title: How do you setup a Test View for your site in Universal Analytics?

text: Someone on the Google Analytics Academy Community suggested that I setup a "Test View" for my site. Where is that in Universal Analytics?


title: Check for duplicate 'id' values in a HTML page

text: I am developing a web application and I would like to check for duplicate `id` values in a HTML page. I am running the application on my local machine. There is a way to do that? P.S.: I am using Firefox and Firebug.


title: Simple count visitors for front page for Joomla

text: We have a website with Joomla and we want to put a simple counter for visitors in front page of website, just the number of visitors. I use stat counter but the problem is that I can’t see all the previous visitors and this is a serious problem. I use from the first time the analytics (Google Analytics) but I didn’t find any simple (just the number) counter. Any ideas how to solve this problem?


title: How to verify ownership of a site in Google Webmaster Tools through a file?

text: When verifying a site in Google Webmaster Tools, with the recommended method of using a special HTML file, was it made so needlessly difficult? Google explicitly gives you the name of the file on the verification page, but doesn't easily reveal its content -- if you follow the link to the file as served by google.com, then the browser will most likely ask you to explicitly save and download it first, instead of showing it as-is within the browser (e.g. google must be serving the file with something like `Content- Disposition: attachment; filename=googleXYZ.html` HTTP header). If you instead copy/paste the link to the file from the browser to the terminal, and use `wget` on the server to fetch the file that had to end up on the server anyways, then, apparently, a wrong version of the file is fetched (user session doesn't match?), and verification fails. After failing to verify the site, Google Webmaster Tools interface is nice enough to show you what exactly the content of such a wrong file on your server is, but still doesn't actually tell you what the content should instead be for the verification to succeed! What's special in these files that they have to be downloaded from Google onto a desktop, and then uploaded from the desktop onto a server? **What if my desktop doesn't let me download any files?** My upload bandwidth is very limited? Establishing a new filetransfer session is too expensive or insecure? Or I simply do all my development in the cloud, and can't be bothered to explicitly upload something to the server, instead of downloading it on the server directly? **Any easier way to verify a site in Google Webmaster Tools through a file?**


title: How to use Cloudflare and Namecheap email forwarding at the same time?

text: I want to use Cloudflare, and it requires that I use their nameservers. The problem is that I'm using some features from Namecheap like email forwarding, which will be disabled (if I didn't get it wrong) if I don't use Namecheap's nameservers. Any ideas?


title: Send and Receive SMS from my Website

text: The way I plan to use it is:   1. Have people send SMS to a number to vote.   2. On the backend (assuming that the data comes back to my Web server), I will display the voting results on my Web site.   3. After say 10 minutes, I would like to press a button on my Web site so ONE of the people who sent an SMS earlier receive an SMS saying that person is a winner. I'm an ASP .Net developer, so I just need an API to code against. One such company I saw that does this (but is limited to US) is:   * http://www.twilio.com/sms/ Do you know any international providers that are similar to Twilio SMS? I'm based in **Sydney, Australia**. I've looked through the discussion here but could not find any International provider that does what Twilio SMS does:   * How to add SMS text messaging functionality to my website? Thank you.


title: Using audio from youtube videos without the player visible

text: I want to embed certain videos from youtube on my site but I only need the audio from them so I want to set the iframe to `display:none` and use the api to control the play and pause with custom buttons. Is this breaking any rules?


title: In Google Analytics, show eCommerce order numbers based on first click attribution

text: Google Analytics usually reports everything based on last click attribution. However, GA recently added some reports to compare metrics based on different attribution models like first click. Is it possible to show eCommerce reports (specifically order numbers) based on first click attribution?


title: Facebook share does not display large thumbnail

text: I'm trying to share posts from my WordPress blog on Facebook. I want them to show in the new format with large thumbnails. Here's is what I'm using:               <meta property='og:site_name' content='<?php wp_title(''); ?>'/>     <meta property='og:type' content='turmtheater:vorstellung' />     <meta property='og:title' content='mytitle' />     <meta property='og:url' content='<?php the_permalink(); ?>' />     <meta property='og:image' content='<?php echo get_img_url(); ?>' />      The image-URL is definitely correct and points to a large image (1400 * 650 or something like that). But Facebook still re-sizes the image to the old 116*116 format. Shouldn't it work if `og:image` is given, or is there anything else needed? Edit: If I repost the link from my facebook wall, the repostet link shows the large image. So Facebook definitely uses the right one. It just displays as a small post.


title: Google PageSpeed, optimizing Google's own elements

text: I'm trying Google's PageSpeed online service Ironically, it's primarily highlighting Google's own services as something that needs improvement on my site **1) jQuery from Google** : _blocking_. So I moved all javascript from `<head>` to the end of the document before `</body>`. That helped **2) Linking to external Google Font CSS** (in `<head>`): _blocking_. But the font is critical to the design of the page and should load before much else **3) Google Analytics** : _Caching is not good_. (Google has set it internally to 2 hours expiration). Don't know how to change this (this is also placed at the bottom of page) The Google Font is highlighted as a big priority to change. How can I fix this? Where/how should I call the the font?


title: Adding query string to url already indexed, will cause problem with SEO?

text: I have to change the urls of my site, from something like: www.site.com/page.html to www.site.com/page.html?value=randomvalue This will cause problems with SEO?


title: How to forward real .com domain to XAMPP subfolder using httpd-vhosts.conf?

text: I am trying to emulate some Google Apps app installation functionality and in order to effectively debug it, I need it running on my local Windows 7 machine (using XAMPP). I am behind a router and I've forwarded port 80 to my local IP. When I visit my real IP in the browser I can browse the XAMPP htdocs folder, but when I visit the domain I also browse the htdocs folder. Whereas I need to browse a specific **subfolder** when I visit the domain. I've played a bit with httpd-vhosts.conf and here's what I got right now:               <VirtualHost mydomain.info>         ServerAdmin contact@mydomain.info         DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/mydomain/subfolder"         ServerName mydomain.info         ServerAlias mydomain.info         ErrorLog "logs/mydomain.info-error.log"         CustomLog "logs/mydomain.info-access.log" combined     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost localhost>         ServerAdmin postmaster@dummy-host.localhost         DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"         ServerName localhost         ServerAlias localhost         ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host.localhost-error.log"         CustomLog "logs/dummy-host.localhost-access.log" combined     </VirtualHost>      As you can see, the first rule should have pointed all requests to `mydomain.info` to `c:/xampp/htdocs/mydomain/subfolder`, but instead it forwards them to just `c:/xampp/htdocs`. Edit: I forgot to mention that I use a free DNS service, to whose nameservers I have pointed the domain. Then in that service's DNS management I've added a A record for the domain with value that looks like this (IP is an example): `mydomain.info A 85.201.133.59` and TXT record, required for Google Apps verification: `mydomain.info` TXT `google-site-verification=7rgvD.....`. However, I doubt this is the problematic thing, since the domain resolves to my local machine as I have mentioned. It just doesn't resolve to the correct folder.


title: Moodle Inconsistencies, Flowplayer, or Server?

text:
We are trying to decide if an issue we're having with Moodle and our videos is a flowplayer issue, a video issue, or a network issue. Any input is welcome. We've had videos in our Moodle (version 1.9, we're working on an upgrade on a different server) up for weeks, or even months. After that time, some of them have suddenly just stopped working. When they don't work, they just don't load. The videos work when we first upload them. With flowplayer, we don't get errors, just a blank screen. We have re-uploaded our videos several times when this has happened, but we really would like to know what's causing it so that we can prevent it. There are also no keyframe issues with the video. Re-uploading the video is not fixing the issue, but the video plays fine on local machines. It's happened twice with two different videos both in the 1 - 2 hour time range. Deleting and re-uploading or just replacing footage is not working to fix the issue online. The videos are available for about a month and then go bad... We are using Flowplayer 3.2.4 **Here are the Flowplayer snippets (I've replaced the actual site name with SITENAME):** _Page:_

Online Mastery Day 3    Part 3

     <iframe   src="http://<SITENAME>/etradercompanion/theme/aardvark_pro_mastery/online-  mastery-d3-03.php" width="540" height="405" scrolling="no" border="0">

      _Video:_                               We are currently trying to find answers through various searches, but have not had any luck. I will continue to post more info as I come across it...but if there's anyone who knows or has ideas, it's welcome.


title: Remove page from Search Result Bunch

text: When I do a branded search for a website the structure shows like ( see image ). I would love to remove Privacy Policy page or Manipulate the structure I see now ( showing pages I want to ). How I can do it? ![Example of what I were saying](http://i.stack.imgur.com/4oAeU.png) I already added robots - nosnippet meta tag to remove all rich snippets from a page, but it didn't work. Are there any other methods except removing page from indexation?


title: Does changing the picture folder path of older website affect SEO?

text: I have a 2 years old WordPress based picture website. Now I am planning to use CDN for my website. But the problem is I have to move my picture folder to a subdomain. For instance my current path is `example.com/pics/yyy.jpg` and have to change it to `cdn.example.com/pics/yyy.jpg`. Since the pictures play vital role in my site's SEO I am afraid to change the folder path, but at the same time I am getting more number of hits eventually. Should I compromise my site speed for SEO or the impact would be less if I try CDN?


title: Primary domain in vps has been deactivated

text: This is my scenario: I have a vps with two domains (example1.com, example2.com). When I started with this vps I set `example1.com` as primary domain and the nameserver were configured with the pattern `ns1.example.com, ns2.example1.com`. The domains were brought in `name.com`. Across the time, I usually only work whit the domain `example2.com`, for that reason I stopped to pay `example1.com` anual registration and just keep the example2.com. But, today my vps is unreacheable because the main domain was deactivated last ago 23th. I never imagined that it could affect my server. So, I am so worried because I don't know if rebuild the vps is the solution here because I could lost my data. Can you take me to the right direction in order to recover my vps?


title: How to install/update/upgrade SSL certificate in Tomcat?

text: I am about to install/update/upgrade a SSL certificate in one of the servers which has the following configuration               Sever information: Sever version: Apache Tomcat/6.0.35 OS version: Linux 2.6.18-371.6.1.el5 Architecture: amd64 JVM      version: 1.6.0_30-b30 JVM      Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.      Tomcat location: /user/local/apache-tomcate-6.0.35      Generate new SSL certificate request:   1. I created a folder name keystore (`/user/local/apache-tomcate-6.0.35/keystore`) To create a key : sudo keytool -storepass keypassword -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -keystore mydomain.keystore -genkey -alias mydomain To create SSL certificate request:               sudo keytool -storepass keypassword -keystore mydomain.keystore -certreq -keyalg RSA -file mydomain.csr -alias mydomain.com      After successful executing both the commands I got two files keystore folder - mydomain.keystore - mydomain.csr The following files are attached into email I received yesterday `Cabundle.cert` (What is this? No mention of it in the Wiki) Zip file   1. `mydomain.crt`   2. `root_certificate.crt`   3. `Trend_Micro_CA.crt`   4. `Affirmtrust_Networking.crt` Installing the certificate: As per information from other source I downloaded two other files into keystore folder http://secure.globalsign.net/cacert/ct_root.der http://secure.globalsign.net/cacert/sureserverEDU.pem Import the root certificate ‘ct_root.der’ :               [root@ mydomain keystore]#sudo keytool -keystore mydomain.keystore -storepass keypassword -importcert -file ct_root.der -trustcacerts -alias globalsignroot      Outcome: Certificate already exists in system-wide CA keystore under alias <3getcybertrustsolutionsincgtecybertrustglobal root> Do you still want to add it to your own keystore? [no]: yes Certificate was added to keystore Import the sure server education certificate ‘sureserverDDU.pem’:               [root@ mydomain keystore]# sudo keytool -keystore mydomain.keystore –storepass keypassword -importcert -file sureserverEDU.pem -trustcacerts -alias sureserveredu      Outcome: Certificate was added to keystore Import the certificate from email: As per wiki I need to import certificate.pem file {{{`sudo keytool -keystore mydomain.keystore -storepass keypassword -alias mydomain -import -file mydomain.pem`}}}. I don’t have any .pem file in the email I have received and if I run `[root@ mydomain keystore]# sudo keytool -keystore mydomain.keystore -storepass keypassword -alias mydomain -import -file mydomain.crt`. I get an error, Keytool error: java.lang.Exceptoin: Failed to establish chain from reply Problem: This is where I am stuck and don’t know what to do, I assume I have to create a chain.pem with all the received certificates inside it. If this is the case in which order I should copy and paste the certificates? To be honest I don’t want to try anything which I am not sure about it because it is a live server. I will really appreciate if someone could help me/providing instruction on how to proceed beyond step #5 to successfully install the certificate. I am also confused what is `cabundle.crt` that comes with the email.


title: How to start and encourage an online community?

text: We're looking to add a forum/online community area to our website. Previous attempts of encouraging comments and interaction have failed and the community tends to die a death eventually. So, I've sat back and had a think of how to encourage people to comment and interact within our forum/community (heavily influenced by the stack style!): **1. Ease of signing up:** People are lazy in adding new accounts etc so just like stackoverflow, I would use the "sign in with facebook, linkedin, twitter" etc etc. **2. Encouraging people to comment/interact:** A points/score system that would reward users for commenting/interacting with the community (a more basic version of stack). An addition would be if a user reaches certain milestones they would receive a % discount on services. **3. New content from us:** As well as users commenting, I think a strong presence from us in posting new content/threads/comments would be needed. Has anyone got any suggestions to add to the list above to encourage interaction within the community?


title: Using disqus for a website (question on SERP and backlink)

text: I am building a website and am trying to decide between writing my own commenting system and using Disqus. One of the main deciding factors is that (obviously), I want comments left on my page to be show on SERPS. However, I remember reading somewhere that Disqus loads comments into a page using AJAX - and therefore the comments are "invisible" as far as Googlebot and other SE crawlers are concerned. Could someone confirm or refute this? The other question I have is about whether (as a commenter), When I place a comment on another website using Disqus (including any links I may add to my comment), do the links in my comment count as a back link (in other words are they "dofollow" or "nofollow" links)?


title: Apache rewrite to other domain and add get parameters?

text: I want to rewrite a domain to another domain and add get parameters using Apache's mod_rewrite, redirect or similar. So:               www.domain.com -> www.otherdomain.com/?param1=value1&param2=value2      Can this be done? I've been testing with the following without success:               Redirect www.domain.com  http://www.otherdomain.com?param1=value1&param2=value2


title: mod_caching work but file not matching because it adding the 443 port in cached file

text: The config file: CacheRoot /var/cache/mod_cache CacheEnable disk / CacheDirLevels 5 CacheDirLength 2 CacheMinFileSize 0 CacheIgnoreHeaders Set- Cookie The url EX: (https://exemple.domain.com/content.png ) In the cache file under /var/cache/mod_cache I see: EX: url......domain.com:443/content.png instead of url......domain.com/content.png When I reload, the url , It reload the file .png. BUT IF I reload, the url with the 443 ...domain.com:443/content.png the caching is working fine. Any idea why mod_cache add the port 443 the the path in the cached file ? Or how to fixe this mismatch? Thanks


title: List of Facebook liked pages

text: I have a site with a lot of pages that have a Facebook like button. Is there a way to get all the pages that were liked with the number of likes?


title: How to know that my site is getting index/rank by search engine

text: As per subject, anyone can tell me how to check that my site is getting index/rank by search engine(e.g. google, yahoo)?


title: Search query from Google Webmaster Tools isn't found in my SERP

text: I write a blog at `blogger.com`. I am using Google Webmaster Tools on my blog. In my Webmaster tool dashboard, I can see that a particular search query has an average position of 5. See the attached screenshot below for reference: ![Webmaster Tools-> Search Traffic-> Search Queries](http://i.stack.imgur.com/PtKrD.jpg) However, when I search the exact search query in Google, I don't see my blog in the results (at least not in the first 4 pages). Can anyone explain this to me? Or am I misinterpreting the Webmaster Tools data?


title: Getting the redirected page to show up in SERP instead of the target

text: I have a site that is listed on a sitebuilder site with their own domain which in this example lets call this `siteA.com/myaccountnumber/index.html`. I've purchased a domain `siteB.com` and I've setup a redirect from `B` to `A`... But I would like Google to index `siteB.com` rather than the one that is being redirected too using a standard 301.


title: Can google crawl data on googlemap?

text: I have a web service that includes mainly data on map.   Can google fetch these data (asynchronously loaded )?   the solution I'm opting right now is to set the data urls in a regular sitemap but there is no geolocation information on it.


title: Filtering your own IP's in Google Analytics, good or bad idea?

text: Is it a good idea to filter our own IP addresses from our own websites in Google Analytics? On the one hand, the data is "real" but on the other are you losing browny points with Google as your getting less visits? Maybe I'm not understanding the filtering!?


title: Analytics count to redirected domain?

text: I'm not pretty sure if this question is programming related, so I'm sorry if it's not. The situation is like this. I have a domain (www.domain1.com for example). I would like to redirect all visitors that goes to www.domain1.com to my other domain(www.maindomain.com). www.domain1.com doesn't have any contents or page, so simply I can do dns redirect or whatever just to redirect the visitors to my domain. My question, is there a away that I can count the visitors through analytics or some sort that goes to www.domain1.com? Your help is greatly appreciated. Best regards,


title: What do you think..?

text: I am getting a paid host tommorow. My website is a social network/forum. Its name is 'gyropanda'.. Can you give me some suggestions of a better name for my site, or if you like the current one? I like short and sweet names.. I can't really seem to think of a good name..


title: eCommerce website design concerns

text: I am designing my own eCommerce website. I have few queries on this:   1. Are the templates always the best option? Are these easy to customize?   2. Are there any FREE WYSIWYG web-page design tools that also automate CSS design?    3. I am going to use PHP and MySQL as back-end. What standards my website must comply so that it renders well on all popular browsers? Is there any good resource?


title: httpd permissions while working

text: I'm previewing my site as I work on it using httpd, but I had to move it into the `/var/www/html` directory. Now I have to log in as root every time I want to modify a file, and it's difficult to use the GUI file manager (Nautilus on Fedora 16) to do anything. What are some ways of making it easier to modify files while still begin able to preview them on a local server? Maybe this is more of a question about permissions on Linux...not sure.


title: How many production servers should I start with?

text: I'm building a site that I plan to grow to the size of SO. I'm only planning to have one prodcuction server to start off with. This will host everything including the database. I know it's very hard to say but am I likely to run into trouble quickly (if the site takes off) and if this is the case should I start out with more than one server so I can load balance everything from day 1? If no, should I be looking for something a little bigger than this spec?: http://www.123-reg.co.uk/dedicated-server-hosting/


title: list of things to think about for hosting a potentially high traffic website

text: I do my own hosting for a few clients on my own VPS server (Lindode). Since my clients so far have been extremely low traffic, I have not had to really dig into some of the considerations that I would need for a higher traffic site. Now I am bidding on a client whose site will be potentially higher (not Facebook or twitter, but higher than Joe's ice cream shop). Is there a list of things I need to think about that I may be missing? I am going to assume, at least at first, that I will be able to handle them on my shared Linode, but I could move to a dedicated Linode if need be. I am not thinking so far of multiple servers, but short of that there are still considerations. For example, mod_perl instead of straight CGI, better backups, etc. What else? In case it matters, the stack will be debian-linux / apache / Perl / mysql / Template Toolkit.


title: Are webhosts that require NS instead of a CNAME common?

text: I've just signed up with a webhost (which I prefer not to name) and I'm reasonably happy with it. The only nit was when I was ready to put a site online and I asked the support line to what name I should point my 'www' CNAME to. They responded that they don't do that and I need to set my domain's NS records for the hosting to work. "Why would you ever want to do it that way? Our service to you includes DNS and our servers are probably much better than the one your registrar provides." This was a bit of surprise as all of the other webhosts I've worked with happily support this. I've set up (eg) gallery.myfriend.example for friends by having them configure their DNS to CNAME 'gallery' to the name of a shared server at a webhost and the webhost does name-based hosting for 'gallery.myfriend.example'. (Of course, if the webhost ever tells me I'm being moved from A.webhost.example to B.webhost.example, it would be my responsibility to change where the CNAME points. Really good webhosts would instead create myname.webhost.example for the IP of whichever server my stuff happens to be on, so I'd never have to worry about keeping my CNAME up to date.) Is my impression correct, that most webhosts will happily support a service that begins with a CNAME hosted elsewhere, or is it really more common that webhosts will only provide a service if they control the DNS service too? * * * **For example** Alice is a customer, owning Alice.example.   BobHost, CarolHost and DaveHost are webhosts. Alice has a domain registration, DNS hosting and website hosting with BobHost.   BobHost have the following DNS setup...   * Alice.example A 192.0.2.1   * Gallery.Alice.example CNAME SomeServer.CarolHost.example   and her main website content and email is served from 192.0.2.1. Alice also has website hosting with CarolHost, but only to serve the 'Gallery' sub-domain. Her gallery content is served from SomeServer.CarolHost.example, but only when the 'Host:' header of a request is 'Gallery.Alice.example'. Yes, this is sub-optimal, but its the only practical way to have a sub-domain hosted elsewhere from the main site. Frankly, it works. CarolHost can change the IP of 'SomeServer' whenever they like without having to inform anyone as long as they update their own DNS records. No-one complains to CarolHost that the gallery is off-line when the fault is with BobHost's DNS service failing to serve that CNAME record. Continuing the story, Alice now wishes to put an additional sub-domain, 'Blog.Alice.example' to be hosted by DaveHost. She calls DaveHost support and asks how to host 'Blog' in the same way that 'Gallery' is hosted by CarolHost. DaveHost respond that they don't support this. If Alice wishes to use DaveHost's service, Alice will need to move DNS hosting to DaveHost. My question; In the world of webhosting services, are hosts like DaveHost commonplace? (All but one the webhosts I've dealt with are happy to be CarolHost, even though they all really want to be like BobHost.)


title: Tracking pages with variables in GA

text: Recently I have updated my site, it now passes a variable on some links like so... www.mysite.com/1234/?play=true I've noticed in Google Analytics it records www.mysite.com/1234/ and www.mysite.com/1234/?play=true as two different URL's. Is there a way to merge them because they are after all just one page, It makes "Top Content" for example hard to read because of dupilicates. I've read about something called canonical link tag which may help this? My blog has this already inserted into the head but it doesnt make a difference. Any suggestions?


title: What's causing warnings when clicking a link in a newsletter/email message?

text: I've created a html email newsletter (sending it through campaign monitor) and some of my receivers complain that they get a warning when they're clicking on links in my email. > Warning this web page is not secure... Is this something that's built into Outlook or IE? The strange thing is that this warning doesn't appear on all email links... just some of them. If it was on all links that would be OK.


title: Does the JavaScript that Google Analytics Experiments adds slow down alternate versions, and how could I measure this?

text: I am using Content Experiments in Google Analytics to test three different landing pages. This uses JavaScript on the initial page to load the alternates. Would the additional JavaScript add to the load time for alternative versions, and if so how can I measure this?


title: Is it OK for a DNS A record to resolve to another URL rather than an IP address?

text: My company use a domain registrar who also offer a web forwarding service. We have a large number of different domain names purchased over the years and are using this web forwarding service to allow us to forward on requests to old domain names to a suitable location on our main website, as follows:   * User browses to www.an-old-domain.com   * www.an-old-domain.com resolves via DNS to the IP of our registrar's forwarding server.   * The web forwarding server has been set up to serve an http 302 redirect from www.an-old-domain.com to www.our-corporate-website.com/some-page   * The user is redirected to www.our-corporate-website.com/some-page which in turn resolves via DNS to the IP of our web server We're having a few problems with the reliability of this redirection service and I was wondering whether it would be OK to create a DNS A record for www.an-old-domain.com to resolve to www.our-corporate-website.com/some-page, which in turn resolves to the IP address of our web server. I've always thought that DNS A records should resolve to an IP address rather than a URL, thereby creating a chain of DNS entries. A colleague tells me they that this approach is fine however, but I'm suspicious that it's a bit of a hack.


title: Website "theft" - what is the best way of dealing with these individuals?

text: I was doing a duplicate content search on the web for our site content and found that someone has downloaded/mirrored our entire website and is hosting it on a subdomain of their own main domain. When I check the WHOIS database, no details of the user are available. Why do people do this when it is clearly a copyright infringement - is it an SEO thing? What is the best way of dealing with these individuals?


title: Prevent Duplicate content when using CloudFlare

text: I have a website which uses CloudFlare CDN. At the CDN setup, CloudFlare created a sub-domain like direct.example.com to my website, which can be used to override CloudFlare and access the site directly. When I do a google search for "site:direct.example.com" it comes up with results. It means google had also crawled and indexed that sub-domain too. The problem is, since example.com & direct.example.com both consists of same content, it will end up in a content duplication. (I think it's not good for SEO). So what I want is google bot to **not to crawl and index** "direct.example.com". I tried to use robots.txt to do the trick, but I failed since both uses the same robots.txt. What should I do to entirely prevent my sub-domain from Indexing? Is there any other options to over come this problem? Thank you.


title: How does a new website's PR calculated if multiple domains permanently redirected to that new domain?

text: I know if I permanently redirect a domain to a new domain address it won't affect my new domain in SEO point of view (PageRank, Page authority, etc.) and the new one would get the PageRank of my old domain but If I have 5 domains which are related to sports and I need to permanently redirect this 5 domains to a single domain which is also related to sports, I use 301 redirect method, in this case how does my new domain's PageRank calculated? Does it takes average PageRank of all the other old domain or any other methods to calculate the PageRank?


title: Recommendations for a hosted blog with a plugin that allows syntax highlighting.

text: I want to keep a blog with useful code snippets for myself. I don't want to setup some website with blogging software or something similar. All I want is register with a blog site and be able to use syntax- highlighting. (like wordpress or google blog only with syntax-highlighting) any links ? thanks!


title: Sub Domain tracking with Analytics filters

text: We currently have Analytics tracking codes running throughout our site including our Sub Domains. What I would like to do is create different Profiles under the same account segmenting the sub domains by means of filters. Currently I am just excluding the hostname of the main website by using the following custom filter: Exclude: Hostname Filter pattern: ^www.mydomain.co.za(.*) I know this isn't the proper method of doing this though and have some of the main domains links coming through in the data. Ideally I would just like to include anything from: sub.domain.co.za Any help would be greatly appreciated.


title: any SEO sense in embedding EXIF metadata on web site images?

text: I got a quick question and would love to know your opinion. I develop a CMS that in it's large part is very SEO-centric with many features that allow to control various individual parts of a web page. For example a web page can have a nice slug (url alias), page title override (other than content title in the CMS), text before footer, after footer, intro text, h1 tag, etc... Also image file names can be renamed to something more meaningful than a GUID, ID, etc. The CMS also allows me to enter an "alt" and "title" tag (to display as a short image description in a tooltip, enter "tags" for CMS/internal use) Question is - do you think there would be sense in actually embedding "keywords" and other useful info within each/some uploaded image's EXIF metadata ? Any SEO advantage over just a nice image name and an "alt" tag.. ? If we're trying to beat our competition SEO-wise, really hard with every possible aspect - why not embed additional keywords metadata on images ?


I own a domain name. I would like to sell it. Which escrow company do you suggest? Has anyone tried a good escrow transaction company? How do you sell a domain name to a buyer?


title: Using mod_rewrite to send all requests to a certain document

text: I want to temporarily redirect all requests for a site to index.html, using apache only. Is this mod_rewrite approach going to work, and is it the right way to do it?               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule   ^.*$  /index.html  [R]      Thanks.


title: YouSendIt Alternative?

text: Looking for a _reasonably_ priced alternative to YouSendIt's exorbitant pricing for an embedded, unbranded (i.e. no "Uploads by SomeCompany" or at the very least, discrete, subtle co-branding) file upload solution for my client's print shop Website. To do what we want to do with YouSendIt, we're looking at a corporate account of $995 USD _plus_ $29.99 USD monthly fee, that is only sold pro-rated, so you have to buy the entire year's worth. To me, this is just unacceptable considering the commodity pricing of storage and bandwidth nowadays. For data, we're looking at roughly 10MB per upload, with perhaps 250-1000 uploads per month, with transient data storage of no more than 30 days (and more than likely 1-2 business days) for a total of 10 GB transfer (upload) and 10 GB transfer (download, to the print shop) at the very max each month. Any ideas? Everything I've found through searching seems to be geared more towards personal file sharing and not for embedding into Websites.


title: Can I create one ad in Google Adsense and then copy and paste the code on more then one page?

text: And if I do, will it effect how much money the ads make in any way? Thanks


title: Are there Content Management Systems that don't require working with code?

text: I've used Drupal for every site I've made for the last couple of years. I guess Drupal is different things to different people, but what I love is the power it gives me without having to write code. The combo of CCK, Views, Rules, Roles allows me to do almost everything I've ever needed, and I've got by without advanced development like hooks and custom modules. I'm now learning ExpressionEngine for my company's website. It seems similar to Drupal in that by using code snippets (which isn't really coding) you can achieve some quite powerful things without having to be a full on developer. So my question is, given my aversion to coding but need for power, are there any other CMS' worth looking at? Its not that I'm not technical (Drupal is famous for its learning curve!), but I'm much more comfortable with a UI than writing too much code.


title: Removing domain from google search results

text: I bought a domain few months back.I am no longer using it.But it displaying in google search results.I dont know how google picked up.I want to remove from search results.But my domain is not associated with any web space.So i think robots.txt,request to remove site through webmaster wont work.Will deleting my domain,will exclude search results.


title: testing random pages for uptime (part of an SLA)

text: We have outsourced hosting of a large website. We have an SLA for response times of random pages. I.e. every minute a random page will be chosen from a pool of 30,000 pages and its response time recorded. I know about Monitis, Pingdom, etc., but to my knowledge none of these services allow for the selection of random pages. Any ideas? Thanks.


title: Program for FTP syncing, but only happens once?

text: I want to use an ftp sync program which would work on either windows or linux that would connect to an ftp server and sync a folder from my computer to it. The catch is you can't see any files inside the ftp server. This means it'll just keep syncing the same files every time. Is there a program that would upload the file in that folder once and not again, but check hourly or so for another file and then upload it?


title: Problem with image from HTML table after slicing and exporting from Photoshop

text: I made an image in Photoshop, I used Photoshop slice tool: ![Photoshop Slice Tool](http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4051/622ylwr2navqm3wzxf6g.png) **Original Image** ![Original Image](http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/6300/grafdetranzitii.jpg) I used "Save for Web Devices" option to export each slice tools in PNG images and it creates a page, HTML page. As simple page, the page looks good but when I included in my project, it looks as a fragmented puzzle, look in picture: I will paste here the HTML code (with style): http://pastebin.com/U9p3GT5j This code is a part of complex project and my `style.css` external CSS style doesn't affect that table or I want where I put the slices to place an input text...


title: I disabled indexing WP tags,wp-contents,etc in robot.txt but it google still indexing!

text: This is totally killing me. I have a wordpress website about flash games and this is the link if you want to check x1q.com (it is not english) Well the problem is that I've disabled indexing tags and wp-directories and cetra but what I see is that google still indexing tags and I have a hell lots of tags instead of indexing posts. I've already submitted the sitemap.xml but these tags keep indexing why? shouldn't google robots understand that I don't want to index them???? Sitemap: http://x1q.com/sitemap.xml User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-content/ Disallow: /wp-icludes/ Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /trackback/ Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow: /archives/ Disallow: /tag/* Disallow: /tag/ Disallow: /wp-* Disallow: /login/ Disallow: _/trackback Disallow: /_.js$ Disallow: / _.inc$ Disallow: /_.css$ Disallow: / _.php$ Disallow: /_?* Disallow: / _? Disallow: /20_ User-agent: All Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: / User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: /


title: Google Analytics click count

text: If someone with the same IP click on our site 10 times or more from the search result page to our site, how would Google Analytics treat this situation? Would Google Analytics restrict a user who click on a site with the same IP can be counted for one time in 24 hours or whatever? Thanks


title: Problems defining CNAME for tumblr custom domain through directadmin

text: I'm having problems trying to define a CNAME from blog.mydomain.com to domains.tumblr. I'm using directadmin DNS Administration. I've added a sub-domain named blog.mydomain.com and then in DNS Administration have defined the following: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7lGsQ.png) Name: "blog.mydomain.com" Value: "domains.tumblr.com." When I try to add a dot at the end of the field, I'm an error:                   Unable to save dns zone: named-zonecheck returned:     loading "blog.mydomain.com" from "/var/named/blog.mydomain.com.db.temp" class "IN"     dns_master_load: /var/named/blog.mydomain.com.db.temp:32: blog.mydomain.com: CNAME and other data     zone blog.mydomain.com/IN: loading master file /var/named/blog.mydomain.com.db.temp: CNAME and other data      If I understood correctly, without the dot at the end might make my CNAME be directed to a wrong relative URL, unless this is something directadmin resolves on his own. Is that my problem? If so, what does this error mean? (and I can I resolve it)


title: Google Analytics still recording stats even though site has been removed

text: I've recently built a new site for a recruitment company, totally removed the old site, and added new analytics code, but it still seems to be tracking about 60 visits a day from the old site, which doesn't exist. I've set up redirects - but I'm just wondering if anyone would have any idea why the old tracking code is still picking up visits?


title: Google adds useless parameters to my URL

text: I have recently added my website to Google, and I don't understand why he adds useless parameters to my URLs. Normal URL:               build/view/2/akali/mid      Google URL:               build/view/2/akali/mid?role=adc      That's boring because the parameter `role` take the value `adc` instead of `mid`. How can I do to avoid this?


title: Redirecting a lot of pages to one page - Google rankings down the drain?

text: We have quite a successful site with high rankings on good keywords. Now the website is redesigned to a new one-page website. The keywords pointed to different pages from Google. What we've been thinking is to put a 301 redirect on all of the different pages (which score well in Google) to the new website (which has only one page). My question is, as the links from Google might go to a slightly less relevant (less specific) page, will the rankings eventually drop or disappear? And is this duplicate content? If you have other ideas to keep the rankings as much as possible, I'd love to hear them. I know it would be better to just keep similar pages on the new website, but the website is only one page and redesigning the full website is not an option.


title: Crawl errors "src" in the last in URL

text: I was looking in the Google Webmaster Tools and realized the following crawl error: > Pages that link to `http://mysite.com/articles/my-stub/src/`   >  URL: `http://mysite.com/articles/my-stub` I wonder from where `src` is coming. My original article URL is `http://mysite.com/articles/my-stub`. Can you help me resolve this?


title: What's the best way to change a restaurant website to accommodate a second location?

text: So I built a restaurant website about 2 years ago - its a standard site with menus, events, contact pages etc. Now the restaurant is expanding and opening another branch in another location, the restaurant will never be a huge chain and there aren't any immediate plans to open more restaurants in other locations. The problem is that the Menus (Tapas, Christmas, Cocktails, etc) and the events page will be different for both locations. Do I create a new index page with 'Choose your location' Location 1 or location 2? or Do I introduce a top nav with drop downs - so Menu > Location A > Menu Menu > Location A > Tapas Menu > Location B > Menu Menu > Location B > Tapas Events > Location A > Events > Location B > I have researched this, but have not found any restaurant site with only 2 locations.


title: Google analytics tracking flow from another domain

text: Is there a way to track the flow of Google Analytics from another domain using same UA code so that we can check the visitors flow? So if someone enters the google.com/hello and the page refers to hello.com, can we track in same GA account so google.com/hello as a landing page and hello.com as the second page? I tried but it didn't work. Is there other options?


title: My website has been hacked/attacked, says "reported attack page"

text: Three days back my website `ganapatihegde.com` has been hacked/attacked by some hacker. Now, when anyone tries to see my website, it says "Reported Attack Page!". I am using server provided by Free Hostia. I contacted them, but they say they don't provide any "site script debugging service". How can I get my website back?


title: How often does Google re-calculate the page rank of webpage?

text: Am updating my website Backlinks and content from last 2 month but page rank is not changing,how often does Google re-calculate the page rank?


title: Why aren't my Facebook "like" comments showing up in my newsfeed?

text: I have noticed that whenever I _like_ a website or page and include a comment, nothing shows up in my newsfeed and I can't see the _like_ at all. Is this an error with the site or something wrong with my Facebook account?


title: blah.com works, www.blah.com doesn't

text: I've found many a common question but unfortunately none of them really directly answered my inquiry, below is a copy paste of the info I am provided by xname.org I've replaced my `.com` with `blah.com`, my email with `blah.yahoo.com`, and my IP address with `42.42.42.42`.                   $TTL 86400 ; Default TTL         blah.com.       IN  SOA ns0.xname.org.  blah.yahoo.com. (                         2013042110  ; serial                         10800   ; Refresh period                         3600    ; Retry interval                         604800  ; Expire time                         10800   ; Negative caching TTL                     )                      $ORIGIN blah.com.                     IN      NS      ns1.xname.org.                     IN      NS      ns0.xname.org.                     IN      NS      ns2.xname.org.                     IN      MX  10  blah.com.         blah.com.           IN      A       42.42.42.42                             www.            IN      CNAME       blah.com.      So `blah.com` works but `www.blah.com` doesn't. I initially tried to put just plain `www` for the cname, but found some reference to adding the trailing dot to it. The other uncertainty I have is whether the `blah.com` in "x in cname `blah.com`" should have its trailing dot or not. I know this should be obvious, and perhaps even easy but I cannot find an answer to this anywhere, I did find some solutions suggesting I put `www.blah.com` as an A listing pointing to my IP but if I can help it I'd prefer only have my IP listed once as it's a dynamic IP and the fewer places I need to update it when it changes the better.


title: Email Subscription, email or name and email?

text: I'm making a email subscription form. Ideally I like when a website only asks for your email. It's both minimalistic from a design perspective and easy for the user. However I'm wondering if sending someone an email without having their name will get through someones spam filter? So the question is will I be able to get through Gmail spam filter with just a persons email? Do the benefits of having the users name/email out weigh the costs?


title: Automatic Online Payments

text: I'm building a site which will notify users via SMS when there is a new job that meets their criteria. Currently they then have to login to the site and pay (via Paypal) for the lead details (if they are interested). What we want to do is have them reply to the text, and we somehow automatically take the payment, then SMS them the details. Now I know we can automatically take payments using a payment gateway so long as we store the credit card details. But due to the security required to store credit card details we'd ideally like to use a payment provider who can manage that side of things. Paypal and Google checkout offer something similar, but its still based around monthly billing just with a variable amount. And in our case the payments could be any time.


title: CSS files not updating on FTP transfer overwrite

text: I have a weird issue: I have made changes to a CSS document but when I upload it and overwrite the existing file nothing changes - the old file remains. I have tried this on several FTP clients to the same effect. It appears to be only one web server affected. I can upload and download files fine - just not overwrite existing files. Does anyone know what could be causing this? (permissions are 644).


title: What is the proper SEO way to add and remove links to our site and sitemap?

text: As content fluctuates on our site, we will obviously add the titles to the new pages to our sitemap, and link list for search engine indexing. Through time, certain links will become less relevant, and would like to know how to avoid them being crawled. The links themselves may not be removed - but we don't want to dilute the link list with less relevant links as time passes. I'm guessing the status code of the page would change - to what? Should they also removed from the sitemap?


title: Showing content from pages at different URL's (masking), possibly with .htaccess

text: If I have URL's like:-               domain.com/category/widgets/filter/blue     domain.com/category/widgets/filter/red      And it is pretty difficult to reconstruct them to something like:-               domain.com/category/blue-widgets     domain.com/category/red-widgets      Is there any way at all that I can use URL rewrites or anything else with .htaccess or on the server to display the URL's as the `domain.com/category/blue-widgets` on the `domain.com/category/widgets/filter/blue` page? I've looked into masking URL's but got nowhere and this has been something bugging me for almost 6 months now. Is there any way to achieve what I want to do? FYI: This is a Magento website and the above process, I am wanting to implement for potentially hundreds of URL's. # Edit To respond to @kkugelmann's answer:- I couldn't get your proposed `RewriteRule` to make a difference at all in the `.htaccess` file so I started testing a few things in this .htaccess tester:- The proposed `RewriteRule` didn't work in this tester:- ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rZvzD.png) However, the following did:- ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fcl77.png) But adding any of these `RewriteRule`'s into the website's `.htaccess` file did not rewrite the URL at all... # Edit2 By the way, if I add `[R=301,L]` to the end of the URL rewrite rule, it does actually then rewrite the rule, but of course 301 redirects it as well which is unwanted behaviour. # Edit3 I found another question with the same issue... And an accepted answer that solved the problem which seemed to be something to do with using `mod_proxy` and the `[P]` tag on the rule (if I try this, the page 404's).


title: Do links to my site in www.mysite.blogspot.com point back to my site or blogger?

text: I've recently started a website and of course I'm trying to build backlinks. I've started a blogger blog as one way to do this yet I'm continually hounded by sales calls that tell me if I post a link to my site in a `.blogspot.com` blog it doesnt actually point to my site and therefore get no credit for the link. I can't seem to find this information on my own so I'm not sure if it's "sales people crap" or the truth. Am I wasting my time trying to build links this way? Do I really need another domain strictly for blogging or do the links in my blogger blog actually help my site?


title: How is this website's architecture structured?

text: refer to this URL: `http://imagemechanics.com.au/` Every page seems to have its own unique URL, but the "/#!/" leads me to believe it's all one giant page with anchor tags defining the sections. Is each section truly its own .html page or is it just one page?


title: Finding websites that do a 301/302 redirect to a specific website

text: Is there a way to find out if a website is receiving redirects from other websites? Please note that I'm not asking about incoming links, but an actual redirect. I don't care how complicated the solution is. If you have any ideas, I'd be happy to hear them.


title: How do I temporarily disable a website?

text: I have to take a website down for a month, which is the least intrusive way to keep achieved SEO optimizations? should I just add in apache config:               <Directory /root-directory-of-web-site-to-be-redirected>         Redirect 301 /  http://www.otherdomain.com/temporarily_offline.html     </Directory>      ## .... Reason for the long downtime: _some misconfiguration in ruby, while all other php sites work fine. I will fix this after a month when I am back from hollidays_


title: How important is the uniqueness of your domain name?

text: I've finally come up with a domain name that I like and is available. The name is nonsensical and doesn't translate into anything meaningful in any language, as far as I know. It's something like "FOOBARite". (Don't steal that!) I'm wondering about a few search issues. Results-wise, searching for it in Google currently returns about 15k results, none of which are relevant (dead Twitter pages, various unpopular online handles, and botched french translations). However, Google starts off with a spelling suggestion, which removes a letter. ("Did you mean: FOOBARit?") That returns about 250k results for several different and unrelated websites/organizations by that name. One is some technology provider, another is a sign-language organization, another is the name of a font... None of them seem particularly popular, there's not that much activity on any of those pages. Anyway, the two are pronounced differently, they're just a letter off. Should I go with my idea or is this one-letter variation going to cause me problems? If my site becomes ranked well enough, will Google's spelling suggestion go away? I don't want users to search for my site name and be told they've spelled it wrong.


title: Blog Tagging - Is it important?

text: My question is simple. Are tagging blog post important? When I say important it has two areas:   1. Is it important for users using the website.   2. Is it important for SEO? For instance let's say I write a blog post about how amazing of a browser Internet Explorer 8 is...I might use tags such as `Internet Explorer` `IE8` etc. Do these really have any impact on my site?


title: How to make GMail spam folder always visible?

text: The spam folder in GMail is always hidden and it becomes more and more uncomfortable How to configure GMail Spam folder to be always visible?


title: Google and querystring parameter capitalization?

text: I looked all over the web, but I could not find an answer to this. We all know that Google treats different capitalization of Urls as potentially duplicate content. My question is, what about querystring parameters? For example, will Google treat this as duplicate content? http://www.example.com/forum?thread=first and http://www.example.com/forum?Thread=first Here, the url has the same capitalization. However, the querystring parameter "Thread" and "thread" have different capitalization for the letter "T". How does Google treat querystring parameter capitalization? Does it ignore querystring parameter capitalization or will different querystring parameter capitalization lead to duplicate content penalties from Google?


title: How do I prevent access to SPAM URLs and remove them from Google's index?

text: When I started managing my friends' website, I had found a folder in it with a bunch of garbage HTML files with names such as: `free-nasscamd-server-31day`, `gorilla-quentin-trollip-pdf`, etc... Assuming someone had hacked those files in there, I had deleted that folder and all those HTML files in it, and checked everywhere else to make sure there wasn't anything else lingering. Two months later, I am still finding in my access logs there are garbage URLs still trying to be accessed somehow, although they return `404` errors now since the pages don't exist. And when I go into Google and type `site:{url}`, it displays a bunch of garbage URLs as well, such as: `{url}/pitchet-program-samsung-wave2/`, `{url}/rogue-pirates-of-the-caribbean-themes-nokia-x3torrent/`, etc...   1. How do I prevent the attempted access to those URLs?   2. How do I remove those garbage URLs from Google?


title: I own a domain name. Can people view my personal registered info?

text: Is my information protected? Or can someone tell where I live by my domain name? Why do hosting services offer a protected information service for extra money? How can I view that information?


title: Adserving Service for specific ads

text: I am looking into adserving services for a web application that is in development. I know there are the regulars like AdSense, DoubleClick, etc but the client wants the ability to sell of sections of the website to specific advertisers for specific campaigns. I would really prefer not to write this functionality (add, change, set duration, etc) from scratch so I'm looking for an adserving service that will allow specific ads to be uploaded and displayed to the end user. Preferably, one that integrates with a CDN of somesort. Are there services that offer this functionality?


title: Google local version does not display content in local language

text: We have the website www.visitgozo.com and would like to ask if there is a way where you can instruct Google (and other search engines) that when for example searching for 'gozo' in a local version of Google, e.g. google.it, the Italian version is shown `www.visitgozo.com/it/` rather than the root domain of `www.visitgozo.com` which is in English. Within the homepage, we are instructing search engines about the other languages available for that page through the link tags:               <link rel='alternate' href='http://www.visitgozo.com/es/' hreflang='es'/>      <link rel='alternate' href='http://www.visitgozo.com/en/' hreflang='en'/>      <link rel='alternate' href='http://www.visitgozo.com/de/' hreflang='de'/>      <link rel='alternate' href='http://www.visitgozo.com/ru/' hreflang='ru'/>      <link rel='alternate' href='http://www.visitgozo.com/it/' hreflang='it'/>      <link rel='alternate' href='http://www.visitgozo.com/sv/' hreflang='sv'/>      <link rel='alternate' href='http://www.visitgozo.com/fr/' hreflang='fr'/>       Any insight about this? Thanks


title: sitemap.xml file extension, does it have to be .xml?

text: Do XML sitemap files have to end with the `.xml` file extension? On the Bigcommerce platform, their XML sitemap file are defined as:               http://www.examplesite.com/xmlsitemap.php      The sitemap file is all correctly marked up and and when saving locally its saves as an `.xml` file. I've also seen some Joomla sitemap plugins create sitemaps with `.php` extensions. The Sitemap Protocol site doesn't cover this. I unfortunately don't have access to GWT too see if it verifies.


title: PHP paid-for support script?

text: I'm looking for a support system/helpdesk where users are required to pay for every question they have asked. Can anybody recommend me a good one?


title: Google Analytics: Enabled 'Track site search results' , where do I see list with search queries

text: I enabled 'Track site search results' on Google Analytics and put also the queryparameter. Now my question is, where can I simply look at the list that is gathered with all the searches that are done by users?


title: Provide a YouTube videobar on my website

text: I want to embed a videobar (see image below) on my website. The video bar is for a playlist. I have come across a few articles outlining how to do this (such as this or this) but all point to a page that redirects to Google http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/wizards/videobar.html Is there any way to embed a videobar for a YouTube playlist without this Google site which is no longer available ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/HSlVX.jpg)


title: Why is a # sign added to the end of URLS?

text: Note: I'm asking this from the perspective of the site developers (trying to help someone there). not as a user. Please don't forward this to superuser.com. It's a server admin question. Have a look here http://www.wanimo.com/fr/chiens/coussin-matelas-tapis-pour-chien-sc28/tapis- plat-urban-chic-sf7263/ you'll see that the page gets redirected to the same page with # at the end. Worse, when you click back you get garbage url. I'm trying to debug what is causing the redirect. Any advice on how to find it ?


title: Google analytics referals with multiple sites on one domain

text: I have two sites, both on the same domain name. I.E.               www.example.com     www.example.com/blog      I have an analytics account set up for both which works well; I can see that traffic for the sites in their respective accounts. However, I want to be able to track referrals from `www.example.com/blog` to`www.example.com`. Although I know referrals are occurring, I can't seem to find any way to track them in analytics. I think something needs to change with my analytics code, but I am not sure what to do. Do I need to do something with the cookie domain?


title: Web Application Design - Good reading materials?

text: I've been searching for a few days to find some good reading material on web application design, and haven't been able to find much (too many buzzwords or something). I'm looking for something that covers some design patterns for common situations in user-based systems (authentication, permissions/roles, preferences/configurations, encryption, payment, etc.) which might detail common implementations on server-side (hopefully in MVC style) application and database schema layouts. I think normally a lot of these are implemented in existing frameworks such as Struts, Springs, etc. but in some cases I might have to roll-my-own small framework or add to an existing and I need something to help me understand more about how these are implemented, or proper ways for implementing them myself. There is a lot of information available but most of what I find seems to be scattered, and specifically I'd like to find a book or few (reading on screen is bothersome for my eyes). Thanks


title: How to handle hundred of external links in a site?

text: The site I am working on has few hundred distributors, each one has its own page, and a link to that distributors website. Some of the distributors have multiple locations and so they have multiple pages with the same link. Should I put a `rel="nofollow"` on those external links so that I don't send my link juice out of the site or should I do it? I am not really sure what is best for my site.


title: How to add multiple websites on a single IP address?

text: I have a VDS server and a dedicated IP address. The question is how to add multiple sites in a single domain?   For example I have 3 sites as below:   * `www.company.co`   * `www.webdesign.com`   * `www.inet.com`


title: Handling request after installing MAMP (no DNS setup yet)

text: I've just installed MAMP on my mac machine and checked the server is working by looking at localhost. I looked up my IP address by `ifconfig`. When I use another machine, I still can't get connected to the server. Why is that? I haven't register a domain name, but I suppose to be able to connect by IP address, isn't it?


title: Do search engines punish broken links to external websites?

text: My website is all about users posting links to external websites. A quick script reveals that 700 of these external links are broken (for instance `hffp://example.com` or `http://some-typo.com`). Independently of the fact that they are a pain for the user, does these broken links hurt my SEO ranking in any way? _Note: They are not internal links, just links to other websites. It is different from the problem of having your own website show 404 errors._


title: Display of special characters in the page title in SERPs

text: I have noticed a few oddities recently with the titles of web pages in search engine results pages (SERPs). I started using some special characters in my page titles in order to make them look slightly more appealing in SERPs and perhaps stand out a bit more:               ‘Item name’ widget • Site Name     (( Item name )) widget • Site Name        * In Google and Yahoo, the curly quotes (8216/8217) are converted to straight quotes.   * In Bing and Yahoo, all special characters at the front of the title are removed, i.e. the above shows as `Item name’ ...etc` or `Item name )) ...etc` The bullet point (8226) displays fine in all three, as do various other Unicode characters (I've seen music notes in SERPs before now). My questions:   1. Does anyone know if there any particular characters that are safe/unsafe?   2. Is it possible to get search engines to show the characters as I code them, and include the ones at the front of the title?   3. Is there any data on what title formats garner a higher click-through rate? Also, just to be clear, I'm not trying to "trick" search engines or be "sneaky", I'm just interested if it's possible to increase CTR when a page is not #1 in the results.


title: Batch removal of URL from Google index

text: We accidentally created a number of links to the same page resulting in Google indexing what should be about 5 000 pages as over 100 000. We have subsequently fixed this up, returning 404's, but Google is still testing these URLs - several hundred a day - and returning these as 404 errors in Webmaster Tools. I assume that if we waited Google would eventually sort this out, but as this is not good for our Google ranking - we effectively have 10's of URL for each page - I would like to look to accelerate this removal. We are manually removing these URL's using Google Webmaster Tools, but this is very time consuming. Unfortunately the URL's are not easy to cover by a single directory as described here Does anyone have suggestions on batch removal tools of URL?


title: How to SEO a Single-Page website

text: I am creating a new website for a client, and I think a single page website / layout will be pretty neat. There is not that much detailed content, it is a company that imports a lot of products from different companies. So it will be a bit of a showcase of the different types of products / equipment you can order. Of the whole catalog only maybe 10 products are actually shown. Now I have the basic structure with sections and links like: > #home / #products / #equipment / #services / #contact. Now from what I understand is that Google does not index links containing #, so there will be no problem of duplicate content, everything will be indexed as the frontpage. Now what I want to optimize is searching. This company is agent of some product in the country, meaning only they have the permission to import and sell that product. This means that when somebody searches for product x, this website pops up as the first hit. Now can I make it that they will be automatically brought to the `#products` part of the website directly from google. I was thinking of something like having google index the different sections as different pages. Is something like that possible?


title: One page website SEO - Can Google show multiple entries that jump to the relevant section?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to SEO a Single-Page website A client wants a content-heavy one page Wordpress website, with scroll-to navigation. And they want it search engine optimised :) I thought that if Google could see each section as a page, with unique title, I might be able to achieve all of the above. I came across this article, which suggests creating multiple pages for Google, but then hijacking the navigation links with Ajax to load the content within the single page for the human visitor. It would be great if I could get some advice on whether or not this is madness! _**EDIT_** Perhaps my question is too subjective or ambiguous... What I would really like to know is: _Are there any potential negative impacts in terms of SEO, Google ranking, page load speed (apart from the obvious effect of having all content on one page) or whatever to using this method?_ Thanks!


title: we have a # in the URL

text: I am new in this SEO techniques. I created my website with this way:   * When www.mysite.com is typed it will redirect to a non-www version mysite.com   * One page HTML/PHP, no redirects or whatsoever   * Used a jquery plugin that scrolls to a specific `<div>` when a button/menu is clicked.   * My URL is constructed like this: `mysite.com/#about` and `mysite.com/#contact-us` Is this SEO friendly? Because I noticed, whenever I typed the exact domain name on Google, it sees my website however when I do `mysite contact` or `mysite about` it doesn't see my website. Why is that?


title: Anchor link structured website & SEO

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to SEO a Single-Page website My client wants to have a website similar to this one. I think that this concept could really work well as a simple presentation of business portfolio but I can't figure out how good I could optimize website for search engines because all content is actually on one single (long) page. Do you have any suggestions concerning this specific case? I guess google would only index one page?


title: Is single page website bad for SEO?

text: Suppose I have a website for a company which I want to SEO. Think of two scenarios: 1) There is only `index.php`, and for /about /contact sections I do it like this: `index.php?what=about` , `index.php?what=contact` etc. and I change the url using .htaccess, so the links become `www.company.com/about` , `www.company.com/contact` and every page has unique content of course. 2) Everything has their own page. i.e. :   * http      * index.php     * about.php     * contact.php I think that these two scenarios are the same, if they have the same content. I mean Google should not care about the server-end right? Or am I wrong? Please inform me before I go any further :) Thanks !


title: What's the current wait time for reconsideration requests for Google's webmaster tools?

text: We recently received an unnatural links penalty to our site; a rogue SEO firm did us some serious damage, and we lost 40% of our traffic (hundreds of thousands of users) overnight. The effect on our business has been severe and we're really hoping we making things right. We submitted a reconsideration request but I'm wondering how long I should forecast for an outcome, as it will have a knock on effect for our business.


title: What are the minimum steps that I should follow to ensure that my web site is accessible to the disabled?

text: I am trying to follow a very important standard that I must admit I have ignored up until recently. I want to make sure that my pages are accessible to a large portion of people that have disabilities. I focus mainly on tutorials that are text and image intensive, but no video / flash or any kind of animations. What is a checklist that I can follow to ensure that many people with disabilities can have a good experience when using my web site, and what disabilities should I be most conscious of? I know that I can't possibly please everyone. I have gone through the W3C guidelines, however I'm not entirely sure what standards apply to me. I'm not building web applications, I'm building mostly wiki like information exchanges, blogs and the occasional forum.


title: The wrong Twitter account is showing in Google SERPs when searching for my name

text: If you search for me by name on Google, the wrong Twitter page has started to show in SERPs. Check here. The offending Twitter page usually comes up about 10th in the results. My Twitter page is linked from my blog and my Google+ profile so I don't understand how this account is starting to rank more highly than my own, given the links to my site which is the top result. My question is, is there a way to prevent this? What options do I have to either boost my own Twitter page up the rankings or try to remove/reduce the rank of the other page when searching.


title: Search engine misunderstanding

text: I have this, probably a misunderstanding, about search engines. How do they search for pages? If i have a page which loads contents from database and / or changes content thought jquery will a search engine grab those content loaded by database and jquery??? help much appreciated!


title: Is this server upgrade worth $10 per month?

text: At the moment I pay $110.95 per month for the following:               Pentium 4 x 2.4Ghz     2GB RAM     1 x 250GB HDD     100Mbps     cPanel       However I could upgrade? to this for $120 per month:               D510 1.66 GHz     2GB DDR2 RAM     1 x 500GB HDD     100Mbps     cPanel      For the price I'm paying do you think this is a good service? Would I see much benefit from the D510 1.66 over the P4? I'm considering dropping cPanel as I'm close to the stage where I can manage most of these things through SSH.


title: Are there parts of my site that should not get structured data tags?

text: I have a site that essentially has two types of pages. First, I have a home page (http://whatgoeswiththis.co) that shows a stream of products. Then, I have a detail page (for instance, http://whatgoeswiththis.co/item/6531) that is unique to each product. I include structured data on this page for schema.org/Product and /Offer. Should I also markup the product as a schema.org/Product when it appears on homepage as part of a feed, even though this homepage is constantly changing? Similarly, should I markup a person as a schema.org/Person every time they make a post or comment and their avatar/name shows up, or just once on their profile page? Thanks!


title: Decent FREE Web Based FTP Alternatives?

text: Like the subject mentions, I'm looking for a free FTP Alternative that's web based. What I need is the ability to grant people like our marketing team the ability to upload marketing images and instantly have those images show up in `ourdomain.com/images/newimage.jpg`. I have found plenty of excellent file sharing programs that are essentially drop box and sharepoint alternatives but have yet to find an FTP Alternative. Also ideally multiple account authentication would be great. If anyone is familiar with cPanel I'm essentially looking for their File Manager or something very similar to it (obviously stand alone and preferably free). Does anybody know if anything like this exists?


title: SEO/Google: Does Google bot properly handle break <br /> tags in an <h1>?

text:
Thinking about keywords in headings on pages. When Google crawls the page, and comes across this:
First Keyword
     Second Long Tail
     Keyword
      It's smart enough to know that those `<br />` tags are spaces, right? What about this scenario?

      How might it rank the second keyword? Just curious here.


title: Real Time Push Server for Media

text: I am currently using a real time Push server to push text and small binary data. I am looking for a similar service for Media. Pubnub, which I currently use, limits data transfers to 1.8k, does anyone know of a similar service or setup for larger files?


title: Keywords and sitemap management mistake

text: I am working on a news aggregator. When I look at the `example.com` page, (`https://www.google.co.in/#q=site:example.com`), I see that the top pages are not the "best" pages in my website. When I look at the keywords in keyword section in Google Webmasters Tools, I do not see relevant keywords. This probably means that Google does not understand my site correctly. How can I tell Google to get "correct" keywords for my site and put correct links in the top search results? Since I am a news aggregator, how would I figure out what the best page is?


title: Mandrill for bulk messaging

text: I'm about to start sending a newsletter to quite a big amount of users (around 60k emails). They are all customised emails, in around 30 different languages, so almost every email will be different (apart from any merge tag customisation). I've seen that the recommendation for bulk emails is to use Mailchimp, while Mandrill is for transactional emails. However, looks like Mailchimp is really focused on sending the same email to huge amounts of people, while in my case, every user may have a different final email depending on the products they bought from us. That makes me think Mandrill is a better option, as I have already used Mandrill for generating on my server these emails. In my situation, these emails are sent only after the user has bought at least one of our products (some kind of an automatic opt-in, something that looks like Mailchimp don't like at all, while Mandrill tolerates it). They are kind of newsletter emails, but really focused on keeping the user's interest and suggesting other products, only based on what she has previously bought. Something inbetween marketing and transactional ( **transarketing**?). I'm a little worried about the warnings around the automatic opt-in thing that Mailchimp raises in their blog (many times), but creating a campaign where it is almost individually segmentated doesn't make sense to me at all, and Mandrill doesn't have a double opt-in system like Mailchimp has (of course, because it's not how Mandrill should be used). So, after all this mess of thoughts, my question is, **Are there any flaws on using Mandrill as bulk messaging system, or can this be used without worries of being sued/domain-banned?**


title: Exporting Google Analytics Data

text: I want to export all of my Google Analytics data to Excel for a weekly report. I will need to re-export the data every week so the process needs to be maintainable. What is the best way to just get a raw data dump of all analytics data into a CSV file (or something similar) for processing in Excel?


title: How to change email server settings in Plesk

text: Well, this question may be _very_ silly and I'm not sure that this is the right place to ask it, so sorry if that's the case. Well, my doubt is as follows: I work with web development and to offer the hosting service as well, I've acquired a hosting resell. My problem is that the email server has default server names: for both POP and SMTP the address is just the domain of the hosting account. Now, there are some customers that already have their websites hosted and want to purchase my service. In that case, I would greatly prefer to _configure_ those names to match the one from the hosting they're coming from rather than making them change all the configurations they have in place. For instance, if a customer comes from a hosting that uses "pop.domain" and "smtp.domain" I would like to make his account use those settings. Now, my reseller account uses Windows environment with Plesk panel. My knowledge of servers is still limited (although I work with programming, I don't deal to much with servers), so I don't really know if that's possible. Is it possible to configure this? If not possible for each account, is it possible to configure this globally? How can it be done? Thanks very much in advance!


title: Why are captcha fields so prevelant across the internet?

text: Seems to me that they are an easy way out and band aid solution to a problem that could be solved in other ways. I have never implemented a captcha field on a website and do not intend to in the future, but I am curious when I see Google, Yahoo and eBay all using them. Surely there are better solutions to the problem. As a user I find them incredibly frustrating even when they have been implemented well like reCaptcha and I am unlikely to convert if a site requires me to complete it. Surely there are many other users out there that will think the same. Captcha are also not infallible with some spammers offering incentives for people to provide captcha answers in desktop apps. With so many other options for traffic filtering/limiting is it just through laziness that we have ended up with so many out there or is there a reason I am missing?


title: Does the GPL v2 license allow sharing and backlink removal?

text: I'm confused I've seen a lot of softwares with GPL License but those specific softwares don't allow sharing the software or remove backlinks for example... (some devs charge 100$ more for the same software to remove their backlink) Isn't GPL supposed to be 100% free as in freedom software that you can run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software?


title: Unrestricted free tool for finding 404's?

text: Google WebMaster Tools limit to the first 1000 (I won't get into that), Xenu doesn't seem to list the page the offending link is on, and W3C limits to the first 150 pages. Can someone suggest a tool (preferably free) that will spider through an entire website and kick out the 404's as well as the page each 404 is on?


title: Will changing SHTML files to PHP change effect how search engines index my site?

text: I have a lot of SHTML pages.   If I change these to PHP to add some more functionality _(obviously changing stuff like includes to PHP where necessary)_ **will this effect how search engines index my site?** _(most importantly Google)_ Will they still index the PHP files the same as the old SHTML and just as often, etc.?   Will there be any difference? **Background Info:**   Server= **IIS** This is my thinking/reasoning behind this question. We have **a lot** of shtml pages.   I think it's because Google will index them all.   E.g.: If you have a file individual_page.php and essentialy this page is many pages; individual_page.php?id=39430403 then Google won't index each one right? But if I have static files, they'll index them all, right?


title: How To Get Data From Another Website?

text: How would I be able to get data from another website and put it on my own website? Website A has profiles of users along with other stuff. I want to be able to get the data of the user and incorporate it in my site.


title: Is it worth always geotargeting your site?

text: Since, if you don't geotarget your TLD website, Google will make assumptions about its location based on IP address, browser info etc. would that not suggest that it is in fact ALWAYS worth geotargeting, lest you leave it up to Google to decide which country-specific search your site shows up in? If Google makes these assumptions with no geotarget set, then I'm guessing it will simply decide which country-specific search to include you in, and therefore which others to exclude you from... Or is it the case that you might show up in a few **different** country- specific searches by not geotargeting? Even if that's the case, I'm guessing you would still rank higher in one particular country's search by geotargeting for it, and so it would still be worth doing?


title: Visits Time-of-day Histogram for last week in Google Analytics

text: How can I know the hours of a day in which my site is the busiest from Google Analytics? I need the graph to take data from last week's visits and show the sum of visits for every hour of the day.


title: Legality of using/embedding MP3s?

text: I am working on a language learning startup. I think that one of the best ways to study is through music. For that purpose I would like to include MP3s on the website, together with related study tools such as appropriate lyrics. Because I want to avoid dead links I would like to host the MP3s directly on my server and stream them to the users. Doing this isn't exactly legal since everyone could download the MP3s. But what if, before accessing a specific song, I displayed a message asking "Do you legally own this song in CD/MP3/... format?" and only if the user clicks "yes" he is allowed to continue and listen. Isn't this how, for example, YouTube gets around legal problems?


title: Codeigniter ci-merchant library - authorize.net payment gateway integration issue

text: I tried to integrate codeigniter authorize.net payment gateway by using the docs http://ci-merchant.org , I can successfully integrate the paypal but unfortunately i couldn't do authorize.net. The below code i have tried,but not working, how to do it ?               $this->load->library('merchant');     $this->merchant->load('authorize_net_sim');     $settings = array(     'api_login_id' => 'xxxx',     'transaction_key' => 'xxxx',     'test_mode' => true);          $this->merchant->initialize($settings);          $params = array(              'amount' => 10,              'currency' => 'USD',              'card_no' => '4111111111111111',              'exp_month' => '12',              'exp_year' => '14',              'csc' => 123,              'first_name' => 'Ashok',              'last_name' => 'KS',             'return_url' => 'http://www.ioss.in/success',             'cancel_url' => 'http://www.ioss.in/cancel'                 );     $response = $this->merchant->purchase($params);         `print_r($response)` returns:               Merchant_response Object (         [_status:protected] => failed         [_message:protected] =>         [_reference:protected] =>         [_data:protected] =>         [_redirect_url:protected] =>         [_redirect_method:protected] => GET         [_redirect_message:protected] =>         [_redirect_data:protected] =>     )      UPDATE 1 after change the code, its working fine...               $params = array(     'amount' => 10.00,     'currency' => 'USD',     'return_url' => 'http://www.ioss.in',     'cancel_url' => 'http://www.google.in');


title: Third-party site-uptime-checking services

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Alternative to Pingdom website monitoring service To monitor my website I currently use Monastic.com (free, but only does checks something like once a day) and a free account on pingdom.com (free, but limited to a single website). Are there free services that ping pages on your website and can be used to check for uptime in that manner? And if there aren't any great free ones available, what are some cheap pay services? Recommendations?


title: Checking if domain will be blacklisted in advance?

text: I've chosen a name for my next website, let's say `example.com` - but I noticed that the url `example.de` is used for pornographic content (some links to other pornographic sites) and `example.net` is dead now but did so some years ago. The words used in the domain aren't anything "fancy" and I shouldn't necessarily trigger a blacklisting.   But I'm worried that due to the other two sites (`example.de` is already blacklisted by at least Avira) my new site will be blacklisted as well. **tl;dr**   How can I check whether popular firewalls will block my domain _before_ I go and register it? **Edit**   I've read these two questions ([1], [2]), but my case appears to be somehow different as I'm not buying an already existing domain but registering it for the very first time.


title: duplicate content - can't use 301 or canonical tag

text: I recently started managing SEO for a client. I'm seeing a lot of duplicate content on their site but their custom CMS doesn't allow canonical tags, and I was told by their team that we can't use 301s. Is there any way to clean up duplicate content without using either 301 redirects or canonical tags? Would using meta robots noindex,nofollow work in a pinch?


title: How to setup multiple Google Analtyics goals that have the same final page but different steps to get there

text: I have a set of white papers that each have its own page on my site. Visitors have to fill out a basic form to get one. If they fill out the form, they get that specific paper. The "thank you" page is the same for all seven white papers I am offering, but the steps a user takes are different in that the white paper has its own page where the form lives. This is an example. The resulting page is the same if they fill out that form, or if they fill the same form on a different page. I currently have a different goal for each paper. Since there are only seven papers it's OK. Just want to make sure this is setup the best.


title: Does using double quote (") to represent inches cause issues for search engines?

text: An issue came up at a company that I started working for recently on the dimensions for product content being displayed using **"** instead of **in**. For the sake of example, let's say the product dimensions were 24" x 38" (how I was displaying it). The owner of the company told my boss to have me change it to 24in x 38in due to some search engine implications, but he's on vacation right now and I can't ask him about it until next week. I decided to do some research on the topic.   1. First off, I went to some major sites like Amazon, Walmart and Walgreen's to see how they displayed it and _every_ site that I checked all used a double quote to represent inches. I checked the source code to see if it was represented as an as a " or an HTML entity and it was always a ".   2. Then I hit Google and searched using different variations of the title of this post as my search term and couldn't find anything relevent at all.    3. My next thought was to try and search for something using dimensions specified using both **"** and **in** to see what kind of results I would get. While none of the results actually had any **"** in them, the searches were fairly successful. However, the results were also quite different when I used **in** instead. (Now, although I was already aware that part of the reason searching with **"** was problematic because of the use of double quotes to specify an exact phrase, it became painfully obvious when none of the results ever included a ".)  Personally, I think using a double quote to represent inches looks more professional and streamlined, where using **in** or **in.** or, even worse, **inches** looks kinda tacky to me. But at the end of the day, what's really important is the impact on search engine results and I don't have any real data to back up my assertion.


title: eCommerce solution for leasing devices for a monthly fee

text: What eCommerce solutions there exist which allow leasing type of sales? I am working with a medical tech company whose devices are often leased due to high price point. Now the company would be looking for an opportunity for web based eCommerce solution where one could both   * Buy a device   * Lease a device for X month, monthly charged from a credit card I am pretty aware of normal click-and-buy e-Commerce platforms (Magento, etc.), but I don't know what kind of options there exist for managing the device leases. Both self-hosted solutions and SaaS e-Commerce solutions can be considered.


title: Why isn't my PHP file running?

text: I recently installed Apache and later installed PHP too. When I browse to `http://localhost/index.html` it displays the default Apache page "it works". But when i try to run `http://localhost/phpinfo.php` it starts to get downloaded instead of running the PHP code   * My Apache version 2.2   * PHP Version 5.2.1


title: Google Analytics - how to track multiple sections of a site at once?

text: I need to track the pageviews and goal completions for the Blogs section of my website, and I used to do this simply by searching the word "/blog/" under Content, which would pull all of our Blog pages that had the word "/blog/" in the URL and analyze the pages together in a group. The blog URLs were always something like www.mysite.com/blog/article1. However, we recently changed our URL naming scheme and now all blog pages have URLs that look like www.mysite.com/community/article1. Since there's no word the two formats have in common, I can no longer do a simple search like I used to. How can I run some kind of report or filter that will pull the pageviews for both /blog/ pages and /community/ pages all at once? I tried making an advanced segment but it pulled weird pages that I didn't want at all. Any help would be MUCHLY appreciated! Thanks in advance.


title: Tumblr Custom Domain & Google Ranking

text: I just set up a custom domain for my Tumblr blog. I had high Google rankings and heavy traffic with my old url, and now I've lost my ranking and some of my traffic. I'm wondering how long I can expect my ranking to suffer? I'd rather not lose a big chunk of my traffic. Google has already indexed my custom domain, & I've verified it with Google Webmaster Tools. Tumblr automatically does the 301 redirect. Is there anything else I can do? Would going back to my old url make any difference?


title: Finding the expiration date of a domain?

text: Is there a way to find the expiration date of a ".id.au" domain? I can't seem to find any information on any .id.au domain I search on.


title: Average header response time of a website

text: I'm building a link checker to check a huge amount of URLs for uptime and I'm currently thinking about timeout times. Do you know any statistics which provide the average header response time to have an approximation for setting the timeouts? Thanks!


title: Where can I find graphics to use in printable worksheets I create and make available for download?

text: I'm looking to put up a website with worksheets that I make and they will need to have graphics in them. The worksheets will be available for download for free. Where can I find images that I can use in these worksheets without infringing on copyrights? I'm not sure I can just use free clipart.


title: Is using only https bad in a SEO perspective?

text: I would like to set up a new business site. I plan to direct `www.example.com` to `example.com` and only use that domain. My plan is also to only use https and not http. Does this affect the SEO for the site? E.g. do Google put lower or higher rank for sites that is only available via https?


title: Will I damage my search engines ranking if I link to thousands of websites whose quality I am not sure of?

text: My company's website is quite well positioned in google. We have thousands of customers and we're thinking of providing links to the customers' websites from our company's website. We cannot guarantee the quality of the websites we will be linking to though. If we put the links up, do you think we would take a big risk with respect to our own ranking?


title: Google Analytics Error?

text: I have Google Analytics on my webpage. The reports show properly as far as I know. But when going through settings I saw this: ![Google Analytics Error - Notice The Date](http://i.stack.imgur.com/PMjV4.png) (Larger View of Image Here) Notice the date => I have checked and tracking is on the home page. Why am I getting this error?


title: How to remove a Facebook App from Facebook's search results?

text: I have a Facebook app so users can login to my website using their Facebook account, but when you type my website name into Facebook's search (the search box right next to the Facebook logo) the app shows up in the search results. When I click it, it says "Misconfigured App - Sorry, the details for AppName cannot be displayed because the app is misconfigured." I want to remove my app from Facebook's search results, because it's not meant for users, but I can't figure out how to do it. Any ideas?


title: Can web crawlers that visit my site fake their user agent?

text: I want to write a _robots.txt_ file for my website and allow the famous bots (Google, Bing, and Yahoo) to crawl my website, but deny the rest. I want to know if I add `User-agent: Googlebot`, will fake Googlebot crawlers be able to view my website? Is even possible to fake a bot?


title: SEO for similar subject titles with different technology versions?

text: Let's say I'm building a programming tutorial/article website. Over time, versions of technology replace itself. For example a service call with AngularJS is completely different in version `0.9.0` then in `1.0.0` --- so much so, that it warrants a completely different article. I am tempted to use:               /service-calls-with-angularjs-0.9.0     /service-calls-with-angularjs-1.0.0      But fear the penalty for having a nearly identical title and URL. Remember, the content is completely different, but the subject is the same.   * Do I have anything to worry about?    * What is the best way to solve this problem?


title: Google Analytics: multiple domains graphic

text: I changed the code on some of my websites to track all data into one Google Analytics account. I did this by adding on every domain:               _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'http://myurl.com']);      Now I see data appear in Google Analytics but I don't know how to display it correctly. I want the following to appear on my dashboard:   * Domain visitor report: a line graph of every domain's daily visitors   * Domain bounce rate report: a line graph of bounce rates / domain This way I can easily see what my top domains are etc. Is this even possible in Google Analytics?