title: 301 redirect + RewriteRule not working together?

text: I am using a 301 redirect to redirect a page to another page in the same website, which uses `RewriteRule` to hide the PHP variables in a friendly URL. My redirection code in .htaccess:               Redirect 301 /example/word1/word2/word3 http://www.example.com/word1/word2      As a result when I visit `/word1/word2/word3` it redirects me to the URL set by a previous RewriteRule which is `/word1/word2?var1=word1&var2=word2&var3=word3`. Where var1, var2, and var3 are the PHP variables that have for content word1, word2 and word3. I want the redirection to go just to `www.example.com/word1/word2`


title: Create friendly looking URL's with mod rewrite

text: I want to make the pages on my site more search engine friendly by turning the query strings into meaningful looking page names. For example I have a page that is this:               /search.php?c=18      I want it to look like this:               /doctors/MainCategoryName-18/      Sometimes there is a second query string so it would need to work with just one or both. For example:               /search.php?c=18&s=217      Should look like               /doctors/MainCategoryName-18/SubCatrogyrName-217/      Here's what I've tried so far but I can't get it to work.               RewriteRule ^search.php?c\=(.*)* /doctors/general-$1 [NC,R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^doctors/[^?/]*-(\d+)\ /search.php?c=$1&s=$2 [QSA      Thanks so much for your help,


title: .pro domain as a web designer/professional

text: I am looking at getting a .pro domain for my portfolio page as a web designer. I realize that .pro domains are for licensed professionals such as lawyers, engineers, etc. What kind of certifications would I need to qualify for a .pro domain as a web designer. And also which certs would you recommend such as w3c or cwp?


title: Unable to print login-required images in IE

text: I have some images in a section of a site that require the user to be logged in in order to view. These images are served by a PHP script, which checks the user's login state and if valid, serves the binary data with the appropriate headers. This all works fine. The issue comes when a user tries to print one of these images. In Internet Explorer, when they go to print preview, they get the broken image box with a red cross in the corner instead of the actual file. This is also what gets printed. All other browsers can print the images without issue. I have some images elsewhere on the site that are also served via. PHP but these don't require a login. These print fine. The PHP-powered HTML pages on the site that require a login also print fine in IE. It's just login-required images. When the user hits 'print preview', this does not seem to result in additional HTTP request to the server for the file. However I do see an additional HTTP request a few seconds later that comes from the same IP (may or may not be related), This request includes no host header, no REQUEST_URI and no user agent. The 'please login' page sends an appropriate 403 header. I've also added a far-in-future expires header to the image response itself to ensure that browsers can serve/print the files from their own cache but this hasn't made any difference. Why can't IE print the images and what else can I do to investigate or fix the problem?


title: Prevent users from preventing my website ADs from being displayed?

text: It may not be 100% of the users but even a localized amount of users that make use of ads blocking features will reduce your incoming. I do care about my users as well as I do care about receiving some incoming for my hard work. Currently I keep an watch on the ADs being displayed and remove the ones that have eye-hurting type of either images or text, ADs that are non-related to my content and I don't exagerate on ADs, i have 2 ads on a rather big content website and am planning to add an Amazon Store thing later. Now I would like to know:   1. What type of ADs do you usually remove from users view ?   2. Are there ways to prevent this sort of blocking ?   3. What kinda of work arounds you usually do to prevent it ? _**The difference between question 2 and 3 is that question 2 is related to legitmate ways to prevent this while question 3 is regarding any way to work around it._**   4. What ADs Format do you use the most, what type (image, flash, text) and how does it influence on the above ?


title: Subdomain pointing to wrong folder

text: I have an InMotion advanced dedicated server. I created a cPanel account and tried to create several subdomains there. I created and pointed multiple sub domains to a single folder `public_html/mobile` but instead all are pointing to `public_html/`. Pointing multiple subdomains to a single folder should not be the issue because my old server (with HostGator) was working fine. I don't have root access on server unfortunately; even though I don't know where can I fix this issue. Has anyone faced such an issue and how can I correct this association?


title: Android and low end phones not receiving sms

text: I have developed a web application for an organisation.I have to send sms to mobile phones from application and I completed this,but there is a problem.Android and low end devices of other models are not receiving the sms.Is there any problem with gateway.


title: Why do some large companies use a different domain for sending emails?

text: I've received notifications and newsletters from Microsoft and Facebook in the past and noticed that both emails came not from an address such as something@facebook.com or something@microsoft.com. Not event something@somethingelse.microsoft.com but both had different domains such as : reply@email.microsoftemail.com and something@facebookmail.com **Why is this? Any particular advantage in doing so?** Other than not polluting the employees email software, I can't see.


title: Facebook: When a page clicks my 'like' buton, the count does not increase

text: I have a small Facebook problem. I have created a page for my business and placed a 'like' button at the top. When an individual clicks like the count increases but if another business page clicks like it does not update the count, even though I get notification that they have clicked. Is there any way I can add the two counts together to show a total amount of likes? Many thanks Cate


title: How do I search server for all instances of a given database user?

text: We just migrated one of our machines to a new box. Same web host, but new IP and physical machine. I've found a lot of the databases are using a generic dbuser/pw combo. With the new server, I want to implement a more secure policy that all dbs need to have their own users, rather than a user that has global db privileges. Is there a way to search all the servers' web docs (Everything below /var/www/vhosts/) for references to a specific db username in any files? Is this a job for grep? Or is there a better solution?


title: Canonical tag on paginated pages?

text: I noticed that StackOverflow uses a `rel=canonical` tag on page 2+ of answers. For example, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6470651/creating-a-memory- leak-with-java?page=2&tab=votes#tab-top Notice they have a `rel=canonical` tag that points to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6470651/creating-a-memory-leak-with-java As I recall, Maile Ohye at SMX Advanced said that you should NOT use a canonical tag in this way. The answers on page 2 are not duplicate content as to what's on page one, and duplicate content is the purpose of the canonical tag. Is this an appopriate use of the `rel=canonical` tag?


title: Is there a penalty for opposite of cloaking?

text: Let's assume I have 100 different web pages with original and good content. But I want to publish on these pages same advert content (text video flash pictures) If I decided to use ajax and jquery for loading that advertorial content after page load, would there be a penalty for that? I know using hidden div's and hidden text can cause penalties but what if it's the opposite?


title: Free, basic checkbox images for a todo list

text: Does anyone have a set of simple, free checkbox images (checked and unchecked)? I've got to throw a todo list on my site and I'm not exactly a designer. Ones that look like they are hand written would be great.


title: no description when searching keyword in google

text: I am new with SEO, and i following a tutorial about meta tags... when i search my keyword in Google, I can only see the URL of my website but it has no description....                search in google: surebooked     ---------------------------------      but return only: surebooked.com/      There are no description in Google when I search my keyword. Does anyone have an idea about my situation?


title: How do you tell search engines not to index this page just yet, but maybe in the future?

text: The company I work for has a content management system that builds pages automatically for certain content. E.g., There is a page in our system that has the ability to show you information about any composer in our database, depending on the input parameters and what information we have on them. However, every now and then, there is a composer that hasn't got any information, thus the page renders a blank page. How can we tell Google not to index the page at that moment, but maybe sometime in the future? Because the content is auto-generated, we can't just block pages from being visible, as it information about that composer may pop up at any moment. **Edit** Please note that our CMS system that does the fetching is seriously complicated and deep. The content part of the page WILL return some sort of data, so running an `empty($content) ? xx : yy` as has been suggested is not a quick fix. If a composer does not exist, the system won't have a page for that the composer, if the composer does exist, the system will. When that composer's page is rendered, the system searches every type referring to composers, such as works, to create a dynamic page.


title: javascript/php sorting plugin

text: I have a set of thumbnails and I want to sort them by name, by rating and by newest added. I've found Quicksand which I think is pretty good, but I need to know if there are some other scripts/plugins which does the same job.


title: Can I implement IPv6 support on my server using 6to4 address?

text: I was given an IPv4 address example 192.0.2.4 for my server. To enable clients to reach the server on IPv6 address, I understand that I need to set the AAAA record on my name servers to point to the correct IPv6 address. Is it possible that I create IPv6 address using 6to4 (example 2002:c000:0204::/48) instead of going through my hosting provider? If so, what are the necessary steps to be taken? If not, why is it not possible?


title: CMS for an artist to display art work?

text: I am helping a friend put together a website for an artist. The person wants a very simple looking site to display their artwork, but will want to have an image slider and a few pages where they can change the text themselves. Does anyone know of a good CMS and/or template for this kind of project?


title: KPI's for Webmasters

text: Do you know any Key Performance Indicators for Webmasters? What should be measured and monitored?


title: Send HTML email to multiple recipients

text: I need to send an HTML email with attachment to multiple recipients. What is the best method to do it and ensure that the emails will not get recognized as spam?


title: Remove all results from google search and restart from scratch

text: the problem with my website is that it has many 404 pages on google , that's why I wanted to remove all the pages from google and restart from the begining . I have removed all the links from google webmaster tools but now ,when I sent my sitemap it doesn't seem to have any effect Does anybody have any idea about this ?


title: How does Google determine how long a visitor stays on a site?

text: I understand that Google uses 'Average Visit Duration' as one factor influencing ranking - but how does it determine how long a user has stayed on a certain page for? Is it as simple as registering when they left Google, then registering when clicked back? I can't think of any efficient way of measuring this.


title: Template for a website

text: I am looking for a program or a tool that builds easily nice websites, like Wix for example, but I need to have its html files in the ens (so Wix is no good for that). what could I use? or how could I download my website from Wix?


title: How do I find my Joomla database password?

text: I have Joomla website which I can login with administrator account. I also can log into cpanel. But where can I find the Joomla database password? I don't know too much about phpMyAdmin and can't find the password in it.


title: When to use canonical? Prepaid products of different values

text: I have a webshop for different kind of prepaid cards. Every kind of prepaid card is also available in a different value. The product page of those different values differ only in a title (NameOfProduct ValueOfProduct), image, and the value in the description. Do I have to use canonical for the different kind of values? Because the product pages doesn't seem to rank as well as the other pages in the search engines.


title: FAVICON: Favicon not showing up

text: I'm using a .png favicon file and it is not showing up on my site. Doing a grep, I see the following in home.htm which looks right for me(I have also confirmed it's in the HEAD section within home.htm):               home.htm: <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="favicon.png">      The favicon.png file is in the same directory as the home.html file. Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks all. In case the file info is revealing for anyone, I'll attach it here: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/csNOw.jpg)


title: HTML5 <form> autocomplete Attribute

text: What is the point of the autocomplete attribute? Isn't it bad practice to tell your users how their browser should work to fill a form?


title: cPanel Monthly Bandwidth Traffic - HTTP Traffic Extremely High

text: So I have a website/blog which I have hosted with a service which is offering me 2000mb of monthly bandwidth traffic. I recently have started getting a lot of traffic, or I suppose, enough to push me quite close to the cap. I am already at 79% for August and it is practically all due to the HTTP traffic component! I noticed that the bandwidth traffic really spikes during the days of a new post. Also, I do have videos from Vimeo embedded in my posts, so I am not sure if loading those on my page counts towards the bandwidth. So what can I possibly do? And is this high usage actually just from people visiting and loading my blog post in their browser? Do you have any suggestions which would significantly reduce the bandwidth usage? I can't afford to raise the bandwidth cap either. For reference, I have an installation of Wordpress running on my website. Thank you.


title: Are copyright notices really required?

text: Ever since I made my first web page 13 years ago I have followed the pattern of showing a copyright notice in the footer of each page. Over the years the format of this notice has changed in the following way;   * Copyright © `<NAME>` `yyyy`. All rights are reserved.   * Copyright © `yyyy` `<NAME>`   * © `yyyy` `<NAME>`   * © `<NAME>` This has generally mirrored the format used by Google. However, I recently noticed that they no longer display a copyright notice on their home page nor have one in their source code/meta tags. I see they still display it on most (if not all) other pages. I understand that Google are very keen to keep the word count down on their homepage, which could be the reason for this sacrafice, but my question is more general and relates to all websites. Since I've always just done it out of habit, I'm hoping someone can explain if/when I a copyright notice is actually required to protect your content and rights. Also, when it is required, is there a format in which the notice must adhere to in order to be valid?


title: How to resolve canonical issue of a website hosted in yahoo small business (Shared Hosting)

text: I have a website `www.myapp.com` hosted in yahoo small business, which is shared hosting and I don't have access to .htaccess file to modify. I called up yahoo team regarding the issue But It cannot be done. (It can be achieved in yahoo stores). Basically I want `myapp.com` and `www.myapp.com/index.php` must be redirected to `/www.myapp.com` so, What is the workaround for this.


title: How to make better RESTful links SEO on static content website with Apache and PHP Router

text: I have a pretty old website (running on Apache) that serves around 50 static HTML pages. And so I want to change it and add PHP Router to help me serve content in a RESTful way. Now I have tried several things, but I don't know **how good** they are. Say I have old page "domain.com/fooBar.html" I want to be able to serve it from "domain.com/foo/bar" and:   * keep old website link versions accessible from outside: "domain.com/fooBar.html"   * make all requests go through index.php where I can use PHP Router, serve proper content for requests, keep old meta tags content intact (RESTful URIs should have same exact data)   * NOT have ugly links like this: "domain.com/index.php?page=foo/bar"   * keep old version of a website's Google rating somewhat same   * keep 301 Redirects to a minimum (2 is max I guess?)   * change all website's inner links to new RESTful versions So far I see that I can reference old pages to index like so:               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !index.php     RewriteRule .* index.php?url=$0 [QSA,L]      This sends old pages to _index.php_ and I can route Old Resources to New Ones like so: Changing location with router: `$response->header("Location", "/foo/bar");` So the goal is for the location to look like "domain.com/foo/bar":               "domain.com/fooBar.html" => index.php Router => "domain.com/foo/bar"     "domain.com/foo/bar"     => index.php Router => "domain.com/foo/bar"      Is there a better way?


title: How to create email request forms and auto-responder?

text: I'm building a site in css and I'm pretty new to any code or script other than html and css. I'm trying to create a landing page that requires an email from visitors and set up an auto responder to send to that newly submitted email. This would also be a signup for email newsletters. I have some idea how to create the form and have looked into a bit. I don't know how to make it a requirement to get past the landing page and into the actual website or set up the auto-responder. Any help would be much appreciated. Or if someone knows of a source that explains how to do this thing in particular it would be wonderful. I tried lynda.com but everything is so general and I can't seem to find info on exactly how to do this but I know its quite common. Thanks!


title: Conversion on new and returning visitors

text: I was looking to do a quick comparison of conversion rates between new and returning visitors using Google Analytics. I can seem to get this working fine by using the dimensions "date" and "visitor type", when adding the metric "avg time on site" or anything else really into that mix. However when adding the metric "transactions", all the transactions get added to the "new visitor" dimension. Not sure if this is a bug in my set-up, something I'm doing wrong, or maybe even something that simply doesn't work in GA. Any help would be appreciated.


title: Is there any difference, from Google's point of view, on the method used for a 301 redirect?

text: I have a website with an extremely good Google rank for it's particular niche. I've rebranded and need to redirect to a new URL. In the eyes of Google, what's the difference, if any, between the following two redirects in the context of preserving my site ranking:               Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteEngine on     Rewriterule ^$ http://www.website.com/ [r=301,nc]      and...               Redirect 301 / http://www.website.com/


title: Make Apache treat ASPX as html

text: I've swapped from ASP.NET to .PHP for cost reasons. As such, I want the people to be redirected from .ASPX to its equivalent .PHP. If I create the .aspx with HTML, the file is simply displayed in the browser as text and not treated as text. How can I make the browser treat .aspx as HTML or is there another way to make APACHE redirect from aspx to its equivalent?


title: Webhosts that charge monthly?

text: I can't seem to find any webhosts that offer hosting on a monthly basis, it seems most of them expect you to pay for a while year ahead of time. I am ok with "unlimited" bandwidth/data hosts, as my website won't be very demanding. If anyone can offer some suggestions, I'd appreciate it.


title: Hosting a Site with Windows Azure

text: This is probably a ridiculously simple question, but is there a way for me to host a normal, static website on Windows Azure? I see on auzre.com that they do offer web hosting, but after trying to figure it out myself, and looking for some sort of tutorial, I can't figure out how to upload my files. I work with FTP and DNs stuff all the time, but Azure's really confusing me. I'm betting it's because it's overpowered for what I'm looking for, but I'd still like to try it out.


title: Sample document source - T&C's, hosting, general web?

text: One thing that's been on our list to do is getting together some T&C's, hosting documentation and just general web documents. Are there any good sources for this? The one's I've found are a bit ropey at best. If anyone has any idea's of any other documents that a web development/design company may need then that would be great.


title: When should I not use .com as a generic top-level domain? (.com vs .net, .org, etc.)

text: I've noticed `.com` is the standard top-level domain, but when should I _not_ use `.com`? What are the most common alternatives? If someone has `foo.com` registered, should I choose a different domain or register `foo.somethingelse`?


title: What browser is sending user agent beginning mozilla/5.0+, tramslates & into &

text: We've got a website which has been running for a few years now. One of our customers has just started having an intermittent problem. Looking at our iis6.0 logs the service works correctly when they have a user agent beginning "mozilla/4.0+" but fails when the user agent begins "mozilla/5.0+". The particular customer only started having this problem on Wednesday. Does anyone know the browser/upgrade which changes the 4.0 to 5.0? The actual problem caused is that an "&" in a url parameter list is being encoded as "&". Anyone seen anything similar? We have other users sending from browsers with the 5.0+ user agent without trouble. Sorry about the tags but don't have the rep to create new ones. Thanks in advance, Patrick Edit: hi Viper_sb, It is most probably a custom script (I'm primarily a c++ developer so don't really understand). Our site services requests from other customer developed sites, this one was done in Java script as far as I know. we're actually getting a variety of user agents (presumably depending on which of our customers customers is accessing the service), here's a few:               Mozilla/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+6.1;+fr;+rv:1.9.1.11)+Gecko/20100701+Firefox/3.5.11     Mozilla/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+5.1;+en-US)+AppleWebKit/533.4+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/5.0.375.126+Safari/533.4 302 0 0     Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+U;+PPC+Mac+OS+X;+fr)+AppleWebKit/523.12+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Version/3.0.4+Safari/523.12     Mozilla/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+5.1;+en-US;+rv:1.9.2.8)+Gecko/20100722+Firefox/3.6.8     Mozilla/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+5.1;+fr;+rv:1.9.2.8)+Gecko/20100722+Firefox/3.6.8+(.NET+CLR+3.5.30729)


title: Can CSS button code be copyrighted?

text: I used this website which allows you to customize the color, width, height, and other stuff which is generated afterwards and then you can copy the code. I checked the website and didn't see any FAQ/Legal Terms pages, etc. So I am wondering can I get in trouble if I create a script which will use the CSS code for a button and sell the script? Any help will be greatly appreciated.


title: How can I view all information from my facebook social plugins in one place?

text: I am using some Facebook social plugins on one of my websites that has hundreds of pages. I am wondering if there is a single location where I can view all Facebook plugin activity across my website. Is there some sort of admin page where I can find that info? **EDIT:** I am using the Comments Plugin and the Like Button. I would like to be able to see all the comments on my website in one 'dashboard' rather than having to browse to each individual page on my website and administer the comments there.


title: Stream search - legality

text: I would like to know if **it is worth asking a lawyer about** making a search engine that indexes sites which index mega video links which contain movies that are protected by copyright law is legal. Specifically:   * Do you believe it is ethically justifiable, from your point of view. I.e. if you knew legally it was o.k. would you do it?   * Do you know of anyone which asked a lawyer on a similar topic and if so was the lawyer able to give a definitive answer?   * Would you ever consider making a website of the kind and consult a lawyer or would you deem it immediately to be a grey and ambiguous area you wish not to be in. Answers should build on the facts that:   * I have already finished coding a large part (still some bugs) I have therefore invested a faire amount of time   * Dropping the project is an option I can live with Thanking you in advance, Flyingswissman


title: Share on: FB, Tweet, Digg, Linkedin, Delicious, My mother, ... it's just on fashion, or of some real value?

text: Nowadays your site is not in fashion if you don't show at least a couple of share buttons like these: ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tzX8b.jpg) **Is this just fashion, or do people actually get something good out of it?** When I say _"something good"_ **I mostly mean something that you could measure, and not just the feeling that was good**. Maybe I can better explain with an example: **did you notice (in some way) that many people clicked on those links to share your page/s on those web 2.0 social sites?** And in such a case on which social networks did you see they mostly share your pages? BTW I'm not talking about Google PR, i know all web 2.0 social sites use nofollow everywhere and even hidden links, so they are useless by themselves for PR. * * * **UPDATE:** According to this video, Google's Alter Ego says that they now use in some way data from social sites in ranking. If this is true, it's obvious that the Share on button for FB, Tweet, etc are definitely of some values. But again my question is more about what you noticed **in your real experience** to be a direct benefit of adding those type of "Share On" links on your webisite? I.e. did you see more traffic coming in form FB, or some users who bought your products because of FB or Twitter? Or any other benefits? Thanks


title: Why should my website use the Facebook application?

text: * I have a website and Facebook page dealing with viral posts.   * Every post on the website got own URL address, Facebook share button and Facebook comments generated by Facebook social plugins. Is there a reason for using Facebook application?


title: Is the structure of my site's navigation (via price/service tables) considered 'Duplicate Content' by Google?

text: As I'm building my business website, I'm using service/price tables at the bottom of each service page to demonstrate to customers/potential clients my other offerings. Of course, given that there are 7 or 8 service pages, each with (according to Google) the same service descriptions below the original content for that service, would this be counting as duplicate content? If so, what could I do about it?


title: People sign up to my website but they keep entering invalid email addresses (they are not spammers)

text: I have thousands of users signed up in my site so I have a good amount of statistical data to analyze my problem for you. In the sign up process of my website, the required fields are username, password etc. and there are TWO fields which are asking for email (email and confirmation of email, as usual.) The problem is, that 26% (I just calculated it) of users are entering AND RE- ENTERING (at confirm your email field) wrong email address! I know what you thinking and they are NOT spammers. They are totally legitimate but use the wrong email addresses. Examples of emails...   * `MARY@HOTMAIL.COM` (no comment...)   * `WWW.GEORGE@WINDOWSLINE.COM` (YES `WWW` and WINDOWSLINE OMG)   * `FASDFASDFASDFASFASDF@GOOGLE.COM` (RANDOMNESS) These are just examples so you can have a laugh, the most of the wrong emails are just wrong addresses. I don't know why 26% of users just DON'T KNOW THEIR #e@$@# EMAIL!   1. What percentage of your users are entering (and re-enter in confirm field) their email address?    2. How can a desperate webmaster handle this situation? Of course I can't get in contact with these users, because I don't have their emails! P.S.: Most of my users are of age 30-35+, and they are not English speakers. I can say that internet is about 10 years old (or less) popular in my country. In many cases, I can tell that the wrong email addresses belong to kids who have a better understanding of computers (for example their addresses ends with 1987, 95 etc.).


title: 400 Bad Request in Movable Type import

text: I have a Movable Type installation running the latest version of MT (currently Movable Type version 5.2.7 with: Community Pack 1.72, Professional Pack 1.53) and my client has provided us with a data export from another MT installation (we're migrating servers) that he would like imported to the new MT installation. Unfortunately, every time we try to execute the import we receive "Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request." This is the ONLY part of the MT install which has this problem. I'm about to rip out the import tool and write my own processing script to do the job, since I'm not going to manually add ~750+ blog posts by hand. Appreciate any advice that people can provide!


title: Optimizing and securing robots.txt

text: I have a couple of doubts / questions / ideas related to _robots.txt_ :   1. Can we deny website for all bots except for chosen ones in order to tell other bots not to crawl site:              User-agent: *     Disallow: /          User-Agent: Googlebot     User-Agent: bingbot     User-Agent: Slurp     Allow: /person/     Allow: /products/        2. Can we deny whole site and then just specify list of pages we want to allow for indexing like in example above? I do not want to give away URLs that I want to exclude from crawling, as this information can be used against me.    3. Note that we do not have `Allow: /`, so will bot be able to access home page?    4. In example above, will `Allow` be applied for all three user agents on the list or `Allow` needs to be pasted under each user agent?              User-Agent: Googlebot     Allow: /person/     Allow: /products/          User-Agent: bingbot     Allow: /person/     Allow: /products/          User-Agent: Slurp     Allow: /person/     Allow: /products/


title: Need to get Alexa ranking meaning

text: Actually I don not know where I have to ask this question. Asking here "If a website have a ranking 1000 in alexa how much people click or hit the server?" I need to establish a server. We are aiming to get such traffic. Can anybody share me some suggestion?


title: DNS and Wildcard CNAME

text: Whenever I attempt to make a record for *.schneiderdonnelly.com.au and CNAME it, I get two errors:   * You can't mix CNAME/MX records together using the same hostname.   * Domain root's cannot be CNAME's, however you can web-forward this record to www.schneiderdonnelly.com.au instead for the same effect. I've read it's possible so why can't I make it work? I donated $5 to be a premium member and I've been trying to make it work for yonks. http://i.stack.imgur.com/D9Ui5.jpg This is how I want it to appear. The last record. I am prepared to swap DNS providers as long as they're free.


title: Problem with htaccess causing images not to load

text: In my htaccess file, i am using below lines               Options All -Indexes     Errordocument 403 http://article-stack.com/     ErrorDocument 401 http://article-stack.com/     ErrorDocument 403 http://article-stack.com/     ErrorDocument 404 http://article-stack.com/     ErrorDocument 500 http://article-stack.com/          <files .htaccess>     order allow,deny     deny from all     Satisfy All     </files>      If I access some PHP inside my theme folder then it is working perfectly. But a php file in plugins folder with same permission is not accessible as i think so. Because my plugin on one article is not able to display images. When i copy the path of image and put it into browser directly, it is redirecting me to 404 page. If i run the same script from my theme folder then it is working perfectly. It is also working fine from localhost even from plugins folder. There must be some problem with htaccess file only. But not able to guess what.


title: How to stop access of a PHP file from other sites

text: I read somewhere about hot linking of images. Preventing image hot linking helps to stop bandwidth theft from your site. Would it work for a PHP file? In my case, I am using a PHP file to generate thumbnails from an image. I don't want others to refer this PHP file from their site.


title: How can I ensure I'm protected by the "Safe Harbor" clause?

text: I run a site that allows users to provide their own content & have it publicly available. I've got a standard privacy policy but am wondering what measures I should take to ensure I'm covered by the Safe Harbor clause in the DMCA. Do I need a terms & conditions page? Does it need to be linked / quoted on the publishing pages? Do I just need to ensure I respond to any DMCA notices that come in?


title: Social media integration solutions

text: Another question someone posted got me thinking, what are the social media integration solutions that everyone uses? The most common solutions I've come across are the content-sharing buttons:   * ShareThis   * AddThis   * AddToAny How many of you use these or other social media integration solutions? Or do you just create your own sharing buttons? What advantages are there to using these 3rd-party solutions versus creating your own buttons using Facebook/Del.icio.us/Digg/etc.'s code? Another solution I've been coming across more and more, and that I really dislike, are those fixed social media toolbars that many sites put at the bottom of your screen. They stick out like a sore thumb and take up valuable screen real-estate and just look very tacky IMO. How many people use those, and what advantage do you see to using those branded social sharing toolbars? Are there any other solutions out there that you guys would recommend?


title: Will "performing maintenance" page holder affect your seo and page rankings? If so, is there a better way to handle it?

text: Let's say that theoretically you run a ecommerce shop. There may be times, once a year, that you need to take the site down to update product information or to do some maintenance. What would happen to your page rankings? I would assume that we would direct any page hit to the maintenance page.


title: How to transform RDF to Microdata in a WordPress site?

text:
I have a breadcrumb with RDF data and I want to adapt it to Microdata. First of all, I'm not sure about the structure, because it will work on a WordPress template. But I found this code: http://www.seomix.fr/fil-dariane-chemin-navigation/ (I don't paste the code here to respect the author). Let's see some attributes, I do have:   1. `span typeof="v:Breadcrumb"`   2. `rel="v:url" property="v:title"`   3. `div class="path" xmlns:v="http://rdf.data-vocabulary.org/#"`   4. `span id="breadex"`   5. `id="breadh"` What does they mean and what should I put instead of them? I have that example of Microdata, but I'm not able to make relations:
                Books        ›
                    Authors          ›
                        Stephen King

      **Update:** At the end I'm gonna keep the RDFa format. My problem was that the HTML5 don't validate RDFa, it returns: "Attribute xmlns:v not allowed here." "Attribute with the local name xmlns:v is not serializable as XML 1.0." Source: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdemo.seozeta.com%2Fblog%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=HTML5&group=0&user- agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.3+http%3A%2F%2Fvalidator.w3.org%2Fservices But I noticed that there are themes of WordPress on Themeforest that also use RDFa without validation, so I think it's ok. About the subject of that post, I was not sure how to relate RDFa with Microdata. For example, what is 'breadex', a child or a parent? Is the typeof='v:Breadcrumb' the itemscope equivalent? Which one is which one? Now I don't need it to know, but feel free to post a list with the equivalences/relations for others. I think this information will be usefull for sure.


title: How to find first cached date and time of a website?

text: I found some of my webpage contents has been copied in other website. I need to check the cache date and time of both pages so that i can compare and guess which page is original and which one is duplicate according to Google. Because i know that if Google found two webpages with same content, it consider the first cached page by Google bot as unique. Is there any online tool for checking that? or other ways?


title: Google site search on pre-launch website

text: We have a website being developed. It is currently on a staging URL. eg: stage.testdomain.com We want to use Google Site Search for searching on the site. To make the site go live we need sign-off and working search. How can I setup Google Site Search if it is not on its final URL yet? Final URL will not have stage sub-domain and have a different domain, eg: www.mydomain.com


title: Where should I report sites that have obvious signs of black hat abuse?

text: I have found several sites that are using black hat techniques to rank higher in search results. Where can I report those sites.


title: What is the advantage to hosting static resources on a separate domain?

text: I notice a lot of sites host their resources on a separate domain from the main site, e.g. StackExchange using sstatic.net, Barnes & Noble using imagesbn.com, etc. I understand that there are benefits to putting your static resources on a separate host, possibly with an efficient static-file web server like nginx, freeing up the main server to focus on serving dynamic content. Similarly, outsourcing to a shared CDN like cloudfront Akamai is logical. What is the benefit to using a separate domain otherwise, though? Why sstatic.net instead of static.stackexchange.com? **Update** : Several answers miss the core question. I understand that there is benefit to splitting between multiple hosts — parallel downloads, slimmer web server, etc. But what is more elusive is why multiple _domains_. Why sstatic.net rather than static.stackexchange.com as the host for shared resources? So far, only one answer has addressed that.


title: Block IP Address using php

text: For my website i use this php code to block ip addresses.               <?php     $deny = array("111.111.111", "222.222.222", "333.333.333");     if (in_array ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $deny)) {        header("location: http://www.google.com/");        exit();     } ?>      How to re-edit this code to block ip addresses like all addresses starting from "111." or "222." like that? Thanks in advance!


title: phpBB permissions issue

text: I'm in the process of installing phpBB, it says I need certain permissions for a few directories (image). I tried changing the permissions via FTP clients but it won't change. FileZilla even gave me this:               Command:    SITE CHMOD 777 cache     Response:   500 'SITE CHMOD 777     cache': command not understood      How do I change these permissions? I'm running Windows Server. Any help? ![phpBB install](http://i.stack.imgur.com/y5mfT.png)


title: How do I have a page depth > 1 on a single page website?

text: One of my sites is a single page that focuses on getting the user to call a phone number. In GA, I've set up a Goal for when visitors spend more than 1 minute on the site. I realized much later that GA doesn't trap exit events, so visitors who arrive at the site and click back won't be counted. I'd like to modify that; but that's for another question. I've got a number of users with an Average Time on Site >0 ; and a page depth > 1. I can't figure out how --- My site contains a single page. The number of users with Page Depth 2+ doesn't equal the number of returning visitors - otherwise I'd assume these are people who left and then typed in the url manually. I'm at a loss. Did they just hit refresh? Did they bookmark the site and return to it? (That shouldn't count as 'time on site' though'...)


title: Somehow Google considers a properly 301'd URL as 200 and is still indexing the new content in old page?

text: We redirected all the old URL's to new ones properly using _.htaccess_. The problem is Google, somehow is still finding content in the old page (which it shouldn't) and stores it in the cache rather than the new URL. For e.g.:   * Old page: `http://www.natures-energies.com/iching.htm`   * New page: `http://www.natures-energies.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=760` If you type the old URL into the browser it redirects. If you fetch the old URL as Googlebot in the Webmaster Tools the header says 301/permanently redirected. If I try to crawl as any other bot it still says 301 redirected. Even if you click the old link in Google it redirects to the new URL. Only in its cache it shows the old URL and moreover it shows the new content in it! I am stumped on how Google manages to grab the new content and puts in the old URL instead of the new one! One more interesting thing is that if I try a cache for the new page it shows the cache of the new content with old URL! Any help would be appreciated. I am at end of my wits. I think I have tried almost everything. Is there anything that I'm missing to see? You can use this search to find the old URL's. Maybe you'll some patterns that I missed. `site:www.natures-energies.com inurl:htm -inurl:https|index`.


title: Optimal GZIP compression level for static resources?

text: Is there a compression level which will provide an optimal balance between file size reduction and client decompression time/cost? I was wondering which GZIP compression level provided the best balance between file size reduction and decompression time. Compression time doesn't really matter since it will only be compressed once and cached. However, I'm concerned that if I set the compression level too high, any gains from file size reduction will be wiped out by the time and cost required to decompress the file on the client side.


title: Does an iframe count as a backlink to my domain?

text: I have the following situation: **Iframe case** web page _www.notMyWebPage.com_ contains an **iframe** that points to my domain (the contents of the iframe are loaded from _www.myWebPage.com_ ) **Link case** web page _www.notMyWebPage.com_ contains a **link** that points to my domain (it points to _www.myWebPage.com_ ) I'd like to know if from the SEO perspective I get the same ranking benefits (i.e., 'juice') **for _www.myWebPage.com_** in the Iframe than in the Link case. Notice that this question refers to the SEO effect on _www.myWebPage.com_ , not on _www.notMyWebPage.com_ , which is the subject of concern of this other question.


title: What largest websites are written in php?

text: What are some of the largest and most popular websites in the world written in php? I know 1 - this is `wikipedia`, tell please another large website.


title: How to remove one of two domains on the same site for SEO?

text: I have foo.com which is set up as the alias of bar.com For better ranking etc I want search engines to only crawl foo.com How do I "remove" bar.com ? Is it the same method as removing www (which I'll also be using) ? if so what's the code ?


title: Facebook open graph doesn't work

text: I have used open graph meta tags in my website               <meta name="og:description" content="My page descriptions ..." />     <meta name="og:title" content="سخت‌افزار20" />     <meta name="og:type" content="website" />     <meta name="og:url" content="http://www.hardware20.com/" />     <meta name="og:image" content="http://www.hardware20.com/apple-touch-icon.png"/>     <meta name="og:site_name" content="hardware20"/>     <meta name="og:locale" content="fa-IR" />      But facebooke does not load Image & Descriptions, When I try to share a page. I have tried debugging by open graph debugger https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ But the debugger always said `Error parsing input URL, no data was scraped.` (even with facebook examples!) Thanks in advance


title: Allow other people to upload to my home web server (inc mysql)

text: Apologies if this is on the wrong place. I've set up a web server at home, it's basic and is currently running using xampp, I plan on replacing it with an old mac g5 soon and mamp or individual components for php etc. I've not done this before so it's all a bit new. I know that I can set up a new dir for a friend and allow them to upload their site to the server so long as it doesn't involve them creating databases. My question is how can I imitate what web hostin companies do? I'd like to be able to give him a user an password and for him to then be able to have the same capabilities as myself although restricted to one folder of course. I've googled quite a lot but haven't come across anything that makes it clear. I understand an option is cpanel but I'd rather find a free alternative. Could someone explain if its doable and if so would it possible to point me in the right direction or state the problems etc that might prevent this from happening. Any and all advice appreciated. Thanks.


title: Facebook profile - app page or business page

text: I'm launching a web and desktop application soon where users can modify their photos. So should I set up a Facebook **app page** or a **business page** for it? ( http://www.facebook.com/apps || http://www.facebook.com/pages ) Are there any pros and cons? Thank you.


title: How to see all changes to the HTML5 CR?

text: On 2013-08-06 the W3C published a new HTML5 Candidate Recommendation. How can I see what was added/removed/changed since the previous Candidate Recommendation from 2012-12-17?   * In _Differences from HTML4_ there are HTML Changelogs, but the last changelog is for "Changes from 14 September 2012 to 6 May 2013".   * On http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker (resp. the mailing list) I can see all commits to the WHATWG version. However, it would be too complex to retrace all these commits from eight months, and there are also many things different in the W3C version.   * I tried to make a diff with the single page documents, but it gets really muddled (many things moved etc.) Of course this question is not limited to the two mentioned CRs, it applies also to future publications of HTML5.


title: I need to change the domain name but keep the analytics

text: I need to change a site domain name from mydomain.com to mydomain.org. Can I keep the existing Google Analytics code and everything will seamlessly flow from the new domain?


title: What zoomable image viewers are there for websites?

text: What zoomable image viewers are there? By these I mean tools that one can embed in a website to let a user zoom in on and pan around a high res image, a canonical example being http://www.zoomify.com/ (see the demo on their home page). Comments on them are welcome. I'm personally looking for something simple and cheap/free which ideally doesn't require Flash, and will accept the answer that comes _closest_ to these requirements. But others who find this question may have different requirements, so all suggestions will be helpful. I have of course searched; I've found Zoomify, http://www.openzoom.org/ and http://code.google.com/p/galapix/ but none seem to meet my requirements, though I could be wrong and others may have more expert comments on these.


title: Google Wallet use case

text: I sell small game servers on a website and used to be able to have customers pay through Google Checkout. Since that has been replaced with Google Wallet, I've been trying to set it up. However, I think I have to "apply" to use the buttons now and the requirements are:               -Have the ability to process their own payments with a qualified payment processor     -Maintain PCI compliance     -Sell physical goods online or through their Android native application, and do not sell any digital goods through their Android native application      Since I don't meet any of these requirements, is it true that I cannot use any Google service as a payment method? Am I doing this wrong? For reference, I'm getting them from this site: https://developers.google.com/wallet/instant-buy/ then click "sign up"


title: Good links somehow being converted to ones with a PHP redirect (not a virus)

text: This has happened to links we put on web pages and in emails. We might put www.oursite.org/work/ but when I view source it shows up as webmail.ourhosting.ca/hwebmail/services/go.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oursite.org%2F%2work%2F This ends up at the webmail login page for our web host. But only some of the people who click the link get the login page; others go directly to the original page we intended. We don't want it to go to the webmail login page, nobody needs to log in to our web site. This occurs for links to pages on our site, but also to links to other sites that we put in emails or in posts. It seems to be browser independent as well as e-mail client independent as we variously have used Firefox and Chrome as well as MS Outlook and Thunderbird. I've tried to resolve the issue with our webhost but they keep telling me they don't support our browser, or our email client (i.e., they don't understand the issue). At the moment, our only option is to try another web host just to get rid of their login. Any ideas about what's going on?


title: Google ignore me after server down

text: One week ago our server went down for 2 days. After one day, Google completely removed my website from search results. Before that it was in average in 2nd position for 3 keywords for about 7 months. I have been waiting if Google reindex me and give me my position back, But until now no changes seen. Is there any solution for this dilemma? **Update:**   I'd made no change to website content or pages before or during the server down.   Webmasters Tools statistic shows the depth of tragedy. ![webmasters- stats](http://oi59.tinypic.com/fdenvq.jpg)


title: What microdata type to choose on mixed category?

text: I have a mixed category of articles which can range from review, blogpost, product or software something like this blog post on You!Joomla. Does anyone know what type of microdata to choose from schema.org? If I choose               itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Blog"      and I have a Product in a mix, I get the next error on the Structured Data Testing Tool `Error: Page contains property "product" which is not part of the schema.` **UPDATE:** does anyone see an issue with this mix? Category that holds all of them to be `http://schema.org/Blog` articles in that category list `http://schema.org/CreativeWork` and once you go in article it will have own type like Product , book etc.


title: htaccess redirect pages that don't exist

text: I have a website that has a little over 100 members. Each member gets a replicated website, and by default the software we use sets up their replicated website at a url like: `domain.com/?username` "username" being the username they registered with. What I'm wanting to do is allow the users to access their replicated website without having to type the question mark before their username. For example, I would want `domain.com/username` to redirect to `domain.com/?username`. I tried adding the following to my htaccess file: `Redirect 302 /username domain.com/?username` This doesn't work, it just gives a 404 not found page when trying to access `domain.com/username` because it doesn't actually exist. Basically, I just want my users to be able to access their websites without having to type the question mark. I hope I've made what I'm trying to accomplish clear. Is this possible? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.


title: Why would a page appear in Google Analytics with 0 pageviews?

text: Our google analytics site shows pages speeds (i.e. /User/1020120) with specific dates (19 March, 20 seconds to load the page). But the Page Views column is always 0 for those pages. How can the pageView column be 0 when the page has clearly loaded and indicated how long its load time was?


title: What should be done when completely changing a site?

text: We're going to be making http://wowballoons.com/home.html and its associated WordPress installation the main page of our website, rather than the drab http://wowballoons.com currently there. My partner is worried that Google will think that the site has been hacked, or no longer relevant. Is this true? Can we let Google know that we're changing our site?


title: 123-reg missed domain registration

text: A few weeks ago I renewed a domain that was coming up to expiration for 10 years with 123-reg for £114.00, it was paid for, we received the invoice stating it was paid - and the control panel expiration date has been updated to 2023. Yesterday upon receiving an email warning that the domain was due to expire, I thought I better contact them and check that the email was sent in error. It turned out they had 'missed the domain for registration', it expires day after tomorrow and they say they don't know if it can be resolved in time. This is quit unusual and obviously ridiculous service from them, and although if it does expire we'll probable be able to get it back, all our company emails use the domain so there will certainly be disruption to our business - plus the time I've spent trying to get this sorted already. Could someone let me know what the best course of action we should take here, is it likely they'll renew it in time and what sort of compensation if any we should ask for? **EDIT** For anyone interested, there's some confusion on their end - they have agreed they won't allow it to go down whilst they look into it. Would have been nice to provide that peace of mind originally, but hey ho.


title: Using CNAME to point domain to Heroku Server

text: We purchased and installed an SSL Certificate on our Heroku app, and install the SSL endpoint. The domain is using nameservers that point to a separate cPanel hosting account. I have tried to add a CNAME record in cPanel that points to our Heroku secure endpoint:               example-7245.herokussl.com      I setup the CNAME like this:               Name: *.domain.com.     Type: CNAME     Record: example-7245.herokussl.com      But is has been a whole day and the url still doesn't to heroku. Is this even possible to do this way? We need the email to run off the cpanel host so if we could just use a cname record for the domain server it was perfect. Thanks for any help.


title: SEO, IIS 7 and web.config in subfolder issue

text: We have ASP.NET application that has sub-folder with .aspx pages and separate web.config file in it. The .aspx pages in that sub-folder behave as separate site. In the web.config file at application level, I set the rule that removing trailing slashes:               <rewrite>         <rules>             <rule name="RemoveTrailingSlashRule1" stopProcessing="true">                 <match url="(.*)/$" />                 <conditions>                     <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />                     <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />                 </conditions>                 <action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="{R:1}" />             </rule>         </rules>     </rewrite>      I expect this rule will propagate downward to sub-folder as well. To access the site in sub-folder we should type:               http://concert.local/elki/      and get it without trailing slash as:               http://concert.local/elki      But, the trailing slash remains. The web.config file in sub-folder looks as following:               <configuration>       <system.webServer>         <defaultDocument>           <files>             <add value="Sections.aspx" />           </files>         </defaultDocument>       </system.webServer>     </configuration>


title: If I remove my A record, will it mess up MX records on that domain?

text: I am using DNSimple and S3/Cloudfront. Following their recommended configuration looks like this:               myapex.com ------ REDIRECT --> www.myapex.com     www.myapex.com -- CNAME -----> lkj32lkj323323.cloudfront.net      This is all bacon gravy. I'm about to make the change though, and I got nervous because I have a lot of existing MX records. They all point to Google services though, as we use Google for our email. Am I likely to break email or other services by removing an old `A` record? Do `MX` records do something special with the zone apex or `A` record?


title: Rewritten URLs stopped getting indexed a month ago

text: I'm working on a website for someone which sells their products on their web site. There is an item.php page which displays the item for sale. I switched all item pages/inks from dynamic URLs to static ones, and Google indexed the pages just fine. However, about a month ago, they stopped indexing all newly added pages. All old pages, previous to a month ago, are still in their search results, in their rewritten URL format. Things to note:   * There is a sitemap.xml which has all item links written in their static format(rewritten format). The newly added products are in the start of the sitemap. So it goes from newer, to older items.   * Google webmaster tools knows about the sitemap(i've added it manually)   * Sitemap tests show no errors   * The sitemap is in robots.txt   * All new products are also linked from site's home page under as "new items" list(so bots can find items there as well, without the sitemap)   * New items are always added to the sitemap.   * Google's index number on the sitemap seems to be stuck at a number such as 2500 submitted, but only 2350 indexed.   * When items are no longer for sale, they are removed from sitemap and all pages on the website. And if someone tries to access the page, page reports as a 410 GONE to browsers/spiders.   * Google doesn't show any site errors in the webmaster tools   * Google fetch utility fetches all the pages and links fine with success! Which makes it even more weird! Why I believe this has to do with dynamic URL being the issue: I also have newly added categories which are NOT rewritten in the URLs, so they will be like www.example.com/category.php?id=Shoes, and Google will always find those newer pages! Yet, not the specific new items which have rewritten URLs. I'm thinking of switching back to dynamic URLs, since it seems static URLs are not being added to index now... Any ideas? Thank you all. This is the .htaccess               AddHandler application/x-httpd-php53s .php      ErrorDocument 404 /404.shtml     RewriteEngine On      RewriteRule ^buy-used/[^/]+/(.*)$ buy-used/item.php?id=$1 [L]           <Files 403.shtml>        order allow,deny        allow from all     </Files>          deny from 5.52.34.246      robots.txt file here:               # robots.txt generated at http://www.mcanerin.com     User-agent: *     Disallow: /cgi-bin/     Sitemap: http://www.ahparts.com/sitemap.xml


title: Already have Merchant Account, what info will my Gateway need?

text: I have a client who already has a merchant account for their physical store.   What specific information about the merchant account will my client need to get from his bank to link it up to an online payment gateway that we will be using for the store? -----edits below -"my merchant account" changed to "the merchant account" -It is noted that my client will need to get a "high-risk" merchant account separate from his existing physical stores merchant account. -Though the question is essentially answered, for clarification: We plan to minimize our PCI compliance needs by utilizing something like Braintree's Transparent Redirect or the CRESecure iForm. So the gateway we would need to give the merchant account info to would be either of those two. Though, the CRESecure method would have yet one more step added into the mix since they would forward data to another payment provider. It is now assumed that the best place to field this question is to the support team at Braintree or CRESecure.


title: Can I dynamically set the SSLInsecureRenegotiation Directive?

text: We're running Apache 2.2.22 with OpenSSL 0.98, one of our Citrix NetScaler Hosts cannot send a client certificate after handshaking SSL as we have to set SSLInsecureRenegotiation off as a security standard. Is there anyway to dynamically set this directive based on Remote_Addr? I have tried so many settings but as designed I guess, there doesn't seem to be a way of selectively allowing SSLInsecureRenegotiation for one user agent or IP? We've already patched to latest NetScaler 10, but after the SSL initial handshake a renegotiation request is sent back from Apache to the NetScaler because as a client cert is required for a LocationMatch, this is never responded to leading Apache to terminate session. - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5746#section-3.5 . We're told by Citrix that downstream rules are normally on a "trusted" network, and not supported using the client method, is it possible to differentiate between requests and how the SSLInsecureRenegotiation directive is called by host identity of some sort or IP? Many thanks.


title: do we have to add/remove a trailing slash for pagination page numbers in the url. how seo considers that?

text: My module is paginated. I want to either add a trailing slash or remove a trailing slash. For now i am thinking of adding a trailing slashes to all URLS. What will be the effect on adding a trailing slash for paginated URLS like `sitename.com/module/page/5/` what will be the difference in `/page/5/` vs `/page/5` with respect to the users, seo and crawlers? **The reason for always trailing slash on/off is to prevent duplicate content because of which the site gets penalized.**


title: DNS MX and NS entries

text: I was wondering about my domain and if next is afordable. First of all this is my "architecture":   * Domain registration at GoDaddy.com    * Hosting at Dreamhost    * mail at google apps Until now I setted up the google apps MX entries in my domain through the GoDaddy manager, but now what I want is to set up the hosting I have hired from Dreamhost. I understand that all I have to do is to setup next Dreamhost NS entries into the GoDaddy domain manager:               NS1.Dreamhost.COM. 66.33.206.206 NS2.Dreamhost.COM. 208.96.10.221 NS3.Dreamhost.COM. 66.33.216.216      My question is, will my mail keep working right as soon as the MX entries I already setup into the GoDaddy are the Google Apps ones?


title: Website design using responsive approach or mobile site

text: I have been looking for mobile desktop website solution & I am confused with the information available on internet. In some case article talk about Responsive approach with the future but i am sure it has its own limitation. Google recommends it which I am not sure is it for their own inconvenience. On the other side jQuery Mobile is great to work with, both approach's might have there own pro - cons. I would like to have expert opinion on this:   1. What is better responsive website or separate mobile website?   2. Which is better from SEO point?


title: Getting Images To Show In Google Results

text: I'm wondering if it's possible to get Google to show an image next to a search result without using the `og:video` meta tag. I've only ever seen websites using said tag to get Google to show images next to search results. The problem, however, is that my site's content provides no swf to view the content on the site. Currently my pages have pretty much every other applicable open graph meta tag including `og:image`. I'm using Google's service to test the search result: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets


title: Freelance Terms

text: I am having many arguments with my client about the terms of a large project and need some advice. The client is a middle man linking me up with the company that needs the website, so the end customer is this company that my client knows, that I have no connection to, other than through him. I agreed to do freelance work for an extremely reasonable price, way below what its worth. **What (I) the freelancer wants** I tried to come up with an extremely reasonable contract that contains information about payment due dates, if any changes are made to project scope additional fees apply, project files are to be delivered after no balance remains, $30 late fee per day will be applied daily after exceeding 5 days after the due date. Are any of these terms unreasonable? Aren't the terms usually a lot worse? **What the client wants** The client refuses to adhere to my contract and wants to create his own contract that says that payment due dates may change at any time and I will be paid 7 days after I show progress with the site (which can be whenever he wants). Progress with the site will be shown using CFT which forces me to transfer files to his server, so this means I deliver half the project before I get paid and last but not least, no late fees. Since when do clients make the contract between them and the web developer? I'd appreciate any advice, with this situation. Many thanks in advance!


title: Mod-rewrite rule broken after host upgrade to Apache 2.4

text: I use the following code on my site to remove php extension from links:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d      RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]      It was working fine, but my host GoDaddy upgraded their servers to Apache 2.4 and now all links return 404. How to correct this ?


title: Importance of 'href' attribute within an <a>

text: I am aware of the 'content is king' seo rule, but I'm also wondering whether empty `<a>` HTML elements is a relatively big downside regarding SEO. To be more precise and actually cut to the chase, I want to use this javascript plugin http://kirkas.ch/ascensor/#/Home for a site. As you can observe, the "navigation bar" (bottom right) uses empty `<a>` elements for navigation.


title: How do you get MediaWiki to render URLs in the usual way?

text: I've noticed that whenever a URL is long and contains unusual characters MediaWiki renders it incorrectly, for instance this URL: `http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/jmol.php?model=C[C@H](N)CC1=CC=CC=C1` gets rendered such that the C@HCC1=CC=CC=C1 gets rendered as separate from the rest of the URL. I would like it to be rendered in its full form. How do I do this?


How can I get my own customised Google search page like Firefox? Example: http://www.google.co.uk/firefox Also, can I earn from Adsense like that?


title: Not index page that doesn't have relevant content?

text: I have a large software website and on each application we let users add comments, reviews and so on. Each of these pages are called for example "Comments About Firefox", "Firefox Reviews" and so on. If we don't have any reviews or we for some reason KNOW that the visitor from Google would be disappointed should we add "noindex" to that page? Or should we just let Google decide if they want to rank us or not?


title: Preventing indexing duplicate content by search engines

text: I am in process of migrating my old domain (www.oldurl.com) to new domain (www.newurl.com). Almost all the content,URL structure as well database is same except for few URL's and only difference will be in the domain name. I have made entries in the Apache's .htaccess file to set 301 redirect and currently have blocked all search engines from crawling my new domain by setting in robot.txt file. I am not sure how i will handle the duplicate content issue as when i will make the new domain go live.   * Should i block search engines to index/crawl my old domain? i am new to this field and not sure if this is actually any duplicate content issue or not.


title: Domain mapping issues

text: I have two domain names - `.com` & `.co.uk` bought with 123-reg and just one student Windows hosting pack associated with the `.co.uk` domain. The `.com` domain is the main one which people would be trying to access, so I just mapped the domain to the hosting this morning. The problem is that I would really like it to be functional by tomorrow morning and the usual waiting time is 24-48 hours. Is there point in stopping the process and trying with forward it with CNAME record instead, does it take less time? (I can just go back and do proper domain mapping during the weekend) Also, is there a possible way to check whether the domain mapping has been done correctly before these 24-48 hours? From some computers I get 404 Error on homepage.


title: When will iframe content be indexed as part of the surrounding page?

text: Our system provides a web front-end. A potential client would like to set up his own portal, and place our pages within his own pages, using iframes. He'd also like Google to index the joined content. I'm wondering if that's possible. Note that since the client is going to own both his portal and ours, he can place both under the same domain. So the iframe will actually bringing content from the same website, and not from some unrelated source. If this won't work, is there any alternative way to join content on the browser's end, in a way acceptable by search engines? Worst comes to worst he'd have to use our API and build the complete pages on his back end, but I'm looking for alternatives.


title: What are my options for Web 2.0 gallery software?

text: My question is: What are my options if I need a Web 2.0 gallery software that work in a very similar manner to this _removed_ web site. Essentially: users can create account, then create and manage their own galleries. And all other users and guests can see these galleries, add tags, comments, etc. Basically a community driven gallery web site. When it comes to "normal" cms I know a lot of good options, but I never worked with any gallery management software... If you can suggest me some good solutions (free) it would be great! Also: If you by any chance know what software is used at this _removed_ website it would be even better, because this solution suits me the best and I would have used this engine, but I cant find any information on what this engine is and if it is even public, or privately developed thing.


title: Where can I register a .name domain?

text: All the popular registrars I know of don't seem to offer this domain, and after Google'ing around for a while I came to an index of registrars for this TLD, but they all seem to be Russian. Is there a popular (preferably American) domain registrar that offers .name domains?


title: Website / ftp management software with easy ACL

text: I need to create users and give them ftp access to a specific paths (e.g. mike -> /var/www/html/mike ; bob -> /var/www/html/bob ) I'm using Centos / linux server. Is there any plug & play solution ? I've played around a bit with ftpd but couldn't set proper user access as specified above.


title: order of actions from psd to html/css to backend development

text: I've read all related posts, but still have one question. Once my PSD is done and I send it for html/css, do I then send it straight to development, get that down, and then go back and add in the javascript for things such as slideshows, rollover/drop down navigation, etc. Or should I do the javascript during html/css and then send it all to back end developer? Confused! Please don't close my question!


title: Add a custom domain to a Google Drive website?

text: Is possible add a custom domain to a website created with Google Drive?


title: How do developers access my site during construction?

text: So I just finished my psd's and I am going to send them to a front end developer, but I'm at a loss at to the logistics of it. Do I just send them to the front end developer and have them upload them to my server, or to their test server? And then when I send it to backend development, do I just give the programmer my hosting credentials, etc, so they can login and work on my project? Is this how it works?


title: Should I remove bad links to old site that are being 301 redirected to new site?

text: Should I remove bad links e.g. 0 Page Rank, 0 Trust linking to old site that are being 301 redirected to new site? Would I get rid of these links using Google's Disavow links? We've only improved in rankings so far but I'm worried that the old links will only come back to haunt us.


title: In robots.txt, why would there be "Allow: /*" below a Disallow rule?

text: I want to allow full access to all Google I am specially confused about `Allow: /*` below `Disallow:`               # Google Image     User-agent: Googlebot-Image     Disallow:     Allow: /*          # Google AdSense     User-agent: Mediapartners-Google     Disallow:


title: .Webp format vs PNG format. ( for a long term image and news web site )

text: I would like to use a format for images that will   ensure the content of my web site wont just drift   and melt away as the time passes.. Google has developed a format called               Webp      i think it is better than PNG format because it is   faster. Google can make fast things but usually i end up   using other things. for example.. I would rather use               iOS      than Android although iOs is more expensive. in OSX i would rather use..               Safari rather than Google Chrome      although Google Chrome is much faster. should i ignore .Webp and use PNG although this   can be more expensive for me in terms of bandwidth   consumption and so on.. loading time and so on..   but i suppose PNG is more popular than Webp. Will PNG ever update itself so it can become   light like WEBP ? I especially do not want to use WEBP because   google might try to play god on us all on the internet. I think the era of.. end of JPEG and GİF have arrived.   i do not think GİF format will be around in 7   years from now.. and digital cameras will likely   stop creating JPEG format given that it is not an open   source format.. Does the future consist of PNG or WEBP. am i correct to choose PNG over WEBP. ?


title: Is there a way to make links to search photos on my site automatically with Google Image Search?

text: I have a website where members can upload photos. I am trying to make sure that these are photos that members have the rights to, so when I am concerned, I do a search using Google image search to see where else the photo can be found on the Internet. (http://www.google.com/imghp) I know there is a Firefox/Chrome extension to allow search by right-clicking an image on a site, but I don't always have a desktop version of Chrome/Firefox available (I often do these checks from a tablet or mobile phone). So, I would like to find a way to build links on my own site so that I can simply click the link for a photo and then perform the image search on Google. Is there a way to do this? I tried looking at the search queries that Google image search produces, but these look different than normal Google search queries when you choose the option to paste the URL in at the start.


title: Is it correct to use canonical and alternate hreflang links in the same page?

text: I have a multilingual site and I think both, canonical URL and alternate hreflang URL should be defined. The URL structure is very simple: Language, tag and page title.   * Structure: http://domain.com/lang/tag/page   * Example: http://domain.com/en/funny/man-walks-on-banana The page has multiple tags. While going through pages under one category, the category name should be maintained in the URL like following:   * http://domain.com/en/funny _clicks a link_   * http://domain.com/en/funny/man-walks-on-banana _clicks "next"_   * http://domain.com/en/funny/woman-walks-on-banana _clicks "next"_   * http://domain.com/en/funny/some-other-funny-stuff When some of these pages is also related to the tag "accidents" and many more tags, it means that the page has multiple URLs, which causes duplicate content:   * http://domain.com/en/funny/man-walks-on-banana   * http://domain.com/en/accidents/man-walks-on-banana   * (same page, different URL, bad) This will be handled by defining a canonical URL. We have decided not to create "sub-tags", so we need to decide which tag is the most important one for this content. So under whatever tag the page is being viewed, canonical URL refers to:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://domain.com/en/FUNNY/man-walks-on-banana" />      Now the question occurs when the site is multilingual. According Google's instructions I should set an alternate link hreflang to the finnish version of the page.               <link rel="alternate" href="http://domain.com/en/funny/man-walks-on-banana" hreflang="en" /> (english versison of the page)     <link rel="alternate" href="http://domain.com/fi/hauskat/mies-kavelee-banaanin-paalta" hreflang="fi" /> (finnish version of the page)      Alternate hreflang-links are defined in both versions, but in both versions there should still be the canonical link, so that the page is under the main tag, in its own language. If we assume we're on the english version of the page "/en/sometag/man-walks- on-banana", would it go like this:               <link rel="alternate" href="http://domain.com/en/funny/man-walks-on-banana" hreflang="en" />     <link rel="alternate" href="http://domain.com/fi/hauskat/mies-kavelee-banaanin-paalta" hreflang="fi" />          <link rel="canonical" href="http://domain.com/en/funny/man-walks-on-banana" />      Is this a proper way to do this or not? Does the defining of a canonical link effect to the alternate hreflang-links or not? Does Google understand what I'm trying to tell them here? I hope you do. If so, what would be the proper solution? Thanks.


title: Need jQuery Pro Rata Wheel

text: Is anybody aware of a jQuery Pro Rata Wheel? I checked the usual places but couldn't find anything.


title: Robots.txt and Regular Expressions

text: If I place a regular expression in robots.txt will it be readable for the web crawlers?


title: Best foreign domain registrars?

text: Does anyone have a preference for foreign domain registrars? I am specifically interested in registering an .it domain. I understand that Europe Registry provides this service (and allows one to acquire an Italian domain without having a business presence in the country,) but are their rates (EUR 49/yr) competitive? From a legality standpoint, I have citizenship with a country in the EU, if it helps.


title: SEO and APIs: Helping or hurting?

text: I have a couple Real Estate sites for some clients, and I was wondering about APIs and how that would affect SEO. Particularly, I'm looking at using the Yelp API for nearby stuff, and possibly a Google (or other) news feed for the particular neighborhoods. Since this information is essentially "duplicated," does this hurt SEO? Or, would the increase in content and cross-linking improve the SEO? In searching for an answer to this question, it seems that just about everyone agrees that duplicate content is a bad thing for SEO (especially scraped content), but does this change anything since it's actually accessed by my websites in a legitimate manner?


title: Two CMS over one web site. Is that possible?

text: Is it possible to maintain a web site or blog site using two CMS?


title: What is create new ad unit in Google Adsense?

text: I tried to send AdSense request to Google to display other ads in my website to earn money. In the AdSense Dashboard there is an option Create new ad unit to generate code? What it is? Why do I have to insert that code in my website?


title: How to A/B test two different site designs

text: I'm familar with A/B testing variations of a page via Google Website Optimiser but I'd like to A/B test completely different designs on a site wide basis or a collection of pages. So each visitor would see either design A side wide or design B site wide. I haven't yet found a service that does this (or I haven't realised how to do it). Can anyone help?


title: Redirect IP Address to Domain Name

text: I am attempting to redirect the IP address of my domain to the domain name and am running into trouble. The IP address does not redirect to the domain name listed in the redirect statement below. The IP Address is `http://184.168.27.44/` I've setup the following rule in my web.config file:               <rule name="IPHit" enabled="true" stopProcessing="false">        <match url="(.*)" />        <conditions>           <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^184\.168\.27\.44" />        </conditions>        <action type="Redirect" url="http://littlejawsbigsmiles.com/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />     </rule>      The DNS is setup with the following records:               A (HOST)      ------------------------     @ --> 184.168.27.44          CNAME (Alias)      ------------------------     www --> @      Is there anything else that I'm mising? I'm not sure why this isnt working.


title: Why does my funnel look like that?

text: I've set up a goal with a funnel on Google Universal Analytics. The funnel starts at one domain and the second step is in another domain. I'm using linker to pass the client id to the new domain. The weird thing is that it looks in the report like there are many entrances directly to the second step, which doesn't make sense. The only way to get to that step is to click a link in the first step. What am I doing wrong? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/EMBXZ.png)


title: Nginx and Google Appengine Reverse Proxy Security

text: The scenario is that I have a Google compute node running Nginx as a reverse proxy to the google appengine. The appengine is used to service REST calls from an single page application (SPA). HTTPS is used to the Nginx front end from the Internet. Do I also need to make the traffic from the Nginx reverse proxy to the appengine secure by turning on HTTPS on the appengine? I would like to avoid the overhead of HTTPS between the proxy and the backend. My thinking was that once the traffic has arrived at Nginx encrypted, decrypted in Nginx, and then sent via the reverse proxy inside of Google's infrastructure it would be secure. Is it safe in this case to not use HTTPS?


title: Apache logs: "::1 ... "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -

text: Just looking at logs of a not-so-busy site on one of our Apache servers and notice tons of these in the log:               ::1 - - [15/Apr/2011:12:11:40 -0700] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -     ::1 - - [15/Apr/2011:12:11:41 -0700] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -     ::1 - - [15/Apr/2011:12:11:44 -0700] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -      They seem to appear multiple times just below the GET requests where Apache has served a page & its related images.   1. what do they mean?    2. what IP is "`::1`"?   3. if they're benign can I suppress them?


title: Crossing Twitter follow info with members database

text: I have an email database with a couple of thousand members and a twitter account with a couple of thousand followers. Many of them are in both lists for sure. For the purpose of segmenting the email database, it would be great if I could know who from the email database has a Twitter account. It's not important to know their Twitter user names or id's, but if that comes as an extra, even better. Twitter API allows a lot of queries, but I didn't find one that allows search users by email address.


title: How do I verify the ownership of a domain from Namecheap to use Google Apps?

text: I registered a domain with Namecheap.com, and started the Google Apps registration process. After the initial data filling, google apps wishes me to prove the ownership of a domain, and has given me 4 choices:   * Add a DNS record to your domain's configuration    * Link to your Google Analytics account    * Upload an HTML file to your server    * Add a meta tag to your site's home page What is the differences between these, and how do I (if someone knows perhaps how to do it on Namecheap, it would be even better) complete this step in the process? I would appreciate any advice you might have.


title: How can I make these Google Analytics numbers add up? (Frequency & Recency)

text: Here's a screen shot from Google Analytics. It's my last months traffic, and this is the 'Frequency & Recency' tab. So I believe that if I add up all the numbers under 'visits' I get 11,432, which is right, and if I add up all the numbers under 'pageviews' I get 14,785 and that's right as well. But, let's take the last line - the last line appears to say that 71 people, visited more than 51 times each, and they viewed a total of 243 pages between them - that doesn't seam to make any sense - did they view 9% of a page each time? So that's clearly wrong - what's the error in my calculation? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/A6qrT.jpg)


title: Javascript not loading from local drive

text:
I'm overlooking the obvious...Modifying an index page on local hard drive before uploading it to server. And the javascript is not loading. This doesn't work:               file:///Users/meltemi/Sites/mysite/index.html      But, when page is uploaded and served from Apache then the javascript works:               http://www.mysite.com/index.html      Site directories are identical both locally and on remote server. I have tried this with Safari 5.0.5 & Firefox 4.0. code excerpts, though I don't believe it's a code issue:               <!DOCTYPE html>                        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">         <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="css/main.css" />
                                    ...


title: Strange Google Analytics Results

text: I have a small website and usually I have a very normal number of visits/pageviews/length of visit such as 20/200/5 minutes but today I did a bit more advertising in my area and I had 40/1500/20 minutes. The number of visits is normal but can you think of anything that would cause that crazy number of pageviews and visit length. Could some sort of bot have caused this?


title: Clearing floats? Or something else?

text: I'm working on this website for my dad: http://smartcampusdeals.com/TendonAiD/index3.html and the three columns (with the stick cartoony people) extend past the container. Right now, I have the container set at a static height (700px or something) but I want the height to adjust, so I don't have to change it for every other page. Why are these three columns behaving that way and what can I do to fix it?


title: SEO for landing page of three different language sites

text: I have three sites running under the main domain `example.com/en/` `example.com/ar/` `example.com/ur/`   And there is a main HTML landing page `example.com` which have some introduction in three languages and links to three sites.   Now i want this landing page to have a good SEO. and i want this page to appear in search in three languages.   if someone searchs Arabic it should be in results with Arabic title and description, if someone searches in English it should response in English.   Is it possible? or suggest me other way to make a landing page for these sites.


title: Websites sharing the same IP address

text: I have always been confused by the idea that multiple websites sharing the same IP address. I mean if there is a webserver out there that has an IP address. I can simply key in this IP address with the right port such as 80 and the destination gateway knows which server to forward this incoming request. This case, port 80 is the webserver and the website is served out to the client. However, I do not understand how two websites can be hosted on the webserver and one IP address. Let's say the two websites with names of abc.com and xyz.com are hosted on the same webserver with one IP address. The DNS server that I use such as one from my ISP can resolve the names with the IP adress just fine, pointing my web browser to the correct webserver, but my confusion is how the webserver know which website to serve out? I always thought that the only way to differentiate between different websites on the same webserver is their respective port numbers. In other words, if the incoming request is on port 80, it's abc.com and if it is port 81 it is xyz.com. Obviously, I am not putting in xyz.com:81 on my web browser so it uses port 80 by default. Then why do I get the actual xyz.com website in return and not abc.com?


title: Paging next/previous links with Google escape fragment

text: I have paging URLs below and the page uses AJAX to do paging. Do I need to add `_escaped_fragment_=` to the URL below or are those URLs fine?               <link rel="prev" href="http://exposurebasketballtournaments.com/youth-basketball-tournaments/kansas?page=4" />     <link rel="prev" href="http://exposurebasketballtournaments.com/youth-basketball-tournaments/kansas?page=5" />


title: Whatchamacallit: You know how there are breadcrumbs and sliders and whatnot

text: What do you call it when a web site (especially corporate/retail) has a series of rows with thumbnails, each with a little caption/description beneath explaining some benefit or feature of a product or service. Is there a name for this? I'm building a theme that incorporates this kind of design and I was hoping there is some kind of shorthand for this design feature. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out one of the links below. http://themeforest.net/item/revolution-minimalist-business-html- template/full_screen_preview/2295335 http://themes.two2twelve.com/preview?theme=freshserve


title: Can't remove domain from Bing

text: I'm trying to use Bing's Content Removal page to remove an old domain from search results. The domain belongs to an old staging site and is no longer live, but got picked up by Bing somewhere along the way. When trying to remove the URL Bing returns: > We could not verify that the URL is no longer live on the web or outdated. > Please check the URL for errors or try again later. Your request will not be > submitted. ![Bing Content Removal](http://i.stack.imgur.com/orX2E.png) According their help page > If we are unable to determine either (for example, because we **cannot > connect to the server on which the page resides** ) you will not be able to > submit a page removal or outdated cache removal request at this moment in > time. Bing won't be able to connect to the server because it's no longer there. I could go through the trouble of setting the domain up again from scratch and pointing it at a file that just returns a **noindex** header, but that seems a bit silly/overkill to get the page de-listed. Is there any other way to get Bing to de-list this? Why would they make it so difficult to de-list a URL for a domain that doesn't even resolve?


title: Can I programatically update a Google Analytics filter?

text: We have a constantly changing list of IPs that needs to be filtered out of google analytics, is there some API, or way to fetch the list of IPs to be included in a Google Analytics filter?


title: How frequent is user feedback on an onsite poll?

text: I have a feedback poll on my website, and need to find some sourced data or article which states how frequently users generally give feedback when using online polls that look like this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/5Otwv.jpg) For example the wikipedia feedback poll is discussed here, but I could not find data which shows what percentage of users actually used it to give feedback (e.g. "on average x% of visitors to articles gave feedback via the online poll"). Stack overflow also has a generic feedback poll for users who do not have an account / are not logged in. Any statistics for how frequently this poll is used would also be a good answer. I remember Jeff Attwood wrote a blog post once briefly mentioning that it was hardly ever used, but no numbers were mentioned. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


title: Canonical links and best way to use parameters with url rewriting

text: I use my own custom routing module in PHP and mod_rewrite. A typical main page URL looks like this: `http://www.example.com/services` There's a large part of the website that displays the products on the site (6000 pages indexed in Google), for which the URLs look like this: `http://www.example.com/products/model/bmw/cat/lubricants` The problem is that in some pages, there are links to the same pages from above that also contain a parameter: `http://www.example.com/products/model/bmw/cat/lubricants/highlight/value` So those URL's have the same content, the second just has a parameter that is used to highlight a certain product. The problems I have are:   * Google indexed a version of each of the URL's. I don't want visitors to land directly to the version with the _highlight_ parameter, so I don't want those URLs indexed   * In Webmaster Tools, the pages appear with duplicate title (don't know why I don't get a warning about duplicate content/meta/etc too, because they're the same, but..). So this has to be fixed. I can think of these possible solutions:   1. Use the `<link rel="canonical">` when the page is requested with the _highlight_ parameter and point to the one without it. Leave the URLs in the form they are now. Wait for Google to merge them in time.   2. Instead of "rewriting" the _highlight_ parameter (with /), append it the classic way: `www.example.com/products/model/bmw/cat/lubricants/?highlight=value`, and add _highlight_ in Webmaster Tools to the ignore list of parameters; that way, parameters that don't really change page content would be distinguishable by search engines. This solution would also shorten the depth a little (as seen by search engines), and I believe it's a good thing from a SEO standpoint.   3. A combination of 1 and 2: canonical links and classic parameters. Again, should I add the parameter in Webmaster Tools in order to _force_ Google merge the results and not wait for a crawl of those pages?   4. This one is stupid, but: add _highlight_ in Webmaster Tools and keep the URLs as they are, but I don't think it works this way and Google expects only url's in the form ?x=y in order to detect parameters and exclude pages from results. **So, which of these would work best? Is there something else I should do?** There are only 300 results indexed in Google of pages with the parameter. I wouldn't mind to lose them, but a "merge" with the no-parameter pages would pe preferred. And that mention in Webmaster Tools about duplicate titles somewhat bothers me. Does that affect ranking of those pages (or their no-parameter correspondants)?


title: How do I expire by type in .htaccess for remote loaded Google fonts?

text: Is it possible to set expire by type for remote fonts or Google analytics? I'm getting this report from GTMetrix and everything I've tried isn't working. Suggestions?               There are 4 static components without a far-future expiration date.     http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300     http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto&subset=latin,latin-ext     http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js     http://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js      All of my other expires are working fine. But apparently this type of thing isn't right?               ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType application/font-woff "access 1 year"      What should I do?


title: Should I rely on externally-hosted services?

text: I am wondering over the dangers / difficulties in using external services like Google Chart in my production state website. With external services I mean them that you can't download and host on your own server. **(-)** Potentially the Google service can be down when my site is up. **(+)** I don't have to develop those particular systems for new browser technologies, hopefully Google will do that for me. **(-)** Extra latency while my site fetch the data from the google servers. What else? Is it worth spending time and money to develop my own systems to be more in control of things?


title: Recomendation for Webshop with API

text: I'm searching for a webshop. The problem with my search is, that the webshop- software of my choice needs to have a useabel API or some interface for external applications. E.g. i need to place orders by an external application or need to get product descriptions or warehouse stock from the external application. I somehow would like to have a webshop wehere the webinterface is just one way to interact with the whole system. There are some other requirments, which have to be fullfilled, but i guess they are kind of common:   * running on linux   * MySQL (we already have MySQL-replication and backup in place)   * i like open source but i'm willing to pay for it, if it's worth it I found some webshops on the net - but perhaps you can tell me, if theres any hope for a webshop with a good API before i go and test all of them, on the first look i didn't find any docs about any interface to external applications for any of my search results. Thank you!


title: Switch Hosts With Gmail Account Attached

text: I am transferring a client from their old host to my new one. Their domain- based gmail/apps account was connected to their old host, so when I changed the domain's name servers to the new host, naturally the gmail account stopped working. So I added the 7 MX records tho the new host's DNS and verified I own the domain on the new host's FTP but the email still isn't working. Is there something I'm missing? I added the MX records to the new host about two hours ago, is it possible it just takes longer than that? Also, outgoing mail seems to work. Members of the domain can't receive email though, just sends back an error. Thanks, Wade