How to 301 redirect from old query string URLs to CakePHP Canonical URLs?

I currently have a _.htaccess_ file that looks like this:               RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^action=view&item=([0-9]+)$     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /index.php?url=item/%1 [R=301]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]      It is meant to 301 redirect my old query string based URLs to new CakePHP URLs. This will successfully send users to the correct page. However, Google doesn't seem to like it (see below). I previously tried doing this:               RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^action=view&item=([0-9]+)$     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /item/%1 [R=301]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]      But that fails. The second rewrite rule doesn't seem to catch the rewritten URL. It goes straight through. Using the first version wouldn't be a problem, except that I suspect that is what is choking up Google. It hasn't indexed my sitemap full of the new URLs. My old sitemap had been fully indexed and all the URLs are in Google's index. But it isn't following the redirects from the old URLs to the new. I have a 'not followed' error for every one of the query URLs that was in my old sitemap. Am I properly using a 301 redirect here? Is it the weird rewrite rule? What can I do to send both Google and users to the proper page and save my page rank?


Google WebMaster Tools Reports a Significant Increase in 500 Response Code Errors

Google's Webmaster tools shows lots of Crawl Errors. They are reported as `500` response code. How can I go about diagnosing this issue? The website is eCommerce business using the Magento platform. Here is the notice from Google. > Google detected a significant increase in the number of URLs we could not > access. It is likely that your server had an internal error or was busy when > attempting to process these requests. > > **Recommended action** > >   * Check the Crawl Errors page in Webmaster Tools. >   * Check your scripts and script permissions. >   * Examine the log files on the server for your site for scripts or pages > that might be crashing. >   * Consider addressing the load on your server. > Please see check Screenshot. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/y9Gc2.png)


Are keywords listed in Google Webmaster Tools tied to ranking, and what does a blank keyword mean?

I have two questions regarding the terms listed under Content Keywords in Google Webmaster Tools: We've recently lost a lot of ranking in Google search after we changed our e-commerce platform and added translations to foreign languages. We run a US site, but most of our content is translated into Spanish and French for customers' convenience. Recently, we realized that the top 3 "significant" keywords are all in Spanish. 99% of our customers use English as their first language, and our Google search results ranking has dropped significantly for terms listed at much lower significance in Google Webmaster Tools (e.g. listed at number 8, 13, etc...). So my questions are:   1. If the quality of our English content didn't change but we added foreign languages to it, would the "foreign" content take away from our ranking for English terms? The top Spanish terms don't even display our site when searched on in Google. I know this isn't an exact science, but I'd like to hear some feedback based on experience. I read in this article that there is no relevancy between this list and actual search engine ranking (however, the author is suspicious).   2. At rank number 4, we have a keyword " ** ___ ___**", which is literally just an underscore. What does this mean?


Which scripting language for server maintenance?

What scripting do you use for basic server maintenance kinds of tasks, e.g. backups, moving files around, etc.? Do you stick to bash, ruby, perl, something else, or do you mix-and-match for different needs? What are the strengths and weaknesses of your choice(s)? I'm personally interested in *nix servers, but maybe the question could be relevant to Windows servers as well.


Does loading metas from database affect my website SEO?

I am developing a website which is fully dynamic. If I load metas and other information of the website from database, will it affect my website's SEO?


Linking to site from same server SEO impact

I've heard that linking to a site from the same server is bad for SEO. If the link is set to rel no-follow, would that be OK?


Hosting a website on multiple servers?

Say I have a Wordpress site that is hosted on a linux box and I want to add an entirely new piece of functionality using asp.net. Would it be possible to host the new asp.net portion of the site on a windows server and still provide a seamless user experience? Is this a good idea? What problems could I expect to have if I have had a server setup like this?


Apache2 Unwantingly Allowing Proxy Requests

I'm not sure if this is the right location, but this is fairly urgent. I have completely removed all traces of mod_proxy and the other mod_proxy mods, although the Apache server continues to allow proxy requests. I have restarted numerous times, and have shut down until I can find an answer. I've noticed lots of requests from IPs in and around China to external sites such as free movie downloads and such. I'd like to prevent this from happening. I'll be grateful for any help I get.


How to map thousands of URLs for 301 redirection?

We recently switched e-commerce platform and due to poor planning, webmaster tools is reporting that thousands of URLs are 404. We obviously have to 301 redirect these and tell webmaster tools they have been fixed but how can we map the old URLs to their new counterparts without manually checking every single of the old ones using wayback machine (the old site is no longer on our server and the URL sets have completely different formats)?


DNS: point "WWW.domain.tld" record to another server than "domain.tld"

I have my own server in home and webhosting server. I want to have my server being accessible when typed domain.tld and webpage (from outside webhosting) over WWW.domain.tld. Webhosting provider gives me both dns and public IP. After successful registration of my domain with www I tried to add proper records to my local freedns provider (freedns.42.pl) which allows me do add/modify A, AAAA, NS, MX, TXT record and add redirections/frames and menage subareas. I entered record A: @->my-home-ip and www->webhosting-ip. Without success: even after few hours all queries (including www) to my domain was redirected to my home ip. I've tried adding www as CNAME or even sub-area, but again - www to my home ip. Sub-areas don't work too. I know that it's possible to have another server with www than adress without it, but I can't fugure how to do it. It seems that dns is automatically point www.something.domain.tld to something.domain.tld


Restricting access using IP address / Network Redirection?

I have a situation where we have a web server (lets call it A) that is hosting a set of HTTP based services. Due to some client restrictions, this web server is not open to the outside world but rather has an IP address based restriction to allow only a certain fixed set of IP addresses. The idea is that there will be another server that will be the outward public facing server (lets call it B) and this server will then redirect all requests to server A - which accepts requests only from Server B. 2 questions :-   1. Does having such a server configuration add any value or any benefit which could not be achieved by just having "server A" alone?   2. If "server B" is only basically doing a redirect, can I do it using some networking hardware itself like a router etc rather than having a web server do it? And would that be more efficient?


HTTPS page loading non-https images

I have a https site which links to images from a cdn, as well as user- generated image links that are not https. I get errors like this in console: > The page at https://site.com displayed insecure content from > http://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo3w.png. Does it matter? Should I try to fix this? Is it worth worrying about?


How do you determine when to block an IP address or range of addresses?

When analyzing traffic to some of my sites, I almost always notice a large amount of traffic from obscure sources like Japan, Russia, and other countries that really have no business visiting my site(s). Most of the time, these "visitors" are viewing the site(s) considerably more than other visitors that appear to be legitimate. Are these bots that index my site(s) or are they malicious by nature and should be banned using an IP deny filter? Also, is there a better way to handle these visitors so that I can both determine their intention(s) and "herd" them away from my site(s)? * * * **EDIT:** If I can't determine the intention(s) of these "visitors" by using all available resources, would it be a bad idea (in terms of SEO) to create a page/section of my site(s) that, if visited, would tell me without a doubt that the "visitors" are bots (not robots, but bots that pry the site to expose flaws)?


How can I make sure my website will be available during a presentation?

I have an online presentation to do next week and I have it all ready to go. The website is HTML and CSS only (no DB), and currently resides on my shared hosting account. Now, although my shared hosting is (relatively) reliable, I have noticed that recently they have been making some changes and my website has been unavailable at times. I don't want this to happen to me on the morning of my presentation, so I am asking what is the best way to prepare for such a thing? My domain is `www.presentation.mydomain.com` and I would like to keep this if possible (even if issues arise). I have been thinking of a few alternatives:   * Host my site on two different domains or servers (but what about the domain name?)   * Have a portable XAMPP version on a USB stick (again, domain name?)   * Possible failover site/location # Update: The presentation will be carried out on their laptop, not mine. So I am unable to install any software.


Creating a companion website for a book

I'm looking to put together a small microsite to accompany a book being written by a friend. The website will both serve to advertise the book, encourage people to buy it, and contains additional content for those who've purchased the book which is better presented in an interactive form. I don't have much experience of putting together a site like this, so can anyone suggest some things the site should have/do or point me in the direction of similar sites for books you've read. Thanks, Tom


Website flagged by antivirus software

I operate a file hosting site, and recently I've found that some antivirus software have flagged it as malicious due to a few nasty files people have uploaded. Obviously I don't want my site to be flagged as malicious, as at the moment people are complaining that their AVs are completely blocking my site. I've set a robots.txt file to block crawlers from the /file/ directory, and I've sent an email to ESET (the vendor of one particular antivirus that's flagged my site. I've also implemented a VirusTotal check on upload of any .exe, .dll or .com files. What further steps should I follow to get my site removed from any AV blacklists that it is currently on? **Edit:** I've contacted ESET and they'll be removing my site from their blacklist. My question still stands, but from more of a mitigation perspective.


How to instruct Google to crawl old, non-linked pages?

I am working on a website for a client who wants to launch with at least 2,000 articles, where in terms of links not all 2,000 articles will of course be available on the homepage or elsewhere. But, my client wants Google to of course know about these old articles because of their unique content. I suggested paging but the client is reluctant to use it. I was therefore thinking of submitting two sitemaps via Google Webmaster Tools, the "normal" one with the last 50 articles and a second one, with only the old articles having no direct link on the website, making sure to keep in the 50,000 URLs, 10MB limit. Is this the only way? And if yes, do I remove the old sitemap from GWT after all links are crawled or I just leave it there, untouched?


Rewrite img and link paths with htaccess and serve the file from rewritten path?

I have a static mockup page, which I want to "customize" by switching a variable used in image-src and link-href attributes. Paths will look like this:               <img src="/some/where/VARIABLE/img/1.jpg" alt="" />     <link rel="some" href="/some/where/VARIABLE/stuff/foo.bar" />      I'm setting a cookie with the VARIABLE value on the preceding page and now want to modfiy the paths accordingly by replacing VARIABLE with the cookie value. I'm a htaccess newbie. This is what I have (doesn't work):                <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         # get cookie value cookie         RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} client=([^;]*)         # rewrite/redirect to correct file         RewriteRule  ^/VARIABLE/(.+)$  /%1/$1 [L]         </IfModule>      So I thought my first line gets the cookie value and stores this in %1. And on the second line I'm filtering VARIABLE, replace it with the cookie value and whatever comes after VARIABLE in $1. Thanks for sheeding some light on what I'm doing, doing wrong and if I can do this at all using htaccess. **EDIT:**   I'm sort of halfway through, but it's still not working... Mabye someone can apply the finishing touches:                <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         # check for client cookie            RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} (?:^|;\s*)client=([^;]*)         # check if an image was requested            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$         # exclude these folders         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !some/members/logos                # grab everything before the variable folder and everything afterwards         # replace this with first bracket/cookie_value/second bracket         RewriteRule (^.+)/VARIABLE/(.+)$ $1/%1/$2 [L]      </IfModule>      Still can't get it to work, but I think this is the correct way of doing it.


I'm having trouble with accessing my site's admin panel and CSS appears to be broken

I'm currently writing for Crafthub.net, and since yesterday, whenever I try to access the admin control panel (http://crafthub.net/wp-admin/), it gives me a 404. crafthub.net/wp-content/themes/magzimus/style.css gives me a 404 too. Trying to access any other pages shows me a broken layout, in all browsers. A picture: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4861882/arr.jpg Also, everything I try to access on the site - images, as an example - give me a 404. I tried removing OpenDNS, with no success, tried cleaning cache, Ctrl+F5, nothing. Anyone have any ideas for me? Thanks.


Embedding a Disqus forum on my website: showing scrollable area instead of expanding the height

I hope I put this question as it should, I am not an expert in html/css/javascript, so forgive me if it's not very clear. The issue is as follows. I made my first website last week for the birth of my son (still not arrived :)). I intend to put some pictures on it, as well as some tips for a sustainable future. In addition, I would like to add a Disqus.com forum on it. I like Disqus, I use it on my blog and aggregates different discussions across the web. Very useful web-app. I put the code they provided me with on the site, and the forum is shown, but when opened using the left-menu, so inside the container, it is rendered inside a scrollable area. If you open it as a separate page, there is no scrollbar (that's as I would like it), but no padding on the left (does the CSS not work for javascript?). Maybe a stupid question, but I have never made a website before, so.. I am kind of stupid :) I hope someone can answer my question. The link to the website is shown below and the menu item you should click is called "Leg een ei" (Lay an egg). Thieme


Benefit of Google Highlighter

Has anyone used Google's Data Highlighter tool and compared the benefit of using it against adding structured data without using the Highlighter? I've coded in Schema tags within the markup of our site and have not used the Highlighter because we have a modal popup that displays on page load which I'm unable to dismiss in Google's Highlighter tool. Just curious if it's worth disabling our popup to utilize the feature, or if it adds nothing since I've already done it in the markup.


non-cachable Canonical redirect of www to non-www

I know this question is debatable for the whole eternity, and most likely nobody knows the real philosophy of this problem. But I'm trying to solve the problem about 301 and 302 response headers in order to redirect correctly a canonical URL from non-www to www and do it **SEO-efficient**. At the moment I'm using the following method to redirect my canonical URL from non-www to www               #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.shangri\.us)?$     #RewriteRule (.*) http://www.shangri.us/$1 [R=301,L]      But using this code I get the following message in my PageSpeed report: > To speed up page load times for visitors of your site, remove as many > landing page redirections as possible, and make any required redirections > cacheable if possible. > >   * `http://shangri.us/ is a non-cacheable redirect to > http://www.shangri.us/` > So I'm trying to fix the PageSpeed advice about cacheable redirects (http://goo.gl/AWI0g4) I've read that I need to use 302 response header in this case. I know the difference between permanent and temporal redirects (301/302), but I have a big dilemma about how to implement this on my site. Although I don't want to use my root domain at all, I'm afraid of using 302 temporal redirect, because some people say it isn't the best way for **SEO matters** , but... aaaaaah I'm gonna go insane :(


Why is a query string appearing on my URLs in the Google search results?

When I enter a URL from my site into Google search, I get back that URL but with an added query string in the results. For example when I search for `https://example.com/blog/blog/2013/02`, the search results show it with parameters as `https://example.com/blog/blog/2013/02?limit=200`. I have disallowed the parameters in the _robots.txt_ file as `Disallow: /*?`. Now the Google search result shows the message as > A description for this result is not available because of this site's > robots.txt – learn more. How can I avoid having this added query string on the URL?


Google Analytics - Phone Orders Internally

I am running an ecommerce site and currently have google analytics filtering out our IP. While this gives almost absolute metrics about visitors it does not include orders processed internally because customers choose to call rather than checkout online. Also our store is running on the magento platform. What do you recommend to help track these orders and conversions via google analytics?


Best way to lay-out the website when sections of it are almost identical

so, I have a minisite for the mobile application that I did. The mobile application is a public transport (transit) schedule viewer for a particular city (let's call it Foo), and I'm trying to sell it via that minisite. I publish that minisite in `www.myawesomeapplication.com/foo/`. It has the usual "standard" subpages, like "About", "Compatible phones", "Contact", etc. Now, I have decided to create analogue mobile application for other cities, Bar and Baz. These mobile applications (products) would be almost identical to the one for the Foo city, thus the minisites for those would (should) look very similar too (except for some artwork and Foo => Bar replacement). The question is: what do you think would be the most logical way to lay-out the website in this situation, both from the business and search engine perspective? In other words, should I just duplicate the `/foo/` website to `/bar/` and `/baz/`, or would it be better to try to create a single website under root path (`/`)? I don't want search engine penalties for almost-duplicate information under `/foo/`, `/bar/` and `/baz/`, and also I don't want a messy, non-localized website (I guess the user is more likely to buy something if he/she sees _"This-and-that is the application for NYC, the city you live in"_ , not _"This-and-that is the application for city A, city B, ..., NYC, ..., and city Z."_ )


Knowledge Base solution for Magento?

I'm looking for a knowledge base solution for magento. Does anybody know of any available?


Whats the Quickest and Cheapest Solution to setup a Affiliate Program for an Online Product?

I have a simple HTML landing page setup for an online product I want to sell. This product is a hardcover book. I want to be able to allow other people to setup their own landing pages and make a percentage of the sale from their site. What are some good payment processors or payment gateways that make setting up an affiliate system easy and fast? Clarification - When someone purchases an item, I want (whatever the payment processor is) to automatically route a percentage of that payment to the affiliate and the rest to the original author.) Are there any payment frameworks that already do this? I've found a few sites that let you do this, but they seem to restrict you to digital purchases only. However, my sites is selling a ship-able product and the affiliate system needs to support this.


DNS and traceroute

![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/C8JNs.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/g9AWJ.png) some other big slovenian site has only 14 traceroutes ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/B6YED.png) is my traceroute big. I have dns for domains at zoneedit or freedns.afraid.org. Is this bad? Must i use slovenian dns servers? I do not want slow DNS resolving. Thx


How can I set the first two paragraphs as metada description on blogger?

I want to configure my meta description to have the initial bit of my post. On my template I just have `<data:post.body/>` and there is nowhere where I can get only the first bit. Is there a way to break down the `<data:post.body/>` to use in the meta description? maybe via javascript?


Mail server for every website on IIS

I'm using Windows 7 x64 and IIS 7 to serve several websites. What I want to do is set-up a mail server for every domain name (like in Linux hostings), and web-interface for example `domain1.com/webmail`, `domain2.com/webmail` ... Is that possible on Windows? Any suggestions?


Host your own website and DNS server

I pay yearly big money for my websites' hostings, domain registrars, etc. My IP is dynamic and provider allows HTTP port. In my local webserver, I can access to my websites like that: `localhost:80` - first website, `localhost:81` - second website, etc. **What I want to do** is to host low traffic websites (such as company pages, etc.) from my own computer, and reduce all costs that I told above. **Questions** :   * Is it possible to host my own DNS server and multiple websites (from multiple local ports) even with dynamic IP? Or should I buy dynamic dns service like DynDNS, NO-IP?  _Note: You can give solution with any OS (Linux, Windows doesn't matter, I'm ready to install)_   * Let's say I have static IP. I want to host webserver, DNS server from my own pc. And I registered domain name with some registrar like Godaddy, etc. What I need to do next?


How to track opens and pageviews in PDFs?

I know how to track **clicks** in links to pdfs and pfd's **downloads**. But I need to track how many times a PDF is **opened after being downloaded** and if possible track how many times certain pages are shown to users. Tracking has to be done **without warnings** that personal information is being sent somewhere. I do not want readers personal informations, just to know how many opens happened, so this warnings would be inaccurate. Can anyone help by pointing to a tutorial or an example? If you are sure that this can't be done, can you please point to documentation that explains why?


Is there a reason msnbot crawls in spikes?

I've been experiencing high RPM spikes recently. Something like this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wZ00L.png) When I debugged, I've found reasons to believe the reason is the msnbot suddenly makes a massive crawl and then stops. I assume I'm not the only site that has a problem to suddenly handle 5x the normal RPM, so why does msnbot do this? Is there any valid explanation or technical reason to perform such a HIT & RUN?


Mail Hosting That Will Allow Outbound Bulk Mail?

No, I'm not a spammer! I do volunteer work for a non-profit social services agency. They send out daily email with several hundred recipients on each message. Their web hosting company has been flagging the email as spam due to the volume. So I'm looking for an email hosting provider that won't do that. (I can separate out the web hosting function; we just need mail hosting right now.) They can't use something like MailChimp, Constant Contact, or Vertical Response because some of the mail is just inbound emails they aggregate and send out, and they don't want the overhead of "rebuilding" it in a "newsletter" service. I think that Google Apps for Business might be a good solution, but the pricing is just too high for this under-funded non-profit. I've applied for the non-profit discount but haven't heard back yet. Is there mail hosting service that might fit their needs?


Moving URL - telling Bing Webmaster Tools

We're moving a site, we've set up 301's from the old pages to the new ones and told Google about the move, but I couldn't find any were to tell Bing. Is there a feature to do this in Bing Webmaster Tools?


Does duplicate content on another site affect my ranking?

A competitors set up a new site and copy and pasted some copy from our home page. When doing a comparison with a duplicate content tool the result was that the pages where 21% similiar. Does the fact they have copied our content affect our site? Their site has seen an increase in their ranking recently and ours ahs dropped slightly


Googlebot is blocked from my domain

My _robots.txt_ is:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /          Sitemap:  http://example.com/sitemap.xml     Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml.gz      It has been the same for well over a week now, but when I go to fetch Google, I am still getting the same error message: Googlebot is blocked from `http://www.example.com/`. According to the Google Webmaster Tools, it may take up to just two days for an updated _robots.txt_ file to be refreshed. A few of my pages are being crawled and I have indexed them, but why are some still being _denied by robots.txt_? My site settings allow search engines to index, how long does the Googlebot take to see I have allowed all my site to be crawled?


Is there any way to diagnose which PHP or Perl scripts consume the most CPU time on a production server?

On a slightly under-powered server, it occasionally gets hit by lots of robots crawling simultaneously. Whilst one solution is to look into throwing more processing power at the web server, it has highlighted that some of the scripts are less than wonderfully optimised. That I'd love to be able to do is calculate the CPU time on a per-request basis, and focus on fixing those first. Is there anything built into Apache or PHP that could help achieve this? I guess MySQL would have its own metrics that would identify the most server intensive queries as well?


Tracking clicks to my site from a link in an email (normal email, not a newsletter) using Google Analytics

We sometimes send out links to one part of our site that is password protected, at the moment what we are doing to check if the recipient clicks on it, is to not give them the password and when they email back asking 'whats the password ?' we know they have tried to look at it and are keen to look at it. There are several problems with the above, is there a better way we can track this ? We use Google Analytics on our site which would currently track 'direct' visit from the email but really what id like to be tracking is to be able to set a value, perhaps in the query string something like "example.com/?=sam" and then i can see that the `/?=sam` link was clicked on, I would only send out this link to "sam" so I know it was he who clicked it. Obviously they could remove the query string, but I plan to hide it by using a hyperlink with anchor text. Is there something like that in Google Anaytics or another way to do it?


How to point one sub-domain to another sub-domain and they can be used interchangeably

I'm trying to do this secure.domain2.com -loads content from- secure.domain1.com So if somebody goes to secure.domain2.com it will load the content of secure.domain1.com Note that I don't want a redirect, so if someone goes to secure.domain2.com in the address bar it will still say secure.domain2.com even though it's loading content from secure.domain1.com I've read that it's possible with a CName or something like that, what is the best way to do that?


Parsing google site speed in analytics

I'm having a hard time making heads or tails of the Site Speed graphs in Google Analytics. Our site speed is fluctuating wildly from month to month, despite a large sample (the report is "based on 100,000's of visits) and a consistent web set up (static files served from an EC2 instance running nginx behind a load balancer). Here's our site speed, with each datapoint representing a week worth of data. Over this time period we modified our source and HTTP headers to increase our cache hits on static resources by 5x. ![](https://img.skitch.com/20120609-t6dfdehbkg4g1ahjm9x1n9achb.png) Why would it fluctuate so much? Is there any way to get more reliable information from those graphs?


Alternative to nofollow: custom 302 url shortener?

Here's the scenario: lots of blogging platforms make it tedious to insert `nofollow` into links within the post content. I.e., you need to edit the html, format it correctly, etc. I have a client who posts lots of content with links that should be nofollow'ed, and I thought of a novel way to handle this, since the blogging platform they're using makes it hard: I install a URL shortener web app on the client's domain. The shortener works as normal, _except_ it redirects via 302 instead of 301. The pagerank will therefore stay at the shortener's domain, and not flow on to the target site. Part 2: In order to get the pagerank to collect meaningfully, say on the site's home page, the shortened URLs would be generated like this: `/link?12345` instead of `/link/12345`. And then, the path `/link` would 301 to the home page. This way, the id is a param, not a path element. And thus, all the incoming shortened links are going to one path, which transfers pagerank to the home page. So that's my idea. I wanted to see if anybody could find problems with it. Thanks!


How to get keywords from Google HTTP referrer?

Can the http referrer URL from Google be decoded so that I can see the specific keywords?               http://www.google.sk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&sqi=2&ved=0CFgQFjAK&url=http://www.peciatky.sk/238-plombovacie-klieste.html&ei=WastU8_WMI-O7QautoCYBg&usg=AFQjCNHAZhWGZeIoJGtAOoSgSG25l4Hyqw


Why are Awstats, Webalizer, and Google Analytics results so different?

I realize that comparing Awstats and Webalizer to Google Analytics is like comparing apples to oranges, but each of them track _at least_ basic statistics about visitors and pages. So why are there often very significant differences in their data? For example, comparing Analytics with Awstats using some numbers from a small site over the past week: Awstats   * 78 unique visitors   * 205 visits (2.62 visits/visitor)   * 1,072 pages (5.22 pages/visit) Google Analytics   * 115 unique visitors   * 240 visits (2.08 visits/visitor)   * 1,275 pages (5.31 pages/visit) They're similar on the number of visits, but page views and uniques are quite different. I'm familiar with discrepancies of a much higher magnitude on some larger sites, showing that this trend scales proportionally upward. What is the reason behind the different numbers, even when the data is quite trivial like unique visitors and page loads?


Should a website be directly accessible by its IP address?

I found that many websites display their site content only when you access them by their FQDN (example, `example.com`). When trying to access by their IP address, they show a 404 site not found error. Are there good reasons why site owners would not want their websites to be directly accessible by IP address instead of going through the DNS? What are the pros and cons of making direct IP access available for your website?


Is it necessary for a web developer to know how to hack website?

I'm a web developer. I'm just wondering that is it necessary for a web developer to know how to hack website than developing a website?


How much is not too much? using snippets from other copyrighted sources

I'm going to add a news page to my website which will include short snippets from other copyrighted sources, I'm going to only mention the title and maybe a short descriptions and link them to the source. But I'm not sure how many words I'm allowed to use for each snippet on my website? also consider that it's going to be exact copy/paste.


How secure is the CodeIgniter framework?

I want to develop a website using the CodeIgniter framework. I'm just worried about the security of the framework. Is there an issue or event that a website is being hacked that uses CodeIgniter framework?


what's the best way to add the state in a page title for seo

For a page title, what's the best way to add the state to the page title for SEO purposes? For example, should it be: "Central Pennsylvania Shoe Repair" or "Central PA Shoe Repair" or "Central Pennsylvania PA Shoe Repair" I want it to be searchable and discoverable but is the last too redundant?


Where to buy .ha domain extesion?

Is there any website/service that I can get .ha domain extension?


Since Google reduces the value of links alongside nofollow links, what is an alternative?

Since 2009, Google counts `nofollow` links also as outgoing links, and thus reduces the value of the other links. What are some alternatives to stop Google counting outside links from my page? If I make links appear on my page source like this:               Link Name      and then in JavaScript replace **span** with **a** tag and replace **hrefs** with **href** for every span tag that has link="true". Will this help?


When a page is not found, what should I return that is best for SEO?

Someone told me that returning 404 is a bad signal to google which says to them that something is wrong with my site. What should I return that says to google to remove that url from their index and there is no content for that page? For example, I have something like url.com?some_arg=1 but if there is no record in the db for the id value 1 then, what should I return?


Wp-count Malware Injection

I received a malware notification from Google Webmaster tools yesterday for my blog which is running on Wordpress. After going through website I found that there is a file called `wp-count.php` creating malware code. I tried to delete that but it reappears again and again so I have erased coding inside. Now its there without coding but still I think it may be any other codes which are effect my website. How can I fix it?


Having <strong> tag inside the <h2> is advisable or not?

I have read that `<h2>` tags are important for seo and SEO expert prefer `<strong>` tags over `<b>` tags. But what if i want to use both (h2 and strong) together ? So suppose if i want to use tags with **tags, Ex. 1
 my title text
      Ex.2
 my title text
       Which one is better in terms of seo or both are same? UPDATE:** `<h2>` tag inside `<strong >` does not produce the Strong effect. So i will have to use the Ex.2 to make the words STRONG else it will be just a h2 tagged text.


What steps are required to enable SSL on Apache2 with Ubuntu?

I am developing a strategy game for web where there there will be a lot of client-server traffic for sending attacks, moves, etc. Right now I send messages from the client to the server via HTTP, and I want to try and setup SSL on my Ubuntu server which already has a LAMP stack installed and running. Here are the guides I've followed:   * https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/httpd.html (I used this to enable SSL)   * https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/certificates-and-security.html (I followed this one first to generate the private and public keys) After I installed the keys, I tried hitting my page using the https:// prefix, but I got an error: > SSL connection error. Unable to make a secure connection to the server. This > may be a problem with the server, or it may be requiring a client > authentication certificate that you don't have. Error code: > ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR After I received this error, I tried following: https://www.debian- administration.org/articles/349 This lead me around to modifying my 'ports.conf' file which now looks like:               NameVirtualHost *:80     Listen 80          <IfModule mod_ssl.c>         NameVirtualHost *:443         Listen 443     </IfModule>          <IfModule mod_gnutls.c>         NameVirtualHost *:443         Listen 443     </IfModule>      I restarted Apache successfully, and I can still hit my pages using HTTP, but not HTTPS (receiving the same error as before). **What step(s) am I missing?**


Is there any change made in the adsense conditions that it can not be applied for a free site?

Is there any policy change in google adsense which says that from now on only paid sites will be allowed to apply for adsense?like www.blabla.blogspot.com can not apply for a adsense account? EDIT: here's a link which says that: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense/thread?tid=5e8e8313f54d1a6e&hl=en


Using AWS or Azure, what to do about emails?

I'm coming from a background of paying a hosting company X amount per month for a server. This server comes with IIS, WebsitePanel and Smartermail all bundled together. When I create a new domain using WebsitePanel it automatically creates my email account. All I then need to do is configure my DNS to point to the server. I've decided that it is more cost efficient to move to AWS / Azure. Has anyone come from a similar background and moved onto a cloud system? I'd be interested to know what you did regarding emails. So far, these are the suggestions I've seen:   * Use Google Apps for each domain   * Use something like Elastic Email to sent out emails   * Launch a new instance and host an email server on that The first option seems like quite a lot of manual configuration, the second one works good with outgoing emails but what about receiving? Option 3 would make it less cost effective. What is your experience?


rel="next" in anchor tag is not working

I have 100's of duplicate meta description issue in google webmaster tool because of the pagination. Pagination pages are showing as duplicate in tool. So I added the `rel="next"` and `rel="prev"` to the pagination link anchor tags. But it seems like not working. I red the Google office webmaster blog post. That never mentioned to add anchor tag to the rel attributes. So should only adding rel attribute with link work or it will work with anchor tag as well. example :                <link rel="next" href="http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=2" />      I red few unofficial blogs that mentioned the it will work with anchor. So please can anyone tell what I am doing here wrong!


SEO traffic dropped suddenly

My website was doing relatively very well in terms of SEO, I was getting around 10 000 page impressions and more than a few thousand clicks per day for keywords that other than my brand name. Keywords such as "Hard Food", "pre- cum" and some drug names. And then one day I witnessed a sudden drop and since then I'm only stuck with a maximum of 1000 impressions per day and a few hundred clicks only for my brand name. My SEO score on WooRank is around 70%, my page load speed is 93% (according to GTMetrix, ySlow). The website didn't change, the only thing that might have changed was that we stopped the Google Ads. Is there anything I should consider? or maybe I'm looking for the wrong type of optimizations. Let me know if you need other info!


What is the difference between the description and abstract meta tags?

There are two meta tags that seem very similar: description and abstract. What is the difference between the two?


Local monthly searches in Google keyword tool

For a target keyword made of two words the Local monthly searches shows:   * Broad: 300,000 searches   * Phrase: 250,000 searches Competition is nil. Does it mean that -- this many people search for this keyword term in a month?


What's the best magento plugin to add support for affiliates?

I'm using magento 1.5 and prefer to install modules from Magento Connect. Any suggestions?


How to allow user to enter text or upload file, but not both

We used to have a two-step process for answering questions. On the first page the user indicated how he would answer: either by typing a response or uploading a file. On the next page either a textarea or file input was presented. Instead I plan to present a single page where the user can do either of those things, but not both. What is the most user-friendly way to do this?


Would you go about marketing a subscription based site differently?

Do you think that subscription based sites, that offer software as a service model, should be marketed differently than a content specific site. Beyond contacting bloggers, blogging yourself, and going to trade shows and events, how would you directly engage a paying client base to "spread the word" beyond affiliate marketing stuff?


Webmaster tools with Google, Yahoo and Bing

I am currently using Google webmaster tools. I submitted my sitemap using their tool, etc. I am aware of the fact that Yahoo and Bing offer theit own webmaster tools section. Can I use all three sites' tools or should I pick one of them and stick with it? Do not know if there is any kind of penalty for using many tools?


SEO analysis report not counting Facebook likes?

For my website I created a Facebook page. It has 21 likes. However, the SEO analysis report says the Facebook likes count to zero. How to get the Facebook likes count into the SEO analysis report?


Administrative and secured CMS for storing secret credentials?

My boss asked me to setup a secured area online, which will contain all the FTP, MySQL etc details related to our web products. This online area must be secured and will only be accessible by the user we define. It should be easy to understand and should have functionality to download details in PDF or in word format etc. And should be able to handle following type of scenario: A client has 10 websites so we'll need to store FTP, MYSQL etc details related to 10 websites, so CMS should be able to accept and present the data in easy way. Do anyone has any suggestions for me to handle such kind scenario. Please help. Thanks!


All social login

Is there any API available for connecting to all possible social networks (mainly facebook, linkedin, twitter, github, bitbucket, codeplex, stackexchange, google code) I am basically looking for one stop website which can provide me logins with all the above website, for eg.http://www.oneall.com Is there any website which provides all of this??


SEO - PageRank on Facebook pages, but pages have no back links to them?

have a look at these two pages: 1) http://www.facebook.com/zvz.ro ( **PageRank 4** from Google toolbar) Amazingly it has got NO links to it (you can see it with Majestic SEO free report): ~~http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=it- it.facebook.com/jeanchristophe.cataliotti &fr=sfp~~ (Yahoo SiteExplore is dead now, Microsoft already started to kill any useful thing that was given out by Yahoo for free) 2) http://www.facebook.com/poste.certificate ( **PageRank 1** from Google toolbar) Still amazingly it has got NO links to it (you can see it with Majestic SEO free report) ~~http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18463182878 &v=wall&viewas=0&fr=sfp~~ And the same results can be found for many Facebook pages. **How do you explain this?** Hoping for an explanation that goes beyond just saying that the PR in Goole toolbar it's not updated, because it can not be the reason for this!


Unusual rise in pageviews with no increase in unique visitors

There has been an unusual raise in my website page views. During the day I usually get 40-50 page views per minute, but its a few days now that i'm getting about 150 page views/ minute, and there is no significant change in visitor count. The first time that I saw that, I thought it might be a bot, like Googlebot. I don't think Google but likes me so much that it won't leave my site. What can cause this? Can it indicate a problem? My website is a free website offering baby names with their meaning. There is nothing special to hack. EDIT: the new thing in a few days is that I have got a company place ads in mywebsite and each ad loads in an iframe. can it be cause it? does google analytics count iframes too? the content of iframes are some ads from that company and absolutely has no analytics script.


Which domain should I authorize in my .htaccess to let google spreadsheet access files on my site

I use google spreadsheet feature that allows one to let an image be the content of a cell. The cell is defined by:               =image("http://www.example.com/my-pics/my-pic.jpg")      It works pretty well. But, I don't want my pics to be public. So I added a `.htaccess` file in the `my-pics` directory of my web site. Here is the template I used               order deny,allow     deny from all     allow from <domain used by google-spreadsheet to get image>      My problem is that I don't know which domain I should allow? Do you have any idea? EDIT: Just an idea, but I cannot test it on my own (I use the web server my ISP provides me and I don't have access to logs). If my `.htaccess` is simply               order deny,allow     deny from all      and that google spreadsheet tries to access the image, it should be logged somewhere on my web server that domain `some-google-linked-domain.com` has tried to access the file. Am I wrong?


FTP user permissions via Plesk 10

I have added an ftp user via Plesk. How could I limit the ftp user's permissions so that they can read and write files, but not modify/delete?


How can I register a domain that requires country residency?

I tried to register a .pm domain from ovh.co.uk, but they e-mailed me saying they want valid proof that I am a resident of the United Kingdom. I currently live in the United States though. **I am aware that I have to be a resident.** That's not the question I'm asking. I want to know if it's possible, whether through some website that will get residency or some 'hacking' method, to register the domain I am interested in without having to physically be a resident of the country. I will try and find out if ovh.co.uk will charge me an extra fee, but until then I am curious to know if there is any way I could do this. Also, is there any other website I could purchase .pm domains from?


How long does it take for backlinks to appear?

How long does it take for backlinks & linkjuice to appear in your link profile and have an effect?


Website that allows Twitter-like message accessed via TinyURL

Looking for a website that allows me to post Twitter-like messages that are accessed via TinyURLs and that allows me to create an account to get reports on the access of each of these messages. Basically, unlikely Twitter, each message would require the TinyURL for to access the message, but there would be no central author index of messages. Also, the author would not only be able to login and see a centralized listing of all the messages, but also reports on if the messages had been accessed.


Link absolute URIs correctly when loading pages locally

When developing pages, I like to load them in my browser locally to see how they look rather than have to deploy them to the server every time. I'm using Lift and server deployment takes a few seconds, and just running Lift puts a heavy strain on my old laptop. The problem is absolute paths e.g. _/css/main.css_ , while correct on the server, will cause the browser to search from the root filesystem e.g. _file:///css/main.css_ when I open the page locally. Is there a technique to be able to work with absolute paths, yet somehow trick the browser into using a different base to calculate the paths from when loading the pages locally? A browser plug-in perhaps?


My WP site got injected

Hey friends my wordpress site got injected, and now I have to solve it. here is my domain, http://webstutorial.com/ What I need to do, please help me. This is not a spam or link building technique


Paypal Automatic Billing API

Paypal offer Automatic Billing Buttons which allow regular billing for different amounts. After a couple of hours googling I cannot find how to access this functionality using the API, so that it can be automated as opposed to done manually via the paypal account. Is it possible? Can someone point me to a sample/reference?


Is this tag real? rel="nofollow external"

I can't seem to find any documentation that officially comments on this tag. Maybe a few forum posts here or there, but nothing on Webmaster Guidelines and even here on Pro Webmasters, I'm not seeing anything relating to it. I encountered this as I was sifting through links to un-do some rather horrible SEO choices by some former SEO firms our company contracted with. My experience tells me that               ...rel="nofollow external">anchor text</a>      is just a way for the site owner to keep our links while making it seem like he's trying to help us? I contacted him about a week ago and we're about to go through our second round of emails. Since he never contacted me back, I'm likely going to try and get a hold of him again. I honestly don't remember if it had this attribute before I messaged him last time around, but I'm fairly certain it didn't. So, in a nut shell, my question is: will this actually remove the link from Google's radar or do I need to contact this guy again? EDIT: Just so it's clear, I understand `rel="nofollow"` is happy and wonderful, it's the external bit I've never seen before and I know people can make up their own meta tags to add stuff to the code that never gets used, like a KEYPHRASES meta tag.


Using schema.org to represent Person, Google's webmaster tool doesn't see it

I set a bunch of pages about people with the schema.org metadata for Person. The testing tool sees the metadata perfectly. However, the webmaster tools search appearance says there's no structured data on my site.


What's the difference between my nameserver and CNAME settings?

I have purchased a domain name(`mxsoup.net`) through GoDaddy, and it is just parked. In order to set up my custom URL for my SourceAudio site, they give me the following instructions: > In order to host your site at a your own URL, we need you to set up some DNS > records to point your URL to us. Specifically, we need two CNAME references, > one for 'www.mxsoup.net' and one for 'secure.mxsoup.net', both of which > should point to 'web2.sourceaudio.com'. But the rep on the phone at GoDaddy said that my site is hosted at HostMonster.com, and therefore I need to talk to them to accomplish this (which is possibly true, but my business owner says he hasn't purchased hosting for this particular domain, yet he does have some other sites in his HostMonster hosting acct.) My GoDaddy account shows that my nameservers are pointing at `NS1.HOSTMONSTER.COM`, and `NS2.HOSTMONSTER.COM`, and I can edit those. But is this the same as setting up the `CNAME` as described above?


Using Google apps / eNom domain change webhosts without breaking email?

I'm taking over a site for a client who initially purchased their domain name from Google Apps / eNom, they're using google apps mail but the site itself is hosted on earthlink. I've built the new site for them on BlueHost and am now ready to point the Name Servers from earthlink to BlueHost. I have access to the enom dashboard at access.enom.com which shows the Name Servers as dns1.earthlink.net dns2.earthlink.net dns3.earthlink.net What I need to know is, can I simply update these Name Servers with the bluehost ones? Or will this break the mail settings? The enom panel is the only login I've gotten from the client so hoping this alone will do it.


Website looks OK in IE9, but not in Firefox, IE8 and IE7

i have a problem with my site http://www.cyprusproperty-4sale.com/123456789.asp it looks OK in IE9 but not in Firefox, IE8 & IE7. Could you please help me with that?


Apache2 "pseudo" doc root

I have several folders in my /www folder that contain various applications. To keep things organized, I keep them in their own folders -- this includes my base application. Examples:   1. phpmyadmin = /www/phpmyadmin   2. phpvirtualbox = /www/phpvirtualbox   3. root domain site = /www/Landing The reason I segregate all of my sites is that I actively develop on some of these (my root site) and when I publish via Visual Studio, I choose to delete prior to upload - if I put the Landing page in the base folder, it would be devastating for me. My goal is that when I go to www.example.com - I go to my page. If I go to www.example.com/phpmyadmin, it does not work because of this in the Apache2 folder:               <Location "/"> # Error is the "/"       Allow from all       Order allow,deny       MonoSetServerAlias domain       SetHandler mono       SetOutputFilter DEFLATE       SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI "\.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$" no-gzip dont-vary     </Location>     <IfModule mod_deflate.c>        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript     </IfModule>      If I change the location to say "/Other", then the base site is broken, and the aliases are restored for the other sites. If it is "/", then the base site works and no aliases work. What could I do to allow it to treat my /www/Landing as my webroot, but when I go to an alias, it GOES to the alias. Edit: Added in the default VirtualHost info.               DocumentRoot /var/www     <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerAdmin info@example.com         ServerName www.example.com          ExpiresActive On     ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000     ExpiresByType image/png A2592000     ExpiresByType image/jpg A2592000     ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000     ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 days"            MonoServerPath domain "/usr/bin/mod-mono-server4"       MonoDebug domain true       MonoSetEnv domain MONO_IOMAP=all       MonoApplications domain "/:/var/www/Landing"              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f         RewriteRule (.*) /Landing/$1 [L]               #Need to watch what the Location is set to. Can cause issues for alias     <Location "/">       Allow from all       Order allow,deny       MonoSetServerAlias domain       SetHandler mono       SetOutputFilter DEFLATE       SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI "\.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$" no-gzip dont-vary     </Location>     <IfModule mod_deflate.c>       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript     </IfModule>              ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log              LogLevel warn         CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined     </VirtualHost>


How would you convince a domain owner to sell his domain to you?

I'm wanting to have a domain name for my business that has already been registered by someone but that he is not using. He is offering it to me for $1000 (which is too much for me) and I offered him the sum of $300, which he is not interested in. How do I convince him to sell me the domain for a lesser price? As per my findings, that name is also occupied at social media sites, and the .org domain name is also occupied.


Google seems confused about our lists in the SERP

If you do a search for "alternative to Dropbox" or "alternative to spotify" we get listed in the Google SERP. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SKbHC.png) There is a nice little list there and so on but the problem is that Google isn't starting from the top of the list. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/dHGnB.png) It seems to start from right after our first banner in the list. And this is consistent of all results that gives this list view in the SERP. Anyone have any idea what could be wrong. I've tried to look at out markup and can't find any real issues. Can you report stuff like this to Google in some way, i suppose they would be interested cause it's kind of a bug. Is there anyway to tell Google not to use this list view thing btw?


Hosting a homepage on godaddy

I have a web hosting account with godaddy. How do you make it so entering just the domain name will take you to the home page? For example `www.coolwebsite.com` vs `www.coolwebsite.com/page1`.


Prevent crawling of mobile site

I have an issue with bots crawling the mobile site and returning hits on the mobile site for desktop users. The mobile content is in /mobile/ The regular site will redirect mobile users to the /mobile/ site Regular desktop browsers are allowed into the /mobile/ site and will see the mobile version (used for easy testing of mobile content from desktop). Can someone help with a sane robots.txt for this site that would work with Google and Bing. I want both crawlers to index the hole site, but only the mobile crawler should index the mobile site. I have found user-agent: GoogleBot-Mobile for google, but is there something like BingBot-Mobile or does it crawl only with bingbot? Also, is msnbot gone? Is this ok?               User-agent: *     Allow: /          User-agent: Googlebot,bingbot     Disallow: /mobile/     Allow: /          User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile,bingbot-mobile     Disallow: /     Allow: /mobile/      I guess it would be better if desktop users got redirected away from the /mobile/ site to the regular content, but it's a bit outside scope of question. Thank you for your help!


Multilingual Site - Bing/Yahoo Ignoring Tags

We have a site that we just created in Spanish (regular version is in English). We setup the site following google's recommendations. All seems good on that side. However, today I noticed that Bing/Yahoo are ignoring the language setting on the page, and showing the spanish results for english users. Not all but some. I haven't been able to find any information from bing to what they need to fix this. Right now I am going to block those sites from indexing the spanish site. Has anyone had this problem? Suggestions welcome. EDIT: BELOW I ADDED WHAT THE INTEGRATION IS.               <html lang="es">     <head> <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.domain.com/" hreflang="en" />     <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.domain.com/es/" hreflang="es" />     </head>      I followed the rules outlined here. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en


Page Speed Optimization Questions: defer parsing and specifying a char set?

Continuing to optimized a web site, I'm using Chrome's Dev Tool add-on for Page Speed. I've been able to do a good bit of performance tuning thanks to its suggestions, but these two have me perplexed: I'm being told I need specify character set, but I have this in all my documents (meta tag below). It's within the head, does it need to be done prior to the HTML tag? If so, what's the syntax?               <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />      Second one I'm getting dinged on is deferring of Javascript. I know back in the day you could add a defer="defer" to the JS, but I don't think that's valid, nor does that satisfy the Page Speed validators. How do I defer JS? Typically my sites have jQuery linked to Google's CDN, and then an overarching local site.js loaded right after the jQuery core, like so:               <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>     <script src="/lib/js/site.js"></script>


Getting expired domain name - most effective route?

There is a domain name I have been wanting for years that was used as a parked page (read: cybersquatted) that has entered into WHOIS's `redemptionPeriod` stage. The domain has been `expired` for 61 days now - after contacting the Registar, they informed me that it would stay in redemption for **75 days**. After which, it would either be sold to resellers, or sent back to the public registry. ( _I have since sent a followup message requesting the reseller they use._ ) **My question is:** What is the best way to proceed? I know there is at least one competitor that would love to have this name, but I'm unsure if they even know it's expiring. I did not tell the Registar the domain in question, as they seem geared _towards_ cybersquatting, and I do not trust them. Domain Front Running sucks. Should I use a backorder service? Should I just take my chances and try to grab it after75 days? I checked an auctionhouse by manually browsing their expired domains - it wasn't there.


Can AdWords ValueTrack parameters be nested?

Google provides ValueTrack as a mechanism for adding dynamic parameters to your advertising URLs. I have successfully used it for tracking clicks from their search network and content network in separate campaigns:   * `utm_term={keyword}` in a search campaign to pass the keyword the user searched for to my site   * `utm_term={placement}` in a content campaign to passe the site where the ad appeared If I want want to combine the campaigns, can I somehow combine this tracking? I see that value track offers `{ifsearch:[value]}` and `{ifcontent:[value]}` options. Can the keyword and placement be nested inside of them like this?               utm_term={ifsearch:{keyword}}{ifcontent:{placement}}


Store customer in DB and PayPal?

I am working on payment page of my website but cannot figure out at which process to store customer's details before sending them to PayPal payment page. Here's the process:   1. Choose Product page    2. Fill in customer details page    3. Cart confirmation page    4. PayPal official site payment page if success   5. redirect back to my site   6. Login to their account   7. Fill in some form if not success (cancelled/denied/etc)   8. redirect back to my site to meet cancellation page. What is the best approach for this circumstance as I would want to store only the successful transaction, customer who actually did make a payment but that has to be after I received the IPN code from PayPal. Will I lost their customer data on the way if I decide the store their details in the database after they are redirected back to my website? If I choose to store customer data at stage 3 in the temp table, I guess I would have had a long list of unsuccessful records in the temp table and I have to update back and forth in multiple tables for this approach. What would you recommend?


Div with "itemprop=text" contains ratingblock. Will this harm SEO?

I am using WordPress and I am planning to use `schema.org` attributes to optimize the site for SEO. Because of WordPress' structure, I am forced to put the `itemprop=text` on a `div`, containing both the whole content of the `article` (which is fine), but also a `div` which contains a _ratingblock_ with thumbs... Is this fine or not? Will this be a problem? I know it's not optimal, but I guess I don't have another choice. Example:

     content of postcontent of postcontent of postcontent of post


Tool for clickstream anlyzing of Apache logs?

Are there any good tools to analyze the clickstream of individual users in Apache web server logs? For example, I'd like to be able to click on a visitors IP address and see all pages the user requested.


Joomla! Link redirects to another template

I have a website on Joomla. I'm using a template (called "Mall") and when I click a link from the navbar, that link redirects me to another template. I would like to know what's the problem.


rel=canonical required for HTTPS?

I'm offering a page through HTTP and HTTPS, both with the same URL scheme. I.e., a page is available as `http://www.example.com/page1.html` as well as `https://www.example.com/page1.html`. Should I add `rel=canonical` to one of those pages?


How can I decrease load time (see image)

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  DNS takes too long to resolve ![PingDom Test results](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UD9yf.jpg) This website loads pretty fast, in less than 1 second on localhost. I have made it live on the server and load times are as high as 15 seconds. The initial GET request is taking too long. How to rectify the problem and what exactly is the problem. I have been trying to find solution, but I believe, I am searching the wrong thing. Also the I'm using Namecheap DNS management.


301 redirect to different page on different domain?

I want to make a 301 redirect to a different page on a different domain. The page is on the same topic, but is different content. Also, the traffic to the original page comes from the alt text on an image. I'm sure that the alt text is different on the same image from the other page. Is this wise to do and will it last? Or, should 301 redirects only be done when it's the exact same content? Thank you.


Excellent web development podcasts

Could we get a list of excellent web development podcasts to subscribe to? I will mark this as a community wiki and add to it as new suggestions come in. Suggestions so far;   * SitePoint   * Boagworld


How can an exception be created for Facebook on robots.txt?

I have a directory that I don't want Google to index because it could confuse people who don't know the site. However, I want everyone else to get updates when I post them on our Facebook page. The problem is that the general exception to the directory is also blocking Facebook access, which causes links to this directory impossible to post. Please ignore the fact about not allowing Google. I really just wanna know how to create an exception for Facebook but I thought I'd give the whole story to explain it better.


Should I use singular or plural nouns in a domain name and why?

Me and a group of people are in the process of choosing a domain name for a future website and we aren't sure whether the noun in the domain name should be plural or singular. Currently we have 2 options :   * echangehec.ca (English: exchangehec.ca) OR echangeshec.ca (English: exchangeshec.ca)    * livrehec.ca (English: bookhec.ca) OR livreshec.ca (English: bookshec.ca) What are the advantages or disadvantages of choosing one or an other ? **Note:** The funding for the project is minimal and purchasing both is an option that should be avoided if it's not necessary.


How the Linkedin network/degrees works?

Linkedin is great for its feature of people degrees, up to three levels. Is there anyone who know how such feature has been built and how to keep it scalable with millions of people? (tech docs and algorithms types are welcome) Thank you


Multiple site URLs now showing up in SERPs

Recently when you search for me on Google several URLs from my blog have started showing up, instead of just the main URL. 1) https://scotthelme.co.uk/   2) https://scotthelme.co.uk/category/wifi-pineapple-2/   3) https://scotthelme.co.uk/wifi-pineapple-karma-sslstrip/ Is there a reason this starts happening? I have contemplated doing something to remove them but is it better to occupy the top 3 spots instead of just the top spot? Should I just leave them there?


How to block a spam bot .htaccess proper formatting?

I have downloaded my access log file from my cPanel and found I have a bot I would like to stop. In the access log, there `User-Agent` string reads the following; > 88.80.205.219 - - [08/May/2014:23:29:52 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 301 - "-" > "-"   >  88.80.205.219 - - [08/May/2014:23:29:56 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 29019 > "-" "-" What is the proper format in my _.htaccess_ file to block this bot only?


Do all websites in a shared hosting have the same IP address?

If a shared webhost server like hostgator (for example) host 100 sites, will all the 100 sites have the same IP address?


Schema.org MedicalClinic

I'm using http://schema.org/MedicalClinic on main page of my client's site. I've filled in as many as I can including address,name, url, image url, geolocation, descripition, opening hours, specialty etc. It's coming up ok when I test it on Richsnippet tool but I don't know what benefits I can get from using it. I don't see anything on the search result pages on Google. What should I expect from it? Would the image show up on the SERP? If so, wouldn't it be similar to what you would get with Publisher meta tag and Google Plus as it also allows you to get Google Plus image appearing on the SERP?


How to manage DNS from multiple registrars in one place?

I have domains from different providers (GoDaddy, domaindotcom, namesilo, namecheap, etc) is there any way to manage DNS from one panel? Sometimes when move to a new hosting server, we need to change each domain name server.. by login one by one.


How do I avoid smart pricing?

I heard that if your website/blog receives few views, you should avoid putting ads on the site due to smart pricing. I have a number of niche sites (all with ads) and am just now opening another niche site. I'm wondering how long I should wait before I put AdSense on it (it's been quite a while since I've started a niche site.) How many views should you have per day on your site before you put ads on to avoid being smart priced?


Google AdSense ad serving has been disabled. So How to handle it?

I have a site which pulls photos from Instagram API. Recently I got a shocking message from Google that "Google AdSense ad serving has been disabled" for the "ADULT/PORNOGRAPHY" reason. I believe that Instagram won't allow users to upload "ADULT/PORNOGRAPHY" content. So my website also won't contain such kind of photos(ADULT/PORNOGRAPHY). Unfortunately, a user from instagram (http://instagram.com/shoutoutsforeveryoneallthetime - Now removed from instagram :) ) uploaded ADULT/PORNOGRAPHY photos and so, Adsense caught my website page for the same user and so it has been stopped from displaying ads from my website. Sorry for such a long story. Please suggest to me how to deal with this scenario. If I start another site same like this, what will happen to me? And I just want to know some other sites which also display photos from Instagram, which still have active Adsense ads. More than that, most local NEWS websites may contain words like fu.., bo.., porn...etc., But still they display ads from Google. Google Won't block their Ads. Please explain.


Serve most of a domain with Apache, but use mod_proxy to serve some URLs from Lighttpd

So we wish to host some pages on a new server with apache2, and embed some of our old content & functionality from another server with lighttpd in an iframe. I'm looking at this configuration from the apache docs (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/examples.html#page-header) under "Using Virtual_host and mod_proxy" together.               <VirtualHost *:*>         ProxyPreserveHost On         ProxyPass / http://192.168.111.2/         ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.111.2/        ServerName hostname.example.com     </VirtualHost>      The only issue is that I want to proxy only on a subdomain, or even better, if I can keep the top domain and proxy only if the url contains a particular path ie. "/myprocess.php". So in essence the DNS will point to the apache2 as the "master router".


Do search engines see comments in the source code as a backlink?

I would like to know if Google or any other search engine would regard a comment in the source-code containing a link:                   <!-- domain.com -->      as a back-link. If yes how much weight is put onto it and if no why do so many script include back-links in the source-code commenting.


Duck Duck Go SEO

The search engine duck duck go has generated some interest, and there are a few people who use it. I was wondering if if would be worth while to optimize my site to rank better on duck duck go, and if it is worthwhile, if there are any tips for how to rank better on their site.


How to temporarily remove a website from search engines?

We are working on a new website and we forgot to disallow robots after putting the test version online, on a subdomain. Now we are already being crawled and indexed by bots (Google, Yahoo, and others) and we don't want that for our test version which is not ready and finalized yet. My question is related to indexing:   * Is it OK if we disallow robots at this level without having any effect on the live website (same domain) when switching from allow all to disallow all?   * Can we use the 307 HTTP status (Temporary Redirect)?   * How long doest it take spiders to refresh their db (either disallow robots or 307 redirect)?


Will URL encoding the image names affect Google

Just wondering if it makes any difference to Google whether or not I URL encode the image names when linking to them. For example if I have an image named `"test-1234-!.jpg"`, does it make a difference if I ~~name it~~ refer to it as `"test-1234-%21.jpg"`? The reason I am asking is because I am doing a major shift in the way my website works and while all new image names will not be URL encoded, all of the past ones are. I want to see if it is worth it renaming all of them or if I should just leave it like that.


Disqus style plugin for contact forms

I've been using a combination of Swifmailer and jQuery to add a website contact form to sites that aren't using a cms, but the ease of implementing a Disqus module for comments makes me wonder if an equivalent is available for a contact form? I've looked high and low on the Web, and I still haven't anything that can be used outside of WordPress, Drupal etc or doesn't require heavy configuration on the back end


What is the correct way to track carousel click through using Google Analytics?

I have a simple carousel with multiple slides on our home page, and I want to use Google Analytics to track how effective each slide is. What is the correct way to do this in GA? I could use: **Event Tracking** Event Tracking is one option. User clicks would trigger the event and track which image the user interacted with. **Campaign Tracking** Campaign Tracking is another option whereby I could define the parameters of the slide and then qualify the pageview on the target page as being from the carousel. For this use case, what is the "correct" tool to use? I'd like to make sure that I'm doing this the same way everyone else does so if we bring in additional resources or contract with a vendor our GA implementation doesn't come out of left field.


Why would someone want to take over control of my domain name?

I was approached by a person wanting to help me set up a website. In order to do this he has requested that I allow him to transfer my domain name to his account, for easier management. I would retain the right of usage and he would pay the bill for maintaining the name. This sounds fishy, but I can't figure out what he hopes to gain if this is a scam. Is this a common practice among 'Administrative Contacts'?


SEO: targeted or generic URLs performance

I'm working on a website that sells DYI products. 2 of the products categories are **save-paint** and **save-cabling**. Since the products can help you save money they could also be part of a **save-money** category. Assuming that the monthly search estimates for these 3 categories were as follows: **save-money** : 600K   **save-paint** : 300K   **save-cabling** : 150K What of the 2 following options would provide the best overall page ranking for the website? **option 1:** not use the **save-money** category at all to create more targeted URLs such as **/save-paint/product1** or **/save-cabling/product2** which wouldn't rank on **save-money** but would rank higher on the other 2 categories. **option 2:** be generic by combining the **save-money** category with the other 2 to create URLs such as **/save-money-on-paint/product1** or **/save- money-on-cabling/product2** which I guesewould rank average on all categories.


When to reply 400 Bad Request

According to www.w3.org, a Web server should reply with status code `400 Bad Request` if: " _The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax. The client SHOULD NOT repeat the request without modifications_ " Does that mean only request that violates some HTTP spec?   Or does it include a request that my particular Web app thinks is broken?   When would you reply `400`? For example, if my Web app expects a query string to always include a "function=..." parameter, would you reply code `400 Bad Request` or `403 Forbidden`? (403 means that _"The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it."_ )


audio streaming that cannot be saved?

I need to publish a audio file that I want to make so that:   * It is available to listen in streaming.   * The file can't be retrieved for private use. Any idea how to do it? Something where user cannot save the audio using any webbrowser plugin like DownloadHelper would be the best, but already preventing the everyday user to save the source file on his machine with a right click would help.


Colour Blindness Filters

Greetings Friends, Is there a standard set of downloadable styles that I can overlay on my graphics to simulate the various types of colour-blindness? Ideally for Photoshop or Fireworks. Many thanks


Spatial data mining algorithms about local business web services?

Do you know any research paper about spatial data mining algorithms to retrieve trends about local business services (such as google places.. etc) let's say most rated restaurants this week.. etc ? I need scientific material about it. thanks


Google Analytics Liked Tool to Detect Visitor IP Address

I was wondering is there any free google analytics tool, which I can detect my visitor IP address? I try to use statcounter, but they are only limit the log to 500 entries. The reason I ask, because I want to detect Adsense click fraud activity on my web site. Thank you.


Only I can access my hosted website!

**Problem Background** I have bought a domain from `bigrock.com` and hosted website on their server. Initially, I was not able to access my site with its name e.g.: `www.sitename.com`, but it was accessable with its IP address. So I wrote to BigRock about that, they told me that "Your site is working fine for them" and they gave me screenshot with name. I got confused, so my friend suggested to change the DNS server address in my router with Google's DNS servers name (`8.8.8.8`, `8.8.4.4`), I did it and I was able to access my website with its name. **Problem Starts** Now my website is done and live but **many people are not able to access it, only few doesn't face problem**. I cannot tell everyone to update their routers with Google's DNS server names! I again wrote to BigRock about it, but they are again saying "Your website is working fine!" How do I solve this problem? Am I missing some configuration in CPanel? Is it in my scope? or shall I move to another Web-Hosting provider? **UPDATE: 1** One month have elapsed I have registered my domain hosted it. I was developing it from a month. (Updating it with FileZilla daily) **UPDATE: 2** Domain Name: www.nistnu.in Tested on : http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/ **Errors:** Delegation not found at parent. No delegation could be found at the parent, making your zone unreachable from the Internet. Not enough nameserver information was found to test the zone www.nistnu.in, but an IP address lookup succeeded in spite of that.


Is  safe now?

Is it safe to use `` now? I remember there were problems with this entity, such as rendering it everywhere (instead of only when the web browser decides to split a word), or splitting a word without rendering it.


Accepting money on a website as payment: when do I move past PayPal?

I have a website I accept payments via PayPal. This works well, at what point does it make sense to change providers, given PayPal takes a higher percentage than some other services. What are the best alternatives to PayPal and how much should I be bringing in to have it make sense?


How can I tell if Windows 8 users have a tablet or PC

We have had some complaints from users who are using Windows 8. I'd like to use Google Analytics to review the behavior of users depending on whether they are using Windows 8 on a tablet or Windows 8 on a PC. How can I tell them apart?


Using a CDN for CMS software (multiple sites)

I'm currently researching ideas for the media management side of a CMS I'm writing. I was looking at having images served from a CDN which is fine on a single site, but I want all sites that run the CMS to make use of a CDN (which will most likely be a custom developed one, rather than a third party service like S3). My main question is: **Is a multi-site CDN a good idea?** I can't think of a downside, but have probably missed something - obviously they won't share the same folder, as I invisage the requests to be `css.cdnsite.com/example.com/style.css` or something along those lines. Having multiple sites in the same place will obviously make it easier for us to manage, as well as being cheaper, but then I wonder if it'll be worth it... Long story short: **How should the CMS handle user uploaded media (separate installations)** Just keep a local copy of all assets and serve them from the same site, like in days of yore? Keep a local copy, force site to use `www.` and have CDN subdomains per site? Or use a single separate CDN for all sites? Apologies for the length of this question, not sure if this should be multiple questions or not, as all parts are kind of related and could affect each other.


Google Analytics assign multiple values to a custom variable at pagelevel

I am using Google Analytics custom variable to track the category for a product. Product A has 3 categories: catA, catB and catC. This changes at page level because we load different products on different pages. My code snippet looks like this:               _gaq.push('_setCustomVar', 1, 'categories', 'catA', 3);     _gaq.push('_trackPageview');      In order to set multiple categories, I need to send multiple `_trackPageView` or `_trackEvent` requests. Is there a way to overcome this problem?


If user +1s a Google Plus page, does he "follow" the page?

We added a +1 button that refers to our Google Plus page. When the user clicks on the +1 button, does he end up "following" the page? Or do we MUST use the follow button instead? The reason behind this is that we wanted to track the new followers and the only button that offers a callback function is the +1 one.


301 redirect all pages with a specific extension

I have a website that is not on ASP anymore, it's a Drupal 7 website now. _**I need to use an .htaccess file to redirect with code 301 all pages with .asp extension to the 404 page or a specific URL._** (Background story: Drupal will catch non-existing pages such as `domain.com/test` and redirect to 404 page. But Drupal will not catch non- existing pages with ASP extension such as `domain.com/test.asp` and it will instead serve a generic Not Found Apache page.) For example, if someone tries to access `domain.com/test.asp`, the user should be taken to `domain.com/404` I have searched and searched but I can't find a solution to this particular problem. How can I code that in an .htaccess file?


Apache logging based on user agent

I'd like to update my apache logging so that its destination is based on the user agent string or file type. Specifically, I would like to send my googlebot requests to their own log file, and I would like to not log requests for any of my image files. My configuration is pretty much stock.


wordpress woocommerce php variable usage %1$s

I am using wordpress with woocommerce and I am trying to manipulate a copy of myaccount.php The default code uses some variables of some sort that I am not familiar with nor have I been able to find documentation on. The variables in question are %1$s, %2$s and %s
     <?php     printf(         __( 'Hello %1$s (not %1$s? Sign out).', 'woocommerce' ) . ' ',         $current_user->display_name,         wp_logout_url( get_permalink( wc_get_page_id( 'myaccount' ) ) )     );     ?>          <?php     printf( __( 'From this page you can view your recent orders, manage your shipping and billing addresses and edit your password and account details.', 'woocommerce' ),         wc_customer_edit_account_url()     );     ?>
      How can I identify the variables, what they represent and how to use them? Thank you.


Sitemap vs nofollow

I have a sitemap on my site, which includes all users from the site. On the user profile page, tho, I don't want google to index all users, only those with more than 10 posts, so I've added a meta "nofollow" tag to all users with less than 10 posts. My question is, what is stronger so to speak, the sitemap or the nofollow rule? Will google index all users (the rule in the sitemap), or will it take the nofollow tag in consideration too when it gets to a profile page with less than 10 posts?


Very few visitors on Analytics: incorrect setting?

it's quite a long time Analytics is making me crazy: I have a 2 years old website, started with Aruba (an Italian provider) and then transfered on Hostgator. It's a blog Wordpress + MyBB forum, and on both the platforms I've the Analytics code in the footer. The problem is that the stats on Analytics are simply ridiculous compared to the numbers reported by the Aruba (before) and Hostgator (then). I think that the numbers of Aruba/Hostgator are correct, simply because just the daily users connected on the forum is higher than the Analytics numbers. I know it's a really confused request, but maybe you can help me to understand what's the problem.


Is CPanel: SSL certificate installed correctly?

My web host said they installed an SSL certificate for me. On Cpanel, in the SSL tab, is has the following:               SSL status   Enabled        CA certificate   Not installed         Is this what it should say if they have done the job properly?


How to present videos for Google Bot

i have a website which streams Flash Videos. For Google i have a special page due to using AJAX for normal Users (see articles on "_escaped_fragment_" for this). What i want to know is how i should present the Video in the Crawler optimized Page so GoogleBot can most easily recognize the video and maybe even add it to their Google Video search?


Wordpress blog in subdirectory of ASP.NET webforms application

I am trying to setup a Wordpress blog to run in the subdirectory of an ASP.NET wbforms application so I can have http://www.myapplication.com/blog I have Wordpress running on IIS 7 fine as it's own application but when I create the 'blog' subdirectory and set it to be an application with the Wordpress folder as the application root. I keep coming up against a configuration error...               HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error     Config Error    Configuration section not allowed to be set below application      I've done quite a bit of searching on this and I have tried modifying the applicationHost.config file to set the following value...               <section name="modules" allowDefinition="MachineToApplication" overrideModeDefault="Deny" />      But the configuration errors persist. Can anyone suggest any other config changes I need to make to allow the Wordpress application to run in the /blog subdirectory?


What document types can be included in an XML sitemap?

AFAIK, Google accepts sitemaps which are about ordinary URLs (text/plain), images (image/png, image/gif, image/jpg, etc.), and videos (video/avi, video/mpeg, etc.). My question is, how many Internet Media Types (formerly known as MIME Types) can have sitemaps. For example, if I'm a researcher, can I create a sitemap for my PDF files (application/pdf), or can a compose create a sitemap for his/her compositions (audio/mpeg3)?


ampersand (&) sign in sitemap generating error

I have ampersand sign in urls and Google is not able to parse my sitemap.xml due to this. I can't remove the sign but i have to submit my xml to google. Is there any solution for this.


Bad links point to old domain - should I disavow on new domain?

I am working with a site which we'll call `www.newdomain.com`, which was hit by Penguin this month despite no unusual practices. I found lots of really spammy links to their old site, `www.olddomain.com`, which 301s to the new domain. So I've gone through the process of identifying which links are really bad, made contact to ask for removal, and am at the stage of disavowing links. But wait! None of the bad links point to `newdomain.com`, and I worry that a disavow request via this domain in Webmaster Tools will damage something.   1. Do the old band links affect the new site?   2. If so, where do I disavow those old bad links? On Webmaster Tools for the new domain?


Why is my Custom HTML tag not fired in Google Webmaster Tools

I have a Custom HTML tag in Google Webmaster tools that is actually very simple. It consists of the following code (a GTM Macro):               {{html generator}}      This tag is only fired on the Thank-you page on my website. This firing rule works fine, as I'm using it for a couple of other tags. The Custom Javascript {{html generator}} macro is more complex. The macro generates one or two image pixels in HTML. Due to the complexity of the image pixels, I cannot use the Custom Image tag. :                     Via console.log I have verified that the macro Javascript function generates the correct string. Why is the HTML not executed? I don't believe it is a caching issue as the query parameters always have a different outcome. I believe it is a timing issue. Update: I think I found a solution, but still it is unclear to me why it did not work in the first place. Solution:                     This solution requires you to check the box: []Support document.write


Configuring an MX record for Amazon's Route 53

I am using Amazon Route 53 and have a correctly functioning `A` record pointing to an EC2 instance at `mydomain.com.au` with a Django stack running. My problem is, I tried to setup a Postfix mailserver but I could not receive mail, so I figured my problem is with the `MX` record (since local mail worked). This is what I have got for my `MX` record and just wanted to confirm if it is correct, or if it's nonsense:               (Settings as per AWS interface)     Name: left it blank (mydomain.com.au)     Value: 10 titan.mydomain.com.au      I have used "titan" because it's the hostname of my server - should I use "mail" instead? I keep seeing this on the web but can't find an explanation of if it's arbitrary. I want the e-mails to work such that `user@mydomain.com.au` gets delivered to the server. I have looked at this question and this one too, but didn't find an answer in them.


Google Analytics API: Issue with segment in which a page has NOT been visited

I have a simple funnel situation. The users start at /start/ . Some of them reach the result at /result/ and obviously some don't. So it seems logical to me that:               users who went to the start page  =       user who did see the result page afterwards     + user who did NOT see the result page afterwards      However my results are   * users who went to the start page << user who did see the result page afterwards + user who did NOT see the result page afterwards   * user who did see the result page afterwards is smaller than users who went to the start page and has about the same pageview ration as the api calls tell me.   * user who did NOT see the result page afterwards is just 10% smaller than users who went to the start page Does somebody know why? The calls are run via the spreadsheet addin to the API. all three calls share these attributes:   * Metric: ga:users   * no filter   * are for the last 30 days   * Sampling: HIGHER_PRECISION The segments differ for each call   * users::sequence::ga:pagePath=~/start/$   * users::sequence::ga:pagePath=~/start/$;->>ga:pagePath=~/result/.*   * users::sequence::ga:pagePath=~/start/$;->>ga:pagePath!~/result/.* Does anybody have a hint? Thank you so much!


How do I server multiple domains from the same directory and codebase without my configuraton breaking when apache.conf is overwritten?

I have 20 domains on a VPS running cPanel. One public_html is filled with code, the remaining 19 are symbolic links to that one. (For example, `assets` is a directory within `public_html` ... for the 19 others, there's a symbolic link to that directory in each each accounts `public_html` dir.) It's all PHP / MySQL database driven, with content changing depending on the domain. It works like a charm, assuming cPanel has `suExec` enabled correctly, and assuming apache.conf does NOT have `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch` enabled. However, every few weeks, my `apache.conf` is mysteriously overwritten, re- enabling `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch`, and disabling all 19 linked sites for as long as it takes for me to notice. Here's the offending line in apache.conf:               <Directory "/">         AllowOverride All         Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks IncludesNOEXEC Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch     </Directory>      The addition of `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch` disables the sites in a strange way ... the html is generated correctly, but all css/js/image in the html fails to load. Clicking any link redirects to `/`. And I have no idea why. I do have a few things in my `.htaccess`, which work fine when `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch` is not present:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         # www.example.com -> example.com         RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]         RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]              # Remove query strings from static resources         RewriteRule ^assets/js/(.*)_v(.*)\.js           /assets/js/$1.js [L]         RewriteRule ^assets/css/(.*)_v(.*)\.css         /assets/css/$1.css [L]         RewriteRule ^assets/sites/(.*)/(.*)_v(.*)\.css  /assets/sites/$1/$2.css [L]              # Block access to hidden files and directories           RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -d [OR]         RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -f         RewriteRule "(^|/)\." - [F]              # SLIR ... reroute images to image processor         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/images/.*$         RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]              # ignore rules if URL is a file         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f         # ignore rules if URL is not php         #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.php$              # catch-all for routing         RewriteRule . index.php [L]     </ifModule>      I also use most of the 5G Blacklist 2013 for protection against exploits and other depravities. Again, all of this works great, except when `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch` gets added back into apache.conf. Since I've failed to find the cause of whatever cPanel/security update is overwriting apache.conf, I thought there might be a more correct way to accomplish my goal using group permissions. I've created a 'www' group, added all accounts to the group, and `chmod -R`'d the code source to use that group. Everything is `644` or `755`. But doesn't seem to be enough. My unix isn't that strong. Do you need to restart something for group changes to take effect? Probably not. Anyways, I'm entering unknown territory. Can anyone recommend the right way to configure a website for multiple sites using one codebase that doesn't rely on apache.conf?


Running Microsoft's IE VPCs on Windows 8

I am trying to run Microsoft's VPC VMs on Windows 8 but no luck. As you may know, Microsoft's Virtual PC software doesn't work on Windows 8. They are recommended to use their new virtualisation technology, Hyper-V, instead of Virtual PC. Okay, fair enough, but the problem is, OSes requires to re-activate when I bind them with a new VM. I extracted the VM's spec from VPC versions and tried to create exact machine but it doesn't work either. So, I need to find a way to work with old IE versions on Windows 8, preferably with those VMs.


Do multiple Google Analytics profiles share the same raw data?

I have two profiles under one web site in Google Analytics. The two profiles are essentially the same except one has defined parameters to exclude (e.g. id, page... etc) so that I could aggregate the page views while ignoring parameters. Now I begin to think it's a bad idea because my mail chimp (integrated with Google Analytics) only reports campaign data in one profile and not the other. Does data go into one profile and not the other? My impression was that Google Analytics stores all data in one huge database, and all views (profile, dashboard, statistics... etc) are all just database queries -- and even if I deleted profile and recreate it I'd still get the same data. Is this true? Or does each profile hold its own set of data, not shared with other profiles?


Alternative to .htaccess (due to bad performance?)

I've been told that .htaccess should be avoided when possible, as it reduces the server performance and new servers disables it or just don't implement it anymore. I don't know how true this is, but if so I wish to find an alternative to rewrite my URLs and would thank if someone could help me. PS: What I use it for is just to convert URLs from myexample.com/page.php?lang=LANG to myexample.com/LANG/page


lfd on ns3.domain.com: Excessive resource usage: Account (26661)

We lease a dedicated server with the following specs: > Dual Hyperthreaded Quad Core > > 12GB RAM > > 750gb RAID1 We recently upgraded from a `Dual Core/2GB RAM` due to server load issues. We are now unfortunately having the same issues. Every hour on the hour, we receive around 25 or so `lfd` emails:               Time:         Mon Oct 17 06:01:08 2011 -0700     Account:      account     Resource:     Process Time     Exceeded:     1177340 > 1800 (seconds)     Executable:   /usr/bin/php     Command Line: /usr/bin/php /home/account/public_html/site/wp-comments-post.php     PID:          26661     Killed:       No      Every one of these refers to a Wordpress page, yet we have over 600 sites using wordpress hosted vs 10-20 other. At the same time, PHP is installed as CGI, which I've heard can be resource intensive. _**What is causing this excessive usage?_** OR **_How can I pinpoint the issue in the logs?_**