Slower site with the *same* configuration than a mirror copy…?

I've got this Drupal site (ligadelconsorcista.org) that I have to move it from one server to another. The reason was that my older host even when it was pretty decent, it started a couple of months now to have many short downtime's, which drove me crazy. The thing is that I've made a sort of mirror copy of the site: I've copied all the files exactly the same, and after that I've imported the database. The problem is that the new site connects much slower than my old hosting! (the new one is Mediatemple) I've contacted their support and they tell me that there are several factors that can contribute to that... but that has nothing to do with their hosting service. **The thing is that I don´t even know where to start looking for the problem.** Notes: The new configuration is the same that the one I had with the older hosting account. Today I've set an account with Cloudflare's CDN to try to solve the problem. Even if the CDN is configured OK (I've asked their help desk) it won´t add any performance improvement. Any clues of what may I do about this? Thanks!!


Advice On Price Comparison Affiliate Programs

I want a price comparison feature on my site similar to Consumer Reports' "Price & Shop" section. They use PriceGrabber.com, but as far as I can tell they have a special deal with CR, so I can't get a similar service for my site. I've gathered that I need to use an affiliate network, but the whole thing seems so shady, I don't really know what sites are legit, and I don't know what sites offer the price comparison feature. Datafeedfile.com comes up a lot during my searches, but the ugly site makes me wary. Does anyone have any experience with this? What affiliate networks do you recommend? Or should I be looking at something else altogether?


robots.txt, how effective is it and how long does it take?

We recently updated the site to a single page site using jQuery to slide between "pages". So we now have only index.php. When you search the company on engines such as Google, you get the site and a listing of its sub pages which now lead to outdated pages. Our plan doesn't allow us to edit the .htaccess and the old pages are .html docs so I cannot use PHP redirects either. So if I put in place a robots.txt telling the engines to not crawl beyond index.php, how effective will this be in preventing/removing crawled sub pages. And rough guess, how long before the search engines would update?


Are there any UK domain registrars that support .at domain names? I've registered a .at domain and would like to move it to a UK registrar. If not, which registrar would you recommend?


Visit counts in Google Analytics advanced segments not consistent

My organization has recently noticed an issue when applying advanced segments to visit counts during different time ranges. With no advanced segments turned on, here are the visit counts for Oct 1st - Oct 4th during the time range Sept 8th - Oct 8th: Oct 1 - 7   Oct 2 - 7   Oct 3 - 8   Oct 4 - 5 Again, with no advanced segments turned on, here are the visit counts for Oct 1st - Oct 4th but I've changed the time range to Oct 1st - Oct 4th. As expected, the numbers are the exact same as above: Oct 1 - 7   Oct 2 - 7   Oct 3 - 8   Oct 4 - 5 Now, I turn on the "Non paid search traffic" advanced segment. Here are the visit counts for Oct 1st - Oct 4th during the time range Sept 8th - Oct 8th: Oct 1 - 0   Oct 2 - 0   Oct 3 - 0   Oct 4 - 2 Here is where it gets weird. I keep the advanced segment on, and change the time range to Oct 1st - Oct 4th. This is what I get for the exact same dates as above: Oct 1 - 4   Oct 2 - 2   Oct 3 - 6   Oct 4 - 5 We've found the same inconsistency in our other GA profiles that get much more traffic (the above numbers come from one of our specialized topic blogs), but the inconsistency is less pronounced where there are more visits. My question is: why are the visit counts different for different time ranges when advanced segments are turned on, but exactly the same when no advanced segments are applied? Is this a GA bug or am I missing something about how the advanced segments work?


Configuring directory access on a server. .htaccess and alternatives?

I have written a small PHP package/site-template (should I say). It contains a directory **data/** that contains some important files that the users should not be able to see. These file should however be accessible by my PHP scripts. Now ,the question is how can I prevent users from accessing a particular directory on the web. Can I do this using .htaccess file? If yes, how? If in case the user is not using Apache, but some other server like **nginx** or **IIS** or any other server for that matter. Is there a portable way to do this?


Image editor Applet

I'm using codeigniter + jquery on a linux server and i want to integrate in my website a photo/image editor (after that an user have uploaded an image, he must be able to edit it), i need just some simple tools, zoom in and zoom out, brightness and contrast. A good solution may be a java, flash, silverlight applet or something like that. Any idea? Tnx Claudio


how to set crawl rate like the old option of webmastertools like 7days or a month

My server people are blocking ip's which do a lot of requests including google bot. I found this by checking my webmastertools account. there it said network unreachable for all the urls which are indexed in google. Then i thought of reducing the rate of crawl. And i found that google will not alter the crawl rate and it is google who will determine and the users are allowed to alter the no of requests per time. Before some months/years i have seen the crawl rate had options like days, week and months but not it is different. How to set crawl rate for the above different criteria?


OpenSearchDescriptions good or bad signal in Google's eyes?

I noticed a site using this tag:               <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="XXXXXXXXX" href="http://www.XXXXXXXXXX.com/api/opensearch" />      As I understand it (based on http://www.opensearch.org/Home), this tag is a way of describing search results (so you use it on pages which contain search results) to make it easier for other search engines to understand and use your results. Given that Matt Cutts has said Google generally frowns on "search results within search results" is using this tag a bad idea on a page that you hope to achieve a good ranking in Google?


What is the proper time zone to display times for events online?

My website (http://wethepixels.com) has regularly user-scheduled events. Right now we are using our timezone EDT (or EST) as the base timezone for all events on the site. I feel like this is either 1) wrong, or 2) very confusing. Currently, we have users all over the US and Europe. Is the proper method to localize times based on the clients timezone? use UTC/GMT? Thanks


How to resolve paypal pending balance for subscription type?

Pending balance rule seems to be only for ebay sellers and to get away from it is to make buyers drop a feedback about the seller. How about for subscription type only? I cannot let users view my posts if their payment has not cleared yet. Technically, the IPN should have payment_status var sent after the buyer has paid for subscription but in my case, I only get it on the first IPN message which has a "Pending" value and nothing on the second. This causes my handler to throw out an "Unknown payment status" error.


Installing mpm_worker for Apache and configuring pre_main_global.conf doesn't seem to work

I just installed _mpm_worker_ for Apache and added this to _pre_main_global.conf_ :               <IfModule worker.c>     ServerLimit          40     StartServers          2     MaxClients          1000     MinSpareThreads      20     MaxSpareThreads      50     ThreadsPerChild      25     MaxRequestsPerChild   0     </IfModule>      To test to see if this actually works, I changed the variable and restarted Apache.               <IfModule worker.c>     ServerLimit           1     StartServers          1     MaxClients            1     MinSpareThreads       1     MaxSpareThreads       1     ThreadsPerChild       1     MaxRequestsPerChild   1     </IfModule>      To my surprise my busy site still responds as normal. I tested this on multiple browsers and deleted all the cache. What did I do wrong?


SEO regarding non-US characters (ñ vs n vs ñ)

Are there any recommendations for handling special non-English characters like the `ñ` on a web page and keep it searchable under any permutation from Google and Bing? For example, I have three options: just replace it with an ASCII char like `n`, use the actual character `ñ` or use the entity code `ñ`. Will Google make the correlation between "el baño" on my website, if the user searches for "el bano" with a regular `n`? Just for the context of this, it's a primarily English website but there's a section for Spanish speaking folks (not really an entire translation of the site, which is maybe the right way to handle it, but changing that isn't an option right now). Is there a best practices regarding this? Which of the three options is the best way to go? Thanks


SEO value of external root domains that use CNAME to point back to original domain

I have DOMAIN A. A partner on DOMAIN B creates `subdomain.DOMAIN-B.com`. The subdomain is a `CNAME` record that masks `beer.DOMAIN-A.com`. So when a user visits `subdomain.DOMAIN-B.com`, they see content from `beer.DOMAIN-A.com`, but the browser and content all appear to be served from `subdomain.DOMAIN-B.com`. The question is: If I create a backlink from `subdomain.DOMAIN-B.COM` to `beer.DOMAIN-A.com`, is it recognized as a valid linking root domain, or does Google see this as some type of internal link, since behind the scenes it can see the DNS record resolves to the same IP? (`beer.DOMAIN-A.com` and `subdomain.DOMAIN-B.com` are pointing at the same IP) Any ideas?


Hiding whois information on GoDaddy registered domains

I have a few domains hosted at GoDaddy, and it's posting my address, phone number, and email address on my whois results. It looks like they charge an exorbitant $10/year for "private registration" to hide this. Is that correct? Every other company I've used does this for free. This means that my domains at GoDaddy will effectively cost me twice as much per year. Is there any way around this? e.g. I believe I can go into my GoDaddy and just change the details, but someone told me that doing so would hamper my ability to defend my ownership of the domain if it was contested. Any truth to that?


robots.txt blocking specific files also block unnecessary URLs

I am using Magento for one of my site. In Magento there is a file `mage` (no extension file name is `mage` only) to block this file I write _robots.txt_ as               # Files     User-agent: *      Disallow: /mage      But this also block URLs start with `mage` like `magenta-color-item.html`. How I write in robot to block `mage` not URL start with `mage`?


HTTPS security issue

I want to learn if my ISP or any Firewall or anybody else can see the links I browse which has ssl support ? for exemple: when I browse google using secure search (https://google.com) https://www.google.com.tr/webhp?sourceid=chrome- instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&safe=active&sclient=psy- ab&q=any+search+term&oq=any+search+term&aq=f&aqi=g-v1&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=13935l17752l3l18016l16l15l0l1l1l0l306l1791l9.5.0.1l17l0&gs_l=hp.3..0i15.13935l17752l3l18016l16l15l0l1l1l0l306l1791l9j5j0j1l17l0.llsin&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=43e7b3983c4556bc&ion=1&biw=1366&bih=653 can anyone see the url I visited ? Thanks. I know that SSL is there for security but I want to be sure if it's secure as we know it or is there any way some one can see what I am browsing .


How to keep and reference bilingual glossary in Mediawiki?

In a MediaWiki instance of mine, I found myself using many English terms' Chinese translation repeatedly. Is there a way to centralize a glossary of such English terms and their Chinese translation such that, in an arbitrary MediaWiki article, primarily written in Chinese, one could display a term's Chinese translation by using some reference that only involves the English term? That way, i can avoid having to remember the exact Chinese translation, and just specially tag the terms for them to show up translated in the result formatted page.


What kind of schema.org classification should be used for user generated content?

I have a site where users can add their bicycles that they own, and I'm not quite sure how to structure the schema.org data. The bikes are not for sale, only displayed, and there are multiple versions of the same type of bicycle on the site. This is what I'm thinking so far: **Member details page:**               Person     -- name     -- image     -- owns:        -- ownershipinfo (1 per bicycle)           -- name           -- image           -- url      **Bicycle details page:**               Thing     -- name     -- image      I thought about using _Product_ on the member page under owns, and also for the bicycle itself instead of _Thing_ , but I'm under the impression that _Product_ is intended for products for sale on an e-commerce site. So should I use Thing, Product, or something else entirely?


Understanding Ajax crawling of search site

I have a couple of questions about Ajax crawling of a website, which is kind of search engine itself. The base article explains the mechanism of making AJAX applications crawlable. All this stuff with HTML-snapshots is clear and easy to implement, but I can't understand where the Google Bot "finds pretty AJAX URLs"( ie `www.example.com/ajax.html#key=value`) to index them. First thing, that came to mind are breadcrumbs. In a sitemap we are able to specify pages with breadcrumbs/links on them, so the search engine bots may crawl these pages and get HTML-snapshots from there. But I'm sure, there are other ways to give bots these "pretty AJAX URLs". In our case, we have a simple search site, where users enter keywords, press on "Find", js executes the Ajax request, receives a JSON responce and fill page with results (without any refresh of course). In this case - how can we make sure that the Google bot crawls all the search results in addition to adding a sitemap with links to all search results? Is there some example of solution, described in article above?


Asking permission to use client's name/products on a website?

Are there legal agreements that clients need to use in order to mention their clients on the website? For example, "We've done work for HBO, Amazon, Dell, etc" Also, if your clients wanted to use products that they've created for their clients in their case studies, would they need permission for this as well? Or, is there some sort of legal agreement they have their client sign for CYA reasons?


Domain registrar that offers CNAME settings

I have looked and couldn't find one. Please recommend a domain registrar on which you can change CNAME settings without having a hosting account. I have to change CNAME setting for my domain to make it point to a cloud hosting service http://www.openshift.com. Openshift doesn't yet offer domain registering so I have to use another registrar bit most seem to have CNAME settings only for hosting...


Too much delay for indexing Sitemap in Webmaster Tools?

I know that Google don’t guarantee for indexing every single web page, but I need some clarification about that, because most of the SEO masters are saying “ _Submitting Sitemap in GWT is the most important task for indexing a page_ ”. I had submitted my website’s site map before several months (may be years). My sitemap contains 2253 web pages, out of that only 64 pages has been indexed so for. These 64 pages were indexed few months before itself which means, after those 64 pages Google hasn’t indexed even a single page. What would be the reason? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/DQUli.png)


How do I redirect domain.com to sub.domain.com?

I know about using CNAME records to redirect `domain.com` to `www.domain.com`, but how would I go about redirecting `domain.com` to `sub.domain.com` and also `www.domain.com` to `sub.domain.com`? Do I do so via editing my DNS zone files or a HTTP redirect with my webserver? Also, what would be the correct terminology to refer to `SUB.domain.com`? Is it hostname, leaf domain? **Update** : I'm only interested in hosting a simple static site on a dedicated server using Octopress and Nginx. I don't particularly care about SEO and Google PR etc.


Regarding improving site performance

I have an e-commerce website and have close to 9000 products in it with each product having 3 pictures at least. Now my site is loading at an average speed but I want to improve it, as I will be adding lot more products in coming months. I was think if I upload all my images to sites like `imgur.com` or `flickr.com` will it improve the performance and page speed of my website?


Google AdSense crawler unable to crawl my image-based website

I have recently set up a website and applied for Google AdSense. However my website is being not crawled properly. It is basically a image- based website with text under each image. It contains a lot of text but all of it is contained in the `<title>` tag and not the description. Is this the problem?


What is a typical finders fee to give to a client that gets a client?

I currently am a part owner of a website design company and we are trying to figure out what a good finders fee to give is? And is percentage better, or flat fee?


Linking a Google Analytics event with a not easily linked event occurring later

We have people filing in a Wufoo contact us form on our site. After communication, some people become customers by checking out using a custom URL we email to them. We would like to link these two events (form completion and sale) so that our e-commerce tracking on Google Analytics connects the first entry to the conversion. How do we go about doing this? We can have the Wufoo ID showing as a custom variable on the thank you page and put the same id in the conversion page but not sure how to technically link them.


Site migration questions-- PHP, link structure & SEO

I'm working on a massive site overhaul and the main structural change will be a move from static HTML to PHP. I work for an art gallery, and having the artist names in URLs is critical. We already have substantial link authority for a variety of artist names, and the URL structure has been domain.com/artist-last-name/artist-full-name.html (eg. domain.com/picasso/pablo-picasso.html). I'm considering multiple approaches and was hoping to get some advice on what might be the best one. My first consideration was using an htaccess directive to process PHP files as HTML, so that I could keep the exact same URL structure (or at least the appearance of which); but I'm not sure if there are any drawbacks to this approach other than the additional server load. I'm also considering keeping the PHP extension and just converting everything with the assumption/hope that search rankings won't be affected, eg. domain.com/picasso/pablo-picasso.php. I suppose I could also change the link structure entirely, and change the directory names to the full artist names with an index.php in each, eg. domain.com/pablo-picasso/ which would be cleaner, but perhaps disturb the existing rankings. If anybody has any advice regarding the above approaches, or something entirely different, I'd be most appreciative.


How to deal with .ch domains? I need a DNS

I need to register a .ch domain, but SWITCH does not seem to offer free (or paid) DNS as other registrars do. So I need to know at least one of these:   * Is there a registrar where I can buy a .ch domain, that also offers free DNS? Preferably not US-based   * Is there a really cheap and reliable DNS service? So the total cost for using a .ch does not go too high for me.


How and where to place - css, html and images in email to make it a HTML email? I have seen many advertising emails in my inbox and I am curious to know how does the email body display the HTML.


Is this content duplicated? or or weak content?

firstly, my google webmaster tool said that i have 313 index. but if i search with site:, i only get 72 content. from this url, it said may because data not yet transfered from other server. ok its fine so i need to wait. but i also suspect content is duplicating in google perspective or may be weak content. http://ratnadewi.net/indonesia/gallery/bali.makeup/balinese-makeup-and- wedding-i http://ratnadewi.net/english/gallery/bali.makeup/balinese-makeup-and-wedding-i (its will be canonical to http://ratnadewi.net/gallery/bali.makeup/balinese- makeup-and-wedding-i) what do you think? is it duplicated content? or its a weak content? its an image gallery. and i need translation for any content.


getting started as a web developer

I have over 10 years of programming experience building (Windows-based) _desktop_ applications and utilities (VC++, C#, Python). My goal over the next year is to start transitioning to _web_ application development. I want to teach myself the fundamental tools and technologies that would be considered essential for building professional, online, interactive, visually-stunning, data-driven web apps -- the kind described in Google's recently released "Field Guide: Building Great Web Applications". So my question is, what are the primary, most commonly-used technologies that seasoned professionals will need in their tool belt in the coming years? My plan was to start coming up to speed in Javascript, HTML5, & CSS, and then to do a deep dive into ASP.NET and Ajax, along with SQL DBs. (I was surprised to not be able to find a single book at Amazon with a broad, general scope like this, which caused me to start second-guessing this approach.) So, seasoned professionals: am I on the right track? Are there some glaring omissions in my list? Or some unnecessary inclusions? I would welcome any book suggestions along these lines as well.


Files uploaded to hosting account but DNS is not finding the new files

I got a new domain `http://alfer-ks.com`. I have upload files to the server using cPanel, but when I try to load the website, it just shows the cPanel default page, which shows that Apache is running and stuff like that. **What am I doing wrong?**


Is datetime-local removed from HTML 5.1?

HTML5 seemingly introduces these two input types:   * datetime (with a timezone)   * datetime-local (without a timezone) Even though both are present on the W3C wiki, the HTML 5.1 nightly draft recommendation only mentions the datetime type, I can't seem to find any mention of `datetime-local`. Has this type been removed (or renamed) from the recommendation, or can we still expect future support for it?


What's the best body text font for Windows XP?

For my Windows testing, I am using XP, since that is what I have, and I am testing with Firefox and IE. I noticed that the Times, Georgia and Utopia fonts all look pretty bad in Firefox. I've noticed that on Digg (yes it still exists) they load a nice-looking font after the page loads, so there is an ugly font that switches to a nice font. On FB and Reddit the font remains ugly.


Should I just ban everyone who has no language setting?

I am constantly seeing in my logs the same type of visitor: They have no language setting, i.e.               $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] == ''      so it's empty, and their referrer is some scam server in Russia or Ukraine. I get many of these every day. I've been banning them selectively based on their referrer but it seems I am getting similar non-browser based visitors from China as well who have no referrer. So should I just ban these people or bots? Examples of referrers:               http://www.odeialo.ru/     http://www.moregirls.org/     http://segway911.ru/


Correct microdata and/or microformats for real estate listings?

Given I am running a real estate rentals listing website, what would be the correct microdata or microformats for the listing pages? There is the usual data: address, photos, price, start date, possible end date, person who is renting it out, list of amenities, description etc. Are there also microformats/microdata that can be used in the listing summary page (e.g., page that displays all listings in a particular city)?


Declaring variables using single or multiple var statements. Performance wise

Someone once told me that it's better for Javascript performance to use one var statement rather then multiple. I.e.               // Version A. Allegedly Faster     var a = 1,         b = 2,         c = 3;          // Version B. Allegedly Slower     var a = 1;     var b = 2;     var c = 3;      The reasoning behind this was along the lines of: For every var statement, Javascript will start allocating memory and then stop at the semicolon. Whereas, if you have only one var statement, many JS implementations will optimize it and allocate space for all variables in the same call. Thus making things go faster. However, when googling to confirm this I only find rants about how some consider the second example to be simpler from a maintenance point of view. And some disagree. This JSPerf test sais there is no difference. **So my question** : From a performance perspective, is there any reason version A or B would be better?


Scrape LIKE user of competition pages

Is it possible to make something a little touchy.. I will explain My friend have a little baby accessory like hair clip and so.... She manage to get 100 like in there Facebook page (great!) NOW, on Facebook, in the same city, in the same market, a person with the same shop have 475 like in the Facebook page :-( AND THE QUESTION, the competition in closing there shop soon.... So is it possible to get the name of ALL THE like in the competition page and send a personal message to ALL of them to tell the we still offer the same product, and ask people to switch and like there page.... It’s like stealing the consumer database of the competition.... But seem a good idea to me... NOW, is it possible to make it automatic scraping user ?


protecting css selectors on large website

I have content that appears within a corporate website inside an iframe. Several departments contribute their own CSS files to manage the overall UI and design. My problem is that they may use selectors for elements like td (for instance), without notice. Of course that will affect my own content in the frame unless I add a class to every td. I'm just using td as an example: the generic style for any element could change without notice. Is there any method/convention/practice I can use to protect my own styling?


Need a really simple client manage script to deliver graphics and revisions, please help?

I am looking for a very simple client management script. The process flow of the script should be: Client orders (paypal etc) while giving specs on what they need > given login details and thanked for their order > backend for them consists of a 2 way communication. They ask questions we answer. We also upload the graphics here where they either accept them or as for revision. > process complete. Now I cannot for the life of me find something as simple as this. It seems all the scripts out there are way too complicated. Does anyone know of one I can use to do this?


AJAX website doesn't get indexed properly

Why http://anuary.com doesn't get indexed properly? I've submitted the sitemap ( http://anuary.com/?sitemap=true ) almost a month ago. However, 0 pages appear in Google index. I've also prepared the webpage infrastructure following Google AJAX-friendly pages guide ( http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting- started.html ), therefore               http://anuary.com/#!/portfolio/28      becomes               http://anuary.com/?_escaped_fragment_=!/portfolio/28      However, I am not sure what to do with the landing page, http://anuary.com/ ?


Advertising on personalized pages behind a login

I am currently building a web app which requires a user to log in. After they log in, they can see the content they've added to the web app, and things that the web app has done with the content they added. The URL structure won't differentiate different users (e.g. all user's 'homepage' would be example.com/home, _not_ something like example.com/`username`/home). This is much the same way that Facebook works (all FB user's messages are at facebook.com/messages, for example). This presents a problem with advertising. I know that you can use AdSense behind a login, but as far as I'm aware, that's for things like forums, where everyone sees the same things (which wouldn't be the case in this site). I also know that I could put AdSense on the pages without allowing it to log in, which would produce inferior ads. I'm fairly certain it would be against the Terms of Service to give AdSense a login to a 'dummy' account with typical content, as it would not be seeing the same thing as every other user (which is impossible, as they all see different things). So, my question is: **Is there an ad network, or other method, that can serve ads behind a login, maybe based on keywords rather than content?**


how/when to use meta reply-to tag?

I was exploring meta tag and came across reply-to attribute. Can someone please give me an example of how to use it ? Also, is it recommended to use that attribute ?


Advice on how to best utilize shopping cart start-up?

A friend of mine has a product which we plan to sell online. It's a product for a niche of specialized users (like doctors, engineers, etc.) which they can use in they everyday work. Being a programmer myself, I thought of coding the shopping cart. But after a few days of searching the Internet, I realized that I may be reinventing the wheel. Does anyone have experience with the shopping carts in the cloud offered by large companies like Yahoo or GoDaddy (as well as dozens of others)? How robust they are in terms of customization or we are limited by the scope determined by such companies? For example, I see that you get a domain. Will a user ever know that you are using 3rd party cart? Is there a place where users reviewed popular carts so I can see which one suits us the best? I am reluctant to rely on online reports as you never know who paid whom to appear on the first place.


How to get a super domain?

I want to buy a domain that contains some popular words, and which is occupied by some squatters. The domain is due to expire soon. How should I proceed ? Should I wait until the expiration day, and then buy that domain from a reliable registrar ? Should I somehow pre-order that domain name to the current domain registrar ? Or what ?


Google Webmaster Tools: Why do I have so many links from my top domain to my subdomain?

I have a subdomain under my top domain as follows: `2index.net`   `quran.2index.net` In Google Webmaster Tools, for the subdomain `quran.2index.net`, I find that the number of links recorded from the top domain to the subdomain is very large - more than 26k links! While what I really have is just one link to the subdomain from the index page of the top domain. The following screenshot displays this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/pr3XL.png) I'd like to know two things:   1. Why is there so many links from the top domain to the subdomain?   2. Does this negatively affect SEO and my subdomain's indexing in Google?


Ruby on Rails 3 hosting

Please can you suggest me a hosting service with these properties:   1. It costs less than 150$ a year (best would be free!)   2. It is "Ruby on Rails 3 ready" (I mean it requires a minimum amount of terminal operations) Thanks!!


How do I define an HTML anchor to jump to specific location within a page?

I see thousands of tutorials teaching you a very simple thing, how to use `#section` to jump to a specific section within your page. However, nobody unveils the secret of coding the target anchor. Can you do that?


Specifying a website to appear in certain search engines and not others?

If you want a website to appear in DuckDuckGo for example and not Google, is this possible? Can you specify which search engines for a website appear in?


Creative Commons License style

i generated a creative commons license for my website, they gave me a code to put into my website html. The code is somenthing like:               creative bla bla       I was wondering, is it possible to style it cause it's just a link targeting to the license page or should i leave it as it is for legal reasons?


Using Dynamic URLs with more than one Variable in a Sitemap?

I have a site map with generated dynamic urls that I need included in the sitemap. However, the sitemap seems to be generating an error on the `&` character, so that pages with more than one variable in the query string break the sitemap. How can I fix this? Here's an example:               http://example.com/index.php?action=view&id=10


How do you set the width of the browser using Google Chrome

In IE you can set the browser width to be 1024x768, for example, to test your site. How can you do this in Chrome? I can't find an equivalent setting anywhere? I'm using 'Tools -> Developer tools'. I can't do the fallback trick of running               javascript:window.resizeTo(1024,768)      in the location bar, because Chrome tries to search for it!


How do I change Transmit Mode from Auto to ASCII?

I am using Panic's Transmit for my FTP client. I am need to be able upload a .csv file using ASCII but when I go to:               Transfer > Mode > ASCII (TEXT)       all the Modes are grayed out and I am stuck with Auto.   I checked the Panic site but didn't see anything there. Any clues how to force that change? Thanks!


web hosting question

I am wondering why godaddy offers Unlimited Space+ and Bandwidth, but google app engine/ AWS charges on usages. is it REAL unlimited? if godaddy offers lower rate, why ppl still use google app engine and AWS(other than they can use more customized virtual instance). can any explain it to me?


Duplicate domain names - .net and .com Create separate pages, or redirect?

In a SEO point of view: This website has a good amount of traffic for a local business, but also ships some merchandise. While the **.net domain (registered first)** is associated with the **local busines (google places, maps, etc...) the .com domain only redirects** to the .net domain. Is it good, bad or okay to create a different page for the domain .com for example, that would be pretty simple, but would link to the 10 different categories of products that this company sells? I know links are good, so there's that, but what else is good, or bad? Thanks in advance!


How are 301 redirected URL backlinks reported in GWT?

Say `www.SiteA.com` acquires `www.SiteB.com` and 301 redirects `www.SiteB.com` to `www.SiteA.com` properly. How does Google Webmaster Tools handle the backlinks to `www.SiteB.com`? Are these progressively displayed as backlinks of `www.SiteA.com`? How to keep track of these?


Simple mod_rewrite Question

I want to have everything that looks like this: /1/2/3/4/5/[...] to redirect to this: /index.php?u=/1/2/3/4/5/[...] **unless** the requested string is a specific file. So anything that doesn't have a ".", I want to redirect to "index.php?u=[...]". I'll then parse the URI segments in PHP to determine what the user is requesting. I've been looking around for how to do this, but have only a very rough understanding of regular expressions and have been unable to find an example of how to do it. Thanks!


DMCA in Europe - EUCD?

There is a site to where I need to send a takedown notice. However, this site is hosted in Europe with an offshore hosting company that says clear in its TOS that they will not do anything if they get a DMCA complain, giving freedom to clients to host whatever copyrighted material they want. Is EUCD the correct way to deal with this? Where can I find an example of a EUCD complain or even a form? DMCA has all types of examples and places to get a sample form, but EUCD has none.


Structured data extracted but still getting an error 'Either price or review or availability needs to be present'

Google always gives the error 'Either price or review or availability needs to be present' even though price & availability are present. Have a look at the code.               while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($results))             {                 print                 "
" .                 "
".                 "
".$row["product_name"]."
".                 "
(" .$row["name_gujarati"]. ")
";                      if($login==1)                 {                 print                 "

";                 }                 else                 {                 print                 "

";                 }                 print                 "".                 "
<meta itemprop='currency' content='INR'/>₹ ".$row["price"]."
".                 "
".$row["priceper"]."
".                 "
".                 "<form name='addtocart' id='form' method='post' enctype='multipart/form-data' action='updatecart.php'>".                 "Qty:  <input type='text' id='quantity' name='quantity' required='required' autocomplete='off'>".                 " <select name='type' style='height: 25px; border-radius: 8px; border-color:#A5ACB2; border-style:solid;   border-width: thin;'>";                 if($row["priceper"]=='Price per Unit'){                 print                 "<option value='KiloGrams' disabled='disabled'>KiloGrams</option>".                 "<option value='Grams' disabled='disabled'>Grams</option>".                 "<option value='Unit'>Unit</option>";                 }                 else{                 print                 "<option value='KiloGrams'>KiloGrams</option>".                 "<option value='Grams'>Grams</option>".                 "<option value='Unit' disabled='disabled'>Unit</option>";                 }                 print                 "</select>".                 "
".                 "
".                 "<input type='hidden' name='id' value='{$row["productid"]}'>".                 "<input type='hidden' name='name' value='{$row["product_name"]}'>".                 "".                 "<input type='submit' style='padding:10px 10px;' class='button' value='Buy Now'>".                 "".                 "".                 "</form>".                 "
".                 "
".                 "
";             }      Can anyone help what's wrong with it?


Should category pages be noindex regarding panda?

I have seen this question, but I believe the situation has changed a lot with the recent Panda updates. I have created a set of category pages to facilitate navigation on my site. It is a proper hierarchy with no duplicates. However, these pages contain mostly navigation links. Could these be considered thin content by Google? Or, is there a good reason I should mark them as noindex? Or should let Google index them? **Update:** After running some tests, I can confirm for sure that letting Google index my category pages triggered a silent penalty where all my indexed pages where not matched to user queries anymore. I had a high rate of those pages on my site. First, I marked them a 'noindex,follow', but it had no impact, since these pages where still in the index. I decided to use the 'remove URL' feature of GWT aggressively to blast those pages away from the index. It worked. Within a day, Google was starting to match remaining pages with user queries again.


Is it considered blackhat SEO to have hidden text within links?

My aim is to simply be informative about where a link is pointing to search engines. I have some content that is listed by name and then I have a "Permalink" button. Would it be blackhat SEO to add some hidden text within the anchor that describes where the permalink is pointing? My content is like so:               News Item 1     Permalink      (<hidden>News Item 1</hidden> Permalink)     Teaser text..      The news title of the block already links to the article, but I think it would be of benefit to users to provide and explicit permalink button.


What's the best micropayment solution for a web app?

If I want users to pay $0.10 every time they access a piece of content on my site, is there a broadly accepted solution for this?


Async load of secondary content; Google says "slow", users see what they want faster

We have a performance problem on our site, and we're digging in to correct some rather basic issues -- we know we have many opportunities to improve performance -- this question is about one, in particular. Our special case is that we intentionally defer loading of one part of our page that is inherently slow until after the stuff users really wants is up and rendered. But tools like NewRelic, and Google PageSpeed all see this as a slow-loading page -- 5+ seconds. You can see the case at at pubget.com where we display search results for research papers. We allow users get full article and display either "View" or "Buy" buttons depending on some fairly complicated rules (e.g. if their company/university has a subscription to the journal, but there's a lot more) -- these rules take time to calculate. So we load the search results, and then _after_ the page is displayed, we do an AJAX request to get the View/Buy buttons. The actual work of figuring out what buttons to display (and where they should link) takes about a second, more or less. It seems like the right thing to do from a user experience standpoint, but I wonder if it affects how users and Google sees our site. (If you do look at the page, you'll see any number of other equally important things we're doing wrong. I know about these and we're going to fix them.)


Turning off Webalizer and/or AW Stats

On our dedicated server, we have AW Stats and Webalizer both running. I see I can turn them off in WHM. We use Google Analytics, but also AW Stats sometimes. We never use Webzlier. My question is: Does disabling Webalizer and/or AW Stats reduce any load on the server, apache or mysql? Is there a benefit to turning it off? Thanks.


How is crawler seeing unlinked directories / files?

I'm running a crawler on my website to test for broken links and such. It starts by using a URL like www.domain.com One curious thing is that it is showing directories with no internal links. For example, directory /example_dir/ is showing up in the crawl tree, but I can't find any internal link to that directory within the pages. How could this be happening and is there a way to prevent it?


What is best practice for search engines when a website is under maintenance?

I need around a week to transition a heavily data-driven website from one back end to another. During that time I do plan to attempt to keep some pages live, but they won't all work well or look brilliant. Some pages won't work at all. What is the best way to ensure I don't scare Google? Should I hide everything from robots.txt, or mark everything that doesn't work as "503", or are there other things that I should be considering?


Protecting a webpage with an authentication form

I have created an employee webpage with a lot of company info, links, etc., but I want to protect the page because it contains some confidential company information. I am running IIS7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2, and I already have the site setup as a normal, non-protected site. I want all active directory users to have access to the site. This is not an intranet site, it is exposed to the internet. I tried setting it up using Windows Authentication, but I had problems with multiple login prompts, etc. I just want a simple form for users to enter their credentials and have access to the site, and I need it to query the AD for login. I've searched the web for a guide on this, but I can't seem to find one that fits my situation. This is not a Web App. It is just a simple html site. Does anyone have any suggestions or a link to a guide on this? Thanks so much! -LB


Value of shorter domain names

I asked this on serverfault and was recommended to try here, so I'm reposting this. Is it still valuable to have a shorter domain name? My company site is currently located at nexustechnologiesllc.com and I have the opportunity to buy nexusllc.com, but I'm really torn on the value of said domain. Shorter names obviously used to be much more valuable because people were more likely to type in a domain name, but now, with everyone pretty much searching, that value seems to be reduced. The other aspect that I'm considering with this is typing in an email address, because people might still be typing that in semi-regularly. But again, I'm not sure how important that aspect is either.


Does Google Analytics automatically handle URLs containing a jsessionid?

When a user visits my web site, the first page they load has a _jsessionid_ appended to the URL like this: `http://foo.com/Welcome.do;jsessionid=1234567890abcdef` Note that the jsessionid parameter is separated using a `;` and not a `?` like typical query parameters. Given that this is a fairly common pattern for sites with a Java backend, does Google Analytics automatically account for this somehow and ignore the `;` and everything after it? If not, what must I do to tell Google Analytics to ignore the `;jsessionid` portion of a URL?


Point me to some modern blog service

I want to start my own blog. What are the modern blog services? wordpress.com? blogger.com? What would you propose?


Best way to take down site for a long period while I develop it

Rather foolishly, I have been developing my site on a live server (with VCS don't worry), kind of using it as a portfolio / show off piece. It is far from finished. Recently, I noticed that Google started to spider it, including some of the debug data accessible across the site as it's in 'debug' mode. I'm not sure of the future effects this will have on my site when it is finally released - especially as some pages are just erroring out while I develop and there is some gobbledygook/dummy/blank data on a few pages. SEO wise, what are the best steps to take to not incur any present or future Google penalty? One thing I thought of was to possible disallow spidering in robots.txt, put up a splash page and then setup a decent sitemap when the site is live again. Regardless I am going to setup a development domain somewhere but would like to know the safest way of migrating it down.


Google penalty resulting from duplicate content and backlinks on dealer websites

We have a dealer network that sells our products, as a bonus we give them an extra 25% off our products from the normal wholesale price if they put our products on their site. We recently got hit with a Google manual penalty so we enlisted the help of "LinkDelete" to help us get rid of all the backlinks. Some of our dealer websites are in the list of bad backlinks they gave us. They told us this is because of duplicate content. What we do is give our dealers HTML snippets so they can just copy and paste it on their site. The HTML contains absolute URLs to pictures of our products, short descriptions, and links back to our website. We want our SEO rankings restored, so do we just tell our dealers to remove our links?


How to avoid DotNetNuke with another ASP.NET application conflicts

Web have the following scenario:   * A generic web developed using DotNetNuke   * A b2b web application developed using ASP.NET + Silverlight What we want to do is the following:   * When a client goes to www.myCompanyDomain.com the web that the client access is the Dotnetnuke Web.   * When a client goes to www.myCompanyDomain.com/b2b the web loaded is the B2B web. The problem is that when we install the DotNetNuke application into the main directory of our web server the Web.Config configuration file is inherited by any application installed in a subdirectory, causing the B2B application to fail. In order to have a working installation we have to install the DotNetNuke web in a subdirectory and the B2B web in another, but this make impossible to access the DotNetNuke web directly from www.MyCompanyDomain.com How can we install the applications and configure the IIS to have the wanted behavior?


Link goes to specific location of page

What makes the user go to a specific location on a new html page? Not the current page. For example, when you click this link, you don't end up starting at the top like you normally would. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/itss/docs/oracle/9i/java.920/a96654/basic.htm#1006509


Does missing background links affect SEO?

I am amongst a discussion about a number of broken links on a site which has discovered by a checker tool. My argument is that the majority of these links are from the CSS in the form of background images on small elements such as buttons and menu items (which has happened from an old site move). How does Google view this? I thought they would only negatively affect your SEO if they were broken anchor link elements on the page?


What's the best web site performance tool for end-users?

When I receive reports that my website is running slowly, I would like to be able to point the end-users to a performance/profiling tool that is easy to use and that has a feature where the end-users' report can be sent to me. Can anyone recommend a site or browser plug-in like this?


Canonicalising to less linked URLs

I have a question about how to use canonical urls on an ecommerce site with a complex category structure. I have many products and they each sit in multiple categories. Each product can be accessed on multiple urls like: `/first-category-name/product-name` & `/second-category-name/product-name` They can all also be accessed via standard path like `/products/product-name` The reason for the category versions is we vary the recommendations for alternative products and colours depending on which category the user is browsing. For example, a single unisex product may have many colour alternatives but we would show different subsets of these on the two following urls: `/a-manly-category-with-dark-colours/product-name` & `/a-girly-category-with- eight-shades-of-pink/product-name` On `/products/product-name` all the alternatives are shown. The obvious solution (to me) to this was to add a canonical tag pointing all product pages to their `/products/product-name` version. However, it worries me that most of the links around the site will point to the duplicate versions and not the canonical target which could be sending Google mixed messages. Is this an issue I need to worry about or will it all be fine as long as I have the canonicals set up right?


Do you get penalized for writing a title very similar to other blogs?

Do you get penalized if you use somebody's post title with few words changed in the title to match your post?


Is ignoring clients data during an automatic upgrading acceptable?

I recently faced a deletion of my calendar and notes data inside a third party application ( Horde ) on my online space. When I told the web hosting provider they replied that they were doing an upgrade to system software (!!) and that third party client applications are not within their reach or backup policy.   They don't even have a backup of my data.   Is this practice acceptable from a web hosting provider, even for individual clients? I know that backing up my data is my responsibility but I anticipated that backup copies done by the host would be available when needed.


htaccess code for maintenance page redirect

I set up a maintenance page that I could enable through an htaccess file. The html file is located in a folder called "maintenance". The html file has some images in it. However, visitors to the page see no images, even though I added a `RewriteCond` line to (theoretically) allow them. If I try to visit the URL of an image file in the browser directly, it redirects to the maintenance.htm page. I do not want image files to be redirected. Am I missing something?               #RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^127.0.0.1$     #RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^111.111.111.111$     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance/maintenance\.htm$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|css|ico)$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /maintenance/maintenance.htm [R=302,L]


How to get tens of millions of pages indexed by Google bot?

We are currently developing a site that currently has 8 million unique pages that will grow to about 20 million right away, and eventually to about 50 million or more. Before you criticize... **Yes, it provides unique, useful content.** We continually process raw data from public records and by doing some data scrubbing, entity rollups, and relationship mapping, we've been able to generate quality content, developing a site that's quite useful and also unique, in part _due_ to the breadth of the data. It's PR is 0 (new domain, no links), and we're getting spidered at a rate of about 500 pages per day, putting us at about 30,000 pages indexed thus far. At this rate, it would take over 400 years to index all of our data. I have two questions:   1. Is the rate of the indexing directly correlated to PR, and by that I mean is it correlated enough that by purchasing an old domain with good PR will get us to a workable indexing rate (in the neighborhood of 100,000 pages per day).   2. Are there any SEO consultants who specialize in aiding the indexing process itself. We're otherwise doing very well with SEO, **on** -page especially, besides, the competition for our "long-tail" keyword phrases is pretty low, so our success hinges mostly on the number of pages indexed. Our main competitor has achieved approx 20MM pages indexed in just over one year's time, along with an Alexa 2000-ish ranking. Noteworthy qualities we have in place:   * page download speed is pretty good (250-500 ms)   * no errors (no 404 or 500 errors when getting spidered)   * we use Google webmaster tools and login daily   * friendly URLs in place   * I'm afraid to submit sitemaps. Some SEO community postings suggest a new site with millions of pages and no PR is suspicious. There is a Google video of Matt Cutts speaking of a staged on-boarding of large sites, too, in order to avoid increased scrutiny (at approx 2:30 in the video).   * Clickable site links deliver all pages, no more than four pages deep and typically no more than 250(-ish) internal links on a page.   * Anchor text for internal links is logical and adds relevance hierarchically to the data on the detail pages.   * We had previously set the crawl rate to the highest on webmaster tools (only about a page every two seconds, max). I recently turned it back to "let Google decide" which is what is advised.


Restrict access to web directory with .htaccess

Let me just say that doing this sort of thing with .htaccess files has never been a strong point for me. Let's say that I have a directory in my web root: /dir/data Within that directory let's say that I have a file called data.txt I need to completely restrict access to data.txt (or the whole data directory). The only things that I want to be able to access the data.txt is a script located at /dir/data.php I also use scp in a shell file on another server to update the data.txt file, hence this shell file will have to be allowed to access the directory and file as well. I for the life of me can't seem to find what I need on Google (though I know it's there somewhere). I really appreciate any help.


How to get metrics for use of Facebook social plugins?

I have a site with hundreds of content pages. Each content page has a Facebook like button on it. Aside from browsing to each page and reading the number next to each Like button, how can I get information about the number of likes across my whole website? There doesn't seem to be any tools on Facebook that allow me to do this. Any help or advice is appreciated.


Will pointing a domain name away from an old site to a new site hurt SEO?

I developed a new site for one of my clients and used a new domain name. His old site (made in 1998) is still the #1 hit for our key search term, so we'd like to have that hit point to the new site. Will pointing the old domain to our new nameservers keep it at the top of the Google search results, or is it the actual site files that give it good SEO? Should I just set up a redirect on the site itself?


List of services for privatizing whois information

I am registered with a domain name registrar which does not offer an anonymous whois service. However, I am interested in using some third-party service to keep my whois information private. Are there any such services available that do not also require me to register my domain name with them? All I am interested in doing is changing the whois information with my current registrar to point to some company which is able to forward any correspondence to me, while keeping my personal address anonymous.


How to change currency from euro to dollars in Google AdSense?

In my Google AdSense account all earnings are shown in euros. When I receive check it has $96 in it, what is equivalent of 70 euros. It would be better to receive check for round amount of money. For euro - it is 70, for dollars - it is $100. But earnings in euros are send in dollars too. So I would like to change the currency to dollars. I did not find in AdSense options and on forums how to change it to dollars. **Does anyone know how to change currency from euro to dollars in Google AdSense?** Or at least how can I send (order) checks manually and not automatically (after achieving 70 euros or $100)?


Spamcop message received, what now?

I've received a message from SpamCop.net that email from 1 of my websites has been marked as spam. The report was sent to my hosting provider who then forwarded it to me. I'n now investigating what happened exactly. I've never been in touch with SpamCop, what exactly does it do? Did 1 user report email I sopposedly sent as spam? Or is there a minimum treshhold before SpamCop sends the report? Are there immedicate consequences when receiving such a report?


IIS Rewrite Module 2.0 question

If I have to install "IIS Rewrite Module 2.0" on my machine for it to work, since my web site runs on a shared web server, does that mean that my host has to have this installed in order for it to work on-line?


Transfer domain from godaddy to another registrar and (somewhat) maintain privacy?

Does anyone know if its possible in any ways to do this? Transfer a private domain (via domainsbyproxy) registered at godaddy to another registrar. While I know moving a domain from godaddy requires the privacy to be disabled, what we were thinking of doing is the following: a) Update the whois info inside domains by proxy to a 3rd party. Most likely a law firm who would in essnece become our 'custodian'. b) Wait 60 days (?) c) Disable domain privacy. Now the law firms details would become public. d) Conduct the domain transfer. e) Take ownership of the domain at the new registrar. Does something like this sound possible? Does anyone know any other way to handle this? Thanks.


HTTPS best practices for SEO and usability

Consider a page, `http://example.com`, which can be viewed both publicly and when a user authenticates. Now suppose you enable HTTPS for every page when a user logs into your website, but only when they are logged in. Your page, `http://example.com` now becomes `https://example.com` for all logged in users. If that logged in user likes your page and decides to link to it through a blog post or a social media website, there is a good chance that they will use the HTTPS version of the URL. From an SEO perspective, what's your strategy for avoiding duplicate content issues between the two URLs? What should happen if a user arrives at the HTTPS URL but has not logged in or does not have an account? Should there be a redirect to the HTTP version? If so, how would you handle it? My instinct is that for all pages that can be viewed both publicly and while logged in, the page should first detect if the user is logged in. If logged in, it remains HTTPS or uses a 302 redirect from the HTTP version to HTTPS. If the user is not logged in and they arrive to the HTTPS version of the URL, it uses a 301 redirect to the HTTP version. However, I would welcome a more elegant or effective solution. **Edit** : I was assuming that if a user is logged in, every URL should be HTTPS (or at least, that should be an option), but as I've done a little more research, perhaps that assumption was wrong. The way that I see people implementing it is that they only enable HTTPS for pages that send and receive sensitive data: login, shopping cart checkout, user profile management, etc. I'm trying to figure out which model is best. Apparently, Google Mail gives users the option of whether or not to use HTTPS on every page through a setting in the user's profile. That's certainly an option, but I would still need to address the behavior of publicly available pages for all authentication states. Because I'm building a content management system that will be used by other people, I need to make sure I get it right. What settings should be available to the site owner? At this point, I'm thinking granular control over each page (whether or not it's secured with SSL) and then for the whole site as well. However, giving that level of control might be a mistake if people don't understand all of the issues and could end up causing security issues. That, perhaps, is the first issue. What are appropriate levels of control and what are intelligent defaults? The second is how the pages should behave for the user. From an SEO perspective, I think that either the process I described above or using the `rel="canonical"` (like jmb suggested) would work, but nailing down the behavior of the page so that it is secure and seamless is essential as well.


How to set default hreflangs for some languages?

I want to make a site with different versions for 2 countries, which have the same language. Then I need to do the same for another language. Basically I want to have 6 versions of the site:   1. UK English   2. US English   3. Default English ??   4. Austrian German   5. Germany German   6. Default German The question is, how do I define the "default" language versions, for any country with this language which isnt defined already? I know there is x-default, but I think you can only use that once and it is for all languages and all countries.


WHOIS data accuracy policy: can the domain be cancelled?

I am trying to contact the owner of a domain name regarding potential purchase of the name. The owner's listed contact doesn't work, I never got any replies from him/her. (In fact, the contacts are protected by DomainsByProxy.com, tried to contact them too, no luck in helping me with finding the owner.) So, does ICANN's Whois Data Accuracy policy mean the domain can be cancelled on the grounds of owners not being reachable via WHOIS data?


Do search engines understand multiple rel values?

I need to have hyperlinks on my page that will look something like:               Link      So basically the `rel` attribute has two values. I know it is valid HTML (e.g. Multiple values for rel attribute), but my question is specifically about whether search engines will understand it. I would hate it when SE's index stupid json strings on my site :)


Best way to track multiple sites with Google Analytics

I currently have 63 websites (and counting) that I'm tracking on one Google Analytics account, and I'm starting to realize... this is becoming a bit cumbersome. What's the best way to collect traffic data in bulk? Are there other resources out there that are better suited for this task? Does Google offer a bulk option for this kind of thing? Would it be better to make separate analytics accounts? I'm just wondering if anyone else has had found a better solution that manually setting up all these accounts/setting up the tracking codes etc, when it comes to large scale management.


what counts as a "pageview"

My main index.html page consists of 2 parts (it is written in html & jquery/javascript):   1. a fixed header that is always at the top of the page   2. a content page that is loaded when a user clicks a button (ie click "blog" and the "content" div tag gets loaded w/ the blog contents. Click "about" and the "content" div tag gets loaded w/ the about us page. When the user clicks a button on the page, the index.html and header do NOT reload; only the "content" div tag on index.html refreshes with new info. I am using CPM advertising. This may sound like an obvious question but because the user stays on "index.html" and doesn't explicitly navigate to a "blog.html" page nor a "about.html" page, will that hurt my advertising revenue? Or, are the ad networks (buysellads.com, etc) smart enough to figure out that the user IS loading new content implicitly? EDIT: The ad would be w/in the fixed header portion, not in the "content" part


Can I place a caching server in a remote location?

Let's say I have one server acting as HTTP and MySQL server located in the UK, and I want to add a caching server, for example, Redis or Memcached.   1. Can I add a caching server which is located in the US?   2. Will there be any delay in fetching the cached content from the remote location?


How can I block visitors located in the U.S. while still allowing the Googlebot?

Due to regulation and legal issues we cannot allow U.S. based visitors to access our website. For this reason we redirect all our U.S. traffic to a specialized page. While we do have these restrictions, our (financial) products are perfectly legal and regulated in other countries in Europe, Middle East and Asia. Since we don't want to be considered as cloaking, we redirect all IP's - humans and bots alike. As far as I understand most, if not all, Googlebot's IP ranges come from the U.S. So my question is how can we allow Google to index our website for the benefit of non-U.S. based users and avoid cloaking (or post-cloaking). Can Googlebot access from non-U.S. IP ranges? What would the preferred course of action be?


Step by step weather API tutorial

Where can I find a good step by step tutorial about some api weather implementation? I´m really new in this, so official documentation is not always as clear as I need to begin to understand. The API must be free, that´s the only requirement. Note: Originally posted by me on StackOverflow with no answer.


Google Analytics Export API - nextPagePath data

I am probably missing something obvious, but I do not understand when I query:               start.date = DATE_START,                 end.date = DATE_END,                dimensions = c("ga:pagePath","ga:previousPagePath"),                metrics = c("ga:pageviews"),                filters = mypageofinterest,                table.id = "ga:mytable",                max.results=RESULTS      my data return as expected, all of the previous pages including (entrance). However, when I modify the code to be nextPagePath               start.date = DATE_START,                 end.date = DATE_END,                dimensions = c("ga:pagePath","ga:nextPagePath"),                metrics = c("ga:pageviews"),                filters = mypageofinterest,                table.id = "ga:mytable",                max.results=RESULTS      only one line of data are returned; the pagepath and nextpagepath are identical with itself. I replicated this result using the Query Explorer. What am I missing or doing wrong? I was expecting to see a large number of "next" pages, including (exit). Thanks in advance.


What is technically correct with Link Wheel and Mininet [technique], looking past the ethical (aka "blackhat") nature?

Because of the importance of backlinks, and the way that "authority" is calculated, black hat SEO has proliferated LinkWheels and Mininets. In my opinion, we now have a situation that was like baseball during the steroids era. Everyone is cheating, so the people who don't cheat can no longer compete because the cheaters are dominating the game. With hope that this does not become a discussion of the ethics, which would certainly move this to community wiki (at best), I'm curious about what is technically correct about both Mininet and Linkwheel implementations. For example: Do mininets correctly build backlinks? What is the lesson learned regarding backlinks (and their efforts to pose them as organic)? Do they increase the so called "money site's" authority? I also should add that it's quite interesting that the Linkwheels are largely built upon the same Web2.0 properties that it seems those sites must be aware of their place in all of this (Squidoo?). If you can cite examples of sites making public their DoFollow or NoFollow link policy, please do. Please note that I'm not an apologist for those black hat techniques. What I'm trying to do is gain a strong understanding of the techniques that are successfully deployed with Linkwheels and Mininets. In so doing, we all may better architect our off-page SEM and social media campaigns. Edit: I changed the URL I linked to for Mininets (definition). I had originally linked to the "money site" that sold the book that possibly established the phenomenon, entitled "Revenge of the Mininet." That landing page was not very informative, although the book is still a good source on that topic. The original link follows: http://www.revengeofthemininet.com/


Drop in rankings after removing sitewide backlinks

Here's the scenario: I have a small web design business and was using a branded backlink on the bottom of all client sites. Recently this has become a bit taboo with the Google updates so I went back to a few of my sites and made it so there's only a homepage backlink. After doing this, I've had a drop in rankings, despite this apparently being a best practice. Is this likely a temporary drop that will pick back up? For any new sites, I still want to have a link on all pages of client sites as it's good advertising. I plan to have a do-follow homepage link and then no- follow every other link - is this a good idea?


A website made in Prestashop is not working

I have a problem with loading my website which is made with Prestashop. 4 or 5 months ago it was working fine, but today when I tried to open it it gives the me message "Unable to open file" or sometimes it gives me a server error. I have already tested a die('999') when the index file is loading. When refreshing it, it gives me the result 999 instead of the message "unable to open the file". I don't know what happened to my website.


tool for custom web based reporting from your db?

I am looking for online reporting tool that I can design my own reports . reports should be totally custom and based on my own schema so I would like to define queries and see them on a dashboard or something like that


How do I get social engagement data in Google Analytics?

There's a Social Report under the Audience section. However it shows that none of our visitors are socially engaged. Searching the Google Analytics Help Centre for "social" or "engagement" doesn't return anything. How do I track social engagement?


Are Adsense ads allowed to not be initially visible?

I have something like a sidebar that is being pulled out on a click on smaller resolutions. Therefore it is not initially visible, but can be visible when pulled out via a clearly indicated arrow, and is accessible from every page. It is quite complicated for me to understand all the rules dictated by Adsense, so my question is, am I allowed to place Adsense ad units in this sidebar? And can you point me to the specific section in the rules that is referring to this situation, if such exists? This is a simplified demo of what's going on on the page: http://jsfiddle.net/x2ynU/ Also worth noting that this behavior only occurs on the smaller versions of the page (when the width is less than 992px). On a big screen, the sidebar is always fully visible.


Will internal tracking links (redirecting to outbound URLs) hurt my Google rankings?

On my site I have multiple internal tracking links (eg. /track/link/12) which direct the user to an internal tracking script which subsequently redirects the user to some outbound URL. Common practice. All outbound links are like this on my site. Will this affect or hurt my rankings with Google?


How do I deploy a favicon on Heroku?

I have the following `Hello world` code for my Heroku app. Also in my project's root folder, I have a `favicon.ico`.               import os     from flask import Flask     app = Flask(__name__)          html = '''     <!doctype html>                     <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">         <title>Hello world!</title>
Hello world!
                 '''          @app.route('/')     def index():         return html          if __name__ == '__main__':         port = int(os.environ.get('PORT', 5000))         app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=port)      When I browse to my app, I don't see a `favicon`. Also, when I check `heroku logs`, I get the following `404` line:               2012-02-14T05:23:29+00:00 app[web.1]: <ip.ad.dr.es> - - [14/Feb/2012 05:23:29] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 -


Which browsers do not support user-defined tags?

I recently added HTML5 `<nav>` and `<footer>` elements to a page, thinking that HTML5-capable browsers would use them for semantic things like navigation, while older browsers would see them as user-defined tags and apply CSS styles to them like ordinary `<div>` elements. When I was working on this, I remember seeing a warning that a version or some versions of Internet Explorer didn't support user-defined tags, with a link to HTML5shiv as a possible solution. Unfortunately I don't remember where I saw it or which version/versions might be affected (which would indicate how concerned I should be about this problem). If other common browsers share this problem, it would help to know about those too.


Is there a way to access the AdWords API for free?

Is there a current way to access the AdWords API and get average monthly searches per keyword search?


Does Image Hosting affects CPU usage on webservers?

I am working on an android app in which i am including an image gallery. The images will be stored on Webserver and will be accessible by app. I want to know that if I only store images on webserver and 1 webpage. Will the Hotlinking of images from server in my app, affect CPU usage on webservers? Any help will be appreciated.


How to redirect specific url to 404 in htaccess?

I want to redirect only one specific URl (ex. mypage.com/1234/page/) to error page 404. How to achieve it in htaccess?


connecting… for infinity time

I have website working fine before. But now its not able to connect to the server(I believe that is the problem). But its strange that the message **not able to connect to the server** is not coming and its keep **connecting...** for infinite time. Here is the screenshot. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0N8P6.png) * * * Here are some of the useful details about the status of the server. Application starts when server wakes up are:               cd /etc/init.d/      ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Fi101.png) Application server running in my server : ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/aspKR.png) `Traceroute`: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UrheK.png)


How do I bulk upload photos with either Plogger or Zenphoto? Or are there alternative photo management CMSs that allow for bulk upload?

I would like to use either the Plogger or Zenphoto CMS to implement a client's website of photo galleries. The client would like to upload around 1000 photos. So far, I have found no bulk upload feature for Plogger or Zenphoto that meets my needs. Both CMSs offer just two ways to bulk upload photos:   1. Specify a folder on the server to upload.    2. Upload a zip file of photos. Way 1 is not feasible since I'm not giving my client FTP access to my server. Way 2 is not feasible since .zip uploads are limited to 7MB by PHP. Are there plugins out there or features I am not privy to that allow for bulk upload via an interface for the client? By the way, I am also open to other photo CMSs that meet my needs for bulk upload.


Google Analytics content experiment vs. funnel visualization

I am running an experiment on one of the pages in my funnel (the "Choose shipping options" page). But the numbers on the different reports do not correspond. First, I am expecting the 70 entrances in the funnel to equal the 131 experiment visits. Also, I expect the 23 conversions in the funnel to match the 21 transactions below. But they do not. How should I read this information to make good decisions? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/u0dJ6.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7XztM.png)


Getting started building a website: hosting, security, and tools

A couple of my friends run a business and they asked me to build them a public website. It will only be used for static information about the company with some pictures. No transactions will be involved. Right now I work for a company where I build internal and external websites; and do a lot of back end programming in C#. I understand HTML, CSS, and jQuery so I feel like I am completely capable of building a website for them. However, I do not know all the basic knowledge to building one. For example, where should we host the files? What type of security issues do I need to be aware of? What's the best software to use for developing websites? (I use visual studio at work.) Where can I find some design techniques?


How can I delete all (or any) discussions from my Disqus admin?

I put Disqus on my site. This automatically created discussions and URLs in Disqus admin. However, I noticed I have some of the URLs have mistakes. There are many discussions; I don't want to edit URLs manually. I want to **remove all** , for creation new discussions. Is it possible and how?


Does geographic location of domain registrator matter?

Does it matter where I register my domain geographically when I'm planning to change nameset (nameservers) to a server in my target area? **Example**               Target audience: USA     Server location: USA     Domain origin: bought from French registrator website      Question: When a user in the U.S. tries to access my web, will there be a delay, because he had to access the French registrator servers first or will he go directly to my U.S. server?


Google cache has been updated but not the real search results; How come?

I updated a page title a couple of weeks ago, and just yesterday I saw the Google cache the updated title. However, in the search results, the old title is still displayed. This confuses me as I thought first the search results are updated, then the cache. Can anybody can explain this?


Why curl SSL disable CURL?

I saw this in cpanel whm on Exhaustive Options List > CurlSSL [More Info ↑] This option will make the following changes to your > profile prior to the build: > > Disables: Curl Why? Which option should I choose?


Url redirect in dreamhost without editing htaccess

We have a network of sites with an old link to a URL that doesn't exist anymore. We would like to redirect all the traffic to this URL to the new website, while we correct the old link in all the network sites. Since we are a student organization, I cannot be sure that whoever will come after me will have the same technological knowledge as me, so I don't want to code the redirect in the .htaccess. Instead I was wondering if there was another way to do this using the Dreamhost control panel, since we host our site there. Until now though, I didn't find the way to do a redirect for a single URL, but just for a whole domain.


How to save money on AdWords?

Currently I am spending quite a lot on Google AdWord for search campaign, I am looking at methods to save money while maintaining the clicks. I have tried to switch from automatic pricing to manual pricing, cost is lower, but the impression and thus the clicks are also both decreased. Are there any tricks when I switch from automatic pricing to manual? Or other tricks I can used to lower my cost?


Most significant content keywords in Google Webmaster Tools are not on my website

There are multiple content keywords in the _content keyword_ list of the Google Webmaster Tools that are not on my website. For example, according to that list, the word _one_ appears 6 times on my site (number 1 on the list) but in reality it appears not even once. Other words that are in the list, but not on my website are _webbhotell_ , _billiga_ , _domän_ , _cloud_ , _daglig_ , etc. My website is hosted on `one.com` so I guess it has something to do with that. Anyone having the same problems with `one.com` and Google Webmaster Tools?


New version of website jumping around SERPS

I released a new version of my one year old website a few days ago - the content was much the same but with more (and better) content on the homepage and a bit of optimisation on some of the poor meta descriptions. In the days since launching this my positions in SERPS for my main keywords have really jumped around - some going from out of the top 100, to the top 50 and then dropping out again and that pattern seems to repeat somewhat. Is this normal with Google? Strangely, I've gone from outside the top 100 on bing to number 2 for a main keyword - if only people used bing!


Google Groups in Google Webmaster Tools?

I have a GoogleSite binded to a Blogger account, and a GoogleGroups account (so googleish of me) Google webmaster tools adds without any trouble the site ant the blog but complains when I try to add my GoogleGroup. The app asks me to validate the ownership of the googlegroup i've created by injecting an htmp into the page or adding a meta tag. But googlegroups does not allow any of the options requested... Any known workaround?


Non-existent AdSense account is preventing me from signing up

I tried applying for an AdSense account using my gmail account but it was denied for being a duplicate of my old hotmail account. I must have signed up for it years ago, but never got around to using it. The email instructed me to sign in to my AdSense account with my hotmail address and add my gmail address to it. The problem is that my hotmail account is a backup address to my gmail account, so if I try to log in with my hotmail account, it logs me into my gmail account. I deleted the hotmail account from my gmail account and tried to do an AdSense password reset with my hotmail email address but it says there's no account associated with that email... I've spent hours going through the "Help" documentation and the closet thing I've been able to find is a request to review a denied application stating that you've never owned the email tied to the other account (which isn't true, it is my old email address.) Another form about issues logging in to your account requires my publisher id, which I obviously can't find since I can't log in. Any ideas where I can go/what I can do next, or how to contact AdSense when none of their forms apply to me?


Install my own software on VPS

I didn't have VPS before, I wanna know can I install any software on VPS? For example if I buy Windows VPS can I install Apache on that instead of Microsoft IIS?


Is there any CC licensed illustrations web resource like flickr?

I maintain a blog about preschool children. I usually get good, open source licensed (creative commons) photos from flickr. Flickr is very rich in terms of quality photos. But the problem is that flickr doesn't have too many illustrations. I wonder if there is a rich resource like flickr which is specifically focused on illustrations?


design change and google sitelinks

I have a site where google display sitelinks on search results. I want to implement a new design where all sitelink targets would chage. Is that a good idea? Would google drop those links? What would I need to get google update links? For example would permanent redirection of links on new design help?


How do I find High PR blogs on for a keyword?

I want to search for high page rank sites on a particular keyword.Please tell me how can I do so.Thanks


Restrict access of rewriting file using .htaccess

I rewrite my .php files to .htm, using the following code in .htaccess file.               RewriteEngine on     Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteRule ^(.+)\.htm$ $1.php [NC]      This is working fine. But now I want to restrict access of .php file directly.   As example: when people request index.htm he can see the content of index.php file, but if he request index.php then he will get an 404 error. How is it possible?


Is there a Content Management System that allows multiple & independent blogs to be running on one domain?

I am a Wordpress fan, and I'm now building a new site and I'm not sure which CMS can achieve what I'm trying to do. I am building a food blog network for a bunch of cities in the US, and I want to my city pages to be independently running blogs themselves. So basically...   * Home Page - Its own blog with its own users, talking about Food in general   * Dallas Page (child of home page) - Its own blog with its own users   * Chicago Page ..... so on and so forth. The web layout and design will be all the same, but just trying to achieve 25~50 independent blogs on one domain. How can I achieve this? I'm hoping that I don't have to install Wordpress into as many subdomains that I create.


Renaming site, moving domain after 3 yrs. Should I reconsider?

After recently announcing it, one of my readers with a background in website management sent me an email saying that I should reconsider moving my domain from [keyword]news.org to [same keyword]lab.com. It is a content-heavy news site around products that I hope to eventually build into a more comprehensive authority for the [keyword] industry I'm covering w/ B2B services, merchandise, etc. The current domain is a bit generic & I think the new one will be more marketable. Relevant stats:   * 320k-350k pv's/month   * Google brings in 39% and Yahoo/Bing 4% of traffic   * 10-11% of monthly search strings contains " news" SEOMoz Open Site Explorer stats:   * Page authority: 65/100    * Domain authority: 58/100   * Linking root domains: 226   * Total links: 35,700 I am familiar with what I need to do as far as 301 redirects, etc. I was assuming that I'd be ok after following Google's recommended procedures but now I am not so sure.


Why is Google Analytics saying that I got 5 clicks for each query?

I have two websites, which I have been tracking with GA for 3-4 months now. In either of the site's reports, I have lots of queries shown in `Traffic Sources -> Search Engine Optimization -> Queries` window. However, all of the numbers shown in **Clicks** column are either 5 or 0. Do you think this is a bug ? Below are the screencaps for queries window for both of my sites' GA pages : ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/eda8P.png) The second site is more rich in content, and it has only one query which it shows 12 as the click number : ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/C3iVt.png) Or did I really get 5 clicks for each of those queries, over 3 months ?


Bought some backlink but how to use it?

I have bought a lot of backlink but not sure how to get started with it. like any software to backlink the website or any guide to buld the backlinker. actually i got no idea on how backlinker in the market works, what the algorithm behind actually ? Is there any open sources or tutorial to get started with ?


Why is my DOCTYPE showing up as red italic in Page Source?

When viewing my page in Page Source, I am getting the first line in red italic. What is causing this and is it an issue? ![doctype](http://i.stack.imgur.com/i3QOp.jpg)


How long does it take for Google to re-index pages or update the link titles?

On one of our classified sites, when doing `site:[mysite.com]` in Google, the link text is simply _[product name] - [mysite.com]_ , where as it should read _[product name]_ classifieds for sale in... I suspect that the site map may have been submitted when we just had _[product name]_ , and updated the page titles later. However, it has been a couple of weeks that I have confirmed the longer page titles, and still they appear shortened in organic results. How can I get this looking right in Google's organic results?


Should I keep host name info for moderation purpose?

For every relevant action users perform on a site (posting comments, voting, reporting/flagging, etc.) I store his IP and host name (retrieved from PHP function `gethostname()` - doc). I have copied this idea of storing the host name from a WordPress rating plugin. I thought that if a well known plugin is doing this, it is because that info is somehow useful when moderating comments or avoiding poll manipulations. But now that I'm redesigning the site and the database structure, I start to question if this info is really useful. Is it normal to keep this info? Should I keep it or just drop the column?


What is the proper grammatical use of domain name in a web site?

I have a non-technical issue, in fact it is probably more grammatical in nature. On http://www.FindGamers.us I tend to run the two words `find` and `gamers` together as one word in sentences because it's the domain name. So I might say something like, "FindGamers like all web sites...." I do it that way because it's proper noun but I'm not entirely sure its the right thing to do. Should I say `Find Gamers` instead of `FindGamers` in page text & articles unless I am specifying the domain name? You see, this also affects SEO. Because I want people searching google for those words to find the site. People don't search for the two words rammed together when they want to `find gamers` on google etc.


Will another site (a shop in shop) that shows our inventory then directs users to us to complete the purchase hurt our SEO?

My company has build a webshop (for jewels and watches in case that matters). We got contacted by another site, a shop-in-shop. **The shop-in-shop site does the following:**   * Collects feeds from different shops and present those products **(1)**   * You can browse those products per category, similar products sorted together    * When you click a product, you get a 'preview', a fancybox-like div with img and a price **(2)**   * When you click `buy` they redirect the user to the productpage of the webshop offering it _(1) I don't know how they decide to show which product if multiple shops offer the save, asume all shops provide unique products_   _(2) It's not an iframe, so it's not a subpage or something (in case of duplicate content)_ I'm worried this might backfire, but a.t.m. I can't really think of something that will effect negatively, and the increase in backlinks and pagevisits is positive.


Can I use product images from official websites?

I would like to promote some laptop products. For example Lets say Acer Laptop. Am I allowed to copy image from that website and use it in my website? I'm promoting their products. So its not illegal right?


What is the best SEO method for a single page website on which all content is loaded with initial page load

I'm developing a single page website that will have all it's content available by scrolling down and showing/hiding various DOM elements. Most of the discussion I've seen on SO on this topic is related to how to get Google to index content that's loaded after the initial load via AJAX. My situation is different in that all of my content is present after the initial load. My goal is to get Google to index the different sections of the page (about, contact, etc) individually. I've read the Making AJAX Applications Crawlable site that Google has put together, and it seems like the best (only?) option. However, given that all of my __escaped_fragment_ links will render the same content, I'm concerned that I might get penalized by Google for having duplicate content at different URLs. Is that a reasonable concern is this case?


Tracking a goal through a virtual pageview is not registering

I am trying to track a goal in Google Analytics through a virtual pageview. As you can see in the code example, it is linking out from a picture instead of text with a link. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tWB8j.jpg) I triple-checked to see if I had my Goals set up properly in the Admin panel, where the goal URL is set to "/click2", the goal type is URL destination and the match type is Head Match. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hizuV.jpg) I am unsure if the problem lies in the fact that it's linking out to an "https" link or if the link is attached to a picture that serves as a Call To Action. I would appreciate if any of you can help shed some light on this problem I'm having.


Clear the cache of the last visited page

I have an HTML page that has shows if a server is online of offline via an IFRAME transcluding a php file. If someone clicks on a link, like to turn the server on or off and presses the Back button on the browser, the browser loads a cached version of the page and still displays the server as "off" unless the page is refreshed. I know there are other ways to go about this but I would like for just that page to not be cached so that when a user reaches that page via the Back button, it will have to redownload the page. How can this be done? Is it even possible? Putting `header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");` in the php file did not work.


Free link checker for large website?

Can anyone recommend a free, thorough online link checker for a fairly large website?


HTML encoding in the alt attribute

Why is it that `»` valid for an alt atribute but `»` is not?


Does a unique ID and title in URL slug improve SEO?

Stackexchange post URLs have URLs like this:               http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/9848/squeezing-all-the-seo-out-of-a-url-as-possible      Which is the format: `/questions/{id}/{slugified-post-title}` The `9848` is obviously the unique identifier of the post, which is all that is necessary to look up the question in a data source. What is the title there for then? Is it strictly for SEO reasons and maybe to make the URL more readable? Or are there other reasons as well?


Two different websites with same product images

I need some advice from more experienced webmasters.   I have 2 websites (site A and site B). These websites are totally different, but they use same product images (around 1 GB of images). These websites are on same hosting server. For now, site A has own folder with images and site B has own.   I'm wondering if there is a way to have two different websites with only 1 folder with images, so I could save some time and disk space on server. I read a bit about CDN (Content Delivery Network) but I'm not sure if it may help me. I'm using API to grab product images, so I need a way to upload images on remote server automatically. Maybe there is another way to achieve this?


How to verify what modules are active on my server?

While trying to solve a problem on my website, a recommendation about my .htaccess file I got was > First of all, please check on the server for all the different modules if > they are enabled, and once they are, remove the               <IfModule      ...></IfModule>      > blocks. They are putting an unnecessary strain on your server. I don't know where should I look to see if modules are active - is it in the CMS? in the httpd.conf file? in the files on my server? should I make a slight modification in the .htaccess as a test? But more than that, could the recommendation self be not appropriate? Thanks. Here is the .htaccess file for which the recommendation has been made:               Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews     RewriteEngine on     AddHandler x-httpd-php .html .htm          <ifModule mod_gzip.c>       mod_gzip_on Yes       mod_gzip_dechunk Yes       mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$       mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$       mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*       mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*       mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*       mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*     </ifModule>          <ifModule mod_expires.c>       ExpiresActive On       ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 seconds"       ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 seconds"       ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2592000 seconds"       ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2592000 seconds"       ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2592000 seconds"       ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 2592000 seconds"       ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"       ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"     </ifModule>          <ifModule mod_headers.c>       <filesMatch "\\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"       </filesMatch>            <filesMatch "\\.(css)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"       </filesMatch>            <filesMatch "\\.(js)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=216000, private"       </filesMatch>            <filesMatch "\\.(xml|txt)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=216000, public, must-revalidate"       </filesMatch>            <filesMatch "\\.(html|htm|php)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=1, private, must-revalidate"       </filesMatch>     </ifModule>          <ifModule mod_headers.c>       Header unset ETag     </ifModule>          FileETag None          <ifModule mod_headers.c>       Header unset Last-Modified     </ifModule>          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?foo\.com$     RewriteRule .? http://foo.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]          #BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php          </IfModule>     # END WordPress