title: IE strips off parameters from a file URI pasted into an address bar?

text: **Question:** How do I stop IE from stripping off parameters from file URI pasted into address bar? **Description of a problem:** I have a "simpleTest.html" page with only this JS code inside, that returns the current location of the browser:               console.log("document.URL: " + document.URL);     console.log("document.location: " + document.location)     console.log("document.location.href: " + document.location.href)     console.log("window.location: " + window.location)     console.log("parent.frames.document.location: " + parent.frames.document.location)      When I paste the address to this file in IE's address bar with some parameters, for instance:               file:///pathToFile/simpleTest.html?dupa=2      The link gets changed to:               file:///pathToFile/simpleTest.html      When I paste it for the 2nd time the parameters will stay there. If however in the meantime I access some other resources, I will have to paste it 2 more consecutive times for the parameters to remain. Moreover, after I've place the website in my local Apache and access it through HTTP, the parameters remained:               http://127.0.0.1/pathToFile/simpleTest.html?dupa=2      It works fine for FF and Chrome, for both file and http protocols. Any ideas about this strange behavior in IE?


title: Google AdSense scorecard : Text and image ads enabled is marked as Yellow

text: Start with definitions: **Yellow:** Satisfactory. You could make some further improvements to this item. I have few sites using Google AdSense to make cents (yes, cents only). On recent update of Google AdSense, a new module called Scorecard displayed on my dashboard. In item **Revenue optimization > Text and image ads enabled** , it is marked as Yellow. But I have already enabled Text and Image ads in all my sites. Why does it still having Yellow instead of Green? Is it a bug of Google AdSense Scorecard ?


title: What is the proper way to send a DMCA to a hosting company?

text: Someone copied my entire website and is hosting it at a domain name similar to ours. That website's content is copyrighted to the website which we have been running for years. Each and every image, logo (including our company logo), content, link, graphic and layout have been copied. You could say the copied site is a perfect replica, just in a different domain. The identity of the "alleged robber" has been blocked by PrivacyProtect. I've sent emails with proof of the theft to `abuse@privacyprotect.org`. But each time they respond telling me that they cannot disclose the identity of the thief even though they say in their website that they will disclose the identity of any person who commits such illegal activities. Now PrivacyProtect is protecting his identity, whether they mean to or not. After hours of Googling, I found I need to send a DMCA take down notice to the host provider to take action. I would like few of my doubts to be cleared before send DMCA notice. What is the format of sending DMCA take down notice to the host provider in this case? Can I just type in the DMCA notice in an email or attach as a PDF in an email? Should I need a lawyer to send it or I can send it myself? Do I need any other attestation in the DMCA like attestation from notary public or judicial magistrate?


title: Do server stat tools work with CDNs?

text: If I pick a hosting package that offers CDN support, then how do server stat tools work, since web pages are served by different servers from all over the world? Can I rely on them in that case?


title: Google+ Style "Send Feedback"

text: Does anyone know a service that offers a google+ style feedback system? It seems that it would be a great way to get feedback from users. If you have not seen it before. I've attached a screen shot. It allows users highlight the problem and also blank out parts thy don't want to show. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/8uCOe.png)


title: How to check that I have recovered from Penguin 2.0?

text: I have 3 year old website which has been hit by Penguin 2.0 in May. The website traffic dropped almost 30%. I have been working hard from last 2.5 months on the website and my website's traffic recovered in last week of August. In fact, I am receiving more traffic then ever. When I look at the stats, I find my website's search engine visibility has been improved. It is now appearing for more search queries. My website's impressions have also increased. What I am worried about is that my website is nowhere in top 5 pages for keywords having high competition and carrying the highest search volume. They are few in number but important. Should I consider my current situation as recovery or it's just the partial recovery? If it is only partial, then how come traffic is more then it was before penguin 2.0?


title: Posterous instructions for adding Google Analytics do not cover the code snippet to be pasted in the <head>

text: The Posterous instructions for adding Google Analytics ends with pasting the Google Analytics Domain ID into the settings page. However, the instructions given by Google tell me to paste some JavaScript code into the `<head>`. How do I get around with this?   1. Do I **need** to paste the JavaScript code?   2. If I do **need** to paste the JavaScript code, can I just paste it into the custom HTML/CSS style specification of my Posterous Space?


title: Create MediaWiki template to format source code

text: I want to create a MediaWiki template like               <syntaxhighlight lang="Java" style="background-color:lightgray; border:1px dashed gray;">     {{{code}}}     </syntaxhighlight>      and use it in normal article pages as               {{SourceCode|source=public static void main() {...}}}      but the problem is the `<syntaxhighlight></syntaxhighlight>` tags defeats `{{{code}}}` parameter, and the actual formatted result is               <syntaxhighlight lang="Java" style="background-color:lightgray; border:1px dashed gray;">     {{{code}}}     </syntaxhighlight>      instead of               <syntaxhighlight lang="Java" style="background-color:lightgray; border:1px dashed gray;">     public static void main() {...}     </syntaxhighlight>      Any idea?


title: How does the back button work on Grooveshark?

text: I recently started to use Grooveshark. I noticed that although they have a dynamic interface in sense that you never leave the one page, but the back (and forward) buttons work anyway. If you press the button, only a part (think of a frame) of the content changes back to where you were, but the static elements of the interface stay. How do they manage that? Can you give me a trivial example?


title: Prevent AdSense from warning me when my ad code appears on unauthorized sites?

text: On the advice of my AdSense optimization specialist, I enabled the setting in Google AdSense that prevents my ads from showing up on sites that I haven't authorized. This is evidentally important because your account can be revoked if the ads show up on sites that don't conform to Google's AdSense Policies. One big downside to this is that there is a list of about 80 third party sites that show my ads. Most of them are sites that cache my content in some form. Now when I log into my AdSense account Google shows the message: > We've noticed your ad code has appeared on websites you haven't authorized. > To avoid lost revenue, make sure to authorize any sites you own to display > ads by visiting your account settings. Is there any way to make this message disappear other than authorizing these sites? This alert is getting on my nerves. I haven't been able to find a black list equivelant of Google's authorized sites white list. ![unauthorized AdSense sites](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ywUEi.png)


title: How to have website (on IIS) return code 503 yet still provide local development

text: How could I have my website running on IIS return the HTTP Header Code of `503` to the public, and at the same time be able to allow developer to continue developing it locally? For example, if I use _app_offline.htm_ , it will yield the `503` error to ALL (including the developers), but how could the developer have access and test on it? Could we make _app_offline.htm_ to be accessible to only a group a people? Or is there any other alternatives to have `503` and local development happen at the same time?


title: How do I launch my website online?

text: I designed my website on Dreamweaver. Then I bought a domain name. What do I need to do now to launch my website online?


title: How to set up Google DFP (DoubleClick for Publishers) for a site?

text: I have a website and I have an AdSense account as well. I have integrated AdSense and ads are also getting displayed (480 x 60). Somewhere I read that I can manage the ads that are being shown in my website (480 x 60) and filter out the ads on a CPM/CPC basis. NOTE: I don't have any ads to be displayed on other's websites. I just want to show other's ads on my website. Now, can I use Google DFP to manage the ads? I mean is Google DFP useful for me to filter the ads and get me more revenue?


title: How do I get a footer to appear at bottom of window

text: I am doing a new site and I need a footer area to appear at the bottom of the content (much like this site), but I want it to appear at the bottom of the window when there is less content than requires a scrollbar. For example: http://odata.stackexchange.com/ ...has a footer, but on a large screen it appears in the middle of the page. I want it to attach to the bottom of the window but geet there is more text in which case it floats beneath the content. I hope I have described my problem sufficiently :-) Does anyone have any ideas or help with this?


title: Proper SEO when dealing with duplicate content/article

text: I have a blog post I wrote which another site wishes to post on their site, verbatim. I know having identical content is an SEO "ding". Is there a way to tell Google that the new site is referencing the old site? Such as a meta tag for "source_url" or something like that? Or should the new place simply just add a few lines or a graph at the top stating this is copied from a previous blog? Is that enough to satisfy Google's bot?


title: Legal pages showing up in our Google Sitelinks

text: Our Terms of Service page (oursite.com/terms) is persistently showing up as the first of our Google Sitelinks, despite repeated demotions over the course of many weeks and the fact that we have plenty of other pages that are relevant and worthy of being Sitelinked. It's driving us nuts, especially since one would assume Google's algorithms would be smart enough to identify boilerplate legal pages... Anyway, we're thinking of noindexing the page. Anyone have a better idea, or think this is a bad one?


title: Will wrong or incomplete Microdata harm my SEO?

text:
What if I am missing parts of my Microdata? I will use a blog article for example. The recommended markup is:
       How to Tie a Reef Knot       by John Doe       This article has been tweeted 1203 times and contains 78 user comments.       <meta itemprop="interactionCount" content="UserTweets:1203"/>       <meta itemprop="interactionCount" content="UserComments:78"/>
       Now let’s say that I quickly want to switch this article to be a recipe, but I don’t add additional tags (like here http://prntscr.com/38fwyk) and only change the `itemtype`:
       Burgers       by John Doe       This article has been tweeted 1203 times and contains 78 user comments.       <meta itemprop="interactionCount" content="UserTweets:1203"/>       <meta itemprop="interactionCount" content="UserComments:78"/>
       Would this actually harm my SEO?


title: Using subdomains for niche SEO

text: Simple question: If I have a website offering website themes and I set up subdomains like builder.themes.com, artist.themes.com would that be more beneficial than having totally separate sites or less? I know a subdomain is classed as its own site and doesn't inherit the main site's page rank but if these niches are all aimed at having a theme...what's best?


title: Meta keywords random keywords

text: I was wondering what about having random meta keywords instead of fixed one? I have a blog, so every blog post has some related tags, in my home page i show the post's previews, so i put in meta keywords all the main blog post's tags i show. Is it a good practice?


title: Content vote system with IP verification and dynamic IP adresses

text: ### Description: I have two types of vote system on my site. First of them is for all users and store IP adress to prevent more than one vote. Second is for authenticated users only, which also store nickname. ### Problem to solve: Dynamic IP adress will change in about 24 hours with second type of vote system it doesn't really matter because of stored nickname but in first case IP is the only data about user action. There is chance that User 1 which had IP `X` yesterday have now adress `Y` and cannot vote today because User 2 had `Y` IP a day before and already "locked" row in database. According to this User 1 cannot vote on content despite of he/she should been able to do it. ### Question: Should I delete all IP adresses in first and/or second case of vote system due to dynamic IP technology (at least once per 24h)?


title: Best practise for a web designer after a client's website is hacked?

text: Our client's website content was hacked with text that promotes gambling and 'binary options' websites. Examples are: > "If you are looking for binary or forex trading or brokers have a look at > this binary options website" > > "Looking for legal casino site? Have a look at this casino sites for full > list" My question is, do the gambling sites authorize these hacks? Our client says that one of the pieces of text links off to a website. Our client would like to know if we need to contact these sites and inform them that bots have added links to their sites onto our site.


title: .htaccess: Redirect Hotlink Flash --> Site with embed Flash

text: I have some PHP sites that embeds SWF files. These SWF files are now linked to by some other guys. And I don't want them to simply open the SWF, I want them to force being redirect to the page where the flash is embed.   1. `www.example.com/1`   2. `www.example.com/2`   3. `www.example.com/3` Flash: `www.example.com/flash/flash_NUMBER.swf` So for `www.example.com/1 > www.example.com/flash/flash_1.swf` **I now want to redirect the user who types `www.example.com/flash/flash_1.swf` into his URL to be redirect to `www.example.com/1`. The Problem I have that the flash needs to be still accessible via `www.example.com/1` <-- I don't get that working (the Flash is embed into that page). The tool I would like to use for this is the .htaccess & RewriteRule. I hope someone can help me out.


title: How to add favicon to robots.txt

text: How can I disallow this URL: `http://www.example.com/assets/ico/favicon.png`? Would these lines in my _robots.txt_ work?               User-agent: *     Disallow: /blah/assets*     Disallow: /blah/assets/ico/


title: Tack anchor link with Google Analytics

text: I have searched for how to track anchor links in analytics, but couldn't get it working. I have this code in the header:                     And my links looks like this:               Contact      I also tried to use this links:               Contact


title: Do print and bookmark links really work?

text: It seems to be common on the web to provide users with some visual element on the page to either print or bookmark a page. This is all well and good (and probably doesn't hurt for the most part), but I question its effectiveness at causing the intended behavior. Is there any evidence to suggest that this causes an increase in bookmarking/printing behavior? Similarly, is there any evidence that users will use this method _rather than_ the browser's default interface for the functions? I am really looking for user research with actual results, rather than anecdotes to answer this question. Thanks, Joseph Mastey


title: Redirecting a CSS file based on .htaccess rules

text: I'm trying to hack the css files on OSTicket by replacing them with my own custom ones when a specific URL is accessed. The URL that is accessed for this example is http://osticket.cts/helpdesk/scp/css/main.css and I would like it to use the css file at http://osticket.cts/test.css why won't this .htaccess file (in web root, not /helpdesk/scp/) work? Is there an easy way to debug these rules, some way to find out what apache did when the URL was accessed and where it's failing? error.log doesn't show anything useful.               RewriteEngine On          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^osticket\.cts$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)main\.css$ /test.css [NC, L]


title: Sub Domain Anaytics Tracking

text: I have a WordPress multisite with two sites. One at the main domain, and one at a sub-domain. I have Google Analytics running on both sites, and it is turned on to track sub-domains. See screenshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/OhZqF.png) I have this piece of javascript on each site in header.php:               <script type="text/javascript">          var _gaq = _gaq || [];     _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'my-UA-code']);     _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'andy-warren.net']);     _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);          (function() {     var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;     ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);     })();          </script>      I'm getting data in Analytics, but I don't know how to differentiate between the domain and the sub-domain. Am I missing something in the settings or piece of tracking code? Or can I just somehow choose to see the domain or sub-domain in Analytics?


title: htaccess execution order and priority

text: Can anyone explain to me in what order apache executes .htaccess files residing in different levels of the same path and how the rewrite rules therein are prioritized? For example, why doesn't the rewrite rule in the first .htaccess below work and is the one in /blog prioritized? .htaccess in /               RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^blog offline.html [L]      .htaccess in /blog               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /blog/     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]      Ps: i'm not simply looking for an answer but for a way to understand the apache/modrewrite internals ... why is more important to me than how to fix this :) Thanks!


title: Why does Google keep hitting only one MP3 file?

text: I have a bunch of Mp3 files on my site, and all if them are in the sitemap to allow search engines that log mp3 files to know about them. For some reason, every day or two, Google keeps hitting the same file. The weird part is, it's file index 11. Not the top, not the bottom, and always the same file. Does anybody have a clue on why that would be happening? In contrast, I've had Bing hit the three files that are currently visible without searching.               [18-Feb-2014 22:51:21 America/Denver] Array     (         [DOCUMENT_ROOT] => /home1/landmat7/public_html         [GATEWAY_INTERFACE] => CGI/1.1         [HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING] => gzip,deflate         [HTTP_CONNECTION] => Keep-alive         [HTTP_HOST] => www.landmarkmissionarybaptistarizona.com         [HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)         [PATH] => /bin:/usr/bin         [REDIRECT_STATUS] => 200         [REDIRECT_URL] => /recordings/2011-06-05/sermon.Pastor Antonucci.Leftovers II.mp3         [REDIRECT_dont_vary] => 1         [REDIRECT_file_gzip] => /ramdisk/cpud/status         [REDIRECT_no_gzip] => 1         [REMOTE_ADDR] => 66.249.74.42         [REMOTE_PORT] => 50666         [REQUEST_METHOD] => GET         [REQUEST_URI] => /recordings/2011-06-05/sermon.Pastor%20Antonucci.Leftovers%20II.mp3         [SCRIPT_FILENAME] => FILE.php         [SCRIPT_NAME] => FILE.php         [SERVER_ADDR] => 69.89.31.250         [SERVER_NAME] => www.landmarkmissionarybaptistarizona.com         [SERVER_PORT] => 80         [SERVER_PROTOCOL] => HTTP/1.1         [SERVER_SIGNATURE] => <address>Apache Server at www.landmarkmissionarybaptistarizona.com Port 80</address>              [SERVER_SOFTWARE] => Apache         [file_gzip] => /ramdisk/cpud/status         [PHP_SELF] => FILE.php         [REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT] => 1392789081.649         [REQUEST_TIME] => 1392789081     )          [18-Feb-2014 22:51:21 America/Denver] Array     (         [Accept-Encoding] => gzip,deflate         [Connection] => Keep-alive         [Host] => www.landmarkmissionarybaptistarizona.com         [User-Agent] => Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)     )


title: Can I rent a multipurpose server for gaming and web hosting?

text: I am thinking about renting a server. The problem is, there aren't just "servers", like one would build at home, there are game servers, web servers, etc. Now the first question would be: can I rent a combined web and game server? Because if that's possible, I did not find anything on the internet about such service. If I would need a separate web server, that's still okay, but then there are some other problems about the game server part. Normal hosting services may give you the possibility to host a server for a certain game, like Minecraft. But that's it. No switching options, just ONE type of server. And if you want another type of game server, rent another one. But I would need to switch between several games. Also, normally you get some kind of interface to interact with the server. I don't like that method either, because I sometimes need more control over things I can't control in the control panels there. I would really like to just host a server at home, but my bandwidth kind of kills that dream.


title: Adding .html to the URL while it is not a HTML page hurt to SEO?

text: If I added `.html` to the URLs of my website while the pages are not in HTML, will it hurt SEOof my site or will it be helful to my site in search engine rankings? For example, say my domain is `www.example.com` which is a question and answers site, here I created a page which dynamically shows the answers of the questions, and the questions are populated from my database, so URLs are created dynamically, for example:               www.example.com/answer/my-question-no-1     www.example.com/answer/my-question-no-2      Here the questions `my-question-no-1` and `my-question-no-2` are from database, and I created a single page for hundreds or thousands questions. So my question is for better SEO results Should my URL be like `www.example.com/answer/my-question-no-1` or Changing the URL to `www.example.com/answer/my-question-no-1.html` will improve my site ranking in search engines?


title: Is there a Java-based web browser that doesn't follow hyperlinks properly?

text: Looking through my logs, I get this error a lot: > A potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (:). The error is usually due to someone navigating to a URL like this: > `http://octopusdeploy.com/blog/https:/tfspreview.com` You'll notice that what should have been a link to `https://tfs...` has become `https:/tfs...`, which the web browser is obviously intepreting as being a relative path instead of an absolute URL. However, if you do a view-source on the original page (http://octopusdeploy.com/blog) you'll find links to `https://tfs...`, but none to `https:/tfs..`. The client seems to be getting the links wrong. Looking through the request details I notice that this isn't coming from any ordinary web browser, but from a Java client:               Platform: Unknown      Browser: Unknown (Version 0.0)     User Agent: Java/1.6.0_04      Is there a known, badly written Java web browser, maybe running on a smart phone somewhere, that just doesn't know how to follow hyperlinks? Have you seen similar errors? Secondly, if I were to block all requests from user agents identifying as Java bots (as per this post), am I likely to break any known important bots or devices?


title: Godaddy and .NET Redemption Period

text: I have a .NET domain that expired 42 days ago. Only today the DNS service for my domain was shut down and i realized that the domain was going to expire. The domain was sold and it seems i can't get it back. Anything i can do? * * * That is for .COM domains. I also have a .ORG domain that is in the Redemption Period and i got it back successfully. It's everywhere in the net that the domains has a 45-days grace period and than a 30-days redintion period. WHY godaddy takes a profit out of this and doesn't follow ICANN guidelines? http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/gtld-lifecycle


title: Domain name, which one is more appropriate?

text: HI guys, I have 2 domains and want to start a hardware related website, but I want to make sure which one is the correct term in English: 1- Hardwareden.com 2- HardwaresDen.com plesae note the "S"! Thanks.


title: Webmasters Tools - What can i do with a exported keywords list?

text: In Google Webmasters Tools you can export the list of keywords. What can you do with this list? I'm asking this in sense of could something special be done with this comma separated list?   Is there any good software which analyses that? What do people do with this list?


title: How does Google+ embed link works?

text: I am trying to understand how does embed link works in **Google+ Stream**. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/lG6Yi.jpg) I manage a site and usually every post contains some text and at least an image. But when I try to embed the link to a certain article on my blog the embed feature does not show the article text and images, but instead it shows the header image of my site plus some other header text content. Do you know how should I tag or code the article part so that Google+ parser recognize the right thing I want to show?


title: How can I distribute traffic web requests geographically?

text: If I have two web frontends. one in Dallas, one in London. How can I best route traffic from the US to Dallas, and abroad to London?


title: xml sitemap structure

text: I have been arguing a point and would like a second opinion. The basic point of contention is as follows: We have a site X with a sitemap index file located at: _http://www.x.co.uk/sitemap.xml_ This file lists a number of site maps and the structure for the location of the site maps is:               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>       <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">        <sitemap>          <loc>http://www.x.co.uk/sitemap/date/0.xml</loc>          <lastmod>2011-04-07</lastmod>        </sitemap>        <sitemap>          <loc>http://www.x.co.uk/sitemap/date/1.xml</loc>          <lastmod>2011-04-07</lastmod>        </sitemap>       </sitemapindex>      As far as i understand things search engines will except this just fine and it will not cause any issues. However the problem being raise is this, because the actual site XML sits under a directory structure like _/sitemap/date/_ search engines will not include the URLS. My opinion is that this is incorrect. If anyone can clarify that would be great i have read the documentation on Sitemaps Protocol and would welcome any further articles that could be of use.


title: Progressive JPEG

text: This Post: "Progressive" JPEG: Why do many web sites avoid rendering JPEGs that way? Pros, cons? stat that many browsers do not support Progressive JPEG citing this Wikipedia Article. What I have not found is which browsers do and do not support it. I know FF 7 supports it but I have not tested the other browsers to know. Does anyone have a comparison chart or something similar? Bonus Question: What e-mail clients support Progressive JPEG? (Desktop E-Mail Clients e.g. Outlook & Thunerbird etc) * * * So I decided to run few test to see how browsers handled Progressive JPEGs. Here is what I found:   * Firefox 7 - Displayed Correctly    * Internet Explorer 7 & 8 - Displayed Photo once finished downloaded (Did not load scan by scan)    * Safari 5 - Displayed Photo once finished downloaded (Did not load scan by scan)    * Chrome 13 - Display Correctly    * Opera 11.5 - Displayed Correctly If anyone has any comments to my test or any thoughts please let me know (Including how older browsers of the ones that did load it correctly work). I am still wondering about email clients if anyone can help with that.


title: WordPress MySQL Performance

text: I have a website (www.americanbankingnews.com) that gets 40,000-50,000 page views today. It's currently sitting on a dedicated quad-core Xeon server with 8GB of ram. The site is powered by WordPress and MySQL (sitting on the same server) and I'm currently using W3 Total Cache for page and MySQL query Caching. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be enough. During peak traffic times, my servers are getting a few HTTP 500 errors and pages that aren't cached load slowly. I'm currently not using Xcache or any other PHP cache/acceleration tools. Are there additional steps that I should take to try to optimize MySQL and PHP performance? Or should I fork over for an additional server. Specifically, I'd be interested in additional suggestions to improve MySQL performance and whether or not tools like xcache might help in this situation.


title: Photo printing service API for my photo sharing website

text: I am triying to find a good photo printing service that will allow users of my photo sharing website to order print versions of the photos that they have uploaded to my site. I have looked at Snapfish and Shutterfly but wondered if there was any others that would do this. As far as I can tell snapfish have an affiliate program that pays a percentage for referrals to their site and an API called publisher which lets developers create apps that use photos already on the snapfish site but cant seem to see a way in which users of my site would be able to print on snapfish (without re-uploading to snapfish). What I want to be able to do is the following -   1. User uploads to my website   2. Clicks a 'Print' button    3. User gets redirected to 3rd party print service along with the photos they want to print   4. User signs in / registers with 3rd party service   5. Sees the photos they selected from my site   6. Completes order process Does anyone know of a service which will allow me to do this? Does snapfish or shutterfly work in this way? I know flickr can do this but I guess Snapfish are using the Flickr API to retrieve photos. I dont want users to have to download from my site and then re-upload to snapfish for example to print. Any suggestions?


title: How to change number of maximum threads in LAMPP

text: How do I change maximum number of concurrent users in LAMPP. I found answers for apache and XAMPP but that does not solve my problem. I have also tried changing this file, `opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-mpm.conf`, but I do not see any effect on changing any parameter. I am using apache jmeter for testing. I have tried changing MaxClients too as said here. http://www.genericarticles.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=How_to_optimize_apache_web_server_for_maximum_concurrent_connections_or_increase_max_clients_in_apache#mpm_prefork_module Here is my httpd-mpm.conf,               #     # Server-Pool Management (MPM specific)     #           #     # PidFile: The file in which the server should record its process     # identification number when it starts.     #     # Note that this is the default PidFile for most MPMs.     #     <IfModule !mpm_netware_module>         PidFile "logs/httpd.pid"     </IfModule>          #     # Only one of the below sections will be relevant on your     # installed httpd.  Use "apachectl -l" to find out the     # active mpm.     #          # prefork MPM     # StartServers: number of server processes to start     # MinSpareServers: minimum number of server processes which are kept spare     # MaxSpareServers: maximum number of server processes which are kept spare     # MaxRequestWorkers: maximum number of server processes allowed to start     # MaxConnectionsPerChild: maximum number of connections a server process serves     #                         before terminating     <IfModule mpm_prefork_module>         StartServers             5         MinSpareServers          5         MaxSpareServers         10         MaxRequestWorkers      150         MaxConnectionsPerChild   0     </IfModule>          # worker MPM     # StartServers: initial number of server processes to start     # MinSpareThreads: minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare     # MaxSpareThreads: maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare     # ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in each server process     # MaxRequestWorkers: maximum number of worker threads     # MaxConnectionsPerChild: maximum number of connections a server process serves     #                         before terminating     <IfModule mpm_worker_module>         StartServers             2         MaxClients         1000         MinSpareThreads         25         MaxSpareThreads         75          ThreadsPerChild         25         MaxRequestWorkers      150         MaxConnectionsPerChild   0     </IfModule>          # event MPM     # StartServers: initial number of server processes to start     # MinSpareThreads: minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare     # MaxSpareThreads: maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare     # ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in each server process     # MaxRequestWorkers: maximum number of worker threads     # MaxConnectionsPerChild: maximum number of connections a server process serves     #                         before terminating     <IfModule mpm_event_module>         StartServers             2         MinSpareThreads         25         MaxSpareThreads         75         ThreadsPerChild         25         MaxRequestWorkers      150         MaxConnectionsPerChild   0     </IfModule>          # NetWare MPM     # ThreadStackSize: Stack size allocated for each worker thread     # StartThreads: Number of worker threads launched at server startup     # MinSpareThreads: Minimum number of idle threads, to handle request spikes     # MaxSpareThreads: Maximum number of idle threads     # MaxThreads: Maximum number of worker threads alive at the same time     # MaxConnectionsPerChild: Maximum  number of connections a thread serves. It     #                         is recommended that the default value of 0 be set     #                         for this directive on NetWare.  This will allow the     #                         thread to continue to service requests indefinitely.     <IfModule mpm_netware_module>         ThreadStackSize      65536         StartThreads           250         MinSpareThreads         25         MaxSpareThreads        250         MaxThreads            1000         MaxConnectionsPerChild   0     </IfModule>          # OS/2 MPM     # StartServers: Number of server processes to maintain     # MinSpareThreads: Minimum number of idle threads per process,      #                  to handle request spikes     # MaxSpareThreads: Maximum number of idle threads per process     # MaxConnectionsPerChild: Maximum number of connections per server process     <IfModule mpm_mpmt_os2_module>         StartServers             2         MinSpareThreads          5         MaxSpareThreads         10         MaxConnectionsPerChild   0     </IfModule>          # WinNT MPM     # ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in the server process     # MaxConnectionsPerChild: maximum number of connections a server process serves     <IfModule mpm_winnt_module>         ThreadsPerChild        150         MaxConnectionsPerChild   0     </IfModule>          # The maximum number of free Kbytes that every allocator is allowed     # to hold without calling free(). In threaded MPMs, every thread has its own     # allocator. When not set, or when set to zero, the threshold will be set to     # unlimited.     <IfModule !mpm_netware_module>         MaxMemFree            2048     </IfModule>     <IfModule mpm_netware_module>         MaxMemFree             100     </IfModule>


title: Dynamic Meta Keywords

text: Is it a problem to change the meta keywords dynamically depending on the content of the page / website? for example if it is a news website and this weeks top articles are about elephants in japan I would change the keywords accordingly, and when that article is less popular I would replace them with other key words Technically I know it is not a problem. How do search engines treat this kind of behvaior? I know that if the keyword list is too long they can ban websites.. What about the rate of change for the keywords?


title: Sending Mass Emails

text: I have a massive list of users who registered for accounts and opted into a mailing list on my web site and I am interested in sending out a weekly newsletter. How should I go about doing this. I tried sending it out through my host server, but I received a notice stating that if I did it again they would kick me off the server. Are there any good companies that are designed for this type of thing? I need to find a company that will support this and show me some sort of report about how many emails get opened, deleted, opened then deleted, etc. Any recommendations?


title: 301 redirect to 404 page?

text: Currently i'm migrating www. prefix from my urls and use htaccess to do the job. Since we have new software and cleaned database some of the old urls doesnt exists anymore. Therefore some requests redirect to 404 page.               1. www.domain.com/old-page # htaccess redirect to non-www url, 301     2. domain.com/old-page # page does not exists, 404      Does this method have any SEO issues, or even affect pagerank? Or should i check the page existence before redirecting and show 404 without redirect?


title: Do I need to physically host my website in separate countries for SEO?

text: I run an ecommerce store that is hosted in Ireland, and ranks ok with google.ie The market for this comapny is the Republic of Ireland and the UK. Is it beneficial for me to have a UK hosted version of my site (.co.uk) to rank higher in google.co.uk (and other localised search engines of course). If so, how would I prevent the site from being punished for duplicate content? Thanks in advance for any assistance on the above.


title: How can I prove property rights to script?

text: I just programmed a file sharing script but I can't sell it because I don't know how to prove that I'm the programmer.


title: Track traffic from Social Media in Google Analytics while using a URL shortening service

text: A company that does social media management for us (creates content, posts updates etc) uses a URL shortening service so they can give statistics in their dashboard about traffic from SM. They add a link in an update which links to the URL shortening service, which redirects to the website. The shortning serice uses 310 redirests on the URLs. e.g: The link on facebook/twiter might be `http://wu.to/example` which in turn 301 redirects straight to the website URL `http://example.com/` However due to this it means we cannot view the traffic via the 'social' section on Google Analytics and I'm having a hard time finding any traffic that comes in via the URL shortening service URLs. Does anybody know where I might find the traffic in GA? I presumed it would be in 'all referrals' section, but I cannot find anything in there, or elsewhere from `http://wu.to/`, which is the domain where the redirects are from. Should GA be able to track traffic that has come in via redirects?


title: Reviewing an advertiser / ads

text: I recently got a direct ad campaign for one of my sites. The advertiser agreed to my price without much bargaining. No contract was signed, but I had specified pre payment as part of our agreement. The advertiser is not a major network. Currently they are showing affiliate ads. Some things about this deal seems fishy to me - The amount was direct deposited to our account, not transferred from their company account. - Just below the visible ad, I can see a hidden iframe which contains the flight search widget for a major airline (Could this be cookie stuffing?) - They are contacting me from a gmail account - They did not insist for a signed contact How can I ensure that the advertiser is legitimate and is not using the adslot for illegal purpose?


title: Do Spambots have access to unlimited IP addresses?

text: I have been attacked for weeks by the same spambot trying to brute force the login page. I have a login security module now installed on my Drupal 6 website and it bans on IP after x amount of attempts. It's been going on for ever and I have banned about 1000 IP addresses. Is there any point in me banning on IP due to the spambot having access to unlimited IP addresses or will they run out of them eventually?


title: .htaccess rule to redirect from 404 to search results

text: When a user (or a bot) request on non existing page, I want to redirect him to the search results. I prefere to do it with the `.htaccess` file using something like:               ErrorDocument 404 /recherche?search_query=${REQUEST_URI}       However, it fails; the web browser is redirected to the URL `recherche?search_query=${REQUEST_URI}` , ${REQUEST_URI} and is not replaced, it is as you can read it here.


title: Is there a self hosted solution similar to Uservoice?

text: In the early days of Stack Overflow, Uservoice was used to get feedback, bug reports and feature requests from the community. While SO did out grow Uservoice, many sites would not. I'd like to use a system very much like Uservoice for a site that I am launching. The problem is, I really prefer to host all moving parts myself. I don't care if its free or proprietary, I just need something that will work on a typical Linux server. Can anyone suggest something? **Edit** I want something self hosted because:   * Privacy is a major concern for my users   * I'd like to `programmatically` reward participation on the 'uservoice' with rewards on the actual site (ideally, that's just a few queries away)   * I'd like to be able to change the 'rules' on the 'uservoice' site if needed, but its not a major requirement.   * I trust my own backups more than anyone else's :)


title: Creating date based back entries for a blog and its site registration

text: So I am showing a blog to a colleague and telling him how the author has been regularly blogging for over ten years now. My colleague tells me that anyone can register a domain name and start entries from say circa 2000. When I argued that the site registration date can easily show that the registration was done recently he put forward two arguments:   1. The author can claim that he moved from an old domain name which was registered many years ago and lapsed. So he took the data and rebuilt it in the new site.   2. The author can buy an expired domain which was on the internet for many years. I am not sure if these ways can work to con someone to believing you have been a blogger for over a decade. But I do not have enough expertise in the topic to refute him. So I thought I would ask the wise community here at StackExchange. Can anyone give me some insight?


title: Joomla change read more link to blog layout id

text: I have a module with articles created with the displaynews plugin. If I click the read more of the articles they go to the full article. But I want them to go to a category blog layout and scroll to the correct article (using the id). Any idea how this works? I don't even know how to change the link of the read more..


title: Keyword is really a complete address in Google Analytics

text: The top keyword for my really small website (under 50 visits/month) is the complete address, with http:// and all. I doubt 14 people would go to a search engine and paste the address into the search box. Does this kind of result has any special significance?


title: How to correctly index multilanguage home page while having a default portal language

text: Hi there this is my first post, so first of all, sorry for being boring or for any mistakes. I have read many posts on how to correctly index a multi-language site but none of them really answer my question. This is my scenario:   I have a two language (Italian, and English) site [www.zicaffe.com] with all contents correctly localized (meta infos, title, page descriptions and so on).   As suggested by Google each page has its unique URL (with localized keywords) that identifies a page and its (localized) content (eg. www.zicaffe.com/en/company.aspx identifies the English version while www.zicaffe.com/it/azienda.aspx the Italian one). Each page includes a cross- link which allows users to manually switch to the other available language. Apparently this is supposed to be the perfect scenario, but there's an exception regarding the home (index) page:   Accessing www.zicaffe.com, the site automatically redirects the browser, through a 301 Moved permanently, to a localized version of the page: www.zicaffe.com/en/home.aspx if the browser send en or en-US accept-language in the header; to www.zicaffe.com/it/home.aspx if the browser accepts it or it-IT or to the default language (Italian yet) otherwise. These are the questions:   1) Since googlebot is not sending any accept language in the header, it is going to show only the default language version of the home page in the SERP? 2) For some reason (probably because we are an Italian company?), right now only the Italian pages (default language) have a page rank and a sitelink. Is it normal? and the most important:   3) What happens if in the future I change the default site language to English? Am I going to lose all the good results achieved for Italian queries? Please do not suggest to read the following posts:   * http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=37173fa9cff11a12&hl=en   * http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multilingual-websites.html Any other answer would be precious. Regards.


title: Adsense aproval

text: i just wanted to ask if somebody can help me get an adsense approval. they rejected many applications os mine. first they said it was copyrighted content, so i removed it but after that they said the website does not comply with the adsense program policies. and I cant figure out what is wrong?? juztanotherblog.com PS : I m using analutics but not webmasters, is it required to get an aproval?? plz help


title: White hat security community

text: A while ago I remember there existed a community of savvy people who would probe a server for common vulnerabilities, this was a voluntary project but not even google can help me find it, I was hoping that if anyone knows of such a community they could point me to it. Thanks


title: Best approach to have Google index content primarily generated by Javascript

text: I'm developing an app where customers can drop in a Javascript tag onto their website, and it will generate content. What is the best approach to have Google index this content and associate it with the site's URL. I know that Google doesn't execute JS, so I'm thinking of different angles. I could have Google index the content on the site where the content is comping from (not the customer's site) but then it obviously will be indexed with the wrong URL. Could I somehow get Google to display a different URL? Is there another approach to get Google to index content from another site but associate it with The constraints are:   * The customer website can only drop in one section of code (ideally a JS tag).   * I have full control of the original content, albeit on a different site.    * The customer website can't do any server-side processing to specifically solve this.  Ideally, the web visitors would see the JS generated content when viewing the site, but Google bot would get fed content from another web page (which is the same content, but from the raw source). I just don't know how to do this without JS.


title: Javascript Requester IP Address

text: Is it possible to get a visitor/requester public (WAN/external) IP address with pure Javascript? IE. without the use of additional JS libraries like jQuery? If so, how?


title: Avoid 301 redirect in cdn.domain.mx

text: I have a domain with a _.htaccess_ redirection problem. The active CDN the URL should be: `cdn.domain.mx/images/test.png` but redirects: `cdn.domain.mx/images/something.png` -> `www.domain.mx/images/something.png` This causes my web resources not to be served from the CDN. Here is the code in the _.htaccess_ :               RewriteEngine on          RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on     RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [OR,NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$ [OR,NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.example\.com$ [OR,NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.example\.com$ [OR,NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.mx$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www\.domain\.mx\/$1 [R=301,L]      I have also configured the CNAME on my domain:               cdn.domain.mx. CNAME domain.company.netdna-cdn.com      * * * **Details:** A resource site is:               www.depilacionconlaser.mx/images/contenidos/inicio/productos-principales/depilacion-laserhome.jpg       The URL of the resource with CDN is:               cdn.depilacionconlaser.mx/images/contenidos/inicio/productos-principales/depilacion-laserhome.jpg       If I enter the URL of the resource with CDN in my browser, I'm redirected to **www**. Redirection not indicated in the HTACCESS.


title: Large increase in 404 hits

text: We're running a Magento shop and we experienced a significant raise in 404 hits lately, almost 40,000 in one day. Most of the pages are old ones that once existed but don't anymore, and there are some really strange occurrences where as much as 200 pages are linked from one to another, for example               /kleidung-accessoires-schmuck/jungs.html?manufacturer=633-341     /kleidung-accessoires-schmuck/maedels.html?manufacturer=420-346-440     /kleidung-accessoires-schmuck/maedels.html?manufacturer=114-510-414      None of them really exist, all return 404 error, but somehow Google sees them and follows the links in them to another (again non-existant), which creates circles of 404 crawling. And these pages are not online for more than a month, yet they are constantly detected, last time yesterday. And when I take a look to see where they came from, it's only from within the website, from another 404 page, nothing external. Does anyone have any advice how to deal with this? Is there a way to obtain some kind of crawl log where I could see where the hits exactly came from, because information provided from GWT is not suphicient enough. And I still don't know why google crawls non-existant pages. ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/2uIgq.png)


title: Point a domain to another domain

text: What I want to do is, I want to point my domain which I registered from Dot TK ( a free domain registration service ) to another domain which I am currently hosting on Freeola ( a hosting service ). But I don't want to use domain parking because Freeola doesn't allow it. So I want ask if there is any other option other than parking. If parking is the only option then, can we park a domain even if the the hosting company is not allowing it? Basically, what I want is: If my domain name is `example.tk` and the domain which is hosted on Freeola is `example.com` then can I do the following things:   1. When a user goes to `example.tk` the content of `example.com` is shown but the url in the address bar should remain `example.tk`.   2. When a user goes to `example.tk/sample-page` the content of `example.com/sample-page` is shown but the url in the address bar should remain `example.tk/sample-page`. Please excuse me if this is a silly question because I am just a beginner.


title: Which domain name structure, if any, is better for SEO?

text: I'm purchasing a domain for a new blog, and wonder which structure is better for domain name. I have these two options (domain changed to ensure it doesn't get swiped away from me!):   * atlantic-city-bands.com    * atlanticcitybands.org (where the .com and .net are already registered and used by another website). Does one domain name give me any sort of SEO advantage over the other?


title: How to add facebook like button to VBulletin 4.2 posts?

text: The title pretty much contains the question. I'm new to VB and could not find the hack, if any. Appreciate your help.


title: Leveraging browser caching issue

text: I am triying to obtain a good calification on Page Speed test, now I've obtained 85 points but I am still on the problem of "Leverage browser caching". This is the Page Speed test message about this problem:               Leverage browser caching     Setting an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP headers for static resources instructs the browser to load previously downloaded resources from local disk rather than over the network.     Leverage browser caching for the following cacheable resources:     https://cdn.syndication.twimg.com/…ollowing&lang=es&screen_names=lomasguapa (10 minutes)     http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js (30 minutes)     https://apis.google.com/js/api.js (30 minutes)     https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js (30 minutes)     http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (60 minutes)     http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/osd.js (60 minutes)     https://oauth.googleusercontent.com/…e:rpc:shindig.random:shindig.sha1.js?c=2 (60 minutes)     http://stats.g.doubleclick.net/dc.js (2 hours)     http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js (2 hours)      However I have seen in many source on Internet that this solution works for this case, the solution is a modification of .htaccess file. There is the first block.               ## EXPIRES CACHING ##     **<IfModule mod_expires.c>     ExpiresActive On     ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/html "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"     ExpiresDefault "access 1 month"     </IfModule>**     ## EXPIRES CACHING ##          # REST OF MY .HTACCESS     # BEGIN Better WP Security     Options -Indexes          Order Allow,Deny     Deny from env=DenyAccess     Allow from all     SetEnvIF REMOTE_ADDR "^1\.234\.83\.77$" DenyAccess     SetEnvIF X-FORWARDED-FOR "^1\.234\.83\.77$" DenyAccess     SetEnvIF X-CLUSTER-CLIENT-IP "^1\.234\.83\.77$" DenyAccess     SetEnvIF REMOTE_ADDR "^211\.110\.140\.70$" DenyAccess     SetEnvIF X-FORWARDED-FOR "^211\.110\.140\.70$" DenyAccess     SetEnvIF X-CLUSTER-CLIENT-IP "^211\.110\.140\.70$" DenyAccess     SetEnvIF REMOTE_ADDR "^91\.200\.13\.45$" DenyAccess     SetEnvIF X-FORWARDED-FOR "^91\.200\.13\.45$" DenyAccess     SetEnvIF X-CLUSTER-CLIENT-IP "^91\.200\.13\.45$" DenyAccess     SetEnvIF REMOTE_ADDR "^200\.27\.231\.114$" DenyAccess     SetEnvIF X-FORWARDED-FOR "^200\.27\.231\.114$" DenyAccess     SetEnvIF X-CLUSTER-CLIENT-IP "^200\.27\.231\.114$" DenyAccess     # END Better WP Security          # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>          # END WordPress          <IfModule mod_deflate.c>         # compress text, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and XML (for more page speed)         AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain         AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html         AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml         AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css         AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml         AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml         AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml         AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript         AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript     </IfModule>          # remove browser bugs (for more page speed)     BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html     BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip     BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html     Header append Vary User-Agent     # END       The case is that solution does not work and the page speed is showing again the caching problem. I put all the .htaccess in order to give more information, may be some lines cause any king of problem.


title: What countries require a state/province in the mailing address?

text: I'm creating a form and want to require / hide the state/province field based on the selected country. What countries require a state in the mailing address? For example, the United States does.


title: How to come back to old URL already redirected with 301? What is the impact to SEO?

text: I have recently moved my old site (built with DreamWeaver) to a new one (with new design and using WordPress). It was done last August, 1st and as the URLs with WP changed completely, I had to do redirects 301 with my htaccess file to all my old URLs. It occurs now that my new site results worse than the old one (bounce rate, time on site, sales conversion, traffic, etc) and I am considering seriously move back to the old pages. My question are:   1. how should I handle the redirects in these case? Should I now keep the redirects already done (old to new URLs) and now create also a new redirects from the new one to the old uURLsls?   2. How is the best way to handle it in order to avoid losing traffic with search engines?   3. Does anybody have already faced this situation and move back to the old URLs? if yes, what were the consequences related to your SEO and positioning in search engines ?Did you recovered the old search positioning?


title: Rememberable Numbers for a Domain Name

text: Is there a list of significant numbers that people link meaning to? For example saying **365** many people link to days in a year, and **24 7** links to **24/7** (if pronounced correctly) Basically little tricks like these help newcomers (hopefully) to remember brands/domain names better.


title: How to index a search engine website

text: I'm a webmaster and I have a question about how google or other search engines index site that are search engines. In a normal site, from the homepage if I created a link to all the section and pages of my websites, google index all the pages of my sites. But sometimes I see sites that they don't have this link to internal pages, for example: search "waitress london" in google, you find this result:               www.jobrapido.co.uk/?q=waitress%20london      But if you go on the site homepage               www.jobrapido.co.uk      you have only a search form like google, there is no link to internal search, and I can't find external site linkink to               www.jobrapido.co.uk/?q=waitress%20london      So my question is: How google know this link? Any ideas?


title: How to Point a Dreamhost Domain Name to a GoDaddy Server

text: I have a domain name example.com with Dreamhost. I also own a dedicated server with GoDaddy. (1) How do I configure the domain name system, so that the Dreamhost domain name is hosted at the GoDaddy dedicated server? (2) How do I set up the file transfer protocol for the website?


title: HTTP Header Cache Time: s-maxage and max-age

text: I am setting up a CDN for my website, I found the following sample for adding to the 'httpd.conf' file, this is used to adjust the cache-time for client and CDN:               ExpiresActive On     ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresByType text/css  "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresByType text/js   "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresByType application/x-javascript   "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresByType application/javascript   "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash   "access plus 1 year"          <FilesMatch "\.(gif|jpe?g|png|ico|css|js|swf)$">     Header set Cache-Control "s-maxage=600"     </FilesMatch>      Now suppose I updated an image file, the CDN (s-maxage=600) would refresh in 600 seconds, but how about the client? Since 'max-age' is set to 1 year, if client re-visit my web, does it still send HTTP request to check for updated contents and so download the new version? How does this work actually? Thanks!!


title: Allow visitor to print something they bought only 1 time

text: I am doing a website that needs to only let the customer print out what they bought 1 time. There are websites that currently do this and they mentioned Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR and the Sheet Music Plus AIR application. We would need to block programs like adobe distillation and any virtual printers while only allowing an instant print after purchase. I am not an adobe air developer. Would their be any other ways to accomplish this and what would be the easiest. Thank you. Would their be a way to not allow printing to a virtual printer ie adobe pdf?


title: Nginx proxy_pass 404 error, don't understand why

text: I'm trying to pass off all calls to `/api` to my webservice but I keep getting 404s with the following config. Calls to `/` return `index.html` as expected. Does anyone know why?                  upstream backend{     server localhost:8080;     }           server {                  location /api {             proxy_pass http://backend;             }                  location / {                  root /html/dir;             }           }      More info here:               adept@HogWarts:/etc/nginx/sites-available$ curl -i localhost/api/authentication/check/user/email     HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found     Server: nginx/1.2.1     Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:49:03 GMT     Content-Length: 0     Connection: keep-alive          adept@HogWarts:/etc/nginx/sites-available$ curl -i localhost:8080/authentication/check/user/email     HTTP/1.1 200 OK     Content-Type: application/json     Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:49:20 GMT     Transfer-Encoding: chunked          {"user":["false"],"emailAddress":["false"]}


title: how can I contact Google about a domain misuse?

text: I was trying to add a newer domain of mine to my existing Google Apps account with an already set primary domain. Google Apps then returns the message that the domain is already in use by another account. I tried finding a way to contact Google, but they have a wall up preventing anyone with an original Apps account from calling them. There's a help page saying to try retrieving the password, but how is that even possible? I don't know the email address of the owner of the Apps account using my domain, and I don't know his/her name on the account, so I can't complete the form for retrieving any of the information. Google Productforums is always a dead end. Does anyone here know how to force a removal of a domain on Google Apps from someone that doesn't own it?


title: Any drawbacks by including Google Analytics in your main js file?

text: I'm using MVC that is compressing and minifying all my `js` files into one file so basically there is only one request. As far as I see every page has Google Analytics code below their `js` includes. If I will not do that but instead add it in my main `js` file will it cause any problems?


title: Self hosted Netvibes alternative

text: I am looking for a self-hosted alternative to part of the Netvibes functionality. It should act as feed reader, show my mail inbox, a list of bookmarks and maybe the weather forecast. I wish to move away from Netvibes since I don't care to share my browsing habit, and certainly not my mail password, with another person or company. I am certainly willing to invest some time in setup, maybe up to writing a plugin for a solution that does not fulfill all my requirements. Dou you have suggestions on where to look?


title: How can I do large file delivery system (YouSendIt) on my own server?

text: I'm wondering if there is a way that I can replicate the large file delivery system on my own server like the way YouSendIt works. I upload a file on a page, server recognizes it and sends an email to the specified recipient. When they download it, the file is deleted. Any tips?


title: Does Webmaster Tools list traffic from ads as inbound links?

text: In Webmaster Tools, under the inbound links section, do ads get counted as inbound links? I am doing a review of inbound links on a website and found that most of them are sourced from meaningless blogs and spam websites. Before I accuse anyone of not doing their job properly, I would like to know something: Is it possible that those inbound links were generated when an ad for the website appeared on the spam website? An SEO firm was paid handsomly to generate inbound links and I am afraid all they did was submit material to spam blogs and websites.


title: Can Google crawl Facebook pages?

text: I thought I heard a while back that Google cannot crawl Facebook pages. I'm guessing that this is affected by the privacy settings someone has, but if I have a page that allows anonymous users to see my wall will Google be able to crawl this page and return relevant results?


title: Why are nonexistant files listed in the TRANSFER log?

text: This snippit from my apache log reflects some piece of malware casually browsing through my site for some unknown purpose. The most puzzling thing to me is that the GET address doesn't correspond to anything that exists, so how is this in the transfer log and not the error log? Aside from that, what agent is doing this, and why?               60.169.78.42 - - [29/Sep/2011:18:49:53 -0500] "GET /wp-admin/post-new.php HTTP/1.0" 404 301 "http://www.boardspace.net/cgi-bin/login.cgi$kx_http_post$cookie=on&language=&password=super123&pname=biffarcarm" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2"     60.169.78.42 - - [29/Sep/2011:18:49:53 -0500] "GET /member/manage_blog.php?tab=add HTTP/1.0" 404 302 "http://www.boardspace.net/wp-admin/post-new.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2"     60.169.78.42 - - [29/Sep/2011:18:49:54 -0500] "GET /profile_blog_new.php HTTP/1.0" 404 300 "http://www.boardspace.net/member/manage_blog.php?tab=add" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2"     60.169.78.42 - - [29/Sep/2011:18:49:55 -0500] "GET /account/submit/add-blog/ HTTP/1.0" 404 304 "http://www.boardspace.net/profile_blog_new.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2"     60.169.78.42 - - [29/Sep/2011:18:49:55 -0500] "GET /blogs.php?action=new_post HTTP/1.0" 404 289 "http://www.boardspace.net/account/submit/add-blog/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2"     60.169.78.42 - - [29/Sep/2011:18:49:56 -0500] "GET /blogs/my_page/add/ HTTP/1.0" 404 298 "http://www.boardspace.net/blogs.php?action=new_post" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2"     60.169.78.42 - - [29/Sep/2011:18:49:56 -0500] "GET /blogs.php?action=write HTTP/1.0" 404 289 "http://www.boardspace.net/blogs/my_page/add/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2"     60.169.78.42 - - [29/Sep/2011:18:49:57 -0500] "GET /my_blogs&action=add HTTP/1.0" 404 303 "http://www.boardspace.net/blogs.php?action=write" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2"     66.251.84.28 - - [29/Sep/2011:18:49:56 -0500] "GET /cgi-bin/login.cgi?pname=DrRaven&language=english HTTP/1.1" 200 21878 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; CMNTDF; InfoPath.2)"     60.169.78.42 - - [29/Sep/2011:18:49:57 -0500] "GET /index.php?do=/blog/add/ HTTP/1.0" 404 289 "http://www.boardspace.net/my_blogs&action=add" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2"     60.169.78.42 - - [29/Sep/2011:18:49:58 -0500] "GET /blog_edit.php HTTP/1.0" 404 293 "http://www.boardspace.net/index.php?do=/blog/add/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2"     60.169.78.42 - - [29/Sep/2011:18:49:58 -0500] "GET /manager/add_entry.php HTTP/1.0" 404 301 "http://www.boardspace.net/blog_edit.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2"


title: Query Data from www or nowww?

text: I'm currently looking at a Google Webmaster Tools Account that has been set up by the client using both www and nowww. Traffic is being redirected to the www version. In order to analyze Search Queries correctly, which of the two Accounts should I use? I would go for the www account, since it is where traffic is flowing to and where numbers are slight higher. Still wanted to check though.


title: What to do if Google Adwords keyword tool suggests "no searches"

text: I believe I have a great idea, and want to test the market before I create a site for it. However, I'm having some difficulty with Google AdWords - I'm a total beginner with SEO/SEM. When I plug in keywords into AdWords tool, I get no results at all, globally, unless I put it some very very broad keyword that aren't really related to my idea. I guess this means no one is searching for it? That very well can be. However, due to the unique nature of my idea, I believe people aren't searching for it because they don't know they _can_ do something like that yet. I know you definitely can do something like that - I just finished a proof of concept, so it's a valid idea that solves an actual problem. But, what to do if no one is searching for it? Once I make the site, how do I get visitors to it? Is organic link building my only road to success?


title: XML Sitemaps, what should they link to?

text: If I want to make an XML sitemap for my site, do I need to map every forum topic in my forum as a separate URL? If this would help, how do you deal with the hugeness of the sitemap for forums with over 100,000 urls? Or is it just meant to map entry pages to the rest of your content? And can you semantically nest URLS?


title: Preventing links with query parameters from being indexed by Google

text: I manage a mobile version of a desktop site. The mobile site has an mdot subdomain and is served from a different server. As part of recommended best practices by Google, I've included a link on the mobile site which allows the user to opt out of the mobile experience and view the desktop site instead. In order to monitor the number of users who opt out I've appended a query parameter (?MobileOptOut=1) to the corresponding desktop link. To illustrate this: If a user on the mobile site visiting http://m.example.com/products/1127 clicks the opt out link he's taken to http://www.example.com/products/1127?MobileOptOut=1 Trouble is, Google is indexing the page with the ?MobileOptOut=1. Even more incredibly, this page actually ranks higher than the correct version without this parameter (http://www.example.com/products/1127)! Is there any way I can tell Google's crawlers to ignore pages with this parameter - using Google's Webmaster Tools?


title: Track url from Amazon S3 using Google Analytics

text: I couldn't find any decent pay per view video solutions for low budget clients. So I'm considering using a membership extension with Joomla and hosting the video with amazon S3. The only issue is that once someone has signed up to view or download the video if they have any web development experience they will be able to get the url of the video and freely publish it on the web. How can this be prevented? It looks like it can be done using IAM User Temporary Credentials - AWS SDK for PHP but the client would prefer not to have to pay someone to spend hours writing custom php code to get this to work. With Amazon s3 I could at least check the log files I guess to manually monitor the url but is there a way to track the url with Google Analytics? or is there a more elegant solution?


title: Why would a website's URL scheme be changed from short and user-friendly URLs to long URLs?

text: I wonder why some website changes their short and user-friendly URLs to long URLs - examples: > cricinfo.com ----> espncricinfo.com > > indiafm.com ---> bollywoodhungama.com Why would a webmaster choose to make that change?


title: Website opening both on domain name and IP. Is that a problem?

text: So, http://site.com/ and `http://123.321.123.32/` both are displaying a web page. From _SEO_ point there is content duplication issue when both domain and IP displays the same content. This can be solved by **canonical** tag. But what other problems does this make?


title: Why can't I use two hyphens in positions 3 and 4 of a domain name?

text: I've come across a rule, that as far as I can tell, all domain registrars share: That you cannot register a domain that has two hyphens in positions 3 and 4 of the desired domain name. Apart from that, you can put as many hyphens in your domain as you like. Is there an explanation for this rule?


title: How to restrict a incoming URL from Google Search link only for a certain File in a Folder of my application

text: Google Search displays a link to a file in my application, which is located in a certain folder structure. I would appreciate if someone help me in knowing how google picked up this file in its search result. (#1) (#2). I would like to know the method how to avoid a URL hit from certain site to this particular file in this folder. My application is developed in MVC 3, ASP.NET C#.


title: Why can't I verify my website with Google?

text: Here's the error I receive when trying to verify: > Verification failed for http://oracleoflegends.com/ using the Google > Analytics method (1 minute ago). Your verification file returns a status of > 500 (Internal server error) instead of 200 (OK). My website works fine when visiting it with a web browser normally, so I'm at a loss. I'm also using Google Analytics and it's working fine! Not only that, but when trying to verify my website with another separate Ad company they are also receiving this error message. A 500 Internal Server error. What do I need to do on my end in order for Google's bot to work? I assumed that if it works on a browser it would work for their verification bot. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hEpVx.jpg)


title: Google Image safe search filters my images. What should I do to prevent this problem

text: I tried to Google-search the images on my site. Some of them appeared. But if I check the "Safe search" option there are no of them displayed. All images absolutely free of adult content or something like that. Text placed on the pages shouldn't scare Google as well. What should I do to prevent Google from filtering my images?


title: New site - 0 indexed 5 Not selected. What does this mean?

text: Having finally completed my web site, I submitted it and a sitemap to Google at the beginning of December. A look at the index status today, 29/12/12, shows 0 indexed, and 5 Not selected. I can live with the 0 indexed at this stage because, as I understand it (which might be not at all!), indexing takes time and is also reliant upon back links??? However, the bit that's got me puzzled is the 'Not Selected' part. Having read the help attached to the 'Not selected' icon, it seems that it ignores pages that are duplicate or redirected. However, I'm sure my pages are all completely different! I have a home page, a bookings page, a contact us page, a gallery page and one or two others, none of which is like another. And as for redirects there are none! What does this result mean?


title: Migrating from hRecipe to Schema.org/recipe

text: I'm about to migrate recipes content from hRecipe to Schema.org. Since many recipes are already ranked nicely on Google with the rich snippet, I would like to know if anyone had migrated before, and can tell me whether or not there's an adjustment period in which ranking and rich snippet change. Thanks in advance for any advice!


title: Caching of JS and CSS files – Apache mod_headers doesn’t take effect

text: As suggested by an answer on SO, I'm trying using a version number on my JS and CSS files so that the browser will only make a request when the JS or CSS version number is changed in my PHP file. To facilitate this, I have a rewrite in my `httpd.conf` which transforms a requested file like `myscript-- 20140904.js` to `myscript.js`. Since I'm doing things this way, I want the browser to cache the file for a long time, since it will see a request for a "different" file when that version number is updated. According to an answer on Webmasters.SE, I can use `FilesMatch` along with `Header set Cache-Control` to only cache the CSS/JS files with the version number on them. And according to an answer on SO, only `Cache-Control` is necessary, since it takes precedence over `Expires` anyway. But this is not working. The `Cache-Control` header field is missing from the response. Here's my Apache configuration:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^(.*)\-\-.+\.(css|js)$ $1.$2          <IfModule mod_headers.c>         <FilesMatch "^(.*)\-\-.+\.(js|css)$">             Header set Cache-Control "max-age=15552000"             Header unset ETag             Header unset Last-Modified         </FilesMatch>     </IfModule>          # <IfModule mod_expires.c>     #     <FilesMatch "\.(js|css)$">     #         ExpiresActive On     #         ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 6 months"     #         ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 6 months"     #     </FilesMatch>     # </IfModule>      Here's a request for one of the JS files:               http://localhost/[url]/common.js          GET [url]/common.js HTTP/1.1     Host: localhost     User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0     Accept: */*     Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5     Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate     Referer: http://localhost/[refererUrl]     Cookie: PHPSESSID=[cookie]     Connection: keep-alive     Pragma: no-cache     Cache-Control: no-cache          HTTP/1.1 200 OK     Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 19:45:32 GMT     Server: Apache     Last-Modified: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 22:55:57 GMT     Etag: [etag]     Accept-Ranges: bytes     Content-Length: 5167     Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100     Connection: Keep-Alive     Content-Type: application/javascript


title: What's causing the 'wait' time before my HTML loads?

text: I have a website the seems to load very slowly. When I run a speed test on it I see there seems to be a 6 secound gap before the HTML loads. Images and JS scripts load very fast after that point. You can see in the pic below the yellow 'wait time' bars: ![Loading of the HTML file took more than 5 seconds, while most of the other assets load in under 1 second](http://i.stack.imgur.com/FLe3m.jpg) This seems to be consistant no matter what the HTML content on the page is. This site is using a CMS (ModX Revo) so HTML is actually stored in an SQL database and brought forth by PHP, but I've never experienced this issue before. Would anyone know what is causing this and how I could speed it up?


title: Is there a a better OpenID plugin for wordpress?

text: The last version that came out for this plugin is 3.3.2, and it's broken. Whenever I click "Upgrade all my plugins", my openid gets broken and I can't login to Stack Overflow until I downgrade this plugin :) Is there an alternative ? Edit - I am looking mainly for OpenID **Provider** support. The Consumer support is nice to have.


title: How quickly can expect that my new site will get ranked by Alexa?

text: I have website, but no Alexa rank after 30 days.


title: Setting up funnel URLs with regular expressions

text: I'm trying to set up Google Analytics to track my e-commerce checkout page. The URLs in the process are as follows:   1. /checkout/[order number]   2. /checkout/[order number]/your_details   3. /checkout/[order number]/review   4. /checkout/[order number]/complete I've used the regular expression for the first page (/checkout/[order number]:               /checkout/\d+      That works fine, however the problem is I'm struggling to work out what the regular expression should be for the other pages.


title: Is Thing > Intangible > Offer the right schema for a site with company share price information?

text: I'm adding some structured data to a site I'm working on, and have been through the various categories on Schema.org. The site gives company share price information, and have narrowed down http://schema.org/Offer as a best fit for this type of information. I've had a look to see if I can see the structured data markup on the likes of Yahoo Finance to give a clue, but can't seem to locate the tags. Would the general webmaster community agree that http://schema.org/Offer is the best fit, or can someone else suggest something better suited?


title: Why do some Linux VPS host companies restrict access to time/date settings?

text: Is there a reason on why some Linux VPS host companies restrict access to time/date settings? I had two VPS hosts running on CentOS from two different companies and both were restricted and I had to contact to support department and ask them to change date/time.


title: Different Google Searches return different titles for the same page

text: This is a hypothetical example of an actual problem. I hope it's clear. When I search Google for _dogs_ I can see my website homepage `http://dogs123.com.au` with the title "Dogs a mans best friend!". If I search for _dogs australia_ I see my website homepage `http://dogs123.com.au` with an old page title "Dogs blah blah". Clicking through on this result gives the up to date, current page with the proper title. i.e. for two different searches, returning the same result, one returns the correct page title, and one returns an old page title. Why is this happening? Is it something on my side or Google's?


title: Wiki Application With A Reputation System

text: I'm really impressed with Stack Exchange's concept of reputation (you gain reputation as you post, and the more you post, the more privileges you get), and I want to apply the concept to a wiki that I am building. Does anyone know of a php wiki that has a concept of privileges/reputation similar to Stack Exchange? I'm not necessarily looking for something _identical_ to SE, I'm just looking for a wiki application that gives users more privileges the more they contribute _positively_ to the wiki (SE has down votes, the wiki should have some way of identifying negative contributions too). The privileges should be category based, so the more active you are in a specific category or page, the more privileges you get for that category. There should also be site wide privileges as well, though those should be harder to access than the category privileges. _NOTE: If it is not possible to get category wide privileges and site wide privileges, I will be OK with just category wide privileges or just site wide privileges._ I should be able to change the requirements for each privilege, through a administration panel or through editing a file (some wiki applications don't have administration interfaces). Does anyone have a script or a solution that will do this? If the script uses something similar to reputation to determine how much a user has positively contributed to the site, then that is OK too. _Please Note: I am looking for a way to rate individual user contributions, not a way to rate the quality of an entire page._


title: URL Rewrite for SSL

text: I have SSL configured for a `cart` directory in my website. I'm having a very difficult time trying to configure SSL for a different directory within the same website. I ask the question on SO, and was hoping it would eventually get migrated here for more help (I don't want to make the same post twice). Anyway, after awhile I noticed the directory I need SSL on, `/admin`, is actually accepting both `http` and `https`, so now to make my life easier and get this out of the way.. I'm just trying to configure a URL Rewrite for `http://www.shop.com/admin/index.php` to rewrite to `https://www.shop.com/admin/index.php` This is what I have tried, and it is not working:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^https://www.shop.com/admin/index.php$ http://www.shop.com/admin/index.php      How can rewrite the default page for this directory to use https? I know this is probably sloppy, but I don't know what else to do. If you could help me set up ssl legitly for this directory, that would be even better. ps - The url rewrite docs are complicated!


title: Is "The Art of SEO" book dated?

text: And if it's dated, what would a good alternative be? Please don't mention blogs or tutorials, I need a book. :) Thanks a lot. http://www.artofseobook.com/


title: Drastic page visits decrease (Analytics)

text: I am trying to understand why a site I'm working with has had a certain behaviour when it comes to page views per visitor. Basically, I have a trend which clearly shows pageviews going down over a period of time. ![page views](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WhtcP.png) If I narrow down to browsers, I see that this is true only for Android 4 browsers, and IE9 browsers, while other browsers and technologies seem to be pretty consistent. Actually, right now these two browsers seem to be in line with other browsers. ![Android](http://i.stack.imgur.com/X69sn.png) ![IE](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Zqi3J.png) I had an especially notable drop on the 15th of December, but again only for these specific browsers. On or around the 15th of December, the site has gone line with a radical redesign and improvement for the mobile website - it was not very usable and super slow before that release - so we were a bit surprised with the drop. Studying the case further, I'm starting to believe that earlier figures were indeed off, and what I get now is more likely. What do you guys think? Thanks for any idea!


title: Host And Expose Application to local small network

text: I developed a little application (web application) using JavaEE+MySql. I try to keep some data and .. from time to time to get some reports using my data. My problem is I have to access this application from 4-5 computers in the office. They are connected through a switch. It's a typical small office network, nothing fancy. I need some advice on how to do this. I mean for a small application with no external communication is it mandatory to use an Apache machine? I'd use a simple Tomcat container on the "server machine" (which is my computer, a windows machine) and .. basically .. I would like to permit the access to my colleagues also. I don't have any knowledge about concurrency (I know mysql permits concurrent access) so I would like some configuration tips also.


title: Global monthly searches versus results

text: I compiled a report with global monthly searches last week for my boss, regarding SEO (this is from Google AdWords). He, however, seems to want a report of the results for a specific keyword - is there a way to get this information?


title: Digest access authentication "realm"

text: I have attempted to find documentation on what this actually is with no luck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication The hashed value is username:realm:password.


title: should i set up email adress with host or registrar?

text: I own a website with godaddy.com and have an email address set up with them that came for free when i bought the domain name. they charge for any additional email addresses and they also charge to forward emails as well. I have my my web hosting separately from them with another company. My question is, will i be able to set up emails with my web hosting without going through go daddy or am i forced to buy them with godaddy.com? any help would be very much appreciated thank you!


title: Why does StatCounter show less unique visitors than my Apache access log?

text: StatCounter shows yesterday as seeing 10,611 unique visitors to my site. I wrote a script that counted the number of unique IP addresses in yesterday's Apache access log. It counted 14,190 unique IP addresses. Why is there the discrepancy? I would understand a small number of IP addresses would maybe be for crawlers and bots, but not 1/3 of the traffic.               // script to count unique IPs          <?php     $ips = array();          $file = fopen("access_log","r");     while ( ($line = fgets($file)) != false )     {         $num = strpos($line, " ");         $ip =  substr($line, 0, $num)."<br>";              if ( !in_array($ip, $ips) )             array_push($ips, $ip);     }     fclose($file);          echo count($ips);      The StatCounter code is the standard code that StatCounter gives you to put in your HTML/JS, which includes your account number, etc...


title: How can I set up my server to also be a mail server?

text: I'm running apache2 on Ubuntu Server 12.04 and I have my website up and running fine with 2 virtual hosts, and I was wondering how I can set up my server to also be a mail server, preferable for both domains (virtual hosts.) I have tried following postfix/dovecot guides but none of them seem to work, but that may be because I don't know which DNS records to modify, right now they're the default GoDaddy parked records, aside from @ and a few other CNAME records I changed for subdomains. If anyone could tell me what programs to install (or direct me to a tutorial) as well as what DNS records (MX,CNAME) to modify that would be awesome


title: Automatically post Joomla article to mybb-board

text: We're currently running a Joomla 2.5.6 installation and just created a mybb- board for our site. However, we want to sync the new articles from the Joomla page with the board, so new articles automatically appear as a new thread in the forum. Is there a plugin for that, or how can we achieve something like that? We searched, but the only useful syncing-plugin seems to be JFusion, but it looks like it syncs users, only.


title: Flat vs. Hierarchical Tree Structure (vol. 2)

text: This relevant question deals with whether a site URL structure is better (SEO- wise) to be flat or hierarchical. How much important is it for a site ranking if the overall structure is flat or hierarchical? By overall structure I mean all aspects of a site structure as sitemap, menus, etc. The incentive behind my question is quite particular: in a site with eg. 10 general pages and 100 product pages, should there be a general product page and possibly a category level? And should there be pages for the each root of new level (esp. for menus)?


title: Are press release distribution services spam services?

text: I'm not trying to label this website as a spam service, but use it as an example to enquire about: http://www.prweb.com/ And there are many like it. I've been considering using their services as they have been recommended on here, but after talking to some people they have told me 'It is definitely a spam service'. Are these sorts of services spam services? Could Google penalise you for using them? Do they have any legitimate value?


title: http://www.example.com/http://www.example.com/ in Apache log?

text: I run a website, let's say `www.example.com`. On it I have a path and file, say `www.example.com/path/file.html`. The Apache log lists GET requests like: `GET /path/file.html HTTP/1.1` Which is correct, corresponding to `www.example.com/path/file.html`; such lines result in a 200 status code and everything's good. But then I have other entries: `GET http://www.example.com/path/file.html HTTP/1.1` _or_ `GET http://www.othersite.net/ HTTP/1.1` Which would correspond to something like `http://www.example.com/http://www.example.com/path/file.html` or `http://www.example.com/http://www.othersite.net/` which does not exist (My server returns a 404 for these.). These requests are always from far away (Italy, Latvia, ...) while actual users of my website are invariably local. What are these? Is there any particular reason for these requests? Have others seen these happen? It's been going on for at least a year and it's continuous (though I'm not being flooded). _They are not transparent attacks such as:_ `GET //mysql-admin/ HTTP/1.1` or `GET /webdav/test HTTP/1.1`


title: SEO - google keywords issue. Can anyone shed any light on this for me?

text: I launched my site a few months ago, it have been indexed by google for most of the keywords I had in mind. The only thing is, one of the most important keywords of all is not showing up in webmaster tools as a keyword. This is causing me a real pain, as people will not find my site. My SEO skills are usually effective, which is why this has stumped me. It's for my web design website. The keyword(s) i'm missing are web and website. As my site is about web design, the design on it's own will not help! I have noticed my word count on website and web are quite high, but that's naturally occurring. I didn't fill it with junk, because I don't think that's the best way. Is this some sort of google procedure to block the keyword "website". I am just re-designing my site and re-writing all content in effort to solve this issue. Can anyone give me any advice on this problem? Here is my website


title: How do I find when Googlebot will visit(crawl) my pages again?

text: I implemented the **unavailable_after** tag in my pages like the below and set to unavailable after 3 days but in Google Webmaster Tools I got 404 for that page.               <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="unavailable_after: 05-May-2014 15:00:00 EST">      How do I know Googlebot visit(crawl) my pages again to read this tag (or) how long Googlebot will take to crawl the pages again ? please give me a suggestion!. Note: I set unavailable_after tag for certain content types(not whole website) with highest priority(1.0) in XML sitemap.


title: is there a checklist that a small website should

text: I am not a web developer - this would be my first foray. I can do HTML/CSS/Javascript, but never created a website for a company. If anybody is creating a site for small company (expecting some 10-15 static pages), what kinda things would it need to have? I am thinking of the following:   1. Make the eventual owner buy in his/her name: Domain name, Web Hosting package and Email package. **Q - DO** Web Developers generally ask their clients to buy this stuff and then ask them to share their passwords? OR - Do Web Developers ship the source files to clients so that they can upload it?   2. Create Cross Browser compatible HTML+CSS+javascript pages   3. Add SEO stuff like Meta tags and xml file for crawler   4. Buy professional images from stock website **Q - IS** there is a best-practice for this step?   5. Add Copyright stuff. **Q - ANY** idea about how to do this?   6. Add Faceboook widgets, so people can 'like' my website.   7. Register website somewhere so that its searchable from multiple search-engine/yellopages. **Q - DOES** such a thing exist? Please check my checklist :) and let me know what you think could be missing? Thanks!


title: Should I use a subdomain provided by WordPress or a custom domain in Google Webmaster Tools?

text: I have a blog at `domain.wordpress.com` and I'm buying the custom domain `domain.com`. Which domain (`domain.wordpress.com` or `domain.com`) should I register in Google Webmaster Tools?


title: Developing hotel website

text: I know HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and some of PHP/MySQL. I've decided to create simple hotel website, just to exercise my skills, and to see what i can really do. I wrote concrete technical details of my website:   1. User database where users can register and log in to see their booked places.   2. Search that has criteria of A)cost B)facilities C)rating D) distance to the user entered place    3. Gallery of house's pictures   4. Transaction page (electronic payment, PayPal and etc.)   5. Calendar that shows which dates are reserved and which are not.   6. Ability to pass user entered info to google maps and show exact location on the map.   7. Reviewing, adding comments to rented room or house. Questions:   1. Is there template or framework that i can take to develop tasks # 1,#2, and #5?   2. If there's no template, where should i start to code my own search that would fit my criteria?   3. How to pass arguments to google maps to show location of house? (Vague explanation is ok)   4. Can you give guidelines on how to code module of website to achieve task #7?   5. How do people usually do task #5? I mean do they take the piece of code or just write it by themselves? Sorry for my english.I'm not a native speaker. If you think that this explanation is to vague or indefinite, please do not just close this topic. All i want is just some guidance, i've come to the point when i realized that i need to challenge myself, but before i do this, i need to get some advice. Thanks!


title: Controlling number of results in Google Custom Search

text: I am using google custom search for my website, every search results in a big list of results. I want only limited number of results to be shown to the customer say first 10 so that he/she is not confused. Please help.


title: How do I measure my site's bandwidth?

text: A newbie question, but I have a PHP site running on dedicated Centos server with plesk control panel and wonder how much bandwidth is being consumed. Is there a tool or code that measures bandwidth per month, per day etc?


title: Should I try and get my users to upgrade from IE6?

text: I'm wondering if it's appropriate to try and get my user base to upgrade from IE6 to newer browsers? Right now we only have 5% of users coming from IE6 or less, we of course don't want to support IE6 further, but is it bad practice to offer suggestions to those using older browsers?