How can I prevent HTTPS on another domain from wrongly showing on my HTTP-only domain?

So, I have a blog at `domain.com`. This blog is HTTP-only because I would gain almost nothing from adding SSL support. I have a web service now that I want to enable SSL support on that runs on the same server and IP address as my blog. I got it all working pretty easily, but not if I go to `https://domain.com` I will see a huge warning about an SSL certificate error and then if I click "ok" through the warning, I'll see the web service with SSL support, not my blog. My biggest fear with this scheme is Google indexing an HTTPS version of it and penalizing my blog because the content between the two doesn't match. How can I somehow for my blog's domain to either not serve anything on HTTPS, or to redirect back to my HTTP blog, or to serve my blog, but with an invalid SSL certificate? What can I do, preferably without buying another dedicated IP for my website?


Can my competition force my clients not to list with me?

I have a listings site that lists cars. The cars are those of several auto dealers in my area. Many of them signed up with me, to list their cars and then I direct traffic to their business. However, the day after listing with me, my competition sent them an e-mail saying that if they list with me, their content will be removed from the competition's website. They followed by emailing me, telling me to remove all their listings off my site.   1. Isn't this illegal? I mean, he's basically forcing a monopoly and killing anyone that enters the market?   2. Can he legally deny people being listed on their site on these grounds?   3. Do people not have the right to advertise everywhere?   4. How do I proceed to deal with such a matter, or is it a lost cause?


Any ideas why my Google search traffic dropped considerably after 29th Oct 2013?

I've noticed a sizable dip in traffic with www.topomap.co.nz so headed over to Google Webmaster Tools to see if Google had encountered any issues with the site. Was quite surprised to discover that the "Search Queries" stats dropped considerably after Oct 29th. Any ideas why Google might suddenly have decided not to like the website so much? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Is3pU.png)


How to check SERP position correctly?

I wonder how do you check your website's SERP position for a certain query. I cannot directly go to Google and search, because it knows i'm looking for my site, and it shows it in the first position, but from another browser, it cannot be even in the first page. So how do you check for "average user" ? I use Tor browser for that, since it gives me a completely different IP, do you think is it safe? I mean, does it give useful information ?


Authenticate phpBB using custom MS-SQL database

How can I let my users to log into a phpBB forum by entering their user credentials while these credentials are stored in a separate MS SQL database? I mean I need to customize the authentication routine so it looks into MS SQL database for user credentials


Simple MediaWiki question

I'm thinking about making a mediawiki website. At first I'd like to try it at `localhost`. I'm running Kubuntu 11.10, so I did:               sudo aptitude install apache2 mysql-server php5 php5-mysql php5-cli      And I also fetched the latest mediawiki to:               /home/boris/Its/sites/mediawiki-1.17.0      Now I'm supposed to open               http://localhost/home/boris/Its/sites/mediawiki-1.17.0/index.php      But firefox says the page is not found. While `http://localhost` works. If I get it right - I have to open `index.php` to install mediawiki. So my question is - what do I do wrong? I'm really sorry for this is might be a very simple question. By the way do I have to make a db beforehand? Is it possible to use mongoDB as a db with mediawiki?


How urls of an ecommerce website should be made to be SEO friendly

Presently I am working on a website which has url like this   * For category page mydomain.com/c/10/t-shirts   * For product page mydomain.com/p/1023/printed-black-stripped-t-shirt I thought that this is not SEO friendly and thinking to move to a different structure, but confused in how exactly it should be named. Find few samples below that I am thinking of, please tell me is this correct or something else should be done   * Category Page: site.com/category-name/   * Sub-Category Page: site.com/category-name/sub-category-name/   * Sub-Category Page: site.com/sub-category-name/   * Product Page: site.com/category-name/sub-category-name/product-name   * Product Page: site.com/product-name


Sudden increase in traffic from Google search domains

I'm suddenly getting a 50% increase in traffic. The cause of this, according to my google analytics, is referral traffic from sites such as:               google.co.uk     google.com.my     google.co.jp     google.com.sg      etc etc, none of which gave me traffic before. Why am I suddenly getting traffic from these places?


Should JavaScript referenced in the head section be served from the same hostname as the main document?

I was under the impression that for the best performance, Javascript should be treated as static content and served from a cookieless domain along with CSS files, images, etc. But Google says here: Don't serve early loaded external JS files from the cookieless domain > For JavaScript referenced in the head of the document and needed for page > startup, it should be served from the same hostname as the main document. > Because most browsers block other downloads and rendering until all > JavaScript files have been downloaded, parsed and executed, it's better to > avoid the risk of an additional DNS lookup at this point of processing. So now I am conflicted. I am not clear on what "needed for page startup" means. I typically have two JavaScript references, JQuery served from ajax.googleapis.com and a master.js file that mostly contains event handlers in the $(document).ready() function. Is this needed for page startup? Given the options available, (ajax.googleapis.com, static cookieless domain, original hostname) where should my JavaScript be served?


Is it possible to purchase a non-recurring credit on Google App Engine?

My birthday is coming up and my parents asked me what I would like for a present. I said "App Engine CPU hours". But after looking at the billing options, I can't find a way for them to make a one-time credit to my account. The only option seems to be an authorization of a maximum billing amount for a particular time frame. Is it not possible to give someone App Engine resources as a one-time gift?


How can I rewrite an old URL using variables to a static html page?

I am an htaccess newbee I am trying to redirect the old URLS for my site to the new URLS for my site. The old site used variables in the URL but the new site uses SEO friendly URLs. When I try to redirect the old URL, it is not w=redirecting and I get the 404 page instead. I am unsure if the SEO rewrite is the cause of the other rewrite condition failing. How can I write the RewriteRule so that it redirects the old URL?               Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^WEBADDRESS.co.uk         RewriteRule (.*) http://www.WEBADDRESS.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^(.+).html index.php?seo_title=$1 [nc]         redirect 301 /WEBPAGE http://www.WEBADDRESS.co.uk/WEBPAGE.html          RewriteRule ^http://www.WEBADDRESS.co.uk/test/test.php?c=viewtest&id=56&sat=9&mainsat=1&start=0$ http://www.WEBADDRESS.co.uk/NEW_URL.html          ErrorDocument 404 /PAGE_NOT_FOUND.html


Determining Source Quality with Google Analytics

What I am trying to do is set up a report (either on the new or the old analytics setup) that tells me the average "Pages per Visit" of all traffic "Sources". I can get that through Traffic Sources->All Traffic Sources, and then sorting by pages per visit, but that puts a lot of junk (one or two visits) sources on top, if I sort it by number of visits, I get a fair amount of junk (stumbleupon.com with only around 2 pages per visit). What I would like is that same chart, sorted by pages per visit, with visits above a threshold of 10. Any advice?


Is it possible to find all the keywords for a site that rank it in the top 10 results? If so, how?

One thing I know for sure is that even if a site only had one keyword on it, it would be possible to rank for more than one keyword; in theory, based on the fact that a keyword being in the text of a site is not a requirement for the site to rank on that keyword. Which means that you can't even use the site's own text as a 100% based line for mapping a site's rankings across all possible keywords.


Does Google adsense affect page ranking?

does placing google ads in out web page help in SEO page rank?


What is good URI design?

How should a good URI be designed? What are the factors to consider? What are the pros and cons of the variants? **Factors that makes up a good URI**   * Stability over time   * Short   * Give the user an idea what is linked   * Easy to type   * Easy to guess (relevant only for a few links like "/jobs")   * Search engine friendly   * URI schema should be consistent over the whole site   * URI schema should allow future extensions Any more? **Examples**   * `example.com/articles/3252`   * `example.com/articles/how+to+design+good+uri`   * `example.com/articles/3252/how+to+design+good+uri`   * `example.com/good-uri-design`   * `example.com/articles/good-uri-design`   * `example.com/a/good-uri-design`


What does the site "engine" do and why can't I just create a set of pages?

This question is very newbie level - I want to understand a fundamental thing that bothers me big time. Many years ago when I needed a simplest website I just used Netscape Composer to create a set of .htm files, then uploaded those file to the website root via FTP - and I've got a site. That was my only experience of building a website. Now every here and there I hear about "website engines" - even when simplest sites consisting of say five pages are discussed. I guess a "website engine" is some complex system that facilitates storing and managing numerous pieces of content and serving some aggregations of them to the users. I don't get why I need anything like that for a very simple website with five pages and ten pictures. What's the "website engine", why do I need it and why can't I get without it?


What should be done with URLs that no longer exist on a site?

The situation: A site with an inventory page, which lists items for sale. Each item description includes a link to a spec sheet which can be downloaded in .pdf form. However, those items are eventually removed from the page, and the corresponding spec sheets become not available. This triggers a crawl error in Google webmaster tools, because it knows about the links, but gets a 404 error when it tries to visit them. Should I instead return a 410 Gone error code? Should those links (to the downloadable .pdf file) be nofollowed from the very beginning, since Google can't index the documents?


Dynamic and Fixed Layout

When should I use a dynamic layout? And when the fixed one? Thank you!


Reliable method for google analytics tracking for print advertising campaign?

A client is looking to track advertising clicks through a newspaper ad to measure success. They have rigid business requirements that it will be a unique domain... e.g. `foowidgetsnews.net` instead of `foodwidgets.com/contact-form-page.php` What is the most reliable method of building redirected url to a landing page so it will be tracked in google analytics as a direct hit from the newspaper? Finally, we would like to track the `foowidgetsnews.net` as the main url in google analytics because 301 redirect isn't tracked in google analytics like the way we would like it to.


www & no-www issue after server migration

I've just changed my web hosting and edited my nameservers, etc. and uploaded the website onto the new hosting servers. This all went fine and without any problems. However, when testing the live site I found that `www.example.co.uk` is working but just typing `mydomain.co.uk` redirects back to the old server/website (which is closing down later on today). I was just wondering what the issue is here and if/when the new site will show up when typing in the address without the `www`? I'll be the first to admit that I know very little about this `www`. vs `no- www`. so any help with this would be greatly appreciated and I'd like to know the best way of setting my domains up so that all of my sites are consistent.


Which way to forward alternate domains?

I have a few alternate domains that I want to point to my main domain: Main: `awesomewebsite.com` Alternates: `awesomewebsite.net`, `awesomewebsite.co`, `awesomewebsite.me` Which is the best way to forward any hits on the alternates to the main? I can set up Web Forwarding with my registrar (iwantmyname.com) with Zerply but I find their interface very confusing. However this does mean I only have the main domain on my hosting account (MediaTemple). Or I can set DNS of all domains to MediaTemple and then set the forwarding there with .htaccess. Is either of these a particularly good/bad idea?


do I need to login the second time I use "paypal standard payment"?

Paypal Payment Standard doesn't require to be registered to paypal to perform payment. However I've read on a blog that the second time you proceed, it recognize your credit card and ask you to register to paypal. Could you give me a 100% sure answer about this ? I really cannot ask customers to create paypal accounts. thanks **Update** : I've found the following extract on a website: > Are PayPal accounts required in order to make a purchase or donation? Not > any more. It was this way before but PayPal.com changed the policy. You may > make ONE non-recurring transaction without opening a PayPal account however, > PayPal creates a temporary PayPal account with credit card number used. If > you use the same credit card again with so many months, PayPal will ask to > open and verify an account. I was wondering **how often** it should be a payment done to see paypal asking to make an account. For example, let's say that I'm performing the second payment after 2 weeks. Is it going to ask me for a paypal account ? thanks


What's the original image address from a adobe scene 7 site?

Initially i would like to find out an image from nike store, then i found this: http://images.nike.com/is/image/DotCom/404128_010_A?wid=890&hei=550 here Nike uses adobe scene7 for its dynamic imaging. How could I grab the original file from it? some useful links http://images.nike.com/is/image/DotCom/404128_010_A?req=imageprops http://crc.scene7.com/is-docs/examples/properties.htm


Google Webmaster Tools robots test not working

Within Webmaster Tools I have supplied my test content:               User-agent: *     Disallow:/admin/     Disallow: /tag/      When I specify the URL to test against, for example:               http://www.site.com/tag/      It gives me this result: "Allowed: Detected as a directory; specific files may have different restrictions" As far as I know I have set this up correctly, shouldn't Google be saying that the `/tag/` directory is "disallowed"?


Should I add a trailing slash to my canonical link or not?

I'm just working through some PHP to set up a canonical link for each page on one of my websites and I'm wondering what's the correct link for the home page: Is it:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.sitename.com/"/>      Or?               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.sitename.com"/>      I've always tried to link to the home page without the trailing slash.


HTML5 vs HTML4 regarding Search Engine Optimization

We currently have great SEO utilizing HTML4 entities, we are considering utilizing an HTML5 document type but are concerned about the SEO implications. We do not want to risk losing our SEO by simply updating our front-end implementation. Questions   1. Does Google value HTML5 more than HTML4 or visa versa.   2. Is there a top resource for strict standards when building an HTML5 document?


Consolidating google results for 2 domains with the same content

I have 2 domains `http://foo.com` and a `http://bar.com`. `http://bar.com` is just a domain alias for `http://foo.com` so they have the same content. Results for both domains show up on google, I'd rather all google results point to `http://foo.com`. I've tried looking for this option in google webmaster tools but can't find it. How do I do this?


Displaying metrics for a list of specific pages from a website

Can I get a table for a metric (ex: visitors, pageviews) for a specific list (imported as .xls, .csv or .xml) of pages from a Google Analytics tracked website?


Can parking a domain on my primary domain have an effect on primary domain's SEO?

My Question is this: I have a primary domain (assume it's domain.com). Now I parked domain-static.com on domain.com. The idea is that static content (images, JS, CSS) is served from domain- static.com,   and domain-static.com passes through a CDN which is where the difference is between the domains. The reason is that browsers limit simultaneous downloads from the same domain so I think it should speed up the site more than routing all requests through a CDN. The static domain is actually parked on top of domain.com, but all static content on the website is served through static-domain.com There shouldn't be a case where HTML pages are served from domain-static.com or really for anything Google downloads (except for images which it will download for Google Images) But I'm asking about the regular Google search, can domain.com get penalized for some reason for parking domain-static.com on domain.com? If this is so, one possibility I thought of is adding an .htaccess rule that doesn't let any dynamic content be served from the static domain, so there isn't a possibility of Google downloading dynamic content from the domain- static.com, which can eliminate dynamic content. What do you think I should do?


Language for a Belgium website

In Belgium, citizens speak different languages. Most people speak Dutch, some French and the minority speaks German. Also combinations of those language occur. I want to expand a web shop to Belgium. My question: Which language can I use to reach most 'modern' Belgiums? By 'modern' people I mean people well familiar with (shopping on) the internet.


Google search SEO with double domain

When hosting a site from two separate domains, are there any steps to take to not get penalized by search engines for duplicating content across domains? I'm envisioning a scenario where two domains have largely the same text content, but use separate domains to enable different branding and some different features.


Could somebody hijack my Google Analytics for a site?

I track many websites in Google Analytics. Recently I accidentally added tracking code for site A to site B, which I noticed a couple of weeks later. By then, one website had two weeks of no visitors, and the other website had tons of traffic, relative to the other. It completely messed up my analytics data for the site, adding data for the other site. This made me think, since it's easy to view the source of a site and its Google Analytics code, could somebody take that code and add it to their own site(s) and completely mess up my site's analytics data? A lot of very big name websites use Google Analytics, I wonder why this hasn't been thought of or mitigated; wouldn't be too hard for Google to check if the source domain matches the site that it's meant to be tracking. How can I mitigate against this?


Techniques to prevent apps hijacking my search engine?

I'm working on a site with a large music content database, and recently some app developer looking for a bit of a reputation boost has launched an app that completely piggybacks on our database: a user will search for a track in the app, the app will send the request to our search page and scrape the results, returning the top result to the user. Here are some things I've tried:   * Returning 444 for the app's user agent (but they changed it to a legit browser string).   * Detecting a referrer on the search page, and returning 404 if no referrer is found (but it would be easy enough for them to spoof a referrer). One idea I thought of is some sort of token sent along with the search query any page with the search box, and the search result validates this token and, if invalid, returns 404. Are there any tried-and-true techniques that do this kind of thing? Or anything else I can do to prevent this data thief? He's completely unapologetically stealing our data and crippling our site! By the way I'm using Django, in case there's anything built in to there that could help me.


Should I remove a Tumblr blog that I moved to my own server?

This is relate to How to move a Tumblr blog without hurting PageRank? question. I used custom domain for Tumblr for about a week, some of Tumblr domain disappeared and most of the posts appeared in new domain in search results. After that, I moved my files to my new host, and pointed my domain name there, hoping that Tumblr won't notice the change and keep redirecting users to my domain. Unfortunately, Tumblr realized (after 2 days) that I don't point to their servers anymore, and stopped redirecting to my domain. Does having old blog running hurt my search results rankings because of duplicate content? If so, I want to close my Tumblr blog. On the other hand, I am considering that some people might lose track of my blog. So I am confused. What is the optimal thing to do here, close old blog or not? Edit: I am also considering changing all posts to mere links to new content in old blog. Is it a good idea?


Google Analytics multi-domain iframe counted as new visitor

I work for a company that has a large number of marketing sites, each of which pull in some info to an iFrame from another domain. I'm trying to track visitors through a given marketing site, to the page with the frame, and then through various pages in the frame. I have done quite a bit of reading on multi-domain tracking in GA, but can't seem to get it to recognize a visitor to a marketing site and the framed page as a single visitor. On the marketing sites as well as on the pages within the frame, I use this GA code:                 _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-14']);       _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']);       _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);      I load my iFrame with the following code:               _gaq.push(function() {           var pageTracker = _gat._getTrackerByName();           var iframe = document.getElementById('my_frame');           iframe.src = pageTracker._getLinkerUrl('www.myurl.com');         });      Using GA Debug in Chrome, it appears that the GA parameters are being appended to the URL of the iframe correctly. Despite this, while viewing the "real-time overview", it shows a single visitor while I browse the marketing site until I get to the page with the frame, at which point it shows 2 unique visitors. This also breaks the "visitors flow" report, which shows a drop off at the page with the frame, instead of continuing to the new domain in the frame. Any suggestions or obvious problems?


Cannot load local resource

In spring project, I am generating some pdf file automatically in my application and storing it in $CATALINA_BASE in tomcat server. The path is :               D:\Project_Local\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\happyweb\images\User.pdf        I have given one hyperlink on webpage to access this file. But when I click on that link it is giving error in Chrome console as below:                Not allowed to load local resource:D:\Project_Local\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\happyweb\images\User.pdf      What is the problem and how so resolve that?


What percentage of users opt out of Google Analytics?

You can block Google Analytics through Adblock or your hosts file, and I know a small amount of visitors do. What's the percentage? Does Google compensate somehow, or should I just add a fudge factor to my customer's stats. I understand this number is possibly tiny, but I can't seem to dodge this request.


Multiple TOC with MediaWiki using section headings in single page

I'm running my own installation of MediaWiki, which has been great! I haven't been able to find the answer to this small problem in any post, how to, etc. Here's the setup: Article TOC (limited to showing only H1 and H2)   ==H1==   ===H2===   ====H3====   ====H3==== I don't want the H3 to show up on the main table of contents, because it would make the list very long. Instead, under the H2, I would like to display another TOC with all the H3's under that listing. From my understanding, you cannot have multiple table of contents on a single page. I've thought about making a template for each H2 that has the H3 links, but that seems like it duplicates a lot of work and creates loads of pages. I'd love a template that sucks all subsection names and spits them out, but I don't see how to do that. Alternatively, is there a way to enable multiple TOCs in a custom install of MediaWiki that I'm missing? Even that would get closer to what I'm trying to do.


Best Automatic Backup Solution Options?

I have a VPS with WiredTree.com in which I have access to WHM. I'm looking for a good backup solution where I can do the following things   * Backups both the Database and Files   * Allow me access to the backups so that I can restore them on another server to ensure that backups are actually successful. Any good options out there I should look at? Thanks for any tips.


Magento: When paying with Paypal, shipping cost is charged twice

I'm using Magento 1.4.2. When I'm paying for an order with Paypal, the total is calculated alright but then Paypal charges twice for the shipment. I'm not using any custom modules. Any idea why this might be or where I should look?


Best way to use static HTML + AJAX with Django

I'm working on a web app and decided that for the max amount of speed I'm going to make it a single page. Then load all the content via AJAX pulling the data from a Django app. My options as I see them are: Host the index.html(and JS, IMG, CSS) on Cloud files/S3/etc and the Django app on a server on api.example.com Host the index.html(and such) on a dedicated server and put the app under as sub folder ie example.com/app Host the index.html(and such) on a dedicated server and somehow host Django on the root. Letting Apache decide which one to send the user to. (similar to this question) If you have another way that could be better please let me know. Thanks,   Kerry


What am I doing wrong with my SEO

I have this site (online library): www.gramma.ro Am I making any huge mistakes in regards to SEO? Basically, for each product I put its title to be my title page (for instance): http://gramma.ro/Site/DetaliiProdus.aspx?c=m1&p=1073&s1=61&s2=157 I do not understand why, for any of my products, I do not appear on 1st page of Google SERPS for that specific title product (I only see my competitors who also have the same title page for that product), but if I append "gramma" I do appear (so I am indexed). Did I make a mistake somewhere?


Possible to send one payment to multiple Paypal accounts?

I have a client who wants to setup a Paypal Buy it Now button on his small e-commerce store. The customer is able to say: "I want to make a payment of $20 and I want this percentage to go toward this purpose, and this percentage to go toward this other purpose." Is it possible to have one payment split up and go into two separate Paypal accounts?


DNS: forward part of a managed domain to one host, but sub domain services to another (Google Apps)

I was going to post this as a comment against DNS: Forward domain to another host, but I don't seem able to do that. I'm in a similar situation. I have a DNS registered/managed by enom, except with the slight twist that the domain was originally registered with enom through a Google Apps account creation. The domain currently supports a Google Apps site/account. I now want to direct the bare primary domain and `www` entries to a hosting provider for the website component, but leave the Google Apps setup intact for its services such as calendar, mail etc. For now, I'm leaving the domain managed by enom. Also note that when I registered my account with the hosting provider, I gave the same domain name as the existing domain (e.g. `example.com`), so at their end I'm working with the same domain name in cpanel, etc. In my case, the existing enom DNS entries don't have an A record for the `www.example.com`, or the bare `example.com` domain. Instead, there are 4 x @ records with the Google Apps IP Address, 2 x TXT records with what I assume are Google Apps site verification strings/tokens, and a bunch of CNAME records for the various features of Google Apps (mail, calendar, docs, sites, etc). So, my questions:   * How do I point the `www.example.com` and `example.com` DNS entries at enom to my web site hosting provider, while leaving the domain managed by enom, and the Google Apps services working as they are now (with the obvious exception of Google Sites)?   * How do I setup the `example.com` mail-related DNS records (MX, etc) at the web site hosting provider, so that outbound email to `any_name@example.com` gets correctly sent to the google apps mail account, and doesn't get trapped inside the _pseudo domain_ within the hosting providers servers?


Add Protocol for MediaWiki Links Besides HTTP

Is there a way to add protocols to linking for MediaWiki? For example:   * Works: [http://www.google.com Google]   * Doesn't work: [ftp://www.someplace.com Some FTP place]   * Doesn't work: [conisio://something?something=awesome Something Awesome] In the above example, I want to add **ftp** and **conisio** protocols


What is best way to manage all images in a big project, inline images, background images, css sprite images?

How do you manage all images in a big project, inline images, background images, css sprite images? Do you follow any naming convention? Do you create sub-folders to manage images? In a big project how to make it easy to find for new people in the development team if any images which they want to use (because it's in new PSD they received from designer) is already available in images folder of project and how they can find it easily.


Is this a link scheme? If so, what to do? what problems can i face?

I was asked to remodel a website, and decided to check its rank on alexa. Surprisingly, there are **many, many** different websites linking to it, **none relevant**. One particular thing about it is that **none of these urls work, and they all display the exact same error when accessed** , which to me is a very good indication that this is some sort of linking scheme. (besides the somewhat obvious names, it even says scheme in one of the urls !?) **If so, how should i proceed about this website? What can i do if this is in fact a scheme, how can this hurt the website, what types of problems can i face, and what can i do about it?**               addurlnow . info     dirlist15.addurlnow . info/Business___Economy/Services/page-12.html           linkdirectory101 . info     dirlist16.linkdirectory101 . info/Business___Economy/Services/page-15.html           seonetblog . info     dirlist52.seonetblog . info/Business___Economy/Affiliate_Schemes           addurls . us     dirlist21.addurls . us/Business___Economy/Services/page-10.html           webdirectoriessite . info     dirlist20.webdirectoriessite . info/Business___Economy/Services/page-6.html           addurlstore . info     dirlist10.addurlstore . info/business___economy/services/page-14.html           ukwebdirectorys . info     dirlist21.ukwebdirectorys . info/Business___Economy/Services/page-13.html


What is a good replacement for MS Frontpage?

I've been using MS Frontpage 2003 to maintain our company website for _years_. Looking for a replacement that can:   * Import/convert a MS FrontPage website and "modernize it" (clean up the HTML to make it standards compliant, etc.)   * Supports (or converts) the substitutions (Include Page and Text substitutions that are done when the page is published (so they become static HTML).   * Leverages my knowledge of FrontPage Looks like the likely contender is Web Expressions but I'm open to objective suggestions.


Full width web design (with Twitter bootstrap)

I have not done much web design previously and wanted to get an understanding of full-width layouts and responsive design. Specifically, my question is this - is it considered bad practice to use full- width layouts? I have google'd, and a lot of the feedback is to avoid full width (sticking to the standard 960px width) - however, a lot of the articles I have read were a few years old. I was thinking about a design for a site that uses full width, using Twitter bootstrap (obviously TB provides the mechanism to go full width, which makes me think it may not be all bad?) - With the TB layout system and responsive design settings, are the drawbacks of using full-width layout as significant? I have also read about the optimal number of characters per-line issue, that would obviously effect a single column (or even two-column) full width layout - but I was planning to have a full-width three column design. Have people got around this issue?


Show/Hide Div - Cross browser compatibility and jquery concerns

I'm working on displaying a hidden div when clicked on for a website. This would be a contact for to request more information about a product, so, **its a very important form.** So, i came across the following **(demo)** http://papermashup.com/demos/jquery-show-hide-plugin/ **(Code)** - http://papermashup.com/jquery-show-hide-plugin/ Which works great, and uses jquery. With a couple of modifications would be a perfect fit for the application I'm working at. There's only one problem: On Safari (argh!), the animation looks choppy. So I have 2 questions: > 1 - For the more experienced webmasters, is it a good practice to use java > script to display such and important part of this website? Could I run into > problems? I know that java script could be disabled, but is that even > realistic? Should I perhaps find a different solution? > > 2 - Is there a way to improve the animation so it works better on Safari, or > should I just go a different route?


Tracking visitors: is it possible to know what site you visited next?

Let's say you visit my website `johndoe.com` you read one or two articles and then you type directly in your browser's address bar "`www.google.fr`" thus exiting my website. Conversely you were on `stackexhange.com` and then you typed `johndoe.com`, thus arriving on my website. Is it possible for me to know this? Using Google Analytics or other tracking software?


Does Google Analytics only count a Unique Visitor if he/she lands on the index (home) page? What if the UV makes his way to a side-page of your site but never visits the home page (index page)? Would he still count as a unique visitor under Google analytics?


Force users to use Google Chrome

I have a very selected group of users on my web application. Not everyone can just visit the website, and if they do they will need login information to see anything but the login box. The users have to contact in order to get an account. I am almost complete with my application, and it is not so friendly with ie, and has a few glitches with firefox. It works perfect with safari and chrome. Now, since I'm only going to have 100-200 users, is it OK to force users to use either safari or chrome?


Providing search engines with hints on contents vs navigation and sidebars

Currently, certain search engines prefer showing sidebar information instead of content in search results. Is there a way to hint the search engines which `<div>` represents content on the webpage, and which `<div>` represents status data in a sidebar?


Should I preemptively register alternate domain names?

If I register a really good .com domain name, should I also register:   * alternate spellings   * mis-spellings   * hyphenated versions   * other variations: iExample.com, eExample.com, myExample.com, etc.   * other TLDs: .org, .net, .biz, .info   * international TLDs Which definitely, which maybe and which no? How do you know where to draw the line?


Making Search Queries Indexable

Looking around, most sites (eg. Amazon) encode the parameters of searches into query string. This means that search engines cannot index these queries. Why don't such sites use URLs rather than query strings to store search parameters, as this would allow google to index searches? Search using a query string:               example.com/search?author=john+smith&year=2007&title=do+dogs+have+lips      Search using a URL:               example.com/search/author/john_smith/year/2007/title/do_dogs_have_lips      This URL would then point to a unique page, containing the results of this search. If a strict order of parameters was observed (eg. author always comes first if used, year always comes next if used etc.) This would seem like a great solution. What am I missing?


Private NS propagation

I have a client that asked me to move his domains to a new private server, this is my first experience on using private name servers so I am unsure if I am doing something incorrectly. According to what I have read, at my registrar I have to register the private name servers, in this case ns1.vetology.net and ns2.vetology.net which I have done last Wednesday and testing the name servers they are pointing to the correct IP   * http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=NS1.VETOLOGY.NET&type=nameserver   * http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=NS2.VETOLOGY.NET&type=nameserver So that means that Godaddy did it's job and registered the nameservers, the very same day I pointed a domain which is not in use at the moment. dogcatmri.com to the private nameservers, since them I have been receiving a not found error on some browsers and chrome gives me a `Error 137 (net::ERR_NAME_RESOLUTION_FAILED): Unknown error.`. First I thought well I have to wait for both the private name servers to propagate and then the domain DNS change to propagate but since Wednesday up to today it seems a very long time for me. Note that if I use Google DNS servers 8.8.8.8 the domain resolves, but the domain does not resolve in any other way. So my questions is, does the fact that using Google's dns resolve the domain means that the NS servers are setup correctly and I just have to wait for propagation to complete and it is taking an awful lot of time or there is something not setup right but Google's DNS uses some other sort of domain resolution and there maybe something wrong on my setup? This is some further testing I did, the command was run from the host machine:               [root@web ~]# dig dogcatmri.com          ; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-20.P1.el5_8.6 <<>> dogcatmri.com     ;; global options:  printcmd     ;; Got answer:     ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 60662     ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0          ;; QUESTION SECTION:     ;dogcatmri.com.                 IN      A          ;; Query time: 325 msec     ;; SERVER: 4.2.2.2#53(4.2.2.2)     ;; WHEN: Mon Feb 25 04:27:53 2013     ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 31      ## Edit 1: I am not sure if I am doing something incorrectly but my assumption is that given the following setup > domain.com   >  domain2.com   >  server1   >  server2 So server1 is hosting `domain.com` properly   server2 is hosting `ns1.domain.com` and `ns22.domain.com`   `domain.com` has nameservers `ns1.domain.com` and `ns2.domain.com` Not moving `domain.com` to point to `ns1.domain.com` and `ns2.domain.com` will cause the other domains not to resolve or the two things are independent? Just to clarify, my reason not to move `domain.com` at the moment is because `domain.com` is a live site and I don't want to mess with it unless I am 100% sure the server is responding as expected.


Dropped impression 25 days after restructure

Our website is a non English property related website (`moshaver.com`) which is similar to `rightmove.co.uk`. On September 2012 our website was adversely affected by Panda causing our Google incoming clicks to drop from around 3000 clicks to less than a thousand. We were hoping that Google will eventually realize that we are not a spam website and things will get better. However, in August 2013 we were almost sure that we needed to do something, so we started to restructure our web content. We used the canonical tag to remove our search results and point to our listing pages, using the noindex tag to remove it from our listing pages which does not have any properties at the moment. We also changed title tags to more friendly ones, in addition to other changes. Our changes were effective on 10th August. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gGxTm.png) As shown in the graph taken from Google Analytics Search Engine Optimization section, these changes has resulted in an increase in the number of times Google displayed our results in its search results. Our impressions almost doubled starting 15th August. However, as the graph shows, our CTR dropped from this date from around 15% to 8%. This might have been because of our changed title tags (so people were less likely to click on them), or it might be normal for increased impressions. This situation has continued up until 10th September, when our impressions decreased dramatically to less than a thousand. This is almost 30% of our original impressions (before website restructure) and 15% of the new impressions. At the same time our impressions has increased dramatically to around 50%. I have two theories for this increase. The first one is that these statistics are less accurate for lower impressions. The second one is that Google is now only displaying our results for queries directly related to our website (our name, our url), and not for general terms, such as "apartments in a specific city". The second theory also explains the dramatic decrease in impression as well. After digging the analytic data a little more, I constructed the following table. It displays the breakdown of our impressions, clicks and CTR in different Google products (web and image) and in total. What I understand from this table is that, most of our increased impressions after restructure were on the image search section. I don't think users of search would be looking for content in our website. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/2FYtp.png) Furthermore, it shows that the drop in our web search CTR , is as dramatic of the overall CTR (-30% in compare to -60%) . I thought posting it here might help you understand the situation better. Is it possible that Google has tested our new structure for 25 days, and then decided to decrease our impressions because of the the new low CTR? Or should we look for another factor? If this is the case, how long does it usually take for Google to give us another chance? It has been one month since our impressions has dropped.


filtering out excessively long views from google analytics

I have a landing page I'm watching pretty closely and I'm trying to track the avg view time on that page to see if it's going up or down based on changes. The problem is some day in December the avg view time is registering over an hour which is throwing off the readability of the graph (most views are 30 seconds to 6 minutes). Is there any way to filter out views over 20 minutes so I can view the graph more easily?


How To Hide From BuiltWith?

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how builtwith.com works? How does it identify the platform or app a website is using? And most importantly does anyone know how to hide the details from it? Somehow I'm not very comfortable with users being able to identify the platform I am in.


Bots inside chrome v31?

I am currently running a wordpress site with the plugin "Wassup" installed. In the last time I have registered around 30 users **per day** that call /wp- login.php on my webpage. And all of them always use Chrome 31 and even worse everyone uses a different IP, no IP occurs twice (at least not within a day) The plugin "Better WP security" does not block them. So I am wondering if Chrome 31 may have a plugin or something, that is used for hacking purposes without the knowledge of the people using it? Has any one seen the same?


Google Analytics account transfer

Is there a way to transfer Google Analytics account from one account holder to another? The original account holder was managing the site via MCC. That person is no longer associated with the website and would like to bring analytics control inhouse. Any ideas?


www subdomain for my webpage

How many customer do I lose if my webpage is not accessible from www subdomain. Can anyone who has webpage analytics with large number of visitors provide me statistic how many users use www.domain.com and how many only domain.com? Thanks a lot


What is the best kind of checkout system for a website?

I have worked with quite a few checkout systems and eCommerce platforms. Are there certain kinds of interfaces that convert sales better than others? For me there are really only two questions:   1. SSL self hosted vs. 3rd party checkout     * for SSL this requires an SSL certificate and secure website routines to handle a credit card.     * for 3rd party, there is PayPal, Authorize.net, and GoogleCheckout   2. Single-Step vs. multicheckout see: step two on this page     * Single-Step seems easy enough, but does it convert better?     * multicheckout can get convoluted, but with a progress bar does it help the user convert? Hopefully this will focus on _the four possible answers_ given either/or answers to the above.


Webpage Post Submits vs AJAX?

Which is better and why? I can see where a site that works 100% in AJAX might optimize a bit better, due to not having to reload the page on each click. But I am a huge fan of the big submit button at the bottom of the screen. Is it worth spending the time to convert a site to AJAX when it mostly only optimizes page load times?


Chrome Extension or online tool to access and edit files on server via FTP/other protocols

I recently got a Chromebook Pixel, and find it to be a great alternative laptop to my Macbook Pro, especially for non coding tasks like email etc. I was wondering if there was any IDE style extension or web app that I can use to access my server via FTP or some other protocol, which would allow me to view and edit the backend files (PHP, HTML, images and so on) and upload them back when I hit save. This would allow me to edit and develop my website without starting up the MacBook Pro, which can be quite slow due to all the other stuff I run on it. I was looking for either an extension that plugs straight into Chrome, or something along the lines of eXtplorer, which is a PHP based file manager for servers. It has some of these features inbuilt, and can edit files, but is quite slow and doesn't have stuff like code autocompletion.


Do internal intranet websites need to be secure?

The question is in the title. Does an internal site need to have `https` security? For example we have an internal site that handles our client's license keys -- do we need for that to be secure since it is on out internal network?   (The website is secured with IIS and windows user validation)


Ubercart for 'serious' eCommerce?

I'm big Drupal fan, and some very high profile sites use Drupal which also suggests that its a good system. Can the same be said for Ubercart? I've used it for some small eCommerce sites purely because I know Drupal. It seems to lack some basic features and also relies on JavaScript. I don't know of any high profile eCommerce sites using it. My productivity would take a big hit if I had to learn a new eCommerce platform and also if I couldn't use my favorite CMS with it, but do I have a choice? If not I guess I can hope that Drupal 7's Commerce module will be an improvement.


How can I backup my websites files and folders and MySQL database using PHP and send them to an email address in splited 1 MB pieces?

A quick example would be very helpful.


Adsense Earnings and multiple websites

Does placing my Adsense publisher's account code over many website's will reduce earnings? I mean by many websites, that sites are mine or I have exclusive rights to publish my ads there. Keep in mind that, some of those websites may has just 30 visits per day while others may exceed 1000 visits per day.


How does amazon get away without verifying emails?

I was playing around with Amazon's Check out process today and I noticed something odd. Amazon does not make you activate your account or verify your email address. I only had to enter my email twice during the registration process. They never sent me an activation email. Is this becoming standard? I can understand the reasoning that if you entered someone else's email address during registration the person who actually owns the email address could change the password on the account. It just seems really odd. Can someone explain how they get away with this?


WordPress multisite and Google Analytics in subfolders with mapped domains

I have a WordPress multisite with sub folders. The site's subfolders are mapped to domains, which are set to primary. I'm using the Google Analytics Multisite Async' code to track things. From what I can see it's tracking the sites fine (getting page hits for each site in Google Analytics) baring the original site in the multisite which in content overview lists domains then the amount of traffic it's getting along with the orginal domains traffic. I don't want to track any other traffic for my orginal site than what goes to that. i.e. I don't want it tracking my other sites in multi-site. e.g. `domain1.com` is my orginal and I have lots of other sites in the multisite lets say `domain2.com`, `domain3.com`. In content overview in Analytics it's listing say `domain2.com` as content. Can I tell it to filter these out some how either in Analytics or within WordPress? Hopefully explained that clearly!


Google bots are severely affecting site performance

I have an aggregate site on a linux server that pulls in feeds from a universe of about 2,000 blogs. It's in Wordpress 3.4.2 and I have a cron job that is staggered to run five times an hour on another server to pull in the stories and then publish them to the front page of this site. This is so I didn't put too much pressure all on one server. However, the Google bots, which visit a few times every hour bring the server to its knees in the morning and evenings when there is an increase in traffic on the site. The bots have something like 30,000 links to follow at this point. How do I throttle the bots to simply grab the new stories off the front page and stop there? EDIT- Details of my server configuration: The way we have this set up is the server that handles all the publishing is an unmanaged instance via AWS. It mounts the NFS server and connects to the RDS to update content, etc. You get to this publishing instance via a plugin that detects the wp-admin link and then redirects you into there. The front end app server also mounts the NFS and requests data from the RDS. It is the only one that has the WP Super Cache on it.... The OS is Ubuntu on the App server and the NFS runs CentOs. The front end is Nginx and the publishing server is Apache.


Schema SiteNavigationElement markup

Should the Schema.org SiteNavigationElement be structured like this..

Link 1

      or like this?

                 Link 1


Removing 301 redirect from site root

I'm having a look at a friends website (a fairly old PHP based one) which they've been advised needs re-structuring. The key points being:   1. URLs should be lower case and more "friendly".    2. The root of the domain should be not be re-directed. The first point I'm happy with (and the URLs needed tidying up anyway) and have a draft plan of action, however the second is baffling me as to not only the best way to do it, but also _whether it should be done_. Currently `http://www.example.com/` is redirected to `http://www.example.com/some-link-with-keywords/` using the follow `index.php` in the root of the Apache2 instance.               <?php     $nextpage = "some-link-with-keywords/";     header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );     header( "Status: 301 Moved Permanently" );     header("Location: $nextpage");     exit(0); // This is Optional but suggested, to avoid any accidental output     ?>      As far as I'm aware, this has been the case for around three years -- and I'm sorely tempted to advise to not worry about it. It would appear taking off the 301 could:   * Potentially affect page ranking (as the 'homepage' would disappear - although it couldn't disappear because of the next point...)   * Introduce maintainance issues as existing users would still have the re-directed page in their cache   * Following the above, introduce duplicate content   * Confuse Google/other SE's as to what the homepage actually is now I may be over-analysing this but I have a feeling it's not as simple as removing the 301 from the root, and 301'ing the previous target to the root... Any suggestions (including it's not worth it) are sincerely appreciated.


Set Up Of Common Name Of SSL Certificate To Protect Plesk Panel

A PCI Compliance scanner is balking that the self signed SSL certificate protecting secure access to Plesk Panel contains a name mismatch between the location of the Plesk Panel and the name on the certificate, namely the self- signed cert's name is "Parallels" and the domain to reach Plesk is 'ip address:8443'. So I figured I would go ahead and get a free SSL certificate to try to fiddle with this error. But when I generated the certificate I used my server domain name as the site name when I generated the certificate. So if I visit 'domain name:8443' all is fine, no ssl warning. But if I visit 'ip address:8443' (which I believe is what the scanner does) I get the certificate name mismatch error, Digicert's ssl checker says that the certificate name should be the ip address. Can I even generate a certificate whose common name is the ip address? I am tempted to say I should just do what the PCI scanner accepts, but what is really the correct common name to use? Anybody run into this issue before?


SEO - which URL's are the best?

In my application I have users who can post offers. An offer belongs to a category and a subcategory. The title of the offer can be long (~80 characters) My options to have url's uniqueness, are:               i) /users/:id/offer/:title          ii) /category/:name/offer/:title-:number          iii) /category/:name/subcategory/:name/offer/:title-:number      where, :number is a different identifier if there are 2 offers with the same title 1) Which of the 3 is the best in terms of SEO (or there is another combination that is better than the 3 options)? 2) Is there any difference on the order of the words? For example, is there any difference if I choose `/users/:id/offer/:title` instead of `/offer/:title-:number`


Why does Google crawl  my site very slowly [recently]

recently it takes 5 to 8 days for my site (www.StudyHorror.com) to be indexed. I'm updating the website everyday. What are the possible causes for this problem?


Using modproxy to get around China's Great Firewall

I'm using WIX service and I like it very much. However, one big problem is that some of my colleagues are in China but their IP is blocked. I'm wondering if modproxy can help me. I would like to setup a clean server (not blocked by the stupid Chinese government). Pointed the DNS cname to it and have modproxy get the page in background and send the page to viewers in China. Will it work? If yes, can anyone post any examples? Thanks a million


Dotted subdomain name or new domain?

I have a company website hosted at www.BRAND.com (where BRAND is a generic name). The company want to develop a "micro website" for one of their campaigns, named "Inspired By BRAND". I have two directions:   * inspired.by.BRAND.com - which I personally don't like too much. I don't know why but I don't recall any web address similar to this one subdomain.subdomain.domain.com.   * inspired.BRAND.com - which I this is best suited for it. Fewer dots and similar to "more friendly" addresses subdomain.domain.com. Any hints, guidelines, any thoughts is well appreciated. Thanks in advance


How can I make my MediaWiki Table Sortable again?

Anyone able to help me with MediaWiki Tables? I've created a table in my companies Wiki (using mediawiki 1.13.4) which I can't for the life of me get to sort correctly. It will sort on the first two columns, but any column after that the sort doesn't happen. Here's the Wiki Markup i'm using (note I'm using templates to make it easier for others to help me maintain the table) The table itself (with only one item shown for brevity in the question)               {| border="1" class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"     |+'''PTFS Europe Hosted Servers'''     |-     !rowspan="2" scope="col" width="150px"|Customer     !rowspan="2" scope="col" width="100px"|IP     !rowspan="2" scope="col" width="100px"|Usage     !scope="col" width="100px"|Type     !scope="col" width="100px"|Details     !scope="col" width="80px"|Renewal     !scope="col" width="80px"|Cost     !scope="col" width="80px"|Renewal     !scope="col" width="80px"|Value     !rowspan="2" scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes     |- class="unsortable"     !colspan="4"|Hosting     !colspan="2"|Maintanence     |-     {{server_item     |name=[http://abcd.abcd-abcd.eu Customer 1]     |ip=[[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]]     |usage=Stuff     |htype=Semi Dedicated      |hdetail=Linux     |hrenewal=XXXX-XX-XX     |hcost=£XXX.XX     |mrenewal=XXXX-XX-XX     |mvalue=£X,XXX.XX     |notes=Bi-Annual Support     }}     MORE ROW ITEMS HERE     |}      and the template I've created to use to help fill the table.               |- class="sortbottom"     | {{{name}}} || {{{ip}}} || {{{usage}}} || {{{htype}}} || {{{hdetail}}} || {{{hrenewal}}} || {{{hcost}}} || {{{mrenewal}}} || {{{mvalue}}} || {{{notes}}}      Can't quite see what I'm missing... probably a case of can't see the wood for the trees..


Is Paypal the best solution for payment gateway for a website?

I have a realty website that needs a payment gateway for their property reservation. The reservation fee range from $500-$600 and about 5-6 people per month. I was wondering if Paypal is the best solution for accepting Payment. What will be the Pros and Cons using Paypal. Paypal was my first choice because It's easy to integrate on my existing website and I wouldn't be minding so much on the security. P.S. It's not a part of the question, But If you can site some realty website that accept payment and would be a good inspiration. It would be highly appreciated. Thanks!


Apache mod_rewrite problem

I try to use Apache mod_rewrite to redirect some pages on my customer's website to the homepage. The .htaccess file is the following:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^environment/teach-your-kids-to-go-green/(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/event\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/films\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/lastcomm\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/join\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^capturenature(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/blog\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^capturenatur(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/roadtomecca\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^capturenature/(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^shopping/engagement-rings-for-men/(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/thecallhome\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/stateofthings\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>      For some reason, this rewrite rule - `RewriteRule ^a3ff/(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]` - doesn't work on the production server. It does work on my development server, however. When I use `RewriteRule ^a3fff/(.*) DOMAINNAME/$1 [R=301,L]`, for example (one character appended), it works perfectly. It's probably the strangest .htaccess problem I've ever seen. Can anyone help me?


Will link exchange with similar sites improve my PageRank?

I have a programming blog and I was wondering if link exchange with other programming blogs (where I link to them and they link to me) is a good idea to improve my site's PageRank. I know in general it is desirable because it will increase my page views and reader base. Specifically my main page has a PageRank of 4 and I'm wondering if I could ever reach a PageRank 5 by doing a lot of link exchange for similar blogs around the same PageRank? Or do the links cancel out the backlinks in terms of PageRank?


Would an elastic IP affect SEO?

I am considering moving my site to Amazon EC2 instances. Would an elastic IP affect SEO?


Why isn't HTTP Authentication working on this Apache HTTPS site?

I have set up a private MoinMoin wiki, accessed through HTTPS, but I cannot get Basic HTTP Authentication to work on it. I have it working on another site, using a similar vhosts file, so I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. When accessing the site, the connection gets redirected to HTTPS, as intended, but there is no request for authentication credentials. Nothing relevant seems to be appearing in the access log or error log either, which is strange. I am not sure if MoinMoin sites keep their own logs, but I have defined logs in the vhosts file.               <VirtualHost 00.00.00.00:80>             ServerName wiki.mysite.net             Redirect 301 / https://wiki.mysite.net             CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined             ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost 00.00.00.00:443>             ServerName      wiki.mysite.net             DocumentRoot    /var/www/mywiki/                  ### Serve static contents (images, javascript, css...) ###             AliasMatch "^/moin_static[0-9]*/applets/FCKeditor/(.*)" "/usr/share/fckeditor/$1"             <Directory "/usr/share/fckeditor/">                     Options None                     AllowOverride             </Directory>                  # The path to static contents changes (named after moinmoin version).             AliasMatch "^/moin_static[0-9]*/(.*)" "/usr/share/moin/htdocs/$1"             <Directory "/usr/share/moin/htdocs/">                     Options -Indexes -FollowSymlinks                     AllowOverride None             </Directory>                  Alias /robots.txt /usr/share/moin/htdocs/robots.txt             Alias /favicon.ico /usr/share/moin/htdocs/favicon.ico                  WSGIDaemonProcess mywiki user=www-data group=www-data processes=4 display-name=moin-wsgi-mywiki             WSGIProcessGroup mywiki             WSGIScriptAlias / "/usr/share/moin/server/moin.wsgi"             # WSGIPassAuthorization On             # Read: http://moinmo.in/HowTo/ApacheWithModWSGI                  <Proxy *>                     AuthUserFile    /var/www/.htpasswd                     AuthName        EnterPassword                     AuthType        Basic                     require         valid-user                     Order           Deny,allow                     Allow           from all             </Proxy>     </VirtualHost>


Import Analytics goals and Ecommerce transactions directly into AdWords account

I have a Magento-ecommerce site. Recently I migrated to Universal Analytics from Google Analytics. In Uiversal Analytics, I have tracked transaction data. It's tracking fine. I have linked Analytics and **AdWords** account. In **AdWords** , accounts are integrated fine. But it did not integrate transaction data from Google Analytics. After referred this link, I did the importing of transaction data goals after checking all other settings. Even after 24 hours and more, in tracking status of Google AdWords, it shows **no recent conversions**. Till now it did not track transaction data. As I'm referring **Google AdWords** for the first time, I could not find what wrong with this? And one more thing I got from the same link, We need to Import transaction data and goals once in 30 days manually. Can it be made to automatically import transaction data by any settings or any other? Can anyone help on this issue?


What is the replacement for the Web Intents HTML standard?

"Web Intents" were deprecated in Chrome 24 (November/2011) and are no longer supported in any browser: > We also gathered a lot of valuable data and feedback from our experimental > support for Web Intents and decided to disable the feature in today's Beta > release. Is there an HTML5 standard that I can look into as an alternative to what Web Intents intended? I'm interested in how web services can be stitched together. For example, imagine a website that can import a image from any number of web- services, modify the image in some way, then push the file back to any number of other web-services, all via HTML5 standards.


Possible for using a surrogate to buy a .it domain?

I'm a US citizen interested in buying an Italian TLD (`*.it`). However, those domains can only be registered by EU citizens or residents, or businesses with a registrant who is an Italian citizen and resident. Are there companies that provide a 'surrogate' like service? They fulfill the requirements for registration but I can administer the domain properties? What are they and what can I expect to pay for the middleman? Or am I a horrible person for even considering 'circumventing' the intent of the restriction?


Is it possible to correlate goals with search terms in Google Analytics?

I have a goal set up (let's say the goal is "buy a product"), and I can see which search terms lead to the most conversions. However, I want to know which search terms lead to which products. Is it possible to track this? There are more products than the maximum number of goals you can create, so I can't just make lots of goals.


How can I find out how many times a specific term has been searched on Google?

Is this information possible to get? If not is there any other source of information that can provide this? Thank you


Statistics for facebook like button

I have a small site with facebook like button. I want to find out the information about what pages are liked. I've found url http://graph.facebook.com/?id=http://imdb.com but it shows only overal count for the site. I think that I can ask http://graph.facebook.com/?ids=url1,url2 with all my pages as the parameters to get detailed information, but this seems to be an ugly solution. A have lots of pages, so I have to ask facebook many times. Maybe there is some simple way of finding the information I need?


Gallery of HTML/JS animated graphics

I'm looking for a few sites where I can browse hundreds of animated graphic effects in well-coded HTML5 and Javascript. That's it. Just some standards-compliant animation code that I can make trial- and-error modifications to.


Tracking multiple subdomains and domains going to the same site, separately in Google Analytics

I have a new site that has multiple top-level domains and subdomains all going to it: `www.domain.com`, `campaign.domain.com`, `chicago.domain.com`, `domain2.com` - all go to the same site/site directory. Right now I have one Google Analytics account profile set up for it, but I want to be able to track the traffic that is hitting those different URLs separately. The domains are being routed on the server-side (not _.htaccess_ ). How can I do this in Google Analytics? Do I need to create filters? Or create different profiles for each domain?


How is the hierarchy of .htm/.html/.php decided?

If I have a folder with files named index.html, index.htm, and index.php how it is decided which one will be used if you only list the URL to that folder? Is that something you can chose or is that up to the host?


Automatically convert CSV file to MySQL

I was finding automatic .csv file converter to web based to put the .csv file report as web based. but i can't find one. instead, i found one system which is taken MySQL database and show the report. Now what i need is a tool which automatically convert a .csv file to MySQL and the other tool will take the MySQL file and show as report. What opensource web tool you recommend? Thanks,


Free user submitted plugins/themes manager for software project

I am looking for a plugin/themes manager that users will be submitting. Pretty much I would like to have something like these: http://www.winamp.com/plugins/ http://addons.sonGBirdnest.com/addons https://addons.mozilla.org/


Google search question, front page not showing

I know this is probably a dumb question but I hope someone can give me some insight; I was ranked on Google first page of search results for "funny st patricks day shirts" but I was third from the bottom and not familiar enough with SEO, so I signed up for "Attracta" to rank higher. Big mistake. Since using Attracta, I've lost the first page and I'm now on the fourth page in that search. What I noticed is that Google is now just showing a sub-page or side page, (a link from my front page, to a page which has only a few designs in it) this is not where I would want customers to land first... but my front page is not showing in that search anymore. Obviously, the title of this side page is not geared toward that search result, so I know that's why I have the pr drop. Why is my front page not ranking over that page, though? Why is it apparently gone from that search, or so far back no one will ever find it? I need to know how to fix this quick if anyone has any advice at all for me. It's the busiest season for my website and the people who were stealing design ideas from me are all ranked higher than my site now. (I can prove this, lol) So, I'm very frustrated by that. I would be very grateful to have any advice at all as to what I can do to fix this. THANKS in advance for any advice you can offer. Catelyn


Legitimate and Credible SEO Sites and Seminars/Webinars

In my opinion a lot of SEO information online tends to have a very "spammy" feel to it. Can anyone point me to some truly credible and legitimate SEO websites and/or seminars/webinars (other than stackexchange)? I'd like to learn more about SEO but I'm not sure where to look.


Landing page not showing in Google Analytics report

The PPC campaign is redirecting from third part URL, and the conversions are tracked by Google Analytics. From organic, the referral and direct sources are not tracking. I have installed the e-commerce tracking properly. In my Google Analytics report, none of the source URLs are not displaying except PPC campaigns. When I go to content and view the landing page option there, it's showing. How do I fix this issue in my Analytics?


What is appropriate for creating a booking system?

I need a booking system for a theoretical project website. It would be an in- house job (not outsourcing to a web service) but all google searches on the subject yield results for said web services. I'd want to be able to use the system as such: For each day, there is availability recorded and if available a user can book in using the website, which sets that date to unavailable. There are other complexities, but this is the basic system I am trying to achieve - what would allow me to implement something like this?


When is it time to move on from WordPress?

My company's blog it closing in on 30,000 posts and get around 1,000,000 visits a month. Things seem slow even though we have a good server. At what point to you move on from WordPress or does it not matter? Would I have better luck splitting the DB?


SEO Ramifications of double breadcrumbs

I have a website that lists hotels, restaurants, bars, etc for a small resort town in Asia. I employ breadcrumbs to aid in user navigation, but I ran into an issue regarding categorization. Many places easily fall into two categories, such as restaurants that are also bars. They can be reached by following links from the "Restaurants" pages, as well as "Bars" pages. Is it bad practice to have TWO sets of breadcrumbs, SEO wise? Example:               Home > Dining > Mexican     Home > Bars & Nightlife > Cocktail Bars      The breadcrumbs appear just like this at the top of the page for listings which I have under multiple categories. I know it's good for user navigation, but does this adversely affect SEO, in particular how Google handles indexing of your pages?


We changed our domain a year ago to .com but old site is still number one when searching

I changed our companies domain name a year ago from radfan.co.uk to radfan.com. When typing radfan into Google the number one result is still radfan.co.uk rather than the .com. This is not the case for Bing and Yahoo. This is the .htaccess rule I have used               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^radfan\.co\.uk$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.radfan\.co\.uk$     RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.radfan\.com\/" [R=301,L]      Is there something else I need to do? UPDATE: Turns out if I search for radfan.com google finds it but asks if I meant "radfan.co.uk" ... UPDATE 2: I moved the domain in January 2012, so 14 months now


Does removing links for certain anchor text would affect my sites Google ranking?

After Google penguin update i found some of my website's keyword lost ranking. I checked all the inbound backlinks of my website and all anchor texts. I noted two or three keywords has been getting backlink from a particular blogspot. Now I plan to remove those backlinks, but if I do that i would lose more than 1000 backlinks. Does decreasing backlink would affect all my keyword's ranking in Google? or would it affect only those two or three keywords? Overall backlink count according to GWT is 18,403 (it may varied on other SEO online tools).


Where can I find the full list of Google/Microsoft CDN hosted AJAX files?

While Google hosts this list and Microsoft hosts this one there are several files missing such as jQuery UI CSS. Where can I find a complete listing of all the resources offered for major AJAX CDNs, especially Google and Microsoft (due to popularity)? **CDNs listings found so far** (mostly thanks to artlung):   * Google: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation _(Darryl Hein also found http://scriptsrc.net for easier access)_   * Microsoft: http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/cdn.ashx   * AOL: http://o.aolcdn.com (can only find http://dev.aol.com/dojo for references to URLs)   * Yahoo: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/hosting **Google CDN Hosted jQuery UI Themes** Base, Black-Tie, Blitzer, Cupertino, Dark-Hive, Dot-Luv, Eggplant, Excite- Bike, Flick, Hot-Sneaks, Humanity, Le-Frog, Mint-Choc, Overcast, Pepper- Grinder, Redmond, Smoothness, South-Street, Start, Sunny, Swanky-Purse, Trontastic, UI-Darkness, UI-Lightness and Vader. **EDIT:** Just use CDN JS for all the hosting from one domain.


PrestaShop preformence with 100.000 + products

I am i the process of finding a replacement for an old web-shop (Compumail.dk), we are looking at a lot of possibility's and one of them is PrestaShop. The site has in the area of 100.000 products, and we need a solution that can handle this number growing (200.000 - 600.000) in the coming years, i found this: http://blog.egrovesys.com/ecommerce-development/magento-prestashop- latest-comparison where it says that it can only handle 25.000 products. So can a PrestaShop be made to handle 100.000+ products, and preform well? Thanks in advance.


Is it necessary to browser QA different versions of non-IE Browsers?

For example, is there a chance that Chrome 25 will render an element differently than Chrome 26? If the answer is "no", a link to a resource that explains why there are no differences in redering between versions would be ideal. **Edit** Thanks for the feedback. Everyone seems to indicate that, yes, it's possible that something could change in the redering engine. In my original question, I asked for a resource if the answer was "no". Now that the answer seems to be "yes" can anybody point to a specific redering difference between to versions of non-IE browsers? For example, Chrome 23 renders X as inline, while Chrome 24 reders x as block.


How do I install a Web Application to the root of the domain using Plesk?

I'm trying to use Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5.5 for Windows, and I'm trying to install Mediawiki using their installer. I want the wiki to be on the root of the domain, but I can't figure out what to put in this field ![Plesk](http://i.stack.imgur.com/aR0xC.png) I found similiar questions on different sites that suggested using `.` or `/` and neither worked. `httpdocs` just placed an `httpdocs` folder inside the exisitng `httpdocs` folder. This is a required field so I can't leave it blank. It seems like this should be possible, any ideas?


Alexa indexing browsing history?

We have this test.php sitting around in a forgotten folder. It is a script which just sends an email to our site admin. We never had a page linking to it. It is not indexed by Google. It does not exist in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. But every now and then it gets crawled by ia_archiver. I wonder how it got indexed. Could it be because of the Alexa toolbar installed on our computer? Does Alexa index our personal browsing history?


Making a site available at http and https after installing an SSL certificate

I just had hostgator install an SSL certificate on my site. As a result, my site is only available (right now) at https://mysite.com. Based on the answer to this question, it sounds like it's possible to make it also available at http://. How can I go about doing that?


Multiple google analytics instances on a page?

My company creates (and hosts) sites for many different clients. We allow clients to send us tracking code, including Google Analytics, and we put them on the page. We would also like to include our own Google Analytics code for internal tracking. When we first investigated this issue a couple years ago, Google warned about including multiple bits of GA tracking code on the same page due to cookie conflicts. Has this changed? Is it now safe to include multiple copies with different accounts?


two columns text block with an image

I have a dilemma. Here is the layout: ![sample](http://i.stack.imgur.com/eiAjE.png) How should I markup this kind of layout? P.S.: The columns have different width.


How to eliminate /wiki/ directory in rewrite rule on a site dedicated for a wiki

I have set up a subdomain of my site (for the purposes of this question I'll call it `wiki.example.com`), installed a wiki there, and set up URL rewrite according to the article on MediaWiki's website (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache). But because my subdomain is purely dedicated to the wiki I was hoping that I could have my URLs in the format `wiki.example.com/ArticleName` rather than `wiki.example.com/wiki/ArticleName`. I tried this by modifiying the rewrite rule in a way I thought would be correct:               RewriteRule ^(/.*)$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/index.php [L]      Disclaimer: it may not have been exactly like that as the syntax I had written is no longer available for me to retype into this question. This partially worked, as I could reach the page at `wiki.example.com/Main_Page` but none of the images or CSS had loaded. I suspect the URL rewrite rule was trying to point everything at `index.php` but I'm wondering if there's any way to get a URL in the format `wiki.mysite.com/ArticleName`?


What method should I use for copying data from one table to another one?

I'm wondering what method I should use for copying data from one table to another one. I'm letting users post data through a form which uses table1 to save data. Now for displaying results I use data from table2 but I also need some data from table1.   * Method 1: Copy the needed data on pageload, when the user executes it. Might get slower, but uses live data.   * Method 2: Use a cronjob. Less resources, but not live data I'm interested in how much this will affect the speed of the website.


Database Management System do exist?

I want to build a database for my no-profit association, and i was planning to do it by myself. But then i realize that really i don't have the time to buid a solid, secure system. So i was thinking, maybe like cms do exist, maybe there are also database management systems. I mean a layer of abstraction over the database that allow you manage data, manage access to data, create widgets with and expand the data. Maybe with a frontend to use this data and a backend to manage it. that is a cms but not based on pages and post but on data! Moreover, i would like some standard solution, because my IT management position ends this year, so i need something that will be easy to use and expand even by someone that is not a developer. So do exist something that fit my need? PS: i would really like some modern and visually pleasant solution, javascritp and ajax heavy and that relies the fewest is possible on server and reloading of the pages.


How do I serve dynamic WebDAV directory listings using Apache

I can use mod_rewrite to redirect `/dynamic.php/xyz.php` to `/dynamic.php` and then server different content for xyz.php using `$_SERVER` - where `xyz.php` is any arbitrary filename requested by a client. No problem so far. When a client connects to my WebDAV server they can list the contents of a directory, eg `/` or `/dynamic.php/` - how do I intercept this request so I can dynamically generate a list of available files for the client (which requests this list using `PROPFIND`)?


looking for a free site like vectormagic

I am looking for a FREE site like Vectormagic that takes pixellated images and makes them vector antialiased. any ideas? I need something I don't need to download. just upload an image and they antialias for you.


IIS 7.5 Compression is not working when loading the page on a local computer

If I try to access our website inside our servers using the remote desktop connection. YSlow and PageSpeed is reporting that our website are compressed. But If I try to access our website in my local computer, both the YSlow and PageSpeed reports that our site is not compressed. I'm confused with it. I don't know anymore what configuration I needed to check to make sure compression is working.


Restricting crawler activity to certain directories with robots.txt

I would like to use robots.txt to prevent indexing of some parts of my website. I want search engines to index only the `/` directory and not search inside my controllers. In my robots.txt, I have this:               User-Agent: *     Disallow: /compagnies/     Disallow: /floors/     Disallow: /spaces/     Disallow: /buildings/     Disallow: /users/     Disallow: /      I put this file in `/mysite/public`. I tested the file with a robots.txt validator and got no errors. However, Google always returns the result of my site. For testing, I added `Disallow: /`, but again, Google indexed all pages. `floors`, `spaces`, `buildings`, etc. are not physical directories. Is this a bug? How can I work around it?


Google Webmaster Tools crawl errors reported after using Geo IP delivery

I am using Magento for my site. Recently I blocked my website for the U.S. using the PHP Geo IP Location country database. This means that when people visit from the U.S., the site will show just a restricted access message. But the next day when I logged into my Webmaster Tools account, I see errors for 300 pages. It shows `500` errors for the links, however the pages are working for me. Here is the error reported by Google: > http://example.com/: Increase in server errors May 4, 2014 Google detected a > significant increase in the number of URLs we could not access. It is likely > that your server had an internal error or was busy when attempting to > process these requests.


Make blogger load faster

I use Blogger as a platform for an electronic music blog. Because of the thematics of the blog I embed many iframes (Youtube & Soundcloud). Of course this makes the articles load slowly. Almost every article on this blog consists of some text and many iframes below. What should I do in this particular case in order to make the pages load faster. Is there any available solution or I should use some jQuery like lazy load to load iframes once the scroller reaches them?


Google Position Ranking for Specisific Keyword and Domain

How i can now my website position ranking for specific keywords? example my website is `gusdecool.com` and i want to know my position ranking on Google search for keyword `Rapidleech` How to do that? or maybe google has service to do it?


Different filter settings in report tabs of Google Analytics Custom Reporting?

I'm wondering if it's possible to have different filter settings in different report tabs of custom report in Google Analytics? It looks like the filter settings can only be set for all report tabs of the custom report. I'm trying to get 2 graphs   * 1 shows just home page visits (page exact = **_/_** )   * 2 shows article page visits (page regex = **_/[Pp]age/._ ***) Is this possible?


SEO best practice for a breadcrumb made by a CSS drop-down menu

Usually I make my "breadcrumb" with a `<h1>`, at the pages top, which is perfect for the SEO, like following : `<h1>Section > Category</h1>` But in a new project, I wish to display a drop-down menu that will be the "breadcrumb" too, like the following (see the **fiddle** ) :

Selected section

Other section

Other section

Other section

     <>

Selected category

Other cat

Other cat

Other cat

Other cat

      URLs will be rewrote like : `http://www.mydomain/selected-section/selected- cat/` The Title tag will get the value : `<title>Selected section > Selected cat</title>` **My question(s)** How the search engines will index this navigation? Is it a better way to declare this navigation with something like following in the menu:               ...
Selected section
     ...
Selected category
     ...      Any other idea or advice will be appreciated. **Edit** A solution could be the `microdata` with a `breadcrumb` type, about breadcrumb microdata Please let me know if this is the best practice.


Google Analytics: How can I traffic and referrals from iPad applications?

In Google Analytics, there is extensive information on the mobile device, version and browser version. However, this doesn't seem to go beyond the mobile browser. I would like to determine which application is responsible for visits to my site. Specifically, I want to know how many visits are coming from zite. http://www.handsetdetection.com/properties/vendormodel/Apple/iPad/page:4 seems to indicate this information is probably available, where/does Google Analytics expose this?


Do I really need to test on different OSes?

I know testing websites on different browsers is important, but do browsers really render pages differently on different OSes? For example, do I have to test Chrome for Mac, Linux and Windows to prove it works or is one fine?


Using local DNS and public DNS during site development

I'm a web designer and I often develop new sites for existing businesses. Sometimes I find it useful to point my DNS address (for my personal computer) to the development servers local DNS (instead of Googles 8.8.8.8 or the default isp's address). I like this as it let's me see that the new site's internal links, etc, operate before switching over the authorative DNS from the old site. However outgoing links (Like a Google map) would not route with my local dns. The first thing I thought was, oh I just need to fill out my DNS directory with Google and every other domain I might need to link to, wait... that sounds insane. I was wondering if anyone could give me insight into a better way or more functional way to get use local DNS addresses when they're available and public supplied DNS address when they are not? Kinda like a DNS to 'roll- over'? Or maybe a completely different approach to development all together. Thanks in advance for your insight. All the best!


Where can I find a web service for fast food nutrition information?

Does anyone know where I can find a web service (or even an XML file or spreadsheet I can download) that will let me pull in nutrition information from the major fast food chains (U.S.-based only)?


.htaccess issue (500 - Internal Server Error) error

I was trying to learn how to edit and make a .htaccess file using a tutorial found at corz.org, I copied an existing .htaccess file from another site on my localhost and pasted the following content in it the follow:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $a.php [NC]      I was trying to learn how to redirect HTML pages to some PHP page. **My questions are:**   1. I tried doing Right Click > New > Text Document > Renaming it '.htaccess'. It should work but it gave an error that I must provide file name. But when I pasted .htaccess file here it was pasted successfully... Why is this? the same rules should apply to .htaccess file and it should generate some error.   2. I have pasted the exact code and checked for any space UN-intentionally left, but still internal server error 500 occurs. Why is this? Note: I am using Microsoft Windows and Wamp version 2.2


The adress without WWW points to the old server

I have just changed Web host but I have a small problem, the domain.com site points to my new server but www.domain.com is always on my former server. How to remedy it?


Copy another website's template

i've found a website with a great template. Is there any legal way that I could use the template? I don't want to copy and paste the css file, but is it ok to use the exact colors and styles?


How not to get blacklisted using BCC

We have a legitimate need to send out emails to groups of our users (it's system info, not marketing email), and we want to just add the list of people to the BCC field rather than the TO field. However, we're worried that we could get blacklisted as spammers for these periodic emails to small groups. Is it true that if you have the FROM email address listed in the TO field, and BCC everyone else, you won't be seen as spam? Should we just use BCC without worrying about the TO field, and try to set up something like Sender Policy Framework?


Google Analytics In-Page Tracking For <input> Clicks

The in-page view in Google Analytics shows the website in an IFrame and overlays the statistics of link clicks. How is this done to track and show clicks (or entered data) for textbox ( elements)?


Get the number of concurrent users in Apache?

We want to know how many concurrent users the apache is serving at one time? Can I do it by installing some statistics tools? I tried webalizer but it only shows hourly hits, not the number of users. Or I have to analyze the log using some tools?


What are the security implications of using Google Analytics?

I'd like to start using an analytics tool (namely Google Analytics) to collect information on how my web app is used, by whom, and what our user's technical capabilities are. As part of the introduction of this tool, I'm going to be asked what the security implications are. Does using Google Analytics pose any security concerns? Are there any PCI compliance issues that it might introduce? And if there are no unreasonable concerns, how can I document this? I have searched Google Analytics website, and have found a privacy statement, but not a specific statement of what information their tool collects, or how it is stored.


How do I create a circular gradient in HTML or CSS?

Hey guys I'm wondering if you know of any way on how to create a circular/elliptical gradient that has many colors? An example of this is shown on the background of this Microsoft logo picture: ![MS Windows 8 Meter](http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/8800/wsmicrosoftwindows8metr.jpg) Any idea on how I would create it in HTML or CSS? Or would I have to use an image editing software like Photoshop?


List view pages in google index

We have a large database of items which are viewable as individual items (they are plants) (url example http://www.plantify.co.uk/Abelia- chinensis/plant-5087) or in a list view (url example http://www.plantify.co.uk/page-1/plant). There is a link on the individual page to the list view. We want to index in google for the term Abelia chinensis. My question revolves around the list view and its impact on SEO. Should we prevent google from indexing the list view? Should we put a no follow on the link to the list view to prevent us from losing link 'juice' to a page that is really on for navigation/


Vbulletin on nginx?

As an nginx fan, I need to set up a VB for a friend so I am wondering whether one can server VB site using nginx/php-fpm instead of apache? What are the specefic rewrite rules for that? How common this approach is and whether there are any benefits in doing so? Thanks


Will Google crawl a news/RSS aggregator site?

I know how to code. I know how to set up a news/RSS aggregator site. But I don't know if Google will crawl it. Will Google crawl such a site? The site will have a listing of all the aggregated news with the title, a short snippet of the news, and an image (not all will have an image) of the original news article. When a user clicks the article the user will get redirected to the source. Something like drudgereport. I haven't seen a drudgereport link when I search so I can't tell. (Maybe because it has something to do with my location I don't know.) Anyway any ideas?


Is cloaking of sitemap.xml permitted?

I have a scenario where my sitemaps are generated when visiting `/sitemap.xml` due to the contents being dynamic in nature. For that reason I'd like to not call the services that are used to create my sitemap when a user visits but it should generate contents when Google or Bingbot visits the link. I have code to detect the bots. I'm concerned if this is considered as _bad_ according to Google or Bing.


Is 301 Redirect safe for pages that search engines give a high search ranking?

We will soon be launching a complete overhaul of our entire website. The only major concern is that we have a large archive of content that search engines find very rich, through which we get great search ranking. So we obviously need to maintain the URLs for these content rich pages, and maintain the content on those pages. But my question is if the URL needs to stay the same, or if we can simply 301 permanent redirect to a new more appropriate URL? So if Google has indexed `http://mysite.com/ugly/long/url/1234`, which currently returns a `200 OK` response. If this suddenly returns a `301 Permanent Redirect` to `http://mysite.com/articles/1234` when we launch our overhaul, will that hurt our search ranking? Or do we need to keep returning a `200 OK` for search engine crawlers to be happy. As I understand it, this is exactly the intended use for `HTTP 301`. I just don't know that search engines respect it, and screwing this up could have a gigantic negative impact on us, so i really want to be sure.


Lasting discrepancy between the site command and indexed pages in Google Webmaster

I have recently uploaded a blog on blogger. The pages of my blog are accessible for crawling and indexing and I can see that some crawling has started two weeks ago. I have noticed that the information available on Google Webmaster's Indexed Pages is updated only once a week. I have used the site command to get information faster. Here is my issue:   * For more than a week, the site command returns about 181 results.   * The Indexed Status said 0 URL indexed, 126 ever crawled, 404 not selected, 2559 blocked by robots   * I am receiving diverse small traffic for about 6 pages only   * Today the Index Status information was updated, but it remained the same as last week Why doesn't google mention that at least some of my pages have been indexed? Should I wait longer? Thanks. **P.S.** : Even stranger, when I go in Search Queries > Top Pages, I see 98 pages... How come? What should I believe?


ASP 3.0 Folder/File Permissions Settings (ASP Classic)

I have built a form input page in HTML that has an action to post to an ASP handler/processor .asp file. The form handler/processor .asp file contains only <% Insert VBScript Here %> and no HTML output whatsoever. The .asp file was never intended to be a "web viewable" .asp file like an .asp home page file or html file would. It's supposed to be for my eyes only- not the public's however it does need to take info posted by the public and do something with it on it's end. I have used VBScript/ASP3.0 to build the form handler/processor file and would like to know how to keep someone from viewing the actual VBScript in the handler/processor .asp file. I am aware of obfuscation but I would like to know how to keep prying eyes from even being able to take a look at the obfuscated code in the handler/processor file. I realize that the server executes the .asp file first before outputting anything to the browser so I guess that my main concern is mostly that someone may could "download" the form handler/processor .asp file, then view it's contents on their machine. Assuming the form handler .asp file is where it is, behind the root, and is on a windows server (no htaccess approach) how could one protect it so that it could never be viewed or simply pulled down via anonymous ftp or something like that? Is there something like "script only" permissions that the system administrator could set up for a particular folder? Remember, with shared hosting I can't go above the root. If so, would the form still be able to post? How would any of you guys go about protecting the asp file in addition to obfuscation? Any help would be greatly appreciated.