title: Google Analytics reporting 5% of users using IE on one site. Most other sites I track are still around 40%. What gives?

text: I have Google Analytics (GA) tracking set up for a number of websites, many I help friends with, did as consulting in the past, etc, and the one for the company I am working with now. In this case, GA is reporting only about 5% of users using IE for my current site, where others are seeing around 40%. The site works OK in IE, but it hasn't been our focus, since it's new and we're trying to do HTML 5 except where it really breaks things badly. I could understand why a visitor might leave the site -- some fancier navigation and forms are kind of lame with IE8 or less (fine with IE9). But I am looking at pure visits. I looked only at new visits -- people who have never seen the site before, and still a very small percentage of IE. I segmented out for just desktop users. I removed one large source of ad traffic. But all the numbers show the same thing -- low (5%) and falling IE usage over time. The site is public and useful for normal people, not geeks. We get a significant volume -- more than several thousand visits a day. And we have confirmed generally that GA is tracking usage approximately correctly by comparing to other tracking tools. I am mystified. Any theories welcomed! Tom


title: Are there any SEO implications to switching a parked domain to an addon domain

text: I have parked domain on my site that redirects to a sub-folder. When you navigate the the URL you get something that looks like;               www.mainsite.com/parked_domain/whatever_page.html      The site was initially set up like this because the webhost at the time charge an additional fee for addon domains so the above was seen as an acceptable compromise. Now the site is on a new host and addon domains are free. I wanted to switch the set up using an addon domain so navigating to the URL looks like;               www.parked_domain.com/whatever_page.html      Would this impact anything?


title: How is crawler seeing unlinked directories / files?

text: I'm running a crawler on my website to test for broken links and such. It starts by using a URL like www.domain.com One curious thing is that it is showing directories with no internal links. For example, directory /example_dir/ is showing up in the crawl tree, but I can't find any internal link to that directory within the pages. How could this be happening and is there a way to prevent it?


title: getting mod_rewrite to work on Mac OS X

text: I'm trying to get mod rewrite to work on my Mac. This is the content of the .htaccess file:               <Files *\.ini>       order allow,deny       deny from all     </Files>          RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule .* index.php      I know this is active, because it's blocking .ini files properly, and it seems to rewrite the fictional request `/foo` to `index.php`, as this is the error I'm seeing in the browser: > The requested URL /Users/rwel/Sites/dev/quaestio/index.php was not found on > this server. The index.php file currently just contains an exit statement for testing purposes, and it does work when calling it directly. So, the question is, what's going wrong? I went into the apache error log, and this is what I saw: > [Thu Nov 03 14:36:02 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: > /Library/WebServer/Documents/Users So the problem might be that it's not searching in the root, but relative to the `/Library/WebServer/Documents` directory. Am I right? How can I fix this?


title: How to edit thousands of html pages at once?

text: I need to edit thousands of pages for a website with dynamic content added manually by the owner throughout 3 years, it has thousands of pages and I'm sure there is a better way to edit them without spending hours opening each one of them. I know it would be easy to just edit the styles.css but page dynamics like the positions of the google ad-boxes are individually edited inside the html of each page, so there is no way to solve this through css. Is there some sort of code, script and macro that can edit the pages at once?


title: What is best practice for search engines when a website is under maintenance?

text: I need around a week to transition a heavily data-driven website from one back end to another. During that time I do plan to attempt to keep some pages live, but they won't all work well or look brilliant. Some pages won't work at all. What is the best way to ensure I don't scare Google? Should I hide everything from robots.txt, or mark everything that doesn't work as "503", or are there other things that I should be considering?


title: Protecting a webpage with an authentication form

text: I have created an employee webpage with a lot of company info, links, etc., but I want to protect the page because it contains some confidential company information. I am running IIS7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2, and I already have the site setup as a normal, non-protected site. I want all active directory users to have access to the site. This is not an intranet site, it is exposed to the internet. I tried setting it up using Windows Authentication, but I had problems with multiple login prompts, etc. I just want a simple form for users to enter their credentials and have access to the site, and I need it to query the AD for login. I've searched the web for a guide on this, but I can't seem to find one that fits my situation. This is not a Web App. It is just a simple html site. Does anyone have any suggestions or a link to a guide on this? Thanks so much! -LB


title: Value of shorter domain names

text: I asked this on serverfault and was recommended to try here, so I'm reposting this. Is it still valuable to have a shorter domain name? My company site is currently located at nexustechnologiesllc.com and I have the opportunity to buy nexusllc.com, but I'm really torn on the value of said domain. Shorter names obviously used to be much more valuable because people were more likely to type in a domain name, but now, with everyone pretty much searching, that value seems to be reduced. The other aspect that I'm considering with this is typing in an email address, because people might still be typing that in semi-regularly. But again, I'm not sure how important that aspect is either.


title: URL slugs: ideal length, and the real SEO effects of these slugs

text: this question is addressed widely on SO and outside it, but for some reason, instead of taking it as a good load of great advice, all this information is confusing me. ** **Problem** ** I already had, on one of my sites, "prettified" urls. I had taken out the query strings, rewritten the URLS, and the link was short enough for me, but had a problem: the ID of the item or post in the URL isn't good for users. One of the users asked is there's a way to get rid of numbers, and I thought it was better for users to just see a clue of the page content in the URL. ** **Solution** ** With this in mind, I am trying with a section of the site.Armed with 301 redirects, some parsing work, and a lot of patience, I have added the URL slugs to some blog entries, and the slug of the URL reports the title of the article (something close to `http://example.com/my- news/terribly-boring-and-long-url-that-replaces-the-number-I-liked-so-much/` ** **Problems after Solution** ** The problem, as I see it, is that now the URL of those blog articles is very descriptive for sure, but it is also impossible to remember. So, this brings me to the same issue I had with my previous problem: if numbers say nothing and can't be remembered, what's the use of these slugs? I prefer to see `http://example.com/my-news/1/` than `http://example.com/my-news/terribly-boring-and-long-url-that-replaces-the- number-I-liked-so-much/` To avoid forcing my user to memorize my URLS, I have added a script that finds the closest match to the URL you type, and redirects there. This is something I like, because the page now acts as a sort of little search engine, and users can play with the URLS to find articles. ** **Open questions** ** I still have some open questions, and don't seem to be able to find an answer, because answers tend to contradict one another. 1) **_How many characters should an URL ideally be long?_** I've read the magic number **115** and am sticking to that, but am not sure. 2) **_Is this really good for SEO?_** One of those blog articles I have redirected, with ID number in the URL and all, ranked second on Google. I've just found this question, and the answer seems to be consistent with what I think URL slug and SEO - structure (but see this other question with the opposite opinion) 3) **_To make a question with a specific example, wouldthis URL risk to be penalized?_** Is it acceptable? Is it too long? StackOverflow seems to have comparably long URLs, but I'm not sure it's a winning strategy in my case. I just wanted to facilitate my users without running into Google's algorithms.


title: How do you make a favicon appear on a redirected site?

text: I have a Wordpress blog hosted on my domain. I have redirected a URL to a subfolder of my domain where the blog is installed. How can I get a specific favicon to appear for that blog but NOT for my primary website? The favicon appears if I use: www.kleymeyer.com/laketravisparents but not if navigating using the redirected site: www.laketravisparents.com And very annoyingly, only with the Chrome browser, the Time Warner RoadRunner icon will appear as a favicon when using www.laketravisparents.com !


title: Pointing subdomain to my server

text: My bro is using a service of a third party(say, `X`), with DNS addresses:               ns1.x.com     ns2.x.com      So, bro bought a domain name, say `abc.com`. And pointed the DNS addresses with the above ones. Now, bro wants to create a subdomain, say `mysite.abc.com` with custom content. But this service provider `X`, doesn't offer hosting of files that we give to them for the subdomain. Instead, they said they have created a subdomain and is pointing to my server(say, with an IP: `123.99.2.123`) So, how do I add a subdomain for `mysite.abc.com` in my server? BTW, I'm having a VPS server, with root access. So far, I can see that adding a subdomain is possible only if the main domain is added. What changes do I have to make in my server so that, when accessing `mysite.abc.com`, files from my server would be delivered? Sorry, I am not sure whether I confused you. Let me know if you need me to rephrase the issue or explain it with visual examples or something. Thank you


title: Does Google Analytics automatically handle URLs containing a jsessionid?

text: When a user visits my web site, the first page they load has a _jsessionid_ appended to the URL like this: `http://foo.com/Welcome.do;jsessionid=1234567890abcdef` Note that the jsessionid parameter is separated using a `;` and not a `?` like typical query parameters. Given that this is a fairly common pattern for sites with a Java backend, does Google Analytics automatically account for this somehow and ignore the `;` and everything after it? If not, what must I do to tell Google Analytics to ignore the `;jsessionid` portion of a URL?


title: Point me to some modern blog service

text: I want to start my own blog. What are the modern blog services? wordpress.com? blogger.com? What would you propose?


title: How to introduce large number of pages (that are only accessible through an ajax driven search mechanism) to search engines

text: We've got a web application with the main purpose of searching through a set of records search mechanism itself is completely AJAX based. A typical search URL would be something like this:   * `/search#arg0=v0&arg1=v1` (it can go up to 20 args) Currently there are about 1000 records added to the database daily. Each 30 to 50 records out of those 1000 may have similar page titles (but not exactly the same). I would like to get those results indexed. My solution is to add links of some specified search queries to the sitemap. We don't know how frequently crawling happens, or how many records should be display as search results (which makes some records to be missed). We can check the user agent string to get rid of AJAX driven stuff. and send the snapshot of the response to search engines. To solve the missed records issue I thought maybe store the time of last crawl somewhere and show the results according to that value. but that imposes a security issue. if someone changes the user agent value and send a request, that crawl time value can be easily changed. Any ideas? is there a better, more straight-forward way than this?


title: Over 200 links in yahoo, none on google webmaster tools?

text: I have over 200 links on yahoo site explorer, but only 2 on webmaster tools. Does anyone know why this is? My site is in the sandbox by the way, but i dont think that that effects the backlinks.


title: Google Analytics - Consolidating Visitors Flow between same page with and without "/"

text: As shown on the picture below , analytics displays `sheet-metal` and `sheet- metal/` differently. On my website all the links point to the page with `/` and a quick search for links using `link:` found no links to the page without the `/`. When accessing the website, `sheet-metal` automatically redirects to `sheet- metal/` ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SXMHr.png) Is this an analytic problem, normal behavior or is it something on my end? What can i do to fix this? Thanks.


title: Best way to take down site for a long period while I develop it

text: Rather foolishly, I have been developing my site on a live server (with VCS don't worry), kind of using it as a portfolio / show off piece. It is far from finished. Recently, I noticed that Google started to spider it, including some of the debug data accessible across the site as it's in 'debug' mode. I'm not sure of the future effects this will have on my site when it is finally released - especially as some pages are just erroring out while I develop and there is some gobbledygook/dummy/blank data on a few pages. SEO wise, what are the best steps to take to not incur any present or future Google penalty? One thing I thought of was to possible disallow spidering in robots.txt, put up a splash page and then setup a decent sitemap when the site is live again. Regardless I am going to setup a development domain somewhere but would like to know the safest way of migrating it down.


title: Google penalty resulting from duplicate content and backlinks on dealer websites

text: We have a dealer network that sells our products, as a bonus we give them an extra 25% off our products from the normal wholesale price if they put our products on their site. We recently got hit with a Google manual penalty so we enlisted the help of "LinkDelete" to help us get rid of all the backlinks. Some of our dealer websites are in the list of bad backlinks they gave us. They told us this is because of duplicate content. What we do is give our dealers HTML snippets so they can just copy and paste it on their site. The HTML contains absolute URLs to pictures of our products, short descriptions, and links back to our website. We want our SEO rankings restored, so do we just tell our dealers to remove our links?


title: How to avoid DotNetNuke with another ASP.NET application conflicts

text: Web have the following scenario:   * A generic web developed using DotNetNuke   * A b2b web application developed using ASP.NET + Silverlight What we want to do is the following:   * When a client goes to www.myCompanyDomain.com the web that the client access is the Dotnetnuke Web.   * When a client goes to www.myCompanyDomain.com/b2b the web loaded is the B2B web. The problem is that when we install the DotNetNuke application into the main directory of our web server the Web.Config configuration file is inherited by any application installed in a subdirectory, causing the B2B application to fail. In order to have a working installation we have to install the DotNetNuke web in a subdirectory and the B2B web in another, but this make impossible to access the DotNetNuke web directly from www.MyCompanyDomain.com How can we install the applications and configure the IIS to have the wanted behavior?


title: Is co.cc actually free?

text: i have a co.cc domain before. it is stated that renewal is free for personal use. but i have a doamin i used previously that requires $3 for renewal. is this correct?


title: How to create a backlink in my youtube channel/video pages to promote my website?

text: I want to use my YouTube channel and video pages to promote my website. I have read a website that talks about backlinks and anchors which use something like: `<a href="http://foo.com">foo</a>` to create the backlink . However as I know I cannot create a backlink like that in video description. How I can create a backlink for my website in YouTube?


title: Implement SSL in website

text: Our company have purchased SSL certificate and installed in linux on Host Server. Can you plz tell me how to make use of this in our website. How to configure it in Website.Is there any need to write code in our Website pages? Any suggestion ? Help me out...


title: Are true MicroSites worth the increased effort over pure Landing pages?

text: I am building a shopping site and want to know if building true MicroSites, with multiple target pages has any advantage over a series of landing pages. Would I suffer from any type of link dilution if I push out a series of target sites rather than one overarching one, or will I get better rankings by being focused?


title: Link goes to specific location of page

text: What makes the user go to a specific location on a new html page? Not the current page. For example, when you click this link, you don't end up starting at the top like you normally would. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/itss/docs/oracle/9i/java.920/a96654/basic.htm#1006509


title: Allow only 5 countries to access my page may lead to get lost or removed from search engines?

text: Because my resource are limited, I need to cut off strangers (inc. USA) for visiting my page. People from the middle of Europe are allowed (Germany, France, Hungary, Poland etc) are allowed. If they are strangers, they will see only a message that they have been restricted for accessing the page. If I restrict them it may lead to get removed or _self-banned_ from the search engines? Thank you !


title: What can I do to links that no longer exist in order not to lose my PageRank?

text: I completely re-wrote my website and in order not to lose my PageRank, I mapped the old links to the new ones with 301 redirects. However, some of the pages that Google has previously indexed no longer exist on the new site. What should I do to these pages? I have a significant increase in 404 errors according to the Webmaster Tools. Should I map the pages that no longer exist with a 301 redirect to a random page just so that I decrease the number of "not found" errors? Is there a way to tell Google that they no longer exist?


title: Restricting A Directory Through .htaccess

text: I'm trying to put all of my FTP accounts into a folder on /public_html/ftp and password protect it so search bots can't crawl their private files. I'm also trying to redirect all site traffic from the non-www to www. I keep getting 500 errors when accessing the site, and I need to point it to www.vivalanation.com/ftp to www.vivalanation.com/ftp/, because the /ftp just errors out, you need the trailing slash. Here is my .htaccess in the /public_html/ftp folder:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]          AuthName "FTP Access"     AuthType Basic      AuthUserFile /home1/vivalst/.htpasswds/public_html/ftp/passwd Require valid- user I created a passwd file in /.htpasswds/public_html/ftp And here is my basic .htaccess in the root of /public_html/:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]


title: Do search engines assign any weight to directories within a domain?

text: I have a piece of content that I'm distributing to news outlets. The primary purpose is to educate and build brand, and of course backlinks never hurt. Is there an SEO benefit to our future `domain.com/blog` content if we host the content as `domain.com/blog/big-news` as opposed to `domain.com/releases/big- news`?


title: PageRank credit when site linking to you uses a redirect or URL shortener?

text: I have several backlinks from quality sites that link to something like `http://site.com/gobbledygook/http://mysite.com` when I hover over the link. And sites like Twitter do the whole URL shortening thing. So my question is, as long as the link is not `nofollow` am I getting a valid backlink with link juice?


title: How to not monitor traffic on a single page but the rest of the domain is covered?

text: I am using Google Analytics app from cloudflare which is awesome and they manage it to cover everything even the error pages and I like that but there is one page and one page only that I don't want it to be covered. How can i stop the Google Analytics from monitoring it?


title: Does missing background links affect SEO?

text: I am amongst a discussion about a number of broken links on a site which has discovered by a checker tool. My argument is that the majority of these links are from the CSS in the form of background images on small elements such as buttons and menu items (which has happened from an old site move). How does Google view this? I thought they would only negatively affect your SEO if they were broken anchor link elements on the page?


title: Find the IP address of expired domains

text: I want to know the previous hosting IP address of an expired domain. Is there any way find this?


title: What's the best web site performance tool for end-users?

text: When I receive reports that my website is running slowly, I would like to be able to point the end-users to a performance/profiling tool that is easy to use and that has a feature where the end-users' report can be sent to me. Can anyone recommend a site or browser plug-in like this?


title: Canonicalising to less linked URLs

text: I have a question about how to use canonical urls on an ecommerce site with a complex category structure. I have many products and they each sit in multiple categories. Each product can be accessed on multiple urls like: `/first-category-name/product-name` & `/second-category-name/product-name` They can all also be accessed via standard path like `/products/product-name` The reason for the category versions is we vary the recommendations for alternative products and colours depending on which category the user is browsing. For example, a single unisex product may have many colour alternatives but we would show different subsets of these on the two following urls: `/a-manly-category-with-dark-colours/product-name` & `/a-girly-category-with- eight-shades-of-pink/product-name` On `/products/product-name` all the alternatives are shown. The obvious solution (to me) to this was to add a canonical tag pointing all product pages to their `/products/product-name` version. However, it worries me that most of the links around the site will point to the duplicate versions and not the canonical target which could be sending Google mixed messages. Is this an issue I need to worry about or will it all be fine as long as I have the canonicals set up right?


title: Do you get penalized for writing a title very similar to other blogs?

text: Do you get penalized if you use somebody's post title with few words changed in the title to match your post?


title: How to redirect pages during the maintenance to home page?

text: I have IIS 7 website. I need to redirect users during maintenance time to home page from other sub pages within site. for example if user request http://www.mysite.com/products/234 I need system to show default message, site under maintenance not 404 error How it can be done in IIS 7?


title: Publishing Application on Website

text: I'm a software developer, and I'm trying to publish some open source software on my site. My software is designed for Windows users, so I want to use a single file "setup.exe" or something likewise. I currently have a test application and I've created an installer with: "Inno Setup 5" (I'm not attached to that program, so if you know a better one I'll try that) and published it on my site (here). But when I try to download it chrome says:"setup.exe is not commonly downloaded and could be dangerous." this scares away people, and I can't have that. And when I do confirm that I want to keep it (by clicking the small arrow on the side) and I install it, Windows (SmartScreen) says:"Windows protected your PC". I need to get rid of both these errors, and I can't find a working solution. Please help.


title: Is ignoring clients data during an automatic upgrading acceptable?

text: I recently faced a deletion of my calendar and notes data inside a third party application ( Horde ) on my online space. When I told the web hosting provider they replied that they were doing an upgrade to system software (!!) and that third party client applications are not within their reach or backup policy.   They don't even have a backup of my data.   Is this practice acceptable from a web hosting provider, even for individual clients? I know that backing up my data is my responsibility but I anticipated that backup copies done by the host would be available when needed.


title: htaccess code for maintenance page redirect

text: I set up a maintenance page that I could enable through an htaccess file. The html file is located in a folder called "maintenance". The html file has some images in it. However, visitors to the page see no images, even though I added a `RewriteCond` line to (theoretically) allow them. If I try to visit the URL of an image file in the browser directly, it redirects to the maintenance.htm page. I do not want image files to be redirected. Am I missing something?               #RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^127.0.0.1$     #RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^111.111.111.111$     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance/maintenance\.htm$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|css|ico)$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /maintenance/maintenance.htm [R=302,L]


title: Stating where images were obtained from, recommended/required?

text: I was wondering if it's required or recommended to display the owner/source of any images used on my website? If I were to use a general image from another website (not necessarily having a specific license attached to it), do I need to state where I obtained the image from? And if so, **is there a professional or accepted way to do this** (maybe an acknowledgements page or similar)?


title: How to get tens of millions of pages indexed by Google bot?

text: We are currently developing a site that currently has 8 million unique pages that will grow to about 20 million right away, and eventually to about 50 million or more. Before you criticize... **Yes, it provides unique, useful content.** We continually process raw data from public records and by doing some data scrubbing, entity rollups, and relationship mapping, we've been able to generate quality content, developing a site that's quite useful and also unique, in part _due_ to the breadth of the data. It's PR is 0 (new domain, no links), and we're getting spidered at a rate of about 500 pages per day, putting us at about 30,000 pages indexed thus far. At this rate, it would take over 400 years to index all of our data. I have two questions:   1. Is the rate of the indexing directly correlated to PR, and by that I mean is it correlated enough that by purchasing an old domain with good PR will get us to a workable indexing rate (in the neighborhood of 100,000 pages per day).   2. Are there any SEO consultants who specialize in aiding the indexing process itself. We're otherwise doing very well with SEO, **on** -page especially, besides, the competition for our "long-tail" keyword phrases is pretty low, so our success hinges mostly on the number of pages indexed. Our main competitor has achieved approx 20MM pages indexed in just over one year's time, along with an Alexa 2000-ish ranking. Noteworthy qualities we have in place:   * page download speed is pretty good (250-500 ms)   * no errors (no 404 or 500 errors when getting spidered)   * we use Google webmaster tools and login daily   * friendly URLs in place   * I'm afraid to submit sitemaps. Some SEO community postings suggest a new site with millions of pages and no PR is suspicious. There is a Google video of Matt Cutts speaking of a staged on-boarding of large sites, too, in order to avoid increased scrutiny (at approx 2:30 in the video).   * Clickable site links deliver all pages, no more than four pages deep and typically no more than 250(-ish) internal links on a page.   * Anchor text for internal links is logical and adds relevance hierarchically to the data on the detail pages.   * We had previously set the crawl rate to the highest on webmaster tools (only about a page every two seconds, max). I recently turned it back to "let Google decide" which is what is advised.


title: Restrict access to web directory with .htaccess

text: Let me just say that doing this sort of thing with .htaccess files has never been a strong point for me. Let's say that I have a directory in my web root: /dir/data Within that directory let's say that I have a file called data.txt I need to completely restrict access to data.txt (or the whole data directory). The only things that I want to be able to access the data.txt is a script located at /dir/data.php I also use scp in a shell file on another server to update the data.txt file, hence this shell file will have to be allowed to access the directory and file as well. I for the life of me can't seem to find what I need on Google (though I know it's there somewhere). I really appreciate any help.


title: Can't get into the admin console after migrating to new server

text:
I migrated my WordPress blog to a new server, and everything seemed to be working fine until it started giving me the error when entering the admin area:               Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to     allocate 4864 bytes) in     /home/neworder/public_html/blog/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php     on line 729      The line 729 has:               $protected = array( '_wp_attached_file', '_wp_attachment_metadata', '_wp_old_slug', '_wp_page_template' );      I had installed the maintenance-mode, and I have suspicions that this is what broke the forum. If I remove the plugin it then gives another error:               Fatal error: Allowed memory size of     33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to     allocate 19456 bytes) in     /home/neworder/public_html/blog/wp-admin/includes/post.php     on line 1158      And that line has:               $content .= '
' . esc_html__( 'Remove featured image' ) . '
';     }      I tried to restore the blog file-system from the old server and also to restore the database from the old server (2x), but still it gives me the same error. The blog itself seems to be working fine: http://blog.antinovaordemmundial.com/


title: Migrate user accounts out of system with hashed passwords

text: I have a system with a few thousand user accounts that I need to migrate to a new platform. The system stores a hashed password, not encrypted or (thank goodness) plain text. Also, I don't have the details of the hashing readily available. What are some effective ways to make the transition? One idea comes to mind off the top of my head:   1. Ahead of time, I can migrate all the data. Current users in the old platform will have an account and all their data in the new platform.   2. Rip out some of the code that currently handles authentication and turn it into a kind of service that will check the validity of the username/password.   3. The new platform can first check it's own authentication to see whether the password has been transferred. If it hasn't, it could call the service on the other platform to determine whether it's valid in the old system.   4. If it's not valid, then it tells the user their login was wrong.   5. If it is valid, it now knows the correct password and can populate its own user table with the password (according to whatever scheme that platform uses).


title: MX records of a domain - why are they editable from a hosting panel?

text: I have a domain, registered at company A. In the domain manager panel at this company I can edit DNS records of my domain, including MX records. That's understandable. I changed them. But, the website which uses this domain is at company B. This comapany also has DNS records manager! It looks like it overwrites whatever I set at company A. How is that possible?


title: How to get metrics for use of Facebook social plugins?

text: I have a site with hundreds of content pages. Each content page has a Facebook like button on it. Aside from browsing to each page and reading the number next to each Like button, how can I get information about the number of likes across my whole website? There doesn't seem to be any tools on Facebook that allow me to do this. Any help or advice is appreciated.


title: Will pointing a domain name away from an old site to a new site hurt SEO?

text: I developed a new site for one of my clients and used a new domain name. His old site (made in 1998) is still the #1 hit for our key search term, so we'd like to have that hit point to the new site. Will pointing the old domain to our new nameservers keep it at the top of the Google search results, or is it the actual site files that give it good SEO? Should I just set up a redirect on the site itself?


title: List of services for privatizing whois information

text: I am registered with a domain name registrar which does not offer an anonymous whois service. However, I am interested in using some third-party service to keep my whois information private. Are there any such services available that do not also require me to register my domain name with them? All I am interested in doing is changing the whois information with my current registrar to point to some company which is able to forward any correspondence to me, while keeping my personal address anonymous.


title: Email settings for a Rackspace Cloud Sites hosted site?

text: I'm working on moving a client's hosting to a new provider as part of a site redesign. They're currently using Rackspace to host their site. Their domain is registered with ENOM. My one concern is their email accounts. Currently, they login to webmail.theirdomain.com to read email. There is a "control panel" (very minimal) at websitesettings.com for their account, but I can't find any information about email servers there. I'd like to transition them to Google Apps, but I need to first make sure all old emails are backed up, as well as minimize any downtime. Has anyone dealt with a setup like this before? Know where I should start?


title: What to do about features of a website copied by another bigger one?

text: Early last year I implemented several new and unique features on Neocamera and most have been copied by DPReview. They announced the latest one this morning. It is called 'My Short List' there while on Neocamera, it is called 'Camera Bag' which I explained in a blog post last September. They had a vague announcement in March for the previously copied features, which I had also since last September, basically search engines for cameras and lenses by features or specifications. It is obvious that those are the same features but they are presented differently. So this is not a case of design or style being copied, only the capabilities. Once you look at them, you see that there is an uncanny overlap in functionality. Can something be done about it? In case it matters, my site is based in Canada while theirs is registered in the UK. It belongs to Amazon, not sure which corporate entity.


title: How to know which are the highest PageRanked pages in my site?

text: I have a large site where I would like to know which are the internal pages with higher PageRank for optimization purpouses. How can I generate a pagerank list of all my website pages?


title: How to change currency from euro to dollars in Google AdSense?

text: In my Google AdSense account all earnings are shown in euros. When I receive check it has $96 in it, what is equivalent of 70 euros. It would be better to receive check for round amount of money. For euro - it is 70, for dollars - it is $100. But earnings in euros are send in dollars too. So I would like to change the currency to dollars. I did not find in AdSense options and on forums how to change it to dollars. **Does anyone know how to change currency from euro to dollars in Google AdSense?** Or at least how can I send (order) checks manually and not automatically (after achieving 70 euros or $100)?


title: Spamcop message received, what now?

text: I've received a message from SpamCop.net that email from 1 of my websites has been marked as spam. The report was sent to my hosting provider who then forwarded it to me. I'n now investigating what happened exactly. I've never been in touch with SpamCop, what exactly does it do? Did 1 user report email I sopposedly sent as spam? Or is there a minimum treshhold before SpamCop sends the report? Are there immedicate consequences when receiving such a report?


title: Problem importing some features into PrestaShop from a CSV file

text: I am trying to import my CSV catalog to my shop. Each product has 3 features. For example: >   * Type:New:0 >   * Capacity:69ml.:1 >   * PartNumber:X556D23:2 > The import process finishes OK without errors... but then, just one feature (PartNumber) is shown on the page. Going to the catalog I can see the other two haven't been asigned to each product. If I add them manually, then that product displays well. Any ideas why it is importing one feature and not the other two?


title: All caps <title> text - does it effect CTR ? Is it allowed

text: by having all your text in CAPS i presume that there is a slight increase in CTRs, has any one experimented / experienced this ? Are you allowed to have all caps title text, or is it seen as spammy i know you cant have all caps title text in adwords ppc titles but what about on the page html ?


title: My site crashes Internet Explorer!

text: When I try to open my site on IE (development, environment, or online), it crashes every time. This is my server readout upon entering the home page (it actually crashes on any page view after this): `Rendered shared/_footer.erb (0.0ms) Rendered welcome/index.html.erb within layouts/index (179.0ms) Completed 200 OK in 204ms (Views: 203.0ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms) [2010-10-24 03:16:26] ERROR Errno::ECONNABORTED: An established connection was a borted by the software in your host machine. C:/San/Ruby192/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/httpserver.rb:56:in 'eof?' C:/San/Ruby192/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/httpserver.rb:56:in 'run' C:/San/Ruby192/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/server.rb:183:in 'block in start_ thread'` Another error I sometimes get: `[2010-10-24 03:22:21] ERROR Errno::ECONNRESET: An existing connection was forcib ly closed by the remote host.` Do you know what the problem might be? This is crucial for me because of the people who may be using the app. Thanks everyone. Setup:   Ruby 1.9.2   Rails 3   Servers: Webrick for development, MySQL for production (failure occurs equally on both)   Host: Heroku


title: Folder has gone missing on webserver

text: I was trying to rename a folder on my Linux webserver. I added a double slash infront of older name e.g //foldername. Now the ftp showed this message > Renaming '/public_html/cache/test' to '/test'   >  Command: RNFR test   >  Response: 350 RNFR accepted - file exists, ready for destination   >  Command: RNTO /test


title: Whats actually wrong with GoDaddy?

text: I've heard in many places that Godaddy is a horrible hosting provider, but rarely exact reasons on why. I've been with them for a 2+ years and am okay with their hosting. And I run roughly 7 low traffic sites over 3 domains. Currently right now I'm on their Shared Linux hosting with PHP and MySQL (one which is public facing, something that a host rarely offers). But whats actually wrong with them? Do they really deserve all the negative comments? Things they do good (mainly with Shared hosting as thats the only experience I have with them)   * Decent support - To my knowledge they still have support staff in the US and haven't outsourced, which is always good. Most of the staff actually know what their talking about, and you don't have to wait on the phone much. They've been useful many times   * Great PHP and MySQL hosting - Haven't found a problem yet with them   * Long list of language support - They _claim_ to support many languages, which is gives tons of flexibility   * OS choice - Always good Things I can think of that are bad.   * Terrible interface - Domain management takes place in 5 different interfaces. My paid account and hosting account are separate. Getting to hosting manager takes way to many clicks. Bad menu items. Slow file manager. Etc.   * Bad rails support - Currently on day 5 or 6 of trying to install a Rails app. That's all that I can think of. Besides Rails support, I don't see anything that would make everyone hate GoDaddy. What is it that I'm missing? Or are most people that complain wrong?


title: IIS Rewrite Module 2.0 question

text: If I have to install "IIS Rewrite Module 2.0" on my machine for it to work, since my web site runs on a shared web server, does that mean that my host has to have this installed in order for it to work on-line?


title: Need private personal access to ~three PHP pages

text: I would like secure access to the text output by three PHP scripts (the text output is JavaScript and html) . The security level is much less then financial data but important none-the-less. I have considered purchasing AND studying https and SSL certificates. Hostgator charges an extra $2/month for a private ip plus $50+ anually for a certificate. This is more then I want to spend for this project (time + money). Is there a simpler solution that is:   1. less expensive   2. easier to implement. I'm open to different approaches.


title: Customizing Google Custom Search

text: I am using Google Custom Search for my site. I want Google to provide at most 2 searches from a site. I am not sure whether it is possible or not, but it seems there is no such option on Google CSE. For example, my CSE has 10 listed sites. What I want is that whenever a user makes a search then search results should show at most two links from a site. In general CSE is returning multiple results from one site only and these come on page 1. If it is at most 2 from a site then the user has a better chance to have links from other sites too.


title: Do users need to be 13?

text: A lot of sites require users registering to be 13 years of age. Is there any actual law that requires this?


title: Dynamic content in Joomla - Embedding PHP in Joomla articles

text: **Preface:** I recently inherited a website project that my employer had summer interns create. Being non-technical types, they opted for Joomla CMS to create the content. They also opted to make all of the current content static, and to manage updates manually, article by article (these were high school interns with little/no technical background). As part of my takeover, one of my first goals is to get all of the volatile data (company information, event information, etc) into MySQL, and then load the content into the articles dynamically. Joomla already has a MySQL database; I've added a table to it, storing the frontend content I want to load dynamically, and now I want to make one of my articles pull from that table, row by row, and spit out some HTML to format it. To my knowledge, the easiest way to do this is to use PHP to embed SQL queries (if I'm wrong about that, feel free to suggest alternate dynamic content models in Joomla!), and so the logical first step is to get some PHP embedded in an article. **Problem:** I have tried using the Sourcerer and DirectPHP extensions, but in both cases (and with manually inserted PHP code), I find that the PHP is getting ignored. For example, I made an article with nothing but this:               <?php       echo "This is a PHP string";     ?>      And when I load the article, it is empty. I've scanned the settings and configuration pages of the Joomla install and done a number of Google searches, and thus far haven't been able to find anything. I bet I'm missing something pretty simple, but I don't know what. Any suggestions?


title: Communicating image size, best practice

text: If you are developing a html document strictly using current best practice of keeping styling out of the markup how do you best communicate image sizing? Past best practice wants image height and width with the image in that it will render faster than the browser waiting for the image to download to get it's dimensions. But doing this seems to contravene isolating style out of the document. Add an id attribute to each image and put the height/width in the css? Does this negate the rendering bonus of inline image height and width?


title: Google Analytics set up report for users that go from page A to page B?

text: I want to create a report for users that go from page: "/publicar/" to page: "/publicacion/" (only head match). I tried to set it up as a goal adding "/publicar/" as funnel but any visit to "/publicacion/" is taken as a goal so it's useless. Is there a way to set it up as a goal? If not how do I create a report for users than go from page A to page B?


title: Transfer domain from godaddy to another registrar and (somewhat) maintain privacy?

text: Does anyone know if its possible in any ways to do this? Transfer a private domain (via domainsbyproxy) registered at godaddy to another registrar. While I know moving a domain from godaddy requires the privacy to be disabled, what we were thinking of doing is the following: a) Update the whois info inside domains by proxy to a 3rd party. Most likely a law firm who would in essnece become our 'custodian'. b) Wait 60 days (?) c) Disable domain privacy. Now the law firms details would become public. d) Conduct the domain transfer. e) Take ownership of the domain at the new registrar. Does something like this sound possible? Does anyone know any other way to handle this? Thanks.


title: HTTPS best practices for SEO and usability

text: Consider a page, `http://example.com`, which can be viewed both publicly and when a user authenticates. Now suppose you enable HTTPS for every page when a user logs into your website, but only when they are logged in. Your page, `http://example.com` now becomes `https://example.com` for all logged in users. If that logged in user likes your page and decides to link to it through a blog post or a social media website, there is a good chance that they will use the HTTPS version of the URL. From an SEO perspective, what's your strategy for avoiding duplicate content issues between the two URLs? What should happen if a user arrives at the HTTPS URL but has not logged in or does not have an account? Should there be a redirect to the HTTP version? If so, how would you handle it? My instinct is that for all pages that can be viewed both publicly and while logged in, the page should first detect if the user is logged in. If logged in, it remains HTTPS or uses a 302 redirect from the HTTP version to HTTPS. If the user is not logged in and they arrive to the HTTPS version of the URL, it uses a 301 redirect to the HTTP version. However, I would welcome a more elegant or effective solution. **Edit** : I was assuming that if a user is logged in, every URL should be HTTPS (or at least, that should be an option), but as I've done a little more research, perhaps that assumption was wrong. The way that I see people implementing it is that they only enable HTTPS for pages that send and receive sensitive data: login, shopping cart checkout, user profile management, etc. I'm trying to figure out which model is best. Apparently, Google Mail gives users the option of whether or not to use HTTPS on every page through a setting in the user's profile. That's certainly an option, but I would still need to address the behavior of publicly available pages for all authentication states. Because I'm building a content management system that will be used by other people, I need to make sure I get it right. What settings should be available to the site owner? At this point, I'm thinking granular control over each page (whether or not it's secured with SSL) and then for the whole site as well. However, giving that level of control might be a mistake if people don't understand all of the issues and could end up causing security issues. That, perhaps, is the first issue. What are appropriate levels of control and what are intelligent defaults? The second is how the pages should behave for the user. From an SEO perspective, I think that either the process I described above or using the `rel="canonical"` (like jmb suggested) would work, but nailing down the behavior of the page so that it is secure and seamless is essential as well.


title: When redirecting to similar pages (consolidating), what should I tell search engines, if anything?

text: We deleted a large number of detail pages from a site (deleted pages from here on) and used 301 redirects to send visitors to the most relevant page (target pages from here on). From there, the visitor can now get to details through links to external sites. Now there are all these redirects from deleted pages pointing to a single target page. The number of 301s to a target page varies from one to hundreds, and is typically about a dozen. To make sure that onsite visitors have a good experience, these are needed at least for a while. Visitor experience comes first. I am concerned that: Target pages already exist and have better page ranks than deleted pages and I could lose page rank. Search engines will continue to show the deleted page titles and info. An algorithm may find something unusual and drop page rank for perceived wrongdoing. **QUESTION:** Should I change `robots.txt`? Is there something I should tell search engines? More detail: I have been searching for a similar situation for a long time, and I can't find one. Unlike many others, this is not a matter of totally changing content or sending 301s to a home page. Target pages are related to deleted pages. To provide a sense of this, there are some 50,000 deleted pages and about 8,000 targets. The redirects are in `.htaccess` files in subdirectories that are no longer being used for current content. Load times do not concern me. All or most pages, deleted and target, are already indexed, with target pages currently rated much higher. No pages are dynamic. Changes are permanent.


title: Redirect before rewrite

text: Had an issue where I need to redirect old URLs, but not disable the mod_rewrite for page structure.               redirect 301 /home.html http://www.url.com/      It needs to live on the Symphony 2.0 .htaccess file               ### Symphony 2.0.x ###     Options +FollowSymlinks -Indexes          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>           RewriteEngine on           RewriteBase /           ### DO NOT APPLY RULES WHEN REQUESTING "favicon.ico"      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} favicon.ico [NC]      RewriteRule .* - [S=14]           ### IMAGE RULES       RewriteRule ^image\/(.+\.(jpg|gif|jpeg|png|bmp))$ extensions/jit_image_manipulation/lib/image.php?param=$1 [L,NC]           ### CHECK FOR TRAILING SLASH - Will ignore files      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [L,R=301]           ### ADMIN REWRITE      RewriteRule ^symphony\/?$ index.php?mode=administration&%{QUERY_STRING} [NC,L]           RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f       RewriteRule ^symphony(\/(.*\/?))?$ index.php?symphony-page=$1&mode=administration&%{QUERY_STRING} [NC,L]           ### FRONTEND REWRITE - Will ignore files and folders      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f      RewriteRule ^(.*\/?)$ index.php?symphony-page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]          </IfModule>     ######


title: Which django based CMS is good for ecommerce sites

text: I have using joomla for long time and mainly deal with ecommerce sites with shopping cart . Now i am learning python django and realy like the python. But i am used to joomla easiness to use its extensions for everything. One questions is coming to my mind that am i doing right thing to shift from joomla to python. It seems to me that i am looking for something good when i already have it.But there are many thing which i can't do in joomla like syadmin and data mining. I am learning django but i think it will be time consuming to build from scratch with django I want CMS in Django in which i can use ready made   1. Users Logins , registration members Area   2. SHopping cart , Add/remove products and payment via paypal   3. Gallery for photos   4. Users can create static pages like privacy , disclaimer   5. Also in case i need to create custom thing i can write custom code as well Is there something like that?


title: How to use Google Analytics code and Adsense code?

text: When I setup a Gogole Analytics code it says me put it within head tags. But when I want to link it with my AdSense account it says "Be sure to leave the Google Analytics tracking code at the bottom of your pages." Also it says "Paste this code [Google Analytics and Adsense integration code] at the top of any webpage in this domain that contains AdSense ads." Where? After or after after Analytics code?


title: How to set default hreflangs for some languages?

text: I want to make a site with different versions for 2 countries, which have the same language. Then I need to do the same for another language. Basically I want to have 6 versions of the site:   1. UK English   2. US English   3. Default English ??   4. Austrian German   5. Germany German   6. Default German The question is, how do I define the "default" language versions, for any country with this language which isnt defined already? I know there is x-default, but I think you can only use that once and it is for all languages and all countries.


title: WHOIS data accuracy policy: can the domain be cancelled?

text: I am trying to contact the owner of a domain name regarding potential purchase of the name. The owner's listed contact doesn't work, I never got any replies from him/her. (In fact, the contacts are protected by DomainsByProxy.com, tried to contact them too, no luck in helping me with finding the owner.) So, does ICANN's Whois Data Accuracy policy mean the domain can be cancelled on the grounds of owners not being reachable via WHOIS data?


title: Magento backend gives me a blank page when trying to edit order of more than $4,000

text: Typically, the orders I have received have been less than $1,000, comprising of less than 10 products. I had no problem editing those order (removing out of stock items, etc). In the past month, I got one order for over $5,000 (35 products) and another for $4,000 (39 products). When I go to the backend to sales>orders and click the order number, it shows the order, when I click "edit", it asks me "Are you sure?" and when I click "ok" it gives me a blank page. Help... I am running Magento 1.4.1.1 on shared hosting


title: Folder naming convention in a web development

text: I'm just wondering whether it would be appropriate/acceptable to use the following folder naming convention within a website development? For folders which the end users will see as part of the URL: > /Photos > > /Downloads > > /Downloads/Documents (basically, the standard way of naming folders) ... but for folders which aren't seen by the user, but which contain resources used by the website: > /_sitegraphics > > /_js > > /_xml > > /Photos/_photosxml Are there any reasons that prefixing the 'private' folders with an underscore is a bad idea? I'm only considering it because I think it keeps things tidy and easier to identifty.


title: Do search engines understand multiple rel values?

text: I need to have hyperlinks on my page that will look something like:               Link      So basically the `rel` attribute has two values. I know it is valid HTML (e.g. Multiple values for rel attribute), but my question is specifically about whether search engines will understand it. I would hate it when SE's index stupid json strings on my site :)


title: Is there a plugin directory software like Firefox Addon or Wordpress Plugin Directory

text: Nowadays browsers and content management systems all have the plugin/module/addon/theme systems for users to extend at their own will. Developers can also submit plugin to share the plugin with others. The most famous examples are Firefox Addon and Wordpress Plugin Directory. I want to ask that if there is an open source web system specifically designed for this need - to host plugins? Not just one plugin, but all plugins for one software? Ideally it should allow developers to upload the plugin, have a public version for each update, and client software can check if there are any plugin available through the directory's API. As an example, a CMS can have one such directory to host/display theme files. Also is there a better keyword to describe this kind of system?


title: Prevent script execution as TimThumb exploit workaround

text: It's been a long time since I've done any web-development, and I never needed to administer a server myself. However, I can read manuals with the best of them, and when someone needed advice regarding a wordpress installation vulnerable to the TimThumb exploit, I told them to add the follwing to their `httpd.conf`:               <Directory "/path/to/cache/directory">              # disallow changing options with a .htaccess file within the cache directory         AllowOverride None              # disable all extra features, including CGI scripting         # prevents malicious code from running         Options None              # don't let users browse cached files         # prevents the attacker from triggering script execution         Deny from all              # explicitly disable php - shouldn't be necessary, but just in case ;)         php_flag engine off          </Directory>      Was that advice sound? In particular, is this the correct choice of directives to prevent any script execution?


title: If your site has been flagged, "this site may harm your computer" how long before Google takes action

text: If your site has "this site may harm your computer" in the search results how long can you be in that situation before Google takes action. When they do take action does anyone know what that action is? I assume it results ultimately in delisting but I can't find anything specific.


title: Best way to track multiple sites with Google Analytics

text: I currently have 63 websites (and counting) that I'm tracking on one Google Analytics account, and I'm starting to realize... this is becoming a bit cumbersome. What's the best way to collect traffic data in bulk? Are there other resources out there that are better suited for this task? Does Google offer a bulk option for this kind of thing? Would it be better to make separate analytics accounts? I'm just wondering if anyone else has had found a better solution that manually setting up all these accounts/setting up the tracking codes etc, when it comes to large scale management.


title: what counts as a "pageview"

text: My main index.html page consists of 2 parts (it is written in html & jquery/javascript):   1. a fixed header that is always at the top of the page   2. a content page that is loaded when a user clicks a button (ie click "blog" and the "content" div tag gets loaded w/ the blog contents. Click "about" and the "content" div tag gets loaded w/ the about us page. When the user clicks a button on the page, the index.html and header do NOT reload; only the "content" div tag on index.html refreshes with new info. I am using CPM advertising. This may sound like an obvious question but because the user stays on "index.html" and doesn't explicitly navigate to a "blog.html" page nor a "about.html" page, will that hurt my advertising revenue? Or, are the ad networks (buysellads.com, etc) smart enough to figure out that the user IS loading new content implicitly? EDIT: The ad would be w/in the fixed header portion, not in the "content" part


title: Can I place a caching server in a remote location?

text: Let's say I have one server acting as HTTP and MySQL server located in the UK, and I want to add a caching server, for example, Redis or Memcached.   1. Can I add a caching server which is located in the US?   2. Will there be any delay in fetching the cached content from the remote location?


title: Cyclic redirection in .htaccess

text: I have the following .htaccess file:               AddDefaultCharset utf-8     RewriteEngine on     Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch     RewriteBase /          # redirect all www-requests to no-www     # -     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.site\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://site.com/$1 [R=301,L]          # redirect all home pages to / (root)     # -     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index\.(php|html?)     RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.(php|html?)$ /$1 [R=301,L]           # remove trailing slash from dirs     # -     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]          # automatically add index.php when needed     # -     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|login\.php|reg\.php|robots\.txt|css/|js/)     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php [L]      The .htaccess file should do the following (for SEO):   1. Conversion to no-www (`http://www.site.com` should become `http://site.com`)   2. All URIs with trailing slashes should convert to no-trailing-slash: `http://site.com/me/` should be redirected `http://site.com/me`   3. All URIs with `index.php/index.html` should convert to just nothing: `http://site.com/admin/index.php` or `http://site.com/admin/` should be eventually displayed as `http://site.com` However the current version of .htaccess results in a cyclic redirection when trying to access (`http://site.com/admin`). The real document that should be fetched by browser is `http://site.com/admin/index.php`. Can anyone please help me with this issue?


title: Any one-time message sms authentication services?

text: I remember a while back when I used imdb or google apps, I had to enter my phone number and subsequently was texted a short ~5 character code to enter in their online form. The value I entered in that field was authenticated against the code they texted me. I wanted to implement that same technology in a web app I'm making. Are there any one-time message sms authentication services out there?


title: Apache real time robot detection

text: **Background** Our website is being > a. scraped - complete pages downloaded   >  b. spidered - complete pages and sub links followed   >  c. mined - specific files downloaded at high speed by hundreds of robots - some off the shelf and some home made We have another site especially for the robots to go to which offers them easier to parse data (XML/JSON) but they are stubbornly ignoring that site and our fair-use charter so all bets are off. **What we cannot do** It is not possible to ask the users to signup/signin - the data is public and will remain so, we just do not want the robots to bother the real users and hammer the site. We cannot use reCaptcha or any other external service. Middletier is JAVA and I would prefer something on the Apache frontend **What have we done**   1. robots.txt has  `User-agent: *`   `Disallow: /`   2. We have `captchas` in place to stop complete file download but the robots just take the non-capchaed page-by-page and likely stitch them together at their leisure. A normal and acceptable user will come in, do a search, load the resulting document, perhaps download a PDF - all surrounded by image files, CSS files and script requests - some/most giving 304s after the first visit. If these users are clicking very fast through the result list, they may get the "are you a robot" captcha. The mining robot will typically only request one type of URL at high speed if too fast, we also give him a captcha that he may or may not OCR or send to a human user to be deciphered. **Question 1:** Do you know if jCaptcha has been compromised and is there a better JAVA based alternative (simple captcha for example) **Question 2:** Is there a good way to detect and bar a robot at the Apache end by examining the URL pattern? I would like to block at least the type c robot. It comes in with the complete URL of the page in question and does not load any auxiliary files like CSS, images or scripts. I was thinking about monitoring all the requests per IP (but will that fail with IPv6?), if 10 of the same type of requests without any other (regex?) block the robot - but that raises the question on how to not block a user with a well cached browser - for example insert something that is not cached by a normal browser (idea from Bill Rowe) I do not currently have the skills myself to write an Apache module so I was hoping some open source that I could not find when I Googled is known by some of you.


title: How can I create a shorter alias URL to a longer URL using an .htaccess file?

text: Using an _.htaccess_ file, I want to make one specific URL have a shorter alias like this: **Original URL:**               mydomain.com/index.php?option=com_obrss&task=feed&id=2:rss1klik&format=feed&Itemid=160      **Alias to the original URL:**               mydomain.com/index.php/rss/rss1klik      Note that both URLs should display the same content.


title: IP Locator not working with Cloudflare

text: I have set up an IP Locator service. Worked fine, until I started using Cloudflare: Instead of showing the user's IP address, Cloudflare shows its server's IP! What can I do? My Site: http://nix-pix.co.uk/ip **Note:** I'm on a shared server, so I cannot do any server-side modifications


title: How can I block visitors located in the U.S. while still allowing the Googlebot?

text: Due to regulation and legal issues we cannot allow U.S. based visitors to access our website. For this reason we redirect all our U.S. traffic to a specialized page. While we do have these restrictions, our (financial) products are perfectly legal and regulated in other countries in Europe, Middle East and Asia. Since we don't want to be considered as cloaking, we redirect all IP's - humans and bots alike. As far as I understand most, if not all, Googlebot's IP ranges come from the U.S. So my question is how can we allow Google to index our website for the benefit of non-U.S. based users and avoid cloaking (or post-cloaking). Can Googlebot access from non-U.S. IP ranges? What would the preferred course of action be?


title: How to find out which ads were clicked with Google Adsense?

text: If you are running Adsense (and Google Analytics) on your site, it is possible to find out which ads people clicked on? That would be very useful marketing information about what products people are interested in buying...


title: Step by step weather API tutorial

text: Where can I find a good step by step tutorial about some api weather implementation? I´m really new in this, so official documentation is not always as clear as I need to begin to understand. The API must be free, that´s the only requirement. Note: Originally posted by me on StackOverflow with no answer.


title: Is it ill-advised to create custom text for a login link (e.g. "Become a ninja" as opposed to just "log in")

text: I'm trying to figure out whether it's best to:   * stick with the tried and true link text for login ("log in" -> linking to the login page)   * Make the login button custom to the site and somewhat of a call to action ("Become a ninja" -> linking to login and signup page.) The familiar and boring vs. the custom and possibly ambiguous? (Err, this is in context of a ninja webgame [ http://ninjawars.net ], of course)


title: Embedding a Blog site within another site

text: I'm creating a website for a friend and want him to be able to update a blog that's on the site. Is there a tool or way for him to update a blog on some other site such as Tumblr or Wordpress and have the posts from there show up on a page of his site?


title: IIS 7 Require SSL automatically redirect to https://

text: I've configured IIS 7 to require SSL. I'm wondering if I can automatically redirect non-ssl requests to be encrypted. For example, if a user types in `http://domain.com`, can IIS redirect the request to `https://domain.com` rather than display the 403 error page?


title: AdWords Keyword Tool planner CPC completely different to real CPC?

text: I'm new to AdWords, and trying to figure out the best keywords to use. I go to Adwords Keyword Planner, and typed in an example keyword. It gives me an average CPC of $0.94. But when I go to set up a real campaign and type it the same keyword, I get an error saying 'below first page bid estimate' which is $8.75. What gives? Is there a better way to get more accurate feedback on how much this will cost?


title: Google Analytics Export API - nextPagePath data

text: I am probably missing something obvious, but I do not understand when I query:               start.date = DATE_START,                 end.date = DATE_END,                dimensions = c("ga:pagePath","ga:previousPagePath"),                metrics = c("ga:pageviews"),                filters = mypageofinterest,                table.id = "ga:mytable",                max.results=RESULTS      my data return as expected, all of the previous pages including (entrance). However, when I modify the code to be nextPagePath               start.date = DATE_START,                 end.date = DATE_END,                dimensions = c("ga:pagePath","ga:nextPagePath"),                metrics = c("ga:pageviews"),                filters = mypageofinterest,                table.id = "ga:mytable",                max.results=RESULTS      only one line of data are returned; the pagepath and nextpagepath are identical with itself. I replicated this result using the Query Explorer. What am I missing or doing wrong? I was expecting to see a large number of "next" pages, including (exit). Thanks in advance.


title: SEO Guide/Webinar for the Non-technical

text: Does anyone have a good resource for SEO guides, videos, or webinars that focus on optimizing the content of a website, rather than the actual code? I've been asked to find this for a few employees at my company. These employees are non-technical and deal with writing the content for a website. They do not deal with any code. Thanks


title: What is technically correct with Link Wheel and Mininet [technique], looking past the ethical (aka "blackhat") nature?

text: Because of the importance of backlinks, and the way that "authority" is calculated, black hat SEO has proliferated LinkWheels and Mininets. In my opinion, we now have a situation that was like baseball during the steroids era. Everyone is cheating, so the people who don't cheat can no longer compete because the cheaters are dominating the game. With hope that this does not become a discussion of the ethics, which would certainly move this to community wiki (at best), I'm curious about what is technically correct about both Mininet and Linkwheel implementations. For example: Do mininets correctly build backlinks? What is the lesson learned regarding backlinks (and their efforts to pose them as organic)? Do they increase the so called "money site's" authority? I also should add that it's quite interesting that the Linkwheels are largely built upon the same Web2.0 properties that it seems those sites must be aware of their place in all of this (Squidoo?). If you can cite examples of sites making public their DoFollow or NoFollow link policy, please do. Please note that I'm not an apologist for those black hat techniques. What I'm trying to do is gain a strong understanding of the techniques that are successfully deployed with Linkwheels and Mininets. In so doing, we all may better architect our off-page SEM and social media campaigns. Edit: I changed the URL I linked to for Mininets (definition). I had originally linked to the "money site" that sold the book that possibly established the phenomenon, entitled "Revenge of the Mininet." That landing page was not very informative, although the book is still a good source on that topic. The original link follows: http://www.revengeofthemininet.com/


title: Hide content behind login screen but show to search engines

text: Is it OK to have a page that will not show content to browsers unless they are logged in - but will recognise a search bot and show it the content regardless? I.e. googolebot get the content - normal users get a login screen. I was under the impression that this was a no-no but am increasingly seeing this (Microsoft MSDN for example) - any authorative sources for yes/no?


title: PhpMyAdmin - Changing charset

text: How may I change the database/Tables/Attributes charset using PhpMyAdmin (No SQL statement, only hand-and-mouse actions) ? I only see the option for the Collation (inter-classement).


title: Are there any snippet software app for windows user?

text: I'm a web designer, and I'm used to collect snippets of code I find in the internet.   I found `snippely` as a great snippet app but it doesn't have export or import features when I'm going to different working station. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.


title: Drop in rankings after removing sitewide backlinks

text: Here's the scenario: I have a small web design business and was using a branded backlink on the bottom of all client sites. Recently this has become a bit taboo with the Google updates so I went back to a few of my sites and made it so there's only a homepage backlink. After doing this, I've had a drop in rankings, despite this apparently being a best practice. Is this likely a temporary drop that will pick back up? For any new sites, I still want to have a link on all pages of client sites as it's good advertising. I plan to have a do-follow homepage link and then no- follow every other link - is this a good idea?


title: A website made in Prestashop is not working

text: I have a problem with loading my website which is made with Prestashop. 4 or 5 months ago it was working fine, but today when I tried to open it it gives the me message "Unable to open file" or sometimes it gives me a server error. I have already tested a die('999') when the index file is loading. When refreshing it, it gives me the result 999 instead of the message "unable to open the file". I don't know what happened to my website.


title: How can SLAs guarantee over 100%

text: I was just looking through Cloudflares plans and noticed that their Enterprises plan offers a SLA with 2500% uptime. How is it therefore possible to offer anything above 100% uptime?


title: CDN virtual subdomain causes duplicated content

text: I have created a subdomain and a CNAME record which points to the domain root. The subdomain `www.static.example.com` is actually a copy of the entire website `www.example.com` and it is supposed to act as an CDN and serve static content in order to improve speed. However, all of my content can be accessed via subdomain aswell, so Google has indexed it all and now I am dealing with duplicated content. How could I deny access to crawlers for the subdomain baring in mind that I do not have different subfolder for subdomain, so I can't create a separate _robots.txt_ file?


title: tool for custom web based reporting from your db?

text: I am looking for online reporting tool that I can design my own reports . reports should be totally custom and based on my own schema so I would like to define queries and see them on a dashboard or something like that


title: How do I get social engagement data in Google Analytics?

text: There's a Social Report under the Audience section. However it shows that none of our visitors are socially engaged. Searching the Google Analytics Help Centre for "social" or "engagement" doesn't return anything. How do I track social engagement?


title: Search dropped dramatically Due to Soft 404

text: I've been doing a big mistake (sending 200 status for 404 pages : Soft 404).   I didn't know what to do so I removed all the website from google search and I wanted to restart from scratch, pretty stupid decision.   After that I fixed something in my script and my 404 pages send 404 header now. and recovered all the links that I had previously deleted. I've also submitted new sitemaps.   The problem I'm getting is that my ranking dropped dramatically. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7rLXC.png) How can I recover from this huge fall ?   Do you see that I'm actually recovering ?


title: What is the maximum number of products we can have in a Magento website?

text: I am wondering if Magento can hold unlimited number of products. Is there any limit in Magento about amount of products we can have?


title: Are Adsense ads allowed to not be initially visible?

text: I have something like a sidebar that is being pulled out on a click on smaller resolutions. Therefore it is not initially visible, but can be visible when pulled out via a clearly indicated arrow, and is accessible from every page. It is quite complicated for me to understand all the rules dictated by Adsense, so my question is, am I allowed to place Adsense ad units in this sidebar? And can you point me to the specific section in the rules that is referring to this situation, if such exists? This is a simplified demo of what's going on on the page: http://jsfiddle.net/x2ynU/ Also worth noting that this behavior only occurs on the smaller versions of the page (when the width is less than 992px). On a big screen, the sidebar is always fully visible.


title: How to make a website fit in mobile browsers

text: How should a good website work in a mobile browser? Should it adapt to fit the browser window size, or should it redirect to a page that is made to fit in mobile browsers?


title: How do I get my Wiki to automatically link dois to their respective websites?

text: Yet again I must ask this brilliant website for advice, currently, on my Wiki PMIDs are automatically linked provided they're given in the form: PMID #, where # refers to the PMID number. Likewise ISBNs are linked when the ISBN is given before the book's ISBN. I would like the same to occur for dois given in the format: doi:#.


title: Will internal tracking links (redirecting to outbound URLs) hurt my Google rankings?

text: On my site I have multiple internal tracking links (eg. /track/link/12) which direct the user to an internal tracking script which subsequently redirects the user to some outbound URL. Common practice. All outbound links are like this on my site. Will this affect or hurt my rankings with Google?


title: Access Populated server

text: I don't know if this is the write forum to post this on... If it's not sorry to bother you! I'm going to need to get into a server which can accept ~x users; however, ~2*x users will be trying to get in. So maybe, ~30 spaces on the server are avaliable, with ~60 users trying to get in. In order to get in, you have to keep reloading/refreshing the page. I was wondering, do I increase my chances of getting in if I open multiple browsers, and set them to reload the page every second? i.e. would attempting to get in on multiple browsers (on the same network) increase my chances? Also, are there any ways to increase my chances? For example, are there way to tell the server that my packets are priority or something? By the way, I know some PHP/HTML/CSS/C++ if that makes a difference. Thanks.


title: How do I deploy a favicon on Heroku?

text:
I have the following `Hello world` code for my Heroku app. Also in my project's root folder, I have a `favicon.ico`.               import os     from flask import Flask     app = Flask(__name__)          html = '''     <!doctype html>                     <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">         <title>Hello world!</title>
Hello world!
                 '''          @app.route('/')     def index():         return html          if __name__ == '__main__':         port = int(os.environ.get('PORT', 5000))         app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=port)      When I browse to my app, I don't see a `favicon`. Also, when I check `heroku logs`, I get the following `404` line:               2012-02-14T05:23:29+00:00 app[web.1]: <ip.ad.dr.es> - - [14/Feb/2012 05:23:29] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 -


title: Does Orchard have Active Directory authentication?

text: I've been looking over the Orchard CMS and it seems like a capable CMS and mature enough to do what we need here. However, one thing I haven't been able to find info on is AD authentication. We plan to use it as a Intranet page and wiki. Since all the users use .NET/AD for everything, I was hoping that Orchard would automatically have AD authentication functionality built-in or available. However, I haven't found any info on it. So does anyone have any idea whether Orchard handles AD auth out-the-box, through a plugin/module, or sometime in the future?


title: Best way to address this Magento issue

text: I am in need of some advice/pointers on how best to attack a problem I am faced with in Magento 1.4.0.1. Here is the scenario: Consider a product catalog of multiple thousands of products in which there are many and various retail markup percentages. There is a need to sell some of those products to other retailers, and I need a way to easily categorise them into percentrage markup groups, so that the other traders can easily purchase items from us without needing to call and confirm pricing. All products prices are added to the magento database including VAT - so the actual retail value is the starting point. I think this needs to be done by adding an attribute on the products that determines the maximum discount level that can be applied to any given product. Obviously, this would entail a massive amount of work to update every product. Is there a way to achieve what we need that I don't yet know about (within Magento)? Can single attribute values be mass-populated somehow, without affecting other attributes such as name/description/etc?


title: app URI scheme fallback URLs

text: I am working on a mobile friendly website and liked the idea of having my URLs open in native apps; like say to Google Maps or Facebook using custom URI protocols eg fb:// or comgooglemaps://. Unfortunately on a desktop the browser (Chrome for example) doesn't know what fb:// means so those links do absolutely nothing. I need to add some sort of fall back like:               <a href="fb://profile?id=1234" fallback="http://facebook.com"> click here </a>       Unfortunately spending all day on Google has turned up not a single solution. Currently the only work-a-round I can come up with is to make 2 sets of links and display or hide a given link based on media queries. This sounds like a sloppy solution, hopefully someone else here has a better idea.


title: Template from ThemeForest in datepicker - unable select date before today

text: I bought a template from themeforest and in any datepicker I can't select a date before today. I can't find any code who blocks or range this control. In my `inline.cs` I only have:               $('input.datepicker').datePicker({              clickInput: true,         startDate: '01/01/1995'     });


title: ICANN Violation and Trademarks

text: I'm trying to register a domain name with a .eg(i live in egypt) as the top- level domain. However, the local registrant told me to register a domain with the .eg extension i need to have a registered trademark. I dont think this makes much sense, is this a violation for any ICANN regulations, and if yes where i can find such documents?


title: Which browsers do not support user-defined tags?

text: I recently added HTML5 `<nav>` and `<footer>` elements to a page, thinking that HTML5-capable browsers would use them for semantic things like navigation, while older browsers would see them as user-defined tags and apply CSS styles to them like ordinary `<div>` elements. When I was working on this, I remember seeing a warning that a version or some versions of Internet Explorer didn't support user-defined tags, with a link to HTML5shiv as a possible solution. Unfortunately I don't remember where I saw it or which version/versions might be affected (which would indicate how concerned I should be about this problem). If other common browsers share this problem, it would help to know about those too.


title: Is there a way to access the AdWords API for free?

text: Is there a current way to access the AdWords API and get average monthly searches per keyword search?


title: How does pointing a domain via a CNAME record affect the SEO?

text: We are contemplating pointed secondary domains to a primary domain via CName records to keep things simple for our customers but we are concerned that this will negatively affect SEO. How does pointing a domain via a CNAME record affect the SEO of the primary site (the one the domain is being redirected to)? Does Google see the domain with the CName as another site? And if so, would it penalize both sites for having duplicate content? I read somewhere, that domains redirected via CNAme are treated as a 301 redirect. But if the primary domain is accessible, how would Google handle this since there is no redirect to the domain with the CName when accessing the primary domain? Thanks for your help.


title: building a site like padmapper

text: Is it a complicated process to build a site like padmapper.com? I am interested in producing a regional equivalent for Australia.


title: Which operating system for my first VPS?

text: I'm starting to host my first web application on a VPS, but I don't yet have any experience managing a server. I want to minimize the costs of hosting but also reduce the hassles which a 1 man startup can bear with. I'm not sure what would a better choice for me in terms of the operating system for my VPS. My web application is based in Java (JSF) using Cassandra (NoSQL) database. I am planning to learn the server side stuff for few weeks before I bring my sites into production. Could you recommend an OS for my first VPS? --


title: Does Image Hosting affects CPU usage on webservers?

text: I am working on an android app in which i am including an image gallery. The images will be stored on Webserver and will be accessible by app. I want to know that if I only store images on webserver and 1 webpage. Will the Hotlinking of images from server in my app, affect CPU usage on webservers? Any help will be appreciated.


title: Should I nest the URLs of pages in the same category?

text: This is a rather simple question: Say that on my website I have four pages:   * About (general overview)   * About our Products   * Abour our Clients   * Abour our Workspace Should the URLs of the four pages be `/about`, `/about/products`, `about/clients`, and `about/workspace`(respectively), since the latter three belong to the category About? Or should each have its own non-nested page?: `/about`, `/products`, `/clients`, and `/workspace`? Thanks for any responses.


title: How to redirect specific url to 404 in htaccess?

text: I want to redirect only one specific URl (ex. mypage.com/1234/page/) to error page 404. How to achieve it in htaccess?


title: connecting… for infinity time

text: I have website working fine before. But now its not able to connect to the server(I believe that is the problem). But its strange that the message **not able to connect to the server** is not coming and its keep **connecting...** for infinite time. Here is the screenshot. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0N8P6.png) * * * Here are some of the useful details about the status of the server. Application starts when server wakes up are:               cd /etc/init.d/      ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Fi101.png) Application server running in my server : ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/aspKR.png) `Traceroute`: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UrheK.png)


title: What time does Googlebot crawl sites

text: Daily evening I sync the localhost copy of website to the production one. Yesterday I could not do it and I did so today at 10:00 am. Common sense says that Googlebot should be crawling the site when it is most idle which is during night in that country. **So I want to know what is the actual time it does so.** Moreover I don't think Google has disclosed this. I've googled for this .. but found nothing.


title: How do I bulk upload photos with either Plogger or Zenphoto? Or are there alternative photo management CMSs that allow for bulk upload?

text: I would like to use either the Plogger or Zenphoto CMS to implement a client's website of photo galleries. The client would like to upload around 1000 photos. So far, I have found no bulk upload feature for Plogger or Zenphoto that meets my needs. Both CMSs offer just two ways to bulk upload photos:   1. Specify a folder on the server to upload.    2. Upload a zip file of photos. Way 1 is not feasible since I'm not giving my client FTP access to my server. Way 2 is not feasible since .zip uploads are limited to 7MB by PHP. Are there plugins out there or features I am not privy to that allow for bulk upload via an interface for the client? By the way, I am also open to other photo CMSs that meet my needs for bulk upload.


title: Google Analytics content experiment vs. funnel visualization

text: I am running an experiment on one of the pages in my funnel (the "Choose shipping options" page). But the numbers on the different reports do not correspond. First, I am expecting the 70 entrances in the funnel to equal the 131 experiment visits. Also, I expect the 23 conversions in the funnel to match the 21 transactions below. But they do not. How should I read this information to make good decisions? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/u0dJ6.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7XztM.png)


title: Problem with login

text: I recently moved my website from one host to another. I moved all the files and also the database. Now when I try to log in, it just refreshes the page and nothing happens. The data is being read from the database but the site just doesn't log me in. What extra information do I need to give?


title: Getting started building a website: hosting, security, and tools

text: A couple of my friends run a business and they asked me to build them a public website. It will only be used for static information about the company with some pictures. No transactions will be involved. Right now I work for a company where I build internal and external websites; and do a lot of back end programming in C#. I understand HTML, CSS, and jQuery so I feel like I am completely capable of building a website for them. However, I do not know all the basic knowledge to building one. For example, where should we host the files? What type of security issues do I need to be aware of? What's the best software to use for developing websites? (I use visual studio at work.) Where can I find some design techniques?


title: How can I delete all (or any) discussions from my Disqus admin?

text: I put Disqus on my site. This automatically created discussions and URLs in Disqus admin. However, I noticed I have some of the URLs have mistakes. There are many discussions; I don't want to edit URLs manually. I want to **remove all** , for creation new discussions. Is it possible and how?


title: Unable to view 2 local sites over network

text: I have 2 websites running on my local machine that I'd like to view from other machines on the same network. For /etc/apache2/sites-available/site1.com:               <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName site1.com       DocumentRoot /var/www/answers/app/webroot       DirectoryIndex index.php            <Directory "/var/www/answers/app/webroot">        Options FollowSymLinks        AllowOverride All        Order allow,deny        Allow from all           </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      For /etc/apache2/sites-available/site2.com:               <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName site2.com       DocumentRoot /var/www/answers2/app/webroot       DirectoryIndex index.php            <Directory "/var/www/answers2/app/webroot">        Options FollowSymLinks        AllowOverride All        Order allow,deny        Allow from all           </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      I have added 2 entries in the /etc/hosts file as:               127.0.0.1    site1.com     127.0.0.1    site2.com      Now, when I point the browser on my machine to site1.com, it shows me the first site and pointing the browser to site2.com, it shows me the second site. However,when I type in the local IP of my machine in the browser, it always shows site2. How can I change it to switch between site1 and site2 ? Is there a way that I can view both the sites form another machine (esp. mobile devices over wireless network) ?


title: Does geographic location of domain registrator matter?

text: Does it matter where I register my domain geographically when I'm planning to change nameset (nameservers) to a server in my target area? **Example**               Target audience: USA     Server location: USA     Domain origin: bought from French registrator website      Question: When a user in the U.S. tries to access my web, will there be a delay, because he had to access the French registrator servers first or will he go directly to my U.S. server?


title: Google cache has been updated but not the real search results; How come?

text: I updated a page title a couple of weeks ago, and just yesterday I saw the Google cache the updated title. However, in the search results, the old title is still displayed. This confuses me as I thought first the search results are updated, then the cache. Can anybody can explain this?


title: Importing reviews from other sites?

text: I am starting an eCommerce marketplace website, and I want to provide reviews of various products and reviews of vendors which are exists on the best review sites. Is there any way whereby I can Import reviews, from sites like Yelp? and others? Or do I have to contact these sites in person? and moreover how do you keep getting the latest reviews, is there some sought of widget or something that exists for this? thanks in advance


title: Blogs in Confluence

text: I would like to do the following in confluence:   1. Have one blog per individual (not associated with particular space).    2. Have a set of blogs associated with a space such that anybody who had access to that space could post to them. Is this possible? How do I do this?


title: Send 404 Status Code on www.example.com

text: Does anyone know if it's at all possible (preferably with _.htaccess_ ), to send a 404 error code and page when visiting `http://www.example.com` but have `http://example.com` working just fine? I want to 404 the entire `www` website including the homepage.


title: Why curl SSL disable CURL?

text: I saw this in cpanel whm on Exhaustive Options List > CurlSSL [More Info ↑] This option will make the following changes to your > profile prior to the build: > > Disables: Curl Why? Which option should I choose?


title: Url redirect in dreamhost without editing htaccess

text: We have a network of sites with an old link to a URL that doesn't exist anymore. We would like to redirect all the traffic to this URL to the new website, while we correct the old link in all the network sites. Since we are a student organization, I cannot be sure that whoever will come after me will have the same technological knowledge as me, so I don't want to code the redirect in the .htaccess. Instead I was wondering if there was another way to do this using the Dreamhost control panel, since we host our site there. Until now though, I didn't find the way to do a redirect for a single URL, but just for a whole domain.


title: How to save money on AdWords?

text: Currently I am spending quite a lot on Google AdWord for search campaign, I am looking at methods to save money while maintaining the clicks. I have tried to switch from automatic pricing to manual pricing, cost is lower, but the impression and thus the clicks are also both decreased. Are there any tricks when I switch from automatic pricing to manual? Or other tricks I can used to lower my cost?


title: Most significant content keywords in Google Webmaster Tools are not on my website

text: There are multiple content keywords in the _content keyword_ list of the Google Webmaster Tools that are not on my website. For example, according to that list, the word _one_ appears 6 times on my site (number 1 on the list) but in reality it appears not even once. Other words that are in the list, but not on my website are _webbhotell_ , _billiga_ , _domän_ , _cloud_ , _daglig_ , etc. My website is hosted on `one.com` so I guess it has something to do with that. Anyone having the same problems with `one.com` and Google Webmaster Tools?


title: Cache external static scripts?

text: In my never ending quest for a faster website, I thought perhaps I could cache some scripts. I'm using Yslow to rate my site, everything is pretty much A (which is great, our website on Pingdom loads in 0.4-0.6 seconds which is 5-20x quicker than our competitors) except two things: Add expire headers:               (2011/7/7) http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?...     (2011/7/6) http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?...     (no expires) http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-4d7a205f1e2a0b4b      And too many DNS lookups: > The components are split over more than 4 domains > > static1.scirra.net: 4 components, 19.3K (4.3K GZip) > > fonts.googleapis.com: 2 components, 0.8K (0.5K GZip) > > static3.scirra.net: 2 components, 5.5K (2.7K GZip) > > static4.scirra.net: 3 components, 12.7K > > static2.scirra.net: 3 components, 76.6K > > s7.addthis.com: 3 components, 126.3K (40.4K GZip) > > ajax.googleapis.com: 1 component, 78.6K (27.1K GZip) > > www.scirra.com: 1 component, 8.0K (3.3K GZip) This answer on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1439042/how-can-i-add-expire-headers-for- scripts-that-are-not-on-my-server/1439128#1439128 Suggests having an intermediatory caching script, which fetches these and serves them from your own server. Thoughts? If you're a speed nut like me can we expect to shave some loading time off for the users at the expense of our bandwidth?