What is recommended minimum object size for gzip performance benefits?

I'm working on improving page speed display times, and one of the methods is to gzip content from the webserver. Google recommends: > _Note that gzipping is only beneficial for larger resources. Due to the > overhead and latency of compression and decompression, you should only gzip > files above a certain size threshold; we recommend a minimum range between > 150 and 1000 bytes. Gzipping files below 150 bytes can actually make them > larger._ We serve our content through Akamai, using their network for a proxy and CDN. What they've told me: > Following up on your question regarding what is the minimum size Akamai will > compress the requested object when sending it to the end user: The minimum > size is 860 bytes. My reply: > What is the reason(s) for why Akamai's minimum size is 860 bytes? And why, > for example, is this not the case for files Akamai serves for Facebook? ( > _see below_ ) Google recommends to gzip more aggressively. And that seems > appropriate on our site where the most frequent hits, by far, are AJAX calls > that are <860 bytes.![Facebook headers screenshot disputing Akamai's > statement](http://i.stack.imgur.com/VXHVt.png) Akamai's response: > The reasons 860 bytes is the minimum size for compression is twofold: (1) > The overhead of compressing an object under 860 bytes outweighs performance > gain. (2) Objects under 860 bytes can be transmitted via a single packet > anyway, so there isn't a compelling reason to compress them. **So I'm here for some fact checking.** Is the 860 byte limit due to packet size the end of this reasoning? Why would high traffic sites push this down to the 150 byte limit... just to save on bandwidth costs (since CDNs base their charges on bandwidth offloaded from origin), or is there a performance gain in doing so? * * * _7/9/12 Update:_ I asked Steve Souders if there a performance gain in gzipping responses that are already smaller than a packet and what is the recommended minimum object size for gzip performance benefits, and this is his response: > Thanks for your email. The size is somewhere between 1-5K. Apache has a > default but I forget what it is - that would be a good guide. We do our compression on an F5 appliance, so we are going to lower it to ~350 bytes, since there are a decent amount of AJAX calls between that and 1K. The AJAX calls that are less than 350 bytes on our website are all down around 70 bytes... less than Google's recommendations... so it really seems to fall back to: _know your website and adjust based on your code_. I'll get back to this post after the F5 update runs in Production for a while. I think there will be little performance benefit, but we'll lower our Akamai costs a bit since they are serving less.


www. of domain name not found (on PC)

I have a domain name setup with LCN but I'm having a problem with the www. part of it on a PC. On a mac if you type in www.teamworksdesign.com if we direct you to our holding page. However, if you type this in on a PC it goes to a page not found. If you remove the www. it works though. This is what we have setup in our account: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/c9Djo.png) Does anyone know what's going on? UPDATE: This is what I have in my web server: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/r2xTf.png)


Possible to only load specifiv div of a website?

I have this project i'm working on and id like to add a really small list of nearby places using facebooks places in an iframe feature from touch.facebook.com I can easily just use touch.facebook.com/#places.php but then that loads the top bars. Anyway, is there a way I could manipulate the URL so that it will only load the places content rather than having the top and bottom menu bars. After looking at the code it looks like there is a div id=content" I was thinking maybe there was a way to make the url so that it will only load that div? I also tried making a url that might just jump down to content using touch.facebook.com/#places.php#content but apparently with that way touch.facebook.com was built that doesn't work. But really i'd rather figure out a way to just load the content. Ay ideas? thanks! edit again: I went ahead and tried this I read the examples for file_get_contents and what's being here looks right, according to example 1               <?php     $page = file_get_contents('http://touch.facebook.com');     $doc = new DOMDocument();     $doc->loadHTML($page);     $divs = $doc->getElementsByTagName('div');     foreach($divs as $div) {           if ($div->getAttribute('id') === 'content') {              echo $div->nodeValue;         }     }     ?>      I get a completely blank page. Sorry really new to php, trying to understand it. any suggestions?


How to enable more file formats for GZIP/Deflate Compression

I enabled gzip/Deflate compression on our servers per Google's Page Speed directives, and it looks like it's now compression html/php files, but a couple file formats aren't being compressed that Google rightfully is saying should be compressed, namely .js and .ttf files. How do I add more file formats to httpd.conf so they're compressed as well? Current lines in httpd.conf I have are:               #     # Deflate output configuration     #     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css     BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html     BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip     BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html      Is it as simple as adding text/js and text/ttf?


high phyiscal memory usage with wordpress, no visitors , stock theme and no plugins!

my problem is that my server consume 512 MegaBytes my site is new with 6 users at same time at most stock theme no plugins checked the stats and saw that site.com/feed/ had many hits any suggestions?


What can I do to reduce the file size of my images?

Working with some wordpress themes I've been modifying some of the image files and noticed that my edited versions are sometimes 3-4x larger than the original (saved using the same format). I don't want to degrade quality - what are some of the ways to make a file size smaller so it will load faster? Right now, for example, I use Photoshop and set the image quality slider to '8' (out of 10).


How do I check that a domain is available without triggering a grabber?

A few days ago, I checked whether a domain was available by tying the name in the web browser. Also `host` returned `not found 3(NXDOMAIN)` When I tried again today, some domain grabber had snatched it. How can I check whether a domain is available without losing to some barely legal "service"?


Suggestions for a Live chat software on websites for customer support?

Recommendations needed. We want to get in touch with customers via live chat. Requirements:   * chat window customisable to mingle with website theme (colors etc)   * preferably the window should be within webpage and not only pop-out/popup.   * ease of use by customer   * minimally intrusive   * should have triggers/Alerts to backend side. for ex: user is unable to fill-up signup form or something, we should be able to offer help to user and this chat window automatically shows to user. What is the cost ? **UPDATE** : After R&D we also narrowed down to comm100 and liveperson, and we will go with comm100. LP is best commerical soln. but comm100 is a good free soln. We go with comm100 as starting point. But it gives out exceptions alerts sometimes in the dashboard. Can it be configured for chat invitations triggered on certain conditions. Currently only a timebased trigger is available. Any other major difference between these two ?


Tiny Tiny RSS Installation

I am having difficulties in installing the following: http://tt- rss.org/redmine/ I keep constantly getting this error after my installation (Which obviously, isn't correct). Fatal Error: config: please read config.php completely. I would much appreciate it if someone would install this for me! I will happily give FTP details :) Please, I really need this. Thanks.


How to tie together Facebook Pages and main website

I'm anonymising this situation a bit, so I apologise if the scenario seems a bit contrived, but the question is a genuine one I need to address. I'm working on a website for a web-based company which acts as an intermediary or broker between public speakers and people who want to hire them. The company wants to tie into social media, so I've added Facebook etc. like/share buttons. Each registered speaker has a separate page with its own OpenGraph metadata and so they can be independently "liked". The front page also has a "like" button for people who appreciate the service provided by the site instead of / as well as individual speakers. The company also has a Facebook Pages page. The question is how to tie them together. > Is there a "Best practices" approach to handling the relationship between > the company website and the company Facebook Pages page? In particular, should I replace the Like button on the front page with a link to the Facebook page (or perhaps change the OpenGraph metadata for it to set the Facebook page as og:url - although my instinct is that that's a bad idea)?


Why does my certificate provider ask me to disable its root certificate?

I received an SSL certificate from GoDaddy yesterday and their instructions to install the certificate seemed weird. To be precise, they asked me to disable their root certificate in server. > NOTE: If the Go Daddy® Class 2 Certification Authority root certificate is > currently installed on your machine, you need to disable it from the Trusted > Root Certification Authorities folder. What do I need to disable the root certificate? Another question: they asked me to put intermediate certificates on the server. I can sure do that on **server** but my **clients** might not have them. Does it matter?


best  web content books/websites/articles?

I was reading through "best web programming books" articles, and I saw the book Content Strategy for the Web by Kristina Halvorson. So, what is a similar (or better, please specify if it's better) book? Or maybe even a website/article...


Top web-hosting sites with jQuery support?

I am looking to start building a website and I am looking for some good web hosting companies that gives the best bang for the buck. I had been reading on some websites in regards to some web hosting companies having the inability to run scripts on their servers (jQuery) which causes a big problem since the website I am in the process of making is very jQuery driven. Can anyone recommend some good web hosting companies that they had good experience with?


Transferring website likes to fanpage likes

as far as I understood Facebook also offers "likes" for plain websites without their own fanpage. Now, if one has a certain number of such likes and decides to open a dedicated fanpage is there a way to transfer these "likes" to the fanpage or does he have to start from zero? Thanks


Google Analytics Goal funnel not working

I have been a user of Google Analytics for over 2 years and like to think I am adept at using it but this issue has really thrown me. I have a Goal set up which appears to be working on first looking at the overview. It gives me 42 Goal Conversions, but when I go in to look at the Goal Funnel Visualization it states 0 visitors finished. What is happening here? Any advice much appreciated. Thanks


Why is an email failing RFC2822 specifications?

I am sending an email to a maximum of 14 gmail users. They are part of a small group of paid subscribers. In a send to all 14 1 or 2 are normally returned saying > Reason: Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 RFC 2822 specifications for more > information It is not an email to the same member each time and seems random. Has anyone ever expereinced this before?


Purchasing a Domain from a Domain Squatter

A few years ago, I purchased a .org domain. Presumably, the .com version was taken by a domain squatter because it was registered the day after I registered it and it only hosts one of those typical ad pages. I recently decided that I want the .com version as well if it's cheap, and I'd like to know: What price do they typically charge, and are there any ways to get them to lower this price?


What are the chances of a claiming a .com domain name from a squatter

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Purchasing a Domain from a Domain Squatter As the question states, if a .com domain is squatted by the usual ad site, what are the chances of getting the domain (not buying it from the squatter)? And what should one expect to spend on it? **This is for a startup company** , is it still possible? Any past experiences are very welcome. Also does the standard default ad site make a difference? What if the domain is owned, but no website is setup at the domain? I realize there are other uses, but for those cases a subdomain is usually "enough".


Why is Google not indexing my forum?

I have this web site that as you can see on the top right has is a "Forums" button that links to my forums. My problem is that if, for instance, I make a Google search "site:heliumscraper.com answers" I don't get any result, even though the word "answers" is in the forum's board index and it has been there for a few months already. I don't have a robots file. I also uploaded a sitemap to Google that contained the forum. I'm thinking the problem might be the fact that the only link from my main page to the forum opens in a new window. Could this be the problem?


Redirect QR code

Is there a way to "intercept" incoming traffic from a QR code and redirect it to another page of your site? I have a QR code that is printed on physical paper. The scan will take the visitor to my root homepage, ie- www.mysite.com However, the URL I need visitors to goto is www.mysite.com/code Any way to do this without having to generate a new code? I don't want to have to reprint the physical copies!


Facebook Like javascript related to Time Spent Downloading a page Increase in GWT?

I installed the Facebook Like button Javascript version on my website on December 15th. Take a look at this report from Google Webmaster Central. Crawl stats Googlebot activity in the last 90 days ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/EXluf.png) The crawl stats are from Googlebot which as far as I know doesn't execute Javascript. Could the Facebook Like Javascript code, "The XFBML version" be related to large spike in Time spent downloading a page? (By the way the huge spike in November was caused by a mistake where every image request was getting a 301.)   I'm not sure what caused the spike to go down by half somewhere in December. It may have been related to a faulty setting in web.config. I'm at a loss as to what I can do about this or even how to tell if this is my problem or Googlebots crawl problem. Here is the Facebook code I am using to create the like button. It is right after the opening body tag `


Why does my domain not show up in Google anymore?

So I have had a website since about 2006. It's http://earlz.biz.tm . Recently I've noticed that no results will show up for it in google. I do have a secondary domain(that I plan on getting rid of) pointing to it but I don't understand why google would suddenly not show my site. I believe it was showing up a few months ago and my website is hardly ever down, like one or two days I believe has been the most it's been down in a row in this time period. Is there something wrong with my DNS or other configuration that would make google not index me? For reference I've tried: earlz.biz.tm site:earlz.biz.tm and the heading from my site "Earlz.biz.tm -- The reasoning is bacon" A few show up with the therusticstone.com domain(the one I plan to point somewhere else) but none show up directly linking to earlz.biz.tm. **Update** Ok, I got my site verified and such and it says there are zero crawls and all that. When going to the Lab's feature "Fetch As Google Bot" I found the problem. I tried to simply do http://earlz.biz.tm and it said "DNS not found." I don't see any obvious problems with my DNS records though and I haven't changed them in months


Apache authentication, security exceptions and safari

I have apache authentication set up on a site, it works fine in firefox and chrome, you type in the username/pass once and then you can happily visit any page on the site. Unfortunately this is not the behavior in safari. Every time you go to another page, you must re-enter your credentials. Is there some way I can look at the security exceptions for safari and set it to always trust the certificate or find some other setting to not ask for authentication on each page?


Why my Joomla gallery link asks for admin access to administrator folder? And how do I fix it?

I have an image gallery component, linked to a menu item. I also have my administrator folder secured on my web host (user security). Additionally, my folders are all `CHMOD 755`. When I click on the gallery link, it pops up the security access form, as if the link or component needs to write to the administrator folder... Am I overdoing security or is there a permission solution to this issue?


How do I prevent duplicate indexing by Googlebot-Mobile?

I have only one version of my web-site, and it is optimised for both the desktop and the smartphone. I've noticed that Google crawls each page exactly twice: once with `Googlebot/2.1`, and again with `Googlebot-Mobile/2.1`:               % fgrep "/www/drupal6/filefield " /var/www/logs/ports.su/ports.su.access.log     66.249.76.223 - - [12/Mar/2013:07:46:42 -0700] "GET /www/drupal6/filefield HTTP/1.1" 200 2365 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"     66.249.76.223 - - [12/Mar/2013:13:59:23 -0700] "GET /www/drupal6/filefield HTTP/1.1" 200 2365 "-" "DoCoMo/2.0 N905i(c100;TB;W24H16) (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"      I don't think blocking either of these bots in `/robots.txt` would be appropriate, as it might remove my site from their respective index. However, don't they share their indices, too? How do I tell Google that I only have one site? **Looking for something that's the opposite of`Vary: User-Agent`.**


Does Google penalize websites only in Google Image search?

I re-built a Flash website into an AJAX-based website, which generates all its content from JSON data using AJAX. It's a photography website and Google's Image Search is important for this site. But since the website content is generated dynamically, I thought I should also add fallback static content. I did hide that static content if JavaScript is enabled, otherwise that static content is served. But since then the site started losing all image search results in Google. And after a while, not a single result comes from the main site (it has a blog site and Google return images only from that blog). The site does work fine within main web result. So my question is: does Google penalize websites in Google Images? And If yes, how do I confirm whether my site is penalized or not?


What is HTTP Method PROPFIND used for?

I notice a series lines never seen before on my server access log that runs like this consecutively within the same one second:               PROPFIND /images/flag.jpg HTTP/1.1  405 493 265    511    - LibreOffice     HEAD /images/flag.jpg HTTP/1.1      200 164 -      229    - LibreOffice     GET /images/flag.jpg HTTP/1.1       200 186 338166 338395 - LibreOffice      It appears that copying images from the website to a LibreOffice document will cause these queries to be triggered. I found PROPFIND being mentioned on a Microsoft website, but still do not understand its usage and why not just use a single GET instead?


Preventing botvisits to website

Every time some user shares my website's address inside his/her tweets, the following bots come to my website: > UnwindFetchor/1.0 (+http://www.gnip.com/)   >  ShowyouBot (http://showyou.com/crawler)   >  JS-Kit URL Resolver, http://js-kit.com/   >  bitlybot   >  EventMachine   >  HttpClient etaURI API/2.0 +metauri.com Ten times in a minute one of these bots come to my site and fetches my content. My question is, would banning these bots' IPs with htaccess or preventing their visits with robots.txt can harm my SEO ? Or can it obstruct some basic Twitter functionality ? For example when user shares my URL, the URL couldn't be shortened so he can't share it. Or Twitter will find my site suspicious etc?


I added schema.org/person - suddenly Google Plus is using itemprop as Site TITLE ? Bug?

I was wondering if anyone else ran into the same problem This is the code I used

Written by:  Name

 Contact

      It's very simple - when I paste a link on Google Plus it will use itemprop "name" as the Site title. It works correctly on Facebook - just wondering why Google would do that before I run into problems, very annoying. The only alternative would be a vcard


Does Google rank businesses that are closer to me geographically to a higher postion

If I do a search on Google using a key word phrase used on our website, does it rank the business I work for higher because it can work out that it is a close geographical match (and the key word phrase is a close match)? If so it could be skewing what we think is our natural listing page rank because whenever we perform the search we will be in the local area, and therefore our website will be higher than if I did the same search on a PC in London?


How do I get a "Sign in with Facebook" button in Denmark?

I live in Denmark. In connection with a project I would like to add a "Sign in with Facebook" button to a website. In order to do that I apparently have to register as a Facebook developer on https://developers.facebook.com/. But during the registration process, they need to confirm my cell phone number by sending me a confirmation code in a text message. I never receive that code. As far as I can tell, Facebook does not support text messages to Denmark. (If you go to https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=mobile and press "Activate Text Messaging," you will get a list of supported countries. They include countries like Tajikistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, but _not_ Denmark.) Facebook support has been less than helpful. Can anybody suggest what I can possibly do? Do I really need to emigrate just to get a "Sign in with Facebook" button?


What every beginner should know about website development?

I am a novice at building websites and considering to make one. But I'm very confused right now. I guess every beginner faces issues getting started. Some questions that have come up are:   1. I have an idea and a need a website. That's all I know right now. But how do I start ? HTML is for sure the basic language but there are a lot of other technologies too. What are ASP, PHP, Ruby, etc? How do I choose the right one from them? Other than ASP and PHP, there is JavaScript and other languages under the same belt. What are they used for?   2. Hosting. When I am choosing the host, what considerations do I have to keep in mind? What support do I need from them (other than getting some important space obviously)?   3. I am considering of making the website in Ruby on Rails. I don't know about PHP and what effect it would have if I choose Ruby over PHP. I thought about Ruby just because its new and I don't want to learn some thing "not new"! Moreover, what is a framework and how does a framework effect my development process? These three questions are just to explain my "confusion" better. There is obviously a lot more to it. Just to try to answer how the flow of website development goes keeping in mind my questions!


Artists and music - Need Help Deciding on a CMS

A friend has asked me to build a site with the following options:   * staff members must be able to add new music and artists to the page   * a gallery must be provided - it is also good if each artist has the ability to have his/her own smaller gallery   * users must be able to vote for artists   * users must be able to alter in discussions (forums or comments sections)   * staff members must be able to blog   * staff members must be able to write articles I did a small project where i actually implemented all of these features, but I want to use an existing content management system for all of these features so that future developers can, hopefully, more easy extend the website. And also, so that I don't have to provide too much documentation. I have never developed a website using an external CMS like Drupal or Wordpress and after seeing hours of tutorial videos of both systems, I still can't make up my mind on whether i should : a) use Drupal 7 b) use Wordpress 3 c) create my own cms I can imagine that staff members would also want to create content using iPhone or android based mobile devices, but this is not a required feature. Can someone, with experience, please tell me about their experiences with larger projects like this? The site will have approximately 400 000 - 500 000 visitors (not daily visitors, based on numbers from last year in a period of 4 months)


Remove www from HTTPS request in Nginx

I have the following code:               server {     listen 443;     server_name www.domain.com;          ssl on;     ssl_certificate    /etc/nginx/ssl/domain.com.crt;     ssl_certificate_key    /etc/nginx/ssl/domain.com.key;          return 301 https://domain.com$request_uri;     }      If I access `https://domain.com` everything works, if I access `https://www.domain.com` I get a SSL warning that the Certificate does not match the domain, which it doesn't. Once you accept the invalid SSL cert it redirects you to `https://domain.com` with the valid cert. But if I remove the `ssl on;` bit etc, then neither `https://domain.com` or `https://www.domain.com` work. So how can I remove the WWW without the SSL Invalid warning? I only have an SSL cert for `domain.com` and not for `www.domain.com`.


Server runs out of space when using cfimage in ColdFusion

I use a hosted ColdFusion server, therefore I have no access to CF Admin, however the server hosts are quite good. I'm using `cffile` to upload images and `cfimage` to re-size them (if the uploaded file is greater than a fixed size). I know the code is working fine. Every so often, the `cffile` (reading to get info and re-sizing) fails with the error message: `cannot find temporary file`. I _think_ that there's a finite amount of "temporary" storage on the ColdFusion server and when it gets filled, then the above code fails. Obviously I can't check this. Has anyone seen this error before or knows of a way it can be fixed? It's a ColdFusion 9 server running on a Windows platform.


How to redirect every single visitor to a different directory like hongkiat.com

I had my website on http://rohbits.com but I had to delete it completely and create a new one in http://www.rohbits.com/blog. I have redirected all the traffic that is sent to `rohbits.com` to `www.rohbits.com/blog` but when anyone visit `rohbits.com/blah-blah-blah`, it takes them to a 404 error page provided by the hosting service which in my case is hostgators. I have been searching for a answer for a long time and then one day I visited a blog (`www.hongkiat.com/blog`) who have their blog directory similar to mine and after some research I found out that, `www.hongkiat.com/blog`, was initially `hongkiat.com` and after one year they have shifted it to different directory. Whenever I go to `hongkiat.com`, I get redirected to `www.hongkiat.com/blog` and when I type something like this after the link `hongkiat.com/blah-blah- blah`, it still gets redirected to `www.hongkiat.com/blog`. Someone told me the other day that "This will only work if you have the same post on the new directory" but i don't think that `hongkiat.com` had any post like this one `hongkiat.com/blah-blah-blah`.


What do you think about Google algorithm changes?

What is the best SEO software to analyze websites and make the necessary on- page changes ?


New blog post shows immediately in google search results where as other HTML content takes time, why?

I have a blog which has been active for 3 years. Recently I posted an article and it immediately appeared in google search. Maybe 5 to 10 minutes. A point to note is I was logged into my google account. Maybe google checked my post's when I searched since I am logged in? Yet I logged out and used another browser and searched again with that specific text and it appeared in google search result. How did this happen? However, if I make an article in static HTML and publish, it takes time. (I assume this is the case but I haven't tested much). Yet tested a few cases after updating it in my sitemap xml. How does google search work for a blog and other content?


Share a configuration among different "server" directive

I'm trying to share a variable across different "server" blocks,               http {        set $bad_ua "...";             server {            if ($http_user_agent ~ $bad_ua) {                 ...            }        }     }      But nginx says `set directive not allowed here`, so how am I supposed to share the $bad_ua variable?


Can Googlebot handle robots.txt with a 302 redirect?

In Google Webmaster Tools, I get an error: > Google couldn't crawl your site because we were unable to access your site's > robots.txt file The associated help says: > If your robots.txt file exists but is unreachable (in other words, if it > doesn’t return a 200 or 404 HTTP status code), we’ll postpone our crawl > rather than risk crawling disallowed URLs My site 302 redirects all http traffic to HTTPS - so access to `http://blah/robots.txt` is 302 redirected to `https://blah/robots.txt`, so literally it doesn't return 200 or 404 as requested above. My question - does Googlebot object to the 302 redirect when it attempts to access the _robots.txt_ file? Note: a lot of the server configuration is out of my control, and is configured this way due to corporate IT. I'm just the poor guy who needs to get this working in spite of the constraints.


How to set "twitter:player" URL in Twitter player card?

I am trying to design Twitter player cards for my podcast episodes, which are hosted on a Wordpress site. I am confused about what is supposed to go in this section:               <meta name="twitter:player" content=""> The only information I can find from Twitter about this field is that it is an: "HTTPS URL to iframe player. This must be a HTTPS URL which does not generate mixed content warnings in a web browser. Required." So how does one know what URL to use? Are there free players available that anyone can link to in their Twitter card? Should the player be self-hosted? My site uses the Podlove Web Player to play episodes of my podcast (example post here). I'd prefer to use that player since I've already got it set up for each of my episodes, but I don't know enough about this whole Twitter card thing to know if that is possible. Thanks for any tips!


How to get statistics and reporting on alternate domain names that you own?

I own several variations on my domain name that all 301 redirect to the main site. The problem is that I have very little visibility into how often these are actually used. How do I set up some sort of reporting on these to know how often users type them in or link to them? I haven't found a way to get this information out of Google Analytics, nor have I found any sort of reporting from GoDaddy where these redirects are currently hosted.


Tracking user who register and paid in a site

We'd like to know which traffic sources converts the best on our site. My problem is that i can't set up a single goal (payment succeeded), because users should have register first. Because we have a free plan there's a large chance users won't pay after registration but they'll experimenting with the app. Is it possible to track back which original referral sources converts the most in this scenario in Google Analytics?


May site A or B get banned/penalized if from site A I use window.open to site B?

As many advertising systems open popups, I was wondering what if from my site A I make (randomly, I mean not every time) a `window.open(B)`? Could one of the sites get banned?


Best approach to creating self-updating content - i.e. chat rooms, shoutboxes and so on

The only way I can think of to have a shoutbox or similar element update itself when somebody posts a new 'shout' and it needs to be loaded in everyone else's browsers is to have Javascript check every x seconds for any updates... This could get a bit resource intensive though I expect if many people were to leave their browsers open on the page, idling. Is this the only way or am I missing something? I've prefer to stick to only html, css, javascript (AJAX) and php.


If a user uploads copyrighted material to my site but for personal use is it legal?

I am creating a personal cloud service, each account is only for use by the owner. You can upload any file and view / play it in the browser, e.g. documents, music and videos. Now obviously someone's going to upload their music library, which is fine by me, but is it breaching copyright? The only person who has access to the material would be the account owner, the material is not publicly accessible. So is it legal for someone to upload their iTunes library onto my servers? Would it be the same for their films?


Command-line website screenshot tool

I want a command-line website screenshot tool so I can check the status/appearance of various websites. If possible, I'd want a tool that works on GNU/Linux and can be automated.


How to prevent Google Website Optimizer from making Google Analytics spike Direct Traffic and lower Bounce Rate?

I am using Google Website Optimizer (GWO) and Google Analytics. Whenever a person (Google Website Optimizer) does a javascript redirect, Google Analytics will change the referrer. When the referrer changes, the traffic source becomes yourself and is changed to Direct Traffic. For Example: A visitor goes to google: searches for my great service. Clicks the link that goes to website page: /home/ At this point, Google Analytics tracks the referrer as Google. However, /home/ has a GWO javacript redirect to a battery of A/B tests. /home-1/ or /home-2/ or /home-3/ When the redirect from /home/ occurs to /home-1/, google analytics on the /home-1/ page now thinks the referrer is yourself and converts the referrer to Direct Traffic since the Direct Traffic bucket is the unknown. I'm really surprised that GWO and GA do this when they both come from google. Now, How does one fix this to prevent the overwrite of the referrer using GWO?


I just accepted a "come back to us" type offer $100 Adwords Credit - Now 80% of my Adsense Ads are for Google Adwords

I don't know if this is related, and I haven't been able to find any information on it anywhere. I just accepted a $100 Adwords credit offer from Google. Shortly after I did that, roughly 80% of the ads I have placed on my site are ads for Google Adwords. Completely irrelevant to my site and its content. Is it possible the two are related? My sites have been displaying relevant content for years now, why the change? Any feedback on this would be appreciated... Thanks


Speeding up website"speed"?

We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on one of our websites (who doesn't?). One of the thing that strikes us is the "page speed" tab. It shows that our website takes on average 5.69 seconds to load over the last 30 days. This is clearly way too slow, and we want to make that much faster. We are a PHP and Apache site, but we use Google's Site Optimizer module for Apache. The content itself. With `ab`, I find that it takes on average 150ms to serve each and every document, also, a single document is loaded with 5 calls (1 CSS, 1 JS and 2 images). However, these assets should obviously be cached after the first request. When I look at the "Network" tab in Google Chrome, I find that my site is slow mostly due to adsense, analytics, Google+, doubleclick... or even Facebook (we show a widget). These should obviously not be counted in the "load time" for our page, because these are not part of the content. The site is Jobetudiant and you can access a version of it with no extra JS calls by adding `noext&nopub` to any URL. What would you do to optimize the load and rendering times?


How do I make images smaller without making them darker?

OK - my manager hit me with this one today, and I need a reality check. She asked me to color-correct an image because, "images get darker in Photoshop when you make them smaller." I've never seen anything that would lead me to that conclusion - and I've been with Photoshop since version 3 (still having difficulty fully trusting multiple undo's, by the way). Is one of us crazy? And if it's me, in what way do you best compensate for the change? Levels?


Google Analytics in Joomla

I was asked by a client to insert the Google Analytics code in his joomla page. No problem, I said, peace of cake. Little did I know that it is going to be such a struggle. First of all, I downloaded the active template and searched through code and couldn't find any HTML except about 20 `index.html` pages with only: `<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></body></html>`. Now I tired editing through Joomla and when the _index_ page opens and I click edit the HTML, it's all PHP.               defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );          require_once('layouts/GKTemplate.php');          $Template = new GKTemplate($this);          if($Template->settings["ie6info"] && $Template->IE6Detection())     {      $Template->loadSkeleton("ie6");     }     else     {      $Template->loadBlock("gk_wrapper");     }      I'm not too good with PHP, I'm more of a Asp.net kinda guy, so I don't understand this code, but where is the `<head>` tag in which I'm supposed to insert the Google Analytics code snippet?


IIS Dynamic IP Restrictions Module and Googlebot

I consider using IIS Dynamic IP Restrictions Module in order to make it hard for DoS (Denial of Service) attacks. But I am not sure how that would work out for search engine bots like Googlebot. Any idea?


Blogger template shows single column when signed in

I am hosting my blog on blogger.com using a custom domain. I am using one of the standard templates (Watermark) with a few extra widgets. It looks perfectly on all major browsers. However, the moment I log in to my google account my blog shows up as a single column. Right column is appended below the left column. I have not noticed any other major change. Good thing is this is only visible to me (hopefully). But it bothers me. Does anybody know what might cause this?


Do videos bring more traffic than backlinks in general?

Yesterday, I had a conversion with a friend who was implementing SEO techniques on his websites a couple of years ago. He also stopped this activity since then. He claims that relevant YouTube videos are bringing more traffic than relevant backlinks, in general. Is this (still) true? I am a bit puzzled about his statement, because I don't see that many people mentioning relevant video's as a valid strategy to get traffic. Does anyone have experience to share about this? Thanks!


Google authorship information, for a whole website?

To make Google Authorship Information work, you should follow some steps one of which is to login to your Google profile, and add the links of the articles you've contributed to. This is a good step, as much as you are only a contributor of few articles, or you've contributed to articles across many websites, and many domains. But if you are the owner of a website, and you have large number of articles (say 100 articles and more for example), then it gets tediuse and uncomfortable task to add each article's URL to your Google Profile. Does Google has a feature to tell it that you own a website, so that it knows that the author of each article on that website is you?


Domain recovery prevention

I'm in a situation where I've done a website for a client and the year is up and their annual renewal is due. They've decided they don't want to renew with me, which I don't have a problem with and that they would like to go elsewhere. The trouble is, they owe for the updates and changes they've had throughout the year to which they agreed to pay at the end of the year when we began working together. They want me to change the IPS tag (it's a .co.uk domain) to their new providers registrar so they can take control of the domain but given that I know the kind of people they are, I don't want to release the domain until all accounts are paid up to date (reasonable, right? If they intend to pay they wouldn't have a problem with this, surely?). I know the company that they want to swap to and have had bad experiences with them in the past. I fear that they will somehow forcefully try to take hold of the domain, leaving me with absolutely no leverage to get the money I'm owed. As I understand it, unless a domain is preventing a business from _doing_ business or damaging the company's name, it can't be touched - or am I wrong? I will not disable the email account associated with the domain, but I may well replace the site (it's a very generic domain) with a small site with content based on the keywords in the domain, so that can no way be construed as damaging, correct? Is there anything else I can do here to stop any potential forceful takeovers of the domain? I'm not asking for legal advice, just exactly what I can do to prevent being conned by this client.


'passing juice' in internal and external links and text to html ratio

Couple of questions about SEO:   * Is there any evidence to support the idea that 'passing juice' is a bad thing for internal and external web links?   * Equally is there any evidence to support the idea that text to HTML ratio, particularly on homepages is considered when ranking. It has always appeared to me that these are myths.


UFW Log Question

Can someone tell me exactly what this UFW log reads? What is LEN, SPT, DPT? I'm getting maybe 30 lines of logs like this per day. Is this normal?               Aug 27 11:45:44 tehnika kernel: [18508.939504] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=04:01:21:79:aa:01:28:8a:1c:64:cb:f0:08:00 SRC=116.10.191.233 DST=188.226.235.21 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=107 ID=256 PROTO=TCP SPT=6000 DPT=22 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0


Web hosting announced downtime and how it affects FORWARD domain names?

Our web hosting provider that holds our FORWARD domain names announced that at some point in the next couple weeks they will be migrating servers and that this will cause a 5-10 minute downtime at some point in that week during what happens to be our core business hours. They cite for technical reasons it is impossible to give an exact date or time when this downtime will occur. My questions are:   1. If my domains are set to FORWARD to a static IP on servers not hosted by the web hosting provider in question then will this affect the DNS servers correctly routing to my website?   2. Are their legitimate technical reasons for such a wide window of time, or could this just be a blanket statement to cover laziness in not being more organized with their server migrations?   3. Are such downtimes normal for web hosting providers, or should I start to consider other providers?


Point naked URL to www in cPanel

Simply I am trying to do this: When a person types `myurl.com` it will convert into `www.myurl.com` and when person types `www.myurl.com` it stays `www.myurl.com` (mainly I want to do this for search engine optimization, so Google doesn't think I have 2 domains, naked and with www.) I am pointing DNS from Netfirms to my website hosted at another hosting company that uses Litespeed on Linux instead of Apache. Control panel is cPanel and I have access to DNS management on server through it. As I know it has something to do with A records, and that's how much I know. Please be specific if you're going to answer.


mod_rewrite problems - redirect subdomain to different domain

I must have a brain freeze as I can not get my rewrite rules working.               RewriteEngine On          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^otherdomain\.example\.com [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.otherdomain.com/ [R=permanent,L]          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/otherdomain [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.otherdomain.com/ [R=permanent,L]      What I want is essential to redirect otherdomain.example.com and example.com/otherdomain to otherdomain.com


How to remove MediaWiki Sidebar with Vector skin?

Adding               #p-navigation, #p-tb h5, #p-tb .pBody { display:none }      to `MediaWiki:Common.css` removes the toolbox. I would also like to remove the Sidebar menu which contains               What links here     Related changes     Upload file     Special pages     Printable version     Permanent link      **Question** Does anyone know how to remove this, when using the new Vector skin in MediaWiki 0.1.18?


How to save a forum that is losing activity?

With the rise of sites like Reddit, Stack Exchange, etc. the bulletin board has slowly decreased in activity. I run a nonprofit security, ethical hacking and programming forum that was once very active, but recently I have had bad downtime (which is fixed) but it has really taken a toll on activity. Is there any way I can get my forum active again?


Softonic provides software without permission

Softonic.com put a software of mine for download up on their website and servers without my permission. I told them to took it down but they not reacting. Did this happen to someone else too? How did you handle it?


IIS host computer vs network computer 403 forbidden

I have an unusual problem with my web app. The web application runs nicely on the host computer with no problems. The problem comes in when a network computer access the web app. Here the website will load and work properly. But when the user tries to refresh (Ctrl+R or F5 or Ctrl+SHift+R[refresh cache]) the page, he gets several 403 forbidden access errors for JS/CSS/image files but he wont get any 403 forbidden access errors when he follow s(clicks) the link to the page. The web app is set up with IIS on Windows XP, with PHP 5 and MYSQL 5.5. I have tried with several different computers and have recreated the problem in all of them. The browser is FF 9.0.1 on all the computers and all are Windows XP.


Is this SPF record correct?

I need to set up a SPF record to allow an alternative IP address to send our newsletter emails. The main IP hosting the site still needs to be allowed to send email also. Would the following work?               v=spf1 mx ip4:_MAINSITE_ mx:mail._MAINSITEDOMAIN_ ip4:_ALTIP_ -all


How do I stop my vBulletin forum from having unregistered guests spamming it?

It seems my vbulletin forum is still having problems with unregistered guests spamming threads and members Inbox on the forum. Do you have a solution for this?


domain name hijacked by my hosting provider with dubious invoicing practice

Over 12 months ago I purchased a domain name and hosting package from a hosting company. Before the 12 months was up i was sent a single invoice for the same amount as I had paid for the preceding 12 months, which I paid, 1 week before it was due to expire. I received a confirmation email receipt from the hosting company for this. I then received another email from the same hosting company, a few days before the due date, informing me the domain was due to expire, if i did not renew the domain name. I immediately replied to this email asking if they had somehow messed up my payment or renewal. i copied back the email they had sent me, clearly telling me they had processed my card etc. I did not get a reply to this. a few days later, my domain started showing obnoxious advertisements, and implying i had not paid to renew my domain name. at this point i go onto their online help and opened up a chat session, where i was told that the invoice i had paid was for hosting and not for the domain name itself. i was asked if i would like to be invoiced for the domain name also? frustrated and angry (what use is a hosting package that nobody can reach?), i paid the extra $12 and was told the domain would be renewed with 24 hours. this was over a month ago. my domain still redirects to a website that shows obnoxious ads. i have been constantly told by the hosting company that a) they HAVE received my payments, and b) the domain will be on again "soon". in contradiction to this, i have also received auto generated emails from the same company (the same address in fact) informing me that i have not paid, and my domain will be deleted unless i pay them. here is an example of the sort of email I have received: > Dear xxxxx xxxx, > > We have checked, Invoice 38767 and Invoice 38329 has been paid. > > We request you to ignore the e-mails you have received, as they are auto > generated. > > Please feel free to contact us back in case of any further information. > > Thank you, xxxx xxxx, Support Department xxxx Inc. the last response i had from them was this: > Dear xxxx xxxx, > > We do apologize for the delay caused to you. > > Actually, we are having an issue at our domain registrar, hence the domains > do not get renewed automatically and need to be done manually, so it is > taking time for Domain renewal. > > There is no ETA but it can be estimated to be renewed in next sometime. > > Till then you may access the domain using Temporary Webpage URL : > http://0.0.0.0/$sitepreview/mydomain.com/ > > Please feel free to contact us back in case of any further information. > > Thank you, xxxx xxxx, Support Department xxxx Inc. In the mean time I can not use my website. What can I do to recover from this? I get the impression that they are stalling for time so the domain can be deleted, and another customer can swoop in and buy it. What is puzzling to me is they plainly acknowledge I have paid and imply the problem is out of their control, and yet when i look at the source to the page, it appears to me that they are hosting the page on their servers. it does embed a frame that contains google ads, but the actual parent html frame has a link to renew the domain, which is clearly hosted by them. how can i deal with this? for one, i was tricked into not paying the domain renewal - the initial invoice did not say it was for either for hosting or domain name registration, but that it was for "www.insertdomainhere.com". it was for the same dollar value that i paid for 12 months domain and hosting previously, which is the same dollar value the currently promote for new signups. how was i supposed to know that by paying the invoice, i would not have the domain renewed? is this sort of thing common? i have not mentioned the hosting company at this point, i may do so if enough people respond telling me this sort of thing has happened to them. basically, need to find out if this is me being singled out, in which case going public will not help me resolve it with them. if it is a common occurrence, i will name the company take it from there. is this the sort of thing a class action against a company that is clearly ripping off it's customers could bring them to their knees?


Tracking down memory issues affecting a website

I've got a website (Wordpress based) that became unresponsive. I SSH'd into the server and saw that we were out of memory. Errors in my apache log files indicated the same... things failing to be allocated due to lack of memory). Restarting the server fixes it. So I look in access.log and error.log around the time of the incident but I see nothing strange. No extra traffic, no unusual requests. In fact the only request around the time of the problem was one from Googlebot for an rss feed... at that point I start to see 500 response codes in the logs until the machine was rebooted. I look in message.log hoping to see something but there is nothing at all for that entire day (which is odd as there are entries for every other day). The site has a large amount of memory allocated to it and normally runs using about 30% of what is available. My question... how would you go about trying to track this down at this point? What are some other log files I could check or strategies I could take?


What is the best currency API out there?

I may be asking an odd question, but webmasters seem like a decent place to post this. I'm in the search for an accurate, easy API (such as using JSON or XML) so I can use my web application. I've been trying Google's _secret_ API, but it's dependency isn't that good because of parsing the string (weird JSON format that PHP sometimes return incorrect data or truncates the string due to parsing error, but Google's API is fair but can be improved. So, all I'm asking is your current best currency API out there, I want to have them to include documented API so I can use it with PHP. Cheers.


Synonyms and SEO

I have a dynamically generated PHP web page where I change randomly the page `<title>` and `<h1>` by synonyms. Will search engines index the page for all or just for one synonym? Is it good option in terms of SEO?


Editable block: CMS or PHP script?

I'm designing a Website for a restaurant. The site will be fairly static except for a 'specials' block which the client will need to update on a daily basis. I'm more of a designer/front-end developer so I was wondering if I was better off trying to make a block editable in PHP (a language I hardly ever deal with) or just create the website in a user-friendly CMS such as Wordpress (which I have some experience with) or Expression Engine (which I have no experience with but I'm told is a favorite in the design community)... certainly not Drupal, because even though I have theming experience with it, I think it would be a little overkill for just one editable block in a five-page site. I'm leaning towards an easy to use CMS because I'm really just not comfortable writing my own PHP especially since I guess a PHP solution would also require an authentication solution so only the client could get in to edit their info. Any insight would be appreciated!


Leveraging a hosted web font service from a local development server?

There are a number of popular web font services on the market today who "host" the fonts and serve them to your web page via javascript or CSS pointing to remote locations. For example http://webfonts.fonts.com or http://typekit.com However, there seems to be an issue when you're developing on a local testing server - the remote font services don't validate the font and return 403 access denied errors and the like. What workarounds are there for using remote services such as a hosted font service, on a local development server?


Show count of users returning to homepage from within site in Google Analytics

Can anyone advise if the following is even possible using Google Analytics? I need to show the number of users who enter the site (on any page) but then return up the hierarchy to the home page (either immediately or after visiting other pages). The requirement is because we've recently had our web site redesigned, but we think the navigation is confusing, and that users are "exiting" the structure to start their search again for their required product/service. We need concrete numbers facts to support this suspicion! The closest I can get is via `Audience > User Flow` then manually add up how many times the `/` page is shown on each interaction (after `Starting Pages`, e.g. `2nd Interaction` plus `3rd Interaction`, but its a painfully slow process.


Changing from parameter to readable URLs 301 redirect

I've recently changed my URLs with parameters to more readable URLs with the following _.htaccess_ :               RewriteRule ^page/([A-Za-z0-9-+_\s]+)$ /index.php?n=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^category/([A-Za-z0-9-+_\s]+)/([0-9]+)$ /index.php?p=$1&b=$2 [L]      I believe this poses problems now with duplicate content on the search engines, as `index.php` URLs and `domain.com/page/` URLs will both be indexed. If calls made to `domain.com/page/1` get redirected to `index.php?n=1` how can I redirect requests made to `index.php` to `domain.com/page/` ? My attempt to do so is giving me a 404 code sending me to domain2.               #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^n=([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ [NC]     #RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://domain.com/page/? [R=301,L]         **.htaccess:**               IndexIgnore *     ErrorDocument 404 http://domain2.com               #REDIRECTS     Redirect 301 /keyword.php http://domain.com     Redirect 301 /inc/keyword.php http://domain.com                         Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteEngine on          #Redirect all pages in a folder to a single URL     RewriteRule ^test/(.*)$ http://domain.com [L,R=301]          # HTTP HOST, escape . and start string with ^     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,NC]                RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=h&m=([A-Za-z]+)&y=([0-9]+)$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://domain.com? [R=301,L]               #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^n=([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ [NC]     #RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://domain.com/page/? [R=301,L]               RewriteRule ^page/([A-Za-z0-9-+_\s]+)$ /index.php?n=$1 [L]          RewriteRule ^category/([A-Za-z0-9-+_\s]+)/([0-9]+)$ /index.php?p=$1&b=$2 [L]


setting up facebook 'insights for your web site' linkdoes not provide fb:admin tag

I've set up a facebook app and am now trying to get the fb:admin tags using the insights page at https://www.facebook.com/insights/. when I click the 'insights for your web site' link the pop up does not give me the metatags that the help pages suggest should appear. As a result of this if I click the 'Get Insights' it throws the error;               No admin data found at root webpage http://www.domain.com/. Insights requires admin data at this root webpage for the specified URL www.domain.com


Google's Opinion on Javascript Page Refresh

I was wondering if anyone knows Google's view on this. My company has a homepage that features a lot of 3rd parties on it and it needs to inform customers which ones are currently online, which aren't, and which are currently busy. Because this constantly changes, we have the homepage refresh to show the most relevant and up-to-date content to our users. I'm not using a meta refresh element in the http-equiv parameter to do this. Instead I have this js element to refresh the page: window.setTimeout("refreshPage()", 120000); I just want to know whether people think Google might consider this a violation of the content guidelines or not. Or if it's not an outright violation, then at least if Google frowns on this or not. It doesn't redirect the user to a different page or anything, just refreshes the page so that they can see the most relevant content.


New domain and submission to search engines

I have registered a new domain with a hosting company. They offer the feature that for each new domain there is an associated placeholder page. Actually it is a "Site not configured page" with some technical text and links to the hosting site. I could:   1. submit its URL to search engines right now   2. remove the page and submit the URL when the site will be online (could be a couple of months)   3. replace the default page with "coming soon" contents and submit the URL   4. opt for simplicity and add a blank html page having a focused and well descriptive title and maybe some meta tag   5. other? I prefer 4 over 3 because at the moment there aren't precise project details to provide. What's the proper way to notify search engines that soon this site will be online, without getting penalized for side effects I'm not considering or aware of?


Why is my subdomain not returning anything?

I've set up DNS record to test out using virtual hosts prior to moving one of my wordpress installs out of a subdomain. I want to move from mysite.com/blog to blog.mysite.com. I've tested the DNS resolution for blog.mysite.com with ping and I get a response with the correct public IP address.               Pinging blog.mysite.com [x.xxx.xx.xx] with 32 bytes of data:     Reply from x.xxx.xx.xx: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=62     Reply from x.xxx.xx.xx: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=62     Reply from x.xxx.xx.xx: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=62     Reply from x.xxx.xx.xx: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=62          Ping statistics for x.xxx.xx.xx:         Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),     Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:         Minimum = 52ms, Maximum = 60ms, Average = 55ms      But trying to connect using Chrome I get:               Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to vhosts.youngbullindustries.com      And through telnet:               telnet blog.mysite.com 80     Connecting To blog.mysite.com...Could not open connection to     the host, on port 80: Connect failed      I've tried to tail /apache2/access.log but nothing shows up when I make a request (the level is set to `debug`). I was expecting to see something here but there's nothing at all. What could be going wrong and what should I try next to diagnose the problem? Edited to add: The server is running Raspbian, so Debian-style Apache 2. vhosts file, `/etc/apache2/sites-available/blog` looks like:               <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost         ServerName www.blog.mysite.com             ServerAlias blog.mysite.com         DocumentRoot /var/www/blog         <Directory />             Options FollowSymLinks             AllowOverride All         </Directory>         <Directory /var/www/>             Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews             AllowOverride All             Order allow,deny             allow from all         </Directory>              ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/         <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">             AllowOverride None             Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch             Order allow,deny             Allow from all         </Directory>              ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log              # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,         # alert, emerg.         LogLevel debug              CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined     </VirtualHost>      There's also an .htaccess file in /var/www/blog/.htaccess:               # BEGIN WordPress      <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>      RewriteEngine On      RewriteBase /blog/      RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d      RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]      </IfModule>           # END WordPress


Should I combine js/css files into a single file?

Both YSlow and Google's Page Speed add-ons recommend combining script (and style) files into a single file each to reduce the number of HTTP requests, and I can certainly see the point of this when the script files are consistent across the entire site, but for a web application that has different requirements across the site. The way I see it there are a few options:   1. Combine all of the files that are used across the site, and every page gets the same combined file - the downside is unused content cluttering the script (and a heavier first load (also reload when any component script changes))   2. Combine the files on a per page basis - the downside is each page with different requirements gets a different combined file (heavier first load for each page type)   3. Ignore the strict 'one file only' interpretation of the recommendations and have the page load in multiple files as appropriate, with caching hopefully negating the number of HTTP requests in the general case - downside is the number of HTTP requests on each page  Thoughts?


Ubuntu server MySQL remote access from MySQL Workbench

I have a newly install Ubuntu installed the MySQL server. After the basic config:   * I changed the _my.cnf_ file and commented out the `bind_address`   * I can start the server and added iptable for `3306`.   * I also added the privileges to MySQL server as follow:      * `GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%'`     * `IDENTIFIED BY 'P@ssw0rd' WITH GRANT OPTION;`     * `FLUSH PRIVILEGES;`     * `exit` However, after I connected from the MySQL workbench, it shows no database. But it seems that have login. Anyone have faced that or can help me?


Web hosts for controversial (yet legal) content

A lot of web hosts will take down a site at the first hint of trouble. What sites can I use to host controversial (yet legal) content? (Examples of such content might be a whistleblower site or an opinionated blog. Examples of things which this question would not cover would be jihad sites, child molester sites, piratebay-style bittorrent sites, etc.)


Google analytics Real time continously showing visitors from one location

I have two sites about tablet pc.   In "Real-Time" option in Google analytics, both sites at any movement of time shows active visitors from **Putney** which is located in UK. One the site is mytabletguru.com. What I found odd is that both the sites is meant for the Indian audience as both have details about the tablet that are available in India. Is this normal? ![Screenshots of Real Time](http://i.stack.imgur.com/LOSdV.png)


How can I prevent Google mistakenly offering to translate a page?

Several of my site's pages are appearing in search results with `[Translate this page]` next to it. When I click that it takes me to Google Translate and translates my page "from Catalan to English". The pages are in English but have a couple of foreign words (actually Japanese romanisations, not Catalan) that appear to be tripping Google up. A few weeks ago I set the html tag to `<html lang="en">` which from research appears to be the best method to specify the language of a document. Google has cached the pages with this attribute but it is still offering to translate. More research led me to a "notranslate" attribute which prevents translation entirely: `<html lang="en" class="notranslate">`. The problem now is users cannot translate from English to their desired language! Are there any other solutions that force Google to parse my site as English only?


Can not get rid of duplicated title tags

As I said in title, I can not get rid of duplicated titles, indexed by Google and reported in Google Webmaster tools. Links that gives me problems are like:               http://www.example.com/send-gifts/e6/     http://www.example.com/send-gifts/E6/      I tried by adding canonical meta tag, but it's still reported as duplicated. My canonical tag looks like:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/send-gifts/e6/">      Can you tell me What can I do to get rid of that?


SEO for websites with very less content and a lot of images

Let's say we have an image exhibition website that has got a lot of images but next to nothing content. The focus keyword for this website is "Artistic wallpapers". What would be the best approach w.r.t SEO for such a website. Here are a few things I can imagine:   * Submitting sitemaps ( image and web )   * Having a good pagespeed score.   * Nice navigation   * Breadcrumbs   * sharing the website content on Social media.   * Having appropriate titles. Having worked on all these things, what can be done if Search engines are picking wrong keywords ( For example views, votes, ratings) Can anything be done so that Search engines don't track these specific items? Also, is it a good practice to have all the pages submitted to Search engines at once?


Should I redirect desktop users visiting mobile page to desktop version?

So I am redirecting mobile users to mobile version of the page and also have alternate attrubute set up for that:               <link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="http://m.site.com/" >      What about the opposite case? When user from desktop computer visits mobile version of the page. Should I redirect him back to desktop version?


Is there a point to redirecting our collection of purchased domains?

We have 200+ domain names that we have purchased to prevent them from being poached and misused. These additional domains are not indexed, crawled or linked to. Is there a point to actually setting them up as redirects to our primary site? I am of the opinion that the only reason to redirect is if there is some chance a visitor might type it in by hand because they can't remember our URL. Am I missing something?


How to combine pages authority into one page?

I have several pages about an entity. To illustrate, an example:   * John Smith Overview   * John Smith Places He Grew Up In   * John Smith Companies he worked for   * John Smith His HighSchool Friends Currently all are accessible to search engines. I'm thinking about removing all the pages as far as search engines are concerned and focus all of the SE traffic on the main Overview Page while keeping this page distribution for users. In order to do that I was thinking about doing a 301 redirect from all pages about 'John Smith' to his Overview page. The content itself will be available to users in a new url that will be blocked through robots.txt. The idea is to focus all current SEO power into one page and that way rank higher for the search term 'John Smith'. Is that a good idea? Is there a different way to combines pages authority into one main page?


Website for a directory listing of taxi services?

I'm trying to build a self-listing website around a taxi service domain name that I have. I am looking for a simple script / program that allows users to register, put up details about their taxi service - where they operate, what their contact numbers are, etc. I'm not looking for a sophisticated program - bares bones is perfect.


How to link subdomains to main domain to get SEO benefit

How can I link subdomains to my main domain to get the SEO benefit? I've seen examples using all sorts of clever redirects and PHP where you get the subdomain's content on the main site...but what I want is for the subdomain to be linked with the main domain; I don't mind it sitting by itself, but I'd just like to get the SEO benefit of it. I'm aware that Google see subdomains as separate domains but can change / help them to be seen more as one site?


Block images on Russian domain .ru via htaccess?

I have a WordPress website which accepts anonymous comments and images. We are receiving spam in the form of Russian porn, with images hotlinked from websites on the Russian domain .ru As we are unlikely to ever need to legitimately link to a Russian picture, I thought the easiest way to not have to look at this in the spam folder would be to use .htaccess to redirect any image on an .ru domain to something that doesn't exist. Is this possible? What would I need to add to my .htaccess?


I'm building you a website. How can I make it easy to transfer ownership?

I just completed my first web development course. I know HTML and CSS basics and an ounce of JavaScript. Still, this is enough to build websites for people. But they will want to be able to edit the content. When their addresses change and their portfolios grow, updates will have to be made. How can I easily transfer ownership of a web property?


How should I study a competitor's off page SEO?

What are the things I need to do, and with what tools to know what a competitor has working for him/her **off-page** (free and paid tools -- please suggest both)? First of all, I'm supposing I want to see all of the sites linking in and see what anchor text is used. Is there something that would report on the anchor text linking in, such as counting the keyword phrases used as anchor text? Also, it would be helpful to see where the PR is coming from by PR, such as, listing inbound links by PR of the page linking in. Lastly, if I'm missing something, here in the way of off-page attributes, please say so.


Sitemap XML version vs simple text (urls list) version, do you know what are the pros?

I usualy submit simple text urls list as sitemap on Google webmaster tools. It's just a matter of simplicity, a simple text file is lightweight, easier to read also for humans (actually for me). :) What's the cath then in submitting an XML sitemap? Any pros you found out in your experince? Thanks,


Contact details on a mobile site

On the mobile version of a site I am working on I would like the user to be able to download a contact card straight into their address book. Is this possible with microformats (or anything for that matter) and which phone browsers / phones support what? I have spent some time researching the issue and haven't come up with anything conclusive.


Validating sitemap with Yahoo Explorer

I have a sitemap index on my website, which I successfully validated with "Google webmasters tools". The declarations at the top are:                  <sitemapindex xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"              xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/siteindex.xsd"              xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">       This index lists 2 sitemaps . One of them contains "images" tags after using the `http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1` schema declaration. When submitting this sitemap index to Yahoo explorer, I get error:               ERROR: FF_30000 “Not an accepted feed format file. Please consult the documentaiton for supported file formats.”      Any ideas? Joel


How can I turn on compression for my IIS 7 web sites?

I am using IIS7 and trying to optimize as much as possible. I had one suggestion about compression but I am not sure how to turn this on. I am familiar with making changes to Web.Config but not sure about making IIS7 changes. What makes it more difficult is that I am using Windows Azure where new images are created every time I publish. Can someone explain if there's more than one way to turn on compression and how I can do it.


Anywhere to get a free .me domain?

is there anywhere I can get a **free** .me domain name?


which among these is good according to url optimization for search engine - google? Keyword - **hot jobs in paris** paris.hotjobsin.com hotjobsin.com/hotjobs/paris hotjobsin.com/paris/hot-jobs-in-paris.html hotjobsin.com/hot-jobs-in-paris.com paris.hotjobsin.com/hot-jobs-in-paris.com **Any thoughts.**


Clarify "canonical" word: Can someone please list the various uses of this word in SEO context, and point out correct or incorrect uses of it?

I think the authoritative use of the word "canonical" in the SEO discipline dates back to this 2006 blog post by Matt Cuts on cononicalization: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/ Personally, I recall the first use of the word in referring to penalizing sites that were buying up many keyword stuffed URLs and pointing them all to the same site, aka "Canonical URLs." My curiosity caused me to discover that there are math and science uses of the word, AND that the term CNAME in DNS means "canonical name." At this point, and on this website in particular, I see that word tossed around so frequently and I suspect some of the uses of it are technically wrong, or that some of its uses could better be served with a different word or phrase. But I could be wrong about this, fueled by my less-than-complete understanding of what canonical means in all of its SEO contexts. So, then,   * **what are the correct uses for the word canonical (in SEO context)?** And, if my suspicions are correct,   * **what are some of the common mis-uses of the word,**   * **and what should be used in its place?**


Does anyone know any good resources for learning how to market a web app?

I'm a developer first and foremost. **I write web apps but have a hard time generating traffic and converting potential users** once I've released my product into the wild. I know I need to learn more about marketing but I don't know where to start as I've no baseline to judge the quality of the materials I stumble across. **Does anyone know any websites, blogs, e-books or other resources for learning how to market effectively?**


How to check if person doesn't have multiple account?

I have two users in my website with the same IP. I asked them or him, idk, why does he have 2 accounts. He said that other account is owned by his roommate. His roommate uses other computer in my website. So, my question. How can I detect whether he lies or tells truth? I can check if both browsers the same or not. What else? Thank you.


How to add iframe to vbulletin?

I want users to be able to embed to iframe videos, no matter from which site. Currently when you do that, the system seems to strip the iframe. I am wondering how to enable posting iframe. I also I'd like to know whether there are any risks in embeding iframes that justified limiting the ability to certain user groups. Thanks


@ or (at) in contact forms?

I have was wondering if it is better to use @ or at in contact form when I'm displaying emails, I've seen in many websites that when they display a email, it looks like this name(at)email.com but it links to name @email.com, I've been told that this is made because Google could take this as Spam. ¿Is it true?


Directory template for Wordpress - Free or Paid

I'm looking for a wordpress template to create a website's directory. Anyone know? The template can be paid or free.


is it google webmaster crawler's fault or a virus?

Last day when i visited google webmaster tools, i found crawler errors for 42 not found pages. all the pages were having "luminous-solutions.net" at last in the URL. Like http://article-stack.com/2010/08/page/luminous-solutions.net I had never written any post which is having this word. For the safety, i had manually searched it on my site using internal and external search facility. I also had searched in source code as well. I had searched in database, newly installed plugins, theme code.... But i found nothing with "luminous-solutions.net" 404 means, some text in contents are pointing to these links. But link doesn't exist. I had manually checked those pages as well. May this fault occurred from google crawler itself or really some virus infected my site?


Which event log file does IIS 7 app pool log to

Which event log files does the IIS 7.0 Application Pool Recycling log to?   I want to check out at what time the default app pool automatically recylces.


301 redirect causing Bingbot to crash, redirection limit reached

Inside my `.htaccess` file, I have the following script:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>        RewriteEngine On        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f        RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]     </IfModule>      Apparently, if I use the `Fetch as Bingbot` function from Bing Webmaster Tools, and I use `HTTP` over `HTTPS`, the redirect does happen, but the message the bingbot returns is:               HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently     Connection: Keep-Alive     Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 22:56:55 GMT     Keep-Alive: timeout=5     Content-Length: 235     Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1     Location: https://hsoto.me/index2.php     Server: Apache mod_fcgid/2.3.10-dev                    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">          <title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
Moved Permanently

The document has moved here.
           And the status message it returns is:               URL:  http://hsoto.me/index2.php     Status:  Redirection limit reached.      Google Webmaster Tools is just about fine, and my page is even found by typing the address of the website at least. This is not the case on Bing. Any idea why this might be happening? Additional information: 1-Hosting this domain with Godaddy 2-Website has been up for about 4 days. Help would be appreciated! **EDIT**               function detectIElessThan10(){          if(preg_match('/(?i)msie [2-9]/',$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])){             header("Location:https://www.hsoto.me/nosupport");         }      }      That's the PHP code I'm using to redirect. I also found out that the `https` URL on Bing does work, but the `http` doesn't, Bingbot brings the first, the second one, well throws the error previously mentioned.


SMTP Error: Could not open a socket to the SMTP server

I'm not sure how familiar some of you are on Invision Power Board(IPB). However this question someone includes their forum system. We currently host multiple servers with multiple web servers among other servers for various uses. One of which is a web server we setup using iRedMail.com We can login and send/receive email's just fine, however we are trying to setup SMTP for our forum(IPB) to send validation emails, email change requests, newsletters, etc. As of right now, when I try to send a test email through the forum i get the error: "Could not open a socket to the SMTP server (0:)". It seems as if IPB is giving out the error code 0 but it doesn't actually exist. I'm almost positive the information for the server is correct, because it reaches the server and then I'm lost after that. Everything is running on the mail server so I'm not sure why it's unable to open a socket the server.


How I quantify the success of a folksonomy?

**CONCEPTS:** completeness, accuracy, consistency, stability, relevancy **SEMI-RELATE-SUBJECTS:** taxonomy, data quality, indexes, keywords, SEO, SEM **FORMULAS:** ? ? ?


How to reduce the load time on a page with a lot of iframes (social media plugins)

I have an overview page with links to the social media presence of all the teams taking part in a competition. Basically, the page is a big table with, where appropriate, in the cells an iframe with a social media plugin like the Twitter widget or the Facebook button, linking to the account of the team in question. However, the page loads very slowly, because of the look-up time of all these little iframe plugins. Is there a way I can reduce the load time of this page?


Migrating client's 30 email addresses to new email host

I am redesigning a client's website from scratch and consequently they're moving away from their current hosting (which is a reseller hosting plan of the web dev company who set up their current site). The only thing they're keeping is their domain. They also have about 30 email addresses setup through the same hosting company (pop3 incidentally). Downtime is critical, this client is a corporate firm which heavily rely on emailing (via outlook and blackberries mainly). I've set mx & a records before for google apps mail etc. but never anything as critical as this - on occassion I have waited for 48 hours for records to update... Anyone who's attempted this kind of migration before? Any checklist of actions to take for a smooth transition? Also would I need to talk with their current web dev company as part of the migration procedure? Keep in mind I'll need quite a bit of time actually setting up all of the company's email clients as well. Any input would be greatly appreciated, thanks for reading!


My Joomla site hacked

someone hacked into our servers. Not sure when. They have created this folder "/public_html/modules/com_gcalendar" and some files in it. any one of had the same attack? any findings?


Does 301 redirecting all pages in an existing domain exempt a domain from the sandbox period in Google?

I have a domain I use for my blog that had originally been intended for a short lived project. As the domain doesn't really suit for a blog, I have been thinking about changing it. However, some pages on the blog have a fair amount of highly ranked search terms. I know with new domains, there is a sandbox period where Google doesn't rank them really well. I also know as far as PR goes, if a page 301 redirects to another page, Google considers them the same. Does this mean that if I change my domain and 301 redirect all pages from the old domain to the new one, my new domain will have all the search rankings of my old domain? Or will it have to go through the sandbox period again?


Is there a way to take credit cards on my website without needing a merchant account/payment gateway?

I've been looking for a service like this but can't find one -- it boggles my mind that such a thing doesn't exist. The ideal thing I'm looking for would be something like this:   * User fills out a form on my website   * I submit data to the service (cc #, payment amount)   * I get paid perhaps monthly by the service the amounts that were charged (less a fee) This is more or less how accepting paypal for payments works, except it takes my users to paypal's site and forces them to create a paypal account etc, which I'd like to avoid. Does such a service exist?


Is my website is too slow?

I checked the speed of my website with http://tools.pingdom.com/ . **Results:**               Per. Grade = 85/100     Req.s = 18     Load Time = 1.94s     Page Size= 96kb      Is this result is good for my website(also consider SEO)?


Should I add the WWW version of my site to Google Webmaster Tools or Non-WWW or both?

I've found here similar topics but not exactly similar and without satisfying references - I'm going to launch a new domain, I understood it's better to have one pattern - whether www or non-www, so I'll go with WWW, using this .htaccess command:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?!www\.)(.+) [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,NE,L]      Question is - In this case, Do I need to add Only www.domain.com to my sites, or also the non-www.? and If I add both, Do I set in both "use www as my preferred domain"?


Can I change the domain associated with my hosting if they're both with 123-reg.co.uk?

I've recently been trying to set up a website for the first time for an academic project. We bought 4 domains from 123-reg.co.uk:   * primarydomain.com   * secondarydomain1.com   * secondarydomain2.com   * secondarydomain3.com I want all secondary domains to point to the primary domain, which should be easy enough using 301 redirects. We also bought a hosting package at the same time with 123-reg (which appears to have been an unwise choice, based on opinions I've read recently about keeping host and domain provider separate). Unfortunately, this hosting package is erroneously linked to secondarydomain1.com, not to primarydomain.com. I figured that this shouldn't be a problem and that I could just change the domain associated with the hosting. Wrong! > _Domain names associated with a 123-reg hosting package can not be changed > once the hosting package has been purchased. If you require another domain > name to be hosted, you will need to purchase a new hosting package for the > appropriate domain name._ (From 123-reg Support) Then I thought that I could just change the A records (@ and www) for primarydomain.com to point to the IP address of the hosting package (xx.xx.xx.100), while changing the A records of secondarydomain1.com to match those of the other secondary domains (xx.xx.xx.200). Now, I've only changed the A records yesterday, so it may be within the acceptable timeframe for the changes to propagate. I'm unsure, though, since 123-reg specifically states that once a hosting package is purchased, you can't change the associated domain. If all else fails and I really can't change the associated domain, I can always buy cheap webspace elsewhere (any recommendations, by the way?) and point primarydomain.com there, but before I spend more money, I want to be sure that I can't rectify the situation. If anyone has had experience with combined hosting + domain registration with 123-reg, I'd be very grateful for any input. Thanks, Daniel


Should I support facebook login or openid login?

What are the pros and cons of each? Does it make any sense supporting both? Which is easier for users/to implement?


What errors should I create custom pages for besides 404?

I know most sites typically create a custom 404 page. Are there any other custom error pages I should create? Or just watch my logs and see which ones are hit more frequently? **[Edit]**   This is for a PHP web app, not a blog or static html site.


Using Associated Press photos

Not sure if this is the correct SE site to ask the question, but I am kinda unclear on how/if I can use AP photos. There are quite a few sites that use it with a credit underneath it. Is that enough? Do you still need the express written consent they talk about on their site? Does anyone run a site using AP photos? Thanks! ps can't create tags, so someone feel free to correctly tag this


Should users be deleted after inactivity on a website?

When you have a social website or a website where you can register, would you eventually delete them after a certain time (after a year of inactivity) or would you rather keep their account records for ever? I know websites like Facebook have large amount of inactive, duplicated and fake accounts. So I'm wondering if after two years of inactivity it would be alright to send the account a warning email of deletion unless they log in. Just thinking of a clean and efficient database management or any implications this may cause to new potential users.


I'm running my website through the W3C Markup validator(http://validator.w3.org/) and I'm getting the following error: The aria-controls attribute must point to an element in the same document. …"ui-accordion-1-header-2" aria-controls="ui-accordion-1-panel-0" tabindex="0"> I've read through the documentation and I not sure where I'm going wrong. My HTML looks like this:

Link 1

Link 2

      As you can see I have aria-controls="ui-accordion-1-panel-0" and the subsequent tag is id="ui-accordion-1-panel-0". I'm not sure what is causing the errors. Any help appreciated.


Is domain name forwarding subject to "outages?"

Is is my understanding that domain name _forwarding_ is not subject to "outages": servers can have outages, and websites can be down, but the _forwarding_ itself cannot be down, as this is simply a pointer. (Or, the entire registrar where the DNS settings are hosted would have to malfunction. Is this correct?


Total number of unique visitors Google Analytics report not correct?

If I download the numbers of unique visitors per day over a certain period and total them the result doesn't match with the total value in the report. Why? The numbers in the export file agree with the number in the graph of the report. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tY9c1.png)


Remove directory from Google SE results

I was developing a Joomla site in /new/ which was to replace the Mambo site in the root directory. I thought I put a robots file there to stop bots from crawling the new site, but this is not the case. The new site has since been moved into the root directory, and the old site has temporarily been moved into /old/ How do I remove all mention of pages under /new/ from Google's index? I know Google Webmaster Tools allows you to remove individual pages, but I don't know if this applies to individual directories also. Is it quicker to place an .htaccess file in this folder with a catchall 301 redirect to / ? **Update** : I've added individual 301 redirect entries to .htaccess to redirect the old site's pages to the new site's pages, but the old URLs still generate 404 errors. Any ideas why? The format I used was:               Redirect 301 http://www.site.com/old.htm http://www.site.com/new.htm       I added these at the end of the .htaccess file.


.htaccess password protection generates 500 internal server error

I have created a .htpasswd file using htaccess tools of which I have uploaded to the root of my web hosting space (/public_html is my web root). I created a .htaccess file which referenced the .htpasswd as follows:               AuthType Basic     AuthName "Protected Area"     AuthUserFile /.htpasswd     Require valid-user      However when I uploaded this .htaccess file to the directory I want to password protect accessing the folder via the URL in my browser returns a 500 internal server error. I have used this same method before successfully. Am I referencing the .htpasswd incorrectly? I also uploaded it to /public_html/ in case .htaccess interprets / as the web root, but the error remains. Any ideas what is wrong?


Apache .htaccess URL rewriting is not working

I am using this code in _.htaccess_ but the last line not giving any response:               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ user_pro.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$/images image.php?id=$1 [QSA,L] #this line not giving any response


SEO: Product page: categories link structure

I am working on commerce site and we are facing a dilemma that has to do with SEO on product page: if sub-category links should be visible or not in each product page. In detail: We own 8 top categories with lots subcategories in each one and each sub-category owns multiple products. So, my question is: Should the menu of subcategories be visible as they appear in each top category & subcategory or since a product page is supposed to be focused on the product, should the menu be removed? Checking Amazon, Ebay, Etsy and other big commerce sites, they only use the path (breadcrumbs) and they do not show the other subcategories in product pages.


Custom url for tumblr posts

I have a tumblr blog and would like to do the following: 1) How can I make a static main page without posts?   2) Hows can I create posts with a custom URL like **www.myname.tumblr/news/** , instead of **/posts/**?


Using Cloudflare service on new hosting provider

I've changed my hosting provider today and bought a new host from another provider but i have this problem. * * * about my previous host: my previous hosting was also the one that registered my domain. they use resello company for domain registering. i asked them to change my name servers to the ones cloudflare gave me in order to use cloudflrare service. they did that, it worked fine. * * * my new hosting: i purchased a new host and there were some options about domains and i chose the one that was about changing only the DNS settings. so i had to change my domain's name servers to theirs so my domain will point to the new host * * * my problem: the thing is that i want my domain point to the new host, but i also want to use cloudflrare. i tried to change the main A record in cloudflare to point to the new shared address of new host but it didn't work. maybe it needs some time to change in cloudflare?


What is the SKYPE_TOOLBAR meta?

I need to make an audit for a website and I discovered a "new" meta called "SKYPE_TOOLBAR", it looks like that:               <meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE" />       I've never seen that before and I don't manage to find relevant info about it, does someone know what is its use? PS. There is nothing else related to Skype on the website.


Google visits on Statcounter. How?

In my website’s Statcounter report, I found page views from Google. I thought it may be a Google bot’s visit but I found that particular visit comes through a search query (`example.com+keyword`) and it also showing some other details like Browser, OS and Resolution. If it is Google bot then how did those details come from? Does is it Google bot or a human working on Google? See this image: ![Google visits on statcounter](http://i.stack.imgur.com/LSAeo.png)


effect of page speed on ad revenue

I'm thinking of slowing my pageloads a bit, and want to know how much ad revenue will decrease due to the slowness. For ads on a revenue-per-impression (CPM) basis, I have to worry about   * decreased initial traffic ("landings", if you will) and   * an increase in the number of people who leave. The second one -- those who leave -- has been covered. But is there a good, recent study on the decrease in landings? (One thing that affects landings is the fact that Google shows a slower-loading page lower among search results, though general site reputation also depends on page speed and affects landings.) And as to ads on revenue-per-click (CPC) basis: Are there any data on the decrease in clicks when pages are slower-loading? (E.g., on whether those fewer people who stick around on a slower site are those who click more (or less), and to what extent.)


Working with different URL structures

As I'm quite newbie to this field, I've doubts and there are some I couldn't find on Google, i.e: If I'm not wrong, _index.html_ makes it possible to avoid to add the filename to the url, **www.example.com/** is equal to **www.example.com/index.html**. And that works for the following subdirectories, right? **www.example.com/music/**   * Is there any other way to achieve this without using an index.html file? (I've read smth about converting dynamic urls to static: **./?var1=value1 &varN=valueN** -> **./value1/valueN** )   * How can I convert **www.example.com/music/** to **music.example.com/** and why should it be used? Thanks in advance!


Do your 'fetch as google bot' allowances refresh?

in google webmaster tools you can fetch as google bot - which you can do 500 times, and you also have submit to index that you can do 10 times, do these allowances refresh or are they for the life of the site. ie, once you've used them all up thats it ?


Should schema.org structured data for products be used on category pages on an e-commerce site?

I use schema.org structured data markup on all of my product pages. The products are well indexed in Google, and the meta data shows up mostly as expected. My question is a sub-question to the question Is there a problem in having same product with different names in different pages?. Should schema.org markup be used for products on category pages that list products? I was personally under the opinion that structured data for an "item" should be used explicitly for the page that represents that product. That said, I can also understand the idea that having other properly marked up data pointing to the same URI as the product as also being beneficial. So, should products on listing pages be using scheme.org meta data, or not?


Where has my LIKE button gone?

My LIKE button was working for quite some time. It did have an issue whereby it would not show up on the initial pageload, but it did show upon refresh. Weird, but not a deal breaker. Now, the button is completely gone. I've tried the linter and it is now coming back with an error of " _There were problems uploading "http://www.getitincode.com/images/siteIcon.png" on behalf of your Open Graph page. Here is the full error message our photo server reported: "General Failure: Picture could not be uploaded."_ " Nothing has changed at all on my end and, in fact, the site is able to coast on auto-pilot. Any ideas? The URL in question is www.getitincode.com -- and, if you run the linter and access the graph link at the bottom, you'll find that the page has indeed been shared/liked previously. Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks. John