title: Using a server to host mail servers and redirect website requests to another server

text: I have 2 servers. At my registrar, the DNS of my domain points to Server1. How can I set up my servers, so that Server1 redirects all Web requests for my domain to Server2. My goal is that I can change Server2 whenever I want without having to change the DNS at my registrar (and have to wait X hours for the changes to spread). I would simply change something in Server1 so that it redirects to Server3 instead of Server2 and as soon as I would do that, it would work for all visitors. Does it make sense? How would I set this up? I looked at DNS servers and slaves but I am confused.


title: Pagerank updated and traffic change, what's first?

text: As we all know, pagerank is not updated very often, this month it Did. Thing is in one of my sites google traffic increased about a 300% and then I realised that pagerank improved 1 point, My question here is a little bit difficult to express, Basically, Does traffic change is because of the PR change or the PR it's just a reflection of current status?


title: Renewing a SSL certificate with GoDaddy

text: GoDaddy sells SSL certificates for $12 per year (the most basic one). I have bought one of those last year, and now is the time to renew. However they are now asking for $50 for the renewal (the $12 is apparently a discount). Is there a way to get the $12 price for a renewal. Is it going to work if I buy a new certificate at $12, and use the same host as the one I had before, or are they going to prevent me from doing that?


title: Choose preview of a GIF in Facebook when pushed from Mailchimp

text: I'm creating email campaigns in Mailchimp and they will also be automatically posted in Facebook. Facebook allows to create the thumbnail of the campaign by picking the GIF (http://eepurl.com/QokP). But I'd like to choose a specific frame of the GIF as the thumbnail. Do you know if there is a way to set a frame as the default frame for a GIF preview?


title: Why might have my website dropped off SERPS?

text: I used to be first page for a keyword, but now it seems I have dropped off entirely and cannot even find myself on the first few pages. I checked Google webmaster tools and there wasn't anything peculiar. I'm guessing I need to build new backlinks, but any other ideas?


title: On what criteria should I evaluate domain registrars?

text: Though I've been a web developer for a fair amount of time, I am going for the first time to buy a few domain names. I have looked into the domains I'm going to buy and know that they're available, and I've been looking into which sellers to use. After doing a lot of research, the main ones I'm considering are 1&1, Namecheap, and Gandi. The problem is, when continuing to research, I'm not really sure what makes one domain seller distinct from another. I don't need much in the way of services--definitely not hosting, since I plan to use Heroku for that. I mainly only need the domain itself and DNS management, as well as possibly SSL certificates and WHOIS protection. **Question:** What makes one domain seller different from another? How can I go about evaluating which one is the best for me? **Note:** This question is _not_ which domain seller is the best, but rather, what _criteria_ can I use to evaluate them and rank one over another. I'm trying to find out what makes one domain seller different from another, since they all seem to be pretty similar to me right now.


title: Is there any web script to compress files on server?

text: Hey I was just looking for a script to compress all my files on my server through FTP or any other thing. I want to keep the compressed files as backup... And i know that many hosts support it, but i'm using godaddy and there's a limit of 20MB on compressing. is there any script without any limit which i can run and compress all the files and download and keep as backup? thanks.


title: why does Plesk set up only one nameserver by default?

text: When using Plesk 9.5 the default DNS template only includes one nameserver. An NS record of ns. and an a record ns. pointing to the default ip. Two nameserves are mandatory, so why would plesk have only one in the template. Am I missing something? I have found several hosting company guides that all explain the process of adding an extra name server to the template, that explain what I mean. https://help.fasthosts.co.uk/app/answers/detail/a_id/727/related/1/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xMzAxNjkxOTczL3NpZC9EemppX3Bxaw%3D%3D http://www.jodohost.com/plesk/Creating_Nameservers/creating_nameservers.html


title: Trouble creating new MySQL user/database with PHPMyAdmin

text: I did a brand new install of PHPMyAdmin and I managed to get it set up a while ago with a single non-admin user and a database. I now want to add a new user and new database. So, I went to the command line and created the database, created `sampleuser@localhost` identified by 'password', and granted all privileges to that user to the new database. When I go to PHPMyAdmin, however, I can't log in as sampleuser. I also tried to grant privilages to see the new database to my old user, and the database doesn't appear for my old user. Is there something I need to do to get PHPMyAdmin to reflect the changes?


title: Need to redirect to another server with no access to DNS A record

text: I've a website which is on two servers - the one it's on now malfunctioned. I have the site hosted on a second server, but have no access to the DNS Records to point the A Record to the new server IP. Can I redirect the URL to the new server without access to the DNS records?


title: How can I create multiple mini-sites with similar/duplicate content without hurting my search engine rank?

text: **Essential background** : I run a small company that lets members of the public post handwritten letters to their local politician (UK-based). Every week a number of early stage bills (called Early Day Motions) are submitted for debate in the House of Commons, and supporters of the motion will contact their local Members of Parliament, asking them to sign the motion. **The crux** : I want to target these EDMs with customised mini-sites, so when people search "EDM xxx", they find my customised mini-site, specifically targeting that EDM (i.e., "Send a handwritten letter to your MP asking them to sign EDM xxx"). At the moment, all these mini-sites (and my homepage) have **duplicate content** with only the relevant EDM name, number, and background image changed. (For example, http://mailmymp.com and http://mailmymp.com/edm/teaching-life- saving-skills-at-school-edm-550.php). **The question** : Firstly, will this hurt my potential search engine ranking? And, if so, what's the best way to target these political campaigns in an efficient manner without hurting my SEO prospects?


title: Why is the title of a RSS Feed coming as "unknown title" in RSS feeds reader?

text: The title of a feed is "unknown title" in Google reader. What could be the reason? Am I correct if I'm assuming that it should be appearing similar for all the subscribers of that feed and other feed-readers (other than Google reader) as well.


title: Are there any web log analyzers that produce something like Visitors Flow?

text: We currently run AWStats and Google Analytics. I've recently looked into several other options including Piwik, Open Web Analytics, and Webalizer. One thing that I'd like to track, and haven't found in anything (GA's Visitors Flow is closest) is statistics on referrers. That is:   1. For a page view, the page that linked to it   2. For static files (images, css, js) the page that called them Visitors Flow gives something of this, but:   * It doesn't handle service URLs   * It doesn't handle static files (we have a lot of these)   * It's very sparse (only gives the top few routes into or out of a page)   * It's not integrated with any other pieces (eg. I can't easily drill down into a path in Visitors Flow to see a breakdown of pages within that path) Are there any tools (preferably log-based) that can provide this information?


title: How do I connect a .tk domain with google sites?

text: Basically, I am trying to set up a google sites website with a cname from the .tk service. I need to know what I have to modify in the "Use Dot TK Free DNS Service" So far, this is the info I have: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2518318 http://www.blogritz.com/2011/03/change-blogspotcom-to-dot-tk-blogger.html Only issue is that I can't get it up and running! I have looked all over google for a tutorial on making this work, but I cannot find a solution. Okay, basically I solved my own problem by doing this: A Record www.site.tk 209.85.148.121 CNAME Record www.site.tk ghs.google.com Now my only problem is that when I look up site.tk on my address bar, nothing appears. Only www.site.tk works. Is there a way I can forward it to www.site.tk?


title: Is there any pros and cons of duplication content of meta description tag to keyword tag

text: On a Huge Website we have no time to add `keywords` manually so I'm same phrases for `Description` and `keyword` like this               <meta name='description' content="Hello how are you?">     <meta name='keywords' content="Hello how are you?">      Is there any pros and cons to do this for site's SEO


title: How to detect and track broken pages using Google Analytics or some other tool?

text: On my blog (WordPress), I am using a caching plugin, and somehow it happens that on my popular posts, the page broke, which means the generated HTML never reached the ending HTML tag and broke in between. The result was that the page display was wrong and Google Analytics code did not trigger. How can I quickly detect all such broken pages, either through Google Analytics or some other tool?


title: Different websites on "example.com" and "www.example.com"

text: I have an `A` record for my domain for `example.com` that points to my server's IP address. I would like to modify my DNS records so that `www.example.com` points to another server. Is this possible, and would I do that by simply creation a new `A` type record? Wouldn't `example.com` override my `www.example.com` record?


title: Feeds not working on Technorati

text: I submitted my site to Technorati but they prompt me that can not read from my feed url. I see it to be fine and it worked fine on other sites. Any ideas if there is a special requirement for technorati?


title: When buying traffic through Adwords, shouldn't I see an equivalent number of Adsense impressions?

text: Imagine if I purchase from Google 100 leads to my site through AdWords. I would expect my AdSense pageviews to be at least 100, so the ratio to be at least 1. Why is it that I get a 0.95, 0.97, 0.85? What do you think the issue might be? All cross browser testing has been done and apparently the website works fine with all browsers, mobile included. Any idea? Is this normal?


title: Server outputs the sourcecode of PHP page

text: I have a Shared Hosting package with HostGator. In it, I'm hosting around 4 websites. They are just some simple sites that doesn't likely to attract more visitors. But a few days ago, when I accessed one of my sites(via a browser), it outputted the PHP code of `index.php`, instead of outputting it as HTML. I think, at that time, the server was a bit busy or something. I heard that, Facebook also have got a similar condition where the home page's code was made available. So, how do I take preventive measures for this ? I always use phpBB forum's style of coding. That is, each sub pages, common functions, etc. are separated into subfolders. And in PHP, I would just `include_once()` or `require_once()` it. Also, these subfolders have a .htaccess file in which I have set the deny permission to the files inside it from outside. Also, in the main page(index), I would define a constant. And the first line of the subpages(which is situated in separate folders) is to check whether this constant is set. If not, calls `die()`. I am looking forward for solutions to this problem of outputting raw code when the page is accessed. Thanks in advance :)


title: Which token from a long User-Agent should I use in robots.txt?

text: The definition of User-Agent states that several tokens can be included, as deemed necessary by the client. I want to block certain bots via robots.txt and I am confused as to which part of the User-Agent string to use, especially for more obscure bots. For example:               Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; uMBot-LN/1.0; mailto: crawling@ubermetrics-technologies.com)"     JS-Kit URL Resolver, http://js-kit.com/     Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SEOkicks-Robot +http://www.seokicks.de/robot.html      Do I use the second token? Can tokens contain spaces, or did the SEOkicks folks forget a semicolon after _SEOkicks-Robot_? I don't actually intend on making my question specific to a couple bots - I want to know the guideline: which part of UA do I place in robots.txt for these exotic bots with UA as long as a haiku?               User-agent: uMBot-LN/1.0     Disallow: /      PS: Thank you but I do not need to hear that undesirable bots are better blocked with mod_security. I already have commercial mod_sec rules in place.


title: Use Google Analytics to target different sections of a blog

text: I have a blog that targets different regions. The Europe region blog has different sections in different local languages such as English, French and German. I wonder how to track and analyze the different sections. My initial thought is to search the domain URL, but I found it is not a good idea. For example, the URL for the Europe blog is like www.myblog.com/europe. If you click the French section, the URL is like www.myblog.com/europe/language/french. If you click an article in the French section, it is like www.myblog.com/article_name. Notice the article link is not www.myblog.com/language/french/article_name!


title: Tracking values in Adobe Marketing Cloud

text: My company is using Adobe Marketing Cloud. We wanted to try and use analytics to log values like Google analytics dose it (Google analytics log values) I have been reading thru the documentation and cant find anything similar. Does anyone of you know if it's possible to do this?


title: How to get Google to index dynamic pages generated from user IP address

text: I am creating a local community directory site which identifies the location of the user by IP address and dynamically renders the content related to the specific community identified by the IP address. My question is since everything is generated by the user IP, how can I get Google to index the dynamic pages created since the Googlebot itself will present an IP address and thus the only pages it will see will be related to its IP address... I can generate and submit an XML sitemap for all pages, but again the script would revert back to the Googlebot IP no matter which link it follows from the sitemap. **Update:** Will Google penalize me if I redirect their bot through IP identification to the national version of this of the above mentioned site?


title: Parallel downloading of JavaScript files on page load

text: Below is a quote from one of the Yahoo performance pages: > While a script is downloading, however, the browser won't start any other > downloads, even on different hostnames. When I look at page load of our website, I can see that many scripts are being downloaded at the same time: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wPrwc.png) **Am I mistaken, or should the quote should instead read like this?** > While scripts are downloading (there can be several scripts downloading at > the same time), the browser won't start any other downloads, even on > different hostnames.


title: My site is showing up in Google's search results with a Norwegian language parameter on the URL

text: When I make a search on Google and find my website; then I see the URL (the green line below the page title) is saying `www.domain.dk/?lang=nb`. I found out that `nb` is short for Norwegian. How do I remove the `?lang=nb` or at least change it to `?lang=da` since my website is in Danish? I have already written this inside the head-tag:               <meta name="language" content="da" />


title: Google Analytics Destination Goal

text: Is it possible to track how long does it take for a user to reach their goal via Destination Goal in Google Analytics? Something similar to checkout process, google starts tracking from when the item is added to the basket all the way (2-3 steps) to checkout.


title: How to make content display on their proper pages on search engines

text: So my site has a blog and gallery, both working the same way. There's an index, and each post has a permalink going to the individual entry. However, if I search for some of the content on Google, often it returns a link to the index, just because it happened to have been on the first page when it was crawled, instead of the individual post pages. This is especially true in cases of images. How can I make it so that Google returns the proper pages for the posts instead of just the main page of my site? My whole site is custom php code I made.


title: DNS CNAME domain.tld, email address problem

text: After having bought a **domain** (`example.tld`) without webspace, I want to let this point to my other domain called (`myhomepage.somefreehoster.com`). I know this will work using DNS CNAME record and when someone looks for `example.tld`, the resulting IP will be this of `myhomepage.somefreehoster.com`. However, how do I let this pass for emails sent via domain `@example.tld` (like `webmaster@example.tld`)? I do not want to send my mail through `myhomepage.somefreehoster.com`. If this is not possible the way I am trying to do, let me please know some clever alternatives. Still, preferably, I would like to use a DNS redirect.


title: How do I set up an `A record`?

text: I have Apache installed on an EC2 instance (with an Elastic IP). I successfully used NameCheap's DNS tool to configure routing of www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com traffic. If I have a web application living at www.mydomain.com/MyApp, what steps do I take to route MyApp.mydomain.com traffic to www.mydomain.com/MyApp? I don't want it to be a redirect.


title: How do I forward my domain's traffic to my WordPress.com hosted blog

text: I own a domain e.g. `myname.com` but host my blog with `wordpress.com` e.g. `myname.wordpress.com`. Can I forward the traffic visiting my domain name to my `wordpress.com` blog so that when my friends look for my site using Google they easily find the content of my blog? A step by step tutorial would be helpful.


title: images based website speed

text: I have a wordpress site which 90% is based on images. I've installed Wp-Super-Cache, now it seems to load a little bit faster. I've made a speed test on Pingdom Tools: Page size 4.7MB Load time 5.09s Requests 153 Perf. grade 74/100 The link is here And also the Time Spent per Content Type Image 88.23% So the problem is obviously the images. My plan is to try as much as I can to optimize the images in terms of size, and then to add CDN support. Is this enough on terms of improving the loading of images?


title: Google and random redirects

text: I have a site where homepage "example.com" redirects to random joke(example.com/random-joke). First I redirected with php, but then google indexed that joke page(rather to be empty). I used "302 Found" status code. Now i'll echo links to latest jokes and hide it with javascript and redirect with javascript. But this doesn't seem to help..   1. It seems that google still indexes joke page instead a list of jokes provided to homepage   2. It is slower for the visitor to redirect with javascript So does google detects javascript redirects and is there any good solution for "random redirects"?


title: Would it be wrong to register a local domain (.ro) which has the same name as a famous forum .com?

text: Let's say there is a niche forum called HowToChopOnionWithoutCrying.com (I'm making it up, of course) and it's in English. And I want to create a similar forum in Romanian, registering HowToChopOnionWithoutCrying.ro Would it be wrong? Are there legal issues in doing so? I understood that domain names cannot be copyrighted therefore HowToChopOnionWithoutCrying is probably not copyrighted. However the forum that I would build could infringe copyright laws?


title: Problem with the DNS settings for our new company mailserver

text: We are a small business with several branches around our country, trying to improve intra-office communications. In order to host a mail server at our head office we have upgraded our Business Broadband plan to a Static IP with Port 25 open, purchased two domain names (one for email and another for the public facing website) and set up a high end PC with a router. Port 80 and 25 have been forwarded successfully. But we have a problem with the DNS settings of the domain. We would like to set up the mail server using single static IP but the nameserver settings in our ISP's cpanel require two nameservers - how should we proceed? update : as one of my frined 'flaflamme' suggested for free dns service provider (http://zonomi.com) and now for my domain :getdatxxx.in( x marked for privacy ) and my staic ip 121.243.xxx.xx and dns settings goes like this is this sufficient ? IP Addresses (A) Domain IP Address getdatacards.in points to 121.243.xxx.xx getdatxxx.in points to 121.243.xxx.xx Mail Servers (MX) Mail Server Handles Email For Order getdatxxx.in getdatxxx.in 0 Name Servers (NS) Name Server Domain ns1.zonomi.com handles DNS for getdatxxx.in ns2.zonomi.com handles DNS for getdatxxx.in Zone Configuration (SOA) Primary Name Server ns1.zonomi.com DNS Host Master soacontact.zonomi.com Secondary Refresh 3 hours Secondary Retry 1 hour Secondary Expire 1 week Default Record Cache Time 1 hour please tell me whether this works for me and do i need to update this dns1 & 2 in my domain hosted control panel ??


title: is it good to translate my competitor website's post?

text: my website Alxa rank into my own country is 24000 and my competitor website is 34. me and my competitor both translate the foreign post. i really don't know what kind of post should i have to translate. is it good to translate my competitor post again( i mean about a translation that is completely different(word and verb)). does it improve my Alexa rank?


title: Does Google really forget information that has been deleted?

text: I had this case where I wanted to move articles from Blogger website to hosted Wordpress. As I can't make 301 redirects, I simply deleted the selected articles and scheduled to be published after 1 month. My question is does Google will really forget about those articles, so when they are published once again, they are indexed by the search engine? Should I make that period longer than 1 month?


title: Google authorship on non blog pages?

text: Adhering to Google authorship on your blog posts gets a little picture next to your title in the serp, but is it right to also use the authorship tag on normal 'static pages' ie home page, about us, contact etc... Because this is a company (not personal) website can we use the authoship tag to show our company logo by pointing the authoship tag to a google+ company profile ?


title: Correct usage of robots.txt file ("Googlebot-Image" and "Mediapartners-Google")

text: This is the current _robots.txt_ file I am using on a site of mine. I have excluded large parts of the IP.Board forum in order to try and cut down on duplicate content. I've also excluded some WordPress search pages (as well as admin pages). However, I want the Google Images to be able to crawl anywhere, and I also want the AdSense bot to be able to crawl anywhere. Have I done it right? I'm now a little confused after reading that the addition of `User-agent: Googlebot` may override certain other values. Does the position of things in the file matter?               ####################################################     # ALLOW MEDIA BOT TO CRAWL ANYWHERE     #####     User-agent: Mediapartners-Google     Allow: /          ####################################################     # ALLOW IMAGE BOT TO CRAWL ANYWHERE     #####     User-agent: Googlebot-Image     Allow: /          ####################################################     # ALLOW MAIN GOOGLEBOT SPECIFIC ACCESS     #####     User-agent: Googlebot     Disallow: /forums/calendar/     Disallow: /forums/gallery/     Disallow: /forums/members/     Disallow: /forums/user/     Disallow: /forums/index.php     Disallow: /forums/*&search_tags=     Disallow: /search/     Disallow: /*?s=     Disallow: /wp-admin/     Disallow: /wp-content/


title: Which domain better for language version?

text: My company is based in Russia and it's website is `mycompany.ru`. Now, we are planning to launch German language version and we have option for two domains:   1. `mycompany.de`   2. `germankeyword.ru` Which one is better regarding the seo point of view? (we will be optimizing the traffic for `germankeyword` phrase). I understand that the best option would be `germankeyword.de`, but these are already in use. So, which one would you choose: to have the language in top level domain, or the particular keyword. Will this mismatch affect our Search Engine Rankings?


title: What should my expires, cache-control, and pragma HTTP request header fields be set to?

text: I have a website in which I update the content approximately once monthly. When I check the HTTP request header fields, I get the following output:               Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT      Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0      Pragma: no-cache      My question is, given the frequency at which I update content, I am thinking about manually setting these fields to allow cache of the site. I am using the php header(); command to do so. Therefore, my question is: what should my expires, cache-control, and pragma HTTP request header fields be set to? Also, should I be setting any other fields in addition to those?


title: Why Facebook profiles are Google-searchable?

text: Facebook has around 1B user profiles. They can be found by searching in Google. However, I don't think these profiles are linked from anywhere, so how could Google discover them? As far as I know, sitemaps are not enough for that (http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/5151), as all URLs should be crawlable anyway. I ask the question as I also have a site with user profiles and would like to make them discoverable.


title: Can I determine if someone watched an embedded YouTube video with Google Analytics?

text: I have a video hosted on YouTube that I want to embed on a landing page. Is it possible that I tell who clicked on the video to watch / how long they watched it? They would watch it right on the landing page; they wouldn't click the video and be re-directed to YouTube.


title: SSL website with non-SSL images only content delivery network

text: I am serving my own CDN using subdomains for static images only, and want to use a SSL cert on the main website. For example; https://www.example.com would download images from http://cdn1.example.com, http://cdn2.example.com, http://cdn3.example.com and so on. The CDN subdomains are non-cookie caching only. Can I still use a registered SSL cert on the main domain www.example.com? Will browsers report warnings or errors that content from an unsecured source is being download. Is this practice frowned upon. p.s. Let's assume all my JS and meta tags are from HTTPS sources. Only images are non-SSL.


title: What agency will most economically handle cyber-squatting?

text: Domain names seem to be controlled by WIPO which has produced UDRP. UDRP rules can be arbitrated by a few different agencies. Is there any way to take ownership of a domain name that is confusingly similar and being squatted? A client of my owns `cross-med.com`, I'd like to know what it would cost to get the spammer's un-hyphenated version. The best I can see WIPO charges $1,300 for a one-panel judge to decide these matters? Is there no cheaper way to get ownership of a domain from an obvious squatter? I sent a letter to the registered owner, > how much are you looking for crossmed.com? This was his response, > Hello Evan Carroll You can buy this domain name the original owner asking > fixed price at 10000GBP($15200) through the SEDO.COM. May i ask you how much > you can offer for this domain? If you agree $10000 i will contact the > original owner to negotiate for you. Thank you.   >  Regards John Stone Lee He actually asked for $10,000 for the domain name. I threatened to go to WIPO, > No, I'll give you $300 or I'll file a UDRP/WIPO. Regards And, this was his _laughable_ response, > Hi friend Are you menace me now? Sorry but sadly only I hold on this domain > Admin contact to charge my credits from the original domain owner. I think > you are novice domainer. Please send file to WIPO. Now I can tell you the > future result of WIPO, you will lost WIPO fees and it doesn't matter whether > you can win the game or not. Maybe I can help you so please let me know when > the original domain owner accuse you at the Korea Law Court (if he lose the > WIPO game.) My fee is only $30000 another lawyers asking fee is at least > bottom $50000. Thanks you and make an offer $300. Good Luck! John Stone Lee How do I get these foreign Capitalist domain-speculating mooches to hand over this domain name?


title: Can I give access to database without access to cpanel

text: I'm going to give a freelancer access to the database. The idea was to give him the access with SSH (MySQL Workbench). But it came out that to do so, I would need to give him the password to my cpanel as well. Is there any other way, to give a database access without giving the access to the cpanel?


title: Resources to learn IIS on Windows Server 2012

text: I'm trying to learn how to manage IIS on Windows Server 2012 but I'm not sure where to look at. Can someone point out some books, videos, tutorials or other resources about that?


title: Can websites appear differently to different internet networks?

text: I just began launching a site for one of my clients, but I've come across a very strange issue. Whenever the client tries to access the website from an internet capable device in his office, he gets an error page. However, I have accessed the same site from both my house and from my office on multiple devices and browsers and the correct page has always come up. This problem has been going on for a few days now and the client says he has tried rebooting and clearing the local cache of the computers at his office. So, I was wondering why this might be happening and, in turn, how it might be remedied. Thanks.


title: How to run/test JavaScript?

text: I'm reading David Flanagan's "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 6th ed". It only actually tells users how to run JS code on page 311, where users are told of the following solutions: "Client-side JavaScript code is embedded within HTML documents in four ways:   * Inline, between a pair of `<script>` and `</script>` tags   * From an external file specified by the `src` attribute in a `<script>` tag   * In an HTML event handler attribute, such as `onclick` or `onmouseover`   * In a URL that uses the special javascript: protocol." I was wondering what professional JS developers use to write and test their code: Do they use a good text editor with syntax high-lighting + autocompletion, hit `F5` in the browser to reload the page every time they make a change, and use some add-on in the browser to investigate errors? Or are there full-fledged IDE's similar to MS VisualStudio for non-web languages?


title: 301 redirect to the new website but without apostrophes in the URL

text: I am trying to 301 a page that has a `'` in the URL and regular redirect 301 doesn't work. Is there a way to match part of the URL until the `'` and use that to 301 to a new page? Example URLs are below: `oldsite.example.com/2011/06/cat-ate-martin’s-homework/` to `newsite.example.com/2011/06/cat-ate-martins-homework/`


title: URLs - Hyphens or keywords?

text: Let's say I have an online database. The domain names `somethingdatabase.*` are taken. seomoz says that > Hyphens detract from credibility and can act as a spam indicator and also says that > Ideally, webmasters should strike a balance between finding a catchy, > unique, brand friendly domain name with having a domain that contains > keywords that they are trying to target In this situation, which domain name would be better, `something-database.*` (which has the keyword, but also has a hyphen), or `somethingelse.*` (which doesn't have the hypen, but neither the keyword)?


title: What should the maximum length of a filename be, and would that affect SEO?

text: I am working on an artist's portfolio website. Let's say I want each artwork's image filename to contain its basic information, like so:   **Category - Artwork Title - Size, Medium, Year.jpg** In actual usage, the filename might become long, like this:   **Illusions and Existentialism Exhibit - The Imaginative Artwork Title - 12 x 18 inches, watercolor, 2010.jpg** My purposes for putting all that info in the image filename would be:   * to keep the image files organized and readable (in the backend)    * to retain that information in case people download the images    * to pull data from the image filename to be displayed on the webpage  I know from here and here that Google guidelines encourage descriptive image filenames, but my example filename is 103 characters long. - is that too long? Will there be any technical issues for filenames exceeding a certain number of characters? Does it significantly slow down loading time? I read here that 255 characters is a safe limit based on file system limitations, and that some browsers limit the URI to 1024 characters (but not sure what that means for my question). This other thread says 70 characters is a good safe limit, but I'm not sure how they came up with that number. Will there be any other issues, like SEO-related issues? Does it make it seem like it's spam / keyword stuffing? I think the filename structure is focused on the artwork's actual description, and not keywords, so I hope it doesn't seem "spammy". Can anyone point me to references that recommend a specific filename length limit, as well as the explanation for that limit?


title: What is HTML:imghack-a [Trj]?

text: One of my websites (Joomla) is being blocked by Avast when I try to go to the administrator page. I get the message that there is an HTML:imghack-a [Trj] threat. I guess its a trojan, but I cannot find any information about it on the net. When I log on with FTP and look at both the dates and the server-logs I cannot find any discrepancies or illegal activity. Does anyone know what this is and where to look? Thanks


title: Looking for a CMS for specific requirements (Javascript, import/export...)

text: I heard about Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, etc. but I don't know about their detailed features. I am looking for a content management system meeting the following requirements:   1. Possibility to add simple text pages, with internal and external links (more or less the same features as a wiki)   2. Possibility to add complex JavaScript content pages (i.e., the content of the page is entirely determined by JavaScript, except the page frame itself, menu, headers, footers...)   3. Good back-up system. Something like export/import in svn.   4. Possibility to have a good control on HTML keywords associated with each page.   5. Multi-user, with some access control for editing   6. Good community support. Which framework is best suited for the above requirements? Points 2, 3 and 6 are the most important.


title: Do shared hosting providers typically let users run make?

text: I had an ersatz build server running on my website, hosted by Network Solutions. Recently, I lost permissions to run `make` via PHP, presumably because of some silent server move or configuration change. I have had problems with NS in the past, so this gives me another excuse to switch hosts. Before I do that, though, can I expect other hosts to give me the luxury of running system commands like `make`?


title: WordPress redirection chaos

text: I have a problem regarding redirection. It started out as I noticed, my non-www version is redirected to the www version by 302 redirect. Since then, I am trying to figure out why this is happening. I'm using WordPress 3.3.1. The htacces contains the correct, but it seems to be ignored. (At least if I change the RewriteRule to a completely different tld, nothing happens.) I tried adding               Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.|$) [NC]     RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]      and I tried using the explicit version putting in the URL (www.dreadfactory.de by the way). While trying to narrow down what the source of this error may be, I discovered, that every link starting with the non-www version is redirectet via 302 to the root www version. So if I call `dreadfactory.de/angebot` it redirects to `www.dreadfactory.de`. I deactivated every plugin, one by one, and I changed themes. I updated / reset the WordPress permalink stuff and I tried A LOT of different htaccess versions, but the error still remains the same: a 302 redirect where ther should be a 301 redirect. Since this page is the only page in my webpackage (Hosteurope) with a subdomain, my theory was that maybe the hoster has some differences in his serversetting for domains with subdomains that are not compatible with something I'm doing, but even after deactivating subdomains, the problem still remained.


title: Can a domain name forward AND resolve to a dedicated IP address at same time?

text: It is my understanding that domain name forwarding is binary: if a domain name is forwarded to a valid site, it _cannot_ simultaneously resolve to a valid IP address. Is this correct?


title: Why can't Google handle rich snippets events with dates before 1970

text:
Using Google's Rich Snippet Test Tool I couldn't get it to successfully recognize my event data (we have many sermons on our website dating back to 1947). Finally, I got it to recognize it when using a more recent date, here is some test code that can be copied and pasted into the test tool:               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML+RDFa 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd">          <title>test</title>
     Prediking

Date
08-09-1957

Title
MyEvent

Location
Town Hall Placeville, AZ

      Change the year from 1957 to 1970 and it will suddenly recognize it! The error I'm receiving is a general one: > In order to generate a preview, the start date and summary are required. > Additionally, if the webpage contains a list of events, the URL is required. > Otherwise, if the webpage is about a single event, the location is required. > See the events help page for more information. Looks like a reverse "milennium" bug of some sort!


title: Facebook blocking content

text: When trying to share informational content on Facebook, I find that it's getting blocked. I get the following error message: > The content you're trying to share includes a link that our security systems > detected to be unsafe: `http://example.com/motorcycle-guides`. Please remove > this link to continue. Does anyone know why this is occurring, and how can I fix it (if possible)?


title: insert multi post page in sitemap or not?

text: i want to insert below links in Sitemap, Each page has its own unique content : http://poetry.qrosh.com/en/William%20Shakespeare/A%20Fairy%20Song/1/1/ so if i have multi post pages which include 10 pages: http://poetry.qrosh.com/posts/en/William%20Shakespeare/poetry/1 can i insert multi post page in sitemap for index or not?


title: Any tool for image to CSS?

text: I have an image (not gradient) color, I tried to identify the color code but not possible. Is there any tool to convert image to css or css color code?


title: Can you track one user's session with Google Analytics by using the __utma cookie's value?

text: In Google Analytics, there is a cookie that stores a user's information that helps Google distinguish new users from existing visitors (__utma). If I were to get that information from a user's cookie, is there any way to use that information to view that particular user's interactions with my site? At this point I'm considering just using a custom variable to store that cookie's value, and go from there, but since that cookie already exists, and Google obviously uses it, do they share any of that data to help re-create a user's session (to some limited extent)?


title: Storing User-uploaded Images

text: What is the usual practice for handling user uploaded photos and storing them on the database and server? For a user profile image:   1. After receiving the image file from user, rename file to `<image_id>_<username>`   2. Move image to `/images/userprofile`   3. Add img filename to a table `users` containing their profile details like `first_name, last_name, age, gender, birthday` For a image for a review done by user:   1. After receiving the image file from user, rename file to `<image_id>_<review_id>`   2. Move image to `/images/reviews`   3. Add img filename to a table `reviews` containing their profile details like `review_id, review_content, user_id, score`. **Question 1** : How should I go about storing the image filenames if the user can upload multiple photos for a particular review? Serialize? **Question 2** : Or have another table `review_images` with columns `review_id, image_id, image_filename` just for tracking images? Will doing a `JOIN` when retriving the `image_filename` from this table slow down performance noticeably? **Question 3** : Should all the images be stored in a single folder? Will there be a problem when we have 100K photos in the same folder? _**Is there a more efficient way to go about doing this?_**


title: SEO question regarding huge number of URLs

text: I'm wondering the best way to handle this situation. I'm about to release a new section on a website where there are literally hundreds of millions of URL combinations that can possibly be crawled and indexed by search engines. This is because I'm giving the users the option to choose their refinements using checkboxes, similar to Zappos, and there are tons of possible combinations. The website currently has about 100k URLs indexed by Google but releasing this new section of the website will increase that number by a **very** large magnitude. This could be incorrect, but I've heard websites may be penalized for having a huge sudden increase in crawled pages. Is this true? If so what's the best way to handle this? My goal isn't to "pagerank sculpt" or anything like that, but I don't want to be penalized for any changes I'm about to make. I thought about adding a "disallow" directive to my robots.txt file, but that will block out the indexing of all of the new pages which I don't want to happen. I think it's best to have the most important ones indexed (one or two filter combinations), but I don't think it's really necessary to have the extremely long-tail combinations indexed. So I guess my question is: is there any good way of doing this or is it best to just let the spiders to their thing?


title: Google Analytics: Custom variables issue difference in data

text: We’ve set up tracking through custom variables in Google Analytics to measure which offices are getting the most traffic. The custom var consists out of the key (=office) and value = (office name). In our Custom Var tab in audience we get no data (actually we got 1 hit, but we think the data is way off). When we setup advanced segments with the filters on key and value we get the correct data. Now we are wondering why we aren’t getting that data in the custom var tab.


title: Can I do Google +1 for my own sites?

text: Is it safe to +1 my own sites with google's new +1 button. I've added this button to my web pages but would there be any detrimental effect of clicking this link myself and +1 my own pages?


title: What effect(s) does Google's Panda 2.5 update have on new websites in the SERP?

text: I recently launched 3 websites (within the past 7-10 months) that had been steadily increasing in the rankings on Google search up until this past weekend, when I noticed a huge drop across most of my tracked keywords. The websites are e-commerce sites. This drop coincided with the exact date and time (September 28) of Google's most recent Panda update, Panda 2.5. I am wondering what the implications might be for new websites like mine with Panda 2.5. What is this most recent algorithm change targeting? Duplicate content, poor content, bad URLs? Any new information on this would be of help.


title: How to track specific Referrals with Google Analytics

text: How do I have to alter a Referral link to my website to specifically track it with Google Analytics? I already discovered the URL Builder but isn't there are shorter way? For example:   * `http://domain.com?ref=special` => easy to filter/track/view in Google Analytics How are you doing this?


title: How to structure dynamic product browser for SEO?

text: I will be building a new website for a client of mine. SEO is very important. This website will have a product browser for cars, in which visitors can set feature filters to search for products that match those. For example, a visitor would select a make, model and a price range to view all cars that fall within that range. Programming is not a problem, also I have quite some experience with SEO. **How to display this dynamic product list so it helps for SEO? - or at least won't hurt.** I was thinking of adding a static product browser as well, mainly for SEO purposes. A static list with all products grouped by brand. Canonical product page would be:               http://www.somedomain.com/products/%BRAND%/%SHORT_PRODUCT_DESCRIPTION%      For the product browser index, how to handle:   * url structure (filter-values in querystring, POST or rather as url segments)   * use of canonical url?   * pagination   * etc


title: How do I increase the image size upload limit in Magento?

text: Is there a way to increase the maximum image upload file size from 2mb to 5 or 10mb?


title: How to produce a domain name?

text: I want to make a blog but I am confused with the domain name.I took helped from Google to search for the keywords and found **"C programming"** ," **C language** "and " **C language tutorials** " very rich.The problem is that I don't know how to choose a good domain name.I want my domain name to contain maximum rich keywords for SEO.Please help me produce a domain name.


title: Create beautiful websites with "text free images"?

text: Most websites have images with text embedded into the images. Shure, they look great, but when it comes to translation into other languages, it immediately gets painful to maintain. Are there any examples of modern beautiful static websites,   2 - 5 pages, fixed with, top navigation, footer, 1 - 2 columns,   using only CSS, text and "images without text" ?


title: Is there a good way to include plain text versions of embedded documents for search engines to find?

text: I'm developing a site that's entire function is defined by the documents it provides. The documents are provided to the user both through embedding in the page (using the Google Drive Viewer) as well as through download links. My question is, if I have the plaintext for each of these documents (ranging from PDFs to MS Office files), is there a good way to make this content visible to the search engine spiders? I thought of including the entire doc file content in the alt attribute, but given many of these documents are over 100 pages, I would assume that will break something somewhere. Also thought about setting the download and href `src` to the plaintext then use JS to change the link destination `onload`, but I would assume search engines will detect and not look fondly on that. Is there a good, standard practice for handling something like this or am I basically sol for getting this content noticed?


title: What marketplace / garage-sale software package does togoparts.com use?

text: See: OpenSource Marketplace Platform I want to start a site also for end-users to buy/sell used sporting goods of a particular type. When the scope of goods is narrowed like this, it is very advantageous to be able to filter by Brand, Size, Price Range, etc. **Nice features:**   * account reputation with user comments   * listings sortable by many custom fields   * auto resize and recompress image uploads I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so does anyone know where I can start?


title: Need Help With Finding SEO Company/Individual

text: I am fairly new to SEO and I have done all of the tactics and operations that I know to do to help my site rank to the number 1 spot on Google. I know that no one can guarantee the number 1 spot on Google or on any other search engine but I cannot even seem to get my website to the first page of Google's search results. My company is looking to hire a company or individual to work on our SEO. Does anyone here know of an SEO company or individual that has had good results in the past with getting a website to the front of Google, and preferably to the number 1 spot on Google? We are willing to pay a large sum of money for our keywords to rank on the front of Google search results. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks John


title: Trace user history in Google Webmaster Tools

text: I have more than one user for a website in Google Webmaster Tools. How can I trace the history of user actions such as "Remove URLs" and so on?


title: Does Google search past the ? or # characters of a URL?

text: Does Google search beyond the ? or # characters in a URL, example: http://mysite.com/support/general-questions/what-are-the-standard-features- and-functionality?node=node3_50346 Would I be better off with just the SEF URL. Trouble is my CMS adds the item IDs. Would I get greater rankings if it appeared like this: http://mysite.com/support/general-questions/what-are-the-standard-features- and-functionality Many thanks


title: where can I find some quality premium paid blog reviews for my site?

text: where can I find some premium paid blog reviews, for example, by some popular bloggers? all suggestions are welcome.


title: Finding bad links to use for the Google disavow links tool

text: So, I have found domains that link to my site, and they seem to be banned as searching for `site:domain.com` on them doesn't produce any results at all. I now need to use the Google disavow links tool to remove the bad links, but it asks to import a `.txt` file with links only and I don't have the links. Is there any automated way to find bad link URLs without buying expensive memberships to premium SEO sites/tools?


title: How can I point my site from my domain to another host?

text: I have websites running in a host & domain with the same company (CompanyA) Then I transferred some of my website (www.abc.com) to another domain company (CompanyB) My problem is www.abc.com can't able to read my index.html. Always Under Construction. What are the possibilities that causes for displaying the UndeerConstruction default ng site ng CompanyB instead of my index.html?


title: Are self-signed SSL certificates allowed by shared hosting providers?

text: I have contacted my hosting provider (`GoDaddy.com`) about how to implement self-signed SSL certificate in my server. Their support team replied to me that they don't provide this for shared hosting. Is self-signed SSL certificates using OpenSSL not allowed by any shared hosting providers? What might be the reason behind that?


title: How do I professionally manage a website?

text: My wife has started a business, and the website is an important way to reach potential customers. I'm a software developer, so 'of course' I'm taking care of the technical stuff. I arranged a webhost and uploaded and configured WordPress (which, together with a decent theme, fits our bill nicely). My wife has some knowledge of HTML and CSS, so she can customize the website herself. Now, I want to professionalize this stuff. If anything stupid happens (accidentally mess up a file, bug in WordPress update, site is hacked) we lose the entire site. What do I need to manage the site? When googling this subject, I only find FTP tutorials, which is not quite the level of info I'm after. I've figured:   * backup of files + database (I already have these, but I have not tested whether restore works)   * a local test environment for editing the theme and testing wordpress updates   * a test plan, containing some things to test before uploading the test environment to the live site   * versioning - should anything go wrong, we should be able to go to a previous version.   * uptime monitoring - if the site goes down, I won't have to hear it from customers Suggested by bybe, mostly security related:   * use a VPS. This will shield me from attacks on other shared hosting accounts, however it opens up another can of worms, because I have to keep the server safe _myself_.   * remove write permissions on all files that don't need to be writable (template files, .htaccess)   * subscribe to the CMS mailing list (Wordpress in this case) and update as soon as new releases are available   * minimize the number of CMS plugins - they have their own vulnerabilities   * remove the default admin account of the CMS   * put the website in maintenance mode when modifying. It allows for a consistent backup and is nicer to visitors. Is there anything missing from this list?


title: Selling/Generating Revenue from Unused Domain Names

text: I have a domain name which has a relevantly top searched keyword in it. I have not used this for over a year but I plan on doing so soon. Where is the best place to put it up for auction or see if anyone would like to buy it? (I am in the UK) and also Is there a way I can generate revenue from this unused domain name because at the moment I'm just paying for the domain name costs.


title: CMSs & ERPs for hospital management system

text: **What are the best free CMSs or CMS plugins or ERPs or any other free tools available for developing a hospital management system?** I want to develop it for a children's hospital run by my father. The hospital is small with two doctors. Currently, everything is done manually on paper. The main entities who will be using the system are: Receptionist, the two doctors, chemist and the medical laboratorist. They will use it majorly for keeping the records of the patient. The patients would not be interacting with the system directly. The system needs to be user friendly and should be easy to learn. I was thinking to develop such a system using a CMS or an ERP or any other free tool. I have used wordpress/drupal in past but never used an ERP. Can you please guide me to make such a system using free, and preferably open source, tools? Thanks,   Akshey


title: How to migrate my static html web site to Blogger?

text: I decided to migrate to blogger. I used to have pages like www.mysite.com/page.html, but Blogger pages are now like www.mysite.com/p/page.html When people use the old link which is posted on the forums, they get a 404 error. How can I prevent that? There's no way to customize URLs in Blogger.


title: Why/How do expired domain names get bought so quickly?

text: A relative let my wife's family .com domain name expire. Apart from that being annoying in itself, the domain now redirects to random spam blogs and is owned by someone with almost 5000 other domains according to DomainTools. They also want a fortune to return it. The family name is pretty unusual and completely unrelated to the spam. So how did they manage to snap the domain name up so quickly and what value is it to them?


title: Chrome 'Safe Browsing' blocks my setup exe as malware

text: Recently our software download has been marked as malicious malware by Chrome's Safe Browsing feature. We currently have no warnings in Webmaster Tools. All anti virus software marks the download as clean.   * Software has valid signature certificate.   * Domain has valid SSL certificate.   * No anti virus warnings. Does anyone have any thoughts on why we are being flagged as malicious? I can assure you the file is clean and used by +1 million users.


title: As a non-designer what are some good sites/books/tutorials for learning web design?

text: My graphics skills are seriously lacking. I can see when something looks nice and when it doesn't but have a hard time coming up with anything myself given a blank slate. What should I do?


title: Spam prevention through IP tracking

text: I am building a website with user generated comments. In order to implement user moderation/spam-protection, users have the ability to mark comments as spam. When one comment is marked as spam, I want all comments from the same IP address to be deleted. I am not familiar with spam prevention in general, other than Captcha. Question:   * is this a feasible/good system for spam prevention?    * are there better ways, or improvements I can make?  Thanks.


title: Switching from GoDaddy Hosting to Bluehost Hosting with/without transfering domain names?

text: I currently have my Wordpress blog hosted with GoDaddy. I want to transfer my hosting to another hosting provider called Bluehost. I also have my domain name for that blog registered with GoDaddy. How can I either transfer the domain name and the hosting to BlueHost, or (for purposes of not losing that domain name) just transfer the hosting to BlueHost and keep the GoDaddy domain registered with GoDaddy?


title: Finding/hiring help with server administration

text: I need to install the fileinfo extension for PHP on my server. My hosting service does not support help with this. I know I could learn it and do it myself, but since I am an independent contractor and I know that server administration is the weakest part of my abilities, a DIY approach is going to cost me a lot more time than I can afford. What is the best way to go about hiring a trustworthy contractor to either install the fileinfo extension for me or to train me in how to do this. Thank- you.


title: SEO Help - Using Rich Snippets

text: I launched my web comics website, www.hittingtreeswithsticks.com, late November of last year and would like to improve its SEO. Go Daddy provides Search Engine Visibility assistance... so I'm trying to understand that. Right now, my SEO sucks. My goal is to have the search look like The Oatmeal's: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/X6WkM.jpg) But currently looks like this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WHkfW.jpg) So... my questions are: 1) How do I control the descriptive text under my URL. Currently it says "use of this website signifies your agreement to my terms and conditions", which is certainly not something I want to show up in search. 2) I've created a "Rich Snippet" which GoDaddy says I need to attach to each of my blog posts. I built my website from scratch using PHP, and did not use an existing framework. So, the way I'm displaying images is pulling rows from a MYSQL database... once someone clicks on the comic thumbnail, it displays the associated (by ID) full size comic on the "view comic" template. So I'm not sure where I should put this generated Rich Snippet code. Should I just put it in the section?               <link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/104687106959620241243/about" />      Thank you!


title: SEO: Is promoting your backlinks a good strategy for improving search results for my site's name?

text: I run a website that's been around for about three years in the sports space. I am successfully ranking well for targeted keywords, but searching for the name of my site itself returns very poor results - it shows my site, its FB/Twitter, and then _15 pages_ of unrelated spam that happen to contain two words that, when combined, form my website's name. After that, my backlinks begin to show up spordically. As far as I can tell, I simply don't have enough backlinks and the backlinks I do have are ranked worse than the spam. (Site Explorer lists 200 external links to any page on our domain and 20 external links directly to the front page). To counter this, my strategy is to promote my backlinks so they get a better page rank than the spam. Does that make sense? Am I going in the right direction or should I just focus on getting more backlinks pointing directly to my site? Thanks in advance and I'd be happy to answer any questions I can (without giving away my site of course).


title: Will search engines reindex a page that has been set to redirect on to a newer site page?

text: We were asked by a client to change a website so that any pages/Urls we were hosting on an older site would now redirect to a newer site hosted somewhere else and a different domain name to boot. We did this by changing each page in the IIS site management, to redirect to a url on their new domain instead of rendering a page locally. According to the redirect tool here: http://www.webconfs.com/redirect- check.php . What we have done is search engine friendly. Problem now is... the client has been on a course learning all about meta tags and so thinks they have a better understanding of the "matrix" (remember there is no spoon). As Google still has the older site appearing in a search, this isnt helping matters. I have tried to explain, we have to wait for Google to reindex. I'm not blowing smoke am I? I'm now starting to wonder... will the older site always appear in a search, even though the pages don't exist? Is there a better way I should be redirecting their site to ensure google will stop keeping an index of pages that no longer exist and would instead replace them with the content in the newer site? a suggestion on the site mentioned above is to use the code:               Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"     Response.AddHeader "Location","http://www.new-url.com/"      Does using the option in the IIS management tool to redirect the url not do the same?


title: An Email About Company "Brand Registration Confirmation", SPAM?

text: One of my clients has the domain _EXAMPLE.com_ for his company, today I received an email about someone trying to register _EXAMPLE_ brand for > From: ***** _**_[mailto: _*_** @ _ **-_**.org.cn] Sent: Friday, January 17, > 2014 To: info > > Subject: URGENT " **Example** " Brand Registration Confirmation > > Importance: High > > (It's very urgent, Please transfer this email to your CEO or appropriate > person, thanks) > > Dear Sir or Madam, > > We are a specialized company for domain name registration and protection. > Here, we have an issue about your intellectual property rights to confirm > with you.We formally received an application on January 15,2013 that a > company which self-styled "* * * Investments Limited"were applying to > register " **Example** " as their Brand name and some domain names through > our firm. > > Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we > found the name were similar to your company's, so we need to check with you > whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If > you authorized this, we will finish the registration at once. If you did not > authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we will handle this > issue better. Out of the time limit we will unconditionally finish the > registration for "* * * Investments Limited".Looking forward to your prompt > reply. I am almost sure this is a scam, but thought of asking you if you have seen anything similar. Is their any chance that this is a legitimate message?


title: Fastest way to redirect dead URLs to home page

text: A client of mine scrapped his entire wordpress site of many years for a custom CMS. The URL structures both use the `/<post_title>` format, so a pattern based .htaccess rule is out of the picture for saving the old urls. The old site is effectively dead, but I'd hate to let all of those thousands of backlinks simply die a 404 death. Is there a faster way than listing _each_ url in a .htaccess directive to redirect 1000s of urls to the home page? (Faster as in load speed, not programming efficiency)


title: Does Google Analytics subdomain tracking need to be set up on every subdomain simultaneously?

text: I'm cleaning up the Google Analytics tracking for a complex corporate website. The website is spread across a bunch of subdomains (`www.example.com` for the main content, `dev.example.com` for developer information, `pages.example.com` for legacy content, and so on) and I've found that each subdomain uses its own tracking cookie, so Analytics treats them all as separate sites (when tracking referrals, for example) even though the data all feeds into the same web property. As Google recommends, I'm going to fix this by adding `_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'example.com']);` to the tracking code on each subdomain, so that they all use the same tracking cookie. However, the site is very complex and several different groups maintain their own subdomains, so it's going to be difficult to coordinate the switchover. In particular, this comment gives me pause: > Yes you have to use `setDomainName(".mydomain.com")` on all `www` pages as > well. Otherwise cookies might get overwritten everytime you change > subdomains and data loss will occur. So, given that:   * the bare domain (`example.com`) just redirects to the `www` subdomain, and   * some of the subdomains currently have the `_setDomainName` method explicitly set to `'none'`, but some don't have it set at all, do we risk any data corruption if we stagger the tracking code update across the subdomains?


title: canonical rel tag and 301 redirect loop?

text: I'm working with an e-commerce platform and I'm not sure about the behaviour of the canonical rel tag after changing some URL keys. This is the specific situation:   * `old_url.html` -> redirects to -> `new_url.html`   * The platform adds a canonical rel tag that points to `old_url.html` wouldn't that keep the search engines in a loop? Like going from **old** to **new** to **old** to **new** etc.?


title: Adsense, are clicks counted without payment settings?

text: I've just put adsense websites on my website, but I haven't put my payment details in (I don't particularly want to until I know its feasible, and people have clicked the ads) Are ad clicks counted if payments aren't entered, as in if people do click on ads will it show earnings without payment details?


title: Google indexed the same page under two URLs (despite rel-canonical)

text: The Super User question "Playing mp3 in quodlibet displays “GStreamer output pipeline could not be initialized” error" is indexed under two URLs in Google:   * `http://superuser.com/questions/651591/playing-mp3-in-quodlibet-displays-gstreamer-output-pipeline-could-not-be-initia`   * `http://superuser.com/questions/651591/playing-mp3-in-quodlibet-displays-gstreamer-output-pipeline-could-not-be-initia/652058` The first one is the canonical one; the corresponding `rel`-`canonical` is included in both pages:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://superuser.com/questions/651591/playing-mp3-in-quodlibet-displays-gstreamer-output-pipeline-could-not-be-initia" />      Google also indexed `http://superuser.com/a/652058`, which redirects to the answer:               http://superuser.com/questions/651591/playing-mp3-in-quodlibet-displays-gstreamer-output-pipeline-could-not-be-initia/652058#652058      Now, the second URL from above is the same as this one minus the fragment `#652058`. So Google seems to strip the fragment, which results in _exactly_ the same page under another URL (= containing the answer ID `/652058` as suffix), and indexes it, too -- despite `rel`-`canonical` and duplicate content. **Shouldn’t Google recognize this and only index the canonical variant?** What is going on here? * * * EDIT: Google even displays a slightly different title for the _same_ page (screenshot of result #1 and #2 for the query "Super User QuodLibet"): > ![Google.de screenshot for the #1 and #2 results, which lead to the exact > same page, but with different title](http://i.stack.imgur.com/cxnzN.png)


title: How to optimize keywords in URLs for SEO?

text: Can I write slightly different URLs for the same page and rank "equally" for both? For example, I have a post URL like this:               http://example.com/rio-de-janeiro/onetitle-...      But I also would like to rank for searches like this:               http://example.com/rj/onetitle-...      So if the user searches for "rj onetitle" or "rio de janeiro onetitle" it won't matter, I can rank for both... Can I use canonical URL's for something like this?


title: Why do servers need to know their domain?

text: Besides routing traffic, why do servers need to be configured with the server name?   It seems like a waste in all cases except for routing or hosting for a TLD. Nginx example:               server {         listen 80;         server_name myexample.com         ...     }      Apache also gives a warning `Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name` if you don't set the server name.


title: How to handle gender and sexual orientation on a form with select boxes more inclusively?

text: The existing question and the answers for it are not satisfying when one wants to be more inclusive. Gender as Male, Female or No Answer works for some sites, but not others. Taking the view that Gender is not the same as Sex (assigned at birth based on bodily characteristics). Would it be more inclusive to include these two options: Transgender Male, Transgender Female? So instead would more inclusive options be the following? Gender Identity   * Male   * Female   * Transgender Male   * Transgender Female   * No Answer Sexual Orientation   * Straight   * Lesbian   * Gay    * Bisexual   * Asexual   * No Answer Gender Expression could also be included, but I think most people would find that too confusing (defined on GLAAD's website linked below) I'm going off what I've read on GLAAD's Transgender Glossary of Terms. Thanks!


title: How does Web Disk compare to FTP for accessing files from a browser and version control?

text: I would like to know:   1. What is the difference between accessing my hosting through Web Disk or mapping it through FTP, in Windows?   2. With Web Disk... is there any way to access the files through a web browser?   3. I have heard that Web Disk allows version control. How can achieve this? In all cases, my hosting plan is managed with cPanel.


title: Any ways / alternatives for AdSense approval for a website that is not based on rich text content

text: Hello I have following website -> http://musicglaze.com and have applied for AdSense, but was quickly rejected due to "insufficient content" As you can see nature of the website is not to provide much written content, as opposed to audio. Therefore I can not add more text in it than just headings with song authors and names. I'm looking for ways to get approved for google adsense, is there anything I can do? Or will I have to consider another ad publishing platform? If so what other platforms are good? However I don't understand how sites like http://9gag.com have Adsense on them, when there is no content besides images? I understand those are extremely popular, yet how come they can get approved for adsense and my website can't?


title: How can I track (funnel) if someone from a particular banner campaign watched our demo video?

text: I'm setting up a banner on a website with the caption `View our Demo Video`. The Banner has the UTM campaign tracking code setup and working. On our website I've got an embedded iFrame YouTube video that triggers two events: one if it is played, and one if it reaches the end. What I'm trying to figure out now is if there's a way to create a Funnel Goal that sees if someone came in from the banner, did they proceed to watch the video? This is a snippet of the code I used to capture the YouTube event               if (event.data == YT.PlayerState.PLAYING) {           ga('send', 'event', 'YouTube', 'Started', 'Promo from Main Page');         }


title: Site down for some users and I can't find the issue

text: Hoping to get some advice, I'm getting feedback from users in seveal regions around the world (Asia, Africa) that a site I run is down for them. When I check myself it's fine, checking the server all the services are fine. I can't find any issue - what can I do to figure this out?


title: How can I get bloggers to use my widget?

text: I have developed a widget that shows a story of a hike or an outdoor outing on a google map. Here is an example: http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/widget.php?type=hike&hike_id=108&width=500&height=500 What I am wondering is - other than asking people one by one, how do I get outdoor bloggers to use my widget on their sites? I made a page to create the widget here: http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/trip_story.php But it all seems clunky so far. Any suggestions would be appreciated :)


title: Can someone cause me negative SEO by reporting to Google?

text: I've been getting emails like this: > Our site has been penalized by Google because of a handful of back links > pointing to our site (we have lost 80% of our traffic). I have opened a line > of communication with their WebSpam team and am working to clear the > penalty. HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU? We have isolated the back links causing our > penalty which we need to have removed, ONE is from your site and I need to > get that link taken down asap. Heres the thing... In order to get out of the > penalty they have asked me to submit to them all the paid or unnatural links > which are currently pointing to our site and in the next 30 days I will be > submitting to them this list and unfortunately your site is included. HOW TO > AVOID NEGATIVE ACTION FROM GOOGLE If you can take the links down to > hisdomain.com then of course I will be able to leave your site off that > list. I really don't want to be the cause of a penalty to you, nor report > anyone else's website to Google hence I'm reaching out to you now, and if > you can get that link taken down ASAP then of course I won't include your > site when I report back to them! Do Google request such lists and can this cause a problem for my SEO? (of- course I have no idea who this is and have never sold a link to him or anyone else for that matter on my site, it's just User-Generated-Content)


title: Will adding nofollow to alternate language links prevent Googlebot from crawling so many of them?

text: I have a site with many pages (30MM+ indexed) and have been getting a `extremely high number of URLs on your site` warning message for a long time. I'm thinking of reducing the numbers of URLs Google sees especially between similar pages, specifically on pages that have a different language template but have the same content. Current for every page I have this in my `<head>`:                 <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en x-default" href="http://mydomain.com/dir/page" />       <link rel="alternate" hreflang="ja" href="http://ja.mydomain.com/dir/page" />       <link rel="alternate" hreflang="ko" href="http://ko.mydomain.com/dir/page" />       <link rel="alternate" hreflang="th" href="http://th.mydomain.com/dir/page" />       <link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://es.mydomain.com/dir/page" />       <link rel="alternate" hreflang="pt" href="http://pt.mydomain.com/dir/page" />      Will adding a `rel=nofollow` or a robots.txt disallow help Google focus on the more important pages he has to crawl instead of crawling a different template of the same page?


title: Profile Completion e-mail to user in Drupal

text: How can I have Drupal 6 send a reminder e-mail to users who did not complete their profile information? Is there a module available to do this? I think we can do it using Rules/Trigger, but not exactly. I need something similar to what cron jobs do in PHP.


title: If my index page has no textual content, should it be present in sitemap?

text: My index page contains no textual content at all (except some footer links, copyright notice and some stuff in tag). It has, however, big Google's map with some pins attached which lead to articles. Of course this is the page I want to pop up in search results when user types my site name into Google. In this case, should I add my index page to sitemap.xml? Thanks for any help. (Sorry, I can't paste link to this site yet.)


title: Google follows JavaScript string as relative path - produces 404 error

text: This is my first question on here so I hope I'm not breaking any rules, but I have a problem: I have a site that uses an Adobe Site Catalyst for its online analytics. The suite supports tagging through JavaScript and when implemented, it looks something like this that is placed on `http://www.mydomain.com`:               <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">     s.channel="/my-tracking-tag/"     </script>`      The problem is that Google is reading this JavaScript and interpreting the `s.channel` string as a relative location on my website and is crawling it. I then get a 404 error in Google Webmaster Tools saying that the URL `http://www.mydomain.com/my-tracking-tag/` does not exist, and that it was linked to by the URL that the JavaScript tag code was on. Is there any to avoid this behavior? I thought about adding URL with a 404 error to my _robots.txt_ file but tracking campaigns are constantly updating and it would be burdensome to update the text file with the constantly updating tags. I also though about structuring the string in `s.channel` as something like `'s.channel= "/" + "my-tracking-tag" + "/"` but I'm not sure if that would due the trick, and would also require implementation guidelines to be developed for the future.


title: Where can I track campaigns in Google Analytics?

text: I'm trying to track campaigns in Google Analytics. I was able to create them, but I'm not sure where I can check the stats for them in Google Analytics.


title: How do I set up Google PageSpeed Service for my site?

text: It seems I can't set up Google's PageSpeed Service. When I do it in the Google services panel, a message comes up like: "Your site may be directing live traffic." What can I do to resolve this and activate the PageSpeed service? It is for a Google App Engine app that has its own domain. **Update:** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/l8fr8.png) I don't know what the above means. I must have succeeding in verifying the domain as I'm using it from google apps and google appengine.


title: Is it possible to exclude being found by search engines by certain words?

text: Say I have a page about strawberries and unicorns. I do want this page to be found by the word _strawberry_ , but I don't want it to be found by the word _unicorn_ - though both words are mentioned frequently on the page. Is this possible?


title: How To Get Alexa Sites Linking Using PHP

text: I am planning to get the Alexa sites linking of a given website. I am looking to do this in PHP. Please suggest me is Alexa providing any API. Is there any tool? Is it free? Is there any API that I can use?


title: SEO pagination link title

text: I have pagination links like so:               2      Now when searching google google link to this page is `2`, as you see here (google link). Does adding a title to link(eg. `title="Pagination - Page 2"`) help, so google results are not numberic?


title: Domain renewal/transfer gandi.net

text: I'm in kind of a difficult situation here: I have a domain (a .at domain) and transfered it to gandi.net a couple of months ago. Now it's time to renew my domain but when I tried to do the renewal it just said the renewal could not be done online. After that I got an invoice from the nic.at (registry for .at domains) which stated that gandi wouldnt pay any more invoices for my domain. I can't access the domain over the gandi.net website so I cant change any dns/whois information. I can't transfer my domain back to gandi since the mail address in the whois was an @contact.gandi.net which doesnt exist anymore since the domain isn't listed anymore in my gandi account. I contacted the support of gandi and got no answer what so ever(for over 1 week now). The domain is about to run out + I have to pay the invoice from nic.at if I don't have it transfered within the next couple of weeks. Now my question is: What do you suggest my next step is towards regaining control over my domain? Did anyone experience simular issues with gandi.net? Thanks for the help guys, I'm desperate for ideas/suggestions


title: Long 'Wait' Time for three php/CSS files. Is something blocking them?

text: I have been speed optimizing a Wordpress site to little effect. There are three files CSS-related php files from the Wordpress theme that are delaying page loads on the site. One of the three files is basically one line of custom CSS from the custom CSS feature in the theme. ## The Problematic Files (As requested) Here is more info on the three files starting with the entirety of customCss.php.               /* CUSTOM ADMIN PANEL CSS */     div#tspfp_article.layout_default div#full p     {     margin: -30px 0px !important ;     }      Meanwhile, dynamicCss.php is just CSS code for those parts of the theme formatting that can be modified by the site admin in the Admin options panel of the theme. Finally, responsiveCss.php is CSS code for the responsive version of the site. For all three of these files, I don't see any code besides identifying classes and the CSS formatting for them. They are in the CSS directory of the theme directory. I don't know enough about php to know why these files are php files rather than just CSS files. # Speed Test You can see what I am talking about with this Pingdom speed test: ![Pingdom Waterfall Results](http://i.stack.imgur.com/c55Ja.jpg) The yellow is 'Wait'. There are no slow items in the cut-off portion of the image. The full results are here: Pingdom Results Page ## Update The slow speed on the three files gradually returned. When I deactivate plugins the problem goes away even when I reactivate the plugins, but with the plugins reactivated the problem slowly comes back. If it was my browser, I would say it was a memory leak. Final: In the end, we switched Wordpress themes and the speed is fine now. ## Questions _1. Any thoughts on what might be causing this?_ I understand that I have blocking CSS and JS files, but I don't see anything that would be causing that long of a wait. When I ran the P3 Plugin Profiler, Wordpress and all plugins appeared fine -- it is the theme that is taking all the time. GTmetrix recommends avoiding dynamic queries. I assume all the ver=3.61 references are to the version of Wordpress (which I am using). I noticed that my Wordpress sites using other themes don't make this query (at least not over and over). _2. Is this typical coding practice?_   _3. How much negative impact do these query-strings have -- a little or a lot?_ _4. Could there be some kind of memory problem given the gradual return of the issue?_ I tried searching for similar questions here, please excuse me if I missed something. Sometimes, I know just enough to be dangerous.


title: Will there be a conflict between my Sitemap.xml and robots.txt?

text: I have a _robots.txt_ with the following in it:               User-agent: *     Disallow: http://tests.compkerworld.com/report_question_error.php?question_id=*&url=*     Sitemap: http://tests.compkerworld.com/sitemap.xml      My _sitemap.xml_ , which is auto-generated, has all the URLs even those disallowed using _robots.txt_. I have no problem if the search engines crawl all the pages, but I want to know if such an entry will create any kind of conflict for crawlers. One more question: is the above syntax for disallowing correct?


title: Repeated calls with random Javascript append to the URL

text: I keep getting calls to my server where there is random Javascript appended on the end of lots of the calls, e.g.:               /UI/Includes/JavaScript/).length)&&e.error(     /UI/Includes/JavaScript/,C,!1),a.addEventListener(     /UI/Includes/JavaScript/),l=b.createDocumentFragment(),m=b.documentElement,n=m.firstChild,o=b.createElement(     /UI/Includes/JavaScript/&&a.getAttributeNode(     /UI/Includes/JavaScript/&&a.firstChild.getAttribute(     /UI/Includes/JavaScript/).replace(bd,     /UI/Includes/JavaScript/)),a.getElementsByTagName(      The user agent is always this: Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727) I have jQuery, Modernizr and other JS and originally thought that some browser was messing up it's JS calls, however this particular IP address hasn't requested any images so I'm wondering if it is some kind of attack. Is this a common occurence?


title: Can I have HTML link element both in headers and sitemap?

text: For a multilingual site In my sitemap I am using:               <url>       <loc>http://www.xxxx/en</loc>        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://www.xxxx/en" />         <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="it" href="http://www.xxxx/it" />        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="gr" href="http://www.xxxx/gr" />      </url>     <url>       <loc>http://www.xxxx/it</loc>        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://www.xxxx/en" />         <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="it" href="http://www.xxxx/it" />        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="gr" href="http://www.xxxx/gr" />      </url>      Also in the `<head>` of the page I am using the `<link`> tag : Two questions:   1. Do I need to just keep it in one place or it is better to have it in both (I know that Google will support in under sitemap but what about the other search engines?)   2. Do I need to do this for every page that has an alternative version e.g:              <url>       <loc>http://www.xxxx/it/test.php</loc>        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://www.xxxx/en/test.php" />         <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="it" href="http://www.xxxx/it/test.php" />        <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="gr" href="http://www.xxxx/gr/test.php" />      </url>      or Google will automatically index the rest traversing down from the main page?


title: How do I prevent spam domains from pointing to my site or IP?

text: I came across an issue where I saw a domain `xyz.com` that is pointing to `mydomain.com`. How do I prevent spam domains from pointing to my domain? I read some posts about setting my virtual hosts and such, but nothing specific about how to prevent it in the first place. I searched on Google, but most answers are for Apache or IIS, and I'm using Tomcat 7 to serve content directly.


title: Why are there capitalized duplicates appearing in Google Analytics Real-Time reporting?

text: The following is visible under Real-Time reports in Google Analytics for a single page: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/R59zp.png) What is the difference between the lower-case and upper-case search engine names? > "Google" vs. "google" > > "Bing" vs. "bing" And what is the difference between the "Organic" and "Organic search" mediums? In other words, why are they showing up differently?


title: What is the standard image size(s) for facebook (corporate page), twitter and youTube?

text: I am going to employ the services of a graphic designer, to create logos/ images for my website for the following sites:   * Facebook (corporate page)   * Twitter (twitter account for the business)   * YouTube (youtube channel for the business) I can't seem to find a consensus view on what image sizes are required, or if I can use one image size for all three websites. Does anyone know the answer, or can someone point me to where I can find this information?


title: Extend depth of .htaccess to all subfolders and their children

text: I need to be able to use .htaccess in all subfolders for full depth. E.g. I have .htaccess in `public_html` folder:               \public_html\.htaccess      How I make it to work for the folder `small` as well?               \public_html\home\images\red\thumbs\small\      It only enforces up to home directory not more.               ErrorDocument 403 http://google.com     Order Deny,Allow     Deny from all     Allow from 11.22.33.44                    Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteEngine On          RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]


title: How do you filter out traffic in Universal Analytics from employees on cellphones accessing the company website?

text: We have employees that access the company website using their smartphones. The smartphones connect with different ip addresses depending on if they are on a wifi access point, the 3G and 4G networks of AT&T and Verizon. We also have users who access the site from home. There is a dropdown menu at the top of our site that reads "employees" and has links to employee related content. So how do you filter this traffic from the website?


title: How to know whether this page has malware or not?

text: Google adwords is reporting that the following page has malware on it. Can anyone help me how to scan/track it properly? and what to do to remove this malware? http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/distress-tolerance-dialectical-behavior- therapy-0117134 I have tried with **"maldet" scan** already and nothing found.


title: How to properly use large screen monitors

text: I have a 48" tv hooked up to a computer and I am trying to use it as best I can. I am making a web app that displays daily quotes in a grid format and it takes up the whole page. for example a grid of 9x4 = 36 small pictures, my pictures have some text on them which becomes unreadable on small laptops but when I output to a tv it is still unreadable yet the pictures are bigger because its on a 48" tv. Please check out http://jsfiddle.net/hX46r/1/ How can I make the pictures with text on them readable when viewing on large screen TVs. Also the web app is going to be made for windows 8, can windows 8 properly use the screen size to show pictures clearly?


title: What should you do differently when designing websites for an embedded web server

text: When _designing_ a website to be accessed from an embedded webserver such as KLone, what do you need to do differently compared to a 'standard' web server. I'm talking about considerations at the front end design stage, before the actual building and coding up. For example, typically in such situations, memory size is a premium, so I guess larger images are out, and maybe more attention should be focused on achieving a good look and feel using CSS/Javascript rather than bitmap images.


title: Do I really need to remove special characters in a URL?

text: I have an FTP account shared with friends where we upload underground music albums and then we use the links to share the downloads in a music forum. The problem is that the album names are in french so there is a lot of special characters in the name. So the URL looks like `http://www.mydomain.com/downloads/Some Band - En français avec des caractères spéciaux (2013) [7'' EP].zip` For me it works perfectly and I can download the file by using this URL, but I have read everywhere that special chars are bad in URL. Is there any reason why I must remove the special characters or encode the URL? Is everyone able to access a URL with special characters or will some older browsers not be able to download the files? I really don't care about SEO or anything else. I just want the download links to work for everyone. Since the files are uploaded through FTP, I can't use PHP to remove the special characters with a regex, so I really don't know what to do.


title: easier way to include Google Analytics script code on every page?

text: I have a website made up of only HTML pages. Instead of copy pasting the Google Analytics code on every `.html` file, is there a better way to include the Google code on every page?


title: widget / template code for +1, Like, Follow on Twitter etc

text: I am trying to setup a website for this design studio and need to put in a widget which would allow people to "Like, +1, follow on twitter" etc. I have been writing code for some years now, but I am relatively new to web development. I was wondering if a widget or some online tool exists that would let me generate html/script code for this.


title: How Wide-Spread is Browser Support of .PNG Graphics

text: We are deploying a web application and I am considering replacing some of the JPEG graphics with PNG. Has the **_use_ of PNG-aware browsers** passed 95%?


title: How to 301 redirect an ASP website on Windows GoDaddy server to new domain page by page

text: Firstly, I have only ever worked on Apache servers, never used a GoDaddy server or used ASP. Wow, I'm really in the dark. When a friend's webmaster died, he asked me to build a new site for him with a new domain name. I built a WordPress site on my dedicated server. His existing website is written with ASP and hosted on a GoDaddy Windows server. Domain is registered there as well. I saw a Google webmaster video that recommended page by page redirects. The new website pages are not a 1 to 1 - but many of the pages will have the same type of content. Stupid me, I anticipated using an `.htaccess` file to 301 the site "pages" using those ASP-type urls that show up and pointing them to the similar content on the WordPress site. (No windows server experience) Here's the thing...there is only one ASP file... _default.asp_. My research tells me that there are several ways to do redirects on a Windows server...   1. IIS - looked at directions, looked at Microsoft site about it, looked at GoDaddy instructions...I don't get it. I looked at the IIS interface, I don't see anything but an entry for "content root". I don't think I know enough to do this. Support at GoDaddy isn't anything like I get for my dedicated server at my host, so I would probably rule this option out based on my experience level.   2. GoDaddy says you can "forward" or "forward and mask" but I don't think this is exactly what I need for an existing website. Sounds more like some kind of nameserver/domain name option. http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/422/forwarding-or-masking-your-domain-name   3. I see that you can use ASP to do a redirect but it seems to be for the whole domain: `<%@ Language=VBScript %> <% Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently" Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.new-url.com" %>` However, I did find a site (rapidtables.com/web/tools/redirect-generator.htm) that would let me enter the ASP-type URLs "mydomain.com/default.asp?page=6&subpage=9" and the corresponding "mynewdomain.com/nameofnewpage/ and get that same type of code for each "page". But if I generate those, I don't know what to do with them. Do they go into one file that replaces the default.asp? OR Do they go into the top of the existing default.asp file...? If there is a list of them, how do I string them together (do I put the VB script thing once and then just list the response lines below?) So I really have 2 questions.   1. Which, if any, of the above is the best and most search engine friendly way to do this.   2. Can a single 301 redirect for the entire domain work ok? I'm concerned about the fact that some people have been using this domain name for many many years - not so much that they have bookmarked specific pages inside of the site. Thanks to anyone who actually read this entire question and can provide some simple advice.


title: How do you create links with a NULL or # in Drupal?

text: Trying to create folders for links where the parent has no content, it's just a folder. Need to be able to insert #, but Drupal is saying it's not a link. Just want the user to click it and nothing happen, the child of that menu item will already be being displayed without a click. **Version:** Drupal 6 (appears worked in D5) **I've attempted the following:** `'', #, <#>, empty, <empty>, null, <null>, blank, <blank>, <none>, none, <answer>` **...just kidding.** **ERROR:** The path '`<insert_non-url>`' is either invalid or you do not have access to it. Question, just ask -- thanks!


title: Can I change the magento logging timestamps offset?

text: Is there a way to change the `Mage::log()` timestamp in magento? I would prefer it to match my timezone.


title: Does Google rate the webpage by amount of visits?

text: there is quite extensive discussion about this topic on another website and I am really losing my confidence. The thing is that I claim that the amount (count) of visits is NOT a criteria for increasing the PR of the particular web because: a) Google just doesn't know about every single visit on a webpage (in case it's not using GA) b) Google just would not rate by something what Google actually affects Thanks for your opinions. Peter.


title: Should error pages be strictly html?

text: I'm using PHP on Apache server I'm wondering.. If the error pages should best be served as pure and simple html, without database connection etc.? This would remove any chance of repeating/complicating an error that was caused by php or database, no?


title: Sitewide inbound links to home page (index) for SEO

text: So, instead of naming a link to index page a "Home" and such, how about using a domain name or the most important keyword the homepage ranks for? The link anchor "Home" definitely doesn't strengthen any ranks SEO wise as it is not informative. What is the best way of naming the sitewide link anchor of a home page?


title: How to find all feed directories where a particular site has submitted his feed

text: I am looking for a list of working sites which accepts feeds, then I struck with an idea that I can find those places by following other sites of my niche which would have already submitted their feed? So is there any way I can do this?


title: How to get an image 100% in the middle of every single screen in the world

text: I have a website with some images, and I want them to be in the middle, now on my screen they are in the middle. Because I've put them there by moving them to one side, when I get my friends to look at it, the image is off to one side. On a 13.5" screen it will look to be in the middle.


title: web hosting plan for portfolio site

text: I'm currently creating my personal website right now. The website is only a portfolio site to display websites that I have created (I haven't made any as of yet), and it will not be a blog site also. Will this kind of web hosting plan be enough for me?   * 500MB space   * 7GB traffic/mo - bandwidth   * costs something like $1.5 a month. Another details is I'll be using Google Fonts so would it eat up more traffic?