Is it wise to use a country-based tld when a .com already exists, but is "Under Construction"?

So I have an idea I want to try for a side-business, and it's web-based. I think about names, and find one I like, let's pretend it's wibblewobble. I check for wibblewobble.com and it's taken, but there's no site there, just an "Under Construction" page. A whois indicates that the domain has been registered for about 9 years. wibblewobble.ie is available though, and I'm in Ireland, so I can get it. I imagine that after a few months of attentive site management, I should be ahead of the existing .com address. My fear though is that , should I be in any way successful, others may try to undercut me, and buty the .com to steal traffic from me. Is that a real risk? Do a lot of people automatically use .com, or do people remember tlds? I've tried contacting the .com domain owner, a private individual, but I've got no answer. I'd pay him a modest price for the domain if he's not using it.


keyword choice - broad or exact?

**Scenario:** I have two keywords "Keyword one" has larger Exact search volume then "keyword two" but "keyword two" has larger Broad search volume then keyword one. **Exact:** "Keyword one" > "Keyword two" **Broad:** "Keyword two" > "Keyword one" Which keyword should i choose and why? **Not considering the keyword competition**


Mobile device screen resolution statistics?

Are there any statistics (or an industry standard) for mobile device screen resolutions? I'm optimising a site for mobile. So far I've just used one media query and it works fine down to about 240px wide, but messes up a bit after that. I'd love to know what's the smallest size worth accommodating.


Is there a free blogging service that I can setup to point to my domain/subdomain?

I would like that because now I would have to extend my hosting plan to accomodate new domains, if I wanted to self host all my sites. My sites being very low traffic, the max domain count is the only thing I find limiting on my hosting plan.


How to write a blog for SEO purpose

I have a photo sharing website, which provides very little textual content. Users can add tags to photos and a description, but it creates a lot of duplicate content, because most of the descriptions will be 'wow', 'lol', ... I don't think I should rely on users to build my SEO. I think it would be a great idea to write a blog, and use it to describe the best photos, start contests, explain themes, in short: create original content that search engines will love. Our website's main URL is like `www.domain.com`, and our new blog is hosted on `blog.domain.com`. From a SEO perspective, is it a good idea to keep the blog separate from the main site? This has the advantage to leave the original site unchanged, but will it add any page rank to the `www.domain.com`? If the blog ranks well it will obviously pass some page rank to the original through links. What do you think is the best option from a SEO perspective? Include the blog in `www.domain.com`? Or leave it in `blog.domain.com`?


Google doesn't follow links outside sitemap

Today I was looking at what googles shows in relation to my site and I discovered something which I wasn't expecting. Here is what my site map looks like.               ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">     <url>       <loc>http://domain.com/pub</loc>       <lastmod>2013-06-06</lastmod>       <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>     </url>     </urlset>       So to get an idea at /pub I have a number of articles which are doFollow (checked that) and everyone of the articles has a canonical link in the header                  <link rel="canonical" href="http://domain.com/pub/article/327" />      Now I've discovered that google indexed only the /pub directory, without following the links to the articles. I read somewhere that it is not a requirement to have every article's link in the sitemap. In my case it is user generated content so I can't be updating that on a weekly basis it has to be automated in some way. What am I doing wrong? I need to get that content indexed.


Should I make a search-engine only page for my domain (which re-directs visitors depending on geographic location)?

I manage a domain which is an umbrella domain - it is used in marketing/advertising a product around the world. When users visit the domain the site re-directs them to a sub-domain specifically for their territory. No one territory is more important than another, and they show different content (all relating to the same product, but different sites) in their subdomains. Currently, when Google crawls the main page (because Googlebot is in the US) it sees the US site. This isn't ideal as people searching from outside the US get the US site in their search results. I am thinking that I should make a generic page just for search engines which shows links to all the territory subdomains, so that no-one sees the wrong content in google's results. However Google's guidance states: > Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines. Don't deceive your > users or present different content to search engines than you display to > users, which is commonly referred to as "cloaking." and also > Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie > cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original > content. from Google webmaster guidelines So - would I be doing the right thing with my search engine only page? Thanks.


Referral traffic not appearing properly in Google Analytics

We have a partnership arrangement with another site where we pay them for users sent to us. However, they claim our referral numbers for them are lower than theirs by 50%. They are tracking clicks in Google Analytics (using events) while we are using visits in Google Analytics. Are we doing something wrong with our Google Analytics installation?               <!-- Google Analytics BEGIN -->     <script type="text/javascript">       var _gaq = _gaq || [];       _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12345678-1']);       _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'example.com']);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);            (function() {         var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;         ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';         var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);       })();     </script>     <!-- Google Analytics END -->


Excess bandwidth usage, how do I overcome this?

I received a higher than normal monthly bill from my web hosting company. They have told me that I have exceeded my monthly minimum for bandwidth usage and advised me to reduce the file size of my web pages. Is there any way I could determine the bandwidth I require for hosting my website? Is there a tool that I could use to monitor the usage? I don't know which files I should be working on.


**I know that SERPs depends on many factors like backlinks, page authority, keywords placement etc. But I noticed that Google also look for the word count of the article.**   * In 2010,2011 articles with 250+ word count got ranked in Google. But in 2012,2013 the trend was different, If the post is 500+ words, it is likely to get ranked top in Google compared to 250 word count articles.    * In late 2013 we can see that all SEO bloggers(who watch the SEO trends) started to publish articles with 1500+ word count and they ranked better that the 500+ word count articles.   * Now I was googling for making a review about external HDDs and I found this post `http://goo.gl/J54Fzm`. Its word count is 12K and got ranked top for the keyword "portable hdd review" in just 5 days. The ranking will depend on many factors but I am a bit confused about the word count.  **MOZ, Searchengineland and other SEO specialists suggest in 2014 to keep the word count near to 1.5k** **`Q: What should be the word count of an article for better ranking in 2014?`** NB: Please don't mark this as a duplicate question. These questions are asked two years before. And I am asking about the trend in 2014. The image attached is from a post about word count published in march-2014. What should a page's minimum word count be in order to be effectively indexed? Ideal word count per web page? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jHsCN.jpg)


DNS: How can I determine which IP a subdomain is associated with?

I bought a domain(tohid.ir.tc) from a hosting company. it seems that it is a sub domain of this domain(Ir.tc). it made lot's of problems for me. I don't now to which DNS server it is pointing. both whois query and domain reseller say that it is pointed to my host. but the hosting company says that is is not pointing to their server. when I enter it it says "The server at tohid.ir.tc is taking too long to respond." "Ir.tc" domain is pointing http://zoneedit.com/. but I can't tell for sure where http://tohid.ir.tc is pointing.


Which domain name is best?

I am planning to buy a new domain for my blog. My name is Joel. If I choose a domain as `joelblog.com` or something like that will it be nice? Or should I choose a name like `expertthings.com` or something like that which doesn't contain my name?


Google analytics iframe code measuring visitor as two visitors

I'm trying to measure visitors in an iframe and the site containing the iframe. What I would like is that visitors clicks in the iframe are seen being from the same visitor as the containing site, but somehow it is seen as two seperate visitors. I followed examples from http://www.blastam.com/blog/index.php/2011/02/google- analytics-cross-domain-tracking/, trimmed down to an even simpler version based on the comments about setDomainName not being needed anymore but _with_ setDomainName I get the same result: a click on a page and a click on the iframe is seen as 2 clicks by 2 seperate visitors. This is the code in my iframe               if (_gaq && gaAccount.length > 0){             _gaq.push(['_setAccount', gaAccount]);             _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]);             //_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']);             _gaq.push(['_trackPageview', 'mytestcountername']);         }      And this is the code in the containing page:               <script type="text/javascript">                 var _gaq = _gaq || [];                 _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-9605474-4']);                 _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]);                 //_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '.domain.nl']);                 _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);                      (function() {                 var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;        ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';                 var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);                 })();     </script>


Saving Image Path in SQL server

I want to know a proper way of saving image path to SQL server when working with ASP.net. I'm using SQL server 2005 & VB 2008.


better site analytics service / script: real time statistics and time spent on pages?

I'm looking for a site analytics software (service or script) that must be easy to comprehend. GA is simply too much complicated and it misses some key features (for me). Missing features are:   * real time statistics (very important)   * time spent on page (very important) about the "time spent on page"... i do really need a statistics software that does not calculate the time between two page views. this is not useful at all in my case. because i mostly do 1 pageview = 1 user but something that logs, for example, every 10 seconds spent on a page thank you in advance


What are the steps for starting a website from scratch?

Starting before design, before coding anything. What steps need to be taken to fully implement a working website? **EDIT** I mean both from a technical and a non-technical perspective.


Finding the Facebook post or page that links to my site

I am getting lots of traffic from Facebook, but the referrer looks like               http://www.facebook.com/l.php?url=http://www.example.com/mypage.html      I've also had this problem before with another page. Again with the referral links from Facebook not showing what post is linking to my site. Is there any way to find out where that might originate from inside Facebook?


How to charge for web maintenance services

Over the years we have developed many websites for clients. The issue we currently deal with is having individual clients wanting minor changes or enhancements to their site. Each client doesn't contact us often, but collectively this adds up into a bunch work. To date we don't have a clean way to charge for these services, and as a result it often seems easier to do a quick fix and in fact much of this work goes unbilled as it just seems to hard. Please outline what you consider to be a better system to handle these clients, links to any maintenance agreements. I considered the idea of charging clients for prepaid block hours of say 10 hours and then when they make requests we can just draw down from that, but we don't know of any good systems which already do this kind of thing. What should we do?


What are some great resources or books for learning about running a website?

You've just inherited the webmaster position but know little about the day-to- day operation of a website. What books or online resources should you look at to learn more about being a webmaster?


Google analytics how will ajax calls affect time on site, time on page, etc

I am in the middle of redesigning a site and am concerned about how my new page design will compromise my google rankings. Essentially I am going to a single page site, using AJAX calls to reload different elements of the site. I am using traditional anchor links to various parts of the site which trigger AJAX calls using jquery, so the hard links will link to the same info as is loaded via AJAX. My issue is that since only one page will ever be loaded by most visitors, will my 'time on site' be accurately reflected. Additionally, My site consists of a lot of links to external sites. I have forced these to open in a new tab of the browser, does google record this as visitor leaving my site. I am using jquery history api to push the history state in modern browsers so that bookmarking can occur and back buttons work, will google analytics record this as a page change or does it not take them into account. Finally, If all the above will spell disaster, is there any way to send updates to analytics with the ajax calls?


Is using URL Rewritting the only way to make sure all pages are cached by Google?

If I keep the pattern (index.php?module=test&param=1) will pages be less likely to be indexed then if I use the pattern (test_param_1.html) ?


How to hide existence of a private blog?

I have a friend who would like to start a 'blog'. The problem is that she would like it to be private so that only people invited can read it. So I told her to use a private WordPress. But she said she would like it to be so private that you cannot even see that the blog exists if you don't know about it. So maybe something hosted privatly? Any recommendations of what to look into?


https (SSL) instead of http for mobile users

I am building myself a new website, out of privacy and security concerns I am contemplating trying to make it https only. It will be mobile-friendly using media queries but I am concerned--especially for mobile users--about the increased bandwidth. How much will doing so increase my bandwidth or slow load times? For pages where I'm not transferring sensitive information, should I leave external links (to a jQuery library, or a web font for instance) in http? Simply put, I have read articles saying the entire web would be more secure if everything was SSL but my actual knowledge of implementation is limited to payment gateways and log-in pages and such. I apologize for the open-ended nature of the question but anything, even just simple answers to the specific questions is welcomed.


Analyse reasons for Sudden Drop in Traffic

My site www canada updates dot com (remove spaces) had decent traffic till a month ago and now it has dropped to about 1/3rd. I would be thankful if any one could help and analyse giving exact reasons for the drop in traffic


Interpretation of empty User-agent

How should I interpret a empty User-agent? I have some custom analytics code and that code has to analyze only human traffic. I have got a working list of User-agents denoting human traffic, and bot traffic, but the empty User-agent is proving to be problematic. And I am getting lots of traffic with empty user agent - 10%. Additionally - I have crafted the human traffic versus bot traffic user agent list by analyzing my current logs. As such I might be missing a lot of entries in there. Is there a well maintained list of user agents denoting bot traffic, OR the inverse a list of user agents denoting human traffic?


Cumulative visit by hours in Google Analytics

I am tring to compare 2 different days hour by hour, (but cumulatively) For example comparing the total visitor count by 12 o'clock today, with yesterday. How can I find out what was the total count of visitors at a specific time ?


Is it important to have semantically correct HTML with regards to SEO?

SEO seems to be a subject surrounded by both myths and varying opinions. Nevertheless, I would like to know if you have an opinion on how important it is to have semantically correct XHTML, that is, well-formed and valid XHTML, with regards to SEO.


How do I delay a .gif image until the user scrolls down to it?

I have multiple .gif files that I want to post on a forum, it's powered by myBB. Anyways, I want these to load sequentially as the user scrolls. E.g first .gif loads, user scrolls down, second .gif loads. I've been searching for days and I still can not get it. Thanks


Force Google Analytics to re-check tracking code status?

Is there a way to force Google Analytics to re-check tracking code status? I just installed the tracking code but I want GA to verify whether I installed the code correctly. GA's last check is few hours ago, before I install tracking code. Current status is "Tracking Not Installed".


@Viewport @media use for input type?

I've searched high and low for some way to setup my HTML5/CSS3 for various devices. Going by screen resolution isn't the best route because some times the screen size of one device is the same as another [e.g. my chrome book runs at 1280x800 and my android tablet runs at 1280x800] I'd want the website to look different for the tablet because it has touch capabilities meaning I can build a more "app like" design for that that I wouldn't want for my chrome book. I've thought about the landscape vs portrait but that still doesn't get me there. @viewport and @media screen works to some degree as I can code for a browser vs mobile browsers but even the new iPhone/iPad has a higher resolutions than some legacy monitors. I am truly stumped as to how I could code in a way to detect input type and load appropriately. (ie if touch display X if keyboard display Y)


Commenting System For A Website

I hope this is the right place for such a question. I am developing a website that has no users system. I am looking for a commenting system for the website. Requirements:   * Ajax commenting   * Flagging comments   * administration (deleting comments)   * php using my DB or external service   * No registration, no FB comments   * Option for a captcha   * Hebrew or customizable interface Can you please suggest such a system?


Addon domains and SEO

I have a shared hosting account with a main domain and many add-on domains. I don't actually use the main domain, it just has a landing page. Can I tell bots not to index the main domain WITHOUT effecting SEO of my add- on domains? If so, how would I go about telling bots to ignore a whole domain?


Using an already registered domain name

I've written an asp.net site for a friend and I'm ready to deploy. However, I've never done this before and have a few questions. My friend has already bought/registered a domain name, say for example it's `somesite.co.uk`. Q1. If he signs up to hosting company X how do we use that domain name with company X? Q2. Is it possible to get a similar email address with company X for admin? eg `admin@somesite.co.uk` through company X or does it need to be bought through the original company? Q3. Is there anything else I need to consider?


Can I register or renew a domain name without going through a commercial site?

If I want to register or renew www.therandomcatsite.com, I know for sure that I can pay GoDaddy about $12 to do so, and GoDaddy notes that the ICANN fee is $0.18. Is it possible to personally file a registration or renewal with ICANN (or whatever central organization handles registrations) and only pay the $0.18 fee?


Does adding external images or javascript to a website affect its SEO?

When adding images to your site, is it bad to use an image located on another site:               <img src='http://www.some_other_site.com/image.jpg'>      The same goes for javascript, is it bad to link to javascript located somewhere else:               <script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.some_other_site.com/js.js'></script>      I ask this purely from an SEO perspective (I am aware that if the other site takes down their image, or something happens to their server, that will affect the content on my site). I am especially curious about javascript, since it is actually common practice to link to javascript libraries on other sites.


The layout page "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml" could not be found

I got this error and I can't figure out what is going on. I am positive the _layout.cshtml resides in the shared folder and for the sake of trying things out, I moved to the Home folder and it then told that the Views/Home/_Layout.cshtml couldn't be found there either. So now I'm thinking the problem is in the call for this file for some reason. I'm not going to pretend I know ASP.NET MVC4, so please when you answer, explain it as you would to someone who is not familiar with the system at all. Believe it or not, this error came from tutorial #1 ha ha Here's the code to show that I did code it right:               @{        ViewBag.Title = "Home Page";        Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";     }      And here is a picture of the location ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/9q76h.png) p.s. I did my research, Google has nothing and there is another question here but it was asked on 2008 with MVC3 which is completely different I am running ASP.NET MVC4 on Azure Thanks


Looking for SSL certificates (first time)

I need to buy SSL certificates and it is the first time. 1) My option would be the "cheapest ones". What am I going to risk, what kind of service quality I'm going to lose if I buy the cheapest ? Are they less safe ? 2) I've been suggested to use geotrust.com However I'm developing a website in Netherlands and I was wondering if it is better to use an european certificate or it doesn't matter. If it matters, could you suggest SSL services in Netherlands, or near by ? Thanks


Check old urls for backlinks - same domain new design and urls

I have a client who recently did a re-design on his website. The designer did not put any effort in keeping the same URL or do any redirects. I've made a list of the old URLs, what I want to do now is check if these URLs have links that pass any juice. Can anyone tell me if it's possible to see if the old URLs that are linking to 404 carry any backlinks and how to do that?


Using wildcard certificates

Can I buy a wildcard certificate to use the same SSL certificate on multiple domains? For example, `www.example.com`, `www.example.org` and `www.example.net` (on different hosting services)? If I can,   1. Is this a good and cheap solution?   2. What are the risks?


Paginating sitemaps

My sitemap is huge (200k+ articles), so I want to implement pagination of the sitemap itself. My question is what parameter do most search engines look for in a sitemap pagination? `page=...` or maybe `p=...`? I know about the sitemap index, but it would be a bit of an overhead to create that just now.


Recovery from accidental noindex of site

I've recently noticed that an entire site I manage had been set to `noindex` for about 3 weeks. This has caused the entire site to be completely dropped from Google's index (searching "`site:`" and then the domain name renders 0 results). What occurred was a redesign of the site was launched, the staging site had been set to `noindex` (in WordPress). WordPress does this through adding a meta `noindex` tag to all pages as well as through _robots.txt_. During the launch, in an apparent confusion by the team, the staging site was set to be indexed instead of the production site. This has also caused the staging site to be indexed in the 3 weeks since. What I've done so far:   * Set the production site to be indexed again   * Submitted the production site to be indexed by Google through Webmaster Tools   * Submitted a sitemap through Webmaster Tools for the production site (hadn't been done yet, should have)   * Submitted a reconsideration request through webmaster tools for the production site, explaining what happened (not sure if I should have done this, question below)   * Submitted a removal request for the staging site through webmaster tools Here are my questions: Should I have submitted a reconsideration request? I have a theory (maybe more of a fear, don't have anything to back it up) that possibly Google will wait until they review the request to re-index the site, even though it never violated their guidelines. I would think this will take much longer than waiting for it to be re-indexed. I did this in frantic action after discovering the problem but then had this thought afterwards. Secondly, because it was a redesign of the site being launched there were 301 redirects set up from old pages to new. When the site is eventually re- indexed, will Google look for those old pages again and follow the 301s, or would it have already written off those pages as gone? I've read some things saying that when this happens, normally sites regain their previous ranking, but I have a feeling in this case it may be a bit different as maybe the opportunity for Google properly follow the new 301s is now gone?


Difference between "/" at end of URL and without "/"

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does it make a difference if your url ends in a trailing slash or not?   >  Why treat these as different URLs? I am doing a 301 redirect in my WP application using .htaccess and have mapped some of the URLs which have either been removed from the new domain or the URL structure has been changed. While doing I got a doubt I have following URL structure in my .htaccess file               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old.com$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.old.com$     RewriteRule ^tag/waiting$  http://www.new.com/tag/relationships [R=301,L]      while checking this i found that at some places URL is like `http://www.new.com/tag/relationships` while at others its like `http://www.new.com/tag/relationships/`, while both refer to the same location but not sure if this will make any difference to SEO and search engines. Please suggest if the way i am doing mapping is correct or do i need to modify it to handle both UR


Does it make a difference if your url ends in a trailing slash or not?

Does it make any difference to SEO ratings what-so-ever if your url has a trailing slash:               http://www.domain.com/some/slug/paths/      as opposed to one that does not:               http://www.domain.com/some/slug/paths


How does Google know how much traffic a website gets?

They obviously know how much traffic they send to it. But how do they know of the rest of the traffic to it? Is it _only_ if it has Google Analytics installed, or do they get their information in some other way as well?


Verify my website when it is .tk

I'm trying to verify my website so it appears on google, I think, I'm very new with all this. However, it doesn't seem to be an option... My website is host in dropbox and the domain is free. Is that why I cannot verify? Have tried the different methods, but nothing. This is the web: www.angelinajoliemagazines.tk


Images on a subdomain, hosted on the same server — will simultaneous downloads increase? (CDN)

Browsers only allow you to download a limited number of concurrent files from the same domain. Would a subdomain for images (basically as a content delivery network) **on the same web hosting server** increase the number of files that can be downloaded simultaneously? (And thus improve page loading time?)    Consider this example:               www.example.com     img.example.com      The `img` subdomain is hosted on the same web server (same IP & location) as the `www` domain.


How to determine which files are used by website

I recently became responsible for a PHP / HTML / MySQL website. The document structure is full of duplicate files and folders making the site appear more complex than it is. Is there any tool I can use to process the files and find out which files are used and which are not so that I can purge all the redundant code from the file structure? Also, can a tool identify if there are any missing files?


What's the best way to show a message for only IE 6 and IE 7?

What's the best way to show a text message for only IE 6 and IE 7 ? Should I add a html tag to my webpages and normally hide it with css for all browsers except the above mentioned ? And when I use IE6 IE7, should I hide the website with css and show only that html tag ? thanks


Using topic titles as img alt text on a forum?

I have a (mostly) standard phpBB forum so right now, images that are posted in [IMG] BB-tags don't have an alt text. I would like to change this and I'm doubting between two options:   1. Use the topic title as alt text   2. Use the most used words in the first post as alt text (I have a mod installed that sets those words as meta keywords) A page has a maximum of 30 posts and the subforums that have a lot of pictures aren't accessible to Google. So at most, I think there will be 5 images per page. Is using the same alt text 5 times bad SEO-wise? Is there anything else I can do to get the right keywords to add?


PageRank sharing between domains?

I own three domains, say.. **example.com, example.in, example.co.in** I have bought the .in and .co.in TLDs (Top Level Domains) only to protect the brand. But I have this question: If I make the other two also point to my hosting so that regardless of which one the user types, they are taken to the same website, will the Page Rank be split into three and will each domain have one third the actual PR value? What should I do with the other two domains? Where should I point them to, if I don't intend to use them at all (i.e., what should I give in place of the `ns1.myprovider.com`, `ns2.myprovider.com` etc..?)


How to promote/market an event that needs many people?

My team is about to launch a new web application, http://wethepixels.com, that requires a lot of people to be on the site at the same time for the concept to be successful. Our team is preparing to promote/market an event for a specific date and time, in order to try to grab a large group of people to the site at once. For those who have gone through a similar web launch, we would love to hear ideas on the best way to market for a large group in a relatively short period of time. We have created a Facebook page and a Facebook event, but it has yet to grab much attention (surprisingly to us). Is there a better way to attract a large number of users in a short period of time? Thanks


Link tags in iframe widget

I have a rating community-site and I´m offering little `iframe` widgets with the average rating and some little other info. Does it make sense (for visibility, SEO) to add link tags to the `head` like:               <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="rssfeed" />     <link rel="index" title="main-profile" href="main-profile">      To get a logical association of the widget to relating pages? How would you do this?


What are the reasons to have a two step login? (Username on one page, password on the second.)

So I've recently been encountering more two step login processes, where I'm required to enter my username on one page and my password on a second. I really don't like this pattern, as it requires an extra page load just to log in. But I've been told by a couple of people that it is more secure. How is it more secure? Are there other reasons to inconvenience the user with this?


A couple of links to our products and 10 pages of crack/keygen/torrent/etc

If you try searching for our company and product name you'll get two useful links and 10 pages of hacker sites where eventually you can download the cracked version of our products. How can we clean hacker links and leave only useful links to our prouct pages? We already checked the Google URL Removal Tool but within the 'Removal Type' options we can specify there is nothing meaningful to specify in this case. Shall we proceed the same? Thanks.


GUI question : representing large tree

I have a tree-like datastructure of some six levels deep, that I would like to represent on a single webpage (can be tabs, trees; ....) In each level both childnodes and content are possible. Presenting it like a real tree would be not very usable (too big). I was thinking in the lines of hiding parts of the tree when you drill down and presenting a breadcrumbs or the like to keep you informed as to where you are... I guess my question boils down to : any ideas / examples ? Tx!


.co domain worthy for main site?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  .CO Domains. Worthwhile? Thought of a great name for the idea of my site, but the .com has already gone. However the .co is available. Is that common enough to use as the main domain for the site? It's a brand new site so it will be branded and promoted as sitename.co all the time. Anyway have any .co?


Why is Google showing up as a referral instead of a search engine in Google Analytics?

In Google Analytics, why does Google show up sometimes under an organic medium, and other times as a referral? (They frequently have the same landing page.) As I understand (and I'm just as likely to be dead wrong), the organic medium indicates someone found a link to my page in search results and the referral is when a link from site X leads to my site. I understand a search engine just populates a page with links, so how does GA determine when to call a Google referral organic as opposed to referral?


Would the IP-based content delivery be considered as cloaking?

All we know that Google will be looking more at cloaking in the first quarter of 2011. But, **my client's website is serving content to the users based on the IP address.** Now, I would like to know whether IP based content delivery be considered as Cloaking by Google. Or how Google is going to handle this issue?? Thanks, Parthipan.P


Patterns for creating a Language Switcher?

I'm a big fan of the book _The Design Of Sites_ which has patterns for diverse things needed in webmastering and site design. However the topic about translation, localization and internationalization is a bit short (in 2nd edition pages 350ff) not giving much guidelines how to create a user-centered language switcher. Does anyone know about some patterns from the scientific and user experience community regarding how to switch the language on a webiste? I'm especially interested in user-centered design patterns. I've review the question _What's the best way to determine users' preferred language?_ - My differentiation: This is a low-level technical ask-about, e.g. technically HTTP/1.1 is already taken into account on my site. All it says is that it should be easy to change the language, which is inheritly part of my question already asking for a user-centered pattern (and not asking for a pattern and the answer then is take a user-centered one). It also asks specifically about to find out about the user-preferred language, and I'm looking for a pattern regarding offering a language switcher, e.g. a widget where the user can control the langauge setting of the website.


When creating DOM elements with JQuery is it better practice to style them with JQuery or in the stylesheet

I am working on a code base and am using JQuery to add DOM elements.I want to know if it is considered better practice to style them with JQuery or _just create them_ with JQuery then go to the style sheet and add new CSS blocks to style them. Thank you.


How to transfer a domain from 101domain to another registrar?

A friend of mine bought a domain name on 101domains, and now wants to have his website hosted on my servers. I would like to have full control of the DNS records, and thus would like to change the NS records to point to my DNS server. I can't find how to do that on their control panel. I can access the listing of DNS records for the domain, but cannot change it. Thus, I would like to transfer it to another registrar, that I know allows to do all these changes. How can I do that ?


When designing an intranet for corporate use, what design practices should I follow that are different from those targeted to the internet/customer world? What kind of questions should I be asking about the layout? How will I know what's important so the thing actually gets used? What's actually not that important? How do I get my users to love the intranet?


Creative ways to display long lists

I am working on redesigning a page that displays a 2 column table of approximately 200 manufacturer names. The page becomes very long but so far isn't incredibly unmanageable, but I'm trying to apply a more futuristic design. I provided a sample page to the client with a 5 column table of smaller logos, but due to the vast diversity of colors in the logos it made the page look extremely busy. The client does not want to have users click to view the manufacturer list (I proposed some jQuery goodness broken down by category). Anyway, just thought I'd check to see if anybody has any samples of displaying longer lists as I'm not the most creative person around. Thanks!


SEO/Architecture for multiple related websites

My question is two-fold, but first, a short background. I have a client that is a regional franchise for a service company and each physical site has its own domain and the main "corporate" physical site has its own domain as well. They each, as independent owners, also have completely different looking websites. They have since decided to have all physical sites (including corporate) websites to have the same look. They have also realized that probably 90% of the website pages will have the exact same information on them. The other 10% will basically be staff bios, pictures of their individual physical sites, and maybe some events that are exclusive to their own physical site.   1. From an SEO standpoint, does it make more sense to ditch all of the domains and just keep the single corporate site which holds all of the company wide info and then have the ability to show site exclusive content just as a function of normal site navigation? Or should each domain website look 90% identical, 10% exclusive and provide links either to all sites or only back to the corporate site? One point I'm considering is if corporate is in Town A and someone searches google for the search terms we've optimized, but they add a geo location of Town B (in which a franchise physical site exists) which is 30 miles from Town A, would we benefit from having multiple domains, each having it's own place page and it's address on each page of the site?   2. Ok, hopefully #1 was relatively clear. If we opt for multiple domains with 90% same content and 10% exclusive, what is the best way to architect this so I don't actually have to build and, inevitably, update nearly the same site 10 times? I would think that keeping identical content on the corporate domain and exclusive content on each franchise domain would be, theoretically, the best route but I'm really not sure how to go about doing that. I'm using PHP5 and have written my own, very small framework.


Pay per impression adsense provider

I am searching for a good adsense provider who pays per impression. please suggest


SEO preparation for upcoming new site

I booked a domain and I created an image saying that the site is soon to be launched. What SEO preparations should I make to avoid harming my SEO ranking? Because my page is blank, the image itself is displayed with CSS. Only the title is filled with information. There is no description nor keywords. Will it hurt my SEO ranking if Google or some other crawler would wander to my site?


How to see the domain list registered daily country or server wise?

Can someone tell me about listing of domains at daily basis with country name or any other specification like server name or any others ? I just wanted a majorly lists of domain which one daily registered and updated.


Recommend me a CSS/JS compressor

There are scripts to compress CSS on-demand like these. Have you stumbled upon something similar for javascripts? Also, any recommendations regarding CSS and JS compression are more than welcome. What methods do you use, if any?


Indexing for Google scholar, which tags to use?

In the "Inclusion Guidelines for Webmasters" for Google Scholar is written under Indexing Guidelines: > Google Scholar supports Highwire Press tags (e.g., citation_title), Eprints > tags (e.g., eprints.title), BE Press tags (e.g., bepress_citation_title), > and PRISM tags (e.g., prism.title). Use Dublin Core tags (e.g., DC.title) as > a last resort For a new website. Which of these options (Eprints, BE Press or PRISM) is the best, and where are these tags documented?


WordPress migration not showing images

I migrated my WordPress site from host to host, also to different domain, according to the guide at WPExplorer, however the images do not shown. I replaced the database records via "Search Replace DB Master" so the `old_domain.com` was set to `www.new_domain.com`. The images are still missing though (even in admin backend). If I right-click on the picture and copy its address, then put the address into browser search bar, the image works with no problems. So e.g. `www.new_domain.com/wp-content/uploads/XY.png` is the image on the web, it does not work. But if I enter this link into browser, the image does show up. Where could be the problem?


How to hide website's real address

I'm building a website for public use. It's a sharing website - everyone is allowed to download specific content, but I want to make sure nobody knows where all the files are kept, so I've decided to use URL Forwarding, e.g. when someone visits fakesite.com, it returns realsite.com without revealing/redirecting to realsite.com. I don't know how to make this work. Please help me by explaining how to use URL Forwarding.


Several images are displayed in one <img> tag that's changeable via JavaScript - is that OK for those images to be indexed by Google?

I have a page which should contain text and several images related to this text. I'd like to show only one image on the page and let the user change the image by clicking a "->" button (via JavaScript).   1. Will all of those images be indexed by Google (and others)?        2. How will Google decide which image to show to the user, as they all have the same position on the page, same text, description and other tags? Or could you suggest a better solution?


How to get a list of people who G+1 my website?

I want to add a G+1 button to my website with which I would like to gather feedback. For this to work I need to be notified each time someone G+1's and shares my website so that I can read the comment and see what other people are thinking about my page. Is there a way to get a list of +1 posts for a webpage?


Should I create a Separate Image XML Sitemap?

My websites currently have a sitemap XML file that use the rel="alternate" to indicate there is an alternate location to my content in another country and language. I am wondering what the best practice is. Should I create a separate Image sitemap XML file or simply add the image information ( etc.) to the current Sitemap XML file that uses rel="alternate". I ask because there are 10 different websites so I already see the XML file with lots of information because of the rel="alternate". Is there a best practice or is either way perfectly fine? Thanks in advance.


Is it necessary to create a DNS record for "website.com" when create one for "www.website.com"

When I create a DNS record for website "www.website.com", is it necessary to create a record for "website.com" first?


How Do Search Engines Rank Combined Keywords?

Suppose:   * A site that ranks very well (1st result) for something like 'best blue widget'.   * It also ranks very well (1st page) for 'blue widget'.   * It ranks not so well (2nd page) for 'widget'. Obviously, the number of monthly searches are much higher for 'widget' than for 'blue widget', which is still higher than for 'best blue widget'. Now the actual question: **When creating new external links, how does each of the following anchor texts affect SEO for of these searches?**   * widget   * blue widget   * best blue widget [HINT: The answer should be a 3x3 table] [NOTE: Assume the site is relevant for all these keyword combination]


I develop a project on GAE: how do I download the last deploy my colleagues made

I'm getting started with Google App Engine, and just got my first invite to a project that has already been started by someone else. How do I download the code to start editing it? (I do see the project in the `launcher` in red) If it has any importance, my permission is `Developer`


How does Google show a web page's recipe photo inline with the search results? How'd they do that?

On Google, if you search for "chana dal recipe," in the middle of the search results page you'll see one search result with an image of the meal, taken from the underlying web page. It's the only one. My Questions:   1. Did Google someone magically isolate the one image on the web page which summarized the recipe? or   2. Did the Webmaster/Page author somehow designate and promote that particular image so that Google would inline it in the search results?


Javascript and PHP how should I en/decode my data

I would like to know in what encryption should I encode my data and why. First of all, I use GET method because it is search engine inside website. Second, I use RTL language (hebrew). And third which basically is why I ask this question - Firefox and Safari (as I understand it) encode and decode urls automatically. So if I encoded the url, in Firefox I will see it decoded which is good. But if I copy-paste the url to the address bar and than enter the site, Firefox encodes the uncoded url to UTF (I think). What en/decode should I use? And how can I overcome the Firefox auto en/decode?


Using YouTube as a CDN

Why isn't YouTube used as a CDN for video and audio files? Through YouTube's api and developer tools, it would be possible to post all media files to YouTube from a CMS and then make a call to them when needed. This seems like it's within YouTube's TOS, it's a cost-effective way to store, retrieve, and distribute media files, and it could also make for easy monetization. I ask because I'm working on a new project for a public radio station. I can't figure out the real downside to this sort of an implementation.


Can I redirect Google bot to another domain with escaped_fragments?

I'm trying to make my Webapp SEO friendly. I read that I can redirect Google's bot to another URL with `escaped_fragments`. I'd like to use _Phantom.js_ to serve Google my pages. Unfortunately, I can't run Node with my hosting solution. Can I redirect Google bot to another domain? Will it hurt?


PECL extension in Ubuntu 11.10

while setting up mediawiki on my local development machine, the installer told me that since i do not have PECL extension to php installed, i will have to do with slower page load speeds with traditional php page loading. Does PECL really increase page load speeds? How do i install it on my Ubuntu LAMP server?


How do I stop Soft 404 errors from piling up for "No Results" page?

Recently, I noticed that I have a growing list of Soft 404 errors in Google Webmaster Tools. They are all for dynamically generated search result pages that report "No matches found". I _do_ understand what Google means by _Soft 404_ and why they are reporting it for these pages. So I added `<meta name="robots" content="noindex">` to these pages. However, Google is still reporting new _Soft 404_ errors for pages that are using the _noindex_ meta tag. Why does Google report **_any_** error for a page I told them not to index? The problem is that with all these unwanted errors, I can't see if there are any real problems that need to be fixed. Some have said that these pages should return a 404 status code. But that just shifts the problem over to the 404 errors tab. Besides, Google returns status code 200 for their _no results_ page. I don't want to block access with robots.txt because I want the links on these pages followed and I want Google to see the _noindex_ meta tag. Besides, there is no pattern that I could use to block these. Google found these URLs in the first place because the content used to exist, but has since been deleted. I can't return a 410 status code, because my PHP code has no way of knowing the reason why no results were found. Is there anything I can do to make it easier to see the real problems?


Is Movable Type among the most secure PHP blogs? How secure are the various PHP blog applications?

Basically I'm trying to find a blog for a website, and security is the highest priority in our case. We don't need any features that I would imagine are special. Wordpress was our first idea, but its reputation precedes it, and though it may have cleaned up its act lately, I'm not seeing much solid evidence. I get the impression that Movable Type (at least the Perl version) has a much better reputation for security than Wordpress (historically at least). I'm not sure I want to take a chance with Wordpress at this point, but is there some objective source I can got to to back up (or counter) the notion that MT is at least among the best? Secunia doesn't recommend using their stats for comparisons, and securityfocus.com doesn't have stats at all that I can see. Searching here http://web.nvd.nist.gov makes MT look way better than WP (at least in 2007), but this site was referenced by MT's own page boasting about their security, so I don't know how relevant it is or how seriously people take it. Any suggestions on sites where I could/should make a somewhat objective comparison?


Does have a web address on your site affect SEO?

If I have               http://www.site.com      And               www.site.com      The second one is bad, but will the first one count as an out link?


The characters except English are not readable on DirectAdmin editor

When I try to edit my idex.html I see strange characters in my atributs and tags               <title>საატესტატო-გამოსაშვები გამოცდის პრეტესტი.ge,ტესტები,testebi</title>         <meta name="keywords" content="áƒ¢áƒ”áƒ¡áƒ¢áƒ”áƒ‘áƒ˜, áƒ¡áƒáƒáƒ¢áƒ”áƒ¡áƒ¢áƒáƒ¢áƒ, áƒžáƒ áƒ”áƒ¢áƒ”áƒ¡áƒ¢áƒ˜, áƒ’áƒáƒ›áƒáƒªáƒ“áƒ”áƒ‘áƒ˜, áƒ¡áƒáƒáƒ¢áƒ”áƒ¡áƒ¢áƒáƒ¢áƒ áƒ’áƒáƒ›áƒáƒªáƒ“áƒ”áƒ‘áƒ˜, áƒ’áƒáƒ›áƒáƒ¡áƒáƒ¨áƒ•áƒ”áƒ‘áƒ˜ áƒ’áƒáƒ›áƒáƒªáƒ“áƒ˜áƒ¡ áƒžáƒ áƒ”áƒ¢áƒ”áƒ¡áƒ¢áƒ˜, áƒžáƒ áƒ”áƒ¢áƒ”áƒ¡áƒ¢áƒ”áƒ‘áƒ˜, pretesti, saatestato gamocda, testebi, gamosaSvebi, testi ">      instead of `<title>საატესტატო-გამოსაშვები გამოცდის პრეტესტი.ge,ტესტები,testebi</title>` what have I done wrong? By some "site checkers" my title thich has 59 characters looks like 220 char long, but I have no problem while opening the page on a browser, when everything is clear.


Cascading matches in robots.txt

I was wondering if it's possible to let bots match two groups of `User-Agent:` blocks. I have this block of robots.txt               User-Agent: AhrefsBot   # https://ahrefs.com/robot/     Crawl-Delay: 5          User-agent: *     Disallow: /error.php     Disallow: /cron.php     ... and many more rules ...      Now, I wonder if AhrefsBot will now respect the crawl-delay and also respect the rules in `user-agent:*`? If not, then I'd have to duplicate everything under `user-agent:*` which would be quite unhandy.


What different email addresses should I use to test email coming out of my website?

I have recently noted a few clients complaining that emails from one of my sites always go into their spam folder. I don't know enough about email to start trying to work out even what level in my stack this is happening at - so first I want to collect as much information as possible and write up a test plan for emails coming out of my system. I was thinking about setting up accounts at the following places:   * gmail   * hotmail   * ymail   * same domain as the website   * custom domain on same server as website   * custom domain on another server Do you think this is a complete enough list?


Send additional product data to Google Analytics with Ecommerce tracking

Every GA Ecommerce transaction allows me to send just two variables, name and category, to describe each product. I want to send additional data to create more useful reports. For example, I have t-shirts, jeans, shoes... and I want to send the brand and size too.               _gaq.push(['_addItem',       'N. 87987',         // transaction ID       'TSATR5',         // SKU       't-shirt',      // product name       'men',          // category       'Adidas',        // A custom category       '25.99',        // price       '1'             // quantity     ]);      I know that the example above doesn't work because the _addItem() method does not accept extra parameters. I tought that custom variables could help me to solve this riddle but actually they couldn't. Is there a way to send this extra data to Google Analytics?


Using one graph I want to see browser usage per browser over time in GA

When I view the Browser graph in Google Analytics I'm shown the total number of visits over time in the graph. Below I see the aggregate breakdown of browsers over the entire period. What I want to see is browser usage over time for all (or some) of the browsers. I can of course drill down into individual browsers (and further into versions) but this only shows me the usage of one browser at a time. How can I put all this information into one graph without exporting the data piece by piece and putting it in Excel? It seems like a really simple view of data that anyone would want so I'm surprised it's not available in GA (or obvious for that matter).


Create sprites automatically

I get the folder with the following structure from my designer*: > file.css > > images/ Is there any tool which can automatically create sprite from images folder and replace all images references from file.css to appropriate sprite section? *It is actually not a designer (the man who creates design in, for example, Photoshop) but the man who makes html+css from it. How is this profession correctly called in English?


Off page seo vs on page seo, market samurai competition check

I did a competition check with market samurai on keyword "really cheap widgets" The competition result is reflected in the attached image: ![market samurai competition search](http://i.stack.imgur.com/O2WLi.jpg) They are huge sites but they do not have on page seo for my keyword, no keyword in title, url, desc, heading. They are targeting the most general terms like widgets, and other keywords related to them. But most are really old domains, thousands of backlinks. Could this guys be beaten with fewer backlinks but targeted pages with good content, on page seo, etc?


CDN solutions pros and cons

As the sysadmin in our organization I've been asked to look into CDN solutions as we have plans to roll out a web platform that is targeted at developing countries. Here is my research so far on the subject. * * * **CDN as a service:**   With solutions from companies such as akamai (leader), limelight (good player), cloudfare (startup with a freemium model) PROS:   -easy to get going (just pay, setup some DNS entries and you're good to go)   -controlled cost CONS:   -have to rely on features/service provided by CDN which is unlikely to meet your special demands if your are a small organization like ours. * * * **Cloud providers:**   amazon and others which provide you with APIs and clouds in various locations which allow you to provide a CDN-like service. PROS:   -more flexible than aforementioned CDNs CONS:   -more work required to get going * * * **Your own CDN:**   With DNS and server load balancing products from companies such as F5 Networks, Juniper, Cisco hosted in datacenters. PROS:   -you have full control over the infrastructure and can implement a solution that really fits your needs CONS:   -requires massive investments          **If you have knowledge about CDNs, can you share your experience with a PROS/CONS approach? Do you happen do know CDN solutions that perform well in developing countries?**


Most acceptable way to show hyper link file type to the web page user?

I want to show the user that a **hyperlink links to a PDF file** (or Word/PowerPoint etc.). Here are some methods I've considered: > Farming Report (PDF) > > Farming Report (PDF, 52K) Alternatively, I've thought about using icons: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/irlR4.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ubgj5.gif) (Examples from these pages: Making hyperlink icons with CSS, Showing hyperlink cues with CSS) **What's the accepted, standard and accessible way of doing this?** Are there any guidelines available somewhere?


SEO impact when using php include

I always make a footer and a header and include them in my php pages but I am not sure the impact of doing this for SEO. The header has only a main banner and the navigation menu, all the metatags including page description are unique to each page. So if I made just one header file and one footer file to php include on all pages , does it affect SEO?


Where to place php libraries/extensions?

I am new to a lot of server configurations and options. I want to add extra php libraries/extensions to my server. Where do I add them? (I am on a CENTOS 6.5 VPS) For example, I want to add the phpseclib php extension: Their website instructions are minimum: > Usage This library is written using the same conventions that libraries in > the PHP Extension > and Application Repository (PEAR) used to be written in > (current requirements break PHP4 compatibility). In particular, this library > needs to be in your include_path: >   >   >         <?php >         set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . 'phpseclib'); >   >         include('Net/SSH2.php'); >         ?> >   It tells me how to use it, but it doesn't tell me where to add the actual extension files. Should I added it under?               usr/local/lib ?          usr/local/lib/php ?          usr/local/lib/php/pear ?      Or can I add it under public_html? Also, my VPS has several users under /home/.. is that away to make the library available for only one user?


Multisite permalinks for subfolder wordpress installation

I have WordPress installed in a subfolder of the main site: `http://www.example.com/blog/` Now I need to add second blog on `http://www.example.com/blog/second/` So 2 blogs should work on the following URLs:   1. `www.example.com/blog/`   2. `www.example.com/blog/second/` I configures WordPress and almost everything works fine, but I have a little issue with the main blog (`www.example.com/blog/`), the post URLs look like **/blog/blog/hello-world/** rather than **/blog/hello-world/**. Second blog URLs work properly. I tried to change permalink structure in site settings to /%postname%/, and all URLs look good after that, but all they cause 404 error. How can I get rid of double /blog mention in this case? Thanks in advance! wp-config settings:               /* Multisite */     define( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true );     define('MULTISITE', true);     define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false);     define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'www.mysite.com');     define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/blog/');     define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);     define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);      htaccess:               RewriteEngine On          RewriteBase /blog/     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]          # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin     RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d     RewriteRule ^ - [L]     RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]     RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]     RewriteRule . index.php [L]


=~ (equal-sign tilde) and m" ... " in .htaccess directive

I saw this bit of code on an old forum post:               SSLRequire %{HTTP_HOST} =~ m"\.secure\.powweb\.com"      And I was just wondering what the `=~` and `m" ... "` meant. I've been searching online and in the Apache documentation for any mention of the _equal-sign tilde_ operator, but I've found no mention of it. I know that some directives can take a tilde to use a regular expression, but I've never seen the `m" ... "` form used before. What exactly is that `m" ... "` for? Where else would you see this form?


Best signature fonts

Are there any good realistic looking signature fonts you guys know of?


How to use wildcards to remove print pages from search engines?

Our site has pages that are print-friendly, which I would like to remove from search engines. Here's an example: http://rubinarealestate.com/en/property/apartments- charming-neighborhood/?pid=4940&print=1 is the print-version of http://rubinarealestate.com/en/property/apartments-charming-neighborhood/ I assume this can be done with _robots.txt_ and wildcards, as the `?pid=4940&print=1` is always at the end of the URL.


Terms and conditions for a simple website

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  When does a website require a privacy policy and/or terms of use? I finished building a website for an online chess club which I am a member of. This is my first website. The site has blogging feature so the members can log in and write blog posts and comment on other posts. The membership is limited to users of an online chess site (freechess.org) and any member of that site can join this site as well. I was wondering, is it needed to put up a terms and conditions for my new website? If so, can I have a model of that? I searched and found some models but they are all for big sites that have e-commerce etc.


Website Form to deposit funds to your bank account

Is there a way to receive payments to your bank account from your website. I know PayPal is one option, and I know using a merchant account and gateway are another, but are there any other options?


I Need a recommendation for a CMS application with ECommerce

Does anyone have any recommendation for an open source solution for a robust CMS application that has a fully featured ECommerce module? I have been looking into Drupal with Ubercart -- but it looks like Ubercart is not fully up to speed with Drupal 7, and the other modules for Ecommerce don't look as robust. The CMS system should support CMIS as both client and server, and be able to run in a cloud computing environment. The system could be written in any standard web programming language, although Java would be my preference. I'm posting this question here because it seems that all CMS systems provide ECommerce as an afterthought, rather than a core feature.


Google Analytics: Multiple domain, One tracking ID, one email report

I created a new Tracking ID for 10 Drupal sites. However, why all 10 sites reports are the same in my Google Analytics? * * * **_update: added additional information_** Here are 10 sites info I got ** ### Drupal site 1: siteA.com ** Code on Google Analytics Module: **UA-00000001-1**   ** ### Drupal site 1: siteB.com ** Code on Google Analytics Module: **UA-00000001-2**   ** ### Drupal site 1: siteC.com ** Code on Google Analytics Module: **UA-00000001-3**   . . . and so on         **PS: For each site, I added the** ## same 2nd tracking ID and code on Custom Javascript code in Google Analytics Module   code snippet(before):               _gaq.push(["_setDomainName", "none"]);     _gaq.push(["_setAllowLinker", true]);      Code snippet (after):               _gaq.push(["_setAccount", "UA-00000002-1”]);     _gaq.push(["_setDomainName", "none"]);     _gaq.push(["_setAllowLinker", true]);     _gaq.push(["_trackPageview"]);         ### Also I added a Filter for each Google Analytics View on tracking ID UA-00000002-1. **on SiteA.com**   Filter Type: - Predfined Filter> Include only > Traffic to the hostname > that begin with   Hostname: SiteA.com **on SiteB.com**   Filter Type: - Predfined Filter> Include only > Traffic to the hostname > that begin with   Hostname: SiteB.com **on SiteC.com**   Filter Type: - Predfined Filter> Include only > Traffic to the hostname > that begin with   Hostname: SiteC.com ... and so on


Customising Google Maps breaks highway label blocks

I'm trying to customise a Google map to use shades of a particular colour. It's working nicely except the blocks that contain major road names / numbers is illegible. I've figured out how to target styles to those elements, but setting the 'color' value sets both text and background to that colour. And no adjusting of saturation, gamma, lightness etc seems to make the text legible.               function initialize() {         var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(50.766472,0.284732);         var styles = [             {                 stylers: [                     { "gamma": 0.75 },                     { "hue": "#607C75" },                     { "saturation": -75 },                     { "lightness": 0 }                 ]             },{                 featureType: "water",                 stylers: [                     {color: "#607C75"}                 ]             }         ];         var myOptions = {             zoom: 15,             center: latlng,             mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP,         };         var marker = new google.maps.Marker({             position: latlng,             title:"Living, dining, bedrooms by David Salmon"         });         var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), myOptions);         map.setOptions({styles: styles});         marker.setMap(map);     }


Swapped 2 accounts domains on WHM, now both no longer work

I have 2 accounts with websites on my VPS - one had an old website, the other I was developing a new website on. When I had finished the new website I simply went to 'Modify Accounts' and swapped the Domain Names fields of both accounts, so that the new account had the old accounts domain name and vice versa. Now neither site works - I just get the standard CPanel `defaultwebpage.cgi` place holder. Have I missed something? Does anyone know what I can do to fix this?


Handle an HTTP error dynamically in Apache

For my personal website, I wanted to make a webpage for every error that could come up on an Apache web server - so that it could fit in better with the style of the website instead of the generic Apache messages. As far as I know, the only way to do that would be to create individual webpages for all 50-some error codes, and individual ErrorDocument entries for each one of those. Is there a way to handle them dynamically (I.e. redirect all errors to a webpage with the error code as a GET/POST value)?


Should we try to add backlinks using a blog or paid backlink services?

I'm new to SEO, I've just started my business last month and I want to get backlinks, but I don't know where I can start. Should I create a new blog (like Blogger or Tumblr), or use backlink services? If I shouldn't , can you tell me why?


2nd Google Analytics account not working

I've created a site for a client and pasted Google Analytics script for both there account and mine. My account seems to track fine, but their account does not, even though both accounts have been verified by Web Master Tools. I've done this many times in the past but now notice GA's tracking code is slightly different. Is there a new way to add multiple GA accounts to one site? New Tracking code:               <script>       (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){       (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),       m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)       })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');            ga('create', 'UA-12345678-5', 'mysite.com');       ga('send', 'pageview');          </script>


Backlink from page with low pagerank but site has high pagerank - effect from Google?

My understanding is that if I have too many backlinks from low PR (pagerank) sites, Google considers them to be low quality links and if you have too many, your site may even be de-indexed from Google: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how- to-check-which-links-can-harm-your-sites-rankings I've read that some people say backlinks from high PR pages can be helpful to your site. But what about a backlink from a high PR site with a low PR page? A lot of sites out there have higher PR, like Best of the Web directory. That is, the home page of Best of the Web has a PR of 6. But if you drill down to the specific page where a site is listed in the Best of the Web directory, the PR can be low (ie. PR of 0). Does Google look at the PR of the overall site rather than the PR of the specific page when it determines how PR is passed to your site? Or does Google **ONLY** consider the PR of the specific page when it determines how PR is passed to your site? If Google only considers the PR of the specific page, then it's not worth listing in a directory like Best of the Web because the actual page on Best of the Web that links to your site almost always has a low PR. In fact, listing on Best of the Web be harmful to your site because you're getting a backlink from a page with a low PR.


Make a domain point to another domain

I have never been able to figure out how to do this. I am working on a PHP script. With my script, each user will have access to their own site. For example, the URL for this would be `myscript.com/frontend/username` where this uses an htaccess file to generate their site based on the username in the URL. (hope this makes sense). Now I want to make it so that they can have their domain point to this. For example, lets say their domain name is `theirsite.com`. I want to make it so that, say if someone visits `theirsite.com/about` it really points to `myscript.com/frontend/username/about` More examples:   * `theirsite.com/about` should point to `myscript.com/frontend/username/about`   * `theirsite.com/blog/post-12` should point to `myscript.com/frontend/username/blog/post-12`   * `theirsite.com` should point to `myscript.com/frontend/username` How do I do this?


What are pros and cons of Amazon S3 vs Amazon EBS?

For websites/applications and eCommerce, which storage solution is more desirable and why? I'm very new to Amazon Cloud Services so I need some direction here.


Transferring maildir emails to another server

Is it safe to simply copy messages from one server and place them into the 'new' folder of an email account on another server without shutting down any of the mail servers? Both servers are Dovecot IMAP.


Using AJAX on homepage to handle feeds, bad for SEO?

I'm running multiple feeds of loops on my homepage much like youtube.com and I want to use AJAX to load them instead of tabbed content with jQuery. Since most of my traffic comes from posts I'd like to know how it impacts my site with Google with less crawlable links and excerpts. My question is this: How bad is it for my SEO to use AJAX to load the feeds on my homepage? Each feed contains links to new posts in different categories and I have 10 of them so loading them with jQuery Tabs adds load time but makes it all crawlable.


Removing Joomla from client's server

I've been designing a website for a client. It is since completed and I have the ftp details to upload the site. It appears they are using software called "Joomla!" How should I go about removing this and uploading the new site - I only have FTP details and do not have any DNS, domain details or anything else. Thanks in advance


Dynamic content and SEO

So, I am new on web development. I have already found a few questions from here that might help me in the future, but I would like to ask something more specific. I have a new website with 5 pages (5 unique urls as well). -Home page (static but minimal. Without a lot of content) -About page (3 text paragraphs about the project and me) -3 dynamic pages (all of them have only forms and search bar in which the user may search about the content. After they submit the form, the content are retrieved from my database and are presentened in the same page.) Well, with my little knowledge about SEO, I can divide it in two categories. What I can do inside the website and outside of it. My question is related with the "inside" part. What I have done until now:   * Include standard title, meta-keywords and meta-description in all of the 5 pages.   * Add Google Analytics.   * Connect it with Google Webmaster Tools. Since, I don't have a static content, what else do you suggest me to do? Do you think that it's time to concentrate on the outside of the website, writing a few blog posts and promote it in Social Media or have I more to do inside the website?


Cloudflare and phpBB forum: users keep getting logged out

Yesterday, I added the free CDN services CloudFlare offers to my forum. I used all of the recommended settings. The used bandwidth dropped drastically and the site loaded a lot faster so I was pretty happy. But then (a small) percentage of the users told me they keep getting logged out automatically. I lowered the caching settings and a few people stopped getting logged out, but not everybody, so I disabled CloudFlare. Is this a known issue? Google didn't tell me anything useful. And is there any way I can enable it again without getting this issue?


403 error with a 301 redirect in .htaccess

I wrote a rewrite rule for one of my pages. This rule is supposed to be for a specific single URL only hence the "static-ness".               RewriteRule ^picks/categorizedPicks/126$ search/?catalogue=11&module=20 [NC,L,R=301]      This rule is a permanent redirect with the `R=301` flag. The redirect works fine without the R=301 flag but gives a 403 error with it. Anyone knows what the problem is?


Does Google hate capitalized words?

I've read around in the past that Google frowns on all caps like "THIS IS MY WEBSITE". But, I wanted to know if they also frown upon capitalized words in general, like in a case like where a name is supposed to be completely capitalized. Like if a brand had explicitly established itself as all caps because of general words that it may be composed of. Example: "THE SUN" rather than the typical saying in sentences: "...the sun..."               <title>THE SUN - Content, Word & More</title>      Does Google punish for specific capitalization like this, or is only for excessive usage and sentences?


What should I be responsible for as the first developer in a large scale web project?

I am the first developer in a large scale web project, in the real estate sector. I am not an expert in any field, I know the basic of all, programming, databases, something about design and a little bit about SEO, and website optimization / caching. And I have some knowledge about other technologies and stuff that could be required in the project. So I am a developer, my boss does some drawing on a paper to present me his ideas and then I start programming and I show him the result. Until now there was no problem, but now the web application is large enough, and it lacks a little bit of database optimization and intuitive user interface. Beside the website, the project also has an offline newspaper, and a desktop application that is a reduced version of the online one, both this things are not managed by me, but by other people or developers that are external to the company. We do not use a collaboration tool for sharing knowledge between the people working on this project, just emails, and we do not use a development methodology, as for the team, we are: the developer(me), a designer, a secretary and the boss. I have the possibility to ask the boss hire the people I want so I can increase the team and have the right person dealing with the right part of the project. This is the story, the real question is, what should be my attitude towards the project and the company? Should I stay a developer and participate in taking decisions and organizing tasks from time to time to help the boss? Or should I get more serious about this and try to learn project management and implement everything I consider it's required to ensure the quality of the work and final results? I am the one who best knows what has been developed until now, should I try to organize all the work and the team? Or should I ask my boss to hire some expert to do that? I hope someone before has been in my position before and can give me any good indications.. Thanks!


Best way to segment data in Google analytics?

I have a web site which has a number of distinct parts, there is a public marketing site, a members area and a admin section for staff, all three are part of the same website and currently the analytics are all merged. What I need to do is segment the data into three distinct sections, so I can see what is really going on. What is the best way to do this? three separate accounts? or would it be better to use a custom variable and tag the sections accordingly? or is there another way?


Cronjob doesn't seem to work in Parallels Plesk

I set up two cronjobs in Plesk using their interface, but they don't seem to work. What's wrong?               *   */1 *   *   *   curl --silent --compressed http://*****.com/assign_social_scores          */5 *   *   *   *   curl --silent --compressed http://*****.com/fetch_resources      They should be called the first every hour, the second every five minutes


How do I set up a cookie-less domain?

I've read that it's best to serve static content (css, javascript, etc.) from a cookie-less domain or subdomain for better performance. I assume a domain is not cookie-less by default. How do I specify that I don't want to use cookies?


HTTP for one part of the site, HTTPS for other

We have a site which is HTTP, but it has an admin part. How can we secure the admin part with HTTPS? For example, WordPress (which I know) is located at `http://foo.com`, but we want to have `https://foo.com/wp-admin/` How to do this?


How risky is putting sensitive files up on webroot?

I understand that having anything sensitive under webroot is not smart; someone may be able to access it via url. However, I do not have a choice with my web host (iPage) as they limit my server space to just the web root. So my question is: how risky is it to just have sensitive files in a directory in a webroot with just simple forbidden public access? Any insight on this topic would be greatly appreciated. EDIT: The 'sensitive files' are an installer for our startup's software and the php files that allow the download / control sql access.


Does a 3rd party spamming with links to a website get that website blacklisted?

Paul has a website he is a nice person he never wants to get banned or blacklisted. Jason is a bad and malicious person, he send 200K real emails in 1 hour, with the Paul's website link inside the email body. Does this affects Paul or Paul's website in anyway? If answer is yes, how can Paul prevent any of those situations?


How do I remove the 'Continue Reading' tag from pages on my blogspot blog?

My blog has pages at the navigation bar. The 'Home' and 'About Me' pages show the 'Continue Reading' tag which I want to get rid of. I have used some extensions to add 'Continue Reading' functionality to my blog posts, but I don't want the tag. Any solutions?


Recommended domain name for tablet version?

We are creating HTML5 web app for tablets ("tablet optimized" version of the web site). Mobile domain names have already standardized itself to m.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.mobi. But how about tablet devices? Tablet device in this context would be a touch screen device with min. 7" physical display, supporting features like HTML5 application cache and geolocation. The main thing is that the user can save the web app to the device main screen menu and have offline functionality. (Naturally there will be automatic browser redirect per device class, but this does not remove the need of tablet specific domains which makes things easier).


Magento: placing available blocks

I've installed a custom theme in Magendo. I browse pages and get shocked. Some pages have blocks, other - no, some have the left sidebar, some - the right. The complete mess. How can I know all the blocks that are available in my customized/not customized Magento store and theme? I don't know what my Magento has. I've found Shop By, Select Currency, Tags, Compare, Recent, Cart, Poll blocks visiting pages. How can I get the full list? Cause there could be other blocks that I haven't seen. How can I place those blocks on the left side on pages I want? How to enable/disable blocks? Thanks for helping.


Prevent HTML files downloaded from getting copied from that particular system to another system or getting the script modified?

How to prevent my HTML files downloaded to a particular system from getting copied from that particular system to another system or getting the script modified? Is there any tool or method out? Well, I make custom projects using HTML and JavaScript for students and don't want someone to copy or modify the files once downloaded. If they start copying or modifying, that affects me as I get paid per project. The projects are meant to run in the user's browser only. May it be online or offline.


How to remove adware pop up?

I get an ad pop up that should not be on the site. It has only appeared once. The HTML code for the pop up window that appeared:   * http://pastie.org/5674909 Here is the full HTML pastie:   * http://pastie.org/5674931 It is a rather new adware/malware software. I found other people having the same problem:   * http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,50/page,viewtopic/p,990200/sid,4b16e92c535d6716d6eaf04d6b6c8d78/   * http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=49133& And last I found this forum where the Admin says it was a vulnarbility in the code:   * http://forum.cs-cart.com/topic/29635-malware-on-this-forum/page_st_20_p_152290#entry152290 But he does not mention which vulnerability.


Cannot access my website

I am not very sure where is the problem, but it is following: I have webhost http://dtech.id.lv which I cannot access from both of my home PC's nor via browser nor via FTP. It opens normaly if I use proxy or try to open this page on other then my home PC's Is there any suggestions/methods I can try to detects where is problem and whats blocking connection? I think problem appeared when I was messing with wordpress and .htaccess file which I deleted... (is there a way to reset webhosting without contacting anyone?) Thank you!


Google indexed my escaped_fragment pages

My site is a single page web-app. I am following the suggestions based on making AJAX applications crawl-able. **My URL looks like this:**               http://domain.com/#!pages/contactUs      **My understanding is:** `http://domain.com/#!chair/12` goes to `http://domain.com/?_escaped_fragment=chair/12` As I am not using any server-side scripting on this project, I have created HTML pages with the application states and put them in a folder like so:                 http://domain.com/htmlFiles/1.html      In Apache I have forwarded requests that include `_escaped_fragment_=` to the right html page:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=chair\/([\w]*)     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ htmlFiles/%1.html? [R=302,L]      The forwarding works correctly and the appropriate page shows up if the `_escaped_fragment` URL is used. The sitemap I submitted to Google looks like this:               <url>     <loc>http://domain.com/#!pages/contactUs</loc>     <lastmod>2012-12-30</lastmod>     <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>     <priority>0.8</priority>     </url>      The problem now is this: my whole `htmlFiles` folder (`http://domain.com/htmlFiles/1.html`) with the HTML files is indexed in Google. These pages are there in the first place just to show Google what content my actual pages contain. My entire website works from               http://domain.com/      These pages should not be coming up in the search results. As they had said they will only index pretty URLs, but still, I am reluctant to have them remove these pages as I don't know if it's going to hamper something else. Could it be that 302 is not the right redirect and 301 should be used instead? Also is there something wrong with this redirect approach thing in the first place?


Title and path for periodic articles/analysis

Let say I have a weekly analysis of the market. This analysis only useful for that week. Although the content is different every week, the title and concept is the same. In order to have a better SEO which one is a better solution:   1. Add the time stamp to the title and URL of each file.   2. Choose a fix URL and title for this page and update the content every week. (Archive the older ones)   3. Or what? Also, I would be happy to know some SEO tips on this type of contents (periodically, with the same nature, but different content). Note, assume that the content is a bunch of charts, and we cannot select a unique title for each of them.


Is there a risk that custom URLs for Facebook and Google+ will compete with your own site?

Is there any downside to registering a Facebook page custom URL or Google Plus custom URL? My primary goal is to drive traffic to my site. Is there a risk of these social media custom URLs competing with my own domain's website and cannibalizing my own traffic? Specifically, I'm imagining the scenario where my Google Plus / Facebook page are ranked higher than my own domain in SERPs:               plus.google.com/+Example     facebook.com/Example     www.example.com      I mean Facebook and Google want traffic so they can sell ads and I want the same thing. I plan on having social media pages, but wondering if it's better to not get the custom URL. Or do the benefits outweigh the risks?


How can I get a free UK IP address?

I live in Germany, work for a real estate broker. I would like to list some of our properties on Gumtree.co.uk, however they don't allow submissions from outside of UK - they are automatically blocked because of non-UK IP address. Is there a way to do this without paying? If not, what paid service would you recommend?


Is my PageRank improved when someone else uses my images?

Let's say person A have a website named `www.asite.com`, and an image in `www.asite.com/images/example.jpg`. Now, someone else (person B) uses this image in his/her website with `<img src="www.asite.com/images/example.jpg"></img>` code. Question is, will A's PageRank improve?


Setting up Google Analytics filter to exclude any spam IP which hits wp-login.php

I'm launching a new website, not hosted on WordPress, but the majority of the (thin) traffic is junk like this:               46.165.211.194 "GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 404 8012 "-" "-"     46.165.211.194 "GET /static/wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 404 162 "-" "-"     46.165.211.194 "GET /recycle/wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 200 29695 "-" "-"     46.165.211.194 "GET /junkmail/wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 200 80409 "-" "-"     199.19.122.114 "GET /administrator/index.php HTTP/1.0" 404 8051 "-" "-"      I'd like to find an automatic way to exclude any IP address that has hit a honeypot (like `wp-login.php`) in the last week. What would a GA filter for this look like, is it possible? Is there a good tool at the Apache level for this kind of sudden death honeypot? The spam traffic is the majority of traffic to the site, which makes log analysis a pain.


Could breadcrumbs be considered as rich anchor text, and drop my ranking?

I have breadcrumbs on my site, and the anchor text for the links are an exact match for the keyword I want to rank for. So in other words, it's "rich" anchor text. An example of my breadcrumbs could look like: **Home > Apple Cheats > Apple Points Cheats > Apple Seeds Game Cheats** Well I've also used RDF markup to construct my breadcrumbs, following the Google article Rich snippets - Breadcrumbs which will allow Google to recognize it. So overall, do I need to worry about exact match anchor text that will get me penalized by something like Penguin? If so, I can remove the breadcrumbs easily.


Why a page that works returns a 500 error?

I have this url that seems to work fine but it returns a 500 error. http://comehike.com/outdoors/hike_widget.php?hike_id=164&height=700&width=500 Any idea why that is possibly happening? I have like 10k such errors in my google webmaster tools :(


Uploaded files to home web server only showing when accessed from server

I've not set up a home web server before so chances are I've made many mistakes. I've used XAMPP on the pc, set up the name servers, used freedns and so far so good. The site is visible, online and going well, or so I thought. My next step was to configure the IDE to upload files automatically when changed. FTP has been set up and is working perfectly, When I connect and upload a file, it shows on the web server. The problem I'm having is that these new files are only visible from the machine that is hosting the site. I've tried copying and pasting (on the server) and get the same result. Can anyone explain what the problem might be please? To summarise (apologies for rambling): Uploaded files to server are being uploaded fine but are not visible when accessed from any machine other than the web server. As a test I created a new file when using the web server and the same result is received. Any help is much appreciated ::Also:: I've read that XAMPP is not best for security. If anyone can point me to an idiots guide for how to do it 'properly' I'd be very grateful :)


Would silverlight or wcf be a good choice for what I want to acomplish

I want to make a personal webpage that will stream HD movies/Music from a personal computer on my network, and allow the creation of playlists,favorites, a rating system, and potentially allow different profiles. I have experience with creating asp websites, But no experience with Silverlight or wcf at all. What exactly would be the negatives and positives of choosing these types of projects. Thanks


Is this a proper way to deal with near duplicate content?

I have a website which used to have 22.000 pages with near duplicate content. Of course, this has become a Panda issue. These pages are now gone from my site and the Google index. I have decided to simplify the 22.000 pages into a unique page with a query parameter which can take 22.000 values. Due to some category pages and a proper link structure, Google can reach this page in 22.000 different ways. Of course, this still makes 22.000 different URLs. In order to solve this issue, I have set the page with a canonical URL. I don't want to spam Google index, but I need to server my customers too. My question is: can someone confirm that making my unique page - called 22.000 times with different parameter values - canonical is a proper solution to my near duplicate content issue? If not, how should I solve it? **Update** Here is what I mean by being called 22.000 times:               http://www.mysite.com/product_descr.html?pid=0     http://www.mysite.com/product_descr.html?pid=1     http://www.mysite.com/product_descr.html?pid=2     http://www.mysite.com/product_descr.html?pid=3     http://www.mysite.com/product_descr.html?pid=4     ...      In the `product_descr.html` page, I have:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mysite.com/product_descr.html"/>      **Update II** I found some Google documentation confirming that canonical is a solution.


Retrieve static webpage on client cache from dynamic content

I was developing a website on a certain web host and they lost everything. They told me their disks crashed and even the backup are unretrievable. I am mad. As I was often accessing my website through my personal browser, is there any way I can get the static webpages from my cache? I managed to find the css, pictures and js files from my local cache, but I would really want to also get back all the texts (content) that I've written. The webpages were generated dynamically (php) from a database (mysql) so I found no html files containing the text for each of my pages. Is there a way I can get these texts or any trace of html source for my webpages..? Thanks in advance


Is logging personally identifiable information a bad practice or violation of law?

I know we all do semi-anonymous logging (server logs, Google Analytics, etc.). However, on one of our external web applications, we have some non- reproducible errors that the external users report occasionally. I chalk most of them up to a PEBKAC errors, but I always investigate the problem to see if I have the same problem. While talking to the internal user that manages it, she mentioned that it is too bad that we can't figure out what browser the person is using without having to call them. I told her that actually we can, but normally it is anonymous data that isn't directly linked to a user. I am curious, is this practice frowned upon? Actually tracking what browser an identified user is using to fill out our forms and log that information with their data. Nothing more than what is logged normally, just linked to a user. Thoughts? **Updated** : I thought I could get by without more details about the application and why. This is for a job application... application. I am trying to track down some "bugs". We hate to always call the user back and ask what browser they were using and how they got the error. If I link their browser information to their name as they fill out the form it removes one piece of the puzzle and I may be able to track down some of the browser-based errors. The real question is if this is against best practices and/or the law.


Google analytics new version has no summary?

I'm trying to understand this new version of Google analytics and I'm really puzzled. One of biggest assets (to me at least) was that I was able to see with a glance how my sites are doing. In the old version, this was easy as cake, but with new version, I'm stumped - how could they replace something so useful with ... NOTHING??? When I logged into old version I got this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/zTgNR.png) And on new version I get this, which is nothing... ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jK57W.png) Is there any reasoning behind this or is it just a fluke? If this new version becomes only version, I'll be forced to find my analytics happiness somewhere else ...


Using scripts to visit site and leave immediately to lower Page Rank of competitors?

Using Google Analytics, in the past week we've noticed an extremely high percentage of people visiting our pages and leaving after less than one second. In some cases they are leaving after zero seconds... Anyone versed in today's SEO knows that Google track's the "time on site" statistic and uses that to help determine their rankings in search. What we think is happening is that a competitor might be doing this intentionally. Setting up CURL scripts or something to continuously visit a site and leave immediately, thus hopefully lowering our search rankings eventually. Perhaps they are doing it from multiple IP addresses, we can't tell using Google Analytics (or can we?). Has anyone heard of this type of behavior? Is there a specific name for it? How do you combat it? We've been considering tracking the time-on-site using `window.load` and `window.unload` and then recording the visited time along with the IP address in order to determine the IP addresses that are causing the problems. Any clues?


mod_rewrite to edit cookies conditionally

Is it possible to use mod_rewrite to modify values in cookies based upon a condition? I am completely new to HTTP, but I have tried a thing or two. The only regex I know is Perl-style, I hope it is okay.               RewriteRule s/.[0-9][0-9][0-9]/COOKIE=MSFNODE/g;        1. `MSFNODE` is a value in my cookie.    2. The thing I want to run my regex on is `SESSIONID` (also in my cookie). I'm not sure how to choose that as a target.    3. As the regex shows, I want to replace `.[0-9][0-9][0-9]` with my cookie value called `MSFNODE`, _but only if`MSFNODE` exists!_ Is `COOKIE=MSFNODE` the right way to do this? Also, I only want this to happen if `MSFNODE` exists — as it is now, will it just pass on through and not follow the rewrite rule if `MSFNODE` doesn't exist? I feel like even my most basic regex is flawed here.


LaunchRock CNAME configs, what do they do?

Trying out LaunchRock, and ran across this: general-instructions-for-creating-your-cname-record Basically as far as I'm able to tell they only support using your sub-domain as the URL, not having the "launch page" at "subdomain-by-you.launchrock.com". Guessing the guide to changing the subdomain and CNAME means you create a subdomain and then while the user sees "signup.yoursite.com" the DNS call is really going to LaunchRocks servers and being routed to the custom page you set up with them, though that's just a guess on my part.