title: SSL issues on my website

text: I'm running a XenForo website and I am now getting SSL security issues. I'm not so experienced in SSL, so I'm hoping you guys can provide some clarity on them. I was thinking that they probably had something to do with CHMOD, but don't know enough about it to help. Here is a screenshot indicating the issues: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gKB2n.png)


title: Cannot access my own web page

text: I am developing, learning and experimenting with php,html,javascript,flash and so on. Having web hosting and all of the cpanel, phpmyadmin and other utilities. One day, while updating information, connection between my computer and website just went down. I found out that it is only from this computer, where I cannot access anything. I don't know what is the reason I cannot access website, however this is what I have checked so far:   * Everything else opens normally, having problem only with my page.   * Cannot access FTP,cpanel or any kind of information related to the domain and hosting   * ipconfigs detects IP, but shows request timed out (so its not browser related)   * Turned off Firewall,AV, Rebooted computer   * Cleared caches,temp,cookies,histry with CCleaner   * Checked connectivity with both (wired,wireless) networks   * ISP has dynamic IP that has been changed about 3 times since issue   * Checked host file I am out of ideas and understanding what could cause this kind of issue, however couple minutes ago, found out that everything works with proxy server (when adding IP and port to the browsers) Can someone point out what should I check or try to get rid of this problem? Also tried:   * ipconfig /flushdns   * removed all of the files from system32/drivers/etc Havent found solution yet, but I am very curious of what is causing this...


title: How to find domain registrar and DNS hosting with good DNSSEC support?

text: ## Simplified problem **I want to buy a domain and make a website that is fully secured withDNSSEC.** I want to make sure that only the one right SSL certificate could be validated by the browsers and all of the rogue SSL certificates or certificates for unqualified names would be rejected. Where can I buy a domain? Whare should I buy a certificate? (Or should I use a self-signed certificate with DNSSEC _instead of_ CAs?) Where can I host DNS? Which providers make the whole process most convenient, most affordable, most complete, most professional, most robust, most secure? ## Background I've been hearing about the insecurity of DNS for years. I've watched all of the talks by Dan Kaminsky and others from DNS exploits to The future of DNS Security Panel. I knew that using DNS without security is a disaster waiting to happen. I followed the development of the DNSSEC standard. I celebrated the key signing ceremony. Meanwhile I read about Thousands of SSL Certs Issued To Unqualified Names and Rogue SSL Certs Issued For CIA, MI6, Mossad and many other stories like that showing problems with the current implementation of websites secured with SSL that could be solved by DNSSEC (see: A Major Internet Milestone: DNSSEC and SSL and DNSSEC to fix the SSL mess? and SSL certificate validation and DNSSEC). Everything was on the right track to finally have a secure DNS system in place. And now more than 2 years later I wanted to just do what everyone said I should do: use DNSSEC for a new domain. So I need a domain registrar and a DNS hosting service that supports DNSSEC. Surprisingly it is not that easy to even find out who does support DNSSEC and to what extent. It was actually much easier to find info on DNSSEC two years ago when everyone was **going to** support DNSSEC Real Soon Now but now years passed and I hardly see any progress done. I just hope that I was just looking in the wrong places and someone here will kindly explain all of the doubts. I hope that other people who want to have a secure website will also find this question useful. ## What is needed   * **registrar and DNS servers with full DNSSEC support for`.com` domains**   * integration of DNSSEC with SSL certificates ## What is not needed   * IPv6 support   * Web hosting   * anything more ## What I found out so far   * Go Daddy offers Premium DNS service for additional $36 per year that lets you "Secure up to 5 domains with DNSSEC".   * easyDNS has DNSSEC available in Beta across all service levels (you need to enable the "beta" flag in configuration) but it doesn't seem to be production ready and judging from the lack of updates it isn't a feature of highest priority (the last update from March 2011 on the easyDNS blog).   * Name.com - according to The Register (US domain registrar does IPv6, DNSSEC) it has DNSSEC support since 2010 but right now (October 2012) I couldn't find anything related to DNSSEC on their website.   * Dynadot that is very often recommended doesn't support DNSSEC   * Namecheap that is also often recommended doesn't support DNSSEC. The support answer from 2011 suggested that it was being added but in 2012 still no ETA is given to customers.   * DynDNS was supposed to support DNSSEC, I found a link explaining DNSSEC support but it gives 404 Not Found page and offers a search box - when searching for DNSSEC I get "No results were found for your query."   * GKG was recommended online for DNSSEC support but it's hard to find any information on the level of DNSSEC support - there is a brief explanation on what is DNSSEC and how to sign Delegation Signer records in their FAQ but no information about the level of actual support can be found.   * Ask Slashdot: Which Registrars Support DNSSEC? from July 2011 - Answers list Go Daddy, DynDNS, GKG, Name.com as registrars that support DNSSEC but: **see above**.   * Registrars that support end user DNSSEC management, including entry of DS records by ICANN (thanks to Rob for reminding me about it) - the problem with this list is that the level of support is unknown, the fact whether you have to pay for DNSSEC additional fees is not mentioned, let alone the convenience of buying, configuring and hosting domains fully secured with DNSSEC and SSL.   * List of .ORG Registrars who have passed OT&E for DNSSEC published by the Public Interest Registry - a lot of registrars but they are listed for `.org` TLD support and as they say: "This does not indicate whether the registrar has enabled a DNSSEC service for the registrants. Please contact the registrars directly for their DNSSEC service."   * How To Secure And Sign Your Domain With DNSSEC Using Domain Registrars by the Internet Society (thanks to Nick for pointing it out) currently lists **only two** that support `.com` TLD on the list of "Registrars Supporting DNSSEC For Registration and Hosting" ie. **Go Daddy (with an additional fee of $36/year)** and **Dyn (with an additional fee of $330/year)**. See How To Sign Your Domain With DNSSEC Using Dyn, Inc and How To Sign Your Domain With DNSSEC Using GoDaddy.com for details. ## Related questions   1. How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?   2. What is needed to add DNSSEC to my site?   3. DNS hosting better managed by Domain provider or Hosting provider?   4. Registrar with good security, DNS hosting, and DNSSEC and IPv6 resolvers? In no. 1 no one is ever mentioning DNS at all. In no. 2 answers only mention the `.se` TLD, there are very few answers and they seem very outdated. In no. 3 one answer says "On projects that demand higher security, I might look for a web host that supports DNSSEC" but no more information is provided. The only relevant answers are in no. 4 where easyDNS is recommended by someone who has never used them personally. Meanwhile, as of October 2012, the support of DNSSEC is described as "in beta" on the easyDNS feature list. Another one recommends SiteGround but searching their site for DNSSEC returns no results. Other answers recommend web hosting providers that don't meet the requirement of DNSSEC support. Also the question mentioned above lists 9 very specific requirements other than only DNSSEC (like eg. HTTP-only login cookies, two- factor authentications, no DNS record limits, DNS statistics of queries/day, audit trails etc.) which might have excluded many possible recommendations if one is only interested in DNSSEC support. ## Conclusions **Is it possible that the pioneer of DNSSEC adoption would be Go Daddy and all of the "expert" DNS services are not ready yet?** I thought that by the end of 2012 the support of DNSSEC among domain registrars and DNS providers would be nearly universal. I am shocked that the support seems virtually nonexistent. Is this a result of some serious problems with the DNSSEC adoption? Or is it just not a hot topic and no one bothers anymore? According to the DNSSEC Scoreboard roughly about 0.1% of `.com` domains support DNSSEC. Could that be caused by the lack of DNSSEC support among registrars and DNS providers, is the information too hard to find or maybe no one cares? There is even no "dnssec" tag here. ## Summary The information is surprisingly hard to find. That is why I am asking for first-hand experience and personal recommendations. Has anyone here actually set up a website with DNSSEC, from the domain registration to the configuration of DNS servers, to actually having a working website that is fully secured with DNSSEC? Has anyone successfully integrated DNSSEC with SSL certificates to make sure that only the one right certificate could be validated by the browser and all of the rogue SSL certificates or certificates for unqualified names would be rejected? Can anyone recommend any of the registrars mentioned above? Can anyone recommend any registrar not mentioned above? Any good experience? Bad experience?


title: historical weather data APIs

text: I am building a web application where I need to display whole year's month wise weather conditions. So that users get an idea of what the weather conditions are like and plan their trips accordingly. I am using WunderGround's History feature but it does not give this data for smaller towns and destinations, even some very popular tourist destinations. Are there any alternatives which could provide me the same information.


title: Cannot log in to phpMyAdmin with users account: Get root override message

text: I am trying to access phpMyAdmin but I get: `"You are logged in with the root, or reseller's password"` message, even though I am logged in using the users account (not my root account). I have tried clearing the cache and using another browser to no affect. Does anyone know a way round this?


title: Why is this mod_rewrite redirecting my domain?

text: I'm trying to redirect all URLs past the "/" of my domain to an old.mysite.com version, but leave the mysite.com itself alone. For example, "mysite.com" -> "mysite.com", but "mysite.com/some-url" -> "old.mysite.com/some-url". Here's what I have now:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(.+)$     RewriteRule /(.*) http://archived.example.com/$1      But it's redirecting "mysite.com" -> "old.mysite.com". How can I modify this so that the core domain doesn't get redirected, but only when there are URL bits past the ".com/" so to speak?


title: Showing index.htm and index.php both

text: I have a static HTML based site. Server automatically pulls the `index.htm` as the default page. Fine. I just installed WordPress in the root: But `.com/index.php` is redirecting automatically to `.com/index.htm`. I need to be able to see both `index.htm` (as main page for current site visitors) and `index.php` for my work on the theme and new WordPress pages. Also, when I do the _.htaccess_ : `DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm`. I am then able to see the WordPress `.com/index.php` but then can no longer see `index.htm` as the site then defaults to the `index.php`. How can I see both `index.htm` and `index.php` at the same time?


title: Slow DNS lookup on my site?

text: I'm testing the loading speeds of my website. I've just done a test using Pingdom but it returns some strange (at least to me) results: ![](http://responsible-disclosure.com/img/pingdom-results.png) By the looks of it getting the DNS info takes the most time. Is this normal? Is there something I can do to speed this up?


title: How come keyword ranking checkers are never accurate

text: I am currently using a keyword ranking checker called authority lab. When I was using its test version, the rankings seemed accurate. Now I am paying for the professional version, only to find out the results are always completely different from the ones I checked myself (while checking for the rankings I did log out, so that would not be the problem). I just wonder how these kind of tools works and why they are not accurate.


title: Logo Image in Image Sitemap

text: Here is my concern. I have the logo image along with the entire header section of the site in an 'included' file. How do I present that image in the image sitemap? Should I give the URL of the 'included' file that only contains part of each page and as such wouldn't make much sense to a user who would get it in a search result? Or is there another way of providing Google with the URL to that image?


title: Pointing a sub domain to another server using directi control panel while domain.com is not hosted

text: Do we of course need a host for `domain.com`? Unfortunately currently the host for `domain.com` is down, so `sub.domain.com` cannot be redirected to where it should. Is there a way to at least activate the `sub.domain.com` using `DirectI` control panel that I have?


title: How do I find where my website ranks in Google for a keyword or group of keywords?

text: I'd just like to know, if for a keyword, or a sentence, my website is in the search pages, and if so, where? Is there a way to do this?


title: How to fix price error for a product in Magento?

text: I am trying to fix this product listing: http://shop.crystalvine.com/salt/blueberrysalt-c.html You see in the dropdown there is an option for "refill" which is supposed to say $10.95 but says $45.95 When I log into Magento and click on Catalog --> Manage Products There are f different listings for this product, differentiated by size/price. I try to edit the price by clicking "edit" on the product and under the price option on the left I edit the price and save. But doing that to the products does not change the price on the live site when I edit the price for them. Am I doing something wrong there? How do I change the price? Thanks!!


title: WHY my domain points back to previous IP after 1 day

text: 2 days ago, I applied a domain gtscomputers.com.au, and then changed the nameserver to the one from my hosting, and change all "A Record" to the IP 27.131.74.13. Yesterday, I applied another IP address 27.131.74.36 and changed all "A Records" to the new IP, this morning the domain has been pointed to the new IP. However, when I tried to access the website tonight, it has been point back to the previous IP address 27.131.74.13. I'm using 8.8.8.8 (Google DNS) on my PC, and after I change to ISP's DNS, the website is pointed to the new IP which is correct, because this DNS has not been updated yet. Can anyone tell me what's going on? I have checked all DSN settings.


title: Why does the Bing bot request this URL?

text: While checking server logs, I have seen that often the Bing bot requests this URL. **URL:** /da-net/products/cadpac/cadpac_jis.shtml **Browser:** Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Can anyone explain this?


title: How does Google put the "shine" on the "block all foo.com results" link that appears?

text: To repro:   1. Go to google and do a search (for example, follow this link to search for Jeff Atwood)   2. Follow the first result.   3. Hit back in Chrome.   4. Observe that the text that appears that says "Block all codinghorror.com results" has a "shine" affect that occurs to draw your eye to it. This happens on all sites I follow a link from while logged in to Google using Chrome. How is this achieved? I've recorded it here. The HTML from the relevant section:               <img src="/images/experiments/shimmer_mask.png" style="position: absolute;       top: 64px; z-index: 500; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px;       border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: none;       border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none;       border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; left: 228px; ">


title: Is it possible to block an entire site to Google then list exceptions?

text: I usually disallow subdirectories in the robots.txt file and I was wondering if it's possible to do it the other way: block everything and list the main index file and the others pages I'd like search engines to index. Is that possible? My current robots.txt is as follows:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: yea.html     Allow: /


title: what are benefits of URL rewriting?

text: URL rewriting has become quite popular, but I think it only adds more complexity to the Web. Old fashioned URL's are often called "dirty URLs", so I'll use that term. It is argued that with rewriting it makes the URL more "discoverable" but how is it more discoverable with this URL               www.magic.com/date/2010/02/02       than this URL?               www.magic.com/date=2010-02-02      I believe people would discover more with the old fashioned URL than the rewrite URL. With the good old fashioned URL, using ampersands and equal signs, you are actually telling the search engines how they relate to each other. With slashes you can't. They don't know that `/2010/02/02` is actually a date or how the numbers relate to the `/date/`. It merely assumes that it's a different directory with different data. With `date=2010-02-02` I believe it'll allow search engines to figure out how they relate to each other. Dirty URLs can easily be shortened with URL shortener services, but everyone copies a URL and pastes it; they don't write it. It's much simpler if they write down a dirty URL that's well laid out. A URL like `goo.gl/8aPtuI` seems more cognitively difficult than `generic.com/awesome`. I read an argument that search engines stop at URLs that look dynamically generated, but I am skeptical. Virtually all websites are dynamically created, so why would they stop there? I'd also think that dirty URL's can be meta-rich if you do it right.               www.generic.com/rate=5&name=Allen&sex=m       and it's much easier for engines to see how they are related than doing this,               www.generic/com/rate/5/name/Allen/sex/m.       What are the real advantages?


title: Can't set up or access email in new google apps?

text: I've set up google apps accounts many times before, and run into anything like this. Today I just set up a new google apps account, and have been going through the usual steps of setting up the domain settings. Usually, when you click on email, it has you set up mx records on your registrar. However, if I click on 'set up email', all it does is take me to the mobile setup tab. I can't figure out any way to access the actual inbox or instructions for setting up mx records. It's maddening. Anyone have a clue? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rddy6.png) **Takes me here ->** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Wq57B.png)


title: Tool to check resource load order

text: Is there a tool I can show clients that will take a page's HTML and show:   a) the order in which external resources will load,   b) which resources are blocked on other resources being downloaded? For example: JavaScript in the head blocks any images from loading further down the page and browsers can only load 6 resources at a time from a given domain/subdomain.


title: Possible to drop the original query parameters entirely in a rewritten URL?

text: Original URL looks something like `domain.com/filename.php?id1=333&id2=444`. Desired rewritten URL is something like `domain.com/my-rewritten-url`. I can imagine creating a lookup table with columns for the ids and a column for the rewrite string, but is this realistic/practical?


title: Google Analytics Campaigns Not Tracking E-Commerce

text: I am running email campaigns via MailChimp and tracking the success of my campaigns via Google Analytics. I can successfully see data being tracked for:               Reporting > Conversions > Ecommerce (Receiving Data)     Reporting > Traffic Sources > Campaigns (Receiving Data)      However, I am not receiving any Ecommerce data for the individual campaigns: `Reporting > Traffic Sources > Campaigns > Ecommerce (No data)` So I see data like: `Visits: 18,501` `Revenue: $0.00` Everything I have read leads me to believe this should just `"work"` if Ecommerce is setup. Is there some additional action I need to take for this work? Any help would be appreciated!


title: If I have auto-generated pages, am I at risk of being seen as a content farm?

text: I have some pages which are auto-generated. For example, I run an outdoor site and I have a page like this for different trees: http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/trees/trees.php This page links to each individual tree page, all of which are very similar in structure. Am I in danger of being seen as a content farm? I am not really doing anything black hat, but I seem to be breaching some punished practices. What is the right approach here? Am I in danger? :)


title: I registered a domain name — how can I point it to my DynDNS host?

text: How can I host a website from my home machine? I have a DynDNS address so that even if my external IP changes, the machine is accessible. Lets say, for example, the machine is accessible at `example.dyndns-home.com` (this is a free service from DynDNS). I've registered a domain name for my website from GoDaddy. Let's say that domain name is `example.com` Right now, I've forwarded port 80 so I can enter `example.dyndns-home.com` from anywhere and I can see whatever I've hosted at my homebox. How can I make it so that, when I enter `www.example.com`, I see the same thing? I want to see what I host on my home machine out on the internet via `example.com`.


title: Disadvantage of creating tracking source

text: Is there disadvantages of creating your own link tracking source (Example: ?src=publication ) instead of using Google's utm_source? Two things that I see that it's an advantage using my own tracking code are: A little bit cleaner in the URL I can easily filter the content by "?src="


title: How to properly use related search links on sites without taking a negative SEO hit?

text: On a search results page, I want to show related search links. These links are generated by user searches, that aren't already part of the site's regular links. This, in effect was to increase the number of links on the site. I had created a small widget that showed ten related search links. The site took a negative hit, and I'm guessing this was because on each page, ten new links would appear, and essentially creating thousands of new pages. I want to be able to dynamically add some user-generated searches to the site without taking an SEO hit. Obviously I can no-follow those links, but that then defeats the purpose. What's the best way to go about this?


title: How does duplicate file and directory names affects SEO

text: I have some 40 crawl errors in my website, those are pointing to files which are not existing. and I want to resolve all 404 errors **I dont have acccess to .htaccess file. Because i am on shared hosting** So, I thought to create those files under respective path by putting 301 redirect. Examples: Correct URL: `http://www.myapp.com/folder/oracle-sql-course.php` 404 error URL: `http://www.myapp.com/foder/sub_folder/oracle-sql-course.php` 404 error URL: `http://www.myapp.com/foder/oracle-sql-course.php` Like this I have around 40 crawl errors. So I have to create the folders of same name in different levels and same files as well. Does these changes affects SEO.


title: MySQL, SQLServer, Oracle, Postgree, CouchDB, MongoDB, Cassandra or SQLite?

text: Who database engine is better, in performance and usability?


title: How to transfer a website hosted online to my Virtual Host

text: I'm doing some work on a webpage, meaning I gotta modify a few things. As a result of this I installed apache and all the things that come associated with it, and also installed Joomla, and I got everything running well. My problem is, I need to make apache run this website locally, so I downloaded the public_html folder from the FTP server on my website, but I have absolutely no idea how to implement the website in order to make it run on apache. I've read a few guides, but they all tell me how to create a new website instead of helping me host a website already done.


title: How to test robots.txt in googlebot to find out what is being indexed

text: This question is a continuation for this answer How to check if googlebot will index a given url?   As was told I did go to the Webmaster Tools and tested contents of my robots.txt file. However this is just giving me the info if that content is good enough or not. However for my scenario I need to test whether disallowing some patterns is being indexed or not. For example I have something like this below in my robots.txt               disallow:/pattern*           My understanding is the URLs with word pattern should not crawled, but how do I test this pattern is enforced while indexing the website?


title: My DNS zone includes a loopback record - do I need it?

text: My dns zone contains a loopback:               localhost IN A 127.0.0.1      Do I need it, and if so why? I can't think of a reason to have it here, especially as - without a dot - it would be `localhost.example.com`


title: Should a mobile-only site use robots.txt?

text: I have a mobile site that is distinct from the corresponding desktop site. The sites share the same content, but the mobile site files are in a completely different directory. The main site had a robots.txt file, but I'm wondering if I need one for the mobile site too. Anyone have any thoughts?


title: Fake domain and hosted email addresses issue?

text: Many email addresses for domain `rustamtowel.com` have been compromised. My client forwarded me an old email which he sent me few days ago but I haven't received that email. That email was sent to `cs@rustamt0wel.com` instead of `cs@rustamtowel.com` (`0` zero instead of `O`). Then I came to know that another domain has been register just like my domain name. Someone also quote my client with wrong prices from wrong email address `ceo@rustamt0wel.com`. How can I check that who is involved and be safe for future. Who can be responsible?   1. My domain registration guy   2. My web hosting company   3. Someone from my own office


title: line monitoring of phonograms (songs) of radio

text: I need to create a monitoring system of phonograms (songs) of radio and television online through streaming so on, but my team and know the way to develop this monitoring system, I know there companies that already do this, someone knows feramenta, develop or know? A system of auditing by streaming, know what time, day by day the phonogram or music touched Alessandro Caliu


title: Creating a video upload form, what is a realistic file size limit?

text: My page is asking users to upload their photos and videos, but I want to limit the file size. What is a realistic size limit for short video (under 30 sec) shot on a iphone or android.


title: Creating a subdomain (sub.domain.com) for special posts on a blog: Good idea?

text: I have created a few plugins and themes that I want to have special pages for. Now I do not want to make a complete new website or page for all the different plugins. Instead I want to have normal blogposts for each of my plugins and themes. Now to make things more simple I want to create a special domain name for them, with CNAME records. like this: facyplugin.mydomain.com CNAME mydomain.com/2011/09/new-fancy-plugin Now instead of giving people the long version of the link, I can just give the small one, without having to use a url crusher. -- Now is this a good idea, or will this lead to problems in terms of SEO.


title: Should we allow HEAD requests?

text: Our web application is predominantly read-only. As such we only allow GET requests. However, we regularly get errors in our logs because of user agents making HEAD requests. I've seen these come from Squid proxy servers and bots from AddThis, Google and Bing. My understanding is that most search engines will make GET requests when crawling sites so is there a genuine reason for allowing HEAD requests?


title: Setting cookies only on the naked domain

text: As far as I know, one can set a cookie for `example.com` and not `.example.com` and then the cookie will only be visible on `example.com` and not `sub.example.com`. Is this true? I have set a cookie on a test domain I own, and it seems that cookies are not shared at static.mydomain.com This page suggests otherwise: > Omitting www leaves you no choice but to write cookies to *.example.org, so > for performance reasons it's best to use the www subdomain and write the > cookies to that subdomain.


title: Shared web hosting issue where Google is incorrectly indexing https content from another website

text: I am using shared hosting from a reasonably well known Australian web hosting company and have come across an unusual issue where Google is indexing pages on my website from another website on the same server that is using https. I do not have an SSL certificate associated with my website but Google is finding content like this: `https://mysite.example.com/content-from-another-website` I have logged a support request with the web hosting company and the only solution they suggest is to purchase an SSL certificate for my website (minimum cost is $50) or create a self signed certificate to prevent the issue from occurring. Apparently the web hosting company has escalated the issue to cPanel but there is no ETA on a resolution. Obviously this is not ideal as my page rankings could be affected with search engines indexing content that has nothing to do with my website. Has anyone else come across this problem and is there a better solution than what my web hosting company is suggesting? Note that I look after about 40 websites hosted with this company so unless I really have to, I'm not keen on:   * paying $2000 every year for SSL certificates I don't really need plus the installation and renewal hassles   * moving 40 x websites to a new hosting company


title: How do I troubleshoot rewrite and permalink issues for wordpress using IIS 7 W2008?

text: I know this question is kind of a WP and kind of a webmaster issue. I am really stuck troubleshooting how IIS is handling rewrites and permalinks. Anyone that can offer an explanation or demarcation of the topic would be helping out a ton. Background: Tons of WP (and non WP) sites on a subdomain (at big company). I must use subdomain and cannot be issued any other URLs. So all of my sites sit in sub directories. I know this is not optimal but have no choice. All of my WP sites sat at least one directory level up from root - they were all working fine given that I used a permalink structure that included index.php/%whatever. Everyone is happy. The root of the subdomain was a redirect to another site. They asked me to close the redirect and take our sandbox/mainsite and move it to root. I made backups of files and database tables and hastily moved site to root... Big problems... Basically any site that I installed WP on more than a few weeks ago refuses to work with any sort of permalink structure. Default works. Anything else is jacked up - sometimes they work in Chrome/FF but not IE (it is not a cache issue), sometimes if I change the permalink on WP backend I cannot reach anything but homepage, sometimes I see the permalink url when hovering but it takes me somewhere else, sometimes media paths were messed up (so site looks like it is missing css). Basically I have screwed up the entire rewrite process on the server - without making one change to IIS. What makes this more frustrating is that I do have a few WP sites that I just installed that the permalink stuff works perfectly on... Also all non-WP sites are working fine of course. I can give you all the info you need but site is intranet - but could do screenshots if needed. Where do I start troubleshooting this?


title: Is my whole site is blocked by this Disallow: /

text: This is a view of my _robots.txt_ file did this query blocked only Baiduspider Search Engine or all of the search engines to check my site.               User-agent: Baiduspider     Disallow: /          User-agent: *     Disallow: /templates_c/


title: Moving Blogspot to Wordpress, can I reuse the framed redirect domain without losing SEO?

text: I have a blogger site (let's call it `test.blogspot.com.au`) and a domain `test.com` which redirects to that site. We've installed Wordpress in a subdirectory on another site and migrated using blogger’s import tool. Let's call it `newsite.com.au/blog`. My question is: All the guides seem to relate to editing blogger’s template to redirect to the new site with JavaScript. This implies I need to keep `test.com` tied to `test.blogspot.com.au` because various links around the web will be using it. Is there a way to reuse `test.com` so it points directly to the subdirectory (and mask the fact that it's a subdirectory) without losing search rank/history, or do I need to get a new domain name to avoid this? I’m happy to accept the fact that we may be getting occasional broken inbound links and let the users deal with it as long as it doesn’t destroy our search rankings. The new location is shared hosting with cPanel so I can edit `.htaccess` etc… but there are some limits to what can be done. **Edit: I thought I would share what I did in case it helps anyone else.** At the moment, searches for 'blogname' are returning the new blog, and 'blogname blogspot' are not returning the old blogspot site. So it appears to be working, but I'm not sure whether or not we lost any ranking data in the process. I did it by editing the blogspot template with these 2 tags in the head:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.newsite.com.au/" />     <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.newsite.com.au/" />      This was done by reverting to the classic template (be careful to remove the mobile template too) and editing it. There are various guides on the web. For direct post links, you add something similar:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.newsite.com.au/blogger/?q=http://www.newsite.com.au/2014/04/mypost.html" />     <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.newsite.com.au/blogger/?q=http://www.newsite.com.au/2014/04/mypost.html">      Here /blogger/ is a Wordpress template PHP file that interprets the URL and redirects to the migrated page on the new site. With a bit of searching it should be possible to find a guide for this, I do not have the links handy but it was relatively simple to setup based on a guide after using the blogger migration tool.


title: Advertising / Premium Access sales strategies

text: Glad to be here. Been tooling around on S/O for a year or so now. Anyway, I run a very localized site that caters to the bar industry and its patrons. You can check it out at jcbarguide.com if you need a reference. Anyhow, I've written the whole thing from the ground up and culled a lot of original content. The binaries on the site require that I actually visit each location so I have formed real-world relationships with the owners of many of the establishments and many of them are appreciative and supportive of the site. In the last month, I have finally bested YELP in SERPs for key search phrases (jersey city bars, bars in jersey city, jersey city bar, etc) I celebrated this milestone by letting many of my contacts have up to 3 free ROS 728x90 leaderboards for a month. NO ONE took me up on the offer. It's been so hard to generate any sort of money on this property and I'm wondering why. I wrote an admin interface to update each bar profile that I was charging access to that no one wanted. I gave it away for free after 2 months and only 2 or 3 bar owners/managers utilize it. I've had friends tell me that I suck at selling the concept. others say that if I don't charge, no one will want it (perceived value) and others that just say the site has yet to reach a level of value that these owners and managers will finally notice. As far as I am concerned, I'd think these owners would jump at a site that's ranking as well and being visited as much as mine is. The municipality that the site serves isn't exactly the most affluent of stable hub for commerce out there. Any thoughts from you on establishing your online property's value are appreciated. Thanks, Rob


title: Amazon Web Services Free Trial: query about get and put requests

text: Amazon recently introduced a free tier for its cloud offering. I signed up for AWS and while signing up for the free tier of S3, i found this > As part of AWS Free Usage Tier, you can get started with Amazon S3 for free. > Upon sign-up, new AWS customers receive 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage, **20,000 > Get Requests, 2,000 Put Requests,** 15GB of bandwidth in and 15GB of > bandwidth out each month for one year. source:aws.amazon.com , emphasis mine. 20,000 GET requests & 2000 puts mean , 20,000 page views(max) and 2000 file uploads per month. Isn't that lower than what App Engine offers 43,200,000 requests per day.Am I missing some thing, please help.


title: Need help getting user friendly URL

text: I trying to get a user friendly URL. My current link is this:   http://www.norwegianfashion.no/designers/?designer=Batlak-og-Selvig&bid=9   What I want is this   http://www.norwegianfashion.no/designers/Batlak-og-Selvig/ What do I need to do in order to get this URL? Anything I can do in .htaccess file? **Update**   I'm using Wordpress which has it's own permalink structure. I'm not sure if it's possible to add URL-rewrite? I'm also looking at this link: http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/guide- url-rewriting/2 , but I'm not very succesfull.


title: Advice on Advertisement Charges from WebMasters

text: I run a programming site and was contacted by a big product company. They want to publish 8 product posts about their product (they will write) in the next 6 months and purchase 5 million impressions of a 125x125 ad above fold. The product relates to the programming articles i write. I am not sure what to charge them per post and for the 125x125 ad. I do not run google ads. Something about my site:   Visitors: 320K p.m with majority from US, Canada, Europe and India.   Regular content.   11K Rss readers.   Google PR: 5   Alexa - 30K Can anyone help me how to go about this?


title: Discrepancy between Google cached meta description and description in search result

text: I have developed a 1 page website to deal with time zone world clocks. I have noticed that Google has the latest version of the page in its cache, so it has access to the latest meta description. However, it still displays the old meta description in search results. It has been like this for several days. I have resubmitted the page in Google Webmaster several days ago. Why doesn't Google update to the new meta description?


title: Do i need an ssl certificate for a site allowing users to make donations online?

text: Hii, The site is technically a foundation, a non profit organization website, which will allow people to make donations for the cause. Is purchasing an SSL certificate for this site a good idea? How much will it cost?


title: SEO: 301 for a page which has no mirrow path?

text: I just did a 301 and the domain and some pages which have a mirror file path are fine. But I have one directory which is not going to be part of the new site and I don't know how to redirect the old files that were there. I need something like this: oldDomain/oldDir/file.php and I need to make it redirect to newDomain/differentDir/file.php Is that possible? What is the 301 redirect rule for that? **update** I just added this rule as suggested by @Itai and it didn't work               redirectMatch permanent ^/outdoors/trees/tanoak.php$ http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/trees/129/Tanoak      any idea why?


title: Nginx or Apache for a VPS?

text: I consider myself to be an inexperienced user/administrator when it comes to running my VPS. I can get by with a few CLI commands, I can set up Webmin and I can set up Yum repos, but beyond the very basic stuff, I'm out of my depth. So far, I'm running Apache. I don't know it particularly well, but I can get by with editing httpd.conf if I'm told what to edit. I've heard good things about Nginx and that it's not as resource-hungry as Apache. I'd like to give it a go, but I can't find any information about its suitability for administrators like me, with little experience of sysadmin or web server config. Webmin now has support for Nginx, so getting it installed and running probably won't be too much of a problem. What I'm wondering is, from a site administrator perspective, is running Nginx as transparent as running Apache? IE, at the moment, I can just throw up Wordpress and Drupal sites without having much to worry about or having to make any config changes to Apache. Would Nginx be as transparent?


title: How do I point a new domain to start on a page that's not index.html on separate hosting?

text: I'm using a service (CMS/Host) called SquareSpace to host my site, and today I'm registering the domain for it. Basically, how do I make it so when somebody types www.tedxoxford.com it points at http://www.tedxoxford.com/landing (currently http://tedxoxford.squarespace.com/landing) instead of the default index? Is this possible? Squarespace is quite a restricted CMS and means that your logos etc all point to the index so I don't want people ending up on my landing/splash page every time they want the home page, only on the first time they type in the URL. A dirty hack would be to check the refferer and redirect anyone hitting the index to the landing page, but that's a lot of loading overhead I'd rather avoid...


title: Is fixed width website of 768px, the best option for supporting all tablets an desktops?

text: I'm building a website, not interested in fluid design as I want to keep the line breaks of the paragraphs in the same certain way, for all resolution. If the Ipad width is 768px on portrait, does it mean that If I want to create a website that would look good on all tablets and desktops pc's, my best bet would be to use a fixed width of 768px and not larger? Thanks


title: What's the purpose of unique webserver names?

text: Previously I would set the name servers of a domain to what the hosting company told me (e.g. ns1.hostingcompany.com). I've now started buying domains from a company that lets you make your own nameservers (e.g. ns1.mywebsite.com) and I just enter the IP for them (I presume of my webhost server). My question, what is the point of this? Is it purely cosmetic? (I do find this cool, that I'd have ns1.mysite.com, but I'm a geek, is there any other advantage or disadvantage to this?


title: Determining Social Referrals in Google Analytics

text: I have a question about social referrals in Google Analytics: Firstly, When I go here: Acquisition -> Channels -> Social a significant portion of my Social Networks is recorded as "not set". Why is this ? Secondly, which is more reliable for gauging social media referrals: Acquisition -> Channels -> Social or Acquisition -> Social -> Overview The figures in both sections are different.


title: How to structure my AdWords campaign for testing and different groups of keywords?

text: I am starting an AdWords campaigns and I will measure conversion rates using the AdWords conversion tracking pixel. Conversion might be account creation or a concrete sale. As it will be a test campaign to have some insights on CTR, CR, etc... on the future, I am likely to try several configurations:   * Two different ads with different landing URL and messages: one with a focus on the product / the other will contains a discount embedded in the URL.   * 4 different groups or themes of keywords. I guess I have to   * build 4 ads groups based on the keywords   * 2 ads with the different messages   * assign the two ads to each ads groups   * follow the campaign precisely in the ads tabs where I can see the effectiveness of each Ads per Ads Groups (for a total of 8 lines of reporting) Also, what are the key performance indicators that I can have from an AdWords campaign to measure global effectiveness?   * measure of return on investment from concrete sales (tracking pixel with e-commerce tag on confirmation page)   * measure o return on investment from leads acquisition (tracking pixel on account creation)   * measure of traffic increase with the campaign


title: Is it ok to 301 redirect deleted pages to the homepage in order to preserve link juice? -- Even if the homepage is unrelated content?

text: I'm about to delete 40+ pages that have quality link juice (I'm deleting them for copy write issues). I'd prefer not to do a 404 header on all of them, because I want to preserve inbound links to those pages for SEO. Can I do a 301 redirect to the homepage for all of the deleted pages? I'm concerned because the homepage isn't similar content (It states that a 301 redirect should only be done if the page being redirected to is similar content). If 301 redirects for the deleted pages is the wrong approach, then what should I do?


title: Why use flash to as content headings? Why not?

text: A large number of sites lately which use **Flash to replace what would be simple HTML headings (h1, h2, h3)**. Some of them do it consistently for every header. **Why would you do this? What are the pros and cons of this?** This seems strange to me and really inefficient, particularly since a page can have dozens of headers. I notice this because I use Flash Block (which temporarily disables Flash), so not everyone may have seen it. Just today I landed here with 4 flash headers. I've seen dozens of such use of Flash this week alone, and I am wondering if this has some benefits.


title: Mobile URL strategy

text: I am going to be using jQuery Mobile to create a mobile version of my site. My question is about the best practice on the location of the mobile site, specifically, the URL. I am looking into two options:   1. Just detect whether the user is mobile and serve them a mobile template, no need for a separate URL for the mobile site. For example, mysite.com/foo/bar would have a mobile and desktop version of the page. My site uses HTTP cache and this would complicate things...   2. Have a mobile URL (m.mysite.com). I prefer this method as I see this in a lot of places (ie m.facebook.com). My hesitation is with SEO, isn't duplicating content bad? Any insights, thoughts, comments on my dilemma? Is there a strategy I am missing?


title: Apple and Google Mobile Apps stores, does accepts duplicated app names?

text: Suppose my android and ios app is actually named **damnit** and it allows users to connect to their friends Now in google play store and apple apps store there is an app called "damnit" that is not mine and it is a urban dictionary. Now, what if i submit my app with same name into both google and apple stores? Will be rejected?


title: Can outbound links increase PageRank?

text: We all know that the backlinks increases the pagerank of a website. Do outbound links affect PageRank?


title: Is "Redirecting via DNS" a good practice for positioning a website?

text: In order to position a website project I'm planning on getting 3 domain names (`example.com`, `example.org` and `example.net`). Whenever a user goes to "`example.org`" or "`example.net`" he/she would be redirected to "`example.com`". All redirection methods I have used are via JavaScript or PHP and not long ago I found out it can be via DNS settings with the domain registrar company. **Now my question:** Is it a good SEO practice redirecting via DNS? (Would not it be better to have some content on these two websites ("`.org`" and "`.net`"), like a link pointing to "`example.com`", and then redirect using JavaScript or PHP?) In general (considering other topics like security, performance, etc), is it a good practice redirecting via DNS?


title: I want to write tutorials on web development

text: So I have been reading a lot of books on web development and have made more than a few dynamic websites. Now, I want to create tutorials for people just like all the many free tutorials on internet and youtube. Since I learned only from books and online tutorials, I am afraid I might use some of their code or at least their method of making something. So what are the rules in this? Any place you know where I can get some advice on this? Thank you.


title: How can this be considered as web spam?

text: One of our websites has suffered ongoing manual action by Google due to a high volume of unnatural links. This was somewhat justified as an SEO company we hired in 2005 submitted our site to numerous link farms and low quality sites. We're now trying to cleanup this mess and have so far submitted around 8 reconsideration requests after disavowing tons of domains. The problem is Google are still kicking back our reconsideration requests and the last URL they highlighted was this one. http://cutesoft.net/forums/post/8567.aspx I really can't see how this falls into the category of web spam? CuteSoft is a well known WYSIWYG HTML editor. Is it really a crime to put a link in a forum signature? If so most forums should be classed as spam. This was a genuine post I made years ago seeking help on a particular subject relating to the software. I just can't workout the logic behind what they determine as spam anymore!? **EDIT** I can only conclude that Google are far more advanced in detecting the subtleties of stuffing keywords in anchor text than I possibly imagined! I'd love to know how Google are generating their reconsideration responses, if they know all the pages that contain spammy links why can't they just ignore them in their algos? They've already pushed our position for various keywords off the first 10 pages. So cleaning up these keyword based links almost seems like a pointless exercises!? Also some reconsideration responses contained links with our company name in so really I am none the wiser?? Their criteria most go beyond simple keywords stuffing!


title: When selecting the language of a web page solely with content negotiation, will a search engine ever see different languages?

text: I've done a simple, small site which basically only consists of a single page. Simplicity and no clutter are very intentional here and (imho) work quite well for this from a UX standpoint. Now I'm thinking of translating what little content there is in different languages. To stick with the no clutter rule I thought about doing this only with content negotiation without even having different URIs for different languages. For the user that probably works best as they get their language without needing to configure anything but their browser, but I worry about search engines. I guess it's not likely that Google, Bing, etc. crawl a site with various different language preferences, meaning that the translated content won't get picked up by them and thus not appear in regional search results. So do I have to include links for different languages on the page or is there another way for this?


title: Is it ok to have an Adsense ad in each post, showing full view?

text: I have searched online, and can't find a concrete answer, would this be breaching the Adsense rules? I have a Wordpress site with a youtube video custom post type. When a query is run, it will display all posts in full view, which is basically a youtube video, a few lines of text and hopefully an Adsense text ad at the bottom. I was then planning on having a couple ads on the sidebar. The problem is i'm not sure if that is breaking the Adsense rules, because the query will show multiple posts (more than 3). However, there isn't a "page" that would have more than 3 on it. Would the query results be a "page" and subject to 3 total ads?


title: How to make client side and server side communicate?

text: I have apache installed, and I would like (using php/and or javascript, html) to do the following but I do not know how.   1. To send my client to the server a value x   2. The server to increase x by one and to send it to client   3. Client divides it by two and sends it to server   4. server send the h((x+1)/2) back to client How I can do that?... I am confused as I do not know how to make a server and a browser to communicate. |However, I do not thing that it is very difficult... Thanks in advance


title: Configure apache to make local website available for external people

text: I would like to make my local website (running on a virtual CentOs machine) accessible for my mate who is also working on the website. I have created a new line in my router config to forward all requests on port 8080 to my centos machine. I've setup apache to listen on port 8080 as my ISP blocks port 80. I've setup my VHosts to use port 8080. When my mate now tries to go to http://my_external_ip:8080, he can see my apache welcome page. I've asked him to enter this in his hosts file. my_external_ip www.my_local_domain_name.com When he types that url into his browser, the site doesn't load. What could this be?


title: Google AdWords claiming my site has an "existing compromise that prevents referrer URLs from successfully visiting the site through an ad"

text: Here's the email I just received from Google about why they won't turn on my AdWords account after my hosting provider had DNS issues which caused AdWords to believe the site was compromised by malware: > The destination URL: http://www.mysite.com/page is returning a 404 error > when our systems scan it via an ad click. This indicates that the site's > server likely has an existing compromise that prevents referer URLs from > successfully visiting the site through an ad. Please note that the URL may > still work when directly visited in a browser since the referer URL is a > completely different setting. Is this actually possible? There's no other way to reach the page other than using the URL to it. I thought a referrer URL is in the header of the HTTP request, and simply stored the URL of the page you were just at. Are they saying that there's some kind of malware on my site that's filtering requests based on the value of the referrer URL? Have any of your ever had this problem?


Are there any Google's Products / Services, where I can ask for refund, if a person is not satisfied? I want to use google services as I feel, google is required for running any business?


title: Amazon s3 webmaster privacy

text: If I am hosting a site on Amazon Web Services, how easy is it for someone to work out that I'm behind it, for example if it's a controversial campaign issue. WHOIS privacy with the domain registrar gives some degree of protection, but I wonder if a sleuth could trace the administrator of S3 buckets. And are there any measures I can take to avoid this, to achieve some level of anonymity?


title: Does loading images from a server that disallows robots affect SEO?

text: Lets say a page on `example.com` has all of its images coming from `img.example.com`:               <img src="http://img.example.com/keyword.jpg" alt="keyword"/>      while `robots.txt` on `img.example.com` disallows crawling:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      Would this make such images contribute less to a keyword value comparing to images from allowed domains? I would guess so, because google probably would want to crawl an image url to see if anyone is using it on other sites, or if it even exists.


title: What are some good pages to redirect users to if they are using an old browser?

text: Such as this one: http://www.webstandards.org/upgrade except it's just awful and is way out of date (use Netscape 7? really?) I am going to require IE9+ and the latest versions of the rest of the browsers. Thanks.


title: Do I need a working DNS server to resolve another DNS server

text: I suspect this question might be more suitable to networking stack exchange but I didnt find any such site, so this seemed like the best place to ask it. I recently moved back to my native country and though the internet speeds here are tolerable, often the DNS server of the local ISP exchange goes down leaving me without internet for a couple of days or so. I was wondering if I could use the Google DNS or OpenDNS to connect to the internet when the ISP DNS was down , but I was not sure I needed a working DNS server in my local ISP to resolve the Google DNS Please migrate or close this question if you feel its in the wrong section.


title: How Do I Upload Pages To The Server?

text: I've heard of FTP but I'm not exactly sure how to use it. What's the best way to get pages from my computer to the server?


Nowadays, we know SMO by using Google+ (and Facebook, Twitter...) is good for SEO and ranking in SERP. Then, I would like to use Google+ to optimize my new website SEO but I don't know how can I begin to use it. I already associate my website with my Google+ profile to get my face in SERP of Google and it works fine. But now?   I suppose I should make a community grow around my website. Should I begin a blog with relevant texts, images etc. for visitors and link all my blog posts with my Google+ profile? How can I use Google+ to optimize my new website SEO? All suggestion can be useful.


title: How to remove a cache of a page with an offline photo within a website using Google Content Removal tool?

text: By using Google's Content Removal page, I could put in a request for removal, for example if a page is no longer online, changed or now gone, and submit it by **entering a word that no longer appears in the online page**. My question is: how could I submit a **photo** to be removed that is no longer available on the online page? I could still reverse image search a photo and it is still shown in Google search results. Clarification: I'm trying to remove cached page results of some websites using reverse image search. I have the now deleted (offline) url of the old picture from these sites. I don't know how to use the Google Content Removal tool because usually for these cache removals you type in a **word that is no longer on the online page** , but in my scenario it's **a photo I'm trying to convey is no longer on the page.** So what should I type in when Google asks me to enter a word that's not on the online page? Here's screen shot as requested: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/v7Xzp.jpg)


title: How do you direct iPhone/Android browser to m.example.com?

text: I have some special coding that only works for HTML5 browsers (simple geolocation stuff). I want to redirect iPhone and Android users to the m.example.com version of my website. How is the best way to do this?


title: How to load the WordPress themes correctly in my local host?

text: I have a new customer that has send me a WordPress project. So to install the project it in my local machine, I have created a virtual host like the one below in my machine. So I can access like this `http://barraquete/index.php` to the content.               <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName barraquete            SetEnv MYAPP_ENV dev            DocumentRoot /home/tirengarfio/workspace/barraquete/archivos       <Directory /home/tirengarfio/workspace/barraquete/archivos>           # Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews           AllowOverride None           #Order allow,deny           #allow from all           Require all granted           <IfModule mod_mime.c>               Addtype font/truetype .ttf               AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css font/opentype font/truetype           </IfModule>           <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>               Options -MultiViews                    RewriteEngine On               #RewriteBase /path/to/app               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f               RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]           </IfModule>           <IfModule mod_expires.c>               ExpiresActive On           ExpiresDefault "access plus 10 days"           ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 week"           ExpiresByType text/plain "access plus 1 month"           ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"           ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"           ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"           ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"           ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week"           ExpiresByType application/x-icon "access plus 1 year"           </IfModule>         </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      When I load the `index.php` I get the content of the page, but the `.css` files are not loaded.. These are the kind of URLs:               http://localhost:8888/barra-web/wp-content/themes/enfold/css/base.css?ver=1      So what should I do to get the themes correctly?


title: Does Google index images in anything other than an img tag?

text: I was thinking of making a 'load on scroll' image gallery plugin, i.e. I do not want the image to load until it is in view in the viewport. That got me thinking in terms of implementation. I don't want to use markup that would mean that the images were not indexed by Google, but the question is, what can you do? You can't have img tags but then stop the files from being loaded because that defeats the purpose completely. You could not care about the markup and use `image site maps` instead, but that makes life harder for the person using the plugin. **What, if anything, can one do?**


title: Do all pages have to be added to XML Sitemaps?

text: I'm planning to add an XML Sitemap to a client's existing website. According to this, it will help define the difference between the root website (aimed at UK) and the US website (aimed at the United States) and a few other languages/locales. Is it enough to add only this to the sitemap or will Google punish me for not adding all pages in there? The content changes quite often and we don't have a way to deal with updating the XML regularly at this point. Also the existing content is well indexed on Google already, it's just the concern about multiple pages in English that's behind this.


title: Selling my primary GoDaddy domain. Recommendations on how not to not break things?

text: My father and I are selling our family business and with it, our domain name. We are not selling the website or the hosting itself. The domain and is registered AND hosted on GoDaddy, with one subdomain and a number of other domains hosted under that account. We are only selling/tranferring the primary domain. In addition, we have a secondary domain name which is currently redirected to the primary. What I'd like to do is:   * Unlock `Mopedepot.com` so it is ready to transfer. I have done this.   * Get the transfer key ready. I believe I have this too   * Get anything else ready that might be needed. (Unknown)   * Transfer the domain without breaking any of the existing sub sites I have   * Set up `50cccycle.com` as my primary domain   * For a time, have email send to `mopedepot.com` sent to both domains until all of the incoming email stuff has been updated. Any suggestions or gotchas I should be aware of?


title: Apache Rewrite to folder no longer working after server upgrade

text: The following were both working perfectly for the last 2 years but after a server upgrade the first, with an extra folder is no longer working:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mayoaccommodation\.com$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mayoaccommodation\.com$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/accommodation/$1  [P]          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mayobb\.com$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mayobb\.com$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/accommodation_bb.htm [P]      Has there been a change in the rewrite module?


title: Weebly Websites SEO

text: From what I understand Weebly uses the drag and drop interface and even when looking at the code, it doesn't show the full content, but rather shows {content} which is where the drag and drop parts of the content are put. Does their drag and drop content, such as text have the same effect as a `<p>` or `<h1>` tag would on a website? Is the weebly drag and drop less optimized for SEO? Does using Weebly have an adverse affect on SEO compared with building from scratch if I do include keywords, alternate text etc...?


title: Static Sidebar on All Pages - Harm SEO

text: I have a static sidebar on all pages of my website which I made completely myself (it's not a widget or WordPress feature) so I don't see how Google would distinguish it from any other part of the content. Will that harm my SEO considering I have duplicate content on all pages?


title: New Google SEO benefit with SSL - with only a few sections in SSL, or always on?

text: Google just announced that SSL will affect site ranking positively: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.se/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html I have an Easter Island tourist agency called Easter Island Traveling for which I had planned doing a subdomain (secure.*) for doing sales, logins etc. Now, does Google want my SSL to be on for all of my site to have this SEO benefit? This would be quite radical by Google, since it would affect my site speed negatively. Or is it enough that I have SSL on a part of the site only? Thoughts?


title: Should we share articles written for SEO purpose on social media and other social bookmarking websites

text: Like we used to share all blogs written anywhere for purpose of seo and same for PR but I am not sure about should we do the same for articles written for SEO or not on social media and social bookmarking websites? Does anybody has idea about it?


title: Is it acceptable to contact a potential customer who has accessed your site, using their IP?

text: We run ad campaigns to attract potential customers to our website. Sometimes customers click, but don't make contact. Is it acceptable to reach out to these customers, based on the public info available from their IP?


title: 2013. Do I need to care about HTML entities?

text: I'm wondering if I should go out of my way and replace all chars like `ÜÖÄ` on my site. I understand that PHP can get these wrong, but is there an actual reason, why I need to put them out as HTML codes, even on pure `.html` sites? Basically what is there to gain, and should I care? Also is it possible that not using or using them has SEO implications?


title: How does Googlebot crawl a webpage?

text: Today I had a silly fight with my colleague. My friend told me, "Googlebot crawls a web page only through the links present in webpage or through the number of page views (by text ads)." But I argued, "Googlebot can crawl the webpage even if we don't submit a _sitemap.xml_ in Google Webmaster Tools or don't have any links in the page. That is, Googlebot can crawl the page without any external force, it would automatically visit the page and crawl it." What's the exact answer? Please inform me of any other factors involved.


title: ASP.NET MVC SEO friendly URLs and Sitemap

text: I've created an ASP.NET MVC 3 application and generated sitemap.xml using some free online tools.   It contains the following URLs:               http://www.mydomain/     http://www.mydomain/About     http://www.mydomain/Portfolio     http://www.mydomain/Contact     http://www.mydomain/Sitemap      But when I uploaded sitemap.xml to Google Webmaster tools, I got these numbers:               URLs submitted: 5     URLs in web index: 1      Do I have to change http://www.mydomain/About to http://www.mydomain/About/ in order to get all URLs into the web index or..?


title: Google is displaying "Translate this page" based on a previously registered domain inbound links

text: I recently started a new project with a newly registered generic tld domain. As soon as Google started indexing the page, it displayed a "translate this page" in SERP's, which tries to translate the page to the language of a small Eastern European country from the language that the site actually uses. I tried everything to prevent this: language meta headers and attributes, localisation through Google Webmaster Tools...all to no avail - nothing helped. After a couple of weeks I spotted dozens of inbound links popping up in Google Webmaster Tools all coming from that small Eastern European country, from sub- pages that are not active anymore (either sending out 404's or 301's to the main page), and also had been written in that other language. So the domain had been registered before and as it looks, it did got a lot of possibly spam links in that language. I can't even ask the sites where those links should have been to remove them as they are not active anymore physically, just in Google Webmaster Tools and/or internal data masses... Now I'm at a loss about what to do? As my site is pretty new, it does not have many links pointing towards it in my targeted language. So those are probably not enough to convince Google of attaching the right language to it as Google ignores all other signals about the page language. I'm also unsure if I should use the "disavow" tool, or a reconsideration request...or what else to do about this miserable state. I never used these tools before so I don't have any experience with them. Somehow I have to convince Google about the right language of the page and also to not count/apply/whatever all those historical links from the previous owner. (The domain had been deleted without any traces in Google before I registered it) Has anyone here ever dealt with a similar "Translate this page" problem? (I've also looked at this thread: How can I prevent Google mistakenly offering to translate a page? but didn't find a solution there)


title: CSS color marked as invalid by code inspector

text: On this page, there is a "read more..." link towards the end of the page, enclosed in `<span id="s-hpi"></span>` There is CSS:               #s-hpi {       color: 0000FF;       cursor: hand;     }      but Chrome code inspector says both these rules are invalid. Why? Thanks.


title: Long user agent field in HTTP header

text: I have a HTTP sniffer application which runs on C++ , when I am getting the user agent field I get something like :               Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW655970812; fr=0ea2JbE8UfOtMxCAb.AWUSc_K0DPt0NpgvgWvZVDCZzug.BSHX4S.8d.FIo.AWUtAj4s; xs=1%3AFOApj11sTU3NXA%3A0%3A1378405752%3A6395; sub=128; p=129; act=1378934556224%2F153; presence=EM378935116EuserFA21655970812A2EstateFDsb2F1378934519166Et2F_5b_5dElm2FnullEuct2F1378934511240EtrFA2close_5fescA2Etwlocale=tr_TR; c_user=1655970812; fr=0ea2JbE8UfOtMxCAb.AWUSc_K0DPt0NpgvgWvZVDCZzug.BSHX4S.8d.FIo.AWUtAj4s; xs=1%3AFOApj11sTU3NXA%3A0%3A1378405752%3A6395; sub=128; p=129; act=1378934556224%2F153; presence=EM378935116EuserFA21655970812A2EstateFDsb2F1378934519166Et2F_5b_5dElm2FnullEuct2F1378934511240EtrFA2close_5fescA2EtwF4219503720EatF1378934899190EwmlFDfolderFA2inboxA2Ethread_5fidFA2user_3a626679213A2CG378935116367CEchFDp_5f1655970812F195CC      This doesn't happens often, but still enough to cause problems in my customer's database. It seems for sure I need to make a sanity check while getting this field and after getting this field. My question if the user agent information above somehow meaningful. If not what might be the cause for such strange user agent field in request header.


title: How to prevent webpages translated with Google Translate Plugin from being indexed?

text: I've been reading the information here https://support.google.com/translate/#2534535 about the Google Translate plugin. At first I thought that if I used the plugin my site wouldn't be indexed, but then I can see that the following quote > The automatically translated version of your web page will not be indexed by > search engines. is actually referring to Google Translate and not the plugin....or at least that's what I think. **QUESTIONS**   1. I'd like to confirm whether or not websites that use the Google Translate Plugin are indexed.   2. If the answer is yes, then I'd like to know how to stop these translated pages from being indexed. I've read that you can use robots.txt to prevent it, but I'd really like to see an example of how to implement this- I'm confused as to what the translated url would be. **EDIT** Just to be clear, I don't want the translated content to be indexed. I still want the original content to be indexed!!!


title: Software for Managing Subscriptions to Website Content?

text: Can you recommend a package that allows me to manage subscriptions to certain content on my website (not necessarily displayable) based on payment levels? Ideally, the software would allow logging in using both site-specific registration _and_ PayPal/Facebook/Twitter/MyOpenId, etc. Preferably, it would also be open source, LAMP-based. One idea that I have in mind is hacking a shopping cart software like Zen-Cart but this may be an overkill if a non-shopping lighter-weight package exists.


title: Placing likes, pluses and other social sharing things on the pages where they not likely to be used

text: I just checked the pages from best-of-industry sites and not all of them has lots of likes, pluses and so on. I reasonably expect that the pages of my site will have even less. I can expect that the null (or very little of) likes can be a bed signal to Google and Co and it would be better to skip it at all on the pages where users not really will use this signals. Any thoughts?


title: Search Engine Friendly URLs with Query String

text: I have content that can be accessed from various ways. For example my content is **reviews** and I have three type of reviews:               /customer-reviews/11/slug.html     /third-party-reviews/11/slug.html     /products/99/reviews/11/slug.html      Another example would be **products** which can be viewed in ways:               /products/11/index.html     /categories/99/products/11/index.html     /suppliers/99/products/11/index.html      The thing to note is that that each set of pages is fed from single table (reviews and products respectively). Now most websites have single URL for same piece of content regardless of the "view". E.g. Christian Bale's IMDB profile is `http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/` whether you were looking at The Dark Knight's cast or looking for popular people born on January 30. So for my website I plan to use URLs like these:               /reviews/11/slug.html?view=customer     /reviews/11/slug.html?view=third-party     /reviews/11/slug.html?view=products&id=99          /products/11/index.html?view=     /products/11/index.html?view=categories&id=99     /products/11/index.html?view=suppliers&id99      Depending on the view parameter, I'll show a "breadcrumb" that takes the user back to where he came from and provide some kind of visual indication of the hierarchy hierarchy. Is this good or bad approach. And is there a better solution?


title: Web server specifications for online Text-based web game

text: I am developing an **online text-based game** similar to Mafia wars. Of course I won't expect 20 million players on my site, but I want to choose a web server that is suitable for me. I am a complete amateur when it comes to hosting a website. I need the minimum specifications for a web server to host my game. Let's say about **12000 users** will register to my website and I expect **1000 users** to be online at any given time. Since it's a game you would expect **many database transactions and Ajax calls** in which speed will prove essential. So what should I ask for in a web server **(processor, storage, bandwidth,...etc.)** and their values. Thanks in advance. PS: I use PHP (zend framework) on a mysql database + JQuery and CSS3.


title: If Google bot have any difference between singular and plural keywords

text: If I use plural keywords in title, then the search result may take the same keyword as singular too ?


title: Whats the name of this captcha software?

text: I'm looking for an anti-bot software to prevent the content copy on our sites. I have found that some other webs are using a captcha program, here is a pic: http://s10.postimg.org/cnwb1yt6h/Security_Screen.png So, my question is, anyone knows what's the name of this software? If you unknown the name, any other recommendations will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.


title: Permanent redirect domain to www subdomain without web.config

text: I've just set up a site via 1and1 and have run into an issue, I want to accomplish the simple task of redirecting the root domain to the `www` sub domain however due to complications I cant seam to find a way to get it to work. I'm on a Microsoft (asp.net) package so can't use _.htaccess_ , also the IIS server they have doesn't have the URL redirect module installed (so can't use `<rewrite>` in web.config). They have built in HTTP forwarding options however if I set the root domain to redirect to the `www` sub domain it just infinitely redirects. Hopefully there is some obvious option/method I've missed during the past two days of searching!


title: Site has propagated on all browsers except Chrome?

text: I've switched a sites nameservers to a new host with a new site. This has worked fine on FireFox and Safari but Chrome still shows the old site. Obviously I have cleared the cache but the problem persists. Would anyone know what Chrome is propagating slower then other browsers on the same machine?


title: Move domain away from a host while leaving the Exchange email service unaffected

text: I currently have a domain registered with Fasthosts and are using their Exchange email service on this domain. For various reasons I would like to move the domain registration to another domain host, but I want to leave the Exchange email service on Fasthosts operational. I know I can do it from scratch with the domain being hosted elsewhere, but I'm concerned that if I move the domain away then all associated services will be terminated. Is there a way to do this and if so how?


title: Apache is redirecting all https requests to one vhost

text: Apache novice here, We run a server with a few dozen vhosted sites, under apache 2.2.22 on ubuntu 12.0.4. None of them had a SSL before. We had a client request one the other day, and shortly after began my issue. I thought I was doing well setting up that client's vhost with ssl. It is rewriting any http request on that domain to port 443 and serving the page on a secure layer. But I realized that any vhost request made with `https://`, is forwarding to the domain that ssl was set up on. All normal http requests are sent properly. **To sum it up**...   We have:                1. www.example1.com      2. www.example2.com      3. www.example3.com      I just set up SSL for `www.example3.com`, but any `https://` request made to `example1.com` or `example2.com`, forward to `https://www.example3.com`. Is there something I need to add to my _httpd.conf_ file to turn off ssl globally, and within the vhost turn it on for the specific domain? Any suggestions will help at this point.


title: Splitting big CSS file into parts for quicker loading

text: So I have a relatively big CSS file. I thought about doing the following, splitting it to 3 parts:   * 1st part will have the main selectors that are needed to run on the main page that gets the biggest traffic.   * 2nd part will have CSS for the rest of the pages   * 3rd page will have all the screen size dependent set up intended for mobile devices to have responsive pages I am running my static files off a CDN and I would put each of these parts to a separate subdomain to have them all downloaded faster than one file. Do you think this is a good way of doing that? EDIT: since I didn't make clear, I am using CDN service on subdomains to serve all static content, so there are 5 subdomains that I use and they all are on CDN. Each of them is used to serve a number of files: CSS, JS, JPG, PNG, etc. DNS lookups are being made anyways.


title: Will multilingual URL fix give me SEO juice?

text: I'm working on a fairly large site, which has multilingual options, but not correctly implemented: Currently:   * www.example.com/this-is-a-url-of-a-certain-page    * www.example.com/this-is-the-same-url-but-in-a-different-language  Looking into doing this instead:   * www.example.com/en/this-is-a-url-in-a-certain-page    * www.example.com/fr/this-is-the-same-url-but-in-different-language I came up with this structure by doing some best practices research on SEOmoz etc. - now my question is, **will this have an effect on our rankings and how immediate will the effect be** (probably after google has re-crawled the page). **Are there any case studies you know of where a person/company changed the url structure and had good results?**


title: Does the payment due to the ads placed on our site gets low to some extent due to adblock extensions?

text: I am new to ads and payments, Today I realized that even I use the adblock extension on Google Chrome, so now if the visitor of my site also use this extension, then is my earning affected by that extension?


title: Interpretation of Goals relative to Visits and Pageviews in Google Analytics

text: I am stumped on some of the data I am seeing. The image below summarizes the data that I am pulling from the API into Tableau. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wAq2h.jpg) In GA, we have the URL goal setup for the page shown. I am confused on how the following situation exists:   1. How can 121 visits generate 483 pageviews and 420 goals (unique pageviews)? The way that I interpret the results:   * the url shown was seen over 121 visits but viewed 420 unique times.  I simply don't get how that is possible.


title: Google Analytics: Disable tracking for country/region

text: I'm using Google analytics on a small business website from Germany. Today I noticed 86 visitors from Palo Alto on a Sunday. No matter where they come from and why there are visiting the site, they are distorting the statistics. I'm only interested in visitors from Germany. Is there any way to get rid of this traffic sources?


title: Pipes or colons in HTML title tags?

text: Other than esthetics, are there any valid reasons to choose pipes vs colons in an HTML `<title>` tag, or vice-versa? Usability? SEO? Example:               <title>Example.com | Top 10 list of stuff</title>      or               <title>Example.com: Top 10 list of stuff</title>


title: Can't Get a Virtual Host to Work

text: I can't get a specific virtual host to work. This is the first part of my httpd-vhosts.conf file:               NameVirtualHost *:80          <VirtualHost *:80>         DocumentRoot "/Volumes/Data RAID/htdocs/Symfony/web"         ServerName framework.loc     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:80>         DocumentRoot "/Volumes/Data RAID/htdocs"         ServerName localhost     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:80>         DocumentRoot "/Volumes/Data RAID/htdocs/AmColAn"         ServerName amcolan.loc     </VirtualHost>      It's the first one that fails. The others work fine. I can get to index.php using:               http://localhost/symfony/web/index.php      I can't get to it using:               http://framework.loc/index.php      I get redirected to OpenDNS, which I use as my DNS, with the error that it is not loading. This is on OS X 10.8.2. I restart apache every time I change the config. I must be making some sort of bonehead error.


title: Creating a subdomain of a free subdomain

text: I have a free subdomain and was wondering if I could create a subdomain of that subdomain. e.g `foo.bar.example.com`


title: Are 307 Temporary Redirects safe for temporary new web site tests?

text: Our current site is getting close to being replaced. I was looking to do a test of our new sales funnel on the new site and compare the traffic and conversion ratios for a few days. So I was planning on doing 307 Temporary Redirects from the old site to the new site for a few days and see how the traffic reacts before a hard launch. I've seen some topics online of people doing something similar and being penalized by google can someone tell me if this is a safe way to approach this task? If not are their any alternative ways you would recommend. We are going from a manually coded 2006 website to a new wordpress site all php/MYSQL. Any insights or recommendations welcome.


title: Options for different domain and hosting

text: # The situation I have a hosting service (one.com) on which I have installed a wordpress.org site in a subdirectory 'wordpress':               myhost.com/wordpress/      (myhost.com is actually my own domain, but it already has contents and I don't want wordpress/ to appear in the root of that domain.) I want to use a second domain for this site. Thinking I would be able to forward to the wordpress site without problems, I registered the domain at GoDaddy.com:               mydomain.com      # What I want So when my visitors type in mydomaind.com, I want them to see the contents on myhost.com/wordpress/, and the same for all subpages (mydomain.com/a/subpage fetches from myhost.com/wordpress/a/subpage). Just a redirect isn't enough, I want my visitors to see only mydomain.com as their domain. # Some notes   * If I set up forward _with URL masking_ at GoDaddy, they just give a full frame, pointing to myhost.com/wordpress/. This isn't good enough for me, since mydomain.com will always show up in the adress bar, also for subpages (I want mydomain/a/subpage to show in the adress bar for a subpage).   * I believe this could in principle be done with a .htaccess file with URL rewriting, but I have no hosting with GoDaddy so I can't upload such a file there. Hosting with GoDaddy is very expensive (of course) so I don't want to do that.   * I don't think I can use DNS settings; the host of mydomain.com says they don't allow anyone else to point to their name servers.   * If possible, I wouldn't want to re-install the wordpress site, it would take quite some time. I'd prefer to keep it at myhost.com/wordpress/ (if possible)   * Anything involving transferring the domain is supposed to take 5-7 working days. I would need my site up-and-running earlier than that, so I'd like to avoid it if possible. # Am I locked in? As it seems, I am rather locked-in with GoDaddy. I can't use the domain with .htaccess since I can't upload such a file (and won't pay for hosting by GoDaddy). I can't use any of their forward options since none of them do what I want (one just forwards, the one that masks the URL does it with frames). Would you agree? # Possible solutions   * Transfer the domain to any hosting service with reasonable hosting pricing, as opposed to GoDaddy (I'd probably use one.com, the same host as for myhost.com, in that case), and there either     * re-install wordpress on the new account, or     * use .htaccess with URL rewrite on the new account to fetch the contents from myhost.com/wordpress/. Can this be set-up to work with sub-pages as well? And visitors won't ever see "myhost.com/wordpress", just "mydomain.com"? E.i., mydomain.com/a/subpage/ wold fetch from myhost.com/wordpress/a/subpage/?   * This might be a long shot but:     * Find some free (preferrably) hosting allowing to point to their nameservers     * Make DNS settings at GoDaddy so that my domain appears at the site above     * at that site, put a .htaccess file with URL rewriting to forward to myhost.com/wordpress/ Could this be possible? What services could I use in that case? As I see it, this would be the only way not to have to transfer a domain (taking 5-7 working days) _and_ not having to re-install the wordpress site. Sorry for the long question. All info and ideas are welcome.


title: GA tracking utm query params after hashbang

text: We currently use a hashbang for the portion of our site that generates dynamic content which can also be deep linked. Our analytics team wants to use utm params to track the referral traffic from social networks. We are using Universal Analytics (analytics.js) as well as GTM. Will GA pick up the query parameters after the hashbang or does it always have to go before? For example:               example.com/#!/some/content?utm_source=foo&utm_campaign=bar     example.com?utm_source=foo&utm_campaign=bar/#!/some/content      In #1, I'm concerned that the utm params won't be recorded and in #2 the page will break or the url could be incorrectly written. How does GA pull in those parameters - location.search? regex? Can I get away with using either?


title: How to handle moderators effectively?

text: I've been running/developing browser based games for several years now, and the one complaint I get over and over is that the mods are terrible. I even did a survey recently, and while my support ticket response time is only a couple of hours, the rating of customer service severely suffered, specifically due to the dislike of how the moderators handle things in the game (chat, forums, etc). I'm wondering if this is just how it is with these type of things and that the people speaking out are just the trouble-makers (which I know this is obviously some of it). I really want my customer service to be known as high quality, but there's no way to get there without improving the moderation situation. I hear everything from mods being "tyrannical" to abusing power to not doing anything and playing favorites. I have selected highly regarded players in the games that have been around a long time and volunteered to do the job. I've got rules outlined that the moderators are supposed to enforce. What else can be done to improve the situation?


title: Is it possible to use asynchronous google adsense, i.e. non-blocking?

text: I know that there is a Asynchronous method of using Google Analytics but is there something similar for adsense? I can't find one from my current searches - I was wondering whether there is a common trick I'm missing?


title: Regular expression for pages in Google Analytics that matches full words only

text: I am trying to create a regular expression to see all my landing pages in one search result. This is what I have so far, but this regular expression does not consider the `(\W|$))`, meaning that I receive results which that word is not the end of the string (I know I would need to add the beginning and ending `/` to be getting any meaningful data)               ((\W|^)[Pp]rofessional(\W|$)|(\W|^)[Aa]dam(\W|$)|(\W|^)[Dd]unkey(\W|$)|(\W|^)[Aa]ny[Pp]ur(\W|$)|(\W|^)[Ee]nd(\W|$)|(\W|^)[fF]inal(\W|$))      I tried to follow the Google's guide again to no avail:               (\W|^)([Pp]rojects|[Aa]wards|[Dd]ownload|[Aa]bout[Pp]ages|[Ee]xperts|[fF]orum)(\W|$)


title: How to integrate Paypal Direct Payment (i.e. Paypal Pro) with custom shopping cart application?

text: I've written a basic shopping cart application that is fully functional _except_ for the payment process. I have decided to use PayPal Direct Payment, or "PayPal Pro," but am unsure of how to integrate it with my website. Does anyone know of any tutorials or resources that explain step by step how to integrate PayPal with a website? As a side note, just so that no one feels obligated to state this, I know that it's important that this be "done right," as one can get in big trouble if customer information is not kept secure. I fully intend on having a professional review my entire application and help me be PCI complaint, but I want to do as much as the work myself as I possibly can.


title: Issues granting access - Google Analytics

text: I am the administrator of my company's Google Analytics account, but was recently asked to give a client access to their Google Analytics data. Whilst I fully understand the new permissions structure Google has put in place, I've put the email address along with all the correct permissions but the client tells me they are being greated with a message stating that they "are unable to access Google Analytics because they don't have the correct levels of permission". I've granted them the right to Edit, Collaborate, Read & Analyze but they still have the same issue. I am definitely using the client's correct email address and they're also using Gmail so that can't be the fault either.


title: Should I make a page for every HTTP error?

text: I know that it is important to have an error document for 404, 403, 401 and 500. But what others, if any should I make to be completely sure that users do not see the default apache error page?


title: Can I create a div to display web content from another website?

text: Let's say my homepage is www.example.com and I want to add a div on it. When people visit my page, I want to show the content from www.google.com within the div. When visitor clicked any link on www.google.com, it redirects user all within the div. Is it possible to do? If so, how?


title: XAMPP - Unable to serve files larger than ~30MB

text: I'm developing a site locally with XAMPP on Windows 7, and as far as media is concerned, I'm unable to play media files that are larger than 30MB or so. Both video and audio files (MP4 and MP3 respectively) generate this error in Chrome (and show similar errors in other browsers such as IE9 and Opera):               No data received     Unable to load the webpage because the server sent no data.     Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data.      It seems that the exact number of MB somewhat varies between browsers though. One video in question is 34MB and actually plays in Opera and IE9, but gives the aforementioned error in Chrome. I've checked to make sure the file paths were typed correctly and ensured that the directive for .htaccess is there to serve MP4s: `AddType video/mp4 mp4` Also, I have these directives set as well in the same .htaccess file:               php_value upload_max_filesize "80M"     php_value post_max_size "80M"     php_value max_input_time 60     php_value max_execution_time 60      And `memory_limit` is set in php.ini as "128M" so I'm left wondering: what is causing my files to not play, and what, if any, directives I have to change on the server-side? Perhaps something to do with limitations with the GET method (the method I'm seeing on Chrome's network tab among other header request/response info)?


title: Using one document for all images

text: I have some icons around 100x100. I typically save out each icon as a `.png` but I wanted to know if I included all the `.pngs` in one document would it be ideal and improve load time? If one document is okay, is there a caution area for file size or image size when adding all images?


title: Will Google crawl session based website

text: I have a website, it is split into 3 categories but using PHP its an all-in one kind of style. When a user chooses a category on the home page a session is set, this is then used to set the style and contents of the website. Would Googlebot and other bots be able to still scan my website? If a page is accessed and no session is set then the user is sent back to the home page. I have created special links, that set a session but go straight to the contact page. Even this page doesn't seem to be showing up. Any ideas if a sitemap with specially crafted links (to set the session) will help Google?


title: What is the best way to handle special characters for Google searches?

text: For example, originally my name is Denny Müller but I have used Denny Mueller for many years. This is common practice in Germany and it has the same meaning but with a different way of writing it. I like to write it my name with _ue_ but in Germany it is usually _ü_. Also my domain is with _ue_ and it's easy to find at Google if I look for _denny mueller_. But anyone in Germany looking for my name would write it with _ü_ and it is impossible to find in Google. Is there a preferred way to handle this double layout? Edit: `google.de` works fine but not on `google.com`.


title: Google Region tags?

text: I own 2 domains, both are for the same company. However one is for the USA and one is for the UK. They both have the same name, the only difference is the TLD, for example `mycompany.co.uk` (UK) and `mycompany.com` (USA) Unfortunately, in many cases, the USA website is actually ranking above the UK site on `google.co.uk` How can I show Google that   1. Both sites are the same company   2. That one is a UK site and one is a USA site. I have heard that it's possible to include some kind of tag on our site to show this.


title: Why does my sitemap have a ".gz" extension, and how can I edit it?

text: An XML sitemap generator plugin for WordPress puts the following strings in my _robots.txt_ file:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /wp-admin/     Disallow: /wp-includes/      But other WordPress blogs have lots of tags included in it. Also, my XML file's sitemap name looks like this: `sitemap.xml.gz`. How do I add other possible parameters in my _robots.txt_ file? Is the XML file `sitemap.xml.gz` name valid, and what is the difference between a `.xml` and `.gz` extension?


title: How to make Google index files retrieved from database?

text: We use Joomla with Remository to store and manage publications (don't ask me why). Files (PDF) are stored in a database and can be accessed via dynamic, rewritten links of the form               http://domain.de/some/path/filename.html      Here is an example: some file Current browsers reliably detect that they get a PDF. `wget` uses the `.html` filename but after renaming I get a working PDF file. `curl` behaves similarly; piping its output into a (suitably named) files gives a working file. All this leads me to believe that -- against all odds, one might say -- the data our system provides is generally valid and understandable for clients. However, Google does not seem to index PDF files referenced by such links. Our publication list is indexed, but the PDFs linked there are not (they don't show up in web and Scholar searches). How can we tell search robots to retrieve our files and index them?