Google Analytics: web profiles missing and data lost

Logged in a Google Analytics account that had been created/setup with a tracking code for two Websites several years ago. Have not logged in for a while (at least 6-8 months), but at that time, everything was working as expected. Logged in today and noticed that there were no Website profiles. Tried adding an "existing domain" profile for one of the missing sites and after an hour or so, the tracking was "successful" (green checkbox) but still no historic data. No changes to the account have been done as far as I know. Any idea what would have caused this to be lost and how the historical data be recovered?


Apache rewrite rule that matches a specific query string

I need to rewrite a specific wordpress url to a 404 error: ?page_id=15 => 404 How can I match the query string? Apparently Apache doesn't feed that to the rewrite mod...


How to move a Tumblr blog without hurting PageRank?

I have a Tumblr blog which I want to move to somewhere else. I don't want my Google visibility resetted after moving. I am thinking to do it this way; 1) I believe Tumblr allows custom domain names. I will point it to my new domain, and wait for some time for Google to see the changes. 2) I will copy all my posts to new host, but they will use different URL pattern like `category-name/post-title` 3) In my new host, I will set 301 redirects for every page that existed on old blog to correct place for them on my new blog. For example, links like `post/61879534273/title-of-the-page` will be redirected to `category- name/title-of-the-page` on new host. 4) In my domain name settings, I will point my domain name to my new host. Would this setup work as I intended? If not, is there another way to do it?


Pixels - A cry for some insight

I'm pretty new to web developing and I'd love some clarification. Although reading more than one book on the topic, I cannot seem to wrap my head around the pixel concept. I encounter problems with this issue when trying to use CSS and pixel units for design that fits different screen sizes. To my understanding a pixel is the most basic unit used by a monitor in order to compose an image on the screen. So if me resolution is 800 by 600, everything on my screen is rendered using those 800*600 basic building blocks. If I were to enlarge my screen resolution, 3 things would accrue: A. The basic image building block(the pixel) would shrink in size B. The pixels would move close together C. Well, more pixels would now be available All these combined lead to a sharper(depending on the viewing distance) and more detail enabling image. Well so far so good. Here is were I start getting lost: To my knowledge a pixel is not a physical, real object. Monitors are not embedded with a few thousand pixels. I am drawn to this conclusion because anyone can change his screen's resolution, making a pixel on his screen bigger or smaller, and adding or subtracting the amount of total pixels on screen. Adding to that, I have herd that different monitors have different pixel densities. For example Apple's retina monitors. Taking all of the above as my knowledge base, These are my questions:   1. If a pixel has no real world constant size, what does comparing different pixel densities matter? Each screen company can define it's own pixel concept and declare the higher density.    2. What does a bigger pixel density mean? Say we take two screens with the same physical dimensions, but with a different pixel density, am I to assert that the main difference would be the larger density screen being able to display a higher max resolution? Or am I to assert that given the same resolution on both monitors, the higher density one would display a sharper, smaller image?    3. If a pixel is not a fixed size within one monitor, is it a fixed size between the same resolution on two different monitors? For example, would two different monitors, set to the same resolution, be comprised of same size, same quantity pixels?  I'd love some help (:


Image folder name for SEO

We develop and sell ActiveX and .NET controls through our website. After doing some redesign works, every product will have its own top-level folder on the webserver. For instance, the home page for our ActiveX grid control looks like our_domain.com/activex-grid/. We also need to provide our users with a lot of screenshots used in the product pages. Looking at all this, what is the best location and folder name for these images from SEO perspective (mainly Google Indexing and Image Search)? We have several possible solutions:   1. our_domain.com/activex-grid/images/   2. our_domain.com/activex-grid-images/   3. our_domain.com/activex-grid/screenshots/   4. our_domain.com/activex-grid-screenshots/   5. our_domain.com/activex-grid/ The last option means we will place images next to the HTML pages, but we would not want to use this mix of image files and pages as it is harder to organize/find our data in this case. However, I admit the last option can be the best for SEO as (1) we do not have extra unneeded keywords like 'images' or 'screenshots' in full image URLS and (2) we do not place our images in deep folders so the keywords used in URLs have less value.


My VPS cannot send email

**Webmaster Newbie Question** I have a low end vps (128MB RAM)running on Debian.I used a bash script by ilevkov to setup the site. After some trial and error, I managed to set up a WordPress on it. Just now I found out that my VPS can't send any email. I tested using the WordPress reset password email, and it shows > The e-mail could not be sent. Possible reason: your host may have disabled > the mail() function... After some Google session I noticed that I can send email from ssh. So I tried               mail myemail@gmail.com     Subject: Halo dion     some message     .      and the result said               EOT     /usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory     "/root/dead.letter" 9/243     . . . message not sent.      **The question** How can I fix my VPS mail setting?


Websense is blocking our website as “Potentially Damaging Content”

A lot of people are complaining that my company's website `www.justjus.com` is being blocked by their organisations. Anyone that has tried to access our website from a large organisation has been unable to do so. Is there any reason why this is and is there any way in which I can fix the problem?


Google Analytics API: return data on HTTP status codes?

I'd like to get information out of the Google Analytics API about the HTTP status codes returned by my application. For example:   * For a given date range, I'd like to know how many 404 responses were returned.    * I'd like to filter only pages that were returned with a 200 code - excluding error pages.  Is this possible with v3 of the Analytics API? I've been reading through the reference manual but I can't find a full list of all the dimensions and metrics that are supported.


Use Apache to prevent a PHP script from connecting to a specific domain

Is there a way to prevent apache from connecting to a specific domain e.g. somesite.com? I have a PHP script that trying to connect to specific host, and I would like to prevent that.


Does Dreamweaver support inline CSS styles?

I don't write HTML every day, so DreamWeaver is a useful crutch. Often I find myself writing content for a site where I have no control over the page header. I need/want to use some one-off CSS to do some layout, etc. If I'm not mistaken, the only way I have to do that is to use inline CSS. DreamWeaver provides nice dialog-box-based support for editing CSS in a stylesheet, but AFAICT, not for inline CSS. Am I missing something? Obviously, I can hand-edit - I'm looking for pull-downs, etc.


How to correctly count pageviews?

I've been using a free 3rd party sitestats counter for years, and I would like to get rid of the external party. For this simple thing I'm only interested in pageviews (other stats I use google analytics for). So, I'm performing an insert on the footer of every page (excluding all bots I have seen coming along in the last week), but for some reason my counts are 45% higher than the old counter and 40% higher than google's pageview counts. Are there any additional checks I need to do to prevent counting incorrect pageviews? Thanks!


Duplicated contents warning in Google Webmaster Tools even though I use canonical links

I have some duplicated pages that show the exact same content on different URLS on my website, and I use canonical links to point them all to one of the pages. So if Page A, B, C, D and E have the same content, the canonical links on pages B,C,D, and E all point to page A, and page A does not have a canonical link. I see some warnings in _Google Webmaster Tools_ -> _Optimization_ -> _HTML Improvements_ , regarding duplicated descriptions, titles, and more even though I have used the canonical links. Have I misunderstood how canonical links work? Isn't this their correct usage?


How do I forcibly obtain a domain?

I would like to acquire a domain name which is currently completely unused except to redirect to an unrelated domain's website. I have performed several port scans and the only active port is 80 which promptly sends a 302 on HTTP Get. The site may be held by a domain squatter. How can I force them to give up the site? It is, for all intents and purposes, unused. If it is registered to a domain squatter, how can I make it expensive for them to keep?


How to automate website UI testing

I would be rolling out many incremental updates/features to my website and I want to make sure no existing functionality is affected. How can I automate this process? I know there are some tools that test the UI but am not sure which ones? I would like to run a sanity test every week and be able to know if anything got broken.


Convert RSS feed in one line

I need to use an RSS Feed in a Digital Signage application (Xibo). But to scroll the feed on right or left I need it to be presented on a single line or only the first line will be displayed. I've looked at Yahoo Pipes but don't seams to make it, does anyone know a webapp or software i can use to convert the multi-line RSS Feed into one single line?


domain hosting redirect

I have registered a cheap domain (no hosting) and have a web server (AWS). In the domain registration I can forward to the web server. This means that if a user enters my domain they see a **frame** of my website. This means if they click on another page the address still shows my domain but not domain/page. Is there a better way to do this, more SEO friendly as well?


Searching for Googlebot in server logs

I'm trying to use Heorku Logentries to track Googlebot's activity on my server. (Although, I think this could broadly apply to tracking Googlebot activity on any server.) I can see that I have results from Googlebot just by paging through my logs, but if I search for "googlebot" or "/googlebot" in Logentries I get 0 search results. Same if I grep for "googlebot" in my log file. The Logentries team informed me that the bot results I see are IPs resolving, which is visible in the front end but not part of the log itself. As a workaround, they suggested that I figure out all the IP addresses used by Googlebot then do a multiple search using the OR operator in the search bar. But there has to be a more efficient/remotely possible way to do this, right?


Trouble reading htaccess canonicalization

I just took over development of a site and am having trouble figuring out the canonicalization rewrite rules (not my forte). I've pasted the code below. The first bit seems straight-forward enough, stripping out index.html. The second part redirects non-www TO www and also appears to be redirecting to NO trailing slash: www.example.com (no "/"). I actually can't confirm the trailing slash part though (header sniffers don't show the / redirect). Is there a trailing slash redirect in place? (btw, this code is years old, so am open to better, more efficient options). * * *               RewriteEngine on      RewriteBase /           # Redirect INDEX.HTML      RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /(([^/]+/)*)index\.html\ HTTP/      RewriteRule index\.html$ http://www.example.com/%1 [R=301,L]           # Redirect TO WWW with no trailing slash?      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com      RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]


Strange named anchor behavior - only working with the hash mark after a trailing slash

I have an odd problem. Links to named anchors on a site I'm working on are only working correctly if the pound/hash sign is placed after a trailing slash (e.g. example.com/about/#who), rather than directly after a page name (e.g. example.com/about#who). What could be causing this? I should note that this is on a site running WordPress, with the WPML translation plugin. I'm not sure if that's causing the problem, though (otherwise I'd ask on the WordPress Answers SE site). Any suggestions as to what could be causing this strange behavior?


Does using AdSense in slide-out div violate Google's TOS?

I want to encourage users to register on my website, so as a registered member perk, the ads would be removed, so I was thinking of implementing AdSense in a div that slides out from the bottom of the page and has a Close button (for non-registered users). Would either of this be against Google's TOS?


Setup basic proxypass in Apache

I have a web application that communicates to a web service deployed on the same server. The web app was written with Tibco General Interface and works well only when it is running locally on the development system. When I deploy the web app to the Apache server it fails with code 200 apparently due to cross domain data. I use Firefox as a browser. I have tried changing Internet Explorer to access cross domain data and it works however IE is not an option. Web application runs on `192.168.2.205` (port 80).   Web service runs on `192.168.2.205:8040` I have tried a number of things with proxypass inside Apache with no luck.


How can you set cookieless subdomain with Quantcast

I have correctly setup Google Analtycis so GA is not setting cookies for my subdomain. I mean for my static subdomain. But Quantcast is setting. What i wonder is can i prevent Quantcast to set cookie to my static subdomain which is static.example.com?


How can I set parameters in Google webmaster tools so that my dynamic content is indexed?

I have read questions about URL parameters in Google Webmaster Tools in this site and the Google Webmaster Help Center but I have a problem. My site searches in the database and show some information. These two URL display some data:               http://mydomain.com/index.aspx?category=business     http://mydomain.com/index.aspx?category=graphic&City=Paris        1. In URL parameter section, I can only define parameter category, how Google can detect proper values (business, graphics, real estate...)? Every word is not valid for search.   2. If My page name is `default.aspx` or anything else, where I should define it?   3. If I use URL rewriting like `http://mydomain.com/search/category/business`, my settings must change?


article url format for google news sitemap

I have 2 questions about url for google news sitemap.   1. Is it good that I use= url for sitemap witch like `http://www.mydomain.com/news?query=football&title=Poland-coach-Smuda-names-Euro-2012-squad`, the page is a search results include the article `Poland coach Smuda names Euro 2012 squad` and 10 search result with keyword `football`? Or I should do an independent page only one article and url like `http://www.mydomain.com/news-article/Poland-coach-Smuda-names-Euro-2012-squad`?   2. Could I do some url like `http://www.mydomain.com/news#!Poland-coach-Smuda-names-Euro-2012-squad` which url rule under AJAX hash crawling from google for the sitemap?


How do companies fake a domain registration date?

On a few separate occasions I have lost prominent domains to the scourge known as cyber-squatters. They've even snatched up a domain within 5 minutes of checking availability. One domain in particular is my business DBA name. I looked to register it a couple of years ago and it was available, and within a few days it was magically taken by an Arabian person claiming to live in Kansas. The site's an obvious parked domain, showing ads to try and rake in profit off of my company's name. Here's the kicker though... The domain 'claims' to have been registered in 2003. Bullhockey. It was available in 2011, and no record existed. **How are they able to lie about the date registered to ICANN?**


Can I use Google Analytics for multiple versions of an application on different domains

We have a commercial web application which customers buy and host on different domains. I want to add google analytics tracking to all the instances of the application that will give me aggregate data across all versions of the application. I am not interested in tracking the same users across the different domains (as a given user will only ever use one instance of the application). Can I just set up a new analytics account and add it to all the instances of the application and it will just work? One complication is that customers often want their own analytics tracking for their instance of the application. Therefore I am likely to need two trackers on each page (one for them and one aggregate one for me) which I am planning to tackle using this approach: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/advanced#multipletrackers


Tables and SEO - The big conspiracies

Now, I've heard many (if not too many) conspiracies/myths about tables and SEO. Now, I'm in a state of confusion, and I have no idea what to do. Below, I will write two SEO and table myths that I need clarification about. **Tables for page layout:** It's been said that you should not use tables for design, as it has a negative impact on SEO. However, in a video my Matt Cutts, he states that it doesn't matter, and that Google has to deal with both CSS and table layouts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL_GZwoC2uQ). Now even after this, people still have different opinions, and I never get a proper answer. I currently use the Atahualpa theme for Wordpress, and it has been a very popular theme. It even has some SEO features built in. However, I have a problem. This theme uses a table layout, and I was wondering if this theme would hurt my SEO. Should I still continue using this theme? **Tables are bad just in general:** Now, I've heard a lot of comments that say tables are bad for SEO just in general. Now personally, I feel as this is completely false. However, I need a professional's view on this matter to guide me in the right direction. Are tables good or bad for SEO?


Google Webmaster Tools not showing links to my site: "data not available"

Three days ago I received a notice from Google Webmaster Tools about unnatural inbound links, but my GWT does not show any links to my site. How can I check which unnatural links GWT means?


Google webmaster tools Site Performance says site is faster but shows it slow in the graph

Looking into Google webmaster tools it happened to me many times to see for some of my sites these type of inconsistency, **in the text they say my site is faster** than 63% of sites, **but when I look at the graph** the site is on the **SLOW background** (over the 1.5 seconds line). **So do you know if my site is considered fast or slow by Google?** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/u0MKG.jpg) Is it me not able to read properly the graph?


Internet Explorer 10 aborting some stylesheets

Strange problem exhibited only with IE10 on Windows 8. No other IE version, no other OS version. Some stylesheets are aborted, apparently in transport, intermittently. This seems to happen when there are three `<link>` tags in sequence. The tags are correctly specified and are being served from Amazon S3 over HTTPS. The first two items abort when (or prior to) loading. Altering the order of the items appears to make the first two items abort in all cases. This problem is intermittent, and different people can reproduce with differing success. I have seen a lot of conjecture about this on the web but no solution.


how to keep a visitor 100% anonymous

Maybe a broad question, but how can you keep a visitor to your site 100% anonymous on your server. The site is written in PHP. No trace of what he or she has visited on your site. Any suggestions?


Can a spamhouse listing affect your IP long term?

Lately I am getting a lot of mail delivery fails like 20% of the time. It used to be less, then some domain on our shared hosting was blacklisted in spamhouse and all emails couldn't be delivered. The problem was sorted and our IP isn't blacklisted any more, but the delivery rate is strangely low lately. So I am asking if your IP is delisted from _spamhouse_ can you still be affected by the previous listing? Also what can be learned from a mail delivery fail? This is the error I'm getting:               A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its     recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:


Disabling frequent reloads of visitor

In my website i have some pages, that makes connections to 3-4 sites and checks the results with my database and gathers a full table. This table includes all the data that the visitor would need. You can think it as scores table of latest 100 basketball, football and valleyball matches. Users see who won, latest score, location of game, bets data etc. The sources of data changes every 15 minutes or so. So if the user reloads the page in this period, after many CPU consuming and database querying he will see nearly the same table. (There exist small differences) I don't save table data into my web storage, because the data is invalid after 1 hour. My concern is, if visitor reloads the page, this process will be done again again. How can i make solve this? First ideas that come to my mind:   * Saving page data in localStorage of browser. Storing last access date of page in cookie. And when the page is reloaded, checking the time difference. If smaller than 15 minutes than get data from local storage and show same page. But in this scenario. I will be limited to 5 mb storage limit and browser compatibilities.   * Saving page data in my database and show from there. The problem of this is, the data is nearly 200 entries per page. When i use this model in 50 pages, i will have too much tables and data, where the data will be invalid in an hour.   * Saving page data in my web storage. This is better option in beginning. But is not scalable. When visitor number becomes big, this won't be maintainable. I would be happy if you can share some ideas, or better practices. Thank you


Missing data for specific language in Google Analytics

We have a multilingual website, Swedish (default), English, Norwegian. Google Analytics tracking code (the same code for all languages) is present on all pages. Problem: We get data for the default language in Analytics, but can't find any data for the other languages pages. The english language is prefixed with /en, Norwegian with /nb. We know we have traffic, but it doesn't show in GA.


Choosing a Domain for SEO

I am building a new website and I have a couple domains to choose from. For SEO what are tips for choosing a good domain? For instance which, in SEO terms, would be better: `websitesfor[subject-of-website].com` or `[subject-of-websites]-websites.com`


Migrate facebook app from WAMP Server localhost to facebook

I have developed an app for Facebook and it is currently hosted via a localhost WAMP Server. My question is how can I put my app on Facebook? What would be the steps I must follow? Please note: My Facebook Application doesn't need any database to connect to, instead the app that I have made will return a JSON file containing on account information.


Design scrollable table structure

I'm currently looking for a way to design a table structure with HTML and JS which should be   1. Horizontally Scrollable (It has to be possible to dynamically add new columns)   2. Tolerant to changing sizes (e.g. when adding some text or controls) of cells. E.g. when doubling the size of the second cell in the second row every other cells should stay in the correct columns.   3. It should be possible to adjust to rendered columns to the width of the screen.   4. It should be possible to use the same layout with swiping on mobile devices.   5. >= IE8, FF, Chrome must be supported Currently I'm thinking about a DIV based solution where the correct table structures of the columns and rows are preserved by resizing column and cell DIVs if needed. That's how it should look: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XwE5w.png) Is the DIV based solution apropriate or is there a possibility of using the default HTML table?


Good source for posting videos to embed on your website

I have a website where I want to embed video tutorial on my blog posts. Now the video's that I make are HD and have not past the 10 min mark yet, maybe in the future. Now I have the videos just on youtube, it has HD, and all of them are under the 10 MIN. The only **downside** I have until now is that I haven't found a way to have a HD version of the vid embedded correctly on the page. If I choose HD the video player is 1280X960 on the page. The normal switch is not there. Are there any good alternatives for this available online. I have checked vimeo, but for the HD version you have to pay. I make no money from the website so I am not willing to pay for that. Are there any alternatives that I can use where I can post my videos. There are certain criteria I would like to have if possible. _I want to be able to post HD .mp4's and the video's I embed on my website must have the function to play in HD._ _I want to be able to make vids longer than 10 MIN._ _It would be nice if the video site is popular, so it could attract some visitors to my website via the video's_ _This services have to be FREE_ I know that are a lot of requirements to ask for free, but this is just my ideal set-up, I could settle for less.


Services - separate sites or one site - impact on SEO?

I have a client who is a lawyer that specializes in Criminal Defense and DUI, however, he does not show up well in Google. In researching the sites that rank better have much more content for those specialties than his site does and my thought it that he needs to add more quality content to rank better for those searches. On his site he mentions his specialties, but also he has various personal things on his sites that reflect his interest. These are clearly separated from the business portion. My questions are:   1. should heseparate his personal information into a new domain?   2. should he have a separate URL for each of his specialties?   3. or would one URL work as long as everything is clearly separated?  I read once that for legal services to rank well you should make a separate site for each specialty and have that site focus solely on that service.


Google indexed my home page incorrectly: How can I fix it?

I finished my website and launched it, I think I had a problem with my `robots.txt` - so I changed it to look like this:               03/08/2012     # Allows all bots          Sitemap: http://www.mysite.co.za/sitemap.xml          User-agent: *     Disallow: /dashboard/      When I google my `domain.co.za` - I get this back: Home               A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more.     You've visited this page 3 times. Last visit: 2012/08/15      Now since I fixed this and added a 301 redirect to redirect `mysite.co.za` to `www.mysite.co.za` I would love it if google bot would come do a visit. Is there anything I can do to get this fixed?


Duplicate content: two pages with just a little change in code are still considered duplicate content?

I have a website which talks about cars and motorcycles. Once in, the user can choose wether to browse the cars section or the motorcycles section. Once chosen his section, the url will have a `/section/` part in it. The page requests are always the same. The difference is just about the content. The structure of a common page is the following:               +++++++++++++++++++++++++++     +    SLIDER WITH PHOTOS   +     +  AND SMALL DESCRIPTION  +     +++++++++++++++++++++++++++                 PAGE CONTENT          +++++++++++++++++++++++++++      If i am browsing the car section, the slider will be populated with car photos and some text about car. Else, if i am browsing the motorcycles section, some bikes with some text will populate the slider. **EXAMPLE** Let's take as example the **news** page. If i am browsing the cars section, my URL will be `mywebsite.com/cars/news`. Else, if i am browsing the motorcycles section, the url will be `mywebsite.com/motorcycles/news`. Here is the trick! My website in both situations will run the script `news.php`. Different news will be displayed, because basing on URL, different posts will be fetched from db. This means, `mywebsite.com/cars/news` and `mywebsite.com/motorcycles/news` will not generate duplicate content, because the content delivered is totally different. **THE PROBLEM** Let's take as example the **about us** page. In this page i show information about the website. These information are the same wether i am browsing the car section or the motorcycles section. This means, if i visit `mywebsite.com/cars/about-us` or `mywebsite.com/motorcycles/about-us` the slider part (and some other little menus) will be slightly different, having different pictures and descriptions, but the page content will be exactly the same. **THE QUESTIONS**   1. Being (in the **about-us** page example) 90% of the page identical, will crawlers see it as duplicate content (and penalize me)? More in general, what crawlers consider as duplicated content are two identical pages or two ALMOST identical pages?   2. Should I decide which one is the best version and put `rel="canonical"` in it? **NOTE:** I would prefer not removing `/section/` from my URLS, for now.


Updating Pages after migration of website

My web site was coded in Coldfusion and over the years has obtained a good ranking. I recently migrated the front-end to a Wordpress site and wanted to know what is ideal way of updating Google and the various search engines of of the updates. For example, the home page of `index.cfm` is no longer valid since it's `index.php`. I've submitted an updated `sitemap.xml` file to Google. I'm sure my site will slip some while the search engines re-index my site but I'd like to try and minimize this as much as possible with the holidays coming up (my site is a service oriented site that caters to people who travel during the holidays). Right now, the old `.cfm` pages are still online but are re-routed to the appropriate Wordpress page (for example, `about.cfm` is now routed to `/about/` using a cflocation tag.). Not sure if I should pull down the `.cfm` pages all together or leave them in place until the new pages are picked up by the search engines. Any advice would be helpful.


Product catalog API

What is the common practice in creating (and updating) the product catalog (all products/models/tech specs) for online electronics store? Does any of the manufacturers/OEMs have an appropriate API to pull the data? Thanks, sbereli


Websites to detect who hosts a website?

What sites are there to detect what web host is hosting a website?


Is there a free, open-source question and answer (Q&A) application similar to StackExchange?

I'm launching a Q&A site similar to StackExchange. Does anyone have any recommendations for free self-hosted Q&A software that is easy to customize? I've seen this wordpress theme but it isn't free and, therefore, isn't what I'm looking for.


Q&A system for website in php

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is there a free, open-source question and answer (Q&A) application similar > to StackExchange? I'm looking for a good, open source (if possible) q&a (questions & answers) module for websites in php, with a rich functional scope and highly configurable (interface, implementation languages ...). I'd like to know what you can recommend. Thanks in advance


Tracking PPC and website stats

What are some of best tracking software packages available for PPC and a website?


how should cache control be set in the requests

i know that cache control headers can be set on the pages coming out from the web-servers (that is responses). Does anyone know how cache control header should be set on the requests? Should it be done via client-side scripting? If yes, how?


How do I find out which Registrar a domain is registered through?

I'm hoping to backorder a domain that looks promissing. I've read that if it's through Network Solutions then you should use SnapNames b/c it automatically does the auctioning/rselling for NS.


Permissions & File Structure w/ nginx & multiple sites

I am using nginx for the first time as a long time Apache user. I setup a Linode to test everything and to eventually port over my websites. Previously I had /home/user/www (wwwroot) I am looking at doing something similar with /srv/www/domain/www (wwwroot) Rather than using /srv/domain (wwwroot), the reason is many of the sites are WordPress and one of the things I do for security is to move the config file one level above wwwroot and can't have multiple configuration files from multiple domains in the same top level folder. Since I own all the sites, I wasn't going to create a user for each domain. My user is a member of www-data and was going to use 2770 for www and have domain/www for each new domain. www would be owned by group www-data. Is this the best way to handle this?


Will many links to the same page without nofollow penalize the host site in the search engine rankings?

May be a silly question, but I'll give it a shot :). On my forum app I would like to allow users with sufficiently high reputation display links to their home pages under every post - without the nofollow attribute (while lower rep users will have the nofollow) I am happy to help the site contributors improve rankings of their own, but not sure if this can actually deteriorate the rank of the host (the site that hosts those links) - as potentially the same link to the user's home page may be peppered in the pages of the host. What do you think? Thanks.


2 the same page addresses in generated sitemap?

I tried different sitemap generators and they generate 2 data structures refering to the same webpage: On the beginning:               <url>         <loc>http://pundaquit.republika.pl/</loc>          <url>         <loc>http://pundaquit.republika.pl/index.html</loc>               <priority>0.6400</priority>      I think sitemap generator should recognize main webpage in a domain and produce only one `<url></url>` structure. Should I delete one of `<url> </url>` structure and which one? Does anyone know sites which explain this issue?


Searching a query with Asterisk as * on Google

When searching on Google the query `function* js`, Google regards '*' as a placeholder to a word instead of a normal character. How do you get it to treat Asterisks normally?


In IIS what is the difference between rewrite rules managed by URL Rewrite Module versus those only in web.config?

In IIS what is the difference between rewrite rules managed by URL Rewrite Module versus those which are only in the web.config file and do not appear in the URL Rewrite Module? **Using the URL Rewrite Module in IIS 7.5 to add a rule...** I notice that the rules, when looking at the web.config, are quite readable, and they are rooted in . **In contrast, using rewrite rules via web.config not managed by the URL Rewrite module...** do not seem to be as readable (perhaps this is not true for all), and these rules are rooted in instead of . **QUESTION:** What is the difference, and what are pros/cons of using each? Personally, I like the ability to use the IIS module because it gives you an interface to test rules. Example of a rule from the IIS 7.5 Rewrite Module:               <rewrite>             <rules>                 <rule name="LowerCaseRule1" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false" />                     <action type="Redirect" url="{ToLower:{URL}}" />                 </rule>             </rules>         </rewrite>      Example of a rule not managed by the IIS 7.5 Rewrite Module:               <rewriter>         <rewrite url="^/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/.*.aspx$"          to="~/ContentDisplay.aspx?CID=$1&SID=$2" processing="stop" />     </rewriter>      note: I added a linebreak to the second example of code after ".aspx$"


What does a domain register do? (e.g namecheap)

I have a basic understanding of how domains work, and would like to fill in some gaps. Lets say you make a server request for `google.com` how do you get the `IP Address`? > Do you request your `ISP`, with a domain for an IP, that request the global > `DNS` that requests your domain register? Basically is this what happens?               client asks ISP what is IP for "google.com"?     ISP asks Global DNS what is IP for "google.com"?     Global DNS asks namecheap what is IP for "google.com"?     returns IP back up stack to client      **or** > Do you just send a http request packet with domain and your ISP just handles > it? If so how? **and** > What do domain registers like `godaddy` and `namecheap` really do? I would love some resources and knowledge to be pushed my way. Thanks in advance.


Does re-directing a penalized website fix the problem

A client has consulted us a case where they were not able to remove all the paid links from their website, they decided to redirect everything to a new domain, and have a fresh start. The question here is, if they redirect the old website to this new domain, will the penalty be transferred to the new one as well?


My site is not recognised by Google

My site http://www.mcqtoday.com is indexed by google, but even if type the full name of my site in google search it does not show my site. Bing, and Yahoo do it well. There is no crawling error I checked in google web master.


Archive of historic Firefox builds for Windows?

For testing web content in Firefox I'm searching for old versions of Firefox Windows installers. Evolt is not up to date with historic Firefox builds. I'm looking for just the main point releases. Sources can be downloaded from Mozilla Developer Network (MDN formerly MDC) but I don't want to build the browsers - I just want to install them.


How can I have more clicks than page views in AdSense

One of my AdSense ad units (in the new beta interface) occasionally says that I have more clicks than page views which gives a CTR of over 100%. Does anyone know how this happens? I'm assuming it has something to do with when a page view is recorded, versus when someone clicks, but it happens regularly enough (on a daily report) that it can't just be that a bunch of users click an ad before the page displays fully.


Permanent links format in wordpress: How to Choose?

In WordPress, I have the option to choose how the permanent URL looks like. The common format is Year/Month/Day or Year/Month for blogs. However, I’ve occasionally seen some successful blogs take the date out, such as: http://mixergy.com/dane-maxwell-zannee-interview/ What’s the impact of the above format on SEO? Obviously, it’s more pleasant on the eye but does it negatively impact search ranking? Thank you


Redirecting dynamic pages to static pages URL

I decided to convert all my dynamic pages to static pages URLs. I used to have "/contactUS.php" and now I want the page to be served as "/contact-us". I used to following rule n .htaccess:               RewriteRule ^contact-us contactUS.php [NC,L]      It all works fine, but the problem is that I want to prevent entrance to "/contactUS.php" to aviod duplicate content. Of course that adding the following rule:               RewriteRule ^contactUS.php contact-us [NC,L]      creates an infinite loop. What is the best way to achieve the goal, also taking SEO into account? * * * Edit: This causes an infinite loop:               RewriteRule ^contact-us contactUS.php [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^contactUS.php contact-us [NC,R=301]


Where to find PHP version usage stats?

My original question was: what percentage of sites are using php 5.4.x? (As it has some very interesting new features.) With secondary questions like how many of the cheap web hosting places have upgraded, which versions of the linux distros include it, etc. But I'm coming up blanks. http://php.net/usage.php stops at July 2007, and the nexen.net website seems to have stopped in 2008. At SecuritySpace they only list the web servers, not php versions. The TIOBE link isn't what I'm after (it doesn't -- and couldn't -- break down by version number). I thought php.net might show download numbers, but I cannot see them anywhere. I kind of answered the distro question, but it requires a lot of clicking around at distrowatch.com. E.g. I see here that Ubuntu offers php 5.4.6 in the latest snapshot, but the latest release (Ubuntu 12.04) has 5.3.10.


Modern design for developers: getting started

I've been working with web development since 2009 when I've learned HTML, CSS and PHP. By the time, I've also learned about the web standards and started working with them. Then some years ago I've started to work with a designer. He developed the website layout in Fireworks by the time and I was responsible for coding it. Today I've also learned ASP.NET and Javascript for the development of Single Page Apps, however the designer is not working with me anymore and I didn't find any other to deal with the layout of the websites and applications. Also, today it seems design has got more complex, because we have to think about responsive design, there are lots of devices and so on. So, my doubt is: what's a good away for a developer like me learn just the basics of design to be able to create layouts for web apps and websites that fits with the last trends? I really don't know where to start, because although I already know how to deal with Photoshop I know that this is very far from being enough to design well. I am looking for practiced procedures I can follow that will allow me to develop my design skills whilst making use of my current experience.


How do I optimize SEO in a multiblog WordPress install?

We are about to launch two product pages plus a corporate website. The goal is to keep a blog in all of the sites, but here it comes the question about how to do it in a way we get everything unified but do not mess with Google's web crawlers. We considered the following options:   * Putting a blog from which we retrieve two categories with custom CSS, so we have a blog that sub splits two category-dependent blogs; this way we can get the feeds and will point to it   * Putting two product blogs of which we retrieve their posts into a bigger, corporate blog   * Putting three independent blogs Despite I was for the first option, so we only have to address our content from the product pages, I would sincerely like to hear your opinion. We are afraid duplicate content or strange link games may make us lose PageRank. How would you do it?


Will foreign content with rel="alternative" hreflang affect my SEO ranking?

I'm running an internationalized web service with user-created content (study notes). Most content is from Polish version, although we have younger Turkish and Russian versions too. Each version uses its own domain (let's say it's `polishversion.pl`, `turkishversion.com`, `russianversion.com`) and there is a language toggle available to switch the language of the interface (header, footer, menus), while of course content remains untranslated. This leads to repeated content - a given Polish study note exists on all 3 domains: * `polishversion.pl/note/123` - Polish interface + Polish content * `turkishversion.com/note/123` - Turkish interface + Polish content * `russianversion.com/note/123` - Russian interface + Polish content My first instinct was to add "noindex, nofollow" to the Turkish and Russian version of a Polish note, since in most cases it would be irrelevant for these audiences (but not always - probably study notes for a French as a foreign language course are relevant to all). Then I came accross `link rel="alternative" hreflang`. According to this article: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/09/unifying-content- under-multilingual.html I should be fine adding:               <link rel="alternative" hreflang="tr" href="turkishversion.com/note/123" />     <link rel="alternative" hreflang="ru" href="russianversion.com/note/123" />     <link rel="alternative" hreflang="pl" href="polishversion.pl/note/123" />      to the Polish version of this note and:               <link rel="canonical" href="polishversion.pl/note/123" />      to both Turkish and Russian. I'm still having doubts though, whether this won't harm my Turkish and Russian version which have very little of their own content content yet. So the whole issue reduces to: **Is it better for the Turkish version's seo ranking to have:**   * 100 000 pages indexed of which 99% are Polish content + Turkish interface (with a canonical link to Polish/Polish) and only 1% are Turkish content + Turkish interface?   * Only 1000 pages with Turkish content + Turkish interface indexed (and Polish notes never indexed with Turkish menu at all)?


Sign up for Google Analytics without SMS verifcation

Is there any way to sign up for a Google Analytics account without having to verify the account via an SMS code? You used to be able to verify via an email code, but this no longer appears to be an option.


SEO? Client worried about negative news story about his business at the top of Google search

was hoping someone could answer a question about this, even though I'm sure the answer is bleak. I'm building a website for a client who has noticed that when you run a Google search for his name, the first result is an arguably negative story that was published by a local news outlet.He and I are wondering if there is any way to make that... disappear? Thanks all.


.Museum Domain Name Registrar

Anyone know of a reputable domain name company which deals in .museum domain names? Previously we had used DomainBank without much issue. DomainBank was bought by Dotster and am having nothing but trouble since the switch. Currently the website has been down for two days and it is a MAJOR issue. I know .museum is a seldom used domain name but I really need to switch to a reputable company. GoDaddy doesn't work with them unfortunately. Anyone know of a good company that does?


Why would I need extra IP addresses from my web host?

I am moving to a new and cheaper host. My old one raised the prices suddenly by a factor 10. Now what I did not like about the old one was that each time I set up a new website, I had to set up a new account. The result was that I have to pay for a lot of web space and a lot of bandwidth that I don't use. Now I am moving over to a new host, who cheaply offers virtual servers. Now I am a n00b when it comes to server tech. I have two questions about this:   1. Could I install all my websites on this virtual server, provided it is big enough?   2. They offer the possibility of getting more than one IP address, but it costs more. What would be the advantage of this? Would I be able to suffice with one IP address?


.htaccess RedirectMatch 301 issue

I've moved my WordPress installation from one domain to another, and I want to use an .htaccess file on the original to redirect visitors to the new page on the new website. The old site is `http://www.steve.doig.com.au/wordpress/`. The new site is `http://www.superlogical.net` I tried using tried using the following .htaccess file in the /wordpress directory: `RedirectMatch 301 http://www.steve.doig.com.au/wordpress(.*) http://www.superlogical.net/$1` However, all this does is redirect visitors to the URL: `http://www.superlogical.net/wordpress/` I guess this is working properly, but I don't have Wordpress installed in a /wordpress folder on the new domain. How do I remove this from the URL redirected to? Thanks..


Will having a new site affect my pageviews on websiteoutlook.com

I am planning on launching a new version of my current company website. I have a lot of pageviews (measured through websiteoutlook.com). Will having the new site (with new pages) affect the pageviews, and therefore my search engine ranking? If yes, what can I do to preserve my search engine ranking? Thanks!


Parts number and Google Site Search

I am using Google Site Search on our site and am looking for a way to get our parts number to show on the results page when searched. For example, if a user searches _E23-457-123_ or _E45-65-322_ or _E11-23-567_ I want the page specifically about our _E_ part. I was considering using CSS and hiding a `<div>` but I can't seem to get them to show up in the search results.               <div style="visibility: hidden">         E23-457-123 E45-65-322 E11-23-567     </div>      Is there a better way?


Script to change profile avatars to round avatar

I am trying to customize Vanilla Forum. I am trying to achieve a similar effect to what Google uses for their profile pictures. (Just like what is on the top-right of Google pages.) ![round profile picture](http://i.stack.imgur.com/vkdVr.png) I have seen this effect before in several discussion pages. I suspect it is a script that crops and adds effects (like shadow), then uploads the avatar into place.


how to deploy my jboss servlets to GoDaddy and make it available to my Android client?

I have my web application running in jboss on my pc, accessible only in localhost. I have seen in sites like godaddy, they talk about giving a domain name to your site. My application only serves resources (it only contains servlets). It will only used to process the incoming data and send responses to my Android clients. So any domain name is fine, because no one will be visiting the domain from the browser.   * Where is the mapping actually done?    * Will I be able to use my pc itself as the server or will I have to deploy the application on godaddy's server?   * So what are the steps I should take to make this web application be accessible on the internet?


Help me make a cronjob/screen command please?

Hi guys I want to set up a cronjob on reboot to do this cd /home/admin/vivalaminecraft.com && screen -d -m -S mcscreen && mono McMyAdmin.exe The issue is when I execute this it seems to create the screen but doesn't do the mono McMyAdmin.exe in the screen... Is there like a then command ? so it does 1. then 2. then 3. ? Could someone please help out :) So I tried this: so I did this:               @reboot screen -dmS minecraft     @reboot cd /home/admin/vivalaminecraft.com     @reboot mono McMyAdmin.exe      It still doesn't work. The screen is created but it doesn't have the mono execution in it I put this in it               #!/bin/bash          screen -dmS minecraft;     cd /home/admin/vivalaminecraft.com;     mono McMyAdmin.exe;      is this correct?


Moving blog to another host - what is the impact to SEO to be expected?

I run a blog under `mywebsite.com/blog`. This is a self-hosted Movable-type installation. Now I want to get rid of the blog installation and use a hosted ( **`WordPress.com`** ) solution instead. The blog is only a minor part of my website, but before making this change I want to make sure that I don't lose SEO value. What is the best option to make this change? Bonus question: how big is the SEO-impact of a subdirectory (`mywebsite.com/news`) to the PageRank of the main domain (`mywebsite.com`)?


NGINX URL Redirect - Configuration

What should be the correct configuration , if i want to redirect any request for www.mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com/page. I tried couple of options but always ended up in an redirect loop.


Google Webmaster Tool: “Severe health issues are found on your site”

I just saw the "Severe health issues are found on your site. Is robots.txt blocking important pages?" message on Google Webmaster Tools. This is what I have in robots.txt:               User-agent: *     Allow: /*?p=     Allow: /index.php/blog/     Allow: /catalog/seo_sitemap/category/     Allow: /catalogsearch/result/     Allow: /media/     Disallow: /404/     Disallow: /app/     Disallow: /cgi-bin/     Disallow: /downloader/     Disallow: /errors/     Disallow: /includes/     Disallow: /js/     Disallow: /lib/     Disallow: /magento/     Disallow: /pkginfo/     Disallow: /report/     Disallow: /scripts/     Disallow: /shell/     Disallow: /skin/     Disallow: /stats/     Disallow: /var/     Disallow: /contents/     Disallow: /contents/fr/     Disallow: /index.php/     Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/     Disallow: /catalog/category/view/     Disallow: /catalog/product/view/     Disallow: /catalogsearch/     Disallow: /checkout/     Disallow: /control/     Disallow: /contacts/     Disallow: /customer/     Disallow: /customize/     Disallow: /newsletter/     Disallow: /poll/     Disallow: /review/     Disallow: /sendfriend/     Disallow: /tag/     Disallow: /wishlist/     Disallow: /admin/     Disallow: /cron.php     Disallow: /cron.sh     Disallow: /error_log     Disallow: /install.php     Disallow: /LICENSE.html     Disallow: /LICENSE.txt     Disallow: /LICENSE_AFL.txt     Disallow: /STATUS.txt     Disallow: /*.js$     Disallow: /*.css$     Disallow: /*.php$     Disallow: /*?p=*&     Disallow: /*?SID=      Disallow: /*?limit=all      I copied this from Magento's default robots.txt and I added some folders that don't need to be indexed.


Which MIME type to compress? and what If I omit the `type` attribute from the HTML?

Per my request, my webhost had turned mod_deflate ON. In my Cpanel I now have an "Optimize Website" button. Inside that menu I could either choose: "Compress all content" or "Compress the specified MIME types" with the following default MIME types: "text/html text/plain text/xml"   1. Which option should I choose and why?   2. If I choose option 2, which types should I add (is there a recommended list with the exact way they should be written)?   3. According to Google recommendations, I have **omitted** the `type="text/css"` attributes from all CSS references, as well as the `type="text/javascript"` attributes from all script references. Would this hinder the "gzipping" process?


Google Analytics - Do I track an info popup as pageview or event

I have some popups on my page that provide that can be opened by the user to get more information. Should I track them as page view or as events? Whats the right way to go here?


Setting up Gmail subdomain on my domain

I just set up my domain with Google Apps. During the Gmail setup process the tutorial said we could also set up `mail.mydomain.com` and we'd look at it later. But it never came up. Now, I can't seem to find how to do it anywhere. Maybe I just don't know how exactly to search for it. Help ?


Pointing domain away from google

I've already asked this question on google apps support, didnt fet an answer yet, and I am in a bit of a hurry. Need to have that website up by monday. Question: We have a domain registered at 101domain, we used a domain just for google apps, for email, and some services, and domain was never used for website. Now we pointed domain to the local hosting service, set everything like it should be, and pointed back to google from hosting service for gmail and gmail works perfectly. Problem is that we tried to set up a website at hosting service but domain still points to google apps login. Everything looks like it should, we recently bought 2 more domains that are set up the same (we use google apps on them too), the only difference tha I can think of is that we didn't use for apps first. Could this be because CNAME lags behind DNS server change?


way for teachers to post homework assignments

What kind of product would work to provide a feature on a school website to allow teachers to post homework assignments and allow students / parents to quickly find the assignments by class and subject? I'm thinking wiki or cms but they don't seem to hit the mark completely. FYI I have VPS hosting so I can install whatever I want.


What is the best way to scan for a keyword in the URL? Eg. I want to find the words "shirt" in the URL.


Same URL rendering different content

We have a CSS file hosted on cloudfront. Whenever the file is updated we add a version number to the file. We also have VPN in our office through which we connect to QA servers. Now a very peculiar thing is happening. When VPN tunnel is enabled and that CSS file link is hit from the browser I see updated file. But if I turn off VPN and hit the URL then I see previous version of the file. Though URLremains same for both times when I hit the URL. I'm not able to understand how VPN could affect loading the latest file version. I tried clearing cache from the browser but every time this is happening. Any ideas on this? What could be the problem.


Openfire and Imagick alternative for a shared hosting

I've just finished a social network, and went for a shared hosting... (because that's what I can afford for now). I used Openfire(for XMPP private messages) and Imagick (for image resizing), but I found that I can't install them on a shared hosting. So I find myself with 2 options:   1. Go for a dedicated server (which I can't afford)   2. Use ajax for private messages (with less performance)... and re-size images using plain PHP...  I'm very confused not knowing what to do at this stage. Do you think there is any other option??


Is there any possibility somebody can down my search ranking?

If my rival site decides to go unfair way to outrank mine they can do it? For example, like by linking mine to bad(?) sites or something? Because people often talk about SEO but I just started being worried if somebody can do the things contrary to SEO to my site.


why does Google Analytics show different top content results for URL and Page Title?

in GA content>AllPages the default view shows the top pageviews by URL. Since my site does not have friendly URLs I prefer to view by page title, but when I click to change the view instead of showing the same pages by top pageviews it shows completely different pages. I want it to simply switch to the title of the same pages instead of the URL, why would the top pageviews be different based on URL and title?


Is it possible to view all previously issued SSL certificates for a particular domain?

If we wanted to know if a particular domain has had SSL certificates issued to it by CAs in the past, that are now revoked/expired, is there is a resource that has that information?


My domain is well indexed but only in my country

This is my domain: http://yon.ir and it mainly should be shown in search results with the keyword "کوتاه کننده لینک"   If you search from Iran it is shown in Google's search results with rank 13 (with that keyword) which is logical but with IPs of other countries, it's not shown even in the first 10 Google result pages. The domain is indexed and when I search the whole domain title, it shows up my site on the first page. It's been like this for about 10 days and the domain is not new. It was working with its previous owner before. So, what's the problem here?


Does I need to put meta tags in Search page of my E-commerce website?

In my E-commerce website I got a product page.where I want to implement Meta- keywords,Meta-Description,etc.. I am a little confused about the task now.Is it necessary to do these things in search page? If yes what would be the best strategy to be used for this task?


Will Google treat this JavaScript code as a bad practice?

I have a website that provides a custom UX experience implemented via JavaScript. When JavaScript is disabled in the browser the website falls back to CSS for the layout. To make this possible I've added a `noJS` class to the `<body>` and quickly remove it via JavaScript.                          This caused a problem when the page loads and JavaScript is enabled. The body immediately has it's `noJS` class removed, and this causes the layout to appear messed up until the JavaScript code for layout is executed (at bottom of the page). To solve this I hide each article via JavaScript by adding a CSS class `fix` which is `display:none` as each article is loaded.
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           After the page is ready I show all the articles in the correct layout. I've read many times in Google's documentation not to _hide_ content. So I'm worried that the Google will penalize my website for doing this.


Are paid salon listings worthwihile?

Are paid salon listings worthwhile (for seo)?


Serious Googlebot crawl spike using up a ton of bandwidth

One of the sites I maintain has seen Googlebot use 23gb of bandwidth this month. This seems utterly mental to me, what can I do about it? I have reduced the crawl rate on webmaster tools, and edited the _robots.txt_ , submitted a sitemap. A serious spike like this feels like a hack, could Googlebot be spoofed?


Search engines that index your site despite a disallow in robots.txt

Recently, WordPress changed their options from "Block search engines" to "Discourage search engines" ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QeU6t.jpg) So that leaves me wondering, that rewording must be that some search engines disregard your decision about indexing or not your website. Is there a list of those somewhere?


What happens if two people at the same host claim ownership of a domain?

I have all my domains registered through company A and they are hosted through company B. I set my nameservers at company A to point to dns.companyB.com and everything works great. But couldn't somebody else with an account through company B also try to claim ownership in their control panel? Is it first-come first-served?


How can I view localized versions of my site?

We are adding internationalization to our site. We are getting the client's IP address from the headers and looking it up against the IP2location database to get the client's country. Several of our clients reported seeing a blank page over the weekend. We'd like to be able to get screenshots or use a browser from many different countries on an ongoing basis for testing code changes. I need to know what the site looks like when accessed from various countries since there are several elements that vary by country. I've used Tor and Vidalia, along with the Tor customized Firefox browser however it appears the CSS is getting mangled. I have also used http://webpagetest.org to check the site, however the screenshot it gives is too small to be really useful. Is there a site or a service I can use to get screenshots or interact with my website from various countries?


Active Directory auto login to website for domain users

I am putting together an Intranet for a company - I have set up authentication to get into the Intranet from a login box linked to AD via LDAP/ However the client wants (if possible) to have users automatically authenticate into the intranet if they are logged into the domain. AD and IIS7.5 are on separate servers (in the same network). I believe that I need to use WindowsAuthentication to do this - but will that work? as the web server is not part of the domain: do I need to tell IIS where the AD server is? The next part could be more complex: once the user has authenticated, I need to drag user details from AD about the user, I guess with LDAP, however I will need to know the user's username in order to do this, won't I? as the user hast had to type this in, how do I get that? The intranet site is in asp.net 4 VB.


How to extract AdWords keywords from incoming traffic?

I have a landing page in which I need to understand what keywords are coming in from AdWords and then display some information based on this. I am not certain, but I don't believe that this information is in the request header the same as normal query keywords would be. How can you ascertain this information and properly strip out the inbound AdWords keywords so as to use meaningfully?


webmaster tools 500 crawl error for asp faceted navigation that does not exist

I am getting around 2,500 type 500 URL errors in Google webmaster tools. These pages are faceted navigation results that can not be reached by a site visitor. These pages do not exist. We are using faceted navigation with the Volusion platform (asp.net, I think). I have specified URL parameters in webmaster tools so that Google will not try to index anything faceted. This does not stop the errors from generating. I am concerned about how this might effect SEO (bleeding page rank). I can provide additional information if needed. I am not sure how to solve this. I have started down the path of creating 301's, but having some difficulty there as well.


Can we 301 redirect to a new page, but still publish the old content somewhere else?

We have a page on the site which ranks well for an SEO term (top 5) but contains old information. We have added a new page but Google doesn't rank it that well. Information on these pages is time sensitive.   * Old: `example.com/2013-related-information.html`   * New: `example.com/2014-related-information.html` Obvious solution is to delete old page and do a 301 redirect to the new page. Now, can we still keep the old page by giving it a new URL.   1. `example.com/2013-related-information.html` is redirected to `example.com/2014-related-information.html`   2. `example.com/2014-related-information.html` is recreated with a new address such as `example.com/new-2013-related-information.html` What we are trying to do is to send the user to the fresh page but still not destroying the record copy if someone wants to go and dig up the old information.


Filtering content from response body HTML (mod_security or other WAFs)

We have Apache on Linux with mod_security as the Web App Firewall (WAF) layer. To prevent content injections, we have some rules that basically disable a page containing some text patterns from showing up at all. For example, if an HTML page on webserver has slur words (because some webmaster may have copied/pasted text without proofreading) the Apache server throws a 406 error. Our requirement now is a little different: we would like to _show_ the page as regular 200, but if such a pattern is matched, we want to strip out the offending content. Not block the entire page. If we had a server side technology we could easily code for this, but sadly this is for a website with 1000s of static html pages. Another solution might have been to do a cronjob of find/replace strings and run them on folders en-masse, maybe, but we don't have access to the file system in this case (different department). We do have control over WAF or Apache rules if any. Any pointers or creative ideas?


Pointing .co.uk, .org & .info to main .com domain

I have a client who has multiple domains .co.uk, .org and .info and would like to point them to the main .com domain name. They have changed the nameservers of the .co.uk, .org and .info domains. Can anyone point me in the right direction?


Redirect www to non-www using Apache htaccess does not work

I have this in my _.htaccess_ (modified from the default Drupal _.htaccess_ ):               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.website.com\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://website.com/$1 [L,R=301]      In theory this will redirect something like `http://www.website.com/asdf` to `http://website.com/asdf`. However, it doesn't redirect, it allows requests to go through like there was no redirect intended. (I'm on OS X if it matters, but I've also tried it on a Network Solutions Linux server with the same result.)


rel="nofollow" being removed with javascript, why?

I was looking through the blog comments of an Alexa top 20,000 site, and I noticed something odd: when a comment is viewed in the source (or in Firebug with JS turned OFF) the author's name is written like this:               Example      What they are doing here is they have a static list of comments cached, using the HTML above, but when the page is loaded with JS, it AJAX calls a database of comments (the same as the static cached comments) but when it loads (it takes about 10 seconds) the same comments are written as below (this time viewed in Firebug with JS turned ON)
 Example
       To be clear this is the **EXACT** same part of the page with the exact same comment below (not shown in these examples), the only part I've changed in the above code is changing the link and anchor tag to example. Any idea why they would want to do this? Which version of the code would a search bot see, as I believe they now process JS when the scrape a page? * * * _I don't really want to disclose the name of the site as I fear it will be spammed if it is indeed allowing to follow blog comments on such a high profile site._


htaccess only works for one

I currently use the following htaccess code to remove php extensions and also allow the /index.php page to load without the word "index":               RewriteRule ^$ index.php [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f     RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ $1.php [L]      I used to create a new page for every single user but as one could probably see, this is not such a good idea. So i deleted all the user pages and i would include them a different way but i would need to pass the requested page as a get parameter to another file. So I decided to route every main level (/) requested page through a file in a different directory, like so:               RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ some/page.php?requested_page=$1 [L,QSA,NC]      But it does not work with the /index.php page if someone just requested it like this: / i changed the code to:               RewriteRule ^(<?!)([^/]+)$ some/page.php?requested_page=$1 [L,QSA,NC]      and now the "/" request works and any page that really exist works, but the "fake user pages" now dont work. is there way i can do both?


Which is the appropriate content-type meta tag value?

I have a question about the meta tag content-type. When starting to build my site (HTML+PHP+JS), I copied a lot of the meta tags over from elsewhere, and I have, amongst others, the following:               <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-1" />      Now, I've seen that tag is being used a lot with the value "text/html". I've been searching the web but could not find a comprehensive explanation regarding what the difference between both is. The "text/html" intuitively sounds more straightforward to me. Should I change my tag to that, or might the "application/xhtml+xml" be an equivalent solution ? Alternatively, can anyone point me to a resource where the different values for these tags are listed and explained in a clear manner? Thanks in advance


what to do with temporarily unused domains?

I registered a couple of domains, and consider buying a few more, simply because I'm afraid they would be taken by someone else and I plan to create websites for them in the distant future. Right now they point to the information page of my registrar. Could I put them to better use for the time being without much hassle? Is it worth creating very minimal domain-related content and hosting it? Would that help SEO in the future or the contrary? Is there a chance of getting some adverts for a website stub, so that I could generate some income towards hosting costs?


Will Search engines hate refreshing a webpage with random content after a specific time period?

I have hundreds of my own articles in my website. At the moment I am displaying random article topics on my home page. Since the content is random, if a visitor refreshes the page then the page loads with new random content. So I decided to automatically refresh the page after a specific time period. I got to know that search engines like Google hate automatically refreshing pages. As my intention is to display random content for visitors, and most of the time page loads with different content, will that cause me to be banned from Google or any other search engine?


How to deal with browser compatibility with HTML5 and CSS3?

Well, I've been reading about the new features of HTML5 and CSS3 since 2011, however, I still find myself a little preoccupied in using those features because of people using old browsers (or worse, old versions of I.E). The point is: there are lots of things that HTML5 and CSS3 make much easier than without it, however, I don't know how to deal with this issue, so I have been postponing the use of those technologies until today. I know there are tools like Modernizr that allows us to detect whether some resource is available or not, but it seems that the work is them doubled and so I would be losing productivity. Since I would use the new features to simplify the development and gain time and quality, it would seem a little bit strange to do the work twice: once in a pleasant way, and another time in trying to fit browsers and so on. One example is the border-radius feature: while with some few lines of CSS we can make rounded corners, if we accept to do the alternative version it would require all that work with images and so on. I mainly feel preoccupied because there are people out there using I.E 7 or I.E 8, or old versions of Firefox and all, and then when this people access some of my websites it's possible that he/she thinks "oh my god, this developer is terrible!", and so, if the person was likely to contact me to buy a website for the his company, or if the person was likely to buy a personal website, this will not happen, and it's just because of the version of the browser. Also, I get preoccupied with the websites of my customers, in the sense that since I'm selling them a marketing tool, it can bring bad results if the website doesn't look nice or functional just because of browser issues (if someone uses an old browser, it's likely that this person has no knowledge how it influences the websites). So, how we should deal with this kind of situation today? Use new features from HTML5 and CSS3, verify the browser and alert the user to update it? Make two versions of each feature, one with HTML5 and CSS3 and an alternative one to support old browsers?


How to make users arrive at site through the home page

A client has requested that all site visitors arrive to internal pages via the home page. At present a lot of visitors are hitting internal pages directly from google search results. Are there any techniques for channeling users ? Apologies if this is a stupid question.


Plural vs singular word in URL and title tag

Please advise which is better for a page with multiple property listings:               website.com/apartments-to-let/area      vs               website.com/apartment-to-let-area      Isn't the plural better since it is an accurate description of what is on the page? Singular versions of my search terms have higher traffic.


FTP many images from one server to another server in fastest way

I have many images in my server and I want transfer my data to another server. I want combine those files to one file and then FTP. I am using 7-zip with "store" option to make one file, but it is very slow. Is there any fast solution?


Starting an online e-commerce business

I was asked by a friend from Singapore to setup an online e-commerce website. I am new to e-commerce. Based on what I've read, in order to process credit card payment, I will need a merchant account with a bank. The initial setup fees is rather high and have to commit a large amount to transaction every month. This is no good for a newly start up business. The other option is to use third Party Payment Service such as PayPal or WorldPay. This Sounds like an ideal solution but the problem is it would take a long time to process the payment and actually get the money. Further more Paypal has a really bad reputation nowadays and not to mention about the high transaction cost rate. I am wondering if there's any other cost effective/free solution for such newly startup business?


Forwarded/custom domain names and SSL

Assume I have a website that offers a web-based service to companies:               myservice.com      Each company has a subdomain wildcarded via mod_rewrite:               client1.myservice.com      (This is typical of many companies e.g. Wufoo) My site has a wildcard SSL certificate for *.myservice.com, allowing clients to connect to their account securely. As an option, clients can re-point their domain name to my website by changing the A record:               www.client1.com > client1.myservice.com      (as is possible at Tumblr) Is it possible to still offer SSL security on the forwarding domain, so that www.client1.com (pointing to client1.myservice.com) is secured over HTTPS? Either by:   1. Extending my certificate to cover the clients' domain   2. Somehow allowing the client to upload a certificate to be hosted on my server   3. Any other method? I've done some work with SSL certificates in the past and don't think this is possible. Can anyone prove me wrong? Thanks, Adam


Using Excerpts as Meta Descriptions?

I have been blogging from the past three years. And one thing that I didn't care about was to add Meta Description for every page. I was, unfortunately, fallen for the "Google doesn't care about Meta Descriptions" trap, and recently did I realize that adding a short, concise description wouldn't hurt. Plus this would bring in greater visibility/CTR from the Search Engine Result Pages. Now, I have around 1000 pages of content spread across my site. I was looking for a plugin -- as my site is hosted on WordPress -- that could help me bulk edit/add Meta Descriptions. I couldn't find any; however there is plugin which promised to mass edit MD, but the thing is, because I use Yoast SEO Plugin, I can use this plugin to mass edit excerpts -- not MD. I asked the author of the plugin if it's alright to replace MD with excerpts, and he said no: http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/foliopress- descriptions So, is replacing the Meta Description string with Excerpts a bad idea? Any help is highly appreciated.


If all content is on a single page and hidden/shown with JS would it make sense to use hashbangs?

I have a page where the general structure is               section 1     section 2     section 3     section 4

section 1

some content

section 2

some content

section 3

some content

section 4

some content

      (there are about 10 sections all with quite a bit more content and have missed out alot of the surrounding html but this is the basic structure). All the content is on one page and clearly seperated semantically and the page relies on javascript to choose which sections to hide / show. I am wondering whether from an SEO perspective it would be good to use #! links and implement http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/ returning only the content for each section? Would this mean that the site no longer functioned without javascript? If the '!' was added in using javascript would google pick this up or would they use the raw html? Or will google index the content on the page correctly (ie ignore the javascript completely)?


How can I use my domain name to map into my Amazon EC2's public IP?

How to put my registered domain name into DNS server? Is there any DNS server available in this world?


Does masking a subfolder with .htaccess have a negative effect on SEO?

My website is physically located at `example.com/websitedirectory`. I am masking the folder so that the document root folder is redirected to `/websitedirectory` and the folder is masked, so that it displays as `example.com` from the outside. Does this have any impact on SEO?


Simple content managment

I need to setup a content management system for a school to manage news items and bulletins. These bulletins would have to be placed into a number of different categories (Sport, Academic, etc.). The backend of it would have to be used by some not very technically capable teachers. A front end is not required, only an RSS feed to be fed into existing applications. I was thinking about using Wordpress, is there anything else?


How to make Google index my website logo?

In my website I have embedded my logo like this:                                        My problem is that Google is not indexing this image - when I search for my website name in Google Images my logo doesn't show as a result. What can I do to overcome this?


Do search engines treat index pages with excerpts as duplicate content of the pages they link to?

I am using WordPress and in my post sidebar I have related posts which may be of interest to the user, however, I also have an excerpt of each article which is normally the first paragraph of the post it is linking to. For example: http://musicdune.com/reviews/album-review-ellie-goulding-lights If you do a Google Search for the first excerpt in the realted posts section from that page you get 4-5 results from my domain, http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Strip+back+the+synths,+fast+beats+and+the+other+pop+elements,+and+you%E2%80%99re+left+with+something+elegant+and+soulful Is it recommended that I remove the excerpt from the related posts?


Using external web space from domain (DNS)

I got a client that uses provider A for webhosting purposes with domain A. I registered a second domain B on a different provider B for my client. How can I link to the web folder on provider A with my domain B? I don't want to use a simple redirect - it should be the same as using the web space with domain A. (so the URL structure &c. will remain) Edit: I already got the nameservers from provider A, but I don't know how to set and use them.


What are the best blogs for submitting new startups?

There are some blogs where user can submit their start-ups for a review. Among them **TechCrunch** , **ReadWriteWeb** , **StartupTunes** , **The Next Web** etc are common. But what are others we can try submitting our start-ups for a review. More blogs mean more reviews and more quality SEO backlinks. So, share more quality start-up review blogs here and help us all.


Benefit to linking to content directly or via a tracking redirect

I run a site where the majority of links on my page link to content on other sites. Lets say we are looking at movies for example. If my sites are:                www.siteA.com       www.siteB.com       What I currently do is have all my links point at my API domain:                www.siteC.com/tracking.php      This does a redirect to the original content on say IMDB.com or disney.com, whilst tracking the visit for analytics purposes. ## Question Is there any advantage or disadvantage to linking directly to the content on IMDB from SiteA and SiteB rather than going via my redirect?


How to show Google Website is Beta Version

I am developing a new version of my old website. The new version is slightly to be released in the coming month. I would like to show Google , **that my new version of my website is in beta mode** for few days/months. Is there any possible way. Since the website in beta mode , there might be some flaws or 404's may occurs. Because of these i don't like to drop my traffic in Google search. So if i say beta version to google is there any consideration in traffic drops.


Show index page of domain1 when user enters the URL of domain2

I have two domains: www.domain1.com and www.domain2.com. I want to implement the following scenario: Whenever a user enters www.domain2.com, the browser should display contents of www.domain1.com but the URL should remain www.domain2.com. How can I implement this?


transfer domain from godaddy

I bought a domain name on godaddy a couple of weeks (before SOPA) back. Now I want to transfer the hosting to bluehost where I have my other domains. When I try to transfer, bluehost tells me > The domain xxxss.com was recently registered [Registrar GoDaddy.com, Inc.] > xx days ago. You must wait another xx days before you will be able to > transfer the domain. Do you know why that is? How can I transfer the hosting for this out?


Element Css color changing that allows robust cycling through colors for comparison

I frequently find myself testing out new colors for elements (finding that one doesn't work with the rest of the color scheme). Unfortunately, the process when using even firebug or google chrome is hit and miss (try lots of different colors by manually typing in the codes, find out that the color doesn't look good, look up another hex code, try the next color, etc etc). Is there a better app or approach for this? I'm thinking something like the color pickers in photoshop and elsewhere where you can change the color using sliders to find a better one. A trivial example of a color picker like what I'm looking for, just for clarity: http://www.colorpicker.com/ But it would be changing the element in the page, of course.


AJAX file 403's

Google webmaster tools shows a couple of 403 crawl errors (URL errors, access denied) for folders holding AJAX files on the ColdFusion server: CFIDE/scripts/ajax/FCKeditor/ CFIDE/scripts/ajax Will this affect our site's ranking on Google?


De-share third level .name domain

Sometime ago I registered a third level `.name` domain of the type **john.doe.name** (this is just an example-my domain is not actually john.doe.name). I just realised that I could have registered the entire second level domain **doe.name** , which would grant me control of the third level one anyway. Since I already registered the third level, **doe.name** is now "shared". I have 2 questions:   1. How do I check if I am the only one using the shared second level domain? (normal whois lookup doesn't give any result)   2. Can I "de-share" the domain and buy the entire second level domain?


What should I look out for when buying a domain name?

(For the purposes of this message, let's assume that my company is named Squirrel Consulting LLC.) I received an email today from someone offering to sell me the squirrelconsulting.com domain name today, for $980. Right now I'm using the domain "squirrelnow.com" for my business. When I formed the company, the proper squirrelconsulting.com domain name was already taken, so I couldn't use it. When I check the squirrelconsulting.com web page, this message appears in the top right:               squirrelconsulting.com expired on 07/26/2010 and is pending renewal or deletion      I haven't really used the squirrelnow domain for much; if I did buy squirrelconsulting.com it would be quite easy to transfer everything over to it. So that's not an issue. There are many other companies named Squirrel Consulting LLC, so I can't go after him for "cybersquatting" or whatever. My question is: Is there anything I should be aware of when buying the domain? What questions should I ask to make sure this person is legit and not trying to sell me something he has hijacked somehow? Is there anything I should be wary of? Thanks.


TXT vs SPF record for Google servers SPF record, either or both?

According to Google’s documentation, https://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178723 It clearly says Create a TXT record containing this text: `v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all` Why is this not a SPF record? RFC4408 defines SPF records, but it seems it’s not really used https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4408#section-3.1.1 Is that right? Should I create both TXT and SPF ? Thanks


Develop website locally and push updates on Remote Server using Git

Together with a friend we are looking to develop a website (using Symfony2). We are on a Shared Hosting with SSH access. Below is the environment we'd like to setup:               * Use git as Version Control (we are new to Git)     * Share the tasks and develop on our local machines     * Push the updates onto the remote server      Here's our initial thoughts on how to do it (assuming Git is already running both locally and remotely):               * Install Symfony on the Remote Server (basic setup)     * Get a clone (using Git) of the project locally     * Develop project locally and push updates (using Git) on the remote server      Does this approach make sense, if not, any recommendations? Thanks


Are you aware of any client-side malware that sends lots of junk requests for .gifs?

I am getting dozens of 404 errors on my site that are requests for gif's with apparently random names, like 4273uaqa.gif and 5pwowlag.gif. I see that most of them are coming from one user. I assume something is happening in the background on her machine without her knowledge -- a malware thing on the client. Have you seen this behavior before, and do you know what sort of malware might cause it? Would love to advise my customer that s/he has an issue. I'd also like to stop getting these 404 reports. _(reposted from main Stack Overflow)_


Are there any admin control panel html design which can be used freely for commercial websites? Or is there any tutorials on how to create nice looking admin control panel designs using static html / css maybe bit of jquery etc?


If I cache an RSS feeds' html, but not the images, will this appear to be image hot-linking?

I have a simple RSS news application built using JavaScript, that pulls in feeds through Google's feed API. I'm doing a proof of concept and caching the feed using localStorage though due to storage limitations, I only store the HTML and not the images. When I load a feed from cached html, and the images are merely `img` tags pointing to the source content - is this distinguishable from hot-linking an image? If so, is there another way I should go about this? Or - does this even matter? Edit: To avoid any possible confusion, I am not attempting to hotlink content. I am trying to use syndicated content according to the terms of use (according to Google's feed API). I am caching the content to speed up the application, and only cache it for as long as is allowed according to each feed's policy (if set in the HTTP header). I am merely wondering if this is the appropriate way to handle this content, and if not, what would be an appropriate alternative.


What is easy to integrate statistics script?

I develop a website on that people can create their own subpages with some tools i provide. And i would like to add the ability for users to see statistics without setting them on their own (like with Google Analytics. So i need some SAAS or PHP scripts for statistics that meets this criteria:   * it's easy to create new account in statistics programmatically when person creates account on my website   * it's easy to integrate my login mechanism with the login mechanism of the statistics   * person sees only his statistics and not other people statistics   * statistics are enabled on a website by adding some JS script to user subpage. Do you any software of this kind that is easy to deploy?


301 redirects, site files

Is it possible to have a 301 redirect without moving files? I have a site currently at a .ca domain. Now I want the primary domain to be .org. I would like to do this in a way that is search engine friendly. I have been told I can do this with 301 redirects. Is it necessary for me to move my files over to another server / folder or can I just write the 301 redirects so that the URL changes to the preferred .org domain?


Should I optimize for Adsense eCPM or Adsense Revenue?

I'm split testing, and one skin has a higher revenue, while the other skin has a higher eCPM. Which one should I choose? If I select the higher eCPM, I assume that any future enhancements will bring a higher revenue, but then revenue now is real money.


will search engine bots penalize/index download links which is a link to just a file and not a page with certain other criterias?

**The scenario is**   1. My page is a music description page with proper title, description, keywords, h1 and a description as a paragraph   2. Url of this page is a meaningful long slug(not very long) separated by hyphen   3. This page has a download link(to download a small music file) which will force download that file using content disposition   4. Download link will have title text like a sentence   5. Download links hyperlink will have a meaningful slug separated by hyphen   6. Hypertext like 'Click here to download'   7. Sample of the url is sitename.com/module/categoryname/title-of-the-music-sample/   8. Sample of the hyperlink slug is href='/module/get/title-of-the-music-sample/' and assume that the title attribute text is similar to the slug. I dont want the download link to be indexed. that is i dont want bots to index anything starts with /module/get/ because **I am afraid that:**   1. that the slug for the link and the slug of that pages url are the same so it may be considered duplicate ... the only difference in the url is /categoryname/title-of-the-music-sample/ and /get/title-of-the-music-sample/   2. that google may penalize thinking i am trying to populate duplicate keywords in the link tags which is similar to the current pages url.   3. that directly accessing the /get/(. _)/ will redirect to the actual music page of /categoryname/($1)/ if the user is not coming from /category/_ ... i am restricting users to directly load the download page... so i redirect to the main page and only then they can download the music file...   4. since i am redirecting /get/ to /categoryname/actualcontent i think there is a trouble i this which is not a good practice... So thought of adding disallow for /module/get/ to prevent bots from indexing or using that /get/* links **can i use nofollow to my own website. like in the download link can in add rel='nofollow' if i do not want bots to crawl or index that link?** If i dont want those links to be indexed then why do i use a hyeprlink ... because thinking that those keywords would add more keywords to the document or some kind of gimmick i see in other sites which would boost ranking. i think this approach is not good... may be or may not. If what i did is not a problem then i will leave it as it were... and add the condition in robots hinting not to crawl or index /get/* links Else i will change it to a span tag with an onclick event yet writing in a way so that bots will not crawl or index window.location ... . Will those links be penalized or indexed? if it is going to be penalized to some extent or whole then what are all the points that i have missed to think to make the link proper? if it is going to be indexed then still is there any flaws which people would say that doesn't matter? Suggestions please.


Advertising - what are my options when just starting out?

I'm in the midst of creating a couple of personally owned sites. Neither are aimed to be the next Facebook/Twitter/whatever, but I'd like to be able to make some money off of them, at the very least to cover a portion of my hosting costs. The problem is, I'm not sure where to look. I know of things like AdSense and other PPC 3rd party advertisers, but am worried about their relevancy. I don't want ads for things that aren't at least tangentially related to my content. I'm also concerned that these generated ads will be ugly, and detract from my site. And, to clarify, I'm looking for ads to display on my sites, not for a service to advertise my sites on other sites. So, what would you (the collective you) suggest as the best bang for my buck? Ideally, I'd grow to a point where I could get direct advertising, but that's definitely a long term goal.


How to handle CNAME host redirect to virtual directory?

I have an internal website and virtual directory `http://server2012/logs`. I created a CNAME on my DNS server as LOGS -> server2012. I would like to set it up so that `http://LOGS` redirects to `http://server2012/logs`. Ideally, I would still want it so that all pages appear in the browser as being off from the LOGS URL. So `http://LOGS/network.html?site=32` is what is displayed in the browser, but it is really being served from `http://server2012/logs/network.html?site=32`. I've looked at URL rewrite, but can't seem to get to work.


Google is fetching body as title

I'm encountering a strange behaviour of Google. Pages in my site has the form :               ..     <title>Title of Article - mysite</title>     </head>     <body>      <img alt='mysite logo'>     ..      So I expect this page to show as "Title of Article - mysite" in the clickable link of google SERP. However, it is displayed as "Title of Article - mysite - mysite logo". Why the heck is it fetching part of body as the title? How can I prevent this from happening ? Thanks !


Robots meta tag with "noimageindex"

I have some doubt regarding `noimageindex` value in meta robots tag. If I add this tag on my page say `http://www.example.com/somepage/someaction.php` and on that page the images are served from another page say `http://www.exampleimg.com`. Then will the tag has meaning. I mean to say will the images will be ignored by bots? Or `exampleimg` is not affected by that tag. And all images will be indexed? Note: We want to stop indexing of the images on that particular page.