Uses of .htaccess files

I only have a basic understanding of .htaccess files. What are some tasks that can be accomplished using them? What are good resources that would aid in learning how to use them on a more advanced level? What are downsides/risks/etc to using them? What are benefits to using them?


can I forward "referrer" information to other address?

I have two addresses for two servers: www.urlA.com www.urlB.com I have all my websites installed in www.urlB.com, but visitors recognize www.urlA.com primarily. I have www.urlA.com/index.php as the following               <?php     header('Location: http://www.urlB.com/');     ?>      But, when I use this forwarding method, the tracking javascript in www.urlB.com cannot recognize where the visitors are from. I only obtain "NO REFERRING LINK" What should I do to do the following two jobs: 1. to forward urlA.com to urlB.com 2. to receive the referrer information


Static Google +1 button

Google+’ +1 button generator only shows options for generating dynamic buttons (i.e. via client-side scripting). For reasons related to German privacy & data protection law, this isn’t acceptable on our website: we need a _static link_ for users to click, without loading scripts or even iframes from third parties. Luckily, Facebook, Twitter and Google+ actually _allow_ providing sharing links via static URIs, as the related question “Google +1 something via a URL” shows. In particular, for Google+, the following link allows sharing a URI:               https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/confirm?url={url}&title={title}      Unfortunately, _this does not **+1** the page_, even though the dialog goes as far as saying “You publicly recommended this as {your name here}”. But the page neither shows up in my “+1’s” on Google+, nor in the “+1 Reports” on Google Webmaster Tools. **Is there a way of +1’ing a page via a static URI?**


Email forward to Exchange

We have a linux Webserver and one of our clients wants us to host their email only, not their site itself. NetworkSolutions manages the domain name. They want us to get their incoming mail and have it sent to their internal Exchange2010 server. Is this doable? I assume all it would need to be is just the A, CNAME, and MX entries at NS forward to my server IP address, but how would I get it to the exchange server? Cpanel/WHM based web server.


Which script for an audio sharing site?

I am going to build an audio sharing site. I am familiar with Drupal but I hope there are some more 'Specialized' CMS/Script for this purpose, whatever that is not ASP-based. So please suggest best candidates. It is OK if it is commercial, provided that it is proven to be robust.


How can a domain use its own nameservers?

I have to change the MX DNS records for our company domain name and I've come across this odd situation: A whois search shows up that the nameservers for ourcompany.com are ns1.ourcompany.com and ns2.ourcompany.com. In the DNS settings at the registrar there are no A/Cname records at all. However the nameservers are defined in the DNS settings for the domain on our dedicated server. (Registrar and host are two different companies). Using the DNS lookup on http://www.mxtoolbox.com/ shows that ns2.ourcompany.com is reporting the correct IP for our dedicated server. Its all very odd... the DNS on the dedicated server doesn't seem to have much effect, but its odd that the dns at the registrar's end doesn't have any records. thanks for your help.


How can I get Google PR history of exact site?

As some pages of my site have gotten n/a of PR from Google, I need to see the history of PR's changing for those and other pages to estimate the situation and decide what to do. Where can I get the past PR's of exact site/page?


What's the best way to end a Web site?

I have a Web site, built on ASP.NET MVC 3, that will be closing down completely. The domain will still be required for a few months, so during that time I'd like to display a single message on at least the main page. I'm thinking that standards would dictate to either have all requests directed to a single page via 301 Moved Permanently, or serve a 410 Gone for all requests. This is the first time I've completely closed a Web site, and while I hope I don't have to do it again soon, I'd like to know the preferred way to do this. (I'm completely open to tag suggestions. Closing a Web site doesn't seem to be popular topic, which I suppose is sort of a good thing.)


Site is working with http:// not with http://www

My site is working if i type it as `domain.com`. But If I type it as `www.domain.com` I get an error 404 page. The domain is registered with Google Apps for Business and the hosting is done with another company. I have some A records that are pointing the site to this server. However, as it appears the A records are only working halfway. What do I have to do to make it working for both `http://` and `http://www` ?


Redirect subdomain (weblog) to new domain without access to .htaccess

I have a blog that has PR 1 on a subdomain `aaaa.domain.com` of a blog server `domain.com`. Now I want to buy a domain `newdomain.com` and I want to tell google webmaster to redirect the old subdomain to this new domain and send traffic to my new domain. I can't access .htaccess to use a 301 redirect. The only thing that I can do is put html code in the html. How can I do this? When I use "Change of Address" in google webmaster it say:"Restricted to root level domains only".


How to get detailed info about conversions with Google Analytics

I have a single target page on my site, the "Thank You for Signup" page. I would like to answere simple questions about people who visited this page:   * For each access where it came from? AdWords (from wich campaign?), Organic Saerch (with wich search, Referral (from where?) or direct? We have tried funels but it did not answere my questions. How can I do that?


Advantage of using a domain purchasing service through your registrar vs. and independent domain buying service?

Is there much of an advantage of using a domain purchasing service through your registrar vs. and independent domain buying service?


Google Analytics API data for goals (funnels) doesn't match - how do they reconcile?

I have a Google Analytics account with a well-functioning funnel made up of 4 goals. I can query the API and get the data out, but it does not match the funnel report in Analytics. Without getting into specific values, I can give you an example with faked data. Here's how the funnel might look:               Shopping Cart     100 > 100 > 20            80 (80%)          Address Page     5   >  85 > 25            60 (71%)          Payment Page     2   >  62 > 10            52 (84%)          Checkout     1   >  53           (49.07% funnel conversion rate)      Okay, so you would **expect** the API to output data something like this:               goal1Starts goal1Completions goal1Abandons     100         80               20          goal2Starts goal2Completions goal2Abandons     85          60               25          goal3Starts goal3Completions goal3Abandons     62          52               10          goal4Starts goal4Completions goal4Abandons     53          53               0      Instead, it's different. Firstly, the abandons are associated with the following goal (so goal1 always has 0 abandons and goal4 always has >0 abandons. Okay, I can work with that. What's confusing is that the numbers are always a little different. The goal1Completions always match the report, as do the goal4Completions, but everything else is off by a small amount. Sometimes it's only 2 visits, other times it's off by 50. For the report above here's the kind of results I would tend to get:               goal1Starts goal1Completions goal1Abandons     100         100              0          goal2Starts goal2Completions goal2Abandons     105         84               21          goal3Starts goal3Completions goal3Abandons     90          65               25          goal4Starts goal4Completions goal4Abandons     58          53               5      Here's what I know: Goal(n)Completions + Goal(n)Abandons = Goal(n)Starts Goal(n)Starts >= Goal(n-1)Completions Goal(n)Starts - Goal(n-1)Completions != reported number entering at that level That third one is particularly disappointing. So, here's my question: What data do I need to pull from the API in order to recreate the counts in the Funnel report in Google Analytics? I don't need the pages exited to entering from - just the counts at every level.


Need to find hitchhiking websites/apps

I would like to fnd some hitchhiking websites or iPhone apps where I can find somebody who is driving and I can go with him the same day before making reservations too far in advance. Is there some website that can do that for Europe?


URL Removal - Incorrect URL

I have recently updated a website for a friend and found that the WordPress 'Hello World' page was showing in Google results. I used the URL removal tool and asked for this to be removed, however it removed the homepage so now it is not showing in Google, only the Hello World one is. I went back in and 'Cancelled' the request but it is still not showing, do I need to do anything else?


Allowing users to create an email address

I am creating a website and would like to allow users to create their own email forward. Basically, the site will allow groups to create pages on the site, each of which will be able to have its own domain name. I would like users to be able to automatically create an email address on the site that will forward any incoming emails to their own email account. Right now I have to manually set these up in my hosting account control panel but I'm hoping there is a way to do this automatically. Does anyone have experience with doing something similar?


Multidomain website SEO strategy

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do dedicated IP addresses improve SEO? There are occasionally cases in which a client owns multiple domains for his business. For example a client may own landscaping.com, and also own newyork- landscaping.com and etc... I have a question regarding the SEO strategy for a business in such cases, assuming that there are 50 domains for different cities, and assuming that there is unique content on every one of those 50 domains. Is it better to have different IP addresses for each domain?


Forcing SSL and www in .htaccess

I'm looking for a way to force SSL and `www`. I've been able to force both separately but together I keep running into redirection issues. The following code works when handling a URL in this format: `http://example.com` and properly redirects to `https://www.example.com` but when the incoming URL is `https://example.com` it will not forward to `https://www.example.com` - Any suggestions? EDIT: it should also send `http://www.example.com` to `https://www.example.com`.               RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !127\.0\.0\.0     RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example\.com$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L]


Google Webmaster Tools shows wrong keywords taken from the source code

Google Webmaster Tools is shows wrong keywords for my site. For example, it shows > public_html   >  php   >  include_once and many more irrelevant keywords. I don't know why it's looking in the source code to find these keywords.


best/simplest way to inform search engine of sitemap location

AFAIK, there are 2 ways to make search engines aware of a sitemap's location:   1. Include an absolute link to it in `robots.txt`   2. Submit it to them directly. The relevant URLs are:                  http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=SITEMAP_URL         http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=SITEMAP_URL      Where `SITEMAP_URL` is the absolute URL of the sitemap. Currently, I do both. Regarding (2), I have a job that runs automatically every day which submits the sitemap to Bing and Google. I don't think there's any reason to do (1) and (2), but I'm paranoid, so I do. I imagine you can avoid both (1) and (2) if you just make your sitemap accessible at a conventional URL (like robots.txt). What's the simplest and most reliable way to ensure that search engines can find your sitemap?


SEO, better to start a new domain or it's also fine start over again on an existing one?

I have a site that I'm going to close or replace with new content. Basically the site's topic is the same, but contents can't coexist for a bunch of reasons (e.g., different CMS, lack of time, different audience) For example let's say the site was about car tuning parts, now will be about car selling adverts. Old pages (about 5000) will all be dropped and new URLS will be created. What should I do? Since it's a 7 year-old domain (possibly trusted by Google) I want to try to take advantage of this fact if possible.


URL Rewrite in IIS 7.5

I have a web site (hosted on IIS 7.5) that has bindings to four URLs. Something like:   1. www.example.com   2. example.com   3. www.example.net   4. example.net What I would like to accomplish using URL Rewrite is that:   1. Surfing to www.example.com will auto redirect to example.com (and return 301)   2. Surfing to example.net will auto redirect to www.example.net (and return 301) I tried using the URL Rewrite (I have no experience using this feature) using the IIS MANAGER > FEATURES > URL Rewrite > Add Rule > canonical domain name, but the problem is that then I can choose one address of those four, that will cause all the other three to be redirected to that, which is not what I need to do. Can you please help and advise? Is URL Rewrite is a good and possible way to do this?


Can you search for code in google?

can you search for code in google ? not just git hub ect but i mean live code so instead of searching by site content, search by sites source code ? (obviously only client side code)


Alternative to Google Adsense which has good international coverage

I have a technical blog (programming related) which has around 500 visit per days, 70% are international visitors and 30% are from US/CA. Google Adsense disabled my account due to invalid clicks so I can't use them (no need to explain here, they suck hard and never respect and listen to the publishers' appeal) I have tried adbrite and recently using chitika but they almost give me nothing, e.g. **chitika** 13,865 Page Views 4 clicks $0.01 The performance is so poor even I don't want to mention about it. I am already putting a full top banner and a 350x200 box in article body. I am researching if any alternative would provide more revenue for my internation visitors or technical visitors. Thanks.


Should I submit my RSS feed as Google Sitemap?

I currently have no sitemap for a website I'm creating. I do have an RSS feed which includes the N latest updated posts on the site. It doesn't include everything on the site though, just blog posts. Creating a full sitemap would be a bit of a hassle I think.   1. Should I submit the feed instead?   2. Is there a difference between using a regular sitemap and a feed?   3. Is it important to have a sitemap? What happens when you do/don't?


2048 bit SSL overhead

Can you guys help me learn some ssl networking basics plz?   * What is a SSL transaction (a full handshake?)    * Why do people think 2k ssl will melt netscalers (ssl trans/sec exceed netscaler max ssl trans/sec?)   * Can't you install ssl on a cdn's edge nodes to save thecomputational overhead on netscalers? Thanks


Placing h2 and h3 tags around words in paragraphs

If I have a page with an `<h1>` heading and a long paragraph, is it ok to write the paragraph (see below - with the h tags mixed with broken p tags to make up the whole block of text) and just style it so it looks all the same so that I get the benefit of using `<h2>` and `<h3>` tags? I'm aware this is not the 'proper' use of the H tags as they're meant to be headings but can I use them like this, as the site isn't built using multiple headings on the same page?
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Facebook comment and other commenting system for SEO

Lately i see some of big websites begin using Facebook commenting system in their wordpress websites. There are also websites that stick to commenting system like Disqus, IntenseDebate and Livefyre. My question is between Facebook Comment and Comment System (Disqus, IntenseDebate and Livefyre) which one is better in terms of SEO?


Is my Document Type Definition Still Up to Date?

currently all my php generated rich html webpages start with this line, which I have been adding to my tempaltes YEARS ago...               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">      # UPDATE **Who Should Use Which Doctype? When Should One Change Doctype?** When I remove this line all still works fine. Is it still essentially needed to put all that at the top of my pages? What are my alternatives? Thanks very much for your suggestions.


Using Analytics and URL forwarding to count conversion rate in emails

Google analytics offers the nice feature of letting one know, where a user is coming from. We are currently sending out emails containing links to our website and I would like to know how many people click on that link. For that I was hoping that there exists some Web service which allows one to register a url www.myurl.com. The Web service would then generate a new url something like www.service.com/myurl which redirects to wherever myurl.com was pointing in the first place. By including the redirect url in the emails, it would easy to see how many people actually clicked on the link. If there is an alliterative solution for the above scenario I am more than interested in learning about it.


Page loading indicator

I have a page, and it takes a few seconds to load. I know, and I will make the site load faster (and not the question), but due to animations animating the site in, I am thinking of adding a page loading indicator. This will be injected trough JavaScript and removed again by JavaScript, and removed trough JavaScript, making a non JavaScript page work as normal. Is this a good or bad practice to add a page loader indicator on a standard HTML/CSS based site?


How to achieve SEO for XHTML pages which load data in DOM using a JQuery-AJAX service calls?

I have a simple website (5-8 XHTML pages and a payment gateway to be done) with about 1500 products having a fix SKU/product code. sample URL for the query: **http://www.domainname.com/product- detail.html?20001-1P16AX** and I'am pulling data via a **JQuery/AJAX service calls** and pushing it to to the DOM. The meta tags, (data in bold italics) i want to populate via **service calls** as under   * <meta name="description" content=" ** _20001-1P16AX,20001 - 1P 16AX 1-way switch grey,EIKON,175_** " />   * <meta name="keywords" content=" ** _20001-1P16AX,20001,switch,grey,EIKON,175,SWITCH,GREY_** "/> * * * My query is ...   * Can we load SEO data in meta tahgs via **JQuery/AJAX service calls**?   * Whether Google or other popular search engines cache this dynamic data and redirect to the **EXACT** product page when searched?   * Is there any better way to achieve SEO/perform search for the above said scenario? I would be very happy to hear from all you experts, please suggest. Thanks   NBaua


Visits from internal path

I have an online shop with a blog structured this way:   * Shop: `domain`   * Blog: `domain/blog` Both index have the same Google Analytic Code (UA). In the blog I write articles about some products with a link to the product page. Now the problem is, I want to get all visits whose referral links have this pattern `domain/blog/*`.


Should I disallow(robots.txt) archive/author pages with links already available on the front page?

I am working on a simple Wordpress blog where when an article is published, it appears on ALL these pages:   1. Homepage - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary   2. Parent category page - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary   3. Child category page - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary   4. Author page - Headline(clickable)   5. sitemap.xml A good example of what I mean is: http://wp-themes.com/twentyfourteen/ The "Worth A Thousand Words" article is available on the homepage. But it's also available on the category page: http://wp-themes.com/?cat=1 And finally, it's also available on the author apge: http://wp- themes.com/?author=1 Does it makes sense to let Google crawl http://wp-themes.com/?author=1 knowing that all links on that page were already crawled elsewhere? I've been in fact told that I should add all author pages to my robots.txt, under disallow, so as search engine bots do not spider /author/*(or anything with ?author for the above example) since all links on these pages are indeed available elsewhere. Is this a good approach or maybe rel=nofollow is better, or maybe I shouldn't worry about this at all?


Country specific SEO

I have a wordpress site which is located at a .com address. The site is a simple 4 page personal site with my academic credentials, publications and a health blog that I started. I have done quite a bit of seo and I rank pretty high for the keywords i want on google.co.uk. However, I do not rank at all on google.com.mt which is the Malta specific search. I have therefore just bought the .com.mt domain and pointed the DNS nameservers to my current host provider and redirected it to the .com address. My goal is to make sure I don't screw up my google.co.uk search ranking, while starting to rank on google.com.mt I'm I doing the right thing or do you have any suggestions??


Does it matter that the TTL is higher than I've been told?

Ok, so the title isn't very descriptive, I know. Basically, I'm trying to configure Outlook.com to use my custom domain! I've followed the steps and made the account etc. and now I have the DNS settings to configure from Windows Live. I added the MX Entries and everything last night but Windows Live is still saying I need to prove my ownership of the domain. The only thing I can think of that I had to use a differrent TTL to the one provided because my web hoster will only allow a minimum of four hours, whereas Windows Live told me to configure the TTL as one hour. Would that stop anything? By the way, my web hoster is JustHost (Shared Hosting)


Google adsense bombing

I made a website few months ago and put google adsense on it, but someone kept clicking on ads with bad intentions, e.g. google bombing I guess but as result they disabled my google adsense account, now I wonder how did this all happened and what steps should I take in future to stop such kind of attacks. Is there any tricks or tips to save your website from bombing of invalid clicks ? what ways do normally hacker use to bomb adsense on a website ?


How to batch remove spamming users and pages they created on MediaWiki?

I'm trying to clean up a MediaWiki instance which has been subjected to spamming and vandalism for a period of time. The current status is that there are a large number of users which only created spam pages but typically not altered legitimate pages. And there is only < 10 users which I know are legitimate users and created a small number of legitimate pages. Abstractly, my idea of fixing the messy situation is to find the complete list of users that are not in that small set of legitimate users, and use RenameUser extension to rename them all to a `Spammer` user, and use Nuke extension to mass delete all pages it created. Any practical advice on how to proceed? Since there are hundreds of spammer users, how do I effectively rename them? It seems Renameuser extension does not support automated batch renaming of users by allowing users to be renamed with a list or file.


How do I temporarily reference a new web host using my existing domain name?

On provider A I have an existing web hosting account running my site. On provider B I have my domain name registered pointing to the web hosting on provider A. I've just purchased a web hosting account with provider B and want to move my site there. Is there a way to temporarily use my domain name to point to provider B while I set up the site (e.g. just from my computer)? I tried to change the HOSTS file (Windows) and while pings resolved to what I set, HTTP requests don't.


Reporting and stopping fake website

On Bing and Yahoo (and apparently briefly on Google), we have some websites that are buying up somewhat randomly named domains like `autquahna.com` and `autmusgfn.com`. They put our company name in the meta keywords, and are essentially stealing web traffic from us by putting our company name in the footer of their website. Of course, WhoIs lookups only show fake/protected information. At the end of the day, we want to get these pages reported/removed, as the sites aren't associated with us in any fashion. How do we go about reporting them, etc?


Links shown in organic keywords in Google Analytics

While using Google Analytics, I have observed that many a times some URLs of my website are themselves shown as the keywords. I think its very odd that my users would type complete URL in Google search. So, how do URLs get into the keyword section? I am attaching a screenshot where you can see some of the URLs: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/I2kjH.png)


adsense click spamming

## Questions   * What software do people use for adsense click spamming ?   * How are they structured ?   * How does it work ?   * How can we block them ? I tried looking at google but not much information there already.


Where is the data for items added to a shopping cart stored if not logged into the site?

Sites like Amazon allow you to add items to your shopping cart without requiring you to first log in. My question is where do they store this data? This data still seems to be there even if you restart the browser too.


My Sites Were Hacked. What To Do?

I host multiple domains with this very popular hosting provider and I just went into one of my sites and... I see a black page with message "Hacked by...". I checked and all my sites with the provider are showing this same page. Inside of file system I have seen the hacker placed all default.* and index.* files with this message. So the hacker overwrote all index pages, placed new pages and that is under every, I say again, every folder. Cleaning this up will be close to a most horrible job. What to do (right now I am awaiting the restore of files from hosting provider)? How to prevent this? Whom to blame?


"Local" results from a google search

I entered "online dating" in Google, and I found some of the results are "local" (I'm in Ottawa, Canada). In the attached images see the results for `www.okcupid.com` and `www.eharmony.com`. Is this something Google does automatically or is there some metadata that the sites publish? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CVHAV.png)


URL masking with .htaccess

I need a hardcore programmer to help me with URL masking. So this is my situation.   1. My website www.michaelfotograf.dk/blog/ is the main site that needs to be configured.   2. I have another website/webhotel called www.umagepar.dk   3. www.umagepar.dk is redirected to www.michaelfotograf.dk/blog/   4. The blog is an ongoing project where i post a lot of stuff to get my ranking higher on google.   5. www.umagepar.dk which redirect to www.michaelfotograf.dk/blog/ is also a project on is own, so I do not want people to know, that it is a blog connected with www.michaelfotograf.dk/blog/   6. I therefore need to mask www.michaelfotograf.dk/blog/ so it will be called www.umagepar.dk in the URL in the searchbar at all times! How can I do this?


Include number and date in Apache log file names

I'm trying to figure out how to include the current date and the IP number of the current host inside the Apache log file names, but I fail how to see how I can do that. Part of that has to do with the fact that I don't understand the log rotation mechanism that seems to be enabled by default. Haven't been able to find any documentation on why I have `access.1.log`, `access.xxx.gz.log` files. (I mean, I _do_ understand that it is log rotation, but I _don't_ see how I can influence it. I also understand I could pipe log output through some sort of command to include the current IP number in the file name, but I would assume I would lose my log rotation that way. Basically I want the current mechanism, but then include the IP number in the name, and a date rather than a number.)


A simple message room

Can anyone recommend a simple message room (not chat room) which I can use for a private communication between my users. My idea: to grant some users (2-3 at the most) a specific privilege to talk privately in a message room. none of them would be administrator there. I need such features:   - admin panel for adding users allowed to post messages in room   - room invisible to anyone except users   - filtering not-allowed words   - Ajax-enabled so that replies appear immediately   - other message room features I have a linux hosting so PHP message room would be the best option. I thought of using a forum for this, but it's too much work as a forum is public by nature and I need something **private by nature**. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.


How to successively transform a static page (image gallery) to a product type page?

A website with about 700 static pages, where about 20 of these are basically the same page that displays products that are custom made in a image gallery like enviroment. The point of having these pages is to attract people that search for different keywords in the same category. All products are built differently, with different materials, sizes, etc, even though they fall into one category. I've noticed that this page does not receive a lot of visitors, and I would like to make it more "Product like" than an image gallery per se, attracting more visitors willing to buy such items. I've done the following:   * Created a master page with all products, codes and material available Then, in each page:   * A button to request a product quote with a form   * Material type (and option for different materials, so the same product can attract people looking for the same thing in a different material)   * Description of product   * Details   * Product code But still, these will be static pages, and I can't really sell anything online, since all products are custom made to order. What other techniques can I also apply so these pages become more "catalog like" to search engines? Is adding things such as "Buy such product" on keywords, and on description tags, title a good idea? What else can I do to improve these pages visibility to potential customers? **Note:** I'm not asking about user experience in these pages, I'm asking about search engines. **Other considerations:** All pages are indexed by SEs, and most traffic comes from image search. All images are named after product (not product code), and they all have proper alt and title tags. Thanks, Cheers!


Daily blog archives and duplicate content

A few weeks back I realised that my blog software was creating daily post archives. Which basically resulted in duplicate content especially if I only had one post a day. The situation is something like this:               www.sitename.com/blog/archives/2013/06/01 - daily archive for 1 June 2013     www.sitename.com/blog/archives/2013/06/my-post-name.html      So, here we have two pages that are basically identical except the daily archive has some meaningless title like "Daily Archive for 1 June 2003". And I have no control over which content Google decides is the primary content. It's quite possible (and likely) that the daily archive could be the "primary" content and the actual post itself the "duplicate". Once I realised it was doing this I modified the daily archive template to include               <meta name="robots" content="noindex">      Here we are a few weeks later and I still see some daily archives coming up in Google search results. I realise some of those deep pages might not be crawled yet but I am worried that the original post (which should be the PRIMARY content) has been marked duplicate content by Google. Now I've no indexed the daily archives I might end up with no indexed content AND the original articles still flagged as duplicates. And nothing will show up in search at all. Have I screwed myself here or is there a way out?


Will a redirected subdomain lose Google SEO links?

Because of a change in brand, I want to redirect our `subdomain.domain.com` to `newdomain.com`. The content being exactly the same, I was thinking of using a 301 wild card redirect to `newdomain.com`. I noticed it is not possible to do a redirect in Google Webmaster Tools as you can with a root domain. Is there a way I can do this redirect without losing all the backlinks referenced with Google?


How to find out if a logo has already been used/exists?

I have few concepts of logos for a website. How do I know a specific concept that is finalized, is already used by some other website or not?


Is there an index of the IP addresses used by indexing bots?

I have a page that gets minimal traffic, but I set up static notifications when it gets hit. Now, I want bots to get ignored, so what I'm doing now is adding bots I see to a "no notify" list. Is there a reference listing of the IP addresses used by indexing robots? e.g, a list like:               $no_mail = array(         '67.195.115.105', // yahoo bot         '207.46.199.50', // msn bot         '61.135.249.246', //youdao bot         '207.46.199.32', // msn bot     );


Google Webmaster Central Channel

Since there are so many Google Webmaster Central videos on Youtube which one do you think every Webmaster should see? http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp


I'd like to use iframe to videos and contents posted other sites?will I be violating any law

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Loading another domain's content in a modal iframe - acceptable? My url is www.indiaracetips.com and if I use iframe in my site will any one sue me?


Adding comments to static pages?

I've used disqus on a few sites successfully. Are there any other solid solutions for comments for static websites? (For new sites, I tend to use a CMS that includes comments).


Link value of links from social media

As a SEO you can benefit from Social Media activities and it even seems key according to Matt Cutts recent video on SEO in 2011. However besides getting 'inbound links' from third party websites or blogs as a result of people that have noticed e.g. your Twitter Tweet or Facebook Post you will, most likely, also receive links from the social media pages itself. **Now, when talking about 'link-value' would Googlebot consider a link from a Social Media page the same value as a link from a website or blog?** Please note: It goes without saying that I understand that the page must be publicly visible, not restricted by e.g. htaccess, should be lacking no-follow tags and that in case an url is shortened it should be done by applying the appropriate redirect. The question is solely about the valuation of a link published on a social media platform.


Being a Good Webmaster is so hard?

How do you define a good Webmaster ? Because there are a lot of people can say "I'm a webmaster". And i say them "Yes you can use a lot tools, software etc. but this doesn't make you a Webmaster".. What is the features of a Good Webmaster? Is it so hard to be? What do you think about that?


Google Indexing URL that is a 301 redirect

My website URL structure is:               http://www.website.com/{record-type}/{record-id}/{human-readable-name}      If an invalid human readable name is provided, the page 301 redirects to the correct URL. I've noticed recently that Google has started indexing partial URLs, i.e:               http://www.website.com/{record-type}/{record-id}/      If I make requests to those indexed URLs, I am 301 redirected to the correct page. Is there a way to force Google to use the 301 redirected URL?


Is there value in creating additional backlinks when you're already first on Google?

My site is already ranked #1 in Google for the keywords I care about, but I'd still like to increase traffic. Is there value in trying to create additional backlinks to my site?


Meaning of hack request

We've been logging GET requests on our domain to the following: `XX/YY/ZZ/CI/MGPGHGPGPFGHCDPFGGHGFHBGCHEGPFHHGG` Is this a known kind of attack? What might it be targeting?


Do sites in subfolders affect the ranking of the main domain?

Does putting an unrelated site in a domain's subfolder (to avoid buying a new domain name) affect the domain's search engine ranking even if there are no links between them? For example, is it a bad practice will placing a cooking site at `programming.com/cooking` affect the search engine ranking of `programming.com`?


Online advertising program where publishers (site owners) can choose ads?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Self ads targeting I'm wondering what online advertising programs there are out there where the site owner can chose which relevant ads to put on particular pages from a large selection of possible ads. Is there such a thing? (As opposed to adsense style 'auto-relevance' which often produces poor results)


PHP accessible shared content between two websites on the same VPS on different domains/IPs

I have two ecommerce websites, selling music digital downloads, on the same VPS, currently using cPanel/WHM (but thinking of switching to Virtualmin). They have separate domains and IPs of course. They both share from the same set of music files, so I have duplicate copies in each website directory, which takes up a lot of disk space. How might I go about sharing the same set of music files across both sites, allowing PHP access, so that it does not break my shopping cart's functionality of serving customers the downloads after they have paid for them? I thought of maybe using symlinks or something, but I don't know if it's possible, or if it would have to somehow circumvent built-in security features of the server. I'm new to VPS management.


Google redirected blog no longer getting found easily

I found to my surprise that when I published a new post on my blog (hosted by Googles blogspot.com) and then searched for the title in Google Search it would show up as one of the top hits almost immediately. But now I have the post redirecting to my own subdomain, and even though behind the scenes it is still hosted by Google the blog is not coming up in the search results, although a link to the page from my GooglePlus account is coming up (but this is not as good for me as an actual link to the blog itself)


What is the folder picture_library on my Plesk panel on a site hosted at GoDaddy

I have my website hosted with godaddy. It's not even a month since I hosted with them.( _actually, the site itself isn't older than a month_ ) When, I logged in to my Parallels Plesk, I saw a folder named **picture_library** I tried to see what's inside that, but there was nothing. It came back even after I deleted it twice.   1. I didn't create a folder with that name, so its not in my code.   2. I didn't think my website, ( _which is not even a month old_ ) will attract hackers :)   3. There's little possibility of virus or something because, GoDaddy is the Market Leaders and I don't think that their servers will be vulnerable to such attacks. My Actual Question: Is it a virus or hacker and how to disable it?


add stock intro and outro to a set of .mp3's?

If I have a bunch of existing podcast mp3's, with no intro and outro, can I do something simple to add a stock intro and outro (supplied as .mp3's) to each podcast?


Using GoDaddy email AND Google Apps

We have 8 people that need emails addresses in our company. 3 need email only, while 5 need emails and the features from Google Apps. We would like to continue to host email for the 3 on GoDaddy, while using Google Apps for the 5. When we insert the MX records in GoDaddy, the 3 no longer could send/receive email, since we were redirecting email to Google. How can we redirect email to these 3 employees through GoDaddy, while keeping the 5 on Google Apps?


Creating an SSL Certificate

I have a barracuda SSL VPN. I also have a website hosted on winhost.com. On my website, I have a link to login to my VPN. I always get the "untrusted certificate" message. It says its untrusted because the certificate is not signed. This leads me to believe there is a certificate there, it just isn't set up correctly. Can I make my own SSL Certificate for the barracuda VPN, or do I have to buy one? Does barracuda provide a certificate for me? Could I call them up and get them to give me a certificate? I have dabbled in web design/programming a bit, but I know NOTHING about these SSL Certificates other than what I've researched this morning. If I can make my own, how do I go about doing that? Thanks


Is tos.html some kind of standard Terms of service filename?

I periodically check my log of 404 errors on my site, and aside of most curious hack attempts I often encounter requests for files that are some kind of standard on a specific platform (apple-touch- icon-`SIZE`x`SIZE`-precomposed.png is one of them). And I have just found failed request for tos.html. When I searched it on google, it automatically searched for key "Terms of service", which has led to many terms of service pages, but no information about this kind of filename. I'm quite curious if there's a word for files that should be on the site (index.php, favicon.ico, robots.txt - I couldn't find any relevant tag for this question)


How can I know if my site is down?

I would like to be alerted if my site is down (for example have an email sent to me). The site is written in asp .net it is deployed on a dedicated server, windows 2008 with IIS 7


Where can I find Mambo 3 downloads / documentation?

Does anyone know where I could find copies of the Mambo 3.0.x distributions, manuals and (ideally) instructions for upgrading to Mambo 4.x or Joomla? I have an old site implemented in Mambo 3 that needs to be upgraded. It doesn't work with PHP 5 without hacks that compromise PHP security, and the site admin and navigation menus are broken for "modern" browsers; e.g. IE6 and later.


Is there any reason to still use a standard shared web host?

There are a few PAAS providers that now provide a free tier of service and cheap prices afterwards. Some, such as AppFog and OpenShift, also offer easy installations of common web apps such as Wordpress. Is there any reason to still use a standard web host for hosting things like PHP scripts or Ruby on Rails apps?


How to handle browser-compatibility check for your website

Whenever I redesign a website, I spend a lot of time manually checking whether the new website is still supported on all major browsers by opening the website on the corresponding browser. What is a time-efficient way of testing cross browser compatibility?


How to evaluate a web developer?

I want to hire someone to set up a website. What do I ask to determine competence and integrity of the individual? Is there a chart of reasonable charges/costs? How do I know if I am being over-charged?


How does Wikipedia's SEO work?

I'm currently developing an app for Android and iOS and of course I'm thinking about the best ways to market it. Last night I Googled somebody else's app and the third link in was a Wikipedia page on it. I never even thought of apps having Wikipedia pages, but alas there it was. And of course it was very helpful in determining exactly what the app did and in what cases it was useful for (something that's absolutely crucial for potential customers to understand). So then I got to thinking that I should create a Wiki for my app, but how does Wikipedia apply SEO? I know that the question could be overly complicated or specific, I'm just looking for general answers. For instance when somebody Googles my app, where does Wikipedia display on the results? When I create a Wiki for my app, how do I ensure that the Wikipedia page shows in the search results (is there any way to do that? ) I'm sure I'll find all of this out later when I create a Wiki for my app, I guess I'm just asking this out of curiosity. So how does Wikipedia's search engine optimization work? (on a page by page basis)


Funnel Visualisation not showing drop out in steps

I have a site where users will follow this path (hopefully): `mysite.com/entity`   `mysite.com/entity/pay`   `mysite.com/entity/pay/details`   `mysite.com/entity/pay/confirmation`   `mysite.com/entity/pay/payment`   `mysite.com/entity/paymentsuccessful?lotsofuniquestuff`   The `entity` section could be any one of a multitude of entries, but once the user is on a journey it will stay consistent. I have a goal set up for this as a regular expression, with the match being `.*PaymentSuccessful.*`. This detects goal successes perfectly (as checked with data stored by the site directly). I have set the following steps within the goal:               /[a-zA-Z0-9]+/pay     /[a-zA-Z0-9]+/pay/details     /[a-zA-Z0-9]+/pay/confirmation     /[a-zA-Z0-9]+/pay/payment      My funnel detects entry into the funnel (e.g. 47 users) of which say 10 complete the funnel. However, all drop offs are after the first step, even though the exist page is listed as the second step! My data also suggests users are getting further in the funnel before failing to reach the goal. What have I done wrong?


iOS Touch Icon through XLSX file?

I'm setting up some iPads, and pointing Safari to `www.mywebsite.com/spreadsheet.xlsx` and it's displaying the document fine. That part is OK. I'm just wondering if there is a way to add a iOS Icon to the document so I can save it to the springboard of the iPad? Maybe embedding the document in HTML? PHP could also possibly be used but I'm really not sure how I would go about doing this, has anyone managed anything like this before?


.htaccess guide / examples / tutorials?

Does anyone know of any good guides for someone new to editing and making .htaccess files. Anything about rewriting urls, directory access and passwording a directory would be great.


Which is better between changing Nameservers and changing DNS "A" Records?

I have my hosting on Godaddy and domain on another server. So I was thinking which would be a better option to point the domain to Godaddy hosting   1. Change the name server to that of godaddy.    2. Change the DNS "A" Record on the site where I have bought the domain. thanks... /neer www.technimi.com


Does Google Analytic count mismatching/unconfigured URLs?

Say url `www.mysite.com` is registered in Google Analytics and the tracking ID is `UA-12345678-90`. What happens if another site with URL `www.anothersite.com` uses this ID too? Does analytic count visits from both sites or does it only take visits from `www.mysite.com` into account? What happens if there is a redirect from `www.anothersite.com` to `www.mysite.com`?


Small and free animated icons

Anyone knows a good resource on the web with animated icons? Like animated pencil or something like that. Thanks ;)


Unusual Spike in Traffic

My site received unusual spike of traffic today and they are all from the US, which is outside of my market. My site normally gets about 70-80 daily entrances according to Google Analytics, but there were 350 direct traffic today, and mainly from the states. Could it be someone is trying to hack into my site? If so, what actions could I make to avoid my site from being hacked? Thanks, J


How to Automate Checking for Stolen Content?

So I know about tools like Copyscape and Google Alerts.. great tools, but it's quite tedious for me to copy and paste an URL or phrase for every one of my pages in my sites. Is there any tool out there that monitors your website and emails you or alerts you whenever someone has stolen content from your site? The only service I know is CopySentry and honestly, it's too expensive for me since I got thousands of pages I want to monitor... Anyone else have this problem? or is it just me? Thanks for any help.


Google AdSense - set minimum CPC?

I have a sports site. It was making like $0.75 per click for couple of months. Now suddenly, average CPC has dropped to $0.5 or even $0.4. Sometimes, I even see $0.2 or $0.08 per click. Is there an option to set minimum CPC for your ads as a publisher? I can't find it anywhere on AdSense but competitors like Adbrite seem to have it.


How to block certain pages/files of a web domain?

How do I make certain pages only viewable by me? For example, let's say I own `mydomain.com`, and I want to be the only one that can see `mydomain.com/mypage.php`. I tried changing the permissions of the file to 700, but then I just get a 'you don't have permission' error when I try to access it. Any ideas?


How to run WordPress and Java web app running on Tomcat on the same server?

I have to run a WordPress site served via Apache2 & Java-based webapp using Tomcat on the same server. When users come to `example.com` or `example.com/public-pages` they need to served from **WordPress** but when they come to `example.com/private-pages` they need to be served from the **Tomcat**. I have asked this question on serverfault where they suggested using different port, different IP & sub-domain. I want to go for `different port` solution since it will mean I need to buy only one SSL certificate. I tried doing the reverse proxy method by having the following in my `default- ssl.conf`                   <VirtualHost _default_:443>                 ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost                 ServerName localhost:443                      DocumentRoot /var/www                      <Directory /var/www>                 #For Wordpress                         Options FollowSymLinks                         AllowOverride All                 </Directory>                      <Proxy *>                         Order deny,allow                         Allow from all                 </Proxy>                      ProxyRequests           Off                 ProxyPass               /private-pages       ajp://localhost:8009/                 ProxyPassReverse        /private-pages       ajp://localhost:8009/                           SSLEngine on                 SSLProxyEngine On                           SSLCertificateFile      /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt                 SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key              </VirtualHost>       As you have noticed I am using `mod_proxy_ajp` in Apache2 for this. And that my Tomcat is listening to port `8009` and then serving content. So now when I go to `example.com/private-pages` I am seeing the content from my Tomcat. But 2 issues are happening.   1. All my static resources are getting 404-ed, so none of my images, CSS, js are getting loaded. I see that the browser is requesting for the resources using URL `example.com/css/*` This will clearly not work because it translates to `example.com:80/css/*` instead of `example.com:8009/css/*` & there are no such resources in the WordPress directory.   2. If I go to `example.com/private-pages/abcd` I am somehow kicked to the WordPress site (which obviously displays a 404 page). I can understand why #1 is happening but have no clue why the #2 is happening. Regardless, if there is another clean solution for resolving this, I would appreciate y'alls help.


Javascript slider with fade

I've been scouring the web for a slider that offers a particular effect, but I can't find one. I'm hoping that someone here will be able to help out... Specifically, I need a slider that will slide left and right through a series of HTML DIVs. However, I also need the old slide to fade out as it slides. This is because I don't what to have a visible frame around the the slider, so I don't want the old slide to be cropped against an invisible edge. It's hard to explain in words, so here's a graphic. In each case the green slide is entering the view, the red one is existing. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/5Da3O.png) Is possible, I'd like the slide to use CSS3 transitions where available for the smoothest possible effect. Has only ever come across such a beast?


Have UserDir enabled but also want to rewrite url if called differently

I am setting up a new server for our users to use have have personal webspace on. I have in my httpd.conf of apache the directives for UserDir as follows               UserDir disabled root     UserDir public_html      This has allowed ``http://myserver/~user/`` requests to work but I am also looking to set it up so the pages can be accessed via ``http://myserver/users/username`` How can this be done? I had thought about mod_rewrite rule but have thus far been unsuccessful. EDIT: Essentnally I am looking to take the ``http://myserver/users/username`` requests and either point them or rewrite them to ``http://myserver/~user/`` whether it changes in the address bar is irrelevant at this time.


How can mixed content compromise an entire HTTPS session?

Google Chrome is probably one of the stricter browsers out there in terms of highlighting SSL errors. Most browsers will point out when you are viewing an HTTPS page which loads insecure images/Javascript, I understand how this is a security issue - an attacker could have modified the non-SSL content in a way which gives them access to the secure content, injected some javascript for example. However once you have viewed an HTTPS page with mixed content, Google Chrome will continue showing you the mixed content warning (a red line through the 'https://') for as long as you stay browsing the same domain, even for subsequent pages which only include other HTTPS resources. Only once you navigate to another domain, or open a fresh tab does it tell you you're secure again. What is the danger it's protecting you from here? How could mixed content on a previous page _actually_ affect the security of subsequent secured pages? I understand that mixed content should be flagged up, but there must be a specific reason that Google is persisting this warning, other than "Well you _still_ need to know about it"


Using gmail / Google apps affecting ranking

In the company i work in our boss has told us to stop using gmail for any kind of company communications including not using google apps anymore. He said that he was told that with the new Google policy they're reading user e-mails (we all knew that) and that they will use that info to see if a user is trying to buy traffic, linksharing, etc, you know, the kind of seo optimization / traffic stuff that google doesn't likes. And he said that that will affect the ranking now. More in detail: according to him, an e-mail from a business partner telling me to buy sites for traffic, will impact my seo ranking the same way that people exchanging links through e-mail does. My opinion is that this is paranoid. Yes Google could do it, but they would need lots of logic to detect possible emails about user conversations about buying traffic. But more, no sofware can detect that with accuracy, only a human can then somebody would have to read the e-mail at google's. And that is privacy invasion. And not only that, i can't imagine the amount of people reading who-knows-how-many e-mails. Plus, like i said it would too close to the privacy boundary. Why would google invest millions in this while they can easily improve their algorithm (like penguin) ? What do you think. Is is highly likely ?


301 redirect causes issue in web tools for analysis of performance in Pingdom

I was googling all over the pages, trying to find what could be wrong before trying to contact the developers at tools.pingdom.com, gtmetrix.com, juxseo.com, and other sites. Since I have changed my .htaccess file to handle the 301 redirection, forwarding mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com, those web tools do not work proper anymore. Here is my .htaccess of my php application hosted at cpanel.               IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti* */robots* */oc-admin*          <Limit GET POST>     order deny,allow     deny from all     allow from all     </Limit>     <Limit PUT DELETE>     order deny,allow     deny from all     </Limit>          AuthName mydomain.com     AuthUserFile /host/mycpanelusername/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd     AuthGroupFile /host/mycpanelusername/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp          RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /~mybasefolder/     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /~mybasefolder/index.php [L]          #maybe this is causing issues to pingdom.com     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com$     RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.mydomain\.com\/" [R=301,L]          #set the charset and not in html (a best practice)     AddDefaultCharset utf-8      _So, anyone maybe could give me a clue?_ here is the pingdom result after adding the Rewrite statements ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BGCbL.png)


How to Edit Simple Flat CSV Text Files Online?

For a new website a team of translators will be editing each their own comma separated text files, files like `de.txt` `fr.txt` `cn.txt` etc. All such files reside in one and the same directory. Each file contains lines of plain text: on every line there are English word(s) then after a delimiter character like `;` the translation in German or French etc. follows. there are about twenty of these txt files. I would like to open up the access to such files, by allowing the translators to go online and then login in to some kind of simple plain-text-editor. Be able to read the English text and edit/correct the translations themselves, instead of manual labour cpy pasting from faxes microsoft word document and god knows what other ancient technlogies! **QUESTIONS**   * What solution/technique(s) would you advise me to use here?   * Are there ready-to-implement solutions, or do i have to reinvent the weel?   * Would a single php program file suffice? and do the job in this directory?   * Or does it need to be in ajax for a live feeling?


Appropriate designation for a personal email address at yourname.com

Say your name is John Doe, and you own johndoe.com. What are the best practices for identifying your personal email at that domain?   * john@johndoe.com is redundant   * me@johndoe.com seems a bit juvenile   * info@johndoe.com and webmaster@johndoe.com are too impersonal Am I missing a more appropriate alternative? (I know this is on the fringe, but I'm hoping it's just north of objective--or at least interesting enough to the community to get some good feedback.)


Should I accept the outsiders blog content creators offerings?

It's become quite common to receive offers of blog-posts content for a dynamic website. Some of these offers are unrelated, and of-course shouldn't be published. However, I did get some related offers and wondering about them. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume this tactic is basically an up-to-date black-hat SEO, that is creating real content with links to sites they are trying to improve ranking for. This makes me wonder, can it hurt my site if I include these blog-posts? Of- course I'm only referring to posts that seem relevant to my audience.


Can I use the words Python, Ruby, or Perl in a domain name?

I was wondering, can I use any of the following words in a commercial domain relating to that specific industry? `www.xxxxxPython.com` Python doesn't seem to be trademarked as this word and also there seems to be other websites using it in their name. `www.xxxxxPerl.com` This seems copyrighted and almost certainly not likely. `www.xxxxxRuby.com` Ruby is sometimes called Ruby on Rails. Again it seems to be used on other commercial sites, but that doesn't mean it is OK to use. My question is, am I going to be alright to run a commercial site using any of these domains, or is having these words in my domain ultimately going to cause me issues?


Google Webmaster Tools suddenly shows 1379 crawl errors

Just checking GWT today and it's suddenly showing 1,379 crawl errors (404) but for the most non-sensical URL's that don't exist, for example...               www.example.com/services/newsletters/services/contact      The only changes I've made recently have been setting the preferred domain to 'www' and updating the .htaccess file to redirect to 'www' as Google was showing some results with 'www' and some without. This is my .htaccess file               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         RewriteEngine On              # Trailing slash enforcement              RewriteBase /         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$         RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1/ [L,R=301]              # Returns WWW              RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com         RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]               # Removes index.php              RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d         RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]              #Redirects old static .html pages to EE CMS              Redirect 301 /services.html /services          Redirect 301 /take-away.html /services/take-away         Redirect 301 /blog.html /blog         Redirect 301 /about.html /about         Redirect 301 /pin-up-studio.html /pin-up-studio         Redirect 301 /press.html /press         Redirect 301 /links.html /links         Redirect 301 /newsletter.html /newsletter         Redirect 301 /events.html /events         Redirect 301 /contact.html /contact         Redirect 301 /terms-and-conditions.html /terms-and-conditions         Redirect 301 /parties.html /services/party-package         Redirect 301 /gallery.html /gallery         Redirect 301 /bridal.html /services/bridal-styling         Redirect 301 /404.html /404          </IfModule>      Any ideas what I'd done wrong? **EDIT** So another 379 crawl errors have appeared in the last day. When I check the 'linked from' status it says it is being linked from the website itelf. An example is this URL is not found...               http://www.example.com/services/contact.html/bridal-styling/bridal-styling/services/party-package/take-away/contact/pop-up-parlour/bridal-styling       ...and lists these 2 URL's as the 'linked from'               http://example.com/services/contact.html/bridal-styling/bridal-styling/services/party-package/take-away/contact/pop-up-parlour          http://www.example.com/services/contact.html/bridal-styling/bridal-styling/services/party-package/take-away/contact/pop-up-parlour/      As I said before the only changes I've made recently have been setting the preferred domain to 'www' and updating the .htaccess file to redirect to 'www' as Google was showing some results with 'www' and some without. My .htaccess file is as above. It seems the bots seem to have got stuck in a loop when crawling the site? Not sure why it's getting hung up on the www and non www as I've specifically stated in GWT to use www.


Moving MySQL database to another server

I have a website build using Q2A engine Since I have about 600 active users there, I'm trying to create a copy of it on a second server for test purposes only. I've copied all the files and exported the website (about 28MB raw SQL / 8MB .gz file), but when I'm trying to import it on a new server I get the error:               SELECT USER(     );                    MySQL returned error:       #2006 - MySQL server has gone away      What could go wrong? I've tried several methods: importing raw sql file, gz file, importing on clean database, import on top of installed fresh copy of q2a etc... always the same error.


Buying a custom domain for blogger

I'm about to move my blogger site to a custom domain. I do all the steps as told but whenever I find the perfect custom domain (that is free) I get redirected to Google apps for business. Is it necessary to get Google apps for business before buying a custom domain? If I start a free trial of Google apps for business and cancel before the trial period expires, will my custom domain still be valid?


Google Analytics data Missing for 4 days

I used wrong tracking id in my E-commerce tracking code for Google analytics and missed the data for few days. To add that missing data in my account I have written a short script which manually send all orders data for four days to GA account but what my concern is date : Those orders which already placed on different dates and , when if I run my script and so it will send my missing data with current date , which I do not want. ( I want to send date when that order is actually placed) do anyone help me with this ? I am really much stuck with my work here.


Find the traffic stats of a specific page in Google Analytics

I use Google Analytics to monitor one of my Websites. However, I have a problem and I cannot monitor the stats with the way I should. What I mean... I have a page which a user can use a link with get parameters to autofill a form. Let's say that I have a page like this one: `www.mywebsite.com/mypage` On the history (and on realtime stats) I have different stats for:               www.mywebsite.com/mypage     www.mywebsite.com/mypage?param=123     www.mywebsite.com/mypage?param=234     www.mywebsite.com/mypage?param=345     ...     ...      There are several parameters and I cannot check them one by one. I would expect a stats page which will present stats for `www.mywebsite.com/mypage` and for any same link with parameters as one page. Is there any way to do this?


Mapping different users to folders with mod_rewrite

I'm setting up a DAV server with Apache 2.2 and would like, if at all possible, to be able to redirect a user to their own folder without having per-user URLs, if at all possible. So I point a user to `https://dav.example.org/`, I have authentication enabled (AuthType Digest, AuthDigestProvider file) so the user logs in, and then content is served from `/home/%{REMOTE_USER}/dav`. Or that's the theory anyway. The problem is I can't get it to work. The basic rule (at least to start with - I know this won't necessarily redirect everything, but if I can get the root folder to work and at least get an index of files, I can tweak the reg-ex later):               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} (.*)     RewriteRule ^/        /home/%1/dav/      The problem is that the lookahead doesn't seem to work - it always returns an empty string (I'm running with `RewriteLogLevel 5`, and get "`RewriteCond: input='' pattern='(.*)' => matched`" in the log). I know I'm logged in with a username as I can see the user in the appropriate field in access_log. I've also tried moving this into .htaccess, but it didn't seem to play there (the rewrite engine didn't seem to even start); similarly, it didn't play under a config in the main config file (again, it looked like it failed to process any of the rules). I had some success with it under in that the remote-user was successfully mapped, but then it got stuck in a recursive loop (error log tells me " _Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary._ ", and then I read in the manual that wasn't really supported anyway[1], so I'm rejecting that path. It looks like what I'm doing _should_ be straightforward, but I'm failing to see what I'm missing. Trying to keep config/log snippets brief here to keep question tidy - can add snippets on request. [1] The manual for mod_rewrite in 2.2 says "Although rewrite rules are syntactically permitted in and sections, this should never be necessary and is unsupported." * * * **EDIT** ... this is the virtual site config (I've got a number of virtual sites, so I'm assuming that the root httpd.conf isn't needed)               <VirtualHost *:443>         SSLEngine on         SSLProtocol -ALL +TLSv1         SSLCertificateFile <edited out>         SSLCertificateKeyFile <edited out>         SSLCACertificateFile <edited out>         SSLCertificateChainFile <edited out>         SSLHonorCipherOrder On         SSLCipherSuite RC4-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA              ServerAdmin admin@localhost         DocumentRoot /var/www/dav.example.org         ServerName dav.example.org         ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/dav.example.org.errlog         CustomLog /var/log/apache2/dav.example.org.log combined         RewriteLog /var/log/apache2/dav.example.org.rewritelog         RewriteLogLevel 5         LogLevel debug              <Location />                 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks                 Order allow,deny                 Allow from all                 Dav On                      AuthName DAV                 AuthType Digest                 AuthDigestProvider file                 AuthUserFile /tmp/dig                      <LimitExcept OPTIONS>                         # Testing only - running single-user                         Require user cej                 </LimitExcept>         </Location>              RewriteEngine On         RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} (.*)         RewriteRule ^/        /home/%1/dav/     </VirtualHost>


How can I find the approximate daily traffic of a site which I don't own?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is there any way to discover the traffic of a site I don’t control? I want to find the approximate daily traffic of a site which isn't ours, and the site is located in other country than US (in Greece - hence no Quantcast or Compete.com afaik) and it doesn't use Google Ads (hence no Google Ad Planner). I know about Alexa but the site(s) has/have relatively low traffic and the Alexa's rank isn't very useful (same stands to Google Trends). Or perhaps I should look more at Alexa's data? Any other ideas? PS: I looked before posting here and here. No luck.


SEO & Reordering of duplicate content

I am currently working on a website, and the designer wants a menu that is setup like this:   * Toplevel1   * Toplevel2      * submenu1     * submenu2     * submenu3   * Toplevel3   * Toplevel4 All menu items have a title and content. When the user clicks toplevel2, the page needs to show all titles and content of the child submenus like so: Title for submenu1 content.... Title for submenu2 content.... Title for submenu3 content.... etc.. If the user instead clicks directly on submenu2, the exact same content should be displayed but with the selected submenu title and content placed first, like this: Title for submenu2 content.... Title for submenu1 content.... Title for submenu3 content.... etc.. Although I could get into a general discussion as to weather or not this is good design, my actual question is: Does this hurt SEO? They are all gonna have different URLS:               www.domain.com/submenu1 www.domain.com/submenu2      etc.. The thing is, I can't just do canonical redirect, since the order of the content still differs between url's. (I posted this question on stack overflow first, but was asked to post it here instead.)


Can I get multiple subdomains for different dns?

I have a domain registered with a domain vendor and hosting provider. I tried out with 000webhost as hosting service, so I changed my domain settings to the **000webhost dns addresses**. At 000webhost I can generate as much **subdomains** as I want. So I can get for example:   * subdomain1.mydomain.com   * koala.mydomain.com   * mexico.mydomain.com   * ... But as 000webhost is Apache, PHP MySQL based here comes one of my needings: What if I want to have something like:   * rubyonrails.mydomain.com   * nodejs.mydomain.com That's **subdomains for different technologies**. And I assume I'd look for a free hosting service based on such different technologies. I'd need to deal with their dns for each subdomain. As I know, the immediate solution to this are **CNAMES** , I contacted my domain service provider and they told I should change dns settings to theirs and they'd create as much CNAMES registers and I wanted but I'm not sure this would fix the main hosting with 000webhost, the subdomains for different technologies and the subdomain for a blog hosting. What's the right solution for this and, if anyone knows, does godaddy permit to create any CNAMES registers as intended?


I have an old domain that I'm retiring. How do I set up a permanent redirect from the old domain to the new one?

I originally posted this as one of the defining questions for the site so I thought I'd ask it again. Currently I have DNS for both domains pointing to the same place but I'd like to set up a permanent redirect from the old one to the new one for any lingering links out in the wild.


"Access denied" error in Google Webmaster tools

I have an access denied problem in my webmaster tools. It says 404 errors. How can I solve this? I have already fixed the errors, but they are not removed from Google Webmaster Tools.


Domain name never return requested path/document, only /index.html

I have my own web server and I purchased domain name to use it with my website. For example - my domain name is `www.example.com` When I navigate to `www.example.com/example.html` (or `www.example.com/example`) I will always be redirected to `178.xx.xx.xx/index.html`. I was able to implement navigation within my website using relative links, but when I do so it would not show the correct URL (for example, I am on `www.example.com/index.html` page, and I navigate to `/example.html` - URL bar would show `www.example.com/index.html` instead of `www.example.com/example.html`) If I navigate to `178.xx.xx.xx/example.html` manually, it opens the right page, so I assume that my server works correctly. I am using Debian with Apache for my web server. For my domain I redirect `www.example.com` to `http://178.xx.xx.xx/` with cloak. From all above I assume the problem is with my domain configuration, as I tried my friend domain name, and it worked correctly.


no-www redirect not working / DNS A record

I'm far from an expert on this, but I'll try to be as clear as possible. I have an eshop solution leased from a company and it's hosted on their server. I can access it thru company.com/myshop and it also allows me to set up to 3 domains that they should recognize and redirect to my specific shop from. I registered a domain with a different company and am trying to "redirect" it to the eshop. By means of one of the following DNS entries (as they look in the admin GUI)   * * A 111.111.111.111   * *.myshop.com A 111.111.111.111   * myshop.com A 111.111.111.111  I've managed to make www.myshop.com redirect to the IP of company.com (111.111.111.111), which then goes on to do exactly what I expect it to do (ie. recognizes it comes from my domain, does some further redirects itself). However, I **can't seem to make myshop.com** (ie. without the www) **redirect** to that IP, too. The company that I registered the domain with provides a "URL redirect" service, but google would only register the redirect request and wouldn't follow it. That's why I hope for a DNS solution to this - my assumption being I've managed to miss adding a record to the DNS; if, however, the reason lies elsewhere, I'd be happy to hear about that too. If it's a search engine friendly solution (ie the www/no-www dilemma - avoidance of double content penalties), then that's even better; have no prefference either way (www/no- www), just need it to work. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks


Interesting domain name fraud - can we get domain back from the fraudster?

I am the author of a quite popular weather software - YoWindow. Our website is http://yowindow.com Today I have found out that some person has registered http://yowindows.com domain, the difference is in "S" at the end. Now he is trying to sell our product as affiliate on this page. I have absolutely no knowledge in the field of domain name legislation. So I ask you for help. I wonder if we can take away the domain from the person. Can we claim the domain ownership to us, to avoid this happening in the future? YoWindow is US registered trademark. And there are no any other product with the name YoWindow in the world. So we can prove our rights to the name. Pasha


What does the Google Analytics Average Time on Site calculate?

When my Google Analytics account shows 10 minutes for time spent on site, what does this mean? Does it mean the visitors have opened one page and left it idling in a tab while (possibly) browsing in another tab? Or does it mean they have been browsing my site for 10 minutes straight with at least a certain amount of actions within a specific amount of time? I couldn't find any explanations of what exactly it is they measure.


Is it o.k. to have a domain name which happens to also be the title of a book?

For example, I would like to use the domain "stuckinthemiddle.com", but "Stuck in the Middle" is also the title of a book. Can I get sued on copyright terms? I checked this question, and according to it, "Stuck in the middle" would have to be a trademark (which is not, I believe)...


how to customize Tracking Ecommerce Transactions with Google Analytics?

In the Ecommerce Transactions with Google Analytics, we can code as below:                   _gaq.push(['_addTrans',         '1234',       // order ID         'SitePoint',  // store         '19.99',      // total         '1.50',       // tax         '3.00',       // shipping         'Chicago',    // city         'Illinois',   // state         'USA'         // country     ]);      But I want to implement it for employer registration page where I wont get order_id and total fields. Instead can I use employer_id and company name by replacing oerder_id and store... Will it works ? for reference you can see GA Ecommerce How to use it for employer registration ?


Google analytics - drop in traffic

Bit of a general question here. We are in the process of converting a number of our clients from older web sites to new ones. The problem we are getting, and sorry for being so general here, is we are getting a sharp decline in traffic as reported on Google Analytics. It's not a gradual decline, it seems to hit almost as soon as the new site goes live. I've just got a few questions to see if there is something we are doing wrong: a) We are using the same analytics accounts going from old to new site. Is this a bad idea? b) The actual analytics code is integrated into the pages using a server-side include. IS this a bad idea? c) We structure our sites differently to our old site. IE. The old sites would pretty must have all the web pages in the root directory, and hyperlinks would be linked to the page files: EG.                Link      Our new sites now have a directory structure that pretty much reflects the navigation structure, and hyper links link to the pages directory instead of the actual page: EG.               New shoes      Is this a bad idea. I'm really searching for a needle in a haystack here. Would appriciate any help or advice as to why we are getting such a sharp and sudden drop in traffic. Again, so this is such a general question. Thanks in advance.


home page of my site is not appear in google search, when I type site:example.com

I am totally confused, when I place `site:example.com` in google I see every page of my website in serp(search engine result page) except the home page. I don’t know why it’s happening but I check everything according to google SEO rule. But not getting success.I try to check my site through google webmaster tool everything is perfect there, Please help me to solve this. htaccess rule of my site               RewriteEngine on          #RewriteBase /     #RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$     #RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?example.ro/.*$ [NC]     #RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?exa-example.ro/.*$ [NC]     #RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|swf|flv|png)$ / [F]               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sitename\.com$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.sitename.com/$1 [R=301,L]          RewriteRule ^privacy_policy.html$ privacy.php     RewriteRule ^contact_us.html$ contact.php           #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^sitename.com$     #RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://sitename.com/$1 [L,QSA,R=301]          RewriteRule ^index\.php$ / [QSA,R=301]          RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_]+)_([0-9]+).html$ articol.php?id=$2     RewriteRule ^([a-z_]+).html$ categorii.php?abbr=$1     RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9+]+)$ search.php?cuvinte=$1     RewriteRule ^images/$ images [F]     RewriteRule ^o_articole/$ o_articole [F]


Is the Mailchimp API available in other languages?

I'm using the Mailchimp API in combination with PHP and jQuery to provide the subscribing/unsubscribing-actions on a website via Ajax. On errors with user data you get useful messages like "Invalid Email Address", "test@example.com is already subscribed to list x. Click here to update your profile." or "There is no record of "test@example.com" in the database". For sure I want to keep theses messages, but is there a way I can get them in other languages (in particular in German)? How would I achieve this? I wasn't able to find anything about in the Mailchimp docs. I wouldn't like to translate them myself...


Componentheading and contentpagetitle joomla

If have a problem with the componentheading and the contentpagetitle. I got a sectionblog for my articles. The title of the page is a componentheading. The title of the articles (intro) is a contentpagetitle. If I click on the title of a article, I can see the entire article. The title of the page is now the title of the article (contentpagetitle), and that is good. The problem is, this title now needs the same layout as the componentheading. But if I do this, the titles of the articles also get this layout in the sectionblog How can I make sure I got 2 different styles, or the contentpagetitle changes in a componentheading while looking at the full article? I you don't uderstand what I'm saying just go to http://csm.infowebpreview.be/nl/realisaties, and click on the first title 'Realisatie'. The full article opens and the title 'Realisatie' should be underlined now. Or this is also correct: if an article is the only article on a page the title should get another layout Thanks


RewriteRule not working for certain URLs

There are a few domains pointing towards the same server, and of course I need them all redirect to only one of them. Redirects work, but only for certain URLs. What works: `http://www.domain.com, http://domain.com, domain.com/index.html, domain.com/index.php, domain.com/nonExistentDirectory`, and if I click in the menu the following URLs are also redirected correctly: `domain.com/foo/bar`, `domain.com/foo/bar.html` or .php or other extension. What doesn't work: `domain.com/existentDirectory`, `domain.com/foo/bar` (if I type the URL in the address bar). If anyone will have the time and skill and will to tell me where's the mistake, I'll be deeply grateful. Here's my .htaccess file:               AddHandler x-httpd-php .html .htm          <ifModule mod_gzip.c>       mod_gzip_on Yes       mod_gzip_dechunk Yes       mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$       mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$       mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*       mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*       mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*       mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*     </ifModule>          <ifModule mod_expires.c>       ExpiresActive On       ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 seconds"       ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 seconds"       ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2592000 seconds"       ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2592000 seconds"       ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2592000 seconds"       ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 2592000 seconds"       ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"       ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"     </ifModule>          <ifModule mod_headers.c>       <filesMatch "\\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"       </filesMatch>       <filesMatch "\\.(css)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"       </filesMatch>       <filesMatch "\\.(js)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=216000, private"       </filesMatch>       <filesMatch "\\.(xml|txt)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=216000, public, must-revalidate"       </filesMatch>       <filesMatch "\\.(html|htm|php)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=1, private, must-revalidate"       </filesMatch>     </ifModule>          <ifModule mod_headers.c>       Header unset ETag     </ifModule>     FileETag None          <ifModule mod_headers.c>       Header unset Last-Modified     </ifModule>          # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d          RewriteRule . /index.php [L]          </IfModule>               # END WordPress               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo\.com$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.foo\.com$     RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L,QSA]               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo1\.com$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.foo1\.com$     RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L,QSA]               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo2\.com$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.foo2\.com$     RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L,QSA]               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo3\.com$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.foo3\.com$     RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L,QSA]               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo8\.com$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.foo8\.com$     RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L,QSA]      Thinking that the above version was overkill, I've also tried to redirect all the requests for domains different than the main on to be redirected to it like this:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com [L,R=301]      Is it also wrong? Because it doesn't work either! P.S. @Sodved I've tried that and it doesn't help (I comment here because I can't seem to be able to comment your answer.) Removing the following piece of code didn't solve the issue either, so the problem must be somewhere else:               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d          RewriteRule . /index.php [L]          </IfModule>               # END WordPress      New details: using this tool for checking the redirects I got the following results for the URLs that are not redirected: > Checked link: `http://domain.com/aDirectory/` > > Type of link: direct link (note the trailing slash above) and: > Checked link: `http://domain.com/aDirectory` > > Type of redirect: 301 Moved Permanently > > Redirected to: `http://domain.com/aDirectory/` (no trailing slash here) I hope/suspect I'm getting closer to the cause of this behavior.


Is it possible for web crawlers to see static pages without following a link to them?

If I create a static page on a domain (http://www.domain.com/page.html), can a crawler still see it if there aren't any links to it anywhere on the site?


Ridiculously high price for cloud

I have dedicated servers for my website. Many hosting companies will charge about €30 / month for a server like this:   * CPU: i3 @3.4GHz   * RAM: 8GB   * HDD: 2x 1TB Comparing this to a cloud configuration (for example PagodaBox), if you set the RAM to as low as 1GB per instance with a single instance you get a price of 100USD / month. I don't understand why this is. I know that with a cloud you can easily scale your application, but for this price I don't think it's worth the price. Even stackoverflow has its own dedicated servers. Do you think these prices are worth the advantages of the cloud?


Google Adsense before/above article in Wordpress: SEO problem?

I have set a banner before my article / content in `Wordpress` on my `single.php`. Will this be a problem if we look at it in `SEO` terms? So that `Google` can't crawl my article or crawl it less good because of this ad?


Difference between Traffic Source->Source->Search and Traffic Source->SEO

I'm having a hard time figuring out what these two views show me. `Traffic Source->Sources->Search->Organic` seems to show the key word a person searched for in a search engine, like Google. What does `Traffic Source ->Search Engine Optimzation -> Queries` show? Are those search terms from within my site's search function, or are they also search terms from Google, etc.?


Plesk 11 Preview Joomla site, formatting lost

I have a site on server A which I am about to move to server B. The transfer is all done apart from the DNS. I now want to preview my site before I change DNS, but when I try all formatting is gone. I use the simple preview option with an URL to access the site on server B. This is a Joomla site, and I wonder if there is any special considerations to make or known problems when previewing a joomla site in Plesk? I also want to mention that i have to append 'index.php' to see the site. I am not sure wheter this is a Joomla or a Plesk problem.


How can I get Google to index Blogger posts with over 200 comments?

In Blogger(Blogspot), Google doesn't index blog comments if it goes over 200 comments. Does anyone know how to make search engines index blog post that have more than 200 comments?


expires headers and forcing cache-loading instead of 304?

so here is a little mystery. google analytics javascript somehow always loads from browser cache on F5 (in Firefox). i cannot get the same thing to happen with my own scripts. here are the headers that come back on initial request: http://google-analytics.com/ga.js:               (Status-Line)           HTTP/1.1 200 OK     Last-Modified           Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:48:45 GMT     X-Content-Type-Options  nosniff, nosniff     Date                    Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:58:10 GMT     Expires                 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:58:10 GMT     Content-Type            text/javascript     Vary                    Accept-Encoding     Age                     1326     Cache-Control           max-age=7200, public     Server                  GFE/2.0     Transfer-Encoding       chunked     Connection              close      http://my-site.com/myscript.js:               (Status-Line)           HTTP/1.1 200 OK     Server                  nginx     Date                    Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:20:16 GMT     Content-Type            application/javascript     Last-Modified           Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:50:27 GMT     Transfer-Encoding       chunked     Connection              keep-alive     Vary                    Accept-Encoding     Expires                 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:20:16 GMT     Cache-Control           max-age=7200, public     Content-Encoding        gzip      when i press F5 on my page, `ga.js` just loads from cache, but `myscript.js` gets requested and comes back with 304 (not modified). what's the magic combo here? and how do i make it load from cache without a server trip until it expires? **EDIT**   i am NOT using google's stock tracking snippet. i'm using the following loading code               <script src="/assets/js/vendor/LAB.min.js"></script>     <script>       $LAB         .script("//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js").wait()         .script("/assets/js/common.js?abc123").wait()         .script("/assets/js/home.js?abc123")         .script("/assets/js/stats.js?abc123");     </script>      **stats.js**               // Google Analytics     var _gaq = [["_setAccount", "UA-XXXXXXXX-1"], ["_trackPageview"]];     $LAB.script("//google-analytics.com/ga.js");          // WebSTAT     // ...      thanks!   leon


Looking to move current e-commerce website to Squarespace

I have a business website, www.stockrumors.com, and it is a pretty simple design on the user side of things but the back end and admin side of things are a bit more complicated. Is it possible to create a new site with Squarespace and link the back end functionality to that site so as not to lose any subscriber or database information?


Where to buy a domain for my local server

I have made a website and hosted in my local computer using a static ip Where can i buy a domain name such as `www.something.com` such that it can redirect to my static IP. So that if i m using a page like a `http://localhost/index.jsp` it can be accessed by `http://www.something.com/index.jsp` Does it matter if i run the server locally or should I buy a managed web hosting server from a big company if the traffic is low on my site?


Slow Migration is it possible with a PHP/SQL Driven site

I have a Joomla site that is operating on `www.mysite.com`, I want to migrate to WordPress but heres the thing, I have hundreds of pages and simply moving migrating them to a `test site` isn't ideal since well I want to migrate now.. but I don't have the time to change all the pages all at once. Now I already know its possible to install the WordPress to `www.mysite.com/wordpress/` but obviously at a later date but this is not very ideal because due to the sheer number of undesirable redirects at an later stage. My question is fairly simple but may require a complex answer. Is it possible to run 2 SQL Driven sites in PHP such as Joomla and WordPress in the same Directory.. i.e `www.mysite.com/` if so how.. and if not why not! I understand this might because of the `index.php` but is there a way around this perhaps via .htaccess - Thanks in advance.


How would you connect 2 mailing lists?

A friend of mine and I have two mailinglists (one on google groups, one on yahoogroups) concerning a similar topic. It would be convenient to connect those mailing lists, so that every message is sent to both lists. However, we want to avoid "loops" (a message that is sent to every list more than once). As both lists have a high "identification potential" simply copying all users to the other list is not an option.


Amazon Cloudfront Node detection

I have been using Amazon Cloudfront to server up media/js/css files stored in Amazon S3 for a website that is accessed internationally. I want to find out if Cloudfront is using the nearest node from the point of origin of the web page request. So for example is someone from Hong Kong is requesting my website's home page, the static files like media/js/css are getting served up from the node in Singapore. How can I figure this out other than renting server space on EC2 in Hong Kong and pinging the resource from there?


SEO penalization after 301 redirect

A client asked to re-do his website entirely. After I finished, I uploaded the new website into a folder of the old one, so the new one is in `www.oldwebsite.com/new/`. The old has few pages, static content and nothing more. The new one has the same content plus additional pages, in terms of weight, it's 5 times bigger. The problem is that the old website has a very good SEO and when I search it on Google it displays on the first page of results. At this point I was thinking to not delete the old website and leave the structure as it is now, `www.oldsite.com/new/` and just redirect all traffic to the new one. My main concern is that this way I may lose Google ranking and be penalized, so when I search it on Google it won't display anymore in the first page of results. Being a beginner with SEO I don't know if this is legit and if not how to handle this situation, so I ask you what would you suggest me to do? Can I leave it this way and not being penalized?


What's the double semicolon (::) for in PHP?

I'm working with NetSuite's PHP toolkit and i get the error T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM from this line               $classname = get_class($object);     $typesmap = $classname::$paramtypesmap;  <---      I just want to know what's the '::' for, since is from there that i've seen the error is coming from. All my dev work is on hold for this error and it has been almost a week. My guess, it takes the value from $paramtypesmap to $typesmap depending the class name, which may seem kind of obvious, but the point is that i've never seen the '::' been used before.


what should I do if I cannot find a person who asks to unsubscribe in my mailing list?

One of our customers asks us to send out marketing mail. We manage their subscriber list in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and use a remote desktop tool to send the mails through their network via the Sendgrid SMTP server. When they receive unsubscribe requests after another mass mailing, they pass this along to us and we manually deactivate the relevant contacts in CRM. The unsubsribe link happens through a reply mail with the subject "unsubscribe". With a recent unsubscribe wave, we found that about a dozen of the email addresses that sent such a reply, we could not find in our system, neither when searching for the first name, the last name, the email address, the domain nor parts of any of these. This isn't just "they're in there, but with a slightly different email address", because we found and deactivated a number of those through searching for the names. This is a case of "Either they're not in the system, or they're in the system with completely different credentials." Obviously the method we're using for unsubscription is flawed and we're currently investigating alternative methods of managing the mailing list, but the problem is that those email addresses asked to be unsubscribed, but we are unable to unsubscribe them because we cannot find their registered address. If we do not unsubscribe them, we run the risk of blacklists and complaints about spam, which will affect the reach of the mailing, our reputation and our client's reputation. How should this situation be handled?


Which domain do I need to whitelist as an HTTP referrer for Google+?

I am using MaxCDN for my website, and to prevent hotlinking, I only allow my website's pictures to be displayed on whitelisted HTTP referrers, through MaxCDN's security settings. However, even though I have added every kind of Google domain I could find, my post's pictures won't show up in new Google+ Posts. ![Google+ no Image](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0OIZQ.png) These are the domains I have whitelisted so far:               *.googleusercontent.com     *.google.com     *.googleapis.com     *.gstatic.com     *.googlegroups.com     *.ggpht.com      Which server am I missing?