My site is indexed in Google yet does not show in the SERPs

Please someone solve this mystery that has been plaguing me for months! All pages have been cached by Google recently yet still will not show up in a search. I'm guessing it's being penalized? How would I know/find out? Index page & Web Design page both show up:   http://infin80.com   http://infin80.com/web-design/las-vegas-web-design.php   These 2 pages can not be found unless you put in "site:infin80.com" into Google:   http://infin80.com/logo-design/las-vegas-logos.php   http://infin80.com/print-design/las-vegas-graphic-design.php   I test it by quoting any line of text directly into Google such as the 1st line of copy on the logo page "Creating a small business brand is every bit as important for your small" and always get "No results found for..."   ## Additional Part All the webmaster tools are submitted properly with a sitemap (only 5 pages) and a robot.txt file that doesn't block any pages. Why would one sub-page be indexed (web design) while the others are there if you put in the url "http://infin80.com/logo-design/las-vegas-logos.php" but not any of the text/images?!?


Is there a social network for webmasters?

I am wondering if there is a professional network for webmasters, web developers or SEO? I have seen many niche networks, but never one oriented to web professionals.


Broken Links in different browsers

Hi I'm having problems with our website, http://www.accessiblehomehealthcare.com, which is a wordpress 2.7 (version). All of a sudden our RSS links broke on the right side, which has happened before and I fixed it within 5 mins. Now, when I fix it, it doesn't look right in different version of I.E. or Firefox, I have I.E. 8 and Firefox 3.6.15 and it looks good for the most part, but there are a few parts where the links are broken. One browser the links would look ok but go to another page and the links or logos would be broken. Certain parts of the website should be static(identical) to the other pages of the site, but if a link is broken on one page, its perfect on another page. I was wondering was there a secret code for wordpress to keep the sites compatible with all browser versions or is there a bigger issue???? Any help or suggestions will help???


Finding what is causing my site to issue 301 redirects

I have an URL which is 301 redirecting but I cannot find where or how it is happening and wanted some checks to perform if possible?   * I've checked _.htaccess_ - it's not there   * I've checked cPanel in redirects section - it's not there   * In WordPress, I have the redirection plugin active and it's not there either Is there anywhere else that could be issuing redirects? I'm at a loss to find out where and how the page is redirecting!


Client hosting on Amazon EC2 with Cloudfront for content

I have a server on Amazon EC2 with a few different clients. It is a Plesk server. Most of them use WordPress. Is it possible to store their WWW data on a cloudfront account while retaining the server settings and everything else on the EC2 instance?


Does the date that appears in the Search Engine Result Page affect the page rank?

question in the title + how do I change the date appearing in the result page?


Can't recover from Panda/Penguin/Zoo? Think to start a new site

So I got hit by Panda/Penguin before two years. My site was completely white- hat, and it was wallpaper related site. Such type of sites have no much text, but I have tried to describe every wallpaper with 100 words (again nothing spammy). For this two years, nothing has changed, I update content every second day, some backlinks I removed etc etc. So I start to think to buy new domain and start over. But what should I do with old wallpaper/content. People love them, share, like etc.. **Would it be wise to I 301 redirect everything from old to new domain? What would be your recommendation?**


Securing webserver from spam/phishing/malware - beyond RBLs?

We offer a service that requires URLs from our domain to be linked to external URLs. About ten years ago, we discovered that this functionality can be abused by miscreants -- to link to malicious URLs. So we have multiple protection mechanisms, using Google Malware database (hourly updated) to check the domain against, and similarly checking the domain and IP on spam Relay Black Lists such as SpamHaus and SpamCop. Yet, there are always new and upcoming domains to which people can link from our site, domains that are NOT YET in any RBLs. Some such domains have been (ab)used by people recently, and as a result, Google has included our domain on their misguided malware list too. Questions:   1. Apart from the automation of RBL etc, what am I missing, what else can we do to work against spammers of this kind? Our RBL check is basically "live", but how can we capture domains that are malicious before they're in RBLs?    2. Any good advice on getting Google to un-list our website?  (We actually blocked Google's News website on our site too, because `news.google.com` has a vulnerability where there "goto" URL can take any site behind the URL and forward the user to it...so we spotted many spammers using this functionality. Google has not fixed this weakness on their site, so we have blocked `news.google.com` from being used on our site. Could Google have added us to the malware DB as a result of this, in a vindictive move?) Many thanks for any pointers or advice regarding best practices for this kind of server protection.


Link to pages on site without .html extension appearing in browser?

I've modified my .htaccess file to allow access to html files without having to include the extension on the end, for example:               www.mysite.com/document      directs to `www.mysite.com/document.html` However, when I want to link to pages within my site using something like `<a href="page.html"></a>` I still get the .html appearing in the URL. So am I allowed to exclude the extension and leave a link as `<a href="page"></a>` so that the extension doesn't appear in the browser? Or is there a better way to do it?


SEO for a complex URL with multiple specifiers

I have a jobs website. There are categories and sub categories e.g the URL for builders is `www.mydomain.com/jobs/all/active/202/tradesmen/799/builders/county/all` Because of the framework I'm using (Elgg), the "all" and "active" come after the plugin name. Also, I need to do a lot of things with the URL: get the plugin (job), get the correct type of entities (all and active), get the category (202 and tradesmen), get the subcategory (799 & builders) and get the location (county and all). Is this URL SEO friendly or is it too messy? Is something like `www.mydomain.com/jobs/tradesmen/builders/all` better?


Is there a way to tell if a page load was done inside a frame, iframe, etc.?

Wondering if there's a way to detect a page load was done inside a frame, iframe, etc. (likely via JavaScript) and if so, what are the limits of such a detection system?


Duplicate content site skipped in Yahoo and Bing

I want to buy a 1 year old site which my friend had initially created with duplicate content. In the later months he removed all such material and placed original stuff. Now it is in top charts in Google. But it is completely skipped by Yahoo and Bing. Will it ever be able to come back in Yahoo and Bing given both give exactly same search results.


AdWords: how to optimize for only one or two conversion types?

I've checked: "Use my conversion tracking data and bids to optimize for conversions". I have 3 conversion types, but one of these is not relevant in terms of the optimization. How do I get AdWords to focus on one or two relevant conversion(s)?


Can I submit multiple domain sitemaps in Google Webmaster Tools?

My site is setup in Blogger with a custom domain name. Currently, `url.blogspot.com` is `301` redirected/forwarded to `www.url.mydomainname.com`. The naked domain `mydomainname.com` is returning a `404` status code. Can I submit a sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools for the `www.url.mydomainname.com`? Right now in my Google Webmaster Tools account, I only have `url.blogspot.com` with a sitemap.


Change A-Record in Hetzner Konsoleh

I am a Hetzner level 19 shared hosting client and would like to change the A-record for my domain. When I log in to konsoleh, I see which IP-address it points to at the moment, but not where I can change it. Does anyone know how to do it? Thanks!


Tools to track internal traffic

Google Analytics is a great analytics tool. However I find it's not easy when it comes to tracking INTERNAL traffic. For example, let's say I put a banner on my ecommerce advertising a specific product, and want to see how many people buy it thanks to this? Or maybe I add a "best seller" box somewhere and want to see what sales it brings me. Can I do that cleanly and easily with Google Analytics? Or are there better tools out there suited for tracking internal traffic?


How to professionally update your server configuration

I've installed several websites on my Ubuntu server and I need now to add an extension and some modules to my php configuration file. Since I have some e-commerce websites I was wondering if I should put all these websites offline before to proceed with it, and if this is the usual procedure. Let's say, any guideline for a professional procedure is welcome. thanks


Why won't google adwords spend my entire budget

I have a campaign on ad words. It's a "Test" area.. i give it $50 a day. One of the ad groups there was doing well with a 600% return. I moved it over to it's own campaign and gave it a budget of $500 a day. The day is almost over and it yet to even spend $50. It should have cleared 400 by now if it's going to spend my 500. Why is this happening? I am getting a good return why won't good spend all my money? Do they not want my money? Am i doing something wrong?


PHP remote development workflow: git, symfony and hudson

I'm looking to develop a website and all the work will be done remotely (no local dev server). The reason for this is that my shared hosting company a2hosting has a specific configuration (symfony,mysql,git) that I don't want to spend time duplicating when I can just ssh and develop remotely or through netbeans remote editing features. My question is how can I use git to separate my site into three areas: live, staging and dev. Here's my **initial thought:**   * public_html (live site and git repo)    * testing: a mirror of the site used for visual tests (full git repo)    * dev/ticket# : git branches of public_html used for features and bug fixes (full git repo)  **Version Control with git:** **Initial setup:**               cd public_html       git init       git add *       git commit -m ‘initial commit of the site’       cd ..       git clone public_html testing       mkdir dev      **Development:**               cd /dev     git clone ../testing ticket#     all work is done in ./dev/ticket#,      then visit www.domain.com/dev/ticket# to visually test     make granular commits as necessary until dev is done     git push origin master:ticket#       if the above fails:         merge latest testing state into current dev work: git merge origin/master         then try the push again     mark ticket# as ready for integration      **integration and deployment process:**               cd ../../testing     git merge ticket#  -m "integration test for ticket# --no-ff (check for conflicts )     run hudson tests          visit www.domain.com/testing for visual test            if all tests pass:           if this ticket marks the end of a big dev sprint:               make a snapshot with git tag               git push --tags origin           else               git push origin             cd ../public_html             git checkout -f  (live site should have the latest dev from ticket#)     else:         revert the merge: git checkout master~1; git commit -m "reverting ticket#"         update ticket# that testing failed with the failure details      **Snapshots:** Each major deployment sprint should have a standard name and should be tracked.   * Method: git tag   * Naming convention: TBD **Reverting site to previous state** If something goes wrong, then revert to previous snapshot and debug the issue in dev with a new ticket#. Once the bug is fixed, follow the deployment process again. * * * **My questions:**   1. Does this workflow make sense, if not, any recommendations   2. Is my approach for reverting correct or is there a better way to say 'revert to before x commit'


Google redirect

When users try to access my site by typing it into Google or other search engines, they are redirected to a spammy abercrombie & fitch site.


How do I find out what web sites link to mine?

Is there a way of using something like as a search engine to find out which web sites out there link to mine?


403 Forbidden on Images on my subdomains

I am pulling my hair out after multiple back and forths with 1and1 support both via email and telephone. I've setup multiple subdomains via the 1and1 control panel and that looks to work fine. The one in the screenshot below is http://x3.keefermadness.com Everything loads properly except images. Inspecting them, they're giving a 403 Forbidden. I've tried changing the permissions on individual files and the directories in that structure to no avail. 1and1 keeps blaming it on my image references, but they work fine locally via MAMP with no changes to anything. Any ideas? 1and1 has been completely worthless, and I'm very close to just moving to another web host. I've tried other web content, including a clean wordpress install. No images ever load. Everything else - html, JS, CSS, loads fine. ![403 forbidden](http://i.stack.imgur.com/43xsE.jpg)


Attracting publishers to an in-house affiliate program

The cost to enter affiliate networks can be prohibitive for (cash-strapped) small business, particularly if they are simply testing the waters of an affiliate program. If such a company wanted to run an affiliate program in-house using off the shelf software, what methods would they use to attract publishers? Is it simply a case of SEO or SEM, attempting to attract publishers to the page on their website which outlines their affiliate program? Are there directories to submit one's affiliate program to?


Referrals websites

I'm using google analytics's, but I really can't manage to view referring websites (website url's where users are coming to my website from) I can check it only while checking real time stats. I have been googling, but couldn't find proper solution, will be grateful if someone can tell me which options should I enable, thank you.


Cloud Providers vs Traditional Hosts

I'm rolling up my sleeves and trying to tackle the fundamental concepts of cloud computing for the first time. I am planning to build a highly-scalable web application, and can't ignore the potential benefits of cloud platforms. Now I _think_ I get all the basic concepts of it, except when I try to compare it to service plans offered by traditional web hosts such as GoDaddy. GoDaddy, for instance, offers a Grid Hosting package where you can basically keep adding machines to your plan as demand grows. How are plans like this different than a "true" cloud service offered by someone like Amazon?


PHP not working with hosting

I have been playing with a php CMS site for someone that I am ready to deploy but am running into a couple problems that I assume to be hosting related. I have been developing and playing with it localy and deploying to a hosting environment friendly towards this specific CMS (joomla). I have recently been trying to deploy to a client's hosting and have been running in to some trouble. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have been in contact with the clients hosting and have had them set up a mysql DB for me and enable php. Simple php was working but joomla was not able to create the config files it needed to run on this hosting. Therefore I havnt been able to successfully deploy my work. While playing around with some simple php pages I have started getting http 500 errors and now cant seem to get anywhere. This is a smaller hosting company that seems willing to work with me but I dont really know what i need to ask from them to get me working. My questions to you webmaster geniuses would be as follows: **Given the situation I have described, is there anything specifically i should do to get my joomla/php site running on this hosting?** **What specifically should I ask my current hosting providers to do to help me get working?**


What are the best hosting services for Drupal?

When I upload a drupal website on the web, I usually have issues such as:   * imagecache module failing to create duplicates of my images   * FUpload (multiple image upload) creating issues and warnings   * post size limit when I upload videos (PHP memory and post limit) I want to solve all these issues and find a good hosting service. ps. This is optional for now, I would like to have a hosting service with servers in Netherlands. Is this affecting the performances ? I mean, is the website going faster, or the location doesn't matter as long as the service is good ? thanks Patrick


How can I cap cloud-costs?

I am looking into launching a cloud-based product for consumers where with a prepaid account they can start a server with a simple click and load up the software and access it remotely. The technical side of that I can manage, but I am worried about the costs escalating ridiculously high for both me and my customers Is there a way I can   * Limit how much each server can cost me before it will be deactivated   * See how much a server is currently costing me (so I can deduct it from their account) with it being extremely reliable as I don't want to have to have a giant bill in any possibility.


Google sandbox (Google penalty) is real or not?

Most of the SEO analysts are saying that Google Sandbox (Sandboxing or the sandbox effect or the Google penalty) is still available but when I searched Wikipedia I found that, Google didn't conformed it yet and there is no proper evidence or official announcement. If you searched _Google Sandbox_ on Google search engine you would find more results from various sites and not from Google but would find some results from Google which would be pointing to other theme not about Google penalty. I want to know whether Google sandbox is real or not? If so how could I check my site's presence inside that sandbox (I don't need other sites link but only need Google sandbox tool)?


Is there anyway i can create an intranet request form and have it be stored in a database?

I am trying to create a form for my companies intraNet site. The idea is as follows:   1. An employee wants to make a purchase, so they will go to the appropriate page in the intraNet   2. They will fill out the form on the intraNet page   3. They click the email button   4. The data in the form is saved in a database, and an email is sent to me stating that there is purchase order request form filled out I am not exactly sure how to go about this. Part of me wants to create it in a Data Access Page but I am not sure that's correct. If there is no one here who can help, is there anyone who can direct me to someone/something that can help me?


Project planning and customer tracking system

First off, sorry if this is the wrong 'stack' site, but it seemed like a good place to start. I'm happy to report that my services as a web developer are starting to be in quite a lot of demand, and I have a few existing and potentially new customers all lining up - but I'm finding it very hard to keep track of everything. What I'm hoping for is some (preferably web-based) system which I can use to keep track of who my customers are, the various projects that I've got going on for them, and (if possible) the individual sub-tasks that make up each project. What would be even better is if the relevant customer was able to log into the site, and see the process of their projects. I do hope you know what I'm talking about, and that you'll be able to offer some suggestions of either web-base sites that offer something along these lines, or of some open source solution or something like that? Thank you


Which DNS registrars will hide my WHOIS information?

Whilst browsing this question, some of the answers mentioned that certain registrars will replace your whois information with their own. Can anybody provide details on which registrars offer this service?


How do I update my DNS server so that it points to my new web server?

I am at a loss of what to do here. I bought a domain name some time ago, but just that. Tonight, I bought a subscription to DemonVPS to use as a web server. Following their tutorial, I put the _index.html_ file in the correct place, but it wouldn't show up. I asked around online, and apparently I need to update my DNS server. Godaddy says I need to do it through DemonVPS, but I'm not sure how to do it (I am very new to web development; the most I've done before is a local LAMP stack on my Linux machine). How can I go about doing this?


How to hide awstats url parameters

currently in order to access statistics on my site I access this link: www.mysite.org/awstats/awstats.pl?config=awstatsconffile.org all is working fine, but what I want to achieve is simply this: www.mysite.org/stats/ I've created the "sites" directory and inside I've created the .htaccess file but without success. Any idea?


Why do I see requests from BOT/0.1 (BOT for JCE) in my server access log and what should I do about them?

**My server keeps getting requests with user agent identified as`BOT/0.1 (BOT for JCE)`.** The first one arrived 2013-09-14 22:13:17 CEST, the last one yet about three days ago, 2014-08-12 06:05:39 CEST.   * Most of them (about 60 %) use GET method of HTTP/1.1 and try to get `index.php` at various locations on my site based on paths I already use. They always result in response with 404 status code (Not Found) or 400 (Bad Request) as I don’t use PHP at all.   * About 40 % of them are HTTP/1.1 POST requests for `/index.php?option=com_jce&task=plugin&plugin=imgmanager&file=imgmanager…&cid=20…` where `…` are either     1. `&version=1576` and empty string (about 50 %), or     2. `&method=form` and                          &6bc427c8a7981f4fe1f5ac65c1246b5f=cf6dd3cf1923c950586d0dd595c8e20b          (about 50 %), or     3. rarely `&method=form` and                          &6bc427c8a71281f4fe1f5ac65c1246b5f=cf6dd3cf11223c1250586d0dd5125c8e20b          As with the GET requests, this is sometimes appended after a URL my site uses. These mostly (75 %) result in 404 or 400; but when they hit my installation of MwForum (25 %), even 200 OK (for the 1st subtype) or 500 Internal Server Error (for the 2nd and 3rd subtype) is generated, which I assume is just poor coding of MwForum.   * About 5 % (“round-off” error in the percentages above) of them are utterly malformed requests, having parts of HTML code on request line where path and query string should be. Most of them try POST to MwForum. At the beginning, there is URL of one of my site’s pages, followed by a quote, some HTML code, and at the and another URL with `/index.php?option=com_jce&…` appended. They probably come from dumb webscraping. Sample log lines:               2014-08-05 22:50:32 93.95.74.25 "HTTP/1.1" GET example.com "/index.php" 400 0 0 "-" "BOT/0.1 (BOT for JCE)" "-"     2014-02-23 08:50:35 202.29.16.241 "HTTP/1.1" POST example.com "/mwforum/topic_show.pl?tid=1485/index.php?option=com_jce&task=plugin&plugin=imgmanager&file=imgmanager&method=form&cid=20&6bc427c8a7981f4fe1f5ac65c1246b5f=cf6dd3cf1923c950586d0dd595c8e20b" 500 711 0 "-" "BOT/0.1 (BOT for JCE)" "-"     2014-01-28 15:25:55 94.23.4.47 "class=\"url\" data-dot=\"url\">example.com/mwforum/topic_show.pl?tid=1485

 <a id=\"modImgA-5\" href=\"http:/tracker.modx.com/issues/index.php?option=com_jce&task=plugin&plugin=imgmanager&file=imgmanager&method=form&cid=20&6bc427c8a7981f4fe1f5ac65c1246b5f=cf6dd3cf1923c950586d0dd595c8e20b HTTP/1.1" POST example.com "/mwforum/topic_show.pl?tid=1485\"" 500 711 0 "-" "BOT/0.1 (BOT for JCE)" "-"      **Is the bot trying to exploit Joomla Content Editor (JCE)?** I don’t use JCE, nor Joomla, nor PHP itself. **What should I do about those requests?**


Sitemap to display hash tag links or not?

I am just creating sitemap for my site and wanted to find out if I should include # links for SEO? **For Example:**               www.mydomain.com/#comment1          www.mydomain.com/#comment2      Does this help with SEO or because the page is essentially the same just conflict?


HTTP 303 redirection and robots.txt

On a site I'm working on, we're using the HTTP 303 redirect pattern (see this article for background) to distinguish between information and non-information resources. So: some URL's under `/id` get redirected to dynamically-created pages under `/doc`. These dynamic pages are built from a database, and contain links to other `/doc/` resources, so in general we don't want them to be crawled. Our _robots.txt_ contains:               Disallow: /doc      However, we do want the non-redirected pages under `/id` to get indexed by Google et al:               Allow: /id      So the question I have, which I can't find an answer to so far, is: if an allowed `/id` page 303-redirects to a `/doc` page, will it still be blocked by _robots.txt_? If yes, we're OK, but otherwise I'm going to disallow all `/id` resources in the robots file, as having the crawler hammer the db would be worse than losing search indexing for the `/id` pages.


REL ME tag - trying to figure it out

Regarding http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1229920 to scrolled down section ''Examples'' to the point ''1.'' to the second code line which is: `<a rel="me" href="https://plus.google.com/105240469625818678725/"> <img src="//www.google.com/images/icons/ui/gprofile_button-16.png"></a>` On the page says that I have to add this line to the Contact Me page of own website in order to get Google Profile button. Exact code which one should be copy and pasted I am able to get here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/profilebutton/ Questions: 1). As you can see on the second URL, to make Google Profile button I need to use "author" tag and not "me" tag. But the first URL which I showed (the line in this message above) shows that I have to use "me" tag and even without this: width="32" height="32". I am already aware that I have to type (second URL) my own Google Profile URL. So do I just MANUALLY ( ! ) change this: `<a rel="author" href="https://profiles.google.com/109412257237874861202"> <img src="http://www.google.com/images/icons/ui/gprofile_button-32.png" width="32" height="32"></a>` to this (note: two changes done): `<a rel="me" href="https://profiles.google.com/109412257237874861202"> <img src="http://www.google.com/images/icons/ui/gprofile_button-32.png"></a>` Is this correct? I assume that plus.google.com is the same as profiles.google.com (both is URL of Google Profile). 2). If I was wrong with my first question then the second answer probably won't be even useful but still: Where exactly should I paste the code: `<a rel="me" href="https://profiles.google.com/109412257237874861202"> <img src="http://www.google.com/images/icons/ui/gprofile_button-32.png"></a>` inside Author Page of own website? I think it doesn't matter where. Also: will this icon be for sure enough or do I also have to make such anchor text with rel me in a ''shape'' of text (for word sentence such as ''Look At My Google Profile'')? Or is just icon really enough? 3). In the same section (''1.'') of the same page (link [first one] provided above) it says that I need to use first author tag to link to Author/Contact Me page of own website in order to later use Me tag. But I think in the explanation is little mistake. Shouldn't be instead of: `<a rel="author" href="http://www.cnet.com/profile/iamjaygreene/">Jay Greene</a>` this: `<a rel="author" href="http://www.cnet.com/profile/iamjaygreene.html">Jay Greene</a>` ?


Will google remove the old caches if noarchive is added to robots.txt

If you want google's cache of your site to remain unchanged is it a good idea to add noarchive to robots.txt? Or will this wipe out your caches?


Adsense earnings much better after trying a different network?

My adsense earnings were pretty stable for a few months with a consistent cpc and rpm. I experimented with a different ad network because I wasn't really satisfied with my earnings. After the second network wasn't really performing great either, I decided to switch back to adsense and noticed that my cpc and rpm has been much higher. What caused this change? Obviously, I would like to prolong this as much as possible.


Multiple custom 404 pages

Do you have a suggestion on how I can get a random 404 page displayed when a page isn't found. I use Wordpress and am currently using a custom `404.php` file for displaying a 404 page but what I want is to have three or four different pages that are displayed randomly when a visitor 404s.


Bluehost Automatic Sub-domain Creation

I am working on a small project in which people create an account and they are given a sub-domain like username.mydomain.com However, while this address is shown in the address bar of the browser, the page actually exists at something like mydomain.com/?profile=12345. This would all be automatic. Is this possible with a standard Bluehost account running cPanel?


Pros and cons of tracking referral trafic with "utm" tags

We have a blog discussing products of a variety of manufacturers. Recently a manufacturer asked us if we could `utm` tag links from our blog to his site with the tags `utm_source=OurSiteName&utm_medium=site&utm_campaign=OurSiteName`. Since the manufacturers can already see our traffic in his referral traffic report, I do not see the point of adding `utm` tags to all our outbound links to manufacturers but perhaps I am missing an important point. Is there an advantage of tagging outbound links with `utm` tags instead of just leaving the traffic to appear in the referral traffic section of the receiving website (eg is the referrer information in HTTP requests less reliable than `utm` tagging,...)?


What is required to register .com.au domains?

I have a website that allows people to search for instructors. It's currently working in the USA and UK. I'm wanting to start marketing the website to the Australian market, and so have been looking at registering a .com.au domain name. What is the best way about doin this as it doesn't seem particularly simple? Apparently I need an ABN or an Australian company but as I'm not an Australian citizen this presumably would be impossible?


Personalized sub-domain URLs

Most of the SaaS companies, some social networking, and blog services (like Wordpress.com and blogger) create a personalized sub-domain for each user, e.g. username.website.com What is the general practice for doing this. Do most of them really create a sub-domain or do they add some kind of URL redirects/routes for achieving this (assume Apache with mod_rewrite support).


More information about worldwide nodes how to get?

The context: Six hosts across worldwide were traced over week from UK. Ten thousands of lines to be parsed and analysed. And then I try to find any clue of geographical information and path - from where it jumps where. Then after Austria or Germany(each time different) I have mysterious 62.208.72.6 which in GEO LOC gives me Falklands Islands (which is where my target host is by the way, but before target host I still have 5 other nodes) Then I do whois for this 62.208.72.6 route: 62.208.0.0/16 descr: DE-ECRC-62-208-0-0 origin: AS1273 mnt-by: CW-EUROPE-GSOC source: RIPE # Filtered Why it says Europe now? How to understand this enigma code? I want to confirm more or less whether this is in europe or in falkland islands? But it can't be in FK yet as after next two hosts I get New York? Could you also tell me what does this CW-EUROPE-GSOC abbreviation means. (To preserve your sanity better not google, unless you already know it :-D) And the actual whois for the destination/target host, which completely destroys my head: route: 195.248.193.0/24 descr: HORIZON descr: Cable and Wireless Falkland Islands descr: Via Cable and Wireless Communications UK origin: AS5551 mnt-by: AS5551-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered How is it Via Cable and Wireless Communications UK if two nodes before I was in New York? Thank you guys,


How to proxy with apache site from same domain but another port as a subfolder?

So I have a problem - I have my main site on apache web server on debian on port `80`; I develop a web server (in some C++ or C#) and it currently runs on port `6666`. But some people are living under firewalls and can access only port `80`. I wonder if it is possible via apache map all requests to say `mysite.com:80/6666/url` as if they were to `mysite.com:6666/url`, not map via redirection, but really make apache stream content from my site to user as if it were in some folder?


How would I completely remove a domain from webs?

I have registered a domain with 1&1.co.uk about 2 months ago. I changed the nameservers to the ones that webs told me to (ns1.webs.com, ns2.webs.com) so that I could publish my webs website to my custom domain. It was all working fine. What threw everything out is that yesterday, when I wanted to start using Weebly, I changed the nameservers in 1&1 to weebly's and waited to the changes to propagate through the internet. 1&1 said that the changes had been made but when I publish changes from weebly, they don't actually show but changes in webs do. Is there anything that I have missed in doing this process? Thanks in advance!


Determining cause of random latency and loading issues

I'm not sure exactly what details to post in regards to my issue, because I'm not sure what is relevant. Prior to the end of September my websites all loaded quickly, in almost all cases. Loading time wasn't usually more than a few seconds. However, since the end of September I noticed a big increase in page loading times. In some cases pages were taking 30 seconds or more to load. I do have a remote monitoring service monitoring some of the sites as well, and the image below shows the response times over the past month. The response times shown at the beginning of this graph were what the usual response times were prior to this issue occurring. ![Graph showing response times](http://i.stack.imgur.com/i2NaA.png) You can see that there has been a significant increase in response times from the beginning to the end of this graph. The thing is, the problem is not happening 100% of the time. If I click through the site, or even just keep refreshing the page, about 25% of the time the pages load quickly, the remaining 75% of the time they load slowly. Sometimes the pages take so long to load that they time out, and don't load at all. I have contacted my hosting provider, and they said things at their end was fine. I don't believe the problem is my home internet provider, because all other websites load without a problem. The server is located in Texas, USA. This also raises another interesting point. My remote monitor checks my site from two locations, California, USA, and London, England. As you can see in the chart below the response time is actually shorter when checked from London, which doesn't seem to make sense, since the server is physically closer to the California monitoring location. I would have expected the London monitoring location to have higher response times since they are physically farther away. ![Response times by location](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UMHen.png) I should also point out that in some traceroute test I've done it seem like the first connection to the server seems to take the longest, then after that the rest of the page loads quickly. Below is a little chart showing the times for the first connection to the server. ![Connection times](http://i.stack.imgur.com/YWzay.png) So, what could be causing this problem, and what steps can I take to resolve it or at least narrow down the problem? Sending the request to the server was very quick, and receiving the reply back seems pretty quick, but the WAIT time is really long. So it connects, sends the request, but then waits close to 30 seconds before it starts receiving data back. I am also aware that there are things I can do to speed up page loading times, like reducing the number of CSS and JS files used on a page, compressing images, etc. This is not really what the source of the problem is though, because nothing has really changed on the site since before the problem started, and other sites on the same server are loading slowly as well.


Migrating a small web application for smartphones by creating narrow HTML pages?

I have a small web site offering a couple of functionalities, but it was not designed to operate with smartphones then. I don't have experience with smartphone application development (and this might be over-engineering too), but I was wondering if I could use another method. From here, I notice that all smartphone screen support 320px width when held vertically. Could I develop HTML pages where content is squeezed properly within 320px and extended over 480px (and more)? Would this be displayed properly on smart phones? Should I save some space for scrolling bars? Or should I invest time learning to use a proper CSS framework for smartphones? If yes, does anyone have recommendation to make? Ideally, I would like to just take a copy of my pages and reorganize them for smartphones to keep things simple. Thanks.


Why do some websites not allow "deep linking", and consider linking as a privilege (that requires permission)?

**Please note that a "link" in this context is a direct text hyperlink to another website, not framing web pages or hotlinking images (which many web sites obviously hate).** A "deep link" is, according to Wikipedia, "consists of a hyperlink that links to a specific, generally searchable or indexed, piece of web content on a website (i.e. http://example.com/path/page), rather than the home page (i.e. http://example.com/)." Surprisingly enough, many websites (mostly large ones) prohibit such linking in their TOS altogether and do not allow others to link to any page besides the home page. The majority of pages are in fact deep links, meaning that an entire web site is off-limits to linkers simply with a single blurb in the TOS. Additionally, many other websites (again, in their TOS) seem to think of linking as a "privilege" and specifically give permission for users to link to their site, often with restrictions such as "non-commercial use only" or "we reserve the right to ask you to remove such links to our site for any reason". Is disallowing deep linking really a common practice, and what is the intent behind doing so? From what I know, having others linking to your website is a good SEO tactic and encourages more people to visit your website (and click on your ads, buy your products, etc.). Also, I haven't seen any cases where a site has problems with search engines indexing a web page meant for the public to see (like a product page). Why do many sites seem to like doing this? What is your take on people linking to your sites? Not having a link does not stop the Internet community from talking about how bad your site is....


sitemap and crawler

I am still newbie in the entire world of SEO. Let's take a look at my example. I have a website very similar to blog style site. There few patterns for urls, all of the are very simple and allowed to be crawled. Daily I submit new sitemap with accessible content with frequency=daily. The things on the site change very frequently. In addition I have many catalogs of blogs with pagination, one blog can be in few catalogs. In sitemap I submit only the main pages if the catalogs. Catalogs are allowed to be crawled. I have a feeling that the crawler does very hard work, because it needs to scan every catalog with actually already indexed content because every blog could be crawled from the previous catalog or from the sitemap. Because of this, it looks like crawler will never finish his work, in webmaster tools I see a lot pages that were submitted months ago, currently deleted, and still in index even thought I retrieve 404 with noindex option. The nonsense is I can find old sitemap in the index, but how come, I thought at least files of sitemaps should be indexed daily. What the preferred strategy in my case. Should I just mark the pagination in catalogs as "nofollow" content and leave only main page for every catalog. Actually I need only content in sitemap to be indexed. Because everything except the blog is just thousands of pages of pagination to the same blogs. Previously I heart very interesting idea about instead of tons of catalogs using archive with date navigation, and allow only it for crawler. What's your opinion? Thanks!


How can I show contextual ads after a user filtered page contents by keyword?

I am building a social bookmarking service that is monetized in part by Google Adsense. However, I don't know how to influence how the ads are displayed. I think Google scans my pages and decides itself which ads to show where. Navigation on my site is mainly based on the selection of categories or tags being provided by the users. So after a user filters a list of bookmarks by the tag "SEO", I think I know pretty well what he is looking for. So I am looking for a service that allows me to show contextual ads for these particular keywords. How I can guide Google to show relevant ads? Can you recommend an alternative ad network, that gives me more control?


Tracking email traffic to Facebook in Google Analytics

My company is sending an email to our lead file with a link to a Facebook contest app. I know that ExactTarget (our marketing automation software) has the ability to track links, but we want to see in Google Analytics how many people actually made it there. The app we're using (OfferPop) doesn't seem to have the ability to tie in our analytics account (whereas if we created the app ourselves, we could track). I see two possible solutions, 1) abandon tracking for `Email -> Facebook App` since Analytics won't work, or 2) use an interim page on our website to log the tracking info and then redirect the user to the appropriate page `Email -> Tracking Page -> Facebook App` (probably use JavaScript redirecting here with a setTimeout function to make sure the tracking occurs). My concern with option 2 is about the email triggering spam filters when seeing the links in the email redirect to another page. Any experience and/or recommendations on tracking email-> Facebook? **Edit:** For the sake of accuracy of this question, I learned OfferPop does include campaign tracking for their apps, but it doesn't integrate into Google Analytics.


Trying to point domain name to new server, but there are other NS records I cannot change

In my domain registrars console I see the following: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/suvg2.png) I have added my name servers to the bottom, but the domain name is not redirecting. I see there are 2 NS records above mine that I cannot change. Would anyone know if these are stuffing mine up?


Is browser and bot whitelisting a practical approach?

With blacklisting it takes plenty of time to monitor events to uncover undesirable behavior and then taking corrective action. I would like to avoid that daily drudgery if possible. I'm thinking whitelisting would be the answer, but I'm unsure if that is a wise approach due to the nature of deny all, allow only a few. Eventually someone out there will be blocked unintentionally is my fear. Even so, whitelisting would also block plenty of undesired traffic to pay per use items such as the Google Custom Search API as well as preserve bandwidth and my sanity. I'm not running Apache, but the idea would be the same I'm assuming. I would essentially be depending on the User Agent identifier to determine who is allowed to visit. I've tried to take into account for accessibility because some web browsers are more geared for those with disabilities although I'm not aware of any specific ones at the moment. The need to not depend on whitelisting alone to keep the site away from harm is fully understood. Other means to protect the site still need to be in place. I intend to have a honeypot, checkbox CAPTCHA, use of OWASP ESAPI, and blacklisting previous known bad IP addresses.


Nginx negating condition/ if else

I've came into situation where I cannot find a way around it, neither with tons googling.               valid_referers none blocked something.com;     if ($invalid_referer) {         rewrite ^ /leech.jpg;         expires epoch;     }      Everything works fine so far, but I want to create if referer is valid to expire max; I couldn't find how to negate if statement or create else in nginx configuration. I tried:               else {         expires max;     }      or (notice exclamation mark)               if(!$invalid_referer){          expires max;     }      but it doesn't work as it works in almost everywhere.


How does one block unsupported web browsers?

Web browsers with an end of life no longer receive security updates which not only makes them vulnerable to the end user, but I imagine its not safe for the server's which receive visits by them either. Is it practical to block or enforce and notify the end user that their browser is unsafe and unsupported? If so, how would one achieve that? I don't know of any official or crowd-sourced listing with that information to parse and keep up to date. I'm aware that the practice can be custom built with User Agent parsing and feature detection for HTML5 enabled browsers.


Various elements in a single image?

When I go to _View Page Info -> Media_ in the Mozilla Firefox (or any other gecko-based browser). I see one picture there which contains several elements of the site: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/5dOS4.png) **My questions are:**   1. How they get separated when rendering the website? _(I know it's probably CSS, what I mean is how to define/know which region of this picture is a separated element)_   2. What are the advantages over using one picture for each element?  I would guess this lowers the bandwidth as it has less headers, but I don't know if there is something else about it.


SSL between customer's domain having CNAME to our secured server?

We're setting up a payment service -- a few pages to collect credit cards, and do other stuff that needs to be secure. We would like to offer the service to customers via a cobranded page we serve that _appears_ to be on their site using a `CNAME` alias from _their_ domain to our domain. The customer doesn't have an SSL certificate. Example:   * `http://www.customer.com` and other pages, like `http://www.customer.com/about` already exist.   * Customer wants to use our service to accept payments   * Our domain has a wildcard SSL cert, www.customer.com doesn't have a cert.   * Customer sets up CNAME DNS record like `payment.customer.com` that is an alias for one of our subdomains, like `customer.mycompany.com`   * Customer links to our pages via their alias. Credit card info is collected on `https://payment.customer.com/payment` So the question: can we set up our SSL cert for `customer.mycompany.com` such that it is acceptable if the request originates from `payment.customer.com` (and for multiple other customers)? Browser error messages are not OK. Thanks!


SEO optimization for AJAX site and dynamic HTML canvas

I have a site that uses AJAX to query the Last.fm database and then dynamically draws a graph of the results on an HTML canvas. In the search function, I have a command that sets window.location.hash to the search parameters. I also have a function that checks if a hash was provided in the url and if so, generates the page. For example, http://www.thenlistento.com/#!/led+zeppelin will automatically navigate to a search page for Led Zeppelin. My question is, how do optimize this set up for SEO? Can it be done at all? I've taken a look at Google Webmaster Docs and read over the hashbang protocol, but I'm not totally sure how to apply it to my situation..or even if I can at all. Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Link to the site: http://www.thenlistento.com


URL parameter names being changed by user agents

In reviewing one of our site's web logs I'm seeing instances where we are returning a 404 to requests because we're expecting an id parameter to be sent, but instead we're seeing a di parameter. The resource in question is an image but which image file actually gets served is dependent on the id parameter. The expected url is something like `http://images.mysite.com/photo.gif?id=123&width=200&height=300` What I'm seeing in the logs is requests for `http://images.mysite.com/photo.gif?di=123&width=200&height=300` The only case where we are seeing this on the id parameter. It seems unlikely that this is due to a server side or JavaScript bug since it seems to be only effecting a small percentage of our traffic. We are seeing this across a wide variety of user agents (both mobile and desktop) and IPs. Has anyone else seen this? Is there a browser plugin or other software you're aware of that could be causing this, and if so is there a good way to work around the issue?


Is there a service to test how strong a server is?

I want to know how many visitor my server can handle. So I want to "simulate" sending tons of traffic. Sort of like ddos but to my own server. Also we uses our own API accessing real URL like real users. Otherwise my server may die on strange times.


Cannot allocate resources due to URL rewriting

I've a rewrite rule to convert mysite.com/?lang=en to mysite.com/en, but this now gets me into troubles as the referenced files in the .html are relative to parent folder, and now its supossed to be /en/ instead of the root folder, how could I fix it? PS: I think it has something to do with RewriteCond, but couldn't find the solution yet. Thanks in advance!


Our Website is being blocked in critical areas - how do I get to the bottom of this?

I'm working with a UK-based contractor in the counter-terrorism industry. I've noticed that when I'm in Virginia Beach (near Norfolk and Washington DC), I cannot get a connection to the website through the wireless network (WiFi), either on my phone or on my laptop. If I do a `tracert` from a PC hooked up to the local network, I get a bunch of `"* * * Request timed out."` lines. I can access the website from my phone using 3G in the parking lot. What diagnostics can I do that will reveal what is going on?


Do we really need Google Analytics for better SERP positions?

We have been using Google Analytics on our main website for years, but recently we have tried another local stats system (Yandex.Metrica) and we are very happy with it - more than with the Google one. Thus, our idea is to completely remove Google Analytics from our website and use only this new system. The question for SEO pro's related to this is the following. I've heard that having the Google Analytics counter on a website could be principal for better indexing/ranking. Is that true? Can we remove their counter without losing our good search result positions?


IP geolocation and permanent redirects for search engines

when someone connects to my homepage I geolocate using their IP and redirect to the site with the right language (for example someone from Italy connects to example.com and I redirect them to example.com/it). AFAIK the way to behave in these cases concerning SEO and search engines is to permanently redirect to avoid making the search engine think that the content is duplicated, but in this case the same URL can redirect to many other pages (example.com can redirect to example.com/it, example.com/en, example.com/br, example.com/ch and so on). What should I do to keep all the link juice going to example.com and still keep the functionality with all the localization and ip geolocation going? Right now my response is a 302 Found and then 200 OK after the redirect, is this right?


Image Backlink Alt Text

Does Google use the image alt tag the same as anchor text for external back links or does it only use the alt tag for internal optimization?


Googlebot following invalid URLs. How do I troubleshoot the problem?

I'm getting errors generated by Googlebot while following invalid URLs. Checking with Google Webmaster tools confirmed that the problem was the bot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/pjqOr.jpg) I've checked the source code and the HTML generated, but couldn't find out why Googlebot is finding and following this invalid URLs. **How do I troubleshoot the problem?**


Domain name similar to an other existing one, bad for SEO?

I am in the process of choosing a domain name for a personal project. I have found a very good one (let's say it is "myproject.com") but it is very close to another existing domain name ("smyproject.com"). Only the first letter is different. This website has a very different activity from mine. My question is: is it bad for SEO? When someone will type "myproject" in a search engine, is there a risk that the first result will be "smyproject.com" if this website has better SEO than mine?


How reliable is the number of hits provided by Google site: command?

A partner of my company (not sure whether i can tell their name here - i´ll use example.com instead) asked me yesterday, why there is such a big difference when they enter the site command at google at first with "www" and then without "www", to check the number of indexed pages. First of all, the Google Webmaster Tools show about 9.000.000 indexed pages. "site:example.com" provides me about 10.000.000 hits. "site:www.example.com" are only about 4.000.000 hits. I first thought that they have some subdomains registered, such as "blog.example.com", or "test.example.com" ... But entering "site:example.com -site:www.example.com" to detect pages from subdomains other than www, brings up exactly 2 hits. Where are the other 6.000.000 ? The next thing is, providing google a little bit more in the query such as "site:www.example.com in" (or other linking words) brings me more hits than the blank site command with www ("site:www.example.com"). Sometimes about 2.000.000 more than the blank www query... Is the number of hits really that inaccurate?


How does WordPress determine which template to show?

So I recently set up a Wordpress blog and I've noticed that when I make posts, the link is `http://www.domain.com/?p=2`. I was wondering how you could specify which file to use to parse such requests. For example, domain.com/?author=1 now returns a page with all posts made by that author, but how and where does it get configured to go here? I checked to see if it was .htaccess related but it appears not to be.


'Development dashboard' web application

I am not sure if something like this exists in that it is ready **out of the box**. I currently have some web space that I use for various projects, and I would like to setup an area for some friends and I to develop web applications together. My ideal setup would be to create a folder, say, webdev.domain.com. We could all go to this domain, login, and then be able to setup new applications, pick which language will be used, setup database tables, allow HTML based file uploading, and create sub-folders to basically have a test bed for the applications. In retrospect, it seems like I'm describing a limited version of cpanel. I could come up with something in Drupal I'm sure, but I don't want to have to really spend time configuring much. Like I said, I want to install it and have minimal configuration. Does something like this exist (preferably in open-source)?


Should a webmaster use a design document?

Hey what do you think of IEEE publishing a standard called IEEE 1016–1998 "Recommendendations for Software Design - I think it's a good idea to follow that guideline and keep a "design document" that we do not change daily and change the code daily instead. If you search for IEEE 1016–1998 you can review what it's about. What do you think? Best wishes Niklas


Why a word having high significance in content keywords does not get a high rank in Google?

When I check my website in Google Webmaster Tools, then keyword 'angeethi' is shown to be at the 3rd position in terms of significance. But when I search for 'angeethi' at Google, then the website doesn't appear even in top 15 pages for 'angeethi' keyword. What can be reason behind this and what should be done to improve this?


SEO effect of redirecting to 404 page

In a dynamically generated site (PHP, Python, pick your poison), 404 pages are normally handled dynamically to simply send a 404 header and display some error page on the URL that the user visited. I'm wondering if a site has a large number of 404 pages and they for example, contain a significant number of links to help a visitor get to a useful part of the site, might a search engine see this as a cloaking of doorway pages? I can't image search engines would generally punish you for having lots of 404s, you can't help people linking badly to you site but I can imaging they would punish you for cramming the 404 page with links. As an extension of that. Is there any benefit of redirecting users to a single URL to display the 404 page, something like `http://www.domain.com/404`? How would this affect SEO?


Is it possible to install joomla on a windows server?

Is it possible to install joomla on a windows server and what might be the difficulties of going about and doing so. Our client has a windows dedicated box and they want joomla placed on their server.


Is google-app-engine free for small applications?

I read somewhere that for small applications, Google App Engine is free. Now when I read their docs, it seems that even for small applications, it isn't free. I just wanted to check here - is it free if the application is under some size? Thanks!


Rss legal issues

I know it is illegal to post full articles of a website on yours beacuse of copyright. Is it legal to post the rss feeds of a website on your website?


Multiple Businesses at The Same Physical Address - SEO / Google Places

I was wondering what kind if there would be any negative effects to have multiple businesses having the exact same physical address on their website. Currently we have five businesses at the exact same address and it shows on their website, so when people google one of the five businesses address their going to get multiple results from multiple website most of which will not be what their looking for. What is a way around this / what can I do about this? Would adding "Suite Numbers" be a solution? A thought occurred that it might be a good idea to create a landing page for users that are looking up a business by it's address via google. The page will bring up multiple businesses since we have a few at the same address but if we have a landing page at the top which then leads to multiple businesses that might solve the multiple address seo problem. Going to keep researching it though. * * * I also know for Google Places (possible bing local and yahoo local) this could also become a problem. I've submitted an inquiry with them but I wanted to know if anybody had a ready-made solution around this so that Google doesn't bunch all these companies together into one. Thanks!


Looking for company job listing script

Our company wants to have a simple job listing and resume uploading script. We'll only have a few jobs listed at any one time. Also, they are not interested in an "online application" at this time; just a simple form to upload a resume and email the correct HR people. Thinking that the index page will list the jobs after a short "working here is great" intro paragraph. Clicking on the job will display details in an animated display of a previously hidden DIV or similar. Clicking on Apply for this Job button will send to simple form asking name, email, and phone, with button to choose and upload resume file (to our MySQL database). Needs a form to input available positions. The only open source solutions I've found are scripts for job boards. That isn't really what I'm looking for, I don't think. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated!


Help with URL and HTACCESS

I have a social engine 3 website, in my website all URLS can be changed(URL- REWRITING) through the SE-url settings automatically, but in my website their is one module which is custom coded, where I have to set its URL manually in htaccess file, the url which I want to changes is this:               mysite.com/institutes_desc.php?id=19      I want this URL to be changed like `mysite.com/institutes/intitute_name` or `mysite.com/institutes/intitute_id` My htaccess file is this               RewriteEngine On     Options +Followsymlinks     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d     RewriteRule ^.* - [L,QSA]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^.*/images/(.*)$ /images/$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^.*/uploads_user/(.*)$ /uploads_user/$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /profile.php?user=$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)?$ /profile.php?user=$1$2 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/documentgroups/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /documentgroup.php?user=$1&documentgroup_id=$2&group_id=$3&title=$4 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/documentgroups/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)?$ /documentgroup.php?user=$1&documentgroup_id=$2$3 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/documents/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /document.php?user=$1&document_id=$2&title=$3 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/documents/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)?$ /document.php?user=$1&document_id=$2$3 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/documents/?$ /documents.php?user=$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/documents/?$ /documents.php?user=$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^documents/tag/([^/]+)/?$ /browse_documents.php?tag=$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^documents/category/([0-9]+)/?$ /browse_documents.php?i=$1 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/blog/([0-9]+)/?$ /blog.php?user=$1&blogentry_id=$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/blog/([^/]+)?$ /blog.php?user=$1$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/blog/?$ /blog.php?user=$1 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/trackback/([0-9]+)/?$ /blog_ajax.php?task=trackback&user=$1&blogentry_id=$2 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/videos/([0-9]+)/?$ /video.php?user=$1&video_id=$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*/)?group/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ /group.php?group_id=$1$2$3 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*/)?group/([0-9]+)/album/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ /group_album_file.php?group_id=$2&groupmedia_id=$3$4 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*/)?group/([0-9]+)/discussion/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ /group_discussion_view.php?group_id=$2&grouptopic_id=$3$4 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*/)?group/([0-9]+)/discussion/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ /group_discussion_view.php?group_id=$2&grouptopic_id=$3&grouppost_id=$4$5 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/articles/([^/]+)?$ /articles.php?user=$1$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/articles/?$ /articles.php?user=$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^article/([0-9]+)(/[^/]*)?$ /article.php?article_id=$1&article_slug=$2 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/job/([0-9]+)/?$ /job.php?user=$1&jobentry_id=$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/job/([^/]+)?$ /job.php?user=$1$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/job/?$ /job.php?user=$1 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/trackback/([0-9]+)/?$ /job_ajax.php?task=trackback&user=$1&jobentry_id=$2 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/classifieds/([0-9]+)/?$ /classified.php?user=$1&classified_id=$2 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/classifieds/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)?$ /classified.php?user=$1&classified_id=$2$3 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/classifieds/?$ /classifieds.php?user=$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*/)?event/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ /event.php?event_id=$1$2$3 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*/)?event/([0-9]+)/album/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ /event_album_file.php?event_id=$2&eventmedia_id=$3$4 [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^application/([0-9]+)/?$ /app.php?id=$1 [L]      Can anyone help me in this? how can I set my url this way?


Customizing a newly created website via Google Apps

I just purchased a domain through enom via Google Apps. I have no information for logging into the enom website. How do I actually start customizing the web site? Do I somehow do it through Google? Or do I do it through enom? If the latter, then how do I log in?


Apache mod_rewrite rule to convert URL of page, keeping parameters same

I sent out a link in an email that had a typo in the URL. I need to make a quick change for tracking purposes so that any incoming hits to the URL are instead parsed to another URL. From the link sent out:               /app/prog1.php?id=1234      To the version I want to track:               /app/prog2.php?id=1234      How do I set up a RewriteRule to handle such a transformation?


SEO Suggestion For My Blog

I have a programming tutorial blog, which has decent traffic. However, I am interested to do some basic SEO for my blog to get it optimized. I want to do it myself by learning. I was wondering if experts here can suggest how I should proceed please? Also, if you please review my blog and suggest the most common SEO concern that come to your mind first, those will be helpful as well. My blog site url is as follow: http://codesamplez.com/ Looking forward to your feedback soon.


How do I make an AJAX block crawlable?

I have a block with a few tabs. When the user clicks the tab the content of that block get loaded. Now I would like to make it crawlable by the search engines and at the same time I want to maintain the good user-experience. I figured out a couple of alternative but each one has its own shortcomings. The approached that I could come up with.   * Use hashbangs and then use this. But hashbangs are not good and things of past now. Secondly it will make my content crawlable by only googlebot as yahoo and bing dont support this.   * Use GET PARAMETERIZED fallback incase when JavaScript doesn't work. This will work for all bots and also would be nice as it would work without JavaScript. But then this will create duplicates of my page as this block is only a very small section of my page and I have like around 5-6 tabs. So it means that many duplicates!  Doing this without AJAX is not an option as it would only increase the page load time as all these blocks have heavy media content in them!


How to clean PmWiki from JS:Includer-AWG and protect my site from future infections?

I'm hosting a site for an NGO for several years now. The site seems to be based on a PmWiki backend. I don't know much details because I'm just hosting the site and I'm not the guy who set it up. I would not ask but the one who created this site several years ago is not available for help currently. Now people called me up and told me their antivirus software is reporting the site as infected with some kind of javascript based trojans, called " **JS:Includer-AWG (Trj)** ". What is this and how to get rid of it? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/d0x2r.png) I tried to at least find out the installed version of PmWiki but couldnt find any details or a version string on the server. My main interest now is also to protect the site from future infections. Is this a PmWiki vulnarability? Is my webserver hacked? Where to start? I have already changed passwords and tried to delete malicious JS files but I want to avoid this to happen again. * * * **Update1** :   * Quttera.com says "No malware detected"...   * Yandex.com lists the torjan as " **Troj/JsRedir-NN** " (data provided by Sophos).   * Sucuri.net says "Website blacklisted" and "compromized". * * * **Update2** :   * This site is running pmwiki-2.2.17 (VersionNum=2002017).


.co.uk targeted for google.co.uk .com targeted for google.com

We've had a website running on a .co.uk domain for some years, this domain is listed in the SERPS for our brand on both google.co.uk and google.com. We get little traffic from anywhere other than the UK because the website is targeted at the UK market with specific UK keywords. This is great, however we recently purchased the .com domain with the intention of producing a second version of the website targeted to the United States with US specific keywords i.e. targeting and moving in to the US marketplace. We have used Google webmaster tools to set the geographic target for the .com domain to be the US. I think I was expecting ONLY the .com site to show up when searching google.com and only the .co.uk site to show up when searching google.co.uk. However when we search google.com for our 'brand' the .co.uk site is listed in the SERPS. We would prefer the .com to appear in the SERPS on google.com. Is there anything we can do?


Rewrite URL to a PHP script with parameters

I'm trying to create a service that you give it a URL like `http://myhost.com/34.png` and it will return the result of the script `http://myhost.com/create_image.php?count=34`. I know this is possible with mod_rewrite, but I'm very new to this and I'd like some pointers on how to do this. I only want it to work for numbers.


Why is Firefox changing the color calibration of this image?

The symptom of my problem is that the same hex color in a PNG image does not match the CSS-defined color defined by the same hex code. This problem only happens in Firefox when `gfx.color_management.mode` is set to `2` (tagged images only) rather than `0` (off). (Firefox ICC color correction described here). The image is http://dzfk93w6juz0e.cloudfront.net/images/background-top- light.png which at the bottom has the color `#c8e8bd`. However, the shade of green is different to that color when Firefox color calibration is enabled. Is this image inadvertently "tagged" for color correction?


Adding meta tag keywords - the same or different on all pages?

I have 10 page php website. I want to add keywords to webpages. The website is related to hotel and having different-2 page like booking, rooms, places to visit etc. Question: Do we need to add same meta tag with all keyword for each webpage or should I create one meta tag page and include them in all pages?


Traffic from site like pu.gg, goo.gl?

Why is it that I get pageviews from sites like pu.gg, goo.gl? What does it mean? Am I visited by hackers? Is there any way to block this kind of page view from my analytics? I am kind'a alarm with this.


Is it ok to use a custom short domain for sharing third-party links?

I use a custom short domain which is a subdomain of my main domain, for sharing my website. I would like to know if this is legally ok to use a custom short domain for sharing third-party links, also SEO-wise, could it have any negative effect on my website? because I am using my own subdomain to share third-party contents? On my website and my social profiles, I regularly share direct links to other websites, without having a page or article about them on my website, which means I will not get much from those links, only my domain will get some attention. Websites usually use their custom short domains ONLY for sharing contents of their main domain.


Search engine for website

Does anybody have any recommendations for a search engine that I can use for my website. I currently use Google CSE, but am wondering if there is anything better. I want to be able to have the search results display certain data such as an image, header, information, etc... I would prefer something that I have some familiarity with such as javascript but I'm open to all suggestions. Thanks


How does Lastpass recognize actual login?

We are currently working on simple school project using Codeigniter where we need login page. It would be very useful if Lastpass could recognise and save logins. We have several accounts with different roles and manual insert of login is pretty slow. So I was wondering what needs to be done and where in files (view, controller?) for Lastpass to work as it does on every website. For example this is our login form:                   <?php echo form_open('login'); ?>           <input type="text" id="username" name="username"/>           <input type="text" id="password" name="password"/>           <input type="submit" value="Login"/>          </form>      Thanks for help. (could not create new tag "Lastpass" due to low reputation)


How do I make sure the web developer I hire will not steal my idea?

So I have a great idea for a new website. However, not the time to develop it. I would like to hire a person or company to design it for me. What steps do I need to take, to protect my idea? Where and how do people protect website ideas in general? Also, how easy is it for someone to tweak the idea and make it legally heir own? Is a patent enough to protect such a thing, idea. Are there different levels or types of protection? Thank You.


Where can I find luxury goods advertisements for my website?

I'm running business directory for tourist attractions, and I would like to fill some empty blocks with useful advertisements like flight operators, car retailers, luxury goods etc. We have tried Google AdSense but it's full of cheap, pointless and irrelevant advertisement that would make our website look cheap and bad. So I'm curious is there any centralised resources for luxury goods and services?


Embeding a generic google search with autocomplete - not a custom site search

Most people's home page is google.com. My homepage is just a custom html page hosted on my computer. I do this because I am a web developer, and I have several projects that I work on a one time, so I like to have quick links to all of them. On that page I usually just have a Link to google.com for when I want to search. But below all of my quick links, I want to add a google search box (with Autocompletions). I first used a simple iframe to embed google.com into the page, but then my search results were confined to that iframe. I wanted to search for something, then my results would open in a new tab. I then came across this code snippet but it doesn't have Autocompletions: http://www.refactory.org/s/google_search/view/2 How can I add Autocompletions to this? Or is there a better way of doing it? Thanks in advance for any advice


Identify page leading to conversion in Google Analytics

GA provides a way to quickly look at traffic sources, campaigns and social networks driving traffic to conversion. I have a email signup form on certain key pages as well as landing pages. Is there a way to look at GA to drill down how many conversions are being driven by these specific pages? If not is there an easy to implement solution in JavaScript (my site is static) that would allow me to delineate and segment my traffic so I could make such a determination?


DNS and MX questions related to new hosts

This stuff always confuses me so I'll layout the pieces and what I hope to achieve, if someone can connect the dots.   * I have a domain `www.toys.com`   * I have a cloud VPS   * I have an Open Exchange mail server In a perfect world...get `toys.com` to point to and use cloud VPS's DNS settings. This is great my domain now has a web host, hooray. I don't want to use cloud VPS mail services. I want to use Open Exchange services. So I go into cloud VPS's DNS tools and add records for open exchange service and mail should work, hooray. My problem as follows `toys.com` currently has existing hosting and a separate mail server.   * When I switch the DNS of `toys.com` to point to new web host, I know existing hosting will stop.   * When I switch the DNS of `toys.com` to point to new web host, I think mail will also stop because the records are no longer there since there's a new host.   * I now have to add the Open Exchange mail server records in cloud VPS's DNS tools. How long will this take?  The reason I ask is because the mail server is hosting about 400 email addresses, but a new web host is wanted/needed.


Tactics for dealing with misbehaving robots

I have a site that, for regulatory reasons, may not be indexed or searched automatically. This means that we need to keep all robots away and prevent them from spidering the site. Obviously we've had a robots.txt file that disallows all right from the start. However, observing the robots.txt file is something only well behaved robots do. Recently we've had some issues with less well behaved robots. I've configured Apache to ban a few user-agents but it is pretty easy to get around that. So, the question is, is there some way to configure Apache (perhaps by installing a some module?) to detect robot-like behavior and respond? Any other ideas? At the moment all I can do is ban IP addresses based on manual inspection of the logs and that is simply not a viable long term strategy.


Filtering European traffic in Google Analytics

I'd like to filter incoming information, with one profile containing U.S. traffic and another E.U. traffic. U.S. was easy enough...               Custom Filter     Include     Filter Field: Country     Filter Pattern: United States$     Case Sensitive: No      This worked great. European traffic however has been problematic.               Custom Filter     Include     Filter Field: Region     Filter Pattern: Europe     Case Sensitive: No      The above doesn't work. I also tried "Southern Europe|Northern Europe|etc" as the filter pattern. No dice. Things are made more difficult by the fact that I can only test that worked by checking whether traffic was acquired the next day.


Switch to https

I'm looking to use an .htaccess file to use mod_rewrite to switch the protocol from http:// to https:// when someone hits my website. For instance, once someone goes to: `http://www.mywebsite.com/` I'd like the browser to switch to: `https://www.mywebsite.com/` The same goes for the `http://mywebsite.com/` -> `https://mywebsite.com` This is the following code I've been using and I've experienced some odd things so if anyone could provide me with information if this is the right way to do it, or if you have a better way, please provide it. Thanks in advance.               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.ebaillv.com/$1 [R=301,L]


Is this a DNS or server-side error?

I am having difficulty accessing a specific website. (I get 500 Server fault errors) I can access this site on my iPhone when NOT connected to WiFi. I CANNOT access the site when connected to WiFi or via a Ethernet connection to my home network. I thought it might be a DNS issue, so I copied the DNSservers from a friend who has a different ISP, and has no problem access the site. No luck. Also tried some of the public DNS servers out there, again, with no luck. Does anyone have any idea on how to trace this issue?


Should I link thousands on landing pages to my website or not?

I'm working on a website, recently we decided to create thousands of landing pages to target different cities, using different keywords and feed them to google ... Our website's google rank is quite good ! question is, should we have these landing pages in our website's structure or have them separate not directly linked to the website ? if we do that is it going to damage our reputation?


Are there any tried and tested methods for rejuvenating an old message board?

I have a moderately successful message board with an excellent (but tiny) community associated with it. One of my goals for the month is to try and increase the amount of users on the site and also the amount of posts per day. Apart from the general methods that any site could use to drive traffic is there anything I should specifically be doing for a message board? Here are some of the things I have already tried (and am already trying, obviously some of these things are on-going projects)   * Harnessing Facebook Communities and the 'like' button.   * Writing a friendly message to non-logged in users asking them to sign up or log in.   * Writing posts in such as way as they spark debate or conversation.   * Listen and engage with the community.   * We have a basic reputation system.   * We have an introduction thread and it has a friendly welcoming atmosphere.   * We interview people on the site. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


Looking for horizontal image slider for my site

Any javascript tool which will take url of my images and links. It should work like a horizontalimage slider. If some one clicks on the image, it should redirect to the respective link. Has anybody seen any java script widget for the Horizontal image slider.


Automated Website Testing/Sanity/Quality

I am thinking about building a tool that starts from the root of a webpage and traverses the entire website gathering a list of resources such as CSS/HTML/Javascript files and then runs CSS/Javascript Lint + HTML Validator + Broken Link Finder. Before I start building something like this, I was wondering if this exists already? Thanks. I already searched Google quite a bit and couldn't find much.


How to plan a website, with dependency 80% on google organic search and 20% direct users? Please share your views, knowledge and experience... Thanks :)


Google Webmaster crawler showing internal links I cannot find

I've got the crawler showing links that appear to be double URL encoded links. Specifically links that are `%2520` instead of `%20` or ``. As far as I know I've fixed this a while ago by removing special characters and spaces, but let the URL handler still be able to handle these links. I go to the `Linked From` page it lists as source of the issue, and I cannot find anywhere the link it describes. Does anyone know what's going on? It seems that the links are ok on my end, and Google is converting the `%` to `%25` and can't go to the page after, because my setup with IIS cannot handle a `%2520`


What is the most time-effective way to monitor & manage threats from bots and/or humans?

I'm usually overwhelmed by the amount of tools that hosting companies provide to track & quantify traffic data and statistics. I'm equally overwhelmed by the countless flavors of malicious 'attacks' that target any and every web site known to man. The security methods used to protect both the back and front end of a website are documented well and are straight-forward in terms of ease of implementation and application, but the army of autonomous bots knows no boundaries and will always find a niche of a website to infest. So what can be done to handle the inevitable swarm of bots that pound your domain with brute force? Whenever I look at error logs for my domains, there are always thousands of entries that look like bots trying to sneak sql code into the database by tricking the variables in the url into giving them schema information or private data within the database. My barbaric and time-consuming plan of defense is just to monitor visitor statistics for those obvious patterns of abuse and either ban the ips or range of ips accordingly. Aside from that, I don't know much else I could do to prevent all of the ping pong going on all day. Are there any good tools that automatically monitor this background activity (specifically activity that throws errors on the web & db server) and proactively deal with these source(s) of mayhem?


Asp.Net files appears as code rather than serving web pages

I have created my website in ASP.Net and I have uploaded my site through FileZilla FTP server Software. But when i use My domain name in browser, it just displays Code instead of Design view. I'm new to this I don't know the exact error so please guide me. **P.S**   * Vb.net is the code behind file   * `.aspx.vb` is the file extension of code behind file and   * for design page `.aspx` is the file extension


Does Google submit HTML forms?

I have a web page, say `http://domain/purchase` and in this page, I have a web form. User, on submitting this form (which has validation, both client-side and server side and won't be validated until fields are filled appropriately), would be redirected to another page, where (s)he can choose other things, and specify other settings and then purchase our product. Say the second page is `http://domain/options`. So, user comes to our site and visits `http://domain/purchase`, fills the form, submits it, and then would be redirected to the second page, `http://doamin/options?parameter1=value1&parameter2=value2`, which contains parameters from the first page. This is very common in passing parameters between web pages (or technically, between URLs). Now I was reviewing my website, and saw that Google had indexed some of my redirected web pages and URLs, like:   1. `http://domain/options?parameter1=value1&parameter2=value2`   2. `http://domain/options?parameter1=value3&parameter2=value4`   3. `http://domain/options?parameter1=value5&parameter2=value6`   4. `http://domain/options?parameter1=value7&parameter2=value8`   5. `http://domain/options?parameter1=value9&parameter2=value10` This means that Google Bot has visited our `http://domain/purchase` page, and has filled our form, and has submitted it, and was being redirected to the other URL, with corresponding parameters. This is the only way that makes sense to me. Does Google really fills forms? **PS:** All parameters are meaningful, meaning that they are not filled arbitrarily. For example, the **phone** parameter in indexed pages has correct phone numbers. How is it possible?


reliable way to get whois information in standard format

I am trying to write a script to fetch whois information for a bunch of sites. I am facing two problems: 1) whois command arbitrarily returns fgets/connection reset errors. Trying multiple times for a site often works but is very ugly. 2) The data returned doesnt seem to be in standard format. For example, for my current list, all domains are registered by one of 4 registrars. However, the registrar entry has various formats:               Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM     Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.     Registrar: NETFIRMS, INC.     Sponsoring Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM Created by Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM Last Updated by Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM     Sponsoring Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC. Created by Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC. Last Updated by Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.     Sponsoring Registrar:#1 Indian Domains dba Mitsu.in (R74-AFIN)     Sponsoring Registrar:Business Solutions (R54-AFIN)     Sponsoring Registrar:Directi Internet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com (R27-LROR)     Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com Inc. (R171-LRMS)     Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (146) Created by Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (146) Last Updated by Registrar:Afilias Ltd. (4000017)     Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR)     Sponsoring Registrar:IN Registrar d.b.a. inregistrar.com (R123-AFIN)     Sponsoring Registrar:Netfirms, Inc. (R1427-LROR)     Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R126-LRMS)      Is there any way to reliably get the fields like expiration date and registrar for a domain (I am willing to write custom php scripts). regards, JP


What is the best blog engine that runs on Google App Engine?


Facebook Chat or Chat in site

I will put my site Facebook Chat or Normal chat for users.However, I want to believe that this will be benefical. Is there a graph for that shows it increase pageviews for sites? I really need it


What does it mean when the nameservers reported by whois do not match those reported by nslookup?

I am currently investigating moving some records to a new set of nameservers, and in doing the research to be prepared for it have come up against a confusing mismatch. A bit of background on the situation -   * it's a .com.au domain, if that is of note (don't think it is).   * There are several parties involved here - the webhosting company, who I originally had the impression was providing the nameservers; the registrar, who I am starting to think might actually be the ones providing them; and the company I work for, which has an internal DNS server which overrides one of the records (again, I don't think this should matter, I am making my whois/nslookup queries using online tools outside our network to try to ensure this doesn't complicate things).   * To keep the question general, lets call these parties and their nameservers HostCo, RegCo and OurCo, and call the domain in question *.ourco.com.au. Here are the two conflicting results I am seeing (some obfuscation):               Whois response for ourco.com.au:               Domain Name ourco.com.au     Last Modified   12-Apr-2014 11:39:38 UTC     Registrar ID    RegCo     Registrar Name  RegCo     Status  ok     Registrant  OURCO PTY LTD     Registrant ID   ACN ### ### ###     Eligibility Type    Company     Registrant Contact ID   JB#######     Registrant Contact Name Joe Bloggs     Registrant Contact Email    joe.bloggs@ourco.com.au     Tech Contact ID CO2415740     Tech Contact Name   Chris O\'Kelly     Tech Contact Email  chris.okelly@ourco.com.au     Name Server ns1.hostco.com.au     Name Server IP  ###.###.###.###     Name Server ns2.hostco.com.au     Name Server IP  ###.###.###.###      which suggests HostCo hosts the nameservers, and               >nslookup - 8.8.8.8     Default Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com     Address:  8.8.8.8          > set querytype=soa     > ourco.com.au     Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com     Address:  8.8.8.8          Non-authoritative answer:     ourco.com.au             primary name server = ns1.regco.com.au             responsible mail addr = hostmaster.ourco.com.au             serial  = 20030501             refresh = 10800 (3 hours)             retry   = 3600 (1 hour)             expire  = 604800 (7 days)             default TTL = 10800 (3 hours)      which suggests RegCo hosts them. I've done some further investigation; reading this question led me to a DNS propogation tool designed by David Precious. This tool returns the RegCo nameservers and advises "All responding servers agreed on the same answer". Furthermore, I tried to nslookup the domain on HostCo's nameservers, like so:               >nslookup ourco.com.au ns1.hostco.com.au          (root)  nameserver = L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET     (root)  nameserver = M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET     (root)  nameserver = A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET     (root)  nameserver = B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET     (root)  nameserver = C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET     (root)  nameserver = D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET     (root)  nameserver = E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET     (root)  nameserver = F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET     (root)  nameserver = G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET     (root)  nameserver = H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET     (root)  nameserver = I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET     (root)  nameserver = J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET     (root)  nameserver = K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET     Server:  UnKnown     Address:  ###.###.###.###          Name:    ourco.com.au      Address:  ###.###.###.###      Which suggests that HostCo just points back to the root internet nameservers for that address... I think. Finally, when I log onto RegCo's domain management tools, it lists ns1.hostco.com.au and ns2.hostco.com.au as the nameservers for the domain in both the "Domain Info" section and the section wherein I set nameservers. In the "Update DNS Details" section I have the details for all the hosts, with appropriate MX, CNAME and A records to what I expect. My theory is that the information on RegCo's nameserver section was entered incorrectly and that causes the domain info and whois to be wrong too; if so then the settings in the "Update DNS Details" are what is being used and I can safely say the current nameserver is with RegCo. The only flaw I see with this theory is that if it were true, wouldn't it be incorrectly pointing DNS requests to HostCo, and wouldn't that mean things shouldn't be working (they are)? Can anyone confirm or deny my theory? **Edit the first** In case this was not yet confusing enough, heres the results of a dig +trace suggested by closetnoc :               dig @8.8.8.8 ourco.com.au +trace any          ; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> @8.8.8.8 ourco.com.au +trace any     ; (1 server found)     ;; global options: +cmd     .                       6055    IN      NS      f.root-servers.net.     .                       6055    IN      NS      j.root-servers.net.     .                       6055    IN      NS      a.root-servers.net.     .                       6055    IN      NS      c.root-servers.net.     .                       6055    IN      NS      m.root-servers.net.     .                       6055    IN      NS      k.root-servers.net.     .                       6055    IN      NS      g.root-servers.net.     .                       6055    IN      NS      b.root-servers.net.     .                       6055    IN      NS      h.root-servers.net.     .                       6055    IN      NS      d.root-servers.net.     .                       6055    IN      NS      i.root-servers.net.     .                       6055    IN      NS      l.root-servers.net.     .                       6055    IN      NS      e.root-servers.net.     ;; Received 228 bytes from 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) in 172 ms          au.                     172800  IN      NS      a.au.     au.                     172800  IN      NS      b.au.     au.                     172800  IN      NS      r.au.     au.                     172800  IN      NS      s.au.     au.                     172800  IN      NS      u.au.     au.                     172800  IN      NS      v.au.     au.                     172800  IN      NS      w.au.     au.                     172800  IN      NS      x.au.     au.                     172800  IN      NS      y.au.     au.                     172800  IN      NS      z.au.     ;; Received 493 bytes from 199.7.83.42#53(l.root-servers.net) in 993 ms          com.au.                 86400   IN      NS      z.au.     com.au.                 86400   IN      NS      w.au.     com.au.                 86400   IN      NS      y.au.     com.au.                 86400   IN      NS      x.au.     ;; Received 273 bytes from 202.12.31.141#53(v.au) in 1038 ms          ourco.com.au.        14400   IN      NS      ns2.hostco.com.au.     ourco.com.au.        14400   IN      NS      ns1.hostco.com.au.     ;; Received 111 bytes from 37.209.194.5#53(x.au) in 998 ms          ourco.com.au.        14400   IN      TXT     "v=spf1 +a +mx +ip4:###.###.###.### ?all"     ourco.com.au.        14400   IN      MX      0 mail.ourco.com.au.     ourco.com.au.        86400   IN      SOA     ns1.hostco.com.au. security.bitcloud.com.au. 2013051700 86400 7200 3600000 86400     ourco.com.au.        86400   IN      NS      ns2.hostco.com.au.     ourco.com.au.        86400   IN      NS      ns1.hostco.com.au.     ourco.com.au.        14400   IN      A       ###.###.###.###     ;; Received 236 bytes from ###.###.###.####53(ns1.hostco.com.au) in 158 ms      which undermines my theory that the registrar holds the nameservers


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