Landing pages explained more, and Ad landing pages need inlink from the webiste they promote?

After reading here what's a landing page is and some other articles i understood there are 2 types of landing pages, the Ad ones for commercial and the SEO ones. * * * **AD (COMMERCIAL) LANDING PAGES** In my understanding the Commercial/Ad landing page is **created mainly to have a commercial Ad (like AdWords on Google) to link directly to such landing page**. This landing pages are supposed to be in some way tailored to the text of the Google Ad and designed in order to trigger user action. An example could be a website that sells gold, silver and copper medals. A Google Ad that says: "Buy silver medal" and links to landing page that shows more specifically the silver medals (rather than all medals) and maybe some promotional offer with a big "Buy Now" button. The advantages of creating this type of landing page is that a user who was interested in the "Buy silver medal" advertisement and clicked on it, was probably more willing to buy something if he LANDS on a page talking specifically about silver medals, rather than landing on the website HOME PAGE that shows up all sort of medals and NOT specifically the silver ones. * * * **SEO LANDING PAGES** Still in my understanding, on the other side, the SEO landing pages are supposed to be in very simple terms **pages with some sort of interesting contents (that maybe also insists on some key phrases)** in order to bring attention and reputation from the WWW to that page and indirectly to your website. Reputation and interest to the SEO landing page is mainly generated because many people are gonna link to that page or talk about it in forums, blogs,twitter, etc * * * My questions are:   1. **Did I understood the differences between the two type of landing pages?**   2. **Are Ad (Commercial) landing pages supposed to have an inbound link from the website they promote? I would say no** cause there is no reason to give any sort of reputation to these type of pages, and we would also lose the ability to see how many visitors arrived on my website from the landing page (in other words how many visitors arrived on my website from the Ad campaigns). I would not even make Ad landing pages being indexed by search engines, in this way by counting the visits to the landing page I have a better approximation of the results of my Ad campaign.


If we sign up to Alexa Pro, will others know it?

I just signed up for Alexa Pro. If people go to `mydomainname.com`, will they know that whether or not the domain is registered in Alexa Pro?


Sitename alternate suggestion SEO

I had a question about SEO. Say, I've made a restaurant website, which is running for a while now. I added some titles, meta tags, keywords,description,etc,etc on it's pages. Now, let's say for example the name is fudeg.com. When I google for fudeg, it gives me results for fudge instead. Now, when I click on "search for fuedge instead" my site does appear. So how do i get my site entry in google for fudge? Do i add fudge in the description,keywords and other related SEO tags as well?


How can I make Google crawl content behind an AJAX load more button

I have a feed that has 10 questions and answers loaded when you first open the page. And then I have a "Load More" button that gets you 10 new questions and answers everytime you click on it. How can I make Googlebot crawl those new questions and answers as if they were paginated, i.e.:   * page 1 ==> 0-9 questions and answers    * page 2 ==> 10-11 questions and answers    * and so on. Or can you provide a better alternative?


Can I force Bing to reindex our site?

Our website is ranking quite well (first page) on Google for quite a lot of keywords. However, our website is not on the first 10 pages of Bing for most of these keywords. I notice our Google rankings have increased since I upgraded our website to Wordpress, and submitted the new sitemap to Google. Google re-indexed our site within 24 hours of submitting a new sitemap. I've submitted our sitemap to Bing, but I notice Bing's index of our site still contains our old site's pages, 5 days after submitting our new sitemap, even though Bing has crawled URLs in our sitemap. Is there a way I can force Bing to re-index our site, or do I just have to be patient? What is the normal frequency of the Bing bot revisiting a site? What is the normal frequency of the Bing bot revisiting a site after deleting the old sitemap and submitting a new sitemap? Thanks.


What is the key to getting your site accepted by the Open Directory Project?

I have tried several times over the past year to submit my site to the open directory project http://www.dmoz.org/. Every time I check back a few months later and the site hasn't been added. Is there a trick to getting a site accepted. What has worked for other people?


Shall I use Photoshop to design my websites?

I'm in the process of learning how to design my website. I've been reading a lot of design theory but now that I'm about to start learning how to use the tools, I'm stuck! What tool shall I use? There are so many! Photoshop? InDesign? Illustrator? Can anyone explain me what should I use and what's the best way to learn? Thanks


If a website is accessed on HTTPS instead of HTTP, should the URLs on the sitemap be HTTPS or HTTP?

I have changed my website from HTTP to HTTPS. At this moment, I have the next rewrite rule working to redirect calls for HTTP to HTTPS:               RewriteEngine On      RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.net/$1 [R,L]       Should I write the URLs on the sitemap with HTTP or with HTTPS? (including the homepage)


Allow parent site of iFrame to be a referral in Google Analytics

My website is advertised through various magazine websites. One in particular "links" to us by showing their website, a very brief header, and then our website displayed within an iFrame on their website. In Google Analytics, we don't see this traffic at all as a "referral", so I don't see anything indicating that this traffic is from a 3rd party website. Is there anything we can do to track page views, etc. that originate not from our website, but actually from the magazine's iFrame? Edit 1: Just an FYI, Im not looking to necessarily make the parent's site traffic list as a referral in GA. Merely, if there was any way for me to track this information and tell that the site traffic was coming from the parent site would be helpful to know. Thanks!


One subdomain is not working

My main domain works just fine - www.example.com and a subdomain set up by another developer works as well - sub1.example.com. But when I try to set another subdomain up I go through the process everything seems to work. The software creates the default files where the subdomain files should go. But when I try to browse there it doesn't work. My host uses Plesk to do all of the hosting stuff. What do you think the problem is? I doubt it is some sort of cache issue because I had problems on my phone which I tried after problems on the pc. Maybe for some reason Plesk needs time to set this up? I have used Cpanel before and that works instantly. EDITED Additional Information provided by the OP When I ping the domain I receive this reply:               ping: cannot resolve drnick.burnhamrichards.com: Unknown host      Viewing the url in my broswer gives this error:               Oops! Google Chrome could not find sub1.example.com      I visited the IP and I got a generic landing page that says something like "welcome, you see this page because there is no website at this address" and since I am using virtual hosts I imagine that is what I am supposed to see. When I log into plesk I see that the a-records for both sub1.example.com and sub2.example.com are pointing to the same IP.


How does bing-bot( is that the right spider-name? ) and googlebot interpret 301 redirect?

I've been looking for documentation on how the Microsoft and Google bots interpret 301 redirects. It seems that google-bot stores documents on a url based index system. But I haven't been able to figure out how bing works. Should I assume that they are still working towards coping everyone else and assume they use an algorithm close to google? Is it best to just forward a page to a new location via Javascript? I think this might be a blackhat trick, but how would I tell the bots that it's not? Is 301 redirect my best option and I just have to bit the bullet because said pages are no longer in existence? What other options do I have that I might not be aware of?


Joomla Hide Menu Item, or: Using Rich Content as part of the navigation

In my Joomla based web site, I have a two layer main menu. The page layout contains two sections whereas the left one displays the content and the right one displays some other kind of content which at the same time serves as a menu. For example, if the user clicks on the "Products" -> "SomeCategory" 2nd level menu item, the left section displays an image. The right section lists all products of that category. Each product is represented by an image and text. The content is scrollable. This section is implemented by means of a custom module (mod_custom) assigned to the menu. The content is rich text (HTML). Each product is entered manually by adding a picture and a text in the WYSIWYG editor, and by inserting a link for the picture and text. **Now the issue:** When the user clicks on a product, I want to display the corresponding product description article ("SomeProduct") to the left, accounting for the following requirements:   * The bread crumb now displays "Products -> SomeCategory -> SomeProduct"   * The main menu still displays the 2nd level for "Products", and "SomeCategory" is still marked as selected.   * _(I would love if the right section which lists the product would remain in the exact same scroll state, but that's a completely different story.)_ If I link the product entry from the right hand side directly to the article "SomeProduct", then the article appears to the left, but the **breadcrumb and menu are reset.** So I wanted to **create a hidden menu item** "SomeProduct" beneath "SomeCategory", and to link the product entry to that menu item. This way, if I click on the product entry, the article appears to the left, the breadcrumb behaves correctly, and the menu state is preserved. However, **it is not possible to configure the SomeProduct menu item as "hidden"** , therefore it appears in the main menu. I found some resources that suggest to **create another menu, called "hidden"** , which does not use any modules, and to create the "SomeProduct" menu item in that menu. **Unfortunately this did not work for me:** If I link that menu item from the product entry, and click on that entry, then the article appears to the left, but the menu is reset, and the breadcrumb displays "SomeProduct" instead of "Products > SomeCategory > SomeProduct". Lucky me! I found an appropriate stackexchange site where I can pour out my heart to you guys. Sure you can help me :-) * * * Update: To make my point clearer, see the wireframes below, they show how I'd like the page to behave. Please note that the "SomeProduct" etc. do _not_ appear in the main menu, but they behave like submenus of "SomeCategory". **User clicks "Products":** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/qSUjW.png) **User clicks "SomeCategory":** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Nj3XA.png) **User clicks "SomeProduct":** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QnrNv.png)


Logging what was in the content of a page

I'm one of the people working on a Java based website that has the apache httpd in front of it. The content on the pages is migrating towards personalizing the content and as such just about every user will get a unique page containing a different combination of blocks with possibly even different content in the blocks. What we want is to have logging that contains everything you see in an average apache httpd access log (all the technical details like the performance, cookies, header fields, etc.) and the functional information of what was in the html of that page (i.e. which block was shown where with which content and why was it put there). We have per content block a string that describes it (lets call this content- string). We came up with the following ideas to measure:   1. Log inside the application the request id along with the content-string during the generating of this block. At a later moment we could then combine the technical measurements (from the apache access log) with the content logs. This idea was discarded when we found it meant 'no caching' of the content blocks.   2. Log the content-string as an extra http response header and log using a standard apache feature. This means that we must wait with sending the content until we have everything because once we start sending html to the user there is no way to add an extra response header.   3. Use a sniffer (i.e. something like what is deep inside tealeaf or oracle ruei) and have that extract the content-string from inside the html (hidden inside html comments). I haven't find anything opensourced yet.   4. Use an apache module to extract the content and place this into the logfile. So 1. and 2. don't work. In addition we see that having two measurement points would make joining the various datasets pretty hard to do right. For ideas 3. and 4. I've not been able to find a viable solution yet. So I'm asking here: What is a solution that will work for a high traffic website? What other ideas are out there and what practical tools are available?


XMPP Protocol on XAMPP

Hey I was wondering if I could use the XMPP messaging protocol in the Mac application XAMPP.


Google Traffic Decline

Below is a chart which shows traffic from Google for a new website. What could be the reason for those dynamics: fast growth and slow decline? https://www.dropbox.com/s/xmv3kd3q0l2iyaa/traffic.png


Does the registration of a country name like spain.com is exclusive to the government?

Can an individual to buy a domain name containing only the name of his country or those domains are available for registration only to the government? For example spain.com, france.net, etc.


Google Experiment with multi step shopping cart

I am attempting to run an experiment that tests an alternate checkout UI. For the experiment, I use the URL of the original checkout and the URL of the alternate checkout as a variation. Google validates the experiment; however, when the experiment is running, a user can never get past the first step of the checkout when the user click the "Next" button (either the original or the alternate). Instead, the user is redirected to the first step again. When I stop the experiment, this does not occur. Why would this be happening?


How to make a program that display something and after 10 seconds automatically redirect to another site?

<?php         echo "Hello World";         sleep(10);         header("Location: " . "http://google.com");     ?>      The problem with this is that header is already sent               Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/provenda/public_html/silverslady.com/index.php:46) in /home2/provenda/public_html/silverslady.com/index.php on line 75


Software to run a large university website

I'm trying to find a replacement solution for a large university's current web presence. There are a number of strategies we are considering, including perhaps using an open-source or commercial off-the-shelf software solution. The list of requirements we have is very lengthy, but main points include:   * Robust content management system, which would allow for creation of multiple independent sections on the site,   * Flexible permissions system, allowing for a large number of section-specific administrators and editors,   * Ease of use,   * Extensibility, allowing us to integrate the software with existing IT resources (e.g. LDAP-controlled login system, numerous databases with HTTP interfaces, etc.) If anyone here worked or studied at a university and has used or implemented software solutions to this problem, I would be very keen to hear your opinions of what works well or what doesn't.


Prevent XML sitemaps from showing up in Google search results

How do I prevent my XML sitemap files from showing up in Google search results like this result of a `site:` search query: ![sitemap in search results](http://i.stack.imgur.com/mvq6y.png) I don't understand why Google would choose to show sitemap files in search results to begin with. These files are not meant for human consumption. Google needs to be able to crawl it to be able to process it, so I can't disallow it in _robots.txt_. I just don't want them to put it into the search results after processing it.


Criteria for hosting your own video or embed third party player (youtube)?

I have a client which I've been working with on a site built on Asp.Net MVC 2 (although I don't think that plays too much into this question) that helps with their workflow from outside vendors. One of the features is adding a video tutorial for their users (who are not technical, and will likely use the site once). Originally they wanted to embed a player (YouTube or another similar site) from which the video would play. One of their programmers though convienced them to host the video on their own servers. I can only really think of bandwidth as a concern. The video in mp4 format is 400mb, and while the site is low volume now, they are adding more of their customers to use it which is why we're continuing to expand its functionality. So, what other criteria would should be considered when making this decision and what would push a decision one way or the other?


Microdata for Q&A page

Which microdata is the best for a Q&A page or for a list of links to Q&A pages. When searching "yahoo answers cat" via Google it displays the result from Yahoo in a very nice way. It displays a list of related question with the number of answers. ![Yahoo Answers](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xCHuz.png) What microdata/microformat should be used on Q&A pages like Yahoo Answers or StackExchange to have similar results in Google?


Website showing increase visit rate in Google Analytics for those keywords which are not even listed in Google

I have a strange scenario. My website's Google Analytics results are showing the increase rate in visits for those keywords (using Google Organic) which are not listed in Google. I can see in Google Analytics that 500 users visit my site using XYZ Keyword by Google Organic search. But if I search XYZ in the Google search engine I can't even see my website in the first 20 pages. How could it be possible?


Is Product type from Schema.org the correct vocabulary choice for used items on a classifieds site?

I have a classified ads website at http://www.gastonia.com. We are redoing the architecture to be HTML5 compliant as well as heavily use Microdata from Schema.org. Given that most things there are used, is Product vocabulary still the correct choice? http://schema.org/Product EDIT: Given the responses so far, Farrukh gave a link with more details. This was on the page:               The following guidelines apply to product snippets:          When using product markup, the main topic of the page should be about a specific product. Product markup on listing pages is not supported.          The product should be available for purchase directly on the page. We do not support product markup for pages that require a user to visit separate seller's site or contact a seller offline to complete a purchase.          Adult-related products are not supported.          If the product has been reviewed by a single reviewer, the reviewer’s name needs to be a valid name for a Person (e.g. "James Smith") or Team/Organization (e.g. "CNET Reviewers"). For example, "50% off on Black Friday" is not a valid name.      Note the guideline that the object should be available for purchase directly from the page. Do you think that disqualifies using the Product vocabulary?


Should I use rel="nofollow" for social media links?

The question here is whether I'm passing juice to my Facebook, Yelp pages etc. I do want those pages to rank higher than those of competitors, but am I hurting my site by having these sitewide links without the `rel="nofollow"` attribute?


Setting Cache-Control and Expires headers for the end client only

I am trying to add explicit caching to 301 redirects. However, I am worried that a permanent redirect for one user might not be permanent for another user. So I'd like to use `Cache-Control: no-cache` so that upstream servers like my ISP don't cache that request (I believe that's how this works). This leaves the Expires header which I've set to one month in the future. But the combination of Cache-Control no-cache and Expires headers makes me think I'm doing it wrong. I'd like for an individual user to have a cached request, but avoid ISP/upstream caching. How should I set up my caching headers on redirects?


How to use Google Analytics to track visitors who come from a particular entry page

Is it possible to track, e.g pageviews, time on site etc., only those visitors who come from a particular entry page, eg.`http://www.abc.com/123?qwe=456` to my site using Google Analytics. If yes, then how. Thanks


Google shows wrong results for site domain search

I entered site:example.com on google search it gave me list of unique pages exists on my website, and then I selected 'Past Week' filter under 'Show search tools' it gives me just 4 results when I have more then 50 posts from past one week. Sitemap.xml is submitted as well.


Why does the meta tag use name-content pairs and not regular attributes?

More of a theoretical question, but wouldn't it make more sense to have only one `meta` tag with a bunch of attribute-value pairs? Instead of:               <head>         <meta charset="UTF-8" />         <meta name="author" content="Joe Schmoe, jks@example.com" />         <meta name="description" content="An article that summarizes the risks              and benefits of playing video games for high school students." />         <meta name="keywords" content="video games, high school students,              development, cognition, learning, problem solving, strategy,              parenting, time management, procrastination" />         <title>I'm About to Graduate but I'm Obsessed with Skyrim</title>         ...     </head>      Wouldn't it save some bytes to just write:               <head>         <meta charset="UTF-8" author="Joe Schmoe, jks@example.com"              description="The risks and benefits of playing video games                  for high school students."             keywords="video games, high school students, development,                  cognition, learning, problem solving, strategy,                  parenting, time management, procrastination" />         <title>I'm About to Graduate but I'm Obsessed with Skyrim</title>         ...     </head>      If the values of the `name` attribute are preset, why not just make them attributes? My method would be easier and smoother for Webpage authors, and I'm sure it would be easy to re-program Website crawlers/robots to understand it. Relevantly, **is there a reason why it can't be done?**


Rewrite and virtual hosts for moving subdomains to folder-like requests

I am administering a website that previously had mini-sites set up for various physical locations using sub-domains (`city1.site.com`, `town2.site.com`, etc.) and I now need to disable these mini-sites. They are no longer being used and reside on a server that is obsolete. However I want the users that may have or find old links to be directed to the Magento store running on a new server with a request that looks like `www.site.com/store-locations-city1` so that the user gets that store's information page. If I simply change the DNS entries for those subdomains to point to the web store server, and there is no virtual host configuration, they will be redirected (I believe, haven't tested) to the default virtual host. (i.e. `city1.site.com` directed to `www.site.com`'s IP with no virtual host for `city1` will be redirected to `www.site.com`) If that is correct, can I simply set up a rewrite rule for each subdomain that reqrites the URL to `www.site.com/store-location-[city/town]` ? Where would I configure those rewrites? If this doesn't work the way I think it does, what alternative do I have? Upon further reading, I tested with one site and these are my results: without a virtual host, I can verify that the url is automatically redirected to the default virtual host. If the url originall contained anything it doesn't change this behavior. I added a virtual host for that subdomain with:               <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost         ServerName city.site.com         ServerAlias www.site.com city.site.com              Redirect / http://www.site.com/store-locations-city     </VirtualHost>      which works unless the original URL had something else in it, say `city1.site.com/contact` which results in a 404 because `www.site.com/store- locations-city1contact` doesn't exist. I still need to know how and where to rewrite anything other than `/` in this case


Can apache logs tell between encryped and un-encrypted traffic?

Is there a way by just looking at the apache logs you can tell if the user- credentials is encrypted or not? Meaning some kind of encryption e.g ssl or plain-text. Thanks.


Domain name at different host to website

I have someone I'm making a website for with a domain name and current website hosted at fasthosts. I've built them a website hosted at a different host, unlimited web hosting. The website I've made them is in a directory like this `www.mysite.com/dev/0002`. So fasthosts: Is the registrar for the domain name, it also has all of the email addresses and their current site. unlimited web hosting: Has the new site in a sub directory, like `.com/dev/0002` Is it possible to keep the domain name and email addresses all hosted at fasthosts and to have the new website hosted in my unlimited web hosting account and to somehow have the domain point to the new website?


What to do About Wrong Information That Has Propagated Throughout the Internet

Many years ago, someone made an entry into Yahoo! Maps for our small research library that contained the phone number of our librarian. Hundreds of sites accepted this information as authoritative and have spread it throughout the internet, including: Bing, Google, Yelp, YellowPages, WhitePages, and CitySearch. The problem is that this research library is not our primary business. In fact, it is a very small group within a very large organization. Somehow, her phone number is as popular (possibly moreso!) than our main line. The librarian spends a fair chunk of her day routing calls intended for the rest of the institute. **What would you do in this situation?** I have recommended that we redirect the librarian's phone to the front desk and have her change her number, but she has had the same number since 1997 and is reluctant to change. In late 2009, I tried updating the info with Yahoo, Google and Bing. All three removed the reference library from their listings, but have since put it back. Are there services that fight internet disinformation?


What are some potential issues in blocking all incoming requests from the Amazon cloud?

Recently I, along with the rest of the world, have seen a significant increase in what appears to be scraping from Amazon AWS-related sources. So simply put, I blocked all incoming requests from the Amazon cloud for our hosted application. I know that some good services/bots are now hosted on the cloud, and I'm wondering if certain IP addresses should be allowed, as they may gather data that would in the end benefit our site's SEO rankings? **-- UPDATE --** I added a feature to block requests from the following hosts:   * Amazon   * Softlayer   * ServerDeals   * GigAvenue Since then, I have seen my network traffic decrease (monitored by network out bytes). Average operation is around 10,000,000 bytes. You can see where last week I was not blocking, then started blocking. I've since removed the blocks and will see what the outcome is. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/kdhwv.png)


Change from static HTML file to meta tag for Google Webmaster verification

I started verifying the server by putting a couple of static HTMLs in place. Then I noticed that Google wants you to keep these files in place. I didn't want to keep the static HTMLs in, so I want to switch to an _alternative_ verification mechanism, and include the meta tags on the home page. Unfortunately, once your site is verified, you never seem to be able to change to an alternative way of verification. I tried removing the HTML pages. No luck whatsoever. Google still considers the site to be 'verified'. Does anybody know how to undo this? All I want to do is switch to the meta tag based method of site ownership verification.


Handling Page View for Images Site

I want to know how sites like stackoverflow.com or imgur.com manage the page views of their article. i.e. once i view it and then no matter how many times i refresh it.. the page view count won't increase. I would also like to implement it for my image site and would also like to know when should i update views in database. Thanks.


Is there additional overhead for status code 500s?

We have these web applications that require specific information in a query string. If that information is not provided, the applications throw an error. It seems to me that we should explicitly handle this with a 404, since the URL without the query string does not point to an existing page. Most of management seems to disagree with me; they argue: > It's not like anything links to the page without including the correct qs. > So the only people who would end up at the 500 page are those who went there > deliberately, or because of a broken copy-paste. Isn't there additional overhead to 500s above and beyond what we might see for 200s and 404s, and if so, wouldn't it be easier for an attacker to trigger a DoS by focusing on URLs that throw an error? (In this case we're using Oracle Weblogic, but I'm interested in the general case.)


Change site name SEO impacts

My site is merging with my friends one so the domain and the site title will change, currently my page title's are structured               <title>Contact Us | Example Industries</title>      But when we change the name of the company I was thinking of changing it to               <title>Contact Us | Cool New Site Name</title>      I have a sitemap.xml file which I can add in Google Webmaster Tools to reindex my pages, but is there anything I need to be aware of when changing names, should I still reference the old name initially maybe in the title or meta description. What is the best approach here?


How to handle non-existent subdirectories?

I have a dynamic website with friendly URLs. Example:   * Instead of `/user.php?id=123`, I have `/user/123`   * Instead of `/index.php?category=fishes`, I have `/fishes` But, how do I handle non-existent subdirectories such as `/about/123`? Currently it gives a 200 success instead of a 404 not found error. Is there a way to deal with non-existent subdirectories in Apache config and at the same time allow for friendly URLs? Or do I have to handle this individually for each PHP script?


Are there any downsides to starting a domain name with a digit?

In response to my domain name suggestion on meta, Kris said: > Something about having a domain name begin with a digit just feels ... _off_ > to me.   * Does it affect site ranks on search engines?    * Do you think people will be less likely to visit it?   * Is this just a programmer response, since most variable names can't start with a digit?


Steps involved in hosting a website

I work as a Java / Java EE developer. I have built / maintained websites for the companies that I work for , but I have never been involved in the end-to- end process (Eg: procuring servers , registering the website etc). I thought of building and hosting a website for my uncle. He sells few financial products and he has to travel a lot around the city that I live to market and sell his products. I wanted to help him by building a website for him which would hopefully allow people to yeah out to him rather than him going and searching for customers. I am not quite sure as to where I should start - 1) Whom should I contact for hosting my web application - this is not a very critical app , hence a low cost solution would be suffice.Are there any low cost cloud based solutions available? 2) How can I register a domain and how much does it normally cost? 3) How can I copyright my website and its contents? Regards,


How do paid posts work?

I just had someone email me asking how much it would cost for a paid post with a link? It would be 300 words and provide a link to his website. Is this common and what's it called?


inspect element on webpage displayed by Google Chrome

How can I inspect an element within a webpage displayed by Google Chrome browser as Firebug allows me to do on Firefox ?   This question does not help me.      If you are used to use Firefox and Firebug, you can see what I am looking for on this picture (circled in red color):   ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/PHXnw.png)


Do I have to create a new master zone for every site in webmin?

I'm new to webmin and would like to use it for three sites. Do I have to create a new master zone for each of my sites? Thanks in advance.


How do I create templates for linking to PubMed Central ids and and DOI names in MediaWiki?

I want to build templates that would render `{{PMC|PMC number}}` as a PMC number. That is, hyperlinked to the respective PubMed Central entry for said number. For example, `{{PMC|2824929}}` would be rendered as PMC 2824929. For DOI names, it's pretty much the same deal (i.e., I write `{{doi|doi number}}`) but it comes out as the DOI number hyperlinked to the respective dx.doi.org entry. For example, `{{doi|10.4103/0972-2327.56312}}` would be rendered as: doi:10.4103/0972-2327.56312.


Speed up your website?

I use WP SuperCache and W3 TotalCache to optimize the speed of my Wordpress website by caching. That really helps! But lately I have been building a website myself, basically from scratch. Is there any opensource program/code/api out there which can help me optimize (the speed of) this non- WP website (by caching) or so?


What are the basic things to do in order to make a web site iPhone-friendly or more mobile-accessible?

What are the basic things to do in order to make a web site iPhone-friendly or more mobile-accessible in general?


Blog, News, Slashdot effects & Video

We want to set up a WordPress 3 with the multi-site option enabled in order to have several (2-3) sites for news, photos & video. The expected audience is around 10-15k visits/day. One of the problems is that we _know_ that we will have big, exclusive news which will generate _Slashdot effects_ generating spikes reaching to 50-70k visits/day. These spikes will be rather rare: let's say one-two spikes / quarter. Each spike will last 1-2 days and after this will fade. But it is _critical_ for us that during the spikes the site(s) will be online _AND_ responsive. Another problem is that (at least) one of the sites will stream _video_. It is our video but we think to put it on a CDN (more on this later). ~250 episodes, each episode will be between 35-47 minutes. This gives us approx. 150 MB x 250 = ~ 37 GB. We plan to post two episodes / week. No, we don't think that all our audience will look at these. Let's say that we'll have at most 2-3k streams in the first day of a new episode. Also, even if we consider that the video is good (isn't it? ;-) - we don't think that this will generate any slashdot/digg (etc.) spikes). We think to use Amazon CloudFront for this.(or another CDN? suggestions please...) **Giving the above what hosting solution do you recommend?** We look at the following values: speed, uptime, budged, tech support - yeah, I know, the Paradise is in Heaven not here, on Earth :-). FTR, most probably we need a VPS, that's why I put the question here. TIA for any comments


Is it possible to do A/B testing with Adsense ad positions?

I was just looking at Google Website Optimizer, however you need a 'conversion' page in order to measure results. If trying to optimize ad positions, this doesn't appear to be possible. Even without GWO I can't see a way to track clicks in Adsense, any ideas?


Apache RewriteRule not redirecting

I have this in my .htaccess file:               RewriteEngine on          RewriteRule ^images/chart\.png$    /static/images/chart.png    [L,R=301]     RewriteRule ^images/artwork/(.+).png   /static/artwork/$1.jpg  [L,R=301]          # codeigniter     RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|static|images|admin|user_guide|sitemap\.xml\.gz|robots\.txt)     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]      The CodeIgniter part should ignore the images and static folders. However, when I open mysite.com/images/chart.png I get the CI 404 page. The other 301 redirect is working fine. Can't fathom this one out, does anyone have any idea?


SEO and http-redirect headers?

Similar question but different on key points. I have the following setup: example.com requests forward to example.com/landing/re.php with a 301 permanently moved. /landing/re.php evaluates cookies (or other request data) and directs you to either the landing page or to a specific language site, it redirects with a 303 see-other. All http-redirects are sent in the HTTP response header section. I'm really worried that bots won't be able to deal with this and I should resolve this in some way. My first instinct is to evaluate user-agent and send google to our English page, however I am unaware of the issues with my setup. What's the best way for me to deal with this? Should I re-work what I'm doing to some other way?


Google JSAPI Auto-Loading

When using Google's JSAPI Auto-Loading system - is there a way to get the returned file with all the JavaScript (combined) in one HTTP request? At the minute is just calls the load routines (with more HTTP requests) at the end of returned file, which makes it less than ideal when it can reduce 2+ requests by just including the returned JavaScript content all in one.


AJAX Keyword Suggestion Tool

Are there any JavaScript includes to provide an AJAX based keyword suggestion tool based on some existing text? For instance Yahoo offer a Keyword Extraction Tool but due to cross-domain JavaScript policies in browsers it is not possible to provide a pure JavaScript version of this. If a site offered a library for inclusion that would then perform the query this breaks the cross-domain restriction. Is there such a service?


Slot matrix - Google Analytics _setCustomVar

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingCustomVariables "...Use a slot matrix to track large numbers of custom variables..." How to implement it?


Add valuable dynamic content to a mobile oriented (local) website, any suggestions?

HI to all, I'm developing a mobile website containing some valuable dynamic content for people living in my city. I did find some useful informations that aren't available in a quick, light mobile format and I added to my site: teathers' programming, pharmacy shops open at night, twitter account embedding... have you got any other suggestion? I was thinking about facebook oauth to add some "social" feel, but I woluld like to avoid cloning fb information/features, just add some other cool addictive thing. I 'm using php for dynamic contents.


Why is the difference between backlinks in Alexa, Google Webmaster Tools and Ahrefs?

I'm a little bit confused between what to choose. The backlink volume showing in Alexa termed as "Site Linking In" and the backlinks showing in Ahrefs have too much difference. Also, the backlink data showing in Webmaster Tools are too confusing. I just want to have the simple method by which I can check the backlink data for my website. How, which and when other websites are linking to me, so that I can strategize in a much better way.


I am attempting to implement a web-based solution on Windows with SQL server. Some batch loads and data FTP needs to be run on the server. How are batch jobs run in commercial hosted Windows environment? What do I need to ask the hosting company to provide me with (security, remote control software, etc?). Thank you.


How to track how many users are online

i need a good service so i can see how many visitors are online on my website. I need a good, reliable service that can handle high-traffic. (My hand-written script failed in the high-traffic peak hours!) Thank you! p.s. i need a good reliable service, i dont care if it is free or paid. i just need to have reliable data! thank you!


flickr API - usage limit quota

Hi is there anyone who knows which is the Flickr API usage limit? I have website and i would like users to attach photos to their posts via Flickr is it possible? Which are the limits? On the official Flickr api documentation there is nothing about usage quota :(


How to calculate Website Bandwidth?

I'm already hosting my site, and looking for another host. So I need to know how much bandwidth my website is using. On my current host I can see only following bandwidth related data: Outbound traffic (24 hours)   * **Maximum** 801kb/s   * **Average** 398kb/s I want to know how many Gb/month I need.


Installing Ruby on Rails without access to command line

I'm VERY new to this whole web dev thing but I can program and I liked Ruby when I used it before. Now, I've got web hosting and a domain and a site on there that's currently ran under Joomla but I'd like to experiment with Rails. The most access I can get to the server is FTP and maybe a setting here and there in the control panel. Definitely no command line. Is there a way to just, I don't know, upload ruby on rails to a folder and run it in a browser? That's how Joomla works I think. Literally every article I read about this starts with "you just do sudo get..." mumbo jumbo.


Google is indexing unintended content that is either unpublished or a secret part of site

Google is indexing parts of my site that I haven't linked to, it's a mobile version of website that I'm working on - `www.domain.com/m/` <-- **note the M**. How is that even possible? Only thing I can think of is Google getting the URL's from Google Analytics. Same problem with my development site, `dev.domain.com` - This I have fixed by re-enable htpasswd. Had it once, but disabled it for some testing purposes. I know I could use **robots.txt** to skip the indexing, but have always been told - "Don't put super secret stuff in this, as it is public domain". Will Google follow the rules of a `<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">` ? Thinking of putting this on the mobile version. People accessing `www.domain.com` from a smartphone is automatically redirected to the mobile version.


Drupal: Notify admin when comments posted on blog

I couldn't find a thread already clearly addressing this. I have a small personal website, basically a blogfolio. I'd like to allow anonymous commenting so ppl can provide feedback as I don't expect them to be bothered registering on my site. However, as the site admin I'd like to receive a notification whenever a comment is posted so I weed out abuse/ spam. I don't expect a large enough volume in the near future for this to be overwhelming. Is there a very simple way to do this? I'm aware of a few modules that offer similar functionality, just not sure which to use or if I even need a module to do this. Bonus if it's a method that can be extended to perform some automated spam filtering in the future if the workload becomes overwhelming. I am using Drupal 6. Thanks.


How to hire graphic designer?

I am developing the backend for a website. I always had the trouble of making an attractive design for my websites and have never hired any graphic designer yet. I have no logo nor web template. What are the steps to hire a graphic designer? What information should I read about before hiring one in order to make most out of our time? Where should I find him? How much do they charge and what qualifications should I look out for? Should I disclose my business ideas to the designer or could that be risky?


Different data with same title and keywords

Here is my scenario: I have a website where I redirect my users based upon the device they are using. Let's say a user is visiting from an iPad: I take them directly to the page of iPad wallpapers. The user selects iPad version and I them take them to the gallery of wallpapers where they can select and download any wallpaper. Every wallpaper is the required resolution, I have my reasons for doing this. Now the thing is there are multiple resolution versions of an image appearing on 5 different sections of my website, each having their own view page. There is only one record in the database table for the image, and based on my consistent naming convention of the images, I pick the required image. This means when 5 different pages are generated in 5 categorized sections of the website, due to a shared database record, the keywords, titles and every single detail of these is the same besides the resolution of the image, and the section specific details that a page has. The pages also have different paths like               wallpapers.com\ipad-1\cars\Ferrari-dino.html     wallpapers.com\ipad-2\cars\Ferrari-dino.html     wallpapers.com\ipad-3\cars\Ferrari-dino.html     wallpapers.com\ipad-4\cars\Ferrari-dino.html     wallpapers.com\ipad-5\cars\Ferrari-dino.html        1. _**My question is, how do search engines see it and how do they rank it?_**   2. _**Is it a good or normal or bad SEO practice? If bad, how dangerous it is for my site's SEO?_**


How to host a website in multiple countries for fast response times

I have an eCommerce store and it sells digital downloads. The website is hosted in the US, but I have a large customer base that is outside the United States in different countries. I know the hosting here will be fast for US customers, but how can I make it fast for viewers all around the world? Because when someone outside the US accesses the website, the request will always go to the US data center. Is it possible that when the site is accessed from outside US (e.g: UK), the request should go to UK (or nearest) data center? If I buy different TLD's `.co.uk`, `.com` etc. for different countries (but should target same website), then is it possible that in UK, it should open `.co.uk`. I can achieve it using IP locator and redirect the user to the respective URL? But how does the request go to the nearest server? Is it possible via CDN, cloud, cloud hosting, or something else? How can I achieve this goal?


Will moving to Facebook/Disqus Commenting lighten the load on my server any?

I manage a site that gets about 50 million hits a month. It's a Wordpress site, load balanced over 6 servers, and has a varnish caching system setup. Right now, 95 - 97% of the time, page views hit the cache. The only time it serves up a new page from the server is when a new story is created, or someone is logged in looking at the stories and commenting. What I am trying to figure out is that if I move over to Facebook Comments or Disqus commenting, and get rid of the users entirely, will that lighten the load? I would think it would because the only time you would be hitting the server, and not the cache, is when you're logged in - which only the admins would be. I know it's only 2.5 - 3% but I wasn't 100% sure.


Does AdSense serve higher CPC ads to a website that has higher number of visits?

For the same niche and same set of keyword, does Google AdSense serve higher CPC ads to a website that has higher number of visits? I have observed that for similar niches 1 website (with 3K daily uniques) makes around $100 a month, and another website (with 10k daily uniques) makes around $700-800 a month It seems that the earning curve is not linearly dependent on visit count and somewhat increases at a rate faster than the growth of visits, this leads me to think if the Google AdSense algorithm serves higher CPC ads once a website starts getting a large number of visits.


What's the canonical process for backing up a website?

This is going to sound terrible, but bear with me. I currently have a cron job that does a mysql dump, a git add all and commit, and a git push to bitbucket. I set this up almost a year ago, when I didn't know much about git, backups, and general web development and administration. I haven't had the time to fix this and do it properly, but the repo has now grown quite big from accumulating large temporary files from my forum, so now I _have_ to do something and I want to do it properly this time around. **What processes do semi-large websites and personal site admins use for backing up server content?** Based on what I've learned since I set this up, what I'm currently think of doing is:   1. Making changes on a development domain and committing the code frequently   2. Archiving the entire site after a successful deployment from the development domain   3. Having automatic daily database and user-content backups.  I still like the idea of backing up sqldumps with git, though. I know git isn't a backup tool and that this is beyond its purpose, but the textual queries that are exported would be easily managed by git and would save a lot of space in archives.


Blogger AdSense ads not showing?

I have a Blogger site. I have configured AdSense in Earnings tab with a valid AdSense account (it has been run for 8 years) but the ads are not showing. What else can I configure?


understanding technology that news websites use

I am trying to understand the technology which many news websites use please have a look at this website http://www.shritimes.com/ if you click any news item then the particular thing gets zoomed and viewer can read the news as far as I can understand they have done some programming by which a gif image is opened up in a new pop up, can some one help to understand as what thing is used here javascript,html, php or what exactly? I have seen this feature in a lot of websites I want to know how it is achieved? I am looking from the code side of the things if some one can advise me any function call which does this I am a programmer but into C I am new to web kind of things.


Open a page that redirects without clearing cache

I've taken over a website that has an index.html page that redirects. This page gets cached. Obviously clearing the browser's cache entirely would solve the problem. Is there any way to go directly to mysite.com and be assured of getting the new page without completely clearing the cache? I'm looking for something similar to holding shift when reloading a page, only this time for the initial opening of a page.


Number of pages in Google web index falling?

Accoring to webmasters tools (sitemaps), the number of pages for one of my sites in the Google index has been steadily declining over the last few days. In the space of a week the number of pages has dropped from over 1000 to just over 400. Why might this be? Has anyone else experienced something similar recently?


How to choose a good website/company name?

A friend and I have a small web hosting company, and we want to take things to the next level. Part of the deal is to get a new name (the current name was chosen pretty quickly a long time ago, and contains my friends online pseudo), but we're having a hard time to find a good one. We can either choose a "descriptive" name, that contains some keywords related to what we do (web, net, hosting, etc...), will help for SEO and may give people an idea of what we do, or we could have a "fancy" name, that sounds good, is catchy and easy to remember, but will not help for SEO or giving clients a clue. Both kinds are equally hard to find, because in the first case most of the meaningful/cool names are already take, and in the second case... well... it's hard to come up with a catchy/sexy name ;). How do you guys cope with this issue? Do you have any name recommendation for a web hosting company? The name would be both the domain name and the (registered) company name.


Web hosting on another continent?

My client from the US wants to have a website for Australian users. I am wondering if the web host really needs to be in Australia for this site. Does it really make any difference compared to having it hosted in the US?


.htaccess remove index.php/url/ from URL

.htaccess is not working.   * `/index.php/user` -- is working   * `http://www.example.com/user` is not working Current .htaccess file:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]


Question on (size) relation between diferrent images on a website

I have a website that uses 2 image sizes:   * thumbnail   * profile They have different sizes (obviously), but their aspect (i.e. width/height) ratios are different. My question9s) is this: I would like to know what the standard way of doing things on a website is. When a user is uploading a photograph, I ask for a large photograph (which will be used for the profile page), I then "redimension" that image to a thumbnail **Q1.** Is this the "normal" way of doing things? (I dont want to make things difficult/different for my users) If that is the normal way of doing things, then I assume that it would be important to preserve the "aspect ratio" between the profile photo and the thumbnail photo, otherwise the thumbnail photos will be distorted. **Q2** Is this assumption (i.e. maintaining aspect ratio between thumbnail and profile image) correct?


Deny access to a folder on hosting server but serve the pages

My hosting server allows to host multiple websites.   The directory structure is like this   * root   |_ www.a.com   |_ www.b.com   |_ www.c.com   |_ www.d.com I want to put some PHP files on the www.d.com folder so if some one browse the site from web-browser can get it, but no one can get it's source code _[even by loggin in to the root folder]_.   Is there any way to doing so ?   There is a feature called `Password protect folder` or so, can in help in this case ?


How to read Google Analytics events data?

My question is about Android application button press tracking, but I believe there is no big difference with button press on the web page, so I ask the question here. I would like to track user actions and user settings in my android app, so I've added the following code (executed when user presses particular button):               if (user_name != "") has_name = 1;     ...     easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "send_mail", "has_name", (long) has_name).build());     easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "send_mail", "has_address", (long) has_address).build());     easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "send_mail", "has_operator", (long) has_operator).build());     easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "send_mail", "has_passport", (long) has_passport).build());     easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "send_mail", "has_phonenumber", (long) has_phonenumber).build());     easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "send_mail", "has_mo_consent", (long) has_mo_consent).build());     easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "send_mail", "has_other_docs", (long) has_other_docs).build());     easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "send_mail", "has_screenshot", (long) has_screenshot).build());          easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("ui_action", "complaint_region", email_to, null).build());       See createEvent description - it sends `Event category`, `Event action`, `Event label`, Event value accordingly. Now I see the following results for particular date - EVENT ACTION: send_mail » EVENT CATEGORY: ui_action ![ea:send_mail- ec:ui_action](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Y5CGD.png) EVENT CATEGORY: ui_action » EVENT ACTION: complaint_region ![ec:ui_action_ea:complaint_region](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gBoXm.png) I can not understand - should not be total number of events `complaint_region` multiplied by 8 (number of event labels for `send_mail`) be equal to `send_mail` total events? `76*8 != 1038`. And, the main question - how many times all users pressed the button? `76`?


Is it possible for a web-server to send more files than requested for, and have the browser accept them?

I've created a basic web server for a school project, and it serves static content without a problem. I thought of having the server parse all htm/html files for links to .js/.css/image files, and send these files to the client without these files being requested by the client later. > eg. The browser requests: index.htm > >> The server responds with intex.htm and image.jpg I modified the server to send two distinct http responses for a "GET /index.html HTTP1.1" (one for the html page and one for the image), but the browser ended up requesting the image when it was good and ready. Is there any way to bypass this? (use a multipart response, perhaps) Will these files be accepted by most browsers, or will they be rejected for security reasons?


Tie multiple values to an event in Google Analytics

I have a search form with several fields - 1 or all of them may be used. I also have an outbound link on the search results that trigger an event. What I am trying to do is determine how many of each search term is used in some way that resulted in a click to each of these outbound link events. For example, let's say that I have the following searches, both which result in a click event on OutboundLink A **Search 1**   * FirstName: John    * LastName: Smith    * ZipCode: 90210 **Search 2**   * LastName: Smith   * State: California I would want something that aggregated the search terms that came before that outbound click event like this:   * John: 1    * Smith: 2    * 90210: 1    * California: 1 I can try to figure out a way to track this server-side, but I was hoping that I would be able to do this with Google Analytics.


Will a standard CMS on a shared web hosting account work for this?

I have two questions concerning CMS's that I need answered if possible: I need to create a site with a Database. This site will in due time have lots of traffic and many users if things go as planned. Is it better to have the CMS on a shared web hosting account or is it better to have a dedicated server for this? The site I want to create needs to be able to create groups where each group has its own admin. The admin of the group decides the content that each member can view/access. The information of one group can be shared to other groups as well. This means that only the information content is shared but not the group's member data. Should I use a single or multiple databases for this problem? Is this something that can be done using standard CMS systems out there. or should I try to build one myself?


DNS forwarding used to point GoDaddy DNS to Heroku app: this doesn't work from a corporate network, why?

My domain on GoDaddy is set up with DNS forwarding to the Heroku app. This works fine from all the internet connections I've tried except for the one at work. How can I troubleshoot this issue? Is it a case of ports being blocked? Why might that matter?


RewriteRule for URL Subdirectory Root

Have not found this in my searches on SE. I need this scenario to work: • User visits **someurl.com/news/folder** or **someurl.com/news/somefolder/** , they get redirected to **someurl.com/somefolder**. • If the user visits JUST **someurl.com/news** or **/news/** , they are allowed through to visit **/news**. Here is my current rule: **RewriteRule ^news/(.*) /$1 [NC,R=301,L]** How do I make it allow the second bullet point? First seems to work with no issues. Thanks all! **POST UPDATE** I have got the code RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^news RewriteRule ^/news news/ [NC,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/news/(. _)$ RewriteRule ^news/(._ ) /$1 [NC,R=301,L] BUT - it doesn't allow me to go to the URL something.com/news/ Any thoughts?


Trouble with pleskrestore "The file you are trying to upload is not a valid backup file"

I am having trouble with pleskrestore on Plesk 10.4.1, CentOS 5. I have 6 files I created (also in Plesk 10.4.1) with pleskbackup, split into 4GB: Here is what I used ...               $ /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup --server --output file=ftp://user:pass@domain.com/colossus729_split_0 --split=4G      ... to make these files:               colossus729_split        colossus729_split.001        colossus729_split.002        colossus729_split.003        colossus729_split.004       colossus729_split.005       But plesk restore wouldn’t work with those files (contrary to the documentation)               # /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore colossus729_split -level server -license      and get this error:               "The file you are trying to upload is not a valid backup file"


Are there any cross-operating-system, cross-browser bugs of which web-programmers should be aware?

Perhaps this belongs on superuser, but I'll try here on stackoverflow first I develop on Ubuntu and was wondering if it's safe to assume that my site will look the same in, say, Chrome, _when viewed on a Mac or Windows system_ , as it does when viewed on a Linux machine in the **same browser**. I'm not talking about cross-browser problems here, but rather **cross- operating-system browser issues** I guess that all Linux users know to be sure to include some Linux safe fonts in their font-stack cos we don't all have Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Tahoma and the lovely Trebuchet MS installed by default, but is there anything else? I understand (and fully expect) that **our favourite browser** (IE), doesn't work the same under Wine as it does in Windows but I'd hope that other browsers do


Search engines, different vhosts on same server, with some stuff in common: do I risk blacklisting?

I don't want to have different domain names that point to the same server, of stuff like this here. My problem is a bit different. Let's take the real example, then we can generalize the problem. I'm "Olivier Pons". I have my own blog here at http://olivierpons.fr, server: 88.191.136.228. I have a another website that is about to open, that has _nothing to do with my blog_. It's a Website where you can put your jobs. It will have the same server, i.e. 88.191.136.228. I will be the first to be registered, with my job, and my name will appear in 78 different pages (78 departments actually). I there any chance (is it a chance?) some SEOs will blacklist me? ## To generalize: If we host different websites on the same server **and** if they have some things in common, what are the chances to be blacklisted?


How to host my jsp files in google appengine?

I wondered how to add my own JSP files in Google app engine. I created my account in Google app engine. I don't know where to host my file and what is the url of my google appengine. Can anybody give me a simplified explanation?


Turn off auto saves in frontpage 2003

When using FrontPage 2003, it insists on updating index.php without asking. I cannot see a way to disable this behavior. Does anyone know if there is a way to stop FrontPage from modifying files automatically?


Is there a way to see Desktop Events vs Mobile Events in Google Analytics like it does Goals?

In Google Analytics in the Mobile Overview it shows Desktop / Mobile / Tablet and has columns for conversions/goals. Most of our setup is using Event triggers not linked to any Goal though. For example downloading our product catalog as a .pdf triggers an Event. Is there a way to see these events in the Mobile Overview or only if I tie each one to its own goal?


Are you allowed to save Google static map images?

I wanted to know if you are allowed to save a static image of an area of a map so the usage limit does not run out and gets replaced with an quota exceeded image. If it's allowed, then I can save the image onto my server and link it around my website instead making requests to the Google Static Maps API.   * Google Static Maps API I have not seen a policy where you are not allowed, but all I need is confirmation if you are allowed or not so I don't get in any kind of trouble.


Does the keyword blog in url impove seo?

I have seen a couple of site which has high number of hits. They are mostly tutorial sites and blogs that address software issue/errors. I wonder if the keyword "blog" has a very positive effect in SEO? In my own site, I have installed Wordpress in root folder to avoid any blog keyword. I also did this to keep urls shallow (deeper url are not good for SEO). But I may want to think on it again. The sites I am referring too are               http://blog.sqlauthority.com     http://veerasundar.com/blog/2011/11/making-xampp-to-serve-any-directory-outside-htdocs/      I know there are standard (sort of) class names or ID that identify different contents and makes it easier for the search engine to identify contents like, "container", "menu". The use of word "blog" would mean this is about dicussing/tutoring something and have a very positive effect on SEO?


ShipWire on wpcommerce

I found in wp-commerce the words "Shipware" ...what does it means? In addition, Where i can find videos or video tutorials/course of cms and plugins for e-commerce? Like Magento, etc. wp-commerce.?


Is there a way to capture a users data after a Paypal transaction has been completed?

Are there any $_POST variables that are sent with my transaction complete url, that I can save in the users session. I would like to be able to capture the email address from the customers PayPal account.


Filter post and route them on a tab in a facebook page

I use dlvr.it to route feeds from many sites on my facebook page. The problem is that they all appear in my main page, hiding the post I create. So i was wondering, is there a way to redirect all those post on a separate tab? maybe some kind of filtering based on the content of the post? Thanks a lot


Is it useful to create a Facebook page for a website?

I'm aware Facebook pages can be used as a communication and marketing channel for a website. Is there value in creating a Facebook page for a noncommercial website that is moderately trafficked? The idea behind this is to create additional informational/marketing channels for some websites I run.


cpanel pipe default system mail account

In the cPanel forwarders option how to pipe a system default mail account? For example if the system username is sample and the domain name is example. Address to Forward: here a text box accepts the name and next to that is a list box which is the domain name and it is mandatory. so the email address will become sample@example.com but a system default mail id is not associated with @domainname.com i think see the screen shot... ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BoORb.png) in that i can specify sample as the system default mail account but the list box shows the sitename. so how to specify only the system default mail account to be forwarded to a piped program or to another email address ?


Using a .htaccess to RewriteRule and Redirect 301 at the same time?

I have a couple of specific URLs that I want to display differently on my website, like this:               RewriteRule ^contact$ contact.php      To get ride of the ".php" extension. And to be SEO friendly (to avoid having 2 different URLS pointing to the same page), I also want to do a 301 redirect between the old URL and the new one:               Redirect 301 /contact.php http://www.example.com/contact        Each of the lines above works well separately. But if I add them both in my htaccess, I have a redirect loop, and nothing is displayed on my website. How can I fix that? In the end, if I either type "/contact" or "/contact.php", I want to see the contact page with the url "/contact".


What is the empirical way to tell that Google has removed a URL from the index?

After merging two sites, one with ~40 URLs and one with ~700 URLs (due to a forum) the result was that overall traffic decreased by ~50%. I want to get the traffic back, as it was organic and a helpful resource to the community. After finding this answer I decided to try removing the ~700 forum pages from the index by using a robots.txt disallow, which didn't work. As this FAQ and this answer point out, the robots.txt must _allow_ the pages and meta noindex must be used. After applying noindex tags to all forum pages, removing the disallows from robots.txt and waiting a week, still there are 700+ URLs in the index according to Google webmaster tools. However, if I view the advanced index status and check all the boxes, it shows 795 URLs indexed and 200+ blocked by robots. The blocked by robots graph line is increasing steadily (~30 URLs per week). Note that average crawl rate is ~125 pages per day. My question is this: How can I tell that the URLs have successfully been removed? Looking at Google webmaster tools' graph of index status is what I thought was a good indicator, but I am wondering what should actually happen in the results there. Should the blue graph line of total indexed drop back down to a low URL count (as I am expecting), or will the total indexed remain high and the blocked by robots and/or removed URLs increase? This answer from Google seems to indicate that the total indexed (blue line) should drop. Why then has it not dropped at all after applying the noindex tags and waiting a week?


Removing "www." from domain name and SEO

We are doing a big redesign work on our website, and at least 50% of the website folders will be moved to new places with different names (i.e. many URL will be changed). Sure, Google will need some time to index new pages and we expect our SERP positions will be not so good as they are now for some time. We also have an old idea to remove `www` from our domain name. It seems, it's the right time to do these two works together with publishing the website with updated contents. Or is it better from SEO perspective first publish the new contents, and only after some time, when our SERP positions will return to prior results, tell Google that the domain name without `www` is our preferred domain name?


Why does meta description exist when keywords doesn't?

My understanding is that the meta keywords tag was long since removed as it was far too open for abuse and gaming. Search engines are a lot more intelligent now, why is the same criticism of the meta keywords not applicable to the meta description? Is this going to be phased out in the future possibly? Or does it hold actual long term value?


Transferring Email to Google Apps - Timing

I did a site for a client a few months back. Hosting & email was setup through Dreamhost VPS. Hosting has not been an issue, but email has become increasingly dodgy. Long story short, they want to transfer to Google Apps for Biz. They already have the mailboxes setup - they are on macs so they will be transferring using the gmail email importer for mac - my question is this - should they transfer their domain over first or their emails? I'm a developer so I have no problem changing their DNS settings, but I am not an IT manager type by any stretch so I am a bit in the dark about process - my proposed process was:   1. Delete any junk/deleted mail from current environment   2. Backup email locally   3. copy emails to google apps via importer   4. Switch domain and update mac mail settings It seems that doing the domain first would be best but I don't know if that is possible. I have been trying to find a generic checklist, but i haven't been able to.


Php profiling on production server or other options

Alright I need some help here. I am commonly asked to speed up certain sections of some websites that I program for. I have yet to be able to figure out how to use a good php diagnosis/profiling tool. Some things to consider:   1. The sites I am working on are already built, getting a testing server set up locally is just a huge pain..I have to rewrite include paths and just so many things. This is a results oriented deal and spending days to get a site fully working on a testing platform so I can debug one page probably isn't an option.   2. I can write tons of php, but I have no clue how to interact or mess with servers. So every tutorial I read about setting up xdebug or xhprof all seem to involve getting something installed on a production server that I don't have access to or have no clue how to work with. So are there any solutions out there that will show me where my php is slow without having to do all sorts of server stuff that I just don't know how to do? Xhprof seems to be the closest to useable for me but from what I can tell it still has to be installed on a server. If anyone can just point me in the right direction on this I would be very grateful. Maybe getting these things put on the server isn't a big deal...but I have never interacted with server command lines or anything like that. I suppose I should start sometime but I really have no idea where to start. Plus I realize that profiling on a live platform is not the greatest idea either but I feel I am in a tough spot. I have speed issues to solve and setting up a local environment while a great idea, just doesn't seem real practical at the moment.


Font creation for logo

I have a template and that template has a logo. The logo is something called "Cream". I really like the way it has been set up. I want the same style with different name. How to do that? The problem is that logo is a .png image and not text. Any idea on what to do?


Domain registrar changed DNS without warning

We have had a very long an damaging outage which lasted around 24hrs due to a change in our DNS servers by our registrar. What happened (according to our registrar) was that for some reason their system identified our domain to be due for renewal and changed the authoritative DNS servers to theirs which caused our domain to be forwarded to a temporary holding page. Once we alerted our registrar to the problem it wad already too late as the error had already propagated. Our domain runs out in Jan 2020 so there was absolutely no reason for this change. Now my question is, how do other businesses protect themselves against these types of outages which are both out of their control and take hours to resolve, inevitably causing the service to be unreachable for a long period? Thanks.


Rendering IPA characters like 'ŋ' correctly

(I hope this isn't too dumb a question) When I go to this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet These 'special' phoenetic characters, such as 'ŋ' render correctly in my browser. However, when I try to use characters such as 'ŋ' in my very own website they render like this: 'Å‹'. What I have tried so far: I found this code from the wikipedia source: `<span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA">ŋ</span>` but it still renders as 'Å‹'. In fact in this very question it is rendering correctly, what method should I use to correctly render characters like these?


Apache log analytic's

Been trying for a while to get this script fully working I think I'm nearly there. Ok so I basically need the script to show 3 things, email address - Browser type - Time logged in.               EMAILS='/home/user/emaillist.txt'     MAIL=$EMAILS     while read MAIL;     do     grep -f $EMAILS /var/log/apache2/ssl_access.log>>/home/user/test.txt     done < $EMAILS      I need some way of first using the todays date in here so it only searches the apache logs for that data. I was thinking about using the linux date +"[%d/%b/%Y" command in the script as this will match the correct date formate. The other aspect is that I only need the output to show the user's email address | Browser type and date from apache nothing else. HELP please UPDATE Managed to play around with the script and got it to this stage where it works fine I just need to work out how to add browser data into the text file?               x=$(date +"%d/%b/%Y")     y=$(date +"%d%b%Y")     filename=emaillist.txt      while read filename     do              if COUNT=$(grep $filename /var/log/apache2/ssl_access.log |grep -c $x)              then               echo $filename:$COUNT>>/home/user/logs/usage"$y".txt               fi     done < emaillist.txt


How do I add domains to certificate

I just installed a dedi. I got a self signed certificate to maindomain.com Then I want to access childdomain.com/cpanel The certificate is for the main domain on the server. I tried to access cPanel on another domain under that main domain. So of course internet explorer complained. Well, how can my main domain issue a certificate for the child domain?


Is using HTML tables for data presentation bad for SEO?

I have a site that presents information in each page with HTML tables. Does this affect my site's SEO? Should I replace all tables with divs? I'm not using HTML tables for layout. I'm only using them for representing information.


How do I make a domain name transfer without dealing with an agent

I have been talking with a domain name holder, and he has agreed to sell me one of his domains. He said he will transfer the domain to my name with godaddy (I will register for an account with godaddy first). How should I process the payment so that neither party (me or him) is at risk of fraud? TIA!


The entire content of my Wordpress page has disappeared

I have a blog installed on my site using Wordpress. Last week I upgraded Wordpress from 2.6 to 3.0.4 (I had to do this manually). All went well, or so I thought, but I have just noticed that the content of an existing _page_ has vanished. The page URL still works, but all content has disappeared - doctype, html tags, body tags, everything. Please note, this is specific to **pages** - posts are still displaying fine. I have since created a brand new page which does not display the content either. Things I have tried include   * Switching to a freshly installed theme   * Deactivating all plugins   * Setting the problem page to draft, and back again   * Deleting the .htaccess file I suspect it's a database problem and have contacted my hosting company who have said the only thing they can do is restore the DB from a backup, but that I should consider it a last resort. Does anyone have any further ideas what to try?


Is it bad to hide content for SEO?

I'm designing a mobile CSS file for my website. It normally has a top navigation bar, like in here, Stack Exchange's sites. In my mobile version, I plan to hide the topbar, and put a button, which toggles the topbar on/off, but default it is off. Will Google ever find about my site's mobile version? The URL is the same. And if it does, will it consider this as a "black-hatting"?


The YouTube of Sound

My current website includes some embedded YouTube (and Facebook) videos and I know there are numerous other video hosting websites. Is there a free hosting service specifically for audio files, for easy embedded playback through a flash/html5 interface? (I'm not worried about social features, e.g. commenting)


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I am planning to add some keyword rich text to my homepage at the very top. I have written almost a mini essay and putting all this text at the very top left of my page wouldn't look too nice. I was wondering if putting it inside a 500 X 200 div and using overflow: auto on it would help or get me penalized? e.g. http://jsfiddle.net/svaXY/


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Most review sites, for example sites that review games with different platforms, will often have three URL's with identical content, only differing in color schemes, and of course comments. This is true of some large sites like `ign.com`. How do these sites deal with duplicate content? Do they use a `rel=canonical` link to point to only one URL?


Where to find ads of a certain size to place on my web site?

Where can I find ads to place on my site that are `125px x 125px` to place one my site? The sites content is mixed.


Joomla redirect manager doesn't redirect when there are params in url

We've recently transfered a huge site to joomla. It has two languages; english and german. There is a twitter account which has links to the previous site. These links look like this: > [site]/de/news/nc/article/[article-alias] On the new site we have set up redirects from these urls (manually) to the new urls, for example: > [newsite]/de/[menuitem]/news/[article-alias] (the new article-alias differs from the old one, as the titles changed) Now, for some reason, when a user clicks on the (german) twitter link he gets redirected to the frontpage and two new lines show up in the redirect manager: > [newsite]/de/news/nc/article/[article- > alias]?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter > [newsite]/en/news/nc/article/[article- > alias]?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter I have no idea why the system does this. Setting up redirects automatically is no option. Any ideas as to why params at the end of the url don't get redirected, and why there is also an english line in there? (the twitter link is to the german version


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I am trying to set up seamless authentication on windows for my intranet site, using SSPI on Apache 2.2 and windows 2008 server. I have installed mod_auth_sspi.so in apache/bin. I have also added the webpage url to the intranet zone in IE and Firefox. I am using Perl and CGI.pm for my site and retrieving the username using the CGI Env variable Remote_User and Auth_User. Neither of these are set and nor does the authentication seem to be happening as I do not get a pop-up window in both IE or Firefox or any local html file i tested with. My config on httpd.conf is as follows.               <IfModule !mod_auth_sspi.c>         LoadModule sspi_auth_module modules/mod_auth_sspi.so     </IfModule>          <Location "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/TestWeb/">         Options FollowSymLinks         Order allow,deny         Allow from all         AuthName "TestWeb"         AuthType SSPI          SSPIAuth On          SSPIAuthoritative On          SSPIOfferBasic on         Require valid-user          SSPIDomain domain     </Location>      I am not sure if my domain name is the issue here. My corporate domain is in the format corp.company.com I used that and he ip associated with it with no luck. I retrieved my domain name by issuing the NET VIEW /DOMAIN on my windows server and it listed my corp domain, which is what i would like to authenticate the users with.


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May I please have some help in using an RSS feed. Here is a link to an RSS feed: http://weather.uk.msn.com/RSS.aspx?wealocations=wc:NZXX0049&weadegreetype=C&culture=en- GB This is the feed that I am looking for. The problem is, how can I get information on other locations rather than just Wellington New Zealand. I am having trouble finding the page that lets me specify the region for the RSS feed. If anyone has some time to quickly point me in the correct direction, I would appreciate it greatly. Thank you.


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I've been approached to possible take over SEO/marketting work for a site. The guy is currently using a paid service at http://refreshseo.com/ and paying around $80p/m. From what I can make out all refreshseo does is automatically generate keyword rich content pages and attach them to the site. These pages aren't actually linked to from within the site. So I'm wondering two things   1. has anyone had any experience with this particular company or similar types - has it been worth it?   2. How do you think the recent Google Panda updates impacts on this kind of strategy? Thanks in advance


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I have made a new plain vanilla HTML website. I have been making regular modifications to it on an almost daily basis. The site is hosted by hostmonster and as part of their service they offer "awstats" to let you know assorted details of visitors to the site. One thing is puzzling me. According to awstats, a "robot/spider" calling itself "Googlebot" visited my site as recently as today (28th June 2011), but when I find my site on google (e.g. by searching for "full reserve banking") the cache is dated only the 5th June. I always thought that a visit from the google robot was synonymous with a cache update. Am I wrong? Or have I accidentally put something in the site telling google that nothing has been updated? **EDIT:** It seems a moderator has removed the name of my website, so there is now no chance that anyone could check out if I had made some error on my site :-( ... but anyway, in answer to paulmorriss' question, here is what aw stats was telling me: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/g25Z1.jpg)


Book recommend: Start learning web design with css with basic HTML knowledge

I've already known some HTML, tables, link, image,...etc but just at a basic level. Now I want to learn how to build a layout for a website and design also. I want to start building a layout right a way and just learning from it, not really like reading so much theories, explanations. Many books are so verbose, they teach from the beginning of HTML or explain things too much. I don't want to waste my time. So are there any good books for me?


What does the 'c' language represent in Google Analytics?

Checking out my Google Analytics I see I am getting a good amount of hits from a language just called 'c'. This normally wouldn't bug me, but all these 'c' hits have a 100% bounce rate. As these account for about 1/3 of my unique visits this has distorted my overall bounce rate overview. Does anyone know what these 'c' visits are? Are these bots?


How To use Hosted account with custom domain of my blog

i have hosted account , but i can't use in my custom support domain blog. when i get code from adsense and try to put in my site then ads will not shown.and when again i get code and implement to blogspot support domain then ads will shown....so now what's the solution to show my ads in my site i don't want to remove my .com domain and i can't upgrade my account .if any have any idea then tell me.


Hosting Dynamic Content on GitHub?

Is it possible to host dynamic content through GitHub:Pages? More specifically, we are using GitHub Enterprise, so we have a little more control, but I'm not aware of what dynamic content languages (Ruby, Python, ???) we might be able to use.


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I have been trying to redirect several single URLs to their new locations using Nginx. The URLs are from Blogger and are in the format: `http://domain.com/yyyy/mm/slug`. For example, I have this: `http://example.com/2013/04/chartjs-javascript- library-for-easy.html` I am using this Nginx rewrite to redirect it, but for some reason it doesn't work:               server {          location ~ /([2012-2013]+)/.*/chartjs-javascript-library-for-easy.html {                     return 301 http://$server_name/resource/chart-js;          }     }      I place this in `/etc/nginx/conf.d/example.conf` which is loaded inside `/etc/nginx/nginx.conf` Can anybody tell me why it doesn't work? It was working sometime back. Am I messing up my regex? **EDIT:** For some reason, location `/test` redirects ok, but location `/test/html` doesn't. Any idea why?


Nameserver Update Update and Gmail Account

I have a domain name with GoDaddy and I have my domain name setup with Google to receive email using that domain name (name@mydomain.com). Yesterday I bought a WinHost account and had to update the nameserver information. Will changing the nameserver information to Winhost's nameserver information interrupt my google apps (specifically blogger and gmail)?


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Are spiders ever used by anyone other than search engines and spammers? If someone wanted to collect information from the web, would they ever use them? Thanks


Google and 301/302

we have to solve a problem with Google not correctly indexing our multilanguage sites. We'll redesign our urls in the future but until then we need some way to help google find the different language versions while preserving convenience for the users, especially those that use already existing links. First I'll explain our site/url structure a bit: Assume we use the domain `foo.com`. Our application will then detect the language of the browser and display either the english or the german version of the page. The user can then change the language by clicking a link which results in the query parameter `language=xx` being appended. The currently selected language is stored in the session, thus if the user doesn't change the language every page will be displayed in the language that was selected last. 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To overcome this, we thought of the following redirection strategy:               foo.com -> no session yet: detect browser language                                -> if DE, then 302 to foo.com?language=de                                -> if EN, then deliver the english content             -> we have session, so get the language from the session                                -> if DE, then 302 to foo.com?language=de                                -> if EN, then deliver the english content          foo.com/bar -> the same as foo.com          foo.de -> 301 to foo.com?language=de      Each page would then additionally have the `alternate` relation set, e.g.               <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://foo.com" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://foo.com?language=de" />      So, from our point of view, the following should happen:   * The user opens `foo.com` and either gets the english version or is redirected to the version matching the browser language (if supported)   * The user clicks `foo.com/bar` and depending on the language in the session (or the browser language if the url is directly opened) either the english version is delivered or he's redirected to `foo.com/bar?language=xx`.   * GoogleBot crawls `foo.com` and since no language is provided it sees the english version, even when following the internal links The real question here is: As far as we know, there's no guarantee that GoogleBot either uses a session id or doesn't use it, thus we don't know whether there is a session being reused during crawling. Thus there are two possibilities:   * If GoogleBot uses a session, it might either get english content or a 302 redirect for any url that lacks the language parameter (e.g. `foo.com/bar`). How would Google handle that?   * If GoogleBot does not use a session it would get the german version for `foo.de`, due to the redirect. If it then follows an internal link to `foo.com/bar` it should get the english content, since no language is provided and a new session is created. In that case, would GoogleBot store the alternate link `foo.com/bar?language=de` for the german version? Thanks so far to all who endured reading all that and even more so to all who have an answer to share. Please note that we're working on redesigning our urls to always have the language in the path (e.g. `foo.com/en/bar`) but that'll take a while and we also need to handle already existing links without the language. So please don't just suggest to restructure the urls. **Edit** : As of request, here's the original problem that we're trying to tackle. Our customer generally uses their .com domain and they want the result pages to display a German description when using google.de and an English description in any other case. However, the results are always displayed in English. Our current (seemingly insufficient) approach is this:               foo.com -> page in english or german, depending on the request language (and currently on the session as well)                  -> alternate link with hreflang=en : foo.com?language=en                  -> alternate link with hreflang=de : foo.com?language=de          We assumed that Google would be able to use the alternate language versions and display the best fitting version in a localized result page. This, however, didn't work out so well yet and we assume one reason is that `foo.com` itself isn't an alternate link to anything. Thus we thought about leaving the language parameter out for the english version (see the question above) and use `foo.com` as the alternate link for hreflang=en. We're no SEO experts though, so this could be wrong. If so please correct me with some hints or explanations. :) With this trail of though we arrived at the point where `foo.com` should represent the english version of the page only. However, if we change that, all german users (which are about 50% of the visitors) would first see the english page, because of the many links in the wild that don't contain any language parameter. And this is something our customer clearly doesn't want. This again led us to the approach using redirects to `foo.com?language=xx` and calculating `xx` from the browser language (and the session as well, if it contains language information).


Redirect requests to another folder

I want to redirect all the requests that come to the folder 'test' to 'test1' using apache configurations. How do i do it?


Temporary redirect to another website

I'm thinking during maintenance time at my website instead of showing "Maintenance Page" redirect to the same idea site. It takes some time up to 1 hour And I'm thinking to use temporary redirect. What is the negative side of doing that?


Category redirect in breadcrumbs - bad SEO?

If I have breadcrumbs like this: home > products > categoryA > subcategory > product But the only pages I have is the first products page and the end product page the two categories in the middle are the categories for the product. If I redirect both the categories to the first products page is this bad for SEO? Or should I redirect the categories to equivalent pages, i.e. categoryA will go to a page with the same name. By the way I am using wordpress.


Does Yext provide any value for web only based businesses?

I've been researching Yext and trying to understand if it provides value to web-only based business. It seems that if you don't have a physical presence then Yext is not any use. Is this accurate?


SEO for single-page content-less Web App

as written in the title the website on which I try to do Search Engine Optimization has following two properties:   * doesn't have any content in the SEO sense: it doesn't hold any information and only offers functionality   * consists of only one page/URL since most of the SEO tips/tricks I read are based on content, how do I perform SEO optimization on such a website? for more info: the website is basically just a timer/alarm/stopwatch (http://www.timer-tab.com)


Testing new changes to website while retaining ability to revert back to original - to protect SEO

If I'm making changes to site code, content, adding/removing pages, changing links, changing database structure, etc.. How do I safely test all these changes, while still maintaining ability to revert back to the original and retain original search engine ranking and position (in case something screwy happens)? I want to make changes, see what happens, if it happens to be bad for SEO - do the common sense thing and go back to original. Thanks for the help!


Apache - Reverse proxy

I am using Apache 2 and using the below virtual host definition in httpd.conf file               <VirtualHost *>         ServerName localhost            ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/stackoverflow/          ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/stackoverflow/          RewriteEngine On         RewriteRule  ^(market|stock|mutual)$ stackoverflow/$1 [L]     </VirtualHost>       Here, when I type               localhost/market      then Apache internally rewrite the URL and show me the contents of               localhost:8080/stackoverflow/market      Now my problem is: When I click on any of the link of that site having following URL               localhost:8080/stackoverflow/market/abc      Then, My address bar will show the above URL I want my Apache server to redirect me to               localhost/market/abc      means User will be shown the above URL, but the contents will come from               localhost:8080/stackoverflow/market/abc      I was thinking if I need to set reverse proxy for this. Please help me on this.


When should I apply for Google AdSense?

My site is not yet up and was wondering if I can apply for Google AdSense when my site is not yet up or when my is up and just a template? Any suggestions when I should apply for Google AdSense and what conditions my site should be in?


Modifying Article - Effect On SEO

lets assume, I have a article that is ranked well (but not top) in search engine. Now, If I want to modify it a little more optimized, will the modification hurt on existing ranking in any ways? Thanks.


SEO of gallery deeplinks

if I have a gallery, say `2013/01/01/new-feature` and each image is indexable and can be shared:               2013/01/01/new-feature/slide1     2013/01/01/new-feature/slide2      Each slide will have an individual title+description, but this also means that the "Body text" of the each deeplink will always be the same. Do I have to set `<h1>` for each deeplink to the title of each picture and will the duplicate body text on each slide deeplink hurt SEO?