title: How can I make my binary file is served as binary and not text when user choose "Save Linked File As..." in Safari?

text: I'm serving a binary file (.IPA) with `Ubuntu/Apache 2.2`. When I have chosen `Save Linked File As...` in Safari, it says it's text file. And it guides me to add `.txt` extension. However it does not add any extra extension when I download it just clicking link. I added line `AddType application/octet-stream .ipa` in apache configuration file. I don't know what's wrong with this. Is this a bug of Safari or my misconfiguration? (1) If it caused by bug, how can I avoid this? (2) Or if it caused by misconfiguration, what should I do?


title: SSD vs. regular HDD in webhosting

text: What are the benefits of paying for SSD storage when it comes to webhosting? I know that SSDs have better read speeds is that necessarily better or is it negligible? I have sites that use databases with php so will it really benefit me to pay extra for SSD storage? I read somewhere that SSDs increase fetching times from the db but also read stuff that are contrary to it and the fact that I can cache mysql results using apc or memcached so kind of confused, can someone shed some light please?


title: Which CMS scenario should I choose for SEO?

text: I have a website, about web design and programming, which uses WordPress. I also list some applications that I have made, in pages like:               mysite.com/myapp1     mysite.com/myapp2      ( **note** : these pages are not WordPress pages just simple HTML (PHP) pages that I have created) Currently, I am displaying these aplications by WordPress posts, like:               mysite.com/myapp1-is-online-now      and this post contains a link to `/myapp1`. So, this is scenario one. To summarize it, it is like:   * my site      * WordPress     * my app 1     * my app 2 the other option is, to make my homepage a custom HTML file, and make the WordPress as a subdomain or subfolder, like `mysite.com/blog` or `blog.mysite.com` and the homepage gives links to blog, myapp1, etc. So in the second scenario, WordPress will be getting Google indexes for `blog.mysite.com` , but will it help my homepage to get good rankings too? ## Edit: I guess the shortest way to ask this question is: should I make WordPress root, or subfolder?


title: How long will it take for seo optmization to bring improvements

text: How much time do you expect seo optimizations to enhance your search results?


title: My Blog is marked as spam because of adBrite

text: I was blogging for over a month. I never thought of publishing ads in my blog until I was recommended to adBrite. I copied the widget code and just added it to my blog. Crap, suddenly I got a message that I was stopped from blogging because it is marked as spam. I never gave up my try, I just kept on sending request to retrieve my blog. How do I get my blogger blog unlocked and not considered spam?


title: robots.txt and disallow

text: Which one is correct?               User-agent: *     Disallow: index.php      or               User-agent: *     Disallow: /index.php      inorder to block all pages like `index.php?day=7` `index.php?day=15` `index.php?day=30`


title: Will Google omit my site from mobile search results if I do not have a mobile optimized site?

text: I have heard rumors that if I do not have a mobile-optimized web-site (whether through responsive design or redirection to a mobile version of the site) that Google will not show my site when a user searches on their mobile phone. Is there any truth to this?


title: Amazon EC2: How do I create a subdomain on an instance?

text: I have apache2 and tomcat installed on Amazon ec2 instance running Ubuntu. tomcat is serving the application and I want to create subdomains for `example.com` and `abc.example.com` to serve to different webapps.


title: So I just got a Pottery Barn email that required I call the store to be removed

text: About a year ago, I bought a Pottery Barn Kids gift for my nephew's baby shower and last night, I got a marketing email in my box. I hadn't seen this technique before. As far as I know, it doesn't violate the 2003 CAN-SPAM act, but boy, it sure paints the fence gray. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/yDj3H.jpg) For reference, here's the relevant passage: > Tell recipients how to opt out of receiving future email from you. **Your > message must include a clear and conspicuous explanation of how the > recipient can opt out of getting email from you in the future.** Craft the > notice in a way that’s easy for an ordinary person to recognize, read, and > understand. Creative use of type size, color, and location can improve > clarity. Give a return email address or another easy Internet-based way to > allow people to communicate their choice to you. You may create a menu to > allow a recipient to opt out of certain types of messages, but you must > include the option to stop all commercial messages from you. Make sure your > spam filter doesn’t block these opt-out requests. I mean, boy, they sure did that. This seems like dangerous PR territory though. Is anyone else using this technique? Have you heard much about it? Is it a growing trend or just a dirty trick? Requiring a person to call a physical location to be taken off a mailing list seems like a great way to end up on every spam blacklist in a matter of weeks.


title: How to turn visitors into site members (running a Q&A site)?

text: My Site is getting around 250 unique visitors from search daily. What UI changes (or other changes) should I make to make it more appealing so more users become members? If its too broad to answer here can you please provide some links to good reads on this topic? I am have been a programmer for 2 years this is sort of my first attempt on my own site. Let me know if I should share link here. EDIT: link http://shoutland.com/


title: Yandex.Metrica: can I redirect from /favicon.ico to the 1×1 gif counter?

text: I have a very simple site, with no graphics, and I don't want to spoil it with a huge JavaScript monitoring loop. I don't have a `favicon.ico`, and I always see 404 requests from browsers requesting for favicon; can I `307` the favicon location to the `//mc.yandex.ru/watch/id` URL of the 1×1 gif counter, the one which shows in the `img src` when you request the Metrica code from Yandex?                   location = /favicon.ico {                 return  307     http://mc.yandex.ru/watch/XXX;         }


title: Site very slow when viewed from china

text: My site is very slow when viewed from china. I have used this tool for testing: http://www.dotcom- monitor.com/WebTools/website-speed-test.aspx This is the result ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/l78q1.jpg) Shangai - waterfall ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/HtH6b.jpg) only the DNS resolution has cost 4 seconds how can I make things better for Chinese users? the performance of the site are generally good and I tried to optimize all the best ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/VWhVR.jpg)


title: Can a sitemap index file reference sitemap files under different domains?

text: My company owns several domain names. We also host websites for our users at their custom domains. Our domains:   * company.com   * product1.com   * product2.com Users's domains:   * user1.com   * user2.com Currently, we host XML Sitemap files at the root of all of our users' websites (e.g. `http://www.user1.com/sitemap.xml`). These sitemap files contain all the URLs of that user's website. To possibly improve the search engine indexing of our users' websites, we would like to start hosting a high-level, sitemap index file at the root of `company.com` which lists all of our users' (and preferably our products') websites' `sitemap.xml` files. So something like this: `http://www.company.com/sitemap-index.xml`               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">        <sitemap>           <loc>http://www.company.com/sitemap.xml</loc>        </sitemap>        <sitemap>           <loc>http://www.product1.com/sitemap.xml</loc>        </sitemap>        <sitemap>           <loc>http://www.product2.com/sitemap.xml</loc>        </sitemap>        <sitemap>           <loc>http://www.user1.com/sitemap.xml</loc>        </sitemap>        <sitemap>           <loc>http://www.user2.com/sitemap.xml</loc>        </sitemap>     </sitemapindex>      According to the Sitemaps documentation on index files, it isn't possible to have a sitemap index file references sitemaps files outside of it's own domain. > **Note:** A Sitemap index file can only specify Sitemaps that are found on > the same site as the Sitemap index file. For example, > `http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap_index.xml` can include Sitemaps on > `http://www.yoursite.com` but not on `http://www.example.com` or > `http://yourhost.yoursite.com`. In a different section of the same documentation, it says that it is possible to have regular sitemap files (not sitemap index files) reference URLs outside of the domain which hosts the sitemap file. > **Sitemaps & Cross Submits**   >  To submit Sitemaps for multiple hosts from a single host, you need to > "prove" ownership of the host(s) for which URLs are being submitted in a > Sitemap.   >  ...   >  By default, this will result in a "cross submission" error since you are > trying to submit URLs for www.host1.com through a Sitemap that is hosted on > www.sitemaphost.com (and same for the other two hosts). One way to avoid the > error is to prove that you own (i.e. have the authority to modify files) > www.host1.com. You can do this by modifying the robots.txt file on > www.host1.com to point to the Sitemap on www.sitemaphost.com. My question(s):   * First of all, Can this 'workaround' for cross-submits work with sitemap index files as it does with normal sitemap files? I don't want to go through the effort to implement it without knowing it is even possible. Unfortunately, the documentation doesn't say either way.   * Second, is what I am attempting even a good idea? We want to boost SEO for all of the websites we manage. We think linking the sitemaps together will help but we are not sure. Does anyone have any experience with complicated sitemaps and index files who are willing to share their experience?


title: Transparent PHP script execution using mod_rewrite

text: I am looking for a solution for this a problem: I need that every HTTP request (method is irrelevant) in Apache http server would be served only after execution of specific PHP script. This is needed because I need to gather some information about requests, etc. As far as I understand - this could be achieved using `mod_rewrite` module. So far I have done this (in `.htaccess` file):               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ script.php [C]      `script.php` is executed, but I need that after this original request would be executed. Thanks - any help is appreciated.


title: How much do other CDNs charge?

text: I'm currently using Amazon S3 and CloudFront as a CDN to serve my images. Amazon publish their prices on the site: $0.120 per GB transfer and $0.0075 per 10,000 HTTP Requests. However, other CDNs don't seem to list any prices at all. In particular I'm looking at EdgeCast and NetDNS - does anyone know their typical prices? What about other services?


title: How do I word my url so that it doesn't get blocked or appear spammy

text: I'm creating a fairly large site. Will my links appear spammy if I use the same word as in the pathfile in the url? For example:   * `www.example.com/apples/great-apple-recipes`   * `www.example.com/apples/fresh-apple-pie`   * `www.example.com/apples/delicious-apple-turnovers` I do not want my link to appear spammy. But is it ok if the keyword is almost always the same as in the pathfile on a huge site? Does the pathfile count as part of the keyword? Also, how many words in total should a url (including pathfile etc...) be?


title: Metrics on Potential Website Overhaul

text: We are considering a drastic overhaul of our 5+ year old site - UI, structure, content, SEO, backend, etc. We are not ecommerce, we generate leads for a high cost product. We're aware of the obvious benefits: better customer service, stronger branding, less bandwidth, etc. A case is being built to fund this project, so the question at hand: what resources are available that would help us estimate what specific changes would impact a variety of metrics (conversions, leads, etc). I am looking for general information, not industry specific.


title: Basic Questions about what WebHosting companies usually provide

text: I have some very basic questions on web hosting. I am wondering, do web hosting companies usually allow me to run customized programs? For example, my website needs me to run a program separately, continuously on the back end and talk to the front end stuff. Is this usually allowed? I am assuming the answer is yes, otherwise people can't use some web frameworks like web.py. If the answer is yes, do they usually impose the CPU/memory limit on my program? Also, will I have sudo permission on the servers they provide? I know this probably varies from company to company, I am just trying to understand some industrial basics before asking more ignorant questions.


title: Light Box with Video

text: I need to show a lightbox slide show that will start with a video and once the video is complete it then rolls through static pictures on the slide show. Does anyone have an idea of how I can achieve this? Thanks, Chris Edwards


title: mathML/HTML symbol for mathematical vector

text: Is there a way to make something like the image below using text-based HTML/mathML. My concern is with the arrows over the letter v. This is for iOS (webKit); I'd rather not use mathJAX or the like if I can help it. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/K0PvG.png)


title: Google Search Parameter Question

text: I've been trying to determine different parameters used by Google in their search queries. In particular, the usg parameter is what is giving me troubles. Here is an example value given for it, which is from an actual Google query: usg=0_zDqudnCN52ATGjAl3tignXNtBo4%3D Does anyone know what it could be for / recognize it? I've done a bit of digging, but haven't found any confirmation as to what it could be. Here is the link that I took a look at: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3892573.htm


title: Can someone explain the true landscape of Rails vs PHP deployment, particularly within the context of Reseller-based web hosting (e.g., Hostgator)?

text: Currently, I have a reseller account with the company HostGator. I design websites, which up until now have occasionally been wrapped in Wordpress CMSs and the like (PHP applications). I then sell hosting (of the site I've designed) to the client, which is pretty simple, in that I can simply click a button and add a new shared hosting account/site with whatever settings I want. Furthermore, I then utilize WHMCS to automate billing and account management. It's a nice package and pretty simple. I pay something like $25 a month, and can sell a hundred accounts under this (because my clients bandwidth requirements are low). Now I am finding the need to develop more customized applications, including a minimalist CMS and several proprietary things. I soon anticipate developing these apps for clients as well. Thus, I've spent the past few months learning Rails, and it's coming along well now. The thing that has nagged at me all along, though, is the deployment issue. I can't wrap my brain around it. It seems like all of the popular options (Heroku, etc) have nice automation with git and are set up in the "Rails Way". I get that (sort of). But it's terribly expensive... a single dyno, a helper, and the cheapest database (which they say is mainly suitable for testing) that isn't limited to 5MB runs $51. This is for ONE app!!! Throw in a "production" DB and you're over $200. This is like... the same prices as getting a server somewhere, right? Meanwhile, going back to what I guess is a "traditional" hosting environment with Hostgator, their server only has Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 2.3.5... No Rails 3. AND, no Passenger (not that I really understand the difference in CGI or mod_rails or whatever, but they say Passenger is the simplest). So I'm to understand that if I build an app in Rails 3, it won't run at all on this host? But damn, I already have these accounts under my reseller account there, all running static html and/or PHP stuff, right? So what now? How do I get all of this under one simple (and affordable) roof? Forgive my ignorance, but I just don't get it. Managing a VPS is cool and all, but entails learning server admin stuff and security... And it's expensive. I get that a shared and/or reseller "server-based" (forgive the terminology) may be inadequate for large-scale apps that use a lot of bandwidth... But what about for those of us who are building real (but small and low bandwidth) apps (with Rails) and who want to deploy them simply, cheaply, using the same conceptual approach as PHP? Even after learning all of this Ruby and Rails stuff for months, I'm questioning whether it's worth it when it comes to deployment. I want to build a small app, upload it to my home directory on a shared server account, and just make it run. Why should that be so hard? Am I just choosing the wrong language/framework? Forgive my ignorance in the subject; these questions are not rhetorical; just trying to learn here. So: 1) I'd appreciate if someone could give me a good rundown of how to understand deployment in Rails vs. PHP. 2) I'd appreciate if someone could address my issue with running a hosting/web business around reseller hosting (Hostgator) while also being able to host Rails apps. Can it be done? And how can a company like Hostgator completely ignore what's current in Rails/Ruby? Thanks.


title: Why can't GoogleBot forget a 404 File Does Not Exist?

text: For two months now, googlebot is trying to get a file which does not exist anymore. This is just one example out of many: I had renamed the file to a better name and removed the old file. Now, why does Google insist on getting a file which it already has seen does not exist for months? doesn't it just give up and get on being a happy bot? My Error log file is filled with these repeating lines all wanting to get that one file, although they know for already long time that its not there:   1. What to do in these situations?    2. Are there automatic redirection rules that handle via 301 to the home page? [Sat Mar 05 01:55:41 2011] [error] [client 66.249.66.177] File does not exist: /var/www/vhosts/website.org/httpdocs/extraNeus.php [Sat Mar 05 01:58:20 2011] [error] [client 66.249.66.177] File does not exist: /var/www/vhosts/website.org/httpdocs/extraNeus.php [Sat Mar 05 02:03:57 2011] [error] [client 66.249.66.177] File does not exist: /var/www/vhosts/website.org/httpdocs/extraNeus.php on and on ... and on...


title: For SEO, does it matter where the title tag is positioned within the head tag?

text: I have always positioned my `<title>` element as the first child of the `<head>` element. I am building a site where, for various reasons the title is currently one of the last children of the `<head>` element. Does it matter either way with regard to SEO?


title: How to Mark-Up a Multi-Page Tutorial?

text:
I'm writing a very long tutorial that just can't fit in one page--it would make the page heavier than 1MB, so I have to split it up. But I really wish I could put it all on one page in order to show Google that this is a very content-rich and relevant destination. In the past, I've written a 2000-something word tutorial and put it all on one page. The page was favorable with search engines and I did get search traffic on it. A couple of months later I wrote a much bigger tutorial and split it up into multiple pages with URLs like this   * /tutorial/ (Main page)   * /tutorial/sub-topic-x/    * /tutorial/sub-topic-y/   * /tutorial/sub-topic-z/   * Etc... The navigation mark-up is located at the bottom of every page in that tutorial, and it's something like this:

Previous page

Next page

Pages in this tutorial:

Tutorial Starting Page

Sub-topic A

Sub-topic B

Sub-topic C

Sub-topic D

Sub-topic E

Sub-topic F

Sub-topic G

      I even have breadcrumbs (without Microdata mark-up though) like this Site > Section > Tutorial > Sub Topic A In spite all of that, the main page, /tutorial/, didn't have much luck with search engines. It's on the second page for its very uncompetitive keyword. It's ranked below pages with clearly lower quality and shallower topic coverage. It's been months. What could I have done wrong? :( I'm thinking that for this new tutorial that I'm writing now, the `<titles>` of all the pages will be "How to Main Keyword Phrase - Part 1", "How to Main Keyword Phrase - Part 2", etc. But `<h1>` will be different from `<title>` for each page. What do you guys think about all of this? Is there a semantic way to mark-up multi-page articles that would clearly tell engines that these pages are all part of one article?


title: Is there a blogging platform that allows me to give traffic related bonuses to writers?

text: I would like to be able to reward writers with bonuses based upon the amount of traffic their individual posts receive, to encourage them to promote their posts on the internet. Is there a platform that supports this automatically out of the box?


title: My domain reseller is nearing bankruptcy. What to do?

text: I have a personal domain registered with KalyHost, which is owned by Tibanne, Ltd., owner of Mt.Gox, that is in a bankruptcy protection. According to WHOIS, KalyHost is just a reseller, with the registrar being http://www.1api.net/ . (For my rationale of registering it there: it was one of the few companies, that accepted bitcoins back in the day, and I thought that it's trustworthy, because it runs the biggest Bitcoin exchange. What a mistake.) KalyHost, at the present moment, has fully working administration and I can change my DNS records, but I don't know for how much longer. Also, the bitcoin payments are apparently no longer working, and the support doesn't reply to any questions - and, according to people close to the company, the support is basically non-existent and right now, with depts in millions of dollars, the company have bigger problems than a domain name. So, I have two questions. 1) What are the immediate dangers to me, if the reseller actually bankrupts? Will my domain continue to work? 2) How to solve it? Can I somehow move the domain somewhere else, even when the support is basically non-responsive?


title: How to understand google search results?

text: If you search in Google with keywords "cyprus hotels" the first in results are www.cyprushotels.com with rank 2 and 2 links to this site. And second place is www.cyprus-hotels.com with rank 5 and milions link to that site. Why is it like that?


title: Image path for multilingual site? Can I use same image file without rewriting every URL?

text: Suppose I wanted my website to have `www.aaa.com/bbbb www.aaa.com/th/bbbb ` The first one is the default language while second one is in Thai. I think I should prepared my folder structure like this : `root -bbbb \--index.html \--images -th \--bbbb \---index.html ` Now that I copied the `index.html` file from `/bbbb`folder into `/th/bbbb` folder and finished translate it, I realized that all path for images like in `<img src=` or `url(...` of CSS has been broken because I did not copied the whole `bbbb/images` folder with it. Instead of rewriting every url to go back one step and look for images in `/bbbb` folder (that is, prefix every URL with `../bbbb/`) is there more practical way? Because the translated page uses nearly identical images with original ones. Also for the solution presented, would that impact the SEO of images in any way?


title: How to mass test a list of domains to find out if any of them banned by Google?

text: I have a list of 300 domains. I want to find out which of them are banned on Google. How can I easily find out which ones would have Google penalties?


title: Orgranizing a large amount of unique (non-product) static content in Magento?

text: Some of you may have seen my previous question where I was asking how websites that don't offer especially 'interesting' content go about link building - particularly in the case of e-commerce. The general outcome was that should webmasters want their 'boring' (but useful) websites to go out of their way and create interesting 'linkbait/worthy' content. Now, the question: In light of the response to my question, I'm going about making my company's online store more interesting. Part of this operation involves creating a fairly large base of relevant content to the products on offer (probably hundreds if not thousands of pages by the time (lots of time..) we're done). **Should I use Magento's built-in CMS to handle my pages or should I look at integrating another cms?** - I'm not interested in implementing a 'blogging' platform as that will come later on. Edit: Should have mentioned, I'm using the community edition at the moment.


title: JS and CSS caching issue: possibly .htaccess related

text: I've been using the HTML5 Boilerplate for some web projects for a while now and have noticed the following issue cropping up on some sites. My CSS and JS files, when loaded by the browser, are being renamed to things like:               ce.52b8fd529e8142bdb6c4f9e7f55aaec0.modernizr-1,o7,omin,l.js      …in the case of `modernizr-1.7.min.js` The pattern always seems to add `ce.` or `cc.` in front of the filename. I'm not sure what's causing this, and it's frustrating since when I make updates to those files, the same old cached file is being loaded. I have to explicitly call `modernizr-1.7.min.js?v=2` or something similar to get it to re-cache. I'd like to scrap it altogether but it still happens even when .htaccess is empty. Any ideas? Is anyone else experiencing this issue?


title: SEO techniques for a complete Flex Website

text: I am planning to build a website completely in Flex. All the contents will be static. No DB will be used. Unfortunately I am not building the website for PUMA or NIKE and so SEO is important. There is an overwhelming and confusing information out there about Flex and SEO. The following is a piece of information I found on the web " FLEX( Flash ) uses XML as a primary source of content, and XHTML is just a custom XML. The idea is to to use the HTML pages as XML content for the FLEX( Flash ) application. The XML can be read and indexed by the search engines, and it’s also the ideal content source for your FLEX( Flash ) application.' It goes on to explain how this can be done. Is this really that simple. " Could someone give some credible links. SEO is important for me since I am planning to build the site for a resort.


title: When should I ask a purchaser about subscription plans related to a retail product?

text: I am currently working on the design for a product detail page with a few other people. The product is a piece of software that has an outright purchase component as well as a subscription plan associated with it. **There are a few options on the table for when to ask about the subscription component of the software purchase:**   * **On the product page** : Show a list or a grid so that the user can add the software and the subscription all at once.   * **Use an interstitial** : The user adds the software to the cart, then is prompted for a subscription plan choice on the next page.   * **Ask in the cart** : The user adds the software to the cart. From the cart, they see a list of "add-ons" that represent the subscription plans that they can add to their purchase. **In discussing this, two viewpoints have arisen** :   * We should start out by simply enticing them to add the product to the cart and ask about subscription plans on a separate page. In the back of their minds, the users know a subscription choice is coming as it's a required component for the software. **Asking for everything up-front may decrease the chance that the user will actually add the product to the cart** , and we're not hiding anything from the user since they know a subscription is required.   * **Asking for everything up-front reduces the number of clicks the user has to make to purchase the product and subscription and makes the overall experience more user-friendly.** Since users are aware of the subscription aspect of the product by the time they reach the product page, we won't have a lot of people who get to the page, see the subscription options, then decide not to add the product to the cart because we ask for both at once. One solution would be to implement an A/B test of the workflow, see which one performs better, then stick with that as the final workflow. This will likely be what we end up doing. However, my thinking is that we can't be the only group who has wondered this before. I know that extensive analysis has been done on eCommerce site design, but I am having issues finding results of previous A/B tests related to when to ask for subscriptions. **Any insight on what has worked best in previous tests of the timing of prompting for a subscription decision during a retail purchase would be very much appreciated.**


title: Will linking individual words within my content help or hinder my SEO Ranking?

text: I am trying to improve my SEO Ranking, will linking my content to other pages on the site hinder or help my results. For instance if I was to link back to the home page every time I mentioned the company name. Example               The frog was almost the size of a toad. Toads are larger than frogs. My toad has green spots


title: How to use the domain of my old site to my new site?

text: the site1.com is a joomla website.. that site is converted into wordpress. I want to have the domain of the joomla site (site1.com) to be the domain name of the wordpress. Note the two site have different server. thanks


title: Newly registered user to match with existing in db member

text: I have a database that contains my company clients info. We want to enable those clients to register on our website and see their data. How should be newly registered user matched with Client entity in our database? Should it be manually done by administrator? If so, what data do we need to identify them? SHould the admin be informed by an email?


title: Migrating Cpanel in godaddy to another server

text: I am having an account in godaddy with plan "linux with cpanel". I want to transfer it to my own WHM. Usual cpanel transfer failed. What is the preferred method to do this?


title: Bought a domain that used to be an adult site

text: However, its no longer an adult site, and now suitable for all ages. Google/Bing keep looking for URLs from the old site. I made sure they all 404, but is there a better procedure? Should I 301 those links to a page explaining that there was a change of ownership?


title: Best way to find out how many hits a site gets, without slow load times

text: I am building a translation website. One of my priorites is load times. Recently I added a Google Analytics tracking script, which provides exceptionally complex information about the site, but also increased my load times, significantly. Has anyone found a good solution - A simple way to measure stats - Without the dramatic slowing of load times.


title: Is there a kind of microdata or markup that creates "results x of y" in search results

text: I'm trying to get the following kind of markup appear on my job site: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/EKiX7.png) There's a specific markup for job adverts listed on the schema.org webpage, but I can't work out how Google is pulling the 1 - 20 of 23229 from the Monster webpage. I'm presuming the jobs tag is because they use microdata markup for all their adverts, but how is Google pulling the numbers? There is a specific page tag for search results (here), however it doesn't seem to have any relevant options and as far as I can tell Monster aren't using it anyway. (A search for monster jobs china should show the result)


title: Properly force SSL with .htaccess, no double authentication

text: I'm trying to force SSL with .htaccess on a shared host. This means there I only have access to .htaccess and not the vhosts config. I know you can put a rule in the VirtualHost config file to force SSL which will be picked up there (and acted upon first), preventing double authentication, but I can't get to that. Here's the progress I've made: ## Config 1 This works pretty well but it does force double authentication if you visit http://site.com - once for http and then once for https. Once you are logged in, it automatically redirects http://site.com/page1.html to the https coutnerpart just fine:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on     RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !(^www\.site\.com*)$     RewriteRule (.*) https://www.site.com$1 [R=301,L]               AuthName "Locked"     AuthUserFile "/home/.htpasswd"     AuthType Basic     require valid-user           ## Config 2 If I add this to the top of the file, it works a lot better in that it will switch to SSL before prompting for the password:               SSLOptions +StrictRequire     SSLRequireSSL     SSLRequire %{HTTP_HOST} eq "site.com"     ErrorDocument 403 https://site.com      It's clever how it will use the SSLRequireSSL option and the ErrorDocument403 to redirect to the secure version of the site. My only complaint is that if you try and access http://site.com/page1.html it will redirect to https://site.com/ So it is forcing SSL without a double-login, but it is not properly forwarding non-SSL resources to their SSL counterparts. Regarding the first config, Insyte mentioned "using mod_rewrite to perform a simple redirect is a bit of overkill. Use the Redirect directive instead. It's possible this may even fix your problem, as I believe mod_rewrite rules are some of the last directives to be processed, just before the file is actually grabbed from the filesystem" I have not had no such luck on finding a force-ssl config option with the redirect directive and so have been unable to test this theory.


title: How do I use Instagram to post to my business page but not my personal page?

text: I tried asking this question on the Facebook forums but got no answer, maybe someone here might be able to help me with this. I have a Facebook account and within that same account is my Facebook page for my business. Problem is every time that I try to use Instagram to upload a photo it gets uploaded to my personal/primary Facebook page and not the business page which is under the same email address and password. Instagram ask for this email address and password but how can I just have Instagram upload it to my business page and not my personal page? Or at very least how can I do both?


title: How to specify priority content for Google to index first when launching a very large website

text: My team will go online with a portal that will have over 1.000.000 products. And I read here following text: > Prioritize which content you have indexed. With that much data, not all of > it is going to be absolutely vital. Make a strategic decision as to what > content is most important, e.g., it will be most popular, it has the best > chance at ROI, it will be the most useful, etc. and make sure that that > content is indexed first. Another SEO expert told me to pick out our top 50 categories (including all products) and to put them into our XML Sitemap for Google. Our site map for users gives already deeplinks into those categories and manufacturers too. And if we put our top 50 categories into our XML Sitmap, should we: a) just increase the number of categories as soon as google got almost everything crawled? b) just take out categories that do not work and put in others that work better? So that Google Bot is focused on our top 50 categories (with approx 250.000 Products) As far as I know Google indexes everything, as long as there's no `no-index` set - but a XML Sitemap will help Google to find our important pages faster - is this correct?


title: Proper format to markup article author for Google rich snippets and HTML5

text: The Google guideline Author information in search results tells us that we need to use the following format to link to the article author:               Author      However, HTML5 specification has another construction for that:               Author      So what option should we use on an HTML5 website? Maybe, something like that               Author      , which is proper in both specifications?


title: When should I use <tag>content</tag> tag style, when <tag attrs> and when <tag attrs />?

text: I'm using HTML5. I just a bit confused that some people said "html validator does not like `<tag attrs />` tags style". It is obvious that if I need to place some content between opening and closing tag I should use `<tag>`content`</tag>` tag style. But if not, which one is right?               <tag attrs />     <tag attrs>      For example: what is the correct use of `<br />` tag?


title: @font-face, google fonts and SEO

text: Someone I know claims that search engines like Google have trouble with fonts that aren't the old standard fonts of yesteryear, resulting in pages not getting parsed by search spiders, and that to be on the safe side SEO wise I should stick with the standbys like Arial. A quick google search for 'search engines can't read fonts' yielded zilch. Do search engine spiders actually ignore text formatted with fonts they do not recognize?


title: Does Google provide different Index status for HTTP and HTTPS?

text: Will Google provide different index statuses for HTTP and HTTPS? Examples: `http://www.example.com` and `https://www.example.com` Or it will provide same results for both? If it doesn't provide the same results, can we configure both HTTP and HTTPS in Google Web Master Tools?


title: How do I select a different start/default page per domain?

text: I have an apache2 installation on `www.main_domain.com` (invalid underscore in domain name is intentional; this is an example), and the default page gives links for two secondary sites, also served by the same webserver since they point to the same address. The sites have lots of stuff in common, so I wouldn't want to do things using symbolic/hard links. What I would like to do is:   * if the client requests `www.main_domain.com`, I'd like to serve the current `/var/www/index.html` start page. That page contains links to `secsite1.html` and `secsite2.html` (the start pages for the secondary sites).   * if the client requests `www.secondary_site_1.com`, I'd like to serve the `/var/www/secsite1.html` start page.   * likewise for `www.secondary_site_2.com`: serve `/var/www/secsite2.html` as a first page. Note that I want to change _only_ the start page; otherwise, any page/image/file should be interchangeably accessible using the same path under each domain name. Please let me know if I need to clarify more.


title: Where can I find good link exchange programs and forums?

text: googling didnt worked in finding good link exchange programs.Has anyone of you tried an automatic link exchange program?My sites page rank has fallen from 3 to 1.Please help


title: I can't find dofollow or nofollow in my blog

text: I have a blog which I want to make do-follow but I am unable to find any place to change nofollow to dofollow please help me the html code is here.


title: Google Webmaster site performance - apparently website loads slow

text: I have a website which was hosted in Germany till last month. Then this month I moved it to a US based server. The new host is one of the best and top ranking dedicated hosting provider. Ever since I have moved the site, I have heard people saying site loads slow now. Although I personally haven't seen it because when I open it myself or use some 3rd party website speed checker then it shows excellent speed. But the thing is when I go to Google Webmaster and there is a something called "site performance" under "Labs" then it shows that my site's loading time is increasing. And the home page is taking on average 10 seconds to open completely. But of course when I open website myself or if I ask my friend, we don't notice such delay. In fact this is totally absurd that Google is saying 10 seconds for home page! Upon reading further about site performance I came to know that this is the data that Google collects from Google Toolbar that users have installed. So that means its results could be skewed and totally unreliable!? But two people I talked to said that its not just toolbar but Google also collects this data by other means. Although Google help documents only mention about toolbar. So I want to know what is true? And when you see crawl stats then Google says that it took an average 0.6 seconds to crawl one page. So crawl stats is showing something else while site performance is showing totally different. Secondly what tools and techniques can I use to really see what the problem is? Shall I look into webalizer or raw access logs? I have also looked into MySQL logs and found some queries which are slowing site performance but not on home page. And that too has only happened twice for a brief period of 1 or 2 minutes when site was not loading at all due to MySQL server being busy. What data shall I look for in logs and stats? If there really is some problem then I want to go to bottom of it. Thanks


title: Who's to blame for copyright content, webmaster or site/business owner?

text: If I upload content that is clearly a violation of copyrights am I legally responsible for such content or is it only the owner of the site and business?


title: Why is google chrome rendering certain webfonts like this?

text: I'm working on a website currently that uses google's web font "Open Sans", but everywhere the font is rendered wrong. I looked at Dropbox.com and it also has the same problem (they use Open Sans as well). It looks like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fh1eyb2oiysop5k/crap.png When I view the site in firefox, it looks normal. When I copy the text and paste in a text file, the actual text that supposed to be there IS there. I've been following the issue at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=108645


title: Should I enter only effective keywords into AdWords?

text: Keyword research tools like Keyword Planner seem to fulfill two basic functions:   1. Generate a list of possible keywords   2. Provide estimates (CPC, traffic, ...) to whittle down this list to the most _effective_ keywords Do I need the second step? Is there any downside in uploading a huge list with thousands of keywords and just wait and see how they perform? It's pay per click so I'm not losing money on low performing keywords. Ultimately I'm only interested in conversions and that's a metric that can't be estimated by the tools anyway. Edit: As Joshak points out, I need to remove all obviously non-converting keywords. What about other keywords that could theoretically convert but the estimates show it's unlikely. For example 0 traffic or very high cpc, so it's unlikely I will win the bid. It would be more work to remove them and there are slight changes that they bring conversions. Is there any downside in using them?


title: How can I make Google Analytics understand URL encoding?

text: I have a page on my site that has the following URL: **solr?filters=type%3Aphoto** (let's call this URL A) Any link to this page on my site reads: solr?filters=type%3Aphoto The "%3A" is a URL encoded colon (":"). However, Google Analytics correctly tracks this page URL as: **solr?filters=type:photo** (let's call this URL B) This breaks In-Page Analytics (IPA) in two important ways:   * Issue #1: When I go to this page (URL A) inside of In-Page Analytics it says there are 0 hits (and thus no tracking of data on any link clicks on this page).    * Issue #2: When viewing any other page in IPA it never reports any links to the page in question because IPA sees the link as URL A but all of the data is for URL B. Fixing issue #1 is easy: I just manually go to URL B via the IPA path tool, and it correctly shows traffic on this page and all of the link click traffic. Is there any way to fix issue #2? If I think this is a Google Analytics bug, but I couldn't find any way to contact Google Analytics support.


title: Responsive Design: Which Framework Should I Use? CSS3 & HTML5

text: I've been looking for a suitable set of HTML5/CSS3 foundation files to start new projects on. I started off piecing together my own files, but I believe I might be better served in finding a solid and fairly compatible(with me) CSS3/HTML5 framework and then tweaking certain things that may not best suit my own process. I'd love to find something that is responsive and that includes aspects focusing on layout, type(hor and vert baselines), form and interface components, cross-browser issues, and preferably built on something other than a just imple css reset, but that does include rebuilding elements consistently across browsers for a clean work slate. Extra features like polyfills or others area great, as is good documentation and examples. So far, off the top of my head I know of,   * Skeleton   * 1140 Grid   * 320 & Up (plus BP)   * HTML5 Boilerplate 2.0 and Mobile   * Inuit.css   * Less Framework   * Fluir   * Perkins.Less   * A few WP themes Are there any great one I don't know about? I work a lot in WP, and something that is easily incorporated (but also stand alone) is ideal. Plugins and wide set feature while maintaining the ability to cut it down when needed(flexibility) is also a big plus, and in par with a faster learning, since I want to start using whatever I find immediately . What are some of the better options you guys might be able to recommend? Systems or scripts, plugins, and other related tools are also welcome, Thanks!


title: How to analyse the keyword density of an entire website?

text: My competitor has a forum where its customer post. I want to use all those threads to determine which keywords I should use on my own site, because forums have terms customers use and search for. I can pick a page and analyse it to find which keyword and phrase are popular, but how do I analyse the whole site ?


title: Error 504 with Apache and php

text: My web application works fine in development environment, but on production server gives off:               504 Gateway Time-out     The server didn't respond in time.       * * * ## Edit: I have traced the problem to a `session_start()` call - it never completes and ends in a 504 error above. What could cause this? Both servers are running Linux, although of course they are not perfect clones of each other. There are many other php apps running on the same server with no issues, the production server is not overloaded in any way, and hardware wise, the production server is much better in specs than the development one. I checked out php error log and do not see anything other than               [22-Aug-2011 09:38:01] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib64/php/modules/pdo_sqlite.so' - /usr/lib64/php/modules/pdo_sqlite.so: undefined symbol: php_pdo_register_driver in Unknown on line 0      Which is something I see all the time even if it's working fine, and I generally don't care about this error as I'm not using sqlite. Where else can I see what's going on and what to do to fix it? * * * ## Edit: While I could not figure out what caused the initial problem, it turned out that the problem was not occurring when using a different _web browser_. After restarting the problematic browser instance (it was Firefox, btw) the issue went away completely. I'm still puzzled how a browser could cause a server to throw 504 error.


title: Find out where the user has come from -- previous page URL within the same site

text: Is it possible to use Google Analytics or a similar tool to track the users' inter-site click behaviour? I'd like to know how many users clicked on certain links on a particular page which lead them to a different area of the site. e.g. if users always click on "Contact Us" link after reading "About Us", then we can reason that "About Us" page makes the visitors want to call us. The question is how do I find out how many visits to the 'contact-us.html' page are from 'about-us.html' (without appending parameters like ?source=aboutus to the URL) ? Some kind of statistics like:               Statistics for contact-us.html      ------------------------------     Previous Page | Clicks      --------------|---------     about-us.html | 250     index.html    | 123     history.html  | 0     <--- probably remove the link on history.html page


title: Check/Monitor Amount of SQL Queries per Hour

text: My website is hosted on a shared hosting and I'd like to know how much SQL queries it is using per hour. I tried to navigate through cPanel and I find nothing to check or monitor the amount of SQL queries per hour. I tried to ask my host and they said it is not possible to do manually. However I found this http://forum.powweb.com/archive/index.php/t-49937.html and another one on Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9842094/sql-how-can-i-get-the-number-of- executed-queries-per-database-or-hour-or And since this exists, I assume that it is actually possible. Problem is I can't execute that in my phpmyAdmin. Can someone here guide me through the process?


title: Can redirecting a spammy site with less PageRank to a site with higher PageRank hurt?

text: How does it affect a site with higher PageRank if a lower PageRank start redirecting (301) to it? The lower ranked site has a spammy link profile and would like to shut it down, but it also has a lot of visitors. I would like to start redirecting it to another site with much higher rank.


title: Which content or HTTP status should return unused domain?

text: We've recently bought couple of domains but the content of the domains is still under development. Which content should we upload to the domains to tell search engines "There is currently nothing, but check in the future" and don't get crawling/ranking penalty for the future content?


title: Can website have multiple meta keywords?

text: Are these two equivalent?               <meta name="keywords" content="first" />     <meta name="keywords" content="second, third" />      and               <meta name="keywords" content="first, second, third" />      I have keywords that are applied for all the pages and then I want to have separate set of keywords for each page. Is there any problem with having multiple keywords tags, especially in SEO?


title: SEO Keywords Blogging in Company Site

text: I have a question about how to develop SEO contents based on keywords. Let's say I have 10 keywords I want to rank so I began writing articles for those 10 keywords on my blog. However, there is only so much you can write on the same topic without sounding like a spam blog. _**How do you get around with this problem?_**


title: Still prompted for a password after adding SSH public key to a server

text: I'm attempting to setup a git repository on my Dreamhost web server by following the "Setup: For the Impatient" instructions here. I'm having difficulty setting up public key access to the server. After successfully creating my public key, I ran the following command:               cat ~/.ssh/[MY KEY].pub | ssh [USER]@[MACHINE] "mkdir ~/.ssh; cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"      ...replacing the appropriate placeholders with the correct values. Everything seemed to go through fine. The server asked for my password, and, as far as I can tell, executed the command. There is indeed a `~/.ssh/authorized_keys` file on the server. The problem: When I try to SSH into the server, it still asks for my password. My understanding is that it shouldn't be asking for my password anymore. What am I missing? EDIT: SSH -v Log:               Macbook:~ michaeleckert$ ssh -v [USER]@[SERVER URL]     OpenSSH_6.2p2, OSSLShim 0.9.8r 8 Dec 2011     debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config     debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *     debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 53: Applying options for *     debug1: Connecting to [SERVER URL] [[SERVER IP]] port 22.     debug1: Connection established.     debug1: identity file /Users/michaeleckert/.ssh/id_rsa type -1     debug1: identity file /Users/michaeleckert/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1     debug1: identity file /Users/michaeleckert/.ssh/id_dsa type -1     debug1: identity file /Users/michaeleckert/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1     debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0     debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.2     debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze3     debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze3 pat OpenSSH_5*     debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent     debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received     debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none     debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none     debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent     debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP     debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent     debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY     debug1: Server host key: RSA [STRING OF NUMBERS AND LETTERS SEPARATED BY SEMI-COLONS]     debug1: Host ‘[SERVER URL]' is known and matches the RSA host key.     debug1: Found key in /Users/michaeleckert/.ssh/known_hosts:2     debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct     debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent     debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS     debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received     debug1: Roaming not allowed by server     debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent     debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received     debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password     debug1: Next authentication method: publickey     debug1: Trying private key: /Users/michaeleckert/.ssh/id_rsa     debug1: Trying private key: /Users/michaeleckert/.ssh/id_dsa     debug1: Next authentication method: password     [USER]@[SERVER URL]'s password:      debug1: Authentication succeeded (password).     Authenticated to [SERVER URL] ([[SERVER IP]]:22).     debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]     debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com     debug1: Entering interactive session.     debug1: Sending environment.     debug1: Sending env LANG = en_US.UTF-8           Welcome to [SERVER URL]          Any malicious and/or unauthorized activity is strictly forbidden.     All activity may be logged by DreamHost Web Hosting.          Last login: Sun Nov  3 12:04:21 2013 from [MY IP]     [[SERVER NAME]]$


title: Is it possible to add a facebook 'like' button to a website without the numer of 'likes'?

text: I'm pretty sure this used to be possible, but there doesn't seem to be an option any more. Is there any way to do it?


title: Is Email list "cleaning" a legitimate practice?

text: A client has provided us with an excel spreadsheet of around 10,000 email addresses, names and addresses. They were taken from a CRM used previously. I've been asked to "clean" up this database - such as check for invalid addresses - (email format, existing mailboxes etc). I've done a bit of Googling and came up with a few "Email List Cleaning Services". Here is one such company. Now my question is - does anyone have any experience with this kind of service, and is it a legitimate service? Alternatively, what are my options for "cleaning" this list? I ask as MailChimp, our preferred email marketing tool, will terminate account access if a certain percentage of emails bounce, (and I imagine similar e-shot services operate on the same basis), to comply with anti-spam regulations etc. This is a legitimate cause, although it may sound quite the contrary.


title: How do you define a project for a web developer?

text: Say I have a comprehensive web app I want developed through a freelancer on Odesk.com What is the best way to effectively describe the entire project, goals and requirements? Any examples on this would be greatly appreciated.


title: Tried verything - Yet highest Bounce Rate?

text: I read a lot of blogs and tips articles on how to decrease bounce rate. I feel I write very good content (niche is science) and I setup a good design, with attractive features (like download as PDF etc.), increased site loading times (google page speed score is 80+) but even then my bounce rate is always above 90, sometimes 100 :(. I get 42% traffic from the US and google analytics reports no visitor staying for more than 10-12 seconds. Please guide me.


title: Options for geotargeting content

text: My company is creating a web portal that is designed to put relevant local geographic data in front of our users. Aside from using IP addresses, which are increasingly becoming less reliable as a geotargeting device, what options do we have? Of the top of my head, there is the new Javascript/HTML5 Geolocation API as used in Safari for iPhone, but are there other methods?


title: CSS3 Validation: Is it worth it?

text: I'm currently building a project, and I'm writing the site using HTML5 and CSS3. I have validated the HTML and it passed first time (very pleased as it was my first time coding HTML5!). And then I went to validate the CSS. It failed validation. The validator indicated that the browser specific attributes in my code (gradient properties for use in Mozilla, Webkit, and Opera) had failed the validation. This leaves me in a bit of a catch 22 situation. I would like both the HTML and CSS to validate, but the whole point of using CSS3 for me was so that I could use gradients without cutting up images, as well as rounded corners. I have included the standard CSS3 rule for gradients and rounded corners, but as the new best and brightest browsers don't yet fully support it, I feel I should use these browser fixes. Should I ignore the validation result? Would it make a difference to my site on a usability and SEO point of view?


title: What's the best web entrepeneur's conference to go on

text: Our dream as business partners was always to go to a conference overseas. Now that we can finally afford to, we have no clue of which one to go to. Which conference would you guys suggest from a web entrepeneur's point of view, if there were just one to go to? Perhaps something that included a bit of marketing, new thinking, innovation, inspiration. We were very keen on Google IO previously, but were concerned that it would be very Google product focused. Huge thanks!


title: Traffic value of a keyword

text: Does anyone know what kind of tools or **tests I can run to find the traffic value of a keyword**? I have done a search here before and someone's asked a similar question which was helpful but what I need to find out is what the Traffic Value, not the monetary value of a keyword is please?


title: Is it really worth submitting to DMOZ anymore?

text: This question stems from here. This guy sounds like he's getting a bit annoyed with DMOZ, but I was wondering if it's even worth submitting there nowadays. Does anyone still use it as a search engine? I would say that time would be better spent on getting your SEO on to get higher in Google and (possibly) Yahoo/Bing.


title: Where should sitemap be? (not separate sitemap file)

text: Most of the big companies got included sitemap at the bottom of thier site. e.g. Piriform / PCTools. I would like to know if there's reason why to put the sitemap above the copyright or they just put it above the copyright because they think its nicer? Thanks.


title: When registering a domain using a static IP and the A Record, do I need to set the Nameservers also?

text: I am attempting to set up a server that has a static IP address and I want to register a domain name to point to it. Having always used shared hosting in the past, I am unsure what to tell my domain to point at. Do I just put the IP for the A record and delete the name server records?


title: Will Woo commerce reviews show in Google with rich snippets?

text: I am using Woo commerce as my shopping cart but I've got a small doubt regarding SEO. My competitor is showing rich snippets i.e. star ratings in Google because of his reviews from reviewcenter.com I too want to build reviews for users but I am not sure whether product reviews from Woo commerce will show up in Google; but in my opinion it’s better to use product reviews on site than using a 3rd party website, but before that I need to make sure about it.


title: Should I register the domain name that has not popular top level domain name?

text: Let's say for example you want to register domain name `assembly.com` or `assembly.net` and find out that they are already registered (not available). Would you go with the domain name `assemb.ly` in such case? By having `.ly` the domain name represent word `assembly` but I think `.ly` domain is not so friendly for search engines? What do you think? Do you see any advantage of `asemb.ly` over `assembly.com` or `assembly.net` except it is shorter?


title: Most used social bookmarking sites for sharing?

text: A lot of WordPress sites have a "share this post to xxx" link. I was wondering which "xxx" people click the most? A top 5 or something like that. I know Twitter and Facebook are in the list, but are there any others sites that are popular when it comes to sharing links?


title: Wordpress redirects to IP instead of domain

text: Following this blog post I set up Wordpress on an EC2 instance. I've pointed A records to my Amazon EC Elastic IP Address. After propagation, when I open my website with the domain name, it works. But when I click on other page, it just redirects me to my IP address instead.


title: Why does Google Analytics for my Android app report twice as many new users as downloads?

text: Hello I have implemented `Google Analytics` in my android app where I can see number of new users and active users detail. I uploaded the app on Google Play Store. When I see number of downloads on Google Play Store there it is displaying around 20k and Google Analytics for my same android app is displaying more than 40k new users. What it is wrong with this analytics ? Doesn't Google Analytics work perfect for android apps ?


title: Can Google Bot index transcript of YouTube hosted video?

text: We have a number of videos on YouTube, which we embed on our site via iframe/object stuff. Now we want to gain more SEO value by indexing video transcriptions. I have checked one of our video on YouTube and it contains transcription, which has been generated by YouTube automatically. Does Google Bot index it? What is better to use object tag or iframe tag for video embedding?


title: Long pages or accordion for content?

text: I'm looking at how best to display content for my website. I plan to have a large number of pages of products, which will contain a large amount of information (ideally, the amount of information on each page will expand over time, as reviews are collected etc). I've discounted separate pages for different bits of product information (eg photos, reviews etc) and would like to keep everything on-page. So I'm considering two options:   1. Long pages of content (eg, Amazon's product pages)   2. Pages using accordion tabs (eg, photos, reviews, descriptions etc displayed under separate tabs, but all on the same page) I want to base my decision on best experience and where possible, evidence that one is more suitable for e-commerce than the other. **_That is, in terms of user experience and goal conversion performance._** At the moment, I'm inclined towards the long product page because i) Amazon's experience of it seems to work well for them and ii) there are potentially fewer rendering issues across different devices and platforms. My question is, what evidence or data is available to help guide my decision and to rule out one over the other?


title: Google Analytics campaign tracking via the utm_campaign query parameter

text: I've placed URLs in my newsletter like this: www.mydomain.com/?utm_campaign=summer Now in Google Analytics I want to see when and how many visitors came to my site via this 'summer' campaign. I tried looking under `Traffic Sources > Campaigns`, but I don't see anything. What am I doing wrong?


title: Arvixe mail settings

text: I have a fast question. I need to fill the below information in my web.config file what do you think the correct information would be for an arvixe server with madares.com domain:               <add key="SmtpMailFrom" value="info@madares.com"/>     <add key="SmtpServer" value="Mail@madares.com"/>     <add key="SmtpUserName" value="info@madares.com"/>     <add key="emailpassword" value="×××××" />


title: .htaccess file to implement multiple redirects

text: I have a dynamic site and from _.htaccess_ file creating clean URLs:               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !(\.png|\.jpg|\.gif|\.jpeg|\.bmp)$     RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\+\ ]+)$ flight.php?flights=$1&slug=$1      This code worked fine for me but when I created a new type of page and trying to get clean URLs with the same code i.e.:               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !(\.png|\.jpg|\.gif|\.jpeg|\.bmp)$     RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\+\ ]+)$ manual-page.php?url=$1&slug=$1      it's not working and if I comment the previous two lines then its is working fine. Only one code is working at a time. For first I have a URL `domain.com/flight.php?flight-san-fransisco-london- flights` and I want this being redirect to `domain.com/san-fransisco-london- flights` & from the second one I have `domain.com/manual-page.php?url=my-new- page` and I want this being redirect to `domain.com/my-new-page`. Is these any way to get both working together?


title: My users don't want to be tracked by FB, Google etc. How can I then implement "share" buttons?

text: I don't have any Ads and I am not using Google Analytics. I am using Piwick instead. But I still want to be able to share the content via share buttons on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ etc. The problem is that a lot of my users Adblock, so my question is can I implement these share buttons via something that will bypass that? Maybe some additional JavaScript that will activate the button only when user click on it? Or the only solution is to have external links(linked images) that will look like buttons and they will after click connect to the social medium of choice?


title: CDN CNAMEs not resolving to customer origin

text:
I have set up an Edgecast CDN to mirror all my static content. Because I use the root of my domain (`donaldjenkins.com`) to host my main site—using Google Analytics which sets cookies—I've stored the corresponding static files in a separate cookieless domain (`donaldjenkins.info`) which is used only for this purpose. I've set it up (using this (mt) guide for general guidance), with the following structure, based on a combination of customer origin and CDN origin to make the most of the chosen short domain name and provide meaningful URLs:   1. `http://donaldjenkins.info:80` is set as the **customer origin** for the content stored in the CDN at directory `http://wac.62E0.edgecastcdn.net/8062E0/donaldjenkins.info`;   2. I've then set up various subdomains of a separate domain, the conveniently-named `cdn.dj`, as **CDN-origin** Edge CNAMEs for each of the corresponding static content types:     * `js.cdn.dj` points to the origin directory `http://wac.62E0.edgecastcdn.net/0062E0/donaldjenkins.info/js`;     * `css.cdn.dj` points to the origin directory `http://wac.62E0.edgecastcdn.net/0062E0/donaldjenkins.info/css`;     * `images.cdn.dj` points to the origin directory `http://wac.62E0.edgecastcdn.net/0062E0/donaldjenkins.info/images` and so on. This results in some pretty nice, short, clear URLs. The DNS zone file for `cdn.dj` (yes, it's a real domain name registered in Djibouti) is set properly:               cdn.dj          43200   IN   A       205.186.157.162          css.cdn.dj      43200   IN   CNAME   wac.62E0.edgecastcdn.net.     images.cdn.dj   43200   IN   CNAME   wac.62E0.edgecastcdn.net.     js.cdn.dj       43200   IN   CNAME   wac.62E0.edgecastcdn.net.      The DNS resolves to the Edgecast URL:               $ host js.cdn.dj     js.cdn.dj is an alias for wac.62E0.edgecastcdn.net.     wac.62E0.edgecastcdn.net is an alias for gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net.     gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net has address 93.184.220.20      But whenever I try to fetch a file in any of the directories to which the CNAME assets map, I get a 404:               $ curl http://js.cdn.dj/combined.js     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>     <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"              "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">                           <title>404 - Not Found</title>
404 - Not Found
                    despite the fact that the corresponding customer origin file exists:               $ curl http://donaldjenkins.info/js/combined.js      fetches the content of the `combined.js` file. Yet it's been more than enough time for the DNS to propagate since I set up the CDN. There's obviously some glaring mistake in the above-described setup, and I'm a bit of a novice with CDNs—but any suggestions would be gratefully received.


title: Getting a lot of '/_' errors from webmaster tools

text: I'm using a WordPress site and I thought I got all the kinks out of it. For some reason Webmaster Tools is crawling my website and showing a lot of 404 errors which are from `/_` like additional pages that I've never created. I just can't figure out what is creating these for Google crawlers and then displaying a 404. My robots.txt is here. My sitemap (created by the Yoast plugin) is here. I have Yoast and Jetpack plugins installed. What could be causing these links to appear


title: Two column layout: table or CSS?

text:
I'm making a site with two columns. Either of the columns can be larger than the other and they have different backgrounds. My problem in trying to do it with CSS with the clearfix trick, is that colors are right when the color of the underlying wrapper has the color of the shorter column, but when it has the color of the larger column, the design changes visually. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I've achieved what I want, but with tables. I've asked a friend that makes websites and he told me that tables shouldn't be used for design and that tables are for cavemen. The funny thing is that he couldn't achieve what I want either. Well, this is basically my HTML code:

           Column 1 content

           Column 2 content

      This is my CSS:               .column1 {     float: left;     width: 200px;     background-color:red;     }          .column2 {     float: left;     width: 390px;     height: 1%;     background-color:blue;     }


title: Should I use rel=index or rel=contents in this instance?

text: I’m creating an MMA website. There’s the home page, there’s a fighters section whose index page lists fighters in the organisation, and then each fighter has a profile page. The URL structure is like this:               /     /fighters/     /fighters/john-doe      My question is: on the fighter’s profile page I want to link to the fighters index page (`/fighters`). In my HTML page, which meta tag would be the most appropriate?               <link href="/fighters/" rel="index" />      Or:               <link href="/fighters/" rel="contents" />      I’m having trouble distinguishing which would be best, and whether `rel="index"` would be the index for the whole site or the current page/section I’m viewing?


title: Does watching a long video affect bounce rate?

text: I'm assuming the following things are a "bounce":   * Clicking on a link to a page on a different web site   * Closing an open window or tab   * Typing a new URL   * Clicking the "Back" button to leave the site   * Session timeout (a page is open for X number of minutes) Question: If an embedded video is being watched for more than X minutes (which is above the session timeout threshold), does it count as a bounce?


title: How do I buy a domain without an agent?

text: The domain name that I wanted to buy is currently under registrar from Japan GMO. I'm completely foreign to this Language and would not want to engage agent for this task. Secondly, the registrant has private protection service, therefore, the only available contacts are Registrar Abuse Contact and Registrant email: `privacy@whoisprvacyprotection.info`. I have also managed to check that domain availability is not on sales or auction. How do I go about for this situation with only 2 contacts which seems not quite useful.


title: Does Google's algorithm look at a websites nameserver?

text: This might seem like a strange question but does Google's ranking algorithm look at what nameserver a website uses. For example, if it uses an enterprise dns provider does it rank higher? I appear to have seen some evidence of this.


title: Does having my keyword phrase in every title of my page good?

text: Does having my keyword phrase in every title or in `<strong></strong>` tag, help my website to achieve a good rating or rise in my keyword in google? For example.... If I have "how does the" keyword phrase, which has !% global competition and over 11,000 searches (with phrase search only) and I use this phrase in every of my page title as it is starting phrase... How will that benefit me?


title: Any suggestions for a change detection system?

text: As a webdesigner/webmaster I'm taking care of various websites. Recently one client's website got "hacked". It turned out that at their office one computer got infected by a trojan, that spied the ftp password and then 'they' somehow installed an invisible iframe that was loading some nasty piece of code. It wasn't my fault - but I anyways wish I would have discovered the attack first. So I looked for tools that would detect changes to the files and templates and came along this promissing little script called "websitecds" which stands for "website change detection system". It basically goes through the entire web folder and detects any changes to code made. It then sends you an email alert if the codebase has changed. http://code.google.com/p/websitecds/ So far so good. I installed the script and got it running - and manually it works just great. But that's the problem: I don't want to run it manually - I need to have cron triggered cds. The good news is some people altered the script so that you could run it by cron, others added a functionality that lets you exclude certain folders (e.g. password protected folders). Now finally here comes my problem/ my question: I never got a version running that would   1. let you monitor a large number of websites, ideally from one central interface   2. AND send an email alert if a change occurs, ideally listing the changes   3. AND run by cron   4. AND let you exclude password protected folders. Have you? Or has anybody any hints or pointers to a similar piece of software? update: What I find tempting about a rather simple "file a change detection solution" is that it would also inform me if a client uploaded a new file to his/her website... Thank you! -cheers- PS: or would you rather suggest to ask this over at www.stackoverflow.com ? PS2: Here's the project page to the script mentioned above: How to detect if your webserver is hacked and get alerted


title: Move site from one tld to another

text: If we want to move site from say `xyz.com` to `xyz.org`. What all things we need to do to make sure seo works fine. I am doing something like:   1. Point both `xyz.com` and `xyz.org` to same IP where my site is working   2. Use cannonical URL to have `xyz.org/*` instead of `xyz.com/*`   3. Add site to webmaster and make a change request. But problem is we are not able to 301 redirect from `xyz.com` to `xyz.org` as both are on same IP and doing so is causing redirect loop and error. How to fix this?


title: Create speed baseline for local web file

text: Is there any tool or method that will load a localhost page a number of times, and return the averaged data for load times, onload events, Dom ready events, etc? I'd like to work on page speed optimization, but need a baseline before I begin. I have used both Google analytics and Webmaster tools, but I'd like an automated solutions that runs locally. My ideal solution would be a program or script that would take the path/file, number of iterations, and then take several minutes to load the page n times without cache and crunch numbers to create a baseline.


title: Contacting large list of unverified user emails

text: I currently have a very large list of user emails (around 100K), but with unverified emails addresses. In order to make signing up and using the site as convenient as possible (especially for the mobile apps), I did not require email verification. I am running a last-effort fund-raiser for my site, and I would like to contact those users (because they would be the most interested in helping with the fund-raiser). Is there an optimal way to do this?


title: Compatibility Issue with IE10 and IE11

text: I have a website that having some applets, which works without any issues in IE6-IE9. But when I tried in IE10 and IE11, it seems to be buggy. All the pages where not loading properly. After some searches in google, I found adding the following will solve the problem :               <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" />      But even after adding this, my problem was not resolved. When I add the above meta tag, IE's document mode was set to IE9 but the browser mode was still IE10/IE11. If I add my site into compatibility mode it works as good as in IE6-IE9. But whenever the machine accessing the site changes, I need to add the site into compatibility mode. I would like to know whether I can change code from the server side to solve this compatibility issue of my web site. My web site's server side uses jsp pages containing some applets and servlet. And the site is deployed in Apache Tomcat


title: How does licensing affect my website?

text: I like to use prebuilt CSS/JS such as Foundation and PureCSS and I'm curious as to how I should go about displaying the licensing information, as well as how the license will affect the code that I write. I'm wondering this:   1. How does the license of a library that I use affect my code? (Am I required to use the same license and make my code available?)   2. How do I display the license information for Foundation/PureCSS? (Footer, LICENSE file, etc. etc.)


title: How can I tell how big my Amazon RDS database (MySQL) is?

text: I have a MySQL database for my website hosted on Amazon AWS using RDS. It has 5GB of storage available to it. How can I tell how big the data in it actually is (and therefore how much of the 5GB quota I have left)?


title: How does Google Analytics treat images?

text: Imagine the following scenario.   1. A visitor has loaded a page, which is a thumbnail gallery. The page has got a Google Analytics script. The links from the thumbnails go directly to images. Simply like so   `<a href=“images/foo.png”><img src=“images/foo_thumbnail.png” /></a>` .   2. The visitor clicks on the thumbnail, and loads a large image. In this scenario, the large version of the image is just a bare image file, so it can’t call an Analytics script by itself.   3. The visitor clicks the back button and goes back to the thumbnail gallery. How does Google Analytics track in this scenario? Are there any peculiarities associated with this? **edit:**   It would be nice if I could track image clicks. But what I'm really after is accurate tracking of User Flow through the HTML pages. If a foray into an image are not tracked, that's alright, that's not too bad. But If a foray into an image starts a new session for the same visitor, that would be too messy.


Does google index its search result page? assuming, google as a website, search results text as a content.


title: Wikipedia's effect on Google SEO

text: I've been researching new SEO trends for a few weeks now and I see alot of community buzz about Wikipedia pages effects on Google. For example: When I do a search on Lowe's or Macy's in Google: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/w0APj.png) I see that they have their Google+ page linked in their site which is good but the information in the right sidebar is also pulling from their Wikipedia page, such as when they were Founded, CEO's name, etc. Does having a large, very well-known and established business, possibly a monopoly, qualify for creating a Wikipedia page for it? And if so, following the proper procedures, give it enough credibility to be listed in the right sidebar as in the image above give it a higher SEO ranking? I know creating a Wikipedia page for personal usage isn't allowed and would most certainly be removed, but I'm curious as to if the method would produce higher results on the SERP and the information laid out as such on the right sidebar?


title: Appearing in knowledge graph

text: First-time user of this forum, and I've just started learning about SEO. Q - what do you need to do to have your site/service appear in the knowledge graph panel of the SERPs?


title: How to make wikipedia information appear next to google search result on the right handed side?

text: The title pretty much says it. I have found out how to make google+ information appear next to google search on the right side but none about how to make the wikipedia information appear in the same place. And if the wikipedia page is in different language, how to make it appear on the right handed side in the correct language. (finnish google'ing should bring out the finnish wiki site and so on)


title: Approx 52% of Google SERP clicks goes to slots 1-10, but where do the other 48% go?

text: I have been pouring over some various figures whilst putting together CTR / cost / earning calculations for ad runs I'm about to start, however I've been missing some, of what I think are, key base figures for what to expect from AdWord position placement. For example, this whitepaper from Slingshot SEO is fantastic, however it seems to really only give results on the normal SERP 1-10 figures in the primary SERP content area. So, for example, in this study we see that about 52.34% of traffic goes to the first 10 results. But, of the "global monthly searches" from AdWords, **_where do the other 47.66% of clicks go_**? Along these lines, the 3 questions in my mind are:   1. What percentage of google visitors abandon search results?   2. What percentage of clicks go towards > 10 search results?   3. What percentage of clicks go to AdWords?      * Of these, is there more breakdown of which AdWord slots are most valuable (based on percentage)? (This helps determine how high one should go in the CPC bid level.)


title: POST attack on my website

text: I have a site (humanisms.co.uk) which incorporates a voting system, ie. user clicks "Up" and it sends a parameter to a PHP script via AJAX, the PHP inserts vote into MYSQL db and the new "Up" vote is sent back to the page to update the vote count. This is working great but i've noticed that the number of votes for one of my questions shot up last night. I viewed my webhosts access logs and saw this line:               108.27.195.232 - - [03/Mar/2011:15:20:18 +0000] "POST /vote.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2 "http://www.humanisms.co.uk/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.114 Safari/534.16"      This is repeated well over 100 times and sometimes more than once a second. Now i know they probably arent sitting there clicking Vote but running some sort of PHP loop? I'm not worried about SQL injection but what can i do to prevent this same IP address from doing this or what can i do in general to avoid this scenario. I should also say that there's no login so anyone can click using the voting system. Thanks


title: How long does Google take for the rating stars to show up in the SERP?

text: I have a rated page since 10 days ago, and the rating starts are still not showing in SERP. Google Structured Data Testing Tool is not showing any errors. Should I wait some more time? How long does Google usually take for the rating stars to show up in SERP?


title: GA Event Tracking Not Saving Events

text: I am using the event tracking in GA (JS code) to track 2 buttons on my site. I can see the clicks coming through in real time, but when I click on `behavior > Events`, I do not see anything (no events at all). I have tried to filter and it doesn't work. What is the common cause for this problem?


title: How do I get rid of the "www" with mod_rewrite?

text: I want to get rid of the "www" in front of my domain, and I'm trying the following, but it's not working:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_POST} ^www\.example\.com [NC]     RewriteRule ^/(.*)       http://example.com/$1 [L,R]      Basically, what I hope to accomplish is that someone going to "www.example.com" would be redirected to "example.com." Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? I've even tried substituting the second line for this:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_POST} www\.example\.com [NC]


title: Nouns as FILENAMES: singar or plural form?

text: Dear folks, two scenarios where **FILE_NAMES.PHP** should be best representing the audiences searching for it. > /poster.php   >  /design.php OR > /posters.php   >  /designs.php Q1. What do you intuitivly think would be the best of these two?   Q2. What do the facts in general show? people search for singular or plural in search?   Q3. Do Search engines have common rule of thumb for this?   Q4. Should I pick either and go with either scenario consistently or does it depend on the word? Thanks very much for your ideas/suggestions. I reall don't know which one to go for.


title: www.domain.com loads, but domain.com loads as an error on my WP multi-site network

text: I'm running an up-to-date version of a WP multi-site network successfully (homepage and subdomains all work), with only one problem. My domain loads perfectly with the www., but when the www. isn't preceding, it loads up to this page: `http://www.domain.com/wp-signup.php?new=domain.com`. I've never had this problem with WP before, so I'm looking for a way to fix this... Trying to make www.domain.com and domain.com load up the homepage fine, and be like my regular WP sites ending up in the address bar as `http://www.domain.com/` How can I achieve this? What must I edit? Thank you for your help in advance.


title: What to do with my .name domain name?

text: Since 2006 or so I've owned a .name domain name (3rd level, eg. john.doe.name). I bought it originally at a service called FreeYourID.com, which offered the .name domain as well as automatically making it your OpenID (provided by myOpenID). Since then I've used that domain as my OpenID on numerous sites including StackExchange, as well as hosting a simple personal site there (it's set up to redirect to a different URL, but I just point people to the .name for simplicity's sake). In 2009 FreeYourID shut down and they made sure all their customers were moved to Key-Systems GmbH based in Germany. I looked around their website and concluded they looked trustworthy so I decided to let the transfer go ahead. Unfortunately, what actually happened was Key-Systems stuck all the .name domains into its domaindiscount24 service, which has a terrible, _terrible_ user interface that feels like it was designed by a committee of sysadmins on drugs (no offense). So we finally arrive at the question: I want to move my .name domain somewhere else. Somewhere with a management panel that I can figure out, such as Dreamhost. But I also want to make sure nothing gets screwed up, like the fact that it doubles as an OpenID. And given the complexity of the situation, I don't really know where else to ask. Where should I go and what should I do?


title: What blogging software is used for omgiv.com?

text: Does anyone know what blogging software they used for omgiv.com? I like the style and would like to use the same format.


title: Will a missing <head> tag prevent Google from indexing a WordPress site?

text: I was recently trying to configure a Google Webmasters Tools account for a client. I spent almost an hour wondering why I couldn't get the site to validate, when I found that the opening tag was missing from _header.php_. The site is for a fairly large organization, but Google wouldn't even display the site when the organization's name was searched on. I was wondering if the faulty _header.php_ could be to blame? I'd like to know if that's true, as that would be good for the client to know for certain reasons.


title: Do xrumer drip link blasts work?

text: I've heard of these so called services where I can get 100 backlinks built everyday from web profiles etc via a software called Xrumer running on the servers. What is the benefit of getting 100 backlinks everyday when Google's algorithm takes account link velocity? Won't google easily see this kind of suspicious backlink building?


title: Googlebot crawling 301 redirected URLs again and again

text: We're having some problems with our site www.inzoco.com. There are lots of old URLs being crawled again and again, even if we send a 301 code. We have checked the entire site several times with a link checker, and there are no traces of those URLs being generated anywhere, but googlebot insist and try to get them every day. We have no idea of where is the bot finding those old URLs (any way to know this?) or if, somehow, it doesn't see the redirection. This is one of the old URLs: http://www.inzoco.com/crits/2-5-5-28-0-0-28074-0-0/listado-bar-en-alquiler-en- leganes-madrid.aspx redirected with 301 Moved permanently to: http://www.inzoco.com/crits/2-5-5-28-24-0-28074-0-0/listado-bar-en-alquiler- en-leganes-madrid.aspx ¿Any clue?


title: I have multiple versions of the same landing page. How can I tell Google Analytics which is being viewed?

text: I'm sending a link to a landing page to a number of different companies and need to be able to tell Google Analytics which company is viewing the page and when. I of course have my original link to the page tagged with UTM parameters accordingly, but I also need to build in a safety net in case someone passes the link around and removes that code. The URL for the landing page looks like this: `http://www.website.com/landing_page/company_name/` The `company_name` part is not an actual directory on the server but part of a query string that I'm rewriting into the URI, so I don't believe I will be able to filter on that in Google Analytics. The `company_name` part will change depending on who I send it to. So, I need to be able to add some sort of tag or flag in my GA code to tell GA which company is viewing the page. How might I do that? What are my options?


title: Why do Blackhat SEO Websites Rank high?

text: Why does this website ranks so high in SERP and also has a PR 3. As the name suggests, it promotes black hat seo and the hits on the website are also very high. Why is it that such websites which openly claim to teach such black hat tactics rank so high?


title: Can email harvesters extract addresses from PDFs?

text: Our website does some basic obfuscation (foo at example dot org) for email addresses on web pages visible to the general public, but doesn't do so for PDF documents. Is it common for email harvesters to extract addresses from PDFs? (In case anyone's interested, the email addresses aren't that valuable - they're an alias such as president@example.org, rather than the person's real email address)


title: Is it necessary/useful to build a sitemap for a small website?

text: I've created several small scale websites, usually for small businesses. They usually contain some information about the company, a contact form, and sometimes a few dynamic parts : news, pictures, etc. I could generate XML sitemaps for these websites, but I am not sure what would be the point ? For websites such as these ones, where the pages are limited and easily discoverable, is it useful to generate a sitemap ? Is there a clear advantage to do so (in terms of SEO mostly) ?


title: Issue Opening/Saving Word Docs in IE7 and IE8

text: I'm working on a flex app that relates documents (pdfs, images, etc) with events. When i click the document link in my app for PDFs, images, text files, etc, IE7 and IE8 present them in the appropriate editor and life is good. However, if the linked document is a .doc file, the popup window that shows when you click the link simply closes without displaying the file or prompting me to save it to a particular location. Clicking the same document link in Firefox 3.5 prompts me to Open/Save the document, and opens it properly in Word. I have not run across any other file type/browser combination that exhibits this same behavior...just doc/IE. Does IE have some security restrictions related to opening doc files? Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening or how I could go about fixing it? Thanks, -Bill


title: SEO Google Publisher Network

text: I'm just about to start a new business which creates niche affiliate sites. I'm curious about the impacts to me from Google of all the URLs being hosted with the same Analytics tags, Webmaster Tool tags and server IP ranges. To benefit the most from Google's SERPs should I have each domain within seperate Analytics accounts and Webmaster Tools or is it ok for me to have all of my domains within one account. My issue is duplicate content and the fact that I am building a publisher network and I'm not sure how much Google likes them. I'm notoriously bad at searching and as such havent found what I'm looking for yet.


title: Alternatives to PHP

text: We are starting a project, which goal is to create new frontend interface to our product. Old version was created in PHP, very poorly written. We are choosing the language and frameworks that we want to use in new version. Requirements:   1. New interface will be communicating with API. Application will not have it's own database.    2. We don't have a big team, 3 max programmers for entire project.   3. The main programmers are PHP veterans and knows some other technologies (Rails, C, C++, some Java) but not in professional level. But overall they are good and experienced programmers. So:   1. We want to find a good alternative to PHP. I like Rails very much, but whole ActiveRecord model will be useless, when using application API.   2. Java needs a lot of configuration and someone who is expert in Java to properly run this project. Also, in Java there are a lot of big and complicated enterprise frameworks - not very good for 2-3 programmers team.   3. Python - I don't know Python and don't know good and experienced programmers who knows PY - but it's not so complicated and big as Java and maybe in long period it's good alternative for PHP.  What are your thoughts?


title: Blocking Search Engines to Crawl Parts of a Website?

text: content -- Does this work to block search engines to crawl me?


title: How can I prevent a search engine from indexing a specific file or files on my website?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Blocking Search Engines to Crawl Parts of a Website? In general, I want my site to be indexed, but there are certain files I don't wish to be searchable from Google, Yahoo, etc... I know you can block your site from being indexed using a robots file, but what if I only want certain files to not be indexed?


title: prevent IIS from executing scripts in a specific directory

text: I have a php web application that allows file uploads to a specific directory. I would like to prevent the execution of any file that is uploaded into that directory whether it is ASP, PHP, or anything else that may be supported by IIS. I'm already blocking the upload of asp and php files at the application layer, but as a measure of defense in depth against a possible error in that validation code I would like to add a configuration to IIS to prevent execution of these files. Is there a way to do that in IIS?


title: What resources are available to get an experienced .net developer up and running quickly with Wordpress/PHP development?

text: Specifically,   * what are the preferred development tools (free?)   * Are there any good tutorial sites that are up-to-date with the latest version of Wordpress   * Has anyone ever done Wordpress/PHP development using Visual Studio? Is that even possible? I am aware of the API documentation on the wordpress site; however it all assumes that the development environment is already set up. I don't even have PHP on my local machine, and have never done any PHP development. I _know_ that the coding can all be done in Notepad and then uploaded to the server; I was hoping for some substantive advice from someone else who has actually made the jump from .Net to PHP about what tools and tutorials are available to help make the jump.


title: Is it necessary to re-submit modified sitemaps?

text: Assuming a `sitemap.xml` has been registered properly to major players, do these players come and revisit those `sitemap.xml` from time to time to check for updates and modifications (say new entries are added or removed)? In other words, it is really necessary to resubmit `sitemap.xml` once they know the URL? Or do we have to re-submit it each time there is a modification to it? Thanks.


title: Getting indexed after removing meta noindex, Google

text: My question is, will my pages be indexed now in Google if they had `<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />` in the past, since they were created? Of course, now they are `<meta name="robots" content="index" />`. If yes, then how long it will take to have them in Google? To give you some background, I'm making a site with the manual translation of some text to another language. This surely takes time, and I want to run the site already, having non-translated pages (with the Google machine translation option) along with completed translated ones. My idea is to block indexing of non-translated pages, so they appear to curious people, while not obstructing search engine index. After I get to some particular page, I translate it and change noindex to index. Is that a good idea?


title: Redirection to load a CSS file

text: I have in a remote server with this `index.html` that I can _not_ modify:               <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" />       But my _styles.css_ file is not at the web root, that is `/styles.css` but at `/css/styles.css`, is possible through an _.htaccess_ file load that file? I have tried with:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         RewriteEngine On         RewriteBase /css/     </IfModule>      but it _styles.css_ is not loaded yet. NOTE: of course this is a minimal example, I would like to find a rule to load more than a CSS, not just one.