Where do hits on "/ga/abpages/...-original.html" come from?

I am currently developing a website as a side-project. There's really nothing on it, and for the past few months the site has been online I've been getting no traffic except for that which I generate myself. However, a week ago I got exactly 200 unique hits on the following url:               /ga/abpages/2013-08-30T02:52:53.776Z-original.html      Looking around, I came across this discussion (and only that discussion). The given answer, that "someone may have borrowed some of your site code" seems highly unlikely, given that all three reports match the `/ga/abpages/...-original.html` pattern, and two of them confirmed that they saw exactly 200 hits. Additionally, the `/ga/` path makes me think the path is directly related to Googles' own `ga.js`. Here is all the meta-data I can associate with the hits; all other demographics are not set.   * Page Title: `original page`   * Traffic: `Direct`   * Language: `en-us`   * Browser: `Chrome`   * Resolution: `1280x1024`   * OS: `Linux` None of the hits have any navigation data associate with them—they land, then bounce. **What are these phantom hits and where are they coming from?**


Where can I get reliable information on website popularity?

I know there is a site out there that provides data and stats on websites' relative popularity, unique hits etc, but I can't remember what it's called. This isn't for my own site, I want to look up more general stats.. thanks


Red5: Live Cam Streaming

We're looking to add public/private "cam rooms" to our site. Similar to about a thousand other sites on the web (Chat Roulette, Stickam, etc). We've been using Red5 for the past year with various ready-to-go Flash chat apps, and we've been using JW Player for years. So we think we have the basic infrastructure in place to make this happen. But I'm a bit fuzzy on some details, and Red5 docs are hard to find. My questions are: 1) What kind of software is needed to capture a person's cam, and send it back to the Red5 server? 2) Once step 1 is complete, how would I view the cam using JW Player (or any player actually)? Additionally (and probably obviously) we would need a way to have different "rooms". Meaning sending the cam stream to room 1234, and pointing the player at that room to view the cam stream. Can Red5 do this out of the box with the included demo software? Any tips/tutorials on setting this up would be greatly appreciated.


What are the PCI compliance and security implications for processing payments through my embeddable widget?

I've built a little embeddable Javascript widget that list items for sale for publishers to embed on their site. The current use case is that when the user clicks on an item, they are redirected to my site where they can get more information and hopefully purchase the item. Typical workflow here. What I would like to do is move that entire workflow inside the widget. Specifically, I'd like for the user to purchase the item directly through the widget without ever having to go to my site. The widget would communicate with my back-end over SSL which would delegate the payment processing to Braintree or some other 3rd party gateway. Technically, this is very feasible for me to implement. But are there any regulatory or compliance issues that would make this infeasible? What sort of issues do you expect I would encounter if I were to take this approach? What are the security implications?


How to track site visitors across several browser sessions or computers using Google Analytics?

If a site visitor clears cookies, uses various browsers or computers then Google Analytics will have a hard time detecting them as being by the same user. However since 95% of the site content is only available when logged in, so I should be able to identify multiple visits as the same user so long as they log in. How can I help Google to identify that the visits are by the same user? (without breaking the Terms and Conditions)


Does the main URL of the website matter most in Google?

Say I have a website/blog about 'tech news' at my URL `mattynews.com`, and my website is dedicated for 'tech news' with friendly SEO, and someone else has a site with the URL `technews.com` - will they get better results in Google? My point is - if my site is dedicated to my work, and someone else has my subject in their URL, it gets better results, even though my site is 10x better as in related results in the inner site. Is that normal? Or is it something I have to deal with/overcome?


Single site web proxy

I want to create a dynamic mirror or a single site web proxy for my blog on a different domain. I have access to a php based web hosting, I own the content on the original site and due to low traffic I think bandwidth is not a issue at all. What would be the best way to proceed? To provide some context, my real problem is: - I have a blog hosted on blogger with a custom domain. (e.g. www.abc.com) - Blogger as a whole is blocked in some countries which effectively makes my blog blocked effectively. - I own another domain www.def.com and a hosting and all I want is www.def.com to be a dynamic mirror of www.abc.com. Redirecting will not work because, it will not really bypass the blocking filters. I am happy with the service of blogger and I do not really want to move or duplicate things. Before I did not have this problem because blogger allowed me to use ftp and upload stuff on a different hosting server but is not a n option any more.


Domain Transfer not carrying over paid time

I recently renewed my domain for a year on BlueHost. A few days later, I decided to transfer it to GoDaddy. After transferring, GoDaddy did not show the new year that I recently paid for. After contacting their support, they blamed it on BlueHost. After contacting BlueHost support, I was given the following reply. Does anybody know if this is actually an ICANN policy, or if they're just trying to short me out of the 10 bucks. > Your domain was in the 45 day auto renew grace period. This is an ICANN > policy. In short, it means that the renewal is considered tentative for 45 > days and not permanent. If you transfer the domain within that 45 day period > you don't get the year you paid for.


Which tool can change file permissions recursively

I need to change file and folder permission on remote linux web server recursively. For fast uploading i zipped my files and uploaded that zip file. Later on i extracted zip file using file manager of hosting server. It unzipped files but ther file permissions we set to 600 for files and 700 for folders. Now i need to change them 644 and 755 to all files and folders recursively. I do not want to check in folder by folder and change the permission. Is there any tool that can do that recursively?


Program to send beacons each 15 seconds

I am looking for the tray-minimizable program, which sends an HTTP request to my server each 15 seconds immitating user activity.


someone was able to upload php files without ftp access to my server

I have website in PHP/MYSQL developing using CakePHP framework. Recently it was hacked and someone was able to upload some PHP and JS files and the site was down. The website FTP, control panel etc were all secured. So I am wondering if someone can help that how that person would have been able to do this so that I can have it fixed. It is very critical for me to plugh this asap. Please help.


(Blogger) Map GoDaddy Domain For Blogger Custom Domain

I just bought a new domain from GoDaddy (nurayka.net) and I want to use it for my .blogspot.com blog now. Here is my Blogger settings. And here is my GoDaddy DNS settings. After more than 24 hours, I still can't view my blog with that custom domain. It seems that it might be something wrong with my DNS settings.   1. Does my DNS settings correct?   2. Does GoDaddy Domain Forwarding should be enabled from 'nurayka.net' to 'www.nurayka.net'? Note: Before this, I have go through the GoDaddy Blogger DNS Setup and CNAME Tutorial. In the GoDaddy Blogger DNS Setup, I entered 'www.nurayka.net' and in the CNAME record (www), I entered 'ghs.google.com'. Thank You!


Mobile web design: ebay mobile

when I looked at the eBay mobile web site, I realized, they have two versions: mobileweb.ebay.com > this seems to be the newer one   m.ebay.com > looks older Is there a reason for it? Is the web site at m.ebay.com maybe more compatible with older devices?


Image not updating for some users

I don't know if this is the best practice, but we added an image with a snow delay for our school. For some users the image wouldn't come up. Is this a matter of the browser or something else? I had to use Ctrl + F5 to clear the cache to see the updated image.


How to deploy ASP.NET application with MS SQL server database

I want to deploy my website with MS SQL server database. It's my first time and I have never done it before. What I have come to know from my googling is that I must have a domain(.com/.net/.co) and a host(for my web pages `.aspx` & `.cs`( **confusion here if I can also deploy my database** )). Now, I am not getting to where I have to deploy my database. If I also have to buy a seperate SQL Server database or a host consisting of every thing (means I can deploy both my ASP.NET application & database as well).


Metrics on "market share" for server-side scripting languages

Does anyone know of any market share information for server-side scripting languages (# of web servers, % of web servers, etc.)? I'm learning how to do server-side scripting with Python (via the examples in Programming Python). I just can't ever remember having seen a web address with ".py?" in it ... they're almost all ".php?" or ".asp?". Thanks, Mike


Use email via Google Apps to avoid shared hosting issues with blacklisted IP

I currently use a hosting package that is used both for the website and emails. Since it is a shared hosting the IP is sometimes blacklisted so our emails are considered SPAM and are bounced back. I want to setup Google Apps account, only for the email addresses, to avoid the situation of emails considered SPAM because of blacklisted IP. I plan to setup the DNS (provided by the domain registrar) with a domain mx records that points to google mail servers, and keep the A records (for the website) to point to the shared hosting server. I wonder how will the destination email server react in a case when we send email via google mail servers, but still use our own domain name? Will the destination mail server still check whether our shared hosting IP (resolved with our domain name) is blacklisted, or it will only consider the google mail server IP? Thanks!


Pages are indexed but disappear after few days

My pages get indexed after 1 day, but some days later disappear from search results. Any idea why this happens? I've been trying to find any of the usual problems like hidden links or other issues, but can't find anything wrong. Here is an example. It was on first page until yesterday, today is gone. This is happening with all my pages lately, so I think it must be something common to all, but can't figure out what.


Google's 200 ranking factors

When doing research on SEO you most probably stumbled upon Google's statement there are approximately 200 ranking factors. I think it would be nice to have a list of all these 200 factors. Does anybody know if Google ever published all ranking factors? And if so, where these can be found?


How to accomplish a rich snippet with Twitter?

I would like to enhance my CTR for my pages and/or posts. When I publish these I tend to Tweet them so they become known. When doing some research on 'Grails' I just noticed the following snippet in Google: ![Twitter Google rich snippet](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XV9WP.png) Unfortunately my Google snippets never include the Tweet. My question is, how do I make sure that my tweet is included in the 'rich' snippet as shown above? In other words, which steps do I need to follow?


What determines domain value?

I want to buy a domain but everywhere I go they tell me that domain costs `$ 4000` who or what determines the value of this domain and why is it so high?


What meta tag or microdata should I use for a dictionary web application?

I have a web application that serves as a dictionary, and it ranks well in Google when searching for a rare word in my language (the dictionary's target language). I want the result to appear in the define: some-word, as well as in the search results when someone uses the filter tool Dictionary. Should I add some special meta-tag in the head of the HTML? How about microdata? Does google have a special webmaster tool for registering dictionaries like: wordnetweb.princeton.edu or en.wiktionary.org?


Domains, hosting and the law

Currently I live in the Netherlands. So, what if..   * I register a .CN domainname and upload my website to it. Under which law is my website? The Chinese or the Dutch?   * and I host my website at the Isle of Man, under which law is my website? The Chinese, the Dutch or Isle of man?


Adsense and blocking robots from web pages

If I use a meta tag to make a page 'noindex' does this mean that my adsense ads will not be targeted?


Knowing your online Competition how to reveal 301’s directing domains

I truly believe that any webmaster entering any niche should investigate their online competition beforehand to know what they're up against and to see if their goals are realistic and affordable in both time and money. As you may know, there are a few ways of investigating your competition online. Rankings, local rankings, citations, social mentions and of course backlinks. This question is not related to any of the above but is related somewhat because it has the same end goal which you'll see momentarily. So hopefully my question and the answers to follow may aid some other webmaster encountering the same problem. I'll illustrate the problem as a scenario that'll hopefully give you an idea of what I believe and what I'm asking. _**The Scenario_** Your website has been ranking top for almost 2 years within a fairly competitive niche. Then, out of nowhere, you drop in ranking and a site that has never been on page 10, never mind position 10, is all of a sudden in top. An immediate reaction might be foul play and you investigate their content and backlinks, only to find that their content is extremely thin and they have zero backlinks. So the possibility here is that the backlinks have not indexed for that site with whatever tool you use to check for these yet. Or, Google for whatever reason has made an error that will resolve itself. 4 months on and the same thin site with 0 backlinks (Only those from expected bot/scrapers - webstats etc) is still top in rankings. So it looks like this site is here to stay and you start thinking about other reasons to why your site is being outranked. One possible reason could be that your own rankings has slipped, along with many other sites but having all those sites drop in ranking is unrealistic so the only way forward would be to believe that they have earned their rankings through either reputation with Google or foul play. The conclusion here would be - or least mine - that the site in question has recently moved from one domain to another. They may just have a simple 301 re-direct from one domain to another, or they may have told Google within Google Webmaster Tools they have moved site. **_Scenario over._** _**The Question_** My question is fairly simple and I apologise for the long paragraphs of text but I want a good idea of what is trying to be achieved here. Enough typing, here's the question! Is it possible to find out if one domain has moved from one domain to another, either using 301 re-directs or moving in Google Webmaster Tools?


Is there a Magento extension for combining/compressing javascript and css?

I thought Magento came with this feature out of the box but it doesn't appear to be working at all. I'm not sure if I haven't set it up properly, but right now I'm resorting to using `cat` and altering the `page.xml` layout file to use the combined javascript and css files. Can I make Magento do this instead or is there an extension that adds this feature? (duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4236381/is-there-a-magento- extension-for-combining-compressing-javascript-and-css)


How to recover my inclusion in google results after being penalized for receiving comment spam?

My website had very high search engine results, especially in Google. But I left the website for a couple of months and didn't notice the comments were full of SPAM, about 20k comments of SPAM. Then i checked my google results and I'm out of google ! After years of having good results, no spam, how can I now recover from that? The spam problem has been solved completely. No more spam, and the website is very legit and very nice. Well, at least I think I was penalized, I don't see any other reason.


Should I add a "nofollow" attribute to download links, or disallow the URLs in robots.txt?

I have a download link very similar to Opera's one - it's just a script that sends the file. It doesn't have an extension and there's no obvious way to tell that it's actually a download link. So since I don't want robots to crawl this link, do I need to add it to robots.txt or maybe add a "nofollow" attribute to it? I see that on Opera's website they didn't do either of this, so perhaps it's not necessary?


SItemap for site with translations

I have a `domain.com` which I translated all of the pages in my domain to several languages, all on their own subdomain (e.g. `es.domain.com, cn.domain.com, ru.domain.com` ...). The top level domain "domain.com" is redirected to "`www.domain.com`" where the English version is hosted. I have several questions: 1) How should I list the translated pages in the sitemap (or maybe I shouldn't even list them?)? Can I list them on the sitemap that is served on www.domain.com/sitemap.xml or should I prepare a unique sitemap for each subdomain (es.domain.com/sitemap.xml etc.)? 2) According to the answer for the previous question, is there any damage using sitemap for multiple versions of the site? Should I just use a sitemap for the English version? Thanks, Joel


The top reseller hosts with unlimited web space and bandwidth

Hi I'm looking at finding myself a reseller hosting plan (preferably based in the UK) and I wondering if anyone knows of any good reseller hosts that provide **UNLIMITED** disk space and bandwidth. The only UK host I seem able to find that matches this description is heartinternet.co.uk. Are there any others you would recommend? P.S. Hosts with cPanel get a +1 !!


Amazon S3, Require Credit Card?

I am registering to Amazon S3, but it says that a credit card is required upon registration. My purpose is to create a dummy account where I can test the amazon S3 for development. Is there anyway to register without using a credit card? Or Is there any place where I can test for development?


Google+ vs Google+ Local

My client has both a Google+ and a Google+ Local account. Although I can find no definitive answer, it seems that each serve a different purpose and it is not the case as I first thought that they should only use a single Google+ account. This means I need to link both accounts to their website. The process for linking a Google+ account to a website is outlined here, complete with a glaring typo in the example code (it should be a link, not an anchor tag). However I am concerned that adding links to both accounts might be a bad idea. Can anyone confirm this is OK?


What research methods could I use to determine the keyword(s) I should use for my site?

In England, some primary students sit for an exam called the 11-plus. I need to figure out what keyword(s) to use for my related site, but I'm not sure how to go about this. What keyword research methods can be used for determining this? Should I use whatever Google Trends says? Should I go with one, two, or several keywords?


How do I check my website on this iPhone web browser when I don't have an iPhone?

Someone has sent me a screenshot of a website I'm coding. I'm not a fan of iPhone so I have no idea which browser it is. Here is the screenshot, so please let me know which browser is this and how to check my website on it. Is there a simulator on Ubuntu? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7Oh0J.jpg)


SEO results in updating periodically a 301 redirect

I'm in the unfortunate situation of managing a _very_ old website, that has been passed by the hands of at least 5 webmasters. Each has implemented new sections and other pages without regarding structure logic and SEO along with the rest of the site, creating multiple duplicated content pages. I have several cases of something like the following:   * specific page of an article within a section (like `site.com/section/article-title`)   * a generic link in the navigation linking to a "latest section article" wich is basically a duplicate of the previous page (the url is like `site.com/section/latest-article`) Previous practice was to update periodically the "latest article" page copy/pasting what is the new content for the section, along with creating a proper article page in the section archive. This behaviour is replicated in several sections, updated with various ranges, usually few months or weeks. Unfortunately this site is built in flat HTML, and rebuild a controller logic on it could be quite time taking and my client is not willing to pay for it. As a quick and dirty fix to the duplicated content on search engines, I've placed some 301 simple redirect in the .htaccess file like this               Redirect 301 /section/last-article.html http://site.com/section/article-title.html      and so on for all the unnecessary navigation links in the menu. What I'm in doubt now is if it's considerated a bad practice to keep updating the redirects periodically according to the new published content, or if it's irrelevant for SEO. I guess it's a trivial question, but I haven't found anything like my situation in my researches.


Can microdata be used within META and custom tags?

META tags that sit within **HEAD** of a webpage. What difference it makes when using microdata in them and outside of **HEAD** of webpage? Let's take for example " **datePublished** " property. Instead of hunting every time for text in content, why not just implement it within **HEAD** with **META**? According to Google's structured data testing tool if certain microdata is presented for search engines, then it also must be present on webpage's content, otherwise such misleading practice will result in penalty. Even if that's the case, implementing within META will save us time and eye strain when wanting to wrap microdata around piece of content. I will now explain about custom tag. I don't know about it being custom but I have seen tags like "time" where microdata code looked like this:               <time itemprop="datePublished">YYYY-MM-DD</time>     <text itemprop="datePublished">YYYY-MM-DD</text>      Are TIME and TEXT custom made up tags or they are elements that belong somewhere? Can I customize these for my needs? Thanks


Remove all issues from Google Webmaster Tools

I have a lot of issues in the google webmaster tools (like 25 000) that are in the past and have been solved. I would like to remove all the issues to concentrate on the new ones, but I can only delete 1 000 of them per day. How can I remove all the issue in one time?


Ranking in Google for New Sites

I have a 3-months old site. I have been doing decent SEO for it. I have just 1 or 0 people visiting the site from Google and its concerning me. Is there some wait period before sites start to rank? In case anyone wants to check the backlink profile, the site problemio dot com (didn't want to seem spammy by posting the actual url)


How do I send copies of e-mails to a handler script if my e-mail is hosted with Google Apps?

I'm trying to figure out if there is a way that an email can be sent to two mail servers. One being a local server configured in CPanel and the other is Google Apps. I've already configured the server to allow for email to be sent to Gmail's servers with the MX record. But now I want it to also keep a copy of the email on the actual Cpanel server. That way any mail that is sent to an email address is viewed in Google Apps AND left on the server for Cpanel Horde/etc to receive. I'm attempting this because of the fact that my webhost doesn't allow connections for some reason to Google Apps via a PHP script (like setting it up would cause errors). Can anyone help?


Publishing an asp.net mvc3 website database and all to a website?

Just wondering is this possible : I have some local databases which run fine. If I could move them all up to a server online it would be great (with their data and all that). Currently, what I'm doing is creating the datbaases remotely and creating the tables to match the ones on my project along with the tables then uploading using webmatrix and setting the appropriate connection string to the databases on the server (not even sure if this will work, haven't been able to test it yet). Just wondering, since I'd potentially save a lot of time and effort, could I just move the local database online as part of the publish process?


Cleaning up the mess with SEO and conversions in mind

I'm having some kind of a unique situation here, but at the same time it's the typical mess web-beginners create. I took over a project for an event-company and at the moment they're having several sites and domains online for the similar (but not the same) thing. So they're offering 4 different main events and they basically are in the same branch (sports) and the same location, but other than that they've got nothing to do with each other. Problem is that they set up several (more than 1 each) domains and with that also different designs, which is just a big big mess to maintain. They're also sometimes fighting with duplicate content. At the same time though more than 1 of those pages appear in the google results for the same keyword (sometimes covering more than 50% of the search results on the first page) - meaning the users conversion rate is much higher than it would be with only one page. I'm wondering now what advise would be best, as I have a hard time deciding between cleaning it all up to not more than 1 page each sport and leaving the structure as it is, - as it has a good conversion rate. Do you think 4 different designs are distracting the user although they're of the same company ?


Whats the best approach for headings 2013?

We are creating some informative articles on our website. Typically an article will have a natural title such as "Now it’s Even Easier to Arrange Loans Online". The keyword that we're targetting here is "loans online". The anchor text will also be "loans online". The question is would it be better for SEO to add a new H1 containing the exact anchor text, and relegate the title to an H2 something like this?
Loans Online

Now it’s Even Easier to Arrange Loans Online


All the pages from search keyword is gone!

Yesterday when i have checked me website's page ranking is search engine as per keywords, at that time it was perfect. But today when i was checking i found that mojority of keywords are not in top 100. I have attached one image. check it and answer me the reason...      ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/LufZ1.png) I have only one question why it is happening? please help me...


When is the leading slash (/) needed in mod_rewrite patterns?

Here is an example from the Apache documentation for enforcing canonical hostnames:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$     RewriteRule ^/?(.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R,NE]      What I would like to know is why the /? is needed. I've tried removing it and everything appears to work the same. I was under the impression that the pattern part of the rewrite rule was compared against what comes after the slash.


Having good domain name and using domain aliases (I use notlong)?

I use only free servers and after creating my website I decided to make access to that domain by **simple domain name** . I decided to use domain alias notlong service The second advantage of using alias here was to be **independant from my file host** which I will have to change.   I haven't found a better alias service like _notlong_ , because _notlong_ is **easy to remember**. After that I encounter many problems:   * most of forums or social services treat _notlong_ address as a **spam** ,   * Bing so far haven't accepted the notlong domain and others.   * * * Is it another way **to have good free domain name**? How about the situation **when your hosting server will inform you to expire**? Only a lasting layer of domain aliases make you independent from the real file hosts.


Yahoo sitemap ping URL?

We recently used the URL:               http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=....      To ping Yahoo about sitemap changes. This URL turned out to time out and is not reachable. Then I googled and on the Yahoo site I found a different URL which also times out:               http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=....      What is the correct address to ping Yahoo about sitemap changes?


Why is Google ignoring my pages after a sitemap submit?

I've submitted a Google sitemap with 12 links in, and Google has accepted the links (2 weeks ago) but it insists on only showing 4 out of the 12 pages in the search results. Even when doing a site: in Google only shows these 4! Any ideas how this can be corrected?


Internal WordPress pages all 404 when using WAMP

I have a problem when using WAMP while designing and coding my site. Well, I have a local version of Wordpress installed in WAMP and use it as a tool to see my changes when coding. I also have the same files uploaded to some free hosting. The problem is when I want to access for example `http://localhost/contact`. Browser gives me a **404** error. As I said, the same files (exact copy from my PC) are on the web here and when I go to `http://thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/contact` it opens the page fine (without the style of course because I haven't made one yet). Why is that and how do I get to see all of my pages locally like I can when the WP installation is online?


Can a soft link be used to fix URL problems?

I'm developing a new website to replace our old website. The URL the dev site is `11.22.33.44/~abc/` (not that IP exactly) because that's what HostGator gave me to use. Once complete, I'll change DNS servers so our domian name points to that server and not our old one. I'm using Drupal and am taking great care to keep all links relative. However, because of the `/~abc/` in the dev URL, it's not always possible to keep it relative and many links will break. Within the Drupal system or anywhere Drupal PHP is used, like for menus, it can figure out the URL on it's own. But for any images and links entered into the WYSIWYG, those will break. Can a soft link fix this problem? Should I use the command `ln -s /~abc /`? Will the URL `example.org/~abc/node/1` then show the page `example.org/node/1` ? I know this is not ideal for SEO, maintenance, and other reasons. But it would make the migration much smoother and quicker.


Site not showing in google search, and webmaster tools showing irrelevant keywords

In Google Webmaster Tools, for my relatively new website: `www.caterboxgroup.co.uk`, it says there are 3 keywords: _domain_ , _registered_ and _caterboxgroup_. The two first ones do not exist in the pages anywhere so I don't really understand what it's happening. Also, I have typed `caterboxgroup.co.uk` into google search and it returns any result. Please help...


Responsive Design that Uses Different Images Sizes (big, medium & small) for Phones, Tablets, and PCs

Our CMS creates 3 type of images size every time the content created: big, medium and small. We don't want to change our admin page that creates that 3 images types. Can anybody find a solution for our problem of creating a responsive front page using responsive design, which can load the different image for different browser sizes?   * Mobile phone: small size images   * Tablet : medium size images   * PC: big size images I have heard many thing about responsive design, but it doesn't seem to account for the image size, it still loads the big image even in the small device. I found another website that loads different images, but it creates the small images on the fly as the website is loaded, so, I would like to find a different technique.


Crawling retail websites to use as templates

I'm setting up a commerce website. I really like the Overstock website, and I was wondering if could simply crawl the website for the webpages, remove Overstock's logos, and use their website as a template. Is this legal, or can it get my website shutdown? How much code is a developer allowed to use before it's considered stealing?


Republish / Change Publish Date Of An Article - Any SEO Help/Harm?

My sites has some old tutorials, which I am planning to update according to the latest version and change the publish date so that visitors can see it as a fresh tutorial. I am just concerned whether it will do any harm to the tutorial SEO or otherwise have any benefit or not. Any suggestions/feedback is appreciated.


Analyze high load due to Joomla?

I have a Joomla site causing very high (php) load on the server. I have already ran the MySQL slow log feature and it doesn't appear to be MySQL. What are some ways to analyze a Joomla site to determine what causes the high php load? Example of highest processes for the day:               testing1    testing1.com    27.32   0.53    0.3     Top Process %CPU 179    /usr/bin/php /home/testing1/public_html/index.php     Top Process %CPU 138    /usr/bin/php /home/testing1/public_html/index.php     Top Process %CPU 137    /usr/bin/php /home/testing1/public_html/index.php      Using latest 1.5 Joomla on a CentOS server running Apache/MySQL. I have full/root access to this server, so whatever tools are needed I can install. I know the general idea is that a number of 3rd-party components are probably causing this, but how can I determine which ones (without removing/disabling them)?


Is there a way to customize the date range in Google Analytics and save that as my preference?

Whenever I open my Google Analytics account, it shows me a default date range (last one month). But I am not interested in this range and I always change it to display the last 3 days. Just to highlight what date range I am referring to, here's a screenshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NBfJb.png) Is there a way to do this only once and save this to my preferences?


Moving article (Deleting the original) to another blog - SEO MISTAKE?

I'm trying to move an article to another blog, I already deleted the one from my blog and gave it to the other blogger, however, it is still indexed in Google, but if someone click it, he'll see a 404 error. Now the other blogger is worried about his web site being penalyzed if he publish the article. Thx in advance Ps: There is no way of making a 301 permanent redirect, because the original page no longer exists.


Low pagerank backlinks - does Google penalize?

I have a new stock discussion forum and I would like to promote it. Specifically, I have two ideas in mind to help promote it: 1) Become a member at other stock discussion forums. Make high quality posts, build a good reputation, and leave a link to my own forum in a non intrusive way (ie. in signature or at the end of my posts). This approach makes sense because you can find other members in other forums that are interested in stock discussion and a backlink to your forum, as long as it is not done in an intrusive/spammy way, should come across as acceptable. 2) Promote my site by writing articles at Squidoo, Hubpages, etc. This approach also makes sense because that's what Squidoo and Hubpages is for. The problem with both these approaches is that when I leave a backlink to my site, the page that I am leaving a backlink from may have a low PR - most likely, a PR of 0. Now, I have read that after the Penguin update by Google, your site can be penalized if you have too many backlinks from low PR pages: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/224339 So, I am caught in a dilemma: a) If I start promoting my site via other stock forums, Squidoo, Hubpages, etc, but the backlink to my site comes from a page with low PR, Google may penalize my site. b) However, if I don't promote my site, nobody will ever discover it (aside from other promotion techniques like social media promotion, directories, etc).


I registered my domain, but it doesn't appear to exist

I wanted to register a domain with No-Ip and clicked the Sign Up button on their homepage. I entered my desired domain name (I won't publish it until I get this resolved, to prevent "domain theft"), then clicked Add my domain. I completed the order form, and waited 72 hours like it said, but my domain is still not active. Any help? Did I register my domain correctly?


URL path structure for a website with several directories

I am making a website with several directories that will have a high amount of content. For now I have separated the URLs into categories so that they’re like this: > www.example.com/student/   >  www.example.com/student/student-name/   >  www.example.com/student/student-name/biography   >  www.example.com/student/student-name/image-gallery/   >  www.example.com/student/student-name/image-gallery/gallery-name-1   >  www.example.com/student/student-name/image-gallery/gallery-name-2   >  www.example.com/student/student-name/contact   >  www.example.com/teacher/   >  www.example.com/teacher/teacher-name   >  www.example.com/teacher/teacher-name/biography   >  www.example.com/teacher/teacher-name/image-gallery/   >  www.example.com/teacher/teacher-name/image-gallery/gallery-name-1   >  www.example.com/teacher/teacher-name/image-gallery/gallery-name-2 There are many teachers, students, galleries, videos, etc. There are several more categories that are made in the same way, but before going online I would like to check whether this is the best way.


How to motivate visitors to comment

At first I must apologize, because I am not sure if this question is valid for webmasters topic. I deal with the problem as being webmaster, however, i think this question is more related with marketing. Nevertheless, I was searching for marketing stack-overflow at meta stack-overflow and did not find such page. ## Background Four days ago, I launched a portal with database of barber salons at which people can find a salon through various criterions, see its photos, details, and also put a comment with their own opinion. The development took me half a year and it took me other 2 months to fill the database with information about barbers (I've also hired another three people to this job). I have not a big problem with getting people to my portal, I pay for PPC, comment on barber discussions etc.. In past four days I've reached a satisfactory number of visitors. ## Problem I deal with fact that everyone wants to search and read comments, but no one is willing to put her/his own opinion to barber. **So I've tried following (2 days ago):**   * Made comment anonymous, no one has to be afraid of compromise her/his identity with a salon owner   * I prepared a competition for users in which they can win a cosmetic package if they comment on at least three different salons   * I payed for PPC campaign on facebook which is telling people about the competition   * I registered competition on 20 portals for competitions **And the result:**   * People are commenting on facebook that the competition is a good idea   * They are giving likes on facebook   * But no one put a single comment to a barber salon I am getting little confused about what am I doing wrong. I will be thankful for any advice.


Does adding live chat script to a website affect its SEO?

I have a client who has added a live chat script just before his /body tag. The live chat script uses WebSockets for communication with servers. However, it appears his SEO traffic decreased by a good margin after the addition. Can live chat script be the reason it happened? I understand that the question finally drills down to 'Does script tag affect SEO?' but was trying to give as much context as possible. This appears to have happened in first week of January. If the above is not the reason, have there been any changes to Google ranking algorithms recently?


PHP Development Environment (Host: Windows 7, Guest: Ubuntu)

Since editing files live from a remote server slows down development. I use XAMPP on windows to develop then run the web app's on a Linux server. However to avoid environment dependencies I'd like to mirror the live environment and the development environments. What I'm asking is running development server on Ubuntu inside VirtualBox whilst editing the source files via ftp/Dreamweaver is a good idea? If so, and I wanted to view the local website on the host OS (windows) how would I do this? does the guest OS have a LAN/Local IP address? I notice on windows "ipconfig /all" there are "tunneling" adapters which I assume is for VirtualBox, so I guess the guest OS has the same LAN/Local IP address? if so how would I view the websites hosted on the guest OS on the host OS? I'd also need to host FTP server on guest OS. Note: **I need windows!** I would love to use Linux all the way -.-


Content licence vs SEO

Which will boost a search engine optimization campaign: setting your content to creative common licence or copy-write protection of your content? and to what extent to they influence the SEO campaign?


Google PageRank calculation

I know this might be a stupid question, but I have recently heard, that Google PageRank takes into account links from my sites to big pages, i.e. when I link to big sites, my site get more PageRank. Is that true? (I am not talking about big sites linking to me)


CMS for Blog site

I would like to create a blog site with features like Engadget. The editor can upload blog and albums while users can comment. I know it's even easier to use blogspot but it's blocked in China. I have tried Joomla before. It seems a bit slow even after removing most of the modules and the memcache plugin doesn't help much either. Is there any other option? Do I need other plugins to run WordPress as blog?


Standards for long format dialogue when published to web

I'm posting some extremely long audio transcripts from 50 minute long radio recordings. I'm afraid that any search engine crawler will read these really long documents and treat it negatively because of keyword frequency or length. I've researched and found that for a dialogue a `<dl> <dt></dt> <dd></dd> </dl>` is recommended from http://www.sitepoint.com/markup-musings.., but it doesn't provide me the right formatting so I've used a `<table>` instead. I'm wondering if there are any attributes or specific mark up I can use to help inform a browser that what it is looking at is a transcript of a recording? My code basically looks like this, with no attributes describing the information. Any suggestions are welcome!
             <colgroup>             <col width="17%">             <col width="83%">         </colgroup>

                 Speaker name:	                 What they said.


Confusing caching issue-DNS

Yesterday I changed my DNS servers to point to a different server. This change has still not been displayed on my own computer, but it does from other computers around the world (checked using browsershots.org) I'm using OpenDNS for my DNS and there cache is pointing to the correct server. What could be meaning my computer still isn't going to the right place? Thank you!


Does your company name in an article title damage Search Engine relevance

I've been wondering about this for a while but never come across a solid answer. Many websites include their name in all the title tags of their articles. This is often apparent in word-press blogs etc. eg: Tsunami hits Japan and leaves thousands homeless | My Website Name The issue I have is that Search engines strip the stop words out of this sentence to leave the words in which it compares to the body text. So if I want my article to rank well and be relevant, in this case about the terrible Tsunami that has recently struck Japan what is to STOP the MY WEBSITE NAME section of the title de-valuing the relevance of the article. Am I over-worrying? Or should I take this in to consideration? Thanks for advice in advance.


problem connecting to magento connect

I'm using magento 1.4.0 and when I try to get to magento connect and download a plugin the page will say > > Error: Please check for sufficient write file permissions > > Your Magento folder does not have sufficient write permissions, which this > web based downloader requires. > > If you wish to proceed downloading Magento packages online, please set all > Magento folders to have writable permission for the web server user > (example: apache) and press the "Refresh" button to try again. does anyone know how I can fix this problem, thanks Update: the plugin I'm trying to use is MagentoPycho light box so I unpacked the folder into the app/code/local but it still doesn't show in the admin area


cPanel bandwidth stat update frequency

The bandwidth stat in cPanel updates two or three times a day. Is it my host's settings or where can I see real time bandwidth usage stat?


Workaround for Chrome not handling backward date change in Windows

I'm heavily making use of cookies for a website. Their expiry period is set to 1 day. My preferred test browser is Chrome 28, Windows 7. For a test, I need to change the date of my OS back to eg the previous month ( eg. July 28th). Obviously, doing so expiries the cookies (created on August 28th). But the problem is that all newly created cookies (as of July 28th) immediately expire. The feelong, and the Chomium bug database make me think that Chrome caches in some way the system date : I must close Chrome and restart it again to be able to store cookies again. Is there a workaround to this ?


Searching on Google for mydomain, my domain name is shown as the page title instead of the actual page title

When I search for my domain on Google, eg: `mydomain.com`, my site shows up with a title like "MyDomain" instead of that page's actual title. Any clues on why this happens and how to fix it? Edit: This is the code from head:                <head>         <meta charset="utf-8" />         <title>Συγκριση τιμών - Τιμές προϊόντων,Αναζήτηση και προσφορές</title>                 <link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/105294720755057253319"/>         <link href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/105294720755057253319?rel=author"/>         <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.seekit.gr/template_new/stylesheet/960.css" media="all" />         <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.seekit.gr/template_new/stylesheet/screen.css" media="screen" />         <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.seekit.gr/template_new/stylesheet/color.css" media="screen" />         <!--[if lt IE 9]>         <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.seekit.gr/template_new/stylesheet/ie.css" media="screen" />         <![endif]-->         <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.seekit.gr/template_new/js/basket.js"></script>         <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.2/jquery.min.js"></script>         <script async type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.11/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>                    <script>      var current_url = 'http://www.seekit.gr/';      var module_title= 'index';             </script>         <link title="Seekit.gr - προσφορές" rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.seekit.gr/favicon.png" />                 </head>


Does redirect popup window affect SEO?

We have multiple websites, each site servers number of countries, and we used to have Geo-Ip Auto redirect system (no one likes auto-redirect), so we implemented another redirect system also uses Geo-IP database, but showing a pop-up window (HTML layer pop-up, so it can't be rejected), this window asks the visitor if he would like to continue with this page or go to the correct website of his country. We also added a test line before showing the pop-up, so if the visitor is Googlebot, the popup will not show up :). I was wondering if this effects our websites SEO?


Wordpress Blog Is Very Slow

A few days, my website (http://www.teknoblogo.com) isn't scrolling easily (You can try scrolling) . Website very very slow. I'm using W3 Total Cache. Disabled all unnecessary plugins. But still website is very slow. What can i do ?


How to forward a [sub]domain to another address? (not just HTTP!)

I have bought domain1.me from GoDaddy... (yeah, I know... but ME domain registrars seemed quite hard to find...) I'm mainly hosted at 1and1. I have registered subdomain sub1.domain1.me and redirected it to my 1and1 account. That should eventually work fine. Then I have registered sub2.domain1.me and tried to redirect it to a box at home. It works #1 when for HTTP. I can access SSH server without any problem when I use the IP directly, but not when using sub2.domain1.me:22. The way I see this, they (GoDaddy) are redirecting only on port 80 (why would they?). I have looked at 1and1 forwarding too and they ask for an URI starting with http so I guess that's the same behavior. What are you guys doing to be able to host stuff from home (HTTP, SSH, SVN, Git, etc. etc.) using a domain name to prevent everyone to have to remember your IP??? Heeeelp! Thanks!


CDN - Content Delivery Networks. How do they work and why would I want to use one?

What exactly is a Content Delivery Network (CDN), how does it work, and why would I want to use one for my web site? Which are the well-known CDNs out there?


How to see all "Not selected" urls in Index Status of Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools have the menu _Health > Index Status_ in which it shows:   1. Total indexed url's   2. Total not selected url's   3. Blocked url's For the second one that is _**Not selected**_ url's the reason for not selected is > URLs from your site that redirect to other pages or URLs whose contents are > substantially similar to other pages Where can we see all the not selected url's which are not indexed?


What is the requirements for Google adsense?

i have a blog i-World-Tech (http://i-world-tech.blogspot.in/) . my blog age is only 35 days . i Want to know what is the requirement for Google adsense ? how many page views and age of blog is required for Google adsense ?


Google analytics tracking code

MY google analytics tracking info shows               <script>       (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){       (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),       m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)       })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');            ga('create', 'UA-107xxx48-13', 'auto');       ga('send', 'pageview');          </script>      but the code im the site html shows                   <script type="text/javascript">         var _gaq = _gaq || [];                 _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-107xxx48-29'],['_trackPageview']);                 _gaq.push(         ['panel._setAccount', 'UA-107xxx48-13'],         ['panel._trackPageview']     );      Does difference between the 'ga send' in the code and the 'gaq.push' on the site matter?


Hosting torrent tracker in legal countries

In what countries it is legal to host torrent traacker? I mean without future issues with laws like illegal movie, software downloading.


Facebook activity feed does not show up on website, help needed

I set up a Joomla website for a client of mine with a box on the frontpage that should show the recent feeds of their facebook page. When I test it with a different page, it works. So obviously has something to do with their facebook settings. Could anyone help me or tell me what might be wrong? Any constructive answer I would highly appreciate.


What is the general practice for country TLD subdomains

I'm trying to launch a website application that will focus on cities around the world, whereby TLD for each countries will be used. For example:               www.website.de - Germany     www.website.cn - China      sub-domains will be                www.berlin.website.de      www.beijing.website.cn      Does the approach used above have any significant advantage over this:               www.berlin.website.com     www.beijing.website.cn      The aim of each website/sub-domain is the same, but with specific contents tailored to the cities. My question is slightly different from: How should I structure my URLs for both SEO and localization?


Create a filter to consider http://example.com/foo/bar as http://example.com/index.php/foo/bar

I'm using URL rewriting to make my url `http://example.com/foo/bar/` to `http://example.com/index.php/foo/bar`. I'm not linking the `index.php/..` url anywhere, but for some reasons, some users arrives to the `index.php` url. In Google analytics, I have a lot of duplicates that are quite annoying to follow up the traffic. I've watched the Advanced filters but I'm struggling to make it works fine. Any regex and google analytics pro to help me out ?


Need help in removing and forbidding some kind of malware in my website

I have a website based on Joomla 2.5. Recently people with **AVG anti-virus** started to complain that some strange windows appear when they open the site. An unknown line of code with comments **"Google search bot"** appears in index.php files and the permissions set changes. AVG detected **Blackhole and Sweet orange exploit kits**. I removed manually all the code but a day later it appeared again. I installed OSE anti-virus plugin and RS Firewall plugin for Joomla and scanned and it said it was OK.Is it necessary to reinstall Joomla? Please, help me. Thank you in advance. Oh, I forgot to say that I can not change the FTP password.


How does AdWords' Pay-Per-Click (PPC) get determined exactly?

Google updates PPC with CTR and past statistics it collects, but it is not clear how exactly and precisely Google determines the PPC for AdWords and AdSense. Could anyone explain it in detail, preferably with an example?


Facebook company pages, why some are simple urls and some are strange long urls?

I'm trying to set up this _damn FB_ page for the company where I'm working for. I think it's probably useless stuff, but I want to give a try. I came up with this page:               www.facebook.com/pages/Poste-Certificateit-PEC-per-societa/168391856527591      Then I saw company pages with simple URLs, like this:               www.facebook.com/serverplan.it      I thought my 1st url could be re-written also as `www.facebook.com/Poste- Certificateit-PEC-per-societa`, but it does not work. So why some **company pages** have simple URLs and some others need that long URLs? Or what am I doing wrong?! Thanks! * * * And BTW, if I'm on the wrong FB approach attempting to create _company page_ , I mean if you think a _group page_ or something else might be better from a Internet Marketing POV, plz let me know and exaplain. Thanks again.


How to effectively close a page?

Before asking my question, I'll use an example to clarify the idea. Say that a company used to sell horses and then they turn into a sheeps business. While some of the old pages can be mapped to the new pages using a 301 redirect, because they're really related in the content and the company don't want to lose users and link juice, there are a lot of pages strictly related to horses that they want to shutdown. What's the best practice? Is there a way to say to users and Search Engines the content you were looking for won't be available any more? Basically a 301 redirect of the closed pages to new ones seems not so good, because you'll show a content totally unrelated to the searched one. P.S: I'm aware that probably the best fallback is to simply map those pages to the homepage but I hope in a smarter solution.


Redirecting 301 deleted files to a file or a web page?

I want to redirect using 301 status some selected "purged" files which could be jpg/pdf/zip etc files to keep backlink juice when linked from external sites. For a web page I redirect them using 301 to another "page-deleted.htm" page. But what about the files? Should I redirect using 301 to another image/file or the same "page-deleted.htm" page?


Why use HTML entities instead of just putting Unicode characters in HTML?

Let's say I want to put a non-bland character in an HTML file; for instance, '→'. Is there any reason why I should enter it as '→' instead of just putting '→' in the HTML file? Assume my HTML file is encoded & transmitted in some Unicode format.


How to diagnose slow loading web pages?

Pages at my domain sometimes load very slow. The domain is registered at 101domain, server is in Europe.               Reply from 91.185.209.164: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=60     Reply from 91.185.209.164: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=60     Reply from 91.185.209.164: bytes=32 time=64ms TTL=60     Reply from 91.185.209.164: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=60      Is this because the domain is registered on the other side of the world?


How to format facebook status retrieved using status.get

When I retrieve my facebook status through facebook API, using status.get, the informations comes in the form of               [       {         "message": "Does anyone here knows how to disappear and reappear again after a few months??",         "time": 1282146230,         "status_id": 00000000000000,         "source": 2915120374,         "uid": 000000000       },       {         "message": "Blah blah and blah",         "time": 1282073572,         "status_id": 00000000000000,         "source": 2915120374,         "uid": 000000000       }     ]      I want to format the information using css and display the updates on my blog. How do I extract the info from the above retrieved format so that I can use it on my php page and use css to style the updates??


My site looks fine but Google is reporting "harmful code" - what should I do?

(Note: I have not linked to my site, but you can see the address below) Visiting my site gives that typical > zeno.biyg.org contains malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you > visit this site. I have the webpage listed under my Google Webmaster account, and it says: > Unfortunately, Google has discovered harmful code on your site. Google users > will see a warning page when they attempt to visit pages within this site. > > Some of the URLs on this site redirect browsers to web pages that install > malware. This indicates that the server(s) that host pages for this site may > contain altered configuration files (such as Apache's .htaccess file).               Problematic URLs on http://zeno.biyg.org/   Last checked     / - Details                                 1/2/12     /viewtopic.php?f=3&t=45 - Details           1/4/12      > When Google last tested this page, no content was returned from your server. > Instead, the browser was redirected to a malicious web page. It is likely > that your server configuration has been modified. I have checked both those pages and they come up just fine for me. Google is saying something is redirecting (thus my site doesn't actual contain the malware) visitors to another website (which contains the malware) and I can't reproduce that or find that redirect. I've triple checked everything and cannot find what Google is saying. I've even requested a review, and Google came back saying something is still there. Basically Google seems to say that visiting my site will redirect the user to another site that is not mine. I cannot find that happening anywhere on my site. There's nothing wrong in the .htaccess file, the HTML source has nothing suspicious; I cannot reproduce this what Google is saying. I have full access to this site/server. Any thoughts as to why Google is saying something is detected? [EDIT] I ran the site under http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/ and something was detected (or it's just listing malware detected based on the Google blacklist). I personally spoke to someone from Sucuri and we could not find it either. I even listed every single .htaccess content and sent it to the Security Analyst there and everything was fine.


A bounce-rate attack to manipulate SEO?

This is a question to experienced people that might help us shed some light on the issue. We noticed a very strange behavior on our site, in Google Analytics. Some dude from Finland, namely, from Kouvola city is hitting one of our pages - only one page on our site, 'bout a hundred times per day, all with an average bounce rate of 90%+... This is causing our overall bounce rate to go up by 1 to 3% per day... which is very disturbing.. since we're trying to do our best in order to keep it as low as possible. And obviously having it jumped from ~24% to 27%, just because of that crazy dude is not making us happy at all... We tried implementing a geo-targeted script in order to catch this particular visitor and deliver him a juicy message, and it seemed like it helped in the beginning, it has stopped for a day or two, but now he's back... The geo-targeted script was also logging all IP addresses for page requests originating from Finland in order to find out more details and _(in order to block them on the server level, later)_.. but thing is, it was all mainly cable or DSL connections with various, but not constantly repeating IPs... we are all wondering what is he up to really ? I think that this page should be kept updated with ideas on how to combat this and perhaps someone could also shed light on what it might be ? What is the reason for doing this "bounce-rate attack", as I call it? There was a similar question asked on stackoverflow earlier, with no meaningful answer - here - How to stop bounce rate manipulation.


Apache Per User Directory Not Found

For some reason the user directory I have for my server has stopped working whenever I go to server/~user/public_html/ I get a 404 error. The files are there on the ftp, but they're not showing up from the web. It's strange because it was working just a while ago. Any help?


Getting the keyword as a parameter from Adwords using ValueTrack

I set up an AdWords campaign for website following the instructions for Google AdWords ValueTrack. One of the things that it is supposed to be able to do is pass the keyword as a URL parameter using the code `{keyword}` in the URL. I created a landing URL using the Google Analytics URL builder. I put `{keyword}` into the "Campaign Term" field and it came out like this:               http://example.com/landing.html?utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=%7Bkeyword%7D&utm_content=my_content&utm_campaign=my_page      When I actually run the campaign, the keyword substitution isn't happening. I'm getting the literal string `{keyword}` passed to my website. I see it in my log files. Why isn't the substitution working the way I would expect it to?


How to tackle archived who-is personal data with opt-out?

As far as I understand it, it is possible to opt-out (in the UK at least) of having your address details displayed on who-is information of a domain for non-trading individuals. What I want to know is, after opt-out, how do individuals combat archived data? Is there any enforcement of this? How many who-is websites are there which archive data and what rights do we have to force them to remove that data without paying absurd fees? In the case of capitulating to these scoundrels, what point is it in paying for the removal of archived data if that data can presumably resurface on another who-is repository? In other words, what strategy is one supposed to take, besides being wiser after the fact?


analytics.js: how enable local remote server mode?

I'm trying migrate website tracking from old Google Analytics script `ga.js` to new `analytics.js`. Currently I have enabled "local remote server mode" to send tracing requests to my server as well. Following code was used to enable this mode on `ga.js`: `_gaq.push(['_setLocalRemoteServerMode']);` (more info). But I can not find how to enable this feature on new analytics.js. Has anybody solved this already?


SEO for URL where widget resides - not where content is hosted - iFrame vs DIV

I do not care about SEO for the source URL of content, but would like my customers' websites to benefit from the content being served. Does it make a difference whether the content is served in iFrame of DIV? How do I optimize things?


VPS Performance

Sometimes I can see that the performance drops for my websites that are located on a VPS. Is it possible the VPS provider allocated less memory/cpu power to my VPS? So, How I can check I get the maximum performance power from service provider?


Reading 'Index Status' graph in Google Webmaster tools

I recently found a bunch of old files that had been ftp'ed to a live production server by mistake on a static (html / css / js) site. I manually deleted these files, but today when checking in Google Webmaster tools i found this graph below. The 'update' marker is from 3/9/14, what i can work out is what Google is trying to tell me, are they saying that : There was a ranking update like Penguin or Panda and they penalized my site and un-indexed a load of pages which they thought were junk.. **OR** Is this showing that I updated the site by deleting the files on the server on 3/9/14 **OR** Is this something else ? ![graph](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ez1DC.png)


RewriteRule not working at server level?

I wanted to forbid some robots from doing certain things to my websites and decided to add a RewriteRule for that purpose. The rule works when put in one of my <VirtualHost *:80> _tag_ and looks like this:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} libwww-perl     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST     RewriteRule . - [F,L]      However, I wanted to apply that to all my websites instead of just one of them. So with the newest version of Apache2 settings, I decided to put that code in the security.conf file. This file is defined under /etc/apache2/conf- available/... (and yes, I have a softlink from the /etc/apache2/conf- enabled/... directory.) However, if the definition is only in the conf-available/security.conf files, it somehow gets ignored. From the documentation, it says that these Rewrite* commands all work at server level! Any idea of what I would be missing?


sitemap.xml for two domains - This URL is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location

I have two domains running on the same server with the same IP (different content). I have read that it is ok to provide only one sitemap containing information for both domains, so this is what the sitemap looks like (extract):               <url>         <loc>http://www.domain1.tld/page1/</loc>         <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>         <priority>0.7</priority>     </url>     <url>         <loc>http://www.domain2.tld/page1/</loc>         <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>         <priority>0.7</priority>     </url>      Now when I submit the sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools I get the following error message:               This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location.      which is caused by the second domain being in the sitemap. I have read that it is possible to also provide Google, etc. with different sitemaps for each domain.   **Would that be solution or can I ignore the error? What would be the best solution**


Gtmetrix shows high loading time for first domain waiting time. How to reduce it

I am wondering, why is my Domain taking long time to load?   As per Gtmetrix timeline, first domain name propagation takes up to 953ms:               Blocking - 53 ms     Waiting - 843 ms     Receiving - 57 ms      Sometimes its takes up to even 2 seconds. Below is response from Header:               Server              Apache/2.2     Vary                Accept-Encoding     Cache-Control       no-cache     Content-Type        text/html; charset=utf-8     Content-Encoding    gzip     P3P                 CP="NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM"     Date                Wed, 22 Jan 2014 02:45:14 GMT     Pragma              no-cache     Connection          Keep-Alive     Set-Cookie          X-Mapping-alncmkhk=EDDD5D603AF7261BACF2EBF3FC8185A8; path=/     ed2f1641e2a81373908380a3799b0d29=59n2seqdchc1j6lvl48lepevg0; path=/     Content-Length      7806          Request Headers         Host                www.mycarhelpline.com     User-Agent          Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0     Accept              text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8     Accept-Language     en-US,en;q=0.5     Accept-Encoding     gzip, deflate     Connection          keep-alive      Any advice - what to do correctly to decrease this substantially by over 90%?


Problems with SSL certificate in IIS 8

I bought certificate only for `name_domain.com` under the configuration for IIS 8 (on Windows Server 2012). I have 301 redirects from `www.name_domain.com` to `https://name_domain.com`. If I open the following link in a browser: `www.name_domain.com` , there's a certificate error. Should I buy a new certificate or maybe there is another solution to the problem?


Recommendations for redirecting a large website to a new website?

I have a clients website terminating shortly in 2 weeks and being replaced by a new website (new domain) that has already been live for a couple of months. The plan for the 301 redirects was intended to be gradual over a few months due to the size of the site, however due to technical difficulties around the URL structure they could not take place. It is a mammoth, multi-lingual website with up 300,000 indexed pages. The plan is to implement bulk redirects to the relevant folders on the new site, however this has to take place with a week. I have heard Matt Cutts once say that anything over 500 redirects gets flagged with his team as potentially spammy. I'd be grateful if anybody had any advice regarding this task and if what I'm doing could be dangerous with consequences?


Should 404 pages feature in your sitemap.xml

I tend to generate the sitemaps for my static sites (no CMS) by using a service such as xml-sitemaps.com. They way this works if you input your homepage and it crawls all the internal links of a site and then generates you a `.xml` file. The problem with this is because its crawling from the homepage if a page if not linked to i.e. a 404 page it won't be included in the sitemap. Is it good practice to have the 404 page in there?


How to show all albums in Wordpress NextGen Gallery

I have a Wordpress install setup as a simple CMS. I am starting to use the NextGen Gallery plugin to support photo pages. I expect to have a number of people uploading pictures, and not all of them are going to be technical enough to edit a page and insert the right tags to show new albums. I have spent some time looking in the obvious places (other than the php source code), but I haven't found a way to make a page that shows **all** the albums that have been uploaded to the system. I am sure this has to be an easy thing to do, so maybe I'm just not thinking the right way. Any help is much appreciated. Clarification: I know that I can use the gallery tag and put in all the IDs for gallerys in the system now, but I want the page to automatically update to show any new gallerys added to the system at a later date.


What features to look for in a SharePoint host

I have a friend who is looking for SharePoint hosting (free is nice) for a not-for-profit orgranization. She is considering http://myhosting.com and http://sharepointhosting.com. I know very little about SharePoint, so I'm looking for advice on what features to look for in a host. Also, comments on the two being considered are welcome, as well as recommendations for any others. Thank you.


GA Goals not funnelling properly

My GA funnels aren't funnelling properly, and display 100% for each step in the goal. Below is a screenshot of the goal visualization, and my edit goal page in case I've set it up incorrectly (don't think I have though). To view actual signup flow process, here's a link, http://bgcd.co/1kYeL09. Any feedback and advice is much appreciated. ![goal visualization](http://i.stack.imgur.com/FC693.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/AP1Iw.png)


How to use NOINDEX,FOLLOW with paginated results except index page

I am running a classified website. **At the moment I am using lazy loading with jquery to load content while scrolling**. > I got to know that using jquery loading is not good for search-engine bots > and java-script disabled web browsers. So I added pagination links to appear if the javascript are disabled.I use same page(index.php) to generate paginated results as follows,               1st page --->http://www.example/classified/index.php     2nd page --->http://www.example/classified/index.php?page_id=2     3rd page --->http://www.example/classified/index.php?page_id=3 ....etc      _**I don't want to add paginated results to search engines.But I need my index.php to be in search engines_**. So as for some articles I decided to use **"noindex,follow"** in the meta robots tag in index.php.But as for my knowledge this will also skip indexing the index.php also. What my problem is will it work? or what should I do for index my index.php without paginated results in search engines? Thank you


How do you backup your websites?

I was just wondering how the community backs up their websites? I take a nightly dump the database and shift it across onto another server which then gets backed up onto removable media. It is fairly automated and seems to work but I would be interested to hear what others have to say.


How to block user agent from accessing my WordPress site with htaccess?

I have noticed large amount of traffic coming to my site from different IP's with user agent.               Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SiteExplorer/1.0b; +http://siteexplorer.info/)      I don't have much experience with Apache servers and hope someone can explain to me how to actually block this from accessing my site with _.htaccess_ file. I tried with               SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^siteexplorer?$" bad_user     Deny from env=bad_user      but it's not working.


How to prevent duplicate content penalty in this special case

I am building a micro-blogging page where everyone can post about everything and it's shown on some kind of a post-it-wall. Older posts disappear fast (depending how much is posted, of course). Users can't access a single post with links on the page itself, but I've implemented an algorithm to have a single post on top of all the other posts with a direct link which I will include in a dynamically generated xml-sitemap. The links look like this:               www.site.com/text-of-post-a-123     www.site.com/text-of-post-b-124      etc. Now I fear that my pages will get a duplicate content warning, as the only difference between those 2 pages will be the first post, the following posts would be the same (given the exact same time of a request). I know about the canonical tag, but that's dealing with the whole page. Is there any way I can show SEs, that only a part of my page is relevant? Thank you for your ideas!


Can Adwords Advertisers see which Adsense Publishers send them traffic?

I have a blog with adsense on it. An advertisement I see a lot from my adsense is a Telus phone banner. If people click this Telus banner ad and go to Telus website, will Telus be able to see where these people came from? For example, can they see my blog url on their google-analytic Referrals section (assuming they have one) ??


Will Google and other search engines follow IP address only sites (i.e., no URL)

Will Google and other search engines follow links to and index sites that don't have a URL, but instead just use their IP address's (obviously they would need a unique IP) ?


Why is Project Wonderful mostly only used for web comics?

I've looked a few times at placing ads on my site, but the only ad system I've liked is Project Wonderful. The problem with it is that almost every existing publisher(and thus, probably advertiser) is web comics. My website isn't related to web comics. So, is there a reason that it's used almost exclusively by web comics, or was that just what's happened so far? Or what?


map a sub page of a domain to google sites

I control a subpage of a site: `economics.university.edu/summerschool` I have access to CNAME, etc. However I want to use Google sites to create the site and then map the URL above to my Google site. In other words, someone on the university site that navigated to the summer school page would be redirected to the Google site transparently. However I keep getting this error from Google: "The format of the web address is unsupported." Is this possible?


mod_rewrite rule for wildcard subdomains?

Sorry if this has been covered, I can't find anything on this specifically. I have wildcard subdomains on (*.mysite.com) I need a mod_rewrite expression for this rewrite: bob.mysite.com => mysite.com/users/index.php?user=bob bob.mysite.com/profile/ => mysite.com/users/index.php?user=bob/profile/ Obviously "bob" and "profile" are just examples, I need the general case. Thanks for your help!


Which minimum browser or screen resolution should I target my web apps?

When making the decision on the minimum requirements for a web application on client machines:   1. **Browsers** - Which browsers should one target at very minimum   2. **Screen Resolution** - Which screen resolution should one target at very minimum To ensure the usability of the application is not compromised


What are the consequences of leaving a domain name's TTL value low

My host recommends lowering the TTL value of my domain prior to making DNS changes and then suggests that I should raise them after changes are finsihed. What are the negative consequences of leaving the values low?


Need advice on best strategy for removing these bad links

We recently took on a new client whose previous SEO company had partaken in some dodgy link building tactics. They appear to have done some blog comment spam, very poorly. The situation we are now in is this: We have a site with an internal page deemed more important than the homepage (the homepage has 60 linking root domains and the internal page 879). It looks as though the previous SEO company submitted a disavow request, there's a message in Webmaster Tools from a few weeks back saying it had been received, but no further correspondence. I have doubts as to whether this disavow request was done correctly... Plus I'm not sure that Google has issued the site a warning yet as they are ranking position one for the keywords on the internal page. Our clients want us to handle this in the correct manner, whether it be to simply ignore it and wait for Google to send a warning about the links, remove the offending internal page and leave a 404, or try to disavow the links that Google doesn't know about yet from 800+ websites. Suggestions for the best practice for dealing with this situation?


Most linked content is registration. How do i remove it?

In webmaster tools > links to your site, I have two links showing: my homepage with 12 links and /index.php/component/users/?view=registration with 3077 links. Not only is this the wrong registration page, its also highly weird that I have apparently so many links to the registration page. I had some dodgy user registrations in the past and wonder if this is connected. How can I remove these links?


Does specifying explicit image dimensions help site performance?

I ran some audits on a new web application we are about to launch. Chromium is suggesting in network utilization that a few images on our site do not have height/width dimensions explicitly declared. Will this really help performance? Aside from the browser not having to decide how to display the image and basically being told to use X height and Y width for an image, how can this help "network utilization"? Any other comments regarding this would be appreciated!


Combine www and non-www sites status in Google Webmaster Tools

I added a URL to my Webmaster account which was the "www" URL version of my website. Recently I understood that pages doesn't index in "Index status", so I added another website which was the "non-www" URL of my site. Now I can see that the pages are indexed. But how can I combine both of them together to see the result of both of them as one website?


Can I have multiple Adsense accounts?

Is it possible for me to have more than one adsence account, or would that violate Google's terms of service in some way?


Does tagging content affect SEO?

Tagging content (i.e. categorizing content using "tags") is a sensible way to group content on a web site, but does tagging actually affect SEO? From an SEO standpoint, how does tagging content affect search ranking? Is there any way to optimize the set of tags for SEO? Should I limit the number of tags in any way?


Gmail signature with an image is randomly displayed automatically

When I setup an Email signature for a client on a Gmail account, the image is not being displayed when I look at it on my own Gmail account, but with other Gmail accounts it works. I tried different image services, I tried setting it on a unique domain, but it seems completely random. Any ideas why it happens? On my Gmail I setup "Always display external images".. Images: Always display external images - Learn more Ask before displaying external images * * * From the Gmail help files: Choose whether to show images Gmail automatically shows you the images in your messages. If you have a slow Internet connection or limited mobile data, you may want to change your setting so that Gmail asks you before showing images. Choosing not to show images automatically On a computer On an Android phone or tablet On an iPhone or iPad How Gmail makes images safe Some senders try to use externally linked images in harmful ways, but Gmail takes action to ensure that images are loaded safely. Gmail serves all images through Google’s image proxy servers and transcodes them before delivery to protect you in the following ways: Senders can’t use image loading to get information like your IP address or location. Senders can’t set or read cookies in your browser. Gmail checks your images for known viruses or malware. In some cases, senders may be able to know whether an individual has opened a message with unique image links. As always, Gmail scans every message for suspicious content and if Gmail considers a sender or message potentially suspicious, images won’t be displayed and you’ll be asked whether you want to see the images.


Hosting in the UK, Trace Route goes to US

OK so I am a bit confused as to why when I do a trace route for a domain hosted in the UK has some cities in the US in the hops?               **Hop**        **Host name**       1              -     2              xe-4-2-0.er2.dfw2.us.above.net       3              ae2.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net     4              ae4.cr1.dfw2.us.above.net     5              xe-4-2-0.cr1.iah1.us.above.net     6              ae2.cr1.dca2.us.above.net     7              ae4.mpr2.lhr2.uk.above.net     8              ae5.mpr1.lhr1.uk.above.net     9              94.31.41.142.ipyx-068416-002-zyo.above.net     10             -     11             2e1c32b5.lon.100tb.com     Trace Complete      If im not mistaken it is going to the states too, whilst i am in the UK and the server also in the UK, why is it going there? Does it defeat the purpose of hosting in the UK?


Web developer has become uncooperative, what should we do to rescue our site?

What can an individual or a company do if the web designer who has designed their website becomes completely uncooperative? In our case   1. He refuses to meet with us for discussions.   2. He refuses to give us training on the effective use and management of the website he has designed for us (and has been paid in full for) despite this training being part of the original contract.   3. Last year he disappeared for a number of months ,refused to answer emails or phobe calls and was totally unavailable to help us   4. He refuses to give us the details of the hosting of our website. We have totally lost faith in this arrogant and unreasonable guy and would like to break off all relationships with him but ,it appears, he's got us over a barell


Preventing Google from indexing ".com" instead of ".com/fr" or ".com/en"

I followed the recommendation of Google concerning multilingual website, I have:   * `www.example.com/fr` in french   * `www.example.com/en` in english   * `www.example.com` automatically redirects (header) either to `www.example.com/fr` or `www.example.com/en`. In my _sitemap.xml_ , I have not mentionned `www.example.com` but instead the two subdirectories, still following Google on sitemap policy:               <url>       <loc>http://www.example.com/fr/</loc>       <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://www.example.com/en/"/>       <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="http://www.example.com/fr/"/>       <changefreq>daily</changefreq>      <priority>1.00</priority>     </url>     <url>       <loc>http://www.example.com/en/</loc>       <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="http://www.example.com/fr/"/>       <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://www.example.com/en/"/>       <changefreq>daily</changefreq>       <priority>1.00</priority>     </url>      Problem is that in Google, the main results is `www.example.com`. For many websites, Google displays for the first results `.com/fr` or `.com/en` depending our location but not juste `.com`. I was thinking of using Webmaster Tools and try remove `www.example.com` but I'm not sure since `www.example.com` is not really a sitelink and I'm afraid it will juste remove my site from Google. Do I miss something? Or maybe I should just wait?


How does tinypic.com referrer/redirect work?

For example, if I embed this random image in a forum, it will show up normally: [IMG]http://i48.tinypic.com/350m3ut.jpg[/IMG] If I try to view the image in a new tab, it will redirect me to the main page: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=350m3ut&s=6 If I copy the image location there, it is: http://oi48.tinypic.com/350m3ut.jpg The difference is in the sub-domain, the "direct" embed link is " **i48** ", the actual direct link is " **oi48** " - this is true for all tinypic uploads (though, the server numbers might be different: i38 vs. oi37 for example). If I embed the " **oi48** " image, trying to view it in a new tab will work without redirecting to the main page. So how do they do that? And if I try to access the direct " **oi48** " link by typing/pasting it in the address bar, without first loading it in a forum post (for example), thus not having it in my cache, it will still redirect to the main tinypic.com page just like the " **i48** " link. How? Why? I also think funnyjunk.com used to add hotlink protection to the mix: a hotlink image ("Please go to funnyjunk to view this image") would show, and when you opened the image in a new tab, it'd redirect you to the image's page (for example, funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/589823/Place/), but I'm not so sure if that's really what it did (they allow hotlinking now). Though, I guess if that _would_ be possible, everyone would be using that method... Would it be possible to implement a hotlink protection and a redirect to the image's main page? If so, how?


Cross domain tracking with new analytics.js syntax?

I am using Google Analytics and I am trying to set cross domain tracking for my website. I've read Google's cross domain tracking guide, but I am confused as to how to implement it properly. The issue I am having is that the example code they give looks nothing like the tracking code I was given through my Google Analytics admin console. My tracking code looks like this:               <script>     (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){     (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),     m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)     })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');          ga('create', 'MyTrackingID', 'MyDomain');     ga('send', 'pageview');     </script>      (My actual tracking ID and my domain have been censored out with `MyTrackingID` and `MyDomain`, respectively.) However, the example tracking code given in the guide looks like this:               <script type="text/javascript">     var _gaq = _gaq || [];     _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1']);     _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]);     _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);          (function() {     var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript';       ga.async = true;     ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' :       'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];       s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);     })();     </script>      How do I add the `_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'A.com']);` "option" to my tracking code as instructed?


template for terms of condition for social media based website?

I'm looking for a template for a terms of usage text based on social media websites. I'm actually a coder and not into the legal blabla in general. Of course you could spend a thousand or 2 on a lawyer but just a 3/4 paper text shouldn't be to hard to compile yourself with some help. I'm not sure if this is the right spot to ask this question but I love stack overflow and none of the sites in stack exchange I could find matched better then this one.   * My first idea lets look at some social media websites and grab some of there text, rewrite it for own specific usage   * Are there templates on writing such document Same goes with a privacy policy actually.


Registering a web-domain with different TLD

I am planning to buy a web-domain for myself. I am looking for a particular word combination and in the process I notice many combinations are already taken up in `.com` TLD. If someone owns **example.com** (example is their company name), can I buy **example.net** if its available or is it illegal to use one?


Mass deletion of spam revisions in Mediawiki

Basically my 'private' mediawiki instance was about as secure as a toddlers piggybank. I've tightened it up now, but am left with about a hundred or so new pages and revisions generated by hundreds of randomly generated users. 2 part question; Is there a way to delete all orphaned pages? Can I say to roll back all revisions NOT made by a particular user (me)?


SSL Certificate and IP Binding

I try to setup SSL on my server for **only** one web site (I have few there using **IIS7** ). I bought an SSL certificate, installed it but when I come to bind I don't have to option to specify the host name. From reading some posts here I understood I need a distinct IP address. I didn't purchase a wildcard certificate, I got `staging.mydomain.com`. My question is:   1. My server has a distinct IP, can I use it although I have other sites there but they don't need ssl?   2. If I do need to buy dedicated IP. What does it involve?


Required steps for Domain Name Setup

What are the required steps (i.e. purchase of a domain, etc.) to get a DNS domain (i.e. foobar.com) to point to any static and public IP (i.e. 100.101.102.103)? If I hosted a DNS server myself (at the IP 100.101.102.103), would anyone else actually be able to connect to my server, given that no other DNS server would know about me.


How to get rid of crawling errors due to the URL Encoded Slashes (%2F) problem in Apache

The Google web crawler has indexed a whole set of URLs with encoded slashes (%2F) for our site. I assume it has picked up the pages from our XML sitemap file. The problem is that the live pages will actually result in a failure because of the Url Encoded Slashes Problem in Apache. Some solutions are mentioned here We are implementing a 301 redirect scheme for all the error pages. This should make the Google bot delete the pages from the crawling errors (no more crashing pages). Does implementing the 301s require the pages to be "live"? In that case we may be forced to implement solution 1 in the article. The problem is that solution 1 will pose a security vulnerability..


Recovering a lost website with no backup?

Unfortunately, our hosting provider experienced 100% data loss, so I've lost all content for two hosted blog websites:   * http://blog.stackoverflow.com   * http://www.codinghorror.com (Yes, yes, I absolutely _should_ have done complete offsite backups. Unfortunately, all my backups were on the server itself. So save the lecture; you're 100% absolutely right, but that doesn't help me at the moment. Let's stay focused on the question here!) I am beginning the slow, painful process of recovering the website from web crawler caches. There are a few automated tools for recovering a website from internet web spider (Yahoo, Bing, Google, etc.) caches, like Warrick, but I had some bad results using this:   * My IP address was quickly banned from Google for using it   * I get lots of 500 and 503 errors and "waiting 5 minutes…"   * Ultimately, I can recover the text content faster by hand I've had much better luck by using a list of all blog posts, clicking through to the Google cache and saving each individual file as HTML. While there are a lot of blog posts, there aren't _that_ many, and I figure I deserve some self- flagellation for not having a better backup strategy. Anyway, the important thing is that I've had good luck getting the blog post text this way, and I am definitely able to get the text of the web pages out of the Internet caches. Based on what I've done so far, **I am confident I can recover _all_ the lost blog post text and comments**. However, the _images_ that go with each blog post are proving…more difficult. Any general tips for recovering website pages from Internet caches, and in particular, places to **recover archived images from website pages**? (And, again, please, no backup lectures. You're totally, completely, utterly right! But being right isn't solving my immediate problem… Unless you have a time machine…)


Prevent interactions between Apache virtual hosts on the same server

I have a VPS running Apache 2.0, with multiple domains and multiple IPs set. In document root `/var/www/html/` I have `http://serverA.com` and I created a virtual host on folder `/var/www/html/serverB` serving `http://serverB.com`. They work great for both, but the problem is I can access serverB files with URL 'http://serverA.com/serverB/' (which I don't want to happen.) How can I prevent that?


When redirecting to a beta sub domain should I use 301 or 302?

I have a website with a domain of www.mysite.com for example and I wish to redirect some of it's content to a new version that is under development under a sub domain i.e everything under www.mysite.com/specific-section now goes to beta.mysite.com/specific-section. In the long term the code in the beta site will replace the code main www site at which point the beta site will be closed and the redirects from the www site will be removed.   Using a 302 redirect seems like the right idea in this situation but as I am no SEO expert I wanted to get some feedback. Can I avoid the beta site from being indexed by various search engines? I am aware they all handle 301s and 302s in slightly different ways.   When the beta domain is removed should it disappear from search engine results?   An alternative that has been suggested is to make it a 301 redirect and when the beta site in no longer require to perform a 301 redirect back to the www site. Is this an option is will this cause SEO pain? Edit: I have amended the question a little as I don't think I explained myself too clearly. The beta site it temporary and will eventually be removed. the www site is and always will be the main site.


How to deploy a Wikipedia-like Mediawiki (with all extensions configured in the same way)

Is there a fast way to make my own Mediawiki looks the same as Wikipedia.org? I mean, adds all extensions wikipedia.org is using. and configure it with the same way wikipedia has. Is there a list?


How do I track a hosted URL on Namecheap.com with Google Analytics

I'm hosting a URL with NameCheap, and it is a URL frame for a blogspot.com account. I'm using Google Analytics to track the blogspot.com account, but I'd like to be able to track the NameCheap frame URL as well. How do I do this?


How to I remove auto generated frameset in IIS?

I have a website where a redirect has been setup to use a frameset. For example. My main site is x-site.com There is a redirect setup somewhere so that xsite.com redirects to x-site.com, but it does so by creating a frameset and placing x-site.com within there. This causes problems for users to login, and we don't need it to function in this fashion. I tried writing some simple .Net code to redirect the user to x-site.com, but it doesn't seem to work. This leads me to believe that there is something in IIS doing the redirect before the code can execute. How do I remove the "frameset redirect"?


How to get keyword ranked and traffic from a specific region?

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