Domain registration public information, measures domain authority in SEO?

I have seen on internet in various places talking about this and they says this information do have impact on SEO, specially in the _domain authority_ section. Is it so?   * If so, Is there any proper way to fill this up? Like, I am running a site as my blog, what should the the _organization_ field?   * If I own multiple domains, will having same contact information on all of them help gain domain authority?   * As a owner of multiple sites, should organization name be same or different? Considering I don't own a company yet?   * Any other suggestion about this?


Single page not appearing in Google Search

## Description I have a static franchise website which has various sub pages each dedicated to an individual franchisee. For each franchisee the page, the only thing slightly similar between all of them are the page titles, they follow this structure:               <title>       Welcome to THE_COMPANY - PRODUCT_DESCRIPTION Services, THE_LOCATION     </title>      **THE_COMPANY** and **PRODUCT_DESCRIPTION** are the same across all franchisees, however **THE_LOCATION** changes depeding on where they are located in the UK. Each franchisee page has the following `<meta />` tags:               <meta name="DC.creator" content="user"/>     <meta name="DC.format" content="text/html"/>     <meta name="DC.language" content="en"/>     <meta name="DC.date.modified" content="2014-01-23T11:22:31+00:00"/>     <meta name="DC.date.created" content="2014-01-23T11:22:09+00:00"/>     <meta name="DC.type" content="Page"/>     <meta name="DC.distribution" content="Global"/>     <meta name="robots" content="ALL"/>     <meta name="distribution" content="Global"/>      The main content on each franchisee page is completely different. ## The Problem There is one particular franchisee page, located in _Area A_.. Which will **not** appear in Google Search results at all. However every single other franchisee (if you Google Search for " **THE_COMPANY** , **THE_LOCATION** " is number 1). And if I do the same search on Bing, Yahoo or DuckDuckGo, the **Area A** franchisee is the first result on all of them. Has Google for some reason black listed one page on the site? ## What I Have Tried   * Ensuring the page is referenced in my **sitemap.xml** file   * 'Fetching as Google Bot' the link www.the_company.co.uk/areaa      * When that came back as **OK** I would submit to index    * Resubmitting the **sitemap.xml** file in Webmaster Tools   * Linking to the **Area A** page from another pages content      * For this I also waited about 3 weeks before checking again to give Google time to re-index    * Making a change to the page content and waiting another 2 / 3 weeks   * Removing the page completely and recreating it with an alternative URL The closest thing I have found to this issue is this StackOverflow question but this particular franchisee has existed for almost a year, it used to appear on Google searches however no longer does. I'm guessing the Panda update wasn't too happy with something on the page, but it hasn't effected anything else on the site and I am at a loss for things to try. I would greatly appreciate any information or thoughts as to what could have caused this Thanks. ## Update In line with Daniel Fukudas answer below, I have followed some of his steps but everything seems to check out alright: **HTTP Headers**               HTTP/1.1 200 OK =>     Date => Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:31:29 GMT     Server => Zope/(2.12.16, python 2.6.6, linux2) ZServer/1.1     Content-Length => 40078     Expires => Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT     Content-Type => text/html;charset=utf-8     Content-Language => en     Vary => Accept-Encoding     Connection => close      **Robots`<meta />` tag**:               <meta name="robots" content="ALL"/>      I have updated this `<meta />` tag to read `content="INDEX"` instead now. **robots.txt** :               User-agent: *     Disallow:          User-Agent: Googlebot     Disallow: /*sendto_form$     Disallow: /*folder_factories$      **Using site:THE_COMPANY.co.uk** : Searching for 'AREA A site:THE_COMPANY.co.uk' does not return the page, but regardless of that searching just for **site:THE_COMPANY.co.uk** will not necessarily return every indexed page, or so I understand... ## Update It appears Google likes to drop pages every now and then from the index, despite my steps above, I left the site alone and the page appeared back in the SERPs by itself.


phpBB SEO memberlist pagination error caused by Ultimate SEO URL plugin

I have recently installed following mods on my PhpBB board (version 3.0.12):   * Zero Dupe   * Ultimate SEO URL   * Related Links   * Gym Sitemap The problem is that the pagination for `memberlist.php` is broken now. Instead of giving me a link that looks like `forumRoot/memberlist.php?start=25` for page 2; I get `forumRoot/?start=25`. I have tried looking on an official forum but it did not help me at all since even mods of the plugin sometimes unsure how to deal with it.


Google Webmaster tools and geotargeting at TLD and Folder levels

Hoping you can help us with this question: We are one Canada’s leading websites with a PR8. For privacy's sake, let's call our main URL www.OurMainWebsite.com As we are expanding globally, we are planning to build a web site to service the US market but want to keep the domain above as is from branding perspective. Questions:   * Can we keep: www.OurMainWebsite.com as the main Canada site and create a www.OurMainWebsite.com/US as the US site?   * Can those 2 URL's be geotargetted as per above, and wouldn't the fact that US is a subfolder of the main TLD through things off? can I target a TLD to one country and a subfolder under the TLD to abother? Thanks in advance for your help.


Is site directory with "dofollow" links still effective?

I am planning to create site directory, but I learned that Google consider site directories as low quality. They emphasized that without any editorial effort to maintain a web directory and without continues effort to update them will bound to fail. I clearly understand the Google algo updates. I need your analysis if creating a more modern way for site directory can still be possible now today. What I'm planning to do:   * Review sites that are not spammy before adding to directory   * Put a "dofollow" link without anchor text   * Make sure that all contents are unique and meaningful to visitors   * No keyword stuffing    * No misleading content If I do these does Google consider my site as a high quality one even though I pass PageRank? I am planning to place it in the subdomain, does it affect the rank on my main domain or just on the subdomain itself?


Is there any badges like envato badges available readymade? Free or commercial?

I really like envato's badges. I would like to implement such badge system in my website. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ntAfs.png) Is there any readymade free or commercial badge pack available? Thanks


All Wordpress PHP Mail stuff being sent to spam

Every mail sent with the PHP Mail() is getting sent straight to spam (all providers e.g. gmail, yahoo, hotmail) My IP is not blacklisted. Here is an example of an email header that got sent to spam:               Delivered-To: jordashtalon@gmail.com     Received: by 10.229.91.149 with SMTP id n21cs189229qcm;             Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:43:12 -0800 (PST)     Received: by 10.43.117.194 with SMTP id fn2mr27050431icc.53.1324950190711;         Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:43:10 -0800 (PST)     Return-Path: <noreply@avatarthelastairbenderonline.com>     Received: from host.avatarthelastairbenderonline.com           (host.avatarthelastairbenderonline.com. [173.199.171.80])             by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ut2si17526443igc.26.2011.12.26.17.43.10             (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER);             Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:43:10 -0800 (PST)     Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of noreply@avatarthelastairbenderonline.com designates 173.199.171.80 as permitted sender) client-ip=173.199.171.80;     DomainKey-Status: bad format     Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of noreply@avatarthelastairbenderonline.com designates 173.199.171.80 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=noreply@avatarthelastairbenderonline.com; domainkeys=neutral (bad format) header.From=noreply@avatarthelastairbenderonline.com     DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=avatarthelastairbenderonline.com;         h=Received:Date:To:From:Subject:Message-ID:X-Priority:X-Mailer:MIME-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:X-Source:X-Source-Args:X-Source-Dir;         b=p8We0ql3qPoF6Jk79NICVgnMedJR6xGsnBQPp0q/0h+NCY2YdtUh7ouRKNEcpAhXNr+OKzs2XWd37fn86sLcrC0tWUGXU0JUeyktyGYpNOoTeI9ImFlrD3Vt1VDQ+JXr;     Received: from host.avatarthelastairbenderonline.com ([173.199.171.80] helo=avatarthelastairbenderonline.com)         by host.avatarthelastairbenderonline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)         (Exim 4.69)         (envelope-from <noreply@avatarthelastairbenderonline.com>)         id 1RfM4K-0001Yg-Bz         for jordashtalon@gmail.com; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:43:08 -0600     Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:43:08 +0000     To: jordashtalon@gmail.com     From: Avatar The Last Airbender <noreply@avatarthelastairbenderonline.com>     Subject: Test message from your WordPress blog     Message-ID: <3bfb7466ba93540ac86be00e3792e30b@avatarthelastairbenderonline.com>     X-Priority: 3     X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.1 (phpmailer.sourceforge.net)     MIME-Version: 1.0     Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit     Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"     X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report     X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.avatarthelastairbenderonline.com     X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gmail.com     X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12]     X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - avatarthelastairbenderonline.com     X-Source:      X-Source-Args:      X-Source-Dir:           Hi, this is the Configure SMTP plugin e-mailing you a test message from your WordPress blog.          This message was sent with this time-stamp: 2011-12-26 19:43:08      Only think I can see is it says that the DomainKey-status says bad format. What is the domain key? and would it send emails to spam? Can anyone tell why these emails are being sent to spam? Even the basic Contact Form 7 Wordpress plugin is sending emails straight to spam.


Are there any length limitations for image alt or title property?

I'd like to insert an image on a webpage with an `alt` property. But the text length I'd like to use for this `alt` property is pretty long: about 200 words (slightly less than 1000 characters). Moreover this text has some line breaks. I have some doubts that such a long `alt` property won't be appreciated by search engines. So do I need to follow some guidelines regarding the length of an `alt` property? I have the same question regarding the `title` property.


Is it a good practice to use Gmail, Yahoo Mail & Hotmail addresses for registration?

I am designing a website in which clients should register to use some specific services, and I am trying to prevent temp mails, or mails from personal domain. The question is that is this a good practice to use Gmail, Yahoo mail, Hotmail and some other well-known mail services? Do you have a domain in which you implemented registration system? If the answer is positive, do we have people from other mail services? (how many?)


Developing a new site over an existing site. How do I do this with WordPress?

Let's say I have an ecommerce site that is already up and functioning, www.widgets.com but I don't like the shopping cart that I got with the host and instead want to use Wordpress and a Wordpress shopping cart plugin. I don't want the site that is up to come down but I would like to develop the Wordpress site on the same host account and same domain. Is that possible? Once the Wordpress site is all developed, how do I make it the root site?


Is it allowed to use Like button for another page?

According this thread it is possible to place Like button on some page, while the like button gives "like" to another page. But is it allowed officially? Aren't there any sanctions from Facebook if I like page from another page? On documentation page for Like button, there is mentioned that I can set "href" parameter, for example "href" parameter can be set to my Facebook fan page. But there is no mention that I can use this parameter widely for any page. Can I think, that when it is not forbidden, it is as allowed? I would need to use Like button, so users likes another page (on the same domain) then the current URL.


Our website was copied 100% and mirrored on a different domain

One of our websites was copied word for word all 400 pages by someone who used a special program to clone the site. We saw the program in the code. This was done in early April and soon after that we lost a lot of rank in Google. We just discovered the copied site today. It is mirrorred 100%. We did change the front page of our site since then to make some differences but since the Penguin update, we still have not recovered. We have also corrected the problems in Webmaster Tools. Will the mirrored site affect our Google rank to a severe degree or are there other issues that are affecting us? What can be done about that mirrored site?


Website copying our content SEO impact

Our company has a large dealer network across the US and Canada. We take an additional 25% off the products if they list our products on their website which most people do. We use to hand out code for a complete website so they could just upload it to a server change the contact numbers and be done with a site. Also we handed out snippets of our product page code that will hotlink the images from our server and provide them with a description for each product. Now there is no telling how many dealers have this exact same content on their site, possibly hundreds. I was poking around by searching a string of text that is on our website and it brought up a dealers website before ours. After investigation they have copied almost all the text from our website and placed it on theirs, from our FAQ's, testimonials, resource links, about, etc. How bad is this for our own SEO? We are currently under a manual penalty for purchased back links so our search results may be diminished already, but we do not have a duplicate content penalty. The back links were before my time at the company and so were the dealer website kits. I am the new web developer at the company and was put in charge of SEO also, something I know very little about but am learning as I go. I think we are possibly headed down a destructive path as far as SEO goes by continuing this practice. We are currently rebuilding our site from the ground up, new product descriptions, images, info, etc. So I feel this should help us out with the duplicate content if it is an issue.


How to deal with a site that has plagiarized mine?

I have an established blog that has been putting out content for a year. Today I noticed that somebody has cloned my entire website, word-for-word, and hosted it on a separate domain. When I say cloned, I mean you could put them side-by-side and they would look identical, so everything has been copied, including content, layout, etc. I looked at the source and the HTML has been copied verbatim. The new domain has only been registered a few weeks ago. Unfortunately the copied site is now outranking my real site on a few keywords in google search results! On some keywords the fake site has taken my place on the first page of the search results, and my site is no longer even listed! What can I do about this? **Update:** I filed a DCMA complaint with Google. **Update:** I just discovered that he is just using his site as a proxy to access mine. I can block his IP from accessing my site which would effectively solve the problem (maybe only temporarily?), but then what happens when Google investigates the DCMA and finds nothing?


How do I setup authentication on a specific folder using .htaccess?

I have a folder that I want to host files privately on my webserver. How do I go about making it password protected using .htaccess? _Note: Nothing monolithic, I want something that is simple/easy so setup so me and a few colleagues can download a few files._


What payment gateways do real customers really use when given the choice?

I would like to give customers the option of paying however they can whether that be through a proper gateway (e.g. SagePay) or through something else such as PayPal, Amazon Checkout or Google Checkout. Personally I have not bought anything through the Amazon Checkout except for on Amazon.co.uk and my PayPal buys have been limited. As for Google Checkout I have no idea what that is or how it works from a consumer perspective. I understand that people buying from smaller sites are happier to pay by PayPal as they have an account already and trust PayPal. As for Amazon Payments and Google Checkout, do people actually use them if given the choice? There are a lot of people on Kindles these days, happy to buy stuff via Amazon on their Kindle. Would Amazon Payments make sense to this growing crowd? With too many payment gateways on offer it might be confusing at the checkout. Does anyone know if this is a problem for genuine customers? I also have not seen many 'pay by Amazon Payments' icons on websites (you see PayPal all the time). Does advertising the fact that you can pay by Amazon Payments increase sales, e.g. to Kindle owners that have a nebulous book- buying account that 'their other half doesn't know about'?


Googlebot received Access Denied when crawling a directory

I'm facing the same problem with Googlebot not able to crawl my page. Mine problem doesn't have anything to do with `www` or not. Google can crawl all my pages except one directory and this directory contains all images, no code. (I have other images directory and Googlebot can crawl fine). When checking Google Webmaster Tools for Crawl Error, the directory which Googlebot couldn't crawl and yield "Access Denied" error is: http://www.artistviewpoint.com/picture-to-painting/pictures/samples/. Reading the guide from Google, I have already checked my _robots.txt_ file and there is no log-in authentication of any sort. The only remaining tips which Google provide is to check the hosting provider or authentication using proxy which I do not know how to check.


Does using WordPress alongside my CMS violate any search engine guidelines?

I created my own CMS for my website, so it doesn't use any general CMS. I don't have a blog right now but I plan to use WordPress core to build one (like `www.myweb.com/blog`). I will have two admin pages: one for my website & another for just my blog. I have no time to create my own blog system because it's a complex system for comments, image uploads, and categories. So for faster development, I will just create a theme and use WP core for the CMS. Will my plan violate any search engine's terms or rules for SEO? Do Google, Bing, Yahoo, Soso, or Yandex advise against this?


Creating a new 200 OK page on an address that previously served a 301 redirect?

Let's say I create a page `aaa.htm`; after some time it gets removed in favor of `bbb.htm`. At this point `aaa.htm` responds with a 301 redirect to `bbb.htm`. Now again, after some more amount of time, I create a new `aaa.htm` file again that now responds with status 200. Is this practice bad?


Combining hreflang links, canonical tags and xml:lang on multilingual, multiregional and multi-subdomains websites?

I have a multilingual and multiregional (using different subdomains) website and I'm not sure how to handle those 3 elements. To summarize here are the hreflang links that I generate on each page (internal page here):               <link href="http://mywebsite.com/" rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" title="International" />     <link href="http://uk.mywebsite.com/internal-page" rel="alternate" hreflang="en-GB" title="Internal page">     <link href="http://fr.mywebsite.com/fr/page-interne" rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" title="Page interne">     <link href="http://be.mywebsite.com/fr/page-interne" rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-BE" title="Page interne">     <link href="http://be.mywebsite.com/nl-be/interne-pagina" rel="alternate" hreflang="nl-BE" title="Interne pagina">     <link href="http://nl.mywebsite.com/nl/interne-pagina" rel="alternate" hreflang="nl" title="Interne pagina">     <link href="http://it.mywebsite.com/it/pagina-interna" rel="alternate" hreflang="it" title="Pagina interna">     <link href="http://ch.mywebsite.com/de/internen-seite" rel="alternate" hreflang="de-CH" title="Internen Seite">     <link href="http://ch.mywebsite.com/fr/page-interne" rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-CH" title="Page interne">      Where the default domain (`http://mywebsite.com/`) isn't a country selector dedicated page (although there is a country-language selector on top of the page). It is in fact our international version of the website that contains only english content.   1. Are the above links correct? and is the title attribute relevant/useless or wrong?   2. Canonical tags are absolute links. E.g. in an internal page of Italian domain in italian language. `<link rel="canonical" href="http://it.mywebsite.com/it/pagina-interna">`   3. I use XHTML 1.0. What values should I use on `xml:lang` attributes on the HTML tag?


Domain transfer and New Hosting Management

I wanted to migrate from my older registrar to GoDaddy. Main reason because current registrar/hosting provider doesn't support **.NET**. My old registrar gave me control over the domain and hosting account. So, basically I have everything I would need. ( I know theory only ) I applied for Transfer of domain, bought a hosting package from GoDaddy and uploaded new web site. So, I am waiting for domain transfer and it tells me that I have to wait for 5-7 days for approval. Okay. But today, my old registrar told/taunted me that I really didn't need to apply for transfer. What could possibly I have done differently? My domain expires on this 15th. Now I don't know much about how all of this really works, but I am guessing he meant, " ** _you should have waited for 15 days and let it expire after which you should buy the domain as it is expired_** ". **Is it really so** (I doubt) or **there are some other ways I could have got same result but without transferring domain**? (like, changing DNS entries) I have read like all of the documentation available on namecheap/GoDaddy/Whois about domain transfers. But maybe because I am new to this it is all confusing to me. I would also like to know what to do with DNS settings after transfer succeeds. I want to kill the old website. So, **what nameserver settings I need to change, new one or old one or both?** I have **old host+old domain registrar + old working site** on one hand, on the other hand, **new site + pending domain transfer + new DNS settings**.


How can I prevent another site from trying to phish my customers by cloning the look and feel of my site?

I have a site hosted on Godaddy. Recently, another site _that I don't control_ has copied the look and feel of my site. They look exactly like my site, except the domains are different.. Godaddy's staff said there is nothing they can do to prevent that site cloning the look and feel of my site. Is there anything I can do to stop another site from effectively cloning my site? How can I keep my customers from being duped by this?


What is an easy way for disabling a file temporary?

Say I have a file called debug.php and I want to use it only when I am testing scripts.   * How can I disable the file securely?  I'm used to change it to a txt file. But I wonder what other users think is the best method.


Is it possible to create a logo for your web application for Windows Phone, just like for iOS?

We can create logos and have iOS and Android recognize these by using               <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="image.png" />      Is there a way to create a logo and include it so that it can be used in Windows Phone as well?


How do you generally find out the riskiness of a domain name? (concerning trademarks)

My domain would look like "tiltblah.com". I don't want to mention the real domain name here, because it might be registered by someone else then. I'd like to register this domain, because I want to create a website with about PC games. I've searched the US and EU trademark databases and found trademark holders like "Full Tilt" and simmilar. Let's say my domain name goes like "tiltfun.com", and my website is about games, Full Tilt poker (ignoring the fact that they might be out of business) is about games too. This seems to be a risk to me. Same branch of trade & the word "Tilt" is used => risk? And if there's a trademark holder from a completely different branch of trade, dish washers or anything, owning the trademark "Tilt". Would they want to sue me? In Germany branch of trade is important. If it differs, simmillar domain name holders can peacefully coexist. I was never so cautios until there was somebody sued by BMW for using the word MINI and somebody in Germany was imho sued because he used a "t-" in his domain name. Deutsche Telekom owns "T-". In case this question is too specific, how do you generally find out the riskiness of a domain name?


Unmanaged Ubuntu Server - What would I be getting myself into?

I'm considering purchasing an unmanaged VPS with a Ubuntu 12.04 server to host smaller sites that aren't very important _yet_. My plan would be to install webadmin and basically administrate the hosting end that way. My question is: What am I getting myself into? I'm fairly comfortable with Ubuntu. I know enough to 'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade.' What else would I have to worry about aside from the usual keeping my scripts (mainly WordPress) up to date?


.htaccess Redirect based on subdomain

I'm looking for some help in accomplishing redirects based on the subdomain. For example if some tries to access: > http://1.test.com it will redirect to: > /file.php?test=something and if they go to: > http://2.test.com it will redirect to: > /file.php?test=somethingelse I only need the root redirected, so if they go to: > http://1.test.com/blah it will not redirect. I know the basics of creating htaccess files, I just can't seem to get it right for some reason to accomplish this. Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks. P.S. I should mention that all these subdomains point to the same document root.


Is there a good tool for HTML content generation by less technical stakeholders?

I am the webmaster and everything else technical for a tiny startup company. Some static content is being written in MS-Word by stakeholders. What is the best process to get HTML content instead? They aren't married to MS-Word, and the content is pretty simple. Can someone recommend a simple HTML editor for this purpose? I can set up the initial document structure, they just need to modify or extend the content. I think it would simplest if they could do this offline, opening the HTML file in some Windows application, and then send me the updated file for installation. Later I will want them to be able to upload the content to the test site.


outsource help to convert my website for multiple platforms

I am wanting to update my website for multiple platforms. I have tried to do the coding myself, but I just don't have the time or patience. I am looking for a inexpensive vendor who can do the coding at a one time cost. I have looked at several websites, but they all seem to be a continuous service. Can someone give me advice on some vendors who can help convert my website for a one time fee?


Looking for a google search engine style html/css template

I'm looking for a google search engine style html/css template, paid or unpaid, doesn't need to be exactly the same. Just sort of a minimal style search engine design template. Where can I find such templates?


What are applications like IdeaBox called?

I'm trying to figure out the generic name for systems that allows users to contribute with the development of new features. Kickass Torrents has a very interesting app in it's site named IdeaBox and it's divided in stages such as: suggestions, planned, in progress, completed. It has a voting feature for everyone with more than 100 reputation and that's pretty much all. I wanna look at opensource alternatives but that's not possible if I don't know how it's generically named.


in Web Design What format does Web Designer, Developer and Client prefer? Is it PSD, AI, EPS. or Firework's PNG

I would assume that the answer would be Photoshop PSD, But It would just be a biased opinion. What are your thoughts? I recently find illustrator to be fast in position stuff, at the same time my elements are in vector (crisp and sharp). while in Photoshop, as my images/elements grows, my layers also grows and the memory usage grows, Photoshop will then slow down. Making my overall workflow slowdown. So the idea for this is If I have some raster images that needs some Photoshop effect, I will just switch to Photoshop and finish that effect. then switch to illustrator and import that image to my whole design. Maybe it's just my workflow in Photoshop that isn't optimize thats why I find it very inefficient. I think this also goes with fireworks. I've used these 3 application for web design. I've had long relationship with Photoshop in terms of web design. Back to my question, what do you usually use for Web Design? and does it affect Designer,Developer and Client in your project?


How much do reviews on Alexa matter

Alexa has a star rating based on user reviews. How much do they matter in website rank (if they matter at all). If they don't matter why does Alexa have them, they are not a review website.


Is pyramid link building a good practice for SEO?

Can someone help me to understand please? Is pyramid link building a to do practice for SEO? Does it work as per example below? Tier 3 pyramid building for SEO...   * Tier 3 site, links to Tier 2 site...   * Tier 2 site has _keyword_ links to profile site   * Profile site has links to `http://yourdomain.com/` Does Google associate the _keyword_ with your domain, thus ranking it higher within the search field?


Forum with LDAP integration?

Is there any popular forum software (installable, not hosted), that has LDAP integration for users? Ubuntu server, Python would be nice but not required, authentication only for now, although profiles would be nice at a later point


Is there any way to prevent Googlebar from breaking Friendly 404s

This might be considered a continuation of this question. If I output HTML after my 404 header, It displays properly in IE and FF unless the user has Google bar instaled. If I try               header('HTTP/1.x 404 Not Found');     header("Location: http://www.example.com/?content=404_error");     die();      then I'm getting 302 from the redirect. It seems to overrule the 404 Supposedly if your output is larger than 512 bytes, the toolbar isn't supposed to override the page, but It seems to do it anyway. I found a setting in Google's Toolbar that said "Provide suggestions on navigation errors". Turning that off provides me with the behaviour I want my visitors to experience. Does anyone know if Google provides a way for a developer to over-ride that setting for all visitors?


Simple blogging platform

I want to start and host my own blog. I have ideas for creating the website theme myself. However, I would prefer to not create the actual engine behind the blog -- comments, creating posts, caching everything, creating and managing the post database, spam protection or CAPTCHA of some sort... basic blog features. Honestly, I'm just hoping for something barebones that I can just do something like, `<?php include('comment_list.php'); ?>` where I want comments to show up on a post. Similar functions to that. (This is a little oversimplified, but hopefully it's understood what I'm getting at) This may be a little far-fetched. I'm not looking for the ability to have plugins, themes or user sessions and things of that nature. Just post creation, comment creation and caching are the big things I'm hoping for. I don't know if I can explain this any better. I'm just looking for the bare minimum.


I am looking for a script where users can create groups cms/social interaction site

I am trying to find a Content Mangement/social interaction script that requires a person to be a part of a group. Specifically: My daughter is a cheerleader and there are a number of cheer groups she is involved in and also has friends in many others. A lot of them could use some kind of website where they can share information between their team members and coach. The coach being the controller of the group and who can join etc. "Group Leader"? One can only join the group if invited or given a password or some such security. There would be multipel groups or in this case multiple cheer squads who were registered as groups and the cheerleaders a part of their group. The coach or group leader would have control of the group calender and they may have their own calendars and be messaging between them and/or other social interactions. IN a perfect world they could modify their own pages individualy. Communication could go globally or only to the group and a "friends or buddy" system. I think you get the idea. I really like OCportal and what it does and can do but it does not have the group funcitionality I am looking for. Perhaps I am just going to need to see about getting aprogrammer to write an add on for me if ther is nothing like this out there. But if you know of any I would appreciate being pointed in that direction.


Total Indexed 0, 99 not selected in webmaster tools

I recently changed domain names from xxx.com to xxx.ca I created all the 301's submitted sitemaps and submitted a change of address to google webmaster tools on Dec 16th. I've since seen urls change in search results, and things seemed to be working, so I switched the site from drupal to wordpress with identical content with different page templates, etc. Organic traffic has dropped dramatically since the 19th. At first I thought it was the season, but the traffic should have rebounded by now. I took a look at the index status of the pages for the two domains and this is what I'm seeing for the old domain: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/VKfQr.jpg) and this is what I'm seeing for the new domain: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/IUhD4.jpg) any idea why the old site is showing up as indexed, while the new site is showing up as "not selected"? UPDATE: I ran some custom reports and isolated organic traffic in canada vs the US and it seems like canadian traffic has seen a slight uptick while US traffic has gone down dramatically. This is ok with us for the most part since this is a site for a clinic and we treat people in Canada. However... this still does not explain the distribution of which pages are indexed vs not.


Remove Lots of index pages from google bot from same directory.

My question is about Google bot, seo and webmaster. may be this is not right place for ask, but if person not know so where he place his question he doesn't know!!! If you know my question's answer so please first give me answer,than mark my question like or dislike, i not depend on question likes. i want some knowledge. i think If stackoverflow allow to insert seo tag in question so this is right place..               ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////      I search and read many post for 1 month, but i can't find any help full material for my problem... In my website there is only 2000 pages, but when i search my site in google `site:collectioncoupons.com` google show me 9000 pages. 1 month agao i remove 1600 pages, and i want to remove all these pages, URL looks like that,               domain.com/store/1     domain.com/store/2     domain.com/store/3     ...     domain.com/store/2000     i want to remove pages from domain.com/stores/1 to domain.com/stores/1600      But how i remove all 1600 pages without removing stores directory? ////////////////////////////// one other problem with my index pages. when i search `site:collectioncoupons.com` google show 20pages. when i search `site:collectioncoupons.com/out` then google show 300 pages that in "out" directory and same with other directories. Is this problem? why google not show all pages on home page. `site:collectioncoupons.com` ///////////////////////////////// Please tell me one more thing, when i search my domain with site: google show results 9,490 ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/skftq.png) but i have only 2000 pages, so what are other 7,490 pages?


A method to edit html email templates easily

I'm designing and developing some html **email templates** for mass mailings. I was asked to provide an easy solution for a non-technical person to edit them safely and easily. I'm afraid conventional WYSIWYG editors can replace the "old style" code required for e-mail by more "modern style" code, not compatible with some e-mail clients. I will test the templates in the main mail clients, but it's not practical to ask this to be done every time they edit them. The person would not know how to fix them anyway. What do you recommend? I thought about building an html generator that would convert the data from a form into source code, but it seems that is a lot of work. **Note:** I can not change the email sending provider. (It's Silverpop.)


Changing amounts on Authorize.NET/Paypal recurring payments

I'm writing a system that will bill people a certain recurring amount per month/quarter/year. During that period, the customer may earn credits against his next bill. The approach I'm considering is to alter the customer's billing amount before the next billing cycle, then adjust it back up after the cycle. The problem I'm anticipating is that I know (from personal experience) that PayPal doesn't allow you to adjust a recurring billing amount by more than 20 or 25% (I forget which). I haven't managed to get a clear answer from the developer forums on Auth.NET (my question here - nobody has answered in over 2 days), so I'm hoping one of the nice developers here on SO will have some experience dealing with PayPal and/or Auth.NET, and can give me some pointers as to what the best approach is to deal with this. Also, what should I do if the customer upgrades his account to a package that's more than the allowed increase percentage? Should I kill his old profile and make him fill in his card/PayPal details again? Or is there a way of doing this that obviates the need to make him pull out his credit card again?


pagination and duplicate content with one paragraph in each page with totally different listing

I have a module in my site which can be accessed like `sitename.com/module/` This module has pagination. In the first page i have two paragraphs which describe about the site. This will appear in all pages and pagination links can be crawled. So page 1 will have two para and a set of listing and page 2 will have the same para with totally different set of listing. So here the paragraph is duplicated were as the listing below the paragraph are nonidentical that is they are unique for all pages. Also the title tag and description are duplicated for all pages.... Assuming that I am adding page 2, page 3 to title tags and description... will it make a difference... will that too be considered duplicate content... (because only the words page 2 are page 3 is extra in the title and description of all pages... The rest of the title text ares same... like 'once upon a time page 1' for first page and once upon a time page 2 for the second page and so on. I assume to following to not to be penalized by search engines as duplicate.   1. I can make that paragraph appear only in first page and I can hide for all other pages   2. If I do the above then the title, description will be duplicate though I add extra text like 'page 2' in the title and description and in the content above the to para   3. Or instead of the above 2 points i can use canonical URL for pagination. **This this correct? besides my questions are:**   1. Can I have duplicate title tags while using canonical URL?   2. While using canonical URL and duplicate content in title with the string 'page 2'... will it makes a difference. for example the title is 'once there lived a king' and then other pages will have 'once there lived a king page 2', etc...   3. If using canonical URL can I have a paragraph in all pages or should I show it on only first page to prevent duplicate content.   4. Of I am not using canonical URL and showing the same static para in all pages with different listing and 'page 2', page 3 in title... will it become duplicate content? I hope this makes sense, if you find anything is confusing then please specify in comments so that i will update my question according to your suggestion.


setting up freedns with an existing domain

I've been running a webserver off of a pc at a static IP successfully for the past 5 months. recently however, I've moved into another apartment and my ISP only provides a dynamic IP (my IP changes from time to time). I'm not an internet genius but I was thinking to fix this by using a Dynamic DNS provider. So I got on the web and found freedns. I'm a bit confused about how to set up everything though. I've managed to succesfully install the IP updater daemon on my web server. Then, in my registrars control panel, I set the `NS` records to point at `ns1` through `ns4.afraid.org` (removing the old `NS` records). I'm not certain what I should do with the `A` records though (for now they are still pointing to the old static IP address). I have `A` records for `www`, `blog`, `irc`, etc. but I cannot point them at my new IP address, because it isn't Could someone explain this in the clearest possible sense (perhaps elaborating on what happens at each step of the DNS process). I never really knew what the `A` records are for anyway. _(note that I haven't really found any documentation atthe freedns website, or on google)_


Privacy policy generator

Does anyone know of a all-in-one privacy policy generator that they have used and can recommend?


Can/should I nest the html abbr tag within a link?

I link to my CV with the following:
CV
      However, should I have/would you recommend I have:
CV
      Is the nesting of those tags ok to do/semantically appropriate, etc. Thanks in advance!


How did Google manage to crawl my 403 pages?

I had a couple private files in a directory on my school folder. You could see that the files existed by going to myschool.edu/myusername/myfolder, but trying to access the files themselves via myschool.edu/myusername/myfolder/myfile.html returns a 403 error. And yet Google somehow managed to grab the contents of those private files and store them in its cache! How is this possible? [I've since removed those files, so I'm just curious how Google managed to do this.]


How to hide my XML Sitemap from competitors but not from search engines

I want to hide my sitemap XML file from all but allow access from search engines. What is the way to do it? I want to hide the depth of site's content from competitors.


How to block access to a sub-site with mod_rewrite?

Let's say I have the sites siteA.com and siteB.com. They are hosted such that siteB.com actually points to siteA.com/siteB. How can I block someone from visiting siteA.com/siteB using `mod_rewrite`? So far I've tried this to no avail (in root of siteA.com):               RedirectMatch 301 ^/siteB/$ http://someothersite.com/


Backlinks and SEO

Is the SEO value the same for backlinks coming from other pages within the same site and backlinks coming from another site? And is there a difference in value between a backlink coming from a site that has the same topic and a backlink coming from a site that has another topic Thanks.


Can I redirect a new domain to a specific pg without affecting that page's search standing?

I want to redirect a new domaim (that has not been used before) to a specific page on a site which already has good standing in search results - I want to do this instead of forwarding because I need the redirect to land on a page which is neither the index page or the index for a subdomain. Is this possible to do this without affecting the good SEO status of the page that is being redirected to, and without that original page disappearing from the SERPs? The idea is to use another domain name as a marketing slogan which promotes traffic to the existing page without changing the original page's standing in SERPS, so I'm also wondering if BOTH URLs will appear in search results using different queries.


Crawling web to build a directory of a niche industry for SEO

I heard that some web sites crawl web to build a directory of companies in a niche domain. So, when people search for the name of the company they find that directory page. I wonder if this is really effective? Isn't this considered as duplicate content since the presented information was collected from some web site?


http://url works but www.url doesnt

My website http://bakasura.in works fine. when i try to visit it via www.bakasura.in it doesnt work. What is the problem ?


What is the html code for "CE" mark?

I need to put http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_mark in some text in html, but I have not been able to find it in the character lookup tables. Is this symbol something similar to TM, Registered , Copy Right etc? if so does it have a html code?


SSL Warranty - Meaningless?

Lots of SSL seem to come with a warranty:               Extended Validation, Green Address Bar     40-bit minimum to 256-bit encryption     USD $100,000 warranty     VeriSign Trust™ Seal and services       Has anyone in history ever managed to claim on the warranty? Are they just a gimmick? Should it affect my purchasing choice?


how to retrieve img alt text with jquery or javascript?

Which is the code with which we can retreive alternative text of image: It is a Cataloge with clothes. Dressers, Shirts, Skirts e.t.c. in front page of a site. The featured images of the categories can be changed manually from someone. I did a check and it is asking me to give alt text. I did it to some images with alt="". But to the cataloge I cannot do it. the code is below:               <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>       <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js"></script>       <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.9.0/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>            {{ 'option_selection.js' | shopify_asset_url | script_tag }}       {{ 'api.jquery.js' | shopify_asset_url | script_tag }}            {% if template contains 'customers' %}       {{ 'shopify_common.js' | shopify_asset_url | script_tag }}       {{ 'customer_area.js'  | shopify_asset_url | script_tag }}       {% endif %}            {% if settings.display_slideshow %}{{ 'jquery.slider.js' | asset_url | script_tag }}{% endif %}       {% if settings.include_masonry %}{{ 'jquery.masonry.js' | asset_url | script_tag }}{% endif %}       {% if settings.enable_product_image_zoom %}{{ 'jquery.zoom.js' | asset_url | script_tag }}{% endif %}       {{ 'fancy.js' | asset_url | script_tag }}       {{ 'shop.js' | asset_url | script_tag }}       <script type="text/javascript">       Shopify.money_format = '{{ shop.money_format }}';       </script>       {% if template contains "product" %}       <script type="text/javascript">       jQuery(document).ready(function($){         {% if product.variants.size > 1 or product.options.size > 1 %}         new Shopify.OptionSelectors("product-select", { product: {{ product | json }}, onVariantSelected: selectCallback });              {% assign found_one_in_stock = false %}         {% for variant in product.variants %}         {% if variant.available and found_one_in_stock == false %}         {% assign found_one_in_stock = true %}         {% for option in product.options %}         $('#product-select-option-' + {{ forloop.index0 }}).val({{ variant.options[forloop.index0] | json }}).trigger('change');         {% endfor %}         {% endif %}         {% endfor %}              {% endif %}       });       </script>       <script>       $(function() {         $( "#tabs" ).tabs();       });       </script>


How to enhance Google Talk to show a message when we are unavailable or add more than one user?

I'm using Google Talk on my site to chat online with users. Is there any method to customize it such as showing a message form when we are unavailable or adding more than one user on it or any other facility?


Rewrite rule not matching second level directory URL

I have this .htaccess in a po_systems folder of my website               # Set up mod_rewrite     RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^build_system/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /po_systems/build_system.php?business_id=$1&system_id=$2      and when I visit the URL:               http://somesite.localhost/po_systems/build_system/61/65F92751      the get variables are not displaying. I changed the rule to               RewriteRule ^build_dfdsadsafas/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /po_systems/build_system.php?business_id=$1&system_id=$2      to verify it was getting there and I still don't get the get variables, so I tried to add junk at the beginning to verify the htaccess is working               sssRewriteRule ^build_system/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /po_systems/build_system.php?business_id=$1&system_id=$2      and I got this               Internal Server Error     The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.      So basically my question is why is this rule               RewriteRule ^build_system/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /po_systems/build_system.php?business_id=$1&system_id=$2      is not working for catching this URL                http://somesite.localhost/po_systems/build_system/61/65F92751d


Simple CMS for clients?

I'm looking for something fairly simple for clients to use and very easy for me to skin (somewhat complicated themes). something like Perch or Couchcms, but has to be open source to satisfy some license requirements.. I can't really seem to find any CMS that is like this {Wordpress, drupal etc are _way_ too heavy for this use} , really appreciated There aren't much requirements, anything will really work - each site gets their own jailed instance and stuff, just PHP/MySQL


Best Way to "Launch" A Site That's Being Developed

I am currently developing a website that will be officially marketed for and "launched" months from now. This site has minimal content at the moment but will soon start having more and more content as i complete the development of various components. My question is this: In terms of search engine optimization is it best to release a site with TONS of pages, or release a site and demonstrate constant updates/content additions?... And why? :) In the first scenario i would wait until launch/market day and then turn the site on w/o thousands of pages... In the second scenario, i would just develop/release new features content as they come and on the "official" launch day start marketing the site


How to optimize image in Google search if it is a background?

I have many images, and for a pretty view and better css control I mark them up as

      But as we know HTML allows adding `alt` to image tags for search optimization. How can I include "alt text" in a background situation? I have submitted an image sitemap to Google, which includes all these image's URLs and page URLs.


Apache2 virtual host localhost doesn't render CSS when offline because of absolute path

I'm running apache2 on a local server. I use no-ip.com to route DNS to that server through my cable modem. While disconnected from the web and working on localhost my web pages don't render the CSS since WordPress is linking to the absolute domain URL. In my /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file for this host i have `ServerName www.example.com` and `ServerAlias localhost` which isn't working to let me view my site offline What can I add to my virtual hosts file to render the CSS? Or am I out of luck with WP and my zend application pointing to the domain which is unreachable while offline? Just a note only after I realized the file paths caused a problem while browsing localhost did I add the `ServerName` and `ServerAlias` to try and get it to work. Thanks


Should I work on CSS or apps first?

I am working on my own website for my business, and I need to contract out some assistance. For example, I have the site looking pretty good on Firefox, but it needs help on other browsers. I also need some help with adding some Django apps to the site and setting up a database. I plan to seek the help of two different individuals via elance or odesk. My question is which to do first - get the css and html right then do the apps, or get the apps done and then work on the css and html? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


Why don't browsers respect cache headers for initial page request?

I'm scratching my head a bit on this. A Drupal site I run is setting appropriate cache headers that should indicate that the page can be cached for 15 minutes. However, every time I hit the page it always sends a GET request instead of loading the page from the cache. I'm not forcefully refreshing the page each time, which I assume would indicate to the browser I want to flush the caches. I don't have any developer mode cache busting enabled. Is this just the default behavior of browsers, or am I missing something obvious? Here's the request/response headers from hitting my homepage from FireFox dev tools: **NOTE/EDIT** : Some people have suggested this was related to the `Expires` header being in the past. However `Cache-Control` overrides anything in `Expires`, as described in RFC 2616, Sec 14.9.3. Drupal includes this to disable caching on older HTTP 1.0 clients, which don't support the more advanced `Vary` header that Drupal needs for proper caching. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gCJYy.png)


rel=author, rel=me and Google Profile

Based on the post as Google Webmasters, a google profile seems to be needed for `rel=author` to work But this post on our forum does not indicate that. How do I implement `authorship and rel=me` without any google profile?


301 redirect conflicts with cname redirect for both naked and www URL

Client had created a cname redirect for their www url which goes to their new web address, they were told to create a 301 redirect for the naked url but it's conflicting with the cname and the www url no longer redirects. How do I fix this?


What steps should be taken to safeguard user-entered content on a CMS?

Assume you're building a bulletproof CMS for your company. Cost, time, and technology are no issue. You've got developers ready to go with the knowledge and experience to crank out outstanding code. Now, you have to answer the age old CMS question: what steps do you take to ensure that the code entered into the CMS by the user is acceptable for your site? I'm thinking beyond just technically escaping a string to make it able to go into a database--there are considerations for w3 standards, filtering for inappropriate content, spelling, and such conundrums as Microsoft Word code scrubbing. Certainly, there are concerns that I've missed...


web designer question

I'm a web developer for a year and a half now. I work particularly on client- side. I'm good at (x)HTML/CSS/Javascript/jQuery. My work goes in converting PSD files to (x)HTML. (PSD files came from clients) Now I'm planning to go on designing too. My knowledge of photoshop is just the basic, I guess - Just the things I need to effectively convert PSD files to a web page. I'm really eager to learn. My questions:   * How can I learn this with just the internet and me?   * Are there steps or guides you know that could help me as a newbie?   * What are the challenges I may face and what can you suggest?   * What tool(s) would you suggest? Thanks.


How to fix a site that Google tells you is infected

I work for a company that setup a website, this one thelinearshop.com **_(warning this site contains malware so don't go there if you are concerned)_** , before I started working for them. The site uses OSCommerce. It now looks like someone was able to infect it with a malware link and jumble the site itself and when I visit the site I get a warning page from Google with the choice to leave, go to http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en- US&site=http://thelinearshop.com/ for info on why it is getting blocked, or to ignore the issue. I have looked at the site and someone definitely hacked it. I have never run into this before and I am not sure how to proceed in order to get this fixed. I know I need to get the virus out but I am also concerned that whoever set the site up used an older version of OSCommerce and that it must not be very secure. Is that the case?


How can I prevent a power user from calling my ajax functions?

I have a site that uses ajax calls to perform a number of functions. They have the webbrowser call back to a script - ajax.php. Though I use post data to transmit the data and limit the commands that the ajax script can call, there is really nothing preventing users from spoofing ajax calls to attempt to manipulate the site. Is there some blanket way to prevent users from spoofing the calls? Is there a way to ensure that an ajax call does in fact come from my website and not from some other script or site? Or do I simply have to check the boundary conditions in the php script and prevent the users from spoofing things they wouldn't be allowed to do, but allow them to spoof where they would be allowed.


What is SSL Hosting and what are the requirements for making secure transaction

I am here in order to collect the information for making secure online transaction. My client has got a online shopping site. We are now having cart in our own site and transfering the cart detail to paypal and making the payment via paypal. So now i would like to add the credit card request page in own site and process it so i would like to know what are my requirements


Design for paging panels

The typical design for a paging panels (of search engines and the like) looks like this:               Previous 11 12 [13] 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next      But if you read that you would expect (if not educated by search engines) that "Next" will lead to the successor of page "20" and not of "13". If we need "Previous" and "Next" at all, wouldn't it be better to place it, where their meaning is obvious?                11 12 Previous [13] Next 14 15 16 17 18 19 20       or maybe                11 12 < [13] > 14 15 16 17 18 19 20      The question is: is "Previous" and "Next" really useful and if so where to place it?


Credit card start and end date selection

I'm implementing part of a payment process for a website and am just putting together the enter card details screen (card number, card holder's name, card start/expiry dates etc.). I'm implementing the card start/expiry dates as month and year dropdowns but am not sure which years I should cover to ensure no one is unable to enter their details. Does anyone have any information as to how long cards are issued for so as to determine the earliest possible start year and latest possible end year? Also do I need to worry about any overlap of the current date. e.g. in December 2010 is it possible someone may have a valid card with a start date of January 2010?


Hide a Subdomain from Google/Search Engine SEO Result?

I have a subomain which I do not want to be listed in any search engine result. Let say I have:   * `http://www.example.com`   * `http://child.example.com` How can I hide **all** URLs of `child.example.com` domain which are currently showing in the search engine results?


PHP include drop down navigation

I have a php document and am using include to include my drop down navigation. The navigation is an external html with external js and css elements. Code is:               <div id="nagivation">         <?php include ("navigation.html");?>       </div>       <!--end #navigation!-->      Unfortunately my drop down works great in it's html page, but once brought into my main page, none of the hovers work. In my navigation.html, I have included:               <script type="text/javascript" src="js/ecmNavigation.js"></script>          <link href="css/ecmNavigation.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />     <link href="css/ECM_HelpFile.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />      in my template.php, I have included:               <link href="css/ECM_HelpFile.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />     <link href="css/ecmNavigation.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />      Any suggestions? I need to keep the navigation in a global document, but have not been able to use iframe or obkect in order to embed as the whole menu will not display as it is confined to the size of iframe and object. (the menu is huge)


Joomla 1.6 -- Ready for a Production?

I am redesigning a business website and will be porting it into Joomla. The functionality of the site will be fairly simple. I would like to use Joomla 1.6. Is the new version of Joomla at an acceptable stage for production?


Common optimizations to reduce HTML or XHTML page size?

What are some common optimizations performed to reduce HTML or XHTML page size? Some that come to mind are:   * removing comments,   * removing extraneous whitespace,   * moving repetitive inline styles to a CSS stylesheet,   * etc. What are some others? Which offer the biggest bang-for-the-buck or could be performed automatically by a tool or module?


Are date of birth forms necessary for alcoholic websites?

I've noticed that many beer and spirits companies often require you to enter your date of birth before entering their site (ex. Budweiser.com). Is this form legally required? Or is it just a popular convention? If it isn't legally required/recommended, wouldn't it be a bad idea to funnel users through a form like this, just to see the content of your site?


Where can I find an exhaustive list of meta tags and what they do?

It seems to me that there are **a ton** of `<meta>` tags for all sorts of different purposes out there... Though they all follow a similar format of               <meta name="" content="" />      they seem to serve a vast variety of different purposes from controlling the crawling of search engine bots, providing search engine bots with descriptions of pages, to making sure a page display correctly on a mobile device. These tags fall into so many different categories I was wondering if anyone had a wiki or master list of possible meta tags and their content.


Piwik visitor log spam

I use Piwik to track people visiting my website. Unfortunately a lot of the visitors that appear in the visitor log are not real people but spam bots. Normally, these bots use a provider from a country that differs from my target audience. They always refer to a spam site, as you can see in the referrer column. ![Example](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Y8TuR.png) Because my website is relatively small, theses bots distort statistics (visits over time etc.) and make the visitor map almost useless. Is there anything I can do to block them?


Serve pages based on search query AND avoid cloaking

I have a website offering translation services in several languages (www.your- translations.com), as well as many articles for translators and translation software. Most visitors come from search engines and I want to customize the experience for the visitors based on the search string. For instance, if the visitor searches for "English to French translation", I want to show him the page on English to French translation instead of a generic "Translation services" page and if he searches for tech detail on a translation software, I would rather direct him straight to the article section. Google and other SEs have a tendency to send most of my visitors straight to my home page which is less than ideal for the visitors. After all, if they search for French, odds are that they don't care about my pages on the Chinese market. The problem is that it results in some minor cloaking (The SE collected the page as "Translation services", but I display "English to French translation services" to the visitor) which is supposed to be a major no-no for SEs, even though it actually improves the website usability for the visitor. Is there a better way to do the same thing? Or am I simply worrying too much about what Google & co will do about such an evil instance of cloaking?


FDA compliant online-marketing of products in the US

For a US site we have to market products for the research market. These products are helpful in medical applications but do not meet FDA requirements. Is a general disclaimer on the site sufficient to strike out non-FDA compliance, or do we have to mark every product with something like "for research only"? In addition, does this require e.g. to use only images without components that might be appropriate for FDA? Thanks for your help!


Is it a good idea to design website with HTML 5 and css3?

New HTML5 and CSS3 introduced lot of new features,although it is not completely supported by most of the browsers.Is it a good idea to design a website using HTML5 and css3? and for browsers which not support HTML5 display low bandwidth version of it? or there exists any library's(js) to fix HTML5 and CSS3 comparability for browsers like IE 6 or Firefox 3?


How to point two domains to one ip address with a sub-domain

I am a little stuck here I currently have a domain: www.my-site.org & m.my-site.org I want to point m.mainsite.org to m.my-site.org I already have an A record created for m.mainsite.org I need to know what I have to do to the server that my-site.org is on. I have this site on a unix apache server. Any help would do. Thanks!


Customize Facebook Like Box - Policy Infringement

I'm just about to finish up a web project, and so far I've got good social media integration into the site's theme (Youtube and Twitter)...except Facebook Like Box for a not-for-profit's Facebook Page! I would very much like to show it as is without the border and the _Facebook Social Plugin_ hyperlink at the bottom, and I've found out how to do so via the following links:   * http://line25.com/tutorials/how-to-add-a-custom-facebook-like-box-to-your-site   * http://www.daddydesign.com/wordpress/how-to-customize-your-facebook-fan-box/ Both are great resources, and allow me to accomplish my goal of total theme integration, but I came across the following Facebook policy: > IV. Application Integration Points - 4.d. You must not obscure or cover > elements of our social plugins, such as the Like button or Like box plugin. By definition to _obscure_ is to conceal something, and granted that the only thing I want to conceal is the _Facebook Social Plugin_ hyperlink (and perhaps change a few colors), but I've see a lot of sites that have done what I intend to do. The last thing I want is for my client's page/profile to get banned from Facebook. So I'm asking anyone who has had experience with this particular issue, if what I intend to do **does** constitute a violation of that policy, and have you heard of pages/profiles being banned from Facebook for the same reason?


Address microdata for search engines using schema.org

So I'm trying to mark up some microdata using a combination of the contact vcard microformat and the microdata format for places from: http://schema.org/Place I'd love to do both at once, but I have a problem that I don't know whether microdata schemas require exact duplication of html, or whether they're entirely reliant on the attributes that they suggest. Does anyone familiar with using microdata know whether the structure of the html is important to the schema? Here is my current html attempt just as an example if it helps ??clarify?? (with php variables escaped out into the html):

Main Contact Info

                 ShermanBrothers in <?php h($row_rsLocation['City']);?>
              <address class="adr" itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress" style='display:block'>
               <?php echo $row_rsLocation['Address1'];               if (!empty($row_rsLocation['Address2'])) {                         echo '
'.$row_rsLocation['Address2'];                     }              ?>
               <?php h($row_rsLocation['City']);?>,                <?php h($row_rsLocation['State']);?>,                <?php h($row_rsLocation['ZipCode']);?>                    USA                   </address>              <a itemprop="telephone" href='tel:<?php h($row_rsLocation['Phone']);?>' class="tel"><?php h($row_rsLocation['Phone']);?>


Facebook applications - how to get to know page ID?

With Facebook API, within a custom app added to a fanpage, how do I recognize the fanpage ID? Here's what I'm trying to achieve:   * user goes to the full-width canvas app, he authorizes himself there and allows the app to add a tab to one of the fanpages he's administrating   * every Facebook user going to that fanpage, sees the tab and the tab contains content specific to that fanpage (that's why I need to know the fanpage ID)   * if fanpage administrator wants to change something, he goes to the full-width canvas and logs in to my service (here's where I store what he wants to show in his Fanpage)


How do I resolve this error?

I found my website on Google recently, and the sublinks underneath the search entity title contains a suspicious link to Viagra tablets: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/383A7.png) Professionals are observing my website all the time. How can I get rid of this spammy link as soon as possible? Can I manually tell Google what links to place there?


What are the key concerns of ECM as it relates to web developers?

As I understand it, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is a system of methods and strategies relating to managing and delivering documents and content in support of a business. This obviously goes beyond what the standard CMS does in a web or intranet setting, but what functionality does a CMS need to include to support Enterprise Content Management? I know that many large organizations simply use Drupal (or even WordPress) as their CMS for their website(s). So is ECM a standalone system completely unrelated to web content management, or does a web developer need to pay care to a special set of concerns when it comes to developing or deploying a CMS for an enterprise organization? Off the top of my head, the only requirement I can think of for a CMS to support ECM is to support complex permissions and allow a large number of users to update/manage content (e.g. employees at different levels and in different branches of the company). Is there anything else that we as web developers need to keep in mind?


How to determine, who to contact for transferring my Domain

My client's domain, `www.daccusa.org`, is hosted at `inmotionhosting.com`. They tell me though, that the domain itself, is not. I've spoken with two different customer supports at `inmotionhosting.com` and they both tell me two different things. One says "I have to get in touch with `www.joker.com`" and the other one tells me that "I have to get in touch with `webhosting.dk`". According to my _whois_ search, the registrar is _Joker_ and the name-server is _Webhosting_ , and according to the control-panel over at `joker.com`, I don't have any domain registered, but I can however login with my information (e-mail and re-generated password). (WHOIS) I want my domain transferred to `inmotionhosting.com` - which one ( _Joker_ /*Webhosting*) should I ask for the transfer?


Open Source website performance monitoring

I am looking for an Open Source solution to monitor my web sites' performance over time. More specifically, I am looking for something I can run on a server that will (on a continual basis) monitor page load times including all assets. Something similar to webpagetest.org, but that will provide graphs over time to display sites performance. Now I realize I could build a solution using jMeter and Jenkins to run on a regular basis and provide me with this information, but that seems clunky, and I see jMeter as more of a load-testing tool and not a site performance analysis tool. Also I have experience with Nagios, Graphite, and Collectd, but I haven't been able to find any plugins that will load all assets, only HTML response times. I have to believe something like this exists, but my google foo is failing me. Similar Commercial Solutions:   * https://www.site24x7.com/   * http://www.neustar.biz/ Thanks in advance, -BassKozz


Will embedding YouTube videos vs. Flash videos make a difference for SEO purposes?

Looking to find a solid list of SEO benefits to using YouTube videos on my site vs. flash video or anything else for that matter? Clearly YouTube is owned by Google so that is a plus. YouTube is also a huge search engine in and of itself. YouTube also has built in features to help share it with others which could tie in... Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this!


Changing file extensions in URIs - Server Error after Apache upgrade

Please can anyone help to identify flaw or incompatibility in .htaccess code causing server error? In the process of changing over from static to dynamic website, I had to maintain some static files with `.html` extension, but others were replaced with `.php` extension. Furthermore, I wanted visitors to be able to access any files by file name alone without the extensions. Example: `about.html` became `about.php`, but `index.html` did not change. I wanted to ensure that browsers would return the correct files even if the uri typed was only `http://domain.com/about` or `http://domain.com/index`. The following code - implemented some years ago, and I've lost track of the source - has worked perfectly all this while, until today.               # REWRITE FILE URI TO file.php IF EXISTS     Options Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews     Options +ExecCGI     RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /     # parse out basename, but remember the fact     RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ $1 [C,E=WasHTML:yes]     # rewrite to document.phtml if exists     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [S=1]     # else reverse the previous basename cutout     RewriteCond %{ENV:WasHTML} ^yes$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html      All of a sudden, this block of code is causing a server error. Website is on shared hosting, and I do not have shell access. Server was recently upgraded. Right now my account is running on PHP 5.3.28, Apache 2.4.7. Even after the upgrade last week, everything was still okay. Only today it has ceased to work. I renamed the .htaccess file and created a fresh file, pasted in fresh code, but sure enough, this bit of code is causing the server to choke. Can anyone point out what might be the problem?


Webmaster Tools shows Internal Links from old site (not ours)

In the Google Webmaster Tools account of my latest project I can see 57 Internal Links (links to internal pages), that are not actually from our site. Since we just launched it, there are no real internal links, only these "fake" ones. My only guess is that at some point in the past, someone used that domain name, and now these links live somewhere in the internet and currently lead to 404 page in our site. So my question is, how to tell Google that these links are not actually part of our site and they have never been ?


robots.txt could be overridden by another robots.txt in sub folders?

_robots.txt_ is supposed to go in the root directory, I know. But, could it be overridden by another _robots.txt_ inside a sub directory?


Garbled text in server logs

I recently looked over my server's logs and I found a bunch of garbled text. Here is a link to the full log, and here is a snapshot of what it looks like:               ¹^œÌÓûFF™ÃŒ-ôÚÏàÃÒNRs§cÝi ~F#J"|³Ôq0ã~QQbA ¼¹¦’š¶É3œßå<ú€Ç©XAwdL?R°ÝbÒt©ôÇ·Æ…÷q˜ÇÑº|     Þ,ß¯¡Êr yR¤Q¹Jêlš‘AzP\ ¦ÂY„ÉÉ,æ™ UÂ™»ì³ÔÝáCÿ42‹Ö.nŽÉ2%ÓN8i4Œ®¿‘•"-se•äŽ¿ÊÁ§€þ 8åv%'#Äpžs/ÙÍ:¡1ÑÖÃå ºu|Q®!ÏyÆ,NR@¶ËÈ¯RDkã=ÿÀÜ¸ ›¼Ô ’ð>ÓÌBftdÃ8–é}‰[øbãÝÁå˜²b¾W n´tTœpäNëëÔ ·RUÓP+ÅuKÁ£¬\âÌ®:J<ÍÁ0:Q%ª(Œ˜E-ÁI:ï™4®hæœT†«);°Çda@´#èì}‡£ü•{57ý]¼|øÓñð÷ÈÌð‡MkŠâ•C~$Óô#ÙV¾Núå.#Á]vôžóæ» V&8)%øVSž“±ÔQLåÓý1–ŽÃßQ$¹ýž")ÈûQcÄý_ÔüGP=s‹vq#Pmoo.tigertutorialscomµÐOKÃ0ð»Ÿâ‘Ã˜H“      What is this? and is someone trying to do something to my website?


My website's DNS no longer resolved after my hosting provider suffered a DDoS attack

I registered a couple of domains with a local hosting provider. I set up the records with the correct IP address. My servers are colocated in another data- center, not with this provider. After filling out the necessary forms, it said: > Your changes will be visible in the next 15 minutes. For the rest of the > world, it can take up to 24 hours. We have no influence on that. This worked OK, my servers were reachable worldwide after about an hour. So far so good, everything normal, behaving as expected. But now the strange thing happens: this hosting provider suffered from a DDoS attack. It happened two times in the last three months. The attacks put them offline for about a day, twice. My websites were unreachable during these attacks. Even a ping, from any computer on any ISP, to my domain names didn't work, returning the message: `unknown host`. My sites were perfectly reachable if the IP address was used however. To the best of my knowledge... if some user anywhere in the world wants to connect to my website, they resolve the IP address using their ISP's DNS server. But in this case they couldn't. It appears their DNS server could not provide the correct IP address as long as my hosting provider was down. Could it be that their DNS server actually has to resolve at my hosting provider to answer the request to resolve?


Unable to ping IP address between two locations

I have two locations office and home. From home I am unable to access my mail server and from the office I am unable to access my personal web server. Now, these two locations are about 100 yards away and share the same connection from the ISP. It's payed for on the same account. Also they both have different static public IP addresses. office is `216.248.94.xxx` and home is `216.51.158.xxx`. I cannot ping each address from each location.


Url redirecting/masking/proxying

Sorry about the title, I'm not quite sure what to call what I'm trying to do. Our university department (distance ed.) has two servers: a WordPress-only server and a main/everything else server. **Blog url** : blog.distance.school.com **Everything else url** : distance.school.com I want to create a WordPress site that lives at: blog.distance.school.com/facultyresources, but when people access it, I want them to see it at: distance.school.com/facultyresources. Is this masking? Proxying? I'm not even sure. **tl;dr:** — WP will be installed at blog.distance.school.com/facultyresources — users will access at: distance.school.com/facultyresources Thanks for any advice you might have!


Google displaying swf menu in SiteLinks

I have a website that uses a Flash based menu as its main navigation. A plain HTML fallback version is "lying underneath", the swf is embedded using `swfobject`.               swfobject.embedSWF('MENU.swf', 'menu', '1000', '600', '8.0.0', 'ext/expressInstall.swf', {}, {wmode:'transparent',bgcolor:'#666666'}, {});      Somehow Google now started displaying a link to the `swf`-file in the SiteLinks (noting `[SWF]` beforehand) which is pretty ugly as the Flash content gets all scrambled and all you see is a random string of characters and numbers (it looks "hacked" to me, although I do know it is not). Also, the link to the `swf` is plain useless as it relies on JavaScript-functions in the HTML-document. I already demoted the `swf` in the Webmaster Tools, yet in some situations the link will still show up. Is anyone aware of this problem (I haven't found too much on this on the Internet) and knows how I can keep the search results from linking to the `swf`?


Help with URL Rewrite

I have a page that selects some info from a database and displays it with a link to a second page that uses the result to query the database, something like this:               $sel=mysql_query("select id, title from thetable ");     while($row=mysql_fetch_array($sel))     {     $id=$row['id'];     $title=$row['title'];     echo "$title";     }       The issue is, in the more.php page, instead of more.php?id=5 to show in the address bar, I want something like more/title Secondly, as it obtains in most sites, I want the link on the referring page to show this friendly url on mouse hover not the more.php?id=5 And I notice in most sites some words like 'a', 'and', 'the' etc are usually removed from the url title(even if there originally), moreover how does one handle the situation where more than one record have the same title. How does one go about achieving this url rewrite with htaccess or whatever method is used?


Changing nameservers for a domain on GoDaddy

I am redoing a website for a friend of mine. The domain was purchased on GoDaddy. The hosting was purchased elsewhere. After having problems with the hosting company and making some updates I decided to switch the hosting to Network Solutions. I have purchased the hosting from NS and just want to set the new NS nameservers on GoDaddy for the domain. I tried entering in the FTP server name from NS but it said it was not registered. Any help would be appreciated here.


How to receive sensor input, eg. gyroscope? (existing technology or future proposals)

Is there currently a way to for a web application to receive data from mobile device's sensors (eg. gyroscope, accelerometer, compass) through its browser? If not, do any formal proposals exist for how this might be achieved in the future?


Is Live Chat a valuable feature?

Does having a live chat feature on a website increase conversions enough to cover the cost administration? Most of the data I have found comes from companies selling live chat solutions and is unreliable in my opinion. Do users find this as a valuable feature or an annoyance? Personally, I'm annoyed by sites that use live chat especially when a little box pops up without my explicit request, but if users find this valuable then I should consider implementing it. Any concrete data is appreciated.


Set up a newsletter system for my site

I would like to filter my registered users db, check the ones who suscribed to the newsletter and send an HTML type email. Are there some scripts out there for this? A cPanel feature maybe? Or do i have to write this with a php script? Thanks in advance.


Is there a "current directory" variable in .htaccess RewriteRule?

In a .htaccess file in the subfolder "/preview" (not in document root), I have this rule:               RewriteRule !^public/ /preview/forbidden.php [L,R]      It redirects all /preview/"something" requests that are not in /preview/public/ to the fobidden message. However, I don't like the fact that the directory name "preview" is in the .htaccess file. I would like to copy the entire website to another folder or server simply by copying the file without having to change the .htaccess file. So, is it possible to achieve the effect of that rule in some other way?


Do new lines in the title tag affect SEO?

I is common thing that if you have some login that creates the title tag content to finish with several new lines in it. For example:               <title>        Title |        Category |        My Site Name     </title>      Does this has some semantic falls? Is it bad for SEO?


Host Private videos on my site or use third party video hosting

I’m working on a e-learning startup. We are going to have recorded video lectures from professors ranging from 30-45 minutes long which are going to be accessible to students once they register and pay for the course. Hence these are private videos.   1. What is the best format to save these videos in, FLV, MP4 or something else? I’m leaning towards MP4 as FLV videos won’t play on iPads and iPhones.   2. Most importantly, where do I host these video files? Should we host them on our servers or use third-party video hosting? I’m inclined towards third party because that will reduce the load on our servers and the video streaming experience would be better for users.   3. If I go for video hosting, what are my options? I can’t use YouTube because they don’t offer domain control. Vimeo does offer privacy of domain control but I don’t think I can use that for commercial purpose. Someone mentioned BitGravity but I haven’t checked that out. What options would be good for my usage?


Premium News script

what are possible premium News script available? We are a small company that wants to shift our attention to News/Blogging service. What's the best premium script that we can buy for this?


SSL: What are the differences between Domain Validation and Extended Validation Certificates?

I can get Extended Validation for cheaper than Domain Validation, yearly. What are the differences between them?


Migrate add-on domain olddomain.com to newdomain.com

I have 2 domains that are registered at GoDaddy :               domaina.com (not hosted, only domain name is registered to GD)     domainb.com (hosted at a different webhost, domain name registered to GD)      `domainb.com` is an already working site, with a different webhost, but the domain name is registered to GoDaddy (and I assume the nameservers are changed to redirect to the webhost). Now, I don't understand why this was done, but `domainb.com` is considered a subdomain on the host... meaning the files are in a seperate folder on the server.   Ex : `public-html/domainb.com/public-html/FILES` The structure is similar to this on the webhost:               HostNAME (main root folder)         domainb.com (subdomain of hostname)         domainc.com (etc...)         domaind.com (etc...)      I want to transfer the site `domainb.com` to `domaina.com`, meaning `domaina.com` will become the new website, without having to re-upload all the content and CMS. The old one will redirect to `domaina.com` once the transfer is done (using 301 redirects). Can anyone tell me how I can do this?


What is new in HTML5/CSS3?

I've seen this site and this site, but that's a lot to digest. What are the main things about HTML5 that make it different/better than regular old (X)HTML/CSS?


payment gateway

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are some options for taking payments on my website? What's a good payment gateway for an e-commerce shop with revenues of about 10.000 euros per week ?


Tracking subdomains in Google Analytics?

I set up a subdomain, and GA is showing traffic of the subdomain. However, going into Content section, GA is not showing pageviews of the pages of the subdomain. Instead, GA lumps all the pageviews in the subdomain. I checked the code of subdomain pages, and they're all the same as the subdomain homepage. Am I missing a dot somewhere?               <script type='text/javascript'>try {      var _gaq = _gaq || [];      _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-85']);      _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'domain.org']);       _gaq.push(['_setAllowAnchor', true]);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/?scid=a2412a40-1b66-4e0a-a1d5-f5b260de6ee8']);      _gaq.push(['b._setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-56']);      _gaq.push(['b._setDomainName', 'domain.org']);      _gaq.push(['b._trackPageview']);      } catch (err) {}      (function() {      var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;      ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';      var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);      })();      </script>


Google crawling old non existing pages

I noticed in my Webmaster Tools account that Google is crawling old site URLs that no longer exist. Can anybody tell me where GoogleBot is getting these URLs?


Edit robots.txt on google sites

Getting many 404 errors on my website for the following URLs:               /system/app/pages/admin/revisions*      I was going to put Disallow in robots.txt, but it seems there is no way to edit robots.txt in google sites. Did I miss an option? If it's not there, is there a workaround using Webmaster tools?


Troubleshoot connectivity to certain site

This is related to this problem of mine: cannot access my own web page The question is: Are there any tools or actions that I can try to determine what is blocking my computer from opening a certain website when other computers can open it normally?


Will replacing 'to' with 2 or 'for' with 4 improve my site's PageRank

Is it true that replacing words such as "to" and "for" with numbers (2 and 4 respectively) help increase my website's PageRank. Is it a useful SEO technique and if so why does it work?


Domain name servers connecting time and details

According to Ping reports my web browser is looking up DNS information in 180ms to connect my domain. I registered that domain name from godaddy.com. At the same time it takes 10ms for connecting to another domain. It is bought from bigrock.com. As my uncle said, all the domains are registered in networksolutions. **Then why is this much time difference?**


Redirecting image hotlink to the article the image was used on; where/how to store the connecting information?

I have an app in node.js and I want to make a route that redirects all hotlinks to images to the article/URL the image was used on. But since all the images are stored in `/public/img` directory and article URLs are generated programmatically, how do I tie down each image to its article? ..in a way that would allow me to redirects all hotlinks to the images to the article/URL the image was used on? For example, My article is               http://www.site.com/blog/archives/2013/article-slug/      and it uses the image               http://www.site.com/img/that-image.jpg      because all images are stored in `/public/img` dir. Then if someone hotlinks to the image `http://www.site.com/img/that- image.jpg`, how do I redirect to the article it was used in `http://www.site.com/blog/archives/2013/article-slug/`? (I can check whether it was hotlinked probably by checking the `referrer` header) But how do I store the relevant information about which image is used in which article, and how do I use that information to do the redirect?


Should my blog be directly on my website?

I have my newly launched website at `www.slicify.com` (redirects to a secure subdomain). I currently have a separate blog on WordPress: `slicify.wordpress.com` for a couple of reasons:   * I don't really want to mix my site code (it's a complex ecommerce site written in ASP.Net) with blog code, for ease of maintenance etc.   * WordPress is already great at blogs - seems silly to reinvent the wheel by trying to integrate blog functionality into my site However is keeping my blog on a separate domain going to hurt me in terms of PageRank or traffic? FWIW: while it's early days, I can see from Google Analytics that a good deal of referral traffic is already coming from my WordPress site to my main site, so at least that seems to be drawing potential users in.


Authorship-verified website not included in "Author Stats" of Google Webmaster Tools?

In Google Webmaster Tools, is it normal for a website for which the Structured Data Testing Tool shows that "Authorship is working for this webpage" -- to **_not_** be listed in the "Author Stats" section (under "Labs")? I already understand that successful verification using the Structured Data Testing Tool does _not_ guarantee that Google will actually display authorship in the SERPs, and that Google decides this at its own discretion. However, shouldn't such successful verification at least guarantee that the website _is_ included in the "Author Stats" section (which purportedly covers "pages for which you are the verified author")? I would have assumed that, if Google is not yet displaying authorship for that site, it would show both its Impressions and Clicks as being "<10". Are my assumptions incorrect?


When to upgrade your web-hosting? Advantages of VPS?

Right now I'm using shared hosting from ixwebhosting. As I've developed more websites for clients and continue to receive more visitors each month I have experienced a lot of "lag" and slow load times from the server. Most of the time I'm using wordpress and jquery so basically I'm running linux, php, mysql and all the basics. I know wordpress can be resource intensive so i'm looking to upgrade. How do I know what specs I'll need? Are there any good benchmarking tools? Basically I just need some suggestions on how to move forward with upgrading my host to something that is able to handle 5-10 website with 5k-10k visitors a month.


Firefox plugin to learn about technologies used by other web sites

Is there a FireFox plugin that tells you what web server (httpd, Tomcat, IIS), platforms (Drupal, WordPress, Rails, PHP, .NET, Java) and client-side (JavaScript, HTML5, Flex) technologies a particular web site uses?


How to pass GET parameters to rewritten URL?

I have an `.htaccess` rewrite rule like this:               RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENME} !-d     RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^search/(.*)$ search.php?q=$1      What this does is, if someone visits `http://www.mysite.com/search/test` the URI that is really processed is `http://www.mysite.com/search.php?q=test`. Now, if I try to pass an extra random GET parameter to my rewritten URL, the parameter is ignored. So if I try to do visit here: `http://www.mysite.com/search/whatever?extra=true` The parameter `extra` is ignored. It doesn't seem to get passed at all. Can this problem be fixed? If so, how?


Magento - Add to cart error

I have set-up a Magento cart system and got everything working the way i want, but somehow in the process this error has came up. > The address total model should be extended from > Mage_Sales_Model_Quote_Address_Total_Abstract. This error only comes up when i try to add things to my cart. Has anyone else encountered this error or know how to fix it?


International Domain Names - Can I just register the punycode with any registrar?

I'm thinking of getting a non-ASCII Internationalized Domain Name (e.g. `thé.com`). However my current domain registrar doesn't do IDNs. Their web form reports an invalid domain name when I try to enter it, and they claim they don't support it. Could I just register the puny code (in this case `xn-- th-cja.com`) with the registrar? Or do I need to go to a special IDN 'aware' domain registrar?


is there any way to tag more than 50 people in facebook photo?

i stuck in problem. my friend tag his wedding invitation to friends.... he have a lot of friends...now there bcome disput in friends that y they r not tagged?? so Please tell me is there any way to tag more than 50 Persons on a photo.. Please responde?? do have to mail to facebook for this....


Self-hosted collaborative document editor

I'm looking for something like Google Documents, but that our company can host ourselves (for security/confidentiality reasons). I'd like something where multiple users can edit a word-processing-like document from the web. Ideally it would be able to show the history of revisions, and maybe compare them. Wiki software doesn't really fit the bill, since the syntax is too complicated for some users. Does this exist?


Help! My articles are not indexed correctly by search engines

**Something is seriously wrong after I updated my site with new templates, moved to a new server and started writing on English rather than Norwegian.** * * * I know from Google Analytics, that most of my readers comes from Google. I do a quick test by googling (google.no) `Oslo Fashion Fair 2009`. This is the name of the article and is the title of my page. ( http://www.google.no/search?hl=no&q=Oslo+Fashion+Fair+2009&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= ) The page that I trying to find is this: http://www.norwegianfashion.no/news/oslo-fashion-fair-2009/ This used to be one of the first pages in Google. Now you don't see my site until Page 4, and that is a link to something completely different. On page 4 in the google search, you see this: > Designere - Norwegian Fashion   >  Norske designere Når man tenker fashion,tenker de fleste på designere som > Yves Saint ...   >  Fashion Week Guide 16-22 august 2010 · Oslo Fashion Fair 2009 ...   >  www.norwegianfashion.no/blog/designere There are a few problems with this:   1. The headline says `Designere - Norwegian Fashion`. I no longer have a page called `Designere`. It's now called Designers.   2. The link points to `www.norwegianfashion.no/blog/designere`. But I've never had that a URL with that name. The page does not exist.   3. When you click the link, a completely different page opens. I also noticed that I ahve lost Page Rank. My Page-RAnk add-on in Firefox will no longer rate my site, and Googles own Page Rank checker can't check my site for page ranking. **So what kind of SEO have I done?**   1. I've put the `<title>` tag at the top, followed by the meta tags `<description>` and `Keywords`   2. For new pages, I use my intro texst in the description field.   3. I've made sure to use appropriate H1 - H3 tags   4. I've got relative content in headline vs intro and main body text, as well as appropriate keywords.   5. I've added my site to Google   6. I've used Google Webmaster Tools to optimize my site   7. I've added a sitemap.xml  I don't know why I'm suddenly not being indexed by any search engines. What have I done wrong? **UPDATE** Using Google Webmaster tool, I can see issues Google encountered when crawling my site. Thre are a lot of `404 Page not found` errors. **Example of 404 errors:**   http://www.norwegianfashion.no/2009/nyhetsarkiv   `nyhetsarkiv` is now called `news` http://www.norwegianfashion.no/author/marianne   I have deleted marianne ase user in Wordpress. This author do not exists any more http://www.norwegianfashion.no/category/fashion-report/page/40/   Not sure what this is. I'v enever used this permalink structure.