Handling Page View for Images Site

I want to know how sites like stackoverflow.com or imgur.com manage the page views of their article. i.e. once i view it and then no matter how many times i refresh it.. the page view count won't increase. I would also like to implement it for my image site and would also like to know when should i update views in database. Thanks.


Is there additional overhead for status code 500s?

We have these web applications that require specific information in a query string. If that information is not provided, the applications throw an error. It seems to me that we should explicitly handle this with a 404, since the URL without the query string does not point to an existing page. Most of management seems to disagree with me; they argue: > It's not like anything links to the page without including the correct qs. > So the only people who would end up at the 500 page are those who went there > deliberately, or because of a broken copy-paste. Isn't there additional overhead to 500s above and beyond what we might see for 200s and 404s, and if so, wouldn't it be easier for an attacker to trigger a DoS by focusing on URLs that throw an error? (In this case we're using Oracle Weblogic, but I'm interested in the general case.)


Change site name SEO impacts

My site is merging with my friends one so the domain and the site title will change, currently my page title's are structured               <title>Contact Us | Example Industries</title>      But when we change the name of the company I was thinking of changing it to               <title>Contact Us | Cool New Site Name</title>      I have a sitemap.xml file which I can add in Google Webmaster Tools to reindex my pages, but is there anything I need to be aware of when changing names, should I still reference the old name initially maybe in the title or meta description. What is the best approach here?


Right process to transfer new website over current one

My current (old) website is just a static site. It has been online for 6 years. I just rebuilt it on Drupal. I need to obviously replace the current website with the old one. But first, the new site will be on a different server than my old one. I need to configure the dev environments and production environments on the new server, so while I do that, the current (old) site still has to be accessible to the public. So how do you go about this? How do I have the current old site still accessible, while the new site is being configured on the new server. If my domain is abccompany.com on the current site, how do I at the same time configure the new site on the new server that has the same address?


How to embed woff fonts for iframe source pages?

I am trying to make and embed a slideshow (of text, photo, audio, video, etc) in my site (HTML5) by loading webpages consecutively inside an iframe embedded in my first page. Most or all of the frame source pages, i.e. pages loaded inside first iframe are mine, but located in many different places. All of these pages are in an Indic language. Although I can use UTF-8 charset and lang="" declaration and that's probably enough functionally, but I also want to embed my preferred Indic unicode font in WOFF format via CSS3 @font-face rule , so the size and look of the text is uniform and the way I want it - throughout the slideshow. Problem is, there are many many pages in the slideshow all located in various places with many more linked pages, and it is next to impossible, or at least would be extremely tedious, to embed my custom WOFF font in every single page (which will also require separate css and uploading of fonts in every single instance). Besides, this may make the slideshow very heavy, sluggish and cumbersome for the user, since it will have to load the custom Indic font again and again everytime a new page is loaded in the iframe. I am not sure about this though. Is that how it works? I ask this, because I noticed that when I embedded my custom WOFF font in the 'first' page, it did not have any effect on the pages loaded inside the iframe. If I embed the font in some of the pages in the iframe, the next pages still don't get my font. Is there a way to embed my custom WOFF font only once, preferably in the first page where the first iframe is, and pass its effect on to all the pages embedded / loaded through the iframe and make their text show up as per my initially embedded woff font - without embedding my font in every single of them? Please help!


How to handle non-existent subdirectories?

I have a dynamic website with friendly URLs. Example:   * Instead of `/user.php?id=123`, I have `/user/123`   * Instead of `/index.php?category=fishes`, I have `/fishes` But, how do I handle non-existent subdirectories such as `/about/123`? Currently it gives a 200 success instead of a 404 not found error. Is there a way to deal with non-existent subdirectories in Apache config and at the same time allow for friendly URLs? Or do I have to handle this individually for each PHP script?


Dedicated IPs for each ccTLD

We are about to launch our web site in 3 languages: German `.de`, French `.fr` and Spanish `.es` All ccTLDs point to one server with one IP address. When I set the PTR record for this IP I can only input one common domain name though. Now, I was wondering:   **Is it better for SEO to add two additional IPs, so that each TLD has its own IP and a dedicated PTR records?**


Are there any downsides to starting a domain name with a digit?

In response to my domain name suggestion on meta, Kris said: > Something about having a domain name begin with a digit just feels ... _off_ > to me.   * Does it affect site ranks on search engines?    * Do you think people will be less likely to visit it?   * Is this just a programmer response, since most variable names can't start with a digit?


What is the most effective way of deploying a website?

I am aware of a few ways to deploy websites:   * FTP   * Export from source control   * Base the site on a source control checkout I can see some upsides and downsides of each. Is there any consensus on the most effective way to deploy new sites OR site modifications?


Steps involved in hosting a website

I work as a Java / Java EE developer. I have built / maintained websites for the companies that I work for , but I have never been involved in the end-to- end process (Eg: procuring servers , registering the website etc). I thought of building and hosting a website for my uncle. He sells few financial products and he has to travel a lot around the city that I live to market and sell his products. I wanted to help him by building a website for him which would hopefully allow people to yeah out to him rather than him going and searching for customers. I am not quite sure as to where I should start - 1) Whom should I contact for hosting my web application - this is not a very critical app , hence a low cost solution would be suffice.Are there any low cost cloud based solutions available? 2) How can I register a domain and how much does it normally cost? 3) How can I copyright my website and its contents? Regards,


Our site among those listed on Turkish link spammer/hacker site?

Our site is based on phpFusion Recently we found a Turkish web page that lists the URLs of about 20 sites that all run phpFusion, along with tags PR0 through PR5 for each. "Page Rank", yes? Ours is one of those URLs -- it is tagged "PR5". The other text on the page is a bit obscure. So I'm definitely not clear what is intended by the information on this page -- maybe that's the point. There's something about "after becoming a member... is added ... backlink..." Link spam? Does PR5 mean we're an especially good target? We're a bit concerned because we get much more membership interest from Turkey than seems reasonable. Very few Turks would have interest in the content of our site, and those who do probably wouldn't use series-generated email addresses at sketchy domains. At this point we're manually checking all membership applications and denying those that don't seem right. Should we be concerned about being listed? Is this a pattern associated with link-spamming? (Or what?) Anything else we should be aware of?


Why would I choose UTF-8 over ISO 8859-1 as the content encoding for my site?

Assume that the site is still in it's design phases so there's no initial work to pick one over the other from the start.


How do paid posts work?

I just had someone email me asking how much it would cost for a paid post with a link? It would be 300 words and provide a link to his website. Is this common and what's it called?


Structured Data Markup Helper: article about an event

With the Structured Data Markup Helper (login required; see documentation instead), Google provides a way to markup a webpage with structured data, two of them being article and event. What is the proper way to markup an article that describes some event? Should I nest event markup inside article markup? If yes, how would I do that?


Is Backordering an expiring domain still a "first come, first served" situation?

I'm looking at a domain name that is expired and trying to decide whether it mattes _where_ I place my backorder. This answer to a similar (but old) question indicates that various registrars essentially try to "grab it". The one who grabs it then sells it to anyone that back-ordered it. I assume if multiple people backordered it that they would then auction it amongst those people. Just wondering if that's still how it works.


URL rewrite and domain frame

I have registered the domain www.posti.sh at nic.sh. The website is on the server www.myskoob.com/postish. Unfortunately, nic.sh does not support frames, i.e. that the domain stays posti.sh as it forwards to www.myskoob.com/postish - so I thought about a URL rewrite on the server. Unfortunately I have no idea how rewriting works - I am thankful for explanations - but I would also like to ask whether this is generally possible. What I need is:   * The server needs to recognize that the folder postish is accessed   * Depending on the file that is opened, it needs to rewrite the url to www.posti.sh/<-according filename here->   * Also, the server needs to understand that a link to www.posti.sh/about.php links to www.myskoob.com/postish/about.php and likewise for other files - at the moment, when I type in posti.sh/about.php it redirects to http://www.myskoob.com/postishabout.php, which does not exist   * All this should be possible irrespective of whether the url contains a "www" at the beginning or not   * A plus but not necessary would be that it does not display the .php extensions Would that generally be possible? If not, what would be the alternatives? If anyone knows how to do it, any code and/or way to do it would be much appreciated!


inspect element on webpage displayed by Google Chrome

How can I inspect an element within a webpage displayed by Google Chrome browser as Firebug allows me to do on Firefox ?   This question does not help me.      If you are used to use Firefox and Firebug, you can see what I am looking for on this picture (circled in red color):   ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/PHXnw.png)


Do I have to create a new master zone for every site in webmin?

I'm new to webmin and would like to use it for three sites. Do I have to create a new master zone for each of my sites? Thanks in advance.


How do I create templates for linking to PubMed Central ids and and DOI names in MediaWiki?

I want to build templates that would render `{{PMC|PMC number}}` as a PMC number. That is, hyperlinked to the respective PubMed Central entry for said number. For example, `{{PMC|2824929}}` would be rendered as PMC 2824929. For DOI names, it's pretty much the same deal (i.e., I write `{{doi|doi number}}`) but it comes out as the DOI number hyperlinked to the respective dx.doi.org entry. For example, `{{doi|10.4103/0972-2327.56312}}` would be rendered as: doi:10.4103/0972-2327.56312.


Speed up your website?

I use WP SuperCache and W3 TotalCache to optimize the speed of my Wordpress website by caching. That really helps! But lately I have been building a website myself, basically from scratch. Is there any opensource program/code/api out there which can help me optimize (the speed of) this non- WP website (by caching) or so?


What are the basic things to do in order to make a web site iPhone-friendly or more mobile-accessible?

What are the basic things to do in order to make a web site iPhone-friendly or more mobile-accessible in general?


Blog, News, Slashdot effects & Video

We want to set up a WordPress 3 with the multi-site option enabled in order to have several (2-3) sites for news, photos & video. The expected audience is around 10-15k visits/day. One of the problems is that we _know_ that we will have big, exclusive news which will generate _Slashdot effects_ generating spikes reaching to 50-70k visits/day. These spikes will be rather rare: let's say one-two spikes / quarter. Each spike will last 1-2 days and after this will fade. But it is _critical_ for us that during the spikes the site(s) will be online _AND_ responsive. Another problem is that (at least) one of the sites will stream _video_. It is our video but we think to put it on a CDN (more on this later). ~250 episodes, each episode will be between 35-47 minutes. This gives us approx. 150 MB x 250 = ~ 37 GB. We plan to post two episodes / week. No, we don't think that all our audience will look at these. Let's say that we'll have at most 2-3k streams in the first day of a new episode. Also, even if we consider that the video is good (isn't it? ;-) - we don't think that this will generate any slashdot/digg (etc.) spikes). We think to use Amazon CloudFront for this.(or another CDN? suggestions please...) **Giving the above what hosting solution do you recommend?** We look at the following values: speed, uptime, budged, tech support - yeah, I know, the Paradise is in Heaven not here, on Earth :-). FTR, most probably we need a VPS, that's why I put the question here. TIA for any comments


Is it possible to do A/B testing with Adsense ad positions?

I was just looking at Google Website Optimizer, however you need a 'conversion' page in order to measure results. If trying to optimize ad positions, this doesn't appear to be possible. Even without GWO I can't see a way to track clicks in Adsense, any ideas?


Apache RewriteRule not redirecting

I have this in my .htaccess file:               RewriteEngine on          RewriteRule ^images/chart\.png$    /static/images/chart.png    [L,R=301]     RewriteRule ^images/artwork/(.+).png   /static/artwork/$1.jpg  [L,R=301]          # codeigniter     RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|static|images|admin|user_guide|sitemap\.xml\.gz|robots\.txt)     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]      The CodeIgniter part should ignore the images and static folders. However, when I open mysite.com/images/chart.png I get the CI 404 page. The other 301 redirect is working fine. Can't fathom this one out, does anyone have any idea?


Is there an app/script I can deploy to enable my users to change their own LDAP passwords?

I've recently enabled LDAP based authentication on my domain. This has allowed us to use a single set of credentials to administer the blog, the forum and the wiki. Unfortunately, this has come at the cost of users being able to change their own passwords. Ideally, users would be able to visit a page (i.e. `mydomain.com/account`), authenticate and then change their password. Does anyone know of a script or app that will allow me to do this quickly and easily? I guess it wouldn't be hard to write in PHP, but I'd prefer not to have the hassle.


SEO and http-redirect headers?

Similar question but different on key points. I have the following setup: example.com requests forward to example.com/landing/re.php with a 301 permanently moved. /landing/re.php evaluates cookies (or other request data) and directs you to either the landing page or to a specific language site, it redirects with a 303 see-other. All http-redirects are sent in the HTTP response header section. I'm really worried that bots won't be able to deal with this and I should resolve this in some way. My first instinct is to evaluate user-agent and send google to our English page, however I am unaware of the issues with my setup. What's the best way for me to deal with this? Should I re-work what I'm doing to some other way?


Google JSAPI Auto-Loading

When using Google's JSAPI Auto-Loading system - is there a way to get the returned file with all the JavaScript (combined) in one HTTP request? At the minute is just calls the load routines (with more HTTP requests) at the end of returned file, which makes it less than ideal when it can reduce 2+ requests by just including the returned JavaScript content all in one.


AJAX Keyword Suggestion Tool

Are there any JavaScript includes to provide an AJAX based keyword suggestion tool based on some existing text? For instance Yahoo offer a Keyword Extraction Tool but due to cross-domain JavaScript policies in browsers it is not possible to provide a pure JavaScript version of this. If a site offered a library for inclusion that would then perform the query this breaks the cross-domain restriction. Is there such a service?


Is there any performance issue with registering domain name and DNS with separate providers?

We hosted our domain name and DNS with GoDaddy. Recently we had problem with our DNS and now it has been solved. Now we are planning to go for other DNS providers for our domains . Is it safe to keep domain name with one provider and keep DNS with other provider? Is there any performance issue in hosting our domain name with one provider and DNS in other provider?


What happens when my domain provider cancels order after domain transfer?

A year has gone missing from my domains. What can I do to get it back? Here is the complete history (I have assumed abc.com and xyz.in as the domain names as I do not want to disclose my own domain names) abc.com and xyz.in were registered on November 2012 via a reseller of Webiq On November 2013, I was notified about the expiration of these two domains. When I contacted my reseller explaining that I would like to transfer the domains to GoDaddy he told that I was to renew them in order to transfer. So abc.com and xyz.in were renewed on November 2013 via the same reseller of Webiq I had started the transfers via GoDaddy to whom I paid a minimal fee (and they even offered 1 addition year for each domain on the renewal) On 17th November 2013 abc.com got transferred from Webiq to Godaddy. The records showed it's valid till 11/05/2015 on 18th January 2014 xyz.in got transferred from Webiq to GoDaddy. The records showed it's valid till 11/3/2016 Two weeks ago from today when I logged into my cpanel it notified that my domain was getting expired soon and that I renew it. This was surprising because it's supposed to be valid till 11/05/2015 but both my domains seemed to show one year lesser now! On contacting GoDaddy they requested that I contact my old registrar as the one missing one year must've been because of them When I tried submitting a support request to Webiq whether they cancelled it, they replied: > Your domain "abc.com" has been transferred away from us on 17-11-2013 and > the domain "xyz.in" was transferred away from us on 18-01-2014. There are no > order cancellation actions placed. If you have any billing related issues > kindly contact your parent reseller. GoDaddy has now made me aware of something called the 45-day rule which clearly states that I am to get a refund for the renewal as the old registrar (webiq) would have gained this refund regardless of whether they made a refund or not! I found the details of this in this link >> Transfer of Recently Renewed Domains


Setting Gmail as mail server

I’m in a slightly weird situation right now, and I don’t have sufficient knowledge to sort this myself without truly understand what I’m doing. Yesterday, I’ve registered a domain (.com) and ordered a VPS, attached to that domain. Chances are I may receive mail on my .com address to confirm the domain. Unfortunately, that domain is nothing, but an empty domain. Currently, there’s no mailserver that fetches my mail. Because I don’t have a mailserver available, I (temporarily) want to use Gmail. I prefer to add it to my existing, personal address, but I’m okay with creating a new account as well. I just want to read possible incoming mails. I’ve tried to set MX records to **What do I need to do to get mail to a Gmail address?** PS. I’m aware of Google, NSA, etc. PPS. I just want to receive mail. I don’t care if I can’t send via my domain. PPS. Detailed steps would be greatly appreciated, I’m a noob.


Slot matrix - Google Analytics _setCustomVar

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingCustomVariables "...Use a slot matrix to track large numbers of custom variables..." How to implement it?


Project Expenses Tracking Website

I wanted to design a website for tracking project expenses done by my team, which consist of 20 team members. In this website each authenticated user can add his own expenses related to the project in a tabular format. The admin user must be able to see the total expenses, which is a combined report designed after adding these tables of all users. Admin view- ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/THmY5.png) Registered User View- ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/DArlz.png) I am thinking to do it in Drupal framework but I am not able to combine multiple tables. Can somebody provide any idea?


Add valuable dynamic content to a mobile oriented (local) website, any suggestions?

HI to all, I'm developing a mobile website containing some valuable dynamic content for people living in my city. I did find some useful informations that aren't available in a quick, light mobile format and I added to my site: teathers' programming, pharmacy shops open at night, twitter account embedding... have you got any other suggestion? I was thinking about facebook oauth to add some "social" feel, but I woluld like to avoid cloning fb information/features, just add some other cool addictive thing. I 'm using php for dynamic contents.


Setting google analytics cross-domain tracking without the javascript

I sell a windows software through a third party company (FastSpring) and would like to track those sales with GA. The problem is that all my "buy links" on my site (www.easyjob.net) don't point directly to www.fastspring.com, so I can't implement the techniques described here. Instead, they all point to a php file (www.easyjob.net/buyNow.php). I need this php in order to:   * Save affiliate cookies (if present)   * Decide to which fastspring.com url to send, depending on the location of the visitor (US visitors are sent a price in USD, EU visitors to a price in Euros). All this is done without displaying any html (via a meta redirect) and without any interaction with the user. How can I still send the necessary information to google when redirecting to the shopping cart at www.fastspring.com under this circumstances? Any help would be really appreciated.


Browser specific sub-domain?

I was looking at this question and others similar, but I'm a bit unsure if the same applies for my case: I recently made a site which cuts for browser support at IE9. However the old site, which mine replaces, does have support all the way back to IE6. Users on < IE8 will be redirected using JavaScript to **ie**.mydomain.com rather allowed trough to **www**.mydomain.com. As the content is fairly similar on both sides I'm a bit worried about getting punished for duplicated content. For now I've disallowed the IE site for indexing altogether. But if there is something to gain of allowing indexing of both sites, that would of course be best.


Why is the difference between backlinks in Alexa, Google Webmaster Tools and Ahrefs?

I'm a little bit confused between what to choose. The backlink volume showing in Alexa termed as "Site Linking In" and the backlinks showing in Ahrefs have too much difference. Also, the backlink data showing in Webmaster Tools are too confusing. I just want to have the simple method by which I can check the backlink data for my website. How, which and when other websites are linking to me, so that I can strategize in a much better way.


Do ads decrease interest for a site?

Is it true that if a user sees an ad on my site, the probability that he will return to the site in the future, decreases? Also: Would having ads on site decrease the probability that the site will get positive reviews in blogs, Google +1 and Facebook likes and other kudos and blessings?


I am attempting to implement a web-based solution on Windows with SQL server. Some batch loads and data FTP needs to be run on the server. How are batch jobs run in commercial hosted Windows environment? What do I need to ask the hosting company to provide me with (security, remote control software, etc?). Thank you.


How to track how many users are online

i need a good service so i can see how many visitors are online on my website. I need a good, reliable service that can handle high-traffic. (My hand-written script failed in the high-traffic peak hours!) Thank you! p.s. i need a good reliable service, i dont care if it is free or paid. i just need to have reliable data! thank you!


flickr API - usage limit quota

Hi is there anyone who knows which is the Flickr API usage limit? I have website and i would like users to attach photos to their posts via Flickr is it possible? Which are the limits? On the official Flickr api documentation there is nothing about usage quota :(


How to calculate Website Bandwidth?

I'm already hosting my site, and looking for another host. So I need to know how much bandwidth my website is using. On my current host I can see only following bandwidth related data: Outbound traffic (24 hours)   * **Maximum** 801kb/s   * **Average** 398kb/s I want to know how many Gb/month I need.


Installing Ruby on Rails without access to command line

I'm VERY new to this whole web dev thing but I can program and I liked Ruby when I used it before. Now, I've got web hosting and a domain and a site on there that's currently ran under Joomla but I'd like to experiment with Rails. The most access I can get to the server is FTP and maybe a setting here and there in the control panel. Definitely no command line. Is there a way to just, I don't know, upload ruby on rails to a folder and run it in a browser? That's how Joomla works I think. Literally every article I read about this starts with "you just do sudo get..." mumbo jumbo.


Which PHP hosting is better GoDaddy or 1and1? and Also domain mangement

I own a domain on GoDaddy and I bought a hosting plan from 1and1. Now my subscription is going to end and I want to renew it, but I also want to choose only one company for my web site to have both the domain and the hosting plan. I'm hosting a Wordpress Blog System. Which company would you prefer/recommend, and why?


Adsense Page impression is showing zero

i have created a new adsense account for my blog [link removed as is loaded with ads, popups and who knows what kind of XSS] and integrated ads with my blog. But i am getting page impressions zero. i am getting daily analytic's of 300 to 400 visitor/day still page impression are coming zero only. i have verified my pub-id. i don't no what is the problem. how to contact Google adsense team regarding this. please help me out in this. -Thanks


Google is indexing unintended content that is either unpublished or a secret part of site

Google is indexing parts of my site that I haven't linked to, it's a mobile version of website that I'm working on - `www.domain.com/m/` <-- **note the M**. How is that even possible? Only thing I can think of is Google getting the URL's from Google Analytics. Same problem with my development site, `dev.domain.com` - This I have fixed by re-enable htpasswd. Had it once, but disabled it for some testing purposes. I know I could use **robots.txt** to skip the indexing, but have always been told - "Don't put super secret stuff in this, as it is public domain". Will Google follow the rules of a `<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">` ? Thinking of putting this on the mobile version. People accessing `www.domain.com` from a smartphone is automatically redirected to the mobile version.


To use multiple word keyword, or multiple keywords?

This question is about keywords in HTML. Which of the following cases is more favorable from an SEO point of view?               Arizona State University, Education      vs.               Arizona, State, University, Education      Thanks.


Drupal: Notify admin when comments posted on blog

I couldn't find a thread already clearly addressing this. I have a small personal website, basically a blogfolio. I'd like to allow anonymous commenting so ppl can provide feedback as I don't expect them to be bothered registering on my site. However, as the site admin I'd like to receive a notification whenever a comment is posted so I weed out abuse/ spam. I don't expect a large enough volume in the near future for this to be overwhelming. Is there a very simple way to do this? I'm aware of a few modules that offer similar functionality, just not sure which to use or if I even need a module to do this. Bonus if it's a method that can be extended to perform some automated spam filtering in the future if the workload becomes overwhelming. I am using Drupal 6. Thanks.


Can a news site with posts from press releases avoid being marked as duplicate?

I am building a news site about cultural events. Most of the posts that are published are about events (theatre, music, arts etc) and are taken from press releases that are distributed by email by news agencies, galleries etc. This fact leads to a lot of sites getting said press releases and thus google possibly marking some of them as containing duplicate content. Since my site is the newest of the lot, it is getting penalised (hidden from search results in some searches) due to the fact that it is considered a source of content duplication. Is there any way (apart the obvious one to not use the press releases as they are and have editors change them) to avoid being treated as a source of content duplication?


How to hire graphic designer?

I am developing the backend for a website. I always had the trouble of making an attractive design for my websites and have never hired any graphic designer yet. I have no logo nor web template. What are the steps to hire a graphic designer? What information should I read about before hiring one in order to make most out of our time? Where should I find him? How much do they charge and what qualifications should I look out for? Should I disclose my business ideas to the designer or could that be risky?


Should I disallow robots on A/B test pages?

I'm going to be setting up an A/B test using Google's WebsiteOptimizer on my homepage, and I plan to name my two test variants `index_a.php` and `index_b.php`. Should I be putting in rules to my `robots.txt` to disallow search engines from spidering these pages? I know there is an SEO punishment for duplicate content--which is why I ask--but I'm not sure if Google exempts pages that are actively using WebsiteOptimizer. Thoughts?


Different data with same title and keywords

Here is my scenario: I have a website where I redirect my users based upon the device they are using. Let's say a user is visiting from an iPad: I take them directly to the page of iPad wallpapers. The user selects iPad version and I them take them to the gallery of wallpapers where they can select and download any wallpaper. Every wallpaper is the required resolution, I have my reasons for doing this. Now the thing is there are multiple resolution versions of an image appearing on 5 different sections of my website, each having their own view page. There is only one record in the database table for the image, and based on my consistent naming convention of the images, I pick the required image. This means when 5 different pages are generated in 5 categorized sections of the website, due to a shared database record, the keywords, titles and every single detail of these is the same besides the resolution of the image, and the section specific details that a page has. The pages also have different paths like               wallpapers.com\ipad-1\cars\Ferrari-dino.html     wallpapers.com\ipad-2\cars\Ferrari-dino.html     wallpapers.com\ipad-3\cars\Ferrari-dino.html     wallpapers.com\ipad-4\cars\Ferrari-dino.html     wallpapers.com\ipad-5\cars\Ferrari-dino.html        1. _**My question is, how do search engines see it and how do they rank it?_**   2. _**Is it a good or normal or bad SEO practice? If bad, how dangerous it is for my site's SEO?_**


How to host a website in multiple countries for fast response times

I have an eCommerce store and it sells digital downloads. The website is hosted in the US, but I have a large customer base that is outside the United States in different countries. I know the hosting here will be fast for US customers, but how can I make it fast for viewers all around the world? Because when someone outside the US accesses the website, the request will always go to the US data center. Is it possible that when the site is accessed from outside US (e.g: UK), the request should go to UK (or nearest) data center? If I buy different TLD's `.co.uk`, `.com` etc. for different countries (but should target same website), then is it possible that in UK, it should open `.co.uk`. I can achieve it using IP locator and redirect the user to the respective URL? But how does the request go to the nearest server? Is it possible via CDN, cloud, cloud hosting, or something else? How can I achieve this goal?


Will moving to Facebook/Disqus Commenting lighten the load on my server any?

I manage a site that gets about 50 million hits a month. It's a Wordpress site, load balanced over 6 servers, and has a varnish caching system setup. Right now, 95 - 97% of the time, page views hit the cache. The only time it serves up a new page from the server is when a new story is created, or someone is logged in looking at the stories and commenting. What I am trying to figure out is that if I move over to Facebook Comments or Disqus commenting, and get rid of the users entirely, will that lighten the load? I would think it would because the only time you would be hitting the server, and not the cache, is when you're logged in - which only the admins would be. I know it's only 2.5 - 3% but I wasn't 100% sure.


RedirectMatch in .htaccess not working

I am using Transposh plugin to make my site 'bilingual'. Unfortunately, despite having English as the default language and therefore available at carolineelisa.com/xxx, Google is indexing carolineelisa.com/en/xxx. See: http://www.google.com/search?q=caroline+elisa Until the plugin gets a fix, I am trying to use `RedirectMatch` to tell Google to index the root folder, not /en/ subdirectory. This is what I have in my .htaccess file in the site root directory, as well as in the .htaccess file in the /wordpress/ subdirectory where the wordpress installation is (as I am not sure where to put it!).               RedirectMatch 302 ^/en/$ /      Is this the correct method and syntax? It does not seem to be working. FYI the complete .htaccess file in the root directory is:               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>          RedirectMatch 302 ^/en/$ /          # END WordPress


Does AdSense serve higher CPC ads to a website that has higher number of visits?

For the same niche and same set of keyword, does Google AdSense serve higher CPC ads to a website that has higher number of visits? I have observed that for similar niches 1 website (with 3K daily uniques) makes around $100 a month, and another website (with 10k daily uniques) makes around $700-800 a month It seems that the earning curve is not linearly dependent on visit count and somewhat increases at a rate faster than the growth of visits, this leads me to think if the Google AdSense algorithm serves higher CPC ads once a website starts getting a large number of visits.


What's the canonical process for backing up a website?

This is going to sound terrible, but bear with me. I currently have a cron job that does a mysql dump, a git add all and commit, and a git push to bitbucket. I set this up almost a year ago, when I didn't know much about git, backups, and general web development and administration. I haven't had the time to fix this and do it properly, but the repo has now grown quite big from accumulating large temporary files from my forum, so now I _have_ to do something and I want to do it properly this time around. **What processes do semi-large websites and personal site admins use for backing up server content?** Based on what I've learned since I set this up, what I'm currently think of doing is:   1. Making changes on a development domain and committing the code frequently   2. Archiving the entire site after a successful deployment from the development domain   3. Having automatic daily database and user-content backups.  I still like the idea of backing up sqldumps with git, though. I know git isn't a backup tool and that this is beyond its purpose, but the textual queries that are exported would be easily managed by git and would save a lot of space in archives.


Blogger AdSense ads not showing?

I have a Blogger site. I have configured AdSense in Earnings tab with a valid AdSense account (it has been run for 8 years) but the ads are not showing. What else can I configure?


understanding technology that news websites use

I am trying to understand the technology which many news websites use please have a look at this website http://www.shritimes.com/ if you click any news item then the particular thing gets zoomed and viewer can read the news as far as I can understand they have done some programming by which a gif image is opened up in a new pop up, can some one help to understand as what thing is used here javascript,html, php or what exactly? I have seen this feature in a lot of websites I want to know how it is achieved? I am looking from the code side of the things if some one can advise me any function call which does this I am a programmer but into C I am new to web kind of things.


301 Redirect in the body?

This may be a silly question, but if I only have access to edit a website through a CMS, and can't touch the headers, is there a way to redirect the page without prompting the user to click a link?


Open a page that redirects without clearing cache

I've taken over a website that has an index.html page that redirects. This page gets cached. Obviously clearing the browser's cache entirely would solve the problem. Is there any way to go directly to mysite.com and be assured of getting the new page without completely clearing the cache? I'm looking for something similar to holding shift when reloading a page, only this time for the initial opening of a page.


Number of pages in Google web index falling?

Accoring to webmasters tools (sitemaps), the number of pages for one of my sites in the Google index has been steadily declining over the last few days. In the space of a week the number of pages has dropped from over 1000 to just over 400. Why might this be? Has anyone else experienced something similar recently?


How to choose a good website/company name?

A friend and I have a small web hosting company, and we want to take things to the next level. Part of the deal is to get a new name (the current name was chosen pretty quickly a long time ago, and contains my friends online pseudo), but we're having a hard time to find a good one. We can either choose a "descriptive" name, that contains some keywords related to what we do (web, net, hosting, etc...), will help for SEO and may give people an idea of what we do, or we could have a "fancy" name, that sounds good, is catchy and easy to remember, but will not help for SEO or giving clients a clue. Both kinds are equally hard to find, because in the first case most of the meaningful/cool names are already take, and in the second case... well... it's hard to come up with a catchy/sexy name ;). How do you guys cope with this issue? Do you have any name recommendation for a web hosting company? The name would be both the domain name and the (registered) company name.


Web hosting on another continent?

My client from the US wants to have a website for Australian users. I am wondering if the web host really needs to be in Australia for this site. Does it really make any difference compared to having it hosted in the US?


Looking for a shuffle radio mp3 player

I'm looking for a shuffle radio MP3 player that I can embed in my site which:   * shows album and title and   * link to buy track and album in shop Like this one: http://phpfoxmods.net/clients/productsview.php?id=7 But this is integrated with MP3 community. MP3 broadcast should be secured, free or paid solution? Better integrated with shop or WP?


.htaccess remove index.php/url/ from URL

.htaccess is not working.   * `/index.php/user` -- is working   * `http://www.example.com/user` is not working Current .htaccess file:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]


Question on (size) relation between diferrent images on a website

I have a website that uses 2 image sizes:   * thumbnail   * profile They have different sizes (obviously), but their aspect (i.e. width/height) ratios are different. My question9s) is this: I would like to know what the standard way of doing things on a website is. When a user is uploading a photograph, I ask for a large photograph (which will be used for the profile page), I then "redimension" that image to a thumbnail **Q1.** Is this the "normal" way of doing things? (I dont want to make things difficult/different for my users) If that is the normal way of doing things, then I assume that it would be important to preserve the "aspect ratio" between the profile photo and the thumbnail photo, otherwise the thumbnail photos will be distorted. **Q2** Is this assumption (i.e. maintaining aspect ratio between thumbnail and profile image) correct?


Raw coding vs Joomla / Drupal

Currently my sites pages load in about 500ms. The HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Perl, and SQL queries are totally not optimised. If I recreate the site using Joomla, will my site slow down?


Deny access to a folder on hosting server but serve the pages

My hosting server allows to host multiple websites.   The directory structure is like this   * root   |_ www.a.com   |_ www.b.com   |_ www.c.com   |_ www.d.com I want to put some PHP files on the www.d.com folder so if some one browse the site from web-browser can get it, but no one can get it's source code _[even by loggin in to the root folder]_.   Is there any way to doing so ?   There is a feature called `Password protect folder` or so, can in help in this case ?


How to read Google Analytics events data?

My question is about Android application button press tracking, but I believe there is no big difference with button press on the web page, so I ask the question here. I would like to track user actions and user settings in my android app, so I've added the following code (executed when user presses particular button):               if (user_name != "") has_name = 1;     ...     easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "send_mail", "has_name", (long) has_name).build());     easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "send_mail", "has_address", (long) has_address).build());     easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "send_mail", "has_operator", (long) has_operator).build());     easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "send_mail", "has_passport", (long) has_passport).build());     easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "send_mail", "has_phonenumber", (long) has_phonenumber).build());     easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "send_mail", "has_mo_consent", (long) has_mo_consent).build());     easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "send_mail", "has_other_docs", (long) has_other_docs).build());     easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "send_mail", "has_screenshot", (long) has_screenshot).build());          easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "complaint_region", email_to, null).build());       See createEvent description - it sends `Event category`, `Event action`, `Event label`, Event value accordingly. Now I see the following results for particular date - EVENT ACTION: send_mail » EVENT CATEGORY: ui_action ![ea:send_mail- ec:ui_action](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Y5CGD.png) EVENT CATEGORY: ui_action » EVENT ACTION: complaint_region ![ec:ui_action_ea:complaint_region](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gBoXm.png) I can not understand - should not be total number of events `complaint_region` multiplied by 8 (number of event labels for `send_mail`) be equal to `send_mail` total events? `76*8 != 1038`. And, the main question - how many times all users pressed the button? `76`?


Is it possible for a web-server to send more files than requested for, and have the browser accept them?

I've created a basic web server for a school project, and it serves static content without a problem. I thought of having the server parse all htm/html files for links to .js/.css/image files, and send these files to the client without these files being requested by the client later. > eg. The browser requests: index.htm > >> The server responds with intex.htm and image.jpg I modified the server to send two distinct http responses for a "GET /index.html HTTP1.1" (one for the html page and one for the image), but the browser ended up requesting the image when it was good and ready. Is there any way to bypass this? (use a multipart response, perhaps) Will these files be accepted by most browsers, or will they be rejected for security reasons?


Tie multiple values to an event in Google Analytics

I have a search form with several fields - 1 or all of them may be used. I also have an outbound link on the search results that trigger an event. What I am trying to do is determine how many of each search term is used in some way that resulted in a click to each of these outbound link events. For example, let's say that I have the following searches, both which result in a click event on OutboundLink A **Search 1**   * FirstName: John    * LastName: Smith    * ZipCode: 90210 **Search 2**   * LastName: Smith   * State: California I would want something that aggregated the search terms that came before that outbound click event like this:   * John: 1    * Smith: 2    * 90210: 1    * California: 1 I can try to figure out a way to track this server-side, but I was hoping that I would be able to do this with Google Analytics.


Why would a web site keep my signup information for a limited time only?

I have just created account at (some web service, well, actually it was Transifex, a localization service). Registration form requested typical things: accont name, e-mail adress, password (twice), and, optional company name and phone number. What confused me was this sentence on confirmation page (the one right after submitting the form): > We will store your signup information for 7 days on our server. Can anybody explain what does this mean? What exactly they are referring to by "signup information", if it's something that should be kept for only 7 days? Or is my account going to be destroyed after that time? (Well, that could make sense for some special services, but not for this one.)


how to 301 redirect and add a modal for visitors

we have an old community that has evolved into something different and bigger. Domain name has also changed. What's the best way to redirect old site to new one and tell visitors and users from old community what that new site is about -so it doesn't feel odd to them-? We have created a 301 redirect, and a modal message on new site shows to visitors coming from old site, the url contains a ? parameter, we know we have to change the site also at Google Webmasters. The issue here is that old site wasn't added to GW and now if we add it, GW gives error because of the parameter (?). Thanks everyone.


Will a standard CMS on a shared web hosting account work for this?

I have two questions concerning CMS's that I need answered if possible: I need to create a site with a Database. This site will in due time have lots of traffic and many users if things go as planned. Is it better to have the CMS on a shared web hosting account or is it better to have a dedicated server for this? The site I want to create needs to be able to create groups where each group has its own admin. The admin of the group decides the content that each member can view/access. The information of one group can be shared to other groups as well. This means that only the information content is shared but not the group's member data. Should I use a single or multiple databases for this problem? Is this something that can be done using standard CMS systems out there. or should I try to build one myself?


Cannot solve errors on W3C validator

I have found a webpage that can check for errors in my webpage's code. Here are the errors I couldn't solve: > End of file seen and there were open elements. > > Unclosed element div.   >   >  `<div id="wrapper">`   > > > The language attribute on the script element is obsolete. You can safely > omit it. > > …e="text/javascript" src="http://counter.top.ge/cgi-bin/cod?100+91585"> > > The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (utf-8) is different > from the value in the element (utf-8, utf-8). I will use the value from the > HTTP header (utf-8) for this validation. Here are the error sources:               <?php wp_footer(); ?>                                                   One more for the wrapper:               <body <?php body_class() ?>>
                              <<?php pinboard_title_tag( 'site' ); ?> id="site-title">                     <?php if ( ( '' != get_header_image() ) &&  ( false != get_header_image() ) ) : ?>                         <a href="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>" rel="home">                             <img src="<?php header_image(); ?>" alt="<?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?>" width="<?php echo ( pinboard_get_option( 'retina_header' ) ? absint( get_custom_header()->width / 2 ) : get_custom_header()->width ); ?>" height="<?php echo ( pinboard_get_option( 'retina_header' ) ? absint( get_custom_header()->height / 2 ) : get_custom_header()->height ); ?>" />                                              <?php endif; ?>                     <a class="home" href="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?>                 </<?php pinboard_title_tag( 'site' ); ?>>                 <?php if( ! is_active_sidebar( 1 ) ) : ?>                     <<?php pinboard_title_tag( 'desc' ); ?> id="site-description"><?php bloginfo( 'description' ); ?></<?php pinboard_title_tag( 'desc' ); ?>>                 <?php endif; ?>                 <?php get_sidebar( 'header' ); ?>

                        Will the improvement of these errors help my SEO?


DNS forwarding used to point GoDaddy DNS to Heroku app: this doesn't work from a corporate network, why?

My domain on GoDaddy is set up with DNS forwarding to the Heroku app. This works fine from all the internet connections I've tried except for the one at work. How can I troubleshoot this issue? Is it a case of ports being blocked? Why might that matter?


Limit magento title length in admin

I would really like to limit the title length on products in Magento. What I've tried is adding `'maxlength' => 65` somewhere in `\app\code\core\Mage\Adminhtml\Block\`, without success. Does someone know how to add this feature? In HTML it will just be adding `length="65" maxlength="65"`.


Worth shortening all your long slugs?

If you have a lot of posts with long slugs, for ex, **40-places-to-eat- snickers-bars-when-hungry** , is it worth converting them to something shorter? For ex: **places-to-eat-snickers-bars**. I've read a few articles that say it is, and other sources that say it doesn't matter.


mod_rewrite and SEO friendliness

My website has an atypical structure and I'm not sure if this could create problems in the long run, specially for SEO positioning purposes. I have a unique, large PHP script, and I use the Apache module mod_rewrite in the .htaccess file to create friendly URLs, for example:               RewriteRule ^$ /index.php?section=Main     RewriteRule ^createArticle$ /index.php?section=Main&view=CreateArticle     RewriteRule ^configuration$ /index.php?section=Configuration     RewriteRule ^article/([0-9]{1,10})$ /index.php?section=Article&view=Default&id=$1     RewriteRule ^deleteArticle/([0-9]{1,10})$ /index.php?section=Article&view=Delete&id=$1     RewriteRule ^reportArticle/([0-9]{1,10})$ /index.php?section=Article&view=Report&id=$1     RewriteRule ^logIn$ /index.php?section=Authentication     ...      So, `www.example.com/index.php?section=Article&view=Default&id=105` would become `www.example.com/article/105`. The only _real_ physical file is `index.php`, in which the parameters of the URL queried is processed and the corresponding result is outputted. My question is, do the crawling robots (e.g. Googlebot) recognize these links? Do they index the resulting HTML outputted by `index.php` with the specified parameters as if it was a _actual_ HTML file? Also, would this become a problem when creating a Sitemap?


Does operating a web crawler/scraper use up my website bandwidth?

I would like to operate a website crawler/scraper from my web server (doing so ethically of course). What I am wondering is whether this uses my website bandwidth up? If so how badly and is it possible to minimise bandwidth usage? I am currently assigned 5000GB per month website bandwidth.


RewriteRule for URL Subdirectory Root

Have not found this in my searches on SE. I need this scenario to work: • User visits **someurl.com/news/folder** or **someurl.com/news/somefolder/** , they get redirected to **someurl.com/somefolder**. • If the user visits JUST **someurl.com/news** or **/news/** , they are allowed through to visit **/news**. Here is my current rule: **RewriteRule ^news/(.*) /$1 [NC,R=301,L]** How do I make it allow the second bullet point? First seems to work with no issues. Thanks all! **POST UPDATE** I have got the code RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^news RewriteRule ^/news news/ [NC,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/news/(. _)$ RewriteRule ^news/(._ ) /$1 [NC,R=301,L] BUT - it doesn't allow me to go to the URL something.com/news/ Any thoughts?


Trouble with pleskrestore "The file you are trying to upload is not a valid backup file"

I am having trouble with pleskrestore on Plesk 10.4.1, CentOS 5. I have 6 files I created (also in Plesk 10.4.1) with pleskbackup, split into 4GB: Here is what I used ...               $ /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup --server --output file=ftp://user:pass@domain.com/colossus729_split_0 --split=4G      ... to make these files:               colossus729_split        colossus729_split.001        colossus729_split.002        colossus729_split.003        colossus729_split.004       colossus729_split.005       But plesk restore wouldn’t work with those files (contrary to the documentation)               # /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore colossus729_split -level server -license      and get this error:               "The file you are trying to upload is not a valid backup file"


Are these backlinks hurting my site

I use Godaddy hosting. The preview DNS for my site is enabled (as there's nothing much i can do to disable it or turn it off) and as seen in the below screenshot, the previewDNS has generated a lot of dofollow backlinks pointing to my live site. What should i do to get rid of of these backlinks? I have tried redirecting the previewDNs URLS to the original url with HTTP status 301, but its nor working. What should i add to the disavow file to make google ignore the previewDNS URL's? Screenshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XzjKm.jpg)


Will seach engine determine the page title and meta tags content dynamically generated in a CMS

Although i asked about SEO for dynamic pages, and got right answer, I seriously forgot to mention the most important thing that i want to know. Suppose i have following php line of code               <title><?php echo $title; ?></title>     <meta name="description" content="<?php echo $description; ?>" />     <meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo $keywords; ?>" />      where the variable represent the their values generated from a database. Now, there are two simple plain and stupid question i want to ask   1. Will search engine crawl this dynamically generated page as a normal static page with these values static.   2. I don't know for some reason i think search engine don't do. But for example, when ever i type some question, i get the answer on stackoverflow website. I think the questions and answers are stored in database but how does a search engine find the page and display the title and description of the page stored in page. Or is it that stackoverflow generates a static page for each and every question that can be edited. regards


Are there any cross-operating-system, cross-browser bugs of which web-programmers should be aware?

Perhaps this belongs on superuser, but I'll try here on stackoverflow first I develop on Ubuntu and was wondering if it's safe to assume that my site will look the same in, say, Chrome, _when viewed on a Mac or Windows system_ , as it does when viewed on a Linux machine in the **same browser**. I'm not talking about cross-browser problems here, but rather **cross- operating-system browser issues** I guess that all Linux users know to be sure to include some Linux safe fonts in their font-stack cos we don't all have Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Tahoma and the lovely Trebuchet MS installed by default, but is there anything else? I understand (and fully expect) that **our favourite browser** (IE), doesn't work the same under Wine as it does in Windows but I'd hope that other browsers do


is this correct section use? and correct layout of html5?

Hello friends i want to know that i use html5 elements correctly or not. If you got any mistake please let me know and i want to also know this is well for seo?


Search engines, different vhosts on same server, with some stuff in common: do I risk blacklisting?

I don't want to have different domain names that point to the same server, of stuff like this here. My problem is a bit different. Let's take the real example, then we can generalize the problem. I'm "Olivier Pons". I have my own blog here at http://olivierpons.fr, server: 88.191.136.228. I have a another website that is about to open, that has _nothing to do with my blog_. It's a Website where you can put your jobs. It will have the same server, i.e. 88.191.136.228. I will be the first to be registered, with my job, and my name will appear in 78 different pages (78 departments actually). I there any chance (is it a chance?) some SEOs will blacklist me? ## To generalize: If we host different websites on the same server **and** if they have some things in common, what are the chances to be blacklisted?


How to host my jsp files in google appengine?

I wondered how to add my own JSP files in Google app engine. I created my account in Google app engine. I don't know where to host my file and what is the url of my google appengine. Can anybody give me a simplified explanation?


Turn off auto saves in frontpage 2003

When using FrontPage 2003, it insists on updating index.php without asking. I cannot see a way to disable this behavior. Does anyone know if there is a way to stop FrontPage from modifying files automatically?


Is there a way to see Desktop Events vs Mobile Events in Google Analytics like it does Goals?

In Google Analytics in the Mobile Overview it shows Desktop / Mobile / Tablet and has columns for conversions/goals. Most of our setup is using Event triggers not linked to any Goal though. For example downloading our product catalog as a .pdf triggers an Event. Is there a way to see these events in the Mobile Overview or only if I tie each one to its own goal?


Prohibit search engines before going live

I want to prohibit search engines to index my web site before going live with it.   If I simple do a `robots.txt` with:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      Would that cause any issues later when I decide to release it for public exposure? (I would of course edit it to allow access before doing so)


Is a statement near AdSense ads saying "sorry about the ads" against policy?

A site is using Google AdSense under "Our Sponsors" heading. I know this is acceptable by Google AdSense policy. A few more lines were added above every ad like," **Sorry to tired you with ads! But as we are FREE we had to cover our fees!!** " (sentence changed) I think that this is a type of request for the users to click those ads. (It made me click.)


Are you allowed to save Google static map images?

I wanted to know if you are allowed to save a static image of an area of a map so the usage limit does not run out and gets replaced with an quota exceeded image. If it's allowed, then I can save the image onto my server and link it around my website instead making requests to the Google Static Maps API.   * Google Static Maps API I have not seen a policy where you are not allowed, but all I need is confirmation if you are allowed or not so I don't get in any kind of trouble.


Does the keyword blog in url impove seo?

I have seen a couple of site which has high number of hits. They are mostly tutorial sites and blogs that address software issue/errors. I wonder if the keyword "blog" has a very positive effect in SEO? In my own site, I have installed Wordpress in root folder to avoid any blog keyword. I also did this to keep urls shallow (deeper url are not good for SEO). But I may want to think on it again. The sites I am referring too are               http://blog.sqlauthority.com     http://veerasundar.com/blog/2011/11/making-xampp-to-serve-any-directory-outside-htdocs/      I know there are standard (sort of) class names or ID that identify different contents and makes it easier for the search engine to identify contents like, "container", "menu". The use of word "blog" would mean this is about dicussing/tutoring something and have a very positive effect on SEO?


ShipWire on wpcommerce

I found in wp-commerce the words "Shipware" ...what does it means? In addition, Where i can find videos or video tutorials/course of cms and plugins for e-commerce? Like Magento, etc. wp-commerce.?


Is cloning a website a good idea?

I have issues with my website layout and I am thinking, I should clone one and modify it according to my needs? Is it a good idea? Is it something common in designing new websites? _Note that I am willing to pay to redign it but it is hard to find the right person._


Is there a way to capture a users data after a Paypal transaction has been completed?

Are there any $_POST variables that are sent with my transaction complete url, that I can save in the users session. I would like to be able to capture the email address from the customers PayPal account.


How can I get the MediaWiki "Rp" template to work on my wiki?

I copy-pasted the contents of the English Wikipedia's code for creating the `{{rp}}` operator (that gives you the page number for a book) to this page. Then I followed all the errors that resulted, creating new templates so that the templates it relied on could be available. If this seems unclear in my wording, please ask for clarifications.


Apache Rewrites not working due to Akamai

I have a website which is setup with akamai. My domain and subdomains are mapped onto an Akamai IP. I have written an Apache rewrite which does an internal URL X to another internal URL Y. This rewrite works fine as long as I am testing in my local setup or for those subdomains which are not mapped onto Akamai but directly onto my Public IP. My suspicion is that while rewriting the request apache is not able to resolve the IP of the app server correctly. When I add entries to my /etc/hosts file pointing the domain/subdomain to my internal IP the rewrites work. Now, I have a huge list of subdomains and it can grow as well. Is there another way to fix this problem without having to make entries in the /etc/hosts file ? I would much appreciate your thoughts.


What seems more like spam? Which do users hate more? Transactional Emails or Marketing emails?

I've always assumed that users would think of marketing emails as more spamy than transactional emails. I'm getting the opposite reception though from our users. Especially power users are very interested in things that our marketing department has to say but detests transactional emails. Is this telling me to send more marketing and less transactional emails?


Filter post and route them on a tab in a facebook page

I use dlvr.it to route feeds from many sites on my facebook page. The problem is that they all appear in my main page, hiding the post I create. So i was wondering, is there a way to redirect all those post on a separate tab? maybe some kind of filtering based on the content of the post? Thanks a lot


Is it useful to create a Facebook page for a website?

I'm aware Facebook pages can be used as a communication and marketing channel for a website. Is there value in creating a Facebook page for a noncommercial website that is moderately trafficked? The idea behind this is to create additional informational/marketing channels for some websites I run.


How does utm_source tracking work in Google Analytics?

If user comes to my website with `utm_source` in URL e.g. `http://example.com/somepage.html?utm_source=affilate` after that user visits several page on same website and comes to checkout page. In between `utm_source` is not in URL of any page user visit including `https` at checkout process. If this user purchases then will that user correct `utm_source` reflect in Google Analytics?


cpanel pipe default system mail account

In the cPanel forwarders option how to pipe a system default mail account? For example if the system username is sample and the domain name is example. Address to Forward: here a text box accepts the name and next to that is a list box which is the domain name and it is mandatory. so the email address will become sample@example.com but a system default mail id is not associated with @domainname.com i think see the screen shot... ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BoORb.png) in that i can specify sample as the system default mail account but the list box shows the sitename. so how to specify only the system default mail account to be forwarded to a piped program or to another email address ?


Using a .htaccess to RewriteRule and Redirect 301 at the same time?

I have a couple of specific URLs that I want to display differently on my website, like this:               RewriteRule ^contact$ contact.php      To get ride of the ".php" extension. And to be SEO friendly (to avoid having 2 different URLS pointing to the same page), I also want to do a 301 redirect between the old URL and the new one:               Redirect 301 /contact.php http://www.example.com/contact        Each of the lines above works well separately. But if I add them both in my htaccess, I have a redirect loop, and nothing is displayed on my website. How can I fix that? In the end, if I either type "/contact" or "/contact.php", I want to see the contact page with the url "/contact".


What is the empirical way to tell that Google has removed a URL from the index?

After merging two sites, one with ~40 URLs and one with ~700 URLs (due to a forum) the result was that overall traffic decreased by ~50%. I want to get the traffic back, as it was organic and a helpful resource to the community. After finding this answer I decided to try removing the ~700 forum pages from the index by using a robots.txt disallow, which didn't work. As this FAQ and this answer point out, the robots.txt must _allow_ the pages and meta noindex must be used. After applying noindex tags to all forum pages, removing the disallows from robots.txt and waiting a week, still there are 700+ URLs in the index according to Google webmaster tools. However, if I view the advanced index status and check all the boxes, it shows 795 URLs indexed and 200+ blocked by robots. The blocked by robots graph line is increasing steadily (~30 URLs per week). Note that average crawl rate is ~125 pages per day. My question is this: How can I tell that the URLs have successfully been removed? Looking at Google webmaster tools' graph of index status is what I thought was a good indicator, but I am wondering what should actually happen in the results there. Should the blue graph line of total indexed drop back down to a low URL count (as I am expecting), or will the total indexed remain high and the blocked by robots and/or removed URLs increase? This answer from Google seems to indicate that the total indexed (blue line) should drop. Why then has it not dropped at all after applying the noindex tags and waiting a week?


Removing "www." from domain name and SEO

We are doing a big redesign work on our website, and at least 50% of the website folders will be moved to new places with different names (i.e. many URL will be changed). Sure, Google will need some time to index new pages and we expect our SERP positions will be not so good as they are now for some time. We also have an old idea to remove `www` from our domain name. It seems, it's the right time to do these two works together with publishing the website with updated contents. Or is it better from SEO perspective first publish the new contents, and only after some time, when our SERP positions will return to prior results, tell Google that the domain name without `www` is our preferred domain name?


eCommerce SEO: Unique"ify" my Product Names / URL's / description ,etc?

Let's say you have 6-10 eCommerce sites all selling (mostly) the same products. They use the same database to pull:               -descriptions     -titles     -keywords     -alt attributes     -unique urls     -etc.      My question is will this result in a penalty from Google for all these sites? They are under different domain names.


Why does meta description exist when keywords doesn't?

My understanding is that the meta keywords tag was long since removed as it was far too open for abuse and gaming. Search engines are a lot more intelligent now, why is the same criticism of the meta keywords not applicable to the meta description? Is this going to be phased out in the future possibly? Or does it hold actual long term value?


Transferring Email to Google Apps - Timing

I did a site for a client a few months back. Hosting & email was setup through Dreamhost VPS. Hosting has not been an issue, but email has become increasingly dodgy. Long story short, they want to transfer to Google Apps for Biz. They already have the mailboxes setup - they are on macs so they will be transferring using the gmail email importer for mac - my question is this - should they transfer their domain over first or their emails? I'm a developer so I have no problem changing their DNS settings, but I am not an IT manager type by any stretch so I am a bit in the dark about process - my proposed process was:   1. Delete any junk/deleted mail from current environment   2. Backup email locally   3. copy emails to google apps via importer   4. Switch domain and update mac mail settings It seems that doing the domain first would be best but I don't know if that is possible. I have been trying to find a generic checklist, but i haven't been able to.


How to properly deny Railo directory access through Apache

I've been battle tested on this and failed to achieve my goal which is to deny all access to all directories except the Public directory and only allow access to all all other directories with specific IP addresses. To get Railo+Apache+Tomcat installed I pretty much followed this script: https://github.com/talltroym/Railo-Ubuntu-Installer-Script then verified settings with this tutorial: http://blog.nictunney.com/2012/03/railo-tomcat- and-apache-on-amazon-ec2.html From the installation script these mods are enabled:               sudo a2enmod ssl     sudo a2enmod proxy     sudo a2enmod proxy_http     sudo a2enmod rewrite     sudo a2ensite default-ssl      Outside of the script I copied the sites-available to sites-enabled then reloaded Apache. I have a directory created for Railo cmfl located at /var/www/Railo/ Navigating the browser to http ://Server_IP_Address/Railo forces ssl and relocates to https ://Server_IP_Address/Railo which shows off index.cfm. Not providing index.cfm and omitting https indicates that the DirectoryIndex directive and RewriteCond of Apache appears to be working for the sites- enabled VirtualHost. The problem I'm encountering is that I cannot seem to deny access to all directories except Public. My directory structure is rather simple and looks like this: >   * Railo >     * error >     * Public >     * NotPublic >     * Sandbox > These are my sites-enabled configurations:               <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost              DocumentRoot /var/www         #Default Deny All to prevent walking backwards in file system         Alias /Railo/ "/var/www/Railo/"             <Directory ~ ".*/Railo/(?!Public).*">                     Order Deny,Allow                     Deny from All         </Directory>         ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/         <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">             AllowOverride None             Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch             Order allow,deny             Allow from all         </Directory>              ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log              # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,         # alert, emerg.         LogLevel warn              CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined              Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"         <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">             Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks             AllowOverride None             Order deny,allow             Deny from all             Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128         </Directory>              DirectoryIndex index.cfm index.cfml default.cfm default.cfml index.htm index.html index.cfc         RewriteEngine on         RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$         RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]     </VirtualHost>      and               <IfModule mod_ssl.c>     <VirtualHost _default_:443>         ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost              DocumentRoot /var/www         Alias /Railo/ "/var/www/Railo/"         <Directory ~ "/var/www/Railo/(?!Public).*">                     Order Deny,Allow                     Deny from All         </Directory>         ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/         <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">             AllowOverride None             Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch             Order allow,deny             Allow from all         </Directory>              ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log              # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,         # alert, emerg.         LogLevel warn              CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/ssl_access.log combined              Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"         <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">             Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks             AllowOverride None             Order deny,allow             Deny from all             Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128         </Directory>              #   SSL Engine Switch:         #   Enable/Disable SSL for this virtual host.         SSLEngine on              #   A self-signed (snakeoil) certificate can be created by installing         #   the ssl-cert package. See         #   /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/README.Debian.gz for more info.         #   If both key and certificate are stored in the same file, only the         #   SSLCertificateFile directive is needed.         SSLCertificateFile    /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem         SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key              #   Server Certificate Chain:         #   Point SSLCertificateChainFile at a file containing the         #   concatenation of PEM encoded CA certificates which form the         #   certificate chain for the server certificate. Alternatively         #   the referenced file can be the same as SSLCertificateFile         #   when the CA certificates are directly appended to the server         #   certificate for convinience.         #SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/server-ca.crt              #   Certificate Authority (CA):         #   Set the CA certificate verification path where to find CA         #   certificates for client authentication or alternatively one         #   huge file containing all of them (file must be PEM encoded)         #   Note: Inside SSLCACertificatePath you need hash symlinks         #         to point to the certificate files. Use the provided         #         Makefile to update the hash symlinks after changes.         #SSLCACertificatePath /etc/ssl/certs/         #SSLCACertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/ca-bundle.crt              #   Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL):         #   Set the CA revocation path where to find CA CRLs for client         #   authentication or alternatively one huge file containing all         #   of them (file must be PEM encoded)         #   Note: Inside SSLCARevocationPath you need hash symlinks         #         to point to the certificate files. Use the provided         #         Makefile to update the hash symlinks after changes.         #SSLCARevocationPath /etc/apache2/ssl.crl/         #SSLCARevocationFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crl/ca-bundle.crl              #   Client Authentication (Type):         #   Client certificate verification type and depth.  Types are         #   none, optional, require and optional_no_ca.  Depth is a         #   number which specifies how deeply to verify the certificate         #   issuer chain before deciding the certificate is not valid.         #SSLVerifyClient require         #SSLVerifyDepth  10              #   Access Control:         #   With SSLRequire you can do per-directory access control based         #   on arbitrary complex boolean expressions containing server         #   variable checks and other lookup directives.  The syntax is a         #   mixture between C and Perl.  See the mod_ssl documentation         #   for more details.         #<Location />         #SSLRequire (    %{SSL_CIPHER} !~ m/^(EXP|NULL)/ \         #            and %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_O} eq "Snake Oil, Ltd." \         #            and %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_OU} in {"Staff", "CA", "Dev"} \         #            and %{TIME_WDAY} >= 1 and %{TIME_WDAY} <= 5 \         #            and %{TIME_HOUR} >= 8 and %{TIME_HOUR} <= 20       ) \         #           or %{REMOTE_ADDR} =~ m/^192\.76\.162\.[0-9]+$/         #</Location>              #   SSL Engine Options:         #   Set various options for the SSL engine.         #   o FakeBasicAuth:         #     Translate the client X.509 into a Basic Authorisation.  This means that         #     the standard Auth/DBMAuth methods can be used for access control.  The         #     user name is the `one line' version of the client's X.509 certificate.         #     Note that no password is obtained from the user. Every entry in the user         #     file needs this password: `xxj31ZMTZzkVA'.         #   o ExportCertData:         #     This exports two additional environment variables: SSL_CLIENT_CERT and         #     SSL_SERVER_CERT. These contain the PEM-encoded certificates of the         #     server (always existing) and the client (only existing when client         #     authentication is used). This can be used to import the certificates         #     into CGI scripts.         #   o StdEnvVars:         #     This exports the standard SSL/TLS related `SSL_*' environment variables.         #     Per default this exportation is switched off for performance reasons,         #     because the extraction step is an expensive operation and is usually         #     useless for serving static content. So one usually enables the         #     exportation for CGI and SSI requests only.         #   o StrictRequire:         #     This denies access when "SSLRequireSSL" or "SSLRequire" applied even         #     under a "Satisfy any" situation, i.e. when it applies access is denied         #     and no other module can change it.         #   o OptRenegotiate:         #     This enables optimized SSL connection renegotiation handling when SSL         #     directives are used in per-directory context.         #SSLOptions +FakeBasicAuth +ExportCertData +StrictRequire         <FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">             SSLOptions +StdEnvVars         </FilesMatch>         <Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin>             SSLOptions +StdEnvVars         </Directory>              #   SSL Protocol Adjustments:         #   The safe and default but still SSL/TLS standard compliant shutdown         #   approach is that mod_ssl sends the close notify alert but doesn't wait for         #   the close notify alert from client. When you need a different shutdown         #   approach you can use one of the following variables:         #   o ssl-unclean-shutdown:         #     This forces an unclean shutdown when the connection is closed, i.e. no         #     SSL close notify alert is send or allowed to received.  This violates         #     the SSL/TLS standard but is needed for some brain-dead browsers. Use         #     this when you receive I/O errors because of the standard approach where         #     mod_ssl sends the close notify alert.         #   o ssl-accurate-shutdown:         #     This forces an accurate shutdown when the connection is closed, i.e. a         #     SSL close notify alert is send and mod_ssl waits for the close notify         #     alert of the client. This is 100% SSL/TLS standard compliant, but in         #     practice often causes hanging connections with brain-dead browsers. Use         #     this only for browsers where you know that their SSL implementation         #     works correctly.         #   Notice: Most problems of broken clients are also related to the HTTP         #   keep-alive facility, so you usually additionally want to disable         #   keep-alive for those clients, too. Use variable "nokeepalive" for this.         #   Similarly, one has to force some clients to use HTTP/1.0 to workaround         #   their broken HTTP/1.1 implementation. Use variables "downgrade-1.0" and         #   "force-response-1.0" for this.         BrowserMatch "MSIE [2-6]" \             nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \             downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0         # MSIE 7 and newer should be able to use keepalive         BrowserMatch "MSIE [17-9]" ssl-unclean-shutdown              DirectoryIndex index.cfm index.cfml default.cfm default.cfml index.htm index.html         #Proxy .cfm and cfc requests to Railo             ProxyPassMatch ^/(.+.cf[cm])(/.*)?$ http://127.0.0.1:8888/$1             ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8888/         #Deny access to admin except for local clients         <Location /railo-context/admin/>             Order deny,allow             Deny from all     #       Allow from <Omitted>     #       Allow from <Omitted>             Allow from 127.0.0.1         </Location>     </VirtualHost>     </IfModule>      The apache2.conf includes the following:                # Include the virtual host configurations:         Include sites-enabled/                            <IfModule !mod_jk.c>                     LoadModule jk_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_jk.so                 </IfModule>                      <IfModule mod_jk.c>                     JkMount /*.cfm ajp13                     JkMount /*.cfc ajp13                     JkMount /*.do ajp13                     JkMount /*.jsp ajp13                     JkMount /*.cfchart ajp13                     JkMount /*.cfm/* ajp13                     JkMount /*.cfml/* ajp13                     # Flex Gateway Mappings                     # JkMount /flex2gateway/* ajp13                     # JkMount /flashservices/gateway/* ajp13                     # JkMount /messagebroker/* ajp13                     JkMountCopy all                     JkLogFile /var/log/apache2/mod_jk.log                 </IfModule>      I believe I understand most of this except the jk_module inclusion which I've noticed has an error that shows up in the logs that I can't sort out: > [warn] No JkShmFile defined in httpd.conf. Using default > /etc/apache2/logs/jk-runtime-status I've checked my Regular expression against the paths of the directories with RegexBuddy just to be sure that I wasn't correct. The problem doesn't appear to be Regex related although I may have something incorrect in the Directory directive. The Location directive seems to be working correctly for blocking out Railo admin site access.


Php profiling on production server or other options

Alright I need some help here. I am commonly asked to speed up certain sections of some websites that I program for. I have yet to be able to figure out how to use a good php diagnosis/profiling tool. Some things to consider:   1. The sites I am working on are already built, getting a testing server set up locally is just a huge pain..I have to rewrite include paths and just so many things. This is a results oriented deal and spending days to get a site fully working on a testing platform so I can debug one page probably isn't an option.   2. I can write tons of php, but I have no clue how to interact or mess with servers. So every tutorial I read about setting up xdebug or xhprof all seem to involve getting something installed on a production server that I don't have access to or have no clue how to work with. So are there any solutions out there that will show me where my php is slow without having to do all sorts of server stuff that I just don't know how to do? Xhprof seems to be the closest to useable for me but from what I can tell it still has to be installed on a server. If anyone can just point me in the right direction on this I would be very grateful. Maybe getting these things put on the server isn't a big deal...but I have never interacted with server command lines or anything like that. I suppose I should start sometime but I really have no idea where to start. Plus I realize that profiling on a live platform is not the greatest idea either but I feel I am in a tough spot. I have speed issues to solve and setting up a local environment while a great idea, just doesn't seem real practical at the moment.


I've changed my URL schema. How do I tell Google to index the new schema and forget the old one?

I had a site where the urls were constructed like this               /index.php/Topic     /index.php/AnotherTopic      These were indexed in google, and search results returned that pointed to these. However, I've recently replatformed that site, and reconfigured it so the above urls would be:               /index.php?title=Topic     /index.php?title=AnotherTopic      The original urls are returning 404s. The site is linking to the correct URL schema internally, but Google is retaining the original schema in its search results. I've updated and resubmitted the sitemap which only contains the new schema. Also, Google's webmasters tool is going slightly bananas at the fact there's now a spike in 404 errors in its crawl results. What would be the best approach to get Google to 'forget' about the old schema, and instead index the new schema? Should I try blocking `/index.php/` in `robots.txt`? Should I be returning `301` codes instead of `404` for the original urls?


Is there some kind of API for submitting a site to Google for indexing?

I have a client that is insisting there is a method to send a URL automatically to Google to get it indexed quickly. Here are the methods I know of to tell Google about your site for indexing: 1. Link to it from another site already in the Google index 2. Submit it here https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url?pli=1 3. Use Webmaster Tools to fetch as Googlebot Does anyone know of such an API or method that would allow you programmatically submit a URL to Google for indexing?


PSD To HTML (Recommended service?)

I have designed a web layout using Adobe Photoshop. Who do you recommend to convert PSD to HTML from your experience? There are couple services do them, for example:   * www.psd2html.com   * www.xhtmlchop.com   * www.markupbox.com or freelance from odesk.com ?


mass e-mail sender

I have a database with 3000+ emails and I want to send a HTML email to all of them. I don't want to be treated as spam emails, also to have the possibility to attach a pdf file. Could someone recommend me a web application or a software which can do this job?


how to enable google apps chat with normal gmail users

I know that you must change some SV records for it to work but I have no idea which is which because Google just gives a string and GoDaddy has no idea how to input that string into their settings, they just ask for TTL, etc. Can anybody help? I also cross-posted this to http://nothingtoinstall.com because I have no idea under which category it fits...


Google AdSense alternative for the Netherlands

The AdSense account of a client of mine got banned by Google, after filing a reconsideration requests it ends in a permanent deactivation. I'm now investigating the alternatives he has when it comes to placing text ads on his Dutch website. Which other companies are out there that offer the same (or more:) capability of Google's in context text based ads for Dutch websites?


Font creation for logo

I have a template and that template has a logo. The logo is something called "Cream". I really like the way it has been set up. I want the same style with different name. How to do that? The problem is that logo is a .png image and not text. Any idea on what to do?


Cms group system, unique domains

I apologise is the question isnt worded quite right or too simplistic in nature. I am currently planning on building a new cms system that allows for user generated pages. similar to groups on facebook, most of the content to be provided directly by the user, i.e. news stories, pictures etc. It is important that each "group" is hosted under its own domain, Are there any tutorials anyone can point me to , to understand how to build this type of system or guide me to the correct concept behind this. Thanks


Domain registrar changed DNS without warning

We have had a very long an damaging outage which lasted around 24hrs due to a change in our DNS servers by our registrar. What happened (according to our registrar) was that for some reason their system identified our domain to be due for renewal and changed the authoritative DNS servers to theirs which caused our domain to be forwarded to a temporary holding page. Once we alerted our registrar to the problem it wad already too late as the error had already propagated. Our domain runs out in Jan 2020 so there was absolutely no reason for this change. Now my question is, how do other businesses protect themselves against these types of outages which are both out of their control and take hours to resolve, inevitably causing the service to be unreachable for a long period? Thanks.


Best technical blog site for existing domain

I would like to have a blog site, tough I have created my own by writing the code.. Huhhh... hosting cost is killing me. I have my domain name with me and I just wanted to get the blog where I can use my unused domain name. My blog will me 80% technical [i.e. I will show peices of code and downloadeable content to my user]. Which blog will be useful for me. I just don;t want my URL look like **http://mysite.hosterName.com** I want it like this **http://www.mysite.com**


SEO Sitemap questions about a site that changes all the time

I have a website that changes hourly, new contents are added from different feeds, so no original contents at all, I have details pages where they show the details of every item, Then I have pages that link to details pages, they are overview of all the details pages, think about Ebay for example, you have places where you search and browse, then you can get into an auction. So I thought since the details pages have a short life, I index and follow them while they are active, then I make them no index and follow when they become inactive. In my sitemap I put the priority of details pages really low around .2 And the browse or overview pages since they are permanent and remain there forever have a rank of .9 The other problem I have is that the sitemap changes all the time, Google Webmaster tools seems to keep the older sitemaps, and it seems like I have to go resubmit the sitemap once in a while, why is that? why doesn't Google automatically re-read the sitemap? So I have two questions here 1- Am I doing the right thing in the sitemap and the priority value, and no indexing short living pages? 2- Do I need to resubmit the sitemap every time it changes (that would be hourly) or every once in a while? I noticed I can call a url to resubmit the sitemap according to Google documentation do you think I should do that and if so how often?


Rendering IPA characters like 'ŋ' correctly

(I hope this isn't too dumb a question) When I go to this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet These 'special' phoenetic characters, such as 'ŋ' render correctly in my browser. However, when I try to use characters such as 'ŋ' in my very own website they render like this: 'Å‹'. What I have tried so far: I found this code from the wikipedia source: `<span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA">ŋ</span>` but it still renders as 'Å‹'. In fact in this very question it is rendering correctly, what method should I use to correctly render characters like these?


Apache log analytic's

Been trying for a while to get this script fully working I think I'm nearly there. Ok so I basically need the script to show 3 things, email address - Browser type - Time logged in.               EMAILS='/home/user/emaillist.txt'     MAIL=$EMAILS     while read MAIL;     do     grep -f $EMAILS /var/log/apache2/ssl_access.log>>/home/user/test.txt     done < $EMAILS      I need some way of first using the todays date in here so it only searches the apache logs for that data. I was thinking about using the linux date +"[%d/%b/%Y" command in the script as this will match the correct date formate. The other aspect is that I only need the output to show the user's email address | Browser type and date from apache nothing else. HELP please UPDATE Managed to play around with the script and got it to this stage where it works fine I just need to work out how to add browser data into the text file?               x=$(date +"%d/%b/%Y")     y=$(date +"%d%b%Y")     filename=emaillist.txt      while read filename     do              if COUNT=$(grep $filename /var/log/apache2/ssl_access.log |grep -c $x)              then               echo $filename:$COUNT>>/home/user/logs/usage"$y".txt               fi     done < emaillist.txt


How do I add domains to certificate

I just installed a dedi. I got a self signed certificate to maindomain.com Then I want to access childdomain.com/cpanel The certificate is for the main domain on the server. I tried to access cPanel on another domain under that main domain. So of course internet explorer complained. Well, how can my main domain issue a certificate for the child domain?


Lots of HTTP HEAD requests originating from porn sites

The access log on my web server has a ton of HTTP HEAD requests coming from porn sites. What are HEAD requests and are they doing something bad with my site? Here is an excerpt from my log: (valid request)               xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [02/Jan/2011:23:42:25 -0800] "POST /ajax HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "http://www.mywebsite.com/abc.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.44 Safari/534.7"     (weird requests)     xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [02/Jan/2011:23:43:11 -0800] "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" 302 185 "http://www.somepornsite.com" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it-IT; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008092313 Ubuntu/9.25 (jaunty) Firefox/3.8"     xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [02/Jan/2011:23:43:11 -0800] "HEAD /valid.html HTTP/1.0" 200 16871 "http://www.somepornsite.com" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it-IT; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008092313 Ubuntu/9.25 (jaunty) Firefox/3.8" (Web and IP addresses in this log have been munged.)


Is using HTML tables for data presentation bad for SEO?

I have a site that presents information in each page with HTML tables. Does this affect my site's SEO? Should I replace all tables with divs? I'm not using HTML tables for layout. I'm only using them for representing information.


How do I make a domain name transfer without dealing with an agent

I have been talking with a domain name holder, and he has agreed to sell me one of his domains. He said he will transfer the domain to my name with godaddy (I will register for an account with godaddy first). How should I process the payment so that neither party (me or him) is at risk of fraud? TIA!


The entire content of my Wordpress page has disappeared

I have a blog installed on my site using Wordpress. Last week I upgraded Wordpress from 2.6 to 3.0.4 (I had to do this manually). All went well, or so I thought, but I have just noticed that the content of an existing _page_ has vanished. The page URL still works, but all content has disappeared - doctype, html tags, body tags, everything. Please note, this is specific to **pages** - posts are still displaying fine. I have since created a brand new page which does not display the content either. Things I have tried include   * Switching to a freshly installed theme   * Deactivating all plugins   * Setting the problem page to draft, and back again   * Deleting the .htaccess file I suspect it's a database problem and have contacted my hosting company who have said the only thing they can do is restore the DB from a backup, but that I should consider it a last resort. Does anyone have any further ideas what to try?