How did my email end up in spam? Spam only filters this specific email, other email contents work

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? My website has users buy our products and when the purchase completes, it sends the user an email. However, this email always ends up in spam! When the user first registers, the site also sends an email, this email however is not filtered and goes into the normal inbox. I'm not quite sure why this is so, gmail vaguely tells me that " It's similar to messages that were detected by our spam filters." So I'm thinking that I need to reword the following email better. Can I get some tips? Or could something else be causing this? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xVyo1.png) thanks! here's the unformatted email:               Delivered-To: mugenex69@gmail.com     Received: by 10.112.32.98 with SMTP id h2csp61953lbi;             Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:09:13 -0700 (PDT)     Received: by 10.180.79.72 with SMTP id h8mr22836827wix.1.1332302953175;             Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:09:13 -0700 (PDT)     Return-Path: <contact@website.com>     Received: from mail26.elasticemail.org (mail26.elasticemail.org. [178.32.180.26])             by mx.google.com with SMTP id 6si518487wiz.41.2012.03.20.21.09.12;             Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:09:12 -0700 (PDT)     Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of contact@website.com designates 178.32.180.26 as permitted sender) client-ip=178.32.180.26;     Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of contact@website.com designates 178.32.180.26 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=contact@website.com; dkim=pass header.i=@website.com     DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; bh=qjc8jxQuGy9pLN1YV9TR2PHQYKg=;      c=relaxed/relaxed; d=website.com; s=api;      h=DomainKey-Signature:MIME-Version:From:To:List-Unsubscribe:Subject:Date:Reply-To:Message-ID:Content-Type;      b=Odt+nYhjntXPl7JPVHeJWjkStemt6so+FPVYY6oMKziMFzmW8YiLhN8WwSLY0faMcn/rirKsO2dOm/kvcHlqUJC7ldhaydE6bPekkBDa9kBovlGwPNm6xy9QWPP9I1fXDLDCwqqeAXv8kN0daXbh3pVyqWNUOk5cgQ35OgpQpKI=     DomainKey-Signature: q=dns; a=rsa-sha1; c=simple;      d=website.com; s=api;      h=MIME-Version:X-Mailer:From:To:X-Priority:List-Unsubscribe:Subject:Date:Reply-To:Message-ID:Content-Type;      b=F7NNZIEyEV+64uYD8pVpe91WLP19Tw2Whk4OKpkLeAfkmrNIA7AjP0XYU1JWTlEyibHQJjjbhR62I3MvVJBSGp75eWfOuwb2AqYWZ/jAlMWznnfQLVv7OlYJsErGxYP6GUNNcuJaqlTPFDanJwtaEvR+tqXZRB7xrUisMd8lq2I=     MIME-Version: 1.0     X-Mailer: email.website.com     From: "Website Contact" <contact@website.com>     To: mugenex69@gmail.com     X-Priority: 3 (Normal)     List-Unsubscribe: <http://email.website.com/tracking/unsubscribe?msgid=su6g-8kfd0s0g>,      <mailto:unsubscribe+su6g-8kfd0s0g@bounces.elasticemail.net?subject=unsubscribe>     Subject: Website Tickets: event     Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:09:17 +0000     Reply-To: "Website Contact" <contact@website.com>     Message-ID: <4tlaxecj2jy8.su6g-8kfd0s0g@email.website.com>     Content-Type: multipart/alternative;         boundary="----=_NextPart_000_3F77_7A0DF805.A8C886C0"               ------=_NextPart_000_3F77_7A0DF805.A8C886C0     Content-Type: text/plain;         charset="utf-8"     Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64          SGVsbG8hIAoKIEhlcmUgYXJlIHlvdXIgdGlja2V0KHMpIGZvciBDVEFTIGVDc1RBU3kgMjAxMjog     CgpodHRwczovL2NhbXB1c2FtcC5jb20vP3RpY2tldHMvNy95aGloZ3Znd3Z3cWR3cXhtdnQKClNp     bXBseSBicmluZyBpdCB3aXRoIHlvdSBvbiB5b3VyIHNtYXJ0cGhvbmUsIG9yIHByaW50IHRoZSB0     aWNrZXQgb3V0IHRvIGJlIHNjYW5uZWQgYXQgdGhlIGV2ZW50LiBFbmpveSwgYW5kIHdlIGFwcHJl     Y2lhdGUgeW91ciBwdXJjaGFzZS4KClNpbmNlcmVseSwKVGhlIENhbXB1c0FtcCBUZWFt     ------=_NextPart_000_3F77_7A0DF805.A8C886C0     Content-Type: text/html;         charset="utf-8"     Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64          SGVsbG8hIDxici8+PGJyLz4gSGVyZSBhcmUgeW91ciB0aWNrZXQocykgZm9yIENUQVMgZUNzVEFT     eSAyMDEyOjxici8+PGEgaHJlZj0iaHR0cDovL2VtYWlsLmNhbXB1c2FtcC5jb20vdHJhY2tpbmcv     Y2xpY2s/bXNnaWQ9c3U2Zy04a2ZkMHMwZyZ0YXJnZXQ9aHR0cHMlM2ElMmYlMmZjYW1wdXNhbXAu     Y29tJTJmJTNmdGlja2V0cyUyZjclMmZ5aGloZ3Znd3Z3cWR3cXhtdnQiPiBodHRwczovL2NhbXB1     c2FtcC5jb20vP3RpY2tldHMvNy95aGloZ3Znd3Z3cWR3cXhtdnQgIDwvYT4gPGJyLz48YnIvPlNp     bXBseSBicmluZyBpdCB3aXRoIHlvdSBvbiB5b3VyIHNtYXJ0cGhvbmUsIG9yIHByaW50IHRoZSB0     aWNrZXQgb3V0IHRvIGJlIHNjYW5uZWQgYXQgdGhlIGV2ZW50LiBFbmpveSwgYW5kIHdlIGFwcHJl     Y2lhdGUgeW91ciBwdXJjaGFzZS48YnIvPjxici8+U2luY2VyZWx5LDxici8+VGhlIENhbXB1c0Ft     cCBUZWFtPGltZyBzcmM9Imh0dHA6Ly9lbWFpbC5jYW1wdXNhbXAuY29tL3RyYWNraW5nL29wZW4/     bXNnaWQ9c3U2Zy04a2ZkMHMwZyIgc3R5bGU9IndpZHRoOjFweDtoZWlnaHQ6MXB4IiBhbHQ9IiIg     Lz4=     ------=_NextPart_000_3F77_7A0DF805.A8C886C0--


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> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? I have a web server that sends legitimate transactional email in high quantities. A reasonable percentage of users report that they never receive the emails. For every message sent, there's also a blind carbon copy going to an unfiltered email box on a different provider that I review to ensure the server actually sent the emails. All of the emails make it to my bcc box, so the server is sending the emails properly. It seems to be a spam filtering problem at other email providers. The hosting provider for the web server indicates a reverse dns lookup has been set at their level linking the emails ip address properly to my server and domain. **Question:** Is there anything else I can do to improve the rate that 3rd party service providers are filtering the emails I'm sending? Is there anything I can set on the DNS that I control to show that the server sending the emails is legitimate?


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> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? I have c-panel vps server. I have created a domain on the same server, but when I send mail through webmail to gmail email id it goes into the spam folder.               Note--->Mail ip note blacklisted             Spf records enable             DKIM enable             reverse dns are perfect     ======================================================================     Email header Information:               Delivered-To: robinfriendly5@gmail.com     Received: by 10.143.93.13 with SMTP id v13csp119806wfl;             Fri, 6 Jul 2012 08:01:36 -0700 (PDT)     Received: by 10.182.52.42 with SMTP id q10mr26133912obo.46.1341586895571;             Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:01:35 -0700 (PDT)     Return-Path: <nandini@harishjoshico.com>     Received: from lakshyacs-u.securehostdns.com ([50.97.147.134])             by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fx3si18028369obc.144.2012.07.06.08.01.35             (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER);             Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:01:35 -0700 (PDT)     Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of nandini@harishjoshico.com designates 50.97.147.134 as permitted sender) client-ip=50.97.147.134;     Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of nandini@harishjoshico.com designates 50.97.147.134 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=nandini@harishjoshico.com     Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:39016 helo=harishjoshico.com)         by lakshyacs-u.securehostdns.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.77)         (envelope-from <nandini@harishjoshico.com>)         id 1SnA2J-0006Nq-05         for robinfriendly5@gmail.com; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:31:35 +0530     Received: from 223.189.14.213 ([223.189.14.213])             (SquirrelMail authenticated user nandini@harishjoshico.com)             by harishjoshico.com with HTTP;             Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:31:35 +0530     Message-ID: <a545d976011d97b0fe9f945e15e0442a.squirrel@harishjoshico.com>     Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:31:35 +0530     Subject: ggglkhl     From: nandini@harishjoshico.com     To: robinfriendly5@gmail.com     User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22     MIME-Version: 1.0     Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1     Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit     X-Priority: 3 (Normal)     Importance: Normal     X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report     X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - lakshyacs-u.securehostdns.com     X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gmail.com     X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12]     X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - harishjoshico.com          jhkhl               ================================================================


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Gmail is marking my emails as SPAM - Please help

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? gmail is marking my emails as SPAM I used the great service: isNOTspam.com to check my email against spam I got the following But I don't understand what it means please help me! thanks               Thank you for using isNOTspam.          The isNOTspam team          ==========================================================     Summary of Results     ==========================================================          SPF Check : neutral     Sender-ID Check : neutral     DomainKeys Check : pass     DKIM Check : pass     SpamAssassin Check : ham     ==========================================================     Details:     ==========================================================          HELO hostname: mail-gx0-f193.google.com     Source IP: 209.85.161.193     mail-from: no-reply@codepigeon.com     ---------------------------------------------------------     SPF check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: neutral     ID(s) verified: smtp.mail=no-reply@codepigeon.com     DNS record(s):     codepigeon.com.         14399   IN      TXT     "v=spf1 a mx ip4:108.163.232.130 ?all"               ----------------------------------------------------------     Sender-ID check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: neutral     ID(s) verified: smtp.mail=no-reply@codepigeon.com     DNS record(s):     codepigeon.com.         14399   IN      TXT     "v=spf1 a mx ip4:108.163.232.130 ?all"               ----------------------------------------------------------     DomainKeys check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: pass     ID(s) verified: header.From=no-reply@codepigeon.com     Selector=     domain=     DomainKeys DNS Record=._domainkey.          ----------------------------------------------------------     DKIM check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: pass     ID(s) verified: header.From=no-reply@codepigeon.com     Selector=     domain=     DomainKeys DNS Record=._domainkey.          ----------------------------------------------------------     SpamAssassin check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------     SpamAssassin v3.2.5 (2008-06-10)          Result: ham (03.9points, 10.0 required)             pts rule name              description        ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------                  * -1.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low        *      trust        *      [209.85.161.193 listed in list.dnswl.org]        *  1.2 SPF_NEUTRAL SPF: sender does not match SPF record (neutral)        * -0.0 DKIM_VERIFIED Domain Keys Identified Mail: signature passes        *      verification        *  0.0 DKIM_SIGNED Domain Keys Identified Mail: message has a signature        *  0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message        *  0.1 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts        *  2.5 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_16 BODY: HTML: images with 1200-1600 bytes of words        *  1.1 HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG HTML-only message, but there is no HTML tag          ==========================================================     Explanation of the possible results (adapted from     draft-kucherawy-sender-auth-header-04.txt):     ==========================================================          "pass"        the message passed the authentication test.          "fail"        the message failed the authentication test.          "softfail"        the message failed the authentication test, and the authentication        method has either an explicit or implicit policy which doesn't require        successful authentication of all messages from that domain.          "neutral"        the authentication method completed without errors, but was unable        to reach either a positive or a negative result about the message.          "temperror"        a temporary (recoverable) error occurred attempting to authenticate        the sender; either the process couldn't be completed locally, or        there was a temporary failure retrieving data required for the        authentication.  A later retry may produce a more final result.          "permerror"        a permanent (unrecoverable) error occurred attempting to        authenticate the sender; either the process couldn't be completed        locally, or there was a permanent failure retrieving data required        for the authentication.               ==========================================================     Original Email     ==========================================================          From no-reply@codepigeon.com Wed Mar 14 13:43:34 2012     Return-path: <no-reply@codepigeon.com>     Envelope-to: check@isnotspam.com     Delivery-date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:43:34 -0500     Received: from mail-gx0-f193.google.com ([209.85.161.193])        by s15387396.onlinehome-server.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71)        (envelope-from <no-reply@codepigeon.com>)        id 1S7tAc-0000Uo-Cp        for check@isnotspam.com; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:43:34 -0500     Received: by ggki26 with SMTP id i26so941402ggk.4        for <check@isnotspam.com>; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:43:29 -0700 (PDT)     DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;        d=codepigeon.com; s=google;        h=date:to:from:reply-to:subject:message-id:x-priority:x-mailer         :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type;        bh=yYAEachAACAdByYlYzx5ByG3p3QEOATs2nV+CJqQAkE=;        b=Rt0VOOwVgNlcmKDrv9kR1Z0tKdofOYlLhOCjGzbzmtFq9gMKB1F68HnLsEa8KmZ8du         m2fpskmyHNc6tzi3byo1mzwY+3cZ98qHo3cQGDLGru9bPFkqSggKazs2IdG/edgA8Blq         hJRDqtGZyyXx+c05/BE7HR7RkvgFjBYVMmHmE=     X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;        d=google.com; s=20120113;        h=date:to:from:reply-to:subject:message-id:x-priority:x-mailer         :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type         :x-gm-message-state;        bh=yYAEachAACAdByYlYzx5ByG3p3QEOATs2nV+CJqQAkE=;        b=UXiptOG3Poovfon48iUQYGz9CxPNKUSisoQfAfHizz0Jc6JKevF3ldAn0T2J2j7vQ8         duQ0uL3ZsjtZYyjP3ZJMdZWlmVtpCjS4AtOp26nEirKmhlSAilp9tlA9cHvX0mgJWgPG         RKeoKe7oVMi4r6A5MX06u0blYhktg5dRatRJtGUb+tpm2Ojhp6F4zr23WpxjghbL0Uv4         K2+NTFG/SU/hW7ccru4YT8ZPBPlsaSr2PGJYCqXKLVwikG78gfue5J9OWpTytNSXdNq8         6KoBfZNFNXQWZgcRrg8PS0iQ9gnethf2981mufYdRLTESg1d8hJLH/5HjehqIpJvlF9g         VK1g==     Received: by 10.224.189.12 with SMTP id dc12mr4429122qab.22.1331750608913;        Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:43:28 -0700 (PDT)     Received: from app.codepigeon.com (s1.om-p.com. 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How do you setup custom place markers when using Google maps that are embedded on your site?


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I stumbled over a html meta tag I don't knew and wonder what it's about.               <link rel="fluid-icon" href="https://github.com/fluidicon.png" title="GitHub" />      I googled around, but couldn't find any explanation. What is this? A new favicon approach? And what's the difference to the one I already know:               <link rel="icon" href="images/2/mail_icon_32.png" sizes="32x32">      <link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://www.google.com/a/scoop-gmbh.de/images/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">


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I was looking up a new website a friend of mine just built, and when I typed in "youwho.com", it took like 3 minutes to return the page to me. When I typed "www.youwho.com" it resolved instantly. Why would this happen?


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I am working on building an email marketing newsletter, is there a good general width that I should stick with? I have seen 600 as a number but I am unsure what others have encountered. I need this to work in as many clients as possible without the dreaded horizontal scroll bar. Thanks!


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What is the most effective way to load to load test your app? The main point is to determine how many users you could support at a single time with the application still running at a reasonable speed.


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> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do you load test your application? Hi, I am nearing a point of finalizing a website and it will soon be released. We have bought some traffic and advertisement packages and the nature of the site makes it heavier than typical static-like websites. I am looking for hear good ways to test how well the site performs under heavy load. I already know _ab_. Got any other tips to spare?


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I manage two websites for a client, each hosted with a different company. One site is an eCommerce site and the other is a blog for the eCommerce site. The eCommerce site is reaching its bandwidth limits (25GB/month), while the blog has plenty of room. Would moving the product images from the eCommerce server to the blog server be a legitimate solution to relieving the bandwidth strain?


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I'm trying to avoid duplicate content on a website by blocking pagination via _robots.txt_ , but it turns out the URL doesn't have a parameter passed into the URL I can simply block, it's just a number. Example:               /category/sub-category/product/          /category/sub-category/product/1          /category/sub-category/product/2          /category/sub-category/product/3      In the example above, the URLs that end with 1, 2, and 3 is pagination. Any idea on how I can block these? I don't want to just block all numbers, as this is not an ideal solution.


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Hello I've implemented the `addthis` toolbar on my site and I've noticed it doesn't behave as intended. There are two issues:   * when I first try to share to facebook for example 8 thumbnails, all the thumbnails appear but are in the opposite order.   * when I refresh my cache, the elements are displayed in the proper order, butonly the first 3 are ever shown From the source code I can see all my images are in the page, in the proper order and all of them with `og:image` tags, so I have no idea what more I can do from my side. Has anyone encountered a similar problem, and hopefully has some advice?


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> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I control how often search engines visit my site? How to know how regular the pages of itpian(dot)com are indexed by google?


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Please note this code:                           <meta itemprop="name" content="webpage"/>
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                    <meta itemprop="ratingValue" content="4">           <meta itemprop="worstRating" content="0">             <meta itemprop="bestRating" content="5">                             <meta itemprop="ratingCount" content="100">
                      But I'm not sure it's true or not!


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I have a website that I've built and it uses a SQL DB. I want to be able to view that data, nicely graphed but with the relations made, so that I can keep track of trends over time. For example I don't just want to be able to look at the trend of users joining over time, I want to know which users did the most of an action, and what they did. This would involve joining several tables. So, can anyone suggest any tools to assist me in doing this? Ideally the product/service would import the DB (or access it), I'd specify which tables to join and on which attributes and it would produce the graphs. I don't want to go the custom route and build the graphs myself. I'd like something I could use there or in another similar situation.


Headers to prevent 304/If-modified-since/HEAD requests

What headers should I be sending to outright stop all requests to the server after the content has been cached? We have a very high latency server (Sigh, VMWare) so even sending a `HEAD` request to the server takes +40ms. Currently these are the headers being sent/received; ### First request Client sends;               GET http://dugong:8080/Rvi24mYJkxFRGNzq73PPvgWGh1j/IMG_2071.jpg HTTP/1.1     Host: dugong:8080     User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0     Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8     Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5     Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate     Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7     Pragma: no-cache, no-cache, no-cache     Cache-Control: no-cache, no-cache, no-cache      Server responds;               HTTP/1.1 200 OK     Server: nginx/1.0.11     Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:51:51 GMT     Content-Type: text/plain     Vary: Accept-Encoding     Last-Modified: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:45:11 GMT     Content-Length: 14     Expires: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:51:51 GMT     Cache-Control: max-age=31536000      So it sends a `Cache-Control` and `Expires` header set to 365 days in the future. Unfortunately on the second refresh it requests the object again with an `If-Modified-Since` header. ### Second Request               GET http://dugong:8080/Rvi24mYJkxFRGNzq73PPvgWGh1j/IMG_2071.jpg HTTP/1.1     Host: dugong:8080     User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0     Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8     Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5     Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate     Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7     If-Modified-Since: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:45:11 GMT     Cache-Control: max-age=0      Response;               HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified     Server: nginx/1.0.11     Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:58:00 GMT     Vary: Accept-Encoding     Expires: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:58:00 GMT     Cache-Control: max-age=31536000      Unfortunately due to silly outdated proxy software we can't use `Keep-Alive`, or put any other servers/proxys in front of the application. We also can't improve the performance of the server and reduce the network latency. I've been trying to figure out what headers we can send to get rid of the 301 requests. I've tried using ETags but that makes no difference, it still sends a `If-modified-since` header. I've also tried removing the `Last-Modified` header but that just causes a standard GET request with no caching (Checked the logs, server still receiving requests). Clients are a mix of Firefox (mostly), IE 7, 8 and (some) 9, Chrome and Safari but this behavior seems to be appearing in all browsers tested. ## TL;DR; Terrible network, what headers should I send to tell clients to _never ever ever_ send `If-modified-since` requests to the server to validate their cache, and keep content cached until the `Expires` header is met? I'm probably missing something obvious but everything I try seems to yield the same results. We have an NGINX server sat in front of our application server so I can add/remove any headers as I please. Our proxy doesn't support Keep-Alive and theirs no way to improve the attrocious network performance. Due to terrible software design the web app loads +100 resources on each page load (Yeah, enterprise software sucks) with a latency of ~40-50ms per object.


SEO: pages' title for small websites (i.e. 5/6 pages) - repeat key-phrase or not?

It's well known that pages' `<title>` do impact Google positioning, beside this, they are also definitely important to catch user eye when he is looking at Google search results. Let's say I have a typical site of 5/6 pages for a bed and breakfast, let me list few pages and their possible titles   1. **HOME** - `title = "B&B town name, completely new, cheap price for the weekend."`   2. **THE HISTORY OF THIS B &B** - `title = "B&B town name – The History"`   3. **BOOK NOW** - `title = " B&B town name – Book online"`   4. **WHERE WE ARE** - `title = "B&B name, 234 Walnut ave. town name – CA"` ... As you can see I would typically repeat the key-phrase “B&B town name...” in all pages, thus to make sure any of the pages (wherever they'll be shown in Google results) would at least immediately describe the site content and possibly catch a potential customer's eye. **How would you else/better fill the titles?** **Do you think is someway bad to repeat the key-phrase “B &B town name...” in all pages?** I'm doing a specific example because reading answers for a specific example might be more easy to me to understand, but obviously the concept could be applied to any websites of almost the same size, so feel free to add your more general considerations and suggestions.


Google Analytics goal funnel does not recognize virtual page views

I have a setup wizard with 3 steps. Since I'm using AJAX each step uses a virtual pageview with an appropriate URL for each step (see below). The pageviews are being recorded in the Content section of Google Analytics but the Goal Funnel still shows zero for each step. I've tried advise on other forums such as...   * Make sure Goal URL is set to Exact match    * Make sure no steps or the Goal URL are a parent directory of any other steps. For example, don't track /wizard/ as a Goal/step and track /wizard/step2/. Not sure why this would be a problem since it is an exact match, but it shouldn't hurt so I tried it...   * Require (or don't require - tried both) the first step in the funnel ...but none of these seem to work. Thoughts? * * * ## Goal Settings Exact match : "/wizard/setup-complete/" Funnel   Step 1 : "/wizard/step1/"   Step 2 : "/wizard/step2/"   Step 3 : "/wizard/step3/"


About cdn architecture to route way

Our web system, use the third-party cdn service. Assume that the user set the local dns with the googledns or opendns to visit our web sites, so cdn service will select the closest cdn proxy node. all right, but in fact the user's actual access position might outside there, cdn service may chose the one furthest away from the user node, so static resource access slower.. At present, my idea is if user local set dns server with googledns, and then first one we get the actual ip address of the user, tracerote to test a best routing lines, set up a cookie in user browser, and then set 302 header for response to jump to the which best cdn node. Whether the user's browser side traceroute tool can provide the best route decision-making ? Because we find that, once the user to set local dns server with the foreign network segment, for example : set dns with 8.8.8.8, so cdn routing will choose the foreign service node.


Apache, Lighttpd, which one should I use?

Apache has always been described to me as the solution for hosting websites, but I have been using Lighttpd for many years now and seems pretty stable. What are the advantages of Apache towards Lighttpd ? Does it scale well for heavy-usage applications ? Is it stable enough ?


Marketplace to buy Templates for Twitter Bootstrap framework?

Are there any sites where I could buy a site template designed in Twitter Bootstrap (so that it's easy to modify)? _I'm working on a site redesign and I think finding a template that looks close enough and modifying it is an economical way to go. (We're pretty niche so I don't need us to have a super cool website.) But folks I've talked to say that many of those templates are hard to modify. So I'm thinking that finding a template designed in a customizable framework would be easy to modify._


sitemap.xml for huge online store

I'm running online store with 30,000+ products (having unique urls) which are updated every day. I want google to index my products faster. Now crawler index ~500 pages/day (reports from google webmaster tools). Would generating sitemap xml improve indexing? Should I include in sitemap static pages like contact, shipping info etc (I have about 10 such pages)? Does google bot works independently and index pages that are not listed in sitemap?


Blackhat SEO/Spam? Backlinking-blog entry has nothing to do with our site

I'm seeing some weird backlinks to our site. For example, there's a blogger with a site that is several years old and looking pretty legitimate, but he has links to our e-commerce home page site from his blog posts that have nothing to do with the type of products we sell. He has these anchor text that are keywords on our site, but are used out of context in his blog. For example, "... toothpaste caps" where `cap` is linking to our site where we baseball caps. Or, "... power outlet cap" where `cap` is linking to our homepage. Now, our last SEO guy, who I think was horrible, used to employ these paid services that would write fake reviews for you with a link to our site. So, it is not impossible that this was a result from that, but I need to find that out. What exactly is this type of behavior called by SEOs and search engine companies? I'd like to research more into what this is what how it affects our site and where it came from.


General Properties\Legal Domain warning on flash

I had a website containing 2 flash items (menu and banner). Everthing were fine, but for some reasons I had to change its hosting to a new server. Now, I have a warning frame on the banner that says: > Warning!!! Read this!!! > > Please, put this address into the General Properties\Legal Domain: ... What is this warning for and how can I remove it? _(The domain did not change)_


How do I check if Magento or PayPal is in sandbox mode?

I have configured my PayPal account in my Magento website. But even after I publish my website, there were no orders placed. Now I recieved an order from the website, but there is no money transfer to my PayPal account. I am not sure how to check if PayPal is working correctly or not. Any suggestions or references for me to check?


How to allow nonsense characters as web url for example: & * Ö :: and more

I have a database which contain many name with combination of those characters. Once i will reload them, they will become public web url. So that visitor if open this url (its valid??): http://www.example.com/&*Ö:: It will land to a unique page. But do you really allow those characters? Or filter them. Or there is no rule really, anything is allowed. (I can already see, `http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/23964/how- to-allow-nonsense-characters-as-web-url-for-example-and-more`, skiped my special characters and only took "and more". Is that the standard? I mean you can delete the main character?)


Is it possible to get the Google Alerts as structured data?

With the Google Alerts one can subscribe notifications about the newest search results to a given search terms. The alerts are sent to the email. Now, I'd like to analyse this data. Is there an API for it? (How) Can I get this data as JSON or in an other structured form?


What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?

I'm working for a website to convert the website URL to an SEO friendly URL. I plan to use this: `mysite.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name` I looked at some similarly categorized, highly ranked websites. They have the same structure, except for one thing. In one case, the URL format was `thissite.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name.html` Another was `thatsite.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name.php` Now I know the text in URLs help with SEO. Is it more helpful to have a file extension? If yes, which one is better? Or if my current plan is okay, will it be better with a `/` at the end?


which URL is better for a search engine?

In 2 ways I can show The article URL in my website: My Breadcrumbs website for a content to both of ways is this: **home** >> **computer** >> **hardware** >> **cpu** >>this-is-an-article.html **The First way:** LINK of article : example.com/computer/hardware/cpu/this- is-an-article.html catagory 1: example.com/computer.html catagory 2: example.com/computer/hardware.html catagory 3: example.com/computer/hardware/cpu.html **THe second way:** LINK of article : example.com/cpu/this-is-an-article.html catagory 1: example.com/computer.html catagory 2: example.com/hardware.html catagory 3: example.com/cpu.html **which one is the best for serach engine specialy google?**


Internal Link building strategy

I am having a few concerns about the best possible link building strategy for a large webshop. The category structure is something like this:               www.site.com     www.site.com/whitegoods     www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines     www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines/front-loaded     www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines/front-loaded/siemens      Now I want `www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines` to rank for the search _washing machines_ which is highly competitive. And I want `www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines/front-loaded/siemens` to rank for search terms like _front loaded washing machines_ which is not very competitive. Normally you say that you want to pass PR down through the page structure but the page that really needs some juice is the `www.site.com/whitegoods/washing- machines` page that I want to rank for _washing machines_. In other words: is it a good or a bad strategy to link from `www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines/front-loaded/siemens` to `www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines` with the anchor text _washing machines_?


which url is better for google SEO, recursively or directly?

Say I'm building a e-commerce website. I have a lot of products in different categories. For example one of them is: > Flat to Round Power Plug Convertor So I have two ways to link to this product, directly to it: > http://www.somedomain.com/p/flat-to-round-power-plug-convertor-1005874 or add the categories recursively before it: > http://www.somedomain.com/electrical-tools/plugs-sockets/flat-to-round- > power-plug-convertor-1005874 According to google's SEO guild it seems it's recommending to put content in their own folders so that both users and robots can understand them easier. Besides if user simply remove the last part of URL `flat-to-round-power-plug- convertor-1005874`, they can easily get to the category. The simply question is, when the product is in a 3rd or 4th level directory, the URL gets pretty long. I don't know if this long URL harms SEO or not. Or should I use the first form? **EDIT** : The thing that confuses me is the URL should be "descriptive", and it should be "short". Consider the following example: http://www.somedomain.com/apparel/women-shoes/lovely-pink-shoes http://www.somedomain.com/apparel/children-shoes/lovely-pink-shoes It would definitely help people find what they want. And when you got tens of thousands of products, this situation would happen a lot. Besides, Google definitely encourages to categorize content in their own folders as referenced above. The problem is, the more descriptive the URL is, the longer it is. How should I make choice between "descriptive" and "short"?


Best practices with multiple categories/tags etc. on URL (SEO)

I'm on the process of _building my eshop platform_ and encountered a **SEO** issue. My next step is to develop a _searching box_ , where user searches the products of a specific category (say, _desktops_ ). This box will contain characteristics of the category _desktops_ , for example, it will contain **RAM** and **CPU** for sure. _Notice_ that in my searching box one will be able to **select more than one** categories. My url (after rewrite) for _showing_ products of a specific category is as this:               http://localhost/products/desktops      I know how to add another rewrite rule in .htaccess but i won't until i find out.. **what is the best practice of adding multiple categories/tags in url without inflate it and cause damage (etc. page ranking) rather gain something**. For example, let's say someone wants to search _through desktops_ and by ( _CPU and RAM_ ) Of course, the following patterns is non-acceptable, regarding variable size of input and known google dislike of many folders:               http://localhost/products/desktops/CPU/RAM/..      What about the following?               1. http://localhost/products/desktops/CPU-RAM     2. http://localhost/products/desktops/CPU|RAM      The _1_ may seems nice but i learnt google is handling the hyphen (-) as words connector and these words are not connected? The _2_ is using the (|) pipe symbol since i learnt also google is using it to sort words of equal importance. I don't really if any of the above apply only to HTML content and/or not to URLs. **How can i feed my URL so to include a number of categories, say about 5 max.** and if anyone knows how google handle such issue, etc. penalty or how searches/archive that stuff. I don't really want to apply any _& filter_CPU=1&filter_RAM=1_ thingy in the end and defeating the whole purpose. **UPDATE:** Since my time was in essence i already went for the following approach/URL rewrite:               http://localhost/products/desktops/search-for/Celeron|Pentium|4gb-ram...      , where `..` are a collection of category's attributes (etc. type of CPUs, size of memories etc. whatever characterizes them) I thought _a lot_ about the **delimiter** to use. I can't use hyphens (-) since category attributes may already contain one and it's a rather typical character for such cases. I cant't use commas (,) or underscores (_) either for about the same reason and i don't like them (especially commas) on URL in general. **I prefer something like a pipe but was wondering how bad this is for SEO? How google will index my information passed as .. _Celeron|4GB-RAM_.. Will it sort it out as 2 words (as they are?)** or i should do something else?


for a blog with posts and categories what are all the best ways to create user friendly and seo friendly urls

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL? I am creating a module in my website which displays ringtones. It is like creating blog posts and categories, and it will also have categories (tags) and posts. (I am using category and tag interchangeably.) I am using the following linking for this module:   1. `sitename.com/blog`   2. `sitename.com/blog/category/category-name-slug/` -> will list all ringtones of that category/tag   3. `sitename.com/blog/title/name-slug-of-the-ringtone/` -> will display the details and a download link In every page, at the left I display the category/tag . This is how I have formed the url structure. Will it be user friendly, and (I hope so) will it be seo friendly as well? Please hint if I am missing something or other ways to improve. Meanwhile I am browsing the net to get more information on linking content (categorizing) and to find best ways for the user and search engine.


Depth of URLs and SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL? Does the depth of an URL affect SEO/Pagerank? Is there any max or optimal level for URL depth? If you have, lets say, a website to map all the vegetarian local businesses (restaurants, shops, markets, etc.) in the world, which URL format would you choose?   1. `http://example.com/restaurant/name/city/country/1234`   2. `http://example.com/shop/name/city/1234`   3. `http://example.com/market/name/1234`


Which URL is better for SEO?

I have 2 main categories:   1. Software    2. Hardware Each of these categories has 10 subcategories for example hardware: `cpu/graphic/hard disk` and... Which URL is better for SEO?   1. `www.example.com/hardware/this-is-content.html` or   2. `www.example.com/cpu/this-is-content.html`


What is the best seo friendly url structure

What is the right link structure for search engines? We don't have the posts creation date, only the id of the each article. Is this a good structure? `http://www.example.com/1292/the-url-of-the-title`


Should I use the name of the segments in URI

I am making a site that has several sub-pages structured according to countries and categories. Which URL structure is better for SEO or does it even matter? Option I: www.site.com/australia/cooking VS. Option II: www.site.com/country/australia/category/cooking


url naming convention for improved seo and page rank

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL? Using url rewriting methods, what is a better way to organize the structure of the URLs of your website for SEO and user experience? I am using examples from large sites such as: yelp, stack overflow, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay, yahoo, and others. Each one uses a slightly different method... 1) Does the order matter? IF so, for what purposes? Are some better for blogs vs ecommerce vs content sites?   * `/category/{id}/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title   * `/category/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title/{id}   * `/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title/category/{id} Note: the {id} is the unique identifier that must be included the URL 2) Is it better to separate words in the URL with dashes (-) or underscores (_), or something else, like plus signs "+"? In what cases should you use the different variations? 3) Should you keep the name of the programming language in the title of your URL, or remove it completely? What is better?   * `/category/{id}/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title.html`   * `/category/{id}/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title` 4) Assuming I do my redirects correctly after making this URL structure change, how will I be affected in terms of page ranking? Will page ranking stay the same, or go down temporarily? And if so, for how long? (All of my pages have been indexed by the search engines already) My current URL structure is:   * `/carbonated-soft-drink-p-60.html` Note: the "p" stands for product I want to possibly change the URL to one of the following:   * `/sodas/60/carbonated-soft-drink`   * `/sodas/carbonated-soft-drink/60`   * `/carbonated-soft-drink/sodas/60`


URL SEO : Using directories or exact keyword phrase in the URL

I am trying to understand how to best optimise a url for a page to rank high for specific keywords. Example: a top keyword search is "rental properties in new york". Question is does this keyword need to appear as this exact phrase in the url or should it be broken up into different directories for a better structure e.g.: www.abc.com/en/properties/new-york/rental OR www.abc.com/en/rental-properties-in-new-york Which will help the page rank higher (given all other things on the page are exactly the same)? Thanks!


What is the most effective method of slug utilization in URL's

I'm trying to define what would be the best solution for my situation and especially how this would impact SEO. I have a website that currently has URL's which include a content ID. The ID was included as I was having duplicate URL's for different content.               www.example.com/123456/I-love-pro-webmasters      However, I wish to segment content into groups which I will add into the URL               www.example.com/123456/script/I-love-pro-webmasters     www.example.com/123456/design/I-love-UI      Is the latter acceptable methodology for SEO or should I be considering another solution. Would the addition of a keyword slug help with SEO? This post describes similarly what I was looking for, but is nearly three years old, therefore need to know if the rules are the same.


Best URL for cars related website?

If this was your website, what will be the URLs for each car on sale?               http://www.autoscout24.eu/Details.aspx?id=247572735&asrc=ha      I'm working on a car dealership website. What should be the best URL? Consider also that the company can have more models of the same car. I'm not asking for a url scheme, there are a lot of similar questions. My question is: in a car dealership website what is the best url for a car? What are by you the best variables I've to put on the url. Brand, model, year, location, color, miles/km, etc. This website, that url, this particulary case: what will you choose for urls? (even not in the following list)               audi_q5_2009.html     audi_q5_2009_used.html     audi_q5_2009_used.html     audi_q5_2009_used_in_alcobendas.html     audi_q5_2009_used/247572735.html


How to track what initial traffic source caused an event

Events on my site (e.g. conversions and registrations) most of the time don't happen right away. What I want to do is create a tracking script that allows the user to click a link and that link contains the traffic source. If that link click eventually results in a conversion I want it attributed to the original link click, (not the most recent because that is usually Direct / None. Something like http://domain.com/?track=originalsource I'm going to have affiliates and maybe I can give them google links to track which affiliates are generating conversions. Or maybe there's some good software out there that can do something really good like that?


RewriteRule to send all URLs with `mod` in them to the `moderator` directory

I have a `.htaccess` file in the root directory of my project, that contains all the rewrite rules for the site to functions. Most of these rules belong to the `mod` section of the site, and only two of them belong to the front end, which the users use. Problem is, when a front end user uses the site, apache ends up matching all the rules including the ones for the mods and signup etc, until it reaches the one for the end user, which I feel is unnecessary. I've checked this in the `.htaccess` log.               # Mod RewriteRules, some 12 in all      RewriteRule ^/?(mod)/(all|new|edit|redo|reject)/(push)/?$ /moderator/index.php?mode=$2&push=0 [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^/?(mod)/(all|new|edit|redo|reject)/?$ /moderator/index.php?mode=$2 [NC,L]          #signUp - Again, not always needed     RewriteRule ^/?(signup)/?$ /acc/signup/index.php?a=signUp [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^/?(signup)/(process)/?$ /acc/signup/process/index.php [NC,L]          #signIn - Again, not always needed     RewriteRule ^/?(signin)/?$ /acc/signin/index.php?a=signIn [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^/?(signin)/(process)/?$ /acc/signin/process/index.php [NC,L]          #signOut - Again, not always needed     RewriteRule ^/?(signout)/?$ /acc/signout/index.php [NC,L]          # These are the only two that a front end user will use     # category/subCategory     RewriteRule ^/?([a-z-]+)/([a-z0-9-]+)/?$ /display/index.php?t=$1&s=$2 [NC,L]          # category     RewriteRule ^/?([a-z-]+)/?$ /display/index.php?t=$1 [NC,L]      If you look at the above rules, the last two are the only ones that a user using the front end will use. However, the cannot be placed on top, because they'll end up catching anything first, because of the way they are. Can I place all rules for the moderator, signup and signin in their own directories, and do a rewrite rule in the root `.htaccess` file, that when it detects a url with `mod`, like `/mod/all` will send that request to the `moderator` directory. That way the root .`htaccess` file will have only the last two rules for the front end user along with others like `no hot linking` ones. How can I do something like:               If (URL Starts with '/mod/' then send it to the '/moderator/' folder where the RewriteRules there will apply) or     If (URL Starts with '/signup/' then send it to the '/acc/' folder where the RewriteRules there will apply)     and so on.      My directory structure is as follows:               /acc/ ...handles account login and creation     /display/ ... handles front end display     /moderator/ ...the sites administrator      How can I achieve this?


Facebook open graph protocol: how can I reach the scattered audience of people who liked individual pages on my website?

If you add Open Graph Protocol metadata to your website that is different for every URL (so the url in               <meta property="og:url" content="http://yourwebsite.com/somepage.html">      is the url of the page itself), you end up with an unmanageable number of "virtual" fan pages. I don't see a way to post updates to (newsfeeds of ) the fans of those individual pages all at once... Do you know of any "sitewide" update possibility? The alternative is that you set the URL parameter in the og metadata to a constant url - either your homepage or a "traditional" Facebook Fan page. This has the disadvantage however that if people like an individual posting on your site, in their newsfeed it shows up as a like of your homepage or Facebook fan page, and the link their friends see is their homepage or their individual fan page - a behaviour that seems illogical to most people and can be perceived as spammy. Anyone found a good solution for this conundrum? (BTW cross-posted this on Quora http://www.quora.com/Facebook-open-graph- protocol-how-can-I-reach-the-scattered-audience-of-people-who-liked- individual-pages-on-my-website ) PS: I tried to add the tags facebook-pages open-graph-protocol to this question, but lack the required reputation of 300 - maybe someone else can?


Why do "Registration-bots" exist? What do they gain from registering on my site?

I'm curious as i've been developing some anti-bot procedures for a website, only because I see others doing it. But Why?. What do the bots gain from registering hundereds of accounts? I'm building an e-commerce website and the only thing registered users can do is make purchases. Should I actually waste my time creating an anti-bot procedure (captcha/email verification etc) I have googled this but I can find the answer. I know that bots that register on forums are able to spam it with adverts, but what about sites that dont allow a user to 'communicate' with anyone?


Which screen resolution should I target for modern mobile phones?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Building for different screen sizes I am developing a site which needs to work on mobiles as well. I avoid specifying width and height by pixel. Mostly I am using percent for that but sometimes I need a specific area. for example, 300px `div` element. Which screen resolution should I target for modern mobile phones in general? I know it varies but what is the higher number. Most of my concerns are iPhone, Windows Phone and Android.


Is there an easy way to see the Top 100 Global Websites based on monthly uniques?

I can easily see the top 100 sites on Quantcast, or most of their competitors, but they're based on US uniques. Now, Quantcast provides Top Lists for non-US Visitors, but they're country by country, so I'd have to dump the Top list from each country and sum them, which isn't practical. Is there some other way to get the top X sites based on global uniques?


Show wordpress posts on linkedin company page

I have a customer with a wordpress blog that wants to add their posts to their LinkedIn company page. Is it possible to add a wordpress feed like you can in user profiles? I saw that there was a setting called "Company Blog RSS Feed" but that is already taken by another blog.


Age verification in website questions

I am working on a website for a client that is requesting a way to verify your age. I have debated on creating a cookie that stores your age but I am unsure on a few things.   1. How does SEO play into this if I create a landing page prior to the physical address?   2. Is there a better way to possibly go about doing this other than a cookie?   3. Should I create a separate page or code it within the header of the index page? This is something similar I am trying to accomplish.


Does social networking really help promote a site?

Every site promotion manual states that it's crucial to use social networks in a site promotion. But which specifically does this mean?   1. Even the FACT that your site has several social network satellite pages gets it higher in the search ranks   2. Only successful social networking (many replies, likes, shares etc) MAY help your site to get higher in the search ranks. Say, I create accounts in 10 major social networks and keep updating them constantly for several months. None of the accounts attracts a significant audience. Will this help promote my site or is it just a waste of time?


How do I Choose a Technology Stack For My Site?

There are a lot of different, competing, technologies to build a site with. From the front end of the site and client side technologies to databases. How do I choose a technology stack, what factors should I consider, and how do I avoid getting key technical decisions wrong from the outset?


Should I use the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, or download the source directly and install

I am used to finding the source code for the sites I set up (like blogs or CMS's) and I have used the Web Platform Installer to try out new packages and setup my development machine, but I haven't bothered to deploy any of those. Are there any gotchas with that tool?


Should 304 Not Modified responses include the "Last Modified" header?

I've been using the most excellent http://redbot.org tool for testing have HTTP headers on my site correct (its custom code in PHP serving dynamic content - wanting to ensure it cached where possible - served by Apache2) One of the tests says:               The If-Modified-Since response is missing required headers          HTTP requires 304 Not Modified responses to have certain headers, if they are also present in a normal (e.g., 200 OK response).     This response is missing the following headers: last-modified.     This can affect cache operation; because the headers are missing, caches might remove them from their cached copies.      ... so resonse doesnt include the Last-Modified header. However the code does try to send it. Investigating further, it seems that Apache uses a whitelist of HTTP headers, it will allow on 304 responses...               if (r->status == HTTP_NOT_MODIFIED) {         apr_table_do((int (*)(void *, const char *, const char *)) form_header_field,                      (void *) &h, r->headers_out,                      "Connection",                      "Keep-Alive",                      "ETag",                      "Content-Location",                      "Expires",                      "Cache-Control",                      "Vary",                      "Warning",                      "WWW-Authenticate",                      "Proxy-Authenticate",                      "Set-Cookie",                      "Set-Cookie2",                      NULL);     }     else {         send_all_header_fields(&h, r);     }      This is found around line 1281 in modules/http/http_filters.c of the Apache HTTPD 2.2.22 source code. .... "Last-Modified" is not on that list. **So the question is - which is wrong, redbot, or Apache?** http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html doesn't seem to specify if the Last-Modified should be included. (it does say the Etag should be - and that is allowed in Apaches list) Just incase its useful, this is the test case: http://redbot.org/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geograph.org.uk%2Fhelp%2Fsitemap - my code does include the Last-Modified header - its just that redbot never gets it (nor any custom X-.. headers).


GWMT Show Non Existent Backlinks "Via Intermediate Link"

I run 2 sites, Site A and Site B. These are ecommerce sites, with site A being built first, and both sites selling the same thing. They are hosted separately, use separate CMS (one magento and one pinnacle), and do not use duplicated content. We sell chemicals, this is important because we make available for download (by law mind you) the Labels and MSDS's for said chemicals. These are legal documents that are written by the manufacturers for the consumer's safety, etc. My problem is that my GWMT account shows over 16k backlinks going from site B to site A, and all 16k can be associated with 24 pdf files on site A that were simply copy and pasted into site b's server. GWMT shows them as backlinks "via intermediate" links which should indicate both a link somewhere AND a redirect somewhere, neither of which exist. **There are no links, there are no redirects anywhere in my code.** These should not be showing up in the first place. I have no unnatural link flag warnings. Is anyone having this issue, or have a solution for this issue? Why is google showing these as links in the first place? Am i being penalized for duplicate content?


Can't create site connection in Contribute. Administrator account removed from domain

I have been tasked with administering several sites through Contribute. The previous administrator has since left and his domain account was removed. I believe I had been set up as an additional admin on these sites previously. However, when I attempt to create a connection through "My Connections" in Contribute using SFTP and my credentials, I get the following error: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BrPDs.png) I have verified that I have read/write access to these sites through FTP. How can I take control of these sites through Contribute so that I can start administering them? Is this related to the removal of the previous admin's account?


How do I filter HTTPS URLs in Google Analytics?

Most pages on our website use `http://` - but some pages use `https://` I want to filter out of Google Analytics anything starting with `https://` as it's not relevant to our analytics, is there a way to do this?


Would having a './' in a URL cause any trouble with search engines?

For code simplicity, some of my URLs in my website might contain a `./` For example: > www.example.com/./something The `./` is automatically stripped-out by the browser, and the resulting URL is: > www.example.com/something My question is: could such URLs cause any trouble? Will search engines be able to correctly resolve these URLs?


What credibility indicators can be used for a new web app?

I understand that when you have an app which you launched an year back or so, its pretty easy to get testimonials from your users which then works as 'credibility indicators' when published on your website. They work in your favor and convert more visitors into your customers. But I want to know if there are any credibility indicators which you can use with a new web app or website?


Does Google's browser size statistic include mobile devices?

I'm trying to figure out a perfect size for my HTML5 game area, with the help of Google's browser size statistics, but it seems as I need to restrict myself to such small dimensions because, apparently, people either have very small monitors, or Google includes mobile devices to their statistics. If Google does that, I'll happily choose better (bigger) dimensions, but what should those be, then?


Using .htaccess, can you hide the true URL?

So I have a web hotel with 1 main website               http://www.myrootsite.com/      and a few websites in subdirectories, in a folder called projects. I have domain names pointing to the subdirectories, but when holding the mouse over a link in those websites the URLs are shown as:               http://www.myrootsite.com/projects/mysubsite/contact.html      When I'm on `mysubsite.com` I want them to be shown as:               http://www.mysubsite.com/contact.html      I spoke to support for the web hotel and the guy said try using _.htaccess_ , but I'm not sure exactly how to do this. Thank you very much for your time! **Edit: For more information** My website is: `http://www.example1.com/` and I also own `http://www.example2.com/`. All of `example2.com`'s files are in: `example1.com/projects/example2/`. When you visit `example2.com`, you'll notice all of the URL's point towards:               example1.com/projects/example2/      but I want them to point towards:               example2.com/      Can this be done? I hope this is enough info for you to go on :). **Edit: For w3d** I go to the url `mysubsite.com` and the browser shows the url `mysubsite.com`. The services I'm using create an iframe around `myrootsite.com` and use the url `mysubsite.com`      I just hate that in Firefox and Internet Explorer, holding the mouse over link show that the destination url is: `myrootsite.com/projects/mysubsite/...`


Guide to migrating live Ubuntu server

Does anyone know of a good guide for migrating from one Ubuntu server to another. I am going to move the home of my live ruby on rails application and I need to have as little down time as possible, move all the databases and my postfix/smtp etc. I'd like to be aware of the pitfalls before setting out and a good hand-holding guide would be handy as this is my first time doing this on a live production server. Thanks. This is not a duplicate of best practice to migrate server My question: Does anyone know of a good guide? I mean a tutorial, not a simple list of some pointers but a step by step guide. The linked question: A handful of things to consider. Very much not a duplicate. I asked this on stackoverflow and server fault, it is outside the scope of those pages, however, there are much better answers on those networks already to the light list of things to consider. What I'm looking for is a guide or tutorial.


Server move - DNS change time

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  best practice to migrate server I'm planning on moving a large active forum to a new server soon. However, the main issue I have is the time it will take for the DNS to update on the domain to the new server. As a result, the only way I can really see to avoid things getting messy with both sites being "active" while the DNS propagates at different times around the world is to disable posting on the old server while things are moving over, and as people get the new DNS info they'll be able to post again as they see the site on the new server. I understand that setting a low TTL on the domain would pretty much solve this issue, but unfortunately this isn't an option and I'm stuck with the default 24 hours. As far as I'm aware, I'm not able to access the database outside of server itself due to security restrictions, so I can't have both sites pointing at one database either. Or at least I'm not aware of a way of doing it. I guess the main question I have (and I fear I may know the answer) is if there's any other way to speed up the DNS move or somehow tell the site/domain where to look for the new server? Making the site read-only day or so for a chunk of users obviously isn't ideal, but if it's the only option then I'll have to go that route I guess.


Reach Local Proxy Page - Duplicate content?

We have a client who has instructed Reach Local to manage their paid SEO work etc. RL have created a proxy version of the page at http://example- px.rtrk.co.uk which mirrors the existing site completely. Would I be correct in assuming that this would count as duplicate content and one or both of the sites would be penalized because of this? And would the addition of a rel="canonical" meta-tag on the proxy site assist with this? Many thanks in advance.


Are bad backlinks causing thousands of 404 and 410 errors in webmaster tools?

Our webmaster tools account is showing 250.000 errors related with weird links from other sites. These URLs are comming mostly from non existent sites or are being generated directly by our website. Here some examples of these URLs:               oursite.com/&q=videos+caseros+sexo+pornos+gratis&sa=X&ei=R638T8eTO8WphAfF2vG8Bg&ved=0CCAQFjAC%2F%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F4%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F4%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F4%2Fpage%2F5%2Fpage%2F4/page/3      Our site is a popular spanish adult site, yet we don´t have keywords which are being mentioned in this URL. Apparently this link comes from our site. Some more examples:               oursite.com/&q=losmejoresvideosporno&sa=X&ei=U__8T-BnqK7RBdjmhYsH&ved=0CBUQFjAA%2F%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F4%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3/page/4      Once again: not our queries, not out URLs.               oursite/tag/tetonas      We think that it might be other site, which is having a policy of extremely bad SEO based on other sites branding and keywords usage:               thirdsite/buscador/tetonas-oursite      The question is: if other sites are generating these URLs, how can we prevent this? Why the tag is being generated if no link was added to the other site? What should we do with these errors? 301? 410 gone? I have read all similar Q&A here but none of them seems to solve our problem. It is not likely to be a bad ad (Inspected them all). Maybe some all content which google decided to recrawl suddenly? Maybe third parties bad SEO policy? Maybe all of them?