title: IIS 7.5 and authenticating client certificates

text: I am trying to understand if the functionality I am seeing is how client certs and SSL is supposed to work, or if I've done something wrong. I have a site running under IIS 7.5 that is using a cert obtained from my company's internal certificate server. I have set the binding for the cert, and required client certs through the IIS UI. When I navigate to the site it prompts me for the certificate before I proceed and requires it as expected. Here is the question, I was told that part of the authentication done by the server was that the client certificate had to be issued from within the same PKI infrastructure. For example a cert issued from the same server as the SSL should work, but a cert issued by say Verisign would not be accepted. That does not seem to be the case, it appears that the server will accept and client certificate as long the as CA that issued it is listed as a Trusted Root on the server. Is that correct? Is there a simple setting I can change to alter that? Since I'm issuing the certificates from my own server I could create a custom certificate validation along the way to validate things further but I was wondering if I am missing something simple or not and I haven't yet found any articles that explain what the server does to validate the client certificate.


title: On which page(s) to add canonical?

text: I have two pages with same content and same meta title and meta description. They also have very simular URL:   1. `http://www.mysite.com/new-york`   2. `http://www.mysite.com/new_york` I need first link to be "official". To avoid having duplicated pages, I want to add canonical meta tag in header but on which page? Does it have to be on both of them or only on second? On first? Can you give me some advice please?


title: Does a 'Under Construction' notice impacts site ranking negatively?

text: Assuming one works on a website and decides to be polite and friendly by telling visitors it is still under construction, does it impact its ranking negatively? Does Google and others take this notice into account one way or the other for ranking?


title: Merging multiple top-level domains into a single domain

text: My client had multiple top-level-domains. Each one represented an insurance program within a specific vertical. For all the sites at these alternate domains, there was a 30/70 mix of duplicate vs. original content. Some of the alternate domains ranked very well for their target keyphrase groups, where others were absent in results pages. We advised the client to merge multiple domains into their existing main domain, for usability and SEO reasons. We recently ran the merger. Here was our process:   1. On the main domain, transfer the content such that it matches 1-for-1 content on the various alternate domains   2. Setup Google Webmaster Tools on the main domain   3. Push the new content on the main domain live and submit a corresponding sitemap to Google   4. Establish 301 redirects on the alternate domains, such that each alternate domain URL points to its respective page on the main domain We did this 12 days ago, and pages (previously on the alternate domains) that had ranked well on Google have now plummeted or are entirely non-existent. Did we do the right thing by merging multiple top-level domains into a single domain? Is this initial dip in rankings normal? How soon should we expect to see it return to its normal rankings?


title: Google failing to recognize authoritive website?

text: I have a situation that I do not fully understand, related to syndicated content. My site - where the original version of my articles is being published, is being seen by Google not as the _original/canonical_ version. Instead, the site that is syndicating the content is seen as the original version. This doesn't look to be a simple case of both versions are valid, but the syndicated site is just better promoted, but that it's actually the original version, for several articles. For example:   * My article   * The syndicated article   * The search The syndicated version is on 3rd place, my own content doesn't appear in the first 100 results. The website that syndicates my content does have a link back to my article; it also has the date on the article page, but it looks like this is the updated date, not the published date:   `<span class="date updated">May 7th, 2013</span>` On my website, the date looks like this: `<abbr title="2013-05-01T16:13:14+0000" class="date time published">May 1, 2013</abbr>` Should the syndicating site also use proper timestamps and a publish date? Can this be the reason Google picks it up as the original version? Also, is there any way to fix this problem?


title: Is content inside IE conditional comments indexed by search engines?

text: Although I'm aware of the various methods to show content only to users of a specific IE version, I was wondering if using conditional comments would have an effect on the way my site is indexed. If I choose to use conditional comments, I don't want to see something like this in Google search results: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jI9pw.png) Is this a possibility? Please note that the above is merely an example. Another example could be marking up an entire section of the page targeted at Internet Explorer:                     Could this on its own ever return a result for the phrase "foobar", i.e. would this content be indexed by any relevant crawlers? Is content inside IE conditional comments indexed by any search engines?


title: The concept of reputation and its effects on an online community

text: Having recently introduced the concept of a '+rep' button to an online community I manage, I've noticed a couple of things. It functions as the thanks button does on vBulletin (user says 'thanks' to a poster, and the poster has a record of all the thanks they've given and received. There is a listing of who has thanked a person below a post). Primarily it has become a way to add a voice to a discussion, without actually requiring the effort to type out a fully formed response. This brings the advantage of easily gauging popular opinions, and is a fun way of indicating good contributions to a thread. However, is has also been detrimental, particularly during disagreements where people feel 'ganged up' on by a crowd of non-participants. Fortunately this doesn't happen too often, given the size of my community (70-100 actives), but there have still been requests to disable the feature. I have a couple of questions.   1. What is the best way of keeping the concept of '+rep' or thanks without letting the mechanism be abused during personal disagreements between two members?   2. Are there any examples of such a system scaling well to larger communities? How was this achieved?


title: Is there a free way to SSL certify my local website?

text: I'm basically trying to setup my local website with SSL. All I need to do is certify it, but couldn't find a free way to do it. Most websites, like GoDaddy for instance, charge to certify your website. Anyway can Ido this for free?


title: Someone Reported That My Company Is Out Of Business

text: I Googled our company name and found that someone had given us a review on the maps site. He gave us a 1 star review and his review was simply "Out of Business". We are definitely NOT out of business!!! I looked at his other reviews and he has given 69 1 star reviews, most of which are for companies in our shared industry (competitors). I flagged the one post as inappropriate and selected "other". Is there anything else I can do to prevent this guy from slandering our company (and others!)!


title: Registering a domain directly at nic.sm?

text: I am an individual and would like to register a ".sm" domain. Nic.sm provides forms for individuals to send them by fax or mail and information for payment is also available. The cheapest reseller that I found wants 135 EUR per year, whereas the cost at nic.sm is only 50 EUR a year. EDIT: The lengthy rules at nic.sm mention that they deal only with authorized resellers themselves. However, nic.sm links to Telecom Italia San Marino as an authorized reseller (at the top of the link list, in bold). Telecom Italia seems to follow the exact same procedures as nic.sm (the difference being that you send the forms to them instead of nic.sm). So the question remains: does Telecom Italia San Marino deal with private individuals directly? I wrote them an email some days ago with no reply.


title: Creating image thumbnails and serving from own server

text: I would like to display some images on my website. This website got indexed content from different websites. It display content in a way that you have image, short description and link to website where this image and description come from. My question is, can I create thumbnails from pictures which are crawled and show it from my server or should I refer to image from external server or is it illegal?


title: Avoid SEO loss after URL structure change

text: We recently re-wrote our site from Umbraco to WordPress. This has been done by third-party developers. I have been the project manager and it is my mistake that I haven't notice the change of URLs that affect SEO until now. New site was launch last Thursday. The old URL for a "place" (a WordPress custom post type, in case you're WordPress expert and want/ need to point me to another discussion on WP Stackexchange) page is as follows:               ourdomain.com/singapore/central/alexandra/an-interesting-place      Now it has been changed to               ourdomain.com/places/an-interesting-place      I have already requested the third-party developers to work rewriting the URLs to emulate the old URL structure. However, it's taking quite a lot of time (we have multiple custom post types e.g. events etc. so it might be complicated; the developers seem quite by blur when I first mentioned rewriting URLs for the custom post types) In the meantime, I wonder if there is a quicker work around for this 1) Use .htaccess to rewrite               ourdomain.com/singapore/central/alexandra/an-interesting-place      to               ourdomain.com/places/an-interesting-place      This should avoid 90% loss of the search traffic. I suppose I can learn how to do this quite quickly but no harm mentioning it here 2) Use rel="canonical" to indicate that               ourdomain.com/places/an-interesting-place      is the exact duplicate of               ourdomain.com/singapore/central/alexandra/an-interesting-place      I will definitely go for both approaches (and also I'm changing 404 page to cater for this temporary isue) but I wonder if 2) is even feasible and if I have missed anything. Is there anything else you could recommend me in this situation. Let me know if my question is not clear anywhere. **Clarifications** The old website is on a Windows Server EC2 completely separated from the Linux EC2 instance on which the new site is running. In addition, the same domain "ourdomain.com" is used here (an A record is used to point to an EC2 Elastic IP). Therefore, the old server is completely inaccessible at the moment, unless you we use the IP address to old server (which doesn't help me at all in this case). Even if the old server is accessible, I can't see where one can put the .htaccess or a HTML file to do 301 redirect here. Unless I'm successful with my approach 1) or the developers can rewrite the URLs with coding, 404 page is really a choice for me.


title: Difference between canonical and base tag

text: I am a little bit confused regarding the usage of canonical tags and base tags. I have placed canonical tag (`rel="canonical"`) on my website because of my website opening with no-www. I have reviewed my website through SEO doctor add-ons which is showing that my website is not indexable in search engine. Can anyone can explain this?


title: Why am I getting messages from cloudfront in my error log?

text: I frequently have messages like this in my websites error log:               "Script error.". URL: https://e3m4drct5m1ays.cloudfront.net/items/loaders     /loader_21.js?pid=21&systemid=13504281c5a501837196c23300f84e66&aoi=1327214632&     zoneid=16620&cid=HK&rid=Hong%20Kong%20(general)&ccid=Kowloon&dma=0.      Line number: 0 Error name: Stack:       Now I don't actually know what cloudfront is or what it does. And I do not refer to this script in my site. So why would I be getting js error logged as if it was a script being run on my own site? This is using elmah logging.


title: Noindex, Nofollow affect "Google Custom Search" results?

text: I am using Google Custom Search on my site, if I set pages to "noindex" or "nofollow", does it also affect the custom search results on my site?


title: Redirect all paginated pages to their main category page

text: I want to redirect all the paginated pages of the category pages to their respective category pages, because I don't want google to crawl the paginated pages. If my paginated category page URL is:               http://example.com/category/cat-name/page/4/      I want to redirect to:               http://example.com/category/cat-name/      This case can be anything from different page numbers to different category names. How can I achieve that using `.htaccess`? I'm running a WordPress site and already there are several redirects active:               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^[0-9]+/([^/]+/[^/]+/?)$ /$1 [L,R=301,NE]     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>     # END WordPress      ## EDIT First of all, some of my .htaccess rules are based on this StackOverflow Q&A. Because I need 'em to be there. So, after your comments, I got the point. With such a redirection in action my paginated pages won't be accessed ever, even after a hard-coded URL. Yes, that'd be a mess. Actually, you know WordPress category pages are auto generated with the number of posts. Suppose, in "Astronomy" category I got 32 posts and in each page I'm showing 10, then there would be 4 pages (10+10+10+2). Eventually I deleted two of the posts or recategorized them to another category. So the fourth page become orphan. Google crawls and got a 404. It's a continuous process and looking for such 404 hits is a critical matter for me. So I's looking for a solution. What can I do for such problem?


title: Can I create CSR for Symantec EV SSL from another machine?

text: Given the additional checks to validate the organisation for the EV certificates, must the CSRs be created from the actual production web servers? In my capacity as a contractor, I thought I would use my standard VM with IIS 7.5 and create CSRs with the right details (CN, O, OU, L, S, C), complete the request and export a password-protected PFX file including private key. The actual production environment has web servers behind a load balancer, so the certificate (PFX) will be imported into each. Does this approach work?


title: GoDaddy-Drupal Site down due to mysql password change, how to change it back?

text: PDOException: SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user 'lev1127301002684'@'188.121.41.131' (using password: YES) in lock_may_be_available() (line 167 of /home/content/69/8327469/html/includes/lock.inc).


title: Stop other sites on server from being able to access other sites on server

text: I am on a friends server and I have found a potential security flaw where I can access other sites files on the server. He says he is on a shared hosting and I am not sure yet if the other sites are his or not, he has to get back to me on that. In the meantime though I was wondering how do sites like godaddy deal with this issue? Do they put each account on the server into a sort of virtual server so you can access your other sites on your account but can not access sites on other accounts? It might be the case that his server is working properly and all the sites I can access are his sites anyway since they are under his account. If they are all his sites then how can he prevent other sites from accessing other sites since some of them are for other peoples sites he manages for them.


title: How to limit the FTP bandwidth for one user?

text: I have no experience in webmastering, so sorry if it is a simple question! I have a VPS and about 30GB files on it and I am trying to download them to my PC. So for transfering them I made an FTP. But when I download it, the speed is too low. How can I set the whole bandwidth for one user (myself) to access the maximum speed? (The server OS is Windows Server 2003)


title: Webmaster Tools, www and no-www, duplicate content and subdomains

text: I have not come to any conclusive answers on the following after many hours of research on many websites to the specific issue that I am trying to figure out. My company has two websites a main one at `www.example.com` and one at `subdomain.example.com` which is a subdomain of the first and is our self hosted blog. The way Google sees these with the `www` or `no-www` (called naked for now on) is that each of these actually are different when the `www` or naked version is used/not used in the front of the domain. I completely understand this. It is also advised that both should be set up in the Google Webmaster Tools, which I have done. Correct me if I am wrong on that in regard to having both set up. Now the way it appears is that we can set a preferred domain up in Webmaster Tools only at the root domain level. The subdomain can not have this and actually says the following " **Restricted to root level domains only** ". So it appears that the domain should follow what the root domain says which on our preferred one says to display the `www.example.com`. and not the naked version. That is one issue I have in that one displays one way and the other displays another. Is it that we have the wrong redirects in place for the subdomain? Another question is does this have any affect on SEO in regards to duplicate content on the web in how we have set this up?


title: Do I still need a favicon in the webroot when an alternate location has already been provided?

text: While looking through the access log of my webserver, I notice a few favicon requests that shows 404 error:               16:17:28 GET /folder/abc.jpg 200 http://example.com/ Mozilla... Firefox/31.0     16:17:28 GET /folder/efg.png 200 http://cdn.example.com/style.css Mozilla... Firefox/31.0     16:17:38 GET /favicon.ico 404   - Mozilla... Firefox/31.0      This comes as a surprise to me because I have the following HTML code to tell browsers where to fetch the favicon on all my web pages.               <link rel='shortcut icon' href='//cdn.example.com/images/favicon.ico'>      Somehow, I still receive requests to `http://example.com/favicon.ico` occasionally even though Firefox did download the favicon from the alternate location. Is this behaviour peculiar to Firefox browsers or do I have to provide a favicon in the webroot to avoid 404 errors? Further, if I provide both, which favicon would the browser use?


title: How does the google search engine deal with links placed in ads

text: I want to place my website ad on another website B in the sidebar. It will be a direct link back to my website. I am doing this to get the PR juice from website B. website B is highly related to the same topic as my own website Now since there are many pages on website B, and the link is on each page in sidebar, it will instantly generate thousands of backlinks to my site. So ...   1. Does google understand that this is non-natural backlink.   2. Does google prevent the PR juice to flow in such cases ?   3. Does it have any negative effect on seo ?


title: SEO: how to handle the redirect page to mobile website when there is no equivalent

text: We have our website as site.com, and the mobile version at m.site.com When the user arrives, we detect the mobile from the user agent and redirects to the corresponding page there; for exemple from > site.com/some/stuff to > m.site.com/some/stuff My problem here is that not every article we have is published on the mobile version and I'm not sure how I should be handling cases where there is no correspondance (/some/stuff doesn't exists on the mobile version). Should I be:   1. Redirect to the url on mobile version, which then 404 (lots of 404 ? doesn't seem right)   2. Redirect to the url on mobile version, which then 301 to mobile home (no 404 pages on the mobile version ? doesn't seem right)   3. Redirect the url that doesn't exist on mobile to the mobile home, and keep the correspondance for those that exists (lots of page redirected to mobile home for google mobile ...)   4. Not redirect if there is no correspondance (mobile gets sent the full website ? ...) None of those solutions seems good to me, so how do you guys handle it ? What should I be doing to avoid crippling the seo ranking of our website ? Thanks


title: Need insight on how how online auction SEO works for big sites (1 m+ pages)

text: I need some insight on how online auction SEO works for big sites which has 1 million+ pages and how they get indexed in Google. If anyone with some expertise on this could shed some light on this subject i would be thankful. I have a few questions:   1. How does Google index product pages on an online auction site where products come and go quickly. How can you index the right product pages that are being put up and not the old ones that are expired? Which is the best way to do this?   2. I read that it could be a advantage or even a must to implement rich snippets or schema. Is it beneficial to implement this to an online auction site and how can you do this in the best way?   3. How does the CMS automation work for such big e-store with 1 million + pages work? What can or should be automated?   4. Should e-stores with 1 million+ products be optimized for images? I hope someone could assist me with these questions:)


title: JavaScript conditional "builds"

text: I'm working on a piece of JavaScript code that searches its host page for references from a certain source and when hovered, shows the definition/referenced text in a tooltip (something like Google Dicitionary or RefTagger) My problem is not with the functionality itself, but handling the browser- specific nuances in the implementation. I want to create at least three "editions", with small but important differences:   * a "standalone" version to be embedded in websites as a `<script src="..."/>` tag   * a Chrome plugin   * a Firefox plugin. **How could I handle this situation, is there some kind of JS preprocessor which understands conditional sections? Something like C-like #ifdef comments would come handy to strip out the irrelevant parts.** (A specific problem, as an example: The main code is _almost_ the same for all of them, the plugins need some extra functions for handling their settings but these are in separate files. But injecting the content has to be done in at least two different ways:   * `innerHTML` would work in any modern browser, but the Firefox add-on guidelines forbid its usage (I understand the reasons and accept this policy)   * DOM manipulation methods could be used instead, but since the content to inject can contain HTML elements, I have to parse and re-create it (with filtering based on a whitelist). This can be done by DOMParser, but if I want to use `text/html` as content type, a lot of compatibility code has to be added to support IE <10. So basically I could use `innerHTML` anywhere except the Firefox plugin, or the DOM method with a lot of extra stuff I don't want to add to the standalone version (to minimize page load delay). It would be great to implement all these editions in one single file with something like conditional sections for different versions.)


title: Are there any reasons to put the domain name or company name in the page's title tag?

text: After I read this question and answer about SEO and title, I want to ask if it is necessary to put the company name or the domain name into the title. On the start page I think it is necessary, like Stack Exchange is doing it               www.stackoverflow => Stack Overflow     webmasters.stackexchange.com => Webmasters Stack Exchange      But what about other pages on this site? I see that this structure is used on this site, and across the StackExchange network `<something> \- Webmasters Stack Exchange`. Does this have any relevance for SEO?


title: AggregateRating not showing in Google's rich snippet testing tool

text:
I tried using the `AggregateRating` and used the code below. The values of `$aggregate_rating` and `$total_reviews` is not empty, and tried printing its value. Now I added the code inside my WordPress post, and checked the preview on Google's rich snippet testing tool. `AggregateRating` is not showing.
         GMD Auto Shop         [php]             echo "
             ". $aggregate_rating . "  stars for " .              $total_reviews . "
reviews.";         [/php]                 Kamagong Street, Lahug
Cebu City,              Cebu             6000
         Phone: 032-417-4700
Latitude: 40 deg 44 min 54.36 sec N             Longitude: 123° 54.037'             <meta itemprop="latitude" content="40.75" />             <meta itemprop="longitude" content="54.98" />


title: Avoid the login popup when using http-auth

text: I have an Apache. Under the DOCUMENTROOT is a folder with an .htpasswd file for http-auth. If I open the browser and request the content in the folder I get an Popup to login. Is there a way to avoid the popup? I have tried to add the user and the password in the url:               http://user:passwd@domain.com/geheim      Unfortunately this doesn't work with every browser. Is there a workaround? Thanks


title: How to redirect on a very limiting hosting service

text: I need to create some new content which is the user getting their request routed to another site w/o them needing to know the ugly final URL. The user URL needs to be the simple easy to recall string, for example, `example.com/snappy`. So, I need to have a URL such as `http://example.com/snappy` redirect to something like `https://example.org/64g9sd3k96bhse38gmjdute.html`. If I were to use the technique I have used in the past I would create `/snappy/index.html` on the `example.com` system:               <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=https://example.org/64g9sd3k96bhse38gmjdute.html">      In this case though, I have a new situation where my `example.com` is hosted on `cloversites.com` which has "Websites made for people not programmers." They have such a canned system that the `index.html` cannot be created with the `meta` tag. I do have servers that can host web pages. I cannot move the existing `cloversites.com` content at this time. I am looking for an out-of-the-box solution until all of the existing content can be moved in house.


I have removed some pages from the Google index using webmaster tools but it still shows up in the search results. So you have any idea what would be the problem? You can see the screenshots below ![Removal request](http://i.stack.imgur.com/6Jwt5.jpg) ![Search Results](http://i.stack.imgur.com/TTVwq.jpg)


title: Duplicate domain names with hyphens being the only difference

text: I have a website which is not being picked up by Google. The only thing I can see is that the domain is exactly the same as another domain, but the words are split by hyphens. The sites are:   * www.keyword1keyword2keyword3keyword4.co.uk, and    * www.keyword1-keyword2-keyword3-keyword4.co.uk Is this the reason I fail to get any ranking?


title: Why there is an image that says this page is not available on all my blogger posts?

text: I have my blog for the last couple of years, but it is the first time that I see something like this: When I am in the main page, each of the posts have a message on top of them that says that the webpage is not available(see image at the bottom of this post). I don't know why is this happening at all. Ill appreciate your help. Any ideas? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/IpO6m.png) **update:** Update: I noticed that this doesn't happen in all of the posts, looks like just in the first 2 posts. I don't understand.


title: What's the best way to redirect from domain to subdomain?

text: I want to install my new site content on a subdomain like `subdir.mydomainsite.com` instead of the root domain. This is a new domain and not previous content to redirect. The root URL will be empty and inaccessible to anyone trying to browse the root site `mydomainsite.com` and will be redirected to `subdir.mydomainsite.com` automatically. What's the best way to do this? I thought about a simple `index.php` with an 301 redirect from root to subdomain, but not I'm not sure if there's a better SEO way to do it. Will Google find this redirection weird and penalize the site in some way?


title: Google Site Search: Is it possible to extract labels from single pages?

text: if using Google Site Search (GSS) you can specify labels for different sites, so users can later refine their search with facets generated from these labels. This works fine if you can label pages according to different domains or distinct URL patterns (e.g. path segments that clearly mark different areas of your website). However, is there a way you can make Google extract the labels from an individual page itself, for example by providing some kind of meta information or structured content in the HTML source?


title: Weird URLs being access by Googlebot

text: Lately I've been seing all sorts of strange URLs show up as errors in my Webmaster tools account, but they're URLs that don't actually exist on my site, nor are linked from the pages that Google claims they're linked from.               URL                                 Response Code   Detected     yR3kna/5RfA4+ndtn/X4zcevudMlXbqbIrnPbH9irw= 404     9/16/12     OK4iaOVdr6Ocjmz+u1kuR5Q486mhDo/e45nwjl2+y8= 404     9/9/12     pxGz/oHEA0BS8U3VFBzJcZnnIHMsFXb3/rIxMxh2ws= 404     9/16/12     Af8tbvQ0HniIpf53I8Txz1hM1/JxxrFQxgqPuErWII= 404     9/9/12     7Bk7c0LDmm4PHyTjml017EGwNNPCn/p/0xMSWWPDic= 404     9/16/12     umCwnDvTE8ybpUB19MIb+VRj5xRJncyYGGfAQ2Mxn0= 404     9/1/12     # etc...      Do you know how to make these stop? It's not at all clear to me why it would be going to these URLs in the first place.


title: Is Google Adwords keyword tool showing right data like local monthly searches?

text: For example, for keyword `gifts`, keyword tool from Google shows Global Monthly Searches as 16,600,000 and (India) Local Monthly Searches as 823,000 so is it really a right numbers?


title: Spambots looking for phpmyadmin and more

text: I inherited a couple of sites that send the webmaster an email with each 404 error. I get a smattering of errors each day, but there are times when I'll get dozens, even hundreds, of errors from these sites in just a couple of minutes. Given what they're looking for (directories like phpmyadmin, wp- admin, register, admin, etc. and files like setup.php, register.php, admin.php, etc.) it's obviously a spambot trying to get access to the site. Is there a way to prevent them from even looking at the site? Should I set up a honeypot that provides some bogus info or something? And how do I accomplish this? I'm guessing that other sites (maybe all?) that I manage are being "attacked" in the same way, but I don't have a script that reports those errors in the same way so the squeaky wheel is getting my attention.


title: Why are some Shared Web Hosting configuration changes delayed?

text: I have used several shared web hosting packages over the years, however, more recently I have encountered _issues_ that have me questioning the purpose of delays in configuration changes. The web host in question is 1&1, which applies config changes with a delay. **The question** // _What_ is the benefit of delaying configuration changes? **Update** additional question // Why would some changes take the specified time ( _e.g. 10 minutes_ ), and sometimes several hours? * * * **The story** // The most recent incident was caused using the 1&1's WebsiteBuilder by a tech to create a temporary page. After this, the finalized site (html/js/css/etc.) was placed on the server through FTP. The following events occurred after:   1. Removed the domain from the _selection_ was applied immediately ( _i.e. selected -none-_ ).   2. Changed the domain destination folder, which were delayed a few minutes.      * Skip a few hours   3. Another tech _attempted_ some changes through the WebsiteBuilder.      * This change forced the Control Panel to copy the existing site files to a different folder.     * The change was applied immediately.   4. My **mistake** here was removing the newly created folder, and reapplying the domain destination folder.      * This change did **not** take effect immediately; in fact, it took _several hours_.     * The last tech kept attempting to _fix_ the site by making changes on the Control Panel. Due to the configuration effect delays on step 4, the tech kept making changes ( _presumably adding more changes to the configuration queue, I'm guessing_ ). Finally, all of these changes threw the site into a cycle of failed access, directory listing denied, 404's, etc.


title: Google rich snippets: should the last item in a breadcrumb be a link?

text: A website has the following breadcrumb trail when on the "Labrador" page: > Services > Squirrel Chasing > Labrador As you may notice, the current page is not linked to. (There is an internal reason with a difficult solution.) The last item in the Google's reccomended (data-vocabulary.org) microdata markup will be missing the `itemprop="url"` attribute, with only:   * `itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb"`,   * and `itemprop="title"`. **Is the lack of a link to the current page an issue?** The goal is to have the above breadcrumbs appear in Google search results, for example: ![Breadcrumb rich snippet example in Google SERP](http://i.stack.imgur.com/PRcRL.png)


title: Less than half of Facebook ad clicks are visible in Google Analytics

text: We have a website that we advertise via Facebook, but in Google Analytics only 30-50% of the clicks appear. (The page is not really public yet, so I cannot post a link here) We already did several test runs and tried different optimizations. Unfortunately none of the optimization resulted in a massive change. (Optimizations like improving page load time, in particular loaded JS like jQuery assets via CDN, etc...) Right now we have several hypotheses why this happens:   * the page is hosted in Virginia, however the site is for Brazil, so latency might be too high   * in general it takes too long until the page appears, so people might close the page before it's fully loaded   * it's a one-page app, so it might be slow on old computers   * too much AJAX, in particular we use Facebook Connect   * people might use adblockers We ruled out that Facebook gives us the wrong number of clicks, we already take the number of actual website clicks. Benchmark results from `webpagetest.org` using São Paolo/Chrome/Cable:   * Load time (First View: 3.9s-6.7s; Repeat View 1.9s-2.8s)   * First Byte (First View: 0.5s-1.6s; Repeat View 1s-2s)   * Start Render (First View: 2.3s-5.4s; Repeat View 1.4s-2.2s)   * Document Complete (First View: 3.9s-6.7s; Repeat View 2s-2.8s)   * Fully Complete (First View: 5s-8s; Repeat View 2.9s - 3.6s) (Yesterday we changed the hosting provider, but I think the numbers before should have been similar.) What could be the problem? To us it is very mysterious, we would assume that the click counts from Facebook would differ from Analytics' numbers by less than 5%. Seeing more than 50% of the users not reaching our website, makes us believe there is a single big problem that we are not aware of yet.


title: How to have Google crawl pages that are only up for a week

text: We have flash sale product pages that are only up for 7 days and then go down. What's the best way to have google crawl these pages properly? The URL for these pages go up and down every week and are different every week... For example: /deals/432433 (week 1) /deals/774733 (week 2) /deals/393020 (week 3) We currently have a sitemap that is dynamically generated so when these pages go up they are included properly in the sitemap.xml file with "changefreq" set to "weekly" and "priority" at 1.0.


title: Google references subfolders

text: Last week I launched a website and created a `robots.txt`:               User-agent: *     Disallow:     Sitemap: http://mywebsite.tld/sitemap_robots.xml      Now I've checked the indexed pages (`Google -> site:mywebsite.tld`) and found links to subfolders and non-public/internal files, that are place outside of the web root of the website. E.g.: `mywebsite.tld/vendor/`, `mywebsite.tld/module/`, `mywebsite.tld`, `mywebsite.tld/dev/`, `mywebsite.tld/vendor/zendframework/zendframework/tests/ZendTest/Test/PHPUnit` etc. Why are such folders being indexed? Why is it possible, if they are placed outside of the website root and there are not links to them? How to avoid indexing of such paths? * * * EDIT The folder structure of my website is:               /composer.json     /composer.lock     /composer.phar     /config/     /data/     /dev/     /init_autoloader.php     /LICENSE.txt     /module/     /public/ <-- web root     /README.md     /temp/     /vendor/      It's a common structure of a Zend Framework 2 project (with some additional folders). The document root is the folder `public` (set in Plesk): ![mywebsite-web-root](http://i.stack.imgur.com/goWaE.png)


title: Can I defer loading Modernizr?

text: I'm using an HTML5 template that makes thorough use of the semantic tags and includes Modernizr up top to do the necessary IE coaxing. Google PageSpeed is complaining about the blocking JavaScript and recommending a deferred load, but as I understand it Modernizr has to load first to prevent IE from choking. Is PageSpeed wrong about this particular item, or can I push the Modernizr load down to the bottom of the page?


title: How can I use google analytics to tell me how many people come from another, specific, site?

text: I am super new to GA, like I didn't even install it, just inherited it, and I'm trying to figure out how to tell if visits are being referred/just happen to be coming from a specific website. I want to find how many people come from one site to my site. Any help would be appreciated.


title: Keyword Fluctating Wildly in Google Search

text: Position: 95           2014-09-10 13:17:35     Position: NOT FOUND    2014-09-10 09:17:14     Position: 101          2014-09-10 05:15:06     Position: NOT FOUND    2014-09-10 01:14:50     Position: 85           2014-09-09 21:14:33     Position: 93           2014-09-09 17:14:18     Position: NOT FOUND    2014-09-09 13:14:07     Position: NOT FOUND    2014-09-09 09:13:30     Position: NOT FOUND    2014-09-09 05:13:10     Position: 98           2014-09-09 01:02:03      My keyword is fluctuating in and out of the Google SERPs on an hourly basis over the course of several days. What are the primary causes of this behaviour? e.g. different data centres at different times?


title: Does a Web Developer need a Reseller account?

text: I have a shared hosting account at Hostgator. I am about to advertise my web services and expect to build a few websites for customers soon. It just occurred to me that perhaps I should be upgrading to Reseller Accounts to give each client their own c-panel. I can always create unlimited email accounts for them. Is this best practices or is ther a better solution. Is there any reason I should use Reseller rather then Shared Hosting? My sites run fast at the moment.


title: Are there any shared webhosts that offer Gmail or Google Apps as part of their package?

text: I see that Dreamhost is doing something like this but i am not clear how much extra it would cost me. Any other hosts?


title: Will Search Engines crawl my Github gists?

text: I have been using Alex Gorbatchev's Syntax Highlighter in my blog for the past couple of years. It serves the purpose, but it is a pain to add the code while blogging (I need to use a HTML Encoder and manually add this piece wrapped around a `<pre>` tag. But, the positive thing is, I know for sure the search engine will crawl the code I have written. Recently I stumbled upon Github Gist and it was really easy to just copy paste, selected the language and embed in my website. However, the question I have here is, will the Search Engine crawl the code inside my gist making sure that it lands on my page?


title: Should I include everything in the sitemap or only new content?

text: For a website with dynamic content (new content is constantly being added), should I only include the newest content in the sitemap or should I include everything (with a sitemap index)? What are the best practices for sitemaps esp. for large sites? Also, is there anyway to make google (and other search engines) only crawl the pages in the sitemap? Thanks Update:   Also, any idea how stackoverflow handle this? I'd like to know but unfortunately (also understandingly) they have blocked access to their sitemap.


title: How difficult is an unmanaged VPS?

text: I have some sites hosted on a shared-hosting/cpanel environment and need to make a move up. I have some experience running my own server, but it is very basic (a local box to do live testing/file serv). My question is how difficult is it to run a VPS, should I buy a managed VPS (with stuff already installed), or unmanaged (blank box), and lastly if I go for unmanaged what steps should I take to keep my VPS secure? Edit: Also how difficult is it to backup files and databases? Can it be automated? Thanks


title: Why am I getting random comments with just "door.txt;10" as the content?

text: I have my own comment system with some rudimentary spam protection. Recently I started getting a few comments that appear to be automated with the name "XlsUoIGh" and the content "doors.txt;10" I deleted the first set of comments, thinking it was probably nothing. However, they came back. They're constrained to one page and usually only 2 or 3 are posted. I've heard online that this text serves as a "bookmark" for future spammers to find and use. Is this true? I've also heard of similar pieces of content being posted like "door.txt;6" What does the number mean?


title: fullscreen video background script

text: I'm looking for a script or a tutorial that allows me to stream for example a youtube video in fullscreen, but not flash because I want it to work on mobile devices too.


title: 301 or 302 redirects for not logged in user?

text: Users that are logged in have access to their own page `site.com/club/their- name-here`. If they're not logged in I 302 redirect that link to `site.com/club/` where there's the log in form. I kept reading about this and it seems that some say it's ok, some recommend that it should be with a 301 redirect. Will I get penalized for this?


title: Do I create new site or add to existing site?

text: Suppose, as an example, I have a website with the address, www.cool-gifts.com and I'm getting regular sales and its a worthwhile site, but no great fireworks. After research I find that there is a great market for '2nd hand stuff' and I'd like to serve that market. Would it be best to add '2nd hand stuff' as an additional category of gifts in my existing site....or, since the 2nd hand stuff is a market in itself, would I be better off investing time and energy bringing up a whole new site (www.used-stuff.com)? If I had employees and financial resources, it probably would be a no- brainer...start a new site. But, what if you are a small guy, with limited resources? So...new site....or add to existing site?


title: Redirecting all subfolder url's to another domain

text: I have a domain that is domain.com/portfolio/some-url I would simply like to direct all traffic that would normally go to the subfolder /portfolio to a new domain: new-domain.com/ How would I do this? Htaccess? Is there a way to do it to separate affiliation? Basically, all the /portfolio items are affiliate links that I don't need anymore and don't want the possibility of it decreasing my site rank in Google. What type of redirect should I use?


title: Low Bounce rate - too good to be true?

text: Found a website with 4% bounce rate over a 5 month period, getting a little over a 1000 visits a week with most visitors coming from organic search results. Is that even possible? I never seen a bounce rate so low. The website itself has just an image, horizontal nav (6 items) and a introduction paragraph with a bullet list on the home page. 60% of the visitors land on the home page. What could cause such low bounce rate? (not that's a bad thing).


title: How to track Google Analytics from a specific page on my website

text: I have a website that has a sign up form and login form (besides other pages, obviously). The sign up flow for goes as this: Landing page > SignUp Form > Thank you Page (Button click) > Login Page I would like to find out and/or track the number of users that enter the login page from from the Thank you page. Please note that the "Thank you page" cannot be modified. It's a long story why not but it can't be edited. I have a Google Analytics account tracking all the traffic. Could anyone please point me whether this information (stats about the thank you page being the referring page for the login page) is already available out of the box in GA? If so, how would I access the information? If this info is not available, how can I set up (preferably) goals for tracking my conversions.


title: How to remove a page from site without affecting google serp

text: I have a travel website. Just for information purposes, I had put a weather page. Now I realize that this page is increasing my overall bounce rate; because people who are looking for the weather forecast are landing on that page and getting what they want and exiting. What is the safest method to get rid of that page? Would it hurt my google rank if I remove it completely? Or is there a better way to handle this situation? I realize that around 21 percent of my daily hits are on that page. I would have been happy if my aim was to provide weather data for the location; however, my site needs to focus on selling hotels. So I think I need to get rid of this weather page immediately. What do you think?


title: Stylesheet switches increase loadtime?

text: I am using stylesheet switcher which uses a number of alternate stylesheets for the media="screen" and switches to those styles when instructed by the user. But in the web page I have to use several http requests to link so many style sheets which increases the loadtime. Is there anyway I can modify the code to load fast? How combining works I don't know since all style sheets are different.


title: How does Bing know when a result is clicked to use in website ranking?

text: I know that Google uses redirect links to count clicks ie:               https://www.google.com/url?q=http://html5test.com/&sa=U&ei=xlezU6DPIsqysQS824HwAg&ved=0CB0QFjAB&usg=AFQjCNEMhjMTe0TBrbgGmG6mlSygIF-mww      but Bing doesn't do this it instead gives you the actual link to the page. This page explaining Bings algorithm says it takes CTR into account


title: Mod_Rewrite Error code: ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

text: I know alot people have post about this error , however i still unable to solve it.So that is the reason why i start a new post with it. As stated in the title , i encounter a redirect loop when accessing my pages in the website. Here is my rewrite config.               RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://example\.com/test/store\.do [NC]     RewriteRule (.*)$ /test/$1 [R]      So , how do I solve this redirect error? Here is the log file               [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345204 2014] [rewrite:trace3] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910/initial] applying pattern '(.*)$' to uri '/test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test/ /store.do', referer: http://example.com/test/store.do     [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345213 2014] [rewrite:trace4] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910/initial] RewriteCond: input='http://example.com/test/store.do' pattern='^http://example\\.com/test/store\\.do' [NC] => matched, referer: http://example.com/test/store.do     [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345218 2014] [rewrite:trace2] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910/initial] rewrite '/test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//whatshot_v3/hahah/store.do' -> '/test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//store.do', referer: http://example.com/test/store.do     [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345233 2014] [rewrite:trace2] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910/initial] explicitly forcing redirect with http://example.com/test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test/ /store.do, referer: http://example.com/test/store.do     [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345239 2014] [rewrite:trace1] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910/initial] escaping http://example.com/test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//store.do for redirect, referer: http://example.com/test/store.do     [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345245 2014] [rewrite:trace1] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910/initial] redirect to http://example.com/test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//test//store/store.do [REDIRECT/302], referer: http://example.com/test/store.do      Thanks. Hi all, I have found the solution for my problem. RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://example.com/test/store.do [NC] RewriteRule ^/test - [R,L] #prevent for any URL to be place under /test.Thus , prevent looping. RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://example.com/test/store.do [NC] RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /test/$1 [R,L] Thanks everyone.


title: Restrict access to directories hosting different sites

text: My hosting provider requires that my primary domain (let's call it `example.com`) points to my public_html root. I also own several other domains (let's call them `exampleA.com` and `exampleB.com`) that are hosted in sub- directories such that they can be accessed via `http://example.com/exampleA/` and `http://example.com/exampleB/` I would like to restrict people from accessing these secondary sites in this way. Ideally, there will be no indication that the secondary sites are in any way related to the primary domain. How do I do this? Modify the `.htaccess` file?


title: Joomla Backend running slow on localhost

text: I made a local backup of my Joomla site a few months ago to test changes before updating the live site. Everything worked fine. Today I checked the local version after a while but when I open access the administration panel via `sitename.com/administrator` it takes a while until the site is loaded. I tried out different things and accidentally disconnected my Network Connection. After that everything loads as fast as before. But when I connect the Network Connection the problem reappears. I am running Joomla 1.5.14 on XAMPP 1.7.0.


title: Problem with my subdomain with .htaccess root as subdir

text: I am working on a site making my subdir to appear as root just like **_//domain.com_ /** is **_//domain.com/subdir_** and also access/load files hiding the subdir. My site have this .htaccess(below) and its working. My problem is when I add a subdomain like **_//admin.domain.com_** which is **_//domain.com/subdir/admin_** my .htaccess redirect me to the main domain **_//domain.com_**               Options -Indexes     RewriteEngine on     Options +FollowSymLinks     Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch     Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule .* http://domain.com/   [L,R=301]     RewriteRule ^$ domain/index.php [L]     RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/domain%{REQUEST_URI} -f     RewriteRule .* domain/$0 [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule .* domain/index.php?rp=$0 [QSA]


title: Google Webmaster Crawl Stats Missing

text: I added my website in Google Webmaster Tools two months ago and in "Crawl Stats" section I am seeing the following data. **Pages crawled per day** - Missing graph data for some specific date And the same is the case with "Kilobytes downloaded per day" and "Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds)". I don't know what's wrong with my website and whether this is a server problem or something else. You can see the snapshot for this issue.


title: http://www.mysite.com/c/v to display different domain:http://www.myothersite.com/c/v

text: My site is written in asp.net using C#/MVC 4.5, and is hosted on Windows Server 2008, IIS7. # It has the following route `https://mysite.com/c/v`. When the user types in `https://www.myothersite/c/v`, I want it to redirect/route to `https://mysite.com/c/v`, however, I want the route in the client's browser to display `https://www.myothersite/c/v`. We obviously own both domain names, and, we own the web server that hosts `www.mysite.com`, and define the bind to `www.myothersite` will be on the same web server. Is this possible?


title: I have a question about Windows Azure compute pricing and perhaps other compute pricing methods as well

text: I've just started to test the Windows Azure webrole in a staging environment and selected the 'small' instance. The pricing is .12\hour. If it's enabled (even in staging) does that mean I'm charged every hour it's enabled where there is any computing costs or not? So, for example, if no one visits the website from midnight to 5am CST, would I be charged those 5 hours? 60 cents doesn't mean much but over the course of a year it's $219. I can get an entire year of hosting a small website at discountasp.net for under that. I'm actually thinking that MS would charge it based on seconds where computing is happening and charge by an hour after that but not sure. If not, I don't see why anyone would put a website on Azure of other discounted hosting providers. If anyone has a link showing the caculator for computing costs, please let me know.


title: Users see blank space instead of AdSense Ads

text: I observed that ads from Google Adsense are getting displayed properly My many of the friends are not able to see them, they see a blank space instead. Moreover, I observed that google is showing fewer clicks than actual. I agree that I shouldn't get paid for fake clicks, but I'm confused about the number of actual clicks.


title: Moving large website to new CMS - URL changes

text: I was wondering if you have any tips on the following situation. I'm going to move a large website to a new Content Management System (CMS), here are some details on the site:   * online news magazine with roughly 3,000 articles   * domain age: 10 years   * online in the current form since May 2010   * indexed pages: ~10.000   * percent of search engine traffic: under 10%  Unfortunately a custom-tailored CMS was used for the site. The performance, reliability and SEO capabilites have been really bad, so we are moving to a new and proven open source CMS. All the articles will be kept as they are, but the URL structure as well as the structure of the HTML templates will be changed. What I wanted to do now is to actually create 301 redirects for all articles from the old to the new schema, i.e:   * Old: `www.example.com/en/html/news/detail/title-of-the-article/`   * New: `www.example.com/category/title-of-article.html` Is this a proven way to do something like this? If not, can you recommend a way that has worked for you?


title: How to use a domain name for a different existing website

text: I have a website, but I want to change the domain name to be used instead by another of my websites which is hosted somewhere else. How can I do that? For example, I have www.example.com it is about cats. Now I have made a website about dogs, and it is hosted somewhere else. I want to use www.example.com for that dog website. How can I do that?


title: How will using bitly links affect my page ranking

text: At present linking to our website using our full domain name and parameters tends to get rather long.               http://www.mywebsite.com/this/is/my/long/link/that/can/get/a/bit/ridiculous      The great thing about the above link is SEO eats it up and loves it. However, we like the look of bitly links:               http://my.site/vGst12r      But, we are unsure of how this is going to affect our SEO and whether or not we should rather stick to what we have. Any insight would help.


title: Better ways to have valuable data indexed, which is ignored currently

text:
.../a>      Hi folks. It seems that my _title tag_ which holds extremely valuable and describes contents on my simple design page is currently compeltely denied by search engines and not indexed at all!! Those descriptions should however be indexed as the describe valuable portions to an otherwise empty page with clean glossary (thats neat and organised to the eye of the viewer. So putting all that descriptive data into visible space would ruin the designish less is more fundamental... So, which alternatives to the `title` tag do I have, in order to put important contents that are relevant for both user as well as search engines?               A    ......</>     B
......</>     C    .......</>     D
.......</>      From the above list, arose my question: > Which of the above is advisable alternative in order to get the valuable > actual content indexed? Should it be in a a tag or p tag? Or are there even better tags for this which still keep layout clean? You suggestions are Much appreciated!


title: How to change Apache server to IIS server and MS SQL server database?

text: I have a domain with Apache server. I have the FTP logins. I want to change it to IIS server and MS SQL server database. How to convert it and who will do this?


title: Using XML in a Flex Website to Improve SEO

text: I've got a Flex 3 site called www.brainpinata.com that's a trivia game. Basically, everything in the site is pulled from a database-- the questions, choices, and answers. So, unfortunately, Google doesn't index my content. So, I'm trying to think of ways to improve the situation:   * If I took my database data and put it in an XML file which was in the website's root directory, would this work? Would it violate any Google policy? (The info would be the same as in the db-- so nothing shady.) Would I have to "wire" the XML into my site or would it be enough to just have the XML sitting in the root directory?    * Another idea is to use the noscript tag and load the XML content there. As I understand it Google indexes content that people who have Javascript turned off would see. I know Flex/Actionscript 3, and unfortunately, I don't know how to load XML content with HTML. Does anyone know of an example where a Flex site uses XML for the noscript content?


title: "good" way to redirect users and robots for internationalization?

text: I have a website in _Spanish_ and _English_. When there isn't any subdomain selected the preferred language is taken from the browser preferred language or a cookie. I have the following URLs               es.example.com     en.example.com     example.com      I want that when an user enter to `es.example.com/any_url` the cookie is set and then is redirected to `example.com/any_url`, but if it's a crawler then is not redirected. As you can see there isn't any obscure intention here, is just so the URL is cleaner. Does this have in any kind of penalization by search engines?


title: Is it a good idea to schema UserComments to latest comments in the sidebar?

text: So, I want to structure the most important parts of the site. I have main page, where there is a grid/wall of thumbnails. On the side, there is latest comments. Is it a good idea to structure them as UserComments. Or will the engines think, that those are the comments for that page?


title: Edit, Add, and Delete in Orchard CMS

text: In the few CMS systems I have played around, a central feature is a list of content items, maybe filtered, but normally such a screen has links to add, edit, or delete an item. When I create a standard Projection in Orchard, I fell very constrained by it's workflow for that, and then I feel plain frustrated that there is apparently no way to place an Add link on the projection, and neither to place edit or delete links on each line in the list. Just BTW, another frustration here is I can find no way to show the owner of a content item in the projection. Most CMS systems also have at least an edit button when viewing a content item if you are the ownder of that item. I have no problem placing an Edit link in the content, but then I must always manually find out the URL of the content item, and how to construct a hyperlink that opens an editor for that item.


title: Is there a way to activate Adsense based upon location?

text: I have a cloth store that only works in my country, but It receives some traffic from other countries as well, those other countries are not useful at all, so I was thinking if there is a way to activate `Adsense` based upon location in order to take advantage of those visitors.


title: display Google display ads to visitors who have visited certain web sties

text: For Google Adwords re-marketing, display ads are shown to visitors have been to your site previously. So when the go to a web site displaying adsense, it is likely that re-marketing ad will be displayed to them. Is there a way to do the same for if a visitor has visited a competitors site. i.e. if a visitor goes to one of my competitor sites, I want the display ads they see, to be mine. Is that possible?


title: Automated hosting

text: I'm going to make a web service, where people can register domain names and host their sites, which they order from us. Also I need proper billing. For this purposes I'm going to buy Hetzner root server with Parralels Plesk panel. What other software do I need to setup or which services I need to use? Especially I'm interested about DNS setup and nameservers setup.


title: What is correct heading setup for subpages

text: What is the best for seo of the following:   1. using `<h1>keyword</h1>` in layout and putting each subpage title in `</h2>`   2. using `<h1>keyword</h1>` only for main page and on each subpage replace it to `<h2>keyword</h2>` and using `h1` tags for subapge title   3. not using `<h1>keyword</h1>` on any of the pages instead put keyword in  in header and use for each subpage and using `<h1>keyword + something for main page title</h1>`   4. None of the above (please go into as much details)


title: Web safe area (optimal resolution) for web app design?

text: I'm in the process of designing a new web app and I'm wondering for what 'web safe area' should I optimize the app layout and design. By web safe area I mean the actual area available to display the website in the browser (which is influenced by monitor resolution as well as the space taken up by the browser and OS). I did some investigation and thinking on my own but wanted to share this to see what the general opinion is. Here is what I found: **Optimal display resolution:**   * **w3schools web stats** seems to be the most referenced source (however they state that these are results from their site and is biased towards tech savvy users)   * http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php (aggregate data from something like 15,000 different sites that use their tracking services)   * StatCounter global stats > Display resolution (Stats are based on aggregate data collected by StatCounter on a sample exceeding 15 billion pageviews per month collected from across the StatCounter network of more than 3 million websites)   * NetMarketShare screen resolutions (`marketshare.hitslink.com`) (a web analytics consulting firm, they get data from browsers of site visitors to their on-demand network of live stats customers. The data is compiled from approximately 160 million visitors per month) **Display resolution summary:** There is a bit of variation between the above sources but in general as of Jan 2011 looks like 1024x768 is about 20%, while ~85% have a higher resolution of at least 1280x768 (1280x800 is the most common of these with 15-20% of total web, depending on the source; 1280x1024 and 1366x768 follow behind with 9-14% of the share). My guess would be that the higher resolution values will be even more common if we filter on North America, and even higher if we filter on N.American corporate users (unfortunately I couldn't find any free geographically filtered statistics). Another point to note is that the 1024x768 desktop user population is likely lower than the aforementioned 20%, seeing as the iPad (1024x768 native display) is likely propping up those number (the app I'm designing is flash based, Apple mobile devices don't support flash so iPad support isn't a concern). My recommendation would be to optimize around the 1280x768 constraint (*note: 1280x768 is actually a relatively rare resolution, but I think it's a valid constraint range considering that 1366x768 is relatively common and 1280 is the most common horizontal resolution). **Browser + OS constraints:** To further add to the constraints we have to subtract the space taken up by the browser (assuming IE, which is the most space consuming) and the OS (assuming WinXP-Win7):   * Win7 has the biggest taskbar footprint at a height of 40px (XP's and Vista's is 30px)    * The default IE8 view uses up 25px at the bottom of the screen with the status bar and a further 120px at the top of the screen with the windows title bar and the browser UI (assuming the default 'favorites' toolbar is present, it would instead be 91px without the favorites toolbar).   * Assuming no scrollbar, we also lose a total of 4px horizontally for the window outline. This means that we are left with 583px of vertical space and 1276px of horizontal. In other words, a Web Safe Area of 1276 x 583 Is this a correct line of thinking? I'm really surprised that I couldn't find this type of investigation anywhere on the web. Lots of websites talk about designing for 1024x768, but that's only half the equation! There is no mention of browser/OS influences on the actual area you have to display the site/app. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks. **EDIT** Another caveat to my line of thinking above is that different browsers actually take up different amounts of pixels based on the OS they're running on. For example, under WinXP IE8 takes up 142px on top of the screen (instead the aforementioned 120px for Win7) because the file menu shows up by default on XP while in Win7 the file menu is hidden by default. So it looks like on WinXP + IE8 the Web Safe Area would be a mere 572px (768px-142-30-24=572)


title: 404 errors, Google Webmaster Tools, and a backwards third-party website system?

text: We're getting a ton of 404 errors in our GWT but they aren't actually pages on our site. Before you tell me this doesn't matter, note: they _are_ real pages and they _do_ exist... just not on our site. We're operating on a third party system. There's some central software/mechanism operating behind all the websites using this system. Basically, like, there are the following websites:   * central-server.com (their sales website, basically)   * user36633.com   * some-other.user.com   * user36633.central-server.com (not meant to be publicly accessed, is a duplicate)   * some-other-user.central-server.com (same as above) So basically... on user36633.com, we're getting errors for some-other- user.com. My question: will this negatively affect our site? I found this 2011 Webmaster Central blog that says pages which do not exist do not harm your site. _However_ -- these pages _do_ exist...


title: How can I transfer article content from old Joomla 1.5 site to new 2.5 site

text: I have an existing Joomla 1.5 site and am intending to wipe it and install a brand new 2.5 site. I will pick new plugins, template etc but would like to transfer the basic text / images of the articles on the 1.5 site to the new site. I am less concerned with categories and tags of those old articles, as they'll probably go in an 'old' category. I have several file and database backups of the 1.5 site. Has anyone done anything similar ? Are the two article db schemas similar enough to just transfer the data ?


title: How do I replace the Magento favicon?

text: I'm trying to replace the Magento favicon, but I can't seem to find it. Where is it?


title: Where can I get photoshop images like this for my website

text: I see a lot of websites like this one and I wanted to see where people get these images from to have the raised panel floating on the background. I see a lot of these sites use this technique and i wonder how they do this . . ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BjnIU.png) Do these sites build this stuff in photoshop from scratch or is there a place to get templates like this to use on a website?


title: Find all the pages in a website that point to another site

text: I just updated a website, changing all the URLs. There is another website that has (maybe) some links to my old website. I want to generate a list of all the pages in this other website that point to my website. This use to be easy to do with google: > site:othersite.com link:mysite.com but the Google/Bing/Yahoo all seem to have gotten rid of the 'link' advanced search option. More specifically, while 'site:othersite.com' works as expected, 'link:mysite.com' is simply turned into a set of keywords 'link mysite com'. So the previous query will return all the pages within othersite.com that have the words 'link' or 'mysite' on them. What I want is all the pages within othersite.com that have a hyperlink of the form href="http://*.mysite.com". As proof that the advanced search option 'link:' does not work at Google (even if their 'advanced search' text says it does) do this search and you will find the result is one page which has the keyword 'javasucks' in it but has _no links_ to javasucks.com. So, how do I do this?


title: Twitter form field like on thankyoustevejobsfor.com

text: How was the form field on http://www.thankyoustevejobsfor.com/ created? You can automatically tweet the message that you typed into the field.


title: Sessions suddenly not working in PHP, and error log contains a lot of junk now

text: So I was developing my PHP application, right? And then all of a sudden, my sessions wont work anymore! So I checked my error log, and here is what it told me (a few times) > PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library > '/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/imagick.so' - > /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/imagick.so: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown Whats going on? I have a regular webhost with access to cPanel. This just happend all of a sudden, and I have no clue of what to do. Help appreciated. :)


title: EV SSL with a static resource server

text: We have the domain:                www.scirra.com      Which we are going through the process of obtaining an EV SSL certificate for. The site makes use of our static domain to server CSS/images etc. It has 4 subdomains:               static1.scirra.net     static2.scirra.net     static3.scirra.net     static4.scirra.net      To stop security warnings when loading static resources from https://www.scirra.com I'm guessing we need an SSL certificate for the static server.   1. I'm guessing the .net certificate doesn't need to be EV   2. I'm assuming the .net certificate doesn't have to be the same provider? Amateur question I know but just want to check before we spend money on a cheap wildcard certificate for the static server.


title: Creating a form that posts to Twitter - how to get started?

text: I'm trying to figure out how to create an HTML form that would allow a user to log in and tweet their message directly to Twitter. What resources should I look at to get started?


title: Should I remove subdomains?

text: I am going to optimize a site which has two subdomains since a long time ago. They are pointing to the site's main domain and are well-indexed by Google. I've read in a SEO book however that having several urls pointing to the same content is a bad practice bcauses waisting 'link juice'. Now I am wondering whether removing the subdomains is a good idea SEO-wise? regarding that it causes many references from Google lead potential visitors to nowhere. It is specially helpful to know how long does it take for Google to flush references to the subdomains. I appreciate your hints about this.


title: Problem with my robots.txt

text: I want to allow a certain html file and my site's index file to be indexed by search engines. Everything else should be disallowed. My home directory does not actually contain an index file, I am using .htaccess to redirect to /cgi- bin/index.cgi. I am currently using this:               User-agent: *      Allow: /cgi-bin/index.cgi     Allow: /contact.html       Disallow: /       However, google webmaster tools is saying: > Googlebot is blocked from http://mydomain.com/ Is there a way of allowing indexing of the root while blocking all other files i.e., mydomain.com/*


title: SEO Impact on changing the resolutions of already indexed images

text: Let's say that i have a image `restaurant-photo_big.jpg` which is 640x480.. How can I change the resolution safely for SEO purposes? it's the same identical image but 800x800 (it may be cropped out compared to the old one).   * Should I simply replace `restaurant-photo_big.jpg`?   * Should I leave on my server old `restaurant-photo_big.jpg` (not linked anywhere) and create `restaurant-photo_huge.jpg` ?   * Should I 301 redirect `restaurant-photo_big.jpg` to `restaurant-photo_huge.jpg` ? thank you in advance :)


title: Would the following URLs result in duplicate content if I only used one canonical link?

text: In your experience, have you ever had problems with duplicate content being caused by the following URLs:   1. `www.mysite.net`   2. `www.mysite.net/`   3. `www.mysite.net/index.html` Do you think that this could result in a duplicate content issue if my canonical link is constantly pointing to only this: `www.mysite.net`


title: Google Webmaster Tools reports fake 404 errors

text: I have a website where Google Webmaster Tools reports 15,000 links as 404 errors. However, all links return a 200 when I visit them. The problem is, that eventhough I can visit these pages and return a 200, all those 15,000 pages won't index in Google. They aren't appearing in search results. These are constant errors Google Webmaster Tools keeps reporting and I'm not sure what the problem is. We've thought of a DNS issue, but it shouldn't be a DNS issue, because if it were, no page would be indexed (I have 10,000 perfectly indexed). Regarding URL parameters, my pages do not share a similarity in URL parameters that can make it obvious to me what could be causing the error.


title: Do you need to have filed a Copyright to enforce the DMCA

text: I lead IS for my organization and the other day we found out a competitor stole all of the Copy Text from our corporate site and pasted it nearly verbatim to their own (the only changes were to reflect their company name, rather than ours). I've been under the impression that once you do the task of writing something, you own it, and all the rights associated therein. I'd had a similar discussion with my editor at my publishing house and this was the impression I walked away with. Our CEO is taking the steps with his lawyers to execute an official copyright to further protect our intellectual property, but given that we currently do not have a registered copyright for the Copy Text on the site, can we still enforce a DMCA (the lawyers have also been asked to execute a DMCA take-down notice as well)? If there is a better SE site for this, please point me in the right direction rather than closing/deleting the post as either of the later would do nothing in the way of getting me on the right track (I asked in stackoverflow and the question was removed with no explaination aside from a link to the FAQ which doesn't immediately explain why the question would have been removed.)


title: Use of rare fonts on the web

text:
I have just been peeking at the source code of a web page. I notice that there is a CSS rule that defines what seems to be a rare font for some nice-looking subheadings. Html (Source file)
Model your workflow to fail fast.
      CSS (source file)               ...          h2 em {         font-family: MarydaleBold;         font-style: normal;         font-weight: normal;         letter-spacing: -0.02em;     }     ...      I am interested to know how it is possible to use a rare font like that for distribution over the web to many computers that may not have that font installed.


title: Set nameserver in WHM with VPS that has no domain name?

text: I have a new VPS I want to use to manage sites on. I need to set up nameservers so that I can point the domain names to the new servers. I know nameservers usually look like `ns1.example.com` where `example.com` is the domain name of the VPS, but my VPS does not have a domain name, I just access it via the servers IP. Is it OK to use a domain name of one of the sites I am trying to set up instead?


title: Organizing main page with detailed content

text: I need to develop a structure like the one that appears in the following site: http://www.autoic2.com ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/JjJyi.png)   * Clicking an image, showing the related content   * Clicking in that new content, showing the details The possibility to have a backoffice would be the ideal. I'm searching since this morning, but until now, didn't found something usefull to help me with this situation. Any available script that you know, so i can modify or learn from it? All suggestions are welcome.


title: failed httpd starting on a centos/apache web server

text: I installed a ffmpeg module on a web server (centos) after that httpd broke. How can I fixed it? when I typed:               /etc/init.d/httpd start      I got this error:               Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 5 of /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-directories.conf: Invalid command 'Order', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration [FAILED]      And the content of httpd-directories.conf is:               <Directory />         Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch         AllowOverride None              Order Deny,Allow         Deny from All     </Directory>          <Directory /home>         AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options=Includes,IncludesNOEXEC,Indexes,ExecCGI,MultiViews,SymLinksIfOwnerMatch,None         Options IncludesNoExec Includes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch ExecCGI              <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>             Order allow,deny             Allow from all         </Limit>         <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>             Order deny,allow             Deny from all         </LimitExcept>     </Directory>          <Directory /var/www/html>         Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch         AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Indexes Limit Options=Includes,IncludesNOEXEC,Indexes,ExecCGI,MultiViews,SymLinksIfOwnerMatch,None              Order allow,deny         Allow from all         <IfModule mod_suphp.c>             suPHP_Engine On             suPHP_UserGroup webapps webapps             SetEnv PHP_INI_SCAN_DIR         </IfModule>     </Directory>          <Directory /var/www/cgi-bin>         AllowOverride None         Options None         Order allow,deny         Allow from all     </Directory>


title: Make a particular section of a webpage appear on top webcache

text: I would like to make a particular content of my webpage that appears at the bottom to appear on top on webcache of Google (text only version). eg: `http://salesforce.com` has a slider content that appears at the bottom on the webpage while the cached version of it `http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.salesforce.com/&biw=1366&bih=633&strip=1` has the slider content appearing on top. I would like to do something similar for my webpage. Is it a script or a design practice that I need to follow?


title: Where to find the most visited websites by state

text: Is there a service (free or paid) that can provide the following:   1. List of most visited websites by U.S. state.   2. Keyword search in google by U.S. state.


title: Google sitemap for dynamic url structure

text: I am wondering what the best approach would be to generating a sitemap for google to crawl with a highly dynamic url structure. We have a webapp that assigns custom uris to all the users in our database for direct access to their content. All the uris are namespaced to one endpoint. The uris are chosen by the user who owns the profile and assume a human- readable form ('/profile/someguy') Would google require that all possible uris be documented in the sitemap? Wouldn't this lead to a ridiculously large xml file? It would be possible to periodically generate this using a script and break it up into smaller sitemaps if that is what's necessary. I have searched the webmaster docs for answers to this, but they largely only cover dynamic urls that use query strings, not ones that are generated in a readable format. Any guidance is much appreciated!


title: Force all PHP Mail() to go through SMTP

text: Is there anyway to force everytime the PHP Mail() is used to force it to use SMTP authentication? Maybe a setting through the PHP.ini file or a server configuration?


title: Is it better to move unrelated content to another domain?

text: I have an ecommerce site with an online community on a different subdomain. The community ranks for different keywords. If I would move the community to a different domain would that impact the SEO of the ecommerce site in any meaningful way?


title: Does Google use any “Language” flags / tags set within a PDF file when determining its language?

text: When determining the language of a _HTML_ page, I understand that Google looks at any language declarations that the page owner has set, and then also applies its own language detection algorithms. But does Google similarly look at language meta data set in PDF files when determining a PDF file's language? (Authors of PDF files can set document-wide properties describing the language (or languages) contained within it.) Or does Google rely exclusively on language detection algorithms and disregard the language flag set within the PDF file? Can anyone shed any light?


title: 301 redirect: Is this good or bad for 2 domains?

text: Since i couldn't find any appropriate answer to my specific question, I wanted to ask you. I've read alot of things about the 301-redirect for moving pages and so on. A customer of mine has booked a new domain last year for better search results (he included his main keyword into the domain. Before he had only a domain with his business name, which had nothing to say about what he does). I told him, that he should do a 301-redirect so he doesn't lose his position on Google and to redirect all new customers coming from the old domain to the new domain. After about one year where his site had a good amount of traffic, the results from Google search for his keywords are getting worse and worse. Since he didn't maintain his website (no new content, bad content on all pages and so on) I assumed this would be the problem. He gave his website to another company which also makes websites. They told him, that this 301-redirection is very bad for his website. They removed it, and also updated his content and the template, so now he has the same meta keywords on every page (instead of the specific ones I put there before). He also removed the canonical-tag which I placed there to ensure no duplicate content. What I am now afraid of is, that without this redirect Google now will find duplicate content and therefore kick him out of the index, which would be a nightmare, since most of his customers come over his website. I need verification of the fact, that the 301 isn't bad but in fact the correct way of working with 2 domains. If possible with good sources I can point out to him since he don't wants to hear anything about this. If someone also has a few words about the keywords and the canonical-tag I would really appreciate it! Thank you very much!


title: Free customizable rss feed newsletter service

text: I'm desperately searching for a newsletter system for my association. We have a site from which to fetch the news and I want them to be sent regularly to the people who subscribe. I would like to get the rss from this site and send them in the newsletter. I also want to be able to customize the layout of the mails. And since we are an NGO, I would possibly have this for free :) I was thinking about feedburner but you cannot customize the aspect, then I though about mailchimp, but we are a pretty big association and adding the people who would remain subscribed to the newsletter even after they left the association, I'm afraid we would pass the free quota in few years! Do you have any suggestions?


title: How can I see who is connecting to my websites on my server and possibly their IPs ?

text: 1) How can I know how many people is connected to the server in a specific moment (or previous hours of the day). (Even in real-time) 2) How can I know which one of the websites on my server they are visiting. (The websites are in different folders 3) How can I see their IPs ?


title: Bringing a site back online (with about 3000 internal pages) after two years?

text: I've had a site that I've had turned off for the last year or two, and I restored it from database and switched it back on recently. I've placed it on the same domain where it was, on a new server with all the content it used to have. It's a Q/A answer style site (similar to StackExchange) so it had a lot of content and a lot of internal pages. The site used to get a significant amount of SEO traffic (about 80% of it's traffic used to come from organic), I'm wondering if Google is likely to put a red flag on my site since it may look strange that it's gone from being down to all of a sudden having ~3000 internal pages. Am I likely to get black-listed? Is there anything I can do to ensure that I don't and to ensure that I'm not penalized (and that hopefully my Google rankings are restored in as short a time-frame as possible to what they previously were)? Thanks in advance.


title: How to design a slogan

text: Which tools and techniques do you use for designing slogans on website? I tried this one but I wasn't satisfied with it. There is little choice of usable designs and it is aliased in firefox (in chrome is was better). thank you


title: Why are there differences in data between Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools?

text: Why are there differences between Google Analytics And Google Webmaster Tools in external links data? Generally this data do not coincide with each other.


title: Problem with Google crawler and cached results

text: I have a client that has 3 domain names. For the sake of this argument I will call them `www.website1.com`, `www.website2.com` and `www.website3.com`. He used to have a website package with VistaPrint and `www.website1.com` was his main business website and website2 and website3 used to redirect to the main website. However recently I created a new WordPress website for him and now his main domain name is `www.website3.com` and website1 and website2 simply redirect to the main website. But when I go on Google and search for the domain name (any of the three) it does not show me the description of the website and it says: _A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more._ I used to have a _robots.txt_ file but have deleted it since the migration to the client's host however Google seems to have indexed it in the meanwhile. I got in touch with the hosting company and they said that it is a virtual file and that it doesn't physically exist - and that the issue with the description in Google is happening because it has indexed the website while the _robots.txt_ was there. I want all references to website1 and website2 to vanish from Google and I only want it to index `www.website3.com`, which is the main business website - with the correct description of the site What are my options? I logged into Google Webmaster Tools and it still says that the file is there. I hope you understand what I want to achieve but feel free to ask for clarification Any advice will be greatly appreciated as I want to solve this issue ASAP before it starts damaging the client's online presence and reputation


title: Free/ cheap way to receive and send emails from @mydomain account

text: I want to be able to **receive** email from a few **xxx@mydomain** email accounts and also **send** email from those addresses. Now, I'm looking for a very, very cheap, or free alternative. To receive my email, I thought of just using a free email forwarding service from a DNS registrar offer. Something like: > mail_1@mydomain.com -> forward to freemail_1@gmail.com > > mail_2@mydomain.com -> forward to freemail_2@gmail.com Now, how can I send emails from **mail_1@mydomain.com**? Also, is my approach correct? Or is there a better option for free/ almost free (< 40$ for 5 email accounts)?


title: My domain PageRank shows as unavailable, why is that?

text: My domain, http://www.anovaordemmundial.com , has been snatched by some opportunist when I failed to renew the domain. I know, it's all my fault :/ . After I have being ripped off and bought my domain back, and everything is configured and working, the pagerank for that domain shows as unavailable. Also searches for "nova ordem mundial" (in portuguese), which used to show my domain as the first result in searches in any language, now don't show it anymore. Do you think this is something temporary and it will recover its pagerank after a full crawl by google? There exists hundreds of sites pointing to my domain, that is why I got the previous relevance in searches. The domain is back for more than 5 days already. In reality, bing already Is there anything I can do to help get my domain back to its pagerank??? Thanks for the help!


title: What do Trackbacks and Pingbacks do?

text: My blog (running on dasBlog) supports pingbacks and trackbacks. What exactly are they, and do they provide any benefit to my blog (e.g. SEO, etc.)?


title: What WordPress plugins are "must have" for a site?

text: I'm new to WordPress CMS and have just created a site+blog using it. What set of plug-ins do you recommend me to install? I believe there are some useful, proven and "must have" WordPress plug-ins for SEO, optimization of the site, social network and bookmarking services, spam prevention, etc. that you usually use in your projects. Thanks! PS The question I ask might look as subjective, but I believe there is a certain set of plug-ins which is useful for every WordPress project.


title: Google Bot spending way too much following old 301 redirects

text: We changed our URL structure a couple of years ago but we still have a lot of backlinks pointing to old URLs. This causes Google bot to keep crawling old paths again and again and spending a lot of crawl quota on old URLs. If we block old URLs via Robot.txt like this: Disallow: /olddirectory/ This would mean Google won't crawl them but would they still pass link juice? Thanks


title: Track down segmentation faults in PHP?

text: I'm looking for a relatively painless way to track down segmentation faults in PHP (as reported in the Apache error log). This is my LAMP setup at the moment: Linux: OpenSUSE 11.3 x86_64   Apache: 2.2.15-3.7   MySQL: 5.1.46-2.18   PHP: 5.3.2-1.31 The code in question is not my own, it is Gallery2: http://gallery.menalto.com A typical scenario is that I go to the gallery main page and none of the thumbnails appear but I get a new set of segmentation fault errors in the error log. Given the relative complexity of that software, it's not particularly suited to simple forms of debugging. I'd like to be able to step through the code and see exactly what is happening. "Solutions" I've seen so far for doing this have been pretty far from "relatively painless." I've successfully used Gallery2 on this server (earlier versions of LAMP software packages) and on other servers, so I assume there is something defective in my current configuration, but without being able to see where the fault is occurring, I can't fix or work around it.


title: Site speed: less KB image vs. less HTTP request

text: I have an interesting problem, I guess... First of all, I want to use sprites, to reduce the HTTP request on my site. That is because I know it's better for SEO and it makes the site faster, most of the time. The interesting thing, though, is that my sprite is bigger in size in comparison with if I use four separate background images. The sprite: 20kb vs. 10 kb if I use 4 separate images. **20 kb vs. 10kb = 1 request vs. 4 request**. What weighs more? P.S.: the background images are used because I want to distinguish the posted forum; so not essential, but I found it necessary. P.S. 2: I know it's better to use `<img>` tags with the `alt` attribute, but I haven no choice in this one, because it's conditional.


title: What can be the impact of non-Latin domain zone launch?

text: Here in Russia we are about to launch a new Cyrillic domain zone, i.e. where you can spell domain names in Cyrillic alphabet instead of Latin. Currently we have a national zone ".ru" which allows only Latin characters. Many people believe that the new domain zone won't be successful in terms of search engine optimization and popularity. Do you know any example of regional non-Latin domain zones and what was the impact on the web industry of these new domains (i.e. changes in search engines ranking, changes in popularity, domain names migration, etc.)?


title: Is there a way of using HTTPS with Amazon's CloudFront CDN and CNAMEs?

text: We use Amazon's CloudFront CDN with custom CNAMEs hanging under the main domain (static1.example.com). Although we can break this uniform appearance and use the original whatever123wigglyw00.cloudfront.net URLs to utilise HTTPS, is there another way? Do Amazon or any other similar provider offer HTTPS CDN hosting? Is TLS and its selective encryption available for use somewhere (SNI: Server Name Indication)? _Foot note: assuming that the answer is no, but just in the hope someone knows._ **EDIT** : Now using Google App Engine https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl for CDN hosting with SSL support.


title: Simple future-proof, backwards-compatible way to play audio mp3 files in-place on the page?

text: I have a site for a musician that includes music in `mp3` format, but these are played through a Flash file (xspfplayer). Of course, without Flash this is useless. Is there a better future-proof, and reasonably backwards-compatible way to include mp3 audio snippets on a page without forcing users to use Flash, and also not forcing them to download the mp3 first, or to leave the page entirely?


title: schema.org specification for generic pages or posts on a CMS

text: I'm trying to determine the best possible schema.org type to declare for the content section in the template of a content management system, which will handle regular news posts for small, local hospitality businesses. The type should represent the content of that page, which is likely to be a wide range of things. The description for Article pretty strongly encourages its use to be limited to the articles of a publication. For purely semantic reasons, I'm not sure if Blog is appropriate in this case -- businesses won't be creating typical "blog" content but are more likely to be writing about upcoming events, special deals, awards, etc. Would Webpage be appropriate in this instance? Although I'm a fan of the schema.org concept, I frequently find myself unsure how broadly or narrowly I'm meant to infer the meaning of a type. In such cases, is it safe to use a high-level element, such as CreativeWork, or does this blunt the usefulness of the markup?


title: What are the pros & cons of web server log analysis over web based analytics like google analytics

text: What are the advantages of web server log file analysis over web services like google analytics? What are the advantages of google analytics like tools over web server log file analysis?


title: Facebook Page Advertising Issue

text: I am gonna take this from one of my answers, because it is still bugging me... > Facebook Pages is a different story. They make you pay for the views of > getting your post out to people who have already liked the page. Then, to > get your page out to new people, they make you pay for advertising the page > to new people. So, I wouldnt recommend this method for pages. > > Groups on facebook do work, pages are a money waste, but if you do have a > popular page with 2000 likes or more, the stats I got from that was on > average for 5 USD in one day only for boosting a post: 30 Likes, 8 Comments, > and 10,000 views of that post. Should I actually pay for my post when it first comes out? I do only post on the page once a week. So 5 USD for one day right after the post justifies the cost to get to people which I already got to like the page? Or should I just go with advertising on the groups which I am a member of?


title: Google bots and iframe

text: Here is the problem: Let say I have `mydomain.com`. The `externaldomain.com/article/mydomain` has an `iframe` with `mydomain.com` inside but the `externaldomain.com` _robots.txt_ contains:               Disallow: /article/       Will Google crawl `mydomain.com` inside the `iframe` at `externaldomain.com/article/mydomain` or it will block `mydomain.com`, because `externaldomain.com` _robots.txt_ disallow the folder `/article`?