Multilingual Publishing Pack (MLP): make a link to the corresponding page in the another language?

I am helping to build a bilingual website using MLP on TextPattern. It's trivial to put a link to the top level page of another language, but how to put a link to the current page in another language? Eg. `/en/contact` should link to `/de/kontakt` (the same article in another language). I'm sure there are some variables somewhere that I could put into the template that would be filled with the correct links.


Setting up a coming soon page. Should I create a whole database for "Sign up now for updates" email addresses?

I'm helping a friend set up a "Coming Soon" page for his website. Naturally, he wants people to enter their email addresses so they can get updates about the status of the website. I know I can set up a database for him but he's not very tech savy and won't want to learn how to check that database. So one solution I'm thinking of doing is setting up a webpage at friendsurl.com/pEbRuw3A (or some other random string so that bots can't easily find the page) and having the emails there in a csv format. That way he can continuously check it for updates. So, is this a stupid idea?


I have a lot of outbound 404 links, do I have to fix them?

I have a lot-lot of outbound links on my webpage. A lot of them are broken, they point to 404 pages on external sites. I add to all links: **nofollow**. Can it be possible that Google is penalizing me in search results? (I have a big result decreasing, I searching for reasons)


Enabling/disabling proftpd accounts with PHP and WHM

I have a VPS with WHM/CPanel which is being used just by me. It's utilizing proftpd. I'd like to, via a PHP script, disable/enable a specific FTP account. I've done this by having PHP call a bash script which removes/adds the user account line to /etc/proftpd/USERNAME password file. However, in order to do this I have to give other write rights to /etc/proftpd/USERNAME. This isn't ideal, and I'd be willing to do it another way. It also seems like WHM is automatically resetting these permissions on a regular basis. Does anybody have any ideas on a better way to deal with this?


Google Analytics: Track user from opening email to following link to finishing form

We track the opening of our marketing emails by using the `utm.gif` image which works well. But, we would like to see how many users go from opening the email, to clicking a link within the email and then complete a registration form. Is it possible to track this sort of user flow and know how many users followed this path from the email?


How to create separate users in phpmyadmin, each one can't see others databases?

I am using phpmyadmin to control mysql on my server, now i want to create some users to access this admin tool, what i want is to make each user can create databases but can't see others databases. Is that possible and how?


Building links towards Category Pages?

I am current building some links and I want to get the best results out of it. I have had links towards my homepage, as well as detail page but not many are towards my category page. I assume having links towards category pages are one way to enhance the recognition of website by Google (showing category pages are useful to people as well). Is this as useful as in link juice wise? Or does this even sounds natural to you? What is the best link building practice? (will there be a golden proportion for how many percentage of links should be towards home page, how many to detailed and how many to category for example?)


How can I publish a container in Google Tag Manager?

There is some icons just after container name in Google Tag Manager, see image. but neither are clickable. As it has very simple interface, I doubt they just forget make them clickable. So my question is how can I published container? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jMz3U.png)


How do I adjust our "default" domain

Our company owns a selection of top level domain names. Each of these domain names points to the same IP. We currently market our domain as existingfoo.com. All our incoming links are to that domain, our SSL certificate is JUST for that single domain, and so on. Our search results always point to that domain. (I'm not sure why or how that happens) I've been asked to make any adjustments necessary so that our 'default' (if you like) domain becomes newbar.com. Obviously I will need to manage some of our business listings etc, I think I will need to change our Analytics code. I will need a new SSL certificate, and I know I'll need to change some of the code, and adjust keywords to be more relevant for the new domain. What else might I need to do (particularly on the IIS server on which the site is hosted, and to ensure search engines point to the right domain?) **EDIT: re 301s** Some responses to this question have suggested using 301 redirects. I had previously ruled this out as the site is not moving. It will remain on the same server at the same IP. We want the url returned when searching for our company to be newbar.com, not existingfoo.com. But we DO still want the site to respond to traffic from both domains.


Redirect/rewrite dynamic URL to sub-domain and create DNS for subdomain

I have created an application in PHP, I would like to re-direct the following URL to corresponding sub-domain. Dynamic URL pattern:               http://mydomain.com/mypage.php?user_name=testuser      I wish to re-direct this to the corresponding sub domain:               http://testuser.mydomain.com/        1. How do I create a rewrite rule for this purpose?   2. How do I register DNS for sub-domain **without** using CPANEL? (I want to activate sub-domain when the user registers to the system.)


A page for each product variation or one page with multiple options?

The website that I work on sells a car related products. Many products will fit 20-100 cars. Currently each car is listed as a separate 'product'. This works very well on eBay, but I think the large number of similar pages is having a negative effect on the sites ranking. It seems to rank ok for very specific queries like 'BMW 5 series thule roof rack', but not well for 'Roof rack' - Which I guess makes sense. So a page for each car or a page for each real product?


For SEO purposes, should I only post articles related to my main site in my blog?

I'm running a site about web hosting. To improve on my SEO, I started a blog under blog.examplehost.com Can I post content related to development and code snippets in my blog? Or should I only post content related to web hosting?


Is it needed to have your blog title and description in H1 and H2

I have read an article that states that it is not necessary to have your blog title and description on your website at all. Just have the titles of the posts in `h1`, on the index and the post page. And on the post page have your different sections started with `h2`. Widget headers start with `h3`. Title and description are most of the time in the logo image. I have looked at the source of my favorite blog, http://net.tutsplus.com, and I see they do the same. Is this recommended?


550 “Overwrite permission denied” when editing a file via FTP

DreamHost recently moved my accounts to a new shared box, and now I can't edit files via UltraEdit's built in FTP client, which messes up my work flow! What did they do that this is not working now? It stopped working after they moved me. Here's the output from the FTP console in UltraEdit               10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 220 DreamHost FTP Server     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: USER nodebunny     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 331 Password required for ninjawww     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: PASS xxxxxxxx     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 230 User nodebunny logged in     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: FEAT     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 211-Features:      LANG ja-JP.UTF-8;ja-JP;zh-TW;fr-FR;zh-CN;en-US*;bg-BG;ko-KR.UTF-8;ko-KR      MDTM      MFMT      TVFS      UTF8      MFF modify;UNIX.group;UNIX.mode;      MLST modify*;perm*;size*;type*;unique*;UNIX.group*;UNIX.mode*;UNIX.owner*;      REST STREAM      SIZE     211 End     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: OPTS UTF8 ON     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 200 UTF8 set to on     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: PWD     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 257 "/" is the current directory     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: PWD     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 257 "/" is the current directory     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: CWD /dev/proj/nodebunny     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 250 CWD command successful     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: PWD     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: 257 "/dev/proj/nodebunny/lib/Buffer" is the current directory     10/26/2011 10:42:36 AM: PWD     10/26/2011 10:42:37 AM: 257 "/dev/proj/nodebunny/lib/Buffer" is the current directory     10/26/2011 10:42:37 AM: TYPE I     10/26/2011 10:42:37 AM: 200 Type set to I     10/26/2011 10:42:37 AM: PORT 10,15,55,125,226,16     10/26/2011 10:42:37 AM: 200 PORT command successful     10/26/2011 10:42:37 AM: STOR Buffer.pm     10/26/2011 10:42:37 AM: 550 Buffer.pm: Overwrite permission denied


Wordpress - Too much information about SEO tags - archives - posts. Which is best?

**Point 1:** I have a front page which is dynamic because it gets all the latest posts that are rated. The question is: do I have to make these posts an `excerpt`, because that's better for SEO? **Point 2:** I have two pages where I have links on the left and right sides (widgets) that are pointing to posts. In the middle of the page, I have one post that has the content shown with his own comments and _tags_ beneath the post itself. The question: do I have to set a `nofollow` on these tags? And what about the links? If I click on a post link, it will bring me to a `single.php`, which has actually the same lay-out and elements as the pages I described at point 2. Will this be seen as duplicate content? **Point 3:** I have an alphabetic list of all my posts which are linking to the single page. Is this seen as duplicate content? Do I have to set a `nofollow` on the links? **Point 4:** I have author pages which have the last commented and posted posts and reactions of a person... Is this seen as duplicate content and do I have to add a `nofollow` link? There is so much information that I don't know which one is best or how to look at it. I would really appreciate it if someone can help me out with it. PS: if I generate a `XML Sitemap`, which of all has the highest `priority`?


SEO effects of changing the URL path to make segmentation in analytics easier

I am having an e-commerce site and current URL structure is like this:   * `www.example.com/category1` [Category landing page]   * `www.example.com/category1/sub-category` [sub-category listing page]   * `www.example.com/category1/sub-category/product-name` [Product Details page] I am finding it difficult to identify from the URLs whether the URL is category landing page or a listing page or a product details page (primarily in Google Analytics). To solve this problem, I am thinking of adding qualifiers in the URL as follows:   * `www.example.com/category1/cat-land` [Category landing page]   * `www.example.com/category1/sub-category/cat-list` [sub-category listing page]   * `www.example.com/category1/sub-category/product-name/prod-details` [Product Details page] Original URLs would be redirected to new URLs using 301 permanent redirect. Would this have any negative effect on existing SEO and Google ranking?


How do you clean up a site with #1 organic google rank?

I'm in a bit of a pickle. My company's website recently started ranking in the top 5 Google organic results for 80% of our 2 and 3 word "target" phrases, often #1. This has resulted in awesome e-commerce sales numbers. The problem is that the site needs structural optimization badly after a designer carved it up with table layouts and 20-deep elements - I cry every time I look at or modify the source. I'm afraid to heavily restructure the actual HTML into valid, minimal XHTML/CSS. I would like some advice, thanks!


How to separate data from subdomains in Google Analytics?

I want to split my data from different subdomains in Google Analytics. I know it's possible to do it using different profiles + filters, but when you have a ton of subdomains, it's almost impossible to maintain that setup. Is there another way? Currently I'm using this solution http://www.ericmobley.net/guide-to-tracking- multiple-subdomains-in-google-analytics/


What is a free and easy to use IIS 7 log viewer?

I have raw IIS 7 logs I'd like to look at. An excel type view where I can sort by columns is fine for now.


utility to pull in the entries of an rss feed with a certain date range

I'd like to include a section on my daily blog post that could capture/aggregate my activity from twitter, github, etc on that day. Ideally this information could be displayed in a visually unobtrusive manner at the bottom of the regular blog post. I can add this information through an rss reader display (e.g. I'm running a wordpress site, and can use embed-rss plugin to display the latest information from a twitter or github rss), but this does not let me limit the date range to activity from that day; instead always showing the latest activity. So, questions:   1. Is there a simple way to embed rss feed filtered to a certain date range on a post?    2. Does the RSS feed provide a stable list of all the history, or will I need to create static snapshots of this instead?   3. Can be done through the twitter and github APIs if not through a simple rss feed? Is there any app that already does this?   4. Other suggestions to approach this kind of thing? For instance, I can do something similar for my flickr activity using the flickr-gallery plugin's search feature, which gives me a scrollable set of thumbnails of photos matching certain search criteria in which I can set a date range to match that day.


Google webmaster tool is not updating my site related information

I am very thanks ful to google webbmaster since it suggested me many of the pages which were causing 404. But i am surprised why were this information still being shown even after one week of repairing the page links.


Creating a mobile website

I'm going to create a mobile version of a website. This is the first time I'll be creating a mobile specific website. What do I need to know? What do I need to be aware off? Good tips and resources requested! -- Sri


Optimizing with filtered results?

I'm finishing up development on a tourist information website that lists hotels, restaurants, bars, among other things for an up-and-coming tourist area in Cambodia: http://www.gosihanoukville.com/dining/index.html Sections of the site that have listings are listed in a default order, and the visitor can choose to sort these listings on demand. There is also a section on the left of these pages that allow "filtering" of the results on the page. For a better example, on the restaurant page, there are filters for type of cuisine, location and budget. The cuisine filters at the top are the only ones that I want indexed - in case people search for "indian food in sihanoukville". The location and budget filters are just there for convenience, and could have been displayed with AJAX, but I wanted people to be able to bookmark them. What I've done is set the meta robots tags on the pages I don't want indexed as "noindex, follow", and "index, follow" on all other pages. I have, however seen people use rel="nofollow" in their anchor tags. Which is the better practice? Or is it better to have them indexed anyway despite having duplicate content? Thanks.


Website content copied - How can I prove that I wrote it?

One of our competitors constantly copies all our website content.   Now, I assume the trouble is to proof that we wrote the content first and that it is not the other way round.   I checked on http://www.archive.org, but there is nothing. Any other way to proof that? FYI: We are a Swiss company, so different laws will apply. Solution: Found later… You can upload your content to this service and that they basically time-stamp it. Another way we found is to just print out your copy/design etc. Put it into an envelope and send it to ourselves (without actually opening it later of course).


Apache: How can I force the browser to reload CSS files?

How to force the user's web browser to reload CSS files with Apache Server? I updated my website's CSS file but some users are still seeing problems that would be resolved if their browsers fetched the latest versions.


Backing up VPS and Database Servers for website

I currently have an "un-managed" (no help from hosting company) windows vps server. I am working on a good backup solution to return my site back online within a few hours. I am pretty comfortable backing up and restoring my database, however what is a good solution for backing up my VPS for easy recovery? Should I just use windows backup and create an image? I'm open to suggestions. Additionally, has anyone had to restore an entire VPS before? Is it reasonable to have it back up and running in a few hours?


Why does .htaccess not prevent a php script from accessing a file

I ran into the following issue: On a website I want to prevent "unauthorized" access to a set of .xml files - the user has to authenticate first. Now it would be possible for an authenticated user to type the URL of the file I don't want them to see. To prevent this, I created a simple php script that checks user authentication, then serves up the XML (with appropriate `Content-type` header). At the same time, I put the following in the `.htaccess` file in the directory with `.xml` (and other) files:               <Files ~ "(.xml)">     Order allow,deny     Deny from all     Allow from xx.yy.zz.tt (IP address of server)     </Files>      This did the trick - `.xml` files were not longer "directly accessible", even for an "authenticated" user. But here is the thing I don't understand: > If I leave out the `'Allow from'` line, the php script still manages to > access the `.xml` files. It seems that the `.htaccess` is completely ignored > when it comes to php. So my question is two fold:   1. Is this expected behavior?   2. If so, then what method would one use to prevent a php script from accessing a particular file (or group of files)? There is clearly a fundamental issue around `.htaccess` that I completely failed to grasp. Thanks for your insights.


What are the best practices for Nationalized SEO?

I am working on Internet marketing for one of the Website designing & development company in India which is located in Mumbai. So the website is performing quite well in local search places or up to state level in SERPs. But not with all major locations in my country, so my question is what are the best ways I have to stay on top of the SERPs.


Which service to choose when accepting online credit card payments on behalf of "partners"?

I am about to start a new business that will have the following structure: 1) I want to accept payments from my customers (let's call them partners) for services that I will provide to them; one of this service will be accepting payments by their customers on their behalf 2) Accepting payments on partner's behalf from their customers and sending this payment directly to the partner (after subtracting a small fee) Additionally, I want to have the option to send out email invoices as well as have a form on my website that collects credit card/billing data and sends it to a third party server for payment processing. I was wondering what type of service I should use for this type of business, as I couldn't find anything on this topic during my research. I saw services such as PayPal Website Payments Pro and Braintree Payment Solutions, but I am not sure if any of those would fit my needs. I certainly want to limit my exposure to chargebacks in cases where partner's customer will dispute the charges and at the same time, I want to be able to send partners their money promptly. Any help is greatly appreciated!


Apache KeepAlive - why should I ever need it?

I've read several blogs about turning KeepAlive off in apache. When I had it turned on, and a spike in traffic, people started timing out, or had to wait +10 seconds for a page load. However, when I turned it off, requests finished almost immediately. I know HOW KeepAlive functions, and what it does, I just want to know why I would ever need it. If i'm using CSS sprites and combining all my javascript into 1 file, with only 2-3 http requests to the server, is it safe to have it turned off?


best practice for last-modified and created dates

I have a website with a handful (currently 3; I anticipate about a dozen when it's complete) of static html pages. I'd like to include "created" and "last- modified" dates in the pages for the benefit of visitors who arrive a week or a month or a few years from now. I expect anyone who cares to be viewing the source, so I could do:               <!-- created yyyy-mm-dd, last-modified yyyy-mm-dd -->      but I'd like to use something more standard (and elegant). I've found one reference to last modified (but only a mention in the text, not an actual code reference, so I'm not positive how to properly implement it) but not _created_. Is there a **proper** way to display both (or at least one) of these dates?


Parallax landing pages and the affect on SEO

Are there any unique concerns which need to be addressed to optimize SEO in a parallax scroll landing page? Page will initially load from the bottom and scroll upwards through 5 sections which include multiple parallax layers, HTML5 embedded video content, sliders, and a social media integration targeting inbound traffic from a television commercial.


Google Goals process not working through similarly named pages

Well, I'm at a loss. I've ensured that my tracking script is in etc etc, and I've set up my goal and funnel path, but only the first step is ever being shown on the funnel. Goal URL: `/checkout/checkoutComplete/` Type: **Head Match** ... but should this be `/checkout/checkoutComplete/(.*)` and set to regex rather because there are parameters after the main part of the URL (I thought that's what head match was for) Step 1: `/checkout/` <-- required Step 2: `/checkout/confirm/` both the above are valid and correct URLs for my domain. But for some reason, the funnel visualization shows entries into the first step, then an exits count that matches the entry count, including `/checkout/confirm` - but it doesn't go on to the next step! Perhaps I'm doing something obviously wrong...but I can't quite see it? Also, semi-related questions. Making a change to the funnel, does it only affect new incoming data? And how often does it update? Thanks in advance for your help.


Need a CSS framework that has variables and "mixins"

I was using Less CSS but it creates too much duplication. Each HTML page I have includes 3 different stylesheets; two are common to all the pages (IE- support and 960 grid system) and the third stylesheet is a custom one made for that page. With Less CSS it was duplicating all the CSS code from the 960 grid system into the third stylesheet. All I need are variables and functions/mixins/classes...basically a way to put duplicate CSS code in multiple spots.


Best practice for scroll-up web page

As was pointed out in a question asked earlier, Google will not recognize when the DOM is altered via JavaScript after initial page load to start at the bottom and scroll up rather than down. Parallax landing pages and the affect on SEO Is there an alternative better way that can be considered for achieving the same affect and maintaining the most optimized and correct search results and SEO score?


how to handle foreign content on a blog (double content)

I'm quitely new to SEO and I don't know how to handle foreign content on a blog.   I am writing content for two different blogs. The subjects of these blogs intersect partially, so there are sometimes situations in which I like to post exactly the same entry on both blogs. On the other hand I often see blogposts with a note like "this post was first published on www.xyz.com".      I thought to avoid the problem with double content I could use a canonical link in both cases. But all I read about using it cross-domain supposes to still have the same website.      So what is the best practice to handle this, by avoiding   1. that the original site doesn't benefit from being the first-posted and   2. that the second site has disadvantages because of containing double content   ? **edit:** I assume the fact that google tries to serve different contents for given keywords. Sites which doesn't seem to be the original one of multiple found content are ranked down, based on the presumption the content was stolen or something else (this correct?). How to prevent this behaviour if content is legally doubled? Would the canonical-link be the right way or isn't there any, bercause it'd be against googles aims?


Alexa traffic dropping in rank

I have site that was ranking 2.501.890 up until last week. This week, my site's rank went down to 3.490.987. Does anybody know what happened? Can anyone explain this sudden drop and perhaps give me some advice on how to solve this?


How does Windows 8 appear on Google Analytics?

I'm trying to figure out how many Windows 8 users are using my website. On Google Analytics, I don't explicitly see the number 8 anywhere in the top 10 Windows operating system versions. I don't believe that Windows 8 percentage is so low that it doesn't even show up. It must be miscategorized under another name. Which one is it? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/TZzzl.png)


What if I change the Google Adsense code of all pages that use my network?

What if I change Google Adsense ad codes of all pages in a network using a "proxy" or something like that? Or custom addon that changes Adsense codes; to my own Adsense code. There are about 250 computers in that network and all have own unique IP.


How do I measure which links get the most clicks?

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I can measure which types of links (links to twitter [or other social network] profiles, links to videos, stack exchange flair, navigational menus, etc.) are being clicked on the most. What's a simple way to measure what links are being clicked on my site, and optionally by what demographic?


Do I need a robots.txt file if most of my site's pages require authorization?

I have a website with many pages, but except for Home page and a View Profile page, all other pages require authorization. Does that mean I need to have a _robots.txt_ file to Disallow these pages with authorization?


Compared to Firefox 4 and Google Chrome 10, what can't IE9 do?

If a website works in Firefox 4 and in Google Chrome 10, what could potentially cause that website _not to work_ (broken layout or broken JavaScript) in IE9? What limitations and differences does IE9 have, aside from vendor-specific stylesheet rules? _Yes, that is a painfully vague question_ — that's because I am not asking this question from the perspective of someone with a specific problem! I'm asking this question from the perspective of someone with a working website who does not have access to IE9. **Edit** I `+1`ed everyone. Thanks for the great answers!


How can I easily create web 2.0 buttons?

Is there a website or software I can use to easily make web 2.0 buttons? I really like this: https://github.com/imathis/fancy-buttons, but it's only for Ruby. Every time I design a new website, I need to go into Fireworks and tediously create the buttons by hand. Surely someone out there must have come up with an easy way of making new web buttons.


Live Website Monitoring Tool

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Live view of online visitors What is a good tool to monitor a website's traffic live? Is there something that shows a feed of people who is currently on your website?


mod_rewrite causing too many redirects

The `.htaccess` we have in our `document_root` directory is as follows:               RewriteEngine on          RewriteRule ^posts/1/first-post-title$ /posts/1.html [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/posts/1     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/^posts/1/first-post-title$     RewriteRule (.*) posts/1/first-post-title [R=301,L]      With just the first `RewriteRule` line, the server correctly redirects. When the other three lines are included and we navigate to "http://localhost/posts/1/first-post-title", Safari is giving an error of: > Too many redirects occurred trying to open “http://localhost/posts/1/first- > post-title”. This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open > another page which then is redirected to open the original page.


Emailing all site users

I'm going to be emailing all of my site users to update them on recent developments and remind them to come back to the site. Are there any special precautions I should take. I was going to do this through a loop in PHP. I have about 1,000 users.


SEO focused navigation

I am a web designer and front-end developer. I almost always utilize a primary navigation bar that clearly demonstrates traditional website pages - "Home, About Us, Blog, Directions/Locations, Employment Opportunities, Contact Us", etc. An SEO specialist I am working alongside on a current project has suggested major navigation changes that are outside of my traditional approach. I am skeptical but always willing to give something a shot and wanted a second opinion. Revisions as follows: Primary Navigation no longer targets the above pages, it targets 6 unique pages of keyword-focused information. The links would all start with the word "Ohio" as this business is in Ohio. So, for example Ohio Inbound Marketing, Ohio Paid Search, Ohio Content Marketing etc etc. This primary navigation would be located at the top of the page, most visible to the user. The secondary navigation would basically be what I usually use as a primary navigation (the "traditional" website links). But modified to be more keywordy, and in my opinion, less descriptive of where they actually go. So: Home = Ohio Marketing Specialists; About Us = Business Name; Directions/Locations = Marketing Specialists in Ohio; Employment Opportunities = Marketing Specialist Jobs; This secondary navigation would be located further down the page and receive less visual emphasis. Personally, when I see this site - I am confused about navigation as the links aren't set up in a traditional approach and many don't accurately describe where they are going. Is my traditional approach just outdated? Or is this system trying too hard to be google-friendly?


CMS for a review site

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Best CMS for review-type sites Hi, what's the better CMS/theme for a review site? It will be a site about movie reviews from editors, and visitors should comment the review. I'm looking for something simple to implement.


Any good SEO tracking apps out there?

I was wondering if anyone knew of any noteworthy SEO tracking web apps (either free or paid). I.e. i want to be able to track page rankings, rankings against keywords, trends over time etc. I've seen a couple, but most seem pretty amateur. I was hoping that there might be a gem out there somewhere? PS. I am aware of the google tools (webmaster and analytics). What I am interested in, is a web solution that will help me pro-actively keep on top of my sites SEO strategy, as well as pro actively alert me to opportunities to increase / enhance exposure.


I've built a new website using html5, should I have built in flash instead?

I am web developer. For a new project of mine I decided to built a very complex website using html 5. Having now looked at the final product I am not sure, should I have just used plain old flash instead? If there are any flash experts here, I'd love to hear your opinion.


Help with 301 redirect from subdomain to root domain

I need to forward existing subdomain links to the root domain as the subdomain no longer exists. I have tried so many different lines of code in my .htaccess file and can not get the redirect to work. The links to the subdomain look like: `http://sub.mydomain.com/dir/y99bb4` Can anyone suggest any code for me?


Allow user to share on Facebook anonymously: options?

I want to allow users to share memes anonymously with their friends. I am trying to figure out how this can be done through Facebook: are there any Facebook APIs which will allow users to share through a different profile, or anonymously altogether? e.g. I create a 'anonymous' profile, the user simply inputs their meme and selects all the friends they want to share with, and all that the friends will see is that a message has been sent by 'anonymous'. Is this possible? Alternative solutions?


Incorrect rel-alternate-hreflang implementation

Google Webmaster Tools advised the following to us: > We have noticed that on a number of the pages on your site the rel- > alternate-hreflang implementation is incorrect. In particular, there seems > to be a problem with missing or incorrect bi-directional linking (when page > A links with hreflang to page B, there must be a link back from B to A as > well). When our algorithms detect conflicting signals like on these pages, > they may make indexing and ranking decisions that do not match what you > intended. The links they mention in particular are: http://www.kogan.com/au/careers/ You can see the sitemap for that particular URL at http://www.kogan.com/au/sitemap-pages.xml In particular:               <url>     <loc>http://www.kogan.com/au/careers/</loc>     <changefreq>daily</changefreq>     <priority>0.5</priority>     <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-AU" href="http://www.kogan.com/au/careers/"/>     </url>      Or the URL http://www.kogan.com/au/shop/collection/mac-mini/, the sitemap for which can be found at http://www.kogan.com/au/sitemap-collections.xml In particular:               <url>     <loc>http://www.kogan.com/au/shop/collection/mac-mini/</loc>     <xhtml:link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="https://m.kogan.com/#!/au/shop/collection/mac-mini/"/>     <xhtml:link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="https://m.kogan.com/au/shop/collection/mac-mini/"/>     <changefreq>daily</changefreq>     <priority>0.9</priority>     <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-AU" href="http://www.kogan.com/au/shop/collection/mac-mini/"/>     <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-AU" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="https://m.kogan.com/#!/au/shop/collection/mac-mini/"/>     <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-US" href="http://www.kogan.com/ii/shop/collection/mac-mini/"/>     <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-US" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="https://m.kogan.com/#!/ii/shop/collection/mac-mini/"/>     <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-NZ" href="http://www.kogan.com/nz/shop/collection/mac-mini/"/>     <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-NZ" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="https://m.kogan.com/#!/nz/shop/collection/mac-mini/"/>     <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-GB" href="http://www.kogan.com/uk/shop/collection/mac-mini/"/>     <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-GB" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="https://m.kogan.com/#!/uk/shop/collection/mac-mini/"/>     </url>     <url>     <loc>https://m.kogan.com/#!/au/shop/collection/mac-mini/</loc>     <xhtml:link rel="canonical" href="http://www.kogan.com/au/shop/collection/mac-mini/"/>     <xhtml:link rel="alternate" href="https://m.kogan.com/au/shop/collection/mac-mini/"/>     <changefreq>daily</changefreq>     <priority>0.9</priority>     <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-AU" href="https://m.kogan.com/#!/au/shop/collection/mac-mini/"/>     <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-US" href="https://m.kogan.com/#!/ii/shop/collection/mac-mini/"/>     <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-NZ" href="https://m.kogan.com/#!/nz/shop/collection/mac-mini/"/>     <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-GB" href="https://m.kogan.com/#!/uk/shop/collection/mac-mini/"/>     <mobile:mobile/>     </url>      I'm not quite sure, based on reading of the spec, where I'm going wrong. Is it cause the mobile URL is not linking back to the desktop URLs? Or it cause the URL is being linked to the same URL for `hreflang="en-AU"`? I'm aware of a similar question at Google Webmaster Tools incorrect rel- alternate-hreflang implementation warning message which hints at this being a bug on Google's side, though I'd love to get some confirmation or know if there is some blatant error with my implementation.


Any ideas why Google not caching my site?

The site is www.books-for-children.com, developed in Wordpress CMS. It was launched about two months ago and still has not been cached by Google, which seems highly unusual. Any ideas where I might look for answers?


Domain transfers - handling the downtime

This is something that has arisen several times and we don't quite know how to handle it, all suggestions are welcome! We have a few different domains with other companies that we want to transfer to us. The problem is that these domains have successful websites and email working with several employees, which in turn is used heavily. We want full control of the domains and everything with it, so there's no chance of pointing a/mx records. We want to cut any other companies out of the loop completely. How can we transfer the domains to our isp, keeping downtime to a minimum. Can someone walk me through the process please? What's the best practice?


Web page layout becomes broken when moved to live

_I want to preface my question with the fact that I'm only a front-end web developer, so please excuse my gross lack of knowledge in this area._ My company has three webservers: one for development (IIS v6), one for staging (IIS v6), and one for live deployment (IIS v5). Staging is an exact mirror of live. When I compare the staging and live web pages side by side in Firefox (3.6), the pages are identical. However, when I compare the staging and live pages with Internet Explorer (8), there are major differences...   * In staging, the squares for bulleted lists are small. In live, the squares are big.   * In staging, the borders for tables are thick. In live, the borders are thin.   * In staging, an ASP generated image is the proper height. In live, the image is cropped at the bottom by about 10px. In the end, the layout on live became broken because of these tiny differences, but why? Does the fact that live is on the older IIS 5 and staging is on the newer IIS 6 account for the small variance in display? And is there any way I can change this server side? Also, is there any reason why Firefox displays both correctly and IE displays both incorrectly?


Should I add a site root to the sitemap file?

Is it really necessary to include a root (homedir) of the site to the sitemap? As I can understand the sitemaps main idea - it is not any necessary. Am I right?


How effectively to promote\publicize my web application?

I have just finished the development of my application. Now I would like to promote\publicize that (I have no money!). What are techniques most commonly used to do that on the web? And the most efficient?


Magento Default Sitemap.xml

Is the default magento sitemap.xml optimized as is for ecommerce products? I'm thinking about adding image links as well. Is it worth time investing in this for SEO gains?               <url>        <loc>           http://demo.com/product.html        </loc>            <lastmod>2011-08-03</lastmod>            <changefreq>always</changefreq>            <priority>1.0</priority>     </url>


Platform to allow users to suggest and vote for ideas

I head up a support team for a software product. I am in the process of setting up a blog (Wordpress.org), a forum (PHPBB or maybe Vanilla), a means to view bugs (probably expose Jira), but would also like to allow our customers to suggest enhancement requests. Currently we have this as a 'contact form' via the blog, which feeds into a dedicated inbox, which the product manager reviews and may include some of these ideas into the product. However, I would like to give the clients more power/visibility over this. Have a look at ideas.arcgis.com. There are plenty of other similar sites as well.   * Users can suggest new ideas   * Other users can vote these ideas up or down (similar to Stack Exchange sites)   * Ideas that are voted highly will be given a higher priority over lower ones.   * We can report back on the # of ideas we implement, and potentially reject ideas with reasoning. **Has anyone seen any platforms (ideally free) which would replicate something similar to this?** I was half thinking of embedding Vanilla within a wordpress page, but need to look into it more.


Can someone suggest a site which shows today's macro web traffic

I want to compare today's traffic for my company website with today's macro web traffic. Anyone know of a site which does this? Mostly, I want to see trends and reassure myself that my 33% drop in organic traffic today is in line with, say, a 31% percent drop in macro search traffic (and potentially rationalized as less demand because of a long weekend or some other macro distraction). I've found a couple sites that are close, wondering if any of you have better ones:   * Akamai Real-time Web Monitor   * Akamai Net Usage Index: Retail Even better, I would love to find a site that tracks the current volume of web searches.


How do I track a goal path over multiple visits?

My sales cycle is measured in weeks. A typical user behavior pattern looks like this:   1. Finds the site via organic, cpc, or referral   2. Browses the content for awhile.   3. Returns a few days later, browses the content for awhile   4. Returns a few days later, browses the content for awhile   5. Converts. Google Analytics shows all my conversions as "direct traffic", i.e. because the converting visit starts from a bookmark or a URL type-in. What software or service can I use to tell me which traffic source in step 1 that users ultimately convert with best in step 5? What software or service can I use to tell me which content in steps 2-4 (i.e. on prior visits) has the biggest impact on version rate in step 5?


Is Google Page Speed Service a competitor for CDN services

I've been googling around for a cheap CDN service and came across: http://code.google.com/speed/pss/index.html This seems to be a competitor to other CDN services, is this the case? Thanks


html5 tags for SEO

I've a question for you. Are now the new HTML5 tags, like               <header>,<footer>,<hgroup>,<nav>,...      ... really usefoul for SEO? Is google and other search engines considering this tags in the SERP?


Mailing List software/app recommendation

I'm looking for a simple, preferably free app for managing mailing lists. I'd like to be able to create groups (Users, Employees specifically). It should be able to produce good looking HTML emails. I'm on an PHP/MySQL server, so anything that's online/easy to configure with that would be great. However, I'd be willing to consider an option which is hosted elsewhere if it was affordable. Please only answer if you've used the software before and can truly recommend it. The two I've been considering thus far are PHPList and Newsberry.


What are sitemap letters? sitemap-g.xml sitemap-r.xml sitemap-b.xml

I have a sitemap on my site at this location: https://www.loveelectronics.co.uk/handlers/sitemap.ashx which is referenced in my robots.txt like so:               Sitemap: https://www.loveelectronics.co.uk/Handlers/Sitemap.ashx      For some reason, I keep getting requests for the following files:               sitemap.xml     sitemap-b.xml     sitemap-g.xml     sitemap-r.xml      What does this mean? Why are agents requesting /sitemap.xml when i specify a different path in my robots.txt, and why are they requesting these odd sitemap-?.xml files. I am getting many requests for these files a day, and I'd like to get this cleared up.


Google analytics real time not showing source/returning visitors

Google Analytics real time doesn't seem to be working properly on a newish domain. Tracking code has been verified and we can see visitors in both real time and audience overview - but all visitors in real time are showing as new, and there is no data in top referrals, top social traffic and top keywords. You can see this data in the audience overview. Any ideas what is going wrong and how to fix it?


Pull page content from master site in WordPress

So I am working on some sites for a health practice, all in Wordpress. I have one parent hub site that contains all the information about all the treatments they offer on different pages. I also have many different sites for different clinics and doctors which share the same treatments. I would like to be able to pull the treatment data from my parent site and have it visible in each clinic site. I have accomplished a basic version of this via RSS feeds which would work great but I don't know if this will work because I have been reading that Google doesn't index RSS feeds, which would be a problem for marketing each clinic individually. And then there is the problem of having duplicate content on each site. What will this do to the SEO? All the sites will be on the same domain. Any ideas? I'm looking for a solution because our writers don't want to have to rewrite all the content for each client, but I also don't want to ruin our PPC advertisting and page rankings.


Google Analytics : Custom Campaign using old Tracking Profile

From the reference link, I know that links can be better tracked with Custom Campaign attributes. However, I don't find the options in old Google Analytics profile. How can I enable the feature in old Tracking Profile? or can I upgrade the old tracking profile to new Universal Tracking? Reference: Custom Campaigns in Google Analytics


Why am I getting domainpark.cgi being called from my website?

I used to test my site on `www.exampleone.com` and now I have moved to the real domain `www.realdomain.com` now and `www.exampleone.com` is now parked by 1and1 (default). Now when I test to see which requests are made by the `www.realdomain.com`I see `domainpark.cgi` and `park.js` from Sedo Parking also being requested as well as the js that serves the ads by adclicks. How do I get rid of this? It's not on the index page at all, and it's causing a lot of strain and slowing my site down.


How do I redirect a URL using rewrite in .htaccess that has a question mark and forward slash where page.html is the variable?

Hello and thanks to all who contribute to this seemingly mind boggling puzzle. I apologize in advance if _.htaccess_ questions belong on server fault. So I have to move a domain to our hosting servers, this domain will be redirected to another existing website. We need to redirect the individual pages to their respective pages on the existing website for user friendliness and SEO purposes. The URL pattern of the website being redirected are:               domain.com/index.php?/Page.html      I have found a lot of information in regards to redirecting strings with question marks, but none seem to work and I believe it's because of the `/` after the `?`. The following is the last `RewriteRule` I've tried:               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/index.php$     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^/(.*).html$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/index/%1.html [R=301,L]      If I go to `domain.com/index.php?/News.html` the `RewriteRule` above results in the following:               domain.com/index/News.html?/News.html      I've also previously tried a rewrite from Drupal's site dealing with their nodes queries, but edited for the site I'm working on:               RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^/(.+)$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/index.php?/%1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^/*(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/index/$1 [R=301,L]      The above results in a redirect loop. If I can at least get the URL to rewrite to a path with no question marks, I could then do individual redirects for the pages of the site. Any help in getting rid of the question mark in this situation would be extremely appreciated. **EDIT:**   Ultimately, I will be redirecting from one website to another. The websites don't have the same naming conventions, so I imagine I'll use _redirect 301 path new URL_ for the individual pages. An example of the start to finish, I would need to redirect the following URL:               http://www.domain.com/index.php?/About.html      to:               http://www.newsite.com/about.html      Not all of the old site names will be the same as you see `About.html` matching `about.html`, there will be URLs with `News.html` going to `/Blog- Folder/`. What I imagine would be most efficient is getting the `/index.php?/Page.html` redirected to a folder path on the initial website so that it is set up like:               domain.com/index.php?/About.html -> domain.com/index/About.html -> newsite.com/about.html      Feel free to ask for more clarification if needed, I greatly appreciate any and all help.


Getting access to website files without access to the hosting account

I have been asked if I can rectify a `403` error on `www.kirrawe.com.au`. The site was developed and hosted by another web developer who can no longer be contacted. I have been in contact with the hosting company (DreamHost), but due to security issues, they can only forward my requests to the account holder (the developer), but can't compel them to reply. In this situation, is there any way to get access to the website files or will my client need to have a new site built?


How can I make a browser trust my SSL certificate when I request resources from an external server?

I have installed an SSL certificate on one of my domains and it works perfectly, but on some pages I include a Google Font, which causes my certificate icon to change in: ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/A04iC.png) instead of: ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZdXPk.png) The reason, according to Google Chrome (translated with Google Translate): > Your connection to xxxxxx is encrypted with 128-bit encryption. This page > includes other resources which are not secure. These resources can be viewed > by others while in transit and can be modified to fit. So how can I make the browser 'trust' my SSL certificate, even though I request an external resource from Google Fonts? And also, does it matter that I use links like these:               <link rel='stylesheet' id='et-shortcodes-css-css'  href='https://xxxxxx/wp-content/themes/Divi/epanel/shortcodes/css/shortcodes.css?ver=3.0' type='text/css' media='all' />      instead of               <link rel='stylesheet' id='et-shortcodes-css-css'  href='wp-content/themes/Divi/epanel/shortcodes/css/shortcodes.css?ver=3.0' type='text/css' media='all' />      Thanks!


How do I find out maximum number of visitors at one time from Google Analytics?

I'm not sure if this is even possible in Google Analytics. Is there a way to find out the maximum number of visitors that visited a site within a time period of one minute, or one hour? Or is the data only available per day.


What is this popular website template called?

I see that many popular website now implement a similar template. Do you know its name?   * https://www.braintreepayments.com/   * http://www.techsoft3d.com/   * http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.html


How do Github Pages fare for serving static files?

I have a site that is composed only of static files. I just discovered how easy it is to host websites directly off Github. Any idea how do they fare in terms of latency, reliability, capacity...? In general - for static content only at the moment - are they "production grade"? How do they compare to say Amazon S3 in terms of pure latency and uptime?


How to edit name servers

I purchased a domain name for my website but the files are hosted some other place. The domain registration website show four name servers addresses. What are these. Can I forward my domain to a specific url by modifying these name servers.


Expunge deleted version of uploaded file

I'm a bureaucrat on Wiki site. The site has a number of deleted files, and I'd like to expunge them. For example, there are 27 files in the history of one particular file: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BEulY.png) There's no need for the extensive history; there's no need for the additional storage overhead; and there's no need to allow someone to revert to an old version of the file. I think I found a wiki article covering the subject at Wikipedia:Files for deletion, but it sounds like (to me) that `{{ffd|log=2014 July 23}}` will delete the current file and past files. And its not clear to me if `ffd` expenges the old files. How does one expunge the deleted files while leaving the current file in tact?


Home Domain router question

I'm hosting my own website and email server at home on my own network. I have ports fowarded and working for the most part. I'm currently using namecheap.com dns servers and foward requests to my IP. I do have dynamic IP from ISP but it only updates when I switch mac addresses on my modem but I sill have IP updater just in case it changes. I'm running my own router - Sophos Home UTM. I conceptually a little confused on my situation. Should the router use the domain of my website and email for example its example.com. This gives every computer localhost.example.com. Or should I leave it with default or nothing? Is this important having my router host name include FQDN so router.example.com? I want to add more servers(vm servers for other things) and be able to use subdomains to call on them from outside of my network. For example I have ports 80,443,25, and 143 to one server. I want to add another server for other stuff. I want to redirect it by subdomin and not have to use NAT foward something weird like this, example.com:9999. Any suggestions? If this isn't a site for this questions let me know where to go thanks for any help.


Wampserver VS XAMPP?

I would like to hear your thoughts on which would be better for beginners and easier to use and maintain in the long run. I'm going to build a website in MODx but I haven't started so I thought I would ask about this first.


Unchecked read permissions for folder to password protect but now get 500(Internal Server Error)

I unchecked the read permissions for a folder I have on a Godaddy Windows shared host that I want password protected and it worked first time but since going back I get 500 (Internal Server) Error. Thought it might be cache something so tried hard refresh but nothing.


What's your thoughts about .it instead of .com?

I'm thinking of using a my-new-webapp.it instead of my-new-webapp.com (since it's already in use by someone else) What's your thoughts about the .it top domain? Does it feels foreign compared to .com? The app will available in english.


What are the differences between creating a remarketing list in Analytics versus a remarketing list in Adwords?

Both Google Analytics and Google Adwords seem to have the capability of creating remarketing lists. If you opt for the Analytics option, you can then share that list with (only) Adwords. So are there any significant differences in functionality between the two options?


Self hosting of recaptcha-like system to digitise my uploaded books

From wikipedia > reCAPTCHA is a system ... that uses CAPTCHA to help digitize the text of > books while protecting websites from bots I have a lot of scanned documents that I'd like to convert, and would like to introduce a captcha on my website, so why not kill two birds with one stone? The reCAPTCHA project has it's own agenda though focusing on archives of The New York Times and books from Google Books. Does a similar project exist that I could host and thereby dictate the books/docs that are digitised?


Email a very large list of WordPress subscribers = fail (every single time)

I have tried using a number of plugins to email my 40,000 registered users on my WordPress-powered site, to no avail. I have tried Subscribe2 (seems to send some, but I have no idea how many) as well as a few Newsletter plugins. I either run out of memory trying to add 40K entries to the mail queue, or I error out trying to add 40K emails in the BCC of the email being sent. Is there anyone out there with a large subscriber-base that has found a successful solution? If so, please share.


Google is not indexing my site although it is crawling it

I have a site that has around 12,000 pages. A couple of days ago I uploaded the site, I removed the `disallow` option from my _robots.txt_ , I run "fetch as Google" and I got the message: > URL and linked pages submitted to index. The problem is that my site is not indexed yet although Google bot has started crawling it. When I search Google for my domain name I get: > A description for this result is not available because of this site's > _robots.txt_ I have removed the `disallow` option and in fact _robots.txt_ is as follows for the last 2 days:               User-agent: Googlebot-Image     Disallow: /       In fact, when I test the robots.txt file via the Webmaster Tools I get: > Allowed   >  Detected as a directory; specific files may have different restrictions Google is crawling it at a slow pace (~400 pages per day). How can I can tell Google to index my site before finishing with the crawling process? If this is not possible, can I speed up the crawl?


is a merchant account a requirment for a website to take payments

I have had a quick look but couldn't see anything related. Basically, if we were to accept payments for events on our website, via paypal (essentially a Buy it now! button), as a business, do we need a merchant's account, or will a regular bank account be acceptable? I may have some confusion in terms. My understanding is you need a merchant's account to accept credit card payments, but as we are using PayPal, is this necessary? Thank you for any clarification. disclaimer - I've read What are some options for taking payments on my website? but it doesn't explicitly say if we require a merchant account or not. Thank you.


Domain Forwarding for SEO

![Domain Forwarding](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CXnT3.png) For SEO, is the type of forwarding provided by domain registrars (like what I have pictured above) effective? Specifically, will old-domain.com rank better for the keyword "new" (or whatever happens to be in the forwarded domain name)? If this type of forwarding is NOT effective, is there another approach that is?


Why is Yahoo bot hitting a page when my robots.txt file is configured to disallow all bots?

My robots.txt:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      A page two directories below the root is being hit by a Yahoo bot and getting a 404:               HTTP_REFERER: [empty string]     HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp/3.0; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) NOT Firefox/3.5     QUERY_STRING: [empty string]     REMOTE_ADDR: 98.137.206.112     REMOTE_HOST: 98.137.206.112     REMOTE_USER: [empty string]     REQUEST_METHOD: GET      How is this possible and how can I prevent this? WHOIS for 98.137.206.112


Does url length have any impact on page load speed?

Our site has been doing fairly well in terms of load speed and so I don't want this to bring that down as a slower page load speed impacts SEO visits.


How to properly remove URL's from Google's index?

On some of our sites, we now have several thousand pages that dilute our website's keyword density. The website is an MVC site with SEO routing. If I submit a new sitemap with say only the 2000 or so pages that we want indexed, even though navigating to the diluting pages still works, will Google re-index the site with only those 2000 pages, dropping the superfluous ones? For example, I want to keep roughly 2000 of the following:               www.mysite.com/some-search-term-1/some-good-keywords     www.mysite.com/some-search-term-2/some-more-good-keywords      And remove several thousand of the following that have already been indexed.               www.mysite.com/some-search-term-xx/some-poor-keywords     www.mysite.com/some-search-term-xx/some-poor-more-keywords      These pages are not actually "removed" as navigating to these URL's still renders a page. Even though there are potentially hundreds of thousands of pages, I only want say 2000 to be re-indexed and retained. The others removed (without having to do these manually). Thanks.


If C-Panel Indexing Manager sets a folder to "No Indexing" can it be crawled by a webcrawler?

People are able to view directories / folders on my site right now. So, they could go to mysite.com/images and see the full index. To prevent this, C-Panel offers an option to set a directory / folder to "No Indexing" under the "Index Manager." Will this option allow webcrawlers to crawl / index the images? Or, is there a simpler alternative to block access to all folders directly while still having it SEO friendly? My old server restricted direct access to folders by default. But, the new one does not. Any ideas on this? Thanks!


Track user traffic source and display a slightly customized page?

I was wondering if there's a possibility to track where a user comes from e.g. AdWords or Referal or Facebook etc and based on this information to show a different page? For example it would be very useful to be able to display a different contact phone or email address on your contact page to users coming from AdWords. How do you do this? Thanks in advance, Alex


Domain Expired issues

We are facing a problem regarding the renewal of a Google Apps domain. Our domain is `badrealam.com` and it expired on 2014-02-07 as we mistakenly did not renew it. Now we are trying to renew it but unfortunately it's not working, however it shows 30$ in my balance as they want 10$ to renew it. Someone told me that you have to renew your hosting also which is on GoDaddy.


.htaccess redirect of domain name alias to main domain but must show up as the alias domain

I have the following in a .htaccess file:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.aliasdomain\.com$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^aliasdomain\.com$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.maindomain.com/subdir1/subdir2/index.html [R]      In a browser I want `aliasdomain.com` to access the `index.html` file and show up as `aliasdomain.com`. However it shows up as the full URL as follows: `http://www.maindomain.com/subdir1/subdir2/index.html`


I am located in a 3rdWC, does it matter for venture capitalism (US)?

Can one who lives in a third world country (with a promising project) go for a venture capital round with the likes of Ycombinator etc?


Why is my site being penalized by Google?

Our web site traffic has been dropped 90% for second time within recent six months. The first time some of pages with address niazpardaz.com/search dropped, the second time same pages with address niazpardaz.com/sa dropped and the whole website get penalty and its rank has been dropped too much. Our site is cleaner than our competitors and we review and respect all rules mentioned in Google guidelines but we didn't find any reason for this penalty and so in the future we can not prevent its re-occurrence.


Challenging nameserver problem

I really appreciate you reading this. I have spent close to 6 months putting my soul into creating my first ruby on rails app, and now my site is all buggered up SEO-wise and I'm really bummed. I'm going to try to (simply) explain what happened and I really hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance!! All this is chronological. My website is http://pineapple.io I deployed my app on **apache** , using **phusion passenger**. I examined webmaster tools like a hawk during my launch, to make sure my sitemaps/SEO was all good, updating properly and so on. Everything is good for about a week. I then notice _(after refining my title tags)_ that they haven't changed for a solid week, despite Google seeing my new updated sitemap daily. Up until then Google had been updating the index with my changes after only 12 hours- 2 days so I thought this was kind of odd but I was like "meh, whatever. it will happen eventually" I then look in analytics and see I get a hit for a certain keyword. I Google the keyword myself and low and behold. I see it in the index, but its indexed as this: ns2.deluxetracking.com This is one of my nameservers. I'm like what!! I Googled site:ns2.deluxetracking.com and I see now that ALL my pages are indexed there, and they're ALL UPDATED with the right meta titles/descriptions that I was waiting to see changed! Google had been updating this information instead of my pineapple.io domain. I talk to my host, and they told me that because I set a new document root with apache, that cPanel doesn't like that and.. I dont know the details but basically ns2.deluxetracking.com was showing an exact duplicate of my site. I had them fix this issue, so that when you go to ns2.deluxetracking.com it would show the proper default page for a nameserver _(Cgi-sys default webpage)_. I then realized that all my pages in Google's index would be broken now, and I didn't want that as I wanted all that fresh meta information to transfer over. So underneath the virtual host fix that my host did, I added another section which redirects EVERYTHING from ns2.deluxetracking.com/whatever/page over to --> pineapple.io/whatever/page This is how it is now. I then went into webmaster tools with the intent to add ns2.deluxetracking.com, and fetch as Google but then resubmit to index _(so it would see all my 301s)_. In order to verify my account I had to temporarily **break** my site again and remove the 301. After I verified, I fetched as Google bot, submitted to index and quickly re-enabled the 301's I waited for about 2 days, and now when i do site:ns2.deluxetracking.com, it actually has MORE results than it did, even WITH the 301. It used to have about 900 and now it has 1300 after I did that What gives? How can I fix this? I have several specific concerns:   1. **Why** would Google index something that is a different domain? Under **normal** conditions, how does Google **work** with a nameserver? I thought the entire point of a nameserver is just to locate an IP of the host, and then get a domain name _(the proper one)_ , and Google just uses that nameserver to locate the real site. Why is it actually **accessing** get requests on port 80 for a real web request to my nameserver? Furthermore, Why would it ever index that? Traditionally I never _(obviously)_ needed to supply a 301 redirect on a nameserver to have it not be indexed on all my other sites. So what is different now? What I'm saying is, on any of my other websites, if you visit ns1.deluxetracking.com you get the 'cgi-sys default webpage'. Google **knows** not to index that page because its a nameserver. So why did it suddenly choose to index whats on my nameserver THIS time? EVEN though my entire website showed up on that nameserver _(my fault)_ , I still dont know why it would ever choose to index that.   2. How can I remove all the existing SEO results for ns2. Will Google just naturally over time see my 301's and remove the old site from the index? I can't really use `robots.txt` because ns2 is a subdomain thats in use already somewhere, not to mention thats kind of complicated iwth virtualhosts to try and hack it so I can upload a `robots.txt`.


SEO for ecommerce site with no product description and large inventory

We are building a ecommerce with a inventory of about 6000 products, the problem is most of the products have the same description so we decided to keep description as `noindex` and make it available to users to prevent the issue of duplicate content. I heard that it will be a big impact if there is no product description how to tackle this problem, is this true?


Can a company take my domain away from me?

I have a domain which coincidentally is the same name of a company. Is there any legal way in which this company can take my domain away from me?


PHP Mailing List Software

I have tried all the usual mailing list apps (phplist, dada, mailman) but none do exactly what I want. The requirements seem fairly straight-forward but I can't find an app or service that meets all of them:   1. Paste or input a list of users (create users not send out invitations)   2. Create and manage groups of these users as mailing lists (some users may be on multiple lists)   3. Associate lists with an email address so any user can send an email to the whole list (must be sent to the list automatically or with a cron job) - I don't want to have to use a web interface to send emails.   4. Needs to be able to handle HTML emails and attachments Unless I am missing something none of the apps I have tried can do all of this. PHPList came the closest with the mail2list plugin but it does not work reliably and attachments fail.


Synchronizing audio with scrolling text

I am trying to have a website that vertically scrolls about 5 paragraphs of text with a matching audio file that reads along with it. It doesn't need to be synchronized word for word such as highlighting each spoken word but an accurate start and stop time. I've searched for quite a bit on the most efficient way of doing this but can't seem to find any answers. I tried Flash but really don't want to use it. Thanks in advance.


Which URLs produce Google Adsense revenue?

Is there a menu in Google AdSense that can let me know which URLs on my website are generating the most revenue?


Will search engines divert worldwide traffic away from a website with a country specific TLD?

I have a website that contains world-wide suitable content, although it is in English. The site is just information; not ecommerce. However, it has a ccTLD of ".co.uk", so will search engines specifically drive UK users towards my site and divert the rest of the world away from my site? Or, will the site simply rank marginally higher for UK users and be mixed in with the 'bigger pot' for the rest of the world? Does having a .com site make it more 'world-wide' or do the search engines check to see where a site is actually hosted (by IP)?


Is it possible to invalidate cache when the referrer adress is different?

Suppose I serve an image and if someone visits from a forum then I want it to download that image. If they visit again from the same forum then I want it to use cache, but if they visit from another forum and reference that same image I want it go ahead and re download that image. Is that possible?


"404. That’s an error." when viewing from Google cache

My site is getting _404. That’s an error._ message when I click on cached from Google search results. This is the error message from Google:               That’s an error.      The requested URL `/search?q=cache:8kxLAgFrhZQJ:www.mysite.com.....&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk` was not found on this server. That’s all we know. What I did before I was getting this error is that about 10 days ago, I moved my hosting from _Ixwebhosting_ to _Gearhost_ (cloud based). I also added 301 redirect from `non www` to `www`. I have no idea why I am getting this error. Please advise what might be the reason if there is a solution for it. All of my pages are indexed by Google though.


How does this particular daniweb page get 208 pageview although there was no search volume for this keywords- usage get method arrays? daniweb page : http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/java/threads/378417 Search volume is none for - usage get method arrays. When I search in google keyword tool.


Is xCommenter really good for SEO?

I have heard of xCommenter and wanted to know if its really good for improving the SEO?


Copy website content from WebsiteA.com/file.html to WebsiteB/file.com every time interval

I want to copy a website from `Website A` to `Website B` every 10 minutes. Then with purple-include I want to do a transclusion and display it on `mywebsite.com/page.html` So the task is download `websiteA.com/file` to `websiteB.com/file` I figured out the transclusion part but I do not know how to copy a webpage from A to B. Are there any script for this or how can I do this?


Why does SEO based code tips not appear to affect ranking?

I've been researching various methods for SEO where pages have precise titles, keywords are highlighted with h tags and tick the many boxes stated in good page mark up for SEO. However when looking at some top ranked search sites on google for key terms they have terrible SEO based mark up. Really long page titles, no tags, limited appearance of keywords in the text and so on. SEO analysis services rate them lower than other sites, yet these sites rank really high. Even with a low number of back-links they are high, so I don't understand how these sites earn the position when they appear inferior to those below them which have better mark up and links. I don't want to cause trouble my mentioning sites or keywords etc. but looking in google at 'executive search' the roughly 5th placed site makes no sense why it should be highly rank, especially with all the added .swfs. The same applies for the top of 'Japan Executive Search'. My main point is that these sites seem to not have all the important structural rules stated in seo page rating applications and general suggested best practice, nor do they show large back-links. It makes me feel like there is no point bothering to write decent mark up if it really doesn't matter. Can anyone explain how sites with such mark-up, and low back-links can outrank well written and structured sites with greater linkage? Sorry if this is a fuzzy question, I want to avoid singling out any sites for example, but it really has me perplexed that sites which appear to ignore the suggested best practices rank so well.


Alt text vs CSS sprites (SEO vs speed)

I'm reworking our site to reduce HTTP requests and blocking requests by concatenating JS, css, gzipping, loading all JS via LABjs and using CSS sprites for images that were loaded individually via `<img>` tags before. Progress has been great so far - 5x page load performance improvement. However, we're in the top 5 organic search ranking in google for many targeted keywords and phrases. I'm afraid eliminating so many img tags with alt attributes can hurt our SEO. Does anyone have any experience with alt tag manip/removal and effects on SEO positions? Is previous rank "sticky"?


Problem with user generated content

In general, what do you think is better in regards to adding content to a site, to allow users to add content to the site and put a flag button to report it if it doesn't fit with the site, or should only I add the content and remove that option? It will be a small site but I don't know if I'll manage to scan the site constantly or deal with the flags and on the other hand I'm worried that the site wont move forward because there will be lot less content, thoughts?


Good online auction software

We are looking for some PHP-based auction software to start off with and I have have been scouring the net many times and am almost ready to purchase phpprobid as this seems to be the best and most feature rich of the lot; only bad things I have read is the lack of after-sales customer service. Others I have also looked at include:   * AJ Auction Software   * WeBid   * GuruScript Auction   * PHP Auction (enuuk). Many of them turn me off by having unprofessional sites which makes me think their software will be the same and be rubbish. Many also don't go into detail with the feature set like PHP Pro Bid does. So before we purchase PHP Pro Bid I was wondering if I missed something good? Thanks!


How to set up? Nginx directory password authentication /usr/local/nginx/conf/vhost/xxx.xxx.com.conf site configuration files.   I want to in this website **xxx.xxx.com/123** folders in password access protection, similar to the apache.But I don't know how to make nginx?   **Heard: a folder password protection to set format the location?**                 server     {             listen       80;             server_name xxx.xxx.com; #server_name end             index index.html index.htm index.php; #index end                  set $subdomain '';             root  /home/wwwroot/xxx.xxx.com/web$subdomain;             include rewrite/amh.conf; #rewrite end                  #error_page             error_page 400 /ErrorPages/400.html;             error_page 403 /ErrorPages/403.html;             error_page 404 /ErrorPages/404.html;             error_page 502 /ErrorPages/502.html;             location ~ /ErrorPages/(400|401|403|404|405|502|503)\.html$              {                     root /home/wwwroot/xxx.xxx.com/web;             }                       location ~ .*\.php$             {                     fastcgi_pass  unix:/tmp/php-cgi-xxx.xxx.com.sock;                     fastcgi_index index.php;                     include fcgi-host.conf;                     fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT  /web$subdomain;                     fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME  /web$subdomain$fastcgi_script_name;             }                  location ~ .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|bmp|swf|flv|mp3|wma)$             {                     expires      30d;             }                  location ~ .*\.(js|css)$             {                     expires      12h;             }                  access_log off; #access_log end             error_log /dev/null; #error_log end     }


IIS executes "malicious.asp;.txt" as ASP file. What the?

I investigated a situation where 300+ websites hosted on an IIS server were pwned by a hacker. Investigation led me to a text file that contained malicious ASP-classic code. The file was named `dz.asp;.txt` and I just realized that IIS happily executed this file without complaining. So my question is: is this behavior normal? Shouldn't IIS treat this file as a `.txt` file instead of `.asp`?


When does Twitter api V1.1 will be active? I can see warnings for Deprecated version, but when do we expect the new version to come alive.


Why aren't monospace fonts almost never used for base font?

I haven't come across any website that use monospace fonts as the base font for their websites. Why is that? Does the website necessarily look bad when you use monospace?


Can a registrar outage affect my website?

If my registrar has an outage and their servers go down for a while, will that affect my website. I'm not using any of my registrar hosting packages or name servers, I simply have a few domain names registered with them that point to my actual hosting provider. Based on my current understanding on how these things work I believe that an outage at my registrar will not affect my websites at all, but I'd like to hear this from someone with more experience in this field.


How to include/install mod_proxy_http.c on JustHost

I'm using a service that requires a URL to be sent to their site so that it can return an HTML snapshot to Googles crawlers. In their .htaccess code it has the line               <IfModule mod_proxy_http.c>      and it doesnt make it past that statement (implying that I dont have that module installed/enabled?) But the service says that most servers should have that installed. I tried contacting JustHost but havent received a response yet so was hoping you could help. I dont know much about this stuff so I dont know where to begin but on JustHosts cPanel it doesnt seem to let me into their httpd.conf which is where most resources are saying to fix this. It does however let me add things to the "Apache Handler" but frankly I have no idea how.


Canonical link for sorting topics pages

Should I add the `link rel="canonical"` tag to sorting topics pages? StackExchange would be a good example for my question. Let's take these page as en example: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions?page=4&sort=newest http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes Why there is no canonical link pointing to http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions? As far as I know, crawlers would still crawl these pages (to follow the links and index the topics). If the answer is that the query string (eg. `?sort=votes`) makes the canonical link directive useless and every page is treated (page rank, they're not indexed, etc.) as http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions anyway (would the canonical link change anything?), I have another question. Let's say you use a custom parameters for sorting (so there's no query string): http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions&page=4&sort=newest In this case, should `link rel="canonical"` be added? Or should I let search engines to index every single "questions" page? Would there be any drawbacks of such solution (no query string + canonical)?


Google Webmaster Tools is showing incorrect warnings - blocked by robots.txt

I'm getting a warning when submitting my sitemap to webmaster tools it saying that my pages are blocked by `robots.txt` when they are not. Has any one come across this or a way to resolve this before ? Here is the error message: ![webmaster error](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BFP97.png) Here is my `robots.txt` file:               User-agent: *     Disallow:     Sitemap: http://mydomain.co.uk/sitemap.xml


How should I create sitemap of a site which goes live with thousands of pages?

We are working on an education site and have custom website built on wordpress. One component of site is blog posts and pages, sitemap for which gets built by sitemap plugin every night. Another component is the college pages and we went live with this section 2 month back. To build the sitemap for these 8000+ pages , we wrote a program and created a sitemap lets say abc.xml. Then we submitted the sitemap to google. After 2 months, I can see that the google acknowledged the submission but never indexed these 8000+ pages. 561 indexed pages are from our blog post and pages. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rd4wt.jpg) I guess the mistakes we did was that we created the sitemap of 8000+ links and submitted when we should have done it in piecemeal basis. 2nd mistake I guess is that we do not update the abc.xml sitemap regularly which we thought of doing once all the pages were indexed. What is suggested a) to fix this problem b) and how to get the pages indexed ?


Does duplicate title tags with and without www hurt SEO?

For my website, I own `https://www.example.com` and `https://example.com`. (Currently, `http://example.com` redirects to `https://www.example.com`.) I recently had an audit of my website and it reported that `https://www.example.com` and `https://example.com` are duplicate title tags. **Of course they are** - because one redirects to the other! **Does this really hurt my SEO??**


Will using HTTPS hurt my site's SEO or other statistics?

I've set up a WordPress blog. Since I have to log into it from many different locations/machines, I've also got an SSL certificate, and set up Apache to redirect HTTP to HTTPS. It all works, but I'm wondering whether that's an overkill. Since most people who go to my site don't have to log in, I'm starting to wonder whether HTTPS has some drawbacks. If so, should I look for a way to make HTTPS optional?


Is there a spider / link checker that can start deep inside a login-protected site

We use vendor hosted Blackboard for our distance education courses, but host course multimedia on our own servers. The multimedia server has been moved and the domain has changed. Blackboard DBAs have run queries to update the links in the DB, but we need to make sure they got them all. There are hundreds of thousands of links to check. I need to be able to login to the blackboard administrator, navigate to the courses section and execute a search to bring up the course list before running the link checker on the links in the search results. Is there a product or service that does this? I've never used selenium, but I wonder if a scripting solution might be more appropriate. All advice welcome.


PHP Include meta tags

A website I'm currently working on is http://www.troubi.com . Please don't care to look at the source code. If I validate the website through the w3cValidator a lot of errors occur all due to "invalid" meta tags. ( http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2etroubi%2ecom%2f ) If you look at the website's source you will see that everything in the meta region looks perfectly valid, and that's the curiousity. Now comes the point, in Firebug it just looks like if all the included meta tags were just moved to the `<body>`! A screenshot from Firebug: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/lUZ5c.png) For reference, this is the meta file that gets included: http://www.troubi.com/feature/meta.php


favicon 404 in access log, but favicon is there

Going through 404 error on my site, I have noticed a bunch of problems with favicons:               /apple-touch-icon-120x120.png     /apple-touch-icon-120x120-precomposed.png     /apple-touch-icon-152x152.png     /apple-touch-icon-152x152-precomposed.png     /apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png     /apple-touch-icon.png     /favicon.ico      Interesting part is that I have the following code on every page               <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/public/img/favicon.ico">     <link rel="apple-touch-icon image_src" href="/public/img/apple-big.png">      But I see that sometimes in the logs I see `"GET /public/img/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200` which means that icon is taken from correct location, but sometimes `"GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404`. I searched through the whole codebase trying to find where else favicon could be called, but with not luck. Any idea what might be wrong? P.S. added user agents: `"GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 409 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0"`


What is the best and cheapest CMS for an E-Commerce site?

My client needs a site customers can use to pay the membership fees and join. It should also track when old members need to pay again. There are some members that will not want to pay online and they want to be able to use the site to manage all payments. The CMS must be cheap to host online, potentially with something like GitHub/Heroku. I am experienced with PHP and RoR. I am using a CMS so once I am done with this project it is easy for them to update. After reading through different posts I think WordPress with an e-commerce Plugin may be the right solution. Spree and WebGUI also looks promising. Thanks for the help.


Default DNS records with WHMCS + cPanel/WHM + NetEarthOne

I use the billing system WHMCS to automatically send invoices and use it's auto-setup functions. My control panel is cPanel/WHM. I use NetEarthOne to resell domains. cPanel/WHM and NetEarthOne are both fully compatible with WHMCS. I asked my host: > If a user buys a hosting package and a domain name, what are the standard > DNS records? Does the client have to set them up manually? They didn't understand that, so I asked: > If a user buys hosting package + domain name, do they have to setup the > domain name to point to the hosting package manually? They said: > If you use some billing system like WHMCS, the account for this order should > be created automatically as well as DNS zone for this domain. No need to > make any additional changes. I replied: > Interesting to know. Yes, I'm using WHMCS. I don't need to setup something > in LogicBoxes or something? (LogicBoxes is the control panel for NetEarthOne) They said: > No, you do not need to do this. Could someone please confirm this?


Tracking Traffic Through a Certain Page

I'm looking for some help with the Google Analytics Behavior Flow. I want to track all the traffic through a section of our site that ends up going to another particular section of my web site. Any advice on how to get this information.


How to download the audio from my own YouTube videos that are on YouTube?

I have some YouTube videos on YouTube. Is there a way to just get the audio from them? I am able to get the mp4 format video download. If I can't get the audio directly, how could I get the audio-only file from the mp4 file? Thank you!


# id - urls with id first display full page, then move to #id

I've noticed this in the new version of chrome, and ie9 and 10. Some urls in a photo gallery have a #id tag as they are supposed to display a full view of a picture. Basically, a div in a lower position on the page has that #id that i call via a.com/1.html#id. This has never been an issue until lately, when i noticed a bit of a lag. **The issue:** The website loads normally, then the view moves to the #id as supposed, but with some lag sometimes, perhaps because of the high resolution of the picture, which is somewhat noticeable. Anyway to avoid this, or make it so the page would move to the correct #id even before fully loaded?


Structured Data for dynamic pages and Webmaster Tools

I have a catalogue with more than 150000 (150k) unique single item pages, each with schema.org set up for titles, descriptions, images, prices etc. These pages are dynamically built through a unique ID in the URL. Unfortunately this includes out of stock items and "old" items where some or all content required for schema.org may be empty. This results in error flags raised in Google Webmaster Tools. What would be a better approach to tackle this catch-22?   1. Fake schema.org Data (i.e. Set price from NULL to "0.00"), which is NOT the correct price, suggesting the item is free of charge.   2. Flag the page as noindex (which may be index'ed one day and noindex the next to be index'ed a couple of days after again)   3. Set a 301 to another page.   4. Set a 302 to another page. As it stands now, I have approximately 18.000 pages indexed with schema.org according to Google Webmaster Tools. I have the feeling that the less errors I receive caused by missing schema.org for already indexed pages, the faster Google lists the outstanding ones. Any ideas on what the best practice would be for such a scenario?


Aligning images with text

I'm having trouble aligning an image with text. I want my image on the left, and the text inline on the right, centered vertically to the image.
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      Right now, the text hugs the top of the container. How can I center it vertically to the middle of the container?


Google Webmaster Tools Index Status 0 for one year

I've read this topic with answers but they do not address why zero for one year? but other areas in Google Webmaster Tools report 400 URL indexed. ## Google Webmaster Tools Index Status Only 2 Indexed. ![Google Webmaster Tools Index Status](http://imageshack.us/a/img845/797/firefoxscreensnapz004.jpg) ## Google Webmaster Tools Sitemaps Panel 493 Submitted - 492 Indexed. ![Google Webmaster Tools Sitemaps Panel](http://imageshack.us/a/img580/6103/firefoxscreensnapz001r.jpg) ## Google Search Using `site:domainname.com` returns 1,630 results. ![Google Search using Site](http://imageshack.us/a/img715/5226/firefoxscreensnapz003.jpg) Could this be a problem with the `www` and `no-www`?


Combine redirect to naked domain and point existing content to /blog

I think the .htaccess setup for this ought to be fairly straightforward, but I'm having a hard time with it for some reason. I've just completed the migration of a WordPress single site installation to a MultiSite setup, and everything went swimmingly. Now, though, I need to redirect all the original blog posts to `/blog/<post>` (because WordPress enforces that on MultiSite). I also recently migrated everything to the naked domain. This in and of itself wasn't a problem – until I added in the `/blog/` component. Here is what I have for the naked domain redirect (which, as noted, works fine):               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]      I've tried a number of things for the `/blog/` redirect, but it's continuing to throw me. It seems like it should be fairly easy with `RedirectMatch`:               RedirectMatch 301 ^/(.*/?)$ http://<my-site>/blog/$1      The problem, of course, is that this expression then captures `/blog/` and promptly heads off to `/blog/blog/blog/...` I run into the same problem using another `RewriteCond`/`RewriteRule` pair, and when I tried to work around it like this:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:(www\.))?(.*)$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(?<!(blog/))(.*)$ http://%1/blog/$1 [R=301,L]      The result was a redirect loop (I'm not seeing what's causing it, but my head is obviously not processing the regexes correctly this morning). It seems to me like `RedirectMatch` is the way to go anyway; I just need to make sure not to capture `/blog/` itself. **Edit:** I totally forgot about the `!` part of the rule; should I simply be starting that `RewriteMatch` with `!^blog`?


Images sent from my site is not being displayed in my gmail account anymore

I use wordpress cms. I have built a simple email system wherein people can select posts. The code pulls the featured image of each selected post. On submit the images are sent to my gmail account with some html text content. Problem is it is just **displaying the links** to those images, **instead of the images** itself. In my gmail account, I have this set `Settings=>General=>Images=>Always display external images`. Here is a visual reference. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/lvdNb.png) **OBSERVATION** - I can say that my code is alright as the images display fine in my outlook.com's email account and also because it had been displaying in the gmail account itself until very recently. Other observation is when I access the same gmail account in my smartphone, the image div seems to be empty with only the border and a tiny icon in the middle. Do not want you to miss out anything so in case it is relevant - The one thing that I tried a few days ago was setup an **SMTP** email setup with `smtp.gmail.com` using the login credentials of the same gmail account. At first I got a suspicious login attempt warning but the email setup worked fine after I added it as an exception. I wonder what is happening, any ideas on what to try. * * * **EFFORT UPDATES** **FIRST UPDATE** : I have tried sending to an alternative gmail account but the outcome is the same, displays only the links instead of images. If you must also know I have my site hosted on hostgator.com and the email sent is via `gator3897.hostgator.com`. * * * **SECOND UPDATE** : As asked in the question here is an example of what my image's html looks like when clicked in the show-original in gmail. As I said this renders beautifully as intended in my outlook account so the mistake shouldnot be in the code.                                          * * * **THIRD UPDATE** : I checked to see **how it appears in chrome**. Turns out it still does not display the image as intended but it does not turn into links, instead it appears as empty divs. It appears the same way in my smartphone. Screenshot below. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/b2wan.jpg)


Why the estimated earnings in my Google Adsense is zero since this month?

I get pay every month from Adsense. Normally, the estimated earnings is updated everyday. However, I have _0_ since this month whereas my account is still active. Everything should be in good condition. Can anyone tell me what's happen?


Using .htaccess to set a cookie and 301 redirect

I currently have in my _.htaccess_ :               RewriteRule ^$ http://chfmaine.com/ [CO=moved:yes:chfmaine.com:1/,R=301,NE,NC,L]      I was basing this off of this post. That's a lot more than I need but the setting of the cookie should be the same. Maybe I am misunderstanding the domain part of the cookie. If I set it to `CHFmaine.com` shouldn’t that be where it works? I tried adding the cookie after the 301. Ether way the 301 works but no cookie is passed. This is redirecting from `maine-horse-trails.com` to `chfmaine.com`. I have 23 of these for all the different pages that were on the old site. Anything landing at this `.htaccess` will be redirected and the cookie should be set. So if there is a way to first pass the cookie to anyone then proceed onto the matching rewrite that would be helpful. But if I can get this way to work I dont mind using copy and paste to get it on all the possibilities. and I do not want to pass any queries in the URL. My question is, what am I doing wrong here? Why can I not find this cookie after a successful redirect? And is there a better option?