title: free Ad serving solution for smaller php websites

text: I'm looking for a very simple ad serving solution on my website, that can be hosted on my website. I have used openX and found it a bit complex for my needs. basically I need;   1. A way for advertisers to simply post their ad and pay using common payment methods visa/paypal etc   2. An interface for advertisers to track campaigns. I used traffic spaces one and liked the idea, although i wanted to host the server myself. Performance issues.


title: How does CloudFlare's Rocket Loader actually work (and how can a developer ensure compatibility)?

text: CloudFlare has quite a ground-breaking technology called **Rocket Loader** (both on free and paid accounts). But how does it actually work? They have a couple of pages that describe the technology, but not a lot of technical details. One key feature is that it makes **all Javascript load in a non-blocking fashion (asynchronously)** , which is quite an incredible feat! This means the HTML/CSS can be rendered without waiting for scripts to load and run. ![CloudFlare Rocket Loader diagram](http://i.stack.imgur.com/I9AGL.png) ### _How is that possible?_ Surely it cannot simply change all `<script>` tags to use `async="true"` or `defer="true"` as this would break several things...   1. Scripts still need to load in the correct order (for example, you can't load jQuery plugins until the jQuery library has loaded.)   2. `document.write()` calls in these scripts need to function (apparently these do nothing in typical async scripts).   3. What about the DOMContentLoaded event? If some scripts get loaded _after_ this has triggered, do their event-handlers go untriggered? And as a developer, is there anything else I need to be aware of to ensure my sites/scripts/plugins remain compatible with Rocket Loader?


title: What can a mac mini server do? Is it useful for starting up a home business?

text: The mac mini is a really appealing option to someone like me with little knowledge of servers. I am looking for a server that I can use for a small business, to: host websites, store company files and allow email for staff. Can a mac mini provide such services without a difficult setup and horrible maintenance? If so what would be an ideal spec for the server, if not is there anything cheep and better (more user friendly)?


title: Website doesn't default to HTTPS

text: I'm kinda new to this so bear with me. I just finished setting up SSL on my website. The problem is that if the user types `www.mydomain.com` into their browser, it doesn't connect securely with HTTPS. However, if I type `https://www.mydomain.com` then it works just fine, and continues to work on subsequent pages, so I know SSL is working. My question is: how would I set the website so that users connect using SSL by default? My first thought was to just redirect to the HTTPS version of the page, but that would mean I would have to put a redirect on every page in case the user doesn't come in via the landing page.


title: Intellectual Property theft from our webserver. What should we do?

text: So we caught some computers trying to download a ton of files from our webserver, and we stopped them before they got much (used iptables to drop their IPs). These were not web crawlers, but scripts that had been written to target a specific data set on our servers. **Has anyone had success in actually tracking down and getting authorities or ISPs to do anything about this kind of thing? If so, please post your suggestions.** Basically I have these IP addresses of the computers that were accessing our servers, they are owned by, surprisingly, a very very large Software company in Washington state. So maybe a rogue worker there or maybe somebody just on their network. I've tried to contact this company, but haven't gotten very far there. Maybe they'll get back to me. What is the best course of action? Contact the local police where the source IPs are from? Somehow I doubt that will be very effective. But I'm open to advice. What about the FBI, I mean this might be small potatoes for them, but it does involve a large US corp. Anyone try this route? EDIT: **Please assume for sake of argument, that they Hacked into our servers**. Let's not get into the whole discussion of " _Well you had the data out there, so they didn't steal it_ ", **that really misses the point**. You can even imagine it was a denial of service attack. **You have their IP addresses, they are from a US corp. What do you do??**


title: GA UA codes for testing site - set up

text: Anyone know the process for using a GA live UA code to test a site in development. I.e. I have a live site with a GA UA code attached, tracking live traffic data etc e.g. UA-123456. I've been told that there is a way to produce another code associated to the primary code to use on the testing version of my live site e.g. test code could be UA-123457. Can anyone shed some light on this? If not possible should I just set up a completely separate GA account for my testing site?


title: HTML files downloading rather than executing

text: Trying to get a client's site up. The HTML files keep downloading rather than executing. I've done a MIME check and the files appear to be text/html. I recreated the database admin, password and made sure that there was a connection between the script and the MySQL database. Permissions seem to be fine and the `index.html` is executable, permissions 755. Not sure where to turn next.


title: Blogger homepage won't update!

text: I am new on blogging webmaster tools. Usually, when I add new post to my blog, it will automatic update my homepage also. But from January 14th, my homepage doesn't update in the Google SERPs. As a result, I am losing my popularity in the SERPs. Previously when I posted new articles, 70-80% will go to the first page result. But after the problem occurs, none of them reach the top 15 pages of Google SERPs. :( Last 1/12/12, Google webmaster sent me a "Notice of DMCA removal from Google Search" massage indicating one of my URLs contained some infringing content which I deleted after receiving their notice. Not only that, I also cheeked all of my posts if there any additional infringing content available. After removing that, I filled out Google's content removed notification form to notify them. Google sent me a feedback that they received it and suggest "In the future, if you have removed the allegedly infringing content from your site (and won’t put it back), please use the correct form" which also I filled in. Now my question is:   1. Did I do all this right?    2. Although my new posts are indexed in Google with "..", why won't update my homepage which previously automatically updated when a new article was published?


title: Will ad scheduling increase my conversion rate in Google AdWords?

text: On my website, I know that most people register accounts Tuesday through Thursday. In Google AdWords I have a daily budget. Will this mean that Google sends the same amount of traffic to my site every day? It's plausible that more people search for my keywords on Tuesday through Thursday as well. Is it possible to properly a/b test two entire Google AdWords campaigns against each other? One would spend money on Tuesday through Thursday and one that would spend money on the other days of the week? Can I just copy my campaign and do two schedules? One schedule would be for each period. Then I could compare the performance.


title: Wordpress or not?

text: What is / are the practical differences between creating a Wordpress based website and a normal html5 based site - from a siteowners perspective? I know a wee bit of html and css and would like to make a website for myself (promoting my freelance services), using either a Wordpress theme or a plain HTML5+CSS3 site template. But I have little or no idea about Wordpress. So, I am unable to decide. My worry is that, if I use a Wordpress theme - I may have to upgrade or change it continually to keep up with the upgrades of main Wordpress itself. Is this correct? I want to create my site once and then leave it as it is, not worrying about or touching it for a few years - let's say 5 or more! My question is, is this possible? Will my site / pages / theme become obsolete, unusable, broken, error-prone, dysfunctional or under-performing - due to updates / upgrades of Wordpress itself during this period? This is not clear to me.


title: How can I find a list of backlinks by date for a domain?

text: I have successfully switched my Site A over to Site B (a legacy domain i purchased). I recently have uncovered some shady link building practices in the Site B link profile. I am trying to find all historical backlinks to Site B pre-domain change so that i can disavow them and only keep the legitimate authoritative links from my original domain (Site A). With limited cooperation from the previous site owners of Site B, any thoughts as to how i should proceed in finding the spam links from before the domain change?


title: Creating a new site for media content that exists on another site

text: So I've looked around on this site, and read up on Google's duplicate content policy, etc., but haven't found an answer specific to my problem. This is going to be a bit long, but I think it's an interesting question (hopefully), so bear with me. I run a community website for people interested in digital scrapbooking (http://www.pixelscrapper.com). The site includes a forum, a community gallery, and a large and growing collection of downloadable images for people to use in their digital scrapbooking projects (digital papers, embellishments, illustrations, etc.). Over the course of the last year it has become clear that the site presents value to people outside of the digital scrapbooking community. Specifically, we've gotten a wide range of people creating accounts on the site in order to download images from our high-quality collection: these people include web designers, mixed-media artists, illustrators, teachers, etc. **As we've seen this wider interest emerge, we've become interested in the possibility of creating a new website that would be based entirely around image downloading, and targeted not at digital scrapbookers, but at anyone interested in commercial use images.** The new site would be substantially different from our current digital scrapbooking website, but the actual catalog of downloadable images would initially be identical, or almost identical. This creates concern, obviously, from the standpoint of content duplication. **The intent here is not to dupe Google, or anyone else, but to reach a substantially different market with an existing catalog of downloadable images. So the question is: how best to achieve this goal?** Here are some possibilities that I've thought of: **1. Simply change the existing site to cater more to non-scrapbookers** We've thought about simply changing our existing site to make it more friendly to non-scrapbooking users, but haven't found a good way of being able to do that while also keeping the current emphasis on digital scrapbooking for the users who are currently there for that purpose. It seems impossible to have a site that is at once a niche site for digital scrapbookers, and also a broad mass-market site for anyone interested in commercial-use images. The whole way we want to present everything to the two different groups is very different. When someone finds a new use for a prescription medication (and they get it passed through the FDA), they don't take an old bottle that says “for allergies” and add on a footnote that says “p.s. this works well as a sleep aid too!”--rather, they create a new bottle for the new target group that says, “for better sleep.” **2. Create a new site with the duplicate downloads, while being careful not to duplicate text** So one idea is simply to go ahead with a new site at a new domain, which would feature all new organization, structure, design, etc. It wouldn't be about scrapbooking, it wouldn't have the forums, or gallery, etc. etc. The images would be identical, but we could take care to name them slightly differently; a large number of the tags would probably still have to be identical, though (see here for a typical image presentation). Seems like a recipe for duplicate content disaster if/when Google sees this as a simple dupe. Not sure how Google feels about duplicate images, as opposed to other types of content, but the duplicate tags seem like they would be enough to set things off. **3. Create the dedicated image-downloading site, and have the scrapbooking site “link in” to that site somehow.** We could do something where we remove the downloading section of the digital scrapbooking site and have that section simply link to the dedicated downloading site, with some kind of cross-domain user validation or something, but that defeats the purpose, once again, of reaching two separate audiences: on the scrapbooking website we want the download pages to fit the theme and feel of the scrapbooking site, and we want to present the downloads differently. We don't want people to feel like they're being shoved over to a different site to complete downloads. **4. Create the dedicated image-downloading site, and use canonical tags on the scrapbooking site to indicate the downloading site as canonical.** As far as I can tell this is the best solution that I've thought of, though I'm not sure what all the implications would/will be. In most cases canonical content is obviously the content that comes first, but in this case we would probably want the dedicated downloading site to be listed as canonical, because the image downloads are going to be the only thing on that site, and if those pages aren't being indexed by Google, we've got no traffic there. I'm assuming the digital scrapbooking site would suffer from lost hits, but at least that site has other content being generated for it (forum posts, gallery images, etc.) What happens, though, when content that has been around for a long time suddenly links to another (new) site as being canonical? Does Google get thrown off by this? Do they see it as malicious in some way? I'm scared of what might happen (i.e. how will search traffic carry over?) **5. Something I haven't thought of yet?** So maybe I've missed a better solution, or missed something about any of the solutions I've proposed. I'd love to hear feedback from anyone who has good SEO experience/knowledge. It seems reasonable to want to reach two distinct markets with a similar/identical product, targeted for each, but the question is, how to go about it? For any of the solutions I've proposed, I'm scared of what the unintended consequences might be.


title: Image SEO - always repeat main keyword in alt text?

text: I'm working on an Easter Island website and I'm currently redesigning my image system. Virtually all my photos are of Easter Island. My question is, should I always include the keywords "Easter Island" for Google to easier understand that my photos are from Easter Island, or is it sufficient that the "Easter Island" keywords are in the domain, as well as in all other pages of the site? For example, Alt text 1: "Moai statues at volcano Rano Raraku at Easter Island (Rapa Nui)" or Alt text 2: "Moai statues at volcano Rano Raraku" Would example 1 be considered keyword stuffing by Google


title: Can I redirect a root site under IIS to a subdirectory, without affecting other applications?

text: I'm running IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008R2. I currently run a site at the root of `mydomain.edu`. I also have a variety of applications (e.g., `mydomain.edu/calendar`, `mydomain.edu/research`, `mydomain.edu/otherapp`) running on the server. I would like to move the root site to a subdirectory (i.e., `mydomain.edu/sub`) to logically separate the root site's content from the other applications, but have traffic from `mydomain.edu` point to `mydomain.edu/sub`. Is this feasible without displaying 'sub' in the path? For example, all pages should continue to display `mydomain.edu/regularpage.htm` or `mydomain.edu/directory/page.htm` NOT `mydomain.edu/sub/regularpage.htm` or `mydomain.edu/sub/directory/page.htm`). Can exclusions be added so as not to affect the other applications? I don't know if this is a fairly standard request and I am over-thinking this, or if this is a terrible idea that I absolutely should not consider.


title: Using subdomains or directories for main categories?

text: I have a website which references places to travel to in the world. Those places are (of course) grouped by countries. Here is an example of an actual URL of my website:               http://awespot.org/country/105/iceland      I am wondering if it would be better, in terms of SEO, to have the countries separated in subdomains:               http://iceland.awespot.org/      ~~I know subdomains are considered by Google as different websites~~ (see the comments), so I am considering the 2 options:   * separating would mean also separating the pagerank and benefits of links to the website   * but separating would enable me to create a "web" or related websites (all related to travel and all) that link and benefit to each other I am only asking about **SEO** here, I know there are other questions raised by this possibility (user experience, administration... even password completion by web browsers)


title: If I have a 500 Internal Server Error should I contact my web hosting or domain registrar?

text: Who are you supposed to contact when you see a _HTTP 500_ error?


title: Are links from all pages in the footer of Site A to different pages of Site B considered black-hat?

text: I own two sites which hold different content that is targeted to different target markets. When Site B launched, I added links in the footer of Site A to different pages of Site B. Each page on Site A has a link in the footer to some random page on Site B. Is this considered black hat? Can I get penalized for this? This was about a year and a half ago, would you recommend removing these now?


title: Adding tagged / dynamic pages in sitemap

text: I've got a blog that's been running for about a year, with about 200 posts, and there should be about 220 pages to index (additional pages for about / contact etc). When I go to crawl the site I get 1900 pages because of all the pages that are related to tags I've used in my posts; 70% of these pages only contain one blog post. When submitting my site map to Google should I exclude all pages with /tagged/ in the URL so I'll only be submitting unique pages, or should I submit the full site map?


title: How does Google Plus select an image from a shared link?

text: If you share a link on Google Plus it will often grab a fews images you can attach when you post the image. Facebook has a similar feature. You can tell Facebook which is the primary image for a page with a simple LINK tag. However, this isn't working for G+. How do you tell G+ what the primary image for a page is?


title: How to upload test site without an access to SSH?

text: Not sure which forum to ask this question though. Well, I have absolutely zero knowledge in SSH and still learning PHP (very basic knowledge). My website is almost done and needed to be uploaded for a test as it involves payment transaction and some membership system. I've never done this before. Would you please please guide me (in details)in how to:   1. Upload the test site without using the real live URL. Should I go ahead and create some link on cPanel like www.mysitename.com/testsite and then upload the test file into that folder? How do you usually do it?   2. I'm with JustHost at the moment, I've seen so many guys talking about SSH to gain access to privilege setting of the website but with JustHost you have to pay for it in order to create this thing. Does every web designer have to know SSH all these as I'm so thrilled and discouraged to see how complicated it is?   3. Once the real contents have been uploaded on the website (www.mysitename.com), how could I be able to update the website and database without losing the current up and running live data? My website needs some constantly changing in site contents and also in database. How could I merge the live database with the new one while visitors still using the database? Thank you very much in advance for your reply.


title: Legal Music Videos to my website

text: I want to upload a music video to my webiste. For ex. Eminem - Not Afraid. No matter where I found source but I don't want to embed it from YouTube. Is it legal to upload such a video? If not what should I do to make it legal? How can I get permission? What if I provide info like: Who own it, The author etc. ? What is the punishment for this. I live in EU, (Amsterdam). Thanks :)


title: Newsletter Signup and VCF Files

text: Recently I signed up for a newsletter and when the confirmation came in my e-mail I noticed it had this in the bottom corner: ![Photo](http://i.stack.imgur.com/o34ux.jpg) (I have wiped out the website name.) After looking into it I realized that this appeared to be a VCF file that was attached to the e-mail and this is the way Thunderbird presented the file to me. My question is this: When a person signs up for a newsletter from my site is it a good practice to include a VCF file (as an attachment) in the confirmation e-mail so they can easily add my e-mail address and information to their address book?


title: Setting up multiple domains on one Cpanel account

text: I set up an account on Cpanel for a domain "abc.com". However, if I wanted to point the A record for "def.com" to abc's existing account, what changes would I have to make server side? I'm aware that I can use add-on domains to accomplish, but is there a way to do this by using the above mentioned method? By pointing the A record for the 2nd domain?


title: Rolling Updates in a Webserver Farm?

text: Big websites (Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo etc.) don't schedule downtime for upgrades. Usually they are done "live" and rolled progressively through the server farm. They also have big infrastructure and teams to manage this. Smaller websites usually take the entire site offline to update the database structure and upgrade the code running on the web servers. The downtime can be very minimal but its still an interruption to customers. How did you make the jump to no-downtime rolling updates? What are the minimum requirements to get this done? What can we do to build applications that make this possible from the start?


title: Make money off a website developed in Visual Web Developer 2010 Express

text: Is it legal to make money of a website developed in Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (which is free)? Or do I have to buy a license or something?


title: Is it legal to reward points when users click share button?

text: Every website will desire its content to be shared by its users. Is it OK for some website to award points each time its user clicks facebook share or like button? assume that the website knows the user's facebook details. I remember reading somewhere that one must not do this. If and only if its legal: is there a way to do it - i mean how to capture each time when user clicks on share / like button.?


title: What are some good, cheap hosts that supports Django?

text: I'm doing a personal web site in Django. It'll be fairly light, and I don't expect many visitors, so I don't need 500gb of bandwidth or 10gb of hard drive which most hosting servers seem to provide as their minimum. The web site itself should be less than 10mb in size (plus Python/Django installation) and if I reach 100 visitors per month I'll be lucky. ;) It'll be a place for me to keep my portfolio. While bandwidth and space isn't something I need much of, I still need to be relatively stable and fast (I'd hate to send my portfolio to a recruiter only to have it be down due to maintanence or whatever).


title: Does having a ccTLD mean your domains is less likely to show up in other countries?

text: The .com is unavailable, so I'm considering purchasing the ccTLD for my new company. That said, at some point I'll probably wish to sell the product internationally (even if just online), so I'm wondering what, if any, effect the ccTLD would have on my website's rankings in other countries' search engines?


title: Does the Instant Preview in Google webmaster tools takes Robot.txt in account?

text: Is that the way to go If I want to visually see what the googlebot see? I'm trying to check a folder which I have just blocked in my robots.txt.   * If I fetch the folder as google bot, It fetches ok, so that doesn't tell me nothing about whether the block is working   * I know there's a tool to check for blocking, but it is dependent on the input of the robots.txt  Therefore I've tried the Instant preview, and I don't get a preview for what the bot sees ("pre-render), so I think that means that it's because the robots.txt blocks it; however - I don't see the bot tried beforehand to access my updated robots.txt, so I'm not sure how does it know that this folder is blocked? (it does preview another new folder, that is not blocked)


title: Two different websites in one remote hosting

text: My client asked me that a website that is hosted in one server (and pointing there through a domain) should also be accessed (into a specific directory) from another domain, which is not pointing there. For example: http://www.foo.com, hosted at GoDaddy, with the full website http://www.bar.com, hosted at Bluehost, needs to access http://www.foo.com/bar, as if it was the http://www.bar.com's root. So, if anybody enters through http://www.bar.com, it should internally load http://www.foo.com/bar, without visually changing the url. I amb not sure if this is possible using .htaccess or anything like this. Could anybody show me some light? Thanks in advance


title: Old website hurting new website's SEO?

text: I did work for a client many years ago now which was to create a database driven version of their original website. Now I'm no SEO expert, I merely provided the features to let them update all the necessary parts of the page to help change rankings. However the client did not want to de-commission their old site, they instead wanted them to run alongside each other on a slightly different domain but selling mostly the same products (although one is much more up to date than the other). The old website is http://www.thefineartcompany.co.uk and the new one is http://www.fineartcompany.co.uk. After trying many things with various SEO companies my client still cannot get the new site to rank highly and is even having a hard time getting the homepage recognized by Google properly. I have a feeling it is because the two URLs are very similar and they are selling the same content under the same name so Google does not think nicely of the new site. So my question is:   1. Does Google do this?   2. and if so is there anyway of proving this to the client? The reason I ask is because I'm sure my client would be worried about de-commisioning a higher ranking website over a lower ranking site. Thanks


title: Google Chrome @font-face problem

text: I have problem with pages that have @font-face with Chrome, for example if I go to page http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/SAC/, then my computer freezes and I cannot do anything for a while. And this happends just with pages that have @font-face CSS property. So if I want to use @font-face on my own pages, is it possible to avoid this Chrome issue somehow?


title: ASP to HTML - 301 redirects (SEO rankings before and after)

text: I need to change the extension of the default pages and many other pages like `.asp` to `.html`, should I use a 301 redirect? The website is in the top 10 results for many keywords, I don't want to lose any ranking or PageRank. Will the redirection and renaming of the extensions hurt the site's rankings. If so, by how much percent?


title: Noone else can access my website

text: i recently changed my website to use Word Press and it was working fine before, i was getting traffic and stuff like that, but since i recently switched, it seems my site is not accessible by others. I can access it locally (Hosted at home) but i tried getting a rating on nibbler, and that failed, then tried downforeveryone and that failed aswell. I don't understand what has happened, i simply switched to Word Press while i design a new website, and it just won't work anymore. I am running my server off a Raspberry Pi if that helps. Website: http://miworldmc.tk


title: Downside to mobile first (media query / js reliant) design?

text: I'm working on a site where mobile optimization is important. I like the idea of a mobile first approach, where **ALL** CSS styles are loaded with media queries, and none are loaded as a ‘base’. This doesn't change how I would style the desktop version, but for the mobile version ill be starting with a blank canvas, rather than having to override the desktop styles. IE8 and earlier don't support media queries but this can be fixed with respond.js. There is only one potential issue to the approach that I can think of. If a user has a browser that doesn't support media queries, and also doesn't support JS, then no styles will be loaded. If this user wouldn't use CSS anyway (e.g. if they are using accessibility devices) then its not a problem. However if the user did want to load CSS then obviously they would see the unstyled version. Do these users exist? I've read that generally users without JS make up about 1%. I would imagine it's possible many of these may be on older browsers. However are these users generally on accessibility devices or very old phones that don’t use CSS anyway? Are there any other issues I haven’t considered? There is an iPad bug where it doesn't respect the min-width media query. I'm aware of this issue, but might other devices have media query bugs also? UPDATE - Whichever method I choose the site will be functional without styles and JS. Usability will not be compromised either way. The main benefit to the method is that for mobile, no redundant code or images in CSS will be loaded, improving loading times. The downside to users with no JS or media queries is that the site will look plain, but it will still be usable.


title: Does same domain name, but with multiple extensions (com,org...) help for page rank?

text: Here's my (short) story: I've made a website for a customer that didn't pay me. He bought a lot of domains:               http://groupesynergies.com/     http://groupesynergies.fr/      and so on. Thanks to my work, he went up 5th in the google _France_ search "groupe synergies" (against other websites that are far more huge). Maybe higher in some other countries. Then he said: "I'll never pay you". Right. So I removed his domain names from my vhost, I bought "groupe-synergies.fr" (and _only this extension_ ), and put this domain in my vhost. **1 day after** this story, his website was down = **404 on every single page**. There should have been a problem with google, right (kind of black list or whatever)? **5 days after** this story, an ugly picture saying "website in construction" (you still can check it out) appeared. No 404 anymore, but _google should have noticed there weren't 24 pages anymore but only one ugly picture with no text inside_ , right? **4 months after** , his site still displays this crappy page. All good, all fine. But what I don't understand is this: **Google registered all my webpages** : try to google `site:groupe-synergies.fr` => **24 results**. So here's the problem: only one ugly page on the same domain with different extensions against **24 pages, well done, w3c compatible, very fast response time** and... it doesn't even show up if you google (in _France_ at least) "groupe synergies" _in the 20 first pages_. Any idea how comes? My question is: "why does his site still have a good page rank, and mine still doesn't appear"? Where could the problem come from? Thank you very much! PS: please, oh please don't talk about laws, about "what you did is bad" and so on, believe me: I'm always trying to be as straight as possible, and what I did has a really good reason. Please just focus on my question, not on the legal stuff side. Thank you very much indeed.


title: Where is my Tomcat running on my virtual server?

text: According to what I know; Apache and Tomcat are listing on different ports by default. If I have both of them running locally then:   * localhost -> Apache home page (port 80)   * localhost:8080" -> Tomcat home page Now we are writing a web project hosted virtual server and we have got an got a URL like `http://SOMESERVER:8013` which redirects to our Apache home page. Note: We use port 8013 since we are group 13 and other numbers goes to other groups, and a group can't access others' machines. I think it is working like when a request goes to SOMESERVER on port 8013, it is redirected to our virtual machine (on port80 maybe? I tried `telnet localhost 80` and `GET /` gives me Apache homepage. If I start up Tomcat with the default configuration where can I find my Tomcat's home page? `http://SOMESERVER:8013:8080` is not working anyways...


title: Is it possible to track redirects to external sites from our subdomains?

text: I have a handful of subdomains set up as redirects because we are using them for QR codes. I want to be able to track the QR code redirects (which are already set up and printed so no changing them at this point) and see the effectiveness of each. Here's two examples: http://qr.glorkianwarrior.com and http://ad.glorkianwarrior.com are set up to forward to our iTunes page (later on this year it may forward to Google Play or a specific landing page), is there any way on my server to track the redirect from the subdomain to iTunes and see where traffic is coming from first? I have the redirects set up through cPanel presently using subdomains. Edit: From the research I've seen I can't track a 301 directly. If I redirect to an internal page and then do a timed redirect to the iTunes link, how long will it take for the tracking script to track a hit?


title: How does Google treat unlinked URLs?

text: In Google Webmaster Tools I've recently noticed several concatenated URLs appearing in the Crawl Errors. On investigation it seems Google is picking up these links from a page that shows a user's posts from the forum. I take the raw (non-HTML) text, truncate it then add "..." after it, but if a URL gets cut off I end up with something like this:               Here's a good link you might find interesting: http://example.com/page...      In other words, just some plain text that happens to look like a URL. GWT's Crawl Errors now shows `http://example.com/page..` (note only 2 dots) as an error. So, Google is obviously parsing and following unlinked URLs, but how do they treat them? Do they treat them like "nofollow", despite the fact they are following them - i.e. not counting as a "vote" or regular link? Also, is there any solution to avoid truncating URLs?


title: why isn't mozilla rendering my custom fonts

text: I working on a website - goodmorninghomes.com The site looks perfect in all browsers including internet explorer but not in mozilla and the problem is the different fonts. I have included some custom fonts through @font-face CSS property and they are working properly in all browsers but not in firefox. The firefox console doesnt even show any problem. I just cant understand why this is happening.


title: SEO - Redirect on first page (site.com -> site.com/en)

text: I have website with multiple languages and at first entrance it checks for cookie and if no cookie is present then it _defaults_ to English language and redirects to `site.com/en`. So basically every time someone enters `site.com` he will be redirected to `site.com/{language}`. Is this bad for SEO?


title: Using Google pagespeed service - w3 validator gives errors

text: I've started using google pagespeed service and now when I check my site on http://validator.w3.org/ with doctype HTML5 and encoding UTF8 - I'm getting more than 80+ errors and 95% of them are errors to do with pagespeed Egs of errors are Attribute pagespeed_no_defer not allowed on element script at this point Attribute pagespeed_lazy_src not allowed on element img at this point Any idea what I should do about these Thanks


title: Excluding Internal IP's using Advanced/Custom segments

text: So for my organisation, I need to retroactively report on traffic to areas of my site that were not previously filtered by IP (we have a new filtered profile set up now). My question is, how can I filter out these IP addresses using a custom/advanced segment and NOT a filtered profile? Is this possible in Google Analytics?


title: Why would \x escaped URLs appear in my WAMP server logs?

text: I have set up a local WAMP on my server which is accessible over the internet. What is this strange traffic? ![screenshot of \\x requests](http://i.stack.imgur.com/dOtyg.png) Normal request traffic would look like this: `/directiory/index.php`, but those requests are escape characters? Who would access my server like this?


title: Shared versus VPS versus Cloud?

text: Short form: I'm trying to decide between shared, VPS, and cloud hosting for a few Django webapps. Long form: I'm currently hosting around half-dozen sites (a mix of Django and PHP) on two Webfaction accounts. They are pretty low-traffic, but I'm sort of feeling the strain of shared hosting. Notably:   * A mediawiki install on my account went a bit funny, soaked up a bunch of RAM spawning zombie PHP processes, and Webfaction's automatic script killed the other websites on the account (which is fair enough, but not ideal).   * One of the accounts is on a semi-overloaded server (right now uptime shows a load average of 9.56, 6.91, 4.43), and my sites on that account are behaving a bit sluggishly. In addition, I fondly hope that One Day we'll have a lot more traffic. So (potential) scalability would be nice. I've been just wonderfully amazed at Webfaction's price/performance, but it's still shared hosting. The next step seems like it should either be a VPS or some sort of cloud/PaaS option. If I went for the VPS route then...I guess I'd get a small Linode (or maybe more than one?) and start migrating apps from Webfaction. The question here is....do I try and jam them all into a single VPS? Try and put 1-2 apps on each VPS? Or split stuff up by function, so I have one VPS for the databases for all the apps, and another for serving static media, etc. Thoughts? The cloud/PaaS option I'm a bit more vague on. I guess I could try migrating the Django apps to something like Heroku (which just launched Django support) or http://gondor.io/. The downside here is I'm not really familiar with them, and all the cloud options I've looked at seem quite expensive compared to a simple VPS. I guess the scalability is good, but none of my sites are actually using much in the way of resources. Or, maybe I should just stick it out with shared hosting. It's more-or-less working, it's cheap, and it's nice to have someone else be responsible for hardware and OS issues. Are there any good rules of thumb to apply here? Do I want a single (medium) Linode and try and run everything, or a few small ones (and if so, split by app or split by role?), or is Heroku and similar services just hands down better. Anyone have any thoughts?


title: Google: always I am the first result on second page

text: I am searching on Google my published articles but I don't understand why I am always the first result on the second page? (My site is also, on Google news and it appears as news on first page, but the article is first, on the second page).


title: Is there a way to get Google keywords?

text: Is there any way at all to get Google keywords entered? For example, if I forced Google to index my site with only HTTPS, would I then get the keywords entered by the visitor when they arrive at my site?


title: How to have my customized extension?

text: I have recently found a .htaccess trick in which I can remove file extension from the URL, `example.com/file.html` looks like example.com/file Now my humor says that I can replace any extension to my own, I want `example.com/file.htm`l to be `example.com/file.syml` Is this possible?? or I am just daydreaming?? If this isn't possible then how does Microsoft uses MSPX, I think MS stands Microsoft.


title: Is it worth looking into a webserver other than apache?

text: I've traditionally deployed my sites under apache, simply by default. I've heard things about NGinX though and I'm wondering under which conditions it would be superior. In addition to apache and Nginx, what the other options are for webservers and what are their benefits?


title: How to implement an unspammable email address

text: Providing info email or contact email in plain text helps spammer (robots) to extract the email using regex or any technique, currently I provided an image like this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fqdbE.png) But this method has usability issue because users with enabled default email can't click it and start sending email using default mail sender, also, user can't even copy address and paste it. ### Then, what is the best approach to provide email address?


title: Build My Own Advertising Network

text: I have a few ideas that I think would be pretty game changing for online advertising and I would like to build my own network but I don't know where to start. I know it will take a lot of time for major publishers to get on board but I am more curious about the technical side. What language/database model and framework are modern ad networks built on? Basically I want to build an advertising network that registers views per page and allows publishers to manage the look of their own ads and let's the users interact with the ads. Is there any good information on doing something like this or any framework you can suggest to build on? I know this would get complicated pretty fast so if you have suggestions for ad networks that let you customize them heavily I would be glad to hear your suggestions.


title: How to redirect all IE8 users to a specific URL?

text: I have W2008 running IIS and have about 20 websites (all PHP, about half are WP) running on it. Currently I have this in the header on a few sites and it is working. But it is getting hard to manage because even though I am the admin there are a lot of developers and they could overwrite the header if they wanted on most sites.               <!--[if IE 8]>     <script type="text/javascript">             window.location = "http://example.com/wedontsupportIE8.html";         </script>     <![endif]-->      Is there a way to set up a rule on the server that would have the same functionality? **Current rule I have tried:** I have added rules on web server and they basically don't work right. I had the redirect to /home/index.php already working for the past 6 months. When I add the new rule first it does the following:   * in IE8 - 404 error for any directory on site and it reverts to the root   * in IE10, FF, Chrome, Safari - it just redirects to /home as it should. webconfig below               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <configuration>       <system.webServer>         <rewrite>             <rules>       <rule name="IE8rewriteall" patternSyntax="Wildcard">                         <match url="*" />                         <conditions>                             <add input="{HTTP_USER_AGENT}" pattern="*MSIE*" />                         </conditions>                         <action type="Rewrite" url="http://example.com/ie/index.html" />                     </rule>                 <rule name="Root Hit Redirect" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="^$" />                     <action type="Redirect" url="/home/index.php" />                 </rule>             </rules>         </rewrite>     </system.webServer>     </configuration>


title: How to secretly rewrite Google Analytics campaign codes to main page?

text: I want to create a simple "secret" `mod_rewrite` redirect (not shown in user's browser address box) to redirect:               http://www.mydomain.com/code -> http://www.mydomain.com/?utm_source=redirect&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=code      And if possible also **add`www.`** if missing, so:               http://mydomain.com/code -> http://www.mydomain.com/?utm_source=redirect&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=code      I tried:               # Custom rewrites     RewriteRule ^code/?$ /?utm_source=redirect&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=code [L,NC,QSA]      My _.htaccess_ `mod_rewrite` other rewrite rules look like this:               # redirect to www form     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^([a-z]+)\.%{HTTP_HOST} [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,QSA]     # rewrite file to file.php, ignore directories, ignore existing non-php files     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$     RewriteRule (.*) $1\.php [L,QSA]      I tried to put the **custom rewrites** section either in front of all the other rules or in the middle or remove [QSA]/[NC], but the problems are that it either   * Doesn't rewrite secretly   * Doesn't show rewrites in Google Analytics (I'm sensing it's because it does some other rewrite before and therefore Google Analytics won't count the campaign) What am I doing wrong?


title: Why do different tools report different rankings for the same page?

text: I am in a new job following an internship and I have been given the position of SEO Analyst. I have zero experience with SEO before this, I have some development experience which hopefully will stand to me but right now things feel very dicey. I am reading everything I can get my hands on but I was kinda stumped today and I was hoping someone here could perhaps clear or confirm my insanity. I was asked to do a quick check on the keyword ranking for a customer, sounds simple enough but it has taken me the best part of 4 hours (half of that researching what keyword ranking tools are available/any good). I checked the keyword rankings using Rank Checker then SEO Power Suite and then manually searching and counting. The problem is I got three different results from each tool so now I'm confused. I know local searches have an effect and I can accept thats why Rank Checker was so so far off as it was searching on `google.com` rather than my national TLD. Taking this into account SEO PowerSuite and a manual check should have been the same (as I manually set SEO PowerSuite to search on my TLD and my browser redirects to the TLD for Google). I am utterly baffled as to how the hell an allegedly abstract neutral metric can change from tool to tool? If Google ranks a domain result on the SERP at three it should stay at three no matter what tool I use to search for it - no? Or am I just insane to expect consistency when it comes to all things Google and SEO?


title: Is there a way to see granular per-visit data in Google Analytics?

text: I've started using Google Analytics very recently and I'm a bit lost with the sea of options (have been using Sitemeter before for some time). I've clicked through the service a lot but couldn't find what I'm accustomed to. I can see multitude of **aggregated** statistics in GA like:   * charts of browser share   * lists of country share   * lists of most visited URLs within the page and so on, but I would actually like to analyze **each of the visits themselves**. Something like: >   1. User X, France, Chrome, 7 pageviews between 18:01 and 18:15, entered on > a.htm and exited on b.htm >   2. User Y, UK, Firefox, 1 pageview at 18:20, entered on c.htm > Is there an easy way to see the reports in this way (perhaps by clicking a link to a separate page to see that particular session's stats)? How to navigate there if so?


title: How many keystrokes would be saved per day, if every site dropped the 'www.' part of their site?

text: Just curious... Not sure how many domains are actually visited directly like that - I'm guessing it would be impossible to know exactly - but what would be a rough estimate?


title: Impartial comparisons on cloud / shared-hosting speeds with different providers

text: Are there any impartial comparisons on speeds of cloud hosting or shared hosting from different providers? I've googled and found a few snippets of info, but not sure that they're impartial studies...


Schema.org or data-vocab.org which one is better to use? Im aware of the fact that data-vocab is considered to be outdated version of itemscope and the schema is the newly introduced itemscope . but since schema.org/person is not being read by google webmaster tools.hence should i shift to data vocab?


title: How to forward a "domain.com" to "www.domain.com"?

text: I am using GoDaddy for my domains. Lately I've noticed that none of my `domain.com` addresses are mapping to the server correctly. I used "Forward" option from Domain Manager and forwarded it to `www.domain.com`, but it still is not working after a week. I don't have access to the server, so I can't use redirecting or URL rewriting. What else can I do about this problem?


title: How do I redirect an English language URL to an Arabic language URL?

text: I have a link that's currently formatted like this:               http://site.com/news/view/1.html      I want to it redirect it to:               http://site.com/خبر/عنوان-الخبر      where `خبر` is equal to `news` and `عنوان-الخبر` is the title of the news page. I want do it using .htaccess, and provide a permanent 301 redirect for the old URLs. Do I need to edit the PHP source at all to accomplish this?


title: Dns hosting question

text: I'm new to dns hosting and I have recently setup google apps for the 'mail.' cname record. How can I use it to display files on the www URL? ie: 'www.' cname. Or is it not possible to upload files using dns hosting only? I also have hosting elsewhere and wanted to know if I could forward the www cname to a subdirectory on that server, but not displaying the subdirectory URL publicly, rather the address bar constantly remains as the dns hosted (original) domain? Thank you!


title: Google doesn't index a subdomain. What can be the problem and what can be done?

text: I have a domain, let's call it example.com, which has a subdomain, games.example.com. I maintain a games forum using phpbbseo which is located at games.example.com/forum. The problem is that the forum is not being crawled. I used Google's webmaster tools and tested that the page is seen by google. P.S. There is a link from games.example.com to games.example.com/forum. What can I do? How can I make google crawl my forum?


title: foobar.com working, but www.foobar.com not working?

text: I am setting up a web site for a client. She is using GoDaddy for domain registration, and a hosting company I have never used before. After setting up the nameservers on GoDaddy's side, the address foobar.com (for example) is correctly directing to the new site. However, the address www.foobar.com is redirecting to a 404 page on the hosting company's side. I've been dealing with customer service on the hosting side, and they have told me various things including wait for DNS propagation (which has obviously happened since the 404 page is on their side), and to make sure that the nameservers on GoDaddy's side were entered in lower case instead of upper case (which I know doesn't matter since nameservers are case insensitive). I think I'm getting the runaround from the hosting company, but the client had signed up with them before I came to the project, so if possible I'd like to resolve this issue with them before we start treating it as a loss. Does anybody know what could cause foobar.com to resolve correctly but www.foobar.com to not resolve? How would I best be able to suggest a fix to this through the technical support channels of a hosting company?


title: How can I make my web application faster in Australia when it is hosted in USA

text: I have www.localo.org hosted on a BlueHost server in USA but I am in Australia and it is INCREDIBLY SLOW! I uploaded it to a Crazy Domains server in Australia and it ran flawlessly. I don't want to have a separate server in every country, so what do I need to do to make it based in USA but run smoothly in distant countries?


title: How do I tell who manages the domain when registrar = registrant

text: I am trying to track down the owner and/or domain host with a view to buying a specific domain. Fairly standard BUT, the registrant name is a person and they are also the registrar. No email details on WHOIS or DNS or Web Info records, website is not active. Any thoughts on how to proceed. WHOIS also says this:               Name servers:         ns1.googleghs.com         ns2.googleghs.com


title: Fresh start outside Google's crapbox

text: I might have been experimenting with my website too much and Google first cut the flow of visitors considerably and now I didn't get one for 4 days already. It's a joke that they've done this, because I've put a lot of work into it, but that's a topic for another day. My question is about further avoiding it. I want to take the partly improved design from that website onto a new one and get a new domain name. The question is: in that case, do I have to change the hosting option (it has my old website name in the address), or is changing the domain enough for Google to treat it as something new from a "fresh user". In other words, does Google get through the domain address and log into the actual hosting address? I'd hate to waste another few months of hard work, so I prefer to take every possible precaution but not paying for another hosting would make things easier on the wallet.


Would a self-signed certificate impact my site for search engines? By that I mean, do robots refuse to index sites with self-signed certificates?


title: Visitor statistics distorted due to domain forwarding

text: I am forwarding traffic from one domain to another which is hosting a site with Google Analytics. The forwarding is done via the registrar's URL forwarding tools, which allows us to avoid creating an extra cPanel account just for forwarding. The issue is that all of this referral traffic is showing up as direct traffic in Google Analytics. How do I change it to be shown as referral with the source URL as the referral source?


title: Is there a way to block the use of Google's SideWiki?

text: Google created a tool that can be really great for some people, but it can also be a huge problem for others. I'm talking about the (in)famous SideWiki. I'm trying to find a way to block the use of SideWiki on a Web page. I know it can't be used on https, I know there's a javascript available on the web to block the google toolbar. But I'm looking for a clean solution that will not block any users from accessing the Web site, but will only disable the SideWiki. I didn't find anything in Google's documentation so I'm turning to you guys. Anyone knows how to do it? Thanks!


title: Design Techniques to represent a series of photos in a website

text: An important part of our site will be the photo part in which we'll have artistic photos (no snapshots, no stock). We'll have different areas there like 'Recent additions', 'Popular' etc. For these areas, besides the classical plain-vanilla thumbnail row, can someone give other techniques for represent these series of images? We're looking for something distinctive, outstanding and intuitive as well. Don't forget that the photos are mainly artistic. TIA for your responses.


title: Implementing an aggregator and integrating it with WordPress

text: _Since this is quite a conceptual question which might involve a bit of discussion, I've made it a community wiki_ I'm working on a site that will work as a fairly simple aggregator of content from various sources including several Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook accounts. Updates will occur on a periodic basis, at which point feed data will be fetched and updated in a local store. A single page on the site will display the latest set of content; other static pages will be updated occasionally. I'm building the site on top of WordPress to facilitate easy management for a non-technical editor. My initial prototype stored details of each feed item's content (e.g. title, link, description, image) in a custom built database. However, since beginning the WordPress side of things, I'm wondering if it wouldn't make more sense to use the existing WordPress database for this purpose - i.e. store each feed item as a WordPress post (in wp_posts) and additional data in wp_postmeta. The category/tag model could be used to differentiate Twitter items from Flickr ones, etc. This would give the advantage of using just a single database, and also making all WordPress functions available for the management of individual post items. Does anyone have an opinion on this, particularly any 'gotchas' or possible pitfalls that may arise from such an approach?


title: Flash referrer passing/blocking

text: I have noticed that in firefox when playing a mp4/flv file via a swf player, A referrer is not sent from the swf player. However if we switch over to chrome, a referrer is sent. With this being said, is there a way in flash (via markup or internal programming) to decide if we want to pass or not pass the referrer?


title: Is it possible to grant access to a folder in a SVN server using SVN's API?

text: I need to develop a web application (Using any language but I'm familiar with Frameworks Symfony2 and Rails), that is able to grant access to a user to a determined folder on another server on the same network from the application's front-end. I found out that SVN has an API and that I could interact with it with PHP or Ruby (Apparently), although I would be willing to program the application on another language, the server where the files are stored is using Windows and I thought on using Virtual SVN server, however I can't find any function on the API to grant users access to files and/or folders or access of any kind, like you usually do using the GUI (VirtualSVN on Windows). Am I missing anything? Is this even possible?


title: Can I hide <h1> tag? Will it hurt SEO?

text: My pages look better without a heading title. So I don't really want to use a heading, but I don't want to leave `<h1>` out. Is hiding the element an option? Will it hurt SEO?


title: Domain Name mapping question

text: I'm developing a desktop application which communicates with a custom webservice which is currently being tested using the default domain name provided by our hosting plan , eg `http://mysite-001-siteXYZ.somehostingcompany.net/` Once everything is working and ready to launch we will map the domain name of the bought domain address, eg `http://RealNameofWebsite.com/` This is a newbie question really, will both url's work once the domain name is mapped? Also, am I correct in assuming using `http://RealNameofWebsite.com/` is preferable in the application as it will follow whichever hosting company is mapped?


title: Multiple mirror sites and SEO

text: I have one master website `website.com/master` and many mirror sites `website.com/rep1`, `website.com/rep2`, etc. The content, except for the contact information, is identical on all of them. We make it this way so that every representative has his own website and stats. I already use the Canonical URL Tag to inform google that all the "mirrors" are duplicates of `website.com/master`. Now, my problem is that one of the mirrors, let's say `website.com/rep4`, appears first in google ranking. How can I make sure the master website (`website.com/master`) will always appear first? I've looked everywhere on many occasions and never found any topic that would cover my case. Can anyone help? I would be most grateful.


title: Directory structure and script arguments

text: I'll often see a URL that looks something like this:               site.com/articles/may/05/02/2011/article-name.php      Surely all of those subdirectories don't actually exist? It seems like it would be a huge redundancy, even if it was only an identical index file in every directory. To change anything you'd have to change every single one. I guess my question is, is there some more elegant way that sites usually accomplish this?


title: lost facebook likes after making changes to the button

text: I just changed the facebook like button to "recommend" and specified image and content in meta, and now have lost all my previous likes. Why did this happen and what can I do about it? Oh I also just made seo changes using a plugin for wordpress, don't know if that would make a difference by changing something in the structure. I'm using wordpress.


title: Good free CSS Sprite for icons

text: I am working on a small project where I need some of the basic icons: edit, favorite, delete. You know them. Now i can download them all seperate, and put them together in a sprite, but I was wondering if there are ready to download sprites which I can use. Now I am working on an accounting app, so it would be nice if the icons were not too childish. A little but of fancy business type icons. Thanks


title: Google +1 something via a URL

text: Is there a way to +1 something via a URL, just like you would with Twitter or Facebook? * * * e.g. With Twitter you have:               http://twitter.com/home?status={url}      With Facebook you have:               http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u={url}&t={title}      With Digg you have:               http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url={url}&title={title}


title: How Can I Get Rid of This Hidden Link?

text: I recently downloaded a WP Theme and started building a page. However, if I scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page, I notice a hidden link for an adult toy store. I have searched all of the theme files with TextMate and there is no mention of that specific link in any of the files. The site can be viewed at credit-score-saver.com My guess is that someone edited the WP theme in an attempt to do some black hat link-building.


http://gtmetrix.com/reports/enji.se/RVzr15zT That's what my result looks like! Does anyone know how to fix Leverage browser caching and Specify a cache validator? I've googled it but didn't find anything. I have Apache.


title: Show AdWords for some users

text: I'm thinking of placing AdSense on my site, but I'd hate to show AdSense to my paying customers. Does AdSense policy allow this - showing AdSense only for some users - or do they require that they are shown to all users?


title: changing <b> tag style to font-weight normal

text: I am highlighting key words on my web pages using the `<b>` tag. I have set all `<b>` tags to `font-weight: normal` in my global stylesheet and was wondering if this would be considered a 'black hat' technique by search engines? My colleague seems to think so but i'm not too sure as it's just styling. Does anyone know or have an opinion?


title: Google Webmaster Tools says my XML sitemap "appears to be an HTML page"

text: We're running a lot of sites and we've started to get a lot of these errors in Webmaster Tools: > Sitemap is HTML   >  Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap > format instead. One of the problematic sitemaps:               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>      <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">          <url>              <loc>http://www.same_domain.co.uk/folder/file1.shtml</loc>              <lastmod>2011-05-11</lastmod>              <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>              <priority>0.5</priority>          </url>          <url>              <loc>http://www.same_domain.co.uk/folder/file2.shtml</loc>              <lastmod>2011-05-11</lastmod>              <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>              <priority>0.5</priority>          </url>          <url>              <loc>http://www.same_domain.co.uk/folder/file3.shtml</loc>              <lastmod>2011-05-11</lastmod>              <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>              <priority>0.5</priority>          </url>          <url>              <loc>http://www.same_domain.co.uk/folder/file4.shtml</loc>              <lastmod>2011-05-11</lastmod>              <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>              <priority>0.5</priority>          </url>      </urlset>      ## Why would GWTs think this is anything but XML? (Server: IIS) * * * ### Edit: > "This document was successfully checked as well-formed XML!" -W3C Validator. * * * ## Edit: I resubmitted two problematic sitemaps, one with no changes, and one with a couple of extra lines to ensure it's treated as XML. Ran the "Fetch as Googlebot" diagnostic tool. Both are fine now. I'm just going to re-submit all sitemaps with the "Sitemap is HTML" error The question remains: # Why did this happen? Why did GWTs think these XML sitemaps were HTML?


title: Forbid content in google results summary

text: I put a professional directory project online since few weeks, Google has started to index some pages but i just noticed a flaw in the design of the pages. Each page have an adress, some content and a dynamic phone number and because the dynamic phone number (the number change every hour) is on the top of the page, Google display an incorrect phone number in the summary of the page in it's results. So my question is: it is posible to forbid google to display this information or should i have to put some extra content before the number to overide it?


title: Track social activity for any subdomain

text: We are working on a web application thats actually a network of subdomains. Each user own a subdomain for its own profile. We are looking for a way to track social activity, shares and likes for all network under one profile. We tried using addthis but they don't support a feature like this.


title: MSSQL manager like phpMyAdmin

text: I have a .net hosting account but they have provided a free asp.net enterprise manager, a software to manage MSSQL server. Is there any other Phpmyadmin like software. My server supports Php also.


title: Hosting server application for global SME

text: We are planning to set up a complete ERP and CRM system for a medium-sized global company, that might turn into a essential tool for all locations once deployed. For now these locations include USA, Germany, China and Indonesia, but the list is growing quickly. My question is, where it is best to physically locate the server to ensure the access times are optimal from all (future) locations? On my mind, I am dealing with multiple connected servers (a cloud?), where each of our users is served by the physically closest server. Being in a very competitive field we would also like to rule out, that any data is stored in mainland China... Thanks for any advice and pointers!


title: Specifying crawlers to not crawl Links which are dependent on external API's

text: I have links on my site which lead to internal pages that depend on first bringing data from an external API. This only takes time the first time they are pushed. Links to pages which exists in the DB, load a lot faster. I'm specify for search engines to only crawl the internal pages. This is what I thought of:   1. Creating a site map with the internal links   2. Adding this to every page on my site `<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOFOLLOW" />` Will this succeed? Does the site map over-ride the nofollow? Would you suggest a different direction? Thanks


title: Video conference/chat tool that can be embedded in own website needed

text: We are looking for a means (a tool, a commercial service) to **enable a closed user group to start a live video conference in a browser** , as part of the company website. Something like Skype, but embedded and available for everybody that has access to the page into which the tool is embedded. Most services require registration and the creation of a chat room on their website, or, as Skype or similar solutions, the installation of an extra software. What we need is a **solution with some kind of a "hidden login", performed by the site's client script** (which knows who the user is and forwards the credentials to the service). Any suggestion?


title: RewriteRule working local but not on remote server

text: I have a .htaccess file with one simple RewriteRule:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ ?site=$1      I want to have an url like http://www.example.com/imprint and forward it to http://www.example.com/?site=imprint I checked this rule with an RewriteRule tester which gave me the results I want to achieve. On my local development system it works well too. But on a remote server the URLs just give me a 404 error. Other more simple rewrite rules are working with no problems, so everything must be set up correctly (I think..). The problem is that I don't have access to any error logs or the server configs. So the only thing I can do is to guess... Can anyone tell me if theres something wrong with this rule? Or anything else I can do or test to solve this? Or has someone an idea what could be wrong on the server?


title: Help! Requesting a change of URL on Yahoo Directory!

text: I submitted a couple websites on yahoo directory a month ago. For some reason, the url they listed was not the url I asked for, they listed the Japanese version instead of the submitted English version (this is a English directory so obviously it is a mistake). I requested changes and was accepted. But the reality is they promised a change but it was never really done. I contacted them again and again through the 'request a change in URL' form, but there is no answer. Is there any effective way that I can get to them? preferably a phone number or email? Thanks a lot!


title: How do I find the most popular search terms by browser?

text: How do I find the most popular search terms categorized by browser? I tried http://www.google.com/trends/explore, but it doesn't let you filter by browser.


title: Determining conversion rate if users land on specific pages

text: I'm trying to figure out the value of specific pages by finding out if they are more or less likely to convert if they hit certain pages. For example: I want to know if they are more likely to convert if they hit one of our case studies or if they go to our about page? Is there a way to do this in Google Analytics? Or do I need secondary software?


title: {font-family:} for fonts in emails?

text: Is there an email equivalent of the CSS property `font-family`? As emails don't embed the font, the reader has to have the font installed on their computer. If they don't, the font will render in Times New Roman (or another default font.) Is there a way to define multiple backup or fallback fonts?


title: Real-time analytics always shows 100% new

text: Real-time Google Analytics used to show new vs. returning visitors by default but then they switched to Desktop vs. Mobile. I've now setup a custom dashboard based on #3 found here. However, this shows that 100% of my visitors are new. I never see a returning visitor in real-time. (If I go to Audience > Overview I can see that I do indeed have returning visitors but the stats are not in real-time). How do I correctly get the number of new vs. returning visitors in real-time?


title: URL query is adding an unecessary comma

text: I am trying to automatically place login data through a URL query for my university services. (https://login.gatech.edu/cas/login) two problems arise when I try to pass a URL query (Ex: https://login.gatech.edu/cas/login?username=testingone) 1) The query does not show unless I already press the submit button 2) the Query adds an extra 'comma' to the username field... I have no idea why. I have googled for hours to no avail...Any help will be appreciated If you copy and paste the URL (see example link posted above) and hit the LOGIN button you will understand my problem I am sort of a beginner and would love any feedback as I am trying to develop an app to make logging in an easier/automatic task.


title: Test different timezones

text:
What is a simple way to temporarily change the timezone in Chrome so as to test how a site renders for different locations? On OSX Mountain Lion, I've tried as bash script with:               export TZ='Indian/Mauritius'          date     open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app ~/status.html      where status.html * contains               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"      "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">               <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">     <title>Time zone test</title>

                      The **date** command correctly returns Mauritius time, but the javascript renders the time as being my machine's time * apologies for posting the _whole_ file, but there might be relevant tags I haven't considered


title: Redesigned website, transferred content, and now invisible to Google

text: I recently completely redesigned my website, `http://concourstee.fr`. We used to have a fairly good ranking in Google, but when redesigning the website I thought I'd try to make things better. (WordPress Yoast plugin for SEO, better use of keywords, etc.) So I moved the old website to `http://concourstee.fr/old/` and uploaded the new version of the website. (Both versions are running WordPress) Since then, my website has just completely disappeared from Google, I have absolutely no idea why... I realized that Google only found the old website, under `concourstee.fr/old/` when doing a search for `site:concourstee.fr`, so I moved it downloaded a backup of the old website and deleted it. Google can still only find `concourstee.fr/old/`, about a week afterwards, and it still won't display the new website, even when searching for things as basic as "Concours Total EDHEC Entreprendre", which is the actual name of the site, and appears several times on the main page. I then realized I had an error in my code :               <meta name="robots" content="none" />     <meta name="googlebot" content="none" />      Which I fixed two days ago, changing `none` to `index,follow`, but I am still not appearing in Google... So what am I to do? We have a big event coming up and we really need our Google visibility back!


title: Is it a bad idea to allow mulitple ways to get a product on a site?

text: I am building a site where we will sell products etc. Currently the url to get to a product is like so "Store/Store_product_page/The product_ID" or "Store/Store_product_page/The product_title" I have been doing some SEO on the site and I am not sure if it matters if there is multiple ways to get to a product page. Should I have just one way or the other but not both ways to get to the same product page? Also does it matter much if I just made it so only this way worked "Store/Store_product_page/The product_ID"?


title: Where to host a .cur image?

text: `.cur` is an image extension for mouse cursors. I have purchased a custom domain via Blogger. Unlike WordPress, Blogger does not have any directory of webfiles or something where things can be uploaded. I need to change the default cursor of my mouse in my website. Unfortunately, Google's Picasa or Imageshack/Phobucket do not support `.cur` files. I found some other image sites while googling but all are old image hosting services which no longer exist. I tried Dropbox, Google code but they provide a link to download the `.cur` image and not actually give a URL which I can link in my CSS. Is there any way to host `.cur` images?


title: Do AdWords conversions only track AdWords visitors?

text: I have set up an AdWords conversion and put the conversion tracking JS code on a test page. However, I don't see any conversions tracked when I visit it. **Does the AdWords conversion tracking only register your conversion if you come to the site by clicking on an AdWords campaign?** Google's help page advises me to test the code by clicking a campaign. However, I would like to use the tracking to track all conversions, not just AdWords. I considered using Analytics as well, but it seems you can only track via url there, not JS, which would mean I had to restructure a part of my page. (Because currently a conversion appears does not necessarily happen on a different URL.) Is AdWords tracking not a viable solution to track all visitor conversions on my site?


Is it possible that two or more URL's may have same Alexa traffic rank? I am developing a tools that depends on the Alexa rank, But there are some Urls with same alexa rank.


title: What is a good click through rate (CTR)

text: I'm new to adwords and I'm trying to figure out what a good click through rate on my ads would be. Does anyone have any guidelines?


title: How to SEO Optimize JavaScript Image Loader?

text: I am building an image-centric catalog website. It catalogs collectible gaming cards numbering 100,000+ pages. There are competitor sites receiving millions of hits each month, so with the possibility of excessive traffic, I need to moderate image bandwidth while also optimizing for image SEO. I'm looking for some tips on doing so. Each page on the site features one card with appropriate tags and descriptions. There are however four images for each card - one on matte cardstock, one on foil cardstock, one digital, and one digital foil. In a world with unlimited bandwidth and no-wait page loads, I'd simply embed all four images on the main product page with titles, alt tags, and captions to rank them according to their version keyword. In reality, a JavaScript gallery image loader seems appropriate. Here is a simplified example of my current code: I left out the thumbnail-to- full image replacement script for simplicity. Would this affect SEO in any way? Should I be doing anything differently? Note that I don't want to create a page for each image as I'd have to duplicate the card tags and descriptions on each one, diluting PR for the main page. Thanks for any insight!


title: How is the new Hulu not penalized for SEO?

text: I heard if you serve different content with Javascript disabled, search Bots can penalize you. I have been looking at the source of the new Hulu website and wanted to ask a few questions. I was told to ask them here as opposed to StackOverflow. Your help will be much appreciated. I am building a Backbone application, and the site is very Javascript heavy as you can imagine. I did not code the site with progressive enhancement in mind. I thought if Hulu can successfully do this, I am sure it is feasible. With every page, Hulu has a content area (div id = "SEO") with links to its various videos. This SEO content area is removed with javascript. Obviously this will only be removed if Javascript is not disabled. If it is dsiabled, a no script tag is used covering the SEO content area asking the user to enable Javascript. So in essence, the Bot will still crawl the SEO content area. 99% of the content, from what I can see, is being served via JSON. Now the Bot obviously cannot read this content. However, all SEO Meta tags are served from the server with the content inside the SEO content area. Now my question is: is this enough? Can I have a content area with just "enough seo" (H1 paragraph etc) so the Bots can get an understanding of what the page contains, then have my application takeover? Will I get penalized for serving different content? I can have the page rendered on the server, but it does require much more work and I will then need to maintain both client and server side templates.


title: Verifying that a user comes from a 'partner' site?

text: We're building a Drupal module that is going to be given to trusted 'corporate partners'. When a user clicks on a link, he should be redirected to our site as if he's a logged in user. How should I verify that the user is indeed coming from that site? It does not look like 'HTTP_REFERER' is enough because it appears it can be faked. We are providing these partner sites with API Keys. If I receive the API-key as a POST value, sent over https, would that be a sufficient indicator that the user is a genuine partner-site user?


title: Domain redirect to go daddy shared ip account via IP through an A NAME change

text: A customers IT department wants to point their domain to a site I've created for them which is hosted on a share GoDaddy account. It's not my primary domain but is a site in a sub directory of its own. He wants to do a A NAME change at his end and has requested my IP. However I'm guessing that with a shared IP that the IP alone won't make the redirect work correctly. It's important that their original domain address appears in the browser bar once the redirect takes place. Do I need to do some king of mapping to guarantee that his redirect finds the correct content in the sub folder?


title: SEO and domain name - which shape?

text: I just want to register the domain name for my spanish class and wonder, what domain name is beter for this purpose:   * learningspanish.com or   * ilearnspanish.com Which one is better? The domain name must be English, but I don't know, what is better for Google and SEO - if **learn** or **learning**... I would be grateful for your feedback and sorry if the explanation above is not understandable (I would try to explain it better). Thank you


title: Google Analytics with transactions - quanity mismatch?

text: We've been using Google Analytics reporting for some time now and we tend to focus on **GA > Conversions > Ecommerce > Transactions** (on left hand menu) Columns:   * "Transaction" listing all orders with a transaction id e.g. SESS123_name    * "Revenue" listing €amount    * "Tax" listing €amount   * "Shipping" listing €amount and finally "Quantity" we show transaction numbers. Yesterday (and now today), we have noticed that the Quantity column numbers are doubling to what we see when we view a transaction in detail **e.g** Quantity = 4 then you click on the Transaction ID and it shows = 2


title: WordPress theme like this Drupal theme?

text: I was wondering if anyone knew of a WordPress theme that was similar to this websites theme (in Drupal): http://www.barefootrunners.org Thanks!


title: Why doesn't Firefox have a volume slider for the audio element?

text: Seems like most browsers have a slider to control the volume of audio files played via the `<audio>` tag, yet Firefox on Windows (and Linux) seems to only have an 'all on' or 'all off' volume control. Is it just me? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SZ64n.jpg) You can test on your own here (be careful audio are autostart)


title: Apache2's recursive directory permission requirement

text: The experience I've had thus far is from Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 64 bit OS so if there are other OS differences I'd like to know if this is an OS specific problem or not. The issue I've experienced is mostly confusion. Once the cause of the problem is identified and corrected there are no further related problems experienced. The symptom is Error 403 forbidden. Typically the cause is attempting to use a directory other than /var/www/ for content. The cause is simply permissions, but its puzzling why the required permissions must persist from at least one level deeper than root onward till the current working directory where the content is stored. For example:               Alias /example/ "/home/user/permissions/can/be/confusing/with/apache/"     <Directory /home/user/permissions/can/be/confusing/with/apache/>          Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews          AllowOverride None          Order allow,deny          Allow from all     </Directory>      With www-data being the user that spawned apache and "user" being a member of the www-data group. Thus, if ownership of /home/user/* is user:user then all that is necessary to display content with apache is permssions of read and execute. So d---r-x--- should suffice, but for practical purposes I'm using drwxr-x--- for most. However, if all directories /home/user/* are permissions of drwxr-x-- and /home/user/ itself has permissions of drwx------ then content will always fail with error 403. This is strange because it doesn't follow what I would consider traditional logic of permissions which should only be applicable to the current working directory or a particular file in that directory and not any directory further back in the chain. Is this by design or is it a bug?


title: In terms of SEO, is it better to have a URL broken down by folder, or with dashed names?

text: I am creating a friendly url interpreter for my website. I have read dozens of similar topics on this site, but none that seem to address my particular situation. What I want to know is if it's better to have: A well broken down URL where each category is represented by a folder > **domain.com/1036/OR/Lane/Lowell/Wetleau-Subdivision** - **OR** - A URL which groups all of the categories and terms together > **domain.com/1036/Wetleau-Subdivision-Lowell-OR-Lane** I am asking only in terms of what is best for SEO, not necessarily human readability. My thinking is that it may be better to group them all together like they are in the second example. My reasoning being that all of those terms represent the page and are more likely to draw a result. I am a complete SEO nub though, and I crave some expert guidance. Thank you in advance for any help given.


title: Removing orders from Google Analytics Ecommerce

text: I've looked through the Analytics API docs and couldn't any info on removing transactions.. Is it possible to remove single transactions? Or is there any way to tag orders as fraudulent or test orders?


title: Registering a domain became a problem?

text: I went to register a domain today and for my surprise almost all the short variations I could possible think or use for the domain I want were taken giving me not much options in that sense. What was more pissing about it is that more then 90% of the variations I tried were hold by place holders selling the name that usually goes for at least 100USD or even more. Are there any solutions to this kinda of things ? Is my one and only option to keep searching until I can find an available name even if at that point it has lost completely the mean it had or became extremely big where no one would remember it ? What do you usually do in this kinda of situations ? Consider yourself as a starter that doesnt have 100USD to spend, I do have that much but that is not really the case here and that was just a cost example, I heard that there are domains that even with bad names can go for more then 1000USD or even more.


title: How to convert Corel Draw design into HTML design?

text: I have a Corel Draw .cdr file which has a full design of a web page. Is there any way to convert that design into HTML template?


title: Hosting related inquery Asp.Net 4.0 application

text: We are building a public site Using asp.net 4.0 and SqlServer 2008 R2. We are assuming with a year our user count will be around 200,000. We need better a understanding; for hosting how much bandwidth per month we should consider. Also what about ram/cpu.


title: Restricting post method and authentication to specifc URL paths in Apache .htaccess

text: I shall start with an example. I want to restrict to POST requests only for `http://path/to/logical/abc.xml` and restrict to GET only for `http://path/to/logical/def.xml`. How do I put constraints like this as the paths are logical and location directive is not supported in _.htaccess_? The actual problem is to set different authentication constraint on diff logical file. Can you tell me as to how do I put a constraint on logical path in the _.htaccess_ file as location directive is not supported in _.htaccess_.


title: Google shows duplicate meta description in its index

text: Here's a search on Google for my site. Texts are different for each page of my site but snippets (meta description) are still the same for a Google search. Can you give me an advice to change it?


title: Looking for a sitemap generator

text: I am looking for a good way to generate a sitemap for my current site. I inherited a huge site at work and we are going to start the process of IA analysis and redesign. It would be awesome if there was some way to crawl the site and automatically generate a sitemap with all of our pages. Does anyone know of any good resources? Thanks,


title: online site map generator that has an access via URL

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Looking for a sitemap generator I am looking for a service that I can access daily based to generate a sitemap.xml file for SEO. Something like http://www.seo-sitemap-service.com?freq=daily&generate-for- url=http://www.mysite.com


title: Free unlimited-page sitemap generator?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Looking for a sitemap generator I have been using www.xml-sitemaps.com/ but their limit is 500 pages. My site has grown beyond that and I am wondering whether there is another tool I can use that I can use to create sitemaps.


title: How do I make a free sitemap.xml for a site that is few thousand pages?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Free unlimited-page sitemap generator? Is there a free tool out there that would let me make a free sitemap for about 3k page site? Thanks!


title: What is the difference between URLS with hashtags and hashtags with exclamation marks

text: What is difference SEO differencence between:   1. `/index.php#mystate`   2. `/index.php#` **!**`mystate`


title: Number of Facebook Likes on homepage keeps resetting to lower number

text: We've had a Facebook Like button on our homepage (i.e. associated with a URL not our Facebook Page) for a few months, and nearly every other day the number of likes resets from the actual number of Likes (over 200) to the number of Shares (6). Every time it happens, we run the URL through the Facebook linter and (usually) it will be fixed right away - though sometimes it will take a few hours or even days. Our site defaults to https: but we run the linter on both the http: and https: URLs. We've done a lot of online research and we have not found a straight forward answer of how to stop this from continuing to happen - any thoughts?


title: What does "all" mean in meta robots tag?

text: Several websites have the following meta tag aimed at search engines like Google, Bing, etc.:               <meta name="robots" content="all" />      What does it do?


title: what is a squeeze page?

text: I've been reading a marketing book which suggests building a squeeze page to build an email list. Does this mean one of those long sales letter type pages with crumby styling? I'm assuming the styling does not have to be generic, or does it? Or, if the sales letter is not a squeeze page, what is a squeeze page? Is there an easy way to build one, and what considerations should be undertaken when building one? **Update** : I guess a squeeze page can also be referred to as a lead capture page.


title: How to have One DNS and two different webhost?

text: I have one domain name i.e. example.com registered via godaddy.   * Now, I want to host my personal blog on blogger/blogspot with this url (i.e. on subdomain) "http://subdomain.example.com"   * And, I want to host my full website on different webhost (It is a   free host which supports all the PHP features) but it does not allow me to modify CNAME and A records of domain.   * Godaddy allows me to modify DNS Settings of my domain name   including CNAME and A Records but only if it's name servers are used. Now, Solve my Problem. I will be very much grateful to you.


title: Same page on 2 different websites. Same SEO, but only 1 gets picked up by Google

text: I made a page for a website (website A) I'm responsible for. I made sure the SEO is correct. This one got to position 1 in Google very fast. On the second website (website B) I copied exactly the same content and SEO. It is indexed by Google but it isn't showing in the results (I've waited 3-4 weeks before checking). Even when I scroll down the pages of results. It seems Google just don't want this site (website B) in its results! Does anyone have a clue?


title: 404 error on a file/directory that exists?

text: We are using the vBulletin system. I have set it up so that it redirects 404 error's to a php page, so it follows the theme of the forum. However, if I go to a directory that exists (the admin directory to be precise), I get the 404 error. The folder in question is htaccess password protected, as well as leech protected. And this is happening to all .htaccess protected directory's My .htaccess is below:               RewriteEngine on          # 404 errors     ErrorDocument 404 /errors.php?do=404     ErrorDocument 403 /errors.php?do=403     ErrorDocument 500 /errors.php?do=500          # If you are having problems or are using VirtualDocumentRoot, uncomment this line and set it to your vBulletin directory.     # RewriteBase /forum/          # If you are having problems with the rewrite from content/ to content.php, uncomment this line to turn MultiViews off.     # Options -MultiViews          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d          RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]          # Forum     RewriteRule ^threads/.* showthread.php [QSA]     RewriteRule ^forums/.* forumdisplay.php [QSA]     RewriteRule ^members/.* member.php [QSA]     RewriteRule ^blogs/.* blog.php [QSA]     RewriteRule ^entries/.* entry.php [QSA]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d          RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]          # MVC     RewriteRule ^(?:(.*?)(?:/|$))(.*|$)$ $1.php?r=$2 [QSA]          # Check MVC result     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [R=404,L]      Please could anyone help? Thank you.


title: What are the logistics in converting PSD to HTML, from the project managers standpoint?

text: I know this question so elementary, and I apologize in advance. Feel free to close it if it doesn't meet this sites criteria. I am managing my first web project, and am currently getting the PSDs designed. As soon as they are done, I am sending them for markup. To make things go faster, I am going to send them one page at a time (as soon as they are done being designed) to the front end developer. At this time, the sprites, mouseovers, popups, things of that sort won't be finished yet, as I am doing that at the very end with my designer. I planned on getting everything marked up, and then sending over these little details to the front end developer at the very end. Is this the normal process?


title: If CSS is getting better why do big-brands websites still use tables for layout?

text: Everybody is referring to how content should be separated from layout and I am one strong advocate of that architecture, I find it easy too to use CSS to layout, much much easier than tables, But why oh why, do big names still use tables for layout? (Google Shopping is the biggest offender), eBay, Amazon, BaseCamp... great websites wouldn't you agree? I just need to understand their motives, so that I know for sure: am I missing something? is it really easier or faster or cheaper to use tables? Google shopping code snippet: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gWnab.png)


title: What can be messed up by letting the data flow into a Universal Analytics Account without fully customizing Universal Analytics first?

text: I haven't finished taking the "Digital Analytics Fundamentals" course yet; I'm concerned that if I don't understand everything before I implement it on my companies site that I'll permanently screw something up; I've used Google Analytics in the past, and I've noticed that you can only set a certain number of goals and I'm not even sure if you can change them after that. My boss is pushing for me to finish some tickets related to the marketing of our sites, but I'm concerned that if I do this too soon, I'm going to permanently screw something up with the Analytics account. In particular, today I'm going to add our website to the local business directory websites; some of these are free and some of these are not free. The following are local business directory websites I had in mind:   * Google Local Business Directory   * City Search   * Superpages.com   * Best of the Web Local Search   * patch.com   * merchantcirlcle   * yelp   * Bing Places for Business   * Yahoo Local Listing: Business Directory Listings If I understand correctly, a local business website is a referral source, which makes it sort of a Marketing Channel? And with Marketing Channels you have to monitor them to make sure that your getting your ROI on them, so you aren't paying for marketing (a listing) that isn't bringing you any business. I've seen several sites that advise you NOT to setup Google Analytics until you have your goals setup and implemented on your site. What parts are absolutely essential to setup first? (off the top of my head I can think of excluding people from within your own organization from the Analytics, and setting up goals)


title: Website traffic suddenly down, banned by google after adding around 700 products

text: I have a ecommerce website, phone accesories retail. In the first three months the google traffic risend natural and good up to 200 visitors per day (google search). At the begging of june, in a single day, i have added around 700 products. In the next days the google organic traffic dropped down dramatically. As seen in the webmaster tools screenshot: ![webmaster tools](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xgfiC.jpg) The description of new products was copy paste from supplier website with very little editing. After the dropdown i tried to clean the website of duplicate products. I have for the same product, different colors with diferent urls and same content. I've added canonical to point to one product for each set of colors. Adding those products slowed my website very much so i have changed my server to a VPS, and optimised the website speed. I thought to eliminate all reasons for witch website is down. The number of indexed pages in serp rised, but my organic traffic dropped. A few days before the drop i have added Structured Data markup for the page product. I removed the code around 24 june. ![structured data](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Lzef5.jpg) At this moment i have two solutions:   1. To put a noindex meta for the new products added.    2. To delete all products and not sell them any more. The margin is low for this products any way. What could be a reason for the drop and what should i do so my website regain it's google trust and reappear in SERPs? The website is: http://mobyl.ro


title: Number of hits report in Google Analytics

text: Can I create a custom report in google analytics to show me the total number of hits on a specific website? By "hit" I mean any item on the page that needs to load in order to view the page correctly. A better definition of what I mean can be found here: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/hit.html