Self-hosted E-commerce software (preferably PHP) with advanced import capabilities

I'm **looking for an e-commerce software, which I can host myself** (hence I want to import a lot of products. Our catalogue includes every product you can order, not just our stock. So that's why the no product limit would be important). **Advanced import** : I would like to import my products from an XLS or CSV file. At the file upload, specify the rows, the data, what to get imported, if I want to merge or replace, etc. Everything you would expect. I don't want to edit the products one-by-one. That would take forever. **PHP** : I have a Debian 6.0 server up and running, which I can modify any way I want. So anything that can be run on a Linux server is fine. (ASP.net would cost me wonders, hence you have to buy Server2008R2 AND the SQL.) **Open-source, and free alternatives** : I tried many of them, just recently. They provide a viable webshop, for anyone who starts a new small shop, and wants to have his stock uploaded. That's fine. But you can't manage mass amount of items. Nor modify them, etc. Installing plugins is one way, but the only plugins I found were not free, and really badly written. Poor quality, full of security holes. The developer couldn't be found once you paid him. Hiring a developer again, is a waste of money and time. Hence he have to code this all down, and he will ask magnitude larger amount of money, also, if he obfuscates the code or decides to leave, I can't do anything. **That said, free software is not out of the league, but my personal experience says otherwise. This is not a shopping recommendation. I'm looking for a software.**   (There is a Wikipedia entry, and many hits if you do a search. But the Wiki is really outdate, and the hits are mostly just SEO based. Even if you manage to find a product, it's highly overpriced, and hosted by the company (thus monthly paid). It also comes with a low product limit.)


Multiple tracking ID, multiple sites, one email report?

I have a Google Analytics account which contained 10 sites. For each site it has individual ID (for example `UA-1000000-01`, `UA-1000000-02`, `UA-1000000-03`...). So, is it possible to set an automatically weekly email report that contains all 10 sites?


Firefox: @font-face issue w/ remote fonts

I've been having some trouble understanding this issue. I'm trying to use an @font-face font on a subdomain, say mysite.example.com. The "src" of the font face would be something along the lines of url('http://www.example.com/myfont.woff"). I've tried putting the CSS file on the subdomain, as well as the main domain, and in both cases Firefox will not respect the font-face. The font-face works in Chrome and Safari (haven't tried IE yet). If I move the woff file to the subdomain, it works fine. So I think the issue is with crossing domains. However, if I link to a Google-hosted web font, it works fine. Unfortunately, Google Web Fonts does not have the font I need. I know the easy solution to host the font on the subdomain, but I'm trying to avoid too much duplication and would prefer to serve this font and CSS for the font on the main domain. Any ideas on how to get this to work? Why would it work for Google fonts but not mine?


Better Spam Protection than reCAPTCHA?

I hope this is a valid question to ask here... but knows anyone a better spam protection than reCAPTCHA? We've now using reCAPTCHA for some time but got now the situation that obviously more and more spam comes through. Is there any better but still more or less user friendly spam protection you can recommend? It can be just a concept or also a (free) service.


What are dompdf_img_* files?

I noticed recently that my tmp directory is starting to fill up and it seems that it is filling up with file that start with dompdf_img_*. Whatever program that is creating these files is not cleaning them up or not cleaning them up as often as I would like. Does anyone know what program creates these files and if there is a way regulate how long they are kept on the server? Using CENTOS 6.2 x86_64 and WHM 11.30.6


Wrong data on referral traffic

We are losing data on referral visitors, and we cannot identify what's wrong. Within a certain period, there were 3000 clicks on a banner on our partner's site. (according to data from our partner) Our analtytic shows only 300 referral visits from that banner. We can't understand, where are the rest of visits. I read that some of these referral visits can show up as direct traffic. But we only had 1500 direct visitors within that same period. Therefore, some visitors are still not tracked! Maybe there's something wrong with our tracking code? It is up to date and it is placed within the head tag....


Breadcrumbs in H1 - How does it affect Google?

Is it good for Google? Like this: `<h1> Home >> Services >> Toilet cleaning >> Showcase </h1>`


Breadcrumb before or after H1?

Which is better for SEO?               home > page > sub page     <h1> sub page </h1>      or               <h1> sub page </h1>     home > page > sub page      ?


Is link a broken link?

When using empty URL fragment links, to send a user to the top of the page (e.g. `<a href="#">return to top</a>`), are these links considered broken or invalid? One of my tools is returning them all as broken links.


Looking for free/cheap Analytics Software like Statcounter

Does anyone know of any Analytics Software similar to Statcounter that is free (hopefully) or cheap? I have used Statcounter in the past and it's very helpful, however, it only allows information on that past 500 visits for free. Their paid version is tiered based on traffic, each tier has caps (data past x amount of visits isn't shown) which is a huge turn off. With Google Analytics, it's a huge pain to show correlation between two set of data: ie. I can see how many visits I get from New York and I can see how many visits I get to a certain page, but finding out how many visits to a certain page I get from New York? Forget about it! Does anyone know of anything that meets my needs?


Backlinks: How does a company's name as the anchor text help with SEO?

Often I see footer links like: SEO by COMPANY NAME How does this help with SEO other than helping a company rank for "Company Name"? When nearby words like "SEO by" get picked up by a search engine crawl, does their proximity to the backlink create some sort of relationship between the backlink and the nearby text?


high number of nofollow links bad?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Ratio of No-follow & Do-follow Backlinks I've been playing with seomoz's tools and it seems like our site has a high number of nofollow links. from what I understand this is because a lot of blogs will make the links used in comments nofollow links, thereby not affecting our ranking? is this a problem and what can be done about it?


Apply CSS to a particular page element in Firefox

Is there a Firefox extension that will let me simply select a visible element on a page, get a CSS selector referring specifically to that element (as the Firefox Web Developer extension already does), and the TYPE IN SOME CSS that is immediately applied to that selector? For example: I have a page with some yellow text. I want to change the yellow text to red. I want to be able to simply click on the yellow text, see that it can be referenced by the long and cumbersome CSS selector               #firsthalf.foo li #crazystuff .wishfulthinking b a #badidea      and then say               color: red !important;      and see the text turn red.


Multisites Network SEO::Can self-referencing canonical tag(rel="canonical") inside article improve google rating?

Can self-referencing canonical tag(rel="canonical") inside article improve google rating? The Case:   1. Company have 40 sites with original content and 1 main site with some of 40 sites articles.   2. Main site have rel="canonical" in each article  **Should article in original site have also rel="canonical" for self- referencing?** * * * example: inside main network site(reference to other site):`<link href="http://site7.com/article25" rel="canonical" />` inside original network site(self-reference):`<link href="http://site7.com/article25" rel="canonical"/>` Thanks in advance


SEO/Google: How should I handle multiple countries and domains?

I'm the webmaster of an online shop based in Austria (Europe). Therefore we registered "example.at". We also own different other domain names like "example-shop.com" and "example.info". Currently all those domains are **redirected (301)** to the **.at** one. Still available is: "example.net" and "example.org" (and .ws/.cc), unfortunately not available: .de/.eu The .com is currently owned by one of our partners, the contract ends in 2012 but until then we have no chance to get this one. Recently I read more about geo-targeting and I noticed ONE big deal. The tld ".at" is hardly recognised in Germany (google.de) whereas it is excellently listed in Austria (google.at). _As a result of the .at I **cannot** set the target location manually (or to unlisted)_. More info: https://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=62399&hl=en This is a big problem. I looked at Google Analytics and - although Germany is 10x as big as Austria - there are more visits from Austria. **So, how should I config the domain in order to get the best results in both, Germany and Austria?** I thought of some solutions:   1. First I could stop redirecting the .info. Then there would be a duplicate of the .at one. Moreover, in Webmaster Tools, I could set the target location of the .info to Germany. As the .at still targets Austria, both would be targeted - however _I don't now if Google punishes one of them because of the duplicate content_?   2. Same as 1. but with .net or .org (I think .info is not a "nice" domain and moreover I think search engines prefer .com, .net or .org to .info).   3. Same as 1. (or 2.) but with a _rel="canonical"_ on the new one (pointing to the .at). Con: I don't think this will improve the situation, because it still tells Google that the .at one is more important, like: "if .info points to .at, the target may still be Austria".   4. rel="canonical" on the .at pointing to the new (.info or .net or .org). However I fear that this will have a negative impact on the listing on Google.at because: "Hey, the well-known .at is not important anymore, so let's focus on the .info which is not well-known." -> Therefore: bad position in search results.   5. Redirect .at to the new (.info or .net or .org) with a 301-Redirect. Con: Might be worse than 4, we might lose Page-Rank (or "the value of the page", because Google says that page rank is not important anymore). Moreover this might be even more confusing for the customers. In 3. or 4. customers don't get redirected, they do not see the canonical-meta-tag. So, please tell me what the best option would be! Please note: It's exactly the same content AND language. In Austria we speak German.


Subdomain In Addon Domain Is Not Working

I added a new addon domain to my cPanel hosting. With the new added addon domain, I try to make some subdomain of it. But, the subdomain is not working like subfolder does. This is my situation: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QgM16.png)   1. `mymaindomain.com` (the cPanel primary domain - OK)   2. `myaddondomain.com` (the new domain - OK)   3. `en.myaddondomain.com` (subdomain of the new domain - not working)   4. `myaddondomain.com/en` (subfolder of the new domain - OK) What should I do to solve this issue?


Easy to use tool to send screenshots from a website?

Is there tool or widget that I can embed in my site that would allow visitors sending me a screenshot of the current page? It would be helpful for reporting errors they encounter on the site.


How to block my images from being displayed by other websites?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How is anti-hotlinking done? I have a lot of images on my site and I don`t want to let other people to use my images on their sites. Is there any way to block the use of my images from other sites, maybe with .htaccess?


more capability from CSS

so i've just finished a book to learn CSS. (known HTML since high school but didn't have the initiative to pick up CSS 'til now). anyways, ever since i started reading about pseudo-classes in CSS i always thought it was a:   * vast assortment of states for almost any tags. this would allow different formatting/layouting for any STATE of ANY ELEMENT. this would then be the mechanism to have pop-up/drop-down/tabbed menus/interactive buttons, controlling the INTERACTIVE look and feel of a page. this made sense, as CSS has always been aimed for formatting/layouting. then i got to the end of the book and didn't find it. the most was the all- too-familiar using pseudo-classes, "hover", "visited", etc on to alter the formatting of the anchor element itself. http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_pseudo_classes.asp only lists a dozen pseudo- classes. so basically the rest of the elements needs to be handled by using onclick, onmouseover, etc, which are all javascript. then i was dreaded with the notion that those interactive look and feel, even from popular and widely conforming websites, like youtube, facebook, google, etc, was achieved using javascript. i haven't gone through each of the said sites to see exactly how the code achieved those effects (it's gonna take me a while to decipher as i'm a novice in javascript; didn't even look at the .js files). but... it is JS, isn't it?? anyways, isn't it better if CSS does atleast _most_ of the INTERACTIVE look and feel as i delineated in the point block above? implementing a drop-down navigation menu would then be like:   * if :hover is true for a button, then change the block formatting (as the button is actually a sinlge lined block). the children blocks would have their "display" style property turned on (previously hidden). they are then set on having a solid background color, padding, borders, etc.. now dispalyed, the user may interact with them like ordinary links. the rest, mostly that requires information processing, will be through javascript. i guess my biggest objection to implementing the interactive look and feel using JS is that you can't always fall reliably back on it.   1. older and rarer browsers may full support of CSS but not JS.   2. JS maybe disabled   3. JS is usually slower (unless script is turned into binary and probably JIT-ed). this is more evident in mobile devices.


Robots and Sitemaps

I have some problems regarding indexing. Google indexed so much in the list. Now I wanted to remove everything from my site. If I have disallow all in _robots.txt_ and send my _sitemap.xml_. Would Google still be indexing my links? I intend to index my links from the _sitemap.xml_ Should my sitemap cover the whole period of birth of my site? For example, I have this site which is 1 year old. Should I include the post from day 1 up today on the sitemap?


Google Analytics include querystring

I've taken an advert out on a site with instruction to point it to: http://www.example.com/?source=gmb In Analytics, how do I go about analysing it's data? I can't find anywhere to see people who came via that querystri


How do sites like DeviantArt and Youtube protect against copyright infringement?

I'm thinking of creating a site where users are allowed to upload content that can then be purchased by other users. My question is how do I protect against someone uploading something that isn't theirs? Do I have to do that with a team of people or are there methods that can be implemented to protect against this. How does Youtube know that someone has uploaded something that violates a copyright?


Is there a wordpress like platform for publishing code documentation? I have an API I'm publishing internally and I want to add documentation like jQuery or Kendo do, and I'm wondering if they just have homegrown solutions for displaying their documentation or if there are solutions (free and paid) out there.


How linking too many sites from my site will affect my page rank in Google

I run a resource and information site which provide links to sites containing specific information. E.g. it provide links to almost all paper manufacturers on the planet. These are not paid link. I don't care if any page rank is passed or not to these web sites. I want to know if it affect my site page rank and should I use nofollow attribute with all links. My site is 15 years old and has PR5. Thanks


1 touch zoom issue for mobile site on opera

I'm optimising my site for the web. For testing I've downloaded the Opera mini app for my iPhone and the Opera mobile desktop browser for my PC. Often when you click or touch a link, rather than opening the link the browser zooms in first (you can then click the link). This behaviour is quite annoying and doesn't seem to happen on other sites. Can I disable this functionality or alter my site so it stops happening?


Are there negative effects to introducing a site to Google too early?

I've got a site that is going live in a couple of weeks. All of the content is not complete, but is being added to the database each hour. Is there a negative effect if Google or other search engines find the site before it's "ready enough"? Will they just assume it's a barren shell and return in six months? How complete should a site be before you invite the search engines in?


How can I find the source of this broken link to our site?

In our error logs we have quite a few (~ 10s / day) internal recursion errors caused by googlebot. Here is a typical example:               [Sun Jul 03 10:58:22 2011] [error] [client goo.gle.ipa.ddr] Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.      Looking in the access log, the offending GET is always looking for a broken URL with this format:               http://ourdomain.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/image-name.jpg%22%20width=%2239%22%20height=%2250%22%20alt=%22image%22/%3E%3C/a%3E%3Ca%20href=%22/m/imgres?q=some+query+here      Undoing the URL encoding to make it more readable:               http://ourdomain.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/image-name.jpg" width="39" height="50" alt="image"/></a>< href="/m/imgres?q=some+query+here      This looks like a broken fragment of some HTML that was displaying the image as part of a hyperlink. Looks like it might have been part of some sort of search result. We don't have any links of this format anywhere in our site, so I can only assume this is a reference from somewhere else that is either misinterpreted by googlebot, or is just broken in the page markup. There is no entry for the referrer in the Apache access_log. I have tried to find the source in Google webmaster tools, but although the unreachable is noted, there is no mention of the source. I've also tried to use Google to find the reference without success. I do notice that the "imgres" in the href fragment is used in Google image search, but the rest of the fragment isn't consistent with this. My questions:   * Should I bother with this or just let these recursion errors happen (10s of them / day)?   * If I need to bother, any suggestions on how to find their source? Thanks.


title, content copied and title, name used! trademark issue?

I have a video website, server and domain bought 3 months 1 week ago, website actually started 1 month 1 week ago. Domain name plain and simple, easy to remember, bought with a yearly fee, nothing similar exists. Domain name appears in all pages' title. Around a week ago, started coming up with odd websites in google searches: my website has 0 pagerank (not enough traffic, no advertising yet and no backlinks, a maximum of 10,000 pageloads a day, this week's average 3000 pageviews a day - because of the time of year? ) other websites with higher pagerank (heck, it's not that hard to beat a 0 pagerank-1 month old website) have started using my name in their content titles! like name, sometimes including .com! I wish not to reveal my website address for ethical purposes, so for now i shall call it foofoo.com So my pages are: foofoo.com - best free video sharing site: free full hd episodes, free flash games etc... Lame Video title man runs on the street with no shoes video - foofoo.com Count Sheeps till you go to sleep flash game - foofoo.com google searches for foofoo.com point directly to my website BUT google searches for foofoo point to some pages like: notfoo.com/foofoo-com-stolen- title-and-vid-for-views with title like foofoo.com vid title here bla bla searching google for "foofoo" 2 weeks ago would place me 10th, and going up. searching for it now places me somewhere on 30th-35th and going down! all places before me are taken by titles containing my name, domain, title, content title etc and I don't know what to do about it! All my pages have a copyright notice at the bottom of the page and i have a terms and conditions on my website. I did not register a trademark, but searched for it and no one has registered a trademark containing my domain name. I do not know what to do... can someone please advise? I am currently reading about legal stuff, trademark and such, but just started today so it will be tough. Also, I cannot afford any payed advise, such as a lawyer... that's mainly the reason for which I haven't yet payed for a registered trademark.Does anyone have an idea on what could be the cost of registering a trademark? Please help me solve this issue... Thanks in advance to all of you going to answer and help me!


Can we host subdomains to diffrent hosting provider?

I have one domain, abc.com and for some reson I want to Install one application which require tomcat service. Current hosting is for php and apache only. Is it possible to host java.abc.com to another hosting and how it can be done?


How to compile all design images as used in website design?

I am just coming into a new web design role and so far I can find no central repository of all images as used on the website. I have previously, at some point in the design process, inserted all design images (global buttons, layout images, background gradients etc) into a PNG file - sometimes multiple PNG files if warranted. (Please note that I am not talking about content images (such as photos that would be used in an article), just the images that are part of the design.) Before I go about the usual task of compiling all images into a PSD/PNG, just to see if there are other, more manageable ways. My question here is, how do you store all of the images that you use in a website? Do you have a central repository (PSD/PNG) file for all of your buttons, all of your gradients or is that unnecessary?


I want to learn about servers, where should I start?

I am interested in learning how to run a server to host a website and provide me with email and all the other features hosting companies offer. I have read snippets from all over about different aspects, but I would like an absolute begining as I don't really even understand how servers work. Can anyone recommend a site or book that would offer a solid foundation for understanding how a server works.


Unwanted hyperlinks containing 'msocom1' inserted into my WordPress content

I have found several unwanted nonsensical hyperlinks inserted into unpublished content on my website (self-hosted WordPress). Four of these are to "#_msocom_1". Googling on "#_msocom_1" returns 519 results; Googling on "msocom1" returns 602 results. I've checked a sample and all seem to be similar to my situation - they are nonsensical text inserted in the content (whether or not as a hyperlink). Unfortunately I can't find any explanation of why/how they occur. Question: Have others noticed these nonsensical hyperlinks? Is there a known explanation? Does 'msocom1' actually mean something? Note: I have not mis-spelled this term. It is 'msocom1'; it is **NOT** 'mscomm1'. Addendum#1: there are/were other nonsensical hyperlinks. For example the words "content in" were turned into a hyperlink to 'http://content.in'. There are another 22 of these nonsensical hyperlinks.


Apache Reverse Proxy (Same ProxyPass path but different Destination)

I have a problem here. I am doing reverse proxy for few website in my test server. So , what i have encounter here is that when i request the website from the client , both website request from the same path , thus only the leading ProxyPass will work , not the latter. Here is my configuration .                ProxyPass /js http://example.com/js      ProxyPassReverse /js http://example.com/js           ProxyPass /js http://example.org/js      ProxyPassReverse /js http://example.org/js      My question is that how i can differentiate both of them.Because it will cause the second website unable to load the js scrips. I have try Alias like               Alias /fjs /js      so it will come like               ProxyPass /fjs http://example.org/js      But the js script for the second website is still not working


What is the generic type of this background image?

What is this type of texture referred to in web design? Blotted, blotched? And what are the best ways or tools to generate similar textures and backgrounds?


WYSIWYG editor that outputs to markdown

Is there a WYSIWYG editor that outputs markdown?


In Google Analytics, how can I graph direct traffic vs Google referrals?

How can I graph direct traffic, versus referals from other search engines (in particular Google)? I can kind of get what I want by using the "Plot Lines" function, from the Traffic Sources > All Traffic graph, but as the graph includes a line for "all traff" and is scaled as such, it makes it difficult to visualise only the google and direct traffic items.


Is there any server or software that legitimately improves a site's SEO?

I started to learn about SEO in last four months. Before that I was just a freelance web designer. Since I am new to this industry, I contacted a SEO company to optimize our client's website which I designed. While discussing SEO with the company one of the technical staff told me that they have some sort of server which boosts the website and they can achieve good results in a short amount of time. I don't really believe what he said so I want to know whether any such system or server exists which can boost the SEO of a website. Is it just a marketing gimmick?


How to have html display a link, but open a javascipt function instead?

I have an html page, and I need a link to show that the user would be going to 'example.html', when really, the link goes to 'javascipt:ajaxLoad(example.html);'. EDIT: I went over to stackexchange, and their solution worked. The html would go from this: Example to this: Example The solution, is if javascript is enabled, the 'return false;' will cancel going to the link on the page, and load the javascript. If not, then it will go to the page in the href


Generating search result pages as keyword friendly gateways

We have a fairly standard eCommerce marketplace site. When a user searches for "something in city A" a friendly url is created with that search term which displays a list of products for that term. These pages are then indexed by Google and subsequently crawls the product pages. It has resulted in us having many more pages indexed than we actually have products. My question is. Is this a sensible strategy? Are these considered doorway pages by google? Would we gain an advantage by using sitemap.xml with links to each product? Thanks.


How to point DNS records to Amazon AWS Elastic Beanstalk

I just created a new environment with AWS and uploaded a .zip file into elastic beanstalk. I used to have a friend's server host my site instead of GoDaddy so I changed my custom DNS name servers from pointing to my friend's server to GoDaddy's. AWS told me that I need I need to add a CNAME record on GoDaddy and I did. The alias is `lance` and the host is `lance-env.elasticbeanstalk.com`. I know that this change can take 24-48 hours to take effect but it's been a day already and when I go to my site, a default page from GoDaddy appears. I'm very new to AWS and would just like to find a way for AWS to host my site other than using Route53.


How to set up Google ecommerce tracking for a shopping cart servicing multiple countries?

Currently trying to set up GA ecommerce tracking for a shopping cart providing different pricing and tax to multiple countries. Does anyone know how to extract the tax amount from the order total for google ecommerce for multiple countries? i.e. set GA ecomm up to service/ return data for different countries?


Defining 'HTML5 Interface'

I've seen people talk about sites upgrading from Flash to HTML5, but there's no sign of HTML5 anywhere in their source. So what constitutes as an "HTML5 interface"? Is this term becoming the next "Web 2.0"?


Is it ok to use a hodgepodge of CMSes on a particular domain

I have several different needs on my website and I am thinking of using different CMSes - in each case, the one that most closely matches the needs of each page. Is this recommended?


Tumblr custom subdomain stoped working

I have added my custom `.tk` subdomain to Tumblr. My DNS setup for this domain looks like this:               A   - mydomain.tk  -   xx.xxx.xxx.xxx ;        MX  - mydomain.tk  -   xxxxxx.pamx1.hotmail.com ;             CNAME - blog.mydomain.tk - domains.tumblr.com      It was working fine for a month or more, and then all of the sudden I get this error: > This subdomain's CNAME is not pointing to Tumblr. It is currently set to > “DOMAINS.TUMBLR.COM”. Obviously my domain is set correctly. This error doesn't make sense that the domain is not pointing to `DOMAINS.TUMBLR.COM` when it is pointing to `DOMAINS.TUMBLR.COM`. When I open my adress `blog.mydomain.tk`, it opens the Tumblr site and shows an error: "There's nothing here." So obviously the problem has to be on their side, right? I wrote to their support about this and first time they fixed it immediately, and then after a couple of hours it happened again, without me even doing anything and now even their support doesn't answer me.


Does GoDaddy support Microsoft Chart Controls

Does anyone know (or have running) if Chart Controls will work on GoDaddy's Windows Servers. They have ASP.NET 4.0 but is that enough? Thanks!


Where can I find out whether the price I've been quoted for a CSS template is competitive?

I want to get a template designed. A brand guidelines document already exists, and I've already created the HTML. I don't want any graphics or javascript, so basically there's little wiggle-room from a design point of view. It should just be a typographically strong template with a few flashes of colour from a predefined palette. Where (online) can I find out whether the amount I've been quoted is competitive. To my mind it should only be a couple of hours work so shouldn't cost too much.


Not using nofollow for UGC links

My site contains many links that were user generated so I've added a `rel=nofollow` to them. I'm considering removing that tag at least partially, as these are most of my outgoing links and I've come to understand it isn't a good SEO sign to not have outgoing followed links. Although these are external sites, I have some data on the popularity and categorization of these sites. I'm trying to decide between two options:   * Removing the nofollow link for popular sites in most categories.    * Removing the nofollow for links that are in specific categories that represent the categorization I would like to achieve for my site. For example if this is a site about Basketball only remove the nofollow for links that are from sport sites. As these are both not exactly natural approaches, can this hurt me? Which option would you recommend?


My site's Alexa rank got worse and Alexa stopped ranking some sub-domains

I have a website which has reached an Alexa rank of 250,000. It had four sub- domains and Alexa was ranking them as well. Two weeks ago, my rank became 290,000 and Alexa now shows only one sub-domain in addition to the main domain. I use the Alexa toolbar and all my friends use it. I would at least think that Alexa should rank a sub-domain which we use everyday. Why did this happen?


Why doesn't my domain resolve to the hostname CNAME/ALIAS I've specified?

I have a domain set with a `CNAME` alias to point to Heroku, but it is not resolving. Here is a link to a screenshot: http://awesomescreenshot.com/03226ntoc4 And here is the output from `nslookup`:               $ nslookup -query=any tyger.ac. dns1.name-services.com     Server:  dns1.name-services.com     Address:  98.124.192.1          tyger.ac        nameserver = dns3.name-services.com     tyger.ac             primary name server = dns1.name-services.com             responsible mail addr = info.name-services.com             serial  = 2002050701             refresh = 10800 (3 hours)             retry   = 3600 (1 hour)             expire  = 604800 (7 days)             default TTL = 3600 (1 hour)     tyger.ac        nameserver = dns2.name-services.com     tyger.ac        MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = eforwardct.name-services.com     tyger.ac        MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = eforwardct3.name-services.com     tyger.ac        MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = eforwardct2.name-services.com     tyger.ac        nameserver = dns4.name-services.com     tyger.ac        nameserver = dns5.name-services.com     tyger.ac        nameserver = dns1.name-services.com     dns2.name-services.com  internet address = 98.124.197.1     dns3.name-services.com  internet address = 98.124.193.1     dns1.name-services.com  internet address = 98.124.192.1     dns4.name-services.com  internet address = 98.124.194.1     dns5.name-services.com  internet address = 98.124.196.1      Here is the destination host:               $ nslookup mie-6031.herokussl.com     Non-authoritative answer:     Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com     Address:  8.8.8.8          Name:    elb033514-473924049.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com     Addresses:  50.16.211.233               23.23.138.171               54.243.232.221     Aliases:  mie-6031.herokussl.com


How can I update my site without forcing users to wait?

Downtime is inconvenient for users and currently they have to wait any time a site's engine is being upgraded. Additionally, when using off-the-shelf scripts there's a risk that a setting change won't work as well as intended (even if they've been tested on a staging site). How can I keep multiple versions of a site on a server and switch between them without causing any downtime (e.g. with a htaccess file)?


Stackexchange vs Personal Blog - Pagerank Competition

As you can see I'm using my real name on every StackExchange site including stackoverflow.com. Given an unspecific time period, is it possible for my very own personal blog to compete with any StackExchange Site? I really like my personal blog to be page rank one and don't have to change my name i.e. on Stackoverflow. ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gif3D.jpg)


Do Flash head banner texts need to coincide with the text on the underlying HTML banner?

Let's say you have a flash head banner on the page that you are trying to optimize. Let's also assume that you've incorporated an underlying HTML banner for SEO purposes. Now, do you think Google actually "reads" flash content and can penalize you for not using the same content on both headers?


What affiliate network would you recommend and why?

There are many ad and affiliate networks out there, that each try to cover a niche. Please list your favorites and give some reasons why you like them.


prevent hotlinking of off-site content?

I have a `www.example.com` site where I serve all static content (e.g. `http.//www.example.com/image.jpg`) off a CDN with URLs like `http://static.example.com/image.jpg` An Apache 2 .htaccess rule prohibits non-empty, `non-example.com` referrals:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?example.com [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://example.cloudfront.net [NC]     RewriteRule \.(jpeg|jpg|gif|bmp|png|mp3)$ - [NC,F,L]     </IfModule>      I still receive huge amounts of traffic from a very popular website that uses some sort of "news roundup" feature and hotlinks to `www.example.com/image.jpg` (instead of static.example.com): this resource exists (for origin pull reasons), but the URL is not published anywhere. In fact, serving so many 403s is bringing my server down. How can this kind of hotlink traffic be blocked, or at least, how can it be redirected to the CDN before it reaches and cripples apache2?


Separate site for website and web application - implications for SEO?

I have a web application - primarily reserved for members but with some open access for trialling, and I have a website that is the main public face for the web application. The two are on two different websites. The main function of the website is to describe what you can do on the web application. If you want to try the app, the website sends you over to the web application. Are there any implications for SEO from this setup?


Do you need permission to show an RSS feed?

Does anyone know if you need permission to show an RSS feed on your website? I want to show the BBC business RSS feed and I heard that I may need to get permission to show it. I did some Googling but couldn't find anything so does anyone know if this is true and if it is, how do I get permission?


Can anyone recommend a Google SERP tracker?

I want to track my website's position in Google's search results for around 50 keywords/phrases and I am looking to a nice web service or Windows application to automate this process. Ideally, I want to see pretty Javascript or Flash line graphs for my keywords and their positions. I'm currently free-trialing Raven Tools and Sheer SEO but I am not particularly impressed with either. My budget is up to £25-30/$30-40 per month for a decent rank checker.


Considerations & Vendors for hosting healthcare related data & sites in Europe

I am currently researching hosting vendors & services in Europe that I can use to build up websites & related web based applications for healthcare. Eventually we would like the users to be able to enter some personal medical information into these sites, so there is a need to ensure data privacy & confidentiality. Our company is US based, so we also need to adhere to US legislation eg SAS 70 Type II. Does anyone have any experience of reviewing hosting companies with regard to their data privacy certification? For example I know Rackspace & Verizon have centres in europe with SAS 70 Type II but I would like to find others. thanks, matt.


Do extra words in url affect SEO?

Often for technical reasons we end up with some extra words in a url that we would not want to optimize for as they would have no bearing on the content. Examples would be: > sportssite.com/ **content** /sports-article > > movieportal.com/ **node** /movie-review > > electronicsforum.com/ **blog** /top-10-cameras > > webmasters.stackexchange.com/ **questions/34046** /do-extra-words-in-url- > affect-seo Do these have any affect on ranking in any of the major search engines? Would it behoove us to strip the extra words?


How to be alerted by email when new vbulletin version is available

I currently have a vbulletin install and I don't log into the admin control panel very often - but I need to be alerted when a security patch or new version is available. I cannot find this option anywhere - does anyone know where you can find it? Or if it exists?


is there any well-known shared web hosting company which supports mysql version 5.6?

I need mysql version 5.6 for my website because full text search functionality with innodb have come with mysql that release. That's why I want to know that is there any well-known shared web hoisting which support mysql 5.6


How can I increase my web site visitor?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to start driving traffic to a new website? I have a web site that www.viewbd.com But i have not enough visitor how can i increase my visitor or traffic


How to bring visitors to a new website?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to start driving traffic to a new website? I am more of a programmer than an SEO expert. Whenever I develop a new website, no matter how good or bad it is, after the most of the development work is over, the ultimate question remains, how to bring visitors to a new website, how to let the world know of its existence. Search Engines are of no use, because they only help after visitors start coming to website.


How to create a portfolio website for minimal cost?

I am planning on creating an online portfolio for myself, to use in my resume and to use for other personal use, with my own domain name. I am pretty sure there is nothing free out there to create a domain name and have a website for ourselves (correct me if I am wrong.) So I looked up Godaddy.com and found some domains really cheap, like for $4.99 a year which looked so unbelievable. I need your suggestions on how to get started on this. I plan to design my website on my own and post photos and make modifications to the code since i am a web developer. Which website would be good to have things the way I want them to be and what would be the price.


Finding results from _trackPageview in Google Analytics

I have a number of PDFs on my website that I want to track when people click on them. To do that I added this code to each `<a>` tag referencing the PDFs,               onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/download/nameOfPDF.pdf');      I then made sure the page with these links had my Google Analytics code and that the code was above all of my links (I placed it at the bottom of the `<head>` section. This exactly what I have (I replaced my URL and Account # though)               <script type="text/javascript">                 var _gaq = _gaq || [];                 _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-X']);                 _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '.YYYYYYYYYY.com']);                 _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);                      (function() {                     var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;                     ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';                     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);                 })();     </script>      My issue is that 3 days later, I have 0 page views for the pdf documents in Top Content and the pages are not showing up at all. Is this because I made a mistake with my code placement or is it an issue with where I am looking in Google Analytics? I do know that I have had over 1000 page views on my site and the PDFs are rather popular so I am sure something isn't working properly.


Diary view- user interface

I need to design a user inteface which shows the user his/her list of appointments. Ideally it needs to show today, tomorrow, this week, this month as view options for filtering, user can choose open/closed/all appointments. I am looking for a diary view interface in existing websites for this. any reference urls for the same ?


Category to page and blocking category URL via robots.txt - good for SEO?

I am using a template which in the pages it allows me to add sidebars / more content under and above the content I want to pull from a category which is very helpful. If I create pages to display my categories content wont the page URLs go in conflict with the category URLs? By conflict I mean causing a duplicate content error? What I thought might help was to block from _robots.txt_ the category URLs of the blog ex. `/category/books` `/category/music` Would that be a good practice in order to avoid the duplicate content penalty?


Search engine optimization for text with different colors

We're trying to do SEO on our company website. Our company logo is just text (in image form), but has two colors in it. Our company name appears a lot in our website's text/copy. For example, the sentence,               This is our company name: COMPANY.      is coded as,               This is our company name:          COMP     A     N     Y      Is it search engine friendly? If not, any suggestions?


Selfoss says "no entries found"

I installed selfoss as instructed in the readme, set up the rss feeds, but I get "no entries found" when I open it. Anyone got this problem?


Demographics and interests reports in Google universal analytics

I have an issue with Google Analytics, can't seem to find a guide how to activate Demographics and Interests reports. I am using the new version of analytics (Universal Analytics) and the script code looks something like this:               (function (i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {         i['GoogleAnalyticsObject'] = r; i[r] = i[r] || function () {             (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)         }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date(); a = s.createElement(o),         m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0]; a.async = 1; a.src = g; m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)     })(window, document, 'script', '//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js', 'ga');      But the guide I found on google's page is for the old version (Classis Analytics). Does anyone know how I can activate this on Universal Analytics? Is this even possible?


How to check pagerank of all pages of a website?

How can I check Google Page Rank of all pages of a website without installing any tool on my machine?


What dangers await if I block non-standard, non-major-usa search engine bots from my USA only website?

I noticed tons of bandwidth being used by non-USA search engine bots, so I began blocking them in an effort to save bandwidth and cpu cycles for actual users and the search engines they come from (Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, etc.). Other than potentially losing some international traffic (which isn't really important to us since all of our content is very USA-centric), what additional dangers should I be concerned about? I'm using a modified version of Jeff Starr's User Agent Blocklist


Using two salts for user authentication?

When storing user credentials in a database, we all know that hashing the password is the bare minimum you should do, but salting it before hashing is better. The salt should be randomly generated, long enough, and unique for each user. I remember reading somewhere (but I don't remember where) an article about using **two** salts (both long enough and randomly generated) :   1. One global salt   2. One unique-per-entry salt The resulting hash would be : `hash(globalSalt + password + uniqueSalt)` (the order of concatenation is not really important). Is there any reason why this would be more secure than simply having one unique salt per entry ? We suppose that the attacker has access to the code files where the global salt is stored.


Is hosting a webapp in Europe faster for Europeans than if hosted in USA?

I'm considering hosting a webapp to be used in northern Europe, but my current hosting provider is USA-based. I'm looking at about 17 hops from my machine to the hosting provider, and I'm concerned this will slow the webapp down. I've noticed that my hosted wiki is running a lot slower than a clone on my LAN. It's reasonable enough that LAN != Internet, but how I'm wondering whether the hosting location makes any significant difference? For a webapp (not a static site), **should I pick a local hosting provider to ensure a short response time,** or won't it matter at all? This is a very small webapp with few users, so it's not a performance problem in terms of user load. I just want to ensure shortest possible response time.


Adding a calculated metric to a custom report in Google Analytics

Is there a way to display a calculated field in a `custom report`, for example I want to display the value of (event X / event Y) over time? (including `average event value`, `total events`, etc.)


What is the best way to position div for mobile purpose viewing?

I have a issue whereby images that are I div because of the style percentage width property will get resize weirdly and will not display correcty in pc or mobile iPhone What is the best way to position div for mobile purpose viewing Percentage or there are other alternative? Taking into consideration tat the image may be resize


joomla ACL :: two groups permissions conflict

I have several user groups on my website, like:   * Site Staff   * Departments   * -- History department   * -- Physics department   * -- Foreign languages department   * -- IT department etc I also have several categories, like:   * News   * About   * ...   * Departments      * -- History department     * -- Physics department     * -- Foreign languages department     * -- IT department etc Users in **Site Staff** group can edit entire site, except for **Departments** categories (I've set **Deny** permission for it). Each Department user group can edit only its corresponding category. I have successfully implemented all this. The question is: If a user belongs to two groups ( **Site Staff** and **Physics department** - for instance) - he should be able to edit the whole site, except for Departments category. **And also he should be able to edit _Physics department_ category** - this is what I cannot implement. Can you suggest any ideas?


Getting a domain sub-directory url for a new server

I have an web application server running tomcat and i need to publish my APIs to internet users. However I don't have a domain name for this server and I can only put the ip address of this server (e.g. _145.XXX.XXX.XXX_ ) to point out where my API xml files are located. I have another web server running with a domain name " _http://www.webserver.com_ " registered on the internet and I want to make use of its domain name to server my web application server API xml files location. How can I do that? using "www.webserver.com/api" or using "api.webserver.com"? which is better? Also I wonder if I want to publish a _"rstp://145.XXX.XXX.XXX"_ web link for video streaming purpose, can I use _"rstp://www.webserver.com/api"_ to replace it and how to do it? I always thought the url contain domain sub-directory name cannot point to another IP address, it only can point to another folder location on the webserver itself.


How to replace the path with a custom variable in the visitor flow?

I would like to use Google Analytic's visitor flow to understand the behaviour of my visitors. My current visitor flow looks like this: ![Visitor flow](http://i.stack.imgur.com/nXzjL.png) As you can see, my URL structure is not really friendly to this tool, and thus I'm having a hard time extracting any useful information from there. I've seen that analytics.js allows us to send custom variables, including overriding the path. I guess that I could override the path to give all pages of the same type a common (fake) path, something like:               /restaurant/123/index => /restaurant     /restaurant/456/index => /restaurant          /restaurant/123/order => /order     /restaurant/456/order => /order      but I would be losing the potentially precious information that the original path represents. Is it possible to send a _custom variable_ to Google Analytics instead, and **have the visitor flow use the custom variable instead of the path** when displaying the above flow?


How to remove spam links from google?

My wordpress website got the pharma attack. Now there are lots of spam links on my website indexed by the Google. Is there possiblilty to remove these links from the Google using robots.txt file or some other method? PS. Since I have removed the malicious code, now these spam links give 404 error. Will Google automatically remove the non-existing links ? If yes, how long it takes? Thanks.


Where to find my website's source code?

My company ordered a website and we were given all usernames and passwords but I can't find the PHP source files and this is my first website assignment. I have no prior exposure to web technologies although I've been programming for a decade and know computer usage inside out. I tried to use the cPanel to find .php files but there aren't any. There are no MySQL databases either. I'm lost.


Problem with Google Webmaster Tools Sitemap

I have a WPMU 3.6.1 with Domain Mapping (0.5.4.3) with W3TC (0.9.3) and Google XML Sitemaps (4.0 BETA). I have 4 different sitemaps.   * _sub-1.com/sitemap.xml_   * _sub-2.com/sitemap.xml_   * _sub-3.com/sitemap.xml_   * _sub-4.com/sitemap.xml_ on Google Webmaster Tools, I got 59 errors and 14 warnings. ### Sitemap errors > Errors: > We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure > your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you > provided and then resubmit. > > General HTTP error: 404 not found > > Sitemap: _sub-2.com/sitemap-pt-post-2011-02.xml_ etc. But when I click on my sitemap links they work fine. ### Sitemap errors > Warnings: > URLs not accessible When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, > we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot due to an HTTP > status error. All accessible URLs will still be submitted. > > Sitemap: _sub-2.com/sitemap-misc.xml_ > > HTTP Error: 404 > > URL: `/sitemap.html` But when I click on my sitemap links they work fine. ### Sitemap errors > Index errors: > URLs not accessible When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, > we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot due to an HTTP > status error. All accessible URLs will still be submitted. > > HTTP Error: 404 > > URL: _/sitemap-pt-post-2010-09.xml_ But when I click on my sitemap links they work fine. ### Web pages   * 3,276 Submitted   * 3,247 Indexed What do I have to put on **_network admin > performance(w3tc) > page cache > cache preload > Sitemap URL_** ? I have added **" _/sitemap.xml_ "** My _robots.txt_ : http://pastebin.com/3K2U0mQa My _.htaccess_ : http://pastebin.com/efJJ6zwy How can I make it work?


Apache URL rewriting not working

All `.php` files are rewritted before doing the below rewriting:               test.php => test     foo.php => foo      I want to rewrite this URL `http://www.testdomain.com/test?name=john&id=2&nick=doe` to `http://www.testdomain.com/test/john/2/doe`. `test` is the index file. I tried these methods to rewrite:   1. Method 1:              RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/(.*)$ test?name=$1&id=$2&nick=$3 [L,QSA]        2. Method 2:              RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/(.*)$ test.php?name=$1&id=$2&nick=$3 [L,QSA]        3. Method 3:              RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /test?name=$1&id=$2&nick=$3 [L]      **updated .htaccess file** content:               RewriteEngine On          RewriteRule ^([^.?]+)$ %{REQUEST_URI}.php [L]     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} "^[^ ]* .*?\.php[? ].*$"     RewriteRule .* - [L,R=404]          # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=([\w]+)\&id=([\d]{1,3})\&nick=([\w]+)$     RewriteRule .* /test/%1/%2/%3? [R=301,L]      All of them are not working (URL remains the same they don't take effect)! What am I doing wrong?


Domain problem: viewing one site OFF another site?

I have this scenario:   * I have a domain, let's call it "mydomain.com".   * Mydomain.com runs various "sub-sites", e.g.: mydomain.com/shop/view/shop1, mydomain.com/shop/view/shop2, mydomain.com/shop/view/funkyShop etc I want to be able to link other URLs to these subsites. For example, if you one of the subsites has the URL "shop1.com", I want to link that to my site. So, basically, if someone goes to shop1.com, it must open mydomain.com/shop/view/shop1. I know this can be done with parked domains and some coding or even a .htaccess file, but my scenario is furhter complicated. There are cases where the user has a website on, e.g, shop1.com. They just want a subpath, e.g.: shop1.com/shop to point to mydomain.com/shop/view/shop1. So my questions are:   1. Is this possible without parking the domain on my account?   2. Is the solution in the .htaccess file?   3. How can I make sure that if they open shop1.com/shop that it doesnt just redirect, but actually SHOWS THE CONTENT from my site on their site?


How should I layout my page if I only have a toolbar, but Menu? (as it typically is)

I'm building a web application that revolves mostly around a grid, a treeview, and a toolbar. There is also an autocomplete section at the top of the site. Since I have never been trained in website design, and am mostly self taught, what would you recommend I do to make this look nicer? Do you know of any similar sites that I could imitate? The primary issue for me is what do I do with the toolbar & the content below it?   How should I style/treat the search box at the top?   Should I add a menu above the toolbar containing pretty much the same stuff the bar has?   What else do you recommend? http://www.tlsadmin.com/tlsadmin/portalhome.aspx ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/URU9t.png) ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/5pj35.png)


Removing an old Frontpage website from a domain and uploading a new (static) one

I've been asked to refresh a really old website (made I think around 2000 with Frontpage) with a new version. So, after developing it locally, I jumped on the client's FTP and saw an unfamiliar folder structure: it's the damned Frontpage! Here's a screenshot of the folder structure: ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wIgI7.png) And there's a bunch of html files, omitted to save space. I have no experience on Frontpage (luckily I guess), but my question is simple:   * Is it safe to delete everything in the root of the host and upload my new website?   * If anything goes wrong, will I be able to simple re-upload the old website and restore everything as it was before? I've read that uploading Frontpage websites via ftp is discouraged. The website is hosted on a Linux server and has no database, it's a plain simple web hosting


What solutions to prevent spam of web forms are less intrusive for users?

I know about captcha. However, often it is stated that captcha stops legitimate users due to the inconvenience. Are there other solution, that in particular look for pattern in the input similar to e-mail spamfilters, or for random sequences of letters? (In particular, a solution that works with drupal would be good).


Should I have link rel=next & prev on URLs which have query variables?

For example, I have link `rel prev & next` set up on these pages of products:               site.com?page=2     site.com?page=3      (this is my preferred structure by the way and I'm trying to get all the ugly URLs which are littered with query variables deindexed as they are causing duplicate content). So the above URLs are fine but once a filter to narrow product results is selected, like "price", the URL shows like this:               site.com?price[1000-1499]=on     site.com?page=2&price[1000-1499]=on      As of right now, I am having the link `rel prev & next` dynamically added to the header of these pages but since I am working on getting these query variable URLs pages deindexed, I am wondering if I should get rid of it on these pages? Any thoughts?


Dictionary API for a website?

I would like to have a dictionary for my website where the user can easily fill in a word or better yet right click a word and get the definition right there on the page or something along those lines. Are there any Dictionary API's out there that I can incorporate to my site? I have looked and cannot find anything.


Can I access domain registration (whois) history?

I know how to find out who currently owns a domain ("whois domainname"). I'd very much like to get in touch with the previous (recent) owner of a single particular domain. Is that possible? Thanks.


What is a good method for creating a guide for standardized markup?

I need to create a guide or wiki that outlines different standardized techniques for marking up reusable elements in our software. When adding new features our developers are often able to reuse or mimic existing markup, and I'd like to make this as easy as possible for them. In order to do this now they have to dig through the interface to find something that's close enough. Are there any good examples online that show code samples for standardized markup? Is there a tool (wiki, etc.) that would make this somewhat easy to create?


Is there any browser add-on or extension or anything, by which we can see their current page views?

Is there any browser add-on or extension or anything, by which we can see their current page views of websites displayed in google search results? or give us the page views of websites opened in the browser.


Please recommend a good web designer/web developer web dictionary?

Please recommend a good web designer/web developer dictionary?


Enable gzip compression on Bluehost?

My website is loading large (~3mb) SVG file with jQuery. It takes quite a while therefore I decided to enable gzip compression. I have a hosting account with Bluehost which supports custom .htaccess files. Here is what I have tried to add to .htaccess file to enable compression without any success (I used Google's Page Speed for testing):               <IfModule mod_php5.c>         php_value output_buffering "1"         php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler     </IfModule>          <IfModule mod_deflate.c>         AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/xml text/plain text/css text/javascript application/x-javascript     </IfModule>          <IfModule mod_gzip.c>         mod_gzip_on Yes         mod_gzip_dechunk Yes         mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|xml|css|js|php|pl|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|swf)$         mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$         mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*         mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*         mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*         mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*     </IfModule>


Purchasing traffic effects on SEO

I've recently found some websites which provide a specific number of visits by paying. I'm curious if this is a (very) bad practice for search engines (like Google).


Website traffic - with no money (backlinks, spam, likes, tweets)

I read a lot of things around the web. I saw people selling 4K backlinks and social real users tweets, likes, sharing links on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.. Now,   * assuming you have opened a site which is on beta stage and users needs invitations to signup   * assuming you are not an administrator of any huge Facebook or social community (Facebook groups, meetup groups, forums, chats etc..),   * assuming you don't have much money to spend for a huge campaign on paying ads,   * assuming you want to stay out from venture capitalists, angels and so on (at least to check if you can do it without external/third parties help) so... Is "trusted" SPAM, or paying backlinks, the only way you can go for getting some traffic to your website? If not can you describe how can you promote your website on the web excluding all the points above?


Invalid categories

I created a sub-category using an ampersand in its name. I somehow managed to successfully place this category into another category and now I'm unable to remove it. To further complicate this matter, I created another sub-category that has the same prefix:               Category: Product       Category: Features & Design       Category: Features      Clicking on `Features & Design` simply takes me to `Features`. How do I remove the `Features & Design` from the `Product` category?


Apache mod rewrite rules for swapping directories

I am trying to correct for an issue where some dynamic urls were generated where the downstream directory paths were swapped with what is normal and then the links were published. For example: `example.com/en/2014_01/en-directory-01/...` was created as `example.com/es/2014_01/es-directory-01/...` I have a whole slew of these where the `en/` directory is accidentally paired with a `es-directory-#/` directory. I have created a set of rewrite rules that I think cover them but don't seem to work. The format is:               RewriteRule ^en/(201[0-4]_[0-9]{2})/es-directory-01/(.*)?$ es/201$1/es-directory-01/$2 [R=301,NC]     RewriteRule ^en/(201[0-4]_[0-9]{2})/es-directory-02/(.*)?$ es/201$1/es-directory-02/$2 [R=301,NC]     ...     RewriteRule ^es/201([0-4]_[0-9]{2})/en-directory-01/(.*)?$ en/201$1/en-directory-01/$2 [R=301,NC]     RewriteRule ^es/201([0-4]_[0-9]{2})/en-directory-01/(.*)?$ en/201$1/en-directory-01/$2 [R=301,NC]     ... I don't need a rewrite condition for this, correct? Is there anything obviously wrong here?


Is it possible to get Google to treat a .it domain as a generic top-level domain?

We have the option of using a `.it` domain which is a ccTLD (country code top- level domain). We don't want it to be specific to Italy though, we want Google to treat it as a gTLD (generic top-level domain). It seems like in Google Webmaster Tools I can't change the geo targeting to switch it off from targeting Italy, but I was wondering if there is some other way we can get Google to realize that our `.it` domain is really a gTLD? Here's some details I found from Google regarding geo targeting domains. There's also this question where user w3d says (in reference to a `.nl` domain): > You can only specify the region yourself if you have a generic (non-country > specific) TLD such as .com or .org. > > However, this does not mean that your site won't appear on google.com or > even google.co.uk, providing your content is deemed relevant to those users. > Having a country specific TLD (or specifying a particular geographic target > for a generic TLD) makes your site more relevant in a localised search but > not necessarily any less relevant in a global search. The interesting part there for me is that a `.it` domain might not be any less relevant in a global search. Yet to make matters slightly more confusing (given w3d's empirically proven answer above), Matt Cutts says it's a bad idea generally in this video. Does this mean that our `.it` domain would appear in `Google.it` search results first over time, but then would appear on `Google.com` and `Google.co.uk` once we have enough relevance, and that this would be the same amount of relevance we'd need if we used a standard `.com` domain? Given that we're targeting worldwide traffic should we avoid using a `.it` domain, or will it not make any difference? What's the real story? I need evidence and sources too please.


How to create a paid membership site?

I'm looking for a free solution to create a paid membership website. I would like to base it on Joomla or Wordpress if possible, because I already found nice video player and gallery modules for them. I would be grateful for a little help to get started. What plugins, extentions should I use? What payment processing services would you recommend? Thanks.


SSL Integration issue

We have a godaddy VPS account and purchased an ssl certificate.We downloaded a .zip file that contains a .cert file. When we are trying to setup ssl, they are asking .key file with the .cert file, we dont have .key file . anybody know from where we got the .key file? Help is highly appreciated. Thanks, VKS


CDN help, who should I go with and any alternatives?

I have a image hosting site which has grown rapidly over the last 3months and I feel I need to look at a CDN. The dedicated server the site runs on is located in Holland (Europe) whilst image load times seen fine here I have reports that in the Americas and Asia loads times have become noticeable slower than usual. So what I want is a CDN network worldwide at least in Europe, Americas and Asia. Pricing must be inline with rackspace solution I have found below. Must have a PHP API. Must not only server files but also offer storage. The site currently needs 160GB of storage (this is growing by roughly 700mb per day) and at least 2600GB of bandwidth (prices below are based on American traffic) Options I'm looking at: http://www.rackspace.co.uk/cloud-hosting/cloud- products/cloud-files/ - Storage 11p and Bandwidth 12p per GB - PHP API - Worldwide storage included Can anyone recommend another company or another set-up?


Create a way for Googlebot to find the deep pages in my site when users would find these pages via site search

I have a website like Foursquare, where users search for business in a specific location. The users can click on markers inside the map to view details about the companies/stores, and these details are opened in a dedicated page to each business. I don't want users to go to these detail pages from an index page with a bunch of links for each business names, but I need to make this pages visible to Googlebot. How can I do this? Can I create an index page visible to Google only?


How do you format SEM URLS to properly track results using analytics engines like Google analytics?

If I were to purchase some advertising space on a website- what should I add to the end of the URL to track the results of that campaign in a tool like Google Analytics?   * Is capitalization important?   * What does each part of those URL additions mean?   * Once entered, how do I make use of them in Google analytics?   * Is the utm_* method a standard, or specific to Google analytics?


IE disables back-button

We have an ASP.Net (Web Forms) site hosted on IIS7. The site contains a table with information retrieved from a database. Paging is enabled for this table, meaning that only 10 rows are displayed at a time. (This is done with server-side code; as far as the browser is concerned, the table contains no more than 10 rows.) Once the DB reached over 1000 rows, the browser began disabling the back- button after the page loaded. Sometimes the back-button remained enabled until users navigated to _another_ website, and only then became disabled (instantly). After deleting some info in the DB, the problem stopped. But once the amount of records passed 1000, it started again. This only happens with Internet Explorer (no matter what version). This does not happen with Firefox or other browsers. Note: The back-button becomes disabled, but the history is all saved. **Why does this happen, and how can it be fixed?** The amount of records retrieved should only affect the server; the browser has no idea how many rows were retrieved. And yet, the "choice" to disable the back-button is client-side! Here's a link to the question on StackOverflow.


When should I use a CSS framework?

What are the best practice scenarios for using a CSS framework? When is it better to "roll your own" CSS from scratch rather than using frameworks?


Adsense - is it worth setting up?

How much traffic is necessary for adsense to make sense?


Donations - do they actually work?

I see lots of "Donate" buttons on websites which are not donations to charity as such, but of the form "Donate to this website in order to help keep the website running" or "If you like this website, please donate some money". For example, Tineye has > Has TinEye been useful to you? If so, please donate! I confess that I have never donated to any. I also don't feel like my website is a worthy enough cause to display a begging bowl. Does anybody actually make money off their "Donate" buttons? Specifically I mean those sites where it says "Please donate some money to the author if you like this website" rather than "Please donate to a worthy cause" (e.g. Red Cross, Unicef etc.) Hard data please!


What service or software should I use to serve advertising on a site with about 120k monthly page views?

I have a site that is generating about 120k monthly page views and is being hosted on a shared FreeBSD server where I have access to PHP and MySQL. I am using some custom PHP server-side scripts that give each of my ad networks (AdSense, Tribal Fusion, etc) an adjustable percentage of impressions in each of the ad positions on my pages. I am looking for a better way of managing and measuring the delivery of these ads, and would also like to be able to take direct placements and provide statistics to the clients. I am looking at options including OpenX self-hosted, OpenX community, and Google DoubleClick for Publishers Small Business (DFP), but am having difficulty determining which one will best meet my needs. They all seem to have pretty steep learning curves compared to my simple scripts. What I have taken away so far as the benefit of self-hosting is that I don't have to pay for the service if I exceed a maximum number of ad impressions, while both OpenX Community and DFP have free impression limits. Of course, if I was doing those kind of numbers I'd need to upgrade my hosting account, but I'm not sure even at that point whether it would be cheaper to serve the ads myself than pay for a premium service. Apart from this, I really need insights into what features differentiate these services, why I might want to choose one over another, and if there are any other competing products or service of the same quality that I should look into. Answers from webmasters who have used both (or all three) services and can talk to usability and ease of ad management would be highly appreciated.


Configuring A Subdomain (cPanel) - www works, subdomain on it's own doesn't

I've created a sub domain on my website using cPanel at test.mydomain.com, and this created a folder in my main 'www' directory called test. In this folder is a folder called cgi-bin, and it seems to redirect the page to say "It works!", but when I upload my own index.html file to the test directory it keeps showing http://test.mydomain.com/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi instead of the index file. If I go to www.test.mydomain.com then it works OK. How do I host my content at the sub domain? It's my first time setting one up so I'm a bit lost.


Google+ Local and Google+ Page

Ok, I'm a bit confused by all of this, I have 2 main questions.   1. The company I work for has a Google Places account, now Google+ Local as I understand. Where I'm getting confused is, what is the difference between a Google+ Local page and a Google+ page?   2. In search results, there are a few competitors showing in the rankings with map markers to the right (not in the right hand side of the page) and under the web site name - Google+ page. The company I work for does better than these in the search results, but doesn't have a map marker or a link below to a Google+ page. Can anyone give me an idea how to get ranked like these other web sites? I have only today created a Google+ account, and would like some advice before I go creating a page when there already exists a Google+ Local page. I read here that these 2 pages should be merged?


How to create a good sitemap for dynamic website

I have a website with dynamic content and different kind of pages. I have some pages that rarely change, and I have pages like blogs that change often. The blog pages also have links for sorting, for example sorting on date, asc, desc. On some of the pages I also have links to different tabbed content, and links that are just anchor links. Now when I use a xml sitemap generator then all the links are thrown into the site, and so I don't think all the links are really relevant. The blogposts up until now are also taken into the sitemap. Is this really necessary? I think the links to the blogposts can be indexed just fine. Is the best way to make a sitemap just to manually assign the main menu links to the sitemap, or is indexing everything really recommended?


Are github gists SEO friendly?

I am kind of fan of Github and it's Gists. Since the gists can be included via a small Javascript snippet and `document.write` commands, I was asking myself if they were SEO friendly.


Are press releases worthwhile?

I've heard a lot about using Press Releases for SEO? Is doing this worthwhile? What exactly do you do? Where do you go? Sorry, the idea of using press releases for SEO is new to me.


phpBB: Is there any mod for voting up Threads?

I'm looking for a mod that enables users to **vote up threads**. I.e. not replies within threads, but threads _themselves_. Ideally, I'd prefer to have **only up-voting** ; no 1–5 stars, up/down-votes, multiple-choices, etc. just up-voting (something that's akin to Google's +1 button). Is there anything like this out there? I've tried searching for this but couldn't find what I was looking for.


Website from JPG templates from OCR of the images

Somebody has given me some jpg's, and expect me to create a website from them. With an online tool, I am able to OCR them. Is it some tool that will let me create a proper site from the jpg's? Would it be OK to put the jpg's and the OCRed text in tags?


OpenType font embedding permissions: what exactly do these mean?

In our web site, we are using `@font-face` to embed fonts (we're using Font Squirrel). Currently, we are using only free fonts, but I'd like for us to purchase some high-quality OpenType fonts. One option is an Adobe "Value Pack". According to Adobe, they allow embedding in all electronic documents. What we have some confusion about is which permission settings are required to allow the use of `@font-face`. Here are the permissions mentioned by Adobe's site: > No Embedding: This permission signals that the font or any portion of the > font may not be embedded in any electronic document. While there are no > Adobe Type Showroom fonts with this permission, some third-party font > foundries may set their fonts to “no embedding” or prohibit embedding > through their end user license agreement. Obviously, couldn't use these fonts at all. > Preview & Print: A font with an embedding permission of Preview & Print > allows the font, either fully or as a subset, to be embedded in an > electronic document solely for the purpose of viewing that document on > screen and/or printing that document. While a font with a Preview & Print > embedding permission (either through data in the font file or the font’s > license agreement) may be embedded in an electronic document, the embedded > font may not be used to further edit the document it is contained in or to > edit or create other documents. Most fonts in the Adobe Type Showroom are > set for Preview & Print embedding. Would a static web page fall under this category? > Editable: Fonts with an editable embedding permission can be embedded in > electronic documents, and the embedded font can then be used by the > recipient of the electronic document to view, print and further edit or > modify the text and structure of the document in which it is embedded. These > changes or edits can then be saved in the original document. Several fonts > in the Adobe Type Showroom, including all Adobe Originals typefaces, other > Adobe-owned typefaces and certain third-party font foundry typefaces, allow > for editable embedding. Would a web page that can include user-generated content fall under this category? > Installable: Fonts with an installable embedding permission may be embedded > in electronic documents for viewing, printing and editing, with the added > capability that they may be also be permanently installed on the computer > that receives the electronic document containing the embedded font. This > allows the font to be used to create and author new documents. It is > intended that the recipient of a font set to installable embedding obtains > all of the same rights as the person who originally licensed the font. Would the fact that a browser uses a cache make it so that all `@font-face` fonts require the "Installable" permission? Can anybody here clear up our confusion about license terms and embedding fonts on web pages?


Add a content widget inside a blogger post!

I am wondering if it is possible to add a blogger widget (say recent posts widget) within a blog post in blogger. Any pointers on doing this?


WHOIS domain name expiry date long over due

I just looked up this domain I was interested in obtaining but when I got the WHOIS info it showed this: > Created On:31-Dec-2004 18:18:31 UTC   >  Last Updated On:31-Dec-2004 18:18:36 UTC   >  Expiration Date:31-Dec-2009 18:18:31 UTC   >  Sponsoring Registrar:National Informatics Centre (R12-AFIN)   >  Status:INACTIVE   >  Status:DELETE PROHIBITED   >  Status:RENEW PROHIBITED   >  Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED   >  Status:UPDATE PROHIBITED Now I don't have much of an understanding of how this works, but I am a bit confused. To me it looks like it expired a while ago, unless I am completely missing something here.


.htaccess mod_rewrite domain to subdomain

I need to redirect any domain to a sub-domain. I know this has got to be possible but for the life of me i can not figure it out. Any help is appreciated. For example: `domain1.com`   `domain2.com` `subdomain1.domain1.com` `subdomain2.domain2.com` all go to `subdomain3.domain.com` but i need code that does not require me to enter each domain i want redirected. So for any feature domains that i link or create will go to subdomain3.domain.com btw this will only happen when viewing `anydomain.com/path` <-- the path is a sym link


How do you evaluate SEO/SEM companies? What are common services/prices?

Looking for a checklist, or comparison site.


Removing a Website Name in Another Website From Google Index

I have a website named `indonesiasumateratravel.com`, and when I search on Google something like 'indonesiasumateratravel' or something else, my website's name appears telling me it has been hacked. It looks like this: ![Google search results showing highlighted issue](http://i.stack.imgur.com/svMau.png) How can I remove that result, it's really annoying me and customer of course. * * * @All: Thank you for the quick responses..! It turns out that the only solution is to report it directly to google, because I realized that the keyword "indonesiasuamteratravel" is under full control of the rogue website. And now that I've reported it to google, and everything is okay. hehehehe... :-)


Restrict SSL access for some paths on a apache2 server

I wanted to allow access to www.mydomain.com/ **login** through ssl only. E.g.: Whenever someone accessed **http** ://www.mydomain.com/ **login** , I wanted him to be redirect to **https** ://www.mydomain.com/ **login** so it's impossible for him/her to access that site without SSL. **I accomplished this** by adding the following lines to the virtual host for www.mydomain.com on port 80 in `/etc/apache2/sites-available/default`:               RewriteEngine   on     RewriteCond     %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$     RewriteRule     ^/login(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/login$1 [L,R]     RewriteLog      "/var/log/apache2/rewrite.log"      Now, I want to **restrict using SSL** for www.mydomain.com. That means, whenever someone accessed **https** ://www.mydomain.com, I want him to be redirected to **http** ://www.mydomain.com (for performance reasons). I tried this by adding the following lines to the virtual host of www.mydomain.com on port 443 in `/etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl`:               RewriteEngine   on     RewriteCond     %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$     RewriteRule     ^/(.*)$ http://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [L,R]     RewriteLog      "/var/log/apache2/rewrite.log"      But when I now try to access www.mydomain.com/ **login** , I get an error message that the server has caused **to many redirects**. That does make sense. Obviously, the two RewriteRules are playing ping-pong against each other. How could I work around this?


What would be the most efficient use of e-mail addresses for ecommerce

I am not sure if this is exactly the right section. What do you find the most efficient, clear and reachable use of e-mail addresses to use for the customer? I thought a standard 'sales, 'support' might work but it might look a little samey. Do users respond well when e-mails are replied by staff with named e-mail addresses such as susan@domain.com or a generic one? I am currently developing a small scale ecommerce website to gain some hands on insight into web retail. Any additional advice would be brilliant.


User/Passwords - Changing it when original not known

One of my clients found a very old facebook page for their organization (6/2009), and the person who maintained it is no longer around. How would she get it deleted or find out user/password to get it updated? Any suggestion greatly appreciated.


Including specific characters with Google Web Fonts

I'm using the Open Sans web font from Google Web Fonts on my website. I only need the basic latin subset, but I do use the Psi (Ψ) character quite often as well and I would like to use the Open Sans version of that character, without having to include the entire greek subset. I looked at this help page which shows how to embed specific characters only using the `text` parameter, but there's no mention of _including_ specific characters. I tried doing the following to try to combine both font requests into one, but it didn't end up working.               <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,400italic,700&subset=latin' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>     <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,400italic,700&text=%CE%A8' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>      Is there anyway to accomplish this?


Tracking website hits from 3rd party mobile app

Our business has ads on the local news channels website and mobile app. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to track if a visitor came to your website from a 3rd party app?


What is the difference between Privacy Protection and Privacy and Business Protection in goDaddy

I am planning to buy a domain from goDaddy. I do not need any hosting/builder/email (I am planning to host on amazon ec2), all I need is just to own a domain. But when I selected the domain of my choice, I see the following options: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UgLPP.png) which actually looks the same to me. So what are the differences between these two options? I have also seen not so nice reviews about godaddy, but based on my understanding, they are more about hosting, than domain registration. Am I correct?


Do I need multiple accounts in Facebook for each of my product site?

I've a dozen sites which include for-profit ones as well as for charity. For each site I've created a Facebook company/charity account. After creating those accounts it dawned on me that I could as well have created a new page for each of my site from my personal account only even if a site has multiple product pages. What'll be the right strategy? Also as per Facebook terms we can have only single personal account. I do have single personal account only but for each site I've created only company pages. I hope I'm not violating the facebook terms.


Is using Progressive enhancement, overriding links with .js considered cloaking and can it be see by search engines?

I'm using `.load` to load content from a page /about.html, so that search engines can see what is going on. I've made the links that trigger the `.load` `<a>` tags to the page /about.html but for usability I have overridden these using `e.preventDefault;` as part of the `.load` script. Is this considered bad / dangerous / black hat, and seeing as Google bot can't see JS will it see this? _bit of a side question but can Google bot see the JS code and analyse what it does? Or does it completely disregard it, its function and its results?_


Does a click through from a google search get counted in analytics if the page dosnt load due to the server being down?

I was wandering does google count a click though and credit it to your analytics account if a user finds you in search, clicks through but the server is busy / slow for what ever reason, So the user leaves before the page is loaded, dose google still credit your analytics count witha click through ? I know that the tracking code dosnt load beacuse when you go the view source there is nothing there.. but dose google still credit your analytics account ?


Should I pass link juice to my pages on other websites that are already high PR domains?

I am starting a new website for a local business and have entries listed for it on places like urbanspoon, yelp, google+ local, etc. I am thinking of listing these citation sites on my business website to encourage visitors of my site to go and review the business on those sites. If I dofollow I will pass link juice to my page on that site, but doesn't that mean that the very very little PR juice I have will be leached away from me? Is it better to nofollow them?


How do you get Drupal to go to a page other than the User Profile on login?

**ISSUE:** Please help, I've tried a few things to get Drupal to STOP going to the User Prolfile page on login, even installed a module called LoginToboggan; which has nice features, just doesn't stop Drupal from sending all users that login to their User Profile page. **Just to be clear,** LoginToboggan's "optionally redirect [of] the user to a specific page when using the 'immediate login' feature" -- is ONLY for new users, not existing users... Yes, I know, makes no sense. **GOAL:** Just need to be able to set the login page; don't need to set the page load based on role, but hey, that would be nice if it's not crazy complex. **Related Links:**   * Drupal   * LoginToboggan **UPDATE:** Figured out a fix based on my needs, see my answer below. Please feel free to comment, and/or post another answer. Thanks!


Should forum signatures be statically stored with the post?

I have seen forums do this both ways in the past, but I thought it might warrant a wider discussion. My question is, when a user posts in a forum which supports signatures, should that signature be appended to their post at the time of their post, locking in their signature at that point in time. The alternative would be to load their signature dynamically each time - meaning the latest signature is always shown... If the idea of a signature is to emulate the way it works on email, then the former is the way it should be done. I would love to hear peoples ideas on what their preference is and why.


site not loading with the www. prefix ( PyroCMS)

I am using PyroCMS 2.1 pro. With multi site manager. I have a website that I have setup as somedomain.com.au. It works fine, however when i type in the www. prefix the CMS tells me its not setup. If I go into the CMS and change the domain to www.somedomain.com.au it works but then doesnt work if we ommit the www. Should I be redirecting something or have I missed a setting in PyroCMS that I should have set.


Which ads return more revenue

i have a blog, i want to display ads and earn money as part time work. Can you suggest me which ads bring up more revenue except Google ads?


Can I use Google AdSense within a banner rotator?

I have 3 rotating banners on one 728x90 position on my website, so every time a page is loaded another banner is shown. One of these is AdSense. Is it legal, I mean is this strictly prohibited or not? Because, the code is basically stored in db table in my CMS module in Wordpress, so I guess it is OK. But I am asking to be sure. What is your personal experience? Does Google penalize sites with banner rotators?


How do I see what pages on the internet link to my site?

I thought I could see this through Google Webmaster Tools, and according to a help file, in Google Webmaster Tools, there should be an 'internal links' and an 'external links' menu item. But in my Webmaster Tools, there's an 'internal links' item, but no 'external links' menu item.


Search engine friendly, SEO blog software

Is there a comparison of the SEO capabilities of different blogging software/blogging plugins? I'd like things to be as optimised as possible. I have a basic grasp of SEO principles, probably 12-24 months old. I'm about to start a blog, after having a few previously. Also, I'm not up to speed on what pings are in the blogging world. What are they, and how do they work? I assume it is best to have blogging software that automatically pings.


How to transfer a domain (securely)

This might be a stupid question but I am buying a domain name from a private seller. It is an individual & not an established organization. How can I securely make the transaction so that he doesn't screw me and i get the domain & he gets the money? Does the 3rd party charge for it? Who can do this the cheapest (and still make a secure transaction)?


Which tool can tidy/indent HTML5?

I've already spent about 2 hours searching google and trying various tools but either they don't do indent tags per say or they aren't HTML5 compatible such as the famous HTML tidy which was last updated 3 years ago… N.B. I don't want to apply this to the source of a page (like PHP or JS would do) but to the code in the editor so that a clear hierarchy appears between tags. Ideally I'd like a Mac OS X tool but I'll take any online tool and in last resot a Wine compatible one. P.S. at the moment I use Coda from Panic


Ho do I get my website tools used by other websites

I hope someone can help me. I'm new to SEO and as of now have just about no budget. I'm trying to get more traffic to my site. Someone suggested that I use the tools on my site, shown in the links below, to generate traffic. I wondered how I go about this? What sites could I target and how I would approach this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. www.debt-out.co.uk/budget-calculator www.debt-out.co.uk/debt-test


When should I add a subdomain to my website?

I'm working on the correction of a website. To keep it simple I added a subdomain to it and use it to install the template I was working on. Now - after fininshing the work, I'm thinking about keeping it (Order Form) on this subdomain and consider to simply delete the original one from the website. My question is about any problems this might cause. What are the pros & cons of dividing the website in subdomains - is there any disadvantage of doing so? Right now it looks like this:               www.exampledomain.com     www.orderform.exampledomain.com      I'm not sure if and when it would makes sence to create further subdomain for the other functions of the website?


WordPress bot issues

I need to implement a blog into a clients site as he is unhappy with his current basic CMS driven solution. It needs to suit both seo and the current style and as I'm a front end dev/designer and they don't have budget to redevelop - the only solution I can think of is to setup a Wordpress blog and restyle to suit. My only worry about this is the current press reports on WordPress being affected by webbots. I understand the main worry Is if you use an id of admin, but I'm concerned that regardless of this the site could be bombarded with bot requests and cause timeouts! Is this valid? If so is there any way to avoid this issue!? If not can anyone recommend another good SEO friendly blog solution!?


Site being repeatedly hacked: any useful tips for tracking down entry point?

I'm suffering from a spam hack where my site periodically starts to show Viagra spam to Google and other spiders. The method of the hack is basically that my .htaccess file gets modified to route all requests through a file called "common.php", which is a big chunk of base64 encoded evilness. I've noticed it happening on a weekly basis: every time I remove the hacked files, it pops back up a few days later. These are the steps I've already taken to secure things:   * Changed my FTP password   * Scanned my (shared hosting) directories for world-writable (777) files/folders and changed them to 755 or something more appropriate   * Removed old copies of Wordpress from unused directories (the site itself is a custom-written PHP CodeIgniter app)   * Downloaded the entire site to my local box and scanned the directories for occurences of strings like "base64" and ".ru" (spam domains?). I'm a little uncertain what to do next as the problem still seems to be there. Is there some smart shell command I can run to figure out how these files are being uploaded? When I last checked, the .htaccess file was edited today by my own FTP user despite me changing the password a week ago and logging out any logged-in users. I don't leave it logged in on public machines, and a few other administrators of the site haven't been given the new password yet. Any tips / ideas gratefully received. I'm happy to provide the output of any specific commands as needed. Matt


Websites or tools similar to Ginwiz (mobile website creator)

I have a website which i want to make more mobile friendly(currently its not). While searching about this i found this awesome website Ginwiz; my website can be modified into an mobile friendly site without any additional coding. But i find two disadvantages with this website (free version)                 1)We cant add our domain to it with out upgrading          (i dont have enough money to pay for it)       2)We can only "Advanced edit" one page      Do you know any website which is similar to Ginwiz but can use our domain address instead of theirs (in free version). Do you have any idea about any tools which can be also used to convert my website to mobile website by trimming my current website easily.


SEO actions on a new domain that has only a launch page, for better future results?

I have bought a domain name for a website I will create in the next few months. I am really concern about the SEO for this new page. So, the launch page has a very good SEO score but my question is, what actions shall I make to build earlier for the future? Does the SEO actions are different because of a launch page?


Can I use same 'itemtype' in Microdata twice?

I have an Element in My website that it shows last update of my website: My curect structure of website is this:               <body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/webpage"

...some text...

last update: 23/1/2014
 //last update for whole site
                The 'last update' is for whole website. Not for sidebar! Can I used 'itemtype' twice to solved this problem? for example Do you think this is correct?               <body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/webpage"

...some text...

              last update:               <time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2014-01-23 13:52:00">23/1/2014</time>


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We want to capture aggregated, anonymous search query history for analytic purposes to improve our internal search engine performance and metadata practices. I found this article: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1012264?hl=en Unfortunately, our search engine uses a hash tag instead of a question mark (nonstandard query string). For example: `http://www.example.com/search#q=search%20term` Is there a way to configure Google Analytics to recognize hash tag values in the URLs and capture these given a defined pattern?