Automatically post Joomla article to mybb-board

We're currently running a Joomla 2.5.6 installation and just created a mybb- board for our site. However, we want to sync the new articles from the Joomla page with the board, so new articles automatically appear as a new thread in the forum. Is there a plugin for that, or how can we achieve something like that? We searched, but the only useful syncing-plugin seems to be JFusion, but it looks like it syncs users, only.


Flat vs. Hierarchical Tree Structure (vol. 2)

This relevant question deals with whether a site URL structure is better (SEO- wise) to be flat or hierarchical. How much important is it for a site ranking if the overall structure is flat or hierarchical? By overall structure I mean all aspects of a site structure as sitemap, menus, etc. The incentive behind my question is quite particular: in a site with eg. 10 general pages and 100 product pages, should there be a general product page and possibly a category level? And should there be pages for the each root of new level (esp. for menus)?


Are press release distribution services spam services?

I'm not trying to label this website as a spam service, but use it as an example to enquire about: http://www.prweb.com/ And there are many like it. I've been considering using their services as they have been recommended on here, but after talking to some people they have told me 'It is definitely a spam service'. Are these sorts of services spam services? Could Google penalise you for using them? Do they have any legitimate value?


http://www.example.com/http://www.example.com/ in Apache log?

I run a website, let's say `www.example.com`. On it I have a path and file, say `www.example.com/path/file.html`. The Apache log lists GET requests like: `GET /path/file.html HTTP/1.1` Which is correct, corresponding to `www.example.com/path/file.html`; such lines result in a 200 status code and everything's good. But then I have other entries: `GET http://www.example.com/path/file.html HTTP/1.1` _or_ `GET http://www.othersite.net/ HTTP/1.1` Which would correspond to something like `http://www.example.com/http://www.example.com/path/file.html` or `http://www.example.com/http://www.othersite.net/` which does not exist (My server returns a 404 for these.). These requests are always from far away (Italy, Latvia, ...) while actual users of my website are invariably local. What are these? Is there any particular reason for these requests? Have others seen these happen? It's been going on for at least a year and it's continuous (though I'm not being flooded). _They are not transparent attacks such as:_ `GET //mysql-admin/ HTTP/1.1` or `GET /webdav/test HTTP/1.1`


SEO - google keywords issue. Can anyone shed any light on this for me?

I launched my site a few months ago, it have been indexed by google for most of the keywords I had in mind. The only thing is, one of the most important keywords of all is not showing up in webmaster tools as a keyword. This is causing me a real pain, as people will not find my site. My SEO skills are usually effective, which is why this has stumped me. It's for my web design website. The keyword(s) i'm missing are web and website. As my site is about web design, the design on it's own will not help! I have noticed my word count on website and web are quite high, but that's naturally occurring. I didn't fill it with junk, because I don't think that's the best way. Is this some sort of google procedure to block the keyword "website". I am just re-designing my site and re-writing all content in effort to solve this issue. Can anyone give me any advice on this problem? Here is my website


is there a checklist that a small website should

I am not a web developer - this would be my first foray. I can do HTML/CSS/Javascript, but never created a website for a company. If anybody is creating a site for small company (expecting some 10-15 static pages), what kinda things would it need to have? I am thinking of the following:   1. Make the eventual owner buy in his/her name: Domain name, Web Hosting package and Email package. **Q - DO** Web Developers generally ask their clients to buy this stuff and then ask them to share their passwords? OR - Do Web Developers ship the source files to clients so that they can upload it?   2. Create Cross Browser compatible HTML+CSS+javascript pages   3. Add SEO stuff like Meta tags and xml file for crawler   4. Buy professional images from stock website **Q - IS** there is a best-practice for this step?   5. Add Copyright stuff. **Q - ANY** idea about how to do this?   6. Add Faceboook widgets, so people can 'like' my website.   7. Register website somewhere so that its searchable from multiple search-engine/yellopages. **Q - DOES** such a thing exist? Please check my checklist :) and let me know what you think could be missing? Thanks!


Developing hotel website

I know HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and some of PHP/MySQL. I've decided to create simple hotel website, just to exercise my skills, and to see what i can really do. I wrote concrete technical details of my website:   1. User database where users can register and log in to see their booked places.   2. Search that has criteria of A)cost B)facilities C)rating D) distance to the user entered place    3. Gallery of house's pictures   4. Transaction page (electronic payment, PayPal and etc.)   5. Calendar that shows which dates are reserved and which are not.   6. Ability to pass user entered info to google maps and show exact location on the map.   7. Reviewing, adding comments to rented room or house. Questions:   1. Is there template or framework that i can take to develop tasks # 1,#2, and #5?   2. If there's no template, where should i start to code my own search that would fit my criteria?   3. How to pass arguments to google maps to show location of house? (Vague explanation is ok)   4. Can you give guidelines on how to code module of website to achieve task #7?   5. How do people usually do task #5? I mean do they take the piece of code or just write it by themselves? Sorry for my english.I'm not a native speaker. If you think that this explanation is to vague or indefinite, please do not just close this topic. All i want is just some guidance, i've come to the point when i realized that i need to challenge myself, but before i do this, i need to get some advice. Thanks!


Controlling number of results in Google Custom Search

I am using google custom search for my website, every search results in a big list of results. I want only limited number of results to be shown to the customer say first 10 so that he/she is not confused. Please help.


How do I measure my site's bandwidth?

A newbie question, but I have a PHP site running on dedicated Centos server with plesk control panel and wonder how much bandwidth is being consumed. Is there a tool or code that measures bandwidth per month, per day etc?


Should I try and get my users to upgrade from IE6?

I'm wondering if it's appropriate to try and get my user base to upgrade from IE6 to newer browsers? Right now we only have 5% of users coming from IE6 or less, we of course don't want to support IE6 further, but is it bad practice to offer suggestions to those using older browsers?


Page requesting content from another IP

I was running a drupal website on Server 01 with IP1 on the domain name example.com with the configuration centos 6 and apache. As we were having a traffic spike, we wanted a more powerful machine. So we decided to change to ubuntu 13.10 and nginx. Me with my host, built server 2 with IP2 and installed ubuntu 13.10 and nginx. Then we copied the /var/www/html folder of Server 01 to /var/www folder on server 02, created a mysql dump of databases on Server 01, transferred the same to Server 02, and created a same database environment there. Connected drupal to the databases. Tested the work by accessing IP2 on browser. Everything was working fine there except some drupal issues. Decided to proceed with the transfer anyway. My host then switched IPs. Now we are having Server 01 with IP2 and Server 02 with IP1. The end result was satisfactory. However, a strange behavior was noted. When any page on the site is loading (after IP switch), it requests for a resource (a png image) on IP2, which is actually on Server 01 at the moment. As my host shut down server 01, the request bring a not found error. As the default coding procedure, all requests on drupal are made relative to the domain name (or the IP). Multiple clearing of caches did not solve the issue. My question is how did the script even know that such an IP exists? How can I track the part of the script that generates this request? If my question is missing any information, please comment below and I will add it as edits. Any help will be greatly appreciated. **Edit** :The issue resolved on itself. Don't know what solved it, but when I disabled a CDN, completely re written the configuration page and changed the protocol to https, the issue resolved. Even though the exact cause that created it still remains unknown to me, I am glad that it no longer exists.


How does dynamic content replacement affect PPC quality score?

I'm looking to write a script that dynamically replaces elements of my page with content related to the keyword that resulted in a PPC click. For example, visiting the landing page after searching on "purple widgets" would replace the hero image with an image of a purple widget, and the h1 with copy related to purple widgets. How does this affect quality score? Are there any downsides of doing this?


Can Mailchimp APIs be used to send templated transaction email triggered by actions on my website?

I am currently playing around with Mailchimp's APIs, but the documentation to me is not very clear. Here is what I actually want:   1. Have the templates I created on Mailchimp, be visible on my own server.   2. Assign each template I made to a specific action (logged in,subscribed, created order, or new password). This is functionality that I already tested with Mandrill, but the template exists on mandrill's account. If option 1 is not possible, can I still make my own template in my own environment, and send that template out over Mailchimp or Mandrill? Should I use Mailchimps services for this or send the email directly from my own server? Curent used function:                 function tep_mandrill_mail($to_name, $to_email_address, $email_subject, $email_text, $from_email_name, $from_email_address) {              if (SEND_EMAILS != 'true') return false;     $uri = 'https://mandrillapp.com/api/1.0/messages/send-template.json';          $postString = '{     "key": "xxxxxxxxxxx",         "template_name": "sometemplatename",         "template_content": [             {                 "name": "header",                 "content": "*|HEADERSTUFF|*"             },             {                 "name": "main",                 "content": "*|CONTENTSTUFF|*"             },             {                 "name": "footer",                 "content": "*|FOOTERSTUFF|*"             }         ],         "message": {             "subject": "'.$email_subject.'",             "from_email": "'.$from_email_adress.'",             "from_name": "'.$from_email_name.'",             "to": [                 {                     "email": "'.$to_email_address.'",                     "name": "'.$to_name.'"                 }             ],             "important": false,             "track_opens": true,             "merge": true,            "merge_vars": [                 {                     "rcpt": "'.$to_email_address.'",                     "vars": [                         {                             "name": "HEADERSTUFF",                             "content": "'.$email_subject.'"                          },                          {                             "name": "CONTENTSTUFF",                             "content": "'.$email_text.'"                         },                          {                             "name": "FOOTERSTUFF",                             "content": "paulvale-foot"                         }                        ]                 }             ],                   "tags": [                 "password_forgotten"             ]         },         "async": false,         "ip_pool": "Main Pool"     }';          $ch = curl_init();     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $uri);     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true );     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postString);     curl_exec($ch);       }


Performance hit of a lot of unused font-faces

If you have an html file, and in that html file you link to styles.css which covers all the styling of the page. Then inside of styles.css you have something like @import url('../css/fonts.css'). Fonts.css is just a couple dozen font-face declarations. Basically covering all of your bases. If styles.css only uses one or two of those fonts, will there be a performance hit when the browser tries to download all of the unused fonts in fonts.css, or will it only download the ones it needs as it comes up? Similarly, what happens if fonts.css was linked inside of the HTML file?


How to preview and INTERACT in many browsers

What are some services or technologies (free or paid) for   1. Getting a static preview (like a screenshot) of my HTML pages (either local or remote) in many common browser/OS combinations like Firefox3/Mac, IE7/Windows, Safari4/Windows, etc?   2. Actually interacting with a site on the internet through a something like VNC to a virtual machine running many browser/OS combinations? for the purpose of verifying that it works right


Making some simple pages look good?

I've gotten myself to a point where I can make my webpages work from the server side ... but, from the client side, they all look terrible. I don't really have the hang of colors and themes and such (I know HTML and CSS, but cannot apply them), are there any good tutorials that cover this sort of stuff?


Apache returns 304, I want it to ignore anything from client and send the page

I am using Apache HTTPD 2.2 on Windows. mod_expires is commented out. Most other stuff are not changed from the defaults. gzip is on. I made some changes to my `.js` files. My client gets one 304 response for one of the `.js` files and never gets the rest. How can I force Apache to sort of flush everything and send all new files to the client? The main html file includes these scripts in the head section of the main page:                   <script src="js/jquery-1.7.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>         <script src="js/jquery-ui-1.8.17.custom.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>              <script src="js/trex.utils.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>          <script src="js/trex.core.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>          <script src="js/trex.codes.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>          <script src="js/trex.emv.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>          <script src="js/trex.b24xtokens.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>         <script src="js/trex.iso.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>         <script src="js/trex.span2.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>         <script src="js/trex.amex.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>         <script src="js/trex.abi.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>         <script src="js/trex.barclays.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>         <script src="js/trex.bnet.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>         <script src="js/trex.visa.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>         <script src="js/trex.atm.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>          <script src="js/trex.apacs.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>          <script src="js/trex.pstm.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>          <script src="js/trex.stm.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>          <script src="js/trex.thales.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>          <script src="js/trex.fps-saf.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>          <script src="js/trex.fps-iso.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>          <script src="js/trex.app.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>       Apache access log has the following:               [07/Jul/2013:16:50:40 +0300] "GET /trex/index.html HTTP/1.1" 200 2033 "-"      [07/Jul/2013:16:50:40 +0300] "GET /trex/js/trex.fps-iso.js HTTP/1.1" 304      [08/Jul/2013:07:54:35 +0300] "GET /trex/index.html HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-"      [08/Jul/2013:07:54:35 +0300] "GET /trex/js/trex.iso.js HTTP/1.1" 200 12417      [08/Jul/2013:07:54:35 +0300] "GET /trex/js/trex.amex.js HTTP/1.1" 200 6683      [08/Jul/2013:07:54:35 +0300] "GET /trex/js/trex.fps-saf.js HTTP/1.1" 200 2925     [08/Jul/2013:07:54:35 +0300] "GET /trex/js/trex.fps-iso.js HTTP/1.1" 304       Chrome request headers are as below: This file is ok, latest:               Request URL:http://localhost/trex/js/trex.iso.js     Request Method:GET     Status Code:200 OK (from cache)      THis file is ok, latest:               Request URL:http://localhost/trex/js/trex.amex.js     Request Method:GET     Status Code:200 OK (from cache)      This one is also ok:               Request URL:http://localhost/trex/js/trex.fps-iso.js     Request Method:GET     Status Code:200 OK (from cache)      The rest of the scrips all have 200 OK (from cache).


Measure server performance

I'm using a shared hosting for my website. How to find out if the performance of the server changes? I'm asking because my hosting company told me that some other site on the server is slowing down my site because they overloading the server. Thanks. **Edit:**   Google Site Speed says Avg. Page Load Time (sec): 15.53 - Is that normal or too high?


Server Processes: Websites with and without database

I am on shared server and I have some limitations at "simultaneous processes". I have two websites: one which uses database and other without database (it's only HTML). Both are hosted on the same shared. When I reach the "simultaneous processes" the website which uses database shows "Server message: too many connections" and the second website works well and loads fast. What is the difference between sites? Both sites has ~ the same number of visitors. This happens because of database? So it's recommended to not use a database? If I'm not on the right place, or there is a problem with my question, please tell me, I can delete it. _EDIT_ Both websites has ~ 100.000 hits/day It's a html page more faster than a dynamic page with MySQL connection? If I am using only HTML page do you think I won't have problems with simultaneous connections? Thanks a lot!!!


Tips for managing internal and external links using WordPress

So I'm looking for ways to optimize my site for user and search engine purposes. I've read several articles and looked at several different plugins. To say the least, I'm thoroughly confused as what are the best practices for managing internal and external links. Here is a list of some of my questions:   * Which internal links should be set to "nofollow"?   * Which external links should be set to "nofollow"?   * To what degree does actively managing links contribute to your PR?   * Should you use "nofollow" blindly on all links in comments?   * If a link to an external site is broken (404 or whatever), should you "nofollow" that link? What about "noindex"? As you can see, lots of questions. I'm hoping that you experienced webmasters can give a newb some best-practice advice.


Are logos really free to use?

On my website, I want to use several logos as icons next to files whose mimetypes are associated with those logos. Most of the logos are Apple and Microsoft. Can anyone provide a source for the claim that logos can be freely used in certain contexts? For Microsoft, I found that logos cannot be modified in certain ways, but it fails to say whether logos can be used as-is.


Does the meta description affect page ranking on Google?

According to the following site http://dailyseotip.com/meta-description-tags-and-ctr-the-new-way-that-meta- tags-affect-rankings/1448/ > We’ve known for years that Google **doesn’t consider meta descriptions as a > factor in ranking websites**. In fact, Google just recently stated in a blog > post that “we still don’t use the description meta tag in our ranking.” > Can’t be much plainer. > > But there is more to the story! > > Google may not use meta descriptions in their rankings, but your meta > description can actually influence your rankings. In fact, I expect meta > descriptions to play an increasingly larger role in rankings in the coming > months and years. I have been searching though and not been able to find the original blog post. **Can anyone clarify if this is true?**


Thumbnail preview rotator on mouse-over - what is it called?

I've been searching for hours now but can't get any tutorial on this. I have these thumbnails on my homepage which are the first images of their corresponding posts. What I want is that when I mouse-over a post on the homepage... the corresponding thumbnail should also show/rotate the other images of that particular post... bit like a sneak-peak image rotator... Does anyone know where I can get a tutorial regarding this? How's this called? It seems like I'm searching for the wrong keywords on google as I can't find anything.


How to Add Two Domains ON 1 IP using webmin

I am a new user of webmin and I have two domains `site1.com` and `site2.net`. I have one dedicated IP for the server and I have set site1.com to use following name servers `ns1.site1.com` and `ns2.site1.com` with bind. Now when I add site2.net on the same IP using the same method both sites open with the same content. How can I host both web sites on the same IP?


Domain name made of keywords redirecting to main website's page

Let's say I have a website called books.com where I sell books. I've read on Redirecting different domains to your main site that it's not a bad idea to register another domain that does a 301 redirect to my website, like booksforsale.com. Now, say I want to only target a specific category withing my website, like books.com/sci-fi/ so I register sci-fi-books.com and do a 301 redirect. Would this improve my search rankings? Thanks.


Prevent spam using Honey Pots

I am really curious about how to prevent comment spam in a forum using a honey pot trap for spam bots.   * What if CSS and javascript is turned off in a browser?   * Do you see any other disadvantages in the honey pot trap?   * What do you think every honey pot trap should have?   * Do you know any other anti-spam alternative, that does not disturb the users experience.


What is the best strategy for tracking USER ID on a website without login system?

Considering a brand new feature of USER ID in Google Universal Analytics I’m wondering what is the best model to track the full customer journey for a company which sells software products and has no login system? From which touch point (before or after software download/install) do you recommend to assign a USER ID to a user by means of Google Universal Analytics? Thanks in advance for any tips!


Does resetting your modem frequently make using Google Analytics's "Ignore IP" feature pointless

Back in the Megavideo days, I'd reset my modem quite a bit to get around the viewing time restriction. As I understand it, the IP address changes each time (unless you have it set to a static IP). That said, I'd like to exclude myself by IP from being tracked on my site through Google Analytics. Is there a way to do this given that the IP address is dynamic? Is it dynamic within a certain range? Also, I know you can exclude yourself through cookies, but I'd like to leave that as a last resort.


I cant get my domain to point to my server

I have bought a domain on Crazy Domains called techitproductions.com And at home i have a Linux Ubuntu Server running Apache, php5, ispconfig, courier mail etc... I have port forwarded port 80, 8888 (for ispconfig), 22 (for Putty). My question is what ports do i need to portforward for a fully working server, with both SSL, SSH and mail working? My second question is how do i get my domain pointing to my server? My external ip is static. Please i need a step by step instruction's i am new to Linux servers and the whole website hosting etc... Thanks, Marais


How to create custom flash advertisment in Google?

Can we create custom flash advertisement for Google ad-sense? like yahoo does? I tried on my adwords account but there is no way except followings, 1) Upload custom image advertisement. 2) Update the Google flash templates.


domain.com to www.domain.com .htaccess redirect working except one subdir

I've setup a redirect in .htaccess to consolidate domain.com to www.domain.com traffic on our Apache server. Looks like this:               Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^centerline\.net$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.centerline.net/$1 [R=301,L]      Works as expected, except for the blog. If I go to `http://www.centerline.net/blog`, I get the blog fine. If I go to `http://centerline.net/blog`, it redirects to the home page (which is the 404 default action). I tried commenting out the two lines to consolidate centerline.net to www.centerline.net, and I still can't get to the blog via centerline.net/blog. There's nothing else in the .htaccess related to the blog URL. For the blog, there are several lines that Wordpress inserted into the .htaccess, but commenting those out makes no difference. Just in case, that code is:               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>     # END WordPress      Any ideas where else to look? Or something I'm missing?


How does Google classify which country a website belongs to?

How does Google determine which country a website belongs to? Is this technique also used by Alexa.com? I don't think that the website's location is determined by its host's IP address or by its WHOIS information. I think the site's location is determined by by traffic statistics (the country with the most visitors to the site determines the site's location).


How many days could google updates my pages titles and contents order

After Google's penguin 2.0 - _I call it dracula_ - my website has lost about 30% or more of its traffic. The following screen shot from my Google's webmaster tools account should demonstrate the disaster: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Gt3A7.png) I decided to change the title tag of some of its pages - they are 6236 pages exactly - and rearrange the order of those pages contents. I have done this from more 4 days ago and I does not able to see the new title tag in Google's search results. From this question's answer on this community they said on Google it may take couple of days! **I need to know if there is something else I have to consider? or what's the issue that makes Google delay updating my website's regarded pages modification?**


Remove URL's - Site Removal instead of Web Page removal

Can somebody please advise why `www.website.com/?p=1` comes up with Site Removal rather than Webpage Removal when I submit the URL in Webmaster Tools? It is the Hello World! post that came installed with WordPress and the site description is the old 'we are currently working on our site..."


Why is Gmail showing the word 'Unsubscribe' in email subject lines?

I have recently noticed that when I send out e-mail campaigns that Gmail is now including 'Unsubscribe' in the subject along with my actual subject. Is this now a common practice among e-mail providers or is it just Gmail? _**UPDATE_** Nick was 100% correct and I have made a few changes I decided to post: I did not want to change my layout any and keep it the same yet Google pulls the first text it sees which was ALT text for an image. To correct this I inserted a 1x1 Transparent Picture with the ALT text that said what I want the Gmail Preview to say. Works like a charm. Here is the code for it:

      I put the color there to ensure the text blends in to the background because I do not want it visible in the e-mail for users who have images disabled.


Facebook Games on My Web Page

Is there a way to set any facebook game or application to my web page. Think like youtube videos. There is a link a simply we can set it to our blog or web page.


Where can I find resources for best coding practices in web development?

You'd figure that this would be an easy topic to google, but unfortunately I've been looking for a couple weeks and have yet to find really anything that I'm looking for. The problems I'm running into, is that the site either **A)** Is about image placement, article placement, eye flow, etc. (general UX) or **B)** Introduction into HTML/CSS/etc. Neiher A nor B really concerns me. What I'm looking for is the actual low- level coding structure/layout of pages and how they should be properly laid out. I can make a web page look virtually any way I want it to without a problem and I already have a good understanding of UX, I just want to know how to do it based on industry standards on the actual coding/scripting structure. Yes, I am a beginner and I know that standards like these have been set for many years now. I have not been in the industry for many years and was unable to fit any Web Development classes into my Comp. Sci. coursework in college.


Which is more correct:
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I read the same question on SO, but it was only addressing HTML complaint point of view. Moreover with HTML5 it does not make so much difference. I assume (without anything to back up my assumption), that the first approach is might be better from SEO point of view. So is there any difference?


What is the best way to make to invalidate or recreate an entire Amazon CloudFront distribution?

After asking this question, I have decided to recreate some CloudFront distributions, as so many files need to be invalidated. But instead of creating a new distribution, is it possible to just delete the origin and making an identical one? Would that work?


Need to host a website with an integrated payment gateway?

Please advise me how to host a website which includes a payment gateway in India. I would like to host an e-commerce web application for my own business. It would need to be used by all type of people.


Setting folder to be writable by apache/php in windows?

I have a local test server, and I am attempting to write a file with PHP. I am getting a message that the folder (`../uploads/`) does not exist or I do not have permission. My directory structure is               D:\xampp\htdocs\website\ //<--root     D:\xampp\htdocs\website\library //<--where script runs     D:\xampp\htdocs\website\uploads //<--where I'd like to save      I know on a *nix server, I can just chmod the permission to 0777. What do I need to set on my windows box to give apache the ability to write a file?


ie8 weirdness: Link jumps to top of the page on mouse over: What's going on?

So the fourth link in the right column (Board of Trustees Meeting Link) of the website I'm working is exhibiting some REALLY weird behavior. But only in IE8. When you mouse over it the page scrolls to the top of the page, or sometimes goes blank entirely for a few seconds. Any idea what's going on here? I've tried turning compatibility mode on and off, using strict/transitional 4.01 html doctype, and html 5 doctype declartions. The link is no different from other links on the page (programmatically). I've examined the code six ways to sunday and I can't figure out what's causing this. Any help would be appreciated. EDIT: Solved due to other changes in the page. Still don't know what was actually causing this problem, but it's no longer being exhibited by the webpage. /:


Disqus 2012 comments NOT being indexed by Google

We run a high-traffic website at http://www.onedirection.net and we've been using Disqus throughout this year, initially to great effect. We accepted the upgrade to Disqus 2012 back in June, loving the increased user experience and the better community feel - albeit back to an Iframe again. However the fact we were specifically told that the comments are now being indexed by Google was great, and the dynamic nature of the iFrame suited our site (all our pages are cached, so by using Disqus the comments are updated straight away). However, it seems that the Disqus 2012 comments are not being indexed, and we've noticed an obvious fall in traffic over the last few months. Initially we didn't put this down to Disqus and focused on other issues (Google algorithm updates etc). But we're quickly coming down the reasoning that our pages now contain less indexable text, and we are getting less traffic because of this. We've tried emailing Disqus directly but they're very slow and don't seem keen to help. Any thoughts on this?


SEO optimization multiple region site, domains and multilingual site

I am taking SEO of our website to another level. I read a lot about it and study all aspects of how to properly handle multiple domains and languages. For now we use three domain names `www.myurl.eu`, `www.myurl.de` and `www.myotherurl.com`. All sites were pointed to the same content on the same server. I have soon learned that having multiple domains is not a good practice (good reading regarding this: http://www.seo.com/blog/multiple-domains-seo/). OK I solved this as suggested by SEO and Google experts, to pick one primary domain and do a `301 permanent redirect` from other domains! OK solved! BUT! Then I attended on an technical SEO brief in UK, where a SEO guy was speaking about local search and how UK Google search will prefer `.co.uk domains`. And as it turns out he was correct. Also the link I have posted above there is also a paragraph regarding this: > Country Specific Domains > > This is less of a tactic, and more of a “must do,” and is therefore my > exception to multiple domains. It’s an exception because all of the problems > above do not apply when you get into other countries. In fact, in order to > have the best results in international SEO, you’ll need to have a country > specific TLD (or top level domain). For example, if you’re doing business in > England, you will have a hard time ranking without a .co.uk domain. You can > still rank without a country level TLD, but it’s an uphill battle. And by > uphill, I mean Rocky Mountains-type uphill. Q1: So OK, to rank high for my business in UK I will need a `www.myurl.co.uk`. I have bought one. Now question that arises from this. Is a `www.myurl.co.uk` again a 301 redirect to my primary domain or not? How should I handle this? Q2: Then there is a multilingual aspect of all this. My site is build in a way so Language sites are altered with an /lang/ code in url. Example:   * `www.myurl.eu/en/products` -> english products site   * `www.myurl.eu/de/products` -> same site in german   * `www.myotherurl.com/en/products` -> 301 redirect to `www.myurl.eu/en/products` So now what to do with my country specific domains `www.myurl.co.uk` and `www.myurl.de`? Should these be 301 redirects to main domains like `www.myurl.co.uk` -> `www.myurl.eu/en/` and `www.myurl.de` -> `www.myurl.eu/de/`? Is this the right way to go with? Q3: should I really go this way having separate country level domains in countries where I do business considering all my content is served from the same server? I also haven't seen let's say Apple or Microsoft having an `apple.co.uk` and so on? How important is this really?


Are there any other ways to notify users besides sending them an email?

I have a forum that sends users an email whenever someone replies to a topic that they posted. However, given how some of my users don't check email that often, and I was wondering if there was another way of notifying them.


Google Analytics and Webmasters Tools for multilingual website

This is the first time I am doing a multilingual website and I have a few issues: I have 3 languages, each in its separated folder: `en/`, `it/`, `ru/`. In the `<head>` section of each one I have `<link rel="alternate" hreflang="x" href="http://website.com/x/" />`. What I don't yet understand is how do I index the website with Google Analytics and Webmasters Tools? I don't need the ability to see the statistics for each language separated, just the whole website at once. So, given the fact that `http://example.com` automatically redirects to `http://example.com/en/` (default folder/language), do I include the **same** tracking code on each page for all 3 languages? If so, when I register the website to Google Analytics, what URL should I specify is the website? I think `http://example.com` won't work because it automatically redirects to the `en/` subfolder. And for Webmaster Tools, do I register the root website and then separate it with geolocation, or do I register an account for each of the three languages? Also, every page has the same name in all three languages. For example: `http://example.com/en/about-us` in Italian will be `http://example.com/it/about-us`, if this matters somehow.


Webshop in Europe with high revenues.. what to use?

I need to build a webshop for a customer with an weekly revenues more than 40.000 euros Location: Europe I was thinking to use Paypal Standard Payment (in this case the customer needs to contact paypal given the above mentioned revenues, right ? Any other solution for an **european** web shops ? (i.e. Paypal Payments Pro doesn't work in Europe) Also, is there any pre-built service.. to make such webshop ? thanks


Single Full Name field in registration form user submits only first what to enter in my backend as last?

On a registration form I have a single input called Full Name. The strings are parsed with http://code.google.com/p/php-name-parser/ so if a person enters their full name middle or any quantity of strings it's handled just fine and the app creates the user in a billing system with it's API. The form validates and checks for two strings in the field otherwise it won't post. I'd like to remove this validation but a last name is required by the API. You cannot post an empty last name to the API. Users are signing up for a trial so I don't want them having to deal with many form fields. The only place the last name shows up visible to the user is in their account settings page. If they end their trial and start a paid plan they'd have to enter their billing details which asks with two fields for their First, Last, and other billing information. What is an alternative to submitting "Doe", "Default", "Empty" in place of them not filling in their last name?


Serve different content for web crawlers to fix SEO for SPA?

I have my site built as an SPA using Knockout. The main-page populates a list of items dynamically as the user scrolls and each item has a details-page which is also dynamically loaded. I have implemented so that each details-page do have an explicit url which is handled with the same main-page if navigated to directly. Only now I realized all the problems with dynamically generated sites and SEO. Since all items are generated client-side, the web crawler sees basically nothing. I did an attempt with rendering links server-side to all details- pages but since they are then also generated dynamically with Knockout, a web crawler still sees nothing. Question: Can I serve a simpler server-rendered page specifically made for web crawlers? This simple page could contain all items but without any dynamic loading, with real links to detail-pages also serving server-rendered content. Different, more basic layout and no javascript or Knockout. Would that be accepted by Google, Yahoo etc or could it be viewed as an attempt to misguide normal users? Is this a commonly used method? Has it any "standardized" method of implementation, for instance a subdomain I could use like seo.mysite.com?


Ajax results page for outbound links - Should I make it SEO?

I run a movie review site. I have two main directories: **/movies** - AJAX only > >     This page links to movie reviews, where 99% are to original content >     on external sites and 1% is to my own reviews in the /review directory >   **/reviews** - PHP > Here I list links to my own original content, found on > /reviews/{movie_id}.php Currently I have my /movies directory AJAX driven for the searching. Building it this way has made it inaccessible for the search engines unfortunately. However, they can see my own original content in the /reviews directory. ## QUESTION Should I redesigning my movies page not to use AJAX so that search engines can access and index it, when all it does is link to third party sites? Are outbound links important?


Do web crawlers/spiders index azure web sites?

For somebody who wants their web site to be as discoverable as possible (and who doesn't?), are Microsoft's Azure web sites (azurewebsites.net) a feasible domain to host sites? I have a site that is both on an azurewebsites.net _and_ hosted under a completely different name by discountasp.net Both of these sites are exactly the same, except for the URL; whenever I update the code, I republish the site to/in both places. So obviosuly, they both have the same H1 and H2 elements. Searching for the value/content in my H1 tag, I find my .com site listed #3 on google and #2 on both Bing and Yahoo; OTOH, my azurewebsites.net site doesn't show up on the first page at all, in any of them. This makes me wonder if azurewebsites.net should only be used for Web API hosting and such-like, not for generic/commercial "public" sites. Are my conclusions valid?


How to arrange items in a tile like format in a web page?

I've created a simple video & photo sharing website. I want to arrange the preview (thumbnail view) of photos and videos in a tile-like format (like windows 8 start screen) in the home page. I'm confused as to which tag I should use: table or div. I think it's quite easy to do it using tables, but I don't want to use it because it's solely used for tabular data. I also think that it could cause problems down the road (perhaps getting messy during maintenance.) The other option is to use a div tag, but I don't know how I would go about doing this with a div tag. Which one should I go for? A table or a div? If I should use a div, how would I implement this?


Avoid page publishing for component updates in SDL Tridion Experience Manager

I need help confirming the following SDL Tridion workflow/Experience Manager scenario. # Business requirement   * Editors control pages in a given structure group (SG)   * "Image Authors" only update images for components already on the page, preferrably in Experience Manager (XPM)   * Workflow on pages in the SG. No workflow on components.   * Image Authors shouldn't be able to publish "non-approved" (ready for publish) page changes. # Functional requirement I think I have three functional requirements:   1. Editors should not put non-approved components on the pages. If editing components, editors or authors should leave items checked out until ready.   2. Image authors won't make page changes (move/add/delete component presentations).   3. Component should publish as dynamic component presentations, even if embedded on the page. ## Question We can restrict an image author's ability to edit the page through rights and permissions. And it looks like Image Authors could still manage to publish a page outside workflow (although if it's checked out, we avoid publishing updates in-progress, right?). Could my _Image Authors_ still manage to **publish** unapproved page changes? Edit: oops, missed "publish."


Will Checking Existence Of Email Be Throttled By Email Servers?

As part of a web application I am building, I must check if a particular email address exists. This check may be performed at around 1000 times an hour at a given server. Is there any mail server security policy that would prevent this? Edit: I do not mean any particular server. Would there be any reason for throttling to be enabled anywhere.


Should sitemaps list their dynamic data, newest first or oldest first?

When we create an xml sitemap for a site with dynamic data, should we prepend all new data to the start of the sitemap OR append it to the end? Do search engines hate it when a sitemap is 100% different each time OR when they see that it's mainly the same, but just a bit different at the end. ### Example Lets imagine we're creating an XML sitemap for StackOverflow -> a site with dynamic data. Lets also assume that, ever day we have 1000 new 'items' to get added to the sitemap and we start out with 200,000 items. I'm also generating the sitemap every hour or every day... don't really care just yet. Now, with all these items to be sitemap'd, first I'll need to have a sitemap index that points to each page of items to get indexed. Kewl. If I add the new items to the START of the list of items to get indexed, then each 'page' in the index will be different, compared to the previous time the search engine grabbed the sitemap index. eg.   * **Day 1** : Page1 will have 100 items, with the most recent item having a timestamp of 1pm, day1.   * **Day 2** : page1 will now have a complete new set of 100 items, with the timestamp of the newest item in this page being 1pm day2. This also means every other page, in the index is different to the previous. So does this mean the search engine would need to go through EACH PAGE again to see what resources it needs to index? But at least all the new content is first, so the assumption here is that the search engine will be indexing the newest stuff, first. As opposed to .. appending any new data to the end of a sitemap ..   * **Day 1** : Page1 has 100 items. most recent is timestampe 1pm, day1   * **Day 2** : Page1 is still identical to page1, the day before. Now, page 22 has the most recent stuff, which didn't exist the day before. Here i'm assuming the search engine will see all of this stuff and say 'ahh! most of these pages haven't changed since i was last here .. so i'll ignore them .. but lets see AH! there's a few new pages that DO have some new data.. so lets check them out instead'. Anyone have any experience with this?


Website Access...DNS, ISP, issue?

This isn't so much a code issue as it might be an issue with my ISP. For some reason when I visit a site very often, like one I manage or write stories on, it will just stop pulling data down after a while. It's very random when it happens, but probably happens once a week. If effects everyone who is accessing the site from this connection, and I can access other sites no problem. Also, if I go outside the office back home, which is right down the street, and access the site it is fine. I'm using Comcast in both locations. It's almost as if I have a limit on requests to each site and have hit my limit so it blocks the site for a while. Anybody have any clue what this might be?


For progressing signed_request, should we pay for using SSL?

I would like to ask you a few questions about signed request. As you notice, we must take SSL certificate on 1st Oct. When I researched, we cannot get it as free. I am wondering how you decied that the number of business facebook users must take SSL certificate by payment. Isn't there any other option for taking SSL free such as you provided? Or aren't you going to give the option on Facebook for processing? I can see there aren't many people realise this matter how big issue is. I tried to call you and ask some question on developer's blog, yet I haven't got any answer. I hope that I will get the answer for it this time.


When creating HTML for _escaped_fragment_ AJAX pages, how correct does it have to be?

I have a javascript heavy site (It really couldn't be coded in any sensible way with progressive enhancement) and I am using Google's advice for making AJAX websites crawlable. (i.e. use "`?_escaped_fragment_` in place of '`#!`') My question is this: How closely does my flat HTML need to match the AJAX created HTML for users? I imagine Google must be checking some of the AJAX content, as otherwise this would be an easy way to do cloaking. I don't want to cloak in any way, but it is difficult to produce the exact HTML source that AJAX generates on the server-side? Would a rough approximation be good enough? Anyone have any experience in doing this?


Analytics referrer forum thread

When I'm in analytics I sometimes get a referral from a forum, something like:               http://forums.example.com      Then when I click on it, it gives me a page like:               /viewTopic.php      Is there any way to get it to return the topic ID so I can click on it and see which topic it is? At the moment I have to register, and run a search. Can be very slow.


Best Platform to build Business Directory Website ,which is SEO friendly?

We have plan to setup a business directory website. and our team thinking of suitable platform Php or ASP i want to know which is most commonly used in Commercial Business Directory Websites. How does Business Directory Websites get their pages indexed so fast , does we consider creating website just like Blog / forums which index's faster than static Website . How business Directory Website works ....??


Can I get user history with Analytics API?

Can I do so? that I will send user id from cookies to Google Analytics API and I will get all my site pages which was visited by user? I do not found any example of this.


GA goal match URL regular expression

I'm trying to setup a Goal URL with REGEX matching but it's not working. The Url I'm trying to match is:               user/12345/edit?registration=1      with "12345" being the userid that changes.               user/[0-9]*/edit?registration=1      Should work, but doesn't. When I do an advanced search for pages with RegEx match (in the new GA interface) it shows no results. If I search for "contains" /edit?registration=1 it shows all the Urls. What am I missing?


Duplicate Content Ranking Better?

On my news website, I scour various sources and write original news articles. However, one of my competitors is merely copying news articles from popular news websites directly with a few or no modifications whatsoever. Even though, it ranks better than us and he has very good traffic. Al they do is cite the original source but the entire article is same as the original. Does Google not consider duplicate content for news?


How do you handle bad scripts or plugins

As web developers obviously we don't want to reinvent the wheel with everything we do so best practice would dictate when necessary we should use third party scripts and plugins. Recently I have found a slew of 'bad' plugins for Wordpress, which fall into two categories;   1. The plugin works fine, but isn't written using current standards.   2. The plugin appears to work but is just written wrong. Both plugins do what they say they will do, but in the first category you can't minify the javascript behind them because the javascript hasn't been written to conform to say jslint or any other code validation and in the second category the plugin uses potentially insecure code or incredibly inefficient code so under normal use it seems fine but under pressure seams become undone and the server gets hit with unnecessary loads. The thing I can (and will) do is rate the plugin and provide feedback, but lets say 10000 people have downloaded the plugin and never need to minify it, or need to put it under pressure, my one negative review will be a drop in the ocean. It feels like more should be done. What else should I do as a developer and we do as an industry to ensure sloppy third party plugins get brought up to speed?


Linux Mint 15 + Rails with Apache/Passenger

I am only beginner and try to understand how to configure apach web-server for my RubyOnRails app. I have linux, installed apache2, passenger and apache2-module for passenger. While installing i got text like this               LoadModule passenger_module /home/rubys/.rvm/.../ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so     PassengerRoot /home/rubys/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/passenger-3.0.8     PassengerRuby /home/rubys/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.2-p290/ruby      I need add this to my apache config file, so, i use               $ apachectl -V | grep HTTPD_ROOT     $ apachectl -V | grep SERVER_CONFIG_FILE      file, which i need is here               /etc/apache2/apache2.conf      my rails app is here               /home/alexkd/WebDev/rails/depot      Also i have file in /etc/apache2/ **ports.conf** with text like this               NameVirtualHost *:80     Listen80      What I have to copy to my **apache2.conf**? and where i have to add this:               <VirtualHost *:80>        ServerName depot.yourhost.com        DocumentRoot /home/alexkd/WebDev/rails/depot        <Directory /home/alexkd/WebDev/rails/depot>          AllowOverride all          Options -MultiViews        </Directory>     </VirtualHost>


Will "jailing" a single page inside an iframe using a JavaScript redirect be considered as cloaking?

**Background**   I have a website that uses iframes to display content. If the URL to a content is called directly by the user it should be "jailed" into the _main page_.   The _main page_ provides a header and a footer as well as the navigation menu. There is one iframe named _contentframe_. All links in the navigation (and footer and stuff) target this frame. **My Solution for "jailing"**   First I find out whether the page is already jailed via javascript (that's simply done with something like `var jailed = (window.self != window.top);` where jailed will be true if the page is "jailed" already.   Next I redirect (using javascript) to the _main page_ with a parameter called _referrer_ passing it the URL of the page which should get "jailed". This PHP script reads this parameter and sets it as the _src_ argument of the iframe.   This way the _main page_ is loaded within the iframe. This way I can directly link to a content and after only one reload everything will be displayed just fine. But I have questions regarding some issues. **My Questions**   1. Are there seo problems?   I think, that google can index the contents of my site (links provided at least by the sitemap.xml and of course through the navigation links). **But** what about this javascript redirect? It's not cloaking, but is it problematic? Will Google punish me for that somehow?   I found out, that it's hard to find some info material for this topic.   2. What about best practices?   I know how to do what I want to do technically, but how about best practices? I couldn't find anything so far, but maybe some of you had to deal with that. Or is my solution perfectly fine? **Note1**   I know iframes are not a very elegant way for displaying the content (from the same domain), but I'm stuck with it and I must deal with it, so please no "do not use iframes comments" :-) **Note2**   Please, no opinions. I'm quite sure there are some facts on how to do this the best way. **Note3**   The following link describes that the intent is very important. In a way I'm showing different content to GoogleBot than to my user, technically. But the content really stays the same only it is decorated a bit. But what does GoogleBot say? Cloaking and/or Sneaky Redirects


Facebook Comments Lost

I am using Facebook comments on couple of my blogs at the moment and I just found that somehow magically all the previous comments made on posts are gone and are no longer being displayed. I'm using wordpress for all of these blogs and Facebook Comments for WordPress to manage all the facebook comments. But somehow they all disappeared all of a sudden. Another problem which I've been facing lately is that I can't seem to moderate the faceboook comments. When I go to http://developers.facebook.com/tools/comments where there should be a list of all the comments made on my sites (against the Applications that I've created just for the sake of comments), there is nothing there. This has been the thing from the starting, **before the comments vanished on my site, today** So technically, there are two issues to solve here.


Does registering a second domain name with the dashes help SEO?

If I have a site registered and running on ThisIssomething.com for example, does registering This-Is-Something.com and redirecting it actually help SEO? Or is it mainly to protect your brand?


Does Google Analytics track users with multiple languages?

I'm assuming that when Google Analytics tracks a visitor's language it uses the Accept-language header from the request (most browser/OS combinations seem to populate it automatically). My browser sends:               Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8,en-GB;q=0.6,fr-CA;q=0.4,fr;q=0.2      And yet I can't figure out how to get stats on what percentage of my visitors _can_ speak a certain language even if it isn't their primary one (in my case I normally use English but I can use French). Does any analytics program do this, or am I going to have to capture it in my logs and track it manually?


Google Analytics: How can I exclude a country from reports?

Hi is it possible to exclude traffic from a certain country in google analytics? If yes, how do I do it?


How to use google adsense and google analytics for my site

Hi i've got a site serving content to Brazil http://montao.com.br via google app engine getting comfortable with updating it with new function now also adding google adsense and analytics to the site. Now I want to know if you can follow the link to maybe give me some good advice how to use adsense and analytics since adding these tools is adding script that could slow down the pages' load times. Thank you


Webpage loading with wrong content-type after setting up CloudFlare

I recently migrated my blog to the Ghost service, I've also setup an alias DNS record with CloudFlare. While showing the blog to a colleague I discovered one of the posts wasn't loading properly and would instead prompt to be downloaded with an `application/octet-stream` content-type. I can view all the pages without any issues and I believe we're both on the same network as well. Has anyone received a wrong content type like `application/octet-stream` using CloudFlare, or know what I can do to correct this?


reliable place to buy .io domains

I'm looking around trying to find a good place to buy **.io** domains. Suddenly, I think I'm surrounded by scammers, since .io domain providers websites, are really badly-designed and I am not feeling of confident about dealing with them. I'm trying to deal with nic.io guys right now. If somebody could point me out some company, it would be appreciated. Specially because the domain costs £60. It's not that cheap to spend with someone that could just leave you waiting for some answer after the payment.


Plesk Migration MediaTemple dv 3.5 to 4.0

With things slower during the holidays, I'm taking the time to upgrade out web server account with Media Temple from a dv 3.5 to dv 4.0. I'm a little out of my element doing this, but have been following this document to get it done: http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/241/Using+the+Plesk+Migration+Manager#dv_40 Just used the Plesk migration overnight, and it successfully migrated with a few errors. Unfortunately, I don't know what do do now. I've looked at the errors, and don't see anything alarming. I'm not seeing any of our domains, etc after the migration in our sever. In the migration manager, I always end up with two migration tasks, with the second never actually starting. Looks like this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/yqYbz.jpg) The only difference in the two tasks are the source hostname Any help, tips, etc. would be appreciated. Just discovered a string of emails that had been held by our spam service: "Generating new Apache configuration on host failed because the following error(s) occurred: Syntax error on line 4 of /var/www/vhosts/domain.net/conf/vhost.conf: Wrapper /var/www/vhosts/domain.net/bin/php-cgi cannot be accessed: (2)No such file or directory Please fix error(s) in templates of Apache configuration and retry generating the configuration file." How do I enaable php-cgi on the new server?


How Can I create Webfont?

How can I create webfont? any software or online service which can create webfont from my custom TrueType font.


Indexing a page in which the content is discovered in a map

We want to improve our site's SEO. The page is a GWT (javascript based) web page and its content is discovered through a map or a GPS. Now we have just a normal landing html page, and the map and the detail pages referenced in a sitemap.xml. I want to achieve better results by:   * Leaving the html landing page as it is right now, but pointing to the map page (now it does it through JavaScript).   * In the map (JavaScript page) use the trick and change the body in the servelet with H1, H2, H3... but... do we put a list of links to the details simulating the map of the whole world? Or is better to leave this to the sitemap.xml? With the first way we keep the hierarchy (landing-->map-->details).   * In the details page use the trick and write html info. So the question is is it better to have a sitemap.xml or to change the page content to point to the details (they can be thousands)?


What organizations handle the TLD registries and what are the links to their whois search pages

**Cautionary Tale: Registrars get rich by screwing you out of money** My first foray into web design included a site with a handful of issues. The original designer/developer created it as a one-off and he didn't bother to mention to the owner that the name would expire in 2 years. When I stepped in to take over, the name had expired and the registrar (InterNIC) was charging $250 USD to get it back. The site at the time was a general static business site that didn't have a big enough following to warrant the price of the .com name so we opted to move to .net. All in all, it took 5 years before the registrar finally released the name so we could finally recover it. **tl;dr: Don't trust registrars.** Considering the emergence of Domain Front Running: > This is where a domain registrar or an intermediary (like a domain lookup > site) mines the searches for possibly attractive domains and then either > sells the data to a third-party, or goes ahead and registers the name > themselves ahead of you. In one case a registrar took advantage of what's > known as the "grace period" and registered every single domain users looked > up through them and held on to them for 5 days before releasing them back > into the pool at no cost to themselves. I have good reason to distrust 3rd party registrars. To compensate, I only use the whois of the TLD owner to do domain searches. I have been using verisign to look-up .com/.net domains for years now but what I'd like to know is: **Who owns the following TLDs and where can I find their Whois search:**   * .com - Verisign Inc. - whois   * .net - Verisign Inc. - whois   * .org - PIR - whois   * .edu - Educause - whois   * .biz - Neustar - whois   * .pro - Registry.Pro - whois


Changing www to point to non-www, instead of the opposite, using .htaccess

I'm switching servers and need to change the following _RewriteCond_ and _RewriteRule_ commands in the _.htaccess_ file. Right now I'm pointing `domain.com` to `www.domain.com` using:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http\:\/\/www\.domain\.com\/$1" [R=301,L]      I need to switch the commands and do the opposite, where I point `www.domain.com` to `domain.com`.


How to redirect requests to another folder using .htaccess?

How to redirect requests to another folder using _.htaccess_? I have my root directory and my website looks into that directory. I want it to look in the `/subdirectory/` instead. I can't modify the server config.


different confirmation boxes on firefox when running remotewebdriver tests

When testing my webapp manually I get a confirm box: ![http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1342388/syneto/good_conf_box_1.png](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1342388/syneto/good_conf_box_1.png), the browser renders it with an overlay, but when run with remotewebdriver the overlay is not present and the confirm is in a window ![http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1342388/syneto/bad_conf_box_1.png](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1342388/syneto/bad_conf_box_1.png), any idea why is this happening? Same browser, FF4. The remotewebdriver sends an instantiated FirefoxProfile without modifications that adds this user.js to the Firefox Profile.


DNS hosting better managed by Domain provider or Hosting provider?

Is it better to let DNS be managed by Domain Provider like GoDaddy/Namecheap or point the nameservers to hosting providers like Linode? What are the differences and disadvantages/advantages of both?


When is it worthwhile to host your own website instead of using shared hosting?

I'm not new to web development, but I have always used shared hosting to suit my needs. However, I see some people choose to serve their websites from their own servers. In considering moving to administrating my own web server, what are the top issues that I should consider to determine whether it is a worthwhile endeavor for me to pursue?


Disabling Single Event and 301 Redirect

Is it bad practice to have a 301 redirect for an event that has been disabled or deleted from a system to the list view? or should a 404 page? I dont want Google to ban me or anything.


Is example1.mysite.com called multiple domain or subdomain?

I have these sites, `example1.mysite.com`, `example2.mysite.com`, ... etc. I was wondering what is the proper term for that? I heard multi-domain, and subdomain being used. Are they interchangeable, if so, which term would better describe this?


Is there a multi-sub-website/group handling CMS?

I'm looking for a good, easy to use and manage, free Content Management System that is built for (or can handle) multiple sub websites, or groups. Something like Drupal's Organic Groups functionality, except I don't want Drupal. My goal is to create a main site mydomain.com that sells websites (for guilds) at guildname.mydomain.com. Thanks to Alerty for recommending the SilverStripe CMS, which works great! Although I've marked this as answered, if anybody else knows of any other ones, that would be great to know to. EDIT: preferably something that won't requite multiple installs? I want any subscriber to the main site to be able to just pay $n and then click a "start site" button, which would automatically set up a new group/sub-site.


Recommendations for a good personal resume/portfolio website

Sorry for the broad question, but I am looking for some kind of package that will look great for posting up some personal details online in a resume type fashion. Possibly with the ability to add extra pages. I've seen examples about, but not been too sure if they are running something specific or whether it is something custom. I would generally just knock out a WordPress install but I don't think it will fit the bill. Anything that utilizes current technologies would be great, i.e. HTML5, jQuery etc. I want the site to look smart and up to date.


Targeting Multiple Zones in the US best URL method required

This is kind of a newbie question, but my boss asked me and I wasn't sure exactly how to answer. Id like to get some opinions from others that have hit this issue before. **Scenario:** We are wanting to purchase a new chain of URLs for a new site expenditure. The #1 goal for my boss is when a customer searches for "This product Miami", or "Miami this product" that our URL will always show up first because the structure of the URL would be indicative of the search term. So if the user searched for "This product Miami", the search result would return               www.thisproductmiami.com      of if they search for "This product new york", it would return               www.thisproductnewyork.com       So, he is hellbent on getting `thisproductnewyork.com`, `thisproductmiami.com` and so on for every major city in the US. So we will end up purchasing a "`thisproductthiscity.com`" for every city. See my confusion??? To me as a web developer the best way I'd see this working is:               miami.thisproduct.com          newyork.thisproduct.com      That way, the city still searchable, but its all managed and aggregated by one domain. What would give us the best search results. Purely based on the URL. This would help me out so much, any advice with links to articles or anything covering the subject so I can back it up with docs, would be nice. Thanks in advance.


Which schema.org type should be used for webinars?

I'm looking to improve the schema.org markup on a site, but I'm curious about a couple of things because of the content: webinars. See an example: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/667/83483 There are tens of thousands of webinars (and some videos) almost all of which are on-demand and therefore would seem to be clear-cut Video objects. The thing is, many of these webinars are scheduled well in advance and would seem (semantically) to be a live event, which would fall under the Event object category of schema.org. So I see three options:   * Tag everything as a Video   * Tag videos and on-demand webinars as Videos and upcoming webinars as Events   * Tag all videos as Videos and all webinars, upcoming and on-demand, as Events Thoughts?


Magnifier glass for text

I've seen scripts that allow you to zoom images, i want to do the same for text, is this possible? Like onmouseover or hover it zooms images. i want it for text! is it possible?


Increase Servers folder depth limit for running scripts?

I have a CMS on my site that utilises TinyMCE (the WYSIWYG text editor). The issue is that TinyMCE cannot browse for files (example: images) on the web server. I get the error: `Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data.` I have been told this may be occurring because the server is configured to limit the folder depth for running scripts. Unfortunately I am primarily a front end developer so I am not really sure how to go about changing/viewing this. I have access to WHM and cPanel. Does anyone know how to adjust this?


How can I get a '.mo' domain?

I represent a business in the United States. I would like to grab a '.mo' domain name, but I see some restrictions on the domain. Is it possible to grab a '.mo' domain name without going through the hassle of registering a trademark through Macao, China? Do domain name brokers exist that will handle this cheaply and hassle-free?


[pic] Possible to style a text with CSS?

Preparing for a meeting with our designer later today, I was looking through his Photoshop sketches and wonder whether the following one could be expressed in HTML/CSS, without the need to render the text in Photoshop: ![Example text with glossy effects](http://i.stack.imgur.com/s6zdt.png) Do you think the color gradient and the drop shadow could be done 70-90% similar to the original within **plain HTML and CSS** , too? Ideally even older browsers should at least be able to draw the text in a readable manner. I found this one back from 2008, maybe there is a more modern way of doing it nowadays?


Best way to capture website user clicking/navigating behavior

I'm wondering if there is any analytics tool more sophisticated than google analytics which offers features such as user clicking and navigating behaviors. By which I mean, with such tools, I can see how users actually clicked and navigated across my site.


SEO: Getting site to show in location-specific searches

I'm really new to this SEO world and I've been reading a lot to try and figure it out. We have a site that allows users to browse/create events anywhere. And we fill it with content from the main cities in the US. We would like it to show for searches for things like "events in san francisco" or "what to do in new york", however, since the site is not really location-specific, I'm not really sure where to begin. I've been thinking a couple of things, maybe you can help me decide if these would be a good way to start or if I should try something different. 1- Allow something like location-specific urls (e.g. example.com/browse/san- francisco) could just show the main page centered in San Francisco. 2- Change the headers/title of the page so it adapts automatically to the city being browsed (and change this dynamically as the user changes the location of the map). 3- Add internal links to different locations (e.g. add a link at the footer of the page that says "Events in Seattle" that makes the site load events in that city. (this would probably depend on implementing #1). What do you guys think? will any of these really help or should I look for a different approach? any advice is welcome.


Sub category text in the URL of wordpress site

I am launching a site about mobile and it is in **wordpress**. URL structure is as follow example.com/unlock/company/model example.com/how-to/company/model **Unlock** and **how to** are **parent category** and **company** is **subcategory** of both. Now I have to create the company subcategory twice for both the parent category. In that case slug will be different. for eg. example.com/unlock/apple/something example.com/how-to/apple_/something Apple is present in both the unlock and how to category. Same slug cannot be used, so I am using **apple** for unlock and **apple_** for how to, as same **slug** cannot be used. I am try to get a user friendly URL. But does it effect the SEO negatively?


Utilising Open ID and third party auth services

I'm planning to utilise a third party authorisation service in order to allow users to sign in with their google/facebook accounts etc. In particular I am aiming to use the Yii extension here- http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/hybridauth/ I am uncertain of one point, however, and I'm hoping to clear this up before investing time into implementing this. How will I email a user? Are there third part API functions that I can use for this that vary between third party providers? It occurs to me that this must be the same for the StackExchange network as I frequently receive email from the site and only sign in with my google credentials. However, upon checking my profile I can see my email address is listed, so I'm no longer sure. Is anyone able to confirm how this works? If no-one is aware I will test this by registering a new account solely through google and check for emailed notifications.


Facebook like in business model

I have a website "www.example.com" and a Facebook page for www.facebook.com/example/123456 My website need active users. Now in my website I would like a like button, now the question is:   From a marketing point of view, where do I point my like to; to my website or to my Facebook page, having in mind that when a user likes your page any posts on that page gets shared on the user's wall, bringing more potential users.


Multi column flyout menu

I want to build a horizontal menu bar with a multi column flyout of the hovered item. It should be done with html lists, css and javascript (if needed) only. There should be a max height of the flyout so that the following ul's automatically break into the next column. An example of the mentioned navigation can be found on the italian microsoft website (first navigation point called "Windows").


Which media types is it worth including stylesheets for?

My website already has screen and print stylesheets, but there are several more. Are these still worth creating stylesheets for or are they no longer relevant?


What happens to my domain if the TLD fails?

I have recently registered some domains on the basically brand new `.directory` gTLD. Because of operating costs to maintain a gTLD, it is assumed that many of the hundreds being rolled out this year and next will fail. I will admit I am not very knowledgeable on how the TLD process works. What exactly does a new TLD failing mean? I realize that they lose ICANN accreditation, but does that just mean that they will be no longer be sold? If the `.directory` TLD were to go under, would my `.directory` domains be affected? I bought it from domain registrar Gandi if that helps.


Is using HTML entities (for language-specific characters) in UTF-8 necessary?

As in the subject-line. Saw the situation the other day on a page which felt weird to me. Except for markup-delimiting characters such as pointy brackets or the ampersand, escaping, say, German umlauts shouldn't be necessary, should it? Checked the encoding server-side, in-page and by way of HTTP headers, looks completely UTF-8 to me. What's your take on this and do you reckon it could adversely affect SEO or SERP placement?the page


how can I find out if a domain is used for email or webserving

Suppose there is a website at example.org, as proven by google results. Now there is also a domain example.com. It aliases to example.org. Google doesn't find any directories on that domain. How can I now for sure if example.com (or its subdomains) are used to serve (unspidered)pages or mail? Or can I be 100% sure that it's only use is an alias, just because searchengines don't see it?


70K of 301 redirects

I have a website with about 1.5M pages. I am condensing pages that do not have large amounts of content to improve the quality of the site. As a result I have about 70K pages that I have added a < canonical link> to, pointing towards the new master page for the content. Now I want to completely work the existing pages out of the system. I want to 301 redirect the existing pages to the new master pages that the content now resides upon. I am running IIS and normally would use < rewriteMaps>. I am concerned that adding 70k lines to my web.config, to be parsed for every URL, is going to affect performance. Any suggestions on a known/tested way to accomplish this? TY for your time.


Translated content: Are they considered as duplicate or unique?

I saw some blogs in Turkish that contain translated content from English blogs. They are translated by humans not by automatic software. I wonder if Google counts those pages as duplicate content or not? In reality, the content is duplicate clearly but is there a way for Google to detect this?


Joomla theme module without tables

I copied the 'com_content' folder from the 'beez' template to the html folder of my template. So now my content displays with divs and without tables. Now I want to same for my modules I add to the right side of my site. They are still build with tables and not divs. Anyone knows how to do this? Thanks


Caching preventing users seeing site updates

I'm experiencing a caching issue I can't explain. This is happening across browsers, IPs and ISPs. If a user force-refreshes, they see the new content. If they then refresh or return to the page, the old one displays. I've tried using headers via PHP such as               header( 'Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT' );     header( 'Last-Modified: ' . gmdate( 'D, d M Y H:i:s' ) . ' GMT' );     header( 'Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate' );     header( 'Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0', false );     header( 'Pragma: no-cache' );      Laid out correctly, at the very beginning of the file. The problem persists. A pan-ISP proxy is unlikely. Suggestions?


Google Analytics recording event based on <a> title attribute

I am declaring:                var title = (typeof(el.attr('title')) != 'undefined' ) ? el.attr('title') :"";         and then have the following:               else if (title.match(/^"Matching Content"\:/i)) {                     elEv.category = "Matching Content Click";            elEv.action = "click-Matching-Content";            elEv.label = href.replace(/^https?\:\/\//i, '');              elEv.non_i = true;            elEv.loc = href;          }         However, using Google Analytics debugger this is not being recorded. Any suggestions? The complete function is:               if (typeof jQuery != 'undefined') {       jQuery(document).ready(function gLinkTracking($) {         var filetypes = /\.(avi|csv|dat|dmg|doc.*|exe|flv|gif|jpg|mov|mp3|mp4|msi|pdf|png|ppt.*|rar|swf|txt|wav|wma|wmv|xls.*|zip)$/i;         var baseHref = '';         if (jQuery('base').attr('href') != undefined) baseHref = jQuery('base').attr('href');              jQuery('a').on('click', function (event) {           var el = jQuery(this);           var track = true;           var href = (typeof(el.attr('href')) != 'undefined' ) ? el.attr('href') :"";           var title = (typeof(el.attr('title')) != 'undefined' ) ? el.attr('title') :"";                 var isThisDomain = href.match(document.domain.split('.').reverse()[1] + '.' + document.domain.split('.').reverse()[0]);           if (!href.match(/^javascript:/i)) {             var elEv = []; elEv.value=0, elEv.non_i=false;             if (href.match(/^mailto\:/i)) {               elEv.category = "Email link";               elEv.action = "click-email";               elEv.label = href.replace(/^mailto\:/i, '');               elEv.loc = href;             }             else if (title.match(/^"Matching Content"\:/i)) {                         elEv.category = "Matching Content Click";                elEv.action = "click-Matching-Content";                elEv.label = href.replace(/^https?\:\/\//i, '');                  elEv.non_i = true;                elEv.loc = href;              }                    else if (href.match(filetypes)) {               var extension = (/[.]/.exec(href)) ? /[^.]+$/.exec(href) : undefined;               elEv.category = "File Downloaded";               elEv.action = "click-" + extension[0];               elEv.label = href.replace(/ /g,"-");               elEv.loc = baseHref + href;             }                        else if (href.match(/^https?\:/i) && !isThisDomain) {               elEv.category = "External link";               elEv.action = "click-external";               elEv.label = href.replace(/^https?\:\/\//i, '');               elEv.non_i = true;               elEv.loc = href;             }                else if (href.match(/^tel\:/i)) {               elEv.category = "Telephone link";               elEv.action = "click-telephone";               elEv.label = href.replace(/^tel\:/i, '');               elEv.loc = href;             }             else track = false;                  if (track) {               _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', elEv.category.toLowerCase(), elEv.action.toLowerCase(), elEv.label.toLowerCase(), elEv.value, elEv.non_i]);               if ( el.attr('target') == undefined || el.attr('target').toLowerCase() != '_blank') {                 setTimeout(function() { location.href = elEv.loc; }, 400);                 return false;           }         }           }         });       });     }


What is the proper way to setup Google Apps email accounts for a subdomain?

Let's say I've registered domain.com at enom and set it up to use Google Apps for email by rerouting DNS to enom's servers and editing the MX records there. That works flawlessly. Now let's say I want to have email at a subdomain for that same site. I already have a working subdomain at the host, but I want to catch email traffic at enom before it gets that far. I've set up Google Apps as a new account for the subdomain, successfully verified domain ownership, and now they want me to update MX records. What's the right format? For domain.com, I just put @ for the hostname, and then provided the Address and Pref values that Google gave me. I tried putting subdomain.domain.com as new values under hostname for the subdomain, but that doesn't seem to work. What am I doing wrong?


Moving Articles From A Blog to Another Blog

I was writing on a blog (source blog) which all users can publish their articles. But now this blog will be closed. SO i want to move my articles to my personal blog. But I'm worrying about Google Sandbox. Can i move my articles to my personal blog without any SEO mistake ? (NOTE : I'm not owner of source blog so i can't do a 301 Forwarding etc.)


Do some mail clients automatically urldecode %2b strings?

We have an email address verification process on our website. The site first generates an appropriate key as a string               mykey      It then encodes that key as a bunch of bytes               &$dac~ʌ����!      It then base64 encodes that bunch of bytes               JiRkYWN+yoyIhIQ==      Since this key is going to be given as a querystring value of a URL that is to be placed in an HTML email, we need to first URLEncode it then HTMLEncode the result, giving us (there's no effect of HTMLEncoding here, but I can't be bothered to rework the example)               JiRkYWN%2ByoyIhIQ%3D%3D      This is then embedded in HTML that is sent as part of an email, something like:               click here.      Or paste http://myapp/verify?key=JiRkYWN%2ByoyIhIQ%3D%3D into your browser.      When the receiving user clicks on the link, the site receives the request, extracts the value of the querystring 'key' parameter, base64 decodes it, decrypts it, and does the appropriate thing in terms of the site logic. _However_ on occasion we have users who report that their clicking is ineffective. One such user forwarded us the email he had been sent, and on inspection the HTML had been transformed into (to put it in terms of the example above)               click here     Or paste http://myapp/verify?key=JiRkYWN+yoyIhIQ%3D%3D into your browser.      That is, the %2B string - but none of the other percentage encoded strings - had been converted into a plus.               key=JiRkYWN%2ByoyIhIQ%3D%3D     key=JiRkYWN+yoyIhIQ%3D%3D      So I think that there are a couple of possibilities:   1. I'm doing something stupid that I can't see, or    2. Some mail clients try to cope with the problem of people mistakenly URLEncoding plus signs by 'helpfully' converting them all back In case of 1 - what is it? In case of 2 - what mail clients? Or, alternatively, is there a standard, known way of dealing with this kind of scenario? Many thanks for any help


External links from search engine - Redirect?

I am making a site which is designed to contain a large amount of links to other sites, much like a search engine. I have seen two different approached with regards to linking to external sites.   1. Simply to link directly to the external content directly from the links on my own site   2. To redirect to the content via an internal link, such as www.site.com/r/myref123 -> www.internet.com/hello.php Would anyone be able to tell me what the advantage is with each approach? I am stuck at a crossroads here and can't find much information on which approach I should be using.


Having 2 hosting accounts in case one of downtime?

I'm looking for a simple solution to increase my website's uptime. My website consists of simple HTML and PHP pages with no database. Right right I use paid shared hosting and I sometimes find that my website is not loading. Would it be possible to put my website on two hosts and in case the main host is down the other one would get used? What is the best way to set this up?


how to handle login between different domains?

I've a website with 2 domains (.nl and .com) and a translated version of the content is displayed depending on the domain. My issue is that when a client login under a .nl domain, and he moves to the .com domain, he is not anymore logged in. thanks


Host header vulnerability reported by Acunetix Scanner

I am getting ready to launch a small web app and decided to scan the site with the Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner. I was quite pleased with the results for the most part, but the scanner reports a high level security issue with the setting of the Host header. The scanner provides the following link for more information http://www.skeletonscribe.net/2013/05/practical-http-host- header-attacks.html Far as I can tell the vulnerability comes into play if you are using the host header to generate URLs, be they urls inserted into sent emails or inserted into pages. Am I correct in thinking that this is not an issue for a web app that is not using the Host header to create urls in any way?


How can I make Google crawl and index multiple pages?

There are several pages on the web that are not under my direct control but contain content about a product I'm involved with. I'd like make Google robots crawl and index those pages, is there a simple way to nudge Google's spiders towards those pages? I don't have _robots.txt_ access, and I can't provide a sitemap through Google Webmaster Tools since I don't control those websites. Also those are 100 webpages on 100 different domains that I'd like to Google to index so a single sitemap is not an option, I don't want to submit them one by one using the Google "Add URL" page since it is very time consuming. Do you know a simple way to accomplish this task? To somehow make Google scan a list of URLs and send it's spiders to index them?


Subdomains as external backlinks

as far as I know backlinks are good for SEO when they come from external or websites or domains, what about subdomain? do they have the same value of external backlinks or they are just like internal ones? especially when I have the possibility to put each subdomain on a different IP/country Thanks.


I have a large number of links on every page, for design reasons I want to keep it but is it hurting my SEO

The site is http://www.centralsaddlery.co.uk We have other issues which we are tackling in terms of content etc but the question I have is: "Is my main navigation hurting us in SEO?" Its a lot of links and it's on a lot of pages. If so - what is a way to get google to ignore links below the top level. I had thought google would see that the links are hidden by default and only shown on hover but I can't verify this at all. We absolutely want to keep the menu, our customers like it and so do we - we think it is pretty usable as we have a lot of products to look at. Any advice is appreciated (and any tips for any part of the SEO are welcome too)


Using Apache's rewrite module to set up local host names for development

I have several websites on my development machine under Apache's htdocs folder. Apache Directory root is htdocs, but I want to be able to access each different site there by individual domain names. For example, I have               htdocs/dev_site_com     htdocs/cre_site_com      I have added these lines to my hosts file               127.0.0.1       dev.site.localhost          127.0.0.1       cre.site.localhost      Now I want to add an .htaccess file in the htdocs to redirect `dev.site.localhost` request to `htdocs/dev_site_com` or `127.0.0.1/dev_site_com` I want to do this so that all of my relative URLs in my site work locally. If I link to a stylesheet in the dev_site_com site using the path `/css/style.css`, it will work in production, but not in development, because the root is htdocs and not htdocs/dev_site_com I've never been good with mod_rewrite.. but this is what I have so far..               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>              Options +FollowSymLinks         RewriteEngine on              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^dev\.site\.localhost         RewriteRule %1 [L]          </IfModule>      and nothing is happening


How should I add further servers to support potential increases in traffic to my website?

New here but I post on StackOverflow pretty often. **The scenario:** I am a paying customer of linode. On that account I have one 2GB server which hosts a web application. This single server currently acts as a web (apache2), database, email, and nodejs server. I'm planning on releasing my web application to 20,000 targeted users next week. All is well in saying this, but there's one problem that's bothering me. That problem being that the web application may completely fail as it does some pretty heavy file handling operations on the back-end. Of course I know that not ALL 20,000 users will be signing up to my application in an instant, but it may potentially get 20,000 hits. I want my server to support this high amount of traffic, so this is why I'm preparing for it's launch. * * * **My question(s):** How should I add further linodes to support potential increases in traffic to my website? Should I: A) Just buy a bigger linode to expand my website. Double the power means that the server can handle twice as many users, right? Of course I understand that there are limitations with this too as linode don't offer linodes with unlimited hardware resources. This wouldn't involve buying any additional private IP addresses either, would it? B) Buy the node balancing package from linode to expand my website? Does this mean I have to clone my current disk image and distribute it to all new linodes I buy? If this is the case, how do I handle newly uploaded user files? Should I have a linode especially for this too? Also: Is there a limit as to how many linodes I can buy and 'attach' to the node balancer and does each need an additional private IP address? How about pushing new code changes to the website? How would I deal with this if all source files were on different servers? How about SSL? would my current certificate continue to work across all servers? Is there anything else I need to consider? Apologies for all of these questions but I need a thorough idea of how all of this stuff works. I've done a few hours of pre reading on the topic already, but some of the things above have confused me a bit. Cheers, Joel


Adding my face to my web-site in Google's search result

I'm trying to accomplish the rich snippet to the template of my future web- site. The data format is `review` and I used the microdata formatting to add all necessary information to the web-page. The Structured Data Testing Tool delivered rating, author information and review date: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/uwQDF.png) However there is no my face image and the sections related to authorship are empty: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/34vNl.png) I made all that recommended to link my Google+ profile to the web-site: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/32TJk.jpg) I did something wrong? Or I will not be able to see my face in the test tools ever and it will be in the real SERP?


Issue when changing Joomla! 3.1 server

I am changing my Joomla server from last host to another (the domain changed to). **First** I made a ZIP backup with all of my instalation files (even `.htaccess`/`php.ini`/etc...), I mean, ALL files from my old host. **Second** I upload my zip file into my new server and unziped to public_html folder **Lastly** I made a backup of my db from old domain & host and replace all db changes of my `configuration.php` (db name, user, password - the prefix of db remained the same). So far so good. My back-end works nicely, all function and stuff stills the same. The problem is my front-end, doesn't show nothing looks like my last site at the old host. I checked out my `.sql` file of my backup and I saw that it calls the root of my last server (gloper56). I already tried to change all calls from my last domain to the new one and if I do this it simply breaks my back-office. This is the old host, and this is the new host (just copy/paste this link, SE doesn't allow me to put IP as a link `http://188.93.229.100/~highplay/` (without right domain cause I need to fix this before change nameservers). Thank you


Google Analytics not tracking e-commerce events from AdWords

I have problems tracking e-commerce events from AdWords. The problem is that we can see the events in AdWords but we can't see them in Google Analytics. The rest of the events that come from the same booking engine are in Analytics but the one that come from an AdWords ad are not. Any idea?


Joomla internal only page

I have a LAMP setup and Joomla. I want to have some URLs/pages in my Joomla website only internally to my subnet. Is there a file/URL equivalent for `Directory` like this?               <Directory /usr/share/biowiki>         Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews         AllowOverride None         Order deny,allow         deny from all         Allow from subnet-address     </Directory>      Or is there any alternative to achieve this?


How to disable gzip compression using htaccess

I want to disable gzip compression in my site using htaccess. I have the code below in htaccess:               php_flag zlib.output_compression off      But it is not working.


Google ranking - difference between example.com and example.com/?ref=id

Does it impact a site's Google ranking if I link to the site with a "referrer" query-string? e.g: `example.com/?ref=mysite` instead of `example.com` ?


In Google Analytics, how can I plot an overtime line chart of the percentage of visitors from mobile devices out of total number of visitors?

how can I plot this metric? Note that I want to see a graph of the percentage of mobile devices visitors out of the total number of visitors, but **without** also displaying the total number of visitors on the same graph. (BTW it can be also visits, not visitors)


Affiliate programs offering redirects back to my site after successful conversion

I am building a website where members are rewarded for actions completed. For some of these actions within my site (such as uploading a photo), I would like to offer my members the ability to participate in affiliate sites as follows: Once they complete the required action, they are rewarded on my site. Ideally, I would pass in the redirect url when sending the member to their site. Are there affiliate programs that offer to redirect back to your site?


How do I use a domain name on a dedicated hosting server?

I recently purchased a domain name from godaddy and am probably going to set up a dedicated server soon. Are there any articles that people know of which can help me set up my domain name on the dedicated server (peer1, rackspace, etc)? A sub-question would be: how do I like the godaddy domain name to my IP address that I get on my dedicated server from one of these hosting companies? Thanks!


Can I find out the number of searches on a given keyword, per state?

I know that Google tells you how many times a certain keyword is used in a search. You can use the Google Keyword Tool for that. This tool also allows you to find out the number of "local" searches: this is the number of times a person from a given country searches for this keyword. My questions: can you also find out how many searches originate from a given American _state_ ? In the Keyword Tool, I can only select countries, not states. Any other systems I can use to determine _where_ people are searching for a given keyword?