Is heading (h1, h2, h3...) font size relevant for SEO?

One of our client's SEO agencies has recently began sending a lot of "shady" requests about what should be changed on our client's web site in order to comply to best SEO practices. We suspect their attempt to simply justify additional costs however since its one of our most important clients we can't simply ignore any of the requests based just on our previous experience and without solid evidence to confirm otherwise. The last request we got was to change all headings (`h1, h2, h3...`) font size values in a way that will follow the header hierarchy (`h1` has to be bigger than `h2`, `h2` has to be bigger than `h3` etc.) because the current web layout has a slightly bigger `font-size` value for `h2` than `h1`. This font size permutation was done for pure aesthetic reasons by the agency responsible for designing the new web site and our client fully agrees that it was a good choice. However since SEO is also very important to our client everything that comes from the SEO agency has to be taken very seriously.               h1 {         font-size: 1.1em;     }          h2 {         font-size: 1.2em;     }      My question: **is it bad for SEO if`h2` has a greater value of font-size than `h1`?** Every resource we came across claims otherwise supporting our long-year experience that its only important to create a good heading hierarchy to represent the importance of various page parts, which is of course done properly. We would appreciate any professional insight in this matter and every resource or link is highly appreciated. **EDIT:** I see now that this question was migrated from stackoverflow.com to this website so I apologize if this is a duplicate question however I didn't even know that this website was part of the Stackexchange network. Any info on this subject is still highly appreciated :)


Prevent Google from listing hotlinked images for other sites

I am hosting several domains on my server and hotlink images accross various domains. However, I have found out that in Google searches, the images are listed as originating on the site where the image is _displayed_ (but not hosted!). This can lead to various problems (like the owner of the site losing traffic). Space is an issue on some of the domains, so storing the images for every domain separately is no option. Is there a way to instruct Google to display images only with the sites the images are actually stored on (and prevent that wit hthe others only hotlinking)?


Does the user agent in any regular browser contain 'bot' or 'crawl'? I check the user agent on my site to see if it is coming from a bot or not. If it is, I can do some little optimizations since they don't login. (I don't change the content at all) After adding checks for 30-40+ bots, I'm getting tired of added them. So I was wondering if checking if it just contains 'bot' or 'crawl'. I know that wont get all bots, but it would get a lot of them. But if that could cause any false positives, then it would totally mess up the ability to add to cart, place an order, and login in.


Serving proper 404/410 error codes on dynamic database driven site

a developer I'm working with is having a difficult time serving 404 errors on dynamically generated pages (they get created when the request is made by querying the database to see if the content exists) He has told me (paraphrasing) that it's too late to serve the error because the page has already started loading by the time it finds out if the page exists or not. I'm not really sure how to respond not knowing much about how PHP or apache work Has anyone else run into this sort of issue and if so, how could I resolve it and start serving proper 404 or 410 errors on this removed content? Currently requests are being redirected (not sure if 302 or 301 at the moment) to our 404.php page. Is this an acceptable alternative? Thanks :)


Has the time arrived to forget Flash and Use HTML5?

As I read in HTML5 definition it can do anything that Flash can do! and I ask myself is it right to waste my time to learn flash or should I learn HTML5 instead. Does HTML5 Beat Flash in the future? P.S: Are there any thing that you can do in Flash and still are not possible in HTML5?


Why would you use document.location.protocol instead of plain // prefixed urls?

For instance Google Analytics uses document.location.protocol in the boilerplate for tracking:               <script type="text/javascript">            var _gaq = _gaq || [];       _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);            (function() {         var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;         ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';         var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);       })();          </script>      instead of               <script type="text/javascript">            var _gaq = _gaq || [];       _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);            (function() {         var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;         ga.src = '//www.google-analytics.com/ga.js';         var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);       })();          </script>      The ssl. sub-domain is a mute argument as https://www.google- analytics.com/ga.js works perfectly well. Knowing Google this most likely is not an oversight. Is there an issue with certain browsers not supporting the // protocol honouring shorthand or is there something else I'm missing? **EDIT:** This does not just apply to Google Analytics (different sub-domain example). The same thing appears on the Font Loader API page:               wf.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https' : 'http') +         '://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1/webfont.js';


Is there a simple way to protect my webpage by password?

I am writing some simple HTML pages. I need to protect some pages and some files (to be downloaded) by requiring username and password. Do anyone has a simple solution? Thank you very much!


Have You Used Node.js In A Production Environment?

This question goes out to anyone that's used or tried to use node.js in a serious project. How stable is it? What did you use it for? How robust is it?


Disable serving specific files from web directory based on hostname used

I have very specific problem and I don't even know if I am asking at right place and if it is even possible. I have two domains, lets say domain1.com and domain2.com. Both domains share same root directory. So each file from www.domain1.com/file_url is accessible also as www.domain2.com/file_url I am looking for a way, how to disable SOME of the files when requested with domain2.com. But not all of them, but just selected ones. Is it possible to set some "flag" or attribute for a file so Apache would recognize it and denied it when requested with domain2.com ? Right now, the only solution which come to my mind is to create PHP script and use rewrite of each file in the directory and implement this "flag" checking inside this PHP file. But that would cost a lot of system resources, so I would thought if this could be done else ? **EDIT:** I have forgotten to specify that I am dealing with MANY files ( = thousands ), so I am not able to manually change config file for Apache. And those files are constantly growing since they are user-uploaded. Sorry I forgot to mention this important detail.


How to track subscriptions to an RSS feed

I have RSS feeds on some of my sites and I'm wondering how I can track how many people are subscribing to them. The obvious solution is to track the number of hits on the URL, but I don't feel like that gives a very clear picture.


Search result priorities

Say I have a couple of trivial products in categories. For example:               Hair Products     - Shampoo          Food     - Bread     - Cookies      URLs are friendly Rails slugs like > /categories/hair-products/products/shampoo > > /categories/food While looking at my search results, I drew a horrifying conclusion. When using a search query like "shampoo", a user lands on the /categories/hair-products page, not on the /products/shampoo page, for Shampoo is one of the words on the hair-products page. Sometimes, when searching for "hair products", users tend to land on the "Shampoo" page, because the word "Hair Products" is on there (as well as Shampoo in a H1 tag). Trust me, I did some serious SEO work on the site already. Is there a way to have search engine "favor" a "product" instead of a category?


Amazon affiliate and multilanguage

I do not know where else to post this question, I hope this StackExchange site is the right one. I have a multi-language site (blog), with several reviews pointing to amazon affiliate product page. My issue is about which country version (.it, .de, .com, and so on) the link should target. The majority of my articles are in italian, and the link point to amazon.it affiliate homepage. As far as I have understood, the various .it, .de, .com, .co.uk version are separated and so are the affiliate programs. Let's say I have an article in English, it could be visited from an Italian, a German, or a US Citizen. Which amazon affiliate page should I link on that page? (Spamming the page with all the links of all the amazon sites does not seem viable, too many links can confuse the user.)


Adsense ads close with "navigation canceled" error in Internet Explorer

Many years ago I set up Doubleclick for Small Business, showing a mix of custom banners and Adsense. Recently I installed Windows 8, and I am starting to use Internet Explorer again. What I noticed is that I get this behaviour on ad banners:   1. If the banner is a custom banner, it's shown   2. If the banner is an adsense, is shown for a split-second, then replaced by an IE error page saying "Navigation canceled" How is that possible? What I can do? I Googled but I didn't found a solution.


Google Webmasters Tools - Accidentally changed something and quickly switched back

In Google Webmasters Tools I accidently changed Geotargeting to from _No Preference_ to _United States_. I realized that was a mistake and changed it back within 2 minutes. Will changes take effect or will it be ignored because I changed switched it back so quickly? I'm freaking out because I hope it doesn't destroy all of the indexing / SEO. Thanks.


How to know which edition a DotNetNuke site is

This may be a silly question, but I recently inherited a DotNetNuke site. Looking in the settings, I can see it's running version 4.09.00 of DNN. Looking at current DNN 5.0 information, there appears to be several editions available (Community, Professional, Enterprise, etc). So my question is:   * Were these editions also available in the 4.0 version of DNN?   * If so, is there a way to tell which edition the site is running? I didn't see any immediately obvious designation in the admin areas. Thanks!


CDN for zocial css file

I am looking to use zocial css file for a site and need to figure out if any CDN hosts this file. If not, I will resort to using the local server (or my own CDN package). I do not think relying on github for this file is the right approach (in the absence of any CDN). I will be happy if anyone else thinks otherwise and shares their thoughts. Thank you!


browse-able hierarchy vs. sitemap

The current site navigation is done through a search form. UX wise, I feel it's the best solution we can currently offer our uses. Because this is the case, I have a sitemap that covers all the pages (5Million). Will it improve SEO, if I built a browse-able hierarchy that its sole purpose is only to help spiders?


How to handle 404's in GitHub Pages while using Jekyll?

I've setup my site at GitHub using Jekyll framework. I've a problem with 404's. I added a `404.html` and it is working well for some typos. But, since in Jekyll categories are rendered in a separate directories and when a user is trying to access the URL like `www.example.com/category/` it shows the GitHub's 404 instead of my custom `404.html` and also I don't want to index the category so what can I do? P.S: Added a `index.html` to each and every category is a good idea. But, while building it overwrites everything in Jekyll.


Ways To Block Your Freedom and Similar Proxies?

Can anyone think of ways to prevent users from registering to a .php page under certain proxies? What would a group of proxies have in similar that might not effect regular users? For example, if you use Your Freedom, and try to access a .php page, is there any common factor that could be used to keep them off that part of the website in particular? I'm not looking for an answer like 'ban by IP' though. All of the IPs used by Your Freedom are from entirely different countries, and there are infinite ways to change the IP range.


Redirects On Image Files to Counter Google Image Gallery

The recent update to the way that Google displays images appears to have resulted in a significant drop in the traffic reaching the actual pages of our website. We are considering potential solutions for enhancing the likelihood of recapturing some of the visitors who now look at our images in the Google gallery and never click through to our site. My questions are these: If we set up a re-direct on the image files via htaccess, what are the potential risks? Would Google stop crawling the image files? Would Google be unable to display the images in their gallery? Any insight that you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Thank you and we look forward to learning from you. Much Peace, Jim


Can I set www.something.com to be my AName record

I was just hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I want to have my website hosted which I want to display as `www.mydomain.com` I also need `mydomain.com` and `blog.mydomain.com` to go to the same IP. Do I need to create:   1. 1 x AName record for `www.mydomain.com` which points at my server static URL   2. Then create 2 x CName records which both point at `www.mydomain.com` ? Because if thats the way it's done then I want to set a redirect up on my IIS server to 301 to `www.mydomain.com` if it sees the URL as `mydomain.com`. Does this sound okay?


Should I create a sitemap file and, if so, what should I add to it?

I submitted my website/app to Bing and Google recently. I subsequently received this email from bing: > Dear Webmaster, This is a weekly report on the open issues categories we > have detected on your site. http://example.com/ Sitemaps 1 Please visit the > Bing Webmaster Tools at your convenience for detailed information. Thanks, > Bing Webmaster Team To unsubscribe or change the frequency of this message, > please visit the Bing Webmaster Tools to update your preference. As it is a one-page site (I do dynamically open external pages, but that's not the same thing), I didn't think a SiteMap would make much sense in my case - after all, 100% of the weight would go to the only page of mine that the user sees, namely default.cshtml Following the link they proved above, I see: > Submit a sitemap for example.com Site: http://example.com/ Date: 9/15/2013 > Priority: Normal You haven't submitted a sitemap or it has been a while > since you submitted one. You can submit sitemaps in in many formats using > the Sitemaps tool. Creating and submitting sitemaps is easy. Learn more. > Thanks, The Bing Webmaster Team The info there says that I could submit (among other options):               Text (a plain text file containing one URL per line)      Would doing so be potentially beneficial for me, or would it be a waste of time, being that I only have the one page? The data I would like them to index (that contains things users might search for, such as the names of movies, books, music, artists, authors, etc.) are in .json files and ancillary .cshtml files (whose contents are loaded dynamically based on user actions, namely making selections from "combo boxes." So the above-mentioned text file would contains entries such as `www.example.com/Content/pulitzers2.json` and `www.example.com/getHugos.cshtml`? Does anybody know would that be the type of entry to add to the sitemap file? ## UPDATE I reckon my sitemap.xml maybe should be like so, including .json and .cshtml files that contain data that I want indexed, IOW data that would be included in people's search strings:               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     -<urlset xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9      http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">     <url>     <loc>http://www.awardwinnersonly.com</loc>     <lastmod>2013-09-16</lastmod>     <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>     <priority>1.0</priority>     </url>     <url>     <loc>http://www.awardwinnersonly.com/getHugos.cshtml</loc>     <lastmod>2013-09-16</lastmod>     <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>     <priority>.7</priority>     <loc>http://www.awardwinnersonly.com/Content/pulitzers2.json</loc>     <lastmod>2013-09-16</lastmod>     <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>     <priority>.7</priority>     <loc>http://www.awardwinnersonly.com/Content/nba.json</loc>     <lastmod>2013-09-16</lastmod>     <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>     <priority>.7</priority>     . . .     <loc>http://www.awardwinnersonly.com/Content/goldenglobes.json</loc>     <lastmod>2013-09-16</lastmod>     <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>     <priority>.7</priority>     </url>     </urlset>      However, I am open to constructive criticism / an attitude adjustment regarding what is good and not good to place in a sitemap.xml. ## UPDATE 2 So, based on DisgruntledGoat's comment " _That's not kludgy or amateurish, most web sites work like that..._ ", I wonder if my best bet, SEO and performance-wise, would be to change my code like so:               $.getJSON('Content/noba.json', function (data) {                 $.each(data, function (i, dataPoint) {         . . .          $.getJSON('getHugos.cshtml', function (data) {                 $.each(data, function (i, dataPoint) {         . . .      ...to storing the html in .htm files and then doing this:               $('#booksContent').Load('nobaScreenful.htm');     $('#booksContent').Load('noba.htm');      ...by loading just a screenful first, it would be snappy; then replacing that screenful with the "whole enchilada" might take place without the user even noticing anything. Now I've got The Cream's "That screen, that screen, that screen-ful" playing in my head). Would adding "noba.htm" (and all the other htm files) to my Sitemap cause that html to be parsed, indexed, and its contents included in search results? I assume the robots/spiders are smart enough to ignore html tags and concentrate on the content within them...


Provide Search Across Multiple PDFs

I know there are probably many solutions, but what's the easiest and/or most user friendly way to provide search capabilities across PDF files? I'm thinking of a webpage that links to several PDFs and I want to offer the user the ability to search them all at once.


Google on toggled content

I have optimized a website and have included toggled content. By toggled content I mean content that becomes visible after clicking a link (Expand and Collaps). The code is as followings:

Article title

First paragraph

Second paragraph

Third paragraph

      Would Google consider this content less valuable since it is not 'directly' visible? Are there any key concepts to keep in mind when working with toggled content?


What's the difference between Modernizr and Html5Shiv?

I was toying with the idea of switching to html5. It seems there are 2 major scripts for dealing with supporting html5 on older browsers. Modernizr and Html5Shiv I was wondering if they do the same thing. Which one to choose and why? Any ideas?


Website hack resulting in auto redirect - where to start looking?

My website is being redirected to a non-existent page (`/showpage.php`) for some users when they hit the homepage. For other users, the site works fine. I have looked in the `index.php` files and some other commonly used files. I believe strongly that this is a hack but I don't know how to get rid of it. Any advice on where to start looking? Any experience dealing with something like this? I would greatly appreciate even the slightest thought on the matter.


Paging Google Custom Search via XML

I am trying to set up a custom search on my site and just for testing was checking out the search API's. The trouble is that the API do give me the valid results and total number of items found etc, however when I try to go to second page of the search they do not provide me with any data. Is it because I have to pay for the custom search engine?


Will your blog rank lower if you remove its comment section?

Yesterday I noticed a warning in my Google Webmaster Tools. It told me that one of the posts on my blog had a slow load time - a post which happened to be by far the most commented on. So, to rectify this, I lowered the maximum number of comments per page to 50 and resubmitted my sitemap. (This means that newer comments appear on a separate 'comments page'.) Now I've noticed that my site has slipped to #2 for my top search term, for which it had ranked #1 for since October '13. So this got me thinking: has my decision to move the newest comments to another page affected it badly? Reduced its freshness, maybe? Or could the negative effect have come from the resubmitting of the sitemap? Edit: Also, just checked. CTR was increasing, as were number of social media shares.


Are there any WordPress plugins for embedding YouTube videos?

A quick search on WP came up with some outdated plugins and some with no screenshots. I specifically need to embed playlists; interested in screenshots if you can share. Thanks!


How do I buy a domain name that's been expired for more than a year?

A domain name that I want has been expired for more than a year but for some odd reason has not gone into DELETED status as it should have:               Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com     Registrar URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/     Updated Date: 2012-07-11T00:00:00Z     Creation Date: 1998-11-12T00:00:00Z     Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2012-11-11T00:00:00Z     Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.     ...     Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited     Domain Status: clientHold     Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited     Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited      Most registrars say the domain is not available for purchase but offer a backorder service. When I try searching the WHOIS record at whois.net, it says the domain _is_ available for purchase through verio.com, but when I try to buy it, the next page says this: > While the following domain appeared to not be in use, a further check has > shown it is registered. All the articles I've read suggest that the domain should have been put up for auction or should have been released to the public long ago, so I'm afraid their advice for purchasing the domain may not be applicable. What is the correct way to go about purchasing this domain without messing up my chances to get it? Is there a process by which I can claim this long-expired domain without having it go through the usual auction and backorder process?


Schema.org: errors on UserComments tags

On my site, http://whatgoeswiththis.co, I'm getting persistent errors found by Google Webmaster Tools for my markup of UserComments - it's saying that at each instance I'm missing location, name, and startDate (2 times) properties. I didn't see anywhere that these are required, and I don't have geolocation of any users' comments on my site. Is this simply an error I can ignore, or might it be better to simply remove the UserComments markup from my site? Update: it appears from this page that because UserComments is a subcategory of the event property, google seems to require these three fields: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/164506?hl=en&ref_topic=1088474 Perhaps the answer is to use 'comments' property instead? Or just leave as it is? Thanks!


What to do if Google start to index less pages of your site?

How may I find why Google indexes less webpages in my site? I´ve recently find this: ![Google webmaster tools last check](http://i.stack.imgur.com/cvJE4.png) And I wonder why could make Google index less pages. I´ve then tried the Google help, and it wasn´t that helpful: > A steady increase in the number of crawled and indexed pages indicates that > Google can regularly access your content, and that your site is being > indexed. > > If you see a sudden drop in the number of indexed pages, it may mean that > your server is down or overloaded, or that Google is having trouble > accessing your content. > > To see the percentage of your site that’s accessible to Google, compare the > number of crawled pages with the number of pages blocked by robots.txt. > Sudden spikes or dips that appear in several charts can indicate problems > with site configuration, redirects, or security. Now, on June 3rd Google says: Googlebot can't access your site > Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 179 errors while attempting to > retrieve DNS information for your site. The overall error rate for DNS > queries for your site is 5.0%. Now, I´ve recently (january 2013) updated my site from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, and some links were changed. I´ve tried to solve the issue, and after that I´ve followed Google´s instructions: > After you think you've fixed the problem, use Fetch as Google to verify that > Googlebot can properly access your site. I´ve clicked "fetch as Google" and it says "success" URL and linked pages submitted to index. I´ve clicked on those site errors, and it says: DNS OK Server Connectivity OK Robots.txt Fetch OK So, how may I find issues? Should I go and check out every single page of my site? What if I find a link is broken because I no longer use it?


How to block a wildcard subdomain in httpd.conf

So I am able to block specific subdomains like this:               SetEnvIfNoCase Referer knownsub\.sorryspammer\.com sorryspammer          <Location />     Order Allow,Deny     Allow from all     Deny from env=sorryspammer     </Location>      which does successfully block visits to any site on my server that come from the referrer, knownsub.sorryspammer.com So now, I am getting visits from referrers like 1.sorryspammer.com, 2.sorryspammer.com, 8.sorryspammer.com, 22.sorryspammer.com, etc., and I need to set an environment variable to block any subdomain coming from the referrer domain sorryspammer.com. I know I need to set the same basic rule for the environment variable but with a wildcard for the subdomain part. I've tried a couple of things, most recently this:                SetEnvIfNoCase Referer (.*)\.sorryspammer\.com sorryspammer      but I am still getting visits from referrers from subdomains on sorryspammer.com. I know I'm missing something real simple. Not sure if it matters, but keep in mind that this is not going in an .htaccess file but is going in the httpd.conf file to apply the rules server wide.


apache2 running but doesnt load my index.html

I have a linux server running apache2, I have my own user folder: /home/me/... I added a .htaccess to my folder with:               DirectoryIndex index.html      in it and the server IP is: 123.456.789.111 I tried: http://123.456.789.111/index.html to no avail. I know I probably doing something wrong, I never used apache.


Is there such a thing as an "exact match subdomain"?

Google's exact match domain SEO boost is well publicised (including in a recent Stack Exchange podcast). But is there any evidence that an "exact match subdomain" gets any kind of boost? I'm talking about the difference between `word.example.com` vs `wordexample.com` (and maybe `word.com/example`) in a search for "word example". (Note: I'm not actually considering using this technique, I just heard someone mention it and am interested if there is any evidence for it.)


How to do a cacheable redirection?

When users enter my website `example.com`, their "preferred" language is detected and they are redirected (using a 301 Moved Permanently redirection) to `example.com/en/` (for English), `example.com/it/` (for Italian), etc. It works perfectly, but when I analyzed my website with the Google Page Speed tool it gave me the following advice. > Many pages, especially mobile pages, redirect users to a different URL, for > instance from `www.example.com` to `m.example.com`. Making this redirect > cache-able by the user's browser can speed up page load times for repeat > visitors to a site. And later it says > We recommend using a 302 redirect with a cache lifetime of one day. The > redirect should include a Vary: User-Agent header as well as a Cache- > Control: private header. So my questions are, how can I do a "cache-able" redirection in PHP? Would the following be enough?               header("HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily");     header("Location: example.com/whatever");     exit;


How do I configure IIS 7.5 to allow using a network share as an image src?

I have a web application that will be used internally that points to images on a network drive. It works when I test it in VS, but the images don't load once published. I'm sure it's a setting in IIS but I can't figure out what it is. Each computer is already logged into the domain, and those who have access should be allowed to view the image. I tried changing the authentication to impersonate, but no luck.


CSS being Displayed by Google spiders

I have written an article HTML Image Tag for the site and it has been indexed by Google. But when I search it, google displays > HTML Image Tag - ProgrammingBulls > > `http://programmingbulls.com/html-image-tag-1:` > > content { font-family:verdana; font-size:14px; font-weight:normal } > > We often use images in a webpage. To insert images in our webpage < img> tag > is used in. Why is CSS displayed in the google search? I know that CSS and HTML is ignored by Google but due to some reason HTML is being displayed.


Server Side Includes that work in HTML and PHP with IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008

We currently have SSI set up to work in our HTML pages as follows               <!--#INCLUDE file="/includes/header.inc"-->      We also use PHP on our server, and are trying to avoid creating two separate templates for PHP and HTML to include the same file. I know that in PHP I could include the file with the following command.               include 'header.inc';      This won't work in an HTML page, so is it possible to configure IIS 7 to have the `#include` directive work in both HTML and PHP pages? Is there a better way to do this period?


Custom Page for Suspended Website - Plesk

I have suspended a website on Plesk and i want to show users a custom page. Do you guys know how to do it?


Why am I getting hits to pages with ?fb_xd_fragment=

I have added a Facebook like box and like buttons on my blog and, recently, I've been seeing on analytics a lot of hits to pages ending with `?fb_xd_fragment=`. I've found a related thread on the Facebook Forums which, worryingly, mentions that for some weird reason IE8 users are being redirected to a blank page! This is terrible, am I losing a significant portion of my visitors because when they try to visit my blog they're greeted by a blank page? (I don't have at hand a Windows computer with IE8 to check) Also on a related question on SO, it is suggested to add `xmlns:fb="facebook.com/2008/fbml"` to the main `html` tag (which I've done just now), and to add a `channel.html` file. But I can't do the later, because my blog is hosted on blogger and I can't upload html files. So my question is twofold:   1. even after adding the `xmlns:fb`, could this still be an issue that affects IE8 visitors    2. how should I go about to fix it for my blog on blogger?


Google search showing "Index of /. cgi-bin/"

I recently decided to leave GoDaddy in choice of NameCheap as my preferred hosting package for my mothers business, I also had to bring my domain name to the guys i register my local domain names. Once I had finally gotten control of my domain name I changed the DNS settings and set up the hosting package and waited for the domain name to resolve.. 24/48 Hrs (as I wasn't in a big rush) later I went back to check and found it had finally resolved. I then uploaded the old site that used to be hosted with godaddy via ftp to my nameCheap server... However once I had done this I decided to search for my mums business on Google and found it looked like this ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/qlLPh.png) So I logged into ftp and found the cgi-bin and deleted it thinking that was the problem.. but still no luck. If you click the link it takes you to index.html perfectly... its just in the search result I have this weird erro, any idea how to fix would be greatly appreciated.


Redirect users based on username (LDAP)

We have an apache 2.2 install with this config on an Ubuntu 12.04:               cat /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default     <VirtualHost *:443>         ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost         DocumentRoot /var/www             <Directory />                 AuthType Basic                 AuthName "Please provide USERNAME AND PASSWORD!"                 AuthBasicProvider ldap                 Order allow,deny                 Allow from all                 AuthLDAPURL "ldap://foo.com/c=uk,ou=bar,o=foo.com?mail"                 Require valid-user                 Require ldap-attribute dept=4F4623                 Require ldap-attribute emailAddress=someone@somewhere.com             </Directory>              ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log         LogLevel info         CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined         Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"             <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">                 Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks                 AllowOverride None                 Order deny,allow                 Deny from all                 Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128             </Directory>         SSLEngine on         SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt         SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key     </VirtualHost>      It's working great with LDAP auth! We have ldap-utils, php5, apache2.2-common. ### Question: How can we create a page, so for example:               somedomain.com/selectorpage.html      redirects the logged in user to another page based on their username? So if XY user visits the "selectorpage.html", then it will be redirected immediately to page XY.html. If AB user visits the "selectorpage.html", then it will be redirected immediately to page AB.html. Or are there any apache redirects for this?


Counting total number of distinct real people that have seen a web page?

What is most accurate method to count total number of distinct real people that have seen a web page? (not number of times that a page is requested). In other word what is your idea to make counting it a little more accurate? What combination of IPs, cookies, or authentication info may be used for this purpose? How we can maintain related data in DB effectively?


How to check if linked JavaScript and CSS files are being used?

I've inherited a website that seems to import every JS and CSS framework my predecessor could think of. Is there an easy way to analyze the site and determine which ones are actually being used? Or do I have to manually check every page on the site?


How to make page content crawlable , which is requested in script from ajax on page load

I hope that the contents which is pulled on page load could be crawled by google robot, how to do that ? I went to Google Webmasters tool to ensure that whether Google crawler could see the content pulled by the script or not, but sadly the crawler do not see that. I know there are some ways to make ajax content crawlable. like http://moz.com/blog/how-to-allow-google-to-crawl-ajax-content the way is put query parameter on url after !#. But my query parameter is in script?               <script src= "https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbwjTaclaKdzdr4IgCOM_PpIWJvxFSGkz2qLgrhfJ5fNYf09djI/exec?id=1rnLnui4IXBKZcsDH5zxFHS_rO4TpRPGQD9RY4C_OMAc&callback=pullDone"></script>      Demo page: http://radiansmile.github.io/web/Test/ajax_at_Initial.html How could I solve this problem?


Google images directing to url with Escaped Fragment

I'm running an ajax website with images and using Google's guidelines for ajax webistes. My site is indexed correctly in Google's web search. But in image search the _escaped_fragment_ appears in the links so that ajax pages are not loaded for the users coming form Google image search. Any solution for this? Anyone?


Find origin of the 403 error (not my server)

We are running an Apache server that provides files to several users. Some users are getting the 403 error when trying to access any download url on our Apache. I don't see those 403 errors in our access log. Most of the clients are able access those urls. I'm guessing something between the client and the Apache blocks the connection. How do I found out who that is? Thanks


Why should we prefer table over div when it comes to emailers?

When it comes to converting designed email templates to html format, how is a table layout better than a div? What are the exact reasons we tend to choose table over div for emailers?


How to prevent a search engines from indexing a section of a page?

I have many pages with lots of text in it. But I will always have two sections of text and I want to prevent one section from appearing in search results, the other section must be indexed.
text

never index me please
      I thought that maybe if I load the "please don't index me text" with JavaScript maybe search engines wouldn't look for it. But I am not sure it would work and this is not really nice. I was wondering if there is a way to tell search engines "hey, this text you can't grab, move on". So, is there a way to do it?


free domain with editing DNS records?

I'm looking for a free domain, I know there are some, but I want one from a place that lets me edit DNS records. See the name servers, MX Records, the technical stuff. I know godaddy has such an interface. If my terminology is wrong then please correct me obviously.


Best way to optimize joomla cache. Difference between Global configuration cache and system cache plugin

I need to know for a Joomla site > there is system cache plugin > > then there is global configuration setting to enable cache - how is it > different from system cache plugin below are some of speed optimization i have already done > Enabled system cache plugin > > ExpiresActive On with ExpiresByType done > > AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE done My site has mostly database queries been updated in terms of new product listings. Does enabling global configuration conservative cache can also help in reduce loading time (despite face where we have already enabled joomla system cache) How is Global configuration conservative cache different from joomla system cache plugin. What is the difference Thanks


Do backlinks to blocked content add value?

We've been debating the following SEO question at our office: If you block bot access to a page either via robots.txt or on-page noindex metadata, does that negate the value of any backlinks to that page? We have a client who wants to block some event booking form pages from being indexed as each booking form page has a unique URL parameter and the pages are "clogging up" the Google index; however lots of websites link to those booking form pages and we wouldn't want to lose the value of those links. Any opinions welcomed. **UPDATE** Thanks guys @lese I assumed that blocking a page using robots.txt pretty much guaranteed it wouldn't appear in SERPS. Can you further clarify: "Using robots.txt, a blocked page can still be indexed by Google (URL only, or with data from trusted 3rd party sources)"? @joshak Thanks. The pages I'm trying to remove from the index don't have much content value - they are just event booking forms. So I'd prefer to get the higher value pages only in the index and direct the link value of the event booking pages to other pages on the website.


Can I redirect a subdomain to an IP address with a port?

I've got two addresses: `ipaddress` and `ipaddress:100`. The first one uses the default port of 80, but the second server (running GitLab) uses port 100. I have multiple IP addresses, but I am wondering if it is possible to have DNS link an address like `git.domain.com` to `ipaddress:100`? Is this possible with DNS? I have full domain and root access, so any option is available.


Google Analytics Subdomain Tracking for WordPress

I'm looking for the best solution to track my website's traffic using Google Analytics. I have a website that (currently) has two subdomains. The subdomains are about very different content, the TLD shows some basic information about me and also shows excerpts from the two underlying subdomains. I'd like to be able to see information for the whole site, but also be able to specify per subdomain. Obviously I'd like to use the more recent Asynchronous Google Analytics script. I couldn't find any decent and more importantly, recent solutions or implementations for this. Any tips or pointers would be appreciated.


Linking out to other websites and SEO

I have searched for this, but couldn't find anyone actually asking this same question. I'd be happy to be pointed to a previous answer though. I have built a one page website that links to other websites to provide people with links to unsubscription pages. So I'm simply linking to those websites directly, however I have now thought that maybe I should be linking to my own website using an SEO optimised URL, that would then redirect to that page. i.e. `www.mywebsite.com/?site=ebay-uk` which would then redirect to Ebay. I'm not sure this actually makes any difference in terms of link building, but my website being a one page only kind of thing, I figured it could do with some internal linking, but I was just wondering if that would actually make any difference at all. Would anyone be able to answer that?


Is there a way to hide text from descriptions in Google search results

The first line of text on all of our client's product pages is "Download hi- res images", which of course isn't what we'd want in the description when people search for their products. Is there any way to hide this text/link so that Google and the others just ignore it and go on into the text description below? I suppose we could use a meta-description, but the client isn't very good at computers and it's such a small site it seems silly.


Why isn't my site showing on google.com but it's on top of another local Google search results?

I'm trying to figure out why my site doesn't show up on `google.com` (from the United States). Even if I search for the domain name (`mysitename.com`) on `google.com`, the site doesn't show up. The only way to find the site is searching for `mysitename .com` (with a space). However, if I try with a local Google site (spanish language), like `www.google.co.ve`, `www.google.cl`, `www.google.es` or `www.google.mx`, it shows up on top with a little effort. The default site language is english (we also have spanish and portuguese versions). The site is for an office space rental agency in the United States, therefore it should appear on `google.com` search results. I understand that some keywords could be very difficult to rank, but I don't understand why even using the site name, it doesn't show up. I already setup the Google Webmaster Tools and chose the United States as site's target. We use a hosting provider from Venezuela. Could be that the problem? The site is `www.gmtbusinessplace.com`.


I need help with rel=canonical

I have troubles understanding rel=canonical the way google wants me to implement it. I have a job site that uses filters to show subsets of the total job list. Nothing fancy... normal stuff. So if you go to /jobs you are able to paginate through all of them. You can than apply all sorts of filters like: /jobs/new-york or /jobs?jobs_position_id=3 (I know this is a "bad" url. I will change it to show actual words, but this does not change my canonical question) Also there is a search like /jobs?query=FOO(&job_position_id=3 additional with filters). How should I apply rel=canonical here? I tried some strategies, but I had the feeling Google didn't like it. Right now there is none... Thanks


How to deal with obselete product pages on an e-commerce site?

Let's say on www.site.com, some products are discontinued from time to time. Each product page has nicely laid out information for users like, product features, manuals, buyers guide etc., So, in essence it's HTML, images and PDF documents. I see two ways of discontinuing the product, [1] **Remove a product page from the website and return a 404 error**. _**Pro_** : Obsolete product pages die slowly on search engines _**Con_** : The site returns a 404 error so, users navigate to another site as they couldn't find a specific product on www.site.com [2] **Keep the product page as it is with a message like "this product is discontinued ... "** _**Pro_** : Useful product related information remains intact, which can be helpful for users. So, if the information is unique and is not easily available on other sites then, the product page could be helpful for users. _**Con_** : If like, 50 products exist on the site and have the message "product is discontinued" then, it's not a pleasant experience for users. **Note** : Obsolete products pages might not be deleted permanently. A good example to illustrate this is, 'seasonal products'. If a product page has a good PageRank but, is not sold throughout the year, how to deal with it? Any pointers to resolve this issue?


No search data in Google Analytics or Webmasters

I have a domain that has been registered in Google Webmasters and using Google Analytics for over 4 months. I get lots of analytics data, but am getting no information on Google searches in Webmasters, or Queries in Search Engine Optimisation in Analytics, even though I am getting keywords for traffic coming to my site from search engines. I have a test sub-domain with the same setup (except not HTTPS) that is getting some of this information through, even with much less data and visits. What could be wrong to stop me getting this information?


Does multilingual content on a single page hurt SEO?

Well, I have a strange question. It is about my wordpress based site. It is in **English** and it ranked very well till I put a link to another site and the anchor text was in **Cyrillic**. 2 weeks later I dropped more than 10 pages in keyword ranking. My question is: Is it possible that this link in Cyrillic brakes something? Thanks.


Searching for an online shop accessible via API

I need an online shop with a custom interface (customizing items with Ajax, with a preview included). Writing it myself does not make too much sense (implementing all the payment options etc.), so I would like to use an existing online shop (OpenSource). I would like to build my own UI which, for example, tells the shop to add an item to its cart -- i.e. without using the online shop's native UI. More precisely, it should be an online gallery where the user can directly order an image if he likes it. The final checkout/payment page can be native again. Is there a shop system that supports this? Or is it still faster to write it on my own? Or are there better options? **Additional information** I have written a JavaScript image gallery. The idea is that when the visitor finds an image he likes, he can then click some _buy now_ button and is then shown a new page where he can see how the picture will look like (different sizes, borders, etc.). Finally the image goes to the shopping cart and the user can proceed to checkout. This is where I would like the online shop system to kick in. Not before, i.e. not in the previous paragraph. **Update** In the meantime, I have found another system that really only provides the API: Moltin. Just in case somebody else is looking for a shopping API.


Creating hosting accounts in WHM on a single IP

I've just purchased a VPS with the hope of transferring multiple shared hosting accounts onto it. The problem is that I've only got 2 IP addresses with my VPS. I can create an account and assign it an IP address, but once I've done this once, I can't do it again. (1 IP address is my main root WHM IP, the other is my new hosting account IP). Can I create multiple hosting accounts and use the same IP? How would I manage multiple hosting accounts in this way? The domain for this hosting account has been purchased by the client, and they hold it (can't transfer for 60 days), so I need to adjust the DNS settings to redirect to my newly created hosting area - how can I do this without a dedicated IP address?


Google Chrome developer tools metric units

I would like to know if there is a way to change default "px" unit after you hover an element in dev tools, into em, percent, in, pt, pc. Most important for me would be possibility to see em values of an element. Thank you in advance for you answers, I am aware of calculators, or doing that myself. Having such a feature would speed up my work.


Help needed with joomla template installation

I got a new template which is bit huge as compared to my connection speed (15mb). When I tried the normal way, couldnt use the upload and install it. Since its doing nothing (time out). Is there any way that I could manually upload via FTP and install the template?


Video from internal network served to an externally visible web page

I am being asked if it's possible to take video from an internal IP camera and serve it to our external website like a live-feed camera. My initial thought is that it would have to be done through some kind of video proxy and have it pointed to from a virtual host on our web server, then configure a link to that page from our existing CMS. I'm looking for either a way to do this, or ideas on how better to create such a page and serve the video stream. The server is Ubuntu 11.04, the CMS is WebGUI, the web server is Apache2. I can edit for more information if requested. Am I on the right track with using some kind of proxy internally to serve an internal-IP video to external viewers? Is there a video proxy that can do this for Linux, preferably in the repos? EDIT - It's a VB-C500 camera. EDIT 2 - I can apparently view a "live stream" with some variant of /-wvhttp-01-/video.cgi?v=mp4:320x240 but I'm not sure how to get this to proxy into our web server on the external address.


Content from a domain I used to own is appearing in my twitter feed

I had an old domain with a WordPress setup hosted by GoDaddy. I changed the business name and moved everything over to a new site, new domain, and new host a couple of years ago. I let the old domain expire. It was recently purchased by someone for cheap, article spun content. Now, anytime they post a new article, it's automatically posted to my Twitter account. I contacted them to remove this, but given the quality of their spun articles, I doubt they will remove it. Is there any recourse I have through Twitter or the host to get this removed?


A homepage consisting of nothing more than a search form and a few words (good/bad idea?, will it show up in SERP?)

I am working on a portal and for my homepage, I want to present the user with a search form which requires the user to type in a word (or search query) in order to search for information on my site. The page (which happens to be my homepage) has very few words and is actually modelled on Google home page. I am wondering, since Googlebot (and other crawlers) will not type a query and 'submit' it - whether Googlebot will only be seeing an effecively 'blank' page for my homepage - which inevitably, can't be good for SEO. In caqse my assumption of Googlebot seeing a blank page is correct, I have an idea to get around it - but since I am new at this, I would much rather wait and see if someone (more experienced) has a similar (or better idea). Any comments/advice (pros/cons) on such an approach as described above?


SEO for pages with time relevant content for this year when previous years pages are ranking

I'm publishing download information about Income Tax every year(during income tax filing period of April-Aug). Now the theory says that articles old by 2-3 years rank higher in Google's rankings than the similar but recent articles.   * So in 2010 the page title was Income tax 2010-2011 and it attracted huge traffic   * In 2011 the page title was Income tax 2011-2012 and it attracted very less traffic   * In 2012 the page title was Income tax 2012-2013 and it attracted very less traffic So observing this after a month I removed 'Income Tax' from all the pages(3-4) except for this latest page applicable for that year. But no gain till August last year. Now is the time for 2013-2014 Income Tax pages. I'm confused, how I should optimize the Income Tax 2013-2014 page(title+content) so that my pages can get high traffic as in 2010. Given old pages remain intact. Any ideas?


Sudden drop in visits on Intranet site (Google Analytics)

We've had Google Analytics running against our Intranet for years now, and on the 12th August 2011 our number of **Visits** went down by a third and remains at the reduced figure daily. It transpired that a change was made to GA on the 11th (http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/community/gajs_changelog.html), one of those changes is regarding a session not being closed when users close their browser. Given that everyone in our company has the Intranet site as their home page would this make sense? I'm very close to drawing a conclusion from this change, but I just wanted to see if it's feasible that this would cause this sort of drop?


Automatic redirection from http to https with .htaccess authentication in virtual hosting

Hi I have configured Virtual host on apache with _.htaccess_ authentication with SSL. It's working fine when I typed url `https://www.example.com:9004/test.php` but when I typed `http://www.example.com:9004/test.php` I am getting this error:               Bad Request          Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.     Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.     Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.     Hint: https://www.example.com/        My _httpd.conf_ file look like this:                Listen 9004     <VirtualHost *:9004>         ServerAdmin root@localhost         DocumentRoot /mnt/work/httpd         <Directory "/mnt/work/httpd">         Options FollowSymLinks          AllowOverride AuthConfig         </Directory>       SSLEngine On       SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP       SSLCertificateKeyFile /mnt/work/httpd/www.example.com.key       SSLCertificateFile /mnt/work/httpd/www.example.com.crt     #RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off     RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example.com:9006%{REQUEST_URI}         ServerName www.example.com         ErrorLog "/mnt/work/log/error_log"         CustomLog "/mnt/work/log/access_log" combined     </VirtualHost>      And my _/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf_ file is:               LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so          #     # When we also provide SSL we have to listen to the     # the HTTPS port in addition.     #     Listen 9006      And Mmy _.htaccess_ file is:               AuthType Digest     AuthName "Protected"     AuthDigestProvider file     AuthGroupFile /dev/null     AuthUserFile /mnt/work/httpd/digest_auth     Require user johan      What should I do so that when I hit `http:/www.example.com:9004/test.php` it will automatically redirect to `https://www.example.com:9004/test.php`.


SEO and HTML semantics of putting H2 above H1 elements?

Here's a hypothetical from both an SEO and semantic HTML/content architecture perspective:    ## Consistent code When building a multi-page site, adopting the following architecture **on all pages** is pretty _common for code manageability_ :
Company Name

Company Name

Company Name
   etc.
Tagline

About Us

Category 1
     etc.      However, there are two **considerations that dissuade against** this practice:   1. Considering the semantics of the H1 element, it is deemed to be **a page's main heading**. In this case, each page will have the same leading heading — the company name.   2. When it comes to SEO, putting the page's **target keywords in the H1** will likely help it rank better (even if ever so slightly).    ## Alternating H1 Considering that, the following seems to be better:
Company Name

Company Name

Company Name
     etc.
Tagline

About Us

Category A
     etc.      This way, the leading heading of each page will concern each page's main topic. And each page will have a better chance for ranking in search engines for whatever is in the H1.* But wait a minute... With this method, we run into problems when the site architecture looks like the following:               Home     About Us     Category A     Category A - Product W     Category A - Product X     Category B     Category B - Product Y     Category B - Product Z     etc.      In this case we may we want _both_ the category and product names to be prominent in the code, and rank well in search. Following semantic practice, that would leave the product name as an H2. **But that would go against our original goal: to have the H1 be the most descriptive heading for the page.**    ## H2 above H1 So what does that leave us? Putting the category inside an H2, with the product name in an H1:
Company Name

Company Name

Company Name
     etc.
Tagline

Category A

Category A
     etc.
Product X
      etc.      But hold on, didn't I say semantic HTML? This is no longer semantic, since the page outline will now be:                   1.1 Category A
     1.0 Product X
      Instead of the semantically correct:               1.0 Product X
         1.1 Category A
      But that no longer meets the purpose...    ## What is the solution here? How can we have it all? The most relevant heading on the page inside an `<h1>` for SEO purposes, but still putting "Product X" above "Category A" in semantic importance (with both being headings), with "Category A" appearing first in the document. I can think of putting the H2 and H1 (in that order) inside the `<hgroup>` element, but that still won't help the semantics. Would putting the H2 _alone_ inside a `<hgroup>` or `<section>` help? Would that be semantically correct?    * * * * The company name can easily be styled equally across all three through the use of a CSS `#id` selector for the `h1` and `p` elements.


Google Analytics set-up for multiple domain in same site

We have a single site with all the content for multiple domains in this site. Is there a proper way to separate out analytics for domain.com and domain.com.au? In the past we had two analytics code set up for each domain. However it does not work as expected because both analytics recording same number of traffic for both domain. Any suggestions?


Google Webmaster Tools links to my site disappeared

Last week I had over 900 links to my site from 113 domains. At the start of the week Webmaster showed this fall to 30 links and then today 21 links from 11 domains. I know that Webmaster Tools are incorrect here - in Google Analytics I can see hundreds of referrers and I can Google search for my websites name and find many many links. I ahve all 4 versions of my site on Webmaster Tools `www.example.com`, `example.com`, `https://example.com` and `https://www.example.com`. When someone visits the site redirects all point to `https://example.com`. I'm aware that this was a bug previously on Webmaster Tools. Is anyone else experiencing this and what should I do?


Phishing alert but file never existed

I got an alert from Google Webmasters. They say the following file was present in my host: `example.com/~jhostgop/identity.php` I checked my files and it never existed at all. I've experience this problem in two different host and domains but the file never existed in my file system. It appears somebody out there is linking a random domain and it prefixes the link with `/~jhostgop/identity.php`. Now Google may have indexed them so now I get those false phishing alerts. Anyone experienced this? Is it possible to prevent this?


Does google show location keywords to users who didn't explicitly search it if they're in that place?

For example, a page is SEO'd for "party decorations boston", and someone in boston searches for "party decorations", will the page be weighted in?


Percentage of users that get to business website by searching vs typing business url into address bar

My friend's company(lets call it **SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney** ) has been affected by a competitor's cybersquatting attack. **SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney** is primarily an offline, real-world company that delivers real world services to local customers. Its been around for well over 10 years and has been using a domain _stawtmoney.com_ (again domain is made up) for a long time. Its direct competitor has acquired a domain name _SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney.com_ and has been selling its own real-world services to the customer in the same locale. Its been going on for at least a year until **SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney** has found out. So when you google for ' **Some Things Are Worth The Money** "(name of the company, again made-up, with spaces), the actual company's site ( _stawtmoney.com_ ) comes up in the results. However, when you type in the cybersquatted name( _somethingsareworththemoney.com_ ), the competitors website offering their services would come up. My friend is looking to estimate what damages did his company receive due to this cybersquatting. One way to do this is to figure out a percentage of users usually get to the website they are looking for by typing in an address in the address bar vs typing in a company name in the search bar. Are there any legitimate studies or reports that provide this sort of statistics?


Should I use heading tags in sidebar or not?

Assume a simple blog-like website as in the picture: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ooEYS.png)   * **Red** text is text related to this page only (particular article)   * **Green** are headings of articles related to the subject of this page   * **Blue** is a completely unrelated text to this page   * **Black** is a "guideline text" repeated on every page You obviously would like to optimize your website - current article - for the article content ( **red** ). So the article uses headings from H1 to H3 tags. But what about the Sidebar and Related articles text? I used to use H2 for "related articles" h3 for THE related articles "Find a way", but since there are a lot of articles and each of them had a h2 text "related articles" and "sidebar", etc.. I found out in Google Webmasters that my website's most notable keywords are "articles" and "sidebar" - so Google thinks that my website content is about "articles" and "sidebars" and that is not what I want to achieve.. I was thinking about using h4 for related articles and h5 for THE related articles headings, but it won't correspond with the heading structure in the article (I would have to end the article with h3 to be able to follow with h4). there is also a video from Google employee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR5itZlq8sk) that says it doesn't **so much** matter if you structure your content like H2 -> H4 (without H3), but in the discussion below they say it is much better to have it in right order. So how should I structure the Hx tags for the example above to achieve max. SEO (just white-hat techniques)?


How to customize apache mod_sec log output?

I have an apache server which uses mod_security configuration. Those logs are further analyzed and sent out to OSSEC server for intrusion detection and monitoring. That OSSEC server then sends those logs for normalization and advance correlation to SIEM, the parser at SIEM is able to parse quiet a few mod_sec messages but the one particular type message including in the payload > "rx ^%{tx.allowed_request_content_type}$" cannot seemed to be parsed at SIEM system, Instead of changing the parse code at SIEM end which may seems impossible because its closed source, I want to know if there is way to change the logging output much like apache custom log features. The full log payload is shown below:- > Sep 13 13:35:37 ossec-server ossec: Alert Level: 7; Rule: 50118 - Access > attempt blocked by Mod Security.; Location: (WebServer) > 127.0.0.1->/usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log; [Fri Sep 13 13:37:09.190450 > 2013] [:error] [pid 2584:tid 140049089795840] [client 127.0.0.1] > ModSecurity: Access denied with code 403 (phase 1). Match of "rx > ^%{tx.allowed_request_content_type}$" against "TX:0" required. [file > "/usr/local/apache2/conf/modsecurity- > crs/activated_rules/modsecurity_crs_30_http_policy.conf"] [line "64"] [id > "960010"] [rev "2"] [msg "Request content type is not allowed by policy"] > [data "application/octet-stream"] [severity "CRITICAL"] [ver > "OWASP_CRS/2.2.8"] [maturity "9"] [accuracy "9"] [tag > "OWASP_CRS/POLICY/ENCODING_NOT_ALLOWED"] [tag "WASCTC/WASC-20"] [tag > "OWASP_TOP_10/A1"] [tag "OWASP_AppSensor/EE2"] [tag "PCI/12.1"] [hostname > "abc.com"] [uri "/"] [unique_id "UjLOtQoKUakAAAoYEh8AAAAO"] Can i specify apache not to log the above highlighted text when writing logs?


Sophos is blocking my site - how do I remove it from their list?

I've had a call from a client who says a visitor cannot access their site as a virus protection program called Sophos is blocking it, saying it will steal information. I've scanned the site with Succuri and a couple of similar sites for malware but it seems fine. I've checked the Sophos site and couldnt find any where to remove it from their blacklist. Has anyone experienced this before? The site is here if anyone wants to take a look.


Set initial robots.txt restrictions so high, Googlebot won't even try to access the updated less strict file.

When I initially setup my blog I put the restrictions on robots.txt way too high. They were so stick that googlebot can't even access the udated less strict robots file. I've been at this problem for days, I'm in a bind. I will be extremely grateful if someone could help me out.


Google listing URLs that don't exist anymore

About two weeks ago I uploaded few sitemap files (few hunded thousand links total), and after a week, I saw that Google has indexed most of those links. Now, a week ago I cleaned my database a bit, which lead to about 30% of links to be invalid. I then updated my sitemap files with only valid links, and reuploaded them to Google Webmaster Tools. And here we are, a week from that, and Google still displays those invalid links. Do I need to do anything else in order to stop Google from doing that, or do I need to just wait more?


Testing a website on a local server displays differently to offline

I am currently designing a website and at the moment it is getting quite annoying as the design doesn't seem to be displaying properly when testing it through WAMP in server mode. It displays perfectly well if I simply double click the php file and display it without any server code, however this is also frustrating as I would like to be able to see my server code with my design. I have already cleared the cache, and I still get the same result... Any help on this situation?


How to set htaccess working on opensuse for codeigniter project

I'm trying to have htaccess work on codeigniter project but the module is not working and I don't know how to enable rewrite module. To have read the htaccess. The OS is Opensuse 12.2. I have this directive in the default-server.conf               Alias /safememoirs/ /home/gabriele/Web/safememoirs/          <Directory "/home/gabriele/Web/safememoirs">       Options Indexes MultiViews       AllowOverride None       Order allow,deny       Allow from all     </Directory>      But I don't understand A how to enable the module B Where should I put the .htaccess directive id in the default-server.conf or in the site directory?


Best Web Site Copying Software

I just wanted to get some opinions on the best "web site copying" software out there (free or commercial is fine). I have a site that I've recently become responsible for managing, and the previous consultant has not provided operating system access. As such, the plan is to re-host the web site. I realize there are a lot of different issues to consider in doing this. However, I don't have much choice in the matter now. The plan is to use web site copying software (ala HTTrack) to "rip" the web site, and then modify what is downloaded back in to a maintainable site. This, of course, involves HTML, css, javascript, etc on the front-end. I'd like to recover as much of the site as possible to make re-creating it as easy as possible.


Is it ok to use the original-source meta tag for pages that are not news

I am building an online shop for selling products manufactured by others. Should I use the `original-source` meta tag to give credit for the product (or product info) to the original manufacturer or is this tag intended to be used only for news ?


Dynamic php pages getting direct traffic

I just launched a website and for the 1st 30 days was only getting word of mouth traffic with good analytic #s. Bounce rate around 32% and average of 3 minutes visit duration. Now that I've submitted a sitemap, I am getting about 72% bounce rate and only 1 min on the site. The weirdest thing is the direct traffic landing on dynamic php pages is the bulk of the high bounce rate and most of them show 0 seconds for duration. I submitted these dynamic pages in my site map so wondering if someone is using that information and crawling my site???? Example of the dynamic urls:               www.example.com/good-gas-station-new-york-ny.html     www.example.com/bp-gas-station-miami-fl.html      Any ideas of what it could be? Should I be worried?


Hosting a website for 10-20 users

I am thinking about a way to stay in touch with friends from college and many people don't have Facebook/Twitter/etc so I wanted to make a very minimal website in which users can login (username / password) and post links to websites or just post text. Ideally it would be forum style and I would like to host it from a home computer. I have minimal experience with Ubuntu but think it is possible. Here are my questions:   1. If 20 people log onto a website that I am hosting from a home computer, will that use a lot of my internet bandwidth?   2. Other than a static IP and Apache server, is there anything else I need to install to get going?


html tag for grouping forms?

I thought I remember seeing this somewhere but maybe not. Isn't there an HTML tag for grouping forms similar to the tag for grouping headers? so for example:               <fgroup>         <form>             <!-- misc. data -->         </form>         <form>             <!-- misc. data -->         </form>     </fgroup>


How to set a 1-order-per-PC limit on my website?

On my website people can order free coupons for my local service. I would like to set a limit of 1 coupon order per PC. Can someone suggest a way to implement this, even if the visitor would delete all his browser cookies **_and_** changed his IP-address by using TOR? Or isn't there a reliable way to do this?


GWT: reporting crawling errors for non existing links

Google Webmaster Tools is reporting crawl errors for links that never existed, and if i check the "Linked from" tab for a given error link, it shows another that never existed. They all mention `joomla/` which is not the cms used on this domain (it's wordpress fyi). Exampled: `http://example.com/joomla/index.php/component/user/register` Linked from: `http://example.com/joomla/component/user/login?return=L2######` What is going on? **UPDATE 1** I tried something: I provided one of the faulty urls to the "Fetch as Google" functionality. Instead of returning a 404, it returns a 301 to another Joomla page.               HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently     Server: Apache/2.4.3     X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.4-10     X-Pingback: http://example.com/xmlrpc.php     Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT     Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0     Pragma: no-cache     Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=1fgr5v2oip39miibuptd51s8h0; path=/     Set-Cookie: woocommerce_items_in_cart=0; expires=Sat, 12-Jan-2013 11:44:01 GMT; path=/     Location: http://example.com/joomla/component/user/register     Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1     Content-Length: 387     Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:44:01 GMT     Via: 1.1 varnish     Connection: keep-alive     Accept-Ranges: bytes     Age: 0          <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">          <title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
Moved Permanently

The document has moved here.

Additionally, a 301 Moved Permanently     error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


How to exclude myself from Google Website Optimizer results?

I have a website on which I run Google Website Optimizer (A/B tests) and Google Analytics. We have automated tests that check some web pages and I am worried that this might interfere with Google Website Optimizer. I have added a filter to Google Analytics, so that Analytics will not track clicks that come from my own IP address. Can I do the same for Google Website Optimizer? How? Thanks.


Which server application should i choose in my position?

I have a 32bit Windows 7 installed 1gb Ram pc at my office. I need to run simple database related i/o web pages for answering few (5-100) requests at the same time. There is no need to huge amounts of data transferred from database. I am native earlier experienced with vbscript (ASP) however, theoretically i can code with any script language (PHP etc.). Which is the free, weightless, source friendly solution as a server and DBMS you would suggest?


cdn.domain.com indexed by Google. The content is being considered as duplicate content

I am running my website with CodeIgniter framework. I have setup cdn using cname cdn.domain.com which is being indexed by Google. And the content of the both domain.com and cdn.domain.com is having same content and is being considered as duplicated resulting ranking issue. I tried contacting the developer and he was not able to help. I hope there is some way to avoid such issue.


Brand name showing before the title in search results

If we search for our brand name or any keywords that relate to our website, the first words to appear in the title shown in the Google result preview follow this format: `Brand Name: Title` Here's a screenshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CJrsM.png) I am using Yoast WordPress SEO, and each of the pages are not optimized the same as the above result. Here's the WordPress code:               <title><?php wp_title('«', true, 'right'); ?> <?php  bloginfo('name'); ?></title>      If we comment out the PHP code inside the title, the page itself has no title then. I wanted to have the title first, followed by the brand name in the search results.


301 redirects and non-existent directories

I just wanted to clarify something; my boss often messes up and tells a customer to go to a specific directory; i.e. `mysite.co.uk/directory/` instead of the actual correct URL `mysite.co.uk/this_page.html`. As the customer is normally about to look at the page I add a 301 redirect in the _.htaccess_ page so it redirects them from the non-existent directory to the correct page. Is this a sensible idea, will it eventually lead to slowing down the load time of the website and does it affect any SEO or ranking?


Any reason a site has 2 links to favicon?

A site I'm looking at has the following 2 links to its favicon:               <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico" href="/_assets960/media/favicon.ico" />          <link rel="icon" href="/favIcon.ico"/>      Question: Is there a good reason why you would specify the icon twice in these two slightly-different ways?


free dns providers for a subdomain

I am looking for a free DNS service provider for a subdomain. Does anyone know who does it?


Add copyright notice to a website

I want to add a copyright notice to a website I created. Something like > (c) Me 2010. All rights reserved. I am aware that everything written by someone is automatically copyrighted (if I'm not mistaken, and perhaps depending on country laws). I see some sites use the following format for this > (c) Me 2009-2010. However for me that makes no sense to add an 'end-date' to the notice. I am aware I can code to update the notice every year, but I just find it strange. Or is it just me? Another question is: I also use copyrighted code from others (they are all mentioned in the credits including links to their licenses of course) on my site. Would it still be OK to add the copyright notice to the site with only Me in it? So to sum it up I have 2 questions:   * What is THE RIGHT WAYTM of adding a copyright notice on a website (or code or whatever)? If there is one.   * Is it allowed to copyright code with other copyrighted code within it?


Measurable goals for a new web team/department?

I'm part of a new web team (the area is new) and we have to define goals. I need to define this goals so they can be measurable maybe monthly and yearly. So my questions is if these goals should be monetary only or quantity of websites reached, both or if there are better parameters than the ones cited? I will be so grateful if you at least can point the right way to find them.


How can I allow search engines to index my invite only website in ruby on rails?

I have a ruby on rails website that will be in invite-only mode for the next couple of months. Currently I have it set up so visits to any page performs an authentication:               before_filter :authenticate, :except => [:beta] //authenticate checks for a logged in user      But the webpage has a lot of content that I would like to see indexed by search engines, and I was wondering if there's an easy way to allow crawlers to do their work? I am not very knowledgable on SEO related stuff at all, so sorry if this is an suboptimal way to phrase the question.


What happens if I try to set a cookie on a bot?

I'm building my site to include some user-identifying cookies. When a visitor chimes in, I will set a cookie with a unique visitor id (a guid) and the date- time of the visit, and save a visit record (including his user-agent, referer (if any), and so on, in my database. I plan to check each user to see if they have the cookie I've set, and then create a visit record each subsequent time they come by, to include if they click any links on my site. The site is very very new (only about a week old as of today), but I've been tracking my visitors in a text log and I see that I can identify visiting bots by their user-agents (the Google and Bing bots/crawlers have come by, along with a couple of others). It occurs to me that they probably won't accept cookies. Does anyone know this for sure? Or do they also collect cookies in addition to site information?


How you solve "preventing common words from Google" issue?

My topic seems to be solved by stackexchange engine but me (a human) couldn't find a solution here. As you may understand on subject, I have many repeated words on my site like "comment", "like", "read more" and also some system messages like "mysql_result","error", "php" etc. I saw that my most valuable words are these on Webmaster's Tools. Some people suggests to load those texts from a js file and restrict access to those files. Or using iframes for those text areas. Both have some negative sides, too. I think about another solution which is using images instead of repeated texts but it is neither practical nor seems well. Thank you for suggestions.


How to track outbound links in Google Analytics?

I'm having trouble tracking outbound links from my page. I can see the visits to the page in Google Analytics, but still I can't see what I'm doing wrong (of course I have replaced the UA-XXXX code with my own code). Can anyone spot anything wrong with the below code? One interesting thing is that when I include the tracking function in the `<head>` section, my page doesn't load correctly in Firefox. So, I checked the syntax and all seems ok. I've added this just before the closing `</body>` tag:                          I have this just before the closing `</head>` tag:                     This is an example of an outbound link:               blah site


Google search of links:mysite.com returns less links than imagined

I did a Google search `links:mysite.com` and it only returns 3 results. I know there are a lot my more back links in existence than that. Why does Google not show the other links I have to my site?


SVN Checkout folder as local webroot

I have XAMPP installed and running. I have an SVN working directory (WD) on my local that checks out from the repository. I set up a virtual host in xampp to point to my WD, but my browser (FF) gives me a 500 http status error: > Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI script. When I place a regular folder in the same location with the WD and switch names, it works fine.. Can I not use an SVN working directory as a web root folder?


Write to an alias directory on Apache

How do I enable writing via PHP to an alias directory. I have the following on my `VirtualHost`:               <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName domain.com     ServerAlias m.domain.com          ...etc          AliasMatch ^(.*)/user/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/images/(.*) "C:/Apache/webroot/user/$2/images/$3"      <Directory "C:/Apache/webroot/user">         Options Indexes MultiViews         AllowOverride None         Order allow,deny         Allow from all     </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      So if I tried to view a file or an image from `m.domain.com` I can see it being fetched from the `alias` directory; however, when I try to write it fails. for example if i tried something like `<?php file_put_contents("user/sam/images/sample.png", $img); ?>` it would fail. Any suggestions or ideas is really appreciated.


gmail apps is asking me to pay amount

I used gmail apps for free, now when i setup gmail apps for a new website, it says i need to pay 5$ per month. what happened to free gmail apps with 10 user accounts? Please help me in this regard.


Use a GET variable to see a referrer in Google Analytics

I have a system on my site that sends an email to a customer with a certain url in it (not a private url, just the info they've requested). The format of this url is just straight on:               http://www.mysite.com/the/requested/data      When the user clicks on this url, Google Analytics sees this as 'Direct' traffic. However, I also have a lot of 'real' direct traffic, users that just type the url, or use bookmarks, and I need to distinguish these 'mailed' users from the rest. I was thinking about this:               http://www.mysite.com/the/requested/data?ref=mail      and then in the frontend (a Drupal 7 site), capture this GET variable ref, and if it is set to mail, then call the Javascript to trigger a Google Analytics Event. Is this the only way to go about? Or are there other/better ways? Thanks for the input!


Login script with member area/user

Is there a free script which I can use to: Share some PDF with my partners. But i need the user to reach only those PDFs which they have privileges for. So I need:   * login script with registration (i will make the registration if need. So registration function will public)   * every user should have their own member area   * I will upload PDFs to the specified user areas   * when my partners sign in they can see only those PDFs that they have privileges for


Setting up domain name for google apps domain and google app engine appplication

I have deployed a app or a static web page on comingsoonjoineventus.appspot.com, when the users click joinevenuts.com they should be redirected to the appspot link. But its redirecting to google sites home page of the domain. I check the domain settings in both godaddy and also google domain cpanel. I am not able to figure it out. kindly help me in this regard


In Google Analytics how do I display full URL of referring pages?

This is such a basic thing that I can't believe I can't find it. In the **Traffic Sources > Referrals** screen I can see a list of _domains_ but where is a list of referring _pages_?


Can I use GMail to manage my emails?

Say I buy a domain `foo.com` - can I easily use GMail to receive and send emails from an address of that domain. For example, `admin@foo.com`? Is this possible or do I have to install a mail server on my VPS? I would prefer something free.


Does Googlebot (and/or search engines) index a forwarded page?

Let's say I have `example.com` domain, and I force the user to use the HTTPS over HTTP. The question is as browsers just accept and load the forwarded/new page (when the request for `http://example.com` -> `https://example.com`), does the Googlebot (or other search engines) accept the forwarded page and index the new page and just ignore the old page? In other word, does search engines accept HTTPS beside the HTTP?


'Back button' functionality, how important is it?

It is increasingly common for "rich" applications to break the back button. I've always held that this was bad form but perhaps that view is outdated? Is it ever Ok to break the back button? And if so, what are the criteria? * * * **Edit:** To clarify I was more referring to applications where clicking the back button basically just sends you right back where you were. Effectively disabled but not in any way harmful to press.


What are the template naming convention standards?

What is the standard for template naming conventions within a CMS? Should the name be Structural (e.g. Two Column Template) or purpose based (e.g. News Template) or something else? It makes sense to me that the name be structural based, but I would like to know what the standard is here before we proceed with this project.


how can I set my site root from: localhost/mysite/ to: localhost/mysite/view/ via htaccess

hi just wondering if this is possible, when you access my default site directory localhost/mysite I want to set the path to render localhost/mysite/view/ all my html pages will be rendered here just like an php MVC structure can do... is it possible with htacces? I'm an absolute newbie so I apologize if you find this question somehow stupid. thanks so much in advance :)


About the <link rel="index" /> tag

I'm trying to figure out how to use it. I understand that this tag tell Google which page is the root parent / parent of the current page. So, for example, on a page that's listing a product from a certain category, the `rel="index"` value should be the product category page (the page which lists all products from that category). Am I right? And the index value of that product category page is the "Products" page, ie. the page which lists products from all categories (or featured / most bought / popular products or whatever). Is this how index should be used? If yes, then what if the page which the index points to has `"noindex, follow"`, because it serves duplicate content?


Do you think e-shop is better than eshop?

this question was into my mind since a long time, and now I found this Q/A place to ask about it. What do you think? Thank you.


Custom Domain for Tumblr

I am trying to set up a custom domain for my tumblr account. http://blog.scribeair.com/ to http://scribeair.tumblr.com Can some one help me how to set up the DNS records for the subdomain. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7saDZ.png)


We are building a finance website and need to chart stocks along an x and y axis and would like to use pinch and zoom interaction to change focus on the charts. What is the most accessible charting framework for mobile devices? We are building for all current generation smart phones and require our users to have JavaScript enabled.


Making my domain show up instead of my sitemap.xml in Google search results

If I search Google for a term or my site name, Google returns the URL `sitename.com/sitemap.xml` on the first or second page of the results. _I want the main site to return in the results and not the sitemap_.


How can I make my website look better?

So I have a website currently under development.. let me just first say that the domain name is NOT the name of the website or going to have any relation to it.. http://pandafi.com/ This site is currently in its early stages of building, and what I need help with is the color.. I can't really find any color for the register box that matches the background, and I'm not sure if these are the right colors to use at all..


Can using Varnish still help to improve the performance of my site if I already use CloudFlare?

I'm using CloudFlare right now. Can Varnish still help to improve the performance of my site?


Advantages of purchasing a domain & hosting before website is developed

I have seen many website owners who have purchased the domain & a hosting provider before the website is online. These websites generally says "Website coming soon".. I know that you need to purchase a domain since someone else might buy it. But why do you need a hosting provider, is there any SEO advantage? or is there any other specific reason?.


Embeddables and moving from wordpress.com to self host

I transfered my wordpress blog from .com to a self host but it is full with embeds from youtube and flickr, written like thus: > [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=someurl] and so how do I go about converting those wordpress.com embeds to normal embeds? Thank you


How can I query over a page name at google analytics

I am running a website that every customer has a different query string attached to the url plus one random guid attached at the end:               /myPage/?cust=one&randomGuid     /myPage/?cust=two&randomGuid     /myPage/?cust=three&randomGuid      I would like to measure how many page views I have using only the `cust` query string parameter discarding the random part of the string. The regex for this job would be `cust=(.*?)&` but I don't know how to apply this in google analytics


Controlling text that appears in google search results

I have recently made a simple (pure HTML) website. The most important key phrase that I want to capture is "full reserve banking". Currently, if I type "full reserve banking" (without quotes) into google, then my site appears as the 7th item on the first page. I am reasonably happy with this as the site is so new. But one frustration is that the text that google displays in relation to my site is rather misleading. The main message I would like to get across is that my site is "A collection of resources for anyone interested in this alternative monetary system." and I have this as the first line of text on the page. Unfortunately, this important sentence is nowhere to be seen in the google search result. So my question is - is there anything I can do to fix this error? **Edit:** I noticed that someone edited this question to remove the name of the website. I was very keen to leave it in because being able to look at it makes it far easier to diagnose what I did wrong. Indeed the answer suggested by "Su" clearly shows that they looked at my website and analyzed what it was doing which helped them give a clearer answer. If I am breaking some policy by including the name then please explain what this policy is in a comment. **Edit:** I have now made a series of changes to my meta descriptions as inspired by the answers given here. On the homepage I now have the text:               <META NAME="description" CONTENT="A collection of resources for anyone      interested in Full Reserve Banking. What it is, how it works,      web resources, organisations, research papers etc.">      I am now very excited to see what will happen after the next visit by the google robots. **Edit:** Result! I just did a google search for "full reserve banking", and the text that appeared was:                 Full Reserve Banking: The definitive resource.       A collection of resources for anyone interested in Full Reserve Banking. What it is,       how it works, web resources, organisations, research papers etc.       www.fullreservebanking.com/ - Cached      By the way, I **did** originally have a meta description - but it was too short, it just said "full reserve banking". Google obviously assumed this was too little and so chose to use its own algorithms to cook up a different sentence from the main text.


Converting Facebook Connect to Application

I currently operate a site which uses the Facebook Connect for log-in. I would like to "convert" this site to a facebook appliation (that is, to be used as an iframe in Facebook website). What will be the best way to do so? What changes do I need to make in the log-in procedure to enable it? Is there anyway I can use the same URL of my site to be served as the facebook app, and in that way avoid duplication of content (one for the website version and the other one for the app)? Joel


Restricted Flow Of Power

I'm sure all is fine, but i need some reassurance. Last month my company launched consolidated two of their websites into one new website. www.fdmgroup.com and www.fdmacademy.com into a newly designed www.fdmgroup.com. Because the FDM Academy grew as it's own brand we decided not to just forward the domain to the fdmgroup website, but instead just mirror the new FDM Group website and use a canonical tags to the FDM Group domain (so the link juice will pass to the FDM Group domain pages) The website has be live for nearly a month and i don't believe any power has passed down through the FDM Group website to it's deeper pages even though 301 redirects from the legacy group and academy domains in place. I am also seeing the same problem on the FDM Academy domain, but i expect to see this as every page has a canonical to the same page on the **Is there anything which is restricting the flow of power through the site, or am i just being impatient?**


Heat Map Tool Free

From looking online, the free heatmap tools consistently mentioned are ClickHeat and ClickDensity. `Heatmap.me` comes up second when searching `heatmap.me` but it is not mentioned much. What feedback is there on this service?


Will Google Analytics track URLs that just redirect?

I have a link on my site. That links goes to another URL on my site. The code on the server sees that resource being requested and redirects the browser to another website. Will Google Analytics be able to know that the user requested the URL from my server and was redirected? Specifically, I set up a `/buy` link on my `watchmecode.net` site to try and track who is clicking the "Buy & Download" button. This link/button hits my server, and my server immediately does a redirect to the PayPal processing so the user can buy the screencast. Is Google Analytics going to know that the user hit the `/buy` URL on my site, and track that for me? If not, what can I do to make that happen?


Web services load test with increment variable

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<a href="<?=$main_url?>courses_folder/course2.php">Course 2

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