E-commerce with secure cart and payment

I want to create an e-commerce project online.. so I have this issue : if the user is not logged in , then the selected products will be automatically added to a default cart .. under the name of guest001, guest002 etc... where guest is a defaul user.. if the user signup , then the system will automatically check in his cart default data.. to add it to his new account when the user then wants to add new products to cart, they will be added directly to his cart. My questions are : What's better, using cookies to store the data in the user's machine, so it will be used by the system once the user creates his account?? or using a server side variables?? What's better? creating a default client (guest) in the database once the unkown user adds something to his cart, or just create a cookie with stored data without need to create a guest user?? and thank you in advance.


How to find keywords in HTML code?

I want to check if on a web page I can find defined words. For example I want to check if a web page contains word 'abc'. I know that some pages contains `meta tag` with `name = keywords` and `name=description`. But now every page contains this tag. So I'm also searching in `<p>` tags. But where else I should search for a matching words to determine the topic of the page?


Can Google Index Rewriten URLs?

Can Google index rewriten URLs? I mean, if I have the link               Grab the document!      and if I instruct Apache to rewrite `http://mydomain.com/document` as `http://mydomain.com/document.pdf` or `http://mydomain.com/download.php?file=document.pdf`, will Google still be able to index the contents of the resulting PDF file?


Why are these pages showing as duplicate content in Google Webmaster Tools?

The following two URLs are showing up as having duplicate meta descriptions in my Google Webmaster Tools and I have spent the past couple of months unable to find out why that is: `http://www.example.com/lingerie-bras-gaffs/crossdressing-lingerie- sets?dir=asc&order=sku&p=3` `http://www.example.com/lingerie-bras-gaffs/crossdressing-lingerie- sets?dir=desc&order=position&p=2&size_cl=179` Fetch as Google shows that they both have the same canonical URL in the head source code. And all of these URL parameters are added to Webmaster Tools. Is there something I am missing here?


Point email records to server without domain name?

I have a Shopify site and have my www CNAME pointing to it. However, I need to point my mail records to my VPS where I have set up webmail. I am really confused with how to do this and have tried several ways. From follow loads of different tutorials, my DNS is currently set up as such:   * mysite.com | A | 204.93.213.45 (shopifys ip)   * mail.mysite.com | A | 111.00.111.00 (my servers ip)   * mail | A | 111.00.111.00 (my servers ip)   * www | CNAME | mysite.myshopify.com   * mysite.com | MX | 10 (?) I can send emails from the vps under my domain, but not recieve them. Can anyone at all tell me what I need to put in here to get this working?


Where do I register .sh domain?

I want to register a personal domain with `sh` extension. Where to register? I didn't find any registrar. I will use this for my personal blog and portfolio. I didn't have any organisation or any company. I reside in India if it helps


How to restrict site access to all countries except mine with .htaccess?

I used this tool to download list in " **.htaccess allow** " format to allow traffic from my country and restrict all others but it's still accessible when visiting from bunch of foreign proxies. I'm restricting access to my home dev server where i certainly don't need traffic from China, Uganda, Russia and other countries i found while inspecting Apache logs. Apparently, this format doesn't seem to work:               <Limit GET POST>     order deny,allow     allow from 37.18.184.0/22     allow from 37.18.188.0/22     allow from 37.19.104.0/22     allow from 37.19.108.0/22     allow from 37.35.8.0/22     allow from 37.35.12.0/22     allow from 37.35.64.0/22     allow from 37.35.68.0/22     allow from 37.77.168.0/22     allow from 37.77.172.0/22     deny from all     </Limit>


Google not indexing video from video sitemap

I run a website serving video content. I run my own player. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/mTe9s.png) I have added Google’s structured markup to the video tags. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gb2mU.png) Here’s the link to test a page. I also have the sitemap pointing to a video sitemap xml ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7R3YQ.png) But for some reason Google is not picking up these pages as video ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NOn1i.png) Just two of them are mapped as video of the 115 submitted. **What could be the reason here?** The video recipes are duplicated in another sitemap but I don’t think that’s the reason. Note: _You'll also see it's the same with images_.


Are SEO and SEM click through rates correlated?

If not, why; and how would you estimate click throw rates for a SERP?


How can I keep my biz website with Squarespace but my blog with WordPress

I started my website with Squarespace, and while it's great for a static small-biz website, it's not working for a dynamic blog. I'd like to start a self-hosted WordPress blog but still keep the domain name as the same for both - www.cooksmarts.com. In my DNS manager, I've mapped my A Record to SS's IP address. How can I change it so that www.cooksmarts.com would take you to SS but www.cooksmarts.com/blog would take to WordPress blog?


Best and safest SEO way to hide h1 tags

I want to use images that I created in PS for page titles. Because they will be images they will not be picked up by Google, etc. What is the best practice for hiding the `<h1>`? I was planning on setting the `<h1>` visibility to hidden. Is this ok to do? **update** I want to hide `<h1>` tag behind header image. I read how to do it if I just link an image (fine). My header is a little different. I have a background image taking up the whole header div. On top of that I have a flash file playing (mostly transparent) with some star burst effects. I want this to be SEO friendly.


htaccess - "detect" url and redirect

Idea is:               if      URL = "http:/localhost/site/"     else if URL = "http:/localhost/site"      redirect to               "http:/localhost/site/index.html"      **Can this be done with .htaccess / Apache mod_rewrite** and how?


Measuring the page load time

Can anyone provide an overview of what the steps are to create a tool such a Pingdom's page load time tool? I see a lot of these out there that do essentially the same thing, but I am not sure how to go about creating a tool to do this


What is Google's policy about separate content on same URLs in mobile and desktop versions?

I'm currently developing a mobile version of my site where users' devices are automatically identified and then displayed either mobile or desktop view of the same URL. For usability purposes, I would like to display different information on certain URLs in mobile than desktop. For example, I'd prefer the content to be straight on first page on mobile, whereas my desktop root domain is a landing page.   * How will such arrangement affect Google's opinions about my site?   * Is is hurtful for my rankings?   * Or does Google separate desktop and mobile results?


Determine what percentage of visitors to my site leave without taking a certain on-page action

On Rap Genius you can click the orange lyrics to read pop-up explanations: ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/AKguO.png) However, I'm sure some visitors don't know that the orange lyrics are clickable. I'd like to figure out **what percentage of visitors to song pages on Rap Genius do not click a single orange lyric before leaving** Right now I fire a Google Analytics event whenever someone opens an explanation, but I don't know how to use this data to answer my underlying question.


Prevent .htaccess 301 redirects on subdomain

I have 301 redirects which direct `/index.html` to `/site` folder and when I created a subdomain it also redirects the link to `/site` which causes `404 Not Found`. For example: `members.mysite.com` redirects to `members.mysite/site` which causes 404 error can I add execption for specific forlder or something without changing the redirect. .htaccess content:               AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .htm .html     RedirectMatch 301  ^/index.html(.*)$ /site$1


Google Shows my website title and links in other website's adwords

Today while searching my domain name in google search i found the first link is google adwords link with my website title and link as subdomain. > Eg .I searched mydomain.com in google search > > first google adwords result > > **mydomain.com** buy best products from **www.theirdomain.com/mydomain** , > **mydomain.theirdomain.com** What i feel is this the way of hijacking my domain traffics to their domain ? Can i complaint to google adwords about this about policy issue ?


SEO-friendly masthead with a hidden <h1> and <h2>

I have built a website and the masthead uses an SVG that contains the site title, logo and support graphics. The masthead still contains the logo as an inline image, and `<h1>`, `<h2>` tags. However the logo and header tags are all hidden using CSS in favour of the masthead graphic. The HTML shown below may not have been uploaded to the website at the time of writing this question, just in case you're wondering why the source code of the URL is different. But that's what it will look like. Does this affect SEO? As the HTML does match the masthead content and doesn't contain spam or fake keywords. It also matches the page title in the browser window.
              <a class="logo hidden" href="<?php echo $appurl; ?>" title="All Together"><img src="<?php echo $appurl; ?>img/logo2.png" alt="All Together logo">
All Together - Work Placement Software

Online software for efficient placement management


Getting 403 Forbidden after changing webroot

I am running Ubuntu with Apache (LAMP stack). When I changed the webroot from /var/www to /media/data/www, I keep getting 403 Forbidden even after `chmod- ing` the directory + files to 777. What did I do wrong? Also referencing /var/www, I noticed that the directory + files are owned by `root` should that be the case? Shouldn't it be `www-root`? Also if its root, will apache not be able to access it? I noticed that I am getting errors like > [Wed May 11 11:53:40 2011] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: > /media/data/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure > it is readable but thing is, my web root is `/media/data/jm/www`


Does Google ignore robots.txt

I know that here www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.4.1.1 it says spiders always check the robots.txt before going to page. However I have recently been told that Google crawls every single URL that it can find on a site and then looks at the robots.txt file and filters out what is disallowed. Is this true?


Changing server from US based to New Zealand based: the effect on our high ranking on Google?

We are in New Zealand but our site is hosted in the US. We rank on the first page for our products in Google for US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, Japan and NZ. This is crucial for our business. WE have been advised to use a NZ server instead of the US server. My question is - will changing countries like this cause any issues at all with our Google rankings. I read below that we need to keep it seamless as possible - which we would do. That is great advice - but apart from that - is there anything we need to be aware of? Thanks! Susan


Why do we need to pay for domain privacy?

Why domain registrars could not just give it for free?


why does loading my homepage leads to my index page?

please when ever i load my new site quancer[dot ]com. It leads to my index page. I just installed the script using softaculous autoinstaller. Please kindly help me with this.


Implementing mobile-only (non-responsive) ads into a responsive theme

I've just finished setting up a website for someone - it's a responsive design under WordPress. Some of the advertising on the page is responsive ad units from AdSense, but unfortunately other ad units are not responsive. The site owner has been given "mobile-only" and "desktop-only" ad code, but my question is, how does one even implement that effectively in a responsive design? My initial thought was wrapping the code in different divs, and then hiding or showing them depending on screen width, but that's no good as the mobile ad still loads, despite being hidden, which is against some ad networks terms of use. The only thing I can think is making a complete copy of the WordPress theme, installing it under a new name, and then using a switcher to use the "new" theme for mobile devices. Since it's a new theme, different widgets can be used, and different code added to the various needed places, but perhaps there's a cleaner solution to this?


Creating pages or using single page design?

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask this... Please redirect me to correct location if needed. I'm creating a support page for my website, and I was wondering how most websites such as twitter deal with their design? Do they create a single pages for each question? Or is it one page and they use some kind of show/hide to toggle between each questions? I'm trying to figure out how I should build my website? If they use the "show/hide" method, how do they change the URL? Thanks!


Removing items from a sitemap

I'm having a problem removing some unwanted links from my sitemap. The hierarchy which we have in the sitemap is incorrect. I don't want that be like that. Is there any way which I can change it? Please refer to the below screenshot. I want to remove the highlighted items from the current sitemap. ![screenshot of sitemap](http://i.stack.imgur.com/G4GeM.png)


Flash Twitter and Facebook widgets

I'm stuck with a crappy digital signage platform that only renders `.html` and `.swf` files (and RSS feeds). No customization of RSS, only way to show something dynamic in a pretty way is to use Flash. The question: is there any way to embed JavaScript in `.swf` files or somehow have Facebook and Twitter Flash plugins? I looked for ready-made `.swf` widgets for the job but didn't find any, if there is **_any_** Flash widget that serves a Facebook and/or Twitter feed please give me a link.


Google Merchant Feed: Roboted Content

I'm trying to submit my a merchant feed to Google Shopping Search (aka Froogle) but every now and then I get an email saying that the URLs in the feed are "Roboted Content". The URLs in the feed are tracking ones which means that they redirect to the real product pages. Both directories aren't in my robots.txt. Yet Google keeps telling me that they are blocked for its crawlers. How can I find out exactly what the offending URL is?


Two letter ccTLD (.ni) domain registration length issue

At `101domain`, `gandi.net`, and other domain registrars that offer `.ni` domain registration, the minimum number of characters is 3. However, there are sites with a two letter domain with the `.ni` ccTLD, such as `http://mi.ni` and `http://ti.ni`. I have read that these two letter domains can sometimes be reserved for special uses (such as state organizations...). However, the above domains don't appear to be related to Nicaragua at all. I'm just wondering how these sites were registered, as I have been looking to register a two letter `.ni` domain for a while but was never successful.


Are CloudFlare or Google Analytics visitor numbers more appropriate to report to advertisers?

I've read Analytics: CloudFlare vs Google - What discrepancy is too big? but still can't put together an answer that the CEO of any company would accept. The numbers in CloudFlare analytics are much larger than those reported by Google Analytics. If a website needs to give numbers to advertisers, should GA be used considering the JS involved is more close to the Google DFP way of thinking rather than the CF way? Should I give them the CF stats and when they question the discrepancy in numbers between what Google DFP says and CF says, tell them what CF says about their analytics?


How does Google consider internal linking with navigation?

We are currently discussing tweaking our website's navigation in an effort to optimize the flow of page rank via internal links. I am a web dev in a team of 3, with an SEO guy and a copywriting guy. Currently our main navigation consists of a single tier dropdown menu, which matches the architecture of our site exactly (besides one or two second tier pages). As a result every page effectively links to every other page, all of the time, via the navigation. I was under the impression that Google, and other search engines, would see that this is a navigational element that appears in every single page, in exactly the same way, and not spread link juice in the way that internal links in the content would. However we are talking about only having the nav menu just be single links, with no dropdown menu, just linking to the initial sections, which in turn have a sidebar nav menu that links to all the sub pages, which appear relative to the section you are in. Would this have an actual effect on link juice 'flow' or not? This is just something I am curious about in order to broaden my knowledge on SEO and how the search engines view our pages.


Controlling Access using htpasswd and htaccess

I've got a bit of a peculiar problem on my site. I'm using a .htaccess and .htpasswd file to protect the root of the site. This works great, but when I try to view a video file on my site, it prompts for the password again. Is there something I can do so the only time a visitor is prompted to login is the first time he loads the page? Thanks! quark


Pointing a godaddy domain to a rackspace windows 2008 server

Note: _Question was moved here from stack overflow after being closed as not being related to programming_ I've searched through a number of similar questions on stack overflow but to my surprise I haven't been able to find an answer to this seemingly common/trivial question. I've set up lots of websites in the past, but never on my own windows server. I have installed wordpress and I can access my website through my server's IP address over the internet. I've typed in the rackspace name servers into godaddy last Saturday: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/OA8Lj.png) The name servers were obtained from the dns records on my rackspace for this domain. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/eAf6Q.png) Unfortunately I don't know how this all works behind the scenes so I may be configuring something wrong or missing something. I've configured the domain into my cloud server's domain management as seen here: ![DNS management](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7U8tV.png) And I haven't done any other configuration (such as on my iis server). The problem is that I cannot visit my hosted site using the URL - only by the server IP.


index.pl getting downloaded instead of executing on Ubuntu 12.04 and Apache 2.2.22

I have installed Apache 2.2.22 on Ubuntu 12.04. But in browser when I type localhost, it gives index.pl file to download instead of executing it. What I tried: 1. chmod 755 index.pl 2. Adding line DirectoryIndex index.pl index.html to etc/apache2/site-available/example.com, which finally looks like below. I have done these things before on Windows machine. But the directory structure is different in Windows and Ubuntu. Httpd.conf file is blank in Ubuntu. And while searching through directories I found no. of files similar to configuration file. So I am confused where exactly I have to make configuration changes. Update: My index.html has meta tag as follows: meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL='cgi-bin/index.pl'". Index.html file resides in var/www/example.com/public_html folder. In this folder I created folder cgi- bin with index.pl file in it. The browser when typed localhost give following error: 404 /cgi-bin/index.pl was not found on this server. And configuration file called example.com (etc/apache2/sites-available) has following line: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/               <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost             ServerName example.com         DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/public_html         <Directory />             Options FollowSymLinks             AllowOverride None         </Directory>         <Directory /var/www/example.com/public_html>             Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews             AllowOverride None             Order allow,deny             allow from all         </Directory>     # This line was added by me     DirectoryIndex index.html index.pl         ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/         <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">             AllowOverride None             Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch             Order allow,deny             Allow from all         </Directory>              ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log              # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,         # alert, emerg.         LogLevel warn              CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined              Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"         <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">             Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks             AllowOverride None             Order deny,allow             Deny from all             Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128         </Directory>          </VirtualHost>      Update:Below is changes which I made after following krowe's suggestions, and it worked.               ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/example.com/public_html/cgi-bin/     <Directory "/var/www/example.com/public_html/cgi-bin">         AllowOverride None         Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch         Order allow,deny         AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl         Allow from all     </Directory>


How to overcome eBay CSS limits for auctions' pages?

On eBay you can code the content of a `<div>` on the auction's page. The problem is that you can't edit the `<head>` content. I tried using inside the `<div>` something like this:               <style type="text/css">            my styles...     </style>       It works on Chrome and Firefox but it doesn't work on Internet Explorer. Do you have any hint other than manually write all the `style="..."` attribute in each element? * I'm not looking for W3C validation, eBay pages are already broken. I just need it to work cross browser. * * * * Unless there is some automatic way to do it. PS: I don't have enough reputation to create the eBay tag yet.


How to prevent duplication of content on a page with too many filters?

I have a webpage where a user can search for items based on around 6 filters. Currently I have the page implemented with one filter as the base filter (part of the url that would get indexed) and other filters in the form of hash urls (which won't get indexed). This way the duplication is less. Something like this               example.com/filter1value-items#by-filter3-filter3value-filter2-filter2value      Now as you may see, only one filter is within the reach of the search engine while the rest are hashed. This way I could have 6 pages. Now the problem is I expect users to use two filters as well at times while searching. As per my analysis using the Google Keyword Analyzer there are a fare bit of users that might use two filters in conjunction while searching. So how should I go about it? Having all the filters as part of the url would simply explode the number of pages and sticking to the current way wouldn't let me target those users. I was thinking of going with at max 2 base filters and rest as part of the hash url. But the only thing stopping me is that it would lead to duplication of content as per Google Webmaster Tool's suggestions on Url Structure.


Could you suggest a good VPS hosting for my own exercise?

Could you suggest a good VPS hosting for my own exercise ? I would like to have a server for development where I can have a lot of space, good performances and the ability to install my own software. Also I would like to configure my apache and php configuration files as well, if possible? PS. Not Microsoft software Thanks


What are advantages and disadvantages in using VPS hosting vs standard Web hosting services?

I saw many companies offer Virtual Private Server hosting beside their Web Hosting packages. I was wondering what are the differences, pros and contros. Thanks


How does google treat domains that were once used for adult content but no longer are?

I'm considering placing some adult xxx stub content and links on one of my unused domains. Depending on the outcome of the experiment, perhaps I would like to go back to non adult content in a few months for this domain. What can I expect in terms of google position after this move? Will I be penalized? If so, for how long? The targeted search phrase will be the same for both adult and non-adult version.


Reasonable payment providers to allow African countries to pay a UK Business

One of my sites has a fairly large following in Uganda and Mauritius (although in actual percentage terms African nations would rank quite low). We currently do most of our processing through Paypal for memberships and donations but they do not allow people from these counties to sign up, nor do the handful of other payment providers we have used in the past. Has anyone had any experience accepting money from Africa? Ideally the customer would pay no extra charges bar what they are sending us.


How do I keep my registered domain name to be replaced by my web host domain name?

I registered a domain name, let's say for example `my-super-project.com`, and I've got my site hosted on, say `spproject.megahost.com`. When I enter `my-super-project.com`, I get redirected to my site, but the address doesn't show `my-super-project.com`, but `spproject.megahost.com`. How do I keep that from happening?


FFmpeg & Installation on phpmyadmin

I am attempting to have an interface in which people can upload music files and listen to them through the site. The biggest problem obviously is that someone who uploads an audio track in mp3 format into Mozilla wouldn't be able to play it back (since MF doesn't support mp3 playback since I'm using jPlayer). I did some research and found out that I could use command line php using FFmpeg to convert the mp3 to ogg or some other supportable format. I believe I understand (a little bit) how command line php works but I was wondering how I could install it onto phpmyadmin on my hosting service? Could anyone link me to a tutorial or care to explain? I tried googling it but I just couldn't find it.


Website hacked, cpanel password not encrypted?

Yesterday I found out that all the websites that are hosted on my webhosting site were hacked. I tried to change my password, and unbelievably, I COULD SEE my password there. This means my password is able to be decrypted. I asked customer support, and they say, its normal, CPanel saves the password like that. Is it true? I mean, cpanel password able to be decrypted? They blame me because my wordpress version is out of date. But 2 of my website are on different platforms. One made by CI and one by Wordpress, and all are hacked. Is this hosting reliable?


Moving from one DNS provider to another

I had registered with a particular DNS provider X and I have been unhappy with their services and now when the time for renewal came, I did not renew and I let it expire. I am hoping that once it is expired from this provider, I would be able to sign up for the same domain name from an alternative provider which I have tested and I am satisfied. What kind of precautions should I take? The domain name is not a critical one, it is of a NGO and we prefer to own it again without any change in the name. The information given by the expiry notice says               Domains can be renewed between 90 days before and 14 days after the expiry date. If domains are not renewed they will be removed from the account and set for deletion.      Should I wait for time till gets _deleted_ at their end so that I can sign up for the same from another provider?


Is it possible to find out whether one given page has been indexed?

When one submits sitemaps in Google Webmaster, Google may not index all pages of your site/blog. Is there a way to find out whether one specific page belonging to the sitemap has been indexed or not? If yes, how? Of course, I could take a look at Traffic > Search Queries > Top Pages, but I would have no guarantee that my page is indexed or not if it does not appear there.


Highly SEO optimised forum posts

Given the following forum post: > **Basics of how internals of Construct work** > > I've used GameMaker in the past. And I know some C++ and have used a few 3d > engines with it. I have also looked at Unity, though I didn't get too much > into it. So I know my way around programming etc... > > My question is, how does construct work internally? I know it allows python > scripting, which itself is "technically" interpreted, though python is > pretty fast as far as being interpreted goes. But what about the rest? Is > the executable that gets cre... The forum software will take the first 150 chars of the first post as the page meta description, and the title will be the thread title. All ok. So in Google it will appear as: > **Basics of how internals of Construct work** > > I've used GameMaker in the past. And I know some C++ and have used a few 3d > engines with it. I have also looked at Unity, though I didn't get too > much... > > `http://www.domain.com/forum/basics-of-how-internals-of-construct-work.html` Now the problem is (not so much with this thread, but other ones) is the first 150 chars don't always create the best meta description. Is it worth my time to cherry pick threads and manually set their description/title tags so they read like: > **Internal workings of Construct 2** > > Events aren't converted to any other language. The runtime is a standalone > compiled EXE application, which is optimised and actually very fast. Your > events... > > `http://www.domain.com/forum/basics-of-how-internals-of-construct-work.html` The H1 on the page is still the original title, but we have overridden the title and description to look more friendly on search results. Is this advantageous forgetting the obvious time cost?


Pseudo-external links and SEO

I don't know, how to name such a links. Main idea is following: I write a post at a community, which I do not control, and place a link to my web-site: > www.mywebsite.com When post is saved, my link is converted to this: > `http://www.some-community.com/outgoing?http://mywebsite.com` It does't have "nofollow" attribute value. When i click this link, i get notification page, like this: > "You are going to follow to external site. Continue ?" This page contains the actual link to my website, again without "nofollow". How such a pseudo-external link will be handled by Google's and other search engines? I think, this will be no problems with reaching my website, but extra hop. Or? Will posting a link on such communities increase ranking of my website? **Update 1** Just rephrasing my question: I promote my website in some communities via writing posts (with links to my website). These communities having such redirect notifications, like "You are visiting external site. Continue ?". The question is - will using such communities increase my ranking ?


Lightbox 2 in Joomla

How can I get lightbox 2 into Joomla?   And I mean the real one:   http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/   I already have the images, so I just want to add rel="lightbox" to my image link and the lightbox pops up. Is there an extensions available or do I have to include the script files manually? Thanks


Google Webmaster Tools refusing to see my Structured Data

I've been unable to get Webmaster tools to see my sites structured data. It keeps reporting "We do not detect any structured data on your site". You can inspect my html by visiting: http://www.cgtag.com I can verify that my Schema.org data is formatted correctly using Yandex. It reports 50 objects on my home page. http://webmaster.yandex.com/microtest.xml On my home page in the `<head>` section I have this object.               <script type="application/ld+json">{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"CollectionPage","description":"Everything Related To Computer Graphics, Visual Effects and 3D Animation","name":"cgTag | Everything Related To Computer Graphics, Visual Effects and 3D Animation","alternateName":"cgTag"}</script>      For each article shown on the home page, and inside each `<article>` tag. I have an object like this.               <script type="application/ld+json">{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Article","name":"TRANSFORMERS 4 Trailer 2","headline":"TRANSFORMERS 4 Trailer 2","description":"TRANSFORMERS 4 Trailer 2\nParamount Pictures has released the new trailer for Transformers: Age of Extinction, hitting theaters on June 27.\nTransformers: Age of Extinction is the fourth film in director Michael Bay\u00e2\u0080\u0099s global blockbuster franchise. Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Li Bingbing, Kelsey Gr","url":"\/post\/10020\/transformers-4-trailer-2","datePublished":"2014-05-15T07:06:34-04:00","copyrightHolder":{"@type":"Organization","name":"CG Meet Up","url":"\/sources\/62\/cg-meet-up"},"Image":"http:\/\/s0.cgtag.com\/img\/post\/2014\/5\/15\/thumb-10020-12.jpg"}</script>      The only thing I can conclude. Is that Google is ignoring Schema.org data defined in `<script type="application/ld+json>` blocks. This seems like an unlike answer, because it's well documented that defining microdata this way is allowed. If I use the Google structure data inspector. It's not showing data for the articles. http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cgtag.com EDIT: It's been over a month now waiting for the data to appear.


Plesk refuses to let me set a new SSL certificate

I got a problem when I try to update/change a SSL certificate on a PLESK managed server. One problem might be that I am not so confident at this topic. The setup is the following: I use an virtual server, which I have access to via PLESK. Two websites are running on the server, and are reachable via two domains. One of the domains is secured with a SSL certificate which will end soon. I bought a certificate renewal on godaddy.com followed this instruction: http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/5354/ssl-certificate-renewal- parallels-plesk-panel The problem is in step 12 of the instruction > 12.) At the top of the page, change the SSL Certificate drop-down menu to > the certificate you have just installed. There is no drop-down menu which i could pick from. Plesk says: "Certificate XYZ installed (owned by another user)" where the drop-down should be. I double checked my user accounts - there is only one administrator (which i used). Has anyone an idea? Do I have to change something on web server level?


How to compile a complete list of valid TLD and ccTLD domain extensions

Most domain extension lists i've found only list the ccTLD and TLD portion of the extension (e.g. `.uk`) and don't list the full set of valid extensions for that ccTLD or TLD (e.g. `.org.uk`, `.ac.uk`, `.co.uk`, etc). Without researching the registrar policies of every single ccTLD in the world, is there a way for me to compile/obtain a complete list of all current valid domain extensions in the world?


Using "excel" word in the domain name

I intend to offer some Microsoft Excel tools from a site whose name I'd like to be something like `www.exceltools.com`, I'm worried whether it will impinge Microsoft's trademark term. I know using any company name in the domain name is forbidden though (like `microsoft`).


Privacy Policy & Terms - Holder of the treatment

I have a legal question: Often I see in Privacy Policies and Terms of Conditions the point/field entitled: "Holder of the treatment." Usually in the "Holder of the treatment" field, websites puts their own physical street address / office address, and sometimes the holder puts his own name in that field. So is it officially needed, or is it just something I can avoid adding into such legal texts? **NB:** I'm Italian, so I need to follow Italian laws. I only found this link: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titolare_del_trattamento_dei_dati But it's in Italian so sorry, and I can't understand if I need to put the "holder of the treatment" in legal text.


CheckCaseOnly doesn't work, while CheckSpelling does

I'm trying to globally set `CheckCaseOnly on` to make my webservers folders case insensitive. It doesn't work though? I don't need it to correct spelling - thus I'm not using `CheckSpelling`. Apache2.4 on Ubuntu.   mod_speling is enabled.


Mobile site and ranking concerns

For this particular website there's no current mobile version. My question is: by creating a simplified mobile version of the site, with obviously less content but more accessible, wouldn't the site be hurt? Google seems, from what I've read to rank mobile versions higher in mobile searches, but with a limited content, should I even bother?


Rewrite URLs not working - wrong method or conflict?

I've been at this for about an hour now and I'm not having much luck. htaccess files are quite new to me, so I'm obviously doing something very wrong. Current htaccess content, which I need to keep:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^blog-page-([^-]*)$ ?page=$1&p=home [L]     RewriteRule ^blog-([^-]*)+? ?d=$1&p=home [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?p=$1 [L]      I need to redirect 100+ old (WordPress) URLs back directly to the domain, such as:               /some-url-as-seen-by-google/ -> www.domain.co.uk      They all follow the same pattern, for example:               /something/some-url-as-seen-by-google/     /some-url-as-seen-by-google/      I've tried all kinds of RewriteRule, RedirectMatch 301, Redirect 301 rules, but I just can't seem to get my head around it, or get it to work.


Are the space and the / required in the <br /> tag?

Back in the day, I remember writing many a webpage without using / in the   tag. What changed? Also, is the space "required?"


Having hard time to hide directories on my site

i'm trying to hide some directories on my site by returning 404 not found error codes instead of forbidden, the problem is that the files in the directory becomes not available to php. how can i hide the directories by returning 404 error codes for them without making them unavailable to me also? i have seen this in apple.com and facebook.com. this is the code i'm using in .htaccess:               Options All -Indexes     RedirectMatch 404 ^/classes(/?|/.*)$     RedirectMatch 404 ^/css(/?|/.*)$      if it's not possible how can i hide them without returning 403 because wans a hacker sees 403 he will go make some coffee sit infront of his laptop and won't leave my site without some data. EDIT: this where i'v seen it http://images.apple.com/global/styles/ i'm not saying i want to hide very important stuff.... the important stuff are outside the web root, what i'm saying is i want to hide directories like this directory for example. `/media/` in this directory there are more than 800 directories in each directory there are more than 500 mp3's, how can i send 404 for all those directories but still be able to reach them through php or javascript, is that possible? and if not is denying access to all of this folders is my only solution?


<br /> tag and spaces

Just a quick question that's nagged at me for a while. When using the `<br />` tag, is the tag considered to be a space between text as well? In other words, if the html was: `<p>Publication Author<br />Publication Citation</p>`, would it be read as "Publication Author Publication Citation" or "Publication AuthorPublication Citation"?


How do you stop PDF hotlinking and automatically redirect hotlink clickers?

I have some PDF documents that I offer users once they have subscribed to my newsletter. Well, Google found them, and other people are posting them on various sites. I'd like to take advantage of Google ranking my PDF documents and redirect users that click on those links to an html or php page. How do you automatically redirect hotlinked PDF clicks (on Google search and other sites) to a relevant page (i.e. domain.com/PDFdoc1.pdf redirects to domain.com/PDFdoc1.html or domain.com/PDFdoc1/)? I want to keep the PDFs ranked where they are on Google, and keep the PDF documents exactly where they are on my site, but just redirect hotlinked clickers to a page instead of the PDF.How can this be done?


How should I name my DNS server?

Are there any conventions or guidelines I should use to name my DNS server? Does it really matter? On the site I'm using to obtain the domain I desire it has two options:   * Set up DNS and name servers automatically.   * I want to specify my own name servers. What would the automatic server names be like? Is there any reason why I should specify the name myself?


English expression for "charte graphique"

What is the equivalent english expression for "charte graphique" which is a document that defines the combinations of colours, dimensions and layout for a website?


Really simple FOSS CSS for a report?

I'm creating a web-based report. It will be a single column, no menu. Just titles, graphs, tables. Maybe a header and a footer. I've scoured the internet for a free, open source (or just 'free') CSS 'template' that will turn my grotty looking HTML page in to a nicely colored page with good fonts. Something simple I can just drop in. Is there such a thing? My issue is that I'm not a designer, I just want to pop something in and have it work and look good.


Index pages for previous months?

Is there a way on how to find number of index pages for last 2-3 months. If yes, then how?? Please help. Thanks.


Scalable ASP.NET hosts for under $20.00/ month

I am looking for a scalable ASP.NET host for under $20.00/ month. I need it scalable just in case my website is featured on popular blogs and traffic increases dramatically (in that case, I would increase my budget). So far I checked Amazon EC2, Rackspace and GoGrid, but they are far too expensive. I also checked GoDaddy 4GH but it limits MSSQL to 200MB.


Is there a good [and modern] reason to not have static HTML pages with AJAX content , rather than generate pages?

_Assumptions: We don't care about IE6, and Noscript users._ **Lets pretend we have the following design concept:** All your pages are HTML/CSS that create the ascetics, layout, colours, general design related things. Lets pretend this basic code below is that:               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">                           <link href="/example.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>

                    Which in theory should produce, with the right CSS, three vertical columns on the web page. Now, here's the root of the question, what are the serious advantages and/or disadvantages of loading the content of these columns (lets assume they are all indeed dynamic content, not static) via AJAX requests, or have the content pre-set with a scripting language? So for instance, we would have, in the AJAX example, lets asume jquery is used on-load:               //Multiple http requests     $("body > div.left").load("./script.php?content=news");     $("body > div.right").load("./script.php?content=blogs");     $("body > div.mid").load("./script.php?content=links");      OR---               //Single http request     $.ajax({         url: './script.php?content=news|blogs|links',         method: 'json',         type: 'text',         success: function (data) {             $("body > div.left").html(data.news);             $("body > div.right").html(data.blogs);             $("body > div.mid").html(data.links);         }     })      Verses doing this:
                 <?php                     echo function_returning_news();                 ?>

                 <?php                     echo function_returning_blogs();                 ?>

                 <?php                     echo function_returning_links();                 ?>
               I'm personally thinking right now that doing static HTML pages is a better method, my reasoning is: I've separated my data, logic, and presentation (ie, "MVC") code. I can make changes to one without others. Browser caches mean I'm just getting server load mostly for the content, not the presentation wrapped around it. I could turn my "script.php" into a more robust API for the website. But I'm not certain or clear that these are legitimately good reasons, and I'm not confidently aware of other issues that could happen, so I would like to know the pros-and-cons, so to speak.


.co domain name & UK focused SEO - any good?

Does anyone know if a keyword-rich .co domain name can be listed and rank fairly highly in Google UK (assuming the content is correctly balanced and tailored for the keyword in question) ? Does Google class it as international?


What happens if I transfer domain from one registrar to another one?

I have several domains registered at GoDaddy. I bought them with private registration. What happens if I transfer these domains (together with hosting) to other provider? Where will I pay for renewal next year? Also what should I be aware of when transfering domains?


How can I decrease relevancy of Creative Commons footer text? (In Google Webmaster Tools)

I know that I may just have to link the image to make this happen, but I figured it was worth asking, just in case there's some other semantic markup or tips I could use... I have a site that uses the textual Creative Commons blurb in the footer. The markup is like so:

This work by xMEMPHISx.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
      Within Google Webmaster Tools, the list of relevant keywords is heavily saturated with the text from that blurb. For instance, 50% of my top-ten most relevant keywords (including the site name):   1. [site name]   2. license    3. [keyword]   4. commons    5. creative    6. [keyword]   7. alike    8. [keyword]   9. attribution    10. [keyword]  I have not done any extensive testing to find out rather or not this list even matters, and so far this doesn't impact performance in any way. The site is well designed for humans, and it is as findable as it needs to be at the moment. But, out of mostly curiosity: **Do you have any tips for decreasing the relevancy of the text from the Creative Commons footer blurb?**


Can a CMS export html files?

Can I use a CMS offline, then export the relevant html files?


404 Hits from "PHPCrawl" on WP site

Forgive me if this is in the wrong area - I thought considering the topic, it belonged here (as opposed to in WP). Correct me or move it if I am wrong. I've been looking around one of the sites I control (one we've been having all kinds of little problems with) and checked my 404 logs. Usually I expect to see the generated captcha images and other random entries, but today I saw several of the site's pages on there with "/(" appended at the end, all with "PHPCrawl" as the User Agent. As far as I can figure, this is an open source script available for developers to use at their discretion. I've not used anything of the sort. I don't believe anyone else in control of the site has. Is it possible one of the plugins could have caused these entries? Is it automated from some search engine? Is it something I should be worried about hurting the site or its SEO?


Google Tag Manager - Link Click Listener Check Validation option

What does the "Check Validation" option for a Link Click Listener mean? The description says "Only fire tags when the action of opening a link is considered valid", but what does that actually mean? I haven't been able to find any documentation on the option, just people saying "...you normally want to have this checked", and a few people saying it makes it so unsuccessful forms submission are not counted. In my case, I'm dealing with a link to a PDF. With "Check Validation" checked, the Link Click event does not fire. If I un-check "Check Validation" the Link Click event fires, hence I am trying to figure out why that might be..?


SEO: Moving articles from one domain to another

Currently I have articles up on a website (site A) that is not mine (but I can remove the articles.) The article's aren't faring well (not only due to the recent Google changes) but because they really could do better if I made some tweaks myself instead of relying on the domain owner's SEO skills. So I would like to set up my own website and have just my articles on it (site B.) In the past when I've moved content, I've set up redirects but this time I can't do that. What would be the best way to move the articles without having to worry about them being counted as duplicate content or any other lame stuff? Should I, A: Save the articles on my computer and remove them from Site A. Wait for Google to remove them from the index (several months.) B: Remove the articles from Site A and immediately place them on Site B.


Masking / mapping URL's with .htaccess

I've recently been trying to come up with a way of masking the visible URL in the browser (so not 301 redirecting) and still show the same content as the original URL. Here is the scenario... Current URL's are like:-               domain.com/parent-category/sub-category/filter/brand      (`parent-category` and `sub-category` will always be the same word). I wish to continue showing the content from those URL's but convert the URL's to show like:-               domain.com/brand-keyword      (`keyword` will always be the same word). I'd really appreciate it if any experts on .htaccess could advise if this is possible please. It is a Magento store by the way. The following has previously been suggested to me:-               RewriteRule ^parent-category/([^/]+)/filter/([^/]+)/?$ /$2-$1 [L,NC]      But this didn't have the desired affect... (Didn't change the visible URL in browser yet adding `R, 301` redirects it though). # Specific Example Current URL `domain.com/showering/showers/filter/alliance` Required URL `domain.com/alliance-showers`


Are there any specific tips and tricks for optimizing a website for Bing?

Most available resources (even Bing community) promote the general principles for optimize a site in Google. My site is quite well optimized for a certain keyword combination in Google, yet in Bing it fails to even show up on 1st page. Now, I'm aware both engines do not employ same algorithm. In this case, then there should be particularities in Bing SEO, too. All I found online was pretty vague.


Ranking websites in Bing & Yahoo search engines

I'm finding it extremely difficult to rank websites on Bing and Yahoo. When a website ranks well on Google, why is it finding difficulties on Yahoo and Bing? Although the algorithms are different, I have read in some blogs that its easy to rank on Bing & Yahoo compared with Google. Is that true? Am I missing something?


Does AdSense script send website content to Google servers?

I am running a web application where I want to place context-sensitive ads in. The content being displayed is private data of my users (not visible to the public), like email content and such. Thus, for privacy reasons, I don't want this information to be redirected to 3rd partys, such as Google servers. Now, if I'd display AdSense ads, what exactly does this script do in order to display the ads? Does it just parse the content of the site and then display relevant ads or does it actually send the content to Google servers in order to find the right ads to display?


Managing site content

Recently my father started a catering company. He asked me (my day job is a back end web developer) to create a very basic web site for him with some intro copy, the menus and contact details. He also wanted the customers to be able to download the menus as a PDF. That wasn't a problem. I put together a static site over a few days and it did the job. As he's now settled in to the business he wants to start doing some SEO. At this point I said I had to step back, I have very little SEO experience and as I work for a gift company I'm going to have very little free time over the next few months in the run up to Christmas. This wasn't a problem, he spoke to a friend who does SEO and he said he could take the project on if I could still do some of the admin work. The SEO guy wanted switch the site to dot net nuke (it's what they use in house and would allow my Dad to do some of the editing). This made sense to me - originally I had considered using Wordpress. In switching the site over to dnn a problem has arisen. The menus have to be maintained in two places, the PDFs and the site. My Dad writes the menus in Word (and exports to PDF) which works well however trying to keep the site updated has been tricky, the WYSIWYG editor in dnn is terrible for laying out content. As I see it I've got a few options:   * Go back to how it was done on the original site (I maintain the menus and do all the layout with custom CSS). While I know this will work any changes will have to be done by me in time that I don't really have.   * Stick with dnn and my Dad will have to put up with updating the menus in two places and struggling with the layout issues.   * Embed the PDFs using something like an iframe/Google document viewer/scribd. This sounds ideal however I have no idea what impact this will have on SEO. I know Google indexes PDFs but it seems like it won't be as effective. What I'd like to know is how viable is the embedding option or even if anyone has any suggestions on how to manage this generally?


is free ssl certificate appropriate - only needed for login page

I need to protect the user's credentials on my website's login page. The rest of the website does not need SSL. I don't sell anything or accept any credit card information (now or in the future) either. It is important that user should not see any browser warning on the login page. Is a free ssl from startssl appropriate for this scenario?


Key performance indicators to measure online brand image

A company is going to launch an event and a series of online related content that will be published on it's website and promoted online and offline to it's customers and leads. The event will last for two weeks and related content will be promoted during that period a few days later. The main content types will be news stories, interviews, blog posts, videos, and photos. The purpose of this event and content is to improve brand image among it's customers. **What are the best online Key Performance Indicators (KPI) that can be used to measure success of this initiative?**   * Results and conclusions must me presented a few days after the end of the event.   * The measurement tools will be Google Analytics, Facebook Insights, and Topsy.   * We don't want to create more than 5 or 6 KPI's, because a lot of KPI's produce results that are hard to communicate in a 10 minutes talk to people that are not web-savy . Just to give you an example of what could be a possible KPI:   * Increase in the number of visits, where the visitor spends 25% more time on the site than the average of the last three months. _(Measured with Google Analytics)_ It looks like there's a lot of room for opinion on this question, but what I need is not opinions, but links to web pages. I'm looking for specific information about documented best marketing practices used today.


Point domain to a third party while retaining control over email

I own a domain and I need to point the domain to another domain which I don't own. I'm a contractor for the other company. The want me to do it, but I want to retain autonomy with regards to email for the domain.


SEO a site from another site

I use a vendor who has a site for ordering parts. The vendor sells many kinds of parts. Is it possible to perform some kind of SEO magic, where I can SEO, or direct users, to the vendor's site? For example, let's say the parts vendor sells car parts for all car manufacturers. If I own a Chevy site and buy parts from this vendor (who sells Toyota, Cadillac parts also), I would like to target customers who google Chevy Parts through the use of my site. Is this possible or is there a way this is possible? Or could I do something with domains/sub domains somewhere. Not really sure if buying a domain and creating a site to target users like this is possible.


Best way to let users enter 'infinity' in a html form

I have a form with a field "quantity" which can have the value "unlimited / infinity":               Quantity: [ ]      What would be a good way to let users enter "infinity"? Some ideas: 1) Tell the user that `-1` means infinity:               Quantity: [ ] (-1 = unlimited)      2) Tell the user that a blank field means infinity:               Quantity: [ ] (blank = unlimited)      3) Radio buttons               () Quantity: [ ]  or  () unlimited      Any ideas? Or links to related usability studies?


Importance of having EDU backlinks

I've built a few links on 50 EDU / GOV websites. 1 of them has PR 8, 3 of them have PR 7, 8 of them PR6,7 of them PR5,12 of them PR4,8 of them PR3, 1 of them PR2, 6 of them PR1, 10 of them PR0. My website has PR3 and is on first page of Google/Yahoo/Bing for a few keywords that I like How long will it take to notice a difference in PR or domain authority? (Don't tell me that PR has no value now, I know it but it is a 'fashion' thing). So you say that DOMAIN Authority isn't an important factor?


Does Google Analytics report multiple tabs?

Visitors to a site may have several pages open at once using multiple tabs or windows. Does Google Analytics provide any info on this behaviour?


Should I disavow natural backlinks on forums?

I was running backlinks analysis and it shown me some suspisious backlinks on forums. These links are natural, as users of these forums shared links with others. Should I disavow such links in GWT?


IIS Rewright from www to HTTPS

If I use `mywebsite.com` IIS will do as expected and redirect it to `https://mywebsite.com`. If I use `http://mywebsite.com` IIS will do as expected and redirect it to `https://mywebsite.com`. But, if I use `www.mywebsite.com` I get a certificate error. How do I create a rewrite scripts to redirect `www` to HTTPS?


Unable to remove crawl-errors from Google

When I open Google webmaster tools I have about 300+ crawl errors like these: > > http://www.verhurenhuis.nl/index.php?option=com_jea&view=properties&layout=rotterdam&Itemid=6&limitstart=220&id=255 > 500-fout 21 okt. 2011 > > > http://www.verhurenhuis.nl/index.php?option=com_jea&view=properties&layout=rotterdam&Itemid=6&limitstart=280&id=322 > 500-fout 21 okt. 2011 When I click on these links I indeed get an crawl-error. But unfortunately I don't know where to delete this errors! I am looking for it in my administration but cannot find these pages or the page who creates them. Hope someone can help. I am using Joomla 1.5 and the Joomla Estate Agency.


.htaccess redirect with mod_rewrite

I moved my wiki from http://jklatex.square7.de/wiki/doku.php/start to http://logicpuzzle.square7.de/start and now i want to redirect the URL with mod_rewrite. My .htaccess is as follows:               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^/wiki/doku.php/(.*)$ http://logicpuzzle.square7.de/$1 [R,NC,L]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>          # END WordPress      I don't understand why it does not work :-( Any hints?


How can I validate HTML offline?

When I'm developing a website locally sometimes I want to check if the html is valid but I haven't been able to find a good tool. I want it partial as a sanity check when I'm troubleshooting layout issues. Can you please suggest a tool that can validate HTML **offline**? I'm not looking for validation inside of an IDE but something that will load the page from the web server. Thank you!


Is it good to refresh a page after a fixed interval?

I seen many sites which are refreshing their pages after a fixed interval. Sometimes it is 1-2 mins only. If i refresh a page after every 5 mins. It'll helpful to notify user with updated contents. Please tell me   1. should i use Ajax for the same instead of reloading the complete page?   2. Would it affect google analytics js script? Means, whether the counter for visits will be increasing?   3. Would it affect adsense?


Is "pay per click" really effective?

I visit many sites but click on their ads very rarely. I suppose many people do the same thing. Do you think that publishing an article under "pay per click" policy, can have good earnings?


Greenstone Experience?

I'm looking for anyone that has a lot of back end experience with greenstone digital archival software. This is mainly HTMl and CSS modifications. It seems like a very small user base and their mailing list is terrible at best. If anyone has ever worked with the backend part of this package or knows where I might be able to find some better information it would be much appreciated.


How can I change the Google Analytics timezone?

All howto's I was able to find in the Internet is slightly (or even not slightly) different from the things I see in my real account. This things is also applicable to the official Google help pages (!). Where's the right place of this setting?


.htaccess redirect question

I'm trying to set up my .htaccess file to take the displayed link and route it to the destination link as below Displayed Link `http://www.my- website.com/click-4559226-10388358?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdestination- website2.com%2FItem.php%3Fid%3D44350396%26sld%3DA6D7A632-821E-4b78-ACD0-147658B77BD6` Destination Link `http://www.destination- website.com/click-4559226-10388358?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdestination- website2.com%2FItem.php%3Fid%3D44350396%26sld%3DA6D7A632-821E-4b78-ACD0-147658B77BD6` Effectively, all that changes is the first URL (`http://www.my-website.com`) everything after that is the same. Is this possible and could someone briefly explain how I would go about it? _*_ Just to be clear, I don't want to redirect everything from `my- website.com`. Just links that start `http://www.my- website.com/click-4559226-10388358`


Need a non-technical end user Google Analytics guide, suggestions?

What I'm looking for: Super simply, basic intro to using Google Analytics target to non-technical end users.


SEO AJAX Calls for Google

I have a working WordPress site that contains a custom navigation and retrieves a page based on title. So what it looks like is, lets say I have a page called `test` and the user selects `test` on the custom navigation. The `href` link that is placed would be `#!test`. Now I am fully using `Ajax` to call the content for `test` and that looks like:               $.ajax({             url: "/thenewsite/wp-content/plugins/mass/return_body.php",             type: "post",             dataType: "json",             data:             {                 'key_page' : key_page,                 'function' : 'page_grab'             },             .....      });      `return_body.php`:               $base = 'http://www.massmedicalstorage.com/thenewsite';          if ($fragment = $_GET['_escaped_fragment_']) {              $page = get_page_by_title($fragment);         print_r ($page);         exit;     }          $DBH = createConnection();     $response = array("status" => "ok", "code" => 1, "original_request" => $_POST); // CREATE REQUEST          if($_POST['function'] == 'page_grab')     {         $page = get_page_by_title($_POST['key_page']);         $response['data_retrieved'] = $page;              if($page !== null)             $response['status'] = "found";          }      Now the `Ajax` function than places the content retrieved based on design requested. So the area that is gray for me is, am I working with `Google` correctly for `SEO` `ajax` purposes? Am I returning my content correctly in the `_escaped_fragment_` section? Also how do I check to see if google is fetching the `ajax` content? If I am not properly retrieving a `snapshot` of my `html` how do I do so correctly?


Our website has been 'cloned' and is now running under a .vn domain - course of action?

Our website http://llidesign.co.uk (design and developed in house and completely hand coded, no templates) has been cloned at http://menplus.vn and is now being hosted on a `.vn` (Vietnam) domain. What's the correct course of action to be taken to get them to take this down, ASAP?


Include meta tag outside the HTML tag

Can I include the meta tag of the IE 5 content in outside the HTML tag.               <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=5">     <html>...</html>


Extremely similar SEO keywords

So I work for a company that recently decided to jump on the SEO bandwagon. We asked the different departments (each has its own site) what they wanted their keywords to be and I got a lot of examples of things like this:               foobar     foo bar     foo-bar     foobar baz     foo-bar baz     foo bar baz     foobars baz     foo-bars baz     foo bars baz      ...you get the idea. As we're trying to keep the number of keywords down for each site to avoid "stuffing," I've limited each site to 20 keywords only. But this just seems like a silly waste, and whatever limited boost in our search ranking we get from the keywords is going right out the window. The site is created using asp.NET/C#. What we're planning on doing is adding something like the following to the Master page, so it will appear on every page in the site:               <meta id="keywords" name="keywords"          content="general keyword 1,                   general keyword 2,                   general keyword 3..." />      Is there a way to easily address the issue that they're getting at (i.e., that they want the site to rank for the same term but with different formatting)? Or is it not even an issue that needs to be considered? FWIW, the technically correct form of the keyword that the really want is `foo-bar baz`. And yes, I know that keywords aren't really going to do much (if anything) for us, but try explaining that to the department heads. They want their keywords, so they're going to get their keywords.


Duplicate title tags error in webmaster tools

I have changed some URLs in my site then to prevent webmaster tools duplicate error I **redirected (301)** old URLs to new URLs also I tried to remove old URLs in " **Optimization>Remove URLs** " section of webmaster tools and still I get Duplicate title error. I want to know is any problem in redirecting? For example http://www.visakga.com/visa redirected to http://www.visakga.com/visa-and-residency PS, I used **Fiddler** to check 301 redirect and think it should be okay. Thanks in advance


want give access only one component backend manager users?

I want give access only one component to the back end manager users? it is possible?if yes please tell me how can?


How can I lookup all records in one go

I am using http://www.kloth.net/services/nslookup.php to lookup dns records but they can only be looked up one at a time, eg MX OR CNAME etc. If I want to get a list of all them for a particular domain is that possible, using this?


Problem to stop Google-Analytics from tracking my website

In June 2012 I added my website (a blog that I host on my own server) to Google-Analytics. In January 2013 I decided to use Piwik instead of Google- Analytics. So I removed my website from the Google Webmaster Tools page. I also removed the Google's script from the footer of my webpages. I checked several times that there are no links to any Google Tools (Google Fonts, Google Analytics) in my code. However Ghostery (Add-on for Firefox) shows that Google-Analytics still tracks my website. I checked the following pages on Google: The page www.google.com/dashboard/?pli=1 (Dashboard) lists my website (logically it shouldn't as I removed my website from it) but when I click on "Manage my sites" the page www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en&authuser=0 (Webmaster Tools - Home) my website is not listed any more and there is only a form to add a new site. The page www.google.com/analytics/ invites me to sign up and then doesn't list any website and shows a form to add a website. Do you have any idea about what I should do to stop Google-Analytics to track my website for good? Thanks for your help. ps) this is my first message on Stack Exchange, I hope my English is not too bad. Thanks you all for making this big community exist. Keep up the good work. * * * Update: Could the meta `<meta name="google" content="notranslate" />` in my code be the reason of the tracking? Answer: no, it's not related.


How to make SSL/https connection on development server?

I dont want to pay for certificate because its just for my development site can i install any certificate to enable encryption i dont care if browser going to warn against it or not as long ssl will work.


Impact of blocking site search from googlebot, but listing content pages in sitemap.xml

We have a fairly large site 600k+ unique pages with various unique URLs along with a custom, local search interface for the site. The search interface has sorting and faceting capabilities to allow users to limit results and change display. **We are getting over 200,000 search requests a day from googlebot alone, and have tried to address it in the following ways:**   * adding noindex to faceting and sorting requests   * adding `rel=next` and `rel=prev` to results pages to allow google to understand structure We are considering adding a sitemap.xml to ensure that content pages are found, and also attempting to add a ~~Dissallow~~ Disallow entry in the robots.txt for the search results. Does anyone have any experience with the effects of this? Ideally, we don't want to lose rankings or results in Google, but also would love to not suffer the impact of serving up 200k searches a day to a search engine bot that just wants real content and not search results.


Removing a post in Wordpress and then reenabling it

Can I take a post down in Wordpress and then repost it? Would this hurt SEO?


falling down Google ranking with canoncial tags and Google site verification

Recently I released this site live, which is a small brochure site for a local catering company. I took the time to add a canonical `<link>` tag and also verify the site with Google, so the `googleXXXXXXX.html` file is sitting in the root of the site alongside the index.php file. The site has very little in the way of overheads and, although it is built with PHP has no database back-end. However, I am finding that a search for the site is showing it **falling** down the Google rankings and off the first page. I have `<meta>` descriptions and keywords for all 5 pages, although the keywords and descriptions are always the same, the `<title>` does differ slightly. The domain is new (weeks old), but I see no reason for it dropping so badly. Is there something that I have missed or is there something I can do to boost it back up? I have no AdWords budget, so unfortunately this is not possible.


Google E-Commerce tracking not working

I got 9 successful transaction but I can see only 2 in google analytics. I do redirect to https while I get payment that I doubt about it may cause but not really sure while e-commerce tracking doesn't work properly. UPDATE:               var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker('UA-1234567890');     pageTracker._trackPageview();     pageTracker._addTrans('254','','217,4550','','0','İstanbul','','Turkey');     pageTracker._addItem('254','203','AAA - BBB','','169,00','1');     pageTracker._addItem('254','167','XXX - YYY','','59,90','1');     pageTracker._trackTrans();


If I block a page in robots.txt would I still be able to see the page in my browser?

What is the purpose of robots.txt? Is it to prevent bots from crawling pages? And if so, does that mean that I can still access the page through my browser?


Using a custom domain: How to update an A-record?

Tumblr makes it seem relatively easy to use a custom domain name. For a two-level domain: > point A-record (IP address) to 66.6.44.4 But my registrar (Domain.com), doesn't make this intuitive, as there are several A Record "Hosts" that can be edited or removed: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/pElNg.png) Domain.com doesn't provide any particularly helpful troubleshooting tips here. Which is the right host(s) to modify to properly change my A record?


What is the meaning of 'displaying' in Google Webmaster's Search Queries page?

What is the meaning of `displaying` in Google Webmaster Search Queries page? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XAAy4.jpg) I could not find the information in the documentation.


Can I improve load times by reusing images?

I've created a website that has multiple pages, and each page has it's own dedicated folder. Inside of each page's folder I've created a dedicated image folder. I reuse many of the same images (logos, buttons, etc) across the site, but I always link from the current pages dedicated image folder. Would my images load faster if there was only one image folder (placed in the root folder), and each page used that as the source of its image files? Will this cache the images?


Is there an open source solution that I can host on a web server that will allow users to anonymously upload a file to me?

I'm looking for some kind of web application I can host on my Linux web server that will allow users to upload files of arbitrary size to me from their browser without requiring them to log in. Ideally this application would allow me to generate a link to my website that allowed for a one-time use upload. It might contain a unique, random key that was only good for that session. I could email them the link, they click it and are taken to a page where they can upload their file to me. I'm mainly targeting friends and family that need to send me files that are too large for email. I don't want to require them to install anything (dropbox), sign up and log in, etc. I'm definitely not teaching them to use FTP. This wouldn't be a difficult project for me to roll on my own but I'd like to take something off the shelf if it is possible. Does anything like this exist that my google-foo isn't turning up?


Are there any other tags that have the href attribute except <a>?

I hope this is a suitable question for pro webmasters. Are there any othertags that have the href attribute except `<a>`? If yes, please tell me which. Thanks!


Problem uploading files, access denied via cPanel, while not in FTP

I have problem with uploading my files via cPanel but it works by FileZilla (FTP). It was said:               upload canceled: VIRUS DETECTED (Access Denied, ERROR).      I have tried uploading files via cPanel using Windows, Macintosh and Linux but return the same result. How can this happen by using cPanel, while not in FileZilla?


Problem with homepage's SEO when using subfolders in a multi language website

After watching a hundreds of threads about **multilanguage website** I haven't found an answer to my specific problem, so I think its not a common issue and I must have done something terribly wrong ;-) We have a brand.com website in DE main language and the following subfolders:   * /de/ = canonical of / + redirect to /   * /it/    * /en/ **When I crawl google.com for EN keywords or google.it for IT keywords then I get as results the homepage in German language (both title and description) as the top result with no trace of the /it/ or the /en/ homepage.** Is this because /it/ and /en/ both needs a separate link building strategy? I've already configured Google webmaster tool into the following way:   * brand.com, no language preference   * brand.com/de/, de language   * brand.com/it/, it language   * brand.com/en/, en language Perhaps having "/" as DE main page is it wrong and I should use a different approach? i.e. like having "/" to be a 301 to /de/ instead ? Thanks in advance.


Setting CNAME confusion

I don't get how `CNAME` DNS records work. I always thought setting               bar.example.org.        CNAME  foo.example.com.      would let me request `bar.example.org` and receive `foo.example.com` while I own the domain `foo.example.com`, and somebody else owns `bar.example.org`. That doesn't make sense, because I could point any domains (even without permission) to my content. So, I thought it's rather the other way around, and if I'm the owner of `bar.example.org` I can point this domain to `foo.example.com`. That would be weird as well, as my page would display somebody else's content that the owner might not even be aware of. So how does a `CNAME` actually work?


Can you track PayPal purchases across sites?

Basically, I want to sell stuff as an affiliate, but I would like to keep the user on my site and do the checkout on my site for usability purposes. If a user buys something from a shop on my site, and the money is sent to the PayPal of the company I'm an affiliate of, will the company know which site the payment came from? Are there options for this?


Assign subdomains to separate ports on web server

I have set up an Abyss web server as a little experiment, and I want to know if it is possible to assign subdomains to different ports on the machine the web server is running on. I have a couple web UIs that I'd like to assign subdomains:   1. `192.168.1.1:8000` becomes `example.com/webui1/`   2. `192.168.1.1:8001` becomes `example.com/webui2/` The webUIs are available by accessing their ports via example.com:8000. I have tried using a reverse proxy, but it seems that this is only usable on one internal IP at a time. What other options do I have? Answer is good, but my current set up doesn't meet the requirements. Abyss Web Server X2 is required to use Virtual Hosts with Abyss.


Best Dedicated Hosting with RAID 1 and managed backup

I run a (CentOS-powered) website currently, and we are currently planning on moving to a dedicated server. One of the essentials for us is _preventing data loss with the least amount of bother_. Therefore, I feel that the following features are important for us   * RAID 1   * Managed backups by the hosting company, with at least a 7 day retention In my search for providers, I found some which provide RAID 1, but none apart from GoDaddy which provide Managed backups. 1&1 provides "FTP backup bandwidth", but I have to provide the backup location myself. Am I missing something? Are there other reputable hosting providers which can provide managed backups as part of their dedicated hosting plans? Some pointers will be much appreciated. Thanks, -A


How to clean the "Lorem Ipsum" of my keywords for my site?

I have been working on a project to build up a website and since the delay for the initial launch of the website were short, I wanted to have some minimal content on the website ASAP so that the website could have a good ranking in Google when it will launch. The bad part in the story is that I had some page with a lot of Lorem Ipsum online. When I realized that it was a pretty bad idea to have pages with a lot of Lorem Ispum, it was too late. The top keyword that Google had found for my website where nearly all Lorem Ipsum. Now, it's a bit less dramatic since the real keyword I am working toward have gone up, but nonetheless I still have a good percentage of keyword that are Lorem Ipsum. Should I be worried about the situation and what can I do to make those Lorem Ipsum keyword disappear or be less significant ?


Mobile phone detection (brand, model, browser etc)

What do you use to detect visitor's mobile phone, down to the model if possible? Currently we maintain our own database but it's really getting behind due to lack of manpower to maintain it, so we decided to give 3rd party solution a try. These are my candidates but I don't have time to really try them all:   * DeviceAtlas - 1 year personal evaluation, but basic license is affordable. Their database look solid with daily update and user-contributed tests / updates. I am favoring this one at the moment.   * DetectRight - I was recommended this by a colleague but really can't find much from their site. 20k devices -- really?   * WURFL - Open source, database collaboratively derived from UAProf. So basically if you're going with UAProf solution, you're better off with WURFL.   * DetectMoBileBrowsers - This looks like the simplest of all. Too bad it's language dependent (PHP). Please share your experience or suggestions!


SEO: One domain with numerous sections, or various different domains?

If I have a site with numerous subcategories would it be better to have one domain with each subcategory linking off it, or a domain for each subcategory? For example, if it's a sports news site, it might be something like:               sportsnews.com     sportsnews.com/football-news     sportsnews.com/cricket-news     sportsnews.com/tennis-news      etc. The idea would be that there's an overall common layout to the sites, but the content and theming is different. The alternative approach would be something along the lines of:               sportsnews.com     footballnews.com     cricketnews.com     tennisnews.com      From an SEO point of view, is it best to have the one site with the rest linking off it so all the links to it are driving up the page rank collectively, or would it be best to have separate domains so that the domain, meta, title and description of each individual site all match up to the expected search keyword of `(sport name) news`? If the latter approach were chosen, would linking to the individual domains from the primary one then be detrimental to the overall network of sites? **Edit: Please note that sports is just an example. You can assume that although the subcategories are related 95% of users will not be interested in any others than the one they searched for.**


DNS propogation question with name server change

The registrar I have is networksolutions.com, and for quite a while, the name servers were pointing to Site5.com, where hosting is for one of my domains. I wanted to bring DNS control back to networksolutions, so I pointed the name servers back to networksolutions and added in all my A records. However, I noticed that the site soon became unreachable. I'm curious as to why this happened? If the domain was pointing to either the old name servers or the new ones, it would still have the proper A records and whatnot. Is this because when I changed name servers, a request was made to delete them completely, and then the DNS servers worldwide have to wait for network solutions to send out the new ones or something? I was hoping this would be a switch with zero downtime, such as a normal A record change.


Live chat solutions

What good live chat/live help solutions are available (preferably for use on a site hosted on a LAMP stack and free)? I'm looking for a way to allow our sales and customer service reps to talk directly with visitors to our site. I've looked at phpopenchat, but it looks very unpolished. The only other free live chat app I've come across looked egregious. The aesthetics and UI design alone made me shudder to think what the underlying code might look like. This isn't a critical feature, and it wouldn't be hard to code up myself, so I'm not really looking for commercial software or paid services (unless there's a really compelling reason to use them). I'm just wondering if any other webmasters have come across a satisfactory free/open source solution for providing live customer support on their website. As a side note, live voice chat would also be an option, but it has to be be designed (or customizable) for customer support rather than a public chatroom. **Edit:** Looking at the responses, it looks like there probably aren't going to be many free solutions for this type of business-oriented chat solution, so feel free to post answers even if they are commercial solutions as long as they're a good value. Also feel free to post any alternate live support solutions (such as the Skype recommendation) that could be in someway integrated with a website. This will give me a good lay of the land for what people are actually using for live support, and I think will be more helpful to others reading this question.


301 redirect the home pages but keep sitemap pages same

I have manually redirected my entire site. The only page that's left is the homepage. How do I redirect my homepage to the new site (http://example.com) but keep my sitemaps on the old domain (www.example.com)? Below is the structure for the sitemap urls: Main - http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml Sub - http://www.example.com/sitemap-pt-post-2013-07.xml (Month and year are the only parts that change) I have tried this and the site redirects but GWT tells me that I dont have a 301 set:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} olddomain\.com [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$     Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/ [L,R=301]      P.S. I want to do this so that I could track the 301 in GWT and etc. until things a finalized.


Google crawl rate is climbing but still no indexing?

This might belong on another stack site but idk. Soooo.... A year ago I started two sites that I didn't want indexed by Google or any other search engine since both sites were being developed based on the seo results of other clients. I was blocking both sites with the "no index,no archive" metatag technique and blocking all with robots.txt Previously both of the sites would index fine. Recently I removed the metatags from both sites. On a clean index, I submitted new sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools. Within a couple of days I watched the crawl rate for both start to climb. One says 6 pages indexed but nothing is showing up when i search Google index (site:http://www.fakewebsite.com). The same is happening for the other. I don't understand whats happening! I admit it could be a panic attack caused by impatiently waiting for spiders. But because it's happening on both sites the same it's scaring me away from ever using noindex metatags of any kind... ever again. And really I hope someone has experience with this. Could someone please: 1. Give ideas for a problem and solution? 2. Or just tell me it's normal and I'm impatient?


Displaying "index.php" in URL

Is there a best practice/convention to have www.example.com as opposed to www.example.com/ **index.php** in a site's URL? I made the links to the homepage relative (i.e. href="index.php") as opposed to absolute, which causes "index.php" to appear in the URL. Does this impact SEO, or is it considered sloppy? Should I write an apache rewrite rule to change requests to www.example.com/ **index.php** to www.example.com?


Looking for CMS for managing courses

I'm looking for a good CMS for managing courses. I don't want to run these courses via the internet - so I'm not looking for an e-learning CMS. What I need:   - create a database of courses, workshops with detailed description etc..   - allow users to register to the platform, subscribe for courses   - create profiles for tutors - with a short description etc.   - besides normal courses I would like to create some courses "in plans" - if there will be enough people interested in such course, we will try to organize it   - I also need to have the ability for users to send us information about courses they demand (i.e. they go to a page of the course that was run some time ago and click "do it again!" ;) )   - create the ability to give us a feedback after the course (polls etc) I was thinking about moodle or dokeos but since I don't need the e-learning platform (only platform to manage the courses...) don't you think it's a little bit too sophisticated tool in my situation? What CMS would you recommend?


Using Blogger to power a site's internal blog

I would like to add a blog to my site. I am considering using a Blogger blog which my site would access (probably using the RSS feed) parse, and display using a set of my own HTML templates. I haven't spent the time to figure out how to do this yet.   * It this a good idea to chase after or am I headed down dead end path?   * Would I need to worry about SEO penalties for duplicate content? I am avoiding installing a formal blog platform on my site (Drupal, WordPress, etc.).


Posting books in a blog?

I saw this blog that posted chapters of books so the full books (etc. hunger games, twilight...) and was looking to so something similar. Is it legal to post a full book online? If not can you post a few chapters?


Redirect to http://mydomain.com rather than http://www.mydomain.com

I created a website and I would like when I put any link pointing to my website, the "www" to be removed. For example when someone enters `http://www.mydomain.com/users` into the browser address, this to be changed into `http://mydomain.com/users` when the page loads up. I have seen this happening with twitter. if you try to go to `http://www.twitter.com/john` it will automatically remove the "www" and change the address to `http://twitter.com/john` . However, this does not happen for `http://www.facebook.com/john`. I am not sure if this have something to do with the domain's configuration (CNAME record?) but any point / tip to the right direction will be really appreciated!


Putting ads on Facebook, iframe

I've made a Facebook app, a small card game, which works with the Facebook iframe option. My question is: is it allowed to put advertisements on the original page where the iframe links to, so it appears in the Facebook app? Are there any limitations? Which advertising companies allow this? (I've heard of Adsense, ain't to fond of it...)


Getting user generated content with no titles to rank

We are creating a site that allows users to generate content. The user is provided with a text field only (no title), similar to Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Each piece of content created by the users will have a dedicated page/URL. Since the page has no title, I was wondering how search engines will index and display our pages. If the content was shared on other social networks, what will those results look like if there is no title for the open graph or Twitter tags?


What do I put in htaccess to create a 410 error page when a URL parameter is present?

I tried to create a 410 error page but realized that I actually created a 302 redirect to a `410.php` page. Instead I want to use a 410 error to block out an infinite number of dynamically created pages that are being indexed by Google. I have about 30k internal links that are indexed on Google thanks to a faulty internal search engine:   * `http://www.example.com/?searchkey=1_q`   * `http://www.example.com/?searchkey=2ak` - (etc... goes on for 30k times) What should I write in `htaccess` to block anything with this "searchkey" parameter such that a 410 error page is served? (I'm not a programmer, so I would appreciate a simplified response.)


Website still blocked after hack

I manage a website that was hacked a few months ago (I wasn't the webmaster then), it was running on Joomla. I have manages to redo the website with custom codes (php/mysql), but it still some visitors still complain that their AV blocks them from viewing the website. I have also cleared the former database and anything related to it, contents and the likes. My website is here I have looked for malwares in Google Webmaster but it says there are non Also I checked with Google Safe Browsing ![Google Safe Browsing](http://i.stack.imgur.com/W2gDM.png) ![Google Webmaster](http://i.stack.imgur.com/E1An6.png) Please what could the problem be.


Registering a domain without an email address

I am soon going to be getting a domain and setting up email addresses for me and a few of my partners in business. I personally do not want to be tied to my current Outlook.com email address and I don't want to have to use that address to manage my domain settings. I will not be using my old address once I have my personalized domain and email address. Are there any domain registrars that do not require and email address or allow you to change it later?


How can I add an image for FB status to fetch?

Typing any link on Facebook triggers an automated function that scans for images on a website. What I'm trying to do is to use an image for that sole purpose, which means I don't want it in my website but I want Facebook to display on status updates. **Failed attempts so far:**   * IMG SRC combined with style:"display:none"   * IMG SRC combined with style:"visibility:hidden"   * IMG SRC combined with width="0" height="0"


Non HTTPS site is indexed as HTTPS in Google Search

I have hosted a site over shared hosting (ipage) and not have setup SSL certificate (which I don't need), but some how Google have indexed it as HTTPS link which popup security error on opening it. Check here. I tried with 301 redirection by adding following in my _.htaccess_ file:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>          RewriteEngine On          RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on          RewriteRule .* http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}     </IfModule>      But no luck with this. It may be because I am using shared hosting. Only homepage is indexed as https other pages are indexed fine. Is there any other way to tell Google to index it as HTTP instead of HTTPS?


Reporting paid links to google - does it work?

I am noticing that my competitors have a boat load of paid backlinks, which don't seem to be discredited from google (PR is intact, rather then 0) Problem is, those sites aren't any gambling or viagra sites, where google really cracks down. They are Software niche sites, open source sites, communities etc but they still sell links effectively. They have a sidebar, where it says "Our sponsors" or something similar and "become a sponsor" below it. I have seen other sites getting penalties because of something like this, but those sites, don't for some reason. My question is, does google even take spam reports for paid links seriously? Or do they only take action if its overly spammy? Some of the purchasers of those paid links are reputable sites like oreilly.com or even symantec. What can I do to have my report reviewed rather sooner then later and acted upon? Or am I misjudging those links? Tbh I do not see how these followed type of links, you can only get by "donating" is anthing else then a paid link. Here a few examples (notice the tell tale sidebar/footer): http://www.givecamp.org.uk/ http://www.gl-net.org.uk/ http://www.dfwqaa.org/ http://www.padnug.org/ There are many more like it, but I think thats enough as example.


Does the 'Server' header serve any purpose?

For example, when I dump the response header for my server I get:               Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.5 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8g      Is this used for anything? Is it a security risk (albeit small) broadcasting the server makeup?


Why is there a huge gap before in my WebPageTest after the HTML has been downloaded?

I am trying to improve front-end performance of my website, and there is a 3.5 second lag before the user actually sees anything, and I'd like to improve this. Here is a screenshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UsSEv.png) And here is the actual test: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130301_JC_12CC/2/details/cached/ The user is seeing a blank screen for about 3.5 seconds before it's visually complete, which is pretty unacceptable in my opinion. Any pointers on how I could solve this?


What exactly does "exact" and "broad" mean in keywords adwords tool?

I have read several articles on this, but still fail to understand. For example I have the following keywords in adwords:               Cheese in NY - Volume: 22.000 searches     Cheese NY - Volume 22.000 searches      and               [Cheese in NY] - Volume: 100 searches     [Cheese NY] - Volume: 90 searches      Why the big difference? As far as I understand [keyword] does not mean its actually typed in in quotes. So if only 100 people use Cheese in NY, where do the other 21k searches come from?


Placing links to own site in templates?

I wonder if its good or bad to put links to your own site when u design a theme eg. in Tumblr? I noticed this when i saw many links to my site from people's tumblr using my templates. Maybe i should use nofollow on those links?


Will googlebot index my index.php even with an htaccess redirect?

Using a redirect statement in my htaccess file, people who type the following into the address bar...               http://example.com/index.php      ...are redirected to...               http://example.com/      I also have a noindex, nofollow meta tag on all my website's pages. My question is, given that redirect behavior and meta data, will googlebot index my mainpage (i.e. index.php) if my robots.txt file is as follows...               User-agent: Googlebot     Allow: /index.php     Disallow: /          User-agent: *     Disallow: /      If not, how should I change my robots.txt so that only my mainpage will be indexed in google and nothing more? Thanks in advance!


Drop in traffic, but same rank position - Why?

My traffic dropped recently in the last week. The most recent change was when I moved the entire server too another server. Could that affect my seo some how? What could have possibly happened? My main keywords for my website seem to be in the same rank, but I am getting less traffic from those keyword for some reason. Any ideas?


Japanese Hosting And Search Engine Rankings

I have a website that is currently hosted in Japan and has been for a number of years. Its well established in the search engines in both Yahoo Japan and Google Japan. For numerous reasons its become necessary to move our site to a new host, and our systems administrator has asked me if its ok to use a none Japanese Host in a country close by, preferably the US.(Not exactly close but closer than some). I am trying to find out if moving the site away from its homeland will have a significant effect on its search engine rankings in Japan. I've heard from somwhere that it will negatively effect the site, but I was hoping someone could provide some evidence, or ideally a case study for this? Its a tall order, but maybe someone can help out there? Thanks!