Is it good to start a website with keyword very popular or not so popular?

I am planning to launch a website. However, it is still undecided as there are many keywords on google to begin with. My question is whether it is good to be a part of well established keyword with millions of search result already OR would it be good to be part of keyword who have search result less than 100 or none. Thanks and regards, Jeet.


phishing attack. Where do I start the cleanup?

I'm a newbie webmaster. I've got a domain and a site... and no clue about the web (I'm OK with files and programs... ) I got a message from google that my site is a possible phishing site, with a link the the suspect page:                http://www.mydomain.com/~phishers/Paypal/us/Confirm.php      needless to say, I didn't put that up. Can someone point me to a good tutorial on what to do now? I'd like to figure out what happened so I can defend against it the next time around. How do I identify what kind of attach this is? Also, what is the tilde doing in the URL path? I couldn't find any path like this on my hosting account, so I'm not entirely sure how to delete it.


Google analytics/adwords account and leaking of private data

I am frequently asked to log into clients google analytics and adwords accounts. If I forget to log out before visiting other google properties (google search, youtube etc), this leaves tracks of my views/searches etc, exposing my activities to the client. **Summary:**   1. Client gives me access to their Google Analytics / AdWords account   2. I log into clients Analytics account and do some stuff   3. Then in another tab I perform some related google searches to solve some related issues   4. Issues solved, I then close the Analytics tab   5. I then visit google.com, perform some unrelated searches   6. I then visit YouTube, view some unrelated videos   7. _All Web and YouTube searches are **recorded in clients google account** , thus leaking potentially sensitive data_ Even assuming that I remember to log out correctly at step 4 (as I do 95% of the time), anything I do at step 3 is exposed to the client. I would be surprised if this is not a very common issue. I'm looking for a technical solution to _ensure that this can never happen_. Any ideas?


How much time do you spend for SEO?

There are basic rules to follow for SEO, and then there are labor intensive site promotion activities that you can do on a daily basis that add tiny increments that over time eventually add up to a boost. The ROI curve for these time-intensive activities is, in my experience, not linear. There's a point at which you could easily devote 8 hours a day to pumping your sites and yet see very little return for it. How much time do you spend, and what routine do you follow for SEO?


I have a site with PDFs and Word documents that I know have been indexed by Google because they appear in search results with filetype:pdf (or doc), and if I search for some very specific terms with quotation marks, they appear as well. But they don't appear for general search terms that do exist in the documents. Is Google a reliable document search engine? If not, are there other options for managing many documents and making them searchable to users?


Application for google adsense rejected twice due to Unacceptable site content

I have a technical blog site at techaxe.com . I put up technical articles over there quite frequently. I applied for google adsense an got my application rejected twice. The issue reported both times was Unacceptable site content. I read the content policy by google and found nothing that would indicate that the content i have on my blog is unacceptable to them. Can some one please guide me as to what should be done so that i can get my adsense application accepted.


MSNBot/BingBot not reporting it is a bot?

I have apache logs from my server, and I filter out visits from bots/crawlers/scrapers using a python script that checks for user agent strings containing text like 'bot', 'googlebot', etc. Lately, there have been a number of visits to my site from what I believe is msnbot/bingbot, but they don't report it in their user agent. An example of a log line is: `207.46.12.74 - - [27/May/2011:07:45:07 -0400] ...stuff... "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/5.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648)"` And a reverse DNS of the IP address:               Name: msnbot-207-46-12-74.search.msn.com     Address: 207.46.12.74      Right now I'm thinking of filtering out specific IP addresses that I detect are `msnbot` when I perform rDNS on their IP addresses, but when I presented this to a coworker, he felt that maybe there was something else to the fact that Microsoft's bingbots weren't reporting their user agent, like if it was IE private browsing or bing's safe-website crawler. I've looked on Project Honeypot, various sites that have databases of user agents, and have confirmed net blocks of IP addresses that MSN/Bing bots use, but I think he wants even stricter confirmation. Anyone know the behavior of these bots and why they're not reporting their agent strings as being 'bots'?


Can we Use Google's Ajax Proposal?

In October 2009 on Google's blog (see this link) there was a proposal presented to make ajax websites crawlable. Does anyone know if this got past the proposal stage and is it safe to use the methods outlined in that blog post? It's been 18 months since so I'm guessing something's happened since then, but I can't find any more info about it.


Google detects Malware on my website

Recently Google has been blocking my website after detecting Malware on it. I have checked through the files and can't spot any Malware that might have been inserted anywhere and no additional files have been added from what I can see. In the diagnostics> Malware section og googles webmaster tools for the site it says "Malware Google has not detected any malware on this site." Also on stopbadware.org the website is not on their clearing house. The site is melfordschoolofmotoring.co.uk. So why is google detecting malware?


Can the password recovery function of Drupal be configured to only ask for email address?

(I originally asked this question in webapps.stackexchange.com.) By default, in Drupal, when we provide a "set new password" form, the form asks for either a site username or an email address. If the user provides either a username or email address associated with a valid account, they get an email (at that address) with a link that allows them to set a new password. We'd like to ensure that all of our users are using a current email address, and to that end we'd like to turn _off_ the ability to put in a username. When the user puts in a username, it may send a message to an old email address but return a "We're sending you email" to the user. If they put in an email address which we don't have, it gives them an error message, which alerts them to the fact that they haven't kept us up to date (and makes them get in touch with us by email). Can we restrict that to only ask for email?


apache virtual host problem on windows 7 - please explain

This problem has never occurred in the past (i have tried this many times) but this time, ALL virtual hosts defined in the virtual-hosts.conf file in the apache installation directory direct the browser to the apache server documentRoot directory. I am using windows 7 with the latest version of apache. These are the virtual hosts defined               NameVirtualHost *:80          #     # VirtualHost example:     # Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.     # The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not     # match a ServerName or ServerAlias in any <VirtualHost> block.     #     <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerName dev.a.local         ServerAlias dev.a.local         DocumentRoot "D:/wwwroot/a/public"         ErrorLog "logs/a.log"         CustomLog "logs/a-access.log" common              <Directory "D:/wwwroot/a/public">             Options Indexes FollowSymLinks             AllowOverride All         # Controls who can get stuff from this server.          Order allow,deny              Allow from all              DirectoryIndex index.php         </Directory>     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerName dev.b.local         ServerAlias dev.b.local         DocumentRoot "D:/wwwroot/b/public"         ErrorLog "logs/b.log"         CustomLog "logs/b-access.log" common              <Directory "D:/wwwroot/b/public"s>             Options Indexes FollowSymLinks             AllowOverride All         # Controls who can get stuff from this server.          Order allow,deny              Allow from all              DirectoryIndex index.php         </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      I have modified the hosts file and added               127.0.0.1 dev.a.local      127.0.0.1 dev.b.local      When i try to access dev.a.local or dev.b.local i am directed to the documentRoot of apache defined in httpd.conf. Please help.


This is my _robots.txt_ :               User-agent: *     Disallow: /wp-admin/     Disallow: /wp-includes/          Sitemap: http://www.mydomain.org/sitemap.xml.gz      But Google Webmaster Tools tells me that robots is blocking access to the sitemap: > We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure > your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you > provided and then resubmit: **URL restricted by _robots.txt_**. I read that Google Webmaster Tools caches _robots.txt_ , but the file has been updated more than 36 hours ago. **Update:** Hitting TEST sitemap does not cause Google to fetch a new sitemap. Only SUBMIT sitemap was able to do that. (BTW, I dont see whats the point in 'test sitemap' unless you paste your current sitemap in there - it doesnt fetch a fresh copy of the sitemap from the address it asks you to enter before the test - but thats a question for another day.) After submitting (instead of testing) a new sitemap the situation changed. I now get "URL blocked by _robots.txt_. Sitemap contains URLs which are blocked by _robots.txt_." for 44 URLs. There are exactly 44 URLs in the sitemap. This **means that Google is using the new sitemap but it is still going by the old robots rule (which kept everything off-limits)** None of the 44 URLs are in `/wp-admin/` or `/wp-includes/` (which is kind of impossible anyways, since _robots.txt_ is built on the fly by the same plugin that creates the sitemap). Update 2 It gets worse: on a Google Search results page, the description for the homepage reads: "A description for this result is not available because of this site's _robots.txt_ – learn more". All other pages have fine descriptions. There is no _robots.txt_ OR robots meta blocking indexing of the homepage. I'm stuck.


Installing an asp application on a dnn server

I created a registration db/web application in C# for some workshops. The organization requesting is hosted on a DotNetNuke server. What changes do I need to make to the web.config so it can run under the site. Currently when I try to go to a page it get an error: Server Error in '/' Application. Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately. Parser Error Message: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS.


Google Analytics on a web farm?

Is it possible to use Google Analytics on a web farm so that it collects stats on what happened on each server in the farm? eg:   * Instead of visits, show visits per server (helps us check the load balancer is working)    * Instead of site speed, show site speed per server (helps us see if any box is unexpectedly slow)   * And so on


Does Google penalize changed H1 tags?

A friend of mine is worried that changing the font of the `<h1>` tag will cause Google to penalize it (or not assign as much weight to it). He described a situation where small `<h1>` text could be used to fake the important keywords on a page. I assured him that this was silly, but he insists on hard reference. Could anyone link me to something written by Google?


Is there a way to keep my local IP the same?

Every time I restart my Laptop it changes my LOCAL IP from 192.168.1.102 to 192.168.1.105 or some other random number. Is there a option for it to recognize my MAC and keep my local IP the same, I have to keep changing the opened ports for my port forwarding each restart. ( I don't need a static Public IP, I just need a static IP for my router to allow me to play games, or host websites ect.)


Tool to get all the Google page ranks of a website

I have a website, I was searching for a tool get the google page ranks of my website But I didn't get the appropriate one. Can anyone suggest tool to do this. (data export options to csv/excel will be appreciated).


Subdomain redirect to WWW

I have the domain `example.com` and the `test.example.com` running on apache server. For some reason when I try to visit _test.example_ it is redirected to _www.test.example_ and by consequence a `Server not found` error is displayed in the browser. Both .htaccess (root and subdomain folder) files are empty. **Additional facts** I have another subdomain `xyz.example.com` pointed to public_html/xyz directory with some content inside (index.html with "hello world message") and it works fine if I use xyz.example.com instead of www.xyz.example.com. So, can you help me to point to the right direction in order. I have a vps and I am able to change any file if is required. Below you can find my virtual host configuration.               <VirtualHost xx.xxx.xxx:80>         ServerName test.example.com         ServerAlias www.test.example.com         DocumentRoot /home/example/public_html/test         ServerAdmin webmaster@test.example.com         UseCanonicalName Off         CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/test.example.com combined         CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/test.example.com-bytes_log "%{%s}t %I  .\n%{%s}t %O ."              ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/example/public_html/test/cgi-bin/              # To customize this VirtualHost use an include file at the following location         # Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/2/example/test.example.com/*.conf"          </VirtualHost>


Suddenly I have started getting 404 wordpress errors

Suddenly I have started getting 404 error on Google Webmaster. The backend is wordpress. 404 link is http://digitalanalog.in/2011/07/05/augmented-reality-interior- designer-kinect-hack/1345295070000/1345781600000 and it is pointing from this page http://digitalanalog.in/2011/07/05/augmented-reality-interior-designer- kinect-hack/1345295070000/ (this url has been automatically generated. Have no clue how this url exist) I am getting 404 errors of the similar pattern on all the pages


Do blog comments count as updates to your website?

I constantly hear that websites which are updated frequently do better in terms of SEO, so I was wondering: do blog comments count? I'm guessing they do, since they show that the website still has a 'lifeblood' to it - but I thought it'd be wise to check here first.


How to remove CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED status from my domain name

I need help on how to get register.com to remove the CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED status from my domain name so I can transfer it. Please what do I need to do? Thanks.


Web hosting providers and performance

Is there a way that we can measure performance for a host provider? If so, I would like to start this post as a wiki for everyone to chime in regarding their hosting provider. (I want to change but would like to make more of an informed decision.) **Rules:** **Phase 1**   * Post comments to the Question regarding ways to measure performance.   * Vote for comments to the Question.   * Based on comments I'll edit the Question so that we'll agree to use a particular technique or tool to measure performance. **Phase 2** Once we've decided on the technique or tool...If you want to contribute a measurement for a host provider...   1. If an answer/measurement for your host provider **_exists_** add your measure as a comment to that answer.   2. If an answer/measurement for you host provider **_does not exist_** , create a new answer, list that host provider along with your measurement. (Note: perhaps different packages for the same hosting company should be different answers...ex: Media Temple Grid Service and Media Temple Dedicated Virtual should be listed as separate Answers)


Is it Possible to Earn Revenue by Selling Click Data?

I have read an article about sites like google and facebook using a redirect script to keep track of who clicks what links on the web. And since they have a lot of traffic, they are monitoring a lot users that are clicking a lot of links. However, they aren't the source of 100% of the links in the world, and thus they can not monitor every link that every user clicks on. However, we (the smaller websites) are also capable of monitoring what our visitors click on, though we have to do it on a much smaller scale (we don't have as many visitors as facebook and/or google). The only problem is, we don't collect enough data for it to be very useful to anyone but us. However, if someone were to pay owners of the small sites for their click data, and combine it into one big dataset, it could be very useful. In fact, it would probably be useful enough that some people would want to pay to have access to that data. I was wondering if there are any websites that use the business model described above (get small websites to sell you their data, and sell the combined data to other corporations). If anyone knows of such a site, it could be an interesting revenue source for webmasters. And if there is not such a site, then it could be an interesting idea for anyone wanting to start a business... NOTE: I'm asking this more out of curiosity than because I actually want to sell my user's click data (though I might consider it in the future).


Measuring site load times after user is logged in?

How can I test my site "as if" users have logged in and then accessing different parts of the website? I saw http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/128/is-there-a-good-way- to-measure-my-sites-response-time-from-different-parts-of-th but it looks like its just for a "outside" / publicly visible page.


What is the default Web browser on Android?

What is the default Web browser on Android devices? Are there weird Web browser set by default that I should be aware of (to test my mobile Website on it)?


file need to go through a php page using .htaccess

I'm looking for a way to convert this type of url : h11p://www.mywebsite.com/dl/F5EGD6 Into h11p://www.mywebsie.com/dl/files/my_file.zip sing a PHP page to request the URL from the DB with F5EGD6. I tried ith this htaccess file :               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule (*)$ /dl.php [QSA]      But it doesnt work, I get Error 500 :( I don't know how to handle that... Anyone know?


How does Google handle "clean" URLs is the URL is always changing due to edits?

So, since some "clean" URL system pull the wording directly from content I was wondering how Google handles this? * * * **Here's an example of content changes changing the URLs:** * * * **Version 1 of the Title:**   * what-should-i-look-for-in-a-web-based-applicant-tracking-system **Version 2 of the Title, with Version 1 rerouting to this now, but V1 URL stays the same:**   * what-should-i-be-looking-for-in-a-web-based-applicant-tracking-system


Number of page requests by any Bot in 5 secs

I am writing a script that will block any bot that requests page(s) for example **X** times in the past **5 secs**. I need to find the X here. Do you guys know some approx values I can use?


I dont want to hide my headings, but I dont want untitled articles

I'm currently building a site, that contains tabs (Bootstrap) for the articles. I dont want to show headings in the articles, because the tabs work as headings for the user. But the tab buttons are inside a nav element so they are not related to the content. If I outline my document all the articles are untitled. If I add headings and hide them, Google hates me. What would be the best practice? Does it make a difference, if my articles have headings?


Pros and Cons of Buying Common Website Mispellings

I own a website that is nicely short but somewhat easy to misspell. I would like to buy the three or four most common mispellings and redirect them all to my main page. Are there any major problems with this? I could see it being considered duplicate content and it could make visitors confused as to what the actual name is. Is there anyway to migitate these and other problems?


how to find that my written content is unique - in terms of google and user? I also want to know whether updating the content or user commenting on that article helps in seo?


Is Google still giving weightage for old domain, i.e at least 6 month old?

Is Google still giving weightage for old domain, i.e at least 6 months old? I mean I have the best content which is useful for users. Do I still have to wait for my domain name to be at least 6 months old?


Is collecting IP address and user agents on form submission illegal in the U.S.?

I'm creating a website where I collect the name, email, state, and an optional photo of a user. Before the user submits the form, they have to agree to the terms of the site. For testing and statistics, i'd like to collect IP address and user agents. Do I have to let the user know i'm gathering this on the terms page?


Report generator for Cisco call manager

We have an old Cisco call manager at our office and the call manager generates a call history report in `.csv` files everyday. We need to make the call log history report available for managers on web based system. What tool will help to automatically generate web pages for the `.csv` files when the call manager creates the .csv file?


What are useful and proven ways to get good customers?

Some of the visitors on this website are consultants of various kinds, webmasters, SEO experts, web developers, web designers, content writers, you all rock! **Can you share some unique ways of finding good customers for your web- related business?** Even if you don't have any website, just services and your skills. And if you can throw in some ways to keep the good customers, and lose the bad ones (without leaving hard feelings), all the better.


How to use low competition keywords with large search volume effectively? For example : I have keyword phrase "why does the" which produce 368,000 global searches (searxch type : phrase in google keyword tool). This keyword has 1% competition. I want to know what can I do with this keyword. NOTE: The phrase is the starting phrase, ex: why does the sun shine?, why does the moon's color white? why does the sky blue?


Is using ads module in any content management system perilous?

Is using ads module in any content management system to deliver Adsense ads perilous? It states that delivering Adsense ads through advanced scripts is prohibited.


How to remove /index.html

How to make redirect /index.html -> `/` in Apache?               Redirect /index.html http://domain-name.com/      Is causeing infinite loop when opening home page.


Shopping cart-SEO-HTML Validates

Google is carefully tracking load time. Most carts I see fail miserably here. Does anybody know of a shopping cart that follows W3C rules so it will validate? Or at least come close? So many are a disaster in the validator. Also will display a user edited Title tag, Desc tag and have a good URL? Am I dreaming if I want a cart that does not rewrite the URL? Once I find a good cart, then I will chose a CMS system that will work with it. Or even HTML. I don't care. I just want a cart that works for SEO!


Is there a simple shopping cart I can add to my existing website?

I created a website for my wife, who knits scarves. The site simply displays the 18 different colours she has created, with a Lightbox-like large photo available when clicked. She would now like to give visitors the option to purchase online and pay with PayPal and possibly Google Checkout. We do not need a full ecommerce solution; I've looked at several and they all seem to be overkill for our requirements. We don't even need categories. "All" I want is something that will add products to a cart, take the customer details and integrate the payment provider. So far, the best solution I have found seems to be this script on Codecanyon and I wanted to find out if anyone knows of any better products before I commit to this route. Thanks for your help!


Proxying is removing the end of the URL

I have an existing apache webserver, and I am trying to add YouTrack to it. Knowing anything about YouTrack is likely not relevant for this question, except that it's running Jetty 6.1. So I have it working correctly on it's port. Note, the domain and all the DNS is done internally, the webserver is not exposed to the main internet. If I browse to:               http://my.web.site:7935/      Everything works perfectly, and the connection doesn't go through apache at all. I am trying to use mod_proxy to be able to browse, and I get redirected.               http://my.web.site/youtrack/ --> http://my.web.site/rootGo      Which is not found on my server (obviously); `rootGo` is related to youtrack. If I manually type in the correct url, this gets redirected:               http://my.web.site/youtrack/rootGo/ --> http://my.web.site/youtrack/login      Which shows a login box but it can't seem to find any of the CSS or other helper files. Here's what I added to my existing `<VirtualHost *:80>`. Note: nothing else on this webserver is using mod_proxy:                   ProxyRequests Off         ProxyVia On         ProxyPreserveHost On              # Set the permissions for the proxy         <Proxy *>           Order deny,allow          Allow from all         </Proxy>              ProxyPass /youtrack/ http://my.web.site:7935/         ProxyPassReverse /youtrack/ http://my.web.site:7935/              <Location /youtrack>           Order allow,deny           Allow from all         </Location>      Is this a problem with my configuration or with YouTrack? I tried to follow the instructions on the YouTrack website but they're pretty minimal and just refer me to the Jetty documentation which hasn't been super helpful either.


How do large sites like StackOverflow handle their access logs?

I'm wondering how large sites like StackOverflow handle their access logs. A write to the disk on every request seems a little bit uneconomical, but is Google Analytics that reliable to use it as your only information resource?


How do you set up the directory structure for a multilingual site without duplicating content?

I want to make a website in two languages. I've looked around and settled on the directory option of separating both languages. How do I make it work? Let's say I have the following three files for the landing homepage, the English page and the Spanish page:               http://www.domain.com/index.html     http://www.domain.com/en/index.html     http://www.domain.com/es/index.html      Let's also say that `/index.html` will be in English, with a link to `/es/index.html`. In turn, `/es/index.html` will have a link to the English version. Would this be back to `/index.html` or to `/en/index.html`? How do I get both English versions (the one at the root and the one in the directory) to actually be the same file in the same directory? I'm new to this, so I'm not using any scripts yet. To me, the obvious solution is to duplicate both English versions and have the one at the root point to files under the `/en/` directory, but I'm not a fan of duplication and I've learned that search engines really frown upon that. Anyone point me in the right direction?


Fix 403 errors in Google Webmaster Tools

I have a domain that has "fallen off a cliff" for searches in Google. Searches that used to be in position 1-4 are now gone from page 1. The same search in Bing shows the typical position expected (top 5 results). In reviewing Google Webmaster Tools, I am seeing two problems: 1. The Sitemap is reporting two errors: General HTTP error: HTTP 403 error (Forbidden) URLs not accessible However, the URL they provide as "no accessible" is accessible. I can click the link Google provides and it works fine.   1. There are 6,000 crawl errors of type 403. Again, most of these pages that have 403 are accessible in my browser (tried various browsers as well). About half are from January, the other half from November.   2. There are no IP-specific firewall rules on ports 80 and 443 that could block the goolgebot   3. Using the user agent switcher add-on for FF I confirmed that the page loads when the user agent is the googlebot   4. I an confirm that most of the pages reported as 403 are accessible.   5. A search of just "site:thedomain.com" does confirm there are over 9,000 in the index. But most searches don't return the site. I believe the 403 issues are the cause of the fall in search rankings, but I can't seem to find any information online with ideas about how to address this. Any ideas? jpe


Moving and redesigning a website

I am currently in the process of redesigning a successful business website. First I will be moving the site to a new web host. Once it is up and running I will begin porting the site into Joomla. Are their any considerations that I need to take into account to keep our rankings where they are? My goal is to also improve our rank as quickly as possible.


Put a link on the nav bar in Wordpress

I have a Wordpress blog. On the same domain, I have some other stuff hosted that isn't part of my WP install. I want to link to those other places on my domain from the top menu bar (nav bar) on my blog. How can I do that? The theme is Lightword, relevant header.php code follows:               <body <?php body_class(); ?>>
     <?php lightword_header_image(); ?>
     <?php lightword_rss_feed(); ?>

     <ul id="front_menu" <?php global $lw_remove_searchbox, $lw_use_wp_menus; $lw_menu_width = ""; if($lw_remove_searchbox == "true") $lw_menu_width = " class=\"expand\" "; echo $lw_menu_width; ?>>     <?php echo lightword_homebtn(__('Home','lightword')); ?>     <?php     if ( function_exists('wp_nav_menu') && $lw_use_wp_menus != "true") {     $lightword_menu = wp_nav_menu( array( 'menu' => 'lightword_top_menu', 'echo' => false, 'menu_id' => 'front_menu', 'container' => '', 'theme_location' => 'lightword_top_menu', 'link_before' => '', 'link_after' => '' ) );     $lightword_menu = preg_replace( array( '/^
/', '/\n<\/ul>$/' ), '', $lightword_menu);     echo $lightword_menu;     }else{     echo lightword_wp_list_pages();     }     ?>

     <?php echo lightword_searchbox(); ?>


How to spot a good social media marketer

It's a bit subjective but helpful and on-topic IMO, mayebe should be made community wiki I've been in contact with some guest bloggers lately which are interested in publishing posts on my website's blog, so far I've done a regular weekly blog and had a guy marketing it, but he's too busy to do more work right now. Now I need someone to market these blog posts on social media, the last guy I just got by recommendation from a friend, but now I need to find one myself. What criteria should I check when it comes to social media marketers? Do the number of followers and fans on their accounts and/or the number of votes they get for articles they market mean anything, or is impossible to know if it's spam? That's about the only criterion I could think of so far... Thanx to anyone who helps


How can I export a keyword list from Google Analytics?

In Google Analytics, I've been following several tutorials to export a list of keywords, but something is going wrong. This is what I try: 1.) click traffic sources 2.) click keywords 3.) Click Export 4.) Click CSV The resulting file shows two columns. Column A is dates. Column B is visits. I am trying to export a file so that Column A is keywords and Column B is visits.


Why do local HTML files take longer to load in IE compared to Firefox?

I am creating a local HTML file that links to 2 external CSS files and 3 external JS files. When I refresh this in Internet Explorer 9, the page takes over a minute to load compared to instantly in Firefox (latest stable build. When I remove the external CSS and JS references, IE9 loads the page instantly. Can anyone explain why IE9 takes so long to load local HTML files with references to external CSS and JS files?


How should I handle two different routes to the same place in a website hierarchy? How will this affect SEO?

guys. I'm considering a complete overhaul of my site, and I have a dilemma. I have multiple ways of getting to the same place, i.e.: `Home > Page 1 > Page 2 > Page 3` and `Home > Page 3` and possibly even `Home > Some Page > Page 3` It makes sense to do it this way logically (because of my categories), but what should I do about the pages? Of course, I don't want have duplicate content and get smacked by Google, but I don't want to the user to lose their place in the hierarchy/breadcrumbs. Is this a good time to use the `rel="canonical"` tag? The only difference on the three pages would be the breadcrumbs or menus, depending upon how the user navigates to the page. I may do the rebuild in CodeIgniter, in which case I could use routes. Would that be the best option, here? I just don't want to confuse users, get smacked by Google, sacrifice usability, etc. Thanks, guys!


Apache Redirect based on directory name

I'm trying to use one install of Kohana to manage two separate sites rather than just duplicate the install. I have directories like this:               applications/        app1/        app2/      The .htaccess I have looks like this:               RewriteEngine on     RedirectMatch app1/(.*)$ http://app1.example.com/$1          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !.*applications/app1.*     RewriteRule .* applications/app1/index.php/$0 [PT]      When I go to `app1.example.com` I get a 500 infinite redirect and the URL is `app1.example.com/index.php/index.php/index.php/...` What I need is for it to look like it's going to `app1.example.com` but behind the scenes it is redirecting to `document_root/applications/app1/index.php`. I also need this to work for app2 in the same way, but I imagine once I have it working for app1 it will essentially be identical. If you want to throw in any tips on managing multiple sites with one Kohana install that would help too.


Adding jPlayer to Magento site

I've got a simple, working demo page using jPlayer, which I built using the following guide: http://www.jplayer.org/latest/quick-start-guide/step-8-audio/ That was pretty straight forward. Now I'm looking for instructions on how to make the necessary `<head>` tag modifications such that I can have jPlayer show up on product pages in Magento.


What's the point of an Echo command in PHP?

I'm working in Dreamweaver, following a course from Lynda.com The teacher has me add an echo command and then observe the code in my browser. I simply could not understand what the purpose of this command is? Sorry, I'm new to code. Please explain slowly. I used to work in design view.


Why am I seeing 404 requests for crossdomain.xml in my server logs?

My website is recording a lot of 404 errors, from numerous sources, for a file `crossdomain.xml`. Does anyone know what this file is or why it's being requested?


Tracking URL Goals to an external site from a landing page

I have a landing page promoting an iOS app. The page is at vitogo.com. I've set up a goal for When a user clicks on the link to go to iTunes to download the app. I set up a URL destination goal in the property for the site, and can see the goal set up in the reports section. The problem is it isn't tracking any clicks. I've had the goal set up for a while now, and it hasn't tracked anything. Thanks for the help! EDIT: I now have two goals set up. Both URL Destinations.   1. An internal destination to /log-in    2. An external destination to http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vitogo-fitness-personal-trainer/id492292132?ls=1&mt=8 I tried setting up an event for the second url with the following tracking code on the link `` I then set up the goal values for the even in Google Analytics as shown in the image below: ![Google Analytics Event Tracking](http://i.stack.imgur.com/w71Ep.png) The event doesn't record anything. I'm able to set up an internal path as a goal, but can't get an external link to record any information.


Add to vistor data in google analytics?

How can i add data to google analytics? i'd like to attach data to users such as if silverlight is installed, if i suspect the user of using an adblock etc (i would say if javascript is enabled but i am unsure how to add that data if javascript is indeed disabled) How might i do this?


Adding Keywords in URL - Stuffing or Good Technique

I have about 25 pages on my website and after seeing Matt Cutts talk about how keywords in a URL is a good SEO technique, I decided to rename my files a more SEO friendly name. However, I now have many urls (9) that include the keyword "ninja-warrior" (i.e. ninja-warrior-gyms.html, ninja-warrior-training.html). Is that considered stuffing? In addition, I would have to use 301 redirects as I'm changing pretty much every url on my entire website. Evaluating those two concerns, are the SEO rewards of keyword friendly URLs greater than the risks of losing link juice with 301 redirects and possibly getting penalized for keyword stuffing (if that is possible in this scenario)? **Note:** There are a couple similar questions, however I am asking more on a risk vs. reward basis including the downside of having to use many 301 redirects which hasn't been brought up in other questions. It seems this is being perceived as a duplicate.


In 2014 has any SEO value rewriting urls? If my site consistently links product page, and that product page shows a consistent canonical url, is there a real SEO doing this               http://example.com/products/woman-tracksuit-in-hemp      instead of this               http://example.com/product.php?id=6588      I know that a human being would be more comfortable with a rewrited url, but I would like to focus on SEO and bots, especially Google


Do any CDN services offer multiple urls (or aliases) for your files?

Lets say a company has multiple commercial web properties that happen to use a lot of the same images on each site. For SEO reasons, the sites must not appear to be related to eachother in any way. This means that the sites can't all link to the same image, even though they all use the same one. Therefore, an image is uploaded to each site and served from each site separately. In order to improve maintainability and latency, lets say the company wanted to use a CDN service. What I'm wondering is, if you upload a file, like an image or something, to a CDN, is there basically one single URL that you access that image at? Or do some (or all) CDN services offer alias URLs so that you can access the same resource from multiple URLs? **Example of undesirable situation:** Both sites link to the same file URL Site ABC links to `<img src="http://123.cdnservice.com/some- path/myimage.jpg"/>` Site XYZ links to `<img src="http://123.cdnservice.com/some- path/myimage.jpg"/>` **Example of DESIRABLE situation:** Both sites link to the same file via different URLs Site ABC links to `<img src="http://123.cdnservice.com/some- path/myimage.jpg"/>` Site XYZ links to `<img src="http://123.cdnservice.com/some-alias- path/myimage.jpg"/>` So in the end, there is only one single file, `myimage.jpg` on the CDN server, but it is accessible from multiple URLs. Is this possible with CDN services? I know this would make browsers cache the same image twice, but at least it would be better for maintainability. Only one file would ever have to be uploaded.


html 5 doctype & SEO

I am trying to get my pages validated using Markup Validation Service on W3C validator. We are getting validation against the XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype comes back with the following error: > ... there is no attribute "data-gid" Because of the following code:               Add to Inquiry List      From the follwing page: http://dev.contractorshire.co.uk/catalog/plant/mini- digger/. We have been advised that we need to use the Html5 doctype. We have changed to the above doctype on this page now however the point of this excercise was to make sure the site is clean to help with SEO. I would like to use the html5 doctype with html5 markup. Here is the questoin: Is there any difference, from SEO perspective, between valid HTML5 or XHTML 1.0 Strict? Should I try to stay on (valid) XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype/markup or is it OK to move to vallid HTML5 doctype/markup?


How to account for multiple basket views in Google Analytics conversion funnel?

Assuming a typical ecommerce sales funnel of: _1. add to basket_   _2. browse more products_   _3. add (again) to basket_   _4. checkout_   _5. confirmation page_ How does one account for the multiple visits to the basket page? I.e. this would give 2x pageviews for the basket page for a single checkout = 50% funnel conversion rate. Each time the customer returns to the product catalogue from the basket, your funnel conversion rate is reduced! Is there any way of accounting for this in Google Analytics? Or is this just a rubbish metric?


Domain Redirect

I have one domain name & hosting package but would like to add another site (with a different address) to that host. Do I have to purchase from the same provider? Can I purchase the domain elsewhere but get the file redirected to my current host? Is this domain masking?


Access a PLESK website before propagation?

My web host uses Plesk and I want to know if there is anyway to access and view a website (with PHP and other processes being functional) without propagation of the domain name? I have found countless forums on this but they are all pretty old (circa 01-04) and involve either tricking your localhost or SSH commands and some even result in terrible security risks. I would like to access a web page directory through a browser and see it's contents while having the PHP processes carry out... _before_ I propagate it's potential domain name. People claim this is pointless but during a site migration why on earth would you not test a site before propagating it? I'm looking for something similar to what cPanel offers i.e. `http://IP.ADDRESS./~mydomain.com` The only solution I could think of is storing the site in a new directory of an already functional site and then setting up databases and testing the site once it's complete. Once tested and working I should be easily be able to migrate the files to the "new" domain name's root directory and just setup a new databases and then propagate the domain name. I can't believe that Plesk V10+ still does not have a site preview method that includes PHP, JS, and Flash ability.


How to choose correctly a provider of streaming?

I´m not asking for a recomendation of a specific streaming service provider. I wonder what aspects must I consider to select the correct one. I need a transmission provider to a television station (official website), which provides:   * Video and audio streaming.    * Permanent transmition.   * From 50 to 250 concurrent users.    * Just live events, non on-demand The first aspect is easy: find a provider that includes these features. The tough aspect is: how to know that one provider is a good choice? Must I search in their forums? Which technical aspects tells me he is reliable? I think that only asking directly to each provider will give me this answers, but some help (from experienced users) in identifying crucial aspects previously will come in handy.


How do I get a .name domain name

There was a service which provided email aliases on .name domain, but it seem to be gone now, so I was thinking of actually getting a domain for myself ( _martin.toth.name_ sounds nice). Do I understand it correctly, that I can't get a toth.name domain, but only third level: martin.toth.name? Do I get to have @toth.name emails even then? I've tried several registrars from Verisign's list, but none of them let's me ask for the third level, nor the toth.name (some say it's taken, some that it can't be registered). There's an article linked from Wikipedia entry on .name about cybercrime on .name. Should I look for another top level domain? Is it a disadvantage in search engines or anywehere else? _Note: couldn't post links to those pages, because I'm low on reputation_ So basically: **How does one register a .name domain name?**


404 error out of no where on .php file

I have a website which I've built that I have gone to a bunch of times today. Out of nowhere I receive a `404 Page Not Found` error, I didn't do anything. The site loads an `index.html` file which points to a `main.php` file which loads the content. Those 2 files are in the same directory and intact. I have no idea why this is happening - how can I troubleshoot the problem? I have already: cleared the cache, tried a new browser, triple-checked the file paths, and checked my hosts file.


Google has cached query string based dynamic page, but how/why?

I have a multipage form which works largely by posting the form details in query strings to the url. I know this isn't ideal and i've already changed it. However, what was happening is that google was caching results such as               mysite.com/myform?var=var&var2=var2&var3=var3      Where the var(s) were populated with form submitted form details. Any idea why/how this is happening? Thanks in anticpation.


Error after login to Magento on core/Mage/Admin/Model/User.php on line 437

None of out programmers has changed anything to the code, but out of nothing now, when a user tries to login on the backend, we have this error: > Fatal error: Call to a member function children() on a non-object in > /home/r1tech/public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Admin/Model/User.php on line 437 Any ideas why this is happening?


Should sites be tested in both Chrome and Safari?

While recently doing testing for a new web project, it occurred to me that Safari and Chrome both use the Webkit engine, yet are produced by two different companies (Apple and Google). Since it is the engine that does the bulk of the rendering work, can one of these browsers be safely disregarded during testing? Or are are there subtle differences that make testing in both worthwhile?


Why doesn't Firefox cache my images and CSS

I am using IIS7, I have already set up the following. But when I run Firefox it seems not to cache any of my images even with "remember history" set.               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <configuration>       <system.webServer>         <staticContent>           <clientCache cacheControlCustom="public" cacheControlMode="UseMaxAge" cacheControlMaxAge="7.00:00:00" />         </staticContent>       </system.webServer>     </configuration>      However when I use Firebug it still points to Firefox not caching images and CSS:               public,max-age=604800     Content-Type    text/css     Content-Encoding    gzip     Last-Modified   Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:53:22 GMT     Accept-Ranges   bytes     Etag    "507968c27d34cc1:0"     Vary    Accept-Encoding     Server  Microsoft-IIS/7.5     X-Powered-By    ASP.NET     Date    Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:06:41 GMT     Content-Length  5067     Request Headersview source     Host    www.xx.com     User-Agent  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1     Accept  text/css,*/*;q=0.1     Accept-Language en-us,en;q=0.5     Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate     Accept-Charset  ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7     Keep-Alive  115     Connection  keep-alive     Referer http://www.xx.com/     Cookie  __utma=62996397.135679654.1309106351.1309159743.1309164158.8; __utmz=62996397.1309106351.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); __utmc=62996397


Impact on SEO of adding categories/tags in front of the HTML title

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does the order of keywords matter in a page title? All StackExchange sites add the most-used tag of a question in front of the HTML title for SEO purposes. On Stackoverflow for example this is usually the programming language, so you end up with a title like > python - How do I do X? This has obviously an enourmous benefit on SEO as the programming language is an extremely important keyword that is very often omitted from the title. Now, my question is for the cases where the tag isn't an important keyword missing from the title, but just a category. So on Biology.SE for example one would have questions like > biochemistry - How does protein X interact with Y? or on Skeptics > medical science - Do vaccines cause autism? Those tags are usually not part of the search terms, they serve to categorize the content but users don't use those tags in their searches. **How harmful is adding tags that are not used in searches in terms of SEO?** Is there any hard data on the impact this practise might have on SEO? The negative aspects I can imagine, but have no data to show that it is actually a problem are:   * I heard that search engines dislike keyword stuffing and this might trigger some defense mechanisms against that   * It's a practise associated with less reputable sites, a keyword in front that doesn't fit the actual title well might look suspicious to some users.   * It wastes precious space in the title shown in search results.


IP - Country based ad delivery

I am looking for an ad manager script/system (open source or paid) which can deliver different ads based on the IP - country of the visitors. Would be nice if you can name one if you know!


Getting the full referral URL from Google Analytics

I have looked how to find this information and all I can find is old information on how to do it which doesn't work now, such as: http://www.sebastienpage.com/2009/05/06/google-analytics-trick-see-the-full- referring-url/ I manged to find the `User Defined` selection in the "Behavior" section, but when I clicked on it all I get is "not set". How can I get the full referrer URL from Google Analytics?


Approaching re-development

Part of any new business is looking for new clients. I'm wondering if any of you guys approach old outdated websites for re-design? If so, how do you approach them without insulting them, or do you tend to steer clear of this method?


Ruby on Rails 3 - Hosting Patterns?

I'm just starting to give RoR a go (RoR3 to be precise), and I'm wondering about hosting. For PHP applications, it's easy to run multiple of them on the one site (eg. in different subdirectories, subdomains, or addon domains). It seems that for RoR hosting, it is only ever one application per "server" - so for instance you can no longer install apps in subdirectories. Is this assumption correct? What are the different ways rails apps are hosted? Thanks guys :-)


How should I work out VAT (UK tax) in my eCommerce site?

We have an ecommerce system in place. The sales actually go through Sage, so we have an export script from our system that uses a third-party Sage Importer program. With a new version of this importer, values are checked more thoroughly. We are getting 1 pence discrepancies because of the way rounding works - our system has always held prices and worked to 4 decimal places. In the checkout the totals would be worked out first, then the rounding to 2 decimal places. The importer does rounding first, though. So, for instance: **Our way:**               Product 1: £13.4561     Qty: 2     Total inc VAT = £32.29 (to 2dp)      **Importer way:**               Our way:     Product 1: £13.4561     Qty: 2     Total inc VAT = £32.30 (to 2dp)      Management are reluctant to lose the 4dp but the developers of the Sage importer have said that this is correct and makes sense -- you woudn't sell a product for £13.4561 in a shop, nor would you charge someone tax at 4 decimal places. I contacted the HMRC and the operator didn't really give me much to go on, telling me a technician would phone back, to which they haven't and I'm still waiting after almost a week and numerous follow-up calls. I did find a PDF on the HMRC's web site, but this did about us much to confuse me as it did to answer my questions. I see that they're happy for people to round up or down, as long it is consistent, but I can't tell whether it should be done on a line by line basis or on the end total of the order. We are now in the position where we need to decide whether it's worth us doing one of the following, or something completely different. Please advise with any experience or information I can read.   * Change all products on the site to use 2dp   * Keep 4dp but round each line in the order to 2dp before working out tax   * Keep it as it is and "fudge" the values at the export script (i.e. make that values correct by adding or subtracting 1p and changing the shipping cost to make the totals still work out) Any thoughts?


Actual page load time vs. perceived one

You know how all around the web, people are pushing for smaller and smaller page load times ? They do so with good reason, especially with Google now factoring it in in their way to rank pages. It's good business practice, good business ethics, and everybody is happier when pages load faster. Now, something's been bothering me as of late. I had this page that loaded reasonably fast (under a second) but in it was a facebook like button. This little thingy cranked up the page load time to 2 seconds. But just the actual one, not the perceived one. For users, everything loaded fast enough on the page except for that iFrame. So, for Google, even though it loaded fine for users (in term of usability etc), did it penalize us ? I've decided to remove it, and follow the results in analytics. Will this help with SEO ? I feel like the concept of page load time itself shouldn't be restricted to the combined loading time of all elements on the page as calculated by a tool. I hope I am posting this in the right area, I wasn't too sure. Thanks in advance for your answers !


Building an online store, things to consider

I have a client who wants a little online store, it will have relatively few items, no categorization (maybe something very basic, maybe tags). Expected market is all over the world (US, Canada, UK, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, Japan). So the store needs to be able to accept as much payment methods as possible. (Paypal is not widespread in Russia, for example, due to certain limitations with its service.) Accepting credit cards (visas, master cards, etc.) is an absolute must. I am weighing different paths. Possible solutions I've thought of were: http://www.shopify.com/ or http://bigcartel.com/ build something on my own. While I am a front-end developer, I don't fear back-end programming and I've experience with Django, Rails, Sinatra and all kinds of PHP (though I would prefer to not work with PHP again). I have also worked with liquid templates so theming Big Cartel or Shoppify is not a problem too. What are the things I need to consider if I will decide to build the store myself? What are the problems I will face when implementing different paying methods? What are typical problems with online stores? Thanks!


Right “time” for publishing on multinational/global websites?

I have a website on which I publish a daily update. Its just german, so Germany/Austria/Switzerland which all share the same timezone. So the system always publishes the daily new content at midnight, which is fine. But now I plan to go tap into english/spanish/french/italien speaking areas. I thought about publishing everywhere at midnight, so californians essentially see the content 18 hours before australians do... Any ideas on that? How do other websites do it? Or maby is there a method to keep the shifting delay smaller? Because the zones utc -11 and +12 are essentially only 1 hour apart (when it comes to the time of day, not the actual date). Any ideas?


301 redirects mirrored domain

I'm redesigning a site for a friend on my localhost. His old site is an .asp based site and we're replacing it with a WordPress site on LAMP hosting. The old site sits on domain A and also has another domain, domain B parked on top of it mirroring it. Google has picked up domain B for most of his search engine results and yahoo and bing etc have picked up domain A. The plan is to 301 redirect the the old pages of his site on domain A to the new WordPress versions and park domain B on top of it like before. My question is, will this work, if not what would be a better way to approach it? We'd prefer not to lose any of the search engine listings in the redesign, and the search engines don't appear to have penalized him for duplicate content. Thanks very much in advance!


How to find the Fastest DNS servers to host our domain?

The question was born because lately we've seen a pretty odd (well, at least for us, for the first time) - error message in Google webmaster tools - " **DNS lookup timeout** " ... I was pretty sure that with eNom's 5 DNS servers (dns1... to dns5.name-services.com) we're pretty set... But it appears that from (Europe/Hungary), for example - dns1.name- services.com takes 170ms. to respond on a ping... while GoDaddy's ns75.domaincontrol.com - takes only 40 ms. to respond... and at the same time - dns2 to dns5.name-services.com - each result with a timeout error (on ping)... This issue came to our attention right in the final stages of optimizing our web-site (almost to death) - basically, just in time... **I would love to move our domains to a fast (fastest?) and reliable DNS server.. - but how do I find one ?** Also - I did the ping tests from various geographic locations (we have servers in many countries) and GoDaddy seemed to be faster than eNom almost in every case. I'd be very thankful for any hints on this! Edited: Well.. maybe this one does not have an answer, after all...


How is this site so fast?

how is the website http://dftba.com/ so fast? when i click a link it loads right then? what makes it work like this? how do i make it work like this on my site? some of the objects on the site are being hosted by a website called `ecogeek- cdn.net`? who is this company and why do they host the images of this site? i have been looking into this site some time because i want this site to be like mine site they site use Apache   they site use Python (when asked the developer told me this)   they site use jquery and jqueryui   they site is custom built not using wordpress   they site is ~~owned~~ hosted by liquidweb   they site gets a million users a month   they site launched in january   they site uses cpanel   ~~they site does not have SSH or FTP (i tried to connect but it denied me all)~~ they does have SSH and FTP but only allowed by their addresses Please;   my english is not as good as yours


Random Apache and NginX stops

I have a virtuell server from strato (german hoster) running on ubuntu Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS with plesk. Lately I have problems that my webserver once in a while doesn't respond request. so I startet watchdog with a check frequence from a minute. Apache serves php5. Watchdog Nginx message > The Web Proxy Server (Nginx) service on host xyz.de is down. The problem was > discovered on Mär 13, 2014 06:12 . Watchdog apache message > The Web Server (Apache) service on host xyz.de is down. The problem was > discovered on Mär 16, 2014 03:13 . Turning of nginx, apache has the same problems. The services stop and start again straigt away. Services are down for for something less than a minute. Watchdog sends me a message one minute later that the services (apache/nginx) started again. It seems that apache/nginx anyhow just crash. Neither apache nor nginx error.logs show anything. Any idea why this "crashes" happen and how I can figure out what may be the problem and how to solve it? I really appreciate your help


Analytics Tracking and SEO

I'm using piwik on some of my websites and recently switched from google analytics. I find most of the stuff same on both analytics. But i always had this question in mind that what am i supposed to track other than these ?   * Bounce rate   * Referral sites   * Keywords   * Geolocation   * Periodic data(Month, year, week) for above factors Any other SEO factors to be considered while tracking with any analytics software ?


I have set a me@example.com to Google Apps/Gmail. How can I set a you@example.com?

Suppose that my domain is `example.com`. I have set as a primary email address at Google Apps/Gmail this address `me@example.com`. However I want to check the email of `info@example.com` through Google Apps. I know I can add it through Gmail->Settings->Accounts->Send mail as/Check mail using POP3. Is there another way around?


Bounce Rate skewed by Conversion

We've got a landing page with a list of games and users generally either click the "Play Now" button (which goes to an external site) or they just leave. Currently, our bounce rate is 30%, but we can't differentiate between the users going to the conversion page or just leaving in our Bounce Rate %. Is there a way to specify that a certain URL shouldn't affect bounce rate in Google Analytics?


What is adding frog characters to my URLs?

While browsing the "Crawl Errors" section of Google Webmaster Tools, I discovered a set of very strange 500 errors in reference to my site: ![Froggy URLs](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BAN8Q.png) I was able to track down what these characters are, and apparently they are the first two characters in the Unicode Private Use Area. My font just happened to map them to a frog wearing a tiny crown, and a symbol that resembles the numeral 7. These symbols only appear on the addresses of non-HTML files; office documents, PDFs, etc. - but they do not just appear in the file name. Where are these symbols coming from, and is there any way I can get rid of them so Google can properly crawl my site? Some background information:   * Using Web Server running WS2K3 with IIS6 and PHP 5.3.8   * Site encoding is UTF-8   * These symbols don't appear on the page, or in the source


Is it "acceptable" for a sub domain to be hyphenated?

I am putting together a site for a portal. Some of the subdomains have rather long names and I am thinking that maybe I should use hyphens to make the subdomain names more readable. For instance: `alternative-medicine.mysite.com` instead of `alternativemedicine.mysite.com`. However, I can't recall ever seeing a hyphenated subdomain - is this because it is generally frowned upon? Or are there technical (SEO) reasons why this appears to be the case? In short, will hyphenating my subdomains have a negative impact on SEO?


Why my web site was visited by ARPA?

20 minutes ago a user-agent with 66.116.153.122 IP address has visited my web site. It's domain is `rev.opentransfer.com.122.153.116.66.in-addr.arpa`. User- agent: `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 AskTbSPC2/3.8.0.12304 Firefox/3.6.11`. Language: `en- us,en;q=0.5,de-de,de;q=0.8`. Compression: `gzip,deflate`. Oh, and my domain name ends with `.name`. Why ARPA has visited me?


I have a lot of keywords

I have 100 000 keywords on my website. But I can't put them in meta keywords tag, so I make a function who displays 20 keywords in the footer of my website, "randomly" for each "refresh of page". so like that Google can see them for each reloading of my pages. Each refresh page, gives him 20 other keywords. And I add a link for each keyword to the same content with each different URL, so I create a duplicate content. Can you give me a better solution for using all my 100 000 keywords, without using duplicate content?


Google Analytics show zero for "Search Engine Optimizations" graph

In Google Analytics new design, there is an area related to the queries and impressions related to your site. You can get there by following **Traffic Sources** => **Search Engine Optimization** => **Queries**. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/JJy8h.png) However, it now shows zero for the "Site Usage" graph, at the top section, while other areas of Google Analytics definitely show that site has visitors and has been used. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WKTzU.png) No matter how much I search, I can't find the source of the problem. Does anyone know where the problem might be?


SEO + ViewState = to the bottom for crawlers only? Is it cloaking?

I have some large controls that are swelling my ViewState to 10KB+. Ignoring the discussion about using alternatives to ViewState, I'm trying to minimize any impact my ViewState might have on SEO. Here's what my research has lead me to believe:   * A lot of developers like to **move ViewState to the bottom of the page** by overriding Page.Render. At first glance, this works great but **some people experience problems** when their site is under load, or if a user gets an itchy trigger finger and submits a form before the page is done rendering (before the ViewState is in place). There are enough question marks here that I want to avoid this technique.   * You can check if the UserAgent is a crawler (through various methods) and simply **disable ViewState when you're not dealing with a real user**. This also appears to do the trick (and in 3 lines of code), but some **people are concerned that this is _cloaking_** , and could actually do more harm than good to your SEO. While the intent in this case is obviously not cloaking, the result does render out significantly less KB to crawlers than to actual users and I can see the potential for automated red flags. I'm not satisfied with either scenario, and I'm not able to find anything more on the topic. My potential solution is to combine the techniques by **moving the ViewState to the bottom of the page _only when_ the UserAgent is a crawler**.   * The crawler doesn't use the ViewState anyway, so the potential pitfalls of moving the ViewState to the bottom don't apply.   * The same content gets delivered to crawlers and real users, albeit in a different order.   * The crawler sees all my juicy keywords right there in the first few KB of the page. I was **hoping that I could get some feedback** on this technique, especially the following:   * Could this still be considered cloaking?   * Are there any potential issues with this approach?   * Am I overthinking it? Is there an easier approach that I wasn't able to find through Google?


Does anyone know where I can register a website with a .cat TLD?

I have been looking to register a website with the TLD '.cat'. I know it was created for catalan websites, but I want to do a domain hack, like bit.ly (which appears to be English). But all the hosts I've looked at just allow you to register a site with generic TLDs, such as .com, .org, .info etcetera. I've been searching for a company which can host a .cat website for a while now and just can't find one, I also tried a whois (which I don't really understand) on .cat sites but that's not my area, so I was unsuccessful in locating the hosting company of other .cat sites. I've looked at similar questions, such as Where can I register .tw domain extensions? but no joy. I would really appreciate a link or pointer in the right direction. Thank you.


Ruby 1.9.3 segmentation fault on rackspace

I'm having a similar problem as "ruby 1.9 segmentation fault on exit." I followed the solution and updated `libselinux` with yum and have the following version installed:               Package libselinux-2.0.96-6.fc14.1.x86_64 already installed and latest version      I am running a RackSpace machine, kernel version: 2.6.35.4-rscloud. My C backtrace is:               -- C level backtrace information -------------------------------------------     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x18910a) [0x7f3cdb6c010a] vm_dump.c:796     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x5eb04) [0x7f3cdb595b04] error.c:258     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_bug+0xb8) [0x7f3cdb5969d8] error.c:277     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x119865) [0x7f3cdb650865] signal.c:609     /lib64/libpthread.so.0() [0x328540eeb0]     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x179272) [0x7f3cdb6b0272] ./include/ruby/ruby.h:1306     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x17f31b) [0x7f3cdb6b631b] vm.c:1220     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1800d5) [0x7f3cdb6b70d5] vm.c:624     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_yield+0x44) [0x7f3cdb6bb274] vm.c:654     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0xab821) [0x7f3cdb5e2821] numeric.c:3204     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x183601) [0x7f3cdb6ba601] vm_insnhelper.c:404     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1792b4) [0x7f3cdb6b02b4] insns.def:1015     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x17f31b) [0x7f3cdb6b631b] vm.c:1220     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1800d5) [0x7f3cdb6b70d5] vm.c:624     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_yield+0x44) [0x7f3cdb6bb274] vm.c:654     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_ary_each+0x54) [0x7f3cdb5622e4] array.c:1478     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x183601) [0x7f3cdb6ba601] vm_insnhelper.c:404     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1792b4) [0x7f3cdb6b02b4] insns.def:1015     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x17f31b) [0x7f3cdb6b631b] vm.c:1220     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_iseq_eval+0x1f0) [0x7f3cdb6bbae0] vm.c:1447     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x67bfd) [0x7f3cdb59ebfd] load.c:310     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_require_safe+0x6ef) [0x7f3cdb5a02df] load.c:619     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x183601) [0x7f3cdb6ba601] vm_insnhelper.c:404     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1792b4) [0x7f3cdb6b02b4] insns.def:1015     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x17f31b) [0x7f3cdb6b631b] vm.c:1220     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1800d5) [0x7f3cdb6b70d5] vm.c:624     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_yield+0x44) [0x7f3cdb6bb274] vm.c:654     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_ary_each+0x54) [0x7f3cdb5622e4] array.c:1478     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x183601) [0x7f3cdb6ba601] vm_insnhelper.c:404     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1792b4) [0x7f3cdb6b02b4] insns.def:1015     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x17f31b) [0x7f3cdb6b631b] vm.c:1220     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(rb_iseq_eval_main+0xaf) [0x7f3cdb6bbbdf] vm.c:1461     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(+0x6471a) [0x7f3cdb59b71a] eval.c:204     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(ruby_exec_node+0x1d) [0x7f3cdb59c56d] eval.c:251     /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/libruby.so.1.9(ruby_run_node+0x1e) [0x7f3cdb59e60e] eval.c:244     ruby() [0x4008eb]     /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x3284c1ee5d]     ruby() [0x4007d9]


My google Page Rank is 1 but a very famous site has a PR of 4, is that rank correct?

Recently I just had a look at my Google Page Rank and it's 1 but another site which is much more famous than mine is on 4. I am confused with the rank: Are these ranks not affected by the websites popularity? I am really confused. Please help me out.


Proper syntax for .htaccess Rewrite

I'm very new at this so apologies if this is too easy, but would this be proper syntax for redirecting an entire site to a new domain? This is what was suggested so my other concern is blank lines, spaces, etc. Thanks               RewriteEngine On          # Redirect Entire Site to New Domain     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldsite.org$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]


SEO for naming images

I have a website with many images embedded within articles. I do not want to miss traffic by image search. It is easier to save images with numbers, but will this affect SEO rank? I mean image search engines mainly pay attention to the file name or img alt (or title) and text around the image?


Shared SSL certificate

I sit and look at the SSL certificates and web host.   Direct what is the difference between a shared SSL certificate and other SSL certificates?   Technically speaking.


Effect on SEO if I keep images in different domain?

This question is related to another question that I asked earier: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22558410/how-to-not-send-a-cookie-to-a- subdomain. It seems like, I have to put all my images to another domain. My site is an image sharing site and I am concerned that it may adversely affect the SEO of the website. Is there any way to tell Google that both the domains are related?


Looking to monitor and manage SEO for multiple web sites

Can anyone suggest a web site or service which will allow me to sign up all my client web sites to manage and monitor their SEO? I checked out DIYSEO.com that someone suggested. Any reviews on this site?


How to monitor outgoing server activity to detect malware?

I have a website that has previously been victim of malware. I restored the site from an old backup and have made every effort to lock down the server. I have no way to be absolutely certain that the backup I used is clean, and I'm worried that this malware may re-appear. I would like to use a tool to monitor outgoing port activity to detect signs of malware activity. Unfortunately I'm using a server host that does not give me shell access, so I need to use a tool that can be installed via FTP and used via the browser. My site is Joomla :( so a Joomla extension with this capability would work, but I haven't found that yet. Any suggestions. Many thanks


Will it harm my ranking to resubmit links to my site after permanently redirecting to a new domain name?

Ok so i have **site1.com** and **site2.com** , and i want to move from **1** to **2** with "Change of adress" 301 redirects .. etc. Now i submited **site1.com** in a lot of websites/blogs, so i have a decent amount of link building. Now when all the page rank juice transfers from 1 to 2 is there ok to resubmit once again **site2.com** for more link juice? I mean to resubmit it in blogs, web directories, bookmarks ... etc? Isn't that a violation of google's guidelines?


Using ending .html for URL re-write?

For re-writing URLs to generate SEO friendly pretty URLs, it was usually recommended to use the ending extension (normally .html), as without the extension, the URL seems to be incomplete. Probably, because a webpage should be similar to a file (as actually is) rather than folder. And it was the method used by almost all websites. However, I have been recently noticed that major content websites have removed the html extension from the end of URL. This is the case of stackexchange projects too. Is it beneficial to remove the html extension? Or it has been convinced that it is useless and it is prettier to have URL without extension?


Please explain this URL structure

When I navigate to www.aap.org the url in my browser is converted to: http://www.aap.org/en- us/Pages/Default.aspx?nfstatus=401&nftoken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&nfstatusdescription=ERROR%3a+No+local+token I am not on the IT side of things, but would like the community's take on whether this is normal behavior for a website or if our web vendor is doing something untoward. It just strikes me as a strange way to handle whether a user is logged in or not.


Which is better, minified or obfuscated code?

I’m confused between the two. Which is better, especially for jQuery and JS? Also, which do you think is more SEO-friendly? Note: _I’m a noob._


Is the book "The Content Rules" still relevant in 2012?

"The Content Rules" was written by CC Chapman last year, and I was wondering if the book was still relivent in 2012, or if the ideas in it are dated. I started reading it in 2011, didn't finish it, but now I feel like I might have a need to read it again which is why I ask.


Two stage Apache rewrite not working

I had a list of "Redirect permanent path/to/url1 http--//domain2.com/path/to/url2" rules working as a test, but when I attempted to couple them with mod_rewrite rules to catch non-matching domain1 url paths to direct to http--//domain2.com it all fell apart. now neither the mod_rewrite rules nor the plain 301 redirects are working. **I've got:**   1. a virtualhosts setup for .../sites-availble/domain1 and another for domain2, pointing to different root directories in /var/www/    2. the .htaccess file in the redirect directory with the Redirect permanent rules   3. /etc/apache2/httpd.conf setup with the "AllowOverride FileInfo" rule for the redirect directory containing the .htaccess file However, for some reason, the traffic coming in as domain1 is triggering the CMS for domain2 to through an error because domain1 hasn't been set as an alias. But it shouldn't even see the domain1 traffic. Very confusing and frustrating. **Background and intended process flow:** I am moving content from one CMS to another and simultaneously changing both servers and domains. Many of the urls have been changed so much that I just created a long list of Redirect permanent path/to/url1 http--//domain2.com/path/to/url2 rules and stuck them in a least common denominator (/var/www/domainredirects/) .htaccess faile as is. This file is on the new server and the plan is to initially redirect traffic to the new server's IP from the old server (and later change the name server entries when I know what will happen with domain1) and have the apache virtualhost redirect incoming traffic for domain1 to root directory /var/www/domain1redirect/ From there it should hit the individual rules and then at the bottom catch everything else going to domain1 and forward it to domain2's root page. I have been trying to test this all by setting /etc/hosts to point domian1 to the IP for domain2's server, with the idea that I can get it all set and then just flip the switch on domain1's original server and the traffic will go through the same process path when it hits domain2's server.


Facebook Ads - after setting campaign it is not showing in ad manager

### Description: I bought new campaign in facebook ads service. The type of it is Website Conversions. I implemented pixel (registering) sucessfully, redeemed created list of ads and inserted new card data. In ads manager everything seems alright, pixel is set to active, billing settings are correct but when I click "Campaigns and adverts" I dont see my new campaign. Also I didn't get any e-mail notification so I have no idea is it working or not. ### Problem to solve Why I don't see newly created campaign? I suppose Facebook should at least inform me if everything is alright. Please tell me then, is that normal behaviour or something went wrong and I should redeem campaing once more.


Are penalties applied if you have too many 404 errors on your site?

Do the search engines take the number of 404 errors returned by a site into account when calculating the site rank? For example I have 8,000 404 errors and I am thinking that that's affecting my SEO in a negative way. However, I read this Google Webmaster Central article about 404 errors which suggests that they are not always a negative quality indicator. So I am confused...are high numbers of 404 errors harmful to a site or not?


Looks like fonts are absent

Hello I get 404 error when I try to reach my font file, Is this OK? I use Gtmetrix.com to find bugs on my site. One of the errors says: **The following requests are returning 404/410 responses. Either fix the broken links, or remove the references to the non-existent resources.** http://travel-georgia.co.il/wp-content/themes/triton- lite/fonts/lobster/Lobster_1.4-webfont.ttf http://travel-georgia.co.il/wp-content/themes/triton- lite/fonts/lobster/Lobster_1.4-webfont.woff When I checked the link it really does it, but when I looked inside of this "lobster" folder I saw that there were exactly these two files. I downloaded and uploaded new ones the same fonts (in case if the files are broken) , but still get this error.


How do I modify the HTTP headers?

Google page speed rank demands me to set an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP headers, by changing the "Expires" and "Cache-Control: max-age". The site is hosted on a hosting company (not in my garage) on a windows platform. I tried by uploading a .htaccess file but they have IISPassword program that blocks it. The question is how do I modify the HTTP headers? * * *                     when checking the current header this is what I get:     HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified     Content-Location: http://pcgroup.co.il/Default.htm     Last-Modified: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:38:56 GMT     Accept-Ranges: bytes     Vary: Accept-Encoding     Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0     X-Powered-By: ASP.NET     Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:16:43 GMT


How can I parse Amazon S3 log files?

What are the best options for parsing Amazon S3 (Simple Storage) log files? I've turned on logging and now I have log files that look like this:               858e709ba90996df37d6f5152650086acb6db14a67d9aaae7a0f3620fdefb88f files.example.com [08/Jul/2010:10:31:42 +0000] 68.114.21.105 65a011a29cdf8ec533ec3d1ccaae921c 13880FBC9839395C REST.GET.OBJECT example.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/kitties_we_cant_stop_here_this_is_bat_country.jpg "GET /example.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/kitties_we_cant_stop_here_this_is_bat_country.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 - 32957 32957 12 10 "http://atlanta.craigslist.org/forums/?act=Q&ID=163218891" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2010031422 Firefox/3.0.19" -      What are the best options for automating the log files? I'm not using any other Amazon services other than S3.


Menu hidden links and bots!

I want to make a menu with a list with hidden links and when the user points the menu with he mouse the links will appear, my problem is that the bots may think this as a deceiving tactic and lower my page's rank. How can stop bots from seeing this links? I found the rel="nofollow" attribute but i don't know if it working with all bots!


Managing accounts on a private website for a real-life community

I'm looking at setting-up a walled-in (i.e. mostly private, with a small public-facing login page) website for a real-life community of people, and I was wondering if anyone has any experience with managing member accounts for this kind of thing. Some conditions that must be met:   * Each person is eligible for one account.   * This community has a set list of real-life member who all mostly know each other, or at least know _of_ each other.   * We know each of their names and have a lot of other fragmented data like phone numbers, addresses, etc.   * We don't expect or require that they all sign-up. It is purely opt-in, but we anticipate that many of them would be interested in the services we are setting up.   * Some of the community members emails are known, but some of them have fallen off the grid over the years, so ideally there would be a way for them to get back in touch with us through the public-facing side of the site. (And we'd want to manually verify the identity of anyone who does so).   * Their names are known, and for similar projects in the past we have assigned usernames derived from their real-life names. This time, however, we are open to other approaches, such as letting them specify their own username or getting rid of usernames entirely. The specific web technology we will use (e.g. Drupal, Joomla, etc) is not really our concern right now -- I am more interested in how this can be approached in the abstract. Our database already includes the full member roster, so we can email many of them generated links to a page where they can create an account. (And internally we can require that these accounts be paired with a known member). Should we have them specify their own usernames, or are we fine letting them use their registered email address to log-in? Are there any paradigms for walled-in community portals that help address security issues if, for example, one of their email accounts is compromised? We don't anticipate attempted break-ins being much of a threat, because nothing about this community is high-profile, but we do want to address security concerns. In addition, we want to make the sign-up process as painless for the members as possible, especially given the fact that we can't just make sign-ups open to anyone. I'm interested to hear your thoughts and suggestions! Thanks!


What are some resources for learning the ins and outs of .htaccess?

What are resources for learning the various things I can do with .htaccess?


Affiliate software to attract incoming customers

I am close to starting a new website for a small business which imports products from USA to Australia. The wholesaler says he will allow my client to be the sole distributor for Australia & New Zealand. I'm not sure what CMS or shopping cart software to use yet, but it will need to include an affiliate system to allow advertisers to push customers our way. Do you have any suggestions for robust, flexible affiliate software?


Do I add both www and no-www for my Domain in Google webmaster tools?

When register my site to Google webmaster tools, which one should I register?   1. `mydomain.com`   2. `www.mydomain.com`   3. `Both?`


How to Syndicate Websites Without RSS?

I have four websites that I am wanting to link to from one website. But the kicker here is that beyond just linking to the sites I was looking for a way to display updates from those sites on my site. I know this is possible through RSS syndication, but is this possible without RSS? In other words as far as I can tell the four websites do not have an RSS feed. But I was still hoping to aggregate updates from those websites in one place. UPDATE: There are four websites that customers have to go to and manually check for updates. Rather than have my customers check each site manually by clicking on their links from my website I was hoping there was a way to build a widget or something that would display snippets of content from those four sites. My website would need to display the latest content from the other sites. Sort of like Google Reader can do with RSS feeds. But those 4 websites do not support RSS.


Multiple domains and product categories but one company?

My company is expanding online, and we are wondering the best way to go about our eCommerce strategy. We sell a wide range of products of a single material, lets use ceramics as an example. The current competition in our niche online is medium level. We currently have one site selling all our range: ceramicstuff.com However I have just found that ceramickitchenware.com, ceramicbowls.com, etc are currently unregistered, despite quite decent traffic search volume around those keywords monthly. What do you guys think about registering these domains to increase traffic? Would I put a standalone sites on those domains, or do I point them to my main domain? Or do I use them a "micro" sites to offer information, and then link to buy at my main domain, etc? **Summary: I'm looking to employ "spammy" type SEO tricks, multiple domains, etc but the key point is I will be generating REAL content, and offering a REAL QUALITY product. How to proceed?** Thanks!


Replace 404 with 301 to other subdomain

We have two main subdomains on our site: www.example.edu and php.example.edu. Virtually all of our content is on www.example.edu, but there are a few standalone apps hosted on php.example.edu. www.example.edu is maintained by non-technical users via a CMS that forces root-relative URLs in most cases. We would like to include departments' navigation links in their apps on php.example.edu, but those links obviously don't work as root-relative URLs. We would like to avoid server-side parsing/rewriting of sidenav files. What we would like to do is to replace all 404s on php.example.edu with 301s to the same path on www.example.edu. I've tried a few different RewriteCond/RewriteRule setups, most recently               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d     RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.example.edu/$1 [R=302,L]      but none of them have worked yet, either ending in false-positives or 500 errors. Any suggestions?


How have you found Markdown for writers/editors working on articles?

I am a web developer putting together a system for writers/editors to efficiently add — fairly rich — content to a website. I've previously used standard WYSIWYG editors but find that often what you see isn't what you get. I've seen this lead to frustration and bad code. Has anyone implemented Markdown to write articles? If so, how did you find it? I like the idea of saving articles in markdown as it keep HTML separated from the content.


"File does not exist" in apache error log

This is an example of an error in out log file:                File does not exist: /var/www/website/female, referer: http://www.website.com/female/dresses/A-Dress-Black      "/female" doesn't exist, because we use friendly urls via our .htaccess file which looks like this:               RewriteEngine On # Turn on the rewriting engine     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{http_host} !^www.website.com$ [nc]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.website.com/$1 [r=301,nc,L]     RewriteRule ^News/?$ news.php [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^About/?$ about.php [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^Contact/?$ contact.php [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^Sign-In/Create-Account?$ sign_up_in.php [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^Logout?$ sign_up_in.php?l=1 [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^Your-Bag?$ your_bag.php [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^Help?$ help.php [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^Profile?$ profile.php [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^Create-Profile?$ profile_create.php [NC,L]     # ITEM     RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z-]+)/([A-Za-z-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ store_focus.php?sex=$1catName=$2&permalink=$3 [NC,L]     # PAGE     RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z-]+)/([A-Za-z-]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ store.php?sex=$1&catName=$2&page=$3 [NC,L]     # CATEGORY     RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z-]+)/([A-Za-z-]+)/?$ store.php?sex=$1&catName=$2 [NC,L]     # SEX     RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z-]+)/?$ store.php?sex=$1 [NC,L]      Every request for a page results in an error even though the site works fine. Has anyone encountered this before? Thanks! Beren


How to deal with author rights when building a website

I was thinking about developing a website that would involve photos and was wondering how to deal with the legal/author rights aspects. If someone could direct me to some resources to find out, I would appreciate. If I take Flicker as an example, people can upload pictures and share them. What if someone a picture that belong to someone else, like a professional photographer? Or what if someone upload a picture of someone and that person does not agree to that? Same question if someone put a picture in there that is not acceptable? Can a Disclaimer or Terms of Use avoid the Website (or the person managing a Website) to get in trouble when someone violate the law?


Improve my Silverlight CMS' ranking in Google

I am working in Silverlight and Orchard cms. I read something about google keywords and website improvements. I wonder if there is no way to have a good page rank by using Silverlight without making a lot of extra work. Is it really necessary to make own tag clouds and dynamic content?


Strange: Google indexing onload generated content?

I've noticed in Google's results page that my website's listing details (i.e. bellow the link) displays content that is only generated during the page onload function. This surprised me as I thought Google does not index JavaScript generated content. Later I came across this post showing a way to create `<title>` and meta description tags using AngularJS directives (which are only interpreted during onload)! So does this actually work? I would also appreciate some reference if it does and Google indeed indexes the page after running its onload.


Resubmitting Google AdSense Application

I submitted an AdSense application, but I was disapproved. I have read over email I was sent, which tell me to visit `http://www.google.com/adsense` to resubmit my application. When I visit `http://www.google.com/adsense` I am redirected to `https://www.google.com/adsense/disapproved` where I cannot do anything. Clicking the _Return to AdSense home_ link redirects me back to the same page. ![Screenshot of www.google.com/adsense/disapproved](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ziJBW.jpg) How can I resubmit my application?


Photos being copied all over the place

We have a rather popular website with plenty of photos. Our whole business depends on our content - and the photos are important in this. We invest a lot of time, effort, and money into taking these pictures. On our website we have clear copyright notices, we have the website name and logo in the photos, and we have a Photo Licensing page which states the prices of licensing our photos. Despite all this, our photos are copied by personal and commercial websites alike. We really want to do something about this. We do not want them to take out the photos and leave it at that. We want them to pay for the usage, as we clearly state on our website. Now a few questions come to mind:   * Can we legally force them to pay right away? Or are we obligated to first write a "Cease and Desist" letter?   * Photos are used on websites throughout the world. Are there any worldwide rules for this?    * Has anybody experience with doing these things outside of their home country? Should we hire a lawyer in any country? Or could a local lawyer contact oversees companies directly?


What is the strategy for Google AdSense to open ads link?

People were talking about Google AdSense force the visitor to open the ad window in the same page. But I found that my ads are mostly open in new page. But still some are opened in the same page. What is the detailed rule about this? Any tips?


Is it bad for SEO to have a site with no click navigation?

I have a site where users can only get to most of the sites content through search. If I make a sitemap that has the URLs for all of the potential searches is it ok that these pages cannot be click navigated to?


Buying expired domains - what to look for?

I want to purchase a few expired domains, who have some backlinks, but some of those sites have PR of -1 with backlinks which are pretty bad. But what exactly do I need to look for when looking for an expired domain (and I don't want to pay up the nose for a PR3+ domain).


Can I show abbreviation but have full text in the HTML?

In several places I am using linked abbreviations for a set of words, and Google is picking these abbreviated terms as sitelinks. Problem is, the abbreviation only makes sense in context, not when viewing the Google site links. Each link has a title with the full text. Is there a way to only show the first 3 letters but keeping the entire string in the HTML? Setting a short width doesn't work well.


CMS for Managing Quizzes

We're into eLearning and have developed a number of quizzes for various courses. Now we are looking for a CMS/system which could do something like this -   * Allow us to create accounts for clients. Once an account is created and quizzes are in place rest should be driven by our clients.    * Clients should be able to choose how many employees/students they wish to enroll for a particular quiz.   * Client should be able to choose a fixed number of questions from a set of questions already in the quiz, duration and should be able to set pass rates for their employees/students.    * As soon as their employees/student completes an exam, client should get an email with pass/fail rate. Wondering if there is any CMS which has functionality near to what I discussed above?


I've renewed my SSL certificate... do I need to "do" anything more?

I've had an SSL certificate for a site for 2 years (from GoDaddy), and it was about to expire in a few weeks. I renewed with GoDaddy for another 2 years. Do I need to update anything manually on the server, or does renewing through the SSL provider take care of everything?


GoDaddy URL forwarding while keeping relative path

I'm hosting my website on Google App Engine and my domain name on GoDaddy. Google App Engine does not allow you to have naked URLs. So it doesn't allow you to have `example.com` but does allow you to have `www.example.com`. I can easily enable forwarding in GoDaddy to forward `exmample.com` to `www.example.com` however it does not keep the relative URL path. For example I would like for `example.com/images/3.jpg` to be forwarded to `www.example.com/images/3.jpg` and not just `www.example.com`.


FTP issue. Files are uploading but when going to them they don't show up

I'm new to linux and I'm attempting to setup a server on Linode. Using ubuntu and attempting to setup wordpress with a lot of snags. At the moment I setup a FTP server on this box and am able to login and view the files and upload. All that good stuff is working, but when I upload and index page and go to the server address in my browser it still has the default "It Works! The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet." page. Why is it not loading my index? Any help is appreciated.


How to decrease webpage bouncing rate?

I found some stuff on the web with tips about how to reduce bouncing rate (the percentage of web visitors which left the website without going to the any next page). Does anyone have tips which he actually tried and helped him reduce his bouncing rate ? Regards