Checking if domain will be blacklisted in advance?

I've chosen a name for my next website, let's say `example.com` - but I noticed that the url `example.de` is used for pornographic content (some links to other pornographic sites) and `example.net` is dead now but did so some years ago. The words used in the domain aren't anything "fancy" and I shouldn't necessarily trigger a blacklisting.   But I'm worried that due to the other two sites (`example.de` is already blacklisted by at least Avira) my new site will be blacklisted as well. **tl;dr**   How can I check whether popular firewalls will block my domain _before_ I go and register it? **Edit**   I've read these two questions ([1], [2]), but my case appears to be somehow different as I'm not buying an already existing domain but registering it for the very first time.


duplicate content - can't use 301 or canonical tag

I recently started managing SEO for a client. I'm seeing a lot of duplicate content on their site but their custom CMS doesn't allow canonical tags, and I was told by their team that we can't use 301s. Is there any way to clean up duplicate content without using either 301 redirects or canonical tags? Would using meta robots noindex,nofollow work in a pinch?


How to setup multiple Google Analtyics goals that have the same final page but different steps to get there

I have a set of white papers that each have its own page on my site. Visitors have to fill out a basic form to get one. If they fill out the form, they get that specific paper. The "thank you" page is the same for all seven white papers I am offering, but the steps a user takes are different in that the white paper has its own page where the form lives. This is an example. The resulting page is the same if they fill out that form, or if they fill the same form on a different page. I currently have a different goal for each paper. Since there are only seven papers it's OK. Just want to make sure this is setup the best.


Does using double quote (") to represent inches cause issues for search engines?

An issue came up at a company that I started working for recently on the dimensions for product content being displayed using **"** instead of **in**. For the sake of example, let's say the product dimensions were 24" x 38" (how I was displaying it). The owner of the company told my boss to have me change it to 24in x 38in due to some search engine implications, but he's on vacation right now and I can't ask him about it until next week. I decided to do some research on the topic.   1. First off, I went to some major sites like Amazon, Walmart and Walgreen's to see how they displayed it and _every_ site that I checked all used a double quote to represent inches. I checked the source code to see if it was represented as an as a " or an HTML entity and it was always a ".   2. Then I hit Google and searched using different variations of the title of this post as my search term and couldn't find anything relevent at all.    3. My next thought was to try and search for something using dimensions specified using both **"** and **in** to see what kind of results I would get. While none of the results actually had any **"** in them, the searches were fairly successful. However, the results were also quite different when I used **in** instead. (Now, although I was already aware that part of the reason searching with **"** was problematic because of the use of double quotes to specify an exact phrase, it became painfully obvious when none of the results ever included a ".)  Personally, I think using a double quote to represent inches looks more professional and streamlined, where using **in** or **in.** or, even worse, **inches** looks kinda tacky to me. But at the end of the day, what's really important is the impact on search engine results and I don't have any real data to back up my assertion.


eCommerce solution for leasing devices for a monthly fee

What eCommerce solutions there exist which allow leasing type of sales? I am working with a medical tech company whose devices are often leased due to high price point. Now the company would be looking for an opportunity for web based eCommerce solution where one could both   * Buy a device   * Lease a device for X month, monthly charged from a credit card I am pretty aware of normal click-and-buy e-Commerce platforms (Magento, etc.), but I don't know what kind of options there exist for managing the device leases. Both self-hosted solutions and SaaS e-Commerce solutions can be considered.


Why isn't my PHP file running?

I recently installed Apache and later installed PHP too. When I browse to `http://localhost/index.html` it displays the default Apache page "it works". But when i try to run `http://localhost/phpinfo.php` it starts to get downloaded instead of running the PHP code   * My Apache version 2.2   * PHP Version 5.2.1


Google Analytics - how to track multiple sections of a site at once?

I need to track the pageviews and goal completions for the Blogs section of my website, and I used to do this simply by searching the word "/blog/" under Content, which would pull all of our Blog pages that had the word "/blog/" in the URL and analyze the pages together in a group. The blog URLs were always something like www.mysite.com/blog/article1. However, we recently changed our URL naming scheme and now all blog pages have URLs that look like www.mysite.com/community/article1. Since there's no word the two formats have in common, I can no longer do a simple search like I used to. How can I run some kind of report or filter that will pull the pageviews for both /blog/ pages and /community/ pages all at once? I tried making an advanced segment but it pulled weird pages that I didn't want at all. Any help would be MUCHLY appreciated! Thanks in advance.


Tumblr Custom Domain & Google Ranking

I just set up a custom domain for my Tumblr blog. I had high Google rankings and heavy traffic with my old url, and now I've lost my ranking and some of my traffic. I'm wondering how long I can expect my ranking to suffer? I'd rather not lose a big chunk of my traffic. Google has already indexed my custom domain, & I've verified it with Google Webmaster Tools. Tumblr automatically does the 301 redirect. Is there anything else I can do? Would going back to my old url make any difference?


Finding the expiration date of a domain?

Is there a way to find the expiration date of a ".id.au" domain? I can't seem to find any information on any .id.au domain I search on.


Average header response time of a website

I'm building a link checker to check a huge amount of URLs for uptime and I'm currently thinking about timeout times. Do you know any statistics which provide the average header response time to have an approximation for setting the timeouts? Thanks!


Where can I find graphics to use in printable worksheets I create and make available for download?

I'm looking to put up a website with worksheets that I make and they will need to have graphics in them. The worksheets will be available for download for free. Where can I find images that I can use in these worksheets without infringing on copyrights? I'm not sure I can just use free clipart.


Is using only https bad in a SEO perspective?

I would like to set up a new business site. I plan to direct `www.example.com` to `example.com` and only use that domain. My plan is also to only use https and not http. Does this affect the SEO for the site? E.g. do Google put lower or higher rank for sites that is only available via https?


Will I damage my search engines ranking if I link to thousands of websites whose quality I am not sure of?

My company's website is quite well positioned in google. We have thousands of customers and we're thinking of providing links to the customers' websites from our company's website. We cannot guarantee the quality of the websites we will be linking to though. If we put the links up, do you think we would take a big risk with respect to our own ranking?


Google Analytics Error?

I have Google Analytics on my webpage. The reports show properly as far as I know. But when going through settings I saw this: ![Google Analytics Error - Notice The Date](http://i.stack.imgur.com/PMjV4.png) (Larger View of Image Here) Notice the date => I have checked and tracking is on the home page. Why am I getting this error?


How to remove a Facebook App from Facebook's search results?

I have a Facebook app so users can login to my website using their Facebook account, but when you type my website name into Facebook's search (the search box right next to the Facebook logo) the app shows up in the search results. When I click it, it says "Misconfigured App - Sorry, the details for AppName cannot be displayed because the app is misconfigured." I want to remove my app from Facebook's search results, because it's not meant for users, but I can't figure out how to do it. Any ideas?


Can web crawlers that visit my site fake their user agent?

I want to write a _robots.txt_ file for my website and allow the famous bots (Google, Bing, and Yahoo) to crawl my website, but deny the rest. I want to know if I add `User-agent: Googlebot`, will fake Googlebot crawlers be able to view my website? Is even possible to fake a bot?


SEO for similar subject titles with different technology versions?

Let's say I'm building a programming tutorial/article website. Over time, versions of technology replace itself. For example a service call with AngularJS is completely different in version `0.9.0` then in `1.0.0` --- so much so, that it warrants a completely different article. I am tempted to use:               /service-calls-with-angularjs-0.9.0     /service-calls-with-angularjs-1.0.0      But fear the penalty for having a nearly identical title and URL. Remember, the content is completely different, but the subject is the same.   * Do I have anything to worry about?    * What is the best way to solve this problem?


Google Analytics: multiple domains graphic

I changed the code on some of my websites to track all data into one Google Analytics account. I did this by adding on every domain:               _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'http://myurl.com']);      Now I see data appear in Google Analytics but I don't know how to display it correctly. I want the following to appear on my dashboard:   * Domain visitor report: a line graph of every domain's daily visitors   * Domain bounce rate report: a line graph of bounce rates / domain This way I can easily see what my top domains are etc. Is this even possible in Google Analytics?


How to Program AWS Spot Instances to Strategically Bid So the Auction is Never Lost Until a Competitor Beats the Maximum I'm Willing to Pay?

I believe I'm in the right section of stack exchange to ask this. If not, let me know. I only use Amazon Web Services for temporary type hosting services, so the spot instances are quite valuable to me. I would also just make an instance and start and stop it - but - that doesn't necessarily fit my bootstrapped budget sadly. Anyways, it really kills me when someone outbids me on a spot instance I have (I tend to go for the larger ones which there are fewer of available) and I get randomly kicked off. I know or at least I believe there is a way to program in something somehow to dynamically change your bidding price to beat a potential competitor's if their's is higher than yours. Now, I previously believed Amazon would just charge me for the highest price right above the next lowest competitor automatically (eliminating the need for this) - so if I bid too high, then I only pay what I would of needed to in order to win and keep the auction. Essentially, I thought my bid price was my max bid price. Apparently, according to my bills and several experiments I've done - this is not the case. They charge me for whatever I bid even when I know there is no one else around to counter bid me. I needed to clarify that, but let me get back to the main point: Let's say I'm bidding $0.50, competitor comes in and bids 0.55 cents. I get kicked off. I want to have it to where I'd set a maximum I'm willing to pay (let's say $1.00 here), and then when competitor comes in and tries to bid $.55, my bid is dynamically adjusted to beat his at $0.56 up until he breaks my $1.00 threshold. I've been reading the guides and although they are more or less straightforward, I feel like they leave a few holes in them that end up confusing me. Like, for instance, where do I input said command or when do I do it? Maybe I'm just tech illiterate and need help deciphering these guides. A good start for someone willing to answer/help me decipher this problem would be here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-as-update- bid.html


Does Google use keyword stemming for ad selection?

Keyword stemming is the process of finding keyword variations (plurals, synonyms, related concepts, etc.). We know that Google scans HTML body content to find which ad to display. In the process of extracting keywords to match corresponding ads, does Google perform stemming of these keywords to select ads for display?


What should a shop's products news feed contain?

I'm thinking about integrating some sort of (Atom) news feed into a shopping system, but I'm not sure how to go about it, except that I want the URIs to be the same for each representation (HTML, Atom). Let me explain through an example: Let's say you have some **arbitrary product listing page** (red shoes for women). What would make the most sense to have as a news feed for that kind of URI? Should the feed always contain all the matching products and only update the _date_ on each feed entry if something (like price or availability) has changed? Would I have to update the entry's unique ID, too? Or should the feed only contain actual changes to the data, like "Product X now costs Y.YY"? This also matters because the first way, I wouldn't have to store/persist feed entries, and that sounds good to me. But in the end it matters to me more what the best use for end users would be.


How to SEO one "routing" image URL to multiple canonical image URLs?

**Background:** I am developing a web service that will provide tooltips to fan sites for collectible gaming cards. The potential traffic and bandwidth is substantial. As this is a free service, I want to distribute my bandwidth across a few servers, including Bayimg, community members who have volunteered to host the files, and Amazon S3 as a fallback. Since images are a big part of the service, I want to SEO them as best I can. The problem is that I might have the same image duplicated across several servers. **Question:** Is there any way to setup a URL to act as a router to these different images? The routing URL should be indexed by search engines. Any insight would be appreciated!


How can I get Google to read my site's reconsideration request?

I have a site that's got two manual penalties in Google Webmaster Tools: one for "pure spam" and one for "user-generated spam" (no link penalties currently - this is just for on-site stuff). Pure spam: > Pages on this site appear to use aggressive spam techniques such as > automatically generated gibberish, cloaking, scraping content from other > websites, and/or repeated or egregious violations of Google’s Webmaster > Guidelines. User-generated spam: > Pages from this site appear to contain spammy user-generated content. The > problematic content may appear on forum pages, guestbook pages, or user > profiles. In the example URLs for the "pure spam" penalty, every single URL listed is in the site's /blogs/ directory. That entire directory and every URL in it has been giving a 410 response code for more than a year. I have also done a site: search to confirm that no URLs in this directory are remaining in Google's index. I've submitted two reconsideration requests asking that the "pure spam" penalty be lifted, explaining that I've 410ed the entire directory in an effort to eliminate entirely all the spam on the site. The first reconsideration request was on 6 October 2013 and eventually I got this message back on 24 October 2013: > We received a reconsideration request from a site owner for (site). > > We've now reviewed your site. When we review a site, we check to see if it's > in violation of our quality guidelines, and revoke or adjust manual spam > actions applied to the site if appropriate. You can use the Manual Actions > page in Webmaster Tools to view actions currently applied to your site. > > If your site isn't appearing in Google search results, or if it's performing > more poorly than it once did, check out our Help Center to identify and fix > potential causes of the problem. This led me to believe that nobody at Google actually read my reconsideration request and checked to verify that I had cleaned up the site. So I followed up with a new reconsideration request on 18 November 2013. Sure enough, on 12 December 2013 I received this message again from Google: > We received a reconsideration request from a site owner for (site). > > We've now reviewed your site. When we review a site, we check to see if it's > in violation of our quality guidelines, and revoke or adjust manual spam > actions applied to the site if appropriate. You can use the Manual Actions > page in Webmaster Tools to view actions currently applied to your site. > > If your site isn't appearing in Google search results, or if it's performing > more poorly than it once did, check out our Help Center to identify and fix > potential causes of the problem. Can anybody tell me what it will take to get someone at Google to _read_ my reconsideration request instead of just waiting a few weeks and then sending me boilerplate autoreplies? In particular, speaking just about the "pure spam" penalty, I'd like one of two things to happen: either give me a list of example URLs that are affected that aren't returning a 410 status code, or lift the penalty. ps. If it would be helpful, I'd be happy to share the site's domain and the full text of both reconsideration requests with anyone at Google or with anyone else who can help.


Thatwe SSL123 Installation issue on CPanel, Invalid Certificate on Firefox

I have tried to install digital certificate on the CPanel, Everything giving success I have purchased and installed one Thawte SSL123 Certificate for domin dev.znda.net on Cpanel.Everything works fine in Google chrome.. But in Firefox it gives "Invalid Certificate" I am getting this error after verification from thawte verification website... https://search.thawte.com/support/ssl-digital- certificates/index?page=content&actp=CROSSLINK&id=SO9555               dev.znda.net failed for the following reasons:      The intermediate CA certificates cannot be found for the following certificate chain.


Tool for running a diff against production and test servers?

We're about to have a major site infrastructure migration (new OS, upgraded PHP, etc). We currently have a live test mirror of the new environment running, using the production file system. We're expecting there to be some issues due to both the version change in PHP (let's just say PHP was very out of date on the old server and leave it at that) and changes in environment variables. Are there any good automated tools to quickly spider both sites so we can pinpoint issues faster than manually checking each page? I've already found a few manually, but anything which can double check in an automated fashion--especially across the entire site--would be lovely. I've searched around a bit but haven't found anything that seems to fit what we need. Maybe I'm just running the wrong keywords. Multi step processes would be fine too, like spidering the site with a batch script/mass downloader and then running a folder diff. I'm coding from a windows environment but 'nix tools are fine too.


How do I transition to SSL without affecting PageRank?

Here at Stack Exchange we're working on moving all traffic to SSL. The reason we're not doing logged-in-users only is that one side of the login divide would suffer a redirect from Google every time. This happens because Google's only going to have `http://` or `https://` in the results, not both. Aside from building the SSL infrastructure (details here), the outstanding question we have is:   **how do we best transition to SSL?** Here are the relevant bits of our plan (testing on small sites, moving up to `stackoverflow.com`):   1. Get SSL ready/enabled (but not linked to) on all domains   2. Start rendering _only_ the `<link rel="canonical">` as `https://`   3. Start sending a 301 for all `http://` requests to `https://` (from our domains...of course we can't do anything about all the existing links pointing to us)   4. After a transition period, set all user cookies as `secure` So the endgame is having all content delivered over SSL and all HTTP requests redirected. What we're primarily concerned with is how this will affect PageRank to our sites. We depend a great deal on traffic that comes from Google and want to ensure that doesn't take a dive as we start delivering more security to our users. The only bits I've found on this that seem to be substantive are a comment from a Google employee on an older question along similar lines: > @Frank Yes, I'm certain that Google treats HTTP and HTTPS URLs as separate > URLs for crawling, indexing and ranking (I work with the web-search team > here at Google). Doing canonicalization with a 301 redirect like you > mentioned is a great way to solve this :) – John Mueller Oct 23 '10 and the only webmasters video I could find: Can switching to HTTPS harm ranking? The video doesn't have a solid answer, not one I'd base the future of a company on anyway. Is our transition plan the best way to accomplish an SSL move, at least from an SEO perspective? If there's other more recent or concrete advice around how a move like this affects Google ranking we'd love to hear about it.


How do I notify Google of a change of address from http to https?

I've just switched a site from http only to https only (on the same domain name), and have 301 redirects from old to new in place on a page by page basis. How do I now inform Google, using Webmaster Tools or otherwise, of this change of address so as to maintain rank?


How to convince Google to list HTTPS version of website?

Having finally configured HTTPS for my company's website, I'm wondering now if there are any steps I can or should take to convince Google's search results to list the site as an HTTPS link rather than an HTTP link. Is this merely a case of waiting for Google to trawl valid HTTPS links on its own and eventually realize the HTTPS address exists? Or is there some overt actions I should be taking, for example setting up redirects to force the issue?


Changing my site from HTTP to HTTPS - will google search results sort themselves out?

I've made all of my http pages 301 redirect to their https equivalents. I've also made sure that all of the URLs in my sitemap files are https. Lastly I created a new profile in GWTs under the https version of the site, and submitted the sitemaps in there (and removed them from the http version of the site). I suspect this was unnecessary, but I don't think it'll have done any harm. Is there anything else I need to do, or is it just a matter of time for google to re-crawl and update their index? Thanks


How do I prevent ISPs from killing downloads of files in mid-transfer?

I run a small website with a few users, low traffic, mostly to share personal mp3 files with a small community. Depending on their ISP, my users can't always download or stream larger files. By larger I mean larger than 1MB. Essentially the host either stops sending, or the client stops receiving. One of the links along the connection chain simply ends its connection before the transfer completes Trace-route shows no connection issues. There are no connection issues with short transfers that don't take more than a few seconds. It's these 10 second transfers that just end up ending. Just doing a straight download with a direct link can yield this error if you have the wrong ISP. Strangely enough, this is most common with users with ISPs who are essentially independent providers that buy service via a fiber link. Unfortunately these providers aren't very knowledgeable, are unable to do any testing, and insist it's a problem with the host. I have gotten my host to transfer my site to different servers of their, to the same effect. Nearly identical sites (affiliate sites actually) experience no such issue. What can I be doing to further troubleshoot this matter? How can I prove that someone is dropping the ball, and identify who that party is? Can I do a 5Mb traceroute? **EDIT** Maybe I can clear up some misconceptions with my question:   1. The files are not _very_ large. They are simply over 2Mb.   2. The users do not have "slow" connections, they are at least 5mbps.   3. This "time out" happens very quickly, in the realm of 5 seconds, so I don't know if it's a timeout or not. The user often gets 1 or 2Mb in this chunk of time.   4. I have tried streaming with a flash player.   5. I have tried saving the target. Forcing the download.   6. I have tried allowing the browser to stream the file.   7. I have tried different browsers (FF, IE, Chrome).   8. Users are able to download identical files when on different hosts.


Make HTML static site more SEO friendly

I am desinging a website as shown in below image, right now it's just a basic structure. This site is totally static, basically I've 6 main pages in website. navigation section, slider and footer will be same in all the pages. From the 6 pages one page will be for listing items (~15 sub pages for item). all the details will be loaded in CONTENT section. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/t3MBx.png) Now my problem is that how can I achieve some thing like where navigation, slider and footer will be loaded once and content will be changed according to page. I've thought of loading the content using AJAX, so it'll become one page website. But than problem would be with SEO. So how can I achieve this both in one shot? Where navigation, slider and footer will be loaded once and SEO will also be fine. Any help would be appriciated.


Plesk Site Preview Redirects to Plesk Login

I moved over an existing php site to plesk panel 11.5 and now I'm having an issue with the site preview. When I click site preview the site comes up fine in a new window, however when I try to navigate within site I'm redirected to the plesk panel login on the the new window. Then if I click on the plesk panel window, I'm also redirected to plesk panel login. How can I make changes to site and preview them without having plesk site preview redirect me to plesk login?


How to arrange images and video thumbnails into a tile like format in a web page?

I would like to arrange a few images and video thumbnail views into a tile like format (like the apps on windows 8 start screen) in a web page. Which tag should i use for this purpose and how to use them?


Web development and tips for building a website and the advantages of using HTML 5 in the site

I am trying to make a website for my college, and the program starts from jan 13 and we get 15 days of time to develop a running site. The best site will become the college site. I am participating, for all these days i used to participate in C and C++ contests and also won a few contests, now i am really into web dev for the last 2 months. I knew HTML long ago recently i brushed up on it and learnt javascript from "javascript and jquery the missing manual"(sorry for not adding the link) and recently bought "PHP and MySQL web development" and I am going on fine with it, but still a lot of pages to cover in that book. After this what do i need to know ajax is one language to concentrate on, what else do i need to do to make this project up and running. Can someone let me know the tricks of this trade and complete information to build a site like this. Right now i am good with javascript HTML and CSS and thats it, what else I am studying HTML5 and CSS3 its pretty fast and neat. The info on site is a college website which includes students profiles where the have to register their info with college id number and pretty much thats it. Think of it as a college site + a social networking site for students, where they can upload there pics and videos pdf books etc.


What nameservers should I use for GitHub Pages when using a custom domain?

I am using a custom domain for a GitHub Pages site. They said to set `CNAME` or `A` record. But what nameservers should I use? What is the default, or should I leave it blank?


Which fonts are the most common ones across different devices?

What is the most common font on different desktop and mobile devices. I need my website texts to have the same look and size on different devices.


we choose to use tables to layout web forms: (how) can we make them valid/accessible?

we are building a site with dozens of very complex forms and we decided that the best solution for us is to make them using `<table>` but we are worried about accessibility and standards. what i think is that a form **may** be totally accessible and standards valid if it is made in a proper way for example:

            Your informations	            Name	            <input id="name">

            Surname	            <input id="surname">

      for me this is a perfectly valid form and accessible too. but I may be wrong. am I? what should i do, where my attention needs to go, in order to make accessible forms/standards valid forms nowadays? i'm also interested in a seo perspective. p.s. our tables are not simple tables, we use rowspan, colspan a lot, but the structure (cols and rows meaning, headings etc is perfectly fine)


How to appears in Google Blog Search

I have a wordpress.org blog configured with pingomatic.com. I verify my site on Google webmaster tools, all my post are indexed on the "normal" google search but no one on Google BlogSearch. I manually visit pingomatic.com many times and I also visit http://blogsearch.google.com/ping. I type the exact title of a post and I choose to see posts from the last month. Nothing.


How to copy a web page as static content (no JavaScript)

Part of my job is to create mockup designs for clients, where our plugin is inside their existing website. This involves finding a page, downloading all the content, adapting it to run offline (use no online content), and adding the plugin. By far the hardest (most time-consuming) stage is adapting the site to use local content. I'm familiar with Chrome's "save page as" option, and always use it as the first step, but I'm left with a mountain of JavaScript and CSS which always references online content (these aren't the best-made websites, and they're quite huge. Most of the referenced content is from CDNs). Since this is only a mockup, I don't care about the interactive JavaScript so I use Chrome's "copy as HTML" option to get a snapshot of the HTML, and delete any JavaScript it had. I also use Chrome to delete any complicated bits that aren't needed, like Facebook/Twitter plugins. But I'm still left with the task of searching through the HTML and CSS for URLs, ensuring the resource each links to was downloaded properly (quite often with CSS links they aren't), and updating the URL to use a relative path. My background doesn't go far enough into web design, so I'm hoping there's a tool or workflow I don't know about which does this sort of thing easily. Can anybody suggest an easier/faster method for getting a 100%-local, static copy of a page?


How can we fix the emtpy form action error reported by HTML5 validators for default ASP.NET 4 pages, and will this affect SEO?

We are in the process of upgrading our ASP.NET 4 website from XHTML 1.0 to HTML 5. The `<form>` tag is generated automatically as it is ASP.NET, and it looks like:               <form method="post" action="" id="MainForm">      Almost on all pages of our website we do not have any special button that should lead to an action, so it's OK to have the action attribute empty (`action=""`). However, every HTML 5 validator tells us that the action attribute should not be empty. How can we overcome this problem without changing the existing website functionality? Or, maybe, we can live with that and this will never affect such serious things as Google SERP positions, etc...?


When does Apache log to access.log - before or after serving the request?

Reading this post "Understanding Apache Access Log" it refers to http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html which says > %t is the time the server finished processing the request. By this I understand that a line in access.log will not be written until the request has been served by the server. So if the request takes one minute, the timestamp will be one minute after the server received the request. But, the above doc is for Apache 1.3. Reading this one http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_log_config.html it says > %t Time the request was received (standard english format) Now understanding that based on the above example, the timestamp is referring to when the request was first received by the server. But if so, then Apache would need to update access.log yet another time when the request has been served. Or maybe wait to update access.log until the request has been finished, but I doubt that since I would expect the events not to be sorted by time - but they are (making the first explanation more reasonable according to my understanding. So which one is correct, finished processing or received - or both depending on version? (Or, what have I not fully understood...)


Can changing websites from XHTML 1.0 to HTML5 affect rendering in older browsers like Internet Explorer 8?

We are considering the pros and cons of switching from XHTML 1.0 Transitional to HTML5 for our website (for instance, to enhance our SERP positions by using microdata and new specific HTML5 tags for better indexing by search engine crawlers). The current web pages are well-formed enough, so specifying `<!doctype html>` and some "polishing" is the only thing we need to do. However, as we can see from the stats for our website, many of our visitors are still using old versions of browsers like IE8 (7.3%) which may know nothing about HTML5. The question is: can changing our website to HTML5 cause serious rendering and usability issues?


Is it bad to have a mix of HTML 5 and XHTML pages within one website from SEO perspective?

We are going to update our website from well-formed XHTML 1.0 Transitional to HTML 5. However, as I see, we will be doing this step-by-step. This means we will have some pages in HTML 5 and others in XHTML at the same moment. Can it affect our current SERP positions and the results of other SEO works we have already done?


Make google index the actual image not the thumbnail

In a website, we have a JavaScript that opens an image when people click on the thumbnail, it seems like Google only indexes the thumbnail not the actual image with real dimensions, I was wondering if there is a way to tell Google where the actual image is and guide Google on what images to pick for `images.google.com` **Any thoughts on that?**


What is the notified-CompliancePage page?

I sometimes have bots (I assume) hitting pages such as: /notified-CompliancePage?aHR0cDovL3d3dy5teXBpdm90cy5jb20vZGFpbHlub3Rlcw== /verify-CompliancePage?aHR0cDovL3d3dy5teXBpdm90cy5jb20vZGFpbHlub3Rlcw== Any idea what these pages are intended for or what the bots are looking for? Referring source: http://compliance.ubp.internet/notify-CompliancePage... which is obviously not going to resolve because there is no .internet TLD


What is a best canonical URL for a search result page?

I have read a Google guideline About rel="canonical" and I have known that > A canonical page is the preferred version of a set of pages with highly > similar content. I have a search page which URL is appended by search keywords, for example, when user searches "fruits" or "apple" or "banana", the URL will go like these: > example.com/search/fruits   >  example.com/search/apple   >  example.com/search/banana All of these URLs will rewrite to the page `example.com/search/index.php?keywords=xxx` What is the best canonical URL for better SEO? So far, the page has no search result when user types the URL manually without keywords `example.com/search`. Will it be a best canonical URL if I make a query to show a best result for no keywords? I have also a weight calculation on the user search keywords. If more users find "fruits", it has a greater weight, for example, fruits = 100, apple = 50, banana = 10. It means 100 users search for "fruits", 50 users search for "apple" and so on. In this case, would the URL `example.com/search/fruits` be the best for canonical? The search result may vary on the search keywords. It may be or may not be duplicate contents. I'm not sure how I should handle the canonical URL for this situation.


How do I use transparent PNGs in IE6?

How do I use transparent PNGs in IE6? I have a corporate app that **must** use IE6 and **must** use use PNGs, but the transparency all comes through as a pale white colour.


Custom report based on query string in Analytics

I thought this would be pretty simple but i can't really figure out how to use a query string to create a custom report. I have multiple pages where all have a query string called `?platform=`. There may be other query strings as well and "platform" may not be the first one. All I want to do is to create a report where I can see all visits that has a page with the `?platform=` query string as a landing page. Then I want to be able to click on each possible value of the platform parameter and get separate stats from that. I guess it's very similar to the "search" query parameter feature but I already use that for search. I also know I could create an custom event or a custom variable and track it that way but it feels a bit weird since it already is a parameter in the URL that Analytics knows about. I've found some data in the "Behavior -> Path" metric but i can't really figure out to make Analytics treat is as a "filter" more or less so I can drill down into the the value of the query string.


Will Google always tell you if you've been penalized for spammy links?

I've noticed a few spammy links pointing to my website. Some of these existed from before I registered the domain, and some of these are new, possibly placed by competitors. I understand that Google can potentially penalize you for this, and I know that some people have received warnings from Google about it. However, is it possible that Google identifies the spam, penalizes you, and _doesn't_ inform you, or will Google always tell you?


Migrate Piwik Data

I currently have Piwik installed on analytics.myhost.com with lots of data. This has been live for over a year so I would like to keep all of my stats. I have moved hosts now therefore also need to move my Piwik data. So far I have installed a new version on Piwik on mydomain.com/analytics This works as expected, no data so far, fresh new install, but working fine. Can I move my old Piwik data to my new Piwik installation, if so - how? Is it just a matter of exporting my old Piwik DB and importing this to my new Piwik DB, overwriting old data? Not sure if I should have imported the old DB first then ran the Piwik installer, or will it just pick up my new data if I overwrite what's there now.


What are some great resources for mastering Apache administration?

I've been working with Apache for a couple years now and am comfortable with basic administration and configuration. However, I'd really like to increase my skill set from basic administration to being a true Apache wizard. What are some must read books, mailing lists, feeds, etc. for someone looking to increase their overall skill level with Apache?


How much can a 1,00,000 visit site earn

I have an adsense account from years and my site gets 1,00,000 visits each month and earn 3,000$ a month. We get 100 to 200 clicks each day I know that no-one can predict how much a site can earn, and it depends on a niche and 100's of things, but my question is can a site earn 3,000$ for every 1,00,000 visits? Is this heard before? Just that i am not alone...


Securing cPanel and WHM

Is there a way I can trace users who log in in my cPanel and WHM? I know about cPHulk but it just records users who attack the server. I just want to record every user their IP address that log into cPanel or WHM and also the files they are uploading or downloading.


Mt shared hosting provider has taken hostage my domain name after my registration lapsed, how can I get it back without paying too much?

I have a site that I hosed on a shared hosting plan where the domain was sold along with the site. Long-story-short. The website registration has lapsed and the plan was canceled and now the hosting compant wants me to pay $250 to purchase my domain name back. Is there anything I can do about it or do I have to pay whatever they ask?


Does Google still have benchmarking report?

I have been looking for Google benchmarking reports for a while, still cannot find it. Is it still available?


Do clicks on SERPs increase SERP ranking?

I'm wondering if it helps to click, to get my page upper on Google? I mean, say my page has content with keyword **abcde** , and somebody types "abcde" in Google, and finds my website, say in page 5, and clicks on it. Does it make my website go to page 4 ?


Difference between CNAME and SUBDOMAIN

What is the difference between a CNAME and a Subdomain? I understand that the a cname (the left side of a domain) can point to the domain, so you can two different urls point to the same address, ie. ex1.mydomain.com - if setup as a CNAME can return the IP of mydomain.com If ex1.mydomain.com is setup as a subdomain, does it have a different IP? Another question is what should the ideal setup be in this situation: > I have IP1:80 for a web app > > I have IP2:80 for another app Can I point both of these IPs to the same A record, with perhaps a different cname or subdomain? Thanks for any help?


How to mask the "&" character in a URL

I have got a URL where the character `&` should not stand for a paramter. How can I mask it that it is interpreted like a normal letter?


Is there a CDN for large files that doesn't need a manual upload?

I have a MaxCDN account. I am using their pull zones and it works perfectly (they autoamtically download .css, .js etc from my server) Now I would like to use the cdn for large file too, but MaxCDN's Push Zones requires me to manually upload the files. Is there a CDN that automatically grabs large files?


Homepage dropout

My website has been ranking in 1st or 2nd for a number of local keywords i.e. 'Liverpool Accountants', 'Accountants Liverpool' and 'Accountants in Liverpool' from March 2013 up until around August 20th when the homepage suddenly dropped out. The homepage started ranking again in September back in 1st for all keywords and then in the second week of October in disappeared again and hasn't returned. All the backlinks linking to the website are good quality and relevant, no spam at all. The anchor text analysis draws up no problems either. The only thing I could perceive to be an issue is that the homepage scrapes content from 3 other sections of the website - a short paragraph from the About Us section, the Case Study section and another page. Could it be that Google is filtering the homepage out of search results because it perceives the content to be duplicated?


Can a change of all URLs to lower case with canonical from others cause traffic loss?

I've recently changed URLs to lower case. I'm also suffering from about 15% traffic drop from search engines, which started about a week after my change. Can this be related? This is what I've done. Till now I've had all pages URLs look like this `http://mydomain.com/folder/Page`. And all internal links in the site were also to `http://mydomain.com/folder/Page2`. All these have now turned into: `http://mydomain.com/folder/page` and `http://mydomain.com/folder/page2`. And the page that still exists at `http://mydomain.com/folder/Page` has been add this in HTML `<head>`:                       <link rel="canonical" href="/folder/page" />      Have I done anything wrong? Would you recommend me to put it back to the way it was?


AVG says web site is not secure

Recently a co-worker viewed our site from a different location. He said that AVG came up and said the site was not secure and blocked the site. However, when I run the site through AVG it says the site has no malware and no potential threats. We do not sell products or collect information. So we do not have a secure layer on the site.


Alternatives to DirectAdmin?

I'm currently using Direct Admin and quite happy with it, however feel it is a bit overpriced, and as I'm adding a new server, wanted to see if there are any other tools I should consider?


Help choosing slider

I'm looking for JS implementation of effect similar to: http://www.citroen.it/home/#/home/ main slider Joomla! module will be the best solution, however, standalone JS snippet is also an option. I'm looking for both free and commercial solutions. Could you please advice something similar?


How do I replace images with any other technique for better SEO?

My website has many images which aren't good since we have a lot of content inside of them which Google won't know about. So by using CSS or JS isn't there a solution with which we can convert these into a better understandable format for Google?


Newspaper space allocation for news and advertisment

I need to develop a online system for a local newspaper for allocate their daily advertisements and news on each page of the newspaper. They have more than 5 persons to get advertisements from customer, and also they have some agents in other area of the district. So when one person allocate the space for an advertisement it should be updated instantly to all agents page, and prevent to duplicate allocation. Is there any open source software for this purpose in PHP, or any other language?


Is Wordpress appropriate for building a website (not a blog)?

I want to start a website, but have no experience in this field. I've heard of Wordpress being a simple way to do things. However, it seems that Wordpress is mostly for blogs, without the ability to completely control where things go on the page. Is this true? I need to be able to build pages from scratch. Can I do that with Wordpress? Can I add text, graphics, videos where I want? Can I add room for advertisers? Can I link to PayPal, for payments if needed (with my site getting feedback so it can act accordingly)? If not, what are my alternatives for doing this by myself?


Can I be penalized for using breadcrumbs and subcategories for similar content?

I am building a new navigation system via breadcrumbs based on categories and sub-categories. Example 1:               Having url like this:     http://mywebsite.com/listings-in-london-hatchback-car-for-sale-red-vauxhall          Having breadcrumbs like this:     Home Page > Listings > London > For Sale > Car > Hatchback > Vauxhall > Red      That Page has 10 red cars. Example 2:               Having another url like this:     http://mywebsite.com/listings-in-london-hatchback-car-for-sale-vauxhall          Having another breadcrumbs like this:     Home Page > Listings > London > For Sale > Car > Hatchback > Vauxhall      That Page has same 10 cars but users may add in the future cars which are not red. Example 3:               Having another url like this:     http://mywebsite.com/listings-in-london-hatchback-car-for-sale          Having another breadcrumbs like this:     Home Page > Listings > London > For Sale > Car > Hatchback      That Page has too same 10 cars but users may add in the future cars which are not vauxhall. There can be similar situations for other categories. Is it bad practice ? Can it be the cause for duplicate content penalty ? What should i do for avoid any penalties ?


Is there an ad network which will let me specify custom advertisement sizes?

I'm just wondering if any of you know of an ad network that provides ads in custom dimensions **chosen by the publisher**. AdSense and other popular networks have a bunch of ads with pre-defined sizes, but none of them suit my design. Before I'm forced into changing my site layout, I'd like to know if there is a custom solution.


Is there anyway way to transfer .psd files from a windows machine to a mac without exposing other files?

I need to transfer photoshop files back and forth from my computer (mac) to a girls computer (windows) that I'm working with. The only problem with FTP is whoever is it exposes other files on the other persons computer. Plus with FTP both computers have to be connected in order to transfer. Is there any way to get around this? note: I tried just emailing the files in gmail, but the files are rendered in the browser. when what I really need is to import the files into photoshop and edit them.


Google is not indexing the main domain

We have a main domain called `www.riya.travel`. If a user visits `riya.travel` from India it will redirect to the subdomain `in.riya.travel` . If a user visits `riya.travel` from another country, it will redirect to `us.riya.travel`. I want to index `riya.travel` in Google. We installed Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools and submitted a sitemap. I want to index the sub main to my main domain. Is this possible? If yes, then how should I approach this?


Different between GA avg time on page vs. avg visit duration

I'm newer to using Google Analytics, and I have a question about a page in my website I'm looking at. For a specific page in my website, the avg. time on page is 1:08. But, when I find this page under Content > Site Content > Landing page, the avg. visit duration is 0:26. Can someone explain the difference between these two metrics? I think I understand how avg time on page is calculated, but I don't see how it's different to avg visit duration. If someone was to ask me how long does a user typical stay on this page before leaving to go somewhere else (whether to a different website or somewhere else within our own website), what would I say? Thanks!


Random fail to load wordpress multisite on Chrome & Firefox browser

I have a wp 3.5 multisite and sometimes the page fail to load.. I got this msg on chrome   1. Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to domain.x   2. Error 7 (net::ERR_TIMED_OUT): The operation timed out. on Firefox got this   1. Server not found   2. The connection has timed out Update infos 2: This a WordPress or hosting or isp issue?! I scan my mulstiste wp site before a little moment with P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler): **WordPress Plugin Profile Report:** Report date: 24 January 2013 Theme name: Pages browsed: 18 Avg. load time: 1.7010 sec Number of plugins: 25 Plugin impact: 45.81% of load time Avg. plugin time: 0.7792 sec Avg. core time: 0.4346 sec Avg. theme time: 0.4586 sec Avg. mem usage: 25.86 MB Avg. ticks: 17,257 Avg. db queries : 139.33 Margin of error : 0.0287 sec **Plugin list:** P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) - 0.0088 sec - 1.12% Bwp Google Xml Sitemaps - 0.0605 sec - 7.76% Google Analytics For Wordpress - 0.0200 sec - 2.57% Jw Player Plugin For Wordpress - 0.0241 sec - 3.09% Google Analytics Social Engagement Tracking Code - 0.0005 sec - 0.06% Multisite Toolbar Additions - 0.0039 sec - 0.50% Multisite User Management - 0.0044 sec - 0.57% My Gallery - 0.0188 sec - 2.41% Nextgen Gallery - 0.0109 sec - 1.39% NextScripts: SNAP Pro Upgrade Helper - 0.0060 sec - 0.77% SEO Ultimate - 0.2213 sec - 28.40% Social Networks Auto Poster Facebook Twitter G - 0.0767 sec - 9.84% Use Google Libraries - 0.0140 sec - 1.80% Watermark Hotlinked Images - 0.0007 sec - 0.09% Wordpress Mu Domain Mapping - 0.2089 sec - 26.82% WP Smush.it NextGEN Gallery Integration - 0.0004 sec - 0.05% WP Smush.it - 0.0014 sec - 0.17% Admin Locale - 0.0028 sec - 0.36% Contact Form 7 - 0.0166 sec - 2.13% Really Simple CAPTCHA - 0.0004 sec - 0.06% Simple Ads Manager - 0.0068 sec - 0.88% Top 10 - 0.0154 sec - 1.98% Welcome Popup - 0.0278 sec - 3.57% Wordpress Social Share Buttons - 0.0023 sec - 0.30% WP-Filebase - 0.0258 sec - 3.32%


How to improve alexa rank to my website?

I have a coupon based website. And i have good number of visits. But, my alexa rank is as low as 5,77,000+. How can i improve my alexa rank?


Removing full site from Google index

I want to remove the contents from Google index. Google index include my websites huge number of pages indexed in Google index about 5,000,000 Pages earlier but now left pages are 3,025,000. I have made the following things but the removal of pages are very slow pace. Robots.txt:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      .htaccess:               rewriteengine on     rewritecond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Googlebot/2.1.*$     rewriterule .* - [F,L]      The is the content returned to Googlebot when it try's to crawl the content:               HTTP/1.1 410 Gone     Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:39:23 GMT     Server: Apache/2.2.23 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.23 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5             mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 mod_jk/1.2.37 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/             1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.3.19     Content-Length: 661     Connection: close     Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1      I had also used the html meta tag `noindex`, no follow but no effect as:               <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex,nofollow">      I had also submitted for website removal but the speed of removing of contents is very slow. In last 35 days the only few are pages are removed. My website is also removed from Google search index but Google Webmasters Tools - Health -> Index status still showing 3,025,000 page and If I re-submit the site they will show already indexed pages. How can I increase the speed to remove pages.


How do I diagnose 408 crawl errors?

Somebody sent me a message about my website: "I'm getting a 408 error when I try to crawl it." How do I resolve the 408 errors that are causing problems for this crawler?


Displaying topics/categories related ads

Is there any advertising company that allow webmasters to decide on general ad topics (such as "Entertainment", "Autos and vehicles", "Arts", etc.) to be displayed for a user visiting on a website? I know you can choose specific ad campaigns to show to users, or let the advertising company decide for you which ads to show. But I am looking for an option to ask for the advertsing company to show me ads based on categories/topics. Thanks. Frank


Will 'back to top' links/buttons make my site more usable or just be noise on the page?

I've see **lots** of sites with links that will take you to the top of the page, but I've actually needed to use one. I've seen some sites where I can see ~7 of these links on the screen at once, whereas many have none. I can understand the intent, but they don't seem as valuable seeing as its so easy to get to the top of the page yourself. It seems like a waste to have site- specific ways to do something when there's a way that every user of any browser or operating system is already familiar with and skilled at. **question:** Are these links useful enough to users to merit their appearance on webpages? If so, what are some general guidelines for their placement, appearance, and how many?


Tool or online service to view Google PR of thousand sites from a list?

Any suggestion would be appreciated. Maybe a tool (or online service) that you used at least once. I have list of webistes in a txt file. I need a tool or an oline service (possibly free) that finds the Google PR for each one of these websites, and shows me back a list (maybe sorted in order of PR value). I saw some online service but they usually find PR for 25/50 sites at a time. I need this tool to be able to check PR for **1000 sites** , or **at least 300/400 at a time**.


which is the best CMS for building a Video tutorial website?

I am planning on setting up a website where I will be posting " **how to or training videos** " for various softwares. There will be several training videos under a single topic. And there will be several topics under a single software training. Similar to lynda.com but in a small scale. Can you suggest me a CMS for the job? Initially I am planning on hosting videos on YouTube and linking them to my website. But, I will be moving to my own hosting later on. It must be customizable, scalable, and most of all **OPEN SOURCE**


How to redirect my homepage installed in a sub-directory to another sub-directory?

I have a Joomla website which has been installed in a sub-directory named "joomla" and has pages like the following structures:               http://www.parsilatex.com/joomla/index.php     http://www.parsilatex.com/joomla/index.php/1391-09-23-16-04-58     http://www.parsilatex.com/joomla/index.php/1388-06-28-13-55-06/214-thumbnailsinlofinxepersian     http://www.parsilatex.com/joomla/index.php/about-us      Now I'd like to redirect the homepage **only** to the new Wordpress version of the website, `http://parsilatex.com/site/`. In other words, I'd just like to redirect the old homepage to the new one. When I use the code below, I get "Page not found" errors.                Redirect 301 /joomla/index.php http://www.parsilatex.com/site/      **How can I accomplish this via my .htaccess file?**


Monitoring Domain Availability

How can I write a tool to monitor domain name availability? In particular, I am interested in monitoring availability of a domain which is in `PENDINGDELETE` (or `REDEMPTIONPERIOD` or `REGISTRY-DELETE-NOTIFY` or `PENDINGRESTORE` or similar ) status after its expiration date. Any suggestions or more information about the `PENDINGDELETE` and similar status are also welcome (what is the time frame till which it can remain in this status, etc. I usually don't see a fixed pattern or even consistent correlation with expiration date and this status).


Apache - directory browsing gives 404

With no .htaccess files and `Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews Indexes` followed by `AllowOverride None` in the vhost configuration, I'm getting 404 responses from directory listings. Are there some specific modules I need for directory listings? My active modules are:   * authz_host   * deflate   * dir   * env   * expires   * headers   * mime   * mod-security   * negotiation   * php5   * reqtimeout   * rewrite   * setenvif   * ssl   * unique_id **VHost Configuration:**               <VirtualHost *:443>         # SSL         SSLEngine               On         SSLCertificateKeyFile   /dir/ssl/ssl.key         SSLCertificateFile      /dir/ssl/ssl.crt         SSLSessionCacheTimeout  300     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:80 *:443>         ServerAdmin     webmaster@localhost         ServerAlias     domain.tld *.domain.tld         ServerName      cl.domain.tld              # Just a few connection resets so that I don't waste my bandwidth on "hackers"         SecRuleEngine On         SecRule &REQUEST_HEADERS:User-Agent     "@eq 0"         drop,phase:1         SecRule REQUEST_HEADERS:User-Agent      "^$"            drop,phase:1              SecRule REQUEST_LINE                    "://"           drop,phase:1              SecRule REQUEST_URI                     "^/admin"       drop,phase:1         SecRule REQUEST_URI                     "^/mail"        drop,phase:1         SecRule REQUEST_URI                     "^/webmail"     drop,phase:1         SecRule REQUEST_URI                     \\\\            drop,phase:1              SecRule REQUEST_METHOD                  !^GET$          chain,drop,phase:1         SecRule REQUEST_METHOD                  !^HEAD$         chain         SecRule REQUEST_METHOD                  !^POST$         <Directory /dir/public_html/>                 Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews Indexes                 Order allow,deny                 allow from all         </Directory>              DocumentRoot    /dir/public_html     </VirtualHost>


How much bandwidth is required to run an app that will be used by ten thousand users at the same time

Could you please tell me how much bandwidth should I look for to run an web based application (total file size 3.4 mb) which will be used by ten thousand users at the same time? App Details: web languages used: PHP, HTML, Jquery Database: MySql If possible could you please suggest me a good hosting service provider? Thanks


Is there an SEO benefit in shortening domain names by omitting characters?

For example `damnler.com` vs `damnlr.com`. What are the differences in terms of SEO? Do search engines treat these differently in any way?


What to do when product range evolves and site name does not reflect this?

Suppose, just as an example, I have a website with domain www.gifts-for- dogs.com.....but after a few years I start selling stuff for Cats and Fish. I may not keep enough of a range of products for these other type of pets yet, so can't justify changing the domain name and logo (to something like gifts- for-pets.com) just yet....but envisage that I eventually may have to in the not too distant future. What would be a good strategy here and what are the steps I would have to consider before making these changes?


SEO wikipedia content and blockquote - duplicate content

I have a large website that aggregates content both from the websites and Wikipedia. Even thought it's someone else content, the way it's combined is unique ad provides a valuable user experience (Google always states it before thinking to SEO). Every page of the website has at least 10-20 links to a related Wikipedia article (abstract, only first paragraph) + Wikipedia foto. Pretty much like Google does if you search for example "Picasso". How am I supposed to handle this content? Here it is advised to use block quote and cite tags whilst here to link Wikipedia. Should I expose direct Wikipedia link article, should I use the block quote tag, use `rel="nofollow"` or link internal to my site and redirect in this fashion:               example.com/wikilinks/?idpage=1          with Disallow: /wikilinks in my robots.txt?      All together there will be millions of links pointing to Wikipedia.


Any tools for measuring the security of a site?

I'm wondering is there any tool for measuring or testing the security of a website ? I've written some ASP.NET web-app , So i would like measure the security of my own application and if there is any whole like sql-Injection or XSS , i could fix that . Thank you


My domain "example.se" is targeted for Netherlands (.nl), but Google Webmaster Tools indicates it's targeted for Sweden

I made my domain example.se. I work for the Dutch market and not for the Swedish market. Now I learned that Google Webmaster Tools judges that I am focusing on the Swedish market. (Geographic Target = Sweden). I can't change this in GWT. I am really not looking forward to changing the domain. What are the other options? My backlink profile is clearly focused on the Dutch market. Will GWT pick up on this eventually?


Putting altered social media logo icons on my website, can I get sued?

I would say most websites with a somewhat thought-through graphical design use social media icons (i.e Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc) which are altered to fit the theme and design of the site. Now, my boss insist we only use the ones provided by say Facebook or Twitter themselves (in fear of getting sued or lose credibility), but sometimes it just doesn't look very good on the site. What is the common practice for these things? What do you risk by using an altered logo? What should I tell my boss? I'll provide a few examples, what'd happen if I put any of these on a site? ![fb1](http://i.stack.imgur.com/shCBw.jpg) ![fb2](http://i.stack.imgur.com/YjKmf.jpg) ![fb3](http://i.stack.imgur.com/W7gYg.jpg) ![fb4](http://i.stack.imgur.com/RQi44.jpg)


Are these companies really flouting social-media brand rules?

There are quite stringent guidelines that dictate how we treat logos of various social media sites. So for instance, Facebook has these for their "f" logo: https://www.facebookbrand.com/guidelines?asset=2&media=1,2,3&platform= and Twitter has these for their logos: https://about.twitter.com/press/brand- assets. By my understanding, if you have an account with any of these services, or you get the logos from the official source, you are forced to agree with their terms that include agreeing to abide by these guidelines. Perhaps the guidelines are enforceable even if you have not aquired the logos by these means though. My question is: How come these guidelines are so often not followed. About.com quite blatantly breaks the guidelines by changing not only the background shape, but colour too. But I see the logos in circles (against the guidelines of at least Facebook and Twitter) very often. So am I misunderstanding the rules, or are people flouting the rules en masse? Some examples:   * http://www.about.com/   * http://www.whitehouse.gov/   * http://www.sony.com/


Custom Facebook connect image - Is it Facebook's policy violation?

I was going to change Facebook's default login button with my custom image like Mashable. I mean like this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/x42ZT.png) But I found a article which state its against Facebook's policies. Is it really a violation? If it is how come Mashable using custom image? Can someone answer me? ## Update This is the exact image I would like to use. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/kOkf3.png) Facebook mentioned like this in this page. > While you may scale the size to suit your needs, you may not modify the “f” > logo in any other way (such as by changing the design or color). If you are > unable to use the correct colour due to technical limitations, you may > revert to black and white. So my sign in with Facebook image violating Facebook policy in anyway?


I have never created Quantcast account why still they show my site's Quantcast rank?

I have never registered for Quantcast and placed Quantcast code on my site. Still, on many website value checker sites I found some number as Quantcast for my site. Does this rank really matter for a SEO? If yes, then is there any powerful method get a better ranking?


Redirection & SEO related stuff while moving to a new blog

I have a WordPress blog and recently I have setup a new blog lets call the old blog as _blog old_ and new blog as _blog new_. What I did is moved the content, photos, pictures and all 250 posts from _blog old_ to _blog new_. Both the blog name are changed as they are pointing to different domain names! I read helpful things in this site itself at here. I will no longer use _blog old_ , moreover I am concerned about the SEO of the _blog new_. The _blog new_ is fairly new (just 24 hours and no pages have been indexed in Google). I have done the following stuff:   * Deleted all the post share at Facebook fan Page, Twitter profile, Google+ page and Finally deleted the fan page/Twitter, Google+ page.   * Edited the link backs of _old blog_ in the _blog new_. The question I have is:   1. How do I prevent duplicate content issues?   2. Do I go straightaway and delete all the posts in _blog old_?   3. Should I start sharing the blog posts in _blog new_?   4. Should I submit the new site to Webmaster Tools or wait for few weeks? Every comment here is appreciated! What issues can I face relating to SEO?


Magento - Sort category view on date updated

I'm trying to set the sort order in the category view for magento. In */app/design/frontend/template_name/default/template/catalog/product/list.phtml* the product category is called this way:               $_productCollection=$this->getLoadedProductCollection();      Is there a possibility to sort this collection using e.g. the following? For the record, this doesn't work. ;)               ->addAttributeToSort('updated_at','asc')->setOrder('updated_at', 'asc')


What is this modern look called and what is the template used for it?

I haven't been paying attention to modern websites for a while, but in the few years or so a bunch of websites with the same, very smooth, very sleek presentation format have appeared. Some examples:   * http://devatory.com/   * https://anyperk.com/   * http://www.datadoghq.com/   * https://www.pixlee.com/   * http://www.mparticle.com/   * http://www.rockhealth.com/   * http://vsevil.net/ Plenty more example abound, but here are the characteristics:   * Full page width layout,   * Large top bar with menu items on it, horizontal   * Seems to use images from some kind of standard set of images,    * Site map at the bottom Is there a name for this style, or perhaps some kind of template kit that you can find somewhere for this?


Make all subdomains point to root unless otherwise specified

I'd like all subdomains that aren't being used for anything else to go straight to my domain.               ns1.mydomain.com.   A   198.123.44.55     ns2.mydomain.com.   A   198.123.44.66     *.mydomain.com. CNAME   mydomain.com     webdisk.blog.mydomain.com.  A   198.123.44.55      However, say I have subdomain blog.mydomain.com which I still want to behave as a normal subdomain. I would like the following to happen:                    mydomain.com -->      mydomain.com      www.mydomain.com -->      mydomain.com      abc.mydomain.com -->      mydomain.com     blog.mydomain.com --> blog.mydomain.com      Is this possible?


Is there a service available to help continuously check for plagiarism online?

We have a website with several thousand pages and it is frequently copied elsewhere; we'd like to know when and where this takes place to so we can make sure we are attributed correctly.


Animation of a browser loading page elements?

Some time ago, I recall finding a visual explanation of the order web browsers load specific page elements, and how they stack and fit together. I was recently getting back into some web development and tried to find this again, but to no avail. Anyone have a clue where I might find this?


Why are intermittent pages disappearing from SERPs?

I have a very basical informational site with about 50+ pages. Specifically, there is a page about each site. I have been tracking pages daily for months and they have been streadily increasing in the SERPs. Suddenly, about 3-4 weeks ago, about 20 pages were completely missing from the SERPS, though they were still indexed (I could google a specific text from the page in quotes and it would appear). Since then, pages have been added and removed from SERPs continually, cutting my traffic by about 50%. All I have been adding is information about the sites topic. I haven't stolen content or done anything else that seems like it would cause this.


Is there a online website to forward incoming emails to a other emails?

I created a PHP program that receives emails from clients, then I _manually_ forward the client's email to around 50 suppliers. Is there a possibility or an online website, so that when a client sends me an email it is forwarded automatically to 50 suppliers?


Lightweight javascript editor for textarea

I'm looking for a simple javascript editor, much like the one i'm using to type this message. I've tried searching (and i wondered why starting to ask a question shows much better search results than just searching) and have come up with a few results, none of them relevant. I just need a very simple editor, that displays text as `<p>`, has a way to insert links, and allows me to display html tags in the text rather than making them get parsed. The editors that I've seen so far all have a rich feature set and more functions than i would ever want, or want to learn to use.


Is hushmail a spam source?

I am new so I don't know the history. But why, after I just found out, do all hushmail email users cannot register or log in to the website that I am administering. Is hushmail a spam source? Or any giant bad guy is using hushmail serious enough to block all users who use hushmail? Anyone knows about that? http://www.hushmail.com/ looks fine to me


Youtube - preventing ads of my competitors on my videos

I want to start and upload to youtube every day a new video for my commercial use.   The videos are suppose to serve existing clients and potential clients and are given free to everyone . My problem is that I don't want that my competitors ads will be presented inside my video. And by mistake my potential clients will be going to the competitor site because they think it is the competitor's video. Is the any way to disallow ads (or certain category) in my movies? I am willing to pay for that service. **Edit 1** To make it clear. I am uploading videos to youtube with my brand on it, but this video is not promoted, regular user.   I don't want to see other ads **inside** my video.   By mistake I can have a competitor inside my video. Thanks.


Why can't my user (author) login from back-end to post article in Joomla

I have just created a new user from my administrator back-end. I have assigned this user to groups like author and publisher. But this user can't seem to login to the admin screen to create articles. I don't want to give this user high privileges. Am I missing something? How can my user do this? BTW, I don't have a login page in the front-end.


SEO - Crawl Errors

I've been optimizing my website for search engines, and for some reason I have a crawl error on a page that has not been found at 'www.peach-designs.com/a' which is not a page, is not a link, or is not anything on my site. I've checked my code and I'm only left to assume that this is a link to a page (a href, etc.). Is this common for other websites?


Big specialized complex forms for ordering/signing up

I sometimes get the offer to create these and it's always a maintenance hell. For example: a print shop wants a form so you can order your print work online. This mostly is a multiple step form where you can pick size, paper, etc and depending on the options you pick you get other options. I can mostly hard code what they want but if they want to change something later it's very cumbersome because you have to change the form, validation and back-end to accommodate the changes. I heard from some clients that they got offers from companies in the past that have specialized systems for this. At first I thought this was a little over kill but since you need a system that can is very flexible I am maybe wrong? So if anybody can give examples, books, websites, videos or any other media on the matter I appreciate it.


Find IP address of hosting via cpanel?

Is it possible to tell the IP of the hosting space via cpanel? A client of a client has setup the domain and setup a sub domain (ie blog.domain.com). It's been hard work to get any kind of passwords out of them for anything. Currently the A-record for the subdomain isn't setup so it's pointing to the default space rather than the subdomain space. So I need to tell them the IP address of the hosting space for the subdomain. The files are already uploaded and are there ready.


How to remove "Did You Mean:" from Google Search?

I don't know much more about SEO, but it's interesting to learn about it. When I tried to search my website with an associated keyword or you can say with the exact name of the domain, I got some suggestions by Google. Here's the search. First of all, I don't want to spamming here, I just want prove my question and want to give a hint about what I am talking here. The above link display the _Did You Mean_ , I know the specific reason why Google shows this, but I want to know the Google's guidelines and some guidance by you experts so that if someone search for the particular keyword then Google hide that _Did You Mean_ and display the result.


What the website name bloging service by wordpress mu?

What the website name service blogging by Wordpress mu ? Please give me 10-20 website thanks.


Opinions and guidance on a specific Lazy Loading strategy and its SEO

So I've read several posts here regarding SEO and lazy loading as well as the Google page for lazy loading your site's content. Since setting up HTML snapshots for an AJAX website is a large amount of work after the learning curve, I propose the following alternative to serving static content to a crawler.   1. I have prepopulated my content divs with bare HTML content.    2. My asynchronous content is loaded in replacing the original static content ( _per scrolling trigger of course_ ). I cannot think of a reason why this isn't a smooth way to serve up the static HTML for crawlers. I mean if they really can't index asynchronous content then they shouldn't even recognize that the above process is happening after seeing the original content. Am I missing something here?


Single word keywords against 2 or 3 word keywords for SEO

Looking in Google Webmaster tools for my site, the sixth most common keyword is "life". This appears a lot because I mention "artificial life" and in places "second life" in the page text. I want to increase the relevance of this page in terms of the keywords in the text, not as just "life" on its own, which as you can see, is far to vague to be of use. How can I increase the ranking of "artificial life" as a keyword instead of just "life" on my site?


Are backlink generators helpful?

I will keep my question simple and short.Are backlink generators helpful and should we use them?If not, why?


Blog: Search results prefer index page over content pages

I have a typical blog that has recent posts on the main page, and each post's title links to a page that only shows that one article and comments and such. I was looking through some of the keywords used to get to my site and I was noticing that some of the searches would only show my main page, and not the page for the article. If users have to find the article by scrolling through the main page, it just makes it more difficult. Is there some way that I can tell search engines to rank the content page higher than my index page? Or can I do something else like not display the full text of the posts on the main page?


mirroring of the website

I have three Shared Hosting Servers (2 Linux Apache and 1 Windows) For my (low traffic) static websites, I want to create mirror server accounts (will keep same contents) for them so I need not to bother if any of the server is down. Load balancing is not needed but need to provide priority to one particular server. The domain registration provider allows me to set the A-records as many as I want but does not allow me to set up any priority among A records. Question: How can it be prioritized ? - (Using any independent service (free)? or using DNS zone settings at servers and setting up long TTLs?) Please note that for E-mail accounts (routing) I have different set up of MX- records.


Testing website with a low CPU ghz

Is there a way to simulate (maybe online) the rendering of a page with a low- end pc? Actually I am testing it with an i7, but I guess not everyone got a quad-core. (ps. without downclocking my pc) Thanks all


Why won't Feedly display my most recent post?

I published a new post on my blog yesterday called "Acquire and Release Fences", and Feedly refuses to show it. Feedly's technical support is not very responsive, so I thought I would ask here in case the problem is something obvious. Here's a link to the feed: http://preshing.com/feed Here's Feedly's view of it: http://cloud.feedly.com/#subscription%2Ffeed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fpreshing.com%2Ffeed Note that last week, I switched the blog from Wordpress to Octopress. This changed the structure of the feed, though I tried to preserve the existing id's of each post. I tried to "refresh" the feed in Feedly this morning. It didn't help, but I saw Feedly's request in my site's access log:               65.19.138.33 - - [23/Sep/2013:08:08:24 -0400] "GET /feed HTTP/1.1" 200 276395 "-" "Feedly/1.0 (+http://www.feedly.com/fetcher.html; like FeedFetcher-Google)"      Thanks in advance!


Redirect using .htaccess for missing images

I have image file URLs getting generated by Drupal CMS as: `...file.pdf?itok=xbXNF` I simply want to check till the `.jpg` part if it does not exist. If it does not exist then I want to do a 301 redirect to another page saying "Resource Deleted..". I've tried doing it this way but it is resulting in a 500 Internal Server error:                 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*[0-9]{10}j\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif))?itok=.*$       RewriteCond %1    ! -f       RewriteRule ^.*$ /image-has-been-deleted.html [R=301,L]


how can i track visits to ALL of the subpages of my website COMBINED TOGETHER?

Right now I'm using statcounter and Google analytics. They are great. But my counts are currently separated. Ex: website.com = 1000 visits a day, website.com/about = 50 visits a day, website.com/privacy = 10 visits a day, etc.. How can have a combined count of all of my sub-pages? (mainpage + about page + about 100 other sub-pages ) I can of course manually add them all together, but that's time consuming because there are many pages. I tried placing a separate tracking code in a PHP include that sits in each of the sub-pages, but it doesn't seem to be working. It seems to require a single URL to create it, which it then only counts the visits from the one URL, rather than ALL of them. Ex: website.com)


How to discredit hacked links pointing at my company's website

The competition of one of my company's websites has started a really dirty campaign of acquiring hack links. One of their ingenious tactics has been to seed in links to OUR site withing their hack bot, making US look like we might be responsible for it or using us to cover their tail. These are .gov and .edu sites. Is there any way possible to discredit these links? To disavow them at all? EDIT: Penguin has really effected this question, IMO. Does anyone know if there is a revised opinion on disavowing backlinks to your site?


Which order of the links is important? Visible, or in source code?

I heard that Google bot places weight on links, according to their order in the page. So the first link is higher in importance, relevance etc. Is it true? And if so, I wonder how the "order" is determined by Google. I mean, say my source code is like:               link1     link2      but I styled them (with CSS) so that `link2` appears on top of `link1`. Which link will be of higher importance? My spider-instincts tell me that source code counts, but hearing a lot of things and always trying to "treat Google like a human being", I'm in doubt. ## Edit: the second href is y, not x. So links point to different pages. This could cause ambiguity.


Repeating synonym just once in title tag - is it keyword stuffing?

I'm running a stock market forum and I noticed in Google Webmaster, I am not getting impressions for the keyword "message board." Currently, I only use the keyword "forum" in my title. For example, in Google Webmaster, I get impressions for "stock forum," but I don't get any impressions for "stock message board". I want to rank for "stock message board" as well. To fix this problem I am thinking of changing the title on my main homepage from: "Stock Market Forum and Finance Discussion | AlphaBanter" to "Stock Market Forum and Finance **Message Board** | AlphaBanter" (current example of the title of my homepage: http://www.alphabanter.com) And I am also thinking of changing the title on my sub-forums from: "Facebook (FB) Stock Discussion Forum" to "Facebook (FB) Stock Discussion Forum and **Message Board** " (current example of the title on my sub-forum: http://www.alphabanter.com/forum/fb) Some people say you shouldn't repeat the keyword more than once in your title. Is it safe to repeat the keyword a second time as a synonym? In this case, I am repeating the keyword "forum" with the synonym "message board" so hopefully Google will give me impressions for the keyword "message board" as well.


Drupal urls from previous setup

What would the best way to setup previous site urls to new Drupal site.


Accessing PHPMyAdmin via URL (without cPanel)

I am having issues accessing PHPMyAdmin from cPanel. It will not allow me to as I am logged in a root. I cannot seem to be able to make another account for cPanel either, and research indicates this is not possible. I thought I could just login directly to a PHPMyAdmin database using a database username and password and URL extension or port number but I cannot find any information on how. Does anyone know the correct way to do this? Thanks!


Website traffic referral from cfauth.com

Google Analytics is reporting several referrals from a site called `cfauth.com`. I can't seem to find any information on this site other than it's connection to a security firm. It's definitively not a site with a link to mine. Does anyone know more about this?


How to check if your website is trending?

I am building a admin stats dashboard for my website. I would like to show on it an indication when an article from my site is trending (gone viral) on Facebook or Twitter. My understanding is that Facebook and Twitter have trending feeds. How can I programatically access these trending feeds so that I can check to see if my website is listed on them?


Informing Googlebot for deprecated pages

I publish timetables in my website.   For example last year I published `Number 2 bus Summer 2013 timetable`.   I has pretty good ranking on Google SERPs for `number 2 bus timetable` But this year I added a new page with the name "Number 2 bus Summer 2014 timetable".   When users search `number 2 bus timetable` in Google, they find 2013 timetable in first page of SERPs. But I want them to find 2014 timetable. Thy can reach 2014 page with the keywords `number 2 bus timetable 2014`. But most of the users doesn't write year name. So what's the proper way to say Googlebot that 2013 page is deprecated and newer version is 2014 page ? I created a link from 2013 page to 2013 page and added a deprecation alert for visitors. But I still see 2013 timetable in first page of Google SERPs. Of course it is possible to 301 redirect, 2013 page to 2014 page. But I want users to reach old pages to compare the differences between years. (As you would guess I have many pages like this.) Edit:   Why I don't put timetables on same page and show different years' timetables with sorting. Because my old pages has good pagerank scores or SERPs. Removing these old page will remove them.


Why doesn't Google return the main page when searching for the exact domain?

I'm trying to figure out a problem for one of my clients. I have to mention that I've not developed the website and the company that has done the development can not be contacted anymore. The the website's domain is `www.sav-ante.fr`. The odd thing with this website is that when you type: "sav-ante" in the Google search box (french Google), the URL which is returned is `www.sav-ante.fr/en/contact/contact-form.html`. Is there any one who can explain to me what king of configuration I have to add/modify in order for the returned URL to be `www.sav-ante.fr/fr` (which is how the DNS is configured).


How Google ads add a pageview?

I'm having a trouble on my site. I have my own script which counts how many times the ads display in a page using PHP script, which always run every page refresh without any condition and it sums up the ads to 2 Million+ page views. but on my Google Analytics the page views is only at 100k+. How does the Google ads pageview works? Is it have a special condition like IP per count? or for a specific IP there is a certain x amount of time to add it to count?


What is basic things to write a blog?

HI.. I need to create my own blog. For that what are the basic steps i need to take care. I am good in .net. I like to share my knowledge. Thanks In Advance


Are Web Safe Colors Still Relevant?

I still remember one of my high school teachers lecturing us about the "web safe colors". A set of 216-256 colors that you should confine your designs to use, and nothing else besides them. Last I knew, Photoshop still has the "web safe" yield icon1 on it's color picker. Are web safe colors still a concern? Outside of the obvious application (accessibility, legacy software versions, etc.), how much consideration should I give to limiting my color choice for my general audience? * * * 1Or was it the cube? I never remember.


Language redirect affecting pagerank and search listing?

## Preface We have a number of sites that use the same redirect mechanism across the board. We recently transitioned one site from non-localised to localised and detected that the Google+ integration doesn't show up on the search results any more AND the PageRank is gone from 2 to 0. ## How the redirect works   1. If the UA sends a cookie (e.g. lang=en), redirect the user to /language (e.g. /en)   2. If the UA is a bot (.*bot.*), redirect to /en   3. If the Accept-Language header contains a usable, non-English language, redirect to /language (English is the default on many browsers in non-English regions)   4. If there is a valid GeoIP lookup and the detected region is linked to a supported language, redirect to /language   5. Redirect to /en We do of course on all pages have the proper markup to indicate the alternate language:               <link hreflang="de" href="/de" rel="alternate" />      As far as we can tell, we follow all publicly available guidelines from Google, so we are a bit at odds if this is a bug in Google or we have done something wrong. ## Question Does not having content on the root URL of a domain adversely affect search engine rankings and if yes, how does one implement a proper language redirection?


Standard Wordpress mod_rewrite rules interacting with one of my own rules are causing all requests for a certain page to be sent to the homepage

I have WordPress 3.5.1 installed on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I'm running Apache 2.2.22. **NOTE:** I can't share the domain that I'm working on, and must santize any config files and log outputs. While the website is public, any problems I'm working on in connection to the client cannot be made public. Here is the problem I'm trying to solve:   1. User lands on HTTP site.   2. User goes to `/order/` page and is redirected to the same page delivered over HTTPS.   3. User clicks away from the order page, and the resultant URL is HTTPS. For example, say they click on the "About Us" link.   4. The resulting HTTPS page loads all sorts of social media wingdings and libraries over HTTP.   5. Warnings assail the visitor: "This site is not secure and you will surely die a vicious death! _Abort! Abort!_ " The solution I'm trying to implement is simple: Redirect all HTTP access to the `/order/` page to HTTPS. Redirect all HTTPS access to non `/order/` pages to HTTP. (Side Note: I'm not using .htaccess files. I'm declaring the rewrite rules in the `<Document>` block in each sites config file.) The website is Wordpress based and is using the standard `mod_rewrite` rules to make pretty URLs. Here is the HTTP vhost's rewrite rules:                           # Rewrite Rules. Suddenly dragons!                 RewriteEngine On                      # Redirect /order/ page to HTTPS                 RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =off                 RewriteRule ^order/$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]                      # Wordpress Magicks Below                 RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]                      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f                 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d                 RewriteRule . /index.php [L]      And now here's the SSL site's rewrite rules:                           # Rewrite Rules. Suddenly encrypted dragons!                 RewriteEngine On                      # Redirect all non /order/ page URLs to HTTP                 RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on                 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/order/$                 RewriteRule (.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]                      # Wordpress Magicks Below.                 RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]                      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f                 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d                 RewriteRule . index.php [L]      # The Ugly Result: Every access to `/orders/` across HTTP or HTTPS is redirected to the home page over HTTP. The RewriteLog for the SSL vhost shows this ugliness:               68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (3) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] add path info postfix: /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order -> /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order/     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (3) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] strip per-dir prefix: /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order/ -> order/     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (3) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] applying pattern '(.*)' to uri 'order/'     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (4) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] RewriteCond: input='on' pattern='=on' => matched     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (4) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] RewriteCond: input='/order/' pattern='!^/order/$' => not-matched     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (3) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] add path info postfix: /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order -> /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order/     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (3) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] strip per-dir prefix: /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order/ -> order/     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (3) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] applying pattern '^index\.php$' to uri 'order/'     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (3) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] add path info postfix: /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order -> /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order/     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (3) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] strip per-dir prefix: /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order/ -> order/     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (3) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] applying pattern '.' to uri 'order/'     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (4) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] RewriteCond: input='/var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order' pattern='!-f' => matched     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (4) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] RewriteCond: input='/var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order' pattern='!-d' => matched     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (2) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] rewrite 'order/' -> 'index.php'     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (3) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] add per-dir prefix: index.php -> /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/index.php     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (2) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] strip document_root prefix: /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/index.php -> /index.php     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0/initial] (1) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] internal redirect with /index.php [INTERNAL REDIRECT]     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b213a778/initial/redir#1] (3) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] strip per-dir prefix: /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/index.php -> index.php     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b213a778/initial/redir#1] (3) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] applying pattern '(.*)' to uri 'index.php'     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b213a778/initial/redir#1] (4) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] RewriteCond: input='on' pattern='=on' => matched     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b213a778/initial/redir#1] (4) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] RewriteCond: input='/index.php' pattern='!^/order/$' => matched     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b213a778/initial/redir#1] (2) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] rewrite 'index.php' -> 'http://mysite.com/index.php'     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b213a778/initial/redir#1] (2) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] explicitly forcing redirect with http://mysite.com/index.php     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b213a778/initial/redir#1] (1) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] escaping http://mysite.com/index.php for redirect     68.231.66.6 - - [06/Jun/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b213a778/initial/redir#1] (1) [perdir /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/] redirect to http://mysite.com/index.php [REDIRECT/301]      I'll truncate the logs to the important bits, and comment on them:               RewriteCond: input='on' pattern='=on' => matched #HTTPS is on, so that pattern matches     RewriteCond: input='/order/' pattern='!^/order/$' => not-matched #It *is* the order page, so the negative match isn't a match     add path info postfix: /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order -> /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order/     strip per-dir prefix: /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order/ -> order/     applying pattern '^index\.php$' to uri 'order/' # Wordpress pretty URLs are applied     add path info postfix: /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order -> /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order/     strip per-dir prefix: /var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order/ -> order/     applying pattern '.' to uri 'order/'     RewriteCond: input='/var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order' pattern='!-f' => matched     RewriteCond: input='/var/www/mysite.com/htdocs/order' pattern='!-d' => matched     rewrite 'order/' -> 'index.php' # I... wait... NOOOOO!! And we're sent back to the home page.      The biggest problem here is that I'm not familiar enough with `mod_rewrite` or regex to know _why_ this is happening exactly and how to remedy it. Can someone beat me with a clue bat?


Social Referral - Weebly

I'm getting a lot of my social referrals from "weebly" which is not a social media site. Also the number of new users is zero. I'm guessing this is myself. My question: Why does GA count Weebly as a social site?