title: Hiring security auditors...what should I know?

text: I want to hire someone to do a security audit of my website but I'm not sure how to go about it. Where are good places to look for an auditor? Besides a list of referrals, what should I be looking for in an auditor? What qualifications should he/they have, and how can I verify them?


title: Redirect to the correct URL without trailing slashes

text: My correct URL is `http://mydomine.com/cars/register.php` (without slash in the end). But I send emails to our customers with wrong URL `http://mydomine.com/cars/register.php/` (with slash in the end). Customers cannot access the page correctly. How to re direct them to the correct URL when they click on the wrong link?


title: Removing trailing slash for sub directory url indexing

text: I have a site with multiple different sites in sub-directories. I want to view the sub directory in two formats. For example:   1. `www.example.com/blog`   2. `www.example.com/blog/` Both should show the index page under blog folder. After turning DirectorySlash off, redirection is off from `www.example.com/blog` to `www.example.com/blog/` but in `www.example.com/blog`, all contents of that folder are showing instead of the index file.


title: How effective is guest-blogging for SEO?

text: I was wondering how much time to devote to guest-blogging. It is pretty consuming and one person can only do a few per day max. And often you just get a link in the bottom of the post. Is it really beneficial to SEO? And if so, are there any particular tricks or pitfalls to it?


title: How to remove old robots.txt from google as old file block the whole site

text: I have a website which still shows old robots.txt in the google webmaster tools.               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      Which is blocking Googlebot. I have removed old file updated new robots.txt file with almost full access & uploaded it yesterday but it is still showing me the old version of robots.txt Latest updated copy contents are below               User-agent: *     Disallow: /flipbook/     Disallow: /SliderImage/     Disallow: /UserControls/     Disallow: /Scripts/     Disallow: /PDF/     Disallow: /dropdown/      I submitted request to remove this file using Google webmaster tools but my request was denied I would appreciate if someone can tell me how i can clear it from the google cache and make google read the latest version of robots.txt file.


title: What are some software products and tools to use in order to increase user-conversion?

text: What are some ways other than in-person tests that webmasters can do to try to increase user conversion and participation?


title: Title placement for good SEO?

text: Where should the `<title>` tag be placed for best SEO in relevance to `<meta name=description content="" />` tag? Does placing it upper the `<meta name=description content="" />` or below it, or does it have not have any relevance at all.


title: Meta field for Domain Url? Or is it possible to change the index of google

text: So I did the misstake of using a temporary url a while ago when launching my web site and called it http://web.mysite.com Now when google indexes it, even that the web. is not the primary url anymore it still uses that over the http://www.mysite.com Is there any way I can change this? Unfortunately I cant remove the web.mysite.dom binding from IIS since all Google links refer to that and I cannot use wildcard binding on the actual server. I have google analytics enabled with the correct url (www.mysite.com). Is there a way to enter some kind of meta data that enforces the robots to see the address as www.mysite.com? Thanks


title: 301 redirect to different directory on Yahoo Small Business Hosting without .htaccess

text: I have a website hosted with Yahoo Small Business Hosting, and I don't have access to use a _.htaccess_ file. I have around 220 pages in a folder `mysubfolder` (`http://example.com/myfolder/mysubfolder`) and the age of website is around 3 years. I am planning to move all 220 pages in `mysubfolder` to `myfolder` (one level up). All the pages in `mysubfolder` are indexed. What is the best way to do this, so that it wouldn't affect my SEO.


title: MODx CMS and SEO

text: Does anyone have any experience with MODx CMS? How good or bad is it for a MODx-based website in regards of its SEO?


title: Firebug Disabled on Some Sites?

text: I have noticed on some website that firebug is off while on other sites it is on. I have not made any changes to these settings but how does a site tell firebug to turn off or how does firebug know do not turn on for this site?


title: Exit link tracking with timestamped logs on 3rd party content

text: I want to track clicks on exit links, that are placed in 3rd party content, for example on Twitter. I also need the timestamps of the clicks. Google Analytics can't be embedded in 3rd party content. Another solution is to use a URL shortener like bit.ly. However, bit.ly or goo.gl don't log the time of the click with any better granularity than a full day. su.pr shows the time for the past day in its analytics graph. The analytics download only includes the day, not the time. cli.gs was touted as having the most detailed analytics, yet it doesn't show the time either, and forces the user through a preview page. Hootsuite/ow.ly doesn't let you drill into analytics intraday.


title: How my robots.txt should look like for a single page app

text: I can understand how to disallow bots to crawl some pages/folder in normal application. For example for google-bot it is nicely described here. But what should I do if I have a single page application (the one that uses only ajax to upload new content and has routing and page generation on the client). How to make it crawlable is described here and here, but what if I do not a bot to follow some links (that are on my starting page)? By this I mean the following: When SPA is loaded for the first time it loads some basic HTML. This html can have specific links like:   * home (#!home/)   * about (#!about/)   * news (#!news/) but I do now want a bot to crawl #!about link.


title: Website won't work without www on mobile phone

text: I have updated the _.htaccess_ file so that when someone types in `example.com`, they are redirected to `www.example.com`. This works great on my computer, but when I try it on my cell phone is does not redirect. Instead I get the "Webpage not available" message. Does anyone know why? I've designed many websites and have never run into this problem.


title: Google webmaster tools: parameters that only apply on one page

text: I'm trying to get my e-commerce website on google and still figuring out how it all works. Now, I have seen this feature named URL-parameters, allowing me to set different parameters that affect page content to be indexed (one can also set parameters that do not affect the page, but for me that does not apply..). The question I have about this is whether and how I should add parameters that I only have on some pages of my site. example: The homepage of my site is `www.mysite.nl`. no parameters at all. But when a user clicks the navigation bar, it links to `www.mysite.nl/itemList.php?category=&....subCategory=....` The parameters `category` and `subCategory` define whether there is content on my `itemList` page and what content that is. It gets matching products out of my database based on those 2 variables. The question: How do I make sure that I apply the google URL Parameters function decently for my website?


title: Google Ranking for long tail search phrases

text: When using long tail search phrases for products (items to purchase), google generally returns multiple URLS for various ecommerce sites, but it hides additional urls for each site behind ![show more results](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NuuYC.jpg). Each site tends to get one URL in the SERP and the rest are hidden (this isn't always the case as sometimes it shows 4 or 5 pages for a given domain but they are almost always grouped together). Since the related pages for each domain show up grouped together in the original SERP, is google using domain authority to determine ranking for the collection of pages, or is it ranking the entire set of pages for the domain based on the one page it chose to display in the SERP?


title: Will Google harm my ad's rating if my display URL in adwords does not exist?

text: I have a service in a very big city, and to make my ads stand out, I display the name of the neighborhood in the display URL, although the actual URL is always the same page with my services for any neighborhood. Will google decrease my rating for this? In a different note, you can also express your ideas about if it's sensible to do this or not, ie, the client might feel I'm deceiving them. Although this will be subjective, unless there is some scientific study. Thank you!


title: Where do I set my SPF record for domain managed by Yahoo?

text: Many years ago we purchased a domain from Yahoo. Now our website is hosted on Amazon EC2. The output of an SPF checking tool (http://www.kitterman.com/getspf2.py) says: > SPF records are primarily published in DNS as TXT records. > > The TXT records found for your domain are: i=182&m=bizmail-mx2-p9 > > SPF records should also be published in DNS as type SPF records. No type SPF > records found. > > Checking to see if there is a valid SPF record. > > No valid SPF record found of either type TXT or type SPF. Where do I get access to these values? Can somebody speculate, where can I find an interface, or a configuration file to fill in the missing fields? **Edit** To clarify, the domain name is managed by Yahoo and the actual server is an EC2 instances being routed via an elastic ip. The best I could on the Yahoo control panel only mentions CNAME, A and MX. Where is SPF? Here's a Yahoo help article covering this.


title: Caches and Website Screen Shots

text: If I am creating a website to filter retail websites, like shipping or eco- friendly, etc. Could I use the screenshot of the homepage as the icon to link to the direct website? Ie. if my filters result in the The Gap, www.gap.com, and there is a snapshot, cache of the homepage, am I infringing on their ip?


title: Online Bookmarks

text: I want to save my bookmarks online so that I could access them from anywhere, from any computer. So I want to know the site name or if there is any tool for it as I cant remember lots of site's name, which is useful for me.


title: Google Webmaster Tools incorrect rel-alternate-hreflang implementation warning message

text: I'm getting this warning message in Google Webmaster Tools: > Incorrect rel-alternate-hreflang implementation In particular, there seems > to be a problem with missing or incorrect bi-directional linking (when page > A links with hreflang to page B, there must be a link back from B to A as > well). This message seems pretty straight forward, but when checking their example pages, I'm not finding anything wrong. I'm using alternate for translation of main site menu, titles, etc. In each page I have this:               <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://mydomain.com/page" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="jp" href="http://ja.mydomain.com/page" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="ko" href="http://ko.mydomain.com/page" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="th" href="http://th.mydomain.com/page" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://es.mydomain.com/page" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="pt" href="http://pt.mydomain.com/page" />      I've double checked this exists in all the 6 pages. This is the first time I've seen this message although I've implemented this at least 6 months ago, and implementation hasn't changed. Is there any way to check a specific set of pages for these things? Am I missing something in my implementation? We're auto-redirecting people from a location to their specific language, and give them an option to manually change this. I've also just found out about the suggestion for `Vary HTTP header` - is that relevant and important here?


title: Using RegEx's in Multi-Channel Funnels in Google Analytics

text: For some reason, I can't get my multichannel funnel which utilizes RegEx's in the path steps to function -- it keeps coming back with no data. There are a few variables which may be holding things up, but I can't figure out the origin of the problem, nor a solution. Here's the situation:   * The funnel is tracking conversions, defined as when a user completes 4 steps to signup   * Steps are not "required"   * Default URL is set to `https://example.com`   * There is a 302 redirect set up on our site that leads from `http://example.com` to `https://example.com`   * Within the funnel, steps switch from non-secure pages (unless browser is set to secure browsing), to secure pages once the user moves from the landing page to the second page of the sign-up process (account placeholder has been created)   * URL at that point contains the variable of publisher number within (but not at the end) the URL   * My RegEx's are all properly written as tested on rubular.com


title: How to hide dns when someone whois me by use domainsbyproxy?

text: i register domain with godaddy and i use addon privacy protect by domainsbyproxy but still show dns server when whois? how to make its to private?


title: Drupal 7 shared cloud hosting problem

text: I'm hosting one drupal 7 website on site5.com cloud shared hosting and it seems to be that drupal cache queries go very slow on almost every table that starts with name cache_... This site is using 1-2 custom modules, i18 module only for front page text, about 13 custom types fields and has about 650 nodes. Now site has been used only me and my client. I contact hosting and they say that problem aren't their, but I have been thinking, I have one drupal 7 site, with webshop in croatia with 7000 nodes and active 30 users per seconds on poor host and everything is going well. My questions are, it can be something with a new drupal 7 update (7,19) or my website is really that slow (highly doubt) or cloud shared hosting is only a cheap trick from site5.com?


title: how to make backlinks for Malayalam sites either english or Malayalam

text: I am new to SEO.I need help ? The website is fully in Malayalam content so how to make backlinks?But keyword is English. any body pls help me


title: Google news not showing images from my site

text: I have a question for you. One of the sites I'm working on has been accepted in Google news. Now, my issue is that most of the time,no image is fetched, while some other times a related image from another website is shown instead. I have read somewhere that the image needs to be nearby or in the title tag - is it so? Any idea what I am doing wrong?


title: help me being the next zuckerberg

text: I really expect someone to help me with my problem as stated below. I started learning website making by having tutorials from w3schools.com but after doing taking the HTML tutorials I don't think I really can do anything with it. Maybe I don't know everything about HTML yet. I know the online tutorials are not enough but what I need you guys to tell me is that how can I learn making some nice websites. I have vacations for two months now and I think it would be the best time for me to learn making websites as I really love to be a website developer. Now I would like to start from the scratch. I know some C language _(though I know it will not help me)_. So tell me from where shall I learn HTML and what all things shall I learn after that and in what order. If you can also help me with the material _(let it be books or online tutorials)_. But I would like to know how can I gain confidence that I can make some websites as just learning online tutorials doesn't help me much. I also tried some video tutorials but in that too, they will just tell me some of the functions and not all. So what am I supposed to do.. just know a limited functions as they want me to know in video tutorials or do something else.


title: Track Promotional Code Sales

text: Is there a way I can track actual sales on purchases utilizing Promo or Discount Codes obtained through my site? My site will link to e-commerce sites where users can use those promo codes on their purchases to save money. My site will not actually be selling any items, it is all referrals to other sites. I want this to be done outside of any 3rd party commission platform such as Commission Junction or LinkShare. Thanks!


title: Is there a way to do a site-wide 301 redirect or rel="canonical"

text: I've got a blog running on a sub domain mirrored using this method on to a sub directory, so that the links come to my main domain not the sub domain.. Obviously this creates duplicate content. What I was planning on doing, was to block googlebot from seeing the sub domain using robots.txt and then get it to index the sub directory. What i would also like to do is insert 301 redirects from each of the pages as well as rel="canonical". But because this is a blog there is always new content being added so I would have to add new pages to the 301 each day and add in new rel="canonical" links into each page. Is there a way to write with the 301 redirect & rel="canonical" that anything after the slash stays the same but the domain name itself will change? ie. blog.mysite.com/post1 - would automaticly be redirected to - mysite.com/blog/post1


title: Does page impression get counted for unique visits?

text: in Google adsense, if a user from any territory revisits page impression is getting updated but that eCPM is not getting updated its showing zero only, does it work only for unique visitors? Thanks Sneha


title: What should I do if I have 2 UI tabs with content that allows the user to access the same page?

text: I created an employee review application that has top-level stateful tabs just like the ones on this site. There is a tab called "My Employees" and a tab called "Employee Management" (used by HR only). The issue that I have is that when you are on the "My Employees" tab or the "Employee Management" tab, the associated information that is displayed both give the user access to the "View Employee" page. So right now, since you can access the "View Employee" page from both of these tabs, I am deactivating all tabs when the user is viewing that page. I'm doing this because I don't know which tab to have active. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there a better UI navigation technique that I should be using if I have these types of scenarios, or does this indicate a flaw in the UI design in general? Is it ok for "View Employee" to be accessable from 2 tabs? Should I just use stateless tabs (buttons) or is that poor design as well? Thanks and I appreciate any help you can provide.


title: Using Google Webmaster & Analytics, what data to look at to improve website performance?

text: Using data from Google Analytics and Webmaster tools, what data should I be looking at to improve my websites performance? I want to improve the SEO, usability and just general performance of my website. EDIT: It's a portfolio website that we've done the initial SEO for, also optimised all images etc and made the site as fast as possible. What kind of things should I be looking out for in the analytics and webmaster data to improve performance for both the SEO and each individual page. EDIT: Is there kind of a weekly/monthly checklist of things to check to improve SEO and performance.


title: Using nofollow when crosslinking my own sites

text: I have 20 sites in the same domain, different niches and I want to interlink them for USER EXPERIENCE. I want to know from someone who tested this: Will using a nofollow attribute for the links keep the sites safe from google link scheme penalties?


title: Will search engines penalize spam links in Facebook comments for websites?

text: I have many static HTML web pages in which I had used Facebook comments. A user had posted a spam link in one of the page's comments. I logged in as a moderator and deleted it, banned the user, and marked it as spam. Yet Facebook displayed the message: `Comments from USERNAME will only be visible to his friends. Undo`. As the message says, it provided an undo link. The problem is in the future when search engine bots crawl Facebook comments, and if they use the links posted in the comment which lead to spam websites, then I may get a penalty for linking to spam sites. So how do I remove the comments entirely from Facebook, so that not even the user's friends would see it? May be if only their friends can see it then search engines cannot crawl it. But if his friends use those links then that might add a link to the target site, which leads to my site being the referral to the span site. So what should be done?


title: https & ajax crawling

text: We made on our webpage https://www.1point618.com a transition to ssl and now we using nearly entirely ajax to load the content. Therefore all urls of existing pages have changed. We used the 301 redirect as recommended, also we have implemented google's specification that the webpage is still crawl-able. We thought that maybe it would last a month that we have the same ranking in google's search results, but still google's search results are much worse than before these changes. Most of the content (artist profiles) isn't indexed anymore. For example of the submitted sitemap only 3 of around 450 urls are indexed. Before almost all urls were indexed. My question is now: Does google's ajax crawling work together with ssl? (It looks like it would work, cause of the access log file.)


title: List of all URI elements for a website

text: Does anyone know a good way of getting a list of all the URI elements for a website? I plan on moving a website to a new CMS and would like to setup some 301 redirects for articles, images, css, and js files that will be moved to a new location. I'm looking for somewhat of a "site sucker" application that creates a list of URI elements for a website, instead of downloading them.


title: Poor backlink profile - search rankings not updated for 2+ months

text: I am carrying out some work on a website that is a PR2 with a few good quality, relevant backlinks (PR4-6). It has a presence on Twitter that is updated regularly, a Google Places listing, and listings on some decent directories (Qype etc). The site was rebuilt into Drupal 7 two months ago, with all the basics done - URL rewriting, XML Sitemap submitted to Google, and most importantly, good quality, structured content. I've noticed that Google is still showing "old" URL's from the previous version of the site that was ditched 8 weeks ago. I think the site may be penalised under the Penguin update, as a previous SEO company created many low quality links from link farms/directories. My question is what the correct way to deal with this is. Bing Webmaster Tools can "disavow" links, and I guess I can attempt to contact the link farms to have them removed. I've already submitted a request to Google to request that we have the penalty removed as we're trying to tidy up a bad history. We submit updated sitemaps to Google and Bing daily, and have built some further decent quality, relevant links. Is there anything further I can do?


title: which status to put for temporarily inactive page

text: I was wondering if someone could help me how to manage temporarily inactive website in regards of SEO and search engine. the case is i managed a big ecommerce site, and sometime i need to put down page(s). could be days, could be weeks, could be months, and it depends on our vendor. if my visitors land on the page that been temporarily inactive then i can give them a message that the vendor they looking for is not available at this time and he can check back later OR check another vendor with similar products, but how do i send my message to search engine robots? if i use 301 status and forward URL page to another similar products, then the chance that the current URL being deindex is huge while i still want to use that URL for the future if my vendor want to re-join. any advise will highly appriciated


title: Multiple top level domains - should I redirect/rewrite or leave them?

text: I have a website which has many top level domains e.g.   * mywebsite.com   * mywebsite.org   * mywebsite.co.uk   * mywebsite.org.uk The website is advertised as `mywebsite.org.uk`. But I expect lots of people will type `mywebsite.com` or `mywebsite.org` because its more familiar/easier. I could just leave the url alone or I could redirect visitors to the "correct" `mywebsite.org.uk` domain. Is there any guidance on what I should do?


title: SEO to avoid possible duplicate content

text: My website is about bands and musicians, but I have two problems with it: 1.) A musician can create a profile and add his bio. Bands can also create a profile and add band members and their bio. Many musicians are members of several bands, so I will have the bios of them repeated on several pages of my website. Any idea how to control this since the site will be populated and controlled more or less by its users? Here's an example: A band has 10 members and will create a "band" profile. Lets say half of the band members will create their own profiles, while half don't care and will never do this, or they have it on some other website and won't bother doing it again on my website. 2.) If musicians will have bios on my website, there is also a (huge) possibility that they also have their own website with the same bio that will just be copy-pasted, or have the same bio on MySpace and similar websites, which will again result in duplicate content. If I disable the option for users to add their bios, then the whole concept of the website doesn't make sense.


title: convert pdf to jpeg on linux?

text: Sometimes clients email me a poster which they received from a graphic designer in pdf format that they want added to the site. I have generally told them to ask the designer to export it in jpeg format. This has been working out OK, but is there any easier option? The only other way I have figured out is to do a screen shot of the pdf and then crop it using gimp, but that's kind of time consuming.


title: chmod 700 and htaccess deny from all enough?

text: I would like to protect a public directory from public view. None of the files will ever be viewed online. I chmoded the directory to 700 and created an htaccess file that has "deny from all" inside it. Is this enough security or can a hacker still gain access to the files? I know some people will say that hackers can get into anything, but I just want to make sure that there isn't anything else I can do to make it harder to hack. Reply: I am asking if chmod 700 and deny from all is enough security alone to prevent hackers from getting my files. Thanks.


title: Image Composition Services for Ecommerce

text: I'm researching the market for image composition services for ecommerce software. Systems that will manage high resolution images for product variations (multiple colors, different text/logo on the same image of a lady, etc.) Specific questions.   * Scene7 seems to be the leader in this space. Are there lower cost alternatives to Scene7?   * What sort of costs **can** I expect for this kind of hosted service? Scene7 doesn't list prices, which leads me to believe they have metrics to size up each client and maximize profits.    * Outside of the software as a service market, are their open-source and/or commercial self hosted solutions?   * Not necessary, but any services with out of the box Magento integration jump to the front of the line.


title: Visitors with at least 1 event click? (Visits with Events)

text: I might be getting a bit too lost in the metrics to realize that I already have the numbers I'm looking for, but I'm trying to figure out how to report the number of unique visitors who visited a page that interacted with a specific element and caused an 'event click' on a page (So # of visitors who caused an event). I currently have a dashboard set up with a widget that reports, in a table, the number of Unique Visitors by Event Category. However if there are multiple labels ('Next', 'Back', 'More Info') are the multiple labels messing with the visitor number that Analytics is reporting? So say we have a slideshow on our page (along with some other content); I just want to see the number of 'Unique Visitors' that clicked ANYTHING on that slideshow. So Person A clicks 'Next' - that registers are 1 unique visit. Person B clicks 'Next', 'Back', and 'More' - so now we're up to two Unique visits. Person C visits the page but doesn't click anything, so we're still at 2 unique visits. I...might already have this down with my widget...but the metrics are seriously scrambling my brains. Any advice?


title: Is trailing slash automagically added on click of home page URL in browser?

text: I am asking this because whenever I mouseover a link to a home page (e.g. http://www.example.com), I notice that a trailing slash is always added (as observed on the status bar of the browser) whether the home page link contains a href attribute that ends with a slash or not. But whenever I am on the home page, the URL on display will not have a trailing slash. I tried entering a slash to the URL in the URL bar. And with Firebug enabled, I notice that the site always return a 200 OK status. An article here discussing this states that having a slash at the end will avoid a 301 redirection. But I am not seeing any redirection, even on this page. Could this be a browser feature that is appending the slash?


title: What is the screen size used by Google's PageSpeed Insights for mobile previews?

text: Google's PageSpeed Insights allows one to check a website's speed issues for both desktop and smartphone devices. I have some media query CSS for smartphones on my website, but I am unsure about PageSpeed's smartphone screen size. Does anyone know the screen width?


title: Which is better jplayer or jwplayer?

text: I need to make a video slideshow( slides to contain embedded video players and must play mp4 files), and I am kind of confused what would be the best free solution I can use? jplayer and jwplayer both seem good, but I can't find any comparisons between them, so I want some expert opinions and user experiences on these two. Also if there are any other free and open source solutions you can recommend, i am all ears ;) My requirements are: The player must be html5 with fallback to flash. Should support mp4 files as well as flv. Should also have the ability to double as an audio player(mp3) along with video capabilities. Should be lightweight and customizable easily in terms of looks.


title: Publishing a web application with Linode

text: I just purchased and set up a Linode VPS. Normally I purchase a new domain name and set it up with my hosting but on Linode didn't ask for that. What I have to do to publish my web application to Linode?


title: Why does internet explorer want to preload these 2 linked html pages?

text: After running a WebPagetest.org for one of the pages of our website, I noticed - because of the red marked http file not found errors - that Internet Explorer (IE) wants to preload two html pages after the last javascript has been loaded. Not all linked html pages are being preloaded by IE. The undesired page preloading happens with both IE7, IE8, IE9 and IE10. The links are encapsulated within a `li` tag, to be precise the path is: `html > body > ul > li > a` . I can't prevent this unwanted IE page pre-loading by adding a `rel="nofollow"` to the link: http://crashplan.probackup.nl/bugs/ie-link-will-preload- page/a-rel-nofollow2.en.html and an IE8 test result. Why does Internet Explorer want to preload these specific linked html pages in the first place, and how to prevent this undesired preload?


title: Remote desktop to Ubuntu

text: I have a VPS server running Ubuntu OS and also have shell access to my server. I wonder is there any way to connect to Ubuntu desktop and see its UI from windows using remote desktop tools such as TeamViewer or what ever apps? Is that possible or I have to deal with my server using just command line?


title: What is wrong with this Apache httpd.conf file for vhosts?

text: **What is wrong here?**               NameVirtualHost *:80          <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName www.apples.co.uk     DocumentRoot /var/www/apples.co.uk     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.apples\.co\.uk$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.apples.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName www.bananas.co.uk     DocumentRoot /var/www/bananas.co.uk     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.bananas\.co\.uk$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.bananas.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]     </VirtualHost>      **Problems:**   * `apples.co.uk` does correctly redirect to `www.apples.co.uk`, but `bananas.co.uk` redirects to `www.apples.co.uk`.   * When either `apples.co.uk`or `bananas.co.uk` redirects, the address bar results with `http://www.apples.co.uk//`. What is causing that extra slash at the end? Here the output of `apachectl -S` :               [Sun Jul 31 08:41:52 2011] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts     VirtualHost configuration:     wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:     *:80                   is a NameVirtualHost              default server www.apples.co.uk (/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:3)              port 80 namevhost www.apples.co.uk (/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:3)              port 80 namevhost www.bananas.co.uk (/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:11)              port 80 namevhost servername.apples.co.uk (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:1)     Syntax OK      I guess the first problem is caused by the `default server` setting. How do I remove that? Does there need to be a default? I know I also need to add to `sites-enabled` to get rid of the warning, but I'll leave that for another question.


title: JavaScript control of <audio> not working in Firefox, works in Chrome

text: <audio id="audioMusic" loop="loop">       <source src="/Music/behind_you.ogg" type="audio/ogg" />       <source src="/Music/behind_you.mp3" type="audio/mp3" />      </audio>     <script type="text/javascript">        var a = document.getElementById("audioMusic");        a.play();     </script>      **Problem / Question:** This, along with countless other ways of controlling audio via JavaScript, works fine in Chrome, it does not work in Firefox or IE. Why? How can it be changed? By the way: Yes, I know I can use the `autoplay` attribute, that's not what I am looking for because I need to be able to turn it on and off and adjust volume via JavaScript. Yes, I know that background music is annoying.


title: Web site analysis

text: I am looking for an opensource API for my existing website. The functionality that I am looking for is:   1. How many users visited the site in a particular interval of time?   2. What is the IP address the machine from where the request has come?   3. Which region/country/City the user belong to?   4. Which operating system that he is using?   5. Which browser has he used for sending the request? What are my options?


title: What would happen to my domains if my domain provider company bankrupted

text: I am thinking to transfer all my domains to one registerer so that the control will be easy. But I am a little bit worried about the following question: what would happen to my domains if my domain provider company bankrupted?


title: Why can't Internet Explorer render this page correctly?

text: I've been pulling my hair out but can't figure out why my page looks like a huge mess in IE9, but Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari works great. My website is here: http://173.244.195.179/test-o.html Could anyone tell me what I'm doing that isn't compatible with IE9?


title: Can a registrar ransom a domain name which has become popular?

text: I am slightly paranoid about my domain name I have. I think the site I am building could have potential and take off in the future. I am worried though if the people I registered the domain name with might try and extort more money off me or take away my domain name for themselves. I am guessing when Google first started out they must have bought their domain name through a registrar, so how did they get to keep a hold of it and make sure no one stole it from them or prevent the company they registered it with extorting more money from them? How much do you think Google pay to keep their domain name? Do you think its still the original price they paid back all those years ago? Do registrars do this? If so, what is the likelihood it could happen with my domain name? How can I protect my domain name? Who actually owns a domain name? Maybe I am just being paranoid but I would hate to see that when my domain needs renewal the cost jumps from $10 to like $1 million dollars etc.


title: How to manage and organize 'requests' for website updates from a variety of departments: To Do List

text: I am taking on the responsibility of managing two websites (Wordpress) for nonprofit societies. I receive multiple requests for mini-content changes from a variety of committees and departments. As a volunteer, I'm hoping to park these requests into a chart or to do list that I can then use to work through a slew of easy, one minute content changes all in one go. I considered creating an excel sheet for this, but then thought that the professionals on PW.SE might be able to point to a template or to-do-tracking system that is already done up and better thought out than what I could cob together. When it's time to work, I need to direct myself to the page that needs updating, input/upload the desired changes, and then check it off the list.


title: Is there an easy way to see amount of gzip compression in Chrome

text: I am busy checking how my webserver is doing gzip. I'm confident now that gzip is on as chrome shows the content-encoding: gzip header. Is there a easy way to see how much a file was compressed in the Chrome developer tools?


title: Google spam report, have they ever punished a bad site you reported?

text: You have reported a bad site on Google Webmaster Tools SPAM report. Assuming you are sure it was a bad site, **did you see Google punishing it or doing something after your report?** Thanks


title: Google Webmasters Verification Method

text: The Google-Bot seems to be hitting my site with the incorrect verification method. I have Google Webmasters set up to use a meta-tag for verification, but I am still receiving requests for the html file method (which result in 404s). Google Webmasters still shows my site as verified. Should I be worried about this? Could this be coming from another Google service? Should I switch to the html file method? Should I just use both? Here are the requests from the log just in case that's helpful.               66.249.85.2 - - [12/Aug/2010:08:56:04 -0700] "GET /googlea6bf195e901587d1.html HTTP/1.1" 404 124 - "Google-Site-Verification/1.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)"          66.249.71.118 - - [11/Aug/2010:05:40:57 -0700] "GET /googlea6bf195e901587d1.html HTTP/1.1" 404 124 - "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)"


title: What do you look at when viewing competitors websites?

text: BradB's post has me thinking about competitors websites, what do you look at, and how long do you spend doing it? I thinking along the lines of content (how much, how well written), site structure, SEO techniques.


title: Why is App Pool Identity not created until first request is received?

text: I work for a software company and regularly deploy our web applications on our customers IIS boxes via an install wizard which was developed in-house. The install process by default creates a new App Pool for the application to run under, which is itself creates/is run under a default IIS App Pool Identity. The final step of the installer is to grant permissions on certain folders to the IIS App Pool Identity. Recently I've been working in a new customers environment and every time I do a new install this final step fails, as the App Pool Identity doesn't exist. I've found that browsing to the web app and rerunning the installer works as the Identity is created when the first web request is received. Why is this? This is unusual behaviour in my experience. I'm guessing this is something related to domain policy but haven't been able to find anything on the subject. As mentioned I can work around it but it would save time if I could get this changed and more importantly, I assume this is deliberate and want to know why! This is Windows 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5. (I hope I've got my terminology right).


title: Creating a facebook page with your domain name

text: I want to create a facebook page that has my domain name like this : http://www.facebook.com/TrimHold But I can't find the way. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. Thanks.


title: Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name?

text: Both in terms of `SEO` and user friendliness, is it better to put hyphens in a multi-words domain name or not ? For example, is `www.stackoverflow.com` better than `www.stack-overflow.com` ?


title: Should I include dash in domain name?

text: Willing to buy a new domain name, I wonder if it worths in SEO terms by including a keyword with a dash or it would be better avoid dashes? Without a dash, it can be unreadable. See below:               www.psychologist-smith.com     or     www.psycologistsmith.com     or     www.smith.com


title: Best SEO URL name for two word searches

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name? QUESTION: What would work better for a two word search string as "green shoes"? Acquiring the domain greenshoes.com OR domain green-shoes.com? Or another? Any other tips on how to score high with two word searches Help appreciated!


title: which domain is better for SEO purpose?

text: i'm building a website to convert PSD files to PNG and i have two options to choose a domain:   1. convert-psdtopng.com   2. convertpsdpng.com I need the word convert to be there too. Which one do you think is better to rank on "convert psd to png" keyword? Thanks!


title: Do you think that adding a dash (-) in domain names would impact in SEO?

text: For example, do you think that google and other search engines make a difference when one domain name is like www.siteaboutsoccer.com and other named www.site-about-soccer.com ? Is it better to separate the keywords ?


title: Using a hyphen in the domain name

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name ? I am looking to buy a domain where the obvious choices have already been purchased. Example: `domaintest.com` or `domaintest.co.uk` So, I am looking to mix things up a little with a hyphen. Example: `domain-test.com` or `domain-test.co.uk` I have been looking around the web & stack to get a solid picture of why or why not to use hyphens in the domain and am a little confused. The key factors for me are usability (can users remember the domain, can they type it easily on a phone etc..) and seo. Ian


title: SEO domain keyword adventage - alltogether.com or all-different-words.com?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name ? I have heard that if someone searches for a term, and your domain name matches that term (e.g. stackexchange.com ranks well for "stack exchange"). If there are 2 (or more) words that you are targeting (e.g. "stack exchange"), do you get a better google keyword bonus if you make it alloneword or if you use hypens? e.g. If you want to target the search term "stack exchange", should you register stackexchange.com or stack-exchange.com ?


title: Domain Name has hyphens and exact match, should I change it?

text: The blog is currently a blogspot blog. Used part of the name of the real website that I got the idea to start a blog for. Time to get a registered domain for it, instead of the( name.blogspot.com )it is now I got itchy and bought a domain name that has 4 words and hyphens. Also, I believe it is an exact match domain. I see now that hyphens are possibly bad and so maybe are exact match domains. I am not sure if it is wise to use this new domain name or get a different one. Or, if I use this domain name should i just get it with no hyphens, just a run on of 4 words. A different alternative is to use the name of the site i originally started the blog for and add a couple words which I think would be exact matched domain. If I do that should I use hyphens or no hyphens. Summary, Use hyphens or not in domain with 4 words but the 3 word is actually the letter n such as cookies-n-creme for example. Or, use the real websites name plus the two word exact match meaning NAMEwordword.com If I go this route do i use hyphens or not. I hope you can understand this question. Hard for me to put it into typing. The reason it is exact match name is that it is actually descriptive of the blog and I haven't been able to come up with anything descriptive that isn't.


title: 404 errors How to deal with a large number of broken internal links for SEO

text: I have recently updated my website. In fact I have completely rewritten it using wordpress. It was originally constructed using ASP. In the process, I have recycled a a large amount of my original website. This resulted in a large amount of broken links. Google webmaster tools report more than 30000 broken links and most of them are internal. These mainly result from there being reported links to urls not used anymore. That is links to scrapped, obsolete url from the previous version that does not exist any more. From SEO perspective I have read that if 404 errors are from internal links, it is best to delete the links. When I click on a broken link from the list displayed at health-> crawl errors, google shows me where this broken link appears at 'linked from' tab. When I click on links from 'linked from' , the purported broken link is not displayed on the 'linked from' page. That is the users of my website has no chance of trying to load this broken link. The broken link still shows up in page source. i.e. when i try view page source from chrome. The broken link is usually used in some javascript To clafiry, let www.myhomepage/broken_link be the broken link reported by google webmaster tools. The google 'linked from' tab shows that this url was linked from www.myhomepage/some_other_page. When I view the page source, the broken link is usually in [script type="text/javascript"]var _bpfbRootUrl="www.myhomepage/broken_link";[/script] Again, i read that it is advisable to just delete internal broken links, but there are just so many of them and it would be very time consuming to manually delete each and every of them. What would be the best way to deal with this situation? I would like to avoid using custom 404 page. 302 does not seem like an option either, parsing url using regular expression to not redirect valid pages seem very complicated too Google webmaster tools report that index on my page had been sharply declining since it was rewritten with wordpress and dropped to 10% of original. Thank You.


title: What is the reason for this site's sudden drop in traffic?

text: My one site's traffic has dropped in single day from around 4000 to 800 visitors. My other sites are getting normal visitor count. I'm not using any blackhat techniques nor trading links or having a bad neighbourhood or any copied materies. But yes it's a pdf documents download site with bounce rate of 32% and 3.5 pageviews per person. No issues reported in Google webmastertools. I find that for the relevant keywords my site has been pushed far way in Google. What could be the reason? **EDIT** I've uploaded two updated reports( webmaster top keywords and analytics 1 month graph). ![google analytics 1 month graph till yesterday\)28th\)](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fwmLw.jpg) * * * * * * ![Today's updated webmaster's top queries report from 22nd-26th\(Monday\)](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tg1Qs.jpg)


title: How do I "bind" social networks account to my blog?

text: My girlfriend has a WordPress blog for a while now, but when we check tools like websiteworth or woorank, it tells us that she has no twitter or G+ account, which is false. Is there a way to "bind" her social network accounts with her blog ?


title: Migrating a national website to an international version

text: I don't know if this is the right place to ask this.   I have a Persian web service (online diaries): 31shab.com and it's been operating successfully for a year, and we've decided to create an international version of this and rebrand it to 31nights (meaning of 31shab in English). So I registered the domain 31nights.com and I want it to be multilingual. So I need to know whats the best way to do this migration successfully.   * I want to move 31shab.com to 31nights.com/fa/ permanently (fa means Persian) in a way that doesn't ruin my SEO and Google ranking, etc.   * What's the best way to structure languages? folders or subdomains or ... ? Thanks in advance and sorry for my English.


title: How can i replicated this functionality?

text: http://www.astorandblack.com/ab/bespokevisualizer/ (click on "continue as guest") A client wants this "bespoke visualizer" on their site. Is there a third party plugin I can buy for this? It can be in Flash and/or JavaScript, it doesn't matter. Also, if there's no third-party plugin that's similar to this web app, then how could I code this from scratch? Thanks, Steven


title: Does editing a Wordpress Theme from scratch affect SEO?

text: I'm a web designer and I'd like to make a custom wordpress theme for my upcoming blog. The template is already made in photoshop but I need a good starting point. I don't have too much experience with Wordpress but I want something that is SEO friendly which I can edit without risking getting poor search results. I Know about Starkers and that there are other blank themes out there, but are they good for SEO?


title: Unique Visitor count increases when pages are excluded

text: For a date range greater than one day the total number of Unique Visitors is greater when I exclude pages ending in "foo" than when I look at all pages. The difference is ~4%. Why would this be happening? For daily totals of Unique Visitors the difference disappears and there are slightly fewer Unique Visitors when I exclude pages ending in "foo". Related to this, What is the difference in applying this through Advanced Segments vs. Filters? They both show subtly different answers. Cheers!


title: Can I view my PC localhost test site on my android tablet without uploading it?

text: I am working on a web site which is running on my PC via XAMPP. I want to test the site on my android tablet (galaxy tab) to make sure that the responsive design behaves that way it is designed to. I am wondering if there is a way to connect my tablet to my PC in a way that will allow me to view my localhost site on my tablet. This would allow me to fix bugs without having to upload every change.


title: Web assets and SEO - albums on WordPress

text: I'm told that it is considered good SEO practice to have multiple digital properties "around" a website. For example, Youtube, Flikr, Social Media pages etc. Fine. I have linked my website to my G+ page, for example. I'm about to upload an album to WordPress. The pictures exist on my G+ album. I was just going to download the pictures from G+ and them re-upload them to my WordPress Gallery. Is there any SEO value in displaying the album directly from G+, rather than downloading and uploading to WordPress? This is a specific example, but what about other digital assets like Youtube videos? What's best practice here? Does this "branch" of SEO, if it exists, have a name?


title: Local SEO Strategies

text: What are your strategies for local SEO? For example, if you had a web design company in Lincoln, Nebraska, what would you do for your website from an SEO perspective?


title: How should I improve my position in map listing?

text: I don't understand on how the map listing are displaying the results in Google SERP. Please see the below screenshot, I just want to improve my SEO on map listings, but I have no idea to work on this. Anyone have experience on this ? and also why it is not showing for all the keywords and also I noticed it displaying on some browsers and sometimes not on other browser. why this is happening ? > ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fJ39P.png)


title: Google SEO local ranking

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Local SEO Strategies The new feature on google search which uses local search (like users City), how do we make sure our website is hosted in other countries but content/location is specific city.


title: Client's website is not showing up as expected in Google local searches or maps

text: I'm working for a client who runs a wellness center. He has a website as well as a Google Places account for the business. The Google Places account has a lot of tags associated with it that are relevant to the offerings from the center, and yet it doesn't show up on Google maps or in the local search results for really obvious searches like "massage [name of city]". I don't have access to the Google Places account yet, but I'm wondering if there's any way to check to see if there's some obvious problem with how things are set up. I can include the link to the website/Google Places pages. I didn't want to do that right away in case it wasn't allowed. Thanks in advance for any help! It doesn't seem to me like this question is a duplicate of the one indicated. In this case there **is** a Google Places account, but it's not showing up in the local search results or anywhere on the map for anything other than the name of the wellness center itself. If this Google Place account isn't working properly, would it be advisable to create a new one for the same location, re- verify with google, mark the old one for deletion and then hope the new one works better? Are there any obvious configuration issues I should look for that might explain why this center doesn't even show up on the map for a search of "[name of first listed category] [name of city]"? I have worked with Google Places before and never encountered this type of problem.


title: SEO for multiple counties and cities

text: I wanted to know the best practices for improving our SEO for service areas. We have a central office but cover all of Northern Virginia for our Web Design services and are currently only ranking in the areas surrounding our office address. How can I improve our SEO for multiple cities and counties? I appreciate the advice! Thank you


I've been trying to answer this question myself by researching and searching on google but I haven't been able to come with a final answer. I have some hypothesis I would like share anyway:   1. The average website intends to reach the higher audience possible.   2. User generated content by comments is an efficient way of increasing the relevance and the valuable information of the average website.   3. Indexing comments will make any site attractive to spammers.   4. Indexing comments is more convenient for new/low-traffic websites than it is for old/high-traffic websites.   5. The web in general is currently choosing not to index comments in the average website because of fear to the SPAMMERS.   6. The average author of a content-valuable comment would like his comment to be indexed   7. Not indexing comments discourages the creation of content-valuable comments. So, what do you think finally? Is it positive or negative for the average website to allow search engines to index user comments? Why?


title: Hidden page, but still crawlable?

text: Is it possible to hide a page from users, but still have search engines crawl the content? I have RSS feeds which are really messy and don't fit my theme, but they have content that I would benefit from having crawled.


title: How to prevent copying of the image folder of your website

text: How to Prevent copying of the original image folder when the entire website is being copied. Also,what are the measures that should be taken to prevent guessing of the original images.


title: Change color of link on hover within Google Sites

text: How can you change the color of a link within Google Sites when the mouse hovers over the link?


Is there a way or tool to search or know, how many results does google fetch and display with lots of keywords? I intend to know, how many relevant searches does google display but with thousand of keyword. Actually, I am researching on the competition on various keywords. If there is a tool or a quick way, other than going to google and typing and then entering the keywords.


title: Users narrowing window on desktop to see mobile version?

text: I know this is going to seem like a strange question, but are their any stats on users narrowing their browser window so that media queries kick in and display the mobile optimised version of the site? We're about to mobile optimise our website. As we haven't done this we cant use our analytics to answer this question.


title: Will having a section that aggregates news from another site's RSS feeds get me penalized for SEO?

text: SEO newbie here, I have a news section on my front page that essentially reads off another sites feed (`example.com/feed/`) and posts direct links to each article back to that site. Pretty much a mini RSS reader with one subscription. Will I get penalizing for duplicate content even if I link back? My question is similar to this: Will content from my site's RSS feed that is published on other sites be considered duplicate content by search engines? only that it is the other way around.


title: Track page size of web app for performance

text: I'm about to start trialling optimisations on my web application (apache & tomcat). My main interest right now is:   * The total page size (including external js files such as jquery)   * The number of GETs per page I'd like to setup a systematic way of measuring the consequences of the various changes I make over time. Are there any tools that are useful for recording a sequence of page hits, playing this back (as I change the config) and record the size of each page ? Ideally I'd like something that can make work with a continuous integration server such as Continuum. Rgds, Kevin.


title: What should I consider when choosing a hosting provider?

text: I finished my website. It's awesome! How should I go about selecting a hosting provider? What features should I look for? What "got-chas" should I be aware of?


title: Adding direct advertisements to a mediawiki installation

text: I want to add sidebar ads to my mediawiki installation. I am planning on making direct advertisement deals, as opposed to using the built-in adsense/bidvertiser functionality. How do I put the ads in my sidebar?


title: How to block baidu spiders

text: Most of my visits are from baidu spiders. I don't think it helps search engines at all so I'm thinking of how to block them. Could this be done via iptables? I'm using nginx as my webserver.


title: What is a good WYSIWYG HTML Editor?

text: I've used Dreamweaver (albeit CS3 so I am a few versions back), but I am disappointed with the amount of invalid markup it produces. Are there other WYSIWYG editors out there that produce valid markup?


title: How should I structure a site with content dependent on visitor type (not user)?

text: I have a website that displays different content depending on two selections made by a visitor: Whether they are a teacher or student, and their learning level (from 4 options). Everything is public and they don't need to authenticate to access the content. Depending on their selection, different content is displayed across the whole site, other than a contact and about page. The tone of the language changes depending on whether the visitor is a student or teacher and the materials available on each page also change depending on the learning level, however in all cases, the structure of the site is identical. Currently I'm using a cookie to store the visitor's selections and render different content appropriately, so I have a single set of URLs which display different content depending on the cookie, with one of the permutations as default. I appreciate this is far from ideal, but what is the better option? Would I be better using a distinguishing segment for each selection, for example:               http://example.com/teacher/lv3/resources/activities     http://example.com/teacher/lv4/resources/activities     http://example.com/student/lv4/resources/activities     etc.      What is the most sensible way to handle this situation?


title: Cannot send email to Google Apps alias from PHP

text: I'm using Wordpress and sending email via Gmail SMTP:   * server: `smtp.gmail.com`   * port: `465` I created Google Apps main domain called `domain.com` and email `info@domain.com`. Then I registered domain aliases for `domain.com`. I have more different domains/sites: `domain1.com`, `domain2.com`. When I try to send email to `info@domain.com` from Wordpress site (e.g. `www.domain1.com`), it works. If I try to send email to any alias (e.g. `info@domain1.com` or `info@domain2.com`), it doesn't. I don't know why. For your information, if I try to send email from my Hotmail account it works, I can send to all aliases.


I have a joomla website installed and working good. i installed Qlue404 component which redirects 404 page to a custom page., sometimes when i try the symbols ' and some others the 404 page appears with the message "Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request." also it shows the server information *Apache mod_fcgid/2.3.6 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at mywebsite.com Port 80* how can i disable this message? i swear this leads to get all information for a hacker to do an Sql Injection.


title: Sudden decrease in pages crawled per day

text: During the last few days, Googlebot has crawled much less page in my site than it normally does. I'm not seeing any new errors, and haven't identified a reason for this. Is such a hugh and sudden decrease a sign there is a problem? Can this be just a temporary thing? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xU3G2.png) **Update:** The `Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds)` graph remained steady.


title: My cPanel login is being redirected. How can I resolve this?

text: I'm trying to get to cPanel to manage my website. When I type `www.mydomain.com:2082` into the browser window, the request seems to be redirected. I made a screen-cast so I could slow down the changes in the address bar. First it seems to go to               http://www.mydomain.com:2082/login      then               http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-sys/login.cgi      At this point, a screen briefly appears which says 'Login attempt failed' and then the address is redirected to `https://this22.thishost.com:2083/`, which is no relation to my site at all. This looks to me like there has been an attack on the system and the login.cgi file is compromised. Any suggestions on how to analyze this further? or fix it? Of course my 'free hosting' isn't any help at all.


title: Cannot logon to POP server on my VPS or recieve emails

text: I recently purchased an unmanaged VPS to host my business websites, however I am struggling to get the email accounts working as I have only ever had experience with shared hosting. The VPS is running CentOS and I have Webmin/Virtualmin installed. I have added my domain, which is lyke.org.uk, and that is working OK. However, when I've added a user and tried to access their email account using Apple Mail, I've been able to establish a SMTP connection but I've not been able to login using POP. Furthermore, I've set up squirrelmail and I can send an email to any email address from there but I haven't recieved any that I have sent to that email address from other accounts. I would very much appreciate any help or suggestions as I am completely new to VPS and web hosting without Plesk or cPanel.


title: A standard glyph map for using symbol / dingbat / icon fonts

text: I was wondering if there exists or should exist a standard glyph map for icon/symbol fonts. That way if you have a system/theme with thousands of sites running you could easily change styles of the glyphs by changing the font face. For example if I wanted to switch from www.fontspring.com/fonts/drew- wilson/pictos to somerandomdude.com/work/iconic/ a '4' would still represent a right hand arrow. I know there are various reasons for and against using symbol fonts. For my purposes this is a great solution and I have my own methods for dealing with screen readers etc. There is a great article and follow up discussion about this using this method here: http://filamentgroup.com/lab/dingbat_webfonts_accessibility_issues/ and there is a possible standards compliant method here: http://www.codestyle.org/css/at-font-face/StandardUnicodeIconsWebFonts.shtml


title: SEO Score and Ranking

text: Does a good SEO Score (over 90% for example) guaranties a better ranking on Google (or yahoo or others)?


title: How to remove 500 error?

text: I am getting 500 error "Internal Server Error" when I type in my domain. I called customer service and they said that my site has reached it maximum use of memory and therefore the cloud system generates this error. I have never heard of this before. What they said is I can get this error because of either higher:   1. Memory Usage   2. CPU Usage   3. MySQL usage They recommended to tweak the website and remove plugins etc to get rid of this error or upgrade. Things have not changed much here and we didn't do any major upgrade either. What should I tweak if any? Has anyone come across such error. We are hosting with lunarpages and using PHP 4.7 (it is an older site). Would upgrading to PHP 5.3 fix things? Interestingly if I go to `mydomain.com/index.php` it works.


title: multiple domains for one site

text: I'm maintaining a website of a lodge which has a golf course, a spa and a restaurant and they all have seperate urls. Now, the main Lodge page contains all the content and for now, the other URLs just forward to the specific pages e.g. spa.com forwards to www.lodge.com/spa. Now I assume that this is not the optimal way to make use of these additional domains... now, how do I best go about this? I thought about linking from within my lodge.com page to spa.com as soon as people click on the spa link but then again if someone looks for a lodge with spa e.g. it would rank lower as the spa would appear to be seperate from the lodge... how do i best go about this?


title: Tabbed-Menu where tabs Change Color?

text: I need a tabbed-menu template where the tabbed menu for the present page **changes color**. If possible, it should play nicely with browser that don't have JavaScript enabled. Other then the tabs, I prefer a simple blank page without complicated CSS.


title: How can I add my website to DMOZ?

text: I have a new website that I tried to list in DMOZ, but as of now it's still not listed. Please tell me what I have to do so that my website will get listed in DMOZ.


title: Does the google crawler really guess URL patterns and index pages that were never linked against?

text: I'm experiencing problems with indexed pages which were (probably) never linked to. Here's the setup:   1. **Data-Server** : Application with RESTful interface which provides the data   2. **Website A** : Provides the data of (1) at http://website-a.example.com/?id=RESOURCE_ID   3. **Website B** : Provides the data of (1) at http://website-b.example.com/?id=OTHER_RESOURCE_ID So the whole, non-private data is stored on (1) and the websites (2) and (3) can fetch and display this data, which is a representation of the data with additional cross-linking between those. In fact, the URL /?id=1 of website-a points to the same resource as /?id=1 of website-b. However, the resource id:1 is useless at website-b. **Unfortunately, the google index for website-b now contains several links of resources belonging to website-a and vice versa.** I "heard" that the google crawler tries to determine the URL-pattern (which makes sense for deciding which page should go into the index and which not) and furthermore guesses other URLs by trying different values (like "I know that id 1 exists, let's try 2, 3, 4, ..."). Is there any evidence that the google crawler really behaves that way (which I doubt). My guess is that the google crawler submitted a HTML-Form and somehow got links to those unwanted resources. I found some similar posted questions about that, including "Google webmaster central: indexing and posting false pages" [link removed] however, none of those pages give an evidence.


title: Do private collaboration platform really need private file access?

text: I need to make private collaboration platform, where the website is not open to public registration, and all the posts is only accessible by the members. The members is management team of a company. Along with many features, it has Announcement. When posting Announcement, it has option to upload images. I personally like it public, because the file transfer faster and can be easily integrated with CDN. I just wonder whether I need to make the image public, or only accessible by the members.


title: Can I improve my AdWords quality scores with better landing pages?

text: I noticed that I have some keywords in my AdWords that are totally applicable to my site but the quality score of the keyword is 4 or 5. I'd like to get it up higher by creating custom versions of my site's home page (landing page) targeted specifically for people searching on those keywords. So for example, if we pretend my site sells pet food, my current home page has the phrase "dog food." I have a specific AdWords campaign for people searching on cat food (with cat food-specific ads). I'm thinking about changing the URL on those ads to something like http://mysite.com/cat.html, so a different home page comes up with the phrase "cat food." My thinking is that will help Google see that this new landing page is appropriate for the keywords and will raise my quality score for the "cat food" keywords. (Note that none of what I'm doing is shady or misleading; nobody would disagree that all of the keywords and ads I've created are perfect and appropriate for what my site offers.) Question: is what I describe the correct way to raise poor quality scores on keywords, and will it help?


title: Cache website via CDN for visitors, not for users

text: I'm not sure what this is called. For example, if you're logged out of Reddit, you see a cached, static version of the site from the CDN. When you're logged in, you don't hit the CDN and instead directly to Reddit's servers. What is this called? Which CDNs provide this service?


title: Problem with displaying images on Facebook from my wordpress

text: When posting link to my wordpress geekgirlscarrots.pl on Facebook, thumbnail images don't display at all. I've put at header the following code:               <meta name="title" content="Geek Girls Carrots" />     <meta name="description" content="Visit our site! Come to our meetings!" />     <link rel="image_src" type="image/jpeg" href="http://geekgirlscarrots.pl/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/1GGC_for_web_logo.jpg"/>      but it doesn't work. If anyone could help me?


title: How do you use 'site:' to search Google for just the domain without all the other subdomains appearing?

text: When I use the `site:` operator to search for domains, it returns all the other matched subdomains as well. However, I only want to see what's indexed for the main site. For example: `site:google.com` returns result of `abc.google.com` as well, but I only want to see what's on `google.com` I don't want to use `site:google.com -site:abc.google.com` since I don't want to enumerate through all the other subdomains. Is there a way to do "exact" match with the `site:` operator?


I have verified my domain through a TXT record by google, however, my site hasn't indexed yet and I face with sitemap errors in google webmaster tool. I run dns health check from http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/ ,and everything seems ok. But as you can see from the snapshot below webmaster gives `General HTTP error: Domain name not found` error. I will appreciate for any help and thanks anwyway. EDIT: My site is buraktas.com ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/lU8nw.png)


title: Google wont apply adsense policies for session based websites and Ajax loaded sites?

text: I have seen so many websites (Mostly User generated content - Getting contents from Third party API's) still displaying Adult like contents (with images) but still they are running well with Google Adsense without any issues. Below is url that displays the Adult contents (you can view only if you logged into the Instagram.) http://www.gramfeed.com/instagram/635186136754514912_477290089 I wont say this is a bad or Adult site. Because of user generated content, the page contains Adult content (Even you can see the F..k word too). But they are displaying Google ads. My Questions here is, If a website main content loaded via Ajax (but not the Advertisement, Header and Footer). So Google adsense or Google can not able to find violation in the page. Is this correct? If a website displays main content only by visitor login (but not the Advertisement, Header and Footer), So Google crawler can not able to find violation in the page. Am i right in the above points?


title: Best Single-Sign-On practices for large organization

text: I'm currently working on several IT projects for a large organization (100k+ members). I'm thinking on providing some kind of unification and integration of all websites that I'm designing. So my question is, what are the best practices for such integration? I'm using mainly two `php`-based engines: WordPress and Q2A What I would like to achieve:   * Provide Single-Sign-On (SSO) for all websites managed by me.   * Exchange information between pages, something like user's top-bar on StackExchange   * Provide a SSO plugin for WordPress (there is a lot of sub-organizations in this organization, most of them have simple WordPress based webpages; I would like to provide them with a plugin that allows loging by the users via unified SSO). So what are the best practices? Is the SSO mechanism itself powerfull enough to achieve that or should I look for some modification of it?


title: How does Google treat multiple page title matches from same site?

text: I have several non-duplicate page titles that match a search query, say for the query 'stackexchange':               <title>John Smith Popular Content</title>     <title>John Smith Audience</title>     <title>John Smith Friends</title>     <title>John Smith Analysis</title>      I assume Google probably displays the most page-ranked page that matches the query, but does Google also take into account that this `page1` links to `page2`and `page3` which also have the search query in the title and therefore gives `page1` a better rank because my site also containts `page2` and `page3` about `searchterm`? The reasons I'm asking is because I'm trying to improve my rankings for SE queries such as `stackexchange`, and considering loading `page1` / `page2` / ... through JS while keeping the same URL. I assume this would mean Google won't even know what content `page2` has, so trying to understand his handling of multiple matches from same site better.


title: How to redirect a website from a folder to the root folder?

text: I was running a website on a folder (www.example.com/folder). The new version of the website is live and runs on the root folder. How should I redirect users who visit the website using the old URLs (either because they bookmarked it or through search engines)? And in the long term, can I 'clean' the search engines results by removing the old links that show up?


title: Do web hosting companies allow server-side scripts to make external data requests?

text: I'm currently ready to deploy an asp.net website and looking at web hosting companies. The C# code behind periodically uses `HttpWebRequest` to pull data from an external website to insert into a SQL database. This is only a server script and clients won't have any affect on when or how it runs. This my first time deploying a site, so my question is.... do web hosting companies allow external http requests? Is there anything specific I should be looking for to ensure this will work when deployed?


title: What meta/link html tags important for seo?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  New META TAGS with positive effects for seo ranking in 2011 and beyond What are meta tags important for seo? Especially for blogs. I often find something new, maybe you will correct me and add something else?               meta name = description - description of page     http-equiv = Content-Language content = "ru" - language of page     http-equiv = "Content-Type" content = "text / html; charset = utf-8"     rel = "alternate" type = "application / rss + xml" - Link for RSS-chanel      Another thing I remembered but had forgotten indication nofollow / follow, index / noindex on the page. Somebody remind me? I also saw a Wordpress rel = next / previous page is important for SEO? Something else that I do not have?


title: How do I force a www subdomain on both HTTPS and HTTP?

text: For whatever reason I can’t seem to get this right. I’ve looked at many examples on here and on the Apache website. I’m trying to force `www.example.com` instead of example.com on **both** HTTP **and** HTTPS, but I am not trying to force use of HTTPS instead of HTTP. The following code seems to work for all HTTPS connections, but will not cause a redirect for HTTP connections.               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^ https://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301]          RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^ http://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301]


title: What happens to my website when domain name expires

text: I am new to this. Someone just created my website for me for free, and all I did was to pay for the domain and hosting. My website is new with just around 4 posts. I cannot complete it because I am not knowledgeable enough and I don't have much time. Also the person who I paid to complete it didn't show up. I decided to let my domain name expire, but now I found out that anyone can sell their domain name or website. Can I sell my domain name, and what will happen to my website or the contents therein? If I sell my domain, does that mean the ownership of my website and its contents there are also transferred to the person?


title: What's the difference between nofollow and canonical?

text: I'm confused about the difference between `rel="nofollow"` and `rel="canonical"`. I currently use nofollow for any links that I do not want followed (for example rubbish content but small importance) and I use canonical for duplicate content (for example: `http://example.com/price.php- sortby=price` vs `http://example.com/price.php-sortby=alphabetic`). Maybe I'm using these wrong. I need good advice on what's the best way to use **nofollow** and **canonical** correctly.


title: Upgrading phpBB2 to phpBB3: easy or difficult?

text: I recently took over a site which is mostly a phpBB version 2 forum for a niche audience, surrounded by a few fairly static pages written in PHP. Our forum user base is about 3000 users, with a hundred or so forum posts per month. We have modified a few of phpBB2's source code files from the standard issue. Now phpBB version 2 is no longer supported as of mid-2009, though alternate phpBB2 support communities exist. The current version is phpBB version 3. The outgoing webmaster said that they had decided against upgrading to to phpBB3 software because the expected it to be a difficult task with little feature benefit. What is the general experience with upgrading a phpBB2 site to phpBB3? Is the experience generally difficult, or generally easy? phpBB3 provides a conversion path for phpBB2 sites; how well does this work? Let's leave the question about the _benefits_ of upgrading to a separate discussion. Let's just talk about difficulty.


title: 404 Not Found Errors -> Redirect

text: Hi i have recently moved my forum from Mybb to Vanilla, so the index pages such as showthread.php now do not exist. This is a big problem for SEO, what do I do to redirect this to the home page?


title: cPanel Distorted w/ 401 Error on CSS/Images

text: This is very strange behavior. My cPanel is looking very distorted when I log in from mydomain.com/cpanel but is fine if logged in through <server ip>/cpanel. When I use Chrome to check for errors I see some CSS and images are getting the 401 error. Below is a screenshot of my cPanel. I called tech support and they weren't able to answer my question and help me fix the situation! Not sure if CloudFlare has anything to do with it, but I did install it three days before this post was up. I went into CloudFlare and make sure cPanel is bypass. Distorted CPanel Bump! Will put out bounty soon!


title: SEO considerations for multilingual websites

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of > my data? I'm developing a website that will be translated into two languages: English and French. I'm just wondering what the best practices for such a site would be when it comes to SEO? So far, the website has two root sub-directories, which means URLs look as follows:   * `http://www.example.com/en/home`   * `http://www.example.com/fr/accueil` And in my `<html>` tag I specify the page language using the `lang` attribute (depending on which sub-directory we're in, i.e. `<html lang="fr">`). Will this be enough for the site to rank and be indexed correctly in local versions of Google, i.e. English pages to achive the best ranking they can on google.co.uk and the French content to achieve the best rankings it can in google.fr?


title: Do GET variables have bad effects on a page?

text: I am developing my own site, and I want to add multilanguage to my site. My approach is to have a GET variable `lang=LANG` to handle different languages. So, my URLs will be as such:               mysite.com/index.php?lang=EN     mysite.com/index.php?lang=AR     ...      Do Google consider these as a single page? Do they have one PageRank? As I know "canonical" is a solution to such issue, but I read on this site that Google will still consider them as different pages. Here is what I found: seo and php get variables


title: Multiple Language Website and SEO

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of > my data? Sorry, this post became a bit loquacious - but I haven't found any satisfactory answers on the web thus far. I've been developing a website for a while now, into which I've built support for multiple languages. All the terms, words and phrases are stored in a file in JSON format which is decoded and converted into an array. With this, it's easy to create the entire site in a different language. The website consists of 100% home-cooked code... no Wordpress, Drupal or any other framework, so none of the multi-language plugins for the aforementioned will work. To switch language, the user clicks a link at the top of the page (positioned at the top, in reality, it's at the bottom of the HTML structure). Each page of the site has this menu, whereby a query string parameter is added. `/hotels/index.html` becomes `/hotels/index.html?lang=fr`. The script sees the `lang` parameter, changes the user's cookie and loads the appropriate JSON file, and they are returned back to the same page they were on without the `lang` parameter. This has been a very convenient way to switch languages, as the user remains on the same page, and the links are exactly the same. I built it this way after another site that required multiple language support where SEO was not a priority (an internal company-only program). If a visitor comes to the site for the first time, the script looks at the `HTTP_ACCEPT_LANG` constant and loads the appropriate language and sets the cookie (instead of geo-locating, which takes longer, and I personally dislike - I live in Thailand, and even Google serves the Thai version even though I have my OS and browser in English). My question is - I'd eventually like Google and other SE's to index the site in these other languages, but without the `lang` attribute in the URL. If the user uses Google in French or Russian, they get served the site in French or Russian, respectively. Since the URL `/hotels/index.html` would have a version in English (default), French and Russian, but still having the same URL, I assume this is a problem for Google and other SE's. Can someone explain how Google indexes multiple-language sites setup in this manner? Would using a sub-domain work best to separate them? I do not wish to alter the way URL's are handled on the site, as I like to keep as few query strings as possible from being indexed. On another note, I accidentally opened the site for indexing with the language links, and somehow, the redirects did not work properly, and I have links such as `/something/index.html?lang=ru?lang=ru` indexed in Google. I've detected these in the script and placed a 301 redirect to remove these `lang` parameters... will these bad links be replaced with the redirected URL's in Google over time?


title: SEO problems with multilanguage site

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of > my data? I have recently started a CMS project in PHP, the site will be multilingual. Assumptions are as follows:   * 2 languages in the beginning (pl-pl, en-gb)   * language auto detection based on browser language   * for all other languages than the above, fallback is en-gb   * site will have links to change language, but they will be shown as AJAX / JS widget! I know from my experience that sometimes there are problems with correct Googlebot indexing for home page. My question is whether Googlebot is able to index both language versions of the website, and whether I should use subdomain (`en.webpage.com`) or PHP get (`webpage.com/index.php?lang=EN`) to see the best results.


title: URL strategy for multilingual website

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of > my data? I was wondering what would be the best URL strategy for a multilingual website (for an Italy based company). I was thinking about site.com/it and site.com/en, not showing any content at site.com and redirecting the visitors to the localized site when they try to access site.com. What about buying an additional domain, site.it, and then redirecting to site.com/it? Are these good ideas? If so, **regarding of SEO** , which are the best redirect methods for both site.com (to site.com/en or site.com/it) and the additional (if available) site.it (to site.com/it)?


title: Options for adjusting paragraphs?

text: On my company's website, we have a page (here) that I have been asked to adjust. What is desired is to take the first paragraph and adjust it to trim down the amount of space between words. My first thought was to make the paragraph (and then the rest of the page, to match) left aligned instead of justify. To me, however, this doesn't look very good. Are there any other options available for me to make this look good (or at least acceptable), or am I stuck with a left justify? Thanks. (P.S. I don't think these tags are the most appropriate, but I can't add ones I think work better. Oh, well.)


title: Keep a Servlet/JSP web site always on SSL?

text: How to I keep a site always on SSL with padlock symbol always exists. Is there any way to optimize the page for SSL in JSP and Servlets ? Just tell about jsp and servlet optimization so answer do not make long discussion


title: Will echoing content from a simple XML loaded with PHP cause the page to show up in search results (SEO)?

text: I want to know if I'm using PHP right to create search friendly content. I'd like my images to start showing up in Google for my website, so I'm passing an RSS feed to PHP file using the `simplexml_load_file` command and writing content to the page with `echo`s.               $rss = simplexml_load_file('~~RSSfeed~~');          foreach ($rss->channel->item as $item) {         echo  '<li>'. $item->description .'</li>';     }      Will displaying a list of images and text (there's other formatting and divs that I didn't include) make this content show up in search results?


title: Small AdWords campaigns with low budget

text: Having a Google AdWords campaign of a daily budget less than 10€ ($13, £8.5), I had these: **Setup 1**   * (1 campaign with 100% budget) x (3 ad groups) x (2 to 3 ads) = 40-60 clicks/day   * long list of keywords per ad group   * budget ends up being spent on the ad group with the highest traffic/competition **Setup 2**   * (3 campaigns with 1/3 of budget) x (3 ad groups) x (3 to 4 ads) = 20 clicks/day   * less keywords per ad group but more closely related to the ads' purpose and phrasing, which summed up match and extend the keyword lists of Setup1   * all around performance dropped and in some cases a lot (i.e. clicks) * * * **Questions** In specific to small campaigns, which I feel are not addressed as much by most guides I found around the web:   1. My assumption for the above is that the **main** reason for the drop in performance of Setup2 is the extremely low budget. Even though generic and simplistic, is this correct?   2. How can I best manage the budget, so that it is spent more universally or up to a specific limit for each ad group?   3. Finally, does anyone have any suggestions specific for campaigns of this level?


title: Server requirements for thousands of concurrent connections?

text: I was wondering if anyone could provide some insight into the approximate server requirements (CPU, RAM, etc) for thousands of concurrent connections to a small text file. The actual number of concurrent connections will vary, but it could be as high as 100,000 or more per second at times. The file that will be accessed is a very small text file (a few KB).


title: Content blocks on dedicated pages rather than listed on one page

text: I am doing a web site for a client. The descriptions for all his services are rather short and precise so I decided to put them all (about 10 of them) on one page and have a sticky menu in the sidebar for quick access to each of the services. I find that a very usable experience. And for mobile (through the responsive approach), swiping through the services is more convenient than navigating to each service on a dedicated page. But now an SEO guy comes in and tells me to put all services on dedicated pages, and the client then also has to transform all the about 60 words descriptions into 400 word descriptions, because Google demands 400 words to be on a page to be a page. I my opinion this is a major step back in regard of accessibility/usability. And stuffing the descriptions with 'nonsense' just for the sake of the presumed SEO advantages? I really don't think so. I am about to tell the client, that the SEO guy might not be right about that situation, but I am not sure, so who is right?


title: How can I prevent spam on sites which I control?

text: _This is a general, community wiki question to address all non-specific spam prevention questions._ _If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, please open a discussion onPro Webmasters Meta._ * * * For purposes of this question, spam will include:   * Any automated post   * Manually-posted content which includes links to spammers' sites   * Manually-posted content which includes _instructions_ to visit a spammer's site


title: Stopping comment spam with links(need suggestion)

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent comment spam on sites which I control? After bearing 1 year spammy comments with links in those in my 10 sites, finally I've disallowed comment posting with prefix of "http" or "https" ( with message that I'll add prefix http if needed). I'm happy with the results. But could it be hurting site or site visitors in any way? Any ideas?


title: Moderator with no power to fix spam bot issue

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? I think this is the correct site to post this. So I'm a **moderator** (not administrator) on anddev.org and it's completely infested with spam bots, just as fast as I ban them, more post. I'm sure they can sign up faster than I can ban them. There is a two stage first post sign up validation that they have clearly got around. I'd also like to delete all posts by that user when they are banned. (which I can't see an option for) Is there anything I can do? _EDIT_ This was closed for the wrong reasons: **I'm just a moderator not an administrator** I can't do any of the things in that wikipost. I wanted to know what I can do as a Mod, or how I can find more options, or even what the software is I am moderating!


title: Major spam issue... CAPTCHAs and email verification aren't working

text: We have a user who claims to have a vendetta against our community. We run a fairly large social networking website, and for the past four or five weeks, this particular person (or maybe people?) has been spamming our largest discussion groups and personally attacking other members by leaving hateful comments and death threats on their pictures. We employ CAPTCHA and email verification on signup. We also have cross post analysis that catches users mass-posting a single thing to a lot of groups. It seems as if he has hundreds of legit emails (they're all gmail, hotmail, yahoo) and looking at our logs, it seems as though he's sitting there and legitimately solving these CAPTCHAs. For hours. Every single day. When he caught on to our cross post analysis, he started generating random titles and bodies to post. He'll hit a dozen of our top groups with those over and over again until we delete his user account or he gets banned by a moderator. His IPs change constantly. Many are Tor nodes, some are vanilla HTTP proxies. His user agents change for every new user he signups. Sometimes they're even "GoogleBot", which I thought was amusing. So my question is, are there best practices we could be following besides employing CAPTCHA and email verification? Ones geared towards an extremely motivated human generating spam?


title: PHP software to detect spam?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? I'm looking for something like spam-assassin or similar, except it only focuses on the message rather than inspecting an entire email header. It doesn't even need to be really fancy, just do the classification of messages. In theory we could provide meta-data such as IP. I'm doing this because I want an feedback forum without authentication or recaptcha or having to put every email in the "pending" bin before it's published.


title: Tons of spam on phpBB even with recapcha enabled

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? I am running a phpBB forum where the requirements were that users shouldn't have to sign up in order to post. They could just give a name and post as long as they used recapcha before posting. Problem is that there are like 30 pages of spam in some threads. The software is up to date. The forum gets very little legitimate traffic. If I can't fix this I will either have to require registration or remove the forum all together.


title: How to prevent common spam on a WordPress blog

text: Right from the day I installed WordPress on my site, I started getting spam comments/trackbacks. I have also prevented anonymous comments. I get the following email whenever a new spam is posted:                New trackback on the post `"<post name>"` is waiting for your approval     `<url>`          Website : jackettl36 (IP: 112.111.173.89 , 112.111.173.89)     URL    : <redact>     Trackback excerpt:     fake OAKLEY sunglasses...          ...      How to prevent such automated spam?


title: Recommended Spam Best Practices

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? Are there any recommended admin tools or interfaces for reviewing and moderating spam on a community-driven UGC site?


title: Does anyone run a site with Pligg? What is the most effective way to stop spam sign ups?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? Specifically trying to combat things like this! http://www.autopliggdotcom (didnt want to give them a link!)


title: Is there a way to control spam on a site where user contribution is allowed without accounts?

text: I am in the process of designing a database and accompanying website where users can submit local dance events. Part of the site will be the posting of new events but also the vetting of current events. Users will be able to flag event info as correct or incorrect, flag info for review, and mark an event as interested/attending. Is there a way I can mitigate the amount of noise and spam since the site will be public and not have accounts?


title: Free spam blocker service

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? Is it possible to get a free and good spam blocker for your website? I would really like to avoid having to serve CAPTCHAs to my site's users, but I don't want spam bots to be able to post links etc.


title: Spammers in my Magento blog comment section!

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? I have a blog extension installed on my Magento website. But I regularly receive spam comments on the blog. To help fight against automated and manual spam comments on the blog I have enabled a Captcha service. But even with the Captcha service running the site still receives spam, is there a more effective method to avoid spam?


title: Effective captcha solutions

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? ReCaptcha is all the rage at the moment, Based on customer/user feedback, what other captcha or general human verification tools have you used for your website? Links to the API/Site appriciated, Thanks guys!