title: check server speed / response time

text: I was reeled in by cheap, unlimited hosting. (Well, kind of cheap apart from having to buy a year upfront.) The moral of the story is it's awful. I'm trying to find a reason for them to let me leave and I've seen on there site they say "fast a reliable hosting" (big lie). Whats the best way for me to check the server speed response time so i can use this in my argument and hopefully be let go ? This has nothing to do with page speed, only server speed.


title: Make Google Plus One only work for the domain and not the path

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Make Google +1 button +1 a specific URL rather than the URL it's on? I'm creating an image sharing website, and since it's going to have many thousand links, then it's almost impossible to put a Google Plus One button in my site. Plus one is an indication of site's popularity and trust. You follow a link in SERP, because you see that somebody that you know has already plused one that link. So, you trust that link and click it. The more plus a page get, the more trustworthy it becomes. Sites which has simple static pages can get many plus ones, but sites like mine (dynamic sites with thousands of links) can't aggregate plus ones in one page. Is there any way to tell Google that I only want the Plus Ones to be counted for the **domain** only, and not for the **path**? In other words, how can I transfer a plus one given to the **http://example.com/tag1-tag2/2525** to plus ones given to the **http://example.com**? Is it possible at all?


title: Legality of publishing a website in directory?

text: I want to make a list of biggest websites that run on specific platform. I won't mention platform here but let's say xy for example. So basically it will be a directory where each site will be described with couple of words and with a name and link. Is there any risk that any company could suit me for this because I will reveal information which platform they use? To recognize that they probably run on xy platform I will check if a specific URL exists in their domain. Platform xy has specific URL key on all domains, that is how I know they run on this platform. This is actually public because everyone could do the same, but still I am not sure about legality of publishing their site on the list.


title: Does app non-approval cause Facebook FQL queries from my URL to have a zero `share_count`, or is that my bit.ly URLs?

text: I tried setting up the app (production, because we have no test server) with a test user and used him to share the content. The content was shared on the users' wall, but when I do an `fql query` on the `link_stat` table. I noticed that my URL has a zero `share_count`:               https://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=SELECT%20url,%20normalized_url,%20share_count,%20like_count,%20comment_count,%20total_count,commentsbox_count,%20comments_fbid,%20click_count%20FROM%20link_stat%20WHERE%20url=%27http://bit.ly/someurl/%27      and               https://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=SELECT%20url,%20normalized_url,%20share_count,%20like_count,%20comment_count,%20total_count,commentsbox_count,%20comments_fbid,%20click_count%20FROM%20link_stat%20WHERE%20url=%27http://<some-site>/somepage.html%27      Is this because I don't have my app approved yet? Or is it because I'm using bit.ly links back to my page to track individual Social Media campaigns in Universal Analytics? I don't know if my app is in **development mode** or not, I would think so because in the documentation it states:      `When testing your apps, place them into Development Mode. This hides your app entirely from all users who you have not authorized in the App Dashboard to see the app, for the roles described below. Please note that when your app is in Development Mode, you cannot call any API calls on behalf of users who cannot see your app.`


title: Display custom dimension and events in Google Analytics Dashboard

text: I currently send events to my Google Analytics account with custom dimensions and custom metrics. I use the measurement protocol to send these events. I set a Dashboard with a widget per custom dimension and metric and it displays me all I need. The problem is, only "today"'s value is displayed and when I pick another range of date the widgets display no data. But I know there should be data displayed because in the Behavious>Event section I can see it. One other thing is weird: if I choose to display from Yesterday to Today, all widgets are empty, but if I choose just today widgets display data. It does look like a bug, do someone knows more about it ? Thank you.


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title: Sitemap creators not visiting most pages

text: I am trying to generate a sitemap for a customers website, http://www.ruralmarketing.co.nz . When I use the online generators it only ever creates a sitemap with two urls, the index and contact page. Is there something that I have done wrong with my url structure? I can't find anything obvious.


title: Can I change the cname of my domain to any other domain I want?

text: I own a domain name can i change it's CNAME to make it point to any other domain that I don't own? Example: I own a domain name (balh.com) can I make it an alias for google.com and yahoo.com? means when I enter (balh.com) in the web browser it shows the google.com webpage with the address (blah.com)?


title: How do I change my name servers for Sedo Parking?

text: I wanted to park my domain with SedoParking. It says to change it to ns1.sedoparking.com. I did change the start and www to that. But the A (Address) has to be an IP. So How do I change that?


title: Auto backup a file with a customizable extension name

text: Are there any tools we can use to automatically create a backup of file like (php file,css file,asp file) and have an extension name of "index.php.(timestamp)".?This is a common problem for developers or if not common I guess they will like it.


title: User identification via analytics solutions, any gotchas?

text: Currently we are using Google Analytics and provide a simple template generated privacy policy, i.e. standard policy on cookies, anonymous tracking etc Some more advanced solutions such as mixpanel now allow us to link logged-in- user, so the users are not anonymous anymore. Are there any gotchas if we are going to integrate these solutions, e.g. need to update the privacy policy, or provide a way to optout? particular we don't want to violate the EU's requirements.. p.s. We are running a ecommence site.


title: Files not caching

text: We store our images on S3 and our performance has been incredibly slow. This morning we turned on CloudFront in hopes that our performance would increase. When I analyze our performance with Google's Dev Tools or YSlow, our site is still slow. Both tools recommend I set expire times so browsers cache the images. I looked in our _.htaccess_ file, `mod_expires` is turned on with the following rules:               <IfModule mod_expires.c>      Media: images, video, audio            ExpiresByType image/gif                 "access plus 1 month"       ExpiresByType image/png                 "access plus 1 month"       ExpiresByType image/jpeg                "access plus 1 month"       ExpiresByType video/ogg                 "access plus 1 month"       ExpiresByType audio/ogg                 "access plus 1 month"       ExpiresByType video/mp4                 "access plus 1 month"       ExpiresByType video/webm                "access plus 1 month"     </IfModule>      Why are our images not being cached by the browser?


title: Documentation, Examples, etc of implementing Google's Website Translator

text: I can't seem to find any documentation or examples of Google's Website Translator. Here is a link to the home page for it but short of getting started and a couple of key features, I can't find any actual documentation on it. Website Translator


title: Where does the URL parameter "?chocaid=397" come from?

text: In Google Webmaster Tools, I noticed that my front page was indexed two times:   * `example.com/`   * `example.com/?chocaid=397` I know that I could fix this with the use of link type `canonical`, but I wonder: Where does this parameter come from? There are various sites that have pages indexed with this very parameter/value: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chocaid%3D397. I looked for similarities between these sites. but couldn't find a conclusive one: It's often the front page, but not in every case. Some are NSFW, but not all. When one domains' URL has this parameter, often other subdomains of the same domain have it, too. ## Examples ### Wikipedia entry ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Qe3JK.png) ### Microsoft Codeplex ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ae7le.png)


title: Adding tracking to a link without rewriting the link

text: I use goo.gl as my url shortener when posting to social media and I really like the analytics it gives me: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UdFCK.jpg) I'd like to get similar tracking information for who turns up to my homepage via social media - at the moment I've just got my standard homepage link (because there is no need to shorten) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/PG32r.jpg) My problem is: I think that the url structure (clearly academic, doesn't look like spam or like I'm trying to sell things) probably gets more clickthoughts than it would if I it was a classic goo.gl link. Is there a way I can add tracking information to the link (in this case I could put tracking on the site, but I'm looking for a general solution) so that it kept it's structure, but also enabled tracking?


title: How can CTR (Click-through rate) affect SEO & web site rank

text: I heard lot of "CTR affects SEO and makes site's rank better".   But i can't understand how!   If some one click links of my pages from my other pages or another site but the Search engine itself; How the search engine can find out that click actually happened? So Does CTR actually makes website rank (Google or Alexa or etc) better?   If yes how they detect the click?!


title: adding slugs to the URLs afterwards

text: we have a website for last 5 months and we did not used slug at bottom level elements so urls was like /apps/webmasters/badges/1100 would it make sense to add name to the URL after that point and redirect to the new ones ? I am interested in building more search terms. and increase page ranks ..... /apps/webmasters/badges/1100 -> redirect and served at /apps/webmasters/badges/1100-supporter Or should I keep old URLs as is and create new urls with slugs. I would also appreciate some advice on shared urls on facebook or on twitter in those cases. Thanks in advance...


title: Need Google to recrawl the pages

text: I've changed the meta description tag in many of my site pages. Should I select Fetch as Google->Fetch->Add to Index->URL and all linked pages in GWT? Will Google recrawl the whole site faster than it'd normally? This option can be used maximum of 10 times in a month. Can there be any side affects when doing this way in case only a few of site pages have changed?


title: How to prevent Google from indexing non-domain URL of website?

text: My webhost gives you two URLs for your website:   1. the URL on your shared server, which is something like `usr283725992783.webhost.com` and   2. your domain URL, which is `www.example.com` Google is indexing both of these URLs, but obviously I only want `www.example.com` to be indexed. I can't add "nofollow" tags to `usr283725992783.webhost.com` because that URL serves the same files as `www.example.com`. How can I only make Google not follow `usr283725992783.webhost.com` and keep following `www.example.com`?


title: How do I disable the ftp:// hostname

text: Is there anyway to change hostname from being `[ftp://mysite.com]`?. I'm not sure if there is any benefit to doing this but I notice that for high profile sites that doesn't get me to their FTP login, so why does it have to go to mine?


title: Will adsense 'use' comments between the adsense opening and closing tags for ad targeting?

text: I've got a simple website on which students of my school can see their timetable. I setup adsense three weeks ago and everything is working fine. But I would like to help adsense.   * Since only a timetable and a few instructions are shown, there is scarcely content to which ads can relate. Idea:               <!- google_ad_section_start –>     <!-- Students like clothing ... and bargains, etc.-->     <!– google_ad_section_end –>      Will this work? Or are there other ways to help adsense?


title: how to set 301 redirect in wordpress .htacces file

text: In continuation of my previously asked question preserve-search-engine-index- while-shifting-to-new-domain. The migration is being done in the word-press and we will have same server with same IP.Since the database is same, all we did is export the data from old database to new database changed the link and now everything is perfect. i know about that we can set 301 redirect in the .htacces file in wordpress but not sure how to do this, and since there are so many links in the old domain. i am not sure how best we can handle this redirect. Do we need to create a mapping for each old URL to new URL? and where we should put these mapping in the Old domain? any help in this regard will be much helpful.If i need to provide more information, please let me know i will put any other required information in post. We are planning to shutdown the Old domain in next 6-7months once the new domain is UP.Is that a good decision? Additionally one more doubt which is there in my mind is about duplicate contents since both the old domain and new domain have 100% similar contents, so there might be some penalty from search engines.How can we handle that?


title: How Google Web Starter Kit serves adaptive image for mobile?

text: My website weirdly (in a good way) serves smaller images when viewed on mobile. I wanted to know what cause this? As far as I know this is not the default behaviour, so I think it must be Google Web Starter Kit's doing.Here is the debug information when debugging on device. All images became 231 B size no matter how large it actually is. (On desktop debugging the size varies.) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bK87N.png) I tried using Google Web Starter Kit (https://github.com/google/web-starter- kit) recently. The tools in it are made of Ruby, Node.js, SASS and Gulp to help you 'build' website. Pre-build you can enjoy automatic reload because the Gulp script will watch all files for you. When build it will run various tools to minify HTML,CSS and compress images. According to this page https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/tools/build/build_site the gulp-imagemin was used. So I guess the imagemin is doing the mobile optimization for me? What kind of compression can serve automatically resized image on mobile? And why is the size 231 B? Is this related to my screen size?


title: Sending forms in MIME format via email

text: I am trying to send a form via email in MIME format. However, the input tag is displayed as text in square brackets and the button tag is displayed as plain text. ie.               <input type="submit" value="Submit" class="button"/>    =>    [Submit]          <button type="submit">Submit</button>                   =>    Submit      I also tried setting the Content-Type header to "application/javascript" I read on one site that when using MIME format, I should "code like it is 1996". Does anyone know if these features are supported; if so what can I do to make the buttons functional, if not is there a work around? The emails typically are intended to be opened in Outlook.


title: Hashbang priority vs clean url

text: Hi I am a newbie in google analytics.I have implemented a site with angularjs and Rails.Because of the use of angularjs the url generated is with hashbang(#!) for eg:-www.abc.com/#!/xyz Now I have made the website crawlable by google with the help of escaped fragment.So the website is crawlable and the results are shown in google. Now the SEO professionals in our office is telling me that a cleaner url ie without hashbang (www.abc.com/xyz) has more priority in results. All I want to ask is,is this true and will it not create duplicate pages if implemented.


title: Is it possible to know where a CDN's servers are located?

text: Are there any tools or online applications that can list where a CDN's servers are located?


title: How to know who Liked my pages on Facebook via my website

text: I'm using Facebook Social Plugin on my website. But I don't know who came to my website and liked my individual pages. If you take a look at my pages, you can see a person has liked it but who?


title: SEO and unique IDs in urls

text: I have a web site who's home page is at               http://domain.com      when a new user first hits the web site I'm creating a unique id of 5 chars for them (for example 'abcde' and redirecting them to `http://domain.com/abcde` so they can later bookmark and return to their workspace. My question is what's the best approach for SEO purposes, I need the main url domain.com to be indexed but Google will also get the redirect and will not index the main page. I know about canonical urls, but this applies only when the domain.com url does not redirect also should I use 301 or 302 code in the redirect ?


title: Attach a Wordpress.org blog to my BigCommerce Store as a sub-domain

text: I am stuck in a peculiar situation. I have a store on BigCommerce configured with a domain from GoDaddy ( **mystore.com** ). I recently created a custom wordpress blog and hosted it on 1and1 hosting ( **s418783372.onlinehome.us** ), since bigcommerce can't host Wordpress. Now, I want to use it from a sub-domain of my main-bigcommerece store ( **models.mystore.com** ), but it doesn't seem to be working since BigCommerce is the Domain Manager, but GoDaddy is the Domain-Registrar and 1and1 is the host so it doesn't control the domain. I have tried setting up a CNAME record on BigCommerece and when it didn't work asked BigCommerece about it, but they said they can't do anything about it since they aren't the domain registrar and gave me a message saying: > The responsiblity to show the name in the browser on the site is up to the > server or site admin. The Cname can only get the browser there **UPDATE:** I succeeded in setting up a CNAME on BigCommerce poinitng to the site at 1and1, but for some-reason, all it gives me is a `404-Not-Found` error. I was thinking this is due to a restriction on 1and1, any idea on how to overcome that? > Not Found > > The requested URL / was not found on this server. > > Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an > ErrorDocument to handle the request. I tried adding a domain on the 1and1 control panel (http://faq.1and1.co.uk/domains/domain_xfers/dns_transfer/4.html), pointing to models.mystore.com, but it isn't letting me add a Sub-Domain, there... **UPDATE:** I added mystore.com as an external domain and them added models.mystore.com as a sub-domain on the 1and1 hosting Domains panel. And it works :) Thank you all


title: Any other slash installations besides Slashdot

text: I really want to use slashdot type functionality for a site and I think their source code is open, but I'm not sure how easy it is to use. Is anyone else using it or know of any non-slashdot installations of it?


title: https and Google Search: how to run an https web-site to get Referer?

text: I note that www.google.com is increasingly being used through `https`, and this results in no `HTTP` `Referer` being provided to my web-sites for hits that originate from Google Search over SSL. How do I run my web-sites such that if they are to appear as a Search Result for a given search at Google, then an `https` version is provided, but only if the Google Search itself is accessed through `https`?


title: Collapsible menu and amount of links in a web page

text: One of my pages contain three levels of a collapsible menu (JS + CSS from mycssmenu.com). There are a dozen first level items displayed to users, each one with various second level items, and finally a lot of third level items, each one containing a related link. This generates a lot of internal links (300+). Because of SEO should I change the way the collapsible menu is displayed to reduce link amount? What do you suggest? I would like to avoid users to have to open a new page just to only see what are third level items and eventually follow one of its links.


title: Domain, subdomain and path forwarding

text: I have four domains:               domain.in     domain.com     domain.org     domain.co.in      I want to make `domain.in` as my main domain. I want to forward all my other domains to it. I want to set up forwarding such that:   1. `domain.com` goes to `domain.in`   2. `www.domain.com` goes to `www.domain.in`   3. `xyz.domain.com` goes to `xyz.domain.in`   4. `abc.domain.com/path/to/directory` goes to `abc.domain.in/path/to/directory` How can I do that? Screenshot of my registrar's domain forwarding form


title: web based booking systems

text: I am an IB(International Baccalaureate) student, and for preparing for my ITGS(Information Technologies in Global Societies) exam, and I would like to ask few questions to people who has worked with web-based booking systems. Here are the questions; *Could you please describe the booking system you are using ? *If so, how did you build your interactive booking system ?(Java, Flash, Javascript) *If you are using Flash for your interactive booking system, how did you manage the problem with smart phones and tablet devices that doesn’t support flash?  *What can you say when you compare the cost of building your booking system and the other alternatives ? *What difficulties you went through when you made your system ? *What are the advantages of using such a system ? Why did you prefer to do so ? *ls your system multilingual ? If not, why ? *If so, what are the difficulties of having a multi-lingual web-site? How did you solve these problems ? These are the questions I sent to some companies, who never replied back, so you may find them a little bit weird Any help will do Thanks


title: JVZoo: Pay Now / Checkout button

text: I just want to know if it is possible to use JVZoo as a payment processor on my website (like PayPal, 2checkout, etc.) Or is it just for affiliate based sales creation?


title: Nameservers and migrating a VPS

text: I am primarily a front end developer who has been tasked with upgrading my companies VPS. As far as I understand, this is just the process of obtaining a new VPS with WHM/CPanel and then migrating the existing accounts over to the new VPS, testing the sites out, then pointing the DNS to the new nameserver records. That sounds pretty straightforward. What I am having trouble understanding is how to set up the new nameservers on the new VPS. How do I obtain/establish the new nameserver records for the new, blank VPS?


title: Custom 505 and SEO

text: There is a PHP project that sometimes throws 500 errors, I'm making a customized 500 page so that people realize we are monitoring this event and we will fix the issues. My question is related to SEO Should I still send the 500 header? Or should I make it look like a normal page and just not index it or something? Is it a bad idea to remove the 500 header and use a normal 200?


title: running multiple name-based web applications on a single ip address with SSL

text: I'm working on web projects. My scenario is I have two web applications running on one single web server (Apache). Due to my company policy, they ask me to put both of them on SSL (Port #443), no other way round. Here is where I have a question coming up on my mind. As far as I understand, we can only have one application running over the above mentioned port. Is there any solution where I can have both of them running over SSL by using only one server? How many possible solutions are there? What I can think of now is I may assign different domain name for each web application. so, I can achieve that using virtual host setting with Apache. So, both of them can point to my single IP address. e.g.               1st web application:   https:www.abc.com     2nd web application:   https:www.xyz.com      Would this be a good idea? Any advice would be really appreciated.


title: Rewrite rule for 403

text: I have an _.htaccess_ file: In this file it redirects to `index.php` in case a file or directory is not found. My code is as below:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d         RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]     </IfModule>      Everything is working fine with this code. Now when I get Forbidden error(403), I would like it to be redirect to `index.php`. Do you have an idea how to write an _.htaccess_ file for this purpose?


title: Google local search rankings is it possible without the use of citations

text: I have a client that is wanting a website design for his self-run business... Basically he is a self employed plumber so his home address is not visitable by the public, however the problem here is that he does not want his home address visible on the internet at all for one reason or another. I have informed him the benefits of having his address visible for such reasons as trust by customers as well as the benefits via Google's local search algorithms (Citations - Visible Address Details) on various directories including Google Maps, and Google Places. But he is clear that he does not want his address online and wants SEO + Web Design without any citations. Now, I care about my reputation in my local area and do not like do half-cut jobs, If I do SEO I want them to be the best they can otherwise word of mouth that customer could say to someone else after my services they are no where to be seen, (I know you can't keep them all happy but none the less). This is kinda new for me since Google introduced local rankings and something I've never had to do... So my question is fairly simple and hope that people who reply have some kind of experience in attempting ranking websites locally without citations.. Is it even possible to rank a local website with Google's local algorithms without the use of citations (address information)?


title: SEO - Reducing significance of irrelevant kewords

text: I have some irrelevant keywords high up in my Google Webmasters Tools Keywords list. Unfortunately it's stuff that needs to be on the site. E.g. I'm getting words like _log_ (from log-in), _copyright_ , _privacy_. I heard in the past that you could apply `class="robots-nocontent"`, but I don't think google uses this (and poss yahoo doesn't either with the bing change). What, if anything can be done to downplay these keywords?


title: SEO: How to stop certain web-pages from "having importance"

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO - Reducing significance of irrelevant kewords. I wrote "having importance" since I do not really know the right way to say this. I have certain pages in my site like "Terms of Use" and "Privacy Policy" and all that admin stuff, and for some reason google gives them great importance, they are in the footer and don't have any tag or anything so it's kinda weird. But anyway, I see in Google Webmaster Tools that some of the keywords for my site are stuff like "Privacy Policy" and of course this has nothing to do with my site, I don't want those pages to have that big importance, and probably steal "juice" from the other pages. What's the best method of stopping this from happening?   maybe this? `<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW">` There are links from the "Terms" pages to the home page and other important pages so is this what I should put?


title: How does Google prevent GA accounts from being spammed

text: Since the `Google Analytics` snippet is available in the source code of the page (e.g. below is stackexchange's)                  <script type="text/javascript">var _gaq=_gaq||[];_gaq.push(['_setAccount','UA-5620270-24']);             _gaq.push(['_setDomainName','.stackexchange.com']);             _gaq.push(['_setCustomVar', 2, 'accountid', '148108',2]);      _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);         var _qevents = _qevents || [];         (function(){             var s=document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];             var ga=document.createElement('script');             ga.type='text/javascript';             ga.async=true;             ga.src='http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js';             s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga,s);             var sc=document.createElement('script');             sc.type='text/javascript';             sc.async=true;             sc.src='http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js';              s.parentNode.insertBefore(sc,s);         })();         </script>      I was wondering how `Google` were preventing people's `GA` accounts from being spammed. For instance I could modify my `/etc/hosts` file to point `webmasters.stackexchange.com` to a server of mine, then on that server I create few dummy webpages with the above `GA` code, and I could use an automated browser like Selenium to continuously browse these pages and execute the `GA` code which would generate plenty of requests from my browser to `GA`. **How does Google prevent people's GA account statistics from being spammed?**


title: File Access Permission

text: I need to upload a file to site with PHP code. How to set permission for upload folder if I want to users cant access to file by URL but PHP code read this file ?


title: Outsourcing backend work

text: I would like to make a website that has a lot of the same features and functionality of www.quibids.com. I need user accounts, payment processing, various products that will have a timer, packages of "bids" for a price, and I will also need a custom flash interface application that records data based on user input and a CMS system so I can update the products on a daily basis. FYI this has nothing to do with auctions quibids is just a good indication of what I need. I'm trying to create the website as cheaply as possible, but at the same time, I want the end result to have a high end professional appeal (like quibids does in my mind). I plan to get the front end via www.99designs.com (any better recommendations?) which is where quibids got theirs. I have received some quotes to build out the rest, but they range from 30K to 150K (in the US). I stumbled upon freelancer.com and found some people who I think can get most, if not all, of the work I need done at a much cheaper price. So here are my questions:   1. Am I off base or am I approaching this correctly?   2. Where can I find someone locally (in the US) who would have knowledge of everything I'm trying to accomplish that could check the work that someone is doing on freelancer to ensure it's quality? I can see that it looks and works, but I don't know the interworkings of complex web design.    3. How much do you believe I should be spending on a website described above?


title: PHP framework or app for customer support / automated troubleshooting

text: I need to provide my customers a web help so that I can diagnose their issues. I was thinking about a tree questionnaire, where the leaf is either the response to the issue, or a "Please call the support team". I was wondering if there were builtin solutions as PhpBB is for forums ? Thanks in advance !


title: How do you use/make CSS based buttons?

text: 'd like to have one image for the background and then reuse that for any size button with any text on it by just using a CSS class. So, I'd like to have the button, the moused-over and clicked button as images, but then use CSS to apply that to a button so that I can change the text in the HTML (rather than having to recreate the button image everytime the text changes or I need a new button with new text). Also, that'll allow me to change the color of ALL buttons in one place. I do web development only part time, so a bit of a newbie at the CSS stuff.


title: Google De-Index many pages at once?

text: On one of our websites, Google has been indexing something it wasn't supposed to. We fixed the problem so it shouldn't happen anymore, but are interested in requesting that Google de-index these pages. The problem is that there are about 10,000 pages. They all look similar to this:               http://www.mysite.com/file.php?o=34995     http://www.mysite.com/file.php?o=4566     http://www.mysite.com/file.php?o=223af     http://www.mysite.com/file.php?o=6ga3h     http://www.mysite.com/file.php?o=sfh45a     etc...      All the pages are `file.php` with get parameters like above. Is it possible to put in a de-index request like: `http://www.mysite.com/file.php*` so that Google removes all 10,000 pages?


title: Google indexing page with parameters but page is Disallowed in robots.txt

text: I have the following in robots.txt:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /refer.php          User-agent: NinjaBot     Allow: /          Sitemap: http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml      The `refer.php` file does various things depending on what `GET` parameters are passed to it. When I do a Google search, I see tons of results for pages like this:               http://www.mysite.com/refer.php?o=23945     http://www.mysite.com/refer.php?o=39858     http://www.mysite.com/refer.php?o=9683     http://www.mysite.com/refer.php?o=10569     http://www.mysite.com/refer.php?o=58304     http://www.mysite.com/refer.php?o=69604      Is the reason that Google is indexing these because I don't have an asterisk `*` after `refer.php` in the `robots.txt` ? Should changing it to `Disallow: /refer.php*` fix the problem?


title: Template CMS system for user space within a site

text: Any ideas on a CMS system where I want to give each user a specific page to do their content and not be able to impact other users pages. It seems most CMS system give a basic level of membership that doesnt allow this kind of setup.


title: Can I instruct the browser not to look for a favicon?

text: I have a website that doesn't have/need a favicon. Is there a way to instruct the browser not to waste a request looking for /favicon.ico ? I don't mean filtering logs, but something client-side, like this:               <link rel="shortcut icon" href="about:blank" />      That appears to work, but I'm not in a position to do comprehensive tests, (and search engines are being unhelpful). Can anyone confirm if this is a valid method, or provide a suitable alternative? **Update:** On further investigation, that _doesn't_ work (at least not with Chromium 18 on a non-local domain). A partial solution is using a `data:` URL to serve a base64 blank image, (example from here):               <link href="data:image/x-icon;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQEAYAAABPYyMiAAAABmJLR0T///////8JWPfcAAAACXBIWXMAAABIAAAASABGyWs+AAAAF0lEQVRIx2NgGAWjYBSMglEwCkbBSAcACBAAAeaR9cIAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" />      This is working, but has two down-sides:   * It will presumably fail in browsers that don't support data URLs.   * It results in no favicon at all - i.e. it hides the browser default icon.


title: Laws Regarding content Hosted on your Website

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Am I legally liable for user generated content and comments? As a webmaster are you legally responsible for content posted on your website. For example a forum, would you be responsible for posts and threads made by other people if they were to break any laws?


title: Change CSS EMs to Percentage Automatically

text: I cheated on a small site I was working on and used a site builder (Web Dwarf by Virtual Mechanics) to save time. I didn't realize it at the time, but this builder specifies the width, height and positions using CSS EMs. Is there an automated tool out there that will read through the CSS and convert each EM to a percentage so it will display correctly on wide screens as well? Any help would be great! Thanks. * * * **Here is the CSS:** http://pastebin.de/14055


title: Interspire Email Marketer Configuration

text: I'm trying to set up Interspire's Email Marketer for a client. I have a working configuration of it on the VPS but this one is having issues! I have transferred it from their old server and setup the new database... I'm thinking it could be something to do with the PHP settings / MySQL memory or buffer. When I send to a small list, it works fine, but when its faced with a larger list it won't do the business... it won't even start sending. I've been comparing the two configurations:   * http://oldhabs.com/emailmarketer/check_iem.php (This one works)   * http://servedby.intelligentmedia.co.uk/check_iem.php (This is the one that won't send to a large list) I've been getting these errors from Interspire itself: > Error Resource is not really a resource Internal May 15 2012 07:20:05 > Location:: > > /var/www/vhosts/intelligentmedia.co.uk/servedby/admin/functions/api/jobs.php > (Line 1068)   >  Error Table 'imsemailsender.email_user_permissions' doesn't exist Internal > May 15 2012 07:20:05 Query: > > SELECT l.listid, l.ownername, l.owneremail FROM email_lists l, > email_user_permissions p WHERE l.listid IN(198) AND l.ownerid = p.userid AND > p.area = 'lists' AND p.subarea = 'bouncesettings' > > Location:: > > /var/www/vhosts/intelligentmedia.co.uk/servedby/admin/functions/api/jobs.php > (Line 1065)   >  Notice Undefined index: ownerid Internal May 15 2012 07:15:54 Undefined > index: ownerid in > /var/www/vhosts/intelligentmedia.co.uk/servedby/admin/functions/send.php at > 213 File Line Function > /var/www/vhosts/intelligentmedia.co.uk/servedby/admin/functions/send.php 213 > HandlePHPErrors > /var/www/vhosts/intelligentmedia.co.uk/servedby/admin/com/init.php   >  548 Send->Process > /var/www/vhosts/intelligentmedia.co.uk/servedby/admin/index.php 76   >  require_once >   >   >        Notice       Undefined index: jobdetails    Internal    May 15 2012 > 07:15:54    Undefined index: jobdetails in >   > > /var/www/vhosts/intelligentmedia.co.uk/servedby/admin/functions/send.php at > 212 File Line Function > /var/www/vhosts/intelligentmedia.co.uk/servedby/admin/functions/send.php 212 > HandlePHPErrors > /var/www/vhosts/intelligentmedia.co.uk/servedby/admin/com/init.php   >  548 Send->Process > /var/www/vhosts/intelligentmedia.co.uk/servedby/admin/index.php I know the top error is to do with the wrong bounced address... I think. Would this stop the send to that list? I've checked the server logs, and I'm not getting any errors.


title: Unknown CSS font-family oddity with IE7-10 on Windows Vista, 7, 8

text: I am seeing the following "oddity" with IE7-10 on Windows Vista, 7, 8: When declaring `font-family: serif;` I am seeing an old bitmapped serif font that I can't identify (see screenshot below) instead of the expected font _Times New Roman_. I know it's an old bitmapped font because it displays aliased, without any font smoothing, with IE7-10 on Win Vista-8 (just like Courier on every version of Win). **Screenshot:** ![Screenshot 1](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gFSEO.png) I would like to know (1) can anyone else confirm my research and (2) BONUS: which font is IE displaying? **Notes:** IE6 and IE7 on Win XP displays _Times New Roman_ , as they should. It doesn't matter if `font-family: serif;` is declared in an external stylesheet or inline on the element. Quoting the CSS attribute makes no difference. Adding "Unkown Font" to the stack also makes no difference. **New Screenshot:** The answer from Jukka below is correct. Here is a new screenshot with Batang (not BatangChe) to illustrate. Hope this helps someone. ![Screenshot 2](http://i.stack.imgur.com/iwSRq.png)


title: Our company office website being wrongly filtered/blocked by websense under category "Potentially Damaging Content"

text: Our clients are complaining that they are not able to access our site. We figured out that websense is blocking our site by wrongly categorizing under "Potentially Damaging Content" We are INKAT Tech Private Ltd. and our website is www.inkattech.com We are an Information technology products and services provider


title: How many pages can be uploaded in the single website without offending popular search engines?

text: Currently we are serving details to our visitors through a database oriented website. Visitor selects around 5 Level options E.g. Level One: book Level Two: Chapter Level Three: Topic Now we want to convert all the details in pure html contents so there will be around 20000 pages. (Our purpose of doing this is that the search engines will be able to crawl all the contents.) If we convert Database contents into html pages and upload them all to our website in a single stroke, will there be any problem with popular search engines like google and yahoo?


title: Can't load Wordpress static files on home network

text: I've just installed Wordpress 3.5 on my laptop (LAMP on Ubuntu 12.10) and when I'm trying to access the site from my phone but it doesn't load static files (css and images). I tried with Opera Mobile Emulator on my laptop and it works perfectly. I also have another Drupal site on my localhost which I can load from my phone without any issues. Both directories have chmod 777 permissions. What can cause that? Just tried to open the site from my sister's laptop but it except static file I can't access any post or page.


title: SEO: How to make Google show correct page during search for a specific keywords

text: My company sells a lot of timber such as decking, landscape timber, timber sleepers, etc. We specify this in the front page of our website -that we sells decking, landscape timber, etc. Lately we want to focus so Google shows a correct landing page for focused keywords such as "timber sleepers", "landscape timber". So I create a dedicated landing page for "timber sleepers", and ask Google to fetch it. The problem is: whenever I search "timber sleepers", Google keep showing the **front page** of our website, because we have those keywords in the front page. Google also does not show my new "Timber Sleepers" page at all. It seems that it only shows my website URL once (which is the front page). What will be the best way to optimize this? Does this happen because I just made the changes recently (about 3 days).


title: How important is my domain registrar if they aren't doing any of my web hosting?

text: _Forgive me if I'm asking a noobish question, I'm quite new still._ I recently registered a domain with **Network Solutions** , hoping to sometime later this year put up a website that I haven't finished building yet. As of right now, _all I've done with NS is registered my domain with them_ , nothing else. But I keep on reading about how Network Solutions is a terrible and overpriced registrar, and how I ought to transfer my domain over to another registrar as soon as my 60 day restriction has expired. But the way I see it, considering I've only registered my domain with Network Solutions, the only task they'll be responsible for is pointing clients to the web address which my website will be hosted under. If I'm doing my webhosting elsewhere, what sort of complications might arise from using NS then? _(Aside from their DNS servers going down, but how likely is that?)_ (I'm still considering just moving the domain over to Hover or Bluehost as soon as I am allowed to simply because of the large amount of advice against using NS, but was wondering what sort of problems I might encounter given I don't.) Thanks


title: How to see my domain name in URL with Google appEngine

text: I have a domain name : somewhere.com this domain is mapped to somewhere.appspot.com the Google hosting service. Everything works well BUT When the users want to click on a link, they see the link as somewhere.appspot.com/somepage.php they get the right page but I would like them to see: somewhere.com/somepage.php Any suggestions?


title: How do spambots work?

text: I have a forum that's getting hit a lot by forum spambots, and of course the best way to defeat something is to know thy enemy. I'll worry about defeating those spambots later, but right now I'd like to know more about them. Reading around, I felt surprised about the lack of thorough information on the subject (or perhaps my ineptness to input the correct search terms for better google results). I'm interested in learning all about spambots. I've asked on other forums and gotten brush-off answers like "Spambots are always users registering on your site."   * **How do forum spambots work?**   * How do they find the 'new user registration' page? (I'm especially surprised because some forums don't have a dedicated URL for this eg, www.forum.com/register.html , but instead use query strings or even other methods invisible to the URL bar)   * How do they know what to enter into each 'new user registration' field?   * How do they determine what's a page they can spam / enter data into and what is not?   * Do they even 'view' this page at all?    * ..If not, then I'd assume they're communicating with the server directly - how is - this possible? How do they do it?   * Can forum spambots break CAPTCHAs? Can they solve logic questions (how?)? Math questions?   * Do they reverse-engineer client-side anti-bot validation scripts? Server-side scripts?   * What techniques are still valid to prevent them?    * Where do spambots come from? Is someone sitting behind the computer snickering as they watch their bot destroy site after site? Or are they snickering as they simply 'release' it onto the internet somehow? Are spambots 'run' by an infected computer somewhere? Do they replicate themselves?   * etc


title: Javascript based analytics tool with multiple user account management options?

text: We run a manage a website system for a large retail franchise. Each franchisee has their own templated website. We currently use SmarterStats to provide website analytics to our franchisees. SmarterStats is nice in that it allows us to manage the login information for our franchisees. If they update their login info from another part of our website system, we can synchronize that to SmarterStats. However, SmarterStats is bringing our web server to it's knees performance wise and so we're looking for alternatives. We can't use Google Analytics because it would be too much to ask all of our franchisees to create a Google login. Does anyone have any good suggestions that would meet these requirements?   1. Tracking is accomplished via javascript   2. Allows us to manage login information for hundreds of users either via API or batch update. I much appreciate any help you can offer.


title: SEO regarding using  multiple <h1> tag?

text:
Is is true `<h1>` tag should not have more than 1 on every page for SEO? Every pages on the header, it includes and `<h1>` tag. Website Name which show an image from `logo class`, like this:

          Website Name

      and I also include `<h1>` on the contact page, help, etc and article page for example:
Contact Us

Name of the Article Title here
      On the homepage, it just has one `<h1>` for the logo Site Name... other pages have 2 `<h1>` tags


title: H1 Tags and Anchor Text

text:
I am building an image based website with no text space available on the Home Page. Can I turn the main Nav Menu links into H1 tags too? Will the site be punished by Search Engines from an SEO point of view for doing it this way?
     Landscape Photography     Product Photography     Portait Photography     Food Photography


title: Proper H Tag Usage For SEO

text: What is the up to date correct usage of the H tags? I was originally told that it was only one H1 tag per page. Now I am being told that you can use more than one h1 tag as long as it is only one per sectioning root or content section and that it is better than the former way. What is the correct usage!


title: Pros and cons of separate hosting accounts versus using an addon domain

text: For historical reasons, I have "Site A" on "Hosting Account A", and "Site B" on "Account B", totally independent accounts with the same vendor, Bluehost. Both are primary domains. Now that Hosting Account B is just about to expire, I'm considering letting it disappear and moving Site B to an addon domain on "Account A". Both sites are non-commercial, narrow-interest, very-low-traffic, hundreds of page views per month. The file weights for the sites are non-trivial, especially as I like to install specialized CMSs in subdomains. Since Bluehost allows unlimited hosting space there should be no issue with the file load, except I've seen hints of an issue with total file count, maybe 50k files -- which I'm not currently close to hitting, but might eventually. My question: what are the pros and cons of using separate accounts versus hosting Site B as an addon domain? Obviously, using a single account is cheaper by half, and I know that my authoring environment (DreamWeaver CS5) complains when it detects nested source trees, telling me "Synchronization" might fail in such cases, but I don't depend on this feature. What other factors should I consider? * * * Added in response to PatomaS: Thanks for your comments. Site A and Site B are currently running custom-built php-driven code, no CMS and no DB associated with either. These sites do require some simple .htacess manipulations. A bit more work keeps those remappings from being applied to the subdomains, but that's under control. When I install a CMS in a subdomain, I'm careful to use a completely independent DB for it. I just don't seem to have problems with CMS operation in subdomains. SEO isn't really an issue: the primary domains contain totally noncommercial sites. In practice, I use CMS's in subdomain for non-public purposes, releasing the URL only to interested parties, Switching over Site B to an Add-on Domain of Account A: I'd like any switchover to occur with a minimum gap, but with only a few visitors a month, it seems unlikely that even a 24-hour switchover downtime will be noticed by anyone. After that switchover, Site B should appear at its previous URL and operate exactly the same as before, so I'm not sure about what issues you anticipate. Other than the htaccess issue referenced above, and the problem Dreamweaver has handling nested site directories I mentioned in my original post, I'm not seeing anything really difficult internally. You say, "...there is going to be one site..." but as far as I can see, from the point of view of the outer world, Site B hosted in an Add-on Domain on Hosting Account A looks totally like it did before, when hosted in a separate account. What am I missing?


title: Easiest solution to setup payments for a conference registration page?

text: I've got a fair amount of website development experience, but I've been asked to setup a conference registration page in short order. However, I have absolutely zero experience with shopping carts, payment processing, etc. What is the absolutely quickest and easiest way to get this thing up and running? Here are my criteria:   1. Site is currently hosted on Godaddy.com and someone has suggested using their QuickCart    2. We cannot use any option that visits the paypal.com domain because it has been blocked my a large segment of the potential audience (on a military base).   3. Need a $0 option for speakers   4. Cancellations can be accepted, so maybe something that could handle that would be a bonus   5. There is no "product" other than a confirmation that they have registered for the conference.


title: Google Webmaster Tools wrong content keywords

text: Google Webmaster Tools shows **views** as the #1 content keyword for my website. This is because I show the number of views each article has on a listings page. **Views** is not relevant to anything I have on on the website. Is this keyword important from a SEO perspective?


title: HTAccess redirect directories to index.html

text: I am working on a site that where I do not have permission to the server and someone else keeps changing the settings. That person just changed the settings preventing users from going to example.com/foo/ and seeing the index page. > This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed. If you type in example.com/foo/index.html you can still see the file. So I want to use htaccess to redirect all urls that end in a directory to change into directory/index.html How do I write that? I started with some code that changes .php files to .html files and tried to work from that but I couldn't quite get it to work.               RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ /$1.html [R=301,L]      Any suggestions?


title: Compare domain names effectiveness

text: I have a business, it's not purely online, but its presence is mainly online. I have purchased different domain names which I liked. Is there any service that allows you to compare their effectiveness attracting customers? I want to choose the one that will be more successful in making the customer click on my ads or my website as a search result or simply evokes a better service or sounds more nicely. How can I go about this in a scientific manner, with no assumptions, without spending lots of money and time? EDIT: By spending money and time I mean the most natural solution, which would be to replicate content on each (dangerous as google will penalise their ranking) and then run identical adwords campaigns for each, and see what happens. This would be very expensive, time costly and probably terrible for SEO.


title: Is multiple domain names and links from same IP causing poor search engine rankings?

text: I have an ecommerce website which is not doing so well in Google. I am trying to improve this of course, and am looking at some possibilities for why it isn't doing well. The website has four domain names, all of which have been indexed by Google. A few months ago I applied 301 redirects to any requests for two of the domain names so now it is down to two domain names (one is a .net, the other is a .com.au, the others were .net.au and .com). I prefer to use my main domain name (the .com.au), but one of the names has been around for a long time and has more inbound links. According to a PageRank tool, both are PR2. It is a Classic ASP site and up until recently had a lot of querystring parameters. In the last week or so I added URL rewriting so there is now no parameters for most pages. I don't do 301 redirects from the old URLs but instead I add the META canonical tag indicating the preferred new URL. At the same time I redesigned the site and improved title tags, META descriptions, and H tags but it hasn't been long enough yet for Google to index many of these yet. I also looked at what pages Google has indexed and strangely it has some strange pages in the index, there are a lot of pages which are actual keyword searches (more a bunch of random letters than an actual word). What I mean is that it is as if they had typed in something to search for in my search box - there are no links to pages like this and the only way of getting this is to type something in to the search box). So I added a META robots tag with noindex,nofollow anytime that I render pages like this. Years ago I set up a fake price comparison site which lists all my products and links back to my site. It has a different keyword rich domain name but is on the same server and same IP address. It's a completely different layout but does have the same product categories and product descriptions (although I have stripped formatting out of them so they are not identical except in text). I also have a few blog sites which again are on the same server/IP and all have advertising for the website. My questions are:   1. What should I do with the multiple domains, just use one, or continue with two or more? Could I be penalised for having multiple domains with duplicate content?   2. Should I add 301 redirects, not just the META canonical tag?   3. Any idea about Google indexing my search results page, and did I do the right thing with the META robots tag?   4. Is the fake price comparison site likely to be causing problems?   5. Are all the links to the site from other domain names but the same IP address likely to be causing problems? Thanks for any help. Sorry for so many questions in one.


title: Website Duplication issue

text: We just launched our New site with lots of changes in design and content. After getting into my Cpanle i came to know that my website developing company have done this to my site. The old site is running live on this IP (68.178.212.104) while the new one is on www.acethehimalaya.com and it seems the old site is assigned to dedicated server while the new one is just using the domain name pointed to some other IP. Both the site have similar content so is there any issues regarding the SEO ? It seems the files of my new site is somehere else. I m not able to contact my web developers so can i get some suggestion. what i need to do exactly ?


title: How to find the traffic sources for a YouTube video?

text: My web site is mentioned very favorably in a third party video that was posted to YouTube. We have the video embedded on the website as "social proof" that you should use our site. In the last week that video started getting thousands of views on YouTube (not through our site). We noticed this because there was an increase in direct traffic and brand searches. The view count of the video on the YouTube site is rising rapidly. Is there any way for us to figure out why this video is getting so much traffic? We'd like to know where it was shared and by whom. The video was paid for and produced by a third party. As such, we don't have any access to the YouTube channel to which it was posted.


title: Should I setup a new Google Analytics profile after a site overhaul?

text: We are transitioning our in house eCommerce site to Magento. We currently have done a soft roll-out of the Magento site side-by-side with our current site, making it a subdomain using `www1`. Magento has plenty of gotchas so we wanted to ease traffic into it. Anyway it's been over a month and I setup a Google Analytics profile for the new site so we could do some analysis on it. Now we are thinking about making it fully live and giving it the `www` subdomain instead of `www1`. My question is if it's okay to abandon the `www1` Google Analytics profile and replace it with the `www` profile once the cut-over is complete? Also, if I stayed with the `www1` profile am I just losing the ability to compare past data on the same screen? Seems I will always have the history of the `www` profile, I just won't be able to overlay it with the data from the new profile. Part of me likes the idea of the new profile because I did a better job of setting that up than the `www` profile, which was setup years ago and not quite as good as it could have been.


title: How to create subdomain link to SQL Server 2008

text: I would like to know how to create a subdomain that is a link to an SQL Server database. I have Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008. I have a static IP on the Windows server, and I have a domain at GoDaddy with the `A` host record pointing to the static IP. I can successfully establish a remote connection to the SQL Server instance through SQL Server Management Studio. But I have to use the `www.mydomain.com` instead of something like `sqldbmain.mydomain.com`, which is what I would prefer to use. For another example, if I create a SQL database at some web host like GoDaddy, they give me an external link to my DB like `sqldb1234.db.hostedresource.net`. That is what I'm trying to replicate. I'm not sure whether this is something that has to be managed through IIS on the Windows server, through the domain management at GoDaddy, or through SQL Server management, or even a little bit of all of them. **EDIT** For clarification, I'm accessing the database through SQL Server Management studio. In the field where it asks for the "Server Name" is where I enter `www.mydomain.com`, but I would like to enter the value similar to `sqldb1234.db.mydomain.com`.


title: Where to place web.xml outside WAR file for secure redirect?

text: I am running Tomcat 7 and am deploying a bunch of applications delivered to me by a third party as WAR files. I'd like to force **some** of those apps to always use SSL. (All the "SSL" apps are in one service; other apps outside this discussion are in another service.) I've figured out how to use _conf\web.xml_ to redirect apps from HTTP to HTTPS, but that applies to all applications hosted by Tomcat. I've also figured out how to put _web.xml_ in an unpacked app's _web-inf_ directory; that does the trick for that specific app, but runs the risk of being overwritten if our vendor gives us a new war file to deploy. I've also tried placing the _web.xml_ file in various places under _conf\service\host_ , or under _appbase_ , but none seem to work. Is it possible to redirect some apps to SSL without forcing all apps to redirect, or to put the _web.xml file_ inside the extracted WAR file? Here's my _server.xml_ :               <Service name="secure">         <Connector port="80" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="443"             URIEncoding="UTF-8" enableLookups="false" compression="on"             protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol"             compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/javascript,application/json,text/css"/>         <Connector port="443"             URIEncoding="UTF-8" enableLookups="false" compression="on"             protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol"             compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/javascript,application/json,text/css"             scheme="https" secure="true" SSLEnabled="true" sslProtocol="TLS"             keystoreFile="..." keystorePass="..." keystoreType="PKCS12"              truststoreFile="..." truststorePass="..." truststoreType="JKS"             clientAuth="false"              ciphers="SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5,SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,SSL_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA"/>         <Engine name="secure" defaultHost="localhost">             <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"                  resourceName="UserDatabase"/>             <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="false"                  autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">             </Host>         </Engine>     </Service>     <Service name="mutual-secure">         ...     </Service>      The content of the _web.xml_ files I'm playing with is:               <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"         xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"         version="3.0"         metadata-complete="true">         <security-constraint>             <web-resource-collection>                 <web-resource-name>All applications</web-resource-name>                     <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>                 </web-resource-collection>                 <user-data-constraint>                     <description>Redirect all requests to HTTPS</description>                     <transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee>                 </user-data-constraint>         </security-constraint>     </web-app>      (For _conf\web.xml_ the security-constraint is added just before the end of the existing file, rather than create a new file.) My _webapps_ directory (currently) contains only the WAR files.


title: What should I call my about me page

text: Many Search Engines says that "about" is a stop word, but if I want create an "about me" page how would this make the website's SEO worse? If it makes it worse, how could I improve or change the name: "about me"?


title: Unable to add IP address as authoritative DNS on GoDaddy

text: So I got this email recently: > Hello, > > This is the 1st follow-up notice in regards to your recent reseller server > migration. > > Our administrators have discovered that your domains on your server still > need to be updated at your domain registrar due to the migration of your > account to a new server. Without this change, your sites will no longer > operate correctly once the previous server is disconnected. We ask that you > make the following changes to your domains' DNS in order to ensure continued > operation of your websites: > > -- The following domain(s) use GoDaddy for DNS. > > user domain.tld => 192.185.144.90 > > If you do not take action before you WILL experience a service interruption. > We recommend making these changes at your earliest possible convenience. > > If you require any assistance updating your DNS records at your domain > registrar, our support staff is standing by to guide you through the process > and answer any questions that you may have. We also have a wide variety of > tutorials covering most of the popular domain registrars to assist you: When I log into `godaddy.com` it says my authoritative name servers are `ns51.domaincontrol.com` and `ns52.domaincontrol.com`. I can confirm that my domain (`domain.tld`) is active on that DNS by doing `nslookup -vc -query=all domain.tld ns51.domaincontrol.com`. I can also confirm that it's active on `192.185.144.90` by doing an `nslookup` with `192.185.144.90` instead of `ns51.domaincontrol.com`. But when I try to change the nameserver on `godaddy.com`, I get a "Invalid TLD error" error, as though GoDaddy only accepts domain names instead of IP addresses for authoritative DNS. Any ideas? A screenshot is attached: ![godaddy screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/98qN8.png)


title: How to enable Content Grouping in Google Analytics?

text: I'm trying to find where "Content Grouping" settings are located in Google Analytics. In their docs they say:   1. Click Admin at the top of any Analytics page.   2. Use the menu in the View column to select the view you want.   3. Click Content Grouping. I can't find "Content Grouping" in my menu: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/w5awg.png) I checked "Custom Channel Groupings" but it doesn't look similar to what is being described in the docs. I am using _ga.js_ tracking.


title: Forced GZIP Detection on Google App Engine

text: Some clients are appearing on our Google App Engine instances without the Accept-Encoding header. We normally use the set a cookie with an appended iframe technique (or variation thereof) to detect these and send the correct gzipped content. As Google App Engine does not let you control server side gzip, especially on static content, is there a specific cookie value to set which will force compression?


title: Can I easily track site performance over time with Google PageSpeed?

text: Are there any implementations of the Google PageSpeed API that allow one to track the performance of a site over time?


title: Cost effective way to provide static media content

text: I'd like to be able to deliver around 50MB of static content, either in about 30 individual files up to 10MB or grouped into 3 compressed files, around 5k to 20k times a day. Ideally I'd like to put some sort of very basic security around providing the data to ensure that a request is from the expected source, but if tossing the security for a big reduction in price is possible then it's an option. Does anyone have any suggestions other than what I've found: Google AppEngine is $0.12/GB & I believe has a file size limit of 10MB so I'd have to break the data up a bit. So a rough calculation would seem to be that this would cost me about $30 to $120 a day. Or I've seen something like what seems to be just public static content delivery with no type of logic capabilities like Usenet.nl at what I think calculates to about $0.025/GB which would cost me about $6 to $25 a day. Any idea if I'm going about these calculations right & if there might be a better option for just static content on a decently high volume delivery? Again some basic security would be great but if cost is greatly reduced without it then I'm up for that.


title: Connecting Google Analytics with Custom Search Engine AdSense

text: I have a Custom Search Engine that I've created with AdSense. I've put that search engine as a site search in my Google Sites page. I've connected both the Custom Search Engine and the Google Site to my Analytics page via their settings pages. Now, I'm trying to get Analytics to show me the AdSense for Search statistics. I've managed to connect the Google Sites page, to the Analytics, and I can see the search statistics in the Analytics as well. But I can't get it to show the actual AdSense for Search statistics from the Custom Search Engine. How can I configure everything so I can get the AdSense for Search statistics of my Custom Search Engine in my Analytics page?


title: Does a longer registration length/period for a domain name improve its SEO and search ranking?

text: While I was renewing a domain of mine with a well-known domain registrar, the support person who was on call with me said that I'd improve the SEO ranking of my domain if I increased the registration length from 1 year to 5 years instead. The explanation that he gave me was something along the lines that a search engine like Google doesn't like to send users to domains and businesses that may no longer exist, and that by registering my domain for 5 years instead of just 1, Google would have higher confidence that I'm serious about keeping my business around for the long-term. Needless to say, I was quite skeptical. **Does the registration/renewal length of a domain name affect its SEO and search result ranking for search engines such as Google?**


title: Read-only cross origin domain request

text: Is it possible to allow read-only access in a CORS header? I want JS from two websites to be capable of verifying each other, but not altering each other.


title: Is it better to remove old URL from google via webmaster than 301 rewrite?

text: I have a site which changed from one shopping cart to another. Previously there was an .htaccess file which redirected all the old URLs to the homepage. I changed it to report a 404 for any URL not found on the website. Is it better to request these URLs be removed from Google's index via Webmaster Tools or keep them and use a rewrite in the .htaccess file?


title: Best and easy way to add video to website

text: I want to add videos to my website. I want to click on images and then to show video in "window" and start playing (popups like lightbox). I just don´t know what is best way to do it. I think one of the way is jQuery. I know that there is easy way with video tag in HTML5 but I want that this could be play on most browsers (not just with support HTML5, but not so old as IE6 :) ) and I don´t want to use flash or silverlight. What options I have? Is jQuery the way? And how can I do this? Thanks


title: Should I use canonical in case of partial content duplication?

text:
I created my own template (template refers to design + static content). Thus, the design and some content is static in all the pages. I created 5 landing pages, all landing pages has same design and 40% static content is common to all the pages. Titles, Meta Desc, Meta Keywords, 60% Body text is unique. I splitted body into 2 types

           Dynamic content is around 60% and static content is around 40%. My idea is writing a rich optimised content in `dynamic-content` div and assign the right titles, description to each pages so that each page is optimised for different keywords. And, that 40% static content is just about my website and no way related to Keyword. Should I use canonical anywhere as I am still reusing the same design and 40% content in all the pages. And, if yes, where should I place the canonical tag? is that as `<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mydomain.com/mymainpage.html" />` or should I use something like `<div id="static-content" rel="canonical"> </div>` Or is there any other ways to protect my Google rankings?


title: Google Authorship image of my Blogspot blog has disappeared from the Google SERPs

text: I have a Blogspot blog and my images used to appear on the Google SERPs for my keywords using Google Authorship Markup. My image was shown for last 2 months but while checking SERP for my blog, I found that my authorship markup is not working anymore. My image, name and G+ followers count is not appearing near my Blogspot URL in SERPs. I didn't made any changes in my Google+ profile or in my Blogspot header tag where I had put the authorship code.


title: How do I set "Starting at : $12" value for a Grouped product in Magento?

text: I recently created a grouped product by going through a tutorial. Everything is working fine except for the fact that, in the front end, the text "Starting at : $0.00" is set to "$0.00" instead of the associated products' actual minimum price. How do I resolve this?


title: Allow a third party to access my Google Analytic account

text: As a webmaster I have my Google account which contains all of the Google Analytics used by the various sites I manage. My question is can I give a third party (the site owner) access to one of the Google Analytics accounts without giving access to other Google Analytics accounts?


title: Preventing Unvalidated Redirects

text: I have a project I'm working on, and I recently decided to add a "login bounceback" to my site. The idea is simple, and very common: The user is browsing the site, and runs into something they need to log in for. After logging in, they are bounced back to where they were before. This is, of course, ridiculously easy to implement. My login link just provides the original location in a query variable, and my login page redirects to that location after success using a "Location:" header. This is very simple, and doesn't require any server-side state. However, I've always got security on the mind, especially for my users, so I want to take steps to protect them from being redirected to arbitrary places. (See https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2010-A10-Unvalidated_Redirects_and_Forwards) My solution for this is very simple: after reading the query variable, if the URL doesn't begin with "/", I reject it. (The user gets sent to a default page instead.) This is based on the reasoning that a relative URL must point back to my site, and the only URLs that can start with "/" are relative. My site will only ever generate relative URLs , so I'm fine with this rather restrictive scheme. (Additionally, under this scheme, I can easily make it even tighter by prepending the protocol and my domain to the URL. I could even whitelist other domains later.) # The Question Is redirecting only to URLs that start with "/" sufficient validation? Is there some way this could be abused to send a user somewhere outside my site? If so, how could I prevent it? Some more context: I'm using PHP, but I don't think that's really important to the core of the question. The site does access checks on all pages, and all urls that cause an action are protected from CSRFs, so the user can be sent to anywhere on my site without negative consequences. # EDIT: Elaboration There appear to be two main dangers to Unvalidated Redirects:   * The request pointing to another possibly malicious site, possibly allowing XSS, or giving the user a false sense of safety.   * The request pointing to a sensitive URL on your own site, such as a URL that takes an action. (The same type of that is sensitive to a CSRF.) However, I believe I've prevented these problems: - My script only allows redirection to my own site, meaning I only need to protect against dangerous URLs on my own site. On that note... - I'm already building my site to be hardened against CSRFs, so there shouldn't be any dangerous URLs to exploit. (Not even a logout URL.) Even if the user is sent to "interesting.php", nothing will happen, due to the request being malformed. (Any action on the site requires deliberate user action.) I'll be stripping query strings from the URL as well, although I don't use them for anything important. So it seems to me that the worst thing that could happen with a manipulated URL is the user being sent to an unexpected page. (Or perhaps a 404.) Is this reasoning flawed?


title: Should I enable "Anonymously with Google and others" in Analytics to see my site in Website trends

text: I want my site to be appear in Website Trends. I have Google Analytics on my site, and my site is listed on Website Trends, but there is no data. I have enabled (long time ago) the "With other Google products only" option. Do I have to enable "Anonymously with Google and others" option to be my site in Website Trends?


title: Is RSS auto-discovery still viable?

text: I am preparing a website and noticed that although the source code contains RSS autodiscovery URL, i.e. something like               <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/rss.xml">      none of the three main browsers actually displays a RSS icon anywhere. I am not sure when this feature went away but few versions back I am quite certain that IE, Firefox and ~~Chrome~~ used to display an orange icon somewhere in the address bar. ( **Edit:** Actually, Chrome never had this functionality, it doesn't recognize RSS at all without an extension.) Is including an orange icon (or something like that) in the webpage the only certain way how to provide RSS feeds these days?


title: SEO + international sites? country.domain.com or domain.country?

text: is it better to have seperate country specific domains (which costs more money) or subdomains which define the country, for better SEO? eg.   * stackoverflow.com   * stackoverflow.com.au   * stackoverflow.co.uk vs   * stackoverflow.com   * au.stackoverflow.com   * uk.stackoverflow.com Assumption: int the search engine web master tools, each subdomain are associated to a country. eg. `au.stackoverflow.com` is associated to the country _Australia_. cheers! ## Update I understand that both methods do work, especially when i utilize the assumption, listed above. The question is about: _Which method is better_? Is there such a small SEO difference between them? Is the first method _way way way_ better than the second with getting better SEO results? ## Update #2 A number of folks have suggested that the following is a good/better approach:   * stackoverflow.com/   * stackoverflow.com/au   * stackoverflow.com/uk > By adding a country specific _iso code_ to the end of the url/the first > folder of the domain can be recognised as the country. But a number of SEO mates have suggested that this is a valuable waste of folder level space. Er.. how can i explain. Ok, it's been suggested by some SEO experts that if the _number of levels or folders in the domain exceeds 5_ then the page drops dramatically in importance. Basically, you don't want to make it deep. As such, adding the country as the first level can be considered a waste, especially when it can be handled by the domain OR subdomain - hence the question :) So, any more thoughts on this? (Maybe SO is the wrong place to ask this question?)


title: Most flexible free mailing service to be used with PHP

text: I need one that allowes me to   * update the mailing list from service From my PHP code      * sending single new users From my code   * send single messages to specified user From my code   * send 'updates/news' to all users From my code Something is telling me to go for feedburner


title: Good tool to crawl my site and help me find dead link and unlinked files

text: I have a pretty big legacy site with literally thousands of PDFs that are sometimes accounting for in a database, but often are just links on the page, and are stored in most every directory on the site. I have written a php crawler to follow all the links on my site, and then I am comparing that against a dump of the directory structure, but is there something easier?


title: SEO: Will this site give me trouble?

text: I was looking at my google analytic and i had 3 visitors to my site which i told -no one- about nor have any content on it. They all came from *.golbnet.com. Why is this site linking me? will this give me trouble?


title: Google Analytics just start tracking Windows Phone as an OS?

text: Just wondering if anyone else has dug into the Windows Phone traffic they have in Google Analytics? The graph below describes it better than I can. The timeline is showing the last year, and we have nothing before November. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ta6VX.jpg) Did Google just incorporate/recognize this lately? Our tags haven't changed. The other thing I notice is that if you check out the version, there are only visitors from 7.0 and 7.5. Does Google only track 7.0 onwards, or can I find stats on earlier devices (i.e. Windows Phone 6.5, Windows Mobile 6.1 devices, etc...) somewhere else? I would **really** prefer not to have to look by screen resolution, as that's a mess of information to look at. Thanks in advance for any anecdotes/comments/answers people might be able to provide.


title: .htaccess rule not working without HTTP redirect [R]

text: I am using the following .htaccess with Wordpress to remove index.php from the visible URL. This works but forces an http redirect so the URL changes in the browser window. If I remove the [R] it no longer works. Why would this happen?               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [R]


title: URL with query disables caching?

text: Does having a query string attached to a URL cause browsers to never cache it? For instance, my site does something like this: `/radar-picture.png?v=sep2013` And it would appear that FireFox never caches that picture; it is downloaded on every request. I'd like FireFox to cache it, for as long as it wants to. I only want to force it to download when the `v=` parameter has changed.


title: How can I get a list of all indexed pages for my domain?

text: We're in the process of migrating an outdated e-commerce cart to Magento. Part of this process will entail configuring proper 301 redirects. I'm aiming to get a list of all indexed pages to throw our solution against and resolve as many potential issues as possible before going live. Ideally I'd just need a CSV containing the URIs indexed by the Search Engines for our domain. Looking at a similar question here, it seems there is no simple way to export this data from either Google or Bing's Webmaster tools, given that this cart has tens of thousands of products (and thus tens of thousands of indexed pages). I've run across a few other 3rd party utilities such as Screaming Frog and web-based ones like searchenginegenie and internetmarketingninjas, but I've never used any of them and am hesitant to start throwing additional traffic at our site unless I know we'll get what we need out of it. Has anyone out there used these tools to do something similar, or found some way to retrieve more than the top 1000 records from GWT (or something similar from Bing)?


title: HTTP occurring twice in a URL

text: I ran into a website today that had two URLs and I'm completely stunned. The website, not to be specific, has a full address of `http://example/cat/http://example/dog`. I will say that the first part is a randomly generated ad that pops up, but regardless isn't going to two addresses the equivalent of being at two different houses at the same time i.e. impossible? Anyhow, I just wanted some clarification on how it works. And before you ask, the site is not exactly something that I would paste on an affluent forum thus the reason I have left it out.


title: How can I force Google to re-index my site?

text: I changed the structure of my URLs. The pages are already indexed by Google and have the following structure:               http://mypage.com/myfolder/page.apsx      The new structure is:               http://mypage.com/page.aspx      Now all URLs that Google knows are wrong. How can I tell Google to re-index and that the structure has changed? Internally I redirect in ASP.NET when the URL contains `myfolder` by I want Google to update the URLs. * * * Thanks for the answers - I use IIS 6 and I do not know how to configure a redirect of all pages that contains the folder to page one folder below. So I did the trick in the `Begin_Request` method and did a `Context.Response.Redirect`. This is no 301 redirect, only a redirect done with ASP.NET via code. Will this also do the trick so that Google notices that the URL `/folder/page1.aspx` now is redirected to `/page1.aspx`?


title: Other interest outbound link should it be nofollow?

text: I am usually blogging about programming issues in my blog. Occasionally I like to write guest post on "travel" category. I like to link the post from my blog as _Other interest_. Both are entirely different categories. Should I give the `rel="nofollow"` to those links.


title: URL slug and SEO - structure

text: from an SEO point of view, which of the two options are recommended ?               www.example.com/cell-phones-reviews/samsung-galaxy/     or     www.example.com/samsung-galaxy-review/      i guess the keyword string in this fictional case is "samsung galaxy review" so the second option has an advantage on this , but perhaps not as important as a "nice sturctured" url as the first one ? note that "cell-phones-reviews" is actually the category. So i guess my question is do i use the first option or do i remove the parent/category slug from the url and use the second ? i could combine the two and make a third option :               www.example.com/cell-phones-reviews-/samsung galaxy-review/      but in this way there are repeated keywords. Could you advice on the appropriate option please ? Thank you


title: Google is not crawling and indexing my site after updating my robots.txt file

text: I have an issue with Google not being able to properly crawl my site. I have read other questions where people have had the same issue. I've tried to follow their solution of using this in my _robots.txt_ file:               User-agent: *     Disallow:          Sitemap: http://www.sonjalimone.com/sitemap_index.xml      I have waited over 24 hours for Google to recrawl my site so I must have something wrong in the _robots.txt_ file. It is a WordPress site if that makes any difference, though I don't see why it would. Does anyone know what else might cause this issue or is there something wrong with the above?


title: http header rel=“canonical” through htaccess for dynamic content

text: I have a large number of URLS where I need to specify rel="canonical", The URL structure is like: `example.c.o.m/abcd?q=ccccc&location=ffff&x=pp&y=qq` I need to strip the last two parameters `(&x=pp&y=qq)` and show `example.com/abcd?q=ccccc&location=ffff` as my canonical link in the header. I have this as moz reference and tried various ways with _mod_RewriteRule_. I'm looking for either a htaccess solution or that of one that works with Joomla CMS.


title: Transferring cookies between two sites (one is HTTPS)

text: A user comes (through a link) from a http:// site to an other (having different domain) https:// site. We need to track that these two requests are done by the same user. But cookies do not pass over domain boundaries. What to do? One solution is to add a hash into the URL of the above mentioned link. But this would be not a perfect solution for us. Are there other solutions?


title: Will history of a domain affect rankings for new site?

text: Bought the domain and initially parked the domain. Google did not rank the domain because it was parked, it has however began to index in the last day or so. My question is will the fact that the site used to be a parked domain have any negative effect on the new site in terms of ranking. Is Google for example likely to penalise the site based upon the domain history or will the history have no impact on the new site?


title: In terms of SEO, what is the difference between a URL with and without a trailing slash?

text: In terms of SEO, what's the difference between:               http://example.com/some-stuff/      and               http://example.com/some-stuff      I could not find anything useful regarding this concept, can you explain this?


title: Should 301 redirects contain query string parameters?

text: I am currently working on redirecting old urls to new urls using 301 redirects, though I have come across a situation where I have to take a decision to allow old urls to pass their query string params to the new urls or not. For example: > oldurl.com?utm_source=social_campaign // Old Url should redirect to which of the following two urls, considering just the SEO in mind. > newurl.com?utm_source=social_campaign // New Url with Query String > Parameters > > newurl.com // New Url without Query String Parameters and such query string params cannot become a part of the url as they are just for tracking purposes.


title: Should I remove URL for 500 errors?

text: I am slowly learning how to do SEO for my website and in the process changed a few URLs. Now, some of them are already visible in Yahoo answers and I am unable to update them to the new URLs. I can do 301 redirects for these URLs in YA. However, what about the old URLs that show up on Google Search? Should I do 301 redirects for them as well? And what about urls that I have deleted once and for all. I am getting 500 error for them in Google Webmaster Tools. How should I handle those errors? Should I put in a remove URL request for the URLs that give the 500 errors?


title: Browser language detection & content ranking for new language on the same site

text: I've been reading a lot about it but it's still really hard to make up my mind. My understand is that if your website provide a link to the other language, this should not be an issue for google as long as your links are clear and clean, google will be able to make his way through it. The website was orginaly in french and I added the english version and I'm just worry that english speaker will just leave if the site is not in the correct language, for the home page I just wanted to get the value from the browser and redirect it to /fr/ or /en/ for the first page. (using php this will be very easy) Also the website has good rank on the french side and the english has been online for 2 weeks and only get few visit a day, is that because all the back link refer to /fr/ and google is cleaver enough to decide that they are 2 differantes website and the back link will have to point to /en/ to increase the ranking value? Or will take few more weeks for the website to grow?


title: What are the most useful and useless metrics to track in SEO?

text: For example, ~~PageRank~~ (or not)... :-) ...question, still stands, just no example now. Factors include how actionable it is, consistency of availability, or correlation to ranking.


title: What kind of markup to use on a website to make data more semantic?

text: With all the talk about the semantic web these days, are there any pointers of special markup to use for indexing businesses? For example a website that has an index of restaurants and a map of their location,   * How to make each restaurant name/info more semantic?   * How to make the geo location easier to recognize for robots and accessibility devices? And what other things can make such a website more usable, semantically, to users and indexing robots?


title: Should I worry about people disabling Javascript?

text: Often when picking new tools and frameworks I see the warning "Will not work if the user has disabled Javascript". I then look at my Javascript powered slideshow, Javascript powered menu, and Javascript powered gallery. Funnily enough, I chose these to replace the original flash based versions since I worried about the number of people that would see them. But is worrying about people disabling Javascript a legitimate worry? Should I try and design my site with JS being disabled in mind?


title: ads are killing my page speed

text: What are others doing to mitigate the horror that is the slow speed of running ads on their sites? I don't do direct sales of ads & rely on third parties like rubicon, openx, etc. served through Google DFP which are so slow I want to shoot my browser. Any and all suggestions welcome! Notice - I already load the ads through google DPF - I'm putting ad loading to the last things run


title: How Can I Check and know how many websites/blogs are linking to my website.?

text: Can I know how many websites/Blogs are linking to my website? Is there any free tools? Can I use with google.com too? Can I use also with google.com link:www.mysite.com ? What is the different between Link:www.mysite.com and url:mysite.com ?


title: How to log username in Apache logs?

text: I need some help regarding how to log the user-name into apache logs. I'm building a use-case for Security Information Event Management. Is the method the same in case of IIS or just applicable to apache?


title: Payment gateways for Europe (Netherlands)?

text: I've just realized all Paypal payment gateways are not available in Europe. Only Website payment standard is working, but it is not a gateway, I cannot include the payment process into my website. I was now wondering what safe payment gateways to use for my e-commerce website in Netherlands. thanks


title: How can I advetise efficiatly on my sites?

text: Are there any ad networks that give publishers/websites the ability to display adverts that are chosen by the publisher immediately on page load. Lets say the page loads, and a script inserts certain key words that the ad network uses to search their inventory of adverts and assigns the nearest one with matching tags to the publisher advert area? I know Google's adsense and many other similar services index/reads the pages content and then assign certain advert depending on the content with little or no control by the publisher... Any help is appreciated.


title: Any way to compare traffic to two pages on the same graph in Google Analytics?

text: Is there any way to compare the traffic to two different pages on the same graph in Google Analytics? I want to see how Page A compares to Page B over time in terms of number of pageviews.


title: What deliverables should a web developer expect from a web designer?

text: Are there a standard set of deliverables a web **developer** should expect from a web **designer**? If I was to hire a designer to create what a website should look and feel like, what deliverables do designers deliver? How are they to convey the site design to the person or persons responsible for crafting the markup/backend/styling work. Is there some generally accepted format/standard?


title: Google Webmaster Tools and 500 Errors

text: I'm having issues with Google Webmasters not being able reach my pages, although they are there. I'm getting 500 errors in Webmasters, but Google Analytics is picking up the pages ok, so I'm a bit confused! The site is http://www.readingorders.com/ and is hosted on Appharbor. Any help gratefully received!


title: what does the term 'webmaster' signify in the computing world?

text: We know webmasters are managers and maintainers of websites. But is that all there is to it? Does being a Webmaster require any general skills besides being able to manage content? If I put it on a resume, will it mean anything? What do the 'pros' think of when they hear the term?


title: Line Feed or Carriage Return - What to use?

text: > In javascript, Line Feed and Carriage Return behaves similarly. Which one to use and when? OR Can it be used alternatively? ### Unicode Characters:               Line Feed: \u000A          Carriage Return: \u000D      ### Code:               <script>         alert("Hello \u000A World - <LF>");         alert("Hello \u000D World - <CR>");     </script>


title: sitemap that contains millions of links/URLs

text: I am currently working on a shopping / auction website. The involving party who's doing SEO consultancy is insisting to generate URLs for every single combination of products listed on the website, examples below. It just doesn't feel right to me being that each product / category page already has a canonical links so I am really now sure how much gain the new sitemap would make. Would someone comment on the decision and give suggestions / recommendations in the given context? Thanks. Examples:   * www.mywebsite.com/CPU   * www.mywebsite.com/CPU/Intel   * www.mywebsite.com/CPU/Intel/Core2Duo   * www.mywebsite.com/CPU/AMD   * www.mywebsite.com/CPU/AMD/Phenom   * www.mywebsite.com/RAM   * etc...


title: Can I make a website template based on a PC game?

text: I was thinking to create a WordPress theme related to Starcraft 2. The theme would be free (under GPL). Am I allowed to do this or is it a copyright violation?


title: Tooltips for keyboard users

text: The `title` attribute can be used on almost any HTML element, particularly hyperlinks, to provide some additional detail of the element. This is useful for screen readers, but not so much when using the keyboard to tab through elements. I often use the **TAB** key to skip over some links in a page to avoid having to reach for the mouse. Yet the title tooltips are only visible when the mouse is hovered over the matching element. Is this a failing of the browser, or is it something that should be accounted for in site design and implementation?


title: Best FREE Mailing List Manager on Shared Hosting

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What's the a good mailing list manager/platform? What's the best FREE ( **open-source** ) (and/or easy to install) **Mailing List Manager** to be used on Godaddy's Shared Hosting (Linux - Deluxe 4GH) I have no real preference when it comes to implementation language anything goes (PHP, python, or anything else). Any experiences or "do"s and "don't"s? **More Info** : I'm going to be using the mailing list as a way to promote my kart/auto/moto racing events to my costumers, probably 300...500 users. I heard phplist is good. Does anyone know if it's possible to install it on godaddy?


title: Physical address and contact details in Meta tags

text: I remember someone once saying it was useful (for SEO purposes) to include your address and contact details in the site's Meta tags. I don't recall if he meant in in the meta description or in another type of meta tag. Have you hear of this strategy before? I believe the person implied that Google would tie all of your Local Listings together for a better SEO score if you listed matching contact details in your meta tags.