title: How to add Google App Script as a gadget to Google Calendar?

text: I created a small App Script with a small UI. Now I'd like to have it as a gadget in my Google calendar. I tried to embed a gadget with the following basic XML:               <Module>     <ModulePrefs title="Reminder" height="800"  scrolling="true"/>          <Require feature="dynamic-height"/>     <Require feature="settitle"/>     <Optional feature="maximize"/>          <Content      type="url" href="..."      />     </Module>      For the href URL I tried both the Google Site Web page with the script gadget and the direct like to the gadget published as a service. Nothing works, the UI does not appear.


title: How do I prevent search engines from indexing a website duplicated on a second domain?

text: Let's say I run a website `example.com` with a dedicated IP `A.B.C.D`. Then I find out doing a search on Google, that my website is also being indexed through a domain `A-B-C-D.example.com` (where the `A-B-C-D` is equivalent to the dedicated IP). Obviously this is seen as a duplicated content. I don't have access to that second domain so I can't get rid of it (according to support team at the hosting company, that domain was set up as "rDNS" to the dedicated IP by a third party that manages the domain). How can I stop it from being indexed in Google while my main domain still is?


title: What does (not provided) mean in the traffic sources section of google analytics?

text: I'm looking at Google Analytics for one of our sites, and I noticed that our top Keyword is   `(not provided)`. This seems like a special value of some kind, I can't imagine people typing   `(not provided)` into the search and coming up with our site. Does it mean that a large number of our site users don't use cookies? I don't understand, what does it mean?


title: Could Jekyll/Octopress and other static blogging engines be a good option for a heavy online magazine?

text: _(Disclaimer: I thought this question should be asked on SuperUser, but it seems that was not the right place. Hope this one is more appropiate.)_ I'm exploring several options for setting up a **static blogging engine** and migrating there some contents for some blogs I've got. I'd like to test the performance of these engines, and I've heard great things of Jekyll and Octopress. I wonder though if these kind of engines **would be suitable for heavy sites** , which are updated 20-30 times a day (or more) and receive a good amount of visits each day (let's put a starting hypothetical number: 1M uniques per month). WordPress is a fantastic CMS, with lots of potential on every aspect, but although there are caching plugins such as W3 Total Cache that allow certain parts of the blog/magazine to behave as static, the dependence of other parts and above all **the need to access MySQL all the time** can make the blog problematic. Given that static blogging engines don't need a database, I wonder if it would be crazy to try to adapt one of them to **publish a magazine in which all articles would be static web pages** and that would have comments based for example in Disqus. Are there technical issues with this idea? Recalling my ideas, these would be the pros and cons: **Pros**   * Everything static (except comments, Disqus there)    * No access to database, probably better load/response times **Cons**   * Not much plugins (yes, Octopress does have some)   * Customization not as easy or powerful   * Schedule posts?   * Docs and community inferior to Wordpress if you need help - one fantastic example ;)


title: Registering a bt domain name (bhutan)

text: I need to register a domain name that ends in .bt, which is Bhutan. I'm finding a few (expectedly) shady sites that offer it, including rwgusa.com. Any experience with them or anyone else that can broker an international domain name? This is for a shortener url for my business. There isn't a whole lot more detail I can add here, but because of the "quality standards" of the stackoverflow stuff, I'm having to add some drivel here. Apologies.


title: Restrict direct folder access via .htaccess except via specific links

text: I want to restrict access to a folder on my server so that visitors may only access the contents (a web application) via links in the same domain. Can I do this using .htaccess? To be clear, I simply want to prevent direct access to the contents so that visitors are routed through other pages on my website in order to get there.


title: Is there a way to index multiple sites at once on google

text: I have a site with 60 subdomains. I was wondering if there was a way to index each of the subdomans seperately but quickly.


title: How to create a subdomain using a script

text: How can one create a new subdomain using a script? Creating a new database or database table is something I'm familiar with. If this is not possible, how does About.com create all the subdomains they use. Is it manually, or some other way?


title: Should I strategically use NoFollow on internal links to make our indexing crawl more efficient?

text: We have a well designed internal linking system that makes certain no page is more than four pages deep, and the indexing process has gone well for us. However, in addition to the hierarchical page links we created to help with the crawl, many pages have links (cross-links, if you will) to other related data. For example, a person may have links to all the companies they own. The companies, though, have their pages exposed as part of the hierarchical linkage we built, meaning that there are often many routes to the same page. It seems like it would be beneficial to make all of our links that are not part of the hierarchical linkage to be "NoFollow" so the spider does not get "distracted" so to speak, at risk of hitting a page it's already visited. Clearly, the most efficient way for Google to finish its crawl would be to visit the links that are part of the hierarchy, but not click over to the cross links. However, I have two concerns:   1. Some people call what I propose PR-shaping, stating that it's a form of over optimization that Google frowns upon.   2. When the spider hits a detail page from an external link, it is nice to have it follow through on additional pages linked off of that page. Should I leave well enough alone, or **should I use "NoFollow" on the internal links to related content?**


title: Inline display not actually working (-fix my html- dump)

text:
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title: Intuitive solution for a very small private video site?

text: I have a wordpress site for which I want to provide videos for money. I thought about using youtube: user creates an account > user pays > gets access to a private page on wordpress (with a plugin) which has youtube links > admin invites the user on the private video/videos on youtube As you can see, it's not so automatic. My problem is that the site is hosted on a shared account so I can't use a video-upload script due to limitations. I've been searching high and low but can't seem to find a cheap solution to this.


title: How do I forward/redirect a website from a folder in a subdomain to another server?

text: I have a client with a site at `subdomain.example.com/folder`. I've cloned it locally in MAMP. Once I've made some changes, I need to host it at an alternative physical server (I intend to use a dedicated server I have access to with a technical domain name currently). However, the client would like to keep the existing URL as it has been used extensively in marketing. I've done HTTP redirects and forwards and 301 redirects in the past, but I'm not sure how or even if I can do what the client wants. How can I achieve this, possibly using _.htaccess_ and DNS entries? Caveats: I can't have the site at a 3rd party domain and the client isn't able/allowed to register any additional domains.


title: Naming your website longname.com vs shortcatchy.net vs shortcatchy.info

text: I'm designing a website that will basically be a social network for sharing information. I have the domain `$$$$d.net` and the same domain `$$$$d.info` where "$$$$" is a word (that runs into the d) pertaining to the purpose of the site . The `.com` of this domain was already taken, but they've got nothing showing. They are also not ranked in Google. There is only an error showing. They don't seem to be trying to sell it either. I also have the long name of the site `$$$$------&&&&&&&&&.com` where the words "$$$$" and "&&&&&&&&&" would contribute relevant SEO to the site. In fact the word "$$$$------" would also work if a one letter spelling mistake is recognized at all by Google, which I doubt but am unsure about. But as a brandname the "$$$$------" word still works relevantly. Which do you think is a better choice to use?   * The **short catchy name** with the `.info` for relevance to information   * The `.net` which is **more familiar** than `.info` but slightly less relevant maybe. (But I think "net" as in "network" still works because as I said, it will be a social networking site.)   * The **long,`.com` domain** which has more SEO plus a pun, albeit on a spelling mistake. I know its kind of a subjective question and also hard to answer without knowing the name (which I've obfuscated because I'm only in initial design stage) but nevertheless I'm interested in what some of you guys think.


title: Unifying pages: 301 or canonical

text: I'm combining three existing urls into one.   Till now I have:   `http://mydomain.com/folder1/page1`   `http://mydomain.com/folder2/page2`   `http://mydomain.com/folder3/page3` Content from all three pages will now be combined in one url. Instead of building a new url that combines these, I will be taking one that most prominent, and put all combine it there. for the sake of the discussion it's `folder1/page1` What should I do with `folder2/page2` and `folder3/page3`? Options I've thought of:   1. 301 redirect to `/folder1/page1`   2. Canonical to `/folder1/page1`   3. Keep them as is, with just some of the content, and alert there is a unified page.


title: Using licensed custom fonts for commercial site

text: What are the legalities regarding using licensed fonts for webpages? It will be used for a for a commercial site. I do not want to get into trouble by using it without a license, (although I do hear a lot of complaints about the industry in general), but how severe are the penalties realistically?


title: Facebook Like button for sessions or entire conference?

text: I'm putting together an online conference program. The conference has hundreds of sessions. When adding a Facebook Like button, I'm trying to decide: Choice 1: **All the Like buttons should like the conference as a whole.** Pluses and minuses:   * `+` Higher like counts will seem much more impressive to viewers.   * `+` Will reach 30 likes much faster for Insight metrics   * `-` No way to Like an individual Presenter or Session Choice 2: **Individual Like buttons for each Presenter and Session.**   * `+` People are able to Like an individual Presenter or Session   * `-` Much lower like counts will not seem impressive to viewers.   * `-` Will take much longer to reach 30 likes for a specific Presenter/Session for Insight metrics Since the name of the game is high Like numbers, I'm thinking that choice 1 is the way to go: People liking the overall conference. But the purist in me would like to be able to Like a specific presenter/session. But there's no "Like related items" so I can't pass the Like juice to the individual sessions etc. Right? Advice? Thanks.


title: Share buttons vs sharer urls

text: As some people might know, adding share buttons from Facebook and Twitter can cause a page to slow down. I've seen many sites pass on the common iframe implementations that these sites offer and simply create icons that link to a sharer url for better control of page performance. http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F&t=CNN%26s+website%27 However, I've also read that Facebook is dropping support for these links. For example, this link now redirects to the Like Button. http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/share.php Here is an article noting that Facebook is deprecating/has deprecated it's share functionality and is sticking with the Like button. http://www.barbariangroup.com/posts/7544-the_facebook_share_button_has_been_deprecated_called_it I'm assuming this is the same for the sharing url. If the sharer url is no longer a reliable option, what other methods are there besides using 3rd party widgets (like Addthis)?


title: When creating a website, what permissions and directory structure?

text: I'm posing this question because I still haven't found a uniform method that I'm particularly fond of. Ideally, this combination of directory structure and permissions should suit any web server (don't assume Apache). I should also mention that I'm concerned only with *nix servers. I'm primary looking for:   * Best combination of uid/gid/other (names and octets)   * Relatively secure (doesn't have to be uber paranoid)   * Easy to use / maintain (CMS's are able to self-update, no permission issues) Just for reference, the current stack I'm working on is Ubuntu 11.04 + Nginx + php-fpm + Wordpress, although the ideal solution should work for any website


title: Using Google Analytics to Track Stats Only for Visitors (Not Visits) Who Converted

text: I'm having trouble setting up the right Google Analytics reporting for my website.   * I want to know the "Total Visits", "Pages / Visit", and "Avg. Time on Site" (I'll call these "stats" from now on) for all visitors who converted.   * A conversion occurs only when a visitor accesses a specific page on the site, "download.php". I have added a custom event to this page and used that to define a Conversion Goal in Google Analytics.   * What I need to know is the stats for all the visitors who converted, with these stats factoring in all their visits' data, not just the visit during which they converted.   * The problem is, since the link to "download.php" is sent by email after a verification process, it can come days later and it is treated as a completely separate visit.   * Furthermore, I also want to _not_ count the visit to "download.php" towards the stats, so that page could only be used to track the custom event, thereby tracking conversions. So far I've tried to use Advanced Segments, but couldn't find a way to track visitors instead of visits with conversions, which seemed to be the only option there. I appreciate any help!


title: Moving from http to https - Google webmaster tools | Bing webmaster tools

text: I'm moving from HTTP to HTTPS for my entire site. The site is currently added to Google Webmaster Tools as `www.example.com` and all the pages are indexed without using SSL. How do I go about moving to the new HTTPS URLs on Google webmaster tools? Do I just submit a updated sitemap which has the HTTPS URLs or do I add a new site as `https://www.example.com` and submit the sitemap with HTTPS urls? All current URLS are set to redirect to their HTTPS counterparts.


title: Old pages still appearing in Google?

text: Many pages that have been deleted for a long time are still appearing in Google? When I then click on them, they obviously can't be found. Am I doing something wrong/forgetting something?


title: Will the rest of my clients be affected if google blocks a site on the same server?

text: I am about to take on a client who is a mutual friend of someone I know. He has a legit business, but one of his competitors somehow complained to google and got his whole site blocked. He's starting a different venture now, but I worry - what if this happened to another site I am hosting on a vps for example. Would the fact that I have a blocked site on my server affect my other clients? Could their sites be blocked too for using the same IP address? What are the risks involved?


title: How to move IIS7 site from one server to another

text: What is the process to copy an entire .NET website from one server to another server? Both sites are running Windows Server 2008, IIS7, and SQL 2008?   * The base site is the live site   * The new site is going to be used as a development site   * The server hosting the development site has other, existing sites in IIS   * The servers are on different networks and have different internet domain names Part of this is easily done, such as copying the database and restoring it. The same can be said for the copying of the directory of files the IIS site gets pointed to -- no help needed for those tasks. After the database and files are copied over, what are the necessary steps to make the site functional on the second server?


title: Adwords search engine marketing (SEM) question

text: I have to promote this site, http://www.bulldozer-mobile.com. My site is for phone 7 application and I've just develop an application "fart and burp" for phone 7. So according to my guide I have use keyword tools (Google) to see what keywords to make ads for. I've try to search my words: phone 7 apps phone 7 app fart phone 7 fart app for phone 7 All of this is for United States and UK but all words that I search return me 0 click and 0,05$ for 1 position or at the best 13-18 click for all world. Is there a way to achieve 50 clicks a day? my budget is $70 just for start can anyone help me? thanks


title: Question about guest bloggers

text: I see more and more blogs out there with guest bloggers. What is the rationale? Is it better to have a guest blogger, be a guest blogger, or have a reciprocal arrangement? Should you limit the number of guest bloggers or seek some minimum number?


title: How to approach same services, multiple locations for SEO purposes?

text: I have a website for a company with multiple locations across a large state. Each location offers the same services. The corporate site lists all of the services offered in detail, and each location page does not. Client wants to rank for searches like 'City Name Service X.' I'm thinking of a simple 'Services' page for each location, so that the Title tag says 'City Name Service X' with some descriptive text on the page and a list of links to the corporate pages that have the full descriptions of the service. My concern is that either: 1) There won't be enough content on the page to rank for the search 2) The site will get hit with a duplicate content penalty for having 'city name service x' repeated 10 times across the site, with city name being the only thing that changes. Any suggestions on how I might approach this differently?


title: Google Adsense code?

text: The google adsense code contains a reference to a javascript file. If I have 3 ad units on a single page, can I remove this reference from the other two because it is just the same. Will it violate the "don't manipulate the code" rule of google adsense?


title: How to make the most of GWT's "Search queries"?

text: I've been looking at the "Search queries" section in Google Webmaster Tools recently, and it seems like there is a lot of potential there in finding which pages on a site need improvement. I'm trying to figure out exactly what to sort or filter on. Do I look at pages with a low average position? Low impressions but high clicks? Pages that are rising up/falling down the rankings? What is the low-hanging fruit here?


title: Non-direct page link behavior in website

text: There is a mechanism I plan to implement in one of my websites. Let's say the links in my website don't directly refer to the page they are supposed to but they all refer to a _single PHP page_ and send their unique parameters and that _single PHP page_ based on those parameters does some processing on DB and then redirects to the actual pages those were supposed to refer by using `header("Location:$_GET['page_name']");`...   * Will this mechanism be not search engine friendly or is it okay?   * Will this mechanism get me disadvantages at Google PageRank?


title: mailto link is a spam flag, what is the simplest way to explain this to business person

text: Do you agree that it is generally bad practice to include mail to links and emails in websites because of spam and the various malicious agents that search and use emails? If so how could I explain this to someone that has a website but doesn't know how to use their own cms?


title: Business not appearing in Google maps at all

text: I'm having problems with listing my business on Google Places for Business. I wish I can send you a link to my business page but can't find it even if I type on google my business address!. Anyway, the business web site associated with my Google business page is "pressurecleaningandsealing.com". I used a domain forward from a GoDaddy domain (pressurecleaningandsealing.com) to "aqua-pressure.net". I can see that the way this forwarding is done is by showing the actual page in an iFrame inside the new domain. I once did this before for another business and it worked great. It ranked up as soon as I did the forwarding from a domain that contained a couple of keywords I wanted to rank for and listed this domain on the Google Business page. The weird thing is that my business doesn't appear at all on google results when I type "pressure cleaning and sealing near cooconut creek". Almost seems like the business is being banned for some reason. I have a Google Webmaster Tools and it doesn't show any error. The domain is about 3 weeks old (the other business I mentioned above ranked up to first page the very same day I purchased the domain).


title: Is it possible to combine two hosts into one Google Webmaster Tools dashboard?

text: I have a web site running under `www`. Recently, we added some functionality that had different hosting requirements, so we added a `ww2` hostname. Is there any way to combine both hosts into one dashboard? There is different content running on the two servers, so I can't use the canonical link functionality. A typical session would have someone follow a link from `www` -> `ww2` -> `www`.


title: The fastest way to get to Google paid ads

text: Here's my question, it happened that we need to promote a website asap. it is a low competition local keyword. We want to be able to put it on paid ads (the coloured rectangle #1 in this image) http://www.aimadvantage.com/graphics/google-top-10.jpg I know NOTHING about this kind of things. I just know that it can take several months before seeing results. I thought that paid advertising can make it quicker. Is it true? I do not know whether it helps, but the exact keyword in keyword tool says nothing, but similar keyword says: > global monthly search: 880   >  Local monthly search: 720   >  Competition: high Your advise is appreciated!


title: How do I determine how many of my webpages rank on 1st page of Google, and for what terms?

text: How do I find out how many pages of a website ranks on the first page of Google? And for what terms? I mean, if the website has 100 webpages, I want to know:   * How many pages rank on first page (shown on first page of Google)   * Which specific keyword they rank.


title: import.php parameter missing?

text: Whenever I try to delete or update any of my tables in phpMyAdmin I receive the following error:               1.import.php: Missing parameter: import_type.               2.tbl-alter.php missing parameters:field      I have looked at the php.ini config file and changed the following settings:               session.save_path ="c:/xampp/tmp" to session.save_path ="C:/xampp/session/data"      Why is phpMyAdmin not letting me delete or update any of the tables within the database?


title: I need articles to use in a commercial project, what open content licenses will work?

text: I'm designing some web templates, and I need to add some sample content in them, like articles and stuff. I was wondering where can I find such sample articles to include in the template demo? I don't want to use the usual Lorem Ipsum thing :) The templates would be sold commercially, so I assume the I'll need to use only content that has a license which grants you the right to use it commercially. I'm thinking that GPL licensed content could be appropriate. I thought of uncyclopedia but it's under creative commons which apparently lets you use their content only if you are using it for non-commercial purposes.


title: Which among exact, phrase and broad justify my given keyword ? I am using google keyword tool

text: I am using google keyword tool, now I want to know, when I type back office in mumbai, without any quotes, which of these would represent that. [back office jobs in mumbai] - exact "back office jobs in mumbai" - phrase back office jobs in mumbai - broad.


title: What is the benefit of the "download will begin shortly" page?

text: I've noticed many websites that host files for downloads have an interstitial page between the download link/button and the actual start of the download. Terminology on the page may include "Your download will begin shortly. If it does not, try this direct link". What is the purpose of this page? It seems to draw away from the general experience of downloading a file. Is this beneficial for bookmarking? Less experienced users? Analytics?


title: SEO consideration for downloadable files

text: I used to serve PDF files as static file:               http://domain.com/pdf/file1.pdf      and PDF files perfectly indexed by Google and other search engines. Then I decided to change my structure to place pdf files outside public folder, and then make them downloadable through PHP as               http://domain.com/pdf.php?id=1      The PDF files with the new structure have not been indexed by search engines. From SEO point of view, is it better to serve PDF files as static files, rather than making them downloadable through a PHP script? The script looks like               header('Content-Description: File Transfer');     header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');     header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$filename.'"');     header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');     header('Expires: 0');     header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');     header('Pragma: public');     header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));     ob_clean();     flush();     readfile($file);     exit;


title: Google Rich Snippets indexing fall

text: To 12th November 2013 there were about 3000 pages with structured data indexed for our site according to Google Webmaster Tools. There were stars and all related information in search results. But after the 12th, a sharp drop began in indexing and at this moment we are seeing that only 54 pages will display stars in search results and this is true. We can't understand why it happened. Here are some facts that maybe useful:   1. On November 1st we have moved our site from http to https and added 301 redirects from http to https pages.   2. On November 25th we have broken some structured data markup but fixed it on December 2nd.   3. We have made a request to Google Support about Rich Snippets and they said that markup is valid: > Thank you for your interest in rich snippets for your site. > > We have now reviewed your site and found that your usage of structured data > markup meets our guidelines and is eligible to have rich snippets shown in > our search results. > > Regards, The Google Team for Rich Snippets   4. There are still some old links with http schema exist in Google Search results with stars (e.g. https://www.google.com.ua/search?q=East+Meets+West+Yoga+-+Williamsville).   5. We tried to change pages' meta descriptions and Google re-indexed them. But structured data still don't appear.  **Here is Structured Data index status chart:** ![Google Structured Data chart](http://i.stack.imgur.com/JAspd.png) **Here are some links:** https://www.wellnessliving.com/ms/bikeorbar/review/ https://www.wellnessliving.com/ms/body__brain_yoga_clark/review/ https://www.wellnessliving.com/ms/dahn_yoga_center_libertyville/review/ https://www.wellnessliving.com/ms/sacred_sounds_yoga/review/ Two weeks passed but nothing changed. Please, help :).


title: What are the implications of one site having thousands of links to yours?

text: Using Webmaster I can see the home page of a related site has 100,000 + links to my site. I assume this is because there are tons of pages on this site and a link to our site is in the footer. My question is how does Google treat this? Surely this must be quite common for huge sites, but does Google see this as suspicious? Do they rank each link or consider the site as a whole and only rank a single link?


title: Lightweight online opensource css editor - php

text: I'm looking for an online **opensource** editor for **css files**. It should have **syntax highlighting**. Also it should be **easily integratable** within php code. **Edit:** I need something like `textarea` that highlights my css code. And i want to add it to my website so i can change my css from everyplace.


title: Different web domains SEO and PageRank

text: Which are differences between buying domains such as:   * `.me`   * `.be`   * `.li`   * `.cn.com`   * `.ar.com`   * `.eu.com`   * `.com` In terms of SEO and page ranking? What's the main differences between `mysite.com` and `mysite.be` or `mysite.ar.com`? If I buy `site.com` and other person buy `site.me` are there any advantages of owning `.com` domain?


title: SEO subdomain as root domain

text: I'm wondering: suppose I have a website for chicken restaurant and my domain is `chicken.com`, shouldn't be better to have main site on `restaurant.chicken.com` as primary domain (root domain) in terms of SEO and PageRank?


title: Can I benefit from links to pages on my site which have a `noindex` meta tag?

text: I'm trying to understand if/how I can benefit from people linking to pages on my site which are with pages that have a `noindex` meta tag. 2 actions I'm considering to perform:   * Remove the robots.txt disallow to these pages, to make sure inner links get the propagated link juice.   * Adding a canonical tag to the most similar page that doesn't have a `noindex` meta tag Are these valid approaches that might help? Any others I should consider?


title: Google Structured Data Testing Tool - organization error seems to contradict their guidlines

text: Google Structured Data Testing Tool is giving this error: > Error: This information will not appear as a rich snippet in search results, > because it seems to describe an organization. Google does not currently > display organization information in rich snippets Yet the warning links to this page: Rich snippets - Organizations where it says: > Organization information (for example, details about a business such as a > restaurant or attraction) that is marked up in the body of a web page can > help Google understand location information in reviews or events. It can > also be displayed on a Place Page—a web page that organizes all relevant > information about a place So in the error message Google is saying they don't support Organizations, but then on the help page they seem to be saying they do support it? Am I missing something here?


title: Importance of custom 404 pages?

text: I've read in a few design blogs that it's important to design custom 404 pages, but why is this? Don't most users know what these are as you tend to end up seeing them from time to time. Also, if your making a small site where the page's names won't change and pages won't be deleted, how likely are users to get a 404? Admittedly, I don't look very carefully at any analytics but I imagine users to my sites see them very often at all.


title: Sitemaps: rel="alternate" hreflang="x" naming

text: I'm creating a Sitemap for rel="alternate" hreflang="x", but no where in Google's guidelines do they mention how it should be named. Also can we reference it separately in the robots.txt file, or does it need to be in a sitemap_index file? e.g               User-agent: *     Disallow: /private/          Sitemap: http://www.example/sitemap.xml     Sitemap: http://www.example/rel=sitemap.xml      Any ideas?


title: How should incorrectly encoded URLs be handled?

text: Just recently noticed that some sites link with the URL incorrectly percent- encoded, to which my server (LAMP) responds with a 404 Not Found. For example, for a URL of mine like this:               http://www.site.com/page.php?param=value      They link to it like this:               http://www.site.com/page.php%3Fparam%3Dvalue      So:   * Who is wrong? My server for not understanding? or the linking site for not specifying the URL properly?   * Could something be done to configure Apache to understand the misencoded query string delimiter (`%3F` instead of `?`)?   * If not, would it be safe to setup redirects by translating the `%3F` to `?`?


title: Images in blog posts

text: I see a lot of blogs (coding horror for example) that seem to feature random pictures in the entries. Would I be correct in saying they probably didn't seek permission to use those images? What are the rules around this? Can I use any image I want in my blog post? Or do I have to seek permission? I'm thinking there might be a sort of reasonable journalistic usage thing here if your blog is somehow classed as a journalistic venture? Or am I mistaken?


title: How do I prevent Google from serving a cached version of my site?

text: From what I understand I can tell Google to remove pages from their archive if I add the header:               <meta name="ROBOTS" contents="NOARCHIVE" />      But won't this also remove the page from search results? I only want the "Cached" link removed.


title: Adding Google +1 Button Slows Page Load Time

text: This article says Google +1 tags can add a second to page load time, which means a 10% decline in visitors. The article authors say they use smart tag loading to reduce page load time. Does anyone know of an open source method to do this rather than a proprietry method?


title: Confused about domain names

text: I am confused about the difference between `http://www.example.com` and `http://example.com`, is that true "www" is actually the subdomain of domain example.com? Do people usually redirect from `http://example.com` to `http://www.example.com` or it is the reverse? Please enlighten me!


title: Do crawlers require a robots.txt file before indexing content?

text: Do you need a robots.txt file for the crawlers to index your site, or it is just to disallow any content that you don't want crawlers to index?


title: is there a way for visitors to register TLDs without leaving my site?

text: I want to allow users on my site to register a domain without having to go to a domain registar's site. They would not need to manage the domain ... it will simply be linked to their site. (Exactly like wordpress.com.) Let's say that domain registering costs are extraneous to this scenario. ### I (think I) know   * ... that there is an totalitarian system or entity (iCANN?) by which all domains must be registered.   * ... that only certified companies (i.e. GoDaddy,eNom,etc) can register domains directly. ### So ... Short of hacking a domain registrar's server and shadowing their code (illegal and immoral, so clearly out of the question), or becoming accredited as a registrar (probably not feasible), the only possibility seems to be to programmatically register domains through a registrar --- so that is what I am trying to accomplish. I either want to know ...   * Is there a domain registrar that offers an API for purchasing domains? or   * What software solutions will allow me to login and complete transactions on a third-party site? How reliable and secure are they?


title: Making JSON page which renders on document ready indexable

text: I have a page which is pretty much 99% on document ready generated by various JS files. It then gets and renders tons of JSON (I use tempo JS for rendering). It all happens on document ready. So normal human browser will see nice HTML page - I wonder what can I do to make my pages content indexable by google?


title: How can I browse to my new hosting site using browser?

text: Hi I have a new hosting site and my domain is still redirecting to my old domain.I have now my shared IP address and ftp details. How can I browse my new hosting site using   `http://ipaddress/foldername` (ex:`http://192.255.255.0`) So I can test if my scipt is running?


title: Offering subdomains what are the risks?

text: I am interested in offering subdomains to people who want them e.g. `helloworld.mydomain.com` or `blah.mydomain.com`. It is pretty much how WordPress or Blogspot handle their subdomains but I would not be hosting anything - just pointing to the person's website host location. If somebody was to upload illegal content to `helloworld.mydomain.com` - would all sites under `mydomain.com` suffer?


title: Web Server requirements

text: What are the server requirements for deploying a web portal. This web portal will be used by the public for registering, querying the record and uploading documents. once uploaded, the documents need to be made available in a database for which a separate server is already in place. 10,000 users are supposed to log in per day. Requirements on Application server and webser configuration is required. Can any one help me on this?


title: Joomla: How can I prevent certain user from visiting a certain page?

text: I have an internal section in my Joomla only for "Registered" users. There they can edit preferences. Multiple users can access the same preferences (different stakeholders). Now I have "smithcorp" and "smithcorp_guest". They should both be able to view the same things, but "smithcorp_guest" shouldn't be able to edit the preferences. Is there a way to forbid "smithcorp_guest" access to this page? I have only seen access regulation via the user level, i.e. unregistered, registered, admin.


title: Domain name A record not getting update

text: I had my domain setup on a friends server until recently, but now I'm moving out from his VPS and would like to host the site on Posterous/Tumblr. Both these blogs ask for a A record to be update with my domain registrar and although I did that, the domain seems to be pointing to the old name servers. The problem for that seems the name servers which I was using for the previous VPS hosting is still present and I'm unable to remove it. On asking the domain register support they replied saying that > As per registry rules you require to provide any two valid NS, we cannot > keep value as blank. I'm in a fix of wasting my domain as I would not want to use it anywhere else. Any help would be appreciated. The domain is http://reversepolartiy.in


title: Clean URLs won't work in Drupal 7 on IIS

text: I am using Drupal 7 and IIS 8 as my web server. When I click _Clean URLs_ in the configuration, I check it and then click save, then it loads the page without the box checked. However I can type in the URL alias of page ex: `example.com/?q=user` and `domain.com/user` both go to the same page. However when it creates the menus and such, the links all contain the `?q=` parameter. I checked the _web.config_ and copied the one Drupal said to use, even though they looked identical, but I am lost as to why this won't work. Any insights would be helpful.


title: Blackhat SEO, reviewing a sites strategy

text: There is a website I am interested in reviewing for academic purposes. It is a highly corrupt business in my opinion, and is still very popular and profitable. I believe it is using Blackhat SEO techniques to push down the rankings of pages that criticise it's operation, one technique it uses is domain spamming, buying multiple domains in an effort to flood results with positive messages. It has also been known to shill (send paid employees to forums on other sites spreading good sentiments about it's business, this has been proven as IP's came from their HQ). I would like to fairly review it's site, and the site of competitors in regards to their application of Blackhat techniques. Is there a definitive list of Blackhat techniques? A definitive and respected check list that I can go through? **In other words, is it possible to ethically review a site, has anyone ever tried doing this before and how do you do it?**


What is it for, and can you add a description manually? `<meta name="description" content="didn't do anything"/>` ![Description column in Apache's directory listing](http://i.stack.imgur.com/YAGzv.png)


title: SEO for Dynamic website

text: For static websites, I always made a Sitemap.xml file and submitted it to search engines like google, bing etc. But now, I have made a website in Asp.net MVC which has 3 dynamic pages which yields content for the supplied id. For example there is a _Store_ controller with _Section_ action method that takes an _id_ (like electronics) as parameter and shows the result for it. Since the website is dynamic in nature, I am not sure whether I should make a sitemap or not. And if I should what should the sitemap have. In essence, How can i submit my site to search engines for indexing? I tried checking Programmers and SO for sitemap and they don't have any. So does this mean i should leave it entirely on google bots to discover my site and index it. I just need to know the basic steps for a dynamic Asp.net MVC website


title: Getting page indexed after fixing rel canonical error

text: I found a WordPress plugin created a `rel="canonical"` error in a section of my site. This error caused lower pages to point to the main page via a `rel="canonical"`. I fixed the error 3 weeks ago and removed `rel="canonical"` from my site. However, Google will not seem to index the lower pages that had the `rel="canonical"`error. Am I just doomed with getting these lower pages indexed now that my `rel="canonical"` error originally told Google these pages were duplicates of the main page? I even submitted that whole section of the site to be recrawled in Webmaster Tools but Google will not index the lower pages. Anyone have any other tips I should follow?


title: Check for URLs that return my 404 error page

text: I have made a custom `404` error page called _error_404.html_ In my _.htaccess_ I inserted:               ErrorDocument 404 /error_404.html      In order to control/correct `404` errors in my website, I would like to know which URL requests return this page. Is there a way I can check which URL/log requests returned my _error_404.html_ page?


title: Why is Google Analytics experiment not being shown equally?

text: I have set-up and simple A/B test with 100% of my traffic, everything seems to be running fine except the original page and the page variants aren't getting an equal split of visits. It seems that the highest performing page is getting the most visits but my sample size is still relatively small.


title: Blogger/blogspot template with static home page without displayed posts

text: I am looking for a blogger template to create a website, that promote our services. I created a blogspot.com domain and I would like to use that because it is free and reliable. My problem is that I can not find any template to create a one-page "corporation/business" like presentation layout (like Karma template). I do not want to display the blog post on the home page, only a link to the posts! It is maybe not the right place for this, but I can not ffind any good resources. Thank You guys!


title: How do I 301 redirect from the root folder to a sub folder while keeping the rest of the URL string intact

text: When I first launched my site, it I had MediaWiki in the root and a wordpress blog in a subfolder, /blog/. After a while spammers took over the MediaWiki site and I had to remove it. The problem is I lost a lot of good content and inbound links from 3rd party sites. My goal is to redirect the root folder to /blog/ while keeping the rest of the URL string intact. I have a Wordpress plug-in going that will automatically track the 404 errors. As these come in I'll be able to pull the old content from archive.org and give it a new home on a wordpress page.


title: My website google index suddenly increase and also suddenly reduced

text: Yesterday before i sleep, i check my site index. i get about 50 index on google. today morning when i wake up, i get 250 index on google. and my page ranking better on several keyword. than i add 1 page and 2 canonical link, add 404 page header, and resubmit sitemap. and after 2 hour, its going down to 50 index again. and my page ranking just rolled back to previous day. what is actually happen? is it because i resubmit sitemap? until now, google still crawl my website. do they try to refresh the index?


title: Is it worth the gain in SEO to have 3 sites of mine have links between them?

text: Is it worth the gain in SEO to put in the effort of cross-linking 3 sites that I own? That would mean maintaining 3 sites rather than say just 1. But if there's crosslinks between those 3 sites does it improve SEO? Or on the other hand do Google's and Bing's algorithms not really care if a large volume of inbound links are from the same 3 sites?


title: Is it a bad practice to register sntsh.com if my name is Santosh?

text: My name is **Santosh** but I can't register a **santosh.com** because it is already taken. Most extensions for Santosh are already taken. I was trying to register a domain with **.sh** extension but santo.sh would cost me very high and I can't afford ~$100 for just a personal domain and that's only for **one** year only. Now I am thinking that I should register a **sntsh.com**. But there is a problem, will sntsh.com over my name Santosh don't create a **SEO problem**? One more thing, that totally different from above topic. If I register a santosh.name domain which is not registered, won't it create copyright and any legal problems with other santosh domains?


title: Website Layout Design

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Any tool to sketch layout? We use Visio for UML Diagrams / Flow chart Diagrams. We are actually looking for a Software like Visio, on which we can design the structure of Website Layout and view it before you actually start the POC / Development. Is there any software like visio, can help us to design a website layout for presentation ?


title: htacess seems to make the page load forever

text: I need to rewrite a URL of my server so the URL looks friendly. Like: `site.com/var1/var2/var3/...` to `site.com/index.php?page=var1/var2/var3/...` So I wrote this .htacess:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php?page=$1 [NC,L]      But when I upload it to the server, and try to load a page, the page loads forever! What am I doing wrong?


title: Domain names ending with book

text: I want to make a humorsite, not a social network, but a humorsite. But my domain name ends with book. Do you think Facebook would make a fuss about it?


title: New domains websites not under another domains directory Plesk 11

text: i am trying to build up my new server and found some strange behaviour in the hosting configuration. I created a user for my websites and logged in. Then i created my first domain entry webspace1.com. When i now add a new domain it needs a Document root setting but this is always inside the first created domains webspace. /var/www/vhosts/webspace1.com/httpdocs is the document root for the main entry like it should be. When i now add a new Domain webspace2.com plesk creates a directory /var/www/vhosts/webspace2.com with some directories like it should be. But my web root lies under /var/www/vhosts/webspace1.com/example2.com/. Can i configure it so that the newly created domains get their webspace inside their own directory like it was in older versions of plesk? Or must i then make another account for every single domain i create?


title: Redirecting HTTPS to HTTP without purchasing another IP address

text: So in the past I have always bought a new IP when working with SSL certs. I came across a client that is on a shared IP and using a cert for one of the sites but not the others. So domain #1 has cert on it, and Domain #2 doesn't. Domain #2 has things in Google indexed with HTTPS on them. I need to block HTTPS on domain #2 as it shouldn't be using it and I don't want HTTPS versions of pages appearing in Google's index. How can I go about doing this without purchasing another IP? Is dropping the below code into my _.htaccess_ file a good approach?               Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /          RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ [OR]          RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]


title: Browsers treat vertical tab characters in input type=text differently. Is one of them correct?

text: In developing some server side validation I discovered that (the latest Windows versions as of this writing of) Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer handle vertical tab characters differently in `input type=text` form fields. I had a hard time trying to paste the character into any of the browsers so I used JavaScript to populate the text input on my test form like this:               document.getElementById('theField').setAttribute('value', "hello\vthere");      You can see some of the client side differences in this JSFiddle. There are differences in how the browsers:   * display the value in the input field.   * allow JavaScript to fetch the value back out   * render the character when used to populate innerHTML of a `<pre>` tag   * send the value to the server. This table below shows what I found:               Browser    | displayed   | put into pre-tag | logged to console | received by server     ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     Chrome     | hello       | hellothere       | hellothere        | hello     ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     Safari     | hello       | hellothere       | hellothere        | hello     ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     Firefox    | hellothere  | hellothere       | hellothere        | hello       FF cont. |             |                  |                   |      there     ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     IE         | hello there | hello there      | hello             | hello       IE cont. |             |                  |   there           |      there     ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     Opera      | hellothere  | hello            | hello             | hello       Op cont. |             | there            | there             |      there      For the console I used each browser's built in developer tools (I couldn't get the JSFiddle to work with Firebug). Is there a specification on how browsers are supposed to handle this character in this type of form field? If so what is the specification and which browser is following it?


title: Can I use CSS to hide the tracking gif used by Google Analytics Mobile?

text: I am redesigning my mobile website which uses a 1x1px Google Analytics for Mobile Websites tracking gif. The old design displayed the image at the foot of the page, but my new design hides the gif with CSS (`display:none`). Will this have any affect on the tracking of the site? * ** _edit_ *** Whilst I have moved my tracking gif and solved the immediate issue I am hearing conflicting answers as to whether an image with `display:none` is, or is not, downloaded. Can anyone link to any official documentation?


title: Should I 301 permanent redirect to my custom 404 page?

text: I'm trying to figure out the correct way to send visitors to a custom 404 page when they hit a page that doesn't exist. Is issuing a 301 redirect to the custom 404 page the recommended method?


title: What are the types of verification which can be used for a social networking website?

text: I'm developing a social networking website for a small network. I would like to keep more security on registration process. I would like to keep some verification methods like SMS, Visa and Paypal (if i can have) etc. so please suggest what I can use. The site is developed using Joomla.


title: Photos - do I really need to look for the author and ask his permission when posting them on my site?

text: When I find a photo somewhere on the internet, without any explicit information of whether I can re-publish it on my own website, without any hint of who is the owner/author of that photo, can I still do it? I'm puzzled here cause I've seen like millions of websites, often very big, that repost photos, most probably found via google and it's VERY unlikely they bothered to look for and contact the author of that photos. Is every one of that sites likely to be sued at any moment? What about the case of forums and content provided by users - there is virtually no way of prevention here.


title: Programmer used my email address to send trojans - what to do?

text: I forwarded my cPanel password to a programmer who was suppose to work on the website. Unfortunately he abuse my trust to create a new email account which he used after to send trojans. The hosting service caught it after aprox. 15.000 email were send and blocked the account. I deleted that account but I'm worried to get some kind of blacklisted for any email address with that `@example.com` ending or even worst the whole website `example.com`. It there something I need to do to be able to prevent that?


title: Web page has well over 100 anchor tags - how to improve SEO without taking anchors out?

text: I have a website where the main menu has 10 level 1 items and each has roughly 10 level 2 items plus there are links in the header and footer and side bar plus some links in the content. All these links are standard anchor tags in the HTML source. I keep hearing / being told to slash the number of links for SEO purposes, I want to keep all these links because they are part of the design and are convenient. I've heard `rel="nofollow"` won't help and isn't W3C compliant what should I do? UPDATE: I am concerned about splitting page rank between over 100 links, there should be a way of having a load of links on a page without them getting page rank. I've also heard that `rel="noFollow"` is not the answer because it evaporates PR.


title: Any alternatives to Google's clearPixel.gif 404 not found?

text: I recently noticed the following Google-related error on our website pages: > GET > http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/teracent_product_template_V1/clearPixel.gif > 404 (Not Found) > pagead2.googlesyndication.com/teracent_product_template_V1/clearPixel.gif:1 I'm wondering if this is hindering AdSense clicks from registering with Google. I'm using the asynch analytics code that begins with:               <script async src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>


title: Are AdSense earnings capped based on the number of pages on your site?

text: So I wasn't quite sure how to word the question, so feel free to edit... We have several sites that have been earning consistent AdSense revenue. In an attempt to gain more revenue, we placed a pass-through page between search result links and their pages (external). While the revenue went up for those pass-through clicks (obviously), it seems that the % of clicks has gone down on all the other ads. CPC's went down a bit, while page views remained consistent. We tested some clicks, and noticed that they were not registering. So I'm curious to know if anyone else has experienced this. Is there some ratio of how much you can make with AdSense vs the # of pages on your site?


title: How can I use domain masking without having self referral in Google Analytics

text: I have one old domain that points to a website's server's ip (let's call it www.oldsite.com). I have a new one, www.newsite.com, that is set up to be forwarded to a specific page on the website. Due to the way the host of newsite.com places the website in a frame, in Google Analystics, the newsite.com is listed as a source rather than the source they were at before hand, causing a self referral. A solution is to edit the code of the iframe as I looked up, but there's no way to really edit the host's masking source code of course. Another solution I did previously was have www.newsite.com point to the address that www.oldsite.come pointed to. It solved the analytics problems, but in exchange, the url masking no longer worked. In the address bar, it came up as www.oldsite.com. Is there a way to make me have url masking and be able to forward to agree with google analytics? The server of the website is hosted on a cloud server, if this is anymore information.


title: Google+ page and Google+ local page for a business cound as duplicate listings?

text: I've got a Google+ page for a business; this business also has a Google+ local page (Google Places). I was wondering if this was hindering our local SEO efforts by giving us duplicate listings? Does any one have any experience of this?


title: Is there a delay on Google publish local reviews ?

text: I've had a customer leave a Google + local review and it shows up on there account, but not to the public, I'm wandering if it got flagged as spam _(which is a real pain)_. or if there is a delay on the review being posted.. does any one have any experience of this?


title: Dreamweaver convert frames to divs

text: I have an index.html that's split into 3 frames. I want to change it to divs. The "convert tables to ap divs" is grayed out, is there anything I can do? I was following the instructions from here: http://www.ehow.com/how_8598389_convert-frames-divs-dreamweaver.html If the convert doesn't work for frames is there any other way to do it? Thanks, AZ


title: Is there any negative impact with similar page titles and descriptions on similar sites?

text: Currently we have Canadian versions of some websites. We are going to create some American versions, which essentially have everything the same, except the search results are geo-specific to the USA. The format for the results page title and descriptions will remain the same, ie {0} in {1} | Find more {0} etc etc etc... {1}. The search term will most-likely be the same between both sites. Will the relative similarity in the page titles and descriptions between the CDN and USA sites have any negative SEO impact, where the geo location would be the most significant difference?


title: Google Webmaster Tools URLs in the index differ from the sitemap. How comes?

text: Google Webmaster Tools says ~14000 URLs in the index but as you can see in the following picture there are only ~6500 from the sitemap. How comes? I mean: my website is **not** properly "crawl-able". So google can only use the sitemap (and that's where I'm lost actually) For example: if you google (in France) this: "tondeur de moutons lot et gronne" my website is second. But you can't access directly to this page from my website (= you have to go through the "search page" and type **by hand** "tondeur". So what I mean is that there are very few pages (~ 100) that a bot can "guess" without the whole sitemap.   * google may not have crawled the full website but it says "14000 URLs are in the index"   * if so, why google can display some results that are only in the sitemap?   * if google has indexed ~6500 URLs from the sitemap, why does it say "14635"? So... well err I'm lost... any idea? ![Google Webmaster Tools URLs in the index](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UHjhV.png)


title: lost google apps registration code, any idea where i can get a new one?

text: I set up Google Apps but then lost the verification code/file to upload, if I go back to Google and re-apply they say > This domain has already been registered with Google Apps. Please contact > your domain administrator for instructions on using Google Apps with this > domain. But it hasn't been verified, so I'm kind of stuck in a loop.


title: Releasing a CSS minification tool - should it be downloadable or accessable through the cloud?

text: I am thinking of releasing a CSS minifaction library, which has dependencies on other libraries. Since `CSS Minification` is not something that occurs a lot (compared to optimising PDFs for example), I have two options:   1. I could make it downloadable, however, it means that the user needs to download 3-4 other libraries, just to make everything run.   2. I could create a web service that receives a HTTP post and returns the minified file as a response. Now a days there is a lot of talk about the `Cloud` and `Cloud Services`, and perhaps the approach to releasing tools such as this should be included in that discussion as well. So basically the question is: What are the pros and cons of online/cloud tools compared to downloadable tools?


title: How to upload a web site

text: So I have been experimenting with web design for the last year and I was always viewing the web pages locally on my machine. Now a friend wants to create a web page and I have already designed everything but i wouldn't know how to upload the files to make it run. He has registered the domain on Domains by Proxy and he gave me some passwords that they sent him. When I visit the web page www.myfriendsdomain.com I get the godaddy.com message that this is domain is parked for free. When I log in the DBP website I don't see any relative link for uploading files.


title: Correct element for rendered page title?

text: For SEO reasons, I've understood that it is important that the pages top most h1 is descriptive of the page's actual content. If one also wishes to have the site title at the top most part of the page, what element would this be put in? For example, take a simple blog. If one wishes to have the blog post header to be the top most h1, but want to have the blog name visible at the top of each post, in what element would this best be put? My guess is that it could be put within a span or p, but this would make a span or p be placed above the first header of the page, which perhaps could be argued to be bad semantics. Any ideas?


title: Does having blog and news on company's webpage come in pair?

text: I've recently opened up small IT company which main tasks will be to administrate it infrastructure, outsourcing it, programming small applications (and release some of them for free, some to be bought), do some consulting, integrations. Basically everything IT company can do I'm going to do (on beginning alone, later on with employees). So I've decided to have a webpage for my company but I can't decide on some little things in webdesign. I don't want to overload the page so I wanted the page to be good looking, functional and attractive to potential customers. I was wondering then if Blog can or even should coexist with news page? Or should everything be done in form of Blog (news about new deal with client x, news about new program my company released, but also news on new Eset Smart Security being out and being offered by my company as reseller / consulting type). Also I am a bit techy so sometimes I would write about some administration issues / programming related things... or maybe I should skip it and never do that on company webpage? I would like this company site to evolve to something more then `just` another company's website... Or maybe it would be better to split those two?


title: Redirects, seo and site internal search engine

text: For a CMS constraint I have to survive with, the search on my site works this way:   1. the user fills search values and submit   2. a page of results is then shown with a list of links   3. the user clicks on some link and _gets redirected_ to the detail page The thing to note is that when the user clicks at #3, it won't get immediately access the result detail page `/realestate/1`, but there is an intermediate access to `/redirect/realestates/1` and then the redirect to the final page `/realestate/1`. I'd like to know:   * can this approach impact negatively from a SEO point of view?   * which redirect would be more appropriate? Currently it's HTTP code 302 found. PS: I see there are other questions about SEO and redirects, but there the context is landing page and my scenario is different.


title: Tumblr is visiting my blog?

text: I have created a blog on Tumblr a few days ago. Looking over the statistics, it seems that Tumblr itself is visiting my website, using different browsers. What is this supposed to mean? Are these real visitors or is it a Tumblr bot? One example:   * Browser: Chrome 32.0   * OS: Win8   * Resolution: 1024x768   * Location: New York, United States   * IP Address: Tumblr (66.6.40.249)   * Referring URL: (No referring link) Other browsers used include:   * Chrome 20.0.1090.0   * Firefox 21   * Opera 12.14   * Chrome 15.0.861.0   * Chrome 32.0.1667.0   * Internet Explorer 6   * Internet Explorer 9   * Opera 12   * Opera 12.02 They _all_ use the same screen resolution (1024x768) and have no referrer. The flash version is not set, but they do support javascript. Unfortunately, I don't have the full user agent string.


title: iPad and iPhone browser rotating images on site?

text: I am experiencing an odd occurance on a site I'm building right now where images are displayed 90 degrees different from how they are supposed to, but while maintaining the normal dimensions of the image that I specified. This only occurs on the Safari in iPad and iPhone for me... all other browsers do not have this problem. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/PCvUA.png) Any ideas? The page in question can be seen here: http://www.andrewpeterson.com/i-had-to- be-a-perfect-gentleman-with-the-princesses/


title: How to change the listening port on IIS 7 web application?

text: I have an apache running on port 80, I want to move my Web Applications to *:8080 But I don't remember how. I've seen this link but **Edit Bindings** isn't in my options list. Not even in **Basic Settings** nor in **Advanced Settings**. Heres An image of What I've got. ![IIS - Left Panel Options](http://i.stack.imgur.com/RXskr.png)


title: Import and edit AdWords cost data

text: I am trying to follow the instructions at this Analytics help page, and I cannot find the "Apply cost sources" box required in step 7. Has this been moved? Is it still necessary to link my Analytics and AdWords accounts?


title: Fake Windows Security Alert

text: I have a website which is redirecting users to a fake windows security alert and I'm not to sure how to get rid of it. What's weird is that it's only happening in IE and that it seems to happen the first time visiting the site but then will not happen again (even after clearing cache and cookies). This is what my site is being redirected to: http://assets.malwarehelp.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/04.jpg I've looked through the source and haven't found any injected scripts. I'm not too sure where to go from here. Any help is appreciated. This is my site and the link which I was getting reports about: http://www.agendaprofile.com/skill-builder#16012ce4a0


title: How to point GoDaddy to EntryDNS domain

text: I have a server connected via dynamic IP. I have set up EntryDNS to manage the change of my IP. If I put in my EntryDNS URL it points me to my server's current IP. I purchased a domain from GoDaddy, but I have been unable to get it to point to my EntryDNS. What I want is to be able to ssh to my server, but ideally I'd like to do this by using my domain name. I must confess I'm a bit overwhelmed by the GoDaddy interface. So the bottom line is, how do I point my GoDaddy domain to my DNS domain so that when I look up the domain I get the current IP of the server?


title: Will Googlebot crawl HTTPS URLs that are encrypted by SSL?

text: This question was asked at StackOverflow, but it doesn't have good references. Does Googlebot crawl HTTPS? (Please provide references.)


title: Google Analytics - relatively compare segments

text: Is there a way to relatively compare two different segments in Google Analytics over time? For example, I'd like to see the percentage of the segment mobile traffic (segment A) which comes from search (segment B) over time to answer the question: what part (%) of my mobile traffic has come from search engines over time? (has the contribution of search traffic to mobile increased or decreased) The only way I know to answer questions like these is to plot both segments and see whether the lines are getting closer to eachother or further away from eachother.


title: Joomla theme only 1 page or module

text: Hi how can I theme only 1 page or module in joomla 1.5? And I don't mean change the css but change the php file, so I can choose to display the date above the title and not below. This should be very simple like in drupal. Thanks


title: FTP GoDaddy Issues

text: Is there a special port for godaddy servers? Do I have to call them to enable ftp support? I can login w the username and password on the control panel on godaddy.com but not on ftp. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I tried using Filezilla and CuteFTP Pro using port 21 but w/ no luck. Go Daddy's Instructions are:   1. FTP Address or Hostname: Your Domain Name   2. FTP Username & Password: You selected both of these during account creation   3. Start Directory: You should leave this blank or include a single forward slash (i.e. /)   4. FTP Port: You should enter Standard, or 21. •FTP Client. ( ◦Filezilla, ◦WS-FTP, ◦CuteFTP Pro, ◦AceFTP ) Thanks!


title: Where is the query string pagewanted=all coming from?

text: On my site I use CodeIgniter, which does not allow any use of query strings. Any unacceptable characters in a URL result in a 400 error. In Google Webmaster Tools I'm seeing several crawl errors where the page is shown as `example.com/asd?pagewanted=all`. Does anyone know where this query string comes from? Is it from another website, search engine or software?


title: Do CDNs work with POST operations?

text: I'm using a CDN (Level3) for the first time and I'm a bit confused. I'm accessing dynamic URLs such as http://cdn.mysite.com?getItem=1234 that return text data.   1. Do CDNs work with HTTP POST operations? When i issue a HTTP POST operation, my "real" server receives this request every time, so I'm wondering if the CDN has a problem with POST operations.   2. If i use HTTP GET it seems to work, i call the URL once (from my application), i can see my server receiving the request. If i call it a second time, the CDN delivers it directly, my server doesn't get anything. However if i open same the link manually from a second browser tab, my server is asked to deliver again, shouldn't it be cached by now? Many thanks.


title: What's the minimum necessary bandwidth for a fast website?

text: What's the minimum amount of bandwidth for a website? Let's say I have a hosting service with 125GB traffic, how many websites I can store before they start to slow down? Also, what does "1000 Mbit uplink" mean? What is going to influence?


title: Getting IP/WHOIS information from users clicking ads in Google AdWords?

text: I am running a Google AdWords campaign and am wondering if I can get any information from the people who click my ads? I already collect statistics on the website, but I get no referer information from the Google ads in the search network, only from the display network. I am also running Google Analytics on the website but I can't find any relevant information there. P.S: Tag suggestion: google-adwords


title: Serverless Web Application

text: In my company we work on a software that produce reports in html format. My bosses love the fact that static html pages can be moved across computer simply by moving/copying a folder and no web server is involved, so the customer only need a browser. The problem is that they asking me to implement a lot of feature which is very hard to implement properly and in a clean way without an application server. Frames cross domain problem, the impossibility to work with GET and POST data, no URLs routing...is very hard to work with this limitations. Anyone had similiar experience and wants to share their tricks/suggestion ? Do I need to tell my boss 'there is no future without a web server'? Regards.


title: What is recommended - UC or EV or EV UC certificate?

text: We are implementing Exchange 2010 server and an eCommerce site. Both of these need certificates and I am confused what to use? I know Exchange need UC certificate. Can I use it for the ecommerce site as well? I did read EV is recommended for web sites.. I would like to know what to use and the recommended procedures. Here how we will be using the certificates:   1. We are planning to use *.net for testing Exchange server   2. Will be using *.com for Exchange server (Production)   3. Will be using *.com for ecommerce site (Production) I also heard about certificates which are both EV UC.. please recommend the correct certificates to use.


title: Image CDN with API?

text: My company uses flickr and picasa web albums as poor man's content delivery networks (CDN) for image hosting, but I'm curious if anyone has any recommendations on any other services that might be worth looking into, paid and free? Preferably something that has an API so that it can be integrated discreetly on the backend as a WordPress plugin or for other development frameworks. A CDN such as Amazon is cheap, and it works, but the lack of a photo-centric API is what prevents me from using it for general usage.


title: php image upload library

text: I'm looking to NOT reinvent the wheel with an image upload system in php. Is there a good standalone library that allows for:   * Creating the system for uploading, renaming, and perhaps resizing images.   * Creating the front-end, html and/or javascript for the form upload parts of image upload. I've found a lot of image gallery systems, but no promising standalone system & ui libraries, ready for insertion into custom php.


title: Are all URLs in Drupal in the "body" of "pages" hardcode, or is there a way to localize them?

text: **Currently links, images, files, etc.**               http://1.1.1.1/drupal/../<resource_name.ext>      **Is it possible to do:**               /../<resource_name.ext>      If the questions is not clear, just let me know. Thanks! UPDATES: Node could be a number of different types of content: pages, stories, etc. -- I'm only talking about pages, but it's possible it (and likely) that it the question applies to all node types. And yes, the text area called "body" on the content type "page" (basically where you insert the full text of the page) ... hope that answers your question, if not, just let me know. RE: Types of links: Images and files, since I just figured out how to do text to link to other nodes.


Openshift cloud provided by RedHat have told us to "set up a CNAME record with your DNS provider" if we need to use a custom domain in PaaS. What SEO problem will occur when we install WordPress on PaaS?


title: Why is "googlehosted.com" in the DNS records for our website after signing up for DDOS protection?

text: Recently we had to get some DDOS protection for our website because of the large attacks we were seeing after getting a bit of popularity. We handed over our domain and hosting information to our DDOS protection provider. It worked perfectly but I have a question. On our DNS records we have the **Host** and **Answer** and **Type**. The host has our domain name there. The answer is this: `SOMETEXTXXXX.dv.googlehosted.com`. And when I copy and paste it into my browser it gives me a 404 error. But our website still loads and functions as it should. I don't understand why it would need this? I asked them about this and they said it is a method for DDOS protection and the other IPs are the reverse proxy (the other IPs give a 404 error too). Can anyone expand on this more please. How does all this tie in together and make the internet browser know where to point the person with all these reverse proxies and stuff I don't understand. Here is an image for reference: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/G0ztn.png)


title: How do I get Paypal or a merchant account for a marketplace style web site?

text: I'm having trouble getting approved for a merchant account for my website. Basically I have expert users and users. Expert users provide a service through my website which they set their own rates. Users purchase the services, then pay me, I give 90% to the expert users. I have been told this is factoring.. Is the way around this, a system like freelancer.com does? Where users deposit money into their freelancer account, then pay for the services they won? What are the negatives to this system? What about sites like 99designs? They accept CC payments and then pay the winning designer. How are some sites doing this but I'm having so much trouble getting approved?


title: When updating to HTML5, will adding <!doctype html>, <article>, and microdata result in rendering problems in older browsers?

text: When updating our website from XHTML to HTML5, will changing the following things result in rendering problems for our site in older browsers like Internet Explorer 8:   1. Specify `<!doctype html>`. (The current XHTML web pages are well-formed enough)   2. Add new specific HTML5 semantic block tags like `<header>` and `<article>`. We are not going to use CSS for these tags - just wrap the existing parts of the site.   3. Add microdata attributes to the existing tags like `<p>`. After reading some books and many Internet articles, I see no problems as the new tags and attributes will be simply excluded from rendering as unknown in those older browsers. However, I admit, in practice there can be some issues, especially with IE. Does anybody have any real experience with that?


title: Twitter tweet count - bug?

text: I think this is the best place to ask about this question. I recently created this account: http://twitter.com/sarcasticquotes I have posted 3 tweets so far. (No 'private' tweets at all). It is showing 3 tweets but the Tweet count as 5. What can be the problem? rgds JP


title: Does accidental duplicate content from development web site impact SEO ranking?

text: We have a site at domain.com that's been up for over a year and consistently been in the top 10 ranking. We may have accidentally exposed our development site at domain.org for a few weeks last month and since the content is identical are wondering if that would impact the ranking of the original site at all?


title: Should Designers Be In Charge Of Developing User Experience?

text: Should a designer be in charge of mapping out the user experience of a website? In my opinion, a developer should draw out how the website would work, what pages link to what etc. Then the designer designs the website based on this. But I've heard some people say designers are the best people to work out the User Experience of a website. Very confused about this!


title: Embed audio broadcasting on web page

text: I'd like to embed simple audio player on my webpage and I want it to get the audio from a stream broadcasted from my server. I read I can use IceCast on my web-server, getting an audio stream from a client using IceS (or this is what i got from other questions and articles) but once I have my stream, IceCast is supposed to broadcast it on an URL, that can be opened from pkayers like winamp or similar. I've found out this is quite a rare topic, usually people just want to broadcast "radio" where files are taken from a static playlist. In this case I have to get a stream from an IceCast URL and embed it with a player on a web page. Thank.


title: When does the 301-redirected URL gets indexed?

text: I had a page in my website like `mysite.com/dir/page` now I moved it to `mysite.com/page` , and the old URL 301-redirects to the new URL. When will it get updated in Google? I asked the bot to fetch it via Google Webmaster Tools, but when will it get effect?


title: Tracking based on URL referral?

text: Users on my site are given unique URL's for me to then track how many people they have referred to my site. IE: `http://www.example.com/FQ3DL` (FQ3DL being the unique code/url) The first thing I'd like to do is when a user goes to that link, it displays the homepage `http://www.example.com/` rather than a 404 error The second thing is, how would I track how many people have visited that URL? Only through Google Analytics or is there another way to manage it? Thanks!


title: how do i create name servers

text: I have recently signed up for a knownhost vps package. My account has been set up on their end. They want me to create `ns1.outsourcingnepal.com` and `ns2.outsourcingnepal.com` in my registar and point to their given IP address. I checked my registar site... I can change the DNS info and other too, but where do I create those two entries and add the IPs? My domain name: outsourcingnepal.com   My registar: Public domain registry. (known via betterwhois.com, registered through nearby company Simrik Solutions) I have my name servers set to:               ns1.simriksolutions.info       ns2.simriksolutions.info        I have set my A Record to:               name:  outsourcingnepal.com     value: ip given by knownhost      I have set my NS Records:               Sr No   Record Id       Name                        Value                           Status            1       10318811        outsourcingnepal.com        ns1.simriksolutions.info        Active        2       10318812        outsourcingnepal.com        ns2.simriksolutions.info        Active        3       10318813        outsourcingnepal.com        ns3.simriksolutions.info        Active        4       10318814        outsourcingnepal.com        ns4.simriksolutions.info        Active        5       10321078        outsourcingnepal.com        ns1.outsourcingnepal.com        Active        6       10321080        outsourcingnepal.com        ns2.outsourcingnepal.com        Active         **Updates:** I updated the child name server. I even added the http://outsourcingnepal.com account in WHM of knownhost too. Now I am getting the following DNS Lookup result: http://www.domaintools.com/research/dns/?query=outsourcingnepal.com&search=dns               Outsourcingnepal.com DNS Lookup     ;; Answer received from 127.0.0.1 (90 bytes)     ;;     ;; HEADER SECTION     ;; id = 5049     ;; qr = 1 opcode = QUERY aa = 0 tc = 0 rd = 1     ;; ra = 1 ad = 0 cd = 0 rcode = NOERROR     ;; qdcount = 1 ancount = 1 nscount = 2 arcount = 0          ;; QUESTION SECTION (1 record)     ;; outsourcingnepal.com.    IN  A          ;; ANSWER SECTION (1 record)     outsourcingnepal.com.   13495   IN  A   204.197.252.160          ;; AUTHORITY SECTION (2 records)     outsourcingnepal.com.   85495   IN  NS  ns1.outsourcingnepal.com.     outsourcingnepal.com.   85495   IN  NS  ns2.outsourcingnepal.com.          ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION (0 records)


title: Pagerank ties to page content

text: I have a relatively old site, with a fairly good pagerank, that I'm in the process of upgrading. The second-tier pages are also well pageranked. After reading through the content on these pages, I realize that their content needs to be completely overhauled and re-written. Is this content change likely to affect the pagerank of those URLs (negatively or positively)?


title: Is this Google proxy a fake crawler: google-proxy-66-249-81-131.google.com?

text: Recently I discover that some variants of a google proxy visits my sites. I doubt these are legal Google crawlers because these crawlers are NOT always behind a proxy (like the hostname describes) and identify itself as a browser. The hostname is formatted similar/like Googlebot but with the string 'proxy' added to it. My PHP blocking class blocks these crawlers, but is it correct to block these ones? What are they and are these from google or is it fake? Here some info about one of these crawlers:               BlockedIp Notifier Report - IP:66.249.81.131:: has been blocked          Ticket ID : {EVNT_136877_2013040520130402_33147_10348}       Event type : Access blocked       Event date : 04/05/2013 - 19:17:47 (server date-time)       Event counter : First occurring       Processed url : http://streambutler.net/       From url : http://www.google.com/search       Domain : streambutler.net      Domain IP : 95.170.70.213       Visitor IP : 66.249.81.131       Proxy IP : 66.249.81.131            Critical : Yes       Action required : No                 Additional information     Problem : Bad Proxy - via 66.249.81.131      Hostname : google-proxy-66-249-81-131.google.com      Block : Yes      Refferer : http://www.google.com/search      AgentString : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like G...      Browser : Chrome 22.0.1229      Platform : Linux      Robot : No      Mobile : No      Tablet : No      Console : No      Crawler : No      Agent_type : browser      Agent_name : chrome      Agent_version : 22.0.1229      Os_type : linux      Os_name : linux      Agent_languagetag : en      Status : ok      Request : 66.249.81.131      Languagecode : us      Country : United States      Region : California      City : Mountain View      Zipcode : 94043      Latitude : 37.406      Longitude : -122.079      Timezone : -07:00           Available from  : \'http      Areacode : 0      Dmacode : 0      Continentcode : na      Currencycode : USD      Currencysymbol : $      Currencysymbol_utf8 : $      Currencyconverter : 1      Extended : 1      Organization : NULL       **other variants found**   * `google-proxy-66-249-81-131.google.com` (identifies itself as Firefox 6.0?)    * `google-proxy-66-249-81-148.google.com` (tries to access a javascript file)   * `google-proxy-66-249-81-131.google.com`   * `google-proxy-66-249-81-111.google.com` (tries to access a javascript file)    * `google-proxy-66-249-81-164.google.com` The first one in the list is a weird one, Firefox 6.0 on Windows 7 and same IP as example above but is not a proxy in the next log? If it is mobile proxy, this is very weird or not?               Ticket ID : {EVNT_164838_2013040520130402_33147_10348}       Event type : Access blocked       Event date : 04/05/2013 - 19:19:07 (server date-time)       Event counter : First occurring       Processed url : http://streambutler.net/       From url : Unknown or direct link       Domain : streambutler.net      Domain IP : 95.170.70.213       Visitor IP : 66.249.81.131       Proxy IP : (not present)            Critical : Yes       Action required : No                 Additional information     Problem : Blocked Server IP address (analysis) - 66.249.81.131      Hostname : google-proxy-66-249-81-131.google.com      Block : Yes      Refferer : (direct access)      AgentString : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110814 Firefox/6.0 ...      Browser : Firefox 6.0      Platform : Windows 7      Robot : No      Mobile : No      Tablet : No      Console : No      Crawler : No      Agent_type : browser      Agent_name : firefox      Agent_version : 6.0      Os_type : windows      Os_name : windows 7      Agent_languagetag : en      Status : ok      Request : 66.249.81.131      Languagecode : us      Country : United States      Region : California      City : Mountain View      Zipcode : 94043      Latitude : 37.406      Longitude : -122.079      Timezone : -07:00      Available from  : \'http      Areacode : 0      Dmacode : 0      Continentcode : na      Currencycode : USD      Currencysymbol : $      Currencysymbol_utf8 : $      Currencyconverter : 1      Extended : 1      Organization : NULL       Anyone has info about these?


title: How to inform website owner if someone downloads something from the website?

text: Right, beginner here so bare with me.. * * * **What i've got:** A simple html/css website with a page where clients can find informative documents in the form of PDF's and rich text documents, they can just click the link to download the documents as desired. **What the website owner wants:** When the client/user selects a document to download, a form appears asking them to input their personal or company name and submit before allowing them to download as normal. This information, who downloaded what and when, should be emailed to the website owner or possibly logged in a hidden site page. * * * I've never done any server-side scripting but i'm happy to learn. (I'm no professional, just throwing this together for a family friend according to their specifications). The reason i gave up googling temporarily and came here is that with all the different possible approaches and presumably a lot of outdated information i'm a bit lost on such a big topic. So i'm looking for a recommendation for a scripting language and a point in the right direction in terms of methods of tutorials i could put to work to implement the above. Or perhaps even a simple opensource script that i could learn from and adapt to suit the website owners needs. Any advice appreciated! Sorry if this isn't the right place/question to ask. **Scripting languages his host accepts:** perl, php, python.


title: How to measure the file download speed in another country

text: Now I have a dir with about 5000 files (images) in it and I concerned if this amount will significantly slowdown speed of page load with this images. I'd like to test the load speed of an image from this big directory in comparison with a dir with a small amount of files. The problem is that I am in Russia but the web-served is located in US and dedicated for US users. So how do I check the speed of download from another country?


title: What measures should I take after I find one of my scripts being vulnerable?

text: I maintain a few PHP-based websites for a small company on a LAMP server. The scripts include CMS such as Joomla or Wordpress, as well as SilverStripe and Drupal installations. A week ago, I found the sites to have been compromised. The only actual causes of the problems were that all `.php` files had been deleted in the attack. Restoring those from backup put everything back in a normal state. Of course, the security hole still exists somewhere. Here's what I did immediately after the attack:   * The sites are all saved in `/var/www`, and the files and folders used to all belong to `www-user`. I now created a user for every site, e.g. `drupal`, and ran `chown -R drupal:www-data .` on the Drupal folder.   * I checked the permissions so files would be `u=rwx,g=rx,o=`, and directories `u=rw,g=r,o=`. This, I assume, will make it impossible for an attack through PHP to actually be able to delete files or modify them in any way. Now my questions:   * Are these assumptions about permissions correct and will they at least save me from an imminent attack?   * What other precautions can I take, apart from upgrading the scripts to the latest version and making sure my backups are working fine?


title: How is relevance of results on froogle determined?

text: I have a client who sells shoes, and is included on froogle. However, results are quite skewed for other stuff when I do a search for their name on froogle: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=shop&q=shermanbrothers&oq=shermanbrothers&gs_l=products- cc.3...4555.6166.0.6455.15.8.0.7.0.0.159.739.5j3.8.0...0.0...1ac.fFUuy61zkHg#hl=en&tbm=shop&sclient=psy- ab&q=shermanbrothers&oq=shermanbrothers&gs_l=serp.12...0.0.0.654235.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c.98nQoMkQujk&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=aabf81530f08f356&biw=1304&bih=680 So what factors affect relevance on froogle?


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Ad service that supports ssl (secure publishing) I have recently enabled SSL on my site, now my google ads cause some browsers to complain about unsecured content (because Google Ads are served over http). Are there any ad networks that serve ads over SSL?


title: Canonicalization of my site

text: I'm confused about canonical issue. I've setup in .htaccess to redirect the urls without www to www. one's.   My site is http://www.indiacustomercare.com .   Now the url's in this link-http://www.indiacustomercare.com/sitemap are all without www. Is this going to affect anything?   In the web will both the url's(http://www.indiacustomercare.com & http://indiacustomercare.com) be considered same or different?


title: Problem with submitting URL to index for Ajax crawlable URLs

text: My site contains lots of dynamic data, so I am using Ajax crawling to crawl it properly. When I use the "Fetch as Google" tool in Google Webmaster Tools it's working perfectly, but the "Submit to Google index" button next to the result is not working. It just reloads the page and does nothing. For this non-Ajax URL it works perfectly and says "URL submitted to index", but not for this Ajax URL. Any Ideas?


title: A date format that isn't picked up by Google as keyword

text: My site is lacking a bit of written content through reasons I cannot control, but it does feature a lot of dates. Currently my top keyword is "Jul" because my date format is like this: > 10th of Jul Within the Google Webmaster page it lists my highest keywords. I was wondering, if I put my dates in a specific format, will it know that they are dates and therefore exclude them as a keyword, in the same way that it seems to do for words like "the, of" etc.


title: portfolio blog hosting

text: We currently have a photo storage website. A user can store his photos on our site. We want to give a facility to each user to create his photo portfolio and customize its look and feel, and contents more like a blog hosting. I am very beginner here. Is there any open source software that I can use? Thanks


title: Hacked by our own hosting company!

text: OK, so our hosting company decided to clone our site and database onto a new serve. Without our knowledge or permission they then edited our code to point to the new database. The old server was left running, still pointing at the original database. The DNS was changed to reflect the new IP address of the server. Obviously during the propagation customers were hitting both the new and old servers, resulting in orders coming in to both databases, sometimes being split between the two. We're now attempting to reconcile the two databases. The question I have is is it still hacking if it was done by your own hosting company?! I'm fairly sure they shouldn't have edited our code! If they had left it as it was the site would have stayed pointed at the original database and we wouldn't be in this mess! I'm thinking that legal advice is need but just wanted to know if anyone had ever come across this situation before?!


title: What free hosting solution do you recommend for this use case?

text: I want to create a site that basically lets me:   1. Write tutorial articles with nice formatting.   2. Display flash videos for my viewers. Any suggestions on a free solution? Something that would allow me to purchase a domain name and upgrade would be a plus. Thanks!


title: Are disqus comments searchable using a website's own search tools?

text: I'm evaluating comment systems and although I see disqus used in many cases I'm not sure if it is the best choice for me as I am uncertain that my site's own search system could show comments in search results. Can built-in search or Apache Solr find comments on the site made with Disqus ? Research I have shown so far is that Disqus has Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) -- for _external_ search engines e.g. Google:-   * http://wordpress.org/plugins/disqus-comment-system/   * http://www.quora.com/Do-search-engines-index-Disqus-content But what about your own search system on your site, or using Solr for example. I'd prefer not to use Custom Google Search to search my site as I want control over how my results are shown.


title: Google Analytics content drilldown displays folders which I do not have in my domain

text: Assume that I have the following folders in the root of my domain: `programming`, `codesnippets`, `wordreminder`. I am using Google Analytics content drilldown to see the statistics. Apart from the above three I can see folders which I do not have: `/pinshop123/`, `/pinshop/`, `/Scripts/`, `/pro/` and so on... Why such folders appear? Is any site using my site in `iframe` or javascript?


title: Which of these URL scenarios is best for big link menus? [seo /user friendly urls]

text: Me and a good friend of mine are exploring the possibilities of either of the three scenarios for a website where each webpage has a menusystem with about 130 links.: > **SCENARIO 1**   >  the pages menu system has SHORT non-descriptive hyperlinks as well as a > SHORT canonical:   >  `<a href:"design">dutch design</a>`   >  the pages canonical url points to e.g.: "`design`" OR > **SCENARIO 2**   >  the pages menu system has SHORT non-descriptive hyperlinks wwith LONG > canonical urls:   >  `<a href="design">dutch design</a>`   >  the pages canonical url points to: `dutch-design-crazy-yes-but-always- > honest` OR > **SCENARIO 3**   >  the pages menu system has LONG descriptive hyperlinks with LONG canonical > urls:   >  `<a href="dutch-design-crazy-yes-but-always-honest">dutch design</a>`   >  the pages canonical url points to: `dutch-design-crazy-yes-but-always- > honest` Currently we have scenario 2... should we progress to scenario 3? All three work fine and point via RewriteMod to the same page which is fetched underwater. Now, my question is which of these is better in terms of:   * userfriendlyness (page loading times, full url visible in url bar or not)   * seo friendlyness (proper indexing due to the urls containing descriptive relevant tags)   * other concerns we forgot like possible penalties for so many words in link hrefs??


title: Avoiding Personally Identifiable Information in Custom Variables in Google Analytics

text: We are currently logging the type of user via custom variables. The types are to do with the level of service they have - gold, silver or bronze or just a regular non-logged in user. Ideally what we would like to do is to log which users are logging in and using the system (and more importantly who isn't) however this would contravene the terms of Analytics as it would constitute personally identifiable information. (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here btw.) However would it be allowed to track the organisation the user belonged to in Analytics? So each organisation has a number of logins and if we were to track that a visit belonged to a particular organisation? Joe (PS: I tried this on the product forums but had no luck so I am trying it again here.)