What is the best SEO method for a single page website on which all content is loaded with initial page load

I'm developing a single page website that will have all it's content available by scrolling down and showing/hiding various DOM elements. Most of the discussion I've seen on SO on this topic is related to how to get Google to index content that's loaded after the initial load via AJAX. My situation is different in that all of my content is present after the initial load. My goal is to get Google to index the different sections of the page (about, contact, etc) individually. I've read the Making AJAX Applications Crawlable site that Google has put together, and it seems like the best (only?) option. However, given that all of my __escaped_fragment_ links will render the same content, I'm concerned that I might get penalized by Google for having duplicate content at different URLs. Is that a reasonable concern is this case?


Which analytics solution would you recommend?

I'm working on enhancing several applications at work, and thought of installing an analytics solution to track user behavior and collect some metrics. The problem is our company is a bit sensitive about privacy, and isn't comfortable with using Google Analytics. So is there any other more private analytics solution I could use? and what do you use at your own company to track user behavior?


US traffic by day in Google Analytics. Is it possible and how?

How can I view traffic from specific country day by day ? I mean I would like to get report of US traffic from specific time frame by day. e.g US traffic starting from 1st October 2010 to 31th October 2010 day by day. Is this possible in google analytics ? and if so... how ?


Tracking a goal through a virtual pageview is not registering

I am trying to track a goal in Google Analytics through a virtual pageview. As you can see in the code example, it is linking out from a picture instead of text with a link. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tWB8j.jpg) I triple-checked to see if I had my Goals set up properly in the Admin panel, where the goal URL is set to "/click2", the goal type is URL destination and the match type is Head Match. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hizuV.jpg) I am unsure if the problem lies in the fact that it's linking out to an "https" link or if the link is attached to a picture that serves as a Call To Action. I would appreciate if any of you can help shed some light on this problem I'm having.


Clear the cache of the last visited page

I have an HTML page that has shows if a server is online of offline via an IFRAME transcluding a php file. If someone clicks on a link, like to turn the server on or off and presses the Back button on the browser, the browser loads a cached version of the page and still displays the server as "off" unless the page is refreshed. I know there are other ways to go about this but I would like for just that page to not be cached so that when a user reaches that page via the Back button, it will have to redownload the page. How can this be done? Is it even possible? Putting `header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");` in the php file did not work.


Online sample SEO report?

Looking for a sample report (or even better, a process for generating a report) that would cover the most important SEO factors of a small business "brochureware" site. Your answer does not have to be a link to a report, it just needs to as completely as possible answer the question.


Does php-gd work with godaddy shared hosting

I was wondering if php-gd was working on godaddy linux shared hosting. I will need to handle photos to a minimum extent so I can resize profile pictures and pictures posted.


Free link checker for large website?

Can anyone recommend a free, thorough online link checker for a fairly large website?


HTML encoding in the alt attribute

Why is it that `»` valid for an alt atribute but `»` is not?


Does a unique ID and title in URL slug improve SEO?

Stackexchange post URLs have URLs like this:               http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/9848/squeezing-all-the-seo-out-of-a-url-as-possible      Which is the format: `/questions/{id}/{slugified-post-title}` The `9848` is obviously the unique identifier of the post, which is all that is necessary to look up the question in a data source. What is the title there for then? Is it strictly for SEO reasons and maybe to make the URL more readable? Or are there other reasons as well?


Two different websites with same product images

I need some advice from more experienced webmasters.   I have 2 websites (site A and site B). These websites are totally different, but they use same product images (around 1 GB of images). These websites are on same hosting server. For now, site A has own folder with images and site B has own.   I'm wondering if there is a way to have two different websites with only 1 folder with images, so I could save some time and disk space on server. I read a bit about CDN (Content Delivery Network) but I'm not sure if it may help me. I'm using API to grab product images, so I need a way to upload images on remote server automatically. Maybe there is another way to achieve this?


How to verify what modules are active on my server?

While trying to solve a problem on my website, a recommendation about my .htaccess file I got was > First of all, please check on the server for all the different modules if > they are enabled, and once they are, remove the               <IfModule      ...></IfModule>      > blocks. They are putting an unnecessary strain on your server. I don't know where should I look to see if modules are active - is it in the CMS? in the httpd.conf file? in the files on my server? should I make a slight modification in the .htaccess as a test? But more than that, could the recommendation self be not appropriate? Thanks. Here is the .htaccess file for which the recommendation has been made:               Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews     RewriteEngine on     AddHandler x-httpd-php .html .htm          <ifModule mod_gzip.c>       mod_gzip_on Yes       mod_gzip_dechunk Yes       mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$       mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$       mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*       mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*       mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*       mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*     </ifModule>          <ifModule mod_expires.c>       ExpiresActive On       ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 seconds"       ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 seconds"       ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2592000 seconds"       ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2592000 seconds"       ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2592000 seconds"       ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 2592000 seconds"       ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"       ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"     </ifModule>          <ifModule mod_headers.c>       <filesMatch "\\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"       </filesMatch>            <filesMatch "\\.(css)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"       </filesMatch>            <filesMatch "\\.(js)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=216000, private"       </filesMatch>            <filesMatch "\\.(xml|txt)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=216000, public, must-revalidate"       </filesMatch>            <filesMatch "\\.(html|htm|php)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=1, private, must-revalidate"       </filesMatch>     </ifModule>          <ifModule mod_headers.c>       Header unset ETag     </ifModule>          FileETag None          <ifModule mod_headers.c>       Header unset Last-Modified     </ifModule>          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?foo\.com$     RewriteRule .? http://foo.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]          #BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php          </IfModule>     # END WordPress


Standard ratio of cookies to "visitors"?

As noted in a recent blog post, We see **a large discrepancy between Google Analytics "visitors" and Quantcast "visitors".** > Also, for reasons we have never figured out, Google Analytics just gets > larger numbers than Quantcast. Right now GA is showing more visitors (15 > million) on stackoverflow.com alone than Quantcast sees _on the whole > network_ (14 million): > > ![](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/GA-Visitors1.png) > > Why? I don’t know. Either Google Analytics loses cookies sometimes, or > Quantcast misses visitors. Counting is an inexact science. We think this is because **Quantcast uses a more conservative ratio of cookies-to-visitors**. Whereas Google Analytics might consider every cookie a "visitor", Quantcast will only consider every 1.24 cookies a "visitor". This makes sense to me, as people may access our sites from multiple computers, multiple browsers, etcetera. I have two closely related questions:   1. Is there an accepted standard ratio of cookies to visitors? This is obviously an inexact science, but is there any emerging rule of thumb?   2. Is there any more accurate way to count "visitors" to a website other than relying on browser cookies? Or is this just always going to be kind of a best-effort estimation crapshoot no matter how you measure it?


How do sites manage browser and mobile versions?

I build a website either by simple HTML/CSS, or I build one using Drupal or Wordpress, for modern PC browsers. Now, I want a mobile-friendly version of the site. What is considered some of the best ways to do this? My thoughts:   1. Detect the mobile browser from a list and redirect to a subdomain/dir that has been designed for mobiles   2. Build the site to be simulatenously viewable by all browsers, mobile or not (using fluid layouts)?   3. Using a CMS, install a module that does the work for you. I'd really like to know how some of the big, popular sites implement it and what you all consider to be the proper way. I understand that NY Times has its own app for this, but I consider that to be overboard for obvious reasons.


Creating multi-language pages in Google Sites

is it possible to create pages in more than one language without having to create separate pages for each language in Google Sites? This isn't a feature of Google Sites, but I was hoping there might be a workaround. Greets, Kenny


Reporting on Specific Event Label in Google Analytics

I am tracking the pageviews that each of my authors' articles generates on a Wordpress site with Google Analytics Event Tracking:               var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-xxxxxxx-x");     pageTracker._trackPageview();     } catch(err) {}     <?php if ( is_singular()) { ?>      pageTracker._trackEvent('Authors','viewed','<?php the_author_meta('ID'); ?>');      <?php } ?>      I have an event category "Authors" and there's an event label for each of their IDs. How can I give each author access to the data for their respective label without giving them access to other author's stats and the sites stats as a whole?


Forcing browser to load new image

I have recently been doing some image replacement work for a client, he sends me the new image png files and I upload them replacing the old ones with the new ones ( keeping the same name ). I tell him that to see the new images he needs to hard refresh the page (shift+refresh) but I can tell that he's wondering when his customers will see those new images, and to be honest I don't know myself. I cant seem to find out either; I also wondered if there is some way I can educate the browser that an image has been changed, and I thought that maybe I could use meta tags to do this, but it seems not. Can anyone enlighten me on this issue, when does the browser decide (if left to it's own devices) to discard the cached images and load the new ones from the server, and is there any way I can influence this ( other than using different file names and recoding the HTML and CSS to reflect the changes, which I presume would work)


Where can I get ISO lists for continent, country, and currency to use on my web pages?

I have done quite a bit of looking around, and found several lists based on the ISO standards, but of dubious quality, e.g. with null or blank entries, extra entries that are not real currencies etc. Can somebody recommend a source that I can use for these lists? Does someone like Google API maybe offer these as a service? Where should I go looking for these? I would like to get data in delimited file, xml, json, anything friendlier than EDIFACT basically.


Background Music on Website and Not Start Over?

Yeah I know, background music sucks. Bottom line, client wants it. I need to know how to keep it playing when going through the pages. I'm using a quicktime plugin for the time being but I noticed that XP will use media player controls if the quicktime plugin is not installed. This is also a problem in formatting the size. How do I keep it playing and not start over? Also, is there a better solution than using DW plugins? Thanks


prevent access via .htaccess *TO* a given hostname

I have a website which is accessible via several hostnames. I would like to put something in an .htaccess file that would simply block any request requesting a particular hostname. For example, say `example1.com` and `hello.somehost.com` both point to the same website. I would like to put something in the .htaccess file that will allow users to view the website if they visit `example1.com`, but will not allow users to view it if they visit `hello.somehost.com`. You'd think this would be easy to Google but if there are any results out there, they're drowned out by people who want to block access if the user is _coming from_ a particular hostname...


Do I need to include an image in every single blog post?

I have read a lot about including an image that has some visual representation of the content of the post and that's what I recommend to my clients. However, one of my client does not want to use images in any of her posts as the blog is about simplicity and use of a photo will limit a visitor's imagination. Is it a healthy practice (from Search Engines' point of view) to not include any image in the content?


Bing doesn't index my website correcty

I have a website with robots and sitemap which is working on Google. I created a bing webmasters and sent the sitemap some weeks ago, but whenever I search site:www.mysite.com I get only the root folder in my website. I think this should be because I have no website in my root (www.mywebsite.com), if a user enters this domain, he is redirected to www.mywebsite.com/questions. Is there any way I can inform bing that this redirect is correct and should be followed? thanks, Oscar


Name of web design technique with vertically contiguous but separate screen-sized blocks?

I don't know the proper name for this, which makes it hard to Google it or describe this. On a site like http://p2theme.com/ as you scroll down you see that content is arranged into screen-sized chunks, each with its own chunk of content, each with a different background color, making them visually distinctive. I've seen this used more and more frequently on websites, but don't know what it's called. People have tried telling me "responsive design" or "flat UI" or "infinite scroll" or "parallax" -- but those are completely different things. What do you call this technique?


Can I restart my WordPress site without using a different domain name?

I'm getting problems with crawling my site in Google Webmasters Tools. I'm seeing weird URLs that end with my domain, like: `/tag/sugar/www.k2ost.com` `/tag/melody-day/www.k2ost.com` and also like this: `/tag/.../www.mydomainname.com` `/post/.../www.mydomainname.com` That of course will result in a `404` error code. I've been searching for a question on this site that has the same problem as mine, and user _sidh_ states that it was a URL masking problem here. So I want to completely restart my WordPress site, but I want to use my current domain. Can I do that? I've already read this related question, but it's for creating the same site on a different domain. Can I restart my WordPress site using the same domain?


404 page not showing URL

My 404 page (`/404.php`) works, it's sending the proper headers (404 - Not found). But the thing is, it's not giving the link that caused it (e.g. `example.com/thisisnon-existant.htm`) but instead it's giving my 404 page (`example.com/404.php`). How would I get it fixed? All I did was add the following to _.htaccess_ :               ErrorDocument 404 http://example.com/404.php      My 404 page's code is here: http://pastebin.com/G7mQ4aT1.


Is there a way to create a website without learning to web-program?

I can create an XML document without knowing XML. I use a word processor. Is there a way to do that for websites?


can anybody suggest me some domain name ending words like "fy", "gram" etc

I want to buy a domain for my blog. I have my first word which is related to my business but I am looking for some good ending words like somethingfy, somethinggram, etc...can anyone list or provide some link to list of such ending words...I have looked at some domain name tools to get ideas but didnt achieve anything out of it...I hope I get some list here.


Is Forbes' welcome page bad for seo?

I saw a interesting case in forbes' website. When you enter the website it shows you a page that contains a quote then you click on "continue" button and see the actual page. Example: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenkrogue/2012/07/20/the-death-of-seo- the-rise-of-social-pr-and-real-content/ You should be redirected to: http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml I check the codes, it uses javascript to redirect. I think it's a good idea to make money, more ctr. But how does forbes make their website seo friendly by making this?


CPC 0.00 and two clicks for just 0.1 $

In my Google Adsense account I noticed that the CPC is 0.00 $?!!! The following screen shot shows detailed description of the situation: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xsDMy.png) Do there any penalties from Google on my account? Why the cost per click is zero?


Is using H2s instead of H1s a big deal?

Basically, the way the development of a site I am working on has happened, virtually all pages use H2 instead of H1 as the "root" title (and then H3-5 are used appropriately). Since Google pays such special attention to headings as part of structure, will this affect my search engine rankings?


Is is good idea to let google list attachment pages?

I know the majority of people don't let google crawl their WordPress attachment pages. In my opinion the attachment pages aren't duplicate content because they don't show the whole content but just a unique image or PDF link or other file. I don't understand why people hesitate to use them in a natural way. Although it will cause Google to index a lot of extra pages in your site, doesn't this increase the visibility in search results? What are the drawbacks of letting Google see these pages?


SEO: Is forcing a request to WWW.domain.com from domain.com a bad idea?

I have an htaccess file that is forcing the URL request to www. instead of a bare hostname (this is to resolve SSL issues I'm facing that are fixed when you visit the site via www.) Is this a bad idea in the SEO world?


Object-based content management system

I remember hearing within the last year or two about a content management system either being released or developed that was centralized around product/item information. I'm aware that there are several CMSes that have this capability, but this particular one was built specifically for that task. Also, I remember it winning some sort of award or recognition for upcoming software products. However, I can't for the life of me remember what this CMS was called or who was developing it. Does anyone know what package I'm talking about?


How do I get google to read each site on my server?

I currently building a server to host many sites. How do I get google to crawl each site without submitting a site map to google for each site?


How can I use a custom domain with Google App Engine?

I have purchased a domain from GoDaddy and I want to host it using Google App Engine. But when I added it to the app's custom domain, it asked me to sign up for "Google Apps for Business" (it is a trial for 30 days), to verify that I was the owner of the domain. So will I also lose hosting on my custom domain by Google App Engine when the trial period expires? I don't even want the account on Google Apps for Business. Is there a way to add a custom domain to my app without signing up for Google Apps for Business?


Cheaper email solution than Google Apps

I'm designing a website for a Canadian political organization which isn't very well funded. While Google's solution for nonprofits is pretty solid, either Canadian or political organizations don't meet the requirements. Also, I expect to have more than 10 accounts. Besides $50/year for each account is way too much for a small nonprofit organization. What would be a cheap, solid email solution?


Why Does the Same Site in Different SERPs Contain and Not Contain Google Sitelinks

Is there a way to get sitelinks on a Google SERP when searching on a site's name vs. the sites' web address? Example, if you search "`twin city kings`", the first result is the website for Twin City Kings **_without sitelinks_**. But if you search "`twincitykings.com`", the first result is the website for Twin City Kings **_with sitelinks_**. Is it possible to get sitelinks on both SERPs? Thanks for helping or clarifying. Note: this question does not pertain to "how to get a sitelink". It pertains to why does the same site come up in different SERPs with and without Sitelinks.


Apache - How to extend localhost scope e.g. to other drives?

In Apache _httpd.conf_ file I can set the DocumentRoot value. After setting this, if I view "localhost" in a browser, I can see the folders and files this given folder contains. I cannot "speak" PHP language well yet but I assume that all PHP activities in connection with files and folders are limited to the scope of localhost, so if I handle files with PHP they must be in the folder set as DocumentRoot (or in subfolders of it). How can I set localhost's scope to a wider range, especially to other drives? My goal is to be able to handle files with PHP on my whole computer (it's a "locahost-only" project so it's not a must to be able to use it on "real" servers).


What is the simplest way to implement an instant messaging contact page on my website?

I'd like to have a page that communicates directly to some IM service that I will generally be able to be logged into. E.g. I am on gtalk all the time, I'd like people to be able to get in touch with me via the website. (the specific protocol isn't that important, of course) What would be the simplest set of technologies to implement that (me at my computer, a guest viewer on a page of my website)?


What would be a list of common website expenses?

For example: seo; web-development; site-maintenance; hosting; domain; ssl- certificate; etc. **___ __ _UPDATES_ __ ___** **FROM_ME:** Stock-Photos; Logo; Legal; eCommerce_Shopping-Cart **FROM_Lèse_majesté:** IP-for-SSL-CERT; Merchant-Account; Payment- Gateway_setup,fees; website-design_template,customization; CMS-Customization; ADs_PPC


Is viewing a site's unpassword protected HTTP logs/stats illegal?

If not, why? If so, please provide US Federal code, or case law confirming this is the case.


Layout Columns - Equal Height

I remember first starting out using tables for layouts and learned that I should not be doing that. I am working on a new site and can not seem to do equal height columns without using tables. Here is an example of the attempt with div tags.

column1

column2

column3

      Now what I tried with that was doing making columns float left and setting their widths to 33% which works fine, I use the clear:both div so that the row would be the size of the biggest column, but the columns will be different sizes based on how much content they have. I have found many fixes which mostly involve css hacks and just making it look like its right but that's not what I want. I thought of just doing it in javascript but then it would look different for those who choose to disable their javascript. The only true way of doing it that I can think of is using tables since the cells all have equal heights in the same row. But I know its bad to use tables. After searching forever I than came across this: http://intangiblestyle.com/lab/equal-height- columns-with-css/ What it seems to do is exactly the same as tables since its just setting its display exactly like tables. Would using that be just as bad as using tables? I honestly can't find anything else that I could do. **edit** @Su' I have looked into "faux columns" and do not think that is what I want. I think I would be able to implement better designs for my site using the display:table method. I posted this question because I just wasn't sure if I should since I have always heard its bad using tables in website layouts.


SEOing several videos effectively

I'm new at the field of search-engine optimizing - I'm making video content on Youtube for a very long time, but I'm just an amateur guy. I have a lot of videos, including several video series. Are there any way to add common content (such as tags, regular titles, etc.) that makes the SEO effectiveness of those videos better? Moreover, what's the result of using regular titles, description and tags (e.g. World of X - part 1, World of X - part 2, etc.) in a series of videos? Because I suggest it makes them less interesting for people, but it may not cover the SEO effectiveness.


What does it mean if a domain is unlocked?

A domain I'm interested in acquiring as its status showing as "Unlocked". It's due to expire in a couple of weeks. What does the "unlocked" status mean? Am I more likely to be able to register the domain when/if it expires?


Is there a tool to compare space used by each file of a web page?

Is there a tool that can load a web page and compare the space used (and thus load time) by each file? For example: ![An example chart](http://imgur.com/Y8rxC.png)


600 visitors per day, 20 backlinks but still not referenced by Google

i've launch a website on wednesday (9 August) There's already in 4 days   * 12,000 viewed pages   * 1,400 visits   * 20 to 25 backlincks   * a sitemap.xml (130 URL)   * english language / french language - url like that "/en/" "/fr/" BUT, i'm still not referrenced by google In the google webmaster i have 0 backlinks 130 in sitemap, 0 URL referrenced on google For a smaller website, i remember that i took me less to appear on google with less visits. My url is: http://www.seek-team.com/en/ for english and juste replace /en/ by /fr/ to access it in french. **What's causing this ? Is there an explanation ?** Thanks for your help (ps, i've already checked robots.txt)


Using rel=canonical and noindex in a 1-n partners environment

We sell complete sites including the domains to several partners that create content that is shown together at the main site. What we want to achieve is that the main site copy is the original but the others are indexed as a partners copy. The way we want this to happen is that the search results point to our partner sites but never to the main site while the main site gets all the credit for any links obtained. We are trying setting the main site article with a `noindex, follow` and a link to the partner article, and in the partner article we have a `rel=canonical` pointing to the main site article. Are we correct or the `noindex` at the main site will break the `canonical` reference?


Possible to list categories on Main Page?

I would like to put all the categories at the bottom of the Main Page in a more compact way than what `Special:Categories` does. On this page are pages listed in a very nice way with bold letters. Can the same be done with categories instead of pages?


Gravatar or host my own avatars?

Planning on launching a new site and was wondering if I should simply host my own user avatars or integrate gravatars. What is the best way to approach this? Gravatar for those who don't know what it is


How to find what is maxing out my entry processes?

My site has been going down due to the max number of Entry Processes being hit. Here's a screenshot from cPanel: ![20 of 20 Entry Processes being used](http://i.stack.imgur.com/qMaoN.png) Looking into the Resource Usage Details, I'm seeing I/O and Entry Processes max out as well as a huge increase in CPU and Memory usage: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/R7ZWr.png) However, I've checked my access logs, and I don't have much web traffic going on when this happens, so I think it is a script of some kind causing this to happen, most likely a WordPress plugin. Is there a way (In WHM/cPanel) to figure out what scripts are actually running and causing this?


Separating portion of website to its own server

So my job is to take the homepage (or maybe I should say "homesite" because it encompasses a few interrelated pages) and drag this onto its own Apache server. The problem I'm having right now is being able to weed out jumbled/bundled files (such as folders of js, css, and other files that i cant even identify) and knowing what is necessary to keep the homesite running. I'm new to this stuff (I'm an intern) so feel free to ask questions if I'm leaving vital information out. What I'm asking of you guys here is basically any pointers or tips you may be able to give me in order to get the job done. I could use some advice from people with a little more experience in web development. btw: This question may appear as though I have not completed any prior research and that is, for the most part, true. But the problem is I really am not sure how to research this. If you guys could throw me some keywords to play with that would really be helpful. Thanks!


Is link trading a recommended method of SEO?

I've read in some places that link trading is a good way to get in-bound links, but read in other places that link trading is punished by search engines. Should I use link trading or is it counter-productive?


How to track subdomains with Google Analytics while having mod_rewrite redirect to a subdomain?

When users come directly to `domain.com` or `www.domain.com`, I am redirecting them to `shop.domain.com` via this .htaccess rewrite:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://shop.domain.com/ [R=301,L]      The content served by shop.domain.com has the following tracking code parameters:               var _gaq = _gaq || [];     _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-123456-6']);     _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '.domain.com']);     _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);      All direct visits that come to `shop.domain.com` as a result of the rewrite from `domain.com` are tracked as referral traffic, showing my own `domain.com` as referral source in Google Amalytics. I would like to track these visits as direct traffic. How to change the configuration to track mod_rewritten traffic on my subdomain coming from my own domain as direct traffic?


How to get my page onto Google's, Yahoo's, and other search engines' first page?

I want to list my web page in Google, Yahoo and other popular search engines and get on the first page. What can I do? Can you please tell me the ways of SEO and suggest any tutorials I would need to become good at SEO?


Use a custom domain and point to Tumblr blog

My domain `mydomain.com` is registered with GoDaddy. I wish to host my Tumblr blog on this domain with Nearly Free Speech hosting. My active nameservers at GoDaddy already point to my authoritative ones at Nearly Free Speech which is working. However I'm baffled as to how to get my correct configuration to point to my Tumblr. Preferably I'd like (A) my domain `http://mydomain.com` to host the blog and have `http://www.mydomain.com` redirect also to `http://mydomain.com`. If this is too difficult my next preference is (B) to have `http://www.mydomain.com` host the blog whilst `http://mydomain.com` redirects to `http://www.mydomain.com` My third preference is to have (C) a sub-domain like `http://tumblr.mydomain.com` or `http://tumblr.mydomain.com` to host the blog and I guess have `http://mydomain.com` and `http://www.mydomain.com` both redirect to it. I've tried having two aliases `mydomain.com` and `www.mydomain.com` pointing to my permanent Nearly Free Speech IP at `mydomain.nfshost.com` and when I try to add: (1) an A record pointing `mydomain.com` to the IP **_66.6.44.4_** as per Tumblr's **_instructions_** it tells me I already have the bare domain as an alias so I cant do that. (2) the A record on the `www.mydomain.com` alias. I can do this with either `www.mydomain.com` set as an alias or not. But when I tried this with `mydomain.com` set as the canonical name the result when visiting either `mydomain.com` or `www.mydomain.com` was both of them continually redirecting to each other until an error was thrown. So I was wondering if there is a ninja that could save me some hair-pulling and tell me the correct way to config A, or else B, or else C.


Piwik vs. Google Analytics

I run both piwik and google analytics on my site. I have noticed that the google analytics data is totally wrong. It does not seem to register any hits while piwik does. What could be wrong?


What if I void a license for an HTML5 website?

We are developing a new website for a group of people initializing their first startup and started looking for good looking templates and found one interesting from a popular site selling web templates/PSDs. Fortunately, or unfortunately, we somehow managed to get the complete template of that particular website that we found interesting. Since we are developing a website for a company, can we proceed with the template in our hand / apply for a license from the site selling the template?


Customizing Google Sites look and feel

I find the site layout and theming capabilities in Google Sites (found in the Manage Site screen) very limited; for instance, I do not seem to be able to place the horizontal navigation buttons directly to the right of the logo and to customize their style, as well as to use the standard trick of making a horizontally stretchable background image of a box with rounded corners by splitting it into three parts and replicating the middle one, etc. Am I missing something? Are there any advanced settings available? Thanks.


How do I host a domain I bought on GoDaddy on Media Temple?

I bought Media Temple hosting and want to build a Wordpress.org site using a domain I bought on GoDaddy. **What steps do I need to take to make Media Temple recognize my GoDaddy domain as one that it should host?**


Hijax == sneaky Javascript redirects? Will I get banned from Google?

### Question Will I get penalised as **"sneaky Javascript redirects"** by Google if I have the following Hijax setup (which requires a JavaScript redirect on the page indexed by google). ### Goal I want to implement Hijax to enable AJAX content to be accessibile to non- JavaScript users and search engine crawlers. ### Background   1. I'm working on a static file server (GitHub Pages). No server side tricks allowed (so Google's #! "hash bang" solution is not an option).   2. I'm trying to keep my files DRY. I don't want to repeat the common OUTER template in all my files i.e. header, navigation menu, footer, etc They will live in the main `index.html` ### Setup the Hijax   1. `index.html` page contains all OUTER html/css/js... the site's template.   2. `index.html` has a `<div id="content">` which defaults to containing the "homepage" html.   3. `index.html` has a navigation menu, with a Hijax link to an "about" page.   4. With JavaScript **disabled** (e.g. crawler) it follows link to `/about.html`.   5. With JavaScript **enabled** (e.g. most people) the link updates the url hash fragment to `/#about` and jQuery replaces the `<div id="content">` innerHTML with `$("#content").load("about.html #inner-container");`. ### AJAX content `about.html` _does not_ contain anything extra to try an cloak content for crawlers. `about.html` file contains enough HTML / CSS / JavaScript to display `/about.html` as a standalone page with it's own META data... e.g. `<html><head><title>About</title>...</head><body></body></html>`. `about.html` has NO OUTER HTML template (i.e. header, navigation menu, footer, etc). `about.html` `<body>` contains a `<div id="inner-container">` which holds the content that is injected into `index.html`. `about.html` has a `<noscript>` tag as the first child of `<body>` which explains to non-JavaScript users that they are viewing the about page "inner content" - with a link to navigate to the `index.html` page to get the full page layout with menu. ### The (Sneaky?) Redirect Google indexes the `/about.html` page. However when a person with JavaScript enabled visits that page there is no OUTER html template (e.g. header, navigation menu, footer, etc). So I need to do a JavaScript redirect to get the person over the `/#about` page (deeplinking to the "about" page "state" in `index.html`). I'm thinking of doing a "redirect on click or after 10 seconds". The end results is that user ends up on an "enhanced" page back on `index.html` with all it's OUTER template - but the **core** "page" content is practically identical. ### Known issue with inbound links e.g. Share / Bookmarking It seems that if a user shares the URL `/#about` on their blog, when allocating inbound links to my site Google ignores everything after the `#` ... it allocates value to the `/` page - See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5028405/hashbang-vs-hijax/5166665#5166665. I can only try an minimise this issue offering "share" buttons on the page with the appropriate urls i.e. `/about.html`. ### Duplicate Sorry. I posted this same question over on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5561686/hijax-sneaky-javascript-redirects- will-i-get-banned-from-google ... then realised it probably belongs more on this Stack Exchange site... Not sure if I should delete the Stack Overflow question? Or just leave it on both sites? Please leave comment.


Does Link Target using "Blank" cause increased bounce rate in analytics report?

I am just wondering whether it is so and when I should use target="_blank" and when not? I used to use target="_blank" for most of the links of my site and in few places on net, I found people talking about it increases bounce rate.   * Is it true?   * What should be actual strategy for using '_blank' target?


Does excessive markup affect SEO?

For example, if I wrap my content with `<div>` tags (for no reason, just for arguments sake), would that cause a difference to search engines? Does thinner markup improve SEO?

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google webmastertools will curtom crawl rate affects indexing what are the effects of custom crawl rate

My site was running well for the past three years. Recently googlebot's request my server got increased. and at one time i got network unreachable error. When i contacted my hosting company they asked suggestions from me and i gave a list of google ips to white list. They said that their server will block ip's which are of huge traffic. After that my site appeared well in google. Now after a month again i get network unreachable. when i inquired them they said i have to change my plan from shared hosting to a vps account or a dedicated hosting. I have 300 links indexed by google. will that affect much? So i thought of reducing the crawl rate. Please see the image below and give me suggestions.![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZxnKg.png) Previously it was default and now i reduced to the one shown in the picture. Will this affect my indexing in google. Besides will a server block google ip's for this kind of crawl rate like i have 300 links indexed. and they irresponsible say that i have to switch over to vps. confused.


Good webmail service provider

Short background:   We are a small webhosting company serving NGOs. We have over 2000 mailboxes on 500 domains. Our biggest problem is the crappy Horde webmail we provide to our customers today. Our server provider is married with Parallels PLESK and PBA suites, and cannot integrate another webmail than Horde to their offering. So we want to provide a better mailservice (especially webmail and mobile mail).   Now, we love gmail and Google Apps, but as far as I can decipher online there is no way to manage this many domains and accounts centraliced through their admin panels, or is there? Google is not ansvering my questions on this, I guess theyre not intesrested in dealing with small companies like ours. **What we need is:**   * A mail service that has good webmail and preferably a decent mobile interface   * Price up to 20€/account/year (up to 50€/account/year with shared calendars and docs), min space 1Gb/account   * Control panel with 3 user levels      * us (reseller, global admin): to manage all 500 domains and their 2000 accounts     * domain admin: ability to administrate all the mailboxes (accounts) in their domain      * user panel: for the mail user to manage passwords, autoresponders...   * API: We have hosting plans with DNS templates in our PBA environment. These automatically point the MX-records to the mailprovider (the rest to our webservers, such as www, ftp and so on), so there must be an easy way to start new domains at the mailprovider, preferably by a script on our server.  I guess the initial migration to the new mailprovider is going to be a pain in the behind. We do get our current account data exported as XML and CSV, but what about the other end, any services with migration tools?


Canonical links and non-identical content (mobile / desktop)

We are being advised to: Use switchboard tags to indicate alternate media for handheld devices. Canonicalize those mobile pages to the relevant desktop pages My issue is that I thought that for engines to respect canonical tags the content should be largely identical. This is based on what I read here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en Our SEO consultants think that this is no longer the case. Any opinions?


Which is more accurate? Google Webmaster or Google Analytics

I see differences between Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools. Why are they different and which is more accurate. How can i interpret data from both correctly?


Google Analytics Kiosk: URL that compares current month to last, and is permalink

We have a kiosk that runs all the time. We display the overview report with this month vs last month comparison. But I have to come in and refresh the page and reset the period every day. Is there a way I can form a URL that accomplishes this goal and will update accordingly when I refresh the page?


How to indicate to browser that javascript (external) has been changed

The advantage of including js on web page is that I need not to worry about cached js file. If I change it on the server, the same will be reflected on client side. But it increases the size and complexity of webpage. It also affects average response time. But if I make a separate js, so it could be saved at client side on first request, client needs to remove cached js when I do some changes in js at server side. Is there any way (some HTML tag or attribute) to indicate to the browser that js file has been changed at server side. So it downloads the new copy. Or something like versioning.


Joomla template that shows small sections with posts by category and a slider?

I'm searching already for a while for a nice template for my joomla site, but can't find anything. I need a template that would have on its initial page a slider that would pick automatically posts of a certain tag/category and would show small sections with a summary of each category. Something like this: http://www.infowars.com Thanks a lot


Analytics hasn't updated keywords the last week, what could be the problem?

The Keywords section under "Sources" in my GA account hardly updated at all. I KNOW I had more than 2 searches for a keyword, but GA doesn't show these? I have a GA account and I have a tracking code like this on my website:               <script type="text/javascript">            var _gaq = _gaq || [];       _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxx-1']);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);            (function() {       var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;       ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';       var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);      })();          </script>          <script type="text/javascript">              function fnx(that, outbound) {         try {             var pageTracker=_gat._getTracker("UA-xxxxx-1");              pageTracker._trackPageview(outbound);              setTimeout('document.location = "' + that.href + '"', 100)             }catch(err){}           }       </script>      First part is the GA tracking code. The second is just to be able to track clicks on some certain banners on the site. Anybody familiar with this kind of problem?


Is this a good approach to image Lazy Loading for SEO?

For images loaded via AJAX, or that I **don't** want indexed, use the data-* attribute approach:                     The javascript maps the _data-src_ attribute to the _src_ attribute:                     But for images in the HTML that I **do** want indexed:               Image alt text here      The javascript replaces the _anchor_ with an _image_ tag:                     Seems that would preserve index-ability and the _intent_ of the page (for accessibility) without affecting SEO (hopefully). But would love a second opinion. _Edit: Any feedback on how this approach - page with **links to images** versus page with **inline IMG tags** - would compare in regards to page rank. I'm guessing the inline IMG tags would fare better since each outgoing link would detract from the overall page rank (unless they had rel="nofollow" which would be counter productive)._


SEO: Firefox addon/plugin to see Google results with a position number?

Do you know a Firefox addon that adds postion number to Google/Yahoo results. When I do SEO report for www.some-site.com by keyphrase "some-keyphrase" I usually show results in blocks of 100 results per page. Then uisng browser find box I search for "some-site.com", if found in page I see its position, but **I have to count by hand the number of results before (or after) it to know the exact position number**. It would be handful a simple addon that adds a number positioning before each result like:               1. Result blah blah     Snippet...     url          2. Result blah blah     Snippet...     url          etc.


Localized CAPTCHA

What are effective CAPTCHA solutions that can have localized description, and **CAPTCHA text _itself_** is either language-neutral, or can be localized (for Polish language)? It is to be used to protect a kind of contact form. reCAPTCHA (for example) allows i18n of the widget, but this still uses English source text that is then machine-translated. This makes it, I think, harder to solve for people who do not know English at all. I suspect it is even worse for the _audio_ version of CAPTCHA.


Change administrator editor

Is it possible to change the default administration editor in Joomla 1.5? I've tried installing Textile and Markdown editors, but those are only installed for on page editing and not in administration management... ## Questions   1. is it possible to change default administration editor   2. how can I change it to some markdown (or markdown like) editor


A frequently updated mixed bag blog OR several seldom updated niche sites?

I am a member of a website where I have about a hundred articles (and I'm always writing more.) Aside from temporary problems I would deal with when removing content from the and putting it on my own domain (duplicate content, etc) I have another problem. Which would be the best for my articles? I have tons of articles in a wide variety of niches and would like to do what would help them perform the best. I'm not a huge niche writer and have received wide criticism from the HubPages community for my articles not performing as well as they could because I don't use enough keywords within the text of my articles. I prefer to write more naturally in a way that would appeal to an audience instead of keyword stuff. Anyway, this is aside the point. **My Question** After removing my articles from the site, should I put them on one domain or spread them across multiple domains grouped sort of by topic. For example: a-bunch-of-articles.com OR travel-articles.com and financial- articles.com and knitting-articles.com (I know those domains aren't available, but it's just kind of an example.) Here are the pros and cons of each: a mixed bag site like a-bunch-of-articles.com may not perform as well because of its mixed-bag nature a mixed bag site would be updated far more frequently than several niche sites... some niche sites may be updated so infrequently that a year could pass before one sees a new article a mixed bag site would be like putting all my eggs is one basket, where having several niche sites would spread out my portfolio, so to speak. a mixed bag site wouldn't allow me to easily target keywords, but then again isn't HubPages pretty much a mixed bag site?


Does Google Analytics influence Alexa rank?

Do the statistics seen in Google Analytics influence how Alexa ranks a site? Or does each service have its own rankings?


SEO: Navigation of Multiple Page Results

When displaying product pages I only show a subset of products to save server bandwidth and increase load times. Each page is implement as a link. I recently converted from a drop down selector that changed the page url on selection to pure anchor tags. My question is, is it worth it to make sure crawlers can access all my pages for the sake of screen real estate and aesthetics? I personally liked the drop down better than a bunch of page numbers separated by a pipe - '|' - symbol plus it took up much less screen real estate.


Should I use mysqldump or mysqlhotcopy for MySQL database backups?

I have a WordPress blog running on a MySQL database that I want to back up regularly. Would it be better to use the mysqldump program or the mysqlhotcopy script to make backups? What are the pros and cons of each? Are there any other options I should consider?


WordPress - SEO - does turning off comments matter on a non comment template?

I have a custom WordPress themed website. None of my page/post/category/tag/etc. template pages have any code that has anything to do with comments (as far as I know). I am wondering if there is anything wrong with leaving "Allow Comments" on for each post/page entry when creating a new page/post or is there a good reason I should un-check this for each?


What are the best ways to measure end user web site performance?

I know of a couple tools to measure end user web site performance and I'm wondering what else is out there. The two major ones I know of are yslow and Google's page speed.


How can I specify the image for Facebook share or like?

Is there a way I can make one of the images on a website more likely to be posted with a Facebook like or recommend?


why does stackoverflow question urls have the question id before seo friendly 'question'

Take for example this random question Tool or plugin required to show out in which html files a given css selectors is used, notice that the relevant part is `/questions/16999`. Now, it being possible that the url could have been done like this :               http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/tool-or-plugin-required-to-show-out-in-which-html-files-a-given-css-selectors-is/16999`      That is the question_id is after the question, and what comes first in a url weighs more in seo, why is the question part coming after the question_id. I also read in an article that only the first two subdirectories are relevant therefore only `/question/16999` is relevant. Looking at SO this is definitely not true, but I can't decide on the weigh of this. I am asking because I am going to implement seo optimizations and don't want to have to change the link to my pages afterwards.


How to find the most visited pages of a site?

When visiting a new site I'd like to see the most visited pages instead of browsing through the new ones. Is that possible with a Google command similar to "site:whatever.com"?


I've created a SaaS website directory, how can I improve it?

I'm looking for general feedback on my website www.saaslounge.com. I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post such a request so apologies in advance. I've spent a few days putting together a Joomla based website - www.saaslounge.com - which is a directory of web applications. The concept is simple, people can sign up to the site and list their SaaS apps in the directory free of charge. I have no intention of changing this model, for the site to work it needs to remain free. However what I would like to do is add more value to the site, and this is where you come in. I've been thinking about ways that I could add more value, and by value in the case of a directory I specifically mean gather more data on the SaaS applications listen. An obvious and easy example is to measure applications uptime and show this. We currently also check each of the sites listed against our SaaS metric http://www.saaslounge.com/saas-metric to ensure that they meet certain criteria. All thoughts and opinions are welcome. Oh, and I know the site design is shocking. We'll get that sorted if the site becomes more popular.


My site's robots.txt was blocking everyone for a year. What to do now that I fixed that?

My site's robots.txt was blocking everyone for a year (The "Discourage search engines from indexing this site" option was checked in WordPress). I guess Google will re-try to crawl it in the upcoming days (there is at least one site linking to it right now)? Or should I re-submit the site to Google? Here is what I had (and just removed today) in my `robots.txt`:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      Thanks in advance.


Gif image in newsletter and the risk of spam

I am wondering if you find it risky to use a moving gif image in a newsletter. We have a mail list about 700k of people and the percentage of Outlook is still high. In a test we did the newsletter went in spam folder only in Outlook (ironic that gif files dont play in Outlook). Some say you can't really predict if your newsletter is going to lie inside the spam folder of a user (you will be sure if you use javascript though :P) and it depends of many factors you can't predict (if the user opened recently a newsletter with a gif or the level of spam protect each user has). The question is: Have you ever used an animated gif in your newsletter, do you think is risky to do so? Thank you. P.S. I know the question is more conversation-like but I couldn't avoid that. **Feedback** : I finally used a gif image in our email newsletter and everything went very well. It just didnt play in outlook staying on the first frame but was acceptable. Android and iOs compatibility was great also.


Using CDN vs having your own static server, and how it's done?

I would like to speed up my site and am considering moving all static files and user uploaded content to a separate server. I have an option to use a CDN or to setup my own static server and serve files with lighttpd from there. My questions are: When should I choose CDN and when is it a good idea to use your own server? Would using your own server be more cost effective? How are CDNs integrated ussually? Is there a client software installed on my server that pushes new data (user uploaded content) to the CDN? What is the best practice for setting up your own static server and is rsync used for moving files over?


Apostrophe turning out as a '6' instead of a '9'

You know how with "quotation marks" -- with some fonts, the first mark in the set is shaped like the digit '6' and the last mark in the set is shaped like the digit '9'... …and an apostrophe is shaped like a digit '9'… Well, I have an apostrophe that's shaping out as a 6 instead of a 9. It's in the second paragraph here: http://richardclunan.com/copywriter/ It's right after a hyperlink. I don't want to include the apostrophe in the hyperlink, and I prefer to keep the copy as it is. Is there any way to fix this?


Can serving a different header code for crawlers and users be considered cloaking?

I have urls that point to pages I don't know yet if exist. Whenever reaching those, I perform a not-so-quick external sources check, and if exists generate the page on the fly. In order to avoid this behavior for search engine crawlers, I'm showing them a 404 header code. When a user comes, I'm first loading a status bar with flush() and then if I didn't find just display an error message with a 200 header code, because the headers are already sent in the flush() status bar. Whenever the page ends up as empty with an error message and a 200 code, it's like a 404 soft error. Although my reasons are legit, I'm a bit concerned if Google might misinterpret this behavior and consider it cloaking?


Google Chrome dev panel position keeps reseting

No matter if using Google Chrome   * 35.0.1916.27 beta-m   * 34.0.1847.116 m When I open dev panel (F12) it keeps resetting to it's default position. I want to keep it docked to right with certain size and it was until yesterday or day before yesterday when closing dev panel and opening agian does in it's default position, not last used position as usually. It's super annoying and unproductive, how to make it like it used to be?


Google Analytics Goals with AJAX Functionality?

I have some nice ajax contact/enquiry forms etc on a website I'm working on which are working great (and degrade gracefully). I'd like to make use of Google Analytic's 'Goals' feature. The trouble is, the only way I can see this could work for my form is if it redirected to another page (be it a thank-you page or similar) after submission, then I can enter that url at a page people only visit after they've submitted my form. I can see how this would work for my non-JS visitors (if any even have it disabled!), but is there any way to track when an AJAX form has been submitted? Thanks Edit: I should add that I know I can work out manually the conversion rate and so on/so forth by the number of enquiries I receive, but why not try and make things easier for mysef? :-)


Java/1.7.0_07 as user agent

almost every day something (it should be a bot) visits all of my pages on my website (amongst other things it doesn't correctly handle spaces in urls) with Java/1.7.0_07 (or different java versions) as referrer. Should I worry? Should I block by useragent anything that contains "Java"? Thank you


Too many duplicate image alt attributes. What to do?

I've got a table. And as you can see below I've got a lot of duplicate alt attributes going on. What is the best way to prevent this but still have valid HTML5 code?

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Google Webmaster Stats

## Google Webmaster Stats I'd want to show some stats much like the **_Google Webmaster Tools_** with the following things:   * crawl stats,    * links to your site,    * structured data,   * etc.  What is the way to get these stats from Google Webmaster Tools? I searched for it, but couldn't find a sufficient answer. Thanks a lot for any pointers.


Does listing your business as local in schema hurt ranking in nearby cities?

I work with a mom and pop auto repair business. They are in a small city with many surrounding cities nearby. Does listing the business as local in schema hurt the rankings in the nearby cities? Is so, is there a white hat way around the problem?


Tracking subdomains in the same profile as the main domain

I have a site, let's call it http://www.example.com with a non-universal Google analytics account. Now we have to add new functionalities in a subdomain like https://subdomain.example.com as a micro site. On that subdomain the URL's will be something like https://subdomain.example.com?param1=foo&param2=bar We can't change the requirements as both main site and mini-site use a different CMS/application. This is strictly a Google Analytics question. But we need to count pageviews and events that happen in that subdomain (with URLs like https://subdomain.example.com?param1=foo&param2=bar) as belonging to the main domain. So pageviews and events in https://subdomain.example.com?param1=foo&param2=bar need to be recorded as if they happened in http://www.example.com/path/to/whatever/I/want Fortunately we have full control on JavaScript in the main domain site and in the subdomain site too. How can we make this work? Do we need to change tracking code both in the main domain and subdomains? Do we need to reconfigure Google Analytics? Please note again that we do not want to create a new view for the subdomain. Both mini-site and main site should be in the same account, property and view.


Is link/PR juice being passed to CSS, favicon, thumbnail files? If yes, how to combine `rel="icon"` or `rel="stylesheet"` with `nofollow`?


Google shows subdomain of main site instead of add on domain URL

I use Lunarpages and have set up a few add on domains to my main account. These show up as sub-domains of my main account, but they can be reached by using the new domain I've created. So: `subdomain1.example.com` --> `www.example1.com`   `subdomain2.example.com` --> `www.example2.com` The problem is that `example1.com` shows up in Google with that domain but `example2.com` shows up with `subdomain2.example.com`. I'd the Google search results to display the domains without using a sub domain.


Adding 'Last Modification Date' to HTML pages

I have a personal website that has around 4 - 5 HTML pages that I modify on a local editor (Kompozer) and then upload it to my website running on Apache. I have seen many a times, pages have the footer as: 'Last modified date: ' or something like this, the date when the page was last updated. How do I do the same for a HTML page? Is it possible?


Are there any possible reasons for a decreased view rate if nothing on the site has been changed?

Google Analystics says that over the last 4 complete weeks (e.g., may 21 to june 16), the average was ~90 views/day. For the last week, the average is 17.5/views day. Nothing on the site appears to of changed. There is no advertising. Could there be more to this than random flucation?


How can we change ownership of a domain name from "missing" web designer?

We had a website produced a few years ago with a .ORG domain name. The site hadn't grown with our needs, so we've now got a new .co.uk site. Our intention was to transfer the .org address to the new site on completion. Our new site is to go live soon, but the original .ORG site has gone offline (hosting expired I believe, as the expiry date for the .ORG is in 2012) and we now discover that the .ORG domain name is registered to the web designer and not to anyone in our organisation. The WHOIS information gives us the technical contact as discountasp.net. What are the steps we can take here? Our primary concern is getting the name servers changed (the current .ORG address goes nowhere) and ultimately we need to transfer ownership. The organisation in question is a community, non-profit organisation, so our pockets are not deep.


Why do you need to keep users engaged through your site?

I hope this is an appropriate forum for this topic. If not, I apologize. To rephrase the question, I am debating a new tactic that some marketers are trying to implement that goes against everything I know about site usability, retention, conversion, etc. Now, I need some hard evidence (read as best practice documents from reliable sources) to back what I know to be true so that I can squash this down. I totally understand that the only hard evidence is data and I am working that angle on my own. The idea is simple. Advertise that we have white paper "X" and point the user to a custom landing page. This is where things have started going wrong. Here's the process:   1. Get to landing page   2. Fill out form to receive an email on how to download it (seriously...I know)   3. Thank you...check your email   4. Click link in email and get to a download page (branded similar to the original landing page)   5. File downloads automatically if it can. We also showcase other documents the user might be interested in. The process above was the best compromise I could sell them on. #5 is the hot point here though because they don't like the "extra step" when it could have ended with #4 if the email had a direct link to the file. So, I know there is so much wrong with this, but I cannot seem to sell 2 main things. I'm hoping you guys can point me in the right direction on these 2 things.   1. Why shouldn't they leave the site in the first place   2. Why, if #1 has to happen, should step #5 exist. Remember, professional opinions need to be left out of it. I need hard evidence (read as best practice documents from reliable sources) to present to the product marketing manager.


What are some client-side sitemap generators?

Most of the sitemap generators I've found all scan my internal files and base it on that. However using apache and htaccess I have many aliases for things for example: `/brand/model/photos/` is empty directory wise, but on the web it relocates it to a zenphoto gallery using htaccess. http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ does What I need, but I'd like to have more control over it and I need it to be dynamic and run weekly or daily. Allow for specific change frequencies based on the file/directory. I also want to be able to make a "pretty" sitemap html file. Counting the photo gallery I have around 300 links, without the photo gallery more like 100. I have MySQL, PHP 5.3 installed. Update: I am using Debian Linux, so I'll need a crawler that can be run with cron or automated through linux.


How can I stop my blog from trying to use SSL?

I noticed yesterday that my Avg Visit Duration for users on Androids plummeted on 13th September. So I looked into it and found that Android users were being sent a warning message when they tried to access my blog, and thus, leaving immediately. I spoke to BlueHost about it last night and the guy told me that my site was trying to use SSL when I'm only using the shared SSL certificate. Is there any way I can stop it from trying to do this? I've noticed that my Google Analytics code has 'https' in it. Is that what's causing this problem? There's no other 'https' in the source code. (I should add that GA has been installed for over a month, so it's unlikely that that's what caused the crash on 13th September.) The blog I need help with is arbitrarynonsense.com - obviously any advice would be greatly appreciated.


Tracking visitors' choices with Google Analytics

I have been asked to make it possible to track visitors' choices in a 10-step product mockup generator in order to find out which options are most popular. All we really need is to be able to compare the popularity of different choices side-by-side. Also, it would be very neat if it were possible to track only the latest choices of any unique visitor. I imagine this is achievable with GA at least to some extent. If so, where do I begin? I'm not very familiar with GA yet, so please excuse me if what I'm asking is GA basics. As a non-native English speaker and a total GA newbie I couldn't come up with specific enough search terms for this purpose.


Tracking logged in vs. non-logged in users in Google Analytics

I am building a social media site that is similar is structure to twitter and facebook.com where unauthenticated users who go to https://mysite.com will see a login + sign-up page, and authenticated users who go to https://mysite.com will see their timeline. My question is, what is the best practice (using Google Analytics) for tracking these two different types of users who are viewing completely different content but are visiting the same URL. I tried searching the Google Analytics docs but couldn't find what they suggested for this scenario. Perhaps I just don't know what keywords to search for.


Domain forwarding to new sub domain not working

I've a site `www.xyz.org` which I've migrated to `xyz.newsite.org`. It has been more than a month but Google is still showing `www.xyz.org` in the SERP. I've migrated another site exactly in the same way and at the same time and in 10 days Google picked it up. It seems we can't indicate domain to sub domain migration in GWT. Here is the _.htaccess_ I've placed in the `www.xyz.org`:               RewriteEngine On     # Redirect Entire Site to New Domain     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} xyz.org$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://xyz.newsite.org/$1 [R=301,L]      I'm not sure if I'm missing anything else.


Proper Google Analytics setup for AJAX heavy page?

Lets say I have a website with a few pages. The purpose of each of those pages is to display live statistics for a real world event (for example, sports scores). Every 60 seconds, an `Ajax` call is made to the server to fetch the latest sports scores and the update the page with those scores. A user would typically open this webpage and leave it open for many minutes (maybe hours). They would never need to refresh the page because it always has the updated scores on it. What would be the best way to track my user's experience on this page with _Google Analytics_. Obviously, when the page first loads, that page visit is logged. But then, every time some Ajax call occurs, what would I have Google Analytics do? I want to properly track time-on-site and page loads. Would each Ajax refresh be considered a new page load? I've seen some sites suggest doing this when Ajax happens:               _gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/somepage'])      That would be like telling _Google Analytics_ that the user reloaded the page. Is this accurate? Or is there some other type of event to push that is more accurate for Ajax calls? Technically I guess you could tell GA to track the page view of the Ajax URL? Or would using custom GA events make more sense? The reason I'm asking is, lets say down the line, some company wants to purchase my website from me. I would want to be able to show them my _Google Analytics_ history and know that the pageviews and time-on-site is calculated accurately. I would not want someone to have a reason to question time-on-site or page views. If I was using GA events instead of page views for the Ajax calls, would that accurately be taken into account for time-on-site? Also, if I was running _StatCounter_ on the site at the same time, is there a similar thing I would need to do for that as well?


Why do some user agents have spam urls in them (and why are they always Opera/Presto User-Agents)?

If you go to (say) the last 100 entries (visits) to the botsvsbrowsers.com website (exact link, feel free to take a look: http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/recent/listings/index.html ), you'd notice that almost every User Agent that has the keywords "Opera" and "Presto" inside them, will almost certainly have a web link (URL/Web Address) inside it, and it won't just be a normal web address, but a HTML anchor tag/link to that address. Why is this so, I could not even find a single discussion about it on the internet, nowhere, I tried varying my search terms many times. If the user agent contains the words "Opera" and "Presto" it doesnt mean it will have this weblink, but it means there is about an 80% change that it will. A typical anchor tag/link inside a user agent will look like this: > Mozilla/4.0 disability > equipment (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.60 If you check it out at the website, http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/recent/listings/index.html you will notice that the back and forward arrows are in there unescaped format. This isn't just true for botsvsbrowsers, but several other user agent listing sites. I'm really confused and feel line I'm in a room full of 10,000 people and am the only one seeing this ghost :). If I'm doing statistical analysis, should I include or exclude this type of user agent from my listing (ie: are these just normal users who've set their user agents to attempt to drive some traffic to their sites as they browser the web), or is there something else going on? The fact that it is so consistent in terms of its format leads me to believe that it is an automated process (the setting or alteration of the user agent) so I cannot decide or understand the process by which this change is made (I know how to change a user agent), but unsure which program or facility is doing this, especially since it is exclusive to Opera (Presto) user agents that are beyond I think an 8 or 9 point something browser version. I've run some statistical tests, parsing entries from all over the place, writing custom programs, to get a better understanding of this. Keep in mind that I see normal URL's in user agents infrequently, they are just text such as +http://www.someSite.com appended to a user agent normally, especially if its a crawler or bot it provided its service URL, this is normal and isnt done with an embedded link (A HREF=) etc, so I'm not talking about "those".


Google Analytics shows visits to pages redirected in .htaccess

Yesterday, I switched on a section of pages in our site that replaces a really old collection of pages. In our .htaccess file, I have rules that redirect a request for any page in the old section to the equivalent in the new section. All the tests I have done show this is working properly. I put the old URL into the address bar, and the new version of it is displayed. However, when I look at Google Analytics Real-Time view, I am seeing a few page views for the old URLs. Since the redirect should occur before the GA code ever runs, does anyone have an idea about how GA is seeing visits for the old pages?


IPv6 traffic peaks every 2 hours at same value

I am building a website and there are no users yet. Odd thing is, every 2 hours I see a peak in IPv6 traffic: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CzAnb.png) I am concerned someone is polling my server for nefarious reasons. Am I right to be worried? I am connected to the server using putty and FileZilla. Do they send a 'heartbeat'?


Cannot delete an added site from Google account after being registered on Google website translator

I can't seem to delete a site that I added on my Google account. When I login at here it displays that I am the owner/editor of the site but wherever I look, I can't seem to find a _delete site_ function. _See screenshot_ (click image to view larger): ![google translation](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Dq8sP.jpg)


Wordpress Mobile Edition, Wordpress Mobile Pack, WPTouch - Which one and how?

First of all, Happy New Year! I am thinking about making my blog accessible and enjoyable on mobile devices (as many handsets as possible). I am using Wordpress 3.0.4. What I've found is couple of cool plugins like WPTouch (for touch enabled devices), The Wordpress Mobile Edition and the Wordpress Mobile Pack. I am wondering which one is the best to use if I can use only one. If I can use more or (even all these three) are they compatible? Does anyone have any experiences in this topic? If so I would much appreciate some advices or best practice links. Happy 2011, thanks in advance, Rob


SEO issue with long UTF-8/ non-English URL?

I have URLs in Thai language e.g. วิธีการหลีกเลี่ยงข้อผิดพลาดทั้ง-8-ในชีวิตการแต่งงาน. Once it's encoded into ASCII, it becomes extremely long - 466 characters. SEOQuake prompts me that this is an SEO issue. I understand that URL should be short but is there any chance that my Thai URLs are considered exceptions and they are ok for SEO? Note that Thai cannot be spelled in Latin charaters and Thai does not have space to break words like most languages.


Duplicate alt tags in a big gallery

Our website mainly consists of galleries, while usually smaller, they sometimes reach over 100 images per post. As each image is bound to the same topic, they are automatically named after the post title and an added incremental number at the end, for example: Title: `League of Legends Sona Cosplay By Eki` Image names:               league-of-legends-sona-cosplay-by-eki-1.jpg     league-of-legends-sona-cosplay-by-eki-2.jpg     league-of-legends-sona-cosplay-by-eki-3.jpg      ... At first, all of those had the page title set as their alt text and everything was fine for a long time like that, but then I got scared that Google might find that keyword stuffing or something, so I removed all the alt tags and they are now alt="". This seems like a really bad practice, so I was wondering what could I do to fix this and I came up with an idea to simply use the file name as an alt tag, but this still leaves a lot of duplicate content issues if you ask me. I am not trying to trick Google into ranking better, but merely trying to protect the site from any penalties that could arise from all the images there.


how to include tags in permalinks of wordpress

while using custom structure in my wordpress url , when i am trying to include tags, it shows me , it is showing errors , but when i add category , it reflects in url. i want that the tag gets included in custom url structure automatically , how can it be done using wordpress ... please help ... when i am adding /%tag%/ to custom structure field in wordpress admin , the url shows not found message.


Why is Google saying that the rich snippet will not display

I am trying to have Google display my author name and picture on my new Wordpress blog. http://goo.gl/fNb4n I am submitting my page to the snippet checker and it indeed shows me the result with my name and a picture on the side of that, exactly what I want. However, near the bottom of the page Google tells me the following:               Extracted structured data          hcard              Warning: The information will not appear as a rich snippet in         search results, because the marked-up content does          not appear to be the main focus of the page.         More information. (Is this correct? Let us know.)              Warning: This information will not appear as a rich snippet         in search results, because it seems to describe an organization.          Google does not currently display organization information in rich snippets              Warning: At least one field must be set for Hcard.              Warning: Missing required field "name (fn)".      I have no idea why Google is complaining, I have set the fn and the vcard:                                        http://www.my_url.co.uk/about" rel="author">                     <?php the_author(); ?>                                    Also I have no idea why it thinks it is an organisation. Do I have to worry about this? Perhaps the fact that Google is showing me my picture means they will link to it like that and the warnings are just in case I want to be an organsation. Can someone explain?


disable wp-pagenavi on pages with template using the wordpress loop

How can i disable wp-pagenavi on pages using templates and the wordpress loop? It seems that wp-pagenavi adds itself automatically wherever the wordpress loop is used, not counting that it is a page or not.


Would problems arise if a domain was bought as 'name.com' instead of 'www.name.com'

If a website domain name was bought and registered as 'name.com' instead of ' **www**.name.com' would users still be able to find the site by typing 'www.name.com'?


multiple shared hosting accounts hosting different subdomains of same addon domain?

I have two shared hosting accounts, each with limited storage space: HostingAccountA with 'PrimaryDomainA', and HostingAccountB with 'PrimaryDomainB'. A negligible amount of storage is being used directly by these primary domains. If I'd like to create many subdomains of a third domain, 'AddonDomain', but the total required storage space is greater than what is available in a single hosting account -- is it possible to split the deployment of these multiple subdomains across more than a single hosting account? Specifically, I'd like to add this _same_ domain as an add-on domain in both HostingAccountA and HostingAccountB, and then somehow have it appear as if (in the end, maybe through a combination of CNAME- and/or 301-redirections?):   * HostingAccountA host subdomains: 'sub1.AddonDomain', 'sub2.AddonDomain', and 'sub3.AddonDomain'   * HostingAccountB host subdomains: 'sub4.AddonDomain', 'sub5.AddonDomain', and 'sub6.AddonDomain' I realize that the nameservers for the 'AddonDomain' can only point to _one_ of the hosting accounts, but not both. Thus it would seem that in HostingAccountB, subdomains 4, 5, and 6 would have to be created as subdomains of, say, 'PrimaryDomainB'. Thus my question now becomes: is it possible -- perhaps via some mix of CNAME- and/or 301-redirections -- to have subdomains 'sub4.PrimaryDomainB', 'sub5.PrimaryDomainB', and 'sub6.PrimaryDomainB' appear to the end-user as 'sub4.AddonDomain', 'sub5.AddonDomain', and 'sub6.AddonDomain' (respectively), despite the fact that the nameservers for 'AddonDomain' are pointing to HostingAccountA (where 'AddonDomain' has already been defined as an add-on domain)?


Silverstripe: How can I disable comments?

My client site is built in Silverstripe, there is a news page, and it allows people to leave comments. Unfortunately we've got loads of spam emails. I'm new to this, is there any way we can disable the comment field by default? How do I do it? Alternatively is there easy way for me to install a spam protection? **Update** - Because this is someone else's code, I just realised that they have some sort of spam protection already, so we are trying to disable comments now. I have manage to set no comment as default by changing file BlogEntry.php               static $defaults = array(         "ProvideComments" => true,          'ShowInMenus' => false     );      to               static $defaults = array(         "ProvideComments" => false, //changed         'ShowInMenus' => false     );      Am I on the right track to disable comments by default? Also how can I stop on the news page showing xxx comments link? eg Test Posted by Admin on 21 June 2011 | **3 Comments** Tags: P This is a test.... **3 comments** | Read the full post


Can google apps be an alternative to outlook server with blackberry email and calendar

A client of mine is looking for hosting and email. They will be using a blackberry and outlook for both email and calendar functionality. They are used to working in an office environment where outlook server and a blackberry server work together. Will Google apps fulfill the same roles as outlook server and does it sync well with blackberries. Will Google apps push to the blackberry new emails and calendar events? Otherwise they would have to go with an outlook email hosting plan which is 20$ a month. Google apps is 50$ a year. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Bundarr


After changing DNS a domain shows differently on different browser?

I have changed the nameserver's of one of my domains but I found a problem that within Firefox these changes have not updated as expected, however this problem does not occur in other browsers such as Internet Explorer. I have refreshed the page and no joy, Why is the nameservers only working for certain browsers?


advantages and disadvantages of base64 image strings

I discovered that you can covert images into base64 strings and use those string within `img` tags and css like this:               <img alt="" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAhEUgAAA ... FTkSuQmCC" />      or this:               background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAA ... uQmCC);      Serving images in this way seems improve website load times, but may have some drawbacks. I have a few questions about this method:   * Will the browser cache these images?   * Is it faster for a page to render this string or an image file? I am interested in other advantages or disadvantages involving this image serving method.


What is the best configuration for robots.txt

What is the best initial or general setup for the robots.txt to allow search engines to go through the site, but maybe restrict a few folders? Is there a general setup that should always be used?


Should I return a 429 or 503 status code to a bot?

We are doing some work to block excessive bots. We are throttling requests based on IP. In the past, using IIS, we have returned a 503 error to the client. Someone suggested that a 429 is more appropriate. I am trying to figure out which one I should use and why. When I searched this site for 429, I found nothing. I found these definitions of HTTP Status Codes on Wikipedia: > 429 Too Many Requests The user has sent too many requests in a given amount > of time. Intended for use with rate limiting schemes. > > 503 Service Unavailable The server is currently unavailable (because it is > overloaded or down for maintenance). Generally, this is a temporary state. It seems that the 429 is more appropriate to serve to an offending bot. Is this correct?


HTML: Images always getting reloaded from server

I am finding that my web pages' images are always getting loaded from my server, even though they never change. Since these are images, not pages, I can't include an expiration date for them... How can I tell browsers to avoid reloading images they already have? **Update:**   In PHP I tried using this:                 header ("ExpiresByType image/gif \"modification plus 10 minutes\"");      but this causes an internal server error.


Google analytics showing weird /browse.php accessed pages

In Google Analytics, I'm seeing access to pages that don't exist with weird query params: Screenshot:   ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/1jnj2.png) I don't even have a `browse.php` page. What can this be?


How do I go about finding a good copy writer?

Darn it Jim, I'm a developer, not a writer! Great copy is paramount to search engine rankings and making visitors feel good about whatever the website is offering. What is the best way to go about finding an awesome writer who specializes in writing great copy specifically for the web?


HTTPS redirect to HTTP not working with 'www' subdomain

I have 2 rules on my site: one to force the `www` subdomain, and another to force the HTTP protocol:                 RewriteEngine On       RewriteBase /            RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on       RewriteRule ^ http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]            RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]       RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]      If I type `https://example.com`, it is correctly redirected to `http://www.example.com`. But if I type `https://www.example.com`, it isn't redirected to `http`. It remains in HTTPS. Why isn't this working?


Designing for the IPad

I'd like for my website to be accessible (e.g., fully usable) through the IPad. What do I need to do?


What's required of a web server in order to offer up streaming (but not live) video?

What's required of a web server in order to offer up streaming video? Where would you start? Edit: Let's assume it is **not** real-time or live streaming, just canned videos.


Calculate pc power as server

Is it possible to calculate the number of visitors I can handle using my PC as a web server? Does this depend on the website?


Google started to ignore some of my top traffic generator pages, How to fix it?

I had top search results on certain keywords with some of my articles. but google started to ignore them now and it completely ignores all pages with this keyword. I lost top search position and other sites that copied my article and even gave referral link back to the article are on top results. my site is listed in google, crawl able, and with no infection report on google webmaster tools. What caused this and how can I fix it?


Trying to push an affiliate program onto members, how soon is too soon?

On a site I run we have recently launched an affiliate program - one of the groups of people we want to target as potential affiliates are current members of the site - I mean who better to sell a service than the users of the service! I want to ask how soon is too soon to ask the member if they would like to become an affiliate of ours? We had been toying with the idea of putting it into the thank you email used when they sign up, but I think that is maybe too soon. Has anyone had to do anything similar? We want to catch people as soon as possible but don't want to bombard a new user too much.


Webmaster tools site performance - reliable measurements

I am measuring a few sites and use both webmaster tools and analytics to track various aspects. One of the aspects I try to measure and track is performance. I am getting a much more reliable measurements in analytics, mostly thanks to this article. However, I am also curious about the stats that appear on the webmaster tools `site performance` section. One thing I noticed is that the numbers don't exactly match. The second thing is that Webmaster Tools updates much less frequently. That's probably to be expected, but most of the sites I have will show latest information from a couple of days ago, but one particular site still displays data as `updated on Apr 12, 2012` (today is May 05, 2012). In terms of accesses, it's not a particularly small site compared to others. So it's unlikely the slow updates are because it has too little or no traffic. My questions, in case someone knows:   * How come one website only shows performance stats from nearly a month ago and doesn't get updated?   * What is the difference in _measurements_ (method, accuracy, source of data etc) between analytics and webmaster tools?   * Is there any 'best-practice' to make sure google (and me) get the most reliable measurements? UPDATE: To clarify, I am not asking what's the difference between webmaster tools and analytics, what are the best tools to test my site performance, or what's the best practice for SEO in general. I am quite aware of those. I am just wondering about the particular issues I experienced above and the specific aspects affecting performance measurements and update frequency in those tools.


How to efficiently let Google know that my subdomain now has a custom domain?

I have existing heavy traffic from my Tumblr page and 2 articles in the top search results. Today I purchased a custom domain to use on Tumblr. Before that, my site was already verified in Google Webmaster Tools. So I thought after integrating my custom domain with Tumblr, I will just let Google know about the domain change in Google Webmaster Tools. Unfortunately there is no option for this on subdomain-level. So now what I did is registered my new custom domain as separate site and verified it. Now there are two site in my Webmaster Tools, my subdomain Tumblr URL (which is now a redirect, not even a page) and my custom URL. Is there a negative affect for this, or should I just delete my subdomain site from Google Webmaster Tools and remove the verification tag? There is no problem with redirection since Tumblr handles it really well, even my old pages are properly linked. It is just weird to see that still I can see my Tumblr subdomain on popular searches, and no results for my new custom domain. What should I do next? Should I submit a sitemap? UPDATE: Crawling average is just 300 while my old domain gets 1500 average, and also I submitted a sitemap but after 48 hours only 72 pages are indexed out of 5000 pages


SEO considerations when setting up a network of websites

Picture this, a network of websites. Each running under a highly relevant domain name, with information about a specific medical problem, having three unique pages: about the problem, subgroups of this problem (sometimes one page for each subgroup), and treatments. But each site also having three pages common to every website in this network: a tool for finding clinics treating the problem, a page about the network and a page about the kind of treatment which all these websites have in common and which the treatments are special cases of. Plus, on each page there are two sidebars, one with ads and one with links to the other websites in the network. Both of these sidebars being identical on all websites. From a user's point of view I think this is a pretty good setup. But we're now creating a master website for the network and I need to know the SEO aspects of it. For example, would it be better to place the common pages on the master website and linking to it from the network websites?


Images Loading Very Slowly

I'm currently working on optimizing my site to try to decrease load time by using Pingdom tools. I seem to be having some difficulty with long load times on images. For example, the body background for my site is a 29kb file but takes almost 500 ms to load, the majority of which is spent connecting to the server. This one seems to take the longest times but other images seem to take a lot of time as well—the majority of which seems to be spent connecting to the server. This also seems to fluctuate as I've seen the same image load in 500ms one minute and ten minutes later load in 1.5 seconds. My site is using the Modx CMS but I'm not sure if that would affect this at all. Is it more likely that this is a server issue? Is there anything that I should check or do to help alleviate these inflated 'connect' times? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/L7x1k.png)


How do I fix the Google Webmaster Tools warning: "URL not followed?"

A few days after submitting my sitemap to Google, I received this warning: > When we tested a sample of URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs > redirect to other locations. We recommend that your Sitemap contain URLs > that point to the final destination (the redirect target) instead of > redirecting to another URL. The example URL Google gave me is `http://iketqua.net/?_escaped_fragment_=CIDTKT/mien-trung/xo-so-kon-tum` I checked all possible things that I could think of, but still can't figure out what the warning is about! My sitemap: http://iketqua.net/sitemap.xml


Track a Adobe Flash app hosted on multiple domains with Google Analytics

I'm working on a flash app that's gonna be distributed to more and more partners (and obviously domains). It needs to be tracked **aggregated and also separately**. I implemented Google Analytics using gaforflash, tracking virtual pageviews and events inside the flash app. What I want to achieve:   * View an **aggregated report** of all partners.   * Identify the partner not by the domain (where the flash is used), but by a **partnerID**.   * **Each partner** needs access to the **report of his domain**. (no admin rights needed) I came up with this solution:   * Using only one "Web property" in Google Analytics.      * `UA-XXXXXX-4`     * `.example.com`   * Set a **custom/virtual hostname** per partner. (GA's "utmhn" parameter)      * `partner1.example.com`     * `partner2.example.com`   * Create a profile for each partner, setting the filter to include only the relevant "subdomain" Problems that came up:   * The gaforflash library doesn't support overriding the host name.      * Possible workaround: The gaforflash source code is available, so I could add the functionality.   * Any goal from the "master" profile is **not** copied to the partners profile.      * profile 1: include traffic from hostname `^partner1\\.`     * profile 2: include traffic from hostname `^partner2\\.` * * * Is it (very) bad to _fake_ the hostname?   Are there better approaches?   Or what improvements could you think of? **UPDATE:** I'm looking primarily for a solid data structure inside Google Analytics **regardless of** the **flash** implementation. The only limitations:   * We need an aggregated view across all partners   * Our partners need to have access to their subset of data   * We want to identify the partner by a custom partnerID, not the domain


"Effective width" of a css element could reasonably includes what? width, ?margin?, ?padding?

Eric Meyer just tweeted that he got 100% in this quiz: http://net.tutsplus.com/quizzes/nettuts-quiz-1-beginner-css/ So I took the quiz, and at the end they told me that I got one question wrong: > What’s the effective width of the container? `#container {width: 100px; > padding: 10px; margin: 20px;}` To which I answered: 20px + 100px + 20px = 140px After a lot of work, I unraveled that the quiz's suggested "correct" answer was 120px. Could someone explain why 120px would be a more appropriate answer? Edit: Created a jsfiddle of the situation, and it appears that (for example) inline-block elements with padding incorporate the padding into the width, which I somehow managed to go all this time without realizing.


Can a sitemap index contain other sitemap indexes?

I have a bi-lingual website with a sitemap index for each language that links to several different sitemaps (one for videos, one for static content, and one for articles). I would like to introduce another sitemap that links the sitemap indexes, so I could link that sitemap in the robots.txt in the root and wouldn't have to have one robots.txt for each language. Is that valid? Or is there a simpler solution to my problem?