Standard ratio of cookies to "visitors"?

As noted in a recent blog post, We see **a large discrepancy between Google Analytics "visitors" and Quantcast "visitors".** > Also, for reasons we have never figured out, Google Analytics just gets > larger numbers than Quantcast. Right now GA is showing more visitors (15 > million) on stackoverflow.com alone than Quantcast sees _on the whole > network_ (14 million): > > ![](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/GA-Visitors1.png) > > Why? I don’t know. Either Google Analytics loses cookies sometimes, or > Quantcast misses visitors. Counting is an inexact science. We think this is because **Quantcast uses a more conservative ratio of cookies-to-visitors**. Whereas Google Analytics might consider every cookie a "visitor", Quantcast will only consider every 1.24 cookies a "visitor". This makes sense to me, as people may access our sites from multiple computers, multiple browsers, etcetera. I have two closely related questions:   1. Is there an accepted standard ratio of cookies to visitors? This is obviously an inexact science, but is there any emerging rule of thumb?   2. Is there any more accurate way to count "visitors" to a website other than relying on browser cookies? Or is this just always going to be kind of a best-effort estimation crapshoot no matter how you measure it?


How do sites manage browser and mobile versions?

I build a website either by simple HTML/CSS, or I build one using Drupal or Wordpress, for modern PC browsers. Now, I want a mobile-friendly version of the site. What is considered some of the best ways to do this? My thoughts:   1. Detect the mobile browser from a list and redirect to a subdomain/dir that has been designed for mobiles   2. Build the site to be simulatenously viewable by all browsers, mobile or not (using fluid layouts)?   3. Using a CMS, install a module that does the work for you. I'd really like to know how some of the big, popular sites implement it and what you all consider to be the proper way. I understand that NY Times has its own app for this, but I consider that to be overboard for obvious reasons.


Creating multi-language pages in Google Sites

is it possible to create pages in more than one language without having to create separate pages for each language in Google Sites? This isn't a feature of Google Sites, but I was hoping there might be a workaround. Greets, Kenny


Forcing browser to load new image

I have recently been doing some image replacement work for a client, he sends me the new image png files and I upload them replacing the old ones with the new ones ( keeping the same name ). I tell him that to see the new images he needs to hard refresh the page (shift+refresh) but I can tell that he's wondering when his customers will see those new images, and to be honest I don't know myself. I cant seem to find out either; I also wondered if there is some way I can educate the browser that an image has been changed, and I thought that maybe I could use meta tags to do this, but it seems not. Can anyone enlighten me on this issue, when does the browser decide (if left to it's own devices) to discard the cached images and load the new ones from the server, and is there any way I can influence this ( other than using different file names and recoding the HTML and CSS to reflect the changes, which I presume would work)


Where can I get ISO lists for continent, country, and currency to use on my web pages?

I have done quite a bit of looking around, and found several lists based on the ISO standards, but of dubious quality, e.g. with null or blank entries, extra entries that are not real currencies etc. Can somebody recommend a source that I can use for these lists? Does someone like Google API maybe offer these as a service? Where should I go looking for these? I would like to get data in delimited file, xml, json, anything friendlier than EDIFACT basically.


Do I need to include an image in every single blog post?

I have read a lot about including an image that has some visual representation of the content of the post and that's what I recommend to my clients. However, one of my client does not want to use images in any of her posts as the blog is about simplicity and use of a photo will limit a visitor's imagination. Is it a healthy practice (from Search Engines' point of view) to not include any image in the content?


Bing doesn't index my website correcty

I have a website with robots and sitemap which is working on Google. I created a bing webmasters and sent the sitemap some weeks ago, but whenever I search site:www.mysite.com I get only the root folder in my website. I think this should be because I have no website in my root (www.mywebsite.com), if a user enters this domain, he is redirected to www.mywebsite.com/questions. Is there any way I can inform bing that this redirect is correct and should be followed? thanks, Oscar


Name of web design technique with vertically contiguous but separate screen-sized blocks?

I don't know the proper name for this, which makes it hard to Google it or describe this. On a site like http://p2theme.com/ as you scroll down you see that content is arranged into screen-sized chunks, each with its own chunk of content, each with a different background color, making them visually distinctive. I've seen this used more and more frequently on websites, but don't know what it's called. People have tried telling me "responsive design" or "flat UI" or "infinite scroll" or "parallax" -- but those are completely different things. What do you call this technique?


404 page not showing URL

My 404 page (`/404.php`) works, it's sending the proper headers (404 - Not found). But the thing is, it's not giving the link that caused it (e.g. `example.com/thisisnon-existant.htm`) but instead it's giving my 404 page (`example.com/404.php`). How would I get it fixed? All I did was add the following to _.htaccess_ :               ErrorDocument 404 http://example.com/404.php      My 404 page's code is here: http://pastebin.com/G7mQ4aT1.


Is Forbes' welcome page bad for seo?

I saw a interesting case in forbes' website. When you enter the website it shows you a page that contains a quote then you click on "continue" button and see the actual page. Example: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenkrogue/2012/07/20/the-death-of-seo- the-rise-of-social-pr-and-real-content/ You should be redirected to: http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml I check the codes, it uses javascript to redirect. I think it's a good idea to make money, more ctr. But how does forbes make their website seo friendly by making this?


CPC 0.00 and two clicks for just 0.1 $

In my Google Adsense account I noticed that the CPC is 0.00 $?!!! The following screen shot shows detailed description of the situation: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xsDMy.png) Do there any penalties from Google on my account? Why the cost per click is zero?


Is is good idea to let google list attachment pages?

I know the majority of people don't let google crawl their WordPress attachment pages. In my opinion the attachment pages aren't duplicate content because they don't show the whole content but just a unique image or PDF link or other file. I don't understand why people hesitate to use them in a natural way. Although it will cause Google to index a lot of extra pages in your site, doesn't this increase the visibility in search results? What are the drawbacks of letting Google see these pages?


SEO: Is forcing a request to WWW.domain.com from domain.com a bad idea?

I have an htaccess file that is forcing the URL request to www. instead of a bare hostname (this is to resolve SSL issues I'm facing that are fixed when you visit the site via www.) Is this a bad idea in the SEO world?


How do I get google to read each site on my server?

I currently building a server to host many sites. How do I get google to crawl each site without submitting a site map to google for each site?


Apache - How to extend localhost scope e.g. to other drives?

In Apache _httpd.conf_ file I can set the DocumentRoot value. After setting this, if I view "localhost" in a browser, I can see the folders and files this given folder contains. I cannot "speak" PHP language well yet but I assume that all PHP activities in connection with files and folders are limited to the scope of localhost, so if I handle files with PHP they must be in the folder set as DocumentRoot (or in subfolders of it). How can I set localhost's scope to a wider range, especially to other drives? My goal is to be able to handle files with PHP on my whole computer (it's a "locahost-only" project so it's not a must to be able to use it on "real" servers).


What would be a list of common website expenses?

For example: seo; web-development; site-maintenance; hosting; domain; ssl- certificate; etc. **___ __ _UPDATES_ __ ___** **FROM_ME:** Stock-Photos; Logo; Legal; eCommerce_Shopping-Cart **FROM_Lèse_majesté:** IP-for-SSL-CERT; Merchant-Account; Payment- Gateway_setup,fees; website-design_template,customization; CMS-Customization; ADs_PPC


Is viewing a site's unpassword protected HTTP logs/stats illegal?

If not, why? If so, please provide US Federal code, or case law confirming this is the case.


SEOing several videos effectively

I'm new at the field of search-engine optimizing - I'm making video content on Youtube for a very long time, but I'm just an amateur guy. I have a lot of videos, including several video series. Are there any way to add common content (such as tags, regular titles, etc.) that makes the SEO effectiveness of those videos better? Moreover, what's the result of using regular titles, description and tags (e.g. World of X - part 1, World of X - part 2, etc.) in a series of videos? Because I suggest it makes them less interesting for people, but it may not cover the SEO effectiveness.


What does it mean if a domain is unlocked?

A domain I'm interested in acquiring as its status showing as "Unlocked". It's due to expire in a couple of weeks. What does the "unlocked" status mean? Am I more likely to be able to register the domain when/if it expires?


Is there a tool to compare space used by each file of a web page?

Is there a tool that can load a web page and compare the space used (and thus load time) by each file? For example: ![An example chart](http://imgur.com/Y8rxC.png)


Possible to list categories on Main Page?

I would like to put all the categories at the bottom of the Main Page in a more compact way than what `Special:Categories` does. On this page are pages listed in a very nice way with bold letters. Can the same be done with categories instead of pages?


Gravatar or host my own avatars?

Planning on launching a new site and was wondering if I should simply host my own user avatars or integrate gravatars. What is the best way to approach this? Gravatar for those who don't know what it is


How to track subdomains with Google Analytics while having mod_rewrite redirect to a subdomain?

When users come directly to `domain.com` or `www.domain.com`, I am redirecting them to `shop.domain.com` via this .htaccess rewrite:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://shop.domain.com/ [R=301,L]      The content served by shop.domain.com has the following tracking code parameters:               var _gaq = _gaq || [];     _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-123456-6']);     _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '.domain.com']);     _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);      All direct visits that come to `shop.domain.com` as a result of the rewrite from `domain.com` are tracked as referral traffic, showing my own `domain.com` as referral source in Google Amalytics. I would like to track these visits as direct traffic. How to change the configuration to track mod_rewritten traffic on my subdomain coming from my own domain as direct traffic?


Piwik vs. Google Analytics

I run both piwik and google analytics on my site. I have noticed that the google analytics data is totally wrong. It does not seem to register any hits while piwik does. What could be wrong?


What if I void a license for an HTML5 website?

We are developing a new website for a group of people initializing their first startup and started looking for good looking templates and found one interesting from a popular site selling web templates/PSDs. Fortunately, or unfortunately, we somehow managed to get the complete template of that particular website that we found interesting. Since we are developing a website for a company, can we proceed with the template in our hand / apply for a license from the site selling the template?


Hijax == sneaky Javascript redirects? Will I get banned from Google?

### Question Will I get penalised as **"sneaky Javascript redirects"** by Google if I have the following Hijax setup (which requires a JavaScript redirect on the page indexed by google). ### Goal I want to implement Hijax to enable AJAX content to be accessibile to non- JavaScript users and search engine crawlers. ### Background   1. I'm working on a static file server (GitHub Pages). No server side tricks allowed (so Google's #! "hash bang" solution is not an option).   2. I'm trying to keep my files DRY. I don't want to repeat the common OUTER template in all my files i.e. header, navigation menu, footer, etc They will live in the main `index.html` ### Setup the Hijax   1. `index.html` page contains all OUTER html/css/js... the site's template.   2. `index.html` has a `<div id="content">` which defaults to containing the "homepage" html.   3. `index.html` has a navigation menu, with a Hijax link to an "about" page.   4. With JavaScript **disabled** (e.g. crawler) it follows link to `/about.html`.   5. With JavaScript **enabled** (e.g. most people) the link updates the url hash fragment to `/#about` and jQuery replaces the `<div id="content">` innerHTML with `$("#content").load("about.html #inner-container");`. ### AJAX content `about.html` _does not_ contain anything extra to try an cloak content for crawlers. `about.html` file contains enough HTML / CSS / JavaScript to display `/about.html` as a standalone page with it's own META data... e.g. `<html><head><title>About</title>...</head><body></body></html>`. `about.html` has NO OUTER HTML template (i.e. header, navigation menu, footer, etc). `about.html` `<body>` contains a `<div id="inner-container">` which holds the content that is injected into `index.html`. `about.html` has a `<noscript>` tag as the first child of `<body>` which explains to non-JavaScript users that they are viewing the about page "inner content" - with a link to navigate to the `index.html` page to get the full page layout with menu. ### The (Sneaky?) Redirect Google indexes the `/about.html` page. However when a person with JavaScript enabled visits that page there is no OUTER html template (e.g. header, navigation menu, footer, etc). So I need to do a JavaScript redirect to get the person over the `/#about` page (deeplinking to the "about" page "state" in `index.html`). I'm thinking of doing a "redirect on click or after 10 seconds". The end results is that user ends up on an "enhanced" page back on `index.html` with all it's OUTER template - but the **core** "page" content is practically identical. ### Known issue with inbound links e.g. Share / Bookmarking It seems that if a user shares the URL `/#about` on their blog, when allocating inbound links to my site Google ignores everything after the `#` ... it allocates value to the `/` page - See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5028405/hashbang-vs-hijax/5166665#5166665. I can only try an minimise this issue offering "share" buttons on the page with the appropriate urls i.e. `/about.html`. ### Duplicate Sorry. I posted this same question over on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5561686/hijax-sneaky-javascript-redirects- will-i-get-banned-from-google ... then realised it probably belongs more on this Stack Exchange site... Not sure if I should delete the Stack Overflow question? Or just leave it on both sites? Please leave comment.


google webmastertools will curtom crawl rate affects indexing what are the effects of custom crawl rate

My site was running well for the past three years. Recently googlebot's request my server got increased. and at one time i got network unreachable error. When i contacted my hosting company they asked suggestions from me and i gave a list of google ips to white list. They said that their server will block ip's which are of huge traffic. After that my site appeared well in google. Now after a month again i get network unreachable. when i inquired them they said i have to change my plan from shared hosting to a vps account or a dedicated hosting. I have 300 links indexed by google. will that affect much? So i thought of reducing the crawl rate. Please see the image below and give me suggestions.![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZxnKg.png) Previously it was default and now i reduced to the one shown in the picture. Will this affect my indexing in google. Besides will a server block google ip's for this kind of crawl rate like i have 300 links indexed. and they irresponsible say that i have to switch over to vps. confused.


Good webmail service provider

Short background:   We are a small webhosting company serving NGOs. We have over 2000 mailboxes on 500 domains. Our biggest problem is the crappy Horde webmail we provide to our customers today. Our server provider is married with Parallels PLESK and PBA suites, and cannot integrate another webmail than Horde to their offering. So we want to provide a better mailservice (especially webmail and mobile mail).   Now, we love gmail and Google Apps, but as far as I can decipher online there is no way to manage this many domains and accounts centraliced through their admin panels, or is there? Google is not ansvering my questions on this, I guess theyre not intesrested in dealing with small companies like ours. **What we need is:**   * A mail service that has good webmail and preferably a decent mobile interface   * Price up to 20€/account/year (up to 50€/account/year with shared calendars and docs), min space 1Gb/account   * Control panel with 3 user levels      * us (reseller, global admin): to manage all 500 domains and their 2000 accounts     * domain admin: ability to administrate all the mailboxes (accounts) in their domain      * user panel: for the mail user to manage passwords, autoresponders...   * API: We have hosting plans with DNS templates in our PBA environment. These automatically point the MX-records to the mailprovider (the rest to our webservers, such as www, ftp and so on), so there must be an easy way to start new domains at the mailprovider, preferably by a script on our server.  I guess the initial migration to the new mailprovider is going to be a pain in the behind. We do get our current account data exported as XML and CSV, but what about the other end, any services with migration tools?


Canonical links and non-identical content (mobile / desktop)

We are being advised to: Use switchboard tags to indicate alternate media for handheld devices. Canonicalize those mobile pages to the relevant desktop pages My issue is that I thought that for engines to respect canonical tags the content should be largely identical. This is based on what I read here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en Our SEO consultants think that this is no longer the case. Any opinions?


Google Analytics Kiosk: URL that compares current month to last, and is permalink

We have a kiosk that runs all the time. We display the overview report with this month vs last month comparison. But I have to come in and refresh the page and reset the period every day. Is there a way I can form a URL that accomplishes this goal and will update accordingly when I refresh the page?


How to indicate to browser that javascript (external) has been changed

The advantage of including js on web page is that I need not to worry about cached js file. If I change it on the server, the same will be reflected on client side. But it increases the size and complexity of webpage. It also affects average response time. But if I make a separate js, so it could be saved at client side on first request, client needs to remove cached js when I do some changes in js at server side. Is there any way (some HTML tag or attribute) to indicate to the browser that js file has been changed at server side. So it downloads the new copy. Or something like versioning.


SEO: Firefox addon/plugin to see Google results with a position number?

Do you know a Firefox addon that adds postion number to Google/Yahoo results. When I do SEO report for www.some-site.com by keyphrase "some-keyphrase" I usually show results in blocks of 100 results per page. Then uisng browser find box I search for "some-site.com", if found in page I see its position, but **I have to count by hand the number of results before (or after) it to know the exact position number**. It would be handful a simple addon that adds a number positioning before each result like:               1. Result blah blah     Snippet...     url          2. Result blah blah     Snippet...     url          etc.


A frequently updated mixed bag blog OR several seldom updated niche sites?

I am a member of a website where I have about a hundred articles (and I'm always writing more.) Aside from temporary problems I would deal with when removing content from the and putting it on my own domain (duplicate content, etc) I have another problem. Which would be the best for my articles? I have tons of articles in a wide variety of niches and would like to do what would help them perform the best. I'm not a huge niche writer and have received wide criticism from the HubPages community for my articles not performing as well as they could because I don't use enough keywords within the text of my articles. I prefer to write more naturally in a way that would appeal to an audience instead of keyword stuff. Anyway, this is aside the point. **My Question** After removing my articles from the site, should I put them on one domain or spread them across multiple domains grouped sort of by topic. For example: a-bunch-of-articles.com OR travel-articles.com and financial- articles.com and knitting-articles.com (I know those domains aren't available, but it's just kind of an example.) Here are the pros and cons of each: a mixed bag site like a-bunch-of-articles.com may not perform as well because of its mixed-bag nature a mixed bag site would be updated far more frequently than several niche sites... some niche sites may be updated so infrequently that a year could pass before one sees a new article a mixed bag site would be like putting all my eggs is one basket, where having several niche sites would spread out my portfolio, so to speak. a mixed bag site wouldn't allow me to easily target keywords, but then again isn't HubPages pretty much a mixed bag site?


Does Google Analytics influence Alexa rank?

Do the statistics seen in Google Analytics influence how Alexa ranks a site? Or does each service have its own rankings?


SEO: Navigation of Multiple Page Results

When displaying product pages I only show a subset of products to save server bandwidth and increase load times. Each page is implement as a link. I recently converted from a drop down selector that changed the page url on selection to pure anchor tags. My question is, is it worth it to make sure crawlers can access all my pages for the sake of screen real estate and aesthetics? I personally liked the drop down better than a bunch of page numbers separated by a pipe - '|' - symbol plus it took up much less screen real estate.


WordPress - SEO - does turning off comments matter on a non comment template?

I have a custom WordPress themed website. None of my page/post/category/tag/etc. template pages have any code that has anything to do with comments (as far as I know). I am wondering if there is anything wrong with leaving "Allow Comments" on for each post/page entry when creating a new page/post or is there a good reason I should un-check this for each?


What are the best ways to measure end user web site performance?

I know of a couple tools to measure end user web site performance and I'm wondering what else is out there. The two major ones I know of are yslow and Google's page speed.


How to find the most visited pages of a site?

When visiting a new site I'd like to see the most visited pages instead of browsing through the new ones. Is that possible with a Google command similar to "site:whatever.com"?


I've created a SaaS website directory, how can I improve it?

I'm looking for general feedback on my website www.saaslounge.com. I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post such a request so apologies in advance. I've spent a few days putting together a Joomla based website - www.saaslounge.com - which is a directory of web applications. The concept is simple, people can sign up to the site and list their SaaS apps in the directory free of charge. I have no intention of changing this model, for the site to work it needs to remain free. However what I would like to do is add more value to the site, and this is where you come in. I've been thinking about ways that I could add more value, and by value in the case of a directory I specifically mean gather more data on the SaaS applications listen. An obvious and easy example is to measure applications uptime and show this. We currently also check each of the sites listed against our SaaS metric http://www.saaslounge.com/saas-metric to ensure that they meet certain criteria. All thoughts and opinions are welcome. Oh, and I know the site design is shocking. We'll get that sorted if the site becomes more popular.


Apostrophe turning out as a '6' instead of a '9'

You know how with "quotation marks" -- with some fonts, the first mark in the set is shaped like the digit '6' and the last mark in the set is shaped like the digit '9'... …and an apostrophe is shaped like a digit '9'… Well, I have an apostrophe that's shaping out as a 6 instead of a 9. It's in the second paragraph here: http://richardclunan.com/copywriter/ It's right after a hyperlink. I don't want to include the apostrophe in the hyperlink, and I prefer to keep the copy as it is. Is there any way to fix this?


Google Analytics Goals with AJAX Functionality?

I have some nice ajax contact/enquiry forms etc on a website I'm working on which are working great (and degrade gracefully). I'd like to make use of Google Analytic's 'Goals' feature. The trouble is, the only way I can see this could work for my form is if it redirected to another page (be it a thank-you page or similar) after submission, then I can enter that url at a page people only visit after they've submitted my form. I can see how this would work for my non-JS visitors (if any even have it disabled!), but is there any way to track when an AJAX form has been submitted? Thanks Edit: I should add that I know I can work out manually the conversion rate and so on/so forth by the number of enquiries I receive, but why not try and make things easier for mysef? :-)


Too many duplicate image alt attributes. What to do?

I've got a table. And as you can see below I've got a lot of duplicate alt attributes going on. What is the best way to prevent this but still have valid HTML5 code?

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Google Webmaster Stats

## Google Webmaster Stats I'd want to show some stats much like the **_Google Webmaster Tools_** with the following things:   * crawl stats,    * links to your site,    * structured data,   * etc.  What is the way to get these stats from Google Webmaster Tools? I searched for it, but couldn't find a sufficient answer. Thanks a lot for any pointers.


Adding 'Last Modification Date' to HTML pages

I have a personal website that has around 4 - 5 HTML pages that I modify on a local editor (Kompozer) and then upload it to my website running on Apache. I have seen many a times, pages have the footer as: 'Last modified date: ' or something like this, the date when the page was last updated. How do I do the same for a HTML page? Is it possible?


Are there any possible reasons for a decreased view rate if nothing on the site has been changed?

Google Analystics says that over the last 4 complete weeks (e.g., may 21 to june 16), the average was ~90 views/day. For the last week, the average is 17.5/views day. Nothing on the site appears to of changed. There is no advertising. Could there be more to this than random flucation?


How can we change ownership of a domain name from "missing" web designer?

We had a website produced a few years ago with a .ORG domain name. The site hadn't grown with our needs, so we've now got a new .co.uk site. Our intention was to transfer the .org address to the new site on completion. Our new site is to go live soon, but the original .ORG site has gone offline (hosting expired I believe, as the expiry date for the .ORG is in 2012) and we now discover that the .ORG domain name is registered to the web designer and not to anyone in our organisation. The WHOIS information gives us the technical contact as discountasp.net. What are the steps we can take here? Our primary concern is getting the name servers changed (the current .ORG address goes nowhere) and ultimately we need to transfer ownership. The organisation in question is a community, non-profit organisation, so our pockets are not deep.


Domain forwarding to new sub domain not working

I've a site `www.xyz.org` which I've migrated to `xyz.newsite.org`. It has been more than a month but Google is still showing `www.xyz.org` in the SERP. I've migrated another site exactly in the same way and at the same time and in 10 days Google picked it up. It seems we can't indicate domain to sub domain migration in GWT. Here is the _.htaccess_ I've placed in the `www.xyz.org`:               RewriteEngine On     # Redirect Entire Site to New Domain     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} xyz.org$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://xyz.newsite.org/$1 [R=301,L]      I'm not sure if I'm missing anything else.


Proper Google Analytics setup for AJAX heavy page?

Lets say I have a website with a few pages. The purpose of each of those pages is to display live statistics for a real world event (for example, sports scores). Every 60 seconds, an `Ajax` call is made to the server to fetch the latest sports scores and the update the page with those scores. A user would typically open this webpage and leave it open for many minutes (maybe hours). They would never need to refresh the page because it always has the updated scores on it. What would be the best way to track my user's experience on this page with _Google Analytics_. Obviously, when the page first loads, that page visit is logged. But then, every time some Ajax call occurs, what would I have Google Analytics do? I want to properly track time-on-site and page loads. Would each Ajax refresh be considered a new page load? I've seen some sites suggest doing this when Ajax happens:               _gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/somepage'])      That would be like telling _Google Analytics_ that the user reloaded the page. Is this accurate? Or is there some other type of event to push that is more accurate for Ajax calls? Technically I guess you could tell GA to track the page view of the Ajax URL? Or would using custom GA events make more sense? The reason I'm asking is, lets say down the line, some company wants to purchase my website from me. I would want to be able to show them my _Google Analytics_ history and know that the pageviews and time-on-site is calculated accurately. I would not want someone to have a reason to question time-on-site or page views. If I was using GA events instead of page views for the Ajax calls, would that accurately be taken into account for time-on-site? Also, if I was running _StatCounter_ on the site at the same time, is there a similar thing I would need to do for that as well?


Why do some user agents have spam urls in them (and why are they always Opera/Presto User-Agents)?

If you go to (say) the last 100 entries (visits) to the botsvsbrowsers.com website (exact link, feel free to take a look: http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/recent/listings/index.html ), you'd notice that almost every User Agent that has the keywords "Opera" and "Presto" inside them, will almost certainly have a web link (URL/Web Address) inside it, and it won't just be a normal web address, but a HTML anchor tag/link to that address. Why is this so, I could not even find a single discussion about it on the internet, nowhere, I tried varying my search terms many times. If the user agent contains the words "Opera" and "Presto" it doesnt mean it will have this weblink, but it means there is about an 80% change that it will. A typical anchor tag/link inside a user agent will look like this: > Mozilla/4.0 disability > equipment (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.60 If you check it out at the website, http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/recent/listings/index.html you will notice that the back and forward arrows are in there unescaped format. This isn't just true for botsvsbrowsers, but several other user agent listing sites. I'm really confused and feel line I'm in a room full of 10,000 people and am the only one seeing this ghost :). If I'm doing statistical analysis, should I include or exclude this type of user agent from my listing (ie: are these just normal users who've set their user agents to attempt to drive some traffic to their sites as they browser the web), or is there something else going on? The fact that it is so consistent in terms of its format leads me to believe that it is an automated process (the setting or alteration of the user agent) so I cannot decide or understand the process by which this change is made (I know how to change a user agent), but unsure which program or facility is doing this, especially since it is exclusive to Opera (Presto) user agents that are beyond I think an 8 or 9 point something browser version. I've run some statistical tests, parsing entries from all over the place, writing custom programs, to get a better understanding of this. Keep in mind that I see normal URL's in user agents infrequently, they are just text such as +http://www.someSite.com appended to a user agent normally, especially if its a crawler or bot it provided its service URL, this is normal and isnt done with an embedded link (A HREF=) etc, so I'm not talking about "those".


Google Analytics shows visits to pages redirected in .htaccess

Yesterday, I switched on a section of pages in our site that replaces a really old collection of pages. In our .htaccess file, I have rules that redirect a request for any page in the old section to the equivalent in the new section. All the tests I have done show this is working properly. I put the old URL into the address bar, and the new version of it is displayed. However, when I look at Google Analytics Real-Time view, I am seeing a few page views for the old URLs. Since the redirect should occur before the GA code ever runs, does anyone have an idea about how GA is seeing visits for the old pages?


Wordpress Mobile Edition, Wordpress Mobile Pack, WPTouch - Which one and how?

First of all, Happy New Year! I am thinking about making my blog accessible and enjoyable on mobile devices (as many handsets as possible). I am using Wordpress 3.0.4. What I've found is couple of cool plugins like WPTouch (for touch enabled devices), The Wordpress Mobile Edition and the Wordpress Mobile Pack. I am wondering which one is the best to use if I can use only one. If I can use more or (even all these three) are they compatible? Does anyone have any experiences in this topic? If so I would much appreciate some advices or best practice links. Happy 2011, thanks in advance, Rob


Duplicate alt tags in a big gallery

Our website mainly consists of galleries, while usually smaller, they sometimes reach over 100 images per post. As each image is bound to the same topic, they are automatically named after the post title and an added incremental number at the end, for example: Title: `League of Legends Sona Cosplay By Eki` Image names:               league-of-legends-sona-cosplay-by-eki-1.jpg     league-of-legends-sona-cosplay-by-eki-2.jpg     league-of-legends-sona-cosplay-by-eki-3.jpg      ... At first, all of those had the page title set as their alt text and everything was fine for a long time like that, but then I got scared that Google might find that keyword stuffing or something, so I removed all the alt tags and they are now alt="". This seems like a really bad practice, so I was wondering what could I do to fix this and I came up with an idea to simply use the file name as an alt tag, but this still leaves a lot of duplicate content issues if you ask me. I am not trying to trick Google into ranking better, but merely trying to protect the site from any penalties that could arise from all the images there.


how to include tags in permalinks of wordpress

while using custom structure in my wordpress url , when i am trying to include tags, it shows me , it is showing errors , but when i add category , it reflects in url. i want that the tag gets included in custom url structure automatically , how can it be done using wordpress ... please help ... when i am adding /%tag%/ to custom structure field in wordpress admin , the url shows not found message.


Would problems arise if a domain was bought as 'name.com' instead of 'www.name.com'

If a website domain name was bought and registered as 'name.com' instead of ' **www**.name.com' would users still be able to find the site by typing 'www.name.com'?


Silverstripe: How can I disable comments?

My client site is built in Silverstripe, there is a news page, and it allows people to leave comments. Unfortunately we've got loads of spam emails. I'm new to this, is there any way we can disable the comment field by default? How do I do it? Alternatively is there easy way for me to install a spam protection? **Update** - Because this is someone else's code, I just realised that they have some sort of spam protection already, so we are trying to disable comments now. I have manage to set no comment as default by changing file BlogEntry.php               static $defaults = array(         "ProvideComments" => true,          'ShowInMenus' => false     );      to               static $defaults = array(         "ProvideComments" => false, //changed         'ShowInMenus' => false     );      Am I on the right track to disable comments by default? Also how can I stop on the news page showing xxx comments link? eg Test Posted by Admin on 21 June 2011 | **3 Comments** Tags: P This is a test.... **3 comments** | Read the full post


Can google apps be an alternative to outlook server with blackberry email and calendar

A client of mine is looking for hosting and email. They will be using a blackberry and outlook for both email and calendar functionality. They are used to working in an office environment where outlook server and a blackberry server work together. Will Google apps fulfill the same roles as outlook server and does it sync well with blackberries. Will Google apps push to the blackberry new emails and calendar events? Otherwise they would have to go with an outlook email hosting plan which is 20$ a month. Google apps is 50$ a year. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Bundarr


After changing DNS a domain shows differently on different browser?

I have changed the nameserver's of one of my domains but I found a problem that within Firefox these changes have not updated as expected, however this problem does not occur in other browsers such as Internet Explorer. I have refreshed the page and no joy, Why is the nameservers only working for certain browsers?


advantages and disadvantages of base64 image strings

I discovered that you can covert images into base64 strings and use those string within `img` tags and css like this:               <img alt="" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAhEUgAAA ... FTkSuQmCC" />      or this:               background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAA ... uQmCC);      Serving images in this way seems improve website load times, but may have some drawbacks. I have a few questions about this method:   * Will the browser cache these images?   * Is it faster for a page to render this string or an image file? I am interested in other advantages or disadvantages involving this image serving method.


Should I return a 429 or 503 status code to a bot?

We are doing some work to block excessive bots. We are throttling requests based on IP. In the past, using IIS, we have returned a 503 error to the client. Someone suggested that a 429 is more appropriate. I am trying to figure out which one I should use and why. When I searched this site for 429, I found nothing. I found these definitions of HTTP Status Codes on Wikipedia: > 429 Too Many Requests The user has sent too many requests in a given amount > of time. Intended for use with rate limiting schemes. > > 503 Service Unavailable The server is currently unavailable (because it is > overloaded or down for maintenance). Generally, this is a temporary state. It seems that the 429 is more appropriate to serve to an offending bot. Is this correct?


HTML: Images always getting reloaded from server

I am finding that my web pages' images are always getting loaded from my server, even though they never change. Since these are images, not pages, I can't include an expiration date for them... How can I tell browsers to avoid reloading images they already have? **Update:**   In PHP I tried using this:                 header ("ExpiresByType image/gif \"modification plus 10 minutes\"");      but this causes an internal server error.


How do I go about finding a good copy writer?

Darn it Jim, I'm a developer, not a writer! Great copy is paramount to search engine rankings and making visitors feel good about whatever the website is offering. What is the best way to go about finding an awesome writer who specializes in writing great copy specifically for the web?


HTTPS redirect to HTTP not working with 'www' subdomain

I have 2 rules on my site: one to force the `www` subdomain, and another to force the HTTP protocol:                 RewriteEngine On       RewriteBase /            RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on       RewriteRule ^ http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]            RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]       RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]      If I type `https://example.com`, it is correctly redirected to `http://www.example.com`. But if I type `https://www.example.com`, it isn't redirected to `http`. It remains in HTTPS. Why isn't this working?


Designing for the IPad

I'd like for my website to be accessible (e.g., fully usable) through the IPad. What do I need to do?


What's required of a web server in order to offer up streaming (but not live) video?

What's required of a web server in order to offer up streaming video? Where would you start? Edit: Let's assume it is **not** real-time or live streaming, just canned videos.


Google started to ignore some of my top traffic generator pages, How to fix it?

I had top search results on certain keywords with some of my articles. but google started to ignore them now and it completely ignores all pages with this keyword. I lost top search position and other sites that copied my article and even gave referral link back to the article are on top results. my site is listed in google, crawl able, and with no infection report on google webmaster tools. What caused this and how can I fix it?


Trying to push an affiliate program onto members, how soon is too soon?

On a site I run we have recently launched an affiliate program - one of the groups of people we want to target as potential affiliates are current members of the site - I mean who better to sell a service than the users of the service! I want to ask how soon is too soon to ask the member if they would like to become an affiliate of ours? We had been toying with the idea of putting it into the thank you email used when they sign up, but I think that is maybe too soon. Has anyone had to do anything similar? We want to catch people as soon as possible but don't want to bombard a new user too much.


Webmaster tools site performance - reliable measurements

I am measuring a few sites and use both webmaster tools and analytics to track various aspects. One of the aspects I try to measure and track is performance. I am getting a much more reliable measurements in analytics, mostly thanks to this article. However, I am also curious about the stats that appear on the webmaster tools `site performance` section. One thing I noticed is that the numbers don't exactly match. The second thing is that Webmaster Tools updates much less frequently. That's probably to be expected, but most of the sites I have will show latest information from a couple of days ago, but one particular site still displays data as `updated on Apr 12, 2012` (today is May 05, 2012). In terms of accesses, it's not a particularly small site compared to others. So it's unlikely the slow updates are because it has too little or no traffic. My questions, in case someone knows:   * How come one website only shows performance stats from nearly a month ago and doesn't get updated?   * What is the difference in _measurements_ (method, accuracy, source of data etc) between analytics and webmaster tools?   * Is there any 'best-practice' to make sure google (and me) get the most reliable measurements? UPDATE: To clarify, I am not asking what's the difference between webmaster tools and analytics, what are the best tools to test my site performance, or what's the best practice for SEO in general. I am quite aware of those. I am just wondering about the particular issues I experienced above and the specific aspects affecting performance measurements and update frequency in those tools.


How do I fix the Google Webmaster Tools warning: "URL not followed?"

A few days after submitting my sitemap to Google, I received this warning: > When we tested a sample of URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs > redirect to other locations. We recommend that your Sitemap contain URLs > that point to the final destination (the redirect target) instead of > redirecting to another URL. The example URL Google gave me is `http://iketqua.net/?_escaped_fragment_=CIDTKT/mien-trung/xo-so-kon-tum` I checked all possible things that I could think of, but still can't figure out what the warning is about! My sitemap: http://iketqua.net/sitemap.xml


Track a Adobe Flash app hosted on multiple domains with Google Analytics

I'm working on a flash app that's gonna be distributed to more and more partners (and obviously domains). It needs to be tracked **aggregated and also separately**. I implemented Google Analytics using gaforflash, tracking virtual pageviews and events inside the flash app. What I want to achieve:   * View an **aggregated report** of all partners.   * Identify the partner not by the domain (where the flash is used), but by a **partnerID**.   * **Each partner** needs access to the **report of his domain**. (no admin rights needed) I came up with this solution:   * Using only one "Web property" in Google Analytics.      * `UA-XXXXXX-4`     * `.example.com`   * Set a **custom/virtual hostname** per partner. (GA's "utmhn" parameter)      * `partner1.example.com`     * `partner2.example.com`   * Create a profile for each partner, setting the filter to include only the relevant "subdomain" Problems that came up:   * The gaforflash library doesn't support overriding the host name.      * Possible workaround: The gaforflash source code is available, so I could add the functionality.   * Any goal from the "master" profile is **not** copied to the partners profile.      * profile 1: include traffic from hostname `^partner1\\.`     * profile 2: include traffic from hostname `^partner2\\.` * * * Is it (very) bad to _fake_ the hostname?   Are there better approaches?   Or what improvements could you think of? **UPDATE:** I'm looking primarily for a solid data structure inside Google Analytics **regardless of** the **flash** implementation. The only limitations:   * We need an aggregated view across all partners   * Our partners need to have access to their subset of data   * We want to identify the partner by a custom partnerID, not the domain


Blocking adsense ad units for a particular country

So I have got one hater in India who bombarded on my adsense ad units. Luckily I didn't get banned from Google. I have blocked Indian visitors from my site using iq-blockcountry plugin (wordpress). Now I want to know if there's any procedure so that I can allow the Indian visitors but hide the adsense units from them? I don't want to block all visitors just because of one foolish person.


Free search tool for static website

I am looking for a free search tool for a website hosting html documentation files. the tool should display the results as listings of page title and few lines of text from that page. It should also work on the site being hosted locally on LAN so it should do the search by itself.


Where can I find a good perl script for a cronjob that backs up all files in a specific folder on my webspace?

I want to automate backups on my webspace. My provider allows for cronjobs to be executed once a day. I have already implemented a cronjob that backs up my database with mySQLdumper, using a perl script. Now I want to use a script that backs up all my files in a specific folder (e.g. /folder/), zips them and moves them to /backups/ Is there a way to do so? If yes, could you recommend a good perl script template that lets me easily modify it so I can use it the way I want? Ideally, it would also have the feature to exclude certain file types, like jpg, gif and png.


How to scan/clean my ftp for malware?

Just recieved this email from my hosting: > Your web hosting account for your domain xxxx has been deactivated, as of > 06/06/2012. (reason: terms of service violation - malware/virus) > > This deactivation was due to a Terms of Service violation associated with > your account. Any ideas how to fix this? I have a couple of wordpress sites and the hosting company is bluehost.


Does AdBrite Pay per CPM Only or Do You Get Money For Clicks as Well?

Does adBrite give you any money for clicks? I'm only getting a few visitors per day, but they are clicking on ads apparently. My earnings are very low.


Centring an HTML element relative to its parent when its width is greater than its parent

I mocked up my intended outcome. So the blue element is the main content of the website and the yellow element represents something like a diagram or an image that has a greater width than the blue element. Ideally, I would like a purely CSS solution that is able to deal with various sizes of images. I have tried various things but have failed so far. I hope you can help! Here’s some example markup to set you on your way.               <!DOCTYPE HTML>                      <title>Example</title>

Some content above.

Some content below.


How often do users of social websites use viral inviters, like gmail/twitter/facebook integrations to invite friends?

I'm thinking about developing a viral invite type function to allow users to invite some of their contacts from popular OAuth services like gmail, facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc. Before I go there, though, is there any research on how often users use these functions if they are around?


How to pass a url with appended # section to Twitter?

Is possible to send URLs with "#" selector to Twitter ? In other terms, can I generate a short url pointing to a specific section in my webpage ? I've tried to pass the url but Twitter interpret what is after "#" selector as a twitter user. I've also tried to use tinyurl.com APIs to generate a short URL for each section of y webpage, but it ignores "#" appended to urls... thanks


Sample size and statistical significance in Google Analytics

I have been asked to compile a report into dropout rates during checkout for a global webstore I have used a sample size over one month as my sample because:   1. google analytics slows to a crawl over larger sample sizes and makes much of the analysis agonisingly slow   2. I believe it to be statistically significant and a representative sample  My client has asked me why I didn't use yearly figures and wants proof that one month of data is 'statistically significant'. Am I right in thinking that I need to compare the standard deviation of my monthly sample to the yearly sample and ensure that the deviation is under a certain %age? **Question:** how do I prove one month of Google Analytics data is representative to one year worth of data? Stats:   * 90k unique views/month   * ~1.1m per year.


301 redirecting a blog's RSS feed URL?

I moved my personal blog from Wordpress to Ghost this weekend, which changes the RSS feed URL from `/feed/` to `/rss/`. By default Ghost returns a 301 redirect for `/feed/`, which I've verified by checking the response header and looking at the logs: ![server logs](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WDI7e.png) In Feedly though, new posts aren't being picked up (at least after 24 hours. I'm not sure if they might have a waiting period before updating the URL). What's the correct thing to do in this situation? Do I need to keep `/feed/` alive instead of returning a 301? If so, is there a rewrite rule that would let me do this in nginx instead of having to modify the Ghost source code?


When should I go for extended-validation SSL?

At what point do I need an extended-validation SSL certificates (EV) rather than the less expensive domain-validated SSL certificate?


What can be done through XFrames, as compared to IFrame in html?

What can be done through XFrames, as compared to iframe in html? Is there any new feature other than making it easier to bookmark in XFrame as compared to IFrame?


How does a website with user provided content get started?

I was wondering, How does a website that is based around content uploaded by users get started? When the website launches there is no content for the users to view or use/interact with so there really is not much of a drive for the user to make a account and use the website. How do I get started? Dummy content? Or just good SEO and patience? In case it's not clear what I mean; think of it as day 1 of Youtube(Example site) what motivated people to still upload content and continue to visit/use the site? I hope I'm posting in the right Stackexchange. Thanks in advance.


Canonicals with differing content

Interesting conundrum here with canonicals. Lets say I have a site with a "verified" system where other websites can become so and so "verified". Their url to send people to confirm verification is something like "blah.com/verify/company1" and "blah.com/verify/company2". But logically "blah.com/verify" itself is not verifying anyone in particular, so it redirects to the signup form to get verified, at "blah.com/verify/register". As far as the actual companies registered, I figure it doesn't make sense to index every individual url with only the tiny difference of which company name it's saying yay or nay to being verified, so canonicals could come in handy on those pages to condense the indexing. Yet making "blah.com/verify" the canonical "hub" doesn't work well because it's a signup form, not a verification page, so technically has quite different content from the various verification pages themselves. But at the same time it's a bit unfair to choose 1 company to point all the canonical benefits to and use that as the "hub", yet a bit wasteful to have google index every individual verification page and spread out all that linkjuice. Basically, I'm just looking for advice, what's best for this from a search engine standpoint?


Redirect cPanel url to something different

I have masterdomain.com which is the domain that hosts other domains. On cPanel normally you can get to the actual cPanel by visiting `cpanel.hosteddomainA.com`, `hosteddomainA.com/cpanel` or `hosteddomainA.com:2082` What I would like to accomplish is to have the hosteddomains cPanel auto redirect to something like `my.masterdomain.com:2082` . Doing this would allow me to adequately throw an SSL cert in `my.` and really offer a secure experience to my users. I know it's possible because bluehost does the same. They redirect to my.bluehost.com. Can anyone think of how to do it?


Is it possible to link a Google+ page to multiple web properties with rel="publisher" ?

I want to have the Google+ page of my startup linked to 2 domains: `blog.eatfab.com` and `www.eatfab.com` for the obvious reasons that they're both eatfab's properties. I wonder if that is possible. I'm able to link only one. The problem is that when I try to see on google rich snippets tool who the publisher of `www.eatfab.com` is (when `blog.eatfab.com` appears as a linked url on the Google+ page), I get the error:               This is not a verified publisher markup.


How to handle duplicate product pages for SEO?

I am using the following URL format to display products: `mysite.com/category1/product`. Now I am finding certain products fall into more than 1 category and I would like the product to be listed in all related categories so I end up with:               mysite.com/category1/product     mysite.com/category2/product      The product page is exactly the same the only difference would be the URL and a slightly different breadcrumb menu on the page. I understand this is bad practice for SEO, what can I do while still maintaining the URLs with both categories?


Why does google does not ignore the word "languages", although I have set to ignore it in advanced search settings. here is the term I am using in google search: -languages site:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ and here is the first result where the word "languages" is still present, (you can do a quick crtl+F to find out) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bedell_Smith I am just curious to know why google have not ignored the word "languages"?


subdomain not working and added /mysubdomains/devsitename

I am having a site www.example.com which working fine and I have a number of sub-domains which are working fine except one. When I gave the url **subdomain.example.com** the address bar showing as below               subdomain.example.com --> www.subdomain.example.com/mysubdomains/devsitename      It added the www and the /mysubdomain/devsitename which is my hosted directory in my server. Then it came up with **the website you were looking for is unavailable**. Has anyone experienced this issue? Do you know how to resolve this?


Sendmail encrypted

I manage a website running on Apache. It has public and private areas. When people apply for an account to access the protected portions of the site, they do a TLS/SSL protected POST containing their information which is saved to a (hopefully) nonpublic directory on the server. Then I have a python script which takes URL Encoded POSTS with this user information, sends back a plaintext confirmation to the applicant, encrypts their information with a freeware java command-line utility to protect it (specifically this one: http://spi.dod.mil/ewizard.htm), base64 encodes them, puts them in a file as a mime attachment and uses sendmail to forward the file information to my (and several coworkers' scattered around the country) email account(s) on an Exchange server with Outlook clients. This has worked well for years, but is awkward because it involves manually decrypting the information on a windows box once it is received, using the above mentioned encryption utility. This significantly limits how many can be processed. I would like to be able to encrypt my information in a format that Outlook/Exchange can inherently understand and display so that these emails can be viewed simply by clicking on them. I do have company provided PKI public certs for all the people I need to send to, and am able to send/receive encrypted emails on Outlook manually, but would like to know how I can send to Outlook from apache/linux/python from the command line using the same PKI certs. Dont need to receive them, just send. Is there a utility that can do this? I had thought pgp might but I havent been able to figure it out.


Html integration for user end only for moodle

How can I integrate my customized theme to only the user end and not to the admin end for moodle. The admin end should remain the same,but when user logins the theme should change.


What is redirecting mobile visitors to our website?

Our site may have been hacked. It loads okay on desktop browsers, but on mobile devices it redirects to a porn site. I can't see anything in the source code or .htaccess which would be causing this. The site is Wordpress based, and it used to use Wordpress Mobile Edition, but that is now deleted, yet the symptom persists. Can you see what is redirecting mobile visitors?


Joomla 1.5 admin section blank

I've just installed Joomla 1.5.22, and after I log into Joomla admin, the Joomla logo appears, and the content area with rounded corners appears, but there is no content, and no admin menus. I've uploaded the /administrator folder once more, but the problem remains. I've searched the Joomla forums without much luck. Any ideas?


Free Web hosting for web applications

Are there web sites that offers hosting of a web application that uses c++? I know that there are a lot of free web hosting solutions that offers hosting for regular web applications made with php, mysql, etc. I would like to upload a routing engine for my website. My application is a travel planner, and I have a custom routing engine that is made of c++. If there are free online Linux OS hosting that can act as a ordinary OS installation (which will be my best option), I would greatly appreciate if you can list them below. Thanks in advance.


"Not Provided" keywords from Google search: If your site uses https, does Google always send the keywords in the referrer?

Over the last two years the number of "keyword not provided" referrals from Google Search has grown to close to 30% for my websites. Google does not send the keyword in the referer URL when the user is logged into Google or searching Google via https. I've heard rumors that if your entire site is https, Google does not withhold this referrer information from your website. When sending traffic to a https website Google will send the keyword, even when the user is logged in or using https on Google. Is this true?


How do URLs work in a country with non-latin chars?

How do URLs work in other countries? Let's say India or China that use non A-Z characters. Do they use English terms in the URL? Or can they write characters in urls like: > सच्चाई.html


Disqus-like comment server

I'm looking at setting up a blog, and I think I want to go the static website compiler route, rather than the perhaps more conventional Wordpress route. I'm looking at using blogofile, but could use jekyll as well. These tools recommend using disqus to embed a javascript comment widget on blog posts. I'd go that route, but I'd rather host the comments myself, rather than use a third party. I could certainly write my own dirt-simple comment server, but I was wondering if anyone knew of one that already exists (of the open source variety). Thanks!


Author rel tag works on one author but not another

Here's one page I've managed to get authors set up on properly, no errors: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scirra.com%2Fblog%2F42%2Fwelcome- to-the-new-website&view= And here is one on another that throws an error with a different author: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scirra.com%2Fblog%2F46%2Fmore- on-html5-audio-codecs-and-politics&view= > Error: Google Profile does not link to article site As far as I can tell, they are both identical in the way they are set up! I am really struggling to see the differences here. Can anyone tell me what's going on? Ashley's Google profile has a link set up to his profile page and we did check the box saying "This is about me".


Forwarding -- ok for SEO, or should I reinstall WordPress at the forwarded domain?

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Problem with DNS setup on vps

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How does stackexchange websites manage to have google see multiple questions as multiple webpages?

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Website security

I have a website which uses membership/roles for security. However, I really want this site to be secure. My concern is one day something happens to server and the membership/roles is turned off. Is there anyway that I could add an additional layer of security to website that would not be too intrusive? This would be "on-top" of the ASP.NET security. My thought would be maybe a session cookie that is sent when a password is answered correctly. Looking for ideas. I primarily want keep the site secure even if the security on the website is turned off. In worst case scenario, I imagine that someone might could even browse the files. This would require me to put the check in every page which sounds very cumbersome and a hack.


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I was thinking of getting certain sections from different websites to use to build my terms and conditions or can I just use twitters terms and conditions ?


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I am in the process of translating a set of websites to multiple languages. Would there be any negative implications if I were to serve each different language from identical URLs? I fully intend to fully implement translated URLs, hreflang meta tags, etc. But before I do that (and start risking making a mistake where Google might start seeing duplicate content) I'd like to be able to implement the translations to make sure everything "works" OK. But will Google see that as "cloaking" or something else "black hat" because I'm serving different content from the same URL? Just to be clear, the language would be selected by a POST form, set a session variable for the user, and then use that session variable for the rest of the session. **Edit** I'm aware of the best practices for multilingual sites. I just don't want to implement them all at this time. It's a large project, so I'll be doing it in phases. I mostly want to know if I could be penalized by Google in any way. Also, the websites sniff the users Browser language, and if we have that translation will serve it to them seamlessly. If we don't have that language, they'll get the English default.


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I am having an issue with sending HTML emails to Gmail. I can send them to Yahoo, Hotmail, RR, AOL, etc. with no problem at all, but when I send them to Gmail I get kicked to spam. I have checked my IP with a lot of different list to make sure it is not listed anywhere, which it is not.               spamhaus =  is not listed in the DBL     abuse.net = is not listed in the SBL     abuse.net = is not listed in the PBL     abuse.net = is not listed in the XBL     spamcop = not listed in bl.spamcop.net          host 24.172.204.xxx     xxx.204.172.24.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer xxxevents.com.               host xxxevents.com     xxxevents.com has address 24.172.204.xxx     xxxevents.com mail is handled by 10 mail.xxxevents.com.      I am just trying to send a very VERY basic HTML message (listed below). I use an Ubuntu server, swiftmailer, multipart/alternative (HTML & plain), SPF = pass, and I am going to setup DKIM today to see if that fixes it (but I doubt it will)... For now I will only post the message I sent that gets kicked to spam and can provide any details needed.               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">          <title>Triathlon</title>

Thank you for attending our 4th annual Triathlon/Duathlon/5k at Hueston Woods State Park on August 12th.     This event is held annually to raise research funding for Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, and Muscular Dystrophy diseases.

As you know the results and pictures have been posted on our home page at  since Sunday 8/13/2012. Now we also have updated our Facebook page with those photos and you can start tagging yourself or downloading the pictures now!
                             our page and tag yourself at

                             test test

Race day events is professionally managed by Speedy-Feet

                Just plain text works great, I thought maybe wording was messing me up but not the case... I am almost done install opendkim so I will be able to rule that out very soon. **Edit:** Okay installed opendkim and I am getting passing results so I sent the html I posted above it went through just fine. So now when I start to add a few more lines I am getting kicked back to spam again. Here is updated html code:                `   <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">          <title>Triathlon</title>

Thank you for attending our 4th annual Triathlon/Duathlon/5k at Hueston Woods State Park on August 12th.     This event is held annually to raise research funding for Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, and Muscular Dystrophy diseases.

As you know the results and pictures have been posted on our home page at  since Sunday 8/13/2012. Now we also have updated our Facebook page with those photos and you can start tagging yourself or downloading the pictures now!
                             our page and tag yourself at

                             test test

Race day events is professionally managed by Speedy-Feet

PO Box xxx     Maineville, OH 45039
     customerservice@xxxevents.com | xxxevents.com

               `      EDIT: Thank you for your response Andrew, unfortunately that did not fix my issue.... I tried sending the exact message above (not containing any spam) and its still being caught. I am at wits end with gmail. Although I seriously doubt it is a system setting that is throwing me off, I am more than happy to email any information you may need to help me though this... As stated before my ip is clear, html validates with W3, removed all usage of spammy verbiage, and stripped out anything that I can think of that would cause it go to spam, send it and wham spam.... EDIT: Thank you for your response Nick, Yes xxx was simply to mask it, although I am starting to think I will not get resolution this way. If you think it will help let me know and I will just post the real html and we can see if we can get this thing going. EDIT: Thank you for your response Gabriel, I double checked my ip and got the follow results;                   Test    Result     SMTP Reverse Dns    OK - 24.172.204.xxx resolves to xxxevents.com     SMTP Reverse DNS Mismatch   OK - Reverse DNS matches SMTP Banner     SMTP TLS    OK - Supports TLS.     SMTP Connection Time    0 seconds - Good on Connection time     SMTP Open Relay     OK - Not an open relay.     SMTP Transaction Time   0.593 seconds - Good on Transaction Time      Okay lets try it like this, this is the original message (quoted-printable) sent. xxx is just add for posting purposes. So if I send ` Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted- printable Thank you for attending our 4th annual Triathlon/= Duathlon/5k at Hueston Woods State Park on August 12th. This event is= held annually to raise research funding for Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative= Colitis, and Muscular Dystrophy diseases. As you know the r= esults and pictures have been posted on our home page at since Sunday 8= /13/2012. Now we also have updated our Facebook page with those photos a= nd you can start tagging yourself or downloading the pictures now! o= ur page and tag yourself at test test Race day events is profess= ionally managed by Speedy-Feet PO Box xxx Maineville, OH xxx39<= table cellspacing=3D'0' cellpadding=3D'0'>This email was sent to xxx@gmail.com if you would like to = be removed click here http://xxxevents.com/removeme.php?rem= ove=3Dxxx@gmail.com' > http://xxxevents.com/removeme.php?re= move=3Dxxx@gmail.com` It goes through just fine, no issues at all. However if I send this; ` Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted- printable Thank you= for attending our 4th annual Triathlon/Duathlon/5k at Hueston Woods Sta= te Park on August 12th. This event is held annually to raise research fu= nding for Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, and Muscular Dystrophy di= seases. * * * As you know the results and pictures have been po= sted on our home page at since Sunday 8/13/2012. Now we also have updat= ed our Facebook page with those photos and you can start tagging yoursel= f or downloading the pictures now! our page and tag yourself at <= hr /> Race day events is professionally managed by Speedy-Feet P= O Box xxx Maineville, OH xxx39 This email was sent to xxx@gmail.com if you would like to be re= moved click here http://xxxevents.com/removeme.php?remo= ve=3Dxxx@gmail.com' > http://xxxevents.com/removeme.php?rem= ove=3Dxxx@gmail.com > ` Then it goes straight to spam.... Its the exact same message the only difference are the tables, the links everything is exactly the same.... I just dont understand.


How do I view ALL blog posts in an RSS feed?

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If we use non-US domain names, DNS and webhosting will we avoid these laws if any of them come to pass?


Which web directories can I reliably invest in to increase my traffic and search ranking?

I've been looking around for some web directories to list my company in that would 1) Feed more traffic to my website and 2) Increase my search rankings due to being a quality referral to my own website. There are many sites out there offering these services for all types of companies, but are there any which you would definitely use without worrying about wasting your cash? Thanks in advance.


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Can i link to other websites in my newsletter?

I'm intrested in adding several intresting articles on my newsletter from other websites. Am i allowed to do that in general or every website has it's own rules?


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I am designing a website for a Photographer. Obviously I compressed the images so that they would load faster and not use all the visitors cap. (There is quite a few gbs of pictures so that would just about take all of my bandwidth for a month if I were to browse all the albums.) The photographer was worried that having "pixelated" or bad resolution images on her website would create an unproffesional image for herself. How much quality can I sacrifice against professionality? Does it indeed reflect on the photographer if the pictures are in low resolution or will people simply understand the nature of the web?


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I am a novice, so excuse me if it sounds dummy. I read a few similar questions on this topic here but they did not answer my question. I have a personal website, hosted with C-panel control panel. Via C-panel I can easily create new subdomains and I do not need to apply any DNS settings or so. And the subdomian is good to go immediately and are working fine. I have unlimited subdomains option. When I check my DNS management control panel in my domain registrar's site, there is no record associated with my subdomains. Now I want to buy a new domain name from 1and1, and have it as an add-on domain in my prevouse host. 1and1 say they only allow 5 subdomains. What does this mean? Can not I create unlimited subdomains under my new domain name, just as I do for my old domain? How does C-panel create and manage subdomains that there is nothing about it in my DNS control panel? Thanks for your help


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Last week we migrated our legacy site to a new site created via WordPress. I implemented all 301 redirects, but a lot of them were done improperly by my developer. As such, a lot of pages were pointing to a root category (`http://www.example.com/how-children-develop/`) instead of the proper page. Now this "how children develop" page is indexed and serving for search terms that I used to rank really well for, but much lower in the SERPs. That said, my organic traffic has gone from ~800 visits per day to ~100 and keeps falling. I've fixed all of the improper redirects (did this on Tuesday) and added the proper ones, but my rankings are not rebounding. Am I going to recover from the wrong 301 redirects?


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What is the difference between a name server lookup and a DNS lookup?


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I have an HTML page in my root directory, and when someone clicks it I'd like there to be a directory before the file name, that doesn't exist. For example, instead of just being able to access: > wwww.example.com/link.html This would also work: > wwww.example.com/ **folder** /link.html Can this be done with a rewrite rule?


How to deal with overly aggressive "Link Take Down Demands"?

I've been receiving a large number of emails recently requesting I clean from link spam from my forum. Initially the emails were very polite and professional, and I was happy to remove the links. Recently the email have gotten very abrasive, here is a particularly rude example: > From: dmcaviolations@company-one.com To: id@privacypost.com > > Hi, This is the second time we are reaching out to you regarding your link > to our site hxxp://www.company-two.com from hxxp://www.my-forum.com/some- > topic-id. We really do need to remove this link. We have to report to Google > any link we were unable to remove, and I wouldn't want to have to include > your site in the list. Could you please remove our link from this page and > any other page on your site? Thank You, Name Changed Behind the superficial pleasantries I feel there is some very real maliciousness.   * Note the email address, DMCA Violations, I don't see how the DMCA is involved here, except as a word which tends to strike fear in many people.   * Also relating to the email address, it doesn't match the company being linked to at all. How am I to trust they are truely operating on behalf of company-two when they don't even use one of it's email addresses.   * My email is hidden by privacypost. While a service with legitimate uses, I feel it's highly unprofessional for communications between to companies.   * The claim "This is the second time..." Every email I've received has started like this, but a check of my spam filters has never revealed a 1st mail. Initially I gave them the benefit of the doubt, by now though it's clear this is a cheap ploy to start me off on the defensive.   * And finally worst of all- the threats of reporting me to Google if I don't do everything they ask. I sent a polite reply asking for more information. I have no idea if the email address was even valid but I never received any response. Much later I got this followup mail > From: name-changed@company-one.com To: id@privacypost.com > > Hi, This is the final time we are reaching out to you regarding your link to > our site hxxp://www.company-two.com from hxxp://www.my-forum.com/some-topic- > id. We will soon be reporting to Google any link we were unable to remove, > and currently your site will have to be on the list. Could you please remove > our link from this page and any other page on your site? I appreciate your > urgent attention to this matter. Thank You, Name Changed This time the from address was more personal, though still not obviously connected to the spammed company. Lets be honest, I don't for one second believe that the companies were the victim of a 3rd party spammer as they claim. The links in questions were generated well over a year ago, and I firmly believe the companies were directly responsible for the spam links in question, a type of spam that has plagued my forum. Now they have the audacity to demand I spend my time cleaning up their mess, using threats to ensure they get their way. Have recent changes in Googles algorithms meant all the cash they spent spamming the web has now turned into a liability? If so I can see why these companies are all of a sudden running scared. Frankly, cleaning up my forum is a good things, but the threats they are using sickens me. So my question here is specifically about the threats:   1. Are they vaild, and would such reports to Google destroy my page rankings?    2. Is there a way I can report this abusive behaviour to Google?


Using a server to host mail servers and redirect website requests to another server

I have 2 servers. At my registrar, the DNS of my domain points to Server1. How can I set up my servers, so that Server1 redirects all Web requests for my domain to Server2. My goal is that I can change Server2 whenever I want without having to change the DNS at my registrar (and have to wait X hours for the changes to spread). I would simply change something in Server1 so that it redirects to Server3 instead of Server2 and as soon as I would do that, it would work for all visitors. Does it make sense? How would I set this up? I looked at DNS servers and slaves but I am confused.