title: Is it illegal to use content in such a way?

text: I have a couple of questions about the legality of the content of some websites. I am currently working on two websites and I would like to make sure I am not breaking any laws, by using some content like I am...   * Do I need to get a license to use images from the Internet (such as google.images.com) in my site, assuming they aren't a company logo belonging to another company? If not, am I allowed to use it after I modify it with a image editing software?   * If content such as phone numbers, e-mail addresses, website addresses, and text from websites can be found for free online, and I gather this information for a search engine based site that I am working on and offering this information on a paid basis (similar to google, but more specialized), is something that is legal? **Note:** I am not 'copying' or redirecting business from anywhere, to my site. The exact opposite, the site I am working on actually helps advertise businesses and make it easier for customers to find them.


title: Leverage browser caching on GitHub pages

text: After using Google's PageSpeed Insights for my site [ http://flashmallach.github.com ] the biggest error I'm still coming up w/ is leveraging browser caching. I found some solutions that suggest using a .htaccess file to do this, however GitHub pages apparently do not support them. Is there another way I can pull this off ?


title: Intermittent silent failures when receiving email

text: I’ve had a company host my website and email for the last six months or so and I’m having intermittent and silent failures where emails sent to me are not received.   * The sender never receives a “delivery notification failure” message.   * This has happened on multiple domains (@gmail.com, @microsoft.com)   * I’ve experienced it happening first hand when I sent a mail to myself from another account but I was unable to reproduce the error.   * It’s very rare (one in every 300 emails or so)   * The mails are not routed to my junk folder :) Obviously I’m worried about the effect this has on my business – but what can I do? I don’t believe I have enough information to diagnose the problem (neither does my hosting company when I presented them with the same information) – should I switch to another host?


title: Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page?

text: When you do a Google search, there is typically a snippet of sample content from the page. I seem to recall that the Meta Tags can influence this choice of descriptive sentences. Is that correct(?) and if so, is it the Meta Description Tag? Also, how many characters is Google's descriptive sentences limited to?


title: Why Google skips page title

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page? I have no idea why this is happening. Title tag is: Unfurnished Office Space Wimbledon – Serviced Office on Lombard Road SW19 But is indexed as: Lombard Road – SW19 - London Office Space If you look in the source code and search for this portion ‘Lombard Road – SW19’ You then find that it's next to an office image alt=’Lombard Road – SW19’. The only thing I could think of is that the spider somehow ‘skips’ our title tag and grabs this bit, and then inserts the name of the site (but WHY?) Is there anything I can do with this? or is this a Google behaviour?


title: Problem with description of my site and google search

text: My HTML page : http://www.faressoft.com               <meta name="description" content="فارس سوفت الاسم الرائد في عالم البرمجيات العربية" />      When I search for my site name "فارس سوفت" using google, the description contains my description and the error message of my contact form. why ?


title: Strange description appearing in Google search results

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page? I just noticed that when searching Google for the name of a website I'm working on, the search result description now has a broken English phrase which does not appear anywhere on that website, nor on the Google Places page: ![Screenshot of Google search result: "Company builds blogs and custom plug in software for the sites." ...?](http://i.stack.imgur.com/zbppG.png) Where might this text be coming from? How can I fix it?


title: Different description on Brand search and Keyword search

text: When we search for the company name and the company snippet shows up as a result, it takes a text from the HTML as description. On the other hand when we search a keyword and the homepage shows up as a result, the meta description will show up. It happens in Google, Bing and Yahoo. How is it possible? **--EDIT:** I found the solution, but since a MODERATOR, marked this question as duplicate, I will write my answer here: The problem was that: We didn't have the company name in the description, while the first word in the html body was the company name. Therefore, where we searched for the company name only, search engines found the html body a better match for the query and show the body (which was not a human readable text) However, when we searched the company name + a keyword that we mentioned in description, the description was chosen, not the html body. To fix the issue, we both changed the description to include the company name, and remove the company name from some html tags like logo's alt in the very first part of the page. Summary: Include all the keywords that you want to be searched in description including the company/website name.


title: Site description not showing up in Google search

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Problem with description of my site and google search   >  Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page? When we search for our site on Google. What do I need to do to change the description? When I inspect the `<head>` element, I see something like:               <meta name="description" content="foobar blah blah blah blah">      I see the title, though (which displays correctly). But the description is some random content that can be found on the homepage. It's not the actual description specified in the `meta` tag. I hear that it takes up to a month until Google updates the description for a site. Is this true? Unfortunately, I am unable to post the URL of our site here. Company policy, since we are still in private beta. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.


title: private domain registration

text: I have seen many people hide their personal details like address and phone number while registering a domain. Sometimes they pay for this private registration. So that their information doesn't display in a whois lookup. What is the advantage of doing it and paying extra amount?


title: Domain Content at Different URL

text: I know next to nothing pertaining to this topic, so I will do my best to describe my situation. I tried looking for answers, but I think I just need someone to put it into layman's terms for me. I am working with a client who is planning to make a subdomain on their parent company's site. Let's call it "foundation.example.com". Example.com will create the subdomain, but is not allowing the client to host any files on their server. The solution proposed would be to purchase hosting elsewhere, but have the site point to foundation.example.com. The goal is to make it seem as if the user is on foundation.example.com, since that is what will show up in the address bar. How can I achieve this? All responses appreciated, thanks!


title: In Robots.txt, how do I disallow all pages except for the index page?

text: I want google to index my index page, but do not index any other pages.               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      So far I have this. However...when I do this, Google does not index my index page. When I search my name in Google, all it shows is "www.mydomain.com" as the first result with no description. Instead, I want Google to index my main index page, WITH the meta description tag, too.


title: AdSense sent an email saying my account has been approved when it already was approved

text: My account has been approved and running adverts for quite sometime now. However, today I just got a message (it seems legitimate) from Google AdSense saying: > Congratulations, your AdSense account has been approved to show AdSense ads > on your own website. Within a few hours, you will begin to see live ads. Should I be concerned? They say that they review accounts to check for compliance, could this be some weird way of saying they rechecked my sites and they complied?


title: CSS just for most basic HTML

text: I've read that my note system Wikidpad, which exports to very simple HTML, can use CSS (http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/help/HtmlCss.html) The elements in the output are not more than basic headings, bullet points and tables. I'd like to try some kind of improved style, but I as I have no knowledge about CSS, so the best I can do is to save some Myfile.css to a directory :) However if I google "CSS template" I get all sorts of complicating results that I cannot make sense of :( Am I using wrong terminology? Can you suggest what I should search for or maybe you even know a ressource where a get a simple CSS file with some decent standard HTML elements. I do not wish to make custom adjustments.


title: Are there any clear indicators that my sitemap file is beneficial?

text: I have recently created a sitemap.xml file and uploaded it to my Google Webmasters Tools account. Google didn't report any issues or errors with the uploaded sitemap of my site. _Now my question is:_   * **How do I know if my sitemap is working within Google Webmaster Tools?** The reason I ask is I don't know what I'm suppose to being seeing or looking for, and it feels like I've uploaded an useless file.


title: How should I offer hosting to my clients?

text: I'm starting a little web development company mainly using rails, but we've also got clients with existing joomla and php code. How do people generally package hosting into web development quotes? Is it usually a pass-through cost, or is it common to charge an additional fee? Also, since we do want to outsource the hosting, but we realise there'll most often be some configuration and maintenance to do, we're wondering how the hosting account is generally managed by development firms? Does each customer have a master account, or are there setups that allow some sort of hierarchy?


title: After installing and then removing Google Apps from my website, entering the URL without "www" no longer works

text: A few days ago I added Google Apps to my site to try it out and see how I liked it. However, it wasn't really going to fit my needs, so I decided to remove it earlier this morning. Before I installed Google Apps I was able to type in "www.mysite.com" or just "mysite.com" and get to the same place. However, after installing GApps and removing them, just typing in "mysite.com" no longer works. "www.mysite.com" works fine, though. I think GApps may have broken my URL, but maybe it just takes a few days to propagate the changes. Do any of you have any experience with this or know if the GApps (or removal of GApps) changes take awhile to go into effect? The error that I get when I just type in "mysite.com" is the following: Google Error 404 - Not found. The requested URL / was not found on this server. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Edit: Also, for the record, I cannot SSH/SFTP in to "mysite.com", but I can do so to "www.mysite.com" Not sure if this helps, but I figure the more information the better.


title: Recommend a web service that handles location within a specific radius?

text: We have a client that wants a store locator on their website. I've been asked to find a webservice that will allow us to send a zipcode as a request and have it return locations within x radius. We found this, but it's maintained by a single person, and doesn't look like it gets updated or supported very well. We're looking for something commercial, ideally that updates their zipcode database at least once per quarter, and that has a well-documented API with PHP accessibility. I won't say price isn't an object, but right now we just want some ideas, and my google-fu has failed me.


title: Google showing H1 text instead of page TITLE in search result?

text: I always thought Google shows page title (whatever is in the `<title>` tag of the page) as 1st line of each result. But looking at the search "orologi da collezione" below, it seems Google is showing as 1st line of content the `<H1>` tag. ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/YjWKD.jpg) Am I right? **Is Google showing the content of the H1 tag as 1st line of the serach result** or something else got from meta description? Even more and more interesting when searching for "vendita orologi" the same site comes out, but this time it shows the real page title as 1st line: ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ltynB.jpg)


title: Delegating responsibilities for business page on Facebook

text: Suppose I have a Facebook page for a business or organization, and I want to delegate posting responsibilities to an employee. As far as I can tell, the only way to do this is to give that employee full admin status, which seems to allow removal of other admins and even permanent deletion of the page. How can I delegate responsibilities to an employee without opening up this sort of risk?


title: Can I configure Apache's HTTP Authentication (.htpasswd) to require the name/password of a local user account?

text: I'd like to restrict access to a certain directory in my webroot to all users that belong to a specific group. I know that I can create a .htpasswd file that specifies a user, or even several users, that should be accepted for HTTP Basic/Digest Authentication, but is it possible to have Apache accept any username/password from the local Linux machine's users? To go a step further, is it possible (through .htpasswd or other means that anyone is aware of) to allow any valid user within a specific group?


title: Payment gateway performance comparison - is there any site which provides this data?

text: This is a question specifically addressed towards site owners who use payment gateway solutions for India. Is there a site which provides regular updates on the performance of payment gateways? I know about the Indian Railways performance reports. Is there any other site which covers payment gateways like EBS, CCAvenue and the other payment gateways?


title: Cloud Hosting Options, what are the differences?

text: I've looked at what I consider the big three (I could be wrong about that)   * Microsoft Cloud Azure   * Amazon Simple Web Services   * Godaddy Virtual Server Space I'm not a server expert, I like hosting a site on godaddy because I don't have to think about the hosting part but I want to manage multiple sites without having to buy a hosting account each time.


title: What CMS is used for this site?

text: Would love to know the specifics if anyone can 'see' which cms this site (bite squad dot com) uses? A off the shelf solution? Did they integrate various CMS ? Would love to know! Thanks


title: Is switching WordPress frameworks later on bad?

text: I just read that if you get a site established in Google with one WordPress framework, lets say "Thesis", and then change to another one, lets say "Genesis", that you could lose all your traffic from Google (if you have any). Is there any truth to this?


title: How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host?

text: Client's domain is registered with GoDaddy where they have a mail-only plan at the moment. Now web hosting has been set up elsewhere and we need to point web service to the new host while retaining mail at GoDaddy. (For reasons not important here, this is not negotiable.)   What needs to be edited to carry this out correctly?


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host? What should I do if I host my email with a different email server, while using another web hosting for hosting my website? How it is done? I want a separate email hosting.


title: Can I have a webhost with one company and an E-Mail host with another?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host? I was wondering if it was possible to use one company (and respective name servers) for email hosting, and another (and NS) for the web hosting? My email host mentions changing all the NS records for the domain name to theirs, but wouldn't that disable the web hosting? I'm using cheapdomains.com.au for my E-Mail hosting, and Web24 for the web hosting. The domain was registered through Web24 also. Web24's domain management panel has a heap of options regarding DNS Zone records, such as an 'SOA' type, 'A' type and 'NS' type. If it can be done, which records should I point to CheapDomains' nameservers? (ns4.syra.net.au and ns5.syra.net.au respectively). I'm not sure if I'm allowed to mention company names on here, so tell me if I'm in the wrong...


title: How to keep website(www) parked at GoDaddy but manage e-mails elsewhere?

text: I have a domain registered at GoDaddy and a dedicated server I want to use to manage e-mails. If I want to keep www.mydomain.com loading from GoDaddy(at least for now) yet when e-mails are sent to mymailbox@mydomain.com these are managed over at my dedicated server, do I simply have to add a new Hostname in the GoDaddy control panel like this: Hostname: MAIL   IP Address: IP of the dedicated server Would this be enough, or I also need to add an MX record and if yes, how? In my dedicated server control panel, I added this for the domain: Existing DNS records               Hostname: @     Type: MX     Content: mail.mydomain.com     Priority: 0     Time to live: 300


title: How to map a domain to a website?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host? I am using Network solutions. I would like to point my domain to a website. I have both the NameServer1 and NameServer2. However, I would like to keep my email routing as it is now. I believe I need to do it through the A records but not sure exactly how (which field correspond to nameserver 1 and 2). Please advise, where do I enter the NamerServer1 & 2 in the advanced settings so that I don't affect the MX records for my email. Also, I DO have the IP add dresses corresponding to the two name servers. Any help is appreciated.


title: Keep mail going to old server while hosting on a new server

text: I'm trying to figure out how to keep mail going to an old server/MX record (which is the same as the domain for the website), after I change the A record for the domain. Here's what I have now (with made up IP addresses):               example.com A 95.134.27.5 < old server     example.com MX example.com.      What I need is:               example A 12.9.149.143 < new server     example MX 95.134.27.5. < old server      Can I just use the IP address of the old server? Is there anything I need the current host to do to continue to have email processed through the old mail server?


title: Separate Nameserver and MX server at different providers

text: I have a DNS + Mail service with hosting company HostA for a domain `mydomain.com` and would like to use the servers of FreeDNS as nameservers so that they will resolve web requests to my home server's dynamic IP. At the same time however I don't want to host myself the email but use the mail servers at hosting company HostA, so I can download my `info@mydomain.com` mail. I thought this was a simple matter of adding a nameserver record which pointed to FreeDNS and a MX record which pointed to hosting company HostA domain. However they tell me either I use their nameservers for both web and email or I must use FreeDNS nameservers and I cannot edit the MX record anymore but have to deal with it at FreeDNS website. Is it true? can you explain me why?


title: MX record setup to another domain?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host? I have a website aaa.fr with MX record correctly configured and working. Now I'm buying the domain aaa.es. Can I just configure the MX record of aaa.es pointing to the IP of the mail server on aaa.fr? What I mean is, can I avoid buying email boxes associated with the new domain aaa.es and rely totally on aaa.fr email server? thx


title: Using subdomains for newly regional company

text: The company I work for is expanding their business to new territories. I've got a lot of stabilization to do in the region/state where we're one of the most well known companies of our kind. Currently, we have 3 distinct product lines which are currently distinguished by 3 separate URLS. This is affecting the user flow of our site, so we'd like to clean it up before launching our products into the various regions. The business has decided to grow into 5 new states (one state consisting of one county only) — none of which will feature all 3 products. Our homebase state is the only one that will have all 3 products this year. My initial thought was to use subdomains to separate out the regions, that way we could use a canonical tag to stabilize the root domain (which would feature home state content, and support content for all regions), and remove us from potential duplicate content penalization. Our product content will be nearly identical across the regions for the first year. I second guessed myself by thinking that it was perhaps better to use a `[product].root/region` URL instead. And I'm currently stuck by wondering if it was not better to build out subdomains for products and regions, using one modifier or the other as a funnel/branding page into the other. For instance, user lands on `region.root.com` and sees exactly what products we offer in that region. Basically, a tailored landing page. Meanwhile the bulk of the product content would actually live under `product.root.com/region/page`. My head is spinning. And while searching for similar questions I also bumped into reference of another tag meant to be used in _some_ similar cases to mine. I feel like there's a lot of risks involved in this subdomain strategy, but I also can't help but see the benefits in the user flow.


title: displaying a list of files

text: In my web application I have the user sign up for an account, then the account data is saved in a mysql database. The user can then go to "index.php" and log in with their credentials. My application involves saving a file to a directory. So:   1. User logs in.   2. A table is displayed. The table contains a list of files saved in the directory that is for the individual user.   3. The user uploads a file to their directory (by directory I mean like a folder). How could I display the files in a folder in a table () using php? thanks!


title: how to cope with a 10 000 person accessing server in one hour?

text: I have a share hosting, and I charge 150$/years to host company website. Those websites have a maximum of 2000 person per month accessing the site, mostly WordPress site. So everything is fine until a person in Facebook, with 300 000 friend talk about the website. You know, if just 10% go see the site, it's 30 000 person at the same time accessing the site, and what should append just append, the site crash, and then after 1 hours, it's back on... So the question, how to cope with that kind of load ?


title: Need help with DNS. Registrar is NS, Web Site at WinHost, Email at eHost

text: Need help moving a web site for a client, which I will call ClientABC. The web site is ClientABC.com, which is hosted at Rackspace, with their email hosted at eHost. We are transferring the site from Rackspace to WinHost and are keeping the email hosted at eHost. I would like the transfer to happen with little to no down time for the web site and email (email is most important). **Current Config:**   * Client owns domain and registrar is Network Solutions   * Domain name is managed by VendorX at Rackspace   * Web site is hosted on Rackspace servers   * Email is hosted at eHost **Post-Move Config:**   * Web site is hosted at WinHost   * Keep Email at eHost **Here is my plan for the transfer:**   * Copy the site files to WinHost and test to assure site is fully functional   * Set up the MX record in the WinHost account to point to eHost servers   * Change the DNS in Network Solutions from Rackspace to Winhost **Questions:**   1. Will this work?   2. What am I missing?   3. Should I expect down time or any issues with email?   4. I understand that there will be a period of time that traffic to the site is handled at both Rackspace and Winhost and that email traffic will be routed through both hosts as well. Will this cause issues?    5. How will I know when the change is fully propagated and that Rackspace is out of the equation and WinHost is handling everything (so I can kill the Rackspace account) Thanks in advance!


title: Is it time to drop Courier from your monospace font stacks?

text: I've been fine-tuning my font stacks lately and was wondering if it's safe to drop Courier from my monospace font stack yet? Would _you_ feel comfortable dropping it? Of course, `monospace` is my final fallback. **Note 1:** OS Testbed: WinXP, WinVista, Win7, iPhone, iPad Based on my research, these browsers now substitute Courier New for Courier by default:   * IE9+   * Chrome 2+   * Firefox 10+   * Safari 3.1+   * iDevices **Note 2:** The default `"font-family: monospace;"` renders as Courier New in every browser I've tested, from IE6 through the latest iPhone/iPad devices. EDIT: One exception is Opera 12, which renders Consolas on Win. Opera 10 renders Courier New. **Note 3:** I've noticed that Courier refuses to render with any font smoothing (anti- aliasing) in any browser I've tested, regardless of system and/or browser display settings. Probably because it's an old bitmap font. This could be because of my system setup, however.


title: Can DNS point to specific port?

text: I got virtual machine on some server and my URL is something like this. > 111.11.11.111:8002 Can I get DNS who will point to specific port ? One more thing. If I cant do that, can my virtual machine on server be sub- domain of that server DNS ?


title: Is it possible to restore a deleted Google Analytics site?

text: We had an "accident" where someone deleted a Google Analytics site from the dashboard. Is there a way to restore it?


title: Duplicate content in Top Level Domain and country specific website

text: I have _myproduct.com_ which is my master product page. For UK I also own _myproduct.co.uk_ which is a copy of _myproduct.com_ with some localized content: landing page, promotions, prices, and specific tags. But there is also duplicate content: **myproduct.com/FAQs/** is the same as **myproduct.co.uk/FAQs/** I don't want to do a redirect from _myproduct.co.uk/FAQs/_ to _myproduct.com/FAQs/_ as I don't want people to leave the localized website. The _myproduct.com/FAQs/_ is my "go-to" FAQ page and it's the most likely to be up to date - so I want this page to be indexed my search engines, where as I don't care about _myproduct.co.uk/FAQs/_ being indexed (unless indexing this page would increase my page rank :) ). What to do now to be SEO friendly & SEO optimal?   1. Stop indexing of _myproduct.co.uk/FAQs/_ via **robots.txt**?   2. Do some **rel="alternate" hreflang="x"** configuring on both /FAQs/ page?   3. **Something else?**


title: How to specify expiration of cacheable resources?

text: I'm trying to speed up a wordpress site -- this site: http://richardclunan.net I'm following the observations here: http://gtmetrix.com/reports/richardclunan.net/9ps7Zc0j The first item says: "The following cacheable resources have a short freshness lifetime. Specify an expiration at least one week in the future for the following resources:" How do I specify expirations for those things? (I'm not very technically-minded, and likely won't know relevant terminology -- really appreciate baby-steps explanation if possible :)


title: How to share post to G+ Twitter and Facebook

text: I have fb profile connected to twitter and when I write to twitter it will be shared to fb profile I have G+Twitter plugin which will post to twitter since I post to G+ but it doesn't share the post to fb. is there some way to merge those 3 services somehow? I heard about some weird way of making it using sms and phone number but I'm looking for method without sms.


title: Newsletter for my website

text: I have been recently looking at some websites and they have a mailing list newsletter. If I click unsubscribe it goes straight to their server and you can unsubscribe from their server.   * What tools do they use to manage this? I was thinking of something like Constant Contact, but with Constant Contact you have to go to their page to unsubscribe from their mailing list.    * If big websites use their own servers to send out these mailing list newsletters, wouldn't they need some 3rd party software to handle so many emails?   * What is the best way for creating something like this that's on my own website? (aka they can go into their account and disable newsletters and it will automatically not send them emails, but it takes place ON their website)


title: Google Nofollow, Disavow and Link Removal Requests

text: I am the owner of a reviews website and I am constantly getting requests from people asking me to remove links to their sites or they will disavow the links and they threaten me with Google penalties. All of this is a bit frustrating because I already use `nofollow` on any link outside my site's domain. Second, I've never heard of Google penalizing a site for linking to other websites. My question is twofold:   1. Do disavowed links penalize the site that was disavowed?   2. Does the `nofollow` attribute on tags absolutely guarantee that the link is not followed and not counted for search engine ranking? Why don't more people know about `nofollow`?


title: How to syndicate partial-page content and maintain SEO?

text:
How do we share our partial HTML content without losing our SEO? Since we're not sharing full HTML, we can't place "rel:canonical" in the header. I've thought it'd be interesting to enclose our content in an article tag with a cite attribute to the original source. Would Google respect that for SEO purposes?
     This is syndicated content...


title: Subdomain "redirect" to IP address of external local server

text: I've set up a local server running XAMPP. Localhost is working for the server, and I've forwarded port `80` on our router to allow for incoming connections. This also works. So I can now access my hosted webpage through the IP adress of our external IP. We already have a domain hosted, and cPanel installed on another server that the domain is managed by (this is not our server, it's a paid hosting solution). How do I set up cPanel so that I can "redirect" subdomain `folio.site.com` to the locally hosted website? Simply creating a subdomain and a forwarder will forward the user to the correct place, but then the URL changes to the IP adress, which does not look pretty. I simply want the URL to stay at `folio.site.com` while in the root there, and if you navigate to another page there (for example `/projects.php`) then the URL would read this: `folio.site.com/projects.php` I guess this is what `A` records or `CNAME` records do? But I cant get it to work. Or I don't really understand it =) Thanks for any help! =D


title: How does home web server work?

text: I'm trying to understand how home web servers work? Don't you need an IP to access it over the internet? Do you need to buy an IP before you can access your web server from anywhere? Or could someone please give a resource that explains why you don't need an IP?


title: How to register a domain for someone else?

text: I want to buy a domain name as a present for a non-technical friend. I therefore want to pay the initial setup cost, but have the account management, and repeat billing under their control. What is the easiest way to do this?


title: Does CSS formatting of <h1>, <h2> tags have effect on search ranking?

text: I have a web page where I made some style into `<h1>`, `<h2>` tags, will it make some effect on my SEO ranking?


title: How to use Google Analytics to track a development and production versions of the same site on different servers?

text: I have a website with two versions, one for production and one for development (testing new features). All of the code is under version control and the websites are on separate servers. Currently, I have the same Google Analytics Tracking code used on both sites. Since the code is under version control, it would be ideal to either have an `if I am on production, use this code; else if on development server use that code` clause. But I suspect that Google makes it easier to do something like this. I see that there are many ways to configure a GA tracking code, e.g. "a single domain" vs. "multiple top level domains". But it is not clear to me how to set this up. Also, if tracking code configured for a single domain has been on the development server, have I been picking up traffic to both sites, or does GA just ignore the second domain that I haven't registered?


title: Does Lucida Sans Unicode font in Windows 7 have a bold style?

text: I am trying to set an alternative to Mac Lucida Grande font with Lucida Sans Unicode for Windows users and found out that I see no bold style of it in my Windows 7. Is that common for all Windows 7? How about Windows XP?


title: Three word domain name

text: I need to buy a new 3 word domain name. Which domain name is more worth or more preferred by users? > my-example-domain.com or > myexampledomain.com Thanks Tom


title: Email Forwarding Server

text: We have a ton of websites on multiple different webhosts. The way we have our email setup is we forward all of our email to gmail accounts (e.g. name@domain.com > whatever@gmail.com) The problem is most of our webhosts now send a lot of legitimate email to Gmail's spam. We're looking for a service that will only manage the emails (we don't want to switch webhosts as the actual hosting of the website is fine). So we only want the emails to be managed, and all legitimate emails to be sent our way forwarded to our gmail accounts. Any recommendations out there?


title: Apache rewrite rule for all pages after domain name

text: I asked this question on stackoverflow.com: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8466321/apache-rewrite-rule-for-all-pages- after-domain-name Sorry for redirecting, but I wasn't aware of webmasters.stackoverflow and wasn't sure if I should repost it here or just link to it to prevent duplication. **UPDATE** Here's what I have so far:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(.+)$     RewriteRule /(.*) http://archived.example.com/$1      This is redirecting _everything_ , including example.com alone. I only want the redirect to happen if there is _something_ (anything) after the ".com" (i.e. "/whatever"). I have a static HTML page that is now at example.com, but I want my old DB-backed site to go to archived.example.com. Anymore ideas?


title: Google Webmaster Tools - Why site performance graph goes up and down, even if the site has never changed?

text: This is my site **7 months graph** from Google Webmaster Tools site performance util. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WVTIu.png) As you can see the graph goes up and down, with **big differences: less than 1 second up to 5 sec**. Since I never changed anything (not an image, nor a script, nothing of nothing) during all those months do you think this could be caused by poor hosting, basically an overloaded server? **Are you experiencing the same up/down graph for some/all of your sites on Google Webmaster Tools?** BTW : ths site was also optimized with YSLOW, but optimized or not, shouldn't the graph be still more stright? EDIT: in Google Official Blog they show a pretty stright graph, but maybe it's just for graphic purpose.


title: DNS question and Google PageRank from domains

text: I'm not so good at DNS at all but I do know some basics. A while ago i have noticed, that my blog have different Page Ranks, PR 3 for domain `www.example.com` and PR 1 for domain `example.com`. In dns records i have this setup:               A - IP - `www.example.com`     A - same IP - `example.com`      Should i replace this record "A - same IP - `example.com`" with row with CNAME instead of A? Like that:               CNAME - same IP - `example.com` - alias `www.example.com`      Will this combine Page Rank value of both domains? Or i can just create 302 redirection inside .htaccess file, verify example.com(without www) inside Google Webmaster Tools as my domain and inside `www.example.com` options set as main domain? Thanks ;)


title: Do tabs, spaces, and line-breaks in HTML markup affect search engine optimization?

text:
I am looking for information regarding tabs, spaces, and line-breaks in HTML/XHTML markup and whether it affects SEO. I have found sources which state that extra white space hurts search engine optimization. Example:

             Text for a paragraph

             More text for another paragraph

      Should be written like this for SEO:

Text for a paragraph

More text for another paragraph

      The second version of the code is much harder to maintain so I would far prefer to write code like the first example, but SEO concerns are the top priority. Does white space negatively affect a site's search engine rankings? Also, if you have any sources for your answer, please post them or explain your reasoning if you are the source.


title: Providing a SERVICE versus a PRODUCT ?? client wants to know from designer

text: A client recently asked me this, looking at our portfolios:   `Does your company provide a service or a product?` Me, as a designer who does not like to put things in boxes, then close them, and them label them either one of two words, i put my eyebrows as high as ai can and said:   `that depends on the project!` Some tiny clients are happy-pappy with a predefined-package product and do not want to jump into an expensive, feedback-cloudy long term service contract. They just want a quick simple product about which the price and specs are known. While our biggers clients prefer, of course, the slower project pepperd with weekly brainstorms and meetings. So i think, please correct/add(your comment will be added here) that the difference are with respect tot design:                                        'PRODUCT'               'SERVICE'     properties beforehand?    predefined packages     unknown, needs custom quote     properties afterwards?    according to specs      according to custom inquiry     pricing?                  known beforehand        has to be calculated     bottomlone price?         cheap                   expensive     quality of product?       can be very good!       can be very good!     collaboration?            minimal                 according to need     feedbacks                 email/phone             email/phone/face-to-face      Now i would like the professional design community / design company owners to speak freely here in this regard: **1.** _Do we (involved experienced driven designers) provide a SERVICE or a PRODUCT?_   **2.** _What are the differences according to YOUR client? (i will append them above)_   **3.** _Do we HAVE to choose one or other? this client said, he wanted transparency._


title: web service url for file uploading

text: does any one know any sample web service URL for file upload?some thing like this http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx?WSDL except that the method should be a file upload method. thanx:)


title: Analytics data from google.com?

text: While browsing around for browser statistics today I figured that it would be nice to see a dataset from www.google.com, it ought to be somewhat well balanced and should provide a pretty decent "general" cut of the netizen population. However, googling (oh, the irony) for a while I couldn't find any such public datasets available. Is any data like this (from Google specifically) available, either for free or subscription?


title: How do I block a Google AdSense advertiser's ads from appearing on my site?

text: I'm trying to block particular ads in Google Adsense that don't fit my site. There are some really annoying ads from www.plus500.com but I can't seem to get rid of all ads from them. How can I find out what the exact url of the ad is so that I can block it? I installed firebug but am unable to easily find urls with it.


title: Unable to download microsoft excel files from a IIS SSL site

text: The web master at my corporation added SSL to the web site and now none of my users can download Microsoft word and xcel files the sites generates. According to Microsoft the following must be down. Web sites that want to allow this type of operation should remove the no-cache header or headers. Typical of MS they don't tell you what to do, how to do it, or what the best practice is. The web master says its a web config setting. But all i can finds is               <configuration>         <appSettings/>         <connectionStrings/>         <system.web>         <httpRuntime sendCacheControlHeader="false"/>      and I don't know if this is the best way to achieve the result. I would greatly appreciate some advice on this subject.


title: Configuring an Apache server to run Python

text: I currently have a website set up on an Apache server running on Redhat Linux, and am trying to configure it to be able to run Python scripts. Essentially, I want to allow Python to be executable, so that doing something like `www.mysite.com/pyscript.py` will run the script rather than display its contents. I really don't have any Apache experiance, and haven't been able to find any good tutorials on how to figure this out, how do I do this?


title: Specifying image dimensions to improve browser performance

text: I recently ran an audit on my web site using Google Developer Tools. My images are all the same size (500 horizontal by 300 vertical pixels) so I thought it would be better if I left out the image size attributes as there would be no need to calculate an image size when it already is the correct size. Under Networking Utilization, Specify Image Dimensions I see the following               A width and height should be specified for all images in order to speed up      page display. The following image(s) are missing a width and/or height:      Now, I'm confused. Should I really add width and height attributes to my images, even though they are already the right size? It seems redundant.


title: Does it matter where a server's physical location is?

text: I am located in the UK, and most of my clients are also in the UK. However. I find some of the products available in the US to be easier to use. I won’t name specific companies, but the price and features attract me the most. Does it matter if the websites are located in the USA? I understand that when pinging my existing sites, there are around 7-8 more hops involved. All my sites use CMS’s, so they aren’t as fast as static sites (even with caching turned on). Would hosting the site abroad and using a CDN make any difference?


title: Found Odd File on Site: Should I Be Concerned?

text: I found a php file that was uploaded to our web server that had sneaked past our form validation. I did some searching and there was very little information regarding this file, however the small amount I found definitely made it seem malicious. Here is the content of the file: http://pastebin.com/zfbHMe9M What was this file trying to accomplish? Is there anything I should check or be concerned about? I have removed the file from my site.


title: How search engines interpret domains in different countries?

text: I have a domain .com but the site is in portuguese. How this can affect my reputation with search engines?


title: Why can't I download an image from this website?

text: I tried downloading the blue image in myheritage.com by right clicking. But somehow I always get the picture with parachute no matter where I right click in the blue area. I downloaded the complete page in firefox and then opened images the blue background was missing. How did they manage to do that? Would like to know the method. PS: I went through FAQ of webmasters.SE, nothing was said regarding the explicit mentioning of a third party domain name in the question so I am going ahead and posting it. Edit: How is the image above 955M profiles is also not available to download when we right click?


title: How can set a local host ip address to forward to local host virtual host domain name

text: I want to forward different domain names to single IP Address (local for testing), but how can i recognize in pc that which domain name should be linked to which folder? For example in my windows host file I have added the following entries:               127.0.0.1       abc.com     127.0.0.1       test.abc.com     127.0.0.1       test1.abc.com


title: AddThis Counts vs Facebook Counts

text: Recently I changed Facebook Like buttons on several of my sites for AddThis counting buttons which include the Facebook count (or so I assume that is what the number in the box next to 'f like' is). From a code point-of-view this is simpler and gives also counts and sharing buttons for other services. **However, the counts were mostly reset to 0 or at least to a much lower number than before.** **Why the discrepancy? What could the two things be counting differently?**


title: What happens if I turn off registrar lock for my domain?

text: Does that mean anyone can steal it and I will have to kiss my domain name goodbye?


title: Will search engines still see the meta description of my site if I use a php variable for it?

text: I am following the procedure described on this page for including a common header on every page of a website, which uses PHP. After describing how to include one page in another using PHP, the author then describes how to deal with information that might vary from page to page. I have included an image of the relevant section below: > ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0Un0k.png) My question is, if I set up my website this way, will Google (or other search engines) see the meta description of the page `index.php` as `<?php echo $page_description: ?>`, as `Description of this page`, or just not see it at all?


title: Does google use chrome to check if a link is used by humans or just there for the bots?

text: Does clicking a link in chrome tell google the link is used by humans and therefore not just automated backlink spam? It sounds weird but I read it today on a slightly obscure seo blog, they mentioned clicking the backlinks they make in a version of chrome where they have the "send data anonymously to google" feature turned on. It sounded a bit far-fetched but then I thought it could have a truth to it as with google now looking harder at "spammy" links it would mean at least some humans are using them. Has any one else heard anything else about this?


title: Multi-Domain SSL and redirections

text: I have one server with the main domain being: `WebSiteA.com`. I've got 2 others domains on the same server: `WebSiteB.com` and `WebsiteC.com`. I want to have one website architecture with 3 different sections, with 3 differents domains. So, when someone visits `WebsiteA.com/mycategory` I want them to see `WebSiteB.com` on this page and all the others in this category. **So this :** >   * WebsiteA.com/mycategory/page1 >   * WebsiteA.com/mycategory/page2 >   * WebsiteA.com/mycategory/section/page3 > **Becomes this :** >   * WebsiteB.com/page1 >   * WebsiteB.com/page2 >   * WebsiteB.com/section/page3 > **Problem 1:** I first tried to change the DNS in the `WebsiteB.com` domain to point to `WebsiteA.com`. It works, but for the entire site. (I suppose I should use alias instead to limit to one section?) **Problem 2** : I have an SSL setup on `WebsiteA.com`, but when I'm trying to reach the page with `WebsiteB.com`, I receive an error. So I suppose I should use a Multi-Domain (UCC) SSL certificate?


title: Ecommerce product information missing with Google Universal Analytics

text: I recently upgraded to (Google) Universal Analytics but since the upgrade no product information is appearing in my Conversions reports. But, transactions do appear as do all of the other usual Analytics data. It appears that the 'ecommerce:addTransaction' is working fine but the 'ecommerce:addItem' is having problems. Here is the js that gets written out on the page:               <script>       (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){       (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),       m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)       })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');            ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXX-X', 'XXXXXXXXXXX.com');       ga('send', 'pageview');          </script>     <!-- Analytics Conversions Tracking -->     <script>     ga('require', 'ecommerce', 'ecommerce.js');          ga('ecommerce:addTransaction', {       'id': 'WEB7014997',                     // Transaction ID. Required       'affiliation': 'NA',   // Affiliation or store name       'revenue': '0.120000',               // Grand Total       'shipping': '0.000000',                  // Shipping       'tax': '0.020000'                     // Tax     });          ga('ecommerce:addItem', {       'id': 'WEB7014997',                     // Transaction ID. Required       'name': 'Test Product | Fresh Air',                // Product name. Required       'sku': '9999999-99',                    // SKU/code       'category': 'RT',       // Category or variation       'price': '0.050000',                 // Unit price       'quantity': '2.000000'                   // Quantity     });          ga('ecommerce:send');      // Send transaction and item data to Google Analytics.          </script>      In the above I have split the script tags so that the top part can appear on every page and then the bottom part just appears on the order confirmation page. I have tried combining into a single script tag but this didn't solve the problem. Could the hyphen in the SKU or the number of decimal places in PRICE or QUANTITY be causing a problem? Or is there just a typo that I can't see? Any help appreciated! John


title: Is it good to have a separate search results page for a website?

text: In terms of SEO and maintainability. My website is based on WordPress, it's currently using WordPress search and it's using the same URL as the home page to return search results i.e. say my website is at `domain.com` then the search results are at `domain.com/?<parameters>`


title: Structured data: Is it okay to have more than one image, description and SKU per page?

text:
In a few pages in a website, similar products are displayed in the same page. Each item has its own description (almost identical) and its own SKU (also almost identical). How can I use microdata correctly here? I have tried, for testing purposes, to add the code for image, description and SKU for all 3 items in one page, and I have tested the page in Google's Structured Data Testing Tool. Google read the data and displayed the URL for all 3 images, all 3 descriptions, and all 3 SKUs. Is this the correct approach, or is this wrong? Not sure if it makes a difference, but at the moment, this is not an e-commerce site.
     Test name 1          Description test 1     #001

     Test name 2          Description test 2     #002

     Test name 3          Description test 3     #003


I am trying to add a valid sitemap to Google Webmaster. Yet, it says: > Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachableWe were unable to crawl your > Sitemap because we found a robots.txt file at the root of your site but were > unable to download it. Please ensure that it is accessible or remove it > completely. and > Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachableWe were unable to crawl your > Sitemap because we found a robots.txt file at the root of your site but were > unable to download it. Please ensure that it is accessible or remove it > completely. Yet, I can access both my robots.txt and sitemap.xml. I have reading other posts here and there, but could not solve/understand what is causing this issue. Anyone knows?


title: Tomcat WebDAV root directory

text: Is it possible to configure WebDAV in such a way that it serves content outside the root directory? I basically want to serve content via WebDAV from an absolute path `C:\Content`. (A third party application will drop files in that directory.) I'm running Tomcat 7.0.


title: What does Analytics '% of Total' mean?

text: I feel this may be a stupid question but I don't understand this: Under total visits I have around 6,000 which is "% of total 75.58% (8,000)". What does this mean and why doesn't it just list 100%?


title: Question about paginated based URLs and category URLs with XML sitemaps

text: I have a blog site that has this URL structure:               http://website.com/category/     http://website.com/category/page1/     http://website.com/category/subcat/     http://website.com/category/article_title      ### A flow could be like this: Visit the website > Get to a category > Filter by sub category > Click on article The category URL's show 12 of the newest posts, then there are paginated until they display the rest. The sub categories do the same thing. **My question is:** Should I include the category, paginated, and sub category links? Or is the article title good enough for the sitemap? *EDIT: Since /category/ and /category/subcat/ are the same content, I use a canonical URL on the subcat URL to point to its parent.


title: In WordPress, should I "Allow search engines to index this site" during development?

text: I am going to create a web page, and I will do it online. Should I choose the option: "Allow search engines to index this site." during development, or should this be opened after development ends?


title: eCommerce checkout security

text: I'm developing an eCommerce site and using SagePay as a card processor. Customers will enter their delivery/invoice details into a form which is then submitted to a checkout page. This page encrypts the data and sends it over to SagePay to process the payment. No credit card details are entered or stored on my site, this is all handled by SagePay. The address details only are stored in my database. My question is what sort of security do I need to implement ? As I see it, my options are:   * Use an SSL to provide a secure site   * Encrypt the address details before insertion into the database (I'm intending to do this anyway)   * Do nothing For reference, the site is written in Coldfusion.


title: If my page titles are dynamically created with PHP will Google be able to read them?

text: My page titles are dynamically created with PHP: I set my page title in my PHP functions, and when the function is triggered the title is set. Is Google able to read the page titles?


title: How to reliably determine server stack of a site (eg .Net vs Open Source)

text: I've been trying to figure out how to determine the use of the .Net stack compared to Open Source OS's. I have read that Netcraft.com is one place to find out. But when I put in one of my own sites (which is .Net), it comes up as unknown, and when I put in StackOverflow.com, it comes up as a Linux OS and "unknown" server. I thought SO was .Net MVC (has that changed)? Given that Netcraft came up with wrong/incomplete answers in these instances, do you think their statistics overall are still reliable? http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://stackoverflow.com


title: How can I remove the security/malicious user warning from my website?

text: I have a domain name tradespring.net, and www.tradespring.net that redirect to my Heroku app with a CNAME record. However when I first try to access these sites it gives me a malicious warning. > This is probably not the site you are looking for! blah blah blah then > "proceed anyways" or "back to safety" Its because my browser realizes that it is redirecting. How can I make sure anyone's browser (not just my browser) trusts this site and my Heroku app? I don't think i need an SSL certificate because this site is not sending sensitive info (credit card info, etc.).


title: Do we need to block repeated pages content for SEO relevance

text: I have multiple purchase pages with the same content like:               product1red.php     product2green.php      Should I block them with robots.txt ?


title: I suspect our agency artificially increased traffic

text: I had a first suspicion when I compared our previous CPC campaign, managed in house with the one who was done by agency. In previous campaign there was no traffic increase from organic traffic, while in the campaign managed by agency there was a large and correlated increase of traffic from both - CPC and organic traffic. Look at the image. I have looked into various things in Analytics, but the strangest thing was appearance of CPC searches with plus sign, like +very +best +product. Now I doubt that there are lots of people doing search like that. Also, here was significant increase of average duration and pages per visit. We did some other marketing activities at that moment, but it looks like a very unlikely coincidence. Please advice how can we bust them, because my boss is about to sign up a contract to do SEO with them...


title: What analytics software to use for small Apache served website with banners not from Google

text: I'm planning to run a small website using Apache (and other) server(s). The website supports configuring different banners for different pages dynamically. The banners are not from Google but "manually chosen". I don't expect too much traffic but still some, say 1.000 page views a day. I'd like to have statistics for the different banners (which one was klicked how often per page view etc.) and general stastics about users and sessions. So far I only know about Google Analytics and AWStats. I already asked another question if Google Analytics supports statistics for other ad networks and obviously it does but only when using some workarounds. Which analytics software (inlcuding but not limited to Google Analytics and AWStats) would you recommend for my purpose? Ideally, it should be free and easy to use.


title: When using email as login name, what precautions should I take for registration?

text: When your registration form is using a user ID that is the same as their email address, I'm somewhat concerned over spammers using the "User name is in use" as a means to validate the existence of an email, or if there are other concerns I need to know of for validation sake (for instance, converting CaMeLcAsE to lowercase seems to be the status-quo despite the RFC spec). This question is not about OpenID.


title: Track sales and commission with third-party tool

text: I have a clothing website where I link to various clothing retailers. I have reached an agreement with one of the retailers whereby they will pay a commission to us for every sale they make from traffic that was referred by our site. I need a mechanism for tracking how much commission should be paid to us, that involves as little work as possible to implement from their side. We both have Google Analytics. **Option 1:** They record a goal in their GA account whenever someone makes a purchase on their site. They see how many completed goals are marked as referral traffic from our site and calculate commission accordingly. The problem with this is that the whole process of calculating and paying commission will be manual. They will need to frequently check how many sales were generated by referral traffic from our site, and probably we will have to chase them for commission payments. Also - since we won't have access to their GA data - we will need to trust that they report all sales accurately. **Option 2:** Sign them up to an affiliate network like Commission Junction or Google's Affiliate Network, and connect to them through this network. The problem with this solution is that it seems too heavyweight; ideally we don't want to ask a retailer to go through the whole sign up process just to deal with us and pay us commission. I am assuming that there must be some lightweight service that tracks the number of sales by one site and pays commission accordingly to the other site, where the sign up and installation procedure is simple and fast.


title: Need a good, free, light help desk package

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Helpdesk software I'm launching a new web site that needs a basic help-desk system-- something that will track ticket emails, keep a log, have some basic statistics and possibly power a knowledgebase/FAQ section on my site. My ideal solution would be hosted (I'd rather not lose a day having to fuss around with installing software on the server), MODERN and CLEAN (read: not feel like it was designed or developed in 1997, which is what I keep coming across) and easy. Simple. Clean. Current. (You know, like the stuff 37signals puts out, or Fog Creek's CoPilot.) Because we're talking about no more than 10 tickets a week right now, it seems reasonable that I should be able to have the features for free now, to determine if it's right for me. Of course, I'm totally fine with a package that I will pay to grow into, as my needs expand. If I have to install on my server, it should be Linux based (CentOS). Zen Desk seems to nail it in the features department but feels like overkill for my (currently, very small) needs.


title: Which mobile device is appropriate as a utility tool for a web master?

text: Basically, I'm looking for a device to use on the road and I would prefer to not have to sit down for the majority of the tasks (which rules out netbooks, in my mind). I'm also hoping to spend less than $500. This is what I'd like to "capably" be able to do on the device:   * Browse the web in non-mobile format, flash is a plus   * Email, chat, etc   * Have access to a decent text editor and ftp OR a browser that supports BESPIN/ACE   * Some sort of SSH support I'm looking at rooted Android phones and iPhone/iPads... though the phone aspect is only icing (it would be cool to consolidate the two devices and have net access through cell networks, but I'm not married to the idea). Are there cheap linux tablets that are ready for prime-time yet? I suppose that would be ideal. All suggestions welcome!


title: Google Fetch issue

text: When I do a Google fetch on any of my webpages the results are all the same (below). I'm not a programmer but I'm pretty sure this is not correct. Out of all the fetches I have done only one was different and the content length was 6x below and showed meta tags etc. Maybe this explains other issues I've been having with the site: a drop in indexed pages. Meta tag analyzer says I have no title tag, meta tags or description even though I do it on all pages. I had an SEO team working on the site and they were stumped by why pages were not getting indexed. So they figure it was some type of code error. Are they right?               HTTP/1.1 200 OK     Cache-Control: private     Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8     Content-Encoding: gzip     Vary: Accept-Encoding     Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5     X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319     X-Powered-By: ASP.NET     Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:45:41 GMT     Content-Length: 1054          <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">     <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">     <head>         <title></title>         <script type="text/javascript">                  function getCookie(cookieName) {                 if (document.cookie.length > 0) {                     cookieStart = document.cookie.indexOf(cookieName + "=");                     if (cookieStart != -1) {                         cookieStart = cookieStart + cookieName.length + 1;                         cookieEnd = document.cookie.indexOf(";", cookieStart);                         if (cookieEnd == -1)                             cookieEnd = document.cookie.length;                         return unescape(document.cookie.substring(cookieStart, cookieEnd));                     }                 }                 return "";             }                  function setTimezone() {                 var rightNow = new Date();                 var jan1 = new Date(rightNow.getFullYear(), 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);  // jan 1st                 var june1 = new Date(rightNow.getFullYear(), 6, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0); // june 1st                 var temp = jan1.toGMTString();                 var jan2 = new Date(temp.substring(0, temp.lastIndexOf(" ") - 1));                 temp = june1.toGMTString();                 var june2 = new Date(temp.substring(0, temp.lastIndexOf(" ") - 1));                 var std_time_offset = (jan1 - jan2) / (1000 * 60 * 60);                 var daylight_time_offset = (june1 - june2) / (1000 * 60 * 60);                 var dst;                 if (std_time_offset == daylight_time_offset) {                     dst = "0"; // daylight savings time is NOT observed                 } else {                     // positive is southern, negative is northern hemisphere                     var hemisphere = std_time_offset - daylight_time_offset;                     if (hemisphere >= 0)                         std_time_offset = daylight_time_offset;                     dst = "1"; // daylight savings time is observed                 }                      var exdate = new Date();                 var expiredays = 1;                 exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate() + expiredays);                 document.cookie = "TimeZoneOffset=" + std_time_offset + ";";                 document.cookie = "Dst=" + dst + ";expires=" + exdate.toUTCString();             }                  function checkCookie() {                 var timeOffset = getCookie("TimeZoneOffset");                 var dst = getCookie("Dst");                      if (!timeOffset || !dst) {                     setTimezone();                     window.location.reload();                 }             }              </script>     </head>     <body onload="checkCookie()">     </body>     </html>


title: How do I buy this domain name?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I buy a domain that has already been registered? How can I buy the domain name `www.autospell.com`. It seems to have a weird status with no website, but also it is not available to buy.


title: Getting a domain name owned by someone else?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Buy a registered domain? I'm in the process of creating this website, but the name I wanted for the hosting seems to be taken. Namejet seems to be auctioning it, but it seems a bit too fishy for my taste. I go to the link and there's nothing there, just ads. Can anyone recommend what the best way to get a domain owned by someone else is? My only alternative seems to be making an extremely long one nobody will remember! Sorry for the extremely noob question, but hey, need to start somewhere.


title: How to I register a domain name that has been registered?

text: I am writing to ask about a domain name I wish to own. I have contacted the domain owner (by performing a WhoIS search) by email and have not received a reply. I have tried contacting him for over a year. I have also contacted the domain registrar (`namecheap.com`) where the domain is registered, and they have told me that they cannot contact him on my behalf, and told me to contact him using the email address. Are there any ways of securing this domain name for myself? I have waited for it to expire but unfortunately, it automatically renewed!


title: FTP client says directory permissions are 0000

text: I encountered a problem that appears to be related to permissions (same as this one). When I looked at the permissions of various directories in FireFTP, they all were 0000, which is obviously nonsense, since all the other pages are served without any problems. I only have ftp access, and I think it’s a Windows server (The header says "Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5"). I’ve tried a different ftp client, with the same result. Changing the permissions results in a "'SITE CHMOD 764 [directory]': command not understood" error. A search on Google and SO for "permissions windows 0000" and similar queries didn’t turn up anything. How can I view and change the actual permissions?


title: Problems Using CloudFlare On Blogger

text: Here's the situation. I got a TLD for my blogger blog and set it up using the instructions from blogger. Blogger asks to:               Add two CNAME records. For the first CNAME, where it says Name, Label or Host enter "www" and where it says Destination, Target orPoints To enter "ghs.google.com" . For the second CNAME, enter "NHRILA4K2RJG" as the Name and      "gv-GQMUMYGHAMJWECXFLJXVXABIV23C55JIPNIAVD5IGFSXT653O5GA.domainverify.googlehosted.com."      I did that on my domain host, and everything was working smoothly. Here's the things that happened:   * Typing myblog.blogspot.com in the address bar brought me to my new address www.mynewaddress.tld    * Typing my newaddress.tld brings me to www.mynewaddress.tld Now, I went through the instruction to setup CloudFlare and did everything as required. I saw that CloudFlare is active and working on my TLD www.mynewaddress.tld, however, when I am typing the blogspot address, i.e. myblog.blogspot.com, it's showing a notice that the blog is not hosted on blogger and that I should click "yes" to get redirected to the new website. However, the blog is still on blogger. I think the problem might be with this particular CNAME record Google asks to create, which I did not find imported to the CloudFlare nameservers:               For the second CNAME, enter "NHRILA4K2RJG" as the Name and      "gv-GQMUMYGHAMJWECXFLJXVXABIV23C55JIPNIAVD5IGFSXT653O5GA.domainverify.googlehosted.com."      So I create that CNAME and added it to the CloudFlare panel. My question is - is that what will help Google determine that my blog is still hosted on Blogger? If so, should I turn off CloudFlare for that particular CNAME record or turn it on? Any help is very much appreciated :)


title: CloudFlare - Difference between Basic, Simplified, and Aggressive caching

text: CloudFlare has this page to explain the difference between their caching settings: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168256. However, I'm still confused. It says:               Basic:          example.com/pic.jpg      Simplified:     example.com/pic.jpg?ignore=this-query-string      Aggressive:     example.com/pic.jpg?with=query       So I'm assuming that Basic means it doesn't pay any attention to the query string (it's treated as a single file no matter what query string is included). Simplified seems to say any query string will be ignored. And Aggressive seems to say the query string basically means it's a different file. So, my question is, what's the difference between Basic and Simplified? If Basic ignores any query string, and Simplified also ignores any query string, aren't these the same?


title: Do you know a good html mailing list management software with admin levels?

text: I'm basically looking for a program/app/script (can be commercial) which I can ideally install on a windows server (we can run asp, asp.net php mssql) we have different groups of people who send newsletters to web members, I want to bring it all into one app which I can monitor and control. Ideally it would be able to create html newsletters, (with some templates) track emails and click throughs. Manage email lists subscribe/unsubscribes. And importantly have different levels of admin, so a newsletter creator could log in and create and send off an email, it goes into a queue where a communications editor can have an overview of all newsletters and approve the sending of the emails or edit them before they are sent off. before I start coding something up myself I thought I'd ask if anyone has any advice! Cheers!


title: Looking for full web based booking system

text: I've searched around here but could not find any booking system that would suit my need. I hope maybe you can help me out. I've already seen question #11379. Solutions provided there are not helping and scripts not interesting. I'm looking for a booking system that support infinite number of hotels/rooms/pricingschemes. There should be unlimited number of hotel owner/users, who can access control panel and set availability for their hotel. Or create seasonal prices and adjust them. I should be able to have 15% booking fee paid through credit cart. I can work on integration with my system, it just needs to have correct APi/functionality to support this. I love wordpress so if there are some nice plugins for that, I'm open for suggestions. But this is not a must. It should be php/mysql based as I'm not good at anything else :)


title: Responsibility in case of copyright infringing user-submitted content

text: Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but it seemed like one of the better options. Example here. Say, I have an online library where users can submit e-books and PDFs they created. All fine and dandy, until someone comes around and starts uploading books that are not their own. Sure, we have a moderation team in place that regularly checks new additions, but some may slip past the radar, especially when dealing with fairly unknown authors. The author of the (illegally) uploaded books finds the site, browses it for a bit, and to his shock finds that his books are available there for free. Copyright infringement! They sue me for hosting the library website, and I get in deep trouble because some user did something he wasn't allowed to. How can I avoid getting in trouble over this? Will I be safe is I state in the Terms of Use that it is not allowed to upload copyright infringing material, and that all users are responsible for what they upload? Or does the "web admin is responsible for his sites and their content" clause negate all others? Thanks! UPDATE: Also asked a lawyer online. They gave an answer pretty close to what the people on here said. See this link.


title: How can I create a individual "Projects" page in Jekyll?

text: On my Jekyll powered website, I have a page where I list every project (inventions, experiments, etc) that I have ever worked on. Currently, each project listed exists only as a link to a relevant blog post. My question is, how do I create individual pages for each project so that it each resides in its own subdirectory like so: example.com/projects/project1 example.com/projects/project2


title: Will running an Azure website on a subdomain of azurewebsites.net hurt SEO compared to buying a domain?

text: When hosting a website on azure websites I have two options:   1. Be a cheapskate and go for the free option without a domain. I would then setup web forwarding with my domain registrar from my domain to the `domain.azurewebsites.net` address   2. Go for the paid option the and setup a CNAME and A record so that traffic to my domain (with or without the `www` prefix) is routed directly to the site Could anyone please advise what impact going for option 1 will have on Google/Bing ranking performance compared with option 2?


title: Customized 404 page on yahoo webhosting

text: I want to add my customized 404 error page. On Apache server an entry made in .htaccess file does this task.I have my website on yahoo web hosting. Yahoo does not support .htaccess file. Can anyone please guide how this can be achieved on yahoo web hosting.


title: How can I identify unknown query string fragments that are coming to my site?

text: In the Google Analytics content overview for a site that I work on, the home page is getting many pageviews with some unfamiliar query string fragments, example:               /?jkId=1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef&jt=1&jadid=1234567890&js=1&jk=key words&jsid=12345&jmt=1      (potentially identifiable IDs have been changed) It clearly looks like some kind of ad tracking info, but noone who works on the site knows where it comes from, and I haven't been able to find any useful information from searching. Is there some listing of common query string keys available anywhere? Alternatively, does anyone happen to know where these keys (`jkId`, `jt`, `jadid`, `js`, `jk`, `jsid` and `jmt`) might come from?


title: What dodgy scams are there to get to the top of Google searches?

text: I was speaking to a relative and they mentioned that the designer/developer who produced their site had a way of getting them to the first page of google, I did advise him that this could be potentially dodgy and if he's not using legit SEO techniques then you could get thrown out. So what dodgy packages are there at the moment that he could be using, because from the look of the site and the number of orders it's taking, I really can't see how it could've organically risen to the top. Any ideas?


title: Should you add version information to images on your website?

text: If you have images on your website that are likely to change (e.g. have a different watermark), but the same image name, should you add version information to the end of the image name, or would this be bad for SEO purposes? I have an issue where we have changed the watermark on a number of images 5 months ago, but Google Image search still shows the old watermark on the images. So I am assuming that Google hasn't downloaded the new images as the filenames are the same as the old ones.


title: How to avoid leeching files?

text: I use Kleeja script to host files and noticed that certain files are downloaded many more times than the site's visit counter indicates. So I assume that the files are being leeched. The web server is Nginx. Just wondering how to block leeching. Thanks


title: Embedding *.swf objects: javascript vs xhtml

text: I am a newbie in webdesign and I´ve been wondering which is the _modern_ way to embed swf objects. I've been using the following html code:               <object id="flash1" data="presentacion/prototipe.swf" height="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500">     <param name="movie" value="presentacion/prototipe.swf" />     </object>      However, I've noticed that some designers use a javascript to embed swf files. Like this one               <script type="text/javascript">     var flashvars = {     };          var params = {         menu: "false",         scale: "noScale",         allowFullscreen: "true",         allowScriptAccess: "always",         allowNetworking: "all",         bgcolor: "#ffffff",         base: "swf/"     };     var attributes = {         id:"flashMovie"     };     swfobject.embedSWF("swf/flash_movie.swf", "flashMovie", "550", "400", "9.0.0", "swf/expressinstall.swf", flashvars, params, attributes);     </script>      It seems that both ways produce the same results but: **what are the shorfalls of these methods?** **which method is the newest ?** **Are there any compatibility issues regarding the web-browsers?** Thanks in advance. I've posted this question in stack-overflow too. I don't know exactly where this question should be posted.


title: How do I grant 777 (rw) permission in shared windows hosting

text: I have a windows shared hosting on which I have deployed my wordpress blog. Now to icrese my page speed I am trying to cached few resources using W3C Total Cache While trying to activate the plugin I am getting the following error: > E:\inetpub\vhosts\subhendu.info\httpdocs\blog/wp-content/dbcache could not > be created, please run following command: chmod 777 > E:\inetpub\vhosts\subhendu.info\httpdocs\blog/wp-content then Retry I tried creating few directories using FTP but realized it wont be of any use as caching files also can not be placed dynamically. I tried changing the chmod to 777 using FileZilla but getting the error:   **_500 'SITE CHMOD 777 wp-content': command not understood_** mostly because this is a windows hosting. Again I do not have to shell access to my server , I have to everything using FTP. If there is no other way and I have to ask my hosting provider for support what shall I ask him? Does he need to grant RW permisiion to any specific users?


title: Planning for catastrophe

text: I work for a small marketing company that also does web design and development. We host all of our web design and development customers on a dedicated server at Hostgator. We have a dedicated server with RAID 1 configured hard drives. We also do weekly backups which is automated through cPanel and downloaded by automated FTP software locally. Today we were discussing what would we do if Hostgator had a catastrophic failure of some kind. It could be the server exploded, Hostgator had serious network issues, the FBI did one of their famous "take every server we see" raids, etc. Basically any scenario where an extended outage is expected. We then took it to the next level and wondered what would we do if Hostgator had an extended outage and we were unable to access our local backups. This could be due to fire, flood, etc. I know the odds of our server being down for an extended peiod of time _and_ our local files simultaneously being inaccessible are remote but all it takes is just _two_ bad things to happen and that's where we would stand. (If you have ever gotten a flat tire and found out your spare was flat or missing you know how easy it is for two bad things to happen simultaneously really is). Needless to say we want to be prepared for "worst case scenario" type events as this would almost certainly put us out of business. So my two questions are:   1. What could we do to be prepared for an extended outage by Hostgator? An ideal scenario will have our clients' websites, and hopefully emails, up and running again quickly.    2. What would a robust back up plan include so important data is never lost? An ideal solution will be automated. You can assume cost is not an issue in your answers but the more affordable a solutions is, the better.


title: Does the Duplicate Content penalty apply to mobile apps?

text: Our website content and mobile app content are the same. Will Google assess a duplicate content penalty against our web site as a result of this?


title: Should Schema.org be used on embedded YouTube videos or only self-hosted videos?

text: Google supports and recommends using the schema.org on-page markup for videos. However it is not clear if this should also be done when embeddeding a YouTube video. Or really even a Vimeo video. Or is the schema.org only necessary when hosting the videos yourself?


title: Which folders need to be backed up for migration in Joomla?

text: I'm helping someone update & migrate their old website, built on the Joomla framework.   Currently it is running on Joomla 1.5.8 which is an ancient version. I've convinced them to upgrade Joomla to at least 2.5 I have already made a backup of the database. Most links I have seen talk of backing up the entire `public_html` folder (The website runs on a shared host). But in my fresh Joomla installation there are several folders that are in the `public_html` folder. So which of the folders in the `public_html` folder are from the content of the website, and which are of the old Joomla framework? I'm afraid that I might overwrite files of the new Joomla framework with the old framework, if copy all the files and folders into the new installation.


title: How can I get my dynamic site search results content indexed by Google?

text: I have a site that is simply a search box to search a cloud-hosted database of .tiff images, and then all of my content can only be accessed by entering a search term. So for example, you're on the home page www.example.com and you type in "search" to the box and hit submit. Then it takes you to www.example.com/?q=search, which is a page of all my .tiff images with "search" in the description. How can I get a page like www.example.com/?q=search indexed, WITHOUT making a humungous list of search terms that people might type in?? I know about mod_rewrite, but it seems like for that you need to know ahead of time which URLs you'll need to convert, which I don't. All of these pages will be dynamically user-generated by typing into the search field. Please help!


title: How to add Default Document in a Windows Shared Hosting

text: I have a shared hosting plan where I have hosted my WordPress blog Now each time I want to access the page I have to type index.php after the domain name. If I try to access it without using index.php I get 404 error. Is this because index.php is not added to Default Documents list? Is there anyway I can add the default document list using plex control Panel?


title: URL rewrite to fix broken links into a subdirectory -- subdirectory was moved to the root directory

text: I had an e-commerce website hosted on `http://mydomain.com/beta` for more than a year, eventually I decided to move the website to root `http://mydomain.com` I had done quite a lot of link postings to forums etc, when my site used to be hosted in the sub-dir /beta. Is there a way to do a mod_rewrite by which all the old links that I have posted do not return as broken links, since now longer the site is hosted in /beta and is now hosted on the site root. I did read that mod_rewrite can help resolve this issue, but also read about that this has to be done with care. Just a tip that this site is using friendly URL.


title: Google Analytics - include filter not working

text: I just added an include filter this morning in my domain (`test.org`). I have: _Custom Filter > Include > Request URI >_ `^/test-a/46212$|^/test-a/46212|^/test-a/46315` Now after I go to _Content > Site Content > All Pages_ , I see stats for other pages that I didn't include in my filter. For example I see `/somethingelse`. I only want to see stats for `/test-a/46212` and whatever else in my filter. Please let me know what I'm doing wrong.


title: Using Freelance Services

text: Can anyone share any advice or experiences using any of the many freelance gun for hire sites out there like guru.com? I may be leading a small development team soon to run a project that will from time to time need outside help and I'd rather farm out some components that can be well defined up front in the event that the team and myself get overwhelmed or behind. I'm thinking everything from local developers on craigslist to some outsourced services, but haven't had much experience with either. Thanks


title: How to find out which sub-domain has been indexed more in Google?

text: I have some sub-domains. I use "site:mydomain.com" in Google search input to find out the number of pages Google has indexed from my domain overall. How can I find out which sub-domain has been indexed more? Can I do it for others domain?


title: Do the "Contact us" and "Privacy policy" pages affect SEO?

text: Just like the title says, what are the effects of having a "Contact us" and a "Privacy policy" on your site? I've read that it could build up your trust with Google, is this true? I've also read that some people said that you should add a `noindex` tag to your "Privacy policy" page, would this be a good idea? I say this because many websites have similar privacy policies, and I don't want any duplicate content issues. (For example, many people could be using the same WordPress privacy policy generator). I'm wondering the same things for the "Contact us" page as well.


title: How to create sharing icons with the share count number showing?

text: See a sample article on theonion.com ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GVCoW.png) I know how to create icons for these sites without using their standard widget, but how did they get the number of share, bellow each icon ? Is there an API to ask for it ?


title: Original domain (which is 301 redirected) meta description doesn't update

text: I have a domain name `example.com` which I 301 redirected to `www.example.com`. Problem is when I search for the website on Google, it shows the `.com` rather than the `www`. So the `.com` meta description shows, and since there is nothing on it, it has GoDaddy stuff written all over it. I've re-crawled both sites using Google Webmaster Tools but still no luck. Anyone have any idea on how this can be updated? Or will I just have to be patient?


title: Will using same colour H1 as background hurt SEO if I use background image?

text:
Can it hurt SEO if H1 headings are the same colour as the standard body background colour, even if all H1 headings are placed in divs that have a contrasting background image? (So to be clear: the heading will be clearly visible) To illustrate: CSS:               body {     color:#4e4e4e;     background-color: #ffffff;       }          #section1 {     background: url('example.jpg');     }          h1 {     font-weight: bold;     color:#ffffff;     }      (example.jpg in this case would be an image with very dark colours) HTML:

Lorem ipsum dolor

      While at first glance it may seem that H1 headings are hidden, in reality they are not because the white letters will contrast with the dark background image. Will Google (wrongly) see this as hiding text, as a result hurting SEO? And if so, would it then be better to define H1 colours per div like in the CSS example underneath?               body {     color:#4e4e4e;     background-color: #ffffff;       }          #section1 {     background: url('example.jpg');     color: #fff;     }      I ask this because, while the second example seems to make more sense if you want to make it clear you're not hiding text, I also have the feeling that this defeats the purpose of a separate CSS file. If I'm going to have to change the font colour for each div I use an H1 in, I might as well switch to inlining.


I understand that ICANN does make the rules requiring this, but I don't understand why we have to? Each time we do transfer the domain, we have to pay to do so. That partially stops fraud. I also do know that it can take from a few hours to a month for the transfer process to be completed on both ends. **Why do we have to wait 60 days between each domain transfer?** Also, allow me to quote the ICANN FAQ > **If I bought a name through one registrar, am I allowed to switch to a > different registrar?** > > Yes. The Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy, applicable to all ICANN-accredited > registrars, provides that registered name holders must be able to transfer > their domain name registrations between registrars. You must wait 60 days > after the initial registration or any previous transfers to initiate a > transfer. It states that it is a _requirement_ without an understanding of the reason why it is.


title: How do I track automatic translation of web page?

text: My web site is posted in English. I do not have the Google Translate plugin installed, nor do I have any plans to install it. However, I'm inferring from some of my analytics data that people visiting my web site are using Google Translate to translate my pages. I presume they're visiting my site and seeing Google's "This page is in English. Would you like to translate it to [their language]?" and clicking "Translate". Is there any hook in Google's automatic translation, e.g. some event fired, that I can use to detect these automatic translations and fire a Google Analytics event tracking the translation and hopefully capturing the language they're translating to? Note: I've seen this post, but the answer refers to the plugin, which I'm not using. I want to track when Google volunteers to translate automatically.


title: Changing subdomain url to new root url issue (404)

text: I have a blog on a subdomain `technotes.tostaky.biz` and I want to move it to a new URL: `www.mytechnotes.biz`. Of course, I want to redirect `technotes.tostaky.biz` to `www.mytechnotes.biz`. `www.mytechnotes.biz` has been set-up properly, but I am trying to figure what I should do for the redirect. Right now, I have two A records (`www.technotes` and `technotes`) pointing to the IP address of the root `tostaky.biz` URL server.I also have a permanent redirect (both www and non-www) from `technotes.tostaky.biz` to `http://www.mytechnotes.biz/`. When I open `technotes.tostaky.biz` in Chrome, I get a 404 "The requested URL / was not found on this server. That’s all we know." I don't know what is causing this issue. Should I wait for propagation or do I need to modify my configuration? Should I use CNAMEs instead of A records? **P.S:** I forgot to mention that `www.technotes.tostaky.biz` redirects properly.


title: Site failing randomly - could it be Cloudflare or something weird in the JS?

text: I've been working on a simple site that uses javascript to fade through some fullscreen background images as well as some other simple animations. I've tested the site on Chrome, Safari, FF and Opera on OSX, IE8+ on Win7 and Chrome & FF on Ubuntu and everything looks as I'd expect it to. However, I've had reports of the site failing to load (stops at the stage where the background fades up) on Safari and Chrome on OSX and Win. I can't replicate this on any setup so I'm finding it impossible to troubleshoot. Google's instant preview shows the site fine as does most of the options at browsershots.org so I'm really scratching my head. I'm running the site's traffic through Cloudflare and I'm wondering whether anyone can see (or knows from other sites) why Cloudflare might be mangling the JS or causing a problem somehow (I don't get any errors in the JS error console).   Of course, if you can replicate the problem on your machine and can suggest an area to look at that would be amazing but I'm hoping that, like me, you don't see any problem with the site! Here's the site: http://www.bighornrevelstoke.com Thanks,   James UPDATE: I am very grateful to those of you who have taken the time to made suggestions below but because of my poor _'n00b'_ reputation I'm unable to upvote any of the suggestions to show it. Sorry about that.


title: How can I prove to google that a godaddy based site with instapage in my site?

text: I have registered a domain with godaddy and do not have their hosting services just the free instapage. I want my domain to be actually hosted at google apps. I have got to the point in google setup where google has asked me to verify that this my domain by adding some metadata in the header of mypage (there are couple of other options as well). The problem is that because I am not using godaddy's hosting I can not add any thing to the head as instapage only give me edit access to body and some templates. Is there a way I can verify that this my domain with having to pay for godaddy's hosting ?


title: Which Filing System Is Better?

text: I realise that this is a bit stupid, but I'm a bit lost here - I've recently decided to re-arrange my webserver's content filing system so that it is more efficient and flexible in regards to the addition of content in the future. Could someone advise on which way will be more beneficial in the long-term? 1.) My current, original filing system: I currently have a folder for each web page: index, contact, about, etc. Inside each webpage folder I have a folder for each type of content that is on that webpage: css, js, images, flash, pages, etc. Examples: `http://example.com/contact/images/email.png` or `http://example.com/about/flash/copyToClipboard.swf` 2.) My proposed, planned filing system: I plan to have a folder for each type of content. Inside each content folder I plan to have a folder for each webpage. Examples: `http://example.com/images/index/welcome.png` or `http://example.com/js/index/animate.js` General summary: is it better to keep each page's content isolated (filing system #1) or to keep all kinds of content together (filing system #2)? Thanks :)


title: Will I preserve link equity if I use two redirects?

text: I'm switching a social media site over to a Drupal platform. I'm planning to implement permanent directs (301) from each old url to the new url. I'm using page titles in the url string on the new site:               http://www.newsite.com/this-is-my-page-title      From a technical standpoint it would be easier for me to redirect to the page id:               http://www.newsite.com/node/123      which automatically redirects (with a 301) to the above title url. Is there a problem using two redirects or is it better to just use one?


title: Accessing website from within the LAN via web address

text: I run a small website at my house; just started it up the other day running Wordpress. The problem I'm facing is fairly obvious: I need to access my website, but I can't use the URL due my hosting on the same network I'm trying to access from. I use Chrome, and when I try to load the page it says that it simply could not connect. My question is simple: how can I access my site, Wordpress running through Apache on Ubuntu 12.10 LAMP stack, on the same network that I'm hosting it from without the use of proxy or VPN?