Paypal PDT  and IPN , how does it work?

## PDT Payment Data Transfer is getting the transaction data of the purchase that was made on paypal site and you want to fetch that on your own site and display to the user. Also you may want to store it in your database for archive and tracking purposes. But I cannot exactly follow the documentation here What I am not getting is > Once you have activated PDT, every time a buyer makes a website payment and > is redirected to your return URL, a transaction token will be passed along > as a "GET" variable to this return URL. In order to properly use PDT and > display transaction details to your customer, you should fetch the > transaction token, variable name "tx", and retreive transaction details from > PayPal by constructing an HTTP POST to PayPal. > > Your POST should be sent to https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr. You must > post the transaction token using the variable "tx" and the value of the > transaction token previously received (e.g. "tx=transaction_token"), and the > special identity token using the variable at and the value of your PDT > identity token (e.g. "at=identity_token"). You will also need to append a > variable named "cmd" with the value "_notify-synch", for example > "cmd=_notify-synch", to the POST string. ## IPN I have setup Instant Payment Notification through setting according to this documentation. This is basically logging into your paypal account and enable IPN while specifying a url where the notification will be sent. This is used to complete an order so that the product can be shipped. What I did is setup a PHP page. I have created a table and whenever that page is called (or hit), it registers an entry in the table so I know a notification came from Paypal. But it does not work either. What am I really doing wrong? The first thing I want to trouble shoot though is when the buyer pays the amount, he is automatically redirected to my site. I have enabled this but automatic redirection just does not work. Instead he is shown the url as an option after payment confirmation is shown. Can someone guide my how the PDT process goes? Where do I make the request for PDT, is it along the very first request (Buy Now button) or it is sent later? ## Addition I found some good sampling code of how everything should work but it still does not work. I use this code http://officetrio.com/modules/free-php-paypal- ipn-script.php for IPN. I am using this for PDT. This one uses SSL, I changed SSL to regular HTTP (copied paypal version), still does not work. http://ykyuen.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/paypal-payment-data-transfer-sample- code/


Is using .se, Sweden's top level domain name, a bad idea for a website hosted in the United States

I have a client with a website name that ends with se. I thought instead of dealing with .com domain names I would register something like gardenho.se. Is there anything wrong with this? Does this impact SEO? Can I simply have the one name and then redirect it to the .com domain name so that it can be used on business cards?


Are there discussions about developing a user contributed website?

I'm developing a website where users will be the ones who add new input, validate new suggestions and correct incorrect information. (Much like this site). To make sure that abuse of these rights by users is minimized, I need to develop a good reputation system which encourages good behaviour, much like this site's reputation, again. I would like to learn more about this subject, which is why I ask: are there any discussions about the development of user contributed websites? Any resources, studies or anything else that could help me out to develop a system that will work? Thanks in advance. - Tom


Visitors have old website cached in their browsers

My client's new website is example.com, the old website is example.co.uk. I've re-pointed the A Records to the new website (so as to leave the emails alone) and put in 301 redirects from old pages to new pages. But, my client is upset as he (and he thinks many of his clients) have the old website cached in their browsers and won't know how to clear their browser cache. Is there anything I can do to overcome this and if not, what sort of time will browsers finally stop using their cached pages so I can at least go back to my client and tell him that his clients will finally start to see the new website?


Redirect Permanent and https

I just set up HTTPS on my server, and I have an issue with redirect permanent. Example `http://domain.com/index.html` it redirect me to `http://www.domain.comindex.html` The **/** (tail ending slash) is missing and I can't figure out how to fix it. It's work with `http://www.domain.com/index.html` Here is my httpd.conf               <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName domain.com     Redirect permanent / https://www.domain.com/     </VirtualHost>     <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName www.domain.com       Redirect permanent / https://www.domain.com/     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:443>       DocumentRoot /var/www/domain/       ServerName www.domain.com       SSLEngine on       SSLCertificateFile ssl.crt       SSLCertificateKeyFile ssl.key     </VirtualHost>


Backlinking to a website with image source

I just want to ask can we increase backlinks to our site by putting 1x1 pixel image on our clients' sites or can anybody suggest a better solution?               <img src="http://www.mysite.com/" alt='http://www.mysite.com/' />


Where should I look for a windows based CMS?

Ideal features:   * windows   * allows for localization   * allows us to make it look exactly like the current http://fogcreek.com We're currently using ASP.NET, which means you have to check out the website to make any changes (and so our front page has stuff from a year ago on it). Lame. Can be free or paid. Any suggestions?


Why would Google's ranking algorithm move a search result due to quotes?

Yesterday at 10AM, the Google search: > "Submitting values of "jQuery Editable Invoice" into a MySQL DB using PHP" came up with `stackoverflow.com` as the 8th result on the page. The first was a spammy page which was just copying the info from `stackoverflow.com` without attribution [contacted and they fixed it]. Removing the quotes surrounding the question > Submitting values of jQuery Editable Invoice into a MySQL DB using PHP `stackoverflow.com` came up first. Removing just the inner quotes > "Submitting values of jQuery Editable Invoice into a MySQL DB using PHP" `stackoverflow.com` came up first again. At 3PM yesterday, all results for those 3 combinations showed `stackoverflow.com` in the first result. What could have caused that?


Is there a jQuery lightbox plugin that has thumbnails inside the box?

I'm trying to find a lightbox style plugin in jQuery that displays thumbnails at the bottom of the picture (or video, or whatever). I found plenty of lightbox plugins, but none that allows navigation by thumbnail _inside_ the box. The plugin must be able to open images, swf and inline content. I realize that jQuery will not be able to generate the thumbnails and that's ok. Do you have any good ones to suggest? Thanks


Do search engines lower your ranking for using private registration like WhoisGuard?

I am registering a new domain name from "namecheap.com" which offers free WhoisGuard for a year. There are numerous reasons not to list your contact information with your domain registrar, such as blocking contact information from telemarketers, and email spammers. Google can only see registration information on domains that they hold. Does blocking WhoIS users from accessing your contact information via privacy services (WhoisGuard) have a harmful effect on SEO and lead to search engines not trusting you? WhoisGuard References: http://www.whoisguard.com https://www.namecheap.com/security/whoisguard.aspx


What will happen if I transfer the registration of the primary domain on my 1and1.com account?

I have a hosting account with 1and1.com, and several domain registered and hosted with them. I need to transfer the registration of the **primary domain** on my account to a new registrar, but I don't really want to move all of my domains with them. Will transferring only the primary domain have any adverse effect on the other domains hosted on that account?


Emails have disappeared from 1 account on mail server (WHM/LAMP VPS)

I just received a call from a client saying that all their emails have dissappeared from their inbox. I logged on to their webmail account via CPanel and RoundCube and this appears to be true - there are emails in sent, drafts, junk and deleted but nothing in the inbox. There is plenty of room on our VPS and the client has plenty of quota. I sent a test email and it did appear fine in the webmail server. What could have caused this and is there any way to retrieve it?


New site has PR9 as soon as it is made, why/how?

I was just messing around with Google Sites and noticed that as soon as I made my site the homepage had a PR of 9 (before it crosses your mind all the links it makes are `nofollow`). The homepage of the test site I was playing around with is https://sites.google.com/site/samsnewsite030413/ Why does this happen as PR is on a per-page basis, and as the page is brand new how does it have a PR? I've seen a similar thing happen with Github project pages; they seem to have a PR8 as soon as they are made, it's not like they are running off a standard URL with JavaScript bringing in the content - they seem to be static pages with their own URLs.


buttons (text or images)

I would like to know if I should create CSS buttons or image buttons for my site. What is better? Problem is that the text is formatted with Helvetica Neue ( I like that font very much) and I can't use it as a web font because of copyright issues. If I create the buttons in CSS they look beautiful in the browser but get resized when the user has chosen a different text-size for their browsers. Image buttons have the advantage I can embed my font but do not look that good as CSS buttons. Also in that case I had to make Retina-versions for the buttons (just for the future when any PC has a Retina-display). Can someone please help me in this tricky situation? Does anyone know a web- safe alternative to Helvetica Neue? Should I disable the resizing of my button div-containers? What's today's standard when it comes to website buttons? TIA!


To allow or disallow alphabetical content directory pages?

We have a content that publishes fresh content 2-3 times a day. The site has category pages for tags and each alphabet. They both list the title with links to all the content within that category or starting with that alphabet respectively. Should you allow the robots to index these pages specifically the ones that list titles of the page starting with each alphabet?


Is this a correct robots.txt file?

I would like to allow Googlebot and Mediapartners-Google (AdSense useragent) to crawl my website. So I have written below code inside my _robots.txt_ file.               User-agent: Googlebot     Disallow:            User-agent: Mediapartners-Google     Disallow:            Sitemap: http://website.com/sitemap.xml      Is the above _robots.txt_ file is correctly written? Yes or no ?


Should I have og:description and meta description together on every page?

Or will Google not like it if I have two kinds of description tags? I just put up a new blog and it automatically adds the `og:description` and `og:title` and I am not sure if that is going to get me penalized or my pages somehow discounted if I have meta description and `og:description` on the same page. Would anyone know how to best handle this situation? Should I try to get rid of the `og:description`? The site I am working on is a WordPress site.


How can I view website requests in console in real time?

I want to display incomming requests to my web server in real time, in console. Each request should be represented by a single line with information about the request, i.e. client’s IP address, etc. Is it possible? If so, how?


Does pinging the page on social bookmarking sites whre your site has been bookmarked help SEO?

If you bookmark your site on say, delicious, does it help to then ping the url on delicious that contains the bookmark to your site?


Web Notification Design

I am designing a website which my web user would interact on the site. Take FB poke function for example. There are two men A and B and they are both online. And A poked B. What I want to know is how to make B get an instant notification, knowing that A poked him just now ? The way I thought is that make a javascript code to ajax the database for new notification every minutes. How could I reduce the amount of the times of query the data ? Or is there any other way better?


Is there a simple way to query the top URLs in Google Analytics?

I'm looking for an easy way to query GA programmatically in order to display the most popular pages on my site. GA has a Data Export API, but it seems kind of complex to work with for what I want to do. Is there a simpler way or am I stuck with the Data Export API?


amung.us and "users online" time window

Greetings i would like to ask you what is the time window that amung.us calculates "online" users. 1 hour? 30 min? 15 min? other?????


Why would layout differ on first-load of a webpage?

Not entirely sure I understand what's going on, but would appreciate some pointers or things to try. (In Chrome/Mac...) In an incognito window, try loading http://ireland.media.info - and look at the search box on the right-hand side. It's falling off the bottom of the top menu bar, isn't it? Looks really ugly, doesn't it? Now, hit reload. Look at the search box on the right-hand side. Oh. It's displaying nicely in the middle of the top menu bar, isn't it? I've been writing HTML for twenty years, but never seen this. Is it, perhaps, a bug related to the images on the left, which are browser re- sized (so they look pretty on a retina screen)? Is it a bug at all? Are you seeing this issue on any other browser or any other build of Chrome for another OS? (Just so you know: the HTML should be identical for each load, and, indeed, should be cached at the server using Varnish anyway.) Any clues?


difference in using third party social buttons and directly integrating each social buttons ourselves

I wanted to add specific social buttons to my article. I used ShareThis. It gives a facebook like button, google plus button, etc... by default. were as in other articles of different modules i had integrated the facebook like by myself by following the documentation (including markup in the head section) What is the difference in adding manually with many markups and using third party code? Will that affect SEO or any other advantage over the respective social networking site (here for example facebook and google plus)?


Blocked urls by Google

I have a website which is 2 years old now. I saw it after a long time now and was shocked to see that Google robot has blocked 104 pages of my website. I saw this through webmaster tools. IS there any way I can unblock them? EDIT: I have attached the image but can't provide the name of the website. Thanks ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hbnHO.png) Thanks in advance.


Should I use a file extension or not?

I've always wondered about this and never found a good solution. But this question reminded me of it. When I have a URL on my website it can be displayed and accessed any of the following ways:               http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/index.htm     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/index.html     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/index.php     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/index.asp     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/some-relevant-keywords     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/some-relevant-keywords.htm     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/index.php?page=some-relevant-keywords     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/?page=some-relevant-keywords     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/?page=some-relevant-keywords&even=more-keywords      etc... Now, I can understand the merits of adding keywords in the URL. Even the most basic SEO guide will mention to do just that. ... but for the sake of sanity, clarity, ease of reading, ease of use, and so on, **including web compliance** ... Is it **_preferred_** to have a file-extension or not? Really, deep down my logic tells me: yes, it should. The reason being is this stems back to the days of the past when the internet was mostly USENET, FIDONET, FTP and GOPHER. See, if a URL has no _filename_ , then it normally is considered a _directory_. This is where index.htm came about, because this by default lists the directory if no index file is found. However, soon enough, web programmers started overriding this and using index.htm to actually serve the content of that web directory _as a page_. The main difference, was markup language was added in, and this was parsed in the browser. With this markup language, the `Content-Type:text/html;` tag in the response header became the indicator to what filetype it was **for any file**. HTML seems to be the only "filetype" that just doesn't have consistently named extensions, except for when they are saved. Unfortunately, once web pages became the main thing, it became a security error to actually display the directory contents, so everything stayed hidden with only the actual URL content being displayed. Not to mention the cross-platform file-naming wars.. windows based require a 3 or less digit extension, and unix/mac can have more. So should it be `.HTM` or `.HTML` or `NONE` and let the platform decide? So in essence, I guess what I am trying to figure out is _beyond SEO_ and dealing more with aesthetics and web compliance.


.html extension or no for SEO purposes

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should I use a file extension or not? I know this question has been asked before on Stack Overflow, but what I have not been able to find in the posts I've read are concrete references as to WHY one is better than the other (something I can take to my boss). So I'm working on an MVC 3 application that is basically a rewrite of the existing production application (web forms) using MVC. The current site uses a URL rewriter to rewrite "friendly" urls with HTML extensions to their ASPX counterpart. i.e. http://www.site.com/products/18554-widget.html gets rewritten to http://www.site.com/products.aspx?id=18554 We're moving away from this with the MVC site, but the powers that be still want the HTML extension on the URLs. As a developer, that just feels wrong on an MVC site. I've written a quick and dirty HttpModule that will perform a 301 redirect from the .html URL to the same URL without the .html extension and it works fine, but I need to convince management that removing the .html extension is not going to hurt SEO. I'd prefer to have this sort of friendly URL: http://www.site.com/products/18554-widget Can anyone provide information to back up my position or am I actually trying to do something that WOULD hurt SEO, in which case can you provide references on that?


Does Google treat .html pages differently from .php pages?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should I use a file extension or not? My current hosting provider does not let me put PHP code inside of a .html page. So part of my content is in a database and displayed with PHP, but most of it is in pre-rendered .html files. I'd like to put more of it in .php files however I am concerned that search engines will penalize my .php pages because they are PHP. Is there any evidence so that effect? Thanks.


SEO .html, .php or nothing

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should I use a file extension or not? Hi Guys, When I make a site, should I use the .php extension, rewrite it to .html or just remove it (.htaccess)? What's your opinion about this? I've always learnt that it was .html, but I don't know why. I doubt it that google doesn't care, but why should .html prefered to no extension?


Does .html extension in URL help for SEO?

I am working on `dotNET` and I have changed `URL` extension from `.aspx` to `.html`. Is it good to use .html extension ?      My actual URL is `www.example.com/Project.aspx?Id=2&Type=this-is-something`   I have replace this as `www.example.com/Projects/2/this-is-something`      Is it fine ? Else give me suggestion which `URL` should I use for `SEO`. I can make URL anyhow I want using URL Rewriting.      I want to make it best URL for SEO. Please help me regarding this.


What's the relation between securepaynet and GoDaddy?

I created an account in Google Apps, and during the registration I also created a GoDaddy account (within Google Apps page). And, the username and password Google provided me will only login on this securepaynet settings page, not on GoDaddy's official page. So, what's the relation between securepaynet and GoDaddy? Why can't I login to the GoDaddy page (that have more configurations options)?


Web.config WordPress rewrite rules next to Magento

I've installed Magento on IIS in folder: `E:\mydomain\wwwroot` (I already have it all running correctly). I have no deeper folder `magento`, I placed all files directly in the `wwwroot` folder, so:               wwwroot\app     wwwroot\downloader     wwwroot\errors     wwwroot\includes     etc...      **UPDATE** : since I'm on IIS my `.htaccess` is ignored completely and my `web.config` rules are used instead. Here's my web.config in folder `e:\mydomain\wwwroot`:               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>           <configuration>       <system.webServer>         <rewrite>           <rules>             <rule name="Magento SEO: remove index.php from URL">               <match url="^(?!index.php)([^?#]*)(\\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?" />                 <conditions>                   <add input="{URL}" pattern="^/(media|skin|js)/" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />                   <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />                   <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />                 </conditions>               <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php/{R:0}" />             </rule>           </rules>         </rewrite>       </system.webServer>     </configuration>      Next, I wanted to install WordPress. I unzipped all files in folder `e:\mydomain\wwwroot\wordpress` Browsed to www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php, where I configured everything for my database. Everything was installed correctly. I then navigate to http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-login.php where I type my credentials. I seem to be logged in and am redirected to http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/ But there I receive an empty page. I enabled detailed error message in IIS following this article: http://www.iis.net/learn/troubleshoot/diagnosing-http-errors/how-to-use-http- detailed-errors-in-iis I also checkec with Fiddler and see that I receive a 500 error: GET /wordpress/wp-admin/ HTTP/1.1 Host: www.mydomain.com Connection: keep- alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9, _/_ ;q=0.8 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.76 Safari/537.36 Referer: http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-login.php Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,nl;q=0.6 Cookie: wordpress_fabec4083cf12d8de89c98e8aef4b7e3=floran%7C1381236774%7C2d8edb4fc6618f290fadb49b035cad31; wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; wordpress_logged_in_fabec4083cf12d8de89c98e8aef4b7e3=floran%7C1381236774%7Cbf822163926b8b8df16d0f1fefb6e02e HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/html Server: Microsoft- IIS/7.5 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.14 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 12:56:03 GMT Content-Length: 0 My WordPress web.config in folder `e:\mydomain\wwwroot\wordpress` contains:               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <configuration>       <system.webServer>         <rewrite>           <rules>                 <rule name="wordpress" patternSyntax="Wildcard">                     <match url="*"/>                         <conditions>                             <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true"/>                             <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true"/>                         </conditions>                     <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php"/>                 </rule></rules>         </rewrite>       </system.webServer>     </configuration>      I also want my WordPress articles to be available on `www.mydomain.com/blog` instead of `www.mydomain.com/wordpress` Ofcourse my admin links for Magento and Wordpress should also work. How can I configure my web.config files to achieve the above?


Line spacing does not go to zero

I have reduced the font size to very small here but large interline gaps remained. Additionally, it does not seem to be monospace since length does not increase monotonously as it should in case of font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace. In edit mode, everything is fine.


.htaccess Redirect Old Threads

I have moved to mybb to vanilla and want to redirect old threads to the new format, so the indexed threads on google aren't lost. The old format is > showthread.php?tid=3003 Whereas the new format is > index.php?p=/discussion/3003 How would i redirect this via .htaccess?


Google+ and authorship of brand pages

Does Google+ support authorship for brand pages (e.g. not a personal Google+ profile). It is unclear on the context. E.g. here it says you need a recognizable profile photo of a face: https://plus.google.com/authorship But on the examples they have ZDNet logo: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1408986?expand=option2 What would be the authorship markup for Google+ pages as page urls differ from profile urls?


SEO for different content displayed via PHP

Do search engines index, crawl, and display content that is shown only to certain users via php? For example, I have a page which looks like this: some content1 _php if user is x user_ some content2 for user x _php if user is y user_ different content3. So, would the search engines consider the keywords/links/seo of all three types of content or just that displayed to all users? Thanks


Requirements for Google HTML snapshots

Are there any requirements for a HTML snapshot for Google other than: > .. must contain the same content as the dynamically created page .. found here: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/html- snapshot?hl=nl There is also a question found here: Content of html snapshot for Search engines But is does not realy answers my question. So what about the structure and layout? Or can i just make a stripped down version with plain HTML.


What is best for SEO - 'RDFa Semantic Web' or 'Link Building'

Given that RDFa is fairly sensible and Google use it, should I plug in some sensible semantic web tags into my site or should I invest my energies into link building? I was also planning to use this to put my semantic markup together. I don't think the site is important to the question, however it is a relaunched hotel website.


Alexa ranking of a website?

If a user visits demo.domain.com, does that count as having visited the site domain.com? Does the Alexa ranking apply to the sub-domain or the primary domain?


Can I modify an existing certificate to run on multiple hostnames?

I've been investigating and I found instructions on how to create an SSL certificate with multiple hostnames, but I need to know whether I can modify an existing certificate (not create a new certificate) to allow multiple hostnames.


How can I browse the Web blind for a day?

"Close your eyes" isn't the answer I'm looking for, but +1 to you if it was your first thought. I'm putting together an awareness campaign called Browse Blind. The goals are to:   * Help sighted people experience the Web as a visually impaired user for one day or more.   * Show video footage of visually impaired users browsing popular sites such as Facebook.   * Encourage webmasters to take a more active interest in making their sites accessible.   * Demonstrate the features that make a site accessible, and those that impede accessibility.   * Make the Web a better place. The project came about after a health scare that resulted in three trips to a local eye hospital. My sight is OK now, but it struck me that, as much as web designers and developers wax lyrical about accessibility, very few seem to have used a screen reader for any length of time (myself included) or considered what their online experience would be like if they suddenly lost their sight. And _not a single one_ of the 100 or so webmasters I've spoken to about accessibility have watched partially sighted users browse the Web. (It's one of the topics I always bring up at Web conferences.) My questions are:   1. **What is the most common method of Web access** (and the name of any related software) for partially sighted users?   2. **How can I simulate this method** so that a non-technical sighted user on any desktop platform can browse the Web in the same way as a partially sighted person with minimal setup steps? For question 2, I'd like to avoid recommending that people download and install a screen reader for their OS if I can, because I think doing so will drastically reduce the number of participants. So I'm looking for Web based simulators (and browser plugins if they exist). If you know of a cross-platform screen reader that's easy to set up, then that might be an option too, as would step-by-step guides that turn a Mac or Windows OS and browser into 'accessible mode' without further software, _as long as you're sure that this is a method that partially sighted computer users employ_. The closest in-browser screen reader emulator I've found so far is WebAnywhere. (Warning: audio plays as soon as you click that link.) It's technically very impressive, but it's a beta, and it doesn't yet appear to work reliably as a functional web browser. If there's nothing out there like this, that's fine as an answer too. (I'm prepared to build something that emulates the most common access methods, but I need to understand what those are first.)


Hiding Menu Item with CSS - will Google penalise my site?

I want to hide some sub menu items, using the CSS class, and assign it to the specific menu item. For example the class is no display:               /* Hide menu items */     .nodisplay {     display:none !important;     }      This works great, but I wonder if this would be penalized by Google, as I read that Google don't like hidden texts? I read that Google marks this as spam, is it true not? I have a look at the Gavick Menus and Helix Menus, they are using `display: none;` or `left:-999em;` too for making the elements. So my dilemma is if I use `display: none;` for hiding all my sub level 3 menu items, will Google penalize my site or not? I am asking this, because I saw a lot of drop-down menus to use this technique.


Tracking different types of users

I have an organizational web site that is used by both staff and clients. We've been looking at the analytics data to see how clients are using the site, but finding that some of the usage patterns are almost certainly driven by staff using the site. We would therefore like to somehow track the type of users. It would be fairly simple to have the server side code look at the current user's IP address to determine if it belongs to our staff network and inject this into the page, but I haven't seen any way to push this information into Google Analytics. To be clear, I do **not** want to eliminate the internal traffic from tracking. I'm still interested in it. I just want to be able to separate the two. Any ideas?


Webmaster Tools is throwing out 404 errors on link not on page

Webmaster Tools is showing thousands of 404 errors, where pages on the site are referring to another incorrect URL. For example, URL not found `www.example.com/shop/=`, linked from `www.example.com/shop/gift-voucher` and `www.example.com/shop/special-plant-offers`. I obviously have checked the source and cannot find any references to this link on any page. The only consistent issue is that it only seems to report this error on pages with two section i.e. `www.example.com/shop` does not report any error whilst all pages with `www.example.com/shop/xxx` (where `xxx` can be several different pages such as `gift-voucher`) all report this. I cannot seem to duplicate this error. I have run a link checker (we use Screaming Frog) and it does not report this error. I have fetched these pages as a bot, and these do not report this error. I am at a total loss. I cannot even duplicate the issue, but it is most definitely an issue, as Webmaster Tools is reporting new errors every day. Is this perhaps Google bot doing its own thing?


Proper name scrolling news/photo

I'm very new to webdesign and am wanting to install a scrolling news/picture banner in the site but don't even know the proper term to search for to find out how to do it. Here's an example of what I'm talking about: http://www.ed.gov/ and http://www.nysed.gov/ What is this called?


Should I set up an Ebay account besides my website

I'm trying to increase the conversion rate for my website. Should I open an Ebay account and try to redirect customers from Ebay to my website?


Import email addresses to mail group using Plesk

My web hosting service uses Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 as their Control Panel. I just created a mail group (like a distribution list, one email address to email multiple people). I can only add ONE email address at a time through the Control Panel, and I have hundreds of emails to upload. Is there a better way to do this?


Using article published dates effects SEO?

In my blog I publish articles with date below under it. My questions are:   1. Using dates will have positive impact or negative impact?   2. After few years of publishing the post, since my post age is old will it remain in same position of search results or it will go down?   3. Finally, should I use published dates or not?


what is user agent Whirlpool BD2; H010818

what is this user agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Whirlpool BD2; H010818) this came from a ip address tracing to the organisation Websense the question also here thanks


Is it legal to show RSS feeds on my website from another website

I want to display the feeds from multiple news website on my website and create a site which would be something like http://paper.li So is it legal to display those feeds directly on my website? The site is not a feed reader, but I want to pick specific news article from the feed and display them.


How to access phpMyAdmin with Hosting Controller?

I am trying to update a site for a client. All the login info they have given me is for something called Hosting Controller. I've never seen it before but it seems like cPanel. I can create email accounts and databases etc. The only thing I cannot seem to do is access phpMyAdmin (or similar). Would anyone know how to do this?


How to avoid spammy links affecting us before SERP rankings going down

We have recently discovered a host of spammy links pointing to our website been put up in last 1 month through webmaster tool We have not engaged any seo agency/link building and have never created these links Worst, these are spammy forum sites and almost some-one seems making an attack to our site as the link and keyword is same in all these sites Till not Have not received any warning, however as it has come to our notice - before any SERP getting down - we want to action this out One thing we have observed is that - All these spammy links points to a single inner page of website Pl suggest as have a) Will Google disvow tool will work by stating to disvow these links or b) Is it a good way if we make this specific page 'nofollow' and even 'noindex' The reasoning behind this is like if the page is not followed and not indexed - the negative links pointing to the page of the site is already no follow and may be out from google serp or what's the best alternate way to tackle this. Pl suggest in urgent help and advise required


Can Google show some pages deleted six months back and blocked using Robot.txt?

If I have deleted some pages on my website six months back and blocked these pages using Robots.txt, can that non-existent page show up on Google?


Security: Hide mysql connection details file

Ok, so I know this must be a very basic question, but my problem is the following: I have developed my first PHP mini-app (so I'm fairly new to this) and I am pretty sure that there are two files of my web application that should be somehow protected from prying eyes   * the one with the details to connect to the db   * the one with the password hashing and the salt key How should I go about protecting them? I have read somewhere that they should be put somewhere above my public directory, but then how will the app be able to access them? Should I change something in my apache config so that the Document Root is different than something else? Any other things I should consider in terms of security? So far I am escaping every user field that goes into the db with mysql_real_escape_string(), but apart from that and hashing and salting the passwords, I'm not doing anything else.


http request terminating early

I noticed that on some of my sites, images were occasionally not getting downloaded fully. After a bit of investigation it appears that it is not restricted to images - .css, .js etc were also occasionally terminating early. The faults appear to be random. When I use the debug/proxy tool Fiddler2 reports that fewer bytes have been received than were requested. Firebug reports "Image corrupt or truncated". Obviously this is mainly a concern between me and my hosting company. However despite many emails they have not been able to get to the bottom of it. Transfer to another hosting company is obviously an option but is really a last resort. Has anyone seen this kind of thing before or can anyone suggest what might be causing it. Or any apache setting or something that I can ask them to check out. Will apache log this kind of error - they havent been able to provide me with any logs, but if I know exactly where things have been logged, maybe I can prompt them in to action. **EDIT: More data as requested by commenters..** I created a test page. It is pure HTML and embeds 9 images each of size between 4 and 6MB. This is a very large amount of data. I found having so much data speeded up the occurrence of faults which makes benchmarking easier. As a control, I run the same test on the server of another hosting company that I have access to - I never get faults when running on this other host. It is on shared hosting. I have tested it on FF, IE & Chrome. **EDIT - DETAILS OF HEADERS ETC ...** (In case your wondering, this version of the test is not pure HTML but has a small amount of PHP added to to prevent caching.) LiveHeaders o/p... https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B93lksnTC7_cYVhQT2lMbms5Mm8/edit What you see in Firefox... https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B93lksnTC7_ceHBSbmhXWHhXdlk/edit What Firebug logs... https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B93lksnTC7_cOEdmeU1lMkh4UE0/edit If you have difficulty getting into google docs - alternative... https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=9F8DE44BC9AC7FD6!107&authkey=!AAXurFZleJE5okQ As you can see the images that failed were: DSC_0046_0.JPG DSC_0232_0.JPG **EDIT - UPDATE** I've noticed that it gets worse if I simultaneously run several copies of the test. (And running several copies of the test on the control host still passes.) Further suggesting that if the server gets too many requests it might be terminating some requests early or something.


500 error on Joomla website

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function setQuery() on a non-object in /home/josh/public_html/administrator/components/com_jfusion/plugins/phpbb3/forum.php on line 226      Just moved over to a new server. Anyone have ideas as to what is wrong? Is this a database issue? line 226:                //get permissions for all forums in case more than one module/plugin is present with different settings             $db = & JFusionFactory::getDatabase($this->getJname());             $query = "SELECT forum_id FROM #__forums WHERE forum_type = 1 ORDER BY left_id";             $db->setQuery($query); //226             $forumids = $db->loadResultArray();


How should I fix the problem of duplicate content created by my CMS system's manual page alias feature?

My site’s CMS has a manual page alias feature which is in wide use. I recently noticed that the aliased pages and the original pages are showing up in GA with separate traffic. For example: www.example.com/subfolder/pagename.aspx www.example.com/pagename/ these two pages are serving the exact same content from the cms, so it is in effect duplicate content which is bad for SEO. From this extremely helpful page it seems the best option is to add a canonical link to the header. Can anyone verify that as the preferred solution? I would also like to know if this is a common problem among CMS platforms. The one we are using is called Ektron.


Footer not showing in website depending on which item is loaded

I designed a website which is having an issue, but I checked the html tagging very well and cannot fix it. If you go to this item: http://www.tahara.es/store/headbands/11/Ivory- Turquoise-headband You will see the FOOTER display normally. However if you go to this other item: http://www.tahara.es/store/headscarves/15/Grey-and-ivory-with-stoned-flower- Headscarf The footer does not show. Any clue of what I am missing or adding? The footer DIV is like this: `<div id="footer">`


seo htaccess 301 redirect

Have an SEO question. I have been checking the progress of my site indexing in Google, for some bizarre reason best known to itself, there is a very random URL indexed against my domain which doesnt exist. http://www.footballadvisor.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35:is- it-possible-to-change-the-types-of-menu-entries&catid=31:general&Itemid=46 Is there a way I can forward the url and querystring to www.footballadvisor.net as a 301 in my htacess file? Thanks :)


Google / SEO guideline about using a whole page overlay DIV and putting it in focus on Mouse Leave

Recently I stumbled into a startup news website yourstory.com who seem to be using a method to increase user engagement (increase page views) by capturing user's "Mouse leaving" event and on recognizing that event set focus to a NEW full page content DIV -- purpose seems to be able to draw user's attention back to "Most Read" kind of content-page and inviting them to click through to another page. Even though it seems like a fine way to me (from the User experience), what I am not sure is if such page design can be penalized by Google, as misleading (has hidden DIVs etc). I am hoping to get an opinion if the implementation is SEO-safe :: it seems jQuery is used to capture mouseleave event which when triggered sets focus to an overlay DIV that has "Most Read" kind of content- elements. Please advise.


SEO in what element text should be placed?

I am making my web better for SEO and I came up with question:   in what element text should be placed?

      I know that I should use each of them in different situations but I dont know in which situations... **EDIT:**   Example of 2 situations/doubts I encountered


Does Google crawl and index sites hosted on an IP address only (with no domain name) and non-standard port?

I have website on `203.162.177.159:8071` (Actually, that isn't the real IP address, I changed it for this question.) Because of an internal rule, this site must not have a domain name, and running on **non-standard port**. In Google Webmaster Tools, I see   * no crawl errors found   * no verification errors found   * I tried "Fetch as Google" and they are all successful. I can then click the URL to get to the page myself.   * I don't have the sitemap yet So why the crawled page and indexed page is still **zero**? Does Google not accept non-domain-name URLs?


Why don't people embed style and scripts in the HTML?

I know this sounds like a silly question, but hear me out. These days, there are a lot of 'media aggregator' tools that will take your globs of javascript (laden with coffee and underscores and backbones and who knows what else) and string them together and rewrite them and munge them and uglify and minify them them and tape them together so that clients _only have to make one request_ to get all the javascript or style sheets for a site. This is pretty cool. I like keeping my java(coffee)script files small and separate, and I like my clients making only one request. But if we go through all that trouble to make our javascript really small and stuff, why not just send it WITH the first request? Why not just have tools that do the minification and aggregation and then write it directly to the html? Common sense tells me that this would be bad, but I'm not sure why. Can anyone explain?


mod_rewrite prevent repeating backreference

I am trying to match a single reference in a URL to pass to a script, while retaining the rest as the path to the script. For example:               #/scripts/paramater/foo/bar.php should call     #/scripts/foo/bar.php?id=parameter     RewriteRule ^scripts/([^/]+)/(.*)$ scripts/$2?id=$1 [L,QSA]      However my backreference is matching multiple times. $2 only contains "bar.php" and $1 is somehow repeating for "parameter" and "foo". How can I prevent the backreference from repeating itself? **Edit:** I've narrowed down the problem somewhat by fiddling with the second part of the rewrite rule.               #This doesn't work, as above     #Outputs: scripts/bar.php?id=foo?id=parameter     RewriteRule ^scripts/([^/]+)/(.*)$ scripts/$2?id=$1 [L,QSA]          #This works     #Outputs: foo/bar.php?id=parameter     RewriteRule ^scripts/([^/]+)/(.*)$ $2?project_slug=$1 [L,QSA]      Which confuses me even more! Any help appreciated


alternatives to google adsense for ajax reloads

What alternatives to google adsense are availalbe that support the reloading of ads through and AJAX application? I can't locate one.


Redirect to subdomain port 8080

I have my domain registered and running. I have installed lifray which is running on tomcat 7, my site url is iloveliferay.com:8080 and I want this to be at `themes.iloveliferay.com`, which file I need to change to make this possible? I have VM cloude hosting and I have root access.


Rich snippet for Google Custom Search - Schema.org

I am trying to extract the book URL from a link using microdata. The format is specified in schema.org. Here is my html.

{{ book.name }} - {{ book.author }}

 {{ book.about }}

                                                                                <button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-md">                                             Read                                           </button>

      When I use google snippet testing tool the JSON API returns book as a html link. However when I make the call in javascript the value of url is text("Read"). What am i missing ?


Does Google counts backlinks from homepage to inside pages?

I have a site with good PR and my inside pages are getting increase of PR, but they don't have links pointing to them, only from my homepage. Does that means that Google counts ALL links on my homepage, including links to inside pages? Does it calculate inside pages PR with one coming from my domain, my homepage, too? Also, if inside pages that got high PR from homepage have link back to homepage, will that increase homepage PR additionally, since those links should count too? > By Google PR algorithm formula, by calculations on Wikipedia and Stanford PR > algorithm explanation ( which is originally developed by ) it counts those > links, and also it counts after-increase backlink again, making few times > circle ( it stops because of d ( 0.85 ) factor. ), but it counts them. Does anyone know is this correct?


SEO effects of linking to subdomain

I have http://hollywoodnose.com as a main site. Then I have http://forum.hollywoodnose.com as the subdomain. I'm cautious to link to the subdomain from the main site. I did this before and droped 50% of traffic from the main site. Also, Google Webmaster Tools showed over 3000 incoming links from Hollywood Nose to the subdomain / forum. I'm assuming Google frowned on this and saw it as spam or something of that nature. All I would want is link to the subdomain in the top nav bar of the main site. Is this safe? Will I get an overabundance of incoming links resulting in an SEO drop? Does anyone have any experience in this matter? Thank you.


Make your site anti-bot?

I remember a site closed due to misuse and i wonder if bots have a part of it. If the bot is POSTing something to my site what are ways i can combat it? I was thinking of setting some cookies and having the cookies changed via javascript + timestamp and sign (so yesterdays cookies cant be used today and next week). I'm sure most people/bots would just use another site instead of enabling JS in their bot. What else can i do? I'm thinking daily POST limit and a honeypot for generic bots who just randomly post spam


Need help for stopping spam inquiries

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Make your site anti-bot? I am not a web developer, nor have I the required knowledge to grasp this situation. I have a small company with a modest web site where I market properties. Recently, my website is being bombarded with spam inquires. Here are some examples: "It was dark when I woke. This is a ray of sunhsnie." "This is exactly what I was looknig for. Thanks for writing!" "What a joy to find sooemne else who thinks this way." As you can see, all of them has typos, probably for tracking the work done. I would be glad if someone can offer a solution to stop this nonsense. Thank you for sharing your time.


Best way to block "comment spam" postings to web forms?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Make your site anti-bot? I have a custom web form on my PHP-based site. Recently it is getting a regular stream of **comment-spam** postings from a few specific IP addresses. **Question:** What is a good way to block a small set of blacklisted IP addresses from accessing my site? I was thinking it should be possible using **.htaccess** to respond with status code 403 (Forbidden) for all HTTP requests from the blacklisted IP addresses, ... but I am not sure exactly how to do that. If anyone knows the **.htaccess** syntax needed to accomplish this, ... please let me know. thanks in advance,


What's a good way to keep spam out of 'anonymous' submission websites?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Make your site anti-bot? I'm trying to do everything I can to prevent spammers from just pasting crap all over my forum websites. People get incentivized by video games and porn sites and who-all to just paste their ads all over the Internet. I feel like just locking it all up and requiring admin approval for every account. On the other hand, I don't even like registering for websites. A lot of times, I just go out on a 'do-gooder' mission, trying to hook somebody up with an answer to an extremely difficult question. I run into 3 or 4 forums I've never been to in my life..., just wanting to post on them cause they're at the top of google. I don't want to submit my information to them, though. I don't know or trust them, and I don't want to go through validation steps. So, the Internet just goes without the valuable information that I have, sometimes. I don't want people to just avoid my website because they aren't in the mood to hassle with sign-ups. Naturally, I've tried Captcha and validation e-mails, but spammers are generally smart enough to get by these. Are there some other good techniques?


Is Placing a form to video is a best practice or not

I have a product site, in which i have a page called Demo. To view this demo, i have placed a form to be filled so that i can contact them. The form contains basic questions such as Email ID, Name, Phone Number. So, customers can view the video only after filling the form. Is it a good practice to place a form or not.


Publicly displayed e-mail address: Is it safe from spam-bots when dynamically generated?

I am currently in the process of making myself an employment website; the entire site uses a client-side rendering engine to dynamically load views. Because of this, the source of the page returns only the template elements. I have my e-mail address written in plain text in one of the views that is loaded after initial page-load. Is this safe from most spam bots? Or at the very least, is it anything I should worry about? Please do not suggest adding an e-mail form or other techniques; I am not asking for alternatives, I am asking specifically about the security behind this method.


How to add google doodle?

I want to know that for whom google adds doodles on its home page? Suppose if I want to add google doodle for my birthday on google homepage then is it possible to do so..? If it is possible then please let me know how to do so. I have gmail and google+ accounts.


I own 2 domain names "domain1.com" and "domain2.com", I want to redirect subdomain.domain1.com to domain2.com/directory using DNS (preferably). Can anyone assist (I am an amateur at domain management)?


Create partial php.ini files

I want to two split php.ini into two files so that I can move important entries to a new file. I think it is a .ini file so, any rule for creating partial .ini files will also apply to it. Is it possible to do so? If yes, how?


'Buy the app' landing page implementations: redirect or JavaScript popup?

My site (using Django) has an app that I'm trying to push - I currently have a piece of middleware that redirects the user to a page advertising the app if they're accessing the page on the iPhone, then setting a cookie so that the user isn't bugged by the message every time they visit the site. This works fine, however checking the page with the mobile Googlebot checker shows that the Googlebot gets stuck in the redirect (since it doesn't store cookies) and therefore won't index the proper content. So, I'm trying to think of an alternative implementation that won't hurt the site's Google ranking and won't have any other adverse effects. I've considered a couple of options:   * **Redirect (the current solution), but don't redirect if the user agent matches the Googlebot's UA string**. This would be ideal, however I'm not sure if Google like their bot being treated differently from other users, and I'm afraid the site's ranking may be somehow penalised if I go ahead with this.   * **Use a JavaScript popup instead of a redirect**. This would make sure the Googlebot finds the content it needs, however I envision this approach causing compatibility issues with the myriad mobile devices/browsers out there, and may affect the page load time. How valid are these options? And is there a better option for implementing this feature out there? I've tried researching this topic but surprisingly can't find any reputable-looking blog posts that explore this topic.


Canonical and hreflang implementation for international desktop and mobile site versions

I have an interesting case and I am lost in it. There are two versions of the site: desktop and mobile. And there are also international versions: English and Spanish. I'm stuck at implementation of canonical tags. Currently my setup has the following: English (default) desktop page has these:               <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.site.com" hreflang="x-default">     <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.site.com" hreflang="en">     <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.site.com/es/" hreflang="es">     <link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="http://m.site.com/" >      English Mobile page has these:               <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/" hreflang="x-default">     <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/" hreflang="en">     <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/es/" hreflang="es">     <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.site.com/">      Spanish Desktop version:               <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/" hreflang="x-default">     <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/" hreflang="en">     <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/es/" hreflang="es">     <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.site.com/">      Spanish Mobile version:               <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/" hreflang="x-default">     <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/" hreflang="en">     <link rel="alternate" href="http://m.site.com/es/" hreflang="es">     <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.site.com/es/">      But I somewhat feel that I messed the things... Three questions: **1.** Could you guys point me to what I did wrong and explain how to set it right? **2.** Since I'm redirecting from desktop version of the pages to mobile pages when mobile users access desktop the pages, do I also need to redirect desktop visitors to desktop page versions if they visit mobile pages? **3.** Since my pages already have alternate and hreflang references to point to international and mobile versions of the pages, if I add 5 languages of desktop versions and 5 languages of mobile versions to sitemaps, my sitemaps will get bulky. What are the pros and cons for referencing all page versions in sitemap and for include just general (English/Desktop) version in sitemap?


How to test the hosting before you will buy it

There are several services giving a possibility to test ping time to a server. But if I don't have any server on tested hosting yet - how do I test the ping to it? Can I ping hosting web-site it self?


What is the maximum size of an HTML file that Google will crawl through?

I have a 10MB HTML file. Will Google crawl through the entire file, or does it only look at the first X MB?


Does google take into account page load differences from caching?

Here's what I mean by that. If I use internal CSS, the page will load a bit quicker on the first time it is visited, but with external CSS a user can cache the document and load the rest of the site faster. Does Google take it on a page-by-page basis, ignoring caching, or will speeding up overall speeds throughout the site with one large CSS document be beneficial? My priority is SEO rather than user experience in this case, due to the fact that in this instance the user experience difference will be relatively minimal, and I want to crank the SEO as hard as possible. Thanks for the help!


Is reCaptcha now basically useless?

Is reCaptcha now basically useless? I have read around the internet that reCaptcha has been broken, and spam bots easily overcome it. Has Google addressed this at all. Do they have any plans to fix it? I cannot find this type of info on the web, and I was hopeing somebody may have some insight. Are there any similar, reliable, more secure webservices out there for this type of thing? I do not want to have to make my own captcha type class because on-the-fly image processing is fairly resource intensive, and I do not want to make a Q&A type captcha (I do not want this class to need DB access). Any suggestions or info about reCaptcha's problems are welcome.


Similar article by the same Google Author

I have two websites which are focusing on two different things (both are timbers, but different type of timber). Let's say if I post in both sites an article (the article is about bush fire) which has exactly same content with exception of the last sentence, will one of the websites get penalized by Google for having duplicate content? What if both sites use the same Google Author? Will this make any difference?


How can Google crawl content accessed via filter check-boxes?

I built a website that is divided into many categories. Each page displays the main category, and within that there is a check-box filter (like Amazon and eBay have when searching for items). I want this filter to be indexed by crawlers so that my sub-categories will also appear in the search engines results. How should I build this filter?


Traits of successful sites

I learned hard way creating websites. Once it dawned on me that we should have social networking on our sites, then another day that a mobile version is required. That we should register with Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools. Analysis with AWstats is also crucial for visitor stats. Successful sites are most likely on VPS or higher hosting. Choosing right CMS is also important. Implied is good original content. **Without making further discoveries .. I'd like to know from pro-webmasters the common traits of all successful sites.** * * * **UPDATE:** I'm not asking about the content or the quality of it. I want to know common features/functions of successful sites.


What exactly is a company like SoftLayer?

I found out hostgator has their servers hosted with softlayer. I wasn't aware there was another company involved. Can someone explain to me what's the role of a company like softlayer exactly and what they do vs. what hostgator does?


How do I setup a permanent redirect from one domain to another?

I have a domain, say www.example.com which is redirected to a website built in Google Sites. I don't want different search engines treat example.com as a different site from www.example.com. How do I make a permanent link between the two? My domain is under GoDaddy. **EDIT** In Go Daddy, I have forwarding option set to Google site link. Under CNAME, I have Google provided alias and directions.


Do users resize text?

I'm redesigning a website. For certain content areas the layout is fine at my text size but screws up if I set the text any bigger. I often resize pages with Firefox, but the whole page resizes so the layout still works. So, should I worry about users having larger text but the same CSS otherwise? I don't know how to test for this sort of thing. The site works fine with every browser I've looked at it with. I know some usability devices change layouts but don't they ignore normal styles altogether?


Is redirecting a subdomain to point to a folder good practice?

I have a blog which can be accessed at               http://mysite.com/blog/      I would like to access it like this because I think it looks cleaner               http://blog.mysite.com      I did some reading on domains, subdomains, and redirects and have created a subdomain with the desired URL and re-directed it to the blog path. Is this a common set up? Is there a better way to accomplish what I want to do?


Cookie Audit help needed

Can anyone recommend any decent cookie audit plugins for firefox or chrome I can see the typical google cookies on the site but I am struggling to find out what a couple of the other cookies actually do What is the best way to find out what a cookie actually does?


Can I set Cache-Control in the .htaccess file for a specific part of a document (just a section of the <body>)

I noticed, by using Google Page Speed Insights, that if I structure my HTML to load the critical, above-the-fold content first, my page will improve performance - and it woks (with now current perf. of Mobile 71/100 - Pc 87/100). My question is, with Apaches's mod_header activated, and with no content inside my `<head>` tag, is it possible to set Data Expires for any part of my page (inside the body, eg)?


Tweet count just shot up

On our homepage we have a tweet button and counter: http://www.scirra.com This was around 600 until overnight it suddenly doubled to 1,200. It's been continuing to rise at a normal rate since. Has Twitter changed what counts as a Tweet for that counter? I've noticed competitors counts have dropped significantly. We don't buy tweets or followers, and I haven't found any spam tweets about us nor have we had any significant recent press.


Managing multiple reverse proxies for one virtual host in apache2

I have many reverse proxies defined for my `js-host` VirtualHost, like so: **/etc/apache2/sites-available/js-host**               <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName js-host.example.com     [...]     ProxyPreserveHost On     ProxyPass        /serviceA http://192.168.100.50/     ProxyPassReverse /serviceA http://192.168.100.50/     ProxyPass        /serviceB http://192.168.100.51/     ProxyPassReverse /serviceB http://192.168.100.51/     [...]     ProxyPass        /serviceZ http://192.168.100.75/     ProxyPassReverse /serviceZ http://192.168.100.75/     </VirtualHost>      The js-host site is acting as shared config for all of the reverse proxies. _This works_ , but managing the proxies involves edits to the shared config, and an apache2 restart. Is there a way to manage individual proxies with `a2ensite` and `a2dissite` (or a better alternative)? My _main objective_ is to isolate each proxy config as a separate file, and manage it via commands. **First Attempt** I tried making separate files with their own VirtualHost entries for each service: **/etc/apache2/sites-available/js-host-serviceA**               <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName js-host.example.com     [...]     ProxyPass        /serviceA http://192.168.100.50/     ProxyPassReverse /serviceA http://192.168.100.50/     </VirtualHost>      **/etc/apache2/sites-available/js-host-serviceB**               <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName js-host.example.com     [...]     ProxyPass        /serviceB http://192.168.100.51/     ProxyPassReverse /serviceB http://192.168.100.51/     </VirtualHost>      The problem with this is apache2 loads the first VirtualHost for a particular ServerName, and ignores the rest. They aren't "merged" somehow as I'd hoped.


Why does bot traffic have a high (e.g. 100%) bounce rate in GA?

Since bots may request many pages at a time, why do they so often have a 100% bounce rate? It seem unlikely that they would only request one page, then leave for over 30 minutes, then request another page, and so on Could use some help understanding their behavior


Magento Shopping Cart Rule Based on Grand Total?

I was wondering if anyone knew how to set up a shopping cart rule to apply only if the grand total of the cart is >= some certain value. I see that Magento allows you to set up rules based on the subtotal, but never on the grand total. Does anyone have an idea? Thanks. By the way, we are using Magento Enterprise edition version 1.10.1.


Google search results are invalid

I'm writing a program that lets a user perform a Google search. When the result comes back, all of the links in the search results are links not to other sites but to Google, and if the user clicks on one, the page is fetched not from the other site but from Google. Can anyone explain how to fix this problem? My Google URL consists of this: http://google.com/search?q=gargle But this is what I get back when the user clicks on the Wikipedia search result, which was http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargling&sa=U&ei=_4vkT5y555Wh6gGBeOzECg&ved=0CBMQejAe&usg=AFQjeNHd1eRV8Xef3LGeH6AvGxt- AF-Yjw               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">     <html lang="en" dir="ltr" class="client-nojs" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">     <head>     <title>Gargling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />     <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />     <meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.20wmf5" />     <meta http-equiv="last-modified" content="Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:34:19 +0000" />     <meta name="last-modified-timestamp" content="1331296459" />     <meta name="last-modified-range" content="0" />     <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-wiki" title="Edit this page"                                                     >     <link rel="edit" title="Edit this page"                                                     >     <link rel="apple-touch-icon"                                                 >     <link rel="shortcut icon"                      >     <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"                                                       >     <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml"                                                 >     <link rel="copyright"                                                   >     <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Wikipedia Atom feed"                                                                >     <link rel="stylesheet" href="//bits.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=ext.gadget.teahouse%7Cext.wikihiero%7Cmediawiki.legacy.commonPrint%2Cshared%7Cskins.vector&only=styles&skin=vector&*" type="text/css" media="all" />     <style type="text/css" media="all">#mwe-lastmodified { display: none; }</style><meta name="ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles" content="" />     <link rel="stylesheet" href="//bits.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=site&only=styles&skin=vector&*" type="text/css" media="all" />     <style type="text/css" media="all">a:lang(ar),a:lang(ckb),a:lang(fa),a:lang(kk-arab),a:lang(mzn),a:lang(ps),a:lang(ur){text-decoration:none}          /* cache key: enwiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-css:7:d5a1bf6cbd05fc6cc2705e47f52062dc */</style>      What's unclear to me is how a regular browser ever receives the wikipedia.org link to be able to put it in its address bar... The headers aren't too helpful either:                  "Cache-Control" = "private, max-age=0";         "Content-Type" = "text/html; charset=UTF-8";         Date = "Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:28:51 GMT";         Expires = "-1";         Server = gws;         "Transfer-Encoding" = Identity;         "X-Frame-Options" = SAMEORIGIN;         "X-XSS-Protection" = "1; mode=block";      Status code was 200, not redirect.


Do or can robots cause considerable performance issues?

At work we are in a discussion with team members who seem to think bots will cause us problems relating to performance when running on our services website. Our setup:   Lets say I have site www.mysite.co.uk this is a shop window to our online services which sit on www.mysiteonline.co.uk. When people search in Google for mysite they see mysiteonline.co.uk as well as mysite.co.uk. Cases against stopping bots crawling:   * We don't store gb's of data publicly available on the web   * Most friendly bots, if they were to cause issues would have done so already   * In our instance the bots can't crawl the site because it requires username & password   * Stopping bots with robot .txt causes an issue with seo (ref.1)   * If it was a malicious bot, it would ignore robot.txt or meta tags anyway  **Ref 1.** If we were to block mysiteonline.co.uk from having robots crawl this will affect seo rankings and make it inconvenient for users who actively search for mysite to find mysiteonline. Which we can prove is the case for a good portion of our users.


Adult website crawlability issue

I got a mission and asking for some help with this scenario for a new website. The site is an adult escorts advertising service. It is developed fine, works and looks good, but the issue is with crawlability. Google webmaster tools index the same content for everypage. Let me explain further. If any client try to access any page the website show a default agreement/warning page. If client clicks "proceed" a session variable is set and client is redirected (302) to original page back. If client says "no", then he is redirected for another website (google, wikipedia, news portals...). Well, this is a safe process, but causes the crawlability issue I told. So, any lights upon this? How make the after agreement content be correctly crawled and indexed?


How to fix every link under new added domain?

I installed smf forum in subfolder on hosted server under my domain. Later on, I occupied new domain, added it to my nameservers and pointed to that folder thru cpanel. Index works well, link to forum works well, but deeper level links, boards, topics, profiles, login, etc, do not. Not that they don't work per se, but link is not under new domain, and thus user gets loged out when entering site thru new domain address, and gets back to old address once logged in, and similar problems. What should I do to fix all of the links? I'm guessing that this is because forum is installed before new domain is added on, and links are fixed to old domain. Is there another solution beside backing up and installing everything from scratch? Thanks.


Best practice for Google Analytics on a mobile site

I have a new mobile site which sites on `m.`, `m.example.com` What is the best method for integrating it's Google Analytics data with the existing data I have. I want them together so I can easily see total visits for example. But then would like to segment them again to see how much traffic is going to each domain. Is this possible, if so how? Thanks


Use virtual pageviews for all goal tracking

I'm new to Google Analytics and I'm wondering if it would be cleaner to user virtual pageviews for all the goal tracking on my website instead of using a mix of regular page views and virtual pageviews. I know in most cases this is just semantics but there are multiple pages where the same goal can be achieved and I think it would be cleaner just to fire the same virtual pageview instead of having two different goal pages. Will this model also give developers more flexibility when they do development? I know we are moving to a CMS and urls can get hairy, so I think this might be a good way to make analytics portion of the site "future proof". Any thoughts are appreciated! Thanks.


Url blocked by robots.txt

I badly stuck on error in webmaster tools. I have created Sitemap and when I try to test it on webmaster tools it showing me this below error:               Issue : Url blocked by robots.txt         Description : Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt      However when I removed robots.txt file from server still it was showing me this above error. I have no idea how I can get rid from it. Thanks


Website blog, within website or separate?

I run a web development firm and a hosting company and we are launching new blogs for each company. Should we launch our blog within our sites (like `domain.com/blog`) or should it be a stand-alone site/blog (like `siteblog.com` with its own design design of the site, but as if it were a separate site? Why would you go with either over the other?


Do search engines use the id's and classes of HTML elements as clues?

This is more for interest sake than anything else, since I assume it will make very little difference, but I was wondering whether there is any evidence that search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing, for example) use the class names and id's of HTML elements as clues to the content? Would it make any difference, say, to change `id="left_column"` to `id="news_column"` ?


When linking pages, does google give higher value to href="http://www.mydomain.com" than href="/"?

When linking pages does Google give higher value to: `<a href="http://www.mydomain.com"> </a>` Vs. `<a href="/"> </a>`? I am wondering because I have heard that (for SEO) it is better to provide the full HTTP address when linking to the sites homepage. As I thought about it, I wondered why that would be. Would Google really assign higher value to `<a href="http://www.mydomain.com"> </a>` instead of `<a href="/"> </a>`? They both mean the same thing. Do you guys know or have any resources on this?


How do i check broken links and images in my website?

I have recently moved my website from one server to another server. for my confirmation i would like to check the dead links and the missing images on my website. like: if my website is http://outsourcingnepal.com I would like to crawl every pages on the website and find the missing images and non working dead links.


How to open the JavaScript console in different browsers?

# _Updated on October 7th 2012_ * * * # Chrome:   1. Press either `CTRL` + `SHIFT` + `J` to open the "Console" tab of the **Developer Tools**.  Alternative method:   1. Press either `CTRL` + `SHIFT` + `I` or `F12` to open the **Developer Tools**.    2. Press `ESC` (or click on "Show console" in the bottom right corner) to slide the console up. _Note: In Chrome's dev tools, there is a "Console" tab. However, a smaller "slide-up" console can be opened while any of the other tabs is active._ * * * # Safari:   1. Press `CTRL` + `ALT` + `I` to open the **Web Inspector**.    2. See Chrome's step 2. (Chrome and Safari have pretty much identical dev tools.) _Note: Step 1 only works if the "Show Develop menu in menu bar" check box in the Advanced tab of the Preferences menu is checked!_ * * * # IE9:   1. Press `F12` to open the developer tools.    2. Click the "Console" tab. * * * # Firefox:   1. Press `CTRL` + `SHIFT` + `K` to open the **Web console** (`COMMAND` + `SHIFT` + `K` on Macs). or, if Firebug is installed (recommended):   1. Press `F12` to open **Firebug**.   2. Click on the "Console" tab. * * * # Opera:   1. Press `CTRL` + `SHIFT` + `I` to open **Dragonfly**.   2. Click on the "Console" tab.


Rewrite catalog/index.php to www.domain.co.uk

We have an online shop with a welcome page. Our SEO company has asked us to get rid of the welcome page with a rewrite. I am struggling to get this to work. Can you help please? I want to rewrite `www.domain.co.uk/catalog/index.php` to become `www.domain.co.uk` using a 301 redirect.


Should I expect Search Engines (particularly Google) to crawl epub and mobi files

Some of our content we are publishing as epub and mobi eBook format files. Will search engines crawl and index these in the same way as PDFs currently are. If the answer is yes, could you point me to some sample results page that shows how they appear.


Adding more than one Google Analytics tracking code to a site - is this ok?

We have several sites that would like to aggregate all the analytics details, along with the individual site details. AFAIK, there isn't a way to do this from the GA interface. Is it alright to add another GA code to each site to allow us to track all details from one GA property?


How to get search engines to properly index an ajax driven search page

I have an ajax-driven search page that will allow users to search through a large collection of records. Each search result points to index.php?id=xyz (where xyz is the id of the record). The initial view does not have any records listed, and there is no interface that allows you to browse through all records. You can only conduct a search. How do I build the page so that spiders can crawl each record? Or is there another way (outside of this specific search page) that will allow me to point spiders to a list of all records. FYI, the collection is rather large, so dumping links to every record in a single request is not a workable solution. Outputting the records must be done in multiple requests. Each record can be viewed via a single page (eg "record.php?id=xyz"). I would like all the records indexed without anything indexed from the sitemap that shows where the records exist, for example:               Record 1     Record 2     Record 3          next      Assuming this is the correct approach, I have these questions:   1. How would the search engines find the crawl page?   2. Is it possible to prevent the search engines from indexing the words "Record 1", etc. and "next"? Can I output only the links? Or maybe something like:


sku code as description in Google Analytics

In the Google Analytics ecommerce tracing script you must provide for every item and SKU code. I have this code for every product I'm selling and up until now I have always provided it in the `_addItem` method. But when reviewing that data in the ecommerce module of Google Analytics, I have no real, no readable data about my SKU sales. I know what product has been sold, due to the product name I provide. But when clicking through to the SKU-level, I know nothing more, since all I can see there are SKU codes. Is it possible and wise to replace the SKU code with the following template?               "product-name colour-name size-name"      This way, it should still be a unique field, but more readable afterwards.


Why did the Googlebot add "sp=1" to my URL's?

Googlebot crawled my site for the first time today, and added something strange. It appended `&sp=1` to my URL's. It seems like it's trying to gain authorized access? Normally I have `http://domain.com/?lang=en` and `http://domain.com/en` What does this URL mean: `http://domain.com/?lang=en&sp=1`, why is `&sp=1` added to it? The results with `&sp=1` are the same as the root page.


How many pageviews can my server handle per day?

I'm sharing some space on a dedicated server, but I'm not sure of the exact specifications. It is very fast though, and the person who I'm sharing the server with say they spend about 1400 a month on it and they are the same servers used by the defense department. There site is a small business site that maybe has 150 pages views per day. My site has none at the moment but I was wondering how many it could take. My site is simple, and runs 1 to 10 queries per page depending on the page. It has almost no images, except for the logo. What's an estimation for the amount og page views could I expect to get per day at a full server load. Thank you. Sorry for being vague, but that's really all the information I know.


How DDNS can link to 3G simcard dynamic IP

I have CCTV that work via 3G (use simcard). I can access it directly using dynamic IP but as it keep changes, I won't be able to access it. My question if I set DDNS on CCTV, how can DDNS detect the current dynamic IP. Where do I port forward the DDNS host name as there is no router use. scenario like this CCTV(3G simcard) ------> 3G provider ------> user <------ <------


What do you call the dots that show the number of images on the home page of a site and let you switch between them?

I've seen this before on a lot of websites and I really like it. I would really like to put it on my website, what is this slideshow looking thing called and how do you do this? Circled in red. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/k0Yr6.jpg)


Help! Google analytics removed and don't know why

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  My site disappeared from Google search, how long does it take to get back? I got this message: Google Analytics web property: link has been removed from http://aglassmenagerie.net etc. etc. I don't know why or what I should do to fix this. I have been trying to add stuff to my site on a regular basis. How do I find out what the problem is and how to fix it? I am a stained glass artist and have an online store. I am not that knowledgeable about this stuff. Someone please look at my site or code and tell me what I did wrong. Pam


Redirecting visitors to a rel=alternate page - permanent or temporary?

We are rebuilding our travel site to have both en-US and en versions, storing the language/region code in the url as a subfolder. Eg:               www.domain.com/africa/botswana (hreflang="x-default")     www.domain.com/en/africa/botswana (hreflang="en")     www.domain.com/en-US/africa/botswana (hreflang="en-US")      All pages will be available in all three versions. A visitor landing on the x-default url will have their origin detected via geoip and be redirected to one of the language/region-specific urls. We plan on offering a site selector (flag dropdown) on each page to let a visitor override the detected origin - this will drop a cookie to remember the preference. When a visitor does land on a non-specific url and is redirected, should this be a permanent (301) or temporary (302) redirect?


How can I secretly ban someone (hellban) in phpbb?

The trolls are driving me crazy; I'd like to experiment with a secret ban. > A **hellbanned** user is invisible to all other users, but crucially, not > himself. From their perspective, they are participating normally in the > community but _nobody ever responds to them_. They can no longer disrupt the > community because they are effectively a ghost. It's a clever way of > enforcing the "don't feed the troll" rule in the community. When nothing > they post ever gets a response, a hellbanned user is likely to get bored or > frustrated and leave. Source: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or- hellban.html It looks like there's no way to do this out-of-the-box with phpbb. Is there a way to hack it in?


Should I start with less competitive keywords as a strategy?

The keywords I have been using are very competitive and this is resulting in terrible rankings. Would it be an acceptable strategy to start with some less competitive keywords so that my website gets better ranking, more attention which will support more natural links to it? Would it then be acceptable to adjust the keywords gradually in the direction of the ultimate keywords and would this be a doable task?


Google Analytics Site Speed - iOS not being sampled

I'm looking at a breakdown of site speed by operating system in Google Analytics to get a sense of mobile vs desktop load times. The problem is that it looks like GA doesn't really collect speed sample data from iOS? Is this a known limitation with GA or something unique to this site? See image: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/LV4wz.jpg)


How to know in apache logs if the application has crashed?

I need some help in finding some log pattern in apache logs related to application cash? Is there a specific key word attached related to this event e.g 'crash'. Thanks.


Can I use imgur as a CDN?

I have an e-commerce site and I want to use imgur.com as a CDN for my product images by setting the image source of my image. I did not see anything in the ToS specifically about this. Can anyone offer any insight on this topic?


Are the websites hosted on Github restricted to programming?

I was searching about static hosting and I found blog posts talking about hosting their blog on Github, the hosting feature of Github seems pretty good, what I want to know is what type of websites can we host on Github pages ? should all the hosted websites be related somehow to programming (open source) or personal Github users pages (CV, Blog, Repositories). I'm aware that we can host only static websites and the repository will be public, I searched the terms of service and searched on the Github Pages page and I can't find an answer.


Hijacked meta description

On my site: `faithhopeandfiction` someone hacked into my website and now it's displaying wrong Meta description on Google search results. I've verified this using "view source" that meta description and keywords are correct but whenever I search for "faithhopeandfiction" on Google or Bing it shows wrong description. What gives? EDIT: I know it's been compromised because someone put JavaScript code in my index page which redirected a visitor to a shoe store whenever someone hit my site (I've already removed that script). However, the description in Google still shows up incorrect and it's been like this for the past month.


Postfix cannot send, getting errors

After installing postfix, there seems to be a problem when I try to send a mail through wordpress. After looking at the logs, this is what I found.               Aug 27 12:00:01 tehnika postfix/cleanup[2797]: warning: database /etc/postfix/virtual.db is older than source file /etc/postfix/virtual     Aug 27 12:00:01 tehnika postfix/pickup[2686]: 5E9BA81BF4: uid=109 from=<smmsp>     Aug 27 12:00:01 tehnika postfix/trivial-rewrite[2798]: warning: database /etc/postfix/virtual.db is older than source file /etc/postfix/virtual     Aug 27 12:00:01 tehnika postfix/cleanup[2797]: 5E9BA81BF4: message-id=<20140827160001.5E9BA81BF4@tehnika.mk>     Aug 27 12:00:01 tehnika postfix/qmgr[1994]: 5E9BA81BF4: from=<smmsp@mail.tehnika.mk>, size=682, nrcpt=1 (queue active)     Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix/smtp[2799]: 5E9BA81BF4: to=<root@mail.tehnika.mk>, orig_to=<root>, relay=none, delay=0.74, delays=0.01/0/0.72/0, dsn=5.4.4, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=mail.tehnika.mk type=AAAA: Host not found)     Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix/cleanup[2797]: 1E3D481BF5: message-id=<20140827160002.1E3D481BF5@tehnika.mk>     Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix/qmgr[1994]: 1E3D481BF5: from=<>, size=2582, nrcpt=1 (queue active)     Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix/bounce[2800]: 5E9BA81BF4: sender non-delivery notification: 1E3D481BF5     Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix/qmgr[1994]: 5E9BA81BF4: removed     Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix/smtp[2799]: 1E3D481BF5: to=<smmsp@mail.tehnika.mk>, relay=none, delay=0.33, delays=0/0/0.33/0, dsn=5.4.4, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=mail.tehnika.mk type=AAAA: Host not found)     Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix/qmgr[1994]: 1E3D481BF5: removed


Domain bidding. The seller of the domain has failed to respond

I was trying to place a bid on domain trough sedo.com and got such response: > We regret to inform you that the seller of the domain has failed to respond > to your bid in spite of our repeated reminders. > > If the seller does not respond within 14 days, this bid thread will be > considered inactive and no additional reminder emails will be sent. > > To prevent this, you can extend the negotiation period by making a higher > counter-offer What would u do in such case? the domain status says:               Status: clientDeleteProhibited     Status: clientRenewProhibited     Status: clientTransferProhibited     Status: clientUpdateProhibited     Updated Date: 30-aug-2013     Creation Date: 15-aug-2002     Expiration Date: 15-aug-2014


Free Web Hosting

i want to launch(publish) my site on the internet? so some one can tell me about free hosting?


The previous owner of my domain hosted pirated content, what is the best course of action?

Judging by my error logs, the Google craler errors, and the massive amount of DCMA takedown notices I get it has become apparent that the previous owner of my domain name (`ianspence.com`) used to host pirated content, specifically software. A quick peek in my error logs shows hundreds of URLs like:   * `/graphic/downlaod/full-version-foxit-reader-3141125-free-download-keygen-crack.html`   * `/security/downlaod/full-version-fix-it-utilities-professional-10334-free-download-keygen-crack.html`   * `/mobile/downlaod/full-version-tunebite-7120101-free-download-keygen-crack.html`   * `/antivirus/downlaod/full-version-avg-anti-virus-plus-firewall-internet-security-90730-free-download-keygen-crack.html` Looking at Google Webmaster Tools shows me that Google is trying to crawl these links as well, always returning 404. Last year, right after I purchased the domain, I received a flurry of DCMA takedown notices for links like the ones above that were indexed on Google. I never did hear back from Google after contesting every single takedown, but they did stop. My question is, what is the best course of action? Are these old URLs hurting my sites reputation? How can I stop them?


Apache 2 virtual host configuration for subdomain redirection

I'm trying to set up a `mail` subdomain on my site that will simply redirect to my Google Apps mail account. I thought I could use the Apache 2 vhost configuration below, but it's not working:               <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName mail.foo.com       Redirect 301 / https://mail.google.com/a/foo.com/     </VirtualHost>      What else do I need to get this to work?


Former designer registered my domain in their name and refuses to transfer it

When I hired a local company to design my website they charged me a low one- time fee and a monthly maintenance. Sounded like a great deal at the time, but now I'm not happy with it and I want to go with another company. The problem is the 1st company registered my domain in their name and they refuse to transfer or sell it. My company is BUILT on this site. I feel it is mine. They have me over a barrel and say they don't have to release me from my contract? What can I do? I'm one of around 50 companies in town that are having this issue.


Django or PHP? Which is my Future?

I started to learn Python. What do you prefer for my future. Should i learn Django or PHP to build sites. Is there a review about Django vs PHP?


Hiring security auditors...what should I know?

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?


Redirect to the correct URL without trailing slashes

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?


Removing trailing slash for sub directory url indexing

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.


How effective is guest-blogging for SEO?

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?


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

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 placement for good SEO?

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.


MODx CMS and SEO

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


Firebug Disabled on Some Sites?

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?


Exit link tracking with timestamped logs on 3rd party content

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.


Google Ranking for long tail search phrases

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?


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

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!


Caches and Website Screen Shots

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?


Online Bookmarks

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.


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

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?