen compared to regular Credit Card solutions that make it considerably "mobile-friendly" are: 1) It does not require the user to enter their full name and billing address to make a payment. The user is only required to enter their Credit Card number, expiration date, and CVC code (if they are in the U.S., they will also have to enter their Zip Code). That is significantly less input than is normally required for Credit Card payments, which is a big plus on small mobile key pads. After a user makes an initial Credit Card payment, their details are stored by Bango, and the next time the user needs to make a payment with the same Credit Card, they just have to click a single link and it processes the payment on their stored Credit Card. Needless to say, this is very convenient for mobile users as it is analogous to Direct Carrier Billing as far as the user is concerned since they won't need to input any details. The downside with Bango is that their fees are higher than others, all payments must be processed via their site and branding, there is a high minimum ($1.99) and a low maximum ($30) on how much you can charge users, and you need to pay a monthly fee on top of the high transaction costs. It is due to the downsides mentioned above that I am looking for an alternative solution that also does the advantages 1) and 2) above. Is there anything like that? I looked at JunglePay and they do neither 1) nor 2).


How to solve misspelling error in non English website to optimize SEO?

I am the owner of website `pretesti.ge`. The content is not English and when I try to optimize it for SEO I come across the misspelling errors ("This page contains some spelling errors.").   1. Is there a way to ignore this errors?   2. Do these errors affect Google rankings? My site's permalinks are set to the "post name", seems the name looks something like " **საატესტატო_გამოცდები** " do you think that it may affect too?


What Are Site-Wide Cookies?

Please help me by telling what is site-wide cookies in PHP. This question while reading an article. Please help. I will grateful to you. Thanks


Linking competitor with the same keyword i am targeting : Good or Bad for Seo?

I am linking one of my competitors from my site for the same keyword which is I am targeting for my site _(My competitor is paying me for that)_. ### For Example: Me and my competitor both are targeting on keyword "foo" and my competitor is paying me for linking his site from my site with keyword "foo". What I want to know is if I do that will my site's position go down in Google search results? or it will make no difference?


Hosting media on separate server than web server

Basically I have a website hosted by a web hosting company which I have limited access to (ftp upload etc). I have a home server which I use to record and store audio files. Is there an elegant way or best practice to host a page on the webserver which links to the audio files? I'm considering hosting a page on the home server and redirecting to that from the web server, or setting up something like rsync to push the audio files to the web server - I'm just not certain which solution would be best.


Messages Queue services like Amazon SQS, IronMQ, what are they exactly?

I need to understand message queue services. Available services I know out there are Amazon SQS and IronMQ. What are they exactly? When should I use either one of them? Can you provide a real-world example?


Web hosting for Israeli visitors

I developed a version of a client's main website in Hebrew. Most of the Hebrew site visitors will be coming from Israel. My server is fast in the States but sluggish in Israel (per some ping testing). How can I speed up serving the site to Israel?


SEO for Country & Language Specific content

Currently I am creating a website which has a common topic for an article, but it's going to be different content for each country, and also, each of that content will be provided in several languages. And this mechanism exists in most of the parts in the website. For example, I have an article about tax. This article has to be different for each country, for example china. And tax content for china should be written in china AND english language (for non china-speaker). What is the best URL pattern to handle this? What I've been thinking is, using a sub folder (/country-code/language-code/) such as:   * www.example.com/cn/cn/tax   * www.example.com/cn/en/tax Or using top level domain such as:   * www.example.cn/cn/tax   * www.example.cn/en/tax Or subdomain such as   * cn.example.com/cn/tax   * cn.example.com/en/tax I think I will not prefer the last option since I might need to use subdomain for other purpose. Which left only subfolder and TLDN. I've read some articles saying that TLDN is good for localized content (language-specific content), but in my case, my TLDN will also has english contents (for non local speaker) which is specific only to that particular country (also the purpose of this is to let people from other country easily search it through google). What is the best pattern to pick and why?.


How can I distinguish between two files with the same name in Google Analytics?

I've got two index.html files for different subdomains (www. and gametimer.smartersoftware.de). I have enabled sub-domain tracking in Google Analytics and posted the corresponding script. However, I only see index.html, apparently for both files. I would like to be able to distinguish between the two. What do I have to change to enable that?


Google Maps iframe VS API (which is faster, if any)

Many sites embed Google maps at the bottom of the page as you may be aware, while I don't normally do it myself I've been tasked with the job. I've proceeded with the lazy route of embedding the iframe at the bottom of the page. However I've noticed that the page speed has increased while from 0.85secs load time to 1.95secs thanks to an additional 59 requests sent though the `iframe`, totaling around 370kb/sec. While 1.95sec for many will be more than acceptable but for me I like things super fast and if there's a way I can shed the time off, then awesome. **So my question is simple, is the API any faster?** I have no idea, I've never used it but if anything using can they report if its A) faster and B) cut downs server side requests. It's worth mentioning that Google maps is at the bottom of the page so the rest of the page does render without any problems. The other thing I can think of speeding this up is just to serve a static file as a map and then have them click it - but client is insisting that Google maps on all pages with schema mark up of address improves SEO. Not going to agru with the chap, far to hot for that bananas :P.


Point to folder in <script> tag

When you are loading JavaScript files via the <script> tag, you can only do it one-by-one, ie `<script src="myFile.js">` or so I'm assuming. Is there a way to load an entire directory of .js files like `src="dir/*"`?


Are filename extensions required on served images?

If the image I'm serving has the proper HTTP `Content-Type` is it also required that I have the image filename extension (JPG/PNG/GIF)? Or can I just include the image in the page without?


Why not "DOT lol" domains?

How would one go about creating a website using the ".lol" domain? Is it even possible? And if not, why not?


How do I purchase a parked domain?

I've found a domain name that I'm interested in buying, but it's parked. A few questions stick out in my mind:   * How do you contact the owner of the domain to make an offer? Just e-mail the administrative contact in the domain's WHOIS record?   * If you come to an agreement about price, what payment system do you use to avoid fraud, e.g. sending money but never getting the domain transfer?   * How do you decide on an offer price?


legal to post pictures...?

I am planning on working on an erotic website and I am wondering what might be the risks implied in doing so. I would firstly ask sorry if this is not the right website to ask but there is not stackexchange for law/legal related problems. If you do a quick search on google for "sexy girls" you will get a lot of results. Suppose I would like to take said pictures and save them in my database. Is it legal to do so? Thanks in advance.


Why would Unique Visitors and Unique Visitors (All Visits) be different in Google Analytics?

The Unique Visitors metric on the Google Analytics home dashboard is showing different values to when 'All Visitors' is selected as an advanced segment of Unique Visitors. My understanding is that these values should be the same as the segment 'All visitors' is filtering (or in this case, not filtering) the metric of 'Unique Visitors'. Any help with understanding this better? Also, if anyone knows of a resource where I can find the formulas that Google use for their metrics, that would be greatly appreciated. Figure it's all cloak and dagger but feel like I'm working in the dark.


How can I make redirections cacheable to speed up load times?

Google PageSpeed says this: > Avoid landing page redirects > > To speed up page load times for visitors of your site, remove as many > landing page redirections as possible, and make any required redirections > cacheable if possible. > > `http://xyz.com/` is a cacheable (30 days) redirect to `http://www.xyz.com/` I'm using PHP and I defined:               if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']!="localhost") {     define('SITE_URl', "http:// www.abc.com/");     }      .. so please tell me how to do cache-able redirection?