Can I drop multiple URLs from Google's Cache using a wildcard in a query string?

I made a mistake with one of my sites and a whole bunch of data got picked up by Google before I caught it. I need to fix this relatively fast by asking Google to drop the cached copy of the pages and then re-spider as they wish. The URL would be something like: domain.com/memberprofile.php?member=XXXXXX Does anyone know if I can submit: domain.com/memberprofile.php?member= as a single request through webmaster tools? If not, what are my other alternatives?


Are there tools to measure displayed dimensions in percentages?

I use MesureIt! to measure pixels on websites, generally to check if things add up right when developing. I'm making a fluid layout right now, and would really like to do the same, but I couldn't find anything that would show me measurements in % (relative to the window). Is there anything that does this?


Several link on one page - Effect on SEO and User Experience?

I've been researching the question if several `<a href=“#”>link</a>` links on one page have a bad impact on SEO and User Experience, for quite a while now but didn't really come to a conclusion. This method is used when a site structure is ready from the start but content etc is missing. So you put up a frontpage with those links and extend the whole site step by step over time. So time after time those links will be removed with the actual link but it can take its time. Lets say we have a big site with 50 pages and 5 pages have several of those "unready" links. Lets clear the facts: **User experience:** For the user it should be a really bad experience when they see a link for more information and expect to get these information but then just get linked to the top of the current page. If a page is full of such links I can imagine its frustrating and they will leave immediately. **Google's View:** Their crawlers see the site structure right from the start and it should be more cost effective not to recalculate link juice etc with every update. And we know Google really cares about costs and effectiveness of their crawling. But on the other hand, they also really care about the user experience and consider this as one major ranking factor. So my question is: Does have several of those "not ready" links on one page, a bad impact on Google rankings? I'm really interested how different webmasters see this topic.


Skip part of URL

I have a server running on XAMPP in LAN. In htdocs I've created subfolder called 'apps' (it's because I'm using one CodeIgniter's files to multiple webpages). Now, when somenone want to visit a webpage, must visit: `http://myserver/apps/app_name`. Is it possible with _.htaccess_ (or else) to skip that `/apps/` part? `http://myserver/app_name` ?


Recovery from URL structure change?

in July this year, we have changed the URL structure of the website from: > **Post** : domain.com/blog/post/986/dance/heart-beats-dance-video-by- > chinatsu/ > > **Category** : domain.com/blog/index/cosplay/ to > **Post** : domain.com/dance/heart-beats-dance-video-by-chinatsu-986/ > > **Category** : domain.com/cosplay/ Everything was (supposedly) properly redirected with 301 redirects and it first seemed that the traffic returned after a couple of days, but it has now been close to 2 months and things keep going worse although Google is slowly indexing the changes. ![The red line indicates the URL structure change](http://i.stack.imgur.com/EhYmd.png) What is worrying me even more is that the **Pages crawled per day** from Webmaster Tools started drastically dropping a few days ago and has just reached a new low in months (from over 2000 to 700). Should I be worried or will things sort out eventually?


Online Video Platform for own servers

I need an application, similar to Ooyala, Vzaar, Brightcove, that manages & encodes all videos. The only difference, is that I want to host the software and content on my own servers, preferably Ubuntu, using PHP. Software does not have to be free. The closest I've got to is Kaltura OS.


getting 500 intenal error when setting 301 redirect using .htaccess

I am trying to use a 301 redirect to direct users and bots to my new site but when I put the .htaccess live i keep getting a 500 internal error shown. The site is actually a subdomain which i want to redirect to another subdomain on another site. I'm not sure if that's relevant but I thought I should include this information. The web server I'm using is Apache and this is the htaccess code I'm using:               Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule (.*) http://www.blog.mysite.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]      Any idea what might be wrong with this?


Google analytics changes visitors

Yesterday 26 Feb. 2014 I noticed that Analytics stated that my total visits is about 350 visits. Today's, 27 Feb., morning I noticed that it recorded for the same day about 750 visits. Now, in the night, 27 Feb., it returned to 350 visits. Is there any problem with my analytic code on my website? Or does it an issue with Google?


php+mysql account management software?

I need an account system added to my website as a plugin to all of my HTML pages. The account system plugin needs to,register new users, log in current users, remove users who want to disconnect service, and manipulate all of these things via database on my web server. However, I do not know how to program in the PHP language or create and manipulate MySQL databases. I want a program that can create and manipulate the MySQL database automatically for my website and handle also PHP calls automatically. Are there any open source freeware programs out there that i can use? If so what are the names of these freeware?


Embed Code for Olympics

I am not sure if this is technically the right place to ask but here it goes: I would like to have on my site a medal count for the upcoming 2012 Olympics. My question is this: Is there a simple embed code that could do this? OR How to I create one? Thanks for the assistance and help.


How to remove our IP address from Microsoft's email blacklist?

We have a website, users sign up and receive links to confirm they signed up BUT:   1. Microsoft blocked our IP (no one with Microsoft email account can receive our emails.)   2. We tried contacting microsoft submitting the detailed form about our problem.   3. We posted 3 times in their community about our problem.   4. We tweeted they about our problem.   5. We tried finding out some telephone support number (the few there are aren't helping at all.) Do you think we solved? the answer is **NO** :/ We are still unable to send emails from our IP to Microsoft email accounts and have been unable to for the last 3 months. Our emails are perfect. We checked all the email headers following Microsoft's guidelines, but it seems not enough. Checking our IP reputation it seems everything is OK, indeed we can send email easly to any other provider: Gmail, Yahoo, etc. Here is the full error returned by Microsoft:               host mx1.hotmail.com[65.55.37.120] said: 550         SC-001 (COL0-MC4-F28) Unfortunately, messages from 94.23.***** weren't         sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their         network is on our block list. You can also refer your provider to         http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors. (in reply to MAIL         FROM command)      We are running NGIX + PHP mailer from a virtual private server (no Hosting or shared hosting.) Are there any other way to try to get help?


Random traffic sources on Google Analytics

According to Google Analytics, a lot of my traffic comes from random small websites. However, when I go on those websites, I don't see a link to my website. What's going on here? My first thought was that the traffic was generated by bots with fake headers. However, my website shows no indication of any hacking attempts.


How To: Super quality images and text

Sometimes I come across sites that are different than others in terms of quality. For example (sorry for the ad), http://www.taskrabbit.com/ . The image quality is perfect, everything "shines" and the text,buttons, background is also super quality. How it's made? What's the secret? Thanks


"Popular searches for this page" links with links to the same page, SEO difference?

I've seen a few pages that have a section with "Popular searches for this page" and then have the search terms in a link pointing back to the same page (e.g. http://theenglishchillicompany.co.uk/the-complete-chilli-pepper-book-a- gardeners-guide-to-choosing-growing-preserving-and-cooking/) I assume they are doing it for SEO purposes (with more links to the page with the desired search terms). Does this make a difference? It seems strange that a link on page A to page A would be counted! Am I wrong?


Joomla 1.6 URL rewrite on IIS7 (removing /index.php/)

Joomla 1.6 was released today and I'm wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of the /index.php/ part? How link looks now: > `http://www.example.org/index.php/stuff` How link would look after URL rewrite: > `http://www.example.org/stuff` The old code (j1.5) at this link doesn't work: http://docs.joomla.org/SEO_and_IIS_ISAPI


Can copying site content for a mobile version of the site impact SEO?

I am thinking about copying our content (text content especially) from our main site (eg: `example.com`) to the mobile version of the site (eg: `m.example.com` or `example.com/m`). What are the SEO side effects of doing so? Do SEO experts recommend this practice? If you have external articles or reference, hope you guys can share here also.


Cloudflare is it safe?

I am thinking of signing up with cloud flare, but since i'm not very familiar with the technical side of things, I wanted to ask here first. How safe is it to sign up with services, like cloud flare? Do they ultimately own my domain? Are they able to take away control of my domain? The way I see it, I transfer ownership of my domain to them, and they will also appear as owners in whois. Is this how it works? I'm confused. Note, I am not asking how reputable cloud flare is, but rather how it works, and if they are **technically** able to snatch my domain.


How does my server validate my email address

I am attempting to send emails from my website (localhost, test and live) and I am finding that only a fraction ever reach their destination. One of the problems may be that my web server is not communicating the fact that my emails are coming from a valid email address and/or source. I've read that my web server (or DNS) may be contacted by an email system regarding the emails that that appear to be sent from my domain. If the server does not respond and tell the email system that the email address or IP address is trustworthy, the email may be treated as spam. How does this validation system work? How do I add emails and IP addresses to my server so that they are regarded as good sources? In general, I want for emails to be seen as valid when they come from my server and when they come from my localhost (for testing reasons.)


I can't find my backup for the cpanel in whm/cpanel

**The Problem:** I have made a complete backup from the cpanel for the whole home folder. I have placed this folder in the default home directory. Thereafter, i tried to restore this file from the WHM, but i couldn't find it. Does anyone know what causes such problems? **Additional Details:**   1. I am the administrator of the cpanel and i have complete access to the reseller WHM.   2. Check more details below with images:  ![The Location of the Backup File in the cPanel](http://i.stack.imgur.com/RwD1h.png) ![No Backups were found in the WHM panel](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Dex3a.png) ![An error message of cannot restore is printed down upon trying to search for available backups for the username "admin"](http://i.stack.imgur.com/kSdPA.png) Thanks in advance for your help! any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated.


How to make search engines display only the title of a web page on their search results?

I want to make search engines display only the title of my web page on their search results.   And I don't want to show any descriptions and any texts of my page on the search results.      For example, this site is displayed like:               Stack Overflow     A language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers.     stackoverflow.com/ - Cached - Similar         In this case, I don't want to make search engines display the text `A language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers.`.   And I want to make them display like:               Stack Overflow     stackoverflow.com/ - Cached - Similar


How do you perform renewal pricing comparison on the domain name you already owned

Last year, I just purchased 2 domain names from a domain registrar company. Now, my owned domain names are going to expire in few more months. When I decide to continue to renew the domain names with them, I realize they increase the renewal price for more than 100% I want to know what price I will pay for, if I renew the domain names with other domain registrar companies. However, when I perform such checking on the other domain registrar companies' websites, they will state that the domain names is not available. (As I'm still owning them) So, may I know, how can I perform renewal pricing comparison on the domain name I already owned, and not yet expired?


Redirecting multiple ccTLD's to 1 gTLD: delete the 'old' domains in Google Webmaster Tools?

We are planning to redirect our current multiple ccTLD's (`.com`, `.de`, `.nl`) to 1 gTLD with country specific subdirectories (`.com/en`, `.com/de`, `.com/nl`). We will use permanent 301 redirects from the ccTLD to the relevant subdirectories of the gTLD. With this move, should we delete the multiple indexed ccTLD's in Google Webmaster Tools and only have the new gTLD indexed?


Will a rel=canonical link pointing to a 301 redirect pass less pagerank than one without a 301?

On this official Google page about canonical links it says: > **Can rel="canonical" be a redirect?** > > Yes, you can specify a URL that redirects as a canonical URL. Google will > then process the redirect as usual and try to index it. There is no mention that this might dilute the impact of the canonical link. However, Google has made clear elsewhere that 301 redirects _do_ dilute PageRank - roughly as much as a link dilutes PageRank. Is that relevant here? I'm assuming the answer is "no" but I wanted to confirm. Relevant but not duplicate: Does Rel=Canonical Pass PR from Links or Just Fix Dup Content.


Get all registered country code top-level domain names

Is there a way to get all the registered domain names for .CN or another country code (CC) top-level domain (TLD)? Is there a central registry for such data? If not, how do I go about collecting them?


Is it correct to redirect useless "?" URLs to cleaner URLs

This is **not** about redirecting `/index.php?id=6252` to `/category-name`. It's about redirecting:               /category-name?ref=blabla&something=useless-stuff     /category-name?     /category-name????????      to:               /category-name      in a small website that does not use GET methods at all.    I have never seen this technique used (or discussed) anywhere, even Google allows you to visit: `https://www.google.com/?????` (PR=0) instead of: `https://www.google.com/` (PR=9) I don't like adding extra HTML tags (i.e. canonical) or HTTP headers to my website, so I thought why not this? My biggest fears though is that search engines wouldn't appreciate it.    I just came to this question but it doesn't add much, I'm not planning to share URLs with extra parameters: Google adds useless parameters to my URL    **Update:** I'm starting to believe there's nothing wrong with this technique. Videos from Matt Cutts:   * What are the advantages of 301 redirects over rel="canonical"?   * Is there an advantage to using rel="canonical" over a 301 redirect? And an image picked from a moz article (look at that ?ref=123 example!): ![Canonical URL Tag 301](http://d1avok0lzls2w.cloudfront.net/img_uploads/canonical-url-tag.gif)


Use new hosting which is already used buy a domain, for a new domain

I am new to web hosting n stuffs, I am having a domain called www.yassershaikh.com from domainz.in, from where I had taken a LINUX hosting. I am running a wordpress blog there. Now I have taken a another domain from goDaddy called www.codera.org, now here I want to use Windows hosting, but that I am not planning to buy for atleast 6 months. So I was thinking if it's possible to use the hosting(LINUX) which I am using for my first site. Is this possible ? Please guide me on this please. (Also for now I am just redirecting it to one page on my blog.)


Can a HTML form submit to a secure SSL location that keeps the user on the HTTPS site?

I've enabled SSL for my apache server so when I attempt to go to `https://mysite/private/index.html`, my browser displays a generic dialog asking me to provide my username and password to log in. How does one use an HTML form to start a secure session? For example, do I need to set the action to a PHP script that can somehow start the same secure session that Apache uses? This is an acceptable solution; however, I'd like to finesse things a bit by making a login page with an HTML form that would somehow start the SSL session and then take me to `https://mysite/private/index.html`. How would one do that?


Are there specific legal issues for web developers working on sex dating sites?

Say I have created many ordinary websites which are not related to any dating/sexual content. Are the rules and regulations for a developer the same when making a sex- related dating site? I'm talking about a site where people meet together and get to know each other, with the intent of having a sexual relationship (you know what I mean), also featuring webcam sex, but not explicitly a porno site. Do such sites have any special legal issues for developers compared with non- sexual/dating sites?


Convert Microsoft Word documents (.doc/x) into HTML files

Does anybody knows of a good application to get it done quickly and efficiently ? I bought Word Cleaner but the results are merely sufficient and I need to go over all the generated html files to clean tons of useless injected tags like               Hello World      Most of the articles displayed on a website I manage are based on documents written on MS Word by people how has little idea of what are margins for or ordered/unordered lists, foot/end notes etc and I cannot make them use something else. Does anyone has a tip to help me handle those pages more efficiently than going over them to correct and apply my CSS style ? NB: Just for the record, using "Save as HTML DOC" in Word is faaar worst than Word cleaner


Websites with numerous subdomains or totally seperate domains

What is the general practice for a situation where you have a parent company that engages in different services and needs websites for each of their services. Which of the two options below is normally followed/advised ? Option 1:               www.maincompany.com     www.service1.com     www.service2.com     www.service3.com      Option 2:               www.maincompany.com     www.service1.maincompany.com     www.service2.maincompany.com     www.service3.maincompany.com


Does google adsense ban sites which has links to mp3 files on other websites?

I wanted to build a website that will have the links to mp3s on other websites. Does google permit us to put the adsense on such website?


In regards to SEO, is a site map important for a small 3 page website? I understand that it is not needed for the convenience of a user visiting the site, but will it help the search engines find it?


Move the DokuWiki data directory somewhere else?

I need to move the DokuWiki data directory away from its default location (because I keep the installation and configuration in version control, but data needs to kept elsewhere, in order to be properly backed up and not be clobbered when upgrading the software version). How do I this? Is there a simple configuration file? Are there any gotchas?


New site. Tons of traffic from Google. Nothing from Yahoo or Bing. What gives?

I've launched a number of sites recently (8-12 weeks) that are getting tons of traffic from google search at an increasing rate (both image and web), but they are getting absolutely nothing from bing or yahoo. what gives? what are some tricks to get yahoo and bing to send some search traffic?


Can Google stop crawling/indexing your site because you are working a lot on it?

I think I read somewhere that Google could stop crawling/indexing a site/blog if there was a lot of work performed on it (like many pages are modified, deleted or loaded daily). It would wait until the site stabilizes. Unfortunately, I cannot find the post or video mentioning this. Am I making this up or is there any truth behind this? If Google indeed suspends its crawling/indexing, when does it come back? Can someone clarify?


Sound effects for websites

Is there a standard go-to place for sound effects for websites? Preferably ones that are free to use for whatever I'd like. Kinda like a bootstrap for sounds instead of css and javascript.


ebay products in my joomla site

I want show ebay products in my joomla site. Please give me your suggestion Or if any step by step instruction guide. Have any joomla extension provide this ??? Thanks


www and non www can suffer duplicated content

Do you know if i should use canonical tag, or 301 redirection from `http://mydomain.com` to `http://www.mydomain.com` To avoid duplicated content penalty in case other pages link to the domain without the www.? or is Google enough smart now just to identify whats the canonical one?


Removing the subdomain as a subdirectory in Apache

I simply trying to make my webpage come up as `owncloud.example.com` instead of `owncloud.example.com/owncloud`. I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and Apache 2.4, and using OpenSSL. I have tried changing things in my _apache.conf_ and _conf-available_ , and I have changed the root directory to `/var/www/` and put the first one in there without any luck.


How to forward non-www to www. Using Godaddy DNS Manager

so I've set `www.mydomain.com` to point to `ghs.google.com`, which correctly loads my Google site, but if you go to `mydomain.com`, it doesn't redirect/forward to `www.mydomain.com`, it just hangs. is there a way to change this in the Godaddy DNS manager?


Improvement of url by changing slash to underline or dash

I have a website with links similar to:               http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4183948/css-set-background      if I change links to:               http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4183948_css-set-background      ( `/` to `_` ) does it improve my website's SEO rank? if it does why most of websites avoid doing that?


Prezi HTML 5 & html5 book recommendation

I was wondering what were you thought on being able to build an app similar to prezi (presentation app) using HTML 5. Also while you're at it, I'm looking for a good HTML 5 book recommendation. Thanks!!


Web Analytic web site

I am a student at e-commerce major.I want to analysis my project competitor site for business plan.I need to know number of visitor per day or month but I can't find this analytic.   I used Alexa but it didn't have this feature( I remember Alexa last year shows this analytic but in new version they don't show Number of visitor)   I google it but in all same website.all of theme need to put some code in website.


Rewrite cond regex to split an url with a /

I'm struggling to correct the aftereffects a bogus redirect I made which led to a lot of 404s. I need to 301 redirect URLs that look like > example.com/xysometext to > example.com/xy/sometext the `example.com/xy` and `example.com/xy/` parts are permanent, while `sometext` is unique for each page (i.e. `.*`) I'm only starting to undestand mod-rewrite syntax, help much appreciated. Thanks.


Google is still crawling and indexing my old, dummy, test pages which now are 404 not found

I have set up my site with sample pages and data (lorem ipsum, etc..) and Google has crawled these pages. I deleted all these pages and actually added real content but in webmaster tools, i still get a lot of 404 errors Google trying to crawl these pages. I have set them to "mark as resolved" but some pages still come back as 404. Furthermore, I have a lot of these sample pages still listed when i do a search of my site on Google. How to remove them. I think these irrelevant pages are hurting my rating. I actually wanted to erase all these pages and start getting my site being being indexed as a new one but I read it's not possible? (I have submitted a sitemap and used "Fetch as Google.")


Abandoning high ranking website but using URL for SEO benefits

I have two websites. A pet products (e.g. `petsite.com`) website and a dog products (e.g. `dogsite.com`) website. Petsite runs on Prestashop and Dogsite runs on EKMPowershop. All the goods sold on Dogsite we already sell on Petsite but Dogsite ranks much higher on Google for dog specific keywords; we, however, get more sales overall on Petsite due to the extensive email marketing that we do for it. We'd like to abandon Dogsite completely and focus our efforts on Petsite. Is there any way we could take advantage of the SEO benefits gained from the `dogsite.com` URL and use it for the dog products category within the `petsite.com` website? Maybe using URL redirects, URL cloaking or some other method? So maybe if someone clicks on `dogsite.com`, they are taken to `petsite.com/dogs` instead? Would my Google ranking for the URL be negatively affected by the redirect? Help with this would be much appreciated.


Custom page title in list of pages in a category

The display name of the page in Mediawiki can be changed using the magic word:               {{DISPLAYTITLE:name_with_underscore}}      But the list of pages on the category page displays the original name (without the underscore in my example). Is there a way to display a custom name in this list?


links aren't clickable

On this webpage, I can't click the navigation items on the left. There is no layer laid over the top. I can't see what is preventing a click.


Scaling a cloud-based ecommerce site

I'm researching cloud services to host an e-commerce site. And I'm trying to understand some basics on how they are able to scale things. From what I can gather from AWS, Rackspace, etc documentation: Setup 1: You can get an instance of a webserver (AWS - EC2, Rackspace - Cloud Server) up. Then you can grow that instance to have more resources or make replicas of that instance to handle more traffic. And it seems like you can install a database local to these instances. Setup 2: You can have instance(s) of a webserver (AWS - EC2, Rackspace - Cloud Server) up. You can also have instance(s) of a database (AWS - RDS, Rackspace - Cloud Database) up. So the webserver instances can communicate with the database instances through a single access point. When I use the term instances, I'm just thinking of replicas that can be access through a single access point and data is synchronized across each replica in the background. This could be the wrong mental image, but it's the best I got right now. I can understand how setup 2 can be scalable. Webserver instances don't change at all since it's just the source code. So all the http requests are distributed to the different webserver instances and is load balanced. And the data queries have a single access point and are then distributed to the different database instances and is load balanced and all the data writes are sync'd between all database instances that is transparent to the application/webserver instance(s). But for setup 1, where there is a database setup locally within each webserver instance, how is the data able to be synchronized across the other databases local to the other web server instances? Since the instances of each webserver can't talk to each other, how can you spin up multiple instances to scale the app? Is this setup mainly for sites with static content where the data inside the database is not getting changed? So with an e-commerce site where orders are written to the database, this architecture will just not be feasible? Or is there some way to get each webserver instance to update their local database to some master copy? Sorry for such a simple question. I'm guessing the documentation doesn't say it plainly because it's so simple or I just wasn't able to find the correct document/page. Update: I stumbled upon a blog and this: Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes are off-instance storage that persists independently from the life of an instance. Amazon Elastic Block Store provides highly available, highly reliable storage volumes that can be attached to a running Amazon EC2 instance and exposed as a device within the instance. Amazon EBS is particularly suited for applications that require a database, file system, or access to raw block level storage. So it seems as though, one should connect an EC2 with an EBS. Now all that's left to be done is have your database software (on the EC2) read/write the database data files on the EBS. AWS has so many products and they all sound pretty similar. Not sure how Rackspace and the other cloud servers have something similar or not. I'm still fuzzy if multiple instances of EC2s can read/write to the same EBS. Or if each instance of EC2s have their own EBS and then there's some other mechanism to keep all EBSs in sync. I guess that would be a separate question...but just in case someone has further insight. Also, the e-commerce platform would be Spree/Rails with PostGreSQL/MySQL database...in case someone has further insight... Thanks!


How sitemap.xml influences indexation?

If a page is missing in sitemap.xml (but crawable through HTML hyperlinks), may this cause it not to be indexed? (I mean it would be indexed without sitemap, but not indexed with sitemap because it is missing in the sitemap.)


How can i distinguish revenue from different folders in Adsense?

I am currently running three websites using adsense. Since i do this more to be useful than to earn something, i have a subdomain of a free hoster and my websites live in subfolders e.q. mydomain.hoster.com/website1, mydomain.hoster.com/website2, to which i link with .tk aliases. Is there a way to distinguish adsense income from website1 to website 2? I tried using custom channels, but somehow this part of adsense eludes me. Can someone shed some light on this?


Website address hacked, emails created but not showing in manage your account

I have a website, `thebleudoor.com`. It is hosted by yahoo. It gets 2000-3000 hits a day and has been for at least 5 years. A few months ago, as admin of the website, I started getting bounced back emails from newly created emails like `d4f7a91f9@thebleudoor.com`. Yahoo only shows 2 emails for my account. They said they can't do anything about it. Now, my " _spam hacked email accounts_ " are getting spam. They haven't altered or used my website or email or bank info, just the good name of my website. Is there anything I can do? Do I need to be concerned? Changing my provider won't really help will it?


Is it possible to create a 301 redirect and MX records at a naked domain?

I'm wondering since I found out that creating a CNAME and an MX record is not allowed. I want to create a 301 redirect from `example.com` to `www.example.com`, and have email with `@example.com` addresses. I'm using 1&1 as my registrar, btw.


SEO: 301 redirects and canonical tag

from the book "Art of SEO": > 301s carry cross-domain functionality, meaning you can redirect a page at > Domain1.com to Domain2.com and carry over those search engine metrics. This > is not the case with the canonical URL tag, which operates exclusively on a > single root domain (it will carry over across subfolders and subdomains). What does the 1st line mean? Say if I move domains, I can 301 the old domain to the new and have the same search engine ranking? I don't really get how the canonical tag fits into the picture. Can someone explain?


User Registration forms— Do we need a user name?

Lets say we are designing a new website's registration form. Would I need to provide a space for a username, or should I simply require an email address? Are there any serious issues with either of these methods?


Recurring Profile and Bundled Item (Magento)

I have a subscription service that people pay monthly for, so I’ve setup a “Virtual Product” with a Recurring Profile. At the same time, I want to have it so they can add different one time products. To accomplish this I’ve tried creating a “Bundled Product” with all the different one time products and adding the “Virtual Product” to that “Bundled Product”. However, when I go to checkout it says “Nominal item can be purchased standalone only. To proceed please remove other items from the quote.” How do I allow people to subscribe to the service and purchase the products at the same time? **note: I am using Paypal Website Payment Pro as my merchant account.


Can I skip the PEM pass phrase question when I restart the webserver?

After buying a multi-domain SSL certificate I have started testing it with the Nginx webserver (following documentation in their SSL wiki page). Everything is fine, it works and I get a green padlock symbol in the URL bar but... every time I restart Nginx I get asked the following question (once for each server, e.g. **5 times** ): > _Starting nginx: Enter PEM pass phrase:_ Is this normal and what many other people do? or can I configure it so the password is remembered? In particular, this is a issue when the machine is rebooted because the webserver won't start until the PEM pass phrase is entered (meaning the website has downtime until there is some human interaction).


How do you determine the monetary value of an established domain / website?

I have some domains that I've been building for the last few years and now I'd like to sell them. I tried several services (including Sedo) to try and ascertain just how much money each domain was worth, but not one service agreed with any other service's assessment. I don't want to sell myself short, but I don't want to make the asking price inappropriate. Is there a formula to determine this, based on rank / traffic / etc? I know it can't be an exact science, but I'd like to be sure that I'm not selling myself short. Additionally, I'd like to be able to tell if I'm paying to much for a domain if I want to buy one in the future.


How can I simulate mobile device browsers to test websites on a desktop?

Are there any good tools that can be run on desktop machines (Windows or Linux) that can simulate a mobile device, preferably with some options as to screen size and mobile browser (user agent if not full render engine). I know it is never going to be perfect (especially without an actual touchscreen), but having a tool on our development machines to do what testing we can that way would be very useful.


Robots.txt not working because my site is still searchable

I put a robots.txt in my server   This is the code that I putted in               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      I just want my entire site won't be searchable in google.   I also put in the `NO INDEX, NO FOLLOW` on the header of my site, Here's the code:               <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">      I'm wondering why is it that when I try to search the my website in google it is still showing up. what has happened here?   Should this take effect immedietly? or what?   Any ideas would be greatly appreciated as well as rewarded! Thanks! :)


Is it true that the Google Spider gives the most relevance of a search result to the first 68 characters of the <title>?

I am reading documentation about my CMS and it states that an HTML page `<title>` tag is really important in SEO. It states that the Google Spider gives the most relevance to the first 68 characters of a site title. (68 characters being the number of characters that Google will display in it's search engine result pages,) Can anyone verify this is still true? I read in The Information Diet that content farms were getting too good at gaming Google's algorithm for collecting and posting SERPs and so google had to change the search algorithm.


NginX redirect to PHP file if image does not exist on file server

This is what I am trying to do. I am not familiar with Nginx enough to create custom rewrite rules like you can with Apache. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could help me with the Nginx config file! Thank you in advance! I have an image server running Nginx on port 80 and Apache listening on 8080. What I would like to do is... when you request an image that does not exist like so:               http://img.server.com/(...ANY DIRECTORY...)/123_4_anyimagename.jpg      it will redirect to               http://img.server.com:8080/image.php?id=123_4_anyimagename      * * * Thank you! I almost have this working! I had to put in the root               location ~ \.(gif|jpg|png)${         root /var/www/mysite.com/httpdocs/;         try_files $uri @img_proxy     }          location @img_proxy {         rewrite ^(.*)$ /image.php?id=$1         proxy_pass      http://127.0.0.1:8080;     }      So in images.php file which is located at /var/www/mysite.com/httpdocs/image.php I simply have               <?php echo "test"; ?>        to see if its working. The problem seems to be php is not kicking in and its just rendering as plain text. Its almost there! Any clues as to where to look? If I run `http://mydomain.com:8080/image.php` I get "test" as the output. So I know php is working. What am I overlooking?


What tools are used to make a PDF accessible to people with disabilities

In the US sites should be made accessible for people with disabilities. This is often followed for HTML, but ignored for PDF files. Since there is quite a lot of PDF content on the web, what tools do you use to make that content accessible? http://section508.gov/ has the facts for the United States.


SEO value of duplicating content externally

I run a website that includes a blog which was hand-coded by myself and is hosted on the same domain. My partner in this endeavour thinks it would be a good idea to open up a Blogger/WordPress blog and duplicate the on-site blog on this off-site blog. AFAIK the main reason for doing this is the SEO benefits of the inbound links that this off-site blog will create. I think this is a bad idea, because:   1. Effectively what we're doing is creating a (very small scale) link farm.   2. We're more likely to be punished than rewarded (in SEO terms) for duplicating our content across domains.   3. This introduces a problem of synchronising our content across domains. For example, if a blog post is edited on the on-site blog, then ideally the off-site blog should be similarly updated. I know very little about SEO, so I would be interested to hear what more informed readers have to say.


How to prevent a 404 Error when creating a subdomain and using www to access it?

I have installed a multi-site installation of WordPress onto my domain. I then added the necessary code to the `wp-config.php` file and `.htaccess` as instructed by WordPress. I also installed a plugin called Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin which allowed me to place a 301 redirect onto the main domain as I only want to use the sub domain and not the main domain. Then I also added the following line of code to the `wp-config.php` file to redirect the main domain `define( 'NOBLOGREDIRECT', 'URL Redirect Address' );` The site works fine with a redirect on the main domain and my subdomain runs fine when you type in `subdomain.example.com` or `http://subdomain.example.com`. However when I enter `www.subdomain.example.com` or `http://www.subdomain.example.com` the following error message is returned: > Not Found > > The requested URL / was not found on this server. > > Apache/2.4.9 (Unix) Server at www.subdomain.domain.com Port 80 Any help with this would be much appreciated.


How do I go about assigning my computer to my domain name?

I've just registered a domain name, just to test how uploading a website works (I've made heaps, but never uploaded one), and I am unsure of where to go next. I wish to use my own personal computer just to test it, then later on I will see what my options are. It'd be a waste for me to buy hosting if I feel the whole website thing isn't for me... I understand that in order to appoint my computer to the domain name I need to specify some DNS servers, but how do I set this up on my computer? I'm running Windows 7, I've installed IIS and have my site working nice in my LAN, but I want people outside of my LAN to access it using the domain name I've purchased. Please excuse me if things don't make sense or I'm doing something wrong; I'm new and just trying to learn.


Site not accessible without www in url - Error 400 bad request

A site that I am developing works with the format `www.domain.com` but when typing the domain without the www i.e `domain.com` I receive a error 400 bad request. How can I enable non-www for my site.


Please advice a free video player for my site

Waht non-commercial (free) good video player can yous suggest in order to put on my webpage? I am doing it first time and have no idea what is now being widely used. Thanks! EDIT: Is http://videojs.com/ video player good? (format support, reliability, fast download, comparability ???)


Is there any Google Adsense revenue if a visitor rolls over (hovers) on an ad unit?

I have noticed an increase in interactive flash animations especilly on 300px wide adsense ads. Many of them ask the visitor to rollover to either reveal what the ad is about, show a clip, etc. So I wonder: the visitor is giving attention to this ad, is viewing its message -- **_without clicking on it_**. In essence, the ad agency's objective is accomplished without a click, which would be a significant money saver if PPC is considered. This seems very ingenious on their part, and I wonder how this is handled by Google. Shouldn't there be a fee for a publisher if visitors interact with ads, regardless of clicks? CTR becomes irrelevant in this context. Are you aware of anything being discussed in this respect?


Forward .html/.htm to .php with .config

I'm moving a site from my linux hosted server to a client's windows hosted server. The .htaccess file no longer works and I'm told that windows servers use .config . How can I forward all users accessing .html & .htm files to the equivalent .php file. Server Info... OS/Hosting Type: Windows / Shared Hosting .Net Runtime Version: ASP.Net 2.0/3.0/3.5 PHP Version: PHP 5.2 IIS Version: IIS 7.0 Data Center: US Regional EDIT *Hosting provided by GoDaddy Was told by a friend following should work but it has no effect on the site.               <configuration>     <system.webServer>         <handlers>             <add name="PHP-FastCGI" verb="*"                  path="*.html"                  modules="FastCgiModule"                 scriptProcessor="c:\php\php-cgi.exe"                  resourceType="Either" />         </handlers>     </system.webServer>     </configuration>


Is it ok to optimise my site for “freevideos” instead of “free videos”?

I am optimizing my website for SEO and after doing some research on google keyword tool I found out that there are a lot of searches for glued keywords with very thew competition in the search results. As an example:"free videos" has around 45,500,000 monthly searches with 92.600.000 result pages with exact match But... the keyword: "freevideos" has about 1,500,000 monthly searches with 128.000 result pages with exact match As you can see the ratio searches/page results is very very high in the second example then in the first. So the question is: aren't there any draw backs by optimizing for such a keyword? There are tons of such keywords with millions of searches with little to no competition. I already got a few visitis being on positions 70-100 so that makes me think that the numbers are right.


Clean URL: with or without "?"

Simple question What is better:               http://www.example.com/product/123/subpage/456.html      or               http://www.example.com/product?123/subpage/456      As far as I know they would rank the same SEO wise, but my SEO knowledge might be a little off. Also the last one seems to be easier and cleaner to implement on my end. Please explain to me which is better and for what reasons.


htaccess rewriterule for aliasses

On our main domain we are running a CMS which feeds several domains with different input. The domains are directed with A records to the main ip address. The htaccess works fine it will bring up the right pages if you type in a url, lets say `www.ictzorg.nl` It will show the url `www.ictzorg.nl` in your browser which is originally `www.ckc-seminars.nl/Event/ictzorg/2013/NL` This is the htaccess code               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?ictzorg.nl$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.ckc-seminars.nl/Event/ictzorg/2013/NL/$1 [P]      Problem now is that if you click on a link on that page it will search for               www.ictzorg.nl/Event/ictzorg/2013/NL/Page/450      It should direct to               www.ckc-seminars.nl/Event/ictzorg/2013/NL/Page/450      and should be shown in the URL bar as               www.ictzorg.nl/Page/450


Best practices for SEO of YouTube video content

What are best practices for search engine optimization of YouTube video content? By that I mean filling in descriptions, titles, tags and so on. I can't find good information about this on the internet, about which keywords to use, optimal/maximum lenght of texts and other (?) issues


Set IP address to point to certain domain

I have a Linux VPS, DirectAdmin as web panel and already set a domain to it. everything is OK and I can see my website in my browser using domain name. Now I need to have access to my site using its IP address. something like `http://86.57.88.29`, but when I try to load my site in a browser using its IP I get below message and I have to post-fix my IP with /~admin (`http://86.57.88.29/~admin`) to get it work. > **This IP is being shared among many domains. To view the domain you are > looking for, simply enter the domain name in the location bar of your web > browser.** So how can I configure my IP to point to my public_html folder without and ~admin like phrase? Thanks.


Region specific language in Google Search results?

I have a dynamic English language site. If a user views the site in the US (with a US IP address) some of the site's language is altered so that it make more sense to a US audience. Anywhere else, Australia, United Kingdom, etc. the site displays its default language. When I Google Search my site from the UK the language from the US site appears in the snippet of information. I'm guessing it's because Google is crawling my site from within the US so it's only seeing the US language version. Can I instruct the Google indexer on which site is the US version and which is the non-US version and have it display the correct language in its search results?


SEO friendly URL

I want to create SEO friendly URL for my website. I am creating a _.htaccess_ file but these file not run in Bluehost. Bluehost gets an "Internal Server Error": > The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable > to complete your request. > > Please contact the server administrator, > webmaster@ompeespace.coraltechnologies.com and inform them of the time the > error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the > error. > > More information about this error may be available in the server error log. > > Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying > to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request." I can't understand what did I do.


Server script that sends a warning each time an error appears

I have a managed VPS, and I share inside it a few domain accounts.   After one of those accounts run out of disk space, and a big fat error appeared in all other accounts because of that, I asked the hosting to turn off the "eaccelerator" a feature that they´ve implemented for me to make my sites faster. The thing is that I don't want this horrible problem to happen again, and I would like to have something that tells me if any error appears in any of my sites, maybe a SMS, or an email. Is there any script that would allow you to do that?


For better SEO: What to use for html title tag: "|" vs ":" vs "-"?

I'm asking this because I don't know if it matters for better SEO or not.               MyWebsite.com - Current Page Title     MyWebsite.com : Current Page Title     MyWebsite.com :: Current Page Title     MyWebsite.com | Current Page Title      Currently I'm using the first option from above. I'm just wondering, 1) which one better for good SEO? 2) Also, which is better for good SEO: Do we keep the site name in the beginning (like above) or the end of the title tag (like below)?               Current Page Title - MyWebsite.com     Current Page Title : MyWebsite.com     Current Page Title :: MyWebsite.com     Current Page Title | MyWebsite.com      I've noticed that Google use something like this:               searchterm - Google Search


I'm about to remove a large part of a website in order to replace it by a better alternative which, unfortunately, cannot be mapped to older URIs with URL rewriting. The part of the website I want to remove is indexed by Google. Would Google penalize me for removing indexed pages?


Why do websites require retyping the password upon user error in a registration form?

Many times, when you fill out a registration form and miss a required field, the form reloads with all the fields filled out except for the password which you have to retype. I'm wondering if I should do the same. I really prefer not to, because as a user I'm very annoyed by the need to retype the password. Is it a security measure? What does it protect from? **EDIT:** Helping the user remember the password is important, but does not answer the question. Most forms have two password fields anyway, and I see no reason to make the user type the password 4 or 6 times instead of 2.


Wordpress, Joomla, on amazon S3 only? or do I need EC2 instance

for services like wordpress and joomla, I remember kind of just dropping project files on an FTP when I was doing static websites. Now Amazon S3 buckets reminds me of that, and it can be used for static websites. My question is would that work for wordpress and joomla installations? Just googling "wordpress on s3" reveals some solutions to complications that people experience, but don't really address what the issues were. Same for Joomla, I believe this requires write permissions to a relational database but I assume its all self contained Is there any reason that I couldn't just have an entire wordpress site on S3 with all the essential wordpress files nested in the folders underneath the top level directory?


Page Spamming via locations

Hi guys I am new here so please be gentle :) I have created a web page for a small mail order business. The page asks the reader if they are in need of a supplier for products in their "area" and if they have ever been let down by a supplier in that "area" etc. It also lists all the local villages and hamlets around the [area] where they can also supply too. This page is dynamically created and the [area] changes and so do the small towns that are local to the town. The page also contains information on the products so the word count vs town names is not stupid. An example of one of the URL would be www.website.com/1014/Halesowen/ It basically covers the whole of the UK so around 800 main towns with 28,000 local villages. The URL changes, so does the title and h1 tags, also each page is Geo coded for that town. My question really is this a good or bad idea? Is it a black hat technique ? I have been told if I have to ask the question then it probably is but the site does supply to all these areas just as any mail order company does and would like to get listed higher in each town for the products. I have seen this done on a few sites but only with a few targeted towns and not the whole of the UK so I would be really interested in your guys thoughts on this. I would post the URL to the site but as I am new here I am a bit unsure of the rules regarding posting links. The whole site needs a lot of other onsite SEO work doing and I will be doing that over the next few weeks. I look forward to your views on this. p.s. If I am allowed to post the URL without getting into trouble so you can see it someone let me know? Thanks in advance


Why sometimes URLs are reached without the "www"'s in the url?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What does WWW do? The usual form of an internet adress is for example `http://www.example.com`. Sometimes I encounter pages, that have the `www` missing, like in this real world example:               https://service.discoplus.de/      Why is that so? If I type in `https://wwwservice.discoplus.de/` (with www) it asks me a security question and then rerouts me to `http://www.discoplus.de/`. So obviously internet adresses with and without `www` are not equivalent. Thanks for any enlightening!


Force Social Marketing for users

We offer weekly deals in our website. We would like to engage a social experience by offering bigger discounts if a user invites 3 his/her friends to the site. I wonder if there are special services which offer such functionality to integrate to your site.. We could implement it, but we prefer to safe some time and pay for such service if it exists. Thanks.


How to Remove Extensions From, and Force the Trailing Slash at the End of URLs?

Example of current file structure:               example.com/foo.php       example.com/bar.html       example.com/directory/       example.com/directory/foo.php       example.com/directory/bar.html       example.com/cgi-bin/directory/foo.cgi*        I would like to remove HTML, PHP and CGI extensions from, and then force the trailing slash at the end of URLs. So, it could look like this:               example.com/foo/       example.com/bar/       example.com/directory/       example.com/directory/foo/       example.com/directory/bar/       example.com/cgi-bin/directory/foo/      I am very frustrated because I've searched for 17 hours straight for solution and visited more than a few hundred pages on various blogs and forums. I'm not joking. So I think I've done my research. Here is the code that sits in my .htaccess file right now:               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f     RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[^./]+)/$ $1.html     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]|/)$     RewriteRule (.*)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]      As you can see, this code only removes .html (and I'm not very happy with it because I think it could be done a lot simpler). I can remove the extension from PHP files when I rename them to .html through .htaccess, but that's not what I want. I want to remove it straight. This is the first thing I don't know how to do. The second thing is actually very annoying. My .htaccess file with code above, adds `.html/` to every string entered after `example.com/directory/foo/`. So if I enter `example.com/directory/foo/bar` (obviously `/bar` doesn't exist since `foo` is a file), instead of just displaying message that page is not found, it converts it to `example.com/directory/foo/bar.html/`, then searches for a file for a few seconds and then displays the not found message. This, of course, is bad behavior. So, once again, I need the code in .htaccess to do the following things:   * **Remove .html extension**   * **Remove .php extension**   * **Remove .cgi extension**   * **Force the trailing slash at the end of URLs**   * **Requests should behave correctly (no adding trailing slashes or extensions to strings if file or directory doesn't exist on server)**   * **Code should be as simple as possible** I would very much appreciate any help. And to first person that gives me the solution, I'll send two $50 iTunes Store gift cards for US store. If this offends anyone, I am truly sorry and I apologize. Thanks in advance. * * * @Kronbernkzion excellent. The only issue I'm having now is 404's don't seem to work right and leads me to a real funky place, I can't even use an absolute 404 redirect.               ErrorDocument 404 http://www.google.com      Did you come across this? How did you get past it? Aside from the 404 rewrite, the full code I've used was:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)/$     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f     RewriteRule (.*)/$ $1.html [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)/$     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f     RewriteRule (.*)/$ $1.php [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)/$     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.cgi -f     RewriteRule (.*)/$ $1.cgi [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.cgi -f     RewriteRule .* %{REQUEST_FILENAME}/ [R=301,L]     </IfModule>


My sitemap is indexed but I don't see the site pages being indexed

Hi I have a site and my site map is being indexed by google correctly (almost I have 1.165 links and it indexed 1.156). But when I go to the Indexed pages view in Google webmaster tools it only show 60 indexed pages and also I am not getting a lot of keywords because of that. How can I improve that ? My site is a single page Ajax filled app and I create a sitemap so google can find my content.


large/huge example databases .sql files to download on the web?

Where can i find really large databases .sql files with 100's MB or a few GB text, 10.000.000 plus rows of text so I can test my sphinx search engine indexing


How do you save/export changes made in Firebug?

Using Firebug to edit CSS, how do I save/export changes made to the CSS? **TOOLS:** Firefox, Firebug * * * **MAJOR UPDATE:** If you know of a way to lock the forward/back/refresh on a FireFox tab, please let me know. Otherwise, I've given up on using FireBug/FireDiff as an IDE for CSS, it's nice, but lol... press backspace at the wrong time and ALL your work is gone... funny. So, really like the browser highlighting to CSS/HTML in Firebug. Know any good CSS editors that do this? Really had hope FireBug would work, but for now only see it as being good for ad-hoc inspection and test; meaning using it for what it's made for. * * * **UPDATES:** **@Lèse majesté:** Just as an update, "Web Developer add-on" does let you edit CSS, but it does not let you edit/save CSS changes made by Firebug. Meaning you use Firebug to ID and maybe test changes, but it does not let you save the changes from Firebug. Here's a "how to" covering how to use them together: FF + FB + WD **@Lèse majesté:** Still playing around with FireDiff. It works okay, found one bug already (although I'm just working around it), and there's no "how to" I've been able to find, so I'm just trying every feature and clicking around... (for example, to export a diff you must be over the last item in the list, right click, and select as "Save Diff". The ".diff" is just a text file, no idea why at this point the ext is .diff.


How to internally rewrite a page when requested from specific HTTP_HOST

I have a Drupal site, _site.com_ , and our client has a campaign that they're promoting for which they've bought a new domain name, _campaign.com_. I'd like it so that a request for campaign.com internally rewrites to a particular page of the Drupal site. Note Drupal uses an .htaccess file in the document root. The normal Drupal rewrite is               # Rewrite URLs of the form 'x' to the form 'index.php?q=x'.     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]      I added the following _before_ the normal rewrite.               # Custom URLS (eg. microsites) go here     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =campaign.com     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/     RewriteRule ^ index.php?q=node/22 [L]      Unfortunately it doesn't work, it just shows the homepage. Turning on the rewrite log I get this.               1. [rid#2da8ea8/initial] (3) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] strip per-dir prefix: D:/wamp/www/ ->      2. [rid#2da8ea8/initial] (3) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] applying pattern '^' to uri ''     3. [rid#2da8ea8/initial] (2) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] rewrite '' -> 'index.php?q=node/22'     4. [rid#2da8ea8/initial] (3) split uri=index.php?q=node/22 -> uri=index.php, args=q=node/22     5. [rid#2da8ea8/initial] (3) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] add per-dir prefix: index.php -> D:/wamp/www/index.php     6. [rid#2da8ea8/initial] (2) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] strip document_root prefix: D:/wamp/www/index.php -> /index.php     7. [rid#2da8ea8/initial] (1) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] internal redirect with /index.php [INTERNAL REDIRECT]     8. [rid#2da7770/initial/redir#1] (3) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] strip per-dir prefix: D:/wamp/www/index.php -> index.php     9. [rid#2da7770/initial/redir#1] (3) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] applying pattern '^' to uri 'index.php'     10.[rid#2da7770/initial/redir#1] (3) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] strip per-dir prefix: D:/wamp/www/index.php -> index.php     11.[rid#2da7770/initial/redir#1] (3) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] applying pattern '^(.*)$' to uri 'index.php'     12.[rid#2da7770/initial/redir#1] (1) [perdir D:/wamp/www/] pass through D:/wamp/www/index.php           I'm not used to mod_rewrite, so I might be missing something, but comparing the logs from a call to http://site.com/node/3 and from http://campaign.com/ I can't see any meaningful difference. Specifically _uri_ and _args_ on line 4 seem correct, the internal redirect on line 7 seems right, and the pass through on line 12 seems right (because the file _index.php_ exists). But for some reason it seems the query string's been discarded/ignored around the time of the internal redirect. I'm completely stumped. Also, if anyone could provide a reference on understanding the rewrite log, that might help. It'd be great if there's a way to track the query string through the internal redirect. FWIW I'm using WampServer 2.1 with Apache 2.2.17.


IIS with multiple roots

Can IIS7 be setup to have many roots? Say I have a local server on our LAN called `jupiter`. Staff can view their sites via a folder structure such as `http://jupiter/staff/karen`. While this works ok, what they cannot do is use relative addressing to its full. Should they wish to link to a home page then using `href="/default.html"` or something similar will take then to the root of `jupiter` and not to their own top directory. What is the easiest way to accomplish this? I know I can use ports (i.e. `http://jupiter:1001`) to get to karens site, but I would much prefer something like `http://karen.jupiter` or `http://jupiter/~karen`) where accessing the root will take them to the top of their own site structure.


Has Facebook changed the way they read meta data?

I have a site built on Joomla!3.2. Recently I tried to share on Facebook an article from my site and it seems that Facebook doesn't read my _meta data_. Here is my _`<head>`_ output:                 <meta property="og:url" content="http://www.highplay.pt/blog/porque-e-que-as-historias-vencem-uma-visao-nigel-barlow" />       <meta property="og:title" content="High Play Institute - Porque é que as histórias vencem uma visão?" />       <meta property="og:type" content="article" />       <meta property="og:image" content="http://www.highplay.pt/media/k2/items/cache/48ee1e8a0a8f50dce4f8cb9ab418e211_XL.jpg" />      And here is my **Graph API** from Open Graph Debugger               {        "id": "191441707711484",        "url": "http://www.highplay.pt/blog/porque-e-que-as-historias-vencem-uma-visao-nigel-barlow",        "type": "website",        "title": "http://www.highplay.pt/blog/porque-e-que-as-historias-vencem-uma-visao-nigel-barlow",        "updated_time": "2013-11-21T11:38:46+0000",        "created_time": "2013-11-21T11:22:05+0000",        "is_scraped": true     }      The weird in this is that I tried in last month and it looked great, with XL Image, description and Article name, I dunno why this is happen.


How to Export Email "Sent" Folder?

A client had her web site and email hosted at "company A". She was switching to "company B" but didn't want to lose her email. I set up a Gmail account, POPed into her webmail account, and pulled the entire inbox into Gmail (for later transfer to her new host). But I forgot about the "sent" folder. Although the hosting plan is still up and running, she changed her domain record to point to the new host. So I can't access the old webmail account via POP or IMAP because the email address needed for authentication now resolves to the new host. Is there any way I can get the contents of the sent folder without having to do a "forward" one message at a time (there are hundreds)?


Disable outbound links without letting others know that

Is there a way I can tell google not to follow external links ( pointing to other sites) without letting other know. I know you can disable outbound links by putting rel=nofollow or something in robots.txt. But that's something others can see as well. I'm just wondering if there's a way to tell google not to follow those links without letting others know that... like a setting in webmaster tools or something similar ( there's definetly one way. I could set an exception in my conf file for my server to check the user agent to be "googlebot" and then serve a different version of robots.txt. So that when a different user would check that link it would return a different robots.txt thant the one served to googlebot. However I'm not too sure google would be too happy about this) Thank you


Can .htaccess slow down a site?

I'm working with a client on an e-commerce website. I implemented clean URLs using .htaccess. I also used .htaccess to solve canonical issues such as redirecting www to non-www and removing index.php from the URL. The website recently began to slow down dramatically, sometimes not even loading. The site is hosted on GoDaddy, and when the client called GoDaddy they told him it was the .htaccess file slowing down the website. I find this highly unlikely because of my past experiences, but I'm not 100% sure. My thinking is that the client's website is most likely on a shared server with a busy neighborhood, thus slowing down the site. It's not always slow, but rather sporadic throughout the day, loading fast at some points and slow at other points in time. Can the .htaccess file slow down a website to a crawl? If so, are there better ways to solve these problems with different rewrite rules and such? Here is what the actual .htaccess file looks like:                   Options +FollowSymlinks         RewriteEngine   On         RewriteBase /         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.net [NC]         RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.net/$1 [L,R=301]         RewriteRule ^products/([0-9a-zA-Z\_\-]*)\.htm([l]?)$ index.php p=product&product_code=$1 [L]         RewriteRule ^catalog/([0-9a-zA-Z\_\-]*)\.htm([l]?)$ index.php p=catalog&catalog_code=$1 [L]         RewriteRule ^pages/([0-9a-zA-Z\_\-]*)\.htm([l]?)$   index.php?p=page&page_id=$1 [L]         RewriteRule ^index\.htm([l]?)$  index.php?p=home [L]         RewriteRule ^site_map\.htm([l]?)$   index.php?p=site_map [L]         RewriteCond      %{QUERY_STRING}    ^p=home$         RewriteRule      (.*)               ?     [R=permanent]      I'm a .htaccess and regex novice, so any pointed out mistakes would also help.


Effective upload to backend?

Let's say I have a website with frontend and backend. The website allows users to upload some data ranging from hundreds of MB to GB. How do you effectively upload this data?   * The easiest way would be to upload it from client/browser to the frontend server. Then send it via API or something to the backend server which has connected data storage, where we'll save the data. This would, however, run really slow, because the upload will be twice as big.   * Another way that occurred to me would be to send the data directly from javascript running inside the browser to the backend's API. This can be inappropriate when I don't want the backend/backend's API to be accessible to public. It's also not good for the architecture (if you have fe and be, you probably don't want to communicate from client to be). So, do you have any ideas? Or is there some kind of general way to do this effectively? Does it include CDNs? Or should I store the data in a database as base64 strings if it'd only be few hundreds of MB pre file?


I want to park my domain www.b.com to www.a.com. if the user visits b.com, I want the browser url to display a.com

I want to park my domain www.b.com to www.a.com So far is working, but if the user visits b.com, I want the browser url to display a.com Is there a way around it?


What are best practices for Drupal QA? For example, how would you check for hard coded broken links?

Looking for suggestions on how to QA a Drupal website. Thanks!


How to prevent JavaScript directory access with htaccess

I have a website like `http://example.com` but the problem with it is that people are able to get access to my JavaScript by pointing a browser to `http://example.com/js/`. I have little knowledge of using _.htaccess_ files.


Facebook and Open Graph Protocol

Why is the Facebook open graph protocol beneficial beneficial to my web site? Why do I need to implement some of the meta properties to use the Facebook "Like" button on my web page? I do NOT understand what the meta tags are for, I don't understand their necessity for the "Like" button, and also am completely lost as to why the generated code from Facebook for the button doesn't even appear on my webpage. The HTML5 markup is not visible, I am not familiar with XFBML, the iframe at least appears on the page, but displays an image similar to that of a frozen or unresponsive webpage (that snowman guy who is gnashing his teeth and has snowflakes over his head), and finally the URL does not work either.


Can a foreign company take my domain name?

I'm a small U.S. business and a company in China contacted me to say they want to use my domain name as their own and also make it their internet keyword. The name is not trademarked. Don't I have legal exclusivity rights to this domain when I paid the annual fee? How should I respond to them? I do not want them to take it.


Is it legal to use Drupal, Joomla, WP, Zend Framework, jQuery icons on my page?

I would like to use Drupal, Joomla, WP and other well known recognized icons instead of written tags on my website. They would be like 16x16 pixels big. Is this OK? I mean it is just for information purposes for the user, which technology is used etc. it is not a commercial project either. What about asp.net, apple, android and other big names? Is it ok to use icons like e.g. these guys http://alternativeto.net/category/ I am just asking, because this world is weird and you hear all the time about the patent wars in mass media. **EDIT: Are icons on the website/firefox plugin like wappalyzer.com illegal or not?**


Why was 303 skipped in HTTP/1.0?

While looking back over HTTP response codes today I noticed that the 301, 302, and 304 response codes were defined in HTTP/1.0 but not the 303 response code. Does anyone know why the number 303 was skipped in HTTP/1.0?


Upload ICS (calandar) file to my server

I want to upload my ICS file to my server, well this is the easy part. What I really want is to be able to share this *.ics file with 2-3 people so they can edit. I have currently uploaded the file on the www/ (root)               mydomain.com.au/myfile.ics      of my server and added it to my Email/Cal client. **Was all looking ok until I tried to save changes.** Can someone please direct me to some documentation on how I do this properly. The easy solution would be to upload to google, but I would rather learn how to manage the file myself. Thank you


Why would you ever use NOINDEX without NOFOLLOW

Everytime I've used the NOINDEX directive on a page, it made sense to use NOFOLLOW as well. I can't imagine a scenario where you would not want a page indexed, but _would_ want the links inside it to be. Can anyone describe a scenario where it would make sense to have a page that combines NOINDEX with FOLLOW?


How to reclaim a hijacked tinyurl?

It seems someone has hijacked one of the TinyURLs that was sent out in the marketing communication and it now redirects users to a porn site. Is there anyway we can reclaim the TinyURL?


Where can i get MatrixStats?

I run several IIS web servers and want to install some sort of log reader. A lot of the big boys use MatrixStats, however a good hard Google has come up blank on who makes it and/or where I can get it from to install on my own servers. I have looked at AwStats but my god its complicated to get working...


What's the difference between cheap and expensive domain registrars?

A few years ago I registered a domain with Network Solutions. In recent years I've been using cheaper services such as namecheap, powerpipe etc. Every time that I need to renew some of the older domains with Network Solutions I am surprised at how much expensive they are. What is the reason for the price differences between the services? Why should I use a service like Network Solutions if there are so many companies out there that offer domain registration for a very cheap price?


Why didn't the Google AdSense team approve my website (I followed all the requirements)?

I submitted my website to the Google AdSense team two months ago, but my site still is under review. I tried to do all the things they require. This is my website: `http://pondicherryevents.com` If I forgot to fulfill any of Google's AdSense requirements, please let me know.


Why sitemap gives higher priority to category and archive pages?

I am using wordpress along with Google (XML) Sitemap Generator Plugin, and have got a question about sitemap priorities. By default, The plugin gives higher priority to category, tag and archive pages. Even the author of this plugin himself does so, I don't know why. Aren't articles more important? Here is the author's sitemap, you can see that it gives only 0.1 priority to articles. http://www.arnebrachhold.de/sitemap.xml


What is plus.sandbox.google.com?

My client's website has had a couple of visits from the referrer — plus.sandbox.google.com. I looked it up and there isn't enough information available regarding this. Does anyone know what this url is?


Is it time to add IPv6 access to my websites?

I have several dedicated servers and VPS servers, and some of those are at companies that have provided me with native IPv6 blocks (in addition to the IPv4 IP addresses). Does it currently make sense to point an AAAA record to an IPv6 address on my server, in addition to the A record pointing to the IPv4 address? This would be for (for example) the www subdomain. (the networking and web server software would be set up on the server to respond appropriately). A while ago I read that a small percentage of users (1 in a thousand?) would have slow or no access if a subdomain had both A and AAAA records because their networking software asked for one and got the other. Is that still the case, will adding an AAAA record inconvenience some users, or is the percentage already smaller and falling? In other words, is now the time to get around to adding native IPv6 support for a busy website aimed at the general public, or is it still too early?


"Hire a freelancer"-esque site - existing solution or roll our own?

We're looking to roll out a kind of "hire a freelancer" style site but on a much smaller scale than existing sites Is anyone aware of any existing software on the market? haven't had much success googling "freelancer CMS" as you end up with freelancers to hire to build a cms (!) I'm somewhat tempted to roll our own, but time/budget might be an issue so looking to explore other options. Thanks for any input !


How to restrict access to my site using htaccess

**How to disallow access to site except me?**


Should I let Google index tag archives on wordpress?

I'm working on SEO for my WordPress page, and I'm having second thoughts about having my tag archive indexed. I'm not using categories at all, so I've set robots to `noindex, follow` for category overviews, making tags the main taxonomy. Part of me says that having tag archives indexed is useful because those pages are full of content around one specific keywords, and they also link to more pages concerning those keywords. Also, the posts are truncated with a 'read more' link, so there's not going to be a problem with duplicate content. On the other hand, these pages might dilute the pagerank for my actual posts. What is the use of people finding my tag archive pages if they could also find actual articles? Wouldn't it be better to just follow the links in my tag archives but not have those pages indexed? Should I index them or just let google follow the links?


Attract visitors to a website in it's begining with empty content

I am creating a customer to business website directory for my country, very similar to the way Yelp operates where people and businesses can add their company information. The website will have the usual reviews and customer search functions but the problem I am facing is how can I attract customers to visit the website for the first time when the website contains little information.


How can I show ads for search on own web site

On my web site there is a (self-coded) search functionality that searches through the web site's specific contents. However I'd like to display one banner in addition to the site's results, showing ads relevant to the entered search terms. Can I do this e.g. with Google Ads? I want the ads to be based only on the search terms from the user, not the rest of the site's content, so there has to be a possibility to pass these search terms to the ad provider and get a banner based on these search terms.


"Rule caching" in .htaccess - How to force apache to re-read a modified .htaccess?

I am reorganizing the link structure of a dynamic php-based site of mine. What I am trying to obtain is:   * redirect old links onto new ones;   * create new RewriteRules for new links, since every 'link' to an html page is mapped onto a php page with parameters. The only _.htaccess_ file is contained in the website root folder. There are no other .htaccess files in subfolders. Till today I had no problems in reorganizing links by modifying the rules in _.htaccess_. Since yesterday I have been experiencing a strange problem: _it looks like modifications to the .htaccess file are not immediately read by the Apache web-server_ , that keeps applying the old rules even if they are no longer contained in the _.htaccess_ file. For example, I have a rule that performs the following mapping:               /cat-a/subcat-b/page.html -> /file.php?cat=cat-a&subcat=subcat-b      If I modify that rule as follows:               /cat-a/subcat-b/page.html -> /file.php?XXcatXX=cat-a&subcat=subcat-b      Apache keeps rewriting URLs according to the old (cat=cat...) format for a while. The new format (XXcatXX=...) is used only after a _random_ lapse of time. Random meaning that I could not find any pattern in the way it behaves. Furthermore, if I delete a rule, Apache keeps using the deleted rule for a while. The only regularity I have found concerns new rewrite rules: Apache reads them immediately and starts using them. If I delete a rule or modify an existing one, Apache ignores the changes for a while. I am noticing this problem only on RewriteRule instructions and not on redirections. Since redirections and rewritings are managed by different modules, I assume that I have to modify some settings in the mod_rewrite configuration. I made some searches but was not able to find any information/documentation on this behaviour. May be there is something that I ignore and I am missing. **Are there some settings I have to worry about? Have you ever experienced a similar problem?** I am using XAMPP on a Mac OS SnowLeopard machine. Thanks. Regards. A.


Will registering a .info domain have any SEO impact?

Just to save money as my domain list gets longer, I want to book in advance domains. I want to save money by buying .info domains rather than .com. Will it affect SEO rankings in any way?


Displaying website hosted at one domain on a different domain

I have a website hosted at (for example) `website.com`. The thing is, I also have my own server and a different domain name registered with a different company. Let's say I own `example.com` and it points to my own server. When a user visits `example.com` I want them to see what is displayed at `website.com`. As much as possible, I want them to see `website.com` while the address bar says `example.com`. I have full access to `example.com` but I only have access to the content being displayed at `website.com`. I can do a redirect from `example.com` to `website.com` but that is not what I want. I can also just use an iframe at `example.com` but I was wondering if there is a better way to do this.


How to prevent Google from showing URLs in the description section of search results for my site

I have music website. There are 46 album pages and each page has different player and files. I just entered the one of album's URLs in a search engine. I found that Google is displaying player code in search result content. For example, enter this URL in Google and check the results. Each result displays a .mp3 file in content section. I see this: > This page contains a demo of and documentation for the new jPlayer Playlist > add-on, ... mp3:"http://www.jplayer.org/audio/mp3/Miaow-01-Tempered- > song.mp3", ... I don't want Google to show the player code and mp3 files in search result.   * How can I hide audio files and player code from search engine?    * What would be the best solution for it? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XA0Cx.png)


<center> is not supported in HTML5 but its still working. How?

`<center>` tag to make texts centered is not supported in HTML5 but its still working in the latest version of chrome. Is Chrome making up for the mistake or is it still supporting the deprecated tags along with the new HTML5 tags?


What is the best way to let Google know the difference between a Production, Development, and Staging environment?

We have three domain names with pretty close to duplicate content (they're Magento sites). We'll call them `production.com`, `development.com`, and `staging.com`. I have robots `no-index` on `development.com` and `staging.com`. I also have _htpasswds_ enabled. A Google search of these domains shows that they haven't been indexed. However, I'm starting to get phishing warnings from Chrome when I log in to the back end of the software. I need to stop this as soon as possible. If the warnings spread to the front- end, we're looking at pretty serious ramifications. I've looked in Google Webmaster Tools, but it isn't registering any issues. What is the best coarse of action? How do I get Chrome to stop thinking we're up to no good?


Can Joomla have a different URL for backend management?

My site will be maintained mostly by myself, and maybe 1 or 2 others. I want to know if it's possible if the back end can be managed from a different folder structure? ie. `www.example.com` <- user sees content here. `www.example.com/admin-portal/joomla/` <- backend here. Basically users will never know where the admin portal is.


SEO-wise is it better to have a catchphrase in a header or out of header?

EDIT: In the original question I talked about spans in headers, but because of misguided answers I edited the question to better reflect the fact that the keyword is catchphrase not span. Thus the following reference is perhaps a bit obsolete, but I'll leave it here anyhow. N.B. Also though I talk of font size here the question is not about font size either. I'm aware of this: Is heading (h1, h2, h3...) font size relevant for SEO? and according to that font size does not matter. I've only mentioned font size to make it clear that the catchphrase is of lesser importance than the main header and that it is quite long, which would be impossible if it was displayed with your standard gigantic h1 letters. I noticed there is quite similar question, which says it's ok to have spans in headers: SEO of  in
 header If someone more knowledgeable regarding SEO could tell me which of these is better in SEO point of view or is there any difference: I presume Google will at some point penalise adding too much stuff in to the header?
       My cool header - A longer catchphrase complementing the header that with added markup is likely displayed with smaller font size
      vs something like this:

My cool header
       - A longer catchphrase complementing the header that with CSS styling is likely displayed with smaller font size


SPF record and problem sending email

![kupissimo.com](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tne3Q.png) Is this correct setting for SPF record. Should i use double quotes or not in DATA part? Even with this I have problem rejecting emails from google:               host     gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400d:c00::1a] said: 550-5.7.1     [2a02:c200:0:10:3:2:843:1      12] Our system has detected that this     550-5.7.1 message is likely unsolicited mail. To reduce the amount of spam     sent 550-5.7.1 to Gmail, this message has been blocked. Please visit     550-5.7.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=188131     for 550 5.7.1 more information. 4si4196823qcl.68 - gsmtp (in reply to end     of DATA command)


Twitter vs. Facebook vs. Google+ in terms of influence on rankings.

Has anyone tested the effectiveness of social media signals from Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ as applied to influence on search engine rankings? For instance, is it better to have 100 +1's, or 100 Twitter mentions, or 100 Facebook likes?


Tracking referrals between profiles on the same domain in Google Analytics

I have a website at `mydomain.com` that uses Analytics. I have a blog that resides at `mydomain.com/blog/`, which also uses Analytics They are on different profiles. The main site uses something like: `_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-6']);` While the blog uses:               _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-7']);     _gaq.push(['_setCookiePath', '/blog/']);      My issues is that this seems not to track referrals from the blog through to the main site when, for instance, the logo which links to the main site is clicked. Ideally, I would like the clicks of this logo to report that the `source` was `mydomain.com/blog/`, but because they are at the same domain they seem to register as `direct` traffic. Have I missed a step in my configuration, or will I _have_ to resort to linking to something like `mydomain.com?ref=blog`? Thank you.


How do I transfer an expiring domain to a different person?

A while ago, me and a friend created a website together and he handled all the domain registration (with GoDaddy). Now, the domain registration is about to expire (in 2 weeks time) but my friend is not interested in working on the website and renewing the domain anymore. As a complete webmaster noob, my two biggest questions are:   * Is there a way for him to transfer the domain so that for now on I am the one in charge of it and I am the one responsible for renewing it? In particular, is there are difference between a trusted friend transferring the domain and arranging a transfer with a stranger?   * Do I need to keep using the same domain registrar or can I switch to another one? I don't really understand what would be the difference between them and I am confused because everything I searched for assumes that I already own the domain. I don't mind if the whole process takes a while to complete as the website is currently off the air anyways. My priority is keeping the domain name in the long run.


Can I use Google Analytics to show visits by browser as a percentage of total visits?

I would like to know if I can get a report from google analytics that can show me how Internet Explorer 8.0 (for example) usage as a percentage of total visits is trending over time. Even just the two columns of data would be fine. ie.                     Visits from IE 8.0    |      Total Visits     -------------------------------------------------     Jan          100            |          500     Feb          108            |          560     Mar          92             |          584     Apr          81             |          602


Mod rewrite is not working or doing anything

So I've used an online _.htaccess_ editor and it's not working for some reason on my test server, here's the content of my _.htaccess_ file.               RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^Page/([^/]*)/$ /?Page=$1 [L]      I have also enabled the _LoadModule_ `rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so` on my WAMP server. Any help is much appreciated. > [Fri Aug 09 12:46:10.130887 2013] [core:alert] [pid 1424:tid 1532] [client > 127.0.0.1:50725] C:/wamp/www/Website/.htaccess: RewriteRule: bad flag > delimiters EDIT: tried doing one on my own still having the same issue               Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^Page/([a-zA-Z]+)/([0-9]+)/$ index.php?Page=$1


Minimize downtime moving from godaddy to route 53

I have an A record in GoDaddy pointing to my web server. I want to move this now to Route 53. The last time I did this it took almost 48 hours to propagate. I think because of the order I did things. This is the process I think should hopefully minimize downtime:   1. Create hosted zone for my domain to get the 4 name servers that I'll use as my delgation set.   2. Add the 4 name servers to GoDaddy. GoDaddy has 2 other "Informational" name servers defined that look like you can't delete them?   3. Now in Route 53 add a record set. Create A record to IP of my web server.   4. Wait to see if dns propagation has happened. With dig?   5. Remove A record from GoDaddy. Will this process work with minimal or no downtime? Will dig tell me enough information to see that it is safe to remove the A record from GoDaddy?


HTML Lang ISO Code

I have a multi-language site for English and Chinese (Hong Kong). My previous setting for Chinese Hong Kong (zh-hk) had: `<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="zh-hk" xml:lang="zh-hk">` Shortly, I began to notice browser with other Chinese language sub-codes like zh-tw and zh-cn were seeing my English site in search engines instead of Chinese Hong Kong (zh-hk), which makes sense. I want to change my html lang to: `<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="zh" xml:lang="zh">` Would this cover all Chinese language settings? Also, would Google prefer to show pages that match language subcodes of the browser/country (zh-hk for Hong Kong, zh-cn for Taiwan) than a general language code (zh)?


Hacker Crawler inserting iframe into ftp file

Somehow, a "hacker crawler" is constantly inserting a harmful iframe-line into one of my files: It's done automatically, and not by a person, I assume. I've changed all my passwords several times as well as the CHMOD of the file, so I assume this is somehow done on my site. Any ideas how the crawler does this and how I can prevent it?


What things required to host a website at home

I have a Linux server runing Ubuntu. On it I've installed PHP, Mysql, and Apache. I need to host a site on my server having static IP, but I don't have any experience in web hosting. Can you please tell me that what are the things are required to host a site? I suspect I need web space and an IP address. Can you please also tell me which is the best hosting plans available in UK market for a beginner? I read somewhere **if we are using non-fixed IP it takes 24 hrs to change DNS** is this correct?


How to create a temporary staging server on my home machine

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What things required to host a website at home I want to create a temporary staging server which can be accessed (i.e. via browser) by other people that I want to show the website to (a business partner who is half way accross the world). IIRC, my ISP issues dynamic addresses so I may need to register with a (DNS server?) - not sure about this. Although I'm a software developer, I don't know much about the hardware side of things - and would appreciate help in getting me setup so I can show a website to a business partner. Here are the relevant details: Web server: Apache 2.2 OS: Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS modem/router: ZyXel P-600


Traffic lost by 40% but shown increasing in WMT

Around 30 days back my site lost traffic about 40%. I guess it is most likely due to algorithmic/ranking issues. But if I see my "Search Queries" with change in the WMT I see all green and ever increasing without any red's. All the 7000 or so search keywords have infinity increase in change position. Has Google lost the historical search keyword data for my site? Here is copy of those stats. My site is around 3 years old. I'm bit confused as to how to interpret it ... ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/n88EM.jpg)


Canonical URLs in sortable paginated lists

How should one use `rel="canonical"` in sortable paginated lists? An unsorted list of products is not the same as the same list sorted, nor are lists sorted in different ways equivalent. For example, compare:   * `http://www.example.com/desktops?sort=p.price&order=ASC&limit=5&page=2` with   * `http://www.example.com/desktops?sort=p.price&order=DESC&limit=5&page=2` These are two very different pages, but they have the same canonical URL. Surely this is incorrect?


What is a good Microdata method for listing a list of events?

I have a list of events that change over time, so items get added while others drop off after their dates expire. For point of reference, they are conventions. I've never used microdata before and would like to lay out the page correctly. Should the whole page be an `itemscope` or the individual entries? Because if you look at this example:               <div itemscope itemtype="http://www.domain.org/events">      The URL that has the events list is `events` just like that example. If you have each entry with that URL , wouldn't that be a major mistake? So I am assuming `itemscope` should be used for the entire page of entries? If that's right, what tag should I use instead of `itemscope` to identify each entry in the list of events?


Business operates in multiple counties, will adding a listing in the Local Business sites harm our placement in SERPs?

I work at a non-profit where we operate in more than two counties within our state. Our offices are located in two different towns, and that leaves a few counties of operation where we would also like to appear in their local SERPs or Local Business listings. Please note that these towns are **_not_** necessarily close to all the areas of operation. Since we don't have offices in all the counties of operation, how can we effectively post our business in the Local Business Listings and still show up in our counties of operation?


How do keyword spellings in domains and titles affect search engine optimization?

Just had a quick question about the spellings of words in domain names and how search engines like Google interpret them: So for example, if I had a site based on up to the minute deals on various products and called it `livedeals.co.uk`, how would the key wording of the word "live" be affected in:               www.livedeals.co.uk - Lived Eals or Live Deals      Also, is "UK" in `.co.uk` picked up as a keyword too?


Do pushState and popState affect SEO?

I was creating my own Ajax-based website which means almost all of my data will be fetched via Ajax from the server and I started to have concerns about my site's SEO. I am using popState and pushState methods after I was reading This Article and this one. As far as I can tell, these methods manipulate the history method of a window object so we can change the address-bar information. But `will these methods affect the SEO of the site?`


Index a 301 Redirect to help a user locate a page

On a site I'm currently working on, there is a 301 Redirect to redirect a nice short URL for users to type in when trying to find a particular piece of content - e.g. www.mydomain.com/apply -> www.mydomain.com/some/application/page To my knowledge, it is best practice to use a 301 redirect here - the content is located in just one position and we want that page to be ranked accordingly. I've been told that "quite often" users who want to visit the site mistakenly enter the URL into the search bar of the browser instead of the address bar. The search result will just return a link to the site, but not that particular page, so they then click through and just reach out homepage and get confused. They have asked whether we can index that page so that it appears in the search result, so the users can click on it there. My initial reaction is to be against this. As far as I am aware, it is bad practice to try and force an index of a 301 Redirect, isn't it? Is it even possible, how do you do it? I've tried looking into this and it sounds a bit similar to a "doorway" page, but rather than the aim here being to try and fake our way into a better page ranking, it is to make sure the user can find our site in this 1 specific search. I'm currently of the opinion that we shouldn't try to bend the rules to cater for this specific scenario, but I'm struggling to think of alternatives that will also help the situation. What if we assumed that the page rankings for the true content page are not important, and general users wouldn't search for it anyway, but we didn't want to harm page rankings of the whole site in general?


Google App Engine Socket API

I'm calling a URL to get json data from another web site in my Google App Engine application. Then i received bellow message. > The Socket API will be enabled for this application once billing has been > enabled in the admin console So i decided to enable billing. but i have a question. For Mail API, we can send 100 messages for a day for free. Like this Is there any Free Default Limit for Socket API ?