Google Webmaster tools - painlessly change 300,000 urls

I have a site with over 300,000 products. Many of these products have non- alphanumeric characters in their names. I have encoded these, rendering thousands of links that look like this:               product/SPARKLE+POWER+INTERNATIONAL/FSP180-50NI%28V%29/316925      note: this equates to: products/[manufacturer]/[model#]/[site specific ID] However, Google webmaster tools thinks that the url should be reviewed like this:               SPARKLE+POWER+INTERNATIONAL/FSP180-50NI(V)/316925      Which returns a 404 error To simplify things, I want to change all non-alphanumeric characters to '~'. My site navigation will still work, but I am afraid that I will lose a lot of search ranking and search page links because of the url changes. What is the best way to keep this from happening? Also, is their a way to make Google webmaster tools understand urlencoded URL elements (double encoding?)


Malware script injection: tried everything, found nothing

I am facing the following situation: Some of my websites started getting infected by malware infection (iframes loading malware scripts). I have tried everything that comes to my mind.   * I checked FTP logs to find out if access was made via ftp.    * I downloaded the home directories and scanned all files. Many times. My hosting company (very helpful so far) scanned my affected accounts. 2 or 3 times each.   * I manually checked the code of all the files that are requested by the page that has the injected code.    * I scanned for file size and file creation changes.  I found nothing. One of these websites got listed as infected by google. I deleted all files from the server and used the production copy on my dev server. Before that, I changed the password to something theoretically unbreachable (password length 50 containing varchar and specialchars + max 5 failed attempts before the server locks down for brute force attack) and switched all my connections to SSL. Note: SQL injection is out of the question as it uses no database. Then I requested a new review through google webmaster tools. The site was found clean. That was 5 days ago. Today it is infected again! I am out of ideas. Any help? ![AVG Report](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SDCTJ.jpg) ![Code that is being injected to my pages](http://i.stack.imgur.com/1vkCv.jpg)


Is it worth it to change my entire user images file structure to take advantage of simple browser caching?

On one of my mobile sites, I simply store my user's profile images as '1.jpg' in their user folder, and incrementally go from there for any extra pics they upload. This means that whenever they change their profile pic, for example, the file name stays the same. I've been wanting to take advantage of image caching so that the same old pic doesn't get downloaded over and over again whenever a user's profile is viewed and re-viewed, but at the same time, I want my users' browsers to download the new one if it has changed. From what I've been reading, it seems that the only way to truly do this is to actually use random file names and keep track of all those file names in the DB, so that you can set a non-expiring cache, while recently-changed pics get pulled again since they have a new file name. The beauty of the way I have them structured up until now, however, is that I can skip the database entirely and access the files directly since their location is predictable. So my question is, is it worth it for me to change the entire file structure of my site, plus add the DB element, for the benefit of eternal caching and automatic re-downloading upon new upload? This is a huge undertaking, but if it's deemed worthy, I have no problem moving forward with this drastic change. I just want to make sure this is how the "big boys" do it so that I never have to change the file structure ever again. Thanks.


Mail using google apps rejected as SPAM, having trouble using SPF records

The situation:   * Domain name: fisharwe.com   * Site hosted by eukhost.com   * Domain name registrar: nearlyfreespeech.net   * Mx Records point to google apps servers   * created a TXT record at nearlyfreespeech with the following:      * v=spf1 ip4:109.203.117.237 a:fisharwe.com include:aspmx.googlemail.com ~all   * Mail is sent either through the gapps web interface, either through the site (which uses ASP)   * Some mail still gets rejected as spam I manage my own apache server, so I am not a complete newbie, but I am having trouble understanding DNSes. Specifically, I am not sure I really understand the syntax of SPF.   When I go to the intodns check, I get a few errors still.   I don't really understand what to do. Google search yields a lot of resources, but most of them unclear, often contradicting each other. Is there any place that gives a comprehensive, cohesive view of how servers and DNS work? With a few receipes for most common use cases, that would be perfect. For the record, here are the errors I get at intoDns:   * Domain NS records      * Nameserver records returned by the parent servers are:         * ns.phx3.nearlyfreespeech.net. ['208.94.116.65'] [TTL=172800]       * ns.phx7.nearlyfreespeech.net. ['208.94.117.1'] [TTL=172800]    * NS records from your nameservers      * NS records got from your nameservers listed at the parent NS are:        * ns.phx3.nearlyfreespeech.net ['208.94.116.65'] [TTL=3600]       * ns.phx7.nearlyfreespeech.net ['208.94.117.1'] [TTL=3600]   * Glue for NS records      * INFO: GLUE was not sent when I asked your nameservers for your NS records.This is ok but you should know that in this case an extra A record lookup is required in order to get the IPs of your NS records. The nameservers without glue are:        * 208.94.117.1       * 208.94.116.65     * You can fix this for example by adding A records to your nameservers for the zones listed above.    * SOA MNAME entry      * WARNING: SOA MNAME (ns.phx1.nearlyfreespeech.net) is not listed as a primary nameserver at your parent nameserver!     * Warn SOA Serial Your SOA serial number is: 1323999125. This can be ok if you know what you are doing.     * Warn SOA REFRESH WARNING: Your SOA REFRESH interval is: 600. That is not so ok   * SOA EXPIRE      * Your SOA EXPIRE number is: 86400. That is NOT OK     * WWW A Record        * Your www.fisharwe.com A record is: [109.203.117.236] [109.203.117.237]  I know this question is unlikely to serve the community as it is very specific, but I don't know where to turn to, I've been on this for days now. Any pointer would be appreciated.


How to add your business website to Google Places with multiple addresses but less than 10

1. I know how to add a business website to Google Places with one address.   2. I know how to add a business website to Google Places with more than 10 addresses. What I don't know how to do is add a business with more than one address but less than 10, so lets pretend this number is 3 addresses. Each of them with exact same website, exact same services but 3 serving locations. Logging into Google Places, I can see the business has been added and has one address attached. Google has somewhat changed Google Places in the past 6 months and I can't see an option to add another address, never mind 3 of them. The reason it's important to attach all valid addresses is that it's important for Local SEO. When searching on the Help, I'm informed with this information: > The bulk upload tool is recommended for users who want to manage more than > 10 locations. If you already have locations in Google Places for Business, > we recommend you delete them before using the bulk upload tool. Why? Changes > made to locations in the bulk upload tool will not be reflected in Google > Places for Business. Changes made to locations in Google Places for Business > will not be reflected in the bulk upload tool. Locations added using the > bulk upload tool can only be used in Google AdWords Location Extensions if > there are no locations in Google Places for Business. > > CHECKBOX [ ] I have 10 or more locations, and do not plan to use Google > AdWords Location Extensions. I've found no help information indicating how to add businesses with more than 1 address but less than 10. So how do you add more than 1 business website with multiple addresses to Google Places?


Website localization when using the same domain

I'm thinking of a website which is basically the following:   * users can push some pins on a map with some text and additional information regarding the location they are pinning   * other users can see those locations and read the text and the additional information   * maybe some search and list pages   * I suppose my audience is going to come from all over the world, speaking different languages Now I have a big trouble with `i18n` (internationalization), mostly because of SEO:   * I would like to offer the user-interface (UI) in English and some other languages for the users based on accept-language parsing, GeoIP, etc...or user's choice   * I would like the pins to have a permalink, so that users can find them in search engines   * I don't want to translate the text which comes from the user, just the UI   * I don't want to hide content from users which were written in a different language, since there are other things which make that content valuable without understanding all the text My question is: what are the best options for my users and for Google. The options I think I have:   * Detect user location or accept-language, or use a user preference (e.g., cookie, URL path, or query string), and render the whole page in that language, except the content I cannot translate (user generated content)   * Always render the page with the English UI, and with JavaScript translate it to the language of the user   * I could use locales as subdomains (e.g., `en.example.com`, `de.xample.com`, etc...) - but what do I do with `www.example.com`? I think in both cases I might have some trouble with search engines. Do you maybe have some clever idea how to solve this problem?


Can an InDesign slideshow go on a website hosted with Google Sites?

I'm using Google Sites to make my new photography website and I want to make an Adobe InDesign slideshow for it. Does anyone know if this is possible?


Updating Google sitemap for mobile

I have a series of utilities to generate Google sitemaps for my whole site. These files are massive, and slow to build. We want to start telling Google these pages are mobile-crawl-able too, by adding them to mobile sitemaps, but the documentation is unclear if I need to specify physically different files for my mobile URLs than for my normal ones. If this is my current sitemap:               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>      <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">         <url>             <loc>http://mobile.example.com/article100.html</loc>         </url>     </urlset>      Can I simply change it to:               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>      <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"       xmlns:mobile="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-mobile/1.0">         <url>             <loc>http://mobile.example.com/article100.html</loc>             <mobile:mobile/>         </url>     </urlset>      Or do I need to create new files with the additional markup, alongside my existing files?


Allintitle Operators - How do they work?

I've been using the allintitle operators to determine keyword competition (in conjunction with using the Adwords Keyword Generator), my understanding is that when you do an allintitle search, the results will reflect all webpages that have "all" of those words in the title tag regardless of their order. When, however, I do a search for `allintitle:thai restaurants`, I get 744,000 results But when I reverse the order `allintitle:restaurants thai`, I get over 27 million results. What am I missing?


Xampp and file paths

I'm having hard time with xampp, it really getting me crazy. I have few installations of WordPress with Roots Template, which was loading without any css, js..etc. And the solution was to delete Boilerplate's default `.htaccess` and add:               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteRule ^assets/css/(.*) /wp-content/themes/test_template/assets/css/$1 [QSA,L]     RewriteRule ^assets/js/(.*) /wp-content/themes/test_template/assets/js/$1 [QSA,L]     RewriteRule ^assets/img/(.*) /wp-content/themes/test_template/assets/img/$1 [QSA,L]     RewriteRule ^plugins/(.*) /wp-content/plugins/$1 [QSA,L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>     # END WordPress      Now I'm facing the same problem but with HTML5 Boilerplate and Twitter- bootstrap, standard html5 file with no complex code. I've tried using:                dirname(__FILE__);      And it still can't locate the files. Anybody had the same problem and found the solution? Thanks in advance.


Tahoma, Verdana, Trebuchet, Georgia, etc as webfonts?

Does anyone know if the so called "web safe fonts" like Tahoma, Verdana, Trebuchet or Georgia are available as webfonts (that you can link to and safely use in your stylesheet) on a public CDN (content delivery network)? These fonts might be common but they aren't guaranteedly installed on every client computer so I think it would be nice to reliably have them everywhere. I haven't found them on Google's palette or with a search but I'm hoping that I just overlooked an obvious solution. Maybe Microsoft has a webfont CDN too only it is not quite well known yet?


Location-Based redirection and duplication in sub-directories affecting SEO

I currently own the website `www.xyz.com`. The website has a sub-directory for each of the 3 target countries: `.../en-US/` (United States), `.../es-MX/` (Mexico), and `.../es-DO/` (Dominican Republic). I have two main questions about this setup: Currently, the main `domain/root` (`xyz.com`) contains a blank `index.php` file, but I would like for a user to be redirected to one of the sub- directories based on their regional location. What is the best way to accomplish this? I have looked at using browser language-based redirection, but how would I know whether to direct a user to the MX or DO site if the browser language is set to spanish? Is there a way to detect a user's geographic location? Also, the 3 websites are practically identical except they all have 3 unique color schemes and the US site is in english while the MX and DO sites are in spanish. My problem is that I believe GoogleBot is penalizing/banning my site because the spanish text on the MX and DO pages are nearly identical and are thus marked as duplicates/spam. Is there a way to avoid this?


Pros and cons of the Google font API

I am currently using a font from the google font directory on my website. I don't fully understand how it works, but it seems like when someone opens my site, their browser is told to go and fetch the font from Google. (correct me if I'm wrong). Now, what I'm wondering is, what are the pros and cons of this over just specifying a font family the old-school way? Presumably doing it the google font directory way has the advantage that they'll definitely see the font I want them to. (as long as the font directory is up). But does this way have disadvantages? Maybe using fonts that are stored locally speeds up the site loading?


Why my site not linking with google.com?

i am very tired about my website ranking in google. i am dong hard work about it but not getting anywhere my site in google. actually i am web master of a www.panbeli.in matrimony website INDIA. i am trying to improve its visibility in google last 5 month but not getting any positive result. but other search engine giving good result like yahoo and bing but google showing no any result in top 20 page result. my website is www.panbeli.in and my keyword are- bari samaj bari matrimony bari community bari shadi panbeli please help me if you can, b'coz i am very frustrated about it. my domain age is 4 years when i type link:panbeli.in in google search does not appear any pages from my site in google. whats the meaning is that?my site does not indexed in google?


Joomla and Google Analytics advanced options in tracking code

I want to insert google analytics tracking code in my joomla site. so i registered in the official site of google and saw there is an advanced tab with three more options than standard. Do i have to check "i want to track dynamic pages" and "i want to track php pages"? Do these options provide me better results or they are necessary for a dynamic site based on php like joomla? Does anyone know the process of installing? because i didn't manage to make it work by following this Also where do i place the tracking code? Because of some bugs some say it is better just after the tag `<body>` whereas other say just before the tag `</body>`. Thank you


How do I get a list of all indexed links?

I am looking for a way to take every link that I have indexed by Google and export them to a CSV file. Recently I have had way more pages indexed by Google then I actually have and I want to find where all these pages are coming from without having to view each search result page.


How does google handle plagiarism with a link back?

Is it frowned upon to copy a whole web page but leave a link back? I have seen this countless times where a web site will copy an entire post but leave a link back to the original content. How does Google handle this as far as ranking? Also, I have seen some cases where the copied post has ranked higher than the original post. How can this be?


Should I use my domain registrar's nameserver or find an alternative?

I've recently been moving my client's sites as well as my own and my friends to a cloud server instance I've set up. I don't have a nameserver setup on my instance because I'm not sure how to deploy and manage that side of things yet. I'm using the default nameservers where possible for the sites and just changing the A record DNS settings to point at the server. Some clients are complaining that the sites are running slower then before (since I changed nameservers back to the defaults). Some of the domain registrars are a nightmare to deal with and I can't convince some of my clients to leave them. Is there a sort of paid service I can use instead?


Why the sudden popularity of .io domains?

I've noticed a number of new webapps and sites are being hosted at .io domains (the top-level domain for the British Indian Ocean Territories). A couple examples include:   * Forecast.io   * GitHub.io   * Firepad.io And the list goes on and on. Is there any particular cause for the sudden popularity of .io domains?


How to configure apache2 to just save certain POST requests without even passing them to application?

I'm running Apache in front of glassfish server using BalancerMember. For performance reasons I would like that POST requests on certain endpoint are just saved to a file without passing them to application (and to return correct HTTP return code). How to configure Apache to do that? EDIT: In other words, if a POST request is for path `http://example.com/upload` then the content of the post (body) should go into a file.


Prevent crawler that doesn't honoring robots.txt

I have some problem, when I try to write robots.txt for my site ... I find some issues by search on Google, and tell me about honor and not honoring `robots.txt`, how I can prevent it, can I perform it with `.htaccess` or other way ?


How to redirect one domain to another (wildcard) without inheriting the back links?

I want to redirect my old domain to a new one. Im running a blog and I need to use wildcard redirect so all the posts will be redirected accordingly. But I don't want to inherit the backlinks in those posts. I want a fresh site! How to do this?


Dashboard to aggregate Google Analytics, Facebook, YouTube etc tracking data?

I'd like to see as much tracking data as possible about my online presence, in one single dashboard - so views/conversions from Google Analytics data, the performance of my Facebook campaigns via the Insights API, views/clicks from my YouTube campaigns, etc. This could be as simple as a graph with time on the x-axis, and key indicators from each source on the y-axis (conversions from Analytics, likes on Facebook, views on YouTube, etc). The idea is that I can see customer engagement with each source, over time. I can write my own such dashboard easily enough, but I wondered if there was something off-the-shelf that already did this. Apologies if this isn't the right forum for such a question - would appreciate tips for the best place to ask.


Google Analytics account setup for multiple personal websites?

I have multiple personal websites that I develop and plan to develop more over time. The number of websites is currently greater than one but less than 50. Currently I have a single Google account with a single analytics account that has a web property for each of my sites. My understanding is that you can have up to 25 analytics accounts attached to a single google account and each of those 25 acccounts can have up to 50 web properties in them which would allow me to track up to 1,250 sites. I don't think I'll be hitting that number anytime soon, however are there other reasons to structure accounts differently, such as using a separate google account for each site and then adding myself as an administrator?


Google Webmaster Tools - I want to target by language, should I add location targeting?

I have a multilingual site, which I would like to target by language. Google Webmaster Tools provides the option to add a subdomain per language subdomain which can be geotargeted. If I'm more interested in language based targeting, which as far as I know isn't supported, should I still select the geotargeting?


Web app to take screen shot of website and annotate?

Does anyone know of a website that will take a full screen shot of another website and let users write notes over it then send that annotated photo by email or private link? Basically looking for quicker way to write notes on a site other than taking a screen shot my self and putting it into photoshop. Just an update, I don't need any browser extensions which I already have and do the same. I'm looking for a website app which does this to give to a client.


Any concerns for registering a domain.me if domain.com is already taken?

I'm interested in registering a domain, let's just call it `myna.me` but `myname.com` is already taken (but not in use). What might be the concerns of registering a `.me` if the .com version is already taken? This will be for a web app I'm working on which is in a niche market within web design. I'm sure I can market this using the `.me` TLD because it fits perfectly into the brand, and most of the marketing will be done directly within the web design community. So I'm not too worried about word of mouth confusing the TLD. Could this negatively impact anything for me, or should I worry about the `.com` owner suddenly trying to compete or steal traffic from me?


Source for free complete CSS+HTML layouts?

Where can I find complete free HTML+CSS layouts to choose from?


Is there a way to stop a keyword from appearing in Google Webmaster Tools?

I added a web site a while ago to Google's index and it contains lots of links with the text "Permalink" that, well, link to permalinks of different content/pages. Now "Permalink" is the #1 keyword in Google Webmaster Tools. Is there a way to prevent this? ### EDIT: It is possible to do this by replacing               Permalink      With                     And then using CSS to render the text Permalink:               a:after {       content: 'Permalink';     }      But I was basically interested to know if it is possible to hint Google Bot to consider the term "Permalink" as insignificant.


Site returning 404 header to Google, not sure why

A Drupal site that works fine for regular users returns a 404 not found error when I try to use the W3C validator on it; it is also not being indexed by Google at all (which is the main issue but I suspect there is a connection). It is a https:// site with .htaccess rule to redirect any http:// request to the https://. I had had it running in Google webmaster tools and thought it was fine, but it turns out I had not added the HTTPS domain. After adding the HTTPS domain it's also returning the header as               HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found     Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:37:43 GMT     Server: Apache     Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT     Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0      Robots.txt just has               User-agent: *     Crawl-delay: 10     # Files     Disallow: /cron.php      How can I check what the issue is here?


Is it possible to block traffic originating from a specific country?

My personal website is currently getting a lot of spam comments at the moment, and most of them originate from Russia (I've used Google Analytics to identify the traffic, and a lot of the links link to Russian sites). As it's a pain to keep deleting this comments, I would like to ban people from there commenting or visiting the website. Is this possible? Also, the website is using WordPress. Many thanks!


Should layout be solely based on CSS?

Is it a good sign if your website looks like a plaintext file with hyperlinks when the stylesheet is disabled?


Check if an image is already optimized for the web

I have found this tool that optimizes images for the web. What is surprising for me (of course, there will be other tools like this :)) is that it only optimizes the uploaded image if it is possible, I mean, if it considers that the image is already optimized for the web it says "No savings". My question: before running something like `convert -quality 80`, is there any way (using ImageMagick or any other tool in Linux) to ckeck if an image is already optimized for the web? In that case I would not run `convert -quality 80`.


Website Hosting costs

I am developing a website for a client and I am trying to find out what I should be charging them for hosting the site. Is there a standard price these days?


Using open graph meta tags for a Facebook feed without creating a Facebook app

### Description I'm going to implement Open Graph's meta tags to display content on my website properly in a Facebook feed. In order to use this (source - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/getting-started/) I have to create an application and add the Login Plugin to my website. I don't want to use either an app or Login Plugin - I don't need it at all and this will be only next problem to deal with. On first look, some meta tags (http://ogp.me/) should work properly even without the app (subjectively my opinion), like these:               <meta property="og:title" content="The Rock" />     <meta property="og:url" content="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/" />     <meta property="og:image" content="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/rock.jpg" />     <meta property="og:description"        content="Sean Connery found fame and fortune as the                suave, sophisticated British agent, James Bond." />      Although `og:type` might be problematic because it's an object from an app (as defined there). ### Problem to solve Is there any solution to implement `og` meta tags without creating an app and implementing the Login Plugin (without losing performance)? If I have to fulfill those two steps, is it possible to implement the Login Plugin without allowing users to log into the site with it? ### Additional notes I will use mostly "Like Box" and "Like Plugin" for:   * website in general,   * posts on website.


Customize Mediawiki's monobook.css with some skins

I have installed MediaWiKi on Ubuntu server. I am trying to customize the wiki's appearance, so I tried different skins (fratman, GuMax, and mozillawiki) None of them satisfied me. I want a skin that looks like this link. It has smooth tabs and sidebar but does not lose the wiki specific appearance. Does anybody know if it's possible to customize the wiki to look like the one in the link?


best way of updating website files quickly

I was wondering if there is a better way of updating my website's content. Right now, I make it in a text editor, and then test it on the localhost. When I am happy with the code, I save the files and then copy them onto the file manager on my web host. An example is when I add an option in the 'settings' section for the user to upload a profile picture. The settings.php needs to be updated, and an add_picture.php needs to be added. Uploading these takes a long time. Is there a quick way of transferring added content and scripts from my computer onto the webhost? Maybe a CMS is right for my needs, but i'm not too sure what this is? (i run a LAMP server)


Normalizing Website Usage to U.S. Standard

My website is largely targeted to US business users. Not surprisingly, the number of visits during the weekdays is much larger than on Saturdays and Sundays. In addition, on holidays like July 4 or Christmas, the number of visitors drop dramatically. I also have a feeling that internet usage decreases slightly in summer months while people are on vacation/outside. The result is that in Google Analytics (pic below), my daily visitors go up and down and appears relatively erratic. It's hard to determine if any increase or drop in visits is attributable to something on my site or is part of a trend across the US. Is there a way to normalize the number of visitors to my site against internet usage in general? Or are there tools other than Google Analytics that do this? If normalized, the chart below would look much flatter and if there was an increase, I would know it would be attributed to something on my site rather than to the internet in general. Visits to my site: ![Notice the weekly up and down and the drop around July 4](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GbnHQ.png)


Reverse IP lookup resolves to old domain

A site I administer recently rebranded under a new domain name. I updated the DNS to forward the old to the new, but reverse IP lookups are still resolving to the old domain. I don't see anywhere in my DNS settings where this could be a problem. Will this take longer than a regular DNS update or is there something else I can do to fix this? Thanks!


How do I make or setup a mailing list?

I know I could program it myself, but maybe there is a simple (that's the keyword) package. I like to add a box, snippet, form or page to my site for users to input their email address. Then I'd like it to automatically send email saying you have successfully subscribe. I'd want an unsubscribe link and I would be using SMTP on Google apps. I would like to send email with HTML, so I can have a simple sentence with a complex link such as this. I don't know if I'll get marked as spam if I try to send everyone an email at once. I'd like the software to manage it. Also, I'd like to get the emails in a simple format like CSV. Is there a simple app that does this? if not i can write a simple form which does a simple insert (or delete when unsubscribing) and write a 200-300 line app to send my emails out for me.


Google is not indexing URLs in my XML SiteMap?

I have used multiple sitemap.xml for my product pages and my category pages and problem is google only not index my whole site map's link. /sitemap_main.xml -- URLs submitted:114 // URLs in web index :88 /sitemap_products.xml -- URLs submitted:391 // URLs in web index :34 Why has Google added only some pages in web index?


What is the right approach to use AdSense with responsive web design?

Recently I was studying responsive design a lot and designed couple of sites. But I was wondering how would I use Google AdSense (which is pixel based) ads on my responsive design? Very typical example is suppose I have a `728x90` ads on header. Or if I do a mobile first approach I would need different versions of ad sizes for different view posts but Google doesn't allow more than three ad unit per page (as far as I know). So, Question: **What is the right approach/best practice of using Google AdSense on a responsive site design?**


Does charging to install Magento violate its license?

I have been doing webdesign for a small business in Denmark, which already has a deal with a larger company to create the final site. Among this company's proposal, I see that they charge a rather large fee for installing Magento on my clients server, and an additional fee to integrate the design. The Same company forbids my client from having FTP or similar access to the server, and they are therefore not able to install this themselves. My question is: is resale of the Magento really allowed by the licence? This company wants to charge a rather steep amount for even installing a blank version of it, no Magento-licencing included. I have looked larger company up, and this company does NOT have a standing licence for Magento. And even if they got one, I have a sneaky feeling that something is legal is wrong with the licencing here. The reason I share this with you is that I have a guts feeling that I should raise some critical questions and suggest that my client use another company for their website. I need to be certain that I'm on the right side. The IT company has no partnership with Magento or Varien, and have a somewhat tarnished reputation already. I have mailed Magento about this, but have not had any response yet.


Best Option for Creating A Small Church Website

I've been asked to create a website for a _very_ small church. Given the limited budget and lack of technical staff, what is the best option for building a site that is low-cost (or preferably free) which a church member can easily maintain and modify? The church's previous site was hosted on Geocities if that gives you any idea of the type of site they are looking for. The site doesn't necessarily have to contain a CMS, the emphasis here is on cheap and easy.


ASP.NET Simple CMS

I have an existing ASP.NET web site. The site has a "news" section and I'd like to add some very simple content management functionality to that an administrator can edit the news. I had thought of using DotNetNuke.   * Is this a sensible option?    * Any pointers for adding this simple functionality?    * Should I look at another solution?


How do I set up anonymous email forwarder using cPanel?

Some companies demand your email address, then send you spam. I'm quite familiar with cPanel. How would I set up an anonymous email forwarder, so I can give them a valid email address, and kill that email address if the company turns into an evil spammer? Note that to be effective, it would have to filter out any email addresses listed in the body of the forwarded email (otherwise those email addresses will end up on their spam list too).


Link `isRelated` schema.org to parent `Product` when not contained in child element

I'm trying to indicate multiple related products on a product page using schema.org microdata. But the child products are orphaned because they are not contained in the parent div. I tried using `itemref` but I must be using it incorrectly or it must be the wrong solution. ALSO, I cannot easily create a wrapper div or use the `body` element to create the parent. My ideal solution would be one that leaves the page structure as- is, and somehow links the "child product" divs to the parent. I thought `itemref` would do that, but it doesn't appear to be working. Here is example HTML.

Main Product

Some Product 1

Some Product 2

      The above HTML is simplified, but similar in structure to what's on my site and gives similar errors when submitted to validators. E.g. http://webmaster.yandex.com/microtest.xml Gives:               microdata     ERROR: unable to determine affiliation of these fields. There are two possible reasons: this fields are incorrectly placed or an orphan itemprop attribute is indicated     itemType = orphans     isrelatedto     product     itemType = http://schema.org/Product     url     href = /some_product1.php     text = Some Product 1     name = Some Product 1     isrelatedto     product     itemType = http://schema.org/Product     url     href = /some_product2.php     text = Some Product 2     name = Some Product 2          product     itemType = http://schema.org/Product     name = Main Product      The Google validator does not seem to show any errors, but the child products are not related to the parent product.


Pointing Domain to VPS

I'm trying to point my domain name that's registered through HostGator to my Windows VPS registered through GoDaddy. I'm using Plesk 11 as my Control Panel. I was reading this article from GoDaddy: http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/8463/setting-up-dns-with-your- parallels-plesk-panel-11-server-and-domain-with-us?pc_split_value=4 I have set the nameservers up on my VPS: ![dns](http://i.stack.imgur.com/DjbCj.png) What I don't understand is why I need to register my domain with two domain hosts. When I try to put the nameservers above as my domain nameservers in Hostgator, is gives the following error: ![domain](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jSCaC.png) I'm not sure if this is just because of propagation not being complete, or if it's a configuration error on my end. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not very familiar with DNS.


Connecting to my website without SSH

I have seen tutorials and read on how to connect to my website using the shell and basically getting a SSH access to it. But the problem is, SSH access is disabled for my account and I can't get it enabled (extra $). How do I connect to my website hosting server without SSH? I need to do this because I want to be able to install software on my server. So how do I do that without SSH?


Serve gravatar extenerally?

Microsoft on their website seems to get the avatar server side, and then serve it as an image from their servers. IE:                     I currently just link directly to Gravatar in the image tag itself.                     Is there an advantage as acting as a proxy and serving them? Would you come up in image searches a lot?


Error Log shows nosy visitors trying to access various admin pages

After experiencing a very high amount of hits on my 404 page, I've started monitoring my website's Error Log. There I've found that through-out the day, there are several attempts at accessing admin folders and editors on my website that I does not exist. For instance, there are attempts at accessing Word Press and fckeditor's admin folders, but I don't have either. Any thoughts as to what I should do about these attempts, and if they should be a cause of worry or not? Examples from my Error Log:               [Mon Jun 23 16:17:17 2014] [error] [client 120.37.236.236] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/admin, referer: [snipped].com/admin/editors/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/upload/test.html     [Mon Jun 23 16:16:39 2014] [error] [client 178.158.214.36] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/administrator     [Mon Jun 23 16:16:39 2014] [error] [client 178.158.214.36] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/wp-login.php     [Mon Jun 23 10:39:13 2014] [error] [client 120.37.236.217] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/admin     [Mon Jun 23 08:31:49 2014] [error] [client 27.153.217.87] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/fckeditor     [Mon Jun 23 05:34:19 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/editor     [Mon Jun 23 05:34:17 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/admin     [Mon Jun 23 05:34:16 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/FCKeditor     [Mon Jun 23 05:34:12 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/editor     [Mon Jun 23 05:34:10 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/admin     [Mon Jun 23 05:34:06 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: /home/[snipped]/public_html/Fckeditor      At last, does anyone know how where I can get more information about some of the errors reported in cPanel X's Error Log? For instance, I have lots of entries for > File does not exist: 405.shtml but I have no idea what page or link has generated them, so I don't know where to go to fix the source of the problem.


How do you monitor your own domain expiry?

I'm currently managing several domains and find it a pain to keep track of those expiry dates and make sure they get renewed. What I do now is to manually add those domains to a to-do manager with a reminder and check it say a month before expiry to remind myself (I do have auto-renew for some domains but not all). If you have a better way to manage it, I'd be happy to hear about it. Thinking of solving my own problem by setting up a website to do it (if there is no better way). So here's a question: would you use such a web application where you just enter the domain names that you manage, and it will pull out the expiry automatically, adds a reminder say 2 months before expiry and keep reminding you till the whois record shows that it has been renewed? This way I can be sure I won't miss any of those expiry dates. It is something I myself will use but would like to hear what you guys think? I found some online tools that does this but it doesn't seemed reliable or intuitive enough (e.g. advertisements all over). Appreciate any inputs!


CSS equal height divs with padding

I have been using this technique before to get equal column heights               #page-wrap { overflow: hidden;}     .page-left, .page-right{float: left; width: 435px; margin-bottom: -5000px; padding-bottom: 5000px; }     .page-left { background: #454545; }                 .page-right { background: #383838; }

                 Blahblah
                 Blahblah
                 Blahblah

                 Blahblah

       This works fine but now I need to put #page-wrap inside another DV with margin: 10px;   it works fine in **normal** browsers, but not in IE... I have a Fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/SyAeq/ **EDIT:** Solved! Just adding a {float:left} to #page-wrap did the trick!   Than a {clear:left} in a div underneath to clean it up


Keeping rackspace vserver alive

It appears to me that rackspace somehow freezes cloud VMs after some idle time. This means the first page request to a php page takes much longer to respond than the subsequent requests. This is in some cases good, in other cases not acceptable. I am actually querying a machine with wget from a different host now to keep it "alive". But I wonder what frequency would be necessary. Does anyone know the time period after which they send a VM to "sleep"? I guess it would be some minutes. EDIT: There is absolutely no caching involved on the php site. It just recently moved from another vhost and there was never such latency on the first request.


What are the pros and cons of running of keeping your Tumblr at mycompany.tumblr.com vs. mycompany.com/blog

I'm thinking it makes sense to run your Tumblr from mycompany.com/blog so the traffic is associated with your domain, but are there any reasons to leave it at mycompany.tumblr.com?


Possible to link Top Pages to Top Queries with GWMT SEO data?

Is it possible to link the Google Webmaster Tools SEO Top Queries and Top Pages reports to get both landing page and keyword data together?


Google AdSense went missing

I bought a new domain and successfully redirected my blogger account. Everything works OK except the Google Ads I previously had on my blogger is now missing after this redirect. Does it take time for the Ads to reappear? It's been around 12 hours now after the redirect.


Should I use WordPress category archives or regular pages when considering SEO?

I've built a WordPress site based on posts and category archives (no pages). The menu redirects to different category archive pages that have a description, an image, and the relevant posts. Now that almost everything is finished I've started to worry and wonder if that was a good decision from an SEO standpoint, will Google consider category archives a bad idea for sitelinks compared to using regular pages?


Google still has record of my old site URL - what to do?

I had a blog site, i.e. `http://example2.com`, then I bought a new domain, i.e. `http://example.com` and 301 permanent redirected `example2.com` to `example.com`. But when I get into the Google Webmaster Tools, if I get some 404, and then click into the link and see the "Linked from" tab, it shows some links like:   * `http://example.com/post-1`   * `http://example2.com/feed`   * `http://example2.com/post-1` ![Google Webmaster's Tools 404 linked from](http://i.stack.imgur.com/cyl1c.jpg) According to Google, if you change your domain, just use a redirection for at least 4-6 months, but it almost passed. Then why Google has still traces of my old site? The issue is important, because I don't want to pay for the old domain anymore. I tried deleting my existing _sitemap.xml_ and recreating it from the new site, but still such links are stored. What could I do?


Site restyling effecting Google ranking

I have to restyle a website in Drupal, and the client has a clear request: the site cannot drop its position on Google. If I build a new Drupal site, with the same URLs, the same meta and title tags, would it still lose ranking? If I build my URLs like the old ones, does it still lose positions on Google? The old site is also built using Drupal. The final question is: what king of work I have to make sure the site does not lose its position in Google?


Willl a major site redesign hurt my rank in Google?

I have a website where I upload and sell T-shirts. I have about 50 or so designs up and they receive hits from Google. I'm wanting to create a new T-shirt site where anyone can upload T-shirts and sell them. The database will be completely different from the old one. The purpose of the site is changing considerably but it's all still about T-shirts. I wanted to use the same domain name and keep the old T-shirt database and start integrating the new T-shirt DB. I would like to be able to use the rank I have with this site already as a stepping stone for this newer different T-shirt site version. My question is... Will Google penalize me for changing the site too much? Or am I able to benefit from the rank and seniority my page has already for this different version of a T-shirt site. The domain will stay the same and the old T-shirts will stay on there (for now) but the theme of the site will change and more functionality will be added. Any input on this question would be appreciated.


Do news stories have any downside from SEO point of view?

My client releases podcasts every monday and blogs about gaming news rest of the days. He wants his blog posts to appear in Google News (and other news sites). Is there any long term downside of your blog posts being news posts?


possibilites on uploading a file without login in mediawiki

In mediawiki, using api i can upload a file. its getting fine . But it will upload only logged in. i need to customize without login anybody can upload a file . I know without login cannot able to access api fuctionalities. Is there any possibilities to do without login ?


What are the most efficient/effective ways I can build a website for Mobile and Computer?

I want to make a website for one thing, I don't want to make two websites for one thing I want to make one. You probably agree with that. The problem is, we're walking away from this massive 22" screen and chair as we start to stare into the palms of our hands at these screens that can be up to 80% smaller. They try to hit the website again and -- bam, the thing sucks, fonts are all over the place, divs goof up, scripts don't run, things are too wide, I can't read the text, blah blah blah it's garbage. Standard solution? Make another website. Great, but that means I have to make another website. I don't want to do that, I want to make a website once. How do I do that?


How to dynamically insert a keyword in an Amazon Search Widget

Through Amazon Associates, you can create search widgets that have a place for a search term. In the admin, you can set the default search term, but that seems to be tied to the widget ID. I would like to be able to dynamically set the search term for the widget when it is displayed. How can I accomplish this? **Note:** I am referring to the following banner script:                Amazon.ca Widgets


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  www.mydomain.com secure but not mydomain.com? Hi We've got our website running and https / ssl works just great. EXCEPT when users enter `http://www.mydomain.com` and then enter the secure area and get directed to `httpS://www.mydomain.com` it works fine. But when users enter just `http://mydomain.com` and then enter the secure are and get directed to `httpS://mydomain.com` they get a warning about the certificate being from a website called "www.mydomain.com" while they're trying to enter "mydomain.com" .... Does our SSL cert not cover both www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com? Are we suppose to buy TWO certs, on for each?? Surely not? Any help or pointers to the standard way of doing things like this would be great. We're using Apache HTTPD to forward requests to Tomcat webapps. Apache is taking care of all the SSL connections.


Google Maps: Multiple companies on one location

I'm making some websites, and a few of those are for different companies at the same address (we offer different services under different names). Usually for a company's website I use the hCard format to get Google to show a map of the location when people search for the company. As far as I know this also makes the company name appear on the map itself. However, because several companies are running from the same building, we don't want to confuse our customers and just show the main company name on the map. Is it possible to somewhere set a preference as to which name to show on a map, but still have Google serve up maps as SERPs for each of the company names?


Best practice for URL direction in a multi TLD site

I'm about to re-launch a uk based community interest company website which has the same link structure for each of 10 different top level domains. There are presently no international websites, but there may be in the future. For simplicity's sake I intend to nominate a single primary domain (.org.uk) and then use htaccess to redirect incoming traffic from alternative TLD's back to the primary domain. Is this best practice in terms of efficiency and SEO? Would there be any benefit to using .com or .co.uk as the primary domain.


How can I measure the size of a webpage?

I'm building a website at the moment that has several complicated background images and repeats. The file sizes for each of the images are quite large (I've compressed them down as much as possible!), is there an online tool that I can use to measure the filesize of a page?


Redirect blog archive into certain format

I asked the question in WPSE before, but the answer I got so far is a complicated one. I'm actually looking for a `.htaccess` way. Here's what the scenario is: My blog archive URLs were like:               http://example.com/2014/03      I changed my site's permalink from `/%postname%/` to `/%postid%/%postname%/`, and using Redirection plugin, I set a redirection like: ![redirection 1](http://i.stack.imgur.com/mOLdu.png) and it's working. But the problem occurs in the archive URLs. The new archive URL generated with a /date/ basename before the dates, like:               http://example.com/date/2014/03      I'm trying to use the same Redirection plugin to redirect the URL, but failed: ![redirection 2](http://i.stack.imgur.com/FTtUs.png) I then tried writing `.htaccess` on my own (with no `.htaccess` writing experience) with:               Redirect permanent http://example.com/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+) http://example.com/date/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)      with the help of htaccess editor and this blog. But failed too. How can I let my blog not to get 404 on such archive URL? I'm afraid, I'm dumb with rewrite rule till now. :( ## UPDATE Here's how my `.htaccess` file just now:               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>     # END WordPress      And with Liam Sorsby's answer, I tried pasting the code               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$ /date/$1/$2 [R=301,L]      just below the `# END WordPress` once, and then tried again just before # END WordPress. But both time failed.


How Google counts the number of anchor texts and keywords in a Blogspot home page?

Since Google consider the anchor text and keyword counts of a webpage for search ranking, I have one doubt regarding this; how Google counts the number of anchor texts and keywords in a Blogspot home page? In the case of website’s home page, it’s possible to count the anchor text and keywords from its index page but in the case of Blogspot, home page would contains all the published posts (not for all blogs and it based on the theme of the blog). In my blog, I have posted so many posts which contains many anchor links, when I searched the keyword density of my Blogspot (`www.example.blogspot.com`) its showing more count for some keywords. Does it is a spam and how Google handle this situation?


Where does Google get the description text from when it's not in the page body?

The tutorial I am reading claims that the description of a web page (the little blurb google does about your site when you see it as a result in a search) is stored in a metadata tag as so:               <meta name="description" content="Description of a website>"      However, when I look at the source of any actual websites, I don't see any tag such as this, but they do have descriptions. My question is, where is the description stored? Take a look at this sample website: http://cheerleaders.union.rpi.edu/. When you google "rpi cheerleading" you get a description of the website, the text of which is not taken from the web page, and the page source does not have a description tag. What gives?


How to get the size of a web page (its content)?

How can you find what a particular web page is in size (i.e. MBs)? Before you could right click on a page and choose 'Show Page Info' and there it was. What about now? EDIT: Ideally a way to do it in Safari or Chrome.


What kind of increase can I expect from improving site speed

I have a pretty slow site. This is what WMT measured: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/d0MR1.png)   Now I know speed is a factor in SEO, but considering it is very difficult to make the site faster, I'm trying to evaluate the ROI of this effort. Do you believe considering my current site speed, this can make a significant effect to my rankings? Any estimate in % SEO traffic growth? Also, is the speed seo factor measured as site average or per page?


Google Webmaster Tools reports porn search queries are showing my site

I run an inspiration travel website, unrelated to porn. Yet, Google Webmaster Tools reports that many different pages on my site are showing the top 10 results for porn-related queries. There is no content on those pages being related to porn. When I put the query into Google search myself, I never see one of my pages showing in the search results. What would be driving this? Is this a bug or something malicious?


Dynamically serving different mobile HTML content and having mobile site too

We are dynamically serving a HTML page that is appropriate for mobile users. It has the same URL but different HTML source code. We also have a separate mobile site. Is there any problem for Google SEO with two different sites that both do mobile?


HTML Improvements are not updating properly

I use Webmaster Tools for my website and I have removed duplicate titles in my site. But it is not getting reflected in Webmaster Tools. Is there any reload to view the changes in HTML Improvements?


Robots.txt destroyed my ranking?

I had to do a massive URL change stuff (Categories and Products) on my e-commerce site while keeping 301 redirect of old URLs to new ones. I did change category URLs (appr: 800 URLs) to new and improved ones and went live with them; but for an automated (scripted) 301 redirect; I had to get done with new improved Products URLs as well. And to avoid any 404 issues with old category URLs; **I didn't want Google to crawl my site** until I was done and gone live with Products' new URLs; **I put a robots.txt block on my entire site!** thinking that I'll have enough time converting all products to new URLs and keeping Google away of the site. It was intended to be temporary block. When I put robots.txt back to Allow all URLs; things started appearing all wrong! All the site's ranking has gone down! I am confused; what to do now!   * The robots.txt is now allowing all URLs;    * 301 redirect for old URLs is in place and working.    * Entire site has NEW URLs.    * I have submitted new sitemaps And I want to gain the ranking all back to normal. I have submitted new sitemaps and Google's not friendly with them. 99.9% of URLs in sitemap are still saying "URLs blocked by robots.txt". What did I do wrong? And how's it gonna solve the best way?


How can I prevent users from creating multiple accounts?

I'm building a site that needs to guarantee user reputation scores are accurate by preventing users from creating more than one account, at the cost of decreased user signups. So far, the only solutions I have thought of are allowing users to:   * Link to their (verified) PayPal account through PayPal Account Authentication   * Provide their PGP public key, and checking that the MSD (a metric of trustworthiness) is below a certain value Of course, even these methods aren't bulletproof, but are likely to make creating a sock-puppet account very difficult. Are there any others I haven't considered?


Session cookie being dropped when moving under the SSL

## The short version: I've got a session cookie being set on a dev site but it's not being picked up when I move to the SSL (so the shopping cart empties when you go to the checkout). When it's set on the **www** site:               # http://dev.domain.ext     Name    devSID     Value   2e9f1b1f6ca718d0961d0257f3297c1a     Host    .domain.ext     Path    /     Secure  No     Expires At End Of Session      And on the **ssl** side:               # https://dev.domain.ext     Name    devSID     Value   6fe74ccc91b67bce46165d005bfd157e     Host    .domain.ext     Path    /     Secure  No     Expires At End Of Session      It looks like the session cookie created under **www** isn't being picked up under the **ssl** side (conversely it doesn't go the other way either, if it's created on the **ssl** side it's not picked up on the **www** side). Anyone got any bright ideas? * * * ## The long version (me working it through) I've got a dev site currently on a **dev** sub-domain; the session cookie being set is accessible across the whole domain using a **.domain.ext** type format and is created using a PHP object which loads the parameters from a config table in the database. The same object creates the cookie across all sub-domains so it's not creating duplicate cookies with different path values or anything like that.               Name    devSID     Value   [alpha-numeric hash value]     Host    .domain.ext     Path    /     Secure  No     Expires At End Of Session      On my local machine the sub-domains used are **www** and **ssl** so the host string reads as **.dev.local** and the cookie is happily read across the entire domain (using Apache's https-vhosts.conf to setup the domains on the server and the Windows hosts file to point them to 127.0.0.1)... and everything is peachy. However, when I upload it to an online dev server (with it's own config and vhosts settings) the cookie gets dropped when moving from the **www** to **ssl** sides of the site and I can't see any logical reason for it. This is what's going on in vhosts:               <VirtualHost [IP ADDRESS]:80 >         ServerName www.dev.domain.ext         ServerAlias www.dev.domain.ext dev.domain.ext              ...     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost [IP ADDRESS]:443 >         [SSL ENGINE BIT]              ServerName ssl.dev.domain.ext         ServerAlias ssl.dev.domain.ext dev.domain.ext              ...     </VirtualHost>      Technically the sub-domains (as defined by ServerName) are **www.dev** and **ssl.dev** however neither of those are actually registered with any DNS servers - the DNS servers just have the higher **dev** sub-domain registered; so I've added that into the ServerAlias list and entries have been made in my Windows hosts file so the unregistered sub-domains resolve on my machine.               [IP ADDRESS]    www.dev.domain.ext     [IP ADDRESS]    ssl.dev.domain.ext      And the session cookie parameters:               Name    devSID     Value   [alpha-numeric hash value]     Host    .domain.ext     Path    /     Secure  No     Expires At End Of Session      So theoretically that cookie should be accessible across **all** sub-domains (even the live site actually since I've not limited it to the **dev** sub- domain) **but** whenever I move to the SSL side the cookie gets dropped.


Different Title/Description for Google in different regions

I have multilanguage website targeting by subdomain:   * **http://en.site.com/** - Displays only contents in English   * **http://de.site.com/** - Displays only contents in German   * ...   * **http://site.com/** - Displays contents in all languages Title/Description are also translated depending on subdomain. Main domain is in English. I would like to have different Title/Description on main domain **http://site.com/** for users from different region:   * **http://google.co.uk/** should display Title/Description in English   * **http://google.de/** should display Title/Description in German My question: For main domain **http://site.com/** is it possible to return different Title/Description for Google bot from different regions? Or there is only one Google bot and targeting is only completed by search engine, not crawler? Thank you!


Which URL is SEO friendly?

I have to choose between two usernames, one comprises of just my first name i.e. `http://example.com/john` while the other comprises of full name i.e. `http://example.com/johnsmith`. Which of the above URL will be more SEO friendly when I search for `John Smith`, I think that the latter one has more chances to rank better, as it contains the entire search query.


What is the impact on SEO for having a div that is removed by JavaScript

What, if any, impact would there be for having a stripped down view of my content in a `<div>` that is quickly replaced by [a much richer view] via JavaScript? Would this be any different than how a `<noscript>` tag is handled?


Google Analytics change stats of my page if I do some changes on it?

the question is : Google Analytics change stats of my page if I do some changes on it ? I don't know how G.A works when we update manually a page (html) For example, if I add a new picture to my gallery, Stats will change or not ? Thanks.


At what visitor share do you stop supporting a given browser?

I'm lead dev for a large website which has a higher than average percentage of IE6 users - about 4.4% of our audience. Our new version is going to make use of progressive enhancement - including transitions and effects as well as rounded corners, gradients, web fonts and other CSS techniques. Obviously there are cross-browser ways to achieve most of these things which require various amounts of work to implement. What I'm currently looking into - and what I'd like your experiences of - is how to decide at what point we draw the line between providing an enhanced experience vs just supporting the functionality. FYI, I believe that this question meets the six guidelines for great subjective questions as defined in the FAQ. I'm after answers detailing why and how, not too short, with constructive comments, experiences, facts and references. Thanks! Adam


About phpmyadmin

I am using phpmyadmin for my database purpose.Myisam is my database engine. I want to know about what is mean about:"choose field to display" in relationship page in phpmyadmin


Chmod 777 to a folder and all contents on Apache web server

I have just got new hosting for my website and I have a directory /www which I put all my website files within and a folder in that directory called 'store'. Within 'store' is several files and folders, I want to give the folder 'store' and all files and folders within the 'store' folder all permissions. How do I do this? I am guessing via .htaccess. I have tried inserting               chmod 777 -R /store      Into the .htaccess file but didn't work. Threw a big on screen error at me. I want to make all the files and folders within /store writable.


Should I change my domain suffix for better SEO?

In the start of 2013 my blog started to fail. I do not know whether its the result of a SEO problem or because I didn't write much. I received a lot of guest post requests and accepted many. They brought a lot of links which I think might have contributed to the problem. I removed many guest posts from the site. I stopped writing and only wrote a handful of posts for almost an year. Now I want to restart it. I bought a new domain and moved the site to it. But is it a good move? How to find out whether my old one is bad? My old domain : techhamlet.com the new one : techhamlet.net


Is there a way to know if apache receives a request from a public IP not local to your country?

I'm looking for ways to know if an apache server receives a request , from another country (e.g germany) considering its a fair request (no spam , or proxies). I want it either to appear this as a separate entry(using dns request) in apache logs? or some kind of alert . Can this be possible.


Why do CDNs charge so much for private SSL?

I've been looking at various CDN services, and many of them seem to charge a pretty hefty fee compared to the free shared SSL offering. One in particular, CDN77, is offering private SSL for $700/year. Why is the price so high? Isn't the only technical difference between a private/public SSL the ability to use a custom domain name? From what I gather, the only difference would be having to send the key/certificate to them yourself, which shouldn't cost nearly $700 a year. Do they just charge this price because they can?


Do Apache virtual hosts perform better when listening to different ports?

I plan to use mod_proxy to route requests to Apache virtual hosts based on the URL. example.com/foo/x is routed to foo.example.com/x, example.com/bar/x is routed to bar.example.com/x, etc. Are there any performance reasons for the virtual hosts to listen to different ports (and to use mod_proxy to route requests to those ports accordingly) or do they perform as well when they all listen to the same port? I'm thinking about having them all listen to the same port for simplicity.


Google and replacing content of the site

I have site on old domain (7 years) with old content. I want to replace it with new site currently with NO content. Topic will be the same and content is user generated. Should I simply replace the old site with new one or should I buy new domain to run new site in relation how Google will take this? I have some fears that Google would penalize new site in some way, now or later.


Transfer page from internal to external

Currently I have a website with a list of audio products (essentially a search engine for audio deals). http://www.soundplaza.co.uk Once you go to the details page, you can then press the 'view deal' button to go to providers site e.g. = http://www.soundplaza.co.uk/all- deals/113/bookshelf-speakers/acoustic-energy-1 This jump between two sites is a bit harsh and I would like to show a transition page, to simply ease them into another site and not scare them off. Within this tradition page I will have a simple loading gif and some graphics showing that your transferring. **QUESTION:** What is the best way to send the details (link, product name etc) to this transfer page, to then wait 5 seconds, to then move on to the desired link... this can in **NO WAY** damage my SEO, if anything `rel="nofollow"` would be great if possible. I have seen that you can submit form to the transition page, then you can use php sleep and then php header to transfer... however I am not sure if php header will transfer SEO value to the provider?


Should we get an EV Certificate?

Our regular SSL provider is offering EV certificates for under $US200, and it just so happens that the certificate for our B2B e-commerce site is expiring in a month (which should give us enough time to get validated). $200 is still pretty reasonable (even if it's 5x the price of a "normal" certificate). Should we do it "Just because"? Are there any downsides to using an EV? The marketing guys like it because it turns the browser-bar green in IE and it just happens to fit the colour scheme of our site perfectly ;) We're not a bank, but we do deal in private, legal details (such as wills, transfers of business, terminations, etc).


What EXACTLY does Compatibility View do in IE8?

I have an ordered list where the text is displaying on the next line from the number in IE 8 (but not other browsers). If I switch on _Compatibility View_ it looks correct. While I think I'll be able to debug this particular issue and fix it, does anyone know of a fairly complete description of what the Compatibility View does, so that next time I can maybe speed up resolution? TIA


Wordpress Multisite- How to restrict a non-wordpress page only to one domain

I am running three blogs from a wordpress multisite. Currently, I am developing a separate, non wordpress application. I want to link this application with blog1. I put the application in the subfoler of my root directory (The Wordpress multisite is installed in the root). I linked the application in the menu of blog1. So far so good. But, it is possible to access the application from all the three blogs. I want the application to be accessible only from blog1-domain/my-app/ but when I tried blog2-domain/my-app, it just opened normally. Generally, the application is accessible from all the three domains followed by /my-app. I don't think it is proper to go this way. Then, what can I do to restrict my app to be accessible only from a my blog1-domain/my-app ? Or am I not using a good blog structure?. I am open to all kind of suggestions. Thank you for your help.


Google Webmaster Tools reporting crawl error 404 (Not found) for a page which has never existed

Google Webmaster Tools is reporting a crawl error "404 (Not Found)" for an .html page which has never existed on a web site I developed. The page being reported is "tyuiabmog.html", which doesn't sound like it was named by a human! Please could someone help me to shed some light on how Google came across this non-existent page and why it is trying to crawl it?


Framework for interaction between web-page and server-side script

I want to make a web-page that will have several controls elements, among which there are elements like check-boxes, radio-buttons, "range selectors" (one can specify the min and max value, like it is done when you select range for prices in the online markets). The new values shall be sent to the "server-side", once changed (without any Submit buttons etc), and the "server- side" can return something (one or more numbers, etc). Does anyone know a good ajax-like framework that allows (with minimal adaptation / changes) to make such solution in an easy way? It will be good if the server-side of existing solution will be in Perl (not a big deal, but I know it much better than PHP or something else). Set of controls might change and depend on other parameter, so adding one extra element should not cause rewriting the whole thing. P.S.: I haven't working in this area for quite a while, so not aware of existing solutions in this area, and don't want to invent the wheel and write everything from scratch for something that already exist (at least, I hope so). Thanks in advance!


what is the simplest online payment gateway? other than paypal

Or maybe paypal is the most useful of them all.?? to be integrated in asp.net c#


What is the new location for Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP plugin update?

When I try to update the Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP I receive the following: "No repository found at http://downloads.zend.com/fbphp/updates/4_5" I understand that zend guys moved the location of the plugin somewhere.... maybe you know what's the new location? Greatly appreciate for your help in advance.


Why Can I See 301'd URL in Google Index

I have a domain, www.timeclockmtsonline that I have 301'd to www.timeclockmts- online.com using the following PHP:               <?php         header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );          header( "Location: http://www.timeclockmts-online.com" );      ?>      However, when I do a google search on with www.timeclockmtsonline.com as the search term I can see a listing for that domain. I thought I'd see nothing. Now I am worried about being hit with a duplicate content penalty.


Changing MySQL password in WHM

When resetting an account password in WHM, I get a checkbox with this option: "`Sync MySQL password with account password`." If an account has multiple MySQL databases, what password is it going to change? I did a test on a WordPress site and noticed that the MySQL password did not change, so I'm curious as to what this setting does.


How can I find common misspellings for my domain name?

I'd like to register misspellings for my domain name, but I don't want to speculatively register a zillion "just guessing" forms. For example, this tool offers the following options in a Keyword Typo Generator   * skip letters   * double letters   * reverse letters   * skip spaces   * missed key   * inserted key Which is great, and generates dozens if not _hundreds_ of possible domain names... but it doesn't tell me the most crucial thing: _which of these misspellings actually happen the most with real live users on the actual Internet?_ How can I find actual misspelling data from real users?


Why website position on the google is shifting

I want to know what's the reason behind shifting of website on google is there, whenever I updated the website with the new content. Whenever I go ahead with the new content, it goes beyond 150 on google. and after few days it comes to 30 I don't know what should I do to bring it on to the top 5. Is there any software which will help in bringing on to the top ? I m just doing directory submission 5-10 everyday. Please suggest. Thanks in advance


Should I include different types of result listing pages in my xml sitemap?

Say I have an articles section. It can be filtered by **tag** `(/articles/tag/detectives)`, by **author** `(/articles/author-url)` and also through **regular pagination** , with the recent first `(/articles?page=2)`. _In addition to the main articles to which they point, Which of these filtered listings URLs should I include in my sitemap?_ On one hand I have read that any url that I'd like appearing in search results should be included in the sitemap. I would like both tag and author listing pages to come up in search results if possible. Should paginated sites be included in sitemap? On the other hand, I have read on SO that it might be preferable to just put the main detail pages in the sitemap and to omit the listing pages. Quote: > "Maybe then I'd omit the listing pages altogether. Doesn't sound like they > have any real content on them and it could detract from the details pages - > which is presumably where you actually want your users to go" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/696836/should-i-include-paginated-results- in-my-sitemap-xml Can anybody more experienced than myself provide clarification or guidance on this? Any official sources would be appreciated.


1and1 SPF record not found

I am seeing the spf txt file in my dns settings but when running an mx toolbox test it is not finding the record. Does anyone have a fix? Thanks


Forum posting VS signature

Signature VS forum profile section line as backlink VS answering a question and giving a related post URL as the answer is better? Will a signature be better or forum posting and helping with an answer and a link be better. Does Google algorithms consider both as spam/blackhat?


Google Analytics e-commerce tracking - unique order id's

I sell an online piano course. It's a single product that uses a single thank- you URL. On this thank-you page I want to track a transaction of 69 euro, quantity 1. The transaction ID and order ID need to be the samen and unique. How can I edit this code to make these ID's unique instead of '1' which I hardcoded now?               <script type="text/javascript">     pageTracker._addTrans(     "1", // required     "",     "69",     "",     "",     "",     "",     ""     );     pageTracker._addItem(     "1", // required     "",     "Piano voor Beginners",     "Cursussen",     "69", // required     "1" //required     );     pageTracker._trackTrans();     </script>


How to de-index pages from google using robots.txt

I added the no-index tag for the google-bot, but it is kind of taking a long time to de-index some pages since I have over 100k pages I need to de-index lol :))) What is the proper way to de-index pages using robots.txt? Thanks! Any idea how long should it take?


Wamp Server Not Parsing htm Files As PHP

I know this question has been already asked here. I am trying to use a script in my localhost. The script contains .htm files and an .htaccess file with the following code to parse those .htm files as PHP.               AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .htm .php .html      Now this is not working at all and i get a blank web page whenever i run it from my localhost. i.e "localhost/paystill_enterprise" and it give me blank webpage. Now i have tried every solution i could find on internet like editing httpd.conf file etc. Here are some of the solutions i have tried. 1- I have tried editing httdp.conf and have added the following code one by one                <IfModule mime_module>       AddType application/x-httpd-php .php       AddType application/x-httpd-php .html       AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm       AddType application/x-httpd-php .txt      </IfModule>           <FilesMatch "\.html$">        ForceType application/x-httpd-php      </FilesMatch>           <FilesMatch "\.htm$">         ForceType application/x-httpd-php      </FilesMatch>      2- Tried adding these lines of code one by one in my .htaccess file                AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .htm           AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .html .htm           RemoveHandler .html .htm      AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html      No matter what i use, always get a blank page for "localhost/paystill_enterprise". Note: Sometimes it also happens that when i type the address "localhost/paystill_enterprise", the browsers asks me to save the file i.e the browser tries to download it. Any suggestions?


In GA, how can I see which sites I sent the most traffic to?

There is the "Exit Pages" tab, but that only shows what were the pages where people most exited the website. Is there a place or configuration that could show me which external websites or pages my website sent the highest amount of traffic?


How to transfer a Blogspot blog to a new domain?

I have a blogspot blog, I have purchased a new domain and I want to transfer my old blogspot blog to my new domain. Is it possible? If yes then let me know the procedure.


MX changes for domain alias not propogating

I am trying to implement Google Apps for a new domain of mine, and although Google says it can take up to 48 hours, it is normally much quicker than that, and other DNS changes, such as creating the domain alias, normally take less than 1 hour to propogate. The domain I'm trying to set up Google Apps for is an alias of an existing domain - let me explain: I have mainDomain.com, and this is the name of my domain account on my host, which I cannot change. However, that domain name has expired and is no longer available, so I create a domain alias on the host called aliasDomain.co.za, and choose not to use the main domain DNS. I then set all the MX records, as documented by Google, on aliasDomain.co.za, but it's been about 12 hours with no joy yet. I suppose I should wait the 48 hours, but if my DNS is wrong, it could be another 48 hours to see if I did fix it. Should what I'm doing work normally, or should I be doing something else?


Why do many valid links in my blog show error 500 in Google WebMaster Tools?

Majority of the links in the screenshot below are **valid**! Such as: http://wayneye.com/Blog/HTML5-Web-Socket-In-Essence http://wayneye.com/Blog/There-Is-No-The-Hope-Project And so on... Even if I tried " **Fetch as Googlebot** " the result is 200 OK. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/A1C3D.png) Please note: I do not block any content for google bot in my robots.txt, neither in my HTML meta tags.


Page Speed no longer working for Firefox 4?

Hey there, I love Google's little Page Speed tool, I've seen some wonderful speed advances on sites I've worked on because of it, but since I've upgraded to FF4 it doesn't seem to be in Firebug anymore. And when I've tried to download it, it won't install. Is it just me, or are Google being slow to update it? (Seems odd.) Here's where I've checked: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/


Images randomly not showing up

I just uploaded a website for a client which looked good while previewing locally. When I visit it on the server though some images aren't loading properly. It seems to be quite random, and sometimes they all load like they should. Sometimes images pop up after a sec or so. This problem occurs in Firefox, Safari doesn't have any problems. All the image links are correct. What am I doing wrong? This is the website: http://alturl.com/ky9o6 and this page seems to have the most problems: http://alturl.com/37czx


How to avoid getting spam through a website?

We seem to be getting A LOT of email spam, we have a combination of the email addresses as `mailto` links and contact forms that send to the same address. What measures can we put in place that will eliminate the majority of spam? **We need to keep a visible email address and contact form so there's no way to just remove those.**


Using Feedburner with both RSS and Atom feeds

I might be misunderstanding the concept completely, but here's the question: when I try to add a blog's feeds (the blog is hosted at Blogspot, so it provides both Atom and RSS) to FeedBurner, it suggests to choose _one_ of the feed formats. Is it possible to track subscribers of both the both feed formats? Thanks.


Should I use gzip for compressing my HTML?

I saw from an online tester that my HTML can be compressed about 90%! Is it good practice to use gzip or not? I see that lot sites don't use it. For me it would improve traffic, as some pages contain a lot of data (120 KB of HTML without the images) which can be compressed to a few kilobytes.


Why do user registration process not end with the user logged in?

Often I see websites when at the end of the registration process the user is not logged in. What is the rational for that? It seems redundant to ask a user to reenter their credentials just after they signed up, no? I understand that in the code, those two are separate functionalities, but from a UX / web design stand point, is there any reason to do it that way? Thanks, JDelage


H1 vs H2 vs Other for website title/logo and SEO

It is a common practice for front-end developers to put the website title or logo in H1 tag and the title in H2. But most of the time the title of the page/article is more important because it carries the content value. So my question is what is the best approach from semantic and SEO viewpoint. Examples:   * logo - H1, title - H1    * logo - H1, title - H2    * logo - H2, title - H1    * logo - other tag, title - H1 Provided other variants if you think they will have bigger effect.


How to change Bugzilla change privacy notice?

How can I change the privacy notice in both the site and email messages? My instance is not public facing. I don't like this: > PRIVACY NOTICE: Bugzilla is an open bug tracking system. Activity on most > bugs, including email addresses, will be visible to the public. We recommend > using a secondary account or free web email service (such as Gmail, Yahoo, > Hotmail, or similar) to avoid receiving spam at your primary email address.


PrestaShop install SQL error

I am trying to install PrestaShop 1.4.0.17, and reach Step 3. I enter database information, which tests okay, and I choose the second option: Full mode: includes 100+ additional modules and demo products (FREE too!). I choose Next, and receive the error:               Error while inserting data in the database:     ‘CREATE TABLE `shop_county_zip_code` ( `id_county` INT NOT NULL , `from_zip_code` INT         NOT NULL , `to_zip_code` INT NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( `id_county` , `from_zip_code` , `to_zip_code` ) ) ENGINE=’     You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near \’\’ at line 6(Error: : 1064)      This happens if I use either MyISAM, or InnoDB. Why is this happening? This also happens if I drop all database tables, and try again in simple mode. Is there a manual installation method?


Should I combat link rot with redirects? Can it be done unintrusively?

I try to do my bit of keeping the web fluent by minimizing the amount of link rot affecting my own site. This means keeping track of local 404's and fixing them, as well as manually updating broken external URL references I come across. I've seen redirects suggested as one solution to combat link rot. When all links point to local redirect addresses (such as example.com/?r=123456), the actual target URL can be kept in a database and updated throughout the site in one place in the face of link rot. However, on the user side I generally dislike redirect systems myself, as they make picking up the actual target URL's somewhat cumbersome (have a look at the title links on a Google search results page for example). Then again, maybe I've used sites that do employ redirects but do it transparently enough for me not to even notice. **Is a transparent (or nearly-so) redirect system at all possible? Are such systems available already, or should I roll my own?** Also, I'd be interested to hear if there are other major cons in utilizing redirects. So far, the user annoyance I mentioned above has been enough to keep me from planning ahead with this technique.


Best CMS for university/college?

Is there CMS for university or college.for these services(Register Collegian,Course Unit Selection,Exam Results,...).With PHP support! Tnx.


Some Punycode URLs redirect to Unicode but others don't, why?

I've setup two subdomains, each using punycode: http://xn--xxa.hawx.me/ -> http://μ.hawx.me/   http://xn--l6h.hawx.me/ -> http://♪.hawx.me/ If you visit the unicode versions, ♪.hawx.me will stay the same in the browser bar but μ.hawx.me will redirect to the punycode version. Why does this happen and is it possible to force it to stay as the μ version when visited?


Quick Filesharing Web-App

I need to provide ftp/http services for a group of users such that:   * each user has his own password protected area where he can upload files   * each user can create user accounts and passwords for the files he wants to share Anybody know of a simple, self-installed, web app that will accomplish this?


Whois and server host information privacy

I have a domain that is privately registered, so if you run a whois, you will just the domain registrars name. And below are two questions:   1. Since i am using private registration, is there a way somebody can find out i own it?   2. Will the nameserver information still show even if its privately registered?


Liquid Layout out of Proportion

I am using a liquid layout on my website, but when I view in in my browser I find that when I change the browser window size, the images are stretched out of proportion. Can anybody help?


How can I write my own page in moodle?

* I want to write my own page in moodle that call with a link on the blocks (left side of the page) when I click that link I want to load my page (php) in the region field without change the other parts of the page   * note that the link is added by mine


Why is there such a huge discrepancy between my Google Analytics and Webtrends stats for PDF downloads

I was charged with getting the number of times a specific PDF has been clicked on our site for the past two years. GA registered something like 30 downloads, which at first I found impossible to believe but it is an obscure academic report so I said OK. Person connected to the report couldn't believe it, she said that she has seen sites where this PDF had 8,000 or so downloads over same period. Well Webtrends for our site showed that over 16,000 downloads to that one URL during that same period and 8,000 unique visits. Now I know that server log statistics are practically useless and that when a user clicks on a PDF, the log file can register a bunch of requests to the server but still, this discrepancy is astounding. Even after I filtered out 206 HTTP status codes and as many bots as I could, I still had about 8,000 downloads with about 6,000 visits. We do use tracking codes, but I am using unique page views for this in GA. Tracking codes actually bring up even fewer downloads. Am I right in concluding that a tracking code won't track a PDF linked directly from a search engine, either Google or any other - because obviously our tracking code isn't on any of their pages. Much of our content comes from Google searches. I cannot find keywords or phrases that would reasonably correspond to this PDF in analytics for search terms either. So now I have no idea what to tell this woman. I tend to trust GA WRT pdf downloads. I also find it hard to believe there were only 30 downloads in two years - even an obscure academic PDF. I need to figure this out. Any suggestions? Any advice is much, much, appreciated.


Error 404 (Not Found)!

My website is www.sbsangpi.com and I checked the IP address of my website is (173.194.72.121). Whenever I browse 173.194.72.121, I got message "ERROR 404(Not Found)!!!" I use blogger and redirected my blogspot.com to .com. I have tried adding one as my subdomain but still nothing affected! I can access my website using www.sbsangpi.com but not with IP. How Can I redirect 173.194.72.121 to my home page www.sbsangpi.com?


recommend strategy to implement this design

I'm trying to build a website (html only) for a design studio and I am trying to figure out what is the best way to go about it. Layour of a webpage is like this:   * A page is divided into two spaces (think of it as a vertical column like this: `L | R` where L = left side and R = right side)   * `R` page will have images for menu options. For simplicity, let's say we have "Home" and "Contact Us"   * `L` page behaves like a state machine. For e.g., when user clicks on `Contact Us`: `L` is updated with contact us contents and clicking on `Home` updates the content with home contents I'm trying to figure out what would be a good way to deal with this kind of a situation. Please let me know if you need me to be clear or provide more details. Thanks


Google Analytics when 404 handler is used as 'mod_rewrite'?

I'm consulting on a web site which in order to provide clean URL's uses the 404 handler to catch what would otherwise be a 404 and serve the correct content. In case that's not clear the 404 handler is being used to do what would otherwise be done by mod_rewrite. So : http://somedomain.com/fruit/apples/description ... does not exist on somedomain.com so the 404 handler, a PHP script, is invoked, parses the URL requested and then makes an internal requests for: http://somedomain.com?foodtype=1&fooddesc=2&contenttype=3 The resulting content then gets sent but in doing so it reports a 404 to the user agent. The client is interested in using Google Analytics in order to track usage of the site. My question is will GA provide anything useful in terms of results or will the 404 being returned by the server cause GA to discard the response ?


Limit Joomla user login sessions

I am testing a Joomla installation for making a commercial website where you pay for accessing content. I just found out that it is possible to login from two different computers at the same time into Joomla and start browsing the restricted areas. Is it somehow possible to restrict a login to only one user session?


How do you figure out a large site link/structure?

Suppose you're re-designing an existing large site. The first thing to do is to figure out how the site is structured, how many links, pages, sub domains, etc. Is there a tool you can use to crawl a site and have an easy-to-understand site map generated?


Should I block search engines with robots.txt on my Facebook app?

There's a few subdomains on my homepage where I tak advantage of robots.txt to block search engines for indexing their contents, like my images and downloads subdomains as I don't want the direct URLs for this content to be indexed. I do it like this:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      Now I have a new subdomain 'facebook' which I'll be using to host apps developed for Facebook. My question is, should I use the code above to also block this subdomain? The app itself shouldn't be accessed and used through the direct URL (but it still works I believe, didn't test it though), it should be used through the canvas URL, which is something like `apps.facebook.com/app_name`. I don't mind search engines to index this URL, it's the right one to index. But I don't think it makes sense for them to index something like 'facebook.mydomain.com/apps/app_name'. Should I block search engines with robots.txt for Facebook applications or should I ignore it? Any good reason for allowing search engines to crawl it?


Can I use Google Data Highlighter and Schema.org on same page?

Let's say I have an existing page, and I want to use Google Data Highlighter. Later on I got access to its back end. Can I put Schema.org code directly to that same page?


Does having video on a website increase the quality of traffic coming to the site?

I was wondering if anyone had any actual statistics on this. I was curious if having a video on a website makes an exceptional difference to the quality of traffic coming to the site.


Mailclients checking Links inside mail

We have developed a feature that creates **reservations**. The client **receives an email** containing a link which is clickable **only once**. Some of those reservations **fail** and I can't figure out why. I think that some mail clients (incl. webbased) check the links inside a mail **before** exposing the mail to the reader. Maybe due to malware scanning, tracking, status code checks,.. **Question:** Do you know any mail client which behaves like that? Bonus question: Do those clients stop when the url is defined in `robots.txt` ? Edit: I'm currently checking `access.log` for those links and try to find different access to the reservation links. Hour log files are HUGE and this takes like forever on several servers..


Plus sign in front of URLs in user agents

I run a small web crawler and had to decide on what user agent to use for it. Lists of crawler agents as well as Wikipedia suggest the following format:                examplebot/1.2 (+http://www.example.com/bot.html)      However some bots omit the plus sign in front of the URL. And I wonder what it means in the first place, but couldn't find any explanation. RFC 2616 considers everything in parenthesis a comment and doesn't restrict its format. Yet it is common for browsers to have a semicolon-separated list of tokens in the comment that advertise the version and capabilities of the browser. I don't think this is standardized in any way other than most browsers formatting it similarly. And I couldn't find anything concerning URLs in the comment. My question is: Why the plus sign? Do I need it?


IE9 smart screen bypass

Good old IE9 apparently doesn't know that small businesses have fewer customers than it takes to make a 'commonly downloaded file'.![download manager](http://i.stack.imgur.com/vWMGW.png) So I get these errors. I'm not sure if the first error is related to the second one. I've been pumping my download through a hidden iframe so I can manage security more directly and log downloads. It's worked for quite a while and continues to work in all other browsers, but I always get 'download was interrupted' in IE9 (so do our clients), but pressing resume works. However, the most obnoxious thing is that you get 2 opportunities to delete the file downloaded and one extra opportunity to just ignore it. So, our tech support dept gets calls from 99% of the confused IE users. Sorry for the two part question, but I'd imagine this all has something to do with smart screen filter since other file types (PDF, DOC, XLS) can download just fine without being 'interrupted'.   1. Why was the download interrupted   2. How do I make my program 'commonly downloaded' whatever help there is from Microsoft is quite misleading, set me off for an hour looking for an option that didn't exist.