I made a 'login with OpenID' page and I had a error when OpenID provider return to my page: > You don't have permission to access /index.php on this server. Additionally, > a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument > to handle the request. If I remove parameters which are returned by OpenID provider, the page run well. How can I fix this problem? The login page that cause error is: `http://bryox.com/login`


title: Can Youtube URLs be a landing page for ads?

text: I'm trying to run ADs on Bing Ads with Youtube watch pages as the destination pages. I was previously doing it using AdWords video campaigns, but I got attracted by Bing Ads and figured I would give it a try. However, I started wondering if those ads will actually work considering that the landing page is Youtube and not a website I own.


title: How can we find real source of suspected user entries?

text: I have a website where I keep logging the user entries. I found some anonymous entries in my table and I suspect they are using some kind of proxy switchers. How can I find the real source of these intruders?


title: Internal links in Google Webmaster Tools showing unrelated data

text: In Google Webmaster Tools under _Search Traffic_ --> _Internal Links_ , for some pages it's showing too many internal links. Is there any effect on my site due to these internal links. How these internal links works? For Example: ![screenshot of related links](http://i.stack.imgur.com/2lt4o.jpg) Under `/musical-instruments-2` it has "Top 82 links" and "Total links 470". I observed that it contains unrelated links (other than musical instruments). Why has it linked unrelated data under musical instruments?


title: Canonicalization for www/non-www URLs and IP/domain on a Windows server

text: I have checked my website using this SEO tool and the results report 2 issues: > _Test your site for potential URL canonicalization issues. Canonicalization > describes how a site can use slightly different URLs for the same page - for > example: if www.mydomain.com andhttp://mydomain.com displays to the same > page but do not resolve to the same URL. If this happens, search engines may > be unsure as to which URL is the correct one to index. Learn more about > canonicalization issues._   1. `www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com should resolve to the same URL, but currently do not.`   2. `Your site's IP xxx.xxx.xx.xxx does not redirect to your site's domain name. This could cause duplicate content problems if a search engine indexes your site under both its IP and domain name. Consider using a 301 re-write rule in your .htaccess file so that your site's IP points to your domain name. Read more about canonical URL issues.` How can I configure my website to solve the 2 issues above? My website uses a Window server (ASP.net). I want to optimize for SEO, but first I must solve this.


title: Determine number of times and how long a user is logged in using Google Analytics

text: Is it possible to find out how many times and how long a user is logged into a site using Google Analytics?


title: Does this SEO practice have a name and is it "cloaking"?

text: So I Google search for a dictionary term, and none of the sites' Google snippets actually defines that term. Instead they are presented in this format: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/x1oOo.png) Here's the actual page it links to from The Free Dictionary. The term is used a lot in a block of text that teases the user into clicking the link, but the page doesn't visibly appear to have this content at all. It entices the user and requires a click through for them to find the actual information they want. What is this called? Is this considered cloaking or is it otherwise a violation of SEO best practices?


title: Google Analytics report is showing URL parameters that look like session ids

text: I am noticing some weird URLs in the Google Analytics content report. The parameters in the urls appears similar to php session ids (not sure though). Just want to make sure it is not something that is caused by any misconfiguartion or such on the site, as the urls doesn't make any sense and the normals urls on the site are quite different. Here are examples of the urls               /index.php?____pgfa=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hcHBhbmNlLmNvbS8=&s=tshirt          /index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hcHBhbmNlLmNvbS9jYXRlZ29yeS9hbmRyb2lkL2Rlc2lnbi92aWV3cy8=      If there was one or two entries like this I would have normally ignored, but I am seeing too many entries like this to be a bit concerned. What is the reason behind this? Thanks.


title: WordPress XML-RPC attack

text: Yesterday I suffered a **DDoS attack** on a WordPress site. I had **21,443 hits** with HTTP Status code 404 and a Bandwidth of **711.85 MB**. Also, CPU usage went to 100%. Logs show a lot of this entries:               ...     119.71.5.44 - - [03/Sep/2014:18:34:57 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 404 34826 "-" "-"     197.149.17.195 - - [03/Sep/2014:18:35:01 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0" 404 34826 "-" "-"     210.206.226.130 - - [03/Sep/2014:18:35:04 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 404 34826 "-" "-"     ...      I'm trying to understand this log.   1. This was only a DDoS attack or they were trying to hack my site?   2. Was I under attack or they used my site to attack others? (all IPs entries are different)   3. What is the best way to stop this? Modify .htaccess file or Add a filter in functions.php * * * **Update: Background information**   * I had WordPress 3.9.2. Now, I've updated WordPress to the latest version (4.0).   * The site is on a shared hosting (with cPanel X).   * The attack started on 02/Sep/2014 18:06:57 -0700 and ended 03/Sep/2014 21:22:24 -0700 Also, an hour before the attack the log shows this:               82.27.195.149 - - [02/Sep/2014:16:50:52 -0700] "GET /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 200 42 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0"     82.27.195.149 - - [02/Sep/2014:16:50:54 -0700] "GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2663 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0"      And two hours after it started I've found this:               184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:18 -0700] "GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2663 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"     184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:18 -0700] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2843 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"     184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:18 -0700] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2843 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"     184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:19 -0700] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2843 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"     184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:19 -0700] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2843 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"     184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:20 -0700] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2843 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"     184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:20 -0700] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2843 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"     184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:20 -0700] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2843 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"     184.176.42.181 - - [02/Sep/2014:19:58:21 -0700] "GET /blog/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 34107 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1667.0 Safari/537.36"      So, I guess they were trying to hack my account through XML-RPC.


title: How To: Buy a Domain From a Private Seller

text: I'm buying a domain name from a private seller, and obviously I don't want to get scammed. What is the appropriate method of buying a domain name from a private seller. Do we go through the domain registrar (godaddy, network solutions), and how do I know the domain is mine? What certifies that I own it?


title: How to prevent table borders from disappearing while printing?

text: I'm just working at a website that is supposed to be printable. One problem I'm running into is that some table borders won't be printed, although they are correctly displayed on screen. I tried both Firefox and Chrome. Both display all table borders on screen, but omit some of the borders when printing. What do I need to do to get them printed?


title: Ditch cPanel / WHM in favour of manual seup

text: We currently use cPanel / WHM on a reseller account but are looking at getting a dedicated server. My first thought was to duplicate this set up on the dedicated box to allow us to quickly create new accounts. I'll be a managed server so they'll have set up the LAMP stack. I'm curious if I actually need cPanel and WHM. We don't use many of the features from cPanel / WHM, just creating accounts and databases, clients do not have FTP access. I'm no sys admin and come from a Windows / GUI background but have some knowledge in setting up development servers. **WHM: Creating accounts** I presume this sets up the Apache virtual host, FTP access and DNS settings. I've some knowledge of editing the Apache files to create virtual hosts. Am I correct in thinking as long as the DNS is pointing to the server IP and the virtual host is configured the server can serve the (php) pages? I'm not sure I need per site FTP access as only we will have access so I could have a server wide/htdocs only access to view all the site. The company who supply the dedicated hosts would also provide the own DNS management tool so I'm not need to cPanel one. **MySQL: Creating users and databases** We use cPanel to create the MySQL users and databases. As it's a dedicated box and I can have root access I think this could be replaced by SQLyog for db management and phpMyAdmin for user management. Do you I need cPanel or can I get by editing a few text files for creating the accounts, then use the MySQL tools for databases? Or am I missing something major with how the sites are configured?


title: Tracking Individual Social Media Campaigns?

text: I've been given the task of promoting fundraising events online using Social Media and Google Analytics for our website. Each fundraising event, has it's own Social Media Campaign. The purpose of a Social Media Campaign is to measure the engagement (from year to year) of people viewing the events and to see if it is improving or not. As I see it there are two ways to measure the engagement:   * qualitative - Measure if we are reaching the correct demographic   * quantitative - Measure how many conversions we are getting Both of these measurements can be measured from the various sources from which people are directed to an event page from our website:   * Twitter   * Facebook   * Google+   * Various Local Business Sites   * Google Organic Search Results   * Ads Now considering this, I know that Google Analytics is capable to telling me where the the traffic might have come from, and what buttons someone may have clicked on my website. But I have this feeling that I'm somehow mis-using Google Analytics as there is only one tracking number for all the pages in my site. It almost seems like I should have a separate tracking number for each of my Social Media Campaigns (read each of the fundraising events) that are on my website. And in this way I would be able to get numbers on just a particular event for a particular year, instead of for an entire website for the entirety of its existence. Can I make multiple tracking IDs for a single website?


title: Who Is Against CSS and JS?

text: I know there is a group which promotes very basic HTML. They advocate against CSS and JavaScript. Does anyone know the name of this group? Just to be clear this was a website, or a foundation, or a society, or some kind of group. It wasn't a person or a browser maker. They were advocating minimal HTML as sufficent to express web content. They were against CSS and JavaScript on principal that they were extraneous and bloatware. The web pages on this site rendered using whatever built-in styling your browser had for things like H1 and OL tags, which looked like crap compared to what we're all used to. They had a page for "Friends Of..." which linked to sites that used very basic HTML markup, but with maybe a dash of basic CSS. The idea was to promote this way of designing pages and to avoid just about any styling or scripting. I found the site when it was picked up in various technical news aggregators, like Digg, Hacker News, DZone, etc. Does anyone recall the group's name or url?


title: Plesk Email Journaling

text: In regards to email archiving, How can I enable email journaling in Plesk?               OS               CentOS 6.4 (Final)     Panel version    11.5.30 Update #28      I've ready about editing /etc/antivirus.exim to do the following:               if $sender_address is monitored@address.com     then      unseen deliver monitoring@address.com     endif      (reference: http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/outgoing-mails-copy-39909.html) However, I do not see a file under /etc/ named `antivirus.exim`. I understand that link is referring to cPanel mainly, but maybe this will spark some ideas in the minds of plesk/linux users.


title: How to setup Cron (Media Temple Dedicated Virtual/Parallels)

text: I am learning how to use Cron jobs. The server I am working on is Media Temple Dedicated Virtual Server. The "Control Panel" is Parallels. I cant find where I can setup cron jobs. Is SSH the only way? Since I am unfamiliar, anyone care to give me some pointers to learn it abit?


title: Comment spammer IP list?

text: Is there a public list anywhere on the web of IP addresses that have been identified as comment spammers?


title: Is my client's domain in "limbo"?

text: About a year ago I created a website for one of my clients. They already had a domain name and hosting through Vistaprint, so we changed the nameservers over to my server as Vistaprint would only let us use pre-made templates. They told my clients that they had to unlock their domain to change the nameservers, so they paid to unlock it, forwarded us all the details, then we logged into `OpenSRS.net` and changed the nameservers accordingly. Unfortunately the domain expired there in November, and has about 10 days left now before it gets released back into the public. They have contacted Vistaprint but there is nothing they can do apparently. Who owns the domain, where is it, and is it in limbo somewhere?


title: PHP and Javascript

text: I am a good C programmer. I have recently studied a bit of JavaScript and I plan on developing my skills by also learning PHP. Can I learn both these language in 3 months and after that build a site of mine like a small social network or something in a month.


title: A good way to use RDFa in a WordPress post

text:
I'm using the RDFa on the breadcrumbs, and this is the scheme of my code in a post:
         You are here:                            Title                                    Category                                    Subcategory                       This is the title of the post
      This scheme at the moment works, 'cause I can see the categories in the Google Search results, the snippet shows the link for each category, so Google is understanding this information. It is really important to mention this is the way I could make it HTML5 valid. **Before** I used `xmlns` instead of `vocab`, but `xmlns` is deprecated in HTML+RDFa 1.1. That's the reason I'm using RDFa in this way. **BUT:** Google Webmaster Tools shows me an error, now, when before, using `xmlns` it worked perfect without errors. This is the error Google shows for every single post URL: > Missing: author > > Missing: entry-title > > Missing: updated So in a website where I have 26 posts, I have this triple error 26 times on GWT, specifically in the section «Structured Data». The next step I did was to check this information in the «Google Structured Data Testing Tool»: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets And it shows «Structured data extract»: hatom-feed, hatom-entry... Everything is ok and at the end, in red color: > Error: Missing required field "entry-title". > > Error: Missing required field "updated". > > Error: Missing required hCard "author". Then it shows the **rdfa-node** with the correct information. I'm using Open Graph, so in this case it's taken from the Open Graph meta tags. So well, my questions are: In order to fix this error, should I add more RDFa in every post? For example, I can add the author where I print the author of the post, like here: > December 29, 2013 by **admin** in Category Is the «updated» field the date of the post? How should I indicate the «entry-title»?


title: How are spambots registering on my website?

text: I have a forum that's getting a bunch of spam bot registrations. Here's what's happened:   * lots of spambots   * added static logic question (as a picture), static math question, honeypot field   * still lots of spambots   * added a built-in CAPTCHA   * still lots of spambots   * banned a bunch of known spam domain emails like @spam.xxx    * spam cut in half, but still lots of spam from spambots on other domains I don't want to block (like gmail, yahoo) I'm really, really baffled at how spambots are still getting through my measures and registering. How is this happening? Here's my registration page: ![registration page](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7CyrX.jpg)


title: Is there a way to specify meta keywords and descriptions with Drupal?

text: I would like to be able to specify some meta keywords and meta descriptions for some of my pages in our Drupal (version 6) site. However, there does not appear to be a way to do that within Drupal (at least out of the box). I've seen some references to some Drupal modules which might allow you to do this, but it doesn't look like they've been updated in a long time. Any suggestions? As a correlary, if meta keywords and meta descriptions really aren't worth bothering with any more, is there a way I can tell Hubspot to stop reminding me to add them? :)


title: Links Pages - Useful or Harmful?

text: What is the current thinking regarding having a links page on your website? I understand so many outgoing links on a page with little other content will be hellish for that page's page rank, but what about the site in general? I am constantly getting asking to take part in link exchanges and recently adopted a policy of just saying no, should I rethink this?


title: Godaddy - folder with password protection

text: Godaddy windows shared hosting on IIS6, but will probably migrate to IIS7 soon. Is there easy way to setup folder with password protection, so when I try to access secure folder, login dialog pops up?


title: Is Use of keyword instead of preposition good?

text: i would like to know if we write articles using the fixed keyword instead of using the preposition for it good for SEO keyword density?


title: High traffic by "doin' nothing"

text: We have set up on a VPS a WordPress blog. But, after we work a while, if we leave the tabs open in our browsers, there is upload traffic, in small chunks but quite often. We thought that it might be the WordPress's AutoSave feature, but we disabled it and the thing still continues. Here you have a small snippet from the log (the real domain URL replaced):               [06/Oct/2010:12:41:06] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 53692 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:07] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 2925 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:07] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 24279 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:08] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 2301 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:08] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 2269 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:09] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 37459 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:09] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 6220 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:09] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 4140 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:09] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 16508 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:09] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 5148 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:41:09] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 6268 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:43:03] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 34056 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:43:03] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 42002 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:43:30] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 2381 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable     [06/Oct/2010:12:43:31] "CONNECT connect://fooURL.com:443/" 0 8775 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62" - "- -" "clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable      It is normal? If not, why? How can we get rid of it?


title: How should we write keywords of a webpage

text: I would like to know how to write the keywords in head section. Either it should be comma separated or white space separated?


title: Confused: When does Google use Title vs description? Misleading results possible

text: Search for jamaica tourism on Google. You get a search result with the text **Jamaica Tourism: 578 Things to Do in Jamaica | TripAdvisor**. Nowhere on the displayed page does the phrase **578 Things to Do** appear. Google has chosen to show it in search results even so. It comes from the `<title>` tag of that page. Now take a look at results for the Google search for ebay bidding. One of the first results is for a business called Auction Sniper. The search result includes the text **Auction Sniper is a free ebay sniper...** That text is a misleading trick (Auction Sniper is not a free service) but this time the text comes from description meta tag. Nowhere on the Auction Sniper home page does the phrase "Auction Sniper is a free service" appear. How does Google decide when to use the title tag and when to use the description meta tag? Both results seem misleading to me, yet they have been stable for quite some time. Is such a apparently misleading technique considered kosher by Google?


Is there any app similar to Facebook that you can install on your own server? Like a community app where users can create their own account and post messages, blogs, photos, add friends, etc. Except, it can't be a hosted solution. It would have to be installable on a private server or intranet.


title: IP canonical URL issue

text: So I did a search engine optimization test today and one thing it came back with was: > Your site's IP XX.XXX.XXX.XX does not redirect to your site's domain name. > This could cause duplicate content problems if a search engine indexes your > site under both its IP and domain name. Consider using a 301 re-write rule > in your _.htaccess_ file so that your site's IP points to your domain name." I have looked but I can't seem to find a clear answer on how to do this, I need to know what I would put into the _.htaccess_ file? There was something over at Stack Overflow but I'm not sure that's right.


title: SEO: adding your company signature with link to all websites you make?

text: I saw many webdesigner companies adding a small signature on each website they make. Signature could be masked by words like _credits_ , _design by..._ , **but they all contain a direct link to the webdesign company that made the website**. This can be obviously good to drive more traffic to the webdesign company by direct visitors that might click on 'credits'/'design by...' link. **But what about SEO:**   1. Is it good for Google? (Or is it seen as spamming bad SEO technique)   2. It should increase the webdesign company's website Google PR, shouldn't it?! And in some way push the wbsite up on Google search results? * NOTE: obviously I'm supposing the webdesign company's website is also a site with interesting and decent contents, not just an empty idious site, I know Ggoogle looks 1st for contents, but besides that...


title: Registering a domain name for someone else with my billing information

text: I want to register a domain for someone using my billing information (credit card) but all the contact information are the ones of this person. Once I get the domain, I will transfer the logins of the registrars setting page of the domain to this person, I am concerned about if the person will be able to check the billing information or even use them to purchase other domains/services. Is there a way to buy a domain name while keeping the billing information not registered in the registrars setting page, or even buy a coupon that the person can use to register the domain name for itself. EDIT: I just found an interesting option on Godaddy : Moving a Domain Name out of Your Account > You can use these instructions to move a domain name from one account with > us to another. Has anyone tried this before whether it just transfers the domain or the billing information too?


title: Need metrics for expectations/targets

text: After our relaunch, we are wanting to find some standard metrics for our first year of performance. We can compare our numbers to last year and set our targets and expectations, but we would like to find an industry standard for B2B websites in Year 1 - whether as a new site or a relaunch. Is there a way to find that information?


title: Why are the tags on my site using wordpress being indexed instead of the page?

text: I can't figure out why my tags are being indexed by google and not my actual posts. So in google, my posts are showing up as mysite.com/tags/post and I of course I want it to look like mysite.com/category/actualpost. Any ideas what could be wrong? My domain is 3 years old and I just started a new focus of an existing site. I can't figure this out! There is no duplicate content, I have a sitemap submitted to webmaster tools and robots.txt...I have everything I need. This is the first time something like this has happened to me. Let me know if anyone has any ideas.


title: Directing crawlers to content in language per language sub-domain

text: I have a site with multilingual website with many pages (40M). The site has UGC, and each translation is actually for the titles. Each sub-domain points to the same content with different titles per language. As far as I understand, each sub-domain should be indexed by search engines, meaning they will actually need to crawl 40M x supported-languages. So I thought it might be best to direct each subdomain crawler, to pages that are fully in that language (titles + UGC). Is there a way to do this? Should search engines understand this on their own?


title: Will Google index a PHP header redirect?

text: I have a new domain which has an `index.php` file. Inside this file, I get user's IP, save it and redirect to another page on another domain. So there is no output, only header info. Will Google index this domain?


title: How long should I keep 301 redirecting pages from a deprecated domain?

text: I had an old domain that I have deprecated, but 301 redirected all results from it to my new site. The new site is now receiving a decent amount of traffic, but I don't know if it's 301 redirected from the old site, and doing a `site:[old site]` still shows several thousand pages indexed. Since all pages from the old site are 301 redirected, will they ever be removed from the index, as long as the old domain name is active? As a rule of thumb, somewhere I got 90 days for any significant site changes. When is it safe to burn the old domain?


title: Domain Masking / Cloaking?

text: I don't know whats the correct term for it, but what I'd like is to forward users visiting `domain1.com` to `domain2.com` without changing the URL in their address bar at all, IE. show contents from domain2 but without showing domain2.com in the address bar. **So for example:** User visits: `http://domain1.com/path/to/internal/link/` Should be redirected to: `http://domain2.com/path/to/internal/link/` Additionally all links (`<a>` tags) on domain2.com should be shown as domain1.com in the status bar and address bar. It is possible without using iframes or other dirty hacks that might hurt SEO? Many thanks!


title: How does IPv6 and AAAA DNS records affect my visitors?

text: If I set up a web site and the web server only has IPv6, and my domain uses a AAAA DNS record instead of a A record, how does this affect my visitors? Can only end users that have IPv6 on their client access my web site? if that is the case, is there any work arounds?


title: Web hosting options for Ruby on Rails applications

text: What hosting options exist for Rails applications? The goal of this _community wiki_ question is to get a feel for:   * what options are available   * advantages/disadvantages/cost of each   * overall opinion of each option, in the form of votes for each answer Guidelines for answers:   * Please provide _one_ option per answer.   * In the answer, elaborate on the factual features, advantages, and disadvantages to each option. If possible, include information about costs in relation to traffic (preferred) or hardware.   * Answers can be options for Rails-specific hosts, general hosts, and 'rolling your own host'.   * If you have utilized a solution on the list and approve of it, show your support by up-voting that solution. If you had a bad experience with that method, show your dissatisfaction by down-voting that solution.   * Please keep the answers factual and without bias in the editing process. Keep subjective thoughts to comments/voting on answers. There will not be an 'accepted answer' to this question. Many web hosts cannot accommodate Rails apps, and others do so weakly. I've seen this question tossed around and discussed a good bit and I think it's time we had a definitive reference maintained by a community of webmasters.


title: Recomendation of Ruby on Rails hosting

text: > **Duplicate:**   >  Web hosting options for Ruby on Rails applications Hi, We're looking for a good Ruby on Rails hosting. Basically we need the following features:   * Unlimited disk space and monthly bandwidth   * Unlimited domains   * Full SSH access   * Support various versions of Rails (2.3.8 and 3.0 for ex.)   * Passenger and capistrano deployment support   * EXCELLENT client support: We're new at Ruby on Rails, so currently we have several problems when deploying rails app. Our current hosting (RailsPlayground) offers awesome support, but we are looking for a new one because of the disk space and bandwidth limits.   * A nice panel (cPanel or similar).   * Basically we need to focus on application development and not worry too much about deployment and related stuff.   * Fair price We need a truly Ruby on Rails hosting, with people that have expertise in deploying and hosting Rails apps., not just a normal hosting that someday decided to install ruby and rails just to support it, if you know what I mean. We don't need high performance, we need to host several rails applications. If one application is getting lots of traffic and needs better performance, then we'll move it to a VPS or some high-scalable and performance hosting. I'll create some answers with a few hostings that I've been recommended. Please feel free to vote and add comments about them or reply with another. Thanks!


title: Hosting for a Ruby on Rails application

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Web hosting options for Ruby on Rails applications I am a Ruby on Rails developer and I am planning to purchase an hosting space in order to publish my web application (I'm developing a small Social Network). This is my first time that I try to deploy a Ruby on Rails application, so I am not expert on the matter. I would like to find a "compromise" between performance and price. I think that for now a shared server it is enough (maybe) for my needs (suggestions are appreciated...). In localhost I am using   * Ruby on Rails 3.0.9   * ruby-1.9.2-p136   * Apache   * Phusion Passenger   * MySql so the hosting server should satisfy the above requisites. More: in my application I am using the Paperclip gem so another requisite should be Image-Magick. What hosting service do you advice for my needs? What should I have to care when I purchase a hosting space for RoR? And, most importantly, which hosting service do you advice? P.S.: if you need some other information just ask and I will update the question.


title: Tuning WebServer Response -

text: I have this sam e question on StackOverflow and I was advised to ask it here hoping for more information. Here is the question: I am in rather unfavorable situation. I have aspdotneststore front e-commerce application and search addon called VibeTrib. I dont have source code for both of those. Store that runs on StoreFront and VibeTrib has close to 250k products. Also we have lots of filters. I spoke to ViTrib reps, and they want extra money so they could optimize Queries that they use. Money they require is nto a big deal, but the problem is I dont trust them anymore. What we got is much different then wha is being advertised. To cut the long story short. I am runing the store on Amazon AWS now, and regardless of what DB (MsSQL 2012) server I set (I tried 32GB RAM monsters instances) it is slow. Ajax search uses Full Text search and it displays search keywords relatively fast, but once the search is performed ( to display all results) it is still slow.!!! There is something that I could to do accelerate the speed on my own end? I do have full control over EC2 Instance (Web server Server 2012 and IIS 8). Can I set IIS to step in for the search and cache some of it? I was hoping to cache at least some most common words. My best bet is IIS 8 :) Is there any help in my case? Thanks


title: Does seperate marketing website and main web application make sense?

text: I am working on a website that offers a service to customers. As part of this, there is obviously lots of informational, marketing and news information, as well as a regular "backend" where actual customers signup, login and then make use of the service. The informational site requires fairly frequent updates from marketing. Marketing is constantly concerned with SEO, news updates, PR etc. The main backend site still requires a lot of development, but this is a "registered" user only area. It doesn't need SEO and such frequent updates. The two seem fairly distinct to me. For this reason, I am thinking of splitting out the informational website into www.example.com and the regular backend into user.example.com or another similar subdomain. Are there any problems with this approach?


title: How do I create styles for IE7 (and below)?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to implement cross browser css? I have a site that looks more or less the same in all browsers except Internet Explorer (version 7 and below). How do I create styles that only IE7 and below will recognize?


title: How to stop local newspaper from thwarting my efforts to promote a new competing site through their paper?

text: In order to raise awareness for my interactive social/classifieds site, which is aimed at a local and specific community, I need to advertise with my direct competitors, the local community paper. The local paper and its web site is run by a community of volunteers and they don't take kindly to anyone, community or not, competing with their own service. I feel my site is sorely needed because it is free and interactive but if it is used it will generate income through the usual means of paid advertising. However, I don't think my site threatens the advertising revenue for the paper because plenty of people in the community do not use the internet. So if I am getting opposition from the local paper to advertise my site, how else can I get word out?


title: How can we secure our web application codes?

text: I have a web application written in the Struts2 framework. I want to host the application with another company. Is there any way to hide the code which is hosted on the server? What I want is to hide the code from anyone who has access to the server. Using the application would be allowed, but viewing the code prohibited.


title: Can different properties be on multiple domains or should everything be centralized on one?

text: In my case, I have a web design project for a funeral home. On their property they have a funeral home (for services, offices, ...) and a large cemetery also. Additionally, they own three more cemeteries across the state. I can either incorporate each location (including the funeral home) into one website, or... Create a main domain name for the funeral home and then buy a separate, unique name for each cemetery (including the cemetery on the funeral home property). The funeral home location is considered the headquarters of operations for their company, so it makes sense to make the funeral home the "portal". Then for each cemetery, I'll purchase a unique domain name. I mostly want to do this for design; to separate the business of funeral homes from the beauty of cemeteries. However, from an SEO standpoint, I'm clueless. Is this recommended? Does Google hate this kind of thing?


title: Multiple IP addresses to a server

text: I am trying to figure out the best option for web hosting of a startup business. I want to get a VPS hosting for this business and one factor that affects the price is the number of IP addresses. I was wondering what would be the advantage of having multiple IP addresses for one server. I have read the other questions and I know if I am going to use SSL for multiple websites on my server I would need unique IP address for each one but in this case I only would have one website.


title: Adding a Forum to my site: build one from scratch or use existing open-source platform?

text: _Note: I posted this originally to stackoverflow.com, had it closed, and was told to post it on programmers.stackexchange.com. So I posted it on programmers.stackexhange.com, had it cloased, and was told to post it on webmaster.stackexchange.com. Here's my last attempt to get some help and direction on this nerve-racking problem._ I've been pulling my hair out for weeks trying to decide which way to go. One of my LAMP sites is several years old and my users have requested a forum. My site is custom-built by myself, and the forum would have to integrate fully with my site so that it actually looks, feels, and behaves like my site. For example, I have a site-wide messaging system on my site that alerts users whenever they receive a new message no matter where on my site they are on, so this feature would have to be extended to the Forum. I would also like to be able to limit access to certain sub-forums based on criteria from my site as opposed to criteria from the forum. I don't need a full-featured forum as it will not be the main focus of my site, just a feature of it. **The question is, do I use an existing forum platform and integrate it with my site or do I just build one from scratch?** The pros/cons are relatively obvious, but I can't decide which way to go and it's crunch time. The pros of using an existing open-source platform is that they are tried and tested, secure, have a lot of built-in features, community support, and would save me a lot of time. The cons are that they seem to severely limit how tightly and well I can integrate it with my site and my site's features, not to mention that most are overkill for what I need (bloatware). All the forum packages I have looked at (and I've looked at MANY), are all front-end solutions that will behave like an external add-on to my rather than an integral part of it. I have not found any fully-customizable "backend" forum solutions. This means that I will need to customize the forum to fit in with my site, but if that means altering core files, it will make the forum difficult to upgrade. Building the forum from scratch means I need to re-invent the wheel with all the potential problems that might raise, but on the other hand, I can program the forum so that it does everything exactly the way I need it to, making it an integral part of my site rather than an external add-on to it. So, what do you recommend and why?


title: My domain name has two spellings, how do I tell which one users type more?

text: I registered another spelling for my domain name. I point them at the same IP with DNS set-up tool. How do I tell which one my visitors come from more? Would I be able to view that kind of statistics in Google Analytics?


title: Robots.txt vs Sitemap -- Who wins in a Conflict

text: If I block off the directory /foo in robots.txt, but my xml sitemap contains URLs with /foo, will the URLs in the sitemap get picked up by Google and other search engines? In other words, does the sitemap trump robots.txt? I think so, but am not sure.


title: What is wrong with the seo of my site?

text: My question is related to the seo performance of my website binarytides.com My website has recently seen fall in traffic and I have noted that for some of my best keywords the traffic is falling, and moreover websites with poorer content are out performing my website in the google search results. Here is a simple case Post http://www.binarytides.com/packet-sniffer-code-in-c-using-linux-sockets- bsd/ Keyword : packet sniffer code in c For the given keyword my post used to be on 1st position for 2 years. Recently it has started falling. What could be the reasons. Few guesses ....   1. Are comments spoiling the seo ? I am under the impression that comments that have content relating to the post content, should add to the seo.   2. Having large amount of "source codes" in the post spoils the seo ? Like too many "printf"   3. If I have 2 articles with title "how to do this" and "how to do this - part 2" then does google treat it bad ?   4. does comment pagination spoil seo (since it creates link to next comment pages in wordpress) ? But I am already using rel="canonical" to indicate the main post url. Also note that this url copies 1 of my posts as it is, and it comes in the first page along with the my post http://www.cnblogs.com/rollenholt/articles/2585578.html So google is considering that post the same worth as mine!! I used to see such things at bing. So what exactly is happening to google ??


title: Does putting large amount of source code in webpage spoil seo?

text: I run a blog on programming topics and often post large amounts of source code, with syntax highlighter. This source code often has few terms repeated multiple times like "printf" or "alert" or anything depending on the language. Does this spoil the seo ?? The keyword density is definitely affected.


title: Where can I ask for a specific flash animation (free\paypal payment)?

text: Is there any site I can write a request for a specific flash animation that I desire? What is the recommended user-friendly software to create flash that a newbie like me can use?


title: Website still displays deleted files

text: I went to update a website's CSS today and noticed whenever I uploaded the file with my changes nothing would happen - no changes would appear on my site. This was the same with any of the images I wanted to change. Experimenting, I changed the actual file name, uploaded it and changed the link to the external style sheet - it worked as expected. I then deleted the the CSS file completely...but still the website behaves as normal. I've cleared my browser's cache of course and that made no difference. Would anyone know what's going on? Is there something caching the entire site somewhere? (I am using FileZilla. All other sites I have are behaving normally. There are no errors appearing in Filezilla's log when I upload or delete)


title: How to know if a domain belongs to a person or not?

text: We're almost done on creating a hosted CMS solution (something like Weebly). We offer people to create a website with 3 different options:   1. If they don't have a domain yet, they can create a sub-domain   2. If they don't have a domain yet, but they don't want to have a sub-domain either, they can buy their own domain (we're a re-seller of a big registrar)   3. If they have a domain already which has been registered by another registrar, we want to offer a feature, so that they can use that domain with our CMS.   4. If they have multiple domains, they can park'em on the same CMS instance, so that they can see their websites with many domains. However, they should follow some steps, so that their domain name would be resolved to our servers. For example, one step is that they should change their name servers info. But a business requirement has been posed by the stakeholders and product owner, and that is, we want to get sure that people are true owners of the domains registered by other registrars. In other words, when a user wants to add another domain to his/her CMS instance (parking a new domain) and this newly added domain is not registered by us, we want to get sure that the domain really belongs to him/her. What options and solutions do we have? How can we get sure that Bob for example is the owner of **second-domain.com** domain, when he's parking this domain on his CMS (which is already accessible via **first-domain.com**?


title: Which webserver to use for multiple sites?

text: Which webserver should I use if I'm going to host about 30 sites and all are using Wordpress. Each site receives about 1k+ visitors daily. Which webserver should I use apache or nginx? I only have 1GB RAM on the vps


title: Bingbot Crawling URLS Like Folders, Causing Thousands Of 404 Errors

text: I first started seeing this a little over two months ago on a site I run but now I am seeing it on several others I manage. It appears the bot is trying to parse the URL into folders and this is what's causing the issue. For instance this URL is correct: http://amgoa.org/Proposed-Alaska-Gun-Law-SCR6/State-Law/8895 But then Bing tries to access this URL: http://amgoa.org/Proposed-Alaska-Gun-Law-SCR6/State-Law And then this URL: /Proposed-Alaska-Gun-Law-SCR6 (sorry cant post more than 2 complete links) The second two of course throwing a 404. This site has over 67,000 pages and this error on their part is driving us nuts, loading up the error logs with tens of thousands of 404 for URLs that are incorrect. About a month ago I built an xml sitemap script hoping that would solve the issue. I submitted it to Google and Bing via the webmaster tools section. Google correctly indexed all 67,000+ pages while Bing is sitting there trying to parse these non existent URLs. Has anyone else seen this and more importantly does anyone know how to either stop this or contact Bing to get them to stop?


title: How to respond to attack on web site

text: I have wordpress site that is under some kind of bot attack. I checked apache logs and there's get request to a single post on my blog every second (sometimes there's more than one per second). When i block ip address of attacker in htaccess file, requests continue but it's one every 5-10 seconds. If i unblock it, after few minutes it get's back to 1 or more every second. IP Address of attacker is changing once or twice every day. I have wordfence plugin installed that blocks attacks, i also manualy add ip adresses to htaccess, but i'm interested if there's another way to block this guy for good... He's always identified as blank user agent, always get same page and it's always only one single page request. Here's part of apache log with attack.               178.222.186.246 - - [20/May/2013:02:35:46 -0500] "GET /2012/01/19/skembici-u-saftu/ HTTP/1.1" 200 48097 "-" "-"     178.222.186.246 - - [20/May/2013:02:35:55 -0500] "GET /2012/01/19/skembici-u-saftu/ HTTP/1.1" 200 47939 "-" "-"     178.222.186.246 - - [20/May/2013:02:35:59 -0500] "GET /2012/01/19/skembici-u-saftu/ HTTP/1.1" 200 47970 "-" "-"


title: How to show client a domainless site without altering hosts file or using 'serverip/~accountname'?

text: We have updated VPSs and apparently the latest version of PHP(?) does not allow you to use the servers ip /~accountname as a way to view a site that does not yet have a domain name associated to it, eg:               122.221.10.23/~newsite      or               ourhostingserver.com/~newsite      We can view it from our computers by altering the hosts file, adding something like:               122.221.10.23 www.newsite.com.au     122.221.10.23 newsite.com.au      but its not very practical to ask our not-tech-savvy clients to go altering their host files. Does anyone know of a way we can show our clients these sites using some kind of temporary domain name or similar?


title: Google Analytics page views and page hits

text: I have Google Analytics tag in my site and it seems that GA (4-10 views) is much lower in reporting page views as opposed to my web app which reports around 350 views. Is there a reason why this is happening? Is Google Analytics page views reliable source?


title: Is website security accreditation worth having?

text: My site handles sensitive data, is there any website security accreditation that is well respected and worth having?


title: Website starts showing 404 after 301 redirects via .htaccess

text: One of my clients websites started getting 404 messages on some pages after doing 301 redirects via _.htaccess_ file. I don't understand why that happens, could someone tell me what went wrong? The website is published using Wordpress.


title: Track exit link and ads with PHP

text: I want to track exit links on my website and also exit ads like Google Adsense etc. I mean by exit ads is that when click on add I get ads dimension and ads type like Google or other ads. In short I want this: Google Adsense _160x600_ like in `statcounter.com`.


title: Putting reviewboard behind SSL

text: Does anyone know how to put reviewboard behind SSL using wild card certs? I am using reviewboard 1.7.18. This is my first time and I need help with this. Please do not point me to common apache/httpd documentation. Thanks!


title: Does HTML5 video cache the entire video before playback or does it stream?

text: I have an HTML5 page that plays a small video (1.5MB) with autoplay and loop enabled. The problem is, sometimes it takes up to 10 seconds after loading the page before the video starts playing. I've seen this happen in both Firefox and Chrome. The only explanation I can think of is that the browser needs to download the entire video before playback begins. Is this normal, or have I perhaps encoded the videos in a streaming-unfriendly way? Edit: The video is 10 seconds of 25 fps video encoded by ffmpeg, here are the parameters I used to build them:               //OGV (Theora/Vorbis - used for firefox)     ffmpeg -i input -b 2000k -vcodec libtheora -acodec libvorbis -ab 160000 -g 30  video.ogv          //MP4 (Used by IE, Safari, Chrome)     ffmpeg -i input -b 1500k -vcodec libx264 -vpre slow -vpre baseline -g 30 video.mp4


title: Rehosting content from another server

text: We have a set of static pages that will augment a customer's existing site. The pages will not reside on the customer's servers for logistical reasons and because we need to maintain control of the content. The plan is for the customer to set up a mod_rewrite rule that will funnel certain types of URLs to a single server-side handler script that will grab the appropriate file from a CDN and just output its content. This illustrates the approach:               <?php echo(file_get_contents(str_replace($customer_host, $cdn_host, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']))); ?>      Can anyone think of pitfalls or offer up a different approach? Is there some way to circumvent a script altogether?


title: Hosting a website with Windows Azure

text: I may be completely misunderstanding what Azure is but is it possible for me to host a basic website on Windows Azure? I have a site that I've built in HTML and CSS that I'd like to upload to Azure but I can't figure out any way to do this. The site claims I can use it for web hosting, but if I can't FTP then I'm not sure how to do this. Is there a simple tutorial somewhere? I couldn't find anything close to what I'm looking for through searching.


title: Webcam Q&A page with guest "speakers" ideas?

text: I want to host one way webcam Q&A's/AMA's and embed it on my sites webpage. I must be able to have specified hosts for these Q&A's connect quickly and easily to the webpage, and read user posted messages (questions) for interaction. I know there are some systems out there, like tinychat, but I'm unaware if there is anything exactly used for what I am looking for. Perhaps requiring a specific account/password before allowing streaming on the page, where I can email the host a password or directions to create an account to begin live streaming. Most of these people doing the question and answers on webcam will have little technical knowledge, so extra cookie points goes to ease of use! Thanks for ideas in advance! PS: I apologize if this is the incorrect section for posting this question, this is my first.


title: Google Analytics track transfer to sister site as not an "exit"?

text: I have two domains (i.e. example.com and foobar.com) and I have **separate** Google analytics properties for the two domains, but since I own the two (and they link to each other), I would like to know how many exits from one are really transfers to the other (and have them not really be "exits" from GA's perspective). I know I can trigger an event on an outbound link, and I could do the math of "number of exits minus number of "sister site" events" to figure out the number, but it would be best if those transfers were simply not registered as exits at all. Is there a way to flag an outbound link as "this is okay, they're not really leaving my family of sites" so it doesn't get marked as an "exit"?


title: What is the critical user mass for a forum or Q&A?

text: If you start a forum or a Q&A site. At the begining you would create the content yourself. At some point you get visitors from google. What do you think: How many users du you need to run a forum or Q&A? I mean that the visitors start to register and to contribute. I hope to hear some real life examples or estimates. **Edit** : Maybe the question is not fully correct. Probably it is also important to know other parameters like: "How many active topics are on the site" ...


title: How to understand if a domain is locked or not?

text: I have some domains, and I'd like to Lock them all, to prevent fraud chances. However, the control panel of the domain seller doesn't have this feature. I created a ticket for them, to lock all of the domains, and they announced that they've done it, and all domains are locked now. However, I'd like to see it myself. A friend of mine told me that whois protocol shows the Lock Status, and I checked it out, and saw the "Status: Locked" for some of my domains. But for other domains there is no clue about locking status at all. The data is retrieved from OnlineNic's Whois database. What should I do?


title: What does Google Analytics show if a user opts out of GA tracking

text: What can you see if a user opts out of Google Analytics tracking using the browser plugin, can you see that they came, but not much else ie. they show up as a direct visitor, or do they not show up at all (although you can always see them in the server logs.)


title: How to embed G+ reviews on my website

text: I've started collecting G+ reviews for my company. As reviews help build trust and increase conversion rate I would like to include them on my webpage. Does Google provide a way on how to embed the G+ reviews on my site? I need to embed the number of stars, name, date and text.


title: Placing multiple Apache VHost sites in 'maintenance mode' with 1 rewrite rule

text: I have an Apache2.2 webserver set up to handle dozens of virtual host sites for our organization. I am looking for a simple method to temporarily 'turn off' all the sites by having all site requests redirect to a single "server maintenance mode" page (rather than a 404 File not found message). Is there possibly a way to do this using a mod_rewrite rule in the apache2.conf file? This would save me from having to 'touch' all these sites and turn them off individually when making changes on the server that will affect all sites. The server setup and structure:   In the apache2.conf file the primary website is declared in the section               <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName mainsite.org       DocumentRoot /var/www/main_site         All the other sites on the server are subdomains (abc.mainsite.org, news.mainsite.org, etc) and use standard vhost files set in /sites-available/ with a symlink in /sites-enabled/. They are activated/called by the line in apache2.conf following the VirtualHost declaration               Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/      I can do this for the mainsite.org by uncommenting a rewrite rule in the section that reads:   `RewriteEngine on`   `RewriteBase /`               #   Redirect site requests to a 'maintenance' page                 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mainsite\.org  [OR]       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mainsite\.org       RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ http://kubrick.fpgsm.org [R,L]         [kubrick is the host servers name which is also placed in the 'default' vhost file as follows:]               ServerName kubrick.fpgsm.org       DirectoryIndex index.html       DocumentRoot /var/www         [index.html is where I have the 'maintenance' message.] I have tried placing a simple rewrite rule in the which is placed above the section, but this does not work. So clearly I am missing something with regards to how the directives in apache2.conf work and/or the relationship between the VirtualHost in apache2.conf and subsequent VHost files.               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z]+)\.mainsite\.org  [NC]       RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ http://kubrick.fpgsm.org [R,L]        Any solutions/suggestions out there? Thanks.


title: Dofollow nofollow doindex noindex (menus)

text: Is it OK if I put in one menu some of the links nofollow and some of the links dofollow? I wouldn't want to put on all of the links the same attribute. The idea is that I would like to put dofollow on only the links that are pointing to doindex pages. The rest will be nofollow. So with other words: is it OK if all of the links of the SAME menu (footer, navigation) are NOT the same attribute but some would be dofollow and some nofollow? Note that I'm not asking just about same type of menu but I'm asking about the same actual single menu.


title: Dynamically sitemap

text: I submitted to google webmasters my sitemap. I'm creating sitemap dynamically every day, it is just adding new links every day. Cause my site is news portal and every day we are adding news. So I'm generating new links in my sitemap every day. Do I need to resubmit it to google or google will detect it on it's own.


title: Can a website located on a subdomain affect my main domain for duplicated meta description?

text: I have 2 websites, the main website located at `example.com`, and another one which is on `a.example.com`. The problem is that I have some duplicated meta description problems to the website located on the subdomain and I can't solve them right now. Will they affect my SEO rankings to my main page?


title: Publish feed entries on Facebook

text: Is there any good, simple way to auto publish feed entries from my website to my Facebook profile? (I just need post title and link to the post). This would be the best option, but looks like it does not work anymore:   * http://www.facebook.com/notes/blogging-with-beth/how-to-publish-your-blog-posts-to-facebook-automatically/245596473016


title: Multiple fonts in a website

text: I have been creating a blog and now its almost done. I am thinking of adding fonts to it. I am curious if having more than 1 font in a website makes it look unprofessional? I understand that it is a personal opinion of a person how the site should look but my site is a blog so I want to consider how visitors might feel seeing multiple fonts on a website. Does it look standard? In short: How many fonts should one use so that readability does not get affected? Thanks in advance.


title: ad networks that let you run your own cookie targeting

text: We've got some proprietary cookie targeting software which we are developing to help deliver better targeted ads. We dont have a group of publishers, nor particularly want to go and build our own network as this is almost as difficult as building the targeting software. Are there any networks out there that will let us run our own cookie targeting script on their network / publishers.


title: How do i found developers groups to let they build my own startup?

text: As for the title, i would like to meet some developers groups to pay them to build startups, doesn't matter where they are located, just they should speak english. does anyone knows how can i found them and where? thanks!


title: Is Codeschool.com recommended in addition to Lynda.com?

text: Does Codeschool's ability to perform activity / test / game / training as their approach, offer something that achieve studying faster and more effectively than Lynda.com's exercise file / video structure doesn't.


title: Can I include a robots meta tag outside of the head in HTML snippets indeded to be AJAXed?

text: I have a number of files in my site which are not intended for independent viewing, but rather to be AJAXed into content within the site. They obviously don't meet HTML standards (no body, head, etc.) as independent entities. I would like to prevent search engines from indexing these pages, but do not have access to `/robots.txt` (which would be much more ideal). My question is, could I include the following at the top of these partial HTML files and get the desired results?               <meta name="robots" content="noindex, noarchive">      I guess there are two parts to this question.   1. Will this cause any rendering issues in any browsers?   2. Will search engines (at least Google & Bing) interpret this as intended?


title: Define page load time

text: Google Analytics reports our site to have an average page load time of about 4.5-6 seconds. Naturally, this sounds as a concern. However, we never see these page load times when the page is rendering, it feels like it takes around a second. The reason for the discrepancy here I believe is that GA measures every single request, even those that does not produce screen content. Such requests might be third-party scripts such as the GA-script itself and other resources. Thinking about web usability I'm really only interested in how the response times feel to the user. Am I right? Also, is there a standard way to measure the actual time it takes for the page to render? Using Google Speed Tracer I can see that there are 2 DOMContentLoaded events firing but these are at 4.83s and 5.36s respectively.


title: How does the Google Images preview panel work, and why is it not showing my image?

text: In Google Images, when an image is clicked in search results, an "image preview" appears with a blurry image (basically the cached low-res version) and then an updated, clearer version is swapper in later. Does this fetch the live image? I have also noticed on some images that the clearer image does not get swapped in, this appears to be on sites that block hotlinking. I have an image that is #1 on Google Images for certain (fairly popular) search terms. I recently updated the image but the thumbnail for the old image still shows (and is the blurry one in the image preview). The image is hosted on the Amazon CloudFront CDN and hotlinking is not blocked. However, when I search for my image, the image preview stays blurry and the better quality image is not switched in. Other images on the CDN work fine. Does anyone know a possible reason for this?


title: Google Analytics - additem for multiple skus in one call

text: I have an ecommerce site, when customers complete a transaction we pass the Google analytics calls for `_addTrans` and `_addItem` The `_addItem` call is made individually for each item ordered, so if a customer ordered 5 items there will be 5 calls made. However if a customer orders a large number of items, because each item is called individually on the thankyou page, there is a high chance the customer will navigate away from the page before all the calls to GA have been made. Does anyone know if it is possible to send all items ordered in one `_addItem` call to GA using an array and matched pairs? for example if a customer orders 2 items the call could look something like               _addItem(transactionId, sku, name, category, price, quantity)          _addItem([id1,id2], [sku1,sku2], [prod1,prod2], [cat1,cat2], [2,3], [1,2])


title: aligning 3 divs

text: I'm good at some things but html/css layout isn't one of them. I need to lay out a page with two divs on the left, div1 (height 30%, width 30%) on top and div2 (height 7% and width 30%) below div1. These 3 divs to be within a container div. Then I need to add div3 to the right of div1 and div 2. Div 3 to be width 70%, height 100%.               ***************************************     *   div1   *         div3             *     *          *                          *     ************                          *     *   div2   *                          *     *          *                          *     *          *                          *     *          *                          *     ***************************************      I've tried every combination of floating, clearing and black magic that I can think of but I can't get div 3 to line up where I want it. I'd appreciate it if someone could fill in the skeleton below with the correct stuff to accomplish this layout.


title: Use different .htaccess file based on set header from browser

text: I want to have the ability to test _.htaccess_ rules before saving them to the main _.htaccess_ file. Is it possible to set a specific request header and have Apache use a set of rules from a different _.htaccess_ file.


title: Domain registered with Fake info!

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Providing fake info during domain registration - does it matter? I have registered a Domain with fake info 24 hours ago (I didn't know its illegal! :() its still pending (not available yet) I'm not like, criminal or spammer but I don't want to show my real id, what do you suggest so I don't lose my Domain. Can I transfer it to a service like name.com because I heard they provide ID protection!


title: Would google consider this a "link scheme"?

text: I work for a County Government. In an effort to improve our search engine rankings I was considering contacting some of the other Counties in my state and seeing if we could setup an arrangement where we link to them and they link to us. It seems like a reasonable thing to have a "Other Counties" page with various links on a County website, but it also seems like it's bordering on a link scheme according to Google. When I read Google's article about link schemes it seems like we hit some of the right reasons for having links on another County's site but also some of the wrong. Does anyone have any insight into whether this is a good or bad idea?


title: How to handle domain squatter?

text: What is the best way to handle domain squatters? I know this topic has been discussed before, but I haven't found anything that was addressing my specific case. The situation: I am creating a website for a small company in Germany (lets say it's called blablub) and they own the blablub.de domain and the German trademark of the name blablub. All google searches are also related to this small company in germany, so it doesn't seem like anybody else uses the name. Somebody owns the domain blablub.com since 2000 but hasn't done anything with the domain since then as far as I can see, except diligently updating the domain whenever it is about to expire. There isn't even a site hosted at the domain that advertises to sell the domain (when I ping blablub.com, I get a Request timeout, this has been the case for at least a year now). According to whois the registrant is "Domain Discreet Privacy Service", who seems to own a whole lot of domains or probably just hides the real owner. I feel uncomfortable contacting them to buy the domain because I don't really want to support domain squatters. Is there a chance that a UDRP would be successful or should I swallow my pride and simply ask them for how much they would sell it. I am also hesitant to contact the domain holder because I don't want to signal to him/her that I have an interest in the domain.


title: How are the .cat TLD requirements enforced?

text: When registering a `.cat` TLD, one of the requirements is > Warning: the registration contract for domain names in this extension > require that you publish at least one page in Catalan within 6 months. How is this requirement enforced by the TLD owners? Do they have bots that scan for links going to pages in Catalan? I am trying to determine if this entails any restrictions with regards to the nature of the website itself. If, for example, a page used Javascript to populate the page, would the bots miss this (meaning, single page applications may be undesirable).


title: Installing a PHP framework to a host without public_html or www folders (ftp is DocumentRoot)

text: I've developed a PHP framework that operates with the directory structure of               /       /classes/       /templates/       /.../       /www/ (public_html)      But I've come across a host that only allows ftp to the DocumentRoot, so this imposes a security risk to my scripts. I don't want the root of the site to point to the root where my framework lies. I've asked a question over at stackoverflow with a question to an .htaccess rewriterule to potentially solve this Is there a better method to do this?


title: Can I detect the IP address and location of visitors to my web application who are behind a proxy?

text: I'm writing a web application and I need to make sure that I have the actual IP address and location of my visitors, since there are many users in Middle East and China using proxy services to bypass the restrictions there. Is there a way to detect this information behind a proxy?


title: wrong duplicate meta descriptions on webmaster tools

text: We have recently moved our site to a new platform with a different structure. We placed the correct 301 redirects from old pages, but also, some pages include 302 redirects for language-specific content. For example, if someone goes to `site.com/de/library/slug-url` they will be redirected with a 302 to `site.com/de/bibliotek/slug-url`. For some reason on our latest webmaster tools HTML Suggestions report, we noticed many pages reported as `Pages with duplicate meta descriptions`. The report includes both versions: The real page and the page that generates the 302. In some cases a third version of the page appears, e.g. `site.com/library/slug-url` (which also generates a 302 to `site.com/de/library/slug-url`) Shouldn't google detect the redirect correctly? Why does it report on duplicate meta descriptions?


title: What are the two different types of google search results called?

text: ## Google SERPs have search results that appear in two different ways: ![Single Search Result](http://i.stack.imgur.com/j6C4i.png)   **Single Search Result** ![Single Search Result with Sitelinks](http://i.stack.imgur.com/junmR.png)   **Single Search Result withSitelinks** Are there official terms for these? I know that a "SERP" is Search Results Page, and I'm fairly certain that a single search result is just called a "search result". But what is a search result with Sitelinks called?


title: Will these tool tips get me penalized?

text: I have a page of 10 products. Each product has a list of (7) features associated with it. If a user hovers over the name of the feature, (ex. Moisture resistance), a tooltip description displays. The descriptions (a sentence or two), are loaded once on the page using JavaScript, but the titles are not, so I essentially have a bunch of redundant tool tip titles. I am concerned this will look like keyword stuffing to the bots. Anyone know about this? Maybe I should load the feature titles with JavaScript as well?


title: Icon grid that overlay when clicked?

text: I'm looking for something that works like this: The page is a 4x4 grid of icons (boxes with small pictures and a title). When someone clicks on one of them, an overlay gracefully is displayed with more info on that topic. The user then clicks an X in the upper-right corner or whatever to close. I don't want a popup in the sense of opening a new web page. Anyone seen something like this? Ideally, a jQuery or javascript component I can just plugin without having to write a bunch of code...looked around on CodeCanyon, etc. but didn't find anything.


title: Google Experiments - can you run across the entire site?

text: Is it possible to run a Google Experiment A/B test across an entire website, rather than just a single page and a variation? thx


title: What does Google do with indexed pages returning 403?

text: I guess that Google removes already indexed pages that are now returning the HTTP error `403`. Unfortunately I can't find any definitive statement on that matter. Do you know the answer?


title: Show preview images of my site content in Google Search Results

text: If you search for a video in Google and youtube search results are shown, you see a preview picture in the search results. I have a video site like youtube and I want my videos also shown with images in google search results. Is it possible and how?


title: Paypal "Subscribe" button: Is it possible to let the subscriber set the amount?

text: I'm setting up a recurring payment option on my website. I'd like to have two options:   * Option 1 (for individuals): Fixed $6/mo subscription   * Option 2 (for organizations): A subscription where the amount is set by the subscriber So, I would like to enable the subscriber of Option 2 to set the amount of the monthly subscription themselves. PayPal's "Subscribe" button does not seem to allow that: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bYMq9.png) When I leave the "Amount" field of the 2nd option empty, I get an error: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/aPpxJ.png) So, is this not possible? Do all options require fixed amounts?


title: Using SEO to hide a website in a specific location?

text: A friend of mine wants to build a website, but doesn't want people in the West Midlands area of the UK to be able to see it, but wants areas outside of the West Midlands to be able to see it. Is this possible? I know SEO can be used to target specific countries to improve search results, but could it be used to target specific areas inside a country and to basically remove the website from Google listings for a specific area? Cheers!


title: How do you style Google forms (from Google Docs)?

text: While Google makes themes available to style forms in Google Docs, there seems to be no provision for styling forms yourself. I have a two-column layout and want the form on the right. There are various problems, such as the textarea overflowing the column. Since it's in an Iframe there's not way to wedge in a stylesheet or a jQuery/javascript fix. The only suggestion I've found is grabbing the source of the iframe and dropping it into my own HTML, but this breaks the built-in validation and is too hack-ish.


title: Facelets SEO advice

text: Before I deploy the new version of my site, I would like to know a little more about facelets and SEO. My previous version of site was written in JSF and I noticed that when I submitted it to the google crawler, that the crawler did not locate all relevant sections of my site from my index page. 1)I presume this is because the crawler uses raw hyperlink anchors to navigate around the site and does not understand: h:outputlink ? If this is true, then Facelets is already an improvement as the developer can use raw anchors with the jsfc attribute. 2)What about Meta tags? Is there a way to get internationalization into a sites meta tags? I can only think that one has to write a tag for each language or not? I am referring to the following two tags (as an example):               <meta name="description" content="thejarbar.org tutorial to set PATH variable" />     <meta name="keywords" content="thejarbar.org, tutorial, guide, instructions, example, howto, Java, PATH,             setup, variable" />      3)Question 2 extends to the tooltip attributes and alt attributes for images. How do you optimize these for crawlers and internationalization?


title: Are there any sites where I can submit a brief for a website?

text: I work for a company that wants to redesign its website, and I've been asked to find a firm to do this. I've searched online and there are too many agencies! Are there any websites where companies can post a brief of what they want done, and agencies can read through and contact the company directly if the brief is of interest? If it makes any difference we're based in the UK.


title: Site gone missing from Google and no visitors in analytics

text: I've just noticed that since the 20th Juli, Google Analytics hasn't picked up on my visitors and my website is no longer on Google.com. Only subdirectories like `website.com/forum/`. I can't recall having changed anything, and my analytics code is still there. Any idea why my site suddenly seems to block robots from checking my site?


title: Website to send clients browser settings via email

text: A while ago I stumbled across a website that allowed you to enter an email address and have things like your browser type, version, build, javascript settings, flash version etc emailed through. I have a couple of clients that I need this information for and cannot really ask them to find out this information manually.


title: Redirect does not work

text: I tried to redirect a broken link onto my site by redirect :               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$     RewriteRule ^domian_registration\.html$ "http\:\/\/mysite\.com\/domain_registration\.html" [R=301,L]      But it responds with error (404 Not Found) and redirects to following URL:               mysite/home/[Cpanel user]/public_html/domain_registration.html      What's the problem?


title: Blog suitable Adsense format

text: I saw blog which has nice formated Google Adsense ads, but I don't know how to generate them. Here is a screenshot: http://imgur.com/U0mzk (sorry for plain link but I'm too fresh here to use img tag ) Is it text link format or what?


title: Domain Redirect to another using CNAME Record

text: I have a Domain, lets say `maindom.com`, now I want to have another Domain, lets say `secdom.com` to point to `maindom.com` such that all the URL's leads to `maindom.com`. I want to do this with the help of CNAME records **only**. I can use third-party services also. Example:   `secdom.com/rand123` Leads to `maindom.com/rand123`   `secdom.com/ano2484/anot` Leads to `maindom.com/ano2484/anot`   `secdom.com/tesecqz?id=45` Leads to `maindom.com/tesecqz?id=45`   I tried adding a CNAME record to `secdom.com` with value `maindom.com`, but just din't work. Another point to note is that the IP of `maindom.com` host other websites also and not just this one, this can be a problem I guess. How to do this? Any help is appreciated.


title: What SEO software do you recommend?

text: I'm investigating SEO software to buy, do you have any recommendations? I would like to have SEO software that gives me useful information about my site's content based on keywords and also gives me a list of broken links, title and description recommendations based on the latest Google and other major search engine algorithms.


title: Wiki Incorporating LaTeX and PHP

text: I'm a little overwhelmed by the myriad of wiki solutions available. Let me briefly describe what I will be doing and what I think I need. If there are more questions you can ask to help narrow the choices, please include those in the comments and I will update my question. I have database of ice cream flavors (not really, but let's just go with it). My fields include the name of the flavor followed by several statements that could be true or false for that flavor, such as "Contains nuts" or "Contains cherries". So, an entry in the database might be "Vanilla, No, No" or maybe "Banana Split, Yes, Yes". What I would like to do with the database is write a PHP script to automatically create a wiki article for each flavor and include the information I have on it. After the wiki is initialized, it needs to be editable by registered users only. In addition to whatever I need to accomplish the above, I also need LaTeX support (because it isn't actually about ice cream). I have my own domain, so it need not be externally hosted (in fact, I would prefer to host it myself, but this isn't crucial). Edit history is a must. My first instinct was to use MediaWiki, since most users should be familiar with it already, but I don't know if I can use PHP to interface with it in the way I described. I also feel that the LaTeX rendering is not particularly beautiful, but I don't know if any other systems do a better job.


title: Joomla 3.2.2 - frontend connection problems, backend working perfect

text: First of all, I'd like to say hello to everybody in this great community :) Countless times before, I was able to find my way out of a problem thanks to you. But now, I can't find any similar topic to my problem. It started 5 days ago with frontend errors - Internal 500 or connection was reset. Every time after very long waiting. I thought that it's some problem on the provider side, they checked, said everything was fine, they checked two times. The second time they suggested I clean my browser cache. I did, and my site worked great. For a minute. It allowed one or two clicks in articles and... again, same old story. Then, it became even worse - even after cleaning the browser cache, I have problems to launch the frontend. Backend works perfect, I can edit, save and so on every article, module, and so on. When frontend finally manages to open, it reflects changes. So... it's very strange to me. That was the situation till two days ago, when things got a bit better. Now - no 500 internals or "connection was reset" during loading. Presently it looks like that : there is longer than average "awaiting for connection" time, and when finally download starts, it's very fast. Sometimes this waiting is 5, sometimes 10 seconds, which is way too long. I tried disabling modules, compressing js & css, but nothing helped to come to real awaiting time which is normally below 1s on other sites. Hosting keeps claiming that it's not their fault, and suggested it's some module or extension causing problems, but as I said, I tried disabling every module one by one, with no result. Did anybody encounter something like that? By the way, other websites on same hosting and same Joomla version work just fine. Template? For the first two days it was ok, so it's not template either. I tried to change options of SEF links, url rewriting - nothing. It's driving me mad. Additionaly, I created an account on Pingdom, and they show that my page loads worse than 70-80% of other websites. I also set checking each minute and letting me know via sms (it's free up to 20 smses) if the site is offline more than 5 minutes in a row - and I get one-two such smses daily. Thank you in advance for your imput, maybe somebody has to look at this with a clear head. Joomla version is 3.2.2 Cheers and thank you in advance, Artur


title: how to start sendmail - WP email turned off

text: I have a WP site on a linux box. Our email was working fine in Wordpress but recently it stopped, I think because of a restart. All I could think of was to restart sendmail. I couldn't find sendmail in the normal directory (/etc/init.d/sendmail restart) but that didn't exist. I found another directory for sendmail in the sbin but every time I try running it it doesn't respond and I have to exit. This is all what I tried. Any ideas?               [root@li209-134 ~]# /etc/init.d/sendmail restart     -bash: /etc/init.d/sendmail: No such file or directory          [root@li /]# find . -name sendmail -print     ./usr/sbin/sendmail     ./usr/lib/sendmail     [root@li /]# ./usr/sbin/sendmail restart     ^C     [root@li /]# sudo /usr/sbin/sendmail restart     ^C     [root@li /]# sudo service sendmail start     sendmail: unrecognized service     [root@li /]# /usr/sbin/sendmail start     ^C     [root@li /]# /usr/sbin/sendmail     ^C     [root@li /]# /usr/lib/sendmail start     ^C


title: .htaccess port 80 to another port SEO impact?

text: I am using the Ghost blogging platform. By default to access the blog you go to `blog.my-site.com:2368` of course this makes for a ugly, unfriendly URL. I am using _.htaccess_ to change the behavior so when a person types in `blog.my-site.com` they see the URL. I used the following code:               Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews       # Turn mod_rewrite on     RewriteEngine On       RewriteBase /          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog.mywebsite.com$ [NC]       RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off       RewriteRule ^ http://blog.mywebsite.com:2368%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]        From my understanding this is not a redirect, but rather transparently sends the traffic from port 80 to port 2368. My question is this: Does this process have any impact on SEO or, in the views of SEO, it is the same as `blog.my-site.com`?


title: My WordPress site must be being affected by outside sources

text: Some of my pages are resulting in 310 errors (too many redirects). We recently switched domains from kgstiles.com to healthmasterysystems.com then discovered healthmasterysystems.com was listed as not trust-worthy by Google and really strange popups kept coming up. Google had had a malicious site warning dating back to March - long before we got it, so yesterday we switched it back. If you go to http://www.kgstiles.com/pureplantessentials/, it redirects to kgstiles.com/missing/. I have installed all sorts of plugins to stop it, I have changed the permalink structure, cleared `.htaccess`, repaired the database, etc. Nothing ever worked. So I restored the database and all of the files to before we switched domains and the problem still persists! Is it safe to assume something outside of the website is affecting it? What could possibly be happening?


title: Googlebot getting "301 Moved Permanently" according to "Fetch as Googlebot" in Webmaster Tools

text:
I launched a website four days ago, and now when I try to crawl the website like Google bot in "Google webmaster tools" I end up with a response like this:               HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently     Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 21:37:26 GMT     Server: Apache     Location: http://example.com/     Content-Length: 294     Keep-Alive: timeout=10, max=29     Connection: Keep-Alive     Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1          <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">          <title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
Moved Permanently

The document has moved here.

     <address>Apache Server at www.example.com Port 80</address>           What is the problem ?


title: Website with a 30% non english content (70% english) can be accepted in Tribal Fusion?

text: I'm just wondering If a website has a 30% non English content, will the Tribal Fusion Ad Network still accepts it's application. My website has a 30% non english content and 70% english. I don't want to submit my application because if they reject my application, i'll be waiting again for the next 6-8 months for reapplication. This might be my 2nd time to apply to Tribal Fusion. The first time, i got rejected is because i dont meet the 500K unique visitors /month. As of today, I am hitting the minimum unique visitors per month. I just need to be sure and very careful. please understand... Can somebody shed some light here?


title: Use Google Adwords to track click conversions

text: I have read that Google Analytics supports click conversions (Tracking click conversions with Google Analytics). But I think I rather have conversions tracked within AdWords so I have a single source where I can monitor performance of specific campaigns. **So, is there a way for me to setup click conversions within AdWords** , I could not find it here https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2375435 or here https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1722054 What I need specifically:   1. be able to measure if a link with a specific class was clicked and of course assign that conversion to the campaign via which the user arrived   2. only measure a conversion if a link was clicked by a user who came via one of my AdWords campaigns (so a user who would navigate directly to my site and clicked that link would not be tracked as a conversion **UPDATE** I do not have a landing page on which I can measure a conversion, since I'm an affiliate and don't sell the products myself, but redirect users to 3rd party publisher sites, I don't know whether a user actually buys the product. But I can get a pretty good indication of a conversion by measuring the click on a link that is directed to an external site. See how it works here: http://www.wonderweddings.com/weddingshop from this page and from any productdetail page the user can click to an external site. THAT is the click I want to set as a conversion.


title: Managing 404 error pages with noindex and url rewrite

text: Currently I use custom 404 error pages, having the following meta on them :               <meta content="noindex" name="robots">      My guess is this way Google will remove deleted pages faster from the index, anyone has experienced a case where it does ? Also, is it better to have the url path rewritten to the actual error page, like the url pattern: http://{mysite}/{404_error_page} or is it best to keep the old deleted page's url when serving a 404 error ?


title: Where does the HTTP referer "applewebdata" come from?

text: My site uses a web stat service like Google Analytics, it uses a piece of javascript code to log what pages the visitor has visited and the refer url of each visit. I got some referer "applewebdata", wonder where is those visitors from?


title: The right way of using index.html

text: _I have quite a lot of issues I'd like to hear your opinion on, so I hope I'll manage to explain it well enough. I should also note that I'm beginner equipped only with the knowledge of HTML and CSS so although I'm almost sure that there is a simple solution using powerful PHP, **it won't help me**._ Let's say that I have my personal blog on the address `example.com/blog.html` and there are links to several sub-blogs `example.com/blog/math.html`, `example.com/blog/coding.html` etc. So my root folder contains `blog.html` and `blog` folder, the `blog` folder itself contains files `math.html` and `coding.html`. First of all, I learned (from Google Webmasters Tools) that for SEO and aesthetical purposes it's good to unify `example.com.com` and `example.com/index.html` by adding `_rel="canonical"_` attribute into the source of the `index.html`. Using a couple of other tricks (like linking to `../` and `./`) I got rid of the ugly `index.html` appearing in my web addresses. And now I wonder if this trick can be used not only for the root folder but for **any** folder? I mean, I would move my `blog.html` into the `blog` folder, rename it into the `index.html` and add `rel="canonical"` to unify `example.com/blog/index.html` with `example.com/blog/`.   This trick would change the address of my blog from `example.com/blog.html` into `example.com/blog/`. Not finished! I'm also experiencing problems with the google robot indexing my folders. So when I type `site:example.com/` into the google search, the link to my folder `example.com/blog/` with raw files, icons etc. appears among the other results. I guess there are also other ways how to fix it, but IMHO the change mentioned above would do the trick too - the _index.html_ in the blog folder would preserve the user from viewing the actual raw content of that folder, there would appear only the right link `example.com/blog/` in the google search and (I hope that) `_rel="canonical"_` would make the second, unwanted link `example.com/blog/index.html` not to appear in the search results. So my questions are:   1. Is it a good practice to have the `index.html` file in every subfolder or is it intended to be only in the root folder?   2. Are there any disadvantages or problems that may occur when using the second, " _index in every folder_ " method?   3. Which one of the two ways of structuring the website described above would **you** prefer?


title: Root Domain Redirects Incorrectly To Https instead of to WWW

text: Why do visits to my website work without "www", but not to specific pages on it? I recently moved my website to a new webhost, RedHat's OpenShift (a PAAS). It requires using Cname records to setup custom domains, something my domain name registar (1&1) does not support without a hosting plan. So instead I setup Cloudflare in-between my domain and web host, and setup a Cname record on it. I then pointed a 1&1 "www" sub-domain to CloudFlare, and then pointed my 1&1 root to "www" sub-domain. This works fine for visiting to my homepage, but for some reason it does not work when visiting a specific page without "www". Instead of adding "www", it goes to HTTPS, which is strange.


title: Google Stats, how to get More info?

text: I have created a blog very recently and i'm seeing my traffic and audience using Google Stats that is in built in google blogger. I have few question on google stats: > 1) Is number of visitor shown by stat is rough or accurate? > > 2) How i do find whether people have visited my site or search engines? > > 3) Is google stats is best for beginners like me? or any other tool? Correct me if am wrong.


title: Safari HTML for Planck Constant/Reduced Planck Constant

text: I want to display the symbols commonly known as h and h-bar. This is for Safari and iOS. What do I enter into my html? If there is a table of such things somewhere, a reference to it would be great. Thanks!


title: Setting up Google Analytics for multiple subdomains

text: so first here's a snippet of my current Analytics javascript:               var _gaq = _gaq || [];     _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-30490730-1']);     _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '.apartmentjunkie.com']);     _gaq.push(['_setSiteSpeedSampleRate', 100]);     _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);     (function() {         var ga = document.createElement('script');         ga.type = 'text/javascript';         ga.async = true;         ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';         var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);     })();      So if you wanna have a quick peak at the site the url is ApartmentJunkie.com, keep in mind the site is pretty bare bones but you'll get the idea -- basically it's very similar to craigslist in the sense that it's in the local space so people pick a city then get sent to a subdomain that is specific for that city, e.g. `winnipeg.mb.apartmentjunkie.com`. I put that up late last night then had a look at the analytics and found that I am seeing only the request uri portion of the URLs in analytics as I would with any other site only with this one it's a problem as `winnipeg.mb.apartmentjunkie.com/map/` and `brandon.mb.apartmentjunkie.com/map/` are two different pages and shouldn't be lumped together as `/map/` I know the kneejerk response is likely going to be "hey just setup a different google analytics profile for each subdomain" but there will eventually be a lot of subdomains so google's cap of 50 is going to be too limited and even more important I want to see the data in aggregate for the most part. I am thinking of making a change to the javascript, to something like:               _gaq.push(['_trackPageview',String(document.domain) + String(document.location)]);      But am unsure if this is the best way and figured someone else on wm.se would have had a similar situation that they could talk a bit about.


title: Rebuilt website from static html to CMS need to redirect indexed links

text: I have rebuilt a website which was all created with static html pages, it has now been rebuilt using a CMS system. I need to find a way of redirecting all the existing links to there new corresponding pages which utilise friendly URL rewrites on the CMS based website I imagine there will be several hundred if not 1000s as i have pages and images linked from google. What is the most efficient way to complete this Thanks in advance Mike


title: Is the W3 standard a major factor when google decides SERP position?

text: I have a dynamic php website which index only has around 800 errors according to the w3 validator online. I have tried checking major websites like ebay, stackoverflow and others also, all with around 400 errors. So my first thought is, what good is that validator when it always displays errors? Secondly, will the errors affect my SERP ranking? ie, will me fixing these errors as good as I can increase my Google search position? Thanks