title: When to reply 400 Bad Request

text: According to www.w3.org, a Web server should reply with status code `400 Bad Request` if: " _The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax. The client SHOULD NOT repeat the request without modifications_ " Does that mean only request that violates some HTTP spec?   Or does it include a request that my particular Web app thinks is broken?   When would you reply `400`? For example, if my Web app expects a query string to always include a "function=..." parameter, would you reply code `400 Bad Request` or `403 Forbidden`? (403 means that _"The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it."_ )


title: audio streaming that cannot be saved?

text: I need to publish a audio file that I want to make so that:   * It is available to listen in streaming.   * The file can't be retrieved for private use. Any idea how to do it? Something where user cannot save the audio using any webbrowser plugin like DownloadHelper would be the best, but already preventing the everyday user to save the source file on his machine with a right click would help.


title: Colour Blindness Filters

text: Greetings Friends, Is there a standard set of downloadable styles that I can overlay on my graphics to simulate the various types of colour-blindness? Ideally for Photoshop or Fireworks. Many thanks


title: Spatial data mining algorithms about local business web services?

text: Do you know any research paper about spatial data mining algorithms to retrieve trends about local business services (such as google places.. etc) let's say most rated restaurants this week.. etc ? I need scientific material about it. thanks


title: Google Analytics Liked Tool to Detect Visitor IP Address

text: I was wondering is there any free google analytics tool, which I can detect my visitor IP address? I try to use statcounter, but they are only limit the log to 500 entries. The reason I ask, because I want to detect Adsense click fraud activity on my web site. Thank you.


title: Only I can access my hosted website!

text: **Problem Background** I have bought a domain from `bigrock.com` and hosted website on their server. Initially, I was not able to access my site with its name e.g.: `www.sitename.com`, but it was accessable with its IP address. So I wrote to BigRock about that, they told me that "Your site is working fine for them" and they gave me screenshot with name. I got confused, so my friend suggested to change the DNS server address in my router with Google's DNS servers name (`8.8.8.8`, `8.8.4.4`), I did it and I was able to access my website with its name. **Problem Starts** Now my website is done and live but **many people are not able to access it, only few doesn't face problem**. I cannot tell everyone to update their routers with Google's DNS server names! I again wrote to BigRock about it, but they are again saying "Your website is working fine!" How do I solve this problem? Am I missing some configuration in CPanel? Is it in my scope? or shall I move to another Web-Hosting provider? **UPDATE: 1** One month have elapsed I have registered my domain hosted it. I was developing it from a month. (Updating it with FileZilla daily) **UPDATE: 2** Domain Name: www.nistnu.in Tested on : http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/ **Errors:** Delegation not found at parent. No delegation could be found at the parent, making your zone unreachable from the Internet. Not enough nameserver information was found to test the zone www.nistnu.in, but an IP address lookup succeeded in spite of that.


title: Is  safe now?

text: Is it safe to use `` now? I remember there were problems with this entity, such as rendering it everywhere (instead of only when the web browser decides to split a word), or splitting a word without rendering it.


title: Accepting money on a website as payment: when do I move past PayPal?

text: I have a website I accept payments via PayPal. This works well, at what point does it make sense to change providers, given PayPal takes a higher percentage than some other services. What are the best alternatives to PayPal and how much should I be bringing in to have it make sense?


title: How can I tell if Windows 8 users have a tablet or PC

text: We have had some complaints from users who are using Windows 8. I'd like to use Google Analytics to review the behavior of users depending on whether they are using Windows 8 on a tablet or Windows 8 on a PC. How can I tell them apart?


title: Using a CDN for CMS software (multiple sites)

text: I'm currently researching ideas for the media management side of a CMS I'm writing. I was looking at having images served from a CDN which is fine on a single site, but I want all sites that run the CMS to make use of a CDN (which will most likely be a custom developed one, rather than a third party service like S3). My main question is: **Is a multi-site CDN a good idea?** I can't think of a downside, but have probably missed something - obviously they won't share the same folder, as I invisage the requests to be `css.cdnsite.com/example.com/style.css` or something along those lines. Having multiple sites in the same place will obviously make it easier for us to manage, as well as being cheaper, but then I wonder if it'll be worth it... Long story short: **How should the CMS handle user uploaded media (separate installations)** Just keep a local copy of all assets and serve them from the same site, like in days of yore? Keep a local copy, force site to use `www.` and have CDN subdomains per site? Or use a single separate CDN for all sites? Apologies for the length of this question, not sure if this should be multiple questions or not, as all parts are kind of related and could affect each other.


title: Google Analytics assign multiple values to a custom variable at pagelevel

text: I am using Google Analytics custom variable to track the category for a product. Product A has 3 categories: catA, catB and catC. This changes at page level because we load different products on different pages. My code snippet looks like this:               _gaq.push('_setCustomVar', 1, 'categories', 'catA', 3);     _gaq.push('_trackPageview');      In order to set multiple categories, I need to send multiple `_trackPageView` or `_trackEvent` requests. Is there a way to overcome this problem?


title: If user +1s a Google Plus page, does he "follow" the page?

text: We added a +1 button that refers to our Google Plus page. When the user clicks on the +1 button, does he end up "following" the page? Or do we MUST use the follow button instead? The reason behind this is that we wanted to track the new followers and the only button that offers a callback function is the +1 one.


title: 301 redirect all pages with a specific extension

text: I have a website that is not on ASP anymore, it's a Drupal 7 website now. _**I need to use an .htaccess file to redirect with code 301 all pages with .asp extension to the 404 page or a specific URL._** (Background story: Drupal will catch non-existing pages such as `domain.com/test` and redirect to 404 page. But Drupal will not catch non- existing pages with ASP extension such as `domain.com/test.asp` and it will instead serve a generic Not Found Apache page.) For example, if someone tries to access `domain.com/test.asp`, the user should be taken to `domain.com/404` I have searched and searched but I can't find a solution to this particular problem. How can I code that in an .htaccess file?


title: Apache logging based on user agent

text: I'd like to update my apache logging so that its destination is based on the user agent string or file type. Specifically, I would like to send my googlebot requests to their own log file, and I would like to not log requests for any of my image files. My configuration is pretty much stock.


title: wordpress woocommerce php variable usage %1$s

text:
I am using wordpress with woocommerce and I am trying to manipulate a copy of myaccount.php The default code uses some variables of some sort that I am not familiar with nor have I been able to find documentation on. The variables in question are %1$s, %2$s and %s
     <?php     printf(         __( 'Hello %1$s (not %1$s? Sign out).', 'woocommerce' ) . ' ',         $current_user->display_name,         wp_logout_url( get_permalink( wc_get_page_id( 'myaccount' ) ) )     );     ?>          <?php     printf( __( 'From this page you can view your recent orders, manage your shipping and billing addresses and edit your password and account details.', 'woocommerce' ),         wc_customer_edit_account_url()     );     ?>
      How can I identify the variables, what they represent and how to use them? Thank you.


title: Sitemap vs nofollow

text: I have a sitemap on my site, which includes all users from the site. On the user profile page, tho, I don't want google to index all users, only those with more than 10 posts, so I've added a meta "nofollow" tag to all users with less than 10 posts. My question is, what is stronger so to speak, the sitemap or the nofollow rule? Will google index all users (the rule in the sitemap), or will it take the nofollow tag in consideration too when it gets to a profile page with less than 10 posts?


title: Very few visitors on Analytics: incorrect setting?

text: it's quite a long time Analytics is making me crazy: I have a 2 years old website, started with Aruba (an Italian provider) and then transfered on Hostgator. It's a blog Wordpress + MyBB forum, and on both the platforms I've the Analytics code in the footer. The problem is that the stats on Analytics are simply ridiculous compared to the numbers reported by the Aruba (before) and Hostgator (then). I think that the numbers of Aruba/Hostgator are correct, simply because just the daily users connected on the forum is higher than the Analytics numbers. I know it's a really confused request, but maybe you can help me to understand what's the problem.


title: Is CPanel: SSL certificate installed correctly?

text: My web host said they installed an SSL certificate for me. On Cpanel, in the SSL tab, is has the following:               SSL status   Enabled        CA certificate   Not installed         Is this what it should say if they have done the job properly?


title: How to present videos for Google Bot

text: i have a website which streams Flash Videos. For Google i have a special page due to using AJAX for normal Users (see articles on "_escaped_fragment_" for this). What i want to know is how i should present the Video in the Crawler optimized Page so GoogleBot can most easily recognize the video and maybe even add it to their Google Video search?


title: Wordpress blog in subdirectory of ASP.NET webforms application

text: I am trying to setup a Wordpress blog to run in the subdirectory of an ASP.NET wbforms application so I can have http://www.myapplication.com/blog I have Wordpress running on IIS 7 fine as it's own application but when I create the 'blog' subdirectory and set it to be an application with the Wordpress folder as the application root. I keep coming up against a configuration error...               HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error     Config Error    Configuration section not allowed to be set below application      I've done quite a bit of searching on this and I have tried modifying the applicationHost.config file to set the following value...               <section name="modules" allowDefinition="MachineToApplication" overrideModeDefault="Deny" />      But the configuration errors persist. Can anyone suggest any other config changes I need to make to allow the Wordpress application to run in the /blog subdirectory?


title: What document types can be included in an XML sitemap?

text: AFAIK, Google accepts sitemaps which are about ordinary URLs (text/plain), images (image/png, image/gif, image/jpg, etc.), and videos (video/avi, video/mpeg, etc.). My question is, how many Internet Media Types (formerly known as MIME Types) can have sitemaps. For example, if I'm a researcher, can I create a sitemap for my PDF files (application/pdf), or can a compose create a sitemap for his/her compositions (audio/mpeg3)?


title: ampersand (&) sign in sitemap generating error

text: I have ampersand sign in urls and Google is not able to parse my sitemap.xml due to this. I can't remove the sign but i have to submit my xml to google. Is there any solution for this.


title: Bad links point to old domain - should I disavow on new domain?

text: I am working with a site which we'll call `www.newdomain.com`, which was hit by Penguin this month despite no unusual practices. I found lots of really spammy links to their old site, `www.olddomain.com`, which 301s to the new domain. So I've gone through the process of identifying which links are really bad, made contact to ask for removal, and am at the stage of disavowing links. But wait! None of the bad links point to `newdomain.com`, and I worry that a disavow request via this domain in Webmaster Tools will damage something.   1. Do the old band links affect the new site?   2. If so, where do I disavow those old bad links? On Webmaster Tools for the new domain?


title: Why is my Custom HTML tag not fired in Google Webmaster Tools

text: I have a Custom HTML tag in Google Webmaster tools that is actually very simple. It consists of the following code (a GTM Macro):               {{html generator}}      This tag is only fired on the Thank-you page on my website. This firing rule works fine, as I'm using it for a couple of other tags. The Custom Javascript {{html generator}} macro is more complex. The macro generates one or two image pixels in HTML. Due to the complexity of the image pixels, I cannot use the Custom Image tag. :                     Via console.log I have verified that the macro Javascript function generates the correct string. Why is the HTML not executed? I don't believe it is a caching issue as the query parameters always have a different outcome. I believe it is a timing issue. Update: I think I found a solution, but still it is unclear to me why it did not work in the first place. Solution:                     This solution requires you to check the box: []Support document.write


title: Configuring an MX record for Amazon's Route 53

text: I am using Amazon Route 53 and have a correctly functioning `A` record pointing to an EC2 instance at `mydomain.com.au` with a Django stack running. My problem is, I tried to setup a Postfix mailserver but I could not receive mail, so I figured my problem is with the `MX` record (since local mail worked). This is what I have got for my `MX` record and just wanted to confirm if it is correct, or if it's nonsense:               (Settings as per AWS interface)     Name: left it blank (mydomain.com.au)     Value: 10 titan.mydomain.com.au      I have used "titan" because it's the hostname of my server - should I use "mail" instead? I keep seeing this on the web but can't find an explanation of if it's arbitrary. I want the e-mails to work such that `user@mydomain.com.au` gets delivered to the server. I have looked at this question and this one too, but didn't find an answer in them.


title: Google Analytics API: Issue with segment in which a page has NOT been visited

text: I have a simple funnel situation. The users start at /start/ . Some of them reach the result at /result/ and obviously some don't. So it seems logical to me that:               users who went to the start page  =       user who did see the result page afterwards     + user who did NOT see the result page afterwards      However my results are   * users who went to the start page << user who did see the result page afterwards + user who did NOT see the result page afterwards   * user who did see the result page afterwards is smaller than users who went to the start page and has about the same pageview ration as the api calls tell me.   * user who did NOT see the result page afterwards is just 10% smaller than users who went to the start page Does somebody know why? The calls are run via the spreadsheet addin to the API. all three calls share these attributes:   * Metric: ga:users   * no filter   * are for the last 30 days   * Sampling: HIGHER_PRECISION The segments differ for each call   * users::sequence::ga:pagePath=~/start/$   * users::sequence::ga:pagePath=~/start/$;->>ga:pagePath=~/result/.*   * users::sequence::ga:pagePath=~/start/$;->>ga:pagePath!~/result/.* Does anybody have a hint? Thank you so much!


title: How do I server multiple domains from the same directory and codebase without my configuraton breaking when apache.conf is overwritten?

text: I have 20 domains on a VPS running cPanel. One public_html is filled with code, the remaining 19 are symbolic links to that one. (For example, `assets` is a directory within `public_html` ... for the 19 others, there's a symbolic link to that directory in each each accounts `public_html` dir.) It's all PHP / MySQL database driven, with content changing depending on the domain. It works like a charm, assuming cPanel has `suExec` enabled correctly, and assuming apache.conf does NOT have `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch` enabled. However, every few weeks, my `apache.conf` is mysteriously overwritten, re- enabling `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch`, and disabling all 19 linked sites for as long as it takes for me to notice. Here's the offending line in apache.conf:               <Directory "/">         AllowOverride All         Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks IncludesNOEXEC Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch     </Directory>      The addition of `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch` disables the sites in a strange way ... the html is generated correctly, but all css/js/image in the html fails to load. Clicking any link redirects to `/`. And I have no idea why. I do have a few things in my `.htaccess`, which work fine when `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch` is not present:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         # www.example.com -> example.com         RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]         RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]              # Remove query strings from static resources         RewriteRule ^assets/js/(.*)_v(.*)\.js           /assets/js/$1.js [L]         RewriteRule ^assets/css/(.*)_v(.*)\.css         /assets/css/$1.css [L]         RewriteRule ^assets/sites/(.*)/(.*)_v(.*)\.css  /assets/sites/$1/$2.css [L]              # Block access to hidden files and directories           RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -d [OR]         RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -f         RewriteRule "(^|/)\." - [F]              # SLIR ... reroute images to image processor         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/images/.*$         RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]              # ignore rules if URL is a file         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f         # ignore rules if URL is not php         #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.php$              # catch-all for routing         RewriteRule . index.php [L]     </ifModule>      I also use most of the 5G Blacklist 2013 for protection against exploits and other depravities. Again, all of this works great, except when `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch` gets added back into apache.conf. Since I've failed to find the cause of whatever cPanel/security update is overwriting apache.conf, I thought there might be a more correct way to accomplish my goal using group permissions. I've created a 'www' group, added all accounts to the group, and `chmod -R`'d the code source to use that group. Everything is `644` or `755`. But doesn't seem to be enough. My unix isn't that strong. Do you need to restart something for group changes to take effect? Probably not. Anyways, I'm entering unknown territory. Can anyone recommend the right way to configure a website for multiple sites using one codebase that doesn't rely on apache.conf?


title: Running Microsoft's IE VPCs on Windows 8

text: I am trying to run Microsoft's VPC VMs on Windows 8 but no luck. As you may know, Microsoft's Virtual PC software doesn't work on Windows 8. They are recommended to use their new virtualisation technology, Hyper-V, instead of Virtual PC. Okay, fair enough, but the problem is, OSes requires to re-activate when I bind them with a new VM. I extracted the VM's spec from VPC versions and tried to create exact machine but it doesn't work either. So, I need to find a way to work with old IE versions on Windows 8, preferably with those VMs.


title: Do multiple Google Analytics profiles share the same raw data?

text: I have two profiles under one web site in Google Analytics. The two profiles are essentially the same except one has defined parameters to exclude (e.g. id, page... etc) so that I could aggregate the page views while ignoring parameters. Now I begin to think it's a bad idea because my mail chimp (integrated with Google Analytics) only reports campaign data in one profile and not the other. Does data go into one profile and not the other? My impression was that Google Analytics stores all data in one huge database, and all views (profile, dashboard, statistics... etc) are all just database queries -- and even if I deleted profile and recreate it I'd still get the same data. Is this true? Or does each profile hold its own set of data, not shared with other profiles?


title: Alternative to .htaccess (due to bad performance?)

text: I've been told that .htaccess should be avoided when possible, as it reduces the server performance and new servers disables it or just don't implement it anymore. I don't know how true this is, but if so I wish to find an alternative to rewrite my URLs and would thank if someone could help me. PS: What I use it for is just to convert URLs from myexample.com/page.php?lang=LANG to myexample.com/LANG/page


title: lfd on ns3.domain.com: Excessive resource usage: Account (26661)

text: We lease a dedicated server with the following specs: > Dual Hyperthreaded Quad Core > > 12GB RAM > > 750gb RAID1 We recently upgraded from a `Dual Core/2GB RAM` due to server load issues. We are now unfortunately having the same issues. Every hour on the hour, we receive around 25 or so `lfd` emails:               Time:         Mon Oct 17 06:01:08 2011 -0700     Account:      account     Resource:     Process Time     Exceeded:     1177340 > 1800 (seconds)     Executable:   /usr/bin/php     Command Line: /usr/bin/php /home/account/public_html/site/wp-comments-post.php     PID:          26661     Killed:       No      Every one of these refers to a Wordpress page, yet we have over 600 sites using wordpress hosted vs 10-20 other. At the same time, PHP is installed as CGI, which I've heard can be resource intensive. _**What is causing this excessive usage?_** OR **_How can I pinpoint the issue in the logs?_**


title: "pretty urls" with only JavaScript content changing

text: I have a small webapp that uses a single HTML file, but accepts any URL in the directory. I'm using mod_rewrite to make all of these send index.html. The index page may be accessed at, for example, either of these, but also any other number.   * http://stacklint.aboutscript.com/   * http://stacklint.aboutscript.com/18327507 Will I be penalized in search rankings if Google sees all of these URLs having the same HTML source? Should I declare all of these pages as canonical to the root?


title: google not accpect adsense

text: Google adsense not accept my site . Help to to point out why google not accept my site. My website : www.golittleindia.com I received this email from Google: Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into AdSense at this time. We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below. Issues: - Site does not comply with Google policies


title: Host website on UNIX, but email on Windows?

text: Client has web hosting and email hosting from one web provider. Their email hosting is integrated with their systems for their office — an Exchange server (located on their premises). Both are on a Windows server (the same one, TBC — security problem?), but this web host does not support PHP, a problem for:   * WordPress on a subdirectory   * PHP contact form scripts   * PHP includes Nor does it support .htaccess — a problem for things that I have built into the site:   * Redirects/404   * Various other enhancements Client has agreed to move the website over to either a UNIX server with the same web host, or I can also suggest another (cheaper/better) one. The email can remain hosted on the Windows server (as I understand Exchange will not work on Apache). Will it be possible to seamlessly and easily do this? Likely by changing A/CNAME/NS/MX settings for the domain?


title: Will ranking be affected with a mobile XML sitemap for a mobile site with the same URLs as the desktop site?

text: We have a site with both a desktop version and a mobile version. Most of the content are the same and both versions have the same URL, but the HTML generated is device specific. Looking at Google's recommendations for smartphone-optimized sites, one could get the impression that the mobile xml sitemap is only for sites with different URLs. Will ranking be affected - negatively or positively - if we add a mobile xml sitemap that effectively will be a duplicate of the desktop sitemap?


title: URL structure with 3 subcategories

text: **I have 1 main category and 1 subcategory and 1 additional "topic" or "area"** : > **main categories:** news, interview, tutorial > > **subcategories e.g. for news** : shopping, entertainment, politics, sport > etc. so if there were only these 2 categories it's easy the url would be:               http://example.com/news/shopping      and detail page something like:               http://example.com/2013/12/17/people-are-buying-more-presents-via-internet      But, I need to add **the additional "category" or "area" there**. E.g. continents: So, I was thinking about:               http://example.com/europe/news/shopping     http://example.com/africa/news/shopping     ...      What do you think about this approach from a SEO perspective? To me it seems logical, but Google may think differently. Another "problem"is that **some articles are international**. How to solve that? So they need to appear in all categories. How structure the URL then? **Would it be counted as a duplicate content?** Because the detail page for these articles would still be the same e.g.:               http://example.com/2013/12/17/people-are-buying-more-presents-via-internet


title: Looking for free, specific Ip2Location Database

text: I am searching for a free db (like an updated XML or CSV file) that relates IP addresses to specific locations. I want more information than just the country. I want some sort of region or city reference, even if that ends up to be a number that makes no sense to me. Doesn't have to be super correct or always up to date either. It is just to distinguish between user groups and not to monitor or spy on them.


title: lazy loading images and effects on SEO

text: We are using the following technique to lazy load images in our site: For all images we put in the `src` attribute a url for a default img (i.e. a loader) and put the actual image url in the `data-src` attribute. Like so               <img src="loader.gif" data-src="img1.jpg" />      When the image is outside of the viewport nothing happens, but when the image goes inside the viewport, then the url from the `data-src` attribute is loaded and the image is correctly shown. This has as a result that Google sees all the images in the page (i.e. a search results page) as having the same `src` attribute. Because the google bot of course parses only the 'unloaded' img tag with the default `src`. My question is: **does having many img tags with the same`src` attribute affect the SEO of the page**?


title: Apache show file index as utf-8

text: I'm on a shared hosting which runs Apache on a Windows server. I am running Linux and I have uploaded some files that should be accessible directly via a public URL (that is known only by a few people). Now, some of these files contains accented characters (ex: "encyclopédie.pdf") but the file index show the files with replacement symbols (ex: "encyclopÃ©die.pdf"). Can I correct this via `.htaccess` specifying the charset of the index? Or do I have to rename the files without accents?


title: Interlinking websites using javascript - safe for SEO?

text: I have a nutrition network of 20 sites which share the same hosting account, though different C class IP's. They were interlinked and suffered a massive traffic drop after penguin. I have decided to stop interlinking them for SEO purposes but I'd like my user to still visit them because they are in related niches. If I display them on my site using javascript, will google penalize me still for doing a link scheme?


title: In Google Analytics, collect the site search query parameter only on a specific page

text: I've set up site-search for our main Google Analytics profile, which filters GET named "q". While this works nicely, it also collects data from our starting page (which contains a dealer locator which also uses the "q" parameter to search). Is there any way to seperate two different search engines, which use the same query parameter?


title: Finding a Payment Gateway?

text: I have a client who would like to sell glass pipes online. The problem I run into is with the payment gateway. Glass pipes fall into two categories `drug paraphernalia` or `tobacco product`. This leads me to here and asking: Does anyone know of a payment gateway that will process payments for glass pipes? Note: Doing some Google searching I read that Authorize.net will accept tobacco but when I spoke with them they said they do not.


title: Is this DFP error message the reason my ad won't show?

text: I'm setting up DFP to display ads and I have an ad tag (Javascript) from adtechus.com. The tag looks like this:               <script src="http://adserver.adtechus.com/?adrawdata/1.0/1111/11111/0/0/ADTECH;loc=100;noperf=1;"></script>      When I paste that tag into DFP, I get an error message saying it does't recognize the tag format: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xEGFB.png) ...and, more importantly, my ad isn't showing on the page. DFP seems to be taking my adtechus ad tag regardless and working with it, despite the error message. But could that be the reason my ad isn't showing? And how can I fix it?


title: Why would anyone need my registrar information for a new web site?

text: I work for a company that has an older website. We hired a firm to update our web site and index it properly. I have control of the actual domain name. I created an FTP site for them to use, but they are also asking for my registrar account and password. The only explanation I have gotten so far is that they need it for "indexing" the site to search engines. Is this a valid reason, or is their any valid reason they would need my registration information?


title: Is the m subdomain automatically supported / redirected by mobile devices, if not how should I redirect?

text: I'm trying to set up a mobile version of a site, and I'm wondering if I can just set up a m subdomain and put the mobile site in there, or if I need to set up some kind of redirect to make phones automatically go to it. Could you point me in the right direction for getting started on this? I'm having trouble finding good info. Thanks


title: Do filters in google analytics affect past data, and if not, how to apply filter to past data

text: I'm not a big analytics user and only just discovered I could filter out my own visits. So I created a filter to to this, but haven't seen any changes to my past data. Maybe I create the filter incorrectly? If not though, is there a way to apply the filter to past data. Ideally I'd like to remove this data from my reports.


title: Guidance required in learning web technologies specially html5

text: I want to learn HTML5, as I m visiting mozila developer network but it is not helping me in anyway... please tell me how to learn HTML 5, I mean, which concept I should start to work around first and then which concept should I follow next to it. I have a little bit knowledge about html, which i studied during my school. I also want to ask one more question which one language/technology- JavaScript or CSS, should learn before or along with HTML. can i also use AJAX while developing websites using html and other technologies.


title: Does browser prefetching have an impact on stats from Google Analytics?

text: Some pages can be prefetched by the browser (see this or that). If a user uses a browser that prefetches pages, will this be counted by Google Analytics? If there are 5 pages to be prefetched, will Google Analytics count that as 5 visits?


title: What is the list of requirements to build a webserver at home?

text: Please i am researching to check the programs and hardware devices i need to build my own webserver. Any trusted links, ideas or solutions are highly appreciated!


title: Multiple or single web site for company and subsidiaries

text: I work for a company that is specialized in servers & networking Equipment. The company holds 3 subsidiaries that have different IT activities (software Engineering & application performance management, IT security, Oracle based business applications). Each subsidiary has its own identity (Name, logo). We are thinking about rebuilding the company website and the main question I struggle on is to either create a single web site for the company and the subsidiaries, or to create one for each subsidiary. In the first scenario, the visitor have to dig deep to reach the information he wants. In the second one, he may miss an information that might be of interest. Are there any best practices or existing cases I should know about. Thanks in advance


title: Google AdSense ads per page limitations

text: In the Google's Ad placement policies stated that the limitation is "up to 3". However there are lots of sites having 6 or even more ads per one single page. Moreover on some site there is information that the limitation is actually - 6. So I'm a bit confused. How the things in real?


title: Redirect error in Google Webmaster Tools report

text: I built a CMS and I used it to create the following website http://www.tkdmontecatini.com . After some days, Google Webmaster Tools started to give me several "Redirect error" on some pages like the follows:   * http://www.tkdmontecatini.com/it/photogallery   * http://www.tkdmontecatini.com/it/pagina/9/Informazioni/Corsi/Chi-Siamo   * http://www.tkdmontecatini.com/it/pagina/2/Informazioni/Eventi/Eventi The funny things are:   1. If I access those links from a browser, it's all right and I've not redirect loops or other similar issues   2. If I use the "Fetch as Googlebot" function, I get a great "Success" result **Question** : Any idea of why this happens and how can I fix it?


title: If we block our site to certain countries, will it damage our SE ranking?

text: There are certain countries which our site is not relevant for, due to language , payment and other considerations. Will it damage our SE ranking to block these countries? Currently we get 30-40% non-relevant traffic and we pay unnecessary fees for that.


title: Competitor's website uses duplicate description meta tags

text: I have found that a website which appears above mine for a certain popular keyword combination has duplicated the Description meta tag. Is this bad practice? Is it something that Google might notice?


title: How to transfer domain ownership from one organization (or individual) to another?

text: What's the general process to transfer domain **ownership** from one organization (or individual) to another? Is there a good reference on doing this? Note: I'm not referring to moving a domain from one registrar to another, only. I mean transferring **legal ownership** of the _domain name itself_ to a completely new owner. Assume the new domain owner does business with a **different** registrar.


title: Responsive CSS grid having capability to change column order visually

text: Trying to find a responsive CSS grid with the capability to change column order visually. E.g., I have content before navigation, but visually it should be vise versa: left navigation, right content. I know ZURB's Foundation has this capability (pull, push) but I need something ready for production.


title: How does a CDN like CloudFlare work?

text: What I understand so far:   * You keep your current web hosting, but you change the DNS servers for your site from the DNS servers of your current hosting to CloudFlare's DNS servers.   * CloudFlare serves your website's resources from multiple data centers around the world. Now, I would like to know the technical details of this mechanism. Here are some of the questions I have:   1. Does CloudFlare act as a cache proxy? Say I have a bunch of images on the pages of my site. Does CloudFlare cache all those images on each of their data centers and then serve them from those data centers?   2. Which site resources are affected? Only static ones? What about the web pages themselves (the HTML documents)? What if the pages are dynamically generated by my server? How does CloudFlare make sure to always serve the most up-to-date version of the page?   3. What about POST requests to my site (e.g. a visitor uploading data via Ajax which is then stored in the database)? This stuff has to be executed on my server. So, CloudFlare doesn't (and cannot) increase the performance of this process, right? So, CloudFlare just relays the Ajax request to the original web host?


title: Apple Maps business data - what sources and refresh rate?

text: I need to update/manage business data for 600+ locations in Apple Maps. I've read from various sources that Yelp appears to be the primary source of Apple Maps' data. How frequently does Apple refresh the data? Are there any other means of controlling Apple Maps' business data that I should be looking at?


title: When to use SECTION element?

text:
I'm a bit confused by the new HTML5 element, `<section>`. What is the correct way to use it?   Consider this outline:

Title

Spiffy tagline

My content! BLA BLA BLA YADDA YADDA

Some more content!

      Does it make sense?   What if I had smaller articles, with just a title and a brief text? Would it be (semantically, spec-wise, etc.) to omit the `section`?


title: Kloxo - Use third party nameserver

text: Here's my case: I got my domain from a registrar. I got my VPS up from a provider who also offers free DNS hosting, on their own server (separately from my VPS, IP:111.111.111.111). So I got these third- party nameservers, lets name them:   * ns1.provider.com    * ns2.provider.com and pointed my domain registrar to them. I let it propagate for 24 hours so I believe its ok. (if I ping my domain I get the IP for these nameservers - 111.111.111.111) Afterwards I headed to my providers cPanel (the one they gave me for the DNS hosting service) and changed the default A Record IP from 111.111.111.111 to the IP associated with my VPS (IP:222.222.222.222). The last step, as I see it, is to configure my VPS via Kloxo panel and add the domain. Can someone guide me how can I achieve that? Is it just enough to create a new DNS Template and add as Primary DNS "ns1.provider.com" and Secondary DNS "ns2.provider.com"? Every tutorial I found is using Kloxo to create local nameservers on the same VPS which is something I want to avoid to save resources..


title: Consequence of redirecting ALL 404s on a site

text: I've just gone through my sites 404 list and redirected all of them to the front page. There were in general 2 categories of links. The first was relative links of client sites which we may have hosted (we are a web development company), which somehow have ended up relative to our URL. The second were links which were very general, most likely used by spam bots to register on the site (we have blocked all anonymous registration). **My questions is:** Should I not have done this? If any of these are spam style links from another site, will redirecting them to my front page actually harm my SEO ranking? How do other users deal with a list of 404 errors?


title: Embedding/scraping the Rotten Tomatoes "Tomatometer" score on another site

text: I run a local community site, and one of our services is a movies page with showtimes for local theaters, as well as links to the official site, IMDB page, Rotten Tomatoes page, etc. for each movie. However, I'd love to be able to directly display the Rotten Tomatoes score for each movie we list. I've turned up numerous references to scraping that content for things like XBMC and other programs, but not for embedding on a website. I'm not sure if doing so would be against their terms of service, or is even possible, but would like suggestions on how I might go about doing so if it is in fact legal.


title: Building multiple websites with different domain names or single website with multiple language folder

text: Which one is better for increasing PageRank:   1. Hosting multiple websites of different languages and interlink them   2. Host single website and create multiple language pages and interlink them


title: Site set up for SEO from creation

text: I heard an SEO guy talk about a site he is seeing good results for, but that site was set up for SEO from its creation. I presume this is not on page optimisation related since the context was sitewide and hard to replicate. If you want to set up a site with SEO in mind from the go what is needed. All I can think of is having 100s or more pages of content being SEO friendly Vs a site that has 20 pages that it needs. What else could he be referring to?


title: Cross-domain linking for a multi-nation, multi-language site?

text: I have a website, that is available in, let's say, 3 countries (with data specific to each country), and provide users the posibility to see every website in each of the 3 primary languages of those countries plus English. Example url structure:               company.es (default language "ES")       company.es/en - (Spanish data in English language)       company.es/de - (Spanish data in German language)       company.es/fr     company.de (default language "DE")       company.de/en - (German data in English language)       company.de/es       ..     company.fr (default language "FR")       ..     etc.      I also want to increase the ranking for each newer TLD, using links from the already established ones. The issue is that I target some users from Spain to use the German website (in Spanish language), so therefore I have links from a country to all countries (keeping the language), e.g. `company.es` links to `company.de/es` . I want Google to understand the fact that there is different data on each top level domain, and that country-specific data is available in every language. Does my current linking scheme support that? **And more importantly, does Google see pages like`company.de` and `company.es/de` as duplicate content?** According to this page on Google Webmaster Help, I shouldn't be worried about duplicate content because Google treats them as targeted towards different users, but does that still apply in the case mentioned above? > Duplicate content and international sites > > Websites that provide content for different regions and in different > languages sometimes create content that is the same or similar but available > on different URLs. This is generally not a problem as long as the content is > for different users in different countries. While we strongly recommend that > you provide unique content for each different group of users, we understand > that this may not always be possible. There is generally no need to "hide" > the duplicates by disallowing crawling in a robots.txt file or by using a > "noindex" robots meta tag. However, if you're providing the same content to > the same users on different URLs (for instance, if both example.de/ and > example.com/de/ show German language content for users in Germany), you > should pick a preferred version and redirect (or use the rel=canonical link > element) appropriately. In addition, you should follow the guidelines on > rel-alternate-hreflang to make sure that the correct language or regional > URL is served to searchers. Source: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en#3 I have also read this question and went through most of the links, but I don't think it applies for my particular case when there are different TLDs with similar content (but different data e.g. local listings) in same languages.


title: When Will the Google Webmaster Tools API allow access to the Average Position in the Search Queries section of their tool?

text: I'm wondering if anyone has early access to the search queries / average position data via the Google Webmaster Tools API yet? Do you know of any tools that have access to this part of the API? Does it exist yet? What alternatives to tracking rankings / SERP tracking are there that doesn't involve scraping ranking data from Google?


title: Pages wrapped in a form element. What effect would this have on SEO or other machine-readability?

text: I'm helping somebody with a site and I've noticed that all the main pages are wrapped inside a form. I mean:               <body>       <form>        [ everything in the page ]       </form>     </body>      Now I'm an experienced frontend dev, and find this markup horrendous. It's technically permitted, as a form can contain any flow content, but it's semantically horrible. Most of these pages don't even contain form child elements (input, select, etc.). However, in this case I'm only helping them with usability and findability, I'm not re-doing their frontend code. Will this weird use of a form mess up search ranking, or otherwise impact on automated parsing of a page, such as in assistive technology like screen readers?


title: Different data for www and no-www in Google Webmasters Tools

text: My Webmasters Tools home page contains `example.com` and `www.example.com` in the sites section. There is a rewrite rule (301 redirect) on my server that redirects all requests from `www.example.com` to `example.com`. Now I am worried why dashboard pages for `example.com` and `www.example.com` show different data? These pages show different keywords and different amount of links to my site. Is it normal? Is there any way to "merge" collected data? Or maybe there is a way to make Google treat `example.com` and `www.example.com` as one site (as it really is)?


title: Configure Namecheap mail with Zerigo DNS

text: I need to configure my DNS as follows: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/znTzB.png) I am using Heroku and Zerigo to manage DNS. However, Zerigo will not let me set the hostname to `@`. Has anyone ever experienced the same issue?


title: Do advertisers use the keyword meta-tag to find potentially relevant websites?

text: A couple of days ago, I have read somewhere (but I can't find the page anymore) that one should set a `keyword` meta-tag with relevant keywords, because advertising networks use these to find potentially interesting websites for advertising. Is this true? This question is not related to ranking.


title: Google Webmaster Tools "increase in not found errors" is wrong

text: I got a ton of not found errors in Google Webmaster Tools, but the weird thing is, all of the pages ARE found. There is absolutely no error in the URLs they list that supposedly don't exist. Why is this happening?


title: Can I tell Google which image to use for the preview in custom search?

text: I currently use Google custom search for my static site. When I use it, I sometimes get images next to the entry: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/TkwQg.png) I think Google simply takes the first image in the article. But I would rather like it to take the featured image (which is most of the time not in the article at all, but much smaller than all images that are in the articles and shows the topic of the article much better). **How can I tell Google which image to use for the preview?**


title: How to display a logo in a printed web page that doesn't appear on-screen?

text: I have sales report I want to print with a logo, but I don't want it shown on the screen. I'm currently trying to use JavaScript to print a particular DIV from a page:                    Print page      Is this the right method I should use so that the logo is shown only in the printed sales report?


title: Non-international domain names and SEO

text: My current domain name is meow.fr. However, the website is in French AND English (we can switch the language, and it's not automatic translation, it's truly a multilingual website). Still, the websites is still visited mostly by French (coming from Google), and not many english speakers. Why that? Should I get a .com / .org instead?


title: How to find the content that are directly copied from other websites?

text: We're managing a client's website for SEO. We have recently found that some of the content on my client's website are directly copied from other websites. As a solution provider we have recommended to replace the content with original content. Is there are way we can find out this. Any suggestion to speed up this process would helpful.


title: What should I know about shopping carts? (terms & services)

text: I'm building my first shopping cart. Is there something I should know about shopping carts? For example, should I tell my customer that he should prepare a terms & services document? My customer has a small shop of cosmetics. I would like to know all what I should know.


title: Adsense for dynamically generated pages

text: On my website, I allow users to create their own forums. I use the same template to create the forum page, so according to my understanding thus far of Adsense, it is this template that will be modified to include Adsense ad unit snippets. The urls for the forums are dynamic, and look something like this:               http://www.example.com/somepath/forum-a.html  (for forum A)     http://www.example.com/somepath/forum-b.html  (for forum B)      However, I would like to be able to differentiate revenues from forum A from revenues from forum B etc. Is this possible to do this partitioning (or 'channeling' I suppose is the correct word) using Adsense, and if yes, what are the steps required in doing so?


title: Why is the PageRank for my website listed as "unavailable" in this tool?

text: I usually check my site up at SEO Site Checkup. Now, my site isn't top-notch, and I don't expect it to have a high PageRank, but SEO Site Checkup says the PageRank is **unavailable** for my site (that's different from a PageRank of 0 or 2...). What does "unavailable" mean in this case, and how do I achieve a PageRank number? Here's a screenshot: ![SEO Site Checkup says my site's PR is unavailable](http://i.stack.imgur.com/vPebx.png) By the Way: My sitemaps have been submitted to Google, I didn't receive any messages in Webmaster Tools, and my webpages have been indexed by Googlebot. If you search `site:example.com` in Google for example, you get results from my site, meaning that my site is indexed. It's just that it never appears in real, natural searches (not `site:` based ones), and my PageRank is listed as "`unavailable`".


title: Is it unwise to blacklist an IP address?

text: We have a form on a commercial website which has been abused (but only once or twice) by someone from a particular IP address. A colleague wants to blacklist that IP address from the website. Seems to me that's overkill, and that there's a risk that genuine customers sharing that same IP address would be blacklisted too. I suppose a big part of my question is how many people might be sharing that same IP address and could be affected by our blacklist. I suspect that's a "how long's a piece of string" question but some ballpark answer would be really helpful. We're in the UK if that's significant.


title: Any other services like MouseTrace? How useful is it?

text: I just need to know if there are any alternatives to mousetrace - http://www.mousetrace.com


title: Configure htaccess to show index.php as the default page instead of permissions error

text: Having a problem with my _.htaccess_. I have this to secure all my documents:               Order Deny,Allow     Deny from all     Allow from 127.0.0.1          <FilesMatch "\.(htm|html|css|js|php)$">         Order Allow,Deny         Allow from all         Allow from 127.0.0.1     </FilesMatch>      Now everything works fine except that the index page of `www.mysite.com` doesn't work and gives me the notification: > You don't have permission to access / on this server. How can you fix this? If there stands `www.example.com/index.php` it works but if you surf to `www.example.com` I get this message.


title: Will a search engine index links with different languages if all apart from the main page are missing the path?

text: Our website `www.websitename.com` has three languages E.g: `www.websitename.com/it` `www.websitename.com/en` `www.websitename.com/fr` by going to each of those links you will get all the remaining pages in the selected language. You can also visit a page by manually typing the sub-folder at the front and automatically change the language : `e.g www.websitename/en/test.php.` However by default apart from the main page e.g `www.websitename.com/en` the rest of the pages won't have the sub-folder appended to the URL so the links will be `www.websitename/test1.php, www.websitename/test2.php` etc. Will Google or other search engine index the different of those or it will be only one version indexed because they are missing the language in the path?


title: Is it possible to use cloudflare without having them managing my DNS?

text: I need to use cloudflare without having them managing my DNS, My DNS server have much more options that I do need. Instead of setting cloudflare as my dns server, I have added it as a NS record from the `www` subdomain only. And at my DNS server I have added a forward from `domain.com` to `www.domain.com`. It appears to be working fine, however, my cloudflare is giving me: "websites" --> > "Finishing up. Waiting for your name servers to change to ***** Please allow > up to 24 hours to complete this process (info)" "dashboards" --> > "Analytics data could not be loaded. > > You do not have any initialized zones" Is there anything I need to worry about here ?


title: Classic vs universal Google analytics and loss of historical data

text: I'm keen to use some of the new features in Google Universal Analytics. I have an old site though that I don't want to **lose the historical data for**. The comparisons with historical data are interesting for example. However Google doesn't appear to allow you to change a property from the classic code to the new code. Am I missing something? I'm surprised this isn't a bigger issue for many other users.


title: Google Webmaster Tools change domain from third level

text: I had a blog running on Tumblr on `foobar.tumblr.com` and at some point I thought I'd just get `foobar.com` and set that up as a custom domain. Yet, as far as I can tell, there is no way I can communicate Google a change of domain from third to second level, other than setting up 301 everywhere (e.g. there is no reference here, and the change domain option in Webmaster Tools is disabled). While the redirects are not an issue (Tumblr does that automatically) it seems strange that such a common operation can't be helped, and at the moment I see both domains in search results, which appears mighty strange. Is there something else I could do other than wait for the old domain to disappear?


title: Is it okey to start link building before my site get indexed?

text: Self explanatory question. If you have a fresh new site which is not yet indexed by google. Is it okey to start with link building or i should wait to google index my site?


title: Trafic analyze: trying to track videos opened from facebook

text: My http trafic analyze product which is running on lippcap and wriiten with C++ has some troubles with videos which are opened from facebook. I can classify websites and my program outputs log files which contains `IP/PORT/URL/REFERERWEBSITE/WEBSITE` data. I am parsing "REFERERWEBSITE" information from request header's , "Referer:" field . But when I open youtube from facebook there is not any "Referer:" field. I am checking the video session I can't see anything about "facebook" in URL nor in any other field. Now I am in a situation I must get this information somehow . Any advice will be extremely appreciated.


title: Is it me, or is SEO slowly fading away and SEM taking over?

text: Don't have any hard facts, but in thinking about it seems that way to me. Best answer making a case for, or against this is select.


title: How do I remove a picture from my wordpress site

text: I need to remove the gavel picture on this page but I still want it to be the featured images http://myradiocentral.com/2010/11/05/the-great-radio-auction/


title: What is the way to properly implement a Facebook Like button on a page for best SEO purposes?

text: On our site we want to put a Facebook Like button/widget-thingy. It is possible to create a like button, where the URL associated with the button is the page it sits on, rather than a Facebook page. I would imagine that pointing a Like button to a FB page allows for the tracking of conversations, which in the end does help SEO. In order to maximize our SEO efforts, which of the following is the best- practices method: Add a Like button to a page; button points to the Facebook page. That Facebook page then points to the original page where the Like button is on OR Add a Like button to a page; button points to the page the Like button is on, without creating a Facebook page (self-referencing)


title: What is the best browser usage statistics source?

text: I wonder about what source of **browser usage statistics** is most reliable and updated. I've been using   * Google Analytics (with use of my analytics enabled pages)   * W3 Counter   * Stat Counter but they are too different (one from each other), that I cannot say they are very reliable. Which source do you think can cover most of web usage to provide such data? Thanks


title: Alternative titles or aliases for SEO

text: I am creating content pages with titles of pages for a non-English language where several words are read similarly.   * _Satya Harish Chandra_   * _Sathya Hareesh Chandhra_ This is the name of a movie which can be written in more 6 possible ways given each word can be written in 2 ways. Some times, more than 3-4 ways is possible with multiple _ee_ and _d_ instead of _th_ etc. A user can search for any of the combinations. I wanted to know if we can feed in similar data to Google and avoid duplicate content by having search engines learn that its the same content or data. Is there a way to link or point the content as an alias page or define dictionary words for aliases so that search engines make sense out of it?


title: Top and bottom gradient using CSS

text:
I have a background that has a top and bottom gradient and I want it to show on a container layer. The problem is the bottom gradient since it has to appear at the very end of the container div. Any ideas? Here's some example code & imgur photo:

Dynamic stuff goes in here that differs on every page

      http://imgur.com/XAaIx The above code only shows the gradient at the top, but is there another way to achieve this effect?


title: Why does the website heading on pubvantage.com display arbitrary text when it is listed in google search results?

text: the website www.pubvantage.com has a permanent redirect to http://exchange.contextweb.com/sellingdesk/pubvantage/. The problem is, when a user enters the query +"pubvantage" in google, the site (www.pubvantage.com) displays with the header text of "Ken Lauer." Ken has nothing to do with the website, and his name appears nowhere in the source code. How can I change this?


title: Is there any SEO risk of using Javascript instead of real links?

text: Essentially I have a client who wants to change some links from something like:               Click me      to something like:               Click me           Essentially this would make the "Click me" text in the same way minus a few advanced link features (Mouse3 opens link in new tab, right clicking to see "Open in New Window" and other options, etc) also it would obvously not work for anything with Javascript disabled (or if Javascript on the page had any fatal errors) Are there any SEO downsides to this that anyone has experienced or any kind of comments from Google or others on this type of behavior?


title: Multilingual and SEO URLs - best practice?

text: What would you recommend as a URL structure for setting up a multilingual site when optimizing for SEO? I'm thinking:               www.yoursite.com/en/some-category/some-article/     www.yoursite.com/sv/en-kategori/en-artikel/ (Swedish)      Or would you prefer creating a subdomain (i.e. `sv.yoursite.com`) or similar instead? From what I know it seems easier integrating a `/language/` directory when in combination with .htaccess.


title: How can I make links on my own page that work like deep links interacting with an embedded youtube/vimeo on that same page?

text: Does anyone know about a technique to make links on a website function as deep links to an embedded vimeo/youtube video on that same page? That way one could include video's in a blog post or similar, and reference certain portions of the video through deep linked time codes. I suspect one would need some javascript magic to do this. _On another note, I wish I had the "tagging might" to be able to introduce the tags deep-linking and vimeo._


title: Do heavy graphics and/or a high load time affect a site's search rankings?

text: Does the use of heavy graphics/images (with `img` tag or in the CSS) effect a site's Google ranking? Sometimes sites are heavy because of the images used or Flash or lots of JavaScript - making the loading times higher. Does the loading time also effect a site's Google ranking? I've mentioned Google, but the question applies to all search engines.


title: Impact of dropping www from main URL on SEO

text: A client's website is currently at www.domain.com, with domain.com redirected there automatically. I've suggested that they reverse the redirection to drop the "www", so I can set up a subdomain that can use shared session cookies (= login to domain.com stays logged in at sub.domain.com). However, they're concerned that the change will impact their search engine rankings. Any advice?


title: Search engine friendly? index.php/path/to/page

text: Some content management systems have one entrance file e.g. index.php and depending on what comes after in the URL path, the system knows what data to pull. My question is if search engines index "index.php" or whether they follow and index all of the contents of "index.php/path/to/page" as well? Using the same principle, if I have a product page, but that page can bring up various categories via a query string e.g. index.php?page=electronics, index.php?page=toys can search engines reliably index the content of those "pages" if I have, for example, a menu that links to all those?


title: Buying a web domain

text: I am planning to redirect my blog at blogger to my own domain. But I am confused by various options available outside. I see options like domain registration, bundled site hosting, design templates and more in Yahoo. GoDaddy offers just domain name at a price. There is one local provider who provides 10 free email accounts along with domain registration. Now I am just wondering which option to choose? Can I buy one domain and use it as custom domain in Blogger?


title: Does Googlebot support TLS v1.2? If not, what will my TLS v1.2-only site look like to it?

text: I currently redirect all non-HTTPS connections to HTTPS, and support TLS v1, TLS v1.1, and TLS v1.2. I reconfigured my testing server to accept only a very limited and secure cipher suite and TLSv1.2 only. Upon running the SSL Labs test I noticed that their compatibility chart showed Bing's and Google's crawlers as not supporting beyond TLSv1. Is this still accurate? I have not been able to find mention of the bots' protocol support anywhere except on the SSL Labs results page. **Does Googlebot really only support TLS v1? If I support only TLS v1.2 and Googlebot is unable to connect to my site, what status will Google consider it to be in?**


title: How does this site count clicks?

text: I found this site, http://psncardgenerator.com/ It has a unique ID generator, and click counter. I understand how the ID was made, but don't understand how the counter was made. Does anyone know? (I'm not promoting the site, since you can see I'm not even using an ID, I'm just interested to how they count the clicks.)


title: I can't save the preferred domain in Webmaster Tools

text: I just want to save my preferred domain as `www.example.com` in Webmaster Tools but it simply shows the following error message: > Part of the process of setting a preferred domain is to verify that you own > `http://example.com/`. Please verify `http://example.com/`. I can't save the setting, any idea why this is happening? Note: I already verified the www version, I have no idea to verify the no-www version.


title: How does proxying and caching affect analytics?

text: What is the effect of proxying and caching at the web server on analytics reports and figures? I have an online resource that has recently been bogged down by traffic and I want to reduce dynamic generation by extensively using caching and proxying at the server level. However I still want to have intact and sound analytics, especially of the kind of traffic we are receiving.


title: Is info@mydomain a bad choice for the sender and reciever of bulk email newsletters

text: Is it bad to use `info@mydomain.com` as the sender and receiver for bulk email newsletters? Would it be better to use, for example `newsletter@mydomain.com`. I realise there are many factors that effect the spam score but ceteris paribus would this have an effect? Would some spam filters give info@ a negative rating or should I not be to concerned about this?


title: Alternatives to Google Sites for a personal web site?

text: I'd like to find a hosting solution for my personal, fairly low-traffic, web site. I think Google Sites would suit me perfectly, but I've heard horror stories about Google's algorithms shutting down all your accounts on a whim, with no right of appeal, so I'm naturally worried, because I don't want to lose my Gmail. **Edit** _I'm talking about cases likethis one:_ > I tried contacting somebody at Google support ("Surely they should have a > support department, right?" Nope, wrong!) _(The victim managed to regain access to his Gmail account when his case went "viral", but he never got an explanation as to why he had been locked out in the first place)_ Are there good, preferably free, alternatives to Google Sites and what are their PROs and CONs? One requirement is that I should be able to point the DNS ( _foobar.com_ ) to it.


title: Why is my subdomain not showing up?

text: I am hosting a website on Host Gator: http://www.flowerwood.com. It is working correctly. I also have a subdomain that I setup using cPanel called http://plants.flowerwood.com Right now I have a very basic html page on there that simply says, plants.flowerwood.com home. The only problem is the page does not show and it redirects to the search page of the main site. I am not sure where to begin to know how to resolve this and could use some good advice. How do I resolve this kind of an issue? Thanks.


title: What is "undetermined" mention in Google Analytics?

text: Is there anyone who has an idea why I find the mention "undetermined" in the statistics keywords of my Google Analytics account. This mention seems to be associated only with my display network campaign on AdWords. Can someone help me?


title: How to setup VPS(Virtual hosting server) in Godaddy

text: I recently purchase a VPS from GoDaddy. Now i need to Setup the virtual server to go ahead and install my website. Please guide how to go about. Thanks in advance


title: Removed site. Made available again after half a year. What are the effects on google rating?

text: Half a year ago I made my site unavailable, and I reactivated it again just now. It seems I have fallen off google completely. Will I be penalized for this, or will google give me a "clean slate" as it were?


title: How do I make sure my website does not get blocked at my office for "potential harmful content? Do I need to adjust settings?

text: I created a new website that it is blocked from my office admnis for "potential harmful content". Is there a setting that I need to change? Do I need some sort of certificate or plugin installed? Thanks.


title: GIF vs PNG which to use?

text: For the image title of my website medium-small(150x50) white background with some effects on title (example: google title image) I saved the image in .gif and .png with result: .gif size = 3.09 kB .png size = 7.59 kB The .png is 2x bigger than .gif. Everyone are saying me to use .PNG, but why I should use it if .gif are better


title: Pay for Graphic Designer vs Programmer

text: In a corporate web-design setup, who typically makes more per hour, the graphic designer or the programmer? By graphic designer, I mean somebody who builds mockups probably in photoshop, selects font-styles, colors, etc. Most things layout-wise are near pixel- perfect, but likely after the initial implementation by the programmer, there will be a lot of small changes directed by the graphic designer. By programmer, I mean somebody who is coding the CSS, the HTML, and light backend support, probably in PHP. The programmer will attempt to duplicate the mockups given the limitations of the medium, and consult with the graphic designer afterwards on what changes are tangible and which are not. Both probably have an undergraduate degree from a respected four-year institution.


title: What's better for SEO for many international markets?

text: Right now, we're working to migrate our company sites for international markets to this scheme               www.company.com/[2 letter country codes]     www.company.com/uk    #for United Kingdom     www.company.com/au    #for Australia     www.company.com/jp    #for Japan     www.comapny.com/      #for united states, and non identifiable.      However, in google webmaster tools, we can geo-target each directory, but not the root. If we geo-target the root with US, all the other markets will inherit. Is it better to move the US market to /us/ or leave it where it is?


title: Multiple URL's going to same page - Kosher for Google?

text: I hear conflicting answers from people about this, and I'm a developer by trade, and my SEO knowledge is not what it should be. Here's my situation: I run a website that lists hotels, restaurants, bars, shops, etc for a small Asian beach town. Lots of establishments here are hotels with a restaurant and bar, as well as restaurants that are also bars. As en example, a Mexican restaurant that also functions as a full cocktail bar. I first set it up so each establishment has one page, but can create multiple pages based on their other areas of business. This forces people to create TWO listings under the same name, and most just add the exact same information onto each page, making things redundant. I am re-arranging the database so that a establishment has only ONE listing (one unique page referenced by the unique code '12345ABCDEF') that is accessible from browsing under "Restaurants" and "Bars", and has the URL structures:               site.com/dining/mexican/12345ABCDEF/business-name.html     site.com/bars/cocktail_bars/12345ABCDEF/business-name.html      I could easily simplify the URL to just the unique code and name:               site.com/12345ABCDEF/business-name.html      But, I found that Google has parsed by URL structure and lists like this on their SERP:               Home > Dining > Mexican      With each pointing to the default page for homepage, restaurants and Mexican restaurants. If I simplify the URL structure, will I lose these associations? Could Google also be picking up this structure from my breadcrumb trail at the top of the page? What is the best way to set up URL's on these pages so I am not penalized by Google for having identical information on two URL's, while still being able to have places show up as they did with the old system?


title: just another mod_rewrite question

text: from the url               xxx.yyy.site.com       just need to redirect to               xxx.site.com      Thanks for the help, sorry I have no regex/rewrite foo.


title: Does "putting Javascript at the bottom" defeat the purpose of document.ready?

text: I know that it is recommended to put Javascript at the bottom of the page, but if I'm using jQuery doesn't this defeat its purpose to run as the DOM is loading? If I have a dropdown menu, for example, the dropdowns won't show until all the rest of the page has loaded. I also try to develop with progressive enhancement in mind, so I might have elements that are hidden with jQuery instead of CSS (so non-JS users can see them). Is there a happy medium, perhaps?


title: Clear GET or POST data from CGI script?

text: I'm making a toy LAN messaging system that involves Ruby CGI scripts and data files stored on the server, and I want to prevent the same data from being sent to the server multiple times. Is there any way that you know of to request that the client of your web server forget the GET or POST data that it sent in its request?


title: Which CMS can I use to build a website without programming knowledge?

text: I'm in the process of planning a content-driven website in the entertainment sector. I am looking for some guidance on the best CMS to use based on the following requirements and competencies: I have no programming skills or web design experience, but plan on teaching myself basic HTML and CSS. Features which I would like to include:   * an email alert system that notifies users when content about their favorite artists, venues, etc. is added    * a log-in system for members.   * Google map showing location of events of interest Am I likely to be able to achieve this using a CMS without any custom programming? If so, which CMS would be a good fit? Although I have no relevant technical skills myself, I do know an experienced Java/Groovy web developer, who might be able to help, so all other things being equal, I would favor a CMS which allows extensions/plugins to be written in one of those languages.


title: Blogger and Google App hosting at naked domain using 1&1

text: My web hosting is through 1&1.com. I'm trying to set up both blogger and Google Apps mail at the naked domain. I was able to get blogger set up on the `www.` version of the site by simply creating a CNAME record which points to `ghs.google.com`. The naked domain is also pointing to `ghs.google.com`, creating a symmetric configuration. Blogger has the domain defined with `www.`, and the checkbox which chooses if to redirect naked domain to `www.` is checked. Now when I try to set up the MX records for Google apps at 1&1, it doesn't let me. When you go in to the DNS settings, you can choose between DNS or CNAME. When you choose DNS, it allows you to set a single A record, and the MX records. However, if you choose to use a CNAME (like I did), it will not allow you to set any MX records. I'll try my best to describe the options available on 1&1 using a tree:   * General settings =      * {CNAME}        * Alias = [server]     * {DNS}        * Name server =          * {My name server}            * Primary Name Server = [server]           * Secondary Name Server =              * {My Secondary Name Server}                * 1st secondary name server = [server]               * 2nd secondary name server = [server]               * 3rd secondary name server = [server]             * {1&1 Name Server}         * {1&1 name server}            * IP address (A record) =              * {1&1 IP Address}             * {Other IP address}                * [ip-address]           * Mail server (MX record) =              * {1&1 mail server}             * {Other mail server}                * MX 1 / Prio = [mx-record]               * MX 2 / Prio = [mx-record]               * Further backups =                  * {My Mail Exchanger}                    * MX 3 / Prio = [mx-record]                   * MX 4 / Prio = [mx-record]                 * {Backup mail exchanger} For example, in `General settings` you can choose either `CNAME` or `DNS`. If you choose `CNAME` you will see the `Alias` field. The `Alias` field takes a `[server]` value (e.g. `example.com`). Another example, if you choose `Name server` = `1&1 name server`, you will see all the options listed underneath it (`IP address (A record)` and `Mail server (MX record)`), but not the options underneath `My name server`. Legend:   * `[server]`: requires a server [is it more accurate to call this domain?] (e.g. `example.com`).   * `[ip-address]`: requires a set of 4 numbers (i.e. a valid ip). So, a domain such as `example.com` will not work.   * `[mx-record]`: takes in a `[server]` and an integer priority. You will notice that when `General settings` = `CNAME`, it doesn't have any MX record fields available. Is this a shortcoming of 1&1, or can you never have a CNAME record with MX records defined? Is there any way to do what I'm trying to do? Requirements:   * Blogger blog hosted at `www.` or naked domain (I have no preference).   * The other domain will redirect to the other one (e.g. `www.` will redirect to naked domain, or vice versa).   * Mail uses Google Apps at naked domain (e.g. `user@example.com`).   * It should be reliable and SEO friendly. I know I can set up a single A record to point to one of Google's IP addresses (instead of `ghs.google.com`), but then I don't get the 4 server redundancy, meaning if a single server goes down, my site also goes down.


title: What should I use to automatically combine css/js files?

text: I'm aware of sprockets for combining javascript files, but haven't tried it. What are some other options and how do they stack up?


title: "Cannot modify header information" error in my PHP/WordPress site

text: I edited the `header.php` and `functions.php` files in my WordPress site to add Google Analytics tracking code. Now, when I try to login to my admin area, the following warning appears and I am unable to login to my WordPress account: > Warning: > > Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started > at /home/wwwwww/public_html/wp-content/themes/poker- > complex/functions.php:11) in /home/wwwwww/public_html/wp- > includes/pluggable.php on line 934 How to solve this problem?


title: How long should my Html Page Title Really be?

text: How long should my text within my `<title></title>` tags really be? I know Google cuts it off at some point but when? When I used IIS7's SEO Toolkit 1.0 I get error stating my title should be under 65 characters. I have a book by Bruce Clay that states I should use from 62-70 characters and roughly 9 +/- 3 words. I also have used SenSEO's Firefox Add-on and it states I should use a max of 65 characters or roughly 15 words. What is the max really? I have 2 sources saying 65 and 1 saying 72 but Bruce Clay is generally kept in high regard.


title: Why does a broad-phrase rank better than new optimized exact-phrase?

text: I will explain what happened: I have this site that ranked first for " **estructuras truss** ": See Google Result (mail.iddeasp.com/truss-alquiler-y-venta-de-estructuras) iddea sp > **Truss: Alquiler y Venta de Estructuras | iddea SP** _**El truss es una > estructura de aluminio de diseño moderno y tecnológico con un ... La gran > ventaja en el montaje y desmontaje de las estructuras truss es que ...   >  mail.iddeasp.com/truss-alquiler-y-venta-de-estructuras_** I've modified this page in order to have "estructuras truss" as an exact phrase... and Google didn't even bother to rank that page. The new page is http://www.iddeasp.com/alquiler-estructura-truss-y-venta > **Alquiler Estructura Truss y Venta | iddea SP** _**Estructuras truss: > estructuras de aluminio ligeras y económicas. Se alquilan o compran para > crear cualquier estructura o montaje efímero: el mejor sistema ..._** This page is not listed in even in the top 100 on google. I got lucky because as I'm using Drupal ... the old page remained somehow in cache and Google still finds it...still it's cached in March and the new page I've created it a week ago, 30th of May.. Anyone know what am I doing wrong?


title: publish asp.net website in subfolder

text: I need to publish my website into a subfolder of an existing one. Notice that there's no way to create a subdomain (e.g.: http://mynewwebsite.example.com), no way to access to IIS. At the moment I just tried to use the Publish command from my VS2010 and copy/paste file from my disk to subfolder domain via FTP. This is the error I get:               The file '/SUBFOLDERNAME/default.aspx' has not      been pre-compiled, and cannot be requested.      Is there someone who can help me? Thank you in advance.


title: what's better for SEO : a 301 moved page vs an alias?

text: I recently optimized my site changing the keywords but also the path to those pages (I'm using human readable urls) So google will not find those pages anymore... what's the best aproach in this case: making an alias keeping the old urls as well showing the new content or redirecting with 301?


title: Does Google Webmaster Tools show nofollow links in 'Links to your site'?

text: We have made some links nofollow in recent weeks, but they are still showing up in Google Webmaster Tools. Does GWT ignore these links? Will they vanish as the index is updated, or do even nofollow links show up here?


title: Am I covering the major search engine spiders in my anti-crawl protection white list?

text: I've a system which blacklists users who request too many pages too fast if they are not in my white list. We are just worried about the main search engines and to be honest Google is the only one my bosses are worried about. ### The White List: **crawler_name** - **crawler_host**   Googlebot - .googlebot.com   Yahoo! Slurp - crawl.yahoo.net   MSNBot - search.msn.com If the HTTP_REQUEST_HEADER contains the crawler_name and the hostname (reverse DNS lookup of the IP) contains the crawler_host of any of the above, then we leave them request as many pages as they want. **Is this list good enough?** Will this cover the main search engine spiders? Or might we accidentally block one? Edit:   I've tested it using the "Fetch as GoogleBot" feature in Google Webmaster Tools and it's working as expected.   According to Microsoft "Bing operates three crawlers today: bingbot, adidxbot, msnbot". That's fine, I can add in bingbot and adidxbot but **will their resolved hostnames still contain "search.msn.com"?**


title: Cookie data transfer

text: The context is a third-party analytics service, specifically Quantcast, but the inquiries are more general in nature. Please forgive and correct me if any of my assumptions are off, and thank you in advance for your help.   1. I understand that cookies are based on a 'give and get' system where the first request sets the cookie on the user machine and the second request from the user sends the cookie-related data back to the machine. What might the implications be then for single page view sessions? For instance, can the server confirm receipt without a second request and would it be able to know if the machine was unique (e.g. relay information about presence of a previously-issued cookie)?   2. Scenario: Assuming pages A,B, and C are all on the same domain, a cookie is set when a user visits page A. The user follows a link to page B but while the page is loading and before the get request is sent to the server, the user clicks on a link to page C. He allows page C to load completely and the get request is received. In that request/response for page C, does the server also receive information that the user had visited page B?  Thanks, Abel


title: Does changing CNAME for amazon cloudfront slows the download in anyway?

text: I'm planning to use Amazon S3 with Cloudfront as CDN network. But I'm guessing that changing the url from `345345df4.cloudfront.com` to `sub.domain.com` will slow the process of download Is this correct?


title: Load custom CSS through browser to site being viewed?

text: Is there a way I can load a CSS stylesheet to a site I'm viewing in a browser? I'm working on my company website. For obvious reasons I don't want to make changes to the live version of the site while I develop. Normally there is a development version I can work on, but this is currently down. All I need to do is add CSS and see these changes as I go along. Firefox's web developer can add a local stylesheet, but as soon as you refresh the page or navigate away it stops being added and you have to manually add it again (even with persist features turned on). With all the incremental changes I need to make this isn't really a solution for me.


title: E-commerce for custom orders/customer image upload

text: We have a client that needs an e-commerce site set up pretty quickly. As I have no experience with e-commerce, I am looking for some guidance. Basically, the two big features we need are:   1. Ability for customer to add info about order (example: the name the customer wants to be put on the customizable product they ordered)   2. Ability for customer to upload photo of product to be customized I hope this makes sense. Right now I am really looking into Shopify, but I can't tell if it does everything we need. I know you can add order notes when checking out, but not sure about image upload (maybe it can be added as an app through the API?).


title: Where should I redirect (removed) phishing pages

text: I was unfortunately the victim of a PHP exploit. Looking through my webserver logs, people are still attempting to reach the URL used in the phish. I want to redirect them to a site that will educate these people on what phishing is. My question: Is there a (generic / vendor-neutral) phishing education website that you suggest I send them to with a 301 redirect? (I assume a 301 is the best option.)


title: Need an embeddable live polling tool

text: We need a live polling tool that can be embedded on a Web page. The key factor is that the polls can be published on demand by a moderator (i.e. the moderator clicks "Publish" or "Go" and the poll is delivered to the end user on the Web page). Once people answer the poll, the results should be shown in the same window. Then, the moderator can keep publishing more polls in the window. This should be embeddable within an existing webpage. We started using http://www.coveritlive.com/ but it has restrictions which make it unusable for us (eg: it allows only 6 options per poll question)


title: Permalinks & domain name for application

text: I originally posted this on stackoverflow, then was told it didn't fit. I'm looking for some advice. I created an application that deals heavily with twitter & permalinks. I have yet to find a domain name for this project. I have a personal domain name `reggi.com`. I was wondering would it be ideal to launch the project under a subdirectory such as `reggi.com/projects/light`. All of the permalinks would stick with this domain. If in the event I find a domain name suitable for the project I can relocate the project but keep all of the permalinks using `reggi.com/projects/light` and route to the new domain name with `.htaccess`. This way none of the links will ever break if I change domains later on or the project busts and I don't want to pay for the domain anymore. I'm going to bitly shorten the links so that on twitter the `reggi.com/projects/light` prefix wont even show. What do you think I should do?


title: Allow all robots robots.txt

text: In my _robots.txt_ file I have a list of robots that are not allowed to be indexed on my site and for the rest I have to allow all other robots, but I would like to know the real difference between these two rules:               User-agent: *     Disallow:      and this:               User-agent: *     Allow: /


title: What's the system account to run ASP.NET web app for each sites in IIS with different application pool?

text: Suppose I have many different website created on IIS 7 on Windows 2008 R2. Each of them may have different application pool:               .NET 1.1     .NET 2.0     .NET 3.5     .NET 4.0      What the system account to run all those web app? If the app need to read/write file, need to set up right permission for specific folder, then how can I identify the right account to assign right permission?


title: Should I use nofollow when cross-linking between two sites I own on a single domain?

text: I currently maintain both a retail store and a repository of user manuals for those products. These websites are both situated on the same domain ( _mystore.com_ and _manuals.mystore.com_ respectively). At present, on many individual manuals, I have added a _"Buy From Mystore.com"_ button, linking to the appropriate page on the retail store. In addition to these links, I'd also like to add a small banner on some categories (say Accessories) linking to the appropriate section of the retail store in a similar vain. I was just wondering if it is recommended to use nofollow on these links, or whether I am safe to exclude this as they are not necessarily pay links and link to relevant content of our own. Thanks for reading. I apologize if any info is needed, I am happy to elaborate if needed.


title: How to move TOC at the top of article like Wikitravel in MediaWiki?

text: How to move TOC at the top of article like Wikitravel in MediaWiki, applying for all pages? Which extensions or settings need for this action?


title: How come a keyword with 46 local monthly searches get 150 local monthly impressions?

text: I am doing a keyword analysis by correlating data between Google ANalytics and Google Adwords Keyword tool. So here is the confusion I check the local monthly searches (Sweden) for "SEO Packages" using the adwords keyword tool and it shows: 46 monthly searches Now I come back to GA and check the impressions for "SEO Packages" that we got from Sweden and the value is: 150 impressions. So basically: Local monthly searches in Sweden: 46 Monthly impression we got from Sweden: 150 How come we get 150 impressions out of only 150 searches?


title: What impact (if any) will using the term 'portal' in my subdomain names, have on SEO for my website?

text: I am building a portal for a specific category of information. I am trying to decide whether to use subdomains like:               www.portal.mysite.com/home.html (home page)     www.portal.fishing.mysite.com/home.html (fishing subdomain)     www.portal.hunting.mysite.com/home.html (hunting subdomain)      OR               www.mysite.com/home.html (home page)     www.fishing.mysite.com/home.html (fishing subdomain)     www.hunting.mysite.com/home.html (hunting subdomain)      Which approach is better and why?


title: What are differences between sell side platforms (Admeld) and self-serve platform (AdReady)?

text: I was confused with sell side platforms (e.g. Admeld) and self-serve platforms (e.g. AdReady) as both are serving services to publishers. I would like to know the differences in order to get the answer of "which platform is suitable for a medium size website publisher, and why?" references:   * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sell_Side_Platform.   * http://www.masternewmedia.org/self-serve-advertising-services-guide-to-the-best-do-it-yourself-ad-management-platforms/.


title: Using Google Analytics to determine how much time a visitor spends in each section of my site

text: I have a site with various pages, like:               /about/history     /about/team     /contact/email-us     /contact      I want to figure out how much time people are spending on the entire `/about` section, and how much on the `/contact` section. If I run a query on the Google Analytics API and set the dimension to `ga:pagePathLevel1` and the metric to `ga:avgTimeOnPage`, I get results like this:               { pagePathLevel1: /about, avgTimeOnPage: 28 },     { pagePathLevel1: /contact, avgTimeOnPage: 10 }      This looks roughly like what I want, but I'm not sure how to intepret it:   * Is the value of `avgTimeOnPage` the average time spent by any user on **all** pages that match that path?    * Or is it the average time spent by any user on `any` single page that matches that path? I'm looking for the average time spent across **all** pages matching that path, but the time estimates look shorter than I'd expect.


title: Google Analytics Goal Tracking for Sub-Domains?

text: I am trying to track goals in Google Analytics for a website that has the goal URL on a sub-domain. The main domain for example is: domain.com and the sub- domain is my.domain.com. I have Google Analytics configured to track domains and all sub-domains and I've eve set up an advanced filter so I can see traffic to my sub-domains in Analytics. However, in goal tracking, you're supposed to put in the website URL after the front (so if it were domain.com/conversions/ you'd put in just /conversions/). However, since for me it would be my.domain.com/conversions/, how would I input that URL into Analytics to track? Would Analytics automatically determine the URL to be on the sub-domain? Thanks!


title: What is the difference between "(not set)" and "(not provided)" in the Google Analytics keywords?

text: In Google Analytics, I noticed that I have quite a few people coming in with a search keyword of **(not set)**. I'm assuming this is simply when they came directly to my site without the help of a search engine. But I've also noticed the keyword **(not provided)**. What does that mean? Where's the difference?


title: Website inaccessabile to T-Mobile users

text: I have a website I'm working on that is being hosted on host-ed.net, (a free web hosting provider). I've been sending people to my site to see how it looks, and I'm having a lot of mobile users with T-Mobile data plans unable to access my site. All my other mobile visitors have no problem, and desktop browsers don't have this problem either. I tested this on my cousin's android and what I saw was a 504 timeout error message. This actually also happened months ago when I tried testing it from his phone, but at the time I thought it was a temporary problem... but now I know this wasn't just a temporary issue. I have a basic understanding of what this error message means ...but I don't exactly know why this is happening. It is also interesting to note that I also couldn't access the host-ed's company website 'host-ed.net' from my cousin's android; also received the 504 timeout error. So basically anything on hosted on host-ed.net can't be accessed from my cousin's android under a T-mobile data plan. I tried doing a test with host-ed.net from WatchMouse and host-tracker, and I did notice a problem when trying to be accessed from a server in Austin, TX and one in Ukraine...but I didn't see anything else. I tried looking at the support forum under T-Mobile and noticed others complaining about a similar problem with not being able to access Earthlink.net on their mobile devices. They recommended turning the phone on and off and checking webguard. The problem is, I don't think has to do with webguard anti-virus filtering, since it doesn't appear to be blocked or filtered. This is clearly some kind of a server issue. I can't really contact T-Mobile since I myself am not a customer. Where should I go from here? I would hate to be possibly missing out on all T-Mobile users.


title: Geolocate service I can use?

text: I can access very accurate geolocate info from Google Analytics, but is there any way to access the geolocate information of Google or otherwise for an IP address, from a computer program, like a web ervice or something? I know there is "whois" but I would like something a little less hassle.


title: Is giving a "trusted'" 3rd party FTP access to a subdomain dangerous for the whole domain?

text: I'm giving a "trusted" 3rd party (I say "trusted" because I've worked with them before, but in reality I don't know them...) access to a development version of my site `x.mysite.com`. The site is static HTML/CSS/JavaScript, so there is no database or server-side scripting to play with/disrupt. Are there any dangers in giving them FTP access to the subdomain, apart from them deleting everything there (I have a backup)? Could they disrupt the hosting, or other subdomains/root domain? Just to be clear: this is not root FTP access to the domain/server, and server-side scripting (PHP, Java, Python, etc...) are all disabled via Plesk, which they do not have access to.


title: Returning 404 for expired jobs in my jobs site

text: In my new Job search site how should I handle jobs which are expired? Ideally those should return 410 response when deleted. But I'd like to delete them(404 response) since that'd be easy to do for my Drupal site. Will it cause any problems? I'm placing some links to similar discussions: link1 link2 link3 link4


title: Javascript reliance an issue for mobile optimised sites?

text: I'm mobile optimising a site with media queries. As I understand mobile browsers are generally quite modern and can handle CSS3 etc well. So does this mean javascript reliance for the mobile version isn't too much of a problem? I know how to find stats on desktop users with no js, are the same stats available for mobile usage? Thanks


title: Is it within YouTube's TOS to overlay static content on a video?

text:
Given a YouTube video, is it within YouTube's terms of service to overlay some sort of static content on the video? For instance, if I'm using the embedded video player on my site, and I overlay a button on the video, is this allowed or a violation? You can see an example of what I'm talking about as a fiddle or as code below:

             <button style="position: absolute; top: 40px; left: 20px;">Button</button>