How do I keep the hash (#) in a URL while using utm query strings in Google Analytics?

I've got a website that uses hash `#` to identify URLs. So URLs might look like: `www.mywebsite.com/somepage.aspx#productname` Obviously, "product name" is important here, and I need it to show up in Google Analytics, and by default, it does - the above URL shows up in GA as: `somepage.aspx#productname` However, the tricky bit comes when I also need to add Google Analytics campaign parameters. They of course need to be added before the hash, so the above URL might need to look like this: `www.mywebsite.com/somepage.aspx?utm_source=source&utm_medium=medium#productname` However, if I do this, the page will just show up in Google Analytics as "somepage.aspx". Is there a way to make it so that even when using campaign parameters, I can still keep the part of the URL after the hash in the Google Analytics page name?


Why The W3C CSS Validation Service is showing Value Error : font / is not a font-family value : 11px / 14px "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif

I tried to validate my css code using W3C tidy and the w3c website is showing me the error that > Value Error : font / is not a font-family value : 11px / 14px "Trebuchet > MS",sans-serif So what's wrong with it, earlier it was not a code error, I even copied some similar code from professional blogger and tried to validated it in w3c but still I'm getting this error?


Webmaster Tools word count

Is there a way to somehow verify that the Googlebot finds the headings and the content, for example by word count? I'm asking this because I tried a program called Screaming Frog, which fails to even fetch the first `<h1>` on a validated page - for about 1/3 of all the pages(!) - and got insecure. Even though the site looks hunky dory in Webmaster Tools, I'd like to know what a Googlebot-like content crawler finds on my page and in what order. Any tips on such tools is appreciated. This is _not_ about keyword count. I'm mainly interested in the main article text.


Schema.org for Product Reviews

I have a product reviews on a site and I am adding schema.org markup to the reviews. Here is the code I am using:

Text of the review itself.     Author Name, Location of Author

      This is all the reviews are. When I test the page using Google's Structured Data Testing Tool I receive this error:               Error: Incomplete microdata with schema.org.      My question is what data is missing that is required? I don't see which data is required on the Schema.org page for reviews.


Wordpress alternative, modern code base, OOP, MVC

I'm looking for a simple blog (not a huge CMS) application that is similiar to wordpress, just categories, pages and a gallery. Nothing fancy that I need. I really dislike Wordpress, it's code just sucks. I'm looking for a more modern blog software that is not from the stoneage of PHP and software architecture. I would prefer something that follows the MVC design pattern and is object oriented programmed. Any suggestions based on these requirements?


How can redirect pages from old core PHP site to new Joomla site?

We have our old site into core PHP and we have developed it again into Joomla 1.5 last year (because of some limitations we have to build it into 1.5). Now the problem is the URL of sites changed as we have use SEO URLS on Joomla. In between we have use .htaccess to redirect user from old URL to new like this               Redirect /pages/oldpage.php http://www.mydomain.com/products/category/new_page.html      Is this good practice to redirect user to new URL or not?(we have used same server). One more thing, We have used splash page on our site, and to set up it we have made some changes and because of it one of the important link is not working, and it is               http://www.mydomail.com/index.php      How can I get rid of it? I have used `DirectoryIndex splash.html home.html index.php` in .htaccess to open splash page first when someone open my site `www.mydomain.com`. Note: my website hosted on dedicated Ubuntu server. * * * **EDIT:** As mentioned I use Joomla and I have enabled SEF facility into it and it has already written .htaccess as per below (as I do not understand it much).               DirectoryIndex splash.html home.html index.php         RewriteEngine On            ########## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits     ## If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below     ## This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla!     #     ## Deny access to extension xml files (uncomment out to activate)     #<Files ~ "\.xml$">     #Order allow,deny     #Deny from all     #Satisfy all     #</Files>     ## End of deny access to extension xml files     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR]     # Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URL     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR]     # Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]     # Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]     # Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})     # Send all blocked request to homepage with 403 Forbidden error!     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]          RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$ [NC]     RewriteRule (.*) index.php     RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]          Redirect /pages/oldpage.php http://www.mydomain.com/products/category/new_page.html     .....................     .................


DNS problem, old dns servers are not going away

I have a website, and I changed the nameservers of the domain of my site, now people see it with my new nameservers however I still see the oldnameservers (Which are sedo's nameservers). I tried ipconfig/flushdns it works and clears the caches, however when I enter the domain the cache restores back with the old nameservers. What should I do ?


SimpleViewer + lightbox

Is it possible to integrate any kind of Lightbox with SimpleViewer? But I **don't want** to display SimpleViewer in Lightbox. I want to Lightbox show when I click on one of the images in SimpleViewer. Does anyone tried that with success? **EDIT** I have a SimpleViewer page now. I just want to bind handler to clicking an image (as normally in HTML based pages), fetch big image url and show that image (not SimpleViewer!) in Ligthbox/ThickBox/FancyBox etc.


Google Analytics setup for 3 related blogs

I have 3 distinct blogs. They are powered by Wordpress Multisite http://blogs.crocus.co.uk/kitchengarden http://blogs.crocus.co.uk/chelseaflowershow http://blogs.crocus.co.uk/plantsmans What I want to do is set up Goolge Analytics to track them What would be the best way to do this? A separate account for each? A "Blogs" account, with different profiles... etc..?


Is it allowed to use one frame of a hollywood blockbuster on my website?

I want to build a website where users can upload screenshots from movies. Does anybody knows if this is (il)legal? I'm living in europe/germany.


Rewrite Issue on index.html

I have `index.html` on my `html_directory` on my website also I entered a rule as follows:               RewriteRule ^index.html$ newindex.php      It seems requests to my site is routing to my index.html file , my questions are:   1. Do I need to have index.html file on my `public_html` directory or I can remove it?   2. Is my rewrite rule correct?   3. Based on my rule on `.htaccess` which page is open : `index.html` or `newindex.php`?


How to do with out-of-date or expired pages

I have a "classified advertisement" website that user can submit their advertising posts on it. Each post will be valid for 3 weeks. After then the post will become "expired". Expired posts will not be physically removed, we just remove the link between the website and the post. So users cannot find the expired posts from the website, but they can find the expired posts if they type in the URL of the post directly. After the post become expired, users can create another new post with content same as the expired post so as to extend the advertising period of the posts. I have to allow this. My problem is, google will index the expired posts and the new posts, and is reporting duplicated content found on the website. So what's the best practice to remove the expired content from search engines?


Fixing validator error "cannot generate system identifier for general entity"

The W3C validator shows a "cannot generate system identifier for general entity" error when attempting to validate a page that contains the following code:               <script type="text/javascript" src="http://view.light-speed.com/teamspeak3.php?IP=85.236.100.27&PORT=27617&QUERY=20274&UID=506987&display=none&font=12px&background=transparent&server_info_background=transparent&server_info_text=%23640d04&server_name_background=transparent&server_name_text=%23640d04&info_background=transparent&channel_background=transparent&channel_text=%23640d04&username_background=transparent&username_text=%23640d04"></script>      How do I get the validator to ignore this code when testing for errors?


SEO for replacing blog content, but keeping the same page URL

This might not have any major impact on the SEO, but basically I have a random blog at this URL: `http://example.com/blog` (not a real URL), that I am removing and replacing with a company blog. I want to use the `http://example.com/blog` URL address, but I'm not sure how this would affect my SEO since this random blog content that I am removing has the `example.com/blog` URL prefix. Should I add a 301 redirect for those old blog articles and leave the basic `/blog` URL without any redirects?


Google Apps email hosting for a GoDaddy-hosted site works locally but not on live site

GoDaddy email issues are plentiful, but I have not been able to find anyone resolve this same problem: I have a GoDaddy hosted site, and a Google Apps account. The MX info on GoDaddy is correct, as is my server-side code, and the Google Apps credentials in my web.config file (host:smtp.gmail.com, port:587) are correct. I know this because I am able to send emails through SmtpClient hosted my local machine's server when debugging the site. However, once transferred to the GoDaddy hosting account, all emails will not send -- they just time out. Nothing has changed aside from the site being run on the GoDaddy server as opposed to a local server. EDIT - SSL is enabled. A two part question: 1) Does anybody have any ideas about how to tackle this? 2) If not, is there another web hosting or email hosting site, or a combination of 2, that people can confirm is fast, actually works, and is not impossible to coordinate as is everything with GoDaddy? (I am aware that GoDaddy has their own relaying email server, but I initially used it before switching to Google and found emails coming in 30-60 minutes late).


How to include high resolution version of thumbnail

I'm running a tube site that has a thumbnail for each post/video (running via Wordpress, 500k posts). When I first created the thumbnails they were a fairly large size, around 640px in width each and because of that I was seeing a lot of traffic from Google Images. After streamlining the site and resizing all of the thumbnails down to 170px rather than scaling them down I'm worried that Google isn't going to rank the images as high as they would be at a larger resolution, so is there a way to include the higher res versions and serve them to be indexed instead of the smaller ones?


Association badges improve conversion rates?

Has anyone experienced a conversion rate improvement based on association badges/images ? I.E. Badges like BBB association logos, that they're a trusted vendor of x, etc?


setup test domain ready for site launch

I'm about to launch a site on a live server, after developing it with xampp on localhost. I first want to test the site before i make it live. How do i setup this up so I have it in a subdomain (i.e. test.livesite.com)? Is it just set it up on the server and only add the cname dns setting? Or is there a better way? All i am trying to do is add my site to the server, so i can edit it and look at it before I set it as live.


Is there anyway I can check the load time of a webpage in cpanel?

I found that sometimes my website is slow, and I suspect that this is the web host's problem. But the web host insists on that the website is fast. The problem, I suspect, is that the website is fast sometimes, and slow most of the time. The people at web host would just measure the load time of a webpage when the page is responding fast and tell me that there is no problem at their end. So, I am thinking about capture the load time for every webpage request, I am not sure whether is this information already available in cpanel ( I am using cpanel)? If yes, how can I get it?


PCI DSS compliance for a VPS using Centos

I have a VPS with linode, great hosting by the way. I am confident with centos apache ect but I know nothing about PCI DSS compliance, I usually let SagePay or PayPal deal with it. But I have a client that is interested in not having customers go off to another website and dealing with the card details on there own website. I have looked into it and it seems I need the following(plz correct if wrong):   * Another IP address separate for the SSL certificate for the https://   * The SSL certificate, which can be self signed with linux commands   * Be PCI DSS compliant Its the PCI DSS compliant thats confusing, reading on the website it seems that you can just fill out a form, perform penetration testing yourself and adhere to the PCI DSS standards they set. You do not actually need to pay to have your server scanned by an external company to ensure you are PCI DSS compliant you can do it all yourself? If so great lol as I dont really want to be paying out to be PCI DSS compliant, but are there any free software scans or common security holes to check?


SEO script/link to another website

I am improving my centralized CMS system design. Till now, all the CSS, images, javascript were loading from the central domain name, i.e. domain a.com, c.com, d.com CSS/JS/images loads from b.com. I was wondering whether this have any effect on the SEO? as in, pagerank, backlinking.


Optimizing wordpress to handle 7 times spike in traffic

My Wordpress site jumped from 3,000 visits to over 20,000 via organic traffic. How can I optimize it to handle the current load? I know their are some brilliant minds on here. Any illumination in this regard will be appreciated.


Is it possible to transfer a domain without a "gap" in Whois privacy protection?

I currently own several domains on which I am using a Whois privacy protection service to hide my personal details. In the near future, I would like to transfer some of these domains to a different registrar. It has been many years since I last performed domain transfers, so I am no longer knowledgeable about what it involves. However, I have read from several registrars that they ask their customers to disable Whois protection before effecting a domain transfer. Since there are several websites out there that publish archived versions of Whois information (and ask handsome money for the information to be hidden, of course), I would prefer to avoid having such a "gap" in my privacy protection. I figured that these websites would fetch Whois information mainly when a query is effected through their own website. However, I have found out that at least one of these sites had a copy of the Whois information for a new domain up on their site within hours after I registered it, so they must have some other source (of course I used a Google search to find that out, not their own site). What that tells me is that the time it takes for the domain transfers to go through would be more than enough for these rogue websites to cache my information. If my new registrar offers privacy protection for domains right from the point of registration as well, is there no way to transfer the domain between the two without reverting to my default Whois information in between?


How do I get thousands of PDF files "found" by google search

I have approximately 5,000 PDF files in 4 different categories on our Joomla website that are currently only accessible by via a PHP/mySQL seach script. The filenames (which are numbers) and file locations are stored in a mySQL db and there is a simple PHP script that sends the query and returns a hyperlink to the correct file. The seach is based on a user typing in a number which corresponds to the filename (people using this will know what the number represents - it's a legal case number). I'd love for the files to be accessible via a google search but I'm not clear about how to make google find them. Should I just create a text page for each of the 4 categories which contain the links to each of the files and make those easily accessible by google's search?


Is a 404 on a non displaying files a problem

One of my clients web pages has a error in the theme which calls a redundant .css file that does not exist. The page however, looks fine. Thus the client is not willing to have the error fixed. What reasons can be given for fixing the error when it does not cause any issues with the page display.


What is the exact function of Google Analytic's "Social Settings"?

I recently discovered the "Social Settings" section under Google Analytic's Admin section. Google's explanation of this is very vague despite the fact that it apparently limits and alters how some of the reports work. I understand the instructions: add the full URL for your social platforms AND your main domain (both the www and non-www versions I've ready elsewhere). What I don't understand is exactly WHAT doing this would change. So my questions are: What does the social settings track? Visits to social pages, links to social pages, etc? Exactly what reports would this effect? Just the "Social" report under "Acquisitions"?


Cookies Audit help

Someone can explain to me what is the purpose of these cookies? I'm doing a cookies audit and I didn't find anything on the web Domain: google.com(google maps), Name: NID Domain: google.com(google maps), Name: SNID Domain: google.com(google maps), Name: khcookie Domain: google.com(google maps), Name: PREF and Domain: tripadvisor.com, Name: ServerPool Domain: tripadvisor.com, Name: TAReturnTo Domain: tripadvisor.com, Name: TAUnique Domain: tripadvisor.com, Name: v1st Thank you very much, Gino


Google analyzing URL

We all know Google analyzes URLs in order to get relevance. That's why JavaScriptoptimizer.com hits the first place for the "javascript optimizer" query. These are my questions:   1. Does Google differentiate between keyword.com and keyword.info?    2. Also does a .info website get less points?


Domain masking emergency

I would never normally do this, but 1and1 have been experiencing a "glitch" with their system that means you can't add new external domains. It's pretty shocking, to be honest, and unfortunately my client's site needs to go live under their old domain ASAP. The only solution is to temporarily set up an iframe domain mask... but how best to do this? My attempts don't seem to be working properly (the iframe doesn't fill the screen). Please help me with this crappy solution until 1and1 get their act together. Thanks.


Different behaviour with windows authentication on IIS7 websites

I need to run a website with just windows authentication. Given the following situation:   * The location of the default website is: c:\inetpub\wwwroot   * The location of my code is: c:\Sites\WebApp   * My hostfile is edited so any .local i use points to 127.0.0.1   * I am using Windows 7 professional   * IIS version: 7.5 I have created a new application called 'AppX' underneath the default website and point it to c:\Sites\WebApp. It will use the DefaultappPool. When I switch off anonymous and switch on windows authentication all works well when I go to localhost/AppX/. What I really want is a new website (No need to question why I want this). So I created a 2nd website and did exact the same creation of the application. Everything is the same; destination, app pool and authentication. Now when I browse to this website web2.local/AppX/ I get the 401.2 - Unauthorized error. What am I missing here? UPDATE: I also tried to create a new website directly pointing to the target folder. Same settings for authentication, applicationpool, etc. Same result as using an application in a new website.


URL rewriting via forward proxy

I have an app that runs inside my firewall and talks out to multiple end points via HTTP/HTTPS on a non-standard port e.g. `http://endpoint1.domain.com:7171`, `http://endpoint2.domain.com:7171` What I want to do is route these requests through a forward proxy that then rewrites the URL to something like `http://allendpoints.domain.com/endpoint1` (port 80 or 443) then on the other end have a reverse proxy that unwinds what I did on the forward proxy to reach the specific endpoints. The result being that I can route existing app requests through to specific endpoints across the internet without having to change my app software. My questions are:   1. is this even possible?   2. is it a good idea, are their better ways to do this?   3. Can this be done with IIS and Apache as the proxies?


reliable place to register .kr domains

can someone direct me to a reliable place to buy .kr domains? I have found some places but not sure I should register it in hurry.


Embedded youtube video does not show in IE8 64bit

When embedding a youtube video on my website, i get a box with a red 'x' in Internet Explorer(64 bit) Any ways to fix this?


Google Plus Vanity URL Dilema

Google Plus has just made vanity URLs available for pages, wanted your advice. The page is pre approved (so all I need to is click accept) to get               www.google.com/+shoes      But my FB vanity URL is               www.facebook.com/shoestorename      Should I take the highly valuable name (in my opinion) or should I take the less valuable but match it with my FB page?               www.google.com/+showstorename      _Note: The page is not about Shoes but just as valuable_ I would appreciate as many people's point of view on this.


www.mysite.com/ and www.mysite.com/index.html dupe content?

I am running a static web site via Apache. So, if you visit http://www.mysite.com/products, http://www.mysite.com/products/, and http://www.mysite.com/products/index.html, you see the same thing. Will this result in dupe content, from Google's perspective? Should I htaccess redirect http://www.mysite.com/products and http://www.mysite.com/products/ to http://www.mysite.com/products/index.html? I have DirectoryIndex set to index.html. Further, I have the following meta tags in place: On the home page:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mysite.com/" />      On the products page:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mysite.com/products" />


PSD to CSS Service

Does any one here recommend online services where I can have my PSD (or other image format) design sent and they give me the HTML+CSS of it? I saw a few of those on the internet, but I am looking for tried-and-tested services, and to see if there are any of those that you guys recommend me to stay away from.


Will Google Scholar index the papers on my website?

I have just requested that Google Scholar collect the papers from my personal web site: http://cs.uic.edu/~asmirnov/publications.html I was wondering if I did everything right:   1. I submitted a request on the form provided on scholar web site   2. I published the papers in PDF on my web site   3. Is there anything else needed for Google to index my web site? Other questions are:   1. The first paper (that is linked) is not to just a paper, but a whole issue.   2. Are there any tags to be added on my web site? If so, which, and how do I add them?   3. What are the exporting options available on Google scholar web site and how do they work?


If an visitors IP address contains "google" or a similar keyword, does this mean they were a crawler?

I have a huge list of IP addresses recorded from various visitors to a website. A huge amount of the visitors, in some months over 70%, came from IP addresses that contained keywords such as google, yahoo, bot, crawler, etc. Does this mean that those users were infact search engine crawlers? If so, why are their so many crawlers in my visitor records in comparison to genuine human visitors? (and if not what's the explanation?) Thanks in advance. UPDATE Here's a few examples of the data: > livebot-65-55-209-133.search.live.com > > crawl2.cosmixcorp.com > > crawl-66-249-70-78.googlebot.com > > lj511965.crawl.yahoo.net > > lj611054.inktomisearch.com > > ss125.dal0.gigablast.com > > crawl-15.cuill.com


LAMP Stack Versioning -- Is there a website or version tracker source to help suggest the right versions of each part of a platform stack?

Taken singly, it's easy to research versions and compatibility. Version information is readily available on each single part of a platform stack, such as MySQL. You can find out the latest version, stable version, and sometimes even the percentage of people adopting it by version (personally, I like seeing numbers on adoption rates). However, when trying to find the best possible mix of versions, I have a harder time. For example, "if you're using MySQL 5.5, you'll need PHP version XX or higher." It gets even more difficult to mitigate when you throw higher level platforms into the mix such as Drupal, Joomla, etc. I do consider "wizard" like installers to be beneficial, such as the Bitnami installers. However, I always wonder if those solutions cater more to the least common denominator -- be all to many -- and as such, I think I'd be better to install things on my own. Such solutions do seem kind of slow to adopt new versions, slower than necessary, I suspect. **Is there a website or tool that consolidates versioning data in order to help a webmaster choose which versions to deploy or which upgrades to install, in consideration of all the other parts of the stack?**


What is the Best Ad Network for a Flex Website?

Can anyone recommend an ad network for a Flex website other than OpenX and Mochi Ads. I desperately need to get some ads on my site. Any advice?


How do I delete a goal in Google Analytics?

I am picking up a client's Analytics account and they have a large number of Goals set up that I want to delete. They don't hold meaningful data since the client misunderstood the nature of goals. I can't see an option to delete a goal. Can someone show the best way to wipe these Goals and start again?


Creating a backdoor in (your own) PHP website

I've just built a website for a client and I'm a bit worried he won't pay me once it actually goes live. I've heard there are ways to create a back-door so I could access the website whenever I want. Can anybody point to where I could learn to do this?


How are these pre-built search results page made, and are those considered black hat SEO?

I'm sure you've spotted search results in google that aren't really pages with content, but pre-built search result pages within the site itself. A few examples:   * http://www.indeed.cl/Empleos-de-Ingeniero-Comercial   * http://empleo.trovit.cl/trabajo-ingeniero-comercial These come out first when you search "Trabajo Ingeniero Comercial" in Google. Their effectiveness in SEO is obvious. Questions: - Does this technique have a name? - Are they generated dynamically with the Google search term, or are they pre-built and cached? And if they are dynamic, how is the search term retrieved? I would love some insight in this technique. Thanks


Unique vs New Visitors "explanation needed"

i was wondering if anyone can help me understand the relation between the unique visitors and the new visitors terms in GA. Here is what i originally thought:   * Unique visitor = each user is counted only once during the selected time range.   * New visitor = New visits = each user is counted only if it is his first time visiting the site. However it seems that my understanding failed to explain the following case ( _image below_ ) where the unique visitors < new visits ! * * * ![GA report](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0cguv.jpg) * * * If new visitors contributed _11_ visits, shouldn't unique visitors be at least be _12_ "assuming all returning visits came from one visitor" ?!


Accessing a development LAMP server as if it were the live server by faking the URL

At the moment I have my test server set-up like so `http://localhost/~callum` but I want to set-up a fake url so I can link javascripts and CSS files from my PHP files. Hope this makes sense any help is much a appreciated. I should also say I am using a public_html folder and not var/www. EDIT: What I mean by fake url is that I want to turn my url from `http://localhost/~callum` to something like this `http://callumstestwebsite.com/` without owning the domain so that I can continue to develop on my new laptop, I used to use windows 7 so I am getting used to ubuntu.


Determining the value of a landing page missing Google Analytics

Using Google Analytics, if someone lands on my site onto a page without Google Analytics, and then clicks a link to a page with Google Analytics, can I see that? I have an e-commerce site where most of the pages are using Google Analytics. However, my blog is not. The blog is hosted in a subdirectory of the same domain (e.g. `www.mysite.com/blog`). I want to know the value of my blog, specifically whether any traffic into my main site is coming from my blog (for example a click-through from `mysite.com/blog/any-article-no-analytics` to `mysite.com/some-page-with- analytics`). The reason is that I'm deploying a new site, but want to preserve all high- value pages, some of which may be blog articles.


Migrating from a wordpress.com to wordpress.org blog without harming SEO

I've had a Wordpress.com weblog for 3 years. And its pages have a good pagerank and are shown in first search results pages. Because of the limitations, I should migrate to my own WordPress. How to migrate safely with the minimum SEO problems? (I know how to export content in wordpress.com and import it to a new wordpress.org blog.) **Note 1:** links structure and site design are different on the new wordpress blog. (I don't like wordpress.com links structure :| ) **Note 2:** as you know, it's not possible to edit `.htaccess` file on wordpress.com. so I can't use 301 redirects.


Google Page Speed's "above the fold" CSS tuning

Putting all 15kb CSS file inline on 100 pages of the site is not smart I think. How do I pick which CSS classes and IDs from CSS file to put inline (and leave other ones on external CSS file) to a page so the Google Page Speed would give a better score? UPDATE: I actually tried doing the following: I truncated the HTML code on a few of the main template pages of the site to leave only content that is visible on 1st screen without scrolling. Then I loaded these pages in browser and used CSS Usage FireBug addon to mark the unused CSS classes. To my wonder, only 9 classes were really unused. Maybe this method is not 100% right. But seems that when I put all CSS into each page but not as an external CSS file, Google gives me 100/100 for mobile and desktop, but if I use that as an external file (that seems to be the right choice if not taking Google serious) I am only getting 84-90/100 Other question: Do I better get higher ranked by Google Page Speed and expect better SE traffic my way, or I don't mind that and make it the correct way by having external CSS file with all CSS content?


Value of links on negative review pages

A general assumption with SEO is more links = higher rankings. What I would like to know is does Google know what those links are referring to. I.e. if somebody gives a product a good review on their personal blog and links the review to another companies website (who are selling the product), would Google take consideration for the review/description link. Essentially would Google know that this link refers to a product. So if somebody is looking to buy a product, Google would know to include this page because the previous link said it sells products rather than just having information on products. Then to take this further, does Google know if a link is positive or negative. For example, If somebody creates a post saying, do not visit `example.com`, `example.com` is bad because of blah blah blah. Would Google know that the link is getting bad feedback and therefore would it have a negative affect on rankings, or would Google go oh its just another link and give it better rankings?


Best web environment for running python powered website

I am new into python programming. 1st is was a php developer. Learnt php by poking around the internet. now in my collage course most of the course are based on python or java. So i thought to Get myself into python. As i am new into python web development i noticed that there are many ways to do this job like doing CGI code, use mod_python in apache , use a MVC framework like Django etc. As i developed a php chatting server for my collage usage it received more then 1000 page requests per second. Now i want to convert my php project into a python website. So, What technology should i use? Which one is more fast? Secure? Please tell me which one to use and explain me why?


Bad search result due to strange linked domains

I have a website which is not scoring good in Google's search results. I use Majestic SEO and Open Site Explorer in order to have a view about my link profile. I now see different backlink domains, some of them already removed, that contains sexual content or other non relative content linking to my domain. How much influence does these strange linked domains have on my search result? Even if some of them are already removed for a couple of months. I have already disavow open sexual domains using the tool that Google provides.


When Google gives up recrawling 301 that led to 404?

I've transferred a domain and made a mistake in the redirects (the URL structure is identical). Even though they went to the new domain, the error caused a 404 when crawled by Google bot. 10 days after I saw and corrected my redirect mistake, and now the site should (hopefully) redirect to proper pages. Q1: The URLs of the 404 pages in the Webmaster Tools all bear the mistake and will never be available at the new site. I marked them as fixed in the tools. Do I need to do something about that, like 301 rewrite them with a condition to fix the error? Q2: Does Google bot attempt to recrawl 301 pages that pointed to a 404?


SEO duplicate content

I have a blog about a game. Lets say that the game releases some news and gives it to _Blog A_ and _Blog B_. Now my blog ( _Blog A_ ) will copy that news and paste it in an article. Somebody else's blog ( _Blog B_ ) will now also copy that news and paste it in an article. Would this result in a duplicate content penalty between _Blog A_ and _Blog B_?


Subdomains or folders?

I'm working on a services type web application and I have to choose how to set up the URLs for the customers. Which solution is better, as a subdomain (e.g.: client.myservice.com) or as a folder (e.g.: myservice.com/client/) ? I'm not interested in the SEO value (for the SEO it's better to choose the folders), but the tech/scale/admin aspects. Thanks!


How can I pass referrer header from my https domain to http domains?

My website is 100% https. I have links to other http domains. The referrer header is not set when linking from a https page to a http page. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer > If a website is accessed from a HTTP Secure (HTTPS) connection and a link > points to anywhere except another secure location, then the referer field is > not sent. I would prefer that other domains _can_ see the referrer so that they know that traffic comes from my domain. Is there a way to force this header or is there another solution? ### Update I've done some basic testing using a redirect:               http page  -- link to http  --> 301 redirect --> http page = referrer intact     https page -- link to https --> 301 redirect --> http page = referrer blank     https page -- link to http  --> 301 redirect --> http page = referrer blank     https page -- link to http  --> 302 redirect --> http page = referrer blank      The referrer is lost when linking from a https page to a http redirect page on my own domain. So there is no referrer on the redirect.


Is a 302 redirect to a random URL from the homepage an SEO problem?

I originally posted this on Stackoverflow, but I believe here is a better place to ask. My web application is very similar to notepad.cc which redirects to a randomly generated URL upon access, e.g. `http://myapp.com/roTr94h4Gd`. (Please note that notepad.cc is not my site.) Probably because of this redirect feature, when I do "fetch as Google" or "fetch as Bingbot", I get a 302 and no html content. Not even a `<html></html>` tag.               HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily     Server: nginx/1.4.1     Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:37:37 GMT     Content-Type: text/html     Transfer-Encoding: chunked     Connection: keep-alive     X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.17-1~dotdeb.1     Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=vp99q5e5t5810e3bnnnvi6sfo2; expires=Thu, 03-Oct-2013 04:37:37 GMT; path=/     Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT     Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0     Pragma: no-cache     Location: /roTr94h4Gd      How should I avoid 302 in this case? I suppose I could modify my site to prevent the redirect, but it is a necessary feature of my web app to generate a random URL on each access. I added `<meta name="fragment" content="!">` tag into my index page and set it to return a static snapshot of my page when the flag is set. But this still returns a 302. I also added a header to return 200 before redirecting, but this had no effect, either. Could someone tell me a good suggestion to solve this problem?


Page with 50 internal page links or 5 pages with 10 internal links each?

I would like to know if no. of internal links in a page affects its page rank or not? lets say: a page contains 50 internal links is better than 5 pages interlinked with each other having 10 internal links each is better?


Getting away from a customized Magento 1.4 installation - Magento 1.6, OpenCart, or others?

I'm dealing with a Magento 1.4.0.0 Community Edition installation with various undocumented changes to the core (mostly integration with an ERP system), an outdated Sweet Tooth Points & Rewards module and some custom payment providers. It also doubles as a mediocre blogging/CMS system. It has one store each for 3 different languages, with about 40 product categories for a few hundred products. The client is planning to redesign the site, and is considering upgrading to Magento 1.6 or 1.7 if it has improved from 1.4. The client is also open to other e-commerce systems. I've looked at OpenCart and it seems to be quite developer friendly with a fairly simple structure. I found some complaints regarding its performance when the shop has thousands of categories or products, but this is not an issue with the current number of products my client has. It seems to be solid ground for easy customization to bring the rewards system and ERP integration over. What should the client upgrade to in this case, are the newer versions of Magento genuinely better or should I consider another system entirely?


Optimize user session duration with AdWords in addition to conversion tracking?

We've set conversion tracking with our e-commence website in our thank you page for conversion tracking (when user is click an ads from google search results) The problem is, the conversion tracking is meaningful if we have a very large sample, we want to prove the conversion tracking result by adding the "session duration" information in our spending report so we can make a better judgement when planning our budget on a specific keyword. Is it possible?


.htaccess rewrite problem for domain

I want to use a particular page in my site as any subdomain. I need something like this `http://*.site.com/`. So, as the user types `http://user1.site.com/` or `http://user2.site.com/` then the page must shown will be present in `http://site.com/profile.php`. http://user1.site.com/ must point to http://site.com/profile.php **NOT REDIRECT** Can it be possible ?


Thumbnail only showing link on mediawiki

When trying to add a thumbnail to my wiki page it only shows a link to the picture. I'm presuming it has something to do with a missing module. Does anyone know what module controls this or if it is something entirely different?


Count pageviews on two specific pages

I've been searching around for an answer to this _simple_ question, but can't seem to find anything even remotely related to a solution. We've just redesigned the structure of our site, and have introduced two new pages to advertise jobs, e.g.   * mydomain.co.uk/company/ourteam   * mydomain.co.uk/company/opportunities I'd like to see in Google Analytics how many times each page is being viewed per month. I've searched in _Behaviour > Site Content > All Pages_ but can only see filters relating to AdWords. Can anyone please advise where to set this up, or how to isolate the content? As a real bonus, it would be great the see this figure as a percentage of overall visitors (e.g. 8% of site visitors checked out one or more of the new pages). Thanks.


"Included" search phrases in URLs/titles/H1s and SEO

When designing a new URL/folder structure for our website, we faced one interesting problem related to choosing best keywords from SEO perspective. We call it "included search phrases". It will be simple to explain it using the following example. We develop and sell software development components, and one of them is an ActiveX grid control. We definitely know that "activex grid" and "activex grid control" are two best phrases we should use for SEO. And as you can see, one phrase includes the other one. But the dilemma is the following: what is the best phrase for the home page for the product? I.e. ourdomain.com/activex-grid or ourdomain.com/activex-grid-control? (sure, we will use the corresponding phrase "AciveX Grid" or "ActiveX Grid Control" in the title/H1) Can anybody tell us, will it have the same effect for Google ranking when the user searches for "activex grid" if we use "activex grid control" for the product home? In other words, do we dilute the strength of the "activex grid" search phrase when using one more word ("control") at the end?


Paid Website Code Review

I have written a pretty extensive webapp and it is going to go live in the next fews weeks and before I really publicize it I want to get some professionals to review it for optimization and best practices. Is there any online service or way to find local software engineers who would be willing to do this? Just to give some specifics that may be helpful, my site is on Google App Engine and written in Python and it is tough to find someone with extensive experience in that area.


Code for redirecting an HTML page without an extension using an .htaccess file results in a 404 error

I'm trying to redirect an HTML page to a WordPress page which has no extension. The result of redirecting `example.com/fa/home.html` to `example.com/fa/` is a `404 page not found`. As you can see they're both in a sub-directory. I've tried many approaches, whether manually or through cPanel to redirect those URLs. Note that I'm using a Nginx web server. When I try to redirect another URL like `example.com/en/home.html` which is NOT in the `/fa` directory, it will successfully redirect. I have an _.htaccess_ file in the root folder and one in the `/fa` directory. I deleted everything in the _.htaccess_ file in the `/fa` directory and only left the default index page rule, but still no luck. The `.htaccess` code in the root directory is:               RewriteEngine on     DirectoryIndex Portal.html          RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mscaspian.com$     RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mscaspian.com/$1 [R=301,L]          RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://mscaspian.com/.*$      [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://mscaspian.com$      [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.mscaspian.com/.*$      [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.mscaspian.com$      [NC]     RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ http://www.mscaspian.com [R,NC]          ErrorDocument 404 /404.html       And the code in the `/fa` directory is:                DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php           <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>      RewriteEngine On      RewriteBase /fa/      RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d      RewriteRule . /fa/index.php [L]


Emails from a previously blacklisted URL keep getting bounced even after site has been cleared

Our clients site got infected and was blacklisted. We spent weeks fixing and clearing up the site and got it completely removed from all lists. The site is now squeaky clean as of a few weeks ago but the clients emails are still bouncing due to them being marked as spam. Could the fact they manage their emails on a separate service have anything to do with this?


Using Amazon S3 has increased the page load time? Why?

I am optimising the page load time for my site. After a bunch of changes, the load time had decreased. As suggested by a lot of people, I decided to use Amazon's S3 to store and serve my static content. This increased the page load time by almost a whole second. Why does this happen and how can I optimise the same?


How do I redirect www and non but not IP

I am trying to redirect www.domain.com or domain.com to www.domain.com/temp.html I am using the following code:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$     RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.domain\.com\/temp\.html" [R=301,L]      That works however I do not want to redirect IP. So if someone types in the static IP of the domain then I do not want them to be redirected to www.domain.com/temp.html Anyone have the code to take care of this?


Free or cheap Media(image) hosting for web application

I am building a small social web application. I am developing it with rails. I want some cheap or free image hosting which I can use as my image repository for my website because I can't afford Amazon cloud store or something like that. Can I use flickr, imageshack or service something like that? Do they allow me to store images for my website? Suppose I wanna use pics for blogpost and I will be extracting pics from their api and show on my blog post. Is that possible? Sorry I'm beginner.


Shop owner wants multiple domains, what do I to tell him?

My client owns a webshop exampleshop.it - and we use adwords and google analytics to promote it. He somehow has the idea that more domains (pointing to the original webshop) bring more traffic and better ranking. What do I tell him and how do I proove it? 1) Would it be okay to have the same domain with other TLD endings (because I have seen many companies do this) The site will _not_ be split up and there will not be different sites with different content. Not even differnet languages. So is there a way to have exampleshop.fr exampleshop.es exampleshop.de exampleshop.com exampleshop.net showing the same content and not be punished? 2) Apart from that, is there a way to have shoe-shop.xyz and beautiful-shoes- shop.xyz and others showing the exactly same content and site as exampleshop.it and not be punished? (different 2nd level domain name) 3) If the one or the other is possible, then how to do it tecnically (redirects? http code?) to have the best SEO effects?


Domain Alias with forward in plesk

I need to create a domain alias `alias.domain.com` to forward http to `www.domain.com`. It has to be a forward and not a redirect (I was told it can be done by creating CNAME). Note I am using Plesk and creating a domain alias in plesk creates an A record not a CNAME. Any thoughts please?


Duplicate title tags link to the same unique url

In Google Webmaster Tools I'm dealing with **HTML Improvements > Duplicate title tags**. I have a Wordpress site and I use multiple categories for some posts. I have subsequently deleted one category (one week ago). When I click on the links that Google is telling me are duplicates, both of them actually lead me to the same page. So for example the two links below come up as duplicates in webmaster tools.   * **/frontpage/post-tile/**   * **/racing-and-sport/post-tile/** I have deleted the category called 'frontpage' (in hindsight that was a dumb category) so now no matter what link I click in webmaster tools both send me to the url **/racing-and-sport/post-tile/** My question is: why is Google seeing these as duplicates still if they are going to the same url? Is it perhaps because I only made this change last week and Google hasn't recrawled my site? Most of my other duplicates are a result of the 'frontpage' category that has now been deleted. I realise I could have put a nofollow on the 'frontpage' category but it was coming up in all my breadcrumbs instead of the categories I preferred so I got rid of the 'frontpage' category all together.


How to register a .eu domain?

I want register a domain under the .eu TLD, but I don't live in Europe [which is a requiriment to that]. I'd like to know if there is any website which register the domain on its name or any other solution.


Base top level domain name search not showing up in Google

We've had a few occasions over the years where certain domain names just won't show up in Google. Let me give an example: Let's say I have a domain that is called www.mybusiness.com. I search for mybusiness.com in Google and that domain pops up as the first result. Now, if I remove the .com part and run the search again, the domain disappears completely from the SERP. The site has a sitemap.xml file generated, we've linked up Google webmaster tools and have verified the site, it has the necessary meta tags in too and we've also tweaked page titles to the desired lengths. Some thoughts we had were:   * The domain is just very young and will start showing up organically over time. Not really an option for clients though. :)   * There's not enough substantial content on the home page to make the site rank organically?   * Too few links to the site?   * Extremely generic name or foreign language in the domain? I'd appreciate any feedback or insight.


Does "Service Provider" dimension correspond to "ISP Organization" filter in Analytics?

I'm trying to create a filter based on "Service Provider" dimension (Audience > Technology > Network), but there is no such filter field, only "ISP Organization" (and there is no such dimension in return). Do those two mean the same?


embed linux console in website/using web language to communicate with fedora/linux server

I have some problem here as I want to build a website which able to communicate with fedora server to create account.   The website will be something like this   * user will access an IP to access the website   * website is running in window web browser eg. IE, mozila   * the website will allow user to key in their own ID, username and password to create their user account    So, what I think will be is there any web language to communicate with linux/ run linux command eg. mkdir, useradd??? The webpage need to written in what web language in order to support the requirement??Any link for reference is appreciated Thanks in advance.


Submitting vBulletin Sitemap to Google

I'm using Google Webmaster Tools to get my forum out there, and when I go to submit the sitemap I get the following error: > Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap > format instead. I've gotten this on numerious directories and files. I thought `/public_html/forums/store_sitemap` would do it, but I got two of the exact same error message. I've even tried downloading and uploading a _sitemap.xml_ document, but it gave me the same thing. It's the same error message for everything. I'd like to keep this as automated as possible since vBulletin can generate a new sitemap upon my choosing.


Which registrar checks the most domains?

When I want a new domain, I usually use GoDaddy to check, and another registrar to register. This is because GoDaddy check my wanted domain against the most TLD's. Are there any other sites/registrars that checks against more TLD's? What I want is to type my wanted second-level domain.. Ex: bobsplace. And then it searches through bobsplace.com bobsplace.net bobsplace.me etc, and reports back to me which is availible or not


Question about AJAX saftey please help inquire

I have a social network that I am creating and have a security question. I have the ability to have friends on the website and when you request a friend it would be a button that would run a script with AJAX using jQuery. I know that javascript can be easily hacked and also read here http://www.acunetix.com/websitesecurity/ajax.htm that AJAX is not as secure as it would seem. They state that "Since XML HTTP requests function by using the same protocol as all else on the web (HTTP), technically speaking, AJAX-based web applications are vulnerable to the same hacking methodologies as ‘normal’ applications" . So basically I don't want a worm to just keep running friend requests through my AJAX function and someone signs on the site and they have 14 million friend requests. This is also an issue with several other AJAX scripts that I run on the site. The question that I have is that should I just keep everything server side. I am using php so should every friend request just be a reload of the page as much as I would like to avoid such a thing? Please any help would be greatly appreciated.


How do I get my Google+ picture to show up on Google searches?

I am looking to move my blog: The Geek Tech Blog (which is currently a Blogger blog), over to a .com name with Wordpress. However, I still would lik my picture from Google+ to show up in search results like this, as it adds a personal touch to my blog: ![Google result for The Geek Tech Blog](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fWnFf.png) How do I make the picture show up on Google searches with a .com name and a Wordpress blog? I have no idea how that showed up in Google searches, as I did _nothing_ to get the picture to show up (as far as I know).


core.* files eating up server space (~50MB)

I'm renting server space from someone and, upon logging in my control panel after quite sometime, noticed an abnormal spike (~50MB) in the disk usage. Upon investigating, I found a lot of core.* files scattered around my public_html directory. Each one is more than 5MB in size but no more than 6MB. The * part is all numbers (in programming regex, that should be `core\\.\d+`). I downloaded one and checked the contents. There was a lot of balderdash characters (`NUL` mostly, but also a scattering of `ETB`, `ETX`, `STX`) but there's this block of readable text which says:               This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not     a real message.  It is created automatically by the mail system software.     If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created     with the data reset to initial values.      Pretty self-explanatory. A few blocks above the text are some more readable messages that look like logs but is sandwiched in between non printable characters. I've extracted some below.               Scan not valid for mh mailboxes     Bogus character 0x%x in news state     Can't rewrite news state %.80s     Error closing backup news state %.80s     No state for newsgroup %.80s found      Now, a few concerns: Am I under attack? The messages seem to be about my webmail but I don't use my personal webmail that much---only for a vanity email address and an inbox for an outdated comments system. However, lately, I seem to notice a spike in the spam for my vanity mail. (Note: the comments system is covered by a captcha but every now and then some get through. My vanity email has a spam filter but it isn't as good as I'd like). Next, if this is a feature, can I turn it off? Is it advisable to? I've only 150MB so you see why I'm fretting over a 50MB spike. Some final details: my only server-side scripts are in PHP. The directory which accumulated the most number of these core files is the one containing the Wordpress-managed subdomain of my site. I manage my server through CPanel. Lastly, I decided to delete this files and after some checking nothing seems amiss in my websites nor in my mail. They are indeed the ones responsible for the ~50MB spike as my disk space usage is back to expected.


safe to assume microsoft core fonts would be installed on client linux?

How safe is it as a web designer to assume that `msttcorefonts` would have beeb installed on a client machine viewing my website? If not what sans serif fonts should I use then? (for body)


How to setup SSL to protect secure information

At the moment I have a website running in quite an insecure way, I'll refer to it as example.com. To add better security we're starting to store passwords using `bcrypt` but we are currently not using SSL so they _could_ be viewed upon submission. When setting up SSL and purchasing the certificate should the hostname be example.com if that's the only place you wish to use SSL? Say we only want logged in members to use SSL then would PHP scripts need changing in some way and from an SEO aspect is `http://` any different to `https://`? Would the site work as `http://example.com/index.php` and `https://example.com/index.php` because this would be bad having multiple instances of one thing? I'm very new to SSL security and not quite sure I'm grasping the concept of it correctly at the moment? We basically want the login forms and members part of the site use SSL.


Why are my link pages not being indexed?

I tried something but it didn't work. Iwill try to explain what I tried to do and probably someone could suggest what can be done. I have a few websites, about 75, all in the same niche (travel). I created a link directory sort of pages and uploaded all the pages (about 17 pages with about 10 links in each page) and uploaded the same pages to about 30 domains to see what kind of results I get. I also created a separate sitemap for the links and uploaded in each of the domains. I have waited close to two months now. All the other pages of my website, let's say above 98% of the other pages, are indexed but for my link pages. Any ideas as to why the pages are not being indexed? I am thinking of adding bit more of data in each of the pages so that it doesn't look like just a link page. Would that work? All your suggestions and inputs are appreciated.


From SEO point of view is hiding H1 in this case bad for indexing?

I'm having to use a 3rd party CMS and I cannot change the contents of the h3 (or the h3 itself) I've not had too much dealing with "cufon" - presume its an old fashioned way of using a specific font. I'm guessing it's not legit HTML so not indexed. Therefore I wanted to include the page's header in an `H1`
                <cufon class="cufon cufon-canvas" alt="Alternative text " style="..inline styles..">        <canvas width="73" height="18" style="..inline styles.."></canvas>          <cufontext>Page </cufontext></cufon><cufon class="cufon cufon-canvas" alt="Page" style="..inline styles..">          <canvas width="76" height="18" style="..inline styles.."></canvas>          <cufontext>Content</cufontext>        </cufon>

Page Content

This is my content etc
      where               .offthepage { margin-left:-10000px; position:absolute}      or               .verysmall { height:1px, position:absolute; left:1px; etc }      Would the page be penalised (from SE indexing perspective) for that? or is there a more robust / SE friendly way of doing it without it being consider keyword stuffing? thanks


Google Analytics: Tracking page time on site

Does anyone know how Google Analytics tracks how long a user has been on the site? When the user leaves the page that has analytic tracking code, won't the sending/receiving link be broken? How are they able to retrieve the last bits of information before the user leaves the page?


Where do you draw the line on hate speech in user generated content?

Do **you** censor user generated content that's not illegal and doesn't personally attack another user of your website for being hate speech? If so, where do **you** draw the line? EDIT: A few cases where different people might have different ideas about whether speech should be censored: _"I would never vote for Obama because he's black and blacks have a lower IQ than whites"_ _"Homosexuality is a crime, just because some countries have legalized homosexuality doesn't mean that it isn't."_ _"Israelis should go home to where they came from."_ _"The holocaust never happened."_ _"Everyone who voted for Bush has blood on their hands."_ _"All Republicans are racist."_ What principle would you use to decide which of those statements are hate speech?


Can I enable GZIP on Godaddy?

One of my sites lives on GoDaddy's bottom-of-the-line cheap hosting, I have the correct code in my .htaccess file, but it's not compressing because mod_deflate is not loaded. How do I enable that? The best I've found is this article which suggests I use PHP to zip everything (which is going to be more work than just changing hosting companies): " Add the following code to the very top of your Web pages above the DOCTYPE:               if (substr_count($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'], 'gzip'))         b_start("ob_gzhandler");     else ob_start();


When a person lands on a personal website, what do they expect to see on the homepage?

I'm torn between making my homepage listing of (5-10 max) recent blog posts versus making my homepage my "about me" bio page. I can make the case for both (and if someone would like me to, leave a comment and I will). I think that my case for both is equally strong, but is there any evidence, scientific or anecdotal, as to what type of page or what content the homepage of a personal website should be? I should add that I am interested not only in presenting content that would be expected, but also producing something that would help in ensuring decent result placement when searching for my site. That said, SEO is not my primary concern - I would suspect that most people who visit my site are either friends or colleagues who I have told about my site, people who have read my profile on a public site and want to know more about me, or people who have received my resume and wish to know more about me.


Is PCI compliance scrutinised?

After reading the very strongly worded recommendations regarding the storage of credit card details here, I've got to wonder - what happens if a non-PCI compliant company starts storing credit card details (I'm 100% sure that there are companies out there doing this). For example, let's say I hadn't asked my question on here and I forged ahead and just decided to store customer credit card details and used some basic AES encryption. Now what? If we never get hacked, is anyone going to ask? Will Visa, or our merchant, ever want to inspect our servers? What are the consequences of not using PCI compliant infrastructure? Disclaimer: I get the hint - this is a **bad** idea and we won't be doing it, but I'm curious


How to prevent stat sites from getting/publishing my traffic and hosting information?

When I recently googled my website, stat sites came up that had more info on my website than I even knew off the top of my head! Daily traffic, Nameservers, analytics id, etc. I removed google analytics code from my site... does google analytics share or sell information? It makes me uneasy and I don't like that it comes up when others search my site. I'm also worried that how low they listed my site worth will confuse customers because we're an e-commerce site whose average item sells for more than what was listed as what the whole site is worth! 1) How are they getting my information? 2) Is there anything I can do?


When should you consider being an OpenID provider?

I know that OpenID would benefit more from a larger number of sites adopting it, than it would from more people being providers. But even still, I am curious as to when it would be good for a site to be the provider.


Google Analytics Code not tracking my Blog hits

I have installed Google Analytics Code on my blog but i am not able to register any hits on my blog for a while now. The code works perfect on my Website at http://mink7.com


Internet Explorer iframe JavaScript access denied

I have a webpage on domain `www.example.com` that has an `<iframe>` with a page `test.html` from `sub.example2.com`. `test.html` includes a JavaScript from another domain:               <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.1/jquery.min.js"></script>      When I open `www.example.com` then I get an access denied error for that JavaScript. What's the reason for that?


CSS: single directive generic class vs. style-attribute on element

## Single directive generic class ### CSS               .text-center { text-align: center }      ### HTML
center me
      That is our (not really) generic class and while we see this more and more over the web, there is no real explanation given why one should use it. Explanations like _re-usable CSS classes_ don’t apply here. This class is as re-usable as the old `<center>` tag. Also, we cannot change the body of the rule, as it would not make sense anymore. It’s absolutely not semantic either. ## The good old `style`-attribute ### HTML
center me
      In the end, we have the same as above, but only in the place where we need it. ## Why? This might be a bad question, because the answer’s may be driven by taste. But personally I’d be interested in an answer that goes along with an explanation. Maybe something like _“using the CSS class will ensure that it’s rendered faster”_ and if possible combined with hard proof. ## Interesting Reads The following are directly related to this question, because they are the reason why I started thinking about this topic:   * Keep your classes clean   * Semantic class names


My wordpress site blacklisted as malware by Google

Two years ago I've built a small Wordpress site for a friend of mine, and some weeks ago I got a warning mail from my ISP, about a _worldwide attack to Joomla, Wordpress..._ (well, more or less, it was italian, of course). I had no idea what to do, and nothing seemed to happen. Two days ago, browsing to that site I got a message from my browser (Firefox), about possible malware being detected on my site. I think I've found something to clear, namely a _.htaccess_ under `/public_html` directory, containing only:               RewriteBase /     RewriteEngine on      Well, I can browse that and then I can delete it. But there is also a `skript.php` that I can't inspect - and then neither delete - insufficient permission. EDIT: Now I found also that in _wp-admin_ there is an `images.php` that also I can't inspect, and an _.htaccess_ containing the redirection to the site Google was advising against. I'm using FTP now to check the site, because cpanel (accessed of course with the browser) also give the warning. It's safe to use cpanel? I can't see other way to clean up my site.


What service could be adding NewRelic?

At the bottom of my web pages is:               <script type="text/javascript"> if (!NREUMQ.f) {NREUMQ.f=function() {NREUMQ.push(["load",new Date().getTime()]);var e=document.createElement("script"); e.type="text/javascript"; e.src=(("http:"===document.location.protocol)?"http:":"https:") + "//" + "js-agent.newrelic.com/nr-100.js"; document.body.appendChild(e);if(NREUMQ.a)NREUMQ.a();};NREUMQ.a=window.onload;window.onload=NREUMQ.f;};NREUMQ.push(["nrfj","beacon-2.newrelic.com","e4797ae5b8","2247360","blwGYUsADBADAEIIVlcWJWZpTgYGBAJDDU0XWBdFQQ==",0,15,new Date().getTime(),"4CA2163B5F6C6DE7","","","",""]);</script>      What I'd like to know is, what put it there? I don't have any direct connection with NewRelic, so my guess is that one of my third party tools has placed it there. It's across all pages but a lot of my third party tools are on my master page so are inherited by all pages. A quick list of what I can remember using on the site:   * Google Tag Manager to add:      * Google Analytics     * Google Adwords     * Bing Analytics     * Marketo Munchkin   * LivePerson.com   * jQuery and jQuery UI (Google CDN hosted)   * Google Fonts Same problem in Chrome, Chrome Incognito and FF, so it's not a browser plugin. Any ideas?


meaning of HTML "<a rel=douche" rel Attribute?

I have met the following HTML code:               blah      And I am wondering what is the effect of the "douche" attribute.


Are images with non-standard extensions (such as ".ashx", instead of ".png" or ".jpg") bad for SEO?

Certain CMS' running on IIS like Sitecore do not give image files appropriate file formats like `.png` or `.jpg` by default, but instead link to images as:               <img src="/media/Some Folder/EX-IMG.ashx" alt="Example" />      Ignoring the spaces, non-descriptive filename, and capitals (likely to break and/or cause duplicate content issues), does that URI with `.ashx` pose a problem? Is using the correct image file format a ranking factor in organic search **for the page that the image appears on** , or is having a decent alt attribute enough?    (Note, it is not necessary to have this image rank in Google Images, but inform spiders that it is relevant and contextual media related to the text content on the page.)


Reactivating a Googleads account

The owner of a website says that they clicked a few times on their old Googleads account and probably caused it to be deactivated. I created a new one from scratch and asked him to avoid any clicking. The new account has been disabled and I'd like to find ways to reactivate it as well as prevent any future deactivation. Any suggestions are appreciated.


How to set up Https on cPanel

Hello   I want to set up http **s** on CPanel! but I don't know how?   Is there anyone here that can help me? My cpanel version is cPanel Pro 1.0 (RC1).


SEO: disallowing Google from indexing forms?

**From a SEO point of view, would you exclude forms from being indexed/crawled by Google or not?** I mean my forms hardly ever contains keyword/keyphrases. So I'm wondering what's the point of letting Google index them? Moreover I think these form-pages might reduce PR of all other pages in the site cause the other pages are linking to the form-pages. If your answer is "yes I would exclude them form indexing" would you simply use robots.txt to exclude them? Thanks!


Place google map on website

I want to place google map on my website, how can I place google map on my website? can you give any already placed google map link and explain how can I add it on my website also!!!


Where can I get Apple logo with free license

I am working on a site that provide free tools, some of the tools are multi- platform and therefore I want to put the Icon of each OS, I already got linux icon and windows icon with free license but I couldnt find the apple one. does anyone know where can I get it from? thank you.


What is an easy way to see how often recently added pages are viewed in google analytics?

Google Analytics makes it very easy to see the number of views of the most- viewed pages, but I cannot figure out how to see the number of views a particular page has received, or the number of views of recently added pages (e.g. blog posts). Is it possible to sort the pageviews list by date the page was added? Can this be done without having to externally create a list of recent pages and use the analytics API?


Manage own framework

I have developed my own little framework for webpages. And for different websites I had to change some parts of the framework respectively developed new features / improvements. But in some cases I missed to copy the changes in the original framework code. How do you manage your frameworks? I copy the complete framework to a library folder in my projects folder structure. So I have a copy of the framework in every project. I would like to have it on one place in order to modify / improve / bugfix it once and then distribute it on the projects.


Separating static/uploaded content from the site

I have a site where I anticipate to have a large amount of users. I've heard that it is a good idea to separate user content (uploaded images) and place them on a separate static server where lighttpd would serve the content. This is supposed to speed up the requests significantly. My question is:   * Roughly how much improvement can I expect form doing this?   * How is it done? Users on my site upload files but then how do I automate the transfer process? What's the best practice? Rsync?   * Any other tips? ideas? I'd really appreciate your input.


Several sub domains pointing to one folder. Fasthosts problem

I have a ASP.net website e.g. `www.website.com`. The idea is that you will go to the URL 'yourname.website.com' and my site will request the name from the sub domain, process it and change the content accordingly. I purchased my Fasthosts hosting package and created a sub domain which points to a folder on my web hosting package at Fast Hosts. e.g. `www.website.com/folder`. However when I now go to the URL `yourname.website.com` it is immediately redirected to `website.com/folder`. This means I cannot request the sub domain from the URL because it has been lost. I have tried contacting these guys but they don't understand and keep going on about some sort of redirect script (although I don't see how any further redirects can solve my problem). Is there something I am missing here?


How to handle ecommerce customers that claim they cannot checkout

I work for an ecommerce company and we have always had the problem where some of our customers claim they cannot checkout for some reason. This usually results in the CS department forwarding me the email or something, because it _might_ be a technical problem on the site. (it never is - reasons range from customers not knowing how to work a website, to having viruses on their pc's, to javascript being disabled, etc). My question is -- what are some good ways to attempt to handle the customers who cannot figure out the website for some reason? I don't simply want to take the attitude of "forget them, they are the minority of customers", since I'd like their business. There are many much larger ecommerce sites out there, and I'm sure they get their fill of these customer types too, what's their solution?


Can Googlebot read CamelCase file names?

This has been a question I have been wondering for quite some time now. Can Googlebot, and other search engine crawlers, read file names (such as images) that are in CamelCase? For example, if I have an image saved as `ThisIsMyImage.jpg`, can Googlebot detect that as being a file name of `This Is My Image`, or is it best to save it as `this-is-my-image.jpg` or `this is my image.jpg`?


Duplicate content concerns for directory listings?

I run a local business directory site with client profile pages structured geographically. I also have a media network to share our listings across other directory sites. Does having our client page content distributed to a broader media network of sites affect our SEO? Are their duplicate content concerns with sharing client descriptions with directory sites across the web?


Avoiding crawl time for noindex pages

I have pages with `noindex` in robots meta tag (specifically inner site search results pages). Because my site has many pages and Google hasn't crawled them all and I'm trying to help his crawler focus and not waste time on irrelevant pages (such as these `noindex` pages). If I add a `nofollow` to the **a href that links to these pages** , will that help? Is the `noindex` in the target pages helpful to avoid crawl time 'waste'? Should I make those pages in a specific folder and block through _robots.txt_?


Can I remove a transaction from Google Analytics a few days later?

So the long story short is there was a bug on a production site [which has since been fixed] that caused a transaction to be logged for ~1000x its actual value. Ideally I'd like to either change the price for that transaction but in lieu of that I'd be happy to just remove it all together. It is a single transaction and it happened a few days ago so I can't just run a negative priced second transaction to average it out.


Does rel="nofollow" link helps in SEO

I have read that links to rel="nofollow" doesn't help in pagerank or SEO. I used google webmaster tool to find out the external links pointing to my website. In results i found some links from posted in facebook too with rel="nofollow". Now I have been confused that whether those links from facebooks are helping to promote my Pagerank and SEO or not?


What is better for SEO robots.txt file or dynamically generated robots.txt URL?

I was relying on our custom WordPress package's dynamically generated _robots.txt_ URL for a few sites but it was not being honoured by Google or Bing (plugin URLs were getting indexed despite the rule `Disallow /wp-content` in _robots.txt_ ). I waited for a couple of weeks and uploaded an actual file in the root with the same rules and it worked. Does this mean that an actual file is better than dynamically generated _robots.txt_ file or is it just me associating some coincidental events?


What is happening to a domain with status PENDING DELETE as well as AUTORENEWPERIOD?

A domain I once registered but gave away:               Expiration Date:13-Mar-2013 14:39:45 UTC     Sponsoring Registrar:Directi Internet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. dba PublicDomainRegistry.com      (R159-LRMS)     Status:PENDING DELETE RESTORABLE     Status:HOLD     Status:AUTORENEWPERIOD     Status:REDEMPTIONPERIOD     Registrant ID:DI_7838158     Registrant Name:scherhag     Registrant Organization:Locafroid europe sa      I'd like to get this domain back and I'm hoping that PENDING DELETE means it might soon be released to the market. However I'm not sure, as there is also a status that says AUTORENEWPERIOD?


What is the difference between JSP and PHP regarding hosting?

Is it easy to host a jsp website like PHP? Is the server open source like Apache? and What is the best server for jsp?


How to submit sitemap to Baidu?

I've some pages in my site in Chinese but I don't understand Chinese (it's some GIS data). Is there any way to submit sitemap to Baidu?


How do I follow up on the comments made in my site using Facebook comments plugin?

I installed Facebook's social plugin - Comments. I thought that it would encourage people to comment on my articles and by doing that I will get (at the end) more traffic. After installing it to my site's articles, I found my self in a problem. How do I follow up on the comments made in my site? I have many articles and I don't understand, as a site owner, where do I see notifications on new comments. I need to make sure that I'm not spammed or that I need to comment on someone's question. Thanks


Validating sitemaps with images tag

I am trying to add the `<image>` tag to my sitemap, but even trying to look at the XSD , as mentioned by Google at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=183668 , I get 404 Error not found (the XSD link: http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap- image/1.1 ). How is that possible? Is there anyway I can validate it without the XSD?


Seeking .htaccess help: Converting multiple subdomains (both HTTP and HTTPS) to www.domain.com using .htaccess

I've been trying to get an answer to this question on other forums (the folks at SuperUser thought this was the place I needed to post) and via my connections, but I haven't gotten very far. Hopefully you guys can help me find an answer. I've got a dozen old subdomains that have been indexed by Google. These have been indexed as both HTTP AND HTTPS. I've managed to redirect all the subdomains properly, provided they are not HTTPS, but can't get any of the HTTPS subdomains to property redirect. Here's the code I'm using:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain1.mysite.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain2.mysite.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain3.mysite.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]      This works great until someone goes to:               https://subdomain2.mysite.com$      which is not redirected back to http://www.mysite.com$      How can I get this to work? Additionally, I'm guessing there is an easier way to make it happen than setting up a dozen pairs of `RewriteCond`/`RewriteRule`? Is there any way to do this in just a few lines, including one where I list all the subdomains? I'd actually also like to redirect everything on `https://www.mysite.com$` to `http://www.mysite.com$` except for 3 folders. These are `mysite.com/secure`, `mysite.com/store`, `mysite.com/user`. Is there any good way to add this to the _.htaccess_ file?


Google suddenly only indexes https and not http

So all of a sudden, searches for our site "radiotuna" give out the result as an HTTPS link. https://www.google.com/?q=radiotuna#hl=en&safe=off&output=search&sclient=psy- ab&q=radiotuna&oq=radiotuna&gs_l=hp.12...0.0.0.3499.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.LnOvBvgDOBk&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=177c7ff705652ec3&biw=1366&bih=602 We only use https for the download of two specific files (these urls are resources used for autoupdate functionality of an app we distribute). All other parts of the site should be served over http. We wouldn't like to see any other traffic over https, nor any of our site links to appear in search engines as https. I'd like to address this issue. It seems that the following solutions are available: hand out an https specific robots.txt as such:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      and/or at app-level, 301 permanent redirect all requests (except the two above) to HTTP if they come in as HTTPS. My concern with the robots method is that, say (for some reason) google decided not to index http pages, disallowing https pages might mean that google has nothing left to index with disastrous consequences for our ranking. This means I'm inclined to go with a 301 redirect. Any thoughts?


Are there any web-sites out there that block IE altogether?

Since IE8 is such a backward browser, I was wondering if there are any web- sites on the Internet that just don't support IE altogether (and block it via conditional comments, for instance)? I remember stumbling upon web-sites that block Firefox in the past (like ~2004). The justification of blocking IE is (obviously): You don't want to deal with IE bugs, and you don't want to have to maintain IE-specific hack and workarounds.


Free movie website scripts

Is there any free "movie website" script/code in PHP? I don't want video sharing ones like this: http://www.phpmotion.com/ I just want something to manage and display a database of movies. Like forfreemovie.com (but this is paid one). thanks


Hangul calligraphy (TTF)

I want a nice hangul font. Can somebody indicate one ? Something elegant and beautiful like this England calligraphy: ![Calligraphy](http://i.stack.imgur.com/JmIWA.png) I would like to apply it using css 3:               <!DOCTYPE html>          <html>         <head>             <meta charset = "utf-8">                  <style>                 @font-face {                     font-family: "hangul";                     src: url("hangul.ttf");                 }                      body {                     font-family: hangul;                 }             </style>                  <title></title>         </head>              <body>             컴 투 미         </body>     </html>      Thanks


Google authorship verification issue

I'm trying to get my blog content author verified so my face gets into the Google search results. I managed to achieve this a few weeks back - When testing my content in the Google authorship testing tool it reported that I had been verified and I could see my mug in the results. All I had to do was wait a couple of weeks before I started popping up in the search results (I think(?)). However, I seem to have thrown a spanner in the works. I set up Google apps for my domain and merged my old Google+ profile into my google apps account. This seemed to reset my Google+ profile (no biggy, since it was a new profile and only had 1 connection). I re-set up my G+ account and tied it all in to my blog and it's content. I am now seeing some very strange behaviour. If you take a look at one of my blog posts through the snippet testing tool: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.fraser- hart.co.uk%2Fjquery-fullscreen-background-slideshow%2F&html= You will see that it is not recognising me as an author. However, when you enter my profile URL (https://plus.google.com/108765138229426105004) into the "Authorship verification by email" input, you will see that it does in fact recognise it as verified. Now, if you try and verify the same page again, it reverts back to unverified. I thought I may have to just wait it out but this has been over a week now and previously (before I merged my profile) it happened instantaneously. Has anyone experienced this bizarre behaviour before? What is happening here? More importantly, is there anything I can do to resolve it?


Does placing more ads units reduce Adsense CPC?

I have read at many places, publishers saying that placing more ad units (like 3 on a page) tends to reduce the CPC of the ads. Is that so ?


Should my "convenience" link that redirects to page 1 be a permanent or temporary redirect?

So, I have a simple blog. Included in my blog is tags. There are two ways to reach the first page of the posts belonging to a tag though. There is `/tags/foobar` and there is `/tags/foobar/1` (where foobar is the tag). Right now I do a temporary redirect from `/tags/foobar` to `/tags/foobar/1`. Should I upgrade this to a permanent redirect?


Keyword ranking tracker that works on a per-domain basis

I'm looking for a keyword racking tracker tool for google. I have found a lot of them over the internet. However I need one that can track the ranks of a site on domain basis (not exact full URL). Because I'm not sure which page of my site comes up on the result depends on the keyword as my site has hundreds of pages. Any recommendation? Or do I have to set each URLs per keyword?