Is "no-index" necessary with extensive, white-labeled syndication?

For the purposes of this discussion, consider the following scenario: You have written a fair amount of quality, unpublished content that third- party websites wish to license from you and white-label on their own sites (i.e. you are ghostwriting for these third parties). In other words, there will be no attribution or links referring to your name, email address, or website at all; it will appear to readers and search engines as if the article were written by the third party instead of by you. Consider that 10,000 of these third-party sites were created independently, without any association to each other (they are absolutely NOT part of a blog farm network). From your collection of 100 articles, you plan to license the white-label publishing right of each article to 100 of these sites (again, on a per-article basis). So, while each of your 100 articles will be published 100 times, it's fair to assume that no site will host all 100 articles. The most any one site will host is 30 articles. **Now for the question** : Given this scenario, and that your intent is not to game search engines at all (but rather to provide quality content on established websites), do you need to include "no-index" meta tags on the pages that display your content? Clearly, you wouldn't want your customers to receive the wrath of the Google Duplicate Content Penalty. However, at the same time, if they can benefit from any Google juice deriving from your content, then that would be a nice benefit. I suppose a more concise question may be, "Would this behavior cause Google to penalize the third-party websites? Or, would Google simply choose one of the sites as hosting the "best" version of the content on a per-article basis?"


Do invisible headings that aid accessibility harm SEO?

On most websites, I use headings on a page (typically H2) for distinct sections – not only within the main content, but also for sections such as "Section navigation", "Page tools", "Footer". (Usually invisible via class="visuallyhidden".) This is a well-established accessibility technique – making it easy to navigate between landmarks on the page (In future I may use ARIA rel="landmark" for this). An SEO agency has advised our client that these elements should be changed from H2 to DIV, "because they are not semantically relevant compared to the complete page content (and keywords we decide to use)" I want to advise our client that the accessibility benefits outweigh SEO. Who is (more) right – me or the SEO agency?


How can I buy my own personalized Top Level Domain (TLD)?

Starting fomm tomorrow January/12/2012 I heard it's possible to apply for your own TLD i.e. `.whatever` in place of `.com` `.org` etc. I thought it would require a huge amount of money (I heard stories about paying $185K for one) but I found this company who seems to register a new TLD for just $1000. Here is where they show the price: > The price to register a TLD including the unlimited number of domains that > belong to it is: $1000.- only. Do you think this is a scam or for real? Do you know about any other places where I can go to apply for personalized TLD?


Rich snippet error: "Price, review or availability needs to be present" But it is

I'm having problems inserting Rich Snippet code for a product. I literally copied it from some Google page and edited it to my product. The Google Webmaster's Rich Snippet tool gives the error: > In order to generate a preview with rich snippets, either price or review or > availability needs to be present. But it does have the data about price: !["Offerdetails: Item 2 \(...\) Item 2 property price: ..."](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZDVqH.png) So, will Google still be able to find the price given for the product in the snippets? Or is the error real? The code is used:
Ten Cate Katoensatijnen dekbedovertrek Beoordeling: 4.5Normale prijs: €49.95 Vandaag voor:<meta itemprop="currency" content="EUR" />€24.99Aanbieding loopt tot <time itemprop="priceValidUntil" datetime="2014-05-19">19 mei 2014!</time>Vandaag nog verkrijgbaar!


Why are the custom campaign parameters in Google Analytics so long?

Adding several Google Analytics custom campaign parameters can make URLs very long.* For example, in Google's own examples:               http://www.example.com/?utm_campaign=spring&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=exampleblog     http://www.example.com/?utm_campaign=spring&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter1     http://www.example.com/?utm_campaign=spring&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter1&utm_content=toplink      Are there shorter alternatives that GA will pick up? * In some implementations, this can be bad for user experience, and could even decrease the likelihood of being shared.


Need help with understanding IP blocks

I'm trying to troubleshoot some problems with users being blocked from our website by CloudFlare. We run a Joomla 2.5 installation with RSFirewall. I have the list of IP blocks that CloudFlare uses, but I'm not versed enough with IP block math to figure out whether several of the addresses that are currently showing in the blacklist are actually CF servers. For example, the following IP is in our blacklist: 103.22.201.147 And CloudFlare uses the following block: 103.22.200.0/22 Based on what I read here it looks like that address is indeed a CloudFlare address and I need to remove it from the blacklist. Can anybody confirm whether I'm understanding it correctly or not? Thanks for your help.


Why the amount of 'indexed' images can go down?

I have a site with several thousand of images. All those images included into the sitemap submitted to Google Webmaster Tools. The amount of 'submitted' images is OK, but the amount of 'indexed' is significantly lower than the amount of 'submitted' and it is going DOWN! I'd understand if not all of my images got indexed (however it is also not clear and very frustrating for me) but I can not understand how the indexing can go in the negative direction?! All the images stays on their places. And pages containing them stays unchanged. At least they intended to be. Any thoughts?


How can I advertise on Android Market while offering a mobile website for all platforms?

I developed an Android application and I am amazed at how effective Android Market has been at spreading the word about it. It basically advertised my application for free. Now I have an idea for a pretty simple mobile application. I could do the whole thing as a mobile website to support more phones. But I'm worried about losing the free distribution channel Android market provided. So I was thinking I could build a very simple webview wrapper that I could distribute on the market to gain free exposure without sacrificing support for other phones. I could also give users a nice desktop shortcut. Is it a common practice to wrap a mobile website in an Android (or IPhone) application just for distribution?


Htaccess redirecting 404 URLs to Index page

I am trying to setup my htaccess file such that all 404 pages are permanently redirected to the `home/index` page using 301. After I configure the htaccess file I try to test that it is working correctly by typing in a bogus URL such as `site.com/asdf` to see if the 404 will redirect. It does not, it just displays the page not found message from WordPress and fails to redirect to the homepage. The code I am using (below) seemed to be working over on Stack Overflow (link, 2nd reply). I have even tried creating a PHP script to use with htaccess to redirect 404's, but still the same result, no redirection.               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>          RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule . / [L,R=301]     # END WordPress


Image based adsense site

I got rejected when trying to apply for an adsense account, it said that I'm lacking textual content. Well, that's a real problem. My newly finished site is a image based site with little or no textual content. Even I used Facebook's comment API for the commenting system, which later renders to be an iframe. So it won't even get past the adsense crawler. Users (including me) have uploaded 27 images to the site so far, but I don't think that 1000 images will make any difference. I'm deeply perplexed now and have no idea on how to get my account approved. Any good idea so that I can get my account approved?


Find the user and date a filter was created in Google Analytics

How do we find out which user created a filter and on what date within Google Analytics? Google search results are sparse on this very specific topic.


Redirect domain.tld to www.domain.tld in Parallels Plesk Panel

I inherited a website which has been set up in Parallels Plesk Panel as `www.domain.tld`. Now the problem is that `domain.tld` shows the default Parallels Plesk page and doesn't redirect to `www`. I've read in many places the solution for the opposite problem but can't find anything for this! Is there a way to correct this? Or do I have to recreate the website?


How to download database of wordpress from another server?

I am writing a script to take backup of WordPress database through another server If I know ftp and wordpress login details, then how can I download wordpress database from another server. This is what I am thinking:   1. As I know ftp then I can see my database setting in `wp-config.php` .   2. But my db-host is `localhost` so how can I connect to database? I just need a direction to solve my problem.


Google showing meta descriptions from other pages in the SERPs

Recently I added some content to my website and submitted a sitemap files to Google. Now that Google has indexed those pages, I discovered that some of words and sentences that are listed in Google that lead to my website are having their meta descriptions somehow mixed up. Here is how it works: After I put a sentence on Google to check for my website ranking, I can see a page title in the results of `page1`, a link to `page1`, and a description from `page2`. Since my website is a forum, if Google mixes the links of threads, it leads my users to different kind of material that they were looking for. Is there anything I can do about it?


What is the best way to show your users that they use an incompatible browser?

As developer, i stopped making hacks for IE to let the page look like in other browsers (especially for IE7 and IE8). The javascript engine of IE8 is slower than IE7, IE8 shows the page better. I concentrate on being W3C and use HTML5 and CSS3 features, in IE9 it is not so bad but has 16 modes to render pages and can be easily turn on by accident (that is really stupid) and does not exactly behave like the earlier versions of IE. I complain the user running IE and put some message on the top of the screen with a warning that says that the browser is out-of-date and not using modern standards. The user can click it away or can go to a page to see screenshots rendered in another browser so the user is able to see the difference. But what do you think about that, is this a good way to let users know that the browser they are using is an evil one? I want that hog IE go away, safe me time and to concentrate to make "A beautiful web" instead of being busy with a Microsoft piece of crap. Markedshare must tear down! What can we effectively do about this without the user to scare that it will leave the page? I also concentrate on the Google speedtest, reduce the use of images (requests) and use CSS3 style features but is mostly impossible when users still using IE7 and IE8 (and sometimes IE9). I don't want three different stylesheets, i don't want IE-hacks, i don't want comment conditions, i don't want IE specific things! So what is the best way without scaring users to let them know there are better alternatives?


Google Adwords: What is the difference between automatic pricing and manual pricing?

Do you use the Google adWord automatic pricing (provide the upper limit you would like to spend), or do you manually adjust and set the the bid price = first page bid min. price? According to Google, the automatic pricing will use the lowest bid price already, so the cost of running ads manually can only be greater than the automatic pricing, right?


Virtual hosting on CentOS

I have a CentOS machine running Apache. I have a few virtual hosts set up and they run just fine. An example of a setup that's working fine is:               <VirtualHost 10.10.10.38:80>         ServerName site.domain.com         DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site         <Directory /var/www/html/site>             Options -Indexes             Order deny,allow             Deny from all             Allow from {IP address list}         </Directory>         ErrorLog /etc/httpd/logs/site.error_log         CustomLog /etc/httpd/logs/site.access_log common     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost 10.10.10.38:443>             ServerName site.domain.com             DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site             <Directory /var/www/html/site>                 Options -Indexes                 Order deny,allow                 Deny from all                 Allow from {IP address list}             </Directory>             ErrorLog /etc/httpd/logs/site.error_log             CustomLog /etc/httpd/logs/site.access_log common             SSLEngine on             SSLCertificateFile    /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt             SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key         </VirtualHost>      This is in > /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf I have another entry almost exactly like that except that > site.domain.com becomes > site1.domain.com and points to a different folder in /var/www/html/. I cannot get the browser to locate site1.domain.com. The > site.access_log file is empty. I assume that means that the browser is not able to resolve the DNS. What am I missing out on?


Google analytics set up with wrong domain

I have recently embedded Google Analytics into a site using the default embed code.               <script>         (function (i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {             i['GoogleAnalyticsObject'] = r; i[r] = i[r] || function () {                 (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)             }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date(); a = s.createElement(o),             m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0]; a.async = 1; a.src = g; m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)         })(window, document, 'script', '//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js', 'ga');              ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1', 'MYDOMAIN.COM');         ga('send', 'pageview');     </script>      However I had MYDOMAIN.COM set to an incorrect domain. The views for the site seem very low, however, I can see myself there as a visitor in the real time scanner. What effect would setting the domain incorrectly have had? How does Google use this parameter?


Dedicated IP address from 3rd Party Services

I'm using hostgator reseller panel with limit to the number of dedicated IPs. I want to use dedicated IP for each account under control panel. Unfortunately hostgator restricts me with an upsell of SSL+IP for 50$. Which i think a bit costly and packed with unnecessary SSL package which i don't want to use. So is it possible to get dedicated IPs from another hosting service or host keeping the files hosted on different server ? or we're restricted to use dedicated IPs from the same host ? So to frame question in this situation, is it possible to buy IP address from 3rd parties or anyone other than your host ?


Transfer Google Webmaster Tools data to another account

How can I transfer my Google Webmaster Tools data to another account?


How does Wikipedia handle URL's such that "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP" is possible?

Notice the slash in "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP" How does it not misinterpret TCP as a subfolder?


How to view history more than 30 days in the past?

It seems that in Google Webmaster Tools I can only see about a month and a half of crawler history for my website. My site has been verified for several months now. Analytics has a broader history than this. Is there something I'm doing wrong is it that just how Webmaster Tools is?


Pros and cons of replacing images with canvas drawings in template?

I am going to redevelop a beautiful but heavy theme. I try to make it as light-weight and performant as possible but still eye-catching. In order to minimize the http requests needed to get images and hence save rendering time and bandwidth, I am going to replacing as many images as possible with html5 canvas. So I am wondering what are the pitfalls as well as advantages of this approach.


Google: On Everything : Why does google shuffle/change images, news, videos section periodically?

Google: On Everything : Why does google shuffle/change images, news, videos section periodically ON THE SEARCH RESULT PAGE? **And what basis does it shuffle?** Hope you people have observed this, that they shuffle the positions of images news videos


Recommendations on how to auction a domain name

We've a domain name that's okay, though hardly brilliant, that we no longer need. How would you go about auctioning or selling it? Has someone a recommended site where to put it up? I'm assuming this is fair practice, we had thought we'd a real use for it and we're certainly not squatting the name.


php fopen => 500 Internal Server Error

I have a website hosted on a dedicated server, I noticed that Google and other search engines can't access to the most URLs on my website!! On my localhost I have made a small test :               var_dump(fopen('http://www.aswat.ma', 'r'));      And I got this error : > Warning: fopen(http://www.aswat.ma) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: > HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error in > C:\xampp\htdocs\pnowate\public\index.php on line 4 bool(false) If I change the URL "http://www.aswat.ma" by "www.google.co.ma" I got this : > resource(3) of type (stream) Any one have any idea about this issue ??


Joomla Subsite Builder

I'm trying to build a New Joomla Site , which would be the Main Site and Users Registering to the site will be able to create their own Sub-sites. For. e.g. if main site is www.xyz.com then sub-sites would be usersname.xyz.com. The steps in the Main Site that will help users to create thier own site are :- 1. Select user Registers 2. Select the Template from the list available , he can even customize or upload his own joomla template. 3. select the features that users can add to his site like blog, shopping site, Photo gallery , Music Gallery , Forums, etc. 4. Adds the url name of his choice for his sub -site. 5. Publish. Can Some one help me on how this site can be build ?, whether its pure customization or just having installed few components can do the job ?, what about server space requirement ? Can we build wizard like structure using any component for steps for the easy user interaction ? Pls reply advice, suggestion will be rally appreciated. Thanks, Mukesh


Is there an more user friendly alternative to afraid.org for DNS subdomains?

I would like "people out there" to be able to host subdomains to my domain easily. I'm aware that you can do this using afraid.org (free) and it works well, however for "people out there" to use afraid.org is a hard thing because of its cryptic interface (not very user friendly). Any alternatives out there you can recommend, that would allow unlimited subdomains on my domain for whoever wants them, but more user friendly?


Install PHP5 with Tomcat 7 on Windows?

Can't find anything on this, what are the steps or instructions for installing PHP with Tomcat 7 on Windows?


How to see my site's problems with Google?

I recently made a website: Boun Schedule Planner, which aims for the search query "Boun Schedule Planner" It was like 5th or 6th for a few days. But now it's not even in the first 3 pages. There are no warnings in Webmaster Tools. There is nothing different than other -seo-wise successful- sites that I did. I do not use any "black- hat" techniques. I just cannot see what the problem is. ## Clues:   1. It is not sandboxed, because the results appear when I search for `site:bounscheduleplanner.tk`   2. It was actually another URL, _samething_.netii.net, then I 301-redirected it to _samething_.tk. Can it be a problem ?   3. I am using a free web host (000webhost). But again, a lot of other sites I do already uses 000webhost. So loading time is not so crucial I guess.   4. There are a lot of auto-generated pages, like the list of departments and courses etc. But the sitemap only has 59 department links.   5. It has no backlinks yet. But it should still rank high, based on my previous experience. What could be the problem that Google not ranks my site even in the first pages ? Thanks for any help !


What are reasons of latency for a HTTP request to load HTML?

I would like to know what are reasons of latency for a HTTP request to load HTML part of a webpage. I think about:   * loading webpage with proxy   * not having a good web server (apache vs nginx)   * having a bad configuration of web server   * having a bad internet connexion (bad ping) Any other ideas?


window.performance (Navigation Timing) - how to get this reported in "analytics way"

I have recently learned about window.performance that seems a great way to measure webapp performance using real client traffic. Is there any analytics service that is built on top of this and allows to capture performance metrics from across the world with little effort? I am looking for something like google analytics that requires you to add few lines of JavaScript and everything is taken care of ... preferably something that can be hosted in intranet.


Brute force SEO software

Can brute force SEO tools like SENuke help in rankings or somehow get you penalized by the search engines? Can search engines even "see" that anonter tool has been used to do the SEO? Is, for example, SENuke worth the money?


What is the current legal status of magnet links?

Prelude: I develop a cloud service which could be described as dropbox meets torrents and as side effect it enables distribution of arbitrary content via magnet links. Certain amount of magnet links will be displayed on the main website (I will be able to remove them one-by-one or ban users but no more). I will not be able to avoid magnets without complete rework of overall project architecture and either way it will hurt overall performance badly, probably making service meaningless. So my question is, what should I do, to avoid legal problems if my site in a nutshell is just a collection of magnet links? Privacy achieved via end-user encryption, so there is almost no access restrictions on the website. And anyway will help me any? Will hosting in particular country help me?


Self Hosted Training Package/Website Recommendation

first time poster here, so hope its the right stack exchange. I'm looking for recommendations for a self hosted software/website that will allow for a company to upload training videos and actually log/verify that an employee watched the videos and maybe took a short quiz. Integration with WordPress would certainly be ok if that is a recommendation. Unique user logins would be a requirement needed, but other than that and logging user activity, its still pretty open at this point. Thanks all.


Google indexes a lot of pages with non-existent parameter's values

Recently, i noticed that in my "google webmaster tools", Google indexes something like 500000 pages on my site, a site formed by more or less 300 pages.   What google indexes is the same pages with other "invented" values for the parameters (like "index.php?action=xe429rtn3" and so on).   The problem is that actually i think that Google sees them as a huge lot of duplicate content! How can that pages have been seen by Google and how i can fix it?   More details: My site use **Joomla 1.5** and the component " **Zoo** ".   The indexes pages are **not linked** in any place in my website. Thank you in advance


Does using an author's real name (vs just a company name) typically improve the ranking of blogs/articles?

Is there a general rule of thumb for authorship of company blog posts or articles? Specifically, is there any possibility of hurting the _search ranking_ of a website (or its blog posts) by not attributing them to a named individual? (I.e. just saying: "- _By CompanyName_ " instead of "- _By John Smith_ ".) I read about the ever-increasing importance of "Google Authorship" (attributing articles to authors with verified Google+ accounts, ideally with a photo) but I would much rather keep business and personal separate in that regard. As far as I can see, associating an article with a Google+ account seems to increase the CTR (as people are generally more interested in reading an article when they can know what the author looks like) rather than the ranking itself. Is it best-practice to always attribute articles/blog posts to named individuals, or can I safely continue to attribute authorship to a generic company name, without being concerned that search ranking of these articles could be penalized in some way?


I have a facebook like button on my website, but the `data-href` attribute needs a link to like:

      I have a lot of pages, and would like to copy the code on all my pages, and the code would automatically detect the url it's in. Example: `data- href="$link$"` so that i don't need to change the link to that of my pages. **Question** : _How do i make script, that detects its URL and displays it?_ **note** : Website is written in `html5`


How to use the canonical tag for multiregion websites and duplicate content

We want to use the canonical tag for an multiple region website with the same content. For Example:   1. `www.example.com/services.htm`   2. `www.example.com/uk/services.htm` Then if we use the canonical tag on the page`/uk/services.htm` pointing to `/services.htm` , then the UK region sub folder will be index by Google or not. Because I need to rank on Google's UK search also. Please explain me how to use.


Static domain to serve cookies indexed by google

I have made a subdomain, `static.example.com` to serve my asset files (images, CSS, etc) from. It shares the same webroot as my main site, `www.example.com`. I don't want it to be indexed due to duplicated content concerns. I need to know   1. how to block Google from crawling this subdomain   2. how to remove any URLs from the SERPs that may have already been crawled


How can I version-control and deploy a website's static files while preserving timestamps?

I'm using NanoBlogger to generate a website that consists entirely of static files—no PHP or anything similar. I'd like to place the site under version control, which means managing both NanoBlogger's data files and the other non-generated files (stylesheets, images and whatnot) that make up the site with one revision-control system or another. I'd also like to automate deployment of the website from the RCS. What I've discovered is none of the modern revision-control systems (git, Subversion and Mercurial) preserve timestamps on files they manage. This means a deployment script on the server that checks out a fresh copy of the repository and copies the files over to the webserver's public folder will end up resetting the timestamp on every file, even things like images that haven't changed. This defeats any attempt to use caching effectively and ends up wasting users' time and bandwidth. So my question is, **what tools and workflow do people actually use for versioning and deploying static websites?** Specifically, how you get around the timestamping issue? Do you   * simply keep a "permanent" checkout of the repository on the server which just gets updated before each deployment (arguably a bad practice),   * use a "classic" RCS like CVS that does preserve timestamps, or   * ignore the problem and accept a bit of bandwidth will be wasted? Or is there some completely different kind of system or workflow people use instead? (There's no shortage of information on the mechanics of using revision control with a website, but I've yet to see anyone address the timestamp issue or say much about static websites specifically.)


Google Plus website not linking

I'm getting below error when trying to link Google Plus page with my site:               Check that the line of code was added to your site's homepage and that the modified homepage is live on your site. Then try testing again.      I have got correct link set up like below (obviously {pageId} is replaced) but I'm still getting this error. I have got this link across all pages in the sidebar.               Google+      I got this working on other sites but somehow this site is not linking. Is there a reason why? Other sites also have the Google Plus link on sidebar of every page


What is the best size to use to display full screen size of an application screenshot?

I want to maximize the size of the screenshot and avoid scroll bar or overflow for the maximum too. What size do you recommend ? I'm using lightbox.


How to back order domain

It seems that information on the topic is a bit sparse in the wild. How do you go about back ordering a domain? If you do find a service that will do it for you, does the current owner of the domain name know that it is back ordered? How does it work if I back order with one domain registrar and then host the site with another? Does it work something like a normal domain transfer?


Redesigning my website has destroyed my SEO

Unfortunately i read an article on how to avoid destroying your websites SEO from a redesign article AFTER its was too late! Here is the article On 20 November 12 completely redesigned our site. We get ALL our customers from our website as we do not have a shop. Since that dreaded day a month ago the phone pretty much stopped, basically no emails, Google rankings down and Google analytics have halved by 50%. Yesterday i did some research into as as i had no idea that a re-design of a website could have such a damaging effect - yes i am a novice and use a WYSIWYG type web builder. There are lots of info on how to AVOID this from happening BUT what do i do as i have already made the mistake? Yesterday i reloaded my OLD site with my new pages in the background hoping this would be a start. I really have no idea of how to get out of this mess.


How to configure apache to allow access to subdomain on my local ip address

I would like to have others inside my local network access resources on my computer at `outsideprojects.192.168.0.10`. I am running Apache and have a virtual host configured so I can access it at `outsideprojects.localhost` but can't seem to be able to access it from the outside. I have all firewalls disabled so I don't believe that this is the issue. I would expect that I should be able to access this at `outsideprojects.127.0.0.1` but I cannot do that either. What are the Apache configuration options to be able to accomplish this?


sitemap.xml : shall I put all my URLs including the ones that have "empty result" for a dataset?

Here's my problem: on my website, you can click on all the regions, and the new web page is the result of the search of the region. Thus the result may be empty. Shall I include all those "empty search result" pages in the `sitemap.xml` or not?


Goal Tracking data seems to be inaccurate?

I setup some Goal Tracking about one week ago. I had multiple goals in one set. The goal itself was the "send" button being pressed on the callback form (i did that by pushing a page view to Google Analytics every time the send button is pressed) For each goal, i listed the first step as a required step. So for example, the ILR Page was step 1 and set as required and the goal was `/CallbackFormFilled` Looking at the stats a week later i'm getting some very inflated numbers especially when comparing them to my manually filled excel spreadsheet and i'm struggling to understand the cause of this behaviour. I'm unable to attach screenshots unfortunately since my StackExchange account for this site is brand new **My own thoughts** My own thoughts were that maybe its because I have setup multiple goals with the same end goal URL, but I thought that was a valid setup since I want to track multiple routes so to speak. I've disabled all other goals for now to confirm this, but I'm waiting for stats to come in as I write this. I also wonder if the contact form I'm using in WordPress is causing a problem, but I've simply added one JavaScript line on the send button that pushes a page view so not sure if that should cause an issue. Here is a link to setting up analytics on this contact form plugin in WordPress for reference: JavaScript action hook section


Tracking universal analytics events through Google Tag Manager

I have an Universal Analytics property installed on my site through Google Tag Manager. Following this article on tracking classic _ga.js_ events through GTM I have given my tracker a global name `_gua`. Now I try to fire events using additional HTML tag as described in the article:               <script type="text/javascript">      $(function () {          $('.some-class').click(function () {              gua('send', 'event', 'button', 'click');         });      });     </script>      The script is working fine but each time I call the `_gua` to send the event I get the following message from the GA Debugger:               Command ignored. Unknown target: undefined       Is it even possible to use GTM and GUA this way? I don't want to use the data layer and GTM events...


Custom Advanced Segment (based on URL) in Google Analytics not working properly?

Hoping someone can help, I have what seems to be a very basic question regarding Google Analytics and Advanced Segments. I'm working on a University site, and attempting to add a custom segment only to view the "arts" sections of the website so I can get keyword info, referral infom etc specifically about those pages. The URL string is /academics/collegesandschools/arts/(any other subsequent pages). My filter looks like: Page-Contains-arts (unfortunately I can't post pictures quite yet). It seems to be filtering out some pages, but it is also returning pages like /academics and /admissions that don't even contain "arts" as part of the URL string. If I type "arts" in the filter bar on the Content section, then it will filter properly, but I can't carry that info over to traffic sources for example. Am I missing something here? Should I be using some sort of regex? Does it take time to filter everything out? Any help would be useful and appreciated. Thanks!


Youtube embed is blocked by corporate network, how to detect and offer an alternate self hosted version?

I have a youtube video embedded in a popup window, which works fine, but for some users within my network Youtube is blocked. What is the simplest method to offer them an alternate self hosted version on our server via a link.


I made a 'login with OpenID' page and I had a error when OpenID provider return to my page: > You don't have permission to access /index.php on this server. Additionally, > a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument > to handle the request. If I remove parameters which are returned by OpenID provider, the page run well. How can I fix this problem? The login page that cause error is: `http://bryox.com/login`


Can Youtube URLs be a landing page for ads?

I'm trying to run ADs on Bing Ads with Youtube watch pages as the destination pages. I was previously doing it using AdWords video campaigns, but I got attracted by Bing Ads and figured I would give it a try. However, I started wondering if those ads will actually work considering that the landing page is Youtube and not a website I own.


How can we find real source of suspected user entries?

I have a website where I keep logging the user entries. I found some anonymous entries in my table and I suspect they are using some kind of proxy switchers. How can I find the real source of these intruders?


Internal links in Google Webmaster Tools showing unrelated data

In Google Webmaster Tools under _Search Traffic_ --> _Internal Links_ , for some pages it's showing too many internal links. Is there any effect on my site due to these internal links. How these internal links works? For Example: ![screenshot of related links](http://i.stack.imgur.com/2lt4o.jpg) Under `/musical-instruments-2` it has "Top 82 links" and "Total links 470". I observed that it contains unrelated links (other than musical instruments). Why has it linked unrelated data under musical instruments?


Canonicalization for www/non-www URLs and IP/domain on a Windows server

I have checked my website using this SEO tool and the results report 2 issues: > _Test your site for potential URL canonicalization issues. Canonicalization > describes how a site can use slightly different URLs for the same page - for > example: if www.mydomain.com andhttp://mydomain.com displays to the same > page but do not resolve to the same URL. If this happens, search engines may > be unsure as to which URL is the correct one to index. Learn more about > canonicalization issues._   1. `www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com should resolve to the same URL, but currently do not.`   2. `Your site's IP xxx.xxx.xx.xxx does not redirect to your site's domain name. This could cause duplicate content problems if a search engine indexes your site under both its IP and domain name. Consider using a 301 re-write rule in your .htaccess file so that your site's IP points to your domain name. Read more about canonical URL issues.` How can I configure my website to solve the 2 issues above? My website uses a Window server (ASP.net). I want to optimize for SEO, but first I must solve this.


Determine number of times and how long a user is logged in using Google Analytics

Is it possible to find out how many times and how long a user is logged into a site using Google Analytics?


Does this SEO practice have a name and is it "cloaking"?

So I Google search for a dictionary term, and none of the sites' Google snippets actually defines that term. Instead they are presented in this format: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/x1oOo.png) Here's the actual page it links to from The Free Dictionary. The term is used a lot in a block of text that teases the user into clicking the link, but the page doesn't visibly appear to have this content at all. It entices the user and requires a click through for them to find the actual information they want. What is this called? Is this considered cloaking or is it otherwise a violation of SEO best practices?


Google Analytics report is showing URL parameters that look like session ids

I am noticing some weird URLs in the Google Analytics content report. The parameters in the urls appears similar to php session ids (not sure though). Just want to make sure it is not something that is caused by any misconfiguartion or such on the site, as the urls doesn't make any sense and the normals urls on the site are quite different. Here are examples of the urls               /index.php?____pgfa=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hcHBhbmNlLmNvbS8=&s=tshirt          /index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hcHBhbmNlLmNvbS9jYXRlZ29yeS9hbmRyb2lkL2Rlc2lnbi92aWV3cy8=      If there was one or two entries like this I would have normally ignored, but I am seeing too many entries like this to be a bit concerned. What is the reason behind this? Thanks.


WordPress XML-RPC attack

Yesterday I suffered a **DDoS attack** on a WordPress site. I had **21,443 hits** with HTTP Status code 404 and a Bandwidth of **711.85 MB**. Also, CPU usage went to 100%. Logs show a lot of this entries:               ...     119.71.5.44 - - [03/Sep/2014:18:34:57 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 404 34826 "-" "-"     197.149.17.195 - - [03/Sep/2014:18:35:01 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0" 404 34826 "-" "-"     210.206.226.130 - - [03/Sep/2014:18:35:04 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 404 34826 "-" "-"     ...      I'm trying to understand this log.   1. This was only a DDoS attack or they were trying to hack my site?   2. Was I under attack or they used my site to attack others? (all IPs entries are different)   3. What is the best way to stop this? Modify .htaccess file or Add a filter in functions.php * * * **Update: Background information**   * I had WordPress 3.9.2. Now, I've updated WordPress to the latest version (4.0).   * The site is on a shared hosting (with cPanel X).   * The attack started on 02/Sep/2014 18:06:57 -0700 and ended 03/Sep/2014 21:22:24 -0700 Also, an hour before the attack the log shows this:               82.27.195.149 - - [02/Sep/2014:16:50:52 -0700] "GET /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 200 42 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0"     82.27.195.149 - - [02/Sep/2014:16:50:54 -0700] "GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2663 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0"      And two hours after it started I've found this:               184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:18 -0700] "GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2663 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"     184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:18 -0700] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2843 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"     184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:18 -0700] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2843 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"     184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:19 -0700] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2843 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"     184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:19 -0700] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2843 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"     184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:20 -0700] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2843 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"     184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:20 -0700] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2843 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"     184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:20 -0700] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2843 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"     184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:21 -0700] "GET /blog/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 34107 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"      So, I guess they were trying to hack my account through XML-RPC.


How To: Buy a Domain From a Private Seller

I'm buying a domain name from a private seller, and obviously I don't want to get scammed. What is the appropriate method of buying a domain name from a private seller. Do we go through the domain registrar (godaddy, network solutions), and how do I know the domain is mine? What certifies that I own it?


How to prevent table borders from disappearing while printing?

I'm just working at a website that is supposed to be printable. One problem I'm running into is that some table borders won't be printed, although they are correctly displayed on screen. I tried both Firefox and Chrome. Both display all table borders on screen, but omit some of the borders when printing. What do I need to do to get them printed?


Ditch cPanel / WHM in favour of manual seup

We currently use cPanel / WHM on a reseller account but are looking at getting a dedicated server. My first thought was to duplicate this set up on the dedicated box to allow us to quickly create new accounts. I'll be a managed server so they'll have set up the LAMP stack. I'm curious if I actually need cPanel and WHM. We don't use many of the features from cPanel / WHM, just creating accounts and databases, clients do not have FTP access. I'm no sys admin and come from a Windows / GUI background but have some knowledge in setting up development servers. **WHM: Creating accounts** I presume this sets up the Apache virtual host, FTP access and DNS settings. I've some knowledge of editing the Apache files to create virtual hosts. Am I correct in thinking as long as the DNS is pointing to the server IP and the virtual host is configured the server can serve the (php) pages? I'm not sure I need per site FTP access as only we will have access so I could have a server wide/htdocs only access to view all the site. The company who supply the dedicated hosts would also provide the own DNS management tool so I'm not need to cPanel one. **MySQL: Creating users and databases** We use cPanel to create the MySQL users and databases. As it's a dedicated box and I can have root access I think this could be replaced by SQLyog for db management and phpMyAdmin for user management. Do you I need cPanel or can I get by editing a few text files for creating the accounts, then use the MySQL tools for databases? Or am I missing something major with how the sites are configured?


Tracking Individual Social Media Campaigns?

I've been given the task of promoting fundraising events online using Social Media and Google Analytics for our website. Each fundraising event, has it's own Social Media Campaign. The purpose of a Social Media Campaign is to measure the engagement (from year to year) of people viewing the events and to see if it is improving or not. As I see it there are two ways to measure the engagement:   * qualitative - Measure if we are reaching the correct demographic   * quantitative - Measure how many conversions we are getting Both of these measurements can be measured from the various sources from which people are directed to an event page from our website:   * Twitter   * Facebook   * Google+   * Various Local Business Sites   * Google Organic Search Results   * Ads Now considering this, I know that Google Analytics is capable to telling me where the the traffic might have come from, and what buttons someone may have clicked on my website. But I have this feeling that I'm somehow mis-using Google Analytics as there is only one tracking number for all the pages in my site. It almost seems like I should have a separate tracking number for each of my Social Media Campaigns (read each of the fundraising events) that are on my website. And in this way I would be able to get numbers on just a particular event for a particular year, instead of for an entire website for the entirety of its existence. Can I make multiple tracking IDs for a single website?


Who Is Against CSS and JS?

I know there is a group which promotes very basic HTML. They advocate against CSS and JavaScript. Does anyone know the name of this group? Just to be clear this was a website, or a foundation, or a society, or some kind of group. It wasn't a person or a browser maker. They were advocating minimal HTML as sufficent to express web content. They were against CSS and JavaScript on principal that they were extraneous and bloatware. The web pages on this site rendered using whatever built-in styling your browser had for things like H1 and OL tags, which looked like crap compared to what we're all used to. They had a page for "Friends Of..." which linked to sites that used very basic HTML markup, but with maybe a dash of basic CSS. The idea was to promote this way of designing pages and to avoid just about any styling or scripting. I found the site when it was picked up in various technical news aggregators, like Digg, Hacker News, DZone, etc. Does anyone recall the group's name or url?


Plesk Email Journaling

In regards to email archiving, How can I enable email journaling in Plesk?               OS               CentOS 6.4 (Final)     Panel version    11.5.30 Update #28      I've ready about editing /etc/antivirus.exim to do the following:               if $sender_address is monitored@address.com     then      unseen deliver monitoring@address.com     endif      (reference: http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/outgoing-mails-copy-39909.html) However, I do not see a file under /etc/ named `antivirus.exim`. I understand that link is referring to cPanel mainly, but maybe this will spark some ideas in the minds of plesk/linux users.


How to setup Cron (Media Temple Dedicated Virtual/Parallels)

I am learning how to use Cron jobs. The server I am working on is Media Temple Dedicated Virtual Server. The "Control Panel" is Parallels. I cant find where I can setup cron jobs. Is SSH the only way? Since I am unfamiliar, anyone care to give me some pointers to learn it abit?


Comment spammer IP list?

Is there a public list anywhere on the web of IP addresses that have been identified as comment spammers?


Is my client's domain in "limbo"?

About a year ago I created a website for one of my clients. They already had a domain name and hosting through Vistaprint, so we changed the nameservers over to my server as Vistaprint would only let us use pre-made templates. They told my clients that they had to unlock their domain to change the nameservers, so they paid to unlock it, forwarded us all the details, then we logged into `OpenSRS.net` and changed the nameservers accordingly. Unfortunately the domain expired there in November, and has about 10 days left now before it gets released back into the public. They have contacted Vistaprint but there is nothing they can do apparently. Who owns the domain, where is it, and is it in limbo somewhere?


PHP and Javascript

I am a good C programmer. I have recently studied a bit of JavaScript and I plan on developing my skills by also learning PHP. Can I learn both these language in 3 months and after that build a site of mine like a small social network or something in a month.


A good way to use RDFa in a WordPress post

I'm using the RDFa on the breadcrumbs, and this is the scheme of my code in a post:
         You are here:                            Title                                    Category                                    Subcategory                       This is the title of the post
      This scheme at the moment works, 'cause I can see the categories in the Google Search results, the snippet shows the link for each category, so Google is understanding this information. It is really important to mention this is the way I could make it HTML5 valid. **Before** I used `xmlns` instead of `vocab`, but `xmlns` is deprecated in HTML+RDFa 1.1. That's the reason I'm using RDFa in this way. **BUT:** Google Webmaster Tools shows me an error, now, when before, using `xmlns` it worked perfect without errors. This is the error Google shows for every single post URL: > Missing: author > > Missing: entry-title > > Missing: updated So in a website where I have 26 posts, I have this triple error 26 times on GWT, specifically in the section «Structured Data». The next step I did was to check this information in the «Google Structured Data Testing Tool»: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets And it shows «Structured data extract»: hatom-feed, hatom-entry... Everything is ok and at the end, in red color: > Error: Missing required field "entry-title". > > Error: Missing required field "updated". > > Error: Missing required hCard "author". Then it shows the **rdfa-node** with the correct information. I'm using Open Graph, so in this case it's taken from the Open Graph meta tags. So well, my questions are: In order to fix this error, should I add more RDFa in every post? For example, I can add the author where I print the author of the post, like here: > December 29, 2013 by **admin** in Category Is the «updated» field the date of the post? How should I indicate the «entry-title»?


How are spambots registering on my website?

I have a forum that's getting a bunch of spam bot registrations. Here's what's happened:   * lots of spambots   * added static logic question (as a picture), static math question, honeypot field   * still lots of spambots   * added a built-in CAPTCHA   * still lots of spambots   * banned a bunch of known spam domain emails like @spam.xxx    * spam cut in half, but still lots of spam from spambots on other domains I don't want to block (like gmail, yahoo) I'm really, really baffled at how spambots are still getting through my measures and registering. How is this happening? Here's my registration page: ![registration page](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7CyrX.jpg)


Is there a way to specify meta keywords and descriptions with Drupal?

I would like to be able to specify some meta keywords and meta descriptions for some of my pages in our Drupal (version 6) site. However, there does not appear to be a way to do that within Drupal (at least out of the box). I've seen some references to some Drupal modules which might allow you to do this, but it doesn't look like they've been updated in a long time. Any suggestions? As a correlary, if meta keywords and meta descriptions really aren't worth bothering with any more, is there a way I can tell Hubspot to stop reminding me to add them? :)


Links Pages - Useful or Harmful?

What is the current thinking regarding having a links page on your website? I understand so many outgoing links on a page with little other content will be hellish for that page's page rank, but what about the site in general? I am constantly getting asking to take part in link exchanges and recently adopted a policy of just saying no, should I rethink this?


Godaddy - folder with password protection

Godaddy windows shared hosting on IIS6, but will probably migrate to IIS7 soon. Is there easy way to setup folder with password protection, so when I try to access secure folder, login dialog pops up?


Is Use of keyword instead of preposition good?

i would like to know if we write articles using the fixed keyword instead of using the preposition for it good for SEO keyword density?


High traffic by "doin' nothing"

We have set up on a VPS a WordPress blog. But, after we work a while, if we leave the tabs open in our browsers, there is upload traffic, in small chunks but quite often. We thought that it might be the WordPress's AutoSave feature, but we disabled it and the thing still continues. Here you have a small snippet from the log (the real domain URL replaced):               [06/Oct/2010:12:41:06] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 53692 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:07] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 2925 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:07] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 24279 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:08] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 2301 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:08] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 2269 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:09] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 37459 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:09] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 6220 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:09] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 4140 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:09] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 16508 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:09] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 5148 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:09] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 6268 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:43:03] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 34056 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:43:03] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 42002 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:43:30] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 2381 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:43:31] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 8775 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable      It is normal? If not, why? How can we get rid of it?


How should we write keywords of a webpage

I would like to know how to write the keywords in head section. Either it should be comma separated or white space separated?


Confused: When does Google use Title vs description? Misleading results possible

Search for jamaica tourism on Google. You get a search result with the text **Jamaica Tourism: 578 Things to Do in Jamaica | TripAdvisor**. Nowhere on the displayed page does the phrase **578 Things to Do** appear. Google has chosen to show it in search results even so. It comes from the `<title>` tag of that page. Now take a look at results for the Google search for ebay bidding. One of the first results is for a business called Auction Sniper. The search result includes the text **Auction Sniper is a free ebay sniper...** That text is a misleading trick (Auction Sniper is not a free service) but this time the text comes from description meta tag. Nowhere on the Auction Sniper home page does the phrase "Auction Sniper is a free service" appear. How does Google decide when to use the title tag and when to use the description meta tag? Both results seem misleading to me, yet they have been stable for quite some time. Is such a apparently misleading technique considered kosher by Google?


Is there any app similar to Facebook that you can install on your own server? Like a community app where users can create their own account and post messages, blogs, photos, add friends, etc. Except, it can't be a hosted solution. It would have to be installable on a private server or intranet.


IP canonical URL issue

So I did a search engine optimization test today and one thing it came back with was: > Your site's IP XX.XXX.XXX.XX does not redirect to your site's domain name. > This could cause duplicate content problems if a search engine indexes your > site under both its IP and domain name. Consider using a 301 re-write rule > in your _.htaccess_ file so that your site's IP points to your domain name." I have looked but I can't seem to find a clear answer on how to do this, I need to know what I would put into the _.htaccess_ file? There was something over at Stack Overflow but I'm not sure that's right.


SEO: adding your company signature with link to all websites you make?

I saw many webdesigner companies adding a small signature on each website they make. Signature could be masked by words like _credits_ , _design by..._ , **but they all contain a direct link to the webdesign company that made the website**. This can be obviously good to drive more traffic to the webdesign company by direct visitors that might click on 'credits'/'design by...' link. **But what about SEO:**   1. Is it good for Google? (Or is it seen as spamming bad SEO technique)   2. It should increase the webdesign company's website Google PR, shouldn't it?! And in some way push the wbsite up on Google search results? * NOTE: obviously I'm supposing the webdesign company's website is also a site with interesting and decent contents, not just an empty idious site, I know Ggoogle looks 1st for contents, but besides that...


Registering a domain name for someone else with my billing information

I want to register a domain for someone using my billing information (credit card) but all the contact information are the ones of this person. Once I get the domain, I will transfer the logins of the registrars setting page of the domain to this person, I am concerned about if the person will be able to check the billing information or even use them to purchase other domains/services. Is there a way to buy a domain name while keeping the billing information not registered in the registrars setting page, or even buy a coupon that the person can use to register the domain name for itself. EDIT: I just found an interesting option on Godaddy : Moving a Domain Name out of Your Account > You can use these instructions to move a domain name from one account with > us to another. Has anyone tried this before whether it just transfers the domain or the billing information too?


Need metrics for expectations/targets

After our relaunch, we are wanting to find some standard metrics for our first year of performance. We can compare our numbers to last year and set our targets and expectations, but we would like to find an industry standard for B2B websites in Year 1 - whether as a new site or a relaunch. Is there a way to find that information?


Why are the tags on my site using wordpress being indexed instead of the page?

I can't figure out why my tags are being indexed by google and not my actual posts. So in google, my posts are showing up as mysite.com/tags/post and I of course I want it to look like mysite.com/category/actualpost. Any ideas what could be wrong? My domain is 3 years old and I just started a new focus of an existing site. I can't figure this out! There is no duplicate content, I have a sitemap submitted to webmaster tools and robots.txt...I have everything I need. This is the first time something like this has happened to me. Let me know if anyone has any ideas.


Directing crawlers to content in language per language sub-domain

I have a site with multilingual website with many pages (40M). The site has UGC, and each translation is actually for the titles. Each sub-domain points to the same content with different titles per language. As far as I understand, each sub-domain should be indexed by search engines, meaning they will actually need to crawl 40M x supported-languages. So I thought it might be best to direct each subdomain crawler, to pages that are fully in that language (titles + UGC). Is there a way to do this? Should search engines understand this on their own?


Will Google index a PHP header redirect?

I have a new domain which has an `index.php` file. Inside this file, I get user's IP, save it and redirect to another page on another domain. So there is no output, only header info. Will Google index this domain?


How long should I keep 301 redirecting pages from a deprecated domain?

I had an old domain that I have deprecated, but 301 redirected all results from it to my new site. The new site is now receiving a decent amount of traffic, but I don't know if it's 301 redirected from the old site, and doing a `site:[old site]` still shows several thousand pages indexed. Since all pages from the old site are 301 redirected, will they ever be removed from the index, as long as the old domain name is active? As a rule of thumb, somewhere I got 90 days for any significant site changes. When is it safe to burn the old domain?


Domain Masking / Cloaking?

I don't know whats the correct term for it, but what I'd like is to forward users visiting `domain1.com` to `domain2.com` without changing the URL in their address bar at all, IE. show contents from domain2 but without showing domain2.com in the address bar. **So for example:** User visits: `http://domain1.com/path/to/internal/link/` Should be redirected to: `http://domain2.com/path/to/internal/link/` Additionally all links (`<a>` tags) on domain2.com should be shown as domain1.com in the status bar and address bar. It is possible without using iframes or other dirty hacks that might hurt SEO? Many thanks!


How does IPv6 and AAAA DNS records affect my visitors?

If I set up a web site and the web server only has IPv6, and my domain uses a AAAA DNS record instead of a A record, how does this affect my visitors? Can only end users that have IPv6 on their client access my web site? if that is the case, is there any work arounds?


Web hosting options for Ruby on Rails applications

What hosting options exist for Rails applications? The goal of this _community wiki_ question is to get a feel for:   * what options are available   * advantages/disadvantages/cost of each   * overall opinion of each option, in the form of votes for each answer Guidelines for answers:   * Please provide _one_ option per answer.   * In the answer, elaborate on the factual features, advantages, and disadvantages to each option. If possible, include information about costs in relation to traffic (preferred) or hardware.   * Answers can be options for Rails-specific hosts, general hosts, and 'rolling your own host'.   * If you have utilized a solution on the list and approve of it, show your support by up-voting that solution. If you had a bad experience with that method, show your dissatisfaction by down-voting that solution.   * Please keep the answers factual and without bias in the editing process. Keep subjective thoughts to comments/voting on answers. There will not be an 'accepted answer' to this question. Many web hosts cannot accommodate Rails apps, and others do so weakly. I've seen this question tossed around and discussed a good bit and I think it's time we had a definitive reference maintained by a community of webmasters.


Recomendation of Ruby on Rails hosting

> **Duplicate:**   >  Web hosting options for Ruby on Rails applications Hi, We're looking for a good Ruby on Rails hosting. Basically we need the following features:   * Unlimited disk space and monthly bandwidth   * Unlimited domains   * Full SSH access   * Support various versions of Rails (2.3.8 and 3.0 for ex.)   * Passenger and capistrano deployment support   * EXCELLENT client support: We're new at Ruby on Rails, so currently we have several problems when deploying rails app. Our current hosting (RailsPlayground) offers awesome support, but we are looking for a new one because of the disk space and bandwidth limits.   * A nice panel (cPanel or similar).   * Basically we need to focus on application development and not worry too much about deployment and related stuff.   * Fair price We need a truly Ruby on Rails hosting, with people that have expertise in deploying and hosting Rails apps., not just a normal hosting that someday decided to install ruby and rails just to support it, if you know what I mean. We don't need high performance, we need to host several rails applications. If one application is getting lots of traffic and needs better performance, then we'll move it to a VPS or some high-scalable and performance hosting. I'll create some answers with a few hostings that I've been recommended. Please feel free to vote and add comments about them or reply with another. Thanks!


Hosting for a Ruby on Rails application

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Web hosting options for Ruby on Rails applications I am a Ruby on Rails developer and I am planning to purchase an hosting space in order to publish my web application (I'm developing a small Social Network). This is my first time that I try to deploy a Ruby on Rails application, so I am not expert on the matter. I would like to find a "compromise" between performance and price. I think that for now a shared server it is enough (maybe) for my needs (suggestions are appreciated...). In localhost I am using   * Ruby on Rails 3.0.9   * ruby-1.9.2-p136   * Apache   * Phusion Passenger   * MySql so the hosting server should satisfy the above requisites. More: in my application I am using the Paperclip gem so another requisite should be Image-Magick. What hosting service do you advice for my needs? What should I have to care when I purchase a hosting space for RoR? And, most importantly, which hosting service do you advice? P.S.: if you need some other information just ask and I will update the question.


Tuning WebServer Response -

I have this sam e question on StackOverflow and I was advised to ask it here hoping for more information. Here is the question: I am in rather unfavorable situation. I have aspdotneststore front e-commerce application and search addon called VibeTrib. I dont have source code for both of those. Store that runs on StoreFront and VibeTrib has close to 250k products. Also we have lots of filters. I spoke to ViTrib reps, and they want extra money so they could optimize Queries that they use. Money they require is nto a big deal, but the problem is I dont trust them anymore. What we got is much different then wha is being advertised. To cut the long story short. I am runing the store on Amazon AWS now, and regardless of what DB (MsSQL 2012) server I set (I tried 32GB RAM monsters instances) it is slow. Ajax search uses Full Text search and it displays search keywords relatively fast, but once the search is performed ( to display all results) it is still slow.!!! There is something that I could to do accelerate the speed on my own end? I do have full control over EC2 Instance (Web server Server 2012 and IIS 8). Can I set IIS to step in for the search and cache some of it? I was hoping to cache at least some most common words. My best bet is IIS 8 :) Is there any help in my case? Thanks


Does seperate marketing website and main web application make sense?

I am working on a website that offers a service to customers. As part of this, there is obviously lots of informational, marketing and news information, as well as a regular "backend" where actual customers signup, login and then make use of the service. The informational site requires fairly frequent updates from marketing. Marketing is constantly concerned with SEO, news updates, PR etc. The main backend site still requires a lot of development, but this is a "registered" user only area. It doesn't need SEO and such frequent updates. The two seem fairly distinct to me. For this reason, I am thinking of splitting out the informational website into www.example.com and the regular backend into user.example.com or another similar subdomain. Are there any problems with this approach?


How do I create styles for IE7 (and below)?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to implement cross browser css? I have a site that looks more or less the same in all browsers except Internet Explorer (version 7 and below). How do I create styles that only IE7 and below will recognize?


How to stop local newspaper from thwarting my efforts to promote a new competing site through their paper?

In order to raise awareness for my interactive social/classifieds site, which is aimed at a local and specific community, I need to advertise with my direct competitors, the local community paper. The local paper and its web site is run by a community of volunteers and they don't take kindly to anyone, community or not, competing with their own service. I feel my site is sorely needed because it is free and interactive but if it is used it will generate income through the usual means of paid advertising. However, I don't think my site threatens the advertising revenue for the paper because plenty of people in the community do not use the internet. So if I am getting opposition from the local paper to advertise my site, how else can I get word out?


How can we secure our web application codes?

I have a web application written in the Struts2 framework. I want to host the application with another company. Is there any way to hide the code which is hosted on the server? What I want is to hide the code from anyone who has access to the server. Using the application would be allowed, but viewing the code prohibited.


Can different properties be on multiple domains or should everything be centralized on one?

In my case, I have a web design project for a funeral home. On their property they have a funeral home (for services, offices, ...) and a large cemetery also. Additionally, they own three more cemeteries across the state. I can either incorporate each location (including the funeral home) into one website, or... Create a main domain name for the funeral home and then buy a separate, unique name for each cemetery (including the cemetery on the funeral home property). The funeral home location is considered the headquarters of operations for their company, so it makes sense to make the funeral home the "portal". Then for each cemetery, I'll purchase a unique domain name. I mostly want to do this for design; to separate the business of funeral homes from the beauty of cemeteries. However, from an SEO standpoint, I'm clueless. Is this recommended? Does Google hate this kind of thing?


Multiple IP addresses to a server

I am trying to figure out the best option for web hosting of a startup business. I want to get a VPS hosting for this business and one factor that affects the price is the number of IP addresses. I was wondering what would be the advantage of having multiple IP addresses for one server. I have read the other questions and I know if I am going to use SSL for multiple websites on my server I would need unique IP address for each one but in this case I only would have one website.


Adding a Forum to my site: build one from scratch or use existing open-source platform?

_Note: I posted this originally to stackoverflow.com, had it closed, and was told to post it on programmers.stackexchange.com. So I posted it on programmers.stackexhange.com, had it cloased, and was told to post it on webmaster.stackexchange.com. Here's my last attempt to get some help and direction on this nerve-racking problem._ I've been pulling my hair out for weeks trying to decide which way to go. One of my LAMP sites is several years old and my users have requested a forum. My site is custom-built by myself, and the forum would have to integrate fully with my site so that it actually looks, feels, and behaves like my site. For example, I have a site-wide messaging system on my site that alerts users whenever they receive a new message no matter where on my site they are on, so this feature would have to be extended to the Forum. I would also like to be able to limit access to certain sub-forums based on criteria from my site as opposed to criteria from the forum. I don't need a full-featured forum as it will not be the main focus of my site, just a feature of it. **The question is, do I use an existing forum platform and integrate it with my site or do I just build one from scratch?** The pros/cons are relatively obvious, but I can't decide which way to go and it's crunch time. The pros of using an existing open-source platform is that they are tried and tested, secure, have a lot of built-in features, community support, and would save me a lot of time. The cons are that they seem to severely limit how tightly and well I can integrate it with my site and my site's features, not to mention that most are overkill for what I need (bloatware). All the forum packages I have looked at (and I've looked at MANY), are all front-end solutions that will behave like an external add-on to my rather than an integral part of it. I have not found any fully-customizable "backend" forum solutions. This means that I will need to customize the forum to fit in with my site, but if that means altering core files, it will make the forum difficult to upgrade. Building the forum from scratch means I need to re-invent the wheel with all the potential problems that might raise, but on the other hand, I can program the forum so that it does everything exactly the way I need it to, making it an integral part of my site rather than an external add-on to it. So, what do you recommend and why?


My domain name has two spellings, how do I tell which one users type more?

I registered another spelling for my domain name. I point them at the same IP with DNS set-up tool. How do I tell which one my visitors come from more? Would I be able to view that kind of statistics in Google Analytics?


Robots.txt vs Sitemap -- Who wins in a Conflict

If I block off the directory /foo in robots.txt, but my xml sitemap contains URLs with /foo, will the URLs in the sitemap get picked up by Google and other search engines? In other words, does the sitemap trump robots.txt? I think so, but am not sure.


What is wrong with the seo of my site?

My question is related to the seo performance of my website binarytides.com My website has recently seen fall in traffic and I have noted that for some of my best keywords the traffic is falling, and moreover websites with poorer content are out performing my website in the google search results. Here is a simple case Post http://www.binarytides.com/packet-sniffer-code-in-c-using-linux-sockets- bsd/ Keyword : packet sniffer code in c For the given keyword my post used to be on 1st position for 2 years. Recently it has started falling. What could be the reasons. Few guesses ....   1. Are comments spoiling the seo ? I am under the impression that comments that have content relating to the post content, should add to the seo.   2. Having large amount of "source codes" in the post spoils the seo ? Like too many "printf"   3. If I have 2 articles with title "how to do this" and "how to do this - part 2" then does google treat it bad ?   4. does comment pagination spoil seo (since it creates link to next comment pages in wordpress) ? But I am already using rel="canonical" to indicate the main post url. Also note that this url copies 1 of my posts as it is, and it comes in the first page along with the my post http://www.cnblogs.com/rollenholt/articles/2585578.html So google is considering that post the same worth as mine!! I used to see such things at bing. So what exactly is happening to google ??


Does putting large amount of source code in webpage spoil seo?

I run a blog on programming topics and often post large amounts of source code, with syntax highlighter. This source code often has few terms repeated multiple times like "printf" or "alert" or anything depending on the language. Does this spoil the seo ?? The keyword density is definitely affected.


Where can I ask for a specific flash animation (free\paypal payment)?

Is there any site I can write a request for a specific flash animation that I desire? What is the recommended user-friendly software to create flash that a newbie like me can use?


Website still displays deleted files

I went to update a website's CSS today and noticed whenever I uploaded the file with my changes nothing would happen - no changes would appear on my site. This was the same with any of the images I wanted to change. Experimenting, I changed the actual file name, uploaded it and changed the link to the external style sheet - it worked as expected. I then deleted the the CSS file completely...but still the website behaves as normal. I've cleared my browser's cache of course and that made no difference. Would anyone know what's going on? Is there something caching the entire site somewhere? (I am using FileZilla. All other sites I have are behaving normally. There are no errors appearing in Filezilla's log when I upload or delete)


How to know if a domain belongs to a person or not?

We're almost done on creating a hosted CMS solution (something like Weebly). We offer people to create a website with 3 different options:   1. If they don't have a domain yet, they can create a sub-domain   2. If they don't have a domain yet, but they don't want to have a sub-domain either, they can buy their own domain (we're a re-seller of a big registrar)   3. If they have a domain already which has been registered by another registrar, we want to offer a feature, so that they can use that domain with our CMS.   4. If they have multiple domains, they can park'em on the same CMS instance, so that they can see their websites with many domains. However, they should follow some steps, so that their domain name would be resolved to our servers. For example, one step is that they should change their name servers info. But a business requirement has been posed by the stakeholders and product owner, and that is, we want to get sure that people are true owners of the domains registered by other registrars. In other words, when a user wants to add another domain to his/her CMS instance (parking a new domain) and this newly added domain is not registered by us, we want to get sure that the domain really belongs to him/her. What options and solutions do we have? How can we get sure that Bob for example is the owner of **second-domain.com** domain, when he's parking this domain on his CMS (which is already accessible via **first-domain.com**?


Which webserver to use for multiple sites?

Which webserver should I use if I'm going to host about 30 sites and all are using Wordpress. Each site receives about 1k+ visitors daily. Which webserver should I use apache or nginx? I only have 1GB RAM on the vps


Bingbot Crawling URLS Like Folders, Causing Thousands Of 404 Errors

I first started seeing this a little over two months ago on a site I run but now I am seeing it on several others I manage. It appears the bot is trying to parse the URL into folders and this is what's causing the issue. For instance this URL is correct: http://amgoa.org/Proposed-Alaska-Gun-Law-SCR6/State-Law/8895 But then Bing tries to access this URL: http://amgoa.org/Proposed-Alaska-Gun-Law-SCR6/State-Law And then this URL: /Proposed-Alaska-Gun-Law-SCR6 (sorry cant post more than 2 complete links) The second two of course throwing a 404. This site has over 67,000 pages and this error on their part is driving us nuts, loading up the error logs with tens of thousands of 404 for URLs that are incorrect. About a month ago I built an xml sitemap script hoping that would solve the issue. I submitted it to Google and Bing via the webmaster tools section. Google correctly indexed all 67,000+ pages while Bing is sitting there trying to parse these non existent URLs. Has anyone else seen this and more importantly does anyone know how to either stop this or contact Bing to get them to stop?


How to respond to attack on web site

I have wordpress site that is under some kind of bot attack. I checked apache logs and there's get request to a single post on my blog every second (sometimes there's more than one per second). When i block ip address of attacker in htaccess file, requests continue but it's one every 5-10 seconds. If i unblock it, after few minutes it get's back to 1 or more every second. IP Address of attacker is changing once or twice every day. I have wordfence plugin installed that blocks attacks, i also manualy add ip adresses to htaccess, but i'm interested if there's another way to block this guy for good... He's always identified as blank user agent, always get same page and it's always only one single page request. Here's part of apache log with attack.               178.222.186.246 - - [20/May/2013:02:35:46 -0500] "GET /2012/01/19/skembici-u-saftu/ HTTP/1.1" 200 48097 "-" "-"     178.222.186.246 - - [20/May/2013:02:35:55 -0500] "GET /2012/01/19/skembici-u-saftu/ HTTP/1.1" 200 47939 "-" "-"     178.222.186.246 - - [20/May/2013:02:35:59 -0500] "GET /2012/01/19/skembici-u-saftu/ HTTP/1.1" 200 47970 "-" "-"


How to show client a domainless site without altering hosts file or using 'serverip/~accountname'?

We have updated VPSs and apparently the latest version of PHP(?) does not allow you to use the servers ip /~accountname as a way to view a site that does not yet have a domain name associated to it, eg:               122.221.10.23/~newsite      or               ourhostingserver.com/~newsite      We can view it from our computers by altering the hosts file, adding something like:               122.221.10.23 www.newsite.com.au     122.221.10.23 newsite.com.au      but its not very practical to ask our not-tech-savvy clients to go altering their host files. Does anyone know of a way we can show our clients these sites using some kind of temporary domain name or similar?


Google Analytics page views and page hits

I have Google Analytics tag in my site and it seems that GA (4-10 views) is much lower in reporting page views as opposed to my web app which reports around 350 views. Is there a reason why this is happening? Is Google Analytics page views reliable source?


Is website security accreditation worth having?

My site handles sensitive data, is there any website security accreditation that is well respected and worth having?


Website starts showing 404 after 301 redirects via .htaccess

One of my clients websites started getting 404 messages on some pages after doing 301 redirects via _.htaccess_ file. I don't understand why that happens, could someone tell me what went wrong? The website is published using Wordpress.


Track exit link and ads with PHP

I want to track exit links on my website and also exit ads like Google Adsense etc. I mean by exit ads is that when click on add I get ads dimension and ads type like Google or other ads. In short I want this: Google Adsense _160x600_ like in `statcounter.com`.


Putting reviewboard behind SSL

Does anyone know how to put reviewboard behind SSL using wild card certs? I am using reviewboard 1.7.18. This is my first time and I need help with this. Please do not point me to common apache/httpd documentation. Thanks!


Does HTML5 video cache the entire video before playback or does it stream?

I have an HTML5 page that plays a small video (1.5MB) with autoplay and loop enabled. The problem is, sometimes it takes up to 10 seconds after loading the page before the video starts playing. I've seen this happen in both Firefox and Chrome. The only explanation I can think of is that the browser needs to download the entire video before playback begins. Is this normal, or have I perhaps encoded the videos in a streaming-unfriendly way? Edit: The video is 10 seconds of 25 fps video encoded by ffmpeg, here are the parameters I used to build them:               //OGV (Theora/Vorbis - used for firefox)     ffmpeg -i input -b 2000k -vcodec libtheora -acodec libvorbis -ab 160000 -g 30  video.ogv          //MP4 (Used by IE, Safari, Chrome)     ffmpeg -i input -b 1500k -vcodec libx264 -vpre slow -vpre baseline -g 30 video.mp4


Rehosting content from another server

We have a set of static pages that will augment a customer's existing site. The pages will not reside on the customer's servers for logistical reasons and because we need to maintain control of the content. The plan is for the customer to set up a mod_rewrite rule that will funnel certain types of URLs to a single server-side handler script that will grab the appropriate file from a CDN and just output its content. This illustrates the approach:               <?php echo(file_get_contents(str_replace($customer_host, $cdn_host, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']))); ?>      Can anyone think of pitfalls or offer up a different approach? Is there some way to circumvent a script altogether?


Hosting a website with Windows Azure

I may be completely misunderstanding what Azure is but is it possible for me to host a basic website on Windows Azure? I have a site that I've built in HTML and CSS that I'd like to upload to Azure but I can't figure out any way to do this. The site claims I can use it for web hosting, but if I can't FTP then I'm not sure how to do this. Is there a simple tutorial somewhere? I couldn't find anything close to what I'm looking for through searching.


Webcam Q&A page with guest "speakers" ideas?

I want to host one way webcam Q&A's/AMA's and embed it on my sites webpage. I must be able to have specified hosts for these Q&A's connect quickly and easily to the webpage, and read user posted messages (questions) for interaction. I know there are some systems out there, like tinychat, but I'm unaware if there is anything exactly used for what I am looking for. Perhaps requiring a specific account/password before allowing streaming on the page, where I can email the host a password or directions to create an account to begin live streaming. Most of these people doing the question and answers on webcam will have little technical knowledge, so extra cookie points goes to ease of use! Thanks for ideas in advance! PS: I apologize if this is the incorrect section for posting this question, this is my first.


Google Analytics track transfer to sister site as not an "exit"?

I have two domains (i.e. example.com and foobar.com) and I have **separate** Google analytics properties for the two domains, but since I own the two (and they link to each other), I would like to know how many exits from one are really transfers to the other (and have them not really be "exits" from GA's perspective). I know I can trigger an event on an outbound link, and I could do the math of "number of exits minus number of "sister site" events" to figure out the number, but it would be best if those transfers were simply not registered as exits at all. Is there a way to flag an outbound link as "this is okay, they're not really leaving my family of sites" so it doesn't get marked as an "exit"?


What is the critical user mass for a forum or Q&A?

If you start a forum or a Q&A site. At the begining you would create the content yourself. At some point you get visitors from google. What do you think: How many users du you need to run a forum or Q&A? I mean that the visitors start to register and to contribute. I hope to hear some real life examples or estimates. **Edit** : Maybe the question is not fully correct. Probably it is also important to know other parameters like: "How many active topics are on the site" ...


How to understand if a domain is locked or not?

I have some domains, and I'd like to Lock them all, to prevent fraud chances. However, the control panel of the domain seller doesn't have this feature. I created a ticket for them, to lock all of the domains, and they announced that they've done it, and all domains are locked now. However, I'd like to see it myself. A friend of mine told me that whois protocol shows the Lock Status, and I checked it out, and saw the "Status: Locked" for some of my domains. But for other domains there is no clue about locking status at all. The data is retrieved from OnlineNic's Whois database. What should I do?


What does Google Analytics show if a user opts out of GA tracking

What can you see if a user opts out of Google Analytics tracking using the browser plugin, can you see that they came, but not much else ie. they show up as a direct visitor, or do they not show up at all (although you can always see them in the server logs.)


How to embed G+ reviews on my website

I've started collecting G+ reviews for my company. As reviews help build trust and increase conversion rate I would like to include them on my webpage. Does Google provide a way on how to embed the G+ reviews on my site? I need to embed the number of stars, name, date and text.


Placing multiple Apache VHost sites in 'maintenance mode' with 1 rewrite rule

I have an Apache2.2 webserver set up to handle dozens of virtual host sites for our organization. I am looking for a simple method to temporarily 'turn off' all the sites by having all site requests redirect to a single "server maintenance mode" page (rather than a 404 File not found message). Is there possibly a way to do this using a mod_rewrite rule in the apache2.conf file? This would save me from having to 'touch' all these sites and turn them off individually when making changes on the server that will affect all sites. The server setup and structure:   In the apache2.conf file the primary website is declared in the section               <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName mainsite.org       DocumentRoot /var/www/main_site         All the other sites on the server are subdomains (abc.mainsite.org, news.mainsite.org, etc) and use standard vhost files set in /sites-available/ with a symlink in /sites-enabled/. They are activated/called by the line in apache2.conf following the VirtualHost declaration               Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/      I can do this for the mainsite.org by uncommenting a rewrite rule in the section that reads:   `RewriteEngine on`   `RewriteBase /`               #   Redirect site requests to a 'maintenance' page                 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mainsite\.org  [OR]       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mainsite\.org       RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ http://kubrick.fpgsm.org [R,L]         [kubrick is the host servers name which is also placed in the 'default' vhost file as follows:]               ServerName kubrick.fpgsm.org       DirectoryIndex index.html       DocumentRoot /var/www         [index.html is where I have the 'maintenance' message.] I have tried placing a simple rewrite rule in the which is placed above the section, but this does not work. So clearly I am missing something with regards to how the directives in apache2.conf work and/or the relationship between the VirtualHost in apache2.conf and subsequent VHost files.               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z]+)\.mainsite\.org  [NC]       RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ http://kubrick.fpgsm.org [R,L]        Any solutions/suggestions out there? Thanks.


Dofollow nofollow doindex noindex (menus)

Is it OK if I put in one menu some of the links nofollow and some of the links dofollow? I wouldn't want to put on all of the links the same attribute. The idea is that I would like to put dofollow on only the links that are pointing to doindex pages. The rest will be nofollow. So with other words: is it OK if all of the links of the SAME menu (footer, navigation) are NOT the same attribute but some would be dofollow and some nofollow? Note that I'm not asking just about same type of menu but I'm asking about the same actual single menu.


Dynamically sitemap

I submitted to google webmasters my sitemap. I'm creating sitemap dynamically every day, it is just adding new links every day. Cause my site is news portal and every day we are adding news. So I'm generating new links in my sitemap every day. Do I need to resubmit it to google or google will detect it on it's own.


Can a website located on a subdomain affect my main domain for duplicated meta description?

I have 2 websites, the main website located at `example.com`, and another one which is on `a.example.com`. The problem is that I have some duplicated meta description problems to the website located on the subdomain and I can't solve them right now. Will they affect my SEO rankings to my main page?


Publish feed entries on Facebook

Is there any good, simple way to auto publish feed entries from my website to my Facebook profile? (I just need post title and link to the post). This would be the best option, but looks like it does not work anymore:   * http://www.facebook.com/notes/blogging-with-beth/how-to-publish-your-blog-posts-to-facebook-automatically/245596473016


Multiple fonts in a website

I have been creating a blog and now its almost done. I am thinking of adding fonts to it. I am curious if having more than 1 font in a website makes it look unprofessional? I understand that it is a personal opinion of a person how the site should look but my site is a blog so I want to consider how visitors might feel seeing multiple fonts on a website. Does it look standard? In short: How many fonts should one use so that readability does not get affected? Thanks in advance.


ad networks that let you run your own cookie targeting

We've got some proprietary cookie targeting software which we are developing to help deliver better targeted ads. We dont have a group of publishers, nor particularly want to go and build our own network as this is almost as difficult as building the targeting software. Are there any networks out there that will let us run our own cookie targeting script on their network / publishers.


How do i found developers groups to let they build my own startup?

As for the title, i would like to meet some developers groups to pay them to build startups, doesn't matter where they are located, just they should speak english. does anyone knows how can i found them and where? thanks!


Is Codeschool.com recommended in addition to Lynda.com?

Does Codeschool's ability to perform activity / test / game / training as their approach, offer something that achieve studying faster and more effectively than Lynda.com's exercise file / video structure doesn't.


Can I include a robots meta tag outside of the head in HTML snippets indeded to be AJAXed?

I have a number of files in my site which are not intended for independent viewing, but rather to be AJAXed into content within the site. They obviously don't meet HTML standards (no body, head, etc.) as independent entities. I would like to prevent search engines from indexing these pages, but do not have access to `/robots.txt` (which would be much more ideal). My question is, could I include the following at the top of these partial HTML files and get the desired results?               <meta name="robots" content="noindex, noarchive">      I guess there are two parts to this question.   1. Will this cause any rendering issues in any browsers?   2. Will search engines (at least Google & Bing) interpret this as intended?


Define page load time

Google Analytics reports our site to have an average page load time of about 4.5-6 seconds. Naturally, this sounds as a concern. However, we never see these page load times when the page is rendering, it feels like it takes around a second. The reason for the discrepancy here I believe is that GA measures every single request, even those that does not produce screen content. Such requests might be third-party scripts such as the GA-script itself and other resources. Thinking about web usability I'm really only interested in how the response times feel to the user. Am I right? Also, is there a standard way to measure the actual time it takes for the page to render? Using Google Speed Tracer I can see that there are 2 DOMContentLoaded events firing but these are at 4.83s and 5.36s respectively.