title: About cdn architecture to route way

text: Our web system, use the third-party cdn service. Assume that the user set the local dns with the googledns or opendns to visit our web sites, so cdn service will select the closest cdn proxy node. all right, but in fact the user's actual access position might outside there, cdn service may chose the one furthest away from the user node, so static resource access slower.. At present, my idea is if user local set dns server with googledns, and then first one we get the actual ip address of the user, tracerote to test a best routing lines, set up a cookie in user browser, and then set 302 header for response to jump to the which best cdn node. Whether the user's browser side traceroute tool can provide the best route decision-making ? Because we find that, once the user to set local dns server with the foreign network segment, for example : set dns with 8.8.8.8, so cdn routing will choose the foreign service node.


title: Apache, Lighttpd, which one should I use?

text: Apache has always been described to me as the solution for hosting websites, but I have been using Lighttpd for many years now and seems pretty stable. What are the advantages of Apache towards Lighttpd ? Does it scale well for heavy-usage applications ? Is it stable enough ?


title: Marketplace to buy Templates for Twitter Bootstrap framework?

text: Are there any sites where I could buy a site template designed in Twitter Bootstrap (so that it's easy to modify)? _I'm working on a site redesign and I think finding a template that looks close enough and modifying it is an economical way to go. (We're pretty niche so I don't need us to have a super cool website.) But folks I've talked to say that many of those templates are hard to modify. So I'm thinking that finding a template designed in a customizable framework would be easy to modify._


title: sitemap.xml for huge online store

text: I'm running online store with 30,000+ products (having unique urls) which are updated every day. I want google to index my products faster. Now crawler index ~500 pages/day (reports from google webmaster tools). Would generating sitemap xml improve indexing? Should I include in sitemap static pages like contact, shipping info etc (I have about 10 such pages)? Does google bot works independently and index pages that are not listed in sitemap?


title: Blackhat SEO/Spam? Backlinking-blog entry has nothing to do with our site

text: I'm seeing some weird backlinks to our site. For example, there's a blogger with a site that is several years old and looking pretty legitimate, but he has links to our e-commerce home page site from his blog posts that have nothing to do with the type of products we sell. He has these anchor text that are keywords on our site, but are used out of context in his blog. For example, "... toothpaste caps" where `cap` is linking to our site where we baseball caps. Or, "... power outlet cap" where `cap` is linking to our homepage. Now, our last SEO guy, who I think was horrible, used to employ these paid services that would write fake reviews for you with a link to our site. So, it is not impossible that this was a result from that, but I need to find that out. What exactly is this type of behavior called by SEOs and search engine companies? I'd like to research more into what this is what how it affects our site and where it came from.


title: General Properties\Legal Domain warning on flash

text: I had a website containing 2 flash items (menu and banner). Everthing were fine, but for some reasons I had to change its hosting to a new server. Now, I have a warning frame on the banner that says: > Warning!!! Read this!!! > > Please, put this address into the General Properties\Legal Domain: ... What is this warning for and how can I remove it? _(The domain did not change)_


title: How do I check if Magento or PayPal is in sandbox mode?

text: I have configured my PayPal account in my Magento website. But even after I publish my website, there were no orders placed. Now I recieved an order from the website, but there is no money transfer to my PayPal account. I am not sure how to check if PayPal is working correctly or not. Any suggestions or references for me to check?


title: How to allow nonsense characters as web url for example: & * Ö :: and more

text: I have a database which contain many name with combination of those characters. Once i will reload them, they will become public web url. So that visitor if open this url (its valid??): http://www.example.com/&*Ö:: It will land to a unique page. But do you really allow those characters? Or filter them. Or there is no rule really, anything is allowed. (I can already see, `http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/23964/how- to-allow-nonsense-characters-as-web-url-for-example-and-more`, skiped my special characters and only took "and more". Is that the standard? I mean you can delete the main character?)


title: Is it possible to get the Google Alerts as structured data?

text: With the Google Alerts one can subscribe notifications about the newest search results to a given search terms. The alerts are sent to the email. Now, I'd like to analyse this data. Is there an API for it? (How) Can I get this data as JSON or in an other structured form?


title: What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?

text: I'm working for a website to convert the website URL to an SEO friendly URL. I plan to use this: `mysite.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name` I looked at some similarly categorized, highly ranked websites. They have the same structure, except for one thing. In one case, the URL format was `thissite.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name.html` Another was `thatsite.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name.php` Now I know the text in URLs help with SEO. Is it more helpful to have a file extension? If yes, which one is better? Or if my current plan is okay, will it be better with a `/` at the end?


title: which URL is better for a search engine?

text: In 2 ways I can show The article URL in my website: My Breadcrumbs website for a content to both of ways is this: **home** >> **computer** >> **hardware** >> **cpu** >>this-is-an-article.html **The First way:** LINK of article : example.com/computer/hardware/cpu/this- is-an-article.html catagory 1: example.com/computer.html catagory 2: example.com/computer/hardware.html catagory 3: example.com/computer/hardware/cpu.html **THe second way:** LINK of article : example.com/cpu/this-is-an-article.html catagory 1: example.com/computer.html catagory 2: example.com/hardware.html catagory 3: example.com/cpu.html **which one is the best for serach engine specialy google?**


title: Internal Link building strategy

text: I am having a few concerns about the best possible link building strategy for a large webshop. The category structure is something like this:               www.site.com     www.site.com/whitegoods     www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines     www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines/front-loaded     www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines/front-loaded/siemens      Now I want `www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines` to rank for the search _washing machines_ which is highly competitive. And I want `www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines/front-loaded/siemens` to rank for search terms like _front loaded washing machines_ which is not very competitive. Normally you say that you want to pass PR down through the page structure but the page that really needs some juice is the `www.site.com/whitegoods/washing- machines` page that I want to rank for _washing machines_. In other words: is it a good or a bad strategy to link from `www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines/front-loaded/siemens` to `www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines` with the anchor text _washing machines_?


title: which url is better for google SEO, recursively or directly?

text: Say I'm building a e-commerce website. I have a lot of products in different categories. For example one of them is: > Flat to Round Power Plug Convertor So I have two ways to link to this product, directly to it: > http://www.somedomain.com/p/flat-to-round-power-plug-convertor-1005874 or add the categories recursively before it: > http://www.somedomain.com/electrical-tools/plugs-sockets/flat-to-round- > power-plug-convertor-1005874 According to google's SEO guild it seems it's recommending to put content in their own folders so that both users and robots can understand them easier. Besides if user simply remove the last part of URL `flat-to-round-power-plug- convertor-1005874`, they can easily get to the category. The simply question is, when the product is in a 3rd or 4th level directory, the URL gets pretty long. I don't know if this long URL harms SEO or not. Or should I use the first form? **EDIT** : The thing that confuses me is the URL should be "descriptive", and it should be "short". Consider the following example: http://www.somedomain.com/apparel/women-shoes/lovely-pink-shoes http://www.somedomain.com/apparel/children-shoes/lovely-pink-shoes It would definitely help people find what they want. And when you got tens of thousands of products, this situation would happen a lot. Besides, Google definitely encourages to categorize content in their own folders as referenced above. The problem is, the more descriptive the URL is, the longer it is. How should I make choice between "descriptive" and "short"?


title: Best practices with multiple categories/tags etc. on URL (SEO)

text: I'm on the process of _building my eshop platform_ and encountered a **SEO** issue. My next step is to develop a _searching box_ , where user searches the products of a specific category (say, _desktops_ ). This box will contain characteristics of the category _desktops_ , for example, it will contain **RAM** and **CPU** for sure. _Notice_ that in my searching box one will be able to **select more than one** categories. My url (after rewrite) for _showing_ products of a specific category is as this:               http://localhost/products/desktops      I know how to add another rewrite rule in .htaccess but i won't until i find out.. **what is the best practice of adding multiple categories/tags in url without inflate it and cause damage (etc. page ranking) rather gain something**. For example, let's say someone wants to search _through desktops_ and by ( _CPU and RAM_ ) Of course, the following patterns is non-acceptable, regarding variable size of input and known google dislike of many folders:               http://localhost/products/desktops/CPU/RAM/..      What about the following?               1. http://localhost/products/desktops/CPU-RAM     2. http://localhost/products/desktops/CPU|RAM      The _1_ may seems nice but i learnt google is handling the hyphen (-) as words connector and these words are not connected? The _2_ is using the (|) pipe symbol since i learnt also google is using it to sort words of equal importance. I don't really if any of the above apply only to HTML content and/or not to URLs. **How can i feed my URL so to include a number of categories, say about 5 max.** and if anyone knows how google handle such issue, etc. penalty or how searches/archive that stuff. I don't really want to apply any _& filter_CPU=1&filter_RAM=1_ thingy in the end and defeating the whole purpose. **UPDATE:** Since my time was in essence i already went for the following approach/URL rewrite:               http://localhost/products/desktops/search-for/Celeron|Pentium|4gb-ram...      , where `..` are a collection of category's attributes (etc. type of CPUs, size of memories etc. whatever characterizes them) I thought _a lot_ about the **delimiter** to use. I can't use hyphens (-) since category attributes may already contain one and it's a rather typical character for such cases. I cant't use commas (,) or underscores (_) either for about the same reason and i don't like them (especially commas) on URL in general. **I prefer something like a pipe but was wondering how bad this is for SEO? How google will index my information passed as .. _Celeron|4GB-RAM_.. Will it sort it out as 2 words (as they are?)** or i should do something else?


title: for a blog with posts and categories what are all the best ways to create user friendly and seo friendly urls

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL? I am creating a module in my website which displays ringtones. It is like creating blog posts and categories, and it will also have categories (tags) and posts. (I am using category and tag interchangeably.) I am using the following linking for this module:   1. `sitename.com/blog`   2. `sitename.com/blog/category/category-name-slug/` -> will list all ringtones of that category/tag   3. `sitename.com/blog/title/name-slug-of-the-ringtone/` -> will display the details and a download link In every page, at the left I display the category/tag . This is how I have formed the url structure. Will it be user friendly, and (I hope so) will it be seo friendly as well? Please hint if I am missing something or other ways to improve. Meanwhile I am browsing the net to get more information on linking content (categorizing) and to find best ways for the user and search engine.


title: Depth of URLs and SEO

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL? Does the depth of an URL affect SEO/Pagerank? Is there any max or optimal level for URL depth? If you have, lets say, a website to map all the vegetarian local businesses (restaurants, shops, markets, etc.) in the world, which URL format would you choose?   1. `http://example.com/restaurant/name/city/country/1234`   2. `http://example.com/shop/name/city/1234`   3. `http://example.com/market/name/1234`


title: Which URL is better for SEO?

text: I have 2 main categories:   1. Software    2. Hardware Each of these categories has 10 subcategories for example hardware: `cpu/graphic/hard disk` and... Which URL is better for SEO?   1. `www.example.com/hardware/this-is-content.html` or   2. `www.example.com/cpu/this-is-content.html`


title: What is the best seo friendly url structure

text: What is the right link structure for search engines? We don't have the posts creation date, only the id of the each article. Is this a good structure? `http://www.example.com/1292/the-url-of-the-title`


title: Should I use the name of the segments in URI

text: I am making a site that has several sub-pages structured according to countries and categories. Which URL structure is better for SEO or does it even matter? Option I: www.site.com/australia/cooking VS. Option II: www.site.com/country/australia/category/cooking


title: url naming convention for improved seo and page rank

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL? Using url rewriting methods, what is a better way to organize the structure of the URLs of your website for SEO and user experience? I am using examples from large sites such as: yelp, stack overflow, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay, yahoo, and others. Each one uses a slightly different method... 1) Does the order matter? IF so, for what purposes? Are some better for blogs vs ecommerce vs content sites?   * `/category/{id}/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title   * `/category/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title/{id}   * `/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title/category/{id} Note: the {id} is the unique identifier that must be included the URL 2) Is it better to separate words in the URL with dashes (-) or underscores (_), or something else, like plus signs "+"? In what cases should you use the different variations? 3) Should you keep the name of the programming language in the title of your URL, or remove it completely? What is better?   * `/category/{id}/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title.html`   * `/category/{id}/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title` 4) Assuming I do my redirects correctly after making this URL structure change, how will I be affected in terms of page ranking? Will page ranking stay the same, or go down temporarily? And if so, for how long? (All of my pages have been indexed by the search engines already) My current URL structure is:   * `/carbonated-soft-drink-p-60.html` Note: the "p" stands for product I want to possibly change the URL to one of the following:   * `/sodas/60/carbonated-soft-drink`   * `/sodas/carbonated-soft-drink/60`   * `/carbonated-soft-drink/sodas/60`


title: URL SEO : Using directories or exact keyword phrase in the URL

text: I am trying to understand how to best optimise a url for a page to rank high for specific keywords. Example: a top keyword search is "rental properties in new york". Question is does this keyword need to appear as this exact phrase in the url or should it be broken up into different directories for a better structure e.g.: www.abc.com/en/properties/new-york/rental OR www.abc.com/en/rental-properties-in-new-york Which will help the page rank higher (given all other things on the page are exactly the same)? Thanks!


title: What is the most effective method of slug utilization in URL's

text: I'm trying to define what would be the best solution for my situation and especially how this would impact SEO. I have a website that currently has URL's which include a content ID. The ID was included as I was having duplicate URL's for different content.               www.example.com/123456/I-love-pro-webmasters      However, I wish to segment content into groups which I will add into the URL               www.example.com/123456/script/I-love-pro-webmasters     www.example.com/123456/design/I-love-UI      Is the latter acceptable methodology for SEO or should I be considering another solution. Would the addition of a keyword slug help with SEO? This post describes similarly what I was looking for, but is nearly three years old, therefore need to know if the rules are the same.


title: Best URL for cars related website?

text: If this was your website, what will be the URLs for each car on sale?               http://www.autoscout24.eu/Details.aspx?id=247572735&asrc=ha      I'm working on a car dealership website. What should be the best URL? Consider also that the company can have more models of the same car. I'm not asking for a url scheme, there are a lot of similar questions. My question is: in a car dealership website what is the best url for a car? What are by you the best variables I've to put on the url. Brand, model, year, location, color, miles/km, etc. This website, that url, this particulary case: what will you choose for urls? (even not in the following list)               audi_q5_2009.html     audi_q5_2009_used.html     audi_q5_2009_used.html     audi_q5_2009_used_in_alcobendas.html     audi_q5_2009_used/247572735.html


title: How to track what initial traffic source caused an event

text: Events on my site (e.g. conversions and registrations) most of the time don't happen right away. What I want to do is create a tracking script that allows the user to click a link and that link contains the traffic source. If that link click eventually results in a conversion I want it attributed to the original link click, (not the most recent because that is usually Direct / None. Something like http://domain.com/?track=originalsource I'm going to have affiliates and maybe I can give them google links to track which affiliates are generating conversions. Or maybe there's some good software out there that can do something really good like that?


title: RewriteRule to send all URLs with `mod` in them to the `moderator` directory

text: I have a `.htaccess` file in the root directory of my project, that contains all the rewrite rules for the site to functions. Most of these rules belong to the `mod` section of the site, and only two of them belong to the front end, which the users use. Problem is, when a front end user uses the site, apache ends up matching all the rules including the ones for the mods and signup etc, until it reaches the one for the end user, which I feel is unnecessary. I've checked this in the `.htaccess` log.               # Mod RewriteRules, some 12 in all      RewriteRule ^/?(mod)/(all|new|edit|redo|reject)/(push)/?$ /moderator/index.php?mode=$2&push=0 [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^/?(mod)/(all|new|edit|redo|reject)/?$ /moderator/index.php?mode=$2 [NC,L]          #signUp - Again, not always needed     RewriteRule ^/?(signup)/?$ /acc/signup/index.php?a=signUp [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^/?(signup)/(process)/?$ /acc/signup/process/index.php [NC,L]          #signIn - Again, not always needed     RewriteRule ^/?(signin)/?$ /acc/signin/index.php?a=signIn [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^/?(signin)/(process)/?$ /acc/signin/process/index.php [NC,L]          #signOut - Again, not always needed     RewriteRule ^/?(signout)/?$ /acc/signout/index.php [NC,L]          # These are the only two that a front end user will use     # category/subCategory     RewriteRule ^/?([a-z-]+)/([a-z0-9-]+)/?$ /display/index.php?t=$1&s=$2 [NC,L]          # category     RewriteRule ^/?([a-z-]+)/?$ /display/index.php?t=$1 [NC,L]      If you look at the above rules, the last two are the only ones that a user using the front end will use. However, the cannot be placed on top, because they'll end up catching anything first, because of the way they are. Can I place all rules for the moderator, signup and signin in their own directories, and do a rewrite rule in the root `.htaccess` file, that when it detects a url with `mod`, like `/mod/all` will send that request to the `moderator` directory. That way the root .`htaccess` file will have only the last two rules for the front end user along with others like `no hot linking` ones. How can I do something like:               If (URL Starts with '/mod/' then send it to the '/moderator/' folder where the RewriteRules there will apply) or     If (URL Starts with '/signup/' then send it to the '/acc/' folder where the RewriteRules there will apply)     and so on.      My directory structure is as follows:               /acc/ ...handles account login and creation     /display/ ... handles front end display     /moderator/ ...the sites administrator      How can I achieve this?


title: Facebook open graph protocol: how can I reach the scattered audience of people who liked individual pages on my website?

text: If you add Open Graph Protocol metadata to your website that is different for every URL (so the url in               <meta property="og:url" content="http://yourwebsite.com/somepage.html">      is the url of the page itself), you end up with an unmanageable number of "virtual" fan pages. I don't see a way to post updates to (newsfeeds of ) the fans of those individual pages all at once... Do you know of any "sitewide" update possibility? The alternative is that you set the URL parameter in the og metadata to a constant url - either your homepage or a "traditional" Facebook Fan page. This has the disadvantage however that if people like an individual posting on your site, in their newsfeed it shows up as a like of your homepage or Facebook fan page, and the link their friends see is their homepage or their individual fan page - a behaviour that seems illogical to most people and can be perceived as spammy. Anyone found a good solution for this conundrum? (BTW cross-posted this on Quora http://www.quora.com/Facebook-open-graph- protocol-how-can-I-reach-the-scattered-audience-of-people-who-liked- individual-pages-on-my-website ) PS: I tried to add the tags facebook-pages open-graph-protocol to this question, but lack the required reputation of 300 - maybe someone else can?


title: Why do "Registration-bots" exist? What do they gain from registering on my site?

text: I'm curious as i've been developing some anti-bot procedures for a website, only because I see others doing it. But Why?. What do the bots gain from registering hundereds of accounts? I'm building an e-commerce website and the only thing registered users can do is make purchases. Should I actually waste my time creating an anti-bot procedure (captcha/email verification etc) I have googled this but I can find the answer. I know that bots that register on forums are able to spam it with adverts, but what about sites that dont allow a user to 'communicate' with anyone?


title: Which screen resolution should I target for modern mobile phones?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Building for different screen sizes I am developing a site which needs to work on mobiles as well. I avoid specifying width and height by pixel. Mostly I am using percent for that but sometimes I need a specific area. for example, 300px `div` element. Which screen resolution should I target for modern mobile phones in general? I know it varies but what is the higher number. Most of my concerns are iPhone, Windows Phone and Android.


title: Is there an easy way to see the Top 100 Global Websites based on monthly uniques?

text: I can easily see the top 100 sites on Quantcast, or most of their competitors, but they're based on US uniques. Now, Quantcast provides Top Lists for non-US Visitors, but they're country by country, so I'd have to dump the Top list from each country and sum them, which isn't practical. Is there some other way to get the top X sites based on global uniques?


title: Show wordpress posts on linkedin company page

text: I have a customer with a wordpress blog that wants to add their posts to their LinkedIn company page. Is it possible to add a wordpress feed like you can in user profiles? I saw that there was a setting called "Company Blog RSS Feed" but that is already taken by another blog.


title: Age verification in website questions

text: I am working on a website for a client that is requesting a way to verify your age. I have debated on creating a cookie that stores your age but I am unsure on a few things.   1. How does SEO play into this if I create a landing page prior to the physical address?   2. Is there a better way to possibly go about doing this other than a cookie?   3. Should I create a separate page or code it within the header of the index page? This is something similar I am trying to accomplish.


title: Does social networking really help promote a site?

text: Every site promotion manual states that it's crucial to use social networks in a site promotion. But which specifically does this mean?   1. Even the FACT that your site has several social network satellite pages gets it higher in the search ranks   2. Only successful social networking (many replies, likes, shares etc) MAY help your site to get higher in the search ranks. Say, I create accounts in 10 major social networks and keep updating them constantly for several months. None of the accounts attracts a significant audience. Will this help promote my site or is it just a waste of time?


title: How do I Choose a Technology Stack For My Site?

text: There are a lot of different, competing, technologies to build a site with. From the front end of the site and client side technologies to databases. How do I choose a technology stack, what factors should I consider, and how do I avoid getting key technical decisions wrong from the outset?


title: Should I use the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, or download the source directly and install

text: I am used to finding the source code for the sites I set up (like blogs or CMS's) and I have used the Web Platform Installer to try out new packages and setup my development machine, but I haven't bothered to deploy any of those. Are there any gotchas with that tool?


title: Should 304 Not Modified responses include the "Last Modified" header?

text: I've been using the most excellent http://redbot.org tool for testing have HTTP headers on my site correct (its custom code in PHP serving dynamic content - wanting to ensure it cached where possible - served by Apache2) One of the tests says:               The If-Modified-Since response is missing required headers          HTTP requires 304 Not Modified responses to have certain headers, if they are also present in a normal (e.g., 200 OK response).     This response is missing the following headers: last-modified.     This can affect cache operation; because the headers are missing, caches might remove them from their cached copies.      ... so resonse doesnt include the Last-Modified header. However the code does try to send it. Investigating further, it seems that Apache uses a whitelist of HTTP headers, it will allow on 304 responses...               if (r->status == HTTP_NOT_MODIFIED) {         apr_table_do((int (*)(void *, const char *, const char *)) form_header_field,                      (void *) &h, r->headers_out,                      "Connection",                      "Keep-Alive",                      "ETag",                      "Content-Location",                      "Expires",                      "Cache-Control",                      "Vary",                      "Warning",                      "WWW-Authenticate",                      "Proxy-Authenticate",                      "Set-Cookie",                      "Set-Cookie2",                      NULL);     }     else {         send_all_header_fields(&h, r);     }      This is found around line 1281 in modules/http/http_filters.c of the Apache HTTPD 2.2.22 source code. .... "Last-Modified" is not on that list. **So the question is - which is wrong, redbot, or Apache?** http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html doesn't seem to specify if the Last-Modified should be included. (it does say the Etag should be - and that is allowed in Apaches list) Just incase its useful, this is the test case: http://redbot.org/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geograph.org.uk%2Fhelp%2Fsitemap - my code does include the Last-Modified header - its just that redbot never gets it (nor any custom X-.. headers).


title: GWMT Show Non Existent Backlinks "Via Intermediate Link"

text: I run 2 sites, Site A and Site B. These are ecommerce sites, with site A being built first, and both sites selling the same thing. They are hosted separately, use separate CMS (one magento and one pinnacle), and do not use duplicated content. We sell chemicals, this is important because we make available for download (by law mind you) the Labels and MSDS's for said chemicals. These are legal documents that are written by the manufacturers for the consumer's safety, etc. My problem is that my GWMT account shows over 16k backlinks going from site B to site A, and all 16k can be associated with 24 pdf files on site A that were simply copy and pasted into site b's server. GWMT shows them as backlinks "via intermediate" links which should indicate both a link somewhere AND a redirect somewhere, neither of which exist. **There are no links, there are no redirects anywhere in my code.** These should not be showing up in the first place. I have no unnatural link flag warnings. Is anyone having this issue, or have a solution for this issue? Why is google showing these as links in the first place? Am i being penalized for duplicate content?


title: Can't create site connection in Contribute. Administrator account removed from domain

text: I have been tasked with administering several sites through Contribute. The previous administrator has since left and his domain account was removed. I believe I had been set up as an additional admin on these sites previously. However, when I attempt to create a connection through "My Connections" in Contribute using SFTP and my credentials, I get the following error: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BrPDs.png) I have verified that I have read/write access to these sites through FTP. How can I take control of these sites through Contribute so that I can start administering them? Is this related to the removal of the previous admin's account?


title: How do I filter HTTPS URLs in Google Analytics?

text: Most pages on our website use `http://` - but some pages use `https://` I want to filter out of Google Analytics anything starting with `https://` as it's not relevant to our analytics, is there a way to do this?


title: Would having a './' in a URL cause any trouble with search engines?

text: For code simplicity, some of my URLs in my website might contain a `./` For example: > www.example.com/./something The `./` is automatically stripped-out by the browser, and the resulting URL is: > www.example.com/something My question is: could such URLs cause any trouble? Will search engines be able to correctly resolve these URLs?


title: What credibility indicators can be used for a new web app?

text: I understand that when you have an app which you launched an year back or so, its pretty easy to get testimonials from your users which then works as 'credibility indicators' when published on your website. They work in your favor and convert more visitors into your customers. But I want to know if there are any credibility indicators which you can use with a new web app or website?


title: Does Google's browser size statistic include mobile devices?

text: I'm trying to figure out a perfect size for my HTML5 game area, with the help of Google's browser size statistics, but it seems as I need to restrict myself to such small dimensions because, apparently, people either have very small monitors, or Google includes mobile devices to their statistics. If Google does that, I'll happily choose better (bigger) dimensions, but what should those be, then?


title: Using .htaccess, can you hide the true URL?

text: So I have a web hotel with 1 main website               http://www.myrootsite.com/      and a few websites in subdirectories, in a folder called projects. I have domain names pointing to the subdirectories, but when holding the mouse over a link in those websites the URLs are shown as:               http://www.myrootsite.com/projects/mysubsite/contact.html      When I'm on `mysubsite.com` I want them to be shown as:               http://www.mysubsite.com/contact.html      I spoke to support for the web hotel and the guy said try using _.htaccess_ , but I'm not sure exactly how to do this. Thank you very much for your time! **Edit: For more information** My website is: `http://www.example1.com/` and I also own `http://www.example2.com/`. All of `example2.com`'s files are in: `example1.com/projects/example2/`. When you visit `example2.com`, you'll notice all of the URL's point towards:               example1.com/projects/example2/      but I want them to point towards:               example2.com/      Can this be done? I hope this is enough info for you to go on :). **Edit: For w3d** I go to the url `mysubsite.com` and the browser shows the url `mysubsite.com`. The services I'm using create an iframe around `myrootsite.com` and use the url `mysubsite.com`      I just hate that in Firefox and Internet Explorer, holding the mouse over link show that the destination url is: `myrootsite.com/projects/mysubsite/...`


title: Guide to migrating live Ubuntu server

text: Does anyone know of a good guide for migrating from one Ubuntu server to another. I am going to move the home of my live ruby on rails application and I need to have as little down time as possible, move all the databases and my postfix/smtp etc. I'd like to be aware of the pitfalls before setting out and a good hand-holding guide would be handy as this is my first time doing this on a live production server. Thanks. This is not a duplicate of best practice to migrate server My question: Does anyone know of a good guide? I mean a tutorial, not a simple list of some pointers but a step by step guide. The linked question: A handful of things to consider. Very much not a duplicate. I asked this on stackoverflow and server fault, it is outside the scope of those pages, however, there are much better answers on those networks already to the light list of things to consider. What I'm looking for is a guide or tutorial.


title: Server move - DNS change time

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  best practice to migrate server I'm planning on moving a large active forum to a new server soon. However, the main issue I have is the time it will take for the DNS to update on the domain to the new server. As a result, the only way I can really see to avoid things getting messy with both sites being "active" while the DNS propagates at different times around the world is to disable posting on the old server while things are moving over, and as people get the new DNS info they'll be able to post again as they see the site on the new server. I understand that setting a low TTL on the domain would pretty much solve this issue, but unfortunately this isn't an option and I'm stuck with the default 24 hours. As far as I'm aware, I'm not able to access the database outside of server itself due to security restrictions, so I can't have both sites pointing at one database either. Or at least I'm not aware of a way of doing it. I guess the main question I have (and I fear I may know the answer) is if there's any other way to speed up the DNS move or somehow tell the site/domain where to look for the new server? Making the site read-only day or so for a chunk of users obviously isn't ideal, but if it's the only option then I'll have to go that route I guess.


title: Reach Local Proxy Page - Duplicate content?

text: We have a client who has instructed Reach Local to manage their paid SEO work etc. RL have created a proxy version of the page at http://example- px.rtrk.co.uk which mirrors the existing site completely. Would I be correct in assuming that this would count as duplicate content and one or both of the sites would be penalized because of this? And would the addition of a rel="canonical" meta-tag on the proxy site assist with this? Many thanks in advance.


title: Are bad backlinks causing thousands of 404 and 410 errors in webmaster tools?

text: Our webmaster tools account is showing 250.000 errors related with weird links from other sites. These URLs are comming mostly from non existent sites or are being generated directly by our website. Here some examples of these URLs:               oursite.com/&q=videos+caseros+sexo+pornos+gratis&sa=X&ei=R638T8eTO8WphAfF2vG8Bg&ved=0CCAQFjAC%2F%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F4%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F4%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F4%2Fpage%2F5%2Fpage%2F4/page/3      Our site is a popular spanish adult site, yet we don´t have keywords which are being mentioned in this URL. Apparently this link comes from our site. Some more examples:               oursite.com/&q=losmejoresvideosporno&sa=X&ei=U__8T-BnqK7RBdjmhYsH&ved=0CBUQFjAA%2F%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F4%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3/page/4      Once again: not our queries, not out URLs.               oursite/tag/tetonas      We think that it might be other site, which is having a policy of extremely bad SEO based on other sites branding and keywords usage:               thirdsite/buscador/tetonas-oursite      The question is: if other sites are generating these URLs, how can we prevent this? Why the tag is being generated if no link was added to the other site? What should we do with these errors? 301? 410 gone? I have read all similar Q&A here but none of them seems to solve our problem. It is not likely to be a bad ad (Inspected them all). Maybe some all content which google decided to recrawl suddenly? Maybe third parties bad SEO policy? Maybe all of them?


title: Replacement for DirectoryIndexRedirect for older versions of Apache

text: `DirectoryIndexRedirect` is available in version 2.3.14 and later. (mod_dir) Is there an alternative method for older versions? I have different `DirectoryIndex` directive sets for a lot of directories and would like a generic rule I can apply on the root directory. That way I would not have to maintain separate redirect rules for each directory.


title: URL rewriting removing question mark and replace it with slash

text: How can I rewrite my URL from `edit.php?id=2` to `edit/id/2`?


title: .htaccess two different rules but only one per time

text: I'm rather new to the whole .htaccess thing and I'm using the following right now to use 'pretty url's':               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         RewriteEngine On         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f         RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?path=$1 [NS,L]     </IfModule>      Now i found my website a bit slow and decided to start gzipping my CSS files thru a php script I found somewhere on the web (the website). For this to work I need to rewrite the url to open the correct php file. That would look something like this:               RewriteRule ^(.*).css$ /csszip.php?file=$1.css [L]      But I only want the first to happen when the second doesn't and vice versa. In other words i'd like something like this:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         RewriteEngine On         if request doesn't contain .css do             RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d             RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f             RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?path=$1 [NS,L]         else do             RewriteRule ^(.*).css$ /csszip.php?file=$1.css [L]     </IfModule>      Can anyone help me with the proper code or a place where i can find a way to use some kind of conditional statement in htaccess files?


title: 301 redirect bulk aspx URLs on IIS

text: We recently relaunched an old ASPX site as a new Drupal site on the same domain. No 301 redirect was implemented. I have outputted a list of 1000 URLs that need to be 301 redirected. Most of the URLs are the results of search queries that were committed on the website. I.E.:               http://www.mysite.com/electronics/CommunityDetails.aspx?FirstLetter=%&ID=444      We are running a Drupal site on IIS using a PHP plugin. Is there a way I can wild card a redirect of all ASPX pages? I know I can do it with _.htaccess_ but that doesn't apply here. Any suggestions appreciated.


title: Is there any way out so that a video available online cannot be downloaded?

text: Is there any way out so that a video available online cannot be downloaded ? I have checked almost every way out and found that everything can be spoofed. So does anyone knows anything else that cannot be spoofed ?


title: Is it normal for a registrar to charge for nameserver changes?

text: My registrar, 34sp.com, wants to charge for changing nameservers for a domain. The domain is a .cc domain. If this matters. Is this normal? I've never heard of this before. Almost $30 US for a nameserver change?! Surely this is just a text file?


title: Explain DNS/Content/Registration with services such as Blogger and Go Daddy

text: I have this kind of settings for Google Sites and Blogger in Godaddy, below. I cannot get URL Framing (not URL masking) working with them. I am unsure what the problem, cannot understand what services such as Blogger and Godaddy really do. **Wrong A-records in Go Daddy!**               ; A Records     @   3600    IN  A   216.239.32.21     art 3600    IN  A   64.202.189.170     abc 3600    IN  A   64.202.189.170     @   3600    IN  A   216.239.34.21     @   3600    IN  A   216.239.36.21     @   3600    IN  A   216.239.38.21     lol 3600    IN  A   64.202.189.170          ; CNAME Records     www 3600    IN  CNAME   ghs.google.com     mobilemail  3600    IN  CNAME   mobilemail-v01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net     pda 3600    IN  CNAME   mobilemail-v01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net     email   3600    IN  CNAME   email.secureserver.net     imap    3600    IN  CNAME   imap.secureserver.net     mail    3600    IN  CNAME   pop.secureserver.net     pop 3600    IN  CNAME   pop.secureserver.net     smtp    3600    IN  CNAME   smtp.secureserver.net     ftp 3600    IN  CNAME   @     webmail 3600    IN  CNAME   webmail.secureserver.net     e   3600    IN  CNAME   email.secureserver.net        1. Please, explain the "Custom Domain" and how can I hide my blogger url?   2. ok I am still unsure what the "custom domain" in blogger really mean, does it mean that the content hosting is moved to some other site?    3. Or does it mean that it just hides the blogspot url with other url?    4. Or is it this so-called "301" thing or "URL redirection" or something else? **Related questions**   1. Control Content Hosting, DNS Hosting and Registration with command line?


title: Name attribute is obsolete, what is the correct behavior when dealing with anchors?

text: Putting some code through the html5 validator, I get this: > Warning: The name attribute on the a element is obsolete. Consider putting > an id attribute on the nearest container instead. I find that unclear. Is the "nearest container" for an anchor link the a itself, so that the correct code would be `<a id='blah'>` instead of `<a name='blah'>`? Or are empty placeholder `<a>` tags as a whole deprecated, and anchors can simply point to any element with an id instead?


title: Should my Title tag be the same as my H1 tag?

text: I have read that I should make the contents of my `<title>` and `<h1>` tags the same. Is that the case or is does Google look at the content of those 2 tags separately?


title: How to move domain from 1&1 to fasthosts with minimum downtime

text: How can we move our domain name from 1&1's control over to our new host with as little affect (if any) on downtime for our domain name. We've tried moving name servers before and our site went dark despite us defining all the old records on to the new name server host, now this time we're going to move the entire domain to another company but we've been bit so many times by this that I'm trying to find out what the process should be, and whether it can be done in a way to prevent down time


title: Removing .html and index.html from URL

text: I'm having some problems trying to   1. Remove the .html extension from URLs   2. Removing 'index.html' from an URL 1) To remove the extension I have tried using this in my htaccess file.               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html      However when I click links in my HTML such as `<a href="abcde.html"></a>` it doesn't remove the .html from the URL and I am left with `www.website.com/abcde.html` 2) I tried using this to remove the index.html               RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \/index\.(php|html)\ HTTP [NC]     RewriteRule (.*)index\.(php|html)$ /$1 [R=301,L]      But when I load an index.html file on my server, my URL looks something like this               www.website.com/folder//      I am left with an extra `/` at the end. Can anyone help me out?


title: Is there any website/service that notifies you when a site has changed?

text: Is there any website that offers a service that notifies you by email when a given site changes? I want to track changes on the site http://www.thief4.com. I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask though.


title: Use a CDN to handle UGC uploads

text: I was on the phone with a sales guy from Akamai and he mentioned that they offer a service that can handle user generated content uploads (videos in our case) to their edge network. Unfortunately, he passed me onto a partner company that is clueless and I can't seem to find any more information about it. Can someone point me to a CDN that offers such a product?


title: Why did my new markup cause the site to disappear from Google?

text: Unfortunately this post isn't about something as concrete as a bug, but it's been driving me nuts. I recently updated my blog's theme and software (I basically rewrote it) from http://old.korokithakis.net/ to http://www.korokithakis.net/. Yesterday, I noticed all my pages dropping from Google's search results. My Python tutorial used to be 3rd for "learn python" and now it's 30th, if it even appears on the list. I've allowed robots, all the header tags are in place, titles are the same as they used to be and the URLs that changed have permanent redirects to the new ones (the tutorial URLs haven't changed). Still, all my pages dropped from the results. What can be having such a huge impact on the rankings? Thanks.


title: Movable Type on GoDaddy

text: I have deluxe linux shared hosting with godaddy, and it supports perl. but i dont know how to setup and use perl scripts. Also i have no folder named CGI or CGI-BIN or anything like that. As movable type requires me to put my content in the CGI folder, i cant. creating it also doesn't work. So can you guide me on how to install movable type on godaddy. Also i dont want to spend money and install it from the godaddy hosting connection. And please remember as i'm on a shared hosting, i might not be able to edit my apache server configuration file. Thanks.


title: Adding a second domain to a website

text: I want to direct an easy to remember domain url to my website that has nothing to do with the brand or the original domain. What is the proper way to add a second domain to a website without opening up the chance for being penalized by search engines? I don't want the second domain to show up in SERPs.


title: How to detect if a placement would be empty (Doubleclick for Publishers)?

text: I want to use DFP for my ads. To display an ad I am calling `GA_googleFillSlot()`. My understanding of this is, that this function injects the ad code at the position where the JS call is placed. How can I detect if the placement is empty, e.g. no banner code will be injected because there is currently no banner. I need to know because the surrounding html needs to be adapted. Any ideas? **Edit:**   Alternatively, is it possible to alter the injected html elements? DFP injects a div with id="google_ads_div_$PLACEMENT_ID">. Is it possible to add a class attribute?


title: How does Google's Website Optimizer do all its funky goodness with an unbalanced </noscript> tag?

text: Last week one of the guy's at our office did a talk on using Google's Website Optimizer for AB multivariate testing. In the talk, he says that when you set it up you just add some special code to the page around the HTML you want to vary [ see #3 under multivariate test here ]               <script>utmx_section("Headline")</script>     Welcome!     </noscript>      What's going on with that unbalanced tag at the end? What magic is Google doing?


title: Contact YouTube

text: Is there any direct way do contact a „real” person, an YouTube employer? Someone created an account for the company I work for (previous employer). She entered some password and e-mail. The provided e-mail was valid, but since last login (more than two years), we changed our domain, and this e-mail is probably not valid anymore (and we even don't know it), co we can't use option to reset password. I have used all the options in YouTube help center, and no one worked. Also we _can't_ contact this previous employer to get any data she entered in the registration form. The only data I know is the username. All the movies present the products of our company, there are links to our site in movie descriptions, so there should be no problem to prove that the account is ours. This is an urgent case, becouse the movies contain outdated information.


title: how do I get my friend to see my domain?

text: How do I allow my friend to see a web site via an unregistered domain name and not via a direct IP address. I'm using Xampp 1.8.1 and have my ports forwarded.


title: What is user agent Issbot

text: I am seeing a lot of traffic to my website from user agent Issbot. This certainly looks like a bot, but is not listed in the www.user-agents.org listing, and I have not been able to find anything useful on Google. Does anyone know what or who this is?


title: I have a website which uses page refresh when the browser is resized below a certain point am I violating AdSense TOS?

text: Will google AdSense punish me for refreshing the page if the user resizes the browser below a certain point?


title: Here we go again - quest for web hosted forum via javascript

text: **disclaimer** If this is the wrong location for this question, then please advise me accordingly. **backgound** I've been using Disqus and intense debate as a 'comments' service for a variety of my sites to great effect and love the fact that i get alot of the facebook/twitter integration 'for free', as well as the SEO benefits. **request** To this end, does anyone out there know of similar services that can be used to pull entire forums/threaded discussions into the app in a similar fashion (i.e. via ajax webservices). google has been at a loss to turn anything up on this front and i'm therefore wondeing if it's unlikely that such a 'service' exists. **respect** hope this stikes a chord out there... btw - altho using this in asp.net mvc, I'm aware that this technology could be used on any platform capable of consuming javascript via ajax, thus the wide spread of 'tags'.


title: Why does bingbot access my sites the most even if I set crawl rate to the minmum?

text: Recently my sites got overloaded and it turned out bingbot was the culprit. I set the crawl rate for the minimum for my sites in bing webmaster tools, but regardless bingbot has the most access (about 30000 requests a day) among all the crawlers. Google has less requests a day. Do you also experience heavy traffic from bingbot? Why doesn't it behave when I set crawling rate to a minimum?


title: Redisigning an old site, structure change etc

text: I have an old site built in 2006, it has around 200 pages and 500 pictures. Every single page is of course indexed as well as images. It is very well ranked for targeted keywords and I receive good amount of SEO traffic (I guess that's due the various campaigns, branding, ppc, etc..) **Problem:** Site has outdated design, pages and images have not so proper names, there are no heading and alt tags, it was built in tables, inline CSS etc.. **Goal:** Complete redisign site, use divs, change file names, add proper meta data, alt tags etc.. **Question:** How this can affect current SEO positions? I will redirect (301) every single page to the new one, build site map, but what to do with images? Do I need to redirect them also? Any other suggestion?


title: Choosing good keywords with respect to match type "Phrase" only

text: How to choose good keywords or phrases with respective to competition, monthly global searches and monthly local searches? I am using google keyword tool. I am concentrating on Match type : "Phrase". Is this good enough? Match Type : "Phrase"   Competition less is at 3%   Monthly Global search is 1600   Monthly local search is 110


title: wrestling with some rewrites for Apache

text: I have upgraded my gallery2 to gallery3, and notice that some links no longer resolve correctly. Since the proper way is to redirect these with a 301, that is the way I'm going. The following series need redirecting: folders:   old: photo.meulie.net/v/various/Gry/   new: http://photo.meulie.net/various/Gry/ pages:   old: photo.meulie.net/v/Jacob/02112008310.jpg.html   new: http://photo.meulie.net/Jacob/02112008310 (both are of course just examples. there are 100's of folders & files to redirect...) I think there were/are also direct links to images, but those I'm not bothering with for now. Who can help me out? :-) Regards, Evert NB. these are the existing rewrite rules: `Options +FollowSymLinks   RewriteEngine On   RewriteBase /   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?kohana_uri=$1 [QSA,PT,L]   RewriteRule ^$ index.php?kohana_uri=$1 [QSA,PT,L]   RewriteRule ^index.php/(.*) $1 [QSA,R,L]   ` Where should I insert your lines? Greetings, Evert


title: Install Moodle to subdomain with Softaculous via cPanel

text: I installed Moodle to a directory with Softaculous. Since it doesn't allow installing to a subdomain, after installing it I created a subdomain and pointed the destination (of the subdomain) to the previously created Moodle directory. Now when I go to the `subdomain.example.com` it says > Incorrect access detected, this server may be accessed only through > "`http://example.com/moodle`" address, sorry. Please notify server > administrator. I must be doing something wrong, when installing it was very similar to these instructions. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.


title: I need good CRM written in php

text: I need open source, mature, good, flexible, extensible php CRM with liberal free license that allowing for redistribution. I heard that SugarCRM is good one, but its not free, and right now their page is not working.


title: where should I use new → I see everywhere?

text: I currently use ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GWAKR.png) to refer to an external link on my personal website. However recently I have started noticing extended use of → for links. Is this a replacement for ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GWAKR.png) ? or is it used to convey some other meaning?


title: Alternative to mediacore in PHP?

text: What's a good (also free) alternative to mediacore (http://getmediacore.com/) but done in PHP. I mean with the same good look&feel, support and community support.


title: Is it legal for U.S. based websites to serve online gambling ads?

text: I have a site that hits the sweet spot for that demographic but my user base is 90% in the U.S.


title: Getting a lot of postmaster undeliverable notices for non-existent users

text: I've had my domain (straightpathsql.com) for a few years now. I host my e-mail with Google Accounts for business and have for awhile. ALl of the sudden in the past week I am starting to get a lot of postmaster delivery fail notices from various domains, most of them involving bogus e-mail addresses at my domain (hank787989714@straightpathsql.com, for example)... My assumption here is that someone is trying to relay on some other host (not my hosts which are secure through google apps for business, I presume) and there isn't much I can do to stop it. But I just want to make sure there isn't something else I need to be looking at here.. An example delivery fail notice is below.. I know nothing of those addresses below and they look like garbage... (Quick edit: the reason I get these messages is I set myself up as a catch all, so it doesn't matter what e-mail you send a note to at my domain, I'll get it if the account isn't setup... All of the failure messages are sent to bogus addresses on my domain)               The following message to <omiivi2922@4speed.co.jp> was undeliverable.     The reason for the problem:     5.1.0 - Unknown address error 553-'sorry, this recipient is in my badrecipientto list (#5.7.1)'          Final-Recipient: rfc822;omiivi2922@4speed.co.jp     Action: failed     Status: 5.0.0 (permanent failure)     Remote-MTA: dns; [118.82.83.11]     Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 5.1.0 - Unknown address error 553-'sorry, this recipient is in my badrecipientto list (#5.7.1)' (delivery attempts: 0)               ---------- Forwarded message ----------     From: Howard Blankenship <SolomonF5E948@straightpathsql.com>     To: omiivi2922 <omiivi2922@4speed.co.jp>     Cc:      Date:      Subject: Hi omiivi2922      Full Header:               Delivered-To: solomonf5e948@straightpathsql.com     Received: by 10.204.120.16 with SMTP id b16csp19402bkr;             Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:05:27 -0700 (PDT)     Received: by 10.68.190.102 with SMTP id gp6mr9307880pbc.5.1340899526973;             Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:05:26 -0700 (PDT)     Return-Path: <>     Received: from irmx01.secure.ne.jp (irmx01.secure.ne.jp. [122.200.253.201])             by mx.google.com with ESMTP id vo8si2410809pbc.133.2012.06.28.09.05.26;             Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:05:26 -0700 (PDT)     Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of irmx01.secure.ne.jp designates 122.200.253.201 as permitted sender) client-ip=122.200.253.201;     Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of irmx01.secure.ne.jp designates 122.200.253.201 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=     Message-Id: <afddd6$1uo8qbc@irmx01.secure.ne.jp>     Received: from localhost by irmx01.secure.ne.jp;       29 Jun 2012 01:05:25 +0900     Date: 29 Jun 2012 01:05:25 +0900     To: SolomonF5E948@straightpathsql.com     From: "Mail Delivery System" <MAILER-DAEMON@irmx01.secure.ne.jp>     Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)     MIME-Version: 1.0     Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary="1zX6bY.4muf/vHVS.1LvkrJ.2ohy5+/"          --1zX6bY.4muf/vHVS.1LvkrJ.2ohy5+/     content-type: text/plain;         charset="utf-8"     Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable          The following message to <omiivi2922@4speed.co.jp> was undeliverable.     The reason for the problem:     5.1.0 - Unknown address error 553-'sorry, this recipient is in my badrecipi=     entto list (#5.7.1)'          --1zX6bY.4muf/vHVS.1LvkrJ.2ohy5+/     content-type: message/delivery-status          Reporting-MTA: dns; irmx01.secure.ne.jp          Final-Recipient: rfc822;omiivi2922@4speed.co.jp     Action: failed     Status: 5.0.0 (permanent failure)     Remote-MTA: dns; [118.82.83.11]     Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 5.1.0 - Unknown address error 553-'sorry, this recipient is in my badrecipientto list (#5.7.1)' (delivery attempts: 0)          --1zX6bY.4muf/vHVS.1LvkrJ.2ohy5+/     content-type: message/rfc822          X-SBRS: -4.0     X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true     X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArX2ALV/7E8CWcTHPGdsb2JhbACGH4Z3qC8EgT8BAQEBNzQdGwOCB34NAhhVGogipWeTSYEgik4LhGiWFIEThGY     X-Spam-Status: Yes     Received: from unknown (HELO dsldevice.lan) ([2.89.196.199])       by irmx01.secure.ne.jp with ESMTP; 29 Jun 2012 01:05:24 +0900     Message-Id: <20120628190518.2A7C7A6962F6869E0B42@WEC-PC>     From: Howard Blankenship <SolomonF5E948@straightpathsql.com>     To: omiivi2922 <omiivi2922@4speed.co.jp>     Reply-To: Maria Luna <Guadalupe5BF0695@quechisme.com>     Subject: Hi omiivi2922     Mime-Version: 1.0     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8     Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit          --1zX6bY.4muf/vHVS.1LvkrJ.2ohy5+/--


title: I changed my URL structure. How do I tell Google to not show my older links?

text: My old URL structure was http://japanaddicts.org/mind-blowing-japanese-songs/ But almost three days back, I picked the other style that's more descriptive: http://japanaddicts.org/creativity/mind-blowing-japanese-songs/ Now I have category slugs in my post URLs. When I searched for Some Mind Blowing Japanese Songs, the third result was my website's, but with the old URL. How do I somehow tell Google to refresh the listings of my website's posts? My website is only 24 days old, so I think it has to be pretty easy to refresh it completely? I have XML sitemaps enabled. Please note that I am not willing to do redirects. That'll be another problem, let's keep this problem specific. (As a further request, I would like you to open the former link and tell me whether it shows a 404 error or not, as in my case, it doesn't open anything but a blank page.)


title: Google and Landing Pages

text: Some time ago (about 12 months) I created a number of targeted pages for our main product site. Out main product can be called several different things and clearly it's not possible to optimize our home page for all of them so we created new pages called 'secondary-term-1.htm' and 'secondary-term-2.htm'. These contained unique content and at the time I linked to them our site map and our blog. And that was it. A year later these pages are now ranking quite well and I want to expand on this concept and create new landing pages for other terms. I believe these landing pages are useful to people searching using different terms and relating this back to our product. I also think they are useful in explaining how our product is useful to different market segments. What is the current thinking with respect to Google as far as these landing pages go? Are we likely to be penalized in some way? This site is our main money maker and I am ultra cautious with what we can and cannot do on it.


title: How many 301 redirects will the google bot handle?

text: If your page does five 301 redirects to get to the final page I'm guessing that google bot will follow it all the way there. However, there must be a limit at which point google bot says "hey, that's enough, I'm not going any further." What is that limit?


title: Simple Frameset Website vs Complex AJAX Website?

text: I should preface this with the statement that I **_do_** understand that HTML Framesets are on their way out, and that they have all sorts of SEO/accessibility concerns. That being said, I've been considering building a web-based API app, and I really like the format of the Java and AS3 APIs. They both use framesets in what I consider to be a reasonable manner, and are the most readable API's that I know of. The AS3 CS4 API no longer uses frames, but is verrrryyyyyy slooowwwwww. My other consideration was to make an AJAX-driven (jQuery) site so that I don't have to reload the entire API class/package list on each page load. It would likely reduce the data-transfer to be less than the frameset version. I feel that the frameset format will simplify many of the features that the AJAX version would have to re-create (resizable regions, targeted links, etc). Also, the frameset version wouldn't require javascript. Am I being foolish to think that this could be a _useful_ application of framesets?


title: AutoMatically Creating New Sites When New Users Sign Up

text: I would like to know how hosted eCommerce sites like www.shopify.com, www.3dCart.com etc.. automatically creates new sites when new users sign up. What kind of tools do they use to create those sites into the users profile. I have tried googling but couldn't find an answer. Does any of you guys have any knowledge or experience that you can share with me? Or do you know a tutorial that you can point me to? I hope my question is clear. Thanks for your help.


title: Why is my favicon broken in Firefox?

text: My new favicon works in Safari and Chrome, but it's weirdly split in Firefox on Mac or Windows: ![Broken favicon](http://i.stack.imgur.com/i7Ccn.png) However, if you navigate to the favicon itself it appears fine: ![Working favicon in same browser](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CI9E3.png) You can see how it looks in your browser here: http://coastsider.com I created the file as a png and later a jpg in Acorn. I converted it to .ico using Graphicconverter. I've also tried converting the png to an ico in other programs. Has anyone seen this problem before?


title: Incoming Cname does not show the subdomain

text: I have a subdomain: sub.domain-one.com which has a CNAME which points to sub.domain-two.com. All good. But when I enter sub.domain-one.com I don't see the sub.domain-two.com, but the basic page of the server. What am I doing wrong?


title: How to allow customer to "View Cart" / "Checkout" in PayPal?

text: We're setting up a simple website with PayPal. We've implemented a bunch of **Add to Cart** buttons and they're working well. But we assumed we would also add a **View Cart / Checkout** button at the top, so that the customer can stop shopping and complete his purchases. I know the customer can - in PayPal - finalise/checkout any time he clicks on an **Add to Cart** (so he should do it on his _final_ add) but he may not have known at that stage that it _was_ his final purchase. Surely there's some PayPal code we can drop onto our **View Cart / Checkout** button which will take the customer direct to his PayPal checkout? But the PayPal page listing button types doesn't have a checkout button: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Q1wS0.jpg) Note: this question isn't about the button image (we're doing that ourselves), it's about what plumbing to put in behind the scenes.


title: Only First Link Counts

text: If anyone hasn't seen yet the following blog: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/3-ways-to-avoid-the-first-link-counts-rule It is describing that from at least two links (so two or more) that are located on the same page and both (or all if more than two) pointing to the same other page, only the first one will have some seo benefit (link juice). The rest won't count in seo benefit. Here doesn't count the links in images. I think most of us knew that already BUT:   1. As ''first link'' is probably meant the first one in the HTML code of particular page but what when we are in the process of designing the page? In this case the code is changing on the fly (xsitepro - ''what you see is what you get'' simplified tool for website design). First link in the code can be replaced with new first one at any time. Is there any fast way to see which one is really the first one in the html code of the page?   2. Sure the fact that first links only counts for seo benefit isn't relevant for images. But what about other links such as the ones in footer, buttons, potential testimonials, links in navigation menu and so on? Does absolutelly everything (except images) what is dofollow counts?   3. Is that fact relevant along internal links, also for outbound and inbound ones? Probably yes.


title: Dynamically load CSS

text: I'm using LESS for creating CSS and I'm considering using something like `grunt-render` on the server side in order to only load the CSS / JS that is needed for that page. My goal is to reduce overhead for page load. My CSS is fairly big, but I wonder; Will it matter if my CSS is minimized anyway? Will a few bytes less make any difference?


title: How to make CloudFlare cache everything?

text: I want CloudFlare to cache everything, PHP files too, every request from the domain, I want it to cache it. Is this possible? (There are PHP scripts on the domain that print out images, JS and CSS, they return the appropriate mime type, but I read that CloudFlare caches according to file extenstion, if printing out the mime type helps, it's good too.)


title: Facebook and Crawl-delay in robots.txt?

text: Do Facebook's webcrawling bots (for example facebookexternalhit/*) respect the `Crawl-delay:` directive in _robots.txt_ files?


title: Alot of Pirated Material on Someone's Website - What Can Be Done?

text: We've developed our website for over 10 years. Recently a website in China has begun to pirate our images and product descriptions (they are showing "new" March offerings). Nearly all of the items they "offer" are ours. Their whois leads to an outfit in France which by chance also hosts a website for Steroids, and both the Steroid and the pirate site share an 800 phone number (coincidence??). The pirate site lists "their" products as being available in mass quantities, though very often the actual product is one-of-a-kind. The images they've stolen appear in google searches alongside our own!! Clicking on any product at the pirate site leads to nowhere. Calls to the 800 number lead to a recorded answer. No reply to our emails (funny if they would have!) Any suggestions on what to do? Much obliged for any help. https://www.collectiblereview.com (the pirates) http://www.anabolic-store.com (steroids)


title: dns routing MX record

text: I want to move an old website from a client's office server to a new hosting account but I need to leave the email accounts on my client's office server. I have done this once or twice before and what I did was to change the domains nameservers to point to the new hosting account and then in the clients new hosting account I setup a new MX record to point back to their office hosting. The problem is that this there is a lot more emphasis on email and also I may have to do the transfer midweek and possibly in the middle of the day so they don't want any real email downtime. I have 3 questions   1. If something went wrong and I needed to switch back might it take a long time for the nameserver to propagate back. I guess the answer here is yes so if that was the case then would it be that the emails sent to the domain during that time would be lost.   2. Could I test that the new MX record on the new hosting was working properly before I switched the nameserver over.   3. If everything was setup completely right might I still end up with downtime.   4. If I did an MX lookup now would the IP that I find be the one I would use for the new MX record on the new hosting.


title: Does transfering an existing website similar to this to a Pligg Template hurt SEO results?

text: I have a website very similar to this that I made from scratch. It's called www.Citybeams.com. I already have decent Google search engine results for a good amount of keywords and question titles. "City Questions" and "City Answers" page one Google for example. I was thinking of moving the whole site to a Pligg.com template still under the same domain am I'm wondering if that could hurt my search engine results?


title: PageSpeed - Minimize DNS lookups: why not use IP address for resources

text: One of the recommendations from web performance optimization services is to minimize DNS look ups. I fully understand why they recommend this but why not just point references to external files to the IP address? For example:               <script src="//555.555.55.55/cdn/jquery.min.js"></script>      I have never seen this done, and my searches here came up empty, why not?


title: Changing displayed price based on visitor location?

text: I run an online web app which at the moment I charge for in GBP. I'm expanding to the US and Europe and am looking for the best way to change the displayed price based on where the visitor is located. Because I use PayPal, ideally it would be great if it took into account the fee PayPal charges for currency conversion, but if not it wouldn't be the end of the world. What would be the best way to do this do you think?


title: Why do non-working websites look like search indexes?

text: An example of this could be shown on every .tk domain that doesn't exist,   just write www.givemeacookie.tk or something, you get into a fake search engine/index   Now these things are all over, I use to always ignore it because it was obvious just a fake template, but it's everywhere. I was wondering, where is it originated (here it's searchmagnified, but in their website it's also something generic) ? Is there a proper name for these type of websites?


title: Multiple sites redirected to one main site

text: I have a client who insists of having multiple website domains all being redirected to one main website domain. It is getting out of hand and his server has become conveluted and riddled with garbage because of it, not to mention confusing at times. Each of these domains that he is setting up has no content, they simply redirect the user to the main website domain. Is this practice of having multiple domains pointing to one main website common? And does anyone know where I can get information to give to this client to let him know this is a bad practice if it is a bad practice?


title: Google Analytics still reports "Tracking not installed" even though the code is on the web page

text: I added the code listed on the Tracking Info tab on the GA page.               <script>         (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){         (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),         m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)         })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');              ga('create', 'UA-26738353-3', 'smokingfishgames.com');         ga('send', 'pageview');     </script>      Unfortunately, for several hours now the GA tracking info shows an error message of `Status: Tracking Not Installed`. I'm unsure why, considering that every few minutes when I refresh the page it says `Last checked:` with a very recent time. I added the code to http://smokingfishgames.com, where it should be visible in the source exactly as shown above. What am I doing wrong? Did I just not wait long enough? I've tried a bunch of solutions that were posted by other people, but many of them were extremely dated. Very frustrating--I'm having the same issue with another web page. Reports aren't being generated, either, so it's not a false alarm with the installation detection. ![GA Screenshot](http://i.imgur.com/baed5yE.png)


title: Can internal linking create excessive web server load?

text: SE sites allow tags chaining like this:               /questions/tagged/seo+google+search-engines+research+keywords      This site has more than 700 tags. If up to 5 tags can be chained, there are               700*700*700*700*700 = 168070000000000      links that google can crawl. Can it be harmful?


title: SEO : urls : best place for the id

text: I would like to know what's the best location for an id in a SEO optimized URL:               http://www.site.com/id/slug-title          http://www.site.com/slug-title-id      What do you think ?


title: Estimate of Hits / Visits / Uniques in order to fall within a given Alexa Tier?

text: I was wondering if anyone could offer up rough estimates that could tell me how many hits a day move you into a given Alexa rank ?   * Top 5,000   * Top 10,000   * Top 50,000   * Top 100,000   * Top 500,000   * Top 1,000,000 I know this is incredibly subjective and thus the broad brush strokes with the number ranges... _BUT_ I've got a site currently ranked just over 1.2M worldwide and over 500k in the USA (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fstr.net) Pretty cool for something hand-built on weekends (pat self on back) I was applying to an ad-platform and was told that their program doesn't accept webmasters who have an Alexa rank of greater than 100,000. (Time to take back that pat on the back I guess). I know that my hits in the last 30 days are somewhere on the order of 15,000 uniques and 20,000 pageviews. So I'm wondering how much harder do I have to work to achieve my next "goals"? I'd like to break into the top million, then re-evaluate from there. It'd be nice to know what those targets translate into (very roughly of course). I imagine that alexa ranks and tiers become very much exponential as you move up the ranks, but even hearing annecdotal evidence from other webmasters would be really useful to me. (ie: I have a site that is ranked X and it got Y hits in the last 30 days)