title: Disable outbound links without letting others know that

text: Is there a way I can tell google not to follow external links ( pointing to other sites) without letting other know. I know you can disable outbound links by putting rel=nofollow or something in robots.txt. But that's something others can see as well. I'm just wondering if there's a way to tell google not to follow those links without letting others know that... like a setting in webmaster tools or something similar ( there's definetly one way. I could set an exception in my conf file for my server to check the user agent to be "googlebot" and then serve a different version of robots.txt. So that when a different user would check that link it would return a different robots.txt thant the one served to googlebot. However I'm not too sure google would be too happy about this) Thank you


title: Can .htaccess slow down a site?

text: I'm working with a client on an e-commerce website. I implemented clean URLs using .htaccess. I also used .htaccess to solve canonical issues such as redirecting www to non-www and removing index.php from the URL. The website recently began to slow down dramatically, sometimes not even loading. The site is hosted on GoDaddy, and when the client called GoDaddy they told him it was the .htaccess file slowing down the website. I find this highly unlikely because of my past experiences, but I'm not 100% sure. My thinking is that the client's website is most likely on a shared server with a busy neighborhood, thus slowing down the site. It's not always slow, but rather sporadic throughout the day, loading fast at some points and slow at other points in time. Can the .htaccess file slow down a website to a crawl? If so, are there better ways to solve these problems with different rewrite rules and such? Here is what the actual .htaccess file looks like:                   Options +FollowSymlinks         RewriteEngine   On         RewriteBase /         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.net [NC]         RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.net/$1 [L,R=301]         RewriteRule ^products/([0-9a-zA-Z\_\-]*)\.htm([l]?)$ index.php p=product&product_code=$1 [L]         RewriteRule ^catalog/([0-9a-zA-Z\_\-]*)\.htm([l]?)$ index.php p=catalog&catalog_code=$1 [L]         RewriteRule ^pages/([0-9a-zA-Z\_\-]*)\.htm([l]?)$   index.php?p=page&page_id=$1 [L]         RewriteRule ^index\.htm([l]?)$  index.php?p=home [L]         RewriteRule ^site_map\.htm([l]?)$   index.php?p=site_map [L]         RewriteCond      %{QUERY_STRING}    ^p=home$         RewriteRule      (.*)               ?     [R=permanent]      I'm a .htaccess and regex novice, so any pointed out mistakes would also help.


title: Effective upload to backend?

text: Let's say I have a website with frontend and backend. The website allows users to upload some data ranging from hundreds of MB to GB. How do you effectively upload this data?   * The easiest way would be to upload it from client/browser to the frontend server. Then send it via API or something to the backend server which has connected data storage, where we'll save the data. This would, however, run really slow, because the upload will be twice as big.   * Another way that occurred to me would be to send the data directly from javascript running inside the browser to the backend's API. This can be inappropriate when I don't want the backend/backend's API to be accessible to public. It's also not good for the architecture (if you have fe and be, you probably don't want to communicate from client to be). So, do you have any ideas? Or is there some kind of general way to do this effectively? Does it include CDNs? Or should I store the data in a database as base64 strings if it'd only be few hundreds of MB pre file?


title: I want to park my domain www.b.com to www.a.com. if the user visits b.com, I want the browser url to display a.com

text: I want to park my domain www.b.com to www.a.com So far is working, but if the user visits b.com, I want the browser url to display a.com Is there a way around it?


title: What are best practices for Drupal QA? For example, how would you check for hard coded broken links?

text: Looking for suggestions on how to QA a Drupal website. Thanks!


title: How to prevent JavaScript directory access with htaccess

text: I have a website like `http://example.com` but the problem with it is that people are able to get access to my JavaScript by pointing a browser to `http://example.com/js/`. I have little knowledge of using _.htaccess_ files.


title: Facebook and Open Graph Protocol

text: Why is the Facebook open graph protocol beneficial beneficial to my web site? Why do I need to implement some of the meta properties to use the Facebook "Like" button on my web page? I do NOT understand what the meta tags are for, I don't understand their necessity for the "Like" button, and also am completely lost as to why the generated code from Facebook for the button doesn't even appear on my webpage. The HTML5 markup is not visible, I am not familiar with XFBML, the iframe at least appears on the page, but displays an image similar to that of a frozen or unresponsive webpage (that snowman guy who is gnashing his teeth and has snowflakes over his head), and finally the URL does not work either.


title: Can a foreign company take my domain name?

text: I'm a small U.S. business and a company in China contacted me to say they want to use my domain name as their own and also make it their internet keyword. The name is not trademarked. Don't I have legal exclusivity rights to this domain when I paid the annual fee? How should I respond to them? I do not want them to take it.


title: Is it legal to use Drupal, Joomla, WP, Zend Framework, jQuery icons on my page?

text: I would like to use Drupal, Joomla, WP and other well known recognized icons instead of written tags on my website. They would be like 16x16 pixels big. Is this OK? I mean it is just for information purposes for the user, which technology is used etc. it is not a commercial project either. What about asp.net, apple, android and other big names? Is it ok to use icons like e.g. these guys http://alternativeto.net/category/ I am just asking, because this world is weird and you hear all the time about the patent wars in mass media. **EDIT: Are icons on the website/firefox plugin like wappalyzer.com illegal or not?**


title: Why was 303 skipped in HTTP/1.0?

text: While looking back over HTTP response codes today I noticed that the 301, 302, and 304 response codes were defined in HTTP/1.0 but not the 303 response code. Does anyone know why the number 303 was skipped in HTTP/1.0?


title: Upload ICS (calandar) file to my server

text: I want to upload my ICS file to my server, well this is the easy part. What I really want is to be able to share this *.ics file with 2-3 people so they can edit. I have currently uploaded the file on the www/ (root)               mydomain.com.au/myfile.ics      of my server and added it to my Email/Cal client. **Was all looking ok until I tried to save changes.** Can someone please direct me to some documentation on how I do this properly. The easy solution would be to upload to google, but I would rather learn how to manage the file myself. Thank you


title: Why would you ever use NOINDEX without NOFOLLOW

text: Everytime I've used the NOINDEX directive on a page, it made sense to use NOFOLLOW as well. I can't imagine a scenario where you would not want a page indexed, but _would_ want the links inside it to be. Can anyone describe a scenario where it would make sense to have a page that combines NOINDEX with FOLLOW?


title: How to reclaim a hijacked tinyurl?

text: It seems someone has hijacked one of the TinyURLs that was sent out in the marketing communication and it now redirects users to a porn site. Is there anyway we can reclaim the TinyURL?


title: Where can i get MatrixStats?

text: I run several IIS web servers and want to install some sort of log reader. A lot of the big boys use MatrixStats, however a good hard Google has come up blank on who makes it and/or where I can get it from to install on my own servers. I have looked at AwStats but my god its complicated to get working...


title: What's the difference between cheap and expensive domain registrars?

text: A few years ago I registered a domain with Network Solutions. In recent years I've been using cheaper services such as namecheap, powerpipe etc. Every time that I need to renew some of the older domains with Network Solutions I am surprised at how much expensive they are. What is the reason for the price differences between the services? Why should I use a service like Network Solutions if there are so many companies out there that offer domain registration for a very cheap price?


title: Why didn't the Google AdSense team approve my website (I followed all the requirements)?

text: I submitted my website to the Google AdSense team two months ago, but my site still is under review. I tried to do all the things they require. This is my website: `http://pondicherryevents.com` If I forgot to fulfill any of Google's AdSense requirements, please let me know.


title: Why sitemap gives higher priority to category and archive pages?

text: I am using wordpress along with Google (XML) Sitemap Generator Plugin, and have got a question about sitemap priorities. By default, The plugin gives higher priority to category, tag and archive pages. Even the author of this plugin himself does so, I don't know why. Aren't articles more important? Here is the author's sitemap, you can see that it gives only 0.1 priority to articles. http://www.arnebrachhold.de/sitemap.xml


title: What is plus.sandbox.google.com?

text: My client's website has had a couple of visits from the referrer — plus.sandbox.google.com. I looked it up and there isn't enough information available regarding this. Does anyone know what this url is?


title: Is it time to add IPv6 access to my websites?

text: I have several dedicated servers and VPS servers, and some of those are at companies that have provided me with native IPv6 blocks (in addition to the IPv4 IP addresses). Does it currently make sense to point an AAAA record to an IPv6 address on my server, in addition to the A record pointing to the IPv4 address? This would be for (for example) the www subdomain. (the networking and web server software would be set up on the server to respond appropriately). A while ago I read that a small percentage of users (1 in a thousand?) would have slow or no access if a subdomain had both A and AAAA records because their networking software asked for one and got the other. Is that still the case, will adding an AAAA record inconvenience some users, or is the percentage already smaller and falling? In other words, is now the time to get around to adding native IPv6 support for a busy website aimed at the general public, or is it still too early?


title: "Hire a freelancer"-esque site - existing solution or roll our own?

text: We're looking to roll out a kind of "hire a freelancer" style site but on a much smaller scale than existing sites Is anyone aware of any existing software on the market? haven't had much success googling "freelancer CMS" as you end up with freelancers to hire to build a cms (!) I'm somewhat tempted to roll our own, but time/budget might be an issue so looking to explore other options. Thanks for any input !


title: How to restrict access to my site using htaccess

text: **How to disallow access to site except me?**


title: Should I let Google index tag archives on wordpress?

text: I'm working on SEO for my WordPress page, and I'm having second thoughts about having my tag archive indexed. I'm not using categories at all, so I've set robots to `noindex, follow` for category overviews, making tags the main taxonomy. Part of me says that having tag archives indexed is useful because those pages are full of content around one specific keywords, and they also link to more pages concerning those keywords. Also, the posts are truncated with a 'read more' link, so there's not going to be a problem with duplicate content. On the other hand, these pages might dilute the pagerank for my actual posts. What is the use of people finding my tag archive pages if they could also find actual articles? Wouldn't it be better to just follow the links in my tag archives but not have those pages indexed? Should I index them or just let google follow the links?


title: Attract visitors to a website in it's begining with empty content

text: I am creating a customer to business website directory for my country, very similar to the way Yelp operates where people and businesses can add their company information. The website will have the usual reviews and customer search functions but the problem I am facing is how can I attract customers to visit the website for the first time when the website contains little information.


title: How can I show ads for search on own web site

text: On my web site there is a (self-coded) search functionality that searches through the web site's specific contents. However I'd like to display one banner in addition to the site's results, showing ads relevant to the entered search terms. Can I do this e.g. with Google Ads? I want the ads to be based only on the search terms from the user, not the rest of the site's content, so there has to be a possibility to pass these search terms to the ad provider and get a banner based on these search terms.


title: "Rule caching" in .htaccess - How to force apache to re-read a modified .htaccess?

text: I am reorganizing the link structure of a dynamic php-based site of mine. What I am trying to obtain is:   * redirect old links onto new ones;   * create new RewriteRules for new links, since every 'link' to an html page is mapped onto a php page with parameters. The only _.htaccess_ file is contained in the website root folder. There are no other .htaccess files in subfolders. Till today I had no problems in reorganizing links by modifying the rules in _.htaccess_. Since yesterday I have been experiencing a strange problem: _it looks like modifications to the .htaccess file are not immediately read by the Apache web-server_ , that keeps applying the old rules even if they are no longer contained in the _.htaccess_ file. For example, I have a rule that performs the following mapping:               /cat-a/subcat-b/page.html -> /file.php?cat=cat-a&subcat=subcat-b      If I modify that rule as follows:               /cat-a/subcat-b/page.html -> /file.php?XXcatXX=cat-a&subcat=subcat-b      Apache keeps rewriting URLs according to the old (cat=cat...) format for a while. The new format (XXcatXX=...) is used only after a _random_ lapse of time. Random meaning that I could not find any pattern in the way it behaves. Furthermore, if I delete a rule, Apache keeps using the deleted rule for a while. The only regularity I have found concerns new rewrite rules: Apache reads them immediately and starts using them. If I delete a rule or modify an existing one, Apache ignores the changes for a while. I am noticing this problem only on RewriteRule instructions and not on redirections. Since redirections and rewritings are managed by different modules, I assume that I have to modify some settings in the mod_rewrite configuration. I made some searches but was not able to find any information/documentation on this behaviour. May be there is something that I ignore and I am missing. **Are there some settings I have to worry about? Have you ever experienced a similar problem?** I am using XAMPP on a Mac OS SnowLeopard machine. Thanks. Regards. A.


title: Will registering a .info domain have any SEO impact?

text: Just to save money as my domain list gets longer, I want to book in advance domains. I want to save money by buying .info domains rather than .com. Will it affect SEO rankings in any way?


title: Displaying website hosted at one domain on a different domain

text: I have a website hosted at (for example) `website.com`. The thing is, I also have my own server and a different domain name registered with a different company. Let's say I own `example.com` and it points to my own server. When a user visits `example.com` I want them to see what is displayed at `website.com`. As much as possible, I want them to see `website.com` while the address bar says `example.com`. I have full access to `example.com` but I only have access to the content being displayed at `website.com`. I can do a redirect from `example.com` to `website.com` but that is not what I want. I can also just use an iframe at `example.com` but I was wondering if there is a better way to do this.


title: How to prevent Google from showing URLs in the description section of search results for my site

text: I have music website. There are 46 album pages and each page has different player and files. I just entered the one of album's URLs in a search engine. I found that Google is displaying player code in search result content. For example, enter this URL in Google and check the results. Each result displays a .mp3 file in content section. I see this: > This page contains a demo of and documentation for the new jPlayer Playlist > add-on, ... mp3:"http://www.jplayer.org/audio/mp3/Miaow-01-Tempered- > song.mp3", ... I don't want Google to show the player code and mp3 files in search result.   * How can I hide audio files and player code from search engine?    * What would be the best solution for it? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XA0Cx.png)


title: <center> is not supported in HTML5 but its still working. How?

text: `<center>` tag to make texts centered is not supported in HTML5 but its still working in the latest version of chrome. Is Chrome making up for the mistake or is it still supporting the deprecated tags along with the new HTML5 tags?


title: What is the best way to let Google know the difference between a Production, Development, and Staging environment?

text: We have three domain names with pretty close to duplicate content (they're Magento sites). We'll call them `production.com`, `development.com`, and `staging.com`. I have robots `no-index` on `development.com` and `staging.com`. I also have _htpasswds_ enabled. A Google search of these domains shows that they haven't been indexed. However, I'm starting to get phishing warnings from Chrome when I log in to the back end of the software. I need to stop this as soon as possible. If the warnings spread to the front- end, we're looking at pretty serious ramifications. I've looked in Google Webmaster Tools, but it isn't registering any issues. What is the best coarse of action? How do I get Chrome to stop thinking we're up to no good?


title: Can Joomla have a different URL for backend management?

text: My site will be maintained mostly by myself, and maybe 1 or 2 others. I want to know if it's possible if the back end can be managed from a different folder structure? ie. `www.example.com` <- user sees content here. `www.example.com/admin-portal/joomla/` <- backend here. Basically users will never know where the admin portal is.


title: SEO-wise is it better to have a catchphrase in a header or out of header?

text:
EDIT: In the original question I talked about spans in headers, but because of misguided answers I edited the question to better reflect the fact that the keyword is catchphrase not span. Thus the following reference is perhaps a bit obsolete, but I'll leave it here anyhow. N.B. Also though I talk of font size here the question is not about font size either. I'm aware of this: Is heading (h1, h2, h3...) font size relevant for SEO? and according to that font size does not matter. I've only mentioned font size to make it clear that the catchphrase is of lesser importance than the main header and that it is quite long, which would be impossible if it was displayed with your standard gigantic h1 letters. I noticed there is quite similar question, which says it's ok to have spans in headers: SEO of  in
 header If someone more knowledgeable regarding SEO could tell me which of these is better in SEO point of view or is there any difference: I presume Google will at some point penalise adding too much stuff in to the header?
       My cool header - A longer catchphrase complementing the header that with added markup is likely displayed with smaller font size
      vs something like this:

My cool header
       - A longer catchphrase complementing the header that with CSS styling is likely displayed with smaller font size


title: SPF record and problem sending email

text: ![kupissimo.com](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tne3Q.png) Is this correct setting for SPF record. Should i use double quotes or not in DATA part? Even with this I have problem rejecting emails from google:               host     gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400d:c00::1a] said: 550-5.7.1     [2a02:c200:0:10:3:2:843:1      12] Our system has detected that this     550-5.7.1 message is likely unsolicited mail. To reduce the amount of spam     sent 550-5.7.1 to Gmail, this message has been blocked. Please visit     550-5.7.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=188131     for 550 5.7.1 more information. 4si4196823qcl.68 - gsmtp (in reply to end     of DATA command)


title: Twitter vs. Facebook vs. Google+ in terms of influence on rankings.

text: Has anyone tested the effectiveness of social media signals from Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ as applied to influence on search engine rankings? For instance, is it better to have 100 +1's, or 100 Twitter mentions, or 100 Facebook likes?


title: Tracking referrals between profiles on the same domain in Google Analytics

text: I have a website at `mydomain.com` that uses Analytics. I have a blog that resides at `mydomain.com/blog/`, which also uses Analytics They are on different profiles. The main site uses something like: `_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-6']);` While the blog uses:               _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-7']);     _gaq.push(['_setCookiePath', '/blog/']);      My issues is that this seems not to track referrals from the blog through to the main site when, for instance, the logo which links to the main site is clicked. Ideally, I would like the clicks of this logo to report that the `source` was `mydomain.com/blog/`, but because they are at the same domain they seem to register as `direct` traffic. Have I missed a step in my configuration, or will I _have_ to resort to linking to something like `mydomain.com?ref=blog`? Thank you.


title: How do I transfer an expiring domain to a different person?

text: A while ago, me and a friend created a website together and he handled all the domain registration (with GoDaddy). Now, the domain registration is about to expire (in 2 weeks time) but my friend is not interested in working on the website and renewing the domain anymore. As a complete webmaster noob, my two biggest questions are:   * Is there a way for him to transfer the domain so that for now on I am the one in charge of it and I am the one responsible for renewing it? In particular, is there are difference between a trusted friend transferring the domain and arranging a transfer with a stranger?   * Do I need to keep using the same domain registrar or can I switch to another one? I don't really understand what would be the difference between them and I am confused because everything I searched for assumes that I already own the domain. I don't mind if the whole process takes a while to complete as the website is currently off the air anyways. My priority is keeping the domain name in the long run.


title: Can I use Google Analytics to show visits by browser as a percentage of total visits?

text: I would like to know if I can get a report from google analytics that can show me how Internet Explorer 8.0 (for example) usage as a percentage of total visits is trending over time. Even just the two columns of data would be fine. ie.                     Visits from IE 8.0    |      Total Visits     -------------------------------------------------     Jan          100            |          500     Feb          108            |          560     Mar          92             |          584     Apr          81             |          602


title: Mod rewrite is not working or doing anything

text: So I've used an online _.htaccess_ editor and it's not working for some reason on my test server, here's the content of my _.htaccess_ file.               RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^Page/([^/]*)/$ /?Page=$1 [L]      I have also enabled the _LoadModule_ `rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so` on my WAMP server. Any help is much appreciated. > [Fri Aug 09 12:46:10.130887 2013] [core:alert] [pid 1424:tid 1532] [client > 127.0.0.1:50725] C:/wamp/www/Website/.htaccess: RewriteRule: bad flag > delimiters EDIT: tried doing one on my own still having the same issue               Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^Page/([a-zA-Z]+)/([0-9]+)/$ index.php?Page=$1


title: Minimize downtime moving from godaddy to route 53

text: I have an A record in GoDaddy pointing to my web server. I want to move this now to Route 53. The last time I did this it took almost 48 hours to propagate. I think because of the order I did things. This is the process I think should hopefully minimize downtime:   1. Create hosted zone for my domain to get the 4 name servers that I'll use as my delgation set.   2. Add the 4 name servers to GoDaddy. GoDaddy has 2 other "Informational" name servers defined that look like you can't delete them?   3. Now in Route 53 add a record set. Create A record to IP of my web server.   4. Wait to see if dns propagation has happened. With dig?   5. Remove A record from GoDaddy. Will this process work with minimal or no downtime? Will dig tell me enough information to see that it is safe to remove the A record from GoDaddy?


title: HTML Lang ISO Code

text: I have a multi-language site for English and Chinese (Hong Kong). My previous setting for Chinese Hong Kong (zh-hk) had: `<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="zh-hk" xml:lang="zh-hk">` Shortly, I began to notice browser with other Chinese language sub-codes like zh-tw and zh-cn were seeing my English site in search engines instead of Chinese Hong Kong (zh-hk), which makes sense. I want to change my html lang to: `<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="zh" xml:lang="zh">` Would this cover all Chinese language settings? Also, would Google prefer to show pages that match language subcodes of the browser/country (zh-hk for Hong Kong, zh-cn for Taiwan) than a general language code (zh)?


title: Hacker Crawler inserting iframe into ftp file

text: Somehow, a "hacker crawler" is constantly inserting a harmful iframe-line into one of my files: It's done automatically, and not by a person, I assume. I've changed all my passwords several times as well as the CHMOD of the file, so I assume this is somehow done on my site. Any ideas how the crawler does this and how I can prevent it?


title: What things required to host a website at home

text: I have a Linux server runing Ubuntu. On it I've installed PHP, Mysql, and Apache. I need to host a site on my server having static IP, but I don't have any experience in web hosting. Can you please tell me that what are the things are required to host a site? I suspect I need web space and an IP address. Can you please also tell me which is the best hosting plans available in UK market for a beginner? I read somewhere **if we are using non-fixed IP it takes 24 hrs to change DNS** is this correct?


title: How to create a temporary staging server on my home machine

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What things required to host a website at home I want to create a temporary staging server which can be accessed (i.e. via browser) by other people that I want to show the website to (a business partner who is half way accross the world). IIRC, my ISP issues dynamic addresses so I may need to register with a (DNS server?) - not sure about this. Although I'm a software developer, I don't know much about the hardware side of things - and would appreciate help in getting me setup so I can show a website to a business partner. Here are the relevant details: Web server: Apache 2.2 OS: Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS modem/router: ZyXel P-600


title: Traffic lost by 40% but shown increasing in WMT

text: Around 30 days back my site lost traffic about 40%. I guess it is most likely due to algorithmic/ranking issues. But if I see my "Search Queries" with change in the WMT I see all green and ever increasing without any red's. All the 7000 or so search keywords have infinity increase in change position. Has Google lost the historical search keyword data for my site? Here is copy of those stats. My site is around 3 years old. I'm bit confused as to how to interpret it ... ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/n88EM.jpg)


title: Canonical URLs in sortable paginated lists

text: How should one use `rel="canonical"` in sortable paginated lists? An unsorted list of products is not the same as the same list sorted, nor are lists sorted in different ways equivalent. For example, compare:   * `http://www.example.com/desktops?sort=p.price&order=ASC&limit=5&page=2` with   * `http://www.example.com/desktops?sort=p.price&order=DESC&limit=5&page=2` These are two very different pages, but they have the same canonical URL. Surely this is incorrect?


title: What is a good Microdata method for listing a list of events?

text: I have a list of events that change over time, so items get added while others drop off after their dates expire. For point of reference, they are conventions. I've never used microdata before and would like to lay out the page correctly. Should the whole page be an `itemscope` or the individual entries? Because if you look at this example:               <div itemscope itemtype="http://www.domain.org/events">      The URL that has the events list is `events` just like that example. If you have each entry with that URL , wouldn't that be a major mistake? So I am assuming `itemscope` should be used for the entire page of entries? If that's right, what tag should I use instead of `itemscope` to identify each entry in the list of events?


title: Business operates in multiple counties, will adding a listing in the Local Business sites harm our placement in SERPs?

text: I work at a non-profit where we operate in more than two counties within our state. Our offices are located in two different towns, and that leaves a few counties of operation where we would also like to appear in their local SERPs or Local Business listings. Please note that these towns are **_not_** necessarily close to all the areas of operation. Since we don't have offices in all the counties of operation, how can we effectively post our business in the Local Business Listings and still show up in our counties of operation?


title: How do keyword spellings in domains and titles affect search engine optimization?

text: Just had a quick question about the spellings of words in domain names and how search engines like Google interpret them: So for example, if I had a site based on up to the minute deals on various products and called it `livedeals.co.uk`, how would the key wording of the word "live" be affected in:               www.livedeals.co.uk - Lived Eals or Live Deals      Also, is "UK" in `.co.uk` picked up as a keyword too?


title: Do pushState and popState affect SEO?

text: I was creating my own Ajax-based website which means almost all of my data will be fetched via Ajax from the server and I started to have concerns about my site's SEO. I am using popState and pushState methods after I was reading This Article and this one. As far as I can tell, these methods manipulate the history method of a window object so we can change the address-bar information. But `will these methods affect the SEO of the site?`


title: Index a 301 Redirect to help a user locate a page

text: On a site I'm currently working on, there is a 301 Redirect to redirect a nice short URL for users to type in when trying to find a particular piece of content - e.g. www.mydomain.com/apply -> www.mydomain.com/some/application/page To my knowledge, it is best practice to use a 301 redirect here - the content is located in just one position and we want that page to be ranked accordingly. I've been told that "quite often" users who want to visit the site mistakenly enter the URL into the search bar of the browser instead of the address bar. The search result will just return a link to the site, but not that particular page, so they then click through and just reach out homepage and get confused. They have asked whether we can index that page so that it appears in the search result, so the users can click on it there. My initial reaction is to be against this. As far as I am aware, it is bad practice to try and force an index of a 301 Redirect, isn't it? Is it even possible, how do you do it? I've tried looking into this and it sounds a bit similar to a "doorway" page, but rather than the aim here being to try and fake our way into a better page ranking, it is to make sure the user can find our site in this 1 specific search. I'm currently of the opinion that we shouldn't try to bend the rules to cater for this specific scenario, but I'm struggling to think of alternatives that will also help the situation. What if we assumed that the page rankings for the true content page are not important, and general users wouldn't search for it anyway, but we didn't want to harm page rankings of the whole site in general?


title: Google App Engine Socket API

text: I'm calling a URL to get json data from another web site in my Google App Engine application. Then i received bellow message. > The Socket API will be enabled for this application once billing has been > enabled in the admin console So i decided to enable billing. but i have a question. For Mail API, we can send 100 messages for a day for free. Like this Is there any Free Default Limit for Socket API ?


title: How to handle pages that requires the use of session cookie?

text: I have a search page that uses session to track search criteria made by the user. A session cookie is created automatically when the page is launched. As bots do not use cookie, 1000s of sessions could be created when they crawl, thereby wasting server resources. There are a few solutions which I can think of, but with corresponding side effects:   1. List this page in robot.txt file, but this would affect SEO for the page.   2. Check the user agent against a blacklist of known robots before deciding whether to start the session. The list could be very large.   3. Set a test cookie and do a page redirection to check for the presence of the cookie before starting a session? This means loading the same page twice.   4. Do away with anonymous sessions and put all criteria in the URL using GET to retrieve them? But this means that I have to verify ALL criteria each time a minor change occur. What would be a good way to handle this problem?


title: Blog commenting for SEO, Good Or Bad?

text: Many people suggest and do follow the strategy of commenting on related niche blogs with links to their own sites. Is this legitimate and a good way for SEO? Or it has some harmful side as well?


title: Does changing phone numbers in content just for bots qualify as cloaking?

text: I'm a small business owner (I run a little computer repair shop), and I'm attempting to track calls to my store from different advertising channels. I use three separate tracking phone numbers: one for my PPC campaigns, one for newspaper ads, and my "official" one that I use in web directories and on my site. I have extremely good NAP consistency across the web. My problem is that I can't tell the difference between a call that comes from a search engine and a call that comes from a directory because the phone number is the same in both places. Could I detect when a human being (i.e., **not** a bot) is organically visiting my site and swap out the NAP-consistent tracking phone number with a separate "organic" tracking phone number? Or could Google consider this cloaking and penalize me for it?


title: Wampserver2.2 suddenly stopped working

text: I have been using wampserver2.2 for several months, and today it just stopped working. Yesterday It was working, and today not. I didn't install any programs and didn't touch any files of Wampserver2.2. Normally I am developing a drupal site on my localhost. Now I cannot connect to localhost. So:   * the menu icon on the bottom-right stays red no matter how much I restart.    * When I right click and click : "Put Online", it says : "Could not execute menu item (internal error) [Exception] Could not perform service action: The service has not started"    * I am not running skype or any other program that would use port:80. In fact, when I click on the Wamp server icon -> Apache -> Service -> Test Port 80 it says: "Your port 80 is not actually used." Any ideas?


title: Transfer of Domain When Hosting Site No Longer Exists

text: I've a question about transferring a domain onto another hosting provider. I've bought a domain from managedphp.com with registrar from Enom, Inc. I would like to get hosting from another provider and keep the same domain name--the problem is the old provider does not exist anymore and there is no way to provide credentials. On top of that when I whois the domain it says status _locked_. How to I claim ownership of the domain name if the hosting provider where I had my credentials is down?


title: CMS or HTML/CSS Template for programmer without design ability?

text: I'm a web programmer - fluent in PHP, MySQL and Javascript as well. The problem is I'm a terrible designer - I cannot design a website to save my life. This is a major hindrance for projects where the budget does not allow hiring a designer. I need to build a website for which I need to have a user registration form, login, a member area etc. Is there any CMS that is flexible enough to allow me to do that - add my own MySQL tables, PHP scripts, user authentiacation system etc? I'd only need the CMS for the sake of being able to use pre-designed themes. Or would you advise not going with a CMS in this case, and going with a HTML/CSS template?


title: How to transfer a file from one domain to another domain?

text: How can I transfer large files from `old-domain.com`(old-host) to `new- domain.com`(new-host)? Is it possible to transfer it without downloading the files from my old-host to my local pc? I have an FTP details of both.


title: Create a search for my HTML and CSS site that runs without an internet connection or database?

text: I have a website that I have written out in plain old HTML and CSS, and want to integrate a search function into it. However, the site is meant to be run offline, from host machines in their local web browsers (i.e. without an internet connection). I realize that I could easily integrate a search using a mySQL database, though that would require everyone to have a mySQL database running on their computer with the proper data. I was wondering if it would be possible to integrate a search box that wouldn't need to connect to a database (or at least one that didn't require an AMP stack running on each user's local machine). I have searched around and haven't been able to find a solution to a similar problem. The search doesn't have to be simple, just something that would be able to present the titles of HTML pages in a list (I don't need the content of each HTML document to be searched, just the titles of each page). I was thinking there might be some way to return the titles and descriptions of each page for the search either using each page's `<meta>` tags, or by having a plain text document at the site root with a listing of all of the pages. Any help would be greatly appreciated!


title: Trade off: Lower the number of URLs in sitemap from 43k to 23k or update the sitemap.xml only weekly basis

text: we rewrote the sitemap creation process. Now the sitemap contains 43.000 URLs. 20k more than before. We have daily changing in URLs. The script that is creating the complete sitemap takes more than 30h. So we can not build it every day. Lets say that increasing the speed of the script is not possible. What should I do? A: Stay with the 23k URLs and update it daily B: Increase number of URLs to 43k and update it weekly


title: What is the precise term for serving internal URLs to external ones?

text: Consider URLs to a public API:               https://api.example.com/items     https://api.example.com/add     https://api.example.com/remove     ...      Internally, the calls are being served from local URLs, for example: `1.2.3.4:8080/get_items`. In order to hide the internal URLs, there is a middleware that fetches the data from the internal URls and serves it to the external ones. **What is the proper name for the middleware that fetches the information from the internal URL and serves it to the public API?** "Proxy" seems to general, and "URL rewriter" seems too narrow.


title: Google Analytics event based goal conversion rate

text: I use Google Universal Analytics and track many events on my website. I have defined an **event based goal** , based on the 'user signed in' event. When looking at the reports, I figured that the goal conversion rate is calculated as:               (number of 'user signed in' events) / (total number of unique events)        1. Is that really the way the rate is calculated? Since I have many unrelated events on my site, the conversion rate is meaningless   2. How exactly are unique events calculated?   3. What I'm trying to track is the number of unique visits in which the user signed in. Is there a proper way to track it (preferably without creating fake pageviews)?


title: Is there any way to get data from Google Analytics Per Page Visit

text: I am using Google Analytics to track visitors of my website. I also want to track IP address of the visitor but Google doesn't allow this. Now I am thinking that I must save IP address of the visitor on my database before sending visit information to Google Analytics. So when I retrieve information I can glue the IP address with visit information. **But** when I query to Google Analytics using following code:                  $optParams = array(             'dimensions' => 'ga:browser,ga:fullReferrer,ga:source,ga:keyword,ga:campaign,ga:customVarValue1,ga:customVarValue2'             );         return $analytics->data_ga->get(                 'ga:' . $profileId, '2013-07-16', '2013-07-20', 'ga:visits',$optParams);       It is returning data like this:               [rows] => Array         (             [0] => Array                 (                     [0] => Chrome                     [1] => (direct)                     [2] => (direct)                     [3] => (not set)                     [4] => (not set)                     [5] => 1366                     [6] => 667                     [7] => 2                 )                  [1] => Array                 (                     [0] => Firefox                     [1] => (direct)                     [2] => (direct)                     [3] => (not set)                     [4] => (not set)                     [5] => 1366                     [6] => 596                     [7] => 1                 )                  [2] => Array                 (                     [0] => Internet Explorer                     [1] => (direct)                     [2] => (direct)                     [3] => (not set)                     [4] => (not set)                     [5] => 1366                     [6] => 673                     [7] => 1                 )              )      It is returning data with respect to browser vise. I want data returned with respect to visit vise means every index of row object should be with respect to each visit so that I can make my ip information saved on my local and visit information returned by Google together in report. Is there any way to do it?


title: Purpose of hidden text in website

text:
While observing the source of the Swiss airlines website, I noticed the use of hidden text. I first looked it up on Google and found many SEO-related benefits but also the risk of negative scoring in search engine algorithms. The text being hidden on Swiss.com though doesn't look SEO related, e.g.:
navigation

Skiplinks
      So my question is what is the purpose of hidden text if not SEO trickery? Could it be accessibility related?


title: Is a partial or incomplete sitemap damaging to SEO?

text: Do you lose any SEO juice by submitting sitemaps that are incomplete? **Example scenario:** Submitting a sitemap that contains _only_ your First Click Free content (because it's not linked anywhere from your site, and thus not crawlable). I want to make sure doing this won't somehow negatively impact my other content that is crawlable and being indexed "naturally".


title: How can I slice parallelogram shapes to HTML/CSS?

text: I have to slice website design to HTML/CSS. Main navigation menu looks like below: ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/1hq3Y.png) I am beginner webdeveloper and I don't know how to slice this design into compatible and cross-browser code. How these parallelogram shaped items should be sliced? There are also hover and selected states so I would probably use CSS sprites for that, but main problem for me are these parallelograms.


title: What's the best way to handle multiple sites on a shared server?

text: I'm on a shared server (via LunarPages), and I also host a few low-impact sites for a few small businesses. I recently had a problem (blocked crawlers by messing with the internal settings) that made the sites unable to be indexed by search. I have since removed the directory restrictions and let search crawl my entire site, but I do not want these other sites to be seen as parts of my main site. (in other words, `jojo.com` should be `jojo.com`, never `mysite.com/jojo`)


title: How do I analyse clicks on duplicate links in a page with google analytics?

text: At the moment in google Analytics when I view the in-page analytics section it shows the % of what's clicked on a page. Different links that go to the same page are currently registered as the 'same' link, for obvious reasons. What's the best way to separate the two so I can see which link is being used more? Is there any way to do this with GA without changing any code?


title: Forbidden 403 error on Google AdSense requests

text: I have created a new website and have set some ads. For some unknown reason, FireBug tells me that I get 403 errors on Google Adsense requests. I have checked my AdSense account and it does not block my new website. When I open the pages from my PC, the ads are displayed, but I when I try from the website itself, they are not. I can't find much relevant information with Googling. Does anyone have experience with this? Do you know what is happening? Does it go away by itself? I have also left a question on the Google forum, but did not get an answer yet. Thanks!


title: Marketing a comics and artwork website

text: I've recently launched a comics website, Hitting Trees with Sticks, but am having trouble getting it off the ground. I've seen other similar "marketing how-to's" questions, but none geared torwards a pure content sharing website. I've been using paid Facebook advertising as my primary means of gaining an audience, and growth has been nice and steady, but it's not getting me to where I want to be. The facebook page has 53k fans, but many of them aren't that engaged with my work, or post gibberish comments. **In addition, I've tried tactics such as:**   * Improving SEO with proper meta tags, links, titles, and other techniques.   * Reaching out to local town and college newspapers But those don't seem to be getting the attention I'd like... I feel like doing local things like that is futile if I want to gain the virality I'm looking for. I think the best way is to focus on SEO-related things and other web- marketing strategies. Then I thought it might be because the content of the comics just isn't that funny... but everyone I've asked think they are good and wonder "hmm, not sure why more people aren't liking them". **So, I am considering the following tactics:**   * Create a youtube video where I act out some of my comics (I feel like Youtube videos naturally gain a lot more attention than anything else)   * Post each new comic on all of the social sites- like reddit, 4chan, facebook, twitter, etc...   * Going around to local stores with flyers promoting the site   * I'm completely redesigning my site... many people have said it's far too "1990's". So I'm redesigning as such: http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/31704/how-to-not-make-my-website-have-a-1990s-look   * I will be adding liking & commenting to my site to drive traffic Any ideas for a person in my shoes?


title: free or cheap Email hosting service for up to 10 users for custom domain

text: Considering Google Apps is no longer free as of recently, are there any similar services? I know of Zoho Mail, which is free for up to 3 users. However, I don't like their interface. If not free, any very cheap services which one can recommend?


title: Most Popular Fonts used in  Webpages and their Fallbacks?

text: This is a two part question, the second question is dependent on the first:   1. What are the most popular fonts used on web pages? (the top half dozen will suffice).   2. Include the proper CSS fallbacks for the above fonts. The reason I ask is that I have to build a form that will allow webmasters to choose a CSS font from a drop-down menu. The site will take the chosen string (fonts with respective fallbacks) from a database and insert it (via php) into aspects of a page. **Edit** : Just passing this on. Although not scientific in its approach to what constitutes 'popular' fonts and respective fallback combinations, this was a helpful starting point: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.asp


title: DNS errors in Google Webmaster Tools

text: I've been trying to get rid of this DNS error for about a week now but I can't seem to wrap my head around it. The website is `herbelixirs.com`. The Google Webmaster Tools screen shot is below. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/kxkYk.png) The DNS errors are below. http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=herbelixirs.com ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/DIwjs.png) Can someone tell me what this means and what I can do about it?


title: Delimiter character for keywords meta tag

text: I'm sorry, I searched this site, but couldn't find the answer to my question, in spite of it being so trivial. I'm working on a CMS which get's keywords from end user, which means that they are totally dynamic for each page. I get each keyword separately. What delimiter characters should I use to include those keywords in `<meta name='keywords'` element? Second question is, can I use space in my keywords? For example, can I have this meta tag element:               <meta name='keywords' content='first keywords, second keyword with space, third keyword with space and another space' />


title: Removing preview DNS from Google Index

text: I just discovered that Google have indexed the preview version of my site with a subdomain `previewdns.com` appended to my actual domain. I need to remove those URL's from the search index. How can I do so?


title: Publishing A Graphic Novel Online?

text: My employer runs a writing contest every year. Every year we publish the top three results in each category to our website. No big deal. This year, a category has been added for a graphic novel. What standards and best practises are out there for publishing this to our site? I'm assuming a PDF would be terrible for accessibility. My gut instinct is just to scan it and put up JPGs. Would I be best to transcribe the text into paragraphs, or just leave it as alt text? Any help would be appreciated. **UPDATE:** I think my final solution is going to have bits of pieces of the answers below.   * Options for both view and download   * Download will fire up a PDF for people looking for print quality   * View will option a new window/tab with the header stripped down to just corporate branding.   * View will have a full page JPG of the current page, and toggles for naving back and forth.   * View will also have plain text, paragraph based explanation of the scene(s) on the page. This text will be hidden from browsers with CSS.   * View images will have alt text just defining what the image is (IE title and page). I believe this will cover all of the bases, while still being relatively pain free to post.


title: IE color: transparent; question

text: I'm working on a project where I have to override both embedded styles and primary style sheets in order to change a design. I've got everything working in all the main browsers/versions except for a submit button where the client wants a specific image for the button. I'm using background url to bring in the image, but there is "submit" text in the html that can't be removed from the template because we don't have access. I set color to transparent but it still displays text over the button in IE is there any way to remove this text via css? Thanks in advance for any help.


title: Why aren't we supposed to use <table> in a design?

text: What are some clear and logical reasons for why we shouldn't be designing websites with tables? Where are the benefits, what has been driving this idea in the industry? When is it okay to use a table?


title: "Search Friendly" domain names

text: We bought a few search friendly domain names for the CPA site that I manage. Each of the domains we bought has the name of a nearby city and the word cpa in front of, or behind the city name. The plan is to create a landing page for each of these domains with useful information about business filings, ect. specific to that city, as well as directions to our office from that city. The question is how to best utilize these new domains:   * Should each domain be set to a 301 redirect to mainsite.com/city ?   * Should each domain be it's own single page mini-site that links to mainsite.com ?   * What other options are there and what are the pros/cons? Remember the goal is to be more relevant in searches that use a nearby city name in their search for CPA/accounting services.


title: How to assign foo.example.com to one IP address and example.com to a different one?

text: Say that I have a domain name called `example.com` and two server located at 2 different IP addresses: `1.2.3.4` and `6.7.8.9`. How could I assign `example.com` to `1.2.3.4` and the subdomain `foo.example.com` to `6.7.8.9`? [EDIT] I did try to put a A record linking from `@` to the first IP address and from `foo.example.com` to the second IP address, as illustrated below: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/02vkc.png) And I did configure a vhosts called `foo.example.com` on my server at IP address 2. The `@` record works. But after 3 hours waiting for the result (DNS delay), nothing happened with `foo.example.com`, which link to nothing. Why?


title: Authentication system brainstorm

text: We got multiple small websites (microsites) and one main high traffic one with big users base. Right now the requirement is to build authentication system which should allow users to loign with the same identity across the network. All website are running on different domains, powered by Drupal 6 CMS and have separate databases (so sharing tables with prefix is not an option + it creates a huge mess in the db). Here is the set of core requirements I came up with:   1. Users should be able to login with the same credentials to all sites within the network   2. User’s data sharing between Main site (storage) and all micro sites within the network   3. Data synchronization across the network when user changes the data (update email or password for example)   4. The login/registration process should be seamless and consistent   5. Register on any of the sites across the network and use that identity to login later on.  In the future there might be a need to add openid authentication options. Basically we are looking at something similar stackexchange does, but not sure if they have central users base on not. I was thinking about custom solution which will include 2 parts (modules), one will be stored on the Main site for users data storing and responding to requests from clients. Second part (module) will be placed on each microsite, which is going to send requests to the Master. Some kind of client - server setup. One of the complications I see right away is #3. Data Synhcronization across the network. I just don't want to reinvent the wheel and maybe some work is already done in this direction. Looking forward to your ideas on how to approach this project. EDIT: We use MySQL database


title: How to track lead/conversion origins

text: I've had a problem a couple times recently: a user has signed up for my product (http://sniphq.com) but I don't know exactly how the user found my site. Is there a way, perhaps through Google Analytics, to see something like the following for each conversion?   1. Referred by Google search term "salon software"   2. Visited blog post "Why salon software?"   3. Visited Sign Up page   4. Created account


title: Is there a professional name for deciding which information should to be show in a website, it's not IA

text: It's not IA(information architecture). cos IA decide how to organize information, not to decide which information should be show in a website.


title: Migrate ASP.Net web site from IIS6 to IIS7

text: I have to migrate an ASP.Net web site from IIS6 to IIS7. I tried to copy the all files for a web site from IIS6 (c:\inetpub\wwwroot\MySite) to another box with Windows Server 2008 R2 where IIS7 is the default web server. However, the simply copy seems not working. Should I rebuild the web site for IIS7 or should I make changes on the new box with IIS7 such as web.config? Thanks for the comments. Further investigation I found that http handers seems caused exception:               <!--httpHandlers>       <add path="Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd" verb="*"          type="Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.HttpHandler, Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"          validate="false"/>     </httpHandlers-->      After I comment out the above handler in web.config, the web page works fine. This is just my initial test. I am not sure if I should rebuild the web site from source codes or not. If so, do I need to specify for IIS7?


title: IIS 6 405 error when POSTing through I-Frame

text: Before I begin, I must add that I am more of a programmer, so please be patient :p I have a 2003 server running IIS 6. I am trying to create a Facebook application that accesses a url on my server through an I-Frame. However, Facebook is trying to send some data via POST to my page. I assumed it wouldn't be a problem since the page is .html, but I keep receiving 405 errors (Incorrect Verbs) when trying to access it. Since these are generated by IIS, I had hoped there would be a way for me to allow html files to accept POST. However, after a lot of Googling, it seems like that isn't possible, so instead I figure I can convert the page to an aspx one, and that should work... however I am running in to the same issue. I thought that simply adding POST to the .aspx entry in Application Extension Mapping would work, but it still doesn't. Does anyone know what the problem could potentially be?


title: Updating/Redesign website...how to retain/transfer ranking?

text: What steps do I have to take in order to make sure that I keep my search engine rankings after I redesign or update my site?


title: User registration usability vs security

text: What are cons and pros of the following:   * asking to repeat password   * asking to have a certain length-password   * asking to repeat e-mail address   * using captcha   * sending confirmation e-mail what do you think is the best way - to have those above or not? I'm especially interested in the last one. Take into account that it is necessary for the web-site to have user's real e-mail address.


title: I need some suggestion: Starting a portal for a local medical community

text: There is a Medical Community in our town that I would like to approach to build a web portal for them. It could be free or they could pay me for it. Honestly, I'm really after of the community that will be growing on the web. User can interact with other user more efficiently, so since it's a health related community a lot of people can benefit of the information that will be generated by the community(most of them are doctors). The content can be in a form of a blog post or forum discussion. Now my plan to get a revenue for this is I will put some ads on the site. Few question in mind are: I assume they would like to get the portal free and not expecting the site to earn. They would just like to have a website were they can interact with the community/people. That I think would be their main goal, Since most of them are not into web. Should I approach them to do a partnership or similar? (they get a slice of what the site earn ) or Not giving them a slice, What would you suggest? What would be proper? I need some advice If that would be a good approach, If you have some better ideas, I would like to hear it. Thanks! -- Please excuse me if this is not the right section to post.


title: Can you add doubleclick macros to exisiting ads

text: **Setup:** A few weeks back I made some very simple html5 "ads" to run on a few of our partner sites. They weren't paid ads as we also manage these sites, however there are a few of them, so I made a modular solution that is hosted on one of our web servers and included on each page via javascript which outputs an iframe. Each search (ad has a search box) or click appends a url param that we track using custom vars in Google Analytics. _In essence, the ad is a HTML page served in an iframe via javscript._ **Problem:** We have an opportunity to run these ads on a third party site, I had sent them a brief how-to for inserting them and they came back saying that: > The creative code doesn't contain the %u macro. We can’t substitute the > default click-through URL without it. I am somewhat familiar with doubleclick from a web developer's POV, i have inserted DC dart tags before and even have implemented the ad tool for publishers. I have not, however, actually ever created an ad for the doubleclick network before. I assume the publisher needs these tags to track clicks and hence charge us. However, they have not responded to me in regards to these questions. Are macros something I can just add to or replace the existing links with, or do I need to completely setup the ad with doubleclcik - a big issue in the short term given we do not have a advertiser's account set up with them. Thanks in advance


title: Nesting Schema itemtypes: Article and Person

text:
On a press page I'm using microdata itemtype="Article". I tried to add an itemtype="Person" nested within Article but it did not validate Google's structured-data Tester * * *

The Person teams up with THE Company to support The Cause

Lorem ipsumfloral designer and model and mom more text


title: Daily / Monthly websites backups?

text: Do you usually perform a daily backup of websites of small local business ? Isn't a monthly backup more appropriate ?


title: Should I jump straight into HTML 5 and CSS 3 from minimum knowledge of HTML?

text: I first learned HTML a long time ago, from the Visual Quickstart guide in 1999, HTML 4 for the World Wide Web. Though I have a grasp of fundamental concepts of HTML, my knowledge of CSS is woefully bare. As far as learning goes, should I jump straight to learning HTML5 and CSS3? Would learning those technologies be backwards-compatible enough, or would this cause problems because I may be using tags that are not yet supported by a majority of current browsers? And if so, which version of HTML/CSS/XHTML/DHTML would be most useful nowadays?


title: How can I create a 301 redirect with non-English characters in the URL?

text: I would like to do 301 redirect from `http://www.test.de/kollektion/b%C3%BCgel%20bh` to `http://www.test.de/bhs/bugel-bhs+balconette`. I tried to create a redirection rule, but it's not working even though I converted `%C3%BCgel%20bh` into ASCII code.


title: Firefox stalls on rendering when chrome doesn't

text: I have a webpage that loads quickly 100% of the time in chrome, but only 10% or so of the time in Firefox. Looking at the fiddler capture, Firefox only loads 2 of the 100ish files being pulled before it hangs. The error does not seem to be on the server or network side, however, because Chrome never encounters a problem. How do I find the root of this stall? While I suspect Firefox's javascript execution is what is causing the hang, are there any particular methods to narrow down the search for the bad code?


title: SEO: many small pages or only one big?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO one longer page vs. several targeted subpages? Is is better to have just one big page with nice descriptions of products, or just one small page with link to small pages that have, each, one description of one product? Of course you may think: what a dumb question! Of course the more pages you have the better! What I mean is: if the pages of your products are very small, and the main page is very small too, maybe google will ignore it or flag it as useless (or whatever) **whereas** a nice and big page has still the potential to be properly indexed by google. What do you think?


title: page load wait time on my machine is 55ms but on test websites like pingdom.com it is 1.5 seconds, why would this happen?

text: When I analyze the website's page load speed in Chrome I can see the wait time (where the return response files of the sever are being generated) is 55ms and total page load time is 1 second or much less. When I run the test via `https://www.pingdom.com/`, `http://gtmetrix.com/`, or the Google speed test tool, the wait time is 1.8 seconds or more and total page load time is 3 seconds or more. The page is fully cached and the cache has been warmed. Any ideas on why this would happen? The efforts I have made so Google would see my site as fast loading will be lost. Please don't comment about all other optimization tips like gzip and minifying css files. I am purely asking about the wait time and/o its effects on ttfb.


title: Traffic drops after changing to UK server

text: Because my website has some traffic, I moved it to other server (from US to UK). The UK server is Fasthosts. But the traffic suddenly drops:   ![capture](http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/7043/graphdg.png) Lots of my traffic comes from search engines. All my websites (3 websites) hosted in this UK server get less traffic than in US. Ping from US gives great response. What happened? Does search engine prioritizing US server more than UK?


title: Redirect incomplete URL to index page

text: I want to redirect specific URLs to the index page not to 404 error page (ex: `http://www.website.com/trip-15`). If I remove any character from the URL it will go to 404 error page (ex: `http://www.website.com/trip-1`). I want to redirect it to the index page. Any help?


title: Can DFP slots be parameterized?

text: I am using Doubleclick For Publishers (small business) for serving ads on a news website. I want to server a certain ad only an article pages for a certain category. With openX I created a zone per category but I think this is very inflexible. Is it possible to parameterize a slot? Like calling `GA_googleFillSlot(SLOT_NAME, CATEGORY);` and parameterize a banner to be viewed in slot SLOT_NAME with category CATEGORY?


title: positioning <div> to create layout

text:
So the HTML is divided using divs obviously               ...
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title: How Do You Store Website Backups?

text: I'm not that great about backing up my site, which is something I want to improve on. Currently, I save backups of my site on my local computer and on an external thumb drive. I was thinking of purchasing some online storage so I could store my website backups there instead. I'd like to hear about what everyone here does for website backups, thanks.


title: What is the advantage of increasing "maximum worker processes" in IIS?

text: What is the advantage of upping the "Maximum Worker Processes" from the default of 1 in IIS? Given that it seems any worker process can reply to a request from a single client (ie they are not assigned a client) and that session variables are only accessible from the process they were created in, in what situation would it be advantageous to increase this setting? I ask because one of my web applications was having all sorts of issues with session variables (random logging out etc) - it turns out a server tech had upped this to 4, thinking he was doing good. Returned it to 1 and the application is happy.


title: How do you get your Google+ profile displayed in the right hand sidebar of the Google search results page?

text: Does anyone know how to get your Google+ profile displayed in the right hand sidebar of the Google search results page? As in the screenshot below: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Lk1fW.png)


title: Nameserver Issues

text: I have a dedicated server on which I host my websites via cpanel. The domain registrar is a uk hosting company. Now, I want to move to a cloud VMware server with another company. My server and cpanel has been set up. I have a problem with moving my nameservers. How do I transfer the nameservers on my old dedicated server to my new cloud server?


title: Do I own a registered domain?

text: A couple of years ago I entered (as a silent partner) into a business. I was asked if I could get a website up and running, which included registering the domain. We have since parted ways but the original partnership and subsequent dissolution failed to consider ownership of of the domain and hosting. It is all a part of my personal hosting plan and I registered the domain. I no longer want to host their site as I don't feel I should have to. Why should I? I have nothing more to do with the business. I also do not want to let go of the domain names without compensation. Am I able to sell the domain(s) back to the remaining partners for a profit?


title: .com.au backordered domain: do I have to return it if the original owner asks for it?

text: I was contacted by the original owner of a domain to give him the domain that I backordered a few weeks ago. The domain was abandoned for about 2 months before I bought it to eliminate the competition of my client but now I am faced with a threat that he will take this matter to court and AUDA (`.au` domain administration limited). Am I supposed to handover the domain that I have bought legally? I would like to know my rights in this situation.


title: track browse history of your visitors

text: I would like to know, what the typical behavior of users on my website is. So I need to track a bunch of stuff, like what pages each user visits, than save them in a database and be able to view the information on a user to user basis. eg User32111: first visit 1.2.2013 - left the site after 15 sec second visit .... etc I know google analytics can give you traffic reports but can it also break it down, like which IP/cookie holder did what on the site? This would be useful to work out a typical user workflow and enhance usability accordingly. But I am not sure if Analytics can do it out of the box, or I need to program my own.


title: HTTPS Causes Broken Back Links?

text: If I change my URL to force `https` does this effect all of my backlinks to be broken and to be lost one by one? And if so if I change it back will it will this restore the back links on the site? Any advice for this is very appreciated.


title: Redirect pages to fix crawl errors

text: Google is giving me a crawl error for pages that I have removed like `www.mysite.com/mypage.html`. I want to redirect this pages to the new page `www.mysite.com/mysite/mypage`. I tried to do that by using _.htaccess_ but instead of fixing the problem, the crawl pages increased and a new crawl came `www.mysite.com/www.mysite.com`. This is my _.htaccess_ file:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /sitename/     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /sitename/index.php [L]     </IfModule>     # END WordPress      Should I add this after the rewrite rule or I should do something else?               RewriteRule ^pagename\.html$ http://www.sitename.com/pagename [R=301]


title: Teamcity configuration on iis

text: I'm pretty new for this Plesk think. Today i have brought a domain and a vps. Vps came with plesk installed. I added my Example.com ci.example.com (as subdomain) domains to plesk and my iis. When i disable example.com from plesk panel i can acces the website trought iis witch is what i want to do. The problem is i can't access my teamcity (an application) with my ci.example.com subdomain. I have done what is told in this url When i try to access ci.example.com it's showing plesk default page even when it's disabled in plesk panel. I need some help about configuring it. If i add ci.example.com to iis as website, i'm getting 403.1 error (default error when iis website is empty)


title: SEO Optimized image only links

text: In a website I'm developing the client wishes to use certain icons as links to different sections of their site. I'm currently working on Search Engine Optimization and would like to still provide text inside the `<a>` tags without the text being visible. This would let the Search engine index the links. I've read somewhere that using a `text-indentation` CSS hack actually hurts your Google Search Ranking however I have no proof of this. Is it safe to use a `text-indent` CSS hack to hide this text or is there a more SEO friendly way of providing image only links with hidden text content?


title: How to do SEO for web application?

text: I have developed a website which is like a web application. A user must log-in to visit/view other pages. I want the login page to be the only one found by Google. The SEO guidelines that I found online are more for blogs or websites which have many open pages. I'm not sure how to proceed. A search for my website name on Google shows the description on the GoDaddy page stating "click here to find out how to purchase this domain name."


title: Drop-down menu: alternative to Superfish?

text: In the past, I have been relying on Superfish to build navigation on public sites. Superfish is a solid plugin and is very useful when you need to support older browsers. However its intricated css is hard to customize. Are there other plugins that offer drop-down navigation and would be easier to customize? At this point I wouldn't care if they don't support IE 6 or IE 7.


title: Hosting Plans Search?

text: I'm searching for hosting plans with certain attributes such as memory, drive space and bandwidth limits. The information appears to be scattered around the Internet. A while ago I did find a hosting search engine that allowed you to put in different attributes you require, but I can't seem to find it now. Does anyone know sites that do this?


title: Where is this traffic coming from, and how can I block it in Google Analytics?

text: We're seeing Google Analytics report a huge amount of hits and large drop rate on some of our pages, but investigating this further reveals more questions than answers. For instance, one page is reported to have over 1000 hits this month, but in our database (Magento) we only see 6 hits. When I look into the Apache access log, I do see many GETs for this URL, but they all have a referrer like this: `http://dp.g.doubleclick.net/apps/domainpark/domainpark.cgi?client=dp- oversee17_3ph_xml&channel=001071&hl=en&adtest=off&max_radlink_len=20&r=m&fexp=21404&domain_name=hcartoon.com&optimize_terms=off&terms=Cartoon%2C%20Flash%20Animation%2C%20Caricature%2C%20Cartoon%20Picture%2C%20Free%20Animated%20Ecards%2C%20Cartoon%20Animation%2C%20Funny%20Posters%2C%20Cartoon%20Clip%20Art%2C%20Cartoonist%2C%20Toons%2C%20Cartoonist%2C%20Toons%2C%20Funny%20Picture%2C%20Cartoon%20Posters%2C%20Caricatures%2C%20Cartoonists%2C%20Toon%2C%20Business%20Cartoons&drid=as- drid-` And it goes on... I'm assuming it is a feeble attempt to DDoS, but that's not the question, I'll save that for a different SE. Could this be skewing our Google Analytics numbers? If so, how can we sanitize Google Analytics so that these types of GETs aren't counted? EDIT: We do not use AdWords. We do have an AdWords account set up but have never utilized it. I traced the logged IP addresses to various places outside the U.S. like Sri Lanka, Taiwan, ...ad nauseam. EDIT 2: All of the GET requests seem to have a `?gclid=` in the URL. I'm beginning to wonder if there's some black-hat SEO aimed at making us think our metrics are bad so we'll hire one of them. We do get SEO spam all the time... Regardless, still looking for a way to filter past Google Analytics data.


title: WikiMedia on a subdomain - creating a new page

text: If I have a WikiMedia installation in a subdomain, like wiki.example.com, how do I create a new page? I mean, they said that when I put a link in the wiki, it would appear red. If I clicked it, it would send me to a page where I could create the page itself. Then the link turns blue. But I don't think it is working for me...


title: Tracking Redirects Leading to your site

text: Is there a way in which I can find out if a user arrived at my site via a redirect? Here's an example: There are two sites, first.com & second.com. Any request to first.com will do a 302 redirect to second.com. When the request at second.com arrives, is there anyway to know it was redirected from first.com? Note that in this example you have no control over first.com. (In fact, it could be something bad, like kiddieporn.com.) Also note, because it is a redirect, it will **not** be in the HTTP referrer header.


title: Solution for large scale site maps

text: I'm working on a nationwide retail web site with thousands of categories and product pages and my client wants to move from a single sitemap to multiple sitemaps based on page categorization. Here is how the new XML sitemaps for URLs would be constructed:               XML Sitemap for Category Pages – all category pages can fall into a single sitemap     XML Sitemap for Family Pages – if family pages are < 40,000 they can fall into a single sitemap     XML Sitemap for Product Pages – when product pages reach 40,000 a new XML sitemap would be created.      . Is there a free/professional solution for generating sitemaps based on such rules? Thanks


title: How to learn website development

text: I want to learn how to make websites, but I don't know how to go about it. I did learn some HTML, and right now learning CSS from www.w3schools.com. Can anyone tell me what I should learn next and what other things I need to learn to start making websites? Also refer to the study material if you can.


title: Which way is better for SEO on "part-launched" site?

text: I have launched part of my site that it can work separately of main site (`site.com/current`). The main section of site (including root `www.example.com` address), likely to be launched on next months. Which is better for SEO:   1. redirecting root to currently working section (`site.com/current`)   2. putting a temporary index page, and some comments on launch time and a link to current section.


title: How can I reduce the number of spammers registering with my phpBB site?

text: I have a site which runs phpBB, on this site I have   * enabled user authentication through email when registering   * enabled captcha However I still get spam users every 20 to 30 minutes. Is there anything I can do to prevent this with the `ucp.php` file? I have already loaded a large list of IP addresses yet there are spam users registering all the time. One thing I can do is I can check the bounce mail to find the username and can pipe bounced mails to a php script and immediately delete that user, but I have not got any bounce back from hotmail or some other email clients. So this way it will catch hold of a certain percent of spam users but there are still a huge amount of users spamming. What else can I do to prevent spammers abusing my phpBB site?


title: Tor and Google Analytics - how to track?

text: I make a lot of use of Google Analytics - Google has reasonable tracking for location of users so I can tell where users come from. I know it is not 100% but it gives an idea. In the wake of Prism it is possible that more people will make use of networks such as tor for anonymous browsing. I have no problem with this, people can wear tin foil hats while browsing my site for all I care, but it will lead to more erroneous stats. Is there any way to flag traffic as coming from TOR, so I can filter location reports not to include it, and to get an idea of the percentage of traffic which does use it? Has anyone actually tried this?


title: RSS feed <link rel="alternate"> on which pages?

text: I've got a site that includes a blog amongst other things. I'm adding the tag for autodiscovery of the RSS feed. There's only one feed on the site. Should live on every page (i.e. I put it in the base template)? Or should it just live on the blog index page and/or individual blog post pages?


title: How do I do SEO for multiple search keywords that are similar but not the same

text: For example: I have an article about seo for urls. People may search for   * seo for urls   * seo urls in google   * seo url panda update google I want them to rank well for all of these search keywords. What strategy should I use so I return high on as many of these keywords as possible?


title: The name of my startup returns many search engine results - will using it as a domain name cause problems with SEO?

text: I've come up with a good name for an online service startup that has the `.com`, `.net` and `.org` domain names available for it, and is also available on most social networks that we care about. The bad news is that when I Google this startup name, I get over 20 million hits, most of them because the name is coincidentally popularly used as the name of a column in databases, or because the name can be split into two words that commonly appear together (i.e. if the startup name were "Heydude", Google would match plenty of "hey, dude" occurrences). However, I don't see any hits that indicate anyone is doing business under this name anywhere, nor that anyone is even casually using it for any sort of project at all. Am I right to worry about choosing a startup name that generates so many millions of (admittedly weak) hits on Google? Am I setting myself up for a bad signal-to-noise situation going forward? Or with a little bit of success and the fact that we hold the .com, should I count on the relevant stuff bubbling up to the top of search results so effectively that I can forget about all the cruft that Google finds right now?


title: What is the best approach to HTML markup for a heavily stylised h1 tag

text:
I have a very stylised piece of content which I want to use as the `<h1>` tag on a page. I have two choices, either use complex, non semantic markup or an image. Is there any SEO benefit to either of the following approaches:
                      This is my long
             example                               heading text
      or simply:


title: Comparisons of Javascript 'data grids'?

text: I've found plenty of questions between here and StackExchange of people asking for the 'best' data grid / data table, or one that has a particular feature, and plenty of lists out there (of various ages) listing the various data grid implementations ... but is anyone aware of any matrix of what features the various solutions implement? (eg, allow shift-click to select multiple; support checkboxes for selection; can update a regular table in-place; allow editing of cells; support websql or indexeddb for local caching; which browsers they support; infinite scroll; etc.) There's a generic 'javascript framework' comparison on wikipedia, which would be the sort of thing I'm looking for, but it doesn't go into detail on data grids. (which makes sense, as so many are extensions, not core features of those frameworks, and in the case of jQuery, there's _lots_ of 'em.)


title: Sales Tax on Coupon Discounts

text: Should I calculate sales tax before or after a coupon discount is applied? I assume this will vary by state, I'm currently dealing with NY. We deal with three types of coupons: % discount, $ discount, and free shipping. I know that for % discounts, tax is calculated after the discount is taken. What about $ discounts? What about free shipping (NY does charge sales tax on shipping & handling)


title: Google Analytics traffic sources shows 538 visits with 0 pages / visit

text: I'm looking at my Google Analytic traffic sources report, along with the 'landing page' secondary dimension. Under the source '(direct)/(none)' there's a landing page called '(not set)' which has 538 visits and 0 pages / visit, and 00:00:00 visit duration. How could this possibly be?


title: .htaccess redirect to subfolder in different domain, maintaining old domain in the URL

text: Redirect has been widely discussed and most problems solved, so I am sorry for opening yet another post about this, but none of the codes I am trying work. I have a WordPress site hosted in `http://mydomain.com/clientsdomain.com/wordpress` I would like to temporarily redirect `http://clientsdomain.com/` to the abovementioned URL, maintaining the clientsdomain.com domain in the URL. So for example `http://clientsdomain.com/some/page` would be pointing to `http://mydomain.com/clientsdomain.com/wordpress/some/page` Is this even possible with .htaccess? Maybe som configuration or plugin option with WordPress?


title: Avoid Comodo certificates?

text: We are looking at buying an:   * EV SSL certificate   * Software signing certificate Comodo seem far cheaper than other providers. However they seem to have bad press. Is there any disadvantage to using Comodo certificates? (I'm thinking along the lines of people not trusting Comodo/blocking anything to do with them). I'm not looking for recommendations, specifically I want to know if going with Comodo has any actual disadvantage to it.


title: Recommendations for an Inquiry request cart/form system

text: Here is the goal: Site visitor sees things they like while browsing the site. Visitor click desired item to generate equivalent of 'add to cart'. They 'check out' but there is no transaction just a from generates and email inquiry which they add their contact and additional notes to and review / remove items. Server sends email to predefined recipient and CC client So basically it's a form with additional items appended to it from the browsing session. Other Details: No user login required Quote request sends server generated email Ability to easily add new items to inventory - I want to build a database of inventory like a store but there would never be any check out just the generation of a request form. PHP/mysql solutions preferred Wordpress solution o.k. joomla solution o.k.


title: Using redirects harmful for SEO?

text: I run a large publishing platform where authors post articles and most of the time, add sources. I use my own PHP redirector for these **external** links, so if they add a source, it will be linked like: `http://mydomain.com/l.php?r=http://source.com` I have been reading at numerous places that having redirects on the page, particularly if it is many, is very harmful for SEO. Is this true?


title: Google Analytics: How do I create a custom report to view today's top visited pages by page title?

text: I'm trying set a "Custom Report" that shows today's top visited pages by page title. Here's a picture of what I have set so far: ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Fja3v.png) I tried to filter by "Date" with "Today" selected, but that does not seem to work. Does anyone know how to set a Custom Report to automatically filter for "Today" only?


title: Why would my new WordPress site require a 301 redirect?

text: I just finished moving a site from localhost to its final domain, and the thing is that the SEO guys is saying I need to make a "301 redirect" from the old site to the new one, but there is no such thing, since the new site replaced the old site and the old site is now on a subfolder with a `Disallow` statement in robots.txt. So any idea what the SEO guy means? He says this needs to be done so all the SEO is not lost.


title: My Apache access log contains weird GET and POST requests, what can I do?

text: My Apache access log contains weird GET and POST requests, is it possible to examine which of these are harmful? For example:               114.232.151.185 - - [11/Jun/2014:20:11:33 +0200] "GET http://hotel.qunar.com/render/hoteldiv.jsp?&__jscallback=XQScript_4 HTTP/1.1" 404 1167          103.30.175.10 - - [12/Jun/2014:08:35:17 +0200] "GET /vtigercrm/ HTTP/1.1" 404 1034     69.174.245.163 - - [14/Jun/2014:01:22:38 +0200] "GET /w00tw00t.at.blackhats.romanian.anti-sec:) HTTP/1.1" 404 1034          69.174.245.163 - - [14/Jun/2014:01:22:38 +0200] "GET /phpMyAdmin/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 1034     94.74.229.110 - - [16/Jun/2014:18:46:43 +0200] "GET http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt HTTP/1.1" 404 1037     80.73.11.164 - - [20/Jun/2014:01:52:14 +0200] "POST /cgi-bin/php?%2D%64+%61%6C%6C%6F%77%5F%75%72%6C%5F%69%6E%63%6C%75%64%65%3D%6F%6E+%2D%64+%73%61%66%65%5F%6D%6F%64%65%3D%6F%66%66+%2D%64+%73%75%68%6F%73%69%6E%2E%73%69%6D%75%6C%61%74%69%6F%6E%3D%6F%6E+%2D%64+%64%69%73%61%62%6C%65%5F%66%75%6E%63%74%69%6F%6E%73%3D%22%22+%2D%64+%6F%70%65%6E%5F%62%61%73%65%64%69%72%3D%6E%6F%6E%65+%2D%64+%61%75%74%6F%5F%70%72%65%70%65%6E%64%5F%66%69%6C%65%3D%70%68%70%3A%2F%2F%69%6E%70%75%74+%2D%64+%63%67%69%2E%66%6F%72%63%65%5F%72%65%64%69%72%65%63%74%3D%30+%2D%64+%63%67%69%2E%72%65%64%69%72%65%63%74%5F%73%74%61%74%75%73%5F%65%6E%76%3D%30+%2D%6E HTTP/1.1" 404 1034     162.253.66.76 - - [24/Jun/2014:23:54:30 +0200] "GET /rutorrent HTTP/1.1" 400 226          122.226.223.69 - - [25/Jun/2014:01:14:27 +0200] "GET http://todd0738.gotoip4.com//hello.html HTTP/1.1" 404 1041      My Apache access log file: http://pastebin.com/2x0naQBK


title: Will Bing bot index pages with invalid SSL certificates?

text: Bingbot and Yahoo Slurp do not support SNI (Server Name Indication) when using SSL. Ignoring other workarounds (multi domain certificates, non-SSL content etc.). Will Bingbot index pages that have an invalid SSL certificate, eg: issued for **`example.net`** , but used on **`example.com`**? If possible please provide an example from Yahoo or Bing. I have found websites in Bing, that use self signed certificates and are indexed correctly, but what about invalid certificates?


title: does Azure have a free until some limit program?

text: * Amazon offers free services for 1 year http://aws.amazon.com/free/, supports .NET   * Google offers them free until you reach some limit, but does not support .Net   * Azure costs $0.12/hour, you need at least two instances=>0.12x2x24x30=$172/month.  Question: Don't you think Azure is really expensive when you are just lunching and you need only the minimum number of instances? You can buy the same computing power that 2 instances offer for less than $30 as normal hosting. Do I mistake or why this great differences in prices between azure and normal hosting?


title: Drupal module to require checkbox at login

text: For Drupal 6.x is there a module that makes it a requirement that the user check a check box before logging in? The site needs to require every user to accept the Terms and Conditions at each login, not just at registration.


title: Web design software alternatives of Photoshop? not looking for photo-editing

text: I've been looking over the net for Photoshop alternatives, but all I have been getting is "photo-editing" software alternatives - Gimp, and Photoshop Elements are basically the two I keep getting, unfortunately they are not what I'm looking for... I, like all of you web designers, use Photoshop to fine tune the interface - I could not make rounded corner tabs in Elements! and Photoshop advertises web abilities in their higher rank Photoshop (Professional)! I just need to be able to quickly create wallpapers, adjust them, slice a bit, iconize, path, few corners, and of course TYPE (Gimp is very lacking in that area)... Any ideas?


title: Google Apps claims my domain is registered but when I try to access it claims it is not

text: we have registered one of our domains with Google Apps 2 years ago. However, we didn't even use it. Now if I try to access: http://google.com/a/mydomain.com What I see is: > Server error Sorry, you've reached a login page for a domain that isn't > using Google Apps. Please check the web address and try again. Then I go to Google Apps Standard Edition signup page and type mydomain.com. However, what I get is: > This domain has already been registered with Google Apps. Please contact > your domain administrator for instructions on using Google Apps with this > domain. Is there anyone who can explain me what this inconsistency is caused by and what I can do? Since Google Apps Standard Edition doesn't grant me to contact with Google, I can't even submit a bug report. Any help would be appreciated.


title: is there any webpage preloader?

text: I found preloader for flash|swf files. preloader,lazyloader for images.But nothing for complete webpage. Some sites, like mine, have big header and footer. I need some preloader for this. Please suggest.


title: Google Chrome issue with SSL

text: Using this code:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off     RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}      My site goes to HTTPS if I type in www.domain.com. HOWEVER, only Google Chrome refuses to show my EV CERT and complains about mixed content. If I visit the site in HTTPS or jump pages because everything is set to HTTPS now in the links I don't have the problem. The green bar shows just fine. Is this a bug with Google?


title: Adding pages to google webmaster tools by the bulk

text: Is there a method of adding websites in bulk to google webmaster tools? My host username and password were hacked and all of my sites were injected with malicious scripts. I've cleaned everything up but the sites were d-listed and no longer show up in google search. I need to request reviews for ~150 sites but first I need to add them all to the webmaster tools. Any non-tedious way of doing this?


title: Is there any reason why a GIF image would show in FF/Chrome and not IE?

text: I've been asked to investigate why the images on a particular site cannot be viewed in IE (6/7 and 8, multiple machines) but is visible in all other browsers. I've verified that it has nothing to do with the site itself by downloading the image and placing it as an image in a local HTML file, with the same result. Accessing the url directly in the address bar in IE again does not display the image, only the little red X. Here's the image: http://i.stack.imgur.com/qxJJa.gif Why would all other browsers show this image except IE? What can I do to get the image to work in IE?


title: What would be causing so much bandwidth usage if there are no large files?

text: I'm pretty new to web design/coding so I'm sorry if this question has an obvious answer I've overlooked. I'm currently working on a website for a small company (from scratch/no CMS) and am basing it off of the HTML5reset to get used to some of that stuff. I FTPd an early version of the site to the server (hosted by Netix) for the client to OK. The next day I got a call from the client saying that the netix had called him to tell him that his site was taking up something like 10GB of bandwidth on the server. From what I can see the site is no bigger than 10MB. I called netix to try and figure it out with them. I was informed that there is some sort of 'bandwidth leakage' in my code, but couldn't get any more information. I'm at a total loss. I don't understand this at all and don't even know where to begin when it comes to diagnosing the problem. I can't even log in to the control panel on the site as I get a 509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded error. Thank you so much for any help!


title: Facebook Like button unclickable

text: I've decided to add a Like button to one of pages on my website.   The button appears, but it can't be clicked (i.e. nothing happens) I've tried both _iframe_ and _XFBML_ with different settings, but nothing helped. Here is an example of not working button What can I do to fix the problem? Additional information can be provided if needed, just write a comment.


title: Can you make total height for a 3-div-sandwhich equal 100% if top & bottom divs are in pixels?

text:
> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Any problems with DIVs inside a table cell? Ok so I've got a header and a footer with absolute positioning and heights of 144px. The content div in the middle area needs to be the full height of the area in between. Simplified:

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      So basically I want a div that is 100% - 288px. At first I thought I could just make a 100% x 100% div with 144 padding on top and bottom and then stuff the content div in there at 100% but my thinking has gone stray somewhere. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0r56C.png) > Here's an example I made using 20% height for 'bread layers'. (Which I can't > do on this project) Used 60% height for the scrolling 'meaty layer' and put > it at top: 20%;


title: How do I remove outlier data from a Google Analytics chart?

text: I want to display a pie chart of pageviews for my site, but there are a few outlier pages I do not want included. Is there a way to exclude those sites from the pie chart?