title: Delivering a web application to the client?

text: A company I am working with built a web application that can be useful for many businesses. My question is what is the best way to deliver such an application? **Option 1:** 'Install' it on their website's server by getting their FTP information and giving them the application's files for them to use freely. OR **Option 2:** hosting it on our own websites server and have all businesses that need this service login in order to use it. I have been torn between the two for a long time and would appreciate any advice from someone how has some experience with this kind of problem.


title: Why does AVG complain with Exploit Blackhat SEO type 1703

text: I installed "AVG internet security", opened a page in internet explorer, and AVG complains about "Exploit Blackhat SEO (type 1703)" for object name Action sports stock footage with no further details. (Note that I have not written this page. It seems to have been written in the distant past by several different persons.) When I look at the html source code, I do not notice anything unusual. But then again, I do not know what I should look for or change to satisfy AVG. I tried Sucuri SiteCheck with the results               Security report (No threats found):     check       Blacklisted:    No     check   Malware:    No     check   Malicious javascript:       No     check   Malicious iFrames:  No     check   Drive-By Downloads:     No     check       Anomaly detection:      No     check       IE-only attacks:        No     check   Suspicious redirections:        No     check   Spam:   No      The links toward the bottom of the HTML page such as `http://clips.actionsportsstockfootage.com/sdf_clip.php` link to a different server but at the same domain. -- How do I solve the issue? In the meantime, I have sent a report to AVG at their AVG Incorrect page rating report page.


title: OpenGraph tags and HTML5 validity

text: I have a HTML5 based page, and I inculded the OpenGraph tags according to it's documentation. Also I checked with Facebook Debug, and it can parse the metadata. But when I use W3C Validator, it reports the OG tags as error: `Attribute content not allowed on element meta at this point.` `<meta property="fb:admins" content="...." />` `Attribute content not allowed on element meta at this point.` `<meta property="og:url" content="http://www....">` They are all in the `<head>`. I would need my page be "valid" HTML5 and OG tags, as well. Could you help me giving a hint how can it be achieved? **UPDATE:** The `name` version _also invalid:_ `<meta name='fb:admins' content=''>`


title: Function in class PHP

text: I am new to classes in PHP. I have a function in a class and I am wondering how I can call the function in the class. This is the class: `<?php class dms { public function makedms() { echo 'test'; } } ?>` The `index.php` looks like this: `<?php require_once('_classes/_dms.php'); new dms(); dms(); ?>` I get the error: `Fatal error: Call to undefined function dms() in /home/wdele/domains/hypah.org/public_html/index.php on line 4` What's causing this error?


title: Website translation check

text: I hope that it is not so stupid question but is there some service or forum where another users (native speakers) can check and review my translated web site? I don't want to check dozens of pages but only few sentences.


title: IP, and page-specific redirect?

text: I'm trying to send a particular IP, that is trying to get one page on my site, to another page, and do this through my .htaccess file. I've seen many general descriptions of how to do it (in many syntactically different ways) but frankly none of them work. I put these command s, of the sort               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^99\.888\.777\.66$     RewriteRule ^/askedforpage\.html /redirecttopage.html [R,NE,NC]       in my _.htaccess_ file ... but these commands simply leave my site non- functional. I'm using Apache 2.2, on a Mac with OS 10.6.8. How do I do this?? * * * Here is my .htaccess file, without the "deny" commands for malicious IPs.               Header set Accept-Ranges none        order allow,deny          allow from all        Redirect permanent xyz.html http://xxyyzz.com/header.htm


title: Will these type of 403 errors affect my ranking?

text: Let's say I have a directory that has a 403 forbidden error for all of the content in it, however a few of the images in its subdirectories return a normal 200 status. Will this fact affect my ranking? For example:   * `test.com/system/` returns 403 for all files   * `test.com/system/pie/` returns 403 for all files   * `test.com/system/pie/image.png` does not return 403, and this image is embedded on publicly accessible page This sort of pattern repeats for about 10 different images. This directory is like a secret "system", however all of the content on the main site is still accessible to everyone from the public.


title: Page size (HTML) is 200KB. Any problems?

text: I have created a contact form page that is unfortunately kinda big. The HTML size is 200KB. Although I know with everything else considered (images, scripts etc.) most pages are much heavier than this, can I face any issues here?


title: Page title in Google Analytics "Behavior flow"

text: Is it possible to display a page title instead of page URL in _Behavior flow_?


title: Locally hosted site timing out for everyone except me

text: I’m hosting my own site locally on WAMP and using a DNS from `Noip.com`. I can easily see my site, but if anyone tries to access my site via the link: `http://vrlsr.ddns.net/index.html` They time out - it's the only error they get. I used Charles to diagnose failures but none come through Is Apache the problem? Please note that I'm not an expert! I'm only doing this so I can start getting some feedback from a client.


title: Does Google penalize you for using an outdated version of Wordpress?

text: If you are using an outdated version of Wordpress , do you get penalized for this ? In other words, does it matter for seo ? I know that from a security point of view it is always recommend to keep wordpress updated but on a specific site some of the custom plugins i use are not compatible with newer versions and it would break my site.


title: Anyone still using JavaScript disabled?

text: Is there anyone left that's not using JavaScript? When designing websites, is it worth to care about that fraction of visitors? At least in Firefox you can't even disable it anymore.


title: Are there any capacity planning resources for phpBB?

text: I know that busy phpBB forums can be resource intensive, but haven't run one myself, and can't find any sort of quantification of that. How do I plan hosting needs given an expected load of users/logins/posts/etc? My current setup won't be adequate, but I have no idea how much more I'll need. It seems like this must have been addressed before but any query with the terms 'phpBB hosting' has been SEO'd to death and turns up nothing but ads for hosting services.


title: Is there any way to redirect one domain to another via DNS settings keeping the path information?

text: For example, my domain is `example.com` and when someone navigates to `example.com/sample/page.htm`, I want it to redirect to `test.com/sample/page.htm`. I know that this can probably easily be done using a `.htaccess` file or a 404 page. However, I am looking for a solution that doesn't require me to have my DNS provider host any files for me. I want to do this with DNS settings only, e.g.:   * CNAME records   * A records   * 301 forwarding   * (any other DNS settings I'm missing) Is there any way to do this?


title: Is it still recommended to only use relative font-size for accessibility?

text: I have read in the past that it is recommended to use only relative sized fonts in web pages of accessibility. Is this still the case? Using Bootsrap from IE7, for example, which uses `body{ font-size: 14px; }` makes changing the text size do nothing. Is this how a user with functional needs would use the page, or would the user use the `Ctrl`+`+` / `Ctrl`+`MouseWheelUp` method which actually increases the web page size, not just the text. After doing some searches online, I cannot find any definitive up to date information. This issues has been raised in the Bootstrap issue tracker, though, but Mark Otto thinks it is not a concern, stating "browsers scale up entire pages these days, so it's not an issue with type scaling or anything." ![IE7 Text Size Switching](http://i.stack.imgur.com/RWRj4.png)


title: How widely used is VPS hosting for personal sites?

text: I'm considering a move from my shared hosting setup to a Virtual Private Server. I'm aware of the major benefits and downsides of this idea. I have a few personal sites I would be running. Given the work involved in setting up and running a VPS, is it worthwhile for a few personal sites?


title: Deciding on a revenue model for a web application

text: When building a commercial web application, what are the factors that go into the decision of a revenue model? How many users are necessary for an advertising-supported application? What demographic factors of the user base makes them more attractive to advertisers? Conversely, when deciding on a subscription price, what factors go into setting a price. This seems like a decision we would want to get correct!


title: Things to consider while picking domain name?

text: We want to buy a domain name for our company. But all of the domain name we've discussed has already taken by some one else. Is it good to use trailing character to existing domain name so we have available domain name to register. E.g for:   * example.com   * example1.com   * myexample.com or using long domain name like:   * companyandproductname.com   * bestproductname.com   * my-product-name.com And also, is there any other thing to consider while picking domain name other than using company name and / or product on domain name? What is the advantage and disadvantage?


title: Is sqlite3 faster than MySQL on shared hosting?

text: Can sqlite3 be faster than MySQL on shared hosting and small to average websites (less than 500 visitors a day). I have an account in a popular shared hosting provider and I've noticed that it has become quite slow redering pages. My doubt is that this may happen because the MySQL server is overloaded. Some CMS'es work fine with SQLlite too, so I was wandering if I should use SQLite for the new sites instead of MySQL.


title: How do I map a customer's domain to a page in my website?

text: I'm considering starting a website that allows customers to map a domain they own and control, to their page or subdomain in my site. Do I need to have an IP address for each customer domain? Is this something that webhosts will commonly allow me to do?


title: Wordpress/CMS for small business SEO?

text: It's oft-heard that Wordpress has top-notch SEO and there are even rumors that Google's algorithms (and other search engines) are designed to specifically favor Wordpress-based sites. If I'm in charge of boosting SEO for a small service business website whose only relevant customer base is in its municipality, should I remake the whole site (presently hand-coded) in Wordpress or some CMS? Do Google and others really favor CMS-based sites when evaluating local business search queries?


title: List of international top-level domains that allow foreign registrations

text: Wikipedia has a list of top-level domains but few of their entries specify availability or restrictions, such as having to be a citizen or have a business presence, etc. So, what are some top-level domains with no to little restrictions with regards to who may register? These are domains particularly useful in domain hacks.


title: How to change URL without affecting SEO

text: Please note that I have created a forum by installing the phpbb software in bluehost server in a folder named (lets give an example) "examplefolder" and thus the URL of a post is: `www.example.com/examplefolder/viewtopic.php` taking into consideration that this post appeared at first positions of google, bing, etc search enginees (after searching for the topic of this post), could you please let me know if the search engines' position of this post will be changed in case that I will change the name of "examplefolder" to something else.


title: Use web hosting as a external email server

text: I have this question is it stupid to use a shared hosting to host my domain for only my email address not for a website.


title: http-equiv=content-language alternative - the way of specifying document language

text: Lots of web sites uses following meta tag to specify the default language of the document:               <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="es-ES">      When I go to W3C site and read about HTML language mark up I get this: > Using the meta element to specify the document-wide default language is > obsolete. Consider specifying the language on the root element instead. What is the way of specifying document language now?


title: How to serve a DNS record for a hosted domain and Minecraft server?

text: I'm using DreamHost to host the domain craftnetwork.co. The Minecraft Server needs to be hosted on subdomain.craftnetwork.co. Can I setup DNS records to direct users to a website when in a browser and the server IP when in Minecraft?


title: How can I speed up the download time of a Bootstrap theme'd website?

text: I realize some of the ways are:   * Use the minified versions of all the `.css` and `.js`   * Load the common library elements (jQuery, etc.) from some common source. Not sure what the source that's most likely to already be in the browser cache is. **Update:** Here's an example. It's a bit slow to download (per Pingdom.com/tools)


title: Meta descriptions for manual

text: We have a text heavy, high quality and original content online manual for our software: http://www.scirra.com/manual/1/construct-2 I was about to embark on entering meta descriptions for these pages. However the thought crossed my mind, is it necessary for these pages? Google seems to be quite good at picking relevant snippets out, and I wouldn't want to convolute the process of searching and discovering these pages with meta tags that will be sub par to the snippet Google would have otherwise served. Is purposefully not entering a meta description on these pages a good idea? Or am I being an idiot? They just don't seem necessary for these pages, and also they would be difficult to write for.


title: Questions about infinite scrolling & SEO

text: I have a page with a lot of moderate sized images (100's for now), and I am thinking of implementing infinite scroll for users, and have pagination combined with link prev/next so SEO still picks up the later images (this will be hidden by js on document load) I know there are other questions about this, but I have certain questions which are not yet answered:   * For the hiding of the pagination using onload, if I use display:none instead for the pagination, will SEO still pick it up, or should I change display to none through js when onload event?   * If I implement the pagination as www.domain.com/content?page=1, ...page=2, etc, will SEO pick up the GET params and treat them as non-duplicates and crawl them appropriately?   * since this content is continuously being modified, the max # of pages can and will change, therefore do I need to add all the possible page numbers to sitemap.xml or will linking them from the first page be sufficient to be picked up by the crawlers?  Thanks!


title: Why is there are tilde (~) sign in most university URLs

text: My university provides a web URL and some hosting space and the URL is like http://homepages.iitb.ac.in/~pritampebam. Almost all universities I've come across seem to use this structure where there is the '~' sign right in front of the username. Other examples. http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/ http://users.design.ucla.edu/~reas/ Why is it so?


title: Restrict access to IP address range

text: I’m trying to restrict access to a web resource to the intranet of a company via `.htaccess`. Unfortunately, the approach via `Allow from …` isn’t working for me and and I don’t understand subnets well enough to troubleshoot the issue. My IP address is (replaced the first two blocks for privacy) 1.2.70.59, the netmask is given by `ifconfig` as 0xffff0000, i.e. 255.255.0.0. I’ve used an IP address calculator go get the subnet from this. An answer on Stack Overflow led me to believe that the following should work:               Order deny,allow     Deny from all     Allow from 1.2.0.0/255.255.0.0      Or, using CIDR (only showing the last line):               Allow from 1.2.0.0/16      Neither works. Nor does the following work, as implied by answer on this very site:               Allow from 1.2      In fact, not even the following works:               Allow from 127.0.0.1      But this _does_ work:               Allow from localhost      Although I thought these two to be equivalent. Clearly, I have a gap in my understanding. For completeness, this is the output of `ifconfig | grep inet[^6]`:               inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000      inet 1.2.70.59 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 1.2.255.255      What am I doing wrong?


title: SSL is not enabled in Heroku

text: Since Heroku has integrated the `piggybank_ssl` addon by default, trying:               heroku addons:add piggyback_ssl      or               heroku addons:add ssl:piggyback      results in: > ! This add-on is now a standard Heroku platform feature. ! Your apps can > already use piggyback SSL. But, accessing: `mywebsite.herokuapp.com` results in: > SSL is not enabled mywebsite.herokuapp.com does not have SSL enabled. My `production.rb` has:               config.force_ssl = true      What am I missing? **Update** I have read the page SSL on Heroku, but it's obsolete, they suggest to run:               heroku addons:add piggyback_ssl      Which is no longer necessary. SOLVED ! I don't change anything, and now it's working. It seems that it was a heroku problem.


title: cPanel - Moving mails to another host

text: I need to transfer about 20 addon domains and their email accounts to a new host, where I already have some sites, mail accounts, databases etc.. For some reason, I think that my best bet is to transfer the mail accounts manually, like copying **etc** and **mail** folders from old to new host via FTP. Now, while this works very well, I have one problem: all transferred mails again have unread flag (like there were never opened). Now my question is: Is there a way to move mail accounts while in same way preserve **_read/unread_** flags? Thanks!


title: Java based portal framework

text: We have an application that needs to be built and are looking for some Java based portal framework. In last few days we have gone through over 10 different open source option Liferay, JetSpeed2, GateIn etc. But they are all too complex to be judged so quickly. Can anyone suggest some framework which is ease to use but has the functionality to handle complex situations. Most importantly, the portlets will run Flash/HTML5 content.


title: 1and1: Unable to host an external domain

text: I'm sorry if this isn't the right place for this question, but I'm presently having difficulties with my hosting provider (1and1). Two weeks ago, two of my clients bought hosting from them on my recommendation, but as it turned out, 1and1 are having severe technical difficulties. Right now non of their hosting packages are able to accept ANY external domains. So either you pay the costs of transferring the registrar of your domain, or you use the ugly 1and1 domain name. Not any good for a hosting company of 1and1's reputation! They have been promising me for two weeks that they're going to fix the problem, but as you have probably guessed by now, that hasn't been the case. I would like to know if a) Anyone else is in the same boat as me, and b) If there are other comparably reputable hosting providers that I should consider moving to instead? Very disappointing! :( Note: This is for 1and1 **in the UK**. I imagine it isn't affecting users in other countries(?) * * * **Clarification** : 1and1 are unable to accept ANY external domains. That means that even if you update your DNS details on your domain, their system cannot be updated to add your external domain to your account.


title: How to create and submit multiple sitemaps into categories?

text: I have a questions. I need to know how to create and submit multiple sitemaps into categories? This is for a big online auction site with a lot of products that needs to be indexed.


title: How to target geographic category keywords when pages are for business names

text: I am creating a website similar to Yelp where people come and add their businesses. I noticed that many people use search engines this way: _restaurant in new york_ , _auto repair in los angeles_. But the business page in my website should have a `<title>` that is the name of the business, example: _Mitchell's Ice Cream_ or _Luscious Garage_. What should I make to reach all these search engine users?


title: Getting google to reindex faster

text: We run a high-traffic site for a large organization and it was compromised through an editor account. The attacker was able to poison the google cache, and the visible result to us is that if you search for us on using Google, the result (and the pages visible through google cache) show us as a drug warehouse. Our site has been completely audited and is 100% clean now, and we have requested that google reindex our site through their webmaster tools. Even though google bots hit our site almost constantly, we have yet to see the google cache page get recycled. Does anyone know anyone know a quicker way to make this happen? The drug-warehouse page is embarassing to us and our organization.


title: Firefox remembering telephone number as username

text: I have a registration page which includes all the standard fields e.g. phone no, email etc. The telephone and password are tab adjacent i.e. not physically adjacent but if you are tabbing it goes first name -> surname -> email -> telephone -> password. For some reason is giving users a prompt to remember their user name and password when they register (which is nice) but it is saving the telephone number as the username. Are there rules for helping it decide/stopping it from suggesting people remember the ever so useful telephone number/password combination? Thanks in advance **EDIT:**   * The names on the form elements are "Phone" and "txtpassword".    * I would like it to remember email and password. Is this achievable given the current situation?   * Unfortunately I cannot reorder the form fields. The order is given in the tabbing above.


title: Enabling SPDY in Firefox 11

text: I wanted to post this Question and answer it because I didn't know where to post this thread on a Mozilla website. You can now install SPDY on your Apache server with mod_spdy by following these directions. I've done this, and in Chrome I can see the green lightning bolt on my site, just like on Twitter and Google. Yeah! Firefox has an add-on that detects SPDY, but I installed it and still can't see that green lightning bolt. Is there any other way to detect SPDY on Firefox? I'm using FF 11 so that shouldn't be the issue.


title: Show events AND pageviews in Google Analytics

text: Each page on my site contains a file, and I have Google Analytics set up to track file download events. I would like to see what fraction of users who visit Page X download Page X's file. I can view number of events by page by clicking on `Content » Events » Pages`. **But I can't figure out how to see both events and pageviews (or visits) at the same time.** Visits and pageviews are not available in the `Secondary dimension` dropdown from the Events list, and Events are not available as a `Secondary dimension` in the regular traffic listing (`Content » Site Content » All Pages`). I want something like this:                  Page                         Pageviews     Events     1. /section/mypage                  1,000        123     2. /category/anotherpage              867         41     3. /about/download                     88          7      Is there a way to get this in Google Analytics?—to view events and pageviews, by page, at the same time?


title: Hide website data for Chrome and FF addons: IP Whois & Flags Chrome & Norton

text: I've got this addon and want to hide the information they publish for our website. They show Popularity, IP address info, nameservers, etc. Plus the traffic levels they report, 'popularity' reflects badly on anyone who uses them when traffic levels don't seem high and are not accurate.* It's like a shop displaying a counter of how many customers they get. Bad form to provide such information to the public. How does one hide this invasion of privacy?   * By not accurate, I mean they're subjective


title: HTTPS iframe inside an HTTPS page

text: I'm developing a Wifi Homepage, which comes by default for all the users of the hotspot. In order to redirect them properly to my homepage, I'm using an SSL certificate, and the page is hosted locally. Now I need to embed in that page an external page, which is also HTTPS. Would that create any issue for the users (25k a day)?


title: Add comments to 'static' pages without Javascript so they're Google-able?

text: Are there any often mentioned products or services for adding end user comments to pages that aren't served up by a CMS or blog engine? Assuming the host can execute PHP, Python, ASP.NET classic, or other very common programming languages. The solution must:   * Allow end users to **leave a comment on a web page** , with an easy login process for the user.   * Store and emit the comments in such a way that they can **be crawled by search engines, and are indexed as part of the parent page**. (The only way I know of would be to in-line the comments as plain HTML in the parent page, using PHP / SSI / etc. AFAIK this rules out all Javascript-based solutions such as Facebook's Comments Box?)   * Have very robust anti-spam capabilities, preferably with some sort of heuristics and crowd-sourced blacklists (like Akismet).   * Have an administration backend with spam management and batch approve capabilities. This is related to but still different from "Adding comments to static pages?". There is also the more recent "Facebook comment and other commenting system for SEO". It would be ideal if the solution could easily be integrated in the HTML using just a Javascript, an IFRAME, or something similar. But a light-weight server module written in PHP or another common web development language is also good.


title: SEO in the United Kingdom from a US Point of View

text: For a website with an international target audience, how do I indicate to search engines and others that my website is also geared towards the European market?   * What's the difference between US SEO and worldwide SEO?


title: What do I do for small site that is getting linked to by spammy sites?

text: From this thread I learned that starting with Panda, Google may actually be penalizing weak sites that are being linked to by spammy sites. Does this still hold true? I have a small site that has less than 20 links to it, and at least a quarter of them (according to Alexa) are coming from places like list- of-domains.org and stuffgate....sites designed to help people buy up websites that are named closely to yours (for later blackmail tactics, I suppose). I am working on a link-building campaign but these things take time obviously and I fear that links like these may be hurting me. Follow-up question: 'Worthless' links (what I'd call links coming from sites that are not spammy but certainly not relevant to your site)...from my limited understanding, they don't hurt your ranking, tho they don't help. Is this still true as of the Panda update?


title: Robots denied by domain is still listed in search results

text: So, on all of our sites that are not search facing we've applied a robots.txt file (per How to exclude a website from real-time Google search results ?, or any other similar question). However, if search terms are specific enough, the domain itself can be found via results. An example of this can be found here. As you can see from the link, the domain itself can be found (content is not cached, but domain is listed). Additionally, performing a search with `site:hyundaidigitalmarketing.com` should 3 results. Checking backlinks provides a few as well, but I obviously cannot prevent them (linking is allowed in context) or control how these are handled (can't tell the host to add nofollow, noindex). Now, I know this is a severe edge case, however my companies clients are doing just this. In fact, our domains are pretty good, so even seemingly arbitrary searches are turning up relevant results. Now, I have to write up a report on how/why this is happening. So, I turn to the wonderful Stack Exchange network to help me either understand what I am missing or understand what is happening. Links to industry articles are extremely helpful but, anything you can give is obviously greatful. I do intend to offer bounties the best I can to make this an answer to turn to in the future. **Edit:** I've opened a bounty on this question in hopes of getting some more responses on it. I've also provided the results of my own research below.


title: How to force search engines not to crawl my site, is there any special mark on them?

text: I want to block search engines from crawling my websites. Atleast for Msn, Yahoo, Google, and Yandex. i dont really trust robot.txt. Because they can simply ignore it and continue crawling. I would use rails as my web framework. How can i do it, atleast to decrease the posibility destructive action they do by simply crawling a specific page. Is there any special mark or identifier on them while they are crawling a site ? This question marked as duplicate with Robots denied by domain is still listed in search results Wich is i guess a mistake. Above questions is asking specifically why. I dont really care why google crawling my site. I just want to block it. Show 404 status.


title: Drupal node access for anonymous users

text: I've never used Drupal before so this may be something that can easily be remedied, and that would be awesome. My problem is that a block, containing node information can't be viewed by anonymous users (unregisterd/not logged in), gives a "You are not authorized to access this content." message, but shows up for logged in users. The nodes that the block contains are events, so the block shows events for the next week. I've checked the users access settings but can't find anything that could possibly remedy this. I'm using drupal core 6.26, Event 6.x-2.x-dev, Event views 6.x-2.4 If anyone has any information, or solutions, I'd greatly appreciate it.


title: Impact of using lazy loading on SEO

text: If I used lazy loading with Ajax, then am I right in saying that Google will not see the content in the lazy load? An example is if I have a part of my site featuring products towards the bottom of my homepage, but this section doesn't load until the user scrolls to it. Therefore in the source code of the page this would not be displayed nor would it be displayed in Google's cache. So is there a trade off with lazy loading? The site will download faster, but loses some optimization? Do you just need to be careful what to choose in the loading?


title: How can I prevent my mail from being classified as spam?

text: My company sometimes send mail, but it usually goes to "spam" folder in gmail. The email includes only a few sentences, without any links or images. Just plain text. How can I fix this? (Notice that I send mail with fake sender address, could that be main reason?).


title: Random behavior sending mails to Gmail

text: I am sick to warn website users (new and existing) who have Gmail accounts "Check your spam folder". I suffer this as a webmaster and as a user. For one website: The Port25 Solutions, Inc. team > ## Summary of Results > > SPF check: pass   >  DomainKeys check: neutral   >  DKIM check: pass   >  Sender-ID check: pass   >  SpamAssassin check: ham SpamAssassin check details: > SpamAssassin v3.3.1 (2010-03-16) > > Result: ham (-2.0 points, 5.0 required) > > pts - rule - name - description > >   * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] >   * 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message >   * -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from > author's domain >   * 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily > valid >   * -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature > Example 1) I have a website with fail2ban intalled. It sends a report to `smth@gmail.com` each time a firewall rule is broken. Plain text the messages only differs on offender's IP and some related data. Most of these mails go to Inbox but I found some gmail spam folder. Example 2) A Gmail user had registered in my system. He got the confirmation mail and following ones (purchases, whatever) but one day he recives a notice in his spam folder. I know that if the user answers just one of any of the emails he recives then Gmail "understands" my server is dependable and Gmail does not deliver my messages to spam folder. Maybe I should ask "Please answer this email to confirm registration" to accomplish that. But the problem is if this first mail is considered as spam. I've read a lot of advices about this issue and implemented lot of things. For some sites I had implemented MX in Google mail servers but it is not free anymore and people don't want to pay hundreds dollars on it. What do you suggest? # This is the body of Example 2 banned email (subject: _[Fail2Ban] SSH: banned 42.96.162.225) headers are always the same_ Hi, The IP 42.96.162.225 has just been banned by Fail2Ban after 5 attempts against SSH. Here are more information about 42.96.162.225: [Querying whois.arin.net] [Redirected to whois.apnic.net] [Querying whois.apnic.net] [whois.apnic.net] % [whois.apnic.net node-3] % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html inetnum: 42.96.128.0 - 42.96.255.255 netname: ALIBABA-BJ-NET descr: Alibaba (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. descr: 9F,Tower A Winterless center,NO.1 West Da Wang Lu, descr: Chaoyang District,Beijing country: CN admin-c: PW270-AP tech-c: PW270-AP status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE mnt-by: MAINT-CNNIC-AP mnt-lower: MAINT-CNNIC-AP mnt-irt: IRT-CNNIC-CN changed: hm-changed@apnic.net 20110311 source: APNIC person: Peter Wang nic-hdl: PW270-AP e-mail: huijun.wanghj@alibaba-inc.com address: No.99 HuaXing Rd. Hangzhou,310099 phone: +86-571-85022088 phone: +86-010-65985220 fax-no: +86-010-65985401 country: CN changed: ipas@cnnic.net.cn 20080115 mnt-by: MAINT-CNNIC-AP source: APNIC Regards, Fail2Ban Of course the message varies according to whois IP


title: Prevent mail flagged as spam when switching mail servers (new SPF records)?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? For our business, we send out a significant amount of newsletter alerts to customers that sign up for it on our website. We used to send this mail directly from our web server via PHP. But because the web server limited us to the number of emails we could send per day, we purchased a VM server at a different host (that doesn't throttle email) and we are going to use that account solely for sending out the emails. Anyways, now that the SPF records are going to be different from what they used to be and the source mail server is different, what steps need to be taken to prevent these emails being flagged as spam? I know in Gmail, it's pretty smart about determining if the person actually sending the email is sending it from the server it expects (for flagging Phishing emails, etc). We don't want that to happen to our emails. Just sending a couple test emails out, Gmail's shows the SPF record saying:               Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com:     XXX.XXX.23.176 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record     for domain of root@mail.newserver.com) smtp.mail=root@mail.newserver.com      So is there anything we need to do with regards to SPF records as we move forward?


title: Visitors are getting phishing warnings and my emails are being delivered to spam/junk boxes

text: I run a forum and I have had reports of some members receiving phishing warnings when they attempt to register, and emails being sent out (e.g. to confirm accounts) are being delivered to junkboxes. This is obviously quite a serious issue as it means many would-be members are not able to validate their accounts and properly join. Is there any way I can address this? My site is obviously not a phishing scam or anything untoward like that.


title: Hotmail — avoid sign up confirmation / lost password being marked as spam

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? When sending legit large volume Emails from our IP (e.g. for sign up confirmation or Lost password) it gets marked as Junk in Hotmail. In the past, there was the Sender ID SPF Record Submission Form, where you could put yourself on the radar of Microsoft. See this old discussion. However, as of April 2012 this has been abandoned. Any hints what to do now? What is a good way to contact the Hotmail team?


title: How did my email end up in spam? Spam only filters this specific email, other email contents work

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? My website has users buy our products and when the purchase completes, it sends the user an email. However, this email always ends up in spam! When the user first registers, the site also sends an email, this email however is not filtered and goes into the normal inbox. I'm not quite sure why this is so, gmail vaguely tells me that " It's similar to messages that were detected by our spam filters." So I'm thinking that I need to reword the following email better. Can I get some tips? Or could something else be causing this? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xVyo1.png) thanks! here's the unformatted email:               Delivered-To: mugenex69@gmail.com     Received: by 10.112.32.98 with SMTP id h2csp61953lbi;             Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:09:13 -0700 (PDT)     Received: by 10.180.79.72 with SMTP id h8mr22836827wix.1.1332302953175;             Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:09:13 -0700 (PDT)     Return-Path: <contact@website.com>     Received: from mail26.elasticemail.org (mail26.elasticemail.org. [178.32.180.26])             by mx.google.com with SMTP id 6si518487wiz.41.2012.03.20.21.09.12;             Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:09:12 -0700 (PDT)     Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of contact@website.com designates 178.32.180.26 as permitted sender) client-ip=178.32.180.26;     Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of contact@website.com designates 178.32.180.26 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=contact@website.com; dkim=pass header.i=@website.com     DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; bh=qjc8jxQuGy9pLN1YV9TR2PHQYKg=;      c=relaxed/relaxed; d=website.com; s=api;      h=DomainKey-Signature:MIME-Version:From:To:List-Unsubscribe:Subject:Date:Reply-To:Message-ID:Content-Type;      b=Odt+nYhjntXPl7JPVHeJWjkStemt6so+FPVYY6oMKziMFzmW8YiLhN8WwSLY0faMcn/rirKsO2dOm/kvcHlqUJC7ldhaydE6bPekkBDa9kBovlGwPNm6xy9QWPP9I1fXDLDCwqqeAXv8kN0daXbh3pVyqWNUOk5cgQ35OgpQpKI=     DomainKey-Signature: q=dns; a=rsa-sha1; c=simple;      d=website.com; s=api;      h=MIME-Version:X-Mailer:From:To:X-Priority:List-Unsubscribe:Subject:Date:Reply-To:Message-ID:Content-Type;      b=F7NNZIEyEV+64uYD8pVpe91WLP19Tw2Whk4OKpkLeAfkmrNIA7AjP0XYU1JWTlEyibHQJjjbhR62I3MvVJBSGp75eWfOuwb2AqYWZ/jAlMWznnfQLVv7OlYJsErGxYP6GUNNcuJaqlTPFDanJwtaEvR+tqXZRB7xrUisMd8lq2I=     MIME-Version: 1.0     X-Mailer: email.website.com     From: "Website Contact" <contact@website.com>     To: mugenex69@gmail.com     X-Priority: 3 (Normal)     List-Unsubscribe: <http://email.website.com/tracking/unsubscribe?msgid=su6g-8kfd0s0g>,      <mailto:unsubscribe+su6g-8kfd0s0g@bounces.elasticemail.net?subject=unsubscribe>     Subject: Website Tickets: event     Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:09:17 +0000     Reply-To: "Website Contact" <contact@website.com>     Message-ID: <4tlaxecj2jy8.su6g-8kfd0s0g@email.website.com>     Content-Type: multipart/alternative;         boundary="----=_NextPart_000_3F77_7A0DF805.A8C886C0"               ------=_NextPart_000_3F77_7A0DF805.A8C886C0     Content-Type: text/plain;         charset="utf-8"     Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64          SGVsbG8hIAoKIEhlcmUgYXJlIHlvdXIgdGlja2V0KHMpIGZvciBDVEFTIGVDc1RBU3kgMjAxMjog     CgpodHRwczovL2NhbXB1c2FtcC5jb20vP3RpY2tldHMvNy95aGloZ3Znd3Z3cWR3cXhtdnQKClNp     bXBseSBicmluZyBpdCB3aXRoIHlvdSBvbiB5b3VyIHNtYXJ0cGhvbmUsIG9yIHByaW50IHRoZSB0     aWNrZXQgb3V0IHRvIGJlIHNjYW5uZWQgYXQgdGhlIGV2ZW50LiBFbmpveSwgYW5kIHdlIGFwcHJl     Y2lhdGUgeW91ciBwdXJjaGFzZS4KClNpbmNlcmVseSwKVGhlIENhbXB1c0FtcCBUZWFt     ------=_NextPart_000_3F77_7A0DF805.A8C886C0     Content-Type: text/html;         charset="utf-8"     Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64          SGVsbG8hIDxici8+PGJyLz4gSGVyZSBhcmUgeW91ciB0aWNrZXQocykgZm9yIENUQVMgZUNzVEFT     eSAyMDEyOjxici8+PGEgaHJlZj0iaHR0cDovL2VtYWlsLmNhbXB1c2FtcC5jb20vdHJhY2tpbmcv     Y2xpY2s/bXNnaWQ9c3U2Zy04a2ZkMHMwZyZ0YXJnZXQ9aHR0cHMlM2ElMmYlMmZjYW1wdXNhbXAu     Y29tJTJmJTNmdGlja2V0cyUyZjclMmZ5aGloZ3Znd3Z3cWR3cXhtdnQiPiBodHRwczovL2NhbXB1     c2FtcC5jb20vP3RpY2tldHMvNy95aGloZ3Znd3Z3cWR3cXhtdnQgIDwvYT4gPGJyLz48YnIvPlNp     bXBseSBicmluZyBpdCB3aXRoIHlvdSBvbiB5b3VyIHNtYXJ0cGhvbmUsIG9yIHByaW50IHRoZSB0     aWNrZXQgb3V0IHRvIGJlIHNjYW5uZWQgYXQgdGhlIGV2ZW50LiBFbmpveSwgYW5kIHdlIGFwcHJl     Y2lhdGUgeW91ciBwdXJjaGFzZS48YnIvPjxici8+U2luY2VyZWx5LDxici8+VGhlIENhbXB1c0Ft     cCBUZWFtPGltZyBzcmM9Imh0dHA6Ly9lbWFpbC5jYW1wdXNhbXAuY29tL3RyYWNraW5nL29wZW4/     bXNnaWQ9c3U2Zy04a2ZkMHMwZyIgc3R5bGU9IndpZHRoOjFweDtoZWlnaHQ6MXB4IiBhbHQ9IiIg     Lz4=     ------=_NextPart_000_3F77_7A0DF805.A8C886C0--


title: Why are my emails going into recipients' spam folders?

text: My company sometimes send mail, but it usually goes to "spam" folder in gmail. The email includes html. How can I fix this?


title: Improve email Delivery Rates

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? I have a web server that sends legitimate transactional email in high quantities. A reasonable percentage of users report that they never receive the emails. For every message sent, there's also a blind carbon copy going to an unfiltered email box on a different provider that I review to ensure the server actually sent the emails. All of the emails make it to my bcc box, so the server is sending the emails properly. It seems to be a spam filtering problem at other email providers. The hosting provider for the web server indicates a reverse dns lookup has been set at their level linking the emails ip address properly to my server and domain. **Question:** Is there anything else I can do to improve the rate that 3rd party service providers are filtering the emails I'm sending? Is there anything I can set on the DNS that I control to show that the server sending the emails is legitimate?


title: C-panel mail goes into spam instead of inbox in gmail

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? I have c-panel vps server. I have created a domain on the same server, but when I send mail through webmail to gmail email id it goes into the spam folder.               Note--->Mail ip note blacklisted             Spf records enable             DKIM enable             reverse dns are perfect     ======================================================================     Email header Information:               Delivered-To: robinfriendly5@gmail.com     Received: by 10.143.93.13 with SMTP id v13csp119806wfl;             Fri, 6 Jul 2012 08:01:36 -0700 (PDT)     Received: by 10.182.52.42 with SMTP id q10mr26133912obo.46.1341586895571;             Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:01:35 -0700 (PDT)     Return-Path: <nandini@harishjoshico.com>     Received: from lakshyacs-u.securehostdns.com ([50.97.147.134])             by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fx3si18028369obc.144.2012.07.06.08.01.35             (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER);             Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:01:35 -0700 (PDT)     Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of nandini@harishjoshico.com designates 50.97.147.134 as permitted sender) client-ip=50.97.147.134;     Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of nandini@harishjoshico.com designates 50.97.147.134 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=nandini@harishjoshico.com     Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:39016 helo=harishjoshico.com)         by lakshyacs-u.securehostdns.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.77)         (envelope-from <nandini@harishjoshico.com>)         id 1SnA2J-0006Nq-05         for robinfriendly5@gmail.com; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:31:35 +0530     Received: from 223.189.14.213 ([223.189.14.213])             (SquirrelMail authenticated user nandini@harishjoshico.com)             by harishjoshico.com with HTTP;             Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:31:35 +0530     Message-ID: <a545d976011d97b0fe9f945e15e0442a.squirrel@harishjoshico.com>     Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:31:35 +0530     Subject: ggglkhl     From: nandini@harishjoshico.com     To: robinfriendly5@gmail.com     User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22     MIME-Version: 1.0     Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1     Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit     X-Priority: 3 (Normal)     Importance: Normal     X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report     X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - lakshyacs-u.securehostdns.com     X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gmail.com     X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12]     X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - harishjoshico.com          jhkhl               ================================================================


title: How to stop my mails reaching spam box?

text: I'm trying to send an HTML Emailer in bulk marking the destination emails in BCC from my official mail, but my mails are reaching spam box. How to stop this?


title: Reliability sending and receiving email (mainly about receiving)

text: I currently have a ‘forwards to’ set up in my godaddy account, so email sent to richard@richardclunan.com goes to my gmail. And I send email from my gmail so it looks like it’s sent from richard@richardclunan.com My godaddy account is using a POP server. I’m wondering about the reliability. It’s not an issue for me if some emails are delayed sometimes. But it is an issue if I don’t receive emails or if emails I send out don’t get to their destinations. Is this an issue with a POP server? I’m guessing any issue would be with me receiving email, rather than sending – since they’re sent from gmail, but received via a godaddy POP server. – I have my domains registered with godaddy, hosting on hostgator, and using POP email server on godaddy. I could use the hostgator email server if that might be a better set up; though I don’t want to change it unnecessarily. – Or I guess another option would be to use a Google Apps for business account, instead of my free gmail – would this mean better reliability? Would doing this mean I’d then not be using the godaddy POP server, or would I still be using a mail server at godaddy, since my domain is registered with godaddy? Thanks.


title: Admin form that generates an email confirmation ends up in SPAM

text: I have an admin form that I have setup for a client, that generates an email confirmation from a template I have designer. It works really well, but it ends up in spam some of the time. This is real frustrating as it is just confirming some details for the customer of what they have just booked. It is not at all spam, and is accessed via a page where the admin requires login. Any suggestions as to why this may end up in spam. It does have dollar signs ($$) as it is confirming a price, I'm assuming this is one problem, the rest of it is just general dates and info about the confirmation. Are there any suggestions on how to get this out of spam?


title: Gmail is marking my emails as SPAM - Please help

text:
> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? gmail is marking my emails as SPAM I used the great service: isNOTspam.com to check my email against spam I got the following But I don't understand what it means please help me! thanks               Thank you for using isNOTspam.          The isNOTspam team          ==========================================================     Summary of Results     ==========================================================          SPF Check : neutral     Sender-ID Check : neutral     DomainKeys Check : pass     DKIM Check : pass     SpamAssassin Check : ham     ==========================================================     Details:     ==========================================================          HELO hostname: mail-gx0-f193.google.com     Source IP: 209.85.161.193     mail-from: no-reply@codepigeon.com     ---------------------------------------------------------     SPF check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: neutral     ID(s) verified: smtp.mail=no-reply@codepigeon.com     DNS record(s):     codepigeon.com.         14399   IN      TXT     "v=spf1 a mx ip4:108.163.232.130 ?all"               ----------------------------------------------------------     Sender-ID check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: neutral     ID(s) verified: smtp.mail=no-reply@codepigeon.com     DNS record(s):     codepigeon.com.         14399   IN      TXT     "v=spf1 a mx ip4:108.163.232.130 ?all"               ----------------------------------------------------------     DomainKeys check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: pass     ID(s) verified: header.From=no-reply@codepigeon.com     Selector=     domain=     DomainKeys DNS Record=._domainkey.          ----------------------------------------------------------     DKIM check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: pass     ID(s) verified: header.From=no-reply@codepigeon.com     Selector=     domain=     DomainKeys DNS Record=._domainkey.          ----------------------------------------------------------     SpamAssassin check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------     SpamAssassin v3.2.5 (2008-06-10)          Result: ham (03.9points, 10.0 required)             pts rule name              description        ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------                  * -1.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low        *      trust        *      [209.85.161.193 listed in list.dnswl.org]        *  1.2 SPF_NEUTRAL SPF: sender does not match SPF record (neutral)        * -0.0 DKIM_VERIFIED Domain Keys Identified Mail: signature passes        *      verification        *  0.0 DKIM_SIGNED Domain Keys Identified Mail: message has a signature        *  0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message        *  0.1 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts        *  2.5 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_16 BODY: HTML: images with 1200-1600 bytes of words        *  1.1 HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG HTML-only message, but there is no HTML tag          ==========================================================     Explanation of the possible results (adapted from     draft-kucherawy-sender-auth-header-04.txt):     ==========================================================          "pass"        the message passed the authentication test.          "fail"        the message failed the authentication test.          "softfail"        the message failed the authentication test, and the authentication        method has either an explicit or implicit policy which doesn't require        successful authentication of all messages from that domain.          "neutral"        the authentication method completed without errors, but was unable        to reach either a positive or a negative result about the message.          "temperror"        a temporary (recoverable) error occurred attempting to authenticate        the sender; either the process couldn't be completed locally, or        there was a temporary failure retrieving data required for the        authentication.  A later retry may produce a more final result.          "permerror"        a permanent (unrecoverable) error occurred attempting to        authenticate the sender; either the process couldn't be completed        locally, or there was a permanent failure retrieving data required        for the authentication.               ==========================================================     Original Email     ==========================================================          From no-reply@codepigeon.com Wed Mar 14 13:43:34 2012     Return-path: <no-reply@codepigeon.com>     Envelope-to: check@isnotspam.com     Delivery-date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:43:34 -0500     Received: from mail-gx0-f193.google.com ([209.85.161.193])        by s15387396.onlinehome-server.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71)        (envelope-from <no-reply@codepigeon.com>)        id 1S7tAc-0000Uo-Cp        for check@isnotspam.com; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:43:34 -0500     Received: by ggki26 with SMTP id i26so941402ggk.4        for <check@isnotspam.com>; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:43:29 -0700 (PDT)     DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;        d=codepigeon.com; s=google;        h=date:to:from:reply-to:subject:message-id:x-priority:x-mailer         :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type;        bh=yYAEachAACAdByYlYzx5ByG3p3QEOATs2nV+CJqQAkE=;        b=Rt0VOOwVgNlcmKDrv9kR1Z0tKdofOYlLhOCjGzbzmtFq9gMKB1F68HnLsEa8KmZ8du         m2fpskmyHNc6tzi3byo1mzwY+3cZ98qHo3cQGDLGru9bPFkqSggKazs2IdG/edgA8Blq         hJRDqtGZyyXx+c05/BE7HR7RkvgFjBYVMmHmE=     X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;        d=google.com; s=20120113;        h=date:to:from:reply-to:subject:message-id:x-priority:x-mailer         :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type         :x-gm-message-state;        bh=yYAEachAACAdByYlYzx5ByG3p3QEOATs2nV+CJqQAkE=;        b=UXiptOG3Poovfon48iUQYGz9CxPNKUSisoQfAfHizz0Jc6JKevF3ldAn0T2J2j7vQ8         duQ0uL3ZsjtZYyjP3ZJMdZWlmVtpCjS4AtOp26nEirKmhlSAilp9tlA9cHvX0mgJWgPG         RKeoKe7oVMi4r6A5MX06u0blYhktg5dRatRJtGUb+tpm2Ojhp6F4zr23WpxjghbL0Uv4         K2+NTFG/SU/hW7ccru4YT8ZPBPlsaSr2PGJYCqXKLVwikG78gfue5J9OWpTytNSXdNq8         6KoBfZNFNXQWZgcRrg8PS0iQ9gnethf2981mufYdRLTESg1d8hJLH/5HjehqIpJvlF9g         VK1g==     Received: by 10.224.189.12 with SMTP id dc12mr4429122qab.22.1331750608913;        Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:43:28 -0700 (PDT)     Received: from app.codepigeon.com (s1.om-p.com. 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title: How to keep an email out of a recipient's spam folder?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? When I user completes a form the information is sent to a specific email address which varies (and is not always on the same host). The SMTP I am using is gmail which originates from my website host. I have also specified Reply-To (which is the users email address entered in the form). The problem is that the email is going straight into the SPAM folder. Does anyone know how to prevent this from happening?


title: Postal address in Whois information, how bad of an idea is this?

text: I currently have my full contact details (including my phone number and postal address) in the WHOIS information for all the domain names I have registered so far. I wonder how bad of an idea this is and whether I should remove such information from the WHOIS. What are the possible consequences of leaving such information there and what are the benefits (if any) for leaving it? Are there any known incidents for troubles because of WHOIS information? Finally, what would you recommend? Would you recommend using a WHOIS privacy service? Just to add, I believe there are services, like domaintools.com, that archive the WHOIS information, so, is it too late to remove my contact details? (if you think I should remove it). Many thanks **Update:** I just received an email from my domain registrar which included this: (Under ICANN rules and the terms of your registration agreement, PROVIDING FALSE CONTACT INFORMATION CAN BE GROUNDS FOR DOMAIN NAME CANCELLATION.) To review the ICANN policy, visit: http://www.icann.org/en/whois/wdrp-registrant- faq.htm So, it's clear that there's no choice as to providing your real contact details. A WHOIS privacy service is the best option if anyone wants to hide their contact details (this is best done from the beginning as there are services, like domaintools.com, that archive the WHOIS information).


title: How to keep my site error-free after chaning my site's URLS?

text: My site is almost static. It has 64 pages. These pages before today were named with underscore. After checking my sites SEO with WooRank, the site advices me to change underscore links to dash links. I did changed all my pages from using underscores to separate words in file name to dashes. My site works 100% fine after the changes, I checked internal links. But, what about the external links to my site? What can I do to solve the issue that those links are linking to my underscore based URLs. I did one thing in the .htaccess: Redirect 301 for all my 60+ pages.


title: Right HTTP code for adult content block

text: I have a site with User Generated Content. Although only a small amount of it is Adult content, part of that has become popular in search engines in foreign languages. To avoid being classified somehow related to such content, I'm blocking these page's content, and allowing users that really want to view it to click a nofollow link that shows it. What status code should the page return?


title: What browser or bot has the user agent of "SD-1.30.1"?

text: I have tried checking on Google but to no avail. Does anyone recognize this user agent?


title: Why are URLs with my domain name at the end showing up in analytics?

text: I have a multi-language WordPress site that has been live since the last 3 months and today when I checked Analytics, I saw a lot of weird URLs:               /menswear-fashion-autumn-winter-2013-2014/www.domain.com          /fashion-history/1960s-1970s/www.domain.com          /fashion-latest-news/www.domain.com          /it/fashion-history/1920s-1930s/www.domain.com          /fashion-history/1950s-1960s/www.domain.com          /fashion-history/1940s-1950s/www.domain.com      As you can see, my domain name is coming after the end of the URL. Of course, these URLs do not exist on the site and are leading to 404 errors. Now there is an older site from which this one was migrated and that site is still live. Could that be the problem? Also for reference here is my `.htaccess`:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>          # BEGIN WordPress     #<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     #RewriteEngine On     #RewriteBase /     #RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     #RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     #</IfModule>          # END WordPress          AddType video/mp4 .mp4 .m4v     AddType video/webm .webm     AddType video/ogg .ogv       What exactly is happening with these URLs and how do I fix it?


title: make your fiddles traffic counts for your google analytics

text: I'm a developer and I often write jsfiddles for example. I use google analytics on my personal website to monitor traffic. jsfiddle.net is not my own domain, but in a way, snippets I'm publishing on belongs to me. How can I make traffic my own jsfiddles' generate counts for my own domain's one? In other words, when someone visits a jsfiddle I have written, I'd like it counts for one visits on google analytics.


title: Google Analytics Event Tracking. When is too much?

text: I have been given a project document that outlines a huge amount of event tracking through Google Analytics. It has things like:   * Carousel navigation events   * jQuery tab clicks   * Random link clicks   * Menu navigation clicks   * Flash control clicks   * onBlur for all fields in all forms My question is: When is it too much? What are the disadvantages (or maybe advantages?) of this? Someone has obviously decided this was fine .. what would their reasoning be? Are there any client-side performance issues?


title: Is DMOZ still 'active'?

text: I understand that having a listing in DMOZ isn't necessarily a 'good' backlink to have due to the 'weight' of links from fully categorized listings, but I was wondering if anyone could give any solid information on whether or not the directory is still actively reviewed? Last time I read up on the subject, there were xxx,xxx entries awaiting review with problems of 'corrupt' editors favouring their own listings and what not. Is the directory dead? Or just terribly slow at sifting through the large amount of new submissions.


title: Google Analytics click event tracker not working in Google Tag Manager

text: I have implemented Google Analytics (`GA`) event tracking in Google Tag Manager (`GTM`) following these instructions: http://cutroni.com/blog/2013/10/07/auto-event-tracking-with-google-tag- manager/ **My link click tracker is working** (i.e. everytime someone clicks on a `<a>`, an event is sent to `GA` and I can see it in the event reporting). **However my click tracker** (i.e. every time someone clicks on something) **isn't.** Here is my setup: **Event listener**   ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jwaFO.png)   ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BYR2Q.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/aRUNL.png) **GA Event Tracker**   ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fCiaX.png)   ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/d9Rgs.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/8hdqy.png) **Troubleshooting**   The Chrome `GTM` debug panel shows that it's working (i.e. every time I click something, the `GA - Click Tracker` event is fired: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QnpBp.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jpGNB.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/W5qIb.png) However, when I look at the Chrome network debugger, I don't see the `__utm.gif` tracking request being fired, whereas for my Link Click listener (which is setup the same way), I do: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jJi1j.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/t6BhV.png) and my container is properly `PUBLISHED`, so I really don't see what's wrong here. **Does anybody have any idea as to why my click tracker isn't working (i.e. why isn't the`__utf.gif` tracking request isn't sent when the debugger tells me the event has been fired)?**


title: Embed Google Map with branded place markers

text: How do you setup custom place markers when using Google maps that are embedded on your site?


title: Should I design and then look for a CMS or vice versa?

text: I am currently designing an e-commerce site, and unfortunately my PHP is garbage at the moment so open source CMS's are out of the question. I am debating between Joomla and Big Commerce and as the title states I am unsure of whether to build first or try the CMS first to see what limitations I will face. I couldn't find any previous questions on this site, forgive me if this is a stupid/commonly asked question. Thanks for any feedback


title: Is there a way to filter out your own company's IP in Google Analytics?

text: Can you exclude your own public IP? And if there is a way to do that, can you do that via the reports, or just as an ongoing setting (i.e. will only affect future reports).


title: Google Webmaster Tools complains about missing robots.txt

text: Nine days ago, I got a message Google Webmaster Tools: > Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 1 errors while attempting to > access your robots.txt. Well, but I don't have a robots.txt on that site, because robots.txt is optional and I want the whole site to be crawled. So why do I get this error message? Perhaps of interest: The Google Webmaster tools home page lists www.realitybuilder.com and realitybuilder.com. I don't know how that happened, but realitybuilder.com redirects to www.realitybuilder.com, so it should not be necessary to have it listed. I now deleted the entry for realitybuilder.com. Could that have caused the problem? ![Missing robots.txt error message](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Xt1bl.png)


title: Managing multiple Adwords accounts from one Google account

text: I have a Gmail account linked to numerous Analytics accounts, and a couple of Adwords accounts - that is, I can track stats from a dozen or so sites, and have administration rights for a couple of Adwords campaigns. However, a client has already set-up their Adwords account and has invited me help administer their campaign. However, when I try to accept, I get the folowing error:               The Google Account xxx already has access to an AdWords account (Customer ID: ).       As many have discovered, for some reason Google won't let an account that already owns an Adwords campaign, to join another account. However, I wondering if there is any workaround for this? Temporarily, I'm using a separate Gmail account for this, but what is the longer term solution. Going forwards, sometimes clients will be happy from me to 'host' their campaigns (but providing them with access), but I'm equally sure that many will want to retain greater control. Surely there must be a better way than creating an additional Gmail account for each client? How do web/SEO agencies handle this?


title: Serve up syntactic XHTML5 using the text/html MIME type?

text: I have a site currently written with HTML5 tags. I'd like to be able to parse the site as XML, with support for namespaces, etc, to facilitate programmatic extraction of data. Currently I have `<!DOCTYPE html>` and               <meta charset="utf-8">      Which I gather is equivalent in HTML5 to explicitly setting the content-types as               <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />      for my current setup. In order to serve XML it sounds like the right thing to do is               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">     <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">      Should I also change my Content-Type to               <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-1" />      Or is that not necessary? What is the advantage of having content-type be "application/xhtml+xml"? What is the disadvantage? (Sounds like it may break internet explorer rendering of the site? but maybe that information is out of date now?) Many thanks!


title: ecommerce website development guidelines

text: I need a guideline to prepare a list of questions for my customer to build a e-commerce website What are the most important questions related to the online shop I should ask (such as: what's your bank account, what's your expected revenues.. etc) thanks


title: Article marketing for back links

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What role do article submission directories play in SEO? I'm interested what the consensus is on the likes of ezinearticles as a form of backlink building. There are a couple of similar questions here but given google's recent panda update apparently targeting article directory sites I'm not sure where this stands. I realise there are better backlinks, from established sites etc, however this is one approach that is consistently recommended around the internet. My current situation is I'm at position 16 of google.com for a keyword with 2.6 million searches a month. I had intended this month to publish an article or two each day on ezinearticles then duplicate on a couple more but before I set upon this tedious task, would I be wasting my time?


how can i best manage sitmap.xml with .co.uk and .com As they both point to the same site how do I tackle the sitemap.xml files, I see a lot of sites don't even bother with a sitmap.xml file is it even necessary?


title: How to create a video-on-demand service

text: I want to sell private video content on my website. What is the best way to create an online video-on-demand service with this requirements:   * The video must be private and secure   * Analytics   * Must use a CDN   * Flash video player What's the best solution(s) for this? What web apps can I use to do this?


title: SEO for e-commerce, how to keep links in each page to a reasonable number?

text: After reading this: _"Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number"_ [Googkle official site] And this: _"Users often dislike link-heavy pages too, so before you go overboard putting a ton of links on a page, ask yourself what the purpose of the page is and whether it works well for the user experience."_ [Matt Cutts official blog] I'm wondering **how to keep links on a given page to a reasonable number for a generic e-commerce site** , in order to make Google happy too. Usually these type of sites contains a left menu packed with all the products/articles in the shop catalog divided by categories/sub-categories. **Each sub-category has naturally a link to it** (on some sites even the main category have a link showing a page with the sub-categories listed as page contents) **Shops/companies usually have many categories/sub-categories to show, so generally these left menu are big with many, many links.** And since these left menu are repeated in each page (1) how could we keep the amount of links to a reasonable number? Any SEO considerations and suggestions are well accepted too in your answer (as always). * * * (1) note - I think these big menus repeated in all pages don't make the website less user friendly I'm talking about tree menus like this one for instance `www . nummus . com` these type menu use also Javascript to open nodes and on each page they keep themselves open, so I think they are very user friendly. Actually I think the opposite: **I can't stand navigating sites that change the position or the flow/contents of menus while I'm navigating.** And you?


title: What's the fluid-icon for?

text: I stumbled over a html meta tag I don't knew and wonder what it's about.               <link rel="fluid-icon" href="https://github.com/fluidicon.png" title="GitHub" />      I googled around, but couldn't find any explanation. What is this? A new favicon approach? And what's the difference to the one I already know:               <link rel="icon" href="images/2/mail_icon_32.png" sizes="32x32">      <link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://www.google.com/a/scoop-gmbh.de/images/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">


title: Why would it take longer for a web page to resolve when the url is entered without "www"?

text: I was looking up a new website a friend of mine just built, and when I typed in "youwho.com", it took like 3 minutes to return the page to me. When I typed "www.youwho.com" it resolved instantly. Why would this happen?


title: E-Mail Marketing "Width"

text: I am working on building an email marketing newsletter, is there a good general width that I should stick with? I have seen 600 as a number but I am unsure what others have encountered. I need this to work in as many clients as possible without the dreaded horizontal scroll bar. Thanks!


title: Setup Google Analytics's to track image or page views on another site

text: Scenario   * Site (A) which I control and have Google Analytics setup on.   * Site (B) which is controlled by a 3rd party but we are allowed to customise html including images/javascript (e.g. something like a directory page) Is it possible to use Google Analytics to track visitor usage on site (B) alongside site (A) ? - e.g. we can already see how many people visited from B but we can't see how many viewed so can't work out CTR.   * Is this possible with Google Analytics?   * If not, is this possible with any other hosted analytics package or is it back to images and log file analysis?


title: How do you load test your application?

text: What is the most effective way to load to load test your app? The main point is to determine how many users you could support at a single time with the application still running at a reasonable speed.


title: How to test high load on a website?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do you load test your application? Hi, I am nearing a point of finalizing a website and it will soon be released. We have bought some traffic and advertisement packages and the nature of the site makes it heavier than typical static-like websites. I am looking for hear good ways to test how well the site performs under heavy load. I already know _ab_. Got any other tips to spare?


title: Is this way of using Pushstate SEO friendly?

text: As discussed in this question in Mauvis Ledford's answer and Pumbaa80's answer, Pushstate has many advantages in comparison to hasbangs. But I would like to discuss a single disadvantage Pushstate has, and then propose a solution. My question is whether that solution is SEO-friendly or not, and if not, what other solutions are there. **The problem with pushstate** The pushstate disadvantage relevant to me is the fact that whenever one opens a new page, a full page load must be done. With hasbangs this is not the case. Consider this: One opens up `example.com/gallery`, if one just clicks a photo, Pushstate works great. One's browser makes an ajax call, fetches some JSON, renders the picture, updates the URL to `example.com/photo1`. Everyone is happy. But if one _right clicks_ a photo and opens `example.com/photo1` in **a new tab,** a full page is requested and one does not enjoy the benefit of Pushstate. If one does the same with `example.com/photo2` and `example.com/photo3`. And all the way up to `example.com/photo10`. 11 full page requests will be made. Now consider the hashbang alternative: One opens up `example.com/#gallery`, now one rights click a photo and opens `example.com/#!photo1` in a new tab. One does the same with `example.com/#!photo2` and `example.com/#!photo3`. And all the way up to `example.com/#!photo10`. only `example.com` was requested, and it was cached. Then 11 tiny json requests were made. This is much better than fetching 11 full pages. In conclusion: When visiting a website and opening many pages in multiple tabs, hashbangs are more efficient. **The solution** I found a solution which would make Pushstate as efficient as hashbangs even when opening a website's pages in multiple tabs, but I wonder how it fairs when it comes to SEO. When a user opens `example.com/gallery`, this is what they get.               <meta name="fragment" content="!">                     The first line tells the web crawlers that this is an ajax page and that they should fetch a prerendered page somewhere else, please see this for more info. The second line loads the ajax app. The third line provides some JSON which is immediately consumed by the `App.js` and then the dom is generated. Thus only a single request was needed to render a full page. Now that the user has `example.com/gallery`, when they decide to click something which leads to `example.com/photo1`, the user's browser makes an ajax call, fetches some JSON, renders the page, updates the URL. Everyone is happy. Here's the magic: If a user decides to open `example.com/photo2` in a **new tab** , they will get this:               <meta name="fragment" content="!">                     And since `App.js` is already cached, this is as good as a normal ajax request. We just let `App.js` consume the JSON and render a full page. **The Question** Is this SEO friendly? Are there any better alternatives? Is there a catch here? Are there any well known websites which do this?


title: Hotlinking to reduce bandwidth usage?

text: I manage two websites for a client, each hosted with a different company. One site is an eCommerce site and the other is a blog for the eCommerce site. The eCommerce site is reaching its bandwidth limits (25GB/month), while the blog has plenty of room. Would moving the product images from the eCommerce server to the blog server be a legitimate solution to relieving the bandwidth strain?


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Google Analytics unable to validate my site during setup I had trouble setting up GA on one of my websites so I set up a very simple test environment with a new domain name and just a single page - the default page. Even in this simple environment I couldn't get GA to validate me. My environment is as follows: Site: www.example.com My default page contains the following:               <html>     <head>     <script type="text/javascript">          var _gaq = _gaq || [];       _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-25700000-1']);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);            (function() {       var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;         ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';         var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);})();          </script>     </head>     example.com Google Analytics test     </html>      I am 10000000% sure that the tracking code provided to me is the tracking code included in the above script. I simply copied and pasted the code block. I've waited days after doing the config since I know it may take GA time, but certainly shouldn't take 3 days. The old version of GA shows: ![](http://i.imgur.com/zQZ0g.png) and the new version shows: ![](http://i.imgur.com/rbWZg.png) Note that the screenshot of the new version has the weird "December 1969" thing which I've read about in other forums and seems (?) unrelated to my problem. How can I make this work?


title: How to block pagination when the URL is just one number?

text: I'm trying to avoid duplicate content on a website by blocking pagination via _robots.txt_ , but it turns out the URL doesn't have a parameter passed into the URL I can simply block, it's just a number. Example:               /category/sub-category/product/          /category/sub-category/product/1          /category/sub-category/product/2          /category/sub-category/product/3      In the example above, the URLs that end with 1, 2, and 3 is pagination. Any idea on how I can block these? I don't want to just block all numbers, as this is not an ideal solution.


title: Facebook addthis won't show all my thumbnails?

text: Hello I've implemented the `addthis` toolbar on my site and I've noticed it doesn't behave as intended. There are two issues:   * when I first try to share to facebook for example 8 thumbnails, all the thumbnails appear but are in the opposite order.   * when I refresh my cache, the elements are displayed in the proper order, butonly the first 3 are ever shown From the source code I can see all my images are in the page, in the proper order and all of them with `og:image` tags, so I have no idea what more I can do from my side. Has anyone encountered a similar problem, and hopefully has some advice?


title: How to know how regular the pages of itpian(dot) com are indexed by google?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I control how often search engines visit my site? How to know how regular the pages of itpian(dot)com are indexed by google?


title: Registration form rules

text: I read somewhere that a registration form has to have some sort of notification about the storing of their info, is this true? If so, where can I find those rules?


title: Make PHPList the default mailing list in Plesk

text: How can I make PHPList the default mailing list manager (if possible) on Plesk 11? I've already added PHPList to the application vault from the application catalog. However, it isn't showing up as an available application in the Application tab for the subscriber. If it isn't possible to set it as default how I make it available as an application? **UPDATE** PHPList is showing up when one searches for it in the show all applications section of the applications tab. No headway on the default though.


title: How local is each country's version of Google?

text: I know that you can drill down on the particular language or country version of google from "Search tools," but even discounting for that, and removing personalisation etc, I'm still seeing different results for the same search between google.com and google.co.uk, for example. All things being equal, are these really supposed to be showing exactly the same results?


title: Hreflang or geotargeting?

text: I have a client who wishes to target various subfolders to every region that speaks the language each particular subfolder is written in. The subfolders are all translations of the English version. Assuming he uses hreflang to that effect, should he not then also geotarget the subfolder to the main territory he would wish to target for that langauge? Will doing so exclude the subfolder from showing up in all of those other regions? I'm trying to get clear on if there's ever a benefit/point to geotargeting from GWT while also using hreflang. Why would one not, for example, just use hreflang with a region code as well?


title: Mailserver at my hosting company is unable to resolve certain domains

text: I am hosting my site on HostGator. The problem is that I can not receive e-mails from some domains. Here is the SMTP transaction response received:               H=(sv2.elanceonline.com) [162.242.179.29]:38251 I=[192.185.51.218]:25 F=<bounce@svbounce.elanceonline.com> temporarily rejected RCPT          H=(sv2.elanceonline.com) I=[192.185.51.218]:25 sender verify defer for <bounce@svbounce.elanceonline.com>: host lookup did not complete     Unable to resolve svbounce.elanceonline      The support person at HostGator insisted that the problem is on domain-side, but I am very sure it is on HostGator's side because I never had any such problems before using HostGator, and now in the course of 2 days I'm having the same problem with 2 different senders. I can receive from both domain's emails to Gmail at the same time without any problem, but once I type `myemail@mydomain.com` (`mydomain.com` is hosted on HostGator) I cannot receive e-mail. What could be reasons for not being able to resolve `svbounce.elanceonline` or other domains? Should I trust HostGator and believe them that it's not a problem on their side?


title: How do I get a domain like bit.ly and goog.gl?

text: Where do i can buy/rent domain just like bit.ly, goog.gl, etc.


title: How do websites with 'premium content' go about SEO?

text: While searching for news, I am often presented with pages that have 'premium content'. For example this story by The Australian. I checked it's canonical URL and it's same as the page I landed upon `http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/martin-parkinsons- blessing-for-tony-abbotts-plea-to-stay/story-fn59nsif-1226872844602` I checked the site's code hoping that 'premium content' might be hidden using CSS but that's not the case either. My question is - how have they managed to rank so high with a big popup & a fraction of full content that's supposed to be on this page when there are other sources with full stories and a much more pleasant user experience? Any chance they are serving full content to the bots?


title: cPanel redirects not working on extensionless files

text: I'm trying to redirect the address `http://example.com/newsletters/January%20Newsletter%20` to `http://example.com/newsletters/JanuaryNewsletter.pdf` using cPanel's redirect manager, but it doesn't seem to work on files with no extension. To test this I've tried redirecting similar files but with a `.txt` extension, and everything works fine. Any idea how I can get this redirect setup? My _.htaccess_ looks like this:               RewriteEngine on          RewriteOptions inherit          IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*          <Limit GET POST>     order deny,allow     deny from all     allow from all     </Limit>     <Limit PUT DELETE>     order deny,allow     deny from all     </Limit>     AuthName lakevalleygolf.com          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$     RewriteRule ^newsletters\/January\%20Newsletter\%20$ "http\:\/\/example\.com\/newsletters\/JanuaryNewsletter\.pdf" [R=301,L]      ![cPanel Redirect Manager](http://s22.postimg.org/5u8drc8xt/c_Panel_X.png)


title: Understanding data transfer/file requests - what constitutes my bandwidth usage?

text: I'm trying to understand how bandwidth works in relation to file requests, so that I can get a good feel of what, say, 100GB of monthly bandwidth would allow. Let's say I have a php file with the compiled size of `2kb` with no external file requests e.g images, surely that doesn't mean that file can be requested 50,000,000 times. What about database requests? What about the resources required by each individual php function? If someone could explain how bandwidth usage is calculated (assuming it's not bandwidth/compiled file size = number of allowed requests), it would be VERY much appreciated!


title: Issue with result of Microdata schema.org in Google Labs

text:
Please note this code:                           <meta itemprop="name" content="webpage"/>
                    <meta itemprop="ratingValue" content="4">           <meta itemprop="worstRating" content="0">             <meta itemprop="bestRating" content="5">                             <meta itemprop="ratingCount" content="100">
                      If I add an `AggregateRating` inside the `div` tag for article, Google Labs does not show the values of `AggregateRating` on its URL result So I must remove `itemprop="mainContentOfPage"` or add `AggregateRating` out of the `div` tag or add both. How can I fix this problem? `AggregateRating` belongs to `AggregateRating`, not `WebPage`!? For a solution I changed the code to this:                           <meta itemprop="name" content="webpage"/>                                 <meta itemprop="ratingValue" content="4">           <meta itemprop="worstRating" content="0">             <meta itemprop="bestRating" content="5">                             <meta itemprop="ratingCount" content="100">
                    <meta itemprop="ratingValue" content="4">           <meta itemprop="worstRating" content="0">             <meta itemprop="bestRating" content="5">                             <meta itemprop="ratingCount" content="100">
                      But I'm not sure it's true or not!


title: How do you check on domain availability when it ends in ga.us, ny.us, or something else like that?

text: I saw a related post, but I need to be 100% sure that would apply in this case: http://serverfault.com/questions/161842/how-would-i-go-about-getting-a- domain-like-lu-re Try looking www.courts.state.va.us up on GoDaddy or somewhere, to see if the domain is available, and it won't work. In particular, http://info.his.com/services/domaincheck/domain_check.html says its bad syntax. But then if you try courts.state.va.us, that doesn't work either. Neither does state.va.us. But the site is clearly there: http://www.courts.state.va.us/ The reason? It doesn't just end in .us, it ends in .va.us. I don't want to say exactly what domain we're trying to get on here, but we're having trouble requesting it with GoDaddy, and when we go to different lookup sites to see why, none of them are really accepting the input. They're always either saying the syntax is invalid, trying to correct "typos" in the domain name, or something else like that. I don't know a whole lot about this sort of thing. How do I punch in a domain like that at one of these websites and 1) see if it's available, and 2) request it if it is. Do we have to specifically go through the government agency we're working for? Thanks!


title: Is "Identity not verified" a problem? If so, how to solve it?

text: When I select the context menu item "View Page Info" on my site (using Chrome), I see "Identity not verified" Should I be: (a) concerned (b) angry (c) nonchalant ? If one of the first two, what can I do to "verify my identity"? I have submitted my site to Google and Bing, it is hosted with Discount ASP.NET, and I have tweaked the SEO as much as practical.


title: Does Fetch as Googlebot still support their ajax-crawling proposal?

text: I spent half a day implementing the server side html generation for modal pages based on their proposal (link), but it seems like the Fetch as Googlebot functionality in Webmaster tools completely ignores the URL fragment. I've verified that the `_escaped_fragment_` functionality is working on my server (example), but when I submit a URL like `/#!/recipes`, the Googlebot just fetches `/`. There aren't any recent confirmations that it's working and, honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if they just silently dropped the functionality without even editing the docs.


title: Setting up a LaunchRock page without hosting

text: Looking to buy a 'dot-com' domain as cheap as possible, and set the DNS to forward to the LaunchRock service without having to setup a hosting act. Is this possible, and if so how? I've asked roughly the same question before, though at that point I thought I would have to have a domain and hosting, but in rethinking about it just now, since LaunchRock would be hosting the site via a sub-domain reroute using DNS setting, I'm thinking that I don't even need a hosting account to just run a LaunchRock landing page; though not sure if that's the case, or how it might be done. Here's the original question, "LaunchRock CNAME configs, what do they do?" (and answer)-- which includes LaunchRock's "general-instructions-for-creating- your-cname-record",


title: Service that will help me visualize SQL db

text: I have a website that I've built and it uses a SQL DB. I want to be able to view that data, nicely graphed but with the relations made, so that I can keep track of trends over time. For example I don't just want to be able to look at the trend of users joining over time, I want to know which users did the most of an action, and what they did. This would involve joining several tables. So, can anyone suggest any tools to assist me in doing this? Ideally the product/service would import the DB (or access it), I'd specify which tables to join and on which attributes and it would produce the graphs. I don't want to go the custom route and build the graphs myself. I'd like something I could use there or in another similar situation.


title: Headers to prevent 304/If-modified-since/HEAD requests

text: What headers should I be sending to outright stop all requests to the server after the content has been cached? We have a very high latency server (Sigh, VMWare) so even sending a `HEAD` request to the server takes +40ms. Currently these are the headers being sent/received; ### First request Client sends;               GET http://dugong:8080/Rvi24mYJkxFRGNzq73PPvgWGh1j/IMG_2071.jpg HTTP/1.1     Host: dugong:8080     User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0     Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8     Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5     Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate     Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7     Pragma: no-cache, no-cache, no-cache     Cache-Control: no-cache, no-cache, no-cache      Server responds;               HTTP/1.1 200 OK     Server: nginx/1.0.11     Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:51:51 GMT     Content-Type: text/plain     Vary: Accept-Encoding     Last-Modified: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:45:11 GMT     Content-Length: 14     Expires: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:51:51 GMT     Cache-Control: max-age=31536000      So it sends a `Cache-Control` and `Expires` header set to 365 days in the future. Unfortunately on the second refresh it requests the object again with an `If-Modified-Since` header. ### Second Request               GET http://dugong:8080/Rvi24mYJkxFRGNzq73PPvgWGh1j/IMG_2071.jpg HTTP/1.1     Host: dugong:8080     User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0     Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8     Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5     Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate     Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7     If-Modified-Since: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:45:11 GMT     Cache-Control: max-age=0      Response;               HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified     Server: nginx/1.0.11     Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:58:00 GMT     Vary: Accept-Encoding     Expires: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:58:00 GMT     Cache-Control: max-age=31536000      Unfortunately due to silly outdated proxy software we can't use `Keep-Alive`, or put any other servers/proxys in front of the application. We also can't improve the performance of the server and reduce the network latency. I've been trying to figure out what headers we can send to get rid of the 301 requests. I've tried using ETags but that makes no difference, it still sends a `If-modified-since` header. I've also tried removing the `Last-Modified` header but that just causes a standard GET request with no caching (Checked the logs, server still receiving requests). Clients are a mix of Firefox (mostly), IE 7, 8 and (some) 9, Chrome and Safari but this behavior seems to be appearing in all browsers tested. ## TL;DR; Terrible network, what headers should I send to tell clients to _never ever ever_ send `If-modified-since` requests to the server to validate their cache, and keep content cached until the `Expires` header is met? I'm probably missing something obvious but everything I try seems to yield the same results. We have an NGINX server sat in front of our application server so I can add/remove any headers as I please. Our proxy doesn't support Keep-Alive and theirs no way to improve the attrocious network performance. Due to terrible software design the web app loads +100 resources on each page load (Yeah, enterprise software sucks) with a latency of ~40-50ms per object.


title: SEO: pages' title for small websites (i.e. 5/6 pages) - repeat key-phrase or not?

text: It's well known that pages' `<title>` do impact Google positioning, beside this, they are also definitely important to catch user eye when he is looking at Google search results. Let's say I have a typical site of 5/6 pages for a bed and breakfast, let me list few pages and their possible titles   1. **HOME** - `title = "B&B town name, completely new, cheap price for the weekend."`   2. **THE HISTORY OF THIS B &B** - `title = "B&B town name – The History"`   3. **BOOK NOW** - `title = " B&B town name – Book online"`   4. **WHERE WE ARE** - `title = "B&B name, 234 Walnut ave. town name – CA"` ... As you can see I would typically repeat the key-phrase “B&B town name...” in all pages, thus to make sure any of the pages (wherever they'll be shown in Google results) would at least immediately describe the site content and possibly catch a potential customer's eye. **How would you else/better fill the titles?** **Do you think is someway bad to repeat the key-phrase “B &B town name...” in all pages?** I'm doing a specific example because reading answers for a specific example might be more easy to me to understand, but obviously the concept could be applied to any websites of almost the same size, so feel free to add your more general considerations and suggestions.


title: Google Analytics goal funnel does not recognize virtual page views

text: I have a setup wizard with 3 steps. Since I'm using AJAX each step uses a virtual pageview with an appropriate URL for each step (see below). The pageviews are being recorded in the Content section of Google Analytics but the Goal Funnel still shows zero for each step. I've tried advise on other forums such as...   * Make sure Goal URL is set to Exact match    * Make sure no steps or the Goal URL are a parent directory of any other steps. For example, don't track /wizard/ as a Goal/step and track /wizard/step2/. Not sure why this would be a problem since it is an exact match, but it shouldn't hurt so I tried it...   * Require (or don't require - tried both) the first step in the funnel ...but none of these seem to work. Thoughts? * * * ## Goal Settings Exact match : "/wizard/setup-complete/" Funnel   Step 1 : "/wizard/step1/"   Step 2 : "/wizard/step2/"   Step 3 : "/wizard/step3/"