how to stop getting hits from comment spam

I have been hosting a photoblog using pixelpost, but have realised it was a haven for comments spam. i've since migrated the site to tumblr. the original site was an add-on domain to my hosting plan and the site was available at a domain name as well as through a subfolder on my main domain. this old photoblog is getting hits around 3 a minute 24/7 targeting maindomain.tld/subfolder. i've set htaccess to issue a 403 for this folder. the referrer is either blank or coming from my maindomain.tld Is there any other ways to stop these hits? will the spammers get the message from the 403 and eventually stop? how long can this take? are there any other steps i should take? thanks snippet of error log:               [Tue Jan 28 08:56:23 2014] [error] [client 27.159.195.66] client denied by server      [Tue Jan 28 08:55:59 2014] [error] [client 27.159.205.59] client denied by server      [Tue Jan 28 08:55:11 2014] [error] [client 212.83.191.177] client denied by server     [Tue Jan 28 08:54:17 2014] [error] [client 212.83.137.63] client denied by server      [Tue Jan 28 08:53:46 2014] [error] [client 27.159.193.51] client denied by server      [Tue Jan 28 08:53:31 2014] [error] [client 27.159.195.66] client denied by server      [Tue Jan 28 08:53:29 2014] [error] [client 27.159.195.66] client denied by server      [Tue Jan 28 08:52:30 2014] [error] [client 117.26.254.132] client denied by server     [Tue Jan 28 08:51:37 2014] [error] [client 192.99.4.25] client denied by server co     [Tue Jan 28 08:51:33 2014] [error] [client 27.159.205.69] client denied by server      [Tue Jan 28 08:50:45 2014] [error] [client 216.107.136.125] client denied by serve     [Tue Jan 28 08:50:45 2014] [error] [client 27.159.195.66] client denied by server      [Tue Jan 28 08:48:41 2014] [error] [client 212.83.137.63] client denied by server      [Tue Jan 28 08:48:37 2014] [error] [client 212.83.191.177] client denied by server     [Tue Jan 28 08:48:20 2014] [error] [client 5.153.235.237] client denied by server      [Tue Jan 28 08:48:15 2014] [error] [client 209.148.82.163] client denied by server     [Tue Jan 28 08:48:14 2014] [error] [client 198.27.74.32] client denied by server c     [Tue Jan 28 08:47:27 2014] [error] [client 216.107.136.125] client denied by serve     [Tue Jan 28 08:47:19 2014] [error] [client 212.83.137.63] client denied by server      [Tue Jan 28 08:46:28 2014] [error] [client 198.13.115.226] client denied by server     [Tue Jan 28 08:46:13 2014] [error] [client 27.159.212.23] client denied by server      [Tue Jan 28 08:45:24 2014] [error] [client 118.175.92.74] client denied by server


Track a Goal conversion in Google Analytics for filling in a contact form when the URL stays the same

If a contact form's URL stays the same after submitting the form, how can I track goal conversions in Google Analytics for filling in the form? Normally I would add the confirmation page's URL into the Goal in Google Analytics, but on this particular site when submitting the form, the content dynamically changes to say "thank you", rather than a new URL loading.


When opening a local HTML file, how do I ensure I get the content not a cached version?

I have an issue where the newest content of a local HTML file is sometimes not displayed. Instead, the browser shows a cached version. The workaround is to press `<Ctrl>`+`<F5>` but I'd like to resolve this programmatically. Specifically, I download an HTML file and open it in my browser. Later I download a newer version of the file (with the same file name). The newer file has different content but some browsers, sometimes still show the old content from the cache. I'm having trouble consistently reproducing the error but when it occurs it's very irritating. I've found two possible solutions but because of the difficulty reproducing the error, I can't confirm that either of them are correct. One possible solution is the following Javascript:               <script type="text/javascript">     window.location.reload(true);     </script>      Another is the following metatags:               <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Tue, 01 Jan 1980 1:00:00 GMT">     <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">     <META HTTP-EQUIV="Cache-Control" CONTENT="no-cache">      Is it this simple? If so, does it work for Ch, IE & FF? Is there a totally different solution that I've missed?


Why is Google offering users the ability to block results from my site?

I was performing a search for a string and one of the pages was from one of my websites. However, I noticed something odd about the entry for my site: ![Oh, and please don't anybody click it!](http://i.stack.imgur.com/voXiY.png) This was the only page in the search results with such a link. Also, the page in question does not exist - it was moved to another URL months ago. That leaves me with the following concerns:   * Why is it there _and only on my site_?   * How can I get Google to stop showing it?   * Is it even possible to get Google to stop showing it?   * Is there a better way my pages could be organized that would prevent this message?


Should I use mixed content on my blog?

I have a blog. (just started) I am having a confusion whether I should keep the blog focused on only one subject (for instance, technology) or not? If I post different posts on various topics (with proper categorization), will it affect my traffic? i.e. If I write about technology, photography, personal experiences and some more, will it affect my readers' mindset? Also, can I use a regional language for some posts?


Finding the search terms behind 'not provided'

We use Google Analytics to track the vistors to our websites, were currently putting together a big audit of our SEO and one of the things we want to see is what search terms are working for us. About 90% of our organic search traffic comes under **'not provided'** which as i understand means a user is signed into a Google account when coming to our site, thus Google doesn't track their search terms. This makes it really hard to conduct a meaningful study, (i suppose we could get the data of the 10% that we do have search terms for and multiply them it but i dont think thats a particularly good or meaningful approach). Is there a workaround to see behind the **'not provided'** data and see the search terms actually used ? * * * **UPDATE** I read this article last night from Hacker news, which states : > [using https will allow you] more complete referrer information in Google > Analytics for people visiting from sites already using HTTPS and contained a link to this SO thread, it seems to say that because Google's users are using https that an https site cannot pass data to an http site, as the http site is not secure, none of the sites i manage have https / sll setup, could some one confirm if Google will pass you more referrer data if your site has https implemented ?


Will robots.txt block crawling things like menu and footer links?

If I am blocking a page called pay.php, google won't crawl this page. But what about the links that are on this page as default as menu and footer links? Will these links also be blocked from crawling? But I see that only one page is getting restricted by google bot other than pay.php page, and not other links. Why would this be?


SEO strategy for h1, h2, h3 tags for list of items

On a page on my website page I have a list of ALL the products on my site. This list is growing rapidly and I am wondering how to manage it from an SEO point of view. I am shortly adding a title to this section and giving it an H1 tag. Currently the name of each product in this list is not h1,2,3,4 its just styled text. However I was looking to make these h2,3,4. Questions:   1. Is the use of h2,3,4 on these list items bad form as they should be used for content rather than all links?   2. I am thinking of limiting this main list to only 8 items and using h2 tags for each name. Do you this this will have a negative or possible affect over all.   3. I may create a piece of script which counts the first 8 items on the list. These 8 will get the h2, and any after that will get h3 (all styled the same).   4. If I do add h tags should I put just on the name of the product or the outside of the a tag, therefore collecting all info.   5. Has anyone been in a similar situation as this, and if so did they really see any significant difference?


Do search engines penalise 'Home' links and/or buttons?

I had a client recently express his feelings about not having a 'home' link or a 'home' button on a website. I told him I would consult someone who knows, but I've never personally heard anything about this on whether they a penalizing for 'home' links and/or buttons. Can anyone give a me a hard answer on this.


Deny access to directory content on shared hosting service

My Website is hosted on a shared Apache server. How can I deny access to directory content pages so if someone goes to the address www.mywebsite.com/directory they don't see the following: Index of /directory Parent Directory   * mycontent/    * moreofmycontent/


Should I use same google adsense ad block on different site

I have couple of sites Like `http://domain.com`, `http://sub1.domain.com`, `http://sub2.domain.com` and suppose i have a ad block 300x250 Can i use the ads to all those sites or i should make different ad block to use in every site? Does it affect the ad relevancy?


How do I get Google to show links to my site hierarchy in search results?

I have recently noticed that for some websites, Google is linking to different locations in the site hierarchy instead of just the destination page URL. For instance, searching for "Malibu Rum Drink Recipes" results in an entry at Bar None Drinks that shows the following: > Drink recipes containing Malibu Rum   >  Choose from our collection of great drinks made with Malibu Rum.   >  www.barnonedrinks.com > Drinks > By Ingredient > M Each of the individual segments between the ">" marks are clickable and take you to that section of the site. How do I get Google to show this for my site?


How do websites get extra information in Google results?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I get Google to show links to my site hierarchy in search results? On Stack Overflow and many other websites, I've noticed there is some extra information under the result link. For example: ![Google SO result](http://i.stack.imgur.com/1IH9E.png) The _"6 answers - Jul 31, 2011"_ part is what I'm talking about. Does Google automatically do this or does the website have to do something to make Google add this extra information in search results?


Google list with angle bracket in url

Is anyone can help me, how can i make my website that google in search list will show the URL like this (www.ask.com › All › Apps, Gadgets, Computers & Games)? example Separated by angle brackets, and any part can separately choosen. Thank You for help!


Error: You do not have permission to create subdomains of the server’s hostname

Attempting to add a subdomain to a client's WHM/cPanel VPS. Getting the error: `There was a problem creating the sub-domain: You do not have permission to create subdomains of the server’s hostname. `


How can I avoid duplicate titles and descriptions on user-generated pages?

I want to allow my users to upload images to my website with a location and a comment and to share that page on social media. I was planning to have the comment and image as content for SEO, but I'm trying to figure out what to set the page title and description to. When the user uploads an image, I was planning to use the location in the page title (E.g. John, Los Angeles, California - or something similar) and the comment as the page description (cut to a maximum of 150 characters). However, this could lead to duplicate titles and descriptions, especially if a user uploads the same image, location and comment multiple times for some reason. Is there a good way to handle this or to handle page titles and descriptions on user-generated site pages? Thanks in advance, Ian


Should I use mod_wsgi embedded mode if I have full control of Apache?

I'm managing a bunch of sites and applications in a shared hosting, using Django via `mod_wsgi`. I had planned to use daemon mode from the beginning (to avoid restart problems), but ended up purchasing a plan that allows me to run a dedicated Apache instance. I kept using daemon mode for convenience, but I'm afraid it's consuming more server resources than it should (I have different projects for each site, each with its own process and process group), so I'm considering switching to embedded mode. Would that be a sensible thing to do? I'd still be able to restart Apache anytime I need to, and I wouldn't need so many child processes and sockets (so I hope the resource usage would decrease). But I'm unsure whether or not doing so would make it more difficult to manage those sites (if I need to update one, I have to restart all) or maybe the applications won't be properly isolated from one another. Are these problems really significant (or only a minor nuisance), are there other drawbacks I coudn't foresee? I'm looking for advice in any aspect of this setup - mainainability, performance, security etc. Tips for improving the current setup are also welcome (I know how to correctly configure a basic `mod_wsgi` setup, but I'm clueless about sensible values for `threads`, `processes` etc).


After cloning WP and deleting all posts and pages, some previous domain links are found by Google

Through the clone function in Softaculous, I cloned a WP installation to a brand new domain. First thing, I deleted all posts, pages, media, etc. then I created a few new pages, generated a sitemap with All in One SEO, checked it, and submitted it to Google Webmaster Tools. To my surprise, there are 3 crawl errors, pointing to pages of the old site. I looked everywhere but I can't understand where Google got those links! Where can they hide?


How to stop member login from showing as a bounce

I have a members site and I am looking for a way to stop users who just hits the home page then logs in from showing as bounce in the system? e.g. the user journey is something like. www.mywebsite.com -> login.mywebsite.com So if this happens I would like to be able to either remove the user completely from GA or at lest not have it register as bounce?


How to submit sitemap when your website has partial https? - Error: "Not in Domain"

My website is an eCommerce that is set up to do HTTP for the item browsing portion, but HTTPS for things like shopping cart, contact us, etc.. (anything that has forms on it). I've submitted my website a long time ago to Google webmaster tools as `http://example.com`. I also submitted a sitemap with about 40 links - 8 of them are HTTPS. I've noticed that for the longest time, Google webmaster tools was reporting that 32 out of the 40 links have been crawled. I tested all the links against my robots.txt and realized that my robots text was blocking the HTTPS links. Google says those links are "Not In Domain". Is there a way I'm supposed to get around this so that I can have a hybrid-ssl site? I understand the concept that one site is mywebsite.com:80 and the other is mywebsite.com:443, but I'd like to avoid submitting and maintaining 2 separate websites on Google webmaster tools.


How to save a PNG as a smaller file but at the same resolution?

not sure what stackexchange site is the best for this question. I have a scanned jpg file with below properties and size 8.5MB               pixel dimension: 2468 × 3484 pixels     print size: 208.96 × 294.98 millimeters     resolution: 300 × 300 ppi      I need to save the file as png (to have the pic transparent) while the size cannot be bigger than 4MB. The most important is that the size of picture must remain the same. I mean that the object size in the picture must stay the same. Could anybody tell me what is used to define the size of the objects in the picture? I use Gimp to edit the file. # UPDATE SO what is happening is that a friend of my is an 'artist'. She draws a picture and scans it as jpg and send it to me. Then I work on it little bit ( get rid of some stuff that happened to be in the pic because of the scanning and making transparent what needs to be transparent) and then I send the final file to the printer company to be printed on a T-shirt. Last time I did mess it up (no idea what I did wrong) or the printing company so the objects on the T-shirt were bigger than the original one. Of course my friend didn't like that. So I finding our what I have to careful about so it will not happen again. The printing company accepts files in size less than 4MB but her pictures are always bigger than that. # UPDATE II Thank you for the advices. The last jpg file is 8MB big. The picture looks like that. Almost full A4 size. I need to (the best in gimp or some other free tool)   1. get rid of the black line at the top (I know how to do that)   2. rotate the image   3. make the white surroundings transparent (know how to do that)   4. make the file size less than 4MB. Preserving the quality as much as possible when I save png with points **1. & 3.** done as png in gimp the file size is **14.8MB** ![looks](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Iwcuq.png)


How can you diagnose the cause of slowness for some users but not all?

We are getting reports from a handful of users that our web application is loading very slowly for them. So slowly that many of their page requests are timing out. The majority of our users are not experiencing this. The users who are getting the slowness don't have problems accessing any other site. We can log in to their instance of the application and from our connection everything is fast. We have set up screen-sharing with the affected users and have seen first-hand the slowness they are experiencing. These customers are getting very upset and blaming us, even though we believe the fault lies somewhere else. We're about to lose customers. tracert doesn't return anything. every request times out. I'm really out of my realm of expertise here and I have no idea where to begin hunting this issue down, any help would really be appreciated.


Possible to have an RDS > 3072GB on AWS?

I am a complete newb to AWS. I have a MYSQL database that is about 4TB and growing each day and would like to move it to AWS. According to this link the maximum allocated storage size is 3072 GB. How can I run my DB on AWS? (I can think of a dozen of AWS's customers that have a DB > 3TB so there must be a way, right?)


What is the difference between Cloud hosting and cPanel hosting?

I just want to know whether both of these hosting model provides easy to use interface? Like phpMyAdmin and FTP server to upload file from FileZilla?


Is it possible to have a better sql editor for phpMyAdmin?

I am studying database systems and using MySQL and phpMyAdmin. The editor that comes with phpMyAdmin is plain editor that does not highlight any special syntax like for example: gEdit in ubuntu. Can I change the editor?


Website speed issues

I am developing a website however i have noticed speed issues, i am not sure whether is due to the location of the server. I am not a guru when it comes to performance or speed issues, but according to a website speed test it seems that it takes quite a long time to connect to the website. Speed Test Results Can someone suggest something or give me some tips, the website address is http://www.n1bar.com


What does I/O Limit mean in a hosting package?

I have a few questions about **I/O limit** in a hosting package. Lets say a hosting package offers 1MB I/O limit.   * Does it mean that at any given time no more than 1MB data can be transferred from disk?   * If I know the average page size (including its files), can I determine by this limit how many concurrent visitors this hosting package can handle?   * If this limit is reached at any given time, are further requests dropped or delayed?   * What are other things about I/O limit I should be worried about? ------ After Stephen's answer, I'm adding this graph image from GoDaddy hosting account.  ![GoDaddy Input/Output graph](http://www.imagesup.net/?di=1140434440510)


What are the Important fields in HTTP header from security perspective? I tried to google it but unable to find. Can anybody provide me a link to read about it? Thanks in advance.


Will text that appears dynamically (via javascript/jquery) be indexed by search engines?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does the Google spider render JavaScript? I'm writing an article that is broken up into sections, where the content of each section is hidden unless the user expands that section. To be more concrete, this is what I am talking about: http://jqueryui.com/accordion/#collapsible. In that example, the text for "Section 1" is visible whereas the text for all of the other sections do not appear. My question is, will the text contained in those other sections be accessible to search engines?


SEO - Google and link cleaning / cloaking

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does the Google spider render JavaScript? This a SEO related question, not a code related one. **Googles own link cleaning / cloaking** Gå to http://www.google.com and search for something.   1. Hover the title and you will se a link to the page you want to go to.   2. The URL you see when hovering is NOT the link you are clicking on.   3. Instead of clicking you can drag the title a little bit and then hover it. Then you will se the real URL. **My own link cleaning / cloaking**   1. Go to http://jsfiddle.net/NvmER/1/ and click the link, or look at the code below.   2. You will be "redirected" to http://www.test.com.   3. The real link are http://www.test.com/?event=23 **Working code in case jsfiddle don't work** If you need to se how it works I pasted a code below.               Länk          $(document).ready(function() {         $("a.direct").live("mousedown", function(e){             var oldurl = $(this).attr('href');             var newurl = $(this).attr('data-redirect');             $(this).attr('href', newurl);         });     });      **Question** Is this ok with Google? It's done with javascript. If you have an answer, link to a source or test to support it.


Question about external JavaScript and SEO

I have a question about external JavaScript and SEO. Assume I have a site called `example.com` with and index page of:               <html>     <body>       <div class='main-container'>         <script src='http://www.other.com/page.js'></script>       </div>     </body>     </html>      and               // at http://www.other.com/page.js     document.write('blue fish and green grass');      Will Google crawl what is outputted by `www.other.com/page.js`? Are there any techniques or strategies to make that content crawlable so that the text 'blue fish and green grass' was indexed? ## Edit: This http://moz.com/ugc/can-google-really-access-content-in-javascript-really seems to suggest that it is not but is also somewhat dated.


Will crawlers find content that appears after document.ready using javascript?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does the Google spider render JavaScript? I have a page that initially loads and looks pretty empty, but after it has loaded uses an ajax call to populate the content on the page (usually in under 1 second). Is this bad SEO practice? Will crawlers find my content?


changing title and meta tags via jquery. will it work for crawlers?

We have a scenario where we are getting our news articles from database on runtime. So we are chnaging our meta tags and title of the news-article page via jquery. Will this affect the crawling mechanism? Will the Google crawler read the dynamically created title and meta tags or not?


Are text links that are NOT wrapped in anchor tags read by Google as backlinks?

My wife is a writer and often has pieces published on other sites. The articles usually list a short bio and her blog URL but never seem to anchor link to her blog. They will write www.blogtitle.com in the bio but only as plain text. My question is does this count as a backlink to Google for SEO purposes? I'm guessing it doesn't so I've been trying to convince her to request a proper link back to her blog.


Apache Rewrite Rule non-www to www + http to https + remove trailing slash

I would like to accomplish the following:   * rewrite non-www to www    * redirect from http to https   * remove trailing slash e.g. http://example.co.uk should redirect to https://www.example.co.uk How would you structure a set of rules to do all of the above?


How to set site specific Error Log files in PHP under IIS

On Apache, vhosts can be configured with their own error log file, like so:               ErrorLog "my-site-log-dir/error_log.log"      How would this be done when hosting PHP under IIS?


Can't have CNAME for domains root, using noip to point to static host

I'm aware that I'm unable to have a CNAME as the domains root under the ruling 3.6.2 of RFC 1034, however I'm using noip to point to a static hostname. Currently I have www pointed to my noip static hostname, and i've got an A record pointing to my IP address, the only problem is that i need that A record to point to my static hostname, otherwise what's the point in using noip? I may as well set all my records to point to my IP. Is there a way for me to perhaps 301 redirect mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com? My domain registrar is Heart Internet and as far as i've seen, they only offer me the choice to redirect my www.mydomain.com to something else. Thanks!


mod_pagespeed not compressing images

`mod_pagespeed` is not compressing images on my homepage. My current config has:               AddOutputFilterByType MOD_PAGESPEED_OUTPUT_FILTER text/html       What is the usual setting people use for `mod_pagespeed` to get all the CSS, images, JS, etc. benefit?


SEO company really need to know the language of the site they work on?

I'm thinking to outsource SEO for my non-English site to the company listed on like elance.com or odesk.com But I'm wondering if they really can work on the none-English site when they don't speak the language of the site. Does the language ability of SEO company really matters for SEO itself? I'm not talking about click conversion rate or something bu purely SEO.


Does Yahoo Slurp crawl hammer a site?

A lot of robots.txt examples seem to feature `Crawl-Delay` for Yahoo Slurp for up to 2 hours, is this because Yahoo Slurp tends to hammer a website and increase server load?


How much can a particular domain be tainted from bad prior practices?

If a site found at a particular domain has previously used very bad SEO practices and has thus been ranked poorly for most search queries on google, will using very good SEO practices from now on immediately improve its ranking as much as a fresh start? Or will there be a delay before it climbs the rankings? Or will the ranking be almost permanently capped so its a good idea to get a new domain name?


I have added my site to google webmasters and bing webmasers but 0 backlinks

I added my site to webmasters since 3 weeks, I did some SEO, posted anchored links in directories, some forums, local directories, and most of them are do follow. Then I wanted to check if Google can see the backlinks to my Google page rank rises I used MajesticSEO, SEOMOZ openExplorer, SEO Spy Glass But I don't see the backlinks, is this normal, maybe it takes time like after two months I can see the backlinks?


How can I migrate from phpBB 3.x to SMF?

I have a phpBB 3.x-based site which I would like to migrate to SMF - basically, all threads, posts, user accounts and possibly PMs. This seems to be possible, but I haven't been able to find a solid tutorial/ guide that can help me through this. Does anybody have any experience doing this or know of a good guide that can help me out?


What points should I include in my forum's community guidelines?

I'm running a forum that's open to the public, which has predominantly been civil and on-task for the last 3.5 years. Recently, however, there's been an ongoing, unproductive dispute between a handful of users. We currently don't have explicit community guidelines, but, in light of this dispute, I'm thinking we should adopt some sort of code of conduct. How would you go about writing such a document? What points should I make sure to include?


Keep Google Analytics in a backup site or not?

I backed up my website and uploaded it to another server for testing and backup purposes. Should I remove or edit the Google Analytics snippet from the index.php (which is for the real site), or does it not matter as it's not the same server and url address as the one declared at Google Analytics account? The reason I don't want to remove it is in case someone forgets about it if they upload the backup to the real site in case the real one breaks. Also I know that if I turn off the website there is no GA snippet, but I need it open so I can easily access and test it so I don't have to write pass all the time.


Are there any sites that measure the page response speed of various hosting companies?

I'm looking for the equivalent of consumer reports for hosting companies. But I would be happy with any neutral data comparing one site to another. Does anyone have any links to data the speed of various popular hosting sites versus one another? I've seen this question about measuring your own website, I want to see measurements for other hosts against each other.


look and feel of html5 applications?

Where can I find a theme kit to use for my websites, to skin them as html5 applications... Sorry, I dunno how to explain myself.. I see this style in new web applications: ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/nojUy.png) ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/n7IJE.png)


Validation Meta tags for search engines

Should validation meta tags for search engines be left on the site following validation? For example, should I leave my msvalidate meta tag after I've validated the site.


Can I delete google verification txt file from server?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Validation Meta tags for search engines I verified ownership of a domain for Google Apps with the text/html file option. Now I need to permanently redirect the domain to another server with .htaccess. Obviously google won't see file anymore. So I have two options:   1. Do nothing (same as deleting verification code).   2. Move file to new server where htaccess is redirecting to. Do i really need to drag around that file so my account stays verified? Or is it a one-time process?


With Drupal, what's the best way to do backups and version control?

Looking to create a rollback and recovery system that allows me to create monthly backups that are easy to use to do a restore with, but would also like to be able to log and rollback changes. It would be nice if the rollback system is not 100% linear, but able to clusters and type system dependences. Also, like it if the rollback system was a module, but that's not 100% required. If you have any questions, just ask -- thanks!!


Loading 300dpi images for download

How can I add 4x5 300 dpi images to my website for download from clients without the images being enlarged on the website?


SEO url for multi-language site

Are the following urls threated the same in SEO rank or is someone better than another? If, why?   * language.domain.com/page   * domain.com/language/page


I found the IP Addresses via Logs & Google AP. I have a question about the the GPI?

I found out how to get all the IP addresses via Server Logs. I'm using the IP addresses to get the Latitude and Longitude. The address appear to be approx 1 3 miles away from the actual address of the vistor. Can someone explain why the GPI coordinates via IP address are not exactly matching the location of the user? Is there a more dependable way to get the address? Erik


is there anything wrong with my sitemap.xml

I had written an article over Highly searched keywords some days ago. When i search it in google using `top searched keywords article-stack`, it returns many results from my site. But none of them was really pointing to actual article. Is there anything wrong with sitemap.xml of my site or with google search?


How to Conditionally Load @Font-Faces via CSS3?

Curerntly, when you use a beautiful font, like for example the multiligual `Calibri` fotn (a win7 font), then it even downloads eventhough a user has the font already installed, when i use the following css:               @charset "utf-8";       @font-face {         font-family: Calibri;         src: url('http://blabla.com/calibri.eot')         }      **However:** this font is 400 kb gzipped, and i would like it to _ONLY_ download, if the font is NOT present or installed by that name / family name, right? **Question:** Is this possible to setup a neat conditional rule for this, for modern browsers (say IE8+, Firefox 3+ etc). How to implement it? Thanks for any and all clues!


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RewriteRule with Query_String

I have               http//royatlon.north.com/cybersource/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1      and I would like to rewrite it to this:               https://media.north.com/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1      How can I do this? I tried this:               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/cybersource/fp/clear.png/     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}^(.*)org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1(&.*)$ [NC]     RewriteRule^(.*)$ https://media.north.com/fp/clear.pngorg_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1 [R=301,L]      ...but it's not working. * * * But here is the problem, I have multiple URLs for one host for example I have this: ## If the request is `http//royatlon.north.com/cybersource/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1`   **rewrite it to**   `https://media.north.com/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1` ## If the request is `http//royatlon.north.com/cybersource/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=2`   **rewrite it to**   `https://media.north.com/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=2`


Is it a good idea to strip common words from url's

I've got an MVC app that generates url "slugs" on the fly. I'm wondering (with regards to SEO) if it's good practice to stip common words from the slug. IE: Page Title: **This is a cool title with lots of content** Page Slug: **/this-is-a-cool-title-with-lots-of-content**   Option B: **/this-cool-title-with-lots-content**


Remove .php and id from URL and replace with slash

I have tried lots of URL rewrite rules in _.htaccess_ but I am stuck now. I have to change this URL:                   products.php?id=31      to                   products/31      I have used:                   Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews         # Turn mod_rewrite on         RewriteEngine On         RewriteBase /              ## don't touch /forum URIs         RewriteRule ^forums/ - [L,NC]              RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+products(?:\.php)?\?id=([0-9]+) [NC]         RewriteRule ^ products/%1? [R,L]              RewriteRule ^products/([0-9]+)/?$ products.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]              ## hide .php extension snippet         # To externally redirect /dir/foo.php to /dir/foo         RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s([^.]+)\.php [NC]         RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,L]              # To internally forward /dir/foo to /dir/foo.php         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f         RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ $1.php [L]      Using this I get the following result:                 products/31      But all images and CSS not displaying. Any ideas?


Choosing a domain name with joined words is good for SEO?

I am going to choose a domain name for my business. For that I am going to use joined words in my domain name. For example, let's say my keywords are "painting" and "goa" and also that `paintinggoa.com` is not available to register. In this case if I choose `paintingoa.com` is it good? Is it good for SEO purposes? How will Google treat this domain name?


SEO domain advice: sol-spl.com vs sol-spanish.com

I'm taking Spanish lessons from a school that uses a domain name `sol-spl.com` (not the actual domain), where `sol` is the name of the company, and `spl` stands for "Spanish private lessons". I was thinking that it might be much better for their search rankings if they used the domain `sol-spanish.com`, since every search for spanish lessons is going to use the keyword `spanish`, and `spl` isn't likely to be used. Will switching domains like this likely have a positive impact on their search rankings, and is it a reasonable thing for me to advise them to do?


Analytics - how to tell where converted traffic came from?

I must be missing something obvious. I have Analytics set up with conversion tracking (goals), and I had 4 customers complete the goals yesterday. I'm trying to find out where those 4 customers came from (organic search? if organic, what keywords? etc) but I can't figure out how to do that in Adwords. When I click into the goal tracking overview, I see my 4 customers and it breaks it down so I see that 3 of them came from adwords (cpc) and 1 of them came from organic. I'd like to know exactly what ads brought the traffic and what keywords on the organic search led them to me. How can I do this? It seems like a simple request... but I can't figure it out... thanks for your help!


How to decrease the frequency of Google/Search-engine bots crawling my site?

My server handles my visitors ok, but recently I found there are many search engine bots crawling my site and my server gets quite busy serving these bots. My site generates over 1000 posts each day, so it might be normal for the bots crawling my site often. However, is it possible to decrease the frequency for the bots crawling my site? Or just tell the bots to craw my new posts? It seems they are crawling my site more and more often and my server becomes slow when they visit my site.


Does using data from another website increase their SEO?

To clarify, if I wear to use xml data from another website to make charts on my site, would that affect their SEO?


Handling the holding of money on a platform

We are building a platform for a client, developed in Yii, where users can top up their account on the platform with money from PayPal. Users can upload files and buy access to each other's files. Users can also gift other users with money. I was thinking that when users top up their account, the money goes from their PayPal to the merchant account of the website. So all users' money goes to one merchant account. Then, any transactions on the platform are simply recorded on the platform and each user's balance is the maximum amount they can withdraw from the merchant account. Is this the right approach? Legally, are there any problems?


Disqus thread migration. Gotchas?

I've been migrating a site to a new domain. The site itself is pretty straightforward (it uses Jekyll), and everything has gone fine -- except migration of Disqus threads. I've had _partial_ success -- some of the threads have migrated successfully, but not all. I've tried the domain migration wizard (which caught a few), the URL mapper (which caught a few), and the 301 redirect crawler (which caught a few). But the remaining threads just won't move, no matter which method I use. So, I suppose I suppose I'm asking if there are any "gotchas" I should know about with this. When you execute any of these migration tools, it says it will "take awhile." Does that mean hours? Days? I can't tell if it's working, and there's no logging or error reporting that I can see.


How to include content from remote server while keeping that content secure

I am hosting collection of videos, for which I retain the copyright, on a file server that I'd like to share with family and friends. When a user visits my file server via a web browser they are asked to authenticate using HTTP auth and then they are presented with a basic list of the files. I'd like to build web application that provides a clean interface with simply library functionality. However, this app will be hosted on a different server. I'm trying to figure out a security model for my file server that doesn't require the user to login to both the file server and the hosting server. I want to make this as easy as possible for my non-tech savvy family while still maintaining security for my files.


How to make google analytics report on two domains as though they are one site?

We have a main site that Google analytics is currently running fine on (www.ourcompany.com). We have a page that is technically part of the site (same design, etc.) but is hosted on another server/domain for various business reasons (www.ourparentcompany.com/ourcompanyapp/). Do we just add the normal google analytics code to the bottom of that page? Or is there something more we have to do? If there isn't anything more then couldn't anyone just take your GA code and start reporting analytics to your profile from their site?


Google crawl speed -- how fast can it go?

I have a huge website with 5 million pages. Currently Google indexes about 10,000 pages per day. This is very slow, I still have lots of pages that I can't get indexed. Does anyone know what is the upper threshold for crawl speed?


Who do I turn to for the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy?

Are the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for a web site something I can write up on my own, or do I need to turn to a lawyer or some other professional to do these? Who are the guys who do the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for web sites? How does one go about doing this, and how much does it cost (in the US)?


Under what circumstances is a website subject to United States laws?

I'm a Canadian student currently hosting a website using a German VPS service, which I want to put a forum on in the near future where users can submit content. However, all of my domains are .com, which is an American registry under an American registrar, and the website is made accessible to American users although the target audience is worldwide. I'd like to avoid subjecting myself unnecessarily to United States laws, in order not to be required to comply fully with things like the DMCA safe harbour provision and COPPA (although I might implement similar measures to the extent I find reasonable and to maintain compliance with the local laws of both Canada and Germany). I don't plan on doing anything illegal with the site itself, however, unlike a similar question posted here. In this situation, does the United States have any power or jurisdiction over my website? Do I need to comply with US laws just because I make my site accessible to them or because my domain name is under American control?


What are you using for getting stats about your web app? G. Analytics or other solution?

if you are building your own web application, what are you using for monitoring of visitors. Are you getting this information from Google Analytics? Or do you prefer your own solution?


Deploying Complex Changes

Occasionally we need to deploy fairly complex changes to a website which require changes to databases (new or changed tables) and dynamic source code (such as PHP or ColdFusion). What is the best way to package and deploy these changes quickly without breaking everything on the live website?


How do multiple subdirectories affect SEO?

I am building a URL strategy for a new website. Which is a better URL format, and why?   * /top-level-category/second-level-category/page-title or   * /page-title-top-level-category-second-level-category or some hybrid approach, maybe   * /page-title-top-level-category   * /top-level-category/page-title-second-level-category   * /top-level-category/page-title I've Googled around a fair bit and found some conflicting answers. SEOMoz suggests that the style I mentioned first seems to be best, but other sources indicate that keeping URLs short and pages in the top level directory can help keep SEO ranking high.


Why My Adsense Account is not accepted

I have created a blog on blogger few days ago and created two blog entries on it. when i try creating AdSense account with blog's address it does not accept the application due to PageType. i have searched around on the net and found that its probably due to duplicate or insufficient content on the blog but either of my blog entry is more than 2,000 words and i have literally typed 80 percent of its content with only few code blocks copied from other sites. Below is content of email i received as response to my application. Hello, Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into AdSense at this time. We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below. Issues: - Page Type * * * Further detail: Page Type: In order to participate in Google AdSense, publishers' websites and application information must satisfy the following guidelines:   * Your website must be your own top-level domain (www.example.com and not www.example.com/mysite).   * You must provide accurate personal information with your application that matches the information on your domain registration.   * Your website must contain substantial, original content.   * Your site must comply with Google AdSense program policies: https://www.google.com/adsense/policies" which include Google's webmaster quality guidelines: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769#quality . If your site satisfies the above criteria in the future, please resubmit your application and we'll review it as soon as possible My Personal credentials are also same as they appear in my google account. i can't figure out the problem. Any Help/Suggestion is highly appreciated.   regards


How do I get the root index page to redirect to a subdirectory without affecting SEO?

I am reviving/reorganising my personal WordPress blog. It's using a URL that looks like this: `http://mydomain.com/blog` The webserver 301 redirects `www.mydomain.com` to `mydomain.com`. I want to use the `blog` subdirectory because I plan to add other parts to the site, with the blog only being one part of the site. However, at the moment there is nothing there but the blog, so I want to have the root index page redirect to the blog for the time being. I have been using this on the root `index.html` page to do the redirect... `<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=./blog">` ...but this seemed to have stopped the site being indexed by Google and Bing. How do I do this without affecting SEO? Also, what URL should I put in the `sitemap.xml`?


Subdomain redirects to subdirectory

Supposing I have folder called "support" inside root folder "/public_html". I've added a subdomain in my server's panel so that when going to "support.mydomain.com" it redirects to "mydomain.com/support" The problem is that redirection is reflected on the browser's address bar, and I want to make that subdomain work like "base domain". i.e "support.mydomain.com/folder-inside-support" Is it something to be with .htaccess file?


Can I do a non-hostile cross-domain POST now?

One requirement for a site I'm working on calls for visitors to be able to sign up for an email list. Rather than add server-side handling for this otherwise static site, I would like to POST from the email signup form to another server (owned by the same client) that already has an email signup handler on it. But that server is on a different domain, so I expect some resistance from UA CSRF protections, but I don't know exactly what to expect. (There is practically no JS involved with this, just cross-site POSTing.)   1. Is what I want to do possible at all, or do I need to iframe the email signup form from server #2?   2. If it is possible, what kind of problems can I expect to face, and how should I overcome them?


How do I get mod_rewrite working with typo and wordpress?

I've some trouble with typo3 (mydomain.net) and wordpress (mydomain.net/blog/) using mod_rewrite. First I was running a typo3 installation which uses mod_rewirte without trouble. Now I'm trying to run a wordpress too, but if wordpress uses mod_rewrite, every click of a link bing me back to the index of my typo3. The filestructure of my ftp-folder:   * /html/ (contains the typo3 files and folders and the .htaccess-file)    * /html/blog/ (contains the wordpress files and folders) This is the content of the .htaccess:               RewriteEngine On          RewriteRule ^(typo3|t3lib|tslib|fileadmin|typo3conf|typo3temp|uploads|showpic\.php|favicon\.ico)/ - [L]          RewriteRule ^typo3$ typo3/index_re.php [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l          RewriteRule .* index.php [L]      Any ideas as to what I should do? Or is it possible that only one cms uses mod_rewrite?


Cloudflare in cpanel is it a no brainer?

I recently noticed Cloudflare cdn service add on in my cpanel. I understand what CDN is, but though it was a more complicated process than the one-click solution that seems to be offered in cpanel now. Can anyone vouch for this service through the cpanel and if it is indeed easy to set up as it looks. Do I risk breaking anything on a dynamic site?


How to get a new Adsense account?

I have a websites related to cricket and advertising. How can I apply for google adsense?


How to configure mod_bwlimited through htaccess

The mod_bwlimited module in htaccess apparently displays an error if bandwidth is exceeded. Anyone know what options are available for configuring it through htaccess?


Links from pages with poor/no ranking, is there anything I can do about this?

A site I help with sells a particular set of items, they have a strong reputation locally, and sell parts nationally online. From an observational point of view I enjoy working with them as they do everything right - always willing to go the extra mile for customers, even at times when it seems counter productive (for example spending large amounts of time helping a customer who has spent relatively little money) I would definitely put them in the "good guys" bracket. Checking server logs I notice they get quite a few links from phpbb style forums, talking about how great the service was/how good the prices were etc. These forums appear to be quite popular - large user list, lots of discussion and questions per day etc. But (and here is the problem) I'm almost certain these discussion groups aren't being picked up by google. The customers just don't seem to be the kind of customer who have a blog/twitter feed/website - the sort of content which is more likely to be picked up by google and have page ranking. I understand partly this is why the stackoverflow/exchange sites exist - to make the web a better place, make answers easier to find, more search engine friendly etc. Does anyone have any advice as to how to deal with this "problem" of old style discussion groups?


Would changing IP addresses affect my SEO

We're about to change our website from a shared hosting account to run on a VPS, mainly so we have our own resources and control over server settings. An IP address is included with the VPS. What I was wonder is if the IP address change will have a similar affect to changing the domain name? Obviously the links will still come from the same domain, so that's fine, but I was thinking more along the lines of the way a search engine sees the site - would it downgrade you for switching IP's?


Is my Hostgator dedicated IP used any more if I use CloudFlare DNS?

I'm hosting my website with Hostgator and I have a paid dedicated IP address for my host.   Today I have made an account on CloudFlare and replaced my old hostgator DNS with ClodFlare's DNS. My question is: If I've changed my Hostgator DNS with CloudFlare DNS that dedicated IP from Hostgator will be used like before or I'm paying for it for nothing and my website uses CloudFlare IP from now on?


/ and index.php. How to eliminate this duplicate page issue?

In my website root, I have an index.php and of course the rest of the pages. The problem is when I crawl my site either with a crawler or a sitemap crawler, etc, it reports 2 duplicated links www.domain.com/   www.domain.com/index.php How do I force tell my crawler that there are no two instances of the same page? Do I use a 301 to merge them? A canonical? an .htaccess redirection? etc. How do I fix this?


SEO for niche web directory - using canonical for pagination?

I am creating a niche web directory. Each category has a quality text and then about 1000 sites listed. My primary goal is to get Google traffic for each category intro. Only on 1st page of each category is text with first 30 sites populated, on the next pages there are only list of sites as pagination goes. I am not sure what would be a proper way for pagination. Each first page category is unique, but next pages could be very similar because the same sites belong to different categories. Do you think using canonical tag would be acceptable in this case?


Analytics and AdWords setup for agency

How would you recommend to setup Google Analytics and (or) AdWords for an marketing agency managing multiple websites, assuming that:   * I need access to all of the sites   * I'd like to manage all of the domains in one place   * I'd like to avoid to repeat all the stuff (e.g. creating filters excluding my IP)   * I need Google Analytics for all of the client sites   * Some of the clients are using AdWords, some not   * Each of the clients need an access to their data, and only their How to set up My Client Center and Analytics together?   Do I need to create separate gmail account for each of my clients (assuming they don't have one yet)?


why is my site slower with amazons cdn?

so I have move most of the static objects to amazons Cloudfront CDN example: http://images.storyfollower.com/images/cycleOfStories.jpg which through cname point to the cdn Now I just ran a speed test and the site is much slower????? With cdn: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/BmxPlstTp/storyfollower.com 1.7 sec Without cdn http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/nFmp4l3Ez/storyfollower.com 0.8 sec. I basically moved all the css / js / and images over to the cdn Did I do something wrong? Have a look for your self at http://storyfollower.com WHY is this happening? Thanks


A JS-based WYSIWYG HTML editor with flexible image upload?

Is there a good JS-based WYSIWYG HTML editor with flexible image upload out there? Ideally, I'd like an editor that allows me to handle image upload in a custom callback.


Does DFP Small Business allow geotargeting?

I'm working with a blog that has an advertiser who can only show ads for US/UK... so I'd like to set up an ad server that will show those advertiser's ads for US/UK customers, and then show Google Adsense ads for all other countries. It seems like DFP Small Business (Google's free ad server product) will do the job for all of this, but I'm not 100% certain it allows geotargeting as I've described. Is that possible?


Schema.org Microdata for links to Member Organizations

I'm finishing up a site for a client who is a member of multiple organizations and wants to display links to those organizations on their website as in: Client Company is a Proud Member of: Organization 1 Organization 2, etc.. I've never really dealt with this situation before and maybe I'm just not phrasing my question properly, but I'm not finding anything. It leaves me with a couple of questions:   1. Is there an appropriate schema in existence for this scenario?   2. Is there an appropriate rel attribute that I should be using?   3. Will these links help or hurt SEO in any way?


Copyright my website name. Is this possible?

I am wondering if besides owning my domain name, should I copyright the actual name of the site? If my site is called **mysite.com**. Could I go to http://www.copyright.gov/ and copyright **mysite**? Or do I need to do nothing? What would be best if someone was to try and steal my website name?


Suggestions required to build an ECommerce Platform

For a prospective client we have to offer a solution to provide following system:   * CMS    * Order Management   * Shopping Cart   * CRM   * Helpdesk   * Accounting & Finance   * Custom Functions In order to save time and to avoid reinvent the wheel our idea is to integrate different off-the-shelf solutions. Their first requirement is that the system has to be hosted in their country which I think will exclude application like Aplicor, Netsuite & Salesforce. Basically the nucleaus would be the CMS which would integrate all the other apps. PHP or .Net based solutions would be our preferences as have inhouse expertise. So far following are few combinations I have come up with:   * Joomla (CMS) + Virtuemart (Cart+Ordering) + Sugar CRM + Open ERP (finance) + OTRS   * Magento (CMS+Cart+Ordering) + Sugar CRM + Open ERP (finance) + Helpdesk Ultimate   * Drupal (CMS) + Ubercart (Cart+Ordering) + Sugar CRM + Open ERP (finance) + Support Ticketing System   * Sharepoint (CMS) + OptimusBt (Cart+Ordering) + Dynamics CRM + Great Plains + SharepointHQ   * Dotnetnuke (CMS) + DNNSpot (Cart+Ordering) + Sigma Pro (CRM+Helpdesk) + Open ERP For Helpdesk I liked Zendesk but the server location was the stopping factor, similar for finance and CRM I liked Aplicor. I would not like to go into detailed requirements as it would make things very complex. Could you please suggest me which options are worth enough to start looking into? What other options we have?


Google maps premier license

I would like to buy Google maps premier license. I tried to contact Google maps through their web site (online inquiry form). No one got back to me. I would appreciate if someone can help me with this.


What type of server is using Django/Python? .htaccess is compatible?

I was wondering what type of server is using python & django because i don't know if can i use an _.htaccess_ file and if there is something similar. Thanks.


URL for a blogger blog issue

I am hosting the URL (`www.getyourpansoff.com`) of a friend as an add-on in a bluehost account. I want to use this URL for her blog (`get-your-pans- off.blogspot.com`). I have configured the URL in the blog itself, and Google seems happy with it. However, when I try to open the blog using `www.getyourpansoff.com`, I do not see the blog. In BlueHost, I have the following: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xfthC.jpg) I also have a redirection: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0UqTu.jpg) What am I doing wrong and how to solve it? **Update** What I have now:               A     record www -> 69.195.124.93     CNAME record www.getyourpansoff -> getyourpansoff.com      and not redirection. Still does not work.


Shared IP address

My website share the same IP address with a lot of other internet sites (500) that are not mine. How is this possible? is this affecting my SEO? Thanks


Ajax load more for search engine bots

On my website I am only displaying 20 posts for visitors, when they scroll down it loads more. I want to know if will affect the ranking of my website in a negative way if I load, for example, 100 posts for search engines. I am not worried much about the loading time as I am loading only text (really small posts). I would really appreciate any advice.


CMS for social photo album

I am going to make a multi-user photo album. I am looking for a robust and free CMS which can easily handle batch image uploads and some social networking capabilities, like rating, relationship, etc. I know that it can be done using Wordpress but I appreciate it if you suggest me to other viable alternatives (not necessarily php-based).


How to search for backlinks on google

What is the difference between following google search statements `link:article-stack.com` and `link:article-stack.com site:stackexchange.com` Can i consider 2nd search result as a subset of 1st search result?


Cloning a site and avoiding SEO problems

I have an idea to use a (cc-by-sa) data dump from another site, where I will experiment with new ideas. This would still be a site with almost 99% of the data similar. I can see two "rules" that search engines may apply   * Don't duplicate content   * Dont send different data to the bot and the ordinary visitors Links to the original site will be present as required by the data dump. If only the titles and other new data is shown to the bot it would solve the first rule but would that violate the second? Or should I simply put these pages in a robots.txt banned area? Would this be going to far. I don't care about ranking, only not to be banned. It should be found if people were specifically looking for alternate voting schemes, from new content that I generate.


How to improve onsite SEO if the site contain mainly picture?

And design requires that we don't add texts. The site contains only pictures. I think it needs some text. However, I do not want the text to be shown. Should I put it on img title? Should I hide it on description? Should I use meta keywords? What should I do?


What should I do with these old domain names?

I purchased some domain names a few years ago intending to build something on them. I haven't had the time to develop any of the websites, but I still think they have potential. What would you do? _Let them expire, sell them, create a sign-up page to gauge user interest, something else?_ Are there any resources/methods/tools you can recommend to accomplish this?


What is the best way to redirect my naked domain?

I have example.com, which points to web server using A records, I want to redirect all traffic from `www.example.com` to `example.com`. As far as i know these are methods,   1. 301 HTML redirect from www to `example.com`   2. Add CNAME alias for www to @   3. Add A record for www to webserver IP What is the best way to do it without affecting my search engine ranking?


Being at Google's Mercy: A Tool for Webmasters

you know what i would love? a tool by Google that tells you what they think of your site. if you're doing anything wrong that they are punishing you for or something. does such a tool exist?


Alt tag suitable replacement for critical text?

I have a slogan on my home page that will not appear in text anywhere else. The problem is part of the slogan needs to be an image, for design requirements. Normally I would want to put this slogan in an `H1` header and the title. Question is whether or not this image will hurt my content indexing by search engines, and if an `alt` tag is an adequate alternative. Thanks


Referrer traffic

I noticed repeat visits to my site from various websites, all located in the Ukraine. I looked at the source of the pages and see no links to neither my domain nor IP. I am wondering of the origin of this traffic. Hopefully there's no malicious intent. Is there a way to research it deeper?


Which pages should be present in the sitemap

So if I have a WordPress blog for example, then out of the following which should be present in the sitemap and which should not be?   1. posts - these will be obviously.   2. pages - should be.   3. categories - ?   4. date archives - ?   5. tags - ? What kind of SEO impact does it have to list all tags, categories and archives pages in the sitemap or not list them at all and give them a meta robot `noindex`.


Page title for real estate website

When user creates a real-estate content page, the `title` will be created by the rules I will create. Lets say there will be 10,000 flats on sale in London. So to make this as good as I can - how do I make good rules for page `title` for all content created? I would make tokens that will handle this something like:               "City" - "Type of real-estate + ft" - "price" - "Website name"      E.g.:               (London - Apartment 50ft - $120,000 - WEBSITE NAME)      I could probably think of something better if I had 5 - 10 flats, but when I know there will huge amount of them I have no idea which will work best. The content has many fields which could be used for page title (address, postal, price, number of floors, parking lots etc.)


What Google will do while switching from 301/404 to 200?

Imagine a pagination script with 20 total pages:               articles.php?page=18      What should I do when some third party web site links to a non-existent page?               articles.php?page=21      (page 21 is out of bounds)     articles.php?page=-10     (as is this)     articles.php?page=blabla  (or this)      problem is... (I have 20 total pages)   * some 3rd party site links `articles.php?page=21` that doesn't exist (last page is the 20th)   * and I send 404/301 as a response   * Google crawls that link   * some time after, the total number of articles increases and will make the 21st page appear   * the 404/301 will be removed in favor of the status 200 Is that correct? Is 404 or 301 better? Do I need some more expedients? (with a 301 redirect I mean redirecting to the closest valid page) * * * more answers are welcome!!


How do I know dead links in Google ad-words?

I am spending a lot of money on Google ad-words in my website. Sometimes customers get dead links from ad-words and unable to get to intended page. I know this is an issue from my part. I need to know which are those dead links that ad-words lists? Is there any way to find this?


What does link:http://www.sunshinetrekking.com means in google?

In terms of learning seo i found something link:http://www.sunshinetrekking.com i.e link:websitename. I couldnot what it is searching google. What does it means? Dis it important for pagerank?


301 redirect from new page to old to keep PageRank?

I need to change a URL of an interior page that has a Google PageRank of 4. It was recommended by a coworker that I create the new URL but have it redirect to the old one, thus allowing a buildup of PR for the new URL, and the existing page continues to maintain a PR of 4. Does anyone have any insight as to whether this will actually work?


What is Page authority in OpenSiteExplorer.org?

I am trying increase page rank of my website. I came across http://www.opensiteexplorer.org. It generated the stats of my website. There are alot of things. I would like to start from some basics. So first What is page Authority? I find my page authority as low as 26 compared to others 40. How can i increase it?


1 Google Analytics account or top-level domain + profiles for sub-domains vs. 1 account for each sub-domain

We have the following websites   * An online magazine Singapore edition - `sg.abc.com`   * The same online magazine Malaysia edition - `my.abc.com`   * Forums around the same subjects as the online magazine but functions independently - `forums.abc.com`   * Classifieds site rather also around the same subjects but functions independently - `directory.abc.com` Each of the above websites currently has its own Google Analytics account.   `abc.com` has a separate Google Analytics account too.   `sg.abc.com` has the most traffic and generates most revenues Are there any practical benefits of merging all the above sub-domains to be under abc.com? I can think of more reliable analytics and consistency for sure. Are there more? cross-sales?


Confused about facebook like

We have a 'Website Page' on Facebook that people like and we post all our news on it etc. We also have a 'like' button on our website which people click on. When they click on it it seems to publish our page onto their wall which is great. However, we would like it so when people press 'like' on our website, it 'likes' our Facebook website page. Both counters are different, on our Facebook website page we have ~350 likes, on our website we have ~280 likes they seem to be individuals. Any way we can make people 'like' our website page on FB?


Search result page > category defined or understood by Google to co relate with search query?

I searched in Google: `does nioxin work?` One of the top results is: > Does nioxin shampoo make hair grow? - Yahoo! Answers answers.yahoo.com > > › ... › Beauty & Style › Hair > > * * * Why is the category formed with `> Beauty & Style › Hair?`


I have 2 domains one main, one parked. I recently switched but host provider told me theyd repoint the DNS but there are problems? Do it via DS

I wanted to switch my site from `www.mutantspace.ie` to www.mutantspace.com. Up until now the `.com` was my parked domain. I looked into it and was told that using this code in my _.htaccess_ file in `www.mutantspace.ie` would work:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{http_host} !^www.mutantspace.ie$ [nc]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mutantspace.com/$1 [r=301,nc,L]       I then asked my provider and he said 'Where are you moving too though?' Then he told me best way was for them to repoint site to `www.mutantspace.com`. I said fine (in my ignorance) and that is whats happened. However even though new URLs are being indexed I have 100s of old URLs out there returning 404s. Now I can't access my old _.htaccess_ file to put in permanent redirects because its now `.com`. Is there any code that I can use anywhere in my root directory that will redirect old `www.mutantspace.ie` pages to their corresponding `www.mutantspace.com/` pages?


SEO traffic redirect bomb?

Okay, so let's pretend i have a site about "Dogs". My main business, however, is insurance. For some lucky reason, I appear on top for "insurance". Then one day, company B appears and they beat me on Google. So, one way to harm their backlinks is to create many from unrelated niches. I.e. I could create links back from my dogs website to my competition's website. I actually did this by accident to myself, so i know: It killed my site's rankings and even got banned from Google for a while. So basically, my dogs website, with it's massive traffic, is a grenade, waiting to get thrown at a site. By directing bad traffic, I can kill someone's site. And worst of all, they will think they are getting a LOT of traffic, when actually, I'm screwing them in the long run. So my questions are....   1. Am I right? This would kill PR, or was the time it happened to me purely a fluke (it was so bad, that if you typed in "dogs" followed by my country name, my site would appear 4th, even though it probably doesn't have the word dogs on the entire site once).   2. How legal is this? (i'm scared this is a normal blackhat seo tactic that already exists.... is it?)   3. How can something like this boomerang?   4. Why is no one doing this? Or are they? Thanks!


Multiple domains for different products?

I have a website with software applications. Is it good for SEO to choose one keyword rich domain name for each of our software products or should we stick to a single domain? From a user's perspective I think it would be easier to remember a domain that is keyword rich as the user will instantly know what this product is for. But I have read articles that the latest trend in SEO is to stick to one domain for all of your products and invest on this single domain website. Is that true? What do you advise? Should I register a separate domain for each of our products or should I use only one single domain? Should I do a 301 redirect with a .htaccess to a single domain? And what about the sitemaps? Should I register all sites in Google Webmaster Tools and post a separate sitemap for each one of them? should my main site sitemap include all pages or should separate domains have their own sitemaps?


Forwarding emails not working

I bought a new domain for myself. I got an email account free with the domain. Inorder to access mails through my gmail account I set up auto-forwarding all mails from my domain's webmail. Now the problem is at times it forwards mails instantly but sometimes it doesn't. Can anything be done about it?


Could too many HTTP requests using AJAX result in browser crashes?

We are running an ASP.NET web application, and recently we received a lot of crash reports from users. It sometimes crashes the Chrome browser, and sometimes it loads indefinitely. This is how our system is designed: our page is a light weight HTML5 page, there is no code behind in our page (i.e., no server-side binding). Once the page is loaded in browser, it fires up AJAX requests to load everything it needs, from look up values to business model, and then it uses JavaScript to bind it to drop down lists and other DOM elements. This is the screen shot from the Chrome browser's developer tool: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/trzJ3.png) Is 91 HTTP requests too much for a browser? How do I eliminate that this is not the cause of browser and application crashes?


Markdown (or Textile) editor for Joomla

I wonder whether there's any markdown editor similar to one used on StackExchange sites that's pluggable into Joomla CMS? Regular users tend to use rich WYSIWYG as they use Word. They set too many styles which makes the whole page ugly. Markdown editors on the other hand allow writing rich content that will end up in style of the site. Textile editor welcome as well, but less desired. **So are there any?**


Apache (XAMPP 1.8.0) access.log/Intrusion Detection Concern

[I originally posted on SO but it earned me a Tumbleweed badge. This looks like a better venue for the question.] I have Apache (XAMPP 1.8.0) running on Vista Pro x64. A couple times now I have seen a pattern like the example below in `access.log`. Concerning is the "attack" seems to somehow shift from a public IP to a valid private IP on my network (happens to be the WAN address of one of my routers). Two questions: How is this possible, and what happens if the "attacker" stumbles on a valid request? I've googled this to no avail.               177.0.X.X - - [03/Jun/2012:08:19:34 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.4/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      177.0.X.X - - [03/Jun/2012:08:19:34 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.5-rc1/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      177.0.X.X - - [03/Jun/2012:08:19:34 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.2.6/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      177.0.X.X - - [03/Jun/2012:08:19:34 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.5-rc2/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      192.168.15.3 - - [03/Jun/2012:08:19:56 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.6-rc2/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      177.0.X.X - - [03/Jun/2012:08:19:56 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.6-rc1/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      177.0.X.X - - [03/Jun/2012:08:19:56 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.5-pl1/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      192.168.15.3 - - [03/Jun/2012:08:19:59 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.7/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      192.168.15.3 - - [03/Jun/2012:08:20:01 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin-2.5.7-pl1/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403      192.168.15.3 - - [03/Jun/2012:08:20:02 -0400] "GET  HTTP/1.1" 400 1060 "-" "-"


Image hot-linking - is it beneficial for SEO

Are there any SEO benefits to be had from allowing other sites to hotlink our images?


Cannot access the subdomain all the time

I created a new subdomain: `blog.example.com`. Sometimes, the blog is accessible without any problems, but other times it's not, just like now at this moment (14-Nov-2013 12:57 PM Lebanon Local Time). Yesterday at night it was working. I've been having this problem for days. If I ping the subdomain, under Windows:               Ping request could not be find host blog.example.com. Please check the name and try again.      If I try `tracert`:               Unable to resolve target system name blog.example.com.      And with `nslookup` I don't get any records, with my humble knowledge, it seems as DNS problem. But why would it work sometimes? and not other times? Note that the response of the previous commands are instantaneous (in case you need to check some packets or something). I'm also using the Global Google DNS (`8.8.8.8`).


Cloud just for hosting big files?

I need a solution to store my big files (50MB+ each). Currently I am using an European dedicated server (100MBits) with 8000GB/month at 60 USD. I would like to use a cloud service that automatically fetches my files from my server the first time users request it (like a classic cdn) (So I can have all files stored within 1 server) I was looking at Amazon CloudFront and, to get the same bandwidth 8'000 GB/month, I have to pay like 2000 USD vs my 60 USD of my dedicated server. Is there a cheaper alternative?


How to transfer domain from Godaddy to another provider

I'm currently using godaddy for all of my company domains, and I'm very unsatisfied with their service, specially with their site, so we are trying to migrate those domains to another provider. The question is, How do I transfer my domains to another domain registrar? I'm not talking about transferring domain records (A, MX...) but to use the same domains with another provider, and redo all the configuration again. For example, one of our blogs is hosted in Slicehost and we feel very confortable with their record editing tool. As I have read prowebmasters I can see other people not very satisfied with Godaddy service. Thanks! **edit:** Thanks for the answers, they were all very informative.


Differences between google domains in different countries

We are currently trying to see if our site is being indexed successfully by google. Mind you we got millions of pages. A trick some people use is the google site: command. I always assumed that google.com and google.nl would be the same. Data being fetched by the same GoogleBot. And that it was more of a latency thing where google.nl would be closer to home than google.com. But this is clearly not the case, since google.nl and google.com give back different results. http://www.google.nl/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site:amazon.com returns 37.400.000 results and http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=site:amazon.com returns 487,000,000 results Does anybody know how this works? Another related question is what other tricks people use to see if google.com successfully indexes all data. It seems the best way is to do some analytics on the apache logs searching for the GoogleBot.


Registering a website with "YouTube" in the name

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Where is the line drawn with domain names which include a trademark? Are there legal (or other) issues with registering a site with "YouTube" in the name? An example would be "http://www.youtubepuppies.com". I would be running essentially a blog about puppies (going with this example), writing about how awesome dogs are and posting occasional youtube clips. This question isn't restricted to "YouTube", that's just an example of a well- known brand. I'm not going to be making any money from the site, nor am I envisioning the site to have a following (beyond what a little personal blog gets). And I just found a similar question: Where is the line drawn with domain names which include a trademark? Is there a way for a little guy to get "permission" from the brand holder to make a site like this?


Domains and trademarks - is there some legal risk

Suppose there is a trademark called "Rubyblock" and you buy rubyblock.com and name your app "Rubyblock" is there some legal risk? If yes, how do i can check this before to name the app and buy domain?


Can I fetch current user's search query coming from google on my website through any API

I was wondering, is there any API google analytics provide by which I can fetch search query for either organic or paid(adwords). By which I can decide what kind of content to show to that user. I want this data before showing any content to user, so this has to be that much quick in fetching from google. Is there any such thing available?


Looking for the name of something (social analytics, maybe?)

I write a blog. I'm not really interested in search-engine optimization or social media marketing, but I am curious when people link, read and comment about things I write away from my blog itself. I want an easy way of finding these things. I don't care about auto-submitting to sites, or anything like that. I also don't care about any statistics: I just want to know where the action is! For example, right now, I have cobbled together RSS feeds including:   * Twitter searches for my blog's name   * Reddit aggregate for any link to my domain But, for example, I always miss whenever my blog is posted to Hacker News, which is no fun since Hacker News discussions tend to be quite good. And, of course, I want to find out about discussions in places that I’ve never even heard of before. (I just signed up for Google Alerts, maybe that will help, maybe not. Google doesn't seem to be particularly realtime.) It seems to me there ought to be free services that do this sort of thing. But "social analytics" seems to be the wrong word, since that implies aggregation and data, and that's not really what I want. What am I looking for?


Class C IP Forwarding?

I'm not even sure how to correctly phrase this question so please bear with me as I try to explain what we want to do. And Thank You for taking the time to help me... We have products that appeal to an international audience. However with some search engines they factor in what class C/location your domain is sitting on for their serp results. The problem is we're very familiar with RackSpace cloud servers and their systems. If I had a domain I wanted to appear that it was sitting on a class C in the U.K. but I wanted the actual web server to be in the US (Dallas TX) is there some sort of trick/hack I can use to do so. Something like registering the domain, pointing the DNS to a UK web host and then pulling the files from my US cloud server WITHOUT a search engine (say Google) being able to tell where the site was actually located? I hate to have to jump through hoops like this and feel kinda sneaky doing so but Google certainly factors in IP location into their serps.


Microdata Without Reviews

I have not been able to find a clear issue on omitting reviews from Microdata. I understand that Microdata values for reviews will default to a certain number when omitted, but I was wondering if it would be correct/acceptable to completely omit the review node completely. I can see where reviews and average "star" ratings would be of help to the end user, especially for things like recipes. However, what if there are no reviews for a product or application? To be completely clear - let's isolate this question to only software applications or extensions. What if a particular piece of software or extension was not featured on an "app store" or other site that provided reviews? Wouldn't the formats still be helpful by providing version number, download URL, compatible software - etc? Sorry for the lengthy background, but I just don't understand why it seems that reviews _must_ be part of a Microdata markup. Or, am I wrong in this assumption?


What version control options are available for PHP web development?

I have done some basic web programming in the past and wish to develop my skills further and begin doing large scale projects as a contractor. I have no experience with version control to this point but know enough about it to know I want to use it. What version control systems are available for a web platform and which are the most popular (I'm assuming they'd be most popular for ease of use and functionality...)? Thanks!


Want to Minimise Browser Dependence

I am a web administrator to the site Nrityakalamandiram In the long run, I want the site's appearance not to conspicuously vary from browser to browser. I would like my site to appear and function exactly as I want it to, at least in the most popular browsers like Firefox, IE, Chrome, Chromium. As a step toward this I would like to get one thing sorted out See http://www.nritykalamandiram.in/home/gallery.html I opened it in Firefox, the album name "THE DIRECTOR" is just above the black box in which the photo gallery lies: ![Appearance in Firefox Browser](http://i.stack.imgur.com/KNRXC.png) I opened it in Chromium, the same page appears thus: ![Appearance in Chromium Browser](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tR3MS.png) What I have done as follows: Inside a element I have written the album name as per user's click (on the left side is a list of albums) and below it, displayed the gallery box. The mother is intended to be transparent like. To achieve this I appended "background-color:transparent" to the "style" property of This is ineffective in Firefox but not in Chromium as one sees - in the latter picture attached - a white patch to the left and above the gallery box! It is evident from above that                   <div style="background-color:transparent..." ... >      does not serve the purpose uniformly for all browsers. I am perhaps too fussy about a seemingly negligible aberration such as this, but somehow the white patches are jarring. In light of the above I have a question: Is there a code that achieves the transparency of the mother as described above, uniformly for all popular browsers?


how to hide domain hosting forward path

I have one hosting account with domain.com and we are hosting about 5 different websites. I have 5 folders in the hosting account each one with a unique "/name", and of course 5 www.12345.coms. I have each domain forwarded to hosting.com/name. When I do google search of my website, it shows the hosting.com/name in the path line, is there a way to hide it so it shows up as www.12345.com ? Here is a pic example: http://i.stack.imgur.com/VgmUb.jpg


How to find illegal or adult contents/links into a user-filled website?

I would like to use adsense on my website. This website is filled by users (they put comments and links). Of course, adsense (and others I guess) does not want to put ads on pages containing illegal/adult content or links that points to that. So, I want to track these bad contents the most easily possible : Is there a program or a web service to do that ?


Easy way to identify pages which are index, but not linked to on my site

I'm just wondering if there is an easy way to find out what pages Google has indexed, that are not directly linked on my site, for example: `www.mysite.com/skype.html` originally had a link in my site menu, but this link was removed. The page is still available when the url is typed directly, but there is no direct link to it. I don't want Google indexing this page any more and want to put a 'disallow' in my robots.txt.


Own SMTP server vs SendGrid/PostmarkApp/CritSend/SMTP.com/etc

Wondering what the benefits are from switching from our own SMTP server to an SMTP service. They all seem to talk about handling the deliverability issues. However our server is set up with reverse DNS, SPF records, DomainKeys, DKIM and SenderID. We've not yet heard about deliverability issues with our own server. Additionally SenderScore is reporting 99/100. So why use an SMTP service? PS: we'll be wishing to send a larger than normal marketing email so this would increase the volume of email from our server in a relatively short period of time


Traffic difference between sub-domain.example.com AND example.com/sub-domain

It is possible to create sub-domains for a website in these two ways:               sub-domain.example.com     example.com/sub-domain      `example.com` is the main website. Between the above implementations is there any difference in visiting and traffic statistics for the main website?


How many days does it take for Google Webmaster Tools to refresh after a DNS error?

Yesterday I saw a problem in Google Webmaster Tools - it's saying that "Googlebot can not crawl your site because of DNS errors." Please view this image & error date: ![http://i.stack.imgur.com/4auP1.png](http://i.stack.imgur.com/d4VWz.png) Then I immediately fixed the problems. Now I can see in the graph from two days there is not a DNS problem, but it's still showing a DNS error. I am wondering how many days does it take Google to to refresh this DNS graph in order to remove the error? Important Links: http://ansoftsys.com/sitemap.xml and http://ansoftsys.com/robots.txt.


Is it possible to use two different ErrorDocuments for different paths of a website?

I currently run PmWiki at mydomain.com/pmwiki. I have a 404 page and `.htaccess` set up in my site's document root for 404 pages regarding anything that doesn't have to do with my wiki. By default, PmWiki handles URLs a little confusingly so I had to use this in order to get it to look like mydomain.com/pmwiki/Namespace/Page I had to create a `.htaccess` in /pmwiki to remove parts of the URL. PmWiki also has a custom 404 (Site/PageNotFound) page that has stopped working, now my site uses the /404.htm page. I noticed this when trying to install this "recipe" to enable case-insensitive URLs. Currently the only way to access Site/PageNotFound is by actually linking to it, and, if you read how that recipe seems to function, this is an issue. Currently mydomain.com/pmwiki/blahblah and mydomain.com/pmwiki/legitimate_namespace_but_lowercase/legitimate_lowercase_page_name both direct to mydomain.com/404.htm. I have to admit I'm very confused, and I apologize if I was unclear in any of this, but I could definitely use some help.


is it legal to use links from an established website to identify unique content?

Not sure if this is a good place to ask, but maybe someone here can point me in the right direction... If I wanted to make a commercial, directory type website (where users can enter content) and in order to ensure uniqueness and prevent duplicate entries I would use links and URLs of an established website and cross reference those in my database to see if the link was already used - would I be violating any Intellectual Property laws in the US? So for example I am making a directory of musicians, and users can create profiles for musicans. But I don't want 3 profile pages for Lady Gaga, so I am asking for the link to Lady Gaga's myspace site. Or the link to Lady Gaga's Wikipedia site. If the link that was entered is already used in my database, I would alert the user, and require certain actions to figure out which of the profiles was indeed created by Lady Gaga or her representatives - and not just by someone who is trying to give her a bad reputation or something... Other examples would be possible with using facebook pages, google+ pages, linkedIn profiles, imdb, etc. etc. My website would take advantage of the fact, that another website is very established and reliable. Of course I will not include any content from the website, other than the LINK/URL STRING OF CHARACTERS (which would be a deep link however). And if I display the link on the profile page, I would make sure to say for example "visit lady gaga's profile page on myspace.com" or something similar to ensure fair usage. Here is an article, that talks about linking and deep linking to other sites, but not about "using the URL of a site in your code as part of the content verification process". http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter6/6-c.html Does anybody have an idea what's allowed and what isn't, what violates IP law and what doesn't? Or where else could I research to find out?


Using Google Analytics to view product hits

I am using Google Analytics but fairly new to it. I have a list of products on my site, they have the following URL:   * `example.com/product/1`   * `example.com/product/2` In Google Analytics, how can I view which product has the most hits?


How to Give proper Credit to Original Content keeping in mind the Google SEO

I have a website about Delhi and its tourism spots. Now for giving information about these spots, I am using Wikipedia and any other website for the information content, but I want to give Credit to these sites and don't want Google to spam my site for duplicate content. Can anyone suggest some legitimate way to tell Google that I am giving the due credit to the original source pages but I also want to rank for these pages. (I will not be posting the exact content from these pages, but only used for reference). Since my site is NOT a news site, is it okay to use the original-source metatag? Or there is some other way around? Please help!


Magento not responding to payment gateway notifications fast enough or at all?

Some of our customers are getting to the confirmation of payment step in purchasing from our Magento store, and then they are getting a timeout error, where the SagePay payment gateway is trying to contact our server to tell it that a payment was successful (or not…) but it cannot contact our server, or cannot get a response from our server in a timely manner, and then the payment/order is being cancelled. I've raised this question to my hosting company, but all they told me was: "This is down to the way the software is configured on your server" This is currently a Magento 1.4.0.1 standard installation as far as payment gateways are concerned. What on earth could this statement mean? Is there some configuration that I need to do to make Magento listen to these requests and respond properly?


How to use the private and public keys?

I am new to ssl certificates, i wanted to learn about ssl certificates, and I generated private and public keys myself while logged into cpanel, I wonder how to use those and generate a secured connection to my site, i have my public keys and private keys but how to use those? Can any one recommend a nice page or can any one teach me that? thanks in advance


SEO - Meta Description Tags Not Updating Search Result

I updated my meta description tag for my comics website about two months back now, but the search engine is still picking up my footer "Acceptable User Policy" text for some reason. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ni7RV.jpg) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/oMMVF.jpg) I'm not even sure why it would pick up this footer text to begin with: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BpGo8.jpg) I need this to be updated because I don't want my search result to be about my disclaimer... I want it to be about the content of my site- comics. How long should it take to update? Do I have the tag incorrect? **EDIT----- Meta Description Tag length:**               "Hitting Trees with Sticks is dedicated to sharing high quality original satirical comics with the world."          Words: 16     Characters (no spaces): 89     Characters (with spaces): 104      Thanks!


Is Google Image making use of comments / descriptions found in images?

I'm wondering whether Google (and other search engine) pay any attention to the text appearing in images such as Comments, Description, Exif, etc. I'm wondering as I would imagine that it would be nice if a user creating a website with a CMS would be warned if the image text fields are not defined, or if defined, be shown the existing data to make sure it is proper. However, that's a lot of work if the data is never used anyway! What I'm after is a link to an authoritative video (with Matt for instance) or document that talks about this.


In Google Analytics, given I have a specific page, how do I track where the user went to next?

Note: I'm an analytics "n00b". I have a specific page on my website, say [ **/users/register** ]. **Where in Google Analytics do I go to see where visitors to that page went to next?** I saw that, for that page, the was a column called " _Landing_ ", but the number there was lower than the number of visitors? When I looked at that page under the _Landing Page report_ , I saw that it looked to have the info I needed as it had an _Exit_ value... however, I don't know what that means, and I don't understand why the Landing number is so much lower. **Regardless I just want to see where visitors to that page went to next?**


What is good side of PageRank?

I am doing research about backlinks/PR/SEO/Search Result position and all I read about is that PageRank is not important, that it worth before but now it's not important at all. Only thing I found useful about it that is "change Search Result position", but ONLY if there are two sites with same keywords and same text content value, then Search Engine will check which site has higher PR and place that site above lowest one. Google counts PR importance as 20% for displaying search rankings, and Yahoo! is like 3%... Correct me if I am wrong... Is there any other good thing from it?


UTF-8 charset doesn't work for PHP mail form

I'm trying to solve the problem of **reading special characters** , (plus I cant get it on one of the Gmail) I get something like this " _×œ×“×•×_ " and this " _Ч“Ч•Чђ\"ЧњЧ“Ч•_ " sent from my WP blog I've tried all ways which were explained on Stack Overflow, but the questions might be specific, which hadn't work for me. I wont use any plugin for that, so my preferred code is here:               <?php         .....................             if(!isset($hasError)) {                       $emailTo = 'asdasdasd@mail.ru,  asdasdasd@gmail.com, info@travel-asdasdasd.co.il ' ;                 $subject = $_POST['subject'];                     $comments= $_POST['comments'];                     $dge= $_POST['dge'];                     $tve= $_POST['tve'];                     $weli= $_POST['weli'];             $sendCopy = trim($_POST['sendCopy']);             $body = "Name: $ContactName \n\nEmail: $email \n\nComments: $comments \n\n Subject :$subject \n\n Number: $phone \n\n $dge / $tve /$weli";                  mail($emailTo, ": הודעה" , $body, "Travel-Georgia" );             /////////////////              // set our boolean completion value to TRUE             $emailSent = true;         }     }         ?>            .......                              <form id="contact-us"  method="post" accept-charset="utf-8"> .......</form>


Will transferring a domain name to a new registrar cause downtime?

Will transferring a domain name to a new host cause downtime at all on the domain? It's the highest traffic time of the year for us but we really want to keep things moving and need to migrate hosts because our current host charges per subdomain. It's imortant we get this subdomain up and running in the next few weeks, so I'm wondering what kind of down time (if any) we should expect migrating the registrar. It doesn't seem like it would...


How to allow www.domain.com and domain.com on EC2 Ubuntu Instance on AWS

I have an EC2 Ubuntu Instance that I have apache2 installed on (along with php, mysql, mycrypt for a Laravel project). I have set up the correct nameservers, and www.domain.com is coming up online. However, domain.com (without www.) is not working. I know I have to change something with the vhost, but I am not sure how to do it with the Debian version of Apache2 on the Ubuntu instance. What file do I edit to do this, and what edit do I have to make? Thank you for your help.