HTML5 article tag application for the iPad/iPhone

I've used article tags on websites. My understanding and practice is to use the article tag for publication content. I always use HTML/HTML5 tags as their intended purposes and not at will. Recently, I've seen an HTML template that uses the article tag for the non- publication page content such as the content of an About Us page or any other generic page. I asked the why it was used this way and the (vague) explanation was that it had to do with the way the iPad read the tag. Is this true?


Software with a blog, CMS and a forum all-in-one?

Requirements:   * PHP (5+ Preferably)   * MySQL (5+ Preferably)   * Apache (2+ Preferably)


Cost of using SSL

I am wondering on the cost of using SSL sitewide. It would be for a standard LAMP site. I know that this will be dependent on the many factors but, can some give me an 'average' or 'guesstimate!'. By cost I mean server load. So in a super simple average scenario if: x = w/o SSL y = With SSL an estimate on y in terms of x?


Looking for a package allowing user-entered profiles

Title was a little hard to work, but take this as an example. User goes to site, creates account, and then has his/her own profile to edit. Let's say the profile includes height, weight, sex, eye color, etc.. I've really only used wordpress before, but I'm sure something else would cater to this better. The entire site is focused around a person having their own profile page with the info they supply. Thanks!


detailed access statistics for audio files

We have an external hosting company for our video files. They provide us with detailed access statistics e.g. The duration how long how many people have seen a specific video. This is quite interesting because you can see how interesting a topic was or how fast people have switched off the video. Unfortunately they do only video hosting and not the hosting of audio files. With the limited bandwidth need for audio we could also host it on our own servers. But there is by far not that good access statistic like we have for video. I have googled quite a lot but did not find anything similar to what I saw about the video access statistics. Of course when I just provide a link to the mp3 file I can see only one line in my apache log file. Are there other solutions e.g. with a dedicated player that sends back some feedback about each second/10 seconds/minute that the user was listening to? Or any other idea? Am I right with my question at this Site "Pro Webmasters"? Thanks for any kind of feedback to this topic. I highly appreciate it.


Set expiry date for image or resource

How do I set expiry date for an image? Is this a server side operation or can it be done as an html tag attribute? What if I only want to set different expiry dates for different images/resources?


How do VMs in the Cloud work?

I have been exploring moving some of my high traffic sites to the HPCloud over the past few days. While I have a general grasp of the idea behind a VM in the cloud there are things that are not quite clear to me. Here for instance is one thing I find myself wondering about: If I host a site on a server in the cloud do I have an automatic guarantee that attempts to access that site will be served up from an instance of the VM in the geographic vicinity - with one being spun up if none is deemed to be "nearby"? If the answer is "yes" then the next question that follows is - will the cloud infrastructure also deal with the process of running PHP scripts on each VM instance? And now about databases - will it be up to me to ensure that I connect to a fixed instance of the database server (mySQL in my case) or is it better to rely on one of the "cloud database" offerings that appear to make this process transparent. I suspect that my questions are perhaps a bit naive - I don't know much about hosting in the cloud.


How do I categorize my website (domain)?

I recently purchased a domain and created the website. I found that this belongs to "None" category and so found blocked in cyberoam firewall. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/2xhVO.png) I tried with all possible meta tags at index.html. But any content from this domain is blocked (otherwise can say categorized NONE). The image's url is also blocked * * * In Godaddy I can find only "Auto-Renew, Lock, Nameservers, Forwarding, Premium DNS, DS Records, Host Names, Authorization Code" features to customize. And Some Upgrade features like "Privacy, Domain Ownership Protection, Certified Domain , Premium Listing, CashParking, GoDaddy Auctions, SSL Certificate, Business Registration, Domain Appraisal". Please help me where / how to categorize my domain as "Personal"? Is anything needs to be changed in robots.txt?


Using list vs div for gallery like items display

I'm making a webpage for the company i'm working in, and I've been tasked with creating two display for items in content (it's a search result display page): Gallery and List. The thing is that I've used divs, but seen in Google images that they're using unordered list for displaying results. I'd like to know if there's any advantage of using list instead of divs like I did. Thanks a lot. Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/USX34/ Expand the HTML result so you can see clearer. Thanks a lot. PS: I have posted question here but I'm not certainly sure that it's the right place, but I think it will be closed if posted i


How does Popup dialog affects the Bounce Rate?

Suppose a user lands on a particular page on your website from Search results and as soon as he lands he is shown a link which opens a modal dialog box or some window popup(formed from another url of the same website where user landed from search engine) and he clicks on the link. Will this cause an increase in bounce rate. What i mean to ask is if Google sees bounce rate as rate of users left from the landing page to some other website or it even considers the users going to other page of the same website ?


If H1 tags are not used for page titles, what is the impact on SEO?

I'm wondering what kind of effect will be witnessed on SEO if, say, a `div` was used rather than an `h1` tag for page titles. I imagine it would be very frustrating for screen readers and wouldn't give crawlers any guidance as to what the page is about, but I'd like to know exactly how negative this is.


Why is a domain transfer taking "days" of time?

1. What exactly is happening during a domain transfer? - what is the underlying mechanism   2. In how many places the information is updated?


Is <span> inside <h1> the same as just <h1> for search engines?

Are search engines still able to recognize the below as `<h1>` text, even with the other tags inside?
AppStrap.


Status of Crawlable Ajax?

I saw that Google had a nice proposal/standard for making Ajax applications crawlable, via #! (hash bang). http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/proposal-for-making-ajax- crawlable.html My questions are:   * Are they currently using this "proposal" in the real world already?   * Are other search engines -- Bing specifically, also using or planning on using it?


Can you use Google's Mobile Analytics API for non-mobile sites?

While doing research for one of my company's mobile sites, I discovered that Google has provided an entire **serverside** API for mobile analytics. Meaning that it doesn't require javascript and that the tracking is done immediately, because the pagetracker .gif URI is constructed on your server and called straightaway from Google. My question is, What prevents me from using this across my ENTIRE site, mobile AND desktop?


Bandwidth heavy site... use co-location?

I'm working on a web site that is likely to be very bandwidth-heavy. A major feature of the site when in active use can pull up to 1Mbps for a single session. Luckily, once users get over the new toy factor, the use of this feature will probably be 1-5% or less (probably much less) of session time. However, new users are likely to play with this feature a good bit, especially at launch. I'm very concerned about bandwidth use. This is more or less a niche market, so I won't ever be needing to scale to crazy levels like YouTube. However, it is entirely possible for it to be a couple terabytes/month. Is co-location my best option? What cheap bandwidth services (colocation/hosted/cloud/whatever) are out there?


Google AdWords have flagged my site as containing malware

However, there Webmaster Tools does not - and never has. And we have never had a message via Webmaster Tools or Analytics that we have malware. To quote Google: > [The Malware Team] have looked at the most recent scan and have found that > your site is not actually clean. You are using a redirect on your landing > page which is the site that is causing the problem. And then I am advised to: > Check your site request logs to find the bad domain and resolve the issue. What should I look for in my request logs, has anyone else experienced a similar situation? Obviously as far as I am aware we have no malware, we had a couple of redirects in htaccess but they were not on landing/homepage and have were just normal redirects that have not caused a problem elsewhere (and are now removed). It's a WordPress site.


Broken URL Finder?

Is there a broken-URL finder application that I could use to scan a website for broken links? (A Mac application would be better.)


optimize htaccess

I have two condition which are conflict               RewriteRule ^patients/findadoctor/(.*)\.html$  subcategorydoctor.php?id=$1 [L,NC] and     RewriteRule ^patients/findadoctor/(.*)\.html$  specilitydoctor.php?id=$1 [L,NC]      How do I set condition for that? I am doing:               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/radiationoncology\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/paediatricsurgery\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/generalsurgery\.html$ [OR]           RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/neurosurgery\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/neurology\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/paediatrics\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/paediatriccardiology\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/paediatriccardiacanaesthesiology\.html$ [OR]             RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/paediatriccardiovascularthoracicsurgery\.html$ [OR]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/bonemarrowtransplant\.html$ [OR]         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/kidneytransplant\.html$ [OR]           RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/cardiacanaesthesiology\.html$     RewriteRule ^patients/findadoctor/(.*)\.html$ subcategorydoctor.php?id=$1 [L,NC]


SEO (or other) problems with a 404?

I am a member of a writing website called HubPages. We are each given a subdomain on which to write articles and are also given access to Google Webmaster Tools for our subdomain. Upon checking out my stats in Webmaster Tools, I see that Google is running into some 404 errors for two reasons:   * I took down an article   * Google (or someone) got the url totally wrong. I am essentially getting view-only access for webmaster tools (HubPages must have set it up to allow view only so that a user doesn't mess things up) so I can't submit a url removal request to Google. Could this be hurting the SEO for my subdomain? If not, are there other problems that could occur for me or for HubPages by leaving these URLs as is and not submitting a removal request? Should HubPages be submitting url removal requests to Google for dead or incorrect urls?


Does hiding images on 404 error affect SEO?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO (or other) problems with a 404? I have a dynamic website that allows registered users to upload and display images on the their profile page. As each user may upload less than the maximum limit of 20 images, there would be some "empty" images on the page. I am using javascript to hide these empty images. The loading of the profile page would generate a series of 404 errors depending on the number of empty images. Would these 404 errors affect the SEO of the page and the website?


Domain transfer + Microsoft exchange

I have a client who has their domain name registered through Network Solutions and their site hosted at GoDaddy. I checked at GoDaddy and they're not hosting the email accounts, so I asked the client and all they could tell me is they have Exchange. I'm trying to transfer the domain and hosting to a new host, but I don't want to mess up their email addresses at all. Since GoDaddy is not hosting the email and it's through exchange, will I be okay just transferring it, or will I need to do something with exchange to point to the new ip/nameservers/etc?


Should I depaginate my webpages? What is the best usability?

My website is mostly a collection of things I've written, ranging from short to long; the very shortest are a large screenful and the very longest are the length of a short book. Most of the longer ones are broken into pages. One Alertbox column said basically that pagination was very common practice, but it's better to have all of one logical page located on that one single page. Basically I wanted to get a usability and other purposes suggestion on whether I should depaginate works so that they are one single page, and redirect the other pages to the combined page. If it's a judgment call, what are the pro's and con's?


Javascript or GET request, what is best for seo?

I small navigation bar (just 2 tabs: "Aluminio lacado" and "Cobre natural") inside one of the sections of a website. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0XrvD.jpg) I'm wondering if, in this small nav bar, I should create normal links that request the content to the server or just create a javascript code that switch the content. I like more the second option but I don't know what is better thinking in seo, since I would have to set `display:none` to the hidden content... Javi


Mobile site redirection and Google crawlers

I have a HTML website where users can select a product (going through categories/subcategories) and then when they choose the product they can customize it in a Flash application. I would like to redirect users with no Flash Player to a mobile site (which is also HTML) where they will have a smaller range of categories and a non-Flash version of app:               var hasFlash = ((typeof navigator.plugins != "undefined" && typeof navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"] == "object") || (window.ActiveXObject && (new ActiveXObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash")) != false));          if( !hasFlash ){         document.location.href = '/mobile';     }      But I suppose this method will cause Google spiders/crawlers to omit the original HTML website and just index the mobile site (limited categories and less content). Is there any way that I could redirect the users with no Flash to the mobile site, but make the Google crawlers to index the original site?


Is it ok to nofollow all outbound links?

I'm currently adding a nofollow to almost all of my outbound links thinking this will keep the PR inside my domain. Is this a bad approach?


How to write a generic .htaccess file rule, regarding RewriteBase

The following rule in my `.htaccess` works just fine for routing calls to `index.php`:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]      However, this does **not** work when running on a temporary URL like `http://example.com/~test/`. In such a case, the .htaccess file needs to read:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /~test/     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]      Note the extra `RewriteBase`. Question: is it possible to write a rule in .htaccess to "detect" whether to apply that `RewriteBase`? The reason is the .htaccess if version controlled, and I'd like for it to work on multiple installations.


What is "SSL Server-Client Authentication"?

In comparing different SSL certificates I see " **Server-Client Authentication** " listed as a benefit of a paid certificate over a free one. (see it here) But what exactly is this added benefit that basic SSL does not already provide? EDIT: This other link here does NOT answer this my question. In other words, if you search that other question for the term, "Server-Client Authentication", it's not found.


What is the effect of using common colloquial words in page title?

I am wondering what is the effect of using common words while writing a title of webpage. For Example for my home page, I am trying to write an effective title. I worked out on few titles like:   * Starx (Nabin Nepal): Wanna know about me?   * Starx (Nabin Nepal): Software Developer & Designer   * Nabin Nepal, You can call me Starx And now I am wondering if using colloquial words like `wanna` and common terms like `you can call me` is considered good for a title. Could someone clear this concern?


Microdata vs RFDa

I am wondering whether to use Microdata or RFDa to mark information for search engines on my Webapplication. Google supports and has documentation for both. But i was not able to find a summary comparing both formats and giving suggestion on which one to use.


How to find linkless mentions of my website?

Recently I noticed some mentions of my Website, or a whole story but without a link. I was wondering is there a way to search for my brand name and filter for pages which do not link to my website? I am aware of Google alerts and Yahoo Pipes, but it seems those will only work for the future, but not for old mentions.


google not showing indexed pages

problem #1 on my sitemap.xml is my home page.. www.sitename.in.rs, but when i search google using full url, or just a sitename, it doesn't show my website in results at all (45 pages of results, but not my page) problem #2 on a list on indexed pages are all of my posts and pages, but when i search using page/post name only my site is not in results at all, i can only search by typing "site name page/post name", and some pages or posts are found only if i type in search "www.sitename.in.rs page/post name", then my result is first. **on yahoo/bing search my site is first result if i search for full url or just sitename, and if i search for a specific page/post i need to type sitename page/post name** sitemap was created like a month ago.. so, is there any help for me? site url www.pronadjinas.in.rs


What is the ideal user-interaction for full album download as MP3s?

I want to offer a full length album as a free digital download. I can easily throw the MP3 files up on a webserver and put a link to it. I've used this method before and it works ok. Savvy users know what to do with it:   1. Right click each MP3 link and save them to your desktop or downloads folder   2. Drag them all into iTunes and let it copy them into its database   3. Delete the originals My worry is that most users just click them, and their browser loads them and plays them. I want to streamline the user-interaction experience and optimize it for "download the whole album into my iTunes library." Posting the entire thing as a ZIP file is slightly better, but not by much. Does anyone know of examples of other sites that have done this really well? Any other ideas or tips for how to package this? Disk Image? M3U file? Platform-specific scripting?


Updating browser window title with Javascript

Can I target the window title with Javascript and have it update based on certain events?


$100 coupon from Google AdWords - how to put it for the best use?

I keep getting this email with $100 coupon from Google AdWords that doesn't explain much what is it for and what can I do with it. Is it something worthy or as usual? What should I do with it?


Is there any book or video that explains internals of webhosting?

I always wondered, how to setup webhosts manage the website. I wanted to know all the internals. By internals, I mean   1. How they manage so many(thousands of) websites?    2. How do they setup those? What Hardware & Softwares do they use?   3. What security issues do they deal with?   4. Setting up Cpanel/one click installer/languages etc.   5. ...   6. ... I want to try all these things for myself first on my localhost by hacking hosts file or by setting up a domain server. If there are any blogs/videos where a real webhost is demonstrated, would be great. In short I'm looking for **Setting up and Managing webhosting from beginners to pro**


Are creating websites for backlink blackhat?

**The problem** I have been looking for a reputable company to help a client of mine generate some backlinks. Now I thought everyone these days would try and talk us into **good content** and **competitions** our **users want to share**. Which is **great** , I just needed someone to do run that. But I've found that companies are offering a different strategy in the form of: Creating 100's of average quality websites within the target niche then linking them back to the core site. Using claims of "we have never been caught because we are careful with what websites we create and the rate we create them" I'm fighting that this is a bad idea.. But the client also knows I'm a total hippy when it comes to "keeping Google happy and best practises" in everything I do... and in business sometimes you get a little dirty. **My points has been as follows:** "Looking at this from Googles point of view, if they are seeing this strategy taking off they will target it.. As they do not want 200 “backlink websites” per 1 site in their search results. " **Why here?** The reason to post this here is i'm sturggling to find any good information on this exact strategy.. Lots about old "just getting as many links as you can.." Also lots of things on "Getting good quality links natrally" But not much on "Setting up 100's of 25-40 page rank sites in your niche just to target you with good quality links" **What I need** Does anyone have any good words or articles about this exact strategy and why it isn't viable in the long term? Or am I being a hippy and this is just the "new thing"??


I need to create view permissions of some extensions and some parts of other extensions for users.   Can Joomla 1.7 ACL control view permission of extensions for users? Thanks


SSL issue and redirects from https to http

I have a site www.example.com for which i purchased SSL cert and installed. And it was working fine, I also have a subdomain with app.example.com which was not on SSL. Both www.example.com and app.example.com are on same IP address. At later we decided to put SSL only on app.exapmle.com and then i configured SSL with app.example.com and it worked fine, Now the issue is that Google is indexing my site as https://www.example.com/ and when users hits the web , Invalid security warning is issued and when user allow security issue they are shown my app.example.com contents. Note: I have my SSL configuration files in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf The contents of the ssl.conf are below. http://pastebin.com/GCWhpQJq NOTE: I tried solutions in .httaccess but none of those worked. Like redirecting 301 redirects etc


Chinese CAPTCHAs

I need to implement a CAPTCHA for a Chinese (Simplified) website. Does anyone know how CAPTCHAs are normally presented on Chinese sites? I have seen some which just display standard decimal numbers but since there's less variation these are not as secure as I'd like. Is it acceptable to use a CAPTCHA containing letters from the standard English alphabet?


How to create a cloud server based website?

i have bought a domain from go daddy. i have bought a cloud hosting windows 2008 server from rack space. how do i link my domain to my host server and how do i utilize Dreamweaver/fireworks to create the website on the server? any help would be very much appreciated.


Segment subdomains with Google Analytics?

So, when a website has multiple subdomains:               www.example.com     foo.example.com     bar.example.com      What is the best way to use Google Analytics to segment the data? I would prefer have access to 'All Data', 'Data from foo.example.com', and 'Data from bar.example.com'. I tried setting up 3 different views, and setting a filter on the foo/bar views that says:               Include only traffic from the ISP domain that are equal to foo.example.com.      However, I am not seeing any data collected into that View. I do, however, see all data in the 'All Data' view, but I can't figure out how to segment the data. I am including the `analytics.js` in the `application.haml` layout, which is always loaded in this app.


Is eCPMs dropping by about 50% in January a usual behavior on Google AdSense?

So I just got semi-serious about running some AdSense sites over the past 6 months and the eCPM's have hovered between 1.38 and 1.42 [yes it's that close] when I look at the eCPM for each month. Obviously some deviation day to day but pretty damn close to a buck forty in aggregate. So far for January I am sitting at 0.80 for an eCPM. I know it's not a huge sample size but the daily pageviews are fairly consistent [actually a bit higher] than where they were in December. I am trying to justify this by thinking that somehow a lot of ad buyers buy inventory for the year and have to get setup to do another big buy now that it's a new calendar year but that thought isn't close to comforting. Is this happening to anyone else? **EDIT:** I run a lot of websites and the ratios of pageviews are about the same this month to last month but just to be clear the eCPM I posted is for >20 websites in a variety of niches, it doesn't accurately depict any one domain.


How does a plus one on a post carrying a link, help for SEO?

How does a `+1` on a post (from Google Plus) that carries a link help for SEO? Will it help the PageRank in Google? If yes, how?


Domain redirects to cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi

I have recently moved my domain to new hosting. Now when I try to access my site (`example.com`) it is being redirected to `http://example.com/cgi- sys/defaultwebpage.cgi` If I use the domain name with a dot at the end, the website loads normally. I do not have any redirection configured, so what might be causing this?


DNS and Whois problem

I have encountered a problem or atleast that's what I think, I have recently started an ec2 instance and I changed my A records at Godaddy to point to my new elastic ip and it worked fine and then I signed up to Route 53 and changed the name servers at Godaddy and imported the DNS zone file to Route 53 and it all worked fine, but for some reason when I do whois search for my domain I get Godaddy's ip address, but my site loads fine. Here is the link for whois records: http://goo.gl/a3z0MI The reason this question aries in my mind is because I have seen other site's whois with ec2 and route 53 and they seem to be normal here is the example: http://goo.gl/lPE8OY Thanks in advance Ankit Yadav


How quickly does Bing index URLs submitted through Webmaster Tools?

In Bing's Webmaster Tools, there is a Submit URLs page that allows you to "Submit URLs that are currently not in the Bing index or that should be reindexed due to recent changes." Does anyone know how long it takes Bing to index pages submitted here? I submitted several pages yesterday; Some are listed in Bing (they have been live for a week so may have already been indexed) but most are not. I'm not expecting miracles since it's only been ~30 hours; however, I assume they will be indexed through this tool faster than they would be naturally.


How to markup non-human-language text in HTML?

Considering the needs of screen readers, browser spell-checking, search engines, etc. how should non-human-language text be marked up in HTML? Should it be wrapped in a particular tag?   Is there a standard special `lang` attribute for the enclosing tag (eg. `""`)? Note that we may wish to mark up a form input as accepting some sort of non- human-language text. Examples of non-human-language text:   * a short cryptographic hash   * a large block of encrypted data    * proprietary formal notation   * ASCII art


Does Google Search know if your site is mobile?

When a user does a search from their desktop, do Google search results know if any site is mobile aware? Does that affect their placement? What if a site is responsive? Many mobile validators don't recognize responsive sites and give them a fail, when they in fact look great across many screens.


The correct domain for canonical tag

If my site domain is a naked domain (non-WWW). Should the canonical tag for my site be:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://mydomain.com/" />       or               <link rel="canonical" href="http://mydomain.com/" /> ?


Discrepancy in Google Analytics multiple accounts

I am reporting my traffic to 2 different Google Analytics accounts. Using Universal Analytics, I am doing something like:               ga('create', 'UA-XXXX', 'auto');     ga('send', 'pageview');     ga('create', 'UA-YYYY', 'auto', {'name': 'community'});     ga('community.send', 'pageview');      I see data flowing in on both accounts, however I see the numbers don't exactly match. I can see about 16% less page views in the "community". I declare my account only in this one spot. Also after looking at the OS/Browser section and the content drilldown section, I don't see any specific drop anywhere. It seems to be spread across users seemingly randomly. Is this a known issue?


Why is cached page showing after clearing all browser data

I have cleared all browsing data from Chrome as well as pressed Ctrl+F5, but a cached home page is still displayed. My test homepage shows the new page correctly. I am absolutely positive the new page has been uploaded. The same problem occurs in IE11 after pressing Ctrl+F5. I do not want to use meta tags for obvious (bandwidth, slow user browsing, etc.) reasons. Is there anything else I can try? **Notes** This is a Windows server. Although the new page is displaying properly on my laptop, it has not been updated on several other machines I have tried. **Update** My ISP seemed to have fixed the problem last night, but it has recurred. It is as if they restored the old files from a backup. Here is a partial report from Firefox HTPP Headers: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:54:33 GMT Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT Pragma: no-cache x-content-type-options: nosniff X-XSS-Protection: 0 X-FB-Debug: nmuGzYXWYFP/OJF3oT7UTEXBADzlWnIE176a9iLFCjk= X-Firefox-Spdy: 3 Let me know if more of the report is needed.


Can I test my affiliate ID on a dummy webpage without it being suspended?

I was recently accepted into the Amazon affiliate program, as I'm planning on advertising books I read on my website. Before going live with my website, I would like to:   1. test the whole affiliate program to make sure it's working properly.    2. buy the books I will review and promote on my website under my own affiliate program in order to get some cash back and therefore save money. To do so, I thought about setting up a simple HTML page which will just list the products I will buy before going live. That way I test, get some cash back, and don't expose my website before going live. Can I do this without having my account suspended by Amazon (i.e. won't Amazon think I only applied to the program to get some cash back, will Amazon be happy with receiving affiliate traffic from an almost empty website...)?


Standard way to mention website's developer

I want to know what is the best standard way to mention a website developer's name. I mean is there specific meta tags? In case that customer does not want the designer ads its name in the footer or somewhere in the vieable content.


how to deal with domain names + Intellectual property rights in worldwide?

I have some premium domain names , and I have received many dispute emails, most of them from china, and I am in the middle east. They are mainly talking about Intellectual property rights regarding my domain names. What I should do when I get these kinds of dispute emails?


Google Analytics www 301 causing issues with In-Page Analytics

The closest question I could find to my problem is this one. The similarity is: > I have a profile in Google Analytics (GA) that has been collecting data for > a year. The domain setting in GA is `http://example.com`. The site, however, > will redirect any non-www request, to `www.example.com`, via a typical > .htaccess refinement. We do this to keep the traffic on the load balancers. I don't know the method the original user had in place, but we're doing a 301 on any `no-www` to the `www` equivalent. I believe this has to be somewhat standard. Where I differ from this question is in the error message I receive when trying to load the In-Page Analytics? I'm instead receiving: > Error: The Website in your settings (`http://example.com`), redirects into a > different domain. (`http://www.example.com`). In-Page Analytics currently > works on only one domain. Note that `www.example.com` and `example.com` are > NOT considered to be on the same domain. Also, make sure you're not > redirecting from http:// to https:// or vice versa. I understand what's being explained, it just seems as though this can't be the end-all. I tried updating the Analytics settings, which from day one has been set as "One domain with multiple subdomains", but I don't see any options to change the URL (which is currently set to `http://example.com` and not `http://www.example.com`). I'd prefer not to have to change the URL if that was at all possible, but I can't seem to find any documentation or anything that provide any possible solutions.


How do I transfer an SSL certificate to a new server

I have a site running on GoDaddy shared hosting, which is going to be moved over to a VPS. The site has a SSL certificate from GoDaddy. How can I move over the certificate in a seamless way, so that the certificate is there, and all I have to do is change the DNS over?


Random links seo and spam

I built a mini-forum with social features for a client, to promote user registration, i planned to add a box on the forum pages to display pictures with profile links of random registered users. I managed to make this random selection static for a day, i mean the list will be renewed each day and not change on every page refresh. Could this random list of link could be harmful to seo by being considered as some kind of spam?


Are there privacy considerations in using Google web fonts?

I am required to create the design of a website for my institution. I am not a designer or webmaster, and I am very badly informed in this area. I am already a bit stuck in the font selection. The project budget does not allow the purchase of commercial font licences. A quick web search showed that a very convenient way to use free fonts would be to use the Google web font service. Another option would be self-hosting, but as far as I understand, it is 1) somewhat more challenging technically, and 2) more limited, as there are fonts which can be used for free through Google, but their licence does not cover that we redistribute them through hosting. (If this is not true, please correct me). We are an European institution with high requirements for privacy. The web site in question has an area with sensitive data (R&D know-how not yet protected by patents) and we may extend it to also save some personal data of users in the future. So we are very wary of embedding external services. What are the privacy risks connected to the use of the Google web font API? How much access will Google have to our data if we use their font service? Is it feasible to use their fonts if we wish to keep part of our website secured against unauthorized access? Or am I limited to self-hosting open source fonts?


Displaying google analytics data on my website

I sell ad space for my websites directly to the advertisers. I ad page where I want to show Google Analytics information that updates automatically without me having to manually update everyday or every month. Something like this: http://wstats.net/en/website/riverplate.com#stat_trafic I don't want to use embedded or iframed third party services. I know Google has a public API and you can connect it to Google Graph API to to show pretty graphs. There is a tutorial by Google here on how to do it: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/articles/gdataAnalyticsCharts Few problems:   * I don't know much javascript   * The javascript seems to prompt for authentication as opposed to login automatically, from my understanding by reading comments on the code. Does anyone know of any ready made script that does what I am looking for or know how I can fix this code that will allow me to display analytics info without authenticating?


category title and affect on SEO and ranking

We are working on a jobs and skills website (similiar to Skill Pages) and are deciding on categories. Rather than having load of categories like, for example, Builder, Electrician, Carpenter etc, we would like to have one word more general categories. So for example we have House, Computer, Education, Art etc. So a builder would be in category Home and a few others. Will this style negatively effect our SEO and ranking? And if so, should we abandon and go back to traditional categories and sub-categories?


What bug tracking system is this, or is it Drupal?

Can't figure out is this is Drupal, or some other bug tracking system: http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/redesign?issue_tags=drupal.org+redesign+qa Any ideas how to figure it out? Also, in general how do you tell if a site, or part of a site is using Drupal? Thanks!!


Server Space / Server Cost

Okay basically, I want to know some details about how much it would cost to buy a web server for what I want to do. The site we're making is going to accept uploads from users. A LOT of uploads. How much is this really going to cost in server space? Videos, Pictures, Audio, everything. And how easy/expensive is it to increase server space/speed to handle all of these concurrent uploads happening. I really have no idea where to start with this, haven't been a webmaster before =/


Wordpress doesn't use domain on anything apart from the home page

I have WordPress installed on a GoDaddy deluxe account. I'm using this account to host multiple sites and just map the domains to the folder: i.e. www.mysite.com/awesome would be www.awesomesite.com. This is transparent to the user. When I setup wordpress I installed it to a folder www.mysite.com/wordpress. I have a domain www.thesite.com mapped to www.mysite.com/wordpress. When I go to www.thesite.com it looks perfect. As soon as I click on a link it switches the domain to www.msite.com/wordpress. Is there a way to change this behavior?


Using Public Key Authentication for websites

I know GitHub uses it for code development (not user authentication for the website though). I saw this article on the idea: http://neverfear.org/blog/view/3/Secure_website_authentication_using_GPG_keys Is there a plugin or some open source code to authenticate users in a CMS (e.g. Drupal, Wordpress, Django, etc) with public-private key signatures? Has anyone implemented this type of website authentication before?


HTML comments and SEO

Is there anyway that too many HTML comments in a document can effect SE rankings? Do the spiders ignore all of them?


?Referer links in WordPress site getting indexed

I have a WordPress site which is more content centric. Today, I found that certain URLs are getting indexed in Google Search results. They look like:               http://example.com/page/42/?referer=www.wwwdnal.com      The URL is not returning a 404 error but is displaying same content as in:               http://example.com/page/42/      I checked my entire site and haven't found any such links coming out of my site. How to get rid of these?


Unify google sites and my own domain in webmaster tools and google search

Currently my website neolisk.com appears as itself and also as sites.google.com/site/neolisk in webmaster tools. Sometimes it is also an issue when users do Google search - results appear under both domains. Is there any way to tell Google Search and Webmaster Tools that both are the same website, and to reference only neolisk.com?


How do you transfer a domain hosted on WordPress to Media Temple?

WordPress offers this service for $120, but I think that's too much. Is there an easy way to do this besides paying the wordpress guys a bunch of money? I'm just not sure of of all the steps i need to do in order to get my domain moved. This includes moving the domain as well as export and moving my content. Also I'm transfering to Media Template because I want to host other sites as well and I want them in one place.


What CSS rules are causing extra space in the footer of this blog on blogger?

I am having some problems with the footer on my blog. Take a look at it here. Right above the footer, there is a blank, black space with nothing in it. Above it is the feed url, but it isn't on the black background, it's on the background image of my blog. I code HTML and CSS, so I can apply custom rules, but the system is so complex that I don't know what to change. Any suggestions? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bAY4K.png)


Apache2: How to host apps at different ports with SSL?

I'm trying to achieve quite simple task actually. I bind application to a port, I enable SSLEngine at each VirtualHost entry for that port. Everything works beside one thing: if you type url that starts with HTTP://, not HTTPS://, you get the Bad Request error hinting you to use HTTPS:// request scheme. So the real question is how to redirect (302) from `http://sub.domain.tld:4000/` to `https://sub.domain.tld:4000`? Example seen there: http://isil.monsternett.no:8443 Thanks. Edit: Maybe I'm making mistake in core structure? This is what I use:               Listen 4000     NameVirtualHost 0.0.0.0:4000               <VirtualHost 0.0.0.0:4000>         RewriteEngine On         ...     </VirtualHost>               Listen 4001     NameVirtualHost 0.0.0.0:4001          <VirtualHost 0.0.0.0:4001>         RewriteEngine On         ...     </VirtualHost>               Listen N     NameVirtualHost 0.0.0.0:N               <VirtualHost 0.0.0.0:N>         RewriteEngine On         ...     </VirtualHost>


Mass email service without "watermark"

I have to send large number of emails every month. Is there a service I can use to help me do that? I am not concerned about the cost. The only thing I am concerned about is that the emails should not have "watermarks" (or banners from the service I am using). I tried MailChimp and several other mass email services but they all seem to include their banners indicating that the emails were sent using some email service. In other words, every email should look like it is sent from a human user. I am a PHP developer myself and my first approach was developing a mass emailer myself, but according to the first answer on this question it seems very very hard to do it yourself. So, is there an already existing mass emailing service that would let me do that kind of thing?


Would a backlink to a website template affect my SEO?

I am going to start a new website project. It's my personal project and I am using a template which I downloaded from a website that has a condition that its users have to provide backlink to their website. Would this backlink affect my website's SEO in the future or is it OK?


Google Analytics - drill into single session

If a site has been using Google Analytics for a while and someone wants to drill in and see data on individual sessions, how would you go about doing getting that data? Is it even possible?


Does an image's filename affect its seo?

When I name my image files, I always use a descriptive file name such as `red- mercedes-slk.jpg`. I've always done this without thinking, but I wondered if it actually benefits my rankings in any way. Would I be just as well off writing an uninformative file name like `r-slk.jpg`? I would still use alt text.


Does google consider bounce rate, if the user right click open in a new tab and continue on google clicking some more link?

Does google consider bounce rate, if the user right click open in a new tab and continue on google clicking some more link ? Is this correct? In my opinion the work for bounce rate is to determine, whether a user have found relevant for what he is searching in a simple organised way.


Is there any good reason I would want my website to be framed?

I'm building a website that's not security-critical in any way at all, so having somebody put a page in an `<iframe>` is not particularly dangerous to its users. However, as my website doesn't have script plugins that will be used anywhere else, is there any reason why I shouldn't just apply:               X-Frame-Options: Deny      to every page on my website? Is there any valid reason for any other website to embed mine? I've seen plenty of content-stealing ones and attempts to hijack user accounts, but never an actual good usage of frames that's not an explicit feature of the website.


Screen resolution of Googlebot mobile?

Does Googlebot-Mobile have a viewport resolution it sends across? If so, what is it? It's a general question with broad relevance, but I am asking with reference to responsive design: particularly when serving different image resolution to different viewports via JavaScript. While Googlebot has its issues with JavaScript, it will become better with time. Thus, it would be good to know which version of the same image would be crawled (since most responsive image JS solutions base their logic on resolution). > Feature phones Googlebot-Mobile:               SAMSUNG-SGH-E250/1.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 UP.Browser/6.2.3.3.c.1.101 (GUI) MMP/2.0 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)          DoCoMo/2.0 N905i(c100;TB;W24H16) (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)      > Smartphone Googlebot-Mobile:               Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)


Force directory listing even if index.html is present

I have some files in my /www/ directory. Is it true that by simply putting an index.html into that directory, the rest of the files are now "protected from public"? Could an _outside_ hacker still force directory listing or gain access to those files? How would they do it if it were possible? I'm aware of the ways to make my filesystem secure, but I was wondering to what extent does **just** putting an index file have on protecting files/directory listing.


Problem with browser caching images

I'm sure many site admins must deal with this sort of problem all the time, but I don't have a really good and simple solution myself. It is what happens when you overwrite an existing image on the server. The site visitor's browser still displays the old one and must be refreshed to see the updated image (and stylesheet for that matter). So is there any simple solution to trick the browser to refresh the cache when there's a new image using the old name? And yes, of course the obvious solution is to rename the image, but please bear with me on this and assume that's not always a good solution... And this is for Drupal sites in case that bears on the question. ============================ ANSWER: Based on the answer below, I am now using this code:               <?php     echo 'niceimage.jpg?'.date("dmHi", filemtime('niceimage.jpg'));     ?>      This automatically updates the image query string whenever the image-file is changed, based on the modification date of the image-file.


Tag link suggestion plugin for WordPress?

Every time I write a post I make sure I add links to words that I have tags for. For example:   "The economy of Brazil has improved in the last few years" This ensures that when people re-post my content, a lot of back-links will be created to my tags. This is quite a lot of work to do manually for every post. It would be cool if there was a plugin that would suggest tags to be applied when they match existing words in the text of the post. Is there such a thing?


Does google restrict more than one sites on same server with identical design or content?

I have two websites [url removed] and [url removed] with resembling content hosted on same server. Google pick only one of them. Is this a criteria of google to pick only one website from one server for identical content?


From 302 to 508 rediect, how is Google indexing it?

I'm working under an IIS environment. I would like to put up a splash page for our site maintenance, however, the splash page (app_offline.htm) has to be served on a separate site, since our developers still want to be working with the site while the app_offline.htm is up. My plan: Use URL-Rewrite to separate traffic to two groups by IP, Public and developers. For developers, "None" action is applied, for public, they will be **redirected** to an app_offline.htm (503) page on a separate server. Since it is a redirect to app_offline.htm. I'm assuming when Google robots will first pick up a 302, then pick up a 508? Eventually does the 508 counts? or the 302 counts? I figured I had to put app_offline on another site since it brings down the entire site and beats the purpose of separating the IPs. But any better alternative to my plan will be appreciated too.


Which of these 3 URL-Rewritings are better SEO friendly URLs?

Imagine my current flat-file no-CMS website with an URL like `http://website.com/en/tomato`. This is of course very unsexy and could be anything really from _tomato soup_ , _tomato the music band_ , _tomato the movie_ , or more unlikely but still... _just about tomatos!_ So, I want to make it more specific for both real humans as well as search engines. Given: both the language code and short filename code are essential and cannot be replaced so somewhere there has got to be `en` and `tomato` preciding/following whatever delimiter like `/` for _.htaccess_ to do the correct invisible redirects to `/tomato.php?language=en`. Some options occured in my mind for the added words in URL:               A   website.com/en/tomato/just-about-tomatos     B   website.com/en/tomato/just-about-tomatos.htm     C   website.com/just-about-tomatos/en/tomato     D   website.com/en/tomato_just_about_tomatos     E   website.com/en/tomato-just-about-tomatos      **Question1:** Which of these is the best for humans as well as search engines? **Question2:** Which single elegant rule should make this happen in _.htaccess_? Thanks for your suggestions and answers! Much appreciated.


Is it better to use slash or hyphens for SEO

I have a website with url like that :               www.xxxxxx.com/card/wow/20-euros      In term of SEO is it better to use slash or hyphen?               www.xxxxxx.com/card-wow-20-euros      Even though it will be trickier with hyphen to route correctly with only hyphen ... Or it doesn't matter?


HTML + CSS Template

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Where is the best place to find stock website templates? I need some html + css templates (not for wordpress or any kind of cms) used for custom website. It's not important if they are free, opensource or premium templates to buy. I'd like to hear your opinion about the website you suggest to me. I actually use these website:   * templatebox.com   * os-templates.com   * freecsstemplates.org These are good website, but sometimes I can't find what I need because they are too "standard" and not creative! Thanks to everyone for help me!


Should I block Wordpress archive pages from search engines?

I use WordPress and `/sample-post/` URLs for my posts and `/yyyy/mm/` for the archives. Google has indexed the site fully. Since the archives currently display full posts I've thought that I shouldn't let Google index the archive pages because they contain the full posts and that will be duplicate content. Thus my robots.txt contains:               Disallow: /2009/     Disallow: /2010/     Disallow: /2011/     Disallow: /2012/     Disallow: /2013/     Disallow: /2014/     Disallow: /2015/      Do you think this is good practice or would it harm my rankings and/or reachability?


Symbolic link of file on ftp server to file on dropbox

Can I create a symbolic link from an ftp server (file on website) to a Dropbox URL? I'm trying and it's seeming to work correctly. My problem is a video isn't playing correctly on my site, but I know it plays perfectly every time for the Dropbox URL. Rather than sendign out notification that the link has changed once more, I thought I could create a symlink to the new file


HostGator and 123reg

I am trying to set up my website to work with Hostgator, and 123reg. I have mapped my IP address that HostGator gave me, to my 123reg domain name I just bought. What I did was the following:   1. Mapped the IP address to my domain name using 123reg (control panel).    2. I also changed the Nameservers values (in 123reg) to what HostGator gave me.    3. I have setup a Joomla Service using the HostGator Control Panel. everything seemed to be working fine. Joomla gave me credentials, an admin URL and everything. Now the problem that has been bothering me is, that WHATEVER I type it redirects me to the 123reg default site as if my changes had not taken any place. For example:               www.mydomain.com -> 123reg default page     www.mydomain.com/home -> 123reg default page     www.mydomain.com/admin -> 123reg default page     www.mydomain.com/whatever -> 123reg default page      Can somebody please help me through?


filter admin access by IP with httpd.conf

I am trying to filter all backend url to one IP in the httpd.conf file using this code:               <Location /admin>         Order deny,allow         Deny from all         Allow from 100.x.xxx.xxx     </Location>      This one works fine. I can't find a way to do the same with /?q=admin.               <Location /?q=admin>         Order deny,allow         Deny from all         Allow from 100.x.xxx.xxx     </Location>      Do I need some regular expression with backslash to escape some of the characters?


Would it be possible to build a client portal on Squarespace6?

I'm helping a family member set up a site which will need to include a secure client portal, providing access to documents and a simple database. I have been encouraging them to go with a more established, open source CSM like drupal or joomla, whose capability in this area is evident. However, they have a strong preference for Squarespace. Does any one know if it would be possible to accomplish this with the new developer platform for squarespace 6? I've spent well over an hour searching google, the squarespace site and stackexchange, but can't seem to find any clear answer to this question. I'm grateful for any insight you all can provide.


Ideal web application framework for newcomers and whether it is better to use Java or PHP based framework?

My primary question is whether a Java based web application framework is better or a PHP based one and why? Moreover, if I were just starting web development then what would be some ideal frameworks to start with, considering I may want to make a full CMS out of it later? I am not looking for a 'best', rather some good recommendations as I understand that CodeIgnitor has not got a long way to go from here : http://heybigname.com/2012/05/06/why-codeigniter-is-dead/


What constitutes a "substantial, good-faith effort to remove the links"

We engaged the services of a 3rd party SEO consultant to assist us in managing our Meta data and to write regular blogs on our site http://cyberdesignworks.com.au Without our authorisation, the SEO also ran a link building campaign which has seen us Penguin slapped and we no longer appear in Google for a number of our core keywords. Since notification by Google that we have "unnatural links" back in March we have undertaken a significant campaign to rid ourselves of these dodgy backlinks by a number of methods. I have just received feedback on my 4th or 5th resubmission which is still advising that we need to make a "substantial, good-faith effort to remove the links" before Google will reconsider us for inclusion. After the effort that I have gone through to get links removed, I am now at a loss as to what else I can do to demonstrate "substantial, good-faith effort to remove the links". Below is a summary of the actions that we have taken to date.   * According to http://removeem.com we had about 5584 back-linking domains.   * Of those we have successfully contacted and had removed links from 344 domains   * We ignored links from 625 domains as they were either legitimate press releases, natural backlinks or client websites containing an attribution link in the footer that points back to us.   * Due to our efforts, or the sites simply becoming defunct, removem.com reports that links from 3262 domains have been removed.   * We have contacted but are yet to receive feedback from 1666 domains so we can assume that the backlinks remain.   * We have configured an automatic 301 redirect for each of the links from these 1666 domains to point to http://redirects.sanscode.com/ which we are calling our Bad Link Catcher (a stroke of genius I thought). i.e http://www.mysimplewebdesign.com/create-a-perfect-webpage-with-four-important-tips-from-sydney-web-development-service-companies.php   * As we are a web design agency, we have a large number of client websites which contain an attribution link in their footer which points back to us. We have gone through the vast majority of these and updated these links to replace anchor text with an image and rel="nofollow" link.  i.e                     See http://www.milkatwork.com.au/   * An export from http://removeem.com detailing the number of times we have contacted each link and whether it is still found or not was also supplied with each resubmission.   * The total back links reported in Google Web Master Tools has dropped from over 100K to 87K and I expect it to drop significantly lower once Google re-crawls each back-linking page. Based on all of the above, I am not sure what else I can do to to demonstrate a "substantial, good-faith effort to remove the links". I would sincerely appreciate any feedback or suggestions that you may have as I am out of ideas.


Sharing password-protected videos on social media

We are developing a site where users will be able to watch and download videos that they've recorded of themselves in a public event. The videos will be password protected, and will be available only to users who have paid for them at the event... ...But on the other hand, we also want users to share those videos on social media, since they will be an attractive publicity for our events. Having people log into our site with their password, download the video and then re- upload it to Youtube/Facebook will be too cumbersome, and I suspect that few users will be willing to do that. So the obvious alternative is to have one of those convenient "share" buttons, but the problem with that approach will be that:   * The video will be physically hosted (and linked to) in our site. What happens if those videos go viral and our bandwidth cost explodes?   * The video is password protected. The solution I've thought of for this is:   1. Upload the user's video to our (password-protected site) and to Youtube at the same time, as an unlisted video.   2. The user can access our site with his password and download his video (to watch on his TV or whatever).   3. If the users hits the "share" button, we show him the Youtube link... and we turn the video into a listed one. This seems in line with the ideas in Using YouTube as a CDN, and there didn't seem to be any objections in that question. I'm posting this just to confirm that my idea doesn't violate any Youtube TOS, and also to see if it is a good one or there might be better alternatives.


CDN for site with target market in Australia

I was told that http://www.edgecast.com/ is very good CDN provider for Australian market. I have a cloud server based in Sydney Australia but was wondering whether it's even worth getting cdn as my target market is only Australia based also. Would I see any performance gain if I use above CDN services or would this be more for sites that target international visitors? I have Apache installed in our server but I would like to install Nginx. Would I see much more gain in performance on this change than CDN or should I go for both as they are all beneficial?


How much of the world's website traffic is attacks?

Does anyone have any statistics on how much of the total of the world's website traffic is malicious? Every day I am amazed by the number of requests for .dll and similar things which don't appear anywhere on my (static) website. What proportion of the world's web traffic is like this? (It says that this "appears subjective and is likely to be closed" so I'm marking it community wiki.)


Slow website response? How can I fix this issue?

I have pingdom monitor on my website: http://stats.pingdom.com/t68xhgex256f/375513 For North America (big target market) the response time is 1-2 seconds. This is far too slow. Is there anything I can do? The server is located in the UK, so distance plays a big part I imagine.


How do I fix deleteme.xxxxxxxx.php

I have this issue, which is related to a wrong installation that keep the file deleteme-xxxxxxxx(x's are a username or something) better described here: What is deleteme.xxxxxxxx.php Do you maybe know how I could get rid of it and fix the issue? At the moment, the installation fails saying: > Technical Error: [1] Written file `/deleteme...php' not accessible > at`deleteme...php'. [3; /opt/curlssl/bin/curl] /deleteme...php [http > code=403] @xx.xxx.xxx.xxx(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)


Is page authority or domain authority more important for backlinks?

When you are searching for potential sources of backlinks. Is page authority or domain authority more important for search engines?


Does Google crawl page when G+ logo is embedded?

I have a `robots.txt` file in the root to prevent search engines indexing any of my sites. I have a social media management application embedded on my site that includes all major social media channels including G+. I heard that once the G+ symbol is on a site Google will index sites despite having a `robots.txt` in the root. Is this true? My thought behind locking out robots for a while is so I increase visitors per day first before allowing robots to crawl. Once I e.g. reach 100 visitors a day I will remove `robots.txt` file and will then receive a better initial page rank (in mind that PR is only updated every couple of months). Is this reasonable? How much emphasize is placed on the factor %visitor increase/day?


How to consider geographical location when selecting hosting provider?

I am going to buy a hosting service (re seller) where mostly people from Ethiopia will be using it. I am going to host my applications in this server and also partition and sell for other developers to host their apps. So I am not sure, if I have to host my application in the US, UK, AU or somewhere else. Does selecting a hosting service that is located in either one of the above places would affect the reliability of the service for the users from that specific country? (The data is not sensitive ) My main aim is, to make sure that the server is reliable all the time (99.9%) for the users from that country.


Why does abandoment rate not equal the inverse of funnel conversion rate?

I have a Google Analytics account. For a given time period, the abandonment rate on a single goal is `73.15%` on the "Goal Overview" page. If I switch pages to the "Funnel Visualization" for the exact same goal and time period, I have a `25.98%` funnel conversion rate. Surely, if `25.98%` of funnel attempts resulted in a goal completion, then the remainder (`74.02%`) must have been abandonments? `100 - 25.98 = 74.02` `74.02 != 73.15` Why are the two numbers different?


Is it fine to share your blog everywhere?

I am trying to perform some SEO on my blog. I want to to keep sharing the blog on FaceBook and other social networks, sharing the link on different groups (i.e., groups related to my blog). Is it fine or does this constitute spamming?


Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED

i am having a domain registered with godaddy when i am looking through my domain details i found this in the who is lookup , what is this means and if i would like to transfer my domain to another registrar will it be hassle free ?


Adwords traffic shows as 'not set' in Google Analytics

In Google Analytics if I go to **Traffic sources > Search > Paid** all I get is "not set". Instead of the usual list of keywords that people have used to find the ad, this makes it really difficult to understand whats going on in the campaign.. I've gone into Adwords and turned on auto tagging but still have the same problem Any idea how I can fix this so under the Paid tab I get the phrases people have used to find my ad in PPC?


ASP.net based Website DB access issues?

We have a dynamic website based on MSSQL and ASP.net. There is a hosted DB, which we have an IP and access credentials for. We do not apparently know where it is hosted. We need to make changes which are not covered by the CMS, and the company which built the site (last December) is no longer functioning. I'm at best an amateur when it comes to web design and programming, but this has become my responsibility to sort out. Anything that can be done to point me in the right direction will be appreciated. I can provide more info, if you can tell me what you need to know. By the way, we're based in Dubai, so responses may be oddly timed, or appear slow. Also, there are limited options to go get another local company to look at this, without simply rebuilding the site again. Thanks again for whatever help you can provide. The site was built, according to the developer, with the following tools: TECHNOLOGY • Framework : Microsoft Dot Net Frame Work 3.0 (2.0) • Programming : Asp.Net • Scripting : C#, JAVA Script • Extended Tool : ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit (Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX framework) • Database : Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SOFTWARE USED • Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 • Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express • Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 • Adobe Photoshop CS3 • Adobe Flash CS3 • Flash Slide Show Maker • Cute FTP + Mozilla Fire FTP I have a document from the developer which my employer was originally told would provide all the data needed to make changes to the site. If it does, however, I can't see how. I've also tried to do whois searches on the DB IP, to find the host, but our ISP here blocks direct IP input as "hacking". Please let me know if I can provide any more information. As I said I have very minimal experience with these things. I'd like to learn to handle our required changes myself, and so I guess my question has 3 forks. Where can I find a freelancer whom I can trust, and frankly, who is not too aggressively priced? Where can I begin to learn the skills I need so that this doesn't come up again? And how do I find the database host? For all I know this may be a local machine. Josh


Getting keywords in XML from Google?

need to know how to get all keywords from Google Keywords service. By default, i can download only 700 keywords. How to get all keywords from one query? Thanks.


Paypal alternatives for personal site donations "adult friendly"

Paypal has a policy against having using them if your site has _any_ adult content. I'm wondering if there are any services that work similar to paypal, but that don't mind some adult content, or being somehow connected to it little history is that a blogger I read got kicked off of paypal. tried to open a new site on a non sex related topic for donations due to a child custody battle, and paypal shut that off because the account is "related" to the previous account. I personally don't agree with this. So I'm curious what options might exist for something that's not so profitable and doesn't need a "full payment gateway"


Strategy for managing lots of pictures for a website

I'm starting a new website that will (hopefully) have a lot of user generated pictures. I'm trying to figure out the best way to store and serve these pictures. The CMS I'm using (umbraco) has a media library that puts a folder on the server for each image. Inside of there you can have different sizes of that same image. That folder has an ID on it and the database has additional information for that image along with the ID of the folder. This works great for small sites, but what if the pictures get up to 10,000, 100,000 or 1,000,000? It seems like the lookup on the directory would take a long time to find the correct folder. I'm on windows 2008 if that makes a difference. I'm not so worried about load. I can load balance my server pretty easily and replicate the images across the servers. The nature of the site won't have a lot of users on it either, but it could have a lot of pics. Thanks. -Nate **EDIT**   After some thought I think I'm going to create a directory for each user under a root image folder then have user's pictures under that. I would be pretty stoked if I had even 5,000 users, so that shouldn't be too bad of a linear lookup. If it does get slow I will break it down into folders like /media/a/adam/image123.png. If it ever gets really big I will expand the above method to build a bigger tree. That would take a LOT of content though.


Curious about a cached old domain

I am a bit curious about my new domain. I had a domain before, let's say `http://example.com/`. Before expiration of that domain, I bought a new one with the name `http://another-domain.com/`. I uploaded all of my content on the second domain, but now when I search in Google about some query related to my `http://another-domain.com/` site then I also find my old domain in the results. Will this give a duplicate content error for my new domain or any other kind of penalty from Google?


Parallax Websites & SEO

I am getting a parallax website made for my e-commerce website. I have the option of giving each section an individual link or anchor tagging each page. Which of the two options are better for SEO? I would prefer to anchor tag each page so people can return to their previous page without hitting the back button several times.


Multilingual site and Google search

I have a multilingual site with only one domain `www.mydomain.com`, this domain serves content in English and Norwegian. And language is handled using a server side session parameter, which is triggered by a click on a button on my website. My problem is that Google only find and index my English version of the website, and not the Norwegian part of it. After looking for a solution I came over this post on Google: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182192 From what I read there, it looks like I can't use sessions to control language, and that I should use one of these solutions:   * `en.domain.com` - `no.domain.com`   * `www.domain.com/en` - `www.domain.com/no`   * `www.domain.com` - `www.domain.no` Is this true, or is it possible to get Google to index my Norwegian and English content by using my session parameter?


Number of pages with structured data

I'm using Webmaster Tools to track (beside other things) structured data, part of website is WordPress based, and part of it is custom developed website. Until one month ago, Google reported that I have only few pages with structured data. After that, it started to report that I have about 200 pages with structured data (I don't know if WordPress was updated at that time). After that, number of pages with structured data started to decrease, and now there is about 120 pages with it. Can you help me and tell me why do I have decreased number of pages with structured data, and is good or bad?


Prevent indexing of pagination on my site

On my site I have a pagination of variable length and random result order. Every page is defined by `index`, that is order of the page and `seed`, that is the random seed (it's necessary to generate consistent random results for one user). Search engines keep indexing these pages and they also randomly try to access pages that don't exist. Should I prevent them to index all pages except the main page? If so, where exactly should I put the directives (NOINDEX, FOLLOW)? Can the be put in HTML link tags?


Baidu spider does not obey DNS TTL

I moved my website from one VPS to another on 16th April. The `A` record of the domain name has a TTL of `86400`. I made the IP address change at **19:00 GMT 16th April**. I do not want the site to face downtime so I am keeping the old VPS alive. Today is the third day and the access log on the old server shows hits from Baidu spider. It has been more than 60 hours but why is this crawler still hitting the old IP address? I am using AWS Router53 for DNS.


"Index of ..." directory's files listing

On my courses we've got homework on site in folders such as:               http://example.com/files/tasks1-edc34rtgfds     http://example.com/files/tasks2-0bg454fgerg     http://example.com/files/tasks3-h1dlkjiojo8     ...      Each `tasksi-xxxxxxxxxxx` is a folder with 11 random characters at the end. And when you view the above URLs in browser you can see `Index of /tasksi- xxxxxxxxx` with all the files in that folder. When you view `http://example.com/files/` you can see only empty html with words "Hello, world". The problem is that you can't look into the next task without knowledge of its URL. So for example we've got the URLs for tasks1 and tasks2, and we can't guess what tasks3 URL will be (as we need to know the 11 random characters at the end) How can I get the list of all directories? (Is there a way to type something like `http://example.com/files/task1-aflafjal343/..`? or another way?) I want to see all upcoming homework tasks.


Privacy concern to track every user actions in your website?

We are building a system that track every user (logged in) actions, e.g. click, pageview, duration etc and store into a database. So all the user activities will be known and we are using them to create information our CRM so that we know more about our user, e.g. which products they have visited and how often they view that page. My questions:   * Are there any privacy concern since we identify the user, not just analytics.   * Is it legal in countries such as EU?   * What thing we need to pay attention to the data we gathered?


Can I advertise in Google AdWords with multiple places to click in an ad with different actions?

I want to create a graphical Ad for my website that has more than one button or a multiple choice question. It possible to run such an ad in the Google AdWords content network? If so, how do I set it up, and how can I tell which button or action the user selected in the ad? I thought that Google's "rich media" ads might be able to do it. I have searched the Rich Media Gallery that they provide and haven't found examples of ads with multilple click points.


How does CNAME work for Google Apps for My Domain?

I recently got a domain and set it up with Google Apps including setting up sub-domains for the different services. After set up the CNAME, all my subdomains point to `ghs.google.com`. I was wondering how this works with all subdomains pointing to the same site.


Majority of mobile devices support media queries for screen width?

Where I can find statistics on what % of mobile devices browsing the web support media queries for screen widths? I want to know whether for mobile optimization I can assume the majority of users' devices will support these, and so if I can base my optimization on using them. Thanks


How to modify the CSS in vBulletin

One of the Occupy sites needs to make a change to the CSS of the site but doesn't know how. Since they don't know me from adams housecat they are (thankfully reluctant to give me the keys to figure it out). Since I've never even looked at vBulletin, so I'm hoping one of you might give some directions. And I'll point them back to this article. http://occupyalabama.org/forum/showthread.php?232-Improvements-to-the-CSS **Improvements to the CSS** Right now, we have:               body a {       color: #417394;       text-decoration: none;     }       I'd like to see an addition of               div.postbody a {       color: #2253ff;       text-decoration: underline;     }      So that links in the posts (and only in the posts) show up more clearly.


Why does cPanel not have the icon I'm looking for?

I want to forward all emails to a central address. For this I need to setup the default email address. **My cpanel does not have the "Default Address" icon in the email section.** ![Default Address icon in cPanel](http://i.stack.imgur.com/l1At8.png) Why it is not there? How can I enable it?


how to best enable gzip compression on shared hosting

I must assume that this is a duplicate question, but I could not find the answer myself. I want to enable gzip compression to everything my website sends (mostly php, css, a slight bit of js). this question makes a point of adding a line into the .htaccess file (that i do have access to) but i'm not sure if that would include the dynamic content. this question (has a typo in the question, it should be ob_start I think) tells me how to enable gzip to php files. and after fixing the typo it seems to work. do i need to use both ? is there anything else i need as well ?


Domain Aliases and SEO

We have created a movie site & to optimize in search engines for other countries, we have created a alias of various domains, for example movie.co.uk, movie.de etc. How to get this optimized and avoid Google duplicate content?


Why are Google Analytics goal conversion failures showing the same page as one of the funnel steps

I have a simple goal. It's a destination goal, so basically tracking people who come to a page, and sign up for a Eval, then reach the "thank you" page. This seems pretty standard. The question to me is with the users that fail to convert, why is the `/evaluations` page showing in the red? Of 41 people who came to the `/evaluations` page (the only funnel step in this goal,) 35 show as on that page, 1 exited, and 5 completed. Why and how are 35 showing on the `/evaluations` page? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/6QNCj.png)


Adding your website to free web directories as a link building strategy

It's been two months since I've launched a website. I recently ran into some websites which list directories of other websites. Some examples of the web directories can be found at `web-directories.ws`. I was talking with my colleague and he says adding the URL of my website to these kind of websites will negate the effect of other organic real links.   * Does Google consider positive/negative points for these links from web directory websites?   * Do you have any source for your answer to refer to? I found this question asked before on webmasters.SE, but I am asking about many links from a website.


Is it generally a good idea to allow the reuse of old usernames from deleted accounts?

On a Social Networking site, is it generally a good idea to allow the reuse of old usernames from deleted accounts, or is it better to prohibit their reuse forever? **How do the big boys do it (Facebook, Google, etc.)?** Generally, as far as the DB is concerned, it's not a big deal either way because most tables are associated by some kind of user id, and not the username. I can certainly see why you wouldn't want to allow the reuse of BANNED usernames, but what about usernames from accounts that were simply deleted by the original owner? Do you free up those usernames or do you prohibit their reuse? Pros of allowing reuse:   * Frees up available username space.   * Current account owners can "reset" their accounts by simply deleting it and quickly re-registering it with the exact same username. Cons of allowing reuse:   * Can create confusion. Imagine an old user with thousands of posts on a forum. They delete their account, their posts remain under the old username, and someone comes along and registers with that same username. It will seem like that new user created all those old posts. Sure, you can change the username of the old user prior to deleting their account to avoid this confusion, but wherever they've been quoted, you will still have their original username, which can still create confusion.   * Can be "gamed". Imagine a very popular user deletes their account and someone quickly re-registers that username in order to benefit from the "trust" associated with that username, and possibly uses it maliciously against unsuspecting users. Any other pros/cons I'm not thinking about it? I'm really curious to learn how the big boys do it and why.


Mobile Browsers! Do they ignore `<noscript><img>` (Responsive Design with Framework Zurb Foundation (Interchange/Noscript))

_Experimenting with Interchange Responsive Images_ I'm experimenting with Interchange by Zurb Foundation to serve various images versions to different devices. For example 200x100 for mobiles, 300x100 for tablets and 600x100 for Desktops! This solution works with JS which is great but I'm a true believer that all websites should work to some degree with JS disabled. _The Code_ I'm using the below code which triggers via the foundation-min.js that makes everything work as expected:               <img data-interchange="[/default.jpg, (default)], [/bigger-image.jpg, (large)]">      _Fallback Method Suggested By Zurb Foundation_ > If you want to support browsers with JavaScript disabled, we recommend > setting your default image in a tag so that these browsers will have a > fallback: > > `<noscript><img src="/path/to/default.jpg"></noscript>` This sounds like a suitable solution but then looking at Firebug and looking at the net response I can see that when pages are rendered in Firefox it downloads the responsive image and that image in the noscript even through it's not being rendered i.e JS enabled. _The Rant_ So the problem is that I want to serve images in the resolutions that looks great but also downloads fast too, afterall that is the main objective of using such methods but since it downloads the images in noscript this competely makes it a useless solution. _The Question_ Does all mobiles browsers download images in noscript even when JS is enabled? What else fallback mobile/desktop methods can you suggest (without driving into the code too much, I'm not that lazy!)


Why does Google Analytics show more users than sessions?

My Google Analytics page shows almost twice as many Users than Sessions. It really doesn't make sense to me, does anybody know what's the reason for this? Here is a snapshot from my GA dashboard: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/p2bjT.png)


Can a webpage dial a traditional phone land-line?

I am working a website for a sales team and I would like to know if there is a way to dial a traditional telephone land-line from a webpage using JavaScript or a plugin in conjunction with a piece of hardware. Currently, our sales staff log into the website every day and access to their contacts and call logs through their accounts. Usually they work on-site, but several work remotely. Our goal is to use the webpage to dial-out via land line. This will allow us to track the time and number of calls that the sales staff make. It will also make it easier for the sales staff to work. I'm looking for a method that connects our existing phone system to our computers (via modem or possibly a USB device) and then use our web page to dial the land-line (Via JavaScript on a button or a browser plugin.) We do not wish to use an online subscription service and/or VOIP. We already have a phone infrastructure in place which we want to use. I know that Skype and other web services can easily dial from a web page, but we will not be using any of those.


Download CSS with all referenced files

Is there a tool that allows me to point to a CSS URL, and recursively download the CSS, as well as all the image and @import urls referenced within it? For example, if the CSS is at `http://example.com/example.css` And it has things like `background-image: url('images/bg.gif')`, it should download bg.gif too, and dump it under an images/ subfolder locally. If it has a reference to another stylesheet ex2.css, it should recursively do this on ex2.css as well.


Is possible create a Microblogging Service in HTML and CSS?

Is possible create a simple Microblogging Service in HTML and CSS with Login similar to Hatena Haiku? PS: is possible to host in Google Drive?


Need to encourage google to refresh robots.txt

My old robots.txt is               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      Is blocking me for uploading a new sitemap and also blocking me for fetching robots.txt manually. I don't know what to do.


YouTube custom thumbnails feature availability

I've been trying to figure out this on my own for weeks, but now I give up. 'Custom thumbnails' feature on YouTube is such a controversial one, it was changed so much... so much that even FAQ on YouTube doesn't fully describe it's features (as I see). I have a YouTube channel for one of my websites. This YouTube channel is main marketing force for my website - it brings all the boys to my yard (I mean, website). So I have to use all the hacky-tricky stuff to increase my visibility on youtube. And damn, those custom thumbnails are giving me hard times... As far as I understand, this is current state of 'custom thumbnail' feature: "If your account is in good standing, you may have the ability to upload custom thumbnails for your video uploads." (c) https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/138008 My channel has good standing, has more than 50000 views. So why the hell my account is still not eligible for this feature? anyone have any idea?


What's the deal with all these popular website having poor usability

I'm wondering this for quite some time, and it's a question about human- computer interaction and usability. A lot of popular websites have (in my opinion) poor usability, and I wonder what you guys think of that, and I also wonder why users still prefer these websites. I'll start off with a few examples. **Wikipedia** I'm not talking here about the actual wiki's. But If you want to get into editing these pages it starts with a big mess. There are tons of discussions in the pages behind the wiki's. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#30_kb This is bulletin board with thousands of lines of comments, no proper way to identify who's posting what. And all that indentation. It's really annoying me and it's one of the reasons I'm not editing wiki's. **Twitter** Okay, I get the deal with the 140 characters in a message. It forces people to make small messages, and it's ideal for mobile devices. However, a lot of people nowadays are having conversations over twitter. And that's where it gets messy, if someone replies at a tweet of someone else, it's almost impossible to find the corresponding tweet. Also, you're forced to cramp #hastags and @people in your message, so for me it's very messy. **Craigslist** Euhm, yeah craigslist... I'm not even starting on this one. This post is not a complaint about these websites. I'm just surprised they are lacking even the most basic usability features. And that makes me wonder the following thing. Everyone on this website is talking about usability, and human computer interaction. A lot of people study the effects of them on websites. People have gained PhD's in them. Then why is it, that the most popular websites on the internet, do not follow the basic rules of usability, and have a lot of things that can improved for better user experience. Then, another question, is it even proven that adding usability features actually IMPROVE the quality of the user experience of the website


Piwik Server Overhead

I am developing an intranet site on a Raspberry Pi and am interested in incorporating Piwik into my code. My question, however, is how much overhead impact there will be with the pi's CPU/RAM? Does Piwik run as a constant and _all the time_ analyzer in the background, or is data fed to it fairly passively until someone accesses Piwik from a browser, at which point would system resources be consumed in depth? Thanks.


How to prevent invalid clicks from proxies

What would be the best and cost effective solution to prevent invalid clicks from PPC.


Moving site from its own domain to sub directory or subdomain - updating Webmaster Tools

Is it possible to tell Google's Webmaster Tools that our site hosted on `www.` has moved to a sub folder or perhaps even a subdomain? I know this is possible by using 301's but would appreciate if anyone can tell me if this can be done on Google's Webmasters Tools.


Why Author Information isn't showing for all pages in google search result?

![Google Search Result for my blog](http://i.stack.imgur.com/K0rs4.png) As you can see on the image, the author information is being shown only for one page, not others, why not all pages are showing the author information? Do I need to do anything additionally to get it done? Following is the result of structured data tool preview: ![rich snippet tool format](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tDZ9A.png) Now see what really happening on actual google search result(search with the title "How To Work With Codeigniter Caching In PHP" and mine is the 9th result on first page): ![real search result format](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Jc1Rr.png) So, what about this? Why are they different?


What is that Google web site management tool called?

A year (or maybe 2) ago, Google announced they were working on releasing a management tool for static HTML sites. The idea is that you run this script and it asks you some basic stuff about the site, and it sets up the folder structure and boilerplate. You then could install dependencies (like jQuery), run your tests, and minify your code all through this tool. The name sounds something like merlin, geany, or hoodini. It wasn't really Google branded, and was an open source project. I haven't heard anything about it since it was in its pre-release stages (hey check out this cool demo video), and I want to know what happened to it. Did it ever get released? Can I use this magical tool? Does anyone remember what it's called?


Ideas for reducing storage needs and/or costs (lots of images)

I'm the webmaster for a small social network and have noticed that images uploaded by users are taking a big portion of the capacity available. These are mostly JPEGs. What solutions could I apply to reduce storage needs? Is there a way to reduce the size of images without affecting quality too much? Is there a service out there that could be used to store static files at a cheaper price (< 1GB/0.04 eurocents)? Edit: Updated the question.


Google +1 button: data-href

I'm confused about Google+ +1 button. I have a web application and I've added a +1 button, but I'm not sure what URL I have to put on `data-href`. It seems like you have to create a web page on your Google+ account and put this URL like `data-href`, and I've done so (`data- href="https://plus.google.com/+mywebsitename"`), but when you search the web page with Google, the number of +1 doesn't appear. So I'm guessing that I should replace with: `data-href="http://example.com"`, but I'll lose the few +1 that I already have. Any idea of how to handle this? I'm not interested on having better SEO on Google+ page, but the web application page.


Subdomain in Drupal to an already existing site

I would like to add to an existing site, which wasn't written in Drupal, a sub site, which is in Drupal. The existing site already has a domain, and this would be a sub domain. I'm using Apache2 and Ubuntu 12.04. How should I do this?


How do I view all the people who have +1ed my site?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Can I find out who is +1ing my website? I have a +1 button on my blog and I'd like to be able to see who has +1ed my blog posts. How do I view all the people who have +1ed a page?


Any good alternatives to MediaWiki for creating an 'intranet' type system?

I would like to install some form of intranet system to allow multiple users to add documentation to - MediaWiki would suffice, I just wondered if anyone knew of any better alternatives (must be PHP).


Registering the Cheapest Domain, what is the Con?

I provide educational material with some sites but I am running them at loss if I need to use the .com TLD with a cos of 10USD per year (not counting the work to do them). I am planning to change the domains to the .info TLD with a cost of 2USD per year with GoDaddy so I could self-sufficiently (hopefully) to provide the material, I have some advertisements there that generate just about 2USD per year to meet the required capital. Can I be sure the INFO domain registration (using GoDaddy) will always be 2USD, and not increase in cost? Are there some cheaper domain registrars? Is it possible to register a domain for 50 years? Any idea whether there are some services that allow cheap educational domain registartion? The sites are running on Google products (with 0 cost to me except time and coding).


Uploading screenshots to Flickr

I have finally decided to create my own portfolio to show off my works for clients. I've seen on countless web design agency websites where they show screenshots of the websites they made for their clients. And a lot of them upload the shots to Flickr, and use the Flickr api to display the screenshots on their own website. Is this OK to do?


Need I submit sitemap in Webmaster Tools?

I have uploaded my sitemap on server root folder. Do I need it submit it in Google Webmaster Tools?


How does one get a 728x15 google adsense ad (not link unit)?

I see certain sites like mashable.com etc have a 728x15 ad format below the title. And they look like normal adsense ads (and not link units). However I don't see any such option in the ad formats presented in my google adsense account. Do they have special access to those google ad formats or does it work by just changing the leaderboard code and reducing the height from 90 to 15? Example: http://mashable.com/2008/12/08/how-to-quiet-the-twitter-noise/ I'm referring to the ad, just above the author description .. "Jun Loayza is the Co-Founder and CMO...."


Why is IPv6 not backward compatible with IPv4?

Also, how does it affect our websites? Do we need to shift all IPv4 websites to IPv6 or both?


Any solutions for managing all properties from one system?

I'm looking for a solution to manage/keep track of the different domains and sites I maintain. I manage multiple domains with numerous sites, subdomains, many instances of CMS and other web apps, and keeping track of many of the details involved with running a well managed network is difficult. Ideally it would be something that has an interface with which I could keep track of status of things like various robots.txt files, htaccess content, tracking, online status, etc. Essentially an at-a-glance way to keep track of the status of things, without having to manually FTP or log into several places and open a thousand separate files. It might also include something like a maintenance calendar/scheduler. I haven't had much luck finding something mostly because I'm not sure what exactly I should be looking for in terms of search terms or genre of software, and what's available. What should I be looking for? Web asset management? Site audit? Server audit? Nothing I've tried searching for seems to be in the right direction. Any pointers or suggestions would be appreciated. What types of solutions are available?


iFrames from Skydrive: yes, no, how

I have a two-pronged question. First: SEO Concerns aside, should I be concerned about using iFrames on my site as far as viruses etc go? I am using skydrive to host my images and it provides an iFrame embed code that's almost exactly what I am looking for. Since it's just hosting images, I am not worried about SEO, but I am worried about any vulnerabilities this might open me or my users to. Have iFrames been completely abandoned by the web community due to safety concerns, or are they okay to use again? (*Using img src is simple enough, I just don't want to have to tap out all of the dimensions since skydrive provides me the code.) Second: If I do use the iFrame code, how do I add a modifier to have the text wrap next to the image? I have two lines with two pics, then one line with one pic but the text begins at the base of the image instead of the top, thus leaving only one line of text instead 238px. To my knowledge, `align = left | right | center` wouldn't work. Here's what I have from skydrive: > `<iframe title ="Preview" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" > frameborder="0" style="width:320px;height:238px;padding:0;background- > color:#fcfcfc;" src="http://[blah-blah.com/img].jpg"></iframe>` (*Unfortunately I am unable to use the direct URL http://[blah-blah/img].jpg as it is popping broken images, likely a permissions for linking thing)


Any CSS resources for printing?

Is there any resource like http://www.csszengarden.com/ for Print stylesheets? I'd like to write some CSS formatted text on a printed media (internal business documentation) with an elegant style, but it looks like there is no help out there. I don't need LaTeX/TeX typesetting - I'd like to have something more portable and lightweight almost as plain text, with little or no compiling environment.


Google Chrome and Theora

I have problem with Google Chrome and Theora video. I have video that plays nice in Opera and Firefox. However, it doesn't play in Google browser and I don't know why. I've made this video in ogg2theora. Test sample: http://wwsi.edu.pl/video/enigma.html **Does anyone know how should I encode to Theora that Google Chrome works?** P.S.   * I am not interested in encoding in WebM or h.264, this time.   * I am not asking what is the best way to publish video on a website.   * I only do experiments with Ogg Theora.   * The test site has fallback for h.264 in video tag and WMV in WMP plugin.


Google Analytics regular expression to indicate TODAY?

in Google Analytics version 5 (latest beta) there's an option to add a custom filter I want to show only data of today. Only Show -> Date -> Exactly matching -> and then I have the option to fill in in regular expression on the location of But what is the regular expression to indicate TODAY?


An open sourced copy of Firefox input?

Is there anything like firefox input http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/ that is open sourced? Thanks