301 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS - how to be sure Google is fetching the correct information?

I'm hoping somebody might be able to provide a bit of advice on an issue I am having. I have one site where we implemented a 301 redirect on the homepage from HTTP to HTTPS. We have links on the homepage to other parts of the site that are not under SSL (in fact there is only one other page under SSL). When I go to our Webmaster Tools account I notice that we are not being provided with any webmaster information (e.g., search queries, backlinks, etc...) related to our homepage under SSL. I performed a Fetch as Google on the homepage and the information it returned is:               HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently     Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 17:26:24 GMT     Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)     Location: https://mysite.com/     Vary: Accept-Encoding     Content-Encoding: gzip     Content-Length: 242     Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100     Connection: Keep-Alive     Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1          <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">          <title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
Moved Permanently

The document has moved here.

     <address>Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Server at mysite.com</address>           I am worried by the fact that Google fetch is not getting the correct Title tags and Meta information from our homepage and that this is hurting our search results. Additionally, I am worried that we need to do something specific with the sitemap to ensure that Google is correctly indexing all our pages and being able to flow from the HTTPS to the HTTP without issues. Does anybody have any advice on how we can correctly set this up or be sure that Google is fetching the correct information? * * * When I do the google fetch on the https, the correct results are shown. Some additional information here: We switched to the SSL in July but have not seen any change in our search rankings despite efforts increasing backlinks and out put of content. 1) When we view a list of external backlinks to our homepage, it appears that the backlinks that have been built after we switched to the SSL homepage have been separated from the backlinks built before the SSL. Even on Open Site, we are only seeing the backlinks that were achieved before we switched to the SSL on the homepage. This leads up to believe that the new links are not adding any value to our search rankings. 2) When viewing Google Webmaster for http, we are receiving no information about our homepage, only all the non-https pages. I added a https account to Google Webmaster and in that version we ONLY receive the information about our homepage (and the other ssl page on the site) My concern is that we need to do something specific with our sitemap or with the 301 redirect itself in order for Google to read the whole site as one entity and receive the reporting/backlinks as one site. Any thoughts?


Nofollow on links to Google pages

I have a site that includes a fair amount of location (street address) data, and I generate a lot of links to Google Maps using that data. What's the usual practice for `nofollow` in this situation? Apply or no? This page and others I've found seem to say that `nofollow` should be used for links to content I'm not sure I can vouch for. I'm fine with endorsing Google Maps, and this page suggests that nofollowing Google isn't wise (partly in jest).


Google Analytics of Blogger site (with Content Warning)

I have applied the following Google services to my Blogger site (with Content Warning enabled):   * Google Analytics   * Google AdSense However, I cannot obtain 2 sets of web statistics data from Blogger's Statistics tab, Analytics, and AdSense. Google Analytics receive "Access Denied" warning in In-Page Analysis too. Example:   * Blogger's Statistics tab shows 88 visits per day   * Google Analytics show 0 visit per day (Note 1)   * Google AdSense show 0 visit per day (Note 1) All are Google's service, but why am I receiving different data? Also, AdSense is not gaining money but the ads are showing up in my blog. **Note 1:** I have set up URL Channel in AdSense & Analytics, but no data is shown. p.s. Google Analytics status is "Receiving Data", and it does record visits on the first day when the blog is using traditional layout. Blogger site is now using "Dynamic layout".


Why am I getting this message "Some important page is blocked by robots.txt"?

My site's URL is: www.hackinguniverse.org From some day in Google Webmaster tool a message is showing that says "Some important page is blocked by robots.txt". My robots.txt is:               User-agent: Mediapartners-Google     Disallow:          User-agent: *     Disallow: /search     Allow: /          Sitemap: http://www.hackinguniverse.org/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated      Now for other information - I hosted this website on blogger. I have some other sitemaps too where I had only included "/Search" in Disallow like in this robots.txt file. But those sites are ok. I mean no message is showing on those. So why am I getting that message telling that I have blocked some important page via robot.txt?


How UTF-8 represents more than 256 characters and when to use UTF-16?

We all know what character encoding is. Like the simple ASCII 7 bit used for normal 128 characters representing and `UTF-8` for representing 256 characters. I have 2 questions:   1. Some people saying `UTF-8` can represent more than 256 characters. How this is possible?   2. When to use `UTF-16`? Like which condition e.g. if we have to use japanese or some other language?


Proper usage of <title>, <header>, <h1> and <h2> in a HTML5 website?

I have been studying this subject for several days and have found many conflicting suggestions with regards to search indexing. I am working on a project which has a lot of different pages ranging from simple product descriptions to in-depth user documentation. I have broken this question down into sections since I feel that this will make it more useful for future readers of this question. ## Some of my findings Several websites seem to have assumed document outlines like the following:               1. Programmer's Guide  (https://www.dartlang.org/docs/)         1. Getting Started         2. Concepts             1. Libraries             2. Fundamental classes             etc.      I find it interesting that the above example does not utilise the `<nav>` element with a suitable heading. I like the simplicity of the outline and being Google I am fairly certain that they know what they are doing when it comes to this. But I am confused since the above outline makes no mention of "Dart". The only mention of "Dart" in the semantic sense seems to be within the main document `<title>` element "Programmer's Guide | Dart: Structured web apps". The MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) is another brilliant example of a website which follows this principal. Many of the `<h1>` titles provide full context (Sections and Outlines of an HTML5 Document):               1. Sections and Outlines of an HTML5 Document         1. Untitled Section (nav)         2. Untitled Section (nav)         3. Structure of a Document in HTML 4         4. Problems Solved by HTML5      Whilst others do not make much sense out of context (Obsolete practices to avoid). For example, does the following HTML5 outline relate to CSS, HTML5 or C#... with just the document outline to go by, who knows!               1. Obsolete practices to avoid         1. Untitled Section (nav)         2. Untitled Section (nav)         3. Doctype         4. <meta> element and charset attribute      To make matters worst, what if the MDN contained 2 topics with the same (or very similar) title "Obsolete practices to avoid" where one is part of their CSS guide and the other is part of their HTML guide... On the other end of the spectrum websites seem to use the main `<body>`-level heading for the product name (Foo) or the topic container (User Guide for Foo). Where all subsequent pages then use `<h2>` for the actual page title. ## The question How do search engines infer the context of a webpage like those found on the MDN website using the DOM and the HTML5 outline? What is the right way to markup the following HTML5 page so that Google can index the page in the suitable context? This includes usage of `<title>`, `<header>` and `<h1>` elements.   * Company Name   * Product Name   * User Guide   * Getting Started The most significant heading in the HTML which gets viewed in a web browser, should this represent the context of the entire website (Company Name or Product Name), the collection of topics (User Guide) or the actual topic in hand (Getting Started)? ## My best guess               <!DOCTYPE html>                   <title>Getting Started | User Guide | Product Name - Company Name</title>                                 Company Name
Site Navigation

 ...

Product Name

User Guide

Getting Started

blah
                         Leading to the outline:               1. Getting Started


Earn through personal blog site

I have launched my blog site and I am able to attract 40-60 user per day, it is almost 2 months my blog is on internet. Is there any way I can start earning from my blog, as I went for some advertising company[via googling] and they said that I should have min 1000 user per day to visit my website. I am searching for a way to get earn everytime user visit to my site, or via pop up commercial or anything else, in which I can simply start earning. Thanks in advance. P.S.: I have constructed my own site in asp.net.


How Can I Secure A VPS Installation?

What are the basic steps to securing a VPS installation that I plan to install Webmin on to host my blogs and personal projects?


Google Indexing Pages with noindex meta tag

I got a message in Google Webmaster Tools about "Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on your site" with a long list of example URLs. For some of the pages listed, there was nothing to prevent them being indexed. However, for some of the URLs, I have `"noindex, nofollow"` meta tags as follows:               <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex, follow" />     <meta name="bingbot" content="noindex, follow" />     <meta name="msnbot" content="noindex, follow" />     <meta name="slurp" content="noindex, follow" />     <meta name="teoma" content="noindex, follow" />      I have read that Google will sometimes index pages that you block in robots.txt if they find another link that points to the page, but supposedly they respect meta tags?


Why is Google putting new content straight into its Supplemental Index?

We have had problems with our web pages being put into Google's Supplemental Index. We have recently corrected what we believe were all the problems that might have caused this. However, Google still seems to be taking new content and putting it straight into its Supplemental Pages index. Have we incurred some sort of Supplemental Penalty and everything we now generate will more likely go into the Supplemental Index or is it likely something is still wrong with our website? We only put the new content up 2 days ago and it is already in the Supplemental Index! Any help is much appreciated!


How do people create website where they have a screen shot inside a phone image?

I am trying to work on my website, which is for a mobile application. While I can put an image of my app screenshot on my website, what I am not sure how to do is to create a shiny device image like most websites which promote apps. For example, `path.com` is a popular app. On their website, on the right side, is an image of a device and inside the device is a screen shot. How could I make that?


Facebook likes: fan page vs URL

So I've recently added a jQuery popup that asks my regular visitors to like me on Facebook. At first I added the ability to like the URL **and** the fan page. I got 2 fan page likes and about 10 URL likes in an hour. I understand that fan pages likes are the most important, and so I removed the possibility to like the URL. However it is not the first time that I notice my visitors not being interested in being fans but still liking content. What should I do about it? Prevent people from liking the URL hoping that more will like the page? Or let people like the URL as well hoping that it will generate more activity on Facebook and potentially bring new visitors?


Webmaster tools showing 404 for non existent folder pages

Google webmaster tools is reporting some/many 404 urls that don't exist on my site. The links are things such as domain.com/xyz/ However that doesn't exist, but domain.com/xyz/index.html does exist. The "linked from" pages all show proper links to the "/xyz/index.html". The page without index.html DOES 404, but why is google even trying these urls if they are not linked to? My real question, is there a way to have google stop attempting to load these pages, and ultimately remove these from the crawl errors report. Thanks.


Over 400 old 404 errors, safe to remove?

I have over 400 old 404 errors showing up in Google web-masters tools, the date on them is from before I uploaded the new sitemap and I wondered 2 things:   1. Why are they still showing up   2. Can i remove them using the mark as fixed option? TIA. Stephen


Buy internet country domain name: .fr .co.uk .de .com.au .sg etc

I already bought a domain name .com on godaddy for my company. I would like to reserve the same name with country specific domain extention, but not sure where to buy them and how to do it. Here are the ones that I would like to buy: Europe: fr, co.uk, de, ch, es, it, nl, se, no, ru australia: com.au asia: sg Godaddy has all except 1 in europe, australia and singapore. Should I find a website that sell all of them or should I buy some of them in godaddy and others elsewhere? Any suggestions where to buy them? Until now i've always buy .com domain names only so not sure how to do it. Thanks


Etags are not appearing on PHP pages

My hosting provider (goDaddy) seems to be adding eTags to my files. However I've noticed that they are not appearing on .PHP file (they are on .HTM, .CSS, .JS and images). Is this normal? From my reading up on etags there doesnt seem to be much you can do to configure them. Or is there something I can add to .htaccess to get etags on all files?


fake returning visitor

I have a Live Support app installed on my website and I see a visitor every day, all day long for the last 3 months. This visitor has 3 or more IP addresses, but doesn't change them too often. It seems his (or her) browser supports Flash, and definietly supports JavaScript, because that's required for the Live Support app to collect data. Any idea what it might be, why would someone do such thing? I tried to invite the visitor for chat, but my request was ignored. I also blocked two of his addresses, but he reappeared with a third one. He never visits any other page, just the one he landed on, usually our homepage.


Is it normal to have some huge anomolies in Google Analytics site speed tracking?

I've recently started using the new `_trackPageLoadTime` function in Google Analytics to measure page load times. However, I have noticed a few pages appear with a huge "Average Load Time". One page is showing a time of 556.22 seconds! Several other pages show average times of 30+ seconds. Clicking through to the page detail shows that the highest average times are the result of 1 really long load time of 100+ seconds (and most of the top ones only have a "Page Load Sample" of 1 or 2 people). Are these just anomalies where the user lost connection or something? Is there any way to view the data without those anomalies?


What kind of SSL do I have?

I am maintaining a site for someone. He needs to know what type of SSL the site has because that data has to submitted to his bank. I've never been asked such a question. I have cpanel access. But I don't know how to figure out what "type" of ssl is installed. Is there a way to print a report and give that to the bank? I thank you in advance for your assistance.


Keep visitors out of server directories and redirect

The web application I use (Zenphoto) stores images in /albums and subfolders. It's backend needs r/w-access to those folders and I need r/w-access to the folders via ftp, but the frontend never looks into /albums. Now I want to keep visitors from directly accessing /albums and all subalbums I did a lot of research and found that a .htaccess in /albums with `deny from all` would accomplish that. However, I would prefer a redirection to my 404 page. What I made from a similar use case is I could do that in my root's htaccess. I added `RewriteRule ^albums/.* /404 [R,NC]` Because the similar usecase was very different in terms of motivation, my questions are:   1. Is it an appropriate solution?   2. Does it really accomplish what I want or can it be circumvented?


How can I create a dynamic site that is still search-bot friendly?

If I want to have a slide effect between pages. You click a link, it is loaded off to the side and then slides in (pushing the old page off the other side). I can imagine using jQuery to do the PHP and the effects... but **how do I do something like this that gracefully degrades for users without Javascript, including bots?** Possibly more problematic: what if I wanted to have a sort of mural background across the site, perhaps with a parallax scrolling effect, and sliding to other pages reveals more of the, possibly giant image? Again, I can imagine how to do this with lots of fancy jQuery and PHP but it would heavily rely on those. How can I gracefully degrade in a situation like that? Any pointers, articles or books would be greatly appreciated. I keep trying to search for answers but I just get a lot of "theory"-based, unhelpful blogs.


Can I include structured data type to display tax due dates?

I tried to add structured data in my site in order to display due dates of tax deadline in search engine results page. But I don't know which data type to select. Can I include structured data to display tax due dates?


Does HTML encoded content affect SEO of a page?

Let's say the page has an `<h1>` tag with the title:
Page title
      and then in the post content there is an HTML tutorial which has an `<h1>` tag which is encoded:               <h1>Example<h1>      Does this affect SEO? Would Google consider the second one also as an `<h1>` tag and get confused about which is the real or correct `<h1>` heading?


Server Error after trying to update the functions.php

I recently tried to change the logo on Genesis themed WordPress site using this tutorial:               http://anewtab.com/add-logo-genesis-theme      I added               add_theme_support( 'genesis-custom-header', array( 'width' => 960, 'h      To Dashboard->Editor->functions.php as said in the tutorial, and updated the theme. It didn't really work as I hoped so I deleted the same line and updated it, now I get the server error as below and can't access to my site. I get this message when I try to access to my site.               Server error     The website encountered an error while retrieving http://www.vivatveritas.com/wp-admin/. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.     Here are some suggestions:     Reload this webpage later.     HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfill the request.      What should I do?


Stop .htaccess automatically influencing subfolders

In my webhosting package, the primary domain points to the root of my file system and any extra domains that I add point to subfolders. The problem is, the .htaccess for the primary is influencing not just the primary website's files, but also secondary websites in the subfolders. This is causing confusion and is not very desirable. So, is there a way to tell the secondary websites to ignore all .htaccess statements bleeding down from the root? Or do I have to explicitly override each statement in each .htaccess each time I add/change the one in the root? (It is shared hosting so I have limited control, but any answers gratefully accepted as I may be able to use this to hastle the provider).


How do I choose a domain name based on monthly searches for keywords?

Suppose I have 3 domain name phrases:   1. thisisfirst.com (competition is 11% and global monthly search is 151,000,000)   2. thisissecond.com (competition is 5% and global monthly search is 33,50,000)   3. thisisthird.com (competition is 1%, global monthly search is 49,500, local search is 3,600) How can I decide which domain to use?


SEO for Main Navigations

My question is simple... To what extent does your primary navigation [and secondary navigations] have on SEO for your website? My particular case is this: I have "two" primary navigations. One that is served with specific styling for desktop users, and the other which serves styling for mobile users. By separate, I do mean I had two separate chunks of HTML for each. The primary navigation for the desktop was contained within `<nav>` tags, the other primary nav for mobile was just some `<div>`s with an ID That said, I combined these two HTML structure and the styles, the thinking was that I should have only one primary navigation. Now, a few months later I need to re-style the desktop side navigation, and it is proving very difficult as my mobile nav is very complex. My task would be 100 times easier if I could simply move back to having two separate HTML structures ofr the two separate navs. When browsing via mobile, the first set of html is set to display: none; and second set is display: block; Inverse that for browsing from Desktop. So Ultimately... **Is it safe SEO wise to have two "iterations" of my primary navigation, one using`<nav>` and one using `<div id="nav">`?**


How to create .htaccess to block access to a subdirectory that hosts a separate domain

So I am pretty noob at with creating code in .htaccess, but I know it is what I need to accomplish a pretty simple task. So here is what I want to do. I have a main domain, (me.com), and I am hosting files for my mom's website (mom.com) in a subdirectory in my public_html folder so that (mom.com) uses files from (me.com/mom). all I want to do is make it so that anyone trying to access her site through (me.com/mom) gets an error, without disturbing the visitors to (mom.com). Thanks in Advance


How do I decide which domain name will rank better for my keywords?

If I want to target the keyword phrases "make fun", "make fun of", and "how to make fun of", which is the best domain to choose of the following three and why?   * makefun.com   * makefunof.com   * howtomakefunof.com Also, would it be good to purchase all three domain names and, if so, what should I do with them?


SEO: publish article on multiple platforms, or just link?

If I have my own blog and I make posts there, it is better if I go to my social profiles (Google+, Tumblr, Facebook, Pinterest, etc.) and I copy/paste the same content of that post, or it is better if I just put there a link with a small excerpt to tease the user to click on the link to read the full story? Which strategy is better, or maybe there is a third better strategy that I didn't mention here? How can I improve my authorship rank using social media?


Writing mathematical notes in WordPress

I have asked this question in http://tex.stackexchange.com/ but then i got a reply that it is off topic there and webmasters stack exchange site would be useful. This is a continuation from my previous question: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/164670/convert-tex-file-to-html-in- miktex?noredirect=1#comment378543_164670 As I have realized that LaTeX cannot be put directly in WordPress pages, I tried to convert into HTML and use that in WordPress, and I am facing the following problem. I would like to write some mathematical notes on a WordPress site. I am expecting the output to be something like http://crazyproject.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/stabilizer-commutes-with- conjugation-2/ But instead I am getting for the same content output as ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UpScX.png) I do not really understand what is the problem. I think all the mathematical symbols in the Crazy Project link are actually images, whereas mine are just LaTeX code converted into HTML. I am waiting for some better idea to convert my ugly looking statement to change to something like that in Crazy Project notes. Another problem I am facing is: I read that to write something in WordPress with LaTeX, I should just write `$latex {code }$`, but then it is showing the error "formula does not parse" in red colour. What am I supposed to do with this kind of problem? Am I not allowed to just copy the content of LaTeX code I have written before and paste it in WordPress? If I am writing all those just by typing, I am not getting any problem, but if I copy the code then I get the "formula does not parse" error.


Different result on Google search and browser

A site is using one of my clients' registered trademark to get a good rank on Google search. When I search with that keyword I find that site on top of the search result but when I check that page with my browser and read the page source the keyword is not there! Recently we told that website admin to remove it and they told us that they've removed it. I requested support at Google to remove that page from cache but Google told us that **the cached pages could not be removed because the content, "-----------" is still active on the pages.** I need help to start how to find this content on that page.


How can I offer two different packages of a product with two different prices in Magneto?

I wish to offer an item for sale as two different packages. Package 1 will be the product by itself and Package 2 will be the product with a free gift. How do I do this in Magento?


Multiple mini websites on a domain

I need to create about 500 different mini websites on the same domain. So that `www.mydomain.com` displays the general information, and `www.mydomain.com/site1` displays the information for `site1` (as a mini- website) and so on. Each mini-website can have a number of webpages.   Ideally, but not importantly, each mini website would have its own theme. I don't want to install a cms 500 times to achieve this, so I am wondering what other options are available. Could you please suggest? Thanks. Any questions let me know. Please note that search option is an important feature, for example, if I am visiting `www.mydomain.com/site444`, and search for "text" then it should search within `site444` only (maybe to have a radio option to choose between search `site wide` or on `site444` only etc?).


Just really confused about setting up my site on Amazon EC2

So I have a site that is developed in ASP.NET MVC2. I use a local instance of SQL Server 2008 R2 to test with, and that's where all my tables/stored procs/etc. are. Now, I want find a web server for the site and make it available to the public, and still use SQL Server as the back-end so I can just like, copy my settings over and not have to change anything. Someone brought up Amazon EC2 to me. They said I can serve my site there, and have it work exactly the same (run on a Windows Server and use a SQL Server back-end). I have NO IDEA how to go about this. I've read through http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ and it just confuses the hell out of me. I've never done something like this before. All of the different plans confuse me. Do they include data storage? Why do they say something like > 160 GB of local instance storage when talking about one of their Standard Instance plans, but then at the bottom, Data Storage prices are talked about separately? Would I have to change anything about the way my application sends/receives data from SQL Server in order to have it up and running to the public using Amazons service? Also, do I just like...copy all of my code over to Windows Server, set it up in IIS, copy my database into their SQL Server instance, and it's good to go? I'm just really really confused, and I hope someone hear can shed some light on everything for me.


Forwarding a subdomain to main domain using Godaddy

I have current blog, which was hosted on Tumblr at http://blog.ryanhayes.net. I'm moving it over to http://ryanhayes.net, and have all the 301 redirects set up for the blog entries to map to my new blog, which is hosted using Godaddy (domain included). When I try to set up a subdomain forward, I'm greeted with a nice 403 Forbidden response (as of this writing, you can see it at http://blog.ryanhayes.net. When I try to ping both the subdomain and domain, they point to the same IP address, so I know blog subdomain has at least switched over to point to the same content. I don't really understand why I would get a 403 Forbidden on the same content that I can see perfectly fine via another domain. Currently, I have a **CNAME of blog pointing to @** , which is how "www" is set up to forward, so I'm assuming it would do the same thing. My question is what is the proper way to set up my DNS to make the blog subdomain forward to my main domain (301) using the GoDaddy DNS manager? Bonus: What is the background on why I am getting a 403 error the current way? * * * ## Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. ## UPDATE 12/7/2010 Error on site has been fixed, you can no longer view it from my site.


why email needed for comments

Just about every web site comment form I see (other than for web sites requiring registration to comment) asks for name [required], email [required, but will not be displayed] and web site [optional]. It doesn't matter what you put in the email field, so why ask? Just tradition?


How to make sure Facebook knows that you're a publisher, not a brand?

The past couple Facebook EdgeRank updates have penalized blatant advertisers & linkbait publishers like Upworthy, making it more difficult for many brand pages to get organic distribution. And it appears it will soon get even more difficult to achieve organic reach, especially for "brand" pages. How does Facebook determine what pages are owned by brands, and which are owned by publishers of substantive content. Are pages manually reviewed and added to a whitelist? Or is it all algorithmically determined. And is there anything a page manager can do to ensure his/her posts are viewed by Facebook as content and not an ad?


Regarding SEO, is repeating some content in different pages considered as keyword stuffing?

We know that repeating keywords in one page is spam and Google calls it keyword stuffing. But, if we repeat some content in all pages of a website to help users, is it keyword stuffing too? For example we have 200 unique words in each page and about 200 other words to describe how to download and how to buy and what other services you may get from this website and etc. Or if we repeat some keyword in `<title>` of all pages like this:   * `Download PDF: Article one`   * `Download PDF: Article two`   * `Download PDF: Article three`   * etc. Is repeating **`Download PDF : Article`** in titles, spam or keyword stuffing? If not, is it a positive point to get more visitor from Google?


Google indexing titles of login only pages

Google is indexing some pages which require login on our site, but just the title of each page. I am quite baffled as to how this can happen, Has anyone experienced something similar? One thing that comes to my mind is Google Analytics js sending the title of the page to Google, but that doesn't make sense. We are also using some other 3rd party like optimizely, which might be causing this. Any ideas what might be causing Google to index the titles of these pages?


(Google) Title of page not updated, everything else did

My website changed significantly this month. Amongst the changes was the website's title. Two weeks ago, I finally used Webmaster Tools and submitted the page. So far, Yahoo and Bing have updated the title in the search results, but not Google. I've resubmitted via Webmaster Tools the website, and the bots have crawled the page, and have added "content keywords". But the title still doesn't match. The "content keywords" lists many of the words in the new title (but contains keywords of the existing title also). Must say that 4 of the top 5 key words in the "significance" list are the new title's. Still, no change. Any remedies for this problem? Is adding the "alt" tag for the logo significant enough to trigger the change? There isn't an appropriate place to put the company name between tags on the front page. Any suggestions? Thanks.


WordPress keeps redirecting my users to install.php, Is it caused by an injection hack?

I don't really know how to express my problem, so bear with me. This is a bit hard to explain. I have a Wordpress installation, the latest, and often (once a day) my site redirects users to the `/wp-admin/install.php` file. Asking for my login credentials of course. I have tried reinstalling WordPress and still have not been able to figure what they are doing. That happens regularly. Also, a few hours later, I am able to see my site normally. Hope this makes sense. I suspect there myst be some database DoS that allows them to inject a redirect of some sort into my admin area, thus redirecting the user to said directory (`install.php`). But that's just me. I really have no clue what else could they be doing. I looked at the source code from several php files and noted some of them don't include a ?> tag. Could that be an issue? My hosting company is iPage, I've contacted them and they say there's nothing wrong with my files. Anyone have a clue? I can paste the code to any source file.


Tracking across synced devices

How is a visit treated in Google Analytics when you move across synced devices? As a new visit or is the cookie shared, keeping the session alive? For example, Chrome's tab syncing feature or iCloud Tabs ...


Lock all usernames from imported XML dump

I’m forking a wiki, therefore I have imported an XML dump in a fresh MediaWiki installation. This dump also contains revisions and user pages (in the `User:` namespace), which I want to keep. So there are many links that lead to (existent as well as non-existent) user pages. However, as I don’t have access to the user database of the original wiki, I have no chance to reserve these usernames for their original owners. So to prevent that someone registers in my wiki with a username that was used in the original wiki (so this new user would automatically own all revisions done by the old user with the same name), I want to **lock all previously used usernames**. How could I do this? As there are more than hundred users, I don’t want to solve this manually.


Why does navigating to http:// then redirect to https:// give mixed content warning?

If I directly navigate to `https://scotthelme.co.uk` I get a green TLS indicator in the address bar. If I navigate to `http://scotthelme.com` which issues a 301 to `https://scotthelme.co.uk` I get a mixed content warning. The console in Chrome dev tools can't seem to tell me what the content loaded over http:// is, how do I find / what is the cause of the mixed content warning?


Should I Choose Hosting Location From Traffic Source Location?

I am running my blog site on godaddy shared hosting, at US. But my site's top visitors percentage are as follows: India - 25% USA - 15% UK - 4% Now as major are from india, should I choose a hosting/server located near it, like singapore or so? Will that be of any benefit, such as by improving the loading experience for major visitors? Is there any other factors that I should consider for server location? Thanks in advance.


Is it possible to purchase a dedicated IP without hosting?

I require a static IP address for the sole purpose of fowarding to an existing domain. Is this possible? Does such a service exist? I am not interested in dedicated IP addons to hosting or any hosting at all.


How to check all installed in Magento extensions?

Where can I check all the installed Magento extensions in the admin panel?


Which image sharing websites supports file uploading dynamically via api

I have been searching for image hosting website that displays images of a user in a nice and managed way. I want to upload the files to that image hosting website in my account of that website from a page in my website. i.e if i have a website `abc.com` then user browse my website `abc.com`. Uploads the file to my website. Now I want to transfer the uploaded file to the image hosting website so that it can be viewed by other users of that hosting website and get better visibility to world


Ideas for making money off a website

I'm considering acquiring a website that traffics close to 20k a month. It's currently unprofitable, but obviously I would need to change that to justify the cost. It's a support site for a framework similar to CakePHP. A resource that allows people to find plugins for that site. How would you go about expanding this site so that it would be broad enough to raise traffic and how would you make money off of it? Some ideas I've had: 1- BuySellAds.com seem to make ads classy and relevant 2- Team up with other sites in some way (What ways? ... Ecommerce sites that sell plugins (like CodeCanyon), etc) 3- Write tutorials and such to drive more traffic (time consuming, and already heavily saturated for this framework). Are there resources out there that help webmasters in ways like this?


The danger of changing the domain of your portfolio

So I have a online portfolio that is available at mervin-ux-portfolio.com but I am planning to change hosts since the current host I am hosting it with is hitting me with a very high yearly renewal rate. When I was inquiring about domain transfers ,,they told me that since I had not initiated the domain transfer within 14 days of the expiry of the domain ,they cannot do it immediately and it would take about two weeks to to release the domain name. Since I dont like the idea of my site being down for like 2 weeks ,I was wondering if I should start afresh with a new domain on a new host and what were the potential dangers of that ( I have the entire site backup,so creating a replica of the site on the new host wont be hard) I also wont be losing any business or work since I work full time currently but I was just wondering about the challenges in terms of getting my domain name back to the top of search results and basically getting it out there assuming I go the new domain name approach. I know this is strictly not an UX question but I was hoping people could give some suggestions on what I should do


Folder as parameter in PHP

I want to create a script that pass every folder requested in a website as a parameter. For example, if someone requests:               www.example.com/foo      ...that will be redirected to the main index.php and passed as a parameter, getting the same result when requesting `www.example.com/index.php?foo` Please note that the folder requested will be random so i can't predict the folder and put a php script there. Should i handle all the 404 requests through HTACCESS? **Or there's a fancier solution?**


Some Facebook Pages Show Tabs On The Top Of Page, And Others On The Left. Why?

I am developing a Facebook page for my web design/development business, and I've noticed that the page I have created has the tabs aligned to the left hand side of the page underneath the page image. I then look at other pages such as Wetherspoons and Porsche and their tabs are aligned to the top of the page. Why is it like this? Is there a configuration I've missed that allows you to change the layout of the tabs? Cheers!


How can I call a URL as a cron job in Webmin?

(Possibly this belongs on stackoverflow, although it's not really a programming issue since the code works when run directly. If it needs to be moved, though, no problem.) I have a PHP file (which consumers a National Weather Service web service via SOAP, if it matters) that I need to run on a scheduled basis. I'm trying to set up a cron job in Webmin. If I use an absolute path to the file in the Command field, when I run it I get some strange errors:               /var/www/html/mysite.com/test/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory     /var/www/html/mysite.com/test/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 2: //: is a directory     /var/www/html/mysite.com/test/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 3: //DOCUMENTATION: No such file or directory     /var/www/html/mysite.com/test/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 4: //: is a directory     /var/www/html/mysite.com/test/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `"running client code",'     /var/www/html/mysite.com/test/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 5: `error_log("running client code", 1, "myemail@gmail.com");'      The actual code in my file for those 5 lines looks like this:               <?php     //  ***************************************************************************     //DOCUMENTATION FROM WEATHER.GOV ALL STORED IN xmlClientComments.txt     //  ***************************************************************************     error_log("running client code", 1, "myemail@gmail.com");      The code runs perfectly fine when I run it directly in my browser, so why doesn't webmin recognize it as code? (The same thing happens if I enter the actual URL in the command field - http://mysite.com/test/ndfdXMLclient.php.) I've never worked with webmin before; most of our hosts' cron control panels allow cron jobs to run PHP files like this with no issue. Is there some trick to getting webmin to read php as actual php?


A domain that redirects to my site is ranked higher

I have recently migrated my hosting provider and realised that when I did I had a lot of domains that didn't point anywhere or weren't in use. During the migration I just decided to 301 them all towards my blog rather than just have them being unused. As it turns out, over the course of the last 3 days one of these domains is now more highly ranked than my blog and I'm not sure what's happening. If you Google my name I want my blog to appear as high up as possible: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=scott+helme. My blog is the 2nd result (for me) and should be `scotthelme.co.uk` and not `eve-bay.co.uk` which is showing as if it were my blog. What has happened here? I wouldn't think a 301 would cause this behaviour and what remedy would you suggest?


New website, plans to go large. How do you protect yourself?

I'm planning to create a new site that (in hopes) will make it to a decent state of popularity and use. I have made sites before, but they weren't serious, with any intended purpose other than personal and friend use. I've never been able to find a solid post on good steps to protecting yourself, and your site/idea before you start. This site will always be free, and will not be bringing it any revenue by ads or whatnot, but I plan to in the future and would want to make I'm in the clear legally for one. Do you need to copyright anything? Or anything of the same concept as copyright? Do I make an LLC to operate it under? Apologies for this extremely poorly written question, basically I want to be both legal, and I want to make sure nobody can just rip my idea or name(s). (I'm sure this will be more concise as questions here are asked) Thanks


Adsense Ads Not Showing Up

My Adsense Ads aren't showing up. I have embedded the HTML into my website and placed it accordingly, but nothing shows up on the page. It has been like this for two days now. Would this have something to do with my website creator?


Browser window size statistics?

I was wondering, are there any statistics available on what size users have their browser set to nowadays? I know the screen resolutions (we have analytics, which shows those as well) but I doubt a lot of people with 1280*xxx and higher still browse full-screen though. My boss is determined to keep our website 900px wide though, because that way people with 1800*xxx resolutions can have two browser windows next to eachother without having to scroll horizontally. I have never seen anyone browse with two adjacent browser windows like that except here at my current job, so I'm kind of doubting whether this is the best decision or just his personal preference. Anyone that can help out here?


Apache 2.4.2 on Windows reveals hidden files in web browser

Even though I have code to block access to hidden files in _httpd.conf_ , the contents of a file such as _.htaccess_ is visible in web browsers. The same effect is present when running the server on Windows 7 and Windows XP SP3. The following _httpd.conf_ code does not seem to be effective:               #     # The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being      # viewed by Web clients.      #     <Files "^\.ht*">         Order allow,deny         Deny from all         Satisfy All     </Files>      Please tell me how to make files invisble to web browsers on a Windows machine that is running the Apache 2 web server.


Background noise generator

I want to make a noise background. Do you have any recommendation for texture generators? I want to input color, noise density and the tile size and get a png image. This is an example of such generator, but I want to try others: http://www.noisetexturegenerator.com


How to add button on each MediaWiki article?

I would like a button to appear on each article on my MediaWiki site, to make it easy to flag articles that should be reviewed. When the button is clicked it should add the category "review", and if the category is already there, it should remove the category from the article. **Question** Is this possible first of all? And if, does anyone know of code that is close to this, that I can modify?


Using Google Maps as an input method

I'm wondering if it's possible to use gmaps pretty much as a type of input. Normally for location a user has to enter:   * street address   * town/city   * state/province   * postal code   * country This seems too clunky to me, does anyone here know of a more elegant process? My perfect address-entering interface is a gmaps search bar with a map under it. When the user clicks a marker instead of a speech bubble containing location information they get one containing a submit button or equivalent. I'm not sure anything like this has been implemented before.


With Google DFP (Small Business) is it possible to disable AdSense in an Ad Slot on a per-request basis?

**Setup** : I run a network of websites that target different hobby niches and have a section dedicated to community classifieds. I serve advertising on these sites through Google DFP for Small Business with AdSense enabled on the slots. **Problem** : One of the next sites in my network will be targeting the firearms/shooting industry and as such the classifieds section will not comply with the prohibited content guidelines of AdSense regarding the sale (or coordination of sale) of weapons. I work very hard to comply with the guidelines of my partners even if I don't understand/agree with them and after talking with many people have decided that the best option is to disable AdSense serving on that section of that website, while leaving it on for the rest of the network. **Solution** : Right now my only idea for this is to duplicate all my site's ad slots and tack a "_sensitive" onto the end of each one (eg. header and header_sensitive) conditionally registering ad slots based on whether or not I am in the sensitive section of the sensitive site. My hope however is that there may be a way to accomplish this without duplicating all my ad slots possibly with some sort of options to the GA_googleFillSlot() call that allows me to say "load ads from this slot but do not serve AdSense no matter what."


Spammers or Spam bots clicking Adwords ads?

One of my sites has a very high bounce rate from Google Adwords, especially over the last couple of days. Of course, it could just be that people are not finding the site relevant. But I'm wondering if it could be spambots or something like this. Can spambots click Google Adwords ads? Or do human spammers tend to click Adwords ads to find places to spam?


Google Analytics reverse transaction not working with sales performance

We have Google Analytics account and trying to do reverse transaction. We have created a transaction on one date and reverse transaction on some other date. After transaction if we do reverse transaction it disappears from transactions list. Is it the expected behavior or abnormal behavior? But, if we check the same order data in sales performance, the reverse transaction does not reflects on when we created the transaction, it reflecting on when we made reverse transaction date. It should not be like this. The reverse transaction should affect the same date on when we made the transaction.


Need advices for development methodology and team members

I need to improve the performance of the development process and the quality of the websites our real estate project. There is a main national website and other secondary websites for local areas. Right now the team is made by three PHP developers. No designer, no seo, nobody else. We did not use any methodology, we have meetings with the boss 2-3 times per week, write down next tasks, and execute them. Very soon two of the developers are quitting because they recieved a more interesting offer somewhere else. So I'll be alone, a lonely developer and the other members of the company boss, accountant, secretary, so on. I want to try this time to advice my boss to hire the right people and to allow us (the team) to organize our work the most professional way we can achieve it. So I'm asking here for help, advice, recommendations on: - What people should we hire? - Who shall organize the work? (boss is no geek but he likes to control it all) - I'm a developer with enough experience but I'm not an expert, shall I look for a project manager with better skills than mine? shall I try to find some experienced guy and ask him to assist me in this process? I am just worrying for the company and the project, I want it to have better human resources. I sometimes feel bad for not being a smarter person and with more courage to lead the project on the right path. Thank you, waiting for your comments :) Alexandru.


How can I see in Google Analytics where my users came from?

I am using Google Analitics and struggling to find where my users came from. I can see demographics (country / city) information, but struggling to find what site have they came from. I found this answer: > From your dashboard on the left side click > >   * Traffic Source >   * Sources >   * All Traffic > But can not see this on my left side. It has   * Dashboards   * Shortcuts   * Intelligence Events   * Real-Time   * Audience   * Acquisition   * Behavior   * Conversions Can someone help me?


Is it advisable for SEO to use dynamic pages when static pages can be used?

I am creating a website with around 5 static pages of content and 2-3 dynamic pages for products. The page names for these are `product1.asp`, `product2.asp`, and `product3.asp`. The pages would retrieve the product name from the database (approximately 30 to 40 products). **There would not be too many changes in the content for the products, but the purpose for dynamic pages are to give the user the rights to change the product details.** Is it advisable to use dynamic pages when static pages can be used? In case if dynamic pages are kept, what needs to be done for SEO? (Approximately 40 product names are to be displayed)


Will google get upset if I have incomplete pagination links?

For technical reasons (this would be really hard to do given the software that I'm using), I am only able to generate `rel=prev` links and not `rel=next` links (those links tell google what page they are on). Would that upset or confuse google (or other search engines) in any way, or would they be able to deal with it?


Understanding the maximum hit-rate supported by a web-server

I would like to crawl a publicly available site (and one that's legal to crawl) for a personal project. From a brief trial of the crawler, I gathered that my program hits the server with a new HTTPRequest 8 times in a second. At this rate, as per my estimate, to obtain the full set of data I need about 60 full days of crawling. While the site is legal to crawl, I understand it can still be unethical to crawl at a rate that causes inconvenience to the regular traffic on the site. What I'd like to understand here is -- how high is 8 hits per second to the server I'm crawling? Could I possibly do 4 times that (by running 4 instances of my crawler in parallel) to bring the total effort down to just 15 days instead of 60? How do you find the maximum hit-rate a web-server supports? What would be the theoretical (and ethical) upper-limit for the crawl-rate so as to not adversely affect the server's routine traffic?


Separate "Editor" domain for single Plone Site

We currently run our Plone site across two servers, one (our DB server) that hosts the Data.fs & blobstorage and only runs the Zeoserver, and another (our App server) that runs four clients which are pointed to the DB server. We are looking to move to 2 App servers. Our goal is to have all users browse our site using App1, and then anytime a content manager needs to modify their content they will be directed to App2. This way all content management activity is on a separate server from user's and will not affect speed for them during our peak hours. Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to approach this or if there is a better strategy for Plone site to keep the management stress from bogging down the user speed? We are using Windows Server 2008 running IIS 7 with Isapi Rewrite 3 to set the domain/rewrite rules, do SSO with Active Directory, and so on. Then our Plone servers are running on Linux boxes on RedHat running the configuration described above. We are setting up a 2nd URL through DNS for the 2nd App server as well (something like edit.example.com) We would like to make it as easy on the content managers as possible. So our idea is, everyone goes to our site (example.com), then if they choose Edit, Check-out, Workflow, etc... it points that activity to the 2nd App server (edit.example.com). This way the managers don't have to keep up with 2 URLs, and when they are just browsing the site and not editing, they will be using the first server so it will be faster. We have something like 200+ content managers, and thousands of users, and the content managers are users for 90% of the site and only manage 10% of the site each....hope that made sense. Sorry for the long question, this is my first question here and I wanted to provide as much information as possible. Let me know if I can provide any additional information. Your time and help is much appreciated!


Two websites at the same host but on different accounts to use the same database

I have 2 websites and would like to use the same database for both sites. The MySQL database contains just a simple guestbook. The websites are one seperate hosting accounts, but with the same host. I'm looking to link the two sites to the database. Does anyone know if or how this is possible?


Fonts: Is changing the default font a good practice?

I've searched PW, but I saw that no one has asked specifically yet. Is changing the default font a good practice for the main body font? What are the pros and cons to using different fonts? This includes only font families, and excludes size, color, decoration, etc.


Is paypal's IPN reliable enough?

I am creating my first ever major plugin for Wordpress and I intend to share it to the community. It integrates paypal's subscription button which is very useful for people who wishe to build a membership site using Wordpress. Question: Is IPN reliable enough that there's no need to control the subscription thru cron myself? I have not tested my plugin for a span of a month or so though because doing so would eat a lot of my time.


Creating User Generated Subdomains

The company I work for is close to being finished with our first web app and we recently made the decision to offer hosting for our smaller customers. (We provide software to lending companies and our larger customers are required to buy redundant servers to host their application). What we are trying to work out right now is how to create user generated subdomains that will hold a new instance of the software. So a user will be able to sign up and say that the company name is XYZ Credit once they click on the create account button a url of xyzcredit.ourcompanyname.com is created and the user is redirected to it. The servers that we want to use are running CentOS 5.5 and Virtualmin 3.83. Thank you for your help, Nick


Where can I buy .ar domain names?

I am having trouble finding a registrar that allows the purchase of one-off .ar domains.


Somebody registered a global top level domain and pointed it to my site, should I be concerned?

A friend runs a website with a name like "BlackAndBlueToday.com" (not real name). Recently, she received an email that read like this: "We recently registered the domain name BlackAndBlue.Today then realized you already had BlackAndBlueToday.com. So, we have set up BlackAndBlue.Today to point to your site if that is acceptable to you." And they have, in fact. This looks like a danger to me, as if BlackAndBlue.Today were to become the principle domain name by which the site is found, these people could perhaps hold my friend's site hostage. My questions are:   1. Is the danger real or just perceived on my part, and   2. Is there a process for dealing with this kind of situation?


Is (was) SEO the only reason to force the www. on domain names?

Following on from a response to the question Force www. on multi domain site and retain http or https - I was wondering if SEO (specifically, avoiding duplicate content penalties) was the only reason for forcing the www. (or vice versa, if you prefer). Are there any other reasons why an authoritative domain name/convention would be desirable?


Email not sending to/from all Microsoft domains after adding dedicated IP and SSL (Hotmail, Outlook, Yahoo!)

I have never experienced this type of issue before, so I don't know where to begin searching to be able to troubleshoot or fix the problem. Also, I hope this is the correct SE website for this type of question. I launched a website last month for a friend's business and helped him set up his email, etc. The site is hosted on my turnkeyinternet.net reseller account. It is the Professional I account. A few days ago he needed to add SSL and, obviously, a dedicated IP. The reseller account comes with 2 free dedicated IP addresses and a free OneClick SSL. I gave him one of my dedicated IPs and the OneClick SSL. TurnKey set up both of these for me. The IP two days ago and the SSL yesterday. Today, my friend called me and told me that one of his clients was getting a bounce-back email when trying to send him an email at his domain name. His client said it first happened two days ago (the same day TurnKey set up the dedicated IP). This was from a @hotmail.com account. I began testing and found that this issue was with all Miscrsoft affiliated addresses: Hotmail, Yahoo, Outlook, Live (and I assume any professional email addresses hosted by these services or that use these as an email client). I confirmed with my friend AND his client that prior to the changes made by TurnKey, they were both sending and receiving each other's emails. I contacted TurnKey and their response was: "Nothing has changed on our end as far as the mail server/DNS. It seems these providers are simply blocking email sent to the IP in question. Yahoo/hotmail are blocking the emails so it's up to them to whitelist or allow them to go through." His website does not have a newsletter and he hasn't sent mass mail. It is obvious to me that whatever changes TurnKey made caused this issue. They will not help me and I don't know where to begin to troubleshoot. **UPDATE** I received an email from TurnKey this morning stating, again - "This has nothing to do with any IP or SSL's being recently changed/updated/installed or otherwise." However, my friend called me and said he tested everything again this morning and everything is working correctly with Microsoft email addresses. This makes me wonder if TurnKey discovered their mistake, fixed it, then lied about making the mistake.


When advertising on Facebook, avoid paying for comments, likes, and shares

We have an ad campaign running on Facebook. Our goal is to get users to subscribe to our newsletter by visiting the site and subscribing. We noticed a discrepancy between the number of clicks recorded in Google Analytics (600) and the number of clicks billed by Facebook (1000). It turns out that the 600 clicks that we see are what Facebook calles "website clicks". The other "clicks" are all activity on Facebook itself: likes, share, and comments. When I started this campaign, I had no idea that Facebook would be charging me for comments, likes, and shares. Those activities can in no way contribute to my goal of getting users to subscribe and I would like to avoid being charged for them. Which of these options are available?   * Run a cost per action (CPA) campaign on Facebook   * Configure my campaign to only bill for website clicks   * Disable likes, share, and comments on my ads   * Lower my bids by 40% to account for the clicks that are not website clicks * * * By this point, we experimented with lowing our bids. It doesn't seem to help much. Here is a summary of the bids we have tried:   * 45¢ bid -- 60¢ per website click   * 25¢ bid -- 62¢ per website click   * 16¢ bid -- 58¢ per website click It appears that as you decrease your bid, Facebook shows the ad to users that are more likely to like and share and less likely to click on your website.


Effects of Active Virus Scanner on WebApp for XS Azure VM

Suppose a public WebApp is hosted on an EXtra Small (XS) Azure Virtual Machine (VM). What benefits and/or performance problems might visitors experience if a Memory-Resident Virus Scanner is run on that VM?


community driven video platform

I am looking for a platform to build a community-driven education video site. We already have quite a few community web-apps runing on python/django, so something based on these technologies would be easier to integrate with the existing apps. The content will also include recorded courses, so integration with course-capturing tools is a desired feature. Kaltura seems to provide many of the things I'm looking for, but the Python support seem to be on early stages. Any suggestions?


How to Unlock the Not Set Keywords in Google Analytics?

I am getting “not set” in keyword report section of Google Analytics data. May I know any method to retrieve the search terms/ keywords from the not set data? May I know what are the factors that can result in showing the “not set” result in Google Analytics?


Why arent my site posts appearing on search results anymore?

So i have this website-www.listen2science.com, a few days back i installed a plugin called seo for wordpress and posts of my site appeared on the top pages of google, but now even if i copy the whole of the title and search it doesnt appear in any result. Why is it happening? Also my site index on webmasters is zero still when i search for site:listen2science.com all my posts appear. And also if i search for my domain mine is the first result that comes so it turns out my site isnt blacklisted. I cant implement seo due to this, please help guys!


SFTP Speed Limit (being a good neighbor on shared server)

I've been developing my website on a local server and I am ready to upload to production. The initial upload will be in the 4 GB range. I don't want to slam the server, I think a Filezilla speed limit setting will help prevent that. The default speed limits are `Download: 100 KiB/s` and `Upload: 20 KiB/s`. Are those workable? Would 100 KiB/s for one upload event be OK? Also...should I:   1. Zip the website as a whole, and transfer it as one monolithic zip file (unzipping on the server)? or...   2. Just SFTP the local directory using the compression in Filezilla? Thank you. **Post Mortem** : For the initial upload, I ended up using the file manager in the hosting company's cpanel, to select and upload a monolithic zip file of the site. I figure.. _how much trouble can I get in using their tools and their defaults_. It uploaded quickly and unzipped with maybe just a momentary spike in CPU use. This would not be a good option for daily use, but for a one time event, I guess it was OK. For long term synchronization between my local-development-site and the server-production-site, I'll try Filezilla and report back.


Late payer after reaching milestone

I have a small problem with a customer... He seems a nice guy, but I'm doing for him a somewhat big project, and this is what happened: He made a requested initial payment of 20%. After a couple of weeks I reached a milestone, showed it to him, he was happy with it and said he would pay me in a couple of days from that day... Well, it's been 3 weeks now almost and payment never came. I think it's a lot of time for a big, time consuming project. I really don't know what to do... I would like to just end it here, get at least a part of that milestone, send him the files and go separate ways... However I'm not sure if that would be possible without him getting mad or getting back at me by starting a paypal dispute or something. Another option could be to talk to him about this and request more money in order to continue? What would you do or what have you done on a similar situation?


URL formatting for a project

I'm currently in the process of developing a website for a client, and we're having disagreement on the url format for the site. I am recommending he do a format such as this:               siteroot/brand/<brandName>#<categoryName>     siteroot/category/<categoryName>/<subcategoryName>#<brandName>      He is wanting to have everything directly off of the main page               siteroot/<brandName>#<categoryName>     siteroot/<categoryName>/<subcategoryName>#<brandName>      Personally, I'm not seeing anything wrong with having the simple identifier in the URL, as it helps to separate the two varying results, but I could be wrong. Does anyone have any suggestions or advice as to which would be a better format to use and why? P.S. There are obviously other pages on the site, but they are minimal and make sense. This is our biggest disagreement.


Is more weight given to links in heading tags in terms of SEO?

Do links in heading tags on a website give more weight than links in normal text?


XML Video Sitemap for embedded YouTube videos - anyone done this successfully and if so how?

This is poorly documented by Google and has been hotly debated by SEO's but has anyone actually done it? There is no info. on Google Webmaster Forums although they recommend that a person does submit a video sitemap for embedded YouTube videos. It is possible with Vimeo but the only methods I have seen for YouTube involve cloaking and/or dodgy/old methodology. This question has been asked on this forum once before in 2010 but the landscape has changed a lot since then. Has anyone had any traction with this?


Rewriting half of a low-ranking article - is it better to delete it and create a new webpage?

There's an article on my blog, half of which I'm thinking of rewriting, and this got me thinking. Is it a better idea to delete the article, rewrite the second half, then repost it on a new webpage - or is it better to keep the original webpage and rewrite the second half there? On one hand, the article has currently fallen in ranking for some of the keywords I wanted, so it might have racked up a bad reputation based on how readers respond to it (% people clicking back onto the SERPs, average visit time etc.) which might be detrimental to the rewritten article on the same page. On the other hand, it does have some links and Facebook likes - and the duplicate content which comes from the first half of the original post might be detrimental for the new webpage. Any takes on this? Let me know if there's any other information you need. Thank you.


Most efficient way to forward domain.com to example.com/subfolder?

Title says my entire question. I think I saw someone forward `domain.com` to `example.com/subfolder` and have spent about a week trying to figure out how to best do this.. My goal is to have user type in `domain.com?id=cow` and go to `example.com/subfolder/index.php?id=cow`, yet still see `domain.com?id=cow` in the address bar. I've messed with masking, DNS, looked a little into htcaccess (i've done very very little in htcaccess) I'm really at a loss as to what to type into google to find what i'm trying to do, any guidance would be appreciated!


How do I specify the Google sitemap generator destination directory

Is there a way to specify the location of generated sitemap files using the lastest version of the Google Sitemap Generator? _Version is: 1.0.0.0? (a very un-google version number, lol):_               > sudo /usr/local/google-sitemap-generator/bin/sitemap-daemon -v     Google Sitemap Generator (Beta) Version [1.0.0.0]      The dashboard has a option of " _Sitemap file name_ " but there is no option to specify the destination directory? It always places the generated sitemap XML files in the **document root**. I assume it _discovers_ the document root from reading the webserver logs. > _Why do I want to put the sitemap files in another directory?_ The document root is **no good** for our deployment method because it is a symlink to the current deployment directory which changes daily. In order for the sitemaps to appear as if they are at the url root (i.e. `http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml`), we use a alias rule to map XML files to where we actually keep them, e.g. using nginx:               # Alias all XML files (e.g. Rss) to shared directory     location ~* /(.*\.xml)$ {         alias /var/www/live/shared/xml/$1;         }


403 or 503 for the page needed to be reviewed by administrator before published?

There are some user generated pages on my site. And those pages must be reviewed by the site administrator before published after once they are updated by the users. So the workflow is basically just like this.   1. A user (the author of the page) updates the page.   2. Automatically this page is unpublished. (currently with 403)   3. The site administrator check the updated page and publishes it back again. My question is in the workflow no.2 when the page is temporarily unpublished what server response code it should return? (What the best response code for SEO?) Now those pages are returning 403 but as I get a lot of warnings in google web master tool I just don't feel that it's the right way. Those pages sometimes are left unpublished for some weeks but can I still use 503?


Is Google DFP a replacement for ad rotate plugin?

I'm currently using Ad-Rotate WordPress plugin on my WordPress site. I recently came to know of Google DFP. I'm currently adding 1-5 ads per day which will increase soon and am wondering if Google DFP is an alternate solution to Ad Rotate plugin. I want to mainly show ours and clients' ads and not AdSense. I'm just looking for an ad manager and was wondering if Google DFP is the ~~right~~ alternate solution. Where can I find a tutorial on how to use (add ads) Google DFP?   (I already have an AdSense account)


IP Address headers (Remote_Addr) - When is this header sent by the browser?

I want to know when a browser includes the header - `Remote_Addr` in the HTTP request. I observed the request sent by the browser on loading `stackoverflow.com`, in the web console window of Firefox. There were no headers pertaining to IP address sent. So, does this mean the browser never sends this header along with a HTTP request?


Considerations for adding an explicit "home" link to navigation

Savvy folks like yourselves are probably comfortable knowing they can click the logo and usually end up back on the home page of a site. However, not everyone knows this. What are some reasons for and against an explicit "home" link?


Masking a redirection in IIS7

My tools:   * IIS7   * 1 x Windows 2008 Server   * IIS URL Rewrite Module 2 (installed) My requirement:   * Mask the redirection of `www.bob.com` to `www.abc.com/bob/index.html` - the end user should not see the `www.abc.com`   * The user should then be able to browse the website as normal. I have found references to installing AAR, however this seems to be more for load balancing etc.? Then others have said use a 3rd party tool etc.


What is more preferable, creating dedicated domains for mobile apps that shares different content or associate them with folders in one domain?

I want to consult you in an SEO matter which I am completely lost with. I've built a social mobile application that allows users to share text content and made all the content that appears on the application available via the web through dedicated links. However, those links cannot be navigated through the website but they are generated when users shares content through the app to social media networks. I've implemented this method on three applications with totally different content, and I've directed all generated URLs to be from the main company website which is `http://frootapps.com` so when users shares something, the URL will change to `http://frootapps.com/qareeb/share.aspx?data=127311`. My question, which one is more preferable, a dedicated website for each app that uses such method? or it is ok to keep doing it the same way I am doing it?


SEO Removal Time?

I was searching about removing the a domain/site being listed in Web Search Results (like, Google Search) and i found solution, at here. I believe it will be the solution but what i still need to know is:   * How **long will it take** to bring down my Website being listed from Search Engine Results?


Will content from my site's RSS feed that is published on other sites be considered duplicate content by search engines?

I know Google is giving a penalties for websites with duplicate content. What happens if I'm having an RSS feed with news articles and other sites publishes on their website my news? Isn't it duplicate content?


Does Google read JPEG comments?

I usually add some description in the JPEG comment when I'm exporting images from GIMP. I was wondering if Google will read those descriptions and show the images when I search for their description. Also what about other search engines?


How to link another user's Adwords account to Google Analytics?

I have many websites in my Google Analytics. For one of the websites, I have an advertisement manager whose Google account has access to analytics data. Our advertisement manager has made ad campaigns on Google Adwords and now I want to link his Adwords account to the Google Analytics account of mine. I was playing with it for a while but no success. Is it possible to do it? If yes, how!?


Can Google AdSense be approved and run on a creative site with original wallpaper art and little text content?

I like to make creative images like on happy new year and other topics. It's a fun thing to do. I had a WordPress blog and I used to get a lot of visitors: once it hit 10,000 a day. So I applied for Google AdSense. I got rejected and the reason they mentioned was "Too little content". At that time my blog had 200 creative wallpapers created by me. Then I purchased a domain name and set up my website on that and now I have a big collection. I want to apply for AdSense so I Googled and found many helpful articles about what to include and what not to. I made those changes but there is one particular thing that I am seriously confused about. Everywhere says "content is king". You should have 400+ word articles. But I don't write. My website does not contain written articles. It has creative wallpapers which can be used commercially or non-commercially. When Google rejected my blog for too little content, do they mean that only 200 wallpapers is not enough and I should include more? Is it saying that I should write articles on each wallpaper or post like 400+ words?


Can Joomla and Wordpress use same MySQL database?

I have a Joomla site installed at domain.com/fresh. Now, I want to install WordPress. I am planning to install WordPress under subdirectory "information"; so my url will be domain.com/information. Now, when I configure the WordPress installation, can I use the same MySQL database which is being used for Joomla site? I understand that using prefix allows this to work. Is this a good practical decision for a small site?


Duplicate content with images?

I have an image on a webpage, but the souce URL for that image has an ID at the end, and this ID changes every time the page is reloaded. This is so the image does not remain cached, and the latest version is loaded every time. However, would Google or any other search engine see this as dubplicate content?


Should I track the login page?

I've recently started using Google Analytics on a B2B ecommerce site with authentication. Users must login and are redirected to the login page if they try to access an internal page without first logging in. The login page is clever enough to forward them to the original page once logged in. Tracking is installed on the login page (/login.aspx), but this means that EVERY session includes at least two page views, which I suspect will affect the bounce rate (?), and every session starts at /login.aspx, which is skewing analysis. I am considering removing the tracking from the login page, and wondered if anyone had any advice for why I should keep it there? TIA


Site part extraction domain practice

My client is forced to extract a substantial part of his websites content and place it in a separate context, that is not part of the original structure. The current structure               domain.com/brand/      The original domain has got a long-standing history, with a relatively good page-rank and many sites linking to it and it's contents. The options are these:   * place the site part in question to a subdomain of the origial one? brand.domain.com/ -OR-   * Create a new domain? branddomain.com/ The contract didn't specify this in detail, and we'll lose some of the value of the original site, and we're looking into this because we want to minimize our losses. So, which one should be considered as 'best practice'?


flash slideshow needed with special license

I've been searching the web for an image flash slideshow similar to http://www.dwuser.com/flashslideshow/ or http://www.monoslideshow.com/ However, the main problem with those is the license. for example Monoslideshow may not be embedded in a template, desktop software application, content management system, **and / or online web service in a manner where Monoslideshow is replicated and / or used as a slideshow viewer for photos / videos and / or other media contributed by more than one party** i'm working on a website that allows it's users to copy paste some html to their website/blog or wherever else they want and their images will be shown via the slideshow. (the images data / link targets would be supplied with xml) The problem is of course the license. I'm looking for similar image sideshows, with a few neat transition effects. Nothing too fancy but still slick looking. Can i get some recommendations? seems like everywhere i look they all have the same license. Budget is no more than $100 to $150


Are there any downsides of including google-analytics on your website?

I am in particular concerned with legal implications due to strong privacy legislations. However, I was also thinking about performance and false results by users blocking it.


How to make sense of analytics data?

Are there any good resources out there for learning how to use analytics data? I'd like to learn how to take the data and apply it practically to my site in order to make it a better experience for my visitors and ultimately increase conversions. Also, sometimes the significance of data is obvious (the more visits the better) but sometimes not so much, like a shorter time on site could potentially be a good thing if it means that a visitor found what they were looking for more quickly.


Responsive images require excluding the width/height attributes?

One of the tenets of responsive web design is responsive images: sizing images using percentages rather than concrete values. This is done via CSS. The problem I have is the standard practice of including the `width` and `height` attributes on the `img` tag. This seems to be precluded by setting image sizes in CSS. For one, it's long been required to include the dimension attributes in the image tag. Also, these values were used to create space in the page before the image loaded. As far as the sizing goes, I suppose it's possible to put the image into another element (e.g. `figure`) and set the image's width in CSS to be 100%. But that then requires sizing the container, possibly as a percentage of the parent element, and so on. Am I not thinking straight on this, or is setting image size in CSS at odds with using the `width` and `height` attributes?


How important are headings in SEO

I have a website that sells music artists posters. Each artists has a page containing a small bio, and a list of posters we are selling representing the artist. Currently our HTML looks like that
{Artist name}
     bio
Posters

...
       ...
      We are redesigning this page, and we have a new template that we really like. Problem is that in this new version the `<h2>Posters</h2>` does not appear anywhere on the page. As you might expect, a significant part of our traffic comes from people typing something like : "{Artist name} poster" on Google. I fear that, by removing the word "poster" from the page, we will reduce our chances of getting these people to come to the site, since Google might down rank us. I see several options here :   1. Give Google a slightly altered page that contains the `H2` tags. But I think this falls into the "Black Hat SEO" category. And I don't want that.   2. Put the heading. Hide it with CSS. Everyone wins, including accessibility tools which can determine the structure of the page using the "invisible" heading. But I do not know if this is considered a good practice.   3. Forget about the heading, and find other ways to tell Google that we really are about posters. (via keywords, but do they really have the same "weight" as an `H2`?)   4. Adapt the design to our SEO need, and find a way to put that heading nicely. Are there webmasters out there that have been facing the same issue, how did you resolve it?


Allow/Make search engine to index images hosted on third party

I have my personal blog website and using Dropbox to host images (through public folders) and use them in my blog website. Is their any way to index those images in search engine like Google. I have created an image sitemap which contains URLs of images both hosted on my blog directly as well as Dropbox and added that image sitemap to robots.txt. Not sure if this works particularly for Dropbox hosted images?? Google Webmasters portal shows me as a warning "Robots.txt prohibits the URLs" of dropbbox hosted images. Any way out??


HTML and "quirks" vs. "standards compliance" modes: Explain, and tell us why we should care?

What is the difference between "quirks" mode and "standards compliance" mode, when building HTML web pages? How to tell when operating in one mode, vs. the other? Why should people - i.e. webmasters and web designers and developers - care about choosing **standards compliance** mode over quirks mode? Is quirks mode ever justifiable when developing new content?


Can I filter Google Analytics reports for visitors who saw a certain page?

e.g., In looking at ecommerce stats for a custom variables report, I only want to see numbers for visitors who visited our shipping rates page (zip_check.php). I don't see anything in "advanced segments" that will help. I've also tried "filters" in "custom reporting". The most hopeful filter fields I saw were "Page" and "Page Title", but it's unclear to me what these filter do. They don't appear to simply filter for sessions or visits that contain a visit to a particular page. Here's a report snippet after applying a "Page Title" filter. The numbers obviously got wacky. UPDATE: Here's a complete snapshot of the report after using "Customize" to filter for "Page Title" exact= "Shipping Calculator".


Do all the pages on a website help the homepage's SEO?

When it comes to SEO, I hear the saying "content is king" a lot, so I tried to create a bunch of pages on my site with good authentic content. However, does creating a lot of content on a page or several pages help the homepage when it comes to SEO or is it every page for themselves? Will making an "About" page for my website with good SEO help my homepage with SEO, or do I need to focus directly on the content of my homepage itself? It seems, a lot of my pages that are not my homepage page are showing up in search results over my homepage. My homepage has some content, but a little less than other pages which are coming up before it in search results. I'm wondering if I'm taking the right approach.


apache domain redirect to subfolder

I have a hosting account with godaddy. Its a linux system running apache. The way they do their setup is your primary domain is the root folder. When you add a subdomain its in a subfolder of the root which sucks. I want to setup a subfolder structure to organize my domains.. I called godday support and they said to use redirects.. but did not know how to do that.. How its setup now: primary domain: > www.domain.com /   >  sub.domain.com /sub I want to create a directory structure and then redirect to each but only show www.domain.com in the url > www.domain.com /domain/www   >  sub.domain.com /domain/sub I tried using:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.com$     RewriteRule ^(/)?$ domain/www [L]      but it just changes the url to www.domain.com/domain/www Can this be done in htaccess?


DNS for domain shows old website for www version

I bought 2 domains form GoDaddy but with both I am seeing the same problems in that the domain on the `www` version goes to the old site which is still being hosted. I have checked the IntoDNS website and in the `www` record it shows:               Your www.example.com A record is:     www.example.com -> example.typepad.com -> cname-cloudflare.typepad.com ->      What can I do to stop this from happening? Will this eventually be automatically removed and fix itself? Though obviously it's not automatically fixed itself in the long drawn out expiry process... It's been quite a while for one of them and still hasn't propagated for the `www`. I'm not having any problems with the normal `example.com` part of the site.


"Progressive" JPEG: Why do many web sites avoid rendering JPEGs that way? Pros, cons?

When JPEG images are used by a web page, they are typically rendered top-down ... but they can also be rendered using a mode called **progressive JPEG** , where the image starts out **full-size** , but _blurry_ , and then gets sharper with successive passes, until it's fully loaded. **Progressive** loading requires the image have been saved that way. Why don't more web sites use progressive JPEG? What are the drawbacks? Is it simply a lack of tool support, or are these files somehow inferior to traditional top-down rendered JPEG images?


How can I tell Google Analytics to not use cookies for my sub domain?

I have my web site at `example.com`, and i have also setup a sub domain for serving static content at `static.example.com`.   On my web pages I'm using Google Analytics, so it will attach its cookies to all page request, even on `static.example.com`. I went into the GA settings and added a filter to exclude `static.example.com`, but I still see cookies (with the `__utma`.. name) on all web requests to my static domain. How can i prohibit GA to use cookies on my sub domain?


How do you 'do' SEO past on-page optimization?

This may seem like a fairly trivial question, but in it's most basic form - How do you _do_ SEO? To go into a little more depth, presume the website in question that we want to optimize is 100% complete as far as on-page optimization goes - great content, perfect SEO-friendly HTML markup. I don't consider myself 'new' to SEO at all, but past this point it seems like the most obvious activity is link building. I don't know if it's just me, but I'm finding this incredibly hard. If it were a humour site with lots of viral content, I would just post my content in humour threads on various forums and let links accrue naturally, but the site in question is a commercial site - online store - and I can't think of anywhere that might want to link to my content. I don't want to spam and my understanding is that submitting to random directories is of little to no value since my site has already been indexed by Google (past point of indexation, I doubt adding any further links would have much/any value at all). My target audience are 'installers', so short of looking for 'installer' forums relative to my company's products, I'm not sure where else would be relevant. An obvious step for where to start would be to analyse our competitor's back links, but most of those are spammy directories or from a 'SEO firm' which have just used their link farm. There is the odd giant site that has links from websites like the BBC to pages not relevant to the products on offer, but there isn't much we could offer in the way of alternative content that would invoke people to link to us either. Ideas? My question is applicable to any site, not just e-commerce. I guess my main problem is that my target audience aren't of a generation that live and breath the internet, meaning there aren't many relevant websites to gain links from. How do you sit down and 'do' SEO past on-page optimzation? Presumably link building. If you have an audience that aren't likely to be webmasters themselves, you don't stand a chance of being linked to, so where do you turn? (Obviously I undertake other marketing activities - we have a healthy base of 3-5k emails (given willingly at exhibitions/trade shows) that we can use to promote ourselves, as well as social networks and so on, but we are only really promoting ourselves to people that already know about us. We need to expand - with SEO being probably one of the most promising ways to do so (in theory)).


What are the challenges for a non-technical person running a web based business?

A friend of mine is starting a business. The business model is that his website is the medium through which businesses compete with each other and bid to provide a service to members of the public. He has no technical background but he knows the industry he's servicing well. He hired a web design company to create the site and the idea is that once everything is up, the site will kind of manage itself in that consumers will put up requests to be bid on, businesses will bid to provide the service and consumers will accept bids. Given that he has no technical background, it's unlikely that he will be able to resolve any technical issues. What kind of support should he seek from the web design company post-launch? He can't afford to have a full-time technical person on the payroll right now. what are the likely problems he can expect to run into? I'm thinking things like browser incompatibility as updates come out. Potentially performance issues as traffic ramps up if it takes off.


At night server responds with 324 status (but it works in daytime and always over HTTPS)

I have a CPanel server with 5 IPs and a few domains. During night, access to main domain through HTTP return 324 no response many times. After several refresh it comes but many assets won't load and return 324. Using HTTPS is fine. During day HTTP is also fine. But another domain on that very sever works fine all the day through HTTP. The server DNS are ns1 and ns2 of the first domain. Second domain is on the shared IP and first domain has a dedicated IP. I cant resolve the problem :( and appreciate any help so much!


Cloud hosting vs dedicated hosting: advantages and disadvantages

I'm currently looking for a hosting company that can provide a very solid service with a 100% SLA. In the search both cloud hosting and managed dedicated hosting have come up. (I'd rather not manage the server myself as I'm still rather new to Linux.) I'm not sure if phrasing this as a "which is best" would make sense, but what advantages does cloud hosting have over dedicated server hosting? I need a reliable service above all else, and some elements of the application to be hosted will be relatively CPU intensive, although those spikes in CPU usage will be sporadic, so the hosting needs to be able to deal with that.


How to control what appears on google search results?

So I have just built a site and all is well... but I want to control what appears on google search results. Lets say I google for "thefwa", first what comes is the link to www.thefwa.com, then underneath is a list of pages on that site with preview and a link "More results from thefwa.com". How can I tell google to display my chosen content/pages? Do I use robots.txt or sitemap.xml? Because now the pages that are associated with my site are displayed kind of random. Is it possible to tell google what to display?


What file manager/uploader do you use with your embeded wysiwyg editor?

I am looking for a wysiwyg editor to allow user to edit part of their website. I already worked with TinyMCE, and heard about CKEditor, which both look great. However, they both lack a free (PHP) file manager/uploader, as they sell their own tool to make some money. I found a few free alternatives for TinyMCE, the best one (for my needs) being PHP Letter's one, but I was wondering about what the community uses ? Do you buy the "official" file manager ? Do you code your own ? Or do you have a great (free) alternative ?


Which CMS system for a community based site?

I am a grey-haired professional programmer, quiet conversant in PHP, MySql, HTL, CSS which means I can tweak things or code plugins if need be, but I’d like something off the shelf as far as possible. I would prefer something free but can pay if it is not hideously expensive (actually, I started out thinking free only, until I found http://pligg.com/ which is dedicated to communities, but has plugins which cost about $10, and I might be willing to pay for convenience). Before I found that, I was heavily in favour of Drupal, but might be swayed by something dedicated to my needs or with many, many users or great support or a great deal of plug-ins. Anyhoo, what am I trying to do? A social site for ex-pats to help them adjust to their new country. Preparing to get there, legal/visa issues, employment opportunities, accommodation, shopping, plus social stuff. The demographic is mainly girls in their 20s, so a social angle is important. Integration of FaceBook, Flikr & the like might be nice. What I am thinking of is - main content provided by me and a few moderators - a Wiki to which everyone can contribute - forums for discussions - small ads/freebie - user registration (which may limit access to certain parts of the site) - groups of friends, with shared .. stuff (photos, discussion rooms, etc) - per user blog - per user photo album - mailing lists - I think you get the picture …. 9and can you suggest moe?) As I said, I was originally set on Drupal, which also has some pre-configured distros, but I didn’t find one yet that really matches my needs. Then I saw Pligg, which looks good, but I might have to shell out $100 or $200 to get it the way I want it. And I still continue to search. Any suggestions? Thanks


Table-Sort Script with Search Feature

I lost a **JavaScript-based, sortable-table script** that had a unique feature of a **search box**. The search box that made non-relevant rows disappear when a user typed a word. Any idea where I can find a similar script to this? Again, it is all JavaScript based.


Remove extension from URL using a rewrite without resulting in a redirect loop

On the server, I have a file (on the filesystem) called `page.html`, which I want to be accessed as `site.com/page` So if someone goes to `site.com/page.html`, it should `301` redirect to `site.com/page` I've seen rewrite rules that will handle rewriting `/page` -> `/page.html` internally, but forcing it to `301` redirect `/page.html` -> `/page` as well causes a redirect loop for me. The `END` flag looks like it can be used to do what I want, but it is not yet supported. I've also tried using `ENV` as follows:               RewriteRule ^page$ /page.html [L,E=END:1]     RewriteCond %{ENV:END} !1     RewriteRule ^page.html$ /page [R=301,L]      But that results in a redirect loop as well.


is there a standard template for a website proposal

i am putting together a website for someone and i wanted to see if there is a standard template to use that includes:   * pricing (by hour, page or project)   * expected bug fixes   * costs for hosting and support   * additional maintenance. i want to avoid missing some point.


How to do UX for people to use a widget

I have a site that helps people organize hikes. Here is a typical hike page: http://www.comehike.com/hikes/scheduled_hike.php?hike_id=174 I made a widget for people to be able to share their hikes. Here is the widget for the same hike: http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/widget.php?hike_id=174&height=500&width=700 But I am really stuck on how to get my users to understand that they can export their hike as a widget and share it. Plus, what phrasing should I use? "Share your hike" or "make the map into a sharable link" ? Are there any good examples of such UX and wording? Thanks


Legal terms required to email users - is opt in necessary

Creating a new site requiring membership to participate. I don't anticipate emailing members at this time except for password related issues. Perhaps down the road emails will be necessary. I want to be proactive and assume I will email the members in the future. What do I need to do to be covered legally when sending emails to all members? Can I get by with including "You may be emailed" in the TOS and having users accept TOS? Or do I need to include an opt-in option even though there may never be an email? I really don't want to harm the user experience especially if an email is NEVER sent as could be the case. In the U.S. but users could be worldwide, if that matters.