title: Google Analytics - How to tell info about specific visitors

text: I have a bunch of custom events on my page that I'm tracking with `ga`, is there any way for me to tell info about specific visitors? For example I want to know how long people who triggered a play event on videoX stayed on the site and which pages they viewed. Is there a way to do this?


title: Google Analytics: Time on site by day's hour?

text: I want to know this:               0 am - avg. time on site  = Xmins     1 am - avg. time on site  = Xmins     2 am - avg. time on site  = Xmins     3 am - avg. time on site  = Xmins     4 am - avg. time on site  = Xmins     5 am - avg. time on site  = Xmins     ...      It would be nice to have it as a barchart in Google Analytics, but since there is a maximum set to nine bars in dashboard, it doesn't seem possible. Might be a line chart, but there is no such grouping there, right?


title: Wordpress website with slow response (only for the first request)

text: I've a weird issue with my wordpress website ( http://rohitnair.info/) . The "first request" takes ages to respond. Any subsequent requests behave normally. Things I've observed while debugging   * Clearing the browser cache and reloading works fine and the page loads fast enough   * Clearing the cookies and reloading reproduces the issue. I thus define "first request" in this context as a request with no cookies set for the domain. Another easy way to reproduce this issue is to use curl and not send any cookies. This is the output of curl -v               $ time curl -v rohitnair.info     * About to connect() to rohitnair.info port 80 (#0)     * Trying 23.21.171.95... connected     * Connected to rohitnair.info (23.21.171.95) port 80 (#0)     > GET / HTTP/1.1     > User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.12.9.0 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.2.2     > Host: rohitnair.info     > Accept: */*     >       **long wait** [response]               * Connection #0 to host rohitnair.info left intact     * Closing connection #0          real    1m0.518s     user    0m0.003s     sys 0m0.011s      As can be seen, the server takes more than a minute to return the response. The stack is wordpress + nginx and hosted on Amazon EC2. I've also noticed that the request does not show up in the nginx access log till the response is served or the request is cancelled (not sure if this is expected behavior) I'm completely lost as to what could be causing this issue. Any help would be much appreciated!


title: Google keeps indexing /comment/reply URL

text: With the new update of Google algorithm called Penguin, I think my site was being penalized due to webspam. But of course I don't create post which seems to be spam to Google. It is just I think how Google index my site. I found out that Google index the URL of my site like: http://www.example.com/comment/reply/3866/26556 So there are so many comment/reply URL index by Google. I have already added: Disallow: /comment/reply/ Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/ but still Google still index this URL. Any idea how to prevent Google from indexing comments?


title: Redirecting broken links (from external site)

text: In webmaster tools we found that a bunch of sites are linking to non existent pages on our site. So far I can see 50,000+ links. Is there any downside to redirecting all of these broken links to a working page?


title: Migrate content to new domain without 301 redirects

text: I have a domain name http://extreme-java.com purchased from one.com and pointing to my web hosting account at anhosting.com I want to move the content of this website to http://somenewdomain.com registered at godaddy.com by making the new domain point to the same web hosting account. Just planning to close the extreme-java domain as it has got a lot of spam backlinks. As per google guidelines about migrating content, they suggest 301 redirects from current domain to get the juice but is it necessary to use 301 redirect in my case as I simply want to dump the extreme-java domain Pls advise.


title: Getting around US law

text: Let's suppose that someone is interested in starting a website that might be in violation of some US laws (such as copyright, gambling, pornography, etc.). I know this question isn't in the best taste, so I can understand if it is closed or deleted. Please consider, however, that not everything against US law is considered immoral or unethical to some people. I was reading how many online poker services are based in the Cayman Islands to get around US law. Are there other countries with good hosting services to avoid prosecution by US law? Many laws enforceable in the US are also enforceable in many other jurisdictions (copyright for one), so it would be interesting to know if there are safe havens for sensitive websites.


title: When is a page considered loaded by search engines so I can enhance it without a page-speed penalty?

text: I'm working on a website that has some high quality images that need to load. Of course, my goal is to get the site to load as quickly as possible so we don't slow down the user experience and I don't take a page rank hit for being a slow loading website. I'd like to initially load a low quality version of the pictures so the page loads quickly and then enhance them with a second wave of downloads using JavaScript after the page has completely loaded. I know I can detect when the page has loaded using jQuery ready() but I want to make sure Google considers the page loaded before I start enhancing things. I'm worried that if I keep adding content with ready(), Google will think the page load is still happening and penalize me for a slowly loading page. So, another way to ask this question is "When does Google consider the page loaded and when can I start adding more elements without Google thinking it's still part of the initial page load?"


title: Why is Verisign spidering my website?

text: In my logs, I keep noticing that `69.58.178.57`, which is Verisign, is spidering through every page on my website, excluding pages of forms. Does anybody know why they are doing this?


title: Make my website dynamically loaded data available to Facebook Open Graph Object Scrapper

text: Here is the design of my web site:   1. The user enter `myWebsite.com/a/1`   2. .htaccess rules redirect to `myWebsite.com/b`   3. Now the JavaScript ExtJS library is loading.   4. Extracting the value from the URL (in this case it is “1”)   5. Loading `./xml/1.xml`   6. From `1.xml` setting the Open Graph data (Title, type, image, etc)   7. Loading data that will be shown to the user from `1.xml` into the website. My question is: How can I make the Open Graph data available to Facebook? Facebook do not to load my ExtJS JavaScript Library before extracting the Open Graph Object values from the HTML. Is there an easy solution to this problem? The only solutions I found is to make statics web pages or dynamically pages rendered on the server side but I would like to avoid these since my web page implementation is already finished and I would like to avoid re working on it.


title: Page Speed Performance (shown in Google AdSense) on Blogspot Dynamic Template

text: In Google AdSense, the Scorecard complains the **Page Speed Performance** of Google Blogger is not good ( marked as Red ). Note: In my Blogger site, I'm using Dynamic Template. Is there anything I can do to improve the speed ? or it is a false alarm ?


title: is it possible to use photobucket api in my rails application for twitter

text: I am wondering if its possible to use photobucket api in my rails twitter application to upload photos. is there any gem to do this or i need to do it by digging through Photobucket? Please suggest.


title: Why is <strong> in Safari significantly bolder than other browsers?

text: I am just about to go live with a new website - and during cross browser testing i noticed that the bold fonts in safari are FAR bolder (horribly chunky) in Safari than in the other big 4. The font I'm using is Telex from Google web fonts via CSS font-face ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GxOmp.png)


title: How to add a link to the users sandbox as on Wikipedia?

text: The page MediaWiki:Sidebar allows you to change/add to the menu on the left. So how to add or change items in the menu at the top, (is there a MediaWiki:Topbar page)? Specifically, how to add a link to the users sandbox as on Wikipedia?


Is the google +1 button domain dependent or url dependent? Ie: If exampledomain.com has a +1 count of 20, will exampledomain.com/anotherpage also have a count of 20 ?


title: How do you get a user base like Yelp did?

text: I am working on a website that will be community driven by user generated content. I need people to write reviews and their experiences in similar way as Yelp. What's the best way to offer them value to get and how did Yelp get their initial user base when they started out?


title: Can a redirect (and then redirect back) to check to see if users are logged-in hurt SEO?

text: I have a SaaS product which is hosted under several different domains. However, there is one company that manages all these domains. They asked for a system to be able to login at `domain1.com` and automatically be logged in at `domain2.com` etc. We implemented this feature using a central CAS server. However the solution requires a redirect (once only) to the CAS server domain to check if the user is logged in. Here is an example of the trace:   1. `www.example.com text/html 301` - permanent redirect (without `www`)   2. `example.com text/html 302` - temporary redirect (to check if user logged in via CAS server domain)   3. `login.cas-server.com/login text/html 303` - redirect again since action is complete here    4. `example.com text/html 200`   5. ...rest of page resources loads all OK `text/html 200` The problem we have noticed is that it appears traffic to the site has started to drop since we implemented this. My question is does the above practice hurt SEO and if so is there a way to tell search engine bots that we need to perform this redirect first (and to ignore it)? Is another redirect code better to use (perhaps 307)?


title: Best way to stop a country dropdown from affecting google SEO

text: We have a site that contains a "sign up" form in the sidebar in most pages. This signup contains a dropdown of countries, the contents of which are being indexed by google and affecting our sites SEO. Is there any recommended way to resolve this. As far as I can tell the options are: 1) Make the dropdown load dynamically via javascript (not an option for us since we need to work for non-jsj clients) 2) Take the signup form, stick it in its own page, and include that page in an iframe instead. This way, google will index that seperate file once only and so the country dropdown options should not be ranked so highly. Are there other options? Thanks


title: How do I monitor if SEO tags on my site changed during active development?

text: I work for a website that undergoes active development, with many production pushes per day. We are heavily SEO-dependent, and as our pages are being changed frequently by devs, we're always worried that an accidental change occurs to our page markup that negatively impacts SEO. Are there tools out there that monitor this (changes to SEO-related markup), and notify you if a change occurs?


title: Is content inside a <noscript> tag indexed by search indexes?

text: Is content inside a `<noscript>` (HTML4, HTML5) tag indexed by search engines? ( _Inspired bythis question_)


title: Let tester directly click on web site to report bugs, similar to bugherd?

text: I'm doing website User Testing and want them to report issues by clicking on web site and type text into a comment box. Similar to diigo.com or bugherd.com Bugherd is designed for this but it is still at an early stage -- too unstable for our production use as of Aug 2011. (Very impressive, though.) Diigo is not designed for bug tracking. It kind of works but I can't really integrate with our bug-fixing workflow. Apart from the obvious screenshot->save image->upload image to a bug tracker, are there ways to allow our users to easily point-and-click and input bugs?


title: When to switch to a CDN?

text: I have read about CDNs and what they do. The question I have is three fold.   1. **When should you start to use a CDN?** My site is small currently and do not see the need for a CDN but is there a general threshold that once crossed I should switch to a CDN? (Like say I have 2,000 visitors a day).   2. **When you do switch to a CDN what should you put on the CDN?** Just external JavaScript? All images? Some images? What are some general guides for what content goes onto the CDN and what should stay on your server?   3. **Does use of a CDN affect SEO and how?**


title: Converting web.config from IIS6 to IIS7 format

text: I'm a bit stuck, kinda been lumbered with a website developed over a year ago. The company that designed it and the company that own it dont now speak so I have been lumbered with trying to get it to work. Bought the web space and have loaded it on to one of our sub domains while I get it working. Problem is that the Hosting provider is running ISS7 and the _web.config_ was designed in IIS6 so am getting an error500 cause the tags are wrong. Could anyone give me some pointers on how to migrate the current web.config file over to IIS7.


title: Web Email Configuration

text: I just created emails for my website from the cpanel. I then gave links to the cpanel webmail to each owner of the newly created mails. When they tried to login it returened invalid username and password combination. But on my own end they are all working very well. please what could be the problem. This is my first time of doing email configuration and cpanel in general. I will be happy to provide any information that you might need. Thank you


title: How to block malicious requests before they reach Apache?

text: I have a RESTful web service that gets hit by a large number of requests coming from various IPs with dummy logins and random inputs. I have already denied these requests at the HTTP level (using the Apache config file) so they get a 403 response. However, it's still an annoyance seeing them pop up in the Apache log file, and they also consume some resources. Is it possible to drop the packets completely? Do I have to do this using iptables? What other ways are there to alleviate this issue?


title: Preventing adult content in a forum

text: I'm working on a forum that allows images attached to the posts and **doesn't require registration**. Thing is, I'd like to provide a work-safe navigation option in which the posts with porn images attached aren't shown. The ideas I've come up with are:   * Making the work-safe option the default and treating _all_ posts with images attached as pornographic, and making them visible only if the user "unchecks" it.   * Making all posts with images attached not work-safe by default and   changing their status to work-safe _only after a moderator approved_   it. Only then they would be visible if the user has the "work-safe" option checked. Does anyone else have an idea? Also, how the big web services deal with this? (YouTube, CraigsList, even StackExchange). By the way, I don't think that "nudity detector" libraries are accurate and they give plenty of false positives and negatives. Thanks!


title: Geotargeting based SEO problem

text: I have a website and it redirects users to their corresponding U.S. states page if they are in the U.S. region. For example, if I am in New York and I go to the website the page automatically redirected me to `domainname.com/newyork`. If I am from India, it opens the home page and asks me to select the state. So for `domainname.com`, if I search for this website on Google, it shows `domainname.com/california` as a home page. How can I rectify this? I want `domainname.com` as the home page for search engines.


title: Forum vs Q&A system

text: I would like to know what are the parameters that I have to take into consideration before deciding whether I should incorporate to a website a "Q&A system" or a traditional forum ? I think forums allow better search capabilities (you can easily dig out old posts) over the "Q&A system", but the latter offer simpler / faster interaction between the users and the site owners. I should add that only a few people (site owners + authorized people) could answer the questions, the user will be on a read-only basis. Anyone can help me decide between the two solutions ? Thank you in advance NB: There is also the impact on the SEOs, are they the same for forums and Q&A systems?


title: AdSense on WordPress Plugin Option Page

text: Does anybody know whether it is okey to put adsense ads on WordPress plugin option pages? Somebody told me that it's a violation of adsence's terms but I cannot find which one talks about it in here.


title: 1&1 booting policy

text: Does anyone know what the parameters are for One&one booting policy for their control panel? In that it seems a rather short period of time before you get before being kicked out of One&one and then have to login again, which takes ages. Does it work by a certain amount of inactivity or is there just a set amount of time you can stay logged in before it boots you? Either way, is there a way to override this? I'm in the process of a lengthy transfer of sites (away from one&one) and it's so frustrating to have to go through the long... slow login several times a day!


title: Why is "www.mysite.com" different from "mysite.com"?

text: In any browser if I use `www.mysite.com` or just `mysite.com` the web page is correctly retrieved, but I am having trouble with Google Analytics and Facebook App. **Facebook:** To be able to get Likes, I create the Facebook App needed and set the site URL to `http://mysite.com/`. Using their tool http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ when I test my page using `http://mypage.com` it works but using `http://www.mypage.com` fails with the message: > Object at URL 'http://www.mysite.com/' of type 'website' is invalid because > the domain 'www.mysite.com' is not allowed for the specified application id. **Google Analytics:** To be able to get traffic statistics, I created a Property and a Profile both with the URL `http://www.mypage.com` and no statistics were gathered in a week, when I changed the configured URL to `http://mypage.com` statistics where available a few hours later. What should I do to have statistics and likes for both `www.mysite.com` and `mysite.com` ??


title: Adding SPF records in GoDaddy

text: I have the GoDaddy hosting and send mail using the following code:                $to = "demomail@gmail.com";      $subject = "Test mail";      $message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";      $from = "info@brightmeup.com";      $headers = "From:" . $from;      mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);      echo "Mail Sent.";      When the mail arrives at its destination I see the following (in red outline) > ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/j6J7d.png) I don't want to show the "via server" and for that there is an option to add a SPF record. To do this I have followed the instructions in this page: > Managing DNS for Your Domain Names but it's not working. After that i have tried: `v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all` as described in http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178723 but I still get the same result. How can I solve this and prevent "via server" showing?


title: Website configuraiton for SEO Optimization

text: In order to promote our product in the various search engines, we've changed our `index.html` to redirect to `ourapp.com/product/index.html` and moved all our HTML code to `ourapp.com/product/index.html` Is that the right approach? Also, is there a canonical place to put files `sitemap.xml` and `BingSiteAuth.xml`?


title: how can i let my friends visit my webserver?

text: How do I make it so that my friends can visit my localhost website by typing in my IP address into their browser address bar? I'm using XAMPP what steps do i need to take etc.


title: Did Google penalize my site due to interlinking backlinks around same company website and blog?

text: I’m handling two websites in my company and both have more than 18,000 backlinks (I checked it through my GWT) and most of the links are coming from a Blogspot blog. I checked each and every backlink and I found that one particular blog contains most of our links. That blog has been handled by our colleague and he had posted more than 1080 posts. Each and every post contains my website’s link. That blog is related to cricket and mine is about boxing and track and field. At the end of each post my links have been placed by comma separation which looks odd for me because all the posts are related to cricket and mine is about boxing and track and field. He placed anchor texts as _Boxing gloves_ and _Athletic Gear_ in the last line of each post and from that anchor text my website has been getting backlink. After Google Last penguin 2.0 update I found that both of my websites lost ranking on Google. All my main keywords gone to 100th page (before Penguin update they were on first two pages) including _Boxing Gloves_ and _Athletic Gear_. Now my doubt is about the backlinks from that Blogspot blog. Did Google penalize my site because of that backlinks (interlinking around same company website and blog)? Does inbound links from cricket related page to boxing page is a link spam? See this image for more info: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ptBEq.jpg)


title: Schema or Data Vocabulary microdata for breadcrumbs?

text:
Google and other SEs support **schema.org** for marking up structured data, but it turns out that _for breadcrumbs_ Google recommends using **data- vocabulary.org** instead. Which should we use for having breadcrumbs appear in search results? ![Breadcrumb rich snippet example in Google SERP](http://i.stack.imgur.com/PRcRL.png) I noticed that there are issues with the Schema markup for breadcrumbs, so does that mean it's best not to use it for now? The code suggested in each is slightly different — so changing from one to the other site-wide in the future could be a nuisance:   ## Schema                    ...
       Books >       Literature & Fiction >       Classics
      ## Data Vocabulary
                Dresses        ›

                Real Dresses        ›

                Real Green Dresses


title: What is a good solution for UA testing multiple projects simultaneously?

text: My client often has several projects/tasks going at once that sometimes need to be tested simultaneously on one website. They are often separate applications on the website, but sometimes share UDFs, etc. We currently have 3 public-facing environment websites - i.e. dev.website.com, test.website.com, and www.website.com. As the programmer, I'm trying to find a good solution to allow for UA testing of multiple projects/tasks at once. Currently, I'm finding myself switching between code branches (using SubVersion). What some of my options?


title: Duplicate content from a website still indexed by Google

text: My client used a third-party company that used duplicate link exchanges on their website previously. When my client gave their website to me to maintain it, I developed a different website that doesn't use link exchanges, and actually doesn't contain any duplicate content. Although the website has changed, the duplicate content is still indexed by search engines. I checked this with Google using:               site:www.example.com      and the results were:               www.example.com     www.example.com/links_1     www.example.com/links_2     www.example.com/links_3      ...until page 5 on Google, and with same _meta description_ and _meta title_. It's very bad because when I search for **_example_** (the name of website, not using a keyword), not one of the results is _www.example.com_. I think the source of the problem is that Google still has the duplicate content indexed used by the website previously. Is there any method/way to delete this, or get Google to index the new site?


title: Archiving web content annually. One site or sites by year?

text: I run scientific conferences and over the past 15 years have amassed tens of thousands of abstracts, videos, and digital posters from presentations. Over the last couple of years we've started creating specific sites to hold that year's conference data for pre-meeting marketing purposes, e.g.   * conference2012.org   * conference2011.org   * etc. But now my clients are asking that their entire archives be made public on the web. The actual work involved in doing this is trivial but I can't decide what is the best way to structure it. Should I have one large site (conference.org) and load all of the content into it using the year as a top-level category or should I continue to work backwards by year (conferenceYEAR.org)? What is the best from a user-experience standpoint? From an SEO standpoint?


title: How do I register a domain name, but keep who I am secret?

text: Over the years I've seen a number of owner proxy services, but have never used one, and have no idea if they work; or for that matter if there's any legal risk to using them, such as making easier to lose the domain, or drawing the attention of someone for some reason. Also, clearly, there's also the risk of losing the trust of users of the site, but for now, I'm okay with that.


title: URL need to ban at Apache server

text: I am need to ban this URL to visit my website, but don't know how should I do this?               http://www.skywalkerltd.com/index.php/user-account/pay-per-click/view/66      I'm a new user of Cpanel 11 / Apache / linux Server.


title: How can I install a module in Plone 4.0.5?

text: I have an existing website that is old and html. I'd like to import it into Plone, and make it "Future Proof" thanks to Plone. I found on the Plone website which modules could help me with it: FunnelWeb, mr.importer and Collective.xdv. I downloaded and extracted all of them, but now I don't know what I should do with these Folders... It's not on the website and neither in the ReadMe File... I'm sorry if it might be a silly question for most of you, but it's too hard for me... ;-) Thanks in advance for your help.


title: HostGator hosting account and DNS servers

text: I have a hosting package on HostGator on domain `example.com` I also got a VPS server from Digital Ocean and have setup the DNS Details on the server there (A Record pointing on DO server IP with `@` as hostname) and have also setup the DNS Servers on my domain DNS Settings which is hosted on HostGator. All seem okay right now... It's been 3-4 hours I think till I made these changes and when I point to `example.com` I still get on the active hosting package files instead of the server files. Do I need to cancel the hosting package first before I can make this work? **EDIT:** If I'm in the wrong site please move it to the correct one.


title: Is it necessary to link to all landing pages from the homepage?

text: What I am wanting to do is build quite a few landing pages targeting specific keywords from google search. These pages will give a brief explanation of what we do and how we can help them with what they are looking for. Along with that, they will have a signup form. My question is where should these go in the site structure? Should the homepage link to all of them somehow? Or should the homepage link to some 'features' page or 'sitemap' page that then links to all of the landing pages? Or maybe the pages don't need to be linked from the homepage at all and can just be included in the sitemap. I feel that the last option probably isn't the best idea. EDIT: Quite a few is around 50 - 100. I plan on getting uses to the page by targeting niche ketwords and probably some adwords traffic as well. However I don't know if they need to be linked to somewhere in my site.


title: VS2012 One-Click Web Publish using file hashes instead of timestamps

text: We have have a small ASP.NET MVC web application that we develop and publish to a remote server using Visual Studio One-Click Web Publishing. We maintain our code in revision control, make edits, and trust one another on our small team to follow publishing guidelines both to test and production. However, when we switch from one to another publisher, the whole site gets republished because timestamps are different, both on the source files (due to SVN functionality) and binaries (pretty much unavoidable), resulting in a lengthier process and downtime. I know there are MSDeploy flags to publish using file hashes instead. Is there a way to enable these for use from the One-Click Publish interaction? (see 'usechecksum' at Web Deploy Operation Settings for information on this flag)


title: Impressions for brand keywords is more compared to non-brand?

text: I have noticed for my campaign that in Webmaster the impression for brand keywords is more compared to that of non-brand keywords. Any specific reason for this? Because the local search volume for brand keyword is less compared to that of non-brand and both my brand & non-brand keywords are ranking on top 5 positions. Can anyone help me?


title: IIS 7: Masking real domain

text: I have a website with 2 languages. **website.local/fr** and **website.local/en** How can I redirect:   * **myfrweb.com** to **website.local/fr** and   * **myenweb.com** to **website.local/en** keeping the **myenweb.com** or **myfrweb.com** in the navigation url? Because actually when I redirect myfrweb.com to website.local/fr, if I'm navigating to myfrweb.com, the url become website.local/fr.


title: Amazon web service to get purchase data

text: Is there a web service (either one of Amazon's own or a third-party) that will let me pull my purchase data from Amazon into my own site? This is strictly for personal use; I only want to get data associated with my own Amazon account. I'm currently working in PHP, so would need a PHP API. **EDIT:**   Just to make it clear, I'm looking for my own purchase history, not data from my seller account. I'd also consider a feed of info from my media library section. Given that there's an option to share those items, I'm assuming there's some kind of programmatic hook into it.


title: Google showing description from iframe on a page

text: I have facebook login on my page and I recently noted that google search result shows up a fb's warning message in the site description, fb's javascript plugin adds a iframe to the page for FB login which has the content shown in the image inside its body tag. How do I get rid of the waring message on google? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QZzmC.png)


title: Multiple domains but one report in Google Analytics?

text: I'd like to generate a report for a dozen or so websites with different domains. Example:   * `myfirstsite.com`   * `acoolsite.com`   * `brandsite.com`   * etc. I am obviously able to generate reports for each URL, but how can I generate a master report using Google Analytics that summarizes all the traffic from all the websites?


title: Sitemap file linked from another Sitemap file

text: I currently have a site setup that, in addition to regular static pages, also has a WordPress blog. This results in my main site having a sitemap.xml file listing the basic pages and then a sitemap for the WordPress blog posts. I understand that I could create a sitemap_index file and point to each of the sitemap files, but would it be possible to just link to the WordPress sitemap from my regular sitemap file? For instance:               <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1">     <url>         <loc>https://www.example.com/wordpress_sitemap.xml</loc>         <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>         <lastmod>2013-04-30T14:10:03+00:00</lastmod>         <priority>1.0</priority>     </url>


title: How can I redirect port 80 to a different port with Apache?

text: I have tomcat running on port 8080 and want a particular URL, lets say `http://example.com/app`, to actually point to `example.com:8080/app` I have other content on the website that should remain unchanged.


title: Changing registration to Private/ Anonymous with .co.uk domains

text: I have a domain which I have registered in my own name and address. Is there anyway that I can make this private? I am currently using GoDaddy. I have seen 123-reg offer a private registration when you register a new domain.


title: Common Header & Footer for HTML Site

text: I'm about to re-work an old HTML-based site and would like to separate out the header and footer of the content into separate files as they'll be common to all pages. The current site author just copied their index.html page and replaced the body text for each subsequent page, making changes to the menu and such a huge maintenance pain. I could go the Server Side Includes (SSI) route and include a header file and a footer file into each page to strip out the common content, but that would require that I rename all files with the *.shtml extension right? Any other options for doing the header & footer file inclusion without modifying the existing extensions (no dynamic content in the site, so going php or asp etc is not warranted). (note: running IIS 7.5 as the web server)


title: Does anyone know how to block Evony?

text: There are lots of posts on Google's forums about Evony and their shady tactics: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense/thread?tid=7c9ef267b8b3c01f&hl=en http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense/thread?tid=504b2e4035058e1d&hl=en evonyonline.com definitely doesn't work any more. I don't know why Google doesn't stop these monkeys. Does anyone know how to nuke Evony's latest garbage? I have about twenty filters but I am still seeing Evony ads on my site.


title: How to show Fixture on Google search result

text: I was searching for some football match fixture when i saw google showing fixtures right on the search result. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jCXDL.jpg) That makes me wondering if there is some technology I am missing (like microformat for showing user reviews) **Same goes for event listings.** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XHYRg.jpg) So, **what technology they used for this or its just google organic pickup?**


title: Is it a bad idea to use multiple analytic packages?

text: Is it alright to use multiple analytics packages (Google, clicky, mixpanel, etc) at the same time on the same site? Would it be more beneficial to just use one package?


title: Keep header across sites

text: We have a site, which has a main site served by Google Sites and a custom made forum running on a dedicated server. Now we want to use the header from Google Sites also on the forum, so it feels like the same site. I first tried creating an IFrame on the main site and placing the forum inside this IFrame. This looked nice, but I did not find a way to make direct links. The URL always was Open-Org.com no matter which topic on the forum one clicked at. I have thought about simply copying the relevant HTML code, but this means that I have to recopy it every time the header on the main page changes. Is there a nicer way to do such a thing? It must be a problem that many sites needs to solve. If what I am describing is unclear, there are more specific information here.


title: Multi Regional Webmaster Tools Targeting

text: We have a multi regional website which uses a two character string after the main domain to define which region's content to show e.g. `http://www.example.com/uk/` is the domain with English content specifically targeted at the UK. There are a few pages which exist on all of the versions of the website (home page, about page, contact page). However much of the content is region specific and the structure differs somewhat depending on which region you are viewing from. What would be the best way to implement hreflang tags based on the fact that the sites aren't set up as multi-language with the same content but are slightly different websites for each targeted region? Also, for some reason each regional version of the website has been set up as a separate site in Webmaster Tools. We're thinking about deleting the existing entries for the website from Webmaster Tools and setting up a new single entry that covers the whole website instead of having one for each region. Could this be detrimental in any way?


title: Do search engines index a rich snippet data from HTML which is not visible?

text: I want to add some piece of data to rich snippets (for example, breadcrumps), but this information is not visible on the page (for example, because the designer has not yet prepared the sketches) Is there a way to tell search engines to index this data?


title: I'm receiving an "Account Suspended Page" when trying to accessing my VPS

text: I have a VPS account and host a handful of sites. Two of these sites I cannot view from specific computers. When I open the sites I get the account suspended page. See screenshot below. ![Screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/IhCaQ.png) Here is what is odd. I only see it on two of my home computers. I also have a laptop at home that doesn't show it. If I look on my iPhone or iPad I do not see it. All of these devices are on the same IP. So that makes it extra weird. If I use a proxy I can in fact see the sites appear to be OK and are up online. I've cleared my cache multiple times, even did a DNS flush and nothing. So I'm wondering, why in the heck can I not view on my 2 specific computers? Has anyone else experienced something like this before and know how to solve it?


title: Can embedding a content from another website be considered as a violation of copyright law?

text: I would like to embed a content from another website (a webcam object) to my website. Can it be considered as a violation of copyright law? Both my website and the embedded are within EU. There is no copyright claim at the website I'd like to embed.


title: Why do different browsers return different search results at Google and how can I prevent it?

text: I am running some websites and am constantly checking keywords' rankings on google.com. And it is really important for us to see the organic search result without logging in or setting a specific location. Since this morning my colleague and I have checked the same ranking on both IE and firefox, the result surprisingly is very different (it almost feel like IE was logged in because the ranking is much higher, while in reality it is not). I have changed computer and the same problem occurred. It did not happen before. Can anyone tell me why is it?


title: URL rewritten pages take much longer to load

text: (Same issue as http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3987754/how-to-diagnose- htaccess-speed-issues-via-rewritelog but more clearly explained below) We have a site which has scripts like this:               http://www.oursite.com/abcd/somescript.php      We also have URL rewritten pages like this:               http://www.oursite.com/abcd/events/Anything/Anything/abc/abc.html      All of these share 90% same content in terms of js, css, and image files. But the URL rewritten pages are extra-ordinary slow to load. Similarly, clicking on ANY link within such a page which leads to another such page is also very slow! It strongly looks like that the browser is reloading the page completely and not using the cached images which should be present on the browser. I turned on RewriteLog (at level 2) in Apache's httpd.conf and it shows the below when I:   1. Accessed the homepage at: www.example.com/abcd/   2. Clicked on the link to browse categories   3. Clicked on the category - Language URL/sid#ID = www.example.com/sid#2b06c5712d30              Step 1     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56caf10/initial] (1) [perdir ar/www/html/abcd/] pass through /var/www/html/abcd/index.php     Step 2     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56caf10/initial] (2) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] rewrite 'classes-events.html' -> 'browse.php?type=classes-events'     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56caf10/initial] (2) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] trying to replace prefix /var/www/html/abcd/ with /abcd/     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56caf10/initial] (1) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] internal redirect with /abcd/browse.php [INTERNAL REDIRECT]     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56d8528/initial/redir#1] (1) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] pass through /var/www/html/abcd/browse.php     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56caf10/initial] (1) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] pass through /var/www/html/abcd/ajax/showUserData.php     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56caf10/initial] (1) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] pass through /var/www/html/abcd/ajax/showUserData.php     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56caf10/initial] (1) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] pass through /var/www/html/abcd/ajax/showUserData.php     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56caf10/initial] (1) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] pass through /var/www/html/abcd/ajax/browse.php     Step 3     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56caf10/initial] (2) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] rewrite 'classes-events/Language/206.html' -> 'browse.php?type=classes-events&catId=206'     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56caf10/initial] (2) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] trying to replace prefix /var/www/html/abcd/ with /abcd/     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56caf10/initial] (1) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] internal redirect with /abcd/browse.php [INTERNAL REDIRECT]     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56d8948/initial/redir#1] (1) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] pass through /var/www/html/abcd/browse.php     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56ccf20/initial] (2) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] rewrite 'classes-events/Language/ajax/showUserData.php' -> 'ajax/showUserData.php'     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56ccf20/initial] (2) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] trying to replace prefix /var/www/html/abcd/ with /abcd/     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56ccf20/initial] (1) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] internal redirect with /abcd/ajax/showUserData.php [INTERNAL REDIRECT]     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56d59d8/initial/redir#1] (1) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] pass through /var/www/html/abcd/ajax/showUserData.php     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56ccf20/initial] (2) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] rewrite 'classes-events/Language/ajax/showUserData.php' -> 'ajax/showUserData.php'     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56ccf20/initial] (2) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] trying to replace prefix /var/www/html/abcd/ with /abcd/     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56ccf20/initial] (1) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] internal redirect with /abcd/ajax/showUserData.php [INTERNAL REDIRECT]     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56da9f8/initial/redir#1] (1) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] pass through /var/www/html/abcd/ajax/showUserData.php     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56cef30/initial] (2) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] rewrite 'classes-events/Language/ajax/showUserData.php' -> 'ajax/showUserData.php'     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56cef30/initial] (2) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] trying to replace prefix /var/www/html/abcd/ with /abcd/     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56cef30/initial] (1) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] internal redirect with /abcd/ajax/showUserData.php [INTERNAL REDIRECT]     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56f4268/initial/redir#1] (1) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] pass through /var/www/html/abcd/ajax/showUserData.php     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56cef30/initial] (2) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] rewrite 'classes-events/Language/ajax/browse.php' -> 'ajax/browse.php'     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56cef30/initial] (2) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] trying to replace prefix /var/www/html/abcd/ with /abcd/     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d56cef30/initial] (1) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] internal redirect with /abcd/ajax/browse.php [INTERNAL REDIRECT]     IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [URL/sid#ID][rid#2b06d57127d8/initial/redir#1] (1) [perdir /var/www/html/abcd/] pass through /var/www/html/abcd/ajax/browse.php      * * * **Edit 1** - this is the .htaccess that we're using               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /abcd/          RewriteRule ^.*/codelibrary/(.*)$ codelibrary/$1 [L]     #RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} in_upload/images/(.*) [NC,OR]     RewriteRule ^.*/in_upload/images/(.*)$ in_upload/images/$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !in_upload/(.*)\.     RewriteRule ^.*/images/(.*)$ images/$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^.*/admin/ajax/(.*)$ admin/ajax/$1 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !admin/(.*)\.     RewriteRule ^.*/ajax/(.*)$ ajax/$1 [L]          RewriteRule ^.*/banner_images/(.*)$ banner_images/$1 [L]          #php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off     RewriteRule (.*)invite/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ referer.php?in_name=$2     RewriteRule (.*)cms/([a-zA-Z\-]*).html$ static-pages.php?page_url=$2 [L]     RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ t-profile-public.php?name=$1          RewriteRule (.*)cms/([a-zA-Z\-]*).html$ static-pages.php?page_url=$2 [L]          RewriteRule (.*)classes-events.html$ browse.php?type=classes-events [L]     RewriteRule (.*)ins.html$ browse.php?type=ins [L]     RewriteRule (.*)orgs.html$ browse.php?type=orgs [L]     RewriteRule (.*)random-content.html$ browse.php?type=content&random_order=1 [L]     RewriteRule (.*)content.html$ browse.php?type=content [L]          RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z\-]*)/([a-zA-Z0-9\s]*)/([0-9]*)\.html$ browse.php?type=$1&catId=$3 [L]     RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z\-]*)/([a-zA-Z0-9\s]*)/([a-zA-Z0-9\s]*)/([0-9]*)/([0-9]*)\.html$ browse.php?type=$1&catId=$4&subCatId=$5 [L]     #RewriteRule (.*)search/all/([a-zA-Z0-9\s]*)$ searchall.php?type=all&srcval=$2 [L]     #RewriteRule (.*)search/([a-zA-Z\s\-]*)/([a-zA-Z0-9\s]*)$ search.php?type=$2&srcval=$3 [L]     #RewriteRule (.*)search/([a-zA-Z\s\-]*)/all/([a-zA-Z0-9\s]*)$ search.php?type=$2&srcval=$3&seeall=all [L]     #RewriteRule (.*)featured/([a-zA-Z\s\-]*)$ featured-listing.php?type=$2&feature=1 [L]     #RewriteRule (.*)featured/([a-zA-Z\-]*)/([a-zA-Z0-9\s]*)/([0-9]*)\.html$ featured-listing.php?type=$2&catId=$4&feature=1 [L]          RewriteRule (.*)search/all/(.*)$ searchall.php?type=all&srcval=$2 [L]     RewriteRule (.*)search/([a-zA-Z\s\-]*)/all/(.*)$ search.php?type=$2&srcval=$3&seeall=all [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !all/(.*)\.     RewriteRule (.*)search/([a-zA-Z\s\-]*)/(.*)$ search.php?type=$2&srcval=$3 [L]     RewriteRule (.*)featured/(.*)$ featured-listing.php?type=$2&feature=1 [L]     RewriteRule (.*)featured/([a-zA-Z\-]*)/(.*)/([0-9]*)\.html$ featured-listing.php?type=$2&catId=$4&feature=1 [L]     ErrorDocument 404 http://www.oursite.com/abcd/404.php


title: Is an image of a stripe considered copyrighted?

text: I have an image that I found on another site. It's just a one pixle wide stripe, and I'm wondering if it's protected by copyright. ![One pixel wide stripe](http://i.stack.imgur.com/FqX8S.gif)


title: Should i redirect to rename URI?

text: Lets take this site, the path is               /questions/Question-ID/title      If a user writes the below it still works. On my site I was wondering if i should redirect the to the new url or let it be? what error code should i use? 302? 303?               /questions/Question-ID


title: Disqus integration in website.. what is wrong?

text:
I try to embed a disqus forum in a website I created. I used the exact code and instructions they give on the installation instructions. I just don't get it. Not much on Google either. Is something wrong in the code? Should I change anything?               <!DOCTYPE HTML>                  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">      <link rel="shortcut icon" href="../favicon.ico">      <title>Little Louie | Hennis & Blaisse Lovers Productions</title>      <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="some,tags">      <link href="../style2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
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title: Is it true that quickly closing a webpage opened from a search engine result can hurt the site's ranking?

text: My web designer recently told me that I need to be careful not to Google for my business' website, click on its search result link, then _quickly_ close the page (or click back) too many times. He says "Google knows" that I didn't stay on the page, and could penalize my site for having a high bounce rate if it happens too much. Apparently, it could look like the behavior of a visitor who was not interested in what they found (hence the supposed detrimental effect on the site's search ranking). This sounds hard to believe to me because I would not have thought any information is transmitted which tells Google (or anyone, for that matter) whether or not a website is still open in a browser (in my case Firefox v25.0). Could there possibly be any truth to this? If not, why might he have come to this conclusion? Is there some click- tracking or similar technology employed by search engines which does something similar? Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts.


title: Any suggestion on MySQL services?

text: I would like to separate my production server into 2, one for running code, the other one is for DB, which is MySQL. Is there any suggestion if I would like to subscribe a MySQL service? I have few applications need such standalone database service. So I would like to a service which allow me to create as many database as I want. Thanks everyone. :)


title: Did I use the proper way to remove pages from Google Webmaster Tools forever?

text: I have many pages from one year ago that were deleted and are returning a `404` error code, but two week ago after I cleared the content of my _robots.txt_ , the errors in my Google Webmaster Tools reports are still showing them as _not found_. After I read this Google support document, today I inserted these new meta tags for `404` error pages:               <meta name="robots" content="noindex">     <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">       and after added that, I decided to change the header from: `header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");` to `header("HTTP/1.0 410 Gone");` Do you think these new changes are right?


title: Link to Youtube video via middleman website - SEO perspective

text: It would be great to hear some opinions on my issue. I have WordPress website and YouTube channel. I would like to put links to my YouTube videos on some other websites. I am wondering if it is good (bad?) idea to share links that points to page on my website, and then through WordPress plugin the website seamlessly redirects user to YouTube video. So basically is it better (from SEO perspective) to share this kind of link: `http://example.com/dogs-video` (301 redirect to YouTube) or `http://youtube.com/dogs-video`? I was thinking that sharing videos through links pointing to my website would result in more external services pointing to my site and finally higher Google Search position. Any help is very appreciated. Cheers, Luke


title: What does a complete rebrand/focus change do for a domains SEO?

text: I have a client that launched a webstore a while back and for example, lets say he sold apples on it and the domain was called www.fruit.com The webstore is not doing so well so he has decided to do a whole website rebrand, and change his product focus to selling oranges instead of apples. The thing is that he likes the domain www.fruit.com and wants to keep that. My question is what will that mean for all of the SEO that was previously done for the original www.fruits.com that sold apples. There are many external links pointing to www.fruits.com to satisfy their "apple" needs, but now he is selling oranges. Is this a problem that will eventually go away as new links focusing on "oranges" start to proliferate the internet? Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated.


title: xampp not working with DynDNS

text: My setup consists of:   * a XAMPP 1.7.7 installation, with Apache configured to listen to port `8080`   * dyn.com to make the projects accessible from the web ( `8080` shows up as 'open' when checking with http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports )   * various PHP/Ajax/etc projects stored in folders inside `xampp/htdocs`. Ex: `xampp/htdocs/crypt`   * the `xampp` folder, phpMyAdmin and MySQL are password-protected When trying to access any of the projects using dyn.dns URLs ( `http://mydomain.dyndns-ip.com/crypt` ), I get a web page with something like > Object Not Found   >  The requested URL '/crypt' was not found on the RomPager server. Adding the port number ( `http://mydomain.dyndns-ip.com:8080/crypt` ) will result in "The connection has timed out" pages. _However_ , all the projects work when loaded with a localhost URL ( `http://localhost:8080/crypt/` ). Other issues:   * accessing the root dyn.com URL asks me to log in to my router   * when clicking the "Admin" button for Apache on the XAMPP control panel, it opens `http://localhost/xampp/` - instead of `http://localhost:8080/xampp/` I think this might have something to do with password-protecting the `xampp` folder, but there doesn't seem to any automatic way of "undo"-ing the security changes, and I don't know how to do that manually. Any pointers in troubleshooting this issue would be appreciated.


title: Why has mysql stopped working on localhost and how do I fix it?

text: I asked this at superuser but I'm having no joy there. I was really hoping someone could help because I'm stumped. I use a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.4 For a few years I have used MAMP to test websites locally but suddenly and for no apparent reason when I start the MAMP servers the mysql light stays red. I'm not very clued up on how to actually run a server which is the main reason I use MAMP. I also have Sequel Pro installed for administering my databases. When I try to connect to mysql in Sequel Pro through a socket connection it says > The socket file could not be found in any common location. Please supply the > correct socket location. and then > MySQL said: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > 'tmp/mysql.sock' (2) I _can_ connect and access all my databases if I connect with host 127.0.0.1 but I used to just connect through the socket and all was fine. Also all my testing sites which I hosted locally are no longer being processed by PHP. I have no idea why this suddenly stopped working and any light someone could shine on the matter would be very much appreciated. A solution even more so. Thanks.


title: How long is the redemption period on a domain?

text: There is a domain that I would like to buy that has a status as follows: Registry Status: redemptionPeriod I presume this means the current owner has a grace period during which they can repurchase the domain but it is not available on the open market. How long is this period?


title: What affect does having two URLs pointing to the same path have on SEO?

text: I have two URLs: `http://ent.example.com` and `http://www.example.com/ent/`. Both of them are mapped to my server path `/www/ent`. I am very confused, how would this affect my SEO as far as Google is concerned? If two URLs are pointing to the same path, would Google consider this cheating?


title: How to obtain a visuap sitemap of a website?

text: I wish to analyse a certain website before quoting for a job to rebuild it (I am not a developer but a project manager). I can download the xml sitemap quite easily from a site such as this one: http://www.web-site-map.com/, but I am not able to read or understand this output. Ideally I would love to be able to see this as a visual sitemap tree. Does anyone know if this kind of thing is possible, and how to do it if so?


title: Analysing traffic sources in Analytics for Magento sales

text: Hi I have a Magento installation linked with a Google Analytics account. It works very well in that I can see conversions, I can see the products that are selling directly from analytics and I can get an overview of traffic sources for those sales. What I can't work out how to track/see is what keywords are being used by the customers that are completing sales. Can anybody let me know how this data can be gathered or if it's even possible? (is this possibly a privacy issue?)


title: Combining a content management system with ASP.NET

text: I am going to be creating a site that seems like it requires a blend of a content management system (CMS) and some custom web development (which is done in ASP.NET MVC). I have plenty of web development experience to understand the ASP.NET MVC side of the fence, but, I don't have a lot of CMS knowledge aside from getting one stood up. Right now my biggest question is around integrating security from ASP.NET with the CMS. I currently have an ASP.NET MVC site that handles the authentication for multiple production sites and creates an authentication cookie under our domain (*.example.com). The page acts like a single sign on page since the cookie is a wildcard and can be used in any other applications of the same domain. I'd really like to avoid having users put in their credentials twice. Is there a CMS that will play well with the ASP.NET Forms Authentication given how I have these existing applications structured? As an aside, right now I am leaning towards Drupal, but, that isn't finalized.


title: 301 Redirect HTML Pages

text:
In a web debugger, the html of a 301 redirect page shows up as:               <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">          <title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
Moved Permanently

The document has moved here.
           I'm having to redirect html pages without server support. If I replace the pages html with the code above, will that work the same as writing 301 redirects in .htaccess on apache? I looked this up on google, but the sites talking about 301 redirects didn't cover this option for redirecting html pages.


title: Trouble with images in phppgAdmin on my Nginx VPS

text: this is my first time using Nginx or phppgAdmin, and after placing the phppgadmin folder into my public_html folder I find that the resources for the phppgadmin page are broken, images and css specifically. phppgAdmin runs and works with postgresql/php on my system, but without images or css it becomes difficult to use.


title: Best way to get RSS Email / RSS Subscribers

text: I use Feedburner right now to get RSS Subscribers, but I think there is too much friction with Feedburner, they require a captcha among other things. What are some good email RSS subscription options I can offer my readers?


title: Moving Website From CMS

text: I have recently had a website created for me by an IT company. The problem is that i am being charged extortant amounts of money to change minor things. They have charged me to a create a small CMS system, but it is overly simple and gives me very little control. I want to move my website to a new host so that I have full control of it. Can someone please explain the process i would have to go through in order to achieve this? NB: I have experience working with SQL, phpMyAdmin, HTML, CSS etc. Any and all help is much appreciated.. :)


title: How similar can 2 pages be before Google de-indexes one of them?

text: Using Similar Page Checker (http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php), you can check if a web page is similar to other one. Is there any rule of thumb how high a percentage similarity is accepted by Google? That is, when Google consider that a page is too similar to another one and will not index it. I have two pages on the same domain where "how to order" information is 70% similar.


title: Where does Google pull the results for the define operator

text: Google has a define: operator which provides a list of definitions for a given word. Where does Google pull those definitions from? i.e. what does Google look for on a page to determine that that page is a definition for a word? (This has been discussed a number of times on Webmaster World but nobody has come up with an answer yet.)


title: Creating an online community - use templates or self-develop?

text: **PHPMotion, Joomla or develop my own?** I'm thinking of developing a common interest online community. It will be have UGC, stats, etc.. functionality, and perhaps an online store. Though cost is an issue at this time, I want to be professional and effective.   1. Should I use existing free platform templates, like PHP, Joomla, or should I develop my own?   2. What are the advantages/disadvantages of either option?   3. As a rough estimate, how much will it cost me to develop and manage my own? And how long will it take.   4. In general what should I be careful about on this journey?


title: Is there any way to invalidate all memcache entries that begin with "User*"?

text: I recently made a change to my User class (which is memcached); is there any way I can invalidate all entries whose key begins with `User` without invalidating the entire cache? If not are there any workarounds? I would rather not delete everything.


title: How important is it to be W3C complaint?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  HTML validation: is it worth it? How important is to be W3C complaint. Currently I have 27 errors reported by W3C validator. Is that ok or I need to reduce the error count?


title: Do Search Engines Crawlers Read CSS?

text: Making something **bold** makes it more important for search engine ranking and even improves readability for humans. To get the search engine ranking benefit, do we need to use `<b>` or `<strong>` tag or are CCS rules to do this recognized? **In other words, do search engine crawlers actually read and apply CSS when analyzing content?**


title: What's the best way to implement texting into my webapp?

text: I'd like to allow users to text to a certian number in order to complete actions on their accounts. An example would be               update name with Captain      Basically what I'm asking is about is a service that can receive texts and has an API so that I can use them for my site... Thanks for any help!


title: Website not showing in Google search

text: I have a site hosted at Brinkster and all keywords are there, but I still can't get it to show up in a Google search. I thought if I searched for it by domain name, it would show up in the Google search results. Can anyone explain why it's not showing up?


title: Transfer ownership of abandoned Google Analytics account

text: The web team of a new client was fully responsible for the client's Google Analytics account, meaning the client didn't keep records of the account. Now that that web team has gone under we are trying to retrieve the account. Is it possible to request an account to be transferred to another owner, or alternatively have a full-privileged user added to the account? What steps should I take to resolve this issue with Google?


title: php wallet system

text: I'm looking to set up a wallet system to run in a web app. The sort of thing that Adwords has i.e. you deposit money and then you can use money from you account to purchase items inside the web app. I've looked traditional payment processors and merchant banks, but they said I needed a wallet system. Does any one know of any and what's involved in setting them up? The web app is in PHP so it would be helpful if the wallet system was too.


title: How do webmasters store and keep track of their passwords

text: I'm developing a site for the first time, and I'm trying to work out the **best way to store and track all the accounts/passwords** e.g. Server passwords, ftp passwords, API passwords (FB, Google, Twitter), Email account passwords. There's a lot! If any one of these is compromised it could do a lot of damage. Also, I use public key authentication over SSH for connecting to my server using putty, but sadly, i actually fail to understand how this is safer than using default root login with a good password. For the private key is stored on my local machine and a password is not (hopefully not written down in plain text elsewhere). So what if my key was stolen? Would the thief be able to use that key to log in to the server and wreak havoc?


title: How can I prevent Googlebot from indexing web service URL's?

text: I have a problem with googlebot and bingbot accessing our web service. We have a search application created in aspx that is integrated into a drupal website. Users perform searches based on postal code or city through drupal and search query is outputted through aspx. The problem is that google/bing keeps indexing the aspx returned query pages and then we receive 404 errors. How can I prevent googlebot from indexing the web service. We are on IIS 7.5. Do we setup a rule on the server? I have tried blocking it in robots.txt but am unsure if I have the correct syntax.               Disallow: /*?     User-agent: Googlebot     Noindex: /office/default.aspx     Noindex: /?keyword     Noindex: /electronics/locationdetails.aspx?     Noindex: /electronics/communitydetails.aspx?     Noindex: /electronics/Communitylist.aspx?     Noindex: /office/communitysearch.aspx?     Noindex: /Electronics/Communitylist.aspx?     Noindex: /Office/LocationDetails.aspx?


title: Is it Okay to add Keyword TAGS at the beginning or endiing of the post?

text: This question is bugging me from last few days.. I have seen many sites have 'TAGS' or 'INCOMING SEARCH ITEMS' and they have big list of keywords under it. Check out this example: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/khcr8.jpg) One of my blog was recently de-indexed may be because i had used long titles. Can some one tell me if its okay to use such keywords in the beginning of post ? Is it allowed by Google search engine guidelines? is there any chance that the blog will get de indexd or penalized ?


title: Difference between Theme Vs Layout Vs Tamplate

text: What is difference between **Theme** Vs **Layout** Vs **Tamplate**? Thanks.


title: Will using the production domain for testing/developing affect SERP rankings?

text: I have been working on a blog via wordpress that was setup through my hosting account for a while now. I currently have a plugin called, "Restricted Site Access 4.0 for WordPress" that displays a restriction message to visitors that prevents them from seeing the actual site.   I plan to deactive the plugin upon finishing but was wondering if this affects the SEO or SERP?


title: Why do I see my website's URL links on Google Analyitcs keywords list?

text: Is it normal ? Why do I see my sites URL on Google Analytics keywords list, as in > np - /software-application/ > > np - /contact-us/ `np` I understand is **not provided** is it. But why is my URL listed?


title: Is there a disqus-like comment system that does not load google analytics?

text: I am not using google analytics on my blog out of respect for user privacy (I don't care to make my blog a data-collection tool for Google). I included Disqus (yes I know they track as well). Politics & my reasons notwithstanding, **Is there a Disqus-like comment system that doesn't load google analytics?**


title: PayPal Basic vs PayPal Pro and credit card security

text: This link provides a comparison between PayPal Basic and PayPal Pro plans. To me basic PayPal is ideal but I need to be able to transfer funds between two PayPal accounts and for that I have to upgrade to PayPal Pro according to customer service. That is not a problem for me as it costs only 30$/month vs free. But what I really like about the Basic plan, is that I do not have to worry about credit card security and keeping that data, notice last option in the pic > "We manage" vs "You manage". ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/nIoid.png) **My question is** , can I get the PayPal Pro account with the Pro plan but I want them to take care of credit card transactions. I have no problem taking them to PayPal page. **Secondly** is there anything missing? Do I really need the Pro account for transferring money from one user to another? I do have mass pay enable with the basic plan. Any advice about the security, should I integrate the payment on my site? How much of a risk/security issue this is. I don't want to have a full fledged customer service unless I test the website proper (have enough transactions and have achieved certain goals)?


title: How to reclaim ownership of a domain name from a shared web host?

text: When I was signing up for a (shared) web hosting for my web site the company, BlueHost, provided a domain name with it. Now I want to switch to another web hosting company, because of the excessive throttling Bluehost does on my site. (Even though they advertise it as "unlimited", what they don't tell you is that they impose a draconian CPU quota and a quota on a number of the simultaneous database/MySQL connections that makes my site issue errors in the most critical moments.) My question is, since I got the domain name for my site through them, how can I reclaim it when I switch to a new hosting company?


title: How do I add a widget to the header area of the 'Twenty Fourteen' WP theme?

text: I would like to add a widget to the header area (above the main menu) of the WordPress Twenty Fourteen theme. Ideally this would cut down the size of the header image from the full width to half, with the other half of the area holding the new widget. I am not well versed in php, css, java, or any other useful stuff like that, so the more simple the solution, the better. I've not been able to locate a plug-in which achieves this outcome, but a plugin would certainly be my preferred way of doing this, as I can then easily do it across multiple sites if required.


title: CIA.gov "World FactBook" MySQL?

text: Is the CIA's 'World FactBook" of statistics and national data available in a MySQL format or some format conducive to parsing and incorporating into a website?


title: Nginx Reverse Proxy for Tumblr

text: I'm currently trying to set up a reverse proxy redirecting a domain to a tumblr blog. I've set up NGinx using this Gist. My nginx configuration looks like so:               upstream tumblr {             server 66.6.44.4;     }          server {             listen          80;             server_name     mydomain.com;                  access_log      /var/log/nginx/mydomain.access.log;                  proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP       $remote_addr;             proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;             proxy_set_header  Host            $http_host;             proxy_set_header  REMOTE-HOST     $remote_addr;             proxy_redirect    off;             proxy_max_temp_file_size          0;                  location / {                     proxy_pass http://tumblr;                     break;             }     }          server {             listen          80;             server_name    www.mydomain.com;             rewrite ^/(.*)  http://mydomain.com/$1 permanent;     }      Unfortunately, this doesn't work. When I attempt to connect to my blog via _mydomain.com_ , I get the "there's nothing here" page on Tumblr. How can I properly make my reverse proxy work with Tumblr? **Things I've tried** :   * I cannot add _mydomain.com_ as a custom domain because the A record points to the IP I have Nginx on and not the required Tumblr domain ( _66.6.44.4_ ).   * Changing the upstream server to myblog.tumblr.com does absolutely nothing.


title: How to set the Content-Type for SVG files parsed by PHP

text: I currently use the following Apache httpd conf:               <FilesMatch "\.svg$">       SetHandler application/x-httpd-php     </FilesMatch>     AddType image/svg+xml .svg      What I'm trying to achieve:   * Parsing the PHP scripts in my SVG files   * Serving my SVG files with the `image/svg+xml` MIME type However, the AddType seems to be ignored now that I've set it to use the alternative handler for my SVG files. They're now served as `text/html`. How can I make the httpd parse the PHP in my SVG files while preserving its `image/svg+xml` type? I currently include a `header("Content-type: image/svg+xml");` call in my SVG file to solve this, although I'd rather have a global way of doing this instead of having to insert this into all of my SVG files.   * CentOS 6.5   * Apache 2.2.15   * PHP 5.3.3


title: In Analytics, can I see page view stats broken down by AdWord ad-network websites?

text: In AdWords, under 'Campaigns->Networks' tab I can see which sites on the Ad- Network generated clicks. I've got auto-tagging enabled. I want to find a report in Analytics that breaks down each of those websites I see in the AdWords report, and provide me page view, time on site, and bounce rate statistics.


title: How can I prevent my site from being branded a "content farm?"

text: I'm building a small social Q&A site. Another Q&A site that I use was recently branded by Google as a content farm and removed from Google results. I know what Wikipedia says is the definition of a content farm (low quality paid articles and spammy text across the page to catch search engines). That other site I use doesn't do those things, so there must be more to it than that. I want to make sure I don't do anything that causes Google to think my Q&A site is a content farm. What should I do, or avoid doing in designing my site layout?


title: Joomla: Cross site link boxes

text: I am currently evaluating Joomla for use on the the rebuild of our corporate website. One of the features our designs have is spaces for what we've been calling widgets. These widgets include common ones for each page, contact us boxes, section navigation, that all seem pretty easy to implement. The other widgets we would us to highlight specific pages within the site relevant to the one you are on, and are therefore different for each article. We've called these link widgets and these are a pretty common site on many websites. I'm honestly at a bit of a loss as to how to do this with Joomla. From a CMS perspective I'd like to allow users to just select which three link widgets they want when editing the article and have some way of creating the widgets within the CMS as well. Editing the link widget would allow setting a title, a bit of text and selecting the page that it links to. Am I going to be able to do this with Joomla, and if I can roughly how to I go about it ?


title: GoogleBot can't reach my site

text: For some reason, the other day, out of nowhere, Google Webmaster Tools started showing all these errors while crawling my site, saying that it couldn't reach my pages. I checked my _robots.txt_ and talked to my hosting provider and everything checks out, so I'm not sure what's wrong.


title: Can't access website from same network

text: I've setup IIS locally to host a website. I've created a free NOIP account so I can access it with a domain name. It's temporary, so I plan to assign a real domain to it later. I setup port forwarding on the router. Everything is in place. I spent hours yesterday trying to figure out why I can't access the website via my external IP / hostname. I can access it locally from the same machine using localhost. I can access it locally using another machine by using the IP address. But I can't use the hostname or external IP address. I believe it must be a router setting. Today I attempted to access the site from another network, and it works just fine using both the public IP address as well as the hostname. However, from my home network, where I'm running this, I can't use the external IP to access the site; only the internal IP. ## My question / concern Based on all of the above I'm concerned that my provider (Comcast) might be blocking access in some way, though I wouldn't have a clue as to where to start to check. Is there any reason I shouldn't be able to use an external URL to access my site? It seems I should be able to use both the internal and external IP and get the same results. Thoughts? Suggestions? ## Update To attempt to rule out a server config / Windows issue, I wiped the box, installed Ubuntu on it, and just completed a LAMP installation. Unfortunately, it has the same issue. From within my home network I can access the web page with my internal IP address, but not the external IP or hostname. On another machine, outside my home network, I can access the webpage using the external IP and hostname. I'm curious if others can access it also. If you don't mind trying and posting in the comments below, the temporary URL is http://cfsamet.noip.me. I'd be curious if anyone other than myself is having trouble accessing the site. It's the default Apache for Ubuntu page right now. ## Update #2 No luck yet. Have tried to connect internally using my MacBook, Windows, Linux, even my iPhone. All fail when using the external IP or URL, but can connect fine if I use the internal IP address. I can only assume it's a router issue, or a Comcast issue... not sure I'll get much further here. I'm mostly just stumped at this point. I've tested using http://www.gomeznetworks.com, all of their servers can access the site just fine. I've also tested using http://tools.pingdom.com. It can access the site as well. It seems that I'm the only one (from home) that can't access my site. How does that even make sense?? LOL. ## Solution Unfortunately, this was put on hold... but I did essentially find the answer to the problem. This is a hardware issue with the Comcast modem used. This link - http://forums.comcast.com/t5/Home-Networking-Router-WiFi/SMCD3G-Can-t- access-web-server-from-LAN-from-Internet-OK/m-p/1754823#M55009 - has detailed information that explains the router is re-routing requests back internally without doing a DNS lookup. This is why things fail.


title: How can I hide my domain name or ip from users

text: I'm developing a windows application in C# along with an accompanying asp.net website. Both are hosted on a web server. I wish to disguise my server ip address and/or domain name so they are not exposed to the user at any point. I designed a custom browser in C# (win app) then I just navigated user to my asp.net site. I haven't kept address bar and I disabled right click option in that browser. So the user just can view the page, cant find the server info. But the issue that I'm facing now is, when the user tries to download anything from the site, Internet Explorer's download window opens up and asks where to save. But there in the screen it shows my server ip or domain address to the user. So how can I hide that information from the user i.e. I don't want to show my server's information to my users but I want them to download or save from my site.


title: Low "time on site" and high bounce-rate in Japan

text: I'm seeing a substantially low "time on site" and high bounce rate from visitors coming from Japan. Comparing to other states, even in languages I don't speak, the stats are still dramatically worse. So I assume there's something specific to that nation, that I should understand in order to make their experience better. The content they are seeing is in Japanese, and I've also translated the head- lines, which to my surprise didn't make stats look better. The site doesn't have a mobile version, so I assume that might be part of the problem. Wanted to hear from your experience what other reasons might there be that are specific for Japan. UPDATE: The content itself was in Japanese all the time, that's the reason it attracts users from Japan. The head-lines were in English, so I only changed them.


title: Website Disaster Recovery Strategy using DNS

text: I am attempting to formulate a Disaster Recovery strategy for our company website and would like to know if the following is even possible theoretically or practically? If I ask our Domain registrar to set our Domain DNS TTL to 3600 permanently, then host our website on a second server that mirrors the primary server will I theoretically be able to switch from primary to secondary in 1 hour limiting our website downtime. Any advice would be greatly received.


title: SSL not working on home page

text: Recently set up a server for a client and installed a Comodo Positive SSL certificate. In firefox everywhere on the website I can see the padlock icon which shows the Comodo verification, except the home page. Click on any internal link and the padlock shows up. Just not on the home page which continues to say "Website does not provide identity information". The website link is here: https://justcoolgear.com Is there a configuration problem with my SSL installation or Apache config? How can I fix this so the home page validates as secure?


title: Cannot access Adsense funds after switching to third-party partnership program

text: I had a Google Adsense partnership with $80 in it, but then switched to a different partnership and now can't get my money. When I first started YouTube, I joined the Adsense partnership program. After gaining $80 in my Adsense account, I got an offer to join a third party partnership program called Zoomin.tv. I accepted, and it is paying me monthly now. The problem is that my Adsense account still has the $80 in it, and is not gaining more cash. The Zoomin.tv money is going directly to my PayPal. The payment threshold in Adsense is $100, and you can't make it lower. Therefore, my money is stuck in Adsense and I'd love a solution that allows me to access my money.


title: Should I block agent Wget/1.12 (linux-gnu)?

text: Is that a scraper? It tried accessing my site which is currently password protected for testing purposes. shall I block it?


title: How to build a list from Postfix maillog

text: I want to build a list from maillog, `maillog.x` containing something like Date, Sender's email, Recipient's Email and subject of the message filtering output emails and output domain. I've read about importing from spreadsheet program a csv file. The issue is I have to add field separators in log file. I couldn't figure out how to customize that. How can I do that, the list and the separator? This is an example of sending mail log               Jun 11 15:24:58 host postfix/cleanup[19060]: F41C660D98A0: warning: header Subject: TESTING SUBJECT from unknown[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]; from=sender@sender.com> to=recipient@recipient.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<[192.168.1.91]>     Jun 11 15:25:01 host postfix/smtp[19062]: F41C660D98A0: to=<me@me.com>, relay=mx-rl.com[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:25, delay=3.4, delays=0.66/0.01/0.86/1.9, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 <538E30D9000A1DD8> Mail accepted)      The list would contain the subject, from, and to, filtering by `to = ...@recipient.com`


title: Is it a good idea to use Normalize.CSS in every website?

text: For tablet and other mobile devices, new browsers are popping out like mushrooms, and it's practically becoming very difficult to test the rendering of every website we design on all such browsers. Is it a good idea to use Normalize.CSS on every website?


title: Should I decline a credit card based on IP Address

text: We are having a problem with a user who comes to our site to attempt to validate hundreds of credit card numbers. He will run around 400+ $1.00 transactions at a time, find some valid card numbers and then quit. This is happening with more frequency. He uses the same name and address each time and his IP address is the same. We are taking several steps to address the issue. One of the steps I would like to take is to prevent him from submitting the transaction if I see his IP address. Is it safe to do this? Could I potentially be losing legitimate sales by doing this? BTW, we use PayPal's Payflow pro service to process credit cards.


title: Does the source of a visitor affect the revenue for Google AdSense ads?

text: I'm wondering if two ad clicks are equally valued, if one of them found the site from Google, and the other came from a referral link, would that affect the revenue paid? How about with a direct visit?


title: Files I should have on every website

text: I would like to have a list of files that should exist on every website. The idea is to please most browsers and bots and get down with the number of 404 messages in the logs. So far I have the following files:   * `/favicon.ico`   * `/robots.txt`   * `/sitemap.xml`   * `/apple-touch-icon-72x72-precomposed.png`   * `/apple-touch-icon-72x72.png`   * `/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png`   * `/apple-touch-icon.png` Are there other files that get requested often and should be on every website?


title: Moving Feedburner to a new domain

text: I have a Wordpress blog (running Feedsmith plugin) that uses Feedburner for email and RSS subscribers. Currently this blog is located at `http://www.myblog.com`. I will be moving this Wordpress blog to a new domain as follows `http://newdomain.com/blog` I wonder if anyone could give me a suggestion on how to edit my Feedburner settings to avoid losing subscirbers. I've read that in the **"Edit Feed Details..."** panel of Feedburner one should change: **Feed Title** : New Blog Title **Original Feed** : `http://newdomain.com/blog/feed` **Feed Address** : **_what should this be changed to?_** Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.


title: Forst steps to make a project visible

text: Recently I launched some web project for musicians. Considering that:   * It is really optimized for search engines. Dynamic pages, sitemap, etc. - are up and running.   * It is indexed by Google. Google Webmaster account is adjusted. Google Analytics also   * It had some advertising already, but with minor result. What it the best way to promote it for free? I have read several "step-by-step" tutorials, but almost all of them say "Make SEO and wait". **Considering a kind of this project, what activities may you suggest?** **What did work with your own projects?** Please shed some light on this problem for a youngster like me. Thanks


title: Webhost ads say they will "Promote your site to search engines". What do they really do?

text: In several webhost commercials, ads, and benefits charts theres sometimes a feature where they will promote or advertise your site to search engines. Usually its part of the package but sometimes they charge money. But what do they actually do? Only thing I can think of is these sites have link farm sites, which IIRC might _hurt_ your ranking. What do they usually do? For future reference, are these features worth it?


title: How to approach redirecting thirty domains?

text: I have a client with thirty some domain names. All bought for the reason of being close to a competitors domain. They want them all to redirect to their main portal. Right now I have them pointing to the main portal but that obviously only does this: www.competitors-site.com -> goes to www.main-portal.com but still retains www.competitors-site.com in the address bar. So, is the best option then to htaccess all of these domains? -If we do that we have to put all thirty of these domains on a hosting account correct? -Can I then use one htaccess file to make sure they all get redirected properly? I am not real good with the htaccess server setting stuff that is why I ask. The idea of setting up thirty different htaccess files seems quite tedious and I would like to make sure I have explored all options before I get started on this. I suppose I could set up some sort of php header redirection too, but again that seems like a hefty amount of work.


title: What was this hack-bot trying to achieve via directory traversal?

text: I was walking through my server logs and the following kinda stunned me:               ACCESS ERROR 404 from IP 62.112.152.161:         Path: /index.php?page=weblog&env=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00          ACCESS ERROR 404 from IP 62.112.152.161:         Path: /download.php?dlfilename=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00          ACCESS ERROR 404 from IP 62.112.152.161:         Path: /download.php?filename=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00          ACCESS ERROR 404 from IP 62.112.152.161:         Path: /agb.php?lang=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00          ACCESS ERROR 404 from IP 62.112.152.161:         Path: /angemeldet.php?lang=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00      There were lot's more variations, always triyng to get the same file. They wouldn't succeed even if there was some "download.php"*, but I'm curious what would it do if they did.   Also, I wonder if there's something I can do against this BOT in more global scope, to help other webmasters who might have their site vulnerable against such attack. Unfortunatelly, HTTP headers were not registered. *I'm running on virtual server where PHP's top dir is the website's root.


title: Remove user avatars for search engine crawler?

text: I recently found out that especially my forum pages are loading slowly (it doesn't feel like it for me, but google's webmaster tools mentions 5s and more). I was wondering if this could be because user's avatars? The avatars are not hosted on my website, and some users have animated gifs or needlessly large images (>250KB). Would it be a good idea to not load avatars when a search engine visits my website? I know they will then be missing from google's cached pages, but will it speed up my website, and perhaps improve my page's ranking?


title: How to block certain URL from robots.txt file?

text: This is simple question but also I have a confusion. Below is the code which I wrote in my _robots.txt_ :               User-Agent: *     Disallow: /phpmyadmin/       Disallow: /login/     Disallow: /newsletter/     Disallow: /articlesubmission/       Allow: /          Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml      I want all bots to follow my site but they should not follow these URLs:               http://www.example.com/phpmyadmin/.....     http://www.example.com/login/.....     http://www.example.com/newsletter/.....      http://www.example.com/articlesubmission/.....       My doubt: **Is my above _robots.txt_ code is correct?**   I followed this code from StackOverflow robots.txt.


title: Which ISPs has the cheapest transfer?

text: There are a lot websites where you upload file and many people download it. I guess these servers are located in ISP where the transfer is very cheap, I guess Europe, because US has expensive transfer data. I mean sites like 4shared, yousendit, filestube, fileserve, ... and other "movie repository" sites :P Where are they usually hosted to get cheaper transfer data ? Thank you


title: My website is reported to belong to "Japan" on Alexa's ranking

text: I'm the owner of Thought Results, which is a newbie I just started. I'm an Iranian guy. But when I see Alexa's ranking, it says that my website belongs to Japan. Also Visualize Traffic reports the same thing. You can check at: http://www.alexa.com/search?q=thoughtresults.com   http://visualizetraffic.com/update.php?q=thoughtresults.com In spite of this, I'm still able to login to almost every place, including database, control panel, domain tools, etc. What does this mean? Am I hacked by somebody? Has somebody stolen my domain name?


title: Book / resource suggestions for learning web development? Where to start?

text: OK, so there's so much to know that I don't even know where to start. I'm hoping you can help me come up with a list of books to get started with. I'm interested in web applications (for example, building a custom wordpress theme or plugin), but I also want to be well-rounded and have a decent technical grasp of the web (databases, servers, networking). I'm guessing javascript and php are languages to learn first? I don't mind dry technical reading.


title: Symfony project on multiple servers

text: How can I use Symfony across multiple servers? I have a high-load project and I want to move parts of it(for example: image handlers, video handlers, registration) to other servers.


title: How to filter event flow by category?

text: I have two categories for an event. one for the website and the other for a javascript app. I want to know what's happening in the app and don't want to see the website events like page views etc. Is this possible? Also, I found that my own javascript app sends traffic to a intermediary page and it shows up. How do I prevent this from happening? I want to make sure that a particular page on my website does not get counted towards pageview.


title: what type of Microdata should be used for latest news?

text: My website publish news and articles. But in homepage I have just 2 sidebar. In one of them I publish 10 lastest news. Now I want to know what type of Microdata (schema.org) should be used this IMPORTANT sidebar? I should use 'sidebar'? Also in one of my page...I publish link of all articles...I should use for these page 'blog' Microdata?


title: Lining things up while using columns

text: I have a request that may not be possible. I'd like to line up the elements of a form so that the inputs all start at the same place:               Name:                            [                           ]     Company:                         [                           ]     Some question with a long name: [                           ]      But my list is (somewhat) long and I would like to show them in multiple columns on screens that are wide enough. Ideally, I'd find a POSH method (table-free is semantically appropriate, I think) that works on a reasonable number of browsers. My current page uses a table. I tried CSS with               columns: auto;      -moz-column-count: auto;      -moz-column-width: auto;      -webkit-column-count: auto;      -webkit-column-width: auto;      but Firefox (at least) won't break a table across columns.


title: Is it a legal requirement to display company registration details?

text: Is it a legal requirement to display company registration details (Office, country and reg no etc) on a UK Based corporate website? I know that E-Commerce websites do, under the distance selling regulations, however the site I'm working on is not e-commerce, just a corporate website.


title: Flat vs. Hierarchical Tree Structure

text: I'm a developer in the middle of the development of a medium-sized website. A requirement that we just received from the resident SEO person on the project is for all the URLs on the site be just off the root (e.g. /product-name, /small-keywords-separated-by-hyphens). Here is an example (one of a few, both I think this is the one that would potentially favor his viewpoint the most):   1. Solutions http://site.com/solutions/     * 1.1 Showcase http://site.com/showcase/     * 1.2 Healthcare http://site.com/healthcare/     * 1.3 Education http://site.com/education/     * 1.4 Residential http://site.com/residential/     * 1.5 Industrial http://site.com/industrial/ To be clear, I'm advocating a structure like: /solutions/showcase, /solutions/healthcare/, etc. To me, there are clearly defined sections of the site- there are various parts of content which seem to deserve their own place in the structure of the site. Here were his points: > Decreased keyword density for the words being targeted in the URL, the > longer the URL the less emphasis is being placed on the keywords being > targeted in the URL > > Decreased emphasis on the importance of the page from a search engine > standpoint, the further the page rests off of the root the less importance > is attributed to that page > > Decreased adaptability over time, for example when time comes to redesign > the site again in the future, suppose the navigation changes, by > incorporating the folder you have reduced your ability to re-use the URLs on > the new site and minimize any slippage in the search results > > Decreased usability for advertising the URL, suppose [company] wants to run > a print campaign on a particular [product], the shorter URL would be more > user friendly and more likely to lead to a conversion The points I made in response were around user experience and based off this document from Google. Personally I've never seen the structure he's proposing. Is this type of thing best practice for SEO? Thanks for your time.


title: Is there a modern (eg NoSQL) web analytics solution based on log files?

text: I have been using **Awstats** for many years to process my log files. But I am missing many possibilities (like cross-domain reports) and I hate being stuck with extra fields I created years ago. Anyway, I am not going to continue to use this script. Is there a modern apache logs analytics solution based on modern storage technologies like NoSQL or at least somehow ready to cope with large datasets efficiently? I am primarily looking for something that generates nice sortable and searchable outputs with the focus on web analytics, before having to write my own frontends. (so **graylog2** is not an option) This question is purely about log file based solutions.


title: Does registering a domain for 10+ years help search rank?

text: I've heard that registering a domain name for a very long time, say 5 to 10+ years, can help with your search rank. This seems at least _plausible_ to me, since a fly-by-night, massive domain name farm isn't going to bother registering their names for more than a year. Someone who registers a name for 10 years is incurring many times the expense per domain name, and that's a de-facto money tax disincentive for massively registering many domainnames. Are there any citations or other sources indicating this is in fact true?


title: How to using ajax for voting script

text: I'm trying to set up some voting logic on my site, and have the vote result update without refreshing the site. I did some research and AJAX seems to be the way to go, but I can't find a good tutorial on it. I'm doing the update to Mysql               $query = "update RR_upload set vote = vote".$vote." where id = '".$var1."'";     mysql_query($query, $connection) or die (mysql_error());      How do I make it so AJAX updates the content of the site after running the vote update?