Since Google actively supports the Music microdata structure, I would like to implement this on a site that publishes music mixtapes. In context of this website, music mixes are usually 60 minute compilations of music, weaved together in a seamless fashion, much like the experience you'd get when going to an Electronic Dance Music festival. **Problem with theMusicRecording schema** The format of the website doesn't match this microdata structure closely enough. For example, Google Webmasters indicates that my submitted microdata is missing the `inablum.name`, `location` and `startDate` properties. I have no desire of fixing these errors because they do not actually befit my content. **Alternative microdata structures** The main problem with alternative schemas is that I haven't seen official recognition by Google. Other problems are:   * BlogPosting The expected schema for content that is delivered through WordPress, the software on which the website runs. While content can be considered a blog post, its contents are usually little more than a blockquote from the mix artist, and a tracklist for the music used in the mix.   * Review While supported by Google, my content doesn't actually review the mix. It provides information about it. At best, my visitors' comments could be considered mini-reviews, but I have already structured them as Comments.   * MediaObject The main issue with this schema is that it's supposedly used inside another schema as a complement. I don't think it's a good solution to build my entire page's content around MediaObjects.   * AudioObject While more accurate than MediaObject, it faces the same limitations. **What is a suitable microdata structure for music mixes?** What I need seems to exist in schemas, but I only a little bit from each of them. Ideally, a schema that is _right_ for me, would include the following microdata properties:   * Name of artist who created the mix compilation (may be a sub schema, for instance a Person or PerformingGroup)   * Name of the mix compilation   * Artwork of the mix compilation   * List of musical works incorporated in the mix compilation, in order of appearance.   * Duration of mix compilation   * URL to audio file: the actual mix compilation   * Date of publishing   * Audio format and encoding (for example MP3)   * Comments about this content (may be in sub schema, for instance Comment) Perhaps someone could produce a example of a combination of schemas to include all required properties that Google Webmaster could throw errors on. I'm kind of lost at this point which schema is best for my content.


Google is appending branded url to title in search results with undesired capitalization

I work for an organization with a website domain that is two words that are placed together. For branding reasons, we always display the url as `Loremipsum.com` or `loremipsum.com` and NEVER `LoremIpsum.com` (referred to as camel-case). Recently, it appears that in Google search result pages the domain name with the unwanted capital letter is getting appended to the page title like: > This is My Awesome Page Title - LoremIpsum.com when we would prefer it to be: > This is My Awesome Page Title - loremipsum.com I have scoured the source code of the site and nowhere do I see the domain displayed this way. It certainly isn't in any `<title>` or `<h1>` tags. It is as if Google determined that this how the domain name should be displayed. I've looked in Webmaster Tools and Analytics to see if the site was ever claimed using camel case but can't find anything.


Does using HTML header tags as links have any SEO downside?

My homepage has several internal links which I would like to use as header tags. For example: `<h2> <a href="http://www.example.com/about/"> About example.com </a> </h2>` Does this pass PageRank to these internal links and therefore take some away from the homepage? Is there any SEO downside to using header tags as links, as exemplified above?


Does server location matter in same country?

I run a regional website in the US, where I'd say about 40% of our traffic and most of our returning visitors are located in 3 states. In shopping around for a new dedicated server I'm wondering how important location is, and whether it makes the most sense choosing a provider that is closest. I did find this post but it deals with the server being located in a different country. Does it matter where a server's physical location is? How important is a servers location to the largest concentration of users? Additionally, are there things to consider like making sure your servers datacenter is located next to a major hub?


Hide elements for Google

I have some elements which I don't want Google to see. Usually repetitive content, e.g. header and sidebar. As Googlebot doesn't handle AJAX requests, I load these resources with AJAX and insert them into the DOM. Does this cause any SEO problems? Does Google even recognize this activity? Regards.


What is the purpose of leading slash in HTML URLs?

I have noticed that some blogs posts have links using a value starting with `/` in the `href`. For example:               My Page      Does the leading `/` mean the path is starting from the site root? In other words, if the site URL is `www.mysite.com`, the effective `href` value is `www.mysite.com/somedir/somepage.html`? Is this a convention accepted in all browsers?


How to check VPS is performing optimally?

Like for measuring Load time of a website we have Pingdom tools, do we have something similar to measure if the VPS I currently have is good or not. I'm looking for some kind of metrics, because I have simple one page wordpress website which according to Pingtool takes approximately 30 secs and then timesout, that's pretty(x 10) bad. The same website on a different server takes 8 seconds. So I'm guessing something wrong with the VPS. Also I'm running Ubuntu with virtualmin on VPS. Its 512 MB ram and


Disabling well perfoming organic keywords in AdWords

One of the best performing keywords on my clients AdSense also returns them at the top of the organic rankings. Is it good practice to disable this keyword in Google AdWords and allow the organic ranking to do the rest of the work, and subsequently allow the balance to be invested in other keywords?


Increasing server speed(More info in question)

So I have recently been employed as a webmaster at a local High School, and I have walked into a nightmare. Their are 3 servers which hold about 300 WordPress/wiki sites for all the teachers. As well as the student grades via some 3rd party program called WordPress. Not to mention the fact that the servers are low grade 6 year old servers. The servers are connected to the main network in the school which is very bad because **Every single student is connected** (That's about 1000 kids using the WiFi for Facebook or whatever) along with about 500 mac books the school as in many different classrooms. Because of this the server take **FOREVER** (Best load time was 14 seconds, for the main page) to load anything but the school homepage. I have a small/no budget. How am I supposed to make this network usable? Is it even possible?


Duplicate content on the same page - SEO ramifications?

In certain situations, I've seen Responsive Design websites with duplicate content on the same page. The pages had duplicate HTML structure and content in some parts of it due to Responsive Design. For example, a menu structure for mobile layouts, and then a separate menu structure that is only for tablet + desktop layouts. So in these situations, where you have content duplicated on the same page, simply because a user was forced to separate their HTML structures to respond to different layouts, does this have any negative SEO ramifications?


enable email on Godaddy when using Zerigo on Heroku hosted app

A little recap of what I have done ... and then my questions Q1, Q2 and Q3 1 - I developed a RoR app that I deployed on Heroku.               biowatts.heroku.com      2 - I bought a domain name at GoDaddy:               biowattsonline.com      3 - I am using Zerigo addon as for the DNS               heroku addons:add custom_domains     heroku addons:add zerigo_dns:basic      4 - Added my domains in Heroku               heroku domains:add biowattsonline.com     heroku domains:add www.biowattsonline.com      and subdomains               heroku domains:add calculator.biowattsonline.com      **Q1: Where do we configure the forward tohttp://biowattsonline.com/biogas_calculator ?** 5 - Configured GoDaddy adding the Zerigo domains In the Nameservers section               a.ns.zerigo.net     b.ns.zerigo.net     c.ns.zerigo.net     d.ns.zerigo.net     e.ns.zerigo.net      The GoDaddy DNS section is empty: "Not hosted here" Ok this works all fine ... http://biowattsonline.com is correctly found 6 - Subdomain forward I want calculator.biowattsonline.com to be forwarded to biowattsonline.com/biogas_calculator   **Q2: So I created the forward in GoDaddy ... but is that correct?** 7 - GoDaddy email **Q3: I have one free email account with go GoDaddy, only now that I am using Zerigo I don't know how configure GoDaddy to make it work again?... because it work with the default values** Any ideason Q1, Q2 and Q3? Thanks, Joel


What free icons fonts are available?

With the possibility to embed fonts in websites using @font-face CSS, some creative webdesigners developed their way to display icons using fonts, instead of images. But most of the available icon fonts (or "font-face" kits) are paid, such as:   * Pictos   * Fico   * Tipogram   * KDN Media   * IconMoon *free version, with less icons So, what free icons pack in font format do you know? _Please limit one "font-face" kit per answer - and include why you enjoy/recommend it._ **Edit:** This question can be converted into a community wiki, if the moderators want, because there is no best answer, and each response is welcome as a knowledge that can be enjoyed by many.


Debating between different kinds of URL and see if one is more seo-friendly than other...

So something like `domain.com\x\y\z\t` and `domain.com\x?var1=y&var2=z&var3=t` (var1, var2 and var3 will be replaced by legit words that make more sense). **Which one is more SEO friendly?** For my purpose, second one seems more convenient, because it's easy to manipulate.


Enabling drag and drop in my CMS (Content Management System)

I'm using Drupal as CMS for my websites and I was wondering if there is a way to enable dragNdrop functionalities to upload images to the website. I mean dragNdrop images into the back-end (in the browser window). If not, can I build a desktop application integrating with Drupal ? (such as. Adobe Air application.. or something else..) ? thanks


What kind of algorithm is Panda

Matt cuts said in a Tweet : > Short version is that it’s not data that’s updated daily right now. More > like when we re-run the algorithms to regen the data. In my opinion, it tells us two things:   * Whatever algorithm panda is, it's not in the classic workflow of the referencing of a website.    * Panda is some kind of reranking algorithm which takes in input the 'classic' algorithm and penalizes aimed websites. what do you think about the last point ?


IIS XML encoding seems to be wrong

We are moving our web application from Apache 2.0 to IIS 7. Everyhing is fine with UTF-8 encoding, but just one thing. There's a flash movie in the page that reads an xml content (dynamically generated by php) which if served by Apache correctly displays french-specific characters (èé, for example), while if the same content is served by IIS 7 those characters are screwed up. "Hm, server encoding", I thought. Well I put in my script the line               header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8');      before anything else; the XML content is correctly quoted with UTF-8 encoding:               $str = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';      and the encoding of underlying MySQL database and tables is utf8-general-ci. After that nothing changes: characters like èé are still screwed up if the XML is served through apache. What am I doing wrong?


How do I design a website without relying on images and photographs, but still be eyecatching?

I've recently been charged with my first professional gig as a web designer. I've made a few pages before, very basic pages, that were for student groups or nonprofit organizations. Those were free and the client were more than satisfied with a product based off of a template or very simple markup. I'd like to go above and beyond for this, my first professional job. My client wants to set up a website to market his skills so he can consult while also working full-time. Since he is an architect he has an eye for design that I haven't built up yet. Also he has no images to share for the website. I would like to make a breathtaking design, or at least an eyecatching one. I've searched sites for templates but everything is so photbased, a privelege that I do not own. Do you have any advice on designing for a non-photocentric site? Or any examples that show it done beautifully while also being eyecatching? Any tips or tricks on how to have my cake and eat it too? Thanks


Why does google only index a part of my site?

For a while now I have been having issues with google indexing my site. For some reason it would'nt take over 33 pages from my xml sitemap: (images not allowed for new users...) It has been the case for the past couple of months. Why does'nt Google index my entire site? it's only 37 pages!


Is it possible to use Google Analytics to track file downloads?

It's always bothered me that Google Analytics (and similar embedded web traffic monitoring services) can only see a reflection of the traffic going to my server and can only see page visits since it depends on the browser executing a Javascript snippet. If I want to track real downloads of a software package (ZIP file), there's no way Google Analytics can possibly tell me that because its javascript can't be attached to a ZIP file. Is there a way I can upload my log files to Google so that the pointy-haired boss can see downloads of our ZIP/PDF/BIN files and not just visits to the download page?


Issue On Setting SEO For My Website

Can you Please take a look at This Demo and let me know why This Page of my Website is Presenting in Google Search engine instead of My First Page (Home Page). As far as I know and learned from Google SEO Tutorial I followed every thing standard for SEO on home Page! If you search Google with "vancouver spray foam insulation" criteria the page shows at 4th page of google.ca Thanks


Internet Explorer 8, content negotiation and missing file extension

I'm using Apache to serve a webpage that contain some images. I have imags in both SVG and PNG format, and use content negotiation to serve the format that a client understands. As a result, the files that are referenced in the HTML do not have any extension (i.e.  instead of ). This works fine in most browsers, but now I tested in IE8 and it does not display any of the images. It seems like IE is not able to determine the MIME type of the image, despite the server providing it in the HTTP response. Is there any reasonable workaround for this problem? Is the same bug also present in newer versions of IE?


Moving directory to domain and maintaining SEO

I recently completed a website for a client, which was hosted on my own personal server until we were ready to move it to their own dedicated domain. Inadvertently, the sub-directory got indexed when it still resided on my domain, and thus searches for the site show up for its existence on my server. I set up a 301 Permanent Redirect and put in a crawl request to Google hoping to rectify the search results, but unfortunately the results are still the same. All the literature I have been reading talks about setting up 301s when moving from domain to domain, but little to none talks about moving a site from a sub-directory to its own TLD. Is there a specific process to go about when moving a site from a sub- directory to its own domain while maintaining its preexisting SEO?


Setting up mod rewrite

I spent hours in finding how to make my url pretty but no luck. I am hosted in DreamHost and using php under fcgi. I'm triying to make my:   http://www.wallpapers- football.net/wallpapers.php?id=705&cat=National%20Team%20Wallpapers   URL into pretty one :   http://www.wallpapers-football.net/705/National%20Team%20Wallpapers.html Why is this not working:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)\.html$ /wallpapers.php?id=$1&cat=$2 [L]      my htaccess:               #--- DH-PHP handlers ---     Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI     AddHandler fastcgi-script fcg fcgi fpl     AddHandler php5-fastcgi .php     Action php5-fastcgi /cgi-bin/dispatch.fcgi          Options All -Indexes          <files .htaccess>     order allow,deny     deny from all     </files>     ErrorDocument 404 /404-Page.php


301 redirects for all except me

i want to my site down for an hour and i was using               order Deny,Allow     Deny from all     Allow from my.ip.add.ress      but i dont like the default error page, is there a 301 redirct where i can redirect everyone whos not on my ip address to a nice and pretty page?


Identical spam coming from many different (but similar) IP addresses

A forum I run has been the victim of spam user accounts recently - several accounts that have been registered and the profile fill with advertising/links. All of this is for the same company, or group of companies. I deleted several accounts weeks ago and blocked some IP addresses, but today they have come back with the same spam. Every account has a different IP address, but they are all of the form `122.179.*.*` or `122.169.*.*`. I am considering blocking those two IP ranges, but there are potentially thousands of IPs in that range. They appear to be assigned to India (although the spam is for an American company) so given the site is for a western, English-speaking audience maybe it doesn't matter. My questions:   1. How are they posting on so many IPs?   2. Is there likely to be a limit to the number of IPs they have access to?   3. Is there anything else I can do at the IP-level to block them? (I am looking into other measures like blocking usernames/links.)


Redirecting to a default (or last visited) subdirectory. Does Google like this?

i have a site that has 3 web applications, lets use this example:   * example.com/nicy   * example.com/mash   * example.com/zoken The main application is **nicy** , so if the user comes for the first time (or if Google indexes my site) that will be the default choice. This is the code placed inside example.com/ **index.php**               <?     header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');     header('Location: http://example.com/nicy');     die();     ?>      Is this solution SEO friendly for Google to index the **nicy** subdirectory as the main entrance page for the domain? (because of the 301 redirect).


What happened to HTML table tags?

I started to code HTML in 1998, and in that time I used a lot table tags, playing with tr and td, I learned many things analyzing the source code of many portals on the internet with notepad and Microsoft FrontPage, the latter, aw, how many tables overlapping others, it was fun, I loved that time. However, I abandoned web programming for almost seven years and this year I decided to see what web programming is like today. It seems completely different, as most sites do not use table tags, and instead use div and span tags. Why did this happen? What are these new tags and why are table tags no longer used?


Need a study about average latency due to HTTP request and server processing time when downloading images that are a part of DOM

I'm writing a thesis about css sprites and need to know the of the average HTTP request overhead when establishing a connection to download an image file that is a part of DOM. We conducted a study on one of our personal websites (the median time was 350ms) but this is server specific and can really screw up the perspective we have on the problem. Does anyone know a study that measured this for more than one server? An alternative would be some sources about average latency of serving image file by popular dedicated servers (such as nginx or Amazone S3).


Redirecting requests to a subfolder

We have multiple WordPress installations on our IIS7 (Windows Server 2008) Server as follows:               http://www.example.com/site_one     http://www.example.com/site_two     http://www.example.com/site_three      These all work properly. However we would like to configure it so that when users visit the root domain (`http://www.example.com/`) or any page underneath, ie:               http://www.example.com/     http://www.example.com/page1     http://www.example.com/page2      They would actually see the corresponding pages for `site_two`:               http://www.example.com/site_two/     http://www.example.com/site_two/page1     http://www.example.com/site_two/page2      How could we achieve this?


Remember me or not?

_I was told to post this on webmasters instead of stackoverflow._ Is it safe to have the remember me feature? Would it be somewhat safe (knowing it won't be 100% safe) to allow users to close their browser and come back still logged in? I am not exacting sure which way I should go after reading different things about safety. I learned about session fixation and implemented security to add more protection. From experience, if remember me is checked then only your username/email appears and requires you to re-enter your password. Other sites allow you to come in and out as much as you way without logging out after the browser has closed. If it is safe, what is the current best way of implementing remember/stay logged in?   * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3531377/best-practise-for-remember-me-feature   * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5087969/what-is-the-code-for-stay-logged-in-or-remember-me-while-user-login-in-php   * http://bytes.com/topic/php/answers/881197-stay-logged-remember-me-php-sessions-cookies   * http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/41/good-session-practices Also: The site I am working on is email & password login type.


Is it bad to use Japanese characters in search-friendly URLs?

I'm new to SEO and I'm implementing SEO-friendly URLs in my site. The code works perfectly, however I would like to know if using Japanese characters (Kanji / Hiragana / Katakana) in the URL affects my page rank negatively? I'm making this question as most SEO-friendly URLs (say, StackExchange's) remove all non-alphanumeric characters from the question title and replaces spaces by dashes/hyphens/minus signs (`-`) before putting it into the URL, which is basically the approach I'm using at the moment. However, many thread in a forum that I manage utilize Japanese characters in their titles (e.g. anime/manga titles), which would surely serve as good search keywords. So, are there any drawbacks in utilizing (properly url-encoded) Japanese characters in the URL or is it ok to use these? **update:** Couple more details/background:   * About 90% of our content comes from/is relative to Japan;   * We are a medium-sized forum where users are allowed to share and discuss content;   * We are a worldwide community, but due to the points above, users are expected to have a minimum of Japanese culture;   * The titles which I'm referring to are (99% of the time) not random Japanese words, but rather names that generate many hits on Google from all parts of the globe. With the points above in mind, there is no harm in adding these Japanese characters in the URL, or is there? Even though, less than 5% of the threads contain Japanese characters in the title. Therefore it shouldn't be much of an impact on SEO, but I believe it'd look a little weird to have semantic SEO-friendly URLs in English-titled threads and "empty" names on Japanese-titled threads. This would be considered bad pattern design, am I right?


How to Do htaccess 301 Redirect from Old Filename Pattern to New Filename Pattern?

I have a bunch of old files prefixed with "old-" (e.g. "old-abcde.php"). I need an htaccess rule to set up a 301 redirect so that any request for a file starting with "old-" goes to its corresponding new version (e.g. "abcde.php"). To be clear, I have _many_ files, not just one, so I can't do a literal filename match. I basically just need to strip off the "old-" from request and redirect to the version without it. I know I probably just need a simple regular expression, but I'm not good at writing them. Can anyone provide assistance?


Password protect an alias virtual directory

I have a main domain being hosted through CPanel. I also have a sub-domain that I would like to appear as a path under the main domain instead of as a sub-domain. So I have:               http://example.com/ pointing to the main hosted file.     http://example.com/mydir pointing to the subdomain files.      This is achieved by a _httpd.conf_ include from the main domain section to set an alias:               alias /mydir /path/to/subdomain/files/      Now, that works fine so far. The problem is that if a _.htaccess_ file under `/path/to/the/subdomain/files/` contains an error, the alias is completely skipped, and `/mydir` goes instead to the main host files. That is kind of surprising to me - I would expect an error to return an error instead. Now the killer: if I try to password protect `/path/to/subdomain/files/`, then trying to access `http://example.com/mydir` will again attempt to deliver from under the main hosted files and not from `/path/to/subdomain/files/`. I am not seeing any errors reported on the _.htaccess_ file in the apache error log, so I am assuming the _.htaccess_ is valid:               AuthUserFile /path/to/valid/readable/.htpasswd     AuthName "Secure Access"     AuthType Basic     Require valid-user      This kind of behavior does not seem right to me. Is there something obvious that could be causing it? Or is this just the way it works? Perhaps using an alias is the wrong way to go?


How to point a domain to another subdomain?

I'm really a newbie about this issues so excuse me if this is a rather dumb question, I'm trying to point a domain a client of mine bought to a sub-domain of mine, they're both from different companies, I'm not looking for a redirect but instead let's say his domain is www.clientdomain.com and mine is www.mydoamin.com I need to point dev.clientdomain.com to test.mydomain.com for example keeping the URL as it is, so when I visit the 'about' page it'd be dev.clientdomain.com/about instead of test.mydomain.com/about. I hope it makes some sense, I have seen this done before but have no idea if its using .htaccess files or changing some configuration options in the host control panel, if so I assume each host has their way of doing this so a general example would be great to point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance!


Adding 1 subdomain using .htaccess

Alright, so unlike other solutions I only want one subdomain to appear to be added. Say I wanted `example.com/folder/page.php` to be displayed as `foo.example.com/folder/page.php`, how would I go about doing this? The `foo` will never change, and it only needs to be for one page. Various other sites have been unable to provide an answer, thanks in advance. Edit: Oh, and I also have full DNS records to the domain.


Different folder and web structure

Is it possible to keep a different folder structure than the web structure that users see when browsing the website? I.e. I want all my main pages to be accessed the following way: **www.example.com/main-page-1/** Do I need to necessarily have each page in a separate folder, or can I keep all them in the same folder and define the structure somewhere else?


How Citing Sources in Website Content affects Google Rankings

I am planning to scour various press releases from the web (particularly from science companies) and directly copy the material into my website. According to many of these companies, the press release can be directly used in our websites but you must include a source link at the bottom of the content. I suspect that many webmasters would be doing the same and hence there is a chance for Duplicate content. What do you suggest?


Payment gateway providers in Abu Dhabi - UAE

I have been tasked with setting up a reasonable size ecommerce site in Abu Dhabi (united arab emerites). It seems PayPal Pro is not available in this region. I was wondering if any one could share some experiences working in e-commerce in this region. Also any good payment gateway providers in this region.


no-CMS front end WYSIWYG website editor

Is there a front end WYSIWYG website editor that can edit a webpage without having to install a CMS?


How does google regard subdomains with regard to SEO?

For example, in the past, links to www.example.com wouldn't have meant Google would pass any value to say, forum.example.com. What is the current status of this? (Please provide a reference if possible).


can 2 sub-domains under same root domain effect each other's ranking?

i have a few classifieds ads websites, each with the're own sub-domain "city1.rootdomain.com", "city2.rootdomain.com"...etc.each with about 1000 indexed pages. recently i added a street-index website under the same root domain: "maps.rootdomain.com". i submitted its site-map (50,000 records) to Google. after some time i noticed my classifieds website's traffic were cut almost be half. can the two be related ? are sub-domain's rankings under a same root domain divided between them ? Should i move "maps.rootdomain.com" under a different root domain to avoid it effecting my other websites ranking ? Thanks


Should I make sub-domain for different kind of content?

At this time I am running technology related blog and I'm tired of it because of writing only tech related articles, because of this reason I want to make a blog on sub-domain of root domain where I'll share stuff that I like and mostly stuff that make me feel good. Its content is totally going to be different from root domain's. Is it secure to make another blog on sub-domain of my main blog or should I buy new domain name. Thing is, I want to stick with my old domain name. I am going to make a sub-domain like this fun.domain.com I read somewhere that Google treat sub-domains as spam. Because it could be used to takeover search results by making too much subdomains e.g. About.com have different sub-domains for different categories but Google don't take it as spam. **Update:** Thanks for letting me know about another question about this topic. Do subdomain help/hurt SEO. It answered my question but I want to know little more if anyone can help.


Do subdomains have an impact on a root domain?

My domain discountbox.in was performing well on the Google search engine. A couple of days back we launched the blog and forum on the subdomain discuss.discountbox.in and within the next 2 days we were kind of penalized heavily. What could be the cause of this? Do subdomains have an impact on the primary domain?


Sub domain or sub-folder?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do subdomains help/hurt SEO? In terms of SEO is there any advantages/disadvantages to using a sub-domain over a sub-folder:   * www.mysite.com/company   * company.mysite.com


SEO: PageRank association in subdomains

If User A is able to store the URL of his website on a very popular highly ranked website by creating his own subdomain on that website, is this at all beneficial? This may sound like a stupid question but I thought that no matter the popularity/quality of the website which is hosting your link, in reality it is the individual page that hold the rank and so your new subdomain means nothing as it is not yet cached by search engines, let alone is it even ranked! Am I right here, or is there indeed a hopeful transferal of at least some authority to subdomains of a popular domain? Lastly would you say it is the job of the website admin to submit his new content for inclusion, or is that our job?


New domain vs Subdomain vs new Folder for each new project

If I have a domain like `http://example.com/` which would be the best to use for every new project I create. Would it be a subdomain `http://exampleprojectname.example.com/` or a new domain `http://exampleprojectname.com/` or a new folder `http://example.com/exampleprojectname`. Which one would be the best and good for seo.


About rel="nofollow" inside links

I'm curious about this since many website use `rel="nofollow"` and I don't know why. If you have a site that's ranked very good in Google, and you don't add rel="nofollow" to links inside article comments, how does that affect your rank? What if someone posts a comment with a link to a viagra website? Does that lower the rank of your site?


Are page ranks for subdomains independent?

If I have a domain name say `stackexchange.com` and I want to host 2 sites X and Y as subdomains of that site. Will `x.stackexchange.com` help out `y.stackexchange.com` in page rank? Or will google treat them as 2 separate sites as far as page rank is concerned? Is there any SEO benefit at all? The question stems from this post and its answers and comments by the way: http://meta.webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/624/webapps-stackexchange-com- verus-nothingtoinstall-com Comments like this one and others: > No doubt the site will be great either way. But all things being equal > questions from a "smaller site" (with less traffic and less overall > linkbacks as far as Google is concerned) will have a lower Google ranking > than if the site is "seen" as part of a huge network (made up of all the SE > sites combined) with ONE top-level domain. Is it worth it? – Robert > Cartaino♦ 2 days ago Or this one: > Is it worth sacrificing the network effect of being on the Stack Exchange > Network AND the lower Google ranking on every question (smaller sites will > have lower rankings than a large network) to have the independent domain > name? That's what I am asking. – Robert Cartaino♦ 2 days ago Or this one: > @alexanderpas correct, and nothing will destroy that search ranking faster > than splitting pagerank across 25+ unique domain names. – Jeff Atwood♦ > yesterday


Domain manager to consolidate many domain here and there

I have about 20 domains to manage. Some registered to the client (i impersonated him) and other register by me, under different name and address (over the years). I like to get ALL THE DOMAINS under one roof, one easy to manage all the registration and order in one place.. what do you suggest...   * once in my life, i have try doteasy, which make domain managing super easy, but i don't like the prices...


Feedback/bug tracking system for an alpha/beta phase website?

I'm developing a website and it's closing onto a private alpha/beta phase. It will be exposed to a small selected group of individuals who will provide a fair amount of feedback. What options do I have for this feedback system? I would certainly like to make it collaborative (excluding email). I could mock up a really simple message board, but would rather use my time elsewhere. The feedback will mainly consist of feature suggestions and bug reports. Edit: Actually, would prefer if it's a free hosted service.


Can I use Google Analytics to count QuickTime installations?

By default, Google Analytics produces reports on which versions of Flash and Java my users have. Is it possible to set up a report on which versions of QuickTime (if any)


How can I clear the "crawl errors" of Google webmaster tools? On my webmaster tools page, there are some "Not found" crawl errors dating back two years which I cleared up a long time ago, but they are still hanging around on webmaster tools. I thought they would go away naturally once the mistaken links were fixed, but they don't seem to. Is there any way to clear old crawl errors manually?


How does client side XML+XSLT affect SEO?

I have a site that is built completely in XML and is transformed by a single XSL file. How does this affect SEO? Is it possible to store page-specific metadata? Will robots see the transformed page (the result of the XSL stylesheet) or the plain XML?


Rounded corners in IE7 and IE8

Now every major browser supports `border-radius`, I was wondering what the best way to get rounded corners in IE7 and IE8 is until IE9+ becomes most dominant version of IE. I've seen several javascript based solutions, but I was wondering if anyone could recommend one they've used themselves?


Advice on web app to make pdf (documents) library

I want to create an online pdf library. Is there any free solution exist, CMS or something? It should allow to upload pdfs, search documents and download them Thank you!


How can I figure out what technologies a site is built on?

I'm researching building a site by looking at what other people have done but I don't know how to determine what technologies or platforms are being used. How can I tell what any given site is running when I visit it?


Indexing search results

Is this good for SEO? I see some sites doing it, I find their results on Google and click on them, do they do work right? Given a site search, someone searches for: 'Peanut Salad' The search is processed on the URL http://www.domain.com/Search/Peanut-Salad The results are returned, nice meta tags/titles generated, etc. The search can then appear on a list of 'popular searches' on some page on the site. These can be manually filtered to prevent spammers gaining entries on the list. Is this worth doing? Good to get more visitors from engines? Is it useful for them?


WAMP icon suddenly orange

**I've been running WAMP for like 6 months+** with Skype (also did the Skype port change just for the sake of it) - **with no problems**. Today I open up WAMP -> get a green icon ->I then add an "alias" to the "alias directory" (already have 10+ other aliases working) -> **WAMP restarts and stay on the ORANGE icon** :/   * I've installed nothing new on my computer for ages   * I haven't changed any settings for ages   * I've restarted the computer several times   * I've closed down Skype and opened WAMP afterwards I checked both MySQL + Apache log, but don't seem to see any errors.               MYSQL     --------------------     131205 16:42:07 [Note] wampmysqld: Normal shutdown          131205 16:42:07 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events     131205 16:42:07  InnoDB: Starting shutdown...     131205 16:42:08  InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 54497659     131205 16:42:08 [Note] wampmysqld: Shutdown complete          131205 16:42:13 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.     131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled     131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions     131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3     131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M     131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool     131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.     131205 16:42:13  InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start     131205 16:42:14 InnoDB: 1.1.8 started; log sequence number 54497659     131205 16:42:14 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): '(null)'; port: 3306     131205 16:42:14 [Note]   - '(null)' resolves to '::';     131205 16:42:14 [Note]   - '(null)' resolves to '0.0.0.0';     131205 16:42:14 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '0.0.0.0'.     131205 16:42:14 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events     131205 16:42:14 [Note] wampmysqld: ready for connections.     Version: '5.5.24-log'  socket: ''  port: 3306  MySQL Community Server (GPL)     --------------------               APACHE ERROR LOG     --------------------     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [warn] pid file C:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.2.22/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Win64) PHP/5.3.13 configured -- resuming normal operations     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Server built: May 13 2012 19:41:17     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Parent: Created child process 9272     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Child process is running     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Acquired the start mutex.     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting 64 worker threads.     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting thread to listen on port 100.     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting thread to listen on port 100.     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting thread to listen on port 100.     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting thread to listen on port 80.     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting thread to listen on port 80.     [Thu Dec 05 15:31:12 2013] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.     [Thu Dec 05 15:31:12 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.     [Thu Dec 05 15:31:13 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Released the start mutex     [Thu Dec 05 15:31:14 2013] [notice] Child 9272: All worker threads have exited.     [Thu Dec 05 15:31:14 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Child process is exiting     [Thu Dec 05 15:31:14 2013] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.     --------------------


.htaccess and gzip compression

i have question about GZIP compression, actualy my wordpress website doesn't have .htaccess to be able to use that feature, so can i create .htaccess file only for gzip, it won't change anything on website?


Resized background images blurred in desktop Safari

The website I'm creating (test6.lazyfoxdesign.co.uk) is responsive and makes heavy use of images for the background. I use high resolution images and scale them down using CSS for smaller resolutions. In all web browsers, except desktop Safari images are nice and sharp. I attached screenshot of the issue. Google Chrome on left and Safari on right. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bj96k.jpg) Source: http://imgur.com/e3EmrQS   (Enlarge the imgur image to see difference.) In the screenshot below (actual size) Chrome is top, Safari is bottom: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/579AD.png)


What is the different between these two sets of Google Analytics tracking code?

Does anyone know the different between these two sets of code for Drupal Google Analytics module? Which one is correct? ** ### Code 1: ** **_before_**               _gaq.push(["_setDomainName", "none"]);     _gaq.push(["_setAllowLinker", true]);      **_after_**               _gaq.push(["_setAccount", "UA-XXXXX-X-2"]);     _gaq.push(["_setDomainName", "none"]);     _gaq.push(["_setAllowLinker", true]);     _gaq.push(["_trackPageview"]);      ** ### Code 2: ** **_before_**               _gaq.push(["_setDomainName", "none"]);     _gaq.push(["_setAllowLinker", true]);      **_after_**               _gaq.push(["b._setAccount", "UA-XXXXX-X-2"]);     _gaq.push(["b._setDomainName", "none"]);     _gaq.push(["b._setAllowLinker", true]);     _gaq.push(["b._trackPageview"]);      I found these codes from here and from Google; the 2nd one is from Google with "b."


What is the most effective way to obtain SEO benefits from content while still protecting most of it behind a paywall?

I'd like for search engines to recognize the content that is hosted on my website, but I'd also like to protect most of it behind a paywall. Are there any proven strategies for doing this?


I think there is a problem with my url encoding

I took someone's advice and started encoding my image sources, but Google doesn't seem to be able to decode them. I probably did something wrong, because basically Google is taking the full path as the image's name. See this page as an example. If you go on the top most thumbnail and do "Save as", you will see the path is not being decoded. Should I stop decoding or am I doing it wrong? Should I encode only the image name itself? Thanks!


Does valid HTML, CSS and/or XML affect SEO?

Can a page's HTML validity affect search engine optimization (SEO)? Assuming all other factors are exactly equal, will an HTML document with 0 errors and 0 warnings (W3C provides a tool to validate your HTML validator.w3.org) rank better than a page with 20 errors and 10 warnings? Does markup validity apply to CSS and RSS as well?


Does adding LinkedIn button to a website result in cookies that track users?

We are planning to add the LinkedIn button in our website. But the restriction we are having is, the website should not use the cookies which collect the personal information. No impersonation.   But I read the LinkedIn website privacy policy, which says it uses both persistent and session cookie. So i need some more inputs on this one - is LinkedIn website tracking the user's login information ??


How do I temporarily shut down my MediaWiki?

I have installed MediaWiki on my website. I want to shut it down temporarily, until I completely fill it with articles. Is this possible? Is there any maintenance shut down feature? (Version: 1.18.1)


Google search result showing unknown results

I'm facing serious issues with Google search results. 'Till yesterday everything was fine. Today when I search with my top ranking keyword, Google gives some other URL with my website's title & description. If I open that site it's getting redirected to my site. Please tell me how to fix this.


How do I capture incoming HTTP requests for analysis?

I have a site that is hit pretty hard by a 'bot script that thinks it is possible to brute-force the `Admin` password by "trying" out different passwords with the username "Admin". Here is an excerpt from my log:               uname   password     IP-address     -------+--------+-------------------     'Admin' '300283' IP: 220.250.61.78     'Admin' '300284' IP: 94.255.35.226     'Admin' '300281' IP: 176.108.152.178     'Admin' '300191' IP: 109.162.54.139     'Admin' '300280' IP: 213.87.138.83     'Admin' '300193' IP: 2.242.0.165      A typical request from the bot is logged like this in Apache's `access_log` and since it is `POST` the interesting bit (i.e. that it tries to login on the admin user) is not in the header.                109.162.54.139 - - [08/Sep/2013:17:52:44 +0200] "POST /user HTTP/1.1" 200 20571 "http://example.org/user" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.72 Safari/537.36"      The 'bot does about 8 login request per second, and it has been doing this for four days so far. The site attacked is owned by a completely uncontroversial NGO. I run it pro bono on a small shared host. The configuration doesn't really scale well for this sort of thing, so performance suffers. It is obviously a pretty stupid script, because when I set up Apache to reply 403 to _every_ request from everone except from my IP, it just kept going on as nothing had changed. (Doing so restored performance, so if I can get this blocked by Apache, I've won.) As you can see from the log excerpt, whoever's doing this commands a botnet with a vast number of IP-addresses. Going through the logs, I notice that it very seldom reuses an IP-address, so blocking the IP-adresses, as suggested in the upvoted answer to this question: Tactics for dealing with misbehaving robots is _not_ an option. Btw: there is no account with username "Admin" on the system, nor is there any sensitive or valuable information on the system, so it puzzles me why anyone is doing this. One thing I want to try out is to analyzing the incoming requests, I hope I shall be able discover some sort of pattern. And when I've found a pattern, set up some rule in Apache to block requests matching the pattern. But I have no idea how to capture the incoming requests for analysis, so my question is: How do I capture the POST part of incoming HTTP requests for analysis?


Pointing from domain registrar to host: Name Servers vs A Records

What are the performance or any other considerations involved when deciding whether to use Name Servers or A Records when pointing your domain registrar to your website host? **My case:** I have a domain registered with Network Solutions, email with Network solutions, and a website hosted on GoDaddy. My thought here is that I point the A Record to GoDaddy, because it's my only option without breaking email. However, if I were not using any Network Solutions services, would it be better just to point the name servers to GoDaddy?


Can Google see CSS transitions?

I heard that Google "rewards" you for styling the links differenty from other text that are not ought to be clicked. It makes sense I guess. But what if my links are black, like the rest of the page, but they go red or some other "flashy" color when hovered with mouse? I know this won't happen in mobile devices, but will it stil make Google understand that they are links? And is it a good idea to place the links as h3 or h4 headings ? Since they are titles of articles, it makes sense to me. But I heard bad things about that, too.


Google Analytics Funnel With Steps for Google, Facebook or Twitter Login

I have a goal in my site for users to download some content, but they need to be logged in. So, if they are not the system prompts them to either login or register. For both these actions they can use services like Google accounts, Facebook ID, Twitter ID, etc. How can I create a funnel in Google Analytics, where the people that leave to login with Google, and come back to finish the goal, don't drop off?


Can Schema.org properties be including in existing tags?

The examples on schema.org seem to indicate adding addition tagging to indicate item properties is the norm. However, can these be added with an existing tag? For instance in the following line of code:               <span itemprop="price" id="product_price" style="white-space: nowrap;">      Would the search engines supporting schema.org microformats detect this property?


Should I replace non-user friendly URLs with friendly ones, and if so, how?

I have just added my site to Google Web Master Tools and discovered that some links (for example: In the section "Search Query / Top pages") have a URL format like: `example.com/page.php?id=1234` This format can also work, but all my internal links have a format like: `example.com/1234`. So I can only suppose that Google had scanned all those links before I made changes to my _.htaccess_ file. My questions are:   1. Should I care about those non-user friendly links already in the index and hope that Google will correct itself soon?   2. If I should - how do I remove those wrong links and replace with correct ones?


Dealing with Domain Parkers when the Domain is Older than the Trademark

I would have asked this in the Startups SE site but it's closed now and the topic of this site seems the best for for my question. I'm working on a startup, and I've chosen a name. The .com is already registered by a domain parker. I understand that it's illegal to register a domain using someone else's trademark name and that the domain can be retrieved via legal action, but is it possible to force a domain parker to hand over a domain when he or she registered the domain before I register my company name?


Login Prompts in mod_auth_sspi showing up for aliased sites only

I've been trying to figure this out off and on for a few days now, and I think I just have a fundamental lack of understanding :) I have Apache2 running in a windows environment serving up our company intranet. I'd like to be able to pass through the windows authenticated user so that I'm able to use it on the PHP side. At the moment, it's sort of working. If I set up a virtual host that resolves directly to the server name, everything works as expected if I browse to http:// webserver               <VirtualHost *:80>        DocumentRoot "C:/www/test/public"        ServerName WEBSERVER             <Directory "C:/www/test/public">         Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks         AllowOverride All         Order allow,deny         Allow from all              AuthName "Test"         AuthType SSPI            SSPIAuth On         SSPIAuthoritative On         SSPIOmitDomain On              SSPIUsernameCase Upper         SSPIPackage NTLM         SSPIPerRequestAuth on              require valid-user      </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      In this case, WEBSERVER is the name of the actual machine in the domain that hosts our internal sites. If I use an alias that resolves to WEBSERVER, I get the prompt that asks me for my user/pass (which successfully validates if I provide the correct details). This example generates the prompt if I browse to http:// sub.internaldomain.com, where sub.domain.com resolves to WEBSERVER:               <VirtualHost *:80>        DocumentRoot "C:/www/test2/public"        ServerName sub.internaldomain.com             <Directory "C:/www/test2/public">         Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks         AllowOverride All         Order allow,deny         Allow from all              AuthName "Test2"         AuthType SSPI            SSPIAuth On         SSPIAuthoritative On         SSPIOmitDomain On              SSPIUsernameCase Upper         SSPIPackage NTLM         SSPIPerRequestAuth on              require valid-user      </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      Both tests are bare bones Zend Framework applications that are just trying to dump out $_SERVER. The first example above gives me the correct REMOTE_USER value while the second example has it if I enter in a valid user/pass on the prompt (or not at all if I remove the valid-user requirement). Any thoughts??


Ad network to target a specific browser only

I'm looking for an ad network which allows me to target only users with a specific browser. I want to advertise my online app which only works in one of the major 3 browsers. I've looked at some of the more popular ad networks but I haven't found any.


Twitter Product Preview on Tweets

I just saw that twitter can also preview the products as it is on below Tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/gillcleeren/status/131640082397528065 In this case, it is an Amazon product. I was wondering how we can enable this for our website? Do we have control over this or Twitter chooses web sites for this feature which they want?


Does google use transliteration when crawling page URLs and indexing them?

In a generic search Google understands transliteration and if I wrote some words using Latin letters but in a non-English language ( for instance phrase "red cat" in Russian using transliteration will be "krasnii kot" ) will Google suggest this phrase in Cyrillic and do a search in Russian texts? Thinking in terms of a web shop and that the URLs for product pages contain transliteration, will Google index them as well?


Is anyone restricted to use metro ui in websites?

I found metro User Interface will suit my website's look. I would like a tiled Dashboard with grouped items like Windows 8 start menu and button style and text style identical to metro user interface. So can I do it or am I restricted use the design in my website?


Mobile browser statistics by versions?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What mobile browsers for testing? Where can I find more detailed mobile usage statistics so I know which devices to test on? This link gives info by OS, but not by version. http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201009-201109 For instance in the UK BlackBerry is quite popular, but I don't know what age of device I don't need to test on.


Reading .mht webpages from server

We have some `.mht` files which load fine from local files but when loaded from the remote webserver display as junk text. What can I do to make them work correctly from our webserver?


Tracking multiple domains while obtaining single reports also

I own 4 websites               site1.com     shop.site.com     site2.com     site3.com      Using this information I will get a global report that shows how websites interacts. How to keep getting separate reports for every website also?


create redirect of subdomain

I have a new app server that will run an ftp server and a few other things. It won't run a web server. I want to put that app server on a subdomain so that I can access it. So ultimately I will be creating an A record to point to the static IP I have setup for that. But before I do that I want to test out using this subdomain. So I will setup the subdomain to just point to my main site for now (with an A record - as suggested in this post). What is the best way to redirect my subdomain to my main site? I want to make sure I don't get dinged for duplicate content. I also noticed that by default `ftp` is a subdomain provided by GoDaddy. So if you type: `http://ftp.mysite.com` that goes to my site. Wouldn't Google treat this as a duplicate site?


registered a new domain from a different provider (onlydomains.com)

I registered biowattsonline.com from GoDaddy a few months ago. I have it using Zerigo DNS. Now I have registered biowatts.cn from onlydomains.com In Heroku (hosting a Rails application) I added 3 domains:               biowattsonline.com     www.biowattsonline.com     cn.biowattsonline.com      (I can't add another base name) How do I configure in onlydomains.com so that I can forward biowatts.cn to biowattsonline.com or even cn.biowattsonline.com ?               biowatts.cn => biowattsonline.com     biowatts.cn => cn.biowattsonline.com       And what is the best practices around having different domains names for the same application?


if I specify a wildcard dns entry will it override any specific values?

I have               cheese.mycompany.com - 1.1.1.1      I want to go               *.mycompany.com = 1.1.1.2      without effecting cheese ? Will this work, just having two seprate dns entries ?


Track subscription form that redirects to an external URL with Google Tag Manager

I have a Gravity Form subscription form that I am currently tracking by triggering an even on the confirmation page using Google Tag Manager. However, very soon this form will redirect to a page on a different domain with a few parameters passed in the url. This means I would have to track the event on submit instead. I have tried the Form submit listener, click listener and link click listener and nothing seems to work. I think I might be grabbing the wrong id/class. I also want to make sure that the event only gets triggered after the form has been validated. Below is the complete form code:
     <form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" id="gform_1" action="/">

                     Name
                         <input name="input_2" id="input_1_2" type="text" value="" class="large" tabindex="1">

                     Email
                         <input name="input_1" id="input_1_1" type="email" value="" class="large" tabindex="2">

                     <input name="input_3" id="input_1_3" type="hidden" class="gform_hidden" value="17/07/2014">

                     <input name="input_4" id="input_1_4" type="hidden" class="gform_hidden" value="Home">

                     <input name="input_5" id="input_1_5" type="hidden" class="gform_hidden" value="http://example.com/">

              <input type="submit" id="gform_submit_button_1" class="button gform_button" value="Submit" tabindex="3" onclick="if (window[ & quot; gf_submitting_1 & quot; ]){return false; }  if (!jQuery( & quot; #gform_1 & quot; )[0].checkValidity || jQuery( & quot; #gform_1 & quot; )[0].checkValidity()){window[ & quot; gf_submitting_1 & quot; ] = true; }">              <input type="hidden" class="gform_hidden" name="is_submit_1" value="1">              <input type="hidden" class="gform_hidden" name="gform_submit" value="1">              <input type="hidden" class="gform_hidden" name="gform_unique_id" value="">              <input type="hidden" class="gform_hidden" name="state_1" value="WyJbXSIsImYzNmQxM=">              <input type="hidden" class="gform_hidden" name="gform_target_page_number_1" id="gform_target_page_number_1" value="0">              <input type="hidden" class="gform_hidden" name="gform_source_page_number_1" id="gform_source_page_number_1" value="1">              <input type="hidden" name="gform_field_values" value="">
     </form>                    jQuery(document).ready(function(){jQuery(document).trigger('gform_post_render', [1, 1]) });


Meta tags with HTML special character codes?

This question is regarding best practices on SEO development meta tag filling. A name written in the Latin or the Cyrillic alphabet has certain special characters, such as the ccedil `C`, for example. **When populating meta tags and other SEO assets in a page** , what should be used, the HTML character code (for the given example: `ç`), the actual character or another character that looks close (using a `C` for the given example)?


Is it possible to target Amazon's affiliate program to the user's country?

I have signed up for Amazon's affiliate program, to see how well it does. However, the program appears to be specific to each of Amazon's separate sites (Amazon.com, .co.uk, .ca etc). Around 50% of the traffic comes from the USA but there is a significant proportion from Canada and the UK too. Is there any system from Amazon to target products to the user's country? Or must I do this myself?


Assemble static site from templates? (don't want to reinvent the wheel)

I have a site that is 100% static content (no php, just some javascript). There's several "blocks" like the header, menu, footer, etc. that are the same on each page. Rather than do a lot of copy/pasting, I was thinking of some kind of template system where I could run a CLI command (in php, perl, python, shell, whatever) and have it replace all the block tags with the actual block text. I did see some answers in this question, but those seem oriented towards "we provide the style and layout, you provide the text". In my case, I have everything as far as layout, css, etc. - just want to do a glorified sed. Before I invent the wheel, I was wondering if there was a tool out there already.


what do mean "renewal domain" for free service?

sorry for bad english. if renewing cz.cc free domain is free then what do mean renewing domain after two years? (why we should renew for free service when it is free?)


Getting SSL certificate for a sub-domain

Our company owns a domain say **www.mycompany.com**. I understand that it is trivial to get an SSL certificate for above domain since we do have a website running on that address. We want a certificate for a subdomain say **sub.mycompany.com**. We intend to use this sub-domain in our organisation network only and have no plans to publish a public website on this subdomain. So the question is "Is it necessary to have a DNS entry for subdomain, resolving to our IP address and host some page on that address?" I hope proving that main domain is in our control, we can get an SSL certificate for sub domain also. Is it possible?


No Page Rank after switching domains

Our website hasn't had a Page Rank since it started a year ago. It has been 0 ever since we changed the to domain to http://www.accessiblehomehealthcare.com from www.accessiblehhc.com so that we could put some keywords in. We had a page rank of 1 at least. I know that it can be a variety of things but we had a page rank before and would like to get it back and even higher. Our site is Wordpress 2.7. Any hints or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks!


Adding text shadow to your whole website

I want to add shadow to all the text into a website. The text is in different elements of the website. Now I was thinking of 2 things. 1) add a class to all the containers with text, and just give the class the text-shadow style. This will give me a lot of work tho, adding a class the all the elements in the website. And what will this do with the DOM? 2) Add styling to all the elements:               h1,h2,h3,li,p,span{text-shadow:1px 1px 1px rgba(51, 69, 78, 0.5);}      Which one of the 2 is better to use, or is there a better, more optimized way to do this?


What are the differences between Firefox's Javascript engine and Chrome's V8?

I've noticed that Chrome and Firefox take different amounts of time to render certain things. In general, Chrome has been faster. What should I know about both of them (and IE8/9, too, I guess) when constructing a Javascript/jQuery app?


What kind of website can be run on AWS for 10, 100, 1 thousand, 10 thousand, 100 thousand, 1 million dollars per month?

The AWS pricing is quite complicated. I am aware that every website is different and require different types of AWS services. But is there a simple way to say that for 10$ per month you can run website on AWS, that has X unique users, Y data transfer, Z storage etc. e.g. `simpleblog.com`, for 100$ you can run website with ... something like ...?


Word docs opened/downloaded via IE cannot determine correct encoding when they contain embedd images

This problem only rears its ugly head when opening/receiving using a version of Internet Explorer. Firefox, Safari and Chrome all work perfectly. When a Word doc that contains embedded graphics (like screenshots) is opened in IE, a dialog box asking to choose the correct encoding appears and NONE of the available options corrects the text in the document. The images display fine, but all text is garbled beyond recognition. Word docs that do not contain images come through fine. If the file is specifically downloaded then opened from the desktop, the problem still exists. Any ideas how to get these docs to behave in IE? I have been searching to find any similar issues and resolutions but have come up empty. I would think there were header issues except it works fine in other browsers, and other docs without images also work fine.


Duplicate Content and News - How do SE's treat them?

I am planning to start a news website wherein I will be syndicating news from News Distribution Services and Press Releases. What most Webmasters in this field do is to directly copy (or atleast 95% of) the content provided by the news distribution service or press release and publish them. So, eventually, there are many news sites that are going to have the same content (or with a very few changes) and it happens that some of these sites have a PR of 6 or even 7 or 8. Obviously, they rank higher. In my website, I will have a news section which will essentially contain the content from the PR or NDS but I will also have more sections wherein I will be posting High Quality and Original articles. How would Google and other Search Engines treat my website for duplicate content. P.S. I definitely wan't the news section because I wan't my readers to get access to news as well. Can spinning news articles be a good Idea? What I wan't to do is grab the news source and write it in my own words and then publish it. Please post suggestions.


Better to ignore competitor who looks like a copycat, or send a notice?

My new SAAS product is a month or two from launch, and I've had a temporary (trademark approved) site up for a long time, and announced it publicly at a conference in January to potential customers & collaborators). A competitor just popped up with a suspiciously similarly constructed product, but without my background in the content area. A content provider on his site is well- known to me, and I had offered to speak on the subject of my product at his seminars. I foolishly wrote the content provider, not realizing he was more than a contributor--he was THE expert on the site. Within days I saw the competitor's site shift to copy my own product position even further. I've taken down the temporary site and am focusing on getting my far better product out. My concern: he could potentially accuse ME of copying him, since he's already launched (an incomplete product, but his game was clearly to beat me out the door.) My choices: 1. Send a note staking out my territory to preempt him and make him think twice about copying me further when I launch (the years I've spent in development, the public announcement in January. 2. Just ignore him and move on. Thanks--I saw a similar question so thought this might be appropriate here.


Magento project management - source control

Need some advice on project management with Magento. I have been putting my whole project under source control but its becoming a nightmare to manage. I am now thinking of installing a base magento on local dev and live and then just putting my local code directory, design and theme directory under source control (svn in my case). Obviously this has drawbacks also. Can some more experienced developers offer some advice on how they manage their code on magento projects between local, dev and live sites.


Why does flush DNS often fail to work?

C:\Windows\system32>ipconfig /flushdns          Windows IP Configuration          Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.          C:\Windows\system32>ping beautyadmired.com          Pinging beautyadmired.com [xxx.45.62.2] with 32 bytes of data:     Reply from xxx.45.62.2: bytes=32 time=253ms TTL=49     Reply from xxx.45.62.2: bytes=32 time=249ms TTL=49     Reply from xxx.45.62.2: bytes=32 time=242ms TTL=49     Reply from xxx.45.62.2: bytes=32 time=258ms TTL=49          Ping statistics for xxx.45.62.2:         Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),     Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:         Minimum = 242ms, Maximum = 258ms, Average = 250ms      My site should point to `xx.73.42.27`. I change the name server. It's been 3 hours. It still points to `xxx.45.62.2`. Actually what happen after we change name server anyway? Wait for what? I already flush DNS. Why it still points to the wrong IP? Also most other people that do not have the DNS cache also still go to the wrong IP.


Should I measure visits or unique events?

I have set up custom variables a couple of months ago. Basically it tracks categories of pages, much like the example in the docs. Now I want to get a list of the most popular categories. I've checked the dashboard, and the data is being reported fine. However, I noticed that on the dashboard, the amounts listed in the column 'visits' don't match the amounts I get when requesting the Analytics API. Instead, these numbers seem to correspond with the number of unique events. Maybe the dashboard uses the wrong parameter here, it clearly says the `visits` column represents: > The number of visits to your site with one of more of these custom variables > specified. Or maybe I'm just interpreting this the wrong way. The pages that track these custom variables call two actions: `_trackPageview` and `_trackPageLoadTime`. All other pages call these actions as well, without the custom variables. Below is sample output from the Data Feed Query Explorer for my categories: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wgbCr.png) I want to know what's best to use in my API calls; the `ga:visits` metric is substantially lower than the number of unique events. How do I need to interpret this table exactly?


Changing DNS of website to point to another website

I have two website `abc.com` and `newabc.com`. Both are on different web servers. I want to shut down `abc.com` and make sure that I want to send its requests to `newabc.com`. I am shutting down the servers of `abc.com`. I came to know that this can be done by doing some changes at the DNS of `abc.com`. Can I point DNS of `abc.com` to `newabc.com`. Can someone tell how doing that?


What to use to make voice chat (and some more) on a web?

I am trying to make available on my website a voice chat for a small group of people that allows some other means to interact such as text messaging, photo sharing, file sharing, simple drawing and silly games. In other words, something similar to older MSN Messenger, but on the web. Any ideas on what to use? To clarify, I am looking for suggestions on languages and libraries to use. I want to be able to fully customize it as much as possible because I might want to add other (somewhat interesting) functions later. Low-level programming is fine if required, but platform dependency isn't that much preferred.


Facebook connect vs. OpenID

I just started working on a new project that has a general login feature. One suggestion in a meeting was to look into Facebook Connect or OpenID as an alternative. I'm curious if there's one that has less of a learning curve, or if they can both be used on the same site. Also, when you use either, do you have them initially create the account and just get a verify True/False back that you then use to set up a local user account? I what about forgotten passwords? I'm kind of curious as to best practices for integrated this type of login with a "traditional" one where you store the user info yourself. Thanks, D


Joomla + phoca SEO issues

I'm encoutering a problem in one of my sites that most recent keyword of my site is "jpg" in Google Webmaster tools. I'm using Joomla 1.5.9 and phoca for gallery. How to prevent image extenstions to be indexed by robots? BTW: respective gallery folders are blocked in robots


Tell apache to point to a subfolder as default starting point for public

What would be the different methods of telling Apache to serve up `httpdocs/public` instead of `httpdocs` as the default starting point? I want to be able to have my `includes` and `logs` directories behind the publicly accessible folder. I know that htaccess is possible, but I've seen a file before that looked something like `httpdocs => public` ... I could be off, but it was some kind of pointer.               [httpdocs]     -[includes]     -[logs]     -[public] <-- what's served up to the public     --index.php


Will PHP Meta hurt SEO?

If I use PHP to place my meta tags such as keywords and descriptions will that hurt SEO? Will the bots not be able to crawl through the keywords and descriptions?


How to support email subscriptions to many rss feeds

I am interested in having the option to be able to subscribe to any of my RSS feeds by email, without having to manage any of the email lists. Are there any email delivery services that allow easy subscription to arbitrary feeds? MailChimp's api doesn't allow list creation. The closest I can come up with is linking people to a google alert:               http://www.google.com/alerts?q=site:mysite.com/category/food     http://www.google.com/alerts?q=site:mysite.com/category/drinks


Is it ok for a canonical link to point to itself?

I've got the canonical:               <link href="http://www.Site.com/Blog/how-to-know-when-this" rel="canonical" />      Is it ok if this is on the page it is pointing to? Also I'm putting it on all these pages:               http://www.Site.com/Blog/how-to-know-when-this     http://www.Site.com/Blog/how-to-know-when-this/     http://www.Site.com/Blog.aspx?ID=1     http://www.Site.com/Blog/how-to-know-when-this/?q=      Is this correct useage?


Rewrite in Mediawiki, remove index.php, .htaccess

I've just installed Mediawiki on Apache and I want the URL should be:               localhost/Main_Page/     localhost/Special:Recent_Changes     ...      instead of:               localhost/index.php/Main_Page/     localhost/index.php/Special:Recent_Changes      I've tried many times and in many ways but it still doesn't work. Any suggest for a "exactly" what to do, step by step. Mediawiki docs didn't talk about _.htaccess_. It had only Nginx and lighttpd.


Is content in option tags indexed?

Is data inside an `<option>` tag indexed? For example, would the following `option` tag allow "Volvo", "Saab", "Opel" and "Audi" to be indexed by a crawler?               <select>       <option value="volvo">Volvo</option>       <option value="saab">Saab</option>       <option value="opel">Opel</option>       <option value="audi">Audi</option>     </select>      Will search engines put any weight on data in an `option` form element?


Redirect from SSL HTTPS to HTTP (NO SSL)

Many of my visitors have bookmarked my site already with `https://mydomain.com`. Under the bad advice of a programmer I have put my whole site (Joomla) using SSL. I do not sell anything or provide any member services. I asked him many times if it would slow my site down - he said it wouldn't. I knew it did, I've researched on this site and realized it does slow the site down because of no cache of the pages. Understood. Please can someone tell me how to get away from it now. I'm not sure how to approach this, should I add something to my htaccess or my main index.php file? I've looked all over the net, there is much advice for adding redirectives for going from HTTP to HTTPS, but very few answers regarding the opposite of going from HTTPS to HTTP.


How to get visits statistics from mediawiki page, without asking this from the admin?

I want to log / track unique page visits to a page in a mediawiki wiki, but I can't ask the this mediawiki admin to give me the data. If this was a page on my website I would just use statcounter.com. But it is a mediawiki wikipage that I contribute to and want to get the statistics.


How do I make SEO friendly URLs?

My url is: `website.com/profile/?id=24` I want it to be: `website.com/profile/kevinlee` The `?id=24` will be replaced with the username of the `id=24` in the database How do I convert it to that?


Does link with rel="me" attribute provide any link juice advantage?

On my Squidoo profile page I found my websites's link is in a rel="me" attribute. Does this attribute provide any link juice advantage to my website?


How long is the penalty for Duplicate ecommerce content after it has been ressurected

I am fixing all of the duplicate content on my ecommerce site with all orignal descriptions etc. How long does it take google to start ranking it again? I used to have a good ranking that converted quite a few sales, in the last week i have had next to nothing. Also would the disclaimer i created under each product be considered duplicate content because it is on most of my product pages & is the same.


Canonical tag makes my site "not indexable" according to an SEO analyst plugin

SEO Doctor add on says website is not indexable because this page is set to (this is my tag):               <link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com" />      I have to change meta tags robots `noindex` like that or what is the solution for this?


Fastest open-source e-commerce featured CMS or web-framework?

I have been researching about 20 different open-source e-commerce featured CMSs and web-frameworks, but there seem to be way more than just them available. Has anyone run some benchmarks against a good portion of CMSs and web- frameworks comparing speed with the following metrics?   * Database requests   * Page displays   * Development time


What's the advantage in purchasing new hosting purely for 301 redirections

As a follow on from How do I adjust our "default" domain I am about to setup 301 redirections from a selection of TLD to our recently selected default domain. Currently ALL of our TLDs point to the same IP, a single host, and I had initially thought to setup the 301s on this hosting. In comments by @ThomasClayson in the above linked question, he suggests purchasing new hosting purely for the 301 redirects. What would be the advantage to us in purchasing new hosting purely for the 301 redirections? Why not redirect on the same host? (Or does this not work!?)


phpBB - display a public message when the whole board is private

In my installation all discussion forums/boards are private and can only be seen after a user registers and admin approves their membership. This is working. When a user first comes to the main phpBB page and they're not logged in, they can see very little except for the login and registration functions. Now I'm trying to configure phpBB to display a Read Me posting that is available to general public before registration or login. The problem is that I'd have to create a whole "public" forum and it would likely contain only one topic thread called "Read Me". The users would have to click into the public forum and then click again to get into the Topic called "Read Me". Is it possible to have a Topic thread outside of a forum? If not, is there another, better, way to achieve this? I just want to display a message, maybe a few short paragraphs to the public, explaining the purpose of the Forum and that they must register and wait for approval in order to gain additional access. I'm not seeing anything like this in the ACP. Thank-you.


Title tag different from title appearing in Google?

I'm just wondering how it is possible that IGN.com has this in its title tag:               "Video Games, Cheats, Walkthroughs, Game Trailers, Reviews, News, Previews & Videos at IGN"      while on Google its title is simply "IGN". How can one achieve such a thing? Does it use some special meta tag I can't see?


My Website title changes by itself in Google

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Title tag different from title appearing in Google? I am doing seo on my friends site and each page has its own metas it did change to new ones then somehow google is taking company name as the meta title I just googled this topic and last few days other people getting same problem , I had similar issue in the past on my own site that soon changed after changing the metas again any seo experts with same problem please help , there is no h1 heading on the company name or alt tag with that also.


Custom Title Not Used on SERP

I am using Wordpress Yoast plugin, and this is not the first time that I used it. I have used it in four of my sites. Problem: Google is not using my custom defined title on my homepage. The website is **aboveinfranet[dot]com**. If I search "above infranet solutions inc" ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Palwh.png) If you open the site, it will show you the right title that I wanted to achieve.


Link form correct, or, punishable by search engines?

I have the following dilemma with the links of a WordPress blog that I work with, I don't know if the way it creates the link to the images is ok or not so good. For example:   * Article URL: `http://test.com/prima-de-riesgo/`   * Image URL belonging to the article: `http://test.com/prima-de-riesgo/europa/` So what I'm worried about is the repeating " **prima-de-riesgo** " part. Should I, or shouldn't I? ## UPDATE Wow, I can't believe that you took test.com as for the real domain, hehe!   * Article URL: `http://queaprendemoshoy.com/prima-de-riesgo-y-otras-graficas-interesantes-del-ano-2011-deuda-publica-pib-vs-empleo-y-precio-del-oro/`   * Image URL belonging to the article: `http://queaprendemoshoy.com/prima-de-riesgo-y-otras-graficas-interesantes-del-ano-2011-deuda-publica-pib-vs-empleo-y-precio-del-oro/deuda-publica-eurozona/` So, as I mentioned... I'm worried that **prima-de-riesgo-y-otras-graficas- interesantes-del-ano-2011-deuda-publica-pib-vs-empleo-y-precio-del-oro** , the common factor for the article URL and image URL, can be considerate as duplicate content or anything that could be punishable by search engines


I have done everything correct on my asp.net website, re: SEO; why aren't google backlinks showing?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why are my backlinks not showing on google on this asp.net website with all > I’ve done? I recently implemented many SEO techniques for a company on their asp.net website; in 6 months, we jumped from a PR1 to a PR3. But I'm having issues with google backlinking. _**Here are some of the things I've done:_**   1. Not only did I set up their own Google+ page 6 months ago, I update it pretty much daily with links, pictures, etc., and I blog about it on my own personal Google+ page and post links, etc. ...   2. They have their own Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and all are updated almost daily.   3. I've listed in as many quality, relevant directories as possible 6 months ago; I've avoided link farms.   4. The site is solid SEO-wise. Key-phrase rich URLs, schema.org & rich snippets.   5. No duplicate content ... www or non-www 301's, trailing slashes, etc. ... all taken care of.   6. Probably a ton of other things, but basically, the site is all set, SEO-wise. _**Here's what's confounding:_** When I do a **link:www.example.com** in Bing/Yahoo, it shows **many backlinks**. When I do a **link:www.example.com** in **google, it shows up 0 links**. Or when I use a site-ranker like Web Site Rank Tool it's showing 0 backlinks from Google. Any suggestions would be appreciated!


Is there an easier/programmatic way to migrate HTML forms to an IIS7 server?

Normal HTML pages work fine on an IIS7 server as do ASP pages. However when I try to add a HTML form and after clicking on the submit button, I receive the error: > The HTTP verb POST used to access path > '/FormServer/Mig/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/admissions/askseaaggie.htm' is not > allowed. Currently the only solution I know is to rebuild the entire form using ASP.NET markup.


AdSense on a website where login is needed

Could I use AdSense in pages on a website where a login is needed? How would Google treat this? They can't see/check it, other than stats/traffic


Google search results not showing my events rich snippets but does in test tool

When I search on "tennessee basketball tournaments", I see my result, but my events dont show up. I believe I did everything right since this is an ajax page, but I tell Google that `_escaped_fragment_` tag to get the real results. You can see the result below in my screenshot that it is working, but real results dont show this. My page has `<meta name="fragment" content="!">` at the very top, and my sitemap uses the cananical URL with the escape fragment. Tennesse Basketball Tournaments **Structured Data Testing Tool** ![Structured Data Testing Tool](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NRRnj.png) **Search Results** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0fCiz.png)


Google stopped indexing my site. Is there a substitute for a XML sitemap?

On my site is a page that hosts all my ad entries. Each URL and its content is different. Google was indexing all the different URLs until entry 4570. As I can see in GWT Google Index they also stopped crawling the new entries (70,000) at this moment. I would like to understand why Google stopped. I added a sitemap at about this time. The sitemap generator doesn't produce the single ad URLs. I had to change a page name and put a redirect in my _.htaccess_ file:               Redirect permanent /aerzte/ http://www.example.de/arzt/      Google stopped about one week later to add new URLs. Can one of above be the reason? Is there a different solution - without sitemap - to get Google to index these URLs? P.S.: I can add URLs with Google Fetch and these URLs are immediately indexed.


How do I see the websites that users are coming from?

I'm certain that at one point I was able to look at a breakdown of inbound URLs. Now I can't find it anywhere! It seems like this would be a common use of GA, but I couldn't find instructions for this either on this SE or elsewhere on the Internet. The closest I found was this question: “Can I track conversion rates from specific sources?” but one answer there only gets down to the level of seeing all direct traffic (I want names of sites) and the other answer recommends setting up custom goals, which I know I didn't do in the past. Can anyone point me in the right direction to see traffic by source website again?


Tracking QR Code referrals

We were using a third party website to provide QR codes and track them, the only problem was one week their server went down for some time and effectively killed the QR code off as it was a dead link. As far as I could see their tracking was a simple redirect via their website. I have set up a page with a javascript redirect to the destination URL with our Google analytics code in the page but was just wondering if anyone else has had any experience of setting up their own tracking/redirect for QR codes this way or have you done it differently?


Does sitewide html refactoring affect Google traffic?

I have recently made a big structural change on my site and the very next day the number of Google impressions went from 75.000 to 3.000, with a proportional drop of traffic from searches. No URLs were changed, neither were the page titles or descriptions. Everything is exactly the same, but different looking, except that it does barely appear on Google anymore. Anybody has a clue to why?


I have this message: This site doesn't have keywords meta tag!

I have this message: > your site doesn't have keywords meta tag! What does that means?


If a conflicting rel="nofollow dofollow" is parsed (in that order) which takes precedence?

If a conflicting `rel="nofollow dofollow"` is parsed (in that order) which takes precedence? The background of this question is that I am encountering a situation where interestingly I can set a `dofollow` on a link I care about but that will always end up in the `rel="nofollow dofollow"` form so I'm interested in the effect `rel="nofollow dofollow"` would have.


Is it possible to see unique desktop visitors for the last X days in Google Analytics?

In Universal Analytics, is it possible to see unique desktop visitors (not mobile) for the last X days? From what I see, I can only see desktop pageviews or new visitors, but the only place where Google Analytics displays unique visitors at all is the default starting report view. Everywhere else it's all about sessions or new visits. Any tips?


Is there a program that can import CMS templates and manipulate them?

I have a website done in Joomla. Is there any way that I could import that template into some program and change the design without coding? Something like Artisteer, only Artisteer can not import templates, it can only export them.


Google Adsense Policy Violation Paradox

A client's website appears to have google adsense blocked, the code doesn't load instead it returns a 403 forbidden. We have been through the troubleshooter : https://support.google.com/adsense/troubleshooter/ The highlights: Nobody at the client's office remembers ever seeing an email to say the site was banned. They were advised by a friend of a friend of a... (etc) who works for Google [who couldn't find the site on any blocked list] to just open another account, but the new account was auto-rejected. The trouble shooter suggests address PIN verification failure, but I cannot find anywhere in the adsense app that says that the address is not verified, in fact they have had payments in the past; but they have not used adsense for a while, an alternative ad provider has recently been a victim of the recession, so are wanting to relaunch. The ads are not in a any sort of nested frame, just on a basic test page with real content and minimal design so there is nothing to break. We have gradually stripped more and more off the page to try and get them to work. Both synchronous and asynchronous codes have the same issue. So the troubleshooter points us to the form : https://support.google.com/adsense/contact/cant_see_ad?rd=1 and we get the response > According to our records, ad serving was disabled to your site because the > site was in violation of AdSense programme policies. So we check the policy appeal page and get this message > No sites have had ad serving disabled for your account. So we submit a review request, basically saying, help we're stuck and don't know what to do, and get an auto responder back > Unfortunately, we weren't able to match the Issue ID you provided with any > actions related to the publisher ID you provided. Because we don't have an issue ID to provide! What on earth do we do now?


What is necessary to implement HTTPS?

I'm an iPhone Developer and I've recently got into web development. At the moment I have two sites on the internet, and on one of them, I have a very simplistic CMS I've made. Firstly, do I need to implement HTTPS for this? If so, is there a good tutorial on getting started with this? What steps do I need to set this up?


Is it illegal to distribute a program that downloads YouTube videos?

I developed a plugin which allows people to download videos from YouTube. It's open-source if that matters. Is my plugin legal to distribute and use?


Should I make pages on my website accessible by the admin only? How do I do it?

In my website idea I have got a number of pages that should be accessible by the admin only. Is this a good practice? ( _amateur alert_ ) Also how do I protect these pages? I know about               if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) || !isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']) || ($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']!='admin') || ($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']!='password'))     {// The username/password weren't entered so send the authentication headers     header('HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized');     header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Admin"');      Is this all I can do? Also how do I make sure that my website is secure? That is, since I am an amateur, I have this book on PHP and all I have in my PHP script are a few if- else statements and accordingly SQL queries? Is this how the php script would usually be like or have I just learnt the most basic thing and I'm making use of it more than I should?


robots.txt: block all webpages except a few number of webpages?

I have a few doubts regarding _robots.txt_. Say, my domain is `stackoverflow.com`, A) Will the code below do the following for all the crawlers?               User-agent: *          Disallow: /          Allow: /$     Allow: /a/$     Allow: /a/login.php     Allow: /a/login.php?return=/pligg/        1. Accepting `http://stackoverflow.com/` will accept `http://stackoverflow.com` too?   2. Accepting `http://stackoverflow.com/a/`   3. Accepting `http://stackoverflow.com/a/login.php`   4. Accepting `http://stackoverflow.com/a/login.php?return=/pligg/`   5. Not accepting any other page on `http://stackoverflow.com` B) Which is right: _robots.txt_ or _robot.txt_?


Cost of hosting on Google App Engine

How does the cost of hosting on Google App Engine compare to hosting on more classical servers for a high traffic website? What's the answer for a website with 1000 page views per minute and how do the costs compare at 10000 page views per minute?


As per SEO can we use 'CSS Ellipsis' to cut link title?

Few anchor URL are very big in my page, So can I use 'CSS Ellipsis' to hide/cut this?               text-overflow: ellipsis;     width: 200px;     white-space: nowrap;     overflow: hidden;      **Ex Name:** Institute of Psychiatr..... (Institute of Psychiatry & Human Behavior)


Subdomains vs. URL Path in shareable links

I am building a web application for questions and answers. Each question/answer page has all the required metadata for Facebook and Twitter, and we encourage users to share these pages. I have a dilemma regarding the shared link structure: ## Option 1 - subdomains Use a `questions.example.com` and `answers.example.com`, followed by an ID and optional text. The text is ignored by the request, which only takes the id into account.               http://questions.example.com/<question_id>/<question_text>     http://questions.example.com/12345/how-long-is-the-queue    # Example     http://q.example.com/12345                                  # Example      ## Option 2 - URL path This is the format used by stackoverflow.com and trello.com:               http://example.com/questions/<question_id>/<question_text>     http://example.com/questions12345/how-long-is-the-queue    # Example     http://example.com/q/12345                                 # Example      Server-wise, I can easily do both - I have a wildcard SSL certificate and Apache/NGinx configuration is pretty straightforward. **Which option - subdomains or URL path - is preferred for shareble links?**


Session based redirect acceptable for search engines?

We have added a subsite (/usa) to an established global website. This subfolder has been made region specific to USA using google webmaster tools. Now we want visitors from USA to be automatically redirected to this subfolder based on ip (standard 302 redirect). So far so good. Now, since the global homepage still remains /, we want the redirected user to still be able to visit this page if they click on the 'global home' (/) link. To be able to distinguish that this user should not again be redirected to /usa, the only option I can think of is using session. So the question is, if this session based redirect is acceptable with the search engines. We are not going to be considering bots separately, so since the bots don't work well with cookies/sessions US based bots will never reach the global home. How will this affect us? We definitely don't want to lose any of the existing value of the parent site because of this change.


Hidden text and links appearing just on click for SEO?

I am working on a site that has neat clean/minimalistic design/layout. Menu items are "hidden" behind an icon, to see them, users need to click on that icon to get a javascript toggled overlay with the list of menu items. Then there are blocks with photos and users need to click on a small icon/button on each of them to get a block of text shown for each of the photo. While I don't like such "design" myself, making me click lots of time just to read, I also think that for SEO purpose this model is really wrong. Is such model bad for SEO? Are there ways to keep design like this but have "safe" methods of displaying text content on click that will not hurt SEO?


Facebook and different URLs for each sharer, could this affect the amount it is shared

On my quiz site, I have been allowing people to share the quizzes with their friends using the Facebook sharer popup. At first I just let them share the quiz on it's own, but I decided it would be nice to have a query string that passes data so that the previous person's result would be visible to the sharer, like this: http://example.com/oJXp7r?t=5QMCCQ Now, I want to give the content the best visibility possible on Facebook. I have a canonical URL set up in the header for each quiz, which I was hoping would allow Facebook to realised the preferred URL. I wanted to know if adding the query string to each sharer should affect the sharability or visibility of the content on Facebook. I know, for instance, that if more than one of your friends shares the same link, it will come up prominently and say '3 of your friends shared X content'.... if I have the query string will it stop this kind of thing from happening or will it realise it's the same URL?


I just checked my site with WooRank and it says there is no blog on your website. How does Google search for blog on my website? Is it enough if I create a blogspot page, or I should make something more advanced?