Does referrer header checking offer any real world security improvement?

At work we use a central portal that provides basic SSO functionality to other applications. In addition to verifying the SSO data sent, all of our existing in-house applications (used by the public) also check the referrer header to make sure that the user is actually coming from our central portal. However, we just experienced an issue where a JavaScript code change in the central portal caused Internet Explorer to stop forwarding the referrer header, which brought down all the apps that check that header. My question is whether checking the referrer header provides any real world security improvement over just checking the basic SSO information (encrypted user ID contained in a cookie)? If it doesn't, is there any documentation/research/etc. that I could use to prove this to management? I should also mention that unfortunately the central portal is a third party app which we don't have much control over ... so basic SSO information in the form of an encrypted cookie and referrer header information is all we have to help secure things.


Why would someone try viewing the site with unsupported languages?

Our site is receiving page views with strange browser locales. The most recent, on Sunday, included the following;   * vi_VN   * vi_VI   * zh_SG   * as_AS   * bn_BN   * mr_MR   * kn_KN   * or_OR   * ml_ML   * pa_PA   * pa_IN   * pa_PK   * ta_TA   * te_TE The UA string is;               Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0      We can't see any malicious input being attempted but we don't currently support any locales besides en_GB and en_US. The IP is located in Arizona. ~~Has anyone experienced this before? If so, what was the motivation behind it?~~ Is this something I should be concerned about?


Can shortened URLs on my pages hurt my SEO?

There is a certain part of my blog (part of my homepage) that contains shortened urls to external pages. If I don't add the `rel="nofollow"` property to those links, can they hurt the SEO of my page? I read a few articles here, but as I understood, all of them were focused on the impact of the incoming shortened urls to a website. I'm interested to know if short urls to other websites can hurt the ranking of my homepage?


Should I nofollow a link to a noindex page?

If I have a page on my blog that is marked noindex or blocked by robots.txt should I mark all links within my blog that point to that page as `rel="nofollow"` or not? _Example:_ I publish a post on my blog and mark it as noindex. That post will show up on my blog's front page and all links on the front page are do follow. So when a bot comes on the main page it crawls all the links but when the bot gets to the link to a noindex post does it take note that the link and crawl that page?


Is it SEO-acceptable to do an automatic redirect based on accpept-language header value

We are launching a big international web site, that has local web sites on other domains. We are planning to configure the web site to behave in the following manner: Of a user with German (de) accept-language header visits "mysite.com", he is automatically redirected to "mysite.de". If on "mysite.de" he selects to go to "mysite.com", the specific "no redirect in future" cookie is added. Now, when he visits mysite.com, he is no longer redirected. Will this "initial redirect" behavior have any negative implication of website's reputation in search engines?


When to use page level versus session level custom variables

We run a radio station site with 5 markets. The value of the market is saved as a cookie and last week I started tracking the value of that cookie in a page-level custom variable. The problem is that when reporting on the page views of this custom variable, GA alerts that only 80% of the data is being reported on. So, I'm wondering whether I can increase that figure if I swap to session- level custom variable so there is less data accrued to report on? Thanks for any advice.


Do span elements in the middle of a word affect a crawler's ability to detect content?

I have a site with a heading tag like this:
Handyman Services
      I've done this so that I can apply a bigger font size to the first letter of each word. However, in webmaster tools I see the keyword 'andyman' under Optimization > Content Keywords Is that anyway to acheive a bigger font size for first letter) without effecting a webcrawlers ability to detect the word? **Update:** I can't simply use `text-transform: capitalize` as the element in question already has `text-transform: uppercase;` and I would like the effect to more dramatic than that provided by the uppercase letters of most fonts.


How can I make my flash website more search engine friendly?

I've got a website where just about all the content is in a flash movie. Is there anything I can do to improve my search engine ranking or make my content more indexable?


Similar domains using my business' content, and stealing SEO results

I've been hired to create a website for a restaurant in my city, let's call it "Flying Dragon" Chinese restaurant. The restaurant has never had a website, though the business itself is about ten years old. However, if you Google the restaurant's name, the first site that comes up seems to be affiliated with the restaurant itself, even though it is not. This site - let's say, flyingdragonchinese.com - is also the one that Google has apparently selected, in its results, to be the official website of the restaurant - in essence, the first Google result is flyingdragonchinese.com, and directly beneath it, within the same entry, are the Google reviews and contact information. Upon visiting flyingdragonchinese.com (again, not the actual name), I see that the website has taken the menu content from the restaurant, in the same manner that Yelp does, but it also seems (to the untrained eye) to be the restaurant's official site. Basically, someone has created a fake website for the business (I am not sure why) using its actual menu and contact information, and is hogging the search results. The concept is similar to a "scraping site" except that the information seems to have been stolen manually. The main problem is that visitors to this site will have an inaccurate impression of the restaurant. I feel like the obvious solution is to register a new domain for _my_ site, and simply beat out this competitor (or whatever it is) with smarter SEO and business verification with Google. However, the Conan-the-Barbarian-web- designer part of me wants to somehow bash this other site (deservedly?) into oblivion. But I don't know what I can really do, besides maybe issuing a cease-and-desist letter, or trying to contact the web host for the site, although there is no contact information available on this "fake" site for the site owner. Has anyone ever experienced something like this? Is there any solution?


Using DynDNS to dynamically update your IP address

In this link stark had suggested that I use IP address instead of a domain name. He had also suggested that, if your ip address changes dynamically then the dynamic update client will update the dns server. I have created an account in DynDns but am unable to understand its working.   My requirement is I want to use `my machine` as the `server`. Now will DynDns be able to provide me with IP address. Right now the I am using usb device to connect to the internet. Each time I plug it in and connect. I am provided with a public Ip Address. The problem here is that this Ip address changes each time I connect.   How will Dyn Dns solve my problem? I am stuck here.


My shared-host tells me that they're throttling my website because of MySQL, what can I do? I'm not familiar enough with performance tuning of MySQL, generally MySQL just works for me. What questions do I need to ask to figure out how to fix this? Is this memory? Is this processor? Is this configuration of MySQL? Assuming I get access to the slow query log, what will it take for me to make sense of it? I'm asking this as a generic, but I have run into this many times and generally it's a substandard host. Changing to a better host and implementing caching usually does the trick. But what are the most important settings to consider in order of priority? **UPDATE:** I'm hoping to get this to be a checklist of "how can I tell if MySQL is set up okay on my shared hosting account?" type issues.


Google results show .info domain instead of .com

I am on shared hosting currently and i registered this account with a .info domain as the main domain.... say MyDomain.info . However, the site runs from MyDomain.com . This is a cpanel based shared hosting account. MyDomain.info has nothing hosted at all... i.e no content files... MyDomain.com is setup as an Add On Domain and run from /public_html/MyDomain under MyDomain.info The problem is that when i type MyDomain as the keyword for search in Google , it shows result(s)for Mydomain.info although this is not the intended site and has no content hosted on itself. I tried to solve the issue by issuing a 301 permanent redirect from MyDomain.info to MyDomain.com, however Google keeps on displaying results as mydomain.info as the main site even after 1 month of the redirect. I want google to index MyDomain.com as the main site and remove MyDomain.info from the results. Also is this harmful from the seo point of view? How can i improve the seo if it is?


How to change hosting?

I have a website, here both domain and hosting are presently on crazydomains.com.au Now I want to change hosting to Godadday but domain control should remain unchanged. I already purchased hosting from Godadday. I want know how to configure the domain?


What are the advantages/drawbacks of a magento responsive theme over non responsive theme with a mobile version

we would like flash components in the desktop version but have been advised not to use flash because its not supported by mobile browsers, but also have been told that an additional mobile version can have a negative SEO affect


My virtual server is created but it's not showing anything when I visit the site?

I have created a virtual sever as below for my site:   ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Yh3ye.jpg) I've specified the folder and domain name: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/U5Qea.jpg) And I created a master zone for the domain, and NS1 and NS2 has been set for the domain. everything seems good, but when I visit the domain I see the below page without some test files that I've put in the root(www directory): ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ETO71.jpg)               <VirtualHost *>     DocumentRoot "/home/example.com/www"     ServerName example.com     <Directory "/home/example.com/www">     allow from all     Options +Indexes     </Directory>     ServerAlias www.example.com     </VirtualHost>      What I'm doing' wrong?


Any way to compare multiple Google analytic Accounts

I have a Google analytic's account on my website that makes use of 10 properties. Each property has its own tracking code. In few words, my website displays 10 different Google analytic tag scripts. Each tag has its own purpose. I'm searching for the best way to see a report that could compare all of the channels. Is there any way to do this?


Video monetising and simple shop, platform?

I have this client that wants a single-product website. The product is a training-video that they want to deliver virtually and optionally physically. I usually do all the front-end design and back-end development but the budget is close to $0 to start with. So I'm looking for a platform like shopify or something where a shop/cart can be set up quickly and simply with minimal up-front cost - but which can accomodate some kind of paywall (DRM too?) for the online video with an option to purchase for an aditional cost the physical DVD. Am I approaching the wrong way all together? Or do you know of any platform that will accomodate the specs?


How to stop certain urls from being indexed

When I type `site:example.com`(using my domain obviously), I get several link errors showing up in the listing. Typically, they are of the form: `/some/fixed/path/admin/unblockUser/11` I am thinking of adding the following line to my `robots.txt` file:               Disallow: /some/fixed/path/admin/*


Facebook application: insights not updated

For publishing your facebook app offcially, you need 10 monthly users or 5 total users (check out the paradox :s), but the thing is, while quite a lot of people have visited my app, and about 30 liked it, my insight statistics aren't updated, so I can't publish the app --' Does anyone know how long it takes before they update the statistics?


Does Google Analytics content experiments track conversions that happen off the original landing page?

I am running a Google Analytics content experiment and some of my landing pages have links to other pages on my site that also have my form. If a user clicks away from the original landing page that they were redirected to for the experiment and then submits my form from a different page, are those conversions counted as conversions from the original landing page?


Email validation tool to check someone works at an organisation

I am setting up a tool that allows users to claim a company profile and am wondering if there is an automated way to validate that the email they enter actually belongs to the organisation Eg If User signs up to claim the 'XYZ Corp' profile as user@xyzcorp.com I want to check that XYZ Corp email handle really is xyzcorp.com not xyz.net or xyz- corporate.com


HTTP Server invalid request/connection throttling

I have a custom HTTP server. When F5 is held down in a browser the server gets slammed with requests. How can I detect and limit these (or any other) invalid connections? It seems that I would have to record, for each incoming IP, the length of time between each request and whether or not the request was valid. If a certain number of invalid requests are received in a certain period time, I would simply disconnect (or ban) all further connections coming from that IP for a certain period of time. Does anyone have any articles, pointers or tips on this subject?


Does Google bot always treat dot as word separator?

One of our products is a grid control called iGrid, and we have two versions for two different platforms. One is iGrid ActiveX, the other is iGrid for .NET Framework WinForms called "iGrid.NET". At some point we noticed that in the snippets on Google's SERP the ".NET" suffix is treated as a standalone word. For example, we can see highlighted text in bold (what Google highlights looking at the search query) like this: ... iGrid. **NET** is an advanced **DataGridView alternative**. Is that right? How to check whether Google treats "iGrid.NET" as two separate words? And if so, tell him not to do that?


Do most spam-watch programs actually check domain names or URLs?

On the not-too serious Sites (check-sites), I use Shared Hosting and thus, shared IP address, so am wondering if a smart move even then is to pay for a private IP # ? It seems on most checks, there are hundreds of accounts on these Shared Hosts, so the odds go up quickly, don't they?


Partial refunds in Magento

How do I get a partial refund (credit memo) working in Magento? I have a customer who bought 3 items but only wants to get a refund on one of the items. Is there a way to do that? Also, can I move that item back to the inventory (like updating the stock automatically)?          (duplicate of question on StackOverflow, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4159696/partial-refunds-in-magento)


Why has Yahoo only managed to index TWO pages on my site?

I launched my site a few months ago, and Google already has over 1K indexed pages - whereas Yahoo has only managed to index 2 pages (when I check with Yahoo Site Explorer). I have checked (using Yahoo Site Explorer), and no errors have been found by the Yahoo bot when indexing my site. Can anyone explain the discrepancy in number of archived pages? Note: I dubmitted my sitemap to both search engines at about the same time.


RewriteRule for URLs with spaces

My site's pages are in multiple languages whereby each language version shares its media (images) with the other language versions. I place all versions and the media in a single directory with the same name. E.g. pages **_mypage- en.html_** , **_mypage-fr.html_** etc. will sit in directory **_mypage_**. The directory path suffices to reference a page:   h t t p : //....../mypage/   is good enough, there is no need for   h t t p : //....../mypage/mypage-en/html   A rewrite with               RewriteRule ^(.*)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ /$1/$2/$2-en.html        lets me use the shorter form. But what if the name **_mypage_** contains spaces (which some do) ?   I want   h t t p : //....../my page/   to lead to   h t t p : //....../my page/my page.html Using               RewriteRule ^(.*)/([a-zA-Z0-9|\s]+)/?$ /$1/$2/$2-en.html        did not work.   Any hints welcome. (please do not ask me why I want to do this, nor tell me I should not use spaces in file names)


Waiting for googleads.g.doubleclick.net

When I load my pages, I see the ads are not showing up and there is this message at the bottom of Chrome saying that the browser is waiting for `googleads.g.doubleclick.net`. How can I speed this up so the ads display quicker? Is something wrong with my domain?


What can I do to take control of a domain from a client's previous developer?

A client of mine has a website that is incomplete. The last developers quit from this work, and they need get this work done. The problem is that I can't get cPannel access, and the first developer doesn't answer my e-mails. I've also checked the WHOIS records, that tell me that my client is not the owner of this domain/hosting service. The first company didn't register the service with the client's name. I've already contacted the host company to ask for a password reset, and they tell me that for security purposes they only can do that for the domain/host owner. Is there any way to solve this mess?


What possible causes are there for a page to display differently if hosted in two different places?

If viewing the same page in the same browser, but that page is hosted in two different places (in our case, locally v. over the internet) what kinds of things can cause it to display differently? Assume that there is no server side processing, just HTML, CSS & Javascript. Also assume, yes, we're definitely looking at the same page.


How do WEB 2.0 sites get their first few members?

How do WEB 2.0 sites get first few members, like a new site comes up for "discussing books" or "renting apartments" or any thing for that matter. So if some marketing is able to pull in some visitors, all first few visitors will see blank data bases no existing info offered. wont they carry a bad name and never come back again ... ??


posts appearing in wordpress media library

when searching from the media library I am seeing posts and when clicking on them to edit the edit post window opens and not the media edit window. could anyone shed some light on this?


Google's Icon Legality

I'm creating a homepage for all the computers within my company. We're a small business so we're using Google Apps. I've designed a very simple site that will be only accessible with an authorised Google account. Below is a screenshot of the page with all the necessary links people within my company will need. Is there any legal issues with using the icons of the products within my own page, even when I'm not profiting form them in any way? ![The Homepage](http://i.stack.imgur.com/88Ol4.png)


What russian search engine or social network service is this?

![What search engine is this?](http://i.stack.imgur.com/coCZT.jpg) The above logo of a search engine is supposedly the top in russia. I would like to know more about the company so I can do SEO for it. When I google for "Russia top search engine" I only get Yandex. Does anyone know what search engine is it? PS: I am chinese.


google analytics - how to see the name of the pages which has been viewed by certain countries

I want a list of my site pages which has been viewed in any country. I could not find such option in analytics. How to do that. So that i can know the people who view certain pages. so that i can display content according to that.


Indexing internationalized pages

I've noticed that many websites use different URLs for different languages, e.g. de.wikipedia.org. I thought that was the entire purpose of existance for the `Accept-Language` HTTP header. It would be easiest for me to just use that header, but I was wondering how that would be indexed. For different URLs, there is hreflang. But could I point out, "Hey request this page with a different `Accept-Language` header and get translated content"?


Domain purchased long time ago by me is not mine?

4 years ago, I bought a domain `www.example.fr` on the French website `1and1.fr`. It was some sort of parked domain to be used in future. I payed for 2 years at the beginning. Now, after 4 years, I see that domain name bought before by me, no longer belongs to me, but to some company `www.company.com`. Isn't this against law, to buy something you owned before without even getting you know about this manipulation?


Is there an industry standard for "the fold"?

We often get requests to put an ad over or below "the fold" - the visible portion of the screen on page load, a term derived from newspapers which are delivered folded in half. I use Chrome on a Mac with a super light address bar (no favorites, etc) on an external monitor with a 1680x1050 resolution. My fold is a bit lower than someone on IE7 with 18 search bars on a 13" Dell Inspiron 8800. Is there an industry standard for how many pixels high the fold is? I briefly checked the IAB but was unable to find specifics.


Weird CSS-behaviour

<!DOCTYPE html>                                                       <title>PakHet</title>                     <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/basis.css" />

Start

Over PakHet

Over Ons

Uw pakket

Aanmelden

Traceren

Hier komt de titel van de website

Dit is de tekst van de content. Dit is de indexpagina.

                                        And this is the CSS:                           /* CSS RESET */                      html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,                 h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,                 a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,                 del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,                 small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,                 b, u, i, center,                 dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,                 fieldset, form, label, legend,                 table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td,                 article, aside, canvas, details, embed,                  figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup,                  menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary,                 time, mark, audio, video, *{                     margin: 0;                     padding: 0;                     border: 0;                     vertical-align: baseline;                 }                 table {                     border-collapse: collapse;                     border-spacing: 0;                 }                      /* Einde CSS RESET, nu echte code */                 html, body{                     background:url(../images/bg_picture.jpg) fixed no-repeat;                 }                 .wrapper{                     margin:0 auto;                 }                 .header{                     margin:0 auto;                     background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);                 }                 .content{                     background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);                     width:600px;                     margin:0 auto;                     margin-top:50px;                 }                 .content p{                     color:white;                     text-shadow:1px 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0, 0.5);                     font-family:"Lucida Grande", sans-serif;                 }                      #cssmenu{ height:37px; display:block; padding:0; margin: 0;  border:1px solid; }                  #cssmenu > ul {list-style:inside none; padding:0; margin:0;}                  #cssmenu > ul > li {list-style:inside none; padding:0; margin:0; float:left; display:block; position:relative;}                  #cssmenu > ul > li > a{ outline:none; display:block; position:relative; padding:12px 20px; font:bold 13px/100% "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; text-shadow:1px 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0, 0.4); }                  #cssmenu > ul > li:first-child > a{border-radius:5px 0 0 5px;}                  #cssmenu > ul > li > a:after{ content:''; position:absolute; border-right:1px solid; top:-1px; bottom:-1px; right:-2px; z-index:99; }                  #cssmenu ul li.has-sub:hover > a:after{top:0; bottom:0;}                  #cssmenu > ul > li.has-sub > a:before{ content:''; position:absolute; top:18px; right:6px; border:5px solid transparent; border-top:5px solid #fff; }                  #cssmenu > ul > li.has-sub:hover > a:before{top:19px;}                  #cssmenu ul li.has-sub:hover > a{ background:#3f3f3f; border-color:#3f3f3f; padding-bottom:13px; padding-top:13px; top:-1px; z-index:999; }                  #cssmenu ul li.has-sub:hover > ul, #cssmenu ul li.has-sub:hover > div{display:block;}                  #cssmenu ul li.has-sub > a:hover{background:#3f3f3f; border-color:#3f3f3f;}                  #cssmenu ul li > ul, #cssmenu ul li > div{ display:none; width:auto; position:absolute; top:38px; padding:10px 0; background:#3f3f3f; border-radius:0 0 5px 5px; z-index:999; }                  #cssmenu ul li > ul{width:200px;}                  #cssmenu ul li > ul li{display:block; list-style:inside none; padding:0; margin:0; position:relative;}                  #cssmenu ul li > ul li a{ outline:none; display:block; position:relative; margin:0; padding:8px 20px; font:10pt "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#fff; text-decoration:none; text-shadow:1px 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0, 0.5); }                  #cssmenu, #cssmenu > ul > li > ul > li a:hover{ background:#333333; background:-moz-linear-gradient(top, #333333 0%, #222222 100%); background:-webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#333333), color-stop(100%,#222222)); background:-webkit-linear-gradient(top, #333333 0%,#222222 100%); background:-o-linear-gradient(top, #333333 0%,#222222 100%); background:-ms-linear-gradient(top, #333333 0%,#222222 100%); background:linear-gradient(top, #333333 0%,#222222 100%); filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#333333', endColorstr='#222222',GradientType=0 ); }                  #cssmenu{border-color:#000;}                  #cssmenu > ul > li > a{border-right:1px solid #000; color:#fff;}                  #cssmenu > ul > li > a:after{border-color:#444;}                  #cssmenu > ul > li > a:hover{background:#111;}                 #cssmenu > ul > li.active > a{                     color:orange;                 }                 .header{                     clear:both;                 }      The problem is that, whenever I hover on the dropdown-menu, that a 1px margin appears in between the menu and the header. Can I solve that? I can't seem to find the solution.


Question on business connections and page rank?

I just want to ask this question to get a yes no answer on something that I've been wondering on lately. So regarding how there are countless numbers of sites now that use the no- follow; making it harder to get ranking for your page if your website information might be something useful and will get traffic but maybe isn't something that your business connections share content of; but I am trying to find out if the benefit to having a bunch of say "likes" to your facebook page, but all the connection to your website's content isn't passing any benefit to your main page. So are you then competing with your own website in regards to SERPs to your facebook page and that of your home page. Am I correct on this; that if you start having your facebook page doing real good as far as connections and likes (helping bump up your facebook PageRank) but if you have links on your page with certain optimized keywords, that there is no benefit to your website (other than people getting to your facebook page, and then more likely to click to your page). Hope I explained it well what I am asking. Just wanted to get a better picture of this to know what I want to focus on as far as how I'll be linking to my desired landing pages in the future.


Test if Google+ is already with my Website

How can I verify or check if a website is already linked with Google plus? I already added `<link href="https://plus.google.com/{+PageIdGoesHere}" rel="publisher" />` this to my head tag of my page.


Will doing this improve somewhat improve my site ranking (SEO)?

So I like to post a lot on forums. And often times, I'll link images. I usually use imgur as the image provider. But this thought just came into my head. Would it be a good idea to have the image on a page of site, thereby increasing my site ranking (right now, I'm the only person who's ever been on my site hah). So basically, instead of linking http://i.imgur.com/veCBW.p ng, I would link mysite.com/pagethatincludestheimage . And inside it would just contain img src of the image. It would basically appear exactly the same. Is this a decent idea? Is there any other way it may help my site? Btw, I also use amazon s3, so hotlinking will not be an issue.


Analiytics: Can I set a goal on multiple events?

We have a popup dialogue that requests users email address or facebook login. The page behind the popup loads, so a page view is counted. We want to measure:   * How many users ignored the popup completely   * How many users engaged the popup, but don't complete the process (we trigger an event when the user performs actions defined as "engaging")   * How many users completed the popup Bounce rates aren't telling because some users won't receive the popup. We are basically triggering events "PopupDisplayed" "PopupEngaged" and "PopupComplete", with labels to differentiate between email and facebook. But I don't think I can set goals to count "Users who received 'PopupDisplayed' AND 'PopupComplete'" events, so I can count how many users both saw the popup and completed it.


Magento Domain.com/home being registered by google as the home page

My domain domain.com/home is being registered by google, that isnt the home page because domain.com/ is the home page. Anyone can help me out on this? :(


Creating an international website service (domain)name or brand

When one is interested in creating a service for the masses, and thus wants to reach an international target, a decision has to be made whether to follow a so called "ethnocentric" approach when it comes to the brand name or a "poly/regio-centric" approach where a different brand name is used for each country or region. Since the internet user is globalizing every day, it would make sense to create a global brand. An obvious example would be Google. My question is, how does one think of such name that has the "perfect" balance between brandability and "catchyness" for the biggest target markets, in this case continents of the world? Some issues here:   * If something can be pronounced and memorized in one culture this may very well not be the case in another.   * It seems rather difficult to "test" a certain idea Note that this is not meant for a specific project, it is just me expressing general curiosity on how one would approach this problem.


Create a more voices for meSpeak.js

I saw a meSpeak.js project and there is also a folder called voices, but every voice file is json so i want to convert Mbrola voice to .json is there is any way to do that thanks


Where can I see my visits in Google Analytics?

Google Analytics seems to have changed overnight and I can't see visit counts. I can see pageviews, but not visits. Any ideas?


Having trouble moving Website

Some acquaintances of mine inherited a website running a custom wordpress template and the previous owner asked them to take over and to get it set up on their own server. I was asked to assist since I was the only one they knew with some technical skills. The previous site owner send me a backup of the web files and the mySQL database and recommended using site5.com for hosting. I got the files installed, things seemed to be OK and we were then ready to transfer the DNS. The domain is registered through GoDaddy and the prior owner issued a transfer to me, I got signed up accepted the domain and then went in and set the nameservers per site5 instructions: dns.site5.com and dns2.site5.com I expected that this was all that would be required and would just wait for the dns entries to update. However, at present when I browse or ping the Website. I get Server not Found. Is there anything else that I should have done or am I just in DNS Limbo? WHOIS.NET reports that it is registered to me and has the nameservers correct. You'll have to excuse me, while I've set up several websites internally at my work, this is the first time I've worked on an internet website. Thanks for any help you can offer.


Google crawling the site but refusing to index dynamic content

I am trying to get Google to index an AJAX site (davidelifestyle.com). It's crawlable with JavaScript turned off and I have also recently implemented _escaped_content_ snapshot mechanism but all that's indexed is a home page and PDF files that are not directly available from the home page. Also when I use Fetch as Google in Webmaster Tools, it downloads the dynamic page but does not index it ("Submit to Index" just reloads the page). Any ideas what might be wrong? Edit: Today Index Status in Webmaster Tools showed: `Total indexed: 0, Not selected: 178`. According to documentation, pages are "not selected" because they are regarded duplicates.


On google analytics, when I see visits / keywords are all these vists are of unique visitors?

On google analytics, when I see visits / keywords are all these vists are of unique visitors or are they other visits of 1 visitor who came to the site using that keyword in the first place ?


Why does Google sometimes show fewer than the standard pair of lines for the "snippet"?

Normally websites listed in Google's results pages are shown with a standard excerpt comprising two lines with a [...] at the end of the second line. Occasionally Google allows the website a full sentence without a [...] and in these cases the excerpt or summary is typically limited to a single line. Why? ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/VQqpm.jpg) Also occasionally Google shows no excerpt at all. Why is this? ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hRo8F.jpg) We're trying to rescue a customer from virtual invisibility on Google (up till now they have been nofollow, noindex). Wondering if the fact that Google only gives them a single line is a clue to how Google sees (or doesn't) this site. Screenshots are just examples, these sites are not my client.


categorize website based on visitors count

my site is having around 300 unique visits/5000 pageviews per day.   i want to know how many unique visits/page views (approx.) a site should have to be called   low , moderate and high traffic website. also how can i test strength of my website, like how many requests my website can process simultaneously.   http://loadimpact.com/ -- iam looking for some tool like this. i want these figures to choose a proper webhost as my new project is very big as compared to this one.   Also what are the things we should look for when choosing a web host. Ram and CPU are important for webservers to process requests but most of webhosts never talk of cpu and ram allotted to us. They only provide disk space and daily/monthly allowed traffic in GBS.


Legal to modify game art and screenshots for my own site?

I'm currently working on building a video game related website, and I'm wondering if it's legal to use screenshots or concept art that game studios post on their official sites. At most I would want to crop these images to create links with. I see other sites like IGN, Gamespot, etc doing this at length, but I'm wondering if they have to have permission.


Social Media Strategy

I'm in the process of submitting a job application for an online content editor position. Part of the application process requires submitting your proposed socia media strategy. I haven't needed to compose a social media strategy before, and a basic google search does not find anything revealing. The organisation is a Christian school, and wants to include graduates and alumni in its social network. Any pointers to strategy ideas?


How to calculate maximum number of request in 128 MB VPS performance?

I am a newbie here, please let me know if I'm using wrong webmaster terms. I am currently setting up a VPS for a multi site WordPress. The VPS uses Debian 6 LNMP setup and the DNS is being taken care by another service. Currently the VPS is running non multi site WordPress with -+ 83 MB RAM out of 128MB. As far as I know the performance is relative to the number of request, not the number of sites in the multi site setup. ## The question How do I calculate maximum number of request in with that setup? If the information is not enough, what other factor do I need to know? Thank you in advance.


Is it good idea to put a captcha on credit card payment form? I am thinking to put one on my asp.net mvc application's payment section to make it more secure but I have never seen anybody doing that.


External Video Hosting - will it eat my bandwidth?

I hav asked this question before, on serverfault, but have been unable to get a clear answer or spammy ones. A client runs a website with limited bandwidth per month (10gb) but wants his users to be able to download hq videos. Now if he would rent hosting space on amazon, for example, the downloads would still go through his website right? So would this then still eat his bandwidth then, or not? It there a way to circumvent this? How do you do this, if you have limited bandwidth? If you are kind enough to answer, please don't spam me with what is good and not good hosting, I already know.


How to find whom a registrar is reselling?

In case a domain is registered not with an ICANN accredited registrar and only the reseller is mentioned in the whois, how can I find out whom is the reseller actually reselling? For example, whois record for 24creation.com has it that the domain has been registered with fc2.com, but the latter doesn't seem to be an ICANN accredited one, so it must be reselling someone.


Where to find Joomla components for 1.0.X?

I need to add new functionality to an old Joomla 1.0.15 installation. To be concrete, I need to add a component that allows me to add custom javascript to my content. I know that there is the option to edit the html source of the content but I rather would like to use a module for this. So I see two options (correct me if there are more):   1. Update Joomla to at least version 1.5 (From some forum posts I found out that can be somewhat complicated). I don't know if it is worth the effort since new functionality requirements come rarely (and I think my client doesn't want to pay for a Joomla version update).   2. Find an appropriate component and leave the old installation as it is. Can anyone point me into the right direction?


hProduct-microformats not work in google

I'm trying to work with **hProduct** was testing tool for google microformats ( http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets ), but it is not recognizing the data:   1. does not recognize the `photo`   2. does not recognize the `price`   3. does not recognize the `category`   4. only recognizes the `rating` **HTML** :
       ACME Executive Anvil                       Average rating: 4.4, based on 89            reviews                   Regular price: $179.99       Sale: $119.99 (Sale ends 5 November!)            Sleeker than ACME's Classic Anvil, the Executive Anvil is          perfect for the business traveler looking for something to drop from a height.            Category:           Tools > Anvils">Anvils
      and still shows this warning: > **waring: In order to generate a preview with rich snippets, either price or > review or availability needs to be present.** I used google's own example: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=186036 I also tested the microformas.org: http://microformats.org/wiki/google-rich- snippets-examples With Microdata I managed to display the price, but I really want is to use microformat. does not show the price and also does not show the picture: ![http://i.imgur.com/OvR6m.png](http://i.stack.imgur.com/I5uBg.png)


Is placing one or two keywords in the URLs still good for SEO?

My urls do not seem to have my main keywords in them. Is this bad for SEO? Should I include them? Of course I do not mean actually writing one keyword after each other, but have an organically / naturally readably URL which makes sense to the user and to SEO, if at all, hence my question.


What to do if Google has banned my site?

What should I do if I suspect that Google has Banned (refuses to list pages for) my Site?


Do Unrelated Sites in Subfolders affect the Ranking of the Main Site?

Does putting an unrelated site in a domain's subfolder (to avoid buying a new domain name) affect the domain's search engine ranking even if there are no links between them? For example, is it a bad practice will placing a cooking site at programming.com/cooking affect the search engine ranking of programming.com?


301 redirect for a page with a space in it

I have some pages from a client's old template-based site which have spaces in them. For example, one of the pages looks like this:               example.com/page.php?domain_name=example.com&viewpage=Gallery %26 News      I'm thinking that the correct way to do an htaccess 301 redirect is to include something like this:               Redirect 301 /page.php?domain_name=example.com&viewpage=Gallery%20%26%20News http://www.example.com/gallery/      where the new page is:               example.com/gallery      Is this correct?


Chat solution, that integrates with VBulliten forums

I'm wondering if there any software that adds the chat capability of on page chat (facebook-like), to the VBulliten forum system, with the following requirements:   1. Requires no plugins (Pure JavaScript) or has alternatives (Uses anyone that available of Flash, or Silverlight of Java).or just throw a link.   2. Integrates with the members system, utilizes the Username, User avatar.   3. Utilizes the friendship featues that is already implemented in VBulliten. So you can see online friends and private-chat with them. And if it supports the public chat rooms it will be better. I would like to hear about software you've experienced: commercial, property free-ware, or free/open-source. And what services they offer or just a brief about their Pros/Cons from your point of view. Thanks in advance


If my URL's are static, but then parsed by Javascript, does that make it crawlable?

Lets say I have a link:               About Us      But in Javascript [or jQuery] catches it and then adds the hash based off of the href attribute:               $('a').click(function(e) {         e.preventDefault();         // Extremely oversimplified..         window.location.hash = $(this).attr('href');     });      And then we use a hashchange event to do the general 'magic' of Ajax requests. This allows for the actual href to be seen by crawlers, but gives client-side users with JS enabled an ajax-based website. Does this 'help' the general SEO issues that come along with hashtags? I know hashbangs are 'ok', but afaik they aren't reliable?


what is a normal payment method for building a website

what is a normal payment model for building a website   * 1/2 payment upfront and 1/2 at the end ?   * all at the end ?? is there any suggestions on what is standard practice ?


What factors do you use to evaluate the quality of a website template?

**Examples of website templates being:**   * templatemonster.com   * websitetemplates.com   * buytemplates.net   * designload.net   * templaterover.com   * boxedart.com   * pixelmill.com   * templateworld.com   * themeforest.net **(If there's a popular source I'm missing, please comment. Thanks!)**


"Email This" button with sideways counter

I've been asked to build a design that has a "share this" area like below: ![share this stuff](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XJFZ5.png) I've built every aspect except the Email part of it -- any idea how best to do that? I've found http://getmailcounter.com/, but that displays a counter above. I'd personally just do a link, but it seems they're wanting some sort of analytics built in... Failing that, does anyone know of some sort of sharing system that looks like that and has all of those options? I'd just use AddThis, but its designs don't look very close to that... Thanks! Related: How to implement an email this link button


Why does Google remove PageRank sometimes?

Today I saw my website's page rank gone down from 2 to 0. It happened once before as well. I don't remember spamming anywhere and I don't have too many posts on my forum. I heard they are very strict about forum websites and frequently try to keep the rank down. Have anyone of you experienced this?


Nofollow: a good thing for SEO or not?

I read a while ago, on this site, (sorry, can't find the link), that Google sees anchors with `nofollow` attributes as _paid links_ and mentioned for _affiliates_. I thought that using a `nofollow` for external links is good and not harmful as Google sees it as a less valuable link. I am confused and don't know what to think really. Can someone give me the right answer on this? Right now, I am using a `nofollow` on all my external links. Should I step off of this one?


Twitter share link: how to properly implement counter when using a URL shortener?

I've implemented a share-URL-popup for Twitter but I think sometimes text + URL will not fit in to the 140 allowed chars of Twitter:               "https://twitter.com/intent/tweet" +     "?text=" + encodeURIComponent("long text here") +     "&url="  + encodeURIComponent("http://www.somevery.org/long-url/here/i-mean-very-very-long/")      What I want is to use a permalink, a shorter URL, instead (which looks like this: `http://somevery.org/aUI8dj`) but I also want to keep track of number of shares. I'm not a fan of Twitter but IIRC it already shorten URLs itself. Is that right? if not, I'm asking if there's a way to specify the count-URL as it is possible with the tweet-button plugin something like that:               "https://twitter.com/intent/tweet" +     "?text="      + encodeURIComponent("long text here") +     "&url="       + encodeURIComponent("http://www.somevery.org/aUI8dj")     "&count-url=" + encodeURIComponent("http://www.somevery.org/long-url/here/i-mean-very-very-long/")


How to monitor traffic from domains forwarding?

I have suppose 10 domains all redirecting( using godaddy forwarding) to example.com. Is there a way I can monitor traffic from these 10 domains ? Probably some how in Google Analytics or some other way out ? I am using Google Analytics on example.com


Copyright word or symbol

After reading this post I was wondering which is best to use for websites out of the following,   * Copyright (C) 2010 "COMPANY"   * (C) 2010   * Copyright 2010 Also, if we license everything we produce under the GPLv3 license, should we also include anything about that at the bottom?


Googlebot algorithm for crawling?

Is there some general description telling how Google crawls your website? I mean, not the frequency, but which URL is it going to explore next?


Writing terms and conditions for a new website

What are factors you need to consider when writing terms and conditions or acceptable use policies for a web site/web application. A few questions spring into my mind:   * Are there any legal requirements to post T&C's on a site?   * Do they really offer legal protection to both the site owner and end users?   * Are there a standard list of T&C's somewhere that can be reused?


Another company has my domain in Japan

I own a company and have the company name registered as a trademark. I just discovered that someone has already bought my company name domain in Japan. So say I own this company japancompany.com and I want to get the domain japancompany.jp but someone else has already bought it. Can I somehow get it back?


What are the best options to backup a hosted windows VPS

I have a Windows VPS hosted at some web host, I have remote desktop administrator access and I can install whatever software I need on that VPS. This is a basic low cost VPS, so the system resources (especially memory) are extremely limited, the main difference between backing up a dedicated server and a VPS is the VPS's limited resources. My requirements are:   1. Backup the VPS content (I don't want to backup the entire virtual hard drive, I want to be able to access my files without installing the same VM software).   2. Backup files, IIS configuration and SQL Server databases.   3. Extremely light weight, use (almost) no memory when inactive, able to limit memory usage when backing up.   4. Backup to a remote location (Amazon S3 is best because it's cheap).   5. Fast and bandwidth efficient (uses compression, incremental backup, etc.)   6. Optionally able to backup up mail server (I use SmarterMail), I can live without this because I have a relatively simple e-mail setup and I keep all my messages on my desktop in Outlook.   7. Backing up files in use is not an issue for me because most files (except SQL Server and mail data listed above) will never be locked on this specific server. I have a limited budget, obviously I would love a free solution ,but this is a business machine and good backup is worth some money.


Google Analytics - two visitors between August 13th and September 12th

So I was recently given access to our Google Analytics, and it appears like we only had TWO visitors between August 13th and September 12th... this is for a site that typically has between several hundred to over a thousand visitors per month. What could have caused this error? Almost certainly we didn't only have two users during this month.


What font technique is being used here?

While I was attending this event (http://worldtour.fogcreek.com/) I noticed this page had custom fonts for the Address part in the top left corner (i.e "Fog Creek Software 55 Broadway Fl 55....") When I looked at the source code I couldn't really determine what they were doing but it satisfied these conditions:   1. Works well with IE 7,8 (and all other browsers)   2. Allows you to use any font you want   3. Is text base, i.e no flash, images, etc. Thus it is better for SEO and indexing and such. So what technique are they using here???


Why there suddenly were so many 400 request in my access log?

Below are little part of my access_log               118.186.8.50 - - [19/Dec/2011:22:42:57 +0800] "-" 400 0 "-" "-"     05     118.186.8.50 - - [19/Dec/2011:22:42:57 +0800] "-" 400 0 "-" "-"     06     118.186.8.50 - - [19/Dec/2011:22:42:57 +0800] "-" 400 0 "-" "-"     07     118.186.8.50 - - [19/Dec/2011:22:42:57 +0800] "-" 400 0 "-" "-"     08     118.186.8.50 - - [19/Dec/2011:22:42:57 +0800] "-" 400 0 "-" "-"     09     220.173.136.39 - - [19/Dec/2011:22:43:22 +0800] "-" 400 0 "-" "-"     10     220.173.136.39 - - [19/Dec/2011:22:43:22 +0800] "-" 400 0 "-" "-"     11     220.173.136.39 - - [19/Dec/2011:22:43:22 +0800] "-" 400 0 "-" "-"     12     220.173.136.39 - - [19/Dec/2011:22:43:22 +0800] "-" 400 0 "-" "-"     13     220.173.136.39 - - [19/Dec/2011:22:43:22 +0800] "-" 400 0 "-" "-"     14     220.173.136.39 - - [19/Dec/2011:22:43:22 +0800] "-" 400 0 "-" "-"      And the volume was very huge, some like one hundred thousand of these 400 request per second. And I'm pretty sure there are no errors on my site in that period of time.(No error report and I didn't change the source code)


Facebook like and share buttons will have impact on SEO in future?

I read in blogs that Facebook features will be crawled in future. Maybe like how many Likes are done for a specific page. In that case is it good to use third party widgets like ShareThis to integrate Facebook Likes or do I have to directly use the Facebook code on my website?


How to exclude total sessions when comparing segments in Google Analytics

In previous versions of Google Analytics it was possible to uncheck total sessions when comparing segments so that only the checked segments would be graphed. But now I can't figure out how to quickly exclude total sessions. And I'm left with a graph that looks like this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/nmWSs.png) Is it still possible to exclude total ("Sessions" in the graph above)?


Load times and SEO for 1 page sites

I find that 1 page sites can be interactive animating from page to page. But if a site starts to get a little larger or contains many images, perhaps an image gallery, it loads slowly. Also its not good for SEO I believe? How can I fix these 2 issues? For the 1st (Slow loading), I am thinking I should somehow load only 1 page at a time, then load in the background other pages. It sounds simple in theory, but what happens if when I am only loading page 2 in background, the user requests for page 6? Or any other suggestions? Then for SEO, what can I do abt it?


Robots.txt and pattern matching

Adding this to my robots.txt               User-agent: *     Disallow: /*action=*$      How does robots not recognizing wild cards handle this?


How to protect the contact us page from spammers? Even using captcha, validation etc I sitll receive spam letters

I have on my site, every field validation + captcha protection + math validation + server scripting validation, but still this a spammer keeps sending me spam mails. Is there any better smarter protection protect those ugly face's? special sites like: `http://mysite.com/contact.php`


Developing from scratch vs. Wordpress

I am facing a dilemma, over the past six months I have been building my website from scratch and I put plenty of hours into it using standard html/css/php/mysql/javascript and jquery... My website provides a service on a membership only basis, I was wondering if it is smart decision to start transitioning to wordpress? At the moment, I have no experience using it although I heard of the many advantages... I am a freelance web developer/designer and I am trying to decide if regularly working with wordpress is worth it? are there any drawbacks? I enjoy the 'coding' part of web development which is why I tried to stay away;)


How can I organize my domain names?

I have some domains registered with 1and1 and some with dreamhost and hosting on both companies but some point to hosting with dns. It's all a mess! Is it best to register your domains through a registration company and then just point them to hosting company? Any recommendations how I can clean this up?!


last-modified/etags - to include or not?

Google's PageSpeed plugin suggests that a website should include Last-Modified and ETag headers: > Specify a cache validator "Resources that do not specify a cache validator > cannot be refreshed efficiently. Specify a Last-Modified or ETag header to > enable cache validation" However, Apache suggests that by not including them at all, we speed up websites by eliminating If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match requests: http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/apache-speed-last-modified.html these are in direct opposition - which should be implemented? I'm leaning towards Apache's suggestion, as when I want a file cached, I don't want it refreshed.


Should I still use the <b> tag?

A while ago I learned to use proper CSS stylesheets on my websites. However, on Wikipedia and eBay and other sites I see the deprecated `<b><i>` tags being used. I was going for `<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span>` but I **_never_** see it done that way. So what's up with the WC3 standards. Are `<b>` tags back in style?


Referrall clicks from my site not showing up on clients reports

Hi I have a web site that has a number of clients on it I track every time some one click on the link on their page on my site that takes them to the clients own web site I track via my CMS program Once they click on the link it records as a click thur which goes in to a report. It will only record 1 click a day from the same IP in my system. I can sent my client a report to show them people are finding their site via our web site but it seems that Google is not picking all or in some cases none of them up and one client said they had no visit at all my our site last month. But my CMS records 20 people clicking on the link that takes them to their own site from their page on my site. Is this common? And what should I do to fix it or advice my clients ?


Social media guide for web startups

I'm looking for a social media guide that would talk me through all the different steps involved with setting up social media for a new website (e.g. how to create accounts on the main social media like `Facebook` and `Twitter`, how to get new fans/followers, highlight the things one should avoid doing...) The guide should primarily cover the startup phase of a website, and ideally be in `PDF` or other printer-friendly formats. Google returned a lot of results for `social media guide startup`, none of which really stood out, hence the question on Pro webmasters.


Tracking with Google Analytics both a page and a file linked from it

I have a page located on a subdomain (downloads.easyjob.net) that links to an executable. The download of the executable is correctly tracked by google analytics (following these indications). However, I'd like to track the page itself too. How can I do this?


I want to view google page sponsored ads (next to search result section) from another country. I am from india. I am currently getting ads related to my geograhical region thats India.


Indexing text which is in an image

I have a website which i convert pdf documents to images and display those images in a webpage. I want the text content of the images indexed in google but i could not find out how to do it in a legal way. An example: In a webpage, there's an image which contains this sentence: "I am a human being". There's no such text in webpage, but as the programmer of the site, I know that that sentence will be in the image. Is there a way to have this page indexed with "I am human being" sentence?


Encoding fails whatever I try

I am trying to set my site's encoding to UTF-8 but I fail. Environment: Ubuntu Desktop 13.04, Apache 2.2, PHP+FPM. Added a .htacces: AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 Meta: file -bi * output: inode/directory; charset=binary inode/directory; charset=binary text/html; charset=utf-8 inode/directory; charset=binary inode/directory; charset=binary text/x-php; charset=utf-8 inode/directory; charset=binary text/x-php; charset=us-ascii inode/directory; charset=binary text/x-php; charset=us-ascii (similar in subdirectories) System encoding is also UTF-8. PHP header: header("Content-Type:text/html;charset=UTF-8"); The problem itself: When I echo accent letters like this: echo "ÁÁÁ   \n"; it prints out them well. But when I send these letters through a post form, they become these: � Maybe my browsers encoding messes up everything? I really hope no, because everything is on default. Anyway, w3c validator says it is a valid HTML5 UTF-8 encoded page. A hope anyone can help me. Thanks in advance.


Does someone knows of a free asmx webhosting?

I wrote a webservice (*.asmx) and I want to host it for free. Couldn't find a website that alows web service hosting. Does someone know of such ?


Image Appears Small on website but not in photoshop

Sorry for the lame title.. I bought a template off template montser and I am trying to change some text on the header. The text is stored as a png image. I opened the psd file in photoshop and changed the text to what I wanted. Put the layer in a new file and saved as PNG. In the psd, the text appears exactly as I want in relation to the website. When I use the png I saved, it is much smaller Photoshop file: ![Screenshot of Photoshop file](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NAa4I.gif) Result (I know background color is off): ![Webpage](http://i.stack.imgur.com/s9Bad.gif) Template before tampering with it: ![Template](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GgqLl.gif) Anybody know whats going on or how to make this the correct size? **EDIT :** I now know that CSS is limiting the size of my image. The problem is, I'm a nooob on CSS. My index file is:

      And the corresponding CSS:               .container_12{ position: relative; width: 960px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0; }     .grid_1,     .grid_2,     .grid_3,     .grid_4,     .grid_5,     .grid_6,     .grid_7,     .grid_8,     .grid_9,     .grid_10,     .grid_11,     .grid_12     { float: left; display: inline; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; }          .wrapper{overflow:hidden;position:relative;}          .container_12 .grid_12          { width: 940px; }          .fleft{float:left}          .header h1 a img{ max-width:100%; height:auto;}      I'm not exactly sure which of these is causing the size constraints..can anyone help? I believe it has something to do with the container or grid


Any websites out there that showcase beautiful and pure css? (no images, flash, etc)

Something like the css zen garden but without the images used, just showing off what css can do on it's own? Or in general a site that gives an overview of pure css techniques to beautify web pages.


What is the best way to ensure individual blog posts are shown as top results in Google from a blog?

I like to show full posts on my index pages, so they are convenient for visitors to read and they don't have to click "read more" links to read the full post. However, with this setup Google often shows the index pages as a first hit for a search which is not convenient for visitors coming from search engines, because they have to find the relevant post on the index page. Is there an easy way to ensure individual blog posts are first results on google and index pages rank lower? This would be the best, because then the blog would be easy to read for both kinds of visitors: direct visitors would see the full posts on the index pages, while visitors coming from search engines would go directly to the individual posts. The obvious solution would be to use "noindex,follow" on index pages, so only post pages are indexed, but in an other question people didn't favor this idea, though I'm not sure what harm would it do. That's why I'm asking if there is some other solution.


When using country and language codes in a URL, which goes first?

When running multiple international Websites, is the best practice in language tags to specify firstly the language code then the country code, or vice versa? For instance:   * `http://www.example.com/en-in/` (English, India) or    * `https://www.example.com/in-en/`


Does putting more ads on a page necessarily generate more revenues?

It seems 'logic' that if you put more ads on a page, it 'should' generate more revenues. However, someone could argue that too many ads repel users, and therefore, pages with less ads are would be visited more often. Has anyone got practical experience to share about this? Does putting more ads on a page necessarily generate more revenues in practice?


Does Google penalize daily updated <lastmod> tags in sitemaps if the data is not daily updated?

I've got a sitemap that is generated daily with a lot of links to product pages. These products are imported daily from another data source. Because the update consists of throwing away all current product info and replacing it with the new imported info the last modified date always jumps one day. This is also used in the sitemap. Even for products that haven't changed. All product pages pretend to have been updated. Will Google penalize the website for pretending the pages have changed from day to day while they haven't? My solution would be to only change the entry only if the new imported product data differs from the previous data. I just want to make sure this is a useful upgrade to make, while I could also spend my time on other improvements.


Does meta tag in body section with itemprop and content work on SEO?

I noticed that `<meta>` tags in body only works with `itemprop` set, but I have a question. Do search engines read its content?


301 Redirect a domain to another domain, but keeping the subdirectories the same

Is it possible to configure a top-domain (`http://x.com`) (DNS/.htaccess/else?) to redirect to another domain (`http://y.com`), whilst if you navigate `http://x.com/subdir/index.html`, you'd see the files in the subdirectory of `http://x.com`? **summarized**   how to:   `x.com -> y.com` (redirect)   `x.com/sub/index.html` -> `x.com/sub/index.html` (no redirect) **Case use**   _I've got`sanderschaeffer.nl` and `iscs.nl`, which are both my business names. One is my own personal name, the other my brand name. When a user navigates to `sanderschaeffer.nl`, the domain should be forward (301) to `iscs.nl`. However, when one types (i.e.) `sanderschaeffer.nl/clientTestSite/` it would stay on that spot. So only the top-level gets a 301 redirect, but typing in the top-domain including a subdirectory will result in NO redirect._ _For one saying 'Why don't you use the test sites in a subdirectory on the main site (`iscs.nl/`)?'; that's because I'm testing (temporarily) out a new server, where `sanderschaeffer.nl` currently is hosted on. :)_


Google Search results show one link but no description

Search for this term in Google: cop-groningen or click the link to get to the page without typing. It shows you a link at the top of the search results page: `www.cop-groningen.nl/`. Below it I see neither a description (in black) nor a breadcrumb (in green). The preview is not working either (it says: no preview available). If you click the link, the site loads as expected. This is a snippet from the website's homepage:                   < meta name="keywords" content="COP, groep, COPgroep, peuteropvang, slochteren, kidsfirst" />           < meta name="description" content="Stichting COP groep - Organisatie voor gesubsidieerde peuterspeelzalen en opvoedingsondersteuning in de stad Groningen" />       **EDIT:** The website has been on air for ages, and has had a description before. I now also see in Google Analytics that no visitors were reported after 15 january 2012. There have been visitors, however. Anyone get any idea why this is the case? I try to analyse with Wireshark but I'm not good for analysing packets. I just don't get it.


Pages crawled with Cloudflare

I activated Cloudflare on my blog a few days ago and in their Analytics it shows me that there are 255 pages crawled by Bing, 16 by Yandex and only 1 by Google. Why only one page for Google? Should I worry about it?


How to see access statistics for just one file with AWStats?

My hosting provider uses AWStats (and Webalizer). I can browse the stats, and see the overview and various filtering functions. I also can see the so called exit and entry pages. However, I can not see how to have a statistic of the access of a single file (an image for example), regardless of whether it was called on entry or exit or whether it is in the top 10 or not. How can I do that?


Duplicate content issue between two sites having same ‘website navigation steps’ in home page

My client has two websites `www.example1.com` and `www.example2.com` those websites are same in structure and content. First site is old one and the second site is fresh site that was registered in this month only (not crawled by Google). I have been working to change the contents of the new one. In the home page of both sites we have ‘How to navigate this website’ section that contains 4 steps to tell our customers about the website and the working methods. Those steps are similar for both sites so I plan to leave that section from checking copyright, which means, I’m going to give same details in both the site. But our home page has some other details like introduction etc and those contents are different so I can’t provide canonical tag in that page. I need Google to consider both the sites as good sites. What can I do? Is there any attribute to notify Google that both the sections are same?


How do you track display impressions in Google Analytics on non Google networks?

Google Analytics has a Multi-Channel funnel analysis feature that we’d like to use to understand assisted conversions and how each channel has impacted on conversion beyond just last interaction attribution. My current understanding is that the impression tracking part of this feature works really well when playing within Google’s search and display networks. Outside of Google’s network I suspect that impression tracking will no longer “just work” and feed back into GA appropriately. What our options are for tracking display impressions on other advertising networks so that we can be attributing value correctly with GA?


Why does Google rich data snippet preview not display any rich data from my schema markup?

I'm trying to verify my schema.org implementation using Google rich data snippet preview, and am not sure if it's ok or not. This is an example. It appears there are no errors, and it does recognize my implementation, but the preview doesn't include any rich data. For comparison, when I put a linkedin link, the preview comes up with the rich data snippet: (they have a "Brooklyn, New York - Dean of Computer Science at Khan Academy" rich snippet placement for him as you can see in this picture:   ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/6tJDL.png) What could be the reason my preview doesn't display any rich data?


Forum is removed but still being visited by Googlebot

I've removed Simple Machine Forum (SMF) from my blog and from Google's index . I've even removed the sub-directory /forum from my blog techwayz.com and blocked it through robots.txt file. Unfortunately, it is still being visited by Googlebot. Every time Google visits the forum, I receive a 404 error alerts in webmaster tools. How can I resolve this?


How can I set up friendly URL to Nginx?

I'm trying to use **dokuwiki** with its friendly URL on Nginx. The problem that I'm facing is, **it doesn' show correct path to any link (even stylesheet, and images) on every page**. It looks that paths are missing `wiki/` part. If I click on the image and show its destination, it shows this URL: `http://foo- sample.com/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/logo.png`.   But it has to be this one: `http://foo- sample.com/wiki/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/logo.png`. And login URL is not working either. If I click on login link, it takes me to   `http://foo-sample.com/wiki/start?do=login&sectok=ff7d4a68936033ed398a8b82ac9`   and it says **404 Not Found**. I took a look at this https://www.dokuwiki.org/rewrite#nginx   and tried as much as possible. However it still doesn't work. Here's my conf files. How can I fix this problem? dokuwiki is set in `/usr/share/wiki`. **/etc/nginx/conf.d/rails.conf**               upstream sample {         ip_hash;         server unix:/var/run/unicorn/unicorn_foo-sample.sock fail_timeout=0;     }          server {         listen 80;         server_name foo-sample.com;         root /var/www/html/foo-sample/public;              location /wiki {             alias /usr/share/wiki;             index doku.php;         }              location ~ ^/wiki.+\.php$ {             fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:9000;             fastcgi_index   doku.php;             fastcgi_split_path_info ^/wiki(.+\.php)(.*)$;             fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/wiki$fastcgi_script_name;             include         /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;         }     }      **/usr/share/wiki/.htaccess**               ## Enable this to restrict editing to logged in users only          ## You should disable Indexes and MultiViews either here or in the     ## global config. Symlinks maybe needed for URL rewriting.     #Options -Indexes -MultiViews +FollowSymLinks          ## make sure nobody gets the htaccess files     <Files ~ "^[\._]ht">         Order allow,deny         Deny from all         Satisfy All     </Files>          # Uncomment these rules if you want to have nice URLs using     # $conf['userewrite'] = 1 - not needed for rewrite mode 2               # Not all installations will require the following line.  If you do,      # change "/dokuwiki" to the path to your dokuwiki directory relative     # to your document root.               # If you enable DokuWikis XML-RPC interface, you should consider to     # restrict access to it over HTTPS only! Uncomment the following two     # rules if your server setup allows HTTPS.     RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on     RewriteRule ^lib/exe/xmlrpc.php$      https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]          <IfModule mod_geoip.c>     GeoIPEnable On         Order deny,allow         deny from all             SetEnvIf GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE JP AllowCountry                  Allow from .googlebot.com             Allow from .yahoo.net             Allow from .msn.com                  Allow from env=AllowCountry     </IfModule>


What I need to know if I want credit card payments in an ecommerce website

I live in Costa Rica (in Central America). I want to build an eCommerce website with credit card payments, I know Asp.NET and SQL Server 2008. I know Paypal and the express checkout solution, but many people (and clients) here don't like it or don't use it. Paypal and Authorize.Net don't support countries in Latin America. Please tell me about one company who can or what can I do to setup my shopping cart. I'm studying right now security and how to implement SSL certificates and encrypt sensible data and PCI compliance in some way. I need this for my own framework in ASP.NET and provide eCommerce solutions here in my country.


Change Apache +Indexes language

I have a webpage with Index activated. I have this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/F60wy.png) Is there any way for change language of this, using `.htaccess`? I've already tried this `Directives`:               AddLanguage pt .pt     DefaultLanguage pt-PT     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^.*(pt).*$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [env=lang:%1]


Website analytic software compliance

I need to find a program which can crawl a site and show what various search engine spiders will parse (or not parse) and use for information. What we are looking to do is have a program go through the our site and tell us what images don't have alt tags (because engines use the alt tags on images at times to determine some site information etc.), or which content is written such a way that the SEs can't pull the information and use it in their rankings.


display product price in google search result

While I search for the magento module in google, I noticed the price is displayed in google search. Can we display the price of the product in google search by using any tag or any other way. Someone tell me what method is used in this. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/oE7Sb.png)


Best practices when loading images for improving page loading speed

I am working on optimizing a page's loading speed. Here are some analytics: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/IIAWb.jpg) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/m9DJb.png) Notice how the images, although only accounting for 65% of the total size (1.1MB), are by far the slowest loading assets: 96% of time. I'd like to know **which are the recommended practices on optimizing loading speed, only taking images into account**. Some of the techniques we are already applying:   * image compression   * images hosted on cookieless domain and CDN   * _spriting_ everything that can be _sprited_   * http headers: `keep alive` and `Expires` to one year. Disclaimer: I have gone through the available documentation, I think by focusing on image loading optimization I am not creating a duplicate or a subjective question.


Deleting blogger post leads to crawl error

i deleted the blog post from blogger, now i have got crawler error in webmaster account i.e page is pointing to 404 . Kindly help me how to fix that?


PayPal IPN/PDT for multiple sites

We have 4 websites that sell 4 separate (and unrelated products), and all of them use the same PayPal account. All 4 sites provide options for paying with PayPal Standard, and PayPal Website Payments Pro. The 'Pro' side of things works fine. The area we have a problem is with the IPN settings. As we have 4 "Notification URL's" what should we enter in the IPN settings? Has anyone found a way to set this up properly? (I use quite a few other SE sites, but this one looked most likely to answer a PayPal question. If it's not, please migrate it or tell me and I'll delete and repost. Thanks)


SEO penalty for landing page redirects

Using ebay as an example- lets say I have a large number of items whose URLs' look like this: _`cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1981-VW-Vanagon-manual-seats- seven-/250953153841`_ I want to give my client the ability to put links to these items on their website EASILY, without knowing or checking my URL. So I created a redirect service that will map their identifier with my URL: _`ebay.com/fake_redirect_service/shared_identifier9918`_ would redirect to the link above. This works great- my clients can easily setup these links with information they already have, and the user will see the page as usual. So on to the problem... I'm concerned that this redirecting service will have a negative impact on my SEO ranking. Having a landing page redirect you immediately to a different URL seems like something a typical spam site would do. Will this hurt me? Any better solutions?


Google Analytics Goal Flow

How does Google Analytics tracks users?Each user is tracked as unique user? I have a doubt about a goal flow in Google Analytics. I'm working on an ecommerce site. I set the goal as reach the "thank you" page after purchasing something. Before reaching the thank you page, users have to complete a checkout process. My doubt is about what happen if a user leaves the checkout process and comes back to site for add to cart another object and then returns to checkout and completes the order? What do I see on the goal flow? 2 entry in the checkout process (the first access and then the second one, after the user has added something to the cart) and 1 abandonment? I want to know if the user which has leave the checkout process and the user which completes the order is the same user. How can I track this?


phpbb banning multiple users by username/email

On phpbb, we usually select many user names and put it in the ban list. This is fine. but here's my key question: Are these banned users banned by their user names only OR emails OR both? If they're banned by user names only, is it possible to black-list their email addresses as well?


Name.com DNS Managment

Hey, I am not good with all this DNS stuff but i am looking to use Google Apps to provide my email... To do this i need to add MX records but when i go to Domain>DNS management it says: "This domain is not properly configured to use DNS management. DNS Management will only work if the domain is using our name servers (NS1.NAME.COM, NS2.NAME.COM, NS3.NAME.COM, and NS4.NAME.COM)." But i have to use Ns1.myserver.com ns2.myserver.com to make the site point to my server... How do i add these mx records?


Testing Silverlight Installation Experience

In my web app I use Silverlight. Since I already have Silverlight installed I cannot test how my webapp behaves in case a user has no Silverlight installed, or has old version of it, or their computer has configuration which is incompatible with Silverlight at all. Is there a recommended approach in reproducing these types of environments for testing purposes, or the only way is to delete/install browser many times?


Managing Xampp on USB for Mac and Windows machines

I am working on some PHP projects (Wordpress mostly) with MySQL databases and primarily use my Windows Desktop to do the work on whilst running Xampp. This all works great until I need to take my work on my mac via my usb hardrive. I copy my files from my windows machine on to my USB external and then I go to my macbook and fire up my USB hardrive. What I need is for my Xampp to just pick up from where I left off at my Windows Desktop, I'm just wondering if this achievable? Or if I'm going the wrong way about it? What I tried today was changing the document root of _httpd.conf_ to my USB files directory. This actually worked great, it showed all my sites, except I was getting MySQL errors. I did however copy them across, but windows and mac Xampp are different where they store these databases it seems. Mac is in the var folder of Xampp and the Windows xampp databases are elsewhere. I could do this the manual way of each time I go from my Windows machine > Macbook I could copy the files and drag the exported databases with me, but this is time consuming for every time I just want to quickly move from one machine to the next. What I'm essentially asking if there is a way to solve my above problem about moving from Windows Desktop to Macbook on a USB external hardrive in the quickest way possible. Any insight would be great and I'm open to suggestions that people use in my situation.


Does SharePoint Designer only use jpeg images and not tif images?

I uploaded a tif image into SharePoint Designer but it will not display on the web page. Does it have to be jpeg? I have uploaded jpeg images and they work fine but I erased a background on an image and saved it as a tif. Thanks


Recommended flexible website solution?

My site has a MyBB forums installation, and that is pretty much all I need. Forums. However, I need a homepage and a couple other static pages, for showing relevant information, links, etc. I don't need something fancy, all I need is something very flexible regarding theme and style editing, and just a couple simple modules, like public polls. That's all. I am very graphical, and I am looking for something to let me edit pretty much every aspect of the site. These are static pages, mainly, so I don't need something very complex. Some people tell me to use Dreamweaver, but quite honestly, that is not what I am looking for, even thought it does offer a lot of flexibility. I want something like, you know, Drupal or.. some other simple, deeply- editable in terms of graphics and style web platform. What would you recommend to me? Thank you.


Does hosting the pre-release website on domain affect SEO?

Until now and still going strong I've always hosted my pre-release websites (my own and customers) (test builds / beta versions) on a test domain, before uploading the whole content to the official domain, purely based upon the assumption that, even with a `<meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow">` it would affect your future/current SEO score on the official release of the website. _But I was wondering: Is that actually true?_ Of course, without a no-follow, Google (and others) would index all unofficial and, often not completed, content, combined with a (often) worse coded website than the official release, resulting with a lower SEO score. However, -with- using a `<meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow">` your SEO score (might?) not be lower, but for a longer time not indexed. I'm known quite a bit with SEO, but always wondered if this assumption was true. My question: Is this assumption true and what could be my best bet of having the website online for testing/showing opportunities, besides just testing locally.


Misalignment of Facebook & Twitter buttons

Here's a minimal example of my problem. It contains two buttons, from twitter and from facebook. What I'm observing in Firefox 3.5.15 is:   1. While the page is loading, the buttons are more or less aligned (I mean their bottom sides)   2. When the page is loaded, the facebook button moves a few pixels down, so that it's bottom side is lower than the bottom side of the twitter button.   3. If I reload the page, the buttons are again aligned, and remain in this state even after the page is loaded. Can someone please explain what's going on and how to fix it?


cPanel ssh ftp application to transfer files to another server

I have to transfer ~6GB of data from my server to another which I don't own. On my server I have ssh access, and I have SFTP console client. The thing is, other server only supports plain old FTP and I can't connect to it using SFTP (at least I don't know how to do it, maybe it's possible). So does SFTP also support plain FTP connection or is there another utility on cPanel server I could use? I have tried to use php script to copy file by url but target server ran out of memory (only damn 64MB)


The SEO Impact of Migrating from Free Hosting on WordPress.com to Own Hosting

I have a blog (which serves as a commercial site) hosted on free wordpress.com. Since I now want to customise and get ownership of the whole thing I am thinking of either self hosting or upgrading through (the quite expensive) wordpress.com upgrade. My question is: what is the best way/procedure not to lose SEO? The site ranks very high on a very specific query, and it's been sitting there for many years. (I only recently checked it out and want to revamp it.) I am afraid I would disappear from search results when changing the server to a self-hosted solution (by far the cheapest.) I'm not sure if I would keep the same SEO by internally upgrading to premium wordpress.com hosting.


How can I find the number of users who visit my site via a redirect?

My domain `foo.com` redirects (via a permanent 301) to `bar.com`. I want to know how many visitors to `bar.com` come from having first visited `foo.com`. I'm using Woopra - originally, I thought the referrer would be `foo.com`, but it turns out that this is not the case. I'm fine with writing custom JS if that is required, but I have a pretty "user friendly" hosting account, which means that I can't really fiddle with Apache or whatever to log the redirects. Is there a way to do this?


What is Alias Domain?

I notice that many hosting providers provide a feature named "Alias Domain".   What it is? and how can it benefit me?


Persistent 404 requests from Facebook

Not a huge issue for anyone using my site but those who are checking errors logs but for **months** , Facebook has been requesting an image on our server which hasn't existed since December 2012. I'd understand if it was a piece of content but the actual image it's requesting was part of an old design. This is just a selection from today:               [Mon Aug 19 11:08:00 2013] [error] [client 173.252.73.116] File does not exist: /var/www/r/img     [Mon Aug 19 11:08:00 2013] [error] [client 69.171.234.113] File does not exist: /var/www/r/img     [Mon Aug 19 11:08:01 2013] [error] [client 173.252.73.119] File does not exist: /var/www/r/img     [Mon Aug 19 11:08:01 2013] [error] [client 69.171.234.117] File does not exist: /var/www/r/img     [Mon Aug 19 15:23:19 2013] [error] [client 69.171.224.119] File does not exist: /var/www/r/img     [Mon Aug 19 15:23:19 2013] [error] [client 69.171.224.118] File does not exist: /var/www/r/img      The Image (and User Agent):               grep 173.252.73.116 /var/log/apache2/access.log     "173.252.73.116" - - [19/Aug/2013:11:08:00 +0100] "GET /r/img/elem/fptv.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 1126 "-" "facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)"      As I said, this is only an inconvenience but I was wondering if there was any way to invalidate URLs with Facebook? I apologize if this is the wrong site to ask on, I was torn between here and Server Fault.


how to fix .htaccess - redirect http://408.111.1111.domain.us/ to http://domain.us/index.php?w=408.111.1111

We want to use mod_rewrite and .htaccess to do a redirect. How do we redirect `http://408.111.1111.domain.us/` and `www.408.111.1111.domain.us/` to `http://domain.us/index.php?w=408.111.1111` ? If the original URL has a dash in place of the periods, or no periods in front of '.domain.us', it works fine. Wildcard domains work fine. Here is our `.htaccess` file:               RewriteEngine On     Options +Followsymlinks     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^.*/images/.*$     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^.*/uploads/.*$     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}<>%{REQUEST_URI} ^([^.]+)\.rmwy\.us(:80)?<>/([^/]*) [NC]     RewriteCond %1<>%3 !^(.*)<>\1$ [NC]     RewriteRule   ^(.*)$ - [E=BLOGUSER:%1]     RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$     RewriteRule ^$ /index.php?w=%1 [L]     RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$     RewriteRule ^page([0-9]+)/([^/]+)?$ /index.php?w=%1&page=$1$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^profiles/([^/]+)/([^/]+)?$ /profile.php?u=$1$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^profiles/?$ /profile.php [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^albums/([^/]+)/([^/]+)?$ /album.php?u=$1$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$     RewriteRule ^archive/(.*)/(.*)/([^/]+)?$ /archive.php?w=%1&y=$1&m=$2$3 [L]     RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$     RewriteRule ^archive\.php/(.*)/(.*)/([^/]+)?$ /archive.php?w=%1&y=$1&m=$2$3 [L]     RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$     RewriteRule ^archive/(.*)/([^/]+)?$ /archive.php?w=%1&y=$1$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$     RewriteRule ^archive\.php/(.*)/([^/]+)?$ /archive.php?w=%1&y=$1$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$     RewriteRule ^archive/([^/]+)?$ /archive.php?w=%1$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$     RewriteRule ^archive\.php/([^/]+)?$ /archive.php?w=%1$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$     RewriteRule ^friends/([^/]+)?$ /friends.php?w=%1$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$     RewriteRule ^friends\.php/([^/]+)?$ /friends.php?w=%1$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/friends/page([0-9]+)/([^/]+)?$ /friends.php?w=$1&page=$2$3 [L]     RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$     RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/([^/]+).html$ /entry.php?w=%1&e_id=$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$     RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/([^/]+)?$ /entry.php?w=%1&e_id=$1$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$     RewriteRule ^&([^/]+)?$ /index.php?w=%1&$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)?$ /index.php?w=%1&category=$1$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/page([0-9]+)/([^/]+)?$ /index.php?w=%1&category=$1&page=$2$3 [L]


High cost of making a website?

There was a rumor about the US's HealthCare website costing around $600 million to create. I looked online, and found that to be a myth, and the real number to be in the range of $93-175 million dollars. Still to me (I don't know anything about website architecture, design, under the hood etc.) that sounds like a huge figure, but it seemed other big sites such as Twitter and Instagram costed in the multi-millions too. I'm wondering why it costs so much and where does the money go to? I understand you have to pay web developers and etc. but that would only be a small fraction of the cost right? I don't know anything about servers, or the under of the hoods of the WWW as well as the internet, but I'm super interested in those. When I try to look it up though, most of the results are relevant to the design of the webpage, etc. I apologize if this question is broad, but I couldn't really find the answer elsewhere.


Unknown file automatically created on root folder

I am not sure if it is the correct place to ask such a question. One of my websites got malware. It is hosted on a 1&1 server and the website is developed in WordPress 3.3.1 (now upgraded to 3.5). A few things I noticed are:   1. A file named `1278bd2dc5f89296044af950a96cd9d0` automatically created in public root directory. If I delete it, it reappear in couple of minutes.   2. This file has IP address separted by a pipe sign. Every few minutes, a new IP address is added to the list.   3. Initialy, it also overwrite the `index.php` and `wp-admin/admin.php` files with lower permissions. I could not view what the have but I could only delete them.   4. I SSHed to server and see there are no unknown processes running.   5. I have one single FTP user. whose password I have changed a while ago. Can anybody tell me? What and where should I check to stop this happening? Maybe it's remote process but how to track it down? Contents at this time are: > 157.55.32.83|199.21.99.106|173.255.233.124|


An ssl server as a reverse proxy to a regular server

If I have a server, secured with ssl, which is setup as a reverse proxy to another server, will the traffic still be encrypted?


Importance of WAP version of web system

What is the importance of WAP version of web systems? to cater those mobile phones that does not support standard HTML pages?


Import huge SQL file(6GB+) to MySQL on VPS

I'm trying to import a DB from .sql file, but it's impossible, cause like I said is over 6GB with a lot of records in it and I hit the limit of max_allowed_packet. I use my cPanel user to login in mysql via PuTTy, but it requires SUPER privileges to set this variable(max_allowed_packet).


Blocking path scanning

I'm seeing in my access log a number of request very suspicious:               /i     /im     /imaa     /imag     /image     /images     /images/d      /images/di     /images/dis      They part from a known resource (in the above example /images/disrupt.jpg). All comming from same IP. Requests varies from 1/sec to 10/sec, seems somewhat random.   It's obviously they are trying to find something and seems they are using a script. How do I block this kind of behaviour? I though of blocking the IP request, at least for a given time. Keeping in mind that:   * Request intervals seems legitimate (at least I think so).   * I don't want to end blocking a search engine bot, which may find 404 urls too (and that's a different problem, I know). ¿Do they use always same IP?


Apache: Server the same document root from multiple ports

Consider the following apache `site` file:               <VirtualHost *:9000>         SSLEngine on         ...         DocumentRoot /var/www         <Directory ...>            ...         </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      This specific VirtualHost serves content in SSL on port 9000. I would like it to serve the exact same contents on a few different port - say, `9000-9005` and `9010`. Is there a serve the content from multiple ports without duplicating the `VirtualHost` clause?


Is it possible to set up a subdomain and link to it from the main site?

I have a store hosted on big cartel which I want to set up as a subdomain on my website. Something like: `http://store.mysite.com` Is it possible to do this somehow? If so, how do links to the subdomain work? Would a link to `store.mysite.com/product1.html` be the same as `externalsite.com/product1.html`?


How to delete all your old website data from the internet?

I had my website on `rohbits.com` but for some reasons I had to delete it and recreate it with this URL `wwww.rohbits.com/blog`. My problem is that the old links are still visible on google search and when people click on those links, they land on a 404 Error page of the hosting company. I want to either delete all the previous data from the search engines or have an 404 Error page of my own so that I can tell my visitors where the actual website is. I have already redirected all the traffic which comes to `rohbits.com` to `www.rohbits.com/blog` but when they click on the expired links, they get this error page. One sample expired link is this one: http://rohbits.com/wordpress-tricks.