Should I use "Disallow", "NoFollow", or "NoIndex" for paginated listing pages?

I own a web site which has mainly two types of pages:   * Content pages: they are pretty much static, and link to the previous and next content page (chronologically). The structure is that of a double linked list.        * Listing pages: they are dynamic, and are paginated. The first one shows the most recent content. Older content is paginated via a GET parameter (e.g ?page=4). Every listing page links to several content pages. Google is indexing some of the listing pages, which will most likely be outdated when the users find them (new content is added at a pretty fast rate). This is undesirable, of course. Also, listing pages have extracts of the content, which could be seen as repeated content from Google's point of view (which I think is also undesirable, I'm unsure on this). The problem is, there are hundreds of thousands of content pages. Listing pages are very convenient both for visitors and for search engines to crawl the site. I am unsure if the linked list of content pages will be sufficient to allow search engines to crawl the site in a short time. I have thought about the following options:   * Add `Disallow: /?page*` to _robots.txt_ : listing pages (other than the first one) won't be accessed.   * Add meta `nofollow` to listing pages: similar to the first one, listing pages won't be accessed.   * Add meta `noindex` to listing pages: they will be accesses, but not added to the index   * Leave things as they are: eventually search engines will realize the 'page' parameter is for pagination, and won't index it. What are your suggestions? Adding the NoIndex meta to listing pages sounds like the best solution to me, but I don't dare approach such a large task without asking first :) Any other possible solutions I didn't think of?


How to identlfy unused css selectors and rules for css pages which cover multiple pages and are installed locally?

I'm looking for a tool which would be able to identify unused and/or duplicate css selectors and rules, with the following two restrictions:   * The tool would have to be able to analyze css pages which are used for many HTML pages, so a tool like Dust-Me won't help.    * The tool should also work on a local installation, because I'd also like to be able to check my css at development stage. This would rule out online css verifiers.


Can hreflang be used for city-specific content?

I know that I can use `hreflang` for country specific content in order to avoid duplicate content, but what about _city_ or _state_ specific content? Is that possible, and if not, how do I deal with it?


How many XML sitemap can generate for one site and is it hammer to SEO ranking?


Positioning in IE7

I have tried to optimize our site for internet explorer. I have problems with one name `Etika`, on the first page of our website. It would be nice, if some of you could point out, why IE behaves so strange. Here is what it looks like in IE - ![screenshot](http://menu.fo/images/fail.png) You can see the live website on menu.fo. `Etika` should be the first one on the site.


Issues trying to run PHP4 alongside PHP5

I’m trying to get PHP4 running under CGI alongside PHP5 as a module in Apache. Long story short, I have some legacy applications that aren’t running under PHP5 and they would take a while to rewrite, so short term I should hopefully be able to run both PHP versions for now. Most of the sites I’ve come across state that running one version as CGI and another as an Apache module is the best way to go about this. I’m pretty sure I have my httpd.conf setup properly as I’m no longer receiving “file not found” errors in my logs. Posting changes below for reference:               AddHandler php4-script .php4     Action php4-script "/cgi-bin/php4"     …     ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/opt/lampp/cgi-bin/"      My current error is “Premature end of script headers: php4”. I’ve tried some diagnosis that I found here. If I run `cgi-bin/php4 htdocs/test.php4` from the command prompt (where test.php4 is a simple `echo phpinfo()`), I get all the phpinfo data on screen, but no HTML formatting. I tried setting the PATH_TRANSLATE variable as the above link mentions and running cgi-bin/php4 but I never got any output doing that, possible issue could be this. Also I’ve checked and rechecked all my file permissions and everything looks good there. Any other thoughts as to what I could be missing? Other option is to run another Apache instance on a different port, tried this at first but it started to get a bit messy, though I may have to revert to this.


Finally is it bad to mention words around sex in your page?

Among other I run a humor site, developed in php. I have a custom search built where people search for everything under the sun. I have noticed that it helps me to have a "Latest searches section" where I list the latest searches performed. As you can understand I have a lot of searches that are "naughty". Not because I have anything offensive on the site, but I guess it's what some people want to find. Most of the time what they actually find is jokes around the subject or some video of a stand up talking about the search item. The question I have is. Should I filter out these terms from my page? I am afraid that the site might get blocked from office firewalls and maybe banned by an advertising network (like adsense) just because some stupid robot found a term that thought in the sites' text. One thing that you might ask is: If the site is family safe, how come all these people search for "naughty" terms. 2 reasons.   * Google. Many times people looking for something sexy linked to a strange object (e.g. sex and lion or dog or oak tree) end up to my site. Of course they don't find what they are looking for, so they hit search which is pre-filled with the term that led them to the site. After that the term goes in latest searches.   * Whether A happens or just a users types in something "naughty", this term's popularity is beeing reenforced by the fact that many people see it in latest searches, click on it and search for it again. So if someone searches for "funny hat" the term dissappears from latest searches within minutes. If he types something more spicy, other people click on it and it remains in the latest searches for hours. Once again I want to clarify that the site has ZERO nudity and it doesn't even have sexy videos. YouTube is way more sexier that my site. thanks for anyone spending the time to share his knowledge. Update: Although John Conde did give it a shot, I think the dillema at hand is still on. Should I remove controversial terms from the text of a non- controversial site? I know for a fact that Google might ban a site that it "thinks" is porn related. Is the risk worth it? What would you do?


Connect with Facebook button, Gowalla's style

I am searching for over an hour for a Connect with Facebook button that is similar to the one Gowalla is using (link) Any help would be appreciated!


CSS development tools for Linux

What are some CSS editors and development tools available for the Linux operating system? I'm using `vim` for everything. Are there some things you would recommend to do rather in another editor because `vim` does not support them or it's unproductive? Or is vim absolutely suitable for editing CSS, you use it and know some good plugins or features? thank you


Tools for designing CSS layouts

Could you please advise me the tools that can draw images like this or this serving as a design for CSS layout?


which URL should I chose for mobile?

I was looking everywhere (as well as on Google's blog) and could not find a straight answer to this question: which URL is the best for mobile from an SEO perspective? Is there a difference between: m.company.com company.com/mobile etc... Thanks!


How to use the easySlicer plugin?

I have installed the easySlicer plugin as well as the required E.A.S.E plugin in my TiddlyWiki (Version 2.6.4). I installed the plugins manually by copying the source-code and addind the `systemConfig`-tag. They are enabled, and everything seems fine, except that I see no effect whatsoever. Since there is no documentation I can find, can someone tell me what I might be doing wrong?


seo and php get variables

I'm building my own blogging system for my own website. If all I preload them using php get variables, will Google recognize and index them as different pages or do I need to do something in addition to get Google to recognize and index them separately?   i.e `page.php?blogId=00001&blogTitle=BlogTitle`


software for mapping links for site migration?

I have a project where I am migrating a website from one platform to another, but the look and feel will still be the same (this is for standardization within an organization). Through re-write rules, I have to maintain any of the links which someone could have bookmarked. The practical implication is that I have to inventory every link and make sure it goes to the right place on the new site. Since there are often multiple paths to the same pages, I've found that site mapping software that do a hierarchical tree aren't giving me everything I need. The ones I've tried so far just show me the first, shortest path that landed them on that page. What I want to see is the inter-connectedness of the site -- if 5 pages all link to the sales page, I want to see that. Is there a site-mapping software, preferably open source, what will show me the 'many-to-many' relationship of the site's pages, rather than the 'parent- child' hierarchy of navigation?


Can I host www.example.com/subpage on different machine?

If I am the owner of www.example.com that is hosted on one machine, is it technically possible to host www.example.com/subpage on different machine, with different IP?


Google Webmaster Tools returning 404s for pages that exist

I logged in to GWT today just to see how things are going. It is showing a bunch of 404 errors for pages that exist. I checked the server response and got: `SERVER RESPONSE: HTTP/1.1 200 OK`. These pages are all `nofollow`. Has anyone noticed GWT throwing up 404 errors for pages that exist?


DNS record for permanent redirect?

Newbie webmaster here: I have 2 domains `mydomain.com` and `mydomain.net`. I want a permanent redirect so that if anyone browses to `mydomain.net` they navigate to `mydomain.com`. Is there a way to do this using DNS records?


SEO to ensure visibility for a narrow, non-competitive, non-commercial site

I'm webmaster of a non-commercial site in English. A non-native-English speaker asked me why our site doesn't produce hits in Google searches she conducts for relevant keywords in her native language. I asked her for a list of keywords in her native language, and I naively tried inserting those into the META info in the page headers and waited a couple of weeks. No help. A little searching informed me that Google doesn't use the META info, and has not done so for a very long time. D'oh! To be entirely concrete, suppose the StackExchange folks want Russian speakers to find this site, Pro Webmasters. The direct translation in Russian of "webmaster" --thanks, Google Translator-- is: "вебмастер". (Not sure this will render properly, but that's not essential to my question.) Assuming Pro Webmasters has a common template for all pages it generates, inserting "вебмастер" into the Keywords META for that template won't help, it seems. What could StackExchange do to make this site visible to users searching with the Russian keyword "вебмастер" ? Pretty much all the advice I've seen boils down to this, if I understand correctly: use the desired search term often (but not too often) among site content, and the problem will be solved. That's great, but I don't think sprinkling "вебмастер" visibly all over Pro Webmasters is going to fly. Just for completeness, crawlers must be long immune to the invisible-to- visitors scheme, e.g, format "вебмастер" in a tiny text size in a color the same as an existing background, e.g. white-over-white. Or, put that text inside a div styled: ' style="visibility: hidden" '. Probably some other equivalents. I can only think of one slightly effective method, along these lines: place an unobtrusive link on the common template to a page titled "for international users" , and on that page list desired synonyms for "webmaster" in various languages on that page. A test case --admittedly, just one-- using my site implies that a Google search for               "international users"  вебмастер      will produce a hit for this page, and thus make the site minimally visible, despite the fact that the page will almost never be visited. At the moment, anyway. Note: All the SEO discussions I have found so far are about competitive and --almost certainly-- commercial sites. To repeat: my site is non-commercial, and it is about an obscure, narrow topic that is of interest to only a small number of people worldwide. This isn't about clawing our way to the top of competitive rankings, just making this content minimally visible to interested non-native-English speakers. Ideas? TIA


Help Google to identify my site as a "web application"

I have a web application, and I want Google to identify it as a "web application". I've had a look at Rich Snippets, but there is just an option to "software application" which refers to a desktop application and not web application. Any idea of how to achieve this?


Using Google Analytics (or similar service) to track access to offline HTML files?

Is it possible to add code to a **static** , local HTML file on my computer, so that whenever I open the local file with a web browser (`file:///C/Users/...`), and assuming that the computer is connected to the Internet, my access will be tracked using Google Analytics or a similar service?


jQuery causes high CPU Usage, Memory Usage and Entry Processes on host

When it's just me testing my site (which is live) I have a few jQuery bits and bobs causing the CPU Usage, Memory Usage and Entry Processes to become full on host server.   * CPU Usage: 100%   * Memory Usage: 262144 / 262144 KB   * Entry Processes: 4/10 My jQuery makes requests every minute so really with just me it shouldn't need to use the whole CPU I have allocated surely? All it does is do a quick db search.


Installing Google Sitemap Generator on Linux

I have a website with httpd (front end) and Apache tomcat (back end). I'm trying to install Google Sitemap Generator and create sitemap for the website. I followed the following link for installation: http://googlesitemapgenerator.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/gsg- installation.html But I'm not able to load `http://server:8181`, it is showing a blank page. My system details are:   CentOS release 5.4 (Final)   httpd-2.2.3-65.el5.centos   apache-tomcat-6.0.37 I'm using mod_jk connectors for connecting Apache and Tomcat. Here is my mod_jk configurations:               cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/mod_jk.conf     JkWorkersFile /etc/httpd/conf.d/workers.properties     JkLogFile /var/log/httpd/mod_jk.log     JkLogLevel info     JkLogStampFormat "[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] "     JkOptions +ForwardKeySize +ForwardURICompat -ForwardDirectories     JkRequestLogFormat "%w %V %T"     JkMount /* worker1     JkShmFile  /etc/httpd/logs/jk-runtime-status      This is my _worker.properties_ file:               cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/workers.properties     workers.tomcat_home=/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.37/     workers.java_home=/usr/java/default     ps=/     worker.list=worker1     worker.default.port=8009     worker.default.host=localhost     worker.default.type=ajp13      I have installed Google Sitemap Generator and gave me final result. Google Sitemap Generator daemon successfully started. To start the Google Sitemap Generator module in Apache, you must restart Apache. After you restart Apache, you can go to `http://<this-server-address>:8181/` to configure the application. Google Sitemap Generator (Beta) was successfully installed. But the problem is I can not access `mydomain:8181`. Is it necessary to configure ssl? if I give `mydomain.com:8181` it is redirecting to `mydomain.com`. I have no idea why. If I use Lynx from command line. `lynx http://domain.com:8181` gives a blank page.


Google pre-rendering causing double and triple events

Is it possible to detect google chrome and firefox prerendering on the server side, or in .htaccess, and defer the prerendering for the purpose of monitoring traffic and website events, or do I need to move my website event tracking into javascript. =/ I am using laravel and angular js.


Identical blurb at end of each blog post - bad for SEO?

At the end of every blog post in a series (50-100 posts), I want to write something akin to "Like always, email me for help..." (about 25-50 words). I also hear that duplicate content is an SEO sin. I figure that I can have an AJAX script load this at the end of every post, but that feels like overkill. Is there a way to tag a section to not be considered as "part of the document", (i.e. to not cause problems if repeated on many pages)? Alternatively, is there a different solution to this?


How do I create a .htaccess file that would make my website work like Adfly

I need, but don't know how to make, an _htaccess_ file that will send a user, when looking for the home page, to _index.php_. It should not send them anywhere when they look for a URL like `/7fg4/`. Adfly, to the best of my knowledge, works like this: you make a link, it stores the shortened link. When the user tries to open the link the _htaccess_ file sends them the contents of another file which reads the URL and proceeds accordingly. My website should work almost exactly as Adfly does. Can anyone explain or write an _htaccess_ file that would do this?


Forwarding a subdomain to a Minecraft Server

I am trying to forward a subdomain to directly connect to a Minecraft server. The domain name is hosted at GoDaddy and the server requires the port at the end. These are the things I have tried so far:   1. I attempted to create an `A` record via GoDaddy's DNS manager. This worked in redirecting the IP, as the IP for the server is actually the IP for the server's control panel. I attempted to add this to Minecraft followed by `:25602` which is the port number. Unfortunately that didn't work.        2. I went to the GoDaddy domain management page and attempted to create a redirect to the subdomain but that did not work either. I entered the port name as well. Does anyone know how to do this successfully? I mean to me, these things should have worked. I have done some research and can't seem to find anything other than what I have tried already.


Is there a free file hosting service with an exposed API for accessing content (or hotlinking for GETs)?

For a small business site we are looking at possibly free file hosting solutions such that a file can be uploaded by the user and our backend (Java) web service is able to update/modify the data at the file hosting service. Fetching the data could be as simple as just directly using a hotlink for simple GET requests (preferable). For now we are trying to go with a free model that could work well with our java web service. We are open to paid options too but not sure which ones exist with an exposed API and hotlinking capability. For paid options Amazon S3 is the only one that comes to mind that would offer such a facility. Is this the ONLY such service with our constraints? The primary (and could be restricted) file type would be PDF. PS: Originally posted on StackOverflow. Was asked to migrate here...


Drupal Blog vs. WordPress Blog for a Drupal Website?

Is there a blog of preference for SEO, when it comes down to Drupal websites. I ask as WordPress seems to have the better plug-ins, though may not integrate as well. Any thoughts on this? I am asking from primarily a SEO perspective though also a design one as well. In other words, there are so many fabulous blog templates in WordPress and not sure if there are in Drupal. I seem to be having a struggle finding Drupal blogs to purchase, such as premium blogs.


Using google analytics goals to optimise goals in adwords

We have set up goals in analytics to do with time on site, we also have an adwords campaign running, i noticed in adwords you can set up a conversion in adwords. But this only works by putting code into a 'thank you' page that the user sees when they have completed an action. I was wandering if you can set up in adwords a conversion being a certain time on site ?


Point subdomain to another web hosting

I bought a domain from GoDaddy. Let's call this domain `abc.com`. I've a hosting account at web hosting A with `abc.com` as my primary domain. I created a sub-domain `pic.abc.com` and I wish it to be pointed to my _new_ hosting account. This web hosting B also uses `abc.com` as the primary domain. The main purpose of doing this is because I only want to use web hosting B to host my `pic.abc.com` contents. That's all. Other content from `*.abc.com` and `abc.com` will be remain at web hosting A. How to do this? Additional notes...   1. I tried to add `pic.abc.com` as an add-on domain to my web hosting B account. Unfortunately, I couldn't do that.   2. I also tried to use URL forwarding method using DNS management service like DNS Social. It doesn't work.   3. I'm using WordPress on the `pic.abc.com` site. Both web hosting A and B running cPanel - Apache servers (shared hosting).


CMS that allow pdf to be view online (not download into the computer)

Is there any CMS that allow user to view the pdf file on the CMS instead of downloading them into the computer and open using a PDF viewer? I notice that the CMS I encounter usually require user to download the pdf file to the computer and open it using a PDF viewer.


How to populate a social-focused website

I'm about to launch a website (that's almost finished) of classified ads specifically for my country, but I just realized that I don't know how to populate it. There's a recursive element to it: if no one uses it then there's no reason for anyone to use it. I mean, personally I don't think I'd bother to post anything in a website that has no user base. But every site has to start _somewhere_. So my question is, basically, how are websites that involve some kind of social feedback are initially 'started up'? I've thought of copying classified ads out of other websites or something like that, and I don't think the posters would mind (it's more free publicity for them after all) but I don't want to risk having copyright troubles from the site owners. Should I make fake ads or what? What's the common approach to this? Mind me, this is not even for SEO, but for the actual user experience.


How do I convert a .swf file to HTML5 and make changes in the code?

I have an animation (`.swf`) that I want to convert to HTML5 and then edit a few of the links that appears in the animation. I have tried Google Swiffy and it outputs something that works really well but is not editable. It just links to some external library. To clarify, what I need is a tool to do this:   1. Convert (`.swf`) file to HTML5.   2. Output the actual HTML, CSS and JavaScript to files so that they are easily editable and not dependant on external libraries.


What's the practical difference between dedicated and virtual private servers?

I understand the physical differences but in a practical sense, what will be the differences? Speed? I understand that I have full control over a virtual private server in a software aspect as with dedicated servers - what then is the difference from my point of view? Surely VPS's are easier to upgrade. Why are they always so much cheaper for the same specs?


Configuring thouands of related products in Magento?

I'm at a stage with a Magento store I'm developing where I've added all the products (all 6000 of them) and now would like to configure related products to up my conversion rate a bit. I was wondering if there was an extension anybody knew of that functions similarly to this one, with the most current version of Magento (Community Edition, 1.6.1). If not, would anyone be able to provide some pointers for writing a script that will run through each product and add 1-5 related products. I have a fairly basic idea of taking product title text and just doing a simple text similarity query between other product titles for now, just to get some related products up there, but the Magento database isn't making a terribly large amount of sense. Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this. :)


Should I patent a web application before launching it?

While discussing a website idea I had with friends and worked on it, they told me to be wary of theft regarding the website. Since the code I'd be working on would be mostly JavaScript and HTML, the likelihood of theft is quite high. Furthermore, if I'm lucky, the idea I have would be a breakthrough when it comes to being useful. So, you can see the problem here: I would be developing an application that's easily stolen, and unfortunately an application that companies larger than myself would want to provide. I'm also unsure if this idea has already been patented. I realize patent law is murky, as in you can create a vague patent and still claim others are violating it. So, I'd like to search existing patents for one that may be relevant to my idea, and I'd like to patent it in the meantime. Does anyone have any experience regarding this? Should I invite a lawyer into the mix?


Is there a way of listing files for a directory if it contains index.html?

On my server (over which I have little control), directories are listed by default, so for `mysite.com/images` I get: > **Index of /images** > > Parent Directory   >  BirdsAreHere.png   >  CanYouSpot-AdBlank.jpg etc. Is putting an index.html in that directory enough to prevent people listing the files, or is there still a way of getting at that list? Is it the same for my web root directory (`mysite.com`)?


On an ecommerce site, do "Item No Longer Available" pages hurt SEO?

I'm not the web master at work, but I'm the content manager (and complete SEO novice) with a question we're unsure about. When a product is no longer current and no longer carried in our store, we set it to "information only: item no longer available." The original idea was that these pages might be necessary for customers with older products that needed info. We also didn't want any links that might be out there to be broken. The problem is that many of these pages are horrible from years ago when they had nobody doing content--copy and pasted descriptions, no meta description, etc., and they're throwing HTML errors in Webmaster Tools. I don't want to spend time fixing the Webmaster Tools errors on old pages, but is it harmful for us to leave these pages on the site? Or is it more harmful to delete those pages and possibly leave broken links out there where a user would get a 404? We use Magento Enterprise if that is pertinent. Thank you in advance!


Does sitemap.xml contain links to the entire site?

I read up on the limitations and how you can link multiple sitemaps. But my question is, are they to contain links to EVERYTHING or just the most recent X thousand changes?


IIS Reverse Proxy Failing on .svc pages and some other pages, works fine for plain html

Software situation: I have a public facing IIS site which needs to communicate to another site through a reverse proxy server. The other site is a SOAP API, with a couple of pages that assist in configuration of it. I'm using IIS URL Rewrite, and it is working fine for plain html pages, but it fails on come other pages. Some pages fail with               HTTP Error 404.8 - Not Found     The request filtering module is configured to deny a path in the URL that contains a     hiddenSegment section.      Others fail with simple 404. If I go to the URL directly from the proxy server it all works fine. Currently I am proxying from localhost:8080 to [remote ip]. My inbound rule is: (.*) and rewrites to               'http://[remoteip]/{R:1}'      Outbound rule is: pattern (.*), match content within A, Form, Img. Action, rewrite {R:1} What do I need to do to get the SOAP API working over remote proxy using IIS?


Redirect subdomain on tripod

I have an old subdomain on tripod which I'd like to redirect (301) to my new domain. They don't seem to offer redirection for subdomain even with a subscription. Has anyone had any luck permanently (301) redirecting a subdomain on tripod to a new domain? Should I do a "link rel canonical" to point to the new site together with a meta refresh redirect?


Static pages for large photo album

I'm looking for advice on software for managing a largish photo album for a website. 2000+ pictures, one-time drop (probably). I normally use MarginalHack's album, which does what I want: pre-generate thumbnails and HTML for the pictures, so I can serve without needing a dynamic run-time, so there's less attack surface to worry about. However, it doesn't handle pagination or the like, so it's unwieldy for this case. This is a one-time drop for pictures from a wedding, with a shared usercode/password for distribution to the guests; I don't wish to put the pictures in a third-party hosting environment. I don't wish to use PHP, simply because that's another run-time to worry about, I might relent and use something dynamic if it's Python or Perl based (as I can maintain things written in those). I currently have: Apache serving static files, Album-generated, some sub- directories to divide up the content to be a little more manageable. Something like Album but with pagination already handled would be great, but I'm willing to have something a little more dynamic, if it lets people comment or caption and store the extra data in something like an sqlite DB. I'd want something light-weight, not a full-blown CMS with security updates every three months. I don't want to upload pictures of other peoples' children into a third-party free service where I don't know what the revenue model is. (For my site: revenue is none, costs out of pocket). Existing server hosting is *nix, Apache, some WSGI. Client-side I have MacOS. Any advice?


Anchor tag inside <h1> or <h1> inside achor tag: which is better?

I am trying to use `<h1>` tags on my blog for the post title and came across one problem. Title is hyperlinked. Case 1:
  xyz
      case 2:
 xyz
        Which one is better in terms of SEO?


Should I link the main article heading?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Anchor tag inside H1 or H1 inside achor tag : Which is better?   >  Why, on StackExchange sites, is the post title on the question page a link > to itself? Assuming, that I have an article page:               http://example.com/articles/article-title      with the main content like:
Article title
      **Regarding the SEO and semantic reasons, should I wrap the H2 tag/content in link?** e.g.
Article title
      or this way:
Article title
      (the `H1` in this particular case is reserved for the topic of the whole website, and linked to the home page.) As for the end user, clicking this link seems pointless, as this would just do a page refresh. But I sill see those headings linked all around.


Why, on StackExchange sites, is the post title on the question page a link to itself?

It may look like a question for meta.stackoverflow.com, but I'd like to know if this decision has something to do with SEO or if this improve the user experience somehow. It's a link to the same page you are, so I don't see the usefulness of this. On Quora, for exemple, on the question page, the question title is not a link.


How should I deal with a 'Contact Us' Form?

Often you'll see websites with a "For any questions, please contact us..." followed by a box for your name, email, subject, maybe some invoice data... When should these be implemented on a website? Are there any statistics out there on use of these? What are some alternatives?


Is there a way to use @media queries with pages embedded into Facebook?

Would a @media query recognize the 520px Facebook iframe limitation?


How to set restrictions on my website?

Currently my website is under maintenance. I want to be the only person who's able to access/view the website online until I finish maintenance. How to set restrictions to others ? I hate stalkers.


Someone using my website for Email and significant increase in spam

Let me give you the background in context so that you know the full story. Last summer my web guy (he put my website together) got in a fight with someone who attempted to register on my site using the name of my company as part of his user name. I was not aware of this at all until it had escalated dramatically. I don't know why my web guy was so unprofessional in his response to this person. I really don't know him - met him via SCORE and have never met in person. He is a vendor. Anyway, this guy who got into it with my web guy then threatened to do all he could to hurt my business and said he was internet savvy, etc. So, nothing seemed to happen for a while then not long ago this guy attempted to send me a friend request on Linkedin. After his behavior I declined it. Shortly afterwards I began seeing a dramatic increase in spammers posting comments on the blog part of my site. Just lately I have been receiving Emails from a variety of names but all with the "@ ** ___ __**" that I own - for my business. I had additional security added so now they have to register in order to comment on my blog and I am seeing a lot of registration attempts from the same (and similar) IP addresses with bogus names and weird Email addresses being blocked. So, it is not creating more work as it is all automatic. The Email addresses are of more concern. Is there a way to identify a person through an IP address or a place to report the behavior or the Email usage? This guy lives in South Carolina so he is not overseas. Any help/advice you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Joy


Regenerate sitemaps for every registered user?

I have a .Net website where the main functionality is viewing user profiles. Suppose if my URL to view a profile is `www.mywebsite.com/viewprofile?id=20`, to see a user with an id of 20. My question is do I need to add all the URLs for every registered users to the sitemap? For example: `www.mywebsite.com/viewprofile?id=20`, `www.mywebsite.com/viewprofile?id=21` etc Or just adding a URL of `www.mywebsite.com/viewprofile` is enough?


Bing search results shows an HTML encoded ampersand instead of an actual ampersand

I've looked through Bing Webmaster Tools to see if there is a way I can fix this, but I haven't found anything. Here is an example in the search results. The first link is the one in question. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bQ4DF.png)


What determines the order of results for Google Places?

I have a website that when you search for the key terms in Google, comes up first in the list. However, just above it in the Google Places section, it comes in second in the list. Does Google Places have its own optimization techniques?


Delete Perl install files?

I have a VPS that is managed and am mysteriously running out of space, I think I found a few files I can delete. So just double checking it's ok to delete the Perl install files:               /root/perl588installer.tar.gz (pretty sure this can go)     /root/perl588installer/ (wasn't sure if this can go, I'm thinking it's just used when perl is installed)      I rarely install this kind of thing myself but when I do I'm sure you can delete these files. Thanks


Dedicated domain name VS just folders under a single domain

I run WordPress-Multisite for several sites. Each of these sites resolve under a single domain, e.g. example.com/foo/, example.com/bar/. I also have domain names for these e.g. foo.com, bar.com which are currently redirects, so if a user hits foo.com, they are redirected (301) to example.com/foo/. My question is, should it be the other way around? Should I use the dedicated domain names directly? What are the pros/cons of putting multiple sites under a single domain vs their own dedicated domains? I guess I'm asking with SEO and findability in mind.


HTML vs Xhtml; which one to start with

hey people i am starting to learn making websites, now i want to know what is the difference b/w HTML and XHTML; kindly keep it simple and jargon free pls. :) also, what mark up language i shall use between these two to start with?


how to send and display data from one domain to another?

I have my portal on asp.net, my friend have on php. He wants to me to return text data from my database by sending parameter and wants to display it on his portal. I have given him url say abc.com?id=1 for receiving text data. How can he display data returned from abc.com?id=1 on his portal with say "innerhtml" in javascript.


Absolute vs relative links

Our site's navigation links are currently in relative form:                     The SEO company I mentioned in my previous question recommends we change them to absolute links:                     This is to "ensure search engines get the correct and working URL for the pages". Is this really something that should be taken into account or is this another case of extra work with no added benefit?


Redirects in .htaccess to avoid crawl errors

I am getting a lot of errors in Webmaster Tools and basically there's a lot of links ending like this: mydomainname.com/links.php How can I redirect these links, to shave off this part at the end? For instance, there is a link in Google:               http://www.onlineglobalbiz.com/article-marketing/www.onlineglobalbiz.com/links.php      This should be:               http://www.onlineglobalbiz.com/article-marketing/      Using .htaccess, how can I redirect from the incorrect links?


Does it matter that our website can't be found without the www?

If you try and go to our website **without** typing the www. You get a page not found error. In my case it goes to a Yahoo 404 page where the website you typed is not even shown in the search results. My question is how important is it that customers cannot type this manually? I guess that google etc will just spider the www version and so it will show in the search results in the same manner. Also what is the reason why some websites can be found without the www and some not?


Is redirecting mydomain.eu & mydomain.net to mydomain.com using .htaccess spammy?

A client has asked me to develop their site - they already own 3 domains, `mydomain.eu`, `.net` and `.com`. They want all the traffic from `.eu` and `.net` to redirect to `.com`. I've explained to them that it is not that relevant as people will search for them in search engines rather than typing in the domain, but they still would like me to do it. As far as I know this is fine to do from an SEO point of view but I thought I'd just double check.


Photoshop Elements 9 VS Paintshop Photo Pro X3 For Web Design

I need a good image creation program for web design. I have downloaded both Elements 9 and Paintshop X3. So far I have found them both to be great programs. X3 seems like it has a lot of features, Elements seems like it's quite easy and stable to use. I think I'm going to go with Elements, but I wanted to get other opinions. Which program do you guys like better overall? What things do you think they lack for image creation/editing pertaining to web design, or what features do they have that are great for it? Thanks!


Script + template to generate static web site?

After giving it more thought, I don't actually need a PHP-based CMS for a small, static web site. Does someone know of a good solution that can run on Windows that would take basic HTML pages and JPG pictures, combine those with a template, and generate a static site ready to be FTPed to an web server? Thank you. * * * Edit: For those looking for the same information, here's some well-known tools to create a static site:   * http://get-simple.info/   * http://gpeasy.com/How_Easy   * http://textpattern.com/features   * http://nanoc.stoneship.org/   * http://www.movabletype.com/


Website Design; SEO Dilemma

Okay so I designed a website for a restaurant and the design is aimed mostly to entice the viewer by using images of the restaurant's platters and foods. Not to say that text is totally non-existent but the design makes it hard to have enough keywords. Most keywords are found in the ALT attribute of image tags and a couple of headers. The reason as to why I am in this dilemma? I'm still new to web development and at the time I made the design, I didn't really know much about SEO. So I come here in search of help because I have an idea... **Would it be good practice to have hidden SPAN blocks that would help me fill with keywords?** For example a hidden SPAN would have text in bold to help with SEO. Of course, I will play it safe and not exploit this technique if it works. I have searched that this may be considered spamming by search engines and some companies are taking measures to prevent this. Thanks in advance!


How can I get a history of DNS registration information?

Is there a canonical place that stores DNS registration information? For example for a domain that has changed hands a few times, can I see a listing of the owner information* over time and when the transfers took place? * _whether it's proxied or not_ **Note:** I'm interested in any domain, whether it's an international TLD or a country coded site.


How to redirect calls from http://svn.example.com to http://dev.example.com:8443? Should I be asking our Cisco networking guy to set this up (and if so, what do I tell him to do?), or should I be doing it directly from the server (I'm running IIS 7 on Windows 2008)


HTML special character (glyph) looking not the same in different browsers

I am using an html crown in my website, character code is `♛`, but this looks different in the browsers.               Firefox 6.0 -> different     Chrome 13.0 -> different     IE 9.0, Safari 5.1, Opera 11.50 -> same      I have tried to explicit add a font-family to the span, but this does not help. Anyone have an idea how I can get this the same in the browsers. Check this post in differnt browsers and see how the char (glyph) changes. **♛**


Optimizing (reducing) web font requests

My homepage currently uses 5 web fonts--I'd like it to be 6 due to spotty support for Helvetica Neue. One of the fonts is 'FontAwesome' icons, the other 4 are only used for a word or two (i.e. I have a heading that reads "Optimization" written in letters that look like an old computer). 2 of these fonts are available through Google and I request only the letters needed (and that works great). However, the other 2 are from openfontlibrary.org, and are only available in a single format. Which isn't a big deal (I'll need them securely anyway so local copies are better), a quickie with the Fontsquirrel.com @font-face generator and I have them in multiple formats, and the CSS to boot. And then I test my page load time...ugh. I assume it would be possible for me to subset my local copies, anybody have have experience in this area?


Best solution for online video classes?

If I want to make a website where visitors can sign up to online video classes, which of the following options is the best solution? 1-) All the students meet the teacher(me) with TeamViewer (which is a free and easy to get software). 2-) Use some online service like justin.tv, BlogTv etc and have a private room for my students. 3-) Buy a video stream host service and implement some video application on my website. (With this one I'll have to worry about people hacking my website and watching the classes without my knowledge). Even though I'm a PHP/MySQL programmer, I'm planning on using my website just so people can sign up. For the online video classes, I think using third party services is best/safer. Which of these is the best solution, taking into consideration security and control over who's watching my classes (should only be those I allow), and also that this isn't a big thing so I don't have many students (less than 50 so far) so a very complex application wouldn't be necessary at the moment. Or is there a even better solution? ps: sorry if this isn't the right place to ask this question


File Specific CSS. Inside HTML doc or as a seperate file?

What is the preferred method for organizing CSS that is only used by a single HTML page. Should I put the CSS in:   * a section in the HTML doc?   * a CSS file associated with the HTML doc? eg: contacts.html, contacts.css   * a master CSS file and organize it into sections indicated with header comments.


301 redirect to boost SEO of the site being redirected to?

I have a situation where I have 2 sites about pretty equivalent topics. Originally I didn't know which domain was better so I tried both. Now, clearly one has got more links to it, and has a higher PageRank, and a number of pages there rank in Google's top-10 for their keywords. My question is: what is the right way of redirecting the original domain's pages to the better domain so that the pages have a higher chance of ranking because they would be under the stronger domain?


Is there a high-load chat software / script out there?

We're in development of a website and we're looking into other options than just developing a chat engine ourselves. We've looked at CometChat and ArrowChat. Which look and seem to be great except that it uses PHP/MySQL. They offer to host your chat server which can handle 100,000+ but honestly we'd like to be hosting it on our own servers and handle way more than that. Know of any alternatives? We're looking for that Meebo/Facebook/CometChat/ArrowChat look and style but it needs to be fully customizable.


Dealing with broken links and dead pages on search engines

I recently had to reconstruct the way my website runs. Along with that I have to change the way my urls are formatted. My website is not terribly popular (hoping changes will fix that) but I do have 500+ pages indexed on just Google. My question is should I/can I do anything about removing these dead pages from Google and other search engines? What should I do about backlinks?


.US domain seo google problem

I recently brought **keyword.us** where keyword has:   * 180 millions searches per month (Worldwide)    * 40 millions searches per month (America) Now how bad is my move? keyword.com is already registered. Will I get a penalty for that? Will I be invisible on google.co.uk, google.com, google.fr?


HTML Template Designs - Alternatives to Theme Forest

I'm looking to build a new corporate website using a ready made HTML theme so that I can focus on the business logic rather than on the presentation. Any recommendations for websites similar and alternative to Theme Forset?


duplicate content penalties for cross posting?

I have a blog (xyious.blogspot.com) and a website (xyious.com), i'm developing a tiny cms system for my website while posting some content. I always post the new content to my blog as well as the website for several reasons. Now i'm wondering how badly i will be penalized for duplicate content. The website is older than the blog, but never had a whole lot of content, and i obviously want my website to rank higher than the blog in the future when i stop posting on the blog in favor of having a website hosting all the content. Do i incur duplicate content penalty, and if so how severe ? Would it be better to stop posting to the blog altogether before the cms is in a state where it displays content correctly and has easy navigation ?


What should I do after changing DNS records and my site is not resolving?

My domain is not resolving after updating its DNS records 10 hours ago. I bought the domain from GoDaddy and hosted it on a different server. They guided me to alter two domain entries: the first is an IP address, and the second is `ab.example.com`. When I go to `example.com`, it is giving me the following error: `Webpage is unavailable`. Pinging my website ends up with a timed out error and 100% loss for 4 packets. It may be that I changed the nameservers three times in the last hour because of mistakes in the name. After that I set the nameservers to the default (`NS77.DOMAINCONTROL.COM` and `NS78.DOMAINCONTROL.COM`), and changed the `A` host record and `CNAME` alias as directed.


Registered office as domain name whois address

if I have a company that has a registered office (not a real one) in London, is it ok to use that address as the one for my domain name?


Question about name server propagation

I just did an overhaul of my company's website and changed the hosting provider, and it's probably been about 36-48 hours since I changed the pointers at my registrar to the new name servers. I have noticed some very strange behavior at my office, where we have a Windows Server domain-based LAN-- in particular, with two computers sitting next to one another, one pulls up the new site and the other does not--after repeatedly clearing the cache, resetting/flushing via ipconfig, trying different browsers, etc.--which is baffling to me. I was testing the site on someone's phone, and pulling up the site via the in-house wi-fi connection brought up the old version, while switching to his phone's LTE data connection pulled up the new one. What exactly is going on here? Clearly those computers pulling up the old version of the site are referencing the old DNS pointers that link to the old hosting provider, but how could this vary from machine to machine on the same network? Thanks for any clarification here.


crowd funding platform?

I have been searching for days. Is there a good crowd funding framework that I could use as the base for a project? Something like a kickstarter clone in Ruby on Rails or PHP? There are one or two out there, but they look terrible.


GeoIP and Mod_rewrite: Should I use latitude or city/town?

My boss wants to change our site to one domain with different sub domains being redirected by location to appropriate business site location. Issue is, these locations are only 100+ miles away from each other and service a 25 square mile radius. 2/3 overlap into the different states so region sorting won't work. City/town would take awhile given each area has at least 20-30+ towns/cities/communities being services. I could just use latitude/longitude but I don't know the effectiveness of it. Any advice?


Google Analytics Audience Geo view: Can I have map that labels places with no sessions like those with sessions?

Looking at audience-geo-location I can view a map of the world by nation. I can mouse over the shaded nations from which 'sessions' arose to obtain a count and the name of the nation. However, for the grey nations (those without sessions) a mouse-over doesn't show the country name. The same would apply to U.S. states. It would be very good to have a list of these places so that I could make an effort there to attract visitors. If not on the map view, is there a way to include places with no sessions in the list of places. Knowing where visitors are is nice but knowing about places without visitors is also important. Am I missing something?


Will Page Rank affect if we delete index.php from URL?

Suppose a website having page rank 3 and it contains index.php in all its urls like below and their page rank www.xyz.com/index.php/about-us Page rank 2 www.xyz.com/index.php/services Page rank 2 . . and so on. So if we remove "index.php" now, will it affect in SEO page rank and search results? Thanks in advance.


Is it legal for a developer to claim ownership of a clients' analytics data?

We are working with a client who is having his analytics data held hostage by his previous developers. They are claiming that their contract states that they own the data, but I'm wondering if showing ownership of the site might be enough to stop them from holding the data hostage. Does anyone know if our client has any leverage against the claims of his previous developers?? I'm a bit worried that a contract DOES have the power to lock a client out of that data, but it just seems... criminal... for someone to do that to a client.


I want to trace the activity of my customize link sent via email or on chat to my customer. Activity like :   1. whether they opened the link or not?   2. How much time they were on page? examples: I have decided to sent business proposal link to Mr.ABC and Mr.XYZ So, for ABC the link would be like : www.mycompany.com/proposal ....abc... So, for XYZ the link would be like : www.mycompany.com/proposal ....xyz... its like link analytic. **How to go ahead with with it?**


I want to design E-Commerce websites. What programming language should I learn first?

I have no experience with any programming languages but I want to start. What language should I start with first if I want to create e-commerce websites. ex: HTML,CSS,JS


I want to use gzip compression in Apache

I want to enable gzip compression for acethehimalaya.com. Can anybody please tell me what is the best way of achieving compression in an Apache Webserver?


apache rewrite .htaccess google adwords gclid

I've got an url coming in as:               /index.php?/location/&gclid=287ejek22kj      This is going to a 404 page because of the gclid... I need it to go to:               /index.php?/location      I've tried this, with no success:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^(.*)&gclid=(.*)$  $1 [L]      All help is appreciated. Thanks.


Will duplicating near similar content across two different sites affect SEO?

I have two local websites targeting different countries (kindlemalaysia.com and kindleindonesia.com), both of them are in English. These two websites have the same purpose, and they should be able to be merged into one, but I separate them nonetheless in order for better branding purpose. Given the nature of my two websites, they share same blog post except that some information are different (for example, the name of the country). My question is, will this affect the SEO for both websites as Google may find the content duplicated to a large extent?


Is it against Google Webmaster Policy to accept paid guest blog posts?

When people email me to "sponsor" or buy a blog post, is that illigal according to google rules? Or is it only illegal when they request a straight up link placement in exchange for cash? Also, will Google penalize me in terms of SEO if I have those sponsored blog posts? Do they frown on such things?


Website Remodel Redirects

We've recently built a site for a new client who has not inserted all the content that they had from their old site into their new one. Also a lot of content is dynamic with ID's not matching from the old site to the new one. We have added dynamic redirects for most of the patterns we could find in pages that were 404ing, but there are still a lot of pages that had content, or just jumbled urls that we cannot match up with content pages on the new site. Is it better to redirect these leftover pages to the homepage? Or leave them 404ing?


Bing vs google advertising

is it worth while to advertise using Bing's adcenter if I already have google's adwords?


Can I point a CNAME to a subpage on Google Sites?

Simple question:   I followed the instructions and now I have a CNAME pointing `www.mydomain.com` to my Google Sites site. I want to add another, pointing `mike.mydomain.com` to `https://sites.google.com/site/subpages/mike`, `dave.mydomain.com` to ...`/dave` etc. Is this possible? If so, where do I configure it in Google Sites? Comment: using site forwarding is not applicable here, since I'd like to have several subdomains.


SEO question, getting info about websites

I don't know much about SEO. I have a csv file with 200,000 links to websites i want to add another field (or maybe couple of them) to each link in the csv file with page ranking of each link and maybe other interesting metrics and info about the link. I saw a free API from http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/ i can maybe use to build a simple script, but it's limited to 3 links for second which will roughly take 1100 minutes or 18 hours to run any other ideas how to get this kind of simple metrics about each link ? thanks !


Clarity around Advanced Segment defintion

I am hoping to get some clarity around an advanced segment I created. For context, our website spans multiple domains. For reasons I wont get into, I created an advanced segment that looks for pages containing my subdomain of interest (subdomain.site.com). I want to ensure that my interpretation of this advanced segment is accurate. Simply, it flags all visits to our entire domain that viewed at least one page on my subdomain of interest? If I am off, what does this advanced segment represent? Many thanks in advance!


I Purchased a Domain that Previously had a Google Apps Account. How Do I Re-Create The Google Apps Account or Take Ownership of it?

I recently purchased a domain name. We'll call it `example.com`. The previous owner of the domain had a Google Apps account. Now that I own the domain, I want to create a Google Apps account so I can point the domain `www.example.com` to one of my Google App Engine domains. We'll call it `application.appspot.com`. Google App Engine won't allow me to add the domain without verifying ownership by creating a Google Apps account or logging into Google Apps, but I don't have access to the old Google Apps account. We've tried going to this address to take ownership:               https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/example.com/ResetAdminPassword?c=LONG_KEY&hl=en_US      We retrieved a new password, but it wouldn't tell us what the login name is. How do you find out the login name?


What is the purpose of <Directory /> with a local <VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>         DocumentRoot /var/www         <Directory />         </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      Does the `<Directory>` tag refer to `/var/www` on the server, or `/`? What would be the purpose of having a `/` configuration on a VirtualHost?


Why Opera browser is less supported than IE, FF and Chrome?

Why Opera browser is less supported by web sites than IE, FF and Chrome? IE understanding, but why less than FF and even Chrome?


Website Panel does it affect existing sites?

Has any one used Website Panel? Does it affect sites all ready running under IIS?


Google Analytics scheduled email reports: naming multiple attachments

I have a custom report set up with multiple tabs. When scheduling an email, it seems like you can only have the current "view" added as an attachment (i.e. no option to email the entire report) - so I go through individual report tabs and add reports to an existing schedule. The problem I'm having is naming the attachments - they all end up being named the same after the "parent" custom report. How can I work around this, or better yet, generate one PDF file from the multitab report?


Can I register DNS under an IP with a subdomain on 1&1?

I have a server on the website `www.example.com`, and I want to register another domain like `www.examplehelp.com` with DNS from `www.example.com/help`. Can I do something like this on 1&1 domain registration?


WP Yoast SEO's focus search term; is it necessary?

On `Yoast's SEO` plugin @ `Wordpress`, I can provide one search term per post, which is the key term, the **_focus term_** (don't know the English word for it). I am wondering what this keyword does... I don't see, if I fill it in, a thing related on it on my page source and I don't know what it does or what it should do. For example, I have a post called `"Hello World"` and I put in the **key term:** `hello`... What should Google do with this? Does it give priority? Does it do a thing or solely nothing? Can someone explain this to me? Because right now I have not filled in these fields, because I thought that it was unnecessary...


I am a jekyll beginner. How can I clone other's jekyll theme from other's github? For example, https://github.com/yihui/cn.git.


Search Engine Query Word Order

I've pages with titles like 'Alpha to Beta'. For every such page, there is an inverse page 'Beta to Alpha'. Both pages link to each other. When someone on Google searches for 'Beta to Alpha', I'd like them to land on the correct page, but sometimes 'Alpha to Beta' ranks higher (or vice versa). I was thinking of inspecting the referral link when a visitor arrives on my site, and silently redirecting them to the correct page based on what they actually searched for. Just wondering if this could be penalized by Google as 'cloaking/sneaky redirects'? Or is there a better way to ensure that the correct page on my site ranks higher for the matching query?


Reservation System With Calendar Integration

I am working on a Website for a tour guide. I need an self-hosted online reservation system that supports Paypal payment processing. I also need it to have some sort of iCal/Google Calendar integration. I have tried searching, but very few services offer calendar integration. Do you know of anything good, possibly open-source?


Is it possible to limit user access to folders using HTACCESS?

Is it possible to limit user access using a HTACCESS file? I'm not quite sure how to edit folder permissions with the host i'm with so I figure using an HTACCESS file might be easier.


SEO indexing with dynamic titles, keywords and descriptions

I'm working on a website (all in one single domain) so I'm wondering to create dynamic titles, descriptions, keywords and headings for each location. What I'm doing is to get information from the IP address of the user and show for example a dynamic title:               var userCity = codeToGetCityFromIP;          <title>Welcome to userCity</title>     // and same for description, keywords and headings...      Obviously the code is different. I'd like to know if it is a good solution to create multiple SEO indexing based on cities? I'm also using _GeoLocation_ and I do same using the returned values from it. I'm doing right or there are more effective ways to indexing in different countries and cities without create multiple website for each city of the world?


Does embedding youtube videos help SEO?

I hear lots of people talk about videos as being good for SEO, like it is more and different content. But to imbed a video, youtube makes it an iFrame, which means it can't be crawled by google, right? So then if it can't get crawled, its irrelevant for SEO, right?


How to track a download with Google Analytics?

I have a download file that is protected with a reCAPTCHA. Is there a way to track the downloads (both attempts and completed) with Google Analytics?


IIS Not Accepting Active Directory Login Credentials

I have an ASP.NET web form using Microsoft's boilerplate Active Directory login page, set up exactly as suggested. Windows Authentication is activated on the "Default Website" and "MyWebsite" levels, and `Domain\This.User` is given "Allow" access to the site. After entering the valid credentials for `This.User` on the web form, a popup window appears asking me to enter my credentials yet again. Despite entering valid credentials for `This.User` (after attempting `Domain\This.User` and `This.User` formats), it rejects the credentials and returns an unauthorized security headers page (error 401.2). Active Directory user `This.User` is valid, the IP address of the AD server has been verified and SPN's have been set up for the server. Error Code: 0x80070005 Default Web Site security config:               <system.web>         <identity impersonate="true" />         <authentication mode="Windows" />         <customErrors mode="Off" />         <compilation debug="true" />     </system.web>      Sub web site security               <authentication mode="Windows">         <forms loginUrl="~/logon.aspx" timeout="2880" />     </authentication>     <authorization>         <deny users="?" />         <allow users="*" />     </authorization>


Unifying links for google searches

What method do you recommend me using, to tell Google that links like:   1. www.site.com/ **en** /aslgm   2. www.site.com/ **ro** /aslgm   3. www.site.com/ **es** /aslgm   4. www.site.com/ **...** / **...** It's the same as www.site.com/aslgm ? I already use `<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.site.com/aslgm" />`


Magento - Unable to access remote site but able to access a simple index.html file

I'm building a store (magento 1.6.0.0-rc2) and have a home server to host the site. It is behind a modem/router with redirection of port 80 and 3000 active to server box. 1. I can access the front-end and back-end from localhost (Slackware Linux). 2. Configured a no-ip account with a host name with 'Port 80 Redirect' enabled. example: `store1.no-ip.biz` 3. If I try to access the site from another network, I get  > Unable to connect > > Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost:3000. A strange thing is that the message returns 'localhost'... 4. but I created a simple _index.html_ file and saved it in the root directory, side by side with index.php, and **I can access it** without any problem. Permission of these two files are 640, owner myself and group apache (the one httpd runs with). 5. I have no firewall active, hosts.deny is clear. 6. In **httpd.conf** I have:               <IfModule dir_module>             DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php index.php3 index.php4 index.php5     </IfModule>          LoadModule authz_host_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_authz_host.so     LoadModule log_config_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_log_config.so      LoadModule setenvif_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_setenvif.so      LoadModule mime_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_mime.so      LoadModule dir_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_dir.so      LoadModule alias_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_alias.so      LoadModule rewrite_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_rewrite.so          Include /etc/httpd/mod_php.conf     Include /etc/httpd/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf      7. In the virtual host I have:                <VirtualHost *:3000>         ServerName store1.no-ip.biz         UseCanonicalName Off         DocumentRoot "/home/larrobag/lio/apache/magento/"         ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/lio_error_log"         CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/lio-access_log" common         LimitRequestBody 300000              <Directory />                 Options FollowSymLinks             Allow from all         </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      What am I missing? I'd appreciate any clues on this problem.


How to track js conditional outbound redirects with Google Analytics?

We work with an affiliate program where you need to use different affiliate links for some specific countries. Because of that our links in the content are pointed to an internal page http://www.oursite.com/affiliateprogram where we do a javascript redirect based on geo IP (we use maxmind javascript service to detecct the country code: http://j.maxmind.com/app/country.js ). We also have a 5 second meta refresh to the main affiliate link in case the country code detection fails. This is the meta tag:               <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=http://www.externallink.com?affiliate=252346">             and this is part of the javascript redirection:               if (country=='IT') {         window.location.replace('http://www.externallink.it/?affiliate=252342');     }     if (country=='ES') {         window.location.replace('http://www.externallink.es/?affiliate=252343');     }     if (country=='FR') {         window.location.replace('http://www.externallink.fr/?affiliate=252344');     }     else {         window.location.replace('http://www.externallink.com/?affiliate=252346');     }         The question is; how can we track the visits of each outbound link using Google Analytics?


Is it possible to have multiple subdomains point to the same Blogger blog?

For our application we want to have a status page which is hosted outside of the rest of our infrastructure so in case there are issues in our data center we can post updates for our users and our users will be able to access them. We registered a blog on Blogger and set it up with `xyzstatus.blogspot.com` and `status.xyz.com`. Everything seems to work fine. We need to perform some maintenance at our datacenter which will sever all connectivity so we're unable to have a redirect using nginx or apache. We'd like to do this with a short TTL CNAME DNS entry. Ideally `www.xyz.com` and `app.xyz.com` could be CNAMEd to `status.xyz.com`. When I setup the CNAME and go to that URL I get a Google broken robot 404 page. I figure I must need to let Google know it should associate traffic to `www.xyz.com` and `app.xyz.com` to the blog served up by `status.xyz.com`. But I can't see anywhere to do this in Blogger. Does anyone know if this is possible?


Best way to move your domain and keep the Google position

I have to move one domain to a new one which is semantically better for SEO. I would like to know the best way to do it so that the new domain keeps the google position. I know the basic steps:   * to put a redirection 301 in the old one, with an apache script, it can be very detailed, but the important is the 301 header   * for google you can tell them through the webmaster tools page   * try to gain pagerank for the new domain


Personal site/blog, my desired .com/.net are taken

I want to start to have a place on the internet I can call my own. Stack Exchange, Google+, and Twitter are nice, but they're all services where I have to play by their rules and I don't really own my own content. So I've decided that I really need my own site. The problem is, my desired `.com`/`.net` domains are taken. If it matters, my desired domain involves my name.   * Will people have difficulty remembering or typing a less common extension and/or will I be judged in a less favorable light if I don't have a `.com`/`.net`?   * If not, which extension would be best for a personal site? `.org`, `.co`, `.me`, `.us`, and many others are available?


Visual sitemap generater

I'm looking for a something to visually create a sitemap for one of my websites. Id like something in a tree structure, so I have the hierarchical view of my site. A couple requirements I have though, the ability to map password protected pages, and (not REALLY a requirement) the ability to integrate Google Analytics data.


Any recommendations for a domain buying negotiating service?

The best domain for my niche and related is owned by a guy in San Fransisco, and I want to buy the domain from him but I don't want to deal with him directly (even though he has contacted me in the past). I need to find an intermediary company that can handle the negotiation for me. I don't expect to have to pay much since the guy has been squatting on it for more than 15 years and according to the Internet Wayback Machine it has never actually been used for anything at all - he has never added any value to it. It kind of irritates me that such a good domain has been sitting in this guy's closet gather dust for 15 years. I know that GoDaddy has a domain buying negotiating service (and the domain is registered through them, which may make it easier), but I really, really do not want to do business with GoDaddy if I don't have too. Do any of you know of other firms that deal with this sort of thing?


Picking the right domain name

The issue I have is that my family name is relatively common, and I'm pretty awful at coming up with names. Yet I'd like to register a decent domain name that SEO won't hate. The point of the site would be about programming in general, and some things about android development. So I was thinking about registering fmdev.org (or .net any input on which of the two is more interesting is always appreciated). The reason for not picking a .com despite its obvious advantages is that I'm a bit leery about how the USA has been acting lately in regards to privacy/ownership of people from another country when they just own hosting in the USA/having a .com domain name). I first thought about going for the full blown development instead of dev, but that seemed a bit on the long side. And I'm guessing google's search engine will pick up on the meaning. (or am I mistaken in that?) Any advice/input is always appreciated.


How can I include location data in a page so that Google search results include a map?

I'd like to include extra information that would give us a bump in location specific search?


Is there a CDN for backbone.marionette?

Getting started with Backbone and Marionette, I was about to copy the file at `https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.marionette/blob/master/lib/backbone.marionette.js` to my local server, but wondered if there was a CDN version of it. For Underscore and Backbone dev, I'm including these two files, respectively: http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/underscore-min.js http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/backbone-min.js Is there a similar URL for backbone.marrionette.js?


Multimedia web applications that perform well

There are a few multimedia web applications like PHPMotion, ClipBucket that allow playback of multimedia files. Beside the mentioned multimedia web applications, are there other similar multimedia web applications that are resource-efficient, awesome playback speed (no play-stop-play-stop) and have many features like those in JPlayer? It should support at least 3 different type of media format (e.g. mp4, flv) **UPDATE** As it seems that multimedia web applications are quite rare. I am also open for Multimedia Javascript Player. (Multimedia Player "made of" Javascript)


Slashes in URLs and SEO

My question is simple: Is there any disadvantage (in terms of SEO and search engine behavior) to using / instead of other delimiters in URLs like `http://example.com/en/items/1234/page3`? I vaguely remember reading something about some search engines not liking URLs that have too deep a folder structure (basically what the /'s indicate), but I'm not sure if that's still an issue.


Storing Downloadable Content Securely

For a site where users can purchase videos for download. What would be the best way to store the media? Any other helpful considerations are more than welcome.   * Outside the root directory?   * Seperate server?   * Changing permissions? Also, to improve preformance, is there such a thing as hosting your website on one server. Then on another server configured more for large downloads and bandwidth, hosting all the downloadable content?


Migrating PageRank/rankings from one site to another

I've got a client's company site with decent PageRank, backlinks and search engine rankings. The client wants to change their company name and therefore URL. I will set up a redirect between the old site and the new. But I was wondering, is there a way to tell Google that they are moving while retaining all the rankings? It is the same people, services, office building, same everything, just rebranded under a different name and URL. Additionally if there is a way to do this, how does Google handle you buying expired domains and just pointing them onto your site? Could I buy several PageRank 3 domains all relating to the same sector and point them at my site or would Google catch on to this?


Retroactively view Google Analytics data by application version using a segment

I understand that filters don't retroactively apply to previous data. I have been learning segments, but I can't seem to figure out how to properly filter my data by the application version. I have tried adding an `Advanced -> Condition` with `App Version` `contains` `regex for version`, but this doesn't seem to do anything. I have noticed that the `Preview` and `Test` buttons are disabled. Am I missing something here? I am pretty sure that the regex is correct (`1\\.1\\.0-rc2` to match `1.1.0-rc2`).


What happens when overwriting a static file?

Say you've got a purely static website. It's popular so people are often visiting your index.html. What happens when you use your ftp client to overwrite the file? Will people ever see any odd results? Will all requests simply hang until the writing is done? Or do webservers do anything clever to serve the old file while the new file is being written? What if it's a script that overwrites index.html? Is that the same as using ftp? Does it depend on the server?


Can Google index a non-80/non-443 URL?

Forgive me if this is a rather simple question but I have never encountered any search results before where they used a non-80 port on HTTP or non-443 port on HTTPS. Screenshots or sample of search results with custom ports would help.


Updated Apache from 2.2 to 2.4 and now my sub domains are broken

Upon trying to visit any of my subdomains here is the error recieve in my error.log file:               [Tue Jul 15 11:17:42.924790 2014] [core:alert] [pid 17309] [client 108.162.241.152:26427] /var/www/.htaccess: <IfModule not allowed here     [Tue Jul 15 11:17:43.672653 2014] [core:alert] [pid 13948] [client 108.162.242.152:38399] /var/www/.htaccess: <IfModule not allowed here      Visiting the subdomains via the browser simply states there was an internal server error. Here is my conf file for one of my subdomains:               $ less sites-enabled/paste.jhvisser.com.conf     <VirtualHost *:80>     DocumentRoot "/var/www/paste"     ServerName paste.jhvisser.com     <Directory "/var/www/paste">     allow from all     Options +Indexes     </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      I have DNS records that point to the servername. These only stopped working upon upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS which upgraded apache 2.2 to apache 2.4. I am confused as to what the problem is here?


How to overcome politics of the net (Google translate code refuses to work from a specific region)

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to overcome politics of the net (Google translate code refuses to work > from a specific region) I have this Web Site. It uses the Google Translate API (Can't post the link, does not open from this region) with the following code.               <meta name="google-translate-customization" content="9f841e7780177523-3214ceb76f765f38-gc38c6fe6f9d06436-c"></meta>          <script type="text/javascript">     function googleTranslateElementInit()     {     new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en'}, 'google_translate_element');     }     </script>     <script type="text/javascript" src="http://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script>      The problem is since this, it just stopped working. On the site you can see that I had to actually remove the above from here, here, and here while left it here, here, here and here. This is so because the the web site "refuses" to load at all with the pages that have the code (i.e., from this region.) If I use Firefox Stealthy Plugin and open the site in Firefox, It works like a charm without any problems. But with Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera Web browser, the site does not load/open at all because of the Google translate. (I know this because If I remove the Google Translate Code, the site works/loads fine) It was one thing to program for "cross browser compatability" and alltogether another to program for "cross region compatability". What can I do to make sure that the site works from anywhere? Do I completely remove the Google Translate code and just have to do without the additional functionality or Do I look for alternatives like this or according to this?


Database of websites for a search engine

I'm planning to make a search engine, so I've downloaded this script. It works well, but I have to add a list of websites manually in a php file for the search engine to index. Is there any kind of database/file which lists a _real_ lot of sites?


What is the purpose of google.com/blank.html

Somehow I recently ended up on http://www.google.com/blank.html (I was browsing as I often do, opening links and doing searches in background tabs, and I usually end up with thousands of tabs, so I don't know where exactly from did I get to this page.) Does anyone have an idea why this page exists and what might it be good for?


Affiliate program for a programming blog?

I run a blog. I've started to get some traffic (currently approx 7000 unique visitors / month). Is that enough to make some money on ads? If so, are there any affiliate networks targeting .NET / development?


.htaccess and browser caching

I ran across these suggested htaccess edits. Is this a good practice? Is this something I should implement on my wordpress site?:               <IfModule mod_expires.c>     ExpiresActive On     ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"     ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"     </IfModule>


How can I do? I accidentally delete google and alexa verification meta code

I accidentally delete Google and Alexa verification `<meta>` code from `<head>` and all have gone. I went to both Google Webmaster tools and Alexa but I cannot find where I can get verification meta code again. Anyone know where I can get it again?


How do you prove your traffic to potential advertisers?

Potential advertisers always ask me how much traffic my website has, the number of unique visitors, etc. I have all these stats but I would like more transparency (otherwise how do they know I haven't enhanced the stats?). Is there a website which does that (ie simply measuring the traffic - nothing fancy) so that I could tell potential advertisers to check my stats on that website. This way it would be completely transparent. I imagine I would have to install a javascript file (from their server) on my website so that they can measure my traffic. Thanks.


Error 404 after rewrite query strings with htaccess

I'm trying to redirect the URLs of a client's website like this:               www.localsite.com/immobile.php?id_immobile=24      In something like this:               www.localsite.com/immobile/24.php      I'm using this rule in _.htaccess_ but it returns a 404 error page.               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id_immobile=([0-9]*)$     RewriteRule ^immobile\.php$ http://localsite.com/immobile/%1.php? [L]      I have tried many other rules, but none work. What can I do?


What nameserver should I use?

Let's say that I have **site.com** website that I bought at one place, but want to host on another place. I don't know what to do. Here is scenario. I bought site.com on company that is using their own nameservers - **ns.a.com**. And linked website to their own servers.   I bought hosting on another company that is using nameservers - **ns.b.com**. Should I just change ns.a.com on my DOMAIN to ns.b.com? Or should I link all DNS entries on my domain control panel to host ip addresses?


Pre-registering a second level gTLD domain name: what rules apply when collision happens?

Pre-registrations of second level domain names are open for a good number of the new gTLDs, and one can pre-register with many different operators. But let's say I'd like to pre-register a myname.guru or myname.ventures or myname.family domain name through one of these pre-registrars (those are just examples of gTLDs that will be open to the public). What will happen the day these domains open for actual registration (after the sunrise period) if someone else in another country did the same thing with another pre-registrar ? Is there a first-come first served rule ? Does it depend on the gTLD registrar who will be chosen or is there a general rule defined by ICANN ?


Redundant Parameters in Google Analytics JS Snippet

Google Analytics provide this snippet of code to copy and paste to a site:               <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', 'mysite.com');       ga('send', 'pageview');          </script>      But the `a` and `m` variables used in the function signature are not used throughout the code at all. Is it safe to remove them? I can't see any negative implications that could arise, and I don't understand why Google put them in the first place (i.e. their code minification tools should have probably removed them in the first place).


How to Track outbound clicks in google analytics

I know there are several ways that will help me find out how many times that user clicked on the outbound links but situation is pretty complicated. It is a school website, KENT SCHOOL DISTRICT and the home page of the website has a left sidebar with shortcuts (links). Website is built in School Wires (Content Management System) and the school wires does not provided us the code for the site shortcuts. Under site manager, we have site shortcuts tab (Look Below) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/kHWaj.png) Basically we don't do any hardcoding for the shortcuts. So far I have tried:   1. I was first planning to use EVENT TRACKING 'onClick' in my anchor tag, but as soon as I found that my school website is not using hard coded links, I dropped that idea. My question is, Is there anyway that I can track the outbound links? Basically I want to count how many times that shortcut on the left sidebar has clicked?


Why do I need at least two nameservers?

I own several domains, all hosted with Northhosts, but however I register my domains at GoDaddy (since they're cheaper). When I receive my 'New Account Information' email from Northosts, they always supply two domains, and GoDaddy always wants me to enter at least two nameservers when changing the nameservers. I recently renewed an old domain that I have with another provider, and I noticed that they too require/give two nameservers. What is the reason for this? Why is it not possible to use just a single nameserver?


Google image search and data-image attribute

I'm noticing that images we have associated with a particular keyword-- for which we rank at the top for a regular search-- are not showing in the results for a Google image search. I'm wondering if this has to do with the fact that I'm loading images into a jquery slider via the `data-image` attribute to allow for lazy-loading-- and consequently there aren't width, height or alt attributes associated with the images as with a typical `<img>` tag. Thus, I have two related questions: (1) does Google have issues-- or perhaps have a "bias" against-- indexing images loaded this way? (2) if so, is there a way I can optimize the image loading without having to resort to using `<img>` tags? Or perhaps I could include regular `<img>` links within `<noscript>` tags specifically for Google to reference? Thanks for any insight here.


Robots.txt Blocking Blog Tags?

Tags are causing duplicate content on my website and I want to make sure that I block them from being indexed. Is this the right syntax to use for blocking those Tags from being crawled?               User-agent: *     Disallow: /blog/tag


Should I use the same AddThis tag on multiple sites?

I have an AddThis for one site:               <script type="text/javascript"      src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ripper234">     </script>      Now I logged into AddThis and wanted to get my tag again, I saw it changed:               <script type="text/javascript"       src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ripper234">     </script>      Should I use the same tag I got before, or the new tag? What's the difference? Is 250/300 the internal version number?


Google Experiments & dynamic URLs

I want to set up a Google Analytic's Experiment to test variations of product page. Parts of the URL changes depending on what product you are viewing - here are some examples...   * domain.com/products/shirt/100   * domain.com/products/pants/200   * domain.com/products/hat/300    I want to experiment on everything that comes after `/products/`. How can I set this up as an experiment? Do I just input `domain.com/products/`? Or do I add some fancy regular expression magic? ... Is this at all possible, or do Experiments only apply to static pages? If that's the case; what alternatives are there out there?


Google Analytics + External Site Statistics Tracking in one application?

My company is a broker in the real estate industry. As such, we send a lot of our listings to sites like Trulia.com and Zillow.com, among others. These sites direct leads to our realtors, and provide us with reports every month detailing the activity our listings have had on their site-- links back to our website, emails generated, etc. Our Marketing and Advertising departments want to take that information and enter it into a system to keep track of everything in one place, for the purpose of producing comparison reports. I cannot find any externally available product that provides this functionality. I would sincerely like to avoid writing this tool myself. Does anyone know of a tool that could do this? In short, an ideal system would:   * Import Google Analytics data via API   * Import real estate listing site data via CSV upload / manual entry   * Provide comparison reports based on data Does anyone know of anything pre-made that can do this?


Tracking eCommerce transactions geographically in Google Analytics Universal

I've done a complete overhaul of our site and had to move our eCommerce transaction posting from the typical JavaScript calls of _ga.js_ on our front- end to direct purchase processing on our back-end, for technical reasons. I was able to accomplish this using their shiny new Measurement Protocol. This seems to be functioning correctly, but I noticed that there seem to be no parameters available for keeping track of city/state/country. Upon further investigation, I found that even the new _analytics.js_ appears to be phasing out this geographic functionality, as the new analytics.js Ecommerce transaction calls no longer contain parameters for city/state/country. This is problematic, because we use the _Audience -> Geo -> Location_ eCommerce conversions quite a bit to track our progress internationally. Everything right now is just defaulting to the U.S. Has anyone had experience with the new Universal upgrade in this regard? I haven't found any documentation that indicates that this functionality is being phased out, short of the subtle hint that it's no longer in the JavaScript calls. They may have moved to a different location and I may just have missed it.


Feasible to use Parse as web app PaaS?

Parse (recently purchased by Facebook) is marketed as a BaaS, but the tech stack seems similar to a PaaS such as Heroku, and they tout their Javascript SDK for web apps. Unlike Heroku, Parse has a very big free tier and it also manages the integrated MongoDB (whereas Heroku offers paid managed MongoDB add-ons from MongoLabs and MongoHQ). Don't those two cost savings make Parse an attractive candidate for use as a PaaS for a web app? Or am I missing some important technical distinction between the two? It seems that the distinction between BaaS and PaaS is more marketing related than technology related.


Parked Domains instead of 301

I have a number of domains that were 301 redirects to certain area's or the domain (example pizzaparis.com would redirect to the paris page on the site) and for some reason or another lost their redirects. This caused them to fall back as parked domains causing them to duplicate the site. These have now been trawled by Google and due to a footer link for our sister site it has tens of thousands of incoming backlinks from the duplicate content between the domains. This has caused the sister site (and main site) to drop considerably in the rankings. We were advised to redirect these domains away to an unrelated page. On a few I setup proper redirects like below as I don't think this suggestion was correct. This is how I think the domains should be setup:               main.com --> www.main.com     dupe1.com --> www.main.com     www.dupe1.com --> www.main.com     dupe1.com/page1 --> www.main.com/page1     www.dupe1.com/page1 --> www.main.com/page1     localdupe.com -> www.main.com/localpage      He had advised we create a landing page on one of the duplicate domains and redirect like this:               dupe1.com --> landingpage.com     dupe2.com --> landingpage.com     dupe1.com/page1 -> landingpage.com     dupe2.com/page2 -> landingpage.com     localdupe.com -> landingpage.com      I think he has suggested this to quickly remove the incoming links which is fine if it will work. **Please advise in which is correct? I've setup most of them to redirect to the landing page as advised but I like would like a second opinion.** It has been 2 weeks now and there has been no improvement in or drop in incoming links reported by webmastertools for the sister site. Searching on google site:dupe1.com is still showing all the duplicated content and the cached is still showing the older footer link. **Any idea on when google would go through and update? is there any way we can speed this up?**


Redirecting different domains to your main site

My main domain is `domain.com` (for example), but i want to buy: > domain-dragon.com   >  domain-killer.com and on and on and redirect (301) to my main domain - `domain.com`, is this considered as a violation of SEO rules. Is it bad for business?


Google custom search code does not return the result of google.com

I have generated a code from Google custom search . I want to fetch the results for a keyword exactly same as the results on `www.google.com` So I put `www.google.com` in sites to search textfield and english is the language and then create the code. But when I am using this code and fetching results on my websites these results are different from `google.com`.


CMS or web-framework? - When to use which?

When should I use a Content Management System, and when should I use a web- framework?


Portfolio Website

What is the best approach to make a portfolio website for an artist? Any of these methods?   1. Using a template and customising? (Problem: most templates are product driven)   2. Use a CMS -> which one would be useful for a portfolio?


New kind of ads is sliding on the right side of screen on each and every site

Some kind of ads is showing on stackexchange.com also.. Which company is providing is it google. or is it affecting me only... http://i.stack.imgur.com/0o3nE.png


Printing Single Quotes from Database to Screen

I have the following string as a varchar field in a MySQL Database: > I'm When I perform a query to extract the string and then print it to the screen using the PHP print command, I get: > I�m What could be causing this? I've tried commands like str_replace, htmlspecialchars, and addslashes to no avail. How should I store/print this string?


Google Webmaster Tools doesn't show any indexed pages after redirection

I have a website that was properly configured in Google Webmaster Tools and indexed in Google. Then I created a redirection from this website to my new website so that any request to: `www.mysite.fr` goes to: `www.mysite.com` I have added the new site to Google Webmaster Tools, but so far the number of indexed pages is zero. If I check the stats of my old website, it seems they were updated with the data of the new website (sitemap and indexed pages). This is very confusing, can someone explain what's going on? Is this expected behavior after a `301` redirect?


When I'm delivering a page with the XHTML mime type, should I use XML DOM or HTML DOM?

I prefer using the XHTML mime type for pages, instead of HTML, and serve a different mime type to IE, but when I do this, should I use XML DOM or HTML DOM?


Why does Firefox suggest I have mistyped my domain?

If I type my own domain into the Firefox address bar it will suggest that I may have mistyped it and offer to "protect me" by redirecting to a large commercial website which is the same as my own domain but with one vowel removed. If I check the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page there is "nothing suspicious" about my domain. I do not get the big red "malware" page, only a suggestion that I have mistyped something. What criteria is Firefox using to make this recommendation?


How can I disallow access to my website by its IP address?

I want my website to be accessible only by the domain name, not by the server’s IP address. How can I configure Apache to achieve this? Below are the VirtualHost configurations of Apache.               <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName not.configured       DocumentRoot /var/www     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost my.server.ip.address>         DocumentRoot /home/user/public_html         ServerName www.example.com         ServerAlias example.com         ErrorLog logs/example.com-error_log     </VirtualHost>


Need to setup and access web disk for a hosting account

I am on linux(ubuntu 12.04) and have purchased a hosting space. In the cpanel, I selected `nautilus` for accessing web-disk and I was given a note: > Note: In order for the Web Disk to work, you will need to allow port 2078 > (SSL) or 2077 (non-SSL) on your computer's firewall. As, I am unable to connect to this, i.e. on entering the given url in Nautilus address bar, it says 'Connection closed'. So, I believe the above this quoted is not correctly configured. Please let me know, how to configure this? How to allow the given port access?


Is a security seal or EV SLL more important?

Does anybody know of a survey or study that compares site visitor attitudes/perceptions to security between an EV SSL cert and a security seal? The EV SSL cert will show up green in the URL (like a bank) and the security seal is usually in the footer and says something like "secured by" or "hacker proof" or "website protection" I'm looking for evidence that if you could only chose one, which would it be?