google traffic suddenly become very low after website problem

My website was having some Database problem in past few days, due to which my website wasn't available for much time. I fixed it and site is again up. But my per day hits are now just 5-20. Before this problem, site traffic was around 100-200 per day. My most of traffic was from organic search. So why does it happened? Google have stopped indexing my site? Google a day or two ago sent me email that sitemap of site is unreachable so asked me to fetch if from google webmaster tools again, I did so as my site was fixed till then. But still don't see that traffic coming from organic search. So is there a way to monitor that how search engines are handling it and when to do what? Also there was a crawling error but it was only that google wasn't able to find updated and author "hentry". So is it something related to it? Also I have just now seen google authorship verification with google plus, so is my site not getting traffic because authorship is required? Or is it something else? How to know and how to get back the previous position?


Suddenly ranking of my site is thrown from top first page and seems disappeared in the search

This is Prabin Dhakal, manager at nicennaughty.com.np from Nepal,Asia.Need to ask you something regarding our company's website nicennaughty.com.np,it was ranking in the top when typed keyword sex toys in nepal but now it had disappeared suddenly from the entire search while still indexed when typed site:nicennaughty.com.np and there is no message in webmaster tool too.Hope this site is not penalized but may be happen due to link devaluation.Don't know how it happens suddenly,does our site will be back again after few days or need to do something else to make it in the same position. Google search even throw our site while typing nice n naughty nepal and no domain is shown in the first or 2nd page but it was in the top before a week ago.This problem is started from a week ago. Can you please put your kind advise how it happens and will we get our site back automatically after few days or need to do something to fix this.


How to help WikiLeaks remain up and running?

WikiLeaks is under a lot of attack. It has been ousted from DNS servers, Amazon has kicked it out. It is facing massive DDOS attacks. Under these circumstances what can WikiLeaks do to remain afloat?


How do I automatically redirect people from my Blogger blog?

My blog is a Blogger blog and I'm going to be moving it soon to a .com domain and a Wordpress site. How do I redirect people (and links) to my new site?


Using @import in CSS files

OK, I get it, CSS files should be grouped to reduce HTTP requests. My question is whether the @import method does a good work? Also, can I somehow group print and screen stylesheets?


What is the correct order of previous - next buttons in paginated results?

We are developing an XML DITA content system that allows users to view their search results in a paginated form and navigate through these results backwards and forwards, page by page and we have placed the "next" and "previous" links in this format: **Previous Search Result**           **Next Search Result** Our customer has now asked for the order of these two links to be reversed so that the Next Search result precedes the Previous Search result. **Next Search Result**           **Previous Search Result** We and our customers are both English speaking companies and we feel that the obvious and correct way to display these links is the back link to the left and the forward link to the right. The same as if you were reading a book and wanted to go to the next page. Or the undo and redo buttons in applications eg Microsoft Word. But, I have seen some people state that the primary function, which is Next, should be the first button/link as this is what users will be looking for and using most. Also for those users with screen readers or who are tabbing through the page it is easier this way round. But.... "Previous" being placed to the left of "Next" is such a strongly accepted convention in Western culture that I feel changing it will confuse a considerable proportion of our users. In the same vein, we could ask about the form buttons: clear and submit. I always expect the clear button to be on the left and the submit submit to be on the right but as filling out a form is a linear process and I always Tab through the fields, would it not make more sense to have the submit before clear so you can tab once from the last field and submit? I know this is a bit of a subjective question, but it is key to web usability and I was wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of studies that give credance to either view. Or is there an overwhelming yay or nay from users?


Correct URL path for multi-site domain tracking in Google Analytics

I have a site               https://www.example.com      Also hosted on this site is a language version of that site, which has its own view in Google Analytics:               https://www.example.com/de-de/      My question is, when setting up a goal on the second site, what is the correct goal path to use? Do I need to include the full URL, the /de-de/ or simply the filepath after this? ![Google Analytics screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tmZ61.jpg)


SEO advise for WordPress WooCommerce

I'm using WooCommerce and have selected "shop" page as homepage in WordPress settings. Therefore `http://www.example.com` and `http://www.example.com/shop` are one and the same page. In this case what I should do? Use canonical element in header or 301 redirect? I have read several things about both, but I'm unable to judge what's perfect for this situation. I'm here to seek some advise from SEO experts.


dns hosting - url forwarding - hiding forwarded url?

I have free dns hosting with the domain registrar and I'd like the dns hosted domain www.example.com to display contents of www.myotherlongdomain.com. I only have 301/302/iframe forwarding options, however I want to mask the redirected (longdomain) url. If I use frames, users can view the source and see the (longdomain) url the contents are coming from. How can I hide it so it always displays www.example.com? There is no cloaking/masking option with the registrar. Thanks.


Implementing Twitter Into Website Using API

I used to use a JQuery plugin called Seaofclouds on my websites to embed the latest 5 or 10 tweets into my footer but since 1.1 came out this function is not available any more - Is there an updated version of this JQuery that will work with API 1.1? I have the keys and AUTH scripts on my server but I'm unsure of how they should be used properly to embed the tweet.


Best way to move site from subdomain to root through cPanel?

I have an old Wordpress blog hosted on a subdomain (sub.mysite.com) with hundreds of posts. The root domain is actually empty and redirected to the subdomain. Now I want to move the site from the subdomain to the root domain. I found some .htaccess examples like this:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub.example.com$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]      This redirection seems to work if I clone or move the subdomain site into the root domain but, Is there an easier way? I mean, just like when you redirect from www. to non-www. and you only have one site installation. The site would be kept installed on subdomain folder but it would be accessed from root domain, is it possible?


What is the SEO-recommended method for using underscores and dashes in URLs that contain geographic locations?

In reading through this article: > In Subfolder & File Names, Use Dashes, Not Underscores Good: > > Good: http://www.domain.com/sub-folder/file-name.htm > > Bad: http://www.domain.com/sub_folder/file_name.htm In my URL's, I may have one or two city names, ending with the province/state: `Burnaby_New_Westminister-BC/[some search term]`. My URL rules currently are defined such that everything after the dash is the prov/state. Some geographic locations already contain dashes: Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (in QC), which I would convert to ~/Notre_Dame_de_Grace-QC/ I thought of placing the prov/state after another "/", however in some cases the province/state name may not exist, thus ~/Notre_Dame_de_Grace/, so the first term after the domain name contains the geo location {city, city_name- state}. I am now revisiting this, and wondering if this rule set should change, and if so, what is the recommended way of implementing this? **-- UPDATE --** After reviewing this video, I see that I should be using the dashes, rather than underscores. However since I still want to have my geo locations in the first URL section, is there anything wrong with using a double-dash separator - ie: /city-name--state/ ?


Can 302 redirect on WordPress homepage affect SEO?

I manage a website. In order to lead the visitor to the latest post when entering the website, I set a 302 redirect from the homepage URL to the latest post URL. There's 1 to 2 posts a month so the redirection is made manually each time a new post gets published. Despite the website registration on Google it doesn't get indexed at all. After searching for some solution on blogs and forums I understood this issue might be related to the 302 redirection. It's the first time I use redirections on a website, can someone help me?


Issue with Godaddy DNS manager

I'm using domains.live.com to setup an email to a domain registered on Godaddy. The domains.live.com configuration page says: ![enter image description here](http://i.imgur.com/hi66AFn.png) Godaddy's DNS manager isn't accepting this string `Value: v=spf1 include:hotmail.com ~all` it gives an error, something is wrong, either with the string or with the DNS manager and I would like to know how to fix it. * * * **_Notes_** : _The more information link is dead, Godaddy no longer gives support by email, no Microsoft support_


Moving a Blogspot blog to a new domain?

I have a blog with blogger.com. And I wanted to move it to a domain name now. i have purchased a domain name with go daddy. I have little technical know- how, so would appreciate any help with regards to moving my blog to a domain name. Help, please? Like, I want to move all my contents to a domain name.


Why are 20% of keywords still provided when Google is using HTTPS across the board?

Most of the searches that appear in my analytics are "not provided" because Google has encrypted their all searches. However, if all search results are now encrypted with HTTPS protocol then how is Google analytics still able to track some (20%) of the organic keywords details? There are still some keywords appearing in my organic keywords section. So how did Google analytics do this tracking? Does it bypass the HTTPS restrictions for the referrer?


Does the link we provide on various networking websites counts as a backlink?

Does the blog/website address we add on various sites like Facebook count as a backlink in the eyes of search engines, especially Google?


Is it valid to have multiple form input elements with the same name?

Is it valid markup and is it valid to the html/http spec? If I wanted to have               <form>     <input name="email" />     <input name="email" />     <input name="email" />     </form>      is that valid?


How easily recognized are new TLDs?

I'm interested in purchasing a domain name for a new service I intend to market. I know that `.com` is instantly recognizable as a domain ending, and if I see `stackoverflow.com` I know it's a web address. However, I also recognize strings like `github.io` and `mysite.tk` as domains, since I've worked with domains like these. To the average member of the public, if one sees an address ending in `.io` or similar, non-mainstream TLD (e.g. on a billboard or business card) would they immediately know it's a URL and to type it into a browser? Or are these new domains only useful 1) for a technical audience or 2) when you will be primarily promoting your site through links and not print?


SEO drawbacks of having paid links without nofollow?

I've just signed up to text-link-ads.com, which doesn't appear to use `rel="nofollow"` on the links. After reading a couple of sources it appears to be against their TOS to add nofollow to the links myself. So my question is, what are the downsides of having this type of links? I know Google doesn't like those links, but do they penalize sites for using them?


Subdomains on WampServer

I'm working on WampServer for development, I've set up the domain tuniguide.local and it works fine with this configuration: DocumentRoot "D:\www\tuniguide" ServerName tuniguide.local But when I wanted to add a subdomain fr.tuniguide.local I get a 404 Not Found with this configuration: DocumentRoot "D:\www\tuniguide\fr" ServerName fr.tuniguide.local It gives me this message: The requested URL /www/tuniguide/index.php was not found on this server. Is there someting that I missed? Thanks.


rewrite on urls to add “/”

I know how to rewrite urls to redirect to a page. When the "/" is not at the end of www.DomainName.com/user/myUserName the redirect works:               RewriteRule /$ /user/index.php      When I write RewriteBase / the above rule does not work, but a 404 error. How to add a `"/"` at the end of w`ww.DomainName.com/user/myUserName/` and still redirect to /user/index.php. This can be written into the .htaccess or httpd.conf Thanks Jean


Find out when a new domain appears in search results

Does anyone know a way to perform the following: I want to know whenever a new domain starts appearing in the google search results for a particular query. For a given google search query, I'd like to receive an alert whenever a new domain pops up and starts appearing in the search results for that query. Alternatively, it would be great if you could just sort google search results by the age of the domain, making it easy to find new sites. As far as I can tell you can only sort by when the page was "last updated". Is something like this possible? EDIT: Following John's suggestion of Google Alerts. The problem with Google Alerts is that it sends you any new PAGES appearing in the search results, not just new DOMAINS.


Adobe Flex website

Is it legal to develop a money making website using Adobe Flex( Flex IDE is free for download)? Also, Is it legal to develop Flex website for customers/clients fot money?


Best in-depth analytics or stats tools? (preferrably server-side)

I know there's been questions about this before, but mine is a little more specific. I work for a high traffic website and we want to start tracking our visitors better. Unfortunately, Google Analytics is not an option at the moment, so what I'm looking for is some alternatives, preferrably server-side (but not necessarily). We're currently running Urchin, but what I'm missing most there is the way you can set conversions in Analytics and then track (for example) which keywords convert better or which landing pages convert better. Also, A/B testing is something I really miss. Which analytics tools can be compared to analytics in terms of advanced segmentation, navigation summaries, A/B testing, etc?


Email Newsletters

I want to send Newsletters to my clients and customers. I tried out a shared hosting account but it was blocked cause of sending about 5000 mails in a day. I then checked various sites that offers this newsletter options but they charge too high, even over 100$ p.m.. Is there an alternate solution. Should I go for a dedicated IP with a small hosting pack? Will that work?


.htaccess problems with redirection

I apologize ahead of time that this might be a common question, however I've spent 3-4 hours already on solutions which don't quite fix the problem. I have a site and it is moving to a different domain, the problem is--the site is paired with software which looks for: `http://site/version`. Using a simple 301 redirect won't work because it'll get '301 Moved Permanently' instead of the actual data. So I thought.. ok--I made `version.php` which has:               <? echo file_get_contents('http://newsite/version'); ?>      So the idea is simple: When one requests `http://site/version`, give them `http://site/version.php`, else: redirect everything to `http://newsite/$1` What I got was something like this:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^/version$ /version.php     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} site\.com$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^version$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newsite.com/$1 [R=301]      I am no master at mod_rewrite rules, this is just what I hacked together and it doesn't work or I wouldn't be here. If someone who knows them better than I can help, I'd be very grateful. Thank you in advance.


What exactly does "keyword" mean in the context of AdSense CPC?

I have read in a lot of places that CPC depends on the value of "keywords". However I don't understand what this means. I will set forward some scenarios.   1. Suppose I run a blog about knitting and this is a low paying niche. However I suddenly write five frontpage blog posts about forex trading and insurance. When people click on the frontpage ads, would I be getting paid for the low CPC knitting content or for the high paying forex content?   2. Suppose somebody finds my webpage by searching for knitting. However the actual content of the landing page is filled with high paying keywords. Is the CPC for this page determined by the low paying search or the high paying content?


rel=author and rel=me in Wordpress

I came across rel=me and rel=author from joost's blog. I don't know how much value they're going to be in future for SERPS as they look more of eye candy in search than anything beneficial to surfers. It is difficult to use rel=me and rel=author on wordpress blog. Most of the plugins are working with all the themes. I'm using thesis and genesis frameworks and plugins seems to be not working for some of the themes on these frameworks. My Question - Is there any theme-agnostic plugin that does the job for rel=me an rel=author ? Another question- what are the benefits are there for webmasters ?


What's the best TLD for a personal, international website?

I'd like to register a domain for myself. On it, I'll publish SciFi stories that I'm writing. The stories will be available in English and German (the two languages that I know) but if fans want to translate them, I'm open for other languages as well. When I read `.de`, my impression is "it's in German, only." Which is the best TLD for a non-commercial but language agnostic site? `.info`?


When to use rel="tag"

I've been looking at the 'Microformat' rel="tag", but am a little confused as to its propper use. From the spec: > By adding rel="tag" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of > that hyperlink is an author-designated "tag" (or keyword/subject) for the > current page. What do they mean by the 'destination of the hyperlink' is a 'tag'? In what situations might it be used?


What is the best Apache logs Analyzer?

**What real-time log analyzer can you suggest for Apache access and error logs?** There is a list of web analytics software on wikipedia, but it would be great to hear opinions from people with experience without having to try all of them. Please don't suggest Google Analytics or any other hosted/javascript analytics suites, already using them, GA is not real-time and it is missing some data that the logs show. For example 404 errors, script errors, the full query- string of the referral, IP addresses, visitor path through the website, etc ...


Website signaled as containing malware

I've got a nasty problem with one of our websites. It has been signaled to us by Google and other agencies that it contains malware. We weren't able to understand how to cope with the problem. Could anyone drive us in the right direction? UPDATE: I used google webmaster tools to review the suspicious website. And now it says it's ok! Even if I didn't change anything! How could it be? false alarm? UPDATE 2: The site looks infected again...


Free alternative to webmathematica

Does anyone know if there's any free / open-source alternative to webMathematica?


Marketplace site development: what skillset am I looking to hire?

I'd like to have a site built by a freelancer, but I don't know how to find the right person because I don't know which expertise/skill set would be best to look for given the functionality I'd like the site to have. The site will be basically a marketplace for (a certain kind of) sound files. It will need the following: a) users to be able to create logins and (simple) profiles b) users to be able to upload MP3 or WAV files to the marketplace c) users to be able to search for or browse all the files, and preview them for ~10 seconds; files organized by title or category d) users to be able to buy (and then download) the files, and get paid when others purchase those they've uploaded e) a rating system where people that have purchased a file can rate it based on a 5-star system, and also leave a brief (less than 140 character) review; highest rated files are displayed first for duplicates Essentially I'm fairly new to web development (only basic HTML/CSS) and don't know how to bring a site like this together (i.e. what's necessary or optimal on the front and back ends) - and don't even know what to look for in a freelance web developer. Any suggestions would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks.


Can I buy a domain from one company and use it at another web host?

I've been out of the loop of this kind of stuff for a while but can someone please explain to me how buying a domain name and then getting it hosted works. Let's say if for example I bought a domain name `xyz.com` from `godaddy.com`. Could I then purchase the hosting services from a different hosting company and still use the domain I bought from `godaddy.com`?


Does the position of the content in the source make a difference to SEO?

Is a site penalised if the first propper (human readable) content comes after a lot of structural HTML code? Is there any benefit to having the text content come earlier in the source (e.g. less HTML before it)? Thanks.


How To Track "Similar Product/Page" Links In Internal Site

So I just created a new widget that would show up in a product page in my site. This widget will show several products similar to the product that is displayed in the current page. The purpose is to help users compare similar products. Let's say in the product page A `http://domain/products/A` The Similar Products widget will show   * `http://domain/products/B`   * `http://domain/products/C`   * `http://domain/products/D`   * `http://domain/products/E` My question is how to track this " **Product B page were visited X times from Product A page via Similar Product widget** "? (And there is also chance that Product B will show up in the widget on Product C page) I have this idea using the Event feature from Google Analytics. But I'm still not sure if it is or what is the common best practice for this.


If I have a page that gets a lot of StumbleUpon traffic, will that traffic fall if I move it?

Say I have a page that gets a lot of traffic via StumbleUpon. It's an ancient page, and I might want to move it to another site as part reorganizing my old site. I intend to keep the content identical, other than maybe a slim header or footer. If I put in a `permanent 301` redirect, will my page be penalized by StumbleUpon or other social bookmarking sites? Will I lose the existing traffic?


Using Google Tag Manager to define the page type

So, I am looking to add a tag that I want to use for A/B testing, however we don't have a page-type URL structure. Fortunately the tool can recognise page type if I pass it by Javascript.               <script type="text/javascript">     window.isProductPage = true;     </script>      I have been told to use the above, I have created the script in Google Tag Manager (GTM), however I now need to know how to make this run on those pages in GTM. I have looked through the code and there are div class that are unique to each page, can I use this as an indication of page type?


We changed our URL and our impressions dropped almost 100%

The company I worked for changed their domain about a month ago and updated the URLs for all of the pages. We mostly removed the .aspx from the ends and decreased the depth of many of our pages. We created a sitemap.xml for the new site and added 301 redirects from the old pages to the new within the site. We did update our address through Googles Webmaster tool so they know. Once Google crawled our site we saw a drop in our Google imprints from nearly 1000 to just 20-30 a day. We know we missed a few redirects that have now been fixed (probably less than 10%) but we are still not going back up in impressions. Is there anything we should be looking into or is this just a natural occurrence caused by us switching pages and domains?


How Come This Website Is Not Suffering From Duplicate Content Issues?

If you visit the following website http://onedesigncompany.com/ and scroll down then you'll notice that the URL is being changed in the address bar. So, isn't it a duplicate content issue? Is not multiple URLs pointing to the same page with exactly same content? How come it is not suffering from duplicate content issue? Thanks


Can I pre-register or register a domain with a new domain suffix from ICANN directly?

I want to buy a domain with the suffixes: `.zone` and `.moe` I have found some sites that say you can pre-register them, which are listed below: `https://www.instra.com/en/domain-names/brand/zone-domain-registration/zone https://www.gandi.net/domain/gtld/eoi?word=zone.zone http://www.101domain.com/domain-availability-search.htm`   For now, it's seems I cannot pre-register a domain with those suffixes.   I have 2 questions about this:     1. Does anyone know if above websites are trustable?   2. If normal domain sellers will sell these suffixes, when can I get this information? I think it would be too late after I know it.


If I make a paypal donation page, do people need a paypal account to pay? Or can they just pay with a credit card?

If I set up a donation page in PayPal, do people paying need a paypal account? Or can they just enter their credit card at checkout and pay that way?


Godaddy redirection for domain URL

I have mydomain.co registered with Godaddy. In the zone editor I have the @ record pointing to my cloud server. I would now like to redirect mydomain.co/blog to a different server where I'll host a wordpress blog. I cannot figure out how to do this on Godaddy. All Godaddy support pages describe buttons that do not exist on my domain control panel. I'm sure my question is a dupe, but I just can't find the original.


How long should I wait before redesigning a website?

I am the webmaster of a local news website which is online for 6 months now and I considered redesigning it. The website is running on a Wordpress CMS, so all I had to do is to apply a new theme. But instead, I just tweaked fonts, text sizes and color schemes for more reading comfort. Why tweaking instead of redesigning ? Because I thought that it may be _harmful_ to user-engagement if readers would have to rediscover the site all over again, only 6 months after it's launch (not to mention all the work just to put everything in order again). Does redesigning a website frequently good or bad ? How long should I wait before redesigning the site (regardless of platform and content types) ?


How does removing pages from a site affect Google SEO?

I have been told by one of my clients that Google must be notified if you intend to remove pages (e.g. discontinued product pages) from a site, because Google will penalize your search results if you remove those pages without notifying them. Is that true? I thought that Google would simply update its search results on the next crawl. He also says that there is a way to create a diff of the old sitemap file and the new sitemap file, and submit that to Google as the notification of deleted pages. Is any (or all) of this really necessary, and will it affect his SEO either way? I have control over the website programming (it is an ASP.NET MVC 1.0 site). Should I just mark deleted pages in the database, and make them respond with `410 gone`, as described here?


Do I need SSL for "Coming Soon" email signup form?

My website is a few months from going live, and marketing efforts are beginning. I would like to put up a short _coming soon_ page with an email field to sign up for updates. Does this require an SSL certificate? Is there a rule of thumb you use to determine when to use an SSL certificate and when not to?


Hosting my own website on apache2, what information do I need from my domain registrar (bluehost)

I have lamp-server installed and am ready (and excited) to host a domain I purchased from bluehost on the server in my room. I have a few other things set up like openssh. What information do I need to get from my domain registrar and what files do I need to change in apache2?


How can I block traffic from this referrer?

I'm getting a lot of spam referral traffic from `semalt.semalt.com/referral` on my website. I took a look at the link and there’s very little information about this. The number of website visits is 185 this month, and they result in a 100% bounce rate. So how I can block this website?


FileZilla server on Windows with IIS and NEW folder / file permissions

I am using FileZilla server on Windows 2008. The service runs under the Local System account at the moment. IIS isn't able to create files (eg for cache) or folders in these FileZilla created folders which causes problems. How should I configure FileZilla or the service (or something else) to allow IIS and FileZilla to work together better in this scenario?


Why is this stack over flow article comes up on first page of google just typing 3 keywords?

How to increase your site's position in google? In this above article. when I entered just three keywords in google: increase site position This article comes on the first place. Please help me understand the reasons as why only just by these three keywords? **My observations** : I researched and observed that the phrase "increase position" have global searches of 110 (by doing phrase type search in google keyword tool) and very low competition. Does it means that the article is covering users who use increase position as a phrase to search answers for their site making them use the three keywords (increase, site, position) to ask the query.


Connecting to my local WampServer from mobile?

I want to make an app for file transfer between mobile and a web server. I don't have web space yet and want to simulate that. The mobile part is ok. I have the PHP code too, Is there anyway I can run the PHP code to accept the file from the mobile by the PHP code and save the file to the WAMP server on my computer?


Flipping text is good for SEO?

My client's name company has a flipped letter on its name, so for example "PEOPLE" the P is flipped, I managed to flip the P with 2 span tags, but now I am thinking to do this for SEO reasons is not good, because of the SPANS. I have the feeling the search engines might not underestand a flipped P, and it is better just use a normal name. What do you think? thanks, the flip html is `<span class="flip"><span>P</span></span>`


What is the advantage of using post dates in my permalink structures?

I am trying to achieve the best permalink structure for my site. It will be a multi-author site where users will be posting artciles on a daily basis. I want the permalink structure to be as follows:               http://sitename.com/username/postname      However, I have seen many sites that put the post date in the permalink like this:               http://sitename.com/username/postdate/postname      What would you advice me to do? Will I get any advanteges on using the post date in my permalink strcuture regarding SEO? PS: I already checked out this answer What is the best WordPress permalink structure for a website with daily new posts and updates? but I was not happy with it.


robots.txt dissalow url containing string with a '/' at the end

I have a website with thousands of dynamic pages. I want to use the robots.txt file in order to dissalow certain url patterns corresponding to pages with duplicate content. For example i have a page for article itemA belonging to category catA/subcatA, with URL: /catA/subcatA/itemA this is the URL that i want to be indexed from google. this article is also visible via tagging in various other places in the web site. The URLs produced via tagging is like: /tagA1/itemA this URL i want NOT to be indexed from google. However i want to have indexed all tag listings: /tagA1 so how can i achieve this? dissalow URLs of including a specific string with a '/' at the end? **/tagA1/** itemA - dissalow **/tagA1** - allow


Google Webmaster Tools: Adding pages to Webmaster Tools by the bulk

Is there a method of adding websites in bulk to Google Webmaster Tools? My host username and password were hacked and all of my sites were injected with malicious scripts. I've cleaned everything up but the sites were d-listed and no longer show up in google search. I need to request reviews for ~150 sites but first I need to add them all to the webmaster tools. Any non-tedious way of doing this?


Setting an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP headers

I just finished a website that I designed and submitted it to Google PageSpeed Insights for performance reviews, and this is the results I got: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/qjcMD.png) It says I need to set expiry date or a maximum age in the the HTTP headers, but I don't know how it is possible to set the expiry date for anything other than cookies/sessions, so I have no clue what this means or how to do it.


Thumbnails for videos in multiple formats?

I have some intranet training videos made over the years in a bunch of formats (AVI, WMV, MOV, RealPlayer) and would like to provide something like a preview function - maybe a thumbnail animated GIF with a few representative screens, or maybe a thumbnail sheet I can show the user with an image every few seconds of video. Is there an easy image tool I can use that can create such things? Platform agnostic would be great, but it's a one off (for now, haha), so Windows, Mac, or Linux would be fine. Thanks.


How to let Google read but don't display results from page

If I have a page which I want to allow Google to crawl to find links but not display in search results, is there any way to do that?


Moving from a static site to a CMS with new URLs and meta-data for pages

I am in the process of rebuilding a site from static pages to a CMS which will be using mod_rewrite to generate new page URLs. In this process our marketing people and myself have decided to tidy up the descriptions, keywords and titles. Eg: a page which who's URL is currently "website-name/about_us.html" and has a title of "website-name - something not quite page specific" will change to "website-name/about-us/" and title: "about us - website-name" and may have a few keywords and the description changed. Our goal with updating the meta data is to improve our page rankings and try to keep in line with some best practices for SEO. Though our current page rankings are quite good in many aspects, there is room for improvement. All of the pages will also have content changes (like rearranging heading tags, new menu on all pages, new content in footer, extra pieces of dynamic content relating to other pages). In this new site process I plan to use 301 redirects for all the old URLs pointing to the new URLs. My question is what can I expect to happen to the page rankings in Google, in the sort term and long term? Will this be like kicking off a new site which will have to build up trust over time or will the original page rankings have affect?


Search engines that do _not_ respect robots.txt?

Are there any search engines that do not care about robots.txt?


mp4 videos are showing up as "corrupt" after uploading them to web server?

I took a sample mp4 video from here and uploaded it to the web server via FileZilla. Once the file was on the web server navigating to it in a browser gives the error when viewed in Mozilla. > Video can't be played because the file is corrupt If you navigate to the URL in Chrome, you hear the audio but the video doesn't play. If I download the video to my local machine from the web server the video won't load and I get errors saying it is corrupt. The file is fine before uploading. I'm really confused about what is going on. I tried uploading a .mov file and I don't get this issue. The file uploads and runs fine (although I don't think .mov is supported by the HTML5 `<movie>` tag). I want to get the file in mp4 format. Is this a known issue? Is this a browser issue or likely an ftp issue? I'm not really sure why this is happening. **Note** I have uploaded the sample file linked above from 2 different FTP clients and under Binary and ASCII uploads and it doesn't seem to make a difference.


Why do some bad websites rank well?

Consider the following scenario: you are pitching SEO/Website Optimisation to a prospective client and you explain to them the importance of great copy and content, how acquiring links (ethically) can increase page rank, why the quality of the HTML build matters (H1, H2 tags, w3c validation etc), why keyword research is beneficial, you may drop in a few Google Webmaster Guideline or Matt Cutts references to back up your claims and rubbish the "back hat" approach as being no longer effective for good measure. Your advice is ethical and in the eyes of best practices, spot on. Then, the client points out to you some of their long established competitors on Google and you see these competitor websites ranking in the top spots (1 to 3) for medium to highly competitive search phrases that your client wants to compete for. These websites totally contradict your ethical approach and pretty much violate every best practice previously noted. They even out perform other "white hat" competitors who are in accordance with the above guidelines. I experienced this today. One of these well ranking websites had:   * About six microsites with more or less the same copy and a _slightly_ varied layout   * Little or not textual content   * I would almost say duplicate content across the sites, but there was so little of it it could barely qualify for being duplicate   * All the content in Flash (with a music track that kicked in on each page load, not so much of an SEO issue - but it helps paint the picture)   * Keyword stuffing behind the Flash file with a bunch of black text on black background in the style of keyword 1 keyword 2,keyword1,keyword 2,keyword 2 keyword 3 and so on...   * The exact keyword stuffed combination present on every page of the website   * A bunch of clearly self made links from poor quality forums and directories with little or no Page Rank   * Links exchanged across the microsites How do you explain your way out of this when this hard evidence is sat in front of you undermining your great pitch?


Is there any alternative to web analytics websites?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Self hosted Web Analytics like urchin There are sites that provide web analytics solutions. But I don not want dependence to external sites and I want embed an analyzer in my PHP-based website. Is there such off-the-shelf solution so I can embed it in my site with no dependency to other sites? What is pros and cons of each one? Which one is most extensible?


Multiple webmaster tools accounts on website

I've got a google webmasters tool account with a website I help look after, they've employed the services of an SEO/SEM company* who have asked to add google/microsoft/yahoo webmasters tools accounts I don't want to give them access to my account (its tied in with other websites I have on webmasters tools) so my question is it ok/possible to have multiple webmaster tools accounts on a website? *The company are trustworthy, they've been great to deal with.


Looking for tool like google insights/trends but not limited to 5 comparison

Looking for tool like google insights/trends but not limited to 5 item per comparison + 50-100 request per account for 24 hours. My Task (not possible to do with google trends/insights): take 350 keywords and sort them according search rating. (I am doing that with php and not manually) Thanks in advance


Copy Virtualmin's scheduled backup settings

Just wondering if there is a quick way to copy all of my scheduled backup settings from one virtualmin server to another? I have migrated all of the websites across with no problems, but though I would check if anyone knows how to import the backup settings or has a quicker way of setting them up? I have quite a lot of separate backups configured, e.g. for each day of the week (Monday, Tuesday, etc) and each month (Jan, Feb, etc).


Will this sitemap get me de indexed from Google?

My site's URL (web address) is: http://quantlabs.net/private/sitemap.xml Description (including timeline of any changes made): Will this sitemap get me de-indexed from Google? My new site map just got spidered by Google for some reason. It is located at http://quantlabs.net/private/sitemap.xml, is this in danger of getting me de- indexed from Google's index. Does it look like spam even though it is not meant to be? I am trying to figure the limitation in terms of Google's threshold before they deem it a spammy sitemap. This is sitemap contains automated postings which are different with the stock symbol provided. The amount of postings within the Sitemap are quite a few in a small amount of time.


multilingual domains both crawled and come up to the wrong audience

I have a domain with multilingual support through subdomains. Each language version is identical besides the titles which are translated. e.g.:               domain.com     ja.domain.com     es.domain.com      I'm redirecting users to the right subdomain according to a IP country translation table. So, for example if you're accessing the site from Japan, I'm displaying the ja.domain.com version. The problem is that web crawlers have crawled both domains, and sometimes show the wrong version in search results. For example if I'm from New York I might be displayed the ja.domain.com version instead of the domain.com version. How can I avoid this?


CDN caching my HTML pages too!

Recently I started using Amazon CloudFront to serve my site's JS,CSS and images via CDN. However, seems like with those, CloudFront serving my HTML pages as well? Thus `http://mydomain.com` and `http://cdn.mydomain.com` returning same result. Will it hurt my site SEO in any way? How can I disable/tell CloudFront to exclude these HTML pages?


Why am I seeing 'blisque.mydomain.com' in my analytics?

When looking through my Google Analytics reports, I see visits via mydomain.com but also ' **blisque.mydomain.com** '. When I visit there, the site is served up, however I haven't configured this subdomain myself, nor do I know what it is. Any idea what this is?? Edit: I understand technically why this happening (through the wildcard DNS entry). **I'm more asking what 'blisque' is. Any idea?**


How to get a facebook page with URL like facebook.com/mycompany

I've seen other facebook 'company/brand/product' pages with URLs of the format: facebook.com/mycompany How do you set this up? If I use pages/create, I get an address like: facebook.com/pages/mycompany/234266


301 redirect to 404 page or set status code to 404 and stay on page?

I have a number of pages on my website that only administrators can access and access to these pages is given if a querystring value if found and correctly set. For example:               http://www.mydomain.com/show-daily-statistics?key=abc         The above link will show the content of the page but anything else such as the below will not:               http://www.mydomain.com/show-daily-statistics         Now I was thinking about what to do if search engines and/or non-admin users somehow land on these hidden pages. I can of course either change the status code of the page to 404 or else 301 redirect to:               http://www.mydomain.com/404-error         What's the best solution in respect to Google and SEO?


How can you identify duplicate CSS rules?

I'm not talking about used/unused here. I have two stylesheets and some rules differ (either in selectors, rules or both) and some are exactly the same. So I'm looking for a way to extract and move those rules, which are the same in both files, into a third stylesheet. In other words: an intersection of two stylesheets. Strangely, I couldn't find a software for this. Would have expected this to be a more common problem. Background, for those who care: I'm converting a desktop website into a mobile one and I've started by duplicating the desktop stylesheet and changing it (throwing stuff out, adding to it).


What contributes to expanded company details being displayed in Google search results?

For some results returned in Google Search, on the right side it displays the company details, logo, contact numbers, etc... For example, see the following screenshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fo5mS.jpg) I'd like to know what contributes to this so that I can try to achieve it for my site too.


How do I break the infinite loop that results when I try and link my Google AdSense and Google Analytics accounts?

It seems that it is currently impossible to link a Google Analytics and AdSense accounts. I this true? I am definitely an administrator in both accounts (both use the same Google login too)   1. From the homepage on my Adsense account I click on the link that says: "Integrate with Google Analytics" ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/nL6LI.png) 2)...and then on the "Go to Analytics" links, ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jWwFt.png) 3) I receive a message on my Adsense page ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/2DkwR.png) 4) ...and I get taken to the home page of my analytics account in a separate window ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/V3iJ3.png) 5)...from where I navigate to the Admin | Data Sources | Adsense page: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QxVjT.png) 6) I click on the Link Accounts link and I end up exactly where I started and when I go to Account Settings page in Adsense, I get this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/3AqiU.png) **I seem never able to actually link the two accounts. What on earth am I doing wrong?** PS A similar question has been logged here, but I think it is very old and the answers are very out of date.


Does a jQuery "rel=nofollow" even work?

It's a fairly common practice for webmasters to rel=nofollow external links, and I frequently see it done with jQuery. The script typically looks something like this (off the cuff here):               jQuery(function($) {         $('a[href^="http://"]').not('a[href*=mydomain]').attr({             'target'    : '_blank',             'rel'       : 'nofollow'         });     });      Essentially jQuery crawls the DOM, finds every link with an HREF, and if it's not part of "mydomain" appends target="_blank" and rel="nofollow" - works a treat, right? There's just one problem. It is my understanding that Google and other _search engines read the original source and generally ignore the JavaScript_ , except to penalize Spam tactics or attempt to decipher some limited AJAX. So I've got to ask - this is a neat little script, but does it even work? If not, then I should go back and execute this sort of thing in PHP before the page is rendered. Thanks in advance for sharing your knowledge.


Is no cache meta tag bad for performance?

I see many websites, seemingly arbitrarily adding the no cache meta tag on every page. Like this:               <META HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">     <META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">     <META HTTP-EQUIV="EXPIRES" CONTENT="-1">      What is it good for and why are they doing it? Is it bad or good for performance? Will it prevent http expires headers to function and ultimately slow down a website?


Best way to replace/publish the restructured website in SEO friendly manner

I had a website which contains several subdomains.               http://sub1.example.com/stories/23/job-done.html     http://sub2.example.com/stories/23/job-done.html      At present I decided to restructure my website to change all subdomains and links to a different structure like,               http://stories.example.com/23/job-done.html      **Both structures displays same content.** > Currently I am using Google Webmaster Tools and most of my webpages are > indexed in Google and have some PageRank also. Before publishing my restructured website, I thought about what are the options that I can preserve my Google rankings as:   * Remove whole old website and publish the restructured website and **do the relative changes in Webmaster Tools**   * Remove whole old website and publish the restructured website and **remove account and recreate new account in Webmaster Tools to restructured website**   * Publish restructured website **without removing old webpages** and **use 301 redirect on old pages to its related new webpage**. So what is the best way to publish my restructured website from above options or do I need to do something else to accomplish my goal.


How do I get ranked for terms which do not have related published content?

My site is database driven site for educational courses. I around 200 courses list with me. The users I am targeting search for terms like MBA in finance, Computer engineering Graduates. Now I can create multitude of these posts with various permutations and combinations but they do not provide much value to readers. Can I create sitemap links for these posts and submit to search engines and when user access the link, show the data dynamically by parsing the url ? Is there a smarter way to achieve the ranking for these terms ? The example I look at is Amazon or overstock which can rank for numerous terms which is just a category or subcategory. They do not have content for each of those terms.


Can one spread rich snippet breadcrumbs markup all over a page?

From here, we have an example of a rich snippet breadcrumb implementation:                    ...
       Books >       Literature & Fiction >       Classics
      The breadcrumbs are grouped under a `div`. Unfortunately, a page does not necessarily group its `a` links in one place. Can one spread rich snippet markup like this?                    ...
       Bla bla bla some text Books > bla bla bla.        Bla bla ble more text Literature & Fiction > bla bla bla.       Some more text about more topics bla bla bla Classics bla bla bla.
      Or will the following work too (i.e., the `itemprop` is inherited by all `a` links like css)?
       Bla bla bla some text Books > bla bla bla.        Bla bla ble more text Literature & Fiction > bla bla bla.       Some more text about more topics bla bla bla Classics bla bla bla.
      If breadcrumb links are spread all over a page, what is the right way to set the rich snippet markup for these?


Can I make my IP address look as if it is from another country, not from the US?

The top level domain .md is works as follows: (A) If you are from the US, Canada, or a few other countries, you have to register .md domains through max.md for exorbitant prices, because they figure doctors don't know any better. (B) If you are from anywhere else in the world, you get to register through nic.md for the much more reasonable yearly price of $39 So of course, I waited until I was on a trip to the Czech Republic, and then registered my .md domain when I was there. However, now I want to renew my domain, but because I am back in the US, whenever I try to access my account throught nic.md, I am being redirected to max.md. I am not going to be taking any trips overseas before my domain expires, so I wanted to know if there is a way to make my IP address appear as if it is coming from another country, like the Czech Republic, or elsewhere?


Font displays differently in Firefox vs. Chrome

It seems that my menu bar is displayed with a different font stretch in Firefox than it is in Chrome. See the following: ![different font stretch](http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/296/navigationrl.png) Here is the CSS applied to this element:               font-variant: small-caps;     font-size:13px;     letter-spacing: 0px;     font-family: Arial;     font-stretch: normal;     text-decoration: none;      As far as I can tell everything regarding that font is exactly the same, yet they still display differently (see pic). Any ideas? Thanks,


Need Advice... Website is flash only

I currently have a website that is just one big flash file. It looks good and I am satisfied with it but I have been told that it may not ever rank very well in google and yahoo since it is only flash. If you had this would you switch to html templates or keep as is. Any suggestions on how to improve my ranking if I do keep the flash site. I am a novice so please excuse any ignorance on my part. I got the flash templates and html templates from host gator since they do host my site and little support comes with there services. Thanks


Styling input elements using CSS - Inset

Can anyone point me in a direction of how the following elements are styled/created? on http://www.tumblr.com/. What i'm looking for specifically is the gradient, and the nice inset border, where it looks like it's The input[type=text] elements as well as the input[type=submit]


Is Google Analytics Part Of Google's Search Engine Algorithm

I was wondering if anyone knows if Google uses the data it receives from Google Analytics to help determine a websites SERP (Search Engine Rank Position). For example, if my website is getting 1000 users visiting my website from Canada and only 100 users visiting my website from the USA, does that mean my website will be ranked higher on Google.ca and lower on Google.com? And, if a website is using Google Analytics will it be ranked higher for the organic search engine keywords?


How do i point my domain to wordpress blog

I would like to know that if we have our WordPress blog like: `http://koolkabin.wordpress.com` and our domain like: `http://www.outsourcingnepal.com` then Can we make it like working and posting all contents in `http://koolkabin.wordpress.com` and showing the contents in our domain i.e `http://www.outsourcingnepal.com` For more clarification: if user enters `http://www.outsourcingnepal.com` or `http://koolkabin.wordpress.com` in their browser address bar then both should show contents from `http://koolkabin.wordpress.com` but one more thing when user visit the website from `http://www.outsourcingnepal.com` the URL should remain `http://www.outsourcingnepal.com` not `http://koolkabin.wordpress.com`


How to setup apache2 redirect but keep domain name?

I run a small community web site where users can each get a free blog. The blog address is always something like http://mydomain.com/blogname One user have bought his own domain and want to redirect it to his blog. I've managed to setup a 302 redirect but then when he types http//hisdomain.com in the browser he ends up at http://mydomain.com/blogname He really wants hisdomain.com to still be there. Any idea on how I can set it up so that http://hisdomain.com/blogname is shown instead? Environment: Ubuntu server 10.04 Apache2 Wordpress multi site


May I face problems with expired domains in Google Apps / Webmaster / Analytics?

I want to buy an expired domain name. It was dropped 4 times before. Is it safe to buy expired domain name? May I face problems with Google Apps / Google Webmaster / Google Analytics if previous owner did not removed that domain from their account?


Is it legal to host unlimited domains in an unlimited hosting plan?

I have an unlimited webhosting plan from http://www.domainindia.org/web_site_hosting_india.php. I want to give my users a registered domain name like usersite.com and provide a cpanel to them which will have basic features like e-mail, phpMyAdmin, databases and a file manager. I'll be registering the domains myself and adding them as addon domains in my cpanel so that they can use my web space, bandwidth and databases which should work since I have the unlimited plan. I know that the cpanel will be a shared one for all the addon domains, so I'm thinking to provide a zpanel (zpanelcp.com; demo: zpanelcp.com/zpaneldemo) to each user as it is free and easy also. Or develop my own basic cpanel like my3gb.com provides. I'm doing all of this in order to develop my own hosting site in a way by providing registered web domains, web space, zpanel for controlling the website, etc. Are there any legal problems I could run into by doing this?


Getting an agency to release a client's domain

A friend of mine has a website with Therapysites.com (they create therapy sites for alternative therapy providers). She wants to move to a different hosting, but the service provider is charging 15 USD for releasing the domain. It's a nominal amount, but principally I think its unfair. Is this keeping the domain hostage thing legal?


Access Forbidden! Apache Windows XP

This is a great tutorial on how to server websites other than in default htdocs folder in XAMPP. It worked for me the other day but then I had to reinstall XAMPP (1.7.7 was 1.7.6) and now I am getting this error when I try the same.               Access forbidden!          You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.          If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.     Error 403      I have put this in _http.conf_ file according to the above link               <Directory "C:/Blog">         Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI         AllowOverride All         Order allow,deny         Allow from all     </Directory>          Alias /blog/ "C:/Blog" # this goes inside the alias module      When I type the URL, I get these messages:               localhost/blog       #gets error, object not found     localhost/blog/      #Access Foribdden     localhost/blog2/     #this folder does not exist and it rightly says object not found      Note that I have added **_everyone_** user to blog folder but still have the problem. I have added a plain HTML file as well but still have the same problem. I cannot find a _.htaccess_ file.


How to identify spammy domains giving backlinks to my site (to submit in disavow links in WMT)

Google is out with much awaited feature. But out of 100's of domains giving backlink to my site I want to simply find the spammy ones and disavow domain- wise using "domain:" feature. I'm looking for a tool wherein I'll feed list of domains and then it should tell me a domain's spammy-ness in a scale. Currently I'm trying Netpeak Checker. Any suggestions?


Should I "disavow" all links from spammy directories?

Since I took over management of a site, I've noticed on Google Webmaster Tools https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/external-links that there are links from about 2000 different sites -- "social bookmark" sites, "directories" of all kinds, and some newspapers. My site is for a small local business selling a very common service with little if any differentiation and no online mentions except for a few Yelp reviews. Should I use the "disavow links" tool"? How do I decide which links are "spammy" and which are ok? Also, is there any reason the site would have so many backlinks except that the site owner previously hired a shady SEO firm who used "link schemes"? In other words, is it normal for a site like this to have backlinks from 2000 sites?


Do irrelevant links help PageRank?

I was recently asked for a link exchange between my PR1 site and someone's PR4 site. They are not related, and even in different languages. Disregarding the degraded user experience and assuming the link provides no traffic on it own, would such an exchange help my site in the search results? Could it hurt it?


Why my new web design increased in 20% my bounce rate?

I do need your help and opinions. Last August, 1st, I have relaunched my website with a completely new design. As I have also moved it from Dreamweaver and .html format to Wordpress, the new website had also its urls changed to wordpress format, which were all duly and properly redirected using a htaccess file (already exhaustively tested and it is ok). I also keeped the same "Title" and meta description just to avoid surprises realted to traffic. Although in my opinion, the new design is much, much more modern, clear and easy to navigate, my bounce rate in general has increased from 40%-50% (old design) to 60%-70% (new design) and the traffic started to decrease also, especially from Bing and Yahoo, since this Monday. As I am already tired trying to figure out what could be causing this higher Bounce Rate and decrease in traffic, I do appreciate you could help taking a look at the old website design and the new one and let me know if you see anything that could justify these worse result. Old: http://saturn.relmax.net/~easyjob/ New: http://www.easyjob.net/ Thanks in advance for your help


How do I serve XHTML to Internet Explorer without breaking Chrome?

I run a forum which serves its pages as XHTML+MathML+SVG; in full:               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd">      Using the MathPlayer plugin, Internet Explorer users can use this site. However, sometimes someone is using the forum from IE and isn't able to install MathPlayer (maybe they're on a public machine somewhere). Then IE (at least 6&7) complains about the XHTML and offers just to download the file. I read on the w3c site how to get around this using an XSL transformation (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#ie). When I put this in place, I found that Chrome was now complaining vociferously about undefined entities (the specific one was ` ` but testing shows that that's not relevant). Bizarrely, I can get round this by _manually_ declaring the entities in the DOCTYPE:               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" [     <!ENTITY nbsp " ">     ]>      but I'd rather not do this for the whole gamut of entities possible. I say "bizarrely" because the XHTML+MathML+SVG dtd does, as far as I can see, declare these entities. So somehow these are getting missed out. Is there a way around this problem? Can I serve XHTML-with-entities to IE? In case it matters, the pages are generated by a php script and are served via apache, so if there's a reliable method of sniffing the browser and modifying the start of the document (so only sending the `<?xml-stylesheet ...>` bit to IE) then that would be an acceptable alternative. (I hope I have the right SE site ... please let me know if I'm in the wrong place. Ditto with the tags.)


Is there a "product review" plugin silimar to KissInsights for polls and Disqus for comments?

Is there any kind of plugin I could use to enable and monitor product reviews on certain product pages of my website? I like the way KissInsights and Disqus work and would like to use a similar service for reviews.


Can I get JSP/ JSF hosting in shared hosting plans?

I want to use JSF with Facelets/JSP in my website. Can I get Java hosting in shared hosting plans ? I want to re-develop a company website for my client. Currently the website uses PHP & is hosted on Dreamhost.


Does Google AdWords care about duplicate content?

Our site offers several families of products, all of which have a common set of configurations. For simplicity's sake, we'll say we offer products A, B and C, each with configurations 1, 2 and 3   * Products: A, B, C   * Configurations: 1, 2, 3 We want to create landing page <-> ad group combinations that reflect each possible combination of each product and configuration. Each product and each configuration have their own page, and so each landing page would have include the product content and the configuration content:   * ourproducts.com/A-1 (Contains copy for A and 1)    * ourproducts.com/A-2    * ourproducts.com/A-3    * ourproducts.com/B-1    * ... etc... As you can see, this will lead to duplicate content across our product pages, though in different combinations. My question is, does this matter from AdWords point of view? Will there be any negative consequence to repeating portions of content this way?


How Important Is Email?

I'm starting to create a site, and want to run it on a VPS rather than shared for a variety of reasons. This means that, if I were to want email services, I'd need to tackle the non-trivial task of running an email server. Not a fun problem for a "noob" like me. The three uses I can think of break down as follows:   1. The usual "email the admin/support/whatever" services. I suppose I could get away with using "mysite@gmail.com" but I'd prefer to keep everything uniform if possible.   2. Account confirmation emails / password resets. This seems like the major hurdle.   3. Digest emails, i.e. "the following has happened to your stuff in the last week - replies, votes, etc." Not dissimilar from the stackoverflow emails. Opt-in, obviously. Do I really have the option of not supporting email on my site?


Htaccess 404 & 301

The site is run on wordpress (latest) and is installed in /htdocs/www/ This htaccess file is in /htdocs/www/roh/ along with a bunch of images & some css. I want requests to the old html files to redirect to their new wordpress pages. I got most of it working, except the example below.               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /htdocs/www     ErrorDocument 404 /htdocs/www/     Redirect /roh/z1/q2lvl[1-9].html http://www.lunaz.com/realms-of-hyrule/legend-of-zelda/maps      I go to www.lunaz.com/roh/z1/q2lvl2.html, and it 404s and takes me to the main 404 page in my wordpress theme. I tried ErrorDocument 404 /htdocs/www/roh/404.html, but that just got me an isp redirected spam search page. The only way I got the main wordpress 404 page working was by going up directories untill something worked. I do not want to send 404s to an http:// address. My questions:   1. Why doesn't the range of numbers [1-9] work?   2. Why can't I get /htdocs/www/roh/404.html working for anything in /roh & below? Sorry for the basic questions, Not exatly sure what to search for, so Google is only giving me examples I've tried or have working already.


How can I get this effect (lines in an input)? ![line-effect](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZcrWd.jpg)


Do url shortening services shorten the id or directly the url?

Assuming the urls are saved to a database where they each have id and the URL saved. For example a URL `www.example.com` (let's say with id 1000) would possibly be shortened to `www.url.com/c1hd5` etc. Is the URL `id=1000` shortened to `c1hd5` with base64 or similar or are the ids shortened? The 566 id could be shortened like this: 1 = 1, 2 = 2, ... 9 = 9, 10 = a. The 1000 id would be _fE_ if we used every possible letter from a-Z and - _. Is it good idea to use ids from database to shorten urls?


Google Webmaster Tools linked from lists dead links

How long will Google Webmaster Tools try to crawl old links? We are seeing errors in the crawler that show "linked from" URLs that haven't existed in months. Will it just keep trying to crawl the link until we provide a redirect? Also, we're seeing 404s that say the linked from source is our homepage, and we have not had those links on the homepage in quite a while.


Why does Open Graph use <meta property=.... in their example code?

As far as I can tell, `property` is not a valid attribute of the `<meta>` tag in any of HTML 3, 4, XHTML-Transitional or XHTML-Strict. So why does the Open Graph Protocol (and Facebook's API docs) specify example code like this?               <html xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns#">     <head>     <title>The Rock (1996)</title>     <meta property="og:title" content="The Rock" />     <meta property="og:type" content="movie" />     <meta property="og:url" content="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/" />     <meta property="og:image" content="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/rock.jpg" />      This doesn't validate. Changing `property` to `name` does validate, and I can verify that, at least on Facebook, it still works as intended. So why do they use `property` in their example code? http://opengraphprotocol.org/


URL without trailing slash makes Apache look in non-SSL DocumentRoot

I have configured a virtual host in Apache for serving content over SSL/TLS. Since I also want to allow other sites on my domain to use regular http, I have two document roots, one at `/home/www/html` and one at `/home/www/html- ssl`. I force SSL on my site with the following directives in a file in `/etc/httpd/conf.d`:               <Directory /home/www/html-ssl/foo>         SSLOptions +StrictRequire         SSLRequireSSL         SSLRequire ( %{HTTP_HOST} eq "mydomain.com" )         ErrorDocument 403 https://mydomain.com/foo     </Directory>      This redirects any requests for `http://mydomain.com/foo/` to `https://mydomain.com/foo/`. However, when I try to access `http://mydomain.com/foo` without the trailing slash, Apache searches for `foo` in `/home/www/html` instead of in `/home/www/html-ssl`, causing a 404. Is there a way to tell Apache that `http://mydomain.com/foo` should really look for the directory `foo` in `/home/www/html-ssl`, and then redirect to the https site? I thought that since DirectorySlash is on, Apache would be able to figure out that `foo` is a directory, at which point it would see my `<Directory>` section above and work its magic.


routing or redirecting www.example.com to example.com with IIS

What's the safest, and most effective way of redirecting traffic from the `www.example.com` to `example.com` or vice versa with IIS?


Free vector graphics package for Windows OR Linux

What is the most popular and/or feature complete vector graphics package for Windows and/or Ubuntu Linux? I keep finding 'Vector Art' sites but nothing about the software used to create it. Adobe must sell a $$$ product but this is for a low-hit **website** where I sell my product. I need to create those snazzy green 'buy' buttons, etc. **Update:** It needs to be FREE.


Display comments from a Facebook page link on my site's post page

I am not sure if this is doable, but whenever I post a bit of news on my site, I will post a link on my Facebook fan page. Lately, I've noticed the whole discussion is happening on Facebook, with comments there being way bigger in numbers than on my page. I notice FB has a Social Comments plugin. I was wondering if there was a way to embed comments from my Facebook fan page for a specific link with that plugin or any way otherwise?


htaccess rewrite problem

Maybe is best way to show my problem in one example. In my .htaccess :               RewriteRule ^catalog/[a-z0-9_-]+-([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9_-]+-([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9_-]+-([0-9]+)/  index.php?act=catalog&category=$1&color=$2&size=$3 [NC,L]      With the address `www.site.com/catalog/category-1/red-3/size-3/` this works excellent But if you leave out the size, like `www.site.com/catalog/category-1/red-3/`, I will be redirected to `www.site.com`. I want to show all articles with category ID 1 and color which is ID 3.


SEO: Nested List vs List, Split Over Divs vs Definition List

From an SEO perspective which, if any, is better: Option 1: Nested lists with h2 tags

Powerful Analysis

Charting and indicators

Daily trading signals

Company health checks

World Market Data

                                 [List Items removed for brevity]

Daily Market Data

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      Option 2: Divs with h2 and lists

Powerful Analysis

Charting and indicators

Daily trading signals

Company health checks

World Market Data

             [List Items removed for brevity]

Daily Market Data

             [List Items removed for brevity]

       Option 3: Definition List

Powerful Analysis

- Charting and indicators

- Daily trading signals

- Company health checks

World Market Data
             [List Items removed for brevity]
Daily Market Data
             [List Items removed for brevity]
      My instincts tell me that semanticaly the pure list options (1 & 3) are the best and that h2 may be more SEO friendly (1 & 2) which would point to option 1 as being the best option. I do love the lean makeup of the definition list but will I take an SEO hit by losing the h2 tags? Before anyone asks, h2 is not valid markup in a dt tag. Are my instincts right with a nested list being the way to go?


Free open source feature request web site platform?

I am looking for a web platform where people can submit feature requests for software. Visitors should be able to up-vote feature requests, in order for software developers to see the most popular requests. Is there anything like this? It would be awesome if it's also implemented in Node.js or Rails, but I am probably too picky here.


How to translate Umlauts and other International characters to US character set?

Is there a "translation table" that shows how International characters map to the US character set. For example, German umlauts can be translated like:               ä = ae       ö = oe      ü = ue      or French characters like:               è = e     é = e       etc ...


Is it illegal to use content in such a way?

I have a couple of questions about the legality of the content of some websites. I am currently working on two websites and I would like to make sure I am not breaking any laws, by using some content like I am...   * Do I need to get a license to use images from the Internet (such as google.images.com) in my site, assuming they aren't a company logo belonging to another company? If not, am I allowed to use it after I modify it with a image editing software?   * If content such as phone numbers, e-mail addresses, website addresses, and text from websites can be found for free online, and I gather this information for a search engine based site that I am working on and offering this information on a paid basis (similar to google, but more specialized), is something that is legal? **Note:** I am not 'copying' or redirecting business from anywhere, to my site. The exact opposite, the site I am working on actually helps advertise businesses and make it easier for customers to find them.


Leverage browser caching on GitHub pages

After using Google's PageSpeed Insights for my site [ http://flashmallach.github.com ] the biggest error I'm still coming up w/ is leveraging browser caching. I found some solutions that suggest using a .htaccess file to do this, however GitHub pages apparently do not support them. Is there another way I can pull this off ?


Intermittent silent failures when receiving email

I’ve had a company host my website and email for the last six months or so and I’m having intermittent and silent failures where emails sent to me are not received.   * The sender never receives a “delivery notification failure” message.   * This has happened on multiple domains (@gmail.com, @microsoft.com)   * I’ve experienced it happening first hand when I sent a mail to myself from another account but I was unable to reproduce the error.   * It’s very rare (one in every 300 emails or so)   * The mails are not routed to my junk folder :) Obviously I’m worried about the effect this has on my business – but what can I do? I don’t believe I have enough information to diagnose the problem (neither does my hosting company when I presented them with the same information) – should I switch to another host?


Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page?

When you do a Google search, there is typically a snippet of sample content from the page. I seem to recall that the Meta Tags can influence this choice of descriptive sentences. Is that correct(?) and if so, is it the Meta Description Tag? Also, how many characters is Google's descriptive sentences limited to?


Why Google skips page title

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page? I have no idea why this is happening. Title tag is: Unfurnished Office Space Wimbledon – Serviced Office on Lombard Road SW19 But is indexed as: Lombard Road – SW19 - London Office Space If you look in the source code and search for this portion ‘Lombard Road – SW19’ You then find that it's next to an office image alt=’Lombard Road – SW19’. The only thing I could think of is that the spider somehow ‘skips’ our title tag and grabs this bit, and then inserts the name of the site (but WHY?) Is there anything I can do with this? or is this a Google behaviour?


Problem with description of my site and google search

My HTML page : http://www.faressoft.com               <meta name="description" content="فارس سوفت الاسم الرائد في عالم البرمجيات العربية" />      When I search for my site name "فارس سوفت" using google, the description contains my description and the error message of my contact form. why ?


Strange description appearing in Google search results

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page? I just noticed that when searching Google for the name of a website I'm working on, the search result description now has a broken English phrase which does not appear anywhere on that website, nor on the Google Places page: ![Screenshot of Google search result: "Company builds blogs and custom plug in software for the sites." ...?](http://i.stack.imgur.com/zbppG.png) Where might this text be coming from? How can I fix it?


Different description on Brand search and Keyword search

When we search for the company name and the company snippet shows up as a result, it takes a text from the HTML as description. On the other hand when we search a keyword and the homepage shows up as a result, the meta description will show up. It happens in Google, Bing and Yahoo. How is it possible? **--EDIT:** I found the solution, but since a MODERATOR, marked this question as duplicate, I will write my answer here: The problem was that: We didn't have the company name in the description, while the first word in the html body was the company name. Therefore, where we searched for the company name only, search engines found the html body a better match for the query and show the body (which was not a human readable text) However, when we searched the company name + a keyword that we mentioned in description, the description was chosen, not the html body. To fix the issue, we both changed the description to include the company name, and remove the company name from some html tags like logo's alt in the very first part of the page. Summary: Include all the keywords that you want to be searched in description including the company/website name.


Site description not showing up in Google search

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Problem with description of my site and google search   >  Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page? When we search for our site on Google. What do I need to do to change the description? When I inspect the `<head>` element, I see something like:               <meta name="description" content="foobar blah blah blah blah">      I see the title, though (which displays correctly). But the description is some random content that can be found on the homepage. It's not the actual description specified in the `meta` tag. I hear that it takes up to a month until Google updates the description for a site. Is this true? Unfortunately, I am unable to post the URL of our site here. Company policy, since we are still in private beta. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.


private domain registration

I have seen many people hide their personal details like address and phone number while registering a domain. Sometimes they pay for this private registration. So that their information doesn't display in a whois lookup. What is the advantage of doing it and paying extra amount?


Domain Content at Different URL

I know next to nothing pertaining to this topic, so I will do my best to describe my situation. I tried looking for answers, but I think I just need someone to put it into layman's terms for me. I am working with a client who is planning to make a subdomain on their parent company's site. Let's call it "foundation.example.com". Example.com will create the subdomain, but is not allowing the client to host any files on their server. The solution proposed would be to purchase hosting elsewhere, but have the site point to foundation.example.com. The goal is to make it seem as if the user is on foundation.example.com, since that is what will show up in the address bar. How can I achieve this? All responses appreciated, thanks!


In Robots.txt, how do I disallow all pages except for the index page?

I want google to index my index page, but do not index any other pages.               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      So far I have this. However...when I do this, Google does not index my index page. When I search my name in Google, all it shows is "www.mydomain.com" as the first result with no description. Instead, I want Google to index my main index page, WITH the meta description tag, too.


AdSense sent an email saying my account has been approved when it already was approved

My account has been approved and running adverts for quite sometime now. However, today I just got a message (it seems legitimate) from Google AdSense saying: > Congratulations, your AdSense account has been approved to show AdSense ads > on your own website. Within a few hours, you will begin to see live ads. Should I be concerned? They say that they review accounts to check for compliance, could this be some weird way of saying they rechecked my sites and they complied?


CSS just for most basic HTML

I've read that my note system Wikidpad, which exports to very simple HTML, can use CSS (http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/help/HtmlCss.html) The elements in the output are not more than basic headings, bullet points and tables. I'd like to try some kind of improved style, but I as I have no knowledge about CSS, so the best I can do is to save some Myfile.css to a directory :) However if I google "CSS template" I get all sorts of complicating results that I cannot make sense of :( Am I using wrong terminology? Can you suggest what I should search for or maybe you even know a ressource where a get a simple CSS file with some decent standard HTML elements. I do not wish to make custom adjustments.


Are there any clear indicators that my sitemap file is beneficial?

I have recently created a sitemap.xml file and uploaded it to my Google Webmasters Tools account. Google didn't report any issues or errors with the uploaded sitemap of my site. _Now my question is:_   * **How do I know if my sitemap is working within Google Webmaster Tools?** The reason I ask is I don't know what I'm suppose to being seeing or looking for, and it feels like I've uploaded an useless file.


How should I offer hosting to my clients?

I'm starting a little web development company mainly using rails, but we've also got clients with existing joomla and php code. How do people generally package hosting into web development quotes? Is it usually a pass-through cost, or is it common to charge an additional fee? Also, since we do want to outsource the hosting, but we realise there'll most often be some configuration and maintenance to do, we're wondering how the hosting account is generally managed by development firms? Does each customer have a master account, or are there setups that allow some sort of hierarchy?


After installing and then removing Google Apps from my website, entering the URL without "www" no longer works

A few days ago I added Google Apps to my site to try it out and see how I liked it. However, it wasn't really going to fit my needs, so I decided to remove it earlier this morning. Before I installed Google Apps I was able to type in "www.mysite.com" or just "mysite.com" and get to the same place. However, after installing GApps and removing them, just typing in "mysite.com" no longer works. "www.mysite.com" works fine, though. I think GApps may have broken my URL, but maybe it just takes a few days to propagate the changes. Do any of you have any experience with this or know if the GApps (or removal of GApps) changes take awhile to go into effect? The error that I get when I just type in "mysite.com" is the following: Google Error 404 - Not found. The requested URL / was not found on this server. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Edit: Also, for the record, I cannot SSH/SFTP in to "mysite.com", but I can do so to "www.mysite.com" Not sure if this helps, but I figure the more information the better.


Recommend a web service that handles location within a specific radius?

We have a client that wants a store locator on their website. I've been asked to find a webservice that will allow us to send a zipcode as a request and have it return locations within x radius. We found this, but it's maintained by a single person, and doesn't look like it gets updated or supported very well. We're looking for something commercial, ideally that updates their zipcode database at least once per quarter, and that has a well-documented API with PHP accessibility. I won't say price isn't an object, but right now we just want some ideas, and my google-fu has failed me.


Google showing H1 text instead of page TITLE in search result?

I always thought Google shows page title (whatever is in the `<title>` tag of the page) as 1st line of each result. But looking at the search "orologi da collezione" below, it seems Google is showing as 1st line of content the `<H1>` tag. ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/YjWKD.jpg) Am I right? **Is Google showing the content of the H1 tag as 1st line of the serach result** or something else got from meta description? Even more and more interesting when searching for "vendita orologi" the same site comes out, but this time it shows the real page title as 1st line: ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ltynB.jpg)


Delegating responsibilities for business page on Facebook

Suppose I have a Facebook page for a business or organization, and I want to delegate posting responsibilities to an employee. As far as I can tell, the only way to do this is to give that employee full admin status, which seems to allow removal of other admins and even permanent deletion of the page. How can I delegate responsibilities to an employee without opening up this sort of risk?


Can I configure Apache's HTTP Authentication (.htpasswd) to require the name/password of a local user account?

I'd like to restrict access to a certain directory in my webroot to all users that belong to a specific group. I know that I can create a .htpasswd file that specifies a user, or even several users, that should be accepted for HTTP Basic/Digest Authentication, but is it possible to have Apache accept any username/password from the local Linux machine's users? To go a step further, is it possible (through .htpasswd or other means that anyone is aware of) to allow any valid user within a specific group?


Payment gateway performance comparison - is there any site which provides this data?

This is a question specifically addressed towards site owners who use payment gateway solutions for India. Is there a site which provides regular updates on the performance of payment gateways? I know about the Indian Railways performance reports. Is there any other site which covers payment gateways like EBS, CCAvenue and the other payment gateways?


Cloud Hosting Options, what are the differences?

I've looked at what I consider the big three (I could be wrong about that)   * Microsoft Cloud Azure   * Amazon Simple Web Services   * Godaddy Virtual Server Space I'm not a server expert, I like hosting a site on godaddy because I don't have to think about the hosting part but I want to manage multiple sites without having to buy a hosting account each time.


What CMS is used for this site?

Would love to know the specifics if anyone can 'see' which cms this site (bite squad dot com) uses? A off the shelf solution? Did they integrate various CMS ? Would love to know! Thanks


Is switching WordPress frameworks later on bad?

I just read that if you get a site established in Google with one WordPress framework, lets say "Thesis", and then change to another one, lets say "Genesis", that you could lose all your traffic from Google (if you have any). Is there any truth to this?


How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host?

Client's domain is registered with GoDaddy where they have a mail-only plan at the moment. Now web hosting has been set up elsewhere and we need to point web service to the new host while retaining mail at GoDaddy. (For reasons not important here, this is not negotiable.)   What needs to be edited to carry this out correctly?


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host? What should I do if I host my email with a different email server, while using another web hosting for hosting my website? How it is done? I want a separate email hosting.


Can I have a webhost with one company and an E-Mail host with another?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host? I was wondering if it was possible to use one company (and respective name servers) for email hosting, and another (and NS) for the web hosting? My email host mentions changing all the NS records for the domain name to theirs, but wouldn't that disable the web hosting? I'm using cheapdomains.com.au for my E-Mail hosting, and Web24 for the web hosting. The domain was registered through Web24 also. Web24's domain management panel has a heap of options regarding DNS Zone records, such as an 'SOA' type, 'A' type and 'NS' type. If it can be done, which records should I point to CheapDomains' nameservers? (ns4.syra.net.au and ns5.syra.net.au respectively). I'm not sure if I'm allowed to mention company names on here, so tell me if I'm in the wrong...


How to keep website(www) parked at GoDaddy but manage e-mails elsewhere?

I have a domain registered at GoDaddy and a dedicated server I want to use to manage e-mails. If I want to keep www.mydomain.com loading from GoDaddy(at least for now) yet when e-mails are sent to mymailbox@mydomain.com these are managed over at my dedicated server, do I simply have to add a new Hostname in the GoDaddy control panel like this: Hostname: MAIL   IP Address: IP of the dedicated server Would this be enough, or I also need to add an MX record and if yes, how? In my dedicated server control panel, I added this for the domain: Existing DNS records               Hostname: @     Type: MX     Content: mail.mydomain.com     Priority: 0     Time to live: 300


How to map a domain to a website?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host? I am using Network solutions. I would like to point my domain to a website. I have both the NameServer1 and NameServer2. However, I would like to keep my email routing as it is now. I believe I need to do it through the A records but not sure exactly how (which field correspond to nameserver 1 and 2). Please advise, where do I enter the NamerServer1 & 2 in the advanced settings so that I don't affect the MX records for my email. Also, I DO have the IP add dresses corresponding to the two name servers. Any help is appreciated.


Keep mail going to old server while hosting on a new server

I'm trying to figure out how to keep mail going to an old server/MX record (which is the same as the domain for the website), after I change the A record for the domain. Here's what I have now (with made up IP addresses):               example.com A 95.134.27.5 < old server     example.com MX example.com.      What I need is:               example A 12.9.149.143 < new server     example MX 95.134.27.5. < old server      Can I just use the IP address of the old server? Is there anything I need the current host to do to continue to have email processed through the old mail server?


Separate Nameserver and MX server at different providers

I have a DNS + Mail service with hosting company HostA for a domain `mydomain.com` and would like to use the servers of FreeDNS as nameservers so that they will resolve web requests to my home server's dynamic IP. At the same time however I don't want to host myself the email but use the mail servers at hosting company HostA, so I can download my `info@mydomain.com` mail. I thought this was a simple matter of adding a nameserver record which pointed to FreeDNS and a MX record which pointed to hosting company HostA domain. However they tell me either I use their nameservers for both web and email or I must use FreeDNS nameservers and I cannot edit the MX record anymore but have to deal with it at FreeDNS website. Is it true? can you explain me why?


MX record setup to another domain?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host? I have a website aaa.fr with MX record correctly configured and working. Now I'm buying the domain aaa.es. Can I just configure the MX record of aaa.es pointing to the IP of the mail server on aaa.fr? What I mean is, can I avoid buying email boxes associated with the new domain aaa.es and rely totally on aaa.fr email server? thx


Using subdomains for newly regional company

The company I work for is expanding their business to new territories. I've got a lot of stabilization to do in the region/state where we're one of the most well known companies of our kind. Currently, we have 3 distinct product lines which are currently distinguished by 3 separate URLS. This is affecting the user flow of our site, so we'd like to clean it up before launching our products into the various regions. The business has decided to grow into 5 new states (one state consisting of one county only) — none of which will feature all 3 products. Our homebase state is the only one that will have all 3 products this year. My initial thought was to use subdomains to separate out the regions, that way we could use a canonical tag to stabilize the root domain (which would feature home state content, and support content for all regions), and remove us from potential duplicate content penalization. Our product content will be nearly identical across the regions for the first year. I second guessed myself by thinking that it was perhaps better to use a `[product].root/region` URL instead. And I'm currently stuck by wondering if it was not better to build out subdomains for products and regions, using one modifier or the other as a funnel/branding page into the other. For instance, user lands on `region.root.com` and sees exactly what products we offer in that region. Basically, a tailored landing page. Meanwhile the bulk of the product content would actually live under `product.root.com/region/page`. My head is spinning. And while searching for similar questions I also bumped into reference of another tag meant to be used in _some_ similar cases to mine. I feel like there's a lot of risks involved in this subdomain strategy, but I also can't help but see the benefits in the user flow.


displaying a list of files

In my web application I have the user sign up for an account, then the account data is saved in a mysql database. The user can then go to "index.php" and log in with their credentials. My application involves saving a file to a directory. So:   1. User logs in.   2. A table is displayed. The table contains a list of files saved in the directory that is for the individual user.   3. The user uploads a file to their directory (by directory I mean like a folder). How could I display the files in a folder in a table () using php? thanks!


how to cope with a 10 000 person accessing server in one hour?

I have a share hosting, and I charge 150$/years to host company website. Those websites have a maximum of 2000 person per month accessing the site, mostly WordPress site. So everything is fine until a person in Facebook, with 300 000 friend talk about the website. You know, if just 10% go see the site, it's 30 000 person at the same time accessing the site, and what should append just append, the site crash, and then after 1 hours, it's back on... So the question, how to cope with that kind of load ?


Need help with DNS. Registrar is NS, Web Site at WinHost, Email at eHost

Need help moving a web site for a client, which I will call ClientABC. The web site is ClientABC.com, which is hosted at Rackspace, with their email hosted at eHost. We are transferring the site from Rackspace to WinHost and are keeping the email hosted at eHost. I would like the transfer to happen with little to no down time for the web site and email (email is most important). **Current Config:**   * Client owns domain and registrar is Network Solutions   * Domain name is managed by VendorX at Rackspace   * Web site is hosted on Rackspace servers   * Email is hosted at eHost **Post-Move Config:**   * Web site is hosted at WinHost   * Keep Email at eHost **Here is my plan for the transfer:**   * Copy the site files to WinHost and test to assure site is fully functional   * Set up the MX record in the WinHost account to point to eHost servers   * Change the DNS in Network Solutions from Rackspace to Winhost **Questions:**   1. Will this work?   2. What am I missing?   3. Should I expect down time or any issues with email?   4. I understand that there will be a period of time that traffic to the site is handled at both Rackspace and Winhost and that email traffic will be routed through both hosts as well. Will this cause issues?    5. How will I know when the change is fully propagated and that Rackspace is out of the equation and WinHost is handling everything (so I can kill the Rackspace account) Thanks in advance!