Cannot submit change of address to subdomain in Google Webmaster Tools?

I am pointing several domains to one URL, a URL which happens to include a subdomain. ALL of the domains are using 301 redirects to point to this new address. One of the older domains (which used to be a site) is a 'property' in Webmaster Tools, as is the new site (the one with the subdomain.) When registering a 'Change of Address' for the old site with WebmasterTools, it suggests the following method -   * Set up your content on your new domain. **(done)**   * Redirect content from your old site using 301 redirects. **(done)**   * Add and verify your new site to Webmaster Tools. **(done)** Then, directly below that, to proceed, it says `Tell us the URL of your new domain: Your account doesn't contain any sites we can use for a change of address. Add and verify the new site, then try again.` I have already submitted and verified the new site. The only reason I can fathom I am getting this error is because the new site includes a subdomain. Although I don't foresee getting punished for this, as I am correctly 301 redirecting traffic anyway, I'm curious as to why the Change of Address submission isn't working appropriately for me. Has anyone else had experience with this?


Is it safe to manipulate with DOM (using JavaScript) to move up in the search results?

I have some text written for SEO purposes and it is located right after the opening body tag, so it is at the top of the page. That doesn't look great so this text is moved to the bottom of the page with JavaScript. As far as I know Googlebots don't understand JavaScript perfectly so they see this text at the top of the page and user sees this text in his browser at the bottom of the page. Is it safe and does it make sense or not?


Buy a domain name (without hosting) and host emails on a different provider

I bought a domain name on a registrar's website for a cheap price but it didn't include hosting. Now I realized I'd like to have emails sent to `me@mydomain.com`. My friend has a hosting account and he would host my emails for me, but is there any way for him to do so without being in control of my domain? Note also, that I also can't transfer the domain name to him since I've owned it for less than 60 days


Am I allowed to save basic user data from Facebook in my own web app's database?

In general my app deals with data that is unrelated to Facebook but also includes a Graph API based app. So it would be helpful for someone to login with Facebook (without registering in my own web app) and then save their email to allow direct communication with my user's web app. This is not for spam of course.


Alexa Showing Search Traffic turn to 0

Alexa.com showing that Search Traffic turn to 0 since i changed the new website at 1-1-2014 while Google Analytics showing that everything is ok and i still receive traffic from search engines i double checked the robots tags, headers and robots.txt for any blocking , There's not! i am not sure what's the source of the problem and i really need your help because the ranking is getting down. My Website: http://syriaishere.com My Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/syriaishere.com


Is the implementation of a temporary "blackout" like Wikipedia's considered black/white/grey hat SEO?

Currently, Wikipedia is participating in a blackout and going to any content on their site produces a result like this (cropped slightly to dissociate the example from the message behind the example): ![Wikipedia blackout](http://i.stack.imgur.com/srca5.png) However, if I look at the source, I can see the full source of any article (this is the content for the entry on G.I. Joe, I've highlighted elements in the source to indicate things that I would _expect_ to see under normal circumstances): ![source of Wikipedia article on G.I. Joe during blackout](http://i.stack.imgur.com/dxSd0.png) Now, I can't say what Googlebot is seeing (I would _hope_ the same content is being served up to Googlebot, as doing otherwise smacks of what Experts Exchange used to do), but that aside this all seems very grey-hat, even if it is only temporary. So the question is, even if it is only for a short amount of time (in this case, a day) is what kind of SEO practice is it considered to deliver content in this way. Black, white or grey? And if grey, how grey?


Translated versions of my website are not indexed by Google - what should I do?

I have developed a web application - at the bottom of the homepage there are links to translated versions of it. You can visit http://www.plancake.com to have an idea of what I am talking about. The links are like this one:   Italiano  They are there for more than 1 month and I have submitted them to Google using the WebMaster tools more than two weeks ago. Thing is that when I search a text from the homepage (from the translated version) in Google my website doesn't come up. What should I do? Building a sitemap.xml is the way to go or that is now outdated and I should do something different? Thanks for your help,   Dan


Could Google Custom Search crawl a domain with just an IP address?

Our staging site currently does not have a domain name for public access, however we do have access over the IP address (like `xx.xx.xxx.xxx`). Could we use Google Custom Search for this site without a domain?


How does Google have more results than I have pages?

Our site has about 6500 pages. These are kept up to date in our sitemap.xml. When I go to our **Google Webmaster Tools** account I see that Google has indexed about 6000 of our pages. This seems quite accurate. However, when I do a google search for " ** _site:mydomain.com_** " I get back about 11000 results. Last weeks this number was around 6000 but it's almost doubled. What could be the cause of this, and how do I diagnose the issue?


How to use .htaccess to make a subfolder act as a subdomain

I have to make a new site for every subdomain I want to add directly on my host, so I'd like to make them subfolders and redirect like this so they look like subdomains anyway. For example, how could I (or could I at all?) use .htaccess to do the following: Make -website.com/subfolder/ into -subfolder.website.com/ Is this possible?


What does an empty list of "IP Address and Domain Restrictions" mean?

In IIS 7 for a certain subfolder of a web application. Does an empty list imply a "deny all" or an "allow all"?


How long can a site be stuck in the Google sandbox?

I have recently made a new website, built over 300+ links to it (which finally shown up on google webmaster tools btw), but it seems my site is in the sandbox. My site doesn't appear in the results even when I search for "domain.com". It used to appear though, so that's why I speculate this. My site is indexed so it's not that much of a problem. All I want to know is how long do sites remain in the sandbox. A couple of weeks, months? I'm questioning this because this a time sesntisve website, meaning that if it doesn't rank for the keyword(s) by a certain time, it will be worthless. Please don't tell me, "oh, it takes months to rank for keywords", because I researched my competition and keywords nicely, and have built over 300 links to my site for my keywords already.


Can server break clients' cache settings?

I have disputed a domain name to a cybersquatter that I expect to recover soon. The problem is that the cybersquatter has changed the cache headers and now every user who already visited the site or is going to visit the site until the domain name is given back, can see the same page until 2016. A lot of the traffic of the site comes from Google, I will fix that by moving the domain with Error 301 and the webmasters tools. But how about those users who access directly to the site? Is there any way (I guess not) to break the client's cache settings (even the homepage is cached)? Thank you!


Domain from A and hosting from B

I have buyed domain from one company and hosting from another. On hosting company website finded DNS addresses and applied them to domain hosting website(changed DNS) I done it yesterday, so today it should work, but: **Unable to resolve the server's DNS address** appears. In direct admin control panel (DNS control) i have (it's my hosting company settings): http://pastebin.com/MGbQ02hr Note: IP and domain hidden! Any ideas whats wrong ?


Automatic exchange of synonyms for SEO?

If I have a website that targets a certain audience, but the keywords that are being searched for have a lot of synonyms that are being used equally often, would it make sense to exchange these words on my page on every user visit? For example, I want to optimize for the keywords "seminar", "training", "workshop" (and maybe some more). Using all of the keywords on the same page without enumerating them is difficult, especially if there is not a lot of text on the page.   * Would it be a good idea to swap these words for SEO everytime the page is called?   * Is that somehow frowned upon and penalized by search engines?   * Would that actually do any good, or would it just lower my ranking for each of these keywords because each of them is shown less often?


Admin: Remove user from group

I was wondering how you can remove a user from a group in the admin. Seems I can add them to a group fine but if you only have one group it seems you can't deselect it?


Free SEO tools for competitor analysis?

Are there any free tools for competitor analysis?   1. I want to find out keywords that a site is optimized for by typing in a URL   2. I want to find out competition (a number) for a given phrase or keyword - Google Keyword tool gives a visual bar. I need a number so I can sort the data in Excel


What is Google Bot's default HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE?

The default language of my site gets loaded depending on this value:               $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']      If Google US indexes my site, will it use the 'us' lang?


How to view Web Server Activity via a command line or terminal

Is there a way to monitor the activity of a web server via the command line. I have seen in many movies webmasters watching a command line screen in which data is continuously moving up, seems to me more like a web server activity monitor. Like as seen in this video at 1.48.


Where could I find web designers/ web developers that would like to work together?

Note: _If this isn't the right place, please let me know where I should ask this._ I am working on projects to earn money (in codecanyon and themeforest) and I wanted to know for a while where I could talk and find people in those niches. Are there any sites or forums I should seek? Maybe this could be the right place?


I found a SQL injection bug on a public facing website, what should I do?

I found (ridiculously easy to discover) a SQL injection bug on a public facing website. I strongly suspect that in the same database are stored credit card numbers of their customers (although not mine). I wrote to a service email address but got no response and the site is still on with the same error. What should I do now? Is there any legal requirement for the company to respond/to do something (we are talking about the German branch of an American company)?


Why would you want to own just the MX rights to a website?

I acquired an existing small website not too long ago. When I went to register the domain on google apps, it turned out the domain was already registered and I would need to contact whoever had previously set it up. Which turned out not to be the folks I acquired it from, but instead the original owner who had transferred the site to them. He told me when he originally sold the site, he retained the rights to the MX records. Why would anybody want to do this? He hasn't been associated with the site in years. Is this a common practice?


Where can I find online advertisers that let you place ads in rss feeds?

Looking for online advertisers like google that let you place ads in feeds?


Responsibility of Service Owner in case of illegal content

It is more of a legal question but related to what you can and are allowed to host on your service/server. How responsible is a server administrator for links on the website that point at illegal content (Copyrighted material mainly, excluding child pornography). I see that google is forced to remove few links from their database due to DMCA breach but how is hosting any links illegal since you don't host the copyrighted material.


is there any way to check if an email sent landed in a spam folder?

In email marketing it's useful to provide a statistic about messages that got across as spam to the people that want to send an email campaign. From what I know so far, it isn't possible to check if an email sent landed in a spam folder. Is there anything that I'm missing? Even something that will work a small percent of the time will do. Any help is much appreciated.


What places give free traffic for an e-commerce website?

One place that I know is Google Product search, which is free and gives quite a lot of traffic when people are searching for products you sell. What other ways are there to get free traffic to your e-commerce website?


How to make dynamic search result page to index?

Suppose i have an internal search engine that works on this parameters               foo.bar/search/?where=Rome&what=restaurant&categories=healthy      that i can dinamically alias to               foo.bar/restaurants/healthy-restaurants-in-rome      This uri will return dynamic results. I want the friendly url to be indexed in google, but the alias will be dynamically generated only when some user will perform a search with the given parameters, and the aliased url will be **not** listed anywhere in my site. Will google be able to crawl the alias? If yes, how? If not, what to do in order to get it indexed?


Domain Expiration when transfer is processing, will I lose it?

I have registered my domain at netfirms.com and the expired date is **10-Feb-2013**. I've started a transfer process to bigrock.com on **08-Feb-2013** and they have charged 1 year renual. All the authentications are done, but BigRock says **"Your current Registrar needs to approve your domain name's transfer. Please wait while this transfer request is processed."** I asked their support center and they told me it will take 5-7 days to process a transfer. Which means my domain will expire within that range of date. I don't want to lose my domain. _Please suggest me what to do now._ * * * I searched all over and found something. According to ICAN FAQ: **Q) My domain name has just expired. Can my registrar require me to pay for a renewal before I can transfer to a new registrar?** _**A)** No. Your new registrar of choice can initiate a transfer request on an expired domain name once they receive the required authorization from you. Expiration or nonrenewal of a domain name is not a valid reason for denial of a transfer request. Note that if the registrar has already begun the deletion process on the domain name and its status shows it to be within a 30-day Redemption Grace Period, the name must be restored. by your current registrar before it can be transferred._ **Is that mean I'm saved?** Please suggest me, I'm in a huge load of tension. Thanks!


Robots are still disallowed even without a robots.txt file

I'm having trouble with a website I'm working on. I initially set up a robots.txt file to prevent robots from indexing it while I was working on it. However now its live and the robots.txt rile has been deleted but it still has not been crawled and shows that robots are disallowed access. EVen in the absence of a robots.txt file. The site is a wordpress based website - everything seems to suggest that there should be no block for any crawlers. Running a search for `site:claimsadvicecentre.co.uk` should bring up atleast 5 pages however its only listing the main page. What could be wrong here?


Are there any region specific advertising platforms, alternative to AdSense?

I'm wondering if AdSense is the best advertising platform to use for international/multi-lingual websites. When trying an AdSense sandbox preview tool, I have noticed that for example the Chinese version of the site shows _some_ Chinese adverts, but mostly they are English. I have tried searching for "Chinese alternative to AdSense" but can't find anything specific to a region. I suppose I could just try this top 10 list, and see which performs the best?


Error 500 on phpMyAdmin via https from "self-signed certificate"?

I have used Cpanel to generate and install a self-signed certificate for HTTPS and now that I have installed phpMyAdmin once I access phpMyAdmin via HTTPS it throws out an error 500 message. Why is this?


How long does it take for a page to be assigned Google page rank?

The home page of my website has been indexed by Google more than 6 months ago. Some of the internal pages have received a page rank 6 or higher, however, the page rank of the home page remains 0. What might be the reason and is there anything I can do about it? Thanks!


Are there any large web sites written with Python/Django?

Looking at the list of sites created using django, it seems there are no major web sites that are written using the framework. Why is this? Is django not suited to scalable web sites, or is it in fact that Python loses out to PHP because more developers know it or there are more OSS components available while enterprise favours .NET or Java? How suitable is Python compared to PHP for instance? I saw some benchmarks recently that put Python way faster than PHP. I'm looking for answers a little more in-depth than "anything can be made to work/use what you know" etc please. Thanks -- edit -- Thanks for the answers everyone.


What hosted analytics offers IP recording?

I'm looking for a free hosted analytic service that logs IP addresses. My first choice would have been Google Analytics, but apparently they do not offer IP logging. Hosted software only, please. Thank you!


Are there security risks involved in moving from a CMS that uses SQL to one that uses XML?

I've used a lot of content management systems in my day (drupal, wordpress, joomla, etc.) and they have all been database driven using MySQL. While the security updates for many CMS offerings out there seem frequent and strong, I still see the occasional site go down, get defaced, etc. (usually from SQL injection attacks). This has led me to look at Get-Simple CMS, which has the unique difference of housing data in XML files. I realize folks won't be able to speak about specific vulnerabilities related to this CMS, but in general what are the pros and cons with regard to security and an XML driven CMS?


Does Rich Snippets error messages prevent new SERP display appearing?

Using the Google Structured Data Testing Tool (`www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets`) I input the following URL: `http://www.eggrecipes.co.uk/recipes/arrabiatta-ham-egg-pizza` and it shows "Arrabiatta ham & egg pizza", however when I Google this it doesn't show with rich snippets. I know it MAY be an indexing issue (even though it has been a few weeks), however on the tool I get the following message: > Error: We did not accept "5 mins" as cooking time. Error: Cooking time > should be in ISO 8601 format - http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#duration Would this affect it? I have previously ignored it since the preview shows fine with the correct total time (15 mins).


Image Search Ranking

**What are image-specific factors that contribute to ranking inGoogle Image Search?** Looking for what contributes to **ranking and relevancy of images above and beyond the SEO of the hosting site itself**. My online gallery for example ranks well for keyword in normal (text) search but much less in image search. Furthermore, results in image search are often wrong while text search results are not. Specifically, pictures of some places or monuments often show up for searches for another place.


Google video sitemap with lighttpd

I have over 10k videos hosted on my server, and I'm using lighttpd to switch the video URLs every 2 hours because of hotlinking protection. This means that all video URLs in video sitemap is only valid for 2 hours. I have not much experiences of programming, and this is the source i found: http://forum.adultscriptpro.com/viewtopic.php?id=588 After reading some comments on this question, It is possible to do that by cronjob to generate new sitemap every 2 hours. But my another big question is, is it really important to having a video sitemap for a video website? Or i can just submit a normal sitemap.xml instead of the video sitemap? Any suggestion or advice? Thanks!


What is the default behavior of robots if there is no robots meta tag?

Assuming I have a page without a _robots.txt_ and without the _robots meta tag_. What is the default behavior of robots? Would they index the page and follow the links as in:               <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />      I'm asking because I want to know if I can safely remove the meta tag.


What are the tactics used to discover what kind of affiliate products will do well in your website?

I'm starting to post some affiliate ads on my website. As it happens, I am not even close to making a sale.   * I'm not sure if the products I have chosen will appeal to the audience I have.    * I'm not sure if the volume of traffic is enough to support affiliate programs. I get about 8000-9000 visitors everyday. But since its growing constantly, thats not much of a worry. But I'm surely struggling to figure out what kind of products to market? (its a techie site). Is there a service/tool which can analyze the website and suggest what products will do well and what won't?


Google search results from multi-language site(s)

I run a website with two languages (English and Norwegian). There is one website, but two domains (www.example.com and www.example.no), if you visit example.com you get English language and if you visit example.no you get Norwegian language. This works like it should on the website, but my problem is with the Google search results. If I Google my domain name I get search results only in English, even though my Google settings are set to Norwegian. I want the Google search to present my site in Norwegian if i'm using a browser with Norwegian settings, and Norwegian Google search. And I want Google to present my site in English if a user has other language preferences than Norwegian. How can this be accomplished?


Does Google penalize for too many redirects from different domains?

This is a follow up question to Archiving web content annually. One site or sites by year? We are completing the import of tens of thousands scientific abstracts into a single site. The most recent two years of abstracts were hosted on separate domains (conference2012.org, conference2011.org) and represents around 3,000 pages. I have the ability to add redirects to every single document on the smaller sites and redirect to the new, main site. However, I am uncertain if Google will slap a Panda, Penguin, or Farmer penalty on the new site for receiving so many redirects from two other domains. But if I don't redirect, I'm concerned that I'll get nailed by the duplicate content penalty before the old sites de- index. How do I set up this type of migration?


Google Search iFrame works in Chrome and firefox but not IE8

I use Google site search in a IFrame for my sites search engine. When I search for something in Chrome/FireFox "Flight" I get the results page. When I do the same search in IE8 I get 404 error. Site: www.everydayfiction.com Search box is on the right hand side in the sidebar. The strange thing is that in IE8 when I do the search I get the following URL:               http://www.everydayfiction.com/search/?cx=007529419963335588653%3Axv8pw52zy20&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=Flight      But when I do the same search in Chrome/Firefox I get this URL:               http://www.everydayfiction.com/search/?cx=007529419963335588653:xv8pw52zy20&cof=FORID:9&ie=UTF-8&q=Flight&sa=Search&siteurl=www.everydayfiction.com/search/%3Fcx%3D007529419963335588653%253Axv8pw52zy20%26cof%3DFORID%253A9%26ie%3DUTF-8%26q%3Dfight%26sa%3DSearch       _**What is going on? How do I resolve this? Suggestion? comments?_**


Is it possible to count the number of hits or loads of a webpage without anything fancy?

I know very little, but I do know that I have some server space given by my University with a file called public_html which anyone can load html and other files from. So is there a simple way to add some file and edit it with vim or give it a special name and have it collect the number of times a web browser loads a particular html file in public_html? I figure since there are a lot of settings files such as .vimrc or .forward which simply require a name and maybe input. I am hoping there is something like this which will record each time html is accessed in my public_html folder. Is there such a thing, or am I too hopeful? It seems like a practical feature but like I said I really do not know much about this stuff. Thanks. I actually do not know if this server space is apache or not, but my engineer account definitely says apache 2.2.15 (Red Hat) at the bottom of any 404 error, so I am really just guessing.


What DNS settings to point domain2.com to sitename.mydomain.com?

I have a website at sitename.mydomain.com. What DNS settings do I use if I want domain2.com to point at it, without having to point directly at the IP address? (Apparently it has to use CNAMEs rather that A Records because A Records require an IP address, I think?)


How to set WHM to Save Back Up to PC?

First I would need to set an FTP server in my PC. However, my ISP gives semi dynamic IP. Is that even possible. I suppose we can have a domain name point to the IP. Is that even possible? After that what?


Firefox, iframes and redirects

I encountered this same behavior years ago and gave up back then when I couldn't find a solution. I'm hoping someone knows what's going on here and how to solve it. I have found that if you have a page in Firefox that contains an iframe and in that iframe you load a sub-page that redirects to a second sub-page, you will never see the first sub-page again if you hit "reload/refresh". The only way to see the first sub-page again is to close the window/tab and reopen the parent page. It seems that if you reload a page Firefox will _always_ jump straight to the second sub-page every time. This happens even if you subsequently change the initial iframe URL in the parent document. And this **even** happens if you change the URL **and** clear your cache. When I encountered this problem before, it was causing issues with our ad serving, but this time it's a content issue. Has anyone encountered this themselves and know a way around it? * * * **[EDIT]** I've created thee files you can use to test the iframe behavior, but you'll need to work with an html page of your own on web server you control so you can make changes and test behavior. The files I'm using are:   1. `http://www.fatfx.com/tests/doc1.html` -- this redirects to doc2.html after 5 seconds   2. `http://www.fatfx.com/tests/doc2.html` -- static file   3. `http://www.fatfx.com/tests/doc2.html` -- static file **Instructions:**   1. Create an HTML document and put this in its body: `<iframe src="http://www.fatfx.com/tests/doc1.html" width="300" height="300" />`   2. Load in Firefox. You should see `This is document one. Redirecting in 5 seconds...` and then `This is document two.`   3. Hit 'Reload'. You should see immediately `This is document two`.   4. Clear you cache and hit 'Reload'. You should see immediately `This is document two`.   5. Edit your document and change the URL from `doc1.html` to `doc3.html`.    6. Clear your cache and hit "Reload" in Firefox. You should STILL immediately see `This is document two.` Check your page source to confirm your code change from step 5 is there. **Notes:** I've tried altering the iframe tag by adding a unique ID; that didn't work. I've tried adding Cache-Control, Pragma and Expires meta tags to prevent document caching; that didn't work. I've tried writing out the tags programatically in JS; that didn't work. As I say, I encountered this behavior probably three years ago. This can't be a 'bug' but a desired behavior. But there must be some way around it. * * * **Edit 2** It appears this is a known bug with Mozilla, first logged in 2005. It reportedly has been patched in FF4.0, though I can't confirm personally as I haven't loaded this yet on my own machine. The Bugzilla report can be found here. If anyone does know of a work-around, please let me know and I'll mark this as answered.


Setting Content Type with mod_rewrite

I have the following mod_rewrite rule:               RewriteRule ^/yui-3.3/yui_config.js$ /web/yui/yui_config.js [R]      when looking at the network traffic with Firebug and Chrome I noticed that `/yui-3.3/yui_config.js` reports its type as `text/html` which obviously doesn't look right. I tried changing the rule to:               RewriteRule ^/yui-3.3/yui_config.js$ /web/yui/yui_config.js [T=application/javascript,R]      but the type is still `text/html`. How can I ensure that my file is served as `application/javascript`?


Google Search for my domain has about 3500 3-rd level subdomain I did not create

Some time ago I created the domain in `.com` zone. Now I tried to evaluate the number of pages are in Google index using request like `site:mydomain.com` but surprisingly there were a lot of results like: > Pools Above Ground Store poolsabovegroundstore.mydomain.com/ Intex 15-Foot- > by-42-Inch Family Size Round Metal Frame Pool Set Intex 56948EB. Intex > 15-Foot-by-42-Inch Family Size Round Metal Frame Pool Set. All those links are not working giving 404 error. This domain hosted on Hostgator shared hosting. Do you have any ideas how does all of those pages appeared in Google index?


Why the difference between Tomcat and Tomcat7 regarding servlet mapping and defaults?

With the following configuration:               <servlet-mapping>         <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>         <url-pattern>*.css</url-pattern>     </servlet-mapping>     <servlet-mapping>         <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>         <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>     </servlet-mapping>      then both Tomcat7 and Tomcat6 serves the following URL just fine: `http://127.0.0.1:8087/mynet/index.html` However, if I reduce the configuration to just mention the CSS pattern:               <servlet-mapping>         <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>         <url-pattern>*.css</url-pattern>     </servlet-mapping>      Then Tomcat6 works, but Tomcat7 fails with: The requested resource () is not available. Why is there a difference here?


What is a good microdata/schema for classfieds site?

We have automotive classifieds site which has listing of used cars. We would like to use microdata format. What would be approparite microdata structure/schema for classified site ? Would http://schema.org/ItemList be suitable ?


Is there a good way to measure my site's response time from different parts of the world?

I would like to measure how fast my site loads from different locations around the world. What is the best way to do this?


SEO blog Indexing: wordpress.com subdomain vs a registered domain?

I've used WordPress for a few of my client's sites, mostly small businesses and eCommerce sites. I have found through Google Analytics as well as the All in One Webmaster plugin that when it comes to social media, using WordPress is a surefire way of getting your site indexed by Google and occasionally Bing and Yahoo. Since I am a heavy WP user, I'd like to contribute by registering a dot WordPress domain for my portfolio. When using a WP installation concurrently with a WP domain, e.g. `myportfolio.wordpress.com`, will the site be more or less likely to be indexed rather a generic `myportfolio.com` domain? I've seen mixed opinions where people seem to favor a WP domain for URL output where others say that it's a moot point, and that Google will not favor a WP domain over a dot com domain as long as your meta tags are updated and content is keyword optimized. I tend to disagree and believe a WP domain would more likely be indexed and output more URLs over an individual, laconic domain like `myportfolio.com`. Am I wrong?


How long for Google to index all site maps?

We recently uploaded new sitemaps, as the old ones were out of date and we've also upgraded our forum which changed the URLs of a lot of our website (we're 301 redirecting of course). We uploaded the site map a few days ago. Initially the indexing seemed to be going well, but it paused on the numbers below here and appears to have been stuck here for over 24 hours: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/3cKyf.jpg) Is this normal? Unfortunately, the users sitemap is probably the least important one but appears to be the bulk of the indexes so far. Should we give it a bit more time, or perhaps make the links we consider more important a higher than 0.5 priority? You can view our sitemaps here: https://www.scirra.com/robots.txt


MAMP not working as 'localhost' but works with "127.0.0.1"

I just installed MAMP on Mac OSX 10.8.2. When it is started, I'm not able to access the server through `http://localhost:8888` but when I visit `http://127.0.0.1:8888/` and it works fine. Why is it so? and how can I make it work with when I type `http://localhost:8888`


open source plugins,scripts store information?

I'm wondering if open source plugins like wordpress,drupal or jquery and many more detect for example what websites are using their plugin. If so, is there any plugin which can detect which website is using your script/plugin. Something like google analitycs but for tracking websites. If you have any idea, suggestions ... Thanks!


Canonical tags for separate mobile URLs

I have a Drupal website serving mobile pages from different urls (starting from /mobile). According to Google recommendations I should use the canonical tag to map desktop and mobile pages. Right now I did this in case I serve the same node (e.g: node/123 and mobile/node/123) but should I do this for other pages as well that are equivalent but share a different content? For example do I need to map the desktop and mobile homepages even if they don't have the same content at all?


How to use CSS to get 5 buttons aligned like this

I'm struggling to get a design like I put in this image in CSS. I'm using wordpress, and my theme just adds a full image to the top, I would like to make the most of space. http://antinovaordemmundial.com/test/header.png I have already all the buttons as single images (at this point I prefered to not to use sprites) and each image has a light version, to show "on-hover". Thanks


301 re-direct all external links to new domain

I have changed the main domain to a sub-domain & would like to re-direct all external links to the new sub domain. Have read a few articles but having no luck editing the .htaccess as it might be interfering with all the rules in there. Old: `www.example.co.uk`   New: `https://secure.example.co.uk` The current rules are quite handy because it seems to have sorted out the structure for all internal links. It has even updated the file path for images (or this could just be wordpress as the url was updated under general settings). This is the current .htaccess               <files wp-config.php>     order allow,deny     deny from all     </files>     # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>          # END WordPress


Second step of a funnel higher than first step in Google Analytics

I have a problem with the funnels in Google Analytics. So I have a e-commerce website that I want to track the user path to a purchase. I want GA to track if a user goes trough these steps **[Item page]** → **[Purchase]** → **[Checkout]**. I thought this could be done by funnels and my setup currently now consist of:   Step 1: **[Item page]** (Required)   Step 2: **[Purchase]**   Goal: **[Checkout]**   But when I go to the "Funnel Visualization Report" the following shows.   **[Item page]** Visits: 150   **[Purchase page]** Visits: 170   **[Checkout]** Visits: 32 How can the **[Purchase page]** be higher than the **[Item page]**? I searched the internet over, and found something called **Horizontal Funnels** but this doesn't show the correct numbers, again the purchase and checkout steps are higher than the item page. So somehow it doesn't need step 1, to fulfill the funnels/goals. What am I doing wrong?


Robots.txt got changed to disallow crawling by accident

Our _robots.txt_ mistakenly got changed to:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      This occurred about 2 weeks ago and was changed back yesterday to allow crawling. Our listed pages in the Googles have decreased substantially, though it looks like Google has already started adding more search results for the site in question since changing the _robots.txt_ back. Are there long term repercussions of this happening, or will everything get back to normal once the site is crawled again?


Meta Descriptions not working for google search

I have unique meta descriptions on each of my pages, and when I search my site in google it will come up with no description. Any idea what I might have done wrong?


301 Redirect vs. Domain Fowarding GoDaddy

I have a domain that is registered (but not hosted with GoDaddy). Previously, it used GoDaddy's domain forwarding to forward the domain to a google sites domain, but I would now like to use a 301 redirect on the domain. **What I've Tried** - I was looking at how to make .htaccess 301 redirects, but then I noticed the following on GoDaddy when looking at the domain forwarding. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7W8hR.png) This looks as though it is using a 301 redirect. Is this sufficient to serve as a 301 redirect? Essentially, is it the same thing?


Where does Apache get the 'last modifed' date for its automatic indexes?

I have a Solaris server running Apache, and I am using the following .htaccess to generate automatic indexes.               Options +Indexes     # SET INDEX OPTIONS     IndexOptions +NameWidth=*      Where does the "Last modified" date come from in the index that is generated? ![index screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NgQrv.png) It does not appear to be from any of the filesystem dates. ![filesystem screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jchn1.png) Note that I copy these directories to this location. It seems to be showing the creation date for the directory that I copied, not the date that I copied it. If it's not the atime, ctime, mtime, or crtime, where does Apache find this date?


Privacy Policy for english site located in france, owned by italians

i'm really in trouble with the Privacy Policy of my site, cause i'm wondering, if my site is written ONLY in english language, then is located on a french server, then is owned by italians people, what the language of the privacy policy must be and which the laws to follow (i guess italian privacy policy law)? I think i need to put in the italian privacy policy law in italian language, or should i translate that from italian to english or put that with both the translations (italian/english)? The site can be accessed from wherever in the world you are, so potential visitors will be from allaround the world. thank you.


Separate 404 page for subdirectory

I've made a subsite which runs under `mydomain.com/subsite` - idealy from an architecture point of view it would be under a subdomain, but we wanted the links to come back to the main domain. The sub site has a completely different design, and layout, and has a 404 page that is in keeping with the rest of it. How can i set the 404 for the `/subsite` subdirectory, without affecting the root domains 404 settings in the `.htaccess` file.


Why don't social news websites like Reddit or Hacker News show up more in Google results?

It's well known that Google tends to favor user generated content, so Wikipedia, StackExchange and so on often come up as the top results. However, I've noticed that I rarely ever see Reddit or Hacker News showing up despite the quality discussions going on over there. Is there any reason for that? Is it due to poor SEO? In general, what could trigger Google to generally ignore these two websites?


SEO-friendly Responsive Design, swap navigation UL for Select?

I am designing the menu for a web site, and I was hoping to find an SEO- Friendly way to implement the Responsive Design used here: Ask4Sam.net- Responsive Design Example As you can see, for large resolutions the navigation menu is an unordered list of buttons, however to save space at smaller resolutions it becomes a drop- down menu. I think this is a great effect, but the only ways I can think of to implement it are- A) Use CSS Media Queries and set Display:none to hide one menu and show the other, B) Use Javascript to hide the unused menu or C) Use jQuery to remove one menu from the DOM and dynamically insert the other on resize. However, I'm worried about duplicate menus and hidden content giving the site an SEO penalty. Is one of these techniques SEO-Friendly? Is there another technique that is better than these?


Htaccess - Rewrite png to php file

I currently use `trans.png.php?id=1&campaign=test` to track my newsletter campaigns. I want to use trans.png instead as it's the src of an img tag. How can i do this in htaccess? Also is there any way I can disguise the get variables?


Is a "back" link on each page really needed?

I saw some sites having a `<<back` link on each page below the site top level that basically just invokes a JScript function that gets the browser history and navigates one page back. So it functions exactly as a browser "Back" button would. To me it makes no sense - it just duplicates an already existing thing. I tried to talk to several web designers - they all claim that it improves navigation so that the user doesn't get lost. I always used the browser "Back" button and it just worked. Is such link really helpful? How is it better than just a browser "Back" button?


Point GoDaddy DNS to other DNS master for new subdomain

I have a domain `domain1.com and` am creating a new subdomain `sub.domain1.com` and this subdomain has it's own DNS, NOT GoDaddy's DNS. I manage `domain1.com` DNS in GoDaddy right now and need to tell it that anyone looking for `sub.domain1.com` should go to ip `y.y.y.y` (master) or ip `x.x.x.x` (backup/slave). Is there a way to do this? I am a little familiar with how the DNS for .com points to the masters on the internet but I just need the `domain1.com` to tell people where the master is for `sub.domain1.com`. I think I know how to, roughly, do this in bind9, but needed a quick solution for how to do it on GoDaddy.


Documented Web Site Design Process

Is there any well documented process to be used in web site design projects?


Adwords - Ad disapproved - Invalid HTTP Response Code

I created a new Adwords campaign but it's getting rejected because of the reason: _[Destination URL] Invalid HTTP Response Code_ I used fiddler2 to see what could be up with the response codes but nothing fishy came up except maybe for an HTTP Code 302. for those curious the page is atommagnet dot com.


Advice on software infrastructure for a FLOSS bounty site

I am planning to set up a simple web site where people can offer bounties for work on FLOSS projects. Unfortunately I have no experience at web development (I am a C/C++ developer), so I was hoping someone might be able to suggest out-of-the-box packages (preferably Debian ones) I could use to build the site from. My idea of how the site would work is to keep things as simple as possible. The person proposing a bounty would enter a description with relevant links (particularly to a bugtracker entry with the project the work is to be done on, where the real discussion and work would take place) and information and place an initial contribution. Other people would be able to add (donate, not pledge) contributions, but any discussion would take place on the project's bugtracker. I am also planning to run a mailing list rather than a forum (at least initially), so that is not a requirement. Paypal seems to me to be the handiest payment mechanism. So overall what I need is probably a simple interface with Paypal integration and a simple database backend. I hope this is the right place for my question, if not I would be grateful for pointers to somewhere better. And of course, this is purely about the technical side, though I am more than happy to discuss other aspects of the project elsewhere.


Is RapidSSL WildCard Cert suitable for my eCommerce Web site?

We have recently launched our online T-Shirts shop which is based on eCommerce platform but certainly we have been facing problem of customer’s transactions security as they were asking for suitable security of their confidential information while shop online over the my website. One of my friends is being used RapidSSL WildCard Certificate from RapidSSLonline.com To be clear that we don’t know much about SSL certificate security but we have found that SSL certificates ensure the online web site visitors towards their digital transaction safety. We would like to know that Is RapidSSL Wildcard Certificate the right choice for eCommerce shop?


Embedded Internet Explorer

I am developing a web page that must be opened in a software that uses the Embedded Version of the Internet Explorer. How does the Embedded Internet Explorer work? Does it come installed with the software I am going to use or it uses the regular Internet Explorer of my system?


Best Free software for hosting user guides

After having to clean up spam from a MediaWiki install for the umpteenth time, despite a recaptcha plugin "preventing" automated signups, I'm wondering if MediaWiki is the right choice as a CMS for hosting user manuals and guides. I've always loved the way wikis can let the guides be edited and commented on collaboratively, but I'm getting tired of dealing with automated vandals. I've disabled edits & signups for now, but as I'm having to go through the pain of cleaning thousands of junk pages, I'm beginning to think I should cut my losses and look for a better alternative. Does anyone know of suitable a FOSS application (preferably PHP / MySQL based) that would be simple for a non-coder (our manual writer) to edit, but that has all the interconnectivity, and searchability of a wiki? Or should I just bite the bullet again and lock the wiki down even further?


How important is the text on your frontpage for SEO?

I see many cool funky websites these days who have good page rank, but have little to no text on their homepage. It's been my understanding for a while now that search engines parse through your text and gather keywords to gain information on the relevancy of your page for a specific search query, but how are these sites getting around this when they have no text on their homepage? Is my understanding of SEO out of date (I am assuming this is likely), and if so, what SEO approach can I use if I wanted to redesign my site to have little to no text on the homepage?


Find 4chan post linking to your website?

I looked in my visitor statistics and saw that some people were coming from `boards.4chan.org`. Hmm, interesting. I'd like to see that post... Is there any way to find it?


Is it possible to shut down a site and then reuse the old URL on a new site?

I am creating a web site for a friend's business. He already has a site, but it is a wizard-created site hosted free by Yahoo. I am creating am ASP.NET site from scratch. He wants to retain his URL - is that possible? Can he "release" the current URL (shut down that site) and then "reuse" it in the guise of the new site?


Reverse iframe breakout

I have around 500 pages, some of which are simply PDF files, that are meant to be viewed within an `iframe` on a seperate domain parent page (files are subdomained, however reside on a different server). What would be the best way to force the following behavior: If a user visits any page within this subdomain, and that is **not** in the `iframe` of the main site, to either show a link to the main site, or force redirect to the main site (301?) What would be the proper SEO way to make sure that the items hosted on the subdomain are properly referenced to the main domain? As a side note, the subdomain can use any PHP necessary, however the main domain cannot use PHP (which is why the whole subdomain route is necessary).


Can I use asterisks in URLs?

Are there any reasons I shouldn't use an asterisk (`*`) in a URL? _Background:_ With asterisks, I could provide these nice and user friendly (or what do you think??) URLs:   * `example.com/some/folder/search-phrase*`   means _search for pages with names starting with "search-phrase", located in /some/folder/_.   * `example.com/some/**/*search-phrase*`   means _search for any page with "search-phrase" anywhere in its name_.   * `example.com/some/folder/*`   means _list all pages in /some/folder/ (rather than showing the /some/folder/index page)_.


Format numbers with css

Is it possible to format numbers using css ? When I have `7000000.00`, I would like it displayed as `7 000 000.00` I know I could write a backend (php, perl...) function or a javascript function that could return the formatted number but... The numbers that I want to format are into a cell. I would like to have something like `<td class="myformat">7000000.00</td>`   or   `<td><span class="myformat">7000000.00<span></td>`


How to use Canonical and Original-Source Correctly, on multilingual website?

was wondering wether searchengines index this correctly in a multilingual website: Currently, the htaccess eats nice urls on pages like `/de/somepage` and rewrites them invisibly to `/somepage?ln=de` so the query with the language (de, fr, en, it, etcettera) is put as a folder and the current page is added after it. Resulting in a clean static url that is better cachable than the one with ?= string url (is this true by the way?) However, some months ago there were no nice urls. only ugly ones floating on my site. imagine! Now I found out these old urls still remain roaming on the searchengines and think that these ugly ones are stretching their lifespan further than I pleased them to. So. Would this suffice (each and every page would have its own canonical...               <link rel="canonical" href="http://website.com/fr/page444">      As well as an original-source meta:               <meta name="original-source" content="http://website.com/fr/page444""/>      Is this the right way to do it? Any and all info is +1 worth to me.


What are the essential HTML tags?

I want to know what HTML tags are "compulsory" a web-page should have, in order for it to be displayed by a web-browser. Also, what is the difference between different versions of HTML, in general?


What does the user "nobody" represent in server process logs

I am new to vps hosting. I checked daily process logs on my server and found a user with name nobody consuming more memory than others. So what is the user nobody related to and why is it consuming more memory? This is the log info I found:               user / cpu / mem / mysql       nobody / 0.00 / 27.31 / 0.0


Is Amazon Affiliate program rewarding also leads from partner vendors (vendors "hosted" by Amazon)?

I would like to join the Affiliate program of Amazon and I am wondering, if the comissions are paid only for the products sold and shipped by Amazon itself or if I can "link" also to the products of the "hosted" vendors (like: "Sold and shipped by xxx")?


Redirect root path on root domain to subdomain

Say there's a web application that runs on `example.com`, would there be a penalty for 301 redirecting the root of the domain (`example.com/`) to `subdomain.example.com` for purposes of hosting the marketing website for an application? Obviously we would expect `subdomain.example.com` to be what is ranked in the search engine, not `example.com`. We would want other paths on `example.com` like `example.com/path/to/resource` to index normally, and be unaffected by the 301 on the root path.


Domain Name Squatters Targeting my Domain

About a week ago I did something dumb. I went to network solutions, typed in my current domain name, checked the boxes next to any tld that was available and hit "add to cart". I was curious to see what the cost would be for buying every variant. Network Solutions website actually crashed when I tried this. This morning, my boss received an email saying something like: > Dear CEO, This email is sent by XXXX Co., Ltd(ICP Record NO.XXXX),located in > XXXX,China,an institution registering domains in China professionally,also a > member of "Domains Security Union" of CNNIC. Here we have something to > confirm with your company,we received an application on May 3,2012, one > company called "YYYY Co, ,Ltd." intended to register the following Network > Brand and Domain names: Followed by a list of many of the domain names I had attempted to register.... I am sure this makes my boss uneasy, but my colleague says he gets this sort of email twice a year and that it is a scam. Is there any real danger here, or is this just an extortion attempt for me to buy those domains? EDIT: I should note that searching any unique part of that email brought up virtually no results in Google.


Google is not treating two Australian schools as separate sites when both are subdomains of qld.edu.au

My question relates to two websites, each of which is a "Calvary Christian College", however in two totally different locations and unrelated to each other entirely (except by name, and thus domain). All schools in the state are issued a `<school-name>.qld.edu.au` subdomain, in this case `calvary.qld.edu.au` and `calvarycc.qld.edu.au`. Now what's interesting is that these domains are crossing each other in sitelinks for searches such as `calvary christian college townsville`. The green data here is for one school (the Townsville school, as per search term), and the red data is for the other school. I've put a demotion in for this >6 months ago (we control `calvary.qld.edu.au`), however we're seeing no change on the results page. I have been able to get the owners of `calvarycc.qld.edu.au` to submit demotions for our domain, which should go in sometime in the next few days. What can we do to tell Google that these websites are not interchangeable, despite both appearing as "subdomains" of `qld.edu.au`? We can possibly open channels of communication with the administrators of `qld.edu.au` but will need to tell them what we need to change, and at this point I'm out of ideas.


How to make a split test that reduces scripts from Google Tag Manager in a tool like VisualWebOptimizer

We have a website, where we use Google Tag Manager, in order to insert a big amount of scripts. We want to run a split test, where we reduce these scripts by 70%, which should improve load time (even though the scripts from Tag Manager runs async), and hopefully improve the conversion rate. However, how do we make a split test, where we can change the amount of scripts fired in Tag Manager?


Low number of site map links and none of mobile site map links indexed in the google

There 2,521 sitemap URLs submit to the Google webmaster tools. But they indexed only 548 URLs and 1,256 mobile sitemap URLs were submitted but none of it indexed. This shown in whole last month. URLs has Status OK and no any errors. Can anybody enplane why this happen? Is my sitemap code error or It's normal thing in Google webmaster tools?


Can owning a domain name for each city improve search engine optimization?

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


Why do differant domains have differant prices?

Why are `.com` domains cheaper than less common domains? I was recently looking at getting a `.mu` domain, and was surprised that the "cheapest" price I could find was $58 (less if gotten for more years), yet you can get `.com` domains for under $10. I understand some are country codes, so that might be a factor, but I'm mostly inquiring on why non-county code domains have varying costs (although why costs for country code domains are so much more would be helpful as well). **Edit:** I am not asking about the difference in prices between registrars, but rather between different domains (`.co`, `.com`, `.tv`, etc). Aka, what is the reason one domain is worth more than another?


Redirecting bad links to the correct links via htacess or 301 redirect plugin for WordPress

I'm getting a lot of 404 errors b/c I recently switched content management systems (Habari to WordPress). I would like to use the 301 redirect plugin for WordPress to capture and helpfully redirect the offending links to the correct urls. Here's an example of the type of errors I'm seeing and what they should be redirected to:               http://janetalkstech.com/admin/publish?id=146       should redirect to `http://janetalkstech.com/?p=146`               http://janetalkstech.com/admin/publish?slug=post-title      should redirect to `http://janetalkstech.com/post-title` I would greatly appreciate any specific pointers on how to perform the redirects with either the 301 redirect plugin for WordPress or via .htaccess file Edit: Redirection plugin being used is the one by Urban Giraffe: `http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/`


Error message when opening Googlebase data feed

I'm trying to get my site's products uploaded to google's merchant center, but it's only uploading 2 of the ~20,000 I have. When I open the datafeed url (in Chrome) to look into it I get the error message "error on line 38 at column 761: Entity 'Acirc' not defined error on line 38 at column 761: Encoding error" Now I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, when I look at the product where it encountered the error everything looks ok but something is obviously not. What should I be looking into? Thanks


Index Company Name but not other keywords

I'm working on a website that doesn't want it's content indexed by search engines because it only caters to a specific segment of the population. It purposefully wants to stay hidden from the general public. It **does** want it's company name indexed in search engines however, because when the company sends targeted snail mail advertising, users should be able to type the name and find the site. It's a requirement for the homepage to function as a gateway into the the rest of the site, so it's unavoidable that the homepage will be rich in relevant keywords that could lead to the site being found by the general public. **Summary:** What's a good approach to have a webpage indexed solely by the company's name without generating other keyword searches related to the company?


Is DiscountASP a good host choice for an app that will have mostly foreign traffic?

I've created an ASP.NET MVC application for a client in India. Most of the web traffic would come from India. I typically host my apps at DiscountASP, but would this be a good choice for an app whose traffic is primarily from India?


Google spidering: make content available but unsuable

I'm trying to figure out how to make it so that my member-based social network site can be spidered but is not possible for guests to post or interact with content in any way. What is the best way to do this? If anyone can suggest an article or tutorial specifically for this that would be awesome. The system I've had up in the past was a check user log script but that was for the whole page, is there a way to do this for (as an example) clicking inside a text box to type a comment or something?


Universal same-origin policy

Here is something I have been wondering about for the longest time. It seems very simple, but to this day I do not know any practically usable technology. Is there a way that I can browse the internet and enforce a universal "same origin" policy? By that I mean that my browser will simply not issue _any_ network requests for _anything_ that isn't in the same domain as the root website that I am visiting. Nothing. No images, no CSS, no JavaScript, no frames, no iframes, no AJAX requests, no plugin video content. Even though the WWW is now well into its adult life, it still seems like there is no way for me, the user, to visit a website which contains an image sourced from a third party server without that server knowing that I visited the website. I know that there are several individual, ad-hoc workarounds, but the very simple heart of the matter is that I should be able to instruct my browser in simple, broad terms to never start any requests to any off-site location. (Please don't tell me that this will break lots of sites. That's not a problem. This is a question of principle.) Does any such technology exist? Any special browsers, or plugins for popular browsers?


Get a list of pages within a domain without a title set

On our webshop, we have about 60k distinct URLs and some of them don't have a `<title>` set. I know the google parameter `intitle:` but I can't handle to find those pages using that. Do you have a hint for me, that does not require to install a crawler or something?


PHPBB3 UCP Module only showing up for admins

I copied a bunch of examples online to create my own custom UCP page/module. And it worked. But it only shows up for administrators. I checked the ACP and there does not seem to be any settings there for permissions for any of the modules. I skimmed the code and found:                return array(         'filename' => 'ucp_nhl',         'title'    => 'UCP_NHL',         'version'  => '1.0.0',         'modes'    => array(         'nhl' => array('title' => 'NHL', 'auth' => 'acl_a_user', 'cat' => array('UCP_LEAGUE'))),         );      `'auth' => 'acl_a_user'` jumped out, but there does not seem to be a single resource online as to what that means. I checked the other UCP pages and they mostly use `'auth' => ''` so I switched to that. But it still only shows up for administrators. What am I doing wrong? Is there some refresh thing I have to do, I tried disabling and enabling the module, but that had no effect.


Shopping Cart Abandonment Email Service?

I'm looking for a third-party service to integrate with my custom shopping cart to automatically send emails to people that leave the checkout before finishing; aka, abandoning their cart. Basically, anytime someone leaves the site and we have their email address, we'd like to send them an email enticing them to come back to the site. That's the basics of it, any additional functionality would be great. Suggesting other products, offering some kind of special offer, etc. I'm just looking for any services that offer this rough description. Thanks


Requests in form: http://www.site.com/one/two/three/ in Apache 2

how can I configure Apache server, to mantain requests such as: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/ (i mean the /one/two/three)? What's the name of this technique and how it is done? Thanks.


Aggregating customer service emails from multiple ecommerce sites for easy handling

For one of my main customer help email addresses I use Mozilla Thunderbird with a combination of tags and saved searches. As the number of my e-commerce sites grows from 1 to more, customer service handling gets more tricky. Is there any simple and efficient way of handling emails from the different sites? Perhaps what I'm looking for is a way of aggregating customer service emails from different sites, into one place? Perhaps there's a way of already doing this within Thunderbird or Gmail?


Free Website Marketing & Backlinks?

What are some good places to advertise my websites for free? I've already submitted them to Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. Now, I am looking for some places I can create legitimate backlinks. Does anyone have any ideas?


Disqus comment form missing from posts

I decided to transition from IntenseDebate to Disqus for the blog. So I uninstalled ID via their uninstall process (you upload the template to them, they remove code, you reupload your new template onto the site). Then I went to install Disqus into the site through their Blogger widget method. The problem is that there is no comment form present on any of the blog posts' pages. For example, when you click on the 'Comments' link it jumps to `#disqus-thread` but there is no thread there. So is there any fix that I can do in order to make the comment form appear? I checked Disqus' knowledgebase for Blogger installation but as far as I can tell my template should be compatible.


Software for video subscription service

I'd like to sell instructional videos over the web. Primarily, I'd like uses to subscribe to the site and be allowed access to videos over the internet. Secondarily, I might sell DVDs for those who have poor internet connections or would like a physical copy, or possibly I'd sell eBooks and the like in the future. Regarding the subscriptions:   * I'd like a system that automatically sends out e-mails when it is time to renew   * I'd like to be able to offer free trials   * Users without a free trial or subscription should not be able to access the content     * Incidentally, I plan to host videos on my current web host and move them to a CDN when volume (and capital) make this a good idea. While I have no intention to go crazy with the DRM, it seems expedient not to directly link to the files -- how can I link to them indirectly?   * It would be nice to support multiple payment processors -- specifically, I'd like to avoid a PayPal only approach. Are there any web applications (or plugins) you'd recommend for something like this? While I've set up and administered several web technologies, I've never done anything with e-commerce. I see there are possibilities like osCommerce, one friend recommends using WordPress with plugins, and it really appears that for any given CMS, you can graft on components like this, although I imagine that not all are created equal. As I'm not tied to a particular web application (and, while open source software that can run on a LAMP [p=perl, python, php] stack is preferable), I'd like to make a good choice at the beginning.


wordpress installation issues

I Installed Wordpress under (UBUNTU)`/var/www/wordpress`. `wp-config.php` is modified as recommended. When trying to access `http://x.y.z.a/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-install.php` it doesn't open the page but instead downloads the file...


why are my sites bien blocked by Smartfilter at my work

Why are my domains being blocked by Smartfilter (owned by Yahoo) at work. I buddy mentioned that he had the issue before. He "categorized" his domain with his registrar, changing it from "Uncategorized". Shortly after it worked. How can domains be categorized? I look through all the options at my registrar (Go Daddy) without finding one for domain categories. Any help would be appeciated


Digest Authentication - how is it used?

I understand a bit about digest authentication from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication, but I am pretty unclear on where, when or how it is used. I can't find anything on that side of it. Where, when and why would a webmaster use it? Does it require any extra code on a site if the server has it implemented? As you can see, I pretty much in the dark about how it is used, so any info would be helpful. Maybe this could become a FAQ


How do clicks from Google Places show up in Analytics?

We've just implemented Google Places for our business and are getting a few hits through the mini-analytics that places have. But those are just a hybrid impressions, CTR chart. Is there a way to track clicks from local results in the full blown Google Analytics?


Wordpress and local business SEO

Which Wordpress plugins and themes have been verified by the online community to be best at maintaining good SEO for a Wordpress site representing local business? Is there a site that is specfically dedicated to tracking local business SEO optimized Wordpress developments?


Versatile cloud storage/VCS?

I'm looking for online storage that can "corral" many other forms of online storage like FTP, SSH, WebDAV, and commercial services like Google Storage and Dropbox, and to keep these files "in sync". In other words, I'm looking for a cloud storage service that will connect all the various forms of storage I work with or that my clients hand to me (i.e. Dropbox) in one virtual filesystem. Second to that, I'm looking for something with strong versioning features. And second to that, I'm looking for something with good ability to show a "preview" of most file types within the browser, and to let me write notes and annotations on any file type. P.S. I'm willing to do some work to set up a software stack on a bare-metal machine that I control in order to achieve the desired functionality if there isn't a commercial service that provides all these features.


How to automatically generate HTML table from image in Linux?

In Photoshop, you can easily divide the image into zones using point and click and it automatically generates the corresponding HTML with image slices addressed in tables. Gimp also has a Slice (Filter > Web > Slice) but it is so rudimentary and, as far as I can see, does not allow point and click selection of slices. I am wondering if the functionality can be added into Gimp, or there are other Linux software to do this. I hate to return to Windows just to do this simple task which I happen to use frequently. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.


Pagination and duplicate content

I have an archive page that displays the number of articles published. Because there were so many, I ran a pagination script: for `127.0.0.1/archive/2/?p=x&pp=y` where `p` is the page number and `pp` is number of articles to display per page. The pagination looks like this:               Prev  1  2  3  4 ... 12   NEXT      with each item linking to `p` like `<a href="?p=x">x</a>`. I also have the items per page setter: 25 | 50 | 100 `(<a href="?pp=y">y</a>)`. Now I have a PHP script that fixes `pp` into a session variable. But I am worried about duplicate content (since incrementing `pp` values will be inclusive) and also content not getting indexed because its not in the pagination link. so in the example above, pages 5-11 will not be indexed. Any ideas on how to fix this?


On shared hosting, all subdomains are hosted on the same server?

On shared web hosting, are all subdomains like `foo.example.com` and `bar.example.com` always hosted on the same server (same IP address)?


How to force Google to index images and webpages? Or I shouldn't bother and just wait a bit more?

I have a web site with a lot of web-pages and images. I created the sitemaps (grouped into single sitemaps index file). I submitted those sitemaps to Google but the indexing process is disappointingly slow: ![Web-pages and images submitting ad indexing](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jPw8l.png) Sitemaps was submitted on Feb. 4th. Submitting process started on Feb. 8th and so on:               02/09/2014 - Indexed 187 images     02/10/2014 - 956     02/11/2014 - 1180     02/12/2014 - 1196     02/13/2014 - 1198     02/14/2014 - 1192 (!!!)     02/15/2014 - 561 (!!!)     02/16/2014 - 1144     02/17/2014 - 1144      So the images indexing process is weird. However the crawling process look much more attractive and promising: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/MXwbR.png) Do I need to wait some extra time? Or do I need to take some actions to help Google to index my web-site correctly?


Registrar with good security, DNS hosting, and DNSSEC and IPv6 resolvers?

I'm looking to move my domains away from GoDaddy, but I'm having a tough time finding anyone with comparable features at a (even remotely) similar price. I've looked at the usual suggestions (NameCheap, Gandi.net, etc.), but they all seem to lack many of the GoDaddy feature base. I'm looking for:   * DNSSEC   * IPv6 Resolvers (dig pdns01.domaincontrol.com AAAA; etc. )   * SSL-Logins by default   * HTTP-only login cookies   * No stupid password restrictions   * Two-factor authentications   * No DNS record limits   * Rough DNS statistics (queries/day, etc.)   * Audit trails GoDaddy has all of these, except two-factor, for $3/month. See http://www.godaddy.com/domains/dns-hosting.aspx I can't seem to find _any_ other registrar that supports even a few of these. Is there a registrar that offers comparable features? Or, barring that, a DNS hosting service that offers similar features? (AWS Route53 doesn't offer DNSSEC or IPv6)


Tracking first visit date in Google Analytics

I want track a site's visitor retention using Google Analytics, to see if unregistered users are returning to it, within a time frame of 2+ months from now. This blog post seems to be on the right track, but I want to track unregistered users, so I don't have a "join date" or similar variable at my disposal. This other blog post suggests using all 5 GA custom variables, using the first variable slot on the first week, variable 2 on week 2, etc. This method will allow me to track 5 weeks of visitors. I want to track more than 5 weeks of visitors, so I was thinking on using two custom variables in GA: visitor's first visit date, and visitor's last visit date. How I can save the first visit date? Because if I save another value in the same slot the old value will be overwritten, and I don't know how reliable is to save that variable conditionally (reading the `__utmv` cookie to check whether the "first visit date" is set, if it isn't set I save the current date)


Why isn't Google Analytics data being recorded?

I am really confused with this one, I added the google analytics code in my page below the `</head>` or before `</body>` but the code is not being marked as connected inside the analytics panel. I tested it with the google analytics debug plugin and it seems to connect approprietly. Any ideas please?


In case of a server error, should I change the URL in the address bar?

Let's say the user surfs to `http://mysite.com/some-path` and encounters error 500 which leads to a custom error page. What is the best practice regarding the URL shown in the address bar while in the error page - should I leave `http://mysite.com/some-path` or should I change it to `http://mysite.com/custom-error.aspx`? Is there a good reason **not** to leave the URL as is?


Reduce HTTP Requests method for js and css

Is these way can Reduce HTTP Requests? multiple javascript files with `&` symbol               <script type="text/javascript"     src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/combo?2.5.2/build/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js     &http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js">     </script>      multiple css files with `@` import               <style type="text/css">     @import url(css/style.css);     @import url(css/custom.css);     </style>


google analytics statistics

I am compiling a report for a client using google analytics. I have observed that the client has unusually good page view times (>5 mins) and excellent bounce rates (<25%). I need to reference research data that validates my assertion that these figures are excellent compared to an industry standard (the industry is ecommerce and gaming). **Can you direct me to any published research data that specifies normal bounce rates and page view times for this industry?**


How to combat negative SEO?

Someone has decided to create a hate blog on a hosted blogging service (`wordpress.com`) that bashes my company. The blog contains posts that completely flame myself, my service, and contains complete falsehoods about how I run my business. Without going into details, I'm pretty sure the author of this blog is an owner of a competing service (although it is authored completely anonymously). Frankly, I'm not sure if the content would qualify for defamation or not, but I really don't like the idea of spending money on a lawyer to even attempt to prove this. I also have no interest in retorting or even replying to the blog in any sort of way -- I feel this would justify the ludicrous claims that have been posted. Unfortunately, whoever wrote the blog was pretty smart about using key words that people commonly use to search for my service. Because my customer base is relatively small and local, our PageRank is not incredibly high. As a result, when someone Google's our business name, this blog is usually within the top five results (thankfully, it's never above the business' actual website, but it's usually within eyeshot). It's incredibly frustrating to hear from customers who have seen the link (luckily, most of the time they think the author is crazy). Is there anything I can do to combat this? Would it be worthwhile to setup my own hosted `wordpress.com` branded blog, in an effort to trump this `wordpress.com` with a blog that is more active of my own? **TL;DR: Someone made a hate blog using`wordpress.com` and is now on the first page of my business' search results. What are my options?**


SEO and search result changes when switching to SSL on Joomla site?

I am thinking about purchasing an SSL certificate for a website. The most noticeable difference for the user would be the `http` now becomes `https` and there is that lock icon in most browsers. Will there be any adverse affects on the website's current SEO or recognition by search engines when I make the switch? Also this is a Joomla site, which has an option in the settings to use SSL. It is supposed to make it easier but not sure if it takes care of everything. Thanks!


Asynchronous page loading and SEO

To speed up my website (or at least the time to first byte (TTFB)), I'd like to only send the layout of the page and then get the page content with an asynchronous request. This way, the TTFB will be really fast, because this will be short, lightweight and cached content. For the content to be indexed, I will analyze the User-Agent to know if I have to send the content the old- fashion way. Is this a safe way to do so, or will I be blacklisted by Google (because of the different content)? Thank in advance ! PS.: I know about the Google AJAX craw method (https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/), but this is not really what I want.


Why does Google Cache show our G+ page and not the correct page?

For some reason when we try and view the cached version of our website, we see our Google plus page. We recently removed this code : `<link rel="canonical" href="link to our g+ page">`. We removed this and Google started seeing our homepage correctly. But we are now having the same problem for each of our internal pages and cannot seem to find this same piece of code of any of the other pages. Are we looking for the wrong thing? Or in the wrong place? We're very new to WordPress so any advice would be great. Thank you.


How can my organization become a Root CA?

I'm the founder of a little non-profit French organization. Currently, we're providing free web and shell hosting. Is there a way to become a Trusted Certificate Authority, in order to give free SSL certificates to my customers, and also to avoid being an intermediate (and pay a lot for that), and/or avoid paying a lot for each certificate?


What are current ADA standards / requirements on images?

I am wondering what ADA (American disabilities act not dental association) currently requires when it comes to images and other things not easily read by webpage "readers". I am currently trying to make sure a website meets all required standards so nobody gets yelled at or in any legal trouble if someone with disabilities were to attempt to read the page. Note: I have looked these up but I have found odd legal terms. Is there a more simple explanation such as "Must have alt tags on all images and navigation bars must do something something something?


How can I have multiple sessions in FF without using profiles?

I'd like to test my website as different users simultaneously, ideally on Firefox. Currently the only ways I know of doing this are   1. Using different browsers   2. Using profiles with FF It's frustrating using FF profiles as you have to reinstall all your development plugins, which then each need to update individually. What I'm really looking for is a simple developer tool that lets me open a FF window that keeps its cookies completely separate from the main FF instance. Ideally it would also make that window stand out in some way to help me differentiate, but that I can live without ;) Any ideas?


updated posts in my RSS feed

Should I put in my RSS feed posts that I've updated or I'll just update it but don't put it my RSS feed? (considering RSS feed contains latest 10 posts).


Joomla: How to create a blog of articles from multiple categories?

I need to gather articles from multiple categories into the single blog feed (the front page and main RSS feed). For example, I need this structure ...               Section 1       Category 1.1         Article 1.1.1 (20 apr 2011)         Article 1.1.2 (10 apr 2011)       Category 1.2         Article 1.2.1 (15 apr 2011)       Category 1.3         Article 1.3.1 (25 apr 2011)      ... to be displayed in a single blog as               Article 1.3.1 (25 apr 2011)     Article 1.1.1 (20 apr 2011)     Article 1.2.1 (15 apr 2011)     Article 1.1.2 (10 apr 2011)      (sorted by the creation date of articles) I tried to use "Section Blog" type for my menu item, but I can't understand its methods of sorting articles. I tried to sort them by date, but my section blog displaying it category by category, not article by article:               Article 1.1.1 (20 apr 2011)     Article 1.1.2 (10 apr 2011)     Article 1.2.1 (15 apr 2011)     Article 1.3.1 (25 apr 2011)      Maybe I should install some extension to do that? Joomla 1.5.22


SEO - Moving site to subdomain without losing SEO Ranking

My company has operated a blog site on our primary URL (e.g. www.company.com) for about 4 months. Over this time, we have built up significant SEO ranking through daily posts and articles. Our primary e-commerce product is now developed, and we plan to have the e-commerce site sit at www.company.com. The e-commerce site is hosted on MediaTemple and our blog site is hosted on BlueHost. We want to ensure we do not lose any of our SEO ranking on www.company.com during the transfer. What would your ideas be for the best way to make the transfer? 1) Would it be alright to simply move the blog site to www.blog.company.com (still on bluehost)? 2) Should we transfer our blog site to be hosted on mediatemple? 3) Should we move our blog site to www.blog.company.com and get the blog index and compile it into redirection urls for the apache? 4) For readability reasons, we would rather have our blog site at www.company.com/blog. However, I was advised this is more difficult as we would have to configure the proxy. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.


How do I change where a domain points to?

I've just finished making a website for my dad and need to get it on line. He has a domain already (and I have access to the admin panel for that on 'fasthosts') and my mum already has some server space which she rents jointly with an old colleague of hers who handles most of the administration. My questions is: How do I change the DNS records of the domain to point to the server my mum already has? Once both domains are pointing there I have some information on how to use URL rewriting to "split them up" again. In fact I'll post that below and would appreciate any feedback on that too. Sorry for such a basic question, but my knowledge of how domain hosting and name servers and DNS works is poor. I have tried to Google my way around this, but nothing ties up very well with the options I have in the control panel (which is perhaps intentionally confusing). Many thanks! * * * That information about rewriting: > **Running multiple sites from a single virtual server** > > If you've registered two or more domains, each running as a separate > website, usually this would require each domain to run as a separate virtual > server. However, URL Rewriting will allow you to run multiple sites using > just a single virtual server. > > For example, if you have the domains www.site1.com and www.site2.com, simply > place each site in a folder under your htdocs folder with the same name as > the domain, i.e. /site1 and /site2. > > The code required would be set out in the following format: >   >   >     <rule name="Site1"> >     <match url="(.*)" /> >     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny"> >     <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="site1.com" /> >     </conditions> >     <action type="Rewrite" url="/site1/{R:0}" /> >     </rule> >   > > Just keep adding new rules for any new sites. If you would like 2 sites to > point to the same folder, you can just add in more conditions: >   >   >     <rule name="Site1"> >     <match url="(.*)" /> >     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny"> >     <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="site1a.com" /> >     <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="site1b.com" /> >     <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="site1c.com" /> >     </conditions> >     <action type="Rewrite" url="/site1/{R:0}" /> >     </rule> >


How can I tell how many iOS 3 users are accessing my website?

I would like to know how many iOS 3.2 (and presumably below) users are accessing my website. The reason is because iOS 3.2 had a maximum cache limit of around 25.6k, and files larger than this size would not be cached. This is according to http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/06/28/mobile-browser-cache- limits/ We use both awstats and Google Analytics. Unfortunately neither gives the iOS version. awstats simply reports Mac OS X and the Safari version. Google Analytics does not report the version of the operating system either, but gives the Safari versions in great refinement. A solution to this question would be a mapping of which Safari versions indicated iOS 3.2, or simply which Safari versions had the 25.6k cache limit.


Images not indexed by google since moving to cdn

Last week I moved all the images on coffeeandvanilla.com to a cdn( maxcdn.coffeeandvanilla.com ). The problem I'm having is that although the sitemap—generated by Yoast WordPress SEO plugin—points images to the correct location, Google only indexes[sic] images from the category and page site maps but 0 images from the posts sitemap( see screenshot https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4635252/sitemap.png ) This website has been doing quite well with Google image-search before the change, visits from Google image search have dropped from ~200/day to 11 yesterday Here is an example entry from the generated posts.xml sitemap http://pastebin.com/vcMRf9VW Can anyone suggest where the problem lies? Why have I lost all my google image juice? Should I just wait some more, how long before really worrying?


Single V/s Multiple Databases

I've built this web app (php & mysql) which stores information for various organisations (about 20 clients currently). The current scenario stores client-related information in individual databases, so there's 20 client databases and 1 master database. One of the main advantages here is that as each client db is isolated, the numbering of client artifacts (reports, audits) etc. is sequenced; giving our clients a feeling of security. Each DB has roughly 15 tables, and the most rows in a table are about 2000. This is expected to be bumped upto 5000 records, at most. Managing a single db-level change means changing 20 databases, but in the rare event that I need to make such a change, I use a script that does this in a single function call. We're on a shared hosting arrangement, and our ISP supplies us with a limited no. of databases; and that's what led me to think in terms of centralising the database; so that ALL the client data can be stored in the master database. Of course, some important issues that crop up are: a. Maintaining the artifact sequence, (this could be addressed by creating an additional reference key) b. Speed and performance (in which case I can create indexes to speed things up) c. Security: This will be managed as each query that fetches client info. will also track their client_id In the future, we might need to consider comparing datasets of one organisation with another, but I believe that can be achieved on a centralised db too. I'm somewhat inclined (for performance and maintainability reasons) to move to a centralised database. Do you think moving to a centralised database makes more sense than staying as we are (on individual databases)? Thanks for your advice.


Get exact time of each click - AdWords

I have an AdWords campaign running and want to get a list with all clicks and the exact time the click occured. And I want to do this without having a tracking code on my homepage. So it needs to be via the API (AdWords/Analytics). You might think know that this is not possible. But big Bid Management tools (e.g. Kenshoo) know all details of every click and they don't have tracking code of my website (only on the success page of my contact form). How is that possible? The dimensions in AdWords only let me group the clicks at the hour level.


Page speed affecting ranking in practice

Articles like this one discuss Google possibly taking speed into account for ranking factors. Are there any other search engines which already take speed into account for search results? or perhaps a labs version of Google that takes it into account?


How to you prevent someone from getting a "new free trial period" by just creating a new login?

I am considering several options for the Trial version of our web app. The one I favor the most is the classic trial period. Of course, it's a LOT easier for someone to hack this system. They can defeat the various methods of _fingerprinting_ the user, thusly:   * Browser **cookie** : Clear their cookies completely (or just for our site) or use a different device. Although Evercookie may help with the former.   * **Email** address: Create a new login (with a new email address) I'm going to monitor things for a while and just see how it goes. If it's a problem I'll consider requiring a credit card number matched to a name and billing zip code. Each such "ID constellation" would be considered one user. Someone could still have multiple credit card numbers but we could flag the same name+zipcode coming up again. **Are there any better ways to do this?**


Meta Descriptions for pages not Indexed by Search Engine?

I have read about Meat Descriptions here on the webmasters forum. The question I have is is it necessary or important to have description on pages that are not being index by the search engine. Like for instances pages in "Members Area" section of my site or pages blocked by a robots.txt file.


Subdomains and Site

didn't know how to put this into to a title. Ok my idea is to have any subdomain working on my site, and for example if I type: what.example.com (my site has a unique folder for every subdomain, and within that folder, there is just a simple config file that sees the 'what' ( first part of subdomain) and loads database information based on the string and the whole site is populated. So if I put lol.example.com I have the same site, but with different information just based on database. Do you understand? And then if people type the main site example.com or www.example.com they have the main site which is completely different from the subdomains. So how can I do this? I have this idea for a site of mine, in which the main site example.com will be a information site with a payment system. And when users pay me, I add their info to to an unique file where all other user info is located ( database info ), and then their site is whatever subdomain they have chosen .example.com , and there they have their info and can login. edit: I just can't figure out how to allow any subdomain to be inserted in the url, loading the sub site, as grabbing the first part of the subdomain is easy and then everything would work.


Advert appearing twice - in some browsers not others

I have a small and simple pure HTML website here, which contains an advert in a `table` on the left hand side of every page in the site. I only ever checked that it worked on Firefox on a PC. But just now I have been alerted to the fact that on the front page, the advert appears in two locations in both Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox for Mac. Even more strangely, the double-advert looks fine (i.e. just appears once) on every _other_ page on the site, regardless of the browser - even though the code for the ad is identical. I'm completely baffled.


What's wrong with my mod rewrite for GEOIP based on location?

I'm a bit of a newb in modrewrite but used it successfully on my server before. I successful installed the module on my apache server and tested out with PHP test page(it correctly returned my area code) so I decided to test it out on a site and have it redirect to another page on it.               GeoIPEnable On     GeoIPDBFile /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat Standard     GeoIPDBFile /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat Standard              RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_AREA_CODE} ^847       RewriteRule ^$ http://www.teetimelawncare\.com/lawncare\.html$1 [NC,QSA]      I simply get 500 Internal Server Errors every single time. Any idea why? EDIT: I was having errors with my AddType x-mapp php5 line in my .htaccess file. Removing that allows it to work.


How can I set a secure flag on cookies generated from a Python application?

I have an application written in Python running behind Apache and SSL. I am not seeing a secure flag on my cookie: `apache Server version: Apache/2.2.15 (Unix)` I have added a configuration line to my _ssl.conf_ as: `Header edit Set-Cookie ^(.*)$ $1;Secure;HttpOnly` I don't have enough points to post a screen shot of my session. Can anyone share their experience with this or provide any help?


Are there any image manipulation tools for a website that don't require installation?

Are there any tools for to manipulate images that don't require installation. Or better put, imagemagik and GD both require installing, whereas something like jwplayer or ckeditor (not image related I know) do not. I'm looking for something I can bundle in with a custom CMS for users to copy the files and then work straight off the bat. Nothing fancy, simple image resizing is enough.


CSS templates for standard html elements?

I'm not looking for html page templates... but rather basic element templates. Is anyone aware of a site that carries this type of template? I want to create my own layouts and such, but I would love to have some simple copy/paste templates that style:   * Forms   * Buttons   * Tables   * Typography   * Some general classes (alerts, info, etc, images)


Does changing domain ownership affect SEO?

I have heard that when domain ownership changes, the domain loses its page rank. My theory on this is: Lots of sites selling high PR domains actually cheat. They invest in high PR links for the domain they want to sell (say buy a yahoo directory link, or maybe even use their own set of high PR pages to link to that domain temporarily). As soon as someone buys the "high PR" domain, they delete those links. And the new owner effectively gets a '0 page rank' site. _This_ might have led to the misconception that changing owners makes the domain lose its PR. But I may be wrong. Can someone share their insights on this? Do you think it is safe for me to change registrar without affecting my SEO and current page rank at all? (Note that changing registrars can be as good as changing owners if privacy protection is enabled - as complete whois info will change). Anyone with prior experience where changing registrars _has_ or _has not_ affected their SEO? regards, JP


Why my ads do not show up on Google?

My friend bid for "catalog carrefour". If I search for "catalog carrefour" on Google, I would expect some ads showing up on top. It didn't. My ads doesn't show up. Even though Google AdWords say my ads rank 1.


How do I keep track of multiple websites?

As an owner of multiple websites I sometimes find it difficult to remember when each site needs renewing. Another problem is that I have to log into every single site to check the site traffic statistics. Is there a centralized tool that I can use which will display all the websites in a table with their current stats, expiry dates etc? I noticed that people tend to use Excel, but this doesn't seem like a viable solution for my problem. I expect that the number of sites I own/maintain will continue to increase. I also design websites for others, most of which don't understand the concept of paying for hosting and domain names. If I was able to list other peoples sites which I have access to I would be able to notify them and arrange payment prior to it being required. ~Sam


Google Trends for Website suddenly closed?

Has google closed it's Trends for Website service? http://trends.google.com/websites?q=wikipedia.org I can't find any news on it


Google Chrome audit: resources are explicitly non-cacheable?

If I run a Google Chrome audit on a site, it lists all CSS, PNG, JPG, JS files and even the main domain (i.e. www.example.com) under the heading: ## Leverage browser caching   * The following resources are explicitly non-cacheable. Consider making them cacheable if possible Will the features in the .htaccess of the HTML5 boilerplate help to resolve this? If not, how best to approach this?