Optimized rate of frequency of changing title and description/keywords meta-tag?

OK we can change the content at any frequency. But what about `<title>`, description-meta tag, keywords meta tag. I think if we change title, description, keywords of any website daily, then that may affect page ranking. What is the real fact? What is the minimum and maximum rate of frequency to change these items? Legal practice may different from successful practice. Please explain me. NOTE: If this type of question answered before, then mention the link and please don't close or ban the question.


Drupal + LDAP + Automatic

I've got Drupal 6 setup within a XAMPP test area. I have LDAP authentication, groups and data working against Active Directory. What I want... is since I'm on an intranet where users are logged in via user- names... is for automatic authentication, without the need to login via the website. If it's more difficult than its worth, it's no major hassle, but I'd like to know if it's possible that when my users visit our intranet they auto- magically authenticate with their already logged in Windows session. Ultimately, I may switch to IIS, but I do like having a portable, easy to backup/copy/test setup so for now I'm going to see if I can get this working in XAMPP.


Is it possible to check the case on Apache redirects or aliases?

I have a big website (15,000 pages) with a log list of redirects (about 800) that have been used in marketing pieces for years. My Apache server has been running mod_rewrite for the past 10 years or so to force all requests to lower case. So a user could put in /CamelCase and Apache would read it as /camelcase and my corresponding redirect would work. I'm switching over my site to Drupal at the end of the month and the server needs to become case sensitive. I assumed that I could use mod_spelling on my list of redirects so people could continue to type in a URL however they choose and it would continue to work. Mod_spellin, however, does not scan through the list of redirects so it does not work. I have enough staff to have them go through the list of redirects and add in any case-sensitive variants but this would make my already large listing of redirects grow by 2 to 4 times. Hopefully I don't have to go down that route. I thought there might be a way to use mod_rewrite to test different cases on redirects but I can't get anything to work. So, does anyone have ideas?


Remove IP address from the URL of website using apache

I'm on an EC2 instance and have a domain `domain.com` linked to the EC2 nameservers and it happily is serving my pages if I type `domain.com` in the URL. However when the page is served it resolves the url to: `1.1.1.10/directory/page.php`. Using apache I've set up the following VirtualHost, following examples provided at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/dns-caveats.html               Listen 80     NameVirtualHost 1.1.1.10:80          <VirtualHost 1.1.1.10:80>          DocumentRoot /var/www/html/directory     ServerName domain.com          # Other directives here ...          <FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">     Header set Cache-Control "max-age=290304000, public"     </FilesMatch>     </VirtualHost>      However I'm not getting any changes to how the URL is displayed. This is the only VirtualHost configured on this site and I've confirmed its the one being used as I've managed to break it a number of times whilst experimenting with the configuration. The route53 entries I have are:               domain.com A 1.1.1.10     domain.com NS ns-11.awsdns-11.com               ns-111.awsdns-11.net               ns-1111.awsdns-11.org               ns-1111.awsdns-11.co.uk     domain.com SOA ns-11.awsdns-11.com. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 1100 100 1101100 11100


Should I Approve WP Commenta From Twitter's Tweets?

I have my self-hosted WordPress blog, and often I approve my own tweets appear as comment's moderated list. Not sure of the terms, I supposed that is a bounce-back (Correct me if I'm wrong) Now, another comment appears in my pending list, which is also my recent follower helping me to re-tweet. Now, I started to have concern on this tweets appearing as comment in my self- hosted blog. Should I approve. Does it affect my SEO, such as poor backlink?


Do browsers recognize the same files served by different subdomains?

I have my website assets stored on Amazon S3 and served by CloudFront, from a separate domain name, to act as a cookie-less domain (so `website.com` for the website and `websitestatic.com` for static assets). I set a far ahead _Expires_ header, so they can be cached by the browser. Google PageSpeed recommends: `Parallelize downloads across hostnames`. I can achieve this by adding subdomains pointing to the same CloudFront distribution and then randomize the URL to my assets, so I can have `media1.websitestatic.com`, `media2.websitestatic.com`, `media3.websitestatic.com`. My question is, will browsers recognize individual files as being the same as pre-cached ones, if they are served from different subdomains? As `media1`, `media2`, etc...all serve the same files, if over two page requests the same image was served from `media1` first, then `media2` next, will a browser recognize this or will it download it again? I can randomize the subdomain URL in the HTML files that serves the file (`media1`, `media4`, `media8`, etc...) but I can't store this random number for any particular file so that it is served from the same subdomain every time. I'm guessing the answer is no, they won't, so if I was to implement random subdomains, I'd negate the advantage of having a cached version, as theoretically every page request you could get a different subdomain for the same file.


How to Fix this specific Google "Fetch as Googlebot" error appearing on my Webmaster Tools?

Good day, I'm currently finding out why I have lost all of my website's rank in google. I don't even appear in google results by the domain. But other sites do link me and they appear in the google results. I think it's all about leaving my site two months alone and finding out I had 20k in comment spam, which I completely deleted and fixed with filters and adding a new Disqus comment service. Thing is, I added my site to Google Webmaster Tools and I'm finding out several awful things. For example, when I click in Google Fetch As GoogleBot. I receive this error message below in response to my request. And I don't even know what's the real problem and how to fix it. I simply don't get it. This is what appears: > Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 9:43:35 AM PDT > > Googlebot Type: Web > > Download Time (in milliseconds): 55 > > HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:43:36 GMT Server: Apache > Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 248 Keep-Alive: > timeout=2, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1 > > 403 Forbidden > > # Forbidden > > You don't have permission to access / on this server. > > Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an > ErrorDocument to handle the request. Do you guys know anything about this problem ? I need to have Google crawl my site again. I used to have a really nice google result in the past three years. Now, there's nothing. thanks,


Redirect directory URL to instead have .html suffix

htaccess redirect (301) all my old content from my WordPress to my new URL design. I want to redirect all the last trailing slashes to .html ... the permalinks are already working, but I don't want to lose all my collected backlinks for which I worked so hard. This is how my URLs look like:   * Pages (old): `/pages/redirection/` should redirect to `/pages/redirection.html`   * Posts (old): `/new-permalink/` should redirect to `/news/new-permalink.html`   * Custom Posts `/permalink/` should redirect to `/projects/permalink.html` The following rewrite rule does not work for me. It ignores my rewritebase, so it redirects `/projects/permalink/` to `/permalink.html` not to `/projects/permalink.html`.               RewriteEngine On      Options +FollowSymLinks      RewriteBase /project/      RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d      RewriteRule . /project/index.php [L]      RewriteRule /project/([^/]*)/?$ /project/$1.html [L]


Google analytics giving data for pages that dont' exist

We switched from a PHP application to a Rails application last week. I ran daily reports and everything looked fine. When I ran a weekly content report it gave me data for index.php which doesnt exist anymore. The funny thing is that is looks spot on for page views. This also made me wonder how analytics would record "/" in a Rails app. I ran it through Fiddler, there is no redirect just a 404. I view source on the 404 and there is no tracking code. I am pretty baffled. Anyone know what could be going on ?


I can see traffic coming from google ads, even though I don't have any google ads running, how is that possible?

I can see "googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads...." as a referrer on my website. However I am not running any google ads. So how am I getting the traffic? Here's the complete URL http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?output=html&h=250&slotname=5275434421&w=300&lmt=1311690266&flash=10.1.102&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.humbug.in%2Fsuperuser%2Fes%2Fpromiscuous- modo-con-intel-centrino-adelantado-n-6200-agn-tarjeta-inalambrica-- 214946.html&dt=1311690268347&bpp=3&shv=r20110713&jsv=r20110719&prev_slotnames=7553874535%2C5896307875%2C8590890981&correlator=1311690268052&frm=4&adk=3153418812&ga_vid=1396001617.1311690268&ga_sid=1311690268&ga_hid=558368546&ga_fc=1&u_tz=-180&u_his=1&u_java=0&u_h=1024&u_w=1280&u_ah=960&u_aw=1280&u_cd=24&u_nplug=6&u_nmime=22&biw=1263&bih=851&fu=0&ifi=4&dtd=441&xpc=T5MgG9EVV9&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.humbug.in


Curious CSS: "font-family: restore-n8;"

Found some curious CSS in the source for http://contrastrebellion.com/:               font-family: restore-n8, restore-1, restore-2, sans-serif;      `Restore-n8` and the like don't seem to be font names. What does this CSS snippet do?


How exactly is Google Webmaster Tools measuring "Site Performance"?

I've been working for two months now on improving our response time (mainly server side) on a new forum (a brand new product on a technical point of view) we've launched in Germany a few month ago and I'm a lot surprised by the results I get. I monitor our response time using Apache logs and our own implementation of Boomerang beacon. Using my stats, I can see that our new product responds in about 680 ms where our old product was responding in about 1050 ms. On the other side, Google Webmaster Tool tells us that our pages have an average response time of about 1500 ms today where it was 700 three months ago with our old product. I've figured that GWT was taking client side metrics into account so I've added some measures on our Boomerang beacon and everything looks just fine. I've also ran some random pages on ySlow and Google's Page Speed and everything looks better than it was before. We event have a 82% on Google's Page Speed tool which is quite cool for a site with some ads in it :) Lately, we have signed a deal with Akamai to use two of their products : CDN for our static files (we were using another CDN before but it wasn't very effective) and RMA to improve Networks routes. We have also introduced a new aggressive cache mechanism to ensure that most of the pages served to crawlers are cached by our memcache grid. After checking my metrics, it seems that this changes have improved from 650ms to about 500ms, which is good (still not great but it is definitely an improvement). But webmaster tools continues to report an increasing average response time where we see it decreasing in the same time. Have you ever had the same kind of weird behavior on your sites while doing performance improvements ? Do you have any idea how to monitor the same thing Google does with Site Performance in Google Webmaster Tools so that we could improve our site and constantly check if it is what Google wants ? **Edit 2011/07/26** : Thanks for your answers guys ! Nevertheless, I was not precise enough. The main issue we have is not with the Site Performance page but with the Crawl Stats one for now. We probably found an issue on our side with some very slow pages (around 3000 ms !!) and we are trying to fix them. I'll keep you posted as soon I'll have some infos. Thanks again !


How do I enable XSLT extension for PHP 5?

How can I get PHP's LibXML module with the XSLT extension enabled (--with- xsl)? What are the steps involved in installing XSLT and from where I can download it?


Monitoring JSON requests sent/received from the browser?

Having a website that generates and receives JSON requests via AJAX, I failed to find a tool that shows me live the communication including the content of the JSON calls. I thought that the Google Chrome developer tools or the IE 9 developer tools do have such a feature, but again, I failed. Searching Google, I failed too. **So my question is:** Is there a client-side tool to monitor the content of JSON requests that a website sends to the server?


Does htpasswd authentication prevent Google from crawling my site?

I have a site that I want to continue testing before I make public, so I don't want Google to start crawling the site as there will be a large amount of garbage content during testing. I currently have authentication set up using htpasswd, will this prevent site crawlers or robots from crawling my site?


Canonical URLs for local versions of a webpage?

I'm currently looking to grow traffic on a consumer-facing reviews site (Like Yelp, but for the security industry). One strategy we are pursuing is to provide localized content based on the zip code or city that the user searches with on Google. In essence, we want to create separate versions of each company profile page for each area that the company serves to drive targeted, local traffic to the page. An example would be a company with a top-level profile URL of `example.com/security/company-a` and a local version of the profile at `example.com/security/chicago/60657/company-a`. My question is this: Does it make sense to use canonical URLs here? That is, point all local profile URLs back to the top-level profile URL? On one hand, these pages will be largely similar and I want to ensure we are not confusing Google with duplicate content. On the other hand, would using canonicals prevent the local profile webpages from being shown on local Google search queries? As our content grows on the site, I can definitely envision more unique content on each page (i.e. highlighting local reviews for that company) to improve the relevance of the local page. Do you have thoughts as to what to do here? I would be very appreciative for your advice.


Forward to other domain with CNAME

In my GoDaddy DNS manager, I made some A Record that points to *.mirror for my domain ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/36IVg.png) Now when I access URL `123.mirror.mydomain.com` from the browser I can see that my app is loaded, and its all OK. My problem now is when doing a CNAME `point to` the URL above on `another domain` like this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/TJCqx.png) Accessing 123.otherdomain.com which I expect to "forward to" 123.mirror.mydomain.com I only get this 404 error: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/i8WIa.png) The IP `173.194.71.121` is actually ghs.googlehosted.com What I am missing here? Why `123.otherdomain.com` which points to `123.mirror.mydomain.com` cannot open that page and I think google is handing the web page request?


Link to another website and track clicks on the link while also keeping the link "valuable" from a SEO point of view

I want to build a small directory for programming-related websites only and I'm a little bit confused at the moment. I want to be able to track how many times visitors clicked links to certain websites, but I still want Google to pick-up that link as being towards site X, without losing any SEO value (meaning, for Google, that link still has to look like a clean backlink, not a link to a PHP file that redirects the user to another website). Question is, if I use jQuery to post some data (simply "link x clicked") to a PHP script beforethe default behaviour (directing the user to the page), will Google penalize the link or will it still be as valuable as a normal back- link? Thanks all, Claudiu


addthis button default message

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  addthis button default message How to set default message, I am using addthis button for invite a friend Email on a website. that default message should also work if user choose gmail, yahoo etc from addthis box.


Total / Lifetime Sales on Magento Dashboard is incorrect

After updating from Magento 1.2 to 1.4 I noticed that the Lifetime Sales amount was incorrect (other sales reports are fine). Even after making a fake order the Lifetime Sales didn't change. I tried refreshing statistics but nothing happened. Searching the web for this problem turned up a lot of people with the same issue but no solutions. Any suggestions?


Can an indexed page never be returned to any search query?

Assuming Google finds a website with 100 pages and decides to index 80 pages. Does it perform further filtering on these pages or will start matching user queries with all the 80 indexed pages (on the long run)? In other words, is it possible for an indexed page to never be returned to user search queries? Let's assume there is no site wide penalty.


REST webservice full implementation: server + client

I've spent a week reading about RESTful webservice and searching for a fully example to build my project above. When I reach a fully understanding of the REST webservice, I couldn't find any full implementation for it! I was wondering why there's a lack in code samples of this great technique. I want to implement it with PHP and Apache web server and make it fully and has all verbs like this tutorial [part-1][1] , [part-2][2] (see comments for links) saying: > **The Basics of a RESTful Request** > > Every REST request consists of essentially the same basic parts: > >   * **The URL** – This is the URL we’ll be making a request against (often > referred to as a resource). >   * **The Verb** – GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE… there are some others out > there, but these are the 4 most common ones. >   * **The Params** – The parameters we’ll be supplying to the API, often > referred to as the request body. >   * **Credentials** – Username and password… we’ll cover HTTP Digest auth > credentials. > > > And, of course, we’ll have a few pieces for our response as well: > >   * **The Response Body** – The actual response body the API gave us. >   * **The Response Status Code** – The HTTP status code the API responded > with. >   * **Other Response Info** – We’ll also have some other interesting info in > the response. > At first I tried this sample , but I found later that it doesn't follow REST standard rules. After digging in the web I found this example but it doesn't give me the server code! Just the client code and processing response. Do you know any common lib for REST that support both server-side and client- side ? with examples and docs? please give me your suggestions , it's urgent .


AWStats linking URL

I have a site that AWSTATS is saying 5 people clicked to get to my site in my stat report. When I go to that link, I don't see anything referencing my site. Is there somebody hiding my link?


Add second site through iframe

I have two blogs on Tumblr. Let's call them Pets.Tumblr.com and Cats.Tumblr.com A while ago I decided to make Pets.tumblr.com my main blog, but since Cats.tumblr.com grew more popular, I decided to merge these sites together. What I have done is this: I've created a blank page on pets.tumblr.com/cats, put a full sized iframe with cats.tumblr.com as source, and a jquery redirect script in cats.tumblr.com that redirects to pets.tumblr.com/cats I'm wondering if this would impact my site negatively? Will search engines see pets.tumblr.com/cats as a blank site (iframes are ignored?) and cats.tumblr.com as a spam site because it redirects to a blank one?


How to make textarea look like notebook?

I want the user to feel like they are writing on notebook paper while inputting into a textarea. How may I do this?


Is it mandatory in the US to present the publisher's information on websites?

In Germany it is (under certain circumstances) legally necessary to link to a page displaying the publisher's information of a website. This includes name, address, telephone number and email address. Does such a legal necessity exist in the United States? If so, does it only apply for commercial websites?


What causes a profile picture to disappear from author information in Google SERPs?

Does anyone know what causes the exclusion of a profile picture in the authorship information in the Google SERPs? For some reason, my profile picture has disappeared from the author information in the Google SERPs. The 'by author name - in xxx Google+ Circles' is still showing, but without a head-shot. I'm having this issue for all websites I post content on. For some of these websites I claimed authorship using the `rel="author"` attribute, for some of them I did so through email verification. For others I verified authorship by adding `?rel=author` to the Google+ URL. Just to be clear, authorship information is set up correctly for all these sites. I tested the ones that were verified with author markup with the rich snippet testing tool. Also, as mentioned before, the author name is still showing up in the search results and the articles are showing up in the author statistics in Google Webmasters Tools. Everything was still working perfectly a while ago, and I didn't change anything before this issue started. I've searched for a fix, and did find others that have the same issue as of recent, although no solutions yet. Troubleshooting steps I've taken:   * Replaced profile picture with a more clear headshot on Google+   * Replaced `<a href="https://plus.google.com/9999999999/" rel="author">Google+</a>` with vanity link: `<a href="https://plus.google.com/+ExampleVanityLink" rel="author">Google+</a>` I have also read somewhere that disappearing author pics could be caused by a lack of activity on Google+. I've however seen profile pictures from other authors appear in SERPs that were way less active on the networking site than I am.


Don't count visitors who go to a certain link using Google Analytics?

I'm trying to make sense of the Google Analytics on my company site. Many of our employees will be visiting the site just to click on the timesheet link, and I want to remove these users from my stats. The issue is that the link is within the site's domain, but is a separate system (not part of the main site's CMS) and so doesn't have the analtyics tracking code in its pages. Visits to this page aren't picked up by Google Analytics as there is no tracking code, and the page isn't seen as an external link as its within the same domain.


How to create a Google OneBox module connected to my website?

this is related to my other question: How does Fedex and UPC code functionality in Google search work? Can my site get similar treatment from Google? Does anyone know how to at least apply to be included in the onebox list at the top of the search results?


Is changing HTML with JavaScript bad for SEO?

Building web apps I don't have to worry so much about SEO for back end things so dynamically changing the HTML isn't an issue. I am using _backbone.js_ with a front end site I'm building and the site is a tour based site, ex several sections within the scroll flow. So when the page loads, I store the original HTML in a variable `origHtml` then set the HTML to change into something like `this.$el.find('.section- one').html('<h1>Welcome</h1>');` This is a part of an animation I am working on and then after some animation happens, that block is out of view and I reset that HTML to the original one. It's not absolutely necessary to do it that way, but I like playing with _backbone.js/javascript_ and am curious if this is a problem. Because I could just create an extra section and `hide`/`display:none` when appropriate, but I am trying to avoid using `hide`/`display:none` http://css-tricks.com/places- its-tempting-to-use-display-none-but-dont/ (an article I read a while back). I mean this is just experimenting/learning for me what is the optimal way to manipulate HTML for front-end websites? P.S.: I understand some people may say you need to provide fallbacks for non JavaScript users, and I say no, anyone who does not have a browser that supports JavaScript or does not have JavaScript enabled should not be on my site, plus that demographic is like under 2% (might be wrong) but it's very low. **Additional:** If this is bad for SEO I think it would still be okay to use `position:absolute` and either set `opacity:0` on the element I want hidden, or use `margin-right: -9999` or even use `display:none` I don't care I just like the JavaScript way but Id like to understand whats best.


"Google couldn't access your site because of a server connectivity issue"

In Google Webmaster Tools on my dashboard I have a notice that appeared 2-3 days ago that says "Googlebot can't access your site". Under the Current Status it has:   * DNS - SUCCESS   * Server Connectivity - FAIL   * Robots.txt Fetch - SUCCESS However, if I "Fetch as Google" the fetch status returns successful. This is a Joomla site so my robots.txt is the default Joomla one which shouldn't cause any problems:               # If the Joomla site is installed within a folder such as at     # e.g. www.example.com/joomla/ the robots.txt file MUST be     # moved to the site root at e.g. www.example.com/robots.txt     # AND the joomla folder name MUST be prefixed to the disallowed     # path, e.g. the Disallow rule for the /administrator/ folder     # MUST be changed to read Disallow: /joomla/administrator/     #     # For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:     # http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html     #     # For syntax checking, see:     # http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html          User-agent: *     Disallow: /administrator/     Disallow: /cache/     Disallow: /components/     Disallow: /images/     Disallow: /includes/     Disallow: /installation/     Disallow: /language/     Disallow: /libraries/     Disallow: /logs/     Disallow: /media/     Disallow: /modules/     Disallow: /plugins/     Disallow: /templates/     Disallow: /tmp/     Disallow: /dev/      Any help with how to diagnose the problem? I'm not sure why this has suddenly cropped up for no apparent reason.


Google Webmaster Tools site removal

I had a major issue in the last week where a site was found to be showing huge numbers of pages that it shouldn't have been. Naturally Google indexed all of these pages! Rather than manually remove 5000+ links, I thought the nuclear option of removing the whole site would be the best option (using the _Remove URL_ tool with no URL provided), since the site was poorly ranking anyway. I had read that this was a good way to reset your site if you wanted to start over. I removed the site, then after confirming that Google had removed it, I resubmitted the site for indexing and submitted a new site map and a new _robots.txt_ to prevent indexing of the restricted pages. The sitemap shows that it is indexed (or at least, a large portion of it is indexed) and I can see the Google bot activity on the site. However, on my dashboard I see _severe health problems_ listed, with the main one being _important page removed_ and a link to the removal request for the main site. Furthermore, there are no links to the site in the Google index (when tested against `site:mysite.com` in a search). Do I need to _reinclude_ the site using the removal tool? If I do this, will it re-add all the bad URLs that I was trying to get rid of?


Protect SVG from client access

I want to make a presentation that consists from some number of slides. The actual content of the slides is going to consist of vector elements in SVG format. The transition between slides should be managed with JavaScript. The question is, whether it is possible to implement this in such way that user can not save the presentation either using simple Save As... or digging into browser's cache? Also I am thinking about using Raphael (which is JavaScript library) instead of pure SVG. But as far as I know, it's impossible to protect JavaScript from client access since it's meant to run on client side. So is there any way to get full or some protection from client saving the slides?


Where can I find Ad Networks with single liner Ads?

I've developed a site that serves pure HTML Weather widgets (and they are great looking too). Just after two months I am generating 1.25K hits monthly (Google Analytics). Now I want to generate some money out of it. You can check my service out on Here . I am looking for affiliate or an Ads service that can I can hookup within but there is a twist in story. **_I want single liner text Ad in a particular location_** otherwise widgets will look rubbish, see this snapshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/lMyGg.jpg) Plus I have some unique places in my site to place some banner ads as well, Here are existing set of services that I've already tried:   * Ad Sense, doesn't allow or have such formats of methods.    * Peefly provides you with straight links works best but I recorded some clicks (Through Google Events) and they didn't show me any, plus it introduces overhead of manually going and choosing your links.    * BidVertise totally rubbish opens popups and what not, makes site look like spam I am new to this ad stuff so have a limited knowledge. Suggestions please? I have one more place in Forecast but I want to start simple. P.S. I also have a MetroUI like widget coming in the pipeline but its not ready yet.


My Google result is displaying incorrect URL

We had our website as .php for 3 years, and recently it has been getting hacked, and just switched to an ASP.NET CMS template I wrote from scratch as it is more secure and should prevent these issues. Unfortunately, some of the .php pages still show up in the google results, and some of our search results are hijacked. If you do a search on google for wholesale used tires. You will see a site with our title, and our description, yet with another url. The url stealing our search result is www.wanxiangsh.com/, when it should be displaying http://www.usedtires.com. Yet, it still directs the user to http://www.usedtires.com but not giving my customer google ad-revenue. As if it was somehow stealing it. But when I type www.wanxiangsh.com into my browser it displays a chinese chemical company. Any insight into what is going on here? Does google somehow have a corrupt cache of our website? If you view the record I received on our site below that I received from google, you sill see that there is a suspicious url_box_1 field with the value www.wanxiangsh.com at the bottom of the record. AutoDetectedBrowser: Firefox 4 AutoDetectedOS: Windows 7 IssueType: lr_dmca Language: en agree1: checked agree: checked companyname: Usedtires.com country_residence: US description_of_copyrighted_work: Copyrighted website is being displayed in a URL that is not owned by me. It is stealing google adsense revenue and visitors to my site. dmca_signature: Howard Levy dmca_signature_date_day: 19 dmca_signature_date_month: 04 dmca_signature_date_year: 2011 first_and_last: Howard Levy first_name: Howard hidden_product: websearch last_name: Levy location_of_copyrighted_work: www.usedtires.com represented_copyright_holder: Howard Levy url_box_1: www.wanxiangsh.com/


SSL Certificate is Untrusted how to fix it

How can i fix the untrusted ? And why it appears ? What may cause this problem.This is in FF but in Chrome is red https with x marked on it.


How to deal with a client who redesigned their own site badly?

I am a freelance designer/developer. I am starting a registered business and will be offering other services soon and I am in the process of expanding the portfolio section of my existing website but have noticed that one of my previous clients has had a bit of trouble and has tried to mimic the design I created for him and do it himself on a Wordpress site. I originally built him an actual website, on Windows hosting environment and the new version he has created (trying to mimic what I had created) looks terrible. This is going to reflect badly on me since I am showcasing his website in my portfolio. Now when people go to check out his site, they will no longer see what I built, they'll be seeing a terrible clone of what I made. How would you deal with this? I have recently found out that my client had lost my number and spoke to my friend about contacting me but didn't. And based on what was said when I finished the website years ago, there's no reason to assume that he didn't want to contact me again. Would you contact this client and see if they would like the website put back to its original state (and make any new updates that they wanted)? Or would you just take the link down from your website's portfolio, and just include a screenshot of the work you did for them? Or would you just show a list of logos on your portfolio for the people you've done work for? Or would you include the link to the client's site, along with a screenshot and also some disclaimer somewhere stating that while the screenshots were correct at the time, they may change in the future? I'd really like to contact this client to see if I can help them, because I know he likes his site to look perfect, and given what he said years ago, there's no reason for me to think that he likes what he's created. But I haven't contacted him yet because I don't want to be rude - because there's always a chance that he has changed his mind, or may be a little proud.


How to spot plagiarized logos?

Is there a better method of finding if a logo is a shameless copy of another logo, other than Google's image search tool?


Two websites (and domains) on one hosting

So I am a poor college student, thus I can't afford dedicated hosting, cloud or anything fancy of the like... However I managed to purchase myself two domain names say `http://abc.com` and `http://def.com` for two completely different PHP applications (both are CakePHP, database-driven applications). I also have an Economy hosting package from GoDaddy. So, my question is: will I be able to host those two applications on the same host? Is it just as simple as creating two separate folders 'abc' and 'def' and have the domain names point to them? I have found something of similar nature: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4809112/hosting-two-domains-using-only-one- vps . Not sure if this will apply to my case using GoDaddy service. Thanks for your help guys. I have never actually done deployment before. My whole life has been around LAMP stack local development. Hopefully this will clear up my mind a little.


JavaScript loaded external content SEO

I wonder what is the best way to have Javascript loaded content indexed by search engines. I know that search engines don't execute Javascript, but I am thinking more of an progressive enchantment. I am creating a responsive website, and on the home page I will have some sections about most visited products and recommended product that I plan to load depending on the device detected. These products will be in sliders with thumbnail images and names of the products. If mobile is detected slider content will not load, ant the link to the external page will be shown. I know that external content will be indexed via link to those resources. Where will the users be directed from search in this case?   To the external page or home page?   Will it be bad for SEO if I show only product names on front page so they can be indexed and hide them with CSS?   What is the best way to index that content and possibly direct users from search to home page? Also, i've seen the Ajax crawling but iI would like not to use that if there is any better way.


Does ARIN require ISPs ask for SSL key pairs before issuing an IP address?

I've just asked for a new IP address for an SSL website, and my ISP responded: > Before we can assign the 1 Additional IP Address you requested for [server > name], we must first ask you to provide the SSL certificate and key pair for > the respective FQDN that it will be used for. > > Recently we have updated our address assignment policy to better handle the > global depletion of IPv4 addresses. One of the measures we are taking is if > customers are requesting additional IP addresses for use of e-commerce/SSL- > enabled sites, we ask that customers please provide us with the SSL Cert and > Key pair when making the request. This is to ensure the SSL certificate and > key pairs the customer provides us with is/are indeed legitimate and do > match. We have had problems in the past with some customers either not using > the IP addresses assigned to them for SSL, or customers have provided us > fake, mismatching, or outdated SSL cert and key pairs. > > Please note that a wildcard SSL certificate will only allow you one (1) > additional IP Address. > > Once you provide us with the SSL Certificate and Key pair, we can begin the > process of assigning you the additional IP Address. > > We apologize for this inconvenience, but the restrictions placed on us by > ARIN (the entity which controls IP address assignment in North America) are > quite specific, and [ISP name] is obligated to comply. As a PCI compliant company, I can't just go around handing out our private keys to anyone who asks. From a brief skim through ARIN's policies I can't see anything forcing ISPs to request private keys. **1. Does ARIN require ISPs to specifically ask for certificate key pairs?** **2. Is this policy unique to my ISP or is it now standard at all reputable providers?**


facebook ad metric vs google analytics metrics

My facebook ad metrics shows me a number of clicks in my ad. Also my google analytics is tracking the facebook ad source, but the number of clicks in my ad is almost 30% bigger than the number of visits that is being tracked by the google analytics from the facebook campaign source. What am I missing here?


Different blocked URLs stats in Google Webmaster Tools

Just want to know I got different blocked URLs stats at Google Webmaster Tools. I blocked entire site for revamp and latest builds implementation. Here are different stats _Under Health tab > Blocked URls > 2,580_ _Under Health tab > Index Status>Advanced > 1,784_ What's the difference between above stats?


Tracking IP of FTP uploader of files to server?

I'd like to be able to see who uploaded or last updated a given file. I'm asking specifically about dreamhost panel, but info pertaining to cpanel would be useful as well.


For a site description, would it be better to use H2 or P tags?

I tend to follow this HTML structure while creating new site on my main page:

keyword

keyword + hierarchy keywords

      As you can see I'm using `<p><b></b></p>` to put short description of the site in it but I was wondering If maybe `h2` would be better to use here?


Switching to HTTPS - redirect question

Following the recent Google announcements about improved ranking for sites running on https we have a number of clients asking about this. Is it safe to just 301 redirect all pages to their SSL equivalent, for example in a common PHP include file:               if($_SERVER['HTTPS']!="on"){         $redirect= "https://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];         header("Location:$redirect",true,301);         exit();     }      Obviously I'm aware this is also possible within a _.htaccess_ file but that cannot be modified in our case. Obviously all internal links would be switched to `https://` links but obviously we need to sort out incoming links from Google and elsewhere. Is this a sound approach? Are there any other gotchas to be aware of?


Good Practice for Formatting SEO-Friendly URLs?

Does anybody know what the best SEO practice and most effective format for URLs is currently? All lowercase or mixed case? Example:               http://www.mysite.com/What-is-My-Site/      OR               http://www.mysite.com/what-is-my-site/


Typo3 Product display with spec selection

I am looking for a possiblity in Typo3 to display our products. What I have in mind is something silimar to this: http://www.haagen-partners.nl/aanbod/ An image of the product, some key specs and a short description. Besides that a selector to narrow some of the specs, select a product branch etc. As far as I can see this is based on Multishop. However I have no clue how to implement this. Is there a different extension which is already closer to what I am looking for? Or does anybody know of a good tutorial how to do this?


Need advice, previous parked domain not indexing on Google

I originally bought the domain (www.iconicphotos.co.uk) a while ago, I then decided to try and sell it on Sedo. The domain was up for sale for a few months before I noticed that the ads being pulled through on the parked domain were porn based (Not happy about this!). Anyhow recently created a gallery site to sell my artwork from but I am finding now that the site isn't being indexed at all! I had a couple of pages appear a few days ago but for only a couple of hours before they were removed. If you try the non www version of the domain using (site) there are a couple of pages but they are they show the old parked domain info. I have created a WMT account and updated it with a new sitemap. I have also submitted the site again using the fetch as google bot option. Not sure what to do now?


CSS3 allowed in email?

I cannot find any answers or discussions if CSS3 is allowed in HTML emails from the search box. I am wanting to update my company newsletters and campaigns but I don't know what properties are allowed. A list similar to a browser list would be awesome. Does anyone have a list that identifies the CSS properties that can be used for emails?


Clean URLs issue using .htaccess in PHP project

I am working on a PHP laravel project. I am currently facing issues with _.htaccess_ file. I have following _.htaccess_ :               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     Options -MultiViews     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]     </IfModule>      When I reload my page the it gave me following error:               404 Not Found          The requested URL /contacts was not found on this server.      Then I opened `/etc/apache2/users/username.conf` file which had following line of code:               <Directory "/Users/username/Sites/">     Options Indexes MultiViews     AllowOverride None     Order allow,deny     Allow from all     </Directory>      In above code I changed `AllowOverride None` to `AllowOverride All`. Then I reload page and got following error:               403 Forbidden          You don't have permission to access /contacts on this server.      When I add `FollowSymLinks` to _.htaccess_ file `Options` such as like this `Options -MultiViews FollowSymLinks`. Then sometimes I get this _500 Internal Server Error_ error and sometime this *Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data*. Each time I reload my page one of these errors with `FollowSymLinks` option. I also uncomment following lines in `/etc/apache2/httpd.conf`:               LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so     LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so      and still I am getting same permission denied error. Please help me I am trying to solve this problem for past 3 days but it is till unresolved.


Magento mails coming from[ftpUsername]@[servername.hostingcompany.com] on behalf of SENDER

I have a Magento installation, and for certain recipients the transactional emails appear to be coming FROM something like **[ftpUsername]@[servername.hostingcompany.com] on behalf of SENDER** instead of just **FROM SENDER**. I hope that makes sense. How can I fix this ? I know this has something to do with SMTP authentication or PHP mail but I cant find any such settings in magento and I don't know whether it's an issue with the magento settings, the server or the end users email clients. I also have a problem in that the mails send fine to all my own email accounts so I cant actually replicate myself it ( yet ).


Does not using <h1> in pages adversely affect SEO?

My company's website uses page templates that don't include an `<h1>` element anywhere in the page. The main heading, as seen by the user, is actually an `<h2>` element and the company logo (linking to the homepage) simply sits in a hierarchy of `<div>` and `<span>` elements. The one exception to this seems to be the homepage, which has 2 `<h1>` elements ("Welcome..." and "Our products"). **Is this insane?** I guess my concern is that we'll suffer a lower page ranking on search engines. However, the templates were produced by an external web design company (I'm not a web designer/programmer myself), so I can only assume they knew what they were doing. Can anyone confirm the wisdom of their approach, one way or the other, please?


Is there any SEO problem using an alt="" for a image?

According to this article, it's perfectly valid to use `alt=""` on purely decorative images. For example, if there is a graph showing some data which is detailed on the the page contents, any `alt` value other than the empty string would be redundant. To better visualize this, it's possible to access any website with a command- line browser such as Lynx, where the `alt` attribute is displayed instead of the original image. Sometimes, the alt just repeats content alredy covered in the page contents, and it's pointless to show something in such enviroments. In those cases, `alt=""` would prevent anything from being rendered, and the page would actually look better on Lynx. My question is, a website would suffer any penalty in terms os SEO if `alt=""` is used on some of it's images, supposing that this is the case only when the `alt` would be redundant? Or it would be better for ranking to keep every `alt`, even if redundant? Typically, SEO rules seems to be consistent with the HTML specs and good practices, but this is the case on this situation?


Does Google Analytics only track domain names?

I have a Google Analytics (GA) account for an existing site. We're developing a new site on a different live server, and I believe GA is tied to the domain name, not the IP address of the website. With the GA code installed on the development site before launch, once the DNS switch is made, GA should track the new site automatically, correct? Thanks.


How to track Google Analytics of Adobe Air app?

I have written an Adobe Air desktop application that tracks a bunch of websites and displays images from the websites in the app. I'd like to make it so that the webmasters can see that page views are made by my application. Is there any way the webmaster could distinguish Adobe Air access of the website from normal visitor browsing? Perhaps by adding something to the URL requests I make in the application?


Question about decreasing AlexaRank

We all know that Alexa ranking is not accurate as it make use of only the visits by the users having the Alexa toolbar installed in the browser. My question is, I'm regularly tracking the visits of a website using Google Analytics. The traffic remains the same but the Alexa ranking dropped heavily. Can anyone explain this? Can anything be done about this? I've already done tweaks like installing Alexa toolbar, having customized Alexa toolbar installation option on the website and blogs (which was a success). Am I missing something?


Is there something like mathjax for chemical structures?

I am making a website where people can ask and answer questions to bioinformatical matters. I was very delighted with mathjax and its easy use. Is there something like that for chemical structures? Or is there another way I can easily give users a way to view and write chemical structures/chemical equations on my website?


How to retrieve PageRank for a blogger blog?

I know this sounds like a stupid/obvious question, but when I try to retrieve the page rank of my blog using online tools, I don't get any result. My blog is know as http://tshikatshikaaa.blogspot.nl/, and has a subdomain URL pointing to it: http://technotes.tostaky.biz/. Is there any way I can retrieve the PageRank for my blog?


How will this affect my SEO ranking?

I run a fishkeeping website based on a WordPress (PHP) CMS. I've recently put a fairly complex "filter" into place which searches my content for mentions of fish species profiles and turns them into an active link. For example, `asdasd this is a test about abdomen to see if the caudal fin will work asdadasdas try again with abdomen and A. panduro and Apistogramma panduro` ...becomes `asdasd this is a test about abdomen to see if the caudal fin will work asdadasdas try again with abdomen and A. panduro and Apistogramma panduro` On the rest of my website, the species are linked with pretty URLs such as `/species/apistogramma-panduro/` but due to the way this filter works, the only information I can get access to is the `id`of the post. As such, I'm using `/?p=1703` or whatever the ID is. What I'd like to know is: how much will this affect my SEO rating/ranking? Will it be detrimental if I don't rewrite the function? Thanks in advance,


What is a good open source web crawler?

I'm looking for a good open source web crawler and i found these: DataparkSearch, GNU Wget, GRUB, Heritrix, ht://Dig, HTTrack, ICDL, mnoGoSearch, Nutch, Open Search Server, PHP-Crawler, tkWWW Robot, Scrapy, Seeks, YaCy. But I can not decide which is the best to search for products and prices. Does anyone have experience with web crawler and could help me? Only a tip for where i can read something helpful will help so much. If this question was asked in wrong StackExchange site please please tell me which one is correct.


Godaddy one page hosting

Disclaimer: not sure this is the right place for this kind of question, sorry in advance, just point me to the right place and I'll move it. In godaddy when paying only for domain, without hosting, they state you can get one page hosting for free but that option only opens their web-builder. I want to create a nicely design landing page, where the content is static.Is there a way to make my domain point to a wordpress one page or self created html one page/ landing page?


How to dynamic add Google analytics track code using php?

I would like to add track code for each link of in my email content So , i have register a google analytic accounts and found that there is only 1 track code therefore, how to use php , given a google analytics id and password given,   1. register for a new track code   2. add each code to a link (need to use php to add a 1px * 1 px image for each link?)   3. Return the codes added  Thank you Besides, if i have to track the result in Google analytic (traffic source ->campaign) or i can use an api that can integrate the result panel in Google analytic to my system ? Thank you again for any kindly help


How to generate meta tags for Twitter player card

I am using flow player as video player in my website. Twitter supports player cards which will require some tags to be inserted in our pages provided by twitter. I did the same as mentioned by twitter but not able get approval. They are telling that My website has wrong meta tags. Can some one tell me whats the wrong with my twitter player card.? the following are the meta tags i have inserted.               <meta name="twitter:card" content="player">     <meta name="twitter:site" content="@PSPKfans_in">     <meta name="twitter:creator" content="@PSPKfans_in">     <meta name="twitter:title" content="Pawan Kalyan In India Today Magazine Preview">     <meta name="twitter:description" content="This Video Gives the Preview of the book. Pawan Kalyan In India Today Magazine Preview">     <meta name="twitter:image:src" content="https://www.pspkfans.in/pawankalyanininidatoday.png">     <meta name="twitter:player" content="http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.18.swf">     <meta name="twitter:player:stream" content="https://www.pspkfans.in/pawankalyaninindiatoday.mp4">     <meta name="twitter:player:stream:content_type" content="">     <meta name="twitter:player:height" content="960">     <meta name="twitter:player:width" content="964">     <meta name="twitter:player:stream:content_type" content="video/mp4">     <meta name="twitter:domain" content="www.PSPKfans.in">


Marking content as creative commons for search engines

Google Advanced search provides the ability to search for data with certain usage rights (creative commons). How can I tag my data to indicate the usage rights?


Redirect example.com:81 to example.com

I need to redirect `www.example.com:81/site/` to `www.example.com`. I have used mod_rewrite a few times, is it possible to solve this in a similar way?


Need help to understand the status of domain

Hi guys may be some one can help me to understand that DNS record:               Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC     Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com     Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com     Name Server: NS1.SEDOPARKING.COM     Name Server: NS2.SEDOPARKING.COM     Status: clientDeleteProhibited     Status: clientRenewProhibited     Status: clientTransferProhibited     Status: clientUpdateProhibited     Updated Date: 30-aug-2013     Creation Date: 15-aug-2002     Expiration Date: 15-aug-2014        * Does that mean that the domain will be expired soon?   * Why that domain has 5 statuses?   * Does that statuses means that domain owner cant control the domain state?


What's the difference between an addon domain and redirecting any domain to any subdomain?

Most of the server space vendors have two type of product:   1. They say this much space inside that you can park/add NUMBER OF domain   2. Here also that much space inside that you can only park/add ONE domain but you can have number of subdomains. So now in option 2: I have parked one main domain as `abc.com`. I have made one subdomain of that - `demo1.abc.com`. I have bought another domain `xyz.com`. In that domain's control panel I have an option for domain forwarding. Inside that I have forwarding `xyz.com` to `demo1.abc.com` and enable URL masking. In short I have also parked xyz to that space. **So what's the difference between between the two options? In both I can park a number of domains.** Then why does option 1 is have higher price then number option 2? **Also** Now the content of xyz.com would be accessed by both ways:               xyz.com      demo1.abc.com      Typing in this in browser's URL will give same content so does it have any effect on SEO? What if I want to completely hide the detail about `demo1.abc.com` to the outside world?


301 redirect from one domain to another - what to do in Google Webmaster Tools

I have a Wordpress site in Network mode, using subdomains. I had a site indexed as subdomain.example.com. I recently purchased a domain, example2.com say. Using the plugin "WordPress MU Domain Mapping". I remapped subdomain.example.com to example2.com. The plugin performs a 301 redirect. Google Webmaster Tools gave me a message saying it could no longer access subdomain.example.com. I have created a new GWT website profile for example2.com. I used a server redirect checker, and subdomain.example.com/* is being redirected to example2.com/* I have 3 questions:   1. Both subdomain.example.com & example2.com are returned in the SERP when I search for my site name. Should I delete subdomain.example.com from the index? Will this delete the link juice that subdomain.example.com will pass on to example2.com?   2. What do I do with the GWT profile for subdomain.example.com? Do I delete it?   3. I guess I have to wait for the PR of example2.com to increase from 0? (subdomain.example.com has a PR of 4) Thanks for any assistance


Google Analytics Experiment -- How to test shopping cart

We have: GET landing.html (then select a production) POST cart1.php (then select options) POST cart2.php (then enter billing info) POST cart3.php (will process payment and then redirect GET thankyou.html I want to run an experiment on cart2.php to increase conversions. How do I do this in Google Analytics? UPDATE: If I do the basic tracking, I lose the transaction details. For example, here is:   * A simple form (that leads into a shopping cart)   * An original shopping cart page 1   * An experimental shopping cart page 1 ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tw1EU.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fgDMY.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/L7s7T.png) ==================== This is an example of the cart that will not work with Analytics: === 1.php ===               <form action="2.php" method="get">     <input name="name">     <button>GO</button>     </form>      === 2.php ===
2
                === 2b.php ===
2b


Is it possible to forward a domain with one subdomain exception?

I have a `www.example.co` as my primary domain and a domain `example.technology` is forwarded to that domain. Now, can I add an exception for `subdomain.example.technology` to this confuguration? If the answer is yes then how?


What could keep a javascript from loading properly on a page?

We have a vendor that switched our files over to a new server. We had a carousel on our homepage that was using javascript saved on the vendor server. After the move the carousel javascript won't load and the carousel is broke (been working for a year and we haven't touched a file). So the odd thing is when I debug in FF I see our css and js for the carousel - I am also using full URLs for everything so it can't be a directory issue (Windows/ASP). Now if I take the links for css and js (they are in the same folder) and try to hit them remotely from my laptop with the carousel code saved locally, the css works but not the js. No js in the folders they gave us work remotely. However I see the js loaded in FF debug. And if I copy the js, save it, and link to my local copy... the carousel works fine. Also if I go directly to the javascript saved on vendor server... it loads fine on a page. What could be going on? Perm issue? Edit: Header info.               Response Headers From Cache     Accept-Ranges   bytes     Content-Length  36927     Content-Type    application/x-javascript     Date    Sun, 25 May 2014 19:55:58 GMT     Etag    "b8387cc1cc77cf1:b88"     Last-Modified   Sun, 25 May 2014 03:52:32 GMT     Server  Microsoft-IIS/6.0     X-Powered-By    ASP.NET


Disabling HTML5 rendering in Chrome

I want to test fallback if a browser isn't HTML5 ready. Is there an easy way to disable HTML rendering in Chrome?


Is there a report in Google Analytics for visit duration for mobile only?

I recently improved the mobile experience of a site and I want to see if it has had an impact. In Google Analytics, can I get a report on the visit duration limited to mobile devices?


How can I convert a series of images to a valid HTML5 MP4 video?

I am attempting to encode a video from an image sequence, for embedding as an HTML5 video. I have managed to encode into the WebM and OGG format successfully (so for example, it works fine in Firefox), but I'm having trouble with the MPEG4/H264 version. I am using ffmpeg as follows:               ffmpeg -i image%04d.bmp -b 1500k -vcodec libx264 %1.mp4      At the moment, this outputs a video that works in Chrome, but does not play in Internet Explorer. (Nor does it play on my Windows Media Player, which usually plays MP4 files fine.) I've tried changing my ffmpeg encoder (I've used a Windows build and a Linux build), and I've tried adding more parameters that I found on the web, e.g. the following:               ffmpeg -i image%04d.bmp -f mp4 -strict experimental -vcodec libx264 -crf 22 -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -partitions +parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -me_method hex -me_range 16 -subq 6 -g 250 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -b_strategy 1 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 128k -ar 44.1k %1.mp4      However, the result is the same. How can I render a video that Windows and IE can display? Note: I have specified the type in both the .htaccess file and inside the HTML5 tags, so that's not the problem. (Also, the page works fine in IE with other mp4 videos, so the problem is definitely with the encoding.) Update: I got this working with a 3rd ffmpeg installation that had some presets, I used "-vpre slow -vpre baseline" and it seemed to work, although the first 2 installations I had don't have these presets. Still, I don't know why these settings should be the difference between a broken file and a working one.


Are inconsistent language tags bad for SEO

Our website offers 3 languages in the following manner:   - **English** : `www.example.org/en` with `<html xml:lang="en" lang="en">`   - **Spanish** : `www.example.org/es` with `<html xml:lang="es" lang="es">`   - **French** : `www.example.org/fr` with `<html xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">` However when we check in `Google Analytics`, we can see that Google has generated much more language tags (some in the form of a `language`, others in the form of `language+region`). ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hLVuH.png) My understanding is that the `<html lang>` tag doesn't dictate how Google considers the content language, instead Google determines the language based on the actual analysis of the content, which I believe shows that our content is actually inconsistent. **Q1: Is this negative to our SEO, and if so in what measure?** When we click on the reported languages, all we see is a pretty useless view which only shows the selected language accounting for 100% of itself: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/D8riX.png) **Q2: Can we see which pages were identified as being of a certain language?**


Suggestion for web application simmilar to wiki+SE

There were plenty of *.stackexchange places in which I could have posed this question. I hope I have chosen the right one. I am looking for an open source wiki/stackexchange like application. The layout of stackexchange is almost fine to me, I'd just like it to be structured a little bit more like a wiki page. There are plenty of options available so I am wondering what would you suggest to me so that it would best fit the following list of requirements:   1. The site would allow users to start new pages about some topic that interests them. There would be a template the OP would have to fill in (description, suggestions, external links) as on a Wiki page   2. On the bottom of every such page there would be a list of "answers" and comments that other users would contribute   3. There is an option to vote every answer. Moreover every post can be voted according to some attributes (importance, usefulness..)   4. Every answer and original post can be edited by anyone as on wikipedia   5. There is a flexible system for rating users (reputation system) Can someone suggest me something that approximates the list of requirements?


Single Sign on across Websites

I have three different websites that I run on three distinct top level domains. I would like to be able to have users log into any one of them and then be automatically logged into all three. As an additional requirement I'd like the user to be able to use my own login system or a third party system of their choice (eg. Facebook). Can anyone point me to clear documentation on a "standard" way to do this? Everything I've read suggests trying to write my own solution would be a bad idea. SAML seems to one possible direction to go, so I tried playing with SimpleSamlPhp, but I haven't been able to wrap my head around that (better examples than what they have in their documentation might help). So what is the best way to accomplish this?


Google webmaster tools keeps listing errors about urls that don't apear on my site

Google webmaster tools keeps listing errors on my site about urls such as http://website.com/kulVxMTq1FRqJDMRo 93/f/w8kgNtn9x5EPpXKrKzo= The problem is that I don't have links with such urls and that GWT doest indicate the where it found the link. Is there a way to find where those urls come from?


Do I reference all my *.xml.gz sitemap files in robots.txt

I have a website with over 1 million url's. As such, I have 1 sitemap.xml file which acts as an index to many sitemap0000.xml.gz, sitemap0001.xml.gz ... sitemap0030.xml.gz etc. files. My question is: In my robots.txt file how do I specify the sitemap file? Do I refernce the sitemap.xml only? As in the following:               User-agent: *     Allow: /     Sitemap: www.mysite.com/sitemap/sitemap.xml      Or do I have to specify ALL the *.xml.gz files in the sitemap too?


How to copy Wordpress website within same hosting?

I use bluhost web hosting. I already have `mysite1.com`. I want to copy this website to different domains within the same hosting, eg. `mysite2.com`, `mysite3.com`, and so on. All sites will have the same content as `mysite1.com`. How can I do it in fastest possible way ?


Google indexes some of pages, but most are ignored from a website, even though a massive sitemap is submitted

We have developed a website, which works somewhat like a wiki - but not entirely. User of the website can submit and update information about their villages to the website and categorize it under Province, District and Divisional Secretariat. Currently the site has 14,000+ villages listed. A XML sitemap is generated dynamically that contains all these 14,000+ villages' pages and other static pages of the website. The sitemap is submitted to Google through Google Webmaster Tools. However, Webmaster Tools states that only 119 is indexed out of the 14,000+ items in the sitemap. As a result of this - I suspect - some of the villages can be searched through Google, while others can't. How would I get all of them included in Google?


I seek information about adding SSL to a website

Does anyone have any links or advice about adding SSL to a website?


University-like web hosting

I recently finished my PhD, and so my student web space is no more. My postdoc institution doesn't offer webspace to postdocs. And now, for the first time in 7 years, I have no website. I've been looking into hosting companies, etc. but I'm having trouble finding one that is the most university-like. For example, I'd like to be able to put some python CGI scripts on, but that's not nearly as common as Perl for support. I'd really like Linux/UNIX hosting and to manage it via SSH and SFTP (web-based uploading would drive me crazy at this point). I was looking into Amazon (having had good results with EC2 for running some time-consuming code awhile back), but I wanted to ask if that would be overkill for a website that doesn't get thousands of hits a week. ... or should I just host it myself? I'm currently, um being loaned internet from a neighbor (I moved a few months ago and haven't needed to get internet yet). But I do have a desktop computer not getting much use and could just buy internet. Also, in the off chance that I _do_ end up getting a lot of hits, I'd much rather it slowed down than costing me tons of money (I don't have advertising on it). I've just been spoiled by university life, and now I need to grow... but not grow up.


Sending Bulk Email/Newsletter (20,000 emails) - our SMTP server vs bulk provider, what software, etc

Wishing to send an email to about 20,000 recipients. Our own SMTP server used for transactional emails I believe is well trusted, we've not heard of deliverability problems, mails go to gmail/yahoo fine. DKIM, SPF, DomainKeys all set up, etc. **What program should we use to send the email?** Would people recommend bulk email software like Sendblaster? Would this handle unsubscribes, etc? **Send via SMTP server or connect direct to theirs?** Know some of this software can connect directly to the the recipients SMTP server. Is this advisable or is sending via a trusted SMTP server better? **Use our own SMTP server vs provider like SendGrid/Critsend?** Presume if we were using bulk email software we'd have to connect to a SMTP service. Are we best sending using one of these services or our own server? My thinking is the bulk sender providers may not have sent emails before to the people we're sending to and as such perhaps our server has better reputation? **If our SMTP server, what software (Windows)?** Currently using SmarterMail, is this up to it or should Update: https://www.senderscore.org/ reports our mail server IP with a score of 99, low delivery risk and very low volume. Any opinions? **Edit:** thanks for the answers so far. Providers like MailChimp are just too expensive for one off emails. Plus they don't seem to like bought lists - in the UK this is fine if the data is collected lawfully under the List Warranty Register - http://www.dma.org.uk/information/ind-listintro.asp


How can I set up forwarding domains to each have its own IP address?

For example (just an example, I don't own any of these domains): I have a main website chocolate-dessert.com I also own some other chocolate-related domains:   * chocolate-treat.com   * chocolate-snack.com For SEO purposes, I want to forward the two additional domains to chocolate- dessert.com, the principle being that I can better capture keyword searches for "chocolate treat" and "chocolate snack" with those other domain names. It's my understanding that in order for that to be effective (SEO-wise), each of the secondary domains would need to have its own IP address. But since both of the secondary domains are registered at the same registrar (GoDaddy), they would have the same IP address as each other (according to GoDaddy). Can anyone think of a method whereby each of the secondary domains could have a unique IP address but still forward to the primary domain?


Webmail with option to change password for email account?

Been testing out different webmail options to use (so far AfterLogic, Horde) And it seems that there is no options to change password for user. It's really bad thing that i have to go to server and manually change passwords for users. Is there any webmail solution that will allow me to change password, that also changes on server (as client). Or is it server setting i must use before? Or it is not possible? EDIT: **Note that i have cPanel host.**


Are there any hosting solutions for a reverse proxy?

I'm looking for a reverse proxy to get around the Great Firewall of China. Is there a service where I can point my DNS to their servers, and choose a site to proxy from? If not, what is the cheapest solution for a low traffic site? I thought about using Apache on EC2, but it seems a little complicated, and it would cost about $40.


Apache rewrite returns error 500

I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong with this .htaccess rewrite:               Options -Indexes          RewriteEngine  on     RewriteBase    /test/site/     RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=10          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /test/site/public/page.php?rel=$1 [NC,L,B]      I have an Front end script that handles all of the requests. In my case I don't need or have `index.php/index.html` file in my root project (`/test/site/`). That causes Apache to throw 403 error because of the first line of the code. The code will work only if you access the links as follows:               http://localhost/test/site/public/index     http://localhost/test/site/public/something/else/index.html      But if you enter               http://localhost/test/site/public/      It'll throw 403 error. I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong but I can't figure it out.


Larger text + box in Google Search?

Just curious, but I saw this when searching for "webmasters stack exchange". ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Hp1mM.png) The site seems to get "special treatment" with larger text, extra links underneath the main link, and a box around it. How can a site achieve this prime spot? It's just the first time I've seen this before, so maybe someone can shed some light on this.


One website two CMS

I have a business with two products, lets say boat engines and car engines. Direct from the home page one can click on either cars engines or boat engines. The subpages of each section are then not related. It is almost like two sites with one home page. However there are pages which should be common to both such as "About us" or "Vacancies" etc. My web-designer/programmer built this website with two CMSs. One for boat engines and one for car engines. Both were done with Wordpress. My question is: besides double-entering of content for the common pages, what are the pros and cons of having two CMSs. I expect 40% of my company sales to come through this website, therefore any information about the impact on SEO (positive or negative) would be welcome too.


Pre-defined (canned) contact form messages on your website

I want to know what you guys think of having a contact form on your website with a few pre-defines (canned) messages on your website. I am talking here about a personal website, like a portfolio website. I want to lower the steps you have to take to get in contact me, make it easy for people to send a small massage. I was thinking of something like this. Start with an email box, that is required to fill in. After that a name, not required. Then have 2-3 messages says: 1)Hi, I just want to say hi; 2)Hi I have a job for you!; 3) etc; 4) of course having the option for a custom message. **Your visitor just has to click the message, and it will be emailed.** ===   Security:   I also want to remove the captcha. Just store the IP of the user, and the user can only send 1 message. If the user wants to send another messages then the captcha will popup. ====   Cross-browser.   If people have older browsers and the javascript system is not supportant, then there us just a normal contact box. What do you think of this, are there any problems you can run into?


Slideshows in elastic or fluid layouts?

I'm building a new WordPress TwentyTen child theme using the ElastiCSS framework ( http://elasticss.com/ ) and am trying to figure out the best way of using some sort of dynamic content slideshow. **What is the best way to implement a slideshow in a fluid or elastic layout such that it remains proportional to the other items in the content area?** Should I even bother trying to obtain that? Or should I use like four different sizes in conjunction with something like the Less framework ( http://lessframework.com/ )? Thanks! (BTW, I've posted here because this was more of a "what's the best option" question than a "How do I program that?" question. If you think it would be more appropriate on SO, please move it there.)


CSS images loading extremely slow

I'm having difficulties with the following website : http://ladaily.com/los-angeles Seems like the rendering time of small images (less than 1KB) is extremely slow (over 2+ seconds). Any idea on what can I do? I know a big CSS file is a problem, but I can't do anything now to seperate it – any other idea why it occurs? * * * I think I got if figured , but from some reason images still loading very slow , Do you think it has anything with the server's configuration ?


Website not coming in Search engine results because of a term

We have this site which is named Vialogues (Video+Discussion web based application). https://vialogues.com It has been around for sometime on the internet and we have also submitted sitemap.xml to search engines. However when we search on google or bing or yahoo using the keyword Vialogues, We are given results of the keyword dialogues and this message “showing results for dialogues, search instead for vialogues”. I am wondering if it's possible to list the site without the search engine suggesting “showing results for dialogues, search instead for vialogues”?


I have installed Joomla 1.5.22 on a new hosting account, which doesn't have a domain yet, so it's public URL is http://cp-013.micron21.com/~annimac/ A message saying: XML Parsing Error at 1:1544. Error 4: not well-formed (invalid token). The source code for this message is:

Error

XML Parsing Error at 1:1544. Error 4: not well-formed (invalid token)

      There is nothing in /logs to indicate what the problem is. I have uploaded the following folders from a freshly unzipped copy of Joomla 1.5.22:   * administrator   * components   * includes   * language\en-GB   * libraries   * modules   * plugins   * templates\ja_purity   * xmlrpc and the issue remains. I have no custom or additional plugins, modules, or components installed. If I change templates, the problem remains. What is the problem?


Import Google Analytics data in Google AdWords shows conversion value as 0

I have a **Magento-ecommerce** site. Recently I migrated to Universal Analytics from Google Analytics. In Uiversal Analytics, I have tracked transaction data. It's displayed in Google Analytics conversion. Now I have imported the Google Analytics data to Google AdWords using this Link. I didn't used the Conversion ID of Google AdWords. I have added the code of Google Tag manager in Magento `head.phtml` page. Is this is enough for tracking the Google AdWords conversion. Now it has tracked the conversion in Google AdWords, but the conversion value is 0. Why it shows as 0? How to solve this?


Google WMT Site Performance not updating

The Google WMT tool for "site performance" hasn't updated in 3 weeks for me. I'm getting enough traffic to the site and google crawls a few thousand pages a day on average. Any idea what's going on?


Google analytics and 301 redirects

We have a multilingual website and the first page redirects to specific language page using 301 redirect based on some logic. For example: `http://mysite.com/` redirects to `http://mysite.com/en/` The problem is that these redirects destroy the primary request so we do not get correct results for traffic sources in GA. **How do you handle this case? Is there something that we can do?** Any ideas will be appreciated


Find "secret" port number

this may be kind of an odd question. My friend has challenged me. So somehow, he change the "port" of his site to 31337. If you just go to domain.com, you get redirected to google, to access the real site you go to domain.com:31337. He is going to change it again and he is challenging me to find out which port it is. Is this possible without guessing? Hopefully someone can help! Thanks. Oh, and is this the right stack exchange site to post this on...


Google Business Listing

What is meant by Google Local Business Listing? How it is useful for Promoting a site?


Quoting people for website dev. work

I have recently given some quotes to a few people. And I need some advice about how things should be done... **Q1** : I've seen, heard of and read about a lot of developers using free resource sites online to obtain free Privacy Policy, Disclaimers etc for their/customers websites. A customer I quoted the other day **expected** me to write/get a disclaimer for their site. Who in their right mind would expect a document like that from a Web Developer? I just told them that they need to sort that stuff out themselves with a Lawyer or something, and then to send it to me so I can paste it on a webpage for them. **Q2** : If you're charging per hour, and you estimate that the project would take 1week to finish (including testing/releasing), but you soon realise that you'll require more time, do you RE-quote them? Or do you just finish off the site at the original quote price? Q3: How do you figure out how much **you** will charge your customers? Do you charge per-feature, or per hour, or per day, or all of the above? Thanks :)


Other link relationships and impact to the SEO

Example other link relationships               <head>     <link rel='index' title='Main Title' href='http://domain.com/' />     <link rel='start' title='Part Three' href='http://domain.com/part-3/' />     <link rel='prev' title='Part Two' href='http://domain.com/part-2/' />     <link rel='next' title='Part Four' href='http://domain.com/part-4/' />     </head>      Questions Have a big impact to make my site get a nice rank to Search Engine?


How this site is ranked so high in SERP's with no content?

In last few months whenever i search for computer wallpapers (using various keywords), somewhere between 1st and 5th position is always site http://hdw.eweb4.com Everything on that site is scraped from other wallpaper sites and all it do, is to link to external resources (wallpapers). **Question: Why Google rank it so high when there is no real/unique content on it?**


SEO for images: can I use a different (cookieless) domain?

1. We want to increase the value of some of our important images by means of SEO, and   2. we want to start serving them from a different, i.e. cookieless, domain. We want to go from www.example.com/images/1234.jpg to www.example.com/germany/bavaria/landscape.jpg which can easily be done via URL rewriting. Then on the other hand, we would like to serve the image from a completely different domain, let's say www.examplestatic.com/germany/bavaria/landscape.jpg, to save the overhead of sending the cookie from www.example.com. Somehow I feel that this is not a good idea because I move the image away from the content by putting it on a different domain. Can anyone shed some light on this problem? Naturally, I would just use a different subdomain, e.g. img.example.com, but we already use subdomains for languages and our cookies are valid for all subdomains of example.com, so this won't help. UPDATE: We are not so much worried about the search-ability of the images themselves, it's rather all about optimizing the pages they appear on. So a telling name/url for an image including a telling `alt` attribute is probably a must have - but my question is about the domain part, if it's a bad idea to use a different domain. But then again, the big players also have dedicated static content domains, e.g. images-amazon.com, ebaystatic.com, ... so there can't be anything wrong with it, can there? END UPDATE I'd really appreciate any hints. Cheers,


Google Analytics and framesets

I have a simple web page hosted in an EC2 machine, using nginx. Let's say my web page is reachable by:               http://<my_ec2_machine_static_ip>/my_web_page      I've put a Google Analytics tracking code inside my page, in the head section. After that, I've bought a domain name, and redirected it to the above address. I've used the "invisible redirection" of my domain provider, to avoid showing the IP in the address bar, and show the domain name instead. As result, my domain provider construct a web page with a `frameset` that contains the real URL of my site. This way:               <FRAMESET ROWS="*,0" FRAMEBORDER=0 BORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0>         <FRAME SRC="http://<my_ec2_machine_static_ip>/my_web_page" NORESIZE>     </FRAMESET>      The Analytics support page for framed sites says: "We recommend that a site using frames includes the tracking code in the `<head>` section of the frameset (parent) page, as well as directly before the `</head>` tag of each child frame that you want to track." The problem is I don't have access to the "parent" page (the page that contains the frameset code above). I just have access to my page. So, I can't put the tracking code in this "parent" page. Is there a cleaner way of doing this? Am I going to get fake statistics for this reason? Many thanks in advance


What are the boundaries of a day in google analytics?

I thought initally it would be the timezone I have configured, however, this does not seem to reflect the true activity. Or is it only the delay of the data analysis that creates this feeling?


Emigration to UK vs English language skills

I have completed technical secondary school this year (I'm 20) in Poland. I work as freelance web developer for 4 years (PHP very good, MySQL strong basics, HTML excellent, CSS excellent, JS/AJAX/jQuery basics). So I don't have academic education yet. I'm planning to start studying computer science this year, but I hit on an idea to emigrate to London (or Dublin/Amsterdam/Madrit/Barcelona maybe?) for one year, then come back to Poland and start studying here. The goal is to improve my English skills, enhance some work exp, get to know how living abroad looks like, meet new people/cultures. My main fear and problem is English language level. Usually I don't have problems with reading and writing, but speaking and listening is not my strong competence. My English isn't fluent and is not very good currently (I think it's communicative, but in small/middle level). My experience: > 30 websites (with CMS, etc) [within this few bigger portals], few computer programs. I worked in a advertising agency (half year in 2010); now I cooperate for 1,5 year with another ad agency which gives me websites to create. I will try to get references from most of my clients and from my bosses of that advertising agencies. What do you think, do I have some chances to get some job as junior web developer / PHP programmer? Thank you in advance for your help and advices. Regards!!! PS. Why stackexchange throws out "Hi" or "Hello" from the beginning of the post? :O


Which tools can help limit maximum page view per IP to limit scrapers and bots?

I would like to prevent scrapers grabbing all my content except Google, Bing and other search engines. I am thinking of going with Fail2ban and limiting hits from an IP maybe at around 1000 per day. Is this a good idea? Would there be a better way?


Sorting organic keywords by total conversions in Google Analytics

If you go to Acquisition > Keywords > Organic in Google Analytics, you can see a list of keywords that people searched for when search engines like Google sent them to your website. Now if you have conversions set up, you can also sort this list by conversion ratio. **How would you go about sorting this list by not the conversion ratio, but total conversions instead?** For example, if Google sent you 100 people that searched for "cat" and 5 people that searched for "dog". Suppose 5 of the cat people converted and 1 of the dog people converted. Sorting by conversion ratio you would get "dog" at 20% as the first result and "cat" at 5% in second place. I would like to see "cat" first at 5 conversions and "dog" second at 1 conversion.


How to determine the amount to spend per phrase on Adwords research?

My company would like to start a PPC advertising campaign. Whilst I understand the concept and how to set everything up from a technical point of view, this is something I've never done before. Logically, we'd like to test out a wide range of keywords that we _think_ would lead to conversions, which we've put together through brainstorming and with some help from Google's External Keyword Tool. Sub-question whilst I remember - am I correct in thinking that in Google's keyword tool, keywords that we think will perform well that have a low competition yet high monthly searches are _good_ since there will be less advertisers, meaning our bid per click will be less? Is there a common benchmark or process of doing a round of tests with keywords? Should we wait for 100 clicks on each keyword, see which ones have lead to the most sales (or rather, sales that are sustainable with the cost per click of that keyword), then drop the ones which aren't converting and put that budget onto the converting keywords? We realistically have a few hundred keywords/phrases we would like to test, but spending $100 per keyword/phrase is going to work out as quite an expensive test. It would be nice to be able to spend $5-10 per phrase, but I don't think the sample size would be great enough to determine anything usefully reliable. Another approach might be to setup all the keywords, and those that bring the most sales within x hours/days would be the ones we use. **What is the common procedure with things like this?** I know there are a plethora of companies that specialize in exactly this, but this is something we anticipate doing _a lot_ in the future, so it would make sense to do it in house if at all possible.


Can I get Wordpress to upload images etc via FTP instead of the filesystem?

I'm installing a Wordpress blog on a site run from a server farm. We can only upload files through FTP (which gets synced to the web servers). Any file written to the server through the web site is deleted after about 5 minutes. I've found a few FTP plugins for Wordpress, which look like they will allow me to upload files using FTP. The problem is, we need to go to that plugin and upload the files, then go back to the WP post to add them... not very convenient, really. I know Wordpress has FTP capabilities when installing plugins and themes, but is there a way to get Wordpress to use FTP for the main upload manager when writing a post?


What's the best way to create your own website?

I'm currently making plans for creating my own website (.com) and was looking for the cheapest solution possible that gives you the production tools you need. I was wondering, are most websites these days made by "website wizards" or whatever they are called, that you just configure and tweak, or do most websites involve a lot of programming? (I am currently a CS major but need to budget my time so website providers that give you a lot of flexibility and control over how your site works, but minimizes programming would probably be the best solution). I'm basically looking for the most direct way to establish my own website with its own domain name. Probably the most complex service it will need to provide is that (privileged) visitors with an account/password to my website should be able to edit the webpages. There will also be a need to make this visually appealing. Any tips out there are appreciated. Thanks!


Redesigning parts of a site maintained with Adobe Contribute

An existing client had a site done for them using (I guess) Dreamweaver which is maintained by Contribute. I have neither of these. They wish the home page reengineered and have asked me to do the work. I do not have and do not want either of these products and my inclination would be to move them to a more conventional CMS in due course but for now ... Is it feasible to redesign the site and manually place Contribute comment tags (InstanceBeginEditable etc) around the segments the user can edit? I'm thinking e.g. of a div containing H tags and P tags wrapped in InstanceBeginEditable/InstanceEndEditable Is there a list of tags I can refer to? This is meant to be a quick and dirty job, is it even feasible?


Are there any risk if your DNS's SOA or admin contact are using the same domain as the DNS

For example, Google.com [1]   1. The SOA email is : dns-admin.google.com   2. The contact is: Administrative Contact: DNS Admin Google Inc. dns-admin.google.com As you can see, both are using `google.com`, I am thinking it is safe to use the same domain, i.e. consider the case you lost control of the domain, you can receive email also. (Of course Google is a public company so the chance is low, but might occur for smaller company that their domain might be stolen..) So, do you recommend use your the same domain as the contact or others free services such as gmail? [1] http://whois.domaintools.com/google.com


How can I stop a bot attack on my site?

I have a site (built with wordpress) that is currently under a bot attack (as best I can tell). A file is being requested over and over, and the referrer is (almost every time) `turkyoutube.org/player/player.swf`. The file being requested is deep within my theme files, and is always followed by "`?v=`" and a long string (i.e. `r.php?v=Wby02FlVyms&title=izlesen.tk_Wby02FlVyms&toke`). I've tried setting an .htaccess rule for that referrer, which seems to work, except that now my 404 page is being loaded over and over, which is still using lots of bandwidth. Is there a way to create an .htaccess rule that requires no bandwidth usage on my part? I also tried creating a robots.txt file, but the attack seems to be ignoring that.               #This is the relevant part of the .htaccess file:     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} turkyoutube\.org [NC]     RewriteRule .* - [F]


IIS7 as site title

When I search for my website on google both the title and description are showing as IIS7, how can I change this to a proper description?


How do I install PHP 5.4.8 on a Win XP workstation?

I am trying to create a MediaWiki site on my WinXP workstation, and need to install PHP 5.4.8. I have downloaded and unpacked the binaries for PHP, but the install instructions are telling me to "Run the MSI installer and follow the instructions provided by the installation wizard." Unfortunately there is no MSI file provided in the package! Am I missing something? Besides a clue, I mean. **Edited to add** : I will try to make this clear. I am not going to be able to work with Apache.


After some downtime, most of my site ranks normally in Google, but one subsection stopped ranking. What is happening there and how can I change it?

Bing ranks me normally. There are no spam measures taken against my site (I asked them). All urls stayed the same. It's been about 2 months


Wordpress Membership Site

I would like to create a Wordpress Membership site, I would need a plugin with the following functionality :   1. Able to hide pages from non logged in users.   2. New user accounts are created only by the administrator.   3.Users can not access admin dashboard.   4. Each user has a front-end custom profile page editable only by the admin.


Redesigning a live site

First question here so apologies if it's not the right place to ask... I run a very popular website, frequently attracting tens, if not hundreds of thousands of users daily. It's a game, and uptime is of critical importance to most players. Here's the catch: it wasn't meant to be popular. It was initially a programming exercise that I just threw out there expecting it to get a few users, then die off. I was wrong... So, in other words, my dog Patches is now almost three years old, and in thorough need of grooming... but with all the attention he's getting, how can I possibly make it work? I'm thinking the site needs a complete rebuild from the ground up. Heck, it still uses `iframe`s instead of real AJAX! In this way I should be able to build the "new version" and then let users migrate seamlessly. What would be the best way to do this though? Should I have the new version use the same database as the old, or should I clone the database to another server to work on? Should I just work in a subfolder, or subdomain, or a whole new domain? And what would the users think? I mean, the site's been more or less the same amount of butt-ugly for 32 months, would they be thrown off or even alienated by a full redesign? The last thing I want is for all my hard work to send everyone packing. Any advice on this matter would be very much appreciated.


Allow a web designer to modify DNS without letting them transfer the domain?

We are in the process of having a web designer create a new website for us, but I don't want to give access to the control panel for the domain names (and have no way to limit it, it seems), while at the same time I don't want to be the go between guy for editing the settings. Is there a way or a service for me to point the domains at a 3rd party DNS system, that I can then give access for the web designer, without worrying that he can find my personal info or try and transfer my domain out?


Canonical link to a different domain?

I've got the same page and data available on multiple sites (on different domains), but only one of those sites is really that data's "home" and I want that "home" site to show up in search results for that data over/instead of the other sites. Am I right in thinking that a canonical link is the best way to do this? Google's page about canonical links seems to suggest that canonical links to different domains are kind of weird and should be avoided if possible. If not, are there other ways to accomplish this? EDIT: to be clearer, I've got a data set that is available on several websites. Each site has a subset of that data that it's "home" to. So when search engines point to data in subset A, I want the link to go to site A, even though that data is available on all sites.


Mailing list and privacy

I'm going to start a mailing list for my website and I'm concerned about my users' privacy (regarding their addresses, contents not allowed, etc.. I'm kind of new to these things). Is there any document/policy I can read about this topic?


mapping naked domain (www.domain.com) to static website which is saved in s3

I am developing an web application, I recently purchased the domain from godaddy.com and the domain is use google apps, for email, calendar docs and other services as well. Now I just need to show that" my site is under construction" I have a static page which is put on S3 now I need to map "www.mydomain.com" to that static page which is stored on s3. I am kinda of newbie/novice to this so kindly help me.


Decode url in httpd.conf or htaccess

For some reason I am getting 404 errors in my log file because of users trying to access something like http ://www.domain.tld%3Fid%3D222 instead of http://www.domain.tld?id=222 I've unsuccessfully tried all sort of rewrite rules. Is there a way to decode URIs from Apache? Related questions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7246497/htaccess-query- string-urldecode and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8464298/rewrite-and- url-decoding


Alternative to GoDaddy?

For a number of reasons I'm thinking about slowly moving my domains away from GoDaddy. Unfortunately I don't know of a good alternative, and am looking for a recommendation. To match what I currently use godaddy for it would have to offer:   * Full control over domains via web interface   * DNS service with web control interface. (preferably free, or reasonably priced)   * Private domain registrations (i.e anonymous whois data) Any ideas?


Internal CDN and setting up subdomain to increase maximum parallel connections

I've heard that browsers can have around maximum of 6 parallel connections per domain at a time. So I decided to have another subdomain "cdn." then use mod_rewrite to point to media folder then change image references pointing to this "cdn." for articles in the database. Will this increase the speed of the site since it's increasing parallel connections to about 12 now?